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It's Scandinavia's unofficial capital of cool, swimming in talented designers and boasting some of the most elegant architecture in northern Europe. And yet, for all its glamour, Stockholm is a surprisingly friendly place with plenty for the curious traveller to love.
From five-star hotels to hostels and even campsites, there's no shortage of places to stay in Stockholm, much of it pleasingly stylish. Some, indeed, even have style in their name, the comfortable Hotel ibis Styles Stockholm Odenplan (Västmannagatan 61) among them. A modestly priced three-star, the hotel is central enough to be convenient and stylish enough to please even the pickiest of travellers. Pleasant though the ibis Styles is, for something with a little more pizzazz, little beats the Berns Hotel (Näckströmsgatan 8), a glamorous establishment that has been welcoming visitors since 1863. Despite its longevity, it has had several makeovers, the most recent of which took place just a couple of years ago. It also has an excellent restaurant named Nosh and Chow on site, as well as a cocktail bar popular with local hipsters.
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Sprawled across 14 islands, Stockholm ought to be a public transport nightmare but it's not – largely thanks to its comprehensive network of buses, trams and trains, all of which run like clockwork. The Tunnelbana, or T-bana, metro system is the quickest way to get from A to B, although the bus service is also easy to use and a good way to explore if you have time to spare. Trams are fewer, although the number seven, the Djurgårdslinjen, wends its way past many of the main sights. If you're planning to rely on public transport, pick up a Stockholmskortet which lasts for one, two, three or five days and gives you unlimited travel on all routes. Other options include taxis (expensive), car hire or bicycle, with those interested in the latter able to benefit from Stockholm's excellent – and extensive – public bike scheme.
It might be famous for flat-pack furniture but it would be criminal to waste a trip to Stockholm on a visit to IKEA. The Swedish capital is a design hunter's paradise, whether you're after über-cool clothes or unique homeware. Department store Nordiska Kompaniet on Hamngatan is a good place to start and boasts a carefully curated edit of the major local names. For something a little more unusual, try Store Stockholm on Tjärhovsgatan or head to ETC on Odengatan, a boutique specialising in quirky labels, among them shoe brand Gram which creates footwear sold by weight. Elsewhere, Birger Jarlspassagen, a pretty fin-de-siècle shopping arcade in Östermalm, is perfect for anyone in search of homeware, jewels and vintage boots courtesy of retro emporium, Mrs H. For homeware, don't miss DesignTorget on Götgatan, where you'll find everything from incredible art to bizarre knick-knacks
Fresh, locally sourced ingredients are the order of the day in Stockholm wherever you choose to eat. Unfortunately, eating out in Stockholm isn't cheap so it's worth checking out markets such as Östermalms Saluhall if you're on a budget. If not, there's plenty of choice with everything from local favourites to Peruvian specialities on the menu. For Swedish fare, few do it better than the recently opened Lux Dag för Dag (Primusgatan 116), which, along with toothsome seasonal specialities, boasts stunning views of Lake Mälaren. Those who like their food with a view should also check out Södermalm's Gondolen (Stadsgården 6), where supper takes place in a cable car suspended over the harbour. The touristy Gamla Stan is also worth a look: despite its many landmarks, it has many a hidden gem, including the Cultur Bar and Restaurant (Österlånggatan 34) which offers Spanish tapas with a Scandinavian twist.
The locals might have a Teflon-like attachment to heavy metal but there are still plenty of places in Stockholm where you won't be assailed by the sound of caterwauling guitars. One of the more unusual is the Icebar Stockholm (Vasaplan 4), where you can indulge in a sub-zero cocktail in surroundings made entirely from ice. But while the Icebar scores points for its interesting concept, most of the action happens in and around Östermalm's Sturegatan. Among its many bars and clubs is Sturecompagniet (Sturegatan 4), Stockholm's biggest club – and its busiest come 1am. For a slightly more relaxed evening, head south to Södermalm, which boasts a diverse range of bars and clubs offering everything from rock to reggae. Och Himlen Därtill (Götgatan 78) is one of the most glamorous, largely thanks to its Skybar. Pet Sounds Bar (Skånegatan 80) is also worth a visit and does a good line in live music although, be warned, its repertoire does include death metal.


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Commissioner Astrue held an event at the Hart Senate Building at 10:00 a.m in Washington, DC to commemorate the milestone of reaching 200 Compassionate Allowances conditions. The newest of these conditions is a rare disease called Dravet Syndrome. ICE Alliance was a key participant in the presentations at the public hearings to win this recognition for Dravet Syndrome.read more
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The Genetic Investigation of Child Neurological Disorders Joseph Gleeson, M.D. And his team at UCSD seek to identify new causes of Dravet syndrome Who Can Help? Families with: prefer at least 2 members with epilepsy and at least one with Dravet syndrome (Also accepting Dravet participants without a family history of seizures) Dravet syndrome as a primary diagnosis and no SCN1A mutations found Epilepsy or Dravet syndrome must not be due to trauma, tumors, CNS infection, stroke, pregnancy or birth complications or othe environmental...read more
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We studied concordant and discordant monozygous twins with de novo mutations in the sodium channel a1 subunit gene (SCN1A) causing Dravet's syndrome, a sever epileptic encephalopathyread more
Tomorrow Isn't Soon Enough
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The genetic basis of pediatric epilepsy syndromes is receiving increasing attention as known seizure propagating gene mutations are identified and genetic testing is commercially available. Dravet syndrome, or severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is an epileptic encephalopathy caused by a mutation in the SCN1A gene in 80% of children affected.read more
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Focal Epilepsy, Generalized Epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut Diagnosis, Atypical Febrile Seizures and Epilepsy of Unknown Cause Beginning in Children < 1 year old: When to Suspect an SCN1A mutation related epilepsy A clinical study published in Brain 2007 (Harkin et al) reported from a multi-national study of 188 patients with epileptic encephalopathies (epilepsy with brain dysfunction) that 24% patients diagnosed with cryptogenic focal epilepsy and 22% patients diagnosed with cryptogenic generalized epilepsy had an SCN1A mutation , thus were...read more
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Dravet syndrome Michelle Welborn, PharmD written for: National Organization for Rare Diseases March 2009 Synonyms of Dravet syndrome Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy in Infancy (SMEI) Polymorphic Epilepsy in Infancy (PMEI) Epilepsy with polymorphic seizures Disorder Subdivisions Febrile Seizures Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+) – formerly Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy Borderline (SMEB) Intractable Childhood Epilepsy with Generalized Tonic Clonic Seizures...read more
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Dravet syndrome Case Study: 20 year old patient give Stiripentol, on alternative medications. This is a case study reflecting a Dravet syndrome consult by M Welborn, PharmD to a pediatric neurologist in the US. Name of child is changed. This factual case is for learning purposes only. Any changes to medication should be under the supervision of a healthcare professional.read more
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has joined CVS, Walgreens and a host of other big names in being outraged at Rolling Stone's decision to put alleged Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of their August issue.
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Rap Radar's Elliott Wilson sat down with Jay Z for one hour–prior to his Yankees Stadium "Legends Of The Summer Tour" performance–to talk about his career, his personal life and just about everything else under the sun for Jay's Life + Times YouTube channel.
