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Guest: Jon Tester, Mark Critz, Simone Campbell, James Salt, Chris Matthews, Michael Steele, Mark Halperin, Alex Wagner, Amanda Drury
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Charge!
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews back in Philadelphia. Leading off
tonight: Playing offense. We know what the Romney campaign strategy is,
make President Obama defend his record in a struggling economy. Well,
today we learned that the Obama team refuses to fight on the defensive.
They`re going on the assault against the Mitt Romney who said, "Let Detroit
go bankrupt," the Mitt Romney who said, "Getting bin Laden might not be
worth the effort."
Well, Joe Biden, signaling his role as chief attacker, today portrayed
Romney as weak, uncertain and backward-looking.
Also, 2012 is not the only campaign under way. The Clinton party, if
you will, scored a big one in Pennsylvania this week. Bill Clinton
supported Democrat Mark Critz over another Democrat because Critz supported
Hillary over Obama in 2008. Big Bill is settling scores and is now
marching forth as Hillary`s chief advance man, preparing the way for 2016.
You bet he`s in this thing.
Plus, Paul Ryan`s got some trouble with his hard-line Republican
budget. Today at Georgetown University, Ryan was told by -- get this --
100 faculty and administrators that a plan that hurts the poor and coddles
the rich violates Catholic principles.
And Democrats took the Senate six years ago when John Tester eked out
a victory out in Montana. Whether they can hang onto their majority this
time requires an outpost like Tester`s hold on this November. John Tester
himself joins us tonight.
Finally tonight, our musical tribute to Newt Gingrich, the Newtster,
who made this Republican campaign a lot more interesting, you might say,
than it had any right to be.
NEWT GINGRICH (R), FMR. HOUSE SPEAKER, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We
will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.
I`ve founded four businesses. I`ve written 24 books, 13 of them "New
York Times" best-sellers.
This was the finger the penguin bit.
MATTHEWS: Well, the full Newt-thology is in the "Sideshow," where it
belongs and always will be, by the way.
We begin with the Obama campaign on the offensive against Mitt Romney.
"Time" magazine`s Mark Halperin is MSNBC`s senior political analyst. And
former Republican Party chairman Michael Steele`s also an MSNBC political
analyst .
Gentlemen, today Vice President Biden launched the campaign assault
against Mitt Romney, and I believe he crystallized the contrast between
Romney and Obama on two of the biggest events of the president`s term.
Let`s listen to this.
JOSEPH BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I said before,
thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.
You have to ask yourself, had Governor Romney been president, could he have
used the same slogan in reverse?
MATTHEWS: Well, that was soft-spoken, Mark, but it looks like they`re
laying it out here. They`re not going to play defense, they`re going to
play offense. They`re going after Romney for not supporting the bail-out
of Detroit and for being hesitant about the need to go after Obama -- I
mean, I`m sorry, to go after bin laden because President -- certainly,
President Bush never went after him that much, and apparently, Romney`s on
record as not saying (SIC) it was that important. Your thoughts.
MARK HALPERIN, "TIME" MAGAZINE," MSNBC SR. POLITICAL ANALYST: Well,
the speech was primarily about foreign policy. This is a very aggressive
campaign, and Joe Biden and the president both have studied Mitt Romney`s
expressions, statements from the past. They`ve studied his critiques.
The press should study his critiques, too. I think the vice president
made excellent choices today both politically and substantively on
critiquing the criticisms that Romney`s making of the campaign. They`re in
a very strong position, I think.
And I`m sure we`ll talk more the specifics on the foreign policy side,
but the vice president has been out there being very aggressive. And
again, he knows his brief. He`s not freelancing. He`s not just reading
somebody else`s words.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
HALPERIN: He knows what he`s talking about.
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s take a look at this. Michael, you join us
here. Biden took aim at Romney`s self-proclaimed managerial skills and
unloaded with an assault on Romney`s lack of knowledge about the job of
Let`s listen to this indictment.
BIDEN: He starts with profound -- a profound -- misunderstanding of
the responsibilities of a president and commander-in-chief. Here`s what he
said, and I want to quote him exactly. And I quote, "If we want someone
who has a lot of experience in foreign policy, we can simply go to the
State Department."
He went on to say, and I quote, "But that`s not how we choose a
president. A president is not a foreign policy expert," end of quote.
In my view, the last thing we need is a president who believes that he
can subcontract our foreign policy. That kind of thinking may work for a
CEO, but I assure you it will not and cannot work for a president and it
will not work for a commander-in-chief.
MATTHEWS: By the way, we did check, and Romney did say those very
words that Biden quoted in a December 2007 interview with Fox the last time
he ran for president.
Michael, your thoughts about the smartness of going after Romney on
foreign policy here...
MICHAEL STEELE, FMR. RNC CHAIR, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I...
MATTHEWS: ... as Biden`s doing today.
STEELE: I think Biden certainly can bite. There`s no doubt about
that. And he does it in a way in which he makes you pay attention to the
context and how he`s framing the argument.
And I think the Romney people -- you know, look, these guys are not
going to be slouches in this race. They`re going to come out really
prepared to lay, you know, metal to the pedal in terms of how they, you
know, go after and go back against these arguments.
But I think right now, the administration -- rather, the campaign is
taking the -- the president`s campaign is taking the offensive is a good
position to be in. But again, you know, the foreign policy debate is one
that, you know, the president can talk about four years later, you know,
with all this great experience. You know, you can`t forget he came into
the White House after, you know, eight years in the state legislature and
18 months in the Senate.
MATTHEWS: Right.
STEELE: So -- so I think...
MATTHEWS: I thought of that, too, Michael...
MATTHEWS: I do, too. I accept that. Let me go back to Mark on a
couple points we saw today. Number one, it looks like they`re going to go
aggressively. As I like to say, the reason the cavalry always left the
fort in the old cowboy movies is because that`s what they do. They don`t
hide in the fort. These guys are coming out to fight the attackers.
Number two, Biden looks like he`s got the job, doesn`t he.
HALPERIN: Well, yes. (INAUDIBLE) part of a series of speeches he`s
Look, I take very seriously to critique all the foreign policy
criticisms that the Republicans make of the president to sort of evaluate
them on their merits and on their political efficacy. I find the attacks
from Governor Romney so far on most foreign policy issues -- not all, but
on most -- to just be almost flailing. They`re just throwing out language.
His surrogates did a conference call today to rebut Vice President
Biden`s rebuttals, and again, you go through issue by issue, and the
administration`s point is correct. Either what Governor Romney is
proposing is vague, it`s what the president`s already doing, or it`s
something the American people wouldn`t support and is bad policy.
So I think there should be rebuts (ph) from a foreign policy debate.
