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In his first year in the Canadian Football League, Levi Steinhauer and the Saskatchewan Roughriders won a Grey Cup.
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Levi Steinhauer, centre, takes part in the Riders' pre-game walkthrough Wednesday at Mosaic Stadium last season..
Now heading into his second season, Steinhauer's ambition is make the starting lineup.
"I am just looking forward to going into the first pre-season game and just show what I have done throughout the off-season," said Steinhauer. "I want to win that job that I am trying to go for right now."
Steinhauer will be the starting long snapper for the Riders in their pre-season game today against the Ottawa RedBlacks. He will mostly like be the starter this season after Cory Huclack retired in the off-season.
Throughout the off-season, the 23-year-old Moose Jaw native worked hard on improving himself and getting stronger.
"I tried to add a little bit of weight this off-season and I worked pretty hard at that. I just wanted to focus more on long snapping," he said. "I knew that was where this season was hopefully headed. I worked on that a fair bit and I'm hoping that will show."
The Riders have been up in Saskatoon for the past two weeks, where they held training camp.
Despite some off-season changes with Kory Sheets and Weston Dressler heading to the National Football League, Steinhauer is comfortable with where the team is headed.
"It has been a good two weeks and we have been working really hard. We look good at this point, I think," he said. "We have a really good dynamic going right now. We had a good camp and we are all ready to get going and get these pre-season games going and get the season underway. I am really looking forward to that."
After reaching and winning the Grey Cup in his rookie season, Steinhauer had to deal with something completely different heading into his second season. The new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which was just ratified by both the players and the league, was a learning process for Steinhauer.
"Last season we went all the way to the Grey Cup and winning it was a big thing. It is a lot to do in your first season. It was very enjoyable and it was a great first season," he explained. "And now this season with the CBA, there was a lot to know there. It is going to affect us young guys and our future. It was a lot, but you grow up quickly and look more into the future."
Having the CBA negotiations ongoing throughout camp was distracting, but Steinhauer tried his best to focus on his on-field duties and allow the team representatives to do their work.
"It was a little bit distracting all throughout camp because it was always looming there, but it is done now — whether good or bad — so, we will take what we got now and go from there," he said. "It is now about getting into the season and get things going."
The coaching staff also helped keep him and his fellow players focused on getting prepared for the new season.
"They just kept us on track," he said. "Even throughout the off-season, they stayed in contact and in training camp, they told us to forget about the CBA and let that work itself out and just concentrate on what we can and focus on what is ahead of us. They kept us on track really well and I think it will pay off."
Although the Riders have undergone multiple changes from the team that won the Grey Cup in Regina last season, the goal remains the same.
"The goal every year is to get back to the Grey Cup and try and win the Grey Cup," said Steinhauer. "That is our ultimate goal."
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Monday: Daily Activities, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; 8-ball pool tournament, 10 a.m. $5.
Tuesday: Daily Activities, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; 11 a.m. (Clovis); Bingo, 1 p.m. (Clovis); 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Sewing (Portales)
Wednesday: Daily Activities 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sewing group, 10 a.m. (Clovis)
Thursday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Daily activities; Loteria (Spanish bingo),1 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Daily activities; 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Jam session (Clovis); 1 p.m.-3 p.m., Sewing (Portales)
Daily: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Daily activities: Quilting and sewing, coffee and socializing, exercise equipment, 8-ball, 9-ball, computer and Internet, crafts, ceramics, quilting, embroidery, puzzles, card games, board games and massage therapy chairs.
Friendship Senior Center
901 West 13th St., Clovis
Monday: Exercise equipment; Coffee klatch, 9 a.m.-11 a.m.; 8-ball pool.
Tuesday: Exercise equipment; Coffee klatch, 9 a.m.-11 a.m.; Business meeting, 3:30 p.m.; Fun night, B-Day, 4 p.m.
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Today's Wall Street Journal has a lucid and compelling op/ed by Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute entitled "How to Increase the Crime Rate Nationwide."
In a politically incorrect piece, she argues why the likely outcome in New York's widely followed "stop, question and frisk" case, presently before a United States District Court, might well have disastrous results far beyond the borders of Gotham or the Empire State.
The case, as generally reported, involves the New York Police Department's practice of "stopping, questioning, and sometimes frisking individuals engaged in suspicious behavior." What invariably accompanies reports about the case, and the NYPD's practices, is that Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionately large percentage of the individuals who are "stopped, questioned and frisked." Blacks comprised 55% of those stopped by the police in 2012 while they are only 23% of the population of the city.
At first blush, and the thrust of the plaintiffs' --the Center for Constitutional Rights-- arguments, is that a stop rate at more than double the African American population of the city is prima facie evidence of racism at work.
What MacDonald so cogently points out is that the prevalent narrative and the selectively reported data don't explain what is really going on.
Some jaw dropping facts help explain why so many Blacks and Hispanics are the subject of "stop, question and frisk." MacDonald points out that "Blacks, for example, constituted 78% of shooting suspects and 74% of all shooting victims in 2012, even though they are less than 23% of the city's population." Whites, by contrast, committed just over 2% of shootings and were under 3% of shooting victims in 2012, though they are 35% of the populace." The numbers are staggering and support an unusual argument that Blacks may, in fact, be underrepresented in terms of "stops" at 55% compared to their preponderance among those committing crimes (78% of shooting suspects).
I suspect that the first response of those who are uncomfortable with these data is to assert that the NYPD disproportionately arrests Blacks and Hispanics for violent crimes due to the pervasive racism that infected law enforcement agencies for decades. The argument posits that cops in New York target visible minorities for arrest skewing the system of justice and the arrest demographics.
But that argument loses its cogency in the light of two particular data points. The first is that 74% of all shooting victims in New York in 2012 were Black, hardly a number that could be manufactured by even the most racist of police departments unless they were busy shooting up minority neighborhoods. The likelihood that most of the perpetrators of those all too numerous shootings are also Black is self-evident. Crimes tend to cluster in communities.
