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On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning at the Department of State, and Donald Steinberg, Deputy Administrator at USAID, will hold a discussion "Leading Through Civilian Power: The First QDDR." The discussion will be moderated by Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Public Affairs. The event will be streamed live on state.gov and DipNote, the Department of State's official blog, at 4:00 p.m. (EST). You will have the opportunity to participate through the submission of questions, some of which will be selected for response during the live broadcast. You can submit your questions now, here on DipNote, in the comments section to this blog post.
In the "Conversations with America" video series, the State Department's senior leadership hold discussions live, online, with government officials and leaders of prominent non-governmental organizations. You can learn more about the QDDR, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, here.
Lars K. in Ecuador writes:
The QDDR is well reasoned and well intended from a civilian, developmental point of view.
Still, does anyone seriously think the QDDR will result in concrete and proportional increases in political and financial clout for civilian development efforts as it relates to defense spending in foreign affairs?
Eric in New Mexico writes:
My question is strait forward, and I've added context here from the Archives of Dipnote to pose a working framework for the answer to it.
As it regards "Who we are and what we do" according to the man who determines the foreign policy of this nation;
How then does America realize it's true self when engaged in nation building in parnership with others?
And how does the QDDR help define, or redefine the concept of "nation building"?
Thank you for taking our questions.
---Ref comments from Archives (edited here for 5000 character limits) from Briefing on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Posted by DipNote Bloggers / December 16, 2010;
"It's important to remember why we remain in Afghanistan. It was Afghanistan where al Qaeda plotted the 9/11 attacks that murdered 3,000 innocent people. It is the tribal regions along the Afghan-Pakistan border from which terrorists have launched more attacks against our homeland and our allies. And if an even wider insurgency were to engulf Afghanistan, that would give al Qaeda even more space to plan these attacks.
And that's why, from the start, I've been very clear about our core goal. It's not to defeat every last threat to the security of Afghanistan, because, ultimately, it is Afghans who must secure their country. And it's not nation-building, because it is Afghans who must build their nation. Rather, we are focused on disrupting, dismantling and defeating al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and preventing its capacity to threaten America and our allies in the future."
-President Obama, December 16, 2010
Dear President Obama, Secretary Clinton, Sec. Gates and friends,
The State Dept. QDDR asked the basic fundemental question; "How can we do better?"
OK, let's start with "nation building" as it is truly defined, not as it is politically spun out of control like we these United States would even try to build nations for others, when in fact people build nations for themselves, with a little help from their friends in helping them to overcome crisis( I know because I've been in construction for over thirty years Mr. President and this has been the way it has gone down since the Marshall plan, and Afghanistan is no different in this respect)
There's been an erroneous internal political fiction afoot that as a government, the US prefers to build schools, clinics, roads, bridges, and stand up the institutions of democracy and justice for others rather than invest in ourselves as a nation.
The last admin. simply stated the truth..."We can do both."
Now I don't know about how you want to go about trying to distinguish yourselves politically from the last admin., but it has seemed to me that because the last Admin. under President Bush and Sec. Rice were establishing replacements for the voids in government structure created by "regime change" in Afghanistan and Iraq, that holding true to America's promise of fostering Democracy as an alternative to tyrany involved a great deal of nation building by necessity, but somehow that phrase has now become an evil word that must be avoided at all political cost...when in fact this whole time over the last decade we've been engaged in exactly that on as many levels as one would care to examine in both countries.
In fact, we're involved in nation building in countries we haven't gone to war with.
The insistrancwe on good governance and accountability in our humanitarian and development aid to Africa, Pakistan, and others globally as policy is in fact nation building IN PARNERSHIP....as a cooperative venture to provide a better future for folks generally.
And if it isn't having the effect of building better more prosperous, peaceful nations...than just what the heck are you folks thinking anyway?...(chuckle).
I don't mean to sound rude, I just want you folks to take an honest look at your own rhetoric and start making some common sense so you can do better, OK?
This is not that hard to get across to folks out here in the public. We know we have a war to win and America will be damned if we lose it...
...Call it what it is all the time, in that we are indeed involved in building a better world, nation by nation...and our's as well at the same time. On many levels.
Posted on Fri Dec 17, 2010
Long ago I offered Sec. Colin Powell a koan for his birthday, "When battleships give way to sailboats, how does the world realize its true self?"
My question submitted in regards to "America's true self" is offered now to Sec. Clinton and her policy planning team as food for thought that the two koans become one and the same, as the answer becomes self-evident to the global audience in this coming decade.
Allan L. in Arizona writes:
An implementation question regarding the desire for interagency experience in Embassy leadership:
Will the Department continue to rely on the regional bureaus to provide the DCM and PO candidate short lists that are submitted to the D Committee or will other actors have a say in the composition of these lists?
Barry H. in Indiana writes:
In this world of globalization we need to keep our American privacies. We need to conserve money here at home and better our nation, not race to the bottom of world economies. We need to think about America first not the elites of the world, or even as many poor outside our borders.
Siobhan in Vermont writes:
What can we as American citizens do to prevent violence from erupting after the upcoming Sudanese referendum? What more can be done by the international community and as a country?
John D. in Massachusetts writes:
I am hopeful that the attention of activists and the government have set an atmosphere that has convinced Pres. Bashir to accept the results of next week's Southern Sudan Referendum peacefully. If so, how can we use the momentum of this event to create a larger solution to the conflicts of Sudan, especially Darfur, and how can we use this attention as a model for how to prevent forseeable conflicts - for example in the Ivory Coast?
Isabelle in New Jersey writes:
If violence errupts after the referendum what do we as Americans plan to do? Also what at home should we do? I know many communities have student groups that actively work to prvent the violence from occuring. What can those of us involved in these student groups do to help?
Alex in Washington D.C. writes:
How will the State Department be working to engage with Congress in areas where the QDDR call for new authorities or new funding, such as the changes to the Civilian Response Corps, currently part of S/CRS?
Thanks for the opportunity to ask questions!
Shan S. in Iraq writes:
Iraq i mean citizen in Iraq are about to become more civilian but the leaders will to power is still the dectator old fashion what is gonna happen between this cold and hot air will it be tornato?
Jerome T.B. in Michigan writes:
Yes! Where is the reciprocation from the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA! When I was 2 & 1/2 years of age, I was seperated from Father (basically kidnapped) by George H.W Bush, Sr. & friends, and taught to say some German "Ich bin Zwei, Tanks" to say to my Grandfather's third cousin, a foreigner, so George and others could ASK for HELP, with me breaking the ICE, for the help in the return of Korean War MIA Pilots remains from China and North Korea. That happened in the 1990's with the HELP of my GrandFather's third cousin, a foreigner. I was also advised that I would do writing to help clean up the CIA. We wrote songs, tunes,& lyrics for the Beatles, Rolling Stones, to help the middle class of England rebuild the British Economy after WWII. We also helped Jim Morrison and the Doors, Janis Joplin, and others while also writing the original screenplays for "Moon Over Parador"&"Batteries Not Included". Where is the reciprocation, all I get from the State Department is "So What""Long Time Ago""Who Cares""Solved". No Appreciation or Recognition!
Paige G. in Australia writes:
I refer you to my detailed comments about this initiative on your FB - Engaging Community site: your 16 December entry.
What do you think about the points I have raised?
DipNote Bloggers reply:
Hi Paige - If you'd like your comments/questions to be part of the pool addressed on Jan. 6th, please paste in the text as a comment on this blog entry!
Susan M. in California writes:
As a member of the anti-genocide movement, I'm pleased that the State Department has prioritized genocide and mass atrocity prevention in the QDDR. Can you talk about what impact the creation of the new position of Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights will have in helping to increase the capacity of the United States to respond to genocide and mass atrocities?
