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February 23, 2010 - February 16, 2010
One of our commenters on the last
post provides an excellent example of the mentality that's driving
much of the left today. So I thought it would be worth responding to.
Not because anything can change his mind, because nothing can. He's
living as happily in his own world as the permanently miserable are
ever able to. But it might be instructive to take a closer look at what
amounts to an unbroken string of cliches, stupid assumptions, and the
kind of arrogant wrongheadedness which can only be achieved by the
shallowest of minds. Here's his comment in full:
Now for some closer attention to his content. The nom de guerre he
chooses is interesting. It's derisive, of course, which suggests at the
outset that his own leftism is of the internationalist, blame America
for everything variety. His opening shot confirms it:
Yes, he's a member of the young, superior left. Anyone who
opposes� his own rigidly held notions is by definition a
"ridiculous cracker asshole." He is stooping even to communicate with
us, which is why he couches his question in terms of irrelevant
hilarity. I'll get to his question in a bit, because it's one whose
answer is not well understood even by many conservatives. But first,
we'll uncover what he's telling us about himself in his next blasts.
It turns out that Captain America's reason for rejecting the idea that
Obama might be a marxist is that he's a devout marxist himself. The
view of America as a wholly corporate enterprise in which the elected
government essentially takes orders from big business is, of course,
the contemporary packaging of anti-capitalism. What's the alternative
to capitalism? The state-run command economies of marxist inspired
nations like Cuba, North Korea, and the old Soviet Union, all of which
pushed their peoples into poverty and often into famine, mass
imprisonment, and slavery. But we're the "ridiculous cracker assholes"
for not accepting unquestioningly that theirs was the better way.
The designation of the U.S. as "the great American Imperial Project" is tired old leftism at its worst, a retread of sixties campus radical rhetoric that couldn't be more ridiculous itself in the context of a Soviet Union that colonized and enslaved eastern Europe for close to half a century. His own next conclusion is comically self-defeating. If we're really an empire, why on earth would we care about a "bad rep" in our colonies? Obviously it wouldn't matter what kind of "PR" we were getting, any more than it mattered to the Soviets that their "PR" was bad in Czechoslovakia after they sent the tanks in to reassert totalitarian control.
In case we missed his earlier revelation that he's a pompous
twenty-something ideologue, he gives us more crude sexual imagery as a
way of reasserting his superiority over us. And then he lets us know
the real reason he's upset about our calling Obama a marxist. Captain
America wishes Obama were a
marxist. He's profoundly disappointed
that he can't bring himself to believe it.
Ah yes. The leftist love of doom and gloom, which is supposed to
inspire and attract us as followers somehow. Do they ever stop to
wonder why this particular part of their anti-capitalist message
doesn't bring us all cheering and applauding to our feet? No. They're
so infatuated with their own cynical nihilism that it never occurs to
them why all civilizations
eventually fall. They fall precisely because the people at some point
come to believe that their best days are behind them and lose the
courage required to overcome ordeals their forebears dealt with
successfully before. Captain America and his ilk are the spearpoint of
that sentiment in the world of today. They are so self-obsessed their
vision confines them to (hopefully on their part) self-fulfilling
The argument that we are doomed because of finite space and finite resources is wholly specious. You can argue that it's true at some conceptual level, but it's fatuous at any contemporary pragmatic level. Individual resources may be finite, but the population of potential resources is so numerous as to be effectively infinite. The only real writing on the wall is the childish scribbling of those who don't understand the power of technology or appreciate the power of human ingenuity. The impossibility of continued expansion and growth through many future human lifetimes is a rhetorical trick. It depends absolutely on assuming that we can know what science will not be able to accomplish in harnessing the energy potential of magnetism, sand, and solar winds. We can't.
The doom of the leftists is essentially a romantic ideal, as old and irrational as the endless divine promises of doom in the ancient religions they scorn so ferociously. But the story is the same story. Man is evil and must be punished. They can't wait for the punishment part because they want to belong to the brilliant elite in charge of the punishing. If you're a cynical nihilist, that's as close to something like heaven as you'll ever get.
Captain America closes as he began, of course, with crude sexual
imagery and another one of his odd, built-in self-rebuttals. Accusing
us of being the ones who desire "big, strong, powerful" "leaders" is
pure projection. The commenters he's trying to respond to only want a
president, a man who loves his country and regards himself as being in
their service, not in control of every aspect of their lives.
This commenter is, regardless of his chronological age, a child and therefore consumed with childish things that require no logic or explanation. However, he has asked one question that's worth real consideration. Who knows? He might even like the answer.
Why do some of us "cracker assholes" assert that Obama is a marxist? Because his own autobiographies describe an intellectual education that repeatedly found marxist ideas and marxist-inspired activists a congenial resource. The taproot of all his political philosophy as a young man was the radical anti-Vietnam War movement that arose in the late 1960s. If it wasn't in the beginning, this movement rapidly became expressly marxist, allying itself with the communist North Vietnamese and therefore explicitly opposed the "capitalist, imperialist pig" Amerika. Don't tell me this is isn't so. I was there. I saw the dreary stream of mimeographed diatribes that papered the campuses in those days.
As the movement splintered into more radical and openly revolutionary factions, Mao's little red book became a bible of groups like the Weathermen who thought they were the spearhead of an actual violent, and yes, marxist, overthrow of the United States government. It was during this period that they became formal partners with the violent fringe of the civil rights movement, which spawned the Black Panthers as well as the Nation of Islam. The combination of black nationalist political entities with the marxist/Maoist tactics of the far radical left is what led to the Black Liberation Theology of people like Jeremiah Wright, a lineage you can trace in its vocabulary and politics. (The religious component is a threadbare figleaf; lovers of Christ who hate almost everyone are a contradiction in terms and more importantly an easy route to tax-free status.)
It was the alumni and remaining activists from this heritage that were most appealing to the young Obama as he recounted it in his two books about himself. He read and admired the content of Saul Alinski's manual for how to subvert systems from within. He teamed up with Weathermen Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn to promote a far left radical agenda to Chicago schoolchildren. He served as a teacher for ACORN recruits and what he taught them was the tactics of the Alinski manual on revolution� He formed a twenty-year association with Jeremiah Wright and his church, where the rhetoric of anti-Americanism was culled from the same marxist sources Obama had learned to admire in other aspects of his life and careeer. I'm not even going to link this stuff, because the source materials for it are overwhelming, unassailable, and easily accessible.
Indeed, the only argument that can be made against these influences as central to the current political philosophy of Barack Obama is that he's older now than when he first formed his political orientation. We are being fed a bland assumption, based on absolutely nothing, that the years must have mellowed him and if he now speaks like a moderate, he must in fact be a moderate.
Why must he be? Can anyone point me to the third volume in his autobiographical trilogy that recounts his intellectual repudiation of marxist radicalism in favor of moderation? I don't think you can. This tireless writer hasn't written that book because the transformation everyone wants so much to believe in never occurred. Remember that he never repudiated Wright until political expediency absolutely required it. In sounding like a moderate, he is only following the instructions in Alinski's manual, saying whatever it takes to get inside the power structure you wish to subvert.
I don't doubt that he's a marxist because there's no evidence he's ever been anything but. And there's abundant evidence that there's nothing he professes to believe in public that he won't change, retract, or reverse himself on at a moment's notice.
Which means the only remaining question is just how daring and successful he will be in steering this country very sharply to the left. I concede the jury is still out on that one. Maybe he's as callow and fatally over-ambitious as he seems to many of us. Maybe his courage will fail him. Maybe his political skills aren't up to the task. Maybe the congressional and other leaders in his party will bully him into pursuing a less suicidal course for the party and the nation. And maybe, as Captain America believes (though for all the wrong reasons), the free market will ultimately defeat his intentions.
