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By Pamela Brogan, Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON Almost a year after the deadliest shooting on a college campus, Congress is still haggling over legislation that would provide federal dollars to colleges and universities to help pay for improved campus security.
Security is now a top priority at colleges across the nation after a student gunman at Virginia Tech University killed 31 students and a faculty member in April before shooting himself.
More campus violence erupted Feb. 14 when a gunman killed five students at Northern Illinois University before killing himself. Six days earlier, a female student at Louisiana Technical College shot two students then killed herself.
On Feb. 23, college officials at Ferrum College in Virginia ordered a campus lockdown after a man was seen with a gun in a residence hall. The college is less than 50 miles from Virginia Tech. The suspect was not found and no one was hurt.
Advocates for safer campuses and improved security are frustrated that Congress has not acted to provide federal aid.
"Yesterday would have been too late for many of the parents, who have students at schools or are burying their children," said Jonathan Kassa, executive director of Security on Campus, a non-profit group whose mission is to make colleges safer.
The group projects that 2007 will have been the most deadly year on campus with more than 40 murders.
Bills approved by the House and Senate would create federal matching grants for universities to help pay for emergency communication systems or improved safety training. The measures, tucked into a bill that updates the postsecondary education law, is now part of a House-Senate conference.
Congressional action could come as early as April on the education bill. But colleges might not see any federal dollars until next year because federal funding also must be approved by budget committees and signed into law by the president.
Following the Virginia Tech shootings last year, Congress held a series of hearings to examine what could be done to prevent tragedies like the ones this month.
College officials and security experts testified that outdated communications systems were hampering effective campus security. They also said federal grants could help schools pay for stronger security.
"Security is a very big deal," at universities since Virginia Tech, said Terry Hartle, a senior vice president with the American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 public and private colleges. "The last phone call a college president wants to make is to parents to tell them that their son or daughter has been seriously injured or died."
"The costs of increased security is the cost of doing business," he said. "There's just no other way to do it."
At Missouri State University, which has 20,000 students and has had no campus murders, security costs about $2.3 million annually, according to Ken McClure, associate vice president of administration.
MSU's security budget is projected to increase by $40,000 by the time the school unveils a new emergency communications system in May.
"We believe our university is safe, but you cannot assume that we would not be a target, " McClure said. "After the tragedies, everybody is re-examining what they are doing."
Making campuses safer is not only costly but also challenging.
Raymond Thrower, president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, said there are 30,000 public safety officers on campus for 17 million students who live in open environments.
That's why security experts view high-tech alert systems, such as text messaging, is crucial to warn students of possible threats. They range in costs from about $15,000 at small colleges to more than $100,000 at large universities.
Thrower, who is also director of safety at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., said campus law enforcement officials, especially at smaller schools like his with 2,600 students, often work on low budgets. Increased security costs also take a bite out of the budgets for other programs.
"We always go over our budget," for security said Sarene Deeds, director of security at Drury College in Missouri, which has 1,600 students. Deeds said she is shopping for a new emergency communication system that would cost between $5,000 to $10,000. Federal grants would help defray the expense, she said.
Some university officials said Congress should provide money to fund campus security because it has become an integral aspect of postsecondary education.
"If students feel they are not safe, that's taking away from their education, said Miles Heckendorn, director of public safety at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
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The idea of black-on-black crime has never bothered me, nor has the tendency for the black community to practice "no snitching"and protect black criminals in their midsts.
What does bother me is the loss of real estate due to high rates of black-on-black crime, requiring white people to vacate the land where this internecine fighting takes place for either residential or business purposes.
|From the October 19, 2014 St. Louis Rams-Seattle Seahawks NFL football game: The Bell Curve City beats down whites in the city (a perfect metaphor for life in Black-Run America)
What does bother me is the loss of ability to utilize public transportation, for the fear of being the victim of a crime, living/shopping near a bus or metro/train stop offers too great a risk and too little a reward for riding.
It's sad individual black people lack the future time-orientation and impulse control to refrain from participating in the type of violence that destroys black lives and demolishes property value wherever a black community is found; but it's a fact of life in America that no matter the money pumped into an initiative to offer jobs training, midnight basketball, or whatever other "My Brother's Keeper" program promises to do, the violence remains.
Take this hilarious story out of metropolitan St. Louis, which lets slip one immutable truth of what the black undertow imports: the price per square foot in 67 percent black Ferguson (remember: Ferguson was 76 percent white in 1990) was already trending down before the Darren Wilson/Mike Brown encounter. [Riot or not, homes are selling in Ferguson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10-19-14]
St. Louis has been called the ultimate Bell Curve City, and there's no greater social metric of this fitting moniker than the monopoly blacks have on ensuring the city has a homicide problem.
Because of high rates of black homicide in the city, the Families Advocating Safe Streets was founded with only one goal in mind: a support group for friends and relatives of black homicide victims. [FAMILES TO HUNT KILLERS GROUPS SAYS POLICE, MEDIA PAY LITTLE HEED TO BLACKS, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 8, 1993]:
Four families of black murder victims have hired a private detective to find the killers of their loved ones, saying police and the media have not given them enough attention because of their race or social status.
Families Advocating Safe Streets, a support group for friends and relatives of black homicide victims, called a news conference Sunday at Northland shopping center to denounce what its members consider to be less concern and effort by homicide detectives and news organizations when it comes to black murder victims.
"There is some concern that there is not an equal sense of outrage with respect to black homicide victims," said William Oliver, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
Oliver cited the flurry of attention that the media and police gave a double homicide this year in Ladue and the disappearance of a white waitress who worked at Union Station.
"Those cases received a great deal of attention, as they ought to have received," Oliver said. "On the other hand, there haven't been any black cases resulting in such scrutiny."
He then introduced two mothers whose children were murdered.
One, Patricia Fedrick, said she did not even know if homicide detectives were still investiging the death of her son, Demetrius, 18.
He was shot in the head three months ago as he waited for a bus at Kingshighway and St. Louis Avenue.
Homicide detectives could not be reached to comment Sunday.
Fedrick said she last heard from police two weeks ago. Police offered her moral support and said they would put their best detectives on the case, she said, "but as far as concrete, tax-paying actual facts, I haven't received any."
Demetrius Fedrick apparently was killed over a gold bracelet.Supply and demand, in action: the supremely high rate of homicide in the black community of St. Louis leaves police jaded to trying to solve a seemingly insolvable problem versus the extreme rarity of white homicide in the city leading to immediate calls to solve the horrible crime (if black homicides were actually considered "horrible" by the black community, then they work overtime to end the so-called 'senseless' killings).
