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WSJ: White House tried to prevent Honduran president's ouster
posted at 7:32 pm on June 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via Gateway Pundit. I understood The One's logic for not wanting to meddle in Iran. I don't understand his logic for wanting to meddle in Honduras.
Reaction to the apparent coup was swift. U.S. President Barack Obama said he was "deeply concerned" and called on all political actors in Honduras to "respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Any existing tensions and disputes must be resolved peacefully through dialogue free from any outside interference," he said.
The Obama administration worked in recent days to prevent President Zelaya's ouster, a senior U.S. official said. The State Department, in particular, communicated to Honduran officials on the ground that President Obama wouldn't support any non-democratic transfer of power in the Central American country.
"We had some indication" that a move against Mr. Zelaya was a foot, said a U.S. official briefed on the diplomacy. "We made it clear it was something we didn't support."
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined Mr. Obama Sunday in criticizing the Honduran coup and calling for the restoration of the democratic process.
"We call on all parties in Honduras to respect the constitutional order and the rule of law, to reaffirm their democratic vocation, and to commit themselves to resolve political disputes peacefully and through dialogue," Mrs. Clinton said in a statement.
Read Fausta's amazing round-up of what happened here. In a nutshell, Zelaya wanted another term as president so he decided to hold a popular referendum on whether he should be eligible. Minor problem: The Honduran constitution can't be amended by popular referendum so the country's supreme court ordered the vote canceled. Zelaya tried to go ahead with it anyway. Literally every other arm of the Honduran government — judiciary, legislature, military — was against him, to the point where the troops who arrested him this morning were evidently acting on a court order. Why such strong, unified opposition? According to one retired Honduran general cited by Fausta, it's because Zelaya's a Chavez stooge and him staying on would mean "Chavez would eventually be running Honduras by proxy." Two questions, then. One: In their rush to drool all over themselves about "the rule of law," do Obama and Hillary realize that it's Zelaya who was flouting the rule of law here? I know The One's a big believer in executive power but even he'd acknowledge that defying an order from the Supreme Court crosses the line (I think). And two: Why is Team Barry siding with Zelaya instead of simply staying out of it? The White House proved with Iran that they're capable of maintaining very tactful silences for excruciatingly long periods of time. Yet today we've got not only the secretary of state but the president himself rushing out statements. Is this some kind of half-assed attempt to make nice with Chavez now that relations have been restored by supporting one of his cronies? What am I missing here?
Update: Yep, the military acted on a court order. It's not clear to me, though, why they felt compelled to have Zelaya arrested and ousted considering that the rest of the government, including the army, was against him. Presumably his enemies feared that he'd win the illegal referendum if it went ahead and that would galvanize public support for changing the constitution. Although a coup's going to have a galvanizing effect of its own, no?
Here's a possible explanation for why The One was so quick to denounce this:
The Honduran armed forces have however had historic links with the US, dating back to the Contras, the armed groups that were backed by the Central Intelligence Agency to topple the Left-wing Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Mr Ortega is once again president of Honduras's neighbour. The army has a long history of involvement in politics and governed Honduras from 1956 to 1982…
Mr Chavez, with more than a decade in power, began his reforms in Venezuela by holding a Constituent Assembly and changing the constitution. Mr Zelaya had stated that he wished to do the same and that the referendum was supposed to be the first step.
I guess Team Barry figured that if they didn't come out loudly against this, suspicions inside the country about the military being in cahoots with the U.S. would fester. Eh. They'll fester anyway.
Update: Commenter "elduende" sums up The One's dilemma nicely: "Someone is going to be left holding the short end of the stick on this one. Will Obama stand by while Venezuela uses force to install their lackey in Honduras? Thus siding with Chavez and crushing democracy in Honduras. Or will he stand with the democratic institutions in Honduras as they seek to reassert their democratic rights and risk being labelled just another in a long line of 'typical yankee presidents.'"
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Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
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Ok ,we can not backup or re-download movies purchased from psn, I will not be buying any more movies from the store until this changes. I know there are things that Sony can do to help gamers avoid data corruption on PS3, but on PS4 it should be more important because of all the share features, now I do not plan on using those features and I would rather pay for backwards compatible , but just think for a second all the time wasted making files to share and then backing them all up, you won't have time for anything else. If you guys think that those share features are not going to raise the price of the PS4 you are dreaming, and look at all the new stuff on the controller, it will be expensive to replace and it does not do what gamers have been asking for"programmable buttons for rapid fire" to make button masher games less painful, we have been asking for this since psone. Sony has said " the PS4 is a console for developers by developers" I hope they did not forget a very important fact " it will be purchased and owned by a gamer" and ultimately Sony's success relies on gamers being happy with there PS4 and the games, and how well they help us protect our purchases and all other content stored on the console. I want to thank everyone for posting in this thread. This subject is very important to me and I hope Sony is listening, Thankyou.
Programmable buttons for rapid fire. Really? The day I see such feature on an official console controller... what a sad day.
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
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Games that require button mashing are that way for a reason and the people making those games would not like it if you were able to avoid the mashing. Not to mention it would ruin competitive multiplayer games from kids wanting to cheat with semi-auto weapons. While I agree that the social aspect isnt really needed, the number of people that would use rapid fire for legitimate reasons is very short. Trust me, it's not gonna happen.
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
cb765 wrote:
A lot of gamers would agree that a Sony controller with programmable buttons for rapid fire holds more value than a controller with a touch pad and share button. A programmable controller would be more use full and handy plus it would cost a lot less to replace. I want to pay for a PS4 that improves my gaming experience while being user friendly and take the stress out of button masher games. I do not need a next gen console to help me improve my social networking skills, I already have a laptop and desktop computer for these features.
Video games have been watered down too much. We already have enough with companies making video games easier and/or going out of their way to patch their game(s) so the less adaptive gamers can finish it. Rapid fire would further dilute the video game experience, specially online gameplay. Call me old school, but video games are meant to be an interactive experience that requires/calls for certain skills, skills that will be polished/evolved through the experience gained from playing the video game.
