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The most catastrophic decision in human history 7
The great Thomas Sowell sees what so many Persons of Opinion cannot see or will not let themselves see.
And he is saying what most urgently needs to be said.
He writes at Investor's Business Daily:
Recent statements from United Nations officials, that Iran is already blocking the U.N.'s existing efforts to keep track of what is going on in its nuclear program, should tell anyone who does not already know it that any agreement with Iran will be utterly worthless in practice. It does't matter what the terms of the agreement are, if Iran can cheat.
It is amazing — indeed, staggering — that so few Americans are talking about what it would mean for the world's biggest sponsor of international terrorism, Iran, to have nuclear bombs, and to be developing intercontinental missiles that can deliver them far beyond the Middle East.
Back during the years of the nuclear stand-off between the Soviet Union and the U.S., contemplating what a nuclear war would be like was called "thinking the unthinkable".
But surely the Nazi Holocaust during World War II should tell us that what is beyond the imagination of decent people is by no means impossible for people who, as Churchill warned of Hitler before the war, had "currents of hatred so intense as to sear the souls of those who swim upon them".
Have we not already seen that kind of hatred in the Middle East? Have we not seen it in suicide bombings there and in suicide attacks against America by people willing to sacrifice their own lives by flying planes into massive buildings, to vent their unbridled hatred?
The Soviet Union was never suicidal, so the fact that we could annihilate their cities if they attacked ours was a sufficient deterrent to a nuclear attack from them. But will that deter fanatics with an apocalyptic vision? Should we bet the lives of millions of Americans on our ability to deter nuclear war with Iran?
It is now nearly 70 years since nuclear bombs were used in war. Long periods of safety in that respect have apparently led many to feel as if the danger is not real. But the dangers are even greater now and the nuclear bombs more devastating.
Clearing the way for Iran to get nuclear bombs may — probably will — be the most catastrophic decision in human history. And it can certainly change human history, irrevocably, for the worse.
Against that grim background, it is almost incomprehensible how some people can be preoccupied with the question whether having Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address Congress, warning against the proposed agreement, without the prior approval of President Obama, was a breach of protocol.
Against the background of the Obama administration's negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to complain about protocol is to put questions of etiquette above questions of annihilation.
Why is Obama so anxious to have an international agreement that will have no legal standing under the Constitution just two years from now, since it will be just a presidential agreement, rather than a treaty requiring the "advice and consent" of the Senate?
There are at least two reasons. One reason is that such an agreement will serve as a fig leaf to cover his failure to do anything that has any serious chance of stopping Iran from going nuclear. Such an agreement will protect Obama politically, despite however much it exposes the American people to unprecedented dangers.
The other reason is that, by going to the U.N. for its blessing on his agreement with Iran, he can get a bigger fig leaf to cover his complicity in the nuclear arming of America's most dangerous enemy. In Obama's vision, as a citizen of the world, there may be no reason why Iran should not have nuclear weapons when other nations have them.
Politically, Obama could not just come right out and say such a thing. But he can get the same end result by pretending to have ended the dangers by reaching an agreement with Iran. There have long been people in the Western democracies who hail every international agreement that claims to reduce the dangers of war.
The road to World War II was strewn with arms-control agreements on paper that aggressor nations ignored in practice. But those agreements lulled the democracies into a false sense of security that led them to cut back on military spending while their enemies were building up the military forces to attack them.
We would add another reason why Obama is helping Iran become nuclear-armed.
An overriding reason: his blind, petulant, ideologically-driven – and unmistakably demonstrated – hatred of the West, freedom, capitalism, the Jews and Israel, and above all hatred of America.
Listen to Sowell 3
Some immigrants are valuable, some are not. "If they are graduates in Sociology from the University of Berkeley – get them out of here!"
Listen to Thomas Sowell for enlightenment, fresh ideas, some surprises, some laughter – and some very dark pessimism.
Race to the top 7
How much worse race relations have become since Barack Obama was elected (ludicrously) to the presidency. Of course he got elected because a great many whites voted for him for no better reason than that he is black. A totally racist reason. So the signs for the elimination of race as a divisive political issue were not good.
It was a very poor reason to vote for him, his skin color. In no way did he, although a black American, embody the experience and historical consciousness of most black Americans. Through his paternal line he is a member of the Luo tribe of East Africa. His (Muslim and Communist) Luo father was not even an immigrant in America, only a short-stay student visitor. So if some thought a vote for Obama was a vote to make amends to black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors, they widely missed the mark.
In two of his columns syndicated today, Thomas Sowell deplores the latest measures Obama is taking to stress and exploit racial differences.
First he writes against a policy being implemented in Minneapolis to privilege black delinquent children by giving them lighter punishment than white children who commit the same offenses:
If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.
Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to reduce what they call the "disproportionate" numbers of black male students who are punished for various offenses in schools.
Under an implicit threat of losing their federal subsidies, the Minneapolis Public Schools have agreed to reduce the disparity in punishment of black students by 25% by the end of this school year, and then by 50%, 75% and finally 100% in each of the following years.
In other words, there are now racial quota limits for punishment in the Minneapolis schools.
If we stop and think — as old-fashioned as that may seem — there is not the slightest reason to expect black males to commit the same number of offenses as Asian females or any other set of students.
When different groups of human beings have behaved differently in all sorts of ways, in countries around the world, for thousands of years of recorded history, why would we accept as dogma that the only reason one set of students gets punished more than others is because the people who are doing the punishing are picking on them?
Politically — which is the way the Obama administration looks at everything — any time they can depict blacks as victims, and depict themselves as their rescuers, that means an opportunity to get out the black vote for Democrats.
On the surface, this may look like a favor to blacks. But only on the surface.
Anyone with common sense knows that letting a kid get away with bad behavior is an open invitation to worse behavior in the future. Punishing a kid for misbehavior in school when he is 10 years old may reduce the chances that he will have to be sent to prison when he is 20 years old.
Other schools in other cities, which have also caved under pressure from the federal government, and agreed to lighten up on black kids who misbehave, have reported an increase in misbehavior, including violence. Who would have thought otherwise?
Letting kids who are behavior problems in schools grow up to become hoodlums and then criminals is no favor to them or to the black community. Moreover, it takes no more than a small fraction of troublemakers in a class to make it impossible to give that class a decent education. And for many poor people, whether black or white, education is their one big chance to escape poverty.
Next, Sowell writes about the absurd policy of enforcing "racial quotas for academic performance" in public schools:
Just as school boards across the country scramble to meet new federal limits for punishing black students, Obama's educrats now want them to hit racial quotas for academic performance, too.
Last month, slipping almost everybody's notice, the Education Department's office for civil rights issued a guidance letter to 14,000 local school districts that expands "racial equity" beyond school discipline into virtually every aspect of public education.
Breathtaking in its scope, the 37-page edict warns school boards that they have to reach the same equity, based on "disparate impact" statistics, in:
1) advanced placement courses;
2) gifted and talented programs;
3) distribution of funds;
4) school facilities;
5) technology; and,
6) teacher talent, experience and diversity.
Those who don't get their numbers right risk forfeiting federal funding and being investigated for discrimination. It doesn't matter if school policies provide black students equal access to fast-track programs and resources. Or if standards are color-blind.
If disproportionate numbers of African-Americans don't avail themselves of those policies, schools can expect a visit from Obama's diversity cops. …
From now on, racial imbalances in "advanced placement and international baccalaureate courses, gifted and talent programs" and other honors programs will be flagged by Obama's racial bean counters. If your school has "too many" whites and Asians and "too few" blacks in those programs, you might want to lawyer up. …
Of course, most boards will not want to fight Washington and risk losing subsidies. So they'll more than likely work to get their numbers right — even if it means lowering entrance standards and curving test scores.
