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HACKSAW RIDGE, nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Film, Director and Actor, is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
When the order came to retreat, one man stayed
In the Spring of 1945 – as the war in the Pacific entered its final, most deadly days, and U.S. forces in Okinawa encountered some of the most ferocious fighting ever witnessed – a single soldier stood out from the rest. This was Desmond T. Doss, a conscientious objector, who despite vowing to never kill, served boldly as an unarmed medic in the infantry … and went on to single-handedly save the lives of dozens of his fallen fellow soldiers under lethal fire without firing a single bullet.
An unwavering Seventh Day Adventist, Doss was living in Virginia when he voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army. He had no interest in fighting, but rather Doss wanted to serve as a "non- combatant" medic. It was not a path with which the military was familiar, but Doss persisted. Skinny, vegetarian and unwilling to train on Saturdays let alone carry a gun, Doss was initially ridiculed and abused by his compatriots – who, convinced he would be a dangerous liability in the foxholes with them, tried every which way they could to drive him out of the army. But Doss persisted all the way to Okinawa, where his unit was ordered to take part in the near-impossible capture of the massive Maeda Escarpment – aka Hacksaw Ridge. Atop this steep, looming 400-foot cliff lay heavily fortified machine- gun nests, booby traps and Japanese soldiers in caves who vowed to fight to the end.
It was there that Doss demonstrated that he was made not only of principle but also rare courage. Facing a desperate assault of heavy fire, Doss refused to seek cover. When his battalion was ordered to retreat, he alone remained behind and ran repeatedly into the kill zone, with nothing but his convictions, to drag to safety an estimated 75 badly injured men who were destined to die had he not intervened.
Doss would go on to receive the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman in October of 1945, with a citation that drew attention to "outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions." It was then that the journey to bring Doss's story to the screen began. Those who heard what Doss had achieved and understood how unusual it was (there have since been only two other conscientious objectors awarded the Medal of Honor) immediately saw that that it was a potent and provocative story. But it would be another half century before it became a reality – in part because Doss chose to lead a quiet, humble life without the notoriety a film would bring.
Mel Gibson Takes the Helm
But now with a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (Kentucky Cycle, All the Way) and Australian writer Andrew Knight (The Water Diviner), as well as a highly accomplished team led by Academy Award®-winning director Mel Gibson, Doss's unsung story would at last be told as only 21st century filmmaking could. It would be not only a story of what men endured on Okinawa, but of the loved ones back home who shaped and bolstered Desmond Doss's belief.
Producer Bill Mechanic, explains: "Desmond never wanted to sell his life rights, he didn't want to popularize himself, feeling that that would be a contradiction to who he was. It wasn't until late in his life that people convinced him that it was time to tell the story so that it would live on."
Doss passed away at the age of 87 in March 2006. Several years before that, filmmaker Terry Benedict had received his blessing to begin producing a documentary about Doss, "The Conscientious Objector," and secured the life rights to his story. Feeling the time was also right to explore bringing Doss's story to motion picture audiences as a multi-layered drama, Benedict approached producer David Permut.
Permut says "For the most part, Desmond has been a forgotten hero by the general public and I'm very proud that we had the opportunity to immortalize his legend in a film that presents a truly unique perspective of war, conviction and a man who stands by his beliefs at all costs."
Permut approached Mechanic, who was thrilled to become involved in the film.
Mechanic says: "I always saw this story as being about a man who has very strong beliefs – which are then tested in an absolute hell that he comes out of even stronger."
In search of a screenwriter who could navigate all the historical, biographical and spiritual territory of Desmond Doss's story, producers David Permut and Bill Mechanic hired Robert Schenkkan— who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his Kentucky Cycle plays, an epic story of Western history and mythology told through the intersecting stories of three Kentucky families. In 2014, Shenkkan won the Outstanding Play Tony Award® for All The Way, as well as numerous other awards, for its mesmerizing take on President Lyndon Johnson's first year in office, in the wake of the Kennedy assassination. Schenkkan's passion for humanizing large historical events seemed a unique match with the material.
