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Skip to comments.The latest excommunication call (A canon lawyer weighs in)
Posted on 01/24/2013 2:19:00 PM PST by NYer
Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that Every generation is a new people." Demographers reckon a generation at 20-25 years, so that means that every 20-25 years, a lot of folks need a lot of things explained to them that their parents and grandparents take for granted. No big deal, we just do it.
But on the internet, it seems that every month is a new generation, so that means that about once a month, questions arise that many of us have treated numerous times in the past. Problem is, these allegedly novel questions shoot through cyberspace with amazing speed, agitating a new generation of readers whose awareness of history is also quite diminished. The result is confusion and clamor over things that have pretty well settled answers. This happens especially frequently in regard to canon law. A few weeks ago, for example, it was Lets excommunicate Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn for supporting 'gay marriage'. Now, its Lets excommunicate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his latest push to expand abortion in what is perhaps the most pro-abortion state in the union. Sins, to be sure, these deeds, but canonical crimes? and ones punishable by excommunication at that? I suggest not, as many of us have discussed many times.
Some bloggers really should google a bit before they post. If they did so in the Cuomo case, theyd find out, among other things, that politicians are not subject to excommunication for abortion under Canon 1398 (the only canon remotely relevant to their situation), that Canon 915 is a much more appropriate response to the scandal of the prominent pro-abortion Catholic politico, and that Cuomo has already been the subject of an extensive discussion in regard to his eligibility for Communion; indeed, theyd probably find out that Cuomo is apparently refraining from approaching for holy Communion on his own.
Can the canonical ante be upped further? Sure, but not by blog-driven public pressure on Catholic bishops for politico-excommunications under a Code that at present does not punish activities such as Cuomos or Quinns with a penalty such as excommunication. So, those distressed, and rightly so, by Cuomos or Quinns politics and specifically desirous of seeing them excommunicated, have, as I see it, two options: either (a) petition the pope to rewrite one or more canons of Book VI of the Code to excommunicate them; or (b) petition the bishops of New York and Illinois to enact particular legislation leading to their governors excommunications. I think both ideas are, for several reasons, problematic, but they seem within the bounds of what a Catholic could suggest. As for exploring the mechanics of such papal or episcopal canonical drafting, thats beyond the scope of this blog. For now I simply note the idea. Again.
In the meantime, may I suggest prayers and fasting for Gov. Cuomos and Quinns repentance? They stand in great need of turning from the evils they support, and such acts on our part would improve the state of our souls, as well.
I'm not sure what's the problem here - the reason for the outcry is well understood. People want them out because of their scandalous actions, which are quite recent and raw. As St. Paul said - "expel the immoral brother!" I realize there are proper steps that must be taken, but to argue that the ones calling for excommunication are flawed, isn't just going to fly here.
Will Cuomo repent? We shall see. He's been warned and given another chance to repent. But the outcry is just!
Thanks for that link, very imformative and too the point.
I guess I was absent that day in grade school, high school and college when Canon Law,abortions, politicians and excommunication were taught.I guess I need to do some reading.
Respectfully, Mr. Peters, I don't buy that for this reason. Cuomo--or at least his sycophantic press--is still trading on his Catholicism. I've seen several stories that say things like "Cuomo, the Catholic governor of New York...".
Something more public needs to be done.
Mr. Peters does some really good work, but he is too beholden to the bishops and that compromises his viewpoint on Canon law regarding politicians and the USCCB, IMHO. And his patronizing condescension towards faithful lay Catholics fed up with the malfeasance of many of those bishops REALLY rubs the wrong way at times.
The way many liberal politicians try to deceive voters into denying sin by claiming they are catholic truly sickens me. It is one thing to be blind to the truth oneself but to purposefully attempt to deceive others behind the cloak of false catholicism is abhorrent.
We must be careful when examining our desire for excommunication for other catholics. It should not be considered an act of vengeance to right a wrong.. vengeance belongs to God not to man. Perhaps the mercy of the church will be someone's salvation. Bearing false witness against God will be judged by God
So I guess getting an opinion about politicians and abortions FROM THE POPE HIMSELF doesn't count?
Catholic Dems protest Pope's abortion comments
Updated 5/15/2007 10:27 PM | Comment | Recommend E-mail | Print |
By Daniel Burke, Relgion News Service
WASHINGTON A group of 18 Catholic House Democrats publicly disputed Pope Benedict XVI's recent condemnation of politicians who support abortion rights, saying that "such notions offend the very nature of the American experiment."
On his flight to Brazil last Wednesday (May 9), Benedict said Catholic politicians in Mexico City who recently voted to legalize abortion could consider themselves excommunicated from the church. The Vatican later said the pope was merely restating church policy, which calls for Catholics who participate in abortions to exclude themselves from taking Holy Communion.
The "problem" is understanding the church laws applicable to excommunication. Yes, we don't just toss politicians out of the church because they have 'politically' (as a representative of all the people) disagreed with church teachings. Hence, the links posted above to explain church positions on specific issues.
To put this into perspective, imagine you are a muslim and the governor of Michigan. The muslim community demands that you, as a follower of Islam, impose Sharia Law on all residents of Michigan. You disagree since you represent ALL constituents, including christians and jews. Should the muslims excommunicate you?
