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Thomas Boone Pickens III, son of the legendary oilman, had a big day after his tech company disclosed a government contract.
McClendon, 56, was indicted Tuesday and charged with conspiring to rig bids for oil and natural gas leases while leading Chesapeake Energy.
Roberto Friedlander, Brean Capital head of energy trading, says investors should start adding to their energy positions when oil his around $25.
Oilman Boone Pickens says U.S. crude hit a bottom at $26.15 per barrel, and based on history, prices should double within 12 months.
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"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer gave his opinion on the news of North Korea's weapons test.
Jim Cramer speaks to oil magnate T. Boone Pickens regarding the plummeting price of oil, and when it will rebound higher.
The military involvement by Russia in Syria could force OPEC's largest member to capitulate on production cuts, entrepreneur Boone Pickens tells CNBC.
They're going to bring the price of oil back up, says Boone Pickens, BP Capital founder, sharing his thoughts on the implications of Russia's foray into the Middle East.
Boone Pickens, BP Capital founder, weighs in on whether other automakers are cheating on their emissions tests.
Boone Pickens, BP Capital founder, shares his outlook on oil prices, restarting rigs and a cute joke about oil men.
A look back at some of the most memorable guests to appear on "Squawk Box" in honor of the show's birthday.
Boone Pickens, founder, BP Capital, discusses stocks and oil, and what the long-term trend is for each.
Oil rig counts in the U.S. rose for the first time since December 2014 last week, which could impact year-end price targets.
Boone Pickens, BP Capital, shares his outlook on oil prices. And former Dallas Fed President Richard Fischer, weighs in.
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INTRODUCTION: PET-CT scans are used to clinically stage cancers; however clinicians must know the causes of false positive and negative results to fully interpret the test results. We report a case of synchronous head and neck and lung cancer in a patient with a false positive PET scan in the larynx due to excessive muscle activity of the right vocal cord as it compensates for the paralyzed left vocal cord.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 64-year-old female smoker presented with a two month history of hoarseness and a chronic dry cough. Despite treatment with oral antibiotics her symptoms persisted. Endoscopic examination revealed a non motile left vocal cord with a mass. Biopsy revealed squamous cell carcinoma. A CT scan of the head and neck revealed no nodal disease in the neck but showed a left upper lobe lung mass. This led to a fused CT/PET (positron emission tomography) scan which showed increased fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the left hilar mass, mediastinal lymphadenopathy and the right vocal cord, but none in the left vocal cord where the lesion was found. Bronchoscopy with EBUS biopsy of an enlarged lower paratracheal lymph node was positive for squamous cell carcinoma. The patient was diagnosed with synchronous primary lung cancer (stage IIIA) and T1 N0 M0 laryngeal carcinoma. There was no pathologic correlate to the FDG uptake on the right vocal cord. The patient was not a candidate for lung cancer surgery and underwent chemoradiation to the lung and larynx. After three months she had an improvement in her phonation and repeat imaging revealed a decrease in the size of the lymphadenopathy
DISCUSSION: This case illustrates a false positive PET scan in the larynx due to excessive muscle activity of the functional right vocal cord as it compensates for paralysis of the left vocal cord(1). Compression of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve by the pathologic mediastinal lymphadenopathy led to left vocal cord paralysis. Symmetrically increased FDG muscle uptake in the neck and thoracic paravertebral region is attributed to physiological uptake due to symmetrical brown fat activation. Nonpathologic asymmetrical increased muscle uptake occurs with muscle contractions, uncomfortable positions after radiotracer injection, arthritis, or surgery(2). In instances of recent biopsy or in areas of muscle activity due to swallowing or vocalization, the PET scan may be falsely positive(2). False positives are seen in patients with active infection and inflammation where there is increased glycolysis. False negative PET scans are seen where there is impaired blood flow and minimal radiotracer can reach the area(2). In areas of tumor necrosis there is less metabolically active tissue so PET scans are falsely negative(2). It is reported that 14% of patients with head and neck cancers will develop lung cancer, and 31% of these will be synchronous(3). There are no pathological stains or genetic markers that identify the primary site in patients with synchronous squamous cell cancers(3). It is dependent on the clinical history and radiographic presentation of the patient that assist in determining which arose first and which is considered metastatic. This case is interesting as there is a clinical and radiologic pattern of synchronous primary squamous cell carcinomas of the larynx and lung instead of metastatic disease from one primary. Treatment involves resection of the lung cancer, if feasible, followed by treatment of the head and neck cancer with chemotherapy and concurrent radiation(3).
CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of the conditions and mechanisms by which false positive and negative results occur will assist in the interpretation of PET scans. Such knowledge may help clinicians decide whether or not acquisition of tissue is needed to confirm PET-CT scan findings suggestive of metastatic disease.
Reference #1 Lee M, Ramaswamy MR, Lilien DL, Nathan CA. Unilateral vocal cord paralysis causes contralateral false-positive positron emission tomography scans of the larynx. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 2005;114:202-206.
Reference #2 Koppula D, Rajendran JG. PET-CT in head and neck cancer. Appl Radiol 2010;4:20-27.
Reference #3 Douglas WG, Rigual NR, Loree TR, Wiseman SM, Al-Rawi S, Hicks WL. Current concepts in the management of a second malignancy of the lung in patients with head and neck cancer. Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2003; 11: 85-88.
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Paul Krugman, economist turned left-wing folk hero. New York magazine's Benjamin Wallace-Wells talked with the once respected-economist turned hack New York Times columnist about "What's Left of the Left," a title which at least positions Krugman accurately as a left-wing opinion leader who draws cool economics graphs that prove the perfidy of Republican policy (whether or not he once agreed with those same policies). Krugman continued to bash Rep. Paul Ryan as setting American "on a glide path to a much harsher society."
For the first two years of the Obama administration, Krugman has been building, in his columns and on his blog, not just a critique of this presidency but something grander and more expansively detailed, something closer to an alternate architecture for what Obamaism might be. The project has remade Krugman's public image, as if he had spent years becoming a chemically isolate form of himself – first a moderate, then an anti-Bush partisan, and now the leading exponent of a kind of liberal purism against which the compromises of the White House might be judged. Krugman's counterfactual Obama would have provided far more stimulus money and would have nationalized Citigroup and Bank of America. He would have written off Republicans and worked only with Democrats to fashion a health-care reform bill that included a so-called public option. The president of Krugman's dreams would have made his singular long-term goal the preservation of the welfare state and the middle-class society it was designed to create.
Wallace-Wells noted that the comment section of Krugman's New York Times blog "has become a repository for a certain form of liberal anguish, and a community unto itself," with one commenter pleading "Come on, Professor Krugman, will you lead the people out?"
Then it was on to more standard Krugman smears of "flim-flam man," Rep. Paul Ryan.
