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The Big Mistakes
Nixon's Sense of Humor
Hillary's Comparison
A Woman President
Women Fear the Word 'Ambition'
One-On-One with Nixon
Different Standards Judging Men and Women
Here to Educate the Audience
Talked Out of Law School
Advice On Love
Traveling the World with Richard Nixon
Monica's Biography
Mother Taught Her She Could Do It All:"She actually ended up working two jobs, simultaneously, and she applied to go graduate school to get a master's degree…in very, very difficult times with no help, whatsoever."
Growing Up: Stubborn, focused, directed, a kind of a "happy warrior spirit from a very early age."
Early Political Interest: At 11 years old, "When President Reagan became President in 1980, I was fascinated by his personality, by his charisma and by his message."
What To Do For Fun: Sleep, bike ride, and hike.
Conservative radio and television commentator Monica Crowley began her career in radio on WABC-AM New York as a frequent guest on the "Batchelor and Alexander Show".
When the Fox News Channel launched in 1996, Crowley joined the network as a political and international affairs analyst. In 2002, Monica began hosting "The Monica Crowley Show." on WABC Radio in New York which now airs nationally. In 2005, Crowley joined MSNBC as a political analyst, and co-host of "Connected: Coast to Coast."
Crowley holds two Masters degrees and a Ph.D. in international affairs from Columbia University and worked as a Foreign Policy Assistant to former President Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994. Crowley's experience with Nixon prompted her to write two best-selling books, Nixon off the Record: His Candid Commentary on People and Politics and Nixon.
She has been a guest on major TV and cable news channels, including ABC, NBC, FOX and HBO and worked as a commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition for four years and has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun and The New York Post.

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Town Square
Celebrating Labor's Just Cause on Labor Day
Original post made by Oliver Towne, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Aug 31, 2013
These are tough times for workers, and unionized workers in particular. Jobs are increasingly scarce as corporations continue to move their manufacturing outside of the United States. Manufacturing jobs have plummeted over the past several decades, retail jobs remain flat, and the only area where job growth is evident is in the fast-food service industry. In this situation, corporations have mopped up: a readily available reservoir of unemployed labor; those who have jobs being required to do more in order to keep those jobs; and record corporate profits of which workers have seen not a dime. Rather than put profits (surplus labor) back into the pockets of workers who create the profits, corporations have found it increasingly more profitable to invest in cheap labor abroad. With hundreds of job applicants lined up out the door, corporations have refrained from paying their workers a just wage and have 'budged' only when workers have organized. This is why the fast-food service workers' protests and strikes are so significant. For it is only through workers' demands that wages will be uplifted. Corporations won't budge unless they are pushed. And organized labor has learned that usually one workers isn't enough to push effectively; rather, a collective of workers is necessary.
The corporate media, which operates with the same values as most corporations, has been no friend to labor. The media's response to the media-manufactured 'public worker crisis' is a case in point. Profits are skyrocketing for corporations, yet they have city, local and state govts by the short and curlies. "Let us operate in your city/county/state virtually tax free," they tell us, "or we will move our operation to another city/county/state." So, without corporate taxes, govts don't have the revenue stream they need in order to pay their employees a fair wage. Public workers suffer as a consequence of this starvation policy, and thus so do all other workers. Look at stagnant earnings/assets among the working classes over the past 35 years; and then look at steep rise in corporate profits.
There are some soft-headed ones out there who claim that govts' declining revenue streams are a matter of public workers wanting too much. This is a laughable claim, and only a minority of Americans believe it; yet it gets played time and again on Fox, Rush, and the rest of corporate media. Meanwhile, corporate actions go largely unnoticed, out of sight, out of mind, as corporate media does not present news that sheds light on how America is in the extortionary grip of large capital. (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Newscorp do not report critically on themselves; nor do they report critically on other corporations whose interests are interstitched with those of the corporate media.) Since a substantial minority of right wing dimwits believe reality is what is presented in the news, they're disinclined to view corporate capital with a critical eye. Corporations are only too happy to perpetuate 'dumb and dumber' amongst the populace.
Meanwhile, we become more and more like China. And what is really pretty pathetic is that there are members of the working class, Fox news worshippers, who think that what is good for corporations is good for America's working people. And this despite capital's movement from minimum wage states to states that have effectively abolished minimum wage; capital's movement from the US to foreign soil. Corporations do this for profit. All this makes it more difficult for govts to operate or for workers to earn the kinds of wages they deserve.
As an ideological ruse, capital has funneled tens of millions of dollars into the media propaganda machine, with some success. We see this with the Tea Party movement which consists inordinately of low-educated workers who are unable to sort notions of patriotism from justice. Following in lock-step with the corporate media, the soft-headed ones yack about America being founded and perpetuated by individuals. Poorly educated, these gripers seem to have no conception of this nation's history.
America is and always has been founded on the back of America's workers. Indentured servants in the Northeast, slaves in the South, children in the coalmines of Appalachia, Chinese immigrants in the Northwest, German immigrant migrant workers in the Southwest. America is America because it has been built by the laboring masses.
Many of these workers organized, formed unions, and agitated for substantial gains for the working classes: child labor laws; discrimination laws; minimum wage; health and safety laws. None of these would have occurred without labor's demands.
Today, capital continues to invest millions, if not billions, on keeping the labor movement weak and voiceless. Reputed studies show that the increase of Walmarts, (to name but one example, but probably corporate America's new prototype), comes with the high cost of numerous lost jobs wherever the new stores appear. And as hundreds of thousands find themselves in Walmart's employ, so America's workers are expected to pick up the tab as their taxes go to food stamps for Walmart's severely underpaid workers.
Today, as has always been the case, working Americans' best future hope lies with organized labor. Corporations will not pay a living wage unless they are forced to by wage-earners who demand the right to earn a wage that reflects the profits their work contributes to any and all companies. Next time you purchase something, whether it be an auto or a mere hamburger at one of the flourishing fast-food chains, try to remember that that item you've purchased is congealed labor; it contains American workers' labor, their sweat and blood. But this fails to be recognized by corporations; rather than giving to workers that which is justly owed to them, they siphon off ungodly profit that benefits no one except perhaps themselves and their own progeny.