"My son worked two jobs, graduated high school and started trying to become a man, but he was robbed of that also," his mother said.
When taxpayer funded police departments have overwhelmed (and overburdened) with trying to investigate homicides of blacks and navigating the murky waters of a black community protecting suspects because they don't trust the police, you'll have the problems the Families Advocating Safe Streets runs into every single day of the year.
And every year the organization holds a vigil to read the names of those murdered during the prior in St. Louis, with the true casualty being the actual city of St. Louis. [VIGIL HONORS SLAIN, COMFORTS THOSE WHO MOURN, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 1, 2002]:
The Rev. Earl Nance, president of the St. Louis Clergy Coalition, said blacks must take more responsibility to help police fight "black-on-black crime."
"I understand people who holler about the police," Nance said. "There are bad police officers, just like there are bad preachers and bad politicians. But I'd like to see more of these characters out there (protesting) on the streets when we kill each other."
Veteran activist Anthony Shahid said, "What's happening in our community is that we are losing our black youth like it's going out of style."
No, the real cause for concern is how many sections of the city of St. Louis become uninhabitable to a family in search of a peaceful community to raise their children or a business looking to relocate in search of higher profits.[Homicides are down, but the pain lives on: FAMILIES GATHER AT ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT VIGIL., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1-1-2012]
So it never gets better and though the Families Advocating Safe Streets offers a great photo-op for white politicians and public servants to cozy up to the black community, the violence continues to drive away any of the civilization that only the former racial group and create/sustain/proliferate in St. Louis.
"In an ideal world, this vigil would not be necessary, but here we are," Mayor Francis Slay told a crowd of about 100 mourners, officials and preachers gathered Saturday at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ in the 1500 block of Union Boulevard.
Slay called on residents and family members to teach young people "the value of life."
Most of the homicide victims were young African-American men killed during shootings.
James Clark of Better Family Life, a nonprofit job training and social services provider, told the group that black-on-black violence has become "too serious for words" and that action is needed.
"We cannot talk or rally our way out of this one," he said. "Last time around it was us versus them. This time it's us versus us. … It's time to put down the pistols."
Conversely, the violence of the black community is only a problem as long as its primary source, the black population, goes unaddressed. [Mourners and community leaders gather for annual candlelight service for victims of homicides, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-31-13]:
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay began his remarks by recalling city's 119th victim this year, Clara Jean Walker, who was inside her home Sunday when she was killed by a stray bullet that rocketed through a window.
"It's a tragedy that never should have happened," Slay said. "All of us should pledge to do everything we can to reduce the senseless shooting and violence. That includes telling police anything and everything we know about the person or people who were on Ms. Walker's street" or in any crime.
"St. Louis is awash with guns," the mayor said. "This has got to stop." Of the 120 murdered in the city in 2013, 98 were men. At least 105 were African-American.Guns don't kill people, Mayor Slay.
A gun is an inanimate object, similarly to how a formerly robust community that goes from majority white to majority black is no longer animated with commercial life or blessed with rising property values.
Which brings us to a story that defines the Bell Curve City. [Brother and sister die in shootings blocks away from each other, Fox2Now, 10-19-14]:
A Berkeley family is reeling from two separate murders. St. Louis Metropolitan Police say 35-year-old Margaree Dixson was shot and killed Saturday night. Her brother, 29-year-old Jermaine Jones, died at an area hospital a few hours later. He was also the victim of gunshots.
Dixson's body was found near the intersection of Lillian and Plover. Officers were called for a shooting at approximately 11:40p.m. Saturday. Police say she was shot in the head, chest, arms and hand. Witnesses heard several gunshots.
Approximately 2 ½ hours later, police responded to a shooting near Saloma and Wren. Jones was shot multiple times and taken to an area hospital where he died Sunday morning. According to police, Jones' acquaintances were standing with him when shots started coming from an unknown male. Police recovered two firearms from the victims' vehicle.
Family members did not want to speculate on a motive for the shootings but they are pleading for help and calling for an end to violence.
"There's too much violence going on," said Nicole Rice, sister of Dixson and Jones. "I can't sleep. I can't think. It can't work. I can't do anything wondering if my son will be a victim to the streets."
"When you lost two kids at one time it's tough," said Ann Carlson, family friend. "I mean the same night, back to back, it's painful.
She said family members are now left to care for the victims' children without any money.
"They don't have any insurance," said Carlson. "If anybody could help them or help us out, it will help."
What does bother me is the loss of real estate due to high rates of black-on-black crime, requiring white people to vacate the land where this internecine fighting takes place for either residential or business purposes.


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Species Profile: Honey Badger
By Adelie Carstens (Cal Polytech)
*Spoken to the rhythm of the Theme song for the Fresh Prince of Bel Air*
Now this is the story all about how the Honey Badger got the badest name in town. I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, and I'll tell you 'bout what I know about the Honey Badger.
Inside little burrows, born 'n raised, out on the savanna where they spend most of their days. You could see them outside, growling at you, foraging for berries right-side of the pool.
When a couple of hogs, they were up to no good, started squealing loud in the Ratel-hood. They got a little too close and the Ratel gets mad, said "One more step and I'll bite you dead!!"
They waddle when they walk, kinda pigeon toed, sniff at every hole—don't matter if its closed! If anything I could say that this animal is rare, and I thought, Hey…species account…"I got it! Honey Badger!!"
Mellivora capensis, also known as the Honey Badger or Ratel
Shoulder height is between 9-10 inches, 2 feet long, weighing in at 18-30lbs. Short and stocky stature, very similar to the American Badger. Broad plantigrade feet, with powerful curved claws (3.5cm), curved for foraging and burrowing. Head shape is wide, with a short muzzle, a massive reinforced skull with powerful jaw muscles and robust teeth—adapted for crushing not sheering. Ears are very close to head, and fold over while burrowing. Coat is very coarse, and short in length, with very loose thick (6mm) skin underneath. Coloration of animals varies with each individual but on average a white crown reaches from the top of the head towards the tip of the tapered tail. Dorsal color darkens with age, young start as a rusty brown and then change to a dark black grey coloration for most of their adult life.