The American people still get a say, too. If Captain America believes that a solid majority of citizens will ever buy into his favorite arguments, we still have a chance to get our country back. Whatever he thinks he's selling, Americans won't be buying in the kind of numbers that would be required.
. We know you're all happy and gloaty about now. And I have
no intention of spoiling your fun. God knows you've waited for it long
enough and will have very little time to enjoy it before your messah
sinks hip deep into problems no first-time executive will ever be able
to solve... BUT. Since nobody else is likely to tell you this, here's a
tip that you might want to keep in mind.
There's an easy way to tell in any leftist political movement whether you're on the inside or the outside of the real power circle. It's an important distinction. Those inside the circle prosper and are elaborately rewarded for their participation. Those outside the circle are expected to shut up, go away, be completely ignored until the next election cycle, and look happy the whole time nonetheless.
Your side lives and conquers by the Big Lie.
For example, black people have been outside the liberal power circle ever since the Democrat Party adopted them to get Lyndon Johnson elected president. More Republicans than Democrats voted for the landmark Civil Rights bill in 1964, but Democrats convinced black people that they were the party of racial equality. Everything Democrats have done since has accomplished nothing but keep black people segregated, educationally deprived, and imprisoned in a destructive welfare-crime-victim mentality that systematically deprives them of real American opportunity while ensuring that racial resentments can never abate.
Close to half a century later, black people still regard equality as a remote and receding ideal. Why? Probably not directly malicious. It's just that others inside the circle had more influence and a greater command on party votes. Democratic allegiance to the National Education Association ensured that black Americans would remain trapped in incompetent public schools because vouchers were out of the question. Urban renewal projects that destroyed black neighborhoods and families looked good but served primarily to enrich urban construction contractors who always have their hooks into city hall and the necessary U.S. congressmen. Affirmative Action programs promised a brilliant future but merely extended ghetto segregation into the nation's best universities, where a brand new tradition of inevitable failure and demonstrated inferiority guaranteed yet another generation of dependency on the left's Big Lie that genuine racial equality was still, always, tantalizingly, just around the corner.
Are you starting to get it yet? No? You can tell that you're outside the power circle if you actually believe the Big Lies your side is telling and expecting you to repeat to anyone who will listen. Because inside the circle, the crafters of the lies know that they are exactly that and exactly why and how they are using them to their own personal benefit.
Do you believe the lie that George Bush went to war in Iraq, on his own hook, without massive Democrat support, based on worldwide intelligence that told the same story from nation to nation and spy agency to spy agency? Then you're outside the circle. All the Democrat power brokers know that this was a gigantically huge lie which they used ruthlessly to destroy the president of the United States and savage his foreign policy.
Do you believe the lie that the current financial crisis was caused by George Bush's tax cuts for the rich? Then you're outside the circle, because the Democrat U.S. Senators and Congressmen are well aware that their pandering on the question of "home ownership for the underprivileged" violated basic economic principles and generated a cancer that devoured the entire U.S. financial system.
Do you believe the lie that raising corporate taxes and imposing "windfall profit taxes" somehow helps average Americans? Then you're outside the circle. The truth is so simple that even left-wing legislators understand that corporate taxes are always paid, in full, every damn penny's worth, by average Americans, who pay the total costs of doing business in the prices they pay for goods and services. When the corporate tax rate goes up, prices go up. You pay them with every loaf of bread, every trash bag, every used car, every prom dress, every condom you buy. But they tell you the lie that they are on your side and are looking out for you when they raise taxes on all the entities and institutions which actually create jobs, meaning that there will inevitably be fewer jobs for average American like you. Why do they tell you such a lie? Because the more helpless and dependent you feel on their power to intervene via government on their behalf, the more likely they are to remain in power.
Do you believe the lie that all the problems in the world can be solved by being nice to foreign countries and leaders who openly despise and hate us? Then you are outside the circle. Everyone in power knows that whatever we did after 9/11 was bound to piss everybody off, friend and enemy alike. Because we're the rich uncle of the world. Meaning you are the rich uncle of the world, endlessly obligated to give and give and give to every poor relation who taps you on the shoulder with a meaning cough. What? You don't feel like a rich uncle? Why the hell not? Is it possible that foreign countries are like your obnoxious next-door neighbor? You know the one. He's entitled to play loud music in the middle of the night, every night, without rebuke, but if your poplar tree overhangs his side of the fence, he's also entitled to lop off the offending branches and kill it dead, without rebuke. Will appealing to his good side help? No? Then why do you believe the lie that Iran is more reasonable than your asshole neighbor?
Do you believe the lie that the biggest problems facing the world are global warming and American overuse of natural resources like oil and natural gas? Then you're hopelessly outside the circle. Nobody in power gives a rat's ass about potential crises that may take a hundred years to affect some modest percentage of the world's people. They care about them only if they can use your fear to increase their power, their own remoteness from consequences, and their authority to reach into your wallet for more taxes. They also know that if we use a higher percentage of the world's resources than anybody else, that's a net plus. We get the highest percentage return from it, meaning the greatest productivity, the most wealth creation, which drives the entire global economy. Or didn't you know that?
Do you believe the lie that the government really cares about your health, your healthcare, and your lifespan? Then you don't understand the circle of power at all. Have they outlawed tobacco and cigarette smoking? No. Because then they'd lose the incredibly onerous and regressive taxes they impose on cigarettes. They care about your healthcare only if it enables them to make more businesses -- insurance, hospitals, medical practices, pharmaceutical giants -- dependent on them for profit, permission, existence. That's what it means to be "liberal." Inside the circle, that is.
Your side is dedicated to only one constituency: power. If you don't understand that, you're outside the circle. Any good they do you is the sheerest accident, an unintended consequence of a strategy whose prime purpose is to maintain your pitiful dependence on their breathtakingly humongous lies.
Enjoy the next four years. Obama's inside the circle now. Where the hell are you? And more importantly, what the hell are you? You're the meat that baits the trap.
. The online
editor of the National Review
(a fine Irish lady despite her puke-inducing interview with Peggy
Noonan) gave the best advice:
What is needed right now is completely mindless music. By which I mean
music that is expressly designed to shut down all parts of the brain so
completely there's nothing left but autonomic responses, like, say, the
Maybe you think there has to be a dancing pole for music like this.
There doesn't.
Not that it hurts.
It's just that what really matters is the beat, even if it's from very
little people.
Exercise is good, too. Keeps the brain from getting involved.
Even foreigners can help provide distraction with a proper beat.
Ever notice how good the Germans are at not thinking?
I mean, really.
But personally, we still prefer American blondes.
And even if sad thoughts still manage to creep in, they're not all
political. Some of them are just human.
Good luck with ducking the election. We'll be listening to Zevon here.
"Please Stay," seems right somehow. We just miss him. And maybe the time
is coming when we'll find new meaning in his call for "Lawyers, Guns, and
Money." Let's hope not.
. I have no intention of being gracious about this. I'd like to say I never thought I'd see
the day we'd elect a president of the United States who hates the
United States, but the truth is I've been fighting against this day for
35 years. I always knew this day could come. I just hoped it wouldn't.
Right now I'm in the mood for kicking ass and taking names. Top of the list, John McCain. I always had doubts about whether he really wanted to win, and his refusal to use the legitimate issue of Jerermiah Wright seals it as far as I'm concerned. After that, the turncoat Republican pundits -- David Brooks, George Will, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, David Frum, Christopher Buckley, Ann Applebaum, Michael Smerconish, and the snipers like Michelle Malkin and even Ann Coulter -- it doesn't matter who you ultimately voted for, because you did your damage long before election day. You helped turn this country over to a vengeful marxist without portfolio because he made your panties wet. I don't care how much damage it does to the Republican Party to read you out of it. The Republican Party is better off without you, ALL of you. Go to hell. Except, sadly, you're taking all of us with you.