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a resident of Vintage Hills
on Aug 31, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Why are union members the only ones who labor? Why are jobs moving outside the US? Why can't Mike Cherry et al pick one fake name and stick to it rather than using multiple monikers to appear to be many people with the same ideas and writing style? Why is liberal media now corporate media? Why are there never any citations (from any source)? Please show the justification for $15/hour in the fast food industry in exchange for the services provided. Given other forum topics where postings showed how much unions spend on campaigns and other issues, please support the claim that unions have no voice. Please explain where union pensions are invested and how this is negative for members. Please explain why employees are entitled to more than the exchange of labor for wages (and many organizations provide profit sharing, the ability to invest in the company, free pensions, percentage contributions to 401k plans if an employee contributes, health benefits, life insurance, and other benefits like shortened work weeks and free ridership for life). And maybe you can wrap it all up with an explanation of why you keep starting new threads on the same subject matter.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2013 at 11:17 pm
TEN paragraphs? of more diatribe??(barf) that can only be Mike Cherry. Oliver, You Union members would know about all those CORP profits better than the rest of us !! Majority of us without jobs and multi financial issues haven't had pensions for years. We wouldn't know about about corp. 'profits' ! ! I do know those 'profits' fund your union penions quite handsomely.
Few of us have your security from those profits you apparently enjoy without appreciation, and 'demand' more...sick greed.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 31, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Oliver, your argument contains two fundamental, fatal flaws.
First, your assertion that wages are determined solely by business owners is incorrect. Just like the products that those business owners produce, wager are determined by the broader market.
Let me ask you a few questions. If you were a business owner, would you be willing to sell your product at a price lower than its value to the consumer? I think not. Next - would you be willing to pay more for your raw materials than you had to? Again I think not. Finally, would you be willing to pay your workers a wage higher than the value they bring to your business? Probably not. In this forum you might answer "yes" to one or more of these questions, and set up arguments why you're answering so. In the real world, bad business decisions will only lead to business failure, with one result being that the workers in your employ will be looking for other jobs.
Second, the other flaw is that America's best hopes lie not with organized labor, but with the exact opposite of organized labor. The hopes lie with a skilled workforce driven by and rewarded by merit. Today, the American services economy is doing well, expanding each year, with American businesses leading the way. (Just to be clear - by "services" I'm referring to skilled design, engineering, financial, consulting, and information technology services.) Services industry jobs mow account for 80 percent of all US employment.
Take a look at the workers that comprise the services industry and tell me how many are represented by unions. The answer is nil. Times have changed, the demand for labor has shifted, and despite unions' best efforts, union membership is declining and will eventually go down to the level of insignificance. The services industry doesn't need it.
Happy Labor Day, and all hail to the workers, it's just that four of five workers these days rely on their own skills to make a living; they aren't in, and don't need, a union to do that for them.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 31, 2013 at 11:29 pm
Daveg is a registered user.
It is getting rather tiresome with Mike Cherry's continued postings under different monikers crying "wolf" about unions with absolutely nothing to substantiate his ramblings. It would be helpful if he answered any of Kathleen's question, however I would really like to know why he does continue to post under all these fictitious names. Perhaps PW could limit this posting to only registered members thereby eliminating yet another of these ridiculous ramblings by Mike Cherry, et el.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 7:57 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Well, yes, I suppose you see all nonunion workers as potential members.
No mention of all the jobs that left because of high cost and demands of unions.
Liberal media is a term that's been around longer than Faux News.
Your term: "Today, capital continues to invest millions, if not billions, on keeping the labor movement weak and voiceless."
I asked you to justify $15 an hour for fast food workers. And try to do it without raising prices for the consumer or lowering the value of the stocks (remember your pension counts on high value and growth).
It is all the same--organized labor.
You have mentioned books that support your personal biases. But where you offer "facts" there is no citation.
Why would anyone attempt to find you (other than a potential law suit)?
And then you finish with the usual name calling. "Reverting to name calling suggests you are defensive and, therefore, find my opinion valid." --Spock
There's a rather large world outside your door (which includes entertainment to lift your spirit or to just entertain). I hope you spend some of the rest of the weekend taking it in.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 9:12 am
BobB is a registered user.
BART strikers might have gotten a little more sympathy if many (not all) BART workers weren't so unfriendly and unhelpful.
I don't think a lot of jobs left the country "high cost and demands of unions." A lot more jobs left the US because countries like China and India were so poor.
You also seem to think or imply that a large portion of our country's current financial troubles are in some way caused by or related to union activity or influence. If I'm right in assuming that, and don't see how you can justify it. The current trouble (at least for the last decade) -- the great recession, financial panic, high unemployment, slow recovery -- seems to have been mainly caused by reckless and unregulated speculation in swaps markets by a relatively small number of well connected investment banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and the like. It wasn't union demands, high blue collar wages, or even too many home loans being given to people who couldn't afford them that caused this mess. It was unregulated derivatives speculation and inadequate supervision of the financial markets that caused this.
Why the obsession with unions?
You said "...American businesses leading the way..., financial,...". I can agree with most of what you said in those sentences, except for the bit about "financial services". I think the American financial services industry was, and is currently leading the world toward more financial chaos and turmoil, and fixing that situation is the greatest problem we face. Sadly, Obama and the current congress haven't done much anything to address it.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Sep 1, 2013 at 10:54 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
BobB, Certainly there are many factors that take corporations out of the US. My point was that, in this case, Oliver makes no acknowledgement of how demands for benefits and high wages contributed to those moves (Example: denim industries in the South were organized, and then the businesses were shuttered). My comments otherwise are a push back to the insistence that "working Americans' best future hope lies with organized labor." I haven't looked for data that might indicate whether $15 for working in the fast food industry is justifiable. I don't agree that BART unions should get a 20+% raise given their current rates of pay and many benefits. Essentially, there is a correlation between services rendered and the income you can expect to earn. The obsession about unions is actually that of the author.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2013 at 5:13 pm
pleasanton joe is a registered user.
BobB, you're spot-on regarding the US financial services industry. I was referring to the rank-and-file workers making up the industry, not the financial services industry itself.
As much as I disdain the "extra help" that various government agencies provide to unions, I equally disdain the help provided to the Big Banks.