The Ratel is found in both Asia and Africa in most habitats from dense forests to dry open savannas, badgers are said to be ubiquitous south of the Sahara. In this habitat the ratel acts as an opportunistic omnivore, eating insects, berries, fruits, carrion, and small animals. Using its nose and paws to find its food the badger is known to be able to walk up to 35km in a single night. Sometimes the Honey Badger gets assistance in finding food from small Honey Guides, a bird closely related to the woodpecker. The Honey guide will find a badger and signal the animal of its presence indicating to the badger that the Honey Guide wishes to be followed. Badgers will follow Honey Guides for up to 2km trying to find a beehive, and once a hive is found the Badger will enjoy its spoils and leave the exposed bee wax for the Honey Guide. When the Honey Badger finds a beehive it will fumigate out the bees by inverting its anal pouch, much like a bee farmer, and knock the bees unconscious. Honey badgers are one of the few predators that will eat bee larvae, or honey. Honey Badgers are also one of the few mammals in the Sahara that don't have any predators. Living by the "the best defense is a good offense" philosophy, the bigger animals in the Ratel's home range quickly learn to keep a safe distance from this aggressive animal. The Ratel is known for its aggressive behavior, and immunity to snake venom, to some extent. So if you see this small stocky animal, don't be fooled by the cute exterior!!
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Wights was a name used for undead beings, especially as a short form for the Barrow-wights.[1]
wight is an Old English word for "human being" or "person".
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Due to the misunderstanding, many works of fantasy fiction, role-playing games and computer and video games use the term as the name of spectral creatures very similar to Tolkien's Barrow-wights; DnD has created a monster called "Wight", a kind of undead; the new terminology is also exemplified in A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, book IV A Feast for Crows (2005). ("Who has been beyond the wall of death to see? Only the wights, and we know what they are like. We know.")
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STERLING HEIGHTS — There will be a new Michigan High School Athletic Association Class A state volleyball champion this season after Romeo High knocked off defending Class A champion Macomb Dakota in five games in regional semifinal played Nov. 12 at Sterling Heights Stevenson.
The match was a back-and-forth affair, as the teams traded games to get to a fifth and final stanza, which Romeo took 15-11.
Romeo (43-7-4) took the first game 25-20 and won the third game 25-19. Dakota, which ends the season at 39-6-0, won the second and fourth games 25-22 and 25-14, respectively.
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Welcome back! The other day I went to the mall with my girlfriends to a new store that opened specializing in lingerie. I bought a couple of outfits and this is one of them. I figured i'll tease you with my super sexy see-thru outfit I purchased. This outfit makes me feel naughty, ha ha. I like it a lot. It reminds me of celebrities when they get their pictures taken by paparazzi while they are wearing black gowns and you get to see their nipples and underwear from the flash, ha ha. Go ahead and and enjoy! Click here to see more!
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Gateley has sealed a deal with global insurer ACE Group to create a legal advice service for businesses and senior directors and officers (D&O).
The firm's employment team will provide a free legal helpline in a bid to cut costs and time managing claims by preventing them from developing.
Lawyers will advise on staff disputes and people-related issues, as well as D&O regulation. These include claims of wrongdoing from shareholders, employees, competitor companies and the Government.
The deal is a coup for Gateley after its turnover slipped in 2011-12 to £61.5m, down from £64.5m in 2010-11, although that latter figure was attributable to the acquisition of a big chunk of failed firm Halliwells.
It will boost the profile of Gateley's new Manchester office, which will carry out the employment side, with the Birmingham office working on the regulatory aspect.
Gateley solicitors will staff the helplines and there will be around 15 people on the team across both offices, with the potential for growth.
Gateley operates legal helplines for other clients, but this will be its biggest deal as it will involve advising a number of companies through the ACE Group. That said, it is unclear at this stage how the deal will impact on the firm financially.
Gateley employment partner Sarah Garth said: "UK employment law has become increasingly complex. The number of Employment Tribunal claims has risen by 60 per cent over the last six years alone.
"This affects companies of all sizes and Gateley offers the expertise and insight to help businesses limit their risk exposure and reduce claims."
Simon Million, UK and Ireland D&O manager for ACE, said: "ACE believes prevention is better than cure. By providing concise and practical guidance on day-to-day legal issues, our helpline offers clients proactive support in advance of any claim.
"The service is designed to help our clients better mitigate disputes and manage the often significant expense of defending claims. Uniquely, all advice given is non-obligatory, so it is up to the client whether or not they choose to implement it."


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Django Reinhardt Biography
Jean Baptiste Reinhardt, 23 January 1910, Liberchies, near Luttre, Belgium, d. 16 May 1953, Fontainebleau, France. Reinhardt first played violin but later took up the guitar. Living a nomadic life with his gypsy family, he played in a touring show before he was in his teens. Following serious injuries which he suffered in a caravan fire in 1928 he lost the use of two fingers on his left hand. To overcome this handicap, he devised a unique method of fingering and soon embarked on a solo career in Parisian clubs. He was hired as accompanist to the popular French singing star, Jean Sablon, and in 1934 teamed up with Stéphane Grappelli to form a band they named the Quintette Du Hot Club De France. Reinhardt was a popular sitter-in with visiting American jazzmen, recording with Eddie South, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins and others. It was, however, the recordings by the Quintet that made him an international name. His remarkable playing caused a sensation and it is not an exaggeration to state that he was the first non-American to make an impact upon jazz and become an important influence upon the development of the music. His distinctive, flowing lines were filled with inventive ideas and couched in a deeply romantic yet intensely rhythmic style. Above all, Reinhardts was an original talent, revealing few if any precedents but becoming a major influence upon other jazz guitarists of the 30s.
With the outbreak of war in 1939, the Quintet folded and Reinhardt returned to his nomadic life, playing in various parts of Europe and ensuring that he kept well clear of the German army. At the end of the war (by which time he had switched from acoustic to electric guitar), Reinhardt was invited by Duke Ellington to visit the USA and duly arrived in New York. The visit was less than successful, however. Some reports of the time suggest that Reinhardt was eager to pursue the new concepts of jazz created by the bebop revolution: musically, however, the guitarists gloriously romantic style fitted uneasily into the new music and his efforts in this field were overshadowed by those of another guitarist, the late Charlie Christian. Back in Europe he led his own small band and was occasionally reunited with Grappelli in a re-formed Quintet. He continued to tour and record during the late 40s and early 50s, simultaneously pursuing a career as a composer. Reinhardt remains one of the outstanding figures in jazz, and although Christian ultimately became the more profound influence, echoes of Reinhardts style can be heard today in many musicians, some of whom were born after his death. His brother, Joseph, was also a guitarist and his two sons, Lousson and Babik (b. 8 June 1944, Paris, France, d. 3 December 2001, Cannes, France), were gifted players of the instrument. The latter died of a heart attack in December 2001.