William C. in Rhode Island writes:
How does the USAID deal with the now shown fact on ABCThisWeek that the Dairy lobby yrs ago had milk protein removed from the aid we give to children around the world deal with this embarrassment that we are providing enough protein in the mixture and have caused stunted growth brain damage etc with the worlds children that recieved this aid
William C. in Rhode Island writes:
World Aquaculture's mission is to help eradicate Childhood Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM), it is globally the most important risk factor for illness and death, with hundreds of millions of pregnant women and young children affected, by providing charitable, educational and scientific support Regrowing the Worlds Resources Advancing Nutrition, Medicine,Protein and Environment by pioneering new solutions for global development of community-based, self-sustainable, ecological aquaculture systems advancing the World's Fin Fish "Protein" supply.
Ronald B. in New York writes:
Can you list 6 proposed QDDR projects?
3 geographic/regional, and 3 issue/development oriented.
Happy New Synergies!
Shay in Massachusetts writes:
Bearing in mind President Obama's desire to score a foreign policy success by ratifying the START Treaty with Russia, has this administration lost sight of the reality that Russia today is a dictatorship with no democratic credentials, and that the US' Reset policy only serves to add credibilty to what is in actual fact a mafia-controled state which mocks western values such as law, private property, independent media, personal freedom, and democracy? Surely the Reset policy reeks of appeasement!
Jerome T.B. in Michigan writes:
My second question, goes along with the first question, "Where is the Loop and the Reciprocation?" When I was 2 & 1/2, I was seperated from my Father, taught some German and introduced myself to my GrandFather's third cousin, to break the ICE so he could be asked to help in the return of Korean War MIA Pilots, downed in China and North Korea during the Korean War. He did help and some of the remains were returned to the U.S.. My third question is "Are you still scamming other people's little kids for their ideas and work and passint them on so people like the Beatles, get all the acclaim and rewards. Do you still use, abuse, chew up and spit out, under aged children for their ideas and writings with no reciprocation. Sounds like Indentured Servitude and Communistic here in the U.S.ofA.
Anna in Washington D.C. writes:
Did the State Department and USAID consult with the military on the QDDR? How does the QDDR differ from or overlap with the military's Quadrennial Defense Review?
Khan in Pakistan writes:
The Jewish people living in Pakistan and Kashmir are in need of US support. Will there be any US policy which will help the Jewish people live in peace in Pakistan, without fear, without harrassment and with respect?
Jerome T.B. in Michigan writes:
My Fifth and Sixth Question: Where is the loop? Where is the get-to-gether? Where is the reciprocation? And why is the United States Government so Hippocritical? And why is the State Department so misleading? Deceitful? and highly Pretentious? Is it because we have a reverse Racist and reverse Sexist as President? And we have a reverse
Sexist and a reverse Racist as Secretary of State Presently?
Dr. Ogoubi K.W. in Togo writes:
Please, would you mind telling us what you can give to people which are suffuring in the hand of a false group of democrats as heads of states having in mind Cote d'Ivoire and others?
Roberta L. in the U.S.A. writes:
Do we have a plan bringing peace to the world? Where we participate in war?
What is the Peace Dividend? (Econcomic consequences?) Can we adjust appropriately?
My guess is we can't afford anything but Peace. Seems no-one is willing to pay for war (Bush tax cuts continued by Obama).
How do we stop our run-away freight train of a government from taking us with them?
Isabelle in New Jersey writes:
Student activists try really hard to get their message read clearly and peacefully. WHat do you plan to do about student activists being arrested or violence against student activist?
John P. in Washington D.C. writes:
With threats of major budget cuts and promises of curtailing foreign assistance by the incoming House Chairperson on Foreign Relations, what do you see as a possible outcome for USAID with regards to personnel and programs?
Sadok B. in Tunisia writes:
Scientists all around the world are to be included in the civilian worth!! isn't it!!!
Cheryl S. in the U.S.A. writes:
The QDDR seems closely connected to the concept of 'Smart Power' – integrating whole of government capabilities and those of non-government actors to meet national security objectives. What might the QDDR mean for the Department of Defense in particular?
Vivek R. in India writes:
In the race for economic supremacy of nations, PPP model ie private public partnership is a great idea but where do you drwa the line?
Vivek R. in India writes:
Black Swan event:
Ahmad Shah Massoud ie Lion of Panjshir fondly called by his followers as Ä€mir SÄhib-e ShahÄ«d was killed by Al Kaida on Sept 9, 2001.
Is it not a good idea to hire civilians who can join the dots to random and isolated events and generate Early Warning?
Therefore technically Strategic Inflection Point was the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud
Will you be considering hiring the right civilians on retainer to generate Early Warning to mitigate Black Swan events?
Jerome T.B. in Michigan writes:
When I was around 2 & 1/2 I was taken aside by George H.W. Bush, Sr., taught German to introduce myself to my GrandFather's third cousin, so I could break the ICE and George could ask for HELP in the return of Korean War MIA Pilot's remains from China and North Korea! We then went on and wrote for the Beatles, "When I am 64" had the year 1964 in it because that was the year George W. Bush, Jr., Bill Clinton, and Hillary Rodham graduated from High School. I hate to go against the grain of what is considered the Staus Quo, but for all that help there was to be reciprocation and that did not happen. "Moon Over Parador"&"Batteries Not Included" we wrote those screen plays, underaged! Where is the Loop! Where is the reciprocation!
Kim in Washington D.C. writes:
Overall, the QDDR reaches for a "collaborative" government vision that is impressive. But, given the economic crises and urgent competing demands, is the President going to request the additional resources required in the FY 2012 Budget for the Department of State and USAID to implement the recommendations of the QDDR?And, given the new balance in Congress, would you care to assess the potential of Congressional support for such resources? Thank you.


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History of the Peace Corps in Suriname
|History of the Peace Corps
|Since 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries, more than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in 138 countries all over the globe.
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In 1994, the Peace Corps received a formal invitation from the Government of Suriname to establish a program in the country. It asked for the Peace Corps' assistance in rural community development of the interior Amerindian and African/Maroon communities. The formal agreement between the United States and Suriname was signed in January 1995.
Peace Corps staff arrived in March 1995. The first two Volunteers—with two years of Volunteer experience in another country—arrived in August. In September 1995, the first training group, consisting of eight married couples, began the Peace Corps' 12-week intensive pre-service training program (PST). Since then, a new group has arrived annually.
The Peace Corps/Suriname program has changed since its start in 1995. In 1998, Suriname welcomed the first single Volunteers into the program, and in 1999, Volunteers were placed for the first time in the capital to work with health agencies on health issues facing rural communities. Peace Corps/Suriname began using a community-based training model in 1999.
Peace Corps/Suriname collaborates directly with various Surinamese government agencies in assigning Volunteers to rural communities. In addition to the Ministry of Regional Development (RGD), the Peace Corps works with the Bureau of Public Health and the Ministries of Education, Health, and Natural Resources. Through memoranda of understanding, Peace Corps Volunteers in Suriname also have worked with organizations such as UNICEF, the Foundation for Education of the Moravian Church, the Medical Mission, and the World Wildlife Fund.
During the Peace Corps' first five years in Suriname, Volunteers were assigned to the rural community development project, serving in most regions of the country. This project aimed to improve the quality of life in rural communities by assisting residents in assessing and prioritizing their needs, rebuilding and improving community infrastructure, accessing outside resources, increasing income-generation opportunities, and strengthening local women's and youth groups. Peace Corps Volunteers facilitated the construction and renovation of schools and medical clinics as well as the creation of libraries. They helped villages develop clean water systems, latrines, after-school and during-school enrichment programs, and small enterprise development, including the installation of rice and cassava mills and bakeries. Villagers were empowered to develop proposals that successfully obtained funding from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), foundations, and banks and other financial institutions to finance village projects. More importantly, Volunteers helped develop the capacity of their communities and organizations to conduct organizational planning and project management beyond the Volunteers' terms of service.