It was certainly not a story that lent itself to a conventional structure – combining seemingly disparate elements of romance, family struggles, probing of faith and the brutal realities of war. But by utilizing Doss's own verbal accounts of what happened, and accounts from Army records, Schenkkan honed in on exploring how Doss's steadfast belief that it was wrong to kill, even in a war he believed was just, emerged.
Mechanic explains: "We both felt you have to understand where Desmond comes from to understand the decisions he makes. We discussed at one point starting in Okinawa, but it was just too important to explain the impact of Doss's parents, of his meeting his wife Dorothy, and the formation of his rudimentary belief system as a young man."
Schenkkan played with some of the early chronology to craft a tight structure. He carved secondary characters from amalgams of real people, and streamlined events from Doss's early life. But when it came to Doss's incredible feats on HACKSAW RIDGE, the screenplay hewed as close to the factual record as possible. That meant the film needed a director who could both expose the intimate inner life of the Doss family and also re-create the epic combat in Okinawa with a mesmerizing realism.
That specific combination is why Mechanic began doggedly pursuing Mel Gibson. With films that span from the classic, Academy Award® Best Picture-winning Braveheart to The Patriot, We Were Soldiers, The Passion of the Christ and his most recently directed film, the Mayan civilization epic APOCALYPTO, Gibson has become known for meshing big themes with atmospheric style that takes audiences into revealing worlds. Mechanic had previously worked with Gibson on Braveheart and has watched as Gibson has continued to expand creatively.
"I first sent Mel the script for HACKSAW RIDGE in 2002, and in 2010, and then again in 2014," recalls Mechanic. "His people had read it earlier, but up until the third time I sent it, Mel had been more interested in directing projects that he'd developed himself. In 2014, he read it overnight and by the morning he was essentially in."
For Mechanic, Gibson was always the ultimate choice. "HACKSAW RIDGE felt to me almost like a companion piece to Braveheart," comments the producer. "It pulls together the same themes of faith, violence and war, though it's a very different story about a man from a very different time and background. To me, what also sets Mel apart as a contemporary filmmaker is how experiential his filmmaking is, how visceral the storytelling is in his films. He's become a consummate director. He's equally great with characters, with actors, with the camera and the editing process and with giving audiences a new experience."
Gibson saw in HACKSAW RIDGE a chance to bring into the light a forgotten hero – and he was drawn to Desmond Doss as man who determined to find a way to live by the values that meant everything to him, even when they seemed in conflict with the whole world around him.
Says Gibson: "Desmond Doss abhorred violence, it was against his principles, his religious beliefs, but he wanted to serve his country in World War II as a medic. How does somebody go into the worst place on earth without a weapon? It was all the more compelling to me, because it was a true story, and I thought I could bring my visual language to it."
Gibson notes that Doss never called himself a conscientious objector. That was the army's term. Instead, he called himself a "conscientious co-operator," believing with unflagging tenacity that he had plenty to contribute without having to kill other human beings.
"He was a co-operator in the sense that he passionately wanted to join the war effort, but he wanted to enter it as someone aiming not to take life but to save it," says Gibson. "Still, you have to ask, what kind of madman goes into that kind of a conflagration seen on Okinawa without being armed? Doss defied what anyone could have expected from that situation. Somebody mentioned to me that the Congressional Medal of Honor is usually given to people who have a singular moment where they make a snap decision and do one heroic thing. One of the things that stood out to me about Desmond is that in Okinawa, this guy was heroic 24/7, for a whole month. He took heroism to another level not often seen."
"Once Gibson came aboard, we brought on Andrew Knight (The Water Diviner) to help build upon the incredible screenplay that Schenkkan had written several years earlier," says Mechanic.
Gibson looked to weight the balance between the home-front – where Desmond became the man he was – and the battlefield – where Desmond had to put his beliefs into action amid utter frenzy. "The first part of the film is a story of Desmond coming to grips with the difficult relationship with his father and his father's demons, and of finding his true love, who keeps him thinking of home," says the director.
Mechanic notes that when it came to the battle sequences, Gibson zeroed right in on the most essential and creative details. "Mel has such an eye for war action, I feel he was the real creator of all the battle sequences, regardless of who wrote the scenes," says the producer.