Earn it or go home.
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If everyone had a rapid fire controller in CoD the game would be overrun with FALs and it would be ruined even more than it already is. Like I said before the game is meant to have semi-auto weapons.
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cb765 wrote: If Sony had controllers with rapid fire it would help reduce the amount of cheaters because it would level the playing field.
That statement is so incredibly naive, it's almost irritating.
It ain't gonna happen. Ever. The idea that you think it should is the irritating part.
On topic...data corruption is data corruption. Doesn't matter if this incoming PS4 is using a HDD or if were to use a SSD.
Data (usually because of software conflicts with hardware, and/or component breakdowns---as it has always been with
any sort of computer). All SONY can do for the consumer is what they're already doing, which is offering to back up your data
to a cloud, or the user being SMART and doing it themselves. Often.
Re: Will PS4 be able to prevent Data corruption ?
the other rest i let it to Sony's quality control and a little bit of luck
so you can guess ill do the same with my ps4

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Current Overall Standing
Pl. Name Nation Points SD FD
1 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER
139.74 5 1
2 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV
136.75 6 2
3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
136.34 4 3
4 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN
132.07 3 4
Vanessa and Paul just won the battle for the bronze medal! Now the gold and silver to be decided between Nathalie + Fabian and Meryl + Charlie . . .
Current Overall Standing
Pl. Name Nation Points SD FD
1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE
171.58 1 1
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT
162.10 2 2
3 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER
139.74 5 3
4 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV
136.75 6 4
5 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE
136.34 4 5
6 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN
132.07 3 6
Segment Result Details
Pl. Name Nation TSS
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1 Meryl DAVIS / Charlie WHITE USA 102.94 50.15 52.79 8.71 8.68 8.82 8.89 9.00 0.00 #6
2 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 96.44 46.50 49.94 8.14 8.11 8.43 8.50 8.64 0.00 #5
3 Vanessa CRONE / Paul POIRIER CAN 84.92 42.78 42.14 7.07 6.82 7.07 7.18 7.11 0.00 #2
4 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 82.42 40.84 41.58 7.00 6.82 6.82 6.96 7.11 0.00 #1
5 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 80.83 39.84 40.99 6.89 6.50 7.00 6.89 7.11 0.00 #3
6 Nora HOFFMANN / Maxim ZAVOZIN HUN 76.09 37.13 38.96 6.50 6.29 6.43 6.71 6.68 0.00 #4
Meryl and Charlie win their 2nd senior GPF title and now have 3 medals at the event overall!
Nathalie and Fabian win their 2nd senior GPF medal, a silver to add to their bronze from last season!
Vanessa and Paul win their 1st senior GPF medal, a bronze!
Congrats to all the medalists!
I watched my first Dance of the season and thought D/W were great and looked like winners.
But I admit I don't know alot about the Dance rules or what scores the most points......
I liked the podium teams and actually all of it was fun to watch.
D/W's tango has improved a lot, but those frantic arms still need to be contained IMO, it's a tango after all. Is Charlie the boss of that dance or else?
Don't know if they should have on by that much. P/B were great too (not perfect though), but I'm suspicious to say anything as they are my favs at this point.
Does anyone have any insight into why Vanessa and Paul are not doing 4 lifts like the other teams are? Why are they giving up points to the rest of the field by omitting a technical element? Could it be due to her injury perhaps?
The serpentine lift is a long lift, which is worth the same base value as two short lifts.
So close to a great recovery for Bobrova and Soloviev-almost medaled. Both Canadian teams-uninspiring.
My problem with Ice Dance now is that there are too many tricks to judge and not enough about dancing. I suppose dancing (rhythms, Timings, proper steps, togetherness, etc.) is still there, but it have become, imo, second to tricks.
At some point in the future, Pairs and Ice dance will meld.
Lifts are fine but too many for my taste, spins make no sense to have in ice danncing, and twizzles as well. I guess, there have to be one technical element to differentiate in "visible" skating skills, but for me, the midline step sequence should be sufficient in the SP and twizzles in the FD. But that would be it. The rest, please leave for dancing, because that is what is mostly missing these days.
Finally getting around to my dance notes after seeing this competition live.
Warm up of first three couples: What the ...? In this short warm-up I've seen at least 10 near-collisions, got to be a Guiness record there. Only 6 people on the ice and they want to be in each other's laps? Or playing a game of chicken?
B/S: He falls out of twizzles, same mistake as in their SD. This skate seems more ragged somehow than when I saw them skate it at CoC. I wish his outfit was more than just a black pants and white shirt--he looks like he didn't have time to change after a day at the office. She needs a stronger partner, he needs to practice twizzles.
Overall score disappointing for them, not even breaking 140.
C/P: Gawd, this is just not very effective music--maybe it's the song version or the pacing or the choreography or all three. Half the crowd isn't even paying attention to their skate, it's that boring. The skating itself is relatively ho-hum, interspersed with a few tricks. I hope the judges were paying attention, because few others were. I liked this team last year and thought they had a lot of good moments, but I'm not seeing any progress this year. And I wonder if there just hasn't been any progress, or if the poorly-chosen SD and FD vehicles this year obscure the view. Score probably above B/S simply because they didn't make any obvious mistakes. And it is, though also doesn't break 140.
W/P: What is going on in Canada this year with program music selection for dance teams? This Moulin Rouge program is UGH, the music cuts add up to a disjointed whole. She hits some nice positions and they seem to execute decently, but their skating basics don't seem as strong as the previous two teams, and they are a little slow. I lost count of how many lifts this program has--it seemed as if they skate for a couple of seconds then she goes up again into a lift. The program is too circus-y for my taste. I have no idea what the judges will do with this. Oy! Just below B/S in last place. This dance tech panel seems to be a bunch of tough customers tonight.