Next up, the American people. I urge you to support your new president with all your patriotic fervor and belief. Because I won't. I refuse to accept a president who thinks our constitution is fatally flawed and who sees nothing wrong with choosing a black racist as a mentor or a murderous terrorist as a partner in a conspiracy to radicalize school children rather than teach them to read and write. To every one of you who voted for this pampered, resentful faker, I have just four words: I spit on you.
And, no, I'm not urging violence of any kind. I'm simply declaring my unalterable opposition to the worst electoral decision this country has ever made. I will not wait and see. I will not give him the benefit of the doubt. I will not hope for the best. His election is the greatest catastrophe that has befallen this republic in 232 years. Clinton was just corrupt. Obama is a nemesis. I will do everything I can to turn him legally out of office as soon as possible.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of making nice in the next few days and weeks. I won't be part of that. When you get sick of all the attempts to put the best possible face on this unutterable disaster, come here. We'll be at the old stand as usual, fighting for what remains of this stricken dream, our country.
Back to Our Roots:
. It's all
been a comedy for the last couple turns around the sun, but tomorrow will
declare itself as a morality play or a tragedy. Not to put too fine a
point on it, but we been around for a long long time. Mad the whole
time. Since this little excrescence in upstate New York in 1969.
Is this really the past? No. It isn't. It's the present. And probably
the future. The Baby Boomers -- i.e., the audience at Woodstock -- are
at the height of their power right now. They're the ones who are
driving this election. They own the universities, the government
bureaucracies, the mass media, the public school system, the
environmental movement, the Global Warming hysterics... all the places
they ran to hide when they were ducking the draft in the 1960s and all
the places they went to ground after American conservatives won the
Cold War and destroyed the communist lie twenty years later.
But they had a secret weapon. Popular music and popular culture that masqueraded as counterculture even as they were transforming it into quasi-mainstream culture. They had Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Who, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, and countless others who would raise succeeding generations -- including U2, Nirvana, and Radiohead -- to see western civilization as a monumental failure of a morality that wasn't as immediately gratifying as amorality or immorality.
Truthfully, black musicians had nothing whatever to do with this war. After Hendrix, black music descended almost immediately into the depths of drug- and sex-obsessed funk and then sex- and drug- and money-obsessed rap (with time out for drug- and drug-obsessed jazz). Halleluiah. Once again, as is always the case with radical leftists, white people were carrying the ball. Just as they blackmailed the Jews into betraying their faith in exchange for anti-semitic marxism, they persuaded the blacks into betraying their heritage in exchange for promises of liberation that were never planned by the elites. And in both cases, the lwhite ibs blamed their own deliberate failures on the powers-that-be, even when the powers-that-be were them.
But there's a funny thing about the irrational arts. Sometimes they retain a core of honesty even when they're trying very hard to corrupt themselves in the name of popular shibboleths. Rock and roll, which was born of the African-American blues and jazz, also fed a pure American streak of independence, rebellion, and skepticism that helped bring down the collectivist urge which motivated the sixties radicals. Individualistc rebellion became very big business in a distinctively American Way, to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. A few examples that are pertinent to the choice America will make tomorrow:
Yup. They're the American Rolling Stones. We've seen them in concert. One of the best shows in America. But they're not the only band who knows we're on the edge:
And to complete the showbiz trifecta, here is an appropriate statement
about November, courtesy of Guns'N'Roses:
So we feel a great sense of fatigue. Great great weariness. Black
people have all the musical talent in the world? (Despite all the music
that's actually changed the world?) Black people have all the dancing
talent in the world? (Despite Astaire, Nijinsky, Cyd Charisse, Margot
Fonteyn and Nureyev. Right. This is better? Sure it is.)
And now the 2008 presidential election sits on a knife edge. In these circumstances, we tend to revert to Scot barbarianism, but sometimes the Aussies wll do. Especially on the topic of liberal motivation:
But it's all show biz, right? Rock concerts aren't counterculture
events anymore. They're about money. Even our kids know it. Hell, we
take them to the concerts, as if we were showing them history. We don't
tell them about Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin, but we can show them
Mick Jagger:
My, weren't we cool? Not that we smoked dope or anything, kids. We
didn't. Or if we did, we'll tell you about it later, when you're older.
But if you come with us to this concert, we'll be able to show that we
were cool, too. Even cooler than Pearl Jam, Maroon Five, and whatever
whining alt rock band you're listening to now. We invented the GIANT rock
Oh. Did we show you this part? Probably not.
This is who they were and are to this day. Love the people in general,
and hire the Hell's Angels to keep them in line. Before you vote, do us
one favor. Ask yourself if your love for people permits you to let them
make their own decisions. If you really truly believe you should make
their decisions for them, because you're just so much smarter, admit
that you're one of Obama's Angels and act accordingly. Otherwise, vote
for McCain. No, he's not a rock star. He's just a man. Which is what
the president of the United States was always supposed to be. A man who
can respond like the rest of us to this:
I can pretty much guarantee you Obama doesn't repond to that the way
you do. If it doesn't bother you, vote for him.
Note that we're not predicting how it's all going to go. For the first time ever, we doubt you. Which is the beginning of the end even if it isn't.
Because the beginning of the end began a long long time ago.
Vote. Even if you know we're
going to lose. Vote.
An Open Letter to Michelle Malkin:
I was going to let this go because today should be for pure celebration, but
I can't let it go. I'm too angry. I believe you owe the City of
Philadelphia a formal apology for your gratuitous and inflammatory
cheap shot on October, 30, 2008.
We've defended you here at InstaPunk on multiple occasions, believing
that the kind and amount of abuse you receive via email and lefty
bloggers is unwarranted. But for this post you warrant extreme
criticism. There is no way I can interpret what you wrote as anything
but a thinly veiled racial slur. An unwarranted
Your reference to a political op-ed in the Philadelphia Daily News was sneaky. You know very well, because your Google link corrects your disingenuous emendation immediately, that the column was about the possibility of race riots and race war. Then you proceed to the question about what they will do if Obama wins. Which makes it clear who you were talking about in your headline when you used the word "some."
Your commenters -- whom, I might add, are all subject to your personal approval before they can be permitted the honor of reacting to your posts in print -- understood exactly what you were saying. This little elite of the hand-picked offered up dozens of sniggering jokes about loading their shotguns in preparation for defending themselves against them on Election Night, in addition to all their ignorant and prejudiced characterizations of Philadelphia.
Here's what the Philadelphia police had to say about the malefactors:
Such a scene has absolutely nothing to do with race riots. It has to do
with young idiots of all colors and backgrounds drinking too much in a public setting and spurred on by their
peers -- i.e., other young idiots -- trashing a city street as if it
were a frathouse common room. And the goings-on did not amount to "riots" just because
the police wore riot gear. About two officers were treated for minor
injuries. I believe most of the cities which have experienced actual
riots would be delighted if they had concluded with a few bruises and a
few dozen acts of vandalism instead of a few city blocks burned to the
ground. But maybe that's just me.
You see, I watched some of the early televised celebrations on Broad Street. The first hooligan activity I saw was a crowd of white kids who stormed a local TV news van, climbed on top, probably breaking the satellite dish, and subsequently began rocking it in an obvious attempt to overturn it. Let me repeat the salient fact. They were white kids. I'm sure none of your gun-toting commenters from Oklahoma, Arizona, or Texas have ever seen drunken white college students make asses of themselves and destroy private property after a Big Twelve football game. Right. And do they call those incidents white race riots? Probably not. Of course, their ability to make such a comparison was prevented by your subtle manipulation, which no doubt led them to imagine an emptying of the eternally resentful inner city tenements seeking any opportunity to trash whitey.