"I think what people like Paul Ryan are trying to do is set us on a glide path to a much harsher society," Krugman now says. "A country in which, step by step, more and more people are cast out into a situation of not having health insurance and poverty, and so we slide back to a Victorian notion that life is full of evils and that's too bad but that's the way that God made the world. That large numbers of the poor, large numbers of the elderly just live in dire poverty and don't have health care because life is tough." For two years, Krugman has been arguing that this trajectory might have been averted if only Obama had been a little less deferential, a little more demanding, a little more alarmed. And so Krugman has given the debate on the left its shape: whether the president could have mounted a more effective defense of the welfare state, and whether liberalism's tragic flaw is Obama's instinct for conciliation or his leading critic's naïveté.
Even the sympathetic New York writer picked up on Krugman's jittery leftism, which embraces leftist political paranoia. Krugman has recently pushed the arguments of leftist conspiracist Naomi Klein and in May 2003 accused the Bush administration of purposely egging on a fiscal crisis.
But Krugman's writing voice – sarcastic, data-driven, flecked with just a little bit of maybe-there's-a-bomb-in-the-wastebasket zeal – was perfect for the Internet. His self-certain empiricism matched liberal vanities as precisely as Rush Limbaugh's stagy authenticity matches conservative ones, and he became a vehicle for the concentrating energies of the progressive generation of 2006. "What I think Krugman got intuitively is that liberals understand politics as a policy argument," says Ezra Klein, now a Washington Post columnist and then an influential political blogger. "On the right, there's something of a cultural underlay to the worldview: We are the real Americans, and they are not. Liberals want to say, We are correct on the evidence, and they are not."
There are times, however, when the consequences of Krugman's perspective, the darkness of his view of American politics, come into view. In the health-care-reform debate, he saw evidence of "racial hate-mongering." When the crazed assassin Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords in January, Krugman saw intimations of a broader disorder to come. "The harshness and the incipient violence are very real," he told me. The liberal historian Michael Kazin, of Georgetown, told me he thought Krugman's account of the right succumbed to the old Marxist flaw of false consciousness: "Unlike what Krugman says, conservatism is not some kind of smoke screen for another agenda." In his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal, Krugman was plainer still: "Yes, Virginia," he wrote, "there is a vast right-wing conspiracy."


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|Kevin Garnett: 'Fatigue's not an option'
|04.09.11 at 12:16 am ET
On the second night of a back-to-back, following a letdown loss against the Bulls, in the 79th installment of an 82-game season, the Celtics had plenty of excuses to pack it in against the sub-.300 Wizards — a routine they've fallen prey to countless times in the past two seasons.
But Kevin Garnett wasn't making any excuses. Paul Pierce made it clear the Celtics want the No. 2 seed, and their win over the Wizards brought them one step closer to capturing it against the Heat.
"At the end of the day, it's competitive, and both sides are going to have competitive players who want to win," said Garnett, who totaled 15 points and 11 rebounds against the Wizards. "It doesn't matter who we play. You take the court, you suit up, and that's what you're expecting. Whether you're playing lesser teams or below .500 teams or above .500 teams, you've got to anticipate that a team is trying to beat you."
Thursday night, an above .500 team not only tried to beat the Celtics but succeeded with flying colors. And while Pierce quickly downplayed a question about the blowout loss to the Bulls — issuing a curt "We're past that" response — the defeat has clearly stuck with Garnett.
"We want to keep that fresh in our mind," said Garnett. "It's motivating. We played like trash, and they played great. You want that to motivate you. We've got a really good Heat team coming up, and we'll be tested again."
The Celtics face the Heat on Sunday in a game that could decide the Eastern Conference's No. 2 seed, as a C's win would put them one game up on the Heat with the tiebreaker in hand and two games left.
"We're just trying to gather some momentum with these games that we have left and be aggressive," added Garnett. "[Friday], after the performance of [Thursday], it was probably more of an emphasis on being aggressive and for the most part we did that. I think we're looking for that consistency. We'll see. If we decide as a team to come into that, then that's what we'll be. If not, we'll have problems."
The injuries have placed a greater burden on this year's stars than Celtics coach Doc Rivers had anticipated, and the team's three aging stars will all have played more minutes this season than they did during the 2009-10 regular season. Still, Garnett isn't using that as an excuse to explain the team's lackluster performance since the All-Star break.
"Fatigue's not an option right now," he said. "It's not an option. But we are trying to get better, and we're doing it with hard work and effort, as usual. … A lot of [fatigue] is mental."
|Paul Pierce on Celtics' future hopes: 'As Rondo goes, we go'
|04.06.11 at 10:38 am ET
Paul Pierce could see it. Doc Rivers could see it. So could Kevin Garnett. All of the Celtics' leaders essentially said the same thing following Tuesday's 99-82 win over the 76ers at TD Garden. The Celtics are slowly but surely getting in playoff form, and if they are going anywhere, they're going to need Rajon Rondo to get them there.
Rondo had 16 points and 13 assists and led the charge all night long as the Celtics were pressed early and often by a young Philadelphia team trying to show it could be a legitimate threat come the playoffs if the two meet in the first round.
"You expect Rajon to play that way every night," Pierce said. "He's set a standard for himself over the last couple of years with his play. It's no surprise when I look up and he has those type of numbers. I just think his next step is being more consistent with it to where he's putting up 13, 14, 15 assists every night, but that comes as you get older. I was in that position, too, as a young player, just learning how to be consistent with it. As Rondo goes, we go. When he has these monster assist games, we usually win."
"He was just aggressive and attacking and shooting," Rivers said of Rondo, his prized floor general. "You can see he's getting himself ready, you can just feel that. I don't know if he plays with great focus all game right now, or if any of our guys do. But you can see what they're all doing. They're in some ways sharpening their tools in spurts. It's tough for coaches. You'd like for them to do that and keep doing it. But they know where they're at."
As for team consistency, the captain said the Celtics showed enough to overcome the Sixers, learning from recent history where they have had a hard time protecting a double-digit lead. Read the rest of this entry »
|The hard Truth: Paul Pierce now knows C's 'don't control' their destiny in East
|04.04.11 at 8:30 am ET
After going through a very difficult and tumultuous March, Paul Pierce realizes the Celtics now are left with the reality that they likely won't catch Chicago and very possibly could wind up third in the Eastern Conference heading into the upcoming playoffs.
This is certainly not what the team envisioned when the C's were leading the East with a 46-15 record after beating Milwaukee on March 6. Since then, they've been treading water, going 6-8 in their last 14 before beating the lowly Pistons Sunday night at home.
"I mean, there's nothing I can do right now," Pierce painfully admitted. "We don't control our destiny right now. It's pretty much hoping they fumble up or stumble up somewhere along the road and we win. It's going to be what it's going to be at the end of the day."