Yet even in the most frenetic action, Gibson wanted the humanity of the character to hold sway. He says of the battle sequences: "The important part was to give you the sense that this is the worst place anyone has ever seen, which it was for these men. And here's Desmond, this guy you've hopefully come to know and to love, thrown into this terrible place where he will finally see how measures up to the standards he has set for himself."
Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss
Finding the actor who could encapsulate the distinctive man who was Desmond Doss – humble, comedically romantic, peaceful yet full of unexpected depths of bravery — would be key.
Bill Mechanic explains: "It was 14 years for me making the film, so I looked at many actors over that time to play Desmond Doss. He's a difficult character to portray because he's so inward, he's not going to explain himself a lot of times in the movie, so it had to be somebody who could inhabit his persona so fully that you could see who he was.
Mechanic knew that physicality was not the heart of the role, although it would take the lead actor into searing action. "Even if he was a Superman with a body built like The Rock, you still wouldn't believe that a person still could do what Desmond did," the producer muses. "It would take something else to believe in Desmond and that's what Andrew Garfield brought."
The Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-nominated actor known for his roles as Peter Parker in The Amazing Spiderman and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, immediately jumped at the role.
"There wasn't any hesitation when I read the script" says Garfield. "I think it's rare in this world to have someone like Desmond, who is so tuned into themselves, so tuned into what that still, small voice inside is saying, that no matter what is thrown at them, they know what they can do, and what they will not do."
Doss's rare respect for the enemy and the sanctity of all human life also awed Garfield, who says it gave him pause. "Desmond treated the enemy with as much care as he would treat his fellow Americans. That's hard to wrap your mind around, but I wanted to try to understand it more, and to learn from his perspective on life and on the world — this beautiful perspective he had that we're all one. Even though I believe this is a story that transcends any specific religion, it's a very spiritual story," says Garfield.
Despite the fact that Doss is now deceased, Garfield says he felt a heavy responsibility to honor his life and achievements. He spent three months prior to production devoted solely to exploring Doss and his surroundings in depth.
"The preparation was extensive," Garfield comments. "I visited Desmond's hometown, the place where he retired, the home he grew up in and the home where he passed away. I walked the walks that he walked. I read all the books about him, absorbing as much as I possibly could. But that was just scratching the surface, really. One of the joys of doing a story like this is attempting to dive into someone else's being, the time in which they were alive, which is endlessly fascinating. You get to be an historian and a researcher."
Mel Gibson was gratified to see Garfield cut to the heart of the character he so wanted audiences to get to know. "Andrew is an amazing actor. He's not your typical looking action hero but he has those qualities inside him," Gibson observes. "He's a guy who, like Desmond Doss, has real convictions and so he was able to portray Desmond in a real and moving way. The film is so focused on his character, he really had to be our quarterback and he was."
Garfield was equally exhilarated by the working rapport with Gibson. "Working with Mel as a director has been a real highlight of my time being an actor so far," he says. "Mel tells a story in such a beautiful, compelling way. He's a bit like Desmond Doss in that he's got this real innocence and purity to him. With Mel, everything is on the surface, and you know exactly what he's feeling at all times even if he doesn't want you to know he can't help himself. He's sincere and passionate, and it's infectious."
HACKSAW RIDGE, directed by Mel Gibson and starring Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Vince Vaughn and Rachel Griffiths, is in cinemas now across the UK.


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My first full beer from this new brewery finds me sipping on an interesting concoction. This dark ale is brewed with ancho chilies (dried poblano) and made in the Oaxacam-style (a region in the Southern Pacific side of Mexico). While I'm not completely sure about the history behind this brew I can say that it reminds […] ... [Read more]
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A Sanctum of Shallyan Sanity at Frederheim
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The Nuns of the Order of the Bleeding Heart, or the Sisters of Shallya as they are more informally known, is one of the largest groupings of the faithful within the Shallyan priesthood. Members of the order may be found throughout the Old World working with the poor and sick, sometimes alongside male followers of Shallya. Most members however are stationed at one of the many hospices that are scattered throughout the Old World.


