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Porsche Le Mans racer: First test
Last month we told you about Hans Hermann. This 85-year-old once raced alongside Juan Manuel Fangio and was nailing European mountain passes in a privately owned Porsche 356 before many of you out there could even sit up straight on your own.
He's also an important man over at Weissach, because it was he, in a Porsche 917, who capped off an astonishing racing career by taking overall victory at Le Mans for Porsche in 1970 for the first time. We're pretty sure he's paying attention today.
Because today we see the first pictures of Porsche's LMP1 contender for 2014, 15 years since Porsche last competed for overall victory in the top tier of Le Mans. That's right, the one Audi has dominated for a very long time.
Porsche is amped up about its high-profile return, too. It has expanded its workshop building and office complex to build next year's car, seen above in rather fetching camouflage. And works driver Timo Bernhard was the gentleman responsible for taking it out for a test spin. In front of the entire Board of Porsche AG. No pressure then, Timo.
"I'm very proud that I was the one to take our baby through its first paces today," Timo beams. "Already the car feels great." Did you catch that, Audi?
There's no word on the spec of the new LMP1 racer, but 2014's regulations are concerned primarily with efficiency, so take that as you will. Fritz Enzinger, head of the LMP1 programme, noted how the new regulations make "the competition amongst engineers more interesting". As long as we see LMP1 cars going toe-to-toe, consider us interested.
Of course, Porsche has a little bit of breathing space, should it fail in its efforts next year. While Audi has won at Le Mans 11 times – and Ferrari nine – Porsche has recorded 16 overall victories at La Sarthe. Will 2014 make it 17? Only time will tell.
This story originally appeared on TopGear.com.

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Censorship vs. Accountability in Journalism
Last week, there was a bit of an uproar when NBC foreign correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, who was covering Gaza for the network, was replaced with a more experienced anchor. There were concerns that Mohyeldin was being rotated out of Gaza due to his apparent sympathy for the Palestinian side. After an outcry, he was sent back to Gaza. But it's now becoming clear that NBC had good reason to have second thoughts about putting its coverage in Mohyeldin's hands.
CNN's media reporter Brian Stelter looked into the controversy and did a segment on it over the weekend. In an accompanying article, he explains that NBC had Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel arrive in Israel midweek and that the network was prepared for the possibility it would only have time for one broadcast, and decided to make it Engel's. That proved to be wise call.
The day Engel arrived, Mohyeldin witnessed the attack on a Gaza beach area that killed four Palestinian children. That earned him a chance to do the segment. But NBC higher-ups were disappointed in the quality of Mohyeldin's proposed script, and crunched for time, gave the nod to the more experienced Engel. It was a very sensitive story, and Mohyeldin had dropped the ball.
That didn't stop complaints that Mohyeldin was being punished (or "censored," a patently ridiculous claim) for his perceived pro-Palestinian bias. But there's a difference between sympathy for the Palestinians and whitewashing Hamas at the expense of getting an accurate story. And now back in the region, Mohyeldin is showing why NBC was uncomfortable with his work. On a segment on Gaza with MSNBC host Chris Hayes last night, Mohyeldin was asked about the tendency of Hamas to use Palestinians in Gaza as human shields. Here was his response to Hayes:
MOHYELDIN: Well, we just put that statement, exact statement to Hamas spokesperson who's categorically denied that Hamas or its fighters are
using the civilian population as human shields. We have not — I have not in my specific time here in Gaza, and I've covered three separate wars — have ever seen Hamas fighters using civilians as human shields.
But more importantly, what they say about that allegation, they categorically reject it, they deny. They say the entire world's media is present here on the ground in Gaza. If there are any evidence, or if there are any reporters, that should be sufficient, but none of those have emerged, according to Hamas. Officials, they say there simply isn't any documentation to suggest that Hamas uses hospitals or uses mosques or schools to store weapons.
Now, the U.N. has countered that. The U.N. has said that last week, it found 20 rockets in one U.N. facility, although that was not substantiated. That is a claim the United Nations, which oversees schools near Gaza, claims to have found.
For its part, though, Hamas denies that allegation entirely.
To put it simply: if Mohyeldin has reported from Gaza for three wars and never witnessed the use of human shields, he is failing comprehensively to do his job. This is likely what NBC saw: a reporter missing the key stories his competitors were covering to instead offer Hamas's official explanation. Some NBC executives were very likely uncomfortable not with Mohyeldin's supposed sympathy for Palestinian children but that he was taking a wrecking ball to NBC's credibility.
Perhaps he was in over his head; Gaza is a tough beat. Whatever the reason, NBC had to do something. Now that they've returned him to Gaza, he continues chipping away at their efforts to get some accurate sense of the conflict.
It's not as though Hamas has all the media fooled (as Mohyeldin hints). The Washington Post has been quite busy getting the story. The Algemeiner has a roundup of Post stories on the topic. They note that the Post covered the fact that Hamas was using a hospital as "a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders," and that the Post ran stories detailing the use of mosques to store rockets. In one story, the Post reporter witnessed Hamas fighters moving rockets into a mosque during a temporary cease-fire. It's also a bit baffling that Mohyeldin played down the rockets discovered in a UN school, when other press followed the progress of those rockets being returned to (Hamas-linked) Palestinian officials.
To be fair, Mohyeldin isn't alone. The New York Times's Anne Barnard complained on Twitter this morning that criticism of her one-sided coverage isn't fair because it's too dangerous to cover Hamas accurately. I sympathize, and admire reporters for putting themselves in harm's way for their job. But it's all the more reason to salute the reporters who are doing so while actually getting the story.
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Joe Biden vs. the Post-Labor Left
The liberals strike back.
Given his reputation for favoring even wildly impractical progressive policy objectives, few might have guessed that the first prominent liberal to stand athwart the Democratic Party's reckless lurch to the left would be Joe Biden. With liberals fawning over progressive firebrands and amid the growing unanimity around the notion that there is no social and economic challenge that cannot be solved by throwing money at it, the former vice president has emerged as a vocal opponent of at least one idea popular among liberal reformers and libertarian technocrats alike: a universal basic income.
"The theory is that automation will result in so many lost jobs that the only plausible answer is some type of guaranteed government check with no strings attached," Biden wrote in a post for the University of Delaware's Biden Institute.