In 2006, Peace Corps, with the support of the government of Suriname, began two new projects: community health education (CHE) and micro-enterprise and tourism development (MED). The purpose of the CHE project is to improve the general health status of community members (men, women, boys and girls) in all targeted communities through health prevention education and capacity building in the areas of nutrition, water and sanitation, and HIV/AIDS.
The purpose of the MED project is to help the people of Suriname improve their lives by working with government and NGOs to transfer business knowledge, skills and abilities. The focus of the program is income generation, agri-business, and ecotourism.
Future of Peace Corps Programming in Suriname
Over the past few years, it has become evident that activities in the health and micro-enterprise sectors have brought the most satisfaction to Peace Corps Volunteers and made the greatest impact on the Surinamese people. Ninety percent of Volunteers serving in Suriname have participated in one or more activities involving non-formal education, health education and income-generation activities.
Volunteer activities in community health education include, but are not limited to:
- Working together with schools, local organizations and groups on nutrition projects
- Working with schools, women, and youth to develop family gardens and school gardens
- Assisting in providing basic hygiene education to preschool children
- Assisting in the implementation of basic life skills and preventive healthcare activities for youth and adults
- Organizing "clean-up days" in local communities
- Promoting use of latrines
- Instructing and training on how to build and maintain latrines
- Conducting hygiene education programs and classes
- Developing and training water committees
- Assisting in the training of parents and community leaders to conduct non-formal education programs in their communities
- Assisting in the development of the community's capacity to plan and implement non-formal education programs
- Teaching HIV/AIDS education and prevention
- Training and educating peer groups
- Organizing and conducting nonformal adult education programs and project development and management (PDM) trainings Volunteer activities in micro-enterprise and tourism development include, but are not limited to:
- Assisting adults in improving their income generating skills
- Assisting youth in strengthening their personal marketability to improve their employability and/or strengthen their entrepreneurial spirit
- Training young entrepreneurs in developing entrepreneurial skills
- Training youth in life skills
- Training youth and community leaders in the use and benefits of information and communications technology
- (ICT) for employment
- Training youth to improve their employability and linkages with the Surinamese business world
- Working with communities to develop and expand agrobusiness opportunities
- Working with community leaders to conduct participatory planning processes in their communities with identified tourism potential
- Training micro-enterprises on development and improvement of specific tourist attractions and services
More than 250 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Suriname, and 35 are currently serving in the country. Peace Corps/Suriname hopes to welcome approximately 24 new Volunteers in 2007, most of whom will be placed in rural or peri-urban communities.
Peace Corps/Suriname recruits both singles and couples. Married Volunteers are encouraged to draw upon special individual or combined technical skills they have to develop additional activities in areas such as environmental education, agriculture, health, and nutrition. Roughly 95 percent of the Volunteer population in Suriname is unmarried.


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Skip to comments.Bush v. Gore judge: Your evidence, Mr. Obama
Posted on 05/31/2012 6:26:26 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
A hearing has been scheduled in a Florida court to allow attorneys representing the White House to support their claim that the term natural born citizen in the U.S. Constitution means something other than the offspring of two American citizens.
Judge Terry Lewis in Leon County has set a hearing for June 18 to consider arguments from both sides of a challenge to Obamas name on the 2012 state election ballot.
Lewis is credited with making crucial rulings in the contested 2000 presidential election, when ultimately a Florida vote recount was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court and George W. Bush was declared the winner.
Attorney Larry Klaymans law firm filed the challenge to Obamas name on the ballot on behalf of Democrat Michael Voeltz, a registered member of the Democrat Party, voter, and taxpayer in Broward County, who was an eligible elector for the Florida Primary of Jan. 31, 2012.
Klayman told WND that during a hearing today on discovery issues in the case, Lewis noted that while Klaymans brief cited a U.S. Supreme Courts decision defining natural born citizen as the offspring of two citizens of the nation, the White Houses arguments provided no citations.
Klayman had cited the U.S. Supreme Court case Minor v. Happersett from 1875.
Lewis ordered further briefing on the issue before the hearing.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
This has the making of being the next media scrum and cause of panic in Chicago Obot HQ!
Thanks for posting this.
FL district Judge Lewis who wrote a superior ruling in Bush v. Gore ultimately upheld in part by SCOTUS, challenges Barry's legal team to cite a SCOTUS definition of NBC superior to the MvH case NBC definition cited by Klayman! Woohoo!
How come WingNut Daily is the only one reporting on this? No one is going to give a damn unless it makes it into the real news outlets.
(Hi there Fogblowers!)
"No one is going to give a damn unless it makes it into the real news outlets."
I suggest patience. Leon County is in the boonies. Just wait until the MSM and Obot Fogblowers get the courthouse keyed into their GPS systems! They will be there, IMO.
I don't mind quoting from the thread post:
"Judge Terry Lewis in Leon County has set a hearing for June 18 to consider arguments from both sides of a challenge to Obamas name on the 2012 state election ballot.
"Lewis is credited with making crucial rulings in the contested 2000 presidential election, when ultimately a Florida vote recount was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court and George W. Bush was declared the winner."
Interesting. Maybe we'll see an actual examination of the definition.
The REAL question is that of Øbozo's Constitutional eligibility, which he clearly does not have, since he has a severe loyalty conflict, via his father's non-citizenship and his own inheritance of that same disloyalty.
Of course, his Muslim background further exacerbates the issue -- but the first Amendment pretty well covers his @$$ on that one...
One can only hope that Lewis does find him ineligible, and that will be the kick that starts other State SOSes toppling like dominoes! And, then, after the election, (no matter who wins) America will have to face the incomprehensible mess of dealing with the aftermath of four years without a valid President at the helm... :-(
Does any State still have a working electric chair for Pelosi?
"Leon County is in the boonies."
Tallahassee is in the boonies?
Now that you mention it, I think I am thinking of Sauls, too. I wanted to get the story up fast so I haven't had a chance to refresh my memory of the Bush v. Gore saga, yet.
I apologize to any offended N. Floridians!
Another 'dog and pony show' exercise in futility. I bet Obama's lawyers don't even appear, nor will they be admonished for it.
The case is entitled Voeltz v. Obama, et. al. (No. 2012 CA 467) and is being heard in the Circuit Court Of The Second Judicial Circuit In And For Leon County, Florida.
There is the element of a higher percentage of Florida Crackers in that area...
Thanks for keeping us informed.
I'll be following this one but ... damn ... I hate to get my hopes up again.
I was sure that case in Georgia was the clincher.
Still, seeing Obummer excluded from the Florida ballot would be sweet indeed!
Sorry, I was confusing Judge Saul with Judge Lewis. Here is an NY Times story about one of numerous Lewis rulings:
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COUNTING THE VOTE: THE COURT TACTICS; A Dark Day Turns Less So for the Democrats, Allowing Them to Forgo Escalation
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Vice Pres Al Gore's campaign suffers a blow when Judge Terry P Lewis allows Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state, to certify results of presidential election without the hand recounts, but it is buoyed six hours later when State Supreme Court bars Harris from certifying the election until court says she may; photo
November 18, 2000
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They never once in all the ( OBot count) 134 cases has Obama brought up citations that he is a Natural Born US Citizen. Not once has Obama - never and nope. They've argued mostly on justiciability standing grounds.
Lets see if this judge has some balls.
And, then, after the election, (no matter who wins) America will have to face the incomprehensible mess of dealing with the aftermath of four years without a valid President at the helm... :-( ""'
I think that we can deal with unraveling his outrageous Executive Orders and other demands and his list of hidden Czars much easier than we can deal with 4 more years of him running amuck.....
With the next 4 years leading to his being termed out, he will be even more unhinged with what he demands, IMO.
Everything he has done is a long laundry list of acts which are definately outrageous and I still feel some
are totally illegal- such as seizing GM & giving the stock to the Unions.
From demanding that each and every street sign in the USA be changed over to a 'one size/type fits all', he has done some pretty crazy things.