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The role of the Food Expo
The recent massive TDC-organised annual Food Expo at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai is an unusual beast, bringing together an eclectic mix of 1,520 stands and 410,000 people over five days. Retail and wholesale suppliers and buyers from all over the world cram in, along with the general public. It's not for the faint-hearted, with shoppers and trolleys piling into the melee for free samples and discounted food, while the poor trade folks try to do business. The public is supposed to be excluded from the trade floors for the first two days, but determined sample-hunters manage to invade regardless.
Every imaginable food item
The show includes every imaginable kind of packaged, frozen and canned food, along with gourmet items, tea, beer, wine and health products. But does this huge fair really do what it says on the packet? Organiser the TDC were happy, but exhibitor views were mixed. When it came to trends, the TDC noted that the popularity of high-end food, such as Spanish Iberico ham, was soaring locally, mirrored by the expanding Gourmet Zone, health food products and some new crossover items.
Gourmet hall exhibitor Silvain Mattras from Maison Argaud was very happy with the response to his French duck foie gras and pates. But Shirley Man, promoting wine and fine food, had some objective comments. Her business, Headtable Company in Wan Chai, came to the Expo for brand-building and exposure for her shop. Her expectations were met: "seven out of 10." Her target was reached, with relatively higher volume of business within a short period of time. But she expected customers with deeper pockets at the gourmet hall. "Customers were rather cautious when it came to spending on gourmet food, or simply came for free food tasting."
When it came to serious buyer interest, she was disappointed. "It could be because the general public are willing to compromise food quality with the increased food cost. People are less eager to spend on good quality and high priced items. As a result, food with artificial ingredients and imitated food at lower price could be more appealing to them."
Fro next year, she urges the TDC to invite professionals with higher spending power and corporate clients. She also wants them to spruce up the celebrity chef demonstrations, promoting them with digital displays at the entrances.
More security cameras
Conchi Martinez, sales director of CM Delifoods – a Spanish ham cutting and olive oil tasting specialist, was happy with the amount of serious interest and will come back next year. But she thought the TDC could do more to assist exhibitors. "The cleaner services were not good. The security services had no cameras and some body removed my products from inside my cabinet. It could be better security next time."
Alan Aston from Aston Gold Estate in Australia was another first-timer, aiming to find distributors for Hong Kong and China for his lychee cider and spirit, "Lychee Gold." He had lots of interest, "but as yet we do not have anybody on board, though the interest from buyers seemed serious."
Aston manned his booth full time and so could not visit other exhibitors during the three days the trade section was open. He returned on day four to see the rest of the show, but was refused entry. He was not a happy bunny. "Having spent a total of Aus$10,000 and worked full time and then to be refused entry, I was pissed off and threw my exhibitors card in the bin with disgust. I may not return again next year."
TDC reports good response
For its part, the TDC itself garnered plenty of positive feedback from the 19,600 trade buyers. Packaged food distributor Stephanie Lim from Li An Foodstuff Singapore was pleased with the number of new suppliers. "That is the reason why I came here and I am satisfied." She applauded "the warm introduction by HKTDC's staff so that we could make the connections easily." Tony Ho, Café de Coral's Hong Kong purchasing officer, said the Expo and TDC staff had helpfully pre-screened suppliers and set up time-saving appointments. He particularly liked the TDC's guided tours for buyers.
Something for everyone
The purpose of the Expo seems deliberately mixed. The TDC describes the fair as a place to experiment and engage with consumers and trade alike, trying out new products to see what might gather interest - from buyers and consumers. "It also helps boost up the retail sales and facilitate trading businesses for the trade."
It was hard to identify specific trends in the public and gourmet halls, with the punters diving in wherever there was free or cheap food.
On the trade side, suppliers noted keen interest from mainland China and Japan-based fresh produce importers, seeking food from places with a squeaky-clean image like Guam and California. Calvin Holloway from Guam's Warehouse Pacific, specialists in fruit and mango products and beef jerky, said it caught them off guard. But the TDC did not think the amount of interest in Guam produce was significant. "The good interest they experienced was helped by the fact that this was their first time at the fair," the organiser said. They added that Chinese importers were not specifically seeking to source food from elsewhere, they were just showing more interest in international foods.