That's not exactly what the Celtics were hoping for, but they also weren't counting on six different starting centers this season. Shaquille O'Neal and his "brother" Jermaine have started there. So have Semih Erden, Glen Davis, Kendrick Perkins and Nenad Krstic.
Through all that, the Celtics managed to stay atop the East. That is, until their 6-8 stretch that ended Sunday. They are now three back of the Bulls with six games to go, including a big one this Thursday at the United Center against Chicago. At this point, Pierce and the Celtics would do well to finish second and have home court against Miami should they meet in the second round.
They are also still looking up at the Heat in the standings, trailing LeBron James and company by a half-game for second. And with Shaq going down last night with what appears to be nothing more than a right calf strain, Pierce conceded the C's are now focused on simply trying to get their heads — and bodies — straight for another playoff run. Read the rest of this entry »
|Paul Pierce is getting pretty sick of giving speeches
|03.26.11 at 12:17 am ET
Celtics captain Paul Pierce is not about to stand up on a table in the locker room and yell at his teammates to stop being lazy and bored. He said after Friday's collapse and shocking home-court loss to the lowly Bobcats that every player needs to recommit themselves to the team or the losing will continue.
'It has to come from all of us," Pierce said. "One player can come out here and say it and 'hoo-rah' around the locker room, but it has to come from everybody. We're all veterans, we've all been here before, and we all know what it takes. It's got to come from each individual to take a look in the mirror, and look inside and decide if that's what they want to do. We can talk about it everyday, but until we look at ourselves in the mirror, that's what it's going to be."
Last year, Kendrick Perkins, during a late-season slump, said the Celtics were bored and were just trying to get to the playoffs. Are Celtics playing bored during their latest uninspired stretch?
'I can't speak for everybody. I'm not bored, if you're asking me," Pierce said.
Rivers called the team out for being selfish after the ugly loss. Pierce said that comes from a lack of ball movement in the offense.
"From time to time, that's the reason why we don't shoot a high percentage, or score 100 points, because the ball is sticking when we usually make extra passes that's when the offense is flowing, and we're able to get out there on a break and get easy opportunities," Pierce said. "You haven't been seeing that, and that's why we're shooting a low percentage and that's why we're not scoring.'
Did Celtics defense get uptight as the Bobcats went on a run in the fourth?
'I wouldn't say that," Pierce said. "It's just our defense really broke down in the 4th quarter. We played good defense for three quarters, solid for the most part. Then we give up 30 points in the 4th quarter. Regardless of how our offense if going, which we've been struggling as of late; we still should be able to pull together a defensive run and hold this team off, especially when we're up by 10 point in the 4th.'
Pierce's comments came just 48 hours after he called the team out for not having 'a sense of urgency' with the regular season winding to a close. Friday's loss dropped the Celtics two games behind the first-place Bulls in the Eastern Conference. And with Miami coming from behind to beat Philadelphia, the Heat stand just a half-game behind the Celtics for second place.
|Fast Break: Bobcats take bite out of Celtics
|03.25.11 at 10:12 pm ET
Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett all missed potential go-ahead buckets in the final 30 seconds, and the Celtics suffered their worst loss of the season, 83-81, against a Bobcats team that traded its best player (Gerald Wallace) and sat its next two most talented guys (Stephen Jackson and Tyrus Thomas) with injuries.
After blowing double-digit leads in both halves, the Celtics (50-21) still only trailed 82-81 with 27 seconds remaining. But Pierce (game-high 18 points) missed an ill-conceived, contested jump shot and Gerald Henderson made 1-of-2 free throws to put the Bobcats (28-43) up two with 15 seconds left. Allen and Garnett each missed 3-point attempts in the finals seconds.
Not putting the game away early: After just eight minutes of action, the Celtics had pushed their lead to double digits, and it appeared as though Gino might make an appearance as early as the second quarter. But a lineup that included Glen Davis, Jeff Green, Delonte West and Carlos Arroyo let the Bobcats close the game to 25-19 by the end of the first quarter. Charlotte remained within single digits through halftime.
Not putting the game away late: Just as they did in the first half, the Celtics coughed up a double-digit lead — this time in the fourth quarter, with the starters on the floor. The Bobcats took the lead when Pierce missed a pair of free throws, Henderson grabbed an offensive rebound and laid it in as three C's watched. Pierce then clanged a 3-point attempt off the backboard and Davis committed his sixth foul. That fourth-quarter stretch defined a game full of poor decisions, as the Celtics settled for jumpers offensively and lacked effort defensively.
Committing turnovers (again): The Celtics committed 18 turnovers in their 90-87 loss to the Grizzlies on Wednesday, and on Friday they picked up where they left off — turning the ball over six times in the first 15 minutes. They finished with 17 turnovers that led to 13 Bobcats points.
Getting Ray Allen involved early: The Celtics' offense has struggled of late, especially in the first quarter, and Allen's lack of touches has been part of that dilemma. Not Friday. And definitely not against the Bobcats. Allen took (and made) two 3-pointers in addition to drawing a pair of fouls that led to four free throws. All in all, he recorded 10 of the C's 25 first-quarter points — the team's best output for the opening 12 minutes in almost three weeks.
After that, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything else that went right for the Celtics.
|Irish Coffee: Celtics failing first quarter
|03.24.11 at 2:30 pm ET
Wake up with the Celtics and your daily dose of Irish Coffee '¦
The Celtics are 4-5 since March 9, and in seven of those games they've trailed at the end of the first quarter. As Celtics Hub pointed out in a nice breakdown, the C's have averaged 18.8 points in the first quarter during that stretch — 5.4 fewer than their season average of 24.2.
Playing from behind is never a good thing. After all, the Celtics are 34-8 after winning the first quarter and 16-12 after losing it. That's absolutely significant. So, what's the problem?
Considering the Big Four plays the large majority of the first-quarter minutes, this is on them. Are Rajon Rondo's struggles at fault? Should Paul Pierce and Ray Allen — the team's top two scorers — be getting more touches in the first 12 minutes? Yes, yes and yes.
If I had 10,000 hours to dedicate to this particular blog, I'd calculate the average first-quarter field-goal attempts, points and assists for Rondo, Pierce, Allen and Kevin Garnett. But I don't. So, the most recent quarter-by-quarter breakdown by 82games.com — from the 2008-09 season — will have to do. And that's not a bad year to pick, considering the Big Four had one season under their belt together and were coming off an NBA title run.
The Big Four averaged 20.9 points on 16.5 field-goal attempts and 5.2 assists as a group in the first quarter during that 2008-09 season, according to 82games.com. Over the last nine games, they've produced 12.4 points on 12.9 field-goal attempts and 4.3 assists in the opening 12 minutes. Something's not clicking. That's 8.5 fewer points, and considering the Celtics have lost their last five games by an average of 7.2 points — there's your difference.