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Maryland Rush Montgomery 97 girls took first place in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US Super Y-League and will advance to the finals being held December 5-9 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
The U-15 team went undefeated and ended the summer season with the second highest rank in the entire U-15 age-group which includes teams from four regions in the US and Canada.
From Coach Kennedy Torres about the team's accomplishment: "I'm very proud of the players who gave their all against many tough teams. Summer is always a challenging time of the year to play because of family vacation, but we were very fortunate to have a very talented group of players who always came ready to play. We are now looking forward to representing Maryland Rush at the Super Y League Championship."
The USL Super Y-League Championship is the premier event of the summer for the Super Y-League. After competing during the regular season from April to August, the boys and girls divisional winners convene at IMG Academy to battle for the championship.


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Paraprofessional says she came to the area out of love
Donna Swenson is a St. Paul native, but fell in love with the Pine River area thanks to a family cabin on Lake Ada.
"My family has had a cabin on Lake Ada since 1960 and we've loved the area ever since, so that's why I'm here," Swenson said.
It's because of her fond memories of the north woods that Swenson and her husband bought their own lakefront property on Rainy Lake in 2004. Before that, Swenson had been helping her husband to farm and raise kids in North Dakota for 22 years.
After moving onto their property on Rainy Lake, Swenson became a paraprofessional with Pine River-Backus Elementary School. It is a position she has held ever since, but last fall it was time to quit.
"It was just that time. I said I would work until I was 62 and that's what I did," Swenson said.
Swenson worked mostly to help kids with reading literacy. She remembers fun times interacting with the kids on the school playground and getting to know the teachers she worked with.
"I've really enjoyed it. The kids were great. The teachers were wonderful. If they told you to do something, they gave you the instructions to get the job done," Swenson said.
Swenson's favorite memory from her job is of a young student.
"There was one young lady who helped me my first year. I was in the first grade with her, and I had a one on one and she just helped me with the problems I was having at that time," Swenson said.
Swenson was a paraprofessional with Pine River-Backus Elementary School since 2005. She retired Oct. 31, 2012, and June 6 marks the end of the last school year she worked here.


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The Lizards Defend That Blooming Idiot, Rand Paul
posted at 12:55 am on May 21, 2010 by Dafydd ab Hugh
Before diving into the substance of Dr. Rand Paul's remarks on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, let's get one thing straight: Paul was a fool for blundering into that tar pit — or allowing MSNBC's Rachel Maddow to lure him into it like a drunken farmer chasing a corpse candle into a bog. Worse, once hip deep in the big muddy, he contracted a bad case of hoof-in-mouth disease and couldn't defend his position.
But just because one shallow thinker of today was unable to defend the liberty position doesn't make indefensible a principle famously argued by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election campaign… no matter what Hugh Hewitt says.
It's hard to nail down exactly what Paul's position actually is; I think it's the same as Goldwater's: Where state or federal policy either directly discriminates on the basis of race or else mandates private racial discrimination, it is absolutely appropriate to pass a federal law overturning such "institutional racialism;" however, such a law should not and constitutionally cannot reach beyond that point to purely private and voluntary racial discrimination, which (alas) the final version of the Act did.
That's why Goldwater voted against it after having supported earlier versions that did not outlaw private, volunatry discrimination; and fair warning, that is my objection to the Act, as well.
Here's my best collage of Paul's lengthy, meandering, and unfocused response to Maddow:
MADDOW: Do you think that a private business has the right to say we don't serve black people?
PAUL: Yes. I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form. I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. We still do have private clubs in America that can discriminate based on race.
But I think what's important about this debate is not written into any specific "gotcha" on this, but asking the question: what about freedom of speech? Should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? Should we limit racists from speaking?
I don't want to be associated with those people, but I also don't want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that's one of the things freedom requires is that we allow people to be boorish and uncivilized, but that doesn't mean we approve of it…..
MADDOW: I mean, the Civil Rights Act was the federal government stepping in to protect civil rights because they weren't otherwise being protected. It wasn't a hypothetical. There were businesses that were saying black people cannot be served here and the federal government stepped in and said, no, you actually don't have that choice to make. The federal government is coming in and saying you can't make that choice as a business owner.
Which side of that debate would you put yourself on?
PAUL: In the totality of it, I'm in favor of the federal government being involved in civil rights and that's, you know, mostly what the Civil Rights Act was about…. Most of the things [Martin Luther King, jr.] was fighting were laws. He was fighting Jim Crow laws. He was fighting legalized and institutional racism. And I'd be right there with him….
MADDOW: As I understand it, what you`re saying, [is that] the portion of the Civil Rights Act that said you can't actually have segregated lunch counters here at your private business [is the one title of the Civil Rights Act you reject]…. Until the year 2000, Bob Jones University, a private institution, had a ban on interracial dating at their school, their private institution. If Bob Jones University wanted to bring that back now, would you support their right to do so?
PAUL: Well, I think it's interesting because the debate involves more than just that, because the debate also involves a lot of court cases with regard to the commerce clause. For example, right now, many states and many gun organizations are saying they have a right to carry a gun in a public restaurant because a public restaurant is not a private restaurant. Therefore, they have a right to carry their gun in there and that the restaurant has no right to have rules to their restaurant.
So, you see how this could be turned on many liberal observers who want to excoriate me on this. Then to be consistent, they'd have to say, oh, well, yes, absolutely, you've got your right to carry your gun anywhere because it's a public place.
So, you see, when you blur the distinction between public and private, there are problems. When you blur the distinction between public and private ownership, there really is a problem. A lot of this was settled a long time ago and isn't being debated anymore….
MADDOW: Let's say there's a town right now and the owner of the town's swimming club says we're not going to allow black kids at our pool, and the owner of the bowling alley in town says, we're not actually going to allow black patrons, and the owner of the skating rink in town says, we're not going to allow black people to skate here.
And you may think that's abhorrent and you may think that's bad business. But unless it's illegal, there's nothing to stop that — there's nothing under your world view to stop the country from re-segregating like we were before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 —
PAUL: Right.
It goes on an on, but the basic points are all here. Note that Paul brings up a valid analogy — should gun owners in a gun-friendly state be allowed to bring guns into a restaurant, even against the will of the restaurant's owner?