It may be politically incorrect to say it, but until confidence in China and Japan's home-grown food improves, it would be remarkable if importers were not out hunting for overseas suppliers to meet domestic demand.
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This Fox News Opinion piece — Waiting till the wedding night — getting married the right way — made me squirm in my chair. In it, abstinence columnist Steven Crowder shits on anyone who has ever had sex before marriage, lumping them all into the same sinful, immoral, dirty, pathetic, angry, meaningless category.
Turns out that people [who said we'd never make it to the wedding without schtupping or that our "wedding night would be awkward and terrible"] couldn't have been more wrong. Looking back, I think that the women saying those things felt like the floozies they ultimately were, and the men, with their fickle manhood tied to their pathetic sexual conquests, felt threatened.
It is one of the most judgmental, smug, self-righteous things I have read in awhile. And while he pretends to be taking the defense, it seems awfully offensive to me.
Feeling judged? I couldn't care less. You know why? Because my wife and I were judged all throughout our relationship. People laughed, scoffed and poked fun at the young, celibate, naive Christian couple.
So some people mocked Steven Crowder for his abstinence, and Steven Crowder lashes out, and it's kind of understandable. In his piece, he sounds like a caged animal — a subdued caged animal who is trying to win a fake contest with a snooty, supercilious argument that is completely based on his pain and his strong desire to prove everyone who does not agree with him wrong — all while not having sex. That is a lot to juggle, isn't it?
It is fine that Steven Crowder chose to abstain from sex until his wedding night. If he believes you should go to the altar as virgins, fine. But everyone, including Crowder, has to stop getting in each other's shit about what they do on their wedding nights. Unless you are there with them, why do you care? My skin started to crawl again reading comments to this piece. It's not like smoking or drunk driving or something that affects society — nobody even has to know about it. It is one of the few choices that you make that can be between only you and your partner.
I used to work at a parenting magazine, and everyone used to get all up in arms about breastfeeding. Formula mothers were shunned and told their babies' IQs would be lower, which would naturally put those women in a huff, and by the end of the discussion, everyone had sore throats, higher blood pressure, and was sweating hate. And why? In the end, the babies just wanted to be fed and the moms all wanted to be the best moms that they could be to their hungry babies. It was very easy for me, as someone who has not given birth, to see that these women were being ridiculous and creating their own problems. But if you're a mom, it's different. The argument hits too close to home. For many of us, sex and marriage hits close to home. But sex and marriage is even more personal. It would be awesome if that meant we all had the freedom to do whatever we wanted without being judged.
I think if Steven Crowder would have gotten married and restrained himself from writing this holier-than-thou article, he would have felt happier and more confident about his own marriage. After all, that would have made it his own decision and not his own decision and the entire internet's two cents, too. By writing about it in this way, he has opened himself to the attacks, which are equally petty. Commentators could be happier, too, if they just thought "well that is BAT SHIT CRAZY Steven Crowder, thank God I don't have to fuck you." Because unless you are Steven Crowder's wife, you aren't going to fuck Steven Crowder. So you can be really happy with your own decision to fuck or not fuck your own partner before you're married, if you even get married, and Steven can be happy with his.
And being happier — isn't that what getting married is all about?
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Adam Lanza's weapons — Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete? — That is, has the application of modern military design to civilian firearms produced a class of weapons too dangerous to be in general circulation? — We say: Yes.
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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: New York Post Editorial: 'Has Technology Rendered The 2nd Amendment...Obsolete?'
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Obama asks Cabinet members for proposals to curb gun violence — President Obama on Monday began the first serious push of his administration to attempt to reduce gun violence, directing Cabinet members to formulate a set of proposals that could include reinstating a ban on assault rifles.