I think the red herring all along has been the phony Birth Certificate. It is obviously a phony. The name of the hospital is wrong for the date of Barry's 'birth'. The name on the certificate is the name of the hospital given when it was merged with another hospital in 1978!!!
No matter if Barry was born in the Lincoln bedroom in the White House, he is still NOT a Natural Born Citizen. His 'daddy' was NOt a citizen. Period.
Pedaling as fast as I can...a bit too fast sometimes...
Only about an hour ago, I responded to a typical FoGBlower's post on another site that if this judge honestly adjudicates this case in accordance with and upholding the intentions of the Constitutional authors, they lose.
Well based on your attitude it must be because they are nuts, right? Some day soon the WND critics here at FR will be crawling over broken glass to shake hands with Joe Farah and Jerry Corsi for their work and dedication to uncovering Obama's buried past.
Here, let me make the Foggers' case for them.
The Framers thought that restricting POTUS to the offspring of two citizens was a bad idea because they really, really liked the idea of presidents w divided loyalties. They thought a president who could pretend to be loyal to the US while really being loyal to the country of his foreign parent or parents was a fine and dandy thing. They would have loved the way Obama runs around the world trashing the USA and fawning over our worst enemies.
What? That argument won't fly?
Lol. Well then maybe just maybe the Framers DIDN'T want to risk POTUSs w divided loyalties. What a novel idea. /s
It isn't known who his real father is or where he was born. We have yet to see a valid document stating such. It is precisely "that we don't know whether or not he is eligible to serve" that is the reason we do know he is not a legal President.
The Twentieth Amendment, Section 3:
"3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."
A few notes.
1. There is no such position as a "President elect", legally, until such a time as Congress has accepted the results of the electoral college votes and a person is actually named as the "President elect". This means that the term "shall have qualified" refers to something other than the results of winning an election. There is only one place left in the Constitution having to do with "qualifications" for the office of President, that being the eligibility requirements from Article two.
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
2. Since it is the duty of Congress to name an interim President in the event of a President elect's "failure to qualify", they, Congress, must know whether or not to do so. This means that they, Congress, must be aware of whether or not a President elect meets the eligibility requirements from Article two. It is the burden of the President elect to "qualify" or "fail to qualify", thus NOT proving one is eligible under Article Two to Congress is the same thing as "failing to qualify."
3. How was Obama's eligibility proven to Congress without a valid long form birth certificate? He apparently does not possess such a thing or we would have seen it a million times by now.
4. The eligibility requirements start out with two simple words which forever preclude anyone who "fails to qualify" from serving as a legal president, "No person". Someone who sneaks in because Congress failed to uphold it's responsibility to enforce the Twentieth Amendment, section 3 doesn't legally exist. The Constitution cannot be fooled just because Congress didn't act when it was supposed to. A President elect either qualifies or he cannot ever be President, period.
Thus it is that we have protection from someone who is ineligible to serve as President already written into the Constitution. Unfortunately, we also have a Congress that did not uphold it's oath to support the Constitution and a usurpation of the office of President is the result. We know he is illegal strictly on the basis that we don't know if he is eligible. If he "qualified", there would be no debating the subject. The fact that nobody in Congress is able to say whether or not he is eligible means that he never proved to them that he was and thus has "failed to qualify".
Translation: Hillary doesn't want to wait until 2016.
gonna stop driving the car....will start aiming it.
They haven't yet figured out who they are going to interview from the legal team and shout down MSNBC-style.
WND is the reason it's gone this far. I agree.
LoL. BTW, those delusional Foggers just "love" your posts. You've been cited more than a few times in their "Birther Potpourri" thread. ;-)
If Obie Won gets kicked off the ballot in Florida, that could be (as Trump says) Yuuuuuge!
Well said.
Do you think Joe Biden realizes that he is in fact the president of the United States?
The Dirty little Secret Of The Natural Born Citizen Clause Revealed.
I have emphasized the word little because the truth of the law on this issue is very simple, folks. So simple that the mystery is deciphered by application of one of the most clear, concise and undeniable rules of law; the code of statutory construction governs, and therefore, natural born Citizen must require something more than being born in the United States.
Let me put it to you in appropriately simple language:
Clause A = Only a natural born Citizen may be President.
Clause B = Anyone born in the United States is a Citizen.
(While these two clauses reflect Article 2, Section 1, and the 14th Amendment, I shall refer to them as Clause A and Clause B for now.)
The code of statutory construction is learned by every student in law school, and every practicing attorney has confronted it. Every judge is required to apply the rule equally to all statutes, and the Constitution. There is no wiggle room at all. The rule states that when a court examines two clauses, unless Congress has made it clear that one clause repeals the other, the court must observe a separate legal effect for each. More specifically, regardless of the chronology of enactment, the general clause can never govern the specific.
Clause B is a general rule of citizenship, which states that all persons born in the country are members of the nation.
Clause A is a specific clause that says only those members of the nation who are natural born may be President.
According to the rule of statutory construction, the court must determine that Clause A requires something more than Clause B.
Its truly that simple. ...
see also:
AMICUS BRIEF Georgia POTUS Eligibility Cases.
In Minor v. Happersett, in 1875, the Supreme Court, made an incidental reference to the issue: "[N]ew citizens may be born or they may be created by naturalization. The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners."
It was never doubted, until Obama was selected.
"Leon County is in the boonies."
Perhaps it looks that way, but the county seat of Leon County is Tallahassee, the capitol of Florida. This, IMHO, moves the county out of the boonies.
But, you are right, it isn't on either coast and is definitely somewhere in "fly over country". I do suggest that like 2000/2001 court activity in Leon County in 2012 could be very interesting.
I think Joe would consider that a BFD!
While Marco Rubio was born in the US, but his parents were not naturalized citizens until after his birth, he shares the same disability as Obama. Neither is "natural born".
I think that if there was actually a decision on the matter, and I sincerely doubt there will be in my lifetime, that the SCOTUS would rule that the overriding power in the electoral process is the electoral college, and that if they decided after the election to turn around and make a six year old boy the president, it would be valid.
The reasoning would likely center on the checks and balances in place - Congress has the power to remove a sitting president, especially one which does not meet the constitutional requirements to hold the office. This controversy has been around for quite some time, and Congress absolutely had the power to demand any evidence they wanted in verifying Obama's qualifications for office.
So I think, no matter how you cut it, as far as the constitution is concerned, we've had a valid president the entire time. Besides, let's say that a miracle happened, and that the SCOTUS threw out the vote of the electoral college, stating that Obama wasn't qualified to be president, and included throwing out the electors for the vice president... Do you really want to have President Nancy Pelosi for any moment of time?
I'm pretty sure that the SCOTUS, even their most extreme members, don't want to even contemplate that. Visiting a qualification for a ballot, however, and actually ruling on NBC - that I could see them do. Most likely, however, would be that we'd least like to see a ruling from SCOTUS on the issue. If they did bring it into session, it would mean they'd welcome the chance to revisit the old NBC definition, which would most likely be to overturn it.
Lol. I bet they love me to death over there. I had a nice chat w one of them over here the other day. A real moonbat's moonbat. Upon reflection, I don't think it was the Ten Miles of Bad Road guy. He was a lot of fun just the same. ;)
If by "the old NBC definition" (born of on the soil of the country of parents who are citizens of the country, see Minor v. Happersett 88 U.S. 162 (1874)), what makes you think they would overturn it?
Stipulating for the moment that Barry's alleged narrative is true (I doubt it) Barry would have ONE US citizen parent compared to Rubio's ZERO US citizen parents.