Way to go, Michelle Malkin. You are quadruply guilty in this instance. First, you dream up a phony racial issue where there is none. Second, you tolerate without chastisement a population of goon commenters who make you look as bad as your critics insist you are. Third, it didn't even occur to you to congratulate Philadelphia on a victory that brought joy to 99.9 percent of a regional community consisting of some five to seven million people before you scorched them in service to a half-baked political analogy. And fourth, you know better, generally and specifically.
You were born in Philadelphia and grew up in South Jersey, which means you have no excuse for believing all the despicable libel of Philadelphia sports fans that has been disseminated throughout the nation for so many years. You of all people should be aware that Philadelphia's -- and by extension the entire Delaware Valley's -- relationship to its sports teams is a positive and highly instructive example of the bedrock American values you claim to advocate, defend, and treasure in your personal life.
As I write this, more than two million people are thronging the streets of Philadelphia to celebrate a unifying event that transcends all political, racial, ethnic, and economic divisions in a community that is capable of such a display despite our supposedly hopelessly fractured country. Today, no one in this subset of three blue states is wearing or feeling anything but Phillies red. It's a perfect demonstration of the American ideal. As are the fans who have been so reviled by the mass media. Do they boo bad performance and failure? Yes. Absolutely. Like every citizen and dissident who loves his country and has the guts to insist that it be better. Does their loyalty ever falter, their love ever fade? No. The boos are as much a proof of their love and loyalty as the cheers, the overwhelmingly exuberant joy when success is achieved. Even if the intervals between success are more than a quarter of a century.
The parade that has shut down everything in the City of Philadelphia today -- including network TV programming, and syndicated radio broadcasting, and political campaigning, and business, and government -- is the real-world solution to the supposed oxymoron of America's individualistic union. No single Phillies fan -- or Eagles, Sixers, or Flyers fan -- ever abdicates his individual right to criticize the team he loves so much, but he is also instantly prepared to join the unity created by outstanding accomplishment. What better demonstration could you hope for of the American entrepreneurial spirit? The values continuously reinforced by the entire community require hard work, character, individual effort, teamwork, investment in the future, fearless self-criticism, perseverance through hardship, accountability for results good and bad, devotion to the ideal of being the best there is, and ready acknowledgment, by acclamation, of those who have proven themselves to be the best.
That's the exercise Philadelphia is acting out right now for an entire nation -- in the teeth of one of the most bitterly divisive political environments in our nation's history. Of course we can come together, they are showing us. On Broad Street. In Philadelphia. In the City of -- white, black, gay, straight, male, female, rich, poor, Catholic, protestant, muslim, Jew, Democrat, Republican, Italian, Polish, Irish, Russian, German, Hispanic, and Anglo-Saxon -- Brotherly Love.
How you cheapened that epithet. You should be ashamed of yourself. If you are true to the real land of your birth, you will apologize publicly before another 24 hours goes by.
We'll see.
P.S. Anybody who reads this and shares my ire can learn how to email Ms. Malkin at her site. I doubt she'll respond to this post without some pressure in the form of numbers, which is why I'm expecting no response. But I think she deserves some pressure. Don't you?
. Obama has taken to calling the events of September 11, 2001, "a
tragedy," as if it were a simple plane crash. His conservative
counterparts are mired in arguments about which Democratic
administration the Obamessiah's would be a throwback to -- FDR, LBJ, or
that earlier "JC," Jimmy Carter. And while they squabble with each
other about this and about
the future of conservatism (Obamacons
vs. the faithful,
vs just
folks, elites
vs elites,
bloggers vs neo-netroots,
you pick it), most seem to be forgetting that the details of analysis
are, at this point, irrelevant. The most alarming retro aspect of an
Obama presidency is that whether it most closely resembles Carter's or
even Huey Long's brief dictatorship of Louisiana, its time window will
certainly be pre-9/11.
Democrats, liberals, the media, the Obama 'movement' are all in a state of denial. They don't like the look of the world the way it is, and so they respond by constantly trying to turn back the clock. They want to repeal the Iraq War altogether, thereby wiping away the need to make a responsible decision about that country's future as well as the present deadly impasse with Iran. They want to undo the harsh realities of the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, the Department of Homeland Security, and even the war in Afghanistan they once supported. That's why they remain so focused on the lone figure of Osama bin Laden. In some part of their numbed and impaired consciousness, it's really still the late 1990s, and if we could place him properly and legally in custody, everything which has happened in the past seven years might yet be prevented. In all these respects, an Obama election has come to represent for them an abracadabra moment that will magically reboot the world.
I'm not saying this is a rational viewpoint. It's a fantasy, of course, but it's one they feed and sustain through a variety of stratagems. That's why the images of 9/11 have been banished from the airwaves. Without those vividly intense reminders, sense memory fades and a determined mind can transform a violently murderous attack into a mere sad event. That's why it has become an offence for any (Republican) politician to mention that day and its terrible costs in the course of a campaign for office. It's become insensitive, exploitative, even odious and obscene to remind the American electorate that there's a considerable population of people out there who want us dead, including innocent women and children.
Such self-deception manifests itself in other ways as well. Why has the left become so psychotically fixated on the myth that the Iraq War came about as a result of "lies" by a handful of Bush administration officials? Even their own leadership saw the same intelligence and came to the same conclusions about the threats posed by Saddam Hussein, which were not confined to weapons of mass destruction but included many other alarming behaviors and hostile acts. Refusing ever to move past the circumstances of the initial decision to go to war enabled the Democrats in congress and at large to avoid taking any responsibility for what to do next. In the end all their fulminations and accusations reduced their role in the policy-making process from what it should have been to a tantrum demand for a "do-over."
Worse, they have chosen to use their denial about the Iraq War to cover their lack of any policy whatsoever about the middle east. Because the Iraq War shouldn't have been fought, they're not obliged to condemn Hamas or Hizbollah. Or the Iranian threat to Israel. It's just George Bush's fault (never mind that this particular clock has been ticking since the Iranians took Americans hostage in 1979), and the only right policy is the backward tick-tick-tick of the senatorial clock.
The grandest of all their acts of denial, however, has been the Obama presidential campaign. O Glory. Let's deny fucking everything. There is no War on Terror. There is no foreign policy issue that can't be ajudicated by simply talking with our enemies in a spirit of free and friendly cooperation.There is no challenge facing the world that can't be met by abdicating all responsibility to the two most impotent, cynical, and racist oligarchies in the world, the United Nations and the European Union. It's perfectly appropriate to elect as president a man who has never been in charge of anything and has never spent as much time in any job as he will spend in his first term in the White House. That's great, even for longtime conservatives like Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, David Brooks, Chris Buckley, and other women who have to change their underwear every time this man speaks in public.
Deep breath. There is no foreign policy mandate. 9/11 didn't happen, not really. The Iraq War didn't happen because we were lied to. The War in Afghanistan didn't happen, either, because Clinton would never have been enough of a fool to let Osama bin Laden get away with five, count'em five, terrorist acts we didn't respond to. Sigh of relief. So. (Second sigh of relief.) We can -- absolutely, positively -- start over. With Obama.
And now, everybody, we have the greatest act of pretend ever attempted. A man who has done nothing, ever, promises that he can heal the entire world with "hope and change." Two words, backed up by no accomplishments of any kind. He has a pleasing baritone voice, a lot like David Hasselhoff (thus explaining why the Germans like him so much), but he's never studied history, economics, or American geography. In fact, he's a fucking dolt about everything but constitutional law, except that he thinks the Constitution should be ditched for African-American Liberation Theology.