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress: CNN Anchor Destroys Gun Advocate's Call To Abolish Gun Safety Laws: Victims' Families 'Would Be Stunned'
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: %u2018Sheriff%u2019 Joe Biden to lead gun control push
Ed O'Keefe / 2chambers: Harry Reid: 'Every idea should be on the table' as Congress responds to Connecticut shootings
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: President Obama's enough-is-enough Newtown speech
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Sandy Hook: The Corrections Begin — I noted here that the news media's performance on the Sandy Hook elementary school murders has been terrible, with news outlets committing one factual error after another. Yet in all the calls for "soul searching" that have followed Adam Lanza's rampage …
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Sue Sturgis / southernstudies.org: Private equity firm selling NC maker of assault rifle used in Sandy Hook massacre
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Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Owner of Assault Rifle Brand Involved in Sandy Hook Shooting Getting Out of the Firearms Game
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Sporting goods chain suspends sale of certain semi-automatic after shooting — Mourners leave Honan Funeral Home after attending the funeral for Jack Pinto, 6, one of the youngest victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, on Monday, December 17, in Newtown, Connecticut.
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: Private equity, Walmart, Dick's Sporting Goods flee from taint of rifle used in Newtown
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: Senate Shuffle (The Note)
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Opponents Protest in Face of NRA Silence on Sandy Hook Shooting
Hrafnkell Haraldsson / PoliticusUSA: James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God's Judgment on America
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Susie / Suburban Guerrilla: The lousy debt deal
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The Deal Dilemma — First things first: cutting Social Security …
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Zachary Roth / msnbc.com: Obama's base pushes back on plan to cut Social Security
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: What a Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Probably Look Like
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Should progressives accept emerging fiscal cliff deal?
The Morning Plum: Should progressives accept emerging fiscal cliff deal?
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Suzy Khimm / Wonkblog: Five sticking points in the fiscal cliff deal
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Rumors of a Deal — It sounds as if Ezra Klein is hearing …
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect: Social Security: Will Obama Cave?
Gaius Publius / AMERICAblog: Obama offers Chained CPI (plus master list of "benefit cuts")
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money: Just Say No — Another deal is being floated.
Bill McBride / Calculated Risk: Fiscal Cliff: Chained CPI
Digby / Hullabaloo: Chained CPI of fools
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog: A 'fiscal cliff' deal is near: Here are the details
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Report: Fiscal cliff deal emerging …
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong: Can't Obama Play This Game?: This Is a Lousy Fiscal Cliff Deal Weblogging
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: The Big Bipartisan Deal That's About to Save Us From the Fiscal Cliff (Maybe)
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Still a bad deal
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos — In its first big policy shift since Facebook bought the photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users' photos without payment or notification. Oh, and there's no way to opt out. — Instagram said today …
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Susan Duclos / Wake up America: Instagram Policy Change: They Can Sell Your Photos To Anyone They Want, Without Payment To You
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Jon Mitchell / ReadWrite: Why I Quit Instagram And Am Moving To Flickr
Noam Cohen / Media Decoder: The Breakfast Meeting: Nielsen Buys Arbitron, and Instagram's New Ad-Friendly Rules
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: Instagram's new legalese pisses off users
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture: Facebook Destroys Instagram
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online: Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition
Cord Jefferson / Gawker: Instagram's Absurd New Terms of Use Agreement Is Already Being Called Its 'Suicide Note'
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Scott Gustin / MyFOX8.com: List of 8 great Instagram alternatives
Ktvtdeborah / CBS Dallas: Instagram Says It Has The Right To Sell Your Photos
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: Instaport.me, The "Blessed" Archival Service For Instagram, Is Buckling Under The Demand For Requests
Mike Brunker / World News:
Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria — After being held captive for five days in Syria, NBC's Richard Engel and his team recount being ambushed, blindfolded and traumatized before being freed at a checkpoint. — By Mike Brunker, NBC News
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo: NBC News' Richard Engel Recounts Five Days Of Captivity In Syria
Lorraine Devon Wilke / Addicting Info: NBC's Richard Engel Escapes After 5 Days In Syrian Captivity (VIDEO)
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: After an unsuccessful 'news blackout,' NBC's Richard Engel confirms Syria capture, details escape
Spencer Ackerman / Wired: Islamic Extremists Rescue NBC Reporter Held in Syria
