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The myth of "collective action"
As we launch ourselves further into an era of "collective action" as Obama called it in his 2nd Inaugural address, we can be sure that reality won't stop the left from remaining true believers in its ultimate power and good and demanding it be forced on us all. But what does that really mean?
Let's hark back to Mancur Olson's critique of collective action for a moment and point out a little ground truth about it, shall we?
Olson's critique of collective action is complicated, and it is made less accessible by an ungainly prose style. But the gist is that large numbers of people do not naturally band together to secure common interests. In fact, the larger the group, the less likely it is to act in a truly collective manner.
As Olson explained, the interests that unite large groups are necessarily of the lowest-common-denominator variety. Therefore the concrete benefits of collective action to any individual are usually small compared with the costs — in time, effort and money — of participation. "Free-riding" is a constant threat — as the difficulties of collecting union dues illustrates.
By contrast, small groups are good at collective action. It costs less to organize a few people around a narrow, but intensely felt, shared concern. For each member, the potential benefits of joint action are more likely to outweigh the costs, whether or not success comes at the larger society's expense.
Now, to me, that's common sense. The bigger the group the more unlikely it will find common ground than a smaller group. So urging a nation of 300 million to a common effort or collective action? Yeah, not going to happen – at least in the areas Obama is likely to want to make such an effort.
That's not to say that collective action won't happen. It happens everyday in DC as Charles Lane points out:
Hence, the housing lobby, the farm lobby and all the special-interest groups that swarm Congress. Hence, too, the conspicuous absence of an effective lobby on behalf of all taxpayers or, for that matter, all poor people.
If there is any "collective action" that will take place in DC, besides those noted, it will be among the politicians who band together (and break apart) depending on what they're after this week or next. Their constituency? Not that big of a concern to most. Those that reside inside the beltway are more likely on their radar than those who voted to put them in office.
So when Obama called on Americans to once again act "as one nation, and one people," he was, at best, stating an aspiration.
No he's not – he's mouthing platitudes to calm the masses, put the opposition on the defensive and set himself up to get his way. And this is how that will work:
Olson's assessment of reality, both historical and contemporary, is less lofty but more accurate: "There will be no countries that attain symmetrical organization of all groups with a common interest and thereby attain optimal outcomes through comprehensive bargaining."
Nope. It will be the group/party that is able to appeal the best to the masses and thereby garner more of a veneer of support for their agenda than can the other party/group, whether or not the ultimate goal of the action is good for the country or the majority or not. Whether it really benefits the country as a whole usually has little bearing on the effort. And the minority? Well, they're simply left hanging in the wind.
Their call for "collective action" is a cover, a means of draping the usual politics in high sounding rhetoric. The reality of the situation is that what he calls "collective action" is simply a new code phrase for continued class warfare and redistribution of income. The purpose of proposing "collective action" is to enable him and his cronies to label anyone who opposes them and their actions as divisive, unpatriotic and just about any other name they can think of necessary to demonize and dismiss them.
Meanwhile, the "collective" dismantling of this once great country will continue apace.
And now the "rich" will pay…
I hate to say "I told you so", but it isn't just the rich who will be paying increased taxes. And what should be clear to anyone with the I Q of a turnip, is that this will cost people their jobs.
The compromise called for taxes to rise to 39.6% from 35% on personal income above $400,000. In a 2011 study, the Treasury Department found that raising taxes on incomes over $500,000 would affect roughly 750,000 small businesses organized as S-Corps, partnerships and other small entities.
Of course, you remember the Democrats claiming that this wouldn't affect small businesses. Well, that was a flat out lie. But then we live in an era of lies which, if there political apparently, we're willing to overlook. While most of us are. I just had to be one of those who isn't. Not that Democrats are the only political liars, but they seem to be the most prolific and the most blatant. Especially when it comes to budget, deficit, and financial matters. They are the quintessential "snake oil" salesman.
And they have sold us are huge bottle of snake oil.
Couple these tax increases with the Obamacare taxes that kicked in on the 1st, and you have two reasons for 750,000 small businesses not to hire. And you can bet none of them will go over 50 employees, and some may even reduce staff to get under that number.
These are your "rich". They happen to be the "rich" would generate jobs, or what have, if they hadn't been hit by two new taxes this year.
Your government at work.
Fiscal cliff: Politicians play "chicken" with your lives and livelyhood
Because we're served by the worst political class ever:
President Obama'slead negotiator in the "fiscal cliff" talks said the administration is "absolutely" willing to allow the package of deep automatic spending cuts and across-the-board tax hikes to take effect Jan. 1, unless Republicans drop their opposition to higher income tax rates on the wealthy.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview with CNBC that both sides are "making a little bit of progress" toward a deal to avert the "cliff" but remain stuck on Obama's desired rate increase for the top U.S. income-earners.
"There's no prospect for an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top two percent of the wealthiest," Geithner said.
Apparently there is no way to raise the desired revenue, at least according to Obama/Geithner, that "doesn't involve those rates going up on the top 2%". No way.
Oh, wait …
What we said was give us $1.2 trillion in additional revenues, which could be accomplished without hiking taxes — tax rates, but could simply be accomplished by eliminating loopholes, eliminating some deductions and engaging in a tax reform process that could have lowered rates generally while broadening the base.
Say, wasn't that President Obama in July of 2011 at a press conference? Why yes it was. So there is a way, but he and apparently his "negotiator" refuse to pursue it (btw, no I"m not fooled by the illusion that this isn't just as much a tax hike as what they're proposing)? It that what is happening?
Why yes, yes it is. So there is another way to do this, apparently. Unless our President was telling a tall one about what he'd be willing to do in July? Yeah, I know, perish the thought. Lie to us? Unthinkable.
Instead according to Turbo Tax Timmy, they'd "absolutely" take us over the cliff, because, you know, raising taxes on the "rich" is now the only acceptable position. You and your life? You're a mere pawn for these poppinjays. They're fine with playing with your life and livelihood to score a political win. They have no problem holding your life and property ransom and using your future to force their desired resolution. But if we go over the cliff, screw you.
Meanwhile, in the House, Speaker Boehner continues to look for a comfortable place to lie down and surrender.
In the Senate the GOP actually tried to bring the President's proposal to a vote and Majority Leader Reid denied it. Because it was, per Reid, a "stunt".
This is all a "stunt". A miserable stunt perpetrated by a miserable group of people who have no concept of leadership or service to their country but are long on ego and party.
It is the price of always voting for the "lesser of two evils".
Screw 'em.
Saxby Chambliss: Poster boy for what's wrong in DC
Here is a good example of what is wrong with politics today – this time from the right:
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on Saturday defended his decision to break with conservative activist Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge, telling constituents he would not be "dictated to by anybody in Washington."