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So where did I leave off…? Right… I'm pregnant. My doc has put me on Prometrium to help my critter burrow in better. I was apprehensive at first but now I am popping them without hesitation. Everything seems to be going well. I still don't have the symptoms that I would have expected… ones that […]This post has 2 comments. Read the rest of this post »


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Thus far in my quest to value Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) piece by piece, I've taken a look at the Consumer and Business Banking and Consumer Real Estate Services segments. In this piece, I'll continue this analysis by taking a deeper look into BAC's prized Global Wealth and Investment Management division to see how much value it adds to BAC on a consolidated basis.
Global Wealth and Investment Management, or GWIM, is the gem that houses BAC's private wealth management business and Merrill Lynch's Thundering Herd of investment advisors. This segment offers financial advisory and investment services to high net worth individuals down to the young worker just getting started on retirement planning. This is a safe, high margin business that should add a lot of value to BAC so we'll take a look now at exactly how much it adds.
As with the others, I'll be using data sourced directly from company SEC filings.
We'll begin with the revenue picture and as you can see, this has been a great business for BAC over the past few years. We see total segment revenue at $16.5 billion in 2011 and about the same in 2012, but last year saw a big increase to $18 billion. These figures make GWIM BAC's second largest segment by revenue behind the commercial banking segment, an impressive feat indeed considering BAC's massive scale and diversity in its business lines.
Given Merrill's famed Thundering Herd of brokers and advisors that are very good at what they do, BAC has a goldmine in its GWIM segment. Not only does it produce prodigious amounts of revenue but the costs of that revenue are relatively low.
GWIM's other noninterest expense, which no doubt includes personnel cost, the main cost driver of this kind of business, has been unbelievably steady in the past three years. Costs in this business fluctuate only a few hundred basis points in either direction each year so BAC management can easily plan on what GWIM will make or lose based on certain revenue targets. The other thing that steady costs provides is earnings leverage. Since GWIM has stagnant costs, when it brings in incremental revenue, more of that revenue flows to the bottom line. This leverage can prove extremely valuable, as we will see later.
Another great thing about GWIM is that there is virtually no credit risk. As we can see here, GWIM's credit loss provisions as a percentage of revenues is almost nonexistent. This is a terrific thing considering CRES' problems with credit losses in the past that evaporated consolidated EPS. GWIM has almost no credit risk so shareholders get to keep more revenue as profit and don't have the risk that this segment will blow up with billions in bad loans.
This all boils down to the only figure that really matters: profit. We see GWIM's net income rise very steadily and rapidly in the past three years from about $1.7 billion in 2011 to $3 billion last year. Remember the earnings leverage I mentioned earlier? This is where it shows up in the form of much higher profits on slightly higher revenue. Last year's profit margin for GWIM was 16.7% and just two years earlier, when revenue was slightly lower, it was 10.6%. There is nothing wrong with 10.6% net profit margins but 16.7% is much better and the thing about GWIM is that there is more left on the table.
BAC is making a huge push to grow GWIM by cross-selling its retirement planning services to retail banking customers and with the world class advisors it employs, revenues should increase further from the current $18 billion. GWIM is a great business that BAC is lucky to have and unlike CRES, it provides a lot of value to shareholders. I'm looking for $19 billion in revenue and 19% to 20% profit margins from GWIM this year, affording BAC $3.7 billion in net income. I believe BAC's push to grow this business along with the earnings leverage GWIM possesses make these targets very achievable.
Disclosure: I am long BAC. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is pumping $10 million into an outside group supporting GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, the Associated Press and other news outlets report.
Adelson's donation went to Restore Our Future, which has run ads to support Romney's campaign and attack his opponents, the AP reports, citing anonymous sources. Charles Spies, Restore Our Future's treasurer, declined to comment on donors. Adelson spokesman Ron Reese did not return telephone calls.
The donation is the latest sign deep-pocketed Republican donors are prepared to spend heavily to defeat President Obama through independent groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts. Restore Our Future, a super PAC run by former Romney campaign aides, has collected $56.5 million from Jan. 1, 2011, to April 30 of this year, more than five times the amount raised by Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super PAC.
Last month, Politico reported that GOP outside groups plan to spend $1 billion on November's presidential and congressional elections.
The donation marks Adelson first big investment in Romney, whom the casino executive has criticized in the past as "not a bold decision maker." Adelson and his family donated $21 million to a super PAC backing Newt Gingrich during the Republican primary battle. Gingrich ended his campaign last month and endorsed Romney.
Adelson's contribution was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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Downtown power outage
PGE crews are working to restore power to nine blocks in downtown Portland. An explosion and fire in an electrical vault caused the outage. What caused the explosion is under investigation. There's no estimate for when the power will be restored.
Power is out to City Hall, the Portland Building, and the Multnomah County Courthouse.
The City of Portland released the following information:
Due to a power outage, City Hall and the Portland Building will be closed tomorrow, Monday, Dec. 9, until 12:00 p.m. (noon). Employees of these buildings should not report to work until power is restored.
Portland's downtown core is experiencing a power outage that affects City Hall and the Portland Building along with several other building in the surrounding area. Portland General Electric is working to restore power. At this time it is not anticipated that power will be restored to City Hall and the Portland Building until at least mid-day Monday.
Community members conducting business and city employees working in these building should check the City's main webpage, www.portlandoregon.gov, or call the City/County Information and Referral number, 503-823-4000, for updates before coming to the buildings or reporting to work. City employees are expected to report to work at noon, unless indicated otherwise on the City's webpage or the 503-823-4000.
Multnomah Co. Circuit Court:
The Multnomah County Courthouse, the downtown courthouse at 1021 SW Fourth Avenue, will be without electrical power on December 9, 2013. All trials, hearings and other proceedings scheduled to begin in the Multnomah Courthouse on December 9 are canceled and will be rescheduled by the court. The courthouse will reopen for business on December 10, 2013. Continuing trials should contact the office of the Presiding Judge to determine if there is an alternate location for those proceedings on Monday.