An even more compelling counter to the argument that the crime data is skewed by a racist and ossified NYPD is the very demographic change that has transformed the department--- as it has numerous other ones across the country. The historic image of a white, corpulent New York cop oozing hostility is an anachronism.
As of the end of 2012 a majority of the NYPD's rank and file officers was minority (e.g. Black, Latino or Asian) for the first time ever. While the overall majority of NYPD cops is white (53%), the cops on the beat (those most likely to make "stop, question and frisk" decisions) are majority minority. The likelihood of a majority minority police force systematically selecting minorities to harass on a scale that produces the numbers at play here (i.e. more than double their percentage of the population) strains credulity.
Another uncomfortable fact, one that has little sway in Federal court, is that the process as practiced by the NYPD works! Since it was instituted in the early 1990s, "New York has experienced the longest and steepest crime drop in the modern history of policing. Murders have gone down by nearly 80%, and combined major felonies by nearly 75%."
Also often overlooked in the passionate discussion of "minority profiling" is that the major beneficiaries of the policy and the drop in crime are the residents of the formerly crime plagued areas. "Minorities make up nearly 80% of the drop in homicide victims since the early 1990s. New York policing has transformed inner-city neighborhoods and allowed their hardworking members a once unthinkable freedom from fear."
MacDonald correctly warns that the plaintiffs' success in New York would encourage similar law suits around the country; actions that could undermine the astonishing advances that have been made in law enforcement and crime prevention in big cities over the past two decades.
It would be a shame if in the pursuit of a well-intentioned effort to protect minorities and their rights that they would become the people who are once again consigned to a life of fear, violence and death. That benefits no one.
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Andhra Pradesh News on January 2, 2014
January 2, 2014 - Hyderabad
- Telangana process should continue, said AICC secretary RC Kuntia
The process of formation of Telangana should not be stopped in spite of the efforts by a section of leaders to create obstacle, said AICC secretary RC Kuntia. He said that the Congress leadership has taken a decision on the issue and it should go ahead with it irrespective of whether the State Legislature passes the draft bill AP State Reorganization Bill 2013 that was referred to by the President of India. He flagged off the yatra undertaken by party senior leader V Hanumantha Rao on Thursday morning at Kadtal. Hanumantha Rao charged both the TDP and YSRCP for taking a U-turn on the bifurcation issue after they gve their consent initially. He said that the AICC president Sonia Gandhi had promised of formation of a separate State in 2004 manifesto and had kept her word in spite of pressure mounted, he said.
- High Court seeks information on Chittoor district water scheme
A Division Bench of the AP High Court on Thursday directed the State Government to file an affidavit explaining whether legislative sanction was necessary for implementing the Chittoor district water scheme that cost to Rs.7,390 crore. Dealing with a PIL filed by TRS MLA T Harish Rao who contended that no approval was obtained from the Cabinet and it is required for such scheme since money was to be allocated from consolidated funds.
- Two sarpanches arrested in Red sanders smuggling
The arrest of two sarpanches in Red sandlers smuggling came to reality at a time where there was a hue and cry over involvemn4 of political leaders in the activity. The Tirupati police on a tip-off raided a location near Cherukuvaripalle village and seized a mini lorry with red sanders logs worth over Rs.2 crore and resulted in the arrest of three persons whose revelation led to the arrest of two sarpanches. One of the sarpanches owing allegiance to YSRCP and having high profile background has been involved in smuggling since 2007. He has five cases so far in Yarravaripalem police station all booked in between 2010-12 and there was no let-up in the operations ever since he became a sarpanch, said sources.
- Fire brings 180 huts to ashes Union Minister Pallam Raju assures help
A major fire accident at Duimmlapeta in the outskirts of Kakinada in the early hours of Thursday brought 180 huts to ashes but no casualties were reported in the incident. Fire broke out when the residents' almost daily labourers were fast asleep. A woman sustained burns and was admitted to the government general hospital where her condition was said to be stable. The district administration opened a relief camp at AMG International School and provided food and shelter. Union Minister Pallam Raju visited the camp assured them of all help. Collector Neetu Prasad said arrangements would be made to issue ration and Aadhaar cards and estimated loss was about Rs.30 lakh.
- NIT student attempts suicide bid
A suicide bid by a first year student of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal on the campus led to commotion among the students. Nitya Ramachandran, a first year B.Tech student reportedly consumed some tablets allegedly being disappointed with her marks she got in the first semester examination. NIT Director T Srinivasa Rao said that her roommates say that she was under severe academic pressure. He said that she attempted to this step on Wednesday late in the night and she is undergoing treatment and out of danger said the Director.
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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.
The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
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More councils to insist on permits for roadworks
More councils are going to introduce permits for utility companies before they can start digging up the road.
The idea is to improve co-ordination between utility companies, so they might actually do work at the same time – a radical idea. Four local councils in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex will join the existing participants in Kent, Northamptonshire, London, St Helens and Yorkshire.
The scheme, will give four councils more powers to co-ordinate road works and take tough action against companies who break the rules - including issuing fines of up to £5,000. The scheme requires anyone carrying out road works to apply for a permit in advance and allows councils to set conditions on timing, co-ordination and the amount of road space left available to road users.
Companies who work without a permit or break the conditions will be fined.
Transport Minister Norman Baker said: "We are determined to tackle problem road works and make sure that those who dig up the road are made accountable when disruption occurs."
These councils will monitor their schemes to make sure they are producing benefits for local residents and feeding this information back to the Department for Transport.
It sounds good, but it will take a lot to change the culture of utility companies. Near our office in London, a major road, was partly closed for five months while it was resurfaced and new pavements were put in. We had a sweepstake in the office as to how long the pristine new surface would last before the first hole was dug. The winner? The guy with three weeks.


