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Two-time Academy Award®-winning director of short-form documentary films Robin Lehman will be showcasing and discussing three of his films at the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 24, and talk with the audience following.
I had the true pleasure of meeting with Mr. Lehman–a New York City native who has lived in Rochester for a number of years–to chat about these films. Upon arriving at Mr. Lehman's serene home, I gazed at a series of glass orbs he had created. Glassmaking is one of Mr. Lehman's current fascinations; in addition to his own glasswork, he has created documentaries for the Corning Museum of Glass.
He showed me a glass sculpture of what appeared to be a sea arthropod. I found its detail and brilliance hypnotic. I was mesmerized by the luminescent shine of the blue glass with opalescent sheen. This piece, I came to learn, exemplifies Mr. Lehman's work—work that focuses on the wonder and particularity of our world, from exotic deep-sea depths to the myriad human-pet relationships that could exist right next to us.
The films being showcased at the Dryden Theatre were made in the 1970s and 1980s. Ethiopia presents the natural and human aspects of the country, Sea Creatures explores the life of the Red Sea, and Manimals provides a humorous and intriguing examination of human-pet relationships.
All three films are hallmarked by stunning cinematography and a deliberate use, or lack, of sound and music to subtly enhance the mood of the images shown. As I watched each film in advance of writing this blog, I marveled at the scenes of brightly colored creatures that seemed to dance, a tribal mancala game, and a free-roaming pet kimono dragon.
The sense of fascination these films affected in me did not preclude humor. However, in one scene, for instance, modern machine noises aptly provide comedy. This reaction to his films is in part the purpose of Mr. Lehman's style, and testifies to his skill as a cinematographer and director. We explore the environments seamlessly, as if we were the voyagers, unencumbered by the filmmaking process. Both Ethiopia and Sea Creatures lack narration. His film about human-pet relationships, Manimals, briefly narrates quirky New York City statistics, then uses only the narratives of the pet owners to frame the images shown to create an insightful, and sometimes jarring, effect.
That we don't see the difficulties of the filmmaking process shows the mastery of Mr. Lehman's art. In the 1970s and 1980s, underwater cinematography was exceptionally difficult: cameras at the time were not made for such a purpose, so Mr. Lehman commissioned an associate in England to make an airtight case for the camera. When functioning properly, the camera would be neutrally buoyant underwater because of the air housed within the case. Yet, if the case was not watertight, the camera would become heavy with water and sink rapidly. A bicycle pump, as a result, became a handy tool to check for cracks in the container and prevent the loss of the camera.
Even with the appropriate camera equipment, one had only five minutes' worth of film in the camera before needing to reload. Filming in uncontrolled environments also could cause issues. The film footage used to create Ethiopia fell to the bottom of a river, after a dug-out canoe capsized, and had to be transported for processing while still submerged in water in a tank to preserve the images.
Also, capturing color underwater proved a difficult task. Deep water naturally filters out red light, making all images look blue on film. In order to overcome this color disparity, Mr. Lehman sought out film that had a red bias and put a red filter on the lens to help the natural reds be captured.
While talking with the celebrated filmmaker, I found the recounts of his filmmaking fascinating and anticipated the challenges encountered would be brought into his work. However, Mr. Lehman told me, "The secret in filmmaking is to not involve the audience in any of these problems."
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The upcoming Dryden Theatre screenings will be a special occasion for the audience and Mr. Lehman himself. It will be the first time Ethiopia has ever been seen on a big screen, and the first time in more than 30 years that Sea Creatures and Manimals have been screened in a theater.
Mr. Lehman is a convivial individual and his films are impressive. I highly recommend this evening for anyone who wants a rare and beautiful screening experience and captivating discussion.
About the author: Francesca Genova recently returned to Rochester after graduating with a degree in English from Providence College, Rhode Island. She is excited to be involved with the Eastman Young Professionals and Rochester's passionate film community.


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Skip to comments.How 'genius' honor student Adam Lanza became masked killer
Posted on 12/15/2012 8:45:53 AM PST by BunnySlippers
Ms Conte called the ordeal 'sad' for Lanza and his family, and suggested that the violence is a portion of a much larger situation.
'Guns are easy to point to, but it's really a mental health issue.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Sorry I posted a duplicate.
Late night I posted this photo and was asked a couple of times if it is rear. apparently so.
As I posted on another thread, the shooter was described in many articles as a "gamer".
The GOP is going to have to frame this as a "mental health" and "gamer" issue to fight off gun control.
Looks more like his face to me.
Hahaha .. I meant real, you funny!
Is there something common about random mass killers? Something they share?
I guessed it before reading the story, and then yep, there it is, his parents are divorced and the father is out of the home.
No healthy connection with a father. It has destroyed our inner cities, and now it is in the burbs.
But we'll look past that and blame the guns.
Blame mental illness. Do we want crazy people to own guns?
Nancy Lanza legally owned a Sig Sauer and a Glock, both handguns of models commonly used by police, and a military-style Bushmaster .223 M4 carbine, according to law enforcement officials who also believe Adam Lanza used at least some of those weapons.
Nancy Lanza was an avid gun collector who once showed him a "really nice, high-end rifle" that she had purchased, said Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping business who recently decorated her yard with Christmas garlands and lights. "She said she would often go target shooting with her kids."
There have always been murders and slaughters, only the methods and maybe the scenarios have changed.
Why can't we blame Tanantino and "Banjo Unchained"?
I think we are going to have to hold people accountable if they don't secure their guns from being stolen and used for these purposes.
Let's keep guns out of the hands of crazies.
Can't blame her for collecting guns but perhaps when you have a crazy kid...you shouldn't put a gun in their hands....just a thought.
Blame anyone you like.
But at some point we have to say that flat out crazy people can't own guns, IMO.
Lanza didn't own guns, Bunny. His mother did.
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Crazy people don't have a second amendment? Who determines who is crazy and who is not? Which mental illnesses would qualify? Depression? Anxiety? Anger issues? Bipolar disorders? autism?
Gun owners need to own guns responsibly. That means locking them up or rendering them unusable.
The GOP is going to have to stave off gun control. I'm willing to consent to fines and imprisonment for parents [and others] who do not lock their guns to prevent someone else going postal.
Think of the many toddlers who get daddy's gun ... I say lock him up!
Who determines what crazy is?
Who enforces the rule that crazy people don't have guns?
Does the federal government have crazy people in it?
Does the federal government own guns?
I agree. But we have to work this out. I don't want to lose my guns because the VAST majority of gun massacres are done by crazies.
We had friends who had a bipolar son of college age. They made the mistake of allowing him access to their hunting guns and he eventually killed himself. Some people just aren't convinced that their "crazy" kids on meds aren't a threat to themselves and others.
What we have here is a mental public health issue, not a guns are evil issue. I don't know what law you can write to change it, since it gets down to personal responsibility.
There is nothing that will stop this. Connecticut is already very gun controlling.
But it will provide an excuse for the grabbers to come after our guns. I'm sure they appreciate your support.
I think we are going to have to hold people accountable
Just curious.... What accountability would you demand of the now deceased owner of the weapons?
See 22.
If it comes down to defining crazy or me and 10s of millions of responsible people losing their right to gun ownership ... then I'm going to define crazy. So be it.