This is a distinction which may or may not amount to a difference, depending on what SCOTUS should rule if a case came to them.
there is also this tidbit...
stating citizenship cannot be conveyed by a parent unless that parent was in the US for FIVE(5) years after the age of 14
0bama's mother was 18 when she gave birth
therefore, the ONLY way 0bama could be a citizen, forget being a natural born citizen, would be if he was born on US soil...
which we have no proof of
(the certificate of live birth has been shown by law enforcement to be a forgery)
'real news outlets'??
careful, your progressive infiltrator roots are showing
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DJ Muggs is a legend… over 20 years in the game and he's still hungry as ever. Experimenting, creating new sounds, pushing musical boundaries whilst still giving us the raw straight up Hip-Hop that he's known for. I had the opportunity to speak with Muggs about his recent projects as well as his series of Muggs Vs… albums, future projects and a lot of other shit too… Hope you enjoy the read!
Interview conducted by Pattch82 (email@example.com)
Interview Date: May 3rd 2013
PATTCH82: Thanks for taking the time to speak with me…
DJ MUGGS: Yeah no problem, how's everything?
P82: Yeah good man, how are you…?
MUGGS: Yeah good day today man, good day.
P82: Cool, cool. I wanted to start off by asking about one of the recent projects you've put out, the Cross My Heart Hope To Die EP…
MUGGS: Yessir…
P82: How did that collaboration come about…? You seem to have your hand in so many different projects…
MUGGS: Yeah that came about around two years ago, I was going through some music and I found some tracks I had done. I found some leftovers tracks from the DUST album and my boy Andrew Kline from Strife, the guitar player was here and we were talking and he knew this singer. And I was like hey man; you know what would be dope, get this singer chick you know on this here, lay the vocals down for me and work on it and let's do a project together. So you know, if you do projects with people it isn't so much of just your time so then I can still do my other things you know what I'm saying? It takes a lot of the pressure off man and he works hard like me. So we recorded some demos, we probably did about sixteen songs. So the songs were done then we stopped, I went on tour, he went on tour. Then we came back and were like, let's finish the EP.
P82: So are you planning on putting out more releases under the Cross My Heart Hope To Die Banner…?
MUGGS: Well what we did, we started the group and our boy Sean Bonner is in the group and Sean handles a lot of the multi media stuff you know, he started off the Hackerspace club in LA. So he brings this whole other element to the project where being a member, he isn't really a physical music maker; he brings the whole visual side and the technology side to the group. We got a lot of street art. We got these boxes, they're all around the world right now, it's like audio street art and you just go and plug into it and it'll play you our songs. We started that about a year ago. We all came together to create a project that was more of an interesting way of finding music, so people are going to find this music through the technology side or through the art side because of all the other layers of it and what we're trying to do with it. The live shows that we're working on is crazy, it's fun for all of us man.
P82: I was going to ask about the singer… her vocals are crazy! Especially on that Wild Side track…
MUGGS: Yeah her name is Brevi, she's out here in LA. She works with a lot of Hip-Hop artists and stuff, she's worked with 50 Cent, damn a lot of people man, she's probably on like ten different records that you know. When she works with me, she's more umm… it brings out another part of her personality. She's really good at writing from that space man. Like when I first heard what she wrote to my shit I was like unnnhhhh that shit is bangin' and she sounds haunting. She's got her own sound, even lyrically. But I got a lot of songs, like blues shit, really bluesy shit, like ten to twelve more songs, we're recording new stuff now and we're gonna put another EP out in like four months so I'm just gonna take my time and let it unfold.
P82: You have also put out two Electronic/Dub Step EP's recently as well as the Bass For Your Face album. Is that still where you're at musically right now…?
MUGGS: Yeah well I'm doing a lot of projects man, I'm probably doing like five things but part of me, the Bass For Your Face is definitely where I'm at right now. I have about 20 beats, right as we're talking right now I'm putting all the beats together and I'm going to listen to them over the weekend and then make the next EP, another 5 songs out of those. So yeah, definitely do that. I made that record because I DJ all over the world and I like playing music and in the electronic scene I just wanted to be able to play more of my own music. You know, I was doing remixes for other people and stuff, the first one I took a real Hip-Hop approach and made stuff I could play more at Hip-Hop parties. The stuff I'm working on now is a little different, it's fun. But on the flip side I'm working with Meyhem Lauren on a project you know, Action Bronson is on a few joints we got a few people on some joints so we got that over here in the cut. When I make a beat that sounds like something else I throw it in a folder, then I start making these sub-folders which eventually become other projects because they really don't fit with other shit.
P82: I wanted to ask a few questions about your previous Muggs Vs… albums. They are discussed quite a lot on forums and blogs but not a lot is known about how these collaborations came about... I'm assuming the Grandmasters album with GZA/Genius came about through the tracks you did together on the two Soul Assassins albums…?
MUGGS: Yeah yeah working on the two Soul Assassins records together and doing some stuff on one of his other albums ('Luminal' from Legend Of The Liquid Sword) and just building a friendship over the years. Everybody always told us y'all should work together y'all should work together. So I was like, shall I make another Soul Assassins record? But the climate started changing in the business. When we did the first Soul Assassins records it was before the explosion of the mixtape game. Once mixtapes started happening, pretty soon it was a lot easier to make a mixtape than it was to make a compilation album because everybody wanted to get paid on an album. But on a mixtape people will just do it for you, and you can use any sample and just put it out. So that became a lot easier and then the problem I had was touring, I couldn't tour the Soul Assassins record. So I said you know what, instead of making a third Soul Assassins record, you know what would be better, I should just start doing it with one artist. So it'll be like when you used to see Batman Vs Superman and you would always wonder who won. You know like when we were kids and we'd be like what would happen if a tiger fought a lion and shit like that. So that's where it came from Muggs Vs GZA and you know, coming together, GZA is big into chess, what's the highest level you can reach as a chess master? I think we've achieved it where we're from, so that's a Grandmaster, so that's where the title came from. I put the chess theme because that's GZA's personality so when I work with these cats I try to put their personality across so whether it be Cypress with weed or House Of Pain with the Irish stuff and GZA with the chess, whatever their personality calls for I try to produce their album like that.
P82: I heard that you originally wanted to do this project with Inspectah Deck…?
MUGGS: Yeah that's true man, we talked first about doing it and I made a bunch of tracks but we just never linked up for whatever reason you know, our schedules never linked up. So I finally got GZA and he was like yeah I'll come out there. He came out here for a few weeks and we pretty much did it all in two weeks man, his part anyway.
P82: Did you set out to create a Wu-Tang sounding album…? Obviously with all of the chess references and the Wu-Tang guest features it has a heavy Wu vibe…
MUGGS: You know, you got GZA dog so anything that sounds dark… GZA picked the beats. Some beats were done… I guess... I never really thought about it like this… GZA needs a dark record you know what I'm saying? You play him a bunch of dark beats and he's gonna pick what he likes. I played him a couple of hundred beats, some I wanted him to use, some maybe not but you know, the rapper does what they want.
P82: The next Vs album was with Sick Jacken and Cynic. It's by far my personal favourite of them all. Can you tell me a little about how that album came about…?
MUGGS: Well Jack is the homie you know. Once the GZA record came out, a lot of the homies were saying we need to do a Vs record but I always check Jack and throughout the years man he's just gotten better and better, he's one of my favourites now. He works hard as fuck so we went in, me him and Cynic and we really banged a bunch of shit out and Jack again picked those tracks. I love working with Jack because Jack would pick shit that I would pick if I rapped. He picks shit like ummm... God's Banker, that beat was just some African war drums and a fuckin' sick ass fuzz guitar and he just killed it. I would pick that kinda shit and I got so many beats like that but rappers don't pick shit like that no more, and I guess it's probably hard when you're making a single but when you're making an album you can pull four beats like that and it makes your record better. You ain't gotta put all these singles on it and a weed song, a love song, one song about the hood and the barbeque you know you don't need all that bullshit to make an album.
P82: The theme for the Jacken album was conspiracy theories. Going back to what you said before, did you create the theme to go with the MC's personality or was it Jacken…?