In part one Jay talks about collaborating with Justin Timberlake for his contributions to 'Magna Carta Holy Grail,' the union of art and music, and the inspiration he gets from Jean-Michel Basquiat and being comparable to Shakespeare. Addressing his #newrules and 'MCHG'/ Samsung deal Jay Z explains that he's an agent of logical change in the music biz instead of someone who accepts the status quo.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities said on Friday they suspected radical Islamists of being behind an explosive device found in an abandoned travel bag in Bonn railway station earlier this week.
Police had previously said they did not know whether the planned attack had a political motive. They said the device could have caused a "large and dangerous fireball" if it had detonated and that they were looking for two suspects.
"There are now sufficient indications that we are dealing with an attempted bomb attack by a terrorist organization of a radical Islamist nature," the federal prosecutors' office said in a statement announcing it would take over the investigation.
"There are credible signs that the suspect (who deposited the bag) has connections in radical Islamist circles," it added.
The statement did not explain why they suspected a radical Islamist connection.
Previously the state prosecutors office in Bonn, in western Germany, had been investigating the case.
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said federal and state authorities would work closely together on the case.
"This affair supports our assessment that Germany is in the crosshairs of jihadist terrorism. The security services are making every effort to overcome this threat," Friedrich said.
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Leadership was an important tenet in SDS. Organizational, regional and sometimes chapter leaders were endowed with extraordinary powers, which had less to do with the values they had picked up from the rank-and-file membership than the ideas they shared with each other. The need for secrecy steadily grew out of this subtle distinction. As the gap between members and leaders grew greater, the secrecy about decisions being made at the top became more pronounced. Weatherman, for example, which arose from the collapse of SDS in 1969, didn't hesitate to use secrecy about strategic planning to keep order in the ranks. The original ideals of "participatory democracy" as announced in SDS' founding Port Huron Statement of 1962 had, by this time, become a casualty of the sectarian strife that split the organization and the Leninist ambitions of some of its most zealous activists. Oglesby, who refused to follow the Weatherman line, was, in this sense, no longer a leader of SDS. The issue of whether or not to embrace violence was at the heart of his disaffection from his former comrades.
Oglesby gives both sides of the argument against violence after the 1970 townhouse explosion, quoting radical filmmaker Robert Kramer (whose apocalyptic movie "Ice" was a fevered depiction of a fascist America which a persecuted radical urban guerrilla resistance seeks to overthrow) as saying: "We have to realize that the rulers of the American empire are not going to roll over and play dead in the face of the kind of moralistic entreaties that you seem to go for." Oglesby retorts: "As a quick and dirty first estimate, I would say that [my view] is at least ten orders of magnitude more plausible than your pipe-bomb dreams."
Daily events, however, kept the issue of violence in the air. Three days after the townhouse explosion came word that Ralph Featherstone and Che Payne, two field secretaries for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), were killed when a bomb exploded in their car. Then, on March 11, a large bomb blew out the side of a Maryland courthouse. And the next day, in the early morning hours, bombs exploded in three Manhattan skyscrapers housing the offices of Socony Mobil, IBM, and General Telephone and Electronics. A previously unknown group called "Revolutionary Force 9" gave the police a half hour's notice to clear the buildings. Weatherman wasn't responsible as it was still reeling from the self-inflicted disaster of the townhouse explosion. But this spate of bombings made it clear that the Weathermen weren't alone in their rage and despair. Nor, clearly, were they alone in their willingness to violently resist the American imperium.
In the months that followed, the American public's approval of Nixon's handling of the war would drop from 64 to 46 percent; but Oglesby maintained his faith in the persuasive power of nonviolent tactics. "We started from nowhere five years ago," he told Kramer, "and now almost half the American people are against the war." They shared a commune in rural Vermont, where Kramer ran a firing range in the back fields. "Nixon cares what people think?" Kramer exploded. "Refusing to pick up the gun is the best possible way to make everything we've won so far meaningless." And on and on it went, until Oglesby felt he had to leave. Even if the demonstrations against the war were attracting fewer and fewer people, he had faith in nothing else.
Oglesby's view of the war's ending is strange. Not Weatherman, or the broader movement whose nonviolence Weatherman scorned, and not outrage in Congress either; it was Watergate that did it, he maintains, beginning with the arrest of the burglars at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington on June 17, 1972, and ending with Nixon's resignation on Aug. 8, 1974. SDS, he writes, no doubt "helped" set the stage for the final act, "but by that time it [the war] had already long since been carried from the field in a body bag, dead for as long as it had been alive." This wording is unfortunate, as if Oglesby is standing centuries away from the war's bitter carnage.
Susan Sherman's "America's Child" is a book in two parts. The first, which begins in Berkeley in the 1950s, reads like a string of clichés, broken by lines such as "I can't imagine those years without them." The second, which follows a trip to the Cultural Congress of Havana in 1967, reads very differently. In the first part, love happens, "sudden, unexpected, sure ... a moment I knew instantly would remain recorded in my memory to the last detail." And you're nearly asleep when a 1961 visit home to Los Angeles arouses you. Sherman's stepfather, who had once been the Hollywood agent for Abbott and Costello, is reading about a Berkeley demonstration against the HUAC hearings, drops his paper and announces that if she was involved in it (she was) he would be the first to turn her in to the FBI.
Her brief account of the history of her family—poor Jews who left her mother with a hunger for lying to herself—is horrific. The mother finds herself married to her second husband, the stepfather, fleeing the impoverished suffocations of Philadelphia to the beckoning glamour of Beverly Hills, hobnobbing with movie stars, and then, when it all goes south, sliding downhill, to a tiny run-down apartment on the wrong side of Sunset Boulevard, living with a now bitter old man, a box of cigars and a few pieces of silver. The mother made a virtue of forgetfulness, and Sherman, to her credit, does not.
More love, this in the chapter called "Coming Out." "Touching Sylvia's face, her arms, tentatively ... the passion growing from within, extending out through my fingers. ..." We're in New York now; it's a humid July afternoon. "... [T]he touch of her breasts, her legs, reaching slowly, hesitantly, the curve behind her ear ... as she reaches down, between my knees, my thighs, touching me as I touch her ... moist, probing inward, searching. ..." You get the idea.
In the early 1960s, when Sherman moves to the Lower East Side, she is unaware of the forces that drive her and the world around her. "I moved in a state of grace," she says. She recalls the Deux Megots, the coffeehouse run by Mickey Ruskin, who later owned The Ninth Circle, then Max's Kansas City, famous as a hangout for Andy Warhol. It was at the Deux Megots where she learns to write poetry. She is never sure how much she, or the others in her crowd, broke through "the cerebral fences that dictated even in that bohemian context what was expected in both our poems and our lives."
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By Anthony Ristorcelli, April 21, 2008 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
Borat says, "Vietnam is a great country! All other countries are run by little girls."
MMQ - Monday Morning Quaterbacking
By nick, February 19, 2008 at 10:30 pm Link to this comment
Carol Brightman's article is sadly exemplifies how American progressives (sic) at base share the same disingenous tendencies to pimp for the American Empire as as any Right Winger.
In particular, Brightman's piece reiterates the critical distortions made by Carl Oglesby's _Ravens In the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960's Anti-War Movement_ concerning the International Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Indochina.