There were always wars, 12/20. Always. Back to Babylon, there were wars and massacres and atrocities committed on the battlefield by men under arms, or bandit gangs.
But kids didn't walk into kindergartens, solo, and blast 20 small children. That is 100% new.
Ultra-violent and ultra-expliscit movies and video games are new in the human condition, and they desensitize children. First person shooter video games they are a trigger for folks already close to the edge, and I can prove it.
Extensive military studies showed that less than 10% of WW1 soldiers ever aimed and fired directly at enemy soldiers, even in bitter trench warfare across no-man's-land. The stats were little better in WW2. Why? The first person "kill image" was never in a person's head to begin with, before ultra violent movies and video games put them there.
Rifle training before combat was almost all at distant round bullseye match targets. Most people had "thou shalt not kill" deeply ingrained in their minds, and round targets on a range did not transfer to killing actual live humans in combat.
By the 1960s, modern military psychologists understood this "problem," and they changed rifle training to pop-up reactive targets that looked like actual enemies. I remember shooting Viet Cong popup targets with rice paddy hats carrying AKs. The targets were visible for only seconds, so you had to shoot the humanoid target fast to make your quals and pass.
In Viet Nam, the percentage of actualyoung American troops WW1, WW2 and Korea. This fact is beyond dispute. The "first person" fast-reaction humanoid popup target training is mainly the reason why.
Then we got the first-person POV combat video games, and kids today are rewired from an early age to visualize and actually enjoy rapidly shooting human-looking "enemies" in front of them.
Combine this neural rewiring (from a baseline of "thou shalt not kill" in 1910, to "kill them fast!" in 2012) and the potential psychos among us now know exactly what to do when they lose control of their rage. Get a gun, be the shooter, and achieve instant fame and immortality via the MSM's celebrity and fame machine.
Here's a little background for anyone willing to do their homework.
Do you know anyone who works in a a busy ER? I mean the kind that draws patients from a wide area.
Ask them how mental illness and drug abuse are impacting the mission to take care of acute onset patients.
Did you know that many ERs, more and more, actually have *boarding* facilities for the violently mentally ill...right next to you who have come in to get your daughter's ear infection treated.
A madhouse in your ER.
I'll keep my guns, thank you very much.
She said she would often go target shooting with her kids.
Probably not a good idea if one of them is deeply disturbed and medicated.
Think about it. She's dead.
Think about the dozens of toddlers who got daddy's gun. They die and he lives free.
No one is asking that we punish the dead. That is silly.
Then it is you who is crazy.
Go turn in your guns, and stay away from mine.
Maladjusted goth kid who was coddled by PC psychologists afraid to call a freak a freak. I have a in-law nephew like this. Yep, he's really smart, has no friends, and a twitch. He coolly asks for a check for Christmas, so he can buy a better device with which to tune out the real world. And no, his family doesn't observe any faith. They're proud, secular, humanists. Probably a lot like Adam Lanza's parents. These kids are out there, and damn easy to spot.
Right? Seems like in the Soviet Union a crazy diagnoses was made if you questioned the length of the bread line.
We hope we can keep our guns. They're going to have to come after me one on one.
But sometime there is going to be a tipping point and gun ownership will be debated.
I'm willing to give concessions to try to keep crazy people from getting them and/or securing your guns so crazies can't get them.
All of my weapons are loaded and unlocked. I'll not ever do as you say. An unloaded weapon is a club.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Yeah, and when I see a rattlesnake in the yard (quite a common event) or someone forces his way into my house, I'll just ask them to please be so kind as to wait while I go get my gun ready!!
Seriously, when my children were young, it wasn't hard to keep the guns in a rack, out of reach. But, by the time they were able to reach for them, not only they knew better but "securing" them would have rendered them useless. The only exception to this rule was when they had friends over, to play. Then, and only then, the guns were locked in the closet, and my bedroom door closed. Visitors were made aware that my room was out of bounds when playing.
We've bred a lot of what you describe. How old is he?
Yeah, I understand that and I think I've made it abundantly clear on my many posts on this thread.
I am willing to admit that not everyone should have a gun ... because they're crazy. Because 99.999% of gun owners are sane and responsible.
I suppose you think 100)% are responsible gun owners.
I agree. Also see the problem with who gets to define 'crazy'....Obama's fascist goons would probably define conservatives as 'crazy' and lock us up first. But at some point common sense has to rule. Most people know when their kid is 'off'......don't put guns in their hands!! People who are violently mentally ill...should be put in secure institutions.We have people roaming the streets who have long histories of violent mental disturbances and their families can't do anything!
We can't put them away because of ridiculous liberal laws.
I think we are going to find that this mother was a little screwy herself...sadly.
Think about the dozens of toddlers who got daddys gun.
This wasn't a daddy's gun thing. Everything I've read is the weapons belonged to the mother, were legal and registered in her name. Also that she was an avid shooter, etc.
So again how are you going to hold the owner accountable now that she is dead?
I sense you are sane and responsible ... given you are in a rural or semi rural area.
So many toddler gets daddy's gun situations are urban and the gun is in the top drawer while the baby is lying on the bed.
You're smart, you know when it's safe.
I can't believe people are posting from the Daily Mail. They are known mainly for posting articles showing fannies and breasts of the latest plastic surgery of so called celebrities to keep them in the news.
Look around you, 80 percent of the world is a little screwy.
He's 15, and every polite word out of his mouth sounds as programmed and scripted as could be. I don't trust him one eentsie little bit.
Not at all! They are a [mostly] conservative British tabloid ... in Britain they are all tabloids.
They routinely post anti-Obama stuff that never shows up in US papers.
Perhaps you are thinking of the lesser Brit tabloids.
I'm perfectly willing to consent to letting you carry a concealed weapon inside or outside of your house, as long as it is locked inside a safe which you - and only you - have the combination. You can even put the safe on wheels and tow it behind you on a public thoroughfare. Sound reasonable? If I'm being too lax, I'm also willing to make you store the ammunition at a separate location under penalty of imprisonment and confiscation of all your assets.
This fair, commonsense proposal is subject to change, as I may arbitrarily determine that you don't have a legitimate reason to own a gun anyway.
Mr. niteowl77
I'm thinking because guns get stolen, as in this case, wrestled free from the owner, that to fire they should be owner coded to fire. Would that be impossible?
I'm not talking about this school shooting.
I'm talking about many past events of toddlers getting their parents guns.
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In short: Has the Sussex Countryside risen by a few hundred feet?In full: As a seasoned runner I found today's race very hard. An extra 16 minutes on last year. Okay an extra mile, but it was cooler than in 2007. Thanks a million for the jelly babies at the last drink stop. Saved me big time.Date of review: August 3, 2008
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In short: tough run but well organised and friendly. Reverse route this year, views seem to be misssing.Date of review: August 3, 2008
In short: Tough hills but great organisation and probably the best signed route ever!Date of review: August 3, 2008
In short: Hills up and down and plenty of great sceneryIn full: First time to run this one. Will be back again for sure. Hot and steamy weather gave the course a Jurassic feel. Tough undulating course but very enjoyable. Nice medal too. Cheers.Date of review: August 3, 2008
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In short: Lovely scenery, friendly marshalls, will be backIn full: Very scenic and predominantly through woodland, so lots of shade on a very hot day. Sponges at one of the water stations would be nice next year. Recommended - so much more fun than a road run.Date of review: August 7, 2007
In short: Great views and varietyIn full: A well organised event (many thanks Mr Frost). Cheerful and helpful marshals making the run really enjoyable. A good test and I look forward to having another go next year.Date of review: August 6, 2007
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Armed militia members join a Nevada rancher to protest a cattle roundup from public land.