There are some issues, like China, where there seems to be a real
difference. But for the most part, I think the -- it`s easy for Joe Biden
to rebut the criticisms that are coming because they`re just not very
politically effective or identifying actual areas of substantive
MATTHEWS: This is all on point here. Vice President Biden hit Romney
hard for being, as he said, both misguided and uninformed on America`s
relationship with Iran, which is the hot issue now. Listen to what he said
now because I want to put into context what the Israeli army chief of staff
just said today about this thing.
Let`s listen.
BIDEN: He says we need, quote, "crippling sanctions," apparently,
unaware that through President Obama`s leadership, we`ve produced just
that, crippling sanctions. President Obama has said, and I quote, "Now is
the time to let our increased pressure sink in and to sustain the broad
international coalition we built. Now is the time to heed the timeless
advice from Teddy Roosevelt, `Speak softly and carry a big stick,`" end of
quote. I promise you the president has a big stick.
MATTHEWS: Well, again, Biden`s quote is accurate. While campaigning
in Ohio in February this year, Romney did say with regard to Iran -- this
is amazing, he must have forgot he said it -- quote, "We have in place
crippling sanctions."
Michael, here`s a guy that`s not familiar with his own brief.
Apparently, just several months ago, this winter, he said the very thing
the administration is already doing, gave them credit for having done it.
And then he`s come out now and criticized them for not doing what he
said they were already doing, which is tightening the screws on Iran to the
point where the -- I noticed and I`m sure you saw today, as well, and Mark,
the Israeli army chief of staff said that he don`t -- they don`t think that
Iran`s going to go ahead all the way with weaponizing their nuclear
weaponry. So something`s happening that, for example, Romney seems to have
lost his touch with his own brief, for example, here.
STEELE: Yes, because of those crippling, you know -- you know, screws
that have been placed into the economy over there. The reality is that
with respect to the foreign policy stuff, it`s an interesting dance for
Romney to do because in large measure, Republicans in the House and Senate
-- and the Senate have supported the president`s foreign policy
I mean, they`ve, you know -- you know, talked about it in the context
of the Bush -- overall Bush agenda from the last eight years, continuation
of that, how he`s effectively used drones beyond anything Bush has done,
the effort to go after Osama bin Laden.
The war in Afghanistan, for example, is one, again, where the
Republicans in the House and Senate have largely given a lot of cover, if
you will, to the administration because they`ve supported this approach and
this effort.
So it`s very difficult, I think, for Romney right now to kind of carve
out that separation, when we look at it tactically (ph)...
MATTHEWS: Yes, I agree.
STEELE: ... the Republicans and the administration line up a lot more
than they fall apart.
MATTHEWS: And here`s the president again keeping on the aggression.
He doing this part (ph). In an interview with "Rolling Stone" --
obviously, an attempt to get the young voters -- President Obama made clear
that Romney will have nowhere to hide from his primary positions, the ones
he took to win the nomination.
The quote from the president here, "I don`t think that their nominee`s
going to be able to suddenly say, Everything I`ve said in the last six
months I didn`t mean. I`m assuming that he meant it. When you`re running
for president, people are paying attention to what you`re saying."
Let me go to that -- to Mark. You`re the expert, or you`re really the
chronicler of these campaigns now. It looks like -- somebody said to me --
one of our producers today said that it looked like it was an opp research
dump today, or they`re beginning it. They`re going to really make an
effort from now until election day to spend time reminding voters of what
Romney`s been saying before he got into this general election mode.
HALPERIN: They`re just -- they`re right now, though, Chris, just
picking off the top of the pile. In Chicago, there`s tons more opposition
research, tons more quotes. I predict they`ll have quotes that Governor
Romney`s never seen.
The problem for Governor Romney on the foreign policy front and on
this issue of flip-flopping is these attacks right now -- they`re themeless
(ph) footing (ph). George Bush had a kind of a frame on Bill Clinton`s
foreign policies in 2000 that was effective. Bill Clinton had a frame on
George Bush 41 that was effective. It added up to kind of a different
world view that would be compelling to the American people.
The Romney criticisms on foreign policy don`t do that. And as you see
from the president`s quote to "Rolling Stone," the vice president`s series
of speeches, as I said before, they`re very familiar with Mitt Romney`s
record. They`re not just taking staff briefs and kind of going out there
and reading the teleprompter.
And that makes them formidable. That`s the kind of stuff Mitt Romney
did as a candidate when he was debating in the Republican nomination fight
when he was so good. I don`t think he`s at the level on the president`s
record in terms of efficacy and focus an self-knowledge that the president
and the vice president, who are pretty busy guys, have about Mitt Romney
right now.
STEELE: And -- and...
MATTHEWS: Yes, go ahead, last word, Michael.
STEELE: Just real quick on this -- on Mark`s point. And people
forget Romney`s been running for six years for the presidency, so he`s got
a long history on foreign policy and other issues that they can delve into.
MATTHEWS: OK, great opening bell by Joe Biden today and a great
coverage of it by you gentlemen today. This is the beginning of the fight.
The president`s getting in it full bore in a couple of days.
Coming up: Never mind -- Mark Halperin and Michael Steele -- coming
up: Never mind 2012, by the way. Bill Clinton`s got his eye on 2016, I
think. He`s doing the great advance work for Hillary Clinton, especially
in my home state up here in Pennsylvania. Bill Clinton is the pathfinder,
the pioneer, the spearhead, the ramrod of the potential -- potential --
Hillary Clinton for president campaign.
This is HARDBALL, coming up.
MATTHEWS: We`ve got some new polling from Southwestern United States
in the battleground states. Let`s check the HARDBALL "Scoreboard." First
to New Mexico, a state President Obama won in 2008, and he`s up there big
again in a new PPP poll. Look at this, Obama 54 in New Mexico, Romney 40.
Now to neighboring Arizona, and a bit of a surprise here. Obama`s got a
slim 2-point lead over Romney in the latest Rocky Mountain poll, 42-40 in
John McCain`s state.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Here`s a question a lot of
people are already asking. Is Hillary Clinton running in 2016? Well, one
clue, she`s got a pretty good advance man working for her, Bill Clinton.
And I`d say the former president has taken on the role of endorser-in-chief
among Hillary`s 2008 allies, rewarding her supporters, punishing her
opponents. Big deal, and it`s a big question. Is Bill fighting old
battles or getting ready for a big new one in 2016?
U.S. Congressman Mark Critz just won the Democratic nomination in his
Pennsylvania congressional district this week. He also was the lucky
recipient of a big Bill Clinton endorsement before the primary. And my
colleague, Alex Wagner, joins us now. She`s the host of "NOW," of course,
on MSNBC.