Second group warm up: More civilized, or maybe more restrained. No near-collisions in this bunch. Make particular note of Bourzat's solo warm-up...he has some very nice smooth moves. And his skating is mightly fine also.
H/Z: Aargh. I saw this program at CoC, thought it was grating, and it's even worse now. The music of the first half has almost too much tension in it. The crowd sort of collectively goes Huh? at the music and concept--I can't say I blame them. The choreography is almost too frantic and the arm flailing gets scary. Max has a goof-up at one end of the rink during the last minute. Overall, I thought this skate was rougher and messier than what they put out at CoC, so not sure what's going on there. Wow--lowest score so far which drops them to last. They are better skaters than this--GET A NEW FD PROGRAM NOW, hopefully before Europeans.
P/B: Crowd thinks the real competition has now begun. Chaplin program was seen here at CoC and was well-received. This couple has superior skating skills to the previous couples, and well-showcased here. This program is just so nicely paced and choreographed, and it seems almost like an exhibition number but with real hard content. Dance spin was a bit slow. A very enjoyable program and they continue to polish it like a diamond. Well deserved first place so far, by a huge margin.
D/W: Had not seen their program before, even on youtube, so this was all fresh. It's a very busy program and they have to be careful not to let it get out of control, or too frantic. I had heard that they have actually toned it down from what it was at the season start. It looks like a very technically difficult program but that's only an assumption as I'm not that knowledgeable on the fine points of dance scoring. Those little jumps into the twizzle sequence are to-die-for and very effective though require perfection--I would give them a level 6 if there was such a thing. I'm so-so on this music, and the last 40 seconds or so, it really grated on my nerves. For me, it's a program that earns awe and respect, but I still don't find it very enjoyable or engaging.
Not surprised they end up with first place and gold medal.
I think placements at this competition were correct. B/S shot themselves in the foot twice (SD and FD), and lost what should have been their bronze medal. Overall, this competition was not even a horse race, and really suffered by not having V/M, F/S, Kerrs, heck...even Max Shabalin and his bum knees would have been a sight for sore eyes here. Or a Samuelson/Bates or Capellini/Lanotte.
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What is wrong with Dmitri Soloviev? He keeps tripping.. I hadn't seen that happen before recently
Crone/Poirier didn't do the dance as well as at SC, IMO
I feel sorry for Max Zavozin because in the kiss and cry, he said his skate came partly loose or something, which I guess led to the bobbles
I just can't get into Davis and White's FD this season.. it's boring to me
I think I may be the only person that actually loves D&W's FD. Happy with all of the medals here. First and second had a big gap, but I think P&B were a little bumpy in places.
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BLACK FOREST, Colo. - Darrell Fortner had lived in his home for 20 years with his wife Jenny. On Thursday, he went back to the pile of ashes and debris that now sits off of Black Forest Road.
"I just don't think I'm awake yet, that's all," said Fortner, in tears as he looked at his property. "I can't believe it."
Fortner picked up a free shovel and sifter near where Black Forest Road is still blocked to everyone but residents. He soon found that even flames burning 2,500 degrees didn't steal everything. Most of what he found he related back to his wife.
"She loved anything with a cartoon on it," Fortner said as he picked up a Christmas mug with Santa's face.
He uncovered commonplace objects that hold years of memories, like two large steel bowls.
"We made a lot of jelly to give to people," he said. "I like to make strawberry and apple jelly, so does she."
There were small victories in the ashes, like a magnifying glass and a crocodile figurine. But also many reminders of all that's gone after two decades.
"The knife she gave me for Christmas," said Fortner as the pocketknife crumbled between his fingers.
The couple's greatest loss was their nine cats and four German Shepherds. Firefighters buried the dogs on the property, marking the graves with rocks and leaving a note on a tree.
"I thought, 'They're the greatest people in the world to take the time out of their lives to do such a wonderful thing,'" Fortner said, crying.
He said he will re-build here with his wife, his memories and those few mementos that survived along with them.
In his truck, he had a kitten in a carrier.
"This is for Jenny," Fortner said. "A brand new kitty."


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Senate bailout bill hits the Internet; Update: File added; Update: Not earmarks?
posted at 10:24 am on October 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
The Senate will begin debate within minutes on their attempt to revive the bailout bill rejected by the House. They have released the bill text this morning, and the Senate Conservatives Fund website has it for public perusal. The new version has no allocations going to the Housing Trust Fund, which the Dodd version originally did, so ACORN will get no money from the bailout.
However, the Senate did add a few winners to this new version:
New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill
– Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
– Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
– 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)
Tax earmark "extenders" in the bailout bill.
– Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
– American Samoa (Sec. 309)
– Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
– Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
– Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
– Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
– Railroads (Sec. 316)
– Auto Racing Tracks (317)
– District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
– Wool Research (Sec. 325)
I love the auto racing tracks in particular. I can see the headlines now: "Global financial markets melt down, NASCAR, Caribbean rum hardest hit". As many people have said now, I'd be more inclined to take this crisis seriously if people on the Hill didn't use it to butter up their favored constituencies.
The Senate will vote at around 7:35 PM tonight on this bill. I'd expect an easier passage, thanks to provisions to expand FDIC insurance and an added authority to suspend mark-to-market rules that may make some of the rest of this bill unnecessary. Senate leadership isn't taking any chances; they've added this as an amendment to a bill containing some legislation sought by both liberals and conservatives, making it difficult to oppose from any direction.
Update: My friend Sean from Everything I Know Is Wrong returns to blogging on this issue, and takes issue with Arianna Huffington's analysis of the crisis. We need more people pushing back on the notion that a lack of government action caused this collapse; it was a government distortion of lending and investment sectors that caused the problem. But to the extent that government inaction contributed to it, it's good to recall exactly who the obstructionists were.
Update II: Apparently the load on the SCF server has created some problems. I've loaded the PDF file here.
