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A plan for redistricting in North Carolina is once again being put forward by state lawmakers.
A bipartisan group of legislators, from the House and Senate, held a press conference at noon on Tuesday. The purpose was to put forward a proposal to change how voting maps are drawn in the Tar Heel state.
The debate over redistricting in North Carolina has raged on for more than a century. For years Democrats controlled the state legislature, and they drew maps that were favorable to the election of more Democrats. And that was deemed legal by the court system.
During that time, Republicans, and some Democrats, repeatedly called for lawmakers to conceive of a more fair system for how the maps are drawn. Now that Republicans are in control of the state House and Senate, the roles have reversed.
But long-time Republican House Representative Skip Stam says he will introduce a bill that calls for an independent commission to draw the voting maps in the state.
"The idea is that, in constructing districts, the people with the most at stake," he says, "are probably ones who shouldn't be doing the details."
Stam's proposal would be enacted before the next maps are drawn in 2021.
Stam says an opportunity has presented itself that may be the best chance for the bill to actually pass into law, because there is no pending litigation regarding the current maps.
Republican Representative Charlie Jeter says he and Democratic Senator Jeff Jackson will also be introducing a bill concerning redistricting.
"Our bill won't go into effect until after the 2030 election cycle, in large part because it grandfathers everyone out," he says. "To some degree, I think this is about getting the bill passed."
Democratic Representative Grier Martin says his district, because it is heavily Democratic, is a prime example of what is causing some voters to stay home from the polls.
Martin adds passing a bipartisan redistricting bill would be a big step toward restoring North Carolinians faith in the state government.
Republican Representative John Hardister echoes the sentiment of many conservative leaders at the press conference, saying gerrymandering districts is bad policy – regardless of which party benefits.
"Many Republicans, including myself, advocated for redistricting reform when Democrats were in the majority," he says. "It was the right thing to do then, and it's still the right thing to do today."
John Hood, with the conservative Pope Foundation, says the policy should move forward because it benefits the residents of North Carolina.
"It's important for all of us in North Carolina to get the policy right," he says. "I'm sure that redistricting reformers would welcome additional alternatives; as long as they were consistent with the principal that neutral rules should be our tactic, and competitive elections should be our end."
Voters were the topic of conversation as well for Chris Fitzsimon of the progressive organization NC Policy Watch.
"This is not all the complicated," he says. "The idea is to create a system where voters choose their politicians, instead of the other way around."
Even with the bipartisan backing of this bill, it is not set in stone that it will move forward. Republican Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger has previously said he would not consider the legislation while litigation was ongoing.
Mitch Kokai is the Director of Communication for the conservative John Locke Foundation, and he says – even though the litigation has reached a conclusion – there is no guarantee Senator Berger will bring the legislation before the Senate, regardless of what the House does.
"[Berger] hasn't come out and said 'heck no, we're never going to do it,'" Kokai says. "But he also hasn't come out and said 'oh yes, we're going to go along with this now.'"
Ellie Kinnaird represented Orange and Chatham Counties in the North Carolina Senate, as a Democrat, from 1997 – 2013, and she recalls trying to pass a redistricting campaign when her fellow Democrats were in control of the House and Senate.
"I introduced a bill, under the Democrats, for an independent redistricting campaign," she says. "They thought they were going to be in power forever, why would they do it? I introduced it under the Republicans, and the same thing happened.
"So, I'm very encouraged that the House, last term, actually did pass an independent redistricting bill. But I'm afraid that Mr. Berger will never relent in the Senate. He will not let that go through."
Kinnaird adds, as long as large donors are allowed to bring about campaigns similar to what North Carolinians saw with the US Senate race between Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan, she is not expecting anything to change.
"The money is going to be crucial," she says. "As the money pours in, it just solidifies the system.
"I don't see any hope for the near future for North Carolina. I think that, frankly, it's going to take 49 states enacting it before we enact it."
The next North Carolina voting maps will be drawn in 2021, following the 2020 census. Whether they will be drawn with a partisan pen or through the eyes of an independent committee remains to be seen.
WCHL has requested a statement from Senator Phil Berger following the press conference but have not received a response at this time.http://chapelboro.com/news/state-government/lawmakers-set-introduce-bipartisan-redistricting-reform
Former State Senator and Carrboro Mayor Ellie Kinnaird is the subject of a new documentary that will be screened at the Carrboro Film Festival.
Kinnaird and producer Martha Moore sat down with WCHL's Ron Stutts to discuss the film:
The Carrboro Film Festival takes place November 22 and 23. You can find out more here.http://chapelboro.com/news/arts/honorable-ellie-film-documents-kinnairds-career
Retired state Senator and former Carrboro Mayor Ellie Kinnaird said she'd like to see a more business-friendly Carrboro – as well as a post office that recognizes the town's actual boundaries.
"I would like you to ask the post office to draw the boundaries of Carrboro where they actually are," Kinnaird told the Board of Aldermen last Tuesday night, to applause.
Kinnaird said it's something she's been working on since she was mayor. She held the office from 1987 to 1996, when she was elected to the N.C. Senate.
Kinnaird retired in 2013. She still owns property, including two cemetery plots, in Carrboro.
One reason for her brief appearance in front of the Board of Aldermen last Tuesday was to request that the town manager's office look into making the Old Carrboro Cemetery a green burial site. The board unaninimously approved that request.
And she had other issues in mind. Some Carrboro residents still have a Chapel Hill address, and the last time the Town of Carrboro inquired about changing that, the postal service conducted a survey of those residents' preferences.
Carrboro lost that round. Kinnaird said said she realizes that it's a lot of trouble to change addresses.
"Some people like the cachet, they think, of Chapel Hill," said Kinnaird. "So what I would ask is that if you do ask the post office to do that, that you ask them not to take a survey, but to just make what is actually on the ground the actual change."
Kinnaird brought up another sleeping issue from the past: a street that was once planned to connect Lloyd Street to Greensboro Street.
