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Skip to comments.Hollywood Crashes and Yearns (Blaming "society" for all that is wrong with America...)
Posted on 03/06/2006 11:46:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
Did Hollywood wimp out by not giving the Best Picture Oscar to Brokeback Mountain? Were the electors of the Motion Picture Academy quaking in their Gucci loafers at the thought that red-state America would rise up in fury at the insult to traditional American popular culture represented by a couple of gay cowboys -- or, more accurately, sheep-boys? "Despite all the magazine covers it graced, despite all the red-state theaters it made good money in, despite (or maybe because of) all the jokes late-night talk show hosts made about it, you could not take the pulse of the industry without realizing that Brokeback Mountain made a number of people distinctly uncomfortable," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times. "So for people who were discomfited," he went on, misusing the word, "by Brokeback Mountain but wanted to be able to look themselves in the mirror and feel like they were good, productive liberals, Crash provided the perfect safe harbor." Tom Shales of the Washington Post also questioned whether the award to Crash "was really for the film's merit or just a cop-out by the Motion Picture Academy so it wouldn't have to give the prize to Brokeback Mountain."
This sounds improbable to me. Not that I have any very high opinion of the movie industry's courage and daring in tackling the hard subjects or rewarding those who court controversy. But the controversy about Brokeback was mostly hype. The blue state liberals who make up most of the movie audience, certainly for films like this one, take it for granted that homosexuality is a perfectly valid "lifestyle," while the red-state types who think that gays ought to be in jail don't go to the movies anyway, or not unless Jesus is putting in an appearance. Anyway, the various controversies stirred up by gay rights advocates -- the demand for same-sex marriage, for example -- are hardly touched on by the film. In fact the gay theme is really incidental to the more mainstream (and pernicious) message about following your bliss, especially when it comes to sex, regardless of the damage to spouses and children.
Of course it's true that this is a theme which Hollywood finds entirely congenial and to which it often returns, though perhaps not quite so often these days as in the boom years for "convention"-bashing of the 1970s and 1980s. In fact, the taking up of an ostensibly gay subject matter could be seen as the film-makers' way of attempting to revitalize the otherwise moribund spirit of sexually "liberationist" triumphalism. If, once the novelty of the film had worn off and the self-congratulations of the tolerant and open-minded progressive film community had been reverberating for a couple of months, people began to think: "Been there, done that," who could be surprised? Yeah, yeah, people ought to be free to love as their glands dictate. Where, even in the movie, are the conservative moralists saying otherwise? You've got your gays and you've got your gay bashers, but in between there is only dumb suffering.
In other words, the villains in Brokeback remain faceless and voiceless. In one way the picture benefits from keeping their shadowy threat almost entirely off-stage for, once made visible and articulate, it would have been sure to have turned into a caricature. Instead, director Ang Lee and writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana -- all of whom did win Oscars -- almost managed to create the impression that the villain was once again "society," just as it was in the good old days when bourgeois respectability and puritanical sexual morality were still powerful enough to make it worth Hollywood's while to attack them. His heroes, Ang Lee was quoted as saying, "taught all of us not just about gay men and women whose love is denied by society, but most importantly the greatness of love itself." Ah, society. I remember that. I was very young, of course, but I can just about imagine what, back in the days of The Sound of Music, "society" (or what was left of it by then) would have had to say about a best song titled "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." Not nearly hard enough, apparently.
Anyway, "society" in that sense is obviously long gone. Just like Good Night, and Good Luck, another losing nominee last night, Brokeback groped back more than forty years into the past to find a plausible bad guy who, as some of us dimly recall, wielded genuine power. Not, that is, just the accidental power of the gay-bashers or other criminals who catch their victim alone and unprovided with the means of defense but who, backed by "society itself," must have been genuinely frightening. Munich and Capote were similarly set 30 or 40 years in the past. Was this just coincidental? Crash was the only Best Picture nominee set in the present day, and it too was more than a little tinged with nostalgia for the highly picturesque "urban jungle" world of the '70s and '80s when crime-ridden ghettos were no-go areas for whites and innocent blacks were routinely victimized by racist white cops. Oh, to have those days back again, when "revolution" was in the air! That's why the performance on stage at the Oscars of the Best Song-nominated ditty "In the Deep" from Crash took place against a backdrop of fake burning cars.
But Crash had something more than nostalgia for the comforting moral and political certainties of that revolutionary time. It had the monumental smugness of those who, like the Academy itself this year, think it a virtue in itself to be "aware" of social problems and who, in thinking about such problems, fancy their own sophistication as moralists, their own concerns for "society's victims," than their less enlightened fellow picture-goers. Crash, like the Oscars themselves, blatantly appeals to the taste of the "movie community" for self-congratulation. Movie people swallow its intolerable preachiness and easy didacticism because they think it is good for them, not because it is good in itself, let alone entertaining. They watch themselves watching Crash and think, not for the first time, "What fine fellows we are for thus showing that we care about racial prejudice in society." That word again! In Crash, as much as in Brokeback Mountain, they want "society" back so that they can have something to rebel against. Until then, they have to play at being rebels and revolutionaries as well as serious moralists and political activists. Each pose is as false as the others, but by handing out awards to themselves for their serious-mindedness, the progressives of the movie community are able to sustain themselves -- and quite a lot of other people too -- in the illusion for just a bit longer.
James Bowman, The American Spectator's movie critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and media essayist for the New Criterion.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Crash was essentially a meditation on 1. Despite what we state in public, we still maintain "politically incorrect" opinions about other races (whether we are black, white, or any other color). Crash merely made the characters say what most of us think but are afraid to say. and 2. Despite our preoccupation with racism as "the ultimate public sin", many of those that superficially are racist, are actually outstanding human beings under the rough surface. The hero of the film is a "bigoted" white cop for Crissake.
This writer is so blinded by the ideology that "everything is hunky dory among the races" in America, that he failed to see the real message behind the movie: That all of us have our faults and prejudices, but that they do not define who we are as people.
After watching selected portions of the Oscarcast, I'm going to rent March of the Penguins and Walk the Line, and ignore the rest. Already seen Narnia and will buy it when it comes out on DVE.
You will not be disappointed by WALK THE LINE: pure entertainment from the first minute to the last, always interesting, never tries too hard, doesn't have to, and some of the best acting you will see in any movie>Phoenix and Witherspoon were perfection.
Agree with you. Hollywood is fast becoming irrelevant. As Mark Steyn wrote recently, it is a record shop with only three records and it plays the same three over and over again ...