Update III: I'm being told from multiple sources that the term "tax earmarks" is incorrect and misleading. Americans for Tax Reform has sent out a memo explaining the difference (and note that the "Ed" in this does not refer to me but a staffer on the Hill):
The language Ed uses below here is very unhelpful and completely wrong from a fiscal conservative perspective. There is no such thing as a "tax earmark." Earmarks are spending. There are appropriations earmarks. There are authorization earmarks. There are no "tax earmarks." To claim that there are puts tax deductions and credits (which is what we're talking about here) on the same par as bridges to nowhere. Was the creation of HSAs a "tax earmark?" How about the home mortgage interest deduction? One might call for lowering the rates and broadening the base, but we should not fall into the trap of equating tax cuts and spending increases. That's how some Senate Republicans got in such massive trouble over health care last year and energy this year vis-à-vis taxes.
This is precisely the same logic that Treasury's Steve Surrey used in the 1960s to create the "tax expenditure" concept. This faulty doctrine treats tax exclusions, adjustments, deductions, and credits as if they were the same as a federal appropriation. They are not. They might not be ideal tax policy, but they are federal revenue reductions—not budget increases.
I would exempt from my statement the outlay effects of refundable tax credits. Those are, indeed, spending and could rightly be sullied with the term "earmark."
I'm sorry to be so firm about this, but it's this confusion between tax cuts and spending increases that I've found is the number one cause of well-meaning offices slipping into Taxpayer Protection Pledge violations. When I see things communicated that would contribute to this confusion (and I know Ed meant no harm by it), I try to jump all over it.
So these are tax breaks, not earmarked spending. Perhaps some of them are unwisely added to this bill, but this tax extenders bill passed the Senate with overwhelming support, including the anti-pork Tom Coburn. It didn't pass the House initially because of the lack of tax increases to accompany it through Pay-Go.
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Menlo Park City Council Election Analysis
Original post made by Hank Lawrence, Menlo Park: Sharon Heights, on Nov 16, 2012
Ray Mueller cam in first with 5627 votes.
Catherine Carlton came in second with 5296 votes.
Kelly Fergusson came in 3rd with 5060 votes.
Mueller came in first in 9 precincts.
Fergusson came in first in 5 precincts.
Carlton came in first in 3 precincts.
Ignoring the 4432 which had a 3-way tie for second Carlton and Fergusson each had second place finishes in 7 precincts and Mueller had a second place finish in 6 precincts
For out of the money (3rd place or worse)
Carlton finished out of the money in 10 precincts
Fergusson finished out of the money in 7 precincts
Mueller finished out of the money in 6 precincts.
So how did Fergusson lose to Carlton?
Carlton crushed Fergusson in 3 precincts
In the 4421 Carlton beat Fergusson by 271 votesk
In the 4423 Carlton beat Fergusson by 235 votes, and
In the 4426 Carlton beat Fergusson by 263 votes.
These 3 precincts alone gave Carleton a 796 vote advantage which was enough for second place with Fergusson trailing by 236 votes in the overall city vote.
The race is over for Fergusson. If she has not already conceded she should do so. There is no way she can make up this deficit. Not even ACORN can help her at this point. The next count will be given November 21 at 4:30 PM. The election will be certified no later than 4:30 PM on December 4, 2012.
Comments (26)
a resident of another community
on Nov 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Not surprised at the display of "chicken coop mentality" by you Hank, but, ok, duly noted. Election is over, I believe Kelly has acknowledged that, now, move on--I'm sure she will. Kelly, your service to MP is both acknowledged and appreciated.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Nov 16, 2012 at 7:21 pm
The end of an embarrassing era...
Cline next.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm
your service to the public employees unions is acknowledged and definately NOT appreciated. Glad you lost. Thanks for nothing.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 16, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Here I am, Joanna. If you lose the pseudonym, I am willing to sit down and chat or sit in front of an audience and debate my record and listen to your concerns. You can choose time and place.
Otherwise I cannot really see the sense in wasting time.
Menlo Voter, even just a little respect would be nice. Even you.
a resident of Atherton: Lindenwood
on Nov 17, 2012 at 2:10 am
Peter Carpenter is a registered user.
While everyone deserves to be treated politely, respect, in public office as well is in life, must be earned.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 17, 2012 at 8:37 am
what Peter said.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 9:30 am
Rich, I actively supported you in 2006. Now I hold you up as an example of a council member who seemed like he was on the right side but ended up disappointing us. I guess the allure of hobnobbing with the Bohannons and Arrillagas is too great to remember who elected you. You seem to think that your neighbors are now selfish idiots and NIMBYs who should be ignored because you know better than they do what's good for them and our city. You replaced an arrogant bunch of council members, then cast yourself in that mold.
I seriously hope our new council members will remain true to the values that motivated residents to vote for them.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 10:26 am
Looks like 4426 (Sharon) had the highest voter turnout. all those extra votes count. getting out the vote in your own neighborhood works.
Nicely done Cat.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 10:50 am
Rich Cline is the last holdover from the Slocum era of Union Cronyism. In the summer of 2006 he, Heyward Robinson, and Vince Bressler met in secret with the SEIU behind closed doors on City property, with the public being barred from attending. At that meeting Heyward Robinson and Rich Cline received the SEIU endorsement and Vince Bressler did not.
This was the meeting where the quid pro quo of endorsements, campaign contributions, and volunteerism for the Robinson and Cline campaigns were allegedly traded for a 30% increase in pensions and a reduction of the retirement age from 60 to 55.
Later Rich Cline gave a huge pay increase to one of the police department's senior supervisors while San Jose policemen were taking a 10 percent pay cut.
If Cline is smart he will not run for a third term. If he does we will make sure he suffers an ignominious defeat.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I will respond to Sad since Council Watcher is more the same, tired vicious commenters that make most of our city walk away from local government.