See my post #10.
I'm not saying I disagree with you but your analogy is flawed. The muslims would not excommunicate you they would behead you for apostasy.
That statement however is not a judicial action by the Pope.
One of the things that extremely difficult for most Catholics to understand is that their legal system is not like political legal systems.
Its origin is theological. It is therefore interpreted and applied in a way that differs from civil legal codes.
"That statement however is not a judicial action by the Pope"
It reads to me that the Pope was commenting on the very act of procuring an abortion DOES NOT NEED A PAPAL JUDICIAL ACTION for excommunication. It is automatic from the very moment the politician made up his/her mind to vote for it.
Since my quite simple research has proven the current excommunicated status of ALL PRO ABORTION politicians, I will change my statement to "The Pope needs to instruct his bishops to refuse all sacraments except confession to these abominations."
This fact appears to be the exact opposite of what the original poster was claiming regarding excommunication for politicians.
I also don't see why someone like Coumo who is clearly among those who, "obstinately persist in manifest grave sin", and therefore someone to whom 915 applies, isn't included on some sort of regularly published list of "public figures" who have excommunicated themselves. A couple of Bishops, a few Nuns, a Priest here and there, and a lot of other politicians along with the entire faculty at a lot of schools that claim to be Catholic would be on the list with him so he wouldn't be unfairly singled out in any way. In fact, were such a list regularly published a lot of fascist democrat scum would probably be upset if their name were not on the list.
[915] Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion.
I'm in full agreement with you.
Sure thing.
If Cuomo is "abstaining" from holy communion, he's probably doing so because of his unmarried living arrangement with his girlfriend Sandra Lee and NOT because of his stands on abortion or homosexual marriage.
I don't know what the canons allow for and am inclined to give Mr. Peters the benefit of his expertise. But I think he needs to answer for the entirety of ecclesiastical history before he takes such a strict view of who can be excommunicated.
The assumption is "well, he hasn't committed an excommunicatable offense." But how much of that is because no one is being proactive about it and calling him to the carpet?
In prior days, the bishop would have sent a letter: "You appear before me by such-and-such a date on pain of excommunication to answer for your manifest and public support of a putative "right" to abortion. If you don't show up...bye bye. If you do show up, then prepare to answer a charge of heresy. If you are repentant, you will be given public penance and all will be resolved. If you remain obstinate of such heresy, then bye bye."
If he cannot be excommunicated without trial and due process, FINE...then HAVE THE TRIAL.
Read this list:
Notice at the end of the list: "All the Catholics and legislators who promoted the abortion law in Uruguay." How and why were they excommunicated and this reprobate in New York goes free? Are the bishops of Uruguay under a different code of canon law?
That's a good point and would actually be a somewhat weaselly out for the bishops. They wouldn't have to do bell book and candle. They could just say, "These people have excommunicated themselves and are no longer Catholics in good standing"
Maybe by not recieving holy communion, it will help those not recieving to SEEK the mercy of God.
When half the troops are weasels you can't employ tactics suited to lions.
Yes, he is patronizing, but on this issue of the law I am sure that he is technically correct.
The problem lies in the 1983 Code itself - it contains great lacunae which need to be filled. Politicians who actively promote immorality, genocide of the unborn, undermine and seek to destroy the Church, should be eligible for the prescription of the strongest medicine to call them to repentance.
When you read the Canons of the early Councils, people were excommunicated for far less. The fact that these politicians can proceed merrily on their path, claiming they are Catholics in good standing, without sign of any sanction from the Church, gives great scandal to the faithful and undermines the witness of the Church to the world.
While their actions may not incur the sentence of excommunication under the current Code, the heresy which underlies their actions might do so. The revival of ecclesiastical courts and heresy trials may be what they need to purge their souls.
Hello Dr Kopp,
Sorry, my account won't let me post private replies to you!!
Yes, it has been a while since I've been on, but good to see that some of the old names are still around. I have been wondering how things have progressed for you since we spoke on the phone?
Things have been going much better on this side of the pond - we have actually been blessed to receive an orthodox bishop who has been the first to break the English bishops' silence on Humanae Vitae - Deo gratias!
His Pastoral Letter, if you are interested, can be found here:
God bless.
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In case you haven't heard, the Upper Peninsula Power Co. (wants) another rate increase for 2014 (this time 8.1 percent). If approved, this will be the third rate increase they've received in just the last 5 years, and would mean another $120 added to the average annual household electric bill.
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The nationwide average is 11.92 cents per kilowatt hour. Minnesota electric customers pay an average of 11.58; Illinois electric customers pay an average of 10.58. UPPCO customers are already paying a whopping 64 percent more for electricity than the average electric customer in the USA – and they want another rate increase!
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I will be writing to MPSC (again) to urge them to deny this latest UPPCO rate increase request. I encourage others to do the same. You can also go online and file a complaint with MPSC if you choose to do so.