After 20 years of allowing his cattle to illegally graze on federally-owned public land, last month Cliven Bundy was finally faced with a federal action to remove his livestock from the Gold Butte area of southern Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management had planned for the roundup to last over a month and to collect about 1,000 cattle, but after just 16 days, it came to an abrupt end on Saturday April 12. The BLM released an estimated 300 cattle it had rounded up, back onto the public land.
This reversal came as a result of hundreds of Bundy supporters, including out-of-state armed militia, arriving to protest the roundup and confront federal agents. According the BLM, the agency stopped the roundup in order to avoid an outbreak of violence that appeared imminent as tensions ran high among protestors.
Bundy stopped paying grazing fees to the federal government in 1993, when desert tortoise conservation priorities altered the terms of his grazing allotment. By 1997, Clark County had purchased all remaining grazing permits in the Gold Butte area in accordance with their Desert Conservation Program and permanently closed the area to grazing. But from 1993 to 2014, Bundy's cattle continued to graze, despite two court orders to remove them and nearly $1 million in unpaid fees and fines.
An estimated 1,000 Bundy cattle continue to illegally roam the area.
Text by Christi Turner, who is an editorial intern at High Country News. She tweets @christi_mada.
This is what I told them:
This has to do with the rancher in Nevada named Cliven Bundy.
Since 1993, he has flagrantly refused to pay his bills for grazing his cattle on MY PUBLIC LAND.
The BLM already allows cattle ranchers to graze on public lands for very low fees.
The BLM confiscated his cattle recently and now you gave in to those gun-toting protesters.
Why did you do that? Do you not understand that you were enforcing the law?
What about all the ranchers who actually pay their bills? Why should they continue to pay their bills, when they see that Bundy gets away with not paying?
You are encouraging a whole-scale revolt. Is that what you want?
Does a cattle rancher really run the state of Nevada, the sheriff's office, the governor's office, and the BLM?
I expect the government to fully prosecute this man and make him pay restitution. Not only for his back payments, but for the expense of rounding up and then releasing his animals.
In the meantime, Bundy should immediately be arrested and charged.
I will be following this.
I am sick and tired of ranchers who overgraze PUBLIC LAND THAT BELONGS TO ALL UNITED STATES CITIZENS.
It is NOT his land!
Even more importantly, we cannot allow groups of people who wave guns around to bully others and evade paying their fair share. This is not the 1800s. Do your job!
I know it isn't easy, but that is what you are there for.
Enforce the law, please, now.
The fees for grazing cattle have not changed since 1963, and half of that money is returned to the state.
Nevada receives the least amount of rainfall of any state in the union.
I'm not sure where Nevada ranks as far as agriculture production, but I would guess around 46 or 47.
Tax payers pay for predator control $1,500,000.
Nationwide only 2% of total cattle production comes off BLM and Forest Service land.
The majority of grazing permits are held by a hand full of corporations, and leased out for a profit.
Open grazing is still the law in Nevada. On private property it is your responsibility to fence the cattle out, which would be a proper four strand barbwire fence.
The Bureau of Reclamation created the dams and irrigation systems, mostly for alfalfa production, and back in the 1930 they needed some population growth.
Cattle production can be said to be the most inefficient process in the production of protein. As a note I like my Rib eye steak medium rare.
Fast forward to 2014 if this land was state owned could they afford to subsidize cattle grazing, could the ranchers afford to pay tax on the land?
If you look at this with an open mind, can anybody make a business case for cattle production in Sothern Nevada, without the help from the evil government? You cannot have it both ways, with one hand shake your fists at the government and in the other hand receive your drought relief check.
The conspiratorial aspect of this is that somehow, we're supposed to ignore the last 18 years of law-breaking by Bundy and then swallow the 'fringe' theory that this is a Harry Reid led land-grab of "private" property from some ordinary law-abiding family rancher, when Bundy is far from innocent in this matter. But the fringe sure has done a great job of obfuscating the actual facts to get people to come to his aid in order for him to continue his illegal grazing habits on public lands.
Cattle are not native to this ecosystem... it hasn't "gotten used to it" the past couple hundred years, it has irreparably turned over into a new regime. Federal grazing lesses pay $1.35/animal unit month, which means one cow and one calf for one month costs them $1.35.
Mr. Bundy's 1,000 head or so of cattle are worth between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 right now as part of his private business being subsidized by taxpayers and the ecosystem. For comparison, consider how many (federally protected) wild horses are being literally exterminated under the guise of "overgrazing" though there are maybe 30,000 animals spread over about 30 million acres and their total population is about 1/10th that of just the elk herd in Colorado. Don't want to hijack this thread but horses are native here, cattle and sheep are not.
Is anyone else alarmed at the massive armed BLM (and other) force mustered on such short notice and surrounding Mr. Bundy's house for... what exactly? How much was spent on this epic fail? What would have happened if anyone at all had fired a shot??? I think we all should give this issue a great deal more attention - it's not really about the cows.
HCN, this story affects the very heart of what America represents anymore. Please do a legitimate, balanced reporting job if you have any hope of offering your readers the journalism your reputation was built on.
While the government availed itself of its full arsenal of dirty tricks, anti-terrorism legislation, and riot control techniques in putting down the Occupy protests, it seems to have mainly dithered from behind a desk for decades with Bundy, and backed down when challenged (at least for now).
The Occupy protests, meanwhile, were crushed with a fairly intense coordinated display of official violence, albeit mostly short of gunfire. I can only imagine what would have ensued if an Occupy protestor had positioned himself on a bridge and aimed a rifle at the authorities down below.
It is curious to me how the authorities find it necessary to bring to bear anti-terrorism rationales when dealing with groups like "Octogenarian Nuns for Peace" (made-up name), yet feel the need to exercise decades of forbearance in dealing with an armed rancher with militia support.
It does seem to underscore some advantages to being armed if you plan to confront the government.
For those who would like to read more about the debunked Harry Reid - China connection, including in conservative media:
I think it's a sad and pathetic precedent. Round em
all up and send em to Leavenworth.
A few points to consider:
- Although everyone "knows" that ending grazing will benefit the tortoise population there is evidence to suggest that the exact opposite may well be true - search for "The Desert Tortoise in Relation to Cattle Grazing Vernon Bostick" - article in the University of Arizona's Rangeland Journal.
- In the case of the BLM's actions against another Nevada rancher just last year a Federal District Court judge found that the agency had engaged in a conspiracy over a twenty year period to deprive him ofgrazing and water rights - exactly what they appear to be attempting in Cliven Bundy's case and apparently have already succeeded in doing to the over fifty other ranches who were operating in Clark County, NV 20 or 30 years ago. See: "U.S. v. Estate of E. Wayne Hage".