Well, look at this. Our own Howard Fineman wrote this in the
HuffingtonPost just yesterday -- very prescient. Quote, "We have three
leading political parties in America today," Howard wrote, "Republican,
Democratic, and Clinton. The last is a mom-and-pop operation with a
Chelsea. It`s been 12 years since they had a president in office, but they
still keep score, tend to their base and ponder what to do next with their
political, financial and charitable clout."
Congressman Mark Critz, I was rooting for you, sir. You`re the Jack
Murtha of today. You represent everything I really like about politics.
It`s local, you look out for your base and you delivered. Congratulations.
REP. MARK CRITZ (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Thank you very much.
MATTHEWS: Tell me about Bill Clinton and his popularity and his
future importance this November. I`m sure you`re going to want him back
helping you in November and the future in Pennsylvania. What do you see
the Clintons` role down the road?
CRITZ: Well -- well, obviously, you know, President Clinton is still
very popular in western Pennsylvania. You know, a lot of people look back
at the years when President Clinton was in office and then when Hillary ran
in `08. And obviously, his support of me -- you know, I`m not completely
devoid of ego, I`m hoping I had something to do with it, but it was -- you
know, it was really important to my race. I think it helped with voters
who may have been on the fence.
MATTHEWS: Tell me about -- let me bring in Alex Wagner. We`re going
to talk you more about your race in a minute, Congressman, and
congratulations again on winning the primary.
CRITZ: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Alex, come in here and tell us about this whole thing. You
grew up in a political family. You know about the Clintons from way back
when. I have a sense they`re going to be part of our lives if not for
decades ahead, for a long time...
ALEX WAGNER, HOST, MSNBC`S "NOW": Forever!
MATTHEWS: ... whatever happens. Go ahead. Perhaps forever.
WAGNER: Forever! I mean, look, Hillary is obviously on center stage
because she is the secretary of state and she`s done a bang-up job, I
think. It`s also we are approaching the end of her tenure. She`s been
very clear about the fact that she`s leaving the end of January, and that`s
prompted a lot of discussion about what she`s going to do next.
Certainly, Bill has an incredible profile, with the Clinton
Foundation. And you look at the numbers in terms of favorability -- when
Hillary exited the 2008 race, her favorables were -- her unfavorables were
54 to 45. Now they`re 65 to 27.
That`s not only a testament to her as a person, but the job she`s done
as secretary of state in a time where she`s dealing with everything from
Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Burma.
MATTHEWS: Right.
WAGNER: I mean, there`s turmoil around the world. And she`s done it
not only with aplomb but with a sense of joy, Chris. I mean, you saw those
photos of her swilling beer after hours. She`s really loved this position
and I think it`s really -- it`s -- she`s worn it well.
MATTHEWS: Have you ever heard of anybody walking away from politics
when they have those kinds of approval numbers?
WAGNER: No, especially not a Clinton. But then again, I don`t think
this is the -- I mean, I don`t think this is the end of the Clintons, as
you said. There`s definitely a next act.
MATTHEWS: Tell me about -- Mark Critz, Congressman, thank you. Tell
us about -- I have a great belief about the Democratic Party in
Pennsylvania. It has a lot to do with working people. It`s somewhat
suburban around the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh area, but it`s also a very
working-class, working crowd people, regular people, if you will.
The Clintons seem to have a special tag with those people, with
regular people. I grew up with them. And they seem to connect in a way
that other politicians don`t. Explain that. Explain the way you connect
with people in the same way, I believe.
CRITZ: Well, I think you hit it right on the head, Chris, is that
obviously it`s a working-class neighborhood, I guess you could say, in
Western Pennsylvania, and the folks here really do identify with President
And I think the one thing that Hillary did during her race in `08 and
then becoming secretary of state is that she showed people how hard she
worked. And then obviously, when she took the job as secretary of state,
people were very impressed with the way she handled that, and she`s done
such a bang-up job.
So I think all that she`s done is enhance the Clinton reputation in
Western Pennsylvania, is that they work hard, they`re looking out for
people, and when they are called upon, they do a great job.
MATTHEWS: Yes, it just seems like the two enemies that people have in
America, they think the Republican Party has an economic elite, which we
see all the time, the 1 percenters, the real rich people, and the
Democratic Party has a tendency to have a cultural elite that people don`t
The Clintons seem to avoid both of those people, don`t they?
CRITZ: Yes, absolutely.
WAGNER: Yes.
CRITZ: Oh, I`m sorry. Go ahead, Alex.
BALDWIN: Go ahead. You first. You first, Congressman.
I want the congressman on this one first and then you...
WAGNER: Go ahead.
CRITZ: Thanks, Chris.
MATTHEWS: I don`t get him on that very often. I can get you on more
often, Alex. I don`t get this guy on. He just won a primary.
WAGNER: Whatever you want.
CRITZ: Yes, I`m a little tired, too.
But, anyway, no, I think that you`re right. President Clinton, in
fact, when he came in to campaign for me two years ago, he talked about me
being a person who gets things done. And that`s how people look at
President Clinton as well, is that he went into office and he got things
He lifted the country, and he left with such a good reputation of how
he moved this country forward. And people remember that, and they remember
that -- you know, that he did move the country forward, and again, going
back Hillary, she`s done such a wonderful job as secretary of state, is
it`s just enhanced that.
And people look at that and say, look, we want leaders who can get
things done, and that`s why their popularity just continues to surge.
MATTHEWS: And now my colleague Alex, go ahead. Your thoughts.
WAGNER: Well, you know, when -- to your point, Chris, about the sort
of blue-collar appeal that Bill Clinton has, we`re only going to see more
of Bill Clinton.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WAGNER: We know that he`s going to be stumping for President Obama.
He`s going to help with some of the super PAC fund-raising.
I was talking about President Obama`s message in that "Rolling Stone"
piece where he`s talking about Republicans. And he goes out of his way to
say, I don`t think -- I think there`s a difference between Republicans in
this country and the Republican Party, and really tries to sort of reach
out to moderate Republicans in this country who may not sort of like
President Obama right now.
MATTHEWS: Smart.
WAGNER: And Dee Dee Myers was on our program and she said, you know
what that sounds like? That sounds like Bill Clinton.
And there is this understanding that Bill Clinton knows how to appeal
to the center of this country, blue-collar workers, moderate Republicans,
and is going to impart some of that knowledge on to President Obama.
MATTHEWS: So well-said.
In fact, I keep reminding people around here that of the Republicans,
who are about half the country when you have these national elections which
are close -- so that`s 50 percent of the country in some elections -- there
is only 1 percent of the country that is really rich, so 49 out of 50
Republicans are not up in the elite class and benefit from all those tax
But they vote Republican. They could vote the other way.