Jurors summoned to the downtown courthouse to report for jury service on December 9 need to report for service on. Tuesday morning December 10, 2013 All court proceedings set in the Justice Center, in the Juvenile Justice Complex and in the East County Courthouse will proceed as scheduled on Monday, December 9. Only the downtown courthouse on Fourth Avenue in Portland is affected by the emergency cancellation of court hearings and proceedings. (Effective tomorrow - Mon Dec 9th)
The MAX Yellow and Green line trains are experiencing delays, because they must stop at all intersections between Jefferson and Burnside, because the traffic signals are out. For traffic, those intersections are 4-way stops.
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Ray Charles took centre stage one last time on Friday as more than 1500 people, including Stevie Wonder, Clint Eastwood and B. B. King, celebrated the life of the late "genius of soul" with claps, cheers and shouts of joy.
Charles, who died of liver disease last Thursday week, aged 73, was sent off with a two-hour service - more joyful than mournful - at which Wonder and King performed, as well as saxophone player David "Fathead" Newman, country icons Glen Campbell and Willie Nelson and jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.
"We're here to celebrate today, so it's all right if you just clap your hands, stomp your feet and get down with the Lord," the Reverend Robert Robinson, one of Charles' 12 children, said at the outset.
"If you would do something for my family today, why don't you stand on your feet and give God your praise! We're here to celebrate God today!"
Others in the audience at the invitation-only First AME Church service near central Los Angeles included singers Little Richard and Johnny Mathis, Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, and actor Steven Seagal.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was one of several speakers, saying, "Heaven wanted some music and God sent for Ray Charles. Ray, we can't stop loving you - we choose not to - and we'll see you in the morning."
The word "genius" was mentioned eight times, twice by Eastwood, who said Charles could more accurately be described as a "perfectionist" with an unparalleled work ethic.
"He taught us all about rhythm and blues, he taught us about country music, he reinstilled our interest in patriotic songs. Anything he touched was just brilliant."
Willie Nelson's performance of Georgia on My Mind, one of Charles's best-known tunes, brought the audience to its feet. Laughter also broke out when Nelson was described as a longtime chess adversary of Charles. After being beaten yet again, Nelson finally realised Charles's secret, and he recalled asking him, "Next time we play, can we turn the lights on?"
The subject of Charles' blindness - believed to be caused by undiagnosed glaucoma when he was a child - was also mentioned by actress Cicely Tyson, who said, "Through his darkness, he enlightened and brightened our lives."
Wonder recalled that he did not initially know Charles was also blind.
The service ended with a final viewing of Charles's body, in a dark suit with his trademark dark glasses, as Somewhere Over the Rainbow, his recently recorded duet with Johnny Mathis, played on a loop.
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Visit the official site at http://theamazingspiderman.com
Peter Parker and alter ego Spider-Man return to the big screen this summer in the new action-packed film "The Amazing Spider-Man" 2012. Based on the Marvel Comics character this will be the fourth Spider-Man film to hit the big screen with two more under contract.
"With great power comes great responsibility," a saying Spidey fans know all too well, however I would venture to guess not as well as Marc Webb. Webb is the latest director tapped to take the helm of the newest chapter in the Spider-Man film franchise, "The Amazing Spider-Man."
Webb had some big shoes to fill directing the new film coming so soon after the highly successful trilogy by Sam Raimi's, however Webb tells Total Film that he is confident about the project, saying, "Spider-Man is part of our culture, he's a perennial character. He belongs on the big screen."
The director added: "Spidey is constantly re-examined and there's way too many versions of him in the comics… That was something I thought we could do cinematically."
When it comes to shooting in 3-D Webb told the publication: "There's an experiential component to 3D that's really fantastic and we're experimenting with generating that point of view so you feel how Spider-Man feels when he's jumping over these buildings."In the conclusion of the interview Webb said, "I thought that was really exciting, not to mention an incredible level of acrobatics!"
The new installment features an all new cast of talented and accomplished actors with Stan Lee (of course) making his customary cameo appearance, in this film as Stan the Librarian.
Emma Stone ~ Gwen Stacy
Andrew Garfield ~ Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Rhys Ifans ~ Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizzard
Martin Sheen ~ Ben Parker
C. Thomas Howell ~ Ray
Sally Field ~ May Parker
Denis Leary ~ George Stacy
Embeth Davidtz ~ Mary Parker
Campbell Scott ~ Richard Parker
"The Amazing Spider-Man" tells the untold story of Peter Parker, an outcast teenager trying to find out who he really is. Abandoned by his parents as a boy, Peter is raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May and not unlike most high school boys Peter struggles to find his way through life, school and his first experience with love.
Along the way Peter stumbles across a mysterious briefcase belonging to his father and finds the contents leading him to Oscorp and a former partner of his father Dr.Curt Conners.
Although intrigued at first, Peter comes to find that his discovery of the briefcase will put Spider-Man in direct conflict with Connors' alter-reptilian-ego, "The Lizard" which will leave Peter to decide to use his powers and be the hero.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" is set to open July 3, 2012.


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Investing in private partnership structures such as hedge funds, private equity and private real estate can be a fruitful and exciting endeavor, especially when venturing into asset classes that lack competition and efficiency. An important qualification to remember when beginning due diligence on a partnership is that no investment is perfect. Each one has its own risks, however esoteric or idiosyncratic, and risks change over time, as do the operations and other intricacies of investment management.


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Northern Irish shipyard Harland and Wolff has won a provisional order worth more than $350 million to build two luxury cruise liners, company officials said. The shipyard,
Singapore's Sembawang Shipyard Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, has entered an agreement to repair the Far East fleet of BP Shipping Ltd. for an indeterminate amount of time.
At least 13 people were killed and 50 injured when fire broke out aboard a disused oil tanker near Bangladesh's Chittagong port on Wednesday, police and fire officials said.
The first of five pollution-fighting vessels was to arrive in the French port of Brest on Monday to prepare to pump out tons of viscous fuel oil still lying in the hold of the sunken tanker Erika.
A mile-long stretch of the Houston Ship Channel was closed to through traffic on Tuesday because of a sunken tugboat, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Norwegian shipping company Bergesen plans to replace around 600 European staff members by the end of 2002 to create cost savings worth about $22.4 million a year, company officials said.
China Shipping Development Co. Ltd. has entered into a series of ship chartering agreements worth $12.2 million with associates of its parent company China Shipping (Group) Co.
Dutch private barge owners have ordered about 200 new vessels, which will require a total investment of about $638 million, the Dutch inland shipping office said.