- Someone commented that the "fringe" theories about Harry Reid's relationship to this have been debunked. As far as I know Marcus Stern is still standing behind his August 31, 2012 Reuters story "U.S. Senator Reid, son combine for China firm's desert plant".
Rory Reid, Harry's eldest son was formerly head
of the Clark County Commission - he came back subsequently
to lobby the commission on behalf of the Chinese ENN project.
The commission sold them 9,000 acres of land (at about 15 cents on the dollar). Since the project would likely wipe out any tortoises there, through the "Solar Regional Mitigation Planning" (SRMP) process it was decided that the Gold Butte tract the Bundys had traditionally grazed on would be the land dedicated for "mitigation" - even though no one has documented that the tortoise population is being negatively impacted by Bundy's cows.
A search on "Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone" is instructive as is exploring Reid's relationship with his former top donor
Harvey Whittemore..
Although Edward Abbey was a tortoise kind of guy (a tortoise is the first
character you meet in "Hayduke Lives" (sequel to the "Monkeywrench Gang")
he wrote a whole book about the government trying to force a rancher off his land "Fire on the Mountain" (1962). Abbey's "The Brave Cowboy" (basis for the 1962 film "Lonely are the Brave") is not exactly off-topic as far as that goes.
As an oldish treehugger myself, it was gratifying to see the support for the Bundy's in this. The government will no doubt be back to "help" further, but I'm glad to see this round go to the cowboys and their supporters. It would
be *really* gratifying to see HCN get in touch with their roots and step up with some investigative reporting on this that goes beyond soundbites and spin.
one here has a clue about how he operates or the condition of his land or
the condition of the desert tortoises thereon. Don't suppose it has occurred
to anyone to just go ask him to them around and check out conditions for themselves?
In any case it appears that the government is using questionable assumptions about the relationship between cattle and tortoises to reduce grazing AUM's to the point where ranchers can't operate. Unlike the AUM's which are only a conditional right to consume a certain amount of forage at specified times, the water rights are, well, rights - but can be lost and revert to the state if the owner doesn't use them.
And to be eligible to purchase AUM's (animal unit months) from the government,
you have to agree to terms and conditions which essentially allow the government to suspend them at will - that is, to put you out of business
at will. This was central to why Bundy refused to sign - he has repeatedly stated a willingness to pay grazing fees, but not under those conditions.
So, create a situation where the ranchers lose their water rights and the State of Nevada can get a huge windfall reselling them to big corporations so
that Vegas hotels can have water features or the NSA can operate Bluffdale and
surveil the entire planet. Note that while the Feds occupied the Bundy they destroyed water systems some of which had been in place for a hundred years -
and which form part of the basis of the Bundys claim to the area water rights.
Environmentalists are being played here by the corporate/politico PTB who are probably rolling around laughing about it. Hope you remember this when the SWAT teams show up at *your* place...
Try the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone. That's the name of the area including the Bundy grazing area that is being planned to house 50+ solar/wind/geothermal plants by Chinese companies over three states (NV, AZ, CA) and possibly six. Reid is very involved in several of them. Let's not forget, that picture two weeks ago of Harry and his shovel with a line of Paiutes for the kickoff of their solar panel plant which is 35 miles from Bundy.
Like Solyndra and all the others that went bankrupt in spite of obama giving them multiple millions in crony capitalism paybacks for campaign donations, many of which he knew were all ready teetering on the brink of bankrupcy. Might as well have flushed those tax dollars right down the toilet.
Solar panels have dropped in price 50%, are basically worthless as far as energy goes due to the cost and maintenance so these plants, if they go in, will end up empty with people out of jobs.
Meanwhile, obama, using every trick in the book including years to get permits, regulations, etc to keep Americans from drilling for oil on federal lands (only on privately owned land right now) but is now allowing the Chinese to buy into American oil and natural gas companies. I have the list, over about nine states.
Looks like we not only import everything FROM China, NOW they are coming to us. Right in your own backyard there and it wasn't cattle the tortoise couldn't live with, it is solar panel plants.
Year, Horrible Harry is up to his neck in these Chinese plants and there is one more big company planning the same that Ira Magaziner and son, both of whom work with/for the Wm Jefferson Clinton Foundation are involved in. In fact, the Magaziners are involved in the Paiute solar panel plant. Put their names in a search engine.
I missed reading your great post. Thanks for the tips. Following is a LONG letter I wrote to the Kingman Daily Miner yesterday, don't know if it will be printed or not but to let people know the uphill battle against environmentalists going on. Just got here, don't know if there is a length limit.
Bundy – The Backstories
By now, most people realize the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) didn't pay the Bundy's a visit with many agents, tasers, hired mercenaries and attack dogs at a cost estimated in the millions, all to do with what has been said to actually be a $200,000 unpaid grazing fee or a supposed endangered tortoise.
No, this story goes much deeper, has many tentacles and is far more sinister than most average Americans, who quite innocently make remarks such as the government is over-reaching or yet another land grab, could ever imagine. Complicit is the fact that in 2012, the BLM and the US Dept of Energy published a "Final Pragmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States" paving the way for solar energy development projects on acreage including public land in dispute such as in the Bundy case, a holdout in their way.
This plan for solar panel plants and more , fifty plus planned for the NV, AZ, CA area alone, all Chinese backed, fits like a glove with President Obama's belief and strong ties with global warming extremists and his push for "regionalism".
The BLM'S own website, before they scrubbed it said as much. "Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle" ie the Gold Butte/Bundy grazing area is now needed for "solar development" reasons and "trespass" cattle are off limits. (More on Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone later).
For those unfamiliar with regionalism, it's a push to get people out of the suburbs and back in the cities, the belief being suburb people take tax money with them. The Obama administration feels through Energy Dept and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, they can force people back by making all federal funding adhere to global warming. And are they ever adept at it. It's also a re-distribution of wealth but for another column.
They also, as with the so called endangered tortoise on Bundy grazing land, effectively use endangered species (frequently not endangered at all) to re-locate people and destroy lives. A side note on the tortoises, 1400 were moved to a S Las Vegas sanctuary they built for them, not because the tortoise could not live w/cattle (they often survived off cow paddies) but because it is "green energy"plants that cannot live with tortoises. Running out of sanctuary money (tax dollars), they are euthanizing 700, letting the others go. So much for endangered.
Blogger Dana Loesch discovered Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, knee deep in this story, was urged by developer friend Harry Whittemore to move the specified tortoise habitat over to Bundy grazing land as a tool to move Bundy's cattle off the land. Whittemore is now in prison for illegally donating $150,000 to Reid's re-election campaign in 2007. Now we see how they effectively use plants and animals to "re-distribute" humans, "steal" their land, especially disturbing since property ownership was created by our Founders, it being non-existant in the world prior to that time. Even American Indians didn't believe in property ownership until the time of the Founders.
For anyone unaware of the clout of environmentalists, the largest, the Environmental Defense Fund (assets of $132 million, 400,000 members) now has as it's VP on rivers and deltas, Obama's former Sr Energy Advisor and transition team member, Elgie Holstein. In 2011, Obama hired EDF's Nat Keohane, as his special assistant on energy and environmental issues. And Obama himself once sat on the board of the left wing environmentalist Joyce Foundation.
