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Canada: Dad arrested for 4 year old daughter's drawing of a gun
While this happened in Canada, it is something that I've come to believe could happen here in the near future given the rise of the nanny state's intrusion. This incident occurred in Kitchener, Ontario:
Jessie Sansone told the Record newspaper that he was in shock when he was arrested Wednesday and taken to a police station for questioning over the drawing. He was also strip-searched.
"This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school," he said.
Officials told the newspaper the move was necessary to ensure there were no guns accessible by children in the family's home. They also said comments by Sansone's daughter, Neaveh, that the man holding the gun in the picture was her dad and "he uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters," was concerning.
A four year old. Yeah, they have no imagination whatsoever, do they? They never make things up.
Do Canadians not enjoy the right of not being subjected too unnecessary search and seizure? Note the official response – it was "necessary" to ensure there were no "guns accessible by children in the family's home"?
Really? Was it? It couldn't have been a 4 year old's flight of fancy, could it? That never happens, does it?
And beside that, while I hold it is none of the state's freakin' business to begin with, a simple knock on the door wouldn't have been able to determine access to firearms? "Hi, sir. Your 4 year old daughter drew this and we're concerned about her or other children in the household having access to firearms. Do you own any firearms? "
Yeah, way to easy. What in the hell has happened to common sense?
And it even gets worse:
Police also searched Sansone's home while he was in custody. His wife and three children were taken to the police station, and the children were interviewed by Family and Children's Services.
Sansone's wife, Stephanie Squires, told the newspaper no one told them why her husband had been arrested.
"He had absolutely no idea what this was even about. I just kept telling them, 'You're making a mistake.'"
Several hours later, Sansone was released without charges.
Searched the home without permission (no word on whether there was a warrant), didn't inform the father of the charges against him, strip searched him and then released him without charges hours later?
That's police state treatment.
Hopefully Mr. Sansone retains a good lawyer and sues the pants off these goons.
If the state will let him.
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Polling independents
One of the things I do quite often is throw poll numbers up here. But they're usually numbers from selected polls. You're unlikely to see me put up numbers about what percentage of likely voters some candidate holds in an election, especially a year out. They're essentially worthless.
But three I do find interesting and telling are polls that measure the satisfaction of voters, like the "direction of the country" polls, polls that look at voter enthusiasm for each side and finally, polls that attempt to determine the size of the independent vote pool.
Those three types of polls are usually trending polls, i.e. they measure these things at regular intervals. It is those trends that I find valuable and make it easier for me, personally, to get a handle on the mood of the voting public.
For instance, in the 2010 midterms we saw a decided shift of independents from the Democratic side to the Republican side as well as much more enthusiasm on the right than the left in those elections. The result was a resounding Republican win with them picking up around 60 seats in the House.
Today we have one of those polls from Gallup. It measures where independent voters are trending. So let's take a look.
The first thing that strikes you is the fact that the pool of independent voters has increased:
The percentage of Americans identifying as political independents increased in 2011, as is common in a non-election year, although the 40% who did so is the highest Gallup has measured, by one percentage point. More Americans continue to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, 31% to 27%.
Did you catch that last sentence? There is a 4% difference in favor of Democrats with party identification. That's actually an decrease for the GOP as we'll see later on. Look at this chart from Gallup:
The key year is 2010. Note that Republicans, as mentioned did very well that year in the mid-terms but still trailed Democrats in percentage of party identification. Also note that increased identification as an independent began almost immediately after 2008, when Democrats controlled both the legislative and executive branches.
But since 2010 Democrat identification has flattened out. In fact, if you look back toward 1988 the current percentage of identification with Democrats is at what one could consider a low. But the same can be said for Republicans.
So what do the trends tell us? Well, to me they indicate a very deep dissatisfaction with both parties. And, in fact, in terms of self-identification, each party is "bottomed out" with those identifying with them being what one would consider their hard-core base. For whatever reason they unswervingly identify with one of the two parties and, if I had to guess, go to the polls and pretty much vote a straight ticket.
Looking at the numbers, however, you realize that they're obviously not enough, within these bases, for either party to win an election. Democrats have a 4% lead in what they have to make up, but that's not necessarily as much of an advantage as it might seem. Because it all depends on how many independents they have leaning their way as to whether they can get the required majority of voters.
How dissatisfied is the voting public with the two parties? Well, this little tidbit should give you an idea:
Gallup records from 1951-1988 — based on face-to-face interviewing — indicate that the percentage of independents was generally in the low 30% range during those years, suggesting that the proportion of independents in 2011 was the largest in at least 60 years.
So now the question is, even with that level of dissatisfaction, assuming no third party run, who do (or will) independents side with? First keep in mind that while Democrats enjoy a 4 point lead in party identification, that's down from the 7 point lead they enjoyed in 2008.
Secondly, in 2008, Democrats enjoyed a 12 point advantage among independents, with 52% leaning Democratic compared to 40% leaning Republican. Now?
Now a virtual tie. The huge advantage that Democrats enjoyed in the last presidential race among independents has dissipated.
Of course everyone knows, or at least those who follow politics know, that the fight for the presidency will be determined by the "big middle" – those who identify as independents.