"While I appreciate concerns from Silicon Valley executives about what their innovations may do to American incomes, I believe they're selling American workers short," he continued. "Our children and grandchildren deserve the promise we've had: the skills to get ahead, the chance to earn a paycheck, and a steady job that rewards hard work."
Now, before we go congratulating Biden's attack on indolence and his tacit acknowledgment that material incentives to be productive have a better record than their alternatives, it's important to acknowledge that Biden may, in fact, be endorsing the traditional liberal position.
As far back as 2013, progressive activist and former MSNBC host Krystal Ball advocated the adoption of a "mincome" as a means of eliminating poverty. "The basic concept is simple," she continued. "Every non-incarcerated adult citizen gets a monthly check from the government," she said. But there's a catch: "Other safety net programs are jettisoned to pay, and poverty is eliminated." Just like that!
The problem with this proposition is the notion that progressive policy advocates would ever consent to the elimination of any anti-poverty program for any reason, particularly in order to pave the way for one that is "universal" (e.g., not directed toward uniquely threatened or preferred constituents).
"I'm not against a guaranteed income because I think that it would make the government too big," American University professor emerita and liberal economist Barbara Bergmann told PBS. "I think government ought to be much bigger." She noted, accurately, that the idea government could eliminate poverty and hardship by disbursing, say, $11,000 annually to every citizen is nonsense and doesn't take into account disparate needs. Given the political inclinations of the present Democratic Party, the notion that any candidate could successfully run on a platform that consists of paring back bloated entitlement programs is delusional.
As Oren Cass wrote for National Review, a "mincome" would soon take its rightful place in the pantheon of sprawling American welfare-state programs alongside Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act's provisions for individuals and corporations. Further, such a program would alter Americans' perceptions of their relationship to the state; for the first time in American history, the government would be transformed into every American's first and most essential source of well-being. And contrary to the protestations of UBI proponents, it would by necessity undermine the value of work and productivity. "Stripped of its essential role as the way to earn a living, work would instead be an activity one engaged in by choice, for enjoyment, or to afford nicer things," Cass noted.
For the social-justice left, there is one other attractive element to the UBI—one so subversive it is barely spoken above a whisper outside venues that care little for how they are perceived by the respectable sort. "In recent years, a UBI has been embraced in particular by the post-productivist left, which carries a strong feminist and ecological bent and rejects the traditional left's valorization of labor and the working class," wrote Jacobin Magazine's Shannon Ikebe.
She said there were actually two kinds of a UBI—the kind on which you can live comfortably and the kind on which you can't. She obviously prefers the latter. Her argument soon devolves into neo-Marxist prattle, blathering on about how an empowered working class free from the need to produce would create capital flight and divestment, increasing class divisions and, eventually, compelling us to reengage with "the age-old question of the ownership of the means of production." That's only relevant insofar as it provides a window into the thinking of the kind of politics that finds the UBI an attractive proposition.
It's a funny kind of Marxism that looks down its nose at labor and those who perform it. You can, however, see how that would appeal to Democrats who resent having to appeal to those backwater blue-collar voters who lost faith in the Democratic Party under Barack Obama or—to their eternal disgrace—voted for Trump. That's precisely the kind of mentality that Joe Biden (who is originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, if you needed reminding) would dedicate himself to combatting.
The fight over a UBI is a fascinating glimpse at the sub rosa ideological battles being waged within the Democratic coalition. Biden's jab at the concept is, no doubt, self-interested, but it comes from a place of pride in the traditional American ethos of personal responsibility and industriousness. Unfortunately for him and those who would join him in this internecine fight, they are vastly outmanned.
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Aung San Suu Kyi Fooled Us All
Was it all an act?
When Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, took to the lectern on Tuesday, she was speaking to us. Suu Kyi's silence as hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are driven from their homes amid a campaign of state-sponsored pogroms had been deafening. When Suu Kyi finally addressed the issue, she spoke in perfect English to the international community, but she was not being entirely honest.
Over the space of just weeks, at least 420,000 Rohingya civilians have fled their Rakhine State villages amid cycles of violence and counter-violence. Thousands more are trapped, besieged and surrounded by hostile Rakhine Buddhists and the government has denied their petitions for safe passage out of the area despite claims that supplies of food have dwindled to starvation levels. Hundreds have died either in transit or conflict, and the humanitarian conditions threaten to deteriorate further.
Suu Kyi insisted that it was not the intention of her government "to apportion blame or to abnegate responsibility." She observed that her regime has not yet been in power for a full 18 months and still has limited control over junta-led ministries like defense and border affairs. "After several months of seemingly quiet and peace, on 25 August, 30 police outposts . . . were attacked by armed groups," Suu Kyi added, apportioning blame. She bristled with indignation at international monitoring bodies that have focused only on the plight of local Muslims and not smaller minority groups that have also been made refugees and "of whose presence most of the world is totally unaware."
"Since 5 September, there have been no armed clashes, and there have been no clearance operations," she insisted, which is an outright lie, according to Suu Kyi's own information committee. She claimed the Rakhine Muslims have access to all essential and non-essential state services, but they do not. The Rohingya are denied citizenship and are clustered in camps when they are not fleeing to Bangladesh for their lives. "Myanmar does not fear international scrutiny," Suu Kyi insisted. While a handful of journalists have been allowed access, organizations like Doctors Without Borders say they have not had access to Rakhine State since August. Indeed, NGO staffers are afraid to travel to the region because Myanmar officials have accused humanitarian organizations of colluding with local militant groups.
Suu Kyi's prickliness amid allegations of brutality, prejudice, and ethnic cleansing is a bitter pill to swallow. Burma's democratization, culminating in Suu Kyi's release from house arrest and, eventually, her free election to serve as the head of a quasi-civilian government seemed like a genuine move toward liberalism.
That country's thaw appeared such a bright spot that Hillary Clinton cited her successful efforts to open Naypyidaw frequently in her quest for the Democratic nomination. "While the Arab Spring was losing its luster in the Middle East, Burma was giving the world new hope that it is indeed possible to transition peacefully from dictatorship to democracy," Clinton wrote in the chapter she dedicated to Myanmar's transition in her 2014 book, Hard Choices.
