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|Health Reform: Senate Dems Drop Public Option; Other Health Reform Developments
|Debt Ceiling Increase Tied to PAYGO, Debt Commission, Defense Spending Bill
|Conrad and Gregg Re-Introduce Budget Task Force Bill; Baucus Blasts Proposal
|"Tapping TARP" and Other Budget News
|Appropriations Tracker: FY 2010 Appropriations Nearing Completion
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As the Senate completed its second week considering comprehensive health reform legislation, the key developments were: (1) a Tuesday announcement by Majority Leader Harry Reid (NV) that a group of 5 liberal and 5 moderate Senate Democrats had reached agreement to drop the so-called "public option" in exchange for a federal-employee type program and a Medicare "buy-in" option for Americans 55-64; and (2) a surprise announcement yesterday (Sunday) by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) that he is apparently backing away from the compromise.
The "public option" in the original Reid bill would have been a national public health insurance plan administered by HHS, with HHS setting premiums at levels sufficient to break even. States would have been allowed to "opt-out" of the public option. However, even with the opt-out provision, the public option had become a political albatross for some moderate Democrats concerned about Republican charges that a public plan could lead to excessive federal involvement in the health care sector.
While details are still sketchy, the Democratic negotiators reportedly replaced the public option with two new proposals: (1) allowing people ages 55 - 64 to "buy-in" to Medicare, which currently is open only to seniors 65 and older and people with disabilities; and (2) establishing for the general public a system similar to the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) which provides federal employees with a menu of national private health insurance options where insurers actively compete for enrollees. In addition, moderates are insisting that the compromise plan not add to the overall cost of the legislation, now $848 billion over 10 years.
While the tentative deal was aimed at holding together the Senate's 60-member Democratic Caucus, Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) was reportedly surprised to hear that Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman said on Face the Nation yesterday morning that he would filibuster the health bill if it includes a Medicare "buy-in" provision.
Lieberman's views on the Democratic compromise appear to have halted progress on the bill since the FEHBP/Medicare buy-in approach has not attracted the support of any Republican moderates. Republican Olympia Snowe (R-ME) told Congressional Quarterly last week, "I'm not sure ultimately what is the purpose of having the Medicare buy-in." And Senate Finance Committee Ranking Republican Charles Grassley (R-IA) expressed strong reservations about how Medicare's relatively low provider payment rates might impact physicians and rural hospitals in his state.
Further Senate action on health reform is currently on hold while Senate Democrats wait for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to score the FEHBP/Medicare buy-in proposals and attempt to address Lieberman's concerns. However, time is getting short in light of Senator Reid's commitment to complete Senate Floor action prior to Christmas.
During the initial week of Senate debate, the Senate failed to pass an amendment to delete a new long-term care insurance program (known as CLASS) from the bill. Moderate Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the amendment, but they fell short of the 60 votes required to strike the provision.* The Concord Coalition has raised serious concerns about the CLASS program which creates artificial budgetary savings in the early years, but could balloon into a highly expensive unfunded liability in later years. Concord Coalition Report on the CLASS program
[*Important note: in an unusual procedural move, Senate Democratic leaders have agreed with Republican leaders to require 60 votes for passage of all amendments in order to ensure they have 60 votes for final passage of the bill (and to avoid the procedural steps required to overcome a filibuster on specific amendments). This is a highly unusual move, since normal procedures require only a simple majority of 51 votes to pass amendments. Typically 60 votes would be required only to overcome budgetary violations or to end a filibuster of an amendment.]
Heading into the new week, the Senate is at an impasse on how to proceed with debate on an amendment by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) to allow reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada. The pharmaceutical industry is adamantly opposed to allowing importation of the lower priced pharmaceuticals from Canada, arguing that safety could suffer and the industry's reduction in profits would adversely affect their ability to invest in new pharmaceutical research. An alternative amendment has been offered by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) that would allow importation only if HHS certifies the safety and efficacy of every drug that crosses the border. Supporters of the Dorgan amendment view the Lautenberg substitute as a "poison pill" amendment because it would be next to impossible for HHS to certify the safety of all imported drugs.
If Senate Majority Leader Reid is able to garner 60 votes for final passage of an amended bill, the next step will be a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the House-passed and Senate-passed bills. There are already very significant differences between the two bills, and changes on the Senate Floor are likely to add to the differences. The conferees will have the very difficult task of developing a compromise bill that can simultaneously garner 218 votes in the House and 60 votes in the Senate (to overcome a filibuster).
Democratic congressional leaders and the White House are now aiming for final passage of a conference report by the House and Senate in time for the President to sign the bill prior to the State of the Union Address in late January.
(1) beginning in 2014, establish a mandate for most legal residents of the US to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty;
(2) require employers (except small businesses) to offer insurance or pay a fee;
(3) bar private insurers from discriminating against individuals having pre-existing conditions or setting premiums based on differences in health;
(4) expand access to coverage by: (i) broadening Medicaid for poor Americans; (ii) establishing insurance "exchanges" through which low-income individuals/families could purchase insurance with the aid of federal tax credits/subsidies; (iii) allowing 55-64 year olds to buy-in to Medicare; and (iv) establishing an FEHBP-like program to create a menu of national private insurance choices available to enrollees; and
(5) pay for the new subsidies and Medicaid coverage by (i) cutting projected Medicare payments to health providers; (ii) imposing an excise tax on high cost "cadillac" insurance plans; (iii) increasing the Medicare payroll tax from 1.45% to 1.95% for income above $200,000; and (iv) other offsets summarized in the Concord Coalition health reform side-by-side.
CBO released on November 30 an analysis of the impact of the Reid plan on health insurance premiums and found that: (1) "the amount that subsidized enrollees would pay for nongroup coverage would be roughly 56% to 59% lower, on average, than the non-group premiums charged under current law"; (2) "in the small group market...the change in the average premium per person resulting from the legislation could range from an increase of 1% to a reduction of 2% in 2016"; and (3) "in the large group market...the legislation would yield an average premium per person that is zero to 3% lower in 2016." CBO Analysis
The Senate bill would increase coverage of legal, non-elderly from 83% to 94% by 2019, while the House bill would increase coverage to 96%.
The Senate bill does far more for health care cost containment by imposing an excise tax on high-cost "cadillac" health insurance plans and establishing an Independent Medicare Advisory Board with authority to implement cost saving measures (although the Commission's scope and authority should be strengthened).
The Senate bill's total cost would be $848 billion over 10 years for subsidies, Medicaid expansion, and small employer tax credits, while the House bill's gross cost would total $1.052 trillion.
The Senate bill is projected by CBO to reduce the deficit by $130 billion in the first 10 years, with additional deficit reduction in the outyears if all provisions continue to be fully implemented. The House bill is projected to generate $138 billion of deficit reduction in the first 10 years, with "slight reductions" in the outyears. However, some of the projected deficit reduction in both bills is artificial due to the inclusion of "budget savings" from the CLASS long-term care bill, which saves money only because premiums accumulate several years before benefits begin to pay out; moreover, the CLASS bill may increase deficits in the outyears.