Here's the plum. Imagine this as you watch the video below. We Americans, the ones who join in the delusion of denial, decide together that the best way to deal with an all-out attack on America is to elect as our president the son of a muslim African who spent his childhood in muslim Indonesia and returned to the U.S. to build a political career via alliances with black nationalists, American-hating Christians who honored anti-semitic black muslims, former SDS terrorists, and PLO diplomats.
Which leads me to my last instruction. Watch this video. All the way through. It will be hard. I couldn't do it the first or the second time. It's too painful. I'm begging you to watch the whole thing nonetheless, now, on the eve of the election.
The author, Peregrine John, maintains that it's only a chronology. It's much more than that. At the beginning, you get to see the Twin Towers thrusting through the clouds. This is who we are, who we were, the most vivid possible example of American exceptionalism. We just shone.
Then comes the attack. And I've spoken with Peregrine John about this, and he denies it, but if you look, you can see that there is a face of predation in almost every single frame of the assault on the towers. I don't want to overplay it, but this is no accident. It was no "tragedy." It was an attack on the United States of America by forces of, well, evil.
Watch from frame to frame. Does it not look as if the Towers are being eaten?
Regardless. Look at the footage. What in the Obama campaign convinces you that he feels any of the pain -- or meaning -- of this loss? What makes you think he would fight in remembrance?
An event of this sort is too huge to be dismissed as a random tragedy. It sends out ripples. It changes everything that happens after. The world doesn't like us so much because we noticed this happened? Fuck them. But that's just one ripple. The ripples in sum go out and out and out. Eventually, they begin to diminish, as with the declining birth rate of all European nations, while the muslims move in. But an event like this doesn't simply disappear. What's amazing in retrospect is how measured the U.S. response has been. We could have killed them all. Dead. Sicilian style. That's one part of us. But we didn't. We're Americans. Go back to the image of the Twin Towers poking through the clouds. That's us. America. Alone in the world of definite dreams.
But if we can't rebuild those towers, the world will subside into a new barbarian age.
Watch the video. And taste every moment.
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BREAKING: 2014 Rock Hall bands announced!
KISS was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band has been eligible for induction since 1999. Their exclusion from the Hall is a sore subject for the band. In 2012 Gene Simmons told Rolling Stone, "It's become a joke. We've been thinking about it and the answer is simply, 'We'll just buy it and fire everybody.'"
For the second straight year, a fan vote will be included in the ballots. Fans can vote at RollingStone.com. Don't miss your chance t sound off on your favorite!
Other nominees include Deep Purple, Hall & Oates, Nirvana, the Paul Butterfield Band, Chic, Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, N.W.A., Link Wray, the Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Yes, and the Zombies.

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Richland, state officials celebrate award of cash for former flower site
State Rep. Hal English of Hampton compared the roadside gathering of elected officials to a floral delivery.
"I like to think of us delivering flowers," English, (R-30) told people who gathered Oct. 24 along Bakerstown Road to applaud the award of $500,000 in state gaming revenue for the purchase and cleanup of blighted land once owned by Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co.
"We're delivering a special something back to the community," English said.
Flag men slowed passing motorists on the Red Belt as officials delivered short speeches across the road from the site of now-demolished Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. greenhouses.
"This is a great day for Richland Township and Richland Township residents," said Dean Bastianini, manager of Richland Township.
Other attendees included state House of Representatives Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-28), state Sen. Randy Vulakovich (R-40), and Mary Ann Eisenreich, director of the Southwest Pennsylvania office of Gov. Tom Corbett.
The land trust plans to preserve the land for public recreation and limited economic development.
The $500,000 in Rivers Casino revenue to Allegheny Land Trust, a nonprofit group, is among about $6.5 million in grants approved by the Commonwealth Financing Authority to fund 19 projects in Allegheny County through the Pennsylvania Gaming Economic Development and Tourism Fund.
Allegheny Land Trust plans to purchase the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. tract for $1.4 million in grants and donations from Legacy Landings Inc., the current owner. The land trust expects to spend another $600,000 in grants and donations to pay for cleanup of the site.
"We're about 85 percent of the way there," Land Trust Executive Director Chris Beichner said after he unveiled a roadside sign showing a thermometer to illustrate the nearly $1.8 million collected so far, including about $1 million in state funds.
Trust officials hope to collect about $140,000 for the land purchase from Richland area residents and businesses.
"We're still about $65,000 shy," Beichner said.
About 300 Richland area individuals and business owners already donated about $75,000 to the campaign, he said.
"It's good to see the support from our legislators," said Annette Robinson, president of the Orchard Park Neighborhood Association. "Now we just need our community to step up."
Last year, Robinson organized Christmas season luminaria sales that raised about $9,000 for the purchase of the former Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co. property.
Allegheny Land Trust is developing 2-to-10-year master plans for the tract, based on suggestions made by about 500 people who attended brainstorming sessions in February and April at the Northern Tier Regional Library.
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GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 90 major formats including popular formats like DPX, DICOM, BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, PNM, SVG, and TIFF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Tcl, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X.
Release Notes: This release rolled up nine months of bugfixes and new features. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Support for Google's WebP format has been added to configure-based builds (not yet for Windows Visual Studio builds). Support for non-standard 32-bit PNM and PAM formats was added to the Q32 build. JPEG now supports writing the XMP profile. The JPEG, PNG, littlecms, libxml2, and FreeType libraries were refreshed to the latest upstream versions for the Windows Visual Studio builds.
Aspose.Slides is a .NET component to read, write, and modify a PowerPoint document without using MS PowerPoint. It supports files from PowerPoint versions from 97-2007 and all three PowerPoint formats: PPT, POT, and PPS. It lets you create, access, copy, clone, edit, and delete slides in your presentations. It can save PowerPoint slides into PDF format and also save presentations in SVG format, Streams or Images.
Release Notes: This release enhanced support for SmartArt loading, saving, editing, and 2D rendering of objects. It is now possible to set SmartArt background color and text rendering, to set multi-level chart categories, and automatically update linked OLE frame data. Several presentation rendering issues inside exported PDF and slides thumbnails were fixed, including missing hyperlinks, missing images, wrong font substitution, and improper text rendering.
F-IRC is an IRC client for the console. It supports multiple servers, scrollback, and all the basic features one can expect from an IRC client.
Release Notes: User interface improvements and fixes for two crashes. Favorites and auto-join can now be edited from within the program. The CTCP implementation was enhanced. Mouse support was added. "Search in all channels" was added. It is now possible to log all conversations.
Berkeley Yacc (byacc) is a high-quality yacc variant. It is written to avoid dependencies upon a particular compiler. It was written around 1990 by Robert Corbett, who previously wrote Bison. This version has been modified to conform to ANSI C.
Release Notes: This release implemented %token-table for building ntpd by NetBSD.
cproto generates function prototypes for functions defined in the specified C source files to the standard output. The function definitions may be in K&R or ANSI C style, or in the lint library form. cproto can also convert function definitions in the specified files from the K&R style to the ANSI C style.
Release Notes: This release corrected a configure-check needed for verbose diagnostics by cproto.
Hnefatafl is an implementation of the Norse board game. Hnefatafl 11x11, 13x13, Tablut, and many other variants are supported using rulesets. There is a command-line interface and an X interface (the latter is optional).
Release Notes: Some problems with the XLib interface that appear in certain window managers was fixed.
Qsynth is a GUI front-end application for Fluidsynth. Fluidsynth is a command-line software synthesizer based on the Soundfont specification. Qsynth was built with the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application that allows the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths, but it currently just wraps the excellent Fluidsynth program.