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Research Activities March 2013, No. 391
Self-management programs for patients with diabetes have a positive impact
Chronic Disease
Primary care providers face numerous barriers to optimizing care for patients with diabetes. Automated telephone self-management (ATSM) accompanied by nurse care management is an example of a health information technology tool that can assist with self-management support in diabetes care. A second type of self-management support program to address this area is characterized by group medical visits (GMVs) with physician and health educator facilitation. When researchers compared each of these programs to the usual care (UC) provided by patients' primary care clinics, they found that primary care providers classified more patients exposed to ATSM (58.7 percent) and GMV (52.6 percent) as likely to engage in health-related goal setting than UC patients (33.3 percent).
The researchers surveyed 87 primary care providers caring for 245 patients with diabetes enrolled in one of these three programs. The providers rated the quality of care as poor or bad for 37.2 percent of their UC patients, 26.9 percent of GMV patients, and 14.3 percent of ATSM patients. Providers also reported that patients exposed to ATSM were helped more with respect to the barrier of limited English proficiency than were those patients exposed to GMVs (82 percent vs. 44 percent). This study was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS14864).
See "Primary care provider perceptions of the effectiveness of two self-management support programs for vulnerable patients with diabetes," by Neda Ratanawongsa, M.D., Vijay K. Bhandari, M.D., Margaret Handley, Ph.D., and others in the January 2012 Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology 6(1), pp. 116-124.
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Junior/Senior Scholars
Established in 1988, Junior/Senior Scholars is a comprehensive college readiness program that partners with high-need elementary and secondary schools in Aurora and Chicago. The program directly supports hundreds of students each year with tutoring and mentoring services, while providing small group and school-wide programs to more than 4,000 students. The goal of the Scholars program is to consistently provide students in under-resourced communities with the support they need to graduate from high school and then college. The program is staffed by 200 students from North Central College. As mentors and tutors to Junior and Senior Scholars, the North Central students become part of the solution to closing the achievement gap, and many are inspired to teach at high-need schools.
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A massive river snaking over the surface of Titan, one of Saturn's moons, looks like the Nile River and means the moon may be geologically active. Titan -- believed to be the body most similar to Earth in the solar system -- is too cold for water, but hydrocarbons such as ethane flow in its lakes and streams. "Usually when we look at another planet, we're cautioned not to bring our Earth experience too much to bear, because we might fool ourselves," said NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher Thomas Farr. "But here we look at a completely alien world and it looks just like the Earth. It's hard to believe."
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Suu Kyi arrives in Japan after 27 years
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- April 13, 2013
AUNG San Suu Kyi has arrived in Japan, her first visit to the country where she spent time as a university researcher nearly three decades ago.
A group of well-wishers including Burmese gathered at Tokyo's Narita airport to greet Ms Suu Kyi, now her country's opposition leader, but were denied the chance to meet her as she left through a backdoor.
"I respect her like my mother," one of Burmese women said in an interview with public broadcaster NHK.
"I want to tell her that I support her strongly."
During her six-day trip, the Nobel laureate is expected to have meetings with some of the approximately 10,000 Burmese who live in Japan, as well as with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida.
It is Ms Suu Kyi's first visit to Japan since spending time as a researcher at Kyoto University in 1985-86.
But a leader of about 200 of Burma's Muslim minority Rohingya in Japan has expressed disappointment after being told his community was not wanted at events welcoming Ms Suu Kyi.
The Rohingya have been described by the UN as one of the world's most persecuted minorities.
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Fayetteville PD puts gangs on Double Secret Probation
The Fayetteville Police Department has hit upon the ultimate solution to crime. The restraining order!
The Fayetteville Police Department obtained a court order on Thursday that told local gangs to quit breaking the law and to stay away from the annual Fayetteville Dogwood Festival over the weekend.
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Hey, all you kids, stop breaking the law!
If they violate his order, they could be found in contempt of court and subject to punishment, such as jail time.
The order expires Sunday, and a hearing on what to do further is scheduled for Monday in Cumberland County Superior Court.
This polar bear tells you what he thinks of this plan.
Hey, here's an idea. If they are dangerous, catch them breaking the law and put them in jail! It's so simple! People in jail cannot come to the Dogwood Festival!
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The (Anti) Hero of Canton gets a well deserved boot
The disgraceful piece of trash that was "Officer" Harless is now in need of new employment. One hopes that since he was fired that he will not be able to get another job as a police officer anywhere.
A city police officer at the center of a controversial traffic stop involving a man with a permit to carry a concealed handgun has been fired.
Bill Adams, president of the Canton Police Patrolmen's Association, the union that represents Patrolman Daniel Harless, confirmed that city Safety Director Thomas Ream ruled that Harless is no longer a member of the city's police force.
Bill Adams, president of the Canton Police Patrolmen's Association, the union that represents Patrolman Daniel Harless, confirmed that city Safety Director Thomas Ream ruled that Harless is no longer a member of the city's police force.
One also hopes that his appeal fails and he stays fired.
It's good that we don't have to send the REAL Hero of Canton in to sort the situation out.
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This is why only cops should have guns
The gun grabbers often whine that only cops are mentally stable and well trained enough to handle the grave responsibility of firearms.
Erin Marie Cobb has been hospitalized since Sept. 24, when her ex-husband, (Suspect), shot her in an apparent murder-suicide attempt.
The shooting happened at Cobb's home in Davidson, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. (Suspect) apparently shot Cobb in the neck and then shot himself.
So what do they say about this? Did he magically lose all his mental stability and training the moment he resigned from the force about a year ago?
The badge and uniform aren't a magical shield that elevates mere mortals into demigods. They are merely symbols of the office entrusted to them by the public. You have no less right than the police to defend your own life.
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Detention Officer charged
This morning I posted about an incident where a Mecklinburg County Sheriff's detention officer took a shot at someone who rear ended him and ran. Well it looks like they decided to charge him.
An off-duty Mecklenburg Sheriff's detention officer who fired at a vehicle that rear-ended his car Monday has been charged.
(Suspect), who's been with the sheriff's office for 13 years, was issued a criminal summons to appear in court for shooting a firearm in the city limits. He's also charged with an infraction for failure to disclose that he had a valid permit and was carrying a concealed weapon when approached by an officer.