In 2011, Clinton traveled to Burma where she appeared beside Suu Kyi. "It was incredibly emotional and gratifying to see her free from the many years of house arrest," she said. For her part, Suu Kyi played the part of non-violent democratic resistance figure and pledged that "there will be no turning back from the road to democracy." Following a landslide victory for Suu Kyi and her democratic opposition in 2015, Clinton took her share of credit. "It was also an affirmation of the indispensable role the United States can and should play in the world as a champion of peace and progress," she said in a statement.
Clinton was in very good company in praising Suu Kyi as a leading light for the cause of freedom. "This is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman who speaks for freedom for all the people of Burma, and who speaks in such a way that she's a powerful voice in contrast to the junta that currently rules the country," President George W. Bush said signing a bipartisan bill awarding Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal in 2008.
In 1991, she won the Nobel Peace Prize "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights." Following her release from house arrest, she traveled the world lecturing as a Nobel laureate on the primacy of the rule of law and the necessity of democracy "for the guarantee of human rights." Today, she presides over what a Yale University Law School study claims amounts to genocide.
Maybe the pressures and political realities of running a democratizing state alongside a tenacious junta have been underappreciated, both by Suu Kyi and her detractors. Perhaps the facts on the ground tie her hands, and she must meekly defend the actions of her military as it commits atrocities against oppressed minorities. Either way, Aung San Suu Kyi is a crushing disappointment.
Trump's Turtle Bay Triumph
A different president; a normal foreign policy.
President Trump delivered his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, and it was a triumph.
The speech offered the clearest sign yet that the administration has parted with Steve Bannon and other Breitbart types who wanted to use Trump as a bulldozer against liberal order. At Turtle Bay, Trump recommitted Washington to the defense of a U.S.-led world order. He also called out forcefully the rogue states that seek "to collapse the values, the systems and alliances that prevented conflict and tilted the world toward freedom."
Trump praised the founding of the U.N. and the Marshall Plan, based on the "noble idea that the whole world is safer when nations are strong, independent and free" and the "vision that diverse nations could cooperate to protect their sovereignty, preserve their security and promote their prosperity." Robert Kagan couldn't have said it better.
Turning to specific global security challenges, Trump similarly telegraphed a return to the GOP's postwar foreign-policy traditions.
- On Iran: "We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities [in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen] while building dangerous missiles. And we cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program . . . Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever. The day will come when the people will face a choice: Will they continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed, and terror? Or will the Iranian people return to the nation's proud roots as a center of civilization, culture, and wealth, where their people can be happy and prosperous?"
- On socialism in Venezuela and beyond: "The problem in Venezuela isn't that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. From the Soviet Union to Cuba, to Venezuela; wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure. Those who preach the tenets of these discredited ideologies only contribute to the continued suffering of the people who live under these cruel systems."
- On U.N. reform: "Too often, the focus of this organization has not been on results, but on bureaucracy and process. In some cases, states that seek to subvert this institution's noble ends have hijacked the very systems that are supposed to advance them. For example, it is a massive source of embarrassment to the United Nations that some governments with egregious human rights records sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council."
- On the threat from revanchist regimes in Moscow and Beijing: "We must reject threats to sovereignty, from the Ukraine to the South China Sea."
And so on. This wasn't the rhetoric of a pinched, narrow nationalism a la Marine Le Pen. She and other European illiberals loathe American leadership. They see it as American imperialism disguised as rules-based world order. For all their talk of sovereignty, they don't want to see Washington confront Moscow's bullying in Eastern Europe or Tehran's in the Middle East. And Trump's talk of upholding postwar "systems and alliances" can't have gone down well at the Front National's base in Nanterre—or at Breitbart HQ.
If your default vision of liberal order looks like Barack Obama- and Angela Merkel-style transnationalism, you were probably disappointed with Trump's speech. The features of the Obama/Merkel model are endless diplomatic processes for their own sake; the expansion of transnational "norms" and institutions, usually at the expense of democratic self-government; and a general disdain for anything redolent of nationhood and nationalism and particularity. It has angered voters–think of Trump's election and Brexit–and triggered a crisis of liberal-democratic legitimacy across much of the developed world.
There are other, more humble ways of conceiving international order. It can be liberal—that is, rules-based and tending toward liberty—without setting itself up against nationalism. The nation-state isn't going away anytime soon and, indeed, "remains the best vehicle for elevating the human condition," as Trump noted.
Liberal order can acknowledge that the vast majority of the world's people are religious believers. Therefore, the effort to force every nation to follow the Netherlands on gender and sexuality is both wrong and likely to invite a backlash. And it can recognize that evil is a root fact of the life of individuals and nations, and therefore sometimes diplomacy and multilateralism must give way to the sword.
This alternative vision of liberal order would have looked familiar to a Ronald Reagan or a Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Judging by his best foreign-policy speeches—in Riyadh, Warsaw, and now New York—it is also the vision the administration has adopted. Those of us who worried about Bannon's themes should cheer, and give credit where it is due.
Both Students and Their Mentors Deserve Blame for America's Violent Streak
"Drummed in your dear little ear."
America is lurching toward a civic crisis. The symptoms are most evident in America's youth who, in their rash intemperance, are apt to say aloud what their elders are clever enough to imply. Subtly or overtly, the message is the same: Violence is coming.
The Washington Post's Catherine Rampell provides only the latest evidence that the next generation is eagerly discarding the standards of civil decency that have kept us from lunging at each other's throats. She reports on a a survey of undergraduate college students at four-year colleges, conducted by University of California, Los Angeles professor and Brookings Institution Fellow John Villasenor and funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, that offers no reason for optimism.
The survey found that a plurality of students, 44 percent, believe the First Amendment does not protect "hate speech," whatever that is. It revealed that a majority—51 percent—believe it is acceptable to shout down and drown out "a very controversial speaker" who is "known for making offensive and hurtful statements." The definitions of controversial, hurtful, and offensive are subjective. Understanding that, however, is indicative of a bygone era when one utilized self-awareness to prevent even the most censorious Americans from overreaching. Finally, and most disturbing, the survey revealed that nearly one-fifth of college students believe it is acceptable to engage in violence to silence a speaker with whom they disagreed.
