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Black Friday for Tkaczyk
Republican Assemblyman George Amedore has a 920-vote lead over Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk in the 46th Senate District, with absentee and affidavit ballots left to count in Ulster County.
About 1200 paper ballots were counted from Montgomery County on Friday, according to Amedore spokesman Kris Thompson. At the end of the day, Amedore had netted 405 votes and expanded on the lead he built earlier this week from Greene and Schenectady counties. The race now comes down to Ulster County, where about 3,350 absentee ballots and 1,100 affidavit ballots were cast.
Amedore's performance in paper ballots on Friday was an improvement from his Election Day performance in Montgomery County, where he won about 63.5 percent of the vote. His portion of the absentee and affidavit ballots was at 65.8 percent, which is the best percentage victory he has had to date.
It is not clear how many paper ballots were laid aside because of legal objections and require a judge to rule on their eligibility. The judge will only be forced to rule if the margin of the race is less than the number of leftover ballots.
The outcome on Friday is not a good sign for Tkaczyk and the Senate Democrats, who were hoping this seat would give them the majority in the chamber.
In order for Tkaczyk to come back from behind she will need an unusually high number of paper ballots to be deemed eligible in Ulster County and probably needs to outperform her Election Day performance in the county. If she outperformed her Election Day performance by two percentage points and about 80 percent of the paper ballots were counted, then Tkaczyk would net 926 votes and be put her ahead.
But in order to stay alive, Tkaczyk doesn't need to be leading after Ulster County, just with a deficit that is less than the number of paper ballots remaining.
The counting of Ulster County will begin on Monday.
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What does improvement from "election day" performance mean? These electronic voting machines cannot be trusted. They have been failing across the country. Why arent all ballots simply counted by hand at the end of election night in public view? The election officials who continue to defend "secret vote counting" which is what electronic voting does- with programable computer chips- are lying to the public. No election worker or official has any way to catch or detect computer voter switching. Who is actually programming the machines? Is the person ever made public? All the "voting fraud" taking place IS NOT from individual voters pretending to be someone else- its happening from ALL INSIDER BACK ROOM ELECTION OFFICIALS- AND FROM THE MACHINES THEMSELVES - spitting out results that dont match the actual votes on the ballots !!
Election Day performance refers to the machine totals.
The machines have not been failing in New York, where they undergo repeat reviewing.
Additionally, a portion of the paper ballots are hand checked against the machine results. This is the simplest way to ensure people aren't programming machines to give results that are different from teh paper ballots.
Machine voting is not akin to secret voting.

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Roasted Tomato Bisque
- Two 28-ounce cans whole tomatoes, drained of their juices
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 4 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 2 shallots, quartered
- Salt and freshly cracked black pepper
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry
- One 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- 1 to 2 cups chicken stock
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In a mixing bowl, combine the drained whole tomatoes, olive oil, light brown sugar, carrots and shallots, and toss to coat. Season the vegetables with salt and pepper. Place the vegetables on a silicone or parchment-lined baking sheet and roast until caramelized, about 30 minutes.
Heat a soup pot over medium heat. Add the butter and cook until foaming. Add the crushed red pepper and garlic and saute for 1 minute. Add the tomato paste and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Then add the sherry. Cook until all the liquid has evaporated and the alcohol has cooked off, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the roasted vegetables, crushed tomatoes and 1 cup chicken stock. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer. Let simmer for 15 minutes.
Add the heavy cream and, using an immersion blender, puree the soup until uniform in texture. Add more chicken stock to adjust the consistency to how you like it.
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Victoria's Highland Journals
Volume Two
On Tour | Wednesday, August 21, 1867
Arrival at Buccleuch
The morning was beautiful and very mild. We drove through the small suburb of Maxwell Heugh, down into the town of Kelso, and over the bridge which commands a beautiful view of the broad stream of the Tweed and of the Park of Floors, with the fine house itself. Everywhere decorations, and great and most enthusiastic crowds. The little town of Kelso is very picturesque and there were triumphal arches, and no end of pretty mottoes, and every house was decorated with flowers and flags. Fifty ladies dressed in white strewed flowers as we passed. Volunteers were out and bands playing. At the Market place the carriage stopped; an address was presented, not read; and a little girl was held up to give me an enormous bouquet. Immense and most enthusiastic cheering. We then drove on, amidst continued crowds and hearty cheers, up to the very park gates, where the old Sheriff, eighty-five years old, was presented. The park is remarkably fine, with the approach under splendid beech, sycamore, and oak trees. The house very handsome, built originally by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1718, but much improved by the present Duke. You drive under a large porch, and then go up a flight of steps to the hall. The Duke's band was stationed outside. Mr. and Lady Charlotte Russell, Mr. Suttie, and Lady Charles Ker were in the hall. The Duchess took us into the library, where the Duke of Buccleuch joined us, and, after waiting a little while, we had breakfast (ourselves alone) in the really splendid dining-room adjoining, at ten minutes past twelve. This over, the Duchess showed us to our rooms upstairs. I had three that were very comfortable, opening one in to the other: a sitting-room, dressing-room, and the largest of the three, the bedroom, simple, with pretty chintz, but very elegant, nice and comfortable. The children were close at hand. But the feeling of loneliness when I saw no room for my darling, and felt I was indeed alone like a widow, overcame me very sadly! It was the first time I had gone in this way on a visit (like in former times), and I thought so much of all dearest Albert would have done and said, and how he would have wandered about everywhere, admired everything, looked at everything -- and now! Oh! must it ever, ever be so?
On Tour | Thursday, August 22, 1867
The heart of Robert Bruce, the home of Sir Walter Scott
... The little village, or rather town, of Newstead, which we passed through just before coming to Melrose, is very narrow and steep. We drove straight up to the Abbey through the grounds of the Duke of Buccleuch's agent, and got out and walked about the ruins, which are indeed very fine, and some of the architecture and carving in beautiful preservation. David I, who is described as a "sair Saint," originally built it, but the Abbey, the ruins of which are now standing, was built in the fifteenth century. We saw where, under the high altar, Robert Bruce's heart is supposed to be buried; also the tomb of Alexander II, and of the celebrated wizard, Michael Scott. Reference is made to the former in some lines of Sir Walter Scott's in the Lay of the Last Minstrel, which describes this Border country:
They sat them down on a marble stone; A Scottish monarch slept below.