"Lloyd Street is a dead end," said Kinnaird. "There are quite a few businesses there right now, and the Piedmont Health center."
Speaking of business, she praised ongoing development at 300 East Main Street, including the new hotel, and called the new parking deck a "lifesaver."
But she also lamented the recent loss of some businesses around town – Phydeaux and DSI to Chapel Hill; and Miel Bon Bons Fine Chocolate & Artisan Bake Shop and Caktus Consulting Group to Durham.
She said that Carrboro needs to set aside more open office space, and that the town could probably take some tips – but not too many – from Wake County.
Kinnaird said she's read positive comments recently from businesspeople about Garner, in particular.
"Garner is agile and easy to work with," said Kinnaird. "These are the businesspeople talking about that. We know that Carrboro and Chapel Hill are not agile and easy to work with."
She said she hoped that Carrboro could take a more business-friendly attitude, and mentioned Durham's Innovation District as an example.
Mayor Lydia Lavelle thanked Kinnaird for her comments, and said she would look into the post office matter.
Members of the board said they'd also look into improving the traffic light situation at 300 East Main, as Kinnaird requested.
Alderperson Jacquie Gist mentioned to Kinnaird that there are some business-friendly Carrboro events coming up over the next few weeks, perhaps a reference to the Think Local business campaign that kicks off Oct 2, with a Happy Hour at Venable's new B-Side Lounge at Carr Mill Mall.
And she offered a not-so-subtle hint to Kinnaird that there are still a lot of vacancies that need to be filled on Carrboro's advisory boards.http://chapelboro.com/news/news-around-town/kinnaird-carrboro-business-friendly
So I figured, hey, easy Obama landslide. But no. Sure, the economy's in recovery, but not in a "morning in America" way—more of a "gosh, I think Duke might actually have a decent football team this year" way. And She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named flamed out before she even had a chance to be a last-ditch nominee, so the Republicans went and found someone else—not a great candidate either, but so much for my Mondale parallel.
So 1984's out, then. But what's happening instead seems to be a rerun of 2004: a fairly close election, won narrowly by an incumbent who's just popular enough to squeak by a weak opponent. That opponent, incidentally, is Mitt Romney, a man who violates the single most important, A-number-one, John Kerry rule of presidential politics: Don't nominate the awkward white guy from Massachusetts.
(Seriously, you'd think after seeing Michael Dukakis riding in a tank, the party bosses wouldn't keep doing this to themselves.)
Romney's really not a bad candidate; he probably wouldn't be a terrible president—but politically he's weak in all the same ways Kerry and Dukakis were weak: he's a flip-flopper to the point of absurdity, he comes off as so privileged he's lost all sense of perspective, and frankly his base doesn't like him very much. Conventional wisdom says if you're going to win a presidential election you have to nominate someone who appeals to the center—but there's scholarly research showing that Karl Rove actually had it right: you can't win unless you appeal to the base. Nominating the "electable" candidate is a dead end. It's counterintuitive, but the GOP might have given themselves a better shot if they'd gone with Rick Santorum. (Try getting that image out of your dreams tonight.)
Which isn't to say that Romney can't win. Obama is beatable, after all, just as George W. Bush was beatable in '04. But the polls are suggesting another narrow win for the incumbent, by about the same margin as eight years ago—and if Obama does win, it will have been a missed opportunity for the GOP, just as it was for the Dems in '04.
(Incidentally, the Kerry Rule only applies to awkward white guys from Massachusetts; the JFK Corollary proves that attractive white guys from Massachusetts can still win. The right shoulda gone with Scott Brown.)
2. Mitt Romney will win North Carolina. Forget the polls, just look at the early-voting numbers. Sure, they look great for Obama—until you compare them with the early-voting numbers from 2008, which looked a heck of a lot better for Obama, and then reflect on the fact that Obama won here in '08 by about eight votes. Any shift to the right is going to result in a Romney victory, and the early-voting totals are indicating a pretty clear shift to the right. Evidence: more people voted early in NC this year, but fewer people voted early in Orange County; the percentage of early voters who were Democrats was down slightly this year versus four years ago, both here in Orange and across the state; and the average age of early voters was up by a couple years. (Seniors? Not Obama fans. Let's not speculate why.)
Result: Romney to win NC by 2-3 points. But hey, maybe the Obama camp knows something I don't: a couple weeks ago they started pulling their people out of NC, but suddenly in the few days before the election, they sent Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton our way. (And we didn't call Joe Biden to set up an interview—his people called us.) Obviously they think they can win here—or else they're so sure they've got the election locked up everywhere else that they're just trying to make it more of an '08-style landslide. I doubt it, but we'll see.
3. Somewhere, voters are going to legalize gay marriage by ballot referendum for the first time, and we'll have North Carolina to thank. Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington are all voting on the same-sex marriage issue this week. Minnesotans are voting on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man/one woman, same as we did here in May—so even if they vote it down, the state still won't recognize same-sex marriages. But the stakes are even higher in the other three states, where a vote in favor of same-sex marriage is actually a vote in favor of same-sex marriage: if voters in Maine or Maryland or Washington give the go-ahead, that state will begin (or continue) recognizing same-sex marriages (with all the rights and privileges befalling thereunto).
Any of those four votes could be historic. The thing about ballot referendums is that they're not particularly kind to minority groups—statistically, voters at the polls are more likely to vote against minority rights and interests than legislators in the state house. (Which is what happens when you put minority rights up to a majority vote. The Progressive movement clearly didn't read their Federalist Papers.) And so it has gone with the LGBT community: thirty states have put same-sex marriage before the voters, and voters in all thirty states have said no. (In Arizona it took two tries. That's as good as it's gotten so far.)
But this time, this year, it's going to be different. In all four states, according to polls, the pro-gay marriage side is winning. In all four states! It may not work out that way—Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling warns that undecided voters historically break against same-sex marriage in the end—but it's almost a sure thing that at least one state, and probably more, will vote in favor.