Sad, when I ran in 2006 I did so with a pledge to make decisions on the basis of data and community feedback and not ideology.
Hobnobbing sounds good, but I have only met Mr. Arrillaga twice, at the opening of the gym and the Acorn Awards. Mr. Bohannon I do know more but I am not sure if meeting to discuss a project is hobnobbing.
The fact is the data and the community feedback disagree with you on some key issues.
I am sorry you feel I have abandoned you. I only followed through with my promise to remain objective.
My record is public. I signed the Derry project referendum before I was elected because I thought the city could negotiate a better deal. But others wanted to shrink it. And the final outcome is still fuzzy. At this point people said I was anti-growth.
I pushed for a new field with lights at Kelly Park as a commissioner. This was after the Bayfront Park debate when the public rejected fields at the former dump. We have that field.
I then supported a specific plan creation that would be based on massive community input.
I supported an increase in pensions in 2007 after reviewing comparable cities and the trending in packages. Many cities were at or going to 2.7%. That was the major basis for my decision. Nothing I did or said influenced unions in 2006 more than the folks who were taking them on publicly.
We negotiated for a two-tier pension in 2009 and I did not object to Measure L but stayed neutral to allow the community to take that stand. It did and I supported defending it against union lawsuits. The work citizens did behind Measure L helped our city take a much stronger position in pensions. It won by 74% I think.
I took on high speed rail when all Democrats pushed for it. My party and the unions. I asked for more transparency and a real business plan. I was called NIMBY and we were all labelled bad apples by the heavy hitters in SF and SJ. And still people complain that we are not firm enough with HSR.
I supported the Bohannon Project after a long negotiation. When folks objected and asked for public vote, I voted to put it on the ballot to be sure the community had a chance to voice its feelings (this was criticized as soft). It won by 65%.
I voted after 4.5 years of study and community engagement to approve the Specific Plan.
I voted to put the hotel tax to a ballot to increase it to 12% from 10%. It won by 75% I think.
Every decision I can point you to data.
My personal agenda is more selfish. I would rather have more time with kids and working with the schools than fighting with ghosts on public forums. I appreciate Peter Carpenter for using his name even if we disagree. I can respect that.
I believe in local government. I love this city. And, no, I will not be seeking another term unless someone as callous as Council Watcher runs and no one else will. Then I will run with joy.;-)
I am committed to staying on the forum. Sorry for the length.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Nov 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm
To Richard Cline,
Are you running for a third term on the Menlo Park City Council?
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 17, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Rich, I usually use my name but not for this comment. Out of all of the council members, you have been the most difficult to reach with questions and comments on issues. And I hear the same thing from a variety of people from different neighborhoods and with different perspectives on issues. It is great that you are offering to discuss issues now with Joanna, but where are you when constituents have questions? People in council roles get a lot of flack, much undeserved and nasty ("Cline's Folly"), and maybe at some point enough is enough. If you are tired of hearing from constituents, maybe it is time for others who have the energy for it?
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Hank, I have no plans to run again. I believe the best city councils are those run by amateurs. Two terms is plenty of time and the city deserves new ideas and approaches. I have said this from day one. We should have a two-term limit if you ask me.
whosephonecalls, sorry to hear that. I will make a stronger effort to return calls and answer questions. In all sincerity, I have not avoided any person or issue on purpose.
Thanks for sharing that.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 17, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Rich, I appreciate your posting on this forum, but my comments still stand. I don't know who your friends are, but I can appreciate that it's much more fun to be taken to swank restaurants with influential benefactors than to listen to the whines of your constituents.
I don't remember your having any role in Derry. Are you aware of the current status of that project?
You also should not take credit for Kelly. All that renovation was well underway before you joined Parks & Rec. Yes, it took the city a few tries to get it right, but that's our city.
Measure L? Probably best not to go there. As you say, your record speaks for itself.
Bohannon. Once you abrogated your responsibility to insist that this oversized development provide public benefit, the conclusion was foregone. Bohannon could win any election by dint of his spending ability, and the ballot measure was hardly phrased in a neutral manner. I'm surprised that a former journalist wouldn't point that out.
Downtown plan. That in itself could be the topic of an essay. I went to many of the meetings, and the residents were very much in agreement about what kind of Menlo Park we wanted to see. Remember "village character?" Under your stewardship, the project morphed into something different, like multi-story office buildings, and antagonized half the merchants downtown. You also managed to give Stanford a blank check rather than addressing their property separately. We're only beginning to see how that's going to come back to bite us.
Speaking of Stanford, did it even occur to anyone to create and impose a "blighted property" tax on them? Instead, the city has allowed them get away with visual pollution for years. As a corollary, why is the council so afraid of Stanford? They're not going to pack up and leave town. They're just going to dump more traffic on our streets. Wait until they've built those medical offices, over which we have no veto power thanks to the council's largesse. Remind me what we got in exchange.
And somewhere in that same timeframe, the city decided to ignore complaints from East Palo Alto and got smacked with a lawsuit. And settled that lawsuit without much more than a murmur to residents until it was a fait accompli...and we learned about the burden you'd agreed to. Oh, right, the dense low-income housing isn't going to be in your neighborhood, nor will the homeless shelter.
And don't get me started on traffic.
I don't believe you're the pawn of the unions, though their nice glossy toilet pieces helped ensure victory for you and Heyward in 2006. But I do believe you find it a whole lot easier to go along with the powerful powers-that-be than to stick up for her city. Palo Alto is challenging ABAG; maybe it's time for us to do the same?
And yes, you are notorious for not responding to emails.