MUGGS: All of us. Umm the GZA record was more like I had a bunch of ideas and I gave him my ideas. This record it was everybody, Cynic brought a lot of ideas to the table, he's deep into that shit, he's on the internet everyday. I brought shit, Jack brought shit, everybody brought shit… and we put it all together.
P82: The God's Banker track is a classic… how Jacken tells the story of Roberto Calvi. It inspired me, and probably a lot of others, to research the topic further…
MUGGS: You wanna know the crazy part about that song dog… it is about that, but at the same time… you know when you see those pictures and you'll see Einstein but if you move over six inches or look at it a different way matter of fact, you'll see Marilyn Monroe, you know what I mean? This track, it's about what you just said plus it's about like a head mafia boss in prison sending instructions out from prison, making things happen and making money. So if you listen to it, he's telling two stories at once.
P82: Was it part of the aim of the album to try and get people to go out and read into these conspiracies/topics more and find out the facts for themselves…?
MUGGS: Nah that's just Jack man, that's just Jack… You can tell when motherfuckers did some research and worked hard on some shit you know what I mean? Jack kills it man, he's a witty fuckin' writer man. And you can't go, oh he's just a Mexican rapper because Jack is just a sick fuckin' rapper period.
P82: Was it a conscious decision not to feature any guests on the album other than Cynic…? It makes the album so cohesive…
MUGGS: Yeah it was definitely a decision we made man, we just wanted to keep it us. Something I always admire, probably because of where I come from, like who's on Rakim's album? No one. Who's on the first EPMD album? No one. Who's on Run-DMC's album? No one. Who's on the LL Cool J album? Nobody. You know, all these early records, who's on the Public Enemy records? Nobody until Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube on like the fourth album or something. So we was like, no man, make a fuckin' record about you. It's your vibe. People can be on the remixes of the singles or maybe put a couple of dudes here and sprinkle it but I know cats that can't hold a record down without a bunch of guests. They're just not that interesting, to hear two verses or 15 three minute songs… they're not that interesting, they're not that good songwriters, their personality ain't that so they sprinkle it with this other shit and it makes it dope because it's just enough. So that's why I always say, if you got a group you can make each other sound better just because of the tones in your voice so that when you come back in on the record… you sound ill.
P82: You then did the Pain Language album with Planet Asia…
MUGGS: I love Asia… Asia is a sick fucker…
P82: How did you two hook up…?
MUGGS: My boy Chace Infinite from Self Scientific was like yo you need to get in with Asia. Me and Asia had met each other but Chace really got us in. Me and Asia got in and Asia started picking beats… A lot of those Asia beats, in fact a lot of beats on all three Vs albums were for the original Inspectah Deck record. GZA picked a few of those but then he picked some other shit too, then Jack picked a few of them and Asia picked a few, Ill Bill too and I still got more, there's a few more floating around that haven't been used. It's funny just watching how people react to them over the course of eight years… some motherfuckers are like yo I've been looking for this shit nobody makes this kinda shit it's ill… haha.
P82: Some of the beats on the Asia album are really epic sounding… tracks like All Hail The King and Shadows Of Hell especially. What kind of sound or vibe were you going for on that album…?
MUGGS: Asia's album I wanted to make a psychedelic rock record. The first song we did was 9MM. So that's kinda where the whole record started from, I wanted it to be kinda psychedelic. But Asia pretty much picked the beats so with Asia's thing… Asia is a freestyler man, Asia raps about a lot of shit right. You can't just say Asia is this or Asia is that. So with me, what each song was about I tailored the beat to the song as opposed to making a whole thing for the album. The album was Pain Language and it was just about pain, punch you in the face Hip-Hop, just like bring the pain you know what I mean?
P82: Cool. So then last of all we had the Kill Devil Hills album with Ill Bill. You previously worked with Bill on his The Hour Of Reprisal album. Can you tell me a little bit about the making of the Kill Devil Hills album…?
MUGGS: Bill was kinda just out here working with the homies and I ran in to him and ran in to him, and we clicked and talked about doing a record. What's dope is how Bill works man. It takes a lot of time and dedication to make a fuckin' album and I like making a lot of music so if you're a rapper, I gotta really want it and you gotta really make it important for me to wanna go spend my time away from other shit I gotta do and my fuckin' family because at this point I don't need the damn money and we ain't making no money off these damn records anyways you know what I'm sayin? So you gotta really want to be in there. And Bill is just a good fuckin' human being dude, he picks really good music and he writes good and it was so much fun being in there because he interests me, he makes me wanna make a record and he just chills. And we'd go through beats and he'll go yo I like that one… so when he liked something I just started working on it, I'll get like a nice skeleton of a beat and pull the samples up and place them, then keep working on it. I get a nice skeleton of a beat for him to rap, to work on, then he spit all his lyrics, he went home and I finished up the music. Then he laid a couple more songs in New York after but it was pretty much two weeks sitting in my studio, just coming in here every day sitting here 12 hours a day type shit.
P82: Have you recorded all of the Vs albums that way, with you and the MC in the studio at the same time…?
MUGGS: Yes, every one of them right here in my studio… right here.
P82: Again the conspiracy theories played a big part in the theme of this album, did that come from Bill…?
MUGGS: Yeah Bill, a lot of the stuff on that album was Bill. Bill is very hands on dude. He made it really easy for me because I'm busy as fuck man and usually with my records I'm 100% hands on with everything from the promotion, to the cover to everything. But Bill made it very easy for me man, he went and got the cover done, he had a lot of interlude ideas, he gave them to me and I went and built them. He got the cover done and we had similar tastes so it was easy, no head buttin'. I don't think we had anything that we didn't agree on, on some nahhh I ain't fuckin' with that kinda thing. So we'll be working together some more…
P82: You've continued to work with Bill too… you had a track on the Heavy Metal Kings album and also a track on his latest solo album…
MUGGS: Yeah I'm wondering what to do next man, a Heavy Metal Kings album, another solo record with Bill, a solo record with Vinnie Paz…
P82: There were talks of a Muggs Vs Heavy Metal Kings album. Is that still in the pipeline at all…?
MUGGS: Yeah that would be dope! I wanna do everything with these guys because they're cool as fuck, Vinnie is cool as fuck. It's the timing sometimes man, there just isn't enough fuckin' time to do everything. Plus we live far away you know. But I think we'll make something happen very soon, you'll be like oh shit I never seen that coming!
P82: You recently mentioned possibly doing an EP with Vinnie Paz also…
MUGGS: Yeah we talked about it you know, we talked about it. I thought it would be dope to bang it out cos we could do it in a week. So I just gotta get back with Vinnie probably after the summer man because I'm booked pretty much right through August now.
P82: And then there's also the Meyhem Lauren collaboration that you mentioned earlier. Can you speak a little more on that…? Is it close to completion…?
MUGGS: We got some shit dog… Muggs & Meyhem. We got about … ummmm… about say 15 songs. There's 11 that I like a lot, it's some shit… matter of fact, you wanna hear something dog? I know you do…
P82: Hell yeah!
Muggs proceeds to play a snippet of a track from the Meyhem Lauren collab…
MUGGS: So that's that shit man, you heard it?
P82: Yeah yeah! DAMN! Meyhem spittin' hard on there…
MUGGS: Haha I like it a lot man. We gonna work on it some more man because it could be amazing so we're like ok we banged a bunch of shit out in two weeks now we can just go back and start working on it now.
P82: So is that something for the later part of the year too…?
MUGGS: I mean I work on it whenever I'm home… I'm gonna take the rest of the week to organise all my files. I start working and every month I just stop for like two days and just reorganise because I got too much shit and I can't find shit sometimes. So that's what I'm doing today. I'm laying all the bass lines down… and doing interviews in between.
P82: Between the Grandmasters album with GZA and now, have there been any other Vs projects that you tried to get off the ground that never happened…?