If that happens—when that happens—we'll be able to look back on the Amendment 1 vote back in May as a turning point. (One of many, of course.) 2012 is the year when the same-sex marriage debate turned the corner—when the pros became the majority and the antis were the ones on the defensive; when it became more controversial to say "I'm against" than it was to say "I'm in favor" (hence Chick-Fil-A); when the President actually had the guts to come out and say what we all knew he was thinking anyway. And that had a lot to do with the fight in North Carolina this spring—where a vote on gay marriage actually came down to the wire (sort of), in the middle of the Bible Belt of all places. Obama came out as a supporter the very next day—and here we are. For same-sex marriage supporters, the Amendment 1 vote was a defeat—but it was a defeat that showed the weakness of the other side, a defeat that signaled a shifting of the winds. When the history of the same-sex marriage debate is written, 2012 will be the most important year—and the Amendment 1 fight in North Carolina may loom as large in that history as the Proposition 8 debate in California.
So, hey. Next time you see Mark Kleinschmidt, shake his hand.
4. Democrats will probably maintain their local monopoly, but expect at least one close vote. The GOP presence in Orange County is growing stronger, but it's always going to be a minority voice: there's a reason Jesse Helms said all those nasty things about Chapel Hill, after all. The Republicans have a relatively strong slate of candidates in the local races this year, but for the most part they're running against opponents who are simply too well-known and too well-liked to lose. It's possible to overcome a big name-recognition gap, but only if you're running alongside a rolling tide of anti-incumbent dissatisfaction, and that's not really the case in Orange County this year. (If the May primary's any indication, there's some dissatisfaction with the Board of County Commissioners—but it's coming from the left more than the right, so not as much help for Mary Carter.)
But it's not impossible for Republicans to win here—all it'll take is the right set of circumstances. Take a tide of dissatisfaction, maybe an economic downturn, and add a strong, socially liberal GOP candidate with crossover appeal (smart, youthful, pro-gay, pro-environment, pro-social justice, pro-business, anti-tax) running against a weaker or lesser-known Democrat. Dave Carter will put up numbers that'll surprise some people this year; I don't imagine he'll beat Ellie Kinnaird, but against a different opponent—maybe. (And he'll keep it closer than usual: 54 percent of early voters in NC Senate District 23 were Democrats; compare to 59-60 percent in 2008 and 2010.)
But Dave Carter isn't my dark horse. Watch the race in NC House 50—which comprises all of Orange County's rural, more conservative precincts and leaves out most of the more progressive urban center. That makes things more interesting—Bill Faison faced a semi-close race in 2010, and Valerie Foushee doesn't have the incumbency advantage on her side. Foushee still has the edge over Republican pastor Rod Chaney, but only a slight edge: dollars to donuts this ends up being the closest local race, and if any Republican has a chance to win in Orange County this year, it's Chaney. Here's the number worth noting: only 52 percent of early voters in NC House 50 were Democrats. To put that into perspective, Democrats made up 58 percent of early voters in the district in 2010, and Faison ended up winning 56 percent of the total vote. So watch that one closely.
5. The transit tax? Who knows. This debate feels an awful lot like the debate on the quarter-cent sales tax back in 2010, when it narrowly failed. But then again—voters in Durham County voted for the half-cent transit tax and the quarter-cent economic development/education tax simultaneously last year, and they actually supported the transit proposal by a wider margin. If Orange voters are the same way—more comfortable with a half-cent for transit than a quarter-cent for development—then the transit tax should pass, at least by a little bit. (Opponents of the tax in Orange County point out that Durham gets more of the proposed light-rail line than Orange would—so presumably Durham voters would have been keener on it—but still, that light-rail line wouldn't run anywhere near northern or eastern/southeastern Durham, and voters there approved it anyway.) Regardless, though, this and NC House 50 will be the two closest local votes.
So there you have it. Polls close at 7:30 tonight, and if I'm wrong—well, then I'll just be in the same company as every other pundit in America.
Last week WCHL celebrated the 35th Anniversary of Ron Stutts' start at the station. Surely you noticed, with all the on-the-air promos and all the guests and surprises in the studio last Friday morning.
Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt declared it Ron Stutts week in Chapel Hill. Former mayor of Chapel Hill Howard Lee and his wife Lillian came in to express their appreciation. Chapel Hill police chief Chris Blue and fire chief Dan Jones came in and presented Ron with a First Responders T-shirt, since 'CHL seems to usually be first to inform the community of dangers and natural disasters, such as the devastating December 2002 ice storm that hit the area just a few weeks after the station "came back" to Chapel Hill from Durham. Former Carrboro mayor and current state senator Ellie Kinnaird came in to thank Ron for his service.
There were dozens more, including phone calls and appearances from some of Ron's on-the-air compatriots from years past. Of course, Ron's regular cronies Dr. Wayne Pond and Freddie Kiger were there with humor and insight as well. WCHL station manager Christy Dixon and owner Barry Leffler orchestrated all the celebrations. Numerous promos ran on-air all week.
As we ponder Mister Stutts' contributions, we are blessed to have Ron and his comedic cast of characters to wake us up weekdays, compared to the formulaic morning zoo madness heard on most radio stations nationwide. Sure, Ron gives us the news, so aptly prepared by Aaron Keck and the award-winning 'CHL news department. But Ron informs us and entertains us as well.
He's a master at the control board and produces the show himself. That would take three jobs in New York or L.A.
Ron knows how to laugh at himself. When he makes a rare mistake, Ron includes us, his listeners, as he owns the joke and rolls on. Most listeners don't realize all the preparation and behind-the-scenes work Ron performs each day to make the next day's show sing. He schedules Commentators like me to give our best 90 seconds. He finds our daily Hometown Heroes, produces their stories and even brings in Pets of the Week. He emcees dozens of local events and charities each year and records numerous station spots and promos. Sure, Ron is the voice of WCHL, but he's also the voice of the local community as well.