These sentiments are not novel. A 2015 survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA found that 71 percent of freshmen believed that colleges should "prohibit racist/sexist speech" and 43 percent of incoming freshmen agreed colleges should "have the right to ban extreme speakers." Those ideas trickle down. A 2011 poll of faculty conducted by that institution revealed that nearly 70 percent of female college staff and almost half of their male counterparts thought universities should "prohibit" speech deemed racist or sexist.
"Here's the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants 'safe spaces,' or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech," Rampell writes. Indeed, this observation has been proposed by those who have watched the storm clouds on the horizon for years now (cough). Rampell should, however, not limit her critique to colleges. These authoritarian ideas didn't dawn on these teenagers like an epiphany ex nihilo. They were imparted.
In the modern age, the intellectual foundations needed to transform even murderous violence as an understandable, if not entirely acceptable, response to provocation were laid years ago by a frustrated class of activists trapped in ivy-covered cages on campuses. It was an impulse that began to seep out into the national consciousness when the editors and cartoonists of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were slaughtered by the Islamist terrorists they deliberately offended. We were treated to a series of hand-wringing treatise from earnest liberals lamenting the effects of a society that "perversely" "valorizes free speech for its own sake."
Even former Secretary of State John Kerry gave credence to this ideal. Following the bloody November 2015 attack on various locations in Paris, Kerry called the violence senseless—unlike the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. The Charlie Hebdo murderers, he said, had "a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, 'Okay, they're really angry because of this and that.'" That same logic can been seen today in the cowardice of adult men and women who scold their young charges for inviting the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, Condoleezza Rice, Christina Hoff Sommers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Charles Murray, or any number of pop culture figures, intellectuals, and conservative authors onto campus. Don't they know they're just asking for it?
"When someone calls a black person the 'n' word out of hatred, he or she is not expressing a new idea or outlining a valuable thought," read a 2012 editorial in the Harvard Crimson. "They are committing an act of violence." These sentiments were menacingly echoed by the editors of Wellesley College's student-run newspaper in 2017. "[I]f people are given the resources to learn and either continue to speak hate speech or refuse to adapt their beliefs, then hostility may be warranted," they wrote, cryptically advocating "appropriate measures" be brought to bear. These and many other misguided students who have used their right to free speech to advocate its repression are merely observing their elders.
In an April 2017 op-ed for the New York Times, New York University vice provost Ulrich Baer put a thin whitewash over rank anti-intellectualism when he claimed that some speech should be suppressed due to the asymmetry between the speaker and offended student. Appropriating the Holocaust to make his claims, he noted that the unduly derided "snowflakes" who display more sensitivity toward their peers' discomfort than free speech advocates. Pure free expression, he noted "conflicts with the community's obligation to assure all of its members equal access to public speech." For some reason, Baer has convinced himself the right of "minorities to participate in public discourse" is under attack. Given that delusional construct, aggression isn't just warranted but necessary. Denying offensive speakers a "platform," e.g., preventing invited speakers form honoring their invitation, is a moral imperative.
On Inauguration Day, as agitators set fires and destroyed storefronts in the name of opposing Donald Trump, one of the alt-right's most vile agitators—the white supremacist organizer Richard Spencer—was hit in the face. The nation was treated to a fatuous display of special pleading typified by media outlets exploring the virtues of this attack as if assault amounted to a weighty philosophical conundrum. "What are the ethics of punching Nazis?" The Guardian asked. "Is it O.K. to punch a Nazi?" the Times pondered. Nine months later, with white supremacists emboldened by the tense climate and a president conspicuously cautious about offending them, Nazis are still appearing in public and getting punched in the face. Why wouldn't they be when the authors of this violence are getting pats on the head from their elders?
Wearing a Nazi armband, wrote City University of New York Professor Angus Johnston, is "not just a speech act. It's a test." Not a test of civic norms, but of the ability of the onlooker to suppress the subconscious checks on the impulse to lash out violently. "It's street harassment," he wrote. He rattled off a variety of other situations in which he thought it was okay to perform an act of preemptive violence, made a rough moral equivalency, and implied that anyone who felt differently is a closeted Nazi sympathizer. Modern academic ethics perfectly crystallized.
This litany focuses on the left because leftists offer more material to parse. Cosseted, well-compensated soft revolutionaries are busy penning hagiography to thugs who commit acts of terror in the name of "anti-fascism." Respectable left-wing journals like the Nation, Mother Jones, and the New Republic have found themselves in the rank agitation business. Right-wing violence is not imaginary, but the legitimization of it in respectable circles—including, arguably, in the White House—is newer. For example: "Several high-profile rallies transformed into brawls between black-clad Antifa and conservatives who sometimes claimed membership in new anti-Antifa organizations, such as the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, a wing of the Proud Boys, itself a group founded by Rebel commentator Gavin McInnes," the Washington Post's Dave Weigel reported. We're not talking about National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the professorate at Hillsdale College.
It is tempting to blame young people, who neither understand nor treasure the enlightened values for which generations of Americans have fought and died. But these young men and women are mimicking illiberalism by example. You have to be carefully taught.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feed prices for dairy producers will likely remain high through the summer, but late-year declines are expected with bumper crops of corn and soybeans, according to Feb. 22 projections from the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the 2013 Agricultural Outlook Forum.
Even so, higher feed prices through most of 2013 will not be fully offset by an expected uptick in milk prices. USDA projections call for average net cash income per dairy operation to fall from $98,100 in 2012 to $83,900 in 2013, a crop of 14.5 percent.
At the Feb. 22 dairy outlook presentation, the USDA's dairy outlook report was given by Jerry Cessna, senior agricultural economist for dairy programs at the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. In the first three quarters of 2013, the USDA projects average corn prices of $6.75 to $7.65 per bushel, compared with $6.22 in 2011-12. However, prices in the last quarter of 2013 are projected to drop below the $4.80 per bushel price forecast for the entire3 2013-14 crop year, according to the USDA.
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Cow numbers are projected to fall by 0.7 percent in 2013, Cessna said in his presentation, in response to high feed prices, low numbers of replacement heifers and high slaughter numbers in recent months.
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Scott Brown, agricultural economist with the University of Missouri, provided a look at dairy policy in his presentation. Brown said it is too early in the year to have a good sense of where dairy policy might settle on in 2013.