Now I wonder if I'd have got off so lightly, but at least he got charged. You can't shoot at a fleeing person unless he poses an immediate threat to the lives of innocents.
Police say they located the jeep — a rental vehicle that had been reported stolen — on Monday on Wilkinson Boulevard near Interstate 485. Investigators are still not clear if any of the vehicle's occupants were struck by gunfire.
Stolen car? That sounds like why they ran. Hopefully they will catch the hit-and-run car thieves. Their explanation should be interesting.
Here's a thought. If you can't be charged with failure to register a gun (in states that have gun registries) if you are a felon because that would be a violation of your 5th Amendment right against self incrimination, can you get off on a hit-and-run if your car is stolen? If you stay at the scene, the cops would catch you with a stolen car. Isn't forcing them to stay at the scene tantamount to forcing them to confess to car theft?
And why is it that criminals always seem to get more rights than decent honest citizens?
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If it was you or me, we'd go to jail
UPDATE: Detention Officer Charged.
Let's say someone rear ends you and tries to drive away. Would you be legally justified in shooting at him? This isn't an idle question. A Concealed Handgun Permit holder did just that in Charlotte.
As the SUV drove away, (Shooter) got out of his car and chased after it. He fired his personal weapon at least twice, Fey said. The SUV continued to drive away and left heading towards I-85. Fey said that investigators don't know if (Shooter) hit the SUV or any of its occupants.
So are NCGV and the other gun grabbers right? Does the presence of a gun lead to violence over fender benders? Well, there's just one problem with that. This guy has a badge.
(Shooter), a detention officer who's been with the sheriff's office for 13 years, was riding in a sedan when a light-colored SUV rear-ended the vehicle.
Was he handcuffed and shipped to his own county lockup for shooting at a fleeing car while he was off duty?
The Sheriff's Office is also investigating, even though (Shooter) was off-duty. Its findings, plus the results of CMPD's investigation, could determine if (Shooter) keeps his job
He might lose his job. You and I would lose our freedom, but he's only worried that he might lose his job. Something's wrong with that.
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What do you do when your rights are violated by a cop?
How strange. He almost sounds like a firearms rights advocate. Or my dad.
The problem is, if everybody acquiesces to a violation of our rights, do we still have the right? I would argue that unless the right is exercised, it doesn't exist. Therefore, when a law enforcement officer is enforcing laws that don't exist, it is incumbent upon us to stand up for our rights.
What's really strange is that he's talking about bicycles. Two guys were out riding their bikes and got harassed, tasered, and beat down by a cop who thought bikes should stay off the road.
RTWT. It will remind you that we aren't alone in this problem.
Ht: Radley Balko
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I wonder what the punishment for 1500 guns would be?
Let's say you've just gotten a prison term and fine for attempted gun smuggling.
A Fayetteville man was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $4,000 for attempting to smuggle three pistols from North Carolina into Kosovo.
And this was for three handguns, so you have to be thinking, well, the ATF let about 1500 guns go, so the prison term and fine are going to be astronomical.
The ATF allowed at least 500 times as many guns go south, so that means the punishment should work out to 750 years in jail and $2 Million.
Sounds about right to me.
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Gay basher not properly dealt with in Asheville?
Asheville, NC is widely considered a really gay friendly place. So why did this happen?
Asheville police plan to charge a second person in connection with an assault last week that investigators labeled a hate crime.
The second person is 15 years old, so no name has been released, but the first suspect has been charged with felony Assault Inflicting Serious Injury. Not surprisingly, a person who thinks it's appropriate to punch a guy in the face because he thinks the guy is gay is a person who seems to have a cavalier attitude about following other social norms.
What's more disturbing is the fact that instead of arresting the suspect, he was cited and released.
Hankins [the victim] went to the police station later Thursday to ask about the investigation and learned that the officer who responded did not file a report, Welch said.
An anonymous tip helped police locate the suspect. (Suspect) was released on a written promise to appear in court.
In what other situation would you be able to punch a dude in the face, causing broken bones, and then walk on a "promise to appear?"
Contrast this outcome with the situation that happened in DC and reflect for a moment on the fact that in North Carolina, unlike DC, you can actually get a permit to carry. When people get together in groups for the purpose of attacking anyone, they deserve to be shot.
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I was all set to trash the guy and then I read all the way through
Let us specify up front that if these allegations are correct, the trooper should be fired.
A state trooper has been assigned to desk duty after a Catawba County judge issued a domestic violence protective order requiring him to stay 100 yards away from a former girlfriend.
According to court records, the woman contends that Senior Trooper Sean "Bobby" Lineberger stalked her in his patrol car and that he ran checks on the license plate numbers of people she spent time with.
In her court filing, Erin Lee Banks included pages of text and Facebook messages in which the trooper called her a "whore" and other derogatory names, even as she repeatedly asked to be left alone.
Banks also claims Lineberger bought her drinks at a Mexican eatery where he asked her to date him again. After she declined and left in her car, Banks claims Lineberger had another trooper pull her on her way home.
If that's what he really did, then his swift and ignominious exit from the State Highway Patrol is nothing more than he deserves. At a minimum his best friend would also deserve the most severe sanctions short of dismissal.
Of course, then I read about what she did.
In a lawsuit filed in December, Lineberger claims Banks falsely told him he was the father of her baby born last summer. The trooper was identified as the baby's father on the birth certificate and the child has his last name.
But Lineberger claims he grew suspicious because the infant "does not bear any resemblance to" him or his family, so he had a DNA test performed. The results ruled him out as the father, according to the complaint.
Um, WTF? According to the story, the trooper alternated between demanding repayment of child support and getting back together.
It sounds to me that they both deserve each other. She works for Catawba County, in the Justice Center. I think that we would do well to dismiss both of them.
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Teh ebil Airsofts
Did you know that the police in Avondale, Arizona have so conquered crime that they now have time to go undercover to seize Airsoft guns?