Sometimes Paul Pierce can display a misleading, almost nervous, smile after a befuddling loss.
Wednesday night was such a case.
Pierce was asked whether he would like to get his hands on the ball more down the stretch, especially when the Celtics were trailing by three and his team needed a big basket. Pierce did get the ball but with 4.2 seconds left, leaving the C's captain to fire a desperate trey that fell short.
In the 30 seconds before that, Rajon Rondo (a runner) and Glen Davis (an ill-advised three-pointer) missed shots that would've tied or given the Celtics the lead against the Grizz.
'We ran some stuff," Pierce said. "We had the turnover right there down the stretch. For the most part I liked the looks we got. We got Big Baby with a nice shot. Less than 30 seconds we get Rondo right in the paint, going up for a shot that he takes all the time and makes. I'll take that for a game winner. It just didn't go our way today.'
Yes, Pierce would like to have touched the ball a little more but he said he didn't want the team forcing the ball to him.
'Probably a little bit more, but I play within the framework of the offense," Pierce said. "I'm not going to make that an issue. We've been winning the way we play all year long and the last four years. I'm not going to make that an issue.'
Doc Rivers had a different take.
"We've got to score more points," Rivers said. "I thought in the second half we went through that one stretch where we didn't even start our offense until like seven seconds on the clock. Milking the clock; I thought the ball just was bounced and didn't move. Whenever we do that. You know, listen, I think as a whole, our team, we've got to get back to understanding ' you know Paul is pretty good. And he's got to get more touches in games. And I think we go back and forth on movement and we want that, but we've also got to get Paul involved. That's on me; I've got to get Paul involved more.'
Pierce and the Celtics were also cautioned by their coaches before the game that the Grizzlies were one of the best offensive teams they'll see in the paint this season. Despite all the pleading and prodding during film sessions, the Grizzlies came out and doubled the C's 52-26 in the paint.
'I am surprised because the whole emphasis of today was they are one of the best, if not the best in the league at points in the paint," Pierce said. "The emphasis was to pack the paint, they aren't a great three point shooting team so there is no excuse for all that. We should have done a better job in there, make them kick it out and make them knock down a couple of jumpers.
"I thought overall, for the most part we played pretty good defense. We held them to what, 90 points. Especially Zach Randolph, he has been playing out of his mind. A lot of these guys have been playing well. I thought it was a pretty strong defensive game."
The Celtics also committed 20 turnovers on their home court, which they haven't exactly been defending that well, especially against teams from the West.
Are the C's tired? Sure, but as they themselves admitted, who isn't at this time of the season?
'The light is at the end of the tunnel, only a few more games left," Pierce said. "It should be a better sense of urgency I believe around here. Especially finishing off the season on a good note and trying to get that home court advantage in the East.'
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Sarah Palin for VP
My friend Rachel has developed a huge girl crush on Sarah Palin, and who can blame her? Palin is a solid conservative (although, the whole "marriage between a man and a woman" bullshit really turns me off, as I can't understand how anyone with half a brain believes government should somehow be allowed to sanction any relationship between two consenting adults), pro Second Amendment (probably more so than McCain), fought corruption, advocate of reduced spending and has enough understanding about energy policy to disagree with McCain and advocate opening the ANWR to drilling.
And she's hot.
And she's courageous enough to take on corruption and government spending.
And she likes guns.
Hey, I like this chick, don't get me wrong.
But there's definitely an interesting discussion going on at Rachel's about this. While I like the lady, I do have my concerns about her lack of experience. Here's part of my concern:
I understand your reservations. I haven't done the research, but I'm
willing to bet that during the history of the United States, there have
been any number of Vice Presidents who have been woefully unqualified.
I'd further bet that there were a lot of them who were less qualified
than Palin.
I'm sure we can think of a number of VPs who have had little to no
experience. However, we are living in some seriously perilous times,
and now – more than ever – we need a VP who can handle foreign affairs,
who makes the effort to understand the rest of the world and why
national leaders do what they do, their history, politics, culture and
heritage, and who can help formulate national policy and more
importantly national security policy taking all that into account.
Unfortunately, Americans understand very little about the rest of
the world. I love this country, but we have developed a certain amount
of arrogance vis-a-vis our role in the world. We don't understand why
Greece blocked Macedonia's entrance into NATO. After all, it's just a
name. We don't get why Serbia won't let Kosovo go. After all, it's a
shitty little, garbage-strewn hole. We don't understand the true
underpinnings of why Russia went into Georgia, or why Georgia acted to
put down the S. Ossetians. We don't take the time to study our enemies,
and we don't take the time to know our allies. And in this time when
globalization has tied our world together, having leaders who get it is
absolutely critical!
The question you have to ask yourself is this: If
McCain/Palin wins the election, and McCain kicks the bucket on
Inauguration Day, would you rather have Palin as President, or would
you prefer that Obama had won?
I haven't made up my mind about Palin as far as her national
leadership ability goes, so I really can't answer that question. Would
I prefer a true conservative to a scrote-sniffing Marxist? Of course!
Would I prefer someone who understands economics, national security and
foreign policy? You'd better believe it! I guess we'll see how things
As I said, interesting discussion. Join in if you can.
Damn computer! Ruined my Obama rant! (UPDATED!)
So I just spent several hours writing a long fisk of Obambi's speech. The computer went "KAPLOOEY!" and I lost everything. I'm pissed. This thing is supposed to autosave my entries every two minutes. It didn't. My article was brilliant (or at least thorough and probably incredibly long-winded). Now, I'm merely going to tell you what I think of Obambi's speech in a few short paragraphs. If the system manages to somehow rescue my lengthy post from the depths of cyberspace hell, I'll post that, but in the meantime, here's the long and short of it.
First, the fact that the Anointed One bristled at the McCain ad comparing him to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, while addressing his drooling acolytes from a Mt. Olympus-type stage designed and built by Britney Spears' set designer is the height of irony.
Second, the promise not to use the same old "partisan playbook" to attack McCain, while railing on him about his "stubborn refusal" to finish a mission in Iraq that we are finally winning and "stubbornly refusing" to admit that the surge has worked is the height of hypocrisy.
Third, telling Americans that fulfilling America's promise "will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called our "intellectual and moral strength," while increasing the size of the nanny state to protect those who were too stupid to have the foresight to get a fixed home loan, too fiscally irresponsible to control their spending and too stubborn to alter their driving habits until gas hit more than $4.00 per gallon is the height of stupidity.