The Senate bill's major costs over 2010-2019 are subsidies ($447 billion), Medicaid expansion ($374 billion), small employer tax credit ($27 billion), and a new prevention and public health fund ($15 billion). The House bill's major costs are subsidies ($602 billion), Medicaid expansion ($425 billion), increased Medicare payments ($57 billion), and small employer tax credit ($25 billion).
The Senate bill's major offsets are reductions in Medicare fee for service payments ($192 billion), a 40% excise tax on high cost "cadillac" plans ($149 billion), reduction in Medicare Advantage subsidies ($118 billion), various fees on manufacturers, importers and health insurers ($102 billion), an increase in the Medicare payroll tax for high income earners ($54 billion), a reduction in Medicare and Medicaid DSH payments ($43 billion), and penalty payments by employers and uninsured individuals ($36 billion). The House bill's major offsets are a 5.4% surtax on the wealthy ($460 billion), reductions in Medicare fee for service payments ($228 billion), reduction in Medicare Advantage subsidies ($170 billion), and penalty payments by employers ($135 billion).
For a comparison of the House-passed and pending Senate bill click here
The Treasury Department has informed Congress that the current $12.104 trillion "debt ceiling" is likely to be reached before the end of the year. While there is no doubt that Congress will ultimately have to raise the debt ceiling in the very near future, that action is -- as usual -- becoming a political lightening rod. This time around, the debt ceiling is complicating progress on the FY 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill.
Background.--Federal law contains a statutory limit on the ability of the U.S. Treasury to issue public debt, which is commonly called the "debt ceiling."
The debt ceiling applies to gross (total) federal debt--which is the sum of "debt held by the public" and "debt held by government accounts."
The statutory limit on the public debt is a legal limit on the ability of the Treasury to issue new debt to the public and to government trust funds. However, this issuance of debt is not a discretionary decision by the Treasury. As noted above, additional debt must be issued when congressional spending and revenue decisions create deficits, and when trust funds have cash balances. Failure to issue debt under those circumstances would force the Treasury into default on debt instruments coming due and on legal obligations to program beneficiaries and contractors.
Congress nevertheless imposed a statutory limit on gross federal debt in 1940 when "debt subject to limit" stood at $43 billion. Congress has increased the debt ceiling 90 times since it was first imposed, causing many observers to wonder why we have a statutory ceiling on the debt.
The short answer is that the debt ceiling is a political instrument--not a fiscal policy instrument. Members of Congress concerned about annual deficits and increases in the accumulated debt have historically only been willing to increase the debt in relatively small increments to be certain that every time the debt ceiling is reached a fiscal policy debate will take place. Unfortunately, it also allows the more cynical members of Congress to feign "fiscal responsibility" by voting against raising the debt ceiling without making the difficult spending and tax decisions required to balance the budget.
In the current situation, the debt ceiling must be increased by the end of December (although there has been some speculation that Treasury may be able stretch this deadline into January through some financial maneuvers). Democrats are hoping to avoid a blistering political attack by Republicans on raising the debt ceiling by attaching the measure to the pending FY 2010 Defense Appropriations conference report and to increase the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion to avoid another vote prior to the November 2010 mid-term elections. However, in a December 9 letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI), Republican committee members said, "House Republican members of the Appropriations Committee will not support passage of the Defense appropriations measure if it is used as a vehicle to raise the debt limit."
The defense appropriations bill will be on the House Floor this week (the week of Dec. 14). However, there are two further complications that are hindering progress on the bill:
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Ranking Republican Judd Gregg (R-NH) last week re-introduced their proposal to establish a bipartisan deficit reduction task force to address the nation's long-term budget crisis. The bill would establish an 18-member Task Force comprised of 16 currently-serving members of Congress (8 Democrats and 8 Republicans), plus the Secretary of the Treasury and another Administration official appointed by the President. The Task Force would have Democratic and Republican co-chairs selected by the leadership.
According to Conrad, "everything would be on the table, including spending and revenues."
The Task Force recommendations would be considered by Congress under expedited procedures that would prohibit amendments and filibusters. Conrad and Gregg seek to assure a "bipartisan outcome" with 14 of the 18 members needed to report the Task Force recommendations and three-fifths super-majorities needed for final passage in both the Senate and House.
The day after Senators Conrad and Gregg introduced their Task Force bill, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) blasted the proposal charging that it amounted to "Congress...outsourc(ing) its core fiscal responsibilities." According to Baucus, the Task Force "and its new fast track process are truly dangerous. If we were to cede all of our responsibilities to this commission, and we were to tie our hands so that could not amend its recommendations, then we would risk setting in motion some truly terrible policy."
Baucus Statement on Conrad-Gregg Task Force
President Obama last week said that lower-than-anticipated TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) spending would free up funds for a new stimulus package comprised of tax breaks for new hires and small business expensing, and federal spending aimed at infrastructure projects (e.g. highways, airports, railroads, sewer systems) and energy conservation programs to stimulate job creation.
Democrats would also like to provide state governments with additional relief to forestall a new wave of public sector layoffs in 2010.
Although the White House declined to put a price tag on the stimulus package, Congressional Quarterly reports that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said Democrats are discussing a package in the range of $75 - $150 billion.
Obama Administration officials have argued that there is now more "fiscal room" in the overall budget for a stimulus/jobs bill because the TARP is costing $200 billion less than anticipated. Last week President Obama said that "the assistance to banks, once thought to cost the taxpayers untold billions, is on track to actually reap billions in profit for the taxpaying public. This gives us a chance to pay down the deficit faster than we thought possible and to shift funds that would have gone to help the banks on Wall Street to help create jobs on Main Street." (emphasis added)
(TARP, the Troubled Assets Relief Program, was enacted into law by Congress in October 2008 as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA). The legislation granted the Treasury Department authority to purchase up to $700 billion in "troubled assets" to stabilize the nation's financial system.)
However, the reality is that TARP expenditures have nothing to do with the proposed stimulus bill. The TARP funds themselves are not authorized to be used for stimulus tax cuts and spending programs. New legislation must be passed.
Moreover, there are no "un-used" or "left over" TARP funds. The federal government is running trillion-dollar-plus deficits. Any new tax cuts or new spending programs require additional borrowing by the Treasury and will increase the debt.
(To be fair, one can make an arcane budgetary scoring argument that if TARP's authorized level of spending is reduced below what was contemplated in the budget baseline, that reduction could technically be used as an "offset" for new tax cuts and new mandatory spending." Nevertheless, the simple reality is that another stimulus bill means more borrowing and more debt at a time when annual deficits are exceeding a trillion dollars. For a discussion of scoring the TARP, see the CBO Director's Blog, December 10, 2009.)