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Large 5 Bedroom Fully Furnished Brick home (Fridge, dishwasher, washing machine etc all included) with 2 bathrooms. Generous communal kitchen, lounge (No foxtel) and dining room. Outdoor area with pool. Fans and built-in cupboards are in ALL bedrooms. Quiet Cul-de-sac living with great neighbours within walking distance of Butcher, Bakery, General Store and Bottle-o. Electricity and water are included in the rent. No Wi-fi - both occupiers of the home use their data plans on their phones for internet access. 1 x Queen size bedroom (with Queen Bed if required) available. 3 x bedrooms and one x bathroom are located at one end of the house. (Includes the bedroom/shared bathroom) that is available for rent. 2 x bedrooms and one x workman's bathroom are located at the other end of the house.
Hi , I have a 4 bedroom home which I live in by my self an Looking to rent room out . I work away so only there half the time . The house is modern , you'll have own bathroom, unlimited internet, swimming pool . Not really sure what else to say but if interested send me msg or call . Cheers brad
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On December 10,1997, Bay State Gas Company (Bay State) filed an application with the Office of Fossil Energy of the Department of Energy (DOE), under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA),(1) and DOE Delegation Order Nos. 0204-111 and 0204-127, for blanket authorization to import up to 40 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas from Canada over a two-year term beginning on January 6, 1998.(2) Bay State, a Massachusetts corporation with its principal place of business in Westborough, Massachusetts, is a natural gas distributor that provides retail gas services to approximately 247,000 customers in southeastern, western and northeastern Massachusetts. Bay State will import the natural gas under short-term and spot market arrangements, either on its own behalf or as the agent for others. The requested authorization does not involve the construction of new pipeline facilities.
The application filed by Bay State has been evaluated to determine if the proposed import arrangement meets the public interest requirement of section 3 of the NGA, as amended by section 201 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-486). Under section 3(c), the import of natural gas from a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas is deemed to be consistent with the public interest and must be granted without modification or delay. The authorization sought by Bay State to import natural gas from Canada, a nation with which a free trade agreement is in effect, meets the section 3(c) criterion and, therefore, is consistent with the public interest. This blanket order authorizes transactions under contracts with terms of no longer than two years.
Pursuant to section 3 of the Natural Gas Act, it is ordered that:
A. Bay State Gas Company (Bay State) is authorized to import up to 40 Bcf of natural gas from Canada over a two-year term beginning January 6, 1998. This natural gas may be imported at any point on the border of the United States and Canada.
B. With respect to the natural gas imports authorized by this Order, Bay State shall file with the Office of Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and Export Activities, within 30 days following each calendar quarter, quarterly reports indicating whether imports of natural gas have been made. Quarterly reports must be filed whether or not initial deliveries have begun. If no imports of natural gas have been made, a report of "no activity" for that calendar quarter must be filed. If imports have occurred, Bay State must report total monthly volumes in Mcf and the average purchase price of gas per MMBtu at the international border. The reports shall also provide the details of each import transaction, including: (1) the name of the seller(s); (2) the name of the purchaser(s); (3) the estimated or actual duration of the agreement(s); (4) the name of the United States transporter(s); (5) the point(s) of entry; (6) the geographic market(s) served; (7) whether sales are being made on an interruptible or firm basis; and, if applicable, (8) the per unit (MMBtu) demand/commodity/reservation charge breakdown of the contract price.
C. Quarterly reports shall be filed with the Office of Natural Gas & Petroleum Import and Export Activities, Fossil Energy, Room 3F-056, FE-34, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.
D. The first quarterly report required by Ordering Paragraph B of this Order is due not later than April 30, 1998, and should cover the period from January 6, 1998, until the end of the first calendar quarter, March 31, 1998.
Issued in Washington, D.C., on December 17, 1997.
Wayne E. Peters
Manager, Natural Gas Regulation
Office of Natural Gas & Petroleum
Import & Export Activities
Office of Fossil Energy
1. / 15 U.S.C. § 717b.
2. / January 5, 1998, is the expiration date of Bay State's existing blanket import authorization granted by DOE/FE Order No. 1086, dated September 26, 1995 (1 FE ¶ 71,163).


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It is often and truthfully said that a pilot's certificate is but a license to learn. What is not as frequently said is that it is also a license to scare oneself to death, or nearly so (hopefully no worse than that).
Scaring yourself can come in almost any form, and at any time. Common areas of trouble include high (or high to you) crosswinds, VMC to IMC, short fields, obstacles on takeoff, low fuel, low visibility (which might just be haze), ice, or thunderstorms.
I have had one experience in flight that truly terrified me, and it occurred about 10 years ago. On a flight from Cincinnati to Milwaukee (at night, no less), the weather turned out to be far worse than expected. We had expected to need to deviate around some thunderstorms. What we did not expect was for more than one low-pressure system to come together at the same time (a la the book and movie The Perfect Storm). The result was a 20-minute ride through severe and extreme turbulence that was so bad that we could not maintain altitude or heading. At times, we couldn't even tune the radios because we couldn't see the screens. The amazing thing was that we did not experience a lightning strike. When we came out of the weather, the ride was so smooth and the skies so clear it was surreal.