Release Notes: A fifth of a Jubilee release.
QjackCtl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon. With time, this primordial interface has become richer by including an enhanced patchbay and connection control features.
Release Notes: A fifth of a Jubilee release.
The Legend of Edgar is a 2D platform game with a persistent world. When Edgar's father fails to return home after venturing out one dark and stormy night, Edgar fears the worst: he has been captured by the evil sorcerer who lives in a fortress beyond the forbidden swamp. In The Legend of Edgar, you take on the role of Edgar as he ventures across the world, battling fearsome creatures and solving puzzles while trying to find and rescue his father.
Release Notes: Minor graphical improvements to the Sewer and Basement maps, a chain graphic around Chaos's neck, and a fix for a grammar problem when Edgar speaks after the cauldron explodes. Dutch, Persian, and Romanian translations were added and the German translation was updated.
dantalian is a transparent file-tagging system using hard links. Tags (which are directories) can be accessed on the file system level (with or without fuse), allowing maximum interoperability with other applications. Tagging operations are performed with scripts, and can also be hooked into other applications. dantalian is file-agnostic and can be used with any and all types of files. Tags can be organized hierarchically and can also be tagged. With (optional) fuse support, dantalian can also create virtual tags (currently limited to tag intersections (AND), but will be expanded later), which can be accessed transparently on the filesystem level.
Release Notes: A new FUSE mount tree/node system was added. Nodes are created and deleted dynamically in a FUSE mounted library. Changes are saved on unmount and loaded on mount. The tree is dumped as a JSON file, and can be edited by hand if necessary. This release also added an rmnode socket command, unit tests, bugfixes, documentation improvements, and mktag and rmtag commands.
CodeQuery is a tool for indexing and then querying or searching C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go source code. It builds upon the databases of cscope and ctags, which are processed by the cqmakedb tool to generate a CodeQuery database file. This can be viewed and queried with a GUI tool. The features include auto-completion of search terms and visualization of function call graphs and class inheritance. The following queries can be made: Symbol, Function or macro, Class or struct, Functions calling this function, Functions called by this function, Class which owns this member or method, Members and methods of this class, Parent of this class (inheritance), Children of this class (inheritance), Files including this file, and Full path for file.
Release Notes: A file path filter, search result traversal within a single file, and bugfixes.
Kigo Video Converter Pro is a DVD ripping, DVD creation, Web video downloader, and video conversion tool. It supports all popular video formats including FLV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, AVI, M2TS, and MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video) and includes output presets for iPod, iPhone, iPhone 3G, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, PSP, and Zune.
Release Notes: A new interface, the ability to download videos with different resolutions, support for downloading subtitle files from YouTube, support for burning to ISO, support for setting the audio tracks and subtitles of the source files before burning, and online help.
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It support various database systems and it also offers a content management system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image manager, flexible multi-group and multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, PDF support, a backup system, Active Directory support, and an easy to use installation script.
Release Notes: This release includes fixes for SSO logins with mod_auth_kerb and improves the HTTPS handling. The Dutch and European Portuguese translations were updated, and some minor bugs and issues were fixed.
Chaotic Rage is a 3D zombie shooter with multiple game modes and play styles. It supports modding, single player mode, split-screen mode, networking, and campaigns.
Release Notes: This release is mostly bugfixes. There were a few launch bugs for Intel graphics, and a DLL error which affected almost all Windows users. Many small, annoying network bugs have been fixed, too.
dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa. It is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations.
Release Notes: This release adds a new Russian translation of messages, the options -ul and -ub to convert UTF-16 files without BOM, printing of values of binary symbols when found, and building of the Windows 32 bit version with Large File Support.
ProjectForge is a Web-based solution for project management including time sheet booking, Gantt charts, financial administration and controlling, issue management, and managing work-break-down structures. First-party and third-party plugins are supported. Ready-to-run packages of the ProjectForge server are available for Windows, Mac OS X, and all Java6-capable platforms (database and Web server are included). ProjectForge is also available as a web-archive file (war) for usage within your own Web server and for your own database installation.
Release Notes: This is a security release. Please update as soon as is practicable. Some vulnerabilities were discovered (a logged-in-user is always required): Cross-Site-Request-Forgery (CSRF), XSS of JSON-Strings in autocompletion forms, salt and pepper for passwords, and the mechanism for avoiding brute-force-attacks on user/password combinations including rest-calls. Some minor bugfixes and features are included, as well (such as extended LDAP support).
Devel Live CD includes a development toolchain from 4MLinux which makes it possible to compile the Linux kernel and other software written in C and C++. There is no dependency tracking in 4MLinux, so this may be a useful tool for developers who are interested in building fully-customized Linux operating systems.
Release Notes: This release is based on 4MLinux 8.0 and Fedora 20 (x86/32-bit/smp).
nut is nutrition software to record what you eat and analyze your meals for nutrient composition. The database included is the latest USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. This database contains values for vitamins, minerals, fats, calories, protein, carbohydrates, fiber, etc., and includes the essential polyunsaturated fats, Omega-3 and Omega-6. Nutrient levels are expressed as a percentage of the Daily Value, the familiar standard of food labeling in the United States, but also can be fully customized. Foods can be added from recipes or food labels, and nutrient intake can be graphed. The program is completely menu-driven and there are no commands to learn.
Release Notes: This release includes bugfixes and enhancements to the automatic portion control feature.
The Amberdms Billing System is a Web application that provides accounting, invoicing, service billing, and time keeping functions. It is designed for small and medium businesses. This program is developer-friendly with a SOAP API, as well as being appropriate for ISPs with service usage billing features.
Release Notes: This release adds several small (but useful) bugfixes. In particular, there are fixes for the "licenses" service type, fixes for the quotes page missing edit/delete links, and improvements for newer versions of PHP and MySQL.
Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor with built-in MIDI player and PDF preview. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use.
Release Notes: This is a maintenance release with bugfixes and small improvements. The main new feature is continuous auto-engrave.
GeoToad is a geocaching query tool to help speed up the boring part of geocaching: choosing the cache and collecting the data. It allows you to generate any kind of complex query you want, and the program will go and poll the Geocaching query, grab the data, and output it to any format you want. The Geocache info can be synced straight to your GPS, iPod, PDA, or cell phone in over 20 different formats.
Release Notes: This release addresses a lot of reported issues and wishlist items not covered by 3.19.0. Most notable are improvements in handling PMO caches, cookies, and filters. Some new long options (which can be better abridged) have been added. A caveat for EasyName users: The "waypointLength" option has been renamed "-w" to make room for further enhancements. There's an emergency download mirror now since GoogleCode has announced it will shut down its own download services. Note that there are no individual download links given this time.
BugHotel Reservation System is a hotel booking and accounting software package which uses the Internet to "network" your corporate office to each of your hotels. All data processing occurs at the Application Service Provider (ASP) data center. Income statements, reports, etc. may be customized.
Release Notes: This release adds some fields to the cities table.
JStock is stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, and portfolio management. Free SMS/email alerts are supported. It integrates seamlessly with Android.
Release Notes: This release fixes a broken stock history server.
VMS Empire is a simulation of a full-scale war between two emperors, the computer and you. Naturally, there is only room for one, so the object of the game is to destroy the other. The computer plays by the same rules that you do. This game was ancestral to all later expand/explore/exploit/exterminate games, including Civilization and Master of Orion.
Release Notes: This release cleans the code to modern C, applys cppcheck, and fixes a code typo reported as Debian bug #593434.