Liability does not end there. The Obama regime also sees as racist disparities in the quality of facilities, resources and teachers. …
It blames these allegedly discriminatory disparities for lower black graduation rates. …
School districts that show statistical disparities by race will be aggressively investigated under the administration's unconstitutional disparate impact theory and "be expected to put in place a clear plan for remedying the inequality in a timely fashion." …
In effect, activist federal bureaucrats are micromanaging all local school decisions now, with the goal of massive redistribution of resources and outcomes.
The best way to ensure underprivileged kids have access to quality education is to give their parents better options through school choice facilitated by education vouchers. But Democrats and their school union donors fight such common-sense solutions and opt for race-baiting instead.
The incoming GOP majority in Congress ought to demand the administration rescind its draconian new school policy guidance.
Nowhere at this time is the result of Obama's racist policies more starkly apparent than in Ferguson, Missouri.
Obama made an unscheduled visit to the black leaders of recent protest riots there and told them to "Stay on course".
Seems they will.
Kerry Picket writes at Breitbart:
Protesters anxiously awaiting the St. Louis grand jury decision relating to the shooting death of 18-year-old Mike Brown have been training activists all weekend in preparation for the day the grand jury makes an announcement about whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for Brown's death.
Regardless of the verdict, then, "activists" will protest.
In a small room located on South Jefferson Avenue … organizers like Rev. Osagyefo Sekou are instructing groups of individuals about tactics relating to resisting police commandsduring demonstrations. Sekou is a St. Louis native who grew up in the area but now lives in Massachusetts.
He's come to Ferguson specially for the sport.
Topics covered by organizers like Sekou … included decentralized protest actions, jail support, first aid, legal issues, as well as staying safe on the streets during demonstrations. …
Sekou says to the group, "Our task in part is, in addition to all the information is get a sense as to why we are here. We are part of the guiding principles for this movement. It's militant non-violent civil disobedience. Can you please say that?"
Attendees respond, "Militant non-violent civil disobedience."
"Militant" but also "non-violent"?
Sekou continues, "And we use the word 'militant' as opposed to the word 'passive' non-violent civil disobedience, because we are about a direct encounter with the state to create drama to show that we are willing to take a risk in confronting the state because of injustice. Right?"
Attendees reply, "Right."
The injustice is accepted as a fact.
"We break unjust laws, because it's the morally right thing to do. That's why we do it. And there's a tradition of that," Sekou says to the group of mainly white attendees – many who are at least 50 years old.
Elderly whites will be breaking the law to create drama to show that they're willing to take a risk in confronting the state. If they do, there will be no outcry from the media. It's not as if these were members of the Tea Party.
"And militant non-violent civil disobedience gave us the 8 hour work day. It gave us women's right to vote. It gave us the possibility of me standing here in this room with you without the relative fear of arbitrary violence because this meeting would have been historically illegal 50 years ago. That's what militant non-violent civil disobedience gave us. We are angry, but we will not allow the anger to have the last word," says Sekou as the protesters-in-training answered him positively with rousing congregational "yeahs" after each sentence.
"So what militant non-violent civil disobedience allows us to do is to create a container that we can channel it directly at the state, because this is not about bad apples. This is about a rotten system," Sekou tells the trainees.
"Because you can be a good cop who doesn't shoot black people but if you give out more tickets in Ferguson than there are actually people in Ferguson, that's an evil system."
Sekou then starts, "So we are confronting an…"
The audience finishes his sentence stating back to him, "Evil system."
He continues, "[This is] not about an individual police or about individuals. This is about confronting an evil system. And the thing that guides us is love — not the kind of love that you see somebody and you think they're cute — not that — [but rather] deep abiding love. Say that."
Attendees responded, "Deep abiding love."
"That's what guides us, because deep abiding love says you're willing to go to jail for what you believe in. Deep abiding love says you're willing to risk your life for what you believe in," Sekou says. "That's what deep abiding love does. Deep abiding love in the front of tanks and tear gas and pepper spray says you will not bow down." …
At this point some attendees are asked to participate in an exercise involving locking arms while others play the police vociferously demanding they leave the area.
Sekou asks those who are locking arms how they felt after that experience.
"Did you tense up? In those instances what's the guiding principles?"
They reply, "Deep abiding love."
"So when you feel the person next to you, you hold the line. You hold the line. One of the toughest things to do is if you are being advanced upon, if you sit, it's harder for you to be broken up, right? So as they come for you this time, I want you to sit and lock," he says.
The topic of race came up briefly as Sekou points out, "Look at all these white folks putting their bodies on the line for black people, because this is not a separate struggle. It is one struggle."
Another organizer, later in the training, tells the group there is indeed "mostly white folks here."
The sort of white folks who approve of Obama no matter what he does because he is black. Racist white folks.
A birthday to celebrate 9
Today is the anniversary of the birth of the great Austrian economist and political philosopher, F.A.Hayek.
This tribute to him comes from Investor's Business Daily, by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr., senior fellow at the Cato Institute:
Hayek's work, whether on economics, politics or law, focused on the ineluctable problems of uncertainty and incomplete information. In economics articles going back to the 1930s, he analyzed the price system as a mechanism for communicating information to buyers and sellers about the intensity of preferences for goods and their relative scarcity. He concluded that the information does not exist anywhere in its entirety and could not be centralized. … Socialist (really communist) societies relying on centralized planning would be characterized by gross economic inefficiencies.
Hayek was vindicated by subsequent events. The power of this argument is lost today on policymakers engaged in "planning lite," attempts to allocate credit to favored industries and pick winners.
The Great Recession was in large part the consequence of such a policy. The Fed's balance sheet is loaded up with housing finance paper. In "Ben Bernanke Versus Milton Friedman," historian Jeffrey Rogers Hummel argues that the Fed has evolved from monetary authority to a credit allocator.
Hayek first began evolving his information argument in his monetary analysis. In 1932, he questioned whether deliberate monetary management could avoid economic fluctuations.
Friedman later developed the argument against discretionary monetary policy in a series of articles that detailed the information problems confronting a central bank. His argument later became encapsulated as the "lags" in monetary policy — i.e., the unpredictability of when the effects of monetary policy actions will be felt. Monetary policymakers give lip service to Friedman's arguments, but ignore them in practice.
Hayek deftly summed up his argument on information in his 1988 book, The Fatal Conceit:
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
A market economy is a complex order, the outcome of societal evolution that confounds efforts to redesign it. The central tenet of classical liberalism was summed up by George Smith in his brilliant book, The System of Liberty:
Laissez faire in all spheres, personal, social and economic, was the fundamental presumption of liberalism — its default setting, so to speak — and all deviations from this norm stood in need of justification.
In America, by linguistic legerdemain, progressives transformed the meaning of liberalism into nearly the opposite of what it originally meant. Progressives became liberals, and true liberals lost their identity. Hence, we have the peculiar use of conservative to denote in America what had once been liberal thought.
So when Hayek wrote a famous essay on "Why I Am Not a Conservative," he confabulated some American conservatives. He was not attacking American conservatism. Instead, he was combating the transplantation to America of a "European type of conservatism, which (is) alien to the American tradition." That European conservatism upheld tradition and status over liberty and innovation.