Here`s Hillary Clinton, by the way. Just to prove we`re not getting
ahead of this story, here she was being honored Tuesday night doing a great
flirtation. She was at the "TIME" magazine for the 100 party. She used
her chance up at the podium to toss a coy nod to a couple of other rumored
2016 presidential candidates who were also in the room. Let`s watch
Hillary Clinton do a little flirtation I think with running for president
in 2016.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: I was delighted to
see that our wonderful governor, Andrew Cuomo, is on the "TIME" 100 list,
along with others, like Marco Rubio. And the two of them and I have ended
up on some other lists this past couple of months.
MATTHEWS: Well, there you have it.
Congressman, Congressman Critz, you still there?
CRITZ: I am still here, yes.
MATTHEWS: What do you think about running with the Clintons some day,
Hillary Clinton, for example, in 2016? Would should be good coattails?
CRITZ: Well, I`ll tell you what. She was very -- she is and was very
popular in Western Pennsylvania. I can`t imagine that that changed.
CRITZ: I think she`s only enhanced her reputation here.
MATTHEWS: Well, good luck in the general election against a
Republican opponent. You have knocked out Jason Altmire in a big upset. I
think I know how you did it, getting your vote out. It`s critical,
especially in low-turnout primaries.
CRITZ: That`s right.
MATTHEWS: Congratulations for assuming the mantle of the great Jack
And, Alex Wagner, you`re the best. Thank you so much for coming on
HARDBALL tonight.
MATTHEWS: Up next, a special HARDBALL "Sideshow" farewell, isn`t it
about time, to the Newtster, Newt Gingrich. He`s saying bye-byes next
Tuesday. Can`t wait. You`re watching HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. It`s time for the "Sideshow," and
tonight it`s all about Newt.
He`s about to officially say farewell, but before we part ways with
the Newtster, let`s look back at some unforgettable moments of 2012 race
for the Republican nomination.
NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don`t have to go down
and point out the inconsistencies of people who could be a nominee.
They`re not going to be the nominee.
In seven three-hour debates, Barack Obama will not have a leg to stand
I`m very concerned about not appearing to be zany.
You`re in a school that`s failing with a teacher that`s failing. I
tried for years to have a very simple model. Most of these schools ought
to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local
students to take care of the school.
We will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be
A Gingrich presidency will submit to the United Nations a treaty that
extends the right to bear arms as a human right for every person on the
Just go to Facebook and on your home page put Newt equals $2.50 a
gallon gasoline.
The odds are very high I`m going to be the nominee.
I founded four businesses. I have written 24 books, 13 of them "New
York Times" bestsellers.
I did no lobbying of any kind, period. I was charging $60,000 a
speech. And the number of speeches was going up, not down. Normally,
celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches every year. We
were selling more.
I don`t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than
left-wing social engineering.
Any add which quotes which I said on Sunday is a falsehood.
QUESTION: Are you calling Mitt Romney a liar?
GINGRICH: Yes.
I`m not going to compete with Obama in singing.
I also am an amateur paleontologist.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They can bite it.
GINGRICH: Put one in here.
GINGRICH: There`s Louisiana treatment of an Etch A Sketch.
Some of you probably have an additional interest. This was the finger
the penguin bit.
When I worked with Ronald Reagan, we set out to defeat the Soviet
empire. I worked with Reagan when I was a junior member. We created 16
million new jobs.
I worked with Ronald Reagan.
I think, obviously, that I would be a better candidate.
I`m going to be the nominee.
MATTHEWS: Wow.
Newt, thanks for all the memories.
Up next, Paul Ryan came to Georgetown University today to push his
hard-line budget, a budget he says was guided by his Catholicism. But some
Catholics at Georgetown say a budget that helps the rich and hurts the poor
violates the very principles of the church. And that`s ahead.
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MATTHEWS: U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of
the Budget Committee, says his Republican budget was influenced by his
Catholic faith.
Well, today, it was clear not everyone agrees with him. Ahead of a
speech at Georgetown University today, he was met with protesters and a
letter from nearly 100 professors and staffers who disagree with his
philosophy and his budget.
That letter says in part, "We would be remiss if we did not challenge
your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that
decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens
protections for the elderly and sick, and gives more tax breaks to the
wealthiest few."
James Salt runs the group Catholics United, which protested the
congressman`s speech today. And Sister Simone Campbell is the executive
director of NETWORK.
Sister, I want to start with you. And it`s an honor to have you on
today, as well to have James on.
We have been watching this dispute over Catholic philosophy and the
social justice issue. My question to you is a very simple and perhaps a
little -- a whimsical one. How come nuns tend to be Democrats and bishops
tend to be Republicans?
SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NETWORK: Well, that`s a
really good question.
I would like to know the answer to it myself, but I have a hunch that
it`s our experience that makes the difference. We sisters work at the
margins of society. We work with people who are struggling, who are
working for minimum wage, who have a very tough time with the minimum wage
-- it`s $7.25 -- keeping food on the table for their families.
So we know the real-life struggles of real-life Americans. And when
you`re in touch with those sorts of struggles, you can`t help but realize
that we need to be together as a society and respond to the needs of all
around us. We`re only as good as the strength of our society, and that`s
why we think that often Democratic principles are much more in keeping with
that sense of solidarity.
MATTHEWS: Let me go to James on this.
And I could bring it up with his sister as well. We all grew up,
Catholics like myself, studying Rerum Novarum the encyclical on social
justice from the early part of the last century, and we understand the
importance of a living wage and things like that and subsidiary and all
those principles and warnings about the excesses of capitalism.
Most Americans, even Catholics, have no idea what I`m talking about,
do they? They don`t understand that there is this fabric, this safety net
that was really introduced by the Catholic Church and of course then made
part of the law under the New Deal.
JAMES SALT, CATHOLICS UNITED: You know, but it`s also part of our
I mean, many Catholics came over to this country with very humble
origins, worked hard, played by the rules, and really proved the American
dream true, that you can succeed, which is why it`s so unfortunate right
now that at a time when there is so much suffering, Congressman Paul Ryan
really wants to beat up on the little guy.
MATTHEWS: Why do you think he wants to give tax breaks to the rich?
I can understand why he worries about the burden of debt down the road to
future generations. My kids worry about that, especially my daughter.
But why does he feel that there needs to be incentives for the rich,
and where does he find his Christianity heading in that direction, helping
the rich out?
SALT: Yes. Well, certainly -- it certainly indicates his political
motivations less than Gospel teaching.