Paul says no. But if the owner is allowed the private-property liberty to control who brings a weapon into his facility, then under what principle can he not control who he allows in, period? The analogy was valid, but it was (again) foolishly chosen: No listener not already predisposed to the Goldwater, Paul, and Lizardian point of view will understand his point.
Allow me to help Dr. Paul out of the mire; again, bear in mind I'm defending his position, not the hamfisted way he expressed it.
Rachel Maddow's fundamental confusion is shared by all liberals and about 80% of conservatives (e.g., Hugh Hewitt): Under Jim Crow, the problem wasn't that individual owners "decided" to racially discriminate; state laws required them to discriminate.
In a free market, some-but-not-all restaurants will discriminate, while others won't. Those that do cut off much of their customer base — not just the potential customers who are black but also those whites who vehemently oppose racial discrimination; their non-discriminating competitors get the extra business instead. Thus, a discriminatory stance creates an automatic "economic penalty": Racism becomes an expensive luxury that most business owners simply cannot afford.
(The same punishment operates whenever an owner makes an economic decision on a completely non-economic basis, such as not serving old people or divesting stock from companies that do business with Israel; that's one of the magical effects of a free market!)
After a while, many racists will decide they need the money more than they need to discriminate; they will take down the "whites only" sign, no matter how much it pains them, or risk going out of business. A few will maintain their discrimination until the bitter end; so it goes.
But wait, what about the other side of the coin? Some dyed in the wool racists would only frequent those establishments that discriminate. They will boycott the integrated businesses and patronize only the racists.
Frankly, I doubt that such persons would have been the majority in any state even back in the days of Jim Crow: If they had been the majority, there would have been no need for laws to force them to do what they wanted to do in the first place. The very fact that the state legislature had to enact Jim Crow laws testifies that residents weren't discriminating, they weren't keeping blacks "in their places."
Walter Williams writes about this in his wonderful book, South Africa's War Against Capitalism: The Afrikaaners enacted Apartheid laws precisely because at the turn of the twentieth century, businesses (from railroads to mines to hotels), left to their own free will, were rapidly integrating the races. Economic necessity was breaking down the barriers; blacks offered their services for lower wages than whites, and employers snapped them up to save labor costs. Soon the whites had to lower their own wages to compete; at the same time, as blacks gained more experience, they raised their demands… eventually, the two races met in the middle, more or less.
Funnily enough, one of the first bills the Kreugerites enacted forced businesses to pay blacks and whites exactly the same wages, "equal pay for equal work." Sound familiar? The effect was to remove the financial incentive to hire blacks, because their labor was no longer any bargain.
With the market mechanisms removed, it was easy to threaten or bully businesses into hiring and promoting only whites. (Most of the racist coercion was committed by the socialist labor unions, by the way… quelle surprise!) Thus, even in Apartheid South Africa, the free market acted to integrate and equalize the races, while the government — "for their own good" — acted to segregate and discriminate between them — "Apartheid" literally means "apart-ness".
In any event, I steadfastly believe that even in the deep South in the 1950s, far more potential customers would choose to patronize a business on the basis of quality and price — than on the basis of whether that business segregated black from white. Over the long run (which would likely be only a few years), that would drive out the adamant racists: Businesses operate on such a small margin that even a small economic advantage towards race neutrality would have an oversized effect on a business' viability.
Unless, that is, the state steps in and makes such racial discrimination mandatory; that is what we mean by "Jim Crow." If the state interferes with the market, forcing everyone to discriminate, it kills the market's ability to drive behavior away from irrelevant (and offensive) absurdities like racial discrimination: I can no longer compete with a "whites only" lunchcounter by advertising "we serve everybody!" I would be arrested and my business shut down if I tried.
That robs me of my liberty, my property rights; and that is the ground on which the Civil Rights Act should have been fought. Let freedom reign, and allow the market to do its holy job of driving the fools and haters out of business.
Of course, there will always be pockets where there really are more racists than sons and daughters of liberty; in those dark nooks, they will open their whites-only swimming pools and bowling alleys and ice-skating rinks. What do we do about that?
We let them. If they want to segregate themselves away from the rest of society, let them huddle together and fester. So long as we all have freedom of mobility and association, the 99% of the country that is decent will isolate the tiny fraction who are morally putrid; and the good citizens will open their own pools, alleys, and rinks open to everyone. After all, there's gold in them thar businesses.
The racist kooks will become curiosities, monkeys in a zoo: We'll point and laugh at the funny and now-powerless haters, just as we do whenever the Ku Klux Klan musters its eight or nine hoodwinkers to stand on the corner holding up racist, and typically illiterate signs.
That's the American way, the path of liberty. Just as we don't deny Klansmen, Black Panthers, or MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) their freedom of speech, we should also not deny them their right to serve only "their own kind," if that's what they want.
Nor do we prevent the rest of us from expressing displeasure by patronizing their competitors instead.
Had Rand Paul really thought this all through aforehand, he could have answered Rachel Maddow much more powerfully and directly, like this (warning, fabricated interview ahead!):
MADDOW: Do you think that a private business has the right to say we don't serve black people?
LIZARDS: Sure — if they want to cut their own economic throats.
MADDOW: What do you mean? The Civil Rights Act was the federal government stepping in to protect civil rights because they weren't otherwise being protected. It wasn't a hypothetical. There were businesses that were saying black people cannot be served here and the federal government stepped in and said, no, you actually don't have that choice to make. The federal government is coming in and saying you can't make that choice as a business owner.
How about desegregating lunch counters? Lunch counters. Walgreen's lunch counters, were you in favor of that? Possibly? Because the government got involved?
LIZARDS: The problem wasn't that Jim Crow wasn't protecting civil rights, Rachel. The great evil of Jim Crow laws was that they forced even non-racists to racially discriminate.
In a free market, I could open a lunchcounter right across the street from a "whites only" Walgreens; and in my front window, I could put a sign that says "we serve everybody!" I have faith in the American people, Southerners included. Let me compete with the racists without the state government or federal government stacking the deck, and I guarantee you I'll drive the racial haters out of business and out of town.
That way, we'll lose the racists — good riddance — but we'll keep liberty and the sanctity of private property, the cornerstone of America. That's the same sanctity of private property, by the way, that allows a homeowner to sell his house to a black family, no matter what the ancient, entrenched political class in the state capital demand.