Hayek argued there, and elsewhere, that liberalism must be the political philosophy of principles. Its central principle is individual liberty. …
Hayek provided a much-needed program for American conservatives today. They must stand for free markets and free people. Free markets and free trade must be seen as the economic core of an opportunity society that provides hope for all. …
Hayek was born in Vienna at the high point of the global liberal economic order comprising free markets, free trade and capital movements, and the classical gold standard. That glorious edifice ended with World War I. So for decades he was arguing against the tide of history. Yet he lived long enough to be vindicated. His words, written over the course of much of the 20th century, constitute a message for today.
On the centenary of Hayek's birth, May 8, 1999, Barun S. Mitra wrote a tribute to him, published by the Liberty Institute, India.
We quote from it:
Today, a wide range of people has acknowledged his contribution all over the world. From philosophers like Karl Popper, Robert Nozick … to political leaders like Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Vaclav Klaus, to Nobel laureate economists like Milton Friedman, James Buchanan … and countless others. As the iron curtain was being built in the aftermath of World War II, Ludwig Erhard, the finance minister of West Germany turned to Hayekian ideas to rebuild his country. Half a century later when the iron curtain collapsed, leaders in many countries in Eastern Europe again turned to Hayek in their attempt to rebuild their societies. And Hayek is reportedly available on the bookshelf of even the Chinese Prime Minister.
If today, the world is witnessing a perceptible change in thinking, it is in no small amount due to the legacy of Hayek. …
No wonder commemorative events are being organised in London, Paris, Vienna, Washington, D.C., Montreal, Eastern Europe, and Central America. The Adam Smith Institute in the United Kingdom has named him the man of the century. …
Hayek was more than a Nobel Prize winning academic. He was an intellectual giant, who was also a gentleman to the core. The man, who went on to become one of the greatest champions of liberty, had begun his life as a young soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and sent to the Italian front in 1917. An academic, whose "controversial ideas" were eventually recognised by the Nobel committee in 1974, Hayek was also an activist who was among the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1948. This was an organisation dedicated to pursuing the intellectual battle against all forms of authoritarianism and tyranny at a time when it was fashionable to call oneself socialist. Today, it has hundreds of members, including many Nobel laureates, spread across all the continents. He inspired many to take up intellectual activism like the late Sir Anthony Fisher, the British businessman who founded the Institute of Economic Affairs in London in 1955. Over the years, IEA, an independent think tank, has produced countless policy papers and books on contemporary issues, and is recognised to have contributed to changing the popular perception that made the Thatcher revolution possible in Britain in the 1980s
Hayek was born in Vienna, Austria, on May 8, 1899, to August Edler von Hayek & Felicitas von Hayek. Even as a teenager, he was interested in philosophy, economics and ethics. But his studies were interrupted as he was called for military duty in 1917, and saw action on the Italian front. On his return from service he went back to college. In the 1920s Hayek was part of that heady circle in post-war Vienna, a group which featured some of the greatest minds of the century. He earned two doctorates, one in law and another in political science. He studied economics under Ludwig von Mises, one of the greatest exponents of the Austrian School. He left for England in 1931 worried about the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Hayek mainly taught at the London School of Economics, but had short spells at universities around world including, Cambridge, Chicago, Stanford, Tokyo, and Freiburg.
Hayek was one of those few fortunate people who lived to see the tumultuous events that shook the socialist empire, and be vindicated. In a letter written in 1989, he noted, "the ultimate victory of our side in the long dispute of the principles of the free market." He must have been saddened at the enormous cost, both human and material, that was paid in pursuit of a doomed experiment.
Hayek died in Freiburg on 23 March 1992.
Dispersed knowledge
In the 1930s, Hayek was the principal opponent Keynes. In various scholarly publications – Monetary Theory of Trade Cycle (1933), The Pure Theory of Capital (1941) – he had pointed out that business cycles are caused by monetary mismanagement in [government]. This contribution of Hayek was noted by the Nobel committee. Subsequent events have completely vindicated Hayek. Concerned about the stability of value, he wrote a radical essay in the 1976, "The Denationalisation of Money", where he argued that it was a serious mistake to allow governments to monopolise the legal tender. He called for the freedom of the individuals to trade in whatever media of exchange they thought best. …
Hayek emphasized that division of labour and division of knowledge were complimentary. Every individual possessed some specialized and local knowledge that was particular to his situation and preferences. Yet, the market, through the competitive price system, successfully coordinated all these bits of knowledge. Prices provide the incentive to invest in certain areas, and the information regarding the possible opportunities. Hayek explained, "We must look at the price system as such a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function… … The most significant fact about this system is the economy of knowledge with which it operates, or how little the individual participants need to know in order to be able to take the right action." …
Spontaneous order
Hayek also developed the idea of "spontaneous order" to describe the progress of civilizations. Language, customs, traditions, rules of conduct, have all evolved without any conscious design, and without that freedom societies may not have evolved beyond primitive levels, he held. Advancement of society was dependent upon no one overall "plan" being imposed over the actions and plans of the individuals making up the society. Building on Adam Smith's "invisible hand", Hayek showed that planning need not necessarily lead to order and lack of a guiding hand need not degenerate in to chaos. …
[Hayek wrote:]
It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess, and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends, that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.
This characteristic of the market where order seemed to develop quite spontaneously, along with dispersed nature of knowledge, raises one of the most fundamental questions on the utility of government intervention in the economy to achieve a particular end. The institutions created by government decree to provide direction to such intervention would under the best of circumstances simply be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of knowledge that they will need to process.
In contrast, the market routinely brings to order millions of evaluations undertaken by each individual participant. Hayek showed that progress arises from a continuous process of "discovery" wherein a variety of producers and consumers experiment with a wide range of possible opportunities to make profit. Most such experiments fail in the marketplace, and the innovators bear the cost taking the risk. But some succeed, and the benefits are enjoyed by all. That is the reason why in a free market, voluntary trade creates a win-win situation for all participants. …
The Road to Freedom
Hayek also published works more accessible to a wider public, which included books such as The Road to Serfdom (1944) and The Constitution of Liberty. The former has been nominated by journals like London's Time Literary Supplement as one the noteworthy books of this century. Dozens of unauthorised editions of it were known to be in circulation among the underground activists in the Eastern block during the cold war. This book has now been published in many languages across the world. …
Then Mitra, looking at Hayek's ideas from an Indian perspective, points out that India would have done well to have learnt what he taught:
We are concerned that after fifty years of independence, poverty is so wide spread, and as a measure to speed up the process of redistribution of wealth, we thought it prudent to abolish right to property as a fundamental right. Hayek had cautioned all those years ago that "The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not."
We want "social justice", while Hayek warned that "There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal", and to attempt otherwise would only contribute to social collision. "Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time", wrote Hayek.
The world has had a bitter experience in the 20th Century. The dreams of a socialist-collectivist utopia were shattered by economic collapse and degenerated into tyrannical police states. According to historian Thomas Sowell, if one was to mark the time when the intellectual tide began to turn against the ideal of socialism then it was with Hayek's [The Road to] Serfdom. …
While the world is marking his centenary now, the next century could well belong to him. And ideas do change the world. Let us hope that the intellectual tide in favour of Hayek will become a tidal wave in the next millenium. Hayek's Road to Serfdom may actually help pave the road to freedom for all of us.
If only!
The land of the formerly free 9
There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for thousands of years.
So Thomas Sowell writes in a column titled Freedom Is Not Free. He argues that the thuggish Obama regime is implementing a totalitarian agenda. The evidence that individuals are being hounded by government agencies is enormous and mounting. He mentions a few examples.