A safety survey found that three of the four worst performing ferries in Europe sail from British ports. The survey of 26 ferries by European motoring organizations
Three military officials working at the Brest maritime office in western France have been put under investigation over alleged failure to react to the sinking of the tanker Erika,
Norwegian shipping company Frontline has signed an agreement to take over U.S.-based Golden Ocean Group. Frontline has reportedly signed a term sheet with Golden Ocean,
A.P. Moller has placed an order for four product tankers with Guongzhou Shipyard International in Hong Kong. Including options, the contract brings the number of new product tankers ordered by A.
British ship builder and repairer Cammell Laird Holdings Plc is the sole bidder for Bulgaria's Varna Shipyard, which faces insolvency, the Ministry of Economy said.
ACL Buys ConAgra Barge Fleet
ConAgra Inc., the second largest U.S. food manufacturer, has agreed to sell American Commercial Lines LLC (ACL) its large U.S. inland barge fleet and operations.
Senator Introduces Bill to Overturn Intertanko Decision
Senator Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) introduced the "States Prevention of Oil Tanker Spills Act" (S. 2506), which
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is preparing to implement a reporting system requiring tank barge operators to file monthly reports on deliveries of taxable fuel to and from bulk liquid terminals.
Six Coastal States Share $65 Million
The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has disbursed $65 million to six coastal states: Alabama,
Not only did most oil producing companies post increased income and revenues in the first quarter 2000, compared to 1999, but in some cases, the increases were record-setting.
Eastern Shipbuilding Launches OSV
San Rafael, a 204 x 44 x 16 ft. OSV was recently launched by Eastern Shipbuilding Group. The vessel is being constructed for Naviera Tamaulipas, S.
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Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other …Read More »
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It's a fun way to get to know fellow bloggers while simultaneously enjoying the fun of a list! And what's more, a list about BOOKS! What could be better?
March 6: Top Ten Favorite Covers (feel free to make it as specific or general as you want — ie: top ten favorite covers of 2012, top ten favorite YA covers, top ten favorite contemporary fiction covers)
Woooo, I loved this week's topic! We get to literally judge books by their covers and you guys… we never get to do that!
Why We Broke Up- As I gushed over in my review, I love the artwork of this book and that definitely includes the cover!
The Girl of Fire and Thorns- Honestly, when I have some extra money to throw towards it, I'll be buying a finished copy of the book because while I LOVED the finished cover (perfect fantasy look in my opinion), the ARC cover drives me nuts! [review]
Sisters Red- I love how the images are woven into each other… very optical illusion-esque! [review]
Daughter of Smoke and Bone- I kind of just think that mask is all kinds of fabulous. If I was going to a masquerade that's the one I'd want. [review]
Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles- Hollerrr, a cover that is not only shexy, but represents the book fairly well. [review]
Possession- I remember cooing over the cover when I checked it out at the library. It was all pearlescent sparkle and shine. Ooo, la, la. [review]
Beauty Queens- Another cover that not only represents the book, but is eye-catching and original! Even if I hadn't followed a bunch of YA blogs, I think I would have snatched it off the shelves. [review]
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles)- Honestly I don't ordinarily adore a "girl holding something in her hand" cover, but not only do I prefer it to the redone puzzle cover, but I think the butterfly in hand is beautifully simplistic. [review]
Winter Town- Oh heyyyy, paper holes cut out and arranged to look like snow! Not only perfect, but a brilliant design. [review]
What are your favorite covers?


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Hi lovelies! I hope you are all having or preparing for a wonderful holiday.
I sometimes wonder how many people actually read my journals or have truly read my profile for that matter. I hope at least some of you have. I have seen so many journals with Christmas lists and holiday wishes and such that I thought maybe there is someone out there who would read this and understand my one wish. My wish however is not for me. My wish is not for points or art or anything such as that either.
For those who don't know from my profile, I came here to DA at the request of my oldest child. I also run a page for my youngest child. My wish is for him.
Harley is autistic, but to look at him you would probably not notice anything different. Couple the autism with ADHD, epilepsy, a speech disorder and accommodative spasm (a vision disorder) and things can get complicated. DA for him is somewhere he can show his pictures he loves to draw and see that others don't judge him by how he looks, how he talks or how someone his age "should" be. We all enjoy having others like our works, but to I truly cannot describe the feeling of gratitude I get for those who find his page and take the time to leave him a comment or favorite one of his works. The sheer joy that simple thing brings him is enormous.
My daughter and I took part in a holiday card exchange this year. It gave me an idea that I am not really sure how to put together or work out. Maybe someone reading this will.
Harley was crying a short while ago. He said he was sad that he had no one to talk to, which for him is a way of saying he feels lonely. So many of us take for granted the simple task of speech that we would never think for others is not the easiest way to communicate. I already can feel those of you asking what my point is, or reminding me that this isn't a therapy site and yes, even those few of you who may things I would rather not mention because everyone is entitled to their opinion. I already know all of that. DA is an art community so what better place to bring up this idea.... this wish for my son.
I would love to find someone for Harley to be an art pal with. We all know what a pen pal is I hope. Well, when writing is not your best communication, why can't you exchange drawings, doodles and such instead of pages and pages of letters. Where we live I have no clue how to go about finding someone for him to do something like this with and with him attending cyber school, it lessens the options as well.
My wish, my hope.... is that someone reading this will understand what I'm trying to do and have an idea to help make this possible. Maybe you know someone who would enjoy something like this themselves. I really don't know. I have faith that someone out there will find this and maybe help with a gift that doesn't need batteries or come with instructions or anything else most holiday gifts do...
At any rate, thank you those who read this. Those who have shown my son that all art is beautiful without having to be perfect.... I truly can never give you enough thanks. Those who may have an idea to help me, feel free to comment here or send me a note if you prefer.
Happy holiday to you all!
- Listening to: Red
- Watching: Christmas lights
- Playing: pretend inside my head
- Eating: coffee
- Drinking: coffee ... always
A Holiday Wish by ThornZfireWatch
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Thank you, and have a good time editing here!
Okay bud.
Put your opinions on stuff not related to alteration of the article's content on the forums. Great, you think Dawn's skirt's too short (they managed to avoid pantyshots in all but one instance, you know) and that GSDS has no need, unlike FRLG, to contribute Pokémon (like it's really that easy to get all these Gen I/II/III Pokémon by Radar and swarm in DPPt). Forums it.