MADDOW: Mr. Reptile, until the year 2000, Bob Jones University, a private institution, had a ban on interracial dating at their school, their private institution. If Bob Jones University wanted to bring that back now, would you support their right to do so?
LIZARDS: Bob Jones University didn't drop its policy as a result of the Civil Rights Act; President Bob Jones dropped the policy in the year 2000, because the adverse publicity of its racist stance was hurting the university. That's an important point, Rachel: The market was hurting Bob Jones badly enough that it forced them to change their stupid, evil policy.
The most the feds ever did to BJU was to take away its religious tax exemption. I've long argued that when an insitution requests special dispensation that amounts to an endorsement of that institution — such as a religious tax exemption that secular private universities don't get — the government has every right to make that privilege contingent upon meeting the base-level standards of decency that American society demands. I would just as vigorously oppose giving a tax exemption to Mohammed Atta Martyrdom University, no matter how sincerely held was its jihadist religous curriculum.
MADDOW: Let's say there's a town right now and the owner of the town's swimming club says we're not going to allow black kids at our pool, and the owner of the bowling alley in town says, we're not actually going to allow black patrons, and the owner of the skating rink in town says, we're not going to allow black people to skate here.
And you may think that's abhorrent and you may think that's bad business. But unless it's illegal, there's nothing to stop that — there's nothing under your world view to stop the country from re-segregating like we were before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
LIZARDS: Nothing but the justice and common decency of the American people! In the first place, this isn't the 1950s. The whole world has come a long way in the last half century, wouldn't you say? And no country in the world is less racist than the United States: Not a single state in the Union has even one pair of racists in its legislature to conspire together to re-segregate the country.
But frankly, Rachel, I don't even believe any state in the deep South had a majority of racist citizens even in 1964. What they had was an oligarchy of bitter, hate-filled, septuagenarian racists who occupied state legislatures like the Nazis occupied the Reichstag. They were corrupt, elections were rigged, and they couldn't be ousted from their seats except perhaps by dynamite… or by joining Republican Party!
But that's no longer true, and it hasn't been since I was in grade school. Oh yes, there is still racial discrimination in the United States; but today, as in the 50s and 60s, it comes from the left side of the aisle, from race-obsessed Democrats and leftists allied with radical Islam. But so long as we can keep the Left away from the levers of power, I'm confident America will never re-segregate.
I am quite certain this would have been much, much harder to spin as racist, pro-segregation, and anti-civil rights. And in any event, it sure would have made more exciting political theater!
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Darryl Syler, fleet operations manager for Little Rock, Ark., and 38 technicians operate four shops in which they maintain some 1200 vehicles and machines for the city. "Our biggest challenge is to stay up-to-date with the ability to diagnose and repair our fleet and equipment," he said.
Syler is not alone in his challenge. Around the nation, fleet managers finger the update frequency and cost of diagnostic scanner upgrades as a challenging item in their annual shop equipment budget. "The scanner cost around $4500, and it cost me $2000 to update our computer this year," said Jamie Hardick, fleet maintenance supervisor in Charleston, S.C.
In some cases, Little Rock's Syler said he believes tool manufacturers charge more for their brand-name recognition. Syler has a way to stay informed, though. "I charge one shop foreman with making sure that we keep current on diagnostic software," he said. "He does a lot of research. To some extent we're at the mercy of the manufacturers who use proprietary software on newer vehicles. But the manufacturers may release certain information after a few years. Right now, 2001 and 2002 software is available."
The city owns four handheld diagnostic scanners—two Snap-On units and two OTC Genesis units—for cars and light vehicles. And for heavy equipment, technicians use three laptop computers.
In Green Bay, Wis., T.J. Sorensen has another answer. "We always try to get the same kind of truck engines so that we can use the same software in our laptop computers and scanners," said Sorensen, public works superintendent, Motor Equipment Department 'This year, we may buy Sterling, and next year, International, and the next year Peter-bilt. But we basically have Caterpillar and Cummins engines in our garbage trucks and dump trucks. And we have all Allison automatic transmissions in all our trucks. They have less maintenance because you're not always putting in new clutches."
In South Burlington, Vt, shop foreman Tim Heath said it costs him about $2000 each year to update his Snap-On scanner, an MT 2500. The scanner can diagnose any computerized component, ranging from an electronic ignition to ABS brakes to engine controls.
It takes a special electronic tool to calibrate salt truck feeders, Sorensen points out. "We can download, calibrate, and print out information from our salt and sand feeders," said Sorensen. "We spread salt or sand, or a 50:50 mixture of both."
Syler keeps in-house repair work that a lot of shops outsource. Take air-conditioner recharging, for example. At about two-year intervals, the city buys an air-conditioner recharger for one of its shops.
And he's about 90% certain to receive funding for a new paint and body shop. "We have a large fleet of police cars," said Syler. "I feel like this (paint and body work) is something we could bring in-house and save money in the long run. We have some 10-year-old cars with their paint fading, and we want to freshen them up.
"Right away, we'd realize a tremendous savings on those cars," said Syler. "We're looking at establishing a paint and body shop that can do anything an outside automotive body shop can do. And we do all our own tire work. We do patch the heavy-duty tires, but we do not patch any police car tires."
"We do not do air-conditioner recharging," said Green Bay's Sorensen. "We don't want to be a generator of hazardous waste— the used Freon. We sub out air-conditioning work."
Vermont's Heath said owning a Parker hydraulic hose machine saves a lot of down-time. When a hydraulic hose springs a leak, he can crimp fittings and make his own replacement. And his shop handles exhaust system repairs. The South Burlington shop even does the body preparatory work for a paint job, then subs out the actual painting. "We farm out very little work," said Heath.
— Daniel C. Brown is a freelance writer in Des Plaines, Ill.


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Lindsey Burke enters her third year on the Eagles coaching staff. A graduate of Mercyhurst University (NCAA DII) in Erie, Pa., Burke posted a four-year standout career for the Lakers.
Burke finished her career with 60 made three-pointers, 202 rebounds and 284 total career points. She led her team in blocked shots her senior year, finishing ranked in the top 20 in the PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference). She was also ranked in the top 25 for three-pointers made per game for the 2012-2013 season. During her time at Mercyhurst, the Lakers clinched two playoff berths, one in 2010-2011, and again in 2012-2013.