And then when Deloraine takes the book from the dead wizard's hand, it says --
He thought, as he took it, the dead man frowned.
Most truly does Walter Scott say --
If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moonlight.
It looks very ghostlike, and reminds me a little of Holyrood Chapel. We walked in the churchyard to look at the exterior of the Abbey, and then re-entered our carriages and drove through the densely crowded streets...
Another twenty minutes or half-hour brought us to Abbotsford, the well-known residence of Sir Walter Scott. It lies low and looks rather gloomy. Mr. Hope Scott and Lady Victoria (my god-daughter and sister to the present Duke of Norfolk) with their children, the young Duke of Norfolk, and some other relations, received us. Mr. Hope Scott married first Miss Lockhart, the last surviving grandchild of Sir Walter Scott, and she died leaving only one daughter, a pretty girl of eleven, to whom this place will go, and who is the only surviving descendant of Sir Walter. They showed us the part of the house in which Sir Walter lived, and all his rooms -- his drawing-room with the same furniture and carpet, the library where we saw his MS. of Ivanhoe, and several others of his novels and poems in a beautiful handwriting with hardly any erasures, and other relics which Sir Walter had himself collected. Then his study, a small dark room, with a little turret in which is a bust in bronze, done from a cast taken after death, of Sir Walter. In the study we saw his journal, in which Mr. Hope Scott asked me to write my name (which I felt it to be a presumption in me to do), as also the others.
We went through some passages into two or three rooms where were collected fine specimens of old armour, etc., and where in a glass case are Sir Walter's last clothes. We ended by going into the dining-room, in which Sir Walter Scott died, where we took tea...
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Kurlantzick offers the sharpest analysis yet of what state capitalism's emergence means for democratic politics around the world. More
In a cogent analysis of why the United States is losing ground as a world power, Blackwill and Harris explore the statecraft of geoeconomics. More
Takeyh and Simon reframe the legacy of U.S. involvement in the Arab world from 1945 to 1991 and shed new light on the makings of the contemporary Middle East. More
The Task Force recommends revising U.S. policy toward North Korea to break the cycle of North Korean provocation and promote stability in Northeast Asia.
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Rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing faster than in wealthier countries. The report outlines a plan for collective action on this growing epidemic.
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Journey is PSN's Fastest Selling Game Ever
Posted by James Newton
And rightly so
PSN masterpiece Journey is the fastest-selling game ever to hit the service.
thatgamecompany's co-founder Jenova Chen announced on the PlayStation Blog that the company's latest has outsold every other digital download, beating the previous record set by inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood.
If you haven't experienced the game yet, make sure you read our Journey review then start downloading the PSN classic immediately. In fact, it's so good we recently called it the best PlayStation 3 game ever.
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The search is continuing Monday morning for a skier on Mount Bachelor.
Deschutes County deputies and the Mount Bachelor Ski Patrol believe 21-year-old Ryan Melrose DeYoung of Bend went past a "catch line" Sunday on the ski resort boundary.
KTVZ reports DeYoung is described as autistic.
Search and rescue teams have been searching the slopes by ski and snowmobiles.
Authorities also called in an Air Link helicopter and requested an Oregon National Guard helicopter.
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CP Technology, better known as Power Color, disclosed plans to produce a more affordable version of its RADEON 9800 XT 256MB graphics card. The new product, which specs are to be announced during the quarter, will feature the R360 graphics processor, but will provide 128MB of memory in contrast to 256MB of the original RADEON 9800 XT product. Since very few applications truly require a very large 256MB frame-buffer, the 128MB RADEON 9800 XT from PowerColor may become an interesting option for a lot of end-users.
The original RADEON 9800 XT graphics card is clocked at 412MHz for R360 core and also features 256MB of DDR SDRAM memory clocked at 730MHz. Currently there are practically no games to gain additional performance because of 256MB onboard memory; the speed in majority of today's games more depend on RAM bandwidth as well as processing power, but not from additional 128MB of memory.
Pricing of ATI RADEON 9800 XT graphics card is too high even for hardcore gamers - $499 per unit. In case PowerColor's RADEON 9800 XT 128MB will cost $399, it will be a better buy for end-users, who do not want to afford a $499 graphics card.
PS. Probably something wrong is happening in the market these days, if I call a $399 toy "affordable"?


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Recent stories
- The fly route
- February 21, 2008
I warned you about this once.
- Seniors plan big finish
- Wildcats to trip to Baldwin to open postseason tournament
- February 21, 2008
Just one chance left - at least one easy chance, anyway.
- Almost an upset
- Improved team performance lifts two Wildcats within a whisker of state
- February 21, 2008
- It came as no surprise that Saturday was the last day of the season for the De Soto wrestling team.
- Re-focused girls squad can't hang with Trailblazers
- February 21, 2008
The De Soto girls basketball team was able Friday to escape its immediate past - it put to bed the horrid taste of last week's 17-point performance against Eudora but putting up more than 40 against Gardner Edgerton.
- Loss offers Cats few highlights
- 12:00 a.m., February 14, 2008 Updated 02:44 p.m.
It didn't seem it could get much worse Tuesday for the De Soto girls basketball team. The Cats game against Kansas Highway 10 rival Eudora was long since over, though nearly three minutes remained in the eventual 50-17 loss, the team's most listless performance in an already long and rough season.
- Magdaleno third
- February 14, 2008
Maybe it was "Come Sail Away," by Styx.
- The fly route
- February 14, 2008
There was a moment Saturday during the De Soto-hosted Frontier League wrestling tournament when it was again apparent that the Wildcats wrestling program could be in the midst of a major revival.
- Course correction
- Wildcat boys hope snapping three-game skid brings back best of times
- 12:00 a.m., February 14, 2008 Updated 03:27 p.m.
The tangible proof came Tuesday. De Soto beat Eudora for the second time this season, this time protecting its home floor, maintaining a buzzer-to-buzzer lead to hold off the Cardinals, 57-48.
- Wrestling squad set for home tournament
- February 7, 2008
The scores weren't pretty - De Soto lost duals Jan. 31 to Eudora 57-12, and to Anderson County 64-18. Still, Wildcat coach Shannon Sawner said in the wins De Soto was able to collect and in his team's performances in losses, he saw progress.