MUGGS: No there hasn't been… ummm let me think about it… nah there hasn't been nothing. After Asia we threw out the Intermission record, and then Bill then I started working on the Bass music. And now we're getting back to a bunch of Hip-Hop shit and everything is smooth right now. I want to work with some new artists and do some different shit. I got some other projects, I don't even wanna talk about the other projects yet because we're focussed on these and this is plenty to talk about but there's about four or five other projects I got crackin' so that's why a lot of shit is coming out soon. I got more shit coming. I went a whole year and a half last year you were probably like what's crackin? Doing all this shit…. The next five years is gonna get ugly! Haha.
P82: Would you ever consider making a second album with GZA, or Jacken, Asia, etc…? Like Grandmasters 2…?
MUGGS: Oh for sure…
P82: I read online that there were talks or plans for a possible Muggs Vs B-Real album…?
MUGGS: Yeah I think we'll just do a Cypress Hill record instead. That's what that is going to be like basically. The Cypress machine is too huge.
P82: What kinda time frame are you looking at for the next Cypress album…?
MUGGS: I got some tracks done, but we'll see what happens….
P82: Will it be back to the old Cypress formula, with you doing most of the production…?
MUGGS: I don't know yet, I did a bunch of tracks, I've got about 20 tracks but we haven't laid no songs yet so I'm just gonna see how it comes out. It could be good man, it could be really dope.
P82: You also mentioned a while back about possibly putting out unreleased material from the Temples Of Boom era…?
MUGGS: I got a gang of that shit. Ummm, I'm not planning on anything at all, just holding on to it. There's no reason to put it out right now.
P82: A few years back there was a track on the Intermission album, the P.C.P. track with you, Jacken and Necro…
MUGGS: Yeah you know what; it just never got off the ground man. Everything can't happen you know. Necro is incredible man that would have been great to do…
P82: Was there more P.C.P. tracks or just that one…?
MUGGS: I think me and Necro recorded about five but Jack only rapped on that one. He didn't rap on the others.
P82: Do you think you will ever make another Soul Assassins type album…?
MUGGS: I don't know, it would have to be different. I'd have to come up with the right idea. I've got a few ideas you know, but I don't think it's time yet.
P82: I often think that the careers of yourself and RZA are quite similar. You are both producers that started out in group settings; you both went on to produce solo albums and then went on to do work on movie scores… Is the scoring of movies something that you enjoyed…? Would you like to do more of that…?
MUGGS: I would love to do more. Here's what I would love to do to be honest with you, I would prefer to do an independent film next time because I've done studio stuff and a lot of the time they just don't know what the fuck they want. The director knows what he wants, so you make the director happy but then the studio don't like it. Or then the studio like it but the director and the producers don't like it but the problem is that must of them don't know what the fuck they want. They don't know. The director might know and I'm usually talking to him trying to make him happy you know what I mean? And the director gotta fight for what he wants on there but a lot of the time they know and sometimes they don't know and I'm just like wow! So I wanna do an independent thing and I'm talking to a few people about something, we just working it out.
P82: Do you have any aspirations to direct a movie at all or would you rather stick to the soundtrack/score…?
MUGGS: I would have to take my time man. I'd have to do what RZA did but I would have probably done a couple of independent art films first instead of going straight into a big film. When I'm ready to do something like that I'd have to stop doing the music because I get so obsessive when it comes to things I wouldn't do nothing else I would just do that. I'd be making movies and practicing because I know how much time and energy it would take man, it would take me a year just to learn the basics.
P82: That's pretty much everything I wanted to ask… thanks very much for your time and speaking with me man…Is there anything else you'd like to add before we finish…?
MUGGS: Nah man I think we're pretty good bro… Thank you too for your time brother and for calling me man I know it's late as fuck over there. If you ever need anything just holler at me man. Respect bro.
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Man, III: Temples of Boom is a real masterpiece.
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Team: Richard Petty Motorsports
WHERE HE STANDS: 22nd, 209 points out of 13th place.
TALLADEGA RECORD: His best finish in five starts is 12th.
LOOKING AHEAD: Almirola said, "Talladega is a great opportunity to more or less go for broke. All these guys in the Chase really do have to be careful they don't get caught up in the Big One and ruin their title chases. That just gives us more of an opportunity to run up front, lead some laps and possibly come home with our first win of the season."
LOOKING BACK: Almirola finished 19th at Dover. "That first caution (which came out just after he pitted) really killed us," said Almirola. "Luck was just not on our side today. We kept having to come back from crazy things like that, so that was disappointing. I passed a lot of cars today. We weren't a 19th-place car. We were probably closer to a top-10 car."
ETC: Crew chief Todd Parrott knows "handling isn't much of an issue" at Talladega. "The superspeedways are just about getting as much speed out of the car as possible," said Parrott. "We'll be approaching the weekend much like we did earlier in the year, and that's to use the draft to our advantage, stay out of trouble and try to be up front in the closing laps so you're in position to make a move."
78 REGAN SMITH, Chevrolet
Team: Furniture Row Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 23rd, 239 points out of 13th place.
TALLADEGA RECORD: Still looking for his first top-10 finish. His best finish in 10 starts is 12th.
LOOKING AHEAD: Smith will be making his last start in the 78 car this weekend, and he believes he has a chance to go out a winner. "We have a great superspeedway program," said Smith. "The odds favor us of having a clean race on Sunday and if that's the case, then look out for the Furniture Row/Farm American Chevy."
LOOKING BACK: Smith finished 17th at Dover. "When you go three laps down early, it doesn't give you much hope for the remainder of the race," said Smith. "But we hung in there, stayed patient and pulled off a decent finish under difficult circumstances."
ETC.: The team announced late last week that Kurt Busch will take over the driving duties of the 78 car beginning next week at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "In order to get a jump on developing a driver/team chemistry for the 2013 season, both Kurt and Furniture Row Racing felt that this was an important move to make happen," said general manager Joe Garone. Busch said, "Driving the Furniture Row Chevrolet in the final six races of this season will obviously give us a big advantage in our preparations for 2013."
55 MARK MARTIN, Toyota
Team: Michael Waltrip Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 25th, 307 points out of 13th place.
TALLADEGA RECORD: Martin will not drive the car this weekend; car owner Michael Waltrip will be behind the wheel. Waltrip has one win and 15 top-10 finishes in 52 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Waltrip loves racing at the superspeedways, and he has high hopes for this weekend. "Anytime we go to a restrictor plate I feel like I've got a chance to win," said Waltrip. "We had a real good car in May, and I know we will have another potential winning car this weekend."
LOOKING BACK: Martin was wearing a huge smile as he climbed out of his car after finishing third at Dover. "I don't know if everybody really noticed or not, but we had a rocket ship, super-fast car," said Martin. "Start of the race, we were passing cars left and right. It was awesome. That (early) caution got us two laps down. So we had to continue to fight from being buried and passed a lot of cars, eventually got ourselves into the hunt. But the race was just about over. We are just having a blast."
ETC.: Martin is one of four drivers featured on the limited-edition collectible ticket for next week's race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The other three are Jimmie Johnson and Hall of Fame drivers Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough. All four are three-time winners of the fall race at CMS. "Man, it would mean a lot to become the only driver to win four times in the 500," said Martin. "For right now, though, that's pretty good company to keep with two Hall of Famers and (five-time champion) Jimmie Johnson."
51 KURT BUSCH, Chevrolet
Team: Phoenix Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 26th, 319 points out of 13th place.
TALLADEGA RECORD: 13 top-10 finishes, including four third-place finishes, in 23 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Busch said, "We always get excited when talking about racing at Talladega, especially all of the guys on the Phoenix Racing team. Obviously, this place is special for the team because it's where it got a win in 2009 (with Brad Keselowski as the driver). Finch (James, the car owner) is all in when it comes to the races at Daytona and Talladega, so we definitely go into this race with little higher expectations because anything can happen."