Also, page sections do not need bold text in their headers. And spell better, please? TTEchidna 21:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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User: namespace a lot recently. You may not be aware of this, but Bulbapedia has a Userspace policy that asks users to try and minimize the number of userspace edits they make in a short period of time. Instead of making multiple edits, why not use the Preview button (Alt + Shift + P) located right next to the edit button to look at your page and see how it is coming? That way, your page can look great while staying within the required amount of edits. Instead of editing the userspace, as a wiki, we encourage users to edit the mainspace. So, if you edit the mainspace more often, you will be allowed to edit the userspace more. Thanks! --PsychicRider☮ 17:01, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
You were just told not to edit your userspace. And you made another edit two minutes later. Did you completely ignore the warning? Well, then read it now. Read the Userspace policy, too. --αワニノコ 17:10, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
- Listen to Alpha Tododile he knows what he is saying. A majority of your edits should be on the mainspace where the real articles are. Most of your edits have been on your userpage which isn't important. Now don't go saying sorry and stuff because that is just one more edit to the userspace. Now go and edit the real articles and STOP editing the userspace. -- Landfish7 17:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)


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GONZALES — Still more than a year from qualifying, the 2015 election to succeed four-term Ascension Parish President Tommy Martinez is starting to gather some momentum.
Parish Council Chairman Chris Loar plans a news conference Tuesday in Gonzales, where he will announce his candidacy for the top executive post in parish government.
Gonzales-area surveyor Clint Cointment already said he's running, others are toeing the political waters, and the wild card is Martinez. The parish president insists he will not seek re-election, but others are not so sure he won't make some type of run for public office.
Loar, a two-term councilman from Prairieville, issued a news release Friday announcing the news conference. He declined further comment about the specifics of the event, but spokesman Randy Hayden said Loar will be announcing his candidacy.
The election is Oct. 24, 2015, during the gubernatorial primary. Qualifying is Sept. 8-10, 2015.
Cointment, who has been a critic of parish government as a resident but is a newcomer as a political candidate, announced a few months ago he was running for parish president.
Cointment is running as a change agent and appears to be challenging a status quo that includes Martinez and Loar.
"Every candidate knows the issues, and Ascension Parish citizens know the problems," Cointment says on his website. "I would like to take a different approach to solving our issues."
Loar's expected candidacy has been rumored for more than a year. Cointment has said he has been working with the expectation that Loar would run. Both men are Republicans.
Parish Council Vice Chairman Benny Johnson, with whom Loar generally sides on divided council issues, said Loar is a young guy with aspirations to help people.
"I don't think there's any surprise in the fact that Chris could potentially do something like this," Johnson said.
"I wish him luck. If he does get elected, I think he'll do a good job," added Johnson, who said he is happy with seeking another term next year for his council seat.
Fellow Parish Councilman Daniel "Doc" Satterlee, who has clashed with Loar over a variety of issues, has had a Cointment sign in his front yard in Prairieville since late March.
Satterlee was accused, and recently cleared of, state open meetings law violations stemming from a council agenda fight with Loar.
But Satterlee said Loar sent him and the rest of the council an email invitation to the Tuesday announcement, saying Loar would be "honored" to have them attend.
"I find it kind of shocking," Satterlee said of his receiving an invitation so soon after he had been accused of committing wrongdoing.
The race, however, may not be a two-man contest.
Longtime Gonzales City Councilman Kenny Matassa said Friday he is mulling a run for parish president after several people came to him in the past few weeks asking him to consider it.
"I'm definitely thinking seriously about it," said Matassa, who has been on the City Council for 18 years.
Matassa, a former Democrat who recently switched to the Independent Party, also has been a parish employee for 20 years and is parish health director and assistant public works director.
Ascension businessman Nicky Prejean, who keeps a toe in the currents of parish politics and has been outspoken in his wish to have Martinez run again, said there could be 10 candidates for parish president if Martinez does not run. But Prejean is confident Martinez will seek another term.
Prejean said Loar and Cointment are bright but Martinez and Sheriff Jeff Wiley have the people skills to run their respective parts of parish government well.
Since early 2012, when Martinez began his fourth term after handily defeating community activist Kathryn Goppelt the prior fall, Martinez has said this four-year term would be his last. Martinez reiterated that Friday.
"I'm not running for parish president," he said.
He added he hopes to end this last term on a high note, but he also has not precluded a run for other office, repeating his oft-stated but cryptic answer to that question — that he is "continuing to assess my future."
Editor's note: This story was corrected July 19, 2014, at 10 a.m. to show that Kenny Matassa now belongs to the Independent Party.


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CULLOWHEE Western Carolina University students have always taken pride in their involvement with the community service projects that have become part of Homecoming events, but this year they are taking that pride to the house.
Actually, make that houses, as this year's project will find members of the campus community building playhouses to support Habitat for Humanity.
It's just the latest example of a community service initiative that has become a part of Homecoming events at Western since 1996, as students and faculty usually devote several days to a community service project every fall. Past community service projects have included litter pick-ups, fund-raising campaigns, canned food drives and a landscaping project at a Jackson County park.
This year, Western students will construct two playhouses on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn to benefit Habitat for Humanity. The playhouses will be carried through Sylva on floats during the annual parade Friday, Oct. 22, and auctioned off to raise money for the charitable organization.
Between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, students will assist in the production of two 6-by-10 foot houses. After construction is complete, one house will be auctioned at the end of Homecoming week. The other house will be auctioned the week of the Western vs. Appalachian State game. The proceeds from both auctions will be donated to the Jackson County branch of Habitat for Humanity to assist in projects that are taking place in Western North Carolina .
Raffle tickets for the Homecoming auction are $5 each. For more information, contact Tim Inman, resident director of the Village, at (828) 227-2407.


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survivalgear 2013-02-26 04:54:00
Other tweaks include notifications that just help the great outdoors. It used to kill. camping gear
replica rolex 2012-12-04 10:44:00
I loved what youve done here. The design is elegant, your articles classy. Yet, youve got an edginess to what youre offering here. Ill definitely come back for more if you keep this up. Dont lose hope if not too many folks see your vision, know youve got a fan right here who values what youve got to say and the way youve presented yourself. useful on you!
btw I just set a trap for you I HOPE you will fall into. Pretty sure you will.
"While I can hardly disagree that the country faces unprecedented problems, I find it interesting to see that you have taken the position that our national debt is a problem."
Every time I start thinking you might not be crazy, you prove you are all over again. The deficit and the debt permeate my discussions of the Obama administration and national crises. Your failure to see this is willful blindness. I swear I don't know what planet you are living on. Citations are too numerous to bother with since you obviously comprehend only at some berserkly oblique angle that makes sense only to you.