Robert Mackey / The Lede: NBC Reporter Describes Captivity in Syria
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed: How NBC News Kept Richard Engel's Disappearance Secret
Jeff Dunetz / "The Lid": NBC's Richard Engle Released (Video)
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline.com: NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel Freed From Syrian Kidnappers
Roy Greenslade / The Raw Story: Kidnapped NBC journalist Richard Engel and crew freed after firefight in Syria
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: NBC's Engel freed from Syrian captors; Update: Video added
Howie / The Jawa Report: NBC Crew Escapes Captors
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Richard Engel Freed from Captivity in Syria After Being Held for Five Days
John Del Signore / Gothamist: NBC News' Richard Engel And Crew Freed From Syrian Captors After Mock Executions
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Stephens: Chuck Hagel's Jewish Problem — The would-be secretary of defense has some curious views. — Prejudice—like cooking, wine-tasting and other consummations—has an olfactory element. When Chuck Hagel, the former GOP senator from Nebraska who is now a front-runner to be the next secretary …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn: EXCLUSIVE: ADL pans possible Chuck Hagel pick
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Chuck Hagel, the antithesis to the Obama thesis of liberal Jews
Alana Goodman / Commentary Magazine: Re: The Hagel Insult
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Foxman, on Chuck Hagel: 'Sentiments He's Expressed About the Jewish Lobby Border on Anti-Semitism'
Rick Bosh / msnbc.com: What we're reading: Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Three Arizona Republicans go 'birther' — Several Arizona Republicans, including the GOP state chair, on Monday cast fresh doubts on President Barack Obama's citizenship, according to a report. — Tom Morrissey, the state chair of the Arizona Republican Party, along with two other members …
Discussion: www.kfyi.com and KNAU Arizona Public Radio
Paul Davenport / www.kfyi.com: Head Of Arizona Republican Party Questions President Obama's Birth Certificate
Howard Fischer / KNAU Arizona Public Radio: AZ Electoral College Delegates Voted Today
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Obama birth issue raised by 3 Arizona electors
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Snyder's popularity plummets — Just last month when we took a first look at the 2014 landscape we talked about how much Rick Snyder had improved his popularity during his second year in office and how he led a generic Democrat for reelection by 6 points, even as Barack Obama won the state comfortably.
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Steven Nelson / US News:
South Carolina Lawmakers Propose 5-Year Jail Sentence for 'Obamacare' Implementation — Federal officials could face fines and jail terms under proposed legislation — Nullification is yet again picking up steam in Dixie. — Pursuing an archaic legal theory that punctuated pre-Civil War disputes between …
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Clinton And Kerry Get A Free Ride From The Press — Politics: Diplomacy involves considerable travel. What it shouldn't include is free rides from both the media and political establishment. But Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are getting just that as the guard changes at State.
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David Kopel / Wall Street Journal:
Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown — There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. — Has the rate of random mass shootings in the United States increased? Over the past 30 years, the answer is definitely yes. It is also true that the total U …
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn: Do something smart, not just fast, on mass shootings
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Newtown: 'Exotic Weapons'? Nope.
Rich Lowry / National Review: Act on Mental Illness
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Mark Daniels / The Moderate Voice: Britain's Police Are Still Unarmed: Why?
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Carlo Muñoz / The Hill: Rep. King calls alleged leak to bin Laden filmmakers 'troubling' as probe widens
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Chairman King Concerned National Security Risked by Leaks to Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal
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We've had several days whith snow on the ground and it has just been too damn cold to ride. Yeah, I know, I'm a wuss. You ride at 3 degrees and show me how its done "...grumble ,mumble."
Anyway, last week we had two days in the fifties...the fifties. In December! In Idaho! Went out Friday to light the fire and guess what? DEAD BATTERY! Cold weather is hell on motorcycle batteries, this I knew but forgot. Off I went to local independent bike shop to purchase a trickle charger . "Yeah we stock 'em. $29.95. They sell like hotcakes at this time of the year. Just sold my last one two hours ago. I'll have some more by the middle of next week."
"mumble, mumble, #@**&@"
So off to the the local HD shop I go (HD of course stands for "hundred dollars"). Bought a trickle charger , $39.95, and a harness that will allow me to roll into the garage and plug in. Left Harley Dealer lighter by one fifty dollar bill and some change. No, this dealer unlike many, chooses not to offer a discount to HOG members unless you make your purchase on the night of our monthly meeting. This summer I rolled into the Harley dealer in Grand Island, NE, made a purchase, and they asked if I was HOG. Turned out they gave a 10% discount to HOG members, even to someone from an Idaho chapter. Found the same thing in Illinois and Wyoming dealers I visited.