It's not the government's responsibility to restore personal responsibility or moral strength. But if it was, do we really believe that coddling those who were too stupid, irresponsible or shortsighted to stay out of financial trouble, by sucking more earnings from the rest of us and bailing them out time and time again is the answer? That doesn't foster personal responsibility or moral strength. It promotes a dependence on the nanny state, and that's what Democrats are really good at.
And by the way, cutting taxes is not the President's job. Creating jobs is not the President's job. Investing in alternative fuels is not the President's goddamn job! He can certainly exert executive influence and push for change, but ultimately, that's why we have the balance of power. It just ain't up to him. So when he tells you:
He will do no such thing, and those promises are empty and stupid. As President he'll be able to sign off on or veto legislation passed by Congress, and he'll be able to exert a certain amount of influence on the legislature, but if he truly thinks he'll sell the "I'm your savior and the ultimate impetus for HopeAndChangedness" mantra to me, he's stupid AND a liar.
Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.
And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
And by the way, while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals is a noble goal, it won't happen without infringing upon the rights of the rest of us. If he has a problem with that assertion, he needs to look up the definition of "criminal." By implication that means someone who won't bother undergoing a background check when getting a weapon.
Oh, and considering that the average unemployment rate during Bill Clinton's first seven years as president was 5.37 percent, while the average unemployment rate during George W. Bush's first seven years as president was 5.18 percent, I wouldn't shout too loudly about how "We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President …" I don't consider that progress.
In other words, oh High Priest of HopeAndChangetude, the rock star atmosphere of your address, the fireworks, the gigantic set and thousands of clueless, half-catatonic nitwits who worship the soiled toilet paper wad you used to wipe your ass this morning, won't change the fact that despite your charisma, you're still nothing but a Marxist charlatan.
I hate computers.
UPDATE THE FIRST: D. Martyn Lloyd-Morgan has an interesting piece, fact checking the platitudes with which The Savior of Marxist Thought wowed his brainless devotees. He mirrors a lot of what I said in the rant my computer ate, but with less vitriol and sarcasm. I don't think Martyn has discovered the joys of using the word "douchenozzle" to describe politicians yet. Enjoy.
UPDATE THE SECOND: Misha does a SUPERB fisk of the speech! Excellent quote: Question, regarding the "discredited" notion of trickle down economics: When was the last time your paycheck was signed by a welfare client?
Phrases I never, EVER want to hear on the radio early in the morning
As I've written before, a big part of every morning for me is listening to the news and planning out my day in my head. At 0500, as I hit the highway, there's no traffic, peace quiet, and dark. I generally drive fairly fast, because… well… frankly, I don't know how to abide by the speed limit. I must be missing that gene. It's an illness… a disability, really. I should really be given a reprieve and one of those blue handicapped stickers, explaining my affliction. Um…
In any case, what would be the one phrase that would literally make me almost drive my car into a ditch early in the morning while doing 85 mph on a deserted highway?
How about "frozen ferret semen." Yep. That'll do it. Frozen. Ferret. Semen. Thanks, WTOP! I really needed to hear that particular phrase early in the morning!
It's a cute little booger, though, isn't it?
While I'm highly disturbed by the actual phrase, "frozen ferret semen," when all I've had to eat this morning is a roasted red pepper and four olives stuffed with garlic (yes, Frank you can gasp in horror now and tease me about my horrible eating habits later, while you tell me how you prepared a gourmet breakfast for yourself this morning, making me consider tying you up, kidnapping you and chaining you up in my kitchen), I did learn a new phrase today, while doing research on why, exactly, frozen ferret semen is newswothy: semen cryopreservation. What they did was cryogenically preserve ferret sperm and inseminate a female ferret to create the little ball of fur you see above.
If this is the start to my Friday, I'm frightened to consider what the rest of the day will look like.
Firearms hottest selling item in Louisiana
Three years ago today, we were getting ready to deploy to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina along with thousands of other National Guard troops from all around the country. We didn't exactly know what to expect. I remember thinking, after watching the histrionics on the news, "Will I have enough ammo? Is one M-16 enough? Should I sneak my own firearm?" I didn't, and it turns out what we had with the unit to which we were attached was plenty.
The folks in New Orleans weren't so lucky. Paranoid, tyrannical athoritarians went around confiscating weapons, because they somehow didn't feel safe "allowing" the peons to defend themselves. They rendered the people defenseless after one of the biggest natural disasters ever to hit the U.S., while hordes of armed thugs roamed around with impunity. They needed guns… apparently not just to defend themselves against the vermin that took advantage of the chaos, but also from the vermin that tried to wield their authoritah! over them by rendering them incapable of effectively protecting themselves. Those who weren't forcibly disarmed by the "law" just didn't prepare for the kind of bedlam that reigned after Gaia flattened the New Orleans shithole.
But not this time, Nagin.
They can be taught, apparently. And they know that neither you, nor your morally corrupt and cowardly police force, will be able to protect them in the event of another catastrophe.
"I just left a sporting goods store and you would think that the number-one selling item would be plywood or potable water or gasoline right now," he said. "Apparently it is AR-15s and .223 ammo. I watched at least 20 people buy AR-15s and cases of .223."
When we arrived in Belle Chase, we had a meeting on a not-so-abandoned tarmac, so the Louisiana JAG could explain the Rules of Engagement (ROE) to us. We were told specifically that the people of Louisiana had the right to keep and bear arms, and unless we were witnessing a crime being committed, we were to disarm no one. A few days later, we read in the news that the populace was being forcibly disarmed. I guess maybe the JAG should have had a meeting with Nagin and his goons.
I'm glad the people are beginning to realize the importance of effective tools of self defense. Maybe they're not "assault" weapons after all, eh? Maybe, just MAYBE, they're basic tools needed to survive in an anarchical environment just filled with statist abusers of power.
Oh… wait… isn't that why the Founders included the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights to begin with?
People are stupid, and that's why my nickname is "Misanthropic Bitch"
My friend Rachel and I were surprised to discover a few months ago that we both described ourselves as "Misanthropic Bitch." Well, maybe "surprised" is a bit of an overstatement… we were pleasantly startled at the coincidence. My hatred for humankind is generally well-concealed, after all… I'm normally quiet and contemplative about my fellow man, and I would never react emotionally to the stupid things human beings do… Nor would I laugh at them.
Now, if you believe that one, there's this tall metallic tower-like structure in Paris… it's for sale.
In any case, Rachel elevates ridicule of asshattery to an artform. I merely curse a lot, mostly because my anger at being stuck on this planet with imbeciles such as this. And since I haven't done a post in a while about just how stupid the human race, on the whole, really is, I think it's time.