So, thanks for your longevity, Ron Stutts. You're just as much a Hometown Hero as anyone Gerald Ramoin ever put in the spotlight. You're the glue that holds us together, and we really appreciate it.
See you on the radio.
As we move into 2012, I'm betting that we will see several really significant examples of the old political truth, "elections have consequences." Intuitively, we know that every election produces winners and losers, but it's not the individual outcomes that I'm thinking about, but the cumulative impact of the elections. One example is when the elections produces such a significant change in the make-up of a legislative body that the ramifications a felt for years to come.
We had such an election in North Carolina in 2010 and we will soon feel a major impact of that election. When the Republican majority took control of the General Assembly in 2010, they gained the ability to redistrict North Carolina based on the 2010 U.S. Census data. As happens every 10 years after a census, those with the power to draw the new lines for federal and state districts try to ensure that the new lines provide a political advantage for their party, and that advantage can last for years.
Our community will certainly see the effects of the new lines in several major ways. First, if there is a successful legal challenge to the lines, then we might see the spring primary dates pushed back. The General Assembly voted to put the constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage on the primary ballot. So whatever the date of the primary, we know a lot of energy and money will be behind both sides of the issue, trying to encourage people to vote in what is usually a low-turnout election. More or fewer primary voters can then possibly alter the outcome of the party primaries just because who decides to vote.
Second, if the lines are upheld by the court, we will see new congressional districts that may alter who runs in November in our 4th District. Under the proposed lines, the primary might see Rep. David Price, our current Congressman, facing Rep. Brad Miller who currently serves the 13th District. Of course, it's no accident that the two Democrats were drawn into the same district. Some pundits believe that the new lines could shift the North Carolina delegation from the current 7-6 split favoring the Democrats to something much more favorable to the Republicans.
Third, new lines will also impact the state senate and house races because the way that they a currently drawn, "double bunking" of those currently serving means that those people are in a zero sum game; both cannot win the party primary. In the senate, there four intraparty cases, one being Democratic Sens. Ellie Kinnaird (D-Orange) and Bob Atwater (D-Chatham), and there are two interparty cases. As the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation notes, the situation in our state is complex:
When examining double-bunkings in the N.C. Senate, it's important to note that just because two Republicans have been drawn together in one district, that does not necessarily mean the GOP is losing seats in the chamber. Redistricting is required to ensure North Carolina's population has equal representation. As the demographics of the state shift, districts based in rural locations around the state are becoming geographically larger and those areas are losing relative representation. In some regions of the state, Republicans hold those rural districts, making it difficult to avoid double-bunking among the majority party. However, just as districts in some parts of the state are forced to expand in order to meet population requirements, other districts are being added in urban and suburban areas that don't contain incumbent members of the General Assembly.
In the N.C. House there are five double-bunkings involving just Republican incumbents, six with just Democratic incumbents, and three cases where a Republican and Democratic incumbent are drawn into the same district. Consequently, 15 Democrats and 13 Republicans have been combined in the same district lines as one of their House colleagues. The one that has a major impact on our community is District 56, where former Speaker Democrat Joe Hackney would face his party colleague Verla Insko in the primary if both ran for reelection in District 56.
So yes, elections have consequences and in our local community, we could see a major change in who represents us in Washington and Raleigh, not to mention a revised election calendar in the spring. Some be fine with this, but is this the fair way to operate? The courts will rule on the lines and that will answer that part of the question, and maybe the voters might shift the political alignment again in the next election.
But for all of those who stayed home in 2010, for all of those who believed that their vote didn't matter, and for all of those who don't think it's worth their time to follow politics, you let others make the decisions. As the drama unfolds, remember, being a participant or not, elections do have consequences.http://chapelboro.com/columns/fred-said/elections-have-consequences
The Occupy movement may not have a leader or a unified goal or even a single message but it sure does have staying power. It's been about three months since it first entered our lexicon and, for me, it has come to symbolize a sense of unfairness.
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Piedmont Newnan honors top nurse
Piedmont Newnan Hospital recently celebrated its DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award for Extraordinary Nurses winners. The recognition is part of a national program that began at Piedmont Newnan which honors nurses for their clinical skills and compassionate care for patients and their families.
"Participating in the DAISY Award program helps us give back to our top nurses who give so much to our patients every day," said Nathan Nipper, chief operating officer at Piedmont Newnan. "We're proud to be a participating hospital in the DAISY Award program to honor such great nurses."
Renee Nestrick, R.N., a nurse in the surgical and interventional services department at Piedmont Newnan Hospital, was named the first winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Subsequent winners were Eric Whitted, R.N. in inpatient services, Deloris Jordan, R.N. and Joanna Berry, R.N., both in the emergency department and Charrine Kirk, R.N. in inpatient services.
Nurses can be nominated for the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses by colleagues, physicians, patients and visitors. Honorees are selected quarterly by a selection committee and nursing administration team.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died at the age of 33 in 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a little known but not uncommon autoimmune disease. The care Barnes and his family received from nurses inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and their families.
For more information about nursing opportunities at Piedmont Newnan, visit piedmontnewnan.org.

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With 27 World Series championships and 40 American League pennants, the New York Yankees are the most decorated and prestigious team in baseball.
But how did the Yankees manage to win all of these pennant races, World Series titles and the reputation of being the best club in baseball?
The answer to that question is simple. The Yankees not only have some of baseball's greatest players on their team, but historical legends as well.
As with many other teams, the Yankees have had their share of awful seasons and embarrassing losses. It is players like Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle who have helped the Yankees out of their most difficult situations and on a path to pennant and World Series wins.
These players, along with many others, are the reason the Yankees have earned the reputation of being the greatest team in baseball history.