Given this chart, and despite the fact that their party identification has dropped a couple of points, it would appear that the GOP has made huge gains among independents. This is a trend I've been remarking on for quite some time. The 12% advantage is gone.
So now, what if anything does this tell us?
Well, it tells us that the presidential election isn't a slam dunk on either side, but neither, at least at this point in time, is it a run-away for either side. It will be exceedingly close, no matter who ends up as the nominee for the GOP.
But I'd also say this – so far most of the blood-letting, politically speaking, has been on the Republican side with these interminable debates going on. The numbers you see above reflect one party with its nominee already decided and the other still in the midst of deciding.
So given that point, I'd have to say that being tied among independents at this point is not particularly good news for the incumbent party. Independent voters have trended away from Democrats and, for the most part, stayed away. What one has to wonder is if the tie will be broken when the GOP finally settles on a nominee and which way it will go. If I had to guess, once that is done, we'll see another fairly significant change in "leaning" independents for one side or the other as they decide whether or not they can indeed support the nominee the GOP has named.
And that's what is going to be interesting. Instead of talking about who can beat Obama, the GOP needs to be concerned with who can and will attract independent voters.
That will not appeal to the staunch conservatives, especially the social conservatives, because, those independents still to be influenced most likely are moderate or, as some activists like to characterize them, from the "mushy middle". They are that 10% that don't show up in the 45-45 tie. They are the prize.
Unfortunately, that means appealing to a group that may be just as likely to vote Democratic as Republican and less likely to be attracted to either side pushing what they consider extremist ideas.
Just a point to consider.
Meanwhile, on the right, another choice is going to have to be made. They are going to have to decide if they're going to hold out for the perfect candidate or do what is necessary to get Barack Obama out of office. And that means some probable nose-holding and lever pulling (that's where the enthusiasm gap comes in).
Yes, friends, 2012 promises to be a political junkie's dream in terms of watching the politics of the day develop. Unfortunately, it promises the same sort of election we've had for decades – making another choice among a field of poor choices and then somehow expecting that poor (but best relatively speaking) choice to work miracles.
What was Einstein's definition of insanity?
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Obama: Smartest guy in the room?
Last night on our podcast we discussed some of the economic arguments and statements President Obama has been making lately. Among us we can't quite figure out if they are the sum of an abysmal understanding of basic economic theory or a result of ideology or a little bit of both (one feeding the other). But I continue to see such statements filter out from various speeches, statements and interviews. For example, this from Steve Kroft's 60 minute interview:
KROFT: [Republicans] say it's your insistence on raising the taxes to the wealthiest Americans, that you're fixated on that. And that there are other ways to raise revenue.
OBAMA: Steve, the math is the math. You can't lower rates and raise revenue, unless you're getting revenue from someplace else. Now, either it's coming from middle-class families or poor families or it's coming from folks like you and me that can afford to pay a little more. I mean, I think the average American understands that.
Well, Americans certainly understand that the "revenue has to come from someplace else" if the tax base has shrunk, but my guess is they also understand that you can lower taxes and increase revenue in what situation?
Oh, yeah … in a period of economic growth. So perhaps the answer is to work on a long-term solution, you know, like stimulating economic growth, instead of a temporary, short-term half-assed solution like raising taxes on the "rich"? Perhaps?
Not to the smartest man in the room. Not even a mention of economic growth or stimulating it. Instead it's all about raising taxes on the class he's attempted to demonize for months.
And he's invented a new "bargain" for his campaign to do so:
People in the audience at his speech, Obama said, want to know, "What's happened to the bargain? What's happened to the American deal that says, you know, we are focused on building a strong middle class?" Americans are "concerned about inequality" and he's trying to remedy it by placing new rules on Wall Street, by intensifying consumer protections by getting his Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fully up and running, and by asking the rich to pay more in taxes to fund government spending on investments in the future like education and health care.
"To fund government spending on investments in the future like education and health care"? When did we make that a part of any sort of a "bargain"? What "American bargain" is he talking about? I know about the "American dream", but that has nothing to do with a "bargain". When did we enter into this so-called bargain that apparently guaranteed a middle class life even if it has to be funded on the back of others? How is that an "American bargain"?
Of course this cobbled up premise takes our man to these sorts of simplistic (but politically expedient) conclusions:
OBAMA: If I can't get Republicans to move, partly because they've made a political, strategic decision that says, "Anything Obama's for, we're against, because that's our best chance of winning an election," I don't think the American people would see that as a failure on my part. My preference is that they'd have a different attitude. You know, I've been joking with my staff lately that I think in my next speech, I am gonna say, "I am adamantly opposed to investing in education and putting teachers in the classroom. I'm adamantly opposed to rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work." And I'm thinking maybe suddenly Republicans might be for it. But, you know, keep in mind, I'm talking about Republican members of Congress. I'm not talking about Republicans around the country.
Mr. Black and White. It is either "I'm totally behind Obama's plan or I'm totally against it". Stark but utter nonsense. An attempt at political framing which ignores the reality of the day – we can't afford most of the things Obama wants and the fact that he continues to want them doesn't change that. So instead of bowing to reality (like he has most foreign leaders), Obama chooses to pretend that's not the problem and Republicans oppose him simply because they want to win an election. And throwing lines like this out there about essentially opposing things that might help teachers and construction workers is another among many attempts to demonize the opposition with baseless claims.