"I think there are a number of budgetary issues that must become clear before we can debate farm policy," he said. With record high feed costs, producers are interested in ways to protect their margins rather than merely focusing on price, he said.
However, Brown said that a declining budget baseline for dairy programs will make any approach difficult, he said. The Congressional Budget Office in February put baseline spending on dairy programs from fiscal year 2014 to fiscal year 2023 at $28.4 million per year. That's just a fraction of seven years ago, he said.
"It is hard to write dairy policy that only spends $30 million annually that has much effect on the industry," he said, noting dairy industry cash receipts in 2012 totalled about $37 billion.
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"The cost and effectiveness of these programs is one of my biggest concerns," he said.
Anand Rao, general manager for technical services for Fronterra USA, said during his presentation that the dairy industry has seen more volatility and convergence in global dairy product pricing. A big increase in import demand from China has benefitted the U.S., New Zealand and other dairy exporters, he said.
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BEIJING, China - The Chinese film industry has been "shaken" after the country's cinemas were opened up to show more foreign productions, a government official said Sunday, November 11, on the sidelines of a pivotal party congress.
China, which is set to become the world's second-largest movie market this year, agreed in February to lift its quota of foreign movies per year from 20 to 34 in a move long sought by Hollywood.
"This has brought handsome profits to the American film industry but has also posed pressure and challenge to the Chinese film industry," vice minister Tian Jin said at a press conference on the sidelines of the Communist Party's 18th congress in Beijing.
"Domestic films are facing great pressure," said Tian, who is the party member responsible for radio, film and television.
"The objective reason is that more foreign films in the Chinese market have dealt a blow to domestic films, and the subjective reason is that the domestic film industry needs to be more competitive," he said.
He urged domestic filmmakers to "enhance creativity".
Scores of cinemas are being built across China to cater to growing demand which has seen box office takings of more than 13 billion yuan ($2.1 billion) this year until the end of last month -- up 40% from the same period last year, Tian said.
But the domestic industry's takings were just 40% of that total, which was "much lower than last year", he added, without elaborating.
Tian denied that Beijing had imposed restrictions on the scheduling of foreign films in China.
"The release schedule of films is purely a market act," he said, responding to a question about a 'month-long restriction' on foreign films.
"The government will never impose a schedule to any film or release."
China has shown foreign films for many years, but agreed to open its cinemas to more overseas productions in February following a visit to the US by Vice President Xi Jinping last year.
The move was also forced upon China by the World Trade Organization, although a 2009 ruling against Chinese limits on the import of films, DVDs, music and books initially brought little change.
China also imposes strict rules over what films are allowed to be seen by the public, banning what it considers any negative portrayal of contemporary politics or issues it says might lead to social unrest. - Agence France-Presse


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As a handful of players came to agreements with European teams on Wednesday, the National Hockey League and NHLPA didn't bother with phone or email conversations on Day 60 of the lockout.
Among those on their way out: Colorado Avalanche forward Paul Stastny (Munich, German league); defensemen Cam Fowler of the Anaheim Ducks and Nicklas Grossmann of the Philadelphia Flyers (Sodertajle, Swedish); Washington Capitals winger Jason Chimera (HC Chomutov, Czech); and Nashville Predators defenseman Kevin Klein (Herlev, Danish).
With the work stoppage entering its third month, communications between the sides have come to a halt.
"No, we have not communicated today," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press on Wednesday in an email. "No meetings scheduled, and no plans to meet."
After four consecutive days of negotiations in New York last week, talks broke off angrily Friday night. Discussions resumed on Sunday, solely regarding player contract terms, but that meeting ended after 90 minutes — the league is not budging off a proposed five-year limit on deals, 5 percent cap on salary variance and two rules designed to stop players from signing huge second contracts.
The chief disagreement remains how, and when, to drop the players from their previous 57 percent share of league revenue to 50 percent. Owners want it to happen immediately, but proposed a deferred payback plan designed to recoup players' losses on existing deals. The union does not believe that "make whole" plan, as currently constituted, to be sufficient.
Also becoming more of an issue: how to divide revenue for the theoretical 2012-13 season because of the hundreds of millions (and counting) in lost revenue and shortened schedule.
Daly says that no decisions have been made to call off any more games. So far, 327 — all those scheduled through Nov. 30 and the New Year's Day Winter Classic — have been canceled by the NHL.
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Libby Weiss, born and raised in Lake Oswego, Ore., to Israel-born parents who have spent the last 25 years living in the U.S., could have visited Israel as many times as she wanted without ever having to become part of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Weiss, however, chose to enlist in the IDF.
A petite, attractive young woman who laughs easily, Weiss apparently believes wearing the military uniform of the IDF and serving in a country that has been in a relative state of perpetual war with its neighbors since it declared statehood in 1948 is one of the best decisions of her life.
Here's her story:
"I'm from Lake Oswego, Oregon. I went to Lake Oswego High School. I'm a very proud Laker graduate. I graduated in 2006."
"We are currently standing in Jerusalem, Israel, actually at the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem. I've been living here for two years. I came here after I graduated from Northwestern University in June 2010, and then I moved here to Israel in August 2010.
"I've been to Israel several times. Actually my parents just happen to be Israeli both of them, living in the U.S. much longer than they ever lived in here in Israel. So I spent many summers visiting family and friends here. When I came in August 2010 it was certainly for the longest period of time.
"I would say probably around December, January of 2011 it became pretty clear to me that I wasn't planning on returning to the States anytime soon, and that I was going to stay, stay here in Israel, and join the IDF.
"My parents are very proud of me, honestly speaking. I think both as native Israelis they understood the appeal and what it means to a Jewish person to live here in the State of Israel. I think maybe part of them thought maybe they done too good of a job at home with the emphasis on the Jewish connection to the State of Israel. But all jokes aside they were very supportive.
"I think maybe the biggest difference between, certainly between Lake Oswego, Oregon, and Israel, I would say is just the general attitude. Israelis, by their nature, are incredibly informal people, and I think the formalities and the niceties that we're really raised to have in the United States don't apply here. There's no waiting in line. Sort of polite niceties aren't needed here.
"I think the nature of obviously life in Israel, there are certain threats we have here that you don't have certainly growing up in Lake Oswego, Oregon, but honestly speaking I think it really helps shape the Israeli identity. Which is a huge reason why I want to live here. We embrace life here in this country. I think mainly because we understand the threats that exist.