The Federal Communications Commission's recent plan to have a "study" of how editorial decisions are made in the media, placing FCC bureaucrats in editorial offices across the country, was one of the boldest assaults on freedom of the press. Fortunately, there was enough backlash to force the FCC to back off.
With all the sweeping powers available to government, displeasing FCC bureaucrats in editorial offices could have brought on armies of "safety" inspectors from OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration], audits from the Internal Revenue Service and many other harassments from many other government agencies.
Such tactics have become especially common in this administration, which has the morals of thugs and the agenda of totalitarians. They may not be consciously aiming at creating a totalitarian state, but shameless use of government power to crush those who get in their way can produce totalitarian end results.
Too kind. We see clear evidence that Obama and his henchmen (and henchwomen) are consciously aiming at totalitarian power.
The prosecution of Dinesh D'Souza for contributing $20,000 to a political candidate, supposedly in violation of the many campaign finance laws, is a classic case of selective prosecution.
Thugs who stationed themselves outside a polling place in Philadelphia to intimidate white voters were given a pass, and others accused of campaign finance violations were charged with misdemeanors, but Dinesh D'Souza has been charged with felonies that carry penalties of years in federal prison.
All of this is over a campaign contribution that is chicken feed, compared to what can be raised inside of an hour at a political fundraising breakfast or lunch.
Could this singling out of D'Souza for prosecution have something to do with the fact that he made a documentary movie with devastating exposures of Barack Obama's ideologies and policies? That movie, incidentally, is titled "2016: Obama's America," and every American should get a copy of it on a DVD. …
It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.
In other words, the Constitution cannot protect you, if you don't protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom – and all our freedom – to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously. …
Arbitrary power is ugly and vicious, regardless of what pious rhetoric goes with it.
Freedom is not free.
You have to fight for it or lose it. But is our generation up to fighting for it?
So there may be no truth in the claim that all people want to be free.
Only a minority, it seems, will vote for freedom. Even fewer will fight for it.
What chance is there that such freedom as we still have will not be lost?
Government is bad for the economy 12
A truth that should be universally acknowledged is that everything a government does it does badly. Sure, there are some things only government can do, or should do: first and foremost, if not only, defend the nation and protect individual liberty. And those are two things Obama doesn't want to do.
Government meddling in the economy is at the very least a brake on prosperity, at worst a wrecker. (Vide Greece and Detroit.)
Thomas Sowell writes:
Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the "war on poverty," we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development of the American welfare state. The actual signing of the "war on poverty" legislation took place in August 1964, so the 50th anniversary is some months away. But there have already been statements in the media and in politics proclaiming that this vast and costly array of anti-poverty programs "worked."
Of course everything "works" by sufficiently low standards, and everything "fails" by sufficiently high standards. The real question is: What did the "war on poverty" set out to do — and how well did it do it, if at all?
Without some idea of what a person or a program is trying to do, there is no way to know whether what actually happened represented a success or a failure. When the hard facts show that a policy has failed, nothing is easier for its defenders than to make up a new set of criteria, by which it can be said to have succeeded.
That's what has happened with the "war on poverty." It has failed, but the government and its hallelujah chorus will pretend otherwise.
Both President John F. Kennedy, who launched the proposal for a "war on poverty" and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, who guided the legislation through Congress and then signed it into law, were very explicit as to what the "war on poverty" was intended to accomplish.
Its mission was not simply to prove that spending money on the poor led to some economic benefits to the poor. Nobody ever doubted that. How could they?
What the war on poverty was intended to end was mass dependency on government. President Kennedy said, "We must find ways of returning far more of our dependent people to independence." The same theme was repeated endlessly by President Johnson. The purpose of the "war on poverty," he said, was to make "taxpayers out of taxeaters." Its slogan was "Give a hand up, not a handout." When Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark legislation into law, he declared: "The days of the dole in our country are numbered."
Now, 50 years and trillions of dollars later, it is painfully clear that there is more dependency than ever.
Ironically, dependency on government to raise people above the poverty line had been going down for years before the "war on poverty" began. The hard facts showed that the number of people who lived below the official poverty line had been declining since 1960, and was only half of what it had been in 1950.
On the more fundamental question of dependency, the facts were even clearer. The proportion of people whose earnings put them below the poverty level – without counting government benefits – declined by about one-third from 1950 to 1965.
All this was happening before the "war on poverty" went into effect – and all these trends reversed after it went into effect.
The more the government does to "fight poverty", the more poverty grows and spreads. Year after year, under the Obama administration, the number who "need" government assistance has increased, so that, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as reported by CNS News –
A record 20% of American households, one in five, were on food stamps in 2013 … and … the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), was at an all-time high.
The USDA says that there were 23,052,388 households on food stamps in the average month of fiscal 2013, an increase of 722,675 from fiscal year 2012, when there were 22,329,713 households on food stamps in the average month. …
In the past five years alone, the number of households on food stamps has greatly increased. In fiscal year 2009 – Oct. 1, 2008 through Sept. 30, 2009 — the number of households on food stamps was 15,232,115. Five years later, in 2013, that amount had increased by 51.3% to reach 23,052,388 households.
It should be remembered that most of "the poor" in America are comparatively well off, the least poor of the world's poor.
But if government would stop interfering, the economy would grow faster and people would have a better chance of doing well, and even becoming really (maybe gloriously) rich.
Always, figuratively speaking, the fatter the government, the thinner the people.
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On entering the new year, Thomas Sowell writes:
Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time.
Sometimes we are content to try to change ourselves with New Year's resolutions to do better in some respect. Changing ourselves is a much more reasonable undertaking than trying to change other people. It may or may not succeed, but it seldom creates the disasters that trying to change others can produce.
When we look beyond ourselves to the world around us, peering into the future can be a very sobering, if not depressing, experience.
ObamaCare looms large and menacing on our horizon. This is not just because of computer problems, or even because some people who think that they have enrolled may discover at their next visit to a doctor that they do not have any insurance coverage.
What ObamaCare has done, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts's Supreme Court decision, is reduce us all from free citizens to cowed subjects, whom the federal government can order around in our own personal lives, in defiance of the 10th Amendment and all the other protections of our freedom in the Constitution of the United States.
ObamaCare is more than a medical problem, though there are predictable medical problems – and even catastrophes – that will unfold in the course of 2014 and beyond. Our betters have now been empowered to run our lives, with whatever combination of arrogance and incompetence they may have, or however much they lie.
The challenges ahead are much clearer than what our responses will be. Perhaps the most hopeful sign is that increasing numbers of people seem to have finally – after nearly five long years – begun to see Barack Obama for what he is, rather than for what he seemed to be, when judged by his image and rhetoric.
What kind of man would blithely disrupt the medical care of millions of Americans, and then repeatedly lie to them with glib assurances that they could keep their doctors or health insurance if they wanted to?
What kind of man would set up a system in which people would be forced by law to risk their life savings, because they had to divulge their financial identification numbers to strangers who could turn out to be convicted felons?
With all the time that elapsed between the passage of ObamaCare and its going into effect, why were the so-called "navigators" who were to be handling other people's financial records never investigated for criminal convictions? What explanation could there be, other than that Obama didn't care? …
Those who have still not yet seen through Barack Obama will have many more opportunities to do so during the coming year, as the medical, financial and other painful human consequences of ObamaCare keep coming out in ways so clear that not even the mainstream media can ignore them or obscure them.