Avondale police seized 17 replicas of military-style weapons and want the public to be aware of the dangers the weapons pose, authorities said.
All of the weapons, which were seized during a traffic stop that was part of an undercover operation, either are fake or air-soft weapons that fire plastic pellet, Avondale police spokesman Reuben Gonzales said. They appear so realistic in size, weight and other physical characteristics that "they could fool even the most savvy gun enthusiast."
What's going on in Avondale? Have they given up on dangerous crime and instead are focusing on Airsoft kiddies?
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Interesting...Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study SaysThe Number of People Who Say They Have No One to Confide In Has RisenBy Shankar VedantamWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, June 23, 2006; A03Americans are far more socially isolated today than they were two decadesago, and a sharply growing number of people say they have no one in whomthey can confide, according to a comprehensive new evaluation of the declineof social ties in the United States.A quarter of Americans say they have no one with whom they can discusspersonal troubles, more than double the number who were similarly isolatedin 1985. Overall, the number of people Americans have in their closestcircle of confidants has dropped from around three to about two.The comprehensive new study paints a sobering picture of an increasinglyfragmented America, where intimate social ties -- once seen as an integralpart of daily life and associated with a host of psychological and civicbenefits -- are shrinking or nonexistent. In bad times, far more peopleappear to suffer alone.< - >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201763.html?sub=new
Yeah, I know that feeling. Toss low energy and a hint of agoraphobia on a person, and add wireless internet and a PS2, and its a recipe for the serious sad.
I confide in you guys. Where's the "deadpan serious" emoticon?Seriously.In terms of steady friends in my life, they seem to still love the whole drink-smoke-screw-faux-fabulous crap. Yup, even the poz ones. I have zero or minimal tolerance for insipid predictability (13 years and counting). When I log on to these forums, I never know who'll say what to get me thinking or cause my jaw to drop,etc . So thanks. Really. 8)
I saw of this study on CBS Evening News last night. The good news about that bad news is that at least I know now I'm not alone in that predicament.People indeed may be very busy...but generally one can make the time if they so choose. Trying to get to know someone who takes three weeks to return a phone call for example...doesn't work. Can't build any continuity with someone that way. Again...people will do what they want to do I guess.Gary
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The Guardian: A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland. Kayvan Sabeghi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later. Sabeghi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October. On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland >>>06-Nov-2011
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Your pretensions to be "an all-American citizen" is nuasiating.
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If you're an American, you should appreciate him and kiss his ass, because he did what you either weren't good enough or didn't have the guts or the desire to do. He swore and served to defend your nation, the one that guaranties your right to spew all the crap you want out of your mouth.
And if you aren't, then who the F--- are you to judge his service to the United States of America.
Until a singular global government is established, every nation needs soldiers. And if those soldiers are misused or abused, it certainly isn't the soldier's fault or on his/her bad Karma.
You need to check your Karma, Arj...
These people should've taken to the streets when it still wasn't too late instead of playing pawn to those who exploited them in fighting their unjust war under the false pretences, while at the same time, not only kept hush-hush on the incremental financial plunder of their nation, but enabled the looters to dig further into their national wealth through expansion of de-regulations!
I hope he recovers, fully.
This is what you get for going to push the agenda of the riches in the foreign land.
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The Amarillo Sox's struggles continued Friday night as the Wichita Wingnuts pounded out 20 hits to hand the Sox their sixth straight loss, 10-4, in American Association action before 3,611 at Lawrence Dumont Stadium in Wichita, Kan.
The Sox are 18-34, falling 17½ games behind South Division leading Wichita (36-17).
Wichita built an 8-2 lead by the fourth inning, and eventually every starter in the lineup came up with a hit.
Wichita outfielder Brent Clevlen hit his seventh homer of the season, and teammates Taylor Oldham and Trevor Whyte each had three RBIs.
Sox starter Jake Feckley (0-1) allowing 13 hits and eight earned run in four innings of work.
Amarillo's Joe Weik led a 12-hit attack with two home runs.
The Sox continue their six-game road trip at 7:05 p.m. today, playing Wichita in game two of this three-game series. Amarillo is 0-4 on the road trip.
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Feckley, Linares (5), Maxon (7), Patton (8) and Farnham, Henk (5). Link, Bennett (8), Williams (9) and McMurray. W—Link 7-2. L—Feckley 0-1. 2B—Amarillo: Martin 2; Wichita: Clevlen, McMurray, Oldham. 3B—Wichita: Testa. HR—Amarillo: Weik 2 (3); Wichita Clevlen (7). Records: Amarillo 18-34; Wichita 36-17.


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These melt-in-your-mouth puffs will become a favorite, so light and cheesy, I aways make lots of these, but no matter how many I make, it's just never enough, they go so fast. (note: plan ahead, these puffs need to chill overnight)
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The Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Program Committee invites chemistry majors to submit applications for consideration for the following scholarships, which recognize achievement in chemistry:
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Can you sing?
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 28th, you could become a supa stahhhh. Who needs American Idol when you can have Shea Anthem Idol? (According to Ron Darling and Gary Cohen, SNY's Gary Apple will be the "Paula Abdul"-esque judge.) Auditions to sing the American Anthem at Shea are taking place at SNY's Rockefeller Plaza studios.
Lest our dear Ron Darling feel left out of my commentary-appreciation-blogging, I give you these bon mots from last night's (yay) win against the Dodgers. Spurred on by talking about the Anthem auditions, we got the following:
Gary: Every once in a while, yes, I will sing a few bars in the shower. Sometimes even on the air. But nobody requests it.
Ron: I'm a car singer. If I'm driving by myself in the car, I am letting. It. Go.
Gary: So you're singing along.
Ron: Along with the song. And I'm sounding fantastic.
Gary: Of course. 'Cause you can't hear yourself.
Ron: Exactly.
And the rocket's red glare….
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I didn't catch all of tonight's victory against the Orioles, but boy did I tune in at a fine moment.