You make some good points. To be honest, I am prob one of the few people on here that saw Brokeback Mouintain and actually thought it was a pretty good film. I think he right on about the manufactured hype about the movie esp on the left. I thought Crash was disappointing in alot of ways. I think the writer does have a point about the old days. The NR had quite a good article on how after 9/11 it seemed that it really disminished the race issue because we are all Americans now. In my view it certainty took the nasty "edge" off of it though. It does seems like it receded some but your right in your post though. I guess I cant see another LA Riot situation happening like that again in our current climate. or for the forseeable future.
Joaquin Phoenix is a marvelous actor, much better than Clooney and some of the other recent winners. Shame that he hasn't picked up an Oscar by now. He was terrific as Commodus in "Gladiator".
To give Best Song to that disgusting piece of drivel, the pimp-ho song....ye-gawds....
That is the truth. I think his acting is awesome. I thought a great film he was in was The village. That was some great actiing on his part. Also how he played the son in that MEl Gibson movie about Aliens was good.
I remember the days when viewers of the Oscar show actually cared about which song won "Best Song". When a tune like "Windmills of Your Mind" would stay in your mind for ages, uplifting you. When you could sit and watch without embarrassment the clips from the various movies. (The Altman montage had some quip about urinating, I found that embarrassing. I switched the channel.)
The effects of 9/11 lasted for all of one month in NYC.
Whites continue to avoid living among blacks, and many still cross the street when a group of black youth walk by. Blacks still see white people as "the enemy" in many cases, no matter how they try to supress their feelings in the work place. And class has nothing to do with it. Upper middle class blacks have moved into West Orange New Jersey in recent years, while whites have moved out.
Of course, the race issue is not as intense as it once was in this country, but it is still there, and has gotten more complex due to the influx of Latinos, Muslims, Asians, etc., many of whom are more open of their hatred of blacks, btw, than whites are. The main difference is that middle class and above folks may not SAY anything racist, but they still have images/stereotypes in the back of their mind when they encounter other races or drive through an "ethnic" neighborhood.
Speaking as one who has lived most of his life in multiethnic New York, to say nothing of stints in Chicago and Miami, I can tell you that the folks who believe that "racism is a thing of the past and we are all colorblind" tend to live in (largely white) suburban communities. Those of us in places like LA, New York, Chicago, etc. however, encounter racial realities everyday.
Yeah I see your point and I dont think Racism is dead. I t just seems a lot less heated. Interesting you mentioned Chicago. I was pretty shocked when I went there. I guess being from the South I envisioned Chicago being alot more intergrated but in reality it seemed to be one of the most segregated cities I have been in of that size as to blacks and whites interacting outside the work place. Even in the mundane things like going to the grocery store. My favorite expression was (that place is kinda of shady).
If they look like thugs, you bet. If they look like students, no.
What liberals don't understand that many times not doing what you "feel" like doing is the best course of action. Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be. Conservatives by nature understand the value of restraint. Liberals give in to every desire. Their urges for immediate gratification dominate their lives. That old motto from the sixties "if it feels good, do it" still applies to the Hollyweird crowd. They fail to understand that many people might "feel good" nuking L.A. Simply acting on ones impulses with no consideration of the consequences is not the proper course of action. If it feels good, maybe you shouldn't do it.
I have to ask, what makes someone want to even see Brokeback Mountain knowing what the subject matter is? I'm serious.. we all know what the topic was.. so what was the attraction to it for you? Curiosity?
The man running the Oscars said he realized not many people had seen many of the movies that were nominated. Which is why he did all the "clips" of old movies because everyone could relate to them. Talk about a movie industry that is out of touch with the public!
Personally, we won't be seeing Syriana, Munich, or Brokeback Mountain. We won't support movies that glorify terrorists or try to "humanize" them. (Tell that to the victims of Munich or Sept 11th who had to jump from buildings.. tell the little school girls just a few months ago in Afghanistan who were forced to watch their teacher be beheaded because he DARED to teach little girls school! Which btw, was just as Syriana was being nominated! Tell all the people they've beheaded how they are human too!) No, I don't think putting a face on a terrorist and making them seem like us is responsible at all. They aren't like us. They aren't even close! They are cold and evil!
The same holds true for a movie that tries to show homosexuality as a "normal" way of life. It isn't!
If it were there wouldn't be a disease process that the homosexual community is constantly in battle with in order to have sexual relations and even STAY ALIVE! HIV/AIDS!
The same goes for sexually active promiscuous people. People who have multiple partners are at high risk and often get STD's. I have a medical background and have worked in this area. Condoms don't solve all STD problems.
God intended for man and woman to be monogomous/married. Isn't it strange how when they are, there is NO disease?
When we turn away from Him things just don't work the way they should. There is no getting away from it. Someday, mankind will figure it out.
This life is but the blink of an eye compared to eternity. Blink your eye once and think about it!
Yet some play Russian roulette with life. I feel sorry for those who have thought there was nothing more than this life to contend with. Eternity is forever...
Anyway.. Hollywood has truly out done themselves this time. I was curious if anyone on FR would try to defend any of the movies that were out there this year.
I don't have to see any of the movies to know if they are good or bad. The subject matter is already off limits. Sin is sin. Wrong is wrong....
If they look like thugs, you bet. If they look like students, no.
If they look like Jehovah's Witnesses, yes.
When an Ethnic Group that accounts for only 14% of the U.S. population causes 42% of the crimes, avoiding that group is nothing more than self-survival.
Instead of cow pokes, they were sheep pokes.
An easier formula to follow might be to avoid the poor, since they account for a massive percentage of crime.
I did not see the Cloony film. I thought that was a bunch of political propaganda that was very slanted, The MUnich film I sort of felt the same way on and decided not to spend the money on it. Brokeback Mountain I went to go see for a few reasons. First I was a little misinformed on the time period. For some reason I though this occurred at point decades ago. I was curious partly for that reason to see how it would be portrayed.
I believe that homosexuality is a sin. However its pretty clear to me that alot of this has being going on for a long time by a lot more people than just the average homosexual. I would classify alot of "homosexual" behavior as not being practiced by homosexuals but by bisexuals or more to the point alot of straight guys that have some occasional flare ups of same sex attraction. You cant go to a rest area or a public park or a mens restroom and look at the stalls without seeing that there is alot of straight guy cruising bi or other straight guys stuff going on. So yeah subcultures have always fascinated me. The taboo and the way that society ,in it own ways, allows certain unsaid outlets for that activity is something that is pretty fascinating. PLus, I suspect that some guys I know prob had some little "same sex experience" that went on in their past days and have needless guilt over it thats exhibited by some of their attitudes that at times gets tiresome. So I was interested in the subject matter. On the whole I thought it was good movie. I didnt agree with all the moral points but I know alot of that stuff goes on. So for that was the interest for me. PLus and I had this disscusion before on here. I think there is a real silent reveloution going on sex wize that is going unnoticed. I think that the attitude of females and esp males in this 16 to 25 age group has really changed. So I was interested in crowd reaction to it also
I don't think race plays a part anyone more its culture. Black people who act like the average middle class american kid, fits in 100% with white kids on my campus. Its not even fitting in, they are a part of our culture. Now the black kids who dress like thugs, they hang together. Is it race that keeps them from white people, maybe, but its more likely their culture. If you can't speak english, dress like you a thug, and act like a jackass, only other people like you are going to hang around you.