- The fly route
- February 7, 2008
I didn't take it well when Kansas State lost to Kansas in football during the fall, little better than I did early in my undergraduate career or in my childhood when such clashes seemed to carry even more weight.


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About Ming Chen M.D., MSc, F.A.C.S.
Physician Information
Ming Chen M.D., MSc, F.A.C.S.
- Fellow American College of Surgeons
- Past President, Hawaii Ophthalmological Society
- Past Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Kuakini Hospital
- International Panel for the Advancement of Cataract Surgery
- Diplomat American Board of Ophthalmology
- Visiting Professor, Zhong Shan People's Hospital, China
- Master of Science in Evidence Based Practice (Ophthalmology), University of Teesside, UK
Specialty: Ophthalmology
Area of Expertise: Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Residencies: Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL
Non-Medical Activities:
- Past president, United Chinese society of Hawaii
- Past president, the Chinese Chamber of Hawaii
- Past president, the Organization of Chinese American Hawaii chapter
- Member, the Aloha medical mission
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1) Video publication "LenSx, CTR and ECP in the management of a case with dislocated cataract with chronic angle closed glaucoma" eyetube.net Jan 2013
2) Video publication "My first case with SoftFit patient interface for the LenSx laser" eyetube.net March 2013
3) Publication "Combine technique used for zonular dehiscence with dislocated cataract "Ocular Surgery News" Surgical Maneuvers, page 5 March 2013
4) 2013 Chen M, "A Review of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery for Hawai'i" Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2013; 72(5):152–155.
2013 Chen M," Use LenSx for a case of dense cataract, previous cornea transplant and high astigmatism" Ocular Surgery News – Surgical Maneuvers
5) 2013 Chen M, "Combine technique used for zonular dehiscence with dislocated cataract" Ocular Surgery News – Surgical Maneuvers, page 5 March 2013
6) 2014 Chen M, Kara LaMattina, Thomas Patrianakos, Surendar Dwarakanathan, "Complication rate of posterior capsule rupture with vitreous loss during phacoemulsification at a Hawaiian cataract surgical center: a clinical audit. Clinical ophthalmology, 2014:8 Pages 375 – 378
7) 2014 Chen M, Phelps P "A Case Report: Extranodal Marginal Zone Lymphoma of the lower Eyelid". International Journal of Ophthalmic Pathology, 2014 3:1
8) 2014 in press, Chen M, Hill J " Compare Diazepam oral versus Midazolam intravenous injection for sedation in cataract surgery under topical anesthesia" Journal cataract and refractive surgery
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Friday night, you can catch a blues-rock band that's receiving rave reviews from critics everywhere as New Blues Revolution makes a stand at Arcadia Blues Club.
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MUHAMMAD: The Late, Great Barack Obama
Askia Muhammad | 11/20/2013, 3 p.m.
Now back to the wounded president. The Obama-haters – with the help of their pals in the corporate-owned media – managed to turn the tables on the flawed initial roll-out of Obamacare registration to the place where that awkward process (which proceeded by six months the deadline for the measure to actually kick in!!) is now being compared to the George W. (for Worst in history) Bush administration's 2005 handling of Hurricane Katrina relief, in which dozens of people were killed, and when the worst storm to ever hit these shores destroyed much of New Orleans. Really? Really! That's exactly what they're saying.
So, never mind any warm and fuzzy feelings Americans might have had about their first Black president, he is now being portrayed as a failed leader, whose "lame-duck" status began with three years left in his second term in office.
In so doing, the race-haters who hypocritically proclaim "post-racial America," invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s wish that people be judged by the content of the character rather than the color of their skin, those race haters have also driven nails into the political coffins of Sen. Corey Booker (D-N.J.), Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.), and to any and all other Black politicians who might see themselves as players on the national political stage. Post-racialism, hah! Fuhgeddaboutit! LGBTQ yes! Black politicians no!
We'll likely see a woman, two White males, and a Latino in the Oval Office before another Black person even gets on the ticket as a vice-presidential running mate.
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I've gotten lots of good news this week.
First, Tessa Gratton shared the cover for her new book, Blood Magic, coming soon on April 26. For those of you keeping track, that's Shakespeare's birthday. How appropriate for a writer who also acts and shares her performances of Shakespeare monthly. Check out the cover here on her blog. Isn't it beautiful? Now, who wants to buy me a copy in honor of the Bard's birthday?
The next news is from last year. Several students entered poetry and essay contests sponsored by Creative Communication. I received the good news that Amy H. has a poem that will be published in the upcoming Celebration of Young Poets. Six students had essays selected for publication in an anthology as well. They are Carl C., Ali K., Claire M., Cammi S., Jesse S., and Tori W. Congratulations! If you are interested in entering one of your poems in their next contest, head on over to http://www.poeticpower.com. You, too, could be a winner.
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By Ben Kieffer • Feb 15, 2013
Chicago-based Americana/folk-rock musician Ernie Hendrickson grew up on a steady diet of Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, and The Grateful Dead. These early heroes opened the gates to the deep well of American roots music which he continues to draw inspiration from. For Hendrickson's latest release Walking with Angels, he sought out famed producer and guitarist Bo Ramsey.


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- Location: Waikoloa (Hawaii)
This paper presents results of first‐principles density functional calculations of the equation of state (EOS) of PETN‐I and β‐HMX. The isotropic EOS for hydrostatic compression has been extended to include uniaxial compressions in the [100], [010], [001], [110], [101], [011], and [111] directions up to compression ratio Equilibrium properties, including lattice parameters and elastic constants, as well as hydrostatic EOS are in good agreement with available experimental data. The shear stresses of uniaxially compressed PETN‐I and β‐HMX have been evaluated and their behavior as a function of compression ratio has been used to make predictions of shock sensitivity of these EMs. A comparison of predicted sensitivities with available experimental data has also been performed.
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Dad, this one's for you.
This mix was made using only my dad's records. Every one of them an original pressing, stuff he bought when he was about as old as I am now--give or take a decade. My dad never played an instrument really, and my mom always joked that he was actually tone-deaf. But man, what a taste in music--and in his own way, what an ear too. "Plays Pretty Just For You" is a new mix by Dave Harrington of the band Darkside, which has just released its debut album Psychic. Previously
"If only you knew the power of the Dark Side."