This is not intended to suggest that additional stimulus efforts are a bad idea. Many economists support additional stimulus as a desirable means of facilitating a quicker economic recovery. However, the additional debt that would result is a fiscal policy judgment call for Administration and congressional policymakers. When making this judgment call, there should be no illusion about where the money will come from for another stimulus bill: Treasury borrowing, not TARP leftovers.
Last Friday, December 11, the House passed by a vote of 223-202 sweeping legislation (HR 4173) to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system. The "Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009," would have little direct impact on the federal budget but could have an enormous indirect impact if it succeeds in preventing a recurrence of the financial meltdown that occurred in 2008 (leading to the recession and today's trillion-dollar-plus deficits).
The House-passed bill would: (1) establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) to protect Americans from unfair and abusive financial products and services; (2) create a Financial Stability Council to identify and regulate firms that pose a risk to the entire financial system; (3) establish an orderly process for shutting down firms like AIG and Lehman Brothers; (4) strengthen the SEC's authority to better protect investors; (5) regulate for the first time the over-the-counter derivatives marketplace; (6) outlaw predatory mortgage lending practices; and (7) require the registration of hedge funds.
FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Bill Cleared for the President: On Sunday, the Senate cleared for the President's signature a consolidated appropriations bill (HR 3288) combining 6 of the 7 remaining FY 2010 appropriations bills into one bill: (1) Commerce-Justice-Science; (2) Financial Services; (3) Labor-HHS-Education; (4) Military Construction-VA; (5) State-Foreign Operations; and (6)Transportation-HUD.
(Earlier this fall Congress completed action on 5 of the 12 regular appropriations bills: Agriculture, Energy-Water, Homeland Security, Interior-Environment, and Legislative Branch. Link to each of the bill summaries in the chart below.)
The Senate approved the $447 billion consolidated appropriations bill on Sunday by a vote of 57-35, following House approval on Thursday by a vote of 221-202 (all Republicans opposing the bill).
Conference Report: FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Bill
Statement of Managers, Consolidated Appropriations Bill (explanation of the appropriations levels)
Defense Appropriations: The only remaining FY 2010 spending bill is the Defense Appropriations (HR 3326), which will serve as a legislative vehicle for other "must-pass" legislation including increasing the debt ceiling, a six-month extension of unemployment benefits, an extension of COBRA health insurance continuation coverage, and possibly some economic stimulus measures. Complicating completion of this legislation is the debt ceiling increase, which fiscally conservative Members are attempting to link to enactment of statutory PAYGO legislation and/or estabilshment of a deficit reduction commission (see the article above for details).
Current Continuing Resolution: On October 30th, the President signed the Interior-Environment Appropriations Act that also included a 2d continuing resolution to keep agencies without FY 2010 appropriations authority operating through December 18, 2009. A third CR may have to be enacted depending on when compromises are reached on the defense appropriations bill.
Click on the dates below for links to bill summaries.
Fin Services
Homeland Sec
Leg Branch
Mil Con-VA
State-For Ops
*polled out (no formal subcommittee vote)
**no formal Senate action (added to consolidated appropriations conference report)
Earmark lists are available on the House Appropriations subcommittee websites and Senate earmark requests are available on the Senate Appropriations website.
Following are links to the latest congressional action, plus a sampling of key issues. The numbers in parentheses are the FY 2009 regular appropriations level in billions (not including stimulus funds); the President's FY 2010 request; the House FY 2010 level; and the Senate FY 2010 level; and the Conference Report FY 2010 level.
Statements of Administration Policy (SAPS) on the Appropriations Bills are available by clicking here.
1. AGRICULTURE ($21.4 / P-$23.6 / H-$22.9 / S-$24.0 / C-$23.3) -- Major issues included increasing FDA funding; overhaul of the food safety system; whether to continue a ban on importation of Chinese poultry; a controversial animal identification system that grew out of concerns about mad cow disease; the President's proposal to end direct payments to farmers with more than $500,000 in annual sales revenue; and the allocation of funding between rural issues and FDA. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
2. COMMERCE-JUSTICE-SCIENCE ($57.7 / P-$64.6 / H-64.4 / S-$64.9 / C-$64.4) -- The bill provides a $6.8 billion increase over FY 2009 levels. Almost 60% of that increase is for conducting the required 2010 census. The bill provides $28 billion for the Department of Justice, $14 billion for the Department of Commerce, and $26 billion in science funding. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
3. DEFENSE ($631.9 / P-$640.1 / H-636.3 / S-636.3) not including military construction and housing which are funded in the Mil Con-VA bill -- Major issues include terminating the F-22 fighter program which has been plagued with operational problems and cost over-runs; McCain amendment to eliminate unrequested C-17 cargo aircraft; funding for a 2d engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Figher program; funding for the C-17 transport plane, the VH-71 presidential helicopter and the Missile Defense Agency's Kinetic Energy Interceptor--all of which the Administration wants to end; proposed cuts in the Army's Future Combat Systems; and rising personnel costs. (Note: the Administration has threatened to veto the Defense Authorization bills if they authorize further funds for the F-22 or disrupt the F-35 program.) House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary
4. ENERGY-WATER ($33.2 / P-$34.4 / H-$33.3 / S-$34.3 / C-$33.5) -- Major issues included how to fund the backlog of Army Corps water infrastructure projects; Defense environmental clean-up; funding for the Administration's "Re-Energyse" proposal (energy innovation centers); how to continue the big boost in renewable energy research after the stimulus bill's funds run out; funds to dispose of weapons grade plutonium under a new agreement with Russia; streamlining approval of new nuclear reactors; and the President's proposal to cut funding for the proposed nuclear waste facility at Yucca Mountain. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
5. FINANCIAL SERVICES-GENERAL GOVT ($22.6 / P-$24.2 / H-$24.15 / S-$24.2 / C-$24.2) -- Major increases include $151 million for the Securities and Exchange Commission, $212 million for the Small Business Administration, $357 million for the Federal Courts, and $624 million for the IRS. House Bill Summary Senate Report Conference Report Summary
6. HOMELAND SECURITY ($40.0 / P-$42.8 / H-$42.6 / S-$42.9 / C-$42.8) -- Major issues included funding efforts to find and deport illegal immigrants; whether to further fortify the fence being built along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border; whether to bar release of photos of terrorism detainees; allowing Gitmo detainees into the U.S.; whether the proposal to cut the DHS budget starting in 2012 is realistic; the system for providing federal disaster relief; reorganizing the Federal Protective Service; continuing an "antiquated" Coast Guard navigation system; and increased funding for road and rail security. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
7. INTERIOR-ENVIRONMENT ($27.6 / P-$32.3 / H-$32.3 / S-$32.1 / $32.2) -- Major issues included boosting EPA funding; earmarks for water projects; eliminating a program to clean up diesel engines in California; adequacy of wildfire funding; drilling in federal lands and waters; and new taxes and fees on the oil and gas industry. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
8. LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION ($155 / P-$160.7 / H-$160.6 / S-$163.1 / C-$163.6) -- Major issues included the Administration's request to target NIH money at specific diseases; modifications and funding increases for the Pell Grant program; funding for school construction; increased funding for OSHA and LIHEAP; lifting a prohibition on federal funds for needle exchange; and eliminating abstinence-only sex education programs. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