"Certainly my parents are concerned. But generally speaking I feel very safe here. Honestly speaking I feel less safe when I go back to Lake Oswego and I tend to see how vulnerable we are in the United States. But generally speaking, I think they are worried, as any parents would be about their children who live thousands of miles away.
"There is no doubt that I made the right decision. I can say that I wake up every morning loving what I do, energized by what I am doing, feeling like I am making a huge contribution, that I am gaining so much. So for me, there's no doubt, absolutely no doubt, that I made the right decision.
"I would encourage people to really be interested in the world that's around them. I think as somebody who lives in an area that is covered heavily by the press and is generally discussed in the international arena, there's so much more here than I think what people hear about every day on the news. And I encourage anyone to come visit, get interested, see what the world has outside of the place that you consider home. Because it's fascinating and exciting.
"Come visit. Those are my words to anyone who is sitting in Lake Oswego. Of course for me Lake Oswego will always be home. So I miss it and I love it very much. But come visit."
Dan Morrison is on assignment in Israel for KVAL.com.
Morrison has previously reported for KVAL.com from Helmand Province, Afghanistan, embedded with U.S. Marines there fighting the Taliban.
Morrison teaches journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications in Eugene, Ore.


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Bacardi Oakheart Smooth Spiced Rum
Review: Bacardi Oakheart Smooth Spiced Rum (86/100)
A Review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted on October 20, 2011
(Re-examined as part of my 2016 Spiced Rum Countdown)
In 1862, Facundo Bacardi and his brother José bought the Santiago de Cuba Distillery and began to distill what would become the most popular commercial rum in the world. Using a method of charcoal filtering, and oak barrel aging along with a still of copper and cast iron, Facundo Bacardi created a smoother more refined version of the locally made rum. His smoother version of the spirit became local favourite, and over time, an international sensation. Of course, Bacardi Rum is not made in Cuba anymore, the Ron Bacardi Company left Cuba in the wake of Fidel Castro's plans to nationalize all private property and privately held bank accounts on the Island. The Bacardi family moved important trademarks out of Cuba, and using a Bacardi owned plant built in Puerto Rico, were able to continue to build their company. Bacardi is now the largest family owned spirits company in the world.
Bacardi's Oakheart Smooth Spiced Rum is one of those spirits which shows firm signs of its age in the glass. It is produced from a blend of column distilled rums which have been aged in charred oak barrels. This aged rum is then spiced to reach a flavour profile which walks the path of a vanilla accented by fragrant spices the combination of which is meant to compliment the aged rum but not to dominate it.
In the Bottle 4.5/5
The photo to the left shows off the new Oakheart bottle presentation. I like the textured bottle which is easy to grip, and I like the bold label. About the only thing I do not like is the metallic topper. If you look at the threads you can see that there is only two of them. When I received my bottle for review from Bacardi, I checked the cap and it had already loosened. The fill line was not low, so I know I did not lose any liquid; but I am always unsettled by a loose cap, and this seems to happen much more often with these pressed on metallic caps than with plastic caps or corks.
In the Glass 8.5/10
I began my examination of the Oakheart rum with a look at its colour and visual appeal. The rum displays a golden amber colour, and when I tilted my glass and gave it a slow twirl, I noticed a thin sheen of liquid left on the side. Small legs developed and ran down back into the rum. I like that the droplets do not seem to be unduly thickened by sugar.
The nose from the glass carries a light accent of oak spice with butterscotch, caramel, and a firm indication of vanilla rising up into the breezes. I sense some light baking spices as well as a very light indication of dried fruit (raisins and dates). When I allowed the glass to breathe, the vanilla notes deepened. I also begin to sense some maple in those breezes above my glass and the baking spices have firmed up with more obvious impressions of nutmeg and cinnamon.
In the Mouth 51.5/60
The rum is surprisingly creamy in the mouth, and this creaminess serves to coat the palate allowing the flavours to linger. I taste a lot of vanilla, some nice rummy butterscotch and a little dollop of maple syrup. The rum has a bit of spicy heat as well, with some orange peel, cinnamon and cloves heating the palate. The oak seems a little lost in the spice when you sip the rum neat. I suspect it is adding to that orange peel zest flavour I noted, but it is hard to decide where the light spice flavours end and the oak begins.
Spiced rums are usually meant as mixing rums and so I wanted to try a couple of cocktail/bar drinks just to see how things tasted. I mixed a standard Spiced Rum and Cola with lots of ice. I have to admit that this relatively simple bar drink really surprised me. The spice really 'popped' on my palate with flavours of cinnamon, and baking spices making a very positive impression in the cola. In fact, I found myself mixing my Oakheart and Cola frequently over the next several days, and each time I was more impressed than the last.
Based upon my success with my Oak and Cola mixed drink, I experimented with ginger ale and created a refreshing tall serving I have dubbed, the Flying Machine (see both cocktail recipes below).
In the Throat 13/15
The Bacardi Oakheart finishes with a spicy pop of cinnamon and other baking spices (kind of like the flavour of nice sticky cinnamon buns). The throat is heated by these spices; but I do not really sense any burn or discomfort. After the swallow, the palate is left with the lingering aftertaste of vanilla and cinnamon.
The Afterburn 8.5/10
In mixed cocktails, the Bacardi Oakheart shines, and it seems each time I sample the spiced rum I became more impressed. This spirit has character which only comes from the time spent in an oak barrel, and this aged character adds real depth to cocktails and bar drinks.
If you are interested in comparing more scores, here is a link to my other published Rum Reviews.
Suggested Recipes:
Oakheart and Cola
2 oz Oakheart Spiced Rum
4 oz Cola
Slice of Lime
Fill a bar glass full of ice
Add 2 ounce of Oakheart Spiced Rum
Fill with Cola
If desired garnish with a slice of lime.
Please consume responsibly as this spiced rum and cola is very addictive!
While Spiced Rum and Cola is a conventional theme of the tall back deck drink; this summer I have been traveling a different path in which ginger ale and/or ginger beer has replaced the ubiquitous cola. Here is a variation which works particularly well with Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum.