Burke assists in all aspects of the program. Her primary responsibilities include coordinating recruiting, scouting opponents, guard development, and film breakdown.
In 2013, Burke graduated summa cum laude from Mercyhurst with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Marketing. She was also the President of Mercyhurst's SAAC (Student Athletic Advisory Council). She is currently in the Master of Business Administration program at UMW.


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Louisville defensive end Marcus Smith sacks Florida's Jeff Driskel during the second half of the Sugar Bowl Wednesday night in New Orleans. (Associated Press)
Last Modified: Thursday, January 03, 2013 7:34 PM
By Scooter Hobbs / American Press
So it turns out there are fates worse than losing the Chick-fil-A Bowl on the final play of the game when you didn't trail the entire time until the clock struck double zero.
For instance, LSU fan, you could have been the Florida Gators in the Sugar Bowl and basically not shown up until the clock was heading down the homestretch.
LSU lost a game. Hey, it happens, even occasionally when you're the more talented team.
The Tigers had nothing to be ashamed of. They left everything they had on the field.
Florida seemed like it wanted to be anywhere but in the Superdome playing football Wednesday night.
The Gators should have given their bowl swag back. The effort surely didn't earn a shopping spree in an electronics store or whatever the Sugar Bowl dished out for their presence.
The teams' fans were very much excited about their bowls in advance.
By kickoff, the Chick-fil-A Bowl had a decent crowd even with some gaping holes in the upper deck of Atlanta's Georgia Dome. It appeared to be about a 50-50 split with LSU and Clemson fans.
The Sugar Bowl had its smallest crowd since 1939, when Carnegie Mellon lost to TCU (Carnegie Mellon fans are notorious for not traveling, and haven't been invited back to New Orleans since). Louisville fans far outnumbered the Gators. Florida sold well under half of its allotment of 17,500 tickets.
So both LSU and Florida had reason to wonder how much sis-boom-bah was in their fan base over their bowl appearances.
LSU began the season in the same breath as the national championship discussion and fell off, losing two games, and then getting passed over for (on paper) more prestigious bowls that selected teams the Tigers beat.
They had a ready-made excuse to pout.
Florida, which began the season with fair-to-middlin' expectations, was in a certified BCS bowl.
The Gators didn't win their division but still got the SEC's No. 2 spot in the bowl picking. That's a reprieve from the governor.
They should have been ecstatic to be playing in New Orleans. What was the Gators' excuse?
There was concern that LSU wouldn't be excited about playing Clemson in a bowl that wasn't on its preseason bucket list. The players assured one and all that it was a football game, it was on the schedule, and they'd be ready even if their fans weren't.
And the Tigers delivered the goods, if not the victory.
The Gators said not to worry, they were excited to be in New Orleans even if their fans weren't.
And lied.
If you're an X-and-O junkie watching clinical game film, the results were similar.
Both LSU and Florida had really good defenses with hit-and-miss offenses. LSU had a passing quarterback who couldn't run and Florida had a running quarterback who couldn't throw.
But neither LSU nor Florida could protect their quarterback, and that's what the games kind of came down to.
And that's about where the similarities ended.
Both defenses had talented quarterbacks to deal with, maybe even better than they'd imagined coming in.
I can't remember a defense looking more impressive while giving up 445 yards than LSU's did Monday night — flying around the field and making somebody pay for every yard.
I don't know what Florida's defense was thinking. Maybe spring break.
Both had opponents that showed up breathing fire with something to prove.
LSU said "game on" and the bowl was as intense from start to finish as any LSU played in this season. The fans who did show up got their money's worth.
Florida reacted to Louisville's obvious fire and brimstone like it was more interested in "styling" and staying cool without putting up much of a fight.
So after playing their butts off, fighting through cramps and still going down swinging with their last ounce of energy, afterward several LSU players, like safety Eric Reid, were tweeting agonizing apologies left and right to LSU fans.
They had nothing, really, to apologize for. They played their tails off from encouraging start to the heartbreaking finish. They lost, but it wasn't for lack of trying. What more can you ask for?
After thoroughly embarrassing themselves and their fans, the Gators' top stars seemingly couldn't get to the locker room fast enough, where three of them showed their remorse by promptly declaring for the NFL draft before they got their shoulder pads off.
It does make you wonder where their minds were before and during the game.
Somehow the "ready to showcase my talents in the NFL" speech loses a little luster when it comes minutes after dogging it for 60 minutes and stinking up the Superdome.
Say what you will about Les Miles — and, given the circumstances of LSU's bowl loss, a lot will be said around the water coolers for a while.
But, for all his quirky faults — a discussion for another day — he gets his teams to play hard, week after week, no matter the intangibles or lack thereof.
There's something to be said for that.
Watching the Sugar Bowl Wednesday night, apparently it's not as easy as he makes it look.
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THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF COLOR: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Violet. Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut. 240 pp. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2013. $29.95.
Perception of color is inseparable from some of our truest visual pleasures: viewing the deep green of an Irish landscape, discerning the blue tint of Sirius in the night sky, pondering the saturated hues of a Cézanne, delighting in a flush of red brightening a beloved's cheek, donning cobalt-blue mittens on an overcast day. Beyond the aesthetic, color can be life saving or life giving for flora and fauna alike. The discussions within The Secret Language of Color, by Joann Eckstut (one of 12 color experts who create the famed annual Color Association of the United States forecasts) and Arielle Eckstut (an author and color consultant), unspool from a fascinating conundrum: Fundamental as it is to life on Earth, color may be said to exist only through our perception of it.
A large-format book packed with vibrant photos and illustrations, its chapters alternate between areas of science and colors that provide useful jumping-off points for discussion. Some of the connections are more obvious than others: A treatise on green follows a chapter on botany, whereas an exploration of the science of red hues and their significance across history, art, and culture follows a chapter on physics and chemistry.