"...perhaps she will." [SLYT] Sariah Gallego Joins the Dark Side.
OldBenFilter: What if Obi-Wan went Sith
Star Wars Battlefront III: a preview of a recently canceled game that apparently had plans to turn our good ol' ghost-ey friend Old Ben Kenobi into a Dark Jedi. [more inside]
Minimalist Dark Sides
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as a soundtrack to its album art. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (YouTube). For another painstakingly minimalist (though livelier) tribute, Kenny G's Intelligent Design show on WFMU recently featured Nick the Bard's a cappella rendition of the entire album. Playlist & link to audio archive here.
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Soda Free Sundays – Pledging to Take a Break from Sugary Drinks
By Jennifer Trott, Associate Director – Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition
On April 27, 2011, representatives from 25 organizations throughout WA and King County, including School's Out Washington, joined together to launch a new community-wide effort urging residents, businesses and other organizations to take a break from soda and sugary drinks for one day a week. Soda Free Sundays, supported by the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition, aims to create awareness about sugary drinks and look for opportunities to increase access to healthier drink alternatives in homes, work, faith-based community and recreational facilities.
Over the course of the six week campaign, April 27—June 7, 2011, anyone can visit www.sodafreesundays.org to sign on and take the pledge.
Soda and other sugary drinks – including non-diet sodas, shorts drinks, energy drinks, sweetened fruit drinks and vitamin drinks – are one of the major contributors to obesity today, particularly among kids. It is easier to consume massive quantities of sugar-loaded beverages than food because they don't make us feel full, and what's more – they contain little or no nutritional value.
Consider the following:
In some King County communities, almost half of youth 14–18 reported drinking a soda on the previous day, with almost 20% reporting drinking 2 or more sodas. Two 20 oz servings of soda is
the recommended amount of sugar a teenager should consumer over the course of 4 days.
• Every additional daily serving of soda increases a child's risk of obesity by 60 percent.
• Sugar-loaded beverages have replaced milk in the diets of many teens, putting them at risk for osteoporosis.
• Consumption of sugar-loaded beverages by children (1 to 5 years old) is associated with an 80-100% increased risk of cavities.
Unfortunately, cutting back on overconsumption of these drinks is not easy. Every day we are bombarded by highly effective advertisements and are faced with the lure of cheap and easily accessible sugary beverages. Soda Free Sundays recognizes that, together as a community, we can take a first step in building a healthier generation. The goal of the campaign is to make small changes that we can build on as individuals and a community, and to build on those changes to create a big impact in our lives and our community.
Here's what you can do to join us in supporting the Soda Free Sundays Effort:
• Take the pledge as a family, school or other organization at www.sodafreesundays.org
• Download the Action Plan for Organizations and Family Action Plan to get started.
• Connect with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SodaFreeSundays or Twitter (@SodaFreeSundays) for tips and ideas to keep your pledge efforts going, and to tell us your own Soda Free Sundays story.
• Spread the word and challenge others to take the pledge -- on our pledge form, you will find a space for individuals to note what organization that they are pledging with - be sure to tell your members. If you get 20 or more individuals to pledge we will feature you on our website as a "Soda Free Sundays sponsor" and highlight you at our final celebration event at Seattle Center on June 7 at 11am at Seattle Center!
Questions? Want to get involved? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
Soda Free Sundays partners: The Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition (www.copcwa.org) is supporting Soda Free Sundays along with several of its partners in King County, including: American Heart Association, Seattle King County Public Health, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, Center for Multicultural Health, Seattle Parks and Recreation, King County Academy of Family Physicians, University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition, American Academy of Pediatrics - WA Chapter, Group Health, King County Medical Society, Nutrition First, Feet First, Camp Fire USA Central Puget Sound, School's Out Washington, Hope Heart Institute, WA Dental Services Foundation, Washington Chapter American College of Physicians, Boys and Girls Club of King County, King County Nurses Association, MultiCare Center for Healthy Living, MultiCare, WA Dairy Council, Snohomish Health District.
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Today, my parents came to visit me at the ranch I work at. They're scared to death of horses, but I was explaining how they are almost completely harmless. I was showing them how to work around the horse without getting kicked. As they relaxed, the horse kicked me. I now have a broken leg. FML
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Today, I decided to try and call into a local radio station to try and win concert tickets for one of my favorite bands. I called in and was actually the winning number. When asked my name I answered quickly, but all I heard was "Hello? Hello?" Then they hung up. My cell phone was on mute. FML
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Sale into the 90s
The cast of M*A*S*H reunited to sell IBM computers in the '80s
"Hey, everybody, the new computers are here!" It's almost not as bad as it could have been. But it's not exactly good either.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue.
What do you do when your company's commercial sparks urban legends about a curse? Why, replace it with one that isn't creepy at all. [more inside]
Where's Herb?
Here's an old Burger King ad campaign, created by New York firm J Walter Thompson, that was a legendary flop. 30 years ago Burger King failed to get the whole country asking: Where's Herb? He was supposedly the only person in the country not to have had a burger from their chain. They offered food discounts, but only to people who weren't Herb (weird cameo at the end of that one). They even talked to Herb's parents. Eventually Herb did have a burger and visited a BK in every state as part of a contest. The sites Go Retro and Burgatory have articles about the non-phenomenon (with an interview with Jon Menick, who played Herb). It was all an attempt to duplicate Wendy's success the year before with Where's The Beef? [more inside]
And his consort, Tyrannosaurus Bathory
Here's Dinosaur Dracula, a pop culture retro nostalgia site from the guys who formerly brought us X-Entertainment (currently "down for repairs"), the subject of many many MeFi posts. Some pages of interest:
- TV Guide listings for Halloween 1990
- Excerpts from the 1989, 1992, 1998 and 1999 Sears Wish Books.
- Comic Book Ads.
- The Masters of the Universe Slime Pit, which had great instructions, and the sliming of Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart. There's more....