"mumble, grumble, grrrrrrrrr!"
Anyway, the charger is on and doing its thing. I just checked and I suspect I'll be able to fire up tomorrow afternoon for a while. The forecast calls for snow.
"Mumble, mumble, grumble, wtf?"
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Grieving father prosecuted for STARING at family of drug driver who killed his daughter
A GRIEVING father whose 14-year-old daughter was mowed down by a driver high on cannabis faced five years in jail for STARING at the culprit's family.
Killer Robert Blackwell and his 14-year-old victim Liberty Baker
Paul Baker said he had lost faith in the police and the courts after he was sent a summons in April over a series of "chance meetings" with the offender's relatives.
The insensitive police probe came less than a week after child-killer Robert Blackwell was handed a four-year prison sentence.
The 19-year-old was jailed for causing the death of Liberty as she walked to school last June.
Friends pay tribute to Liberty at the site of the crash in Witney, Oxfordshire
The drugged-up teen was texting at the wheel when he hit the schoolgirl while driving in David Cameron's home constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire.
But instead of supporting the devastated family, police began investigating Mr Baker.
The father of two could have faced a five-year jail term - despite the killer being handed just four years behind bars.
I was guilty of grief, that's all
He claims police investigated him for harassment after bumping into Blackwell's father Andrew at a market.
He was said to have "stared" at the family as he was forced to pass them in his van in a narrow lane.
Mr Baker, 47, said: "I was guilty of grief, that's all. These were chance meetings as they live in close proximity to my work.
"The timing [of the summons] was bad. Just when we thought we had some closure, we were flabbergasted to receive it.
"I went from being a victim one moment to being a perpetrator the next. When we had gone through so much already, it is bizarre they would put us through it.
"After losing Liberty, nothing could be as bad. But, saying that, if you're found guilty of harassment without violence it is a five-year sentence.
"The killer of my daughter only got four years."
Robert Blackwell leaving Oxford Crown Court
Blackwell had been travelling at 44mph in a 30mph zone when he mounted a kerb and ploughed into a group of pedestrians, killing Liberty and severely injuring a man.
He had traces of cannabis in his blood and was said to have lost concentration "for at least ten seconds".
Blackwell denied texting or that the drug had affected his driving but admitted causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving at Oxford Crown Court.
Police first interviewed Mr Baker about his encounters with the Blackwells earlier this year - but he was told no action would be taken.
However, after Blackwell was jailed he received the summons on two 'harassment without violence' charges.
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A US man has won a case in court against popcorn makers Gilster-Mary Lee Corp after being diagnosed with health related problems which he claims he developed after eating the snack popcorn. Wayne Watson, 59, will receive over $7million in damages.
Mr. Watson explained to the court he developed breathing problems in 2007 and that he used to be a regular consumer of popcorn. It is thought the chemical used to flavour popcorn can be bad for your health if it is inhaled, with links to the artificial butter used in microwaveable popcorn.
The supermarket that sold the popcorn, The Kroger Co. and Dillon Companies Inc., were also liable for 20per cent damages as both the manufacturer and the retailer are accused of not labelling the popcorn packaging to warn consumers of the risk.
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You'll now need more than 13 times the Dorset average salary to buy a house with an 80 per cent mortgage in the county.
Figures from the National Housing Federation just released say the cost of the average home is £ 254,891 which would mean a gross annual income of £ 50,978 would be needed for an 80% mortgage.
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Hillary Clinton's lead in the popular vote increased to 1.3 million votes bringing her vote total is the third largest in U.S. history.
While the vote total in many state was razor thin, Clinton leads in California by 3.2 million votes. Without California figured into the national total, Donald Trump leads in popular votes among the remaining 49 states. California accounts for 12 percent of the U.S. population, but only casts about 10 percent of the electoral votes. Even with the nine additional electoral votes it would receive if the Electoral College was actually proportional, Clinton wouldn't have won the election.
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