In the meantime he's punted a decision that would indeed employ thousands of construction workers and, oh by the way, raise tax revenues, by delaying the decision on the Keystone XL pipeline.
Did anyone call him on that? Of course not.
Did Steve Kroft remind him he had a majority Democratic Congress for two years and did nothing to address the economic situation or this "American bargain" he's made up?
Of course not.
The middle class wasn't important then. And frankly it's not that important to him now. It's a political device he hopes to use to distract and demonize. He has to distract the voting populace away from his dismal record (which finds 54% saying in a recent poll that he doesn't deserve reelection) and he feels he has to demonize his opposition to do that – all the while waving the false flag of concern over the middle class.
For such a smart guy, this is an exceedingly transparent and obvious attempt to change the subject – yet somehow the media seems to have missed it completely (at least to this point). There is no "American bargain". Never has been. There is no guaranteed level living. There is no short-term fixed to the problem of government insolvency, especially taxing the "rich". And the opposing party isn't at all adamantly opposed to the things Obama would like you to believe they are opposed too. What they're opposed to is the huge debt Mr. Obama's administration has piled up, the class warfare he wants to conduct rather than work on real solutions and his insistence that the cause of most of the problems we face is also the solution to them.
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 13 Oct 11
In this podcast, Bruce Michael, and Dale discuss Obama's "Americans are lazy" comment, the failing EU. and the presidential race.
The direct link to the podcast can be found here.
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Herman Cain's "bimbo eruption"
I think we can officially call it that, although I'm not necessarily calling the women involved bimbos. It's a term, a phrase used to describe these sorts of situations that politicians seem to find/get themselves in. Thus the scare quotes. Perhaps it's unfair to the women. Maybe Cain's the bimbo.
Anyway, the point of talking about it at all is to point out how poorly the Cain campaign has handled this. No one is talking about Herman Cain's politics or ideas. Everyone is continuing to talk about this situation. And to make it worse, you have his campaign manager on national TV least night accusing one of the women of having a son who works for POLITICO – the media organization which broke the story on Cain.
Mark Block, on Sean Hannity's Fox News show:
Her son works at POLITICO," Block said of Karen Kraushaar, whose name POLITICO printed earlier today after other media outlets made her identity public.
"I've been hearing that all day – you've confirmed that now?" Hannity asked.
"We've confirmed that he does indeed work at POLITICO and that's his mother, yes," said Block.
Uh, no. They confirmed nothing. While Josh Kraushaar did work for POLITICO a while back (he left in 2010 for the National Journal) and happens to have the same last name as one of the Cain accusers, he's not related at all.
This has been confirmed by none other than Josh Kraushaar. My guess is that's something Mark Block might have wanted to ask Kraushaar who had been on Twitter tweeting his disbelief at the accusation. But then you have to have been monitoring the social media to have picked that up (or even ask the man yourself).
This is beginning to smell of amateur hour. You have a campaign who had 10 days notice this was coming and did nothing to get in front of it, choosing instead to ignore it. The problem, as you might have noticed, didn't go away. In fact it got worse. 3 more women have come forward to say they too were sexually harassed by Cain.
These are the sorts of situations where everyone comes out looking worse in my opinion. Cain is being killed in the media (partly I think because when he finally did choose to respond, his response was to lash out at the media) and of course the campaign and its supporters are trying to do everything they can to discredit the women who've come forward.
Nasty stuff. Toxic stuff. Stuff that can kill a campaign.
I've heard people say "well it didn't kill politicians like Bill Clinton". True. I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard, "well that has nothing to do with his ability to govern".
However, I think Cain's problems and sinking poll numbers (and campaign) have more to do with is base than anything. When Bill Clinton was having these sorts of problems, his base simply didn't regard them as serious enough to write him off. I assume you can ascribe any numbers of reasons for that – not wanting to give up the presidency, not feeling (as often stated) that personal behavior effected his governing, or just feeling it wasn't as important an issue as the opposition wanted to make it.
Regardless it is about the standards of conduct that are important to the base. On the left, the crowd that talks about women's rights are pretty flexible about that when it is their ox being gored. But they have no problem denouncing someone on the right if political advantageous. And that's because on the right there is a higher standard applied. That standard has gotten many a righty politician in trouble when things like this came out. I've noticed Newt Gingrich talking about how he's creeping up in the polls. Newt just hasn't plateaued yet. He will – soon. He's going nowhere because he has similar baggage.
Get used to it Republicans. Your candidate, barring the entrance of a dark horse who can and would capture the right's vote, is Mitt Romney. Perry, by his performances in the debates, has all but eliminated himself. Cain was a contender, but this mess and how it is being handled is just killing him. Gingrich is in fantasy land.
The only one left standing, when all the political smoke clears, is going to be Mr. Flexible – Mitt Romney.
Makes you fell all warm and fuzzy doesn't it?
Meanwhile, I'll continue to monitor the train wreck Herman Cain finds himself in and, if appropriate, have more to say. But it seems like the Cain campaign is trying its best, at the moment, to develop this into a worst case scenario. And so far they're doing a bang up job.