I thought Crash was really good actually, I thought it was going to be political correct crap, but it was a great story. Hard to pick best pic of the year because most movies where terrible this year. The only movies I enjoyed weere Batman Begins, Sin City, Serenity, and the new star wars to a lesser extent.
I haven't seen the movie "Brokebutt...back...brokeback Mountain" but I cannot believe that 2 young cowboys would be gay with all those good looking sheep running around. (A joke! No really a joke! I did not look at those sheep much! Honest! I am telling the truth, this time!) Sarcasm - not a joke.
Call it "profiling" if you wish but I play the odds and when 14% of the people commit 42% of the crimes why take the risk?
Hollywood is absorbed with "self", ergo cannot comprehend love for fellow man, and which is why they LOVE to hide behind the chimera of more turbulent times. As tho.
My favorite film critic.
It portrays Los Angeles not as the liberals' fantasy "melting pot," but as an ocean of isolated and disconnected people, "lonely and fearful in the crowd," surrounded by other races they despise as monolothic groups.
In the end, the story is written in such a way to bring the characters toward personal redemption in such a way that they are seen as having decency beneath a pervasive, racist surface.
It turned out to be a better and deeper story than I thought it might be.
From "Windmills of Your Mind" to the pimp-ho song.
We've come a long way, baby.
Shot in the 1960's in NYC, I crossed the street, turned the corner, or ducked into a store; when a group of white youths walked down the street.
The JDs of the day considered 10 to 1 fair odds.
By FAR the best movie I saw last year. The actually story is a little tired, highly talented 50's era star haunted by drugs, hurting people he/she loves, etc. The subject - Johnny Cash - is very interesting. You don't have to love his music to love the movie, but it sure doesn't hurt if you do. What made the movie special was the acting. The weaving together of Johnny's life with the other stars of the era was also very good. Shooter Jennings, Waylon's son played his father in the movie.
What this movie had that most don't is it tells a very good story. That's what gets rational people to the movies. I saw 8 Below this past weekend. It tells a very good story about a mans loyalty to his sled dogs in a life setting - Antarctica - that most of us know little about. I sincerely doubt it will win any awards next year, but it was a good show.
Both of these movies gave me what I want from a movie. To briefly share a believable life experience and to get a glimpse of life experiences I will likely never have, in a manner that generally makes one feel better about society.
That was A LONG time ago. These days, the only group of white "youths" you see in NYC walking in tight packs are a group of homos coming out of a Chelsea bar or a group of Scandanavian backpackers (as opposed to fudgepackers). ;-)
Was this really neccessary?
latinos & muslims are races ?
whites avoiding living among blacks is racist ?
The effects of 9/11 lasted for all of one month in NYC.
That's not true. I see echos of it everyday. In subtle ways it did transform the city.
I grew up there, and I think this is an accurate description of it...
Bi-sexuality "is" gay behaviour. It too is a sin. I think your answer for going to the movie is interesting. It's full of excuses and reasonings for going to a movie that glorified homosexuality and even tried to envoke sympathy for it in an effort to make it more socially acceptable. This movie played on peoples sympathies.
We are warned that Satan will work on us in many ways,.. I have no doubt this was one of his venues. (Just one.. for there are a multitude).
His ways can look very beautiful and feel very heartfelt and emotional. But it is a trap!
His ways are still dark and evil. From what little you just told me.. I think you've experienced more in life than you ever should have already. I can assure you not all men, nor the majority of them have had bi-sexual experiences. But men that have, can find freedom from the guilt and sin of it. They can seek God, ask forgiveness and be free from the evil that threatens them for "eternity".
For those who are living in a gay lifestyle, there are ministries that work specifically in that area. They are extremely successful in helping them live a healthy normal life.
Many men and women have been helped and NOW know the peace that comes with having God in their lives. They got tired of the turmoil and pain in their lives and decided to not let the dark side win!
Just walking into that movie theatre was a win for the evil one. I don't need to see a video of evil doing evil to know it is wrong. Nothing about it interest me. You have to ask yourself why the movie drew you to it.. what entity drew you to it? Answer; Satan did!
I hope you will think about it. I pray you will see how wrong it was to even encourage a movie like that by buying a ticket. And, I pray you will have a change of heart in the movies you promote by viewing a movie like that in the future. The morale decay of man in the last 25 years has been depressing. But change has to start somewhere. And it starts by changing the hearts and minds of men and women.
God Bless...
A lot to do about nothing.
In fact I would not have posted except I am bored this late at night.
Thank you. Well said.
"Hollywood again tries to enthrone a film that most of us will never see. (Yawn)"
Have they ever released the box office numbers for "Humpback" Mountain?
First let me thank you for your response. I can tell a very heartfilled and prayerful response to a person and that is often missing on these boards where everyone has an viewpoint on every thing under the sun and to differ with it is like violating Holy Writ. Now let me be clear. I did not go through a whole moral prayerful process to decide if I should see this movie, Perhaps I should have but I did not. Nethertheless, I am not endorsing any pro homosexual agenda that comes out of this movie. Let me clarify my stand on the whole bisexual and gay thing. I of course think its a sin. I think with different people there are different levels of culpubility. But its a sin or the behavior is more to the point. I am in full support of ministries that reach out to homosexuals and bi sexuals in a Christian way. Fellow Christians could do alot if they would reach out to these folks and encourage them in a celibate lifestyle which is tough to do in this day and age. I dont mean to imply that the majority of men have some sort of Bisexual experience. But I have heard enough to know its alot more than people think. As to a statement that I said that I have friends that carry around needless guilt about some same sex fling. What I meant by that is that its over we all sin let it go. Some men because of sexual sins of that nature let it torture them the rest of their lives which is quite silly and in fact destructive if their Christian.
I dont buy into the glorious gay lifestyle thing. I have friends that are gay and besides maybe one they are all seem pretty unfullfilled in life.
Thanks for your response. What is sad is if people would ask for forgiveness and "truly" understand that once it is given, they need never feel guilt again.
To feel guilt about something you are forgiven for, means you never really believed in the first place. Forgiveness is given so freely from the Father. I wish that kind of freedom for all sinners.
Thanks for the clarification. God Bless!
I like your tagline.
Boy, after seeing the winners of all the award shows this year, you see that Spiritual discernment is what is needed in our society. It works for us in making our decisions. But sadly, it's sorely lacking in Hollywood. We'll just have to keep praying for Hollywood since they provide our movie entertainment and kids "are" influenced by them.