Helk 2012-12-02 05:37:00
Dr. Waffle is hardly a shallow thinker. He writes too well to be shallow.
Ralph 2012-12-02 12:16:00
You're wasting your time. I predict there is absolutely nothing you can say that will get through to Dr. Waffle. That is because he is a shallow thinker (not sloppy just very very shallow) and likely a narcissist as well.
I thank you for the entertainment.
Have you seen what the schools are churning out lately? Children incapable of thought and in love with their own sarcasism and selves. They think wit is thought. They do so because that is what they were taught. Mr. Waffle is just the same. He was never told wit is not a substitute for critical thought. That is the true crime here.
Teachers need to teach children how to think and think critically not ironically or sarcasitically. Children need to be taught to think logically and not just accept what is put before them.
Much of progressivism makes absolutely no sense but children have been conditioned that any thought outside the orthodoxy is racist, sexist, bigoted or homophobic. They have learned not to question anything except the right it somehow all makes sense to them.
Helk 2012-12-01 05:49:00
While I can hardly disagree that the country faces unprecedented problems, I find it interesting to see that you have taken the position that our national debt is a problem.
I recall posting here a long time ago that the debt was going to be the primary factor in determining the quality (or lack thereof) of our future. People yelled me down for being retarded.
Well, I see that you have finally embraced that line. Not the retarded line (though I suspect you embrace that also) but the debt line.
As for people having abortions... why do you care? You smoke cigarettes, right? I mean, admittedly, you were in a position to make that choice for yourself.... And I am sure that a fetus would likely prefer to be born rather than be aborted. If it had an opinion on the subject.
Can we all agree that a fetus is incapable of making a decision for itself?
And if we ban abortions in the middle of a recession-depression that is going to lead to *more* unemployment and more kids who will end up not being able to find a job. Think of all those doctors who planned on working in abortion clinics. What are they to do if we ban their line of work? I mean, abortions are one of the few areas where we continue to see unabated demand. The housing market is weak, the stock market is getting ready to crash (admittedly, I think we have until ~2015 but things can change), the list goes on and on. But demand for abortions just keeps chugging along like the little (economic) engine that could.
How can anyone anywhere support shutting down abortion clinics in the middle of an unending recession? Now, I know things that have no end have no middle. Of course. Not that it matters.
What again matters? Oh, yeah. That bomb that is getting ready to go off in Israel. By my count we have a few more days, maybe a few more weeks.
Then the proverbial shit is going to hit the fan.
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urthshu 2012-11-30 12:08:00
at one time there was an implicit understanding on the left that one didnt poke the bear, with the bear being the american public.
thus, theyd go for all of this socialist stuff and take over institutions but never explicitly say the word socialist except amongst friends. it was understood that to reveal that purpose was to endanger, perhaps, the entire project.
the bear is not only poked, but well awake now. but look, no teeth!
so what is there to fear?
Lake 2012-11-30 10:21:00
Point taken, Joe. I was just saying that it didn't seem like you were saying anything that would be a revelation to RL.
Joe 2012-11-29 09:02:00
Some of the blame needs to fall on mainstream conservatives. No, not guys with blogs, and not bitter fringe Paleos like Buchanan who use Wilsonian rhetoric to hide hatred for Jews, or even the Ron Paulista kids who blather about 'controlled detonation' at the Twin Towers.
The worst, and the only group of conservatives I truly reserve hatred for, are the toadies like Ross Douthat or David Frum of the New York Times, or Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, or anyone at National Review (aside from John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg). Someone once said the motto of the Left is "enemies to the Right, and only friends to the Left." That is pretty much the position of mainstream conservatives. They are embarrassed by the democratic energy of the hoi polloi, the working and middle-class backbone of the Republican party. They think pro-lifers are retrograde religious fundamentalists. They think anyone who supports SB-1070 is a hillbilly shooting Mestizos along the border at their ranch in Bisbee, Arizona. They don't challenge liberals when they talk about 'tea party extremism' as if people who wanted to reduce the deficit by 1% are mixing ammonium nitrate in rented vans. I could go on, but you get the drift. Enemies are one thing, traitors are another entirely.
Lake 2012-11-29 08:27:00
Joe: That's what the man himself has been saying all along. That's what The Boomer Bible was all about, at least on the surface. The mindset of the Left has been taking everything over piece by piece using whatever unfair strategy and tactics they can. Every card of racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism has been played, every advantage taken.
Hence, Obama reelected. Hence the mourning. Hence the transition to adapting to the new world where we'll probably never be able to return from.
Dr. Waffle 2012-11-29 04:54:00
1.) Thank you for initiating.
2.) I'm actually going to be out of town for a few days. I do plan on responding in full once I return and have Internet access.
Joe 2012-11-29 04:00:00
I think blogger Mencius Moldbug had the best take on the election for conservatives: Had America been what you thought it was, Romney would have won. But he lost.
Rob, you have a moral compass and believed in a propositional nation and are still (forgive me) credulous enough to qualify your legitimate grievances by making sure that people understand you are not racist/sexist/homophobic/ etcetera. Point blank, you lost your nation because you were fighting by Queensberry rules while the Left has spent the last sixty years soaking their wraps in figurative plaster-of-Paris.
I could get deeper into the demographics issue, Israel, immigration, global warming, and so on, but since this post is mainly between you and Waffle, I'll beg off, and say only that the True Believers, those who believed in "American exceptionalism" just weren't cynical enough to compete with people who (despite their vaunted 'love of democracy") took over sectors of society not governed by meaningful consent, i.e. the supreme court, the law profession, human resources, and the Universities.


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Ontario launches $5M ad campaign to promote tuition rebates
The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, November 22, 2012 5:14PM EST
TORONTO - The Ontario government is launching a $5-million ad campaign to promote a program that offers more than $400 million in tuition rebates to college and university students.
Two television commercials will inform post-secondary students that they may qualify for tuition rebates of up to 30 per cent.
Students with family incomes under $160,000 can get up to $1,680 back on university tuitions and up to $770 back on college tuition fees.
The two 30-second spots cost the province $990,000 to produce, and the government will purchase $3.8 million worth of air time on television stations.
They will begin airing immediately, will be taken off the air on Dec. 21 and resume in early January.
The Progressive Conservatives have said Ontario can't afford the more than $420 million the tuition rebates cost the government each year.
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