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Skip to comments.Romney was not the problem
Posted on 11/22/2012 10:31:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Small minds always leap to the answers given the last time around, which is probably why Maxine Waters keeps getting re-elected. But the last time is not necessarily the same as this time. A terrorist attack is not the same as the Cold War, a war in Afghanistan is not the same as a war in Iraq, and Mitt Romney is not the same as John McCain or Bob Dole.
But since the election, many conservatives seem to be coalescing around the explanation for our defeat given by Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots, who said: What we got was a weak, moderate candidate handpicked by the Beltway elites and country club establishment wing of the Republican Party. The presidential loss is unequivocally on them.
There was also the seven months of primaries, during which Romney got more votes than the rest of the field combined. So theres that. Moreover, the idea that Mitt Romney was a weak, moderate candidate is preposterous...
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Unfortunately, he wasn't the solution, either.
Sometimes you have to admit to being wrong and then move on. Coulter appears to be digging in.
Yes, Romney and his advosors were the problem. Teh father of Romneycare (the model for Obamacare), the guy who gave Massachusetts judges who helped force gay marriage on the people, the country-club, Wall Street, Etch A Sketch "moderate" who ran a bad campaign and wouldn't challenege BO on Benghazi or much of anything else, isn't the problem?
So who are we supposed to blame? Conservatives?
The GOP is stuck in an infinite stupid loop:
Well, if there is a skeleton in a hole, shovel the dirt in on her. She's done.
I say it again, and said it from the beginning. Romney WAS the problem. Said he'd lose in an EV landslide (he did). Said the Dims would gain in the Senate. (they did). To be fair, I really thought the Dims would eek out a majority in the House. Glad I missed that one. I was eviscerated as some wanna be LibTard for saying the ONLY person to listen to about polls was Nate Silver. We need to stop worrying about the messenger and listen to the facts. We get none (facts) from our so-called conservative pundits.
It was evident to anyone with an ounce of IQ, and should be so now, that Romney was an utter disaster. It wasn't some bizarre conspiracy or voter fraud. We, again, nominated a terrible candidate. Don't think so? Then do the same thing in 2016 and see what happens.
The GOP Elite use these silly conspiracies to keep us at each other and in disarray because they KNOW if we coalesced we'd nominate a decent conservative.
Romney is, and was, a fool So was McSame. Are we gonna do it again? I sure hope not.
Only after he had clinched. For most of the time, he was getting 35 percent or so. I distinctly remember Newt Gingrich complaining on more than one primary night that "Once again, Senator Santorum and I got about two thirds of the votes..."
Why is Ann Coulter the problem? Was Ann responsible for Michele Bachmann's kamikazi attack on Rick Perry? Was Ann responsible for Herman Cain's lack of preparation for being a frontrunner and for his poor handling of the adultry allegation? Was Ann responsible for Newt's bounced checks and for Santorum inability to win his home state?
Ann is one person with an opinion, I don't always agree with her, but to say she is the problem is silly.
Dear Ann: Congratulations! Your candidate won the election! Thanks to you, Mitt Romney and the Republican Party will spend the next four years growing our economy and keeping us safe from the Libyan navy!
It's like I told the boys on the basketball team I coached..."Yeah, we lost this game, but it's only truly a defeat if we don't learn from it."
Ann, you're taking this loss and turning it into a defeat.
Exactly. There was nothing wrong with Romney, he just was NOT more popular than Barack Hussein Obama.
The number of votes in a primary are irrelevant, Reagan got the most votes in the 1968 GOP primary.
first she is an idiot who wanted us to have Romney and who helped attack Newt, now aimgine of they atacked jug ears half the way they did to Newt, Sarah , Col West?
Secondly a massive rigged election does not help us.
Third, we have so many cowards on our side who will not call out the media , name names and their bias, hell even Candy Crowley showed her bias and not a peep really from the GOP.
Fourthly, put a damn conservative out there who can win not someone who supported homosexuals, Govt health care.
5th, speak up, call the media out , run AD's of their bias help the likes of Sarah, West and the base will be out like they have never seen.
Our distain for obama what the GOP counted on was not enough to beat the corrupt election and the elfts lies and attacks
I think Romney could have been an excellent President.
I was not a fan in the primary's, but always recognized that a President must be able to unify the general electorate.
Beyond that they must lead.
I think Romney had all that.
The X factor is charisma and a complicit sycophant press.
Obama had neither A or B, but he had the X factor.
Charisma is an odd thing.
I see through Obamas 3 card monte crap, but a lot of the electorate is hypnotized.
I swear he could crap on Americas collective head and the electorate would cheer!
Tell us now, not in August of 2016, who you want the nominee to be. I am tired of people saying who they don't want, who should we support?
Right now, I support Tom McClintock, I am laying it out now not four years from today.
The problem here is that conservatives cant get on the same page even when there is only one candidate left.
Stop the circular firing squad and circle the wagons!!
How did he do that? Well, he effectively took Obamacare off the table as a campaign issue with his continued cheerleading for Romneycare. He took Wall Street backing for Dems off the table as he was clearly associated with Wall Street. He pretended to be a regular guy when he was nothing of the sort - and voters hate phonies (ask John Kerry how pretending to be a hunter worked out for him).
He played it safe and waited for Obama to lose instead of finishing Obama off with a campaign willing to take risks. He ran a TV, phone and direct mail campaign in the age of social media. And in the worst case of self-inflicted damage, his brain trust came up with a system - ORCA - that my assistants right out of college saw the problems with when they read about it later.
Seriously, this guy was running a campaign based on the notion of competence - yet in the critical GOTV effort, they violated a staggering number of basic rules for systems and logistics. ORCA to me epitomizes what was wrong with the Romney campaign - an overpaid MBA mindset that their superior brains obviate the need for basic hard work and grassroots strategy.
So yes, Ann, in the end it all comes back to Romney, because he set the tone with his own rudderless beliefs. He gave swing voters no compelling reason to vote for him - so those swing voters who went for Obama in 2008 appear to have largely not voted for president at all.