Oh for the days we could go to a good movie on any given weekend as a child. Hard to believe those days ever existed! I know Disney USED to make good movies and I remember as a child going to those movies all the time.
Today you go to a movie that is rated PG praying that a bad word won't slip out. Believe me, if there's a bad word in it.. our little grandson who we are raising, or the little ones we usually take with us HEAR IT LOUD AND CLEAR!!! They will gasp and look at us like a bomb just went off!
We won't participate in the kind of sleeze that was nominated at this years Oscars. Why would we encourage Hollywood by going to this kind of crud?
If we don't encourage them, perhaps they'll start making good movies again!
God Bless!
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Death of a Blankieilanawiles
Shortly after I gave birth, I read that having a security blanket makes it easier for babies to acclimate to strange places. I also read that if the security blanket smells like mom, it's easier for the baby to attach themselves to it.
I'm telling you this so you understand why I made the moronic decision of making Mazzy's blankie out of two old t-shirts of mine. What else would smell more like me than items I've worn to the gym? (Alright, that sounds disgusting now that I've written it down.)
Mazzy calls her blankie "Boo" (short for peek-a-boo) and they are inseparable. If I had to list the things in Mazzy's life that she could not live without in order of necessity, Boo would be at the very top. That means Boo is above Elmo, goldfish crackers and myself. Which hopefully illustrates the obscene level of attachment.
Boo helps put Mazzy to bed, assists in spontaneous meltdown deflection, acts as her companion on car rides and generally encourages a favorable disposition at all times.
Which is great!
That is, until Boo started dying.
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This is getting rather irritating now. I have asked before and have had not one suitable response from anyone.
I understand that the function sends global announcements into the first readable forum, and that you THINK this only causes issues with breadcrums.
The mod is sending global announcements into a forum which is completely hidden from about 80% of the forum users. This is becoming very annoying as no one is able to respond to global announcements, and some people can't even read them.
I have tried the suggestions posted [url=http://www.phpbb-seo.com/en/advanced-seo-url/article3238.html#20320]here[url] and they don't work.
I have the virtual folder setting turned on yet it STILL does not work.
Please find a fix for this bug as it is actually of major inconvenience.
Thank you.


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Remember 'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction'?
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A new video that's gone viral takes dead aim at Lebron James Nike 'Rise' commercial. And the results are hitting home big time.
In the new video, fans in Cleveland take aim at Lebron's promise to bring an NBA Championship to the city and his exit in Game 5 of the playoffs against the Celtics.


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Nothing to do with Amigurumi, but you know what, I'm sure that all you (nonexistant) people out there in Reding-My-Blog-Land don't really mind. I've had to stop knitting for a while, not from lack of motivation, no, but from lack of supplies.
Last Friday, I came home and noticed one of my double pointed needles was missing. I simply chalked it up to my lack of organization, and didn't give a second thought to it until Monday came and I had to make my bus ride. Well, I tore the house apart and found no needle. I cursed my forgetfulness. I cursed my procrastination in acting upon the problem. I cursed the needle, several times.
It finally turned up Wednesday when, as I was walking down the hall to class, one of the teachers stopped me. She said she had found the needle, and given it to another teacher. Then she reprimanded me for five minutes about knitting in school. I wouldn't have minded this as much to mention it in the story, if the whole thing hadn't made me late to class. Plus, the principal has passed me several times while I was knitting and said nothing. The teacher's a bit of a busybody anyway, but PLEASE. It shouldn't disrupt my learning.
To continue, the needle was returned to me at lunch. . . bent in half. Who did it? Why did they do it? I wish I knew, so I could find some sort of malicious way to retaliate.
So there's my excuse. I'm getting new needles tomorrow, so I'll be able to perfect the pattern I'm working on! How exciting. You must all be, ever so excited.


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Theresa Kenerly, who has been acting as mayor since the resignation of Erma Denney, will serve as mayor of the west Jackson County town through December.
Kenerly was the lone qualifier to the unexpired mayoral term.
The unexpired term of city council post she previously held will be filled during a March 19 special election. Qualifying for Post 6, for the term ending December of 2015, will be announced.
Hoschton residents who are not registered to vote may register at the Jackson County Office of Elections and Registration, located in the Jackson County Administration Building at 67 Athens St., in Jefferson through Feb. 19 and be eligible to cast a ballot in the March special election.
Advance voting will be held from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 25, through Friday, March 8, in the county elections.
Early voting will be held from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday, March 11, through Friday, March 15, in the Braselton Police & Municipal Court Facility, located at 5040 Highway 53.
On March 19, the polling location at the historic Hoschton Depot will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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Property tax will be higher for homes with extensions
Published 17/01/2013 | 05:00
PEOPLE with house extensions will have to pay more property tax than their neighbours.
Other home improvement measures such as kitchen refurbishments will also have to be included by homeowners when calculating the value of their home.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan has made it clear that homeowners cannot just rely on the property tax estimate being sent out to them in March by the Revenue. He said that homeowners will have to take extensions into account.
"Each owner will need to consider the specifics of his or her property, the area and any other local factors that influence the value when making his or her valuation assessment," he said.
He gave an example in the Dail of how someone with a house extension might calculate their property tax.
"If you have an extension built and all your neighbours are saying that their houses are valued between €150,000 and €200,000, but you've put another €75,000-€100,000 on it by way of extension, the normal thing would be to go up to the next band and say mine is worth between €200,000 and €250,000," he said.
Using this specific example, a person in a house worth €150,000 will pay a six-month property tax of €157 this year and a full year rate of €315 after that. But a next-door neighbour in the same type of house with a €75,000 extension will be pushed into the next property tax band, giving them a half-year property tax bill of €202 and a full year bill of €405.
Householders have to submit their valuation for their property by May 28 at the latest – and the property tax bill they pay will then be frozen at that rate for three years.
The property tax issue was raised in the Dail by Fine Gael Dublin North TD Alan Farrell, who warned that people might have to hire an estate agent to get a valuation.
"Many homeowners are under severe stress financially. Adding to the local property tax is not a step we should be taking," he said.
But Mr Noonan said that people could hire a valuation expert or carry out their own self-assessment using the guidance information supplied by the Revenue.
Mr Noonan said the Revenue would be drawing people's attention to the house price database, which already has details of 62,000 sales over the past three years. He also said people would be given information from the Revenue's stamp duty records.