That experience has defined my approach to flying in or near weather ever since, especially convective weather, and especially at night. When we landed, my shirt was soaked and my arms were sore from gripping the yoke so hard. I could very easily have let the experience prevent me from flying for a while, but as the old saying goes, I had to get back on the horse. Further, I also recognized two important factors: the weather had been changing all day, and the severity of the changes was not predicted by anyone, so this was not the fault of any one person or organization—two planes had flown the same course ahead of me just a few minutes before, with nowhere near the adventure we had. Second, this was a rare event, not one that occurs every day that I just messed up.
Pilots sometimes make mistakes that they are forced to learn from, and sometimes they learn from unique experiences, both positive and negative. Fear can be a powerful motivator, but it does not need to be a dream killer. In my case, I had a heart-to-heart with myself, as well as my crew and other pilots I trust. I remain firm in my conviction that our experience that night was unpredictable, and it was an anomaly. But I also hold on to my determination that such an event will never happen to me again. I may deviate more than necessary and burn more fuel than needed, but some experiences–no matter how worthy–simply don't need to be repeated.
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FREWSBURG – Gordon H. Skinner, 66, of Wheeler Hill Road, died Wednesday (April 17, 2013) at his home.
He was born May 5, 1946, in Jamestown, the son of Gordon and Geraldine Wilson Skinner.
He was a 1964 graduate of Frewsburg High School and was in the US Marine Corps., serving in Vietnam.
He had been employed for many years at Quality Markets and later had owned and operated a dairy farm.
Gordie loved being with his wife, who was also his
best friend. They were inseparable.
Gordon and Joyce Skinner were married on Oct. 12, 1974, and died together at their home. He enjoyed his dog Hannah, playing golf, and helping his friends and neighbors.
Gordon is survived by two nephews: Brian and Nathan Case; a great-nephew, Collin Case; brother-in-law, Sigurd Case; his best friend, Dave Hamilton; and several cousins.
Besides his parents, he was predeceased by a sister, Cheryl Case.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity United Methodist Church, Frewsburg. Pastor Roy Ferguson and Pastor Cameron Lienhart will officiate. Burial will be in Kennedy Riverside Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, in the Peterson Funeral Home, Frewsburg.
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FLYHT Aerospace has a new five-year $480,000 contract to supply an undisclosed Maldivian carrier with its Automated Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 220 and 228B.
Under the agreement, FLYHT will install the AFIRS 220 on a Boeing 757, and the 228B on two Boeing 767s. Both systems provide flight tracking, satellite voice communications and automated out, off, on and in times.
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NEW YORK—The New York Power Authority (NYPA)
activated its Peak Load Management (PLM) program Thursday in New York
City in anticipation of high electricity demand as a result of the hot
and humid weather. It marked the third day of the summer that NYPA has
put the program into effect.
"Our Peak Load Management program contributes to
reliability of electricity service in New York City during the hottest
days of the summer when air-conditioner use pushes power demand to its
highest levels," said Louis P. Ciminelli, NYPA chairman. "The program
is made possible through cutback in power use by some of our largest
customers on those days."
Ciminelli noted that the participating
customers—both businesses and government organizations—are committed to
reduce their electricity demand for a total of more than 60,000
kilowatts (kw) at about 80 locations in the city, when called upon by
NYPA. (That is about equal to the electricity demand of 60,000 homes.)
The customers receive $40 for each kilowatt of electricity they save.
NYPA may request power cutbacks for up to 15
weekdays during June through September, with the standard duration up to
six hours (noon-6 p.m.).
Notices of the possible activation of the program,
now in its fourth year, are issued by the Power Authority the day ahead.
Those are confirmed on the morning of the event.
Among the participating customers are the New York
City Department of Environmental Protection, the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority and the City University of New York.
Participants achieve power cutbacks through various
measures, including turning off or dimming nonessential lighting,
adjusting air-conditioner settings and using on-site generators.
The PLM program is part of a Coordinated Energy
Demand Reduction Initiative (CEDRI) under the direction of Governor
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capacity to meet demand requirements during those days of the summer
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Posted on 05/01/2013 7:18:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it.
This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had Martians coming to Earth to quench their thirst. The extraterrestrial lizards (cleverly disguised as human catalog models) in the 1980s TV series "V" came here to steal our water too -- though they wanted it in part to wash down the meal they intended to make of us. In the more recent "Battle: Los Angeles," pillaging Earth's oceans was the only motivation we're given for why aliens were laying waste to humanity.
The first problem with this plot device is that it's pretty dumb. Hydrogen and oxygen are two of the most common elements in the universe. An alien race is savvy enough to master interstellar travel but too clueless to combine two Hs with one O to form H2O? C'mon.
At least in "Mars Needs Women," the precious resource in question -- Earth girls -- by definition can be found only here, just as "real" Champagne must come from the region that bears its name. And though I have no doubt that Earth women really are the best, the logic of evolution suggests that compatibility issues for aliens would be a hurdle not even Match.com could overcome.
In "To Serve Man," the famous "Twilight Zone" episode, the motivation was far more plausible: They wanted to eat us ("To Serve Man" -- it's a cookbook!). And who knows -- maybe we're delicious.
One rule of thumb in sci-fi is that the aliens are really us too. They reflect a good trait in humanity -- think E.T., Spock or Mork -- or a bad one. That's why writers recycle ancient human motives -- the desire to plunder, colonize, rape, enslave -- as the motives of futuristic aliens.