As documented by Ralph Schoenman, Brightman uncritically follows Oglesby's lead in promoting deceptions both small and large to effectively minimize the American genocide in Vietnam and misrepresent the work of the Tribunal and Mr. Schoenman.
Perhaps, TruthDig.com should change its name to LieDig.com instead?
"US War Crimes in Indochina in the 1960s: Truth as Casualty
By Chris Herz, February 3, 2008 at 7:37 am Link to this comment
Far as I am concerned we analysed the death-state system accurately in the sixties. And its unceasing belligerency abroad and its enthusiasm for police state measures at home have since done nothing to persuade this writer that we were wrong.
I've lived hand-to-mouth as a boat bum for years just so as not to be forced to pay the taxes which finance their guns, their bombs and their jails.
This country is so racist and so militarist that the best we can hope for is another Bush for another 8 years—the policies of all the front-runners are basically identical to his—and this is good: Only the bankruptcy and territorial dissolution of the state a la the late unlamented USSR can make the rest of the world secure from our depredations.
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By Peter Baldiga, February 2, 2008 at 9:25 pm Link to this comment
To me, the import of the 60's and 70's is that those decades represented a tremendous global outpouring of revolutionary fervor that took many different forms and operated on many different levels in many different places.
By JNagarya, January 25, 2008 at 8:25 pm Link to this comment
Those who denounce those they have neither met nor interviewed, nor with whom conversed, as "sheep" are by definition both arrogant and elitist, all outward- appearance "credentials" notwithstanding.
And is rather typical of today's pseudo-conservative right wingers. Facts, let alone knowledge, are irrelevant, as they are simply trumped and trampled under the foot of yet another repetition of stale, overbearing ideological presumption which is impervious to modification by reality and learning.
I've seen the very same denunciations of "leftists" and the events of the '60s again and again from elitist-denouncing elitists on the right who weren't there to begin with, yet somehow manage to smugly know more about those years and events than those who were there.
Such denunciations are by now knee-jerk cliches offering nothing more than yet another run-through of the concertedly uninformed reactionary ideological view from the right. Which, to be expressed at all, must not only be uninformed, but also steadfastly remain so.
Last but not least, it does not surprise that your "response" would be an ego-tripper's concern with identity, a detailed focus down to the very threads of the weave, in effort to pretend the exact opposite. Does "clothing make the man"? The superficial elitist, believing so, makes of that an issue in "response," though in fact it says nothing of value whatsoever about the issues at hand.
By John Borowski, January 12, 2008 at 5:16 am Link to this comment
Jnagarya my dear friend, I know you will not believe this, but here goes: I have never worn a pair of jeans in my life. (No, I'm not a nudist) I have never paid any interest of any kind to any of the robber barons since 1964. I never owned a credit card. (Only a debit card) I didn't even know who killed JR for years. (I thought it was a misspelling on the bumper for JFK) I have never had a T-shirt with any message on it. If the brand name is clearly visible on a garment I will not buy it. I am not a fantasy race car driver, a fantasy woods driver, a fantasy mud, flood, snow driver, so I only buy Echo or Yaris type cars. I have lived outside of the herd for as long as I can remember. I am as far from an elitist as one could get. (I have been scratching in the dirt for years to make a living)
By JNagarya, January 11, 2008 at 5:49 pm Link to this comment
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That reflects the same elitist arrogance it is intended to denounce. It's easy to mock—and mistate—than it is to act in accordance with something more substantive than smug apoliticism.
"So too the chaos, riots, and anarchy that the right-wing pseudo leftists leaders fomented can easily get the herd to emulate."
They wer not "pseudo-leftist"; but many of the Neocon[artists] on the extreme right moved from extreme left to where the money is.
"About the worst thing that the sheep can experience is to be put out of the herd. If you are not rioting, causing chaos, and doing anarchy you did not belong with the herd in the late sixties."
Your "rioting," etc., is far from all that happened during the 1960s, on the left, and in the center. Most who were active in opposition to US invovlement in Viet Nam acted in accordance with their awareness that violence begets violence, therefore they did noe of that with which you would smear them.
"When the British powers condoned the chaos, riots, and anarchy in this country it made it easy for the right wing to accomplish it. In the late sixties the goal was to get Johnson out and Nixon in."
In the "late" 1960s, the goal was to get LBJ for war crimes; but when Nixon announced his candidacy for the presidency, we dropped LBJ and worked to get Nixon, who we recognized as being a gangster.
And we got him, without all the BS you sling as bing all that happened.
So much for being a member of the smug, elitist, know-it-all/above it all herd that has nothing to contribute but attacks upon "the herd" from which they exclude themselves based upon an fake ego-based superiority.
By John Borowski, January 11, 2008 at 11:43 am Link to this comment
In case youre scratching your head about Nixon and the Congress loading up the Vietnamese pockets and simultaneously unloading the American farmers pockets, stand back. Back then the Government gave American farmers welfare if they didnt plant crops on some of their land. It seems like an oxymoron but does have a reason. Too many crops reaching the market mean inversely lower prices for
By John Borowski, January 11, 2008 at 6:37 am Link to this comment
Can you imagine if back in the sixties Mayor Daley or President Johnson shot down protesters in Chicago, Kent State or Jackson State. The right wing totally controlled media would have souped up the donkeys' mind to hang Mayor Daley and President Johnson at sunrise without a trial. This right wing controlled media is referred to as the Liberal Oriented media by the right wing media. This right wing media is the same media that made the word Do Good Liberal worst than coitus. There are many intelligent people with good character and maturity in this country, but they are over whelmed by people in this country lacking these qualities. Madison Avenue (The avenue where the tub thumpers reside in New York City) would not orient their commercials for a 6 year old mind if this wasn't true.
By Juanito, January 9, 2008 at 11:45 pm Link to this comment
Ironic that the war veterans who actually got spit on are Iraq Veterans Against the War. Witness their march and protest in Washington four months ago. And those who did the spitting were right wing zealots.
By John Borowski, January 9, 2008 at 2:35 pm Link to this comment
I really can't blame the sheep for the tragedy in 1970. The ocean of ignorance will be herded into anything that the right-wing wants them to be herded into using the media, especially TV. If the right-wing wants them to put their rears in jeans, put billboards on their T-shirts, or wear $200 dollar items that the companies using foreign slave labor can make for fifty cent a pop, they can easily do so. So too the chaos, riots, and anarchy that the right-wing pseudo leftists leaders fomented can easily get the herd to emulate. About the worst thing that the sheep can experience is to be put out of the herd. If you are not rioting, causing chaos, and doing anarchy you did not belong with the herd in the late sixties. When the British powers condoned the chaos, riots, and anarchy in this country it made it easy for the right wing to accomplish it. In the late sixties the goal was to get Johnson out and Nixon in.