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Bankart lesion
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A Bankart lesion is an injury of the anterior (inferior) glenoid labrum of the shoulder due to anterior shoulder dislocation.[1] When this happens, a pocket at the front of the glenoid forms that allows the humeral head to dislocate into it. It is an indication for surgery and often accompanied by a Hill-Sachs lesion, damage to the posterior humeral head.[2]
The Bankart lesion is named after English orthopedic surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart (1879 – 1951) [3]
A bony bankart is a Bankart lesion that includes a fracture in of the anterior-inferior glenoid cavity of the scapula bone.[4]
Bankart lesion seen at arthroscopy
CT scan showing a bony Bankart lesion at the antero-inferior glenoid
See also[edit]
- ^ Widjaja A, Tran A, Bailey M, Proper S (2006). "Correlation between Bankart and Hill-Sachs lesions in anterior shoulder dislocation". ANZ J Surg. 76 (6): 436–8. doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03760.x. PMID 16768763.
- ^ Porcellini, Giuseppa (September 2002). The journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery. 18 (7): 764–769. doi:10.1053/jars.2002.35266. Missing or empty
- ^ Who Named It.com - Bankart's Lesion
- ^ bony Bankart at The Steadman Clinic Vail, CO. © 2001 by LeadingMD
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Staff, wire reports PITTSBURGH –– The Environmental Protection Agency has dramatically lowered its estimate of how much of a potent heat-trapping gas leaks during natural gas production, a shift wit......
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What is wrong with climate change(if it even exists), that we have to fight it? If it weren't for the Earth's greenhouse effect, of which 97% is caused by water vapor, we'd have very extreme temperatures! Viva la fracking!
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It's the new found fame that keeps a few very wealthy. Despite the long term consequences. Their greed for the money outweighs any other factor for the quality of life in the future. Typical band wagon that caters to a lot of disrespectful and dishonest people. Dismal days are yet to come.
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Did you even read the article?? That's ok... don't let a little scientific evidence stand in the way of your narrow-mindedness.
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Oh, but the jobs. It's okay to destroy the planet as long as a few people get a job.
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Fracking and it's waste disposal is destroying our environment. This is just more proof why Fracking should be banned. Global warming is real and we need to do whatever we can to prevent it.
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The Broncos have had quite a roller coaster this season—a horrid start with QB Kyle Orton, a revival by Tim Tebow, a collapse by Tebow, a playoff thrilling victory...but then they got whopped by the New England Patriots
However, next year, the AFC West will be a lot more competitive. The Chiefs will be healed from their devastating injuries, the Raiders have QB Carson Palmer for the entire season and the Chargers have the potential to win big in the playoffs.
For the Broncos to stay a contender, they need to upgrade several key positions. The draft has always been a fantastic way to do so, and without further ado, here are your Denver Broncos' 2012 draft needs:
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J&P Cycles Partners With AMA
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – AMA Pro Racing is pleased to announce a newly formed partnership with J&P Cycles, naming J&P Cycles as the Presenting Sponsor of AMA Pro Flat Track and Title Sponsor of the AMA Pro J&P Cycles Pro Singles class.
As part of the agreement, J&P Cycles will contribute a $25,000 Year-End Points Fund for the rising stars of the AMA Pro J&P Cycles Pro Singles Class after the motorcycle parts and accessories giant.
"We are very excited to begin this partnership with J&P Cycles," said Michael Gentry, Chief Operating Officer of AMA Pro Racing. "I see great things in store for the future in the ranks of the J&P Pro Singles class and look forward to the success our up and coming riders will attain thanks to this new relationship. The support that J&P Cycles has pledged through the year-end points fund is vital to the growth of the sport and is deeply appreciated by the entire paddock."
J&P Cycles will have access to a number of marketing and promotional activations in 2013. At each event on the 2013 AMA Pro Flat Track presented by J&P Cycles schedule, the company will have access to on-site activation. The two companies will also be working together to develop unique and engaging website content and social media initiatives in order to further the sport by engaging the younger demographic.
"J&P Cycles is proud to be a part of the AMA Pro Flat Track series this year," said J&P Cycles Vice President/General Manager Zach Parham. "AMA Pro Flat Track represents the grass roots of racing at its best, and we are pleased to be a part of this sport with so much history. The racing this year is going to be exciting and we look forward to sharing the excitement and action with our customers."


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FDA has cleared Clinical Data's Viibryd™ (vilazodone HCl tablets) as a treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD) in adults. The firm claims the drug is the first selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) and partial 5HT1A receptor partial agonist to achieve approval in the U.S.
Clinical Data developed Viibryd under an exclusive worldwide license from Merck KGaA. "It is also the first drug that the company has developed," comments Drew Fromkin, Clinical Data CEO. "To have received marketing approval from FDA on its first review is a significant milestone."
The efficacy of Viibryd was established through two eight-week multicenter placebo-controlled studies in adults who met the criteria for MDD. Compared with patients given placebo, those receiving Viibryd experienced significant improvements in depressive symptoms measured by the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale. Clinical Data points out that the exact mechanism of action of combined SSRI and partial 5HT1A antagonism effected by Viibryd is not yet fully understood.
In November 2010 Clinical Data inked a deal to sell its genetic and pharmacogenomic testing and biomarker development business to Transgenomic, for approximately $15.4 million. The acquisition, completed in December 2010, represented the last stage in the firm's decision to transform itself into a true pharmaceutical company. Its clinical pipeline, headed by Viibryd, includes the Phase III-stage coronary vasodilator Stedivaze (apadenoson). Stedivase is an adenosine A2A receptor selective agonist in development for use as a pharmacologic stress agent used with radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging.
Also in clinical development is PRX-8066, a selective 5-HT2B receptor antagonist currently in Phase II development, which has been granted orphan drug designation in the U.S. for the treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Clinical Data's preclinical pipeline includes candidates for the treatment of diabetes, asthma, glaucoma, pain, b-cell cancers, and acute inflammation. The asthma/type 2 diabetes candidate, ATL844, is a selective adenosine A2B receptor antagonist, to which Novartis has an option for both potential indications.
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Review of the Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Partnership Released
11 August 2011: The UN-REDD Programme has reported on the release of the first evaluation of deliverables of the Indonesia-Norway partnership on REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stock), which was established in May 2010.
The independent review, carried out by Gaia Consulting Ltd, indicates that the process of implementing the Letter of Intent in Indonesia has brought to the fore many questions about Indonesia's forest sector that need to be answered for REDD+ to work. It calls for defining functions for a national REDD+ agency that can attract enough support for it to be constituted in law, and highlights the complexity of building consensus regarding its mandate, the development of a national REDD+ strategy, and the formulation of a legal instrument to place a moratorium on forest and peatland conversions. The review notes that effective access to information held by the Ministry of Forestry remains an issue, amplifying debate on forest sector reform. It also underlines that the deadline to put in place a national REDD+ strategy has not been met, but that the process by which the strategy has been developed has broadly followed the specified requirements.