My friends, if this game is any indication, we can expect some prime Keith Hernandez/Gary Cohen doozies in our futures. Of course, I hope the team tightens its play and works out the kinks. But at least Keith and Gary will make sure the smiles stay on viewers faces. Witness:
Keith: I have got the most delicious Tootsie Pop. I haven't had one in so long.
Gary: What flavor you got?
Keith: What's this, cherry? Ahhh.
Gary: Do you—do you bite them?
Keith: When you get near the chocolate in the end, then you have to. I have no patience.
Gary: Well, we already know that. But do you bite them?
Keith: Uh, yes. Viciously. And I'm very professional. I don't chew during a broadcast. [Points to Tootsie Pop.] I'll get after this during commercial.
Gary: You'll be licking it until we get to between innings, and then you'll be crunching down on it, is that it? (Three-and-oh now to Beltran.)
Keith: You loved these when you were a kid, didn't you?
Gary: I love them now.
Keith: Jeez.
Gary: But I would find it very difficult to coordinate speaking and dealing with the Tootsie Pop.
Keith: I don't have a problem with that.
Gary: I think you have a great talent in this area. I'm envious.
What's more? Tonight we learned that Keith's added purple to his scorecard palette. Hot.
I'll be back soon. But until then, I'll leave you with Keith. Contemplating the Tootsie. xoxo.


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High Point University dedicates R.G. Wanek Center
October 17, 2013-- Furniture Today,
HIGH POINT — Earlier this year, Ron Wanek gave $10 million to High Point University through his charitable foundation.
Ron Wanek, left, is joined by his wife Joyce, daughter-in law Karen Wanek and son Todd Wanek following an Oct. 16 ceremony dedicating the R.G. Wanek Center on the campus of High Point University.
On Wednesday, the school recognized the Ashley Furniture Inds. founder with the dedication of the R.G. Wanek Center, the largest facility on the sprawling campus. The event was attended by Wanek's colleagues, political dignitaries and members of the academic community.
"This university has the same values that Ron Wanek lives by on a daily basis. They believe in capitalism; they believe in free enterprise; they believe in the art of the possible," said Todd Wanek, Ashley president and CEO and Ron Wanek's son. "They believe that everything is an opportunity. That's who Ron Wanek is. He's giving back to this university because this is a great institution. They believe in the same things and have the same values we have."
Nido Qubein, HPU president, called the elder Wanek a philanthropist and broke down the meaning of the word, which means friend of humankind in Greek.
"What would a university be if not for men and women who believe in the cause? What would an institution of higher learning be if not for men and women who are willing to share the blessings that God has so amply bestowed upon them? Thank God for philanthropists. To be a friend of humankind; is there a cause more noble?" Qubein said.
"Tonight is not about some event on a college campus. Tonight it is about you and me celebrating the goodness that free enterprise and capitalism brought our way. Let us not forget that in America, greatness still can happen. High Point University is but one example."
Paul Broyhill, retired president and CEO of manufacturer Broyhill, said that in the early days of the industry, companies challenged one another to reach the $100 million sales plateau. Years later, he said, Ashley eclipsed them all.
"In the late '70s and early '80s, we three or four (companies) had gotten our volumes up to $300 and $400 million and we thought that was fantastic. In those days, there was a little company, Ashley, way up in Wisconsin, who had heard of them? They were doing about $30 million. Who would ever think these great names like Broyhill, Bassett, Thomasville and Drexel and many others would be disappearing but yet little Ashley is not so little anymore," Broyhill said. "When I mentioned the volume of $100 million sounding important to us, he doesn't deal in hundred millions, he deals in billions. He built a business that surpasses by far anything anyone in the furniture business has ever done."
Following the remarks, the gathering of around 600 met in front of the newly named Wanek Center for the center's formal naming.
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Hedicans frustration growing with back injury
The window for Bret Hedican to return to the lineup keeps getting smaller, and his frustration is getting larger.
Hedican has suffered setbacks in his recovery from a back injury and was not scheduled to leave with the team Monday for a three-game road trip. The veteran defenseman recently got a second medical injection near the sciatica nerve that alleviated the pain, but he didn't respond well.
Hedican, who won a Stanley Cup with Carolina in 2006, can only watch as his teams fights for a postseason berth.
"It's been a frustrating four weeks because I know the desperation," Hedican said. "I love this time of year. Your body's not responding like you want it to. It breaks my heart, to be honest with you."
Hedican (below, No.3) likely suffered the injury when he was tripped up into the boards against St. Louis on Dec.28. He missed the next game, played the following 21 games but has not played since Feb.26.
He is trying to put together consecutive days of recovering well, but his back has flared up wildly on some occasions.
"Every time I stride I can't feel it in my left leg," he said. "If you don't have any power in your leg, it's hard to go play in the National Hockey League. I don't care if you're 21-years old or you're my age (38), you've got to be close to 100 percent to go out there and be effective."
Should Hedican respond well enough, he could re-join the Ducks on the road trip. Coach Randy Carlyle said the best-case scenario for his return would likely be Saturday at San Jose.
Hedican is trying to maintain a positive outlook.
"You know there's light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "There's been days where the tunnel's been pretty black for me. But there's days like yesterday where, after a tough day of skating and after feeling really bummed out after the skate, the next day I felt good enough to get back out on the ice again.
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A Zogby Poll was conducted recently that discovered nothing ground-breaking about what liberals and conservatives like in their entertainment. For instance, conservatives like Fox News and liberals like Comedy Central. Duh, right?
But in their quizzical, quizzing endeavours they also discovered that conservatives, or 'reds' as they call them, were attracted to Madden and Mario games, while liberals, or 'blues,' enjoy Mario and Sims games. Purples are moderates who are likely to pick Madden, Mario, or Donkey Kong.
So they basically discovered that everyone likes Mario, most people like Madden, and moderates play games that no one else plays any more.
Where's the Halo? Where's the GTA? Did they do this poll in 1998?
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- Foxwood Farms features an open, rolling forty acre pasture with old growth pine and hardwood stands which provide shade and shelter during turnout.