That's all fine. But science fiction is also supposed to raise ambitions for what humans can accomplish. And in that, Hollywood is failing.
For a while now, filmmakers have been churning out fare -- like the horrendous remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" -- based on the Malthusian assumption that resources are finite and if we keep going the way we are, the Earth will be "used up" (to borrow a phrase from the opening monologue of the canceled cult sensation "Firefly"). Either that or we'll be invaded by aliens who appreciate our stuff more than we do.
The pessimism is infectious. Physicist and sci-fi nerd Stephen Hawking recently argued that maybe we should hide from aliens lest they rob us blind. When Newt Gingrich proposed a base on the moon, everyone guffawed as if such an optimistic ambition was absurd. The obsession with "peak oil" and the need to embrace "renewables" because we're running out of fossil fuels is another symptom of our malaise. Fracking and other breakthroughs demonstrate that, at least so far, whatever energy scarcity we've had has been imposed by policy, not nature.
Which gets us back to outer space. In our neighborhood alone, there are thousands of asteroids with enormous riches -- in gold, platinum, rare earth metals, etc. Planetary Resources Inc., an asteroid mining firm started last year by director James Cameron (ironic given the politics of his film "Avatar") and some Microsoft and Google billionaires, has its sights on several rocks worth anywhere from hundreds of billions to tens of trillions of dollars. And these are just the chunks scattered around our orbital backyard and near enough to exploit with existing technology. There are also plenty of balls of ice out there that might be convertible into fuel for further space exploration.
Thomas Malthus and his intellectual descendants saw humans as voracious consumers of finite resources, like a "virus" devouring its host, as Agent Smith says in "The Matrix." But humans are better understood as creators who've consistently solved the problems of scarcity by inventing or discovering new paths to abundance. As the late anti-Malthusian hero Julian Simon said, human imagination is the ultimate resource.
Unfortunately, that resource is dismayingly scarce these days, in Washington and Hollywood.
Not to worry.
The fact that wimpoid "Cruise" is in it was enough for the wife and I go give the movie a "by".
As a retired fighter/test type, I always said that the only things that had believable acting in "Top Gun" was the aircraft.
It would be a lot easier for an alien civilization to lasso a local comet then to travel all the way here if they needed some H2O.
Every nickel-iron meteor is 2% gold by weight. That makes almost every nickel-iron meteor in museums or private collections quite worth stealing ~ and that's what's been happening.
I come for yer daughter Chuck.
Tom Cruise got a pilot license after Top Gun (I don't know if the Thetans got one too) and then bought a P-51 so he is a real pilot.
I love Top Gun, watch the beginning, the end and it's a great movie the middle is the lame part and then finding out Kelly Mcgillis is a lesbo lowers her hot chick quotient in the movie big time.
I think there was more sexual tension between Iceman (Kilmer) and Maverick (Cruise) than with the chick.
I wanna make a sci-fi parody movie (ala Scary Movie)....
"TROPES: Rise of Old Hat"
Is that Pearlman in that pic?
I thought the alien was converting sea water to energy, not taking the water. Maybe Jonah didn't see the movie.
By its nature, most scifi is cautionary. "If we do this, look what's likely to happen." The biggest problem with current scifi movies is the abandonment of plot in favor of big explosions. Star Trek never got over this; every time the ship was in a battle all the control panels on the bridge exploded in sparks and fire. That's like running the 20,000 volts from the picture tube through the switches on your TV. No one would be stupid enough to do that. Thoughtful scifi has been largely abandoned in favor of F/X. The Cruise movie sounds interesting but not enough so to buy two theater tickets ($28). Next year on cable is fine.
Pick the biggest one-trick pony hack director and you have box-office GOLD!
The scarcest resource in Hollywood today is an original idea.
Ending will have little furry lumberjacks save the day, lol
Control panels on the bridge explode but the thing they controlled was unafected? They just reroute their commands from a new terminal, only the console on the bridge was damaged? Never made sense to me.
The first problem with this plot device is that it's pretty dumb. Hydrogen and oxygen are two of the most common elements in the universe. An alien race is savvy enough to master interstellar travel but too clueless to combine two Hs with one O to form H2O? C'mon.
Something we have not been able to do as yet I think,
but then we haven't mastered interplanetary travel
yet either.
If an alien culture was so dependent on water that they would travel lightyears and obliterate millions to get it, it must be extremely rare on their homeworld. if it is that rare, how did they grow to become so dependent on it? And if they're resourceful enough to track it down on a tiny speck of a planet halfway across the galaxy, wouldn't they be smart enough to either find an alternative or at least an alternative and more viable source?
I've always theorized that if aliens wreak havoc on earth, it would be accidental — the introduction of some fatal element into our ecosystem, for example.
They are magic panels. Perhaps they use Linux in the 23rd century. ;-)
Why war for water when there is more water/ice in asteroids and such you can have without a fight.
Imagine a film where we fight to keep aliens from taking "our" ice asteroids?
That guy is/was in everything. Helluva work ethic that "Clay" has.
Now, THAT is actually a good idea for a flick.
Everything else is okay but the bridge needs a ground wire
Ice Pirates - really weird movie.