The second largest, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) whose staff consists of 350 lawyers and environmentalists, 1.3 million members with locations in five major US cities and Beijing, China and $97 million in annual revenue, is so powerful, they are known as the "Shadow EPA" . They influence every law and regulation that affects LAND USE, energy conservation, air and water pollution and nuclear waste. Their radical opposition to capitalism, Marxist at it's roots with their belief capitalism is destroying nature not only use expanding the state through regulations but have also embraced so-called green jobs, namely wind and solar power. Far less efficient and far more expensive than fossil fuels, there is no free market demand for either so they look to government to subsidize them.
Enter problematic cattle on grazing land, solar and wind plants accompanied by Chinese with money and liberal Democrats looking to line their pockets. Add the fact, there is a concerted effort by our government to own more and more land, 80+ % of Nevada alone. Study the "Wildlands Project" map. In red is the area they want as off-limits. It nearly covers the map. Yellow is for part-use, covers a huge part of the map and one very small green area is the only area totally for humans to use. THAT is their goal.
It goes without question, we all need to be good stewards of the earth. But by 1970, we had many problems prompting the Nixon Administration to pass landmark environmental laws, the Clean Air Act of 1970 and the Clean Water Act of 1972 and create the EPA. There was an immediate restorative affect. Air pollution declined dramatically, pollutant dust and lead in the air decreased a hundred fold. The number of water bodies safe for swimming and fishing doubled. The environment rebounded and American industry followed suit. Although cars doubled since 1970, smog declined by one-third. Toxic emissions from industry declined 51% even though petrochemical manufacturers increased production.
Before awaiting the outcome of the new laws however, productive environmental groups were over-run by leftover 60's radicals and new radical environmental groups were also formed. We now have 553 far left-wing radical capitalist hating environmental groups receiving grants of $555.4 million compared to $1.2 million in grants going to the 32 free-market moderate groups, a ratio of 462 to 1. (The New Leviathan – David Horowitz/Jacob Laksin)
Many, putting money ahead of what's good for America, have jumped on the "green job" bandwagon, not the least of which is Al Gore, Harry Reid and the Clintons, all opulently wealthy.
Last year, Reid stayed quiet until his clout got his Sr Advisor, 35 year old Neil Kornze, with no qualifications except being born in Elko in as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Land Management, overseeing 264 million acres of mostly western states land.
During a 2011 Senate trip to China on our dime, Reid had already teamed up with Chinese billionaire Wang Yusuo, founder of ENN Energy giant to win incentives including the Laughlin $5 billion planned 9000 acre solar energy plant now on hold. A bonus, Reid got son Rory, an attorney w/the huge law firm Lionel Sawyer and Collins headed by former NV Atty Gen, Governor and US Senator Richard Bryan at it's helm, to broker a deal. In spite of solar panel prices plunging 50% in recent months, Rory, a former Clark Co Commissioner got a mega-deal for the Chinese. They paid $4.5 mill for land assessed at $29 to $38 mill with a promise of jobs.
A promise to the Chinese of a first customer fell through when NV Energy and CA Energy said no so Harry Reid enlisted billionaire friend Warren Buffett to acquire NV Energy, got Sen Atkinson to sponsor Senate Bill 123 (Nvision) and put it on a fast track which may bring it back. (Reuters) Harry Reid wasn't left empty handed however, for over three election cycles, Chinese ENN contributed $40,650 to him.
Kornze, in his new BLM position, was only confirmed by the Senate two weeks ago, Apr 8, 2014 but started work at the BLM last Aug 2013 anyway and immediately got a federal court order giving Cliven Bundy 45 days to move his "trespass" cattle off the grazing land. A plethora of reasons was given (a car hit a Bundy cow, could be dangerous, etc), but nowhere were unpaid land/grazing fees even mentioned.
But that's just the beginning of the Reid story. And the reason some 40+ other ranchers have already been run off their land in the same area. Remember that Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone brought up above? The entire region around Bundy is slated for a large number of solar, wind
and geothermal energy generation facilities which will obliterate nearly all that tortoise's natural habitat, not Bundy's cattle that had lived easily with the tortoise for the last 100 years.
It is the BLM's own library of renewable energy projects that revealed these 50+ planned projects and Reid is focused on several, all close to Bundy's. In fact, March 21, 2014, Harry was there with his shovel at the ground breaking of the Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, just 35 miles from Bundy. And just for the hell of it and because, with Kornze strings to pull I guess, Reid threw in another 25,000 acres to the Paiutes to go along with the 75,000 acres they already have for their 200 people.
Of interest is the fact, the leaseholder for the project is K Road Power, LLC, a NYC based energy co whose business development manager is none other than Jonathan Magaziner, former associate at the Clinton Climate Initiative of the Wm J Clinton Foundation. Son of Ira Magaziner, former Sr Policy adviser for President Clinton and who now works for the Clinton Foundation on health and environment issues.
There is also First Solar, listed on BLM's renewable energy project map of So Nevada, one of 11 sited in Clark County. The map shows six wind projects in Clark Co, also lists K Road Moapa project under "transmission projects".
First Solar investors comprise a who's who of Democratic insiders including major Obama campaign bundlers, billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones, Al Gore, Ted Turner, Goldman Sachs.
And First Solar's CEO is Michael Ahearn, former fundraiser for both Obama and Harry Reid. The real threat here is by Bundy and the tortoise to Reid and a gamut of Democrats tied to Obama, Clinton and Gore.
This plan to turn the West into a massive green project to line the pockets of liberals is at the very least distressing, worse and down the road, will leave people without jobs and empty plants when the unsustainable costs, maintenance problems, etc that closed Solyndra and others do the same to these.
Bundy is right about the land when he says he will make payments to Nevada but not the Feds.
In America's infancy, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Founding Fathers' understanding of federal control over land. Justice Stephen J. Field wrote for the majority opinion in Fort Leavenworth Railroad Co. v Lowe (1855) that federal authority over territorial land was "necessarily paramount". However, once the territory was organized as a state and admitted to the union on equal ground, the state government assumes sovereignty over federal lands, and the federal government retains only the rights of an "individual proprietor". This means that the federal government can only exercise general sovereignty over state property if the state legislatures formally grant the federal government the power to do so under the Enclave Clause with the exception of federal buildings (post offices) and military installations. This understanding was reaffirmed in Lessee of Pollard v Hagan (1845), Peroli v Municipality No 1 of the city of New Orleans (1845) and Strader v Graham (1850).
Sadly, the Supreme Court began redefining the Constitution and legislating from the bench under the guise of interpretation.