Give it a rest Annie
ALl we know for sure, is that Mitt Romney was NOT THE ANSWER.
Where is crying girl "Leave Mitt Romney alone!!"
America needs a better class of voters.
There is a rump parliament that seems to take over and steer this country in just about every crisis today, and they seem to get into office by minority victories, at best a plurality. Only rarely do any of them actually gain a true majority, of at least 50% plus a few.
This would not be so much of a problem, except for the polarization that has been a continuing feature of our politics since at least the time of Richard Nixon. Probably it went on long before that, but mostly, one side or the other could maintain continuity of American interests if there was a change in political parties at the national level, and Americans could be pretty sure of that. But this Current Occupant of the White Hut cannot be relied upon to support US interests in the face of adversity around the world, and even seems ready to pre-emptively surrender, even before the situation has reached serious proportions.
A situation which cannot continue for long, before it must be resolved in one way or the other. And from all appearances, the Current Occupant seems determined to impose his version of America as a Third-world country by any means possible.
Polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office. Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party.
Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.
So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns?
Massive voter fraud.
There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans, as many term the fraud- but CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.
Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.
We can not wait for 2014 and 2016 to regroup and figure out new strategies. By then it will be too late. The Marxist/Muslim usurper will have completed his planned distruction of America.
Thats what people fail to understand.
Col Allen West; I dont want to see America become like Zimbabwe where people dont trust their electoral process. If we cannot trust the integrity of the voting system then we are no longer a free republic.
Col West has opened the door.
Its now up to We The People.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
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You may find this disturbing, but that was not a girl.
It's a combination of a ho-hum candidate, a growing idiotic population who hates whitey and an embarrassed "i am a conservative" conservatives.
The country does not deserve a business oriented president. What people want is free stuff from the government.
1 in 5 residents of US are now on FREE Medicaid.
FREE Food stamps approaching almost 50 Million with 450,000 added in July+August which USDA suppressed the news until now.
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Like every socialist country before us, we will be enticed into socialism. Like every socialist country before us the rich will get less rich, AND THE POOR WILL GET MORE POOR.
Eventually when other people's money runs out we will again make a turn towards capitalism, like China is doing, like all formerly Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe are doing, like East Germans are doing, Like India is doing.
The cycle must repeat since the masses are not intelligent enough to learn from actual history.
I am still shocked and furious that Romney lost. This should have been a slam dunk and he screwed up. Just like McCain, Romney was too nice while Obama was the aggressive street-fighter. When will the GOP ever learn that you have to play dirty to win?
Romney should have explained the negative impacts of the debt, deficit spending and Obamacare. He should have hammered this toward the younger voters.
Why Romney never pummeled Obama over Benghazi I will never know.
Coulter sounds more like a whiny liberal turd these days. Flush.
I have to disagree. Conservatives largely did get behind Romney. The problem was, Obama lost millions of voters from 2008 yet Romney was unable to pull them into his orbit - because IMO he presented them with a candidate that they just could not relate to. And it didn't have anything to do with free stuff with most swing voters, otherwise they would have stayed with Obama. Instead, Romney offered no compelling vision as to why he sought the presidency - because IMO he sought it for reasons that had nothing to do with core principles or values.
I supported Newt in my state's primary and he lost. Though I'm not a huge fan of Romney I had no problem voting for him in November because the alternative is a nightmare and sadly the nightmare is going to continue and grow worse over the next four years. Conservatives are waiting for the next Reagan to show themselves and won't vote for someone who doesn't fit that high standard. I got news for you folks that person didn't run for the GOP nomination in 2012. If Newt or Rick had been the nominee a bunch of you would have found faults with them too. Democrats always rally around their people and the GOP eats its own. No doubt in 2016 we're going to have the same issues with a Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, etc. The Republican Party is not a perfect vehicle for conservative principles, far from it, but if you think going third party is the solution then be prepared to see Democratic presidents for the next fifty years.
Not sure why anyone listens to Bill Maher's girlfriend. She is no longer relevant....if she ever was.
Romney was turning out HUGE crowds in deep blue territory.
Obama was barely able lure folks with free food.
Something is really amiss in our analysis of what went wrong.
There are many things I don't know, and like you don't understand why he went soft after the first debate. He had zero on the ropes, then did nothing to get the knock out punch he needed. Perhaps it was his mushy advisers - the same ones who were in the McCain camp. Why do they insist on using these useless retread losers?
Romney wasn't hip or cool. SO what? I don't care if my president is hip or cool. I want someone who has the smarts to turn this country around. Mitt had it - then lost it. He also avoided conservatives like the plague. He kept saying he was going to repeal obamacare, but never told the uninformed why or what was in the bill. Maybe he was afraid that if he did then obama would hit back with the fact that obamacare was based on romneycare - and it was. Most of us knew this would be a huge problem for Mitt.
Benghazi still remains a mystery. Why he didn't punch him in the political face with this is beyond most of us. He got snookered by Candy Crowley and lost his nerve or something. I don't know - all I know is we have 4 more years of a marxist in the WH because Romney and camp decided to take the "high" road and play nice. IT worked very well for McCain too.
It's so incredible crass of Ann to use the evidence against the facts! She state's the purpose, then dismisses reality like the wind. That's what's truly "preposterous."
Yes, damn it. Conservatives were the problem, they didn't vote. How many times do we have to state it is the ass hats that didn't vote they loose. IT WAS THE DAMN VOTERS.........THAT STAYED AWAY BECAUSE OF STUPID IGNORANCE. To proved a point and elected King Obama.
Obama looked whipped.
Romney looked confident.
The economy was the topic du jour and it still is.
We all saw it.
I don't think Obama thought he was going to win.
Romney ran a VERY competent strong race, but he lost to the Ozero.
The question is why?
The answer is not "shoot our own."
Thank you.
The media began portraying a rosy future for the economy about a month before the election...in the end it swayed enough voters to go with "the devil they know."