A man trying to siphon gasoline touched off a fire this morning that destroyed a van and damaged a townhouse, the Valley Regional Fire Authority reported.Electrical device + highly flammable material + festering yambag = FAIL
The man was using an electric vacuum cleaner to siphon gas from a 5-gallon drum into his work van in the parking lot of an apartment in the 31300 block of 107th Place Southeast in Auburn. The activity sparked a fire, which quickly spread under the van.
Rachel, who is just starting school to earn yet another degree and hates math almost as much as I do, will appreciate this simple math problem.
And speaking of school subjects… my best one was English, by far. I loved to write, and because I came to this country knowing no English whatsoever, I tried extra hard to make sure that I learned well. That's why it makes me cringe to no end when I see error-riddled missives and badly-written reports from people who should know better. I told Frank that one of the reasons I like him is because I don't cringe and want to set fire to his notes, emails and texts every time I read them. The other reason is because he has guns, but I digress…
So, the Smoking Gun has a copy of a police report detailing a break-in at a business. Oh. Dear. God. Do these public servants actually ever FINISH elementary school? My Redhead would be horrified!
Was the "T" key broken on this guy's computer during the typing of the narrative? And what the blazing hell is a "booked shelf"????
And can I just ask why this asshat is still allowed to swim in the gene pool? Where the hell is the chlorine to flush this guy out?
And while we're flushing the gene pool, can we also ensure that these TSA nimrods get caught up in the stream of chlorine? Please?
A delivery truck driver said he had been robbed at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon while attempting to put a large amount of cash into a safe at the back of the vehicle.
But authorities were suspicious, since there didn't seem to be any witnesses and the driver couldn't say what the robber looked like. After further questioning, police said the driver confessed he was the one who actually stole the money.
Being of the well-endowed female variety, I wear undewire bras. Luckily, mine have never set off metal detectors anywhere. I'm imagining you have to be wearing something the size of a hammock with enough metal in there to rebuild a busted knee on an infantryman to set the damn things off. Or maybe, the TSA just wanted to cop a feel.
For Kates, on Sunday, though, the security check got too invasive. A big-busted woman wearing a large underwire bra, she set off the metal detector. She was pulled aside and checked by a female TSA agent with a metal-sensitive wand.
"The woman touched my breast. I said, 'You can't do that,' " Kates said. "She said, 'We have to pat you down.' I said, 'You can't treat me as a criminal for wearing a bra.' "
Kates asked to see a supervisor and then the supervisor's supervisor. He told her that underwire bras were the leading item that set off the metal detectors, Kates said.
Hey, I'm a vet. I've been trained how to properly do a personnel search, and yeah… it does include feeling them up in some pretty private places. During training I once found a weapon and some cash in a "suspect's" large braissere by grabbing the underwire, pulling it away from her body, and shaking her goodies out of the "D" cups, along with the contraband. I'm not shy. (Alright boys… you can take a short break and take care of business with that visual imagery. Done? Good.)
However, I do think this is going too far. We're not in a hazardous duty area. And if the supervisor acknowledges that underwire bras often cause a problem with their particular equipment, maybe it's time to tweak the equipment. What's next? Anal probes behind an opaque screen?


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Property Location
With a stay at Courtyard Mexico City Airport in Mexico City, you'll be connected to the airport and close to Baby Kart and Murals. This hotel is within close proximity of Museo Soumaya Plaza Carso and Plaza Santo Domingo.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Romance
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Duration: 83 min
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Release: Jul 12, 2016
IMDb: 10.0
This film scared the heck out of my wife when we saw it at the premiere at a local independent theater. It gave her nightmares for weeks after viewing. So right off I am recommending this film.
I have seen many horror films in my time. I actually don't even really consider this a horror film (in the traditional sense). This film is marketed as a horror film and definitely has horror elements, but there is a deeper story inside of it.
The most terrifying things in the film are not the "jump scares" but the haunting images that linger with you afterwards.
The film successfully gives you the sense of dread and unease that don't happen a lot in modern horror films. You can tell there are a lot of throwbacks to early 70's-era horror because the story builds before battering you with scary images.
The entire cast is great and every person has a reason to be there; there is no fodder or filler even in the extras. Go check it out!


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The Sound Of Freezing Time
A contest piece to be used and recited for a 60 second video to raise suicide awareness.
And in one moment,
The body loses its greatest instinct,
Fractalized in a hypnotic state
It willingly submits.
And lost with each passing moment,
It wanders into that bleak void.
A place no one wishes to go nor pass through.
And yet it wanders in not out of curiosity or some other drive,
No it wanders in through forced perception
of a precipitation of problems.
Be they physical or mental
each hungers for the void.
The mind lost at sea.
And during those moments if you put your ear to it,
you can hear the sound
of freezing time.
Blurred confusion in an imperium of self despair.
And what of those who cared and loved?
The madmen with brilliance just around the next days end?
Dashed into nothingness.
But a spoken speech of speakings, can change the direction of the mind.
Turned round the corner is the one who thought themselves so blind.
While they think they have no features,
they are redeemable to all but themselves.
So seize this hard fought knowledge and forge forward!
And forgive the sound, of that freezing time.


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Calorimetric and thermogravimetric study of competitive clathration in theβ-[Ni(NCS)2(4-McPy)4] host
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The stoichiometry of mixed guest clathrates of [Ni(NCS)2(4-methylpyridine)4] (host) with methanol/4-methylpyridine and acetone/4-methylpyridine as well as the enthalpies of clathration and the thermokinetic course of the processes were investigated. Two different mechanisms of molecular inclusion are proposed: (I) simple competition for the same type of absorption sites with two methanol molecules substituting one of 4-methylpyridine in the solid inclusion compound; and (II) competitive absorption for two types of absorption sites of acetone and 4-methylpyridine. Partial molar enthalpies of clathration of the individual guests are derived and discussed. The thermokinetic course of the processes is also given. The analytical thermogravimetric procedure is described and the solid products of thermal decomposition of the clathrates and of the host complex were identified by using X-ray powder diffractometry.