The question then is: What can be done about it? Nothing can be done about Obama himself. He has three more years in office and, as he pointed out to the Russians, he will no longer have to face the American voters.
ObamaCare, however, has no such immunity. It is always hard to repeal an elaborate program after it has gone into effect. But Prohibition was repealed, even though it was a Constitutional Amendment that required super-majorities in both houses of Congress and super-majorities of state legislatures to repeal.
In our two-party system, everything depends on whether the Republicans step up to the plate and act like responsible adults who understand that ObamaCare represents a historic crossroads that will determine what kind of people we are going to be, for this generation and generations yet unborn – citizens or subjects.
This means that Republicans have to decide whether their top priority is internal strife among the different wings of the party – another circular firing squad – or whether either wing puts the country first.
A prediction on how that will turn out in the new year would be far too hazardous to attempt.
We make no predictions today, but we thank our readers and commenters for their interest and contributions, and wish you all a Very Happy New Year!
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Thomas Sowell talks to Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard about the differences between Liberalism (ie. statism) and Conservatism. (The video dates from 2010.)
Thomas Sowell said … 1
"The only way the Constitution can protect us, is if we protect the Constitution."
And we hear many more wise words from Professor Thomas Sowell in this video made just before the 2012 presidential election.


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In the video "Stuff Christians Say," two guys toss around a dictionary's worth of Christian lingo: non-denom, God thing, secular, relevant. It's funny because the actors sound like the people we all know who repeat the latest religious phrase until it becomes ubiquitous and meaningless.
As I watched, I hesitated to dismiss some words used in the video, terms like fruit, struggle, moderation, and fellowship. These biblical words may seem strange to outsiders, but rightfully belong on the lips of Christians. They were misplaced in an attack on silly religious jargon.
I get it. It's a comedy video, not meant to be parsed alongside Greek verbs, and I agree that there are legitimate criticisms of "Christianese." Christians shouldn't use words to create a secret society, rife with inside joke or hide behind our language, allowing it to encourage hypocrisy.
That said, I'd like to put in a word for talking like a Christian, for using substantive, Biblical words in ordinary conversation, whether or not non-Christians are listening. What we say defines the world as we understand it, and God requires us to use our words to share our beliefs.
In Talking the Walk, Marva Dawn writes, "During the last century, English-speaking Christians have been stressing that we should 'walk our talk,' that our way of living should match the values we espouse. That Christians frequently don't act on what they know and say is still a problem…. However, the opposite is often increasingly true: that the way we talk doesn't offer the deepest truths of the Christian faith."
James 4:13-16 gives us a helpful example of what Christian speech should look like:
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and make a profit" –yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Using the simple phrase "Lord willing" in ordinary conversation can be a good thing. It's not complicated and not hard for a non-Christian to understand. It reinforces an attitude of submission to the Lord. It's not an inside joke—it's a testimony. It points to the reality of the way Christians should live their lives.
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Entire Big Tree Park reopens Saturday
Tree clone to be dedicated
More than a year after its centerpiece was destroyed, Big Tree Park will reopen Saturday in Seminole County.
The Senator, considered the oldest and largest Bald Cypress in the world, burned down in January 2012.
Sara Barnes is accused of setting the fire, which spread to the 3,500-year-old tree.
The entire park was closed for a number of months so extra security fencing and other measures could be taken to improve the safety of the remaining Bald Cypress named Lady Liberty. The picnic area of the park reopened in November.
At 10 a.m., the entire park reopens for the first time and the clone of the Senator, which has been planted at the site, will be dedicated.
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Erie man brought back from California to face charges in rape, robbery
An Erie man charged earlier this year in a December rape and a January robbery has been brought back to the city from California to face the charges.
Benjamin "Ben" Crosby, 25, awaits arraignment this morning on charges of rape, simple assault and sexual assault for allegedly raping a woman at an Erie hotel on Dec. 11.
Crosby also faces charges of robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, simple assault, possessing instruments of crime, and terroristic threats on allegations he robbed a man in the 400 block of West 16th Street on Jan. 14.
Crosby had been in jail in Chowchilla, Calif., on charges related to a sex crime there, according to police in Chowchilla. Erie police traveled to California to bring Crosby back on Wednesday.


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Ask Joe Roth how revolutionary his Revolution Studios actually was in its first year of production and he shrugs. Four lightweight moneymakers comprised a first-year slate redeemed artistically only at the last minute, with the shift of "Black Hawk Down" to an Oscar-chasing opening three days from the end of the year.
"We made a lot of money," Roth says. "We always wish the movies were better. But we started from scratch. We had no sequels, no remakes, no properties to start with. I left Disney two years ago this week, and it took me nine months to get the financing together. But unless I'm wrong, I think we're ending up with the top two Sony films."
He means "Black Hawk Down," whose results will mostly be realized in 2002, and "America's Sweethearts," which did lead the way in 2001 for Sony with $94 million in domestic box office.
But he could also be talking about "The Animal," which was No. 3 for Sony last year at $58 million. Throw in the widely panned "Tomcats" ($14 million) and the sci-fi chopsocky of "The One" ($44 million) and you have a slate better filed under "Remunerative" than "Revolutionary."
But ask Roth where he's heading and it gets more interesting.
Calley successor?
He's regularly noised about as heir apparent when Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman John Calley retires, probably next year. Whether he'll take the job is a question Roth gets all the time, and he looks pensive when asked yet again.
"It's a reasonable question, but it doesn't have a reasonable answer," Roth says. "My goal is to grow the company. We've all agreed to take a look at things when John retires. I'm hoping it becomes clearer in 18 months. In the meantime, my job is to grow this company into an asset that has some value."
Some speculate Roth wouldn't want or need the challenge of piloting yet another big studio through the bureaucratic shoals of yet another massive conglom, as he did for 10 years with Disney and Fox.
Nonetheless, to do so he would leave behind one of the best deals in Hollywood: heading a small, collegial company populated with high-profile pals/execs culled mostly from his Fox and Disney days.
Investors Sony, Fox and Starz Encore have all agreed to buy rights to 36 Revolution pics over six years, and Roth has other output deals with Germany's Senator and Japan's Toho Towa and Pony Canyon.
Safety net
Funding from all those deals virtually guarantees he won't lose money with mainstream pics he delivers to them, even a mediocre one like "Tomcats."
"A movie that costs from $50 million to $90 million, we're two-thirds covered (by upfront money)," Roth says. "Smaller films, we're completely covered."
Thinking small keeps Revolution's costs low; its average pic will cost $39 million, compared to the Hollywood average of $53 million.
The average studio also creaks under the load of 60-80 deals with stars, directors, producers and writers, all of whom need to be fed projects even if they're not quite right for the job.
"You have to service it in a way that may not be the best thing for the movie," Roth says. "I want to be proactive about things, like with (Nicole Kidman starrer) 'The Forgotten.' I read it over a weekend and decided I wanted to make a deal."
Add it up and maybe a revolution is in the offing.
'Hawk' soaring
All of which makes "Black Hawk Down," with its $92 million budget and unflaggingly intense combat scenes, the studio's biggest gamble so far, as well as its biggest artistic success.
The Jerry Bruckheimer production was supposed to open in March, but after seeing director Ridley Scott's first cut, Roth moved it up to catch the Oscar season and post-Sept. 11 patriotic fervor. That schedule shift strained the company's small staff (just 20 people and their personal assistants), but Roth says it was worth it.
"It's been good to take a risky film into an unknown environment," he says.
That effort is part of what makes Revolution's future more interesting than its brief past.