"What we got was a weak, moderate candidate handpicked by the Beltway elites and country club establishment wing of the Republican Party. The presidential loss is unequivocally on them"
Seems spot on to me.
The market started responding to the notion that Mitt would win.
Obama won and the market tanked again.
But you have to do more than just win the base to win the Electoral College swing states. Was there voter fraud? Yes, and they were blatant about it. But Obama still came in, what, 6-8 million votes below 2008? Yet it appears that Romney, once all votes are in, might come in a million or so more votes than McCain in 2008, a very bad year for Republicans.
Romney failed to be a likeable candidate for the swing voters that drifted away from Obama. These people often vote on gut feelings. I have a relative who didn't vote. He thought it was completely bogus that Romney tried to claim being just like a regular American, when he has his own small business and fights to just make payroll. Other people I have talked to felt the same way.
Romney was a second-generation politician, like Gore and too many others nowadays. He showed more inclination to attack his primary opponents than Obama - typical of the GOP-E mindset. In the end, his vision for the presidency was that he wanted to be president. And I think a lot of swing voters realized that.
The average moron in this country didn't interpret it that way, they don't think like "the market" does, they believe what the media tells them.
I wonder what the average moron thinks of food prices this thanksgiving?
Exactly. You can run the most effective, efficient campaign on the planet, but if you fail to connect with a strong principled message from a candidate that the electorate is hungry for- you still lose.
The briefly tolerated Reagan, because he showed he can win, but it was right back to Business As Usual, when his two terms were up.
Didn't love Romney as my favorite choice, but he painted and excellent contrast to Obama and the people voted for Santa Clause Obama.
Romney wasn't perfect, but I know of few candidates who are.
Keep in mind even Ronald Reagan could not make Governor in CA at this time.
The people are different.
We are IMO seeing 40 years or more of the effect of give-aways, growing government employment, brainwashing by union teachers and allowing grade school dropouts from outside our nation into our country and on our dole demanding more.
We had much greater issues than Romney IMO.
This was not a failure on the Republican/conservative side outside of those committing suicide who did not vote.
You got that one right
Swing voters often vote their gut feelings. Romney failed to connect with them. And the trick is NOT to pretend you are a Democrat-lite. Ask Bob Dole. Romney apparently thought he could just simply claim he is a regular guy - when he is not. He could not relate to a middle-class person trying hard to stay in the middle class. People saw in him, right or wrong, the guy who swoops down on a company and triggers layoffs. He really was the wrong candidate for this election on so many levels.
The GOP wins when it runs anti-elitists, or at least men or women that come across as such. Reagan was a non-Ivy leaguer. Bush may have been a third-generation blueblood, but he lived the life of a guy whose idea of high cusine was a cheeseburger and whose idea of fun was clearing brush. Palin (the only thing that gave McCain a fighting chance) was a blue-collar gal and a true reformer. Romney could never shake the image of the oily MBA born into privilege that you hope is never let anywhere near the reigns of the division you work in.
1 in 5 residents of US are now on FREE Medicaid
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
PLUS all your listed FREE's....
However, the real BAD GUY here is us that draw SS. AFTER toiling in the work place for decades and being forced to pay into a system that we probably didn't really like anyway, just another tax under a different ruse.
When 'they' bashed us with SS Tax, 'they' came along and invented Medicare - FORCING - us to back that, again when those that paid into it want to 'use' it, 'they' are the BAD GUY also....
I don't use MEDICARE, as I am in the VA 'system' but, then again that was earned in another lifetime, while drawing substandard pay and 'worked - well on call' 24/7.
So, in a nutshell, the problem is Legitimate SS drawers, Legitimate Medicaid drawers, Legitimate Militay/Govt pensions, while the FREELOADERS and UNDERACHIEVERS are to be pitied....
BIZARRO WORLD for sure.
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Gatwick Airport has reported an increase of 4.2 per cent in turnover for the year to March 31st, up to £539 million.
Combined with continued "careful cost management", this resulted a 2.5 per cent increase in EBITDA, to £227 million, although a loss in the financial year of £29 million reflects the asset-intensive nature of the business and the continued investment being made across the airport, Gatwick said in a statement.
Traffic at London's second biggest airport of 34.2 million passengers reflected 1.2 per cent growth.
New airlines - such as Air China and Turkish Airlines - opened links to high-growth markets including Beijing and Istanbul, alongside new routes from existing carriers such as easyJet to Moscow.
Vietnam Airlines expanded its services and Garuda Indonesia announced it will start Europe's only direct route to Jakarta from October 2013.
Stewart Wingate, chief executive, London Gatwick Airport, said: "We have continued to invest heavily across the airport, spending £227 million this year, to ensure our passengers enjoy a better experience every time they travel.
"In retail, we have seen good year-on-year results, which compare favourably to performance on the high street.
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Let's assume we have these initial conditions:
Normal indoor ambient lighting, camera in A mode at f/3.5 and ISO 400.
Flash in Hotshoe
When you shoot a flash picture with the flash in the hotshoe, the following flash sequences take place:
1. Flash fires its pre-flash sequence.
2. The flash metering system measures the reflected light in the center of the frame from the pre-flashes and determines the power required for the main flash.
3. The calculated power for the main flash is then modified by the flash compensation that may have been set on the on the camera or the flash. This includes the dedicated flash compensation button on the camera, the camera EV setting, and the compensation setting on the flash itself. The power output determination for the main flash is now finalized.
4. The shutter opens and the flash fires its main flash.
Remote Wireless Flash
Now, when the flash will be fired wirelessly a lot more communication takes place during the pre-flash sequence. Here are the steps:
1. The Commander fires a control flash sequence that tells each of the remote flashes to fire their pre-flash sequence.
2. Each remote group fires its pre-flash sequence one at a time. If there are multiple flashes in a group, they will all fire their pre-flash sequence simultaneously.