By John Borowski, January 8, 2008 at 8:13 am Link to this comment
Folks, this is a fictional make believe story. A rich kid was supposed to be in college studying to be a Republican businessman. (Aka Conservative right-winger) Mommy and Daddy said, screw the college we will pay all the bills so you can go and protest in Chicago even though you might come home in a wooden box. The leftists will prevaricate that the National Guard shot you down, when the facts are the State Police did the dirty work ending your life during the blossom of your youth. Mommy and Daddy told the rich kid that he should go to Chicago because that is where all hell is breaking loose to disrupt the Democratic Convention. (The media is going to go all out to feed the donkeys' mind on the evil Democrats) The Democrat, Mayor Daley can get his good name dragged in the mud when he forcefully tries to restore order in his city. (His obligation) Mommy and daddy said, forget Miami (Where the Republican Convention is being held). There is no action down there. If we are lucky Nixon will defeat Humphrey by 17,995,488 votes in 1972. (There is a good chance that Massachusetts will be the only state in the country to go Democratic) because in 1968 he told the American people he will take care of Vietnam by covertly expanding the war in neighboring countries. (Didn't the pseudo leftists create tragedy in this country because of the Vietnam War?) Another plus is he is violating our Bill of Rights and Constitution and despite this, the American people will ignore it. God must have loved the unwashed over the rich kids because he made so many of them. The rich kids always believed god loved them more than the unwashed and were amazed to find the opposite to be true. They were also amazed to find the American government in the 70s was partial to Vietnamese farmers, while screwing the American farmers. (Congress and Nixon probably gave the Vietnamese farmers mops and shovels to clean up the Agent Orange on their land) The contradiction is that the Republicans (Aka Conservatives right-wingers) are in full agreement to give rich folks welfare, but not the unwashed. Even the Democrats in the South (Republicans wearing Democratic clothing) supported George Wallace the segregationist. If you were alive and kicking in the sixties you probably notice a great deal of spit on airplanes, but very little spit on gangplanks in California. If you still want more fiction try Carol's writing.
By Joe, January 8, 2008 at 12:13 am Link to this comment
Damn, this is like having a tea and crackers at an old folks home. There are so many wrong, false, dumb or drool-encased blatherings in this thread, I don't know where to begin. I told you damn hippies at the time drugs will be your downfall. Shit, one poster here says something like…convictions against antiwar types couldn't be had because no pro-war juries could be assembled. Fuck my grandma. You couldn't write "end the war" on a wall with a red crayon without spending a week in jail. The "right-wing" being responsible for anti-Johnson, anti-war events?? There was no right-wing in today's sense. There were a few courageous leaders, Democratic Sens. Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska being two, these branded as traitors by some of their fellow Democrats. These two US Senators were the only ones to oppose the fiction-based Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which ignited the Vietnam disaster. There was plenty of sowing of dissension in South America and elsewhere but it had little to do with Party politics in the US, lots to do with ruling-class miscreants who, a few years earlier, had nearly gotten us blown away in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Any right-wing I can remember which would resonate in today's neocon terms involved figures as Henry Kissinger and C.Lemay and that little gnome they named a building after. As for Kissinger, Nixon's darkside companion, he was the architect of the mining-by-air and high-altitude bombing campaigns against Laos and Cambodia; this incindiary hobby of his adding another million dead Asians to the 3-million Vietnamese killed. Nixon himself was hardly a right-winger. But he, almost as much as Lyndon Johnson, was selfish and prideful. What would Vonnegut say about all this?
By John Borowski, January 7, 2008 at 9:02 am Link to this comment
What even historians dont understand is that the Vietnamese didnt win the war in Vietnam. The right wing in this country gave the Vietnamese the victory. In order to get Johnson out of the presidency the right made the Vietnam War so unpopular with the American people that the American soldiers became demoralized and lost the will to fight. They were looked upon as pariah and used marijuana and drugs to hide from reality. The Vietnamese seeing what was going on in the US gave them the motivation to win the war.
By Conservative Yankee, January 7, 2008 at 7:24 am Link to this comment
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"This is what happened in the sixties"
Maybe in some "alternate reality
There is no documented proof that veterans were spat on. BTW ALL Vietnam vets were deplaned at military air bases, NOT at civilian "gangplanks in California."
While it was the National Guard who shot the four students at Kent State, The Jackson State shootings were done by Mississippi State Police. Since Nixon was reviled in Mississippi (for not repealing the civil rights act) it is doubtful the police were acting at his behest.
I would suggest some historical reading, but I have a feeling you are not a person who wishes to have your opinion altered by facts.
By Wendy Lundquist, January 6, 2008 at 2:00 pm Link to this comment
And that is the truth! They have turned into the same people who look down their noses at those of us who still feel passionate and compelled to carry on - for peace and positive change. Very disappointing to see the true colours come out in people who, it seems, hopped on the bandwagon just because everyone else did. The thing to do. Obviously, a game for so many. Now the majority into war (profiteering), globalization (profiteering), torture, intolerance. Right-wing riders…for as long as it pays.
By Conservative Yankee, January 6, 2008 at 6:41 am Link to this comment
While I can not comment on the life experiences of others, beyond "wow"... I must say that my experience with the Sixties was somewhat between Great and awful.
I protested the war, at the Moratorium, May Day, and Chicago. Daddy and mommy paid all the bills, and while I was supposed to be in college learning how to be a businessman, I rarely attended classes.
Finally, seeing my own hypocrisies, (living off the "system" while deriding it) I took off on a cross country walk that lasted two years. I worked washing dishes, cars, and parking lots. I hauled hay, wood and cow manure. I met great people who were kind and decent, but didn't share my (East coast Westchester based) opinions. I slept in bunk houses, spare bedrooms, and on land belonging to people who put "foreign affairs" unrelated to farming or ranching on a back burner… These people were the folks who elected Nixon in '68… Not because he stated their view, but because he said in effect; Don't worry about Vietnam, I'll take care of it.
One thing that has always amazed me about my peers (East coast rich kids who thought of the sixties as their time)is they never realized they were outnumbered by the folks who needed to have another focus…
In the Seventies the government in Washington betrayed these people too. The family farm that I remember from my youth is almost vanished due to anti-US farm legislation. Our generation cared deeply about Vietnamese peasant farmers, but it appears we overlooked some folks closer to home.
As to the "sell-out" described by some writers above, I saw that as a leadership sell-out, and have never trusted "leaders" due to that… Many people who I protested with back-in-the-day spent their entire lives working with poor children, fighting the "system, or advocating for folks who are unable to fight for themselves.
I've learned that the extreme ends of the spectrum (right and left) end up in the same place….using violence to "convince" others.
I'm not there now, BUT I was not there in the Sixties either. Violence gets only more violence and therefore is usually a wasteful exercise.
By xyzaffair, January 5, 2008 at 8:31 pm Link to this comment
There was, unfortunately, a down side to the '60s revolution. There were drugs and unrestrained sex, perhaps a reaction to the stultified mores of the 1950s. But people began to question what their government was doing. Demonstrations led to greater freedoms for racial minorities, women, and gays. These freedoms may have occurred later on, and may not be complete, but change has taken place.
As Marilyn Quayle said at the 1992 Republican Convention, "Not everybody dropped out in the '60s." She's right. Some went to Haight Ashbury, but some stayed in their 9-to-5 jobs but joined in anti-war protests on the weekends. They wanted the world to be better for their children. I can remember a protest outside a facility of Dow Chemical, who brought us napalm, on a Saturday in 1966. I don't recall the protesters looking like hippies.