All that said, I thank you for devoting a lot of time to this job and believe you are doing the best you can do. And that is what I find particularly sad.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Nov 18, 2012 at 1:34 am
These comments are mean and callous! Do you people understand the "purpose of life" or think about it! All council members are regular people willing to serve, but they will never please everyone, so why do you expect it! Please note, that although respect is usually earned, respecting yourself first precedes it all!
a resident of Woodside: other
on Nov 18, 2012 at 7:05 am
The issue isn't lack of respect or appreciation for "public service." We do. But we don't appreciate when they sucker us with promises they do not keep, pander to public employee unions or large developers, spend money unwisely, or violate the public trust with a lack of transparency or conducting public business secretly.
The issue is keeping your word to the people who elected you and reflecting your community's opinions and views. If you don't think that's important, ask Kelly Fergusson or the Council Members in Atherton who just got spanked by the results of their recent library referendum.
We are fortunately to have an engaged and informed citizenry. Those politicians who ignore them do so at their own electoral peril.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 8:39 am
Sad, this is exactly the issue on this forum.
You are summarizing policy results in your words, but you have no care for facts that underlie the policy. We can spend weeks going back and forth and you can denounce everything as you have, but you do so based on your opinion. Bohannon, you lose because 65% of your city agreed with me and a 5-0 council. That is a fact. And you can blame the media or something else but that does not change the fact. The city voted for hotels and offices in an old commercial area of town.
Kelly Park was a useless field in 2002 when I joined Parks and Rec. If I have to spend time to scrape up the field study we did and the proposal for the new field and how local residents were able to play and part in design, I will. For what? So you can change the optics from your couch without any respect to facts?
I will go to Measure L. What piece of literature do you have any place that shows me opposing that process? Anything? I know the answer. Nothing. I expressed concern about limiting future councils to legislate, but felt the process was important to let happen. Two of the leaders of that movement can testify to that since we met many times on the issue.
And then I did the job the community asked and supported the policy. Don't manipulate the facts.
The downtown plan was never changed or shifted somewhere in a black box. That is Sad to even make the claim. You don't want four stories. I know and I have heard you and your group make that argument. I listened and sat in living rooms to discuss it. We can show the thousands of community responses. It is public record.
Your feelings about four stories is in direct conflict with an equal amount of people who want more development and want more services in town. And we held dozens of hours of meetings with the downtown leadership and modified the plans as a result.
This is what evolved. It did so in front of everyone. You can disagree and judge it before it even gets started. I think that is a shallow approach. But that is also just an opinion.
I am not consumed with Stanford the way you and some are. They have property and we have needs and we are working our best to meet mid-way. They are not bad and they do not wish to create poor projects. They want too much medical office, but we are working on it.
The city ignored EPA and that is why we were sued?
Even you know that is untrue. 20 years of no housing element and FB coming to the city created the opportunity for EPA and advocates to sue MP. There are other cities who were also sued by the same advocates. They lost and had to pay, in some cases, millions of dollars out of the General Fund and had the building permits frozen through court action. We would have lost FB and millions. We don't like it at all. But it was a 5-0 vote.
So here we are.
I believe you are wrong about Kelly Park.
I believe you are on the wrong side of a public vote on the Menlo Gateway project.
I think you are trying to mislead on Measure L. You tried to make it seem I opposed it.
I am not even sure there was a factual point on Stanford, more just the same obsession that Stanford is all bad.
Misguided comments about the lawsuit are now corrected.
Okay, I do need to make a stronger effort to return emails. I got that one.
You are right, I am doing my best.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 11:31 am
There you go, Rich. You have pigeonholed me as a NIMBY no-growther. And since I am not signing this with my real name, I hardly have grounds to object. But you might want to be a little more restrained in your comments and refrain from any "couch" snark. Especially as some of us spent many hours working on your campaign!
You stereotype residents at your own political peril. I, for example, am a Stanford alum, as are many residents. I have great respect for Stanford. They are not evil, but they have their own agenda. It is up to our council to push back and get some quid pro quo. Same with all the other wealthy developers. We didn't vote for you so that you could be starry-eyed fanboys who roll over whenever someone with a big bank account walks by.
Sometimes the council behaves as though Menlo Park is a podunk that is desperate for development, when the reverse is true. You should always be putting the residents and our quality of life first. We should be deciding what we want for our city, not reacting to what outside interests want. They will get in line because they have no choice if they want to have a presence in Menlo Park, and they do.
Re the lawsuit: you are misinformed if you do not understand the origins of the lawsuit.Without going into detail, I find this disturbing, and can only encourage you to be a little more receptive to our EPA neighbors. It's not all gunfire and gangs over there.
I also ask you to stop trying to put us all in neat little categories and then using that as license to write off our concerns. A lot of people who are very involved in our community read and post on this forum, albeit anonymously. Maybe it's being on television every week that makes some council members feel they're celebrities and above the hoi polloi?
a resident of Menlo Park: Allied Arts/Stanford Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 3:21 pm
The relevant data here are that Mueller and Carlton seemed to have won the election. Period. Elections are always more unpredictable when there are more than 2 contenders for each open seat. That's what happened here. Too bad we don't use rank voting (not San Francisco's version of it). The result might have been different.
We voters expect council members to stand for something, not stand behind a claim of simply relying on data and on processes that could be used to justify anything that they or staff or developers want. Ever heard of lying with statistics? It is done all the time.
Most of us don't want to have to pay close attention to all the city issues if we've elected people we can trust to be thoughtful, reflect our values, and represent our interests. Cline doesn't lie, but doesn't always seem to stand for much either, except may be opposed to HSR as it has been proposed. It will be interesting to watch the new ones.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Roy Thiele-Sardiña is a registered user.
Rich, your service to Menlo Park is appreciated.
For the record Rich did NOT oppose Measure L and voted to defend it at every step during the lawsuit. We have always recognized Rich's interest in fiscal resposibility within Menlo Park and the hard work (and thankless hours) he's dedicated to our fine city.
Rich, as we've discussed int he past the cowardice of anonymous posters makes this forum difficult to take with a grain of salt.