You know, I, along with the Catholic bishops, agree that Paul Ryan`s
budget fails a basic moral test. Any time you ask working-class Americans
to pay for the tax breaks of the wealthy, that`s not just unfair, that`s
immoral, that`s un-Christian.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
SALT: But, you know, it is something that we`re all concerned about.
This is something that`s central to the Catholic community. We are care
about the...
MATTHEWS: Well, let`s watch. Let him speak here. James, let`s --
here`s Congressman Ryan defending his budget this morning at Georgetown.
Let`s listen to the congressman.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), BUDGET COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Our budget offers a
better path consistent with the timeless principles of our nation`s
founding, and, frankly, consistent with how I understand my Catholic faith.
We put trust in people, not in government. Our budget incorporates
subsidiarity by returning power to individuals, to families and to
communities. We draw inspiration from the founders` belief that all people
are born with a God-given right to human flourishing.
MATTHEWS: Sister, why do you think some people believe the way to get
poor people to work harder is to cut their money, to basically hurt them,
and the way to get the rich people to work harder is to give them more
money? Why do they have different views of incentives?
CAMPBELL: Well, I think they probably don`t know people who live in
poverty, because people who live in poverty work extremely hard to just
even feed their families.
What they know is the wealthy, the reserved. They know -- and this
lie about giving wealthy people more money will make better jobs, wealthy
people have had 10 years of a tax cut that has resulted in no jobs. The
wealthy people have had 10 years to keep wages flat and claim that it`s
because of globalization.
Wealthy people have had the chance to exploit those who are at the
very margins of society, to deny health care to them, to cause them to go
into debt or bankruptcy whenever they have a catastrophic illness. And now
the Republicans want to promote that.
Just because they say -- I mean, Congressman Ryan said it was his
understanding of his faith. I think he has a very flawed understanding of
his faith. He is half right about subsidiary and building responsibility,
but because he leaves out solidarity, and the fact that we`re in this
together, the fact that we the people of the United States, means all of
us, not just those with money, that because he leaves that out, he`s half
right, but he`s 100 percent wrong. He`s got his faith wrong.
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: James -- I`m sorry, James, it seems to me
there has been a fight. We`ve covered it here extensively without getting
too much into religion here, we`ve covered the issue over contraceptive
issue, the fights between some of the sisters and some of the bishops, the
organized bishops. But it seems like you`re both on the same page, the
bishops and the nuns, when it comes to this response, the sort of Dorothy
Day approach to the social ministry here and helping poor people.
It seems like you`re together, are you? The bishops tend to be
Republican as I said, and the sisters, you tend to be Democrats. Do you
agree on this social agenda you`re talking about here for people?
JAMES SALT, CATHOLICS UNITED: Absolutely. I don`t want to echo
Sister Simone. You know, if Paul Ryan spent a day of his life in the shoes
of those of poverty, soul-crushing poverty and had to make decisions from
day to day, how do we make our paychecks stretch to either put gas in the
gas tank or food on the table, we wouldn`t be having this debate.
MATTHEWS: Yes. Well, I`d like to remind people who come to
Washington to get up early someday and get down on the some of the poor
parts of Washington, D.C., and notice how the poor people, a lot of them
African-Americans, are up, catching their business 6:30 and 7:00 in the
morning to go to work. They`re not coming home rich, they`re not coming
home rich, but they have put in a full`s day work.
Here`s Congressman Ryan speaking about his Catholic faith this
morning again at the wonderful -- great actually -- Georgetown University.
Let`s watch.
REP. PAUL RYAN (R), WISCONSIN: I suppose that there are some
Catholics who for a long time thought they had a monopoly of sorts. Not
exactly on heaven, but on the social teaching of our church. Of course,
there can be differences among faithful Catholics on this. The work I do
as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine, as best I can
make of it. What I have to say about the social doctrine of the church is
from the viewpoint of a Catholic in politics applying my understanding to
the problems of the day.
MATTHEWS: Well, sister, what`s your last word on the good fight
between you and Paul Ryan tonight? Your last look in (ph).
CAMPBELL: Paul Ryan needs to read the encyclical by Pope Benedict,
"Charity and Truth." He needs truth. The truth is that those who suffer
at the margins of our society are the ones Jesus cares about. They`re the
ones our society should care about. And it`s the ones that the Republican
budget, his budget, leave out.
That`s wrong, it`s morally wrong and his faith understanding is
seriously flawed.
SALT: Amen.
MATTHEWS: Wow, you`re really poaching. You`re going to Benedict on
this one. I thought you were going to go to Louis XIII. But
congratulations for finding a liberal doctrine from Pope Benedict XVI.
Thank you so much, Sister, for joining us. You know your stuff, of course.
And James Salt, thank you sir.
Up next: Jon Tester`s victory in Montana six years ago helped
Democrats win control of the United States Senate. Tester wins again this
November, Democrats could keep control. we`re talking about the man
manning the outpost out in Montana.
He`s going to come up next, Jon Tester.
This is HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: In the four years since the last presidential campaign,
Americans have gotten more conservative on gun rights and more liberal on
gay marriage. Put that together, take a look at new poll from Pew. It
finds that 49 percent of Americans say it`s more important to protect the
right to bear arms versus who just 45 percent who said gun ownership needs
to be controlled. Well, those numbers were reversed when President Obama
first took office.
And on gay marriage, 43 percent favor it while 51 percent oppose it.
During 2008 presidential campaign, 51 percent, oppose gay marriage. Well,
we`re switching around, aren`t we?
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
A lot of people are very interested in the outcome of this year`s
Montana`s Senate race, including Karl Rove. His group Crossroads GPS has
sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race going after incumbent
Senator Jon Tester. Senator Tester is being challenged by Republican
Congressman Denny Rehberg. Today, Tester`s campaign released a new ad.
Let`s watch it.
NARRATOR: Jon Tester doesn`t pack much when he goes back to
Washington. What he always brings his Montana roots. In Washington, Jon
is standing up for Montana values, reducing the deficit, making sure kids
can afford to go to college, protecting Social Security, and Medicare,
protecting the Second Amendment, taking care of veterans and making the
U.S. senate look a little more like Montana.
SEN. JON TESTER (D), MONTANA: I`m Jon Tester and I approve this
message. I approve Charlotte`s cooking, too.
MATTHEWS: Well, to be sure, the ads by Karl Rove and other outside
groups are flooding the airwaves out in Montana are much less positive.
Senator Jon Tester of Montana joins us now.
Senator Tester, I want to thank you for by a fact that my daughter
and I both have a Montana fishing license, both of us. We were out there
in the Madison River this summer. It was fantastic. And thank you for
joining us.
TESTER: It`s great to be here, Chris.