Better Living Through Television
Here's The Adventures of Milkman, How To Be Swell, The Lost Brady, Phoebe, Classic TV Rewinds, and the "Guy Series" (which has a couple of unexpected cameos), as well as three collections of commercials, all callbacks from 80s-90s Nick At Nite, and that age when MTV's success inspired channels to put more personality into their promotion. [more inside]
Anyone who watches late-night TV in the Puget Sound region is likely familiar with the commercials for local high-risk insurer Vern Fonk Insurance (previously). For twenty years Robert Thielke, a longtime employee who was named president of the company in 2013, has been the face of Vern Fonk in all of its advertising. He passed away Sunday after a long struggle with cancer. [more inside]
The McNuggets Rap Because They Can't Sing
Still mourning the loss of walmart.horse? Well, the hot new whimsical mix of corporate identity and new TLDs is mcdonalds.hiphop, which serves up a YouTube playlist of hiphop/rap-themed McDonalds commercials going back 30 years and including non-U.S. content from the UK, Israel, France, Czech Republic, India, Russia and South Africa. From the same merry prankster who brought us nytimes.cat, which got C&D'd in record time, this one has survived a whole week so far (and with some publicity; thanks Mental Floss). But then, Mickey D's has a hiphop history that goes beyond commercials.
Love (of ice cream) knows no gender
The Magnum ice cream company has launched the Be True To Your Pleasure campaign, featuring gender-nonconforming individuals (referred to in marketing materials as "drag queens") as glamorous spokesmodels. [more inside]
Many will enter. Few will win.
Remember the '80s and '90s commercials for the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run? The A.V. Club talks to two past winners.
Do those munchkins sound a little... off? No, I mean more so.
Cable TV is speeding up its shows slightly to show you more ads. The Wall Street Journal has more including a side-by-side comparison video a sharp eyed viewer made of a "Seinfeld" episode.
Are You Ready For Some Football?
VCR Games: you just became the Luke Skywalker of the new Star Wars.
"With Christmas not far away, you may start seeing ads for video games that try to marry the VCR with traditional board games. Unhappily, that marriage more often resembles the bickering Lockhorns than the mild-mannered Nelsons. Here's a look at three of the games now
out in 1986." But that's only a snapshot of the dynamic world of VCR board games, which peaked in the early 1990s with the Atmosfear series, known as Nightmare in Australia, where the game series was a huge cross-media empire, bigger than "Crocodile" Dundee. Another significant game was Star Wars: The Interactive Video Board Game, if for no other reason that it is canon and expands the story of the second Death Star. There are less than 100 VCR board games, and the videos for many of them are currently online, with more game documents and details on Board Game Geeks. By the end of the 1990s, the VCR was on the way out, replaced by DVD board games. Let's browse the isles of toy stores past, thanks to the crowd-sourced nostalgia that is the internet. [more inside]
"They're not burritos, burritos..."
In the past, when Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have done commercials for actual companies, they were considerate enough to offer audiences two distinct flavors: "Uniquely Odd", as in the case of the bizzare-yet-polished Old Spice series of ads and "Downright Uncomfortable" as in the case of Absolut Vodka (previously). Recently, they have produced another pair of ads for your viewing pleasure: General Electric for the former category and Totinos for the later.
My Aunt Katherine is ALLERGIC to wi-fi.
This is not a think piece about how "problematic" the terrible fuckin puppets are in DirecTV's new series of ads currently running over and over during every commercial break of every TV show. It's A FACT PIECE. And the facts are in: Fuck these puppets. (Gawker)
That's not how I remember it went...
Friday video fun: A new subreddit Commercial Cuts is devoted to television commercials that have had small edits made to them that, um, really change the message and tone. Highlights include Lunchables, J.G. Wentworth, Bagel Bites, Febreze, and Swiffer.
Carrier Access Codes and cultural detritus, featuring Alf and friends
Carrier Access Codes are a largely dated*, though still functional service to select your long-distance telephone carrier per phone call. In the United States, these "dial-around codes" reached a (commercial) peak in the late 1990s, as seen with ads featuring such semi-notables as Marla Gibbs, Christine Taylor and Reginald VelJohnson, Harry Anderson, John Lithgow, Tony Danza, Doug Flutie, and even Alf and some well-known friends. [more inside]
Cigarette TV Commercials
On January 2, 1971, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act went into effect. In addition to adding a stronger health warning to cigarette packs, it banned cigarette advertising on radio and TV in the United States. (MLYT) [more inside]
Jamie Casino's got murder, vengeance, and a flaming sledgehammer.
Personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino of Savannah, GA really went all out with his Metal as ___ Super Bowl ad (SLYT).
Superbowl Commercials
Some of you will be watching football, some of you will be watching the commercials (I suppose some of you will be watching both, and, let me acknowledge that some of you will not watch a damn thing and get that out of the way..).. For you commercial fans...here's a preview of many of the 2014 Superbowl Commercials... And, going back, here's HuffPo's list of the 50 best all time Superbowl Commercials. Warning
Two very different commercials about mothers.
1. Old Spice "Momsong"
2. P&G "Pick Them Back Up"
Bring your tissues for that second one.
1. Old Spice "Momsong"
2. P&G "Pick Them Back Up"
Bring your tissues for that second one.
Thanks, Cinco! ;-)
The Cinco Family/Corporation is a fictional corporation which spans the television and internet works of comedian Bob Odenkirk. From 2007 to 2010, the comedy television program Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, served as an outlet for Cinco Products skits. The commercials and infomercials use green screen and special effects with the intent of mimicking the standard format of infomercials from the late 1980s and early 1990s, often lampooning technology from the same era (such as the Cinco MIDI Organizer). Generally, the goods and services sold by Cinco companies are a bizarre assortment of useless, pointless and/or physically harmful products, at least three of which require the removal of all of the user's teeth. [NSFW] [more inside]
By now, the story is well known. A man sits in the backseat of a cab, sketching on a notepad as night falls over a crumbling city. He scribbles the letter I. He draws a heart. And then an N, and then a Y. Right away he knows he's got something. This is it, he thinks. This is the campaign. The man was a designer named Milton Glaser. The city was New York. The year was 1977. [more inside]
Loaded like a fright train
Nowadays, fortified wines are the butt of jokes. (previously) However, there was a time when they were considered mainstream and there were even a few commercials made. Of course, we can't leave out the best commercial for fortified wine ever made.
Spock vs. Spock
The greatest car commercial ever !! Old Spock (Nimoy) and New Spock (Quinto) come together (and battle it out) in what is likely the best car commercial that you ever saw (or will see). Chock full of Star Trek references there's even a scene with Nimoy humming along to "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" . Awesomeness follows ...