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In short: Nice course, challenging hills, great medalIn full: Second time running the Longleat 10km, thoroughly enjoyed it - especially after the snow and ice last year!Three challenging hills but still a great course.Organisation has definitely improved from last year. Communication from 2:09 pre-event was very good, easy to find information tent this year and good to see that Longleat have embraced the race and opened up the restaurant and toilet facilities this year. Gives spectators something to do during the run and better to get a snack afterwards than a greasy burger van.Love the lion medal at the end! I'll be back next yearDate of review: February 4, 2013
In short: Excellent raceIn full: I only got 2 miles in to this race before I had to withdraw due to injured ankle, but the organisation, marshalls and first aiders that I met were all absolutely fantastic. I got 'rescued' and treated really quickly, given an icepack, cup of tea and a seat near the finish line so that I could wait for my friends to finish the race. The atmosphere and support from the crowd at the finish line was superb and the goodie bags and medals made me incredibly jealous.I'll be back next year to take on the challenge again! Date of review: August 20, 2012
In short: Fantatic Marathon - thank you BrightonIn full: Great event! Amazing support from marshalls along the way, smooth organisation from signing up to finishing the race. I really loved how quick and hassle free the bag drop was (in comparison to the Brighton Half which was AWFUL!) and the speed of getting medal, goodie bag, t-shirt and retrieving bag from bag drop at the end of the race.(Also THANK YOU for providing t-shirts in many sizes, not just XXL!)The only part I didn't like very much was the Road to Hell, but I actually ran that bit fastest of the whole marathon so maybe that was a good thing!I'll also second the comments about the gantry being badly placed - I thought that was the finish too and "sprinted" to it, only to realise I still had a few hundred m to go. I won't run it again next year as I'd like to experience a different marathon but I would definitely come back in future. Good value for money, great organisation and a fantastic event. Thank you! Date of review: April 17, 2012
In short: Glorious scenery but watch out for the hills! In full: Firstly, THANK YOU to San Domenico Running Club for organising this event. Everyone involved with this race, from the person answering emails to the marshalls and volunteers on course was extremely friendly, helpful and welcoming.This event takes in some breathtakingly beautiful parts of the Taff Trail (including one really steep hill - I wasn't expecting that!).There were water stops every 3 miles (cups not bottles), with a gel station at 15 miles, and energy drinks at 17 miles.I suffered with dehydration after the race but as it was the first long run that I've done in warmer weather this year, I could probably have done with taking my Camelbak. Fully appreciate that it is not possible to have water bottles at smaller events such as this, but might be worth including a note about that in the race material for future runners?All in all, a good event, beautiful scenery, and the best marshalls and volunteers I have ever encountered. I would love to run this race again and would recommend it to anyone doing a Spring Marathon.Date of review: March 28, 2012
In short: Nice race if you like lapsIn full: I enjoyed the event, the marshalls were fantastic - very encouraging and there were lots of them on the course. The 5 mile loop was nice, undulating but no really serious hills and some very pretty areas. This was the longest run I've done in marathon prep so far, and although the distance and timing of the race was spot on, I would have to think twice before deciding to do it again. I found running multiple laps of the same 5 mile loop to be rather soul-destroying - especially when the sub-2 hour finishers starting lapping me! It was a shame that the sponsor pulled out, so there were no goodie bags, but the organisers did a fantastic job of providing a good selection of energy drinks at the finish of the race, as well as plenty of water, squash and jelly babies on the course. The medal was nice too :)Date of review: March 11, 2012
In short: Decent race but probably due for a revampIn full: What a difference a few years makes! First time I did this race there was a hailstorm and what felt like hurricane winds. This time around it was glorious, although it was cold and quite windy at times, I could actually take in the beautiful scenery.The course was very flat, marshals were friendly and helpful, I liked the trophy but thought the hat was terrible, even a Fruit of the Loom style cotton t-shirt would have been better.One comment to the organisers : PLEASE sort out your mailing list. Just because I enter one event doesn't mean that I want to get multiple emails every week encouraging me to enter the same 5 Human Being Active events, it is really annoying and the kind of thing that should be caught by your database administrator. Date of review: March 6, 2012
In short: Would have been a good half marathon but it measured longIn full: Nice course but it measured long. Such a shame as I thought all other points on race organisation were brilliant.A couple of minor points, goodie bag was unnecessary - I was hoping for a recovery drink in the bag, as it didn't contain that I would have been happy with just the medal and banana. 99% of the volunteers were amazing but there was an awful woman policing the Lucozade. I stood near a large stack of cases of Lucozade so I could rest my cup of water on top while stretching my calves before attempting to hobble off for my sports massage. I am a grown woman, I don't appreciate being scolded like a school girl for standing "too near" the precious Lucozade and apparently "encouraging people to steal it" OR having my water thrown away! I appreciate that volunteers have a stressful job to do and give up their own time to do it but please, try to at least be polite to the people who have paid to enter the event! Date of review: February 20, 2012
In short: Snow and hills on safariIn full: A nice course looping through Longleat, glorious final straight running towards the mansion - if only all races had such a fabulous view (and a nice downhill section to launch you onto the final straight).There were good facilities, enough portaloos for runners (I really don't understand the criticism about the toilets, have any of you BEEN to events before?!). There wasn't very much for spectators to do but to be fair to 2:09, it was mentioned in all the race information and on the website before entering that Longleat was closed that weekend. I'd much rather that the organisers spent time getting it right for the runners instead of worrying about spectators being entertained. I'm glad it wasn't just me who had trouble with the hill at 1km and 8km, I had to walk up the steepest part as my trainers were not equipped for ice. A bit of extra grit would have been nice, but the marshals at this point were excellent and gave clear instructions to runners as I passed so we knew to avoid the worst sections.A beautiful run, the icy hills added 7 minutes on to my PB time but I'm happy with what I achieved. I will be back next year.(I loved the medal too - thank you!) The only constructive criticism I would make is that on Sunday morning I was frantically checking the 2:09 Events Facebook page for an update on whether the race was still on and I noticed several other people posting questions. If a company is going to have a Facebook page, then it is a good idea to make sure that someone is responsible for updating it with last minute information. Something for 2:09 to keep in mind? Date of review: February 6, 2012
In short: 2011 Race - OKIn full: Fast flat course, nice atmosphere and great scenery. A few points for improvement:A bit more guidance for division at the start, rather than fast at the front, slow at the back. I was overtaking people the whole way around the course which was rather annoying during the first 1.5 km as the course was narrower. On the other hand, it is quite motivating to always be overtaking people! Confusion from the PA system about which side the elites would be running back down on, everyone moved to the right as per the PA instructions, only to have to jump out the way when the elites came down on that side! What happened to the KM markers? There was 1km, 1.5km and 6.5km - a few more would have been welcome as would a bit more notice that there was no water station on the course (i.e. highlight in the race pack)?But all in all, a pretty good race and I'd be happy to do it again. Date of review: November 20, 2011
In short: Flat, fast course for a good causeIn full: Great organisation and atmosphere. Nice course, well-marked route and KM markers. Water and goodie bag at the end. Made a pleasant change from my solo training runs on Wednesday lunchtime.Date of review: November 9, 2011
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(BRIDGEPORT, CONN.) - The first-ever USA Boxing Olympic Invitational took place on Friday night at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Conn., with several Olympians from the United States, China and Brazil facing off in one of the final competitions before the 2008 Olympics.
A national feature bout opened the competition with 2008 National Champion Luis Arias (Milwaukee, Wis.) taking on 2007 National Golden Gloves champion Shawn Porter (Stow, Ohio) in the opening bout of the evening's action. An injury to Porter prevented the two from boxing in the finals of the 2008 U.S. Future Stars National Championship but they both stepped through the ropes on Saturday night. It was Arias coming out with the victory, winning a 3-0 decision on paper scoring.
International action kicked off in the bantamweight division with 2007 U.S. Championships silver medalist David Clark (San Diego, Calif.) facing off with Brazil's Robensilon Vieria in the second bout of the event. Clark recorded his first international victory less than two weeks ago, winning a bout with Puerto Rico after a long streak of international losses. He kept his international winning streak going in his bout with Vieria, winning a unanimous 3-0 decision on paper scoring.