"I think that you sent me to Washington to think for myself. And I want to vote the way you want me to vote," Chambliss said to a group of local constituents at a Cobb County Republican party event, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I don't want to be dictated to by anybody in Washington, as to how I'm going to vote on anything."
You see, Chambliss doesn't seem to get the basic point: he made a pledge. HE made a pledge. Not someone else – him. He didn't have his arm twisted behind his back when he made the pledge. He did so voluntarily. The dirty little secret, however, is he didn't make the pledge out of principle, he made the pledge because it was politically helpful and expedient to do so at the time.
Now he wants to back out of his pledge. It is no longer expedient or helpful politically. He, like our President, is trying to blame the predicament he finds himself in – i.e. breaking a voluntary pledge – on someone else. It's their fault he's in this predicament. And by gosh he won't "be dictated to by anybody".
Well he hasn't been dictated to by anyone. Again, he voluntarily took a pledge back when it was politically helpful and popular to do so. Now he wants to bail on it. I don't know about you, but when I pledge something, I give my unbreakable word I'll do what I pledge to do. I don't enter into them lightly. And I do everything in my power to live up to the pledge.
It's about honor.
But apparently that's a concept that is passe in today's political world.
Go ahead Mr. Chambliss. Break your pledge. But remember what happened when a certain president bailed on his no new taxes pledge?
I can only hope I'll be part of the lesson teaching when your time for re-election comes. Then, by Georgia, you'll be "dictated too" by the people of this state. And you'll be looking for new work.
The Senate filibuster fight gins up – hypocrites to the left of us, hypocrites to the right … (Update)
Another example of why you can't ever take anything a politician says at face value or believe them when they say they stand on 'principle'.
For instance, consider the looming Senate fight over the filibuster.
Once a cause championed by a few Democratic senators, changing the filibuster has become a top priority for Senate Democrats who've repeatedly complained about Republicans blocking legislation from even being debated on the Senate floor. Reid noted on Monday that in his nearly six years as majority leader, he has faced 386 Republican-led filibusters in the chamber.
"We can't continue like this," a visibly frustrated Reid Monday said in a response to McConnell.
Of course the "visibly frustrated" Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid, was one of those huge champions of the filibuster when he was a minority leader and then the new Majority Leader because he'd used it many times in his long political career:
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV):"As majority leader, I intend to run the Senate with respect for the rules and for the minority rights the rules protect. The Senate was not established to be efficient. Sometimes the rules get in the way of efficiency. The Senate was established to make sure that minorities are protected. Majorities can always protect themselves, but minorities cannot. That is what the Senate is all about." (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.11591, 12/8/06)
REID: "For more than 200 years, the rules of the Senate have protected the American people, and rightfully so. The need to muster 60 votes in order to terminate Senate debate naturally frustrates the majority and oftentimes the minority. I am sure it will frustrate me when I assume the office of majority leader in a few weeks. But I recognize this requirement is a tool that serves the long-term interest of the Senate and the American people and our country." (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.11591, 12/8/06)
REID: "I say on this floor that I love so much that I believe in the Golden Rule. I am going to treat my Republican colleagues the way that I expect to be treated. There is no 'I've got you,' no get even. I am going to do everything I can to preserve the traditions and rules of this institution that I love." (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.11591, 12/8/06)
REID:"…one of the most sacred rules of the Senate – the filibuster… It is a unique privilege that serves to aid small states from being trampled by the desires of larger states. Indeed, I view the use of the filibuster as a shield, rather than a sword. Invoked to protect rights, not to suppress them." (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.434, 1/5/95)
Yeah, well that was then and this is now. The "world has changed" as Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss said this week as he sought to duck out on his pledge of years past not to vote on raising taxes.
You have to love the Reid line about the Senate not being established to be efficient – see the budget. Going on 4 years without one. But you see, getting a budget passed would require Reid and the Democrats to compromise with the Republicans in order to achieve that 60 vote margin and, well, he's just not willing to accomodate the minority despite his stirring words to the contrary about protecting the rights of the Senate minority, words, by the way, he's likely to dismiss now.
And, as you hear the fight gin up, don't forget the past words of other Democrats who will now call the GOP minority obstructionists and tell us all the filibuster is bad and has no place in the Senate. For instance, if we hear the President opining, it's alway nice to remember his words on the subject for the brief period he was a Senator and take his words, on both sides of the issue, with a grain of salt:
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL): "The American people want less partisanship in this town, but everyone in this Chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting, the bitterness, and the gridlock will only get worse." (Sen. Obama, Congressional Record, S.3512, 4/13/05)
OBAMA: "[T]he American people sent us here to be their voice… What they do not expect is for one party, be it Republican or Democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet." (Sen. Obama, Congressional Record, S.3512, 4/13/05)
And, of course, that's precisely what the Democrats and Obama want the Senate GOP to do – sit down and be quiet.
On any subject, you know little Chucky Schumer has an opinion:
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY) On Any Threat To The Filibuster: "The basic makeup of our Senate is at stake. The checks and balances that Americans prize are at stake. The idea of bipartisanship, where you have to come together and can't just ram everything through because you have a narrow majority, is at stake. The very things we treasure and love about this grand republic are at stake." (Sen. Schumer, Congressional Record, S.4801, 5/10/05)
SCHUMER: "We are on the precipice of a crisis, a constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances which say that if you get 51% of the vote you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing it's almost a temper tantrum… They want their way every single time, and they will change the rules, break the rules, misread the Constitution so they will get their way." (Sen. Schumer, Congressional Record, S.5208, 5/16/05)
Yes, it was a "Constitutional crisis" in '05. Now? Not so much. Speaking of temper tantrums, funny how one's words can come back to haunt them, not that they care.
Finally, we have dandy Dick Durbin who also thinks it is time to change the filibuster rules, although in '05, he had a completely different take on the subject:
SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D-IL): "Those who would attack and destroy the institution of the filibuster are attacking the very force within the Senate that creates compromise and bipartisanship." (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.3763, 4/15/05)
DURBIN: The filibuster is "[one] of the most treasured and cherished traditions of the United States Senate." "Many of us in the Senate feel that this agreement tonight means that some of the most treasured and cherished traditions of the United States Senate will be preserved, will not be attacked and will not be destroyed." (Sen. Durbin, "Statement Of Sen. Dick Durbin Regarding The Agreement On Judicial Nominations In The Senate," Press Release, 5/23/05)
It's not so treasured any more, is it? At least not by Senate Democrats who were so enamored with it in '05.
The point of course is obvious. Don't ever believe anything any politician of either side says on any subject – ever. They'll bail on it in a New York minute if they see political advantage in doing so. Pledges and "traditions" mean nothing to them.
If faith in government is built on trust, and trust is built on political leaders promising to do things and then keeping their word, trust in this government died quite a while ago.
And that's sort of the crux of the problem isn't it? We are represented by an amoral political class who doesn't hold their word to mean anything and reserve the right to change their "principles" on the fly in an attempt to gain temporary political advantage.