The Japanese Version
In the late '80s, documentarians Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker spent six months in Tokyo looking at how symbols and imagery familiar to Americans had been appropriated and given new significance in Japan. Though more than 20 years old, the resulting video remains popular in undergraduate courses across the social sciences and humanities in part because it's so entertaining. [more inside]
Thanks, Obama.
A series of GIFs captures the difficult lives of people in infomercials.
Is it a sinister government experiment, designed to brainwash children?
Digging up long forgotten memories for a generation who spent their formative years glued to the boob tube, Memorex is a veritable nostalgia nuke for children of the 80s. Endless beach parties, Saturday morning cartoons, claymation everything, sleek cars, sexy babes, toys you forgot existed, station idents, primitive computer animation, all your favorite sugary cereal mascots, and so much more. An ode to the hyper consumerism and sleek veneer of a simpler time. (previously)
Gatorade is the Gillette of Fuel
It's no secret that eleven-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has given some less than stellar interviews, but did you know that he's also terrible at commercials? [MLYT] [more inside]
Variations on a steem
Mia Gentile covers the Stanley Steemer jingle again (goth) and again (50s girl band) and again (a la Avril Lavigne) and...
How would you feel if somebody was out there using your name for purposes of their own—without your knowledge?
Anthony Bourdain is "fighting mad" at the Travel Channel for editing him into a commercial without his permission. He expressed his rage on twitter first, and then in a long post on his tumblr blog: "All of us on the show would have preferred to go out on a high note—and we tried to do that as best we could, turning in a strong, final season that we are very proud of. We wanted to go leaving a lot of great shows—and nothing but good memories and good will behind...But things just didn't turn out that way." [more inside]
He's a sneaky one
Just in time for election season, royalty-free music site firstcom has released a playlist of music for attack ads. You can choose the dramatic "Negative Vibes," the dual-mood "Compared to What's His Name," the dark "He's a Sneaky One" or the anthemic "Better Days Ahead." Firstcom also has playlists for pirates, extreme weather and science and technology.
Working, playing, day or night, the look that's right
113 Super Smash Mega Fantastic Dynamic Sensual Explosive Electrifying Spectacular Hits
Oh, hey - the 113 K-Tel commercials you ordered have arrived. [more inside]
The Story of Jay Fucking Over Brian and Travis
Dear Jay Leno ... "First off, my intention is not to fight you on this. You have more cars than I have dollars, and so I know I don't stand a chance legally ..." - "An Open Letter to Jay Leno About Stealing My Video and Then Getting It Removed From YouTube" [more inside]
If it's out there, it's in here.
Ding! Furniture stripping. Rock drills. Herbs. Die casting. Dumbwaiters. Conductive shoes. Vanity cases. Civil engineers. If it's out there, it's in here. [MLYT] [more inside]
The S-T period to the I-D-E to the S!
In 1991, Ice Cube was a force of nature. The idea that he could someday star in Are We There Yet? was inconceivable. Still, commercialism wasn't foreign to him. He shilled St. Ides malt liquor as furiously as he called out the police.St. Ides, manufactured by Pabst Brewing Company, targeted young black people. They built an advertising strategy around rappers and hired DJ Pooh to produce beats and commercials. Rappers responded with zeal. [more inside]
Let's Start A Movement!
Drag star Varla Jean Merman is the new spokesmodel for Fleet enemas. Her commercials: Part 1, Part 2, cabaret version. Previously: Varla's Schoolhouse Rock.
"Warren G, what are you doing here?!"
"Warren G, what are you doing here?!"... "What does it look like I'm doing?!" ... Legendary recording artist, Warren G, offers a little help to a man struggling to satisfy his woman. "Are you my waiter?" ... "Nah, I'm the Regulator." (MLYT) (via)
Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything
4 photogenic youngsters travel to beautiful cities, to Paris, Barcelona, Beijing & London. Short, upbeat commercials by Gustav Johansson & Albin Holmqvist for a French language school
How much does McDonald's spend on advertising? "Uh, lots."
Behind the scenes of a McDonaldland commercial in the 1970s McDonaldland outtakes The fake McDonald's restaurant in City of Industry, CA used to film commercials
Canadian Tire knows you want to exploit Charles Dickens' legacy this holiday season
If you lived in Canada in the 80s and 90s, then the holiday season meant one thing: Give like Santa, save like Scrooge.
"What's the difference between a virus and windows ? Viruses rarely fail."
Symantec's "Hack Is Wack," And Cybersecurity's Most Embarassing Marketing Campaigns: Hack is Wack previously Jackie Chan - Kaspersky 2010 Antivirus Commercial. Ex Gang member turns Computer Hacker. Don't Copy That Floppy. & Don't Copy That Floppy 2.0.
Ending the Hurf Durf
About-Face aims to provide women and girls with skills to critically examine media messages that affect their positive self-image. Their website is a one-stop shop for simple, direct, teen-friendly educational materials about female self-esteem and body image. [more inside]
Literary Superheroes
Looking for literary superheroes? Behold the awesome powers of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne! (SLYT)
My Movie Has a First Name, It's O-S-C-A-R...
Don't like those commercials that run before the movies in the theaters? Well, this weekend, Kraft Foods is introducing something new to screens across the U.S., "two- to three-minute branded-entertainment vignettes" that promise NOT to "knock you over the head with a bat as a brand commercial", but instead they... well... here's an example: Lunchables kids' meals present: Alien Field Trip* (Warning: more artificially cheesy than Cheez Whiz). Kraft and other big advertisers are betting that long-form ads will be "the Wave of the Future", and the perfect audience for them will be the folks who have already paid to see "Iron Man 2", "Sex and the City 2" or "Toy Story 3". What could possibly go wrong? [more inside]
Bad credit or no credit? No Problem! Are you on welfare? Social Security? No Problem! You have to see the Special Man
Bad credit or no credit? No Problem! Are you on welfare? Social Security? No Problem! You have to see the Special Man!