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China ignores sanctions to trade with Iran
For years I've heard people say that China isn't an expansionist military threat on the par of, say, the old Soviet Union. And for the most part, I believe that. I do believe they're a regional expansionist military threat and I also believe they're building their military with unprecedented spending to fulfill that role. That's fairly obvious in their dealings with other Asian countries within the China sea area.
But are they an international threat to peace?
In some ways, absolutely. For instance, their relationship with Iran threatens to make the unstable Middle East even more unstable. And they're blatantly disregarding UN sanction and breaking promises to the US about weaponry they are exporting:
China is continuing to provide advanced missiles and other conventional arms to Iran and may be doing so in violation of U.N. sanctions against the Tehran regime, according to a draft report by the congressional U.S.-China Commission.
"China continues to provide Iran with what could be considered advanced conventional weapons," the report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says.
According to the report, which will be made public Nov. 16, China sold $312 million worth of arms to Iran, second only to Russia, after Congress passed the Iran Freedom Support Act in 2006 that allows the U.S. government to sanction foreign companies that provide advanced arms to Iran.
So, essentially China is calling the US bluff and ignoring the UN. And it is actively trading with a self- declared enemy of the US (and a country which has killed Americans in both Iraq and Afghanistan).
Speaking of the US, China has even gone further:
Most of the weapons transfers involved sales of Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles, including C-802 missiles that China promised the United States in 1997 would not be exported to Iran.
China also built an entire missile plant in Iran last year to produce the Nasr-1 anti-ship cruise missile.
While the article goes on to say that technically the sale isn't a violation of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act of 2006 because the payload and range are below the specified minimums, what it doesn't say is the value of the advanced technology such a sale brings a country like Iran. Obviously what they learn from the C-802 will be incorporated in their own types of missiles.
The report in which these findings were contained makes a valid conclusion based on them:
The report concludes: "Despite Beijing's stated claim to be acting as a responsible major power, China continues to place its national interests ahead of regional stability by providing economic and diplomatic support to countries that undermine international security."
Of course China waves it all away. I mean, what are we going to do about it?
Chinese Embassy spokesman Wang Baodong denied China violated U.N. sanctions.
"When it comes to the issue of nonproliferation, China has been strictly adhering to the relevant U.N. resolutions and faithfully carries out its international obligations while strictly implementing its relevant domestic policies and regulations in the field."
He said the commission "should cast off its Cold War mentality, respect the facts and stop making unwarranted allegations against China."
Of course what sales like the ones China has been making to Iran do indeed undermine international security, or, at least Middle East regional security. Iran now brags about missiles it has that can hit its avowed enemy, Israel, and most of the world believes they're pursuing nuclear weapons. These sorts of sales only aggravate that situation.
Israel has to take them seriously and has:
Israel's test launch of a ballistic missile at Palmachim Air Force Base on Wednesday, in an apparent show of military strength, has ensured the threat of Iran's nuclear capabilities remains firmly on the public agenda.
International sources quoted in the Israeli media said the test appeared to have been conducted with a "surface-to-surface" missile known as the Jericho 3, which has a range of between 3000 and 7000 kilometres and is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Of course Israel has never publically admitted it has nuclear weapons (but most believe they do) and until this launch never publicly admitted it had a missile with this range. It was indeed a show of force to make it clear to the Iranians that they had best mind their p's and q's. But it certainly indicates in increase in tensions and a decrease in stability in a region already dangerously unstable.
So we have China ignoring or circumventing international sanctions to trade critical weaponry with a rogue nation with military and regional aspirations and essentially telling the rest of the world to bug off.
The question is "why?"
Is it because it perceives weakness in the US? Europe? The UN? All three? China has weathered the recession in relatively good shape. It's economy is still doing well. It has been the recipient of a wealth transfer through trade that has enabled it to spend much more freely on its military and it seems to be recognizing a growing vacuum in the world power balance as the US is perceived to be withdrawing some from its position of dominance.
Is China just interested in a regional role, or does Iran signal that China hopes to expand into much more of an international power player? China watchers who've been claiming that it is only regional power which interests the country may have to recalibrate their thinking. It seems, at least to me, that China sees a much broader role for itself (and its self-interest) in the world and may be beginning to make moves internationally to fulfill that role.
Of course time will tell, but Iran (and some of its activities in Africa and the China sea) seems to be a good indicator of a larger desired international role for China than that which was previously assumed for the country.
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Anyone–who is the number 3 oil producer in the world?
This may surprise you, but it is the US. In fact, it probably does surprise you, given all the whining about our dependence on foreign oil. You'd think that we were a poor nation when it comes to petroleum resources and the amount we import.
Quite the contrary. And you'd think that it would be in the best interests of the US to exploit its resources to a) give us a larger percentage of secure oil and b) employ oodles and bunches of Americans in an industry that has some pretty good and high paying jobs.
You'd think.
First the news:
The study released Thursday by the National Petroleum Council, a collection of industry, academic, government and other officials convened by the secretary of energy, touted how advanced technology has unlocked vast formations of natural gas previously deemed uneconomic to tap.