The Flying Machine
1 1/2 oz Spiced Rum
1/2 oz Bols Triple Sec
1/2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 oz Old Thyme Ginger Beer
Add a slice of Lime to the bottom of your favourite tall drinking glass
Fill with Ice
Pour the first three ingredients into the glass over the ice
Add two dashes of Bitters and complete with Ginger Beer
Stir to mix thoroughly
Enjoy Responsibly!
If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!
My Final Score is out of 100 and you may (loosely) interpret the score as follows:
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
16 Responses to "Bacardi Oakheart Smooth Spiced Rum"
April 18, 2014 at 2:58 pm
As most I never liked any of the commercial spiced rums. On a trip to Tortola BVI we stopped by the Callwood rum distillery, where after a tasting, I purchased their spiced rum. Problem is that you can only buy it on the island of Tortola;-(
I decided to try a bottle of the Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum and was pleasantly surprised. I still would like more of the Callwood but till I get back to Tortola the Bacardi will do. BTW try it with Raspberry Ice Tea.
April 7, 2014 at 8:31 am
Became curious about the Oakheart after reading your review anx bought a bottle…I just r0tried it (neat, no ice or coke…) and yes, once again the review I readwhile tasting the stuff translates in words what my nose and palate are trying to tell me 🙂
Smoothness,the flavlurof maple, oak and cinnamon and a bit of peppery heat in the beginning, no burning feeling afterwards and the vanilla/cinnamon flavour lingering on the palate minutes after tasting….can't wait to try "Oak&Coke" after what you told about its great taste! Thanks again for the accuracy and clear writing !
March 22, 2014 at 3:15 am
Just discovered this drink and I am about to purchase my first bottle. Liked you review which reinforced my decision to buy a bottle. Question: How would this go as a 'Toddy', ie heated like a Mead?
February 9, 2014 at 4:00 am
Okay, 85.5 points for Bacardi Oakheart. I have to disagree. You can't rate Barcelo Imperial at 81.5 and BacOak at 85.5. I know that Barcelo probably is flavoured with additional sugar and whos knows whether that's all but Oakheart? I have both of them at home and would never ever present Oakheart as a sipping rum. It does its job in some cocktails and sometimes can even replace a cheap whiskey in them. But when I tried to sip it I could only think of two words: Sugar and Artifical. Your Rating Scale implies that higher scores mean a higher sippability and as I said: Bacardi Oakheart is by far inferior to Barcelo Imperial in this discipline, don't you agree a bit?
July 22, 2013 at 10:12 am
Ditto on the negative vibes regarding Bacardi but, like others, I tried it after reading your review. Two points: Although a "spiced" rum, it is sufficiently different than many of the others and is relatively smooth (as advertised) while still having character. Second, as you noted, it begs to be mixed and seems less likely to rudely challenge one's friends' palates in that role.
May 29, 2012 at 5:19 am
Hey Chip – Just getting around to responding to your review on Oakheart.
Man,… I swore I'd never buy another Bacardi product after discovering fine sipping rums via the prodding of a close friend. They were a revelation to me on what a Rum can really be,… and what my palate was expecting a Rum to taste like back in the day. So now I LOVE RUM,….. mostly neat over a cube. But all I saw was Bacardi way back then,… and cheaper rums attempting to compete that I figured could only be worse (…and they weren't things labeled Plantation, Diplomatico, Zacapa, El Dorado, Doorly's etc., etc.) So Bacardi pretty much monopolized the market back then and put me off of Spirits altogether. It was all just Aviation fuel to my palate and in my mind. So for decades, beer and wine were pretty much the only things in my alcoholic beverage wheelhouse. And I could only despise Bacardi all the more for what they did to dampen my past culinary possibilities once I discovered REAL RUMS. And I am still harboring a considerable amount of animosity towards them….. Grrrrrrr.
Then along comes your review. I resisted, but my Rum buddy demanded we give the Oakheart a try once I showed him the review. Man, I am really getting tired of eating crow with my Rum. But for the money, I'll have to say this inexpensive mixer has found it's way into my galley. I still sneer at it though,… every time I reach for it. I hate Bacardi. Grrrrrrr!
February 24, 2012 at 7:44 pm
After reading this I took the plunge and bought a bottle. Typically I only buy Captain because I haven't had good results with any other rum. But this stuff really hit the spot! Thanks!!
January 31, 2012 at 5:38 pm
Great review the only thing i disagree with is under your oakheart and coke recipe, Oak and coke as Bacardi is marketing it, if you want to stick with how Bacardi is recommending to serve it i would take the lime out. Their market strategy is "no flipping lime".
December 22, 2011 at 3:05 pm
thanks for the info, just tried it with lemonade and found it very nice, will try it with cola next, bacardi is my main drink
and have tried all the varieties,
November 6, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Dear Arctic Wolf, Thank you for a very thorough test review of Bacardi Oakheart.
I am very keen on the White Superior and was a bit unsure whether to buy a bottle.
You've convinced me that to get one would be a good idea.
I'll let you know how it goes.
October 31, 2011 at 5:22 pm
stumbled on your blog, thanks for the info! just picked up a 1L bottle to make spiced apple cider because they were out of Capt Morgans. I was worried since i'm serving a bunch of guests but after reading your post i'm actually excited to try this. I'll try sipping neat / with ice tonight and give it a go. Thanks!


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When I started this blog in March of 2005, I was drawn to the medium, and I'd been cheated on, and I wanted to stand up and share. I felt the deep sense of shame and self-worthlessness that being cheated on can bring. I knew my feelings were illogical and backwards, and I also knew with absolutely certainty that if I was feeling this nagging pull into a complete loss of self-worth, then other people were feeling it, too. And maybe they weren't as strong as me. And maybe if I stood up and shared, and said Hey, This happened to me, and Hey, It's on him, it would help them. And maybe it would help me.
I made myself a deal, which is something I do a lot in life. I would start the blog, and I would write something on it at least once a week.
I proceeded to blog multiple times a week for months and months and years and years. The writing poured out of me. So much to say and my own personal space on the interwebs on which to say it.