The evaluation recommends, inter alia, more active engagement with Indonesia's House of Representatives, and clarifying the location, condition and ownership status of degraded lands, underlining that this issue is key to the rational use of territory in low-carbon development outcomes. It concludes that sufficient progress has been made, that financial support should continue to be provided over the coming year, and that it may be appropriate to extend the start-up phase given the extra time needed to build consensus around complex issues. [Publication: Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Partnership: First Evaluation of Deliverables]


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Mission Statement
TSC Brochure (PDF)
The mission of the Teaching Support Centre is twofold. First, we foster and enhance best practices in teaching and learning at Western University, in partnership with Western Libraries and Information Technology Services. Second, we advocate for teaching excellence and scholarship at Western, nationally, and internationally. If you are involved in teaching at Western University, we look forward to working with you! Come see us in the Centre in The D.B. Weldon Library.
To achieve our mission, we utilize an evidence-based approach to create and deliver programs that support the teaching and learning activities of faculty members, librarians and archivists, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate students. Our mission focuses on three priority goals: pedagogical excellence, mentorship and professional development, and scholarship and innovation. In support of these goals, we offer workshops, conferences, courses, individual consultations and online resources. Additionally, we provide both formal and informal opportunities to discuss and share ideas and practices related to teaching and learning on campus.
To facilitate Pedagogical Excellence, we
support the development of effective and innovative pedagogy;
help faculty create deep and transformative learning experiences for students;
provide feedback on teaching skills and strategies;
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support teaching innovations through grants and awards;
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STATE?COLLEGE?— Aside from Matt McGloin, no Penn State player benefited more from the Bill O'Brien era than record-setting receiver Allen Robinson....
someone needs to inform Mr. Joyner what he says is fine if it would be directed at the present coach rather than paterno who caused all this mess in the first place. Last 25 yrs JP looked out for JP--period. Won"t go in to details. He"s dead, let him rest in peace, turn the page & move on if ya ever want to return to the top tier team of pre 1985/6. Our wonderful Woody Hayes did "ONE" bad thing--fired the next day!! But thaTS all you Pa. jerks remember him for, not the untold number of good things he did for people. THe good PSU fans remem this but not the idiots thet never went to PSU who do all the complaing.
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Agree with the previous reviewer...I actually met the founder Sean a few times and he seems very self centered. I would truly love to know where the money is going. He has a great story, no doubt about that and is an inspiration to many, I myself am a cancer survivor and have donated in the past...but all I hear is about this mobile camp...but no updates on the site and nobody knows for sure where the money is going....be aware
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that's just it..I haven't. No clue where the money goes.
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This non-profit hasn't given a grant or done anything with the money in a few years. I would love to know how much money they do raise and what they are doing with the money. I've donated in the past, but have never received a return phone call, thank you note for the donation, nor a response to multiple letters to the PO box. There is no physical address and the founder never responds. I have serious issues with this.
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Sheila Callaghan
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|Sheila Callaghan
January 24, 1973
Queens, New York
Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a New York City-based playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT (Regional Alternative Theater) movement of the 1990s. Her work is considered to be part of the downtown theater (or "experimental") scene,[1][not in citation given] and is known[who?] for its unusual use of language and narrative structure. Callaghan's writing has been described as "comically engaging, subversively penetrating",[2] "whimsically eloquent",[3] "unique and completely contemporary",[4] and "downright weird".[5] The New York Times has said Callaghan "writes with a world-weary tone and has a poet's gift for economical description,"[6] and the Philadelphia Weekly has called Callaghan a "provocative playwright" with a "national following" who "creates work that's realistic and unpredictable, dark and funny, reassuring and disturbing."[7]
She has been profiled by American Theater Magazine, Time Out New York,[8][not in citation given] Theatermania,[9] and The Village Voice,[10] and she occasionally contributes articles to the theatre section of The Brooklyn Rail.[citation needed]
She was also the author of a (now defunct) blog which dealt with her life as a writer in New York City.[citation needed]
She is a member of the Kilroys, whom have created the Kilroys' List for 2014 and 2015.
She is a member of the playwrights' collective 13P and the New Dramatists.[citation needed]
Callaghan is the recipient of several writing awards, including The Princess Grace Award, The LA Weekly Theater Award.
The Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center, The Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a grant from The New York Foundation for The Arts, and an NYSCA grant. In 2007 her play Dead City won a Special Commendation Award for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.[citation needed] She is also a 2007 recipient of the Whiting Award.[citation needed]
Callaghan has taught playwriting and English at the University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Spalding University, Brooklyn College, LaGuardia Community College, and Florida State University.
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She is married to composer Sophocles Papavasilopoulos, with whom she has a son.
Plays by Sheila Callaghan[edit]
Her most well-known play to date is Dead City, a free adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses, which was produced by New Georges at 3LD Art & Technology Center in 2006. Her other plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Flea Theater, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Collision Theatre Company, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Theatre of NOTE, Impact Theatre, foolsFURY Theater Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and Moving Arts, among others.
Internationally, her plays have been produced in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Several of her plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French Inc., and S. Fischer Verlag (in German translation), and she has been anthologized in the New York Theatre Review.
List of plays:
- Scab
- Lascivious Something
- Dead City
- Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) (originally produced by Clubbed Thumb)
- Crawl, Fade to White
- Kate Crackernuts
- We Are Not These Hands
- Fever/Dream
- That Pretty Pretty (Or, The Rape Play) (originally produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
- Roadkill Confidential
- Everything You Touch
- Port Out, Starboard Home
- Water (a meditation on...)
She won a Robert Chesley Award from Publishing Triangle in 2002.[11]
Film and television[edit]
Callaghan is a writer/producer for the Showtime series Shameless and was a writer for two seasons on United States of Tara. Her pilot Over/Under was filmed for the USA Network, starring Steven Pasquale and Caroline Dhavernas. She was hired to write the film adaptation of I Dream of Jeannie by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists. She is also collaborating on a film with Steven Shainberg entitled The Nakeds. In 2010, Callaghan was profiled by Marie Claire as one of "18 successful women who are changing the world."[12] She was also named one of Variety magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2010.[13]
See also[edit]
- ^ "in dialogue: Devouring the Scenery with Sheila Callaghan". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007.
- ^ Hurwitt, Robert (2006-07-01). "Achingly funny comedy that has serious issues with capitalism". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ "Dazzling 'Crumble' is stalwartly screwy". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Bloomsday Revisited". offoffonline.
- ^ Green, Leah B. (2005-09-30). ""Weird" play christens new theater space". The Seattle Times.
- ^ Zinoman, Jason (2006-06-02). "'Dead City': It's a Wonderful, Lively Town, Where the Dead Men Speak". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- ^ "Review". Philadelphia Weekly.
- ^ "The not-ready-for-Broadway playwrights". Timeout New York.
- ^ "People to Watch". Theater Mania.