We're served by the worst political class I can remember.
The problem is we can't blame them – we elected them, and, like Harry Reid and Saxby Chambliss, we've kept them in office for decades.
Unfortunately, when you don't pay attention and you just tune in when it is convenient for you, you get exactly what you deserve in DC. This is just another in a long line of examples of that truth.
UPDATE: Apparently the WSJ and I are on the same wave-length today:
One of the more amazing post-election spectacles is the media celebration of Republicans who say they're willing to repudiate their pledge against raising taxes. So the same folks who like to denounce politicians because they can't be trusted are now praising politicians who openly admit they can't be trusted.
If Republicans in Congress want to repudiate the pledge, they are free to do so at any time. They could even quote Edmund Burke's line that a democratic representative owes his electors his best judgment, not a slavish fealty to majority opinion. But that would mean saying they didn't mean it when they signed the pledge. So they are now busy pretending that Mr. Norquist is a modern Merlin who conned them into signing the pledge and must be eliminated before they can do the "right thing" and raise taxes.
Republican voters know that elections have consequences and that Mitt Romney's defeat means there will be policy defeats too. But they will give the House and Senate GOP credit if it fights for its principles and drives a hard bargain. The voters are also smart enough to know that Republicans who focus on Mr. Norquist are part of the problem.
But apparently, for some, it's too much to ask our politicians to stand by their word. Apparently, principles are only important when these people say they're important. At other times, they're very malleable or can be thrown to the side and rationalized away. And in this case, the rationalization apparently says that political necessity now requires that a crumb be thrown to "public opinion".
With other people's money, of course.
Obama's "tax negotiations" are no such thing
Obama has strained to make everyone believe he is open to "negotiations" on the tax rates in dispute that are leading us inexorably to this "fiscal cliff" everyone is talking about.
The word "negotiate" implies compromise. You give a little, he gives a little, you reach a deal neither really likes but both can live with.
He has no intention of giving anything. Why should he? He can't run for a third term. He has nothing to lose if he stands his ground. Nope, the only one's who have anything to lose in this one are the usual deer-in-the-headlights suspects. And, of course, Obama has someone else to blame:
By taking an absolutist line, he's basically gambling that Republicans will be more reasonable than he is and will blink. But if they don't blink and we go over the cliff, from his point of view so what? Mr. Obama then has an excuse to blame Republicans if there's another recession. Meanwhile, he pockets the higher tax rates that take effect on January 1 anyway, and he can then negotiate a budget deal next year without having to make any tax concessions.
He pleases his left wing for which higher tax rates are a secular religion, while pinning one more defeat on Republicans. Lest you think this is a conservative fantasy, it's more or less the tax cliff strategy that Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington advocated on Sunday on ABC's "This Week" and that labor leaders lobbied for at the White House on Tuesday.
So, as we wander toward Taxmageddon, fear not, either way it goes, Obama figures he wins. So why try?
Why negotiate?
Look West, Young Ukraine
"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions."
Ronald Reagan — Address to students at Moscow State University, May 31, 1988
Remember the Orange Revolution? Believe it or not, it's still pretty darned important.
We're knee-deep in a presidential election. The European Union is witnessing a slow-motion meltdown. Syria is quickly becoming a bloody nightmare, while North Africa seethes under the vicissitudes of the Arab Spring. Iran marches closer to nuclear arms, and perhaps war with Israel. And Sino-Japanese relations threaten to simmer out of control. So why care about the Ukraine?
The simple answer is because Ukrainians have had a taste of freedom, and liked it, and we should encourage that journey towards liberalization to continue. We have an interest in such development – via free and fair elections, open markets and greater legal protections in its reformed court system – because this is how individuals become personally invested in the growth of the nation, and thus how liberty spreads. As President Reagan emphasized in 1981, "only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success — only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free." The more societies like that in the world, and especially in the Eurasian region, the better. And this is exactly where Ukraine is poised to go.
Unfortunately, we may be taking steps to discourage further liberalization in the form of a Senate resolution essentially demanding that Ukraine act exactly like a western democracy immediately or face consequences. The reality is that the former soviet republic of nearly 50 million souls is at a crossroads. Will they continue to move towards alignment with the West, or turn back towards familiar haunts in Moscow?
To be sure, the current government has expressed great interest in being integrated into the European Union, going so far as to ink an Association Agreement in March:
The Association Agreement creates a framework for cooperation and stipulates establishing closer economic, cultural, and social ties between the signees. Moreover, Brussels officials expect the document to promote the rule of law, democracy, and human rights in Ukraine.
This first step to entering the EU (which still needs to be ratified) requires a concrete demonstration from Ukraine that it is moving towards "an independent judicial system, free and fair elections and constitutional reform."
These are exactly the sorts of reforms that serve to expand liberty. Indeed, as Ukraine has liberalized over the past two decades since independence, it has since fits and starts of great economic growth and expanded prosperity. For example, between 2001 and 2008, the economy expanded at an average rate of 7.5%, and despite a severe downturn in 2009, it has continued to grow with exports increasing by 30% in 2010 alone. Indeed, Ukraine is ranked by CNBC.com as the second best country for long-term growth in the world, right behind the Philippines. Ukraine has also begun to institute judicial reforms that promise to train better judges, hold them accountable, and strengthen the fairness of the system that has long been burdened with rampant corruption and cronyism. And for the first time ever, outside election observers will be allowed to monitor the parliamentary elections this month.
Yet, these necessary and welcome reforms lie on a fragile bed.
Ukraine has been moving toward a market economy since it declared independence in 1991. The way has been extremely difficult and bumpy. Twenty years after the beginning of market reforms, Ukraine is still struggling to build a strong, transparent, and sustainable economic system that can provide the Ukrainian people with economic prosperity and social security.
Moving towards greater integration with the West, via the EU, will strengthen that bed. Demanding that Ukraine act as a long-established western democracy right now, today, only serves to further weaken it :
Economics 101 defines the problem of scarcity as unlimited wants with limited resources, and, to paraphrase George Shultz, the laws of economics apply as much in foreign policy as they do at home. While it may be rhetorically satisfying and politically convenient for Americans to assert an equal commitment to every priority in Ukraine, ranging from democratic development to removal of weapons-grade uranium, the reality is that some priorities are achievable, at an acceptable cost and within a realistic timeframe, while others are not.
If we cannot advance all of our values and all of our interests all of the time, then we are left with the necessity of ranking our national priorities. While it is clearly important that Ukraine put an end to politically motivated prosecutions, it bears asking whether resources and attention from Washington that have been focused exclusively on this issue are crowding out other compelling U.S. national interests.
The Orange Revolution was not a battle or a war. It was, and is, a movement. Our national interests will always be aligned with fostering greater liberty, which is what the Orange Revolution movement is all about. Instead of throwing up roadblocks in the Senate, we should be helping build road signs that lead towards further peace, prosperity and freedom.