By SlimJim, January 5, 2008 at 1:03 pm Link to this comment
You don't need a Weatherman. Not yet anyway, for the Weathermen were committing rather violent acts of civil disobedience, and the only reason they were able to operate for as long as they did (aside from excellent "under the radar" mobility) was that they had a significant amount of public backing. I'm speaking about the years when war opposition was so high that people were gracefully being acquitted of breaking and entering solely because you couldn't collect a jury in the nation that wouldn't sympathize with the defendants' motivation to halt the war by burning draft records. Civil disobedience on scope with the Weatherman needs a quota of disobedient acts that appropriates the need for violent alternatives. Example, we need at least one "Seattle '99 protest" a week. Seattle will happen again, but the quota needs to be established once the tear gas has cleared.
P.S. take your eyes away from the election. This is a critical time when momentum for civil disobedience is moved toward stagnation. The monetary interest of the big dogs always creates a puppet administration…says history.
By John Borowski, January 5, 2008 at 12:42 pm Link to this comment
This is what happened in the sixties. After the oil drenched right killed Kennedy, Vice President Johnson became president. The oil drenched right didn't want to wait out President Johnson's term. To remove Johnson the right infested the leadership of the leftists in this country. With the help of the as seen on TV controlled media the as seen on sheep caused riots, chaos, and anarchy in this country using the Vietnam War as their focal point. It got so bad that armless and legless Vietnam veterans were spat upon when then came down the gangplank in California. The country got so out of control that President Johnson couldn't take it any more and declared he would not seek a new term. This opened the door for Nixon to win the Presidential Election by the biggest landslide since the country began. Not only did he continue the Vietnam War (The main reason for the anarchy in this country), but he continued covertly to expand the war in neighboring countries. Unfortunately, Nixon inherited the riots, chaos, and anarchy that he and the rightist provoked. To get the sheep back on good behavior he had the National Guard in Ohio and Mississippi shoot down some student leftists peacefully protesting the Vietnam War. What happened as a result of this tragedy was that all the leftists got haircuts, suits, ties, and shiny shoes and became Republican Conservative Yuppies. The pseudo leftist leaders were rewarded with well-paying jobs on Wall Street. Normally folks, a leftist would have less chance of plush paying job on Wall Street than a snow man on the equator. To me folks, the above tells me there is no hope for this country.
By Carol Avigdor, January 5, 2008 at 8:55 am Link to this comment
I read with great interest, Ms. Brightman's reviews on the different memoirs written by activists who lived through the 1960's. I am going to check them out as well. I do think that there is one important memoir of the 1960's that she might want to check out and review as that it too is fascinating and relevant to today. That book is "From Ike to Mao and Beyond:My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist" by Bob Avakian.He is the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party and he has been grappling with the problems and challenges of making revolution in a country like the U.S. and looking critically at the achievements and problems of the revolutions of the past and how can we do better in the future. He has also been grappling with the need for dissent and critical thinking in society, but particularly under socialism and how promoting and encouraging dissent is good for society as a whole, and helps move forward things into the future.Bob Avakian 's book has gotten very good reviews by Cornel West and Howard Zinn. The book is published by Insight Press and that website is http://www.insight-press.com Bob Avakian's website is :www.bobavakian.net
By Grappa, January 4, 2008 at 8:36 pm Link to this comment
I'm one of the 0ld 60's viet nam vets against the war members. I'm much older and a lot more tired now. But the rise of this class of elites who have robbed us of everything including our dignity, must be brought to justice. They believe that by suffocating the poor and working classes that we will some how capitulate, I say never: till I take my last breath will I stop fighting for justice and equality by any means necessary to protect my family and my country that I love. Many in the 60's meant well but the bottom line is we didn't realize the blow back that was coming. The reactionaries hit us with everything they had, the prisons are an example of that,but many of us our still standing. The right is weak now and the time to increase the pressure is now. We must move to take control of the means of production. Small mill shops ,urban gardens ect.
By Gloria Picchetti, January 4, 2008 at 10:20 am Link to this comment
My comment was edited out I guess. As I said before, I loved the 60s the way the old people then loved their eras. I hated the violence by thy SDS etc. Where have all the flower Children gone? Gone to walmart, gone to ignorance of the issues. Quite a few of us have passed away. Cause of death was plenty of diseases besides ODs.
By Gloria Picchetti, January 4, 2008 at 7:46 am Link to this comment
The book review is wonderful. I might read it except for the 3 books I received for Christmas and the three other books waiting to be read.
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Layered Monterey Pumpkin Dip
Enjoy this Layered Monterey Pumpkin Dip and experience unexpected flavors in this version of a traditional layered dip. Good to the last spoonful!
- 1 can (15 oz.) LIBBY'S® 100% Pure Pumpkin
- 1 pkg. (8 oz.) 1/3 less fat cream cheese (Neufchâtel), at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons sliced jalapeños juice
- 1 container (8 oz.) reduced fat sour cream
- 1 can (4 oz.) diced green chiles
- 2 tablespoons chopped, sliced jalapeños
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 medium tomato, seeded and chopped
- 1 can (2 1/4 oz.) sliced ripe olives, drained
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
- Tortilla chips
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COMBINE sour cream, chiles, jalapeños and garlic salt in small bowl. Spread over pumpkin mixture. Top with tomato, olives, green onions and red onion. Cover; refrigerate for 2 hours. Serve with tortilla chips.
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Great Twist on a Dip
Really, really good. Like the 'kick' the jalapeno juice and jalapenos give it. Pumpkin gives it a lighter taste vs. taco dip. I prefer to spread out dip on a 12" serving platter, adn added extra veggies to cover the top (olives, onions, tomatoes).
Good to the last bite
Encouraged by other reviews I made this to take to a party. The dish was scraped clean and everyone raved about it. The pumpkin flavour was not as strong as I expected, just creamy & good. And as for anyone out there who doesn't like olives, don't leave them out. I made a small portion without and found that their saltiness balances the other flavours out.
Great appetizer!
Did the recpe exactly as printed and it was enjoyed by all!
Awesome party food
We made this for our annual anniversary party and everyone loved it! There wasn't an ounce left. Best recipe I've gotten from this site.
Great dip!
Fixed this for an outing. Someone asked me what kind of cheese it was and no one could believe it was pumpkin. It disappeared. Next time I will add a little more jalepeno because I like a little more kick.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/45 of Recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 45
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 25
- Calories from Fat: 15
- Total Fat: 2g (3% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 1g (5% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 5mg (2% of DV)
- Sodium: 65mg (3% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 2g (1% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: 1g (2% of DV)
- Sugars: 1g
- Protein: 1g
- Vitamin A: 25% of DV
- Vitamin C: 4% of DV
- Calcium: 2% of DV
- Iron: 0% of DV
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.


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Where's Nick Jensen? The Red Wings prospect is still recovering from a summer camp tussle
by George Malik on 09/06/13 at 02:19 PM ET
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Red Wings prospect Nick Jensen is very noticeably absent from Detroit's prospect tournament roster, and the Saint Cloud Times' Mick Hatten reports that Jensen's absence involves a shoulder injury incurred when Tyler Bertuzzi broke the ONE rule of summer development camps in choosing to fight Jensen to prove his toughness.