This year, the company will release eight films (plus "Black Hawk Down") that are more a product of Revolution's own development process, rooted in its deals with Julia Roberts, Adam Sandler and Bruce Willis, and of the fruits of Roth's nimble dealmaking and sensitivity to talent.
The Sandler deal in particular has been fruitful. This year alone, he is appearing in a still-untitled comedy helmed by Paul Thomas Anderson coming this fall, producing and starring with Jack Nicholson in "Anger Management" and producing kidpic "Master of Disguise," due in May.
Roberts is choosing among three projects to shoot this summer. Most likely to go first is the drama "Mona Lisa Smile," about the impact of a young teacher upon a group of girls during the 1950s.


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Redmond O'Neal's final conversation with his dying mother Farrah Fawcett allowed him to express a vow to turn around his troubled life, says his father, Ryan O'Neal.
"I held the phone to her ear, so I'm not exactly sure, but I think it was about regret," the elder O'Neal tells Meredith Vieira in a Today show interview airing Tuesday. "And the horror of, of not being able to see her again. And the promise – the promise of a good life. Of a life that she would have be proud of."
Fawcett, who died of cancer on June 25, had not seen her incarcerated son since April, when the 24-year-old was granted a court-approved personal visit to her bedside. He was also permitted to attend, in handcuffs, her June 30 funeral. Redmond is currently serving time at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., for violating probation on a previous drug conviction.
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Northwestern Pennsylvania high school sports: By the numbers (Nov. 4-10)
5 Goals scored by junior Brandon Gotkin in the Cathedral Prep hockey team's 14-1 victory over Franklin Regional on Friday in the Ramblers' PIHL opener.
10 Straight victories for the Mercyhurst Prep girls soccer team going into Tuesday's semifinal match against Moon. That included five straight wins during the postseason -- three in District 10 and two in PIAA action.
24 Assists for Abby Rose in the Fort LeBoeuf volleyball team's 28-26, 25-23, 25-21 victory over formerly No. 1-ranked Hopewell Saturday in the PIAA Class AA quarterfinals.
31 Yards per carry for General McLane senior Calvin Kinnard in the Lancers' 56-35 victory over Oil City Friday in a District 10 Class AAA quarterfinal. Kinnard rushed four times for 124 yards and three touchdowns, all in the first half.
47.8 Average points scored by Region 1 football teams Friday as they swept the four quarterfinal games against their Region 2 counterparts by an average of 39 points per game. West Middlesex (75 points), Sharpsville (42), Farrell (38) and Lakeview (36) each advanced to this week's semifinals.
1993 The last year when an Erie County team won a District 10 Class AA football title. All four Erie County teams lost in the semifinals Saturday, guaranteeing a 19th consecutive season without a Class AA title. Northwestern won the AA championship in 1993.


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From: "Ken A. Gullan" kengullan@...
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Subject: Re: [oxyplus] Drug addicted niece - 32 yeaer old
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:20:11 -0700
Please all! I have a 32 year old niece who has just showed up at her parents house after about 15 years of drugs, et al. (Crystal meth, marijuana, and probably lots more) She claims she wants to get her life back in order and would like their help. Anyone know of any successful treatment programs or other advice to help her and her parents get through these next few years. She has done this before and been through a program (stayed clean about 3-6 months) and the parents nearly gave up on her but they want to support in any way they can and we them all. Any suggestions. I know the success rate of most programs is fairly low. Aminos, electro therapies, vitamins?
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Date: Tue Apr 30, 2002 2:33 pm
Subject: Re: [oxyplus] Drug addicted niece - 32 yeaer old
Dear Ken,
1) Liver cleanse or three
2) Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables
3) Ozone saunas every other day for a month
There is a local doctor here who does IV ozone, who has heroin addicts of ten years standing, detoxed and straight within 3 weeks of starting his treatment. And no back- sliding.
I also have two clients who did it for themselves. After years of heroin every day -- cold turkey. Then weeks of ozone every day instead. In the habit (ha,ha) of going to the local needle exchange place for free needles, they were turned down because they were not doing heroin!
[Let me see if I have this right...the state will support you killing yourself slowly, but if you want to clean up your act and get a job and contribute, its not interested...hmmm...]
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Hi, i was wondering if you can use ozone for people with addictions.....or if you have some protocol for someone comming off heroin.
A friend asked me if i could help her daughter who is coming off heroin.
I thought that maybe ozone could help her. Any help would be gratefully received.
many thanks
Dear Dave,
Ozone is the best thing for a junkie detoxing. It will clean out the system, and minimalize the withdrawal symptoms. It will also help in reducing the craving for heroin.
It can be applied by vaginal insufflation in her case, or IV if she wishes. There is a certain psychological addiction to the process of injection, so sometimes it is helpful to use this protocol. Whatever works.
Best of Health!
Dr. Saul Pressman
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- In a small bowl, mash avocados with onion, garlic and lemon juice. In a 3-qt. glass bowl, layer with beef, avocado mixture, lettuce, olives, tomatoes, cucumber, green onions, cheese, salsa and sour cream. Serve immediately with chips. Yield: 12 servings (1 cup each).
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The Tea Party's Inner ACLU
A left-right alliance against military detention of terrorists.
The tea party movement has generally been constructive, but every so often it runs off the road. A case in point is its emerging condominium with the anti-antiterror left to block terrorist detentions.
This strange alliance has developed in response to one of Congress's rare bipartisan achievements—the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). That bill affirmed the long-standing distinction between civilian justice and the rules of war by letting the President detain terrorists (including U.S. citizens) captured anywhere and question them as long as necessary. A President can decide to try them in either military or civilian courts, and the right of habeas corpus to challenge detention in court, established by the Supreme Court's 2004 Hamdi decision, is unchanged.
This modest law has sprouted a burst of political delusion in several states and Congress. A tea party outfit called the Tenth Amendment Center calls the law "an unconstitutional and dangerous federal power grab"—though the statute merely codifies existing practice under Presidents Bush and Obama. In the wilder tea party precincts, the talk is that in a second term Mr. Obama might round people up, a la Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.
The paranoia is showing up in state legislatures, and this month Virginia became the first to forbid state employees from "assisting" the feds "in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of any citizen" under the provisions of the NDAA. This means that as of July 1 in Richmond a state trooper could not arrest the likes of the late Virginia cleric-turned-terrorist-recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki because he might end up in a military brig. A U.S. missile targeted and killed Awlaki in Yemen on Presidential orders, but Virginia police couldn't detain him.
Republican Governor Bob McDonnell was given plenty of reasons to veto the bill, including several in a letter from former Attorney General Ed Meese and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, among others. The Virginia law violates the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy Clause by directly interfering with federal war powers. Somehow the tea party's constitutionalists missed this legal nicety. In practical terms, the law handcuffs and confuses local authorities whose job is to protect the public.
Rather than veto, however, Mr. McDonnell merely proposed a word change. State employees won't be allowed to "knowingly" help the U.S. government detain terror suspects. How reassuring. This rollover hardly speaks well of Mr. McDonnell's bona fides as a potential vice president.
The movement is also spreading to Capitol Hill, where the ACLU and tea party conservatives led by Michigan's Justin Amash are trying to block terrorist detentions in the House version of the defense authorization. House leaders are opposed, but they could lose a floor vote this month if someone doesn't educate the freshmen about the difference between common criminals and the laws of war.
The law now on the books carries a presumption of military detention for suspected terrorists because the top priority is to find out what they know. War fighters need to learn what a terrorist has been plotting, where he has been, who his co-conspirators are, and what else is planned. The priority in civilian court is assessing guilt and punishment, which can come later.