- ^ "Rejoyce:A playwright's modern-day downtown riff on Ulysses". The Village Voice.
- ^ "Christopher Shinn and Sheila Callaghan Win Chesley Awards". TheatreMania, June 2002.
- ^ "Successful Women Profiles – Stories of Successful Women". Marie Claire.
- ^ Morfoot, Addie (2010-11-16). "Sheila Callaghan: 'Dream' job for playwright". Variety.
External links[edit]
- Official site
- Information on Sheila Callaghan by doollee.com
- Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
- 'Blow Me Up, Lay Me Down,' American Theatre Magazine
- Robertson, Campbell (2006-06-15). "Playwright of 'Dead City' Substitutes Manhattan for Dublin". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
- "Interview". Maestro Arts and Reviews. 2005-10-07.
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Undoubtedly, one of the most memorable and enviable homes I encountered last year was the incredible Mountain home designed by M. Elle Design in Sun Valley, Idaho featured in last November's Elle Decor. I love every last little detail of every single room of this special home and thought, although these images have been shared many times before, they were worth repeating.
As many of you may know, my beautiful niece, Caitlin, is getting married over the weekend. Our family is excited beyond words! This brings me back full circle to my inspiration for sharing this spectacular mountain house with you. I recently stumbled upon some incredibly beautiful wedding photos set against the mountain backdrop of this Sun Valley residence and wanted to share the link and share some blog love with the very talented wedding photographer, Hillary Maybery, who captured it all.
The bride's wedding dress hangs on the wall of bookshelves...
I have been totally obsessed with lavender and gray as of late and adore the wedding table design. I mean ADORE it! If I were getting married tomorrow this would totally be my inspiration...
"Table linens from Sonoma, Linen napkins from France, hemstitched linen cocktail napkins, hand blown plum water glasses, and olive trees, fresh lavender shipped in from growers. There were even more details like '65 Ford Falcon, flip-flops, lavender pashminas, and cowboy hats were given out. Champagne towers and lavender infused french macaroon cookies with a butter cream huckleberry cake! I wish I could have photographed the fragrance from the wedding throughout the day…WONDERFUL!"
a quote that speaks to the attention to detail from Hillary Maybery's wedsite
and just in case you missed the ten million blog posts that followed this home's debut last November in Elle Decor, here is a room by room mountain high to inspire your thoughts just as the first frost settles in.
{Elle Decor photos from Photographed by Miguel Flores-Vianna}


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NEW YORK-- Jim Grant -- prolific author and droll chronicler of Wall Street folly -- would be easy to dismiss as an entertaining but irrelevant throwback if he hadn't been proven so right so often. Now, as small investors are putting more money into markets, the publisher of the biweekly Grant's Interest Rate Observer is warning of new dangers. He says prices are too high for nearly every asset you can think of -- stocks, junk bonds, Treasury bonds, British gilts, even Iowa corn fields.
With its wry observations about investor self-delusion, Grant's newsletter ($910 for an annual subscription) has become a sort of bible among the bold and bearish alike. Though detractors say he's far too negative, he's been praised for some timely calls. In the 1980s, he warned of an overheated junk bond market before it collapsed. He foretold of the bursting of the tech bubble in the late 1990s, and revealed the false alchemy of Wall Street's mortgage packaging business before housing crashed four years ago.
Occasionally, he's gotten bullish at the right time, too. Amid the panicked selling of late 2008, Grant told readers to load up on investment grade bonds, junk bonds, even a few of those much-derided mortgage securities. Some picks have more than doubled since.
A graduate of Indiana University, Grant, 64, was a Navy gunner's mate before starting his journalism career at the Baltimore Sun in 1972. He then joined the financial weekly Barron's before starting Grant's Interest Rate Observer in 1983. He's also written seven books, mostly financial histories and profiles.His first book was on Bernard Baruch, the pre-WWI financier and advisor to presidents. His latest is a profile of Thomas Reed, an acerbic and witty Speaker of House over 100 years ago.
As stocks were falling last week, Grant visited The Associated Press in New York last week to talk about why it's not just stock investors who should be worried. Below are excerpts, edited for clarity, from a wide-ranging conversation.
Q: What's your view of the stock market?
A: The Federal Reserve has unilaterally taken it upon itself to levitate asset prices. It is suppressing interest rates. When you're not getting anything on your savings, you are inclined to go out and buy something, anything, to generate either income or the expectation of capital gains. So the things that we take as prices freely determined are in fact manipulated.
A few months ago, (Fed Chairman) Ben S. Bernanke, Ph.D., the former chairman of the Princeton economics department, stood before the cameras of CNBC and said that the Russell 2000 is making new highs. The Russell! He sounded like another stock jockey. He was taking credit for new highs in the small cap equities index. The Fed, as never before, or rarely before, is now the steward of this bull market. One wonders what it will do if stocks pull back significantly.
Q: Are stocks overvalued?
A: Some big multinationals left behind in the past 10 years (like) Wal-Mart, Cisco Systems, Johnson & Johnson appear to be attractively priced. But generally speaking, things are rich.
Q: What would you have done in the financial crisis if you had been in Bernanke's position?
A: Resign. I don't know. I have great faith in the price mechanism, in the mechanics of markets. I think there should have been much less intervention and we should have let some chips fall, many chips fall.
Before the Great Depression, there was a great depression (lower case 'g') in 1920-21. Within 18 months, the GDP was down double digits and commodity prices collapsed. Harry Truman lost his haberdashery in Kansas City. It was very painful, but it ended. And the Fed, during that depression, actually raised its discount rate and the Treasury ran a surplus. The reason it ended was the so-called real balance effect -- that is, prices came down and people with savings saw things that were cheap and they invested. That's the fast and ugly approach.
The slow and ugly approach is to mitigate, temporize and forestall to give us time to work ourselves out of difficulties. That's the current approach. I think it's intended to be a more humane approach, but I wonder about its humanity. I mean these college kids get out of school and they've got nothing. It's awful -- 9 percent unemployment and going nowhere except sideways.
Q: But Bernanke has succeeded by some measures. Big companies are flush with cash, their profits are on track to hit a record this year and the riskiest among them are raising money at the lowest rates ever. Who could have imagined this during the depths of the financial crisis?
A: Let's go back to the previous cycle of 2002-3. Cisco Systems was for 15 minutes the costliest company on the face of the earth, and digital technology was about to raise every human being out of poverty. OK, so that cycle ends -- Bang! -- with general disarray in the stock market. What do we do? Well, we press down interest rates and we give residential real estate a little helping hand. What's not to like? Home ownership rates are rising. Stocks are up. Risky companies are issuing debt at levels never before imagined.
Who would have dreamt such an outcome was possible after the tech bust? And that ended noisily and here we are again and our monetary masters have devised new, even more audacious methods of stimulus. In three or four years we'll look back and say, 'Can you believe we fell for this again?'