Jensen will attend the Wings' main camp (the team is flying up on Tuesday, as DetroitRedWings.com's Bill Roose noted, with ten players taking part in a community relations tour of Michigan; the rest of the Wings and Griffins arriving in TC two days prior to Thursday's training camp start to take part in Wednesday's charity golf tournament and to be poked and prodded for physicals), but he may not skate at all, and it's still possible that Jensen may need surgery to repair damage done in a silly tussle:
"I'm keeping in contact with the (Detroit) trainer and I'm not sure if I'm going to be participating in some of the early skates where there is contact because of my shoulder," he said. "It's a toss up right now as what will be happening."
Jensen said he will have the shoulder looked at again as soon as he gets to camp by the trainer.
It sounds like an odd set of circumstances in which the fight occurred. Jensen's fight was with Tyler Bertuzzi, who was taken in the second round (58th overall) of the 2013 NHL Draft. Bertuzzi is the nephew of Detroit forward Todd Bertuzzi. Tyler, 18, is listed at 6-foot and 178 pounds and had 185 penalty minutes in 105 junior hockey games in the Ontario Hockey League the past two seasons. So instigating a fight is part of his game. Then again ...
"I wasn't going out there looking for a fight. You usually don't see fights in development camp," Jensen said. "I've been there for five years and this was his first year. I think he thought this was some kind of a tryout. I was on his team (in the drill). I think he was trying to prove something to the coaches and was giving me some cheap shots. That's kind of his style of game, an agitator guy. It's part of the game, but probably wasn't necessary. I'm just glad it happened early in the summer rather than in the season."
Because of the injury, Jensen said he has been doing more workouts to strengthen his lower body because he's been limited in how much upper body work he can do. And then there is the unknown of going into his first NHL camp.
"I'm not really sure what to expect," he said. "It's a toss-up right now as to what will be happening."If I'm able to skate with everyone, my expectations are going to be pretty high. But then you're looking at the list of players who are going to be there and you see (Pavel) Datsyuk and some of the other forwards and it makes you a little nervous, knowing I'mg goint to be out on the ice with them. But you perform better in situations like that. I'm a little nervous, but excited."
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Caudalie beauty on board is a beauty kit with a set of five skin and hair products that comes with a zipped bag to carry them in. A lady needs to have such a kit for convenience at work or when travelling. A mirror must be in the bag, the only thing not included in the beauty kit. It is described as a ready-to-go kit packed by the manufacturer. The assorted elements is formulated to be carried along and to keep the lady equipped with treatment and for the best of an impressive look.
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Next in the line is the hair shampoo. We love to present the hair having a nice sheen. Grape seed oil and Jojoba oil grace the product. Apart from cleaning hair, it fortifies and nourishes hair owing to the wheat proteins and sunflower oil which protects the sculp. These oils leave behind a sheen we all love.
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Our plant taxonomy adheres in Jepson 2, particular in the American west, and at least as far as that is concerned F. lanceolata is now considered synonymous with F. affinis. F. biflora is a California endemic. The only other Fritillaria USDA PLANTS lists for Chelan County WA is http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/Fritillaria_pudica


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TORONTO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index on Tuesday recorded its biggest single-day percentage drop in about two months as escalating tensions in Syria raised the likelihood the West will launch a military strike. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index unofficially closed down 169.09 points, or 1.33 percent, at 12,591.21. All of the 10 main sectors on the index were in the red.
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Congratulations to myself! Besides that it's my birthday in two days, I now have an apartment in Los Angeles, a California phone number, a new phone, a school schedule and two American bank accounts. Why two? Because I have too much money for just one, of course. Or because I signed on with Bank of America but changed my mind the next day.
Mere days ago I was still staying with a friend, I had a prehistoric Dutch phone, no American telephone number or bank account and no school schedule made. What a difference 5 days make!
But it's only the beginning of the road…
I've been to Los Angeles 3 times before, but this time is so different. The last times I went I always went with holiday spirit, to a guesthouse with other vacationing people. I ate fastfood pretty much every day and didn't really have to face to much of the reality of living in L.A.
Now I have to do groceries here, make payments, get around, live…And although it's a Western country, lots of things are different. For example: the entire metric system from distances to length to weight, time notation, making payments, the actual tangible money, the products in the grocery stores…I mean, the onions here are huge! Like, 5 times the size of onions here. And so are the grocery stores. In Amsterdam my Albert Heijn supermarkets usually had 6 isles at the most. In the U.S. they have about 16 double isles on average! And often a deli, bank or Starbucks inside too. Oh, and they pack your bags for you here. I can get used to that!
In between trying to get the American way of life, I've been making yet another trip to a beautiful National Park in California: Joshua Tree. It's really silly how in the two weekends I've been here I've gone on spontaneous trips with people I hardly know. This time I was invited by a girl whose apartment I was checking out. I didn't end up taking the apartment but we had a little talk about the Perseids meteor shower, which led to a beautiful weekend of wild camping in the desert to watch the meteor shower.
But of course I have not forgotten why I am here. Now that I've settled down a bit I want to start storming after my acting career full force! I have already made my U.S. format acting resume and have e-mailed the agent I've met the previous times I was here. She hasn't e-mailed me back though…Bad omen? We shall see, tomorrow I am going to call the office to ask for an appointment, like I did the other times. Probably with extremely sweaty hands, but that's what it takes.
Let the games begin!
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The formula to win games in Division I lacrosse isn't all that complex: You need a star or two, unheralded wing men and an army of capable foot soldiers.
While the stars garner most of the attention, the players who fit the other two descriptions are often the difference between contending and finishing as an also-ran.
There are players all over the country who are having sensational seasons but are flying below the radar. Today I'll give a dozen of them their due.
Bogert is a long-stick defensive midfielder from La Costa Canyon High in Carlsbad who was the California Player of the Year as a senior. He got his first glimpse of playing time as a freshman — then injuries took their toll and his production slumped in 2012.
This season, Bogert bounced back in terrific shape and has been a menacing playmaker. He excels on ground balls off the faceoff wing and has above-average speed. The Nittany Lions (7-3) have a 63 percent faceoff clip in their past three games, all wins.
Mangan is a wiry, 6-foot-2 junior attackman from Wantagh, N.Y.
"Brandon is multidimensional. He's a shooter and feeder," coach Andy Shay said. "He's tough and versatile. We played him in the midfield against Penn to help out our overall production."
Mangan is averaging 4.6 points a game for the Bulldogs (5-3) and delivered four goals and two assists in a must-win game against Penn on March 31. "We couldn't have played worse against Penn with 21 turnovers," Shay said. "Without him, we don't win that game."
A sturdy, 185-pound junior midfielder from Malvern (Pa.) Prep, Creighton ran on the first offensive midfield in 2012. Coach Joe Breschi shifted him to defensive midfield this spring, the ultimate promotion for a team player.
"Ryan is a leader," Breschi said. "Like a lock-down cornerback, he directs and yells our calls, and plays on faceoff wings. He's confident with the ball in transition and stays on the field to create advantageous matchups."
The Tar Heels are 7-3 with wins over Maryland and Johns Hopkins.
Santomo quietly has done a fantastic job on defense for the Quakers (5-3). The senior defenseman from New Jersey was a three-sport athlete in football, hockey and lacrosse.