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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that about one million deer-car accidents occur on American roads each year, killing 200 people, injuring almost 10,000 more and causing about $1 billion in vehicle damage. The peak time for these collisions comes each fall.
Paul Curtis, a professor of Natural Resources and a nationally recognized expert on rural, suburban and urban wildlife, said, "The numbers of deer-related vehicle accidents are highest each fall as the peak of deer breeding season approaches. About two-thirds of the deer-car collisions that occur each year in New York happen during October, November and December."


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Hybrid cars are not a new innovation, nor are they a fad.
Indeed, hybrid cars have existed in one form or another for more than 100 years, and the perceived benefits of such vehicles have mostly rested on the back burner -- until now.
Hybrid Technology Roots
According to HybridCars.com, Henry Ford rose to the challenge in 1904, eliminating many of the negative factors surrounding gas-powered cars, and put the Electric Vehicle Co. out of business by manufacturing vehicles that weren't too loud and didn't offer an uncomfortable amount of vibration.
However, in 1905, the patent for a petrol-electric hybrid car was filed by H. Piper. The engineer hoped to build a vehicle that would achieve speeds of 25 mph using an integrated electric motor with an internal combustion engine.
The progress of hybrid cars was delayed again in 1905. The Woods Interurban hybrid took about 15 minutes to switch from electric to gas-powered driving, and did not fair well commercially. The same goes for the Woods Dual Power in 1916, though a competing hybrid was said to achieve 48 miles per gallon.
In the late 1960s, TRW developed and patented the electromechanical transmission, which would become the foundation for today's hybrid cars. This invention created a smaller engine with better performance, and HybridCars.com reports that the engineering used to create these hybrid cars is still used today.
Growth Of Hybrids
Over the last 40 years, many factors have combined to create the need, desire and tools possible to create and sell hybrid cars. The public at large has become drastically more in tune with the environment, actively seeking out new ways to conserve our resources and protect our planet.
In 2000, Toyota came out with the Prius, the most attractive and efficient hybrid car to hit the market. It is still selling well today, forcing consumers to sit on waiting lists if they hope to get their hands on one. Honda has released both the Insight (a two-door sedan) and the Honda Civic Hybrid (four door) to compete with the Prius.
The Toyota Prius won the Motor Trend 2004 Car of the Year award, further solidifying hybrid cars in the American auto industry. The editor of Motor Trend, Kevin Smith, said that the Prius won the award based on "performance, engineering advancements and overall significance" of the vehicle.
Hybrids really took off as gas surged to record highs during the summer of 2008. Buyers who wanted hybrids often found themselves on waiting lists for the popular cars. While those gas prices have come down, the demand is still there.
"We still think many new-car shoppers are interested in buying vehicles that are more fuel-efficient and better for the environment," said Jack R. Nerad, executive editorial director for Kelley Blue Book.
Far To Go
While hybrids remain a popular choice, it's important to note they still make up only a small portion of the cars on the road.
Conventional gas-electric hybrids account for less than 3 percent of the car market, and it took about eight years to get 1 million hybrids on the road in the U.S., according to automotive consulting firm R.L. Polk.
Part of the reason is the cost. Even when gas hit $4 a gallon, most consumer and automotive publications agreed that the stiff prices of hybrid cars can't be justified by fuel-cost savings alone.
Edmunds.com, a leading online source for auto information, put it this way: "There are many good reasons to buy a hybrid. Saving money still isn't one of them."
"The economics won't make sense for the majority of Americans in the next several years," said Brett Smith of the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Center for Automotive Research.
That could change though.
The cost of hybrids continues to fall, with the 2010 Honda Insight going for less than $20,000 and the 2010 Prius starting at $22,000, with a cheaper version in the works.
Plug-Ins On Horizon
And the move continues toward producing more plug-in hybrids, with President Barack Obama is pushing to put 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015.
Plug-in hybrids allow motorists to drive a limited number of miles on battery power before the engine switches over to run on gasoline or other fuels. A driver can plug the car into a wall outlet at night and be ready to go electric again in the morning.
General Motors and Nissan will become the first automakers to offer mass-produced, plug-in vehicles available for sale in the U.S. in late 2010 with the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf.


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Dakota is almost a year old. We got him with his brother Smokey; they were the last of the litter and probably the best. These cats are inseparable. They do everything together like any normal cats, like playing with ribbons, taking naps, and making noises and going wild when they see a bird or their new friend Mr. Squirrely outside. Something they don't do together is Dakota's trick. Dakota's trick was something that he started, and we were surprised because it was like playing fetch with a dog. Dakota will bring you a mouse or another toy to have you throw it. He will get it and bring it back to you until he is tired.
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Suffering a single concussion may cause lasting brain damage, researchers report in the journal Radiology. Steven Flanagan, co-director of the Concussion Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, discusses the findings, and why diagnosing a concussion is so difficult.


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We then address the root causes of poverty and injustice together, designing integrated, sustainable solutions such as access to clean water, a focus on child protection, and opportunities for economic development.
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It happened at 4:39 p.m. Saturday just north of Gearhart.
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The fire started near the SUV and burned a few surrounding acres before firefighters managed to get the situation under control.
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Does running 200 miles over the course of a couple of days sound like fun? What if you do it with 11 friends? For those who love to run, team relay running is an activity that has apparently been growing rapidly over the past six years.
A company called Ragnar Relay Series organizes races throughout the United States that cover about 180 to 200 miles. The courses are run by relay teams of up to 12 runners who, when they aren't running, ride the course in one of two vans, participating in the activity in various ways. The running duty is handed from one person to the next as in most relays.
Ragnar, which bills itself as "the nation's top provider of overnight-relay races," says there are large and growing numbers of runners who enjoy these overnight jaunts with likeminded running enthusiasts. According to the organization's website, www.ragnarrelay.com [3], since the founding of the company in 2004, "Ragnar races have grown from 200 participants to more than 40,000 in 2010, with nearly 70,000 projected for 2011."
And some of those participants will be pounding the pavement on the highways and byways of Sullivan County.
At a Bethel town meeting on February 10, supervisor Dan Sturm read a letter from Ragnar announcing that there will be a 200-mile run in New York this year beginning at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The runners will head through Orange County, cross the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, and head south to Dobbs Ferry where the journey will end. The run is scheduled for May 13 and 14.
The course, which is mapped out on the company's website, is broken up into legs of varying length and difficulty to allow for the participation of runners at all levels of skill and training. The cost to register a team runs from $1,040 to $1,440, depending on how early a registration is submitted.
Glen Goldstein, a resident of Narrowsburg, was in the audience and said he works with Ragnar and offered to help with any questions that the town board might have.
Kim Klemen, president of the Sullivan Striders Walking and Running Club, said she was familiar with the run and endorsed it, saying the relay could bring 5,000 people into the area.
Tracy Chirico, the manager of Bethel Motor Speedway, said the speedway had offered to be used as the first exchange spot for the runners.
Alan Scott, CEO of the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development, requested that the town board pass a resolution in support of the event, and the board did so unanimously.


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Eagles' new signing Misi Taulapapa, a Samoan international winger who has previously played for Cronulla, could make his Sheffield debut on Sunday. Sheffield coach Mark Aston said: "If Misi is comfortable then we will get him in against York. Having a player who has made 40 plus appearances in the NRL is exciting."
York assistant coach Chris Thorman will consider drafting Mark Applegarth and John Fallon into Sunday's squad – but admits last week's win over Leigh gives him a real selection headache.
Thorman said: "We just concentrated on the stuff that we've been doing all through pre-season. We concentrated on a good performance and the result will look after itself. We were very good defensively against a Leigh side that threw an awful lot at us. There were loads of positives for us but we also know there is still lots of improvement that we need to make. If we can tidy up offensively and be more clinical then we'll score some points some this year and be quite an entertaining side." He added: "All we've talked about since I came here is about doing things right and being as professional as we can. It's looking good but we don't want to get carried away."
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