When government chooses not to enforce the law of the land
As you might imagine, it has consequences, and, given this situation, it is very hard to pretend the consequences are unintended. Why? Because even a 5th grader could have predicted this outcome:
In a startling allegation, the president of the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claimed illegal immigrants are "taking advantage" of a new directive allowing some undocumented residents who came to the U.S. as children to stay in the country. Union boss Chris Crane said the policy ends up allowing illegal immigrants to avoid detention without any proof — particularly so-called "dreamers," or those illegal immigrants who would benefit under the "DREAM Act" proposal, which Congress has not passed but the administration has partially implemented.
"Prosecutorial discretion for dreamers is solely based on the individual's claims. Our orders are if an alien says they went to high school, then let them go," he said at a press conference with GOP senators. "Officers have been told that there is no burden for the alien to prove anything. … At this point we don't even know why DHS has criteria at all, as there is no requirement or burden to prove anything on the part of the alien.
"We believe that significant numbers of people who are not dreamers are taking advantage of this practice to avoid arrest," he said.
Whether or not you agree with the immigration laws of the country, executive fiat is not the method the Constitution outlines as legitimate redress. And, unsurprisingly, those illegals who would benefit, even if not actually eligible, will exploit an opportunity such executive fiat presents.
According to Chris Crane, that's precisely what is happening.
The allegations from the union were expressed in unusually blunt terms Thursday.
George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council union, said the Department of Homeland Security has made it impossible for agents to do their jobs.
Crane said it's led to disorganization and "confusion" at ICE.
Not that ICE hasn't had its share of confusion in the past, but now, it is even more difficult to do their jobs.
Crane cited one case in which, he said, an immigrant facing criminal charges was let go under the policy. Further, he complained that officers are "under threat of losing their jobs" if they defy the policy.
Anyone who thinks this is how our system should work needs to re-examine the Constitution. One branch creates the laws (legislative) and one branch enforces the laws (executive). If you don't like a law or want it changed or repealed then it's back to the legislative branch. And no, inaction by the legislative branch doesn't mean the executive branch can arbitrarily ignore the law or decide it's not going to enforce it. Not and still be a Constitutional republic.
I'm on record saying our current immigration system sucks. There's no reason in this day of cyber advances that we couldn't have the slickest and quickest system on earth. And yes, I hold Congress directly responsible for the inactivity that has led to the mess at the border.
But that doesn't give the executive license to ignore laws or selectively enforce them. Kings do that, not presidents, and we have no kings. We just have a president who thinks he's one.
Twitter: @McQandO
Crop cronyism's destructive results
We talk about it. Politicians condemn it. Nothing ever happens to change it though.
This year's agriculture bill again redistributes your money to rent seekers:
Combine a Midwestern drought with pointless ethanol mandates, and the supplies of corn inevitably dwindle, driving prices sky high. Politicians like Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, are citing the crop crisis as an excuse to ram through a near-$1 trillion farm bill. While a bit of that cash might find its way to a small farmer, the bulk of the loot will be transferred to individuals who are anything but poor. Like the bank bailouts and TARP, the farm bill illustrates the capture of the legislative process by special interests.
The last farm bill in 2008 was the focus of $173.5 million in lobbying expenditure, according to a report released Tuesday by Food & Water Watch. This is all money spent on what the Mercatus Center's Matthew Mitchell calls "unproductive entrepreneurship" where people are organizing and expending their talent to become rent seekers, and the end result is wealth redistribution, not wealth creation. Real entrepreneurship innovates in ways that are socially useful. Cronyism diverts resources — both money and talent — into a system that rewards privileges to favored groups. In the case of the 2008 farm bill, recipients of subsidies of $30,000 or more had an average household income of $210,000.
Mr. Mitchell argues that "government-granted privilege is an extraordinarily destructive force" because it not only results in a misallocation of resources and slower growth, it undermines civil society and the legitimacy of government by providing a rich soil for corruption."
She's absolutely right. And, of course, when you mess with markets, like has been done with the corn market and mandated ethanol, the expected results occur when something unanticipated, like a drought, happens:
Corn and soybeans soared to record highs on Thursday as the worsening drought in the U.S. farm belt stirred fears of a food crisis, with prices coming off peaks after investors cashed out of the biggest grains rally since 2008.
Corn prices crossed into uncharted territory above $8 per bushel — about three-and-a-half times the average price 10 years ago of $2.28. Soybeans punched past $17 for the first time — also three-and-a-half times the 2002 average.
Analysts said that while forecasts for continued dry weather are expected to sustain the rally, corn prices could be vulnerable to any move by the government to lower the amount of corn-based ethanol blenders are required to mix with gasoline.
Notice what entity is mentioned in the last paragraph? Yes, government. A key player in the increase in corn prices (yes, understood, they'd be higher with the drought alone, but government's ethanol mandate has driven them even higher yet).
Meanwhile, as mentioned above, we're subsidizing agriculture to the tune of $1 trillion dollars of your money (in cash or in debt to be paid back in the future). Meanwhile, you'll be paying more for corn based products at the grocery store as well.
Nita Ghei lays out the bottom line problem with this sort of cronyism and rent seeking:
Government privileges come in many forms, direct and indirect. It might be a monopoly, such as the one granted to utilities like Pepco. Regulations such as licensing can be used to limit entry to a particular field to the benefit of existing businesses. Lobbying and the revolving door in Washington create what economists call "regulatory capture," which is what happens when existing firms use regulatory agencies to benefit themselves. Tax breaks, loan guarantees and subsidies are the most direct signs of a government's favor. Bailouts of big banks under TARP, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when the housing bubble burst, are the most recent examples of direct action.
Extending each of these privileges reduces America's economic competitiveness. A monopoly protected by the government has little incentive to provide good service. The greater the availability of privileges, the greater is the incentive to indulge in rent seeking, which diverts resources from truly productive activities. In the long run, the result of anti-competitive policies is less innovation, lower growth and a smaller pie to share.
The greatest scourge to the honest Midwest farmer is not unfavorable weather, pestilence or disease. Far worse for them is the plague of politicians who create an artificial market in which only those with influence can truly compete. Defeating the budget-busting 2012 farm bill is the best chance at a good harvest.
The chances of that happening, however, are slim to none. Regulatory capture is as common now as government debt and unemployment. It is a systemic problem that rewards rent seekers and the well connected to the detriment of innovators and competition. It is the antithesis of capitalism.
Unless we have the will to stop this sort of cronyism, we're on a short road to failure. This is another, in a long line of government programs, that are unsustainable, destructive and just flat something government shouldn't be involved in.
But my guess is, this time next year, we'll still be talking about it, politicians will still be condemning it and nothing will change except the higher national debt number.