The tea party-ACLU effort would also have the perverse effect of treating terrorists who make it to American soil better than those arrested overseas. Majid Khan, who this year pleaded guilty to five terrorism-related counts before the military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, is a former resident of Baltimore who left the U.S. to work with al Qaeda and was captured overseas before he could return to kill here. Should Khan have been treated better if he'd made it back to the U.S.?
In 1942, a military court ordered the execution of six Nazis, including an American citizen, who were captured after having come ashore from submarines off the U.S. East Coast. Yet some tea partiers want to let today's version of infiltrating Nazis get the same rights as burglars.
Some tea partiers also want to distinguish between U.S. citizens and foreigners, as if that would matter to their victims. Anyone who takes up arms against the U.S., fails to wear an enemy uniform and targets civilians is an unlawful enemy combatant regardless of citizenship.
Military detention of American enemy combatants is rare in any case. Since 9/11, two U.S. citizens have fallen into this category: "Dirty bomber" José Padilla, who was eventually convicted by a civilian court after long detention, and Yaser Esam Hamdi, who renounced his citizenship and was deported to Saudi Arabia.
The ACLU tea partiers may be well-intentioned but they are woefully uninformed about the war on the terror. Their efforts would undermine executive war-fighting authority and the legitimacy of a terrorist detention and military tribunal system that has been established over many Congresses, endorsed by two Presidents and confirmed by the Supreme Court. They should stick to shrinking the entitlement state.


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In the meantime, a new painting has been added to my gallery, which was used as a chapter-start illustration for the recent Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide 2. It had all sorts of challenges--taking place in an aether, on shards of floating ice, floating boulders, multiple figures, a floating river of lava (!) and nebula. The full art, including a detail view, can be found here. It is 24x30", the largest painting I've done in awhile, and sort of necessitated by the number of things that needed to be portrayed. I used canvas on board for the first time in years, too, simply because there was no time to special order my usual Hardbord at that size. I also got a jump on the painting by doing a first pass of painting in Acrylic, before whipping out the oil for the balance of the painting. Lots of different things involved in this one.
Below is the value study submitted to the Art Director, which itself was composited from multiple pencil drawings, and then rendered in Painter IX. It was a bit of a puzzle getting all the elements in. I submit sketches for this format by placing them in a dummy layout that Wizards provided, showing how the image sits on the spread. With 1/3 of the image sitting on one side of the page gutter, and the gutter itself running right down it, it's important to compose in a way that activates the left third but isn't overly disrupted by the gutter. That's two more things to consider, on top of the assignment specs above.


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As frightening as the prospect may seem to Staten Islanders, the last person standing in the way of state approval of congestion pricing appears to be Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver.
With the City Council approving of the proposal the other day, it's now up to the state Legislature to give the final OK.
Gov. David Paterson and GOP Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno have already voiced their approval. So has GOP Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco.
So that leaves Shelly.
Doesn't it always?
Whether it's congestion pricing or the West Side stadium or the South Ferry 1/9 subway station, it always comes down to Shelly, who has yet to give his opinion on congestion pricing. And for all his rank uses of base political power, you have to admire the fact that Shelly is the guy that every supplicant, even billionaire mayors like Mike Bloomberg, eventually has to kneel before.
Silver either gets what he wants, usually a sack of money for some project of his, or he uses his ironclad control of his Democratic conference in the Assembly to kill the proposal that's in front of him.
Given the frenzied deal-making that's gone on already to get congestion pricing through the Council, we imagine the view looks pretty good from where Silver sits.
But in the ultimate hardball political arena, Albany, how does Shelly do it, year after year?
Easy: He follows that old World War I adage about being the last person to stick his head above the trenchline.
While people like Bruno and Council Speaker Chris Quinn run to the microphones to put their two cents in whenever a controversial issue arises, Shelly just sits back in Sphinx-like silence and bides his time.
To quote Who guitarist Pete Townshend, as GOP City Councilman Jimmy Oddo is so fond of doing: "Anyone can stop, but a few can wait."
That's why Silver is again the most important person in the state on a controversial, high-powered issue.
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How does Ralph symbolize democracy?In Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
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For one thing, Ralph wants to play fair and to have it put to a vote before he or anyone else becomes the leader. In the beginning he wields a natural authority over the boys which he loses little by little to Jack, the more audacious and outspoken of the two. It is his idea too that the holder of the conch is the person who can "be heard out," much after the model of a public forum (or a Congress filibuster, if you like!). Ralph functions by structure and order, and he tries to impose these norms of society for the well-being of all the survivors.
Ralph, in the true democratic spirit, also protects the interests of the more vulnerable, particularly "the littl'uns." He encourages the older boys to protect (instead of bullying) them and to be aware that their needs are not the same as those of the older ones. He is aware, for example, that the younger ones are susceptible to nightmares and also that their health is more fragile.
Ralph is also democratic in that he doesn't try to do the job alone but seeks the help of Piggy and Simon. These two characters have their respective weak points (Piggy is nearsighted and Simon suffers from epileptic spells), but Ralph knows he can count on them just the same.
In all these respects, Ralph symbolizes democracy.
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It's an
altogether too familiar situation we've all dealt with on occasion: we've just
gotten off the F or R train late – oh, say, 1:30 one Sunday morning – after a
night of, wishfully, grand celebration with friends. Perhaps, we've drunk a bit
too much. We desperately look forward to a bed of clean sheets and some blessed
sleep until 11. But, one problem: we're starving. Where on Earth do we go?
In Park Slope, there's a simple
solution: Daisy's Diner.
Daisy's, located a couple of steps
from the F or R train on 9th Avenue and open 24 hours, is your
standard belly-filling, exuberant American diner – and, with a menu the length
of a Thomas Pynchon novel, there's a cornucopia of choices.
For this writer, breakfast is where
Daisy's really excels: besides the traditional 'eggs-and-bacon' specials,
Daisy's will whip up Belgian waffle platters – one named the 'waffle special',
it consists of waffles, sour cream, fresh strawberries, walnuts and raisins.
Pancakes and French toast, too, including, if it's to your taste, chocolate
chip pancakes.
The writer is usually drawn to the
big egg dishes: 3-egg omelets, of which there are, yikes, 22 choices. There's
an Irish omelet [corned beef]; a 'Mykonos' omelet [onions, spinach, tomato,
feta cheese]; a L.E.O. [lox, eggs, onion] omelet, or, the grandfather of
omelets, the 'Juan & Jose' super omelet [ham, sausage, bacon, mushrooms,
salsa, potatoes, cheese and peppers].
Of course, Daisy's has all the
prerequisites of any really good diner: special lunch and dinner offerings,
Greek, Caesar and Chef's salads, and Burger deluxe selections. The diner has an
interesting twist on the burger platters: a customer has the option of a
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beef, turkey or vegetarian.
Italian dishes – I'm partial to the
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Countdown to Valentine's Day keeping flower shops busy
Valentine's Day rush for fresh flowers keeps florists, local growers busy.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Valentine's Day is the second-biggest day of the year for local flower growers and florists.
Several Santa Barbara shops said Valentine's Day is right behind Mother's Day when it comes to flower sales. Red roses are the chosen by 51 percent of buyers and florists said the last-minute rush is keeping them busy.
"It's going to be crazy," said Mario Gonzalez from Lily's Flowers. "We have over 200 deliveries already for Valentines Day."