Q: You've been warning about higher inflation for a while. How imminent is it?
A: I've been all wrong on this. I thought that this massive monetary stuff would generate the conventional kind of inflation that would be expressed in much higher CPI readings. Not so far. But all things are cyclical and the seemingly impossible is just around the corner. On September 30, 1981, the 30-year US Treasury bond traded at 14 7/8 percent and I remember some crank, some visionary, was talking about how interest rates were going to zero, you watch. Oh, yeah right. And so it came to pass.
It does seem improbable that the inflation rate would ever get beyond 3.5 percent, let alone knock on the door of 10 percent. But I'm here to tell you it's going to 10 percent.
Q: Let's talk about the dollar. Washington says it wants a strong dollar.
A: It's disingenuous when (Treasury Secretary) Tim Geithner says he's for a strong dollar. What he means to say is the economy stinks and we need even greater oomph from our exports and for that we would like a much lower dollar in a measured, managed kind of decline. That's what he wants, and he wants it by November 2012.
Q: What's wrong with a weak dollar? Caterpillar recently said it is nearly doubling its capital spending because the weak dollar allows it to sell more overseas. It plans to spend much of that on factories in the U.S., paying construction workers to build them and hiring people to work in them.
A: Well, that is the Caterpillar story. The whole manufacturing story in the U.S. is very sunny, and it's in part due to the state of the dollar. But if (prosperity) were as easy as debasing one's currency, think of all the countries that would be prosperous that are rather the opposite. Argentina would be booming. And Weimar Germany would not be a story of failure but of success.
If the world were to lose confidence in (the dollar) we would suddenly be in a much less advantageous financial position. The U.S. is uniquely privileged in that we alone may pay our bills in the currency that only we may lawfully print. That's our prerogative as the reserve-currency country. But it has seduced us into a state of complacency. We never actually pay the rate of interest that we might be expected to pay -- the real rate of interest -- on Treasury debts.
It's great for now that we're paying 2.5 percent or whatever on our public debt. But wouldn't it be better if there were an accurate price signal that was telling us that we're borrowing too much?
Q: If investors lose their faith in the dollar, what would replace it?
A: I think there will be a gold standard again in your lifetime, if not mine. It's the only answer to the question, if not the dollar, then what?
Q: Where should people put their money now?
A: The trouble with the present is that nothing is actually cheap. My big thought is that our crises are becoming ever closer in time. The recovery time from the Great Depression was 25 years. The stock market peaked in 1929. It got back there in 1954. We had a peak in 2000, crash, levitation, then the biggest debt crisis in anybody's memory. The cycles are becoming compressed. The temptation to become invested at peaks of these shorter cycles is ever greater.
Perhaps one way to proceed is to hold cash at the opportunity cost of not much in Treasury bills. You make nothing, but you want to have this money when things are absolutely, not just relatively, cheap. This time of full or overvaluation shall pass. On recent form, it'll pass in a thunderclap and there will be a panic and it'll seem as if the world's ending. And that's when somebody who is nimble can get fully invested in a comfortable way.
It won't feel comfortable, it will feel awful, but I think that's the way to do it. I mean everything (you could invest in) is either uninteresting or rich, it seems to me.
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A hundred years ago on Apr 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic changed the way the world looks at the age-old war between technology, economics, and nature. That war is still being fought in the present day economic and social agendas of American politics, it has just taken on a slightly different form.
It is clear now that there were a number of factors contributing to the disaster that took the lives of more than 1,700 Titanic passengers on that fateful, icy-cold April night. However, the fundamental cause of the Titanic disaster was ultimately the result of the poor decisions of the Captain.
America's current brand of radical right-wing conservatism in the Republican Party parallels the fundamental elements of the Titanic disaster in policy and ideology. Turning a blind eye to sensibility and integrity to favor financial profit or personal gain can and will inevitably lead to disaster.
As Captain Edward Smith sailed in rapid pursuit of a Trans-Atlantic speed record, he ignored warnings of icebergs ahead. Smith did not believe the great Titanic could ever sink. Then she hit the iceberg. Three hours later, the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built was on its way to the ocean floor in pieces.
The Titanic didn't sink just because she hit an iceberg. She sank, in part, because engineers for the White Star Line cut corners on quality when building her, and they hid it in a place were the passengers wouldn't see it.
The chambers inside Titanic's sectioned hull were designed to keep her afloat in the event of a disaster by containing potential flooding only to damaged sections. But in order to save money, a lower quality material was substituted on the bolts that held those chambers together. When the massive ship brushed the tip of the iceberg, the bolts failed and the "unsinkable Titanic" did indeed sink.
The concept of cutting corners on quality to save money is not a new one, and it continues to this day in various forms. While some of the byproducts are subtle, like cancer from chemical pollution decades later, other disastrous results are sudden and obvious, like the 2010 BP Gulf Oil Spill. As with Titanic, the ultimate cause was hidden deep inside the structural design, far from the the eyes of the public. Time revealed that the largest oil spill in U.S. history happened because BP used cost cutting measures on the well casing cement and blowout preventer.
It would be foolish and inaccurate to say that politics is not a major influence on everything from the environment, to whether or not human beings get needed medical care. However, the difference between conservative and progressive ideologies is where the next profit-driven disaster lives.
In the 2012 election arena, the Republican Party has promised to lay the ground work for future disasters by further dismantling both the social and economic safety measures of modern American society. Profits before people is their motto. The more that is hidden from public view, the more dangerous the agenda is, and that was the same pursuit of the White Star Line builders, when they used inferior bolts to hold Titanic together.
Today, America is held together by increasingly fragmented ideologies – weak bolts, if you will. The Republicans want to remove as many bolts as they can in the name of their farcical agenda of smaller government. But at some point there will not be enough "bolts" left to hold the ship together.
Radical and unbalanced budget cuts with a decreased source of revenue can quickly result in economic and social disaster. Such an upheaval could only be blamed on the "Captains" of the political party that promoted the policy in the first place.
The "iceberg" the conservative Republican Party is selling to the American public is an economic platform of full scale corporate deregulation, along with a take from the poor and give it to the rich attitude that is morally wrong and culturally dangerous. But that is because fundamentally, the Republican Party does not believe in an economically balanced ideology. The results will be the same as it was on Titanic: There were only enough lifeboats for the First Class passengers, and most of the Second and Third Class passengers who were left to fend for themselves drowned.
America needs enough life boats for everyone, not just the First Class passengers.
If you like writing about U.S. politics and the 2012 campaign, enter "The American Pundit" competition. Allvoices is awarding four $250 prizes each month between now and November. These monthly winners earn eligibility for the $5,000 grand prize, to be awarded after the November election.