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Obama and taxes
President Obama is on his newest attempt to change the subject and find something to take to the people that might interest them and distract from his abysmal economic performance. It's taxes. Specifically, he's decided to make an issue of the automatic tax increases that will take effect in January and claim he does not want to see taxes increase on anyone but those nasty rich who need to "pay their fair share". Or, back to class warfare.
A) He likes to refer to these as the "Bush tax cuts". In fact, they're the current tax rate. Have been for years. What he wants to do is see a tax increase on the rich, but no one else. I'm not sure how else one characterizes that but "class warfare", especially given the percentage of total taxes that top income group pays already.
B) Republicans are saying no tax increases on anyone. Democrats like to characterize that as protecting the rich. I like to characterize it as an attempt to address the real problem – out of control government spending.
C) The nasty "rich" Obama wants to tax also include almost a million small businesses. That's one of the primary reasons, in this weakening economy, that Republicans are right not to agree to any tax increases. It is both stupid and economically suicidal. But then you have to know about economics and the business world to understand that.
D) Democrats had two years of a complete monopoly on government to get this done and didn't. It's not the Republicans who have prevented anything. It is total incompetence on the Democratic side of the aisle. And, as Obama's favorite pastor likes to say, "those chickens are coming home to roost".
E) Finally, Barack Obama has already raised taxes on the middle class despite his statement in a speech yesterday claiming he had no desire to raise middle class taxes.
The tax is called the mandate in ObamaCare. It goes like this:
75% of the mandate tax falls on the middle class. That is a middle class tax hike in anyone's book.
So when he claims he has no desire to raise the taxes on the middle class, that may be true … now. Because, in fact, he's already done it.
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Obama campaign moves to restrict military voting in Ohio
Breitbart's Mike Flynn reports:
President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. Obama, in particular, enjoys being seen visiting troops and having photos taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election?
On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis."
Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as "arbitrary" and having "no discernible rational basis," I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women's time and their obligations to their sworn duty.
Flynn cites the National Defense Committee which reports:
[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of Defense's Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote.
So here is a law actually trying to provide a little extra time to address the problem cited (btw, the members of the military would most likely have to show their military picture ID to be granted the opportunity to vote during that "extra time"). Why the resistance from the Obama campaign and Democrats? Why the intent to disenfranchise military voters?
If the polls are to be believed concerning how the military is likely to vote, it wouldn't favor Obama or the Democrats. And, of course, Ohio is a swing state. So they want no extra time allowed for the military to vote (and don't expect the DoJ to jump in here and take the side of the military either).
Mystery solved.
But hey, the military is still useful as props during photo ops and when they help burnish the C-i-C's rep by killing bad guys like Osama. Voting? Yeah, not so much.
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Drago's First Law: No standard the Collective seeks to impose on us applies to them.
Shaidle's First Law: "It's different when we do it".
While Holder's DoJ turns itself inside out to defeat voter integrity laws…
another wing of the Collective does what they have done traditionally…deprive service members of their franchise.
Every time you hear a dimocrat whining about voter ID's suppressing voters, point to this.
Don't you mean finally being allowed to kill bad guys like Osama?
I read the complaint, and it does not appear to say anything remotely similar to the story posted above. The suit asks that Ohio reinstate in-person absentee voting on the three days immediately preceding Election Day for all Ohio voters.
There is a (partisan) description in the body of the complaint itself of how the current situation came to be, and why the plaintives feel that the current law violates the 14th Amendment, but the fact is that the suit is asking for more time for all voters, not less time for military voters.
From the complaint:
"1. Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit to restore in-person early voting for all Ohioans during the three days prior to Election Day – a right exercised by an estimated 93,000 Ohioans in the last presidential election. Ohio election law, as currently enacted by the State of Ohio and administered by Defendant Ohio Secretary of State, arbitrarily eliminates early voting during the three days prior to Election Day for most Ohio voters, a right previously available to all Ohio voters. This disparate treatment violates 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth"
"For these reasons and those specifically alleged herein, Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment, preliminary injunction, and permanent injunction prohibiting Defendants from implementing or enforcing the HB 224 and SB 295 changes to Ohio Rev. Code § 3509.03, thereby restoring in-person absentee voting on the three days immediately preceding Election Day for all Ohio voters."
Any group of words, when suffiently tortured, will admit to anything and my guess is that words in the suit were tortured to say that Democrats don't actually want 3 days MORE voting for all Ohioans, but 3 days LESS voting for some Ohioans (though that outcome WOULD recitify the alleged 14th Amendment problem it is absolutely NOT what the suit is asking for). And I am sure the people stories like this are aimed it won't even question it.
I agree with some of the logic in Capitanus' post.
I note in passing, however, this is an odd position for someone who supports affirmative action to take. Since when is it a "bad thing" to afford a group an advantage? Especially a group, in this case, that is at a clear disadvantage to others in the voting population?
Leaving aside, also, any examination of the "arbitrary" arguments in the pleading, which I find dubious at best.
I don't support affirmative action, although I do support equal access to education regardless of the tax base of an area a person happens to reside in.
I also don't neccessarily agree that there is a 14th Amendment problem with taking the military status of an individual into account. However, this particular case argues that the advantage is given purely for military status only, when the servicemen are physically in the county at the time of the election. I have no problem with servicemen having advantagees, but I also see the law that Ohio tried to pass, and how there was extended voting for all Ohioans in the law as separate items, but that only the portion of the law that protected military votes was injoined, while the same advantages for the general population was not injoined, so the Democrats do have a case (they might lose, but they have a case).
Clearly, the Democrats believe that extended in person absentee voting will benefit, hence the lawsuit. I am not so naive as to think this has anything to do with fairness or equal treatment under the law. When those things overlap, it is just coincidence. Just as I don't believe voter ID laws have anything to do with preventing voter fraud. It's all politics on both sides, if a side wants something, they see it as beneficial to their side, not some altruistic notion of a free and clean elections. They might have opinions that support altrustic notions, but when money spent and action is taken by one side, bet on it, that side considers it politically advantageous to them.
Just as I don't believe voter ID laws have anything to do with preventing voter fraud.
The people of the various states do. Across ideological lines. By very large majority. And, of course, the Supremes agree.
I didn't assert you support affirmative action. Your Collective generally does.
WTF are you blathering about WRT "tax base"?
Really not so surprising since Ohio is shaping up to be a big battle ground state. I look for Obama and the dems to do more and far worse.
No wonder they are fighting so hard to defeat voter ID laws nation wide.
I don't know the details of this action—all I know is the righty slant that I've read in this article. But I do know about the Republican effort to disenfranchise millions of voters through requiring certain kinds of ID's in order to vote—for partisan reasons. http://www.pensitoreview.com/2012/08/01/new-study-links-support-for-voter-id-law-to-racial-resentment/
This story seems to me to be aimed at deflecting any possible guilt that may exist in the right-wing mind for their party's attempt a limiting people's right to vote.