The science of dye composition is an especially interesting facet of the authors' discussion. The tints humans have used over the millennia, along with their derivations and uses, reveal much about a culture: trade practices, production processes, status markers, art and design principles, and the physical environment. In many cultures access to certain hues was tied to political and economic power. The price of certain dyes could also be more than monetary: Access to goods imbued with their color could have catastrophic physical consequences. Take, for example, Scheele's Green, a pea-colored dye that emerged in the latter decades of the 18th century, and Paris Green, a lovely emerald shade made available to consumers in 1814 that soon surpassed it in popularity. These dyes were versatile, tinting paints, wallpapers, fabrics, candles, medicines, and sweets. Unfortunately, both were laced with arsenic. In 1861 an astute doctor discerned the chemical's toxicity, yet arsenic greens remained on the market in many products for several decades until other researchers confirmed the earlier findings.
Color plays a vital role to procreation in the wild, occasionally a symbiotic one between plants and animals. Referring to Amazon water lilies as beetle discotheques, the authors explain how the flowers bloom a bright white at first, their temperature increasing to help diffuse the lily's fragrance. Scarab beetles become ensnared within the flower when it closes overnight. In exchange for pollination, the blooms provide a choice spot for the trapped beetles to feed on tasty stamens and mate. Over the course of the evening, the lily becomes tinged with rose. At dawn, the flowers transition to a pink hue, open their petals, and release their sated captives, new generations of plant and beetle each more assured. Ostentation takes energy, however. Hence, some creatures have evolved their way to a compromise, parading their colors when necessary but conserving energy at other times. The authors present the example of the scarlet tanager. During mating season, the male displays spectacular crimson plumage; afterward it molts, the snappy red feathers replaced with ones far more subdued and similar to the female's.
Despite its somewhat rambling approach and sidebar headlines that skew a bit too cute, The Secret Language of Color fascinates with its breadth, entrances with its vividness, and beguiles with its exuberance. Its discussions of the physics of color and concepts such as additive and subtractive color and simultaneous contrast are first rate. An informative stunner, this is one book that keeps the intellect and the optical rods and cones well entertained.
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October 2012
Oxfam Italy cuts ties with Paola Maugeri over involvement with SodaStream
In response to a letter from the Italian Stop Sodastream Campaign, Oxfam Italy cut ties with Paola Maugeri, "PR Ambassador" for Sodastream Italy.
September 24, 2011
Flash Mob calls on Bed Bath & Beyond: Don't Sell SodaStream!
Video of the "bubbles" flash mob in El Cerrito, where a group of activists call upon Bed Bath & Beyond to stop selling SodaStream devices because they are produced in an illegal settlement on Palestinian land with exploited Palestinian labor.
August 12, 2011
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CODEPINK activists perform a mock wedding at a Bed Bath & Beyond in Los Angeles, CA, protesting the store's decision to continue to sell SodaStream products despite this company's illegal actions in regard to the occupation. Here is a video of their action.
July 12, 2011
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SodaStream: Not so cool, clear bubbly water
This email blast sent out by Economic Activism for Palestine responds to an article about SodaStream in the San Francisco Chronicle, which makes no mention of the fact that these appliances are made in an illegal Israeli settlement.
March 31, 2011
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Bed Bath & Beyond: Stop Selling Settlement Products SodaStream and Ahava!
A video and article about the delivery by activists of a letter with more than 2,500 signatures to the management at 15 Bed Bath & Beyond stores asking the retail chain to discontinue the sale of products manufactured in illegal Israeli settlements, namely Ahava cosmetics and SodaStream home carbonation systems.
March 28, 2011
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Join our Land Day Action Against Settlement Profiteers
This email blast sent out by Economic Activism for Palestine refers to Palestinian Land Day, which commemorates the 1976 general strike of Palestinians within Israel against mass expropriation of their land by the state. As a sign of solidarity, Global Exchange urges consumers to join with them and their partner CODEPINK in delivering a petition to Bed Bath & Beyond urging this chain to stop stocking settlement products such as Ahava and SodaStream.
March 3, 2011
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SodaStream setting up plant within Green Line
SodaStream is setting up a new factory within the Green Line, but it remains unclear whether their plant in an illegal settlement in the West Bank will be moved despite pressure to do so by activists in Sweden, its biggest market.
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Who Profits from the Occupation?
SodaStream Report
Using SodaStream as a case study, this report discusses key issues in industrial production in illegal West Bank settlements. The report provides an extensive overview of how SodaStream is involved in the occupation, including information regarding the identity of the manufacturers, employment conditions, land confiscation and trade in settlement products.
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Tell SodaStream there is nothing friendly about occupation!
This page on Code Pink's website is devoted to SodaStream, complete with an option to sign a joint petition with Global Exchange protesting the stocking of SodaStream products in Bed, Bath & Beyond, more information on SodaStream's complicity in Israel's crimes…even slogans and chants for protesting SodaStream.
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I have read that the bees will stop taking sugar water, but it just seems like logic to me that they will just want to keep taking an easy food source. What do you guys think? I am pretty confused about all this.
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Project - Patriotic Lanbox - Final pics 11-26-12
Another mod I'm in the middle of right now is this awesome little Thermaltake Lanbox Lite that I bought from a guy a while back.
It was a basket case but it's a great chassis. I recently did the Camo Mod for my step-mom so I thought my dad could use something cool too. He doesn't know anything about it so it will be a Xmas present this year. He's a pretty old-school guy and very patriotic so that's the theme I'm going with.
I'm going to strip it down and paint it all white. I'll add some patriotic touches here and there. I'm going to keep it kind of simple if possible. I'd have to say it won't be a full mod but more of a "resto-mod" since it's kind of a restoration and mod in one.
I bought some modest hardware that will blow away his 10 year old HP that he currently uses. lol
So here is the beginning in all it's glory -
I know total sadface right? It cries for a new life...
So after a lot of gutting, cleaning, scrubbing, etc. I was able to primer it and paint it the nice bright white. I used an automotive lacquer base coat and clear coat.
So many pieces!
OCZ 400W psu
Biostar Z77 micro atx mobo
Intel i5-3550 proc
Patriot sector 5 - 4Gb RAM
WD Caviar Black - 1 TB HDD
I think I'll skip the GPU since this proc should handle his PC Pinball game with no trouble.. :P
I will be adding some mild lighting to it since my dad isn't really into bling. I will use fans with blue led's and then add some 4" cold cathodes up top that are hidden to give it a little mixture.
The stock fans did a great job of cooling but the color was not what I needed so I went digging through my drawer of fans (yes I have a drawer of fans) for something better. I came across a ram cooler that had the right fans and the right color led's!