But the report also said the same drilling and production techniques that opened up shale gas – combined with success in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico, the Canadian oil sands and even surges in conventional oil onshore – are improving the nation's potential to be more self-reliant for oil, according to the report.
"Contrary to conventional wisdom the North American oil resource base also could provide substantial supply for decades ahead," the report said.
FYI, this isn't just some industry group turning out reports that favor drilling.
The National Petroleum Council, a collection of industry, academic, government and other officials, convenes several times a year to gather information, give advice and issue reports on topics for the secretary of energy. The most recent report was a 2007 study on global energy supply and demand.
In 2009 Energy Secretary Steven Chu asked the group to look at U.S. natural gas and oil resources based on four concepts: economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, energy security and prudent development.
Optimistically, the Council believes that the US and Canada combined could produce 22.5 million barrels a day when the new resources are added in. Secure oil.
And, if we'd just get to work and try to tap these assets, Goldman Sachs believes we'll surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the largest oil producer in the world by 2017:
And earlier this month, Goldman Sachs said in a note to investors it expects the U.S. – now the No. 3 oil producer behind Saudi Arabia and Russia – to take the top spot by 2017.
This, given the current economic (and political) conditions, should be a no-brainer, shouldn't it?
Well shouldn't it?
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Economic Statistics for 13 Sep 11
Today's little economic snapshots:
A sharp drop in oil prices reduced import prices by –0.4%. Export prices, conversely, rose by 0.5%. On a year-over-year basis, import prices have risen by 13%, while export prices have gone up by 9.6%.
For the sixth straight month, business confidence has fallen as the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 1.8 points in August to 88.1.
The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1.4% in August, with the index reading at 94.62, as nationwide trucking activity dropped slightly.
In weekly retail sales, ICSC-Goldman Store Sales rose 1.3% on a post-Hurricane Irene burst of sales last week, with year-over-year sales up 3.3%. Redbook, meanwhile, reports year-over year sales were up 4.5%.
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Gloomy Goldman-Sachs
James Pethokoukis writes, "Goldman Sachs drops this H-bomb on the Obama campaign:
We have lowered our forecast for US real GDP growth further and now expect real GDP to grow just 2%-2½% through the end of 2012. Our forecast for annual average GDP growth has fallen to 1.7% in 2011 (from 1.8%) and to 2.1% in 2012 (from 3.0%). Since this pace is slightly below the US economy's potential, we now expect the unemployment rate to be at 9¼% by the end of 2012, slightly above the current level.
Even our new forecast is subject to meaningful downside risk.
So, we got that goin' for us.
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Testing new ways to post
Yes, that's what's up … I'm looking at ways to further expand my ability to blog from various platforms and apps.
So far, so good with this one.
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Former Powhatan mayor murdered
POWHATAN POINT – Belmont County Sheriff Dave Lucas is looking for clues into the murder of former village Mayor Marvin Brown, who died as a result of a gunshot wound he sustained Monday in a hunting cabin on his property.
"We are handling this as a homicide," Lucas said. "We arrived on scene and called for the county coroner."
Lucas said agents with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation are also working on the case, as the agents were on the scene most of the night Monday.
"We are pursuing this aggressively," Lucas added, though he declined to say if he had identified any suspects in the case. He also declined to indicate if the crime scene appeared to be a robbery.
Brown, 73, owned a business in Powhatan Point, where he served as village mayor for a time in the 1980s.
Lucas said anyone who may have additional information should call his office at 740-695-7933, ext. 112.

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It's increasingly clear that the one-size-fits-all, protectionist and slow-moving nature of the EU doesn't suit the UK's commercial needs. Moreover, it prevents the UK from taking full advantage of a surging global economy; the UK is effectively prevented from capitalising on its unrivalled influence throughout the rest of the world.
Britain's relationship with the EU needs to change so that it is based on trade, not political union. Indeed, it is not political union with the EU on which many British jobs are dependent, but trade. And given that we buy more from the EU than it buys from us, it is unlikely that the EU would seek to change this in the event of us leaving.
If trade with the EU is important for UK jobs, then global trade is arguably even more so. Currently, the EU signs trade deals with the rest of the world that it has negotiated on our behalf (often taking years to do so). Leaving the EU would give Britain the legal right to negotiate its own agreements, as currently, the European Commission speaks for all EU member states at World Trade Organisation meetings - including the UK. Leaving the EU would give us our own seat - and therefore more influence - at the W.T.O.
We believe it would be preferable for Britain to have a direct say on a global level rather than hoping to have any real influence inside an EU that does not have Britain's best interests at heart.


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Got this 13 DPO. We'd been TTC actively for 6 months but wanting to TTC for well over a year. I'm a long time PG.org user but I've fallen off the map these last few months. Thought I'd drop in here to see if I could make some more lifelong friends like I did on my Oct 2010 board
So, a little about me ... I'm 31. DD just turned 3. Her pregnancy was pretty uneventful. She was born in the water at the local birth center. She's a spunky & opinionated preschooler and I'm having such a hard time waiting to tell her she's going to be a big sister.
I'm feeling good. Sore boobies, little bit of heart burn, RLP, hoping m/s stays away from me this time. Sticky vibes please!!!