- A permanent 20x60 meter dressage ring with crushed bluestone footing is shaded by a pair of venerable pine trees.
- The 100x200' jump ring has in and out gates with plenty of room for courses and grids. Two jumps lead out of the ring and onto the cross country courses. A variety of show jumps, poles and cavaletti are available for use including flower boxes, a liverpool and assorted gates and panels.
- The cross country course features jumps from Beginner level to Training/Preliminary level. This beautiful course includes a bank complex, water jump with multiple entry and exit options, ditches, a mound, roll-tops and more...everything you need to prepare your horse for the competition season.
- Foxwood Farms hosts a variety of shows and clinics throughout the year. Well-known eventing clinicians such as past Olympian Jimmy Wofford, among others, have been periodically available to share their expertise.
- Susan and her students successfully compete at USEA Recognized Events, USDF Recognized Dressage Shows and schooling shows across the southeast.


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Katherine S. Newman is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University. A widely published expert on poverty and the working poor, she was previously Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University.
She is the author of books on topics ranging from urban poverty to middle class economic insecurity to school violence. Her book, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City was awarded the Sidney Hillman Book Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award when it was published in 2000. No Shame in My Game was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, as was Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings – her book on the mini-epidemic of mass murders on high school campuses in the 1990s, published by Basic Books.
Professor Newman's most recent book is After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa written in collaboration with Ariane De Lannoy. It was published by Beacon Press in April 2014, on the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid in South Africa. Her other books include Falling From Grace, A Different Shade of Grey, The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (co-authored with Victor Tan Chen) and The Accordion Family.
Her new book, Learning to Labor in the 21st Century, which she is writing with Hella Winston, will be published by Metropolitan Books in 2015.
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A pox on both parties
Gallup's latest poll shows that at least in the universe of those polled, neither the GOP or the Democratic party are held in very high esteem. It's something that I and Billy Hollis have been trying to get across for some time.
What you're seeing out there among the teeming masses isn't necessarily a movement (I'm talking the Tea Party, etc) that wants to put the GOP in power. It is a movement that is sick and tired of the way the country has been run and at the moment Republicans are considered to be slightly better because of their fiscal principles.
But, as Lisa Murkowski can tell you, not even all of them are acceptable.
I'm not speaking for the Tea Party, I'm not sure anyone can, but it appears to me to be mostly driven by a desire for fiscal conservatism and a return to Constitutional/limited government. I don't think it is much more complex than that, although with any mass movement you'll see other minor movements with different causes try to attach themselves and claim to be mainstream in that movement.
But for the most part fiscal conservatism and limited government best characterize the Tea Party in my eyes. And I've spoken frequently about how the "wrong track" poll – i.e. the fact that a huge majority of Americans, in the 60 percentile range, think the country is on the wrong track and have thought so for at least the last two administrations – speaks to the fact that they're not happy with either party.
Gallup's poll simply validates that point:
Americans' frustration with Congress is directed at both sides of the aisle — with job approval ratings of 33% for the Democrats in Congress and 32% for the Republicans in Congress.
Interestingly those ratings are considerably higher than Congress's approval rating (somewhere down around 11%) which I attribute to this specific Congress. Americans don't like the way Congress as a whole this session has done business and blame the Democrats for that, since they're the majority party. But in general, and for some time, they've not at all happy with the two parties (in fact, the cited poll numbers probably reflect approval by mostly partisan members of each party).
So here we are on the eve of a mid-term with the GOP poised to make a return to power, at least in the House, and it is clear that they are nothing more than a "lesser of two evils" pick because, unfortunately, there are only two viable parties.
That is part of the frustration Americans are going through right now. Movements like the Tea Party are trying to shape that a bit with its support of candidates that are much closer to the ideal they prefer. And they're having some success.
Of course the point is that the GOP shouldn't think that there's been a sudden mass acceptance of their brand or that they suddenly have some sort of mandate (the mistake the Democrats made and the result of that will be seen this November). Instead they should understand that they're grudgingly being given another chance to prove themselves, that the people that are supporting them have been very clear what they want, and if they don't perform, they now have a movement that can find – and back – someone who will.
That's quite a change from previous years, and who knows, if the Tea Party survives in some manner or form, it might be something that can indeed help us back along the road to fiscal conservancy and limited government.
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I don't have very high expectations. The Reagan revolution took 15 years to percolate. Wave Elections sound good as TV sound bites. They don't amount to much in the modern era. This might be the U Turn on the Road to Serfdom. Watch what happens at the local and state level. These are the levels of government where the Tea Party ethos can have the greatest impact. Given the size and scope of the federal government, the most we can hope for at present is a holding action, maybe a minor rollback. When you see the states asserting their powers, opposing federal encroachment and streamlining; then you will know that things are starting to change.
What you're seeing out there among the teeming masses isn't necessarily a movement (I'm talking the Tea Party, etc) that wants to put the GOP in power.
Right, depending on which iteration of the GOP you are talking about…there are several, both literally and figuratively.
For most of the people I know, and certainly for myself, my connection with the GOP is as tenuous and gauzy as it has ever been. I would bolt from it as it now stands in a second if there was a bolting place.
This election cycle and the new (hopefully) Congress will be the acid test to determine if the GOP survives into the future, I really believe. If the GOP pols go back to BAU (bidness as usual), they are DOOMED.
When you have opinion leaders like Limbaugh, Levin, and even Hewitt saying very clearly they are not so much Republicans as they are conservatives, there is a reason for the disaffection and the distinction.
The real test for Republicans is whether they can avoid any of those "stupid" pieces of legislation.
Watching Sen. Murkowski grope about for a party, any party, to run just one more time, shows just how pathetic the political junkies in DC have become.
All disgusting careerist pols. If they're not suckling at the public teat, they'd dry up and die. And it's not just the GOP. There's been a few pathetic Dems who also switched parties lately ahead of the wave as well.