Local Commercials GONE WILD
Rhett and Link love local commercials, and, with a sponsorship by MicroBilt, they want to visit your town to make one! Don't worry [NSFW], they've had experience doing this kind of thing in the past. • Rhett and Link's website and YouTube channel are chock full of fun stuff besides commercials--why, they even helped me learn all about regional variations of southern BBQ! • [ many previous appearances ]


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We've been receiving a lot of feedback on the new and improved Energy.gov -- thanks to everyone who took the time to send us your thoughts! In sifting through the mailbox, we found the majority of comments were on five items:
- Search
- The "Recharge" Banner
- Employee's Section
- Localization Issues
- Love it!
So we thought we'd do a quick post to address these. Let's start with:
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Ann-Claire writes: Can't find what I want anymore. Gotta hunt through my bookmarks and hope I saved a link to your very thorough energy primer. Website *does* look nice. But I did a search for "electric power distribution" and got the message "did you mean electric power district?" My bookmarks reminded me that it was EIA that put out the primer, "What is Energy?" As an experiment, I entered What is Energy? as a search item in your energy.gov search engine. Nothing useful came up. DOE has tons of useful information available to the public and relevant to my work as a curriculum developer and educator. Please, please, please cross-reference your search engines so that regardless of what department houses the information, users can find it.
Hi Ann-Claire - Great suggestion! Since launch, we've been working to improve our search functionality and will continue to do so. As part of the Department's website reform efforts, we'll be incorporating more of our Office's sites into the platform and will be indexing results to make it easier for you to find the information you need regardless of which Office created the content.
2. The "Recharge" Banner
Daniel writes: The "Recharge" banner across the top is much too big, especially for small laptop or sub notebook screens. It makes it harder to get down to the cool new links and content. The new map and data capability is great.
Thanks for the feedback Daniel! The banner generated the most comments by far (both good and bad) and, as a result, we've made a few quick fixes to make it easier to view the primary homepage content and will continue to look at ways to improve the functionality and overall user experience.
3. Employee's Section
Stanley writes: You need an employee's section, can't find anything related to doing my job. The directives are hidden, no training link to the On line learning center, hard to find information on programs and cyber security.
Hi Stanley - You can find a section "For Staff & Contractors" in our primary navigation http://energy.gov/staff-and-contractors -- and we'd love your specific feedback on how we can improve our internal communications. If you're looking for information specific to a Department Office, you can consult the Office Directory. The DOE Directives site has not yet been integrated into the platform, but you can find it through the About Us section of the site or visit it directly at https://www.directives.doe.gov
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|Aug 16 2009, 12:37 AM
Unless it is your job to do in depth interviews with everyone who stops watching the show you cannot know who causes viewers to switch off. Sami and Rafe have a romance which even when they are on is only 6-8 minutes of the eppy [and not even on everday] isn't enough reason for a show to go down in ratings - particularly as Rafe isn't abusing Sami in anyway. I didn't watch through the Santeen stuff but many posters here have used the same argument that that destroyed the ratings as many found it boring and couldn't get into it.
Anyway back to topic. It makes sense to me for Rafe to be interested and investigating because he loves Sami and she gave birth to Syndey/Grace during the time they were in hiding from the killer. And someone has to piece the clues together and he's the only cop or ex-cop close enough to the story to investigate in the way he has been doing.
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FDA mandates impotence drug label changes to indicate vision risk
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated labeling for Cialis (Eli Lilly, Indianapolis), Levitra (a venture of Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline and Schering-Plough), and Viagra (Pfizer, New York) to reflect a small number of post-marketing reports of sudden vision loss, attributed to non arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION). The FDA advised patients that experience sudden or decreased vision loss in one or both eyes to stop taking the medicines and promptly call a physician or health care provider. Agency officials also advised patients taking or considering taking the drugs to inform their health care professionals if they have ever had severe loss of vision, which might reflect a prior episode of NAION. Such patients are at an increased risk of developing NAION again. It remains unclear whether the erectile dysfunction medications were the cause of the loss of eyesight or whether the problem is related to other factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or a combination of these health concerns, according to information from the FDA.
CIBA sues J&J over lenses
CIBA Vision Corp. filed suit against Johnson & Johnson Inc.'s (New Brunswick, N.J.) Vistakon division for infringement of CIBA Vision's (East Hanover, N.J.) patent rights to its silicone hydrogel contact lens technology, according to information from CIBA. The lawsuit, which was filed by CIBA Vision in the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville, seeks to halt a planned launch of a Johnson & Johnson silicone hydrogel extended wear contact lens. The CIBA Vision patents, known as the "Nicolson" patents, protect CIBA Vision's proprietary NIGHT & DAY and O2OPTIX breathable contact lens technology. These patents were the subject of protracted global litigation with Bausch & Lomb (Rochester, N.Y.) that resulted in a 2004 license granted to Bausch & Lomb in exchange for a royalty payment to CIBA through 2014 in the U.S. and 2016 in other countries. CIBA asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent Johnson & Johnson Vistakon from manufacturing, marketing and distributing the lens.
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Novartis (Basel, Switzerland) and the other defendants in a lawsuit related to the acquisition of Eon Labs Inc. (Lake Success, N.Y.) reached an agreement in principle with the plaintiffs to settle the litigation pending before the Delaware Chancery Court, according to information from Novartis. Zodnas Acquisition Corp., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Novartis, is extending its cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding public shares of Eon Labs, Inc. Under the settlement the tender offer was extended to at least last Friday, July 15, 2005. The settlement does not affect the economic terms of the outstanding tender offer. The settlement is subject to the approval of the Delaware Chancery Court.
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The first clinical implants of the I-vation (SurModics Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.) intravitreal implant were completed as part of a Phase I Clinical Study assessing the safety and tolerability of the implant in patients with Diabetic Macular Edema (DME) under an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the FDA, according to information from the company. The intravitreal implant is one of the drug delivery technologies acquired in January 2005 by SurModics in connection with the acquisition of InnoRx Inc., a drug delivery company that develops therapies for the ophthalmology market. The implant was inserted during a brief outpatient surgical procedure using local anesthesia. Early follow-up has shown the implant to be well tolerated. The implant delivers drugs on a sustained release basis for well over a year and may be removed once the drug has been fully released. Currently, the majority of treatments under development for AMD and DME require repeated injections into the eye every one to three months. A single implant could provide long-term, controlled drug release. It also could advance therapeutic treatment, improve patient compliance, reduce side effects, and improve efficacy, according to company officials.