So after some assembly I see a pc starting to form...
You can see this is going to look pretty nice. I am just installing everything for a test fit but I'll go ahead and configure the BIOS and load the OS now since I'm waiting on some stuff to arrive. I always do the install if I can and make a "dry run" just to make sure there are no issues before I decide to mod stuff.
Yay it works! Still surprises me every time! lol
Here is the best part......
My dad is waaayyyy behind the curve and he doesn't like change. He looks at a keyboard as if it's written in hieroglyphics. So I don't want to throw too much new stuff at him.
He's getting a fresh copy of Windows XP
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I've shortened all the wires for everything, sleeved the psu wires with Red/White/Blue paracord, and started assembling everything. It's really starting to shape up nicely. These really look nice in the white color.
I also added some MNPCTECH knurled case feet. These add a splash of bling and will work good since I'm adding chrome bolts here and there.
I'll be making some new windows for it soon and I'm just waiting on my lighting to show up so I can finish it up. I will also be adding the "patriotic" element very soon.........
Almost done!
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I thought I would show the sleaving on the wires a little closer. It looks so nice not having the shrink tube.
You'll see one of these got a little extra hot but it can't be seen inside the case.
I continue my qwest to make a super clean appearance so I made some panels that hide some of the areas where you put screws to hold drives in place.
Looking at this picture again you can see the little window thing (where the paracord shows the most). It's just access for screwing the optical drives in and mounting the flash card reader. So, it needs cleaned up!
I made a little piece of acrylic and painted it white. It's hard to see in the pic (on the left) Then I mounted it inside. The blue stuff is the new windows.
Now it's mounted -
And the whole thing installed back into the case-
A little nicer eh?
I am doing the same thing to the other side. These look like nice spots for something patriotic.... hmmmm.... more later.
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Nice finish on the paint, has really transformed the case! Sleeving looks great too.
American patriotism makes me cringe a bit though
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@ Biojellywobbles - Thx mate!
I am 99% finished!
I still need a couple little things but this is most likely my last update since I have 5 mods going right now and I have a deadline that is fast approaching.
So I added all my patriotic goodies and the lighting to it and now it looks like it could be in a Veterans Day Parade! :P My dad will love it.
Here is the reason I made the cover for the side that hides the drive bay screws and stuff. It's a place to throw a small flag onto.
Here is the barrage of pics (the real reason you look at project logs). 8)
First, lets take a look at what it was in the beginning...
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Great job you've done there, but I think that it would be better to change those stickers for some painted design or something...
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nice, and this give's me an really good idea of Finnish patriotic case mod, thank you for inspiration for one more plan
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New Transportation Secretary Spearheads Obama's Attack on Christians
Original post made by Troy Bethel, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Apr 30, 2013
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, who Obama tapped Tuesday to be the next transportation secretary, just declared Thursday "A Day of Reason" in his home city, and asked Charlotte's citizens to observe the day.
May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event designed to encourage people to "turn to God in prayer and meditation."
But Foxx argued in his proclamation May 2 was better served as A Day of Reason because "the application of reason, more than any other means, has proven to offer hope for human survival on Earth."
More than prayer? Apparently so. Several current and former Democrat lawmakers have also expressed their support for the day, including Rep. Michael Honda, D-Calif., Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and former Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif.
The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is "Good without a God," created the National Day of Reason with the Washington Area Secular Humanists to raise awareness about government threats to religious liberty and up the profile of the non-religious community. The day will includes acts of service and discussions on rational thought. What has been conspicuously left off the agenda is how Reason is semantically very close to Treason, especially when one slams Christian faithful as the AHA and the new Transportation Secretary are doing.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx)expressed outrage in response to what appears to be a treasonous effort to usurp the U.S. Constitution where Christianity is specified as our national religion. "Here Reason actually means treasonous tyranny," Cruz bellowed. He then continued, "There's a place for reason on God's green earth, but not when it is used to justify murdering babies, taking away our guns, and excessive government regulation of our job-creating heroes." The Senator then vowed a lengthy filibuster of the anti-Christian's nomination as Transportation Secretary.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 30, 2013 at 10:46 pm
No religious tests are ALLOWED for any PUBLIC position in AMERICA ! !
Most of our founders were Deists (believing in a god, but not religion, most were escaping the religious wars of Europe).
There is no national religion allowed by our Constitution.
How is 'reason' close to 'treason'?
Any American is free to pray, or not, as they please, and to whom they please, ANY of our 365 days of the year !!!
Try to adapt to the concept of 'freedom' ! ! Freedom is beautiful. Many have died to give us 'freedom' !!!
a resident of Dublin
on Apr 30, 2013 at 10:47 pm
I challenge "Troy Bethel, a resident of the Another Pleasanton neighborhood " as a real resident of Pleasanton. He is more likely a resident of out of the area.
He is likely a religious extremist.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 30, 2013 at 10:53 pm
He is also ignorant of our Constitution.
a resident of Parkside
on May 1, 2013 at 8:56 am
'He is more likely a resident of out of the area.' How do you know this DUBLINmike?????? If you don't like or recognize God or traditions in our country, don't observe them, but leave the rest of us the hell alone. Are all people from outside of Pleasanton really this hostile to beeivers?
a resident of Parkside
on May 1, 2013 at 8:57 am
'He is more likely a resident of out of the area.' How do you know this DUBLINmike?????? If you don't like or recognize God or traditions in our country, don't observe them, but leave the rest of us the hell alone. Are all people from outside of Pleasanton really this hostile to believers?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on May 1, 2013 at 10:32 am
You call yourself infidel ??? You say "leave the rest of us the fell alone".... YOU are alone to do as YOU wish anytime, But you connot command the actions of others, Back to that freedom thing again !!
Stop pushing, You must be one of those tea party types, always pushing into lives of others.
a resident of Carlton Oaks
on May 1, 2013 at 1:03 pm
A 'Day of Reason' eh? Well, when "reason" produces global warming hysteria and rationalizes millions of abortions, I'll stick with tried and true prayer. Mike, stay in Dublin where you belong. I'm surprised your fellow Dubliners haven't had a better influence upon you.
a resident of Livermore
on May 3, 2013 at 1:37 pm
not to worry because christianitys days are numbered...tee hee
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