9. LEGISLATIVE BRANCH ($4.3 / H-$4.9 / S-$4.5 / C-$4.7) -- Major issues included creating a fund to pay for renovation of the Capitol and House and Senate office building; and requests for more staffing at CBO and GAO. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
10. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION - VA ($72.9 / P-$77.7 / $H-77.9 / S-$78.1 / C-$78.0) -- Major issues included advance appropriating FY 2011 funds for VA health care; BRAC funding; housing for trainees; more funds for VA health care for treatment that is not service-connected; and funding for Guard and Reserve initiatives. (Since Jan. 2007, Congress will have increased the baseline for the VA by $20 b, a 58% increase.) House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
11. STATE-FOREIGN OPERATIONS ($50.0 / P-$52.0 / H-$48.8 / S-$48.7 / C-$48.8) -- Major issues included the President's proposed 9% increase for the State Dept. and foreign aid programs; conditions attached to funds for the World Bank and IMF; dropping the "Mexico City" policy that prohibited use of international family planning funds for abortion; funding for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (aimed at countries that adopt democratic and free-market policies); and funding for the U.N. Population Fund (which is strongly opposed by anti-abortion groups). House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
12. TRANSPORTATION-HUD ($55.0 / P-$68.9 / H-$68.2 / S-$67.7 / C-$67.9) -- Major issues included how to make up the shortfall in gasoline tax revenues flowing into the highway trust fund; funding for high speed passenger rail and a national infrastructure bank; funding for a new air traffic control system; additional funding for low-income housing rental vouchers; increasing loan guarantees through the FHA; and capital and safety improvements to Washington's metrorail system. House Bill Summary Senate Bill Summary Conference Report Summary
Concord Facing Facts Quarterly: CLASS -- "The Other New Health Entitlement"
Concord Coalition: Report Shows Eagerness for Reform, Readiness to Make Tough Choices on Fiscal Priorities
CBO: Impact of the 2009 Stimulus Bill on Employment and Economic Output
CBO: Cost Estimate of Senator Reid's Health Reform Plan
JCT: Revenue Estimate of Senate Reid's Health Reform Plan
CBO: Revised Cost Estimate for the House-Passed Health Reform Bill
OMB/Treasury: Final Numbers for FY 2009
GAO: Long-Term Fiscal Outlook--Fall 2009 Update
CBO: Deficit Reduction Options -- Volume I (health reform) Volume II (other spending and revenue options)
Budget Resolution Conference Agreement: Text Statement of Managers
America's Priorities (new edition to be released by the Concord Coalition in 2010)


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We took another stupid o'clock flight - this time an over night flight leaving Noo Yoik at half nine at night, arriving in Dublin at 9am the following morning. No sleep on the plane as usual and then it was a two hour coach journey from Dublin up to Belfast. We arrived at the B&B feeling in the need of a good sleep which is exactly what we got.
Following morning and it was time to get ready for the big day. We popped into Belfast city to purchase those items that Nic had managed to do without for the last year....makeup, hair products and deodorant (OK, so last of these wasn't true!). I even managed to treat myself to a new pair of pants...the one pair I had used for the last year were starting to get a bit tatty. If you can't treat yourself to a new pair of pants for a wedding, when can you?
At 2pm, looking all smart and groomed for the first time in a very long time, we headed up to the beautiful venue of Malone House, location for the wedding. It was a very special day for a very special couple and we are so glad we were able to make it. One of the down sides of being away for a year is that we missed out on a number of weddings (including a stint as a best man in Spain) and births. This was very tough for the pair of us as we wanted to attend them all (the weddings, not the births. Not sure how welcome we would be at friend's births - stood there with our backpacks on and a big cheesy grin!!) but unfortunately we had to say no.
However, we considered ourselves lucky to be here and to be with friends again. It now started to dawn on us that we were pretty much home and the end of the trip was soon upon us. We stayed another night in Belfast after the wedding and got ourselves prepared, physically and mentally, to pack the backpack for one last time and head home on Friday 27th June...the final flight and final day of this amazing trip.


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And I'm standard for three half I'm guilty to treatment after it had played so that I depends on the nature injuring or whatever they'll -- deal with him might not be something -- aggravated by just being fair and heard what Hernandez -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- an -- stand -- -- and a half -- -- -- Line up in the air in them from going overseas knock of radicals are just sometimes nature -- matters. Let's take a look at who's on the grill this week on the -- brought to you by cam natural casing franks -- for the camp blue box which favored grocer and I'll start with you one of the patriots have to win today. -- consistent. And continuing on doing what you've done. Early in the season to win football games in to stay on topic into the game and I guess one thing that we've been promo we -- -- the game. It would be unusual and now they've played -- last couple weeks ago I can't say limit the big plays because they win morally give them so that I would like deceive them. Continued to reduce and improve in that area. What I'd like to seized just balance and I don't mean. Play percentages of run and pass. But a balance between stops through the front -- them on defense and struck in the back and an offense that sufficient not just a -- -- you know not just -- actually pass the B with a sufficient. Throughout the course of the game not pockets of dead point. And especially after two balls in just don't give a touchdown and have several bad plays on kick coverage or breakdowns in the return just consistency across the board. I think there's going to be bad plays a decreasing that's what this group there's going to be plays with a very big capital as well. Consistent play no more pockets of bad and -- the before and for its. -- didn't situations where you can use the rams aggressiveness against them whether that's. Draws reverses verses screenplays. Play action. The rims are very young and aggressive team in their ways you can counteract that and again like as it use it against them. I think the patriots are more in the united completely veteran team but they're older team and I think that will play into their favorite. Concerned about you know that the old phrase in football nothing cheap enough and deep but doesn't it seem like the patriots. Give up something cheap in deep every single week and we mentioned before Chris givens. Seems to be the king of that -- at six plays of fifty or more yards this year. I'm a little concerned about how the patriots play in the secondary against him. I I think that. They'll be pretty good against the run have been pretty good against the run all season long Stephen Stephen Jackson is a terrific running back and I know how much. I'm Bill Belichick respects him but you know I think they'll find a way to stop the run for the most part. Sam Bradford is better than Mark Sanchez. And and I also think he's he's better at them now several of the quarterbacks that they've made look pretty good. I'm a little concerned about Bradford making big plays against the secondary. They're also not very deep in the secondary with you know they got a couple of safeties out you've got a rookie starting at safety. In -- -- Wilson -- according a converted quarterback starting at safety I don't know who they've got to back these. As a you have three regular cornerbacks rate now in -- school facility it's it's going to be interesting to see what happens of one of those guys deterred one of those guys goes down he's saying you know Panthers. And Bradford Bradford. They're made a comment this week talking about how. You know it may be talking about -- -- secondary being not too good and we should take advantage over he was Smart about he really say that. He needs to take. In advance of opportunities he has. Those don't his goal after. He has to be ready. And waiting for the right opportunity. To take advantage it would pay -- defense has given last two games the patriots played against Russell Wilson and Mark Sanchez adding Brett for expendable. Of course you -- and the Cordoba used you're looking at that you're seeing that. What you don't wanna go into this game with the big hit they get OK I'm going to have this same type of game and try to. Either outdo him I have the same time we get to about taking what the defense gives exactly what he says you do you proceed to give them last. A lot less place.