The majority of flowers on the Central Coast are from Carpinteria. Jema Floral delivers truck loads of flowers to local florists. Owner Migul Gonzalez says 99 percent of its product is locally grown.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Authorities have arrested 12 people in a statewide undercover investigation into the illegal purchasing and possession of live foxes and coyotes.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the operation Tuesday night was the culmination of a 10-month probe.
Authorities say those arrested had either sold or purchased foxes or coyotes illegally or were keeping them in unpermitted enclosures to train dogs to pursue them.
Permits are required to possess them, and it is illegal to buy foxes or coyotes from an unlicensed person.
The 12 suspects were arrested in Columbia, Gilchrist, Clay, Putnam, Bay, Okaloosa, Volusia and Calhoun counties.
Most face second-degree misdemeanors, which carry a penalty of up to $500 and up to 60 days in jail.


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Randall wins Lake View Charity Pro-Am
NORTH EAST -- Dwayne Randall, head pro at Peek'n Peak Resort, shot a 5-under-par 67 to win the Lake View Charity Pro-Am by one shot Wednesday.
Randall earned $1,400.
Mercyhurst golf coach Ron Coleman, the former EDGA star and senior golfer now teaching at Whispering Woods Golf Club, finished second with a 68 to earn $1,200. Lon Nielsen of Orchard Park, N.Y., who appears on the PGA Champions Tour, and 2013 WNYPGA player of the year Kirk Stauffer of Pine Acres tied for third at 2-under 70 to cash $875.
Kahkwa Club assistant Alex Weir was fifth with a 71 for $650, while Erie's Tom Keenan and David Wedzik of Golf Evolution tied for sixth at even-par 72 for checks of $450.
Nielsen led the first-place pro-am team that included Aaron Ollinger, Bill Steger and Chuck Ollinger, who posted a 124 score.
The pro-am, originally scheduled for June 6 on the WNYPGA schedule, was moved back because of winter damage to nine greens on the course.
Since 1990, the tournament has raised more than $250,000 for charities.


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Brian Elliott will be sticking around St. Louis. The goaltender has signed a three-year deal worth $7.5 million to remain with the St. Louis Blues. Elliott's signing signals two things: 1) The St. Louis crease will feature Jake Allen and Elliott next season and 2) the Ryan Miller era in St. Louis is over.
Elliott seemed pretty happy once the news broke:
Thanks to the fans and people of St. Louis for making my decision to stay with the Blues easy. Proud to play for the Blue note #bestfans
— Brian Elliott (@KidElls1) May 19, 2014
I wouldn't have stayed in the Lou if I didn't believe in this team or the guys on it. I want to win and this team will #theboysbleedblue
— Brian Elliott (@KidElls1) May 19, 2014
Doug Armstrong on the deal, via the Post-Dispatch:
"Brian will team up next year with Jake Allen to provide our goaltending tandem. We're looking forward to those two guys competing and performing well."
Elliott's numbers were certainly deserving of a new deal, but the team had to ultimately make a decision on Miller. Should they bring Elliott back, they'd have to wave the white flag on Miller and admit the trade didn't work out. Ultimately, that's what happened (more on this in a later article) and Elliott now will join Allen in net.


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There was a time that only VIP's got inside the famous pink walls surrounding the Sunnylands Estate in Rancho Mirage, and you had to be a real VIP to play the 9-hole golf course there. But, one lucky group got that chance Tuesday.
"They've been teaching us how to play golf. Yeah, they're good teachers," said Desert Arc Client, Derek McKinley.
Desert Arc held its annual golf tournament, the Desert Arc & First Tee Annual Tournament, which gives players the opportunity to play at the historic nine-hole golf course located at the Annenberg retreat.
"They look forward to it. They sign up for it and they can't wait to be here, and its one of our great signature events for the year," said Deputy Executive Director for Desert, Mitch Blumberg.
The players got to team up with teenage golfers that are part of the First Tee Golf and Life Skills program.
"You watch them interact, the kids are fabulous with our clients, and our clients love the attention and playing golf here," said Blumberg.
Desert Arc, a non-profit celebrating 55 years in the valley, provides social services, job training and other opportunities to more than 600 clients with disabilities.
"Putting together the kids from the First Tee with our disabled clients out here on this golf course is just a magical event," Blumberg added.
Sunnylands has played host for the tournament for the past 3 years.
"We were the first people ever in history to play golf here after the Annenbergs died," Blumberg said.
"We decided to reach out to different groups and see if they would want to use the property and if it would help them. We reached out and they chose to come out and use the facility," said Leonore Deshong, the Annenberg's grandaughter.
She says the golf tournament is one of her favorite events of the year.
"It means the world to me. I look forward to it every year. I look forward to coming and helping and seeing the kids play and the kids mentor the adults, and we're watching the adults play. It just to me... this is what life is about," Deshong said.
Desert Arc Holds Annual Golf Tournament at Sunnylands Estate
There was a time that only VIP's got inside the famous pink walls surrounding the Sunnylands Estate in Rancho Mirage, and you had to be a real VIP to play the 9-hole golf course there. But, one lucky group got that chance Tuesday.
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Stanley Greenberg, who wrote the screenplay for the movie "Soylent Green" and helped spark the now-common "theater of fact" docudrama genre with his teleplays "The Missiles of October" and "Pueblo," died Aug. 25 at his San Francisco Bay Area home from brain cancer. He was 74.
He was an Emmy nominee for writing "The Missiles of October," about the Cuban missile crisis. He also wrote 1973 "Pueblo," the TV drama starring Hal Holbrook about the North Korean capture of the American spy ship Pueblo. Script was first staged by D.C's Arena Theater. TV version earned a Peabody.
Chicago native served in World War II and graduated from Brown U. His showbiz break came when he submitted a script for landmark TV dramatic skein "The Defenders" in the 1960s. The producers then hired him to write for the show. Later miniseries included 13-hour "Blind Ambition" about the Nixon White House and Watergate.
The "Soylent Green" screenplay is based on a novel about starving masses who subsist on food that turns out to be made of people. It won Greenberg the 1973 Nebula Award for Science Fiction Writing, given by the Science Fiction Writers of America, and the film has gone on to become a genre classic and cultural reference point. He also wrote the screenplay for "Skyjacked."
He was active in pro-Israel, antinuclear and social justice causes, both on protest lines and in his scripts.
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Tamara; three daughters; a brother; and six grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 1 at Temple Chochmat Halev, 2215 Prince St., Berkeley.


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A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom shines the light on 16 nations for violating religious rights.
This year, Turkey joins the list of the worst violators, which includes Tajikistan, Myanmar, North Korea, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
Turkey was cited by the commission for "systematic and egregious limitations" on religious liberty.
Egypt, Nigeria, Iraq and Pakistan were noted for failing to stop attacks on religious minorities.
Click play for more on the religious freedom abuses across the globe with CBN News Sr. International Correspondent Gary Lane. Also, read the USCIRF annual report here.
Congress established the commission in 1998. It plays a role in advising the president, the State Department and lawmakers on religious freedom issues. Countries identified as religious rights violators can then be subject to sanctions.
The commission's report also includes a watch list of countries it says require close monitoring because of violations committed or tolerated by their governments. Nine countries made that list in 2012: Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Laos, Russia, Somalia and Venezuela.
Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute talked more about the report, and the world's top persecutors. Watch her comments below on the March 23 edition of Christian World News.
American Teacher Executed in Yemen 'Loved His Job'
Iran Admits Pastor Only Faces Apostasy Charge
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