You mean the same kind of ID the government requires to enter a Federal Building now Tad? Or the same kind of document that the Democratic party requires to get into it's speeches or it's convention? Those ID's Tad?
The same ID's needed to cash a check, or buy alcohol? Those ID's Tad?
Millions of (dead, ineligible, already voted, pet) voters.
"But I do know about the Republican effort to disenfranchise millions of voters through requiring certain kinds of ID's in order to vote—for partisan reasons."
Those millions need a picture ID to apply for food stamps, enter a stadium to see Obama, enter a Federal building and 10's of other things. I think it's obvious you lefties don't want picture ID's so ACORN can continue to register people who are not legally able to vote or dead.
"I think it's obvious you lefties don't want picture ID's so ACORN can continue to register people who are not legally able to vote or dead."
Registering a non-existent voter results in a non-existent vote.
There are virtually no cases where a person was found to have voted in person under a false ID. There are however, thousands and thousands of cases where people sent in fraudulent absentee ballots, and yet, few of the "voter ID laws" address absentee ballots at all.
Follow the logic, if absentee balloting is where the fraud happens, and a group claims to want to eliminate fraud but does not address absentee balloting, the action they take is not about fraud but about politics.
If people without state ID's don't vote for your party, it makes sense for that party to want to reduce the number of people without state ID's who vote. That is what motivates the voter ID laws and if you think otherwise, you are giving politicians and election strategists WAY too much credit for integrity.
There are virtually no cases where a person was found to have voted in person under a false ID.
I call bullshit. Support that. And I DO note your greasy "under a false ID".
"There are virtually no cases where a person was found to have voted in person under a false ID."
So, it's your contention that a voter, not required to show any id couldn't have already voted in place of a recently deceased person and no one would be any the wiser?
Even though we know that state voter lists have a percentage of dead and ineligible voters on them (which Florida just got pissy over…)
Exactly how do you catch a person voting in someone else's place when no ID is required Cap? Special magic?
I think it is good and necessary that you all should be like the rest of the Western world, specially us Scandinavians, and do what we do and require positive identification at the polling booth. Which must make us all raving racist rightwingers, even the socialists.
"Registering a non-existent voter results in a non-existent vote."
That's a big pile of horse apples. In fact one of my now deceased Uncle's lived in Chicago for 50 – 60 years, the dem aldermen and neighborhood party bosses paid out money by the bag full. They would drive around and vote in as many precincts as they could get in before the polls closed.
Also if you register a dead person and then vote in that persons name the vote counts. Unless it is caught before the vote has been certified. http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Dead_people_voting
And since SOME states are reluctant to even validate signatures, well, it just costs too much to validate ALL those votes….we'll do a select sample…..like this one, with the chad not punched….what do you suppose was the voter's intent here?
He VOTED FOR GORE! YOU STOLE THE ELECTION!
Taddy, look up the REALITY of Georgia and Indiana voter ID laws on participation. You've been punked by the Moonbattery. Again. Some more.
When did you last rent a van to gather up the puuuuuurrrr people who needed to get their voter ID, but had no transport?
Heard about the NAALCP doing that? They used to do things of that kind…when they were relevant and more than an organ of the Collective.
Punked hell, he's the punk.
Your article is a lie. The lawsuit seeks to restore the same 3 days to all voters, not take it away from veterans, Here's a hint for the future: Breitbart is staffed by shameless propagandists.
The only "shameless propagandists" in this thread is You (aka NOT LIKELY)!!!!
Once upon a time there was only ONE day to cast your vote. And there were no complaints. How on earth did our republic survive?
And with the exception of people LEGITIMATELY traveling, and the troops, I think we ought to go BACK to that. This 'early voting' shit is just another way to money with the results.
(if you live in Dallas, and have to drive 50 miles to Fort Worth to work on election day, you don't get to vote early, that ain't TRAVELIN, that's just 'over yonder').


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Super fansThursday, November 27th, 2008
NCAA Division III is often maligned as less competitive, less serious, and less interesting than its Division I cousin. The first two might be true. The third? Never.
Leaving aside the Division III athletes who've made a go at professional athletics (and it's worth mentioning that Joan Benoit Samuelson won her first Boston Marathon in the singlet of her Division III college) there's a lot more energy around the Division III cross country nationals than Division I. If you've seen the crowds at Division I nationals, you know that's saying a lot.
Division III crowds know how to make a few hundred fans seem like a few thousand. Division III teams are far more likely to have a few dozen non-varsity teammates, friends, and other peers road-trip several hundred miles to watch their team run. Those boosters are far more likely to strip down to summer running clothes in late November, and then fill in the gaps with body paint.
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Hey fellow bloggers and blog readers --
I haven't been around much on the Internet lately. Actually, I haven't been around much at all. My mom was in the hospital for surgery and you know how crazy it gets when you have someone in the hospital. You sort of dash around living on coffee (hey, it's from a plant source, right? add milk and you've got calcium, a cheese danish with cherries and you've got protein and fruit -- need more?) We couldn't wait for Mom to get better, get out, and our lives to get back to normal.
Unfortunately, none of those three wishes came true. It was very unexpected and we are all left sort of in mid air. And truth being far stranger than ficiton, there are several other areas of craziness going on in my life that have coincided with this event.
I'll be back around. I'm not sure when, but I'll come visit you all soon.
Oh, Anne, I'm so sorry to hear this. I'll be hoping and praying that heartbreak and chaos will be giving way to peace and comfort very soon.
Very sorry to hear that. Have been through this twice now. Not fun.
Here is hoping you will get through this. I'm sure with support of your loved ones you shall.
Take care.
P.S. I just picked up "Light Beneath Ferns" and can't wait to get started on it!
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More Offense a Must? Football Ratings Say 'No'
Like party politics, its roots run deep, and separates where you stand on the sport's direction at the collegiate level. Throughout the last year, discussions about pace of play in lacrosse have evolved beyond water cooler conversation. Now, more directly, it's: Are you pro- or anti-shot clock?
Some say the game has slowed to a snooze, after three straight low-scoring Division I men's national championship games that averaged 13 combined goals per game. Others say the game needs no change, or only minor modifications to truly embrace the "fastest game on two feet" moniker.
After this Saturday's stacked slate of college football games, and the corresponding viewership numbers, what say you? It's a question I've been thinking about...
Among the games kicking off at 8 p.m. Eastern, about 10.42 million fans watched Alabama-LSU on Saturday night, while 2.97 million watched Oregon-USC and 2.93 million watched Kansas State-Oklahoma State.
All three were conference rivalries. All three matched ranked opponents against each other. Why did the defensive dogfight, Alabama-LSU, significantly outdraw the offensive track meets?
If you flipped back and forth between Alabama-LSU and Oregon-USC, like I did, it literally looked like the Pac-12 game was played on fast-forward.