Sometimes you might also tap the phosphates ~ to use in manufacturing food for biological purposes.
Hydrogen - the most abundant atom in the universe...
must be the oxygen that's rare.
Actually, we mastered it ages ago. Take two parts H and one part O by volume and light a match.
I knew I had at least one good idea. Now we should recruit has-been child stars and Tonya Harding to be a blacksheep 'loser' unit that saves the day.
Perhaps Lucas Electric had all the starship wiring contracts.
The movie was is one of the better sci-fi movies made. Tom turns in a good performance as well as the rest of the cast. The story line is solid (for sci-fi).
Tom Cruise gets a bum rap for being a scientologist that's way better than being a homosexual pedeophile like Lord of The Ring's Gandalf (Ian McKellen).
I almost didn't want to go see it because Morgan Freeman was in it, but since I decided not to see Olympus has fallen I thought it was a fair trade-off. I think Denzel Washington would have been a better actor than Morgan Freeman in this show.
I wish Tyler Perry wrote stories that played to my genre and I wish Denzel Washington played in them cause right off the top of my head, those are the only black american's in Hollywood that I can think of that I like and appreciate. Neither wears the politics on their shoulders and haven't polluted their product. I like Wessely Snipes too, but he can't act.
Contract by nepotism no doubt!
The closests two stars which could have such a civilization are a couple of billion years older than our star. Can we extrapolate from that regarding the formation of life and the time spans associated with growing out of the suicidal behaviors? I think we should. Perhaps God made humankind different from the other intelligent creatures in His Universe, for reasons known to Him but not yet explained to us. we are a very primitive species. There is Bible teaching which says we shall not always be so primitive.
Hey, I like it! The washed-up child stars have a certain nostalgic appeal. Tonya Harding could be a buff, wise cracking badass.
We are the only planet with chocolate, noting better anywhere with the possible exception of knotweed...</my best Wideplains accent>
Make sure you put your mouth real close so that none of the water gets wasted.
it is a rehash of rehash.
like the new reboot of star trek both firse AND SECOND are just taking old episodes and editing down entire seasons to 90 minutes throwing in a few lens flares CGI effects a booty/boobie shot and presto instant alleged sci fi.
The unit was ordered to protect a lunar crater but hitches a ride with a Korean maintenance vessel they manage to hijack and get captures, just as a devious plan to get inside. They are considered a jinx by Space Command and they thusly jinx the aliens. Their leader Todd Bridges sacrificed a hand in the battle but returns a hero and marries Private Lindsay Lohan.
I've only seen that happen once in real life, I had an old CRT monitor back around 1990 that decided to go out in a blaze of glory with a cloud of smoke and a shower of sparks shooting out all the air vents. Quite spectacular really, and scared the h@ll out of me as I was working on a spreadsheet at the time. But I do agree about the silliness of the bridge console going up in flames every time the ship was hit, like modern keyboards and mice, there would be very little voltage needed to power a simple display device.
The Hollywood paradigm is to beat the horse until it is very very obviously a dead horse.
As long as "take over the White House" movies make money - even with B actors and low budgets - they will continue to make "take over the White House" movies.
They will take an original idea - strip it of it's essential core - and make sure it is formulaic of what 'worked' before.
It has everything! Ah, and the pathos, man, the pathos of that ending.
Gotta love space herpes.
I liked the movie. My boys wanted to see it.
"the ship has herpes"
Yeah, and the fact that it was actually being shipped to someone(it appeared on the ship's manifest). did they order from Herpes R Us?
Trying to protect Europa from an alien water stealing fleet might be easy, but trying to keep small stealthy alien 'wildcatters' from taking chunks of icy asteroids would be like defending the border with 2guys and a mule.
That is the perfect job for washed-up child actors!
***TROPES: Rise of Old Hat****
Gasp! TROPIS! (Skullduggery [1970])
They work for SPAM!
Heck, they could even play low-rent mercenaries who are hired for the job!
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Registrar's Information January 2013
1. MTOC Roster Freeze Date – As announced last Fall – the 2013 BAYS MTOC Roster Freeze Date is Wednesday May 29, 2013 This is the last date a roster will be accepted for processing by the BAYS Registrar.
2. Roster stamping – reminder that all MTOC eligible teams require a roster stamp by a League Registrar. MTOC sections are U-12, U-14, U-16 division 1 and 2 and U-18 or U-19 division 1 only. Earliest date rosters will begin being processed, either electronically or in hard copy is the day after the sections are posted on the website. Assistant Registrars made stamp initial rosters from through Wednesday May 1. Please note the assistant registrar will retain one copy of the stamped roster and the roster must be signed by an authorized club official. See the web site for electronic roster requirements (no changes this year) and the League registrar will process rosters from through the freeze date of May 29. All changed rosters need to go through the League Registrar.
3. Special MTOC 2013 Only Rule. Due to the Leagues Committee pushing MTOC back for potential school conflicts, the Competition Committee has votes to allow adding players from other teams to MTOC only rosters. The final version of the rule has not been completed. Once it is it will be posted. We are waiting for a ruling from the Leagues Committee. This year it will be more important than in previous years to poll your MTOC eligible team early to see which players are available for MTOC (June 28-30). This year and only this tear under the current proposal, you will have the opportunity to bring players up from a lower team. Stay tuned.