"Anthony has covered extremely well, especially in his last five assignments: Conrad Oberbeck from Yale, Rob Pannell from Cornell, Ryan Ambler from Princeton, Nick Doherty from Villanova, and David DiMaria from Lehigh," coach Mike Murphy said. "He's playing at a very high level, both on and off the ball, and creating turnovers."
Garziano is a fluid midfielder from Melville, N.Y.
"He's our best two-way midfielder," coach Scott Marr said. "Matt's a former walk-on. He was a stud high school basketball player and three-sport athlete who asked for a chance to try out. He's been playing for us since Day One and earned a partial scholarship this year."
He recorded a hat trick against Yale in a 15-8 loss in the home opener and is shooting 58 percent for the explosive Great Danes (6-3), who average a nation-leading 15.1 goals per game and visit Hopkins on Friday at 7 p.m.
Long-pole defenders, unless they score or are flashy with the ball, can get lost in the wash. Keith is a Big Red mainstay on the wings of faceoffs, sparks transition and causes boatloads of turnovers by picking balls out of the air and knocking down shots. He rarely plays a bad game.
The senior from Syosset, N.Y., has earned 50 ground balls, caused 22 turnovers and has only two penalties for a Cornell team (9-1) seeking its first NCAA title since Jimmy Carter was in the Oval Office (1977).
Hobart's sharpshooting attackman is No. 1 nationally in goals per game (3.56) and 10th in points per game (4.22). Love, a Geneva, N.Y., native who attends college in his hometown, has scored in 19 consecutive games.
"Alex has great hands," coach T.W. Johnson said. "He has a quick release and catches everything. He takes a lot of underhand shots but is very effective."
Love was a talented ice hockey player and golfer growing up, so his hands are comfortable operating low to the ground. Great practice habits have enabled Love to improve each year for the Statesmen (4-5).
A 6-7 junior attackman from Silver Spring, Wright might be the tallest player in Division I lacrosse.
"He has a tremendous overhand release point," coach Chris Gabrielli said. "When he shoots overhand, he is driving the ball down from a 10-foot trajectory. Goalies have a hard time finding the ball."
After 11 games, the Good Counsel grad has 30 goals on 38.5 percent shooting and nine assists for the Friars (7-4).
"If we can get him eight to 10 shots per game, and he mixes up location, he will usually get three or four goals," Gabrielli said.
Wright is a determined leader. "He brings it every day and demands that of his teammates," Gabrielli said. "His father was a decorated Division I basketball player who passed away when Sean was young. I believe that Sean's drive and athleticism stems from his dad."
Raabe, a junior from New Canaan, Conn., was a long-pole midfielder who is now starting at close defense for the Tigers (6-2). He has 36 ground balls for a revamped defense on a team in the hunt for an Ivy League title.
"Derick has been vital in terms of helping our defensive unit jell," coach Chris Bates said. "He covers the ball well and has brilliant speed. His motor just runs — and he communicates well. He has agile feet and the ability to move laterally."
Offit runs on the second midfield unit and has 16 goals and six assists in his senior year. The Landon alum is shooting an exceptional 41 percent. He's been crucial for the Blue Devils late in games; five of his 16 goals this season have come in the final 10 minutes of games.
Built like a fullback at 200 pounds, Offit is no stranger to the weight room. He has cleaned 320 pounds from the floor without straps, has bench-pressed 320 pounds and has parallel-squatted 455 pounds. While those numbers mean very little once the whistle blows, the mindset, confidence and work ethic needed to achieve them does.
Duke (8-4) has won six straight games after a 2-4 start.
McIntosh is a right-handed Canadian with a stunning shot. The 6-2 junior from British Columbia has an astute game sense, posting 24 goals and 12 assists while shooting 31 percent for the Dragons (8-2).
"Ben is tough and excellent off the ground," Drexel coach Brian Voelker said. "We've been waiting for him to explode. He started off slow last year but finished strong. He's continued that hot streak this spring."
McIntosh has game-winners against Bryant, Villanova, Mount St. Mary's and Hofstra for a Drexel team that is accustomed to close shaves in the Colonial Athletic Association.
Switzer is a gritty junior midfielder from Bergen Catholic in Oradell, N.J. Switzer, a former high school wrestler, has five goals and two assists — not overwhelming stats, but numbers don't define what Switzer means to his team.
"We call him the 'Muddy Chicken' after Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia," Red Storm coach Jason Miller said. "He's small [5-7], not particularly fast, but works his tail off every day."
Coaches love this type of athlete. "First here, last to leave," Miller said. "Always shooting extra. Does everything right. Very reliable. Rarely makes mistakes. Quality kid."
Kieran McArdle may be a bona fide star for St. John's, but hard-nosed players like Switzer define this upwardly mobile program. St. John's is 7-2 and making noise in the Big East after defeating then-No. 1 Notre Dame on Saturday. Switzer's second-quarter goal was met by a fired-up reaction on the Red Storm bench.


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Do We Approve of Murder Based on Political Party? Pollsters Don't Want You to Know.
A poll published on Wednesday at the Washington Post finds that a majority of even "liberal Democrats" approves of Obama killing US citizens. Of course, this would almost certainly be different if Obama were a Republican.
What if an organization with money but no partisanship (are there some?) were to commission a poll from a pollster willing to face a firestorm of attacks from the political parties (are there any such pollsters?), a poll that would ask people all their demographic info, including politics and party identification if any, and ask some of them:
If President Obama had to kill a US citizen to protect the nation, based purely on the word of the President, would you approve?
If President Obama had to imprison a US citizen with no trial to protect the nation, based purely on the word of the President, would you approve?
If President Obama had to launch a war without congressional authorization in order to protect the nation, based purely on the word of the President, would you approve?
If President Obama determined it to be necessary to deploy a nuclear bomb and did so, would you approve?
The poll would ask those questions of a large enough sample to be well represented in each demographic category. Then a similar sample would be asked the same questions with Romney substituted for Obama. Then others would be asked the questions about a President Santorum, and others with Gingrich.
The results would almost certainly show that many in the United States do indeed place loyalty to political parties or elected officials above matters of life and death -- at least the lives and deaths of others.
This would, of course, be shameful, and if it made it into the corporate news it would make all types of partisanship look bad. It might, very likely, however, make one brand of partisanship look worst. I would predict that Republicans would each be highly approving of these abuses by at least one Republican candidate, and that their approval would diminish for the others, and especially for Obama. Democrats, I expect, would be less approving, but still strongly approving in the case of Obama, but that there would be a particularly significant drop off in approval by Democrats of such crimes if committed by any of the Republicans.
What pollster would be willing to test these assumptions?
Of course, in reality there is such a thing as being too late. Opposing abuses when Bush is president, but limiting the opposition at the behest of the Democratic Party, was followed by support for Obama's protection of and continuation and expansion of the crimes. Now shady Bush policies have become open "legal" practice. It is too late to take them back from the next Republican president, or any president, without fundamental change to our government. If we continue down the current path, eventually the partisanship will retreat on this issue and supporters of presidential murder will tend to support it by any president and to imagine that no alternative to that exists.