And you`re exactly right. I mean, Montana is an outdoorsman`s
paradise, and we have incredible fishing, and hunting and outdoor
activities all over the place. I`m glad you got a chance to take advantage
of them.
MATTHEWS: It was great. Let me ask you about, you know, I`ve
covered the primaries as part of my job and we`ve moved around a lot
through Iowa, through Florida, through Iowa, a lot of these states. I
didn`t get to Ohio.
And everywhere I went, there`s this flood of absolutely nasty ads
paid for by who knows what super PAC, no name attached to it. It doesn`t
say Karl Rove, it doesn`t say the Koch brothers or some Texas oil guy --
hugely negative, nasty ads. You can`t escape them.
How are you going to deal with that when this floods into Montana?
It`s already doing it I guess.
TESTER: Well, I mean, they`re already doing it. They`ve already
spent about 2 million bucks trying to define me as something that I`m not.
And that`s the key, that`s what -- that`s no surprise. That`s what we
figured they were going to do.
We`ve got a great record. We`ve got great things done, still farm,
my wife and I still run the place, plus do our work in the U.S. Senate.
So they`re trying -- they`re trying to paint me as something I`m not,
and the challenge is, Chris, and this is -- you know, with all of this
money, can Montana voters be bought by all of this untruthful
advertisements out there right now. I mean, one ad even gave me five
fingers on my left hand, another didn`t know how to spell my name. I mean,
my goodness, these guys are really free and loose with their terminologies.
And I would just say that we just got to -- we`ve got to work hard,
and we`ve got to have enough money to get our message out. We`re not going
to be able to outspend these guys. They`ve got more money than we can even
come close to raising. But by the same token, I`ve got a great record of
we can get people understanding what we`ve done in the last five and a half
years. And if we can get that message out to the voters, I feel very
confident in this election.
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s the old disconnect. Most Republicans are not
rich, some are, very few are very rich. And some of them are little better
off than others. But a lot of them are average people, and yet the
Republican Party seems to get controlled by that 1 percent, guys like Karl
Rove running around the oil people, the Koch brothers who are billionaires.
Somehow they convince that 49 percent of the 50 percent that tend to vote
Republican, they have the same interest as the 1 percent.
How do you get through that and convince those 49 percent of what
people used to call the cloth coat, not the main coat crowd? How do you
convince them that they shouldn`t be going along with the ad guys because
the ad guys who pay for these ads have their on selfish interest, piggish
(ph) interest, if you will?
TESTER: Well, I think -- I really think the key is our ads have got
to be better than theirs. But more importantly than that, I think we`ve
got to let people know what`s going on with the secret corporate money
that`s being dumped into these races. You know, back in 1916, Montana
voters, 1916, almost 100 years ago, Montana voters said enough of this.
(INAUDIBLE) ran the state of Montana, they said no more corporation
I think if people understand where this money is coming from, and
it`s very tough because there is no transparency whatsoever --
MATTHEWS: Yes.
TESTER: But if we an get them to understand this corporate outside
money, maybe not even in this country, which is totally illegal, funding
the race and the ads against me, I think they`ll react accordingly and it
might backfire on them.
MATTHEWS: What about -- Cecile Richards seems to like your campaign
and doesn`t like the other guy running against you. Is that -- are women
voters going -- let`s take a look at her. Here she said, there is no more
important Senate race in the country that yours. She campaigned with you
last week.
Here`s what she told the "Great Fall Tribune" about you, quote, "He
has been such a strong independent champion of women`s health in the United
States Senate."
Your thoughts on that issue as one of the many issues out there.
TESTER: Yes. Well, I appreciate it, I think, you know, we`ve seen
some of the impacts on the war on women come out of this Senate and come
out of this Congress. And as I told my daughter at Easter time when we
came, I said, you know, you`re going to have to get active and you`re going
to have to get involved. You`re going to have to fight a fight that your
mom didn`t have to. You`re going to have to fight the fight that your
grandmother fought.
And that`s a fact. And I think that women in Montana and across this
country understand their choices, their health care choices are going to be
badly eroded if they don`t step up to the plate, and I think this election
is a time to do it.
MATTHEWS: Does it help -- I know Montana is a reach for a guy like
Obama to win or any Democratic to win, but to my it seems to me Obama`s
strength in going after bin Laden, catching him, killing, the fact he`s run
a pretty strong foreign policy does take away one of the usual, and now,
he`s certainly has nothing to go after the gun owners, that he seems to be
less of a challenge out there as part of your situation. Is that true?"
TESTER: Yes, I mean. I think it is, I mean, I think our gun rights
are better now than when he came into office. I think the work he did to
not only find bin Laden but take him out of the equation I think is
positive from a Montana perspective.
And he was dealt a tough hand. I mean, he came into this economy, it
was losing 800,000 jobs a month. So, absolutely, he has done some good
things. On the other side of the equation, we`ve got plenty of things
where I`ve opposed him, not because opposing for the sake of opposing. You
know, the fact is, you know, whether the jobs bill that was there six to
eight months ago, I had some concerns with it, and voted against it, the
bailouts, I voted against.
So, I mean, we`ve got plenty things that we`ve differed. But, you
know, one of the things they`re trying to do and they are doing in states
around the country where President Obama is not very popular is try to tie
the senators to him.
MATTHEWS: OK. Senator Jon Tester, the man with the crew cut, the
man on the tractor. There can`t be this confusion you one of those New
York, one of those East Coast guys.
When we return, let me finish with a win-win tango between and the
Clintons and the Obamas.
You`re watching HARDBALL.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with this:
Bill Clinton is going to play a big role in American politics for
years to come, but looks increasingly like Hillary Clinton is going to run
in 2016, it looks increasingly likely that Bill Clinton is already at work
preparing the way.
As we say in politics, he`s become the number one advance man. We
saw this week in Pennsylvania, the former president`s readiness to help
candidates who are solid Clinton people against those were not. We saw how
he helped Mark Critz against Jayson Altmire in that congressional primary,
helped Kathleen Kane against Pat Murphy for A.G., rewards and pay backs
He`s posting the rewards for past loyalty, the bounties for the
I know what you know about this interesting dance the Clintons have
been having with President Obama. Hillary Clinton has served with high
competence as secretary of state. Bill Clinton accepted whatever role the
Obama have accorded him. Whatever Hillary Clinton may decide, it`s clear
Bill Clinton wants her to be president. They began as a team, they will
end that way.
The good thing, at least, potentially in this tango between the
Clintons and Obama, is that it can, if played properly, help both. There
is nothing more important for a political party than to be able to appear
broad, having the Clinton people aboard the Obama reelection campaign is a
plus any way you look at it.