4. Waivers. See the Third VP report for more information. Just a reminder that is the waiver begins with WF2, it has expired. WA3 should be good for the spring season except in two cases - one where the underlying reason for the waiver has been voided (e.g. a school waiver where the player changed schools over the winter break) and a residency waiver for outside BAYS on an MTOC eligible team. If you have a player that lives outside of towns serviced by BAYS and you wish to put them on an MTOC roster - be sure you have completed the inter-League Waiver requirements as the Registrar is forced to reject rosters with players on it that need the inter-League Waiver approval and don't have it. This restriction is only for MTOC eligible team rosters.
5. MTOC Roster Size and Residency Waiver Restrictions. Just a reminder that in the spring season, two additional restrictions are placed on your MTOC eligible rosters. First one is size. For U-12 MTOC, only 15 players may be rostered; for U-14 MTOC, only 18 may be rostered; for U-16, U-18 and U-19, 22 may be rostered but if more than 18 an MTOC only roster of 18 will need to be created later in the season (by the roster freeze date) - contact the registrar with any questions. The second restriction is on roster composition. For U-12 MTOC and U-14 MTOC, 75% or more of the roster must be players from your club (i.e. not needing a residency waiver). For example for a U-12 with 15 players on the roster - no more than 3 would be able to have residency waivers. For U-16 MTOC, U-18 MTOC and U-19 MTOC, 75% must be from within BAYS serviced towns (non-inter-League waivered players). There is an escape hatch for this that ithe rule may be waived prior to the season if permitted by the Leagues Committee. Contact President Bruce Hamilton if you believe one of your teams needs relief from this as he would be the one to present it to the Leagues Committee.
6. Dual rostering. Remember that a player can only play for one MTOC eligible team. Be careful if the player has a parent living in BAYS and other parent in another league. No player may play for BAYS and one of the other MTOC eligible leagues in the same season, the player needs to choose which one to play for. Thiis is for all age groups. In the case of club teams, a PLAYER, aged U-14 and below may play for both BAYS and a club team with no issues. Oncve the player gets to U-15 age or older, the may play BAYS or club but not both. Please ensure your U-16 and U-18 teams are not playing club. There has been cases where a player has been invited to play for state cup and we have to drop them to allow them to do so. Please double check. Note that MYSA spot checks rosters for compliance - not all rosters get checked but lets not put ourselves in that position.
7. MTOC Roster Move Restrictions. Just a reminder that for an MTOC roster, if you drop a player from the roster, that player is ineligible to be placed back on that roster during the season. Under exceptional circumstances, the Competition Committee may waive that restriction. Just be sure you need to drop a player before doing it. Hold your tryouts before submitting the roster for the first time.
8. Passcards. This year we will continue inspecting passcards for teams going to MTOC. Please make our job easier by double checking the passcards. If the picture is questionable or in black and white - replace it. Make sure the name and date of birth are consistent with reality, the roster and the passcard. If the lamination is coming loose - relaminate it, if it isn't laminated, laminate it, etc. It is a lot easier to do the work upfront than have to redo it in the week before MTOC.
Player passcards are required for U-12, U-14 & U-16 division 1 and 2 and all U-18 or U-19 sections.
9. 2012-2013 Coach Passcard stickers are available from me at the meeting or can be mailed. Remember - only coaches, not player, passcards require the validation sticker.
10. 2013-2014 Coach Passcard Validation Stickers – will be available for pick up at the June BOD meeting, available for mailing to clubs after July 8, 2013, available at any of the pre-season meetings. If a club wants more stickers than they received last year, sent an email to the registrar (firstname.lastname@example.com)
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This is a place to invoke external logic which should be executed whenever the sampling is started, is performed, and stopped. For example, If you have to monitor external servers using your own logic, you can use this extension point to retrieve them. sampling method should be very fast. we're expecting sampling method should be done within 2 ms. If it takes more time to finish this method, it can eventually ruin the performance test sampling. So we're highly recommend the plugin implementer to invoke another thread which retrieves the data in the startSampling method and fetch the already retrieved data from this thread in sampling method.
This is the plugin extension point to invoke your logic when the start and shutdown nGrinder controller.
This is the plugin extension point to invoke your logic with the current agent status periodically. You can find the sample implementation here. This sample checks the current controllers whole agent's network usages and if it is over the designated traffics, stops all running test to block the network overflow.
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Now, the tide may be turning, and in Paul Krugman, the world's most widely read economist and one of its most influential political commentators, charts the way to reform.
Krugman ranges over a century of history and shows that neither the American middle-class nor the baby boomers who grew up in the increasingly oligarchic nation we have become over the past generation evolved naturally. Both were created, to a large extent, by government policies guided by organized political movements.
The Conscience of a Liberal promises to reshape public debate about American social policy and become a touchstone work for an entire generation.
©2007 Paul Krugman; (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
"A compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny." (Publishers Weekly)
"Great Book!!!"