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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - July 31, 1997, New Braunfels, Texas WB Stars go2-3 at national tournament — Page 1B Voting x x X- X -x- X -x- X X X- X X X X X X X- X X X X- X ■ MXH BAN ANTONIO, TX 78< x x TFX AB NI XFD x * | PCNK A " X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X- X X X X X X X 20X32. HOO? 10/22 SO-WEST NICROPUBL 2627 E YANDELL DR Pl. PASO, TX 79903 14 pages in two sections ■ Thursday, July 31,1997 Serving Comal County and surrounding areas for more than 145 years ■ Home of Sonja Mtti TxDOT, citizens Dry conditions spark concerns about fires intersection Editorial Sports............ Comics......... Marketplace Dear Abby ... By CHRIS CREWS Staff Writer here. "We've discussed (a rural fire ban here), but we haven't had a serious problem yet," said Comal County Fire Marshal Milton Willmann. Hays County Fire Marshal A.D. Carroll said a rash of grass fires caused the ban to be implemented in his county. "We started having grass fires all over the county," Carroll said. "None Turn to Fires, Page 2A From staff n The Texas Department of Transportation will conduct a public information meeting at 7 p.m. today at the Guadalupe Valley Telephone Cooperative, IOO Farm-to-Maricet 3159. TxDOT will present information and discuss design alternatives to improve traffic safely at the intersection of Borgfeld Road and US. 281. The Borgfeld-281 intersection was where a Comal Independent School Distrfcrbus collided with a passenger car last May. Representatives of the Comal Independent School District and many citizens are expected lo attend. County residents may continue to bum their trash for now, but dry con-t difions might soon bring that to an end. Within the past week, Hays and Llano counties in Central Texas have instituted a ban on rural burning. Fire officials in Comal County have talked about putting such a ban into effect Birthday wiahaa Bom tho Hamid Iiltungl The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung extends birthday wishes to: Swan Brooks, Sharon Shannon, Jose Veta, J* Ro* (17 years), Soqja Mesa, David Kennett!, Robot Itevftd Jackson (6 years), Travis Lee Thompson (4 years) and Stephanie Abb Garcia ii* years). To have a birthday or anniversary listed here, call 625-9144. HaraM-Zeitung photo by Michael DamaH otgnB pong u.a zoi revnmG residents Boom mo moor-Ing mitten I QimdMupa Valley Telephone uooparaave to otcun uorgraia rioao intersection. NEU adopts increase in city payment Exchanging partners By ABE LEVY Staff Writer NBU timeline — 626.10 feat above sea level, same as *»<—*-----»- weonesoay Canyon Dam discharge — 5,013 cfs Canyon Lake inflow — not available Canyon Lake laval — 914.62 feat above aaa (aval. (Above conservation Wk 1944-New Braunfels Utilities' first payment to the city was $24,000. The NBU board decided on a lump sum payment. 1967 - Because the NBU payment fluctuated each year and was difficult to anticipate, city officials asked for a more consistent way to receive payments from NBU. That resulted in a formula of paying the dy .001 cents tor every kilowatt hour. 1974 - NBU increased the Anour* of .payment to .OOI* cento per kilowatt hour based on a request by the city. 1994 - NBU and city dined on a new formula that ie the currant basis for calculating the payment. Wednesday-The NBU •lard approved an increase of the percentage for the transfer from 10 to 14.5 percent for two years and then 16 percent for the next three years. The New Braunfels Utilities board of trustees unanimously approved a plan Thursday to increase NBU's annual payment to the city of New Braunfels. NBU and city officials said the move brings to a close a debate that started earlier this year when city officials requested an increased payment from the city-owned utility. "I am delighted that the board has approved the proposal, and I want us to work forward for the >: r x betterment of the city,'' said Jan Kennady, who as mayor sits on the NBU board. Claims of poor communication between the two entities and questions on land ownership and personnel policy made for touchy discussions on the transfer over the past few months. NBU and the city even asked for an attorney general's opinion J six months ago to clarify the bounds of their relationship. The opinion was released two weeks ago. NBU's approval of the payment increase follows action of New Braunfels City Council, which voted to accept the proposed increase at its regular board meeting Monday. The transfer payment this year will be $2.4 million, which is about $750,000 more than the city received this past year. The plan calls for NBU paying the city almost $5 million more over the next five years than what NBU was planning — a total of $14 million. The payment — paid in monthly installments and deposited in the city's general hind — is designed to give the city a share of the investment it made when it bought the utility in 1942. Since 1994, the transfer payment was IO percent of electric. NBU reports pumping 6.327 mtoon gallons of flurtoot waler Wednesday, and 4.150 mtoon galore of wet water ware Tonight, firstly cloudy with a 50 per cent chance of showers or thunderstorms. Low in the lower 70s. East wind 5 to 10 mph. Friday, mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms. High in the lower 90s. East wind 5-10 mph. Saturday through Monday, partly cloudy with a slight chance of showers or thunderstorms. Lows in the 70s Highs in the 90s. Heraid-Zeitung photo by Michael Dam all Forty-three tteivagifi from att over the world joined In a little New Braunfels fun sponsored by Tbs Now Braunfels Noon Liono Club retd TYM San Antonio Found* Association. Gutiz Ercon, from Turkey, and David Martinez, from Mexico, join in tbs fun Wednesday evening during a dance et Bavarian Village Restaurant. NBISD candidates outline platforms sewer and water revenues minus NBU's cost of power and water, including the principal on the Canyon Hydroelectric facility. The revenue (toes not include interest and is not based on gross revenues. Wednesday's action increased the percentage for the transfer to 14.5 percent for two years and then 16 percent for the next three years. NBU General Manager Paula DiFonzo said the board's action was a compromise with the city council. City council will consider two water and sewer rate increases over the next few years as part of NBU's five-year budget- Those increases would be 5 percent each and necessary Turn to NBU, Page2A Rotary Club conducts forum at senior center By MMK DZIUK Mmii - -WM-**, in our club and anybody else who might want to attend, an opportunity to hear the candidates if they haven't been able to attend the other forums," Dunks said. Six of the nine candidates attended the forum. Panebianco and Villarreal were out of town. Sanchez also was unable to attend. Rickel said if elected, she would study the issues prior to action, give teachers the freedom to teach and be an open communicator and show mutual respect. She said she wanted to see aligned curriculum to make it consistent across campuses and grades, adv ancements in technology and a well-rounded education fag students. She said as a mother, she wanted students to have excellent future opportunities. 'That is why I'm running for school board and want this job," she said. "I'm Turn to Platform*, Page 2A Residents in NBISD have until Aug. 5 to cast an carty ballot at either the attn anion aswtor, 430 W. Md! St, or tim courthouse annex, 150 N. Seguin Ave. The education center polls also wM be open on Saturday. The election wi be conducted Aug. 9. So far 1.458 people have voted in the NBISD election and 1,401 have voted to the constitutional amendment election. Get the family and friends together tonight and head on down to the Lands Park Danoe Slab for some good Texas music. Clay Btaker and Jay Erie will perform at the weekly concert in the park at 7 p.m. They ask that those attending bring canned goods or other non-rerishable food items in lieu of admission. Donations will benefit the SOS Inc. food bank. All county-operated boat ramps at Canyon Lake are now open to the public. Ramps had been closed because of the high take levHegMer your Mock parties It's not too late to register a National Night Out Block Party for Tuesday's festivities. All parties must be registered, and the city can close streets on an as-needed basis. Registrations will be accepted until the end of business Monday. Register your party by calling at 608-2100 or stop by 424 S. Casten Ave. Keeping as many trees intact as possible was a priority for Cash Hermes when moving into a new ly built facility for her and her husband's office supply store, Centex Office Plus. She and Dennis opened the doors three weeks ago to their new store at the comer of Seguin Avenue and Nacogdoches Street. The two still are digging new office products out of boxes in their warehouse in the back of Jhetr property. While installing the almost I-acre parking tot around the facility, the couple made sure to have developers build around an existing pecan tree. They also had the gutters constructed to drain rainfall toward the tree, and they broke up some of the asphalt to allow space for the root structure. "Preserving some trees like that is a gcxxfida^ especially when plans couldAim coda chtngtd The area code for New Braunfels, Canyon Lake, Seguin, Boerne, Gonzales and Kerrville changed from 210 to 830. After Oct. 6, cals using the old 210 area code will no longer be connected. Turn to Adteoto. Page 2A While Cash and Dennis Hermes decided on their own to protect at least one tree and plant three more on their Turn to Landscape, Page 2A be made," she said. "It adds a little bit of aesthetic beauty to improve appearances. When you get to legislating things, that's when troubles occur."School registration information — Page UPS workers may strike — Page 3A rn ;
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Harleen Quinzel has been in a private holding cell at Arkham for four days. He calls her "Harleen" or sometimes "Doctor Quinzel", and every time she corrects him.