Thanks again
Roy Thiele-Sardina
Co-Chairman - Citizens for Responsible Pension Reform
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 18, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Tonight, Bill Johnson (the owner of the Almanac) was at the Menlo Park Library, speaking to the Historical Association. Bill accurately stated that the Almanac town square is "a jungle". An enlighten member of the audience pointed out that the Almanac should follow every other local paper by using Facebook accounts to post on town square. Bill made a related disparaging remark about the accuracy and professionalism of Menlo Park Patch, and was rebuffed by a member of the audience that pointed out the editor of Menlo Park Patch has a graduate level degree in Journalism from Stanford, and that patch contains none of the baseless accusations that fill many pages on the town square. Richard, the Almanac's editor was in the room. We can only hope that Richard fells shame wile deleting this comment.
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Nov 18, 2012 at 7:11 pm
Degrees are door openers. It is up to the individual whether he/she will succeed once the door is opened. Edward R. Murrow was one of the greatest if not greatest journalists of the American Press in the 20th century. He was graduated from Washington State College. Joseph Pulizer was home schooled in Hungary and emigrated to the United States without a degree from any American college or university.
Some people place too much importance on having a degree from a prestigous institution and not enough importance on the quality of the individual's acomplishments and thinking.
While reserving judgment on which is the better news source as that is subjective, one can reasonably conclude that more people read the Almanac than the Patch.
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Nov 18, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Roy Thiele-Sardiña is a registered user.
Hank, while I very much agree with you with regard to degrees.
There is simply no room in our world for these posters. The cowardice of these anonymous posters and their unfounded accusations show how little regard they have for the truth (using one of the more un-enlightened pseudonyms). And how little respect we should have for their morale character.
Their vitriol shows them to be beneath our dignity, and deserving of our pity………always.
Roy Thiele-Sardina
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 18, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Hank, you make a good point. Dave Price never graduated from college, but he has a giant bank account, and his paper, the Daily Post, is crushing the Almanac. The previous comment does not suggest that Patch has more readers, only that Bill Johnson's accomplishments include spreading misinformation, much like the anonymous posters in town square.
According to reports, Bill Johnson also stated that the copy editors for the Mercury News are in India. If Bill really said that, he should issue an apology.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 18, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Tonight, Bill Johnson said, "Patch is a coockie cutter approach to hyper local news, build on the assumption one person can run the paper. Reporting isn't easy, and these are not professionals, so bad information gets on the Patch website."
Even if the Almanac has professional reporters, there is a constant flow of anonymous garbage attached to the bottom of most articles.
By the way, Bill Johnson did say the Merc's copy editors are in India.
president of Embarcadero Media
on Nov 19, 2012 at 10:27 am
Bill Johnson is a registered user.
The anonymous comments above illustrate perfectly one of the points I made in the talk yesterday: that comments made in online forums can't be relied upon to present accurate and contextual information, and that we need to preserve professional journalism in order to create a good "first draft" of history.
I am happy to clarify my comments in case they were misunderstood, as apparently happened with the above poster.
In response to a question asking for my opinion of AOL's "Patch" strategy, I replied that it was a national program based on a cookie-cutter model of having a single journalist as the editor of each local community's Patch site and then relying upon the contributions of news and other material from local residents. I explained that I didn't think it was proving to be a viable approach for two reasons: because it put immense pressure on and created a near-impossible job for the one paid editor, and that experience has shown that residents don't have the reporting skills or training of professional journalists, nor the ongoing interest in serving as volunteer community reporters. I have great respect for the work of the Patch editors; they have simply been given an impossible job. I never suggested that educational pedigree had anything to do with journalistic competence one way or the other.
Regarding the Mercury News and its editing, I have no knowledge of where its local news is copyedited, or even if it is still copyedited. I was replying to a question about the ways in which cutbacks have affected the ability of newspapers in general to fact-check stories. As part of the answer, I explained that many large daily newspapers such as the Mercury have reduced or eliminated the copy-editing function, which often included fact-checking, and that to the extent it is happening it may be done in a regional office or even in India. The point was that the traditional copy-editing role at large newspapers is indeed being reduced or eliminated as part of newspaper cost-cutting, not where it is being done, except that the further from "home" editing occurs the more difficult it obviously is to fact-check. The comment wasn't meant as criticism of the Mercury, but rather a description of how financial pressures are forcing newspapers to make tough choices on how they deploy their resources.
I do thank the above poster, however, because his or her comments do show how easily incorrect information can find its way into a public forum and create misimpressions. I'm glad to have the chance to clear up my thoughts on these questions and welcome any further questions, either here or by directly emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
By the way, another inaccuracy in the above posts is that I am the owner of the Almanac. The Almanac is owned by Embarcadero Media, which I started in 1979. The shareholders consist of about a dozen families with long-time local ties to the area, including me. I am the CEO of Embarcadero Media but do not own a majority interest. Every year at the end of September we publish a Statement of Ownership with the list of owners.
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This article first appeared in iPolitics under the title, "Infrastructure Minister has opportunity to strengthen federal-municipal relation."
This Friday, as mayors and councilors from across Canada gather in Saskatoon for the opening of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' (FCM) annual conference, some in attendance may note that it marks the 10th anniversary of Paul Martin's New Deal for cities speech to the same conference, held that year in Hamilton. But it's not likely.
While not quite up there with Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech or other oratory landmarks of the 20th century, Martin's 2002 cities speech did more than get him fired from the Chrétien cabinet. It inspired hope among municipal politicians and urban advocates that Canada's cities would finally be on the national agenda. Many even suggested that it ushered in a new era of federal-municipal partnership.
Yet, like much of Martin's ambitious agenda, the New Deal for cities failed to live up to expectations.
Today, with the Harper government working on a new long-term infrastructure program to replace those set to expire—along with other federal transfers—in March 2014, it's appropriate to ask what lessons the failure of Martin's vision has for the current government.