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As a die-hard New England Patriots fan, I am not quite as excited about this Sunday's Super Bowl 50 game (Carolina vs. Denver) as I was about last year's game (#reigningchamps). And yes, I'll admit it: I cried a little bit in public two weeks ago when the Pats lost their spot to the Broncos. UGH. All I have been hearing since then is, "Blah blah, Peyton Manning, bla bla." I'm a Tom Brady girl all the way!
Well, at least I still have something to look forward to on Sunday: THE FOOD! Buffalo wings are my biggest guilty pleasure, so if I can't root for my team, you can bet your damn Manning jersey that I will be going HAM on some wings. And America, I'm not the only one!
Persil® ProClean®, the premium stain-fighting laundry detergent, conducted their first-ever Big Game Stain Survey to determine who is the messiest of sports fans, and in what ways. The results are in, and I'm cracking up. In the pool of 10,000 male and female game-watchers that were surveyed across the country, Persil® ProClean® revealed that:
- 64% (almost 2/3) have spilled food on their clothes during a Super Bowl party
- 20% have changed their clothes during the game because of a beverage or food spill
- 41% of those who spilled food on their clothes while watching the game found barbecue to be the most common stain AND the tougheset one to remove
- 84% admitted to licking their fingers during The Big Game instead of using a napkin
- ...and 48% of participants answered the question above with, "What… there's something wrong with that?" (My thoughts exactly!)
- Overall, Carolina Panthers fans voted buffalo wings as their favorite Super Bowl snack, while Denver Broncos fans named dips as their #1
See, I knew I didn't trust the Denver Broncos...their fans don't eat enough buffalo wings!
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After doing a list of the most underrated horror movies from the 80's (which I hope you read) I decided to go ahead and do one for the 90's as well. Even though the slasher flick pretty much died out during this decade (sob!) there were still some pretty damn good horror flicks that came out of this time period. …Read More »
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Top 10 Supernatural Reality Altering Horror Characters
A horror list most likely way overdue. I've always had a soft spot for supernatural characters. The ones that stick out are characters who seem to possess powers that warp time, space, and everything around them. Consider it sort of a technique for making nightmarish things happen that you wouldn't find happening within a film like "Halloween" or "Friday the …Read More »
Film Review: Wishmaster (1997)
SYNOPSIS: A demonic djinn attempts to grant its owner three wishes, which will allow him to summon his brethren to earth. REVIEW: 1997 was a pretty good year for horror films. There were quite a few titles that I really latched onto, "The Wishmaster" being one of them. Horror was ready for a new franchise characters, and with that came …Read More »


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The Faculty Student Association (FSA) of Hudson Valley
Community College and the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA)
have teamed up to offer Hudson Valley students a discounted rate on CDTA's
Swiper card, reducing the cost of bus transportation by about 30 percent.
Typically, a Swiper card costs $34-$55 for
one month (depending on which CDTA program is chosen) and allows bus riders
to forego the traditional change option. Instead of depositing change into
a farebox, they simply run the Swiper card through a slot on top of the
farebox. The FSA recently agreed to pitch in part of the cost for Hudson
Valley students, dropping their out-of-pocket expense to $24-$39 per one-month
Swiper card.
"The FSA aims to enhance the lives of Hudson
Valley's students," said Ann Carrozza, Executive Director of the FSA. "A
good portion of the student population uses CDTA to get to the college
each day, so cutting the cost of bus transportation seemed like a natural
move to help them."
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Hobbyhorse Alert
Whether it's based on racist condescension or some other form of ignorance, the idea that Thomas is Scalia's sockpuppet was always wrong in an offensive way, and is becoming more obviously so.
Whether it's based on racist condescension or some other form of ignorance, the idea that Thomas is Scalia's sockpuppet was always wrong in an offensive way, and is becoming more obviously so.
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Speaking of ignorance, what is a hobyhorse? I don't understand the title of the post.
1. Go to Google
2. Type "define:hobbyhorse"
3. Read the entries to see which one might be relevant given the context (hint – it's number 4)
Scott apparently fixed the typo in the header before I read the entry. So if you were just mocking his spelling my apologies.
He fucked it up again. He meant "hobohorse".
Mr. Lemieux refuses to track his edits, so it is a very reasonable mistake.
Why not just tell him how stupid he is for making a typo. It seems to be the standard stuff here.
Actually, I thought a 'hobyhorse' might be a real thing that I had never heard of, perhaps along the lines of one of those many internet traditions of which I am unaware.
I certainly didn't intend to start a diversion from the point of the post as expansive as what this all has turned in to.
Actually, I thought a 'hobyhorse' might be a real thing that I had never heard of…
So, who'se the dumbass here?
Well Hoby is a manufacturer of model train accessories, so a hobyhorse is clearly one of the diorama animal models they make…
As much as it pains me to say this, at least Scalia is intellectually honest. Thomas and Scalito and Thomas, not so much.
I don't know about that. Thomas may be corrupt, which is another topic altogether, but most of his cases do not involve parties that are paying his wife money or donating to his favorite charities in his name. So on the cases where he does not have a conflict of interest he has an ideology that he applies more or less consistently. It's just that his ideology is far more insane than Scalia's or anyone else for that matter.
I think Thomas's defense against corruption is that he only accepts bribes from those with whom he has ideological affinity anyway. I am not buying the narrative of Scalia's intellectual honesty. He does have a slippery intellectual veneer that conceals much.
Well, yes, Scalia vigorously ARGUES that he's rigorously applying strict intellectual principles free from passion or prejudice. Others would say that he isn't free of prejudice just because, although he's a conservative, his prejudices occasionally favor free speech or rights to challenge witnesses. He's just more self-righteous about it.
No, Gonzales v. Raich disproved Scalia's intellectual honesty pretty conclusively.
Yes, Bush v. Gore merely emphasized his longstanding and completely honest commitment to equal protection principles, a commitment which is especially amazingly honest in the voting-rights context.
He's not intellectually honest. He just can turn a deliciously snarky phrase once in a while.
He's not intellectually honest. He just can turn a deliciously snarky phrase once in a while.
Anyone who uses "deliciously" and is not talking about food is gay. Oh, and I wouldn't use "fabulous" either.
Please don't feed the troll. Thank you.
Please keep banging this drum. Ugh.