Oregon and USC combined to score 113 points and racked up nearly 1,350 yards of total offense. Alabama and LSU: 38 points, about 750 yards of offense.
What are the implications for, or correlations to, lacrosse?
Do folks really care about seeing a high-scoring game with offensive fireworks, if the game is crisp, clean and hard-fought? Do college football fans have more brand loyalty, or general brand interest? Or were folks simply caught up in the rankings, the No. 1 vs. No. 5 game must be better than No. 4 vs. No. 17? Did the channel the game was played on — CBS has a long-standing arrangement with the SEC, Fox is newer to the college game — have an impact?
Earlier this fall, when I asked U.S. men's national team and Furman head coach Richie Meade, also the chair of the USILA, about the proposed rules changes, he said: "Alabama played LSU last year in college football, the supposed 'Game of the Century.' Nobody scored a touchdown. [The final score was 9-6.] And it was like a billion people watched it on TV. Nobody minds watching Alabama play football, and all Alabama cares about is killing you on defense. They just beat you into the ground until you let them score."
Would any college lacrosse fans rather watch Notre Dame-Maryland game than a Virginia-Syracuse? As Lacrosse Magazine's Joel Censer outlined last year, folks were fawning over the idea of seeing another up-and-down, transition-happy 22-21 thriller.
So what can we learn, if anything, from Saturday and college football?


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'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." And a Jewish scholar, a Christian scholar and an Islamic scholar recently explained what those words (and some others in the Bible) mean. The representatives of the three monotheistic faiths offered their insights into the opening of Genesis, the description of the world's creation, at a biblical study session at Central Synagogue in Manhattan. "Creation itself is the divine light concealed," said Rabbi Sarah Reines of Central Synagogue, who referred to Talmudic, midrashic and kabbalistic sources in her presentation. "In essence, the renewal of the world becomes a weekly event," said Rev. Christine McSpadden, associate rector of St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, who cited the opinions of classical biblical criticism in explaining "not the how, but the why of creation." "Creation is God's means of displaying Himself to Himself," said Joseph Lumbard, a doctoral candidate in Islamic studies at Yale University, who drew on the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Mohammed. A standing-room crowd of about 100 people peppered the participants with theological questions.But as significant as their esoteric opinions (which generally agreed with each other) was their presence together. The tri-faith discussion, including a Muslim representative, was part of a local trend: Islam, the fastest-growing religion in the United States, is assuming a greater visibility in interreligious programs once exclusively Jewish and Christian. A similar event (a symposium on the Torah, New Testament and Koran) was held recently at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Rabbi Reines called the inclusion of a Muslim scholar "an acknowledgement" of Islam's increased role in American society. "We've been trained to think of Islam as a Middle Eastern religion," she says. "It's also right here in New York." Lumbard's interpretation of Islamic teachings was a reminder, she said, that "We're all basing ourselves on the same [biblical] tradition. The doctrines aren't so different." Lumbard agreed. "We're talking," he said, "about the same God."
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Chickenpox (Varicella) is a viral infection that causes rash, fever, coughing, headache, and loss of appetite.
Chickenpox is most common in young children and usually runs its course without any problems in childhood.
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Symptoms include an itchy skin rash with blister-like lesions, covering the body but usually more concentrated on the face, scalp, and trunk. Most, but not all, infected individuals have fever, which develops just before or when the rash appears. If exposed, persons who have been vaccinated against the disease may get a milder illness, with a less severe rash (sometimes involving only a few red bumps that look similar to insect bites) and mild or no fever.
Chickenpox is spread from one person to another through the air. When someone with Chickenpox coughs or sneezes, virus particles are released into the air. Someone who breathes in the viral particles is �exposed�, and may get infected.
Varicella vaccine can prevent this disease. Currently, two doses of vaccine are recommended for children, adolescents, and adults.
A diagnosis of chickenpox is made by observing the symptoms and the typical appearance of the rash.
Parents can do several things at home to help relieve their child�s chickenpox symptoms. Because scratching the blisters may cause them to become infected, keep your child�s fingernails trimmed short. Calamine lotion and oatmeal baths may help relieve some of the itching.
If you or your child has a fever that lasts longer than four days or rises above 102�F, call your healthcare provider. Also if any areas of the rash or any part of the body become very red, warm, or tender, or begin leaking pus (thick, discolored fluid), call your healthcare provider since these symptoms may indicate a bacterial infection. Call your doctor immediately if the individual with chickenpox seems extremely ill, is difficult to wake up or appears confused, has difficulty walking, has a stiff neck, is vomiting repeatedly, has difficulty breathing, or has a severe cough.


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An ally of President Putin has been accused of closing the only museum in Russia dedicated to the abuses of the gulag, the Soviet Union's vast and brutal penal network.
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Ninety percent of the estimated 22 million people infected with Paragonimus live in Southeast and East Asia; nearly all the rest live in Africa and Central and South America. Infection has nearly disappeared from Japan, Korea, and Thailand as a result of improved food hygiene and socioeconomic standards. However, infection still occurs in impoverished areas in Laos, Vietnam, and the Philippines and in some remote parts of China and northeastern India. Cases have also been reported in Asian immigrants to the United States and Australia. (Vidamaly et al. 2009 and references therein)
Lane et al. (2009) suggests that physicians encountering patients with cough, fever, hemoptysis (i.e., coughing up blood), and eosinophilia (elevated levels of certain white blood cells known as eosinophils) should consider the possibility of paragonimiasis. Infection with Paragonimus lung flukes can cause severe lung disease and the symptoms of paragonimiasis often mimic those of tuberculosis and other non-helminthic diseases (Lane et al. 2009; Fried and Abruzzi 2010), including lung cancer (Song et al. 2011). Paragonimiasis can be avoided by not eating raw or improperly cooked shellfish.
The eggs of Paragonimus are excreted unembryonated in the host's sputum or are swallowed and passed with stool. In the external environment, the eggs become embryonated and miracidia hatch, seek out a first intermediate host (a snail), and penetrate its soft tissues. Miracidia pass through several developmental stages inside the snail: sporocyst, redia, and, from the rediae, many cercariae, which emerge from the snail. The cercariae invade the second intermediate host, a crustacean such as a crab or crayfish, where they encyst and become metacercariae. This is the infective stage for the mammalian host. Human infection with P. westermani occurs by eating inadequately cooked or pickled crabs or crayfish that harbor metacercariae of the parasite. The metacercariae excyst in the duodenum (first portion of the small intestine), penetrate through the intestinal wall into the peritoneal cavity, and then pass through the abdominal wall and diaphragm into the lungs, where they become encapsulated and develop into adults (7.5 to 12 mm by 4 to 6 mm). The worms can also reach other organs and tissues, such as the brain and striated muscles (or, in at least one case, the tip of a little finger: Sim et al. 2010). However, when this occurs, the life cycle cannot be completed. Time from infection to oviposition is 65 to 90 days. Infections may persist for 20 years in humans. Animals such as pigs, dogs, and a variety of feline species can also harbor P. westermani.