Centipede is a simple framework for writing command line application in Java. It uses classpath scanning and the Spring framework to automatically discover classes that fit a certain pattern to automatically expose classes as command line applications.
Release Notes: This release adds a missing dot to archetype to make the local configuration directory invisible on Unix.
A Mozilla-based browser.
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Beyonce: Diet, Workout Plan Advised After Pregnancy
As AOL Music reports, now that baby Blue Ivy is no longer just a bun in the oven, Beyonce will surely be hitting the gym to reclaim her famously fit curves! Celebrity post-baby body expert Jeanette Jenkins, who has worked with P!nk and Robin Thicke's wife, actress Paula Patton on their new mommy figures, has shed some light on the steps Beyonce should take in order to bounce back to her enviable pre-pregnancy shape.
The fitness guru told MTV News that getting your figure back after a baby is born starts with your habits before and during the pregnancy itself. "Working out should have been a part of a new mom's regimen before she got pregnant, while she was pregnant and for the rest of her life," Jenkins insists. "It should be part of your daily life, just like brushing your teeth or combing your hair. It's your internal hygiene," she adds. Well, Queen B definitely had that part down!
So how soon can Bey start working her way back to bootyliciousness? According to Jenkins, "A new mother should first wait until she gets clearance from her doctor, and she can immediately start by making healthy food choices. Once a mother receives clearance from her doctor, then her starting point depends on her fitness level."
The fitness expert prescribes a holistic workout regimen including cardio, flexibility, muscular strength and muscular endurance training, four to five days per week. In addition, she advises, "For the best weight-loss and toning results, it is important to train the entire body head to toe through all of the components of fitness with an emphasis on using the core at all times. It doesn't matter if she is power walking, doing yoga or cooking in the kitchen, the core needs to be consistently engaged. Always pull your navel to your spine."
And while this all may seem a bit rigorous for a new mom, Jenkins insists that having fun is the key to sticking with any fitness program. "The goal is to find activities and workouts that you enjoy so that you keep it a part of your life forever."
And what can Beyonce, who put herself and husband Jay-Z on a "partially vegan diet" during her pregnancy, chow down on to fuel her grueling workouts while still losing the baby weight? Jenkins has a balanced approach to that, too. "From my experience, if you make healthy food choices 80 percent of the time and eat whatever you like 20 percent of the time, then you will have great results. I recommend to my clients to eat healthy Monday through Friday and then let go on the weekend and enjoy yourself."


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For next year's training camp, the New York Giants might want to consider providing their players with something better to sleep on.
Ownership doesn't necessarily have to spend a lot of money buying 90 Sleep Number beds or Tempur-Pedic mattresses, but the players sure would appreciate an upgrade.
Because, according to ESPNNewYork.com, the small, hard mattresses at the University of Albany just aren't cutting it.
"We are big humans," tight end Martellus Bennett said. "Every bed is small. You can't put a damn dinosaur in a twin-sized bed ... all the beds, unless you got a California king, the beds are going to be small to these guys. If a normal-sized human jumps into a regular-sized bed, it fits perfectly. A large, big human jumps into a regular-sized bed, the bed is too small."
Those small beds, most of which were provided by the team, are believed to have contributed to back injuries to at least five players -- defensive tackles Marvin Austin and Martin Parker, offensive tackles Will Beatty and James Brewer, and cornerback Terrell Thomas.
At least that's the belief of some of the players themselves.
"Yes, I really do," defensive tackle Linval Joseph said when asked if the beds have something to do with all those aching backs. "I really do. Beds. I mean, everybody has been complaining about their back because the beds in the dorm are fairly hard. My back be hurting, too. I think it is just the bed."
Added Brewer: "Those beds are not the best. I'm not going to knock Albany because, hey, it could always be worse, but I definitely do miss my own bed. ... Will's complaining, but at least he has a regular-sized bed. I have like a little kid's cot, like I'm in college all over again."
The team maintains it hasn't received any complaints.
Consider this a complaint.
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


text: With the concept of a classical education left exposed on the hillside of the national curriculum, Charlotte Higgins's joyful pop history attempts to bring ancient Greece back in from the cold. Helpfully listing "the 10 essential Greek quotes", she includes "Gnothi seauton" ("Know yourself") - a significant mission statement for a book eager to reveal the underpinnings of western culture to the general reader. Unafraid to use The Matrix or 300 as Hollywood grist to her improving mill, she also revels in jocular analogies (Mount Olympus as the royal box at Wembley stadium) and gentle humour (a travel itinerary written in the style of Herodotus if he ran Swan Hellenic cruises). A modern audience is also targeted with her unstinting enthusiasm for Homer ("I don't think I'm physically capable of reading Iliad book six without weeping"). Yet Higgins is clear that ancient Greece is ultimately an unknowable, savagely strange culture that will always, thrillingly, retain an "incompleteness at its heart".


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Color the fish by numbers 1 - 5
Use the key to color each section the correct color based on the number inside it.
Dinosaur color by numbers 1 - 10
Combine the fun activity of coloring with some early math skills and you have our color by numbers section!
Look at the numbers on this worksheet and follow directions to color only the even numbers.
Look at the numbers on this worksheet and follow directions to color only the odd numbers.
Color by numbers to reveal the Easter eggs.
Count and color numbers 1 - 5
Have fun reviewing the numbers with your kids by coloring them! What child doesn't enjoy coloring? These coloring pages are a great way to passively teach your kids their numbers.
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Familiar Faces Highlight New York Showcase
Big Apple Showcase Day for New York-breds at Belmont Park has solid fields for all six of its stakes races. The $200,000 Commentator Stakes and $125,000 Kingston Stakes have drawn many top older runners.
Big Apple Showcase Day for New York-breds at Belmont Park has solid fields for all six of its stakes races. The $200,000 Commentator Stakes and $125,000 Kingston Stakes have drawn many top older runners.
Jose Ortiz extended his domination of the fall meet jockey standings Nov. 2 at Aqueduct Racetrack, with five winners from seven mounts on Friday's program.
Things may not have gone as well as they could have for Governor Malibu in the Empire State's most iconic 3-year-old races this season, but in starts against his fellow New York-breds the Malibu Moon colt has been dominant.
Favored Blacktype, an impressive winner of an allowance race at Belmont Park in his previous start, rallied in the stretch to win the $158,500 Oceanport Stakes (gr. IIIT) July 31 at Monmouth Park.
Since moving down to Florida in September, Crossed Sabres Farm's Lochte has been unbeatable. He continued his streak Nov. 21 at Gulfstream Park West, claiming the $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT).
Crossed Sabres Farm's Lochte, upset winner of the 2014 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (gr. IT), tops the field for the $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Gulfstream Park West Nov. 21.
Former claimer Royal Posse will try for his second straight stakes win against other New York-breds and third victory overall when he faces an expected eight rivals in the $300,000 Empire Classic Handicap.
The 11th installment in the rivalry between New York-breds Lubash and Kharafa was staged Sept. 20 at Belmont Park, where Kharafa easily got past his opponent in the stretch and went on victory.
With one of his familiar rivals looking to play spoiler, Lubash will try to win $125,000 Ashley T. Cole Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds and older a second straight year and third time overall Sept. 29 at Belmont Park.
The Aug. 28 card at Saratoga Race Course, on the eve of Travers Stakes (gr. I) Day, will feature six New York-bred stakes worth $1.15 million, highlighted by a showdown of older turf runners in the $150,000 West Point.
Crossed Sabres Farm's Lochte hopes to get back on the winning track as the 5-year-old gelded son of Medaglia d'Oro tops the field for the $150,000 Oceanport Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 2 at Monmouth Park.