Breyer-Ginsburg is no longer on the top-10, so I think all that this shows is that since the late '90s we've appointed some new Justices who have created even stronger parings than Breyer-Ginsburg, Breyer-Souter, Souter-Ginsburg, or Scalia-Thomas (the top 4 pairings on the Rehnquist court).
Is the lower number 92% or 50%? I suspect something closer to the former: we basically have a group of five right wing thugs who vote together almost all of the time and four moderates who vote together against them.
I think it's based largely on Scalia and Thomas being, for several years, a cohesive bloc well to the right of even the other conservatives on the court. Combine this with Scalia's more extensive questioning and writing, and it's understandable that people would conclude that he's the brains of the outfit.
Now that they've been joined by Alito and Roberts, they don't stand out as being particularly similar compared to other justices, but before those appointments, they did.
I think this sounds like it could be correct, but then I'm not a lawyer and so I don't know how much of the "Thomas is Scalia's sidekick" was actually something you could really read into the pre-Roberts court and how much of it was media narrative from the get-go.
After reading a bit on the California video game law decision, I think there's more evidence than ever that Thomas is his own man on the court. He and Scalia clearly have SOME differences if the two of them could come to such drastically different readings on that case, what with Thomas going back to the Puritans for his dissent and all. At the very least it suggests that they have different ideas of what "original intent" might mean I suppose :)
It's also possible that Thomas has grown more into his own man. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that a justice's views have evolved as his service went on, or that a justice became less deferential to the leadership of his wing of the court.
I thought the conventional wisdom went something like this: When Thomas was new to the court, Scalia generously allowed him to hire a clerk from his staff, whose views happened to align pretty well with Scalia's, and during the early years (whether as a result or by coincidence) the opinions of Scalia and Thomas largely overlapped. Since then there has been greater divergence. That would make it less of a direct influence, and more of 'the first draft of every brief and memo often comes from a clerk whose opinions happen to align with Scalia's."
There is also the factor that after the first few years the court itself became more conservative, such that Scalia and Thomas were less apt to be united against a broader philosophy they opposed, and thus having more room to advance their somewhat different approaches to conservatism. A "Me against my neighbor, me and my neighbor against those evil liberals" sort of thing.
The problem with this conventional wisdom is that Thomas was already a movement conservative before he joined the Court, so it's not clear why we need an explanation of why he stayed very conservative after joining the Court. And Thomas staked out some pretty unique (for the Court) positions fairly early on.
So the question remains – why do people look for an explanation for Thomas' behavior in terms of the influence of another (supposedly more intellectual) justice?
I remember, years back, some court watchers were talking about the just-ended term, and one of tem remarked on Scalia, how, when he felt that the side he favored could win on solid, jurisprudential grounds, he'd play the dispassionate justice, as in, 'while one sympathizes with so-and-so, the hard facts of the matter are…' But when the solid ground was against him, and here the guy used the women-cadets-allowed-into-The-Citadel case as an example, Scalia would tend to go off on a rant about what it means to uphold an honored tradition blah blah blah… Quite intellectually dishonest, in other words.
while i certainly agree with the basic premise of your post, i do have one question: has justice thomas ever had an original thought?
"Whether it's based on racist condescension or some other form of ignorance…"
Could it be because Thomas has never–not once–asked a question from the bench? It's not racist to think that makes a justice vacuous and disinterested.
He declines to engage in a vain and generally pointless exercise. I don't see how this is particularly relevant one way or the other.
This is a good joke.
This is great!
If you're talking about Thomas you can criticize him….because he's black.
If your talking about Obama, you can't criticize him….because he's black.
Now I understand!
Please do not feed the troll. Thank you.
Could it be because Thomas has never–not once–asked a question from the bench?
No it can't be, because that's not true.
It's not racist to think that makes a justice vacuous and disinterested
No; it's just vacuous to think that makes a justice vacuous.
Since Thomas is deeply corrupt and his jurisprudence an attack on America and everything that makes it great, calling him "Scalia's sockpuppet" doesn't strike me as much of an insult. The real problem with the man is that he should be in prison, and yet he's on the Supreme Court.
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First half of Ind. highway ready, but cash runs low
Indiana's nearly $3 billion extension of Interstate 69 from Evansville to Indianapolis is now half-built and ready for high-speed traffic.
The first 67 miles of the I-69 extension's planned 142 miles will open to cars and trucks Monday following a ribbon-cutting and a caravan Gov. Mitch Daniels will lead north along the newly paved stretch.
But four years after work on the highway began, Indiana is now grappling with questions about where the money to complete the route to Indianapolis will come from and when the project can be completed.
Indiana devoted about $700 million to the I-69 project from the $3.8 billion it collected by leasing the Indiana Toll Road to a private consortium. But that money has already been spent or allocated.
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The Hinesville Downtown Partners are accepting participation forms for the fourth annual Scarecrow Stroll and Beggars Night, which is scheduled for 4-6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26, in downtown Hinesville.
The Wild West lives again on the AMC original series, "Hell on Wheels," now on Netflix. The show's title made me say, "Huh?", but I'm so glad I checked it out anyway.
NEW YORK - Six-time Grammy winner Taylor Swift will perform at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards next month. But she won't be the only gold winner in the room.
If you're not going to support our country, regardless of who is in office, or pledge allegiance to our flag, you need to leave the United States of America.
ARIES (March 21 to April 19) You might not like the sudden setback in your plans. But keep that headstrong Arian temperament in check and wait for explanations. Things will begin to clear up by week's end.
NEW YORK - A person close to singer-rapper Nicki Minaj said Monday the 29-year-old entertainer has been in talks to judge the Fox TV competition and that a deal is in the works.
MILWAUKEE - Remember when suitcases had to be carried instead of rolled? Or when an airline ticket was a booklet of pages separated by carbon paper? Maybe you remember when Lou Gehrig held the Major League record for consecutive baseball games played.
The Tybee BeachSweep will be from 7:30-10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 16.
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Through musical portrayals of a soldier's initial Army enlistment, basic combat training and the rigors of overseas deployments, the U.S. Army Soldier Show aims to convey intimate messages of resilience, perseverance, bravery and mental toughness.
Kids are just darned cute. I am a sucker for commercials with kids and with pets. Whatever they are selling, I usually fall for it!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's rural development review team visited Walthourville's city office Aug. 2. The team conducted assessments, toured the building at 222 Busbee St. and met with city officials. The department attempts to increase rural residents' economic opportunities and improve quality of life. The team gave high accolades to the city.
Kristopher Hart of Flemington took a copy of the Coastal Courier with him on a recent trip to the original site of the church of John the Baptist, where Jesus Christ was baptized on the Jordan River. The water since has been diverted. He also visited the Dead Sea in Jordan; the sea is 400 meters below sea level.
There have been four Jason Bourne films, but the recently released "The Bourne Legacy" is the first one that doesn't star Matt Damon.