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Diebold Employed At Least Five Convicted Felons In Management Positions
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This is sounding more and more like a bad movie. In fact, if someone wrote this script, I'd bet it would get rejected as being way too implausible. Not only has Diebold been shown to have incredibly insecure technology on their electronic voting machines (universal password: 1111), had their (very partisan) CEO say that he was going to help his party win the election, been trying to sue every whistle-blower who calls them on this, admitted that they're going to try to jack up prices for anyone who tries to force them to add a paper trail and been caught using uncertified software in a recent election (breathe...), now it also turns out that they've employed at least five convicted felons in management roles at their voting machine subsidiary, according to Bev Harris, who has been leading the charge against Diebold. In fact, a senior VP of the group, who was responsible for writing and maintaining the code used in their voting systems, served time in prison for "stealing money and tampering with computer files". Diebold says that the guy left at the time they acquired his company to become their e-voting subsidiary, but they're still using this guy's code.


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Electronic Media Producer Specialist
Bulletin number: 2013-052SM
Opened: 10/15/2013
Closes: 11/05/2013 at 5:00 p.m. PST
The Evergreen State College is committed to prohibiting discrimination and to building a diverse faculty and staff. We strongly encourage qualified persons of all races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations, people with disabilities, persons over forty, women, Vietnam Era and disabled veterans to apply.
There is currently one full-time, overtime-eligible Electronic Media Producer Specialist position available on the Olympia Campus of The Evergreen State College. The candidate pool established from this announcement may be used to fill comparable permanent, full-time, part-time, and temporary vacancies in the future.
The Evergreen State College is a progressive, public liberal arts and sciences college located in Olympia, Washington, in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Since opening its doors in 1971, Evergreen has established a national reputation for leadership in developing innovative interdisciplinary, collaborative and team-taught academic programs. The college has a vibrant undergraduate program, graduate programs, and public service centers that constitute a unique academic setting. The college values a student-centered learning environment, a link between theory and practice, and a multicultural community of diverse faculty, students and staff working together. Current enrollment is approximately 4,800. For more information about Evergreen, please visit our college catalog or our website: http://www.evergreen.edu
- Salary is $3,135 - $4,214 per month of full time work.
- Experience and training may be considered in salary placement.
- A full state benefits package which includes: paid sick and vacation leave; paid campus holidays; a generous medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation and optional supplemental retirement accounts. For more information about Evergreen's excellent employee benefits, please view http://www.evergreen.edu/payroll/benefits
- Staff are eligible for a free local bus/transit pass.
- Permanent status employees that work 0.5 FTE or more are eligible for the tuition waiver program.
Coordinate campus media productions in conjunction with the Electronic Media (EM) workgroup and associated campus administrative staff. In collaboration with the Electronic Media workgroup, coordinate production staffing and instructional lead of student workers. Direct and perform the support of campus A/V spaces and academic production spaces.DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree with major field of study in media production.
- Two years of work experience in media production with a focus in audio.
- Experience working in a higher education or instructional setting.
- Direct and act as a member of the EM production team to plan, organize, coordinate, budget and manage all phases of complex media productions and campus events.
- Provide timely and professional client consultation on estimation for television, live, teleconferences, and other audio/video productions including design, scheduling, facilities requirements and staffing.
- Coordinate staffing and equipment resources for campus and external productions.
- Provide staffing support for student, campus and external productions.
- Coordinate and process estimates and billing for productions.
- With other EM staff, facilitate weekly EM production meetings and assignments of student staff to productions.
- Provide technical support for campus production spaces, including media enabled classrooms, Longhouse, Recreation Center, CAB, Communications Lab, Lecture Halls, Seminar II and other spaces requiring production support.
- Work with campus space scheduling staff to coordinate production scheduling and space access for maintenance and general support.
- Provide support for production equipment circulation and tracking.
- With other EM staff, consult on the design and construction of media facilities, including equipment specification, space design, and interoperability with existing facilities.
- Work with EM and other appropriate campus staff to develop policies governing use, access, scheduling, and facilities production support.
- Lead the work of student and temporary employees including certifying timesheets, assigning and checking work and participating in hiring and training.
- Act as field supervisor for Production intern.
- Provide formal and informal workshops for students, staff, and faculty. Provide staffing support for the Media Services media classroom support and equipment circulation desk.
- Provide user support, training, and troubleshooting for multimedia systems in the media enabled classrooms.
- Provide consultation and technical advice to users, including troubleshooting equipment or operational problems in the area.
- Create instructional and operational documentation for equipment and facilities.
- Work with the other staff responsible for media enabled classroom support to monitor the maintenance and repair of media enabled classrooms and production facilities and establish routine cleaning schedules, spot check equipment operation, submit work orders for necessary repair work, maintain equipment and facilities security.
- Attend EM staff meetings, Media Services meetings and related campus administrative meetings.
- May participate in campus governance.
- May lead the work of student interns in the area as appropriate.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Skill and ability to direct and provide support for complex media productions and campus events.
- Knowledge and skills to work effectively with students, staff, faculty and external clients in a media production support setting.
- Knowledge of and ability to use a broad range of production settings, including A/V systems and video/audio/multimedia production and presentation equipment.
- Knowledge in multimedia facility operation and presentation applications.
- Skill and ability in a variety of computer operating systems and software including peripheral equipment.
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to work with students in an instruction production support capacity.
- Ability to work independently and to collaborate effectively with diverse groups.
- Ability to lead the work of student and temporary employees.
- Skill and ability in providing user support, training, and troubleshooting for multimedia systems.
- Ability to maintain records/documentation and process billing.
- Ability to plan, prioritize, execute and complete projects in timely fashion.
- Ability to work evenings and/or weekends.
- This position is assigned to part of the college that is covered by a union shop provision and a collective bargaining agreement. Employees are required to pay an amount equal to the fees or dues required to be a member of the union to the Washington Federation of State Employees within thirty days of their date of hire.
- Must provide proof of identity and employment eligibility within three days of beginning work.
- May be required to pass a pre-employment background check.
- Must be able to work evenings and/or weekends during peak times during the academic year..
Please carefully read the job bulletin and submit all requested items by the closing date listed above. The committee in its screening of applicants will assume your abilities and experience include only those elements specifically documented within your application materials. By submitting a completed application for this position you are acknowledging that all of the information that you have submitted to apply for this job is true and complete to the best of your knowledge. You understand that The Evergreen State College may verify this information and that untruthful or misleading answers are cause for rejection of your application or dismissal if you are hired. If invited for an on-campus interview, you may be required to pay your own travel expenses.
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