Combining the Obama and Clinton votes was the key to winning the
election in November in 2008. It will be begin in 2012. A smart move for
both the Clintons and Obamas to keep the peace through November.
And that`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
"POLITICS NATION" with Al Sharpton starts right now.
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Order of the Silverflame (OSF) has been around since Vanilla despite the fact we had a short break during the Burning Crusade. We are a friendly group who enjoy WoW and raiding. We have fun and joke around, we share precious memories in game and outside game, but when bosses need to go down then it is all serious! We expect members of the guild to enjoy the game as much as we do, to take part in our raids and maintain a 70-85% attendance per month.
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Historically, we are a 20 man guild that sometimes used to run an extra groups to get the most people raiding and help new trialists learn the Silverflame way to down bosses. If we had a lot of people away we would cut down to two teams but we always strived to remain 20 man as much as possible.
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|Iran Ajr with mines visible on deck and a U.S. Navy landing craft alongside, 22 September 1987
|Iran Ajr
|Teraoka Shipyard - Minamiawaji, Japan
|Arya Rakhsh
|by purchase, 1978
|Iran Ajr (1980)
|Seized and scuttled by U.S. Navy, 26 September 1987
|Originally acquired by Imperial Iranian Navy as part of pre-1979 Revolution defense build-up. Was intended to be the first of a class of four.
|Landing ship/Minelayer
|614 t (604 long tons) empty 2,274 t (2,238 long tons) full load
|53.85 m (176 ft 8 in)
|10.81 m (35 ft 6 in)
|3 m (9 ft 10 in)
|2 × diesel engines, 2 screws
|11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Iran Ajr, formerly known as the Arya Rakhsh, was a Japanese-built landing craft used by Iran to lay naval mines during the Iran–Iraq War. Built in 1978, the 614-ton, 54-meter ship was powered by two diesel engines and featured a bow ramp for unloading cargo. She was scuttled in 1987.Contents
On 21 September 1987, U.S. forces involved in Operation Prime Chance tracked Iran Ajr and dispatched army helicopters from the Navy guided missile frigate USS Jarrett (FFG-33) to shadow it. Prime Chance was the covert part of Operation Earnest Will, the mission to protect U.S.-flagged petroleum-carrying ships in the Persian Gulf. When the aviators reported that people aboard the Iran Ajr were laying mines, the U.S. commander in the Persian Gulf ordered the army pilots to "stop the mining." The helicopters fired on the ship, killing some of the mariners and chasing others into the water. A team of Navy SEAL commandos later boarded the ship, confirmed the presence of mines, and detained the surviving Iranians. On 26 September, EOD MU5 Detachment 5 scuttled the ship in international waters.
When the USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) struck a mine the following April, navy explosive ordnance specialists matched the serial numbers of nearby unexploded mines to the ones aboard the Iran Ajr. This evidence of Iranian involvement in the Roberts mining led to the biggest surface-warfare naval battle since World War II, the retribution campaign of 18 April 1988 called Operation Praying Mantis.
The captured colors of the Iran Ajr are in the U.S. Navy Museum.
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Tamil actor Vijay's upcoming romantic-thriller finally has a title. It is called Thalaiva and its tag line reads - "Time to Lead".
"Vijay's new Tamil film has been titled Thalaiva. Director A.L Vijay, Vijay and the producer have unanimously zeroed in on the title," said a statement from the production house.
The first leg of shooting was completed recently. The second schedule will start March onwards in Spain.
"The cast and crew will travel to Spain after 50 days non-stop shoot in Mumbai, where two songs and three fight sequences have already been filmed," added the statement.
Amala Paul is paired opposite Vijay in the film, which went on floors in December 2012. It also stars Sathyaraj, Santhanam, Suresh, Mano Bala and Abhimanyu in important roles.
The title song Thalaivaa Thalaivaa was recently shot in Mumbai in the presence of 500 junior artists.
Chandra Prakash Jain has produced the film, which is likely to hit theatres in May. It has music by G.V Prakash Kumar, cinematography Nirav Shah and editing by Anthony.


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On Friday 30 January 1948, Gandhi woke up at his usual hour, 3:30 a.m. After the morning prayer he put the final touches to the new constitution for Congress which he had been unable to finish the previous night. The rest of the morning was spent answering letters. Someone mentioned the fact that despite his poor health he was working incessantly. 'Tomorrow', he explained, 'I may not be here'. Gandhi would not permit those who attended the prayer meetings: 'If I have to die I should like to die at the prayer meeting. You are wrong in believing that you can protect me from harm. God is my protector.'
Mahatma Gandhi's body lay on the pyre with his head to the north. In that position Buddha met his end. At 4:45 p.m., Ramdas Gandhi, the third son of the Mahatma, set fire to the funeral pyre. The logs burst into flames. The vast assemblage groaned. Women wailed; men wept. The wood crackled and seethed and the flames united into a single fire. Now there was silence. Gandhi's body was being reduced to ashes and cinders.
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Before each baseball season myself and my friends would make our picks for the upcoming baseball season. This year we actually documented our selections on the site so that at the end of it all we could not only mock each other for such horrible prognosticating skills, but you the reader could do the same. So take a trip down memory lane with us and let's recap the sheer stupidity we exuded during Spring Training.
We'll get this one out of the way early because this was entirely a solo mission on my part. We may expand it to include everybody next year just so I don't feel like an even bigger idiot than I already do. If you went through any of the 30 Teams in Under 30 Days articles ahead of the 2015 season, you would have seen my picks for All-Stars from each team at the bottom of each article. I was looking to improve from my performance from last year in which I hit on 45% on the American League All-Stars and 37% on the National League All-Stars. I know that isn't setting the bar very high, but even that low leap was too much for me to handle.
I regressed significantly to 36% for the AL and 33% for the NL. While there was plenty of pats on the back for nailing sneaky selections like Tampa Bay closer Brad Boxberger and Yankees set-up man Dellin Betances, there were ten times as many "What the fuck were you thinking?" picks made. Here are some of the best gems from the NL:
- Jimmy Rollins, SS (Dodgers)- Hit a career worst .224 and his 12 stolen bases were his worst full season total.
- Nick Vincent, RP (Padres)- Spent the majority of 2015 at Triple-A, lost his only decision in the Majors.
- Devin Mesoraco, C (Reds)- Was hitting .178 before a bum hip wiped out all but 23 games of his year.
Somehow the American League was so much worse...
- Travis Snider, OF (Orioles)- Was presumably on crack when I picked this one. Hit .232 with 4 home runs between Baltimore and Pittsburgh.
- James Paxton, SP (Mariners)- Injuries limited him to 13 starts. His 1.43 WHIP illustrates that those starts weren't that good.