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downgrade option, not just upgrade
We should have the possibility to also downgrade droplets, not just upgrade. Sometimes we need a lot of power for some operations, but then we don't for some time, or maybe not at all anymore, so it would be nice to be able to downgrade a droplet, not just to upgrade it.
The current solution is to create a new one with a smaller plan, but this means configuring, installing and doing all that stuff which takes time and is not portable.
Being able to easily shrink Droplets is a needed feature, even if the process involved creating a new, smaller Droplet from an existing snapshot. I can use, e.g., Clonezilla, to move linux installations from machines with larger disks and more memory to ones with smaller disks and less memory as long as the image is not bigger than the new disk's capacity, so shrinking installations isn't technically exotic. And virtual machines can be resized downward in, e.g., VirtualBox.
This issue has come up here before, and the 2013 DigitalOcean response was that shrinking wasn't an option b/c of the possibility of data corruption. This is something that DigitalOcean should figure out how to implement.
We want to be able to downgrade a droplet, not just upgrade. There are times we are passive, and we don't need the droplet's full power (in my case $100+/month).
184.108.40.206 Off 1GB Ram 30GB SSD Disk Amsterdam 2 Ubuntu 12.04.3 x64
How I can decrease to 512 MB?
It is possible ?
This feature has been recently removed. Previously, when I ran out of space on a smaller server, I would just upscale using the snapshot, clean up, create space and downscale back using snapshot. Now, the ability to downscale is no longer supported. This was a very important and useful feature.
To downgrade an application server, you can *in general* provision new instances and redeploy (assuming you do not store unique files on the instance).
However for databases (MongoDB, Postgres, etc) that have data resident on the machine downgrading droplet sizes become more difficult when needing to ensure minimal application downtime.
If you work at a large company with a large IT team, you can allocate resource to provision a new database server, migrate the data, freeze changes to the database & take down your service, etc, but this is a huge and risky IT initiative. Also, if you have many environments on the same database cluster with custom security settings, data migration becomes non-trivial. For a small startup, the time and risk involved in re-provisioning and migrating data and settings can be huge and it can be costly if you need to hire external experts to ensure proper reconfiguring.
If a droplet could be downgraded in place or a snapshot could be taken and applied to a smaller droplet size (assuming the used disk space is smaller than available on the new instance), it would make downsizing droplets less risky and faster.
Digital Ocean, we need downscale in addition to upscale please.
Currently we can scale up for more CPU and RAM, but what if we can add only RAM or CPU and also we need to have more space without RAM or CPU added.
And not to forget, we should be able to scale down anything upped
When I wanted to reduce the size of my droplet I found out that it is not as straight forward as increasing its size.
The fast-resize option in the control panel only allows for increasing the size of the droplet, no indication of down-sizing whatsoever.
Only after I opened a support ticket I found out the cumbersome procedure:
a) Take a snapshot of existing droplet.
b) Create a new droplet from snapshot image, verify the snapshot is functioning as intended.
c) Destroy original droplet, and create a new droplet from the snapshot image.
d) Destroy the droplet created in step b, and verify your new droplet is functioning normally with the original droplet IP Address.
This idea should be realized in two steps:
1) Write about the four-step guide in the CP's resize tab.
2) Implement automatic down-sizing, same style as up-sizing.
Hi everyone,
There seems to be some confusion in this thread I wanted to clear up:
When resizing using our "Flexible" option you are always able to downgrade to your original size.
However, when using our permanent resize or creating a new Droplet you will not be able to downgrade to a smaller size. This is because we never shrink the filesystem of a Droplet to prevent the possibility of data corruption. For more information on our Resize feature check out this community tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-resize-your-droplets-on-digitalocean.
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Shawn commented
Being able to easily shrink Droplets is a needed feature, even if the process involved creating a new, smaller Droplet from an existing snapshot. I can use, e.g., Clonezilla, to move linux installations from machines with larger disks and more memory to ones with smaller disks and less memory as long as the image is not bigger than the new disk's capacity, so shrinking installations isn't technically exotic. And virtual machines can be resized downward in, e.g., VirtualBox.
This issue has come up here before, and the 2013 DigitalOcean response was that shrinking wasn't an option b/c of the possibility of data corruption. This is something that DigitalOcean should figure out how to implement.
I would not have upsized if I had realized I couldn't downsize!
Hours of time wasted now.
Goodbye DO, we'll be moving to Amazon shortly!
Matthew Lynn commented
How can you possibly close this suggestion when DigitalOcean -very- clearly does not support downgrading their droplets in a full capacity. Just so no one is mislead here the only downgrade they are offering is entirely unrelated to storage capacity.
In other words, if you need to change your storage capacity, or want to downgrade to a smaller size than you started with you are currently out of luck. There are many, -many-, people who have wanted this feature for over 2 years now and DigitalOcean has taken no steps to do anything about it even when many of their competitors offer this feature easily.
To be clear I love DigitalOcean but this lack of a feature is unacceptable and raises numerous suspicions.