3. Based on some very valuable work by Hal Becker (my fellow Moderator HBB at the Nikonians Speedlight Forum, we now know that the flash metering system reads the reflected light from each group individually and immediately calculates and sends power information back to each group. Note that this system is not smart in the way we originally thought. Each group's power is set irrespective of other groups that may be in use, and there is no adjustment for a situation where multiple flashes hit the subject in the same spot. I believe that this is why each group alone is purposefully set to underexpose the subject. Then, when multiple flashes are used, like in a studio, the subject is usually exposed properly. So in the end it is very smart after all.
A power setting is also set into the commander flash itself as well. All other multiple flashes in the same group will receive the same power settings.
4. The shutter opens.
5. The Commander fires another control sequence telling all groups to fire at the power level decided in step 3.
Also, the pre-flash sequence gets visibly longer when more remote groups are being controlled, and it becomes more important to block the visible light from the commander flash to avoid the pre-flash causing the subjects to blink.
If you want to see the pre-flash separately from the main flash, use the FV Lock button. You will see that when the flash is in the hot shoe, the pre-flash sequence is very short. As soon as you use the flash wirelessly, however, the pre-flash sequence gets visibly longer due to all the extra communication that must take place in this mode.
Also the pre-flash sequence delay can cause problems when shooting action, so it is best to use FV Lock first which removes the pre-flash delay at shooting time.
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Rather than show off extensive trailers for new titles, EA opted to show off a behind the scenes trailer that offered the first brief glimpses of new Star Wars games from Titanfall developer Respawn, Dead Space creator Visceral with Uncharted creator Amy Hennig, and Jade Raymond's EA Motive, alongside glimpses at new content for recently released Star Wars games The Old Republic and Galaxy of Heroes.
There's no question that the Mass Effect trilogy left us speechless, be it positively or negatively. Now, BioWare is set to do that again as it preps for the unveiling of a new chapter in the most highly-regarded, galactic franchise – Mass Effect: Andromeda.


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Modupe was a contestant for Miss Black Britain 2009, under the name Julianah Adeyeye (her middle name). Unfortunately she did not win, but I highly doubt she cares now that she's on one of the most watched shows of the nation.
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You could call Susanne Bartsch a club icon.
She's been on the scene since the '80s, long before South Beach became a mecca for hip-hop artists, rock stars, models and LeBron.
``It's like a child to me, and I knew it as a baby,'' she said.
The New York City promoter, known for her lavish parties at Big Apple staples like Copacabana, Bentley's and the Hudson Hotel, is hosting a star-studded New Year's Eve bash at the Delano.
The swanky spot is home to one of her favorite New Year's Eve memories.
Back in 2000, Bartsch was headlining a bash with former Miami club owner Chris Paciello but ``just before the party, he was arrested. I didn't really know anything about him so you can imagine it was a very upsetting and scary time,'' she recalled. ``All these people had bought tickets, and there was no place to go.''
Luckily, ``the Delano bailed me out, and we ended up with a sold-out event. People were outside throwing money at me, trying to get in.''
Bartsch, a full-time mom (her son Bailey, with David Barton, is 16) is in her 50s now, but don't expect her to retire anytime soon. ``I'm still waiting, but I never get tired of dancing!'' Or dressing up. From her wig that's cutely named ``Babe'' to her elaborate costumes, she enjoys the hair and makeup routine as much -- if not more than -- the soiree itself. ``It's art.''
Smiling faces at the door count, too.
``To give people a few hours to let their hair down and not worry about anything is magical.''
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My husband and I have a little tradition most Fridays…Pizza Friday! Every week for almost the past year, we make homemade pizza together to celebrate the end of the week. We used to make our own dough in the bread machine with white flour and yeast; now we have switched to a much more nourishing recipe: Sourdough Pizza Crust. Sounds strange, right? The tangy taste of the crust is light and airy but crisp and always comes out perfect. It has easily become one of our favorite meals of the week!
Sourdough Pizza Crust
1 to 2 1/2 cups sprouted flour
1 cup filtered water
1/2 cup sourdough starter
2 tablespoons (+ extra) olive oil (where to buy oil)
cracked black pepper
a few pinches of real salt or celtic grey sea salt
1 teaspoon crush rosemary
2 garlic cloves cut into medallions
pizza toppings of your choice
pizza stone (where to buy pizza stones)
1. The night before you want to make your pizza crust, mix together 1 cup of the sprouted flour and 1 cup of the filtered water in a glass bowl. Mix in the 1/2 cup sourdough starter until it is all well combined. Cover with a towel and let sit overnight on the counter (or for at least 8 hours).
2. The next morning, add in two tablespoons olive oil, black pepper, salt, rosemary, and garlic into the sourdough starter mixture (which should resemble a big batch of sourdough starter by now). Next add in 1 cup of the sprouted flour and fold in with a fork until the dough isn't sticky anymore so you can knead it with your hand (you may need to add up to an additional 1/2 cup of flour). Knead until the dough is soft and easy to work with.
3. Put a layer of olive oil on your pizza stone (or cooking pan) and place your dough ball onto the stone. Cover with a towel and let sit for 1/2 hour.
4. After a 1/2 hour has past, pick up the dough and start to quickly pull it around the edges in a fast circle (letting the dough start to stretch into a pizza crust). After you get it started, place it back on the stone and press the pizza shape out until it meets the edges.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise on the counter for a minimum of 6 hours.
6. When it's dinner time, pre-bake your crust in a 450 degree over for about 5 minutes (just to set the crust).
7. Top with all you favorite pizza toppings, we went with red sauce, cheddar & jack cheese, onions, peppers, and meatballs!
8. Put back into oven and bake until the cheese and edges of the crust are golden brown. Butter the crust edges and enjoy!
The crust is so versatile, you can add whatever seasoning you would like to it – you are not limited to rosemary and garlic, the possibilities are endless. So get in the kitchen and make some creative pizza pies!
Until next time,