"You can call me Harley," she says, giving him a saucy wink.
He never calls her Harley.
Out of her makeup, out of her costume, she is not Harley Quinn. Harleen Quinzel is a knockout blonde who used to be a world-class psychiatrist, and he needs this reminder in order to keep himself from getting information out of her with force.
"The Joker's not coming for you," he tells her on the fourth day, late, late at night, well after the usual staff has gone home.
She smiles at him. Without the makeup and the costume, it's the kind of smile that has ruined lesser men. "You don't know my Mister J," she says with complete certainty.
The fluorescent light from the hallway casts harsh contrasts over her, washing her out until she's just a pale little thing in a sterile cell, and he almost feels bad for her. Almost. "He's abandoned you before, Harleen. Who's to say he won't do it again?"
She tilts her head at him, long blonde hair falling to shadow her face. A slow, slow smile curls the corners of her mouth. He dislikes the expression intensely. "You don't know him at all, do you?"
And just like that, the psychiatrist is back, and he's being diagnosed. He knew it would happen - he shouldn't have underestimated her. "I know more than you think," he says cautiously, and that much is true - he and the Joker have been enemies since long before Harleen Quinzel ever put on a mask.
"I thought maybe you would," she continued, as though he hadn't spoken. "You know, you've known him longer than anyone."
"When was the last time you saw him?" His voice has taken on the hard, flat tone of an interrogation in spite of himself. She's a criminal, he reminds himself. If she has information, I need to know it.
She sighs, and the sharp, evaluative look in her eyes disappears. "The last time I saw Mister J?" she asks absently. "He took me to dinner in an abandoned subway car." She sighs again, the deep, longing sigh of the lovelorn. "And then we drove around and smashed mailboxes." A besotted smile drifts across her face as she relives the memory for a moment.
He barely represses a snort - mailboxes? - before he restates, "When was this, Harleen?"
"Harley," she says automatically. Then, "The subway car was so nice."
His patience is running out, as well as his time. There are a thousand other things to do in Gotham tonight than listen to Harley Quinn rhapsodize about the Joker. "When, Harleen?"
"He filled the car with candles," she says dreamily. "And gave me my very own baseball bat."
He closes his eyes for a moment in defeat before he turns sharply on his heel and moves away from her, down the narrow corridor to the foyer.
"He is coming for me, you know." His hand is on the door handle when her quiet voice floats down the hall. "He is. He wouldn't leave me here."
He only pauses for a moment. "Of course not." And then he melts away into the night.
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i wouldn't be afraid to call her cute or beautiful, and she would turn a little red, not so much that she made me stop though. She would say that im just sayin it, that i dont mean it. But i would smile at her and pull her close, and i would wrap my arm around her waist and tell her that she is amazing and beautiful, and that i wouldnt lie about that. that i would lie to her. then i would take her arms and do a little dance before wrapping them around my shoulders and wrapping my own around her waist and kissing her.
She would laugh at me, and she would tease me a little, but know where my lines are. She wouldnt be afraid of me when im upset, and she would know when to calm me down and when to let me rage. She would comfort me and understand what im saying when i say nothing at all. She would be open with me, and share how she feels. She would know that i would realize when to be serious and when to be silly or something else. she would only feel awkward talking about some things because of the subject, not because it is me she is talking to. She would feel as though she seriously could talk about anything with me and that i would not tease her about things that i shouldnt. She would trust me and know that i would never, could never, betray her secrets. that even if i were angry with her, i would never betray her.
She would not forget about me when with her friends. She would always be excited to see me, and she would always give me a hug goodbye when we have to go different ways. I would understand that she wants to hang out with her friends, and i wouldn't have a problem with it. She would always hug me and give me a kiss when i look like i dont feel welcome somewhere, and she would pull me into her conversations with her friends. She would understand that i dont have many friends, and that she is my best friend. And because of that, she would do her best to make sure i never feel alone.
I would sneak up on her from behind and wrap my arms around her waist, and kiss her on the cheek. she would squeak in suprise, and i would laugh quietly and smell her hair, holding her. She would press her head back against my chest and i would kiss the top of her head, and rest my chin. She would hold my arms tight around her, and lean against me. I would twirl her around so she faces me again, and i would hug her again. She would push me and start walking, making me walk backwards until i hit something, and then she would press herself against me and look up into my face, and smile up at me. I would smile at her and kiss her again, and she would kiss back.


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EUR/USD: forecast for January 25-31
The ECB left monetary policy unchanged in line with expectations. At the same time, Mario Draghi underlined that the ECB is ready to ease policy on the back of weakening inflation and economic growth. Draghi said that such step is possible already at the next meeting in March. Oil prices and the prospects of the emerging economies will play the key role in the regulator's decision.
It looks like the ECB President has managed to persuade his colleagues from the Governing Council that they may need additional measures because of the changing global economic reality. We got the confirmation that the ECB doesn't want to let EUR/USD go above 1.10.
The euro was sold on Draghi's remarks, but there were still buyers at the support levels, so we can't say that the euro lost all support. The best strategy for a long time from now will be selling the euro on its attempts to recover. At the same time, negative pressure on the euro at the coming week will likely intensify on the potential break in the market's risk aversion and divergence in monetary policy between the ECB and the Fed. From the technical point of view, the decline of EUR/USD below 1.0780 (bottom of the daily Ichimoku Cloud) will open the way down to 1.0700 and 1.0650. Resistance is at 1.0950 and 1.1000.


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