Chinese Olympian Silamu Hanati opened action for his team in the welterweight division, battling the United States' Jeremiah Wiggins (Norfolk, Va.) in the first major international contest for the American boxer. Hanati's experience advantage showed with the Chinese boxer claiming a 3-0 paper scoring decision over Wiggins.
In middleweight action, the United States' Cruse Stewart (Davenport, Iowa) took the ring for his first major international bout as well, challenging Brazil's Yamaguchi Florentino. The Brazilian fell just short of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games, dropping his definitive bout to U.S. Olympian Shawn Estrada. Florentino enjoyed better luck again his second U.S. foe, winning a 3-0 paper decision over Stewart to record the first win for the Brazilian team.
In the first of two light heavyweight bouts, the United States team returned to the winning side with Siju Shabazz (Las Cruces, N.M.) recording a 2-1 paper scoring victory over Abdureheman Abulkimu of China. The event returned to computer scoring in the seventh bout of the event between Lionell Thompson (Buffalo, N.Y.) and 2008 Olympian Washington Silva of Brazil. The bout was low scoring through the first two rounds with the Brazilian holding a slim 2-1 lead after one. He doubled his lead as the bout moved into the final two minutes and although Thompson cut his lead in half, he dropped an 11-10 final decision.
United States light flyweight Olympian Luis Yanez (Duncanville, Texas) opened the action for his Olympic teammates, facing off in a rematch with Brazil's Paulo Carvalho. Yanez won an early match-up at the Pan American Games by a 19-6 decision and enjoyed another easy night in Bridgeport. After a slow-paced first round ended in a 2-0 score, Yanez turned up the heat in the second. He caught the Brazilian with clean shots, giving Carvalho two standing eight counts en route to a 10-3 lead at the midway mark of the bout. Yanez pushed his lead to double digits in the third and enjoyed a 16-6 edge as the fourth round began. He went on to win a 20-10 decision to push his winning streak to two.
Bantamweight Olympian Gary Russell, Jr. (Capitol Heights, Md.) stepped up to the featherweight division for one night, facing off with fellow Olympian Robson Conceicao of Brazil. The bout was Russell's first competition since the 2007 World Championships due to injury and he enjoyed his return. Russell dominated the bout from start to finish, holding Conceicao scoreless in the first round on his way to a 7-0 lead at thee end of one. He continued to press the action in the second, pushing his lead to a nine point margin. The points continued to flow in the third as Russell landing strong shots to the body, and he built a 20-5 lead after three. Russell was the aggressor in the fourth round as well and went on win a 27-8 final decision.
Lightweight Sadam Ali (Brooklyn, N.Y.) suffered the first loss for the U.S. Olympic Team in his contest with Brazilian Olympian Everton Lopes. Ali grabbed the early lead, holding a one-point edge after the first but Lopes pulled the bout to a 5-5 tie at the halfway point. Lopes claimed the lead in the third and went into the final round with an 11-8 advantage. Ali came on strong in the fourth, giving Lopes two standing eight counts, but couldn't overcome his deficit and dropped a 17-12 final decision.
Heavyweight Deontay Wilder (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) closed the night in devastating fashion, stopping Chinese Olympian Nijiati Yushan in the second round of their bout. Wilder took the early in the bout but Yushan pulled the contest to a 5-5 tie midway through. Yet Wilder made sure that it didn't go to points, landing a crushing left hook in the second round, dropping Yushan to the canvas and forcing the referee to stop the bout.


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Insurance Stocks Are a 'Glacial' Theme
The movie was a documentary I highly recommend titled "Chasing Ice." You can see the official movie trailer on YouTube . It is an unforgettable masterpiece of cinematography and the official "synopsis" follows.
In the spring of 2005, National Geographic photographer James Balog headed to the Arctic on a tricky assignment: to capture images to help tell the story of the Earth's changing climate.
Even with a scientific upbringing, Balog had been a skeptic about climate change . . . . But that first trip north opened his eyes to the biggest story in human history and sparked a challenge within him that would put his career and his very well-being at risk . . . .
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Posted on 03/24/2012 6:40:55 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA
Rick Santorum will win the Louisiana primary Saturday, CBS News projects. The victory is fresh evidence of the weakness of front-runner Mitt Romney, who is nonetheless increasingly likely to be the Republican who takes on President Obama in November.
According to exit polls, Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and social conservative, did well among evangelicals, Catholics and those who identify themselves as "very conservative."
With 16 of 4,267 precincts reporting, Santorum had about 40 percent of the vote, while second place Romney had 31 percent. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was a distant third with 21 percent and Texas Rep. Ron Paul had just 5 percent of the counted vote.
Santorum also did well among those who consider the economy the most important issue of the election. Among those voters, Santorum had 44 percent support, compared to 33 percent support for Romney, according to CBS News exit polls. The economy was considered the top factor among Republican voters in Louisiana Saturday.
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Well there's nothing left for me to say here.
Carry on.
Yet no R has won without SC.
Yes! On to Wisconsin! He's going to have a toughter road up there because Romney is currently in the lead.
Gingrich is there for his ego. If he withdraws they'd stop talking about him like they don't talk anymore about Bachman, Cain, and Perry.
He siphoned off enough votes that stopped Santorum from derailing Romney's candidacy in MI (where Romney won by 3% of the vote and Gingrich got 7%) and again in OH where Romney won by less than 1% of the vote and Gingrich siphoned off nearly 14% of the vote. His "southern strategy" has been reduced to dust and he now still continues to be in the race. On Super Tuesday night Carl Cameron of FoxNews reported that Team Romney was simply "happy" to see Gingrich continue in the race. Now we all know why.
Go Santorum Go! He's been outspent 20 to 1 in some cases, and conservative voters are flocking to him in droves and most important Gallup shows him beating Obama. (Psst. Don't tell that to the Newties!)
I'd call that VICTORY!!
Is it an own primary then the dem wins
unfortunately, Gingrich did so badly he didn't keep ROmney below 25%, so Romney will get delegates.
This was one of the states where it was actually HELPFUL to ahve two conservatives, except Gingrich just isn't getting enough support anymore.
Open primary where Dems can support their loser ?
I thought if the winner got more than 50%, the candidate got all the delegates. If so, this is situation where Newt helped Romney gain delegates.
The margin of Santorum's win is certainly not going to sit well with some of the faux Gingrich, closet Romney supporters here!
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
I think it is time for Rick to offer the bottom of the ticket to Newt and I think Newt should be big enough man to accept.
I also think it is time for Fox News, Drudge Report and the Party Establishment to start telling Romney to step aside for the good of the party.
LOL. I sure am surprised at the number of people here soft selling Milt these days.
Coincidentally, Romney gets over the 25% threshold so he gets a percentage of Santorum's delegate? He's at 26% with 75% reporting in?!
Of course! What else would you expect from the GOP-E?!
This stuff makes me sick!
What a coincidence, right?!
Illinois - Does not matter a lick. Obama or the devil would win there in November anyway. In picking a Rep candidate we should base our selection on who can best win the states that get the electoral college vote and forget states like Illinois, California, new York, etc that have no hope of being a Rep state .