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Almost every person has been aware that intake of sugar results in various conditions. Like it causes tooth decay, triggers diabetes, aggravate weight problem and gout too. Lendon Smith, M.D., author of Feed Yourself Right has rightly said that "People can get hooked on anything viz., sugar, honey, alcohol and even milk. With this you have chance to being addictive. But every dark tunnel has light on the other end. You can easily curb or kick the sweet habit. Did you know that kicking the habit requires a lot of consciousness raising? You have to introduce discipline in your life to curb sugar craving.
Keep a diary – If you have decided to curb sugar from your like keep a diary of everything you eat and drink for a week. Check your progress to know which items contain sugar and this will reveal your intake of sugar. Within a week's time you will come to know how much sugar you have been taking. From second week on wards start eliminating the items. In your breakfast eliminate items which carry sugar in large number viz., cola or soda and a cupcake. It is a fact that Americans eat too much sugar. For example, teenagers take 50 percent of their calories from sugar.
Banish all sugar from your house – It could be a hard decision, but in order to curb sugar craving you have to make up your mind to banish all sugar but do keep a jar of pure raw honey to quench your thirst for sugar craving.
Sugar craving is bad – Did you know that a quick dose of it causes blood sugar to rise rapidly. A majority of people complain about headaches, nervousness, crankiness and bad dreams. These are all caused due to intake of sugar in higher quantity. In order to curb sugar take good and nutritious food like nuts, raw vegetables, fruits, cheese etc.
Take carbohydrates – We all are aware that while grains and fresh vegetables are equipped with nutrition. But sugar addicts don't give priority to this type of food. When we overload on sweets it leads to vitamin deficiency. Dr. Allen McDaniels, M.D., says when you eat a good well-balanced diet it helps in eliminating sugar craving. Ray C Wunderlich M.D., of St Peterburg, Florida says when you take adequate protein in your diet you are on the way to curb sugar. He further says nuts and sugar are a great substitute for sugar. Try almonds, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds instead of sugar rich food.
Take Vitamin B – According to Dr. Smith, Vitamin B particularly niacinamide are important to sugar addicts as it keep blood sugar working at optimal level. Eat whole grains, wheat germ, fresh vegetables to curb sugar craving.


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The Massachusetts Miracle: What Does It Mean?
Well Massachusetts has elected a Republican US Senator for the first time in 37 years. What does this political upset of the century mean?
1. ObamaCare is dead. Not only because the Democrats now lack 60 votes to invoke cloture in the Senate, but because opposition to ObamaCare was the signature feature of Scott Brown's campaign and the results of this race in bluest Massachusetts will send chills down the spine of too many Democrats.
2. We now have further evidence that the Democrats are looking at a political storm of the first magnitude in the Fall. If a US Senate seat in Massachusetts isn't safe for the Democrats, it is hard to imagine what seat in Congress outside of urban centers they can take for granted in November.
3. The fundraising success of Scott Brown over the internet was astounding. A demonstration that the internet fundraising effort of the Democrats in 2008 now has a GOP counterpart.
4. Look for a wave of Democrat retirements in Congress as more Democrats decide that ending their political careers with a voluntary retirement is preferable to defeat.
5. More Blue Dog Democrats in Congress will follow the example of Congressman Parker Griffith and announce that they are switching to the Republican Party.
Massachusetts Predictions
Go here to see the last polls on the Senate race in Massachusetts. The seat that is up has been in the hands of the Kennedy family since 1953, four years before my birth. The last time the Republicans won a Federal senate race in Massachusetts was in 1972 when I was 15 years old. Against all the odds Scott Brown has engineered the political upset of this century. In November he trailed Martha Coakley by 30 points. He has run a superb campaign and she has run an abysmal one, but the key issue has been his opposition to ObamaCare. If ObamaCare is a losing issue in Massachusetts, in what State in the Union can it be a winning issue? Brown 52; Coakley 47; Kennedy 1. That is my prediction. What is yours?
Martha Coakley Fought To Keep Innocent People Behind Bars
That a Republican candidate is within reasonable striking distance of winning the US Senate seat which until recently was filled by the late Ted Kennedy underscores what a horrifically bad job the state Democratic Party did in selecting their candidate. State attorney general Martha Coakley has rapidly gained a national reputation for saying incredibly stupid things. As it turns out, however, there are serious reasons why no reasonable person, of either political party, should want to see Coakley in higher office.
Many remember the wave of bizarre day care child abuse cases which swept the country in the '80s, featuring headline hungry prosecutors taking children to "recovered memory" counseling sessions in order to "discover" abuse which had been perpetrated upon them. Clinton era attorney general Janet Reno made her made her career, in part, by successfully prosecuting cases of ritual child abuse — which later turned out to be false charges.
One of the first of these highly publicized cases in which therapists extracted accusations of ritual abuse from very young children was the Amirault case in Malden, Massachusetts. Dorothy Rabinowitz (who received her 2001 Pulitzer Prize in part for her work in exposing ritual abuse witch hunts that resulted in false convictions) writes about how as Middlesex County district attorney, Martha Coakley fought to keep the surviving members of the Amirault family behind bars even it became clear that the charges against them were false: Continue reading
Coakley: Faithful Catholics Shouldn't Work In Emergency Rooms
"Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don't want to do that.
Martha Coakley: No we have a separation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.
Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.
Martha Coakley: (…stammering) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn't work in the emergency room."
A charming sentiment from Martha Coakley running for the Senate seat in Massachusetts. For this gem, I award Ms. Coakley the second American Catholic Know-Nothing Award. If I were living in Massachusetts, I would be out next Tuesday to cast my vote against this bigot.
Now This, This Would be a Sign of the Apocalypse!
A Republican may be elected to serve out Ted Kennedy's unexpired term? It could happen! Public Policy Polling, a Democrat leaning polling outfit shows the election a toss up between the Democrat Coakley and the Republican Brown. Scott Rasmussen, the best political pollster in the business in my opinion, shows Coakley up by two. Last week he showed her up by nine. On Monday Brown raised over a million dollars in one day in internet donations.
If Brown wins the Senate race in the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts, it will send a political shock wave across this country the like of which hasn't been seen in many a year. If Ted Kennedy's senate seat isn't safe, what seat is safe for the Democrats? Oh, I don't believe that I should call it Ted Kennedy's seat per Mr. Brown.


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