Tri-net Solutions commented
B4B: How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship
there is a book B4B that talks about Amazon AWS and how it auto sizes your instance or at least recommends what you should have... "It completely de-risk the purchase decisions for a customers trying AWS for the first time. They can just pick a price plan that is close and trust that Amazon will helpthem get the plan that delivers them the most value based on how they actually use it, not how they think they might use it."
frnhr commented
DO, are you trying to make me switch to a competitor??!
Olivier commented
No free account, no downgrade options
Issue not solved since 2 years.
Will close my account and going to rh cloud next month.
kurz commented
Alex Bass commented
Tamás Greguss commented
If I understand well, with the new 'flexible resize' feature downgrade is now possible if the droplet was resized from a smaller one with 'flexible resize'.
Kjetil commented
+3 this is just evil buisines practice
Jose Carlos Montalvo Mori commented
Yes, implement downgrade option.
Brady Swenson commented
This is a must add. We overshot our needs and now need to downgrade but will have to configure everything over again on new droplets.
kurz commented
Please implement downgrade option. If I have to start over, I would have to open my options to alternative companies.
Vladimir commented
Вчера потратил два часа на все эти перепития с понижением тарифа. В итоге остался на том же тарифе.
Нежелание реализовать необходимы функционал наталкивает на переход к другому хостеру.
Присматриваюсь к flops.ru. К тому же теперь он стал дешевле :)
Антон Ляшенко commented
Alfonso M. L. commented
Doing some research in look for a new hosting home for an existing multi server deployment I discarded DO in favor of Linode just because the latter *does* allow you to scale down servers.
Please, DO guys, take notice.
Dan Smith commented
This is very annoying! When can we expect this to be implemented?
Ben Harris commented
Please add this functionality ASAP. This is very frustrating!


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I go to a nudist camp as often as I can get there. This is a family camp ground and no one really cares what you look like It about friendship and people enjoying themselves.
As open minded as I am. I have to say as a younger couple, we would not want to be meeting at a nudist camp. That's not very "easy going" for a get together of IL folks. Not everyone is that open to being nude when first meeting somebody. Just my two cents. But as for in GENERAL, we'd want IL meet rather than people traveling for a few hour get together. But if people want to travel. More props to them =).
But I think a nudist camp is too extreme for my liking. No offense to anyone else. =) I just don't do nudity infront of strangers.
We have many campgrounds and things here in and around woodstock Virginia. also in paw paw west virginia which is about a 1 1/2 hour drive from here is a nice nudist resort. (Avalon)
As a nudist and a member of a family nudist camp, i see nothing wrong with it. It gives the children the appreciation of what the human body. As they get older then can choose to continue to go or not, the parents i know who have brought their children have expressed this as their policy.
For hot uninhibited weekends at our home or maybe Cherry Lane Nudist camp. Hubby is Bi with no hangups. We
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Couple looking for other bi nudist. Enjoy the nudist life style and would love to have other nudist join us. I am bi active and wife is only bi curious. Would love to make friends as nudist and then look to adding more pleasures. Sorry not into one night stands.
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We've been to BM 8 times now, and are still loving it! You don't need to worry about optimizing for watching, viewing, or joining, you should just go and camp where you can. There's opportunity everywhere plus some designated spots for adult themed camps. You have to be part of those camps to camp there, though. But to re-iterate, where you camp will not impact your experience or opportunity whatsoever.
Have fun!!
My bi pal and I are looking for a woman to join us when we visit the Cherry Lane nudist camp near Jackson. The place caters to swingers, and has a very open atmosphere. We're thinking of going on a Saturday, late morning./afternoon, and we'd pay for your admission, plus any other incidentals. Both of us love being naked, we're both stable, intelligent, and fun loving. Please let me know if you'd like to join us sometime soon.
I'm a nudist, but I don't have any opportunities to go to nudist camps or anything like that, and I have a roommate that would flip out if I walked around nude. So I can only go nakers when he's on vacation
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Skip to comments.Virginia Early Voting Tallies Show Trouble for Obama (Cook Political Report data)
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I would exercise some caution over Virginia. On the plus side, I see some signs in liberal households of split votes (e.g. houses with Kaine signs but no Obama sign). But the ability of Obama's troops to turn out should not be underestimated. Planned Parenthood is playing ads nearly nonstop, e.g. on WMZQ, a country music station, bashing the crap out of Romney (our tax money at work). The news radio station (largest audience in the region) does daily interviews with Politico to bash Republicans. Tonight they did a special segment on the Indiana candidate who commented on rape. This is in their prime segment (5:22PM) and will be replayed several times overnight and tomorrow AM. My mailbox contains an endless supply of Obama funded glossies. It is both depressing listening to that crap but encouraging that they are doing so poorly despite their barrage.
I'm in an exurb of Wash DC out in VA. I will be voting early (as I have done before). It's just a matter of showing up, showing ID, voting. No big deal
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I'm glad to hear this but I don't understand why heavy early voting from one party or another is necessarily good or bad sign. If someone could explain I would appreciate it.
Not happening in OH. Epic fail so far. Look at Montgomery Co. #s I posted earlier: 2008, 10,400 early votes 2012, 2,200. Now, even if you give ALL those to the Ds, they're down 80%.