I love the movie "Julie and Julia." I believe the conventional wisdom is that the Julia segments are superior to the Julie segments. Why not a whole movie about Julia Childs, I often read when the film came out. But I love the Julie segments, and with good reason. The fact that someone made a major motion picture that depicts the beginning of blogging in America is a little miracle. And it's true. To watch that movie is to see and feel what it was like to blog in the beginning. Captured in my favorite medium. I am forever thankful that film exists.
And there is not enough space here to mention all the many amazing and wonderful things that have come to me as a result of this blog. Friends, travels, personal development, self expression, financial gain. Some harrassment, of course, and time will tell if some of my braver or more outlandish posts ever come back to bite me in my mildly-famous-for-the-blink-of-an-eye ass. They will stand, though, in this space, like the tattoos on my skin. Decisions made. Self-expression committed to.
Over the years, I experimented with various types of writing and ways of written expression. In the end, I believe that the best way for me to write here is to focus on myself, my truths, and what works for me. Because who am I, and who is anyone, to tell you what you should do for you? Posts scolding others for using social media incorrectly, for example, are my major pet peeve. If you don't care what someone had for lunch, or you don't want to hear their drama, eff off and go read something else. Or, you know, complain and write judgy blog posts. It's your perogative. But I've tried not to do that here more often than not.
It's a big Internet, and it was fascinating, painfully fascinating, to see humans enter a wild, wild west and almost immediately declare rules and start building boxes. Now I think, that's just what we do. We often attempt to create order that makes sense to us, and to get everyone to play the way we think is best.
Well, I try to never do anything that doesn't make sense to me or that I don't want to do. Back in the day, I read Wil Wheaton, and Shane Nickerson, and Mimi Smartypants, and I thought, I want to do that, and I know how I want to do it.
Today is nine years. A good number, 9. I particularly like numbers that are divisible by 3 and 9, and so out of all the potential blog posts I've had brain gerbils running on for the past month, this is the one for today.
I still think in blog posts, but there's something uncomfortable here. I believe the best way is to focus on myself and my experiences and thoughts, but I am currently uncomfortable doing it here in this medium. No longer focused and driven to be creating in and for this space. For a long while now, I've been blogging one or two times a month. Easy to just keep doing that, I thought. But.
In recent years I've been chipping away at the excess marble in my schedule to reveal focused filmmaker me. Letting go of things that take time and energy I can be spending working on film projects. The day jobs I've worked in recent years just to survive take ever more time and energy and so I need the little bit that I've left to this blog back. Is that it?
But I volunteer for WriteGirl now, and I've been writing more poetry and getting back to my musical roots by dabbling in songwriting. Poetry and songwriting make me want notebooks and pencils and time and privacy before I share. Is that it?
My space here feels old school and limited and not like me anymore while so much of what used to live here is now on Facebook and Twitter and without me on Instagram and Pinterest and Tumbler. Is that it?
Internet space feels crowded and people gang up and judge and sometimes, even when I might agree with the side that's doing it, I feel fear. I feel simultaneously less and more exposed. Is that it?
Comment spammers mean that comments must close on old posts - it's really the only way to manage the comment spam. Posts live on, but the conversation dies, which feels like something amazing has been lost. Is that it?
I don't know. And that's OK.
Like much in life, the truth is likely all of these things. And perhaps none of them.
My first blog post here is titled, "This is not a good idea." And yet, it was a very, very good idea. It changed my life. Like every moment changes life.
My last blog post here is titled, "So long, and thanks for all the fish." This is more a testament to my appreciation of Douglas Adams and my enjoyment in using known, popular phrases as blog post titles than of any ultimate truth. For surely, I am an open, sharing person, and I Am Alive in Los Angeles, and here on the Interwebs. I do thank you for the fish, but I'm sure you'll be able to find me somewhere around here.
The title of this blog is "Everyday Goddess." I learned this phrase from a singer, Celia, who I had the great pleasure to hear sing it live in North Hollywood at a Celtic center. I'm going to close by sharing the lyrics with you, and you can buy the whole beautiful album, Breath, here (or just the song for a $1).
Now, real exposure to feminism and feminist writing is something else that blogging gave me, and while I love this song, I'm not a fan of the concept of putting women on pedestals. See The Fatal Feminist, Get Me Off This Damn Pedestal, and Everyday Feminist (love the title!), Chivalry Must Die: On Women's Expectations and Men's Obligations, for more on why up on a pedestal might not be anywhere you actually want to be or put someone else. This is why I like the phrase "everyday" goddess. Because we are all goddess and god and goodness, all of us, everyday. Together on the same plane.
So when you get to the line "always elevate your queen," please just imagine that her bedroom is prone to flooding and therefore her queen bed must be lifted up onto cinder blocks. Thank you.
"It's really no big deal, I'm just an Everyday Goddess."
She's a mother off to work,
She is driving in her car,
She's a goddess in the elevator, rising like a star.
They say she's workin' like a man,
But they don't understand,
She's dancing with the goddess in her heart.
She's that woman on the phone,
She's smoothin' out a deal,
And though her back is breaking, she's a goddess in high heels.
She works 6am to 3,
And it may be hard to see,
But the beauty of the goddess runs deep.
It's really no big deal, I'm just an everyday goddess,
Doin' all my goddess duties, tryin' to find a way.
I am the maiden and the mother and the crone
But it's really no big deal,
It's just another day.
She's a goddess in a skirt,
Long, lean legs,
She can drop you to your knees, and make you beg.
We are obsessed with her body,
But we don't see,
That the beauty of the goddess lies beneath.
She's a goddess on the job,
A goddess in your bed,
A goddess for the children, and she keeps her family fed.
You must never treat her mean,
Always elevate your queen,
She's the everyday goddess of your world.
It's really no big deal, I'm just an everyday goddess,
Doin' all my goddess duties, tryin' to find a way.
I am the maiden and the mother and the crone
But it's really no big deal,
It's just another day.
It's really no big deal.
It's really no big deal.
It's really no big deal, I'm just an everyday goddess,
Doin' all my goddess duties, tryin' to find a way.
I am the maiden and the mother and the crone
But it's really no big deal,
It's just another day.
Another day.
Another day.
Another day.
It's just another day.
It's really no big deal.
It's just another day.
Except I woke up this morning to post this after writing it yesterday, and it feels like a big deal. Another big decision made on my own. I'm not sure how I feel about it, except that it feels right even as it hurts more than I thought it would.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting all these years.


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