To be fair to Paul Martin's legacy, it is important to note that the New Deal delivered the gas tax transfer, which today pumps two billion dollars a year into city coffers for much-needed infrastructure repairs. But it took a Conservative government to make it permanent.
When it was introduced in 2005, it was as a five-year program, which did little to address the need for funding certainty required for long-term capital investments and planning. Its relatively short-term nature reflected a high-degree of skittishness on the part of federal finance (and other) officials at the prospect of longer term transfers.
In hindsight, it shouldn't have come as a surprise that there was more sizzle than steak to the New Deal. Any significant federal overture to municipalities along the lines hinted at in his speech was likely to raise the hackles of provincial governments and be largely unworkable, both politically and constitutionally.
His speech, 10 years later, is rife with generalities. Martin was cautious, refusing to get into specific commitments, unwilling to go all in and truly embrace—to use one of his favourite words—a transformative relationship with municipal governments and risk being called offside—not by his boss but by provincial premiers.
Yet in its day, the speech resonated because it was the first time in many years that a senior federal politician—one who aspired to the top job, no less—reached out to city governments with so much passion and apparent understanding of the issues they faced.
But if he succeeded in seducing his audience with his vision of a new relationship, Paul Martin failed to consummate it. In part, this was because his tenure was cut short by the election of the Harper government in January 2006. More importantly, it was because there was no meaningful policy framework to support it.
And this brings us back to Friday in Saskatoon. This year, it's federal infrastructure minister Denis Lebel who will deliver the keynote address to the municipal delegates. And while it's a safe bet it won't get him fired, his speech will be as important for Canada's cities as Paul Martin's.
Lebel is about one third of the way through a process he announced last November to put in place a long-term plan for infrastructure spending in this country. And while a long-term infrastructure deal lacks the excitement of a New Deal, it will likely set the terms and conditions for the federal-municipal
relationship for the next decade and beyond.
With Canada's cities struggling under the weight of a $120-billion infrastructure deficit, and the expiry of a number of critical federal transfers to cities, including the flagship Building Canada Fund set for March 2014, municipal delegates will hanging on his every word looking for reassurances.
The minister should avoid Paul Martin's mistakes and the urge to speak in generalities about "the vision thing". He should use his remarks to spell out in
detail how the rest of his process will unfold and, most importantly, its policy objective, which should be very simple: eliminating the infrastructure deficit for good–because that has to be the bottom line.
Anything short of a clear commitment to fixing the problem once and for all, will perpetuate the creation of programs that fail to get at the root causes of accelerating infrastructure decay in this country.
The major constant in a 10-year backdrop of shifting federal attitudes toward municipalities has been that policies in this area have largely been dictated by the political circumstances of the day and not on the basis of clear policy considerations and objectives.
The minister now has an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past and break that cycle. As political oratory it won't pack the same wallop as Paul Martin's speech, but the outcome could be as transformative as the promise of the New Deal was bold.


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In better Bieber news, he has been added to the lineup of performers for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC. The West Coast party will feature Bieber, PSY, Ellie Goulding, The Wanted, Jason Aldean and Greyson Chance. Already on board for the annual New Year's Eve special are Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Neon Trees, Fergie, Brandy, Flo Rida, Karmin, OneRepublic and Pitbull.
Adele and birthday girl Taylor Swift are among the nominees for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. Adele's Bond theme "Skyfall" and Swift's "Safe & Sound" from The Hunger Games soundtrack are up for Best Original Song, along with Jon Bon Jovi's "Not Running Anymore" from the as-yet-unreleased movie Stand Up Guys, Keith Urban's "For You" from Act Of Valor and "Suddenly," a new song written for Les Miserables.
VEVO has announced that "Call Me Maybe" from Carly Rae Jepsen was the music service's most viewed video of 2012, with over 360 million views through the site. One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful" was the #2 video, followed by Pitbull f/Chris Brown with "International Love," Jennifer Lopez f/Pitbull and "Dance Again" and Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend."
The Killers have postponed tonight's Camden, NJ concert due to illness. Last month, the band canceled a few shows in London after singer Brandon Flowers lost his voice four songs into a concert due to a sore throat.
The Jonas Brothers have announced a 2013 tour of Latin America, with dates in Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Guatamala in February and March.
The Airbourne Toxic Event have announced the first leg of a spring tour of North America. After a handful of winter shows in Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles, the band will kick off their trek in San Diego on March 30, with dates announced up to April 11 in San Francisco. The Airbourne Toxic Event is expected to release their third album in the spring of 2013.
The Dirty Heads and Shiny Toy Guns will head out on a co-headlining tour, starting in Dallas on February 15 and winding up March 8 in Ft. Collins, CO.
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IMO, RGIII is MVII.
I like your assesment, and maybe we are walking into a Redskins meatgrinder
But you do realize you are not playing Willam and Mary here.......you are playing the World Champs, re-tooled with a boatload of new talent you have never seen before
Football is won and lost in the trenches, not at the QB position.......how do you think your front lines match up with ours....forget the skill positions for a minute........Eli as you will see is going to be the least of your problems
Offensively weve been 50/50. For the most part its been a pleasent surprise but the big test is today. It almost all comes down to Trent. You guys might have a advantage at every other spot but the main theat is still JPP and RG3's blindside. If Trent can protect it then I think we will do well. I think we will be able to run the ball on you. No one has stopped it yet, even in the losses
Welcome.........................Are you ready to get SKINNED !
After your Declaration of Independence !lol ,,,,,,,,,, Lets talk football............You may have a good player (RG3) for now, but in the NFL a running QB's time is Short.......It's a fact . The Giants are going to show you today...........sorry to ruin your dreams !
TL,DR I've heard more than enough about RG3 and how he is black jesus, the savoir of the Foreskins. Maybe once your team becomes relevant Giant fans will be willing to listen. The only thing you scrubs have to hang your hat on is that you swept us last year. A lot of good that did ya huh?
Skins fan here too. I will been the board after the redskins win. See you fellas


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