According to an Aug. 6 article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, 9 percent of Georgia's workers are unemployed, while another 16.4 percent are underemployed. And these numbers don't include those whose unemployment benefits have expired and were dropped from the rolls of the unemployed.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Elvis Presley left behind hit songs, epic performances, some so-so movies and an image as a handsome, rebellious, talented and sometimes-troubled artist that remains indelibly marked in America's pop culture psyche 35 years after his death.
The Dolphin Project will have a program and research training from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. May 20 at the Richmond Hill ...
Sarah Victoria Scott Nephew celebrated her 104th birthday Thursday.
The Sunbury Crab Co. in eastern Liberty County has been named number 13 on the list of Coastal Living Magazine's The 20 Best Seafood ...
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Salinas man sentenced to 4 years in prison for scalding 5-year-old boy
SALINAS, Calif. - A Salinas man who scalded his stepson by submerging him in hot water as punishment was sentenced to four years in state prison.
Enrique Sanchez Tejeda, 35, was convicted of felony child abuse.
The boy testified that he was five years old in July 2013 when Tejeda got mad him for not listening, removed his clothing and submerged him in a tub of hot water. Later that same day, the boy was admitted into Natividad Hospital for blisters to his feet. He later was transferred to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Pediatric Burn Unit for numerous first and second-degree burns to his extremities, as well as lacerations and bruises consistent with child abuse.
Salinas Police officers later determined that the hot water temperatures in Tejada's home ranged from 124 – 140 degrees Fahrenheit.


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Victoria Defrancesco Soto: Last week at the National Governor's Association meeting governors, in particular Republican governors, stated their disapproval of the Republican's threat to shut down the government.
Hey, Supremes: We're Here, We're Queer…
Carl Matthes: June 2013 may well become one of the most remembered Gay Pride months in the amazingly rapid march by the LGBT community towards equal rights under the law.
GOP Too Nuts for Obama's Debt Ceiling Gambit
Robert Reich: So it must be that he's counting on public pressure — especially from the GOP's patrons on Wall Street and big business — to force Republicans into submission.
Obama's Zig Zag Maneuvers with Israel and Iran
Gareth Porter: Netanyahu, like every previous Israeli prime minister, understands that an Israeli strike against Iran depends not only on US tolerance, but direct involvement against Iran, at least after the initial attack.
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Well...for me it depends on carrying because I live in the South so carrying a 5" when it's warm 10 months out of the year isn't feasible for me. I think weather is a big concern that people don't take into account about carrying too.(Finish because of heat/humidity, and heavier clothes because of winter will make you adjust what you carry) Have you shot a .45 compact with a XD? That is a hefty round to shoot from a compact if you don't train with it. I wouldn't worry about the accuracy between the two. If you were competing with it sure...but if you train to defend yourself(closer proximity) you won't notice the difference too much if at all. As far as bi-tone the price will be a little more than just black.
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I love the versatility and little girls idolize many women. is it truly a difference if the idolize Lady Gaga wearing meat or Beyoncé (which I adore) who's forever in a bathing suit or bod suit… People are way to hard on this woman. She's a mogul her money long and pocketbook is stack… So hater stop hating she doing something right… Nicki is attracted to gangsters she admitted she would have love to date DMX in his prime that's her Ideal dude… She just needs to upgrade from Gangster to Gentlemen…
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Although little Kim did rock this style long before Nikki ever thought about it, I still think it's inappropriate for any woman. Nobody's hating on her because she is an attractive young woman….but it makes her look trashy & desperate and then you wonder why you end up with losers…mmm..
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Just terrible…. where are your clothes! Tired of seeing women just openly dress like this. Leaves nothing to the imagination but expects to be treated like a queen. Man please! You can dress sexy and cover your body! Trust me my beautiful wife does it well and I make sure I commend her on ability to look amazing and do it right! Cmon Nicki cover up be a "Real Barbie" model our young girls!
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HYDE PARK, Tuesday—The sniping that has been directed at UNESCO is at last coming out in the open. In Congress the other day a Senate committee attached a rider to the appropriations bill banning the use of funds by "any international agencies that directly or indirectly promote one-world government or world citizenship."
The committee did not refer to UNESCO openly but, of course, it is evident what it had in mind because of the campaign that has been made against UNESCO. Of all the specialized agencies of the United Nations this is one, through its facilities, that comes nearest to giving a chance to people to voice their opinions. In every member country there is set up a national committee to deal with questions that touch the lives of the people and in which people are interested.
Of course, a great many persons assumed that the U.N., by its mere existence, would achieve a peaceful world. As a matter of fact, anyone who had followed the stormy years of the League of Nations and had followed the efforts made by those who discussed the founding of the U.N. knows very well that the U.N. is only machinery created to help governments develop an atmosphere in the world in which we may be able to keep the peace. In order to do that peoples must get to know one another better. And I'm not speaking of governments or government commissions, but of the people themselves.
UNESCO is one of the most important agencies to help people achieve this knowledge.
The accusations against UNESCO is that it is international in character. But the U.N. is international—60 nations have joined together under a charter, which all signed to create this international organization.
This particular specialized agency—UNESCO—certainly makes mistakes, and many people in reviewing some of the projects undertaken feel these undertakings were not as well carried out as they should be. One of the main accusations against UNESCO is that it has introduced the idea of an international mind—one thinks not only of "my country" but of "my country in its relations to all other countries" of the world, and this is said to be frightening.
Of course, the attack on UNESCO is an attack on the U.N. But if we want to work for peace we must support both U.N. and UNESCO.
We also hear it said that this organization is tainted with communism and atheism. Yet, the Russians do not belong to it and the satellite nations that joined it before they were communized have mostly withdrawn or been inactive.
The various countries represented in UNESCO always have emphasized religious freedom and religion as an asset to international understanding. If we are to understand one another, as nations and as peoples, we must know something about all the cultures of the world. We must love our own country but we must respect the love other peoples have for their countries.


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and sony have to convert the dlc to ps3 compatible that takes a while but then again dawnguard and hearth fire have bin out for a while
so ither they want to release all at once or they take a very long time to convert stuff
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Either that post is MUCH older than afew days old (I do recall seeing a post on Bethesda's BLOG VERY similar to that one about a month and a half after Dawnguard launched on 360) or Bethesda lied through their teeth when they said in a previous post that the DLC was already released to Sony. (for more information, there's some links to the topic on uesp.net) but this is most likely Sony taking their sweet old time updating the store once again, last week they didn't even bother until the last half hour of the day on the East Coast to post it. This is one reason I wouldn't buy a PS4. SNEA's attitude towatds their customers. It affects us in other ways like the way PSN is plagued with network instability. There's rumors of many MMORPG's being released on next gen consoles. I'm a HUGE MMO fan and I dread having to go through PSN's instable network to play a game that runs on it's own network independently. My guess is that Sony wll claim that the reason that PNS accounts are linked to the MMO's account is for convenience and security reasons, however it's completely unecessary and only a minor convenience at best. The Inconvenience of getting numerous disconnect errors FAR outweighs any convenience that Sony claims there is. Remember that PSN's pet slogan is "We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you." But like I said, I think that post is much older than a few days old. You may want to consider verifying this on Bethesda's BLOG
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If that is the case, why won't Sony fix this? I was given my PS3 160 as a gift. Whether it is Sony or Bethesda, I will probably not buy from either. Oblivion, Skyrim and one LOTR have become a nightmare. Skyrim game + Book set me back 80 shillings. I need to look for something in a similar vein that fully works on the PS3.