After cruising to victory in an allowance/optional claiming race May 2 at Belmont Park, stakes winner Ostrolenka appears ready to deliver a top effort in the $125,000 Mike Lee Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds May 25.
Graded/group winner Speaking of Which has arrived in India, where he will begin his stallion career at Usha Stud Farm when the breeding season begins Feb. 15.
Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad found her way back to the Belmont Park winner's circle Oct. 18, landing the $150,000 Iroquois on Empire Showcase Day for her fifth stakes score of the year.
Discreet Marq, a New York-bred who has competed primarily in grade I company since winning the 2013 Del Mar Oaks (gr. IT), tops the oversubscribed field of fillies and mares entered in the Oct. 18 Ticonderoga Stakes.
Walter Swinburn's Legendary (GB) attended the pace in the $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes (gr. IIIT) and kicked clear to hold off 2-1 favorite Up With the Birds Oct. 11 at Belmont Park, collecting his first graded score.
Multiple grade III winner Za Approval will try to win a second straight edition of the $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes (gr. IIIT) when he starts in the 1 1/8-mile turf race Oct. 11 at Belmont Park.
Winning Cause, getting an ideal stalking trip from jockey Eddie Castro, staved off odds-on choice Big Blue Kitten to win the Cliff Hanger Stakes (gr. IIIT) Aug. 24 on turf at Monmouth Park, halting a 10-race losing skid.
Ken and Sarah Ramsey's two-time grade I winner Big Blue Kitten was guided out of a pocket in the stretch and completed a last-to-first rally in the $100,000 Lure Stakes in his 2014 debut Aug. 2 at Saratoga Race Course.
Dayatthespa and Big Blue Kitten, two familiar faces from the barn of trainer Chad Brown, head the respective fields for the De La Rose and the Lure, two $100,000 turf races on the Whitney undercard Aug. 2 at Saratoga.
Front-running Sayaad, making his first appearance in more than eight months, drew away from favored Kharafa in the stretch to capture the $147,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes on a yielding turf July 4 at Belmont Park.
Moyglare Stud's homebred wins his third graded stakes on the turf June 8 in New Jersey.
Kharafa had a an ideal trip to comfortably win the $125,000 Kingston Stakes from familiar rival Lubash May 31 at Belmont Park.
Za Approval, runner-up to Wise Dan in last year's Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT), tops the seven-horse field that will contest the Poker Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the May 26 Memorial Day card at Belmont Park.
Standing in the winner's circle following the win by Little Mike in the $90,000 Flying Pidgeon Stakes at Gulfstream Park, trainer Carlo Vaccarezza admitted he was relieved by the solid return of his multiple grade I winner.
|Breeder / Owner
|Thomas Albertrani
|John C. Kimmel
|Clear Attempt
|William I. Mott
|Compliance Officer
|Bruce R. Brown
|Don Dulce
|Bruce N. Levine
|Michael J. Trombetta
|Timothy A. Hills
|David Jacobson
|Saint Pierre
|Kelly Rubley
|Speaking of Which (IRE)
|Christophe Clement
|Prairie Gold Lassie S.
|A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase H. (G1)
|John Morrissey S.
|Real Good Deal S.
|Prairie Gold Juvenile S.


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Financial Inclusion
Aadhar Enabled Payment System
Aadhaar Payment Bridge System (APBS)
Aadhaar Payment Bridge System is a payment service offered by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) using the Aadhaar" number, issued by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI).
APBS will be used for credit transactions for Government/ Government agency disbursements. Therefore, these Procedural Guidelines will be used only for APBS – Credit.
Objectives of APBS
APBS has the following objectives.
- To sub-serve the goal of Government of India (GOI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in furthering Financial Inclusion by way of processing government disbursement using Aadhaar number.
- To promote electronification of retail payments.
- To support various Schemes like NREGA, Social Security Pension, Handicapped Old Age Pension etc. of any Central or State Government bodies, to send financial details to the beneficiary using Aadhaar number.
Brief Features of APBS
The following are the key features of the proposed solution
- APBS will be accessed through secure mechanism.
- Routing of Aadhaar based credit transaction files will be done on the basis of Institute Identification Number (IIN), provided to the participant banks.
- Sponsor Banks will upload Aadhaar-based credit transaction files.
- NPCI will process the uploaded files, prepare drawee bank files and generate settlement file.
- The settlement file will be posted to banks accounts with RBI – either by NPCI directly or through a settlement agency till the time NPCI gets its RTGS membership.
- Destination banks can download the incoming files for credit processing after the settlement file has been successfully processed.
- APBS will allow the destination banks to send return and success status files.
- Sponsor Banks will receive the status files and can update customers based on the same on the fate of transactions.
AEPS in Kerala Gramin Bank
KGB is a member of APBS. Since inception KGB has received inward remittance of about Rs. 40 cr under Aadhaar Payment Bridge System
Aadhar Enabled Payment System (AEPS)
AEPS is a bank led model which allows online interoperable financial inclusion transaction at PoS (Micro-ATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank using the Aadhaar authentication.
The four Aadhaar enabled basic types of banking transactions are as follows:-
- Balance Enquiry
- Cash Withdrawal
- Cash Deposit
- Aadhaar to Aadhaar Funds Transfer
The only inputs require_onced for a customer to do a transaction under this scenario are:-
- IIN (Identifying the Bank to which the customer is associated)
- Aadhaar Number
- Fingerprint captured during their enrollment
- To empower a bank customer to use Aadhaar as his/her identity to access his/ her respective Aadhaar enabled bank account and perform basic banking transactions like balance enquiry, Cash deposit, cash withdrawal, remittances that are intrabank or interbank in nature, through a Business Correspondent.
- To sub-serve the goal of Government of India (GoI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in furthering Financial Inclusion.
- To sub-serve the goal of RBI in electronification of retail payments.
- To enable banks to route the Aadhaar initiated interbank transactions through a central switching and clearing agency.
- To facilitate disbursements of Government entitlements like NREGA, Social Security pension, Handicapped Old Age Pension etc. of any Central or State Government bodies, using Aadhaar and authentication thereof as supported by UIDAI.
- To facilitate inter-operability across banks in a safe and secured manner.
- To build the foundation for a full range of Aadhaar enabled Banking services.
Services Offered by AEPS
- Balance Enquiry
- Cash Withdrawal
- Cash Deposit
- Aadhaar to Aadhaar Fund Transfer
- Gateway Authentication Services
AEPS – Status in KGB
KGB has successfully tested AEPs –on us transactions and shortly will complete testing of AEPS – Off Us transactions – first by any RRB in the country.


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Hoover High School
Glendale Unified
Los Angeles County
API Base Report
Project Name
Blueprint for Success
Project Partners
Roosevelt Middle School
Toll Middle School
University of California, Los Angeles
Glendale Community College
Glendale Chamber of Commerce
Pasadena City College
Project Director
Vik Hovesepian
Math Department Chair
Hoover High School
651 Glenwood Road
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel: (808) 242-6801
Contact Person
RaeEtta Emmett
English Department Chair
Hoover High School
651 Glenwood Road
Glendale, CA 91202
Tel: (818) 242-6801
Fax (818) 247-8825
Vision Statement
The major goal set for the Blue Print for Success by Hoover
High School and its partners is the reform and refocus of
schools' programs and practices. These programs and practices
are based on the State Content Standards mathematics and English
so that by the end of five years the gap that now exists (over
60% of the incoming freshmen are not algebra-ready and/or
reading below grade level) will be significantly decreased
or eliminated. This will result in the vast majority of students
taking Algebra or Geometry by the 9th grade and all students
grades 6th- 12th able to successfully demonstrate:
Components of the project include:
Student Support
Teacher Professional Development
Governance Team