Oh yeah? Check this thread out. It blew my mind as well. All types of Milt soft selling going on from the Newt faithful.
You may not know with your fresh sign on, but most of the people selling Milt here are Newt enthusiasts. Very odd.
Sweater vest foot in his mouth pro wrestler lawyer megalomaniac idiot man has no path to 1144 before the convention.
So looks like this win is pointless, and we'll see what happens in Tampa.
Don't let that stop you from getting all hot and bothered over nothing though.
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No. Loiusiana does not have a winner-take-all provision. They do proportional delegates for every candidate who gets over 25%.
(Worse Loiusiana doesn't actually bind delegates, and the primary only "morally obligates" a small number of delegates, with the rest done at some meeting in June).
It's pretty obvious at this point that both Gingrich and the lawyer who voted against right to work have to stay in to keep the mormon bishop from buying the nomination.
So it would probably be a good idea to refrain from attacking Gingrich supporters and calling for him to drop out, it's a pretty counterproductive thing to do.
Your a smart cookie, aren't you? Through the magic of being able to check past posts, show me where I ever said Newt should drop out. If you are an honest person you will reply with an apology and we can go our separate ways Rome.
Yeah, like the GOPe is is smart enough to have figured this whole scenario out back in 2010.
This delegate allocation plan will help those whoe establish momentum and, alternatively, help those who are nipping at the heels of the leader if nobody is dominant.
Yeah, Tonight's LA totals show Rick is a real loser. No chance of him going anywhere. Go Romney Right?
And Toomey showed his stripes. They are ALL, including Newt, false conservatives. Oh some are more RINO than others but NONE are conservative. Go to a deadlocked convention. Vote only down ticket if we must. No more GOPe, No more RINO, NONE!
But, but, He's so good at telling us how happy the cherry trees are in Washington DC, and how nice the elephants are at the Zoos instead of being busy on the campaign trail.
Hey Brohime. I had the time to refill the glass with delicious Balvenie Double Wood single malt down in my bar, smoke a cigarette, play with two of our nit wit cats with the laser beam and reply to a couple of mails here. I have not got a response from your accusation. Just shameful. You must have found me posting someone about telling Newt to get out of this thing by now.
FIGHT UNTIL THE END.... and DO ***NOT*** Endorse the sob... do NOT....
I love the media... oh.. poor Mitt. he can't win all the states so he stands no chance against Obama.
I don't love Mitt... but I love Mitt far more than a person who doesn't even deserve to be President under any circumstances.
If Mitt happens to be the only chance I have against Obama.. can Mitt really be any worse than him? Of course not.
Maybe you can help out a poor fool like myself. What does Mitt bring to the table that make you want to vote for him? I would love some specifics.
LA has closed primaries for president; everything else is open.
I like your idea. It could be the way.
Way too many here forget that NOTHING counts but defeating Obama. All the rest is mental masturbation. Hate that nominee will not be Newt, but defeating the traitor is all that counts
I'm in Key Largo getting some R&R, sipping a rum, and was talking to the wife, who I don't get to see much, as I am on the road most of the time.
I'd be happy to apologize except, I wasn't talking about you in particular (re: Newt dropping out).
Bottom line for me is that I am sick and tired of the RNC, whose membership I have observed up close and personal, and the Washingtonians.
Obama is a direct result of the transformation over the last 100 years of America from a republic to a democracy, in which every one has the right to vote.
It's all over but the shouting, the collapse is inevitable:
Our Founding Fathers and others speak out
Democracy: a government of the masses. Authority derived thru mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in Mobacracy. Attitude toward property is communist - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion. prejudice and impulse without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Republic: Authority is derived thru the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobacracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment and progress. Is the standard form of government throughout the world.
Benjamin Franklin: When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers: We are a Republican Government, Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy...it has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
John Adams: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.
James Madison: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
John Quincy Adams: The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
Thomas Jefferson: The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Benjamin Franklin (maybe): Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
James Madison: Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.
John Adams: That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.
Thomas Jefferson: All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that through the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
John Witherspoon: Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state - it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.
James Madison: We may define a republic to be - a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it: otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.
John Marshall: Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Winston Churchill: The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Sydney J Harris: Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
G. K., Chesterton: Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
George Bernard Shaw: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Dr Laurence J Peter: Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Alan Coren: Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Karl Marx: Democracy is the road to socialism.
And there you have it. I have nearly 500 quotes from our Founding Fathers to clearly debunk the retarded liberals that say we are a Democracy.
JBlog me!
Posted by Mark Harvey aka Snooper at 12/01/2008 02:19:00 PM
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I don't care to read anymore of your post to see that you are on vacation in the Keys. I know what that means and I have a hot wife too. God bless and I hope you guys have a great time. Tonight was a lot of fun here too. Regards.
No headlines of Rick's LA win on Drudge... Just a small blurb. Surely, we should expect one after Drudge gave Romney got a huge headline after his IL win. </sarc>
Obviously, Romney will be the nominee. He will get crucified by bambi in the debates - watch. Newt was the only one who had a chance to put bambi in his place, but now he's pretty much gone, we will have to deal with 4 more years of a socialist.
Thanks Republican Party for another Dole/McCain loser type nominee. You did well standing by your elites. I curse myself for maintaining my registration as a Republican. You are worthless. I'm going independent and will write in myself rather than pull the trigger for another RINO.
I'd rather see obambi get 4 more years and push us to the brink so America wakes up and is ready to fight for their rights, than see some RINO take us more slowly into the abyss. Screw the Republican party. I'm done and have told them so on their national site.
Really? Romney? Are you Republicans only about your team rather than our Constitutional principles? You Romneyites suck and just don't get it.
Here's a small clue for you: Constitutional Heritage. You partybots are pathetic. You are as bad as the liberals in corrupting our Constitution. The liberal/socialists have an excuse due to their ideology. What is the RINO excuse? What? Go along to get along?...and the Constitution be damned? The last leader in the Repub party I saw who adhered to Constitutional principles was Newt Gingrich. But no! You need handsome smarmy guy (Romney) who has flip-flopped on almost every issue and promoted/secured state governed health care. Parse it any way you and Romney want - he did it. Screw you all and deal me out of your special pubbie club.
Greetings Steelfish:
Insulting the Newt Gingrich wing of the conservative GOP movement adds no value to Rick Santorum's status nor increases his delegate count.
While a Rick Santorum voter and campaign supporter, I remain quite fond of Newt Gingrich. While neither GOP candidate is perfect, both men boast impressive lifetime conservative voting records; they earned and deserve our respect.
Please, keep it real.
Is that in the rule book somewhere...pffft.
I believe anybody still supporting Newt, is doing so for a Romney rathaer than Santorum win. They just can't stand the thought of a moral president.
Gingrich would have been an exciting candidate. I really enjoyed watching him in the debates. But if it wasn't obvious before, he's no longer capable of being a force in this race. If he can't win Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana, he's not going to win any of the other states.
If you were to make a list of all the candidates from previous primaries who only won one or two states, you'd be looking at a list of names no one remembers.
I don't know if Romney can be stopped at this point. That makes me sick, but it's the truth. Santorum is the only candidate who could plausibly stop him, and it's a long shot.
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