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A first look at Sounders FC's preseason training camp roster
We got our first look at Sounders FC's preseason training camp roster Saturday. Among the 37 listed by the team, there are a few designations that I've tried to cover below.
When it comes to unsigned trialists, it is quite possible there are even more than the seven identified by the team. Until we get them identified (or don't), here is where things stand:
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GOALKEEPERS (4): Marcus Hahnemann, Stefan Frei, Josh Ford, John McCarthy*
DEFENDERS (9): Jalil Anibaba, Chad Marshall, Leo Gonzalez, Dylan Remick, DeAndre Yedlin#, Djimi Traore, Zach Scott, Damion Lowe%, Jimmy Ockford*
MIDFIELDERS (12): Clint Dempsey~, Brad Evans#, Osvaldo Alonso, Aaron Kovar+, Alex Caskey,
Shalrie Joseph, Andy Rose, Fabio Pereira*, Stefano Rijssel*, Michael Azira*, Dzenan Catic*, Tarek Morad*
FORWARDS (12): Tristan Bowen, Obafemi Martins, Sean Okoli+, David Estrada, Chad Barrett, Eriq Zavaleta%, Lamar Neagle, Will Bates, Kenny Cooper, Miguel Gonzalez*, Kevin Parsemain*, Long Tan*
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The right used to rail against political correctness. Now it practises it, writes Margaret Simons.
One of the most striking paradoxes of public debate in this country is the gap between rhetoric and reality in the pronouncements of some prominent newspaper columnists and commentators - the people who have become known as the culture warriors of the right.
These commentators and columnists have made their mark by urging a retreat from political correctness. They condemn sentimentality and ideology. They attack others for sloppy research.
But even as the culture warriors cheer on those who analyse footnotes, even as they insist on documentary evidence and hard-headed rationalism, they depart from their own principles. They fall alarmingly often into perpetuating myth.
I hope to illustrate this by talking about the response to my recent book about the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, The Meeting of the Waters.
I think the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair remains one of the most important episodes of recent Australian history. But I also believe that until very recently, the publicly available narrative of what happened at Hindmarsh Island has been not evidence-based history, but myth. In fact, to use some words that are resonant in the culture wars at present, Hindmarsh Island has been about the fabrication of history.
The Hindmarsh Island bridge affair was in many ways the beginning of today's culture wars. Many of those who remain at the centre of the wars had their first walk in the sun, and came to national prominence, through the Hindmarsh Island affair. It is one of the cornerstones of the right's dominance in the culture wars.
In an article in the Courier-Mail a few weeks ago, the publisher and columnist Michael Duffy claimed the right had pretty much won Australia's culture wars. He said there were many "myths" that had once been central to our view of society that were now exposed because the "hegemony of the left" was no more. Among the things he listed as discredited myths were the following assertions:
"That Aborigines are frequently killed in police stations; that economic reform will impoverish Australia; that genocide was committed against the Tasmanian Aborigines; that divorce and separation do not harm children; that one in three Australian wives is beaten up by her husband; that sea levels will rise by several centimetres by the year 2003 due to global warming; and that there was women's business at Hindmarsh Island."
Duffy said: "At various times to disagree with any of these assertions meant attracting bitter and often vicious criticism in certain circles, particularly down south. This is no longer the case: the beliefs are still widespread, but debate is now tolerated. It is a dramatic change to the public culture of this country."
Duffy's remarks are very telling. But let me make one thing clear. If he is right, and political correctness is effectively dead, then I am glad. I am no champion of suppressing debate. To the extent that the left had fallen into habits of disdain, of closing down debate, of exercising a kind of soft censorship necessitating extraordinary acts of individual courage to combat, then political correctness was destructive.
Political correctness at its worst constituted a refusal to countenance evidence and points of view that were uncomfortable. When our minds close to evidence, when we insist on only thinking along certain well-defined tracks, then we betray the values of the enlightenment. We betray our own culture. We become dangerous.
The other thing that interests me about what Duffy wrote is, of course, that he placed Hindmarsh Island at the centre of the culture wars. And he talked about the "bitter and vicious" attacks the right used to attract in the bad old days when debate, allegedly, wasn't tolerated.
But I'd like to ask Duffy what he thinks of the reception I have had over the past few weeks from some quarters. I would suggest that the "bitter and often vicious criticism" now comes most noticeably from those who are supposedly the victors. From the culture warriors of the right.
I am talking about "habits of disdain". This, I think, is what I have come up against. On all sides of the political divide, there is a sneering that takes the place of reasonable debate.
People seem to have got used to disdaining certain points of view. They have fallen into comfortable habits. They sneer on cue. When something pops up that looks like what they are used to disdaining, they respond with a reflex sneer, and without considering the argument on its merits.
And in all this, evidence gets lost.
A few years ago now, the eminent writer Frank Moorhouse - once one of the main critics of political correctness - made an interesting pronouncement. He said that there was a new threat to public life around, a "curious and infuriating phenomenon even more mindless than political correctness and perhaps more vicious - the posture of anti-political correctness".
Moorhouse said: "I have observed a veritable appetite, say among some columnists, to oppose anything which sounds humanistic or what they consider to be held as politically correct by liberal-humanists . . . It is a sure sign of political mindlessness to oppose all of the agenda of one's opponent. I think anti-Political Correctness is now the greater bane. A compulsive need to ridicule every humane or 'soft-hearted' impulse in areas of the indigenous people, illegal immigrants, feminism and so on."
I am with Moorhouse here. I think that in seeking to combat political correctness, the warriors of the right have fallen into something at least as silly and dangerous, and at least as ideologically blind to evidence. They have not advanced public and political life, but rather have given us the mirror image of what they opposed.
If one disagrees with the culture warriors, one is not just wrong, but morally bad. Weak. Totalitarian. Soft-headed. Unprofessional. More damaging than a racist.
You can see the language everywhere in the culture wars. One is not accused of mistake, one is accused of fabrication. One does not just take an incorrect or questionable point of view, one is actively misleading.
It is a bullying, hectoring sort of language. It is not the language of debate. It is the language of those who wish to dismiss, rather than engage with, alternative points of view.
It is not the language of conversation. It is the language of propaganda.
Margaret Simons is the author of The Meeting of the Waters (Hodder Headline, 2003). This is an edited extracted from her Overland lecture, delivered in Melbourne last night. The full text will appear in Overland 172, to be published in September.
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