I voted yesterday along with my wife. We are in Loudoun county and there was a steady stream of voters. I'd say that most were Romney voters.
I live in Newport News, but I have no interest in voting early even if I could. I have no excuse, won't lie, and frankly feel my vote has a better chance of counting by voting with my paper ballot going through the machine at my precinct anyway. Anyone who votes early without a true excuse is committing fraud IMO. I don't care what the dems do or what the state law says. The constitution is quite clear on "election day".
The GOP, the Stupid Party, finally woke up to discover that they should do the same thing. In 2008 the Dems clobbered the Reps in early voting--40% of the votes are cast before election day. Now it appears so far that the Dems ground game is not as good as 2008, i.e., they are not getting out as many of their base to vote early. The GOP is doing much better than 2008, which shows they are learning their lesson and they appear to be much more motivated.
So heavy early voting is a good indicator of how the race may be going and it could be a good or bad sign depending upon the relative numbers. So far, the GOP is exceeding its 2008 numbers while the Dems are under performing. In 2008, John McCain received more votes than Obama on election day. But Obama won by 10 million votes, much of them cast prior to election day.
And don't tell me or anyone reading this thread that there is no early in-person absentee balloting in VA. That is a bald faced lie and only helps the other side. Get informed and engaged.
If this turns in to a 2010-style blowout, the Big Media got some 'splainin to do....
I think Rs should take advantage of OFA's offer of a ride to the polls, then go in and vote for Romey.
If you have a relative with dementia you need to see if they are registered. If that "nice nurse" or whatever is "helping them vote" you need to file charges.
Poll ping.
I'm seeing this with some co-workers who were all excited about voting for Zero in 2008. They're saying that they and their liberal friends are sitting this one out. Works for me. I'm guessing that they can't bring themselves to vote for Romney, so they're going to do it in their own way.
Or sitting this one out, which is essentially a vote for Romney.
I can also attest that early voting is underway in Virginia. We have been scheduling poll watchers at the local Government Center, where the machines are in use.
It might be a bit confusing, because it is technically absentee voting in person (i.e. only supposed to be for folks who can't make it on election day - travelling, working, etc,)
As a practical matter, even though you have to give a reason, it it easy to do, there are many reasons to choose from on the form, and nobody challenges any claim given.
In the past, I have made honest mistakes on this forum, and got called a liar, which really offended me. This is an area which is confusing enough to lead honest people to misunderstand or disagree unwittingly with those whom they agree with fundamentally.
So let's share a little love, and get that vote out.
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Dear Wolfman,
I took the poll watcher training in Fairfax County, and one of the ladies attending had experience locally in supervising elections over several years. Her opinion was that it was more reliable to vote early on the machine as opposed to the paper ballot, because they can invalidate or "lose" the paper ballots.
The machines that they use in Fairfax (I don't know if it is statewide) can print out a paper record of each vote, and the software coding is done locally, and verified by the Government (Virginia is an IT hotbed). She took part in verifying the machines prior to voting, and seemed very confident of their procedures and safeguards.
I don't know what's going to happen, but I feel something in the air. Its just too danged quiet out there. I know the rabble-rousing Democrats are making a lot of noise, but there's just something in the atmosphere bubbling beneath the surface. Maybe its the Tea Party just walking softly and carrying a ballot????
There are many RR signs here in my area, but we are typically a red area anyway, but very few OB signs. Its just so eerie.
"If this turns in to a 2010-style blowout, the Big Media got some splainin to do...."
The leftmedia never explains itself or apologizes. It just changes the subject.
Makes sense...thanks.
I'm sure by early voting they are talking about absentee ballots.
Colin Powell just endorsed Obama which menas NOW he's going to CRUSh Romney....../sarc
Waiting anxiously for committed volunteers like you to show the F up in the local campaign office to go knock on doors, probably.
The good news is that the Obama campaign is so disorganized and chaotic there that they're doing the same job in the same Republican neighborhood at least twice. And remember, just because an Obama volunteer gives you a ride the the polls doesn't mean you have to vote for Obama.
My wife and I voted in Alexandria last night. We qualified for in-person absentee voting because both of us will be out of the state on 11/6/12. We filled out our ballots and actually fed them into the ballot box/scanning machine.
There are probably 15 different categories of excuses that will qualify one as eligible to do in person absentee voting.
It isn't pure "early voting", but many people are taking advantage of this system.
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OK, it seems VT-ALA and ALB will be around on the Everett ramp a bit longer. I had a long chat with AI CMD Thulasidas and while a lot of discussion points cannot be discussed here, this can. Air India expects the merger proceedings with Indian Airlines to be completed by late June, and the the first two 777-200LR's will in all probability arrive on the day the merger is formalised. These two aircraft will be deployed on BOM-JFK with the next set of aircraft being deployed on DEL-JFK.
The new livery of the airline - ALA and ALB will not be delivered in the livery they are in - a livery that will go down as AI's still born livery but a brand new one which is about to be cleared by Praful Patel. The interior fitting of the aircraft in J and Y is almost complete and the Thales AVOD IFE system has been installed. However, the F-class suites are still be installed.
So photogs - catch those two planes, because those colours are about to disappear soon and keep an eye for the new paint scheme.


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