The problem isn't the Dems or the GOP (well the leftist mindset actually is a problem) but the real problem is just the nature and low quality of our political class
My personal filter is looking for a politician using the work "money" in place of "resources".
avoid any of those "stupid" pieces of legislation
Haley Barbour is the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to suggest that social issues like abortion should be taken off the table while making the economy the main focus. Despite the fact that polls show Americans strongly oppose the pro-abortion health care law, Barbour says fiscal issues should take priority.
The GOP thinks its 1994 all over again. Unpopular activity by the Democrat President will sweep them in as a check. Then non-accomplishment of campaign promises can be blamed on gridlock. And anything that does go through, will go through will deals. Deals meaning funding pet projects. Pet projects meaning funding cronies of all shapes and sizes.
I don"t think the GOP has any other image in their minds or if they do its getting crowded out with that golden era of 1994-2000 of no accountability and lots of back room dealing.
jpm, I think it is a cardinal error to say stuff like, "The GOP thinks…". Not unless you can support the notion that the GOP is of one mind (which you absolutely cannot). Plus, the thinking of people…and ESPECIALLY their actions…is subject to influence. That is OUR job, going into the future. Pols have an instinct for survival, and they don't buck clear, forceful trends.
They seriously don't have any plans. They are running on a platform of gridlock. Which obviously does have appeal over the current situation. But beyond the party of gridlock from this point forward, where are broad promises of repealing HRC, ending stimulus, tax cuts?
They plan to exist entirely on gridlock and dealmaking. I don't see what else they are offering that's a concrete plan and not some pledge to some abstract dogma.
I dunno… Seems kinda like a plan-ish kinda thingy….
I'm not seeing that as inconsistent with my statements.
#1 is gridlock on future stimulus with loopholes. "Exceptions should be made for programs affecting seniors, veterans, and national security"
#2 is leave taxes as is. (where's the cuts?)
#3 A call to repeal a tiny portion of Obamacare that burdens businesses with paperwork. (<- kidding me right? as ridiculous as the paperwork requirement is, I think there's more in Obamacare that needs a call for repeal. Like all of it.)
#4 Call to cut spending. OK. Who hasn't called to reduce spending? Name names of what you want cut and I'll believe you're serious
#5 Call for Obama's advisers to resign. As much as I'd like the entire Obama administration to resign, Obama included, this is just theatre and makes we question the seriousness of the other 4 points.
So far, there is a movement for stopping the stupidity of the Democrats, and for gridlock.
The Republicans could change that into a movement for smaller government if they actually came together as a party and ran on that. Provided there are enough new faces in the party that people believe them.
Because I sure as hell ain't gonna believe the same old dinosaurs who have been there for the last 20+ years.
A quick look shows that Republicans have done their best to avoid making this a national party event (I'm sure this will change after the election), preferring to let the Democrats dig the hole deeper.
The real problems come after the election. The House sounds like it will have a decent, but not huge, Republican majority. Throw in a few remaining "BlueDog" Democrats and it will do fine. The real problem is that the Senate will be very close, putting the RINOs of the NorthEast back in the driver's seat, as the Republicans try to scrap together a majority on various contentious votes.
I used to think that a close, almost even, split in the Senate was the worst possible outcome, as Senators use the leverage of their single votes to "squeeze out goodies," but the last 18 months have shown me wrong. The real trick will be trying to make an ADD electorate understand that even approaching repeal of ObamaCare probably won't fly in the Senate. Even though, the NorthEast RINOs voted against Obama Care in the end, doesn't mean they want to repeal it. They will want to "modify" it to "make it better"; sort of like trying to change your spouse.
Ultimately, the RINOs may give the conservative Republicans (and Democrats) cover till the 2012 election, if they look obstructive enough.
Republicans have done their best to avoid making this a national party event
Looks like I wrote that just a few minutes too soon.
John Boehner appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and says that Republicans should "roll back federal spending to FY2008 levels"
On the bright side, this should make the Tea Partiers smile. … and he beats Obama to the punch.
too bad he didn't say "roll back the government to 1984 levels"


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The Power of God's Gospel Now is theme for Day of Encouragement
December 29, 2011
Being active in your church's ministries can sometimes be overwhelming. For this reason, Dordt College is hosting its annual Day of Encouragement, a day for leaders in the church to be inspired, encouraged, challenged, and further equipped in their tasks. Day of Encouragement will be held Saturday, February 4.
This year's keynote speaker is Rev. Tim Vink, coordinator of church multiplication for the Reformed Churches of America (RCA), who will talk about the Power of God's Gospel Now. Vink was baptized in the Luverne, Minn., American Reformed Church, and he has pastored growing Reformed churches in Maurice, Iowa, and Tulare, California. He has been part of starting hundreds of new churches with the RCA.
"Full recovery of the Gospel is foundational to our society's revival and reformation. Every church and leader needs to be continually gripped and renewed by the good news of the kingdom of God at hand," Vink says. In his talk, he explores the following questions: How Gospel-centered is your life? How Gospel-grounded is your church?
In his breakout sessions, Vink will focus on how to help people experience the good news of the gospel through healing and deliverance, an approach that might be different from what many experience in traditional RCA and CRC ministries.
Day of Encouragement will have several breakout sessions for elders, pastors, deacons, caregivers, youth leaders, and church members. A sampling of sessions include More than Memorization: Teaching the Heidelberg Catechism (Todd Zuidema, pastor at Hope CRC in Hull, Iowa), Music in Worship (Keith Getty, featured artist and hymn writer), and Sexual Purity and Your Family Destiny (Fred Stoeker, author of Every Man's Battle series).
You can find a complete list of sessions and registration materials at www.dordt.edu/events/day_of_encouragement. Churches can request information by contacting Wes Fopma, Dordt College church relations director, at email@example.com or by calling (712) 722-6028.
Modern-day hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty will conclude the evening with a 7 p.m. concert in the B.J. Haan Auditorium. They are the writers of such powerful songs as "In Christ Alone" and "The Power of the Cross." Purchase tickets at (712) 722-6028.
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