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Glenn Greenwald makes a similar argument how Liberalism has shifted, degenerated towards despotism, Fascism and Empire. My
response was this:
It might come as a surprise to many, but the formal logic and identification of class ideologies, whether liberal or conservative, even socialist and labor parties cannot have any meaning in degenerating, changing, devolving class ideologies.
The constant class compromises, embrace of class centers, whether relative or extreme class despotism renders politcal labels useless, emptied of their original meaning so long as all class ideologies embracing their link to class hierarchies, conserve false social centers, false centrisms and shifting collectively towards fascist appeasement and finally Fascism itself, the embrace of a police state and police Fascism, all of which has happed to the whole West through its deformed trajectory towards WESTERN FASCISM.
Ideology in class deformed historical cycles are emptied of their partial social contents, shifting ever to the totalitarian Matrix, rendering all social reformists, sell outs, then totalitarian appeasers, finally collapsing into Fascist Totalitarianism.
The early Greeks saw this degenerating class and ideological deformation and devolving class process operating always as a top down, Orwellian thuggish class process enabled by class hierarchies, and its deformed class elites, hence the deformed crippled class Republics and class democracies morphing into Class Empires and class tyrants, where all ideologies have been corrupted beyond any original understanding of their starting point.
We need a social language to understand that all class ideologies conserve totalitarian class hierarchies and a new theory of History and strategies. We need a social manifesto to take down global fascism and Late Capitalism, class history itself:
Repulsive progressive hypocrisy
But understanding WHY and HOW this is accomplished does require a new theory of history and social Manfesto:
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We already know through history that LIBERALISM and CONSERVATISM, and all related class reformist parties, sold out, betrayed and "punked" social principles to become class whores, class shills, empire thugs, apologists for class Empire, Obama apologists.
Back in the 1970's the dogma of single issues, whether civil rights of the feminist movement, OR civil rights opportunists, disconnected like the class liberals of the POST Enlightenment economic justice for special, political rights of certain groups. We already knew then that the HILLARY CLINTONS, OBAMA'S, were on their way to replace substitute themselves for the GOOD OLD WHITEBOY NETWORK, WHITE CLASS HIERARCHY to become the new class whores, empire thugs for Late capitalism, even Fascism.
These equal opporunity, opportunistic shills, middle class feminist and equal opportunity civil right class thugs, have proven that they are just continuing the class compromises, betrayals of social principles, that were once the principles of revolutionary liberals and the Enlightenment for the POST, CLASS DEFORMED Enlightenment of Late Capitalism and Fascism. Disgusting liberal apologists have never understood the central core of their class whoring ideology, historical betrayals continues to degenerate into fascist appeasement, then Fascism itself. Anyone who calls themself a Liberal, today must realize that this class party has drifted into CRIMINALITY AND FASCISM:
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Leave it to the Legends to put on a dramatic show. In an event in which the top three teams were separated by only three ounces, Guy Eaker and Ken Cook won the Bassmaster Legends Tournament by two ounces Sunday over Rick Clunn and Tommy Martin at the Bassmaster Toyota Trucks All-Star Week.
Bill Dance and Jerry McKinnis finished only three ounces behind the winners in an event that was held at Black Water Lake, a 100-acre private fishery located 40 miles northeast of Montgomery.
In the spirit of the smack-talking that went on all day among this group of longtime friends, McKinnis accepted the results under protest.
"We were so much better anglers than them, I assumed we were going to win," said McKinnis, who is now a part-owner of B.A.S.S. "Bill and I are going to go study the tapes, analyze all that and make sure this is all on the up and up, then I'll be glad to comment."
McKinnis, 75, who hosted "The Fishin' Hole" on ESPN for over 25 years, and Dance, 69, who still hosts his show "Bill Dance Outdoors," have probably logged more TV time than NBC's former news anchors Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. But they might not ever have had more fun than they did in the 4 ½ hours of competition on Black Water Lake.
"If we do it again next year, which I really want to do, we will have more teams and really make it a blow-out deal," McKinnis said. "This was just a spur of the moment thing. We said, 'Let's go have some fun.' And we darned sure did that."
They caught plenty of bass on the way to doing it. Eaker, who is from Cherryville, N.C., and Cook, who now manages his hunting ranch near Lawton, Okla., caught a five-bass limit that weighed 19 pounds, 3 ounces.
Clunn, from Ava, Mo., and Martin, of Hemphill, Texas, finished second with 19-1. McKinnis, who lives in Little Rock, and Dance, who is from Collierville, Tenn., took third with 19-0. Bobby Murray of Hot Springs, Ark., and Guido Hibdon from Sunshine Beach, Mo., finished fourth with 9-11.
Those big names in B.A.S.S. history own nine Bassmaster Classic trophies, six Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year titles, 40 Bassmaster wins and 312 top-10 finishes.
Eaker, 71, fished the Elite Series through 2010, won over $600,000 in B.A.S.S. events and qualified for 10 Bassmaster Classics. He ranked Sunday's tournament as one of this top five fishing memories of all-time.
"We really had a great time," Eaker said. "We caught most of our weight in the first hour-and-a-half. But we did cull some fish after that. And we were culling by ounces. If I hadn't weighed the fish on a scale, we might have thrown the tournament away."
Although Cook, the youngest of the group at 64, caught several bass during the day, Eaker caught all the fish that led to their winning weight. That included a 6-pound, 4-ounce largemouth that hit a Fat Free Shad in a sexy shad color pattern during the first 30 minutes. Most of their other fish came on that same crankbait.
But Eaker's big bass came almost a half hour after Dance put his team on the board. As the four teams were leaving the dock at 9 a.m. Sunday, Dance landed a 5-3 largemouth. It came at 9:04, and it was fitting since Dance caught the first-ever bass in a B.A.S.S. tournament.
In 1967, founder Ray Scott held his first tournament on Arkansas' Beaver Lake. Dance had borrowed a boat that had a 60-horsepower motor on it. He raced out ahead of the field, stopped while the others were still leaving the takeoff area and caught a fish on his first cast.
Dance and McKinnis thought they had the tournament sewed up Sunday when McKinnis caught a 5-9 on his last cast of the day. It hit a sexy shad-colored Strike King KVD 1.5 crankbait.
Dance and McKinnis figured their chief competition would come from Clunn, 65, the four-time Bassmaster Classic champion, and Martin, 70, who had been catching fish from one area of the lake all morning long.
"Rick figured out a pattern in about 15 minutes, and we just blistered them," said Martin, who qualified for 19 Bassmaster Classics and won in 1974.
They caught their fish on a copper shad-colored Luck E Strike Series 3 crankbait.
"We figured out pretty quick that the fish weren't on the bottom," Clunn said. "That's fishing. You've got to figure out the depth they're in and what size bait they want. We threw some bigger worms and some deep-diving crankbaits. But the fish were mostly keying on wood in six to nine feet of water. They were suspended. Once we figured that out, we caught them all day long."
But mostly these bass fishing legends traded barbs all day long.
"I don't like any of these other guys in the tournament, do you?" Dance asked McKinnis shortly after the day started.
"Guy Eaker," McKinnis replied. "He's got good chicken."
That got a laugh from Dance, who said, "Yeah, he serves some good yard bird, doesn't he?"
And on this day, Eaker would also serve as the master of the first-ever Bassmaster Legends Tournament.