I never fully realized what a historical anomaly the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were. Krugman makes the case that those few decades brought us closer to the vision of our founding fathers than any other time in our history: broad consensus, expanding middle class, a flatter society. The past 30 years have seen the pendulum swing back, a return to the Gilded Age, authoritarianism, corporatism, a disappearing middle class, and a highly privileged few. The founders of our country fought their revolution against the authoritarians and oligarchs of their time. We must do the same against ours.
This book is a must read (listen?).
"A must for anyone interested in U.S. politics."
Krugman goes beyond economics by placing the current economic issues that plague the U.S. into their historical and political context. Easy to understand but not "dumbed down".
This is one of those books you should get college credit just for listening to. You may find yourself replaying the chapters again and again in order to fully grasp the concepts. Very well written and presented. The narrator is one of the best I have heard. Overall very interesting information if you agree with the author on everything or not.
"required reading!"
If you want to become an informed citizen and not throw away your ballot in what is looking more and more like the most important election in fifty years, this book, along with former Vice President Al Gore's recent book, are required reading. Presented in a manor easy to understand, even with statistical research thrown in, Mr Krugman's attack on Movement Conservatism and its threat to all things we hold sacred hits like an approaching storm. His antidotes to get us back on track are well thought out and seem amazingly reachable, like the calm after the storm is over.
Five stars also go to the reader. It's read like it was actually written by him.
"Knocked my socks off"
I wasn't an avid reader of Krugman's columns or books, so I didn't realize the treat I was in for. The knowledge and conveyance of history and economics are unparalleled, and the politcal analysis is astute. One of those books where I listen every chance I get until I reach the end. I might even listen to the whole thing again. It's just that good. Solid narrator, too.
Imagine the best teacher you've ever had. Not the flashy one who thinks he's god's gift to the field or always right. The one who's interesting because he has the quiet confidence of somone who has thought a LOT about a subject and cares passionately about ideas and their effects in the real world. And so he needs you really to understand and consider the points he's making.
Now imagine he's talking to you (well, almost, the narrator is good and not so far off) about something where, if you agree with him, there's a limited time to take concrete steps so that good ideas have the best chance of getting implemented in ways that will make the majority of people's lives a lot better.
If that sounds good, then get this book. Even if you disagree with some of it, unless you're Tom Delay and just want to go around bitch slapping people (or countries) who dare to contradict you, you will still take away a lot.
"Manifesto For A Better America"
Every legal American Citizen willing to work and contribute to their society should be entitled to the highest lifestyle the aggregate efforts of that society can confer.
Paul Krugman does a fine job of explaining how the very rich and their minions have hijacked America and why the middle class must stop them.
If you love your country and your fellow legal citizens, digesting this book is is well worth your consideration and invested time.
Having read or listened to this book, write your own evaluation, and also become one of Krugman's Progressives. You owe it to America.
"Poorly researched"
What a load of garbage. If phrases like "studies suggest" and " some researchers believe" are enough for you to be convinced of something, then you might enjoy this book. Krugman thinks that correlation is the same as causation. The arguments presented in this book are no deeper than a middle schooler writing a paper.
"Good but not very balanced"
I like Paul Krugman but this one is a little over the top. He tries to convince that movement conservatives are the root of all evil from wage inequality to global warming, however and enjoyable listen and well presented.
"A poor and shallow defense of liberal philosophy"
If you are already convinced of the liberal position, I suppose this book would serve as a good champagne bath. If, however, you'd like a more substantive presentation of the position, I recommend The Law of Peoples by John Rawls.
This book has turned me off to other books by Dr. Krugman. I hoped a scholar of his renown would be able to deliver a deep defense of the positions he holds. Instead, I found a purely emotive presentation of his worldview. I was very disappointed, and will look elsewhere in the future when consuming material on liberal political ideology.
I went in to this book as a Libertarian hoping to gain perspective on the underlying logic of the liberal worldview. Instead, Dr. Krugman delivers a shallow diatribe against the wealthy and in favor of redistribution of wealth without ever addressing the philosophical underpinnings of the position. Beginning from the apparently axiomatic point that the wealthy owe a debt to the poor, Dr. Krugman spends his book outlining the various ways in which societal problems could be addressed if only we would tax the wealthy or regulate Wall Street. Absent is any defense of why it is justified to do these things. I really wanted to like this book; sadly, I did not.
Lest you think I merely hated the book because I disagreed with the premise, I would suggest that the work of John Rawls provides a much more satisfying read. I still do not agree with his premises, but I greatly enjoyed his precise logic and feel that I better understand the liberal position after reading his work.
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Letting the Ravens back in this game is crazy!
Letting the Ravens back in this game is crazy!
Is anyone watching this crap??? The Safety for Denver is the biggest fool I have ever seen. Letting a WR behind you with 40 seconds left and they are down by 7...........the guy should be arrested for being too dumb for society!
This is to Steeler related! This is the Ravens!
It's Flacco's favorite play. Throw a jump ball and hope for the best.
Broncos choke. Now I got to watch Ray Ray cry on TV.
Manning--roll right, throw and INTERCEPTED. Now where did we see/hear this one before?
Please Lord, don't let this be another Pats v Ravens game next week.
Really? this isnt a joke? ........really?
Some people make me sick........