- Hanley Ramirez, OF (Red Sox)- Told everybody who'd listen that it wasn't going to work out with Hanley and that wall. Then I picked him to be an All-Star. I suck.
- Rick Porcello, SP (Red Sox)- Sported the worst ERA in the league for the majority of 2015 before getting it to a "respectable" 4.92 with a strong final month.
- Aaron Loup, RP (Blue Jays)- A situational lefty who couldn't get lefties out. All-Star!
- Danny Duffy, SP (Royals)- Ended up being demoted to the bullpen due to ineffectiveness. At least he got a World Series ring.
- Fernando Abad, RP (Athletics)- My total hipster pick. "You don't even know this guy but he's so good." A 4.15 ERA and 1.34 WHIP say otherwise.
- Collin McHugh, SP (Astros)- Went down the wrong road on the path to find the next AL Cy Young.
- Neftali Feliz, RP (Rangers)- Nothing screams All-Star like being designated for assignment right before the All-Star Break.
- Rougned Odor, 2B (Rangers)- My picks had his last name.
Now that my individual shaming has been completed, let's go on to the group humiliation portion of the article! Between the six of us we were able to only get three awards picked correctly. It was a parade of failure as you scrolled down to each successive block of embarrassing forecasts. Well, here's the first float now!
I'm just going to say now that Sanford picked Joe Kelly for every award. So when you see me completely ignoring his input over the next several paragraphs, that is why. American League MVP was an award that we all went all in on. It was Mike Trout or bust for the BYC boys and Josh Donaldson made sure we all suffered the bust half of that equation.
On the National League side, Josh was the only person with the vision to see Bryce Harper morph from a floppy haired doofus to a floppy haired doofus with an MVP trophy on his mantle. Colin had a big swing and a miss with Yasiel Puig. A freak injury wiped out what would have been a solid pick for Matt and Andrew in Giancarlo Stanton. My pick of Andrew McCutchen placed fifth in the voting. Light golf clap for myself.
In all the years we have been making picks as friends, we've never learned not to trust the Seattle Mariners. Again King Felix did the majority of us in. The other non-Joe Kelly selection made was Corey Kluber by Andrew. Kluber couldn't quite recapture the magic of his 2014 Cy Young win, but was better than his 9-16 record suggested. Our two guys finished with 13 combined Cy Young vote points, which would have been good enough for fifth.
Me and Colin got burned by Johnny Cueto's trade in the NL Cy Young, but that is shame on us for not thinking that a guy who had been on the trade block for five years wasn't finally going to get shipped in his contract year. The other three actual pickers made respectable misses in Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer. I don't think Jake Arrieta or even Zack Greinke came up in any of our preseason conversations. Boo us.
Rookie of the Year is always one of the hardest awards to project and in the AL this year it was no different. There was such an influx of rookies that not one of us picked the same guy to take home the prize. Not one of us picked the right guy, Houston's Carlos Correa, either. Well at least the majority of us had that puncher's chance. Josh's pick of Francisco Lindor even finished second to Correa. Colin though...oh Colin, Colin, Colin...he picked Mookie Betts, a player ineligible to win the award. Yup that about wraps that up.
The National League ROY was much easier. Just pick a Cub. The majority of us for once actually picked the right one as Kris Bryant took the league by storm, made the All-Star Team and won the award unanimously. Point at laugh at Andrew! Not the one that picked Joe Kelly, the one who went against the grain and picked the wrong Cub Jorge Soler. MUAHAHHAHAHA! It's nice to laugh at someone else's terrible picks for once.
We continued the time honored preseason picks tradition of picking a Manager of the Year that ends up being fired. Just a week after the season ended, Mariners' manager Lloyd McClendon (whom three of us picked to win Manager of the Year) got the axe. Can't trust the Mariners...blah blah blah...we never learn...yada yada yada. Colin actually came the closest for once with his pick of Toronto manager John Gibbons. He finished fourth in the voting and even got a first place vote! Way to go Colin! We strive for mediocrity!
The NL Manager of the Year picks showed that the two NL fans in the lot didn't know as much about the NL as we thought we did. While the three AL fans all picked correctly with Joe Maddon, the two NL fans watched their pick Matt Williams get a pink slip after Washington failed to make the postseason. Oh Washington, you and your miserable 2015 is going to feature very heavily in this next segment.
The Royals proved 2014 was no fluke as they returned to the World Series and won the whole damned thing. None of us picked Kansas City to even LOSE in the ALCS. The Indians, Orioles, Angels, Red Sox, and those pesky Mariners all factored into our choices coming out of the AL, but the champs didn't even get a sniff. The only thing you are sniffing right now is the putrid stench coming from said choices.
The Mets came out of left field this year to take the National League, besting the Cubs and Dodgers on their way to the Fall Classic. So of course the kid who picked Joe Kelly to win every award was the only one to choose the Mets to win the National League. We'll ignore that he had them beating the Marlins in the NLCS and give credit where it is due. Colin and Matt both at least had playoff teams in those Cubs and Dodgers, although they each picked them to win it all. Myself, Josh, and Andrew though fell victim to the Nationals hype machine. Not only did we pick the Nats to take the NL, we picked them to win the whole shebang. I can't even make fun of Sanford's Red Sox pick right now I feel so downtrodden.
I miss baseball. I am already looking forward to making horrendous picks next spring. At least I have our EPL picks to hang on to in the mean time. Oh wait, I picked Manchester City to finish outside the Top 4? FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!


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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard ( Abe Book)
Amazon Summary
In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois
playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats
defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no
coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370
teams to become the smallest school in modern Illinois history to make the
state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long
hair, and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, the Ironmen would play
a dramatic game against a Chicago powerhouse that would change their
lives forever.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A bid by the world's largest online poker website to buy an Atlantic City casino has gone bust.
The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel announced Wednesday that a purchase agreement with the British parent company of PokerStars has been terminated. Had the deal gone through, The Atlantic Club would have been the first casino in the United States to be wholly owned by an Internet gambling company.
Chief Operating Officer Michael Frawley issued a brief statement Wednesday morning saying the deal is off, but would not say why. He and a spokeswoman for the casino hotel declined to answer questions, but said the struggling casino will remain open. The purchase by The Rational Group, PokerStars' parent company, had widely been seen as perhaps the last chance to save The Atlantic Club.
New Jersey legalized Internet gambling this year so long as bets are taken within the state's borders and do not involve sports betting; the state is fighting a separate legal battle to try to enact that.
"The advent of New Jersey's online gaming legislation has changed Atlantic City's future for the better and The Atlantic Club is absolutely going to be a part of that future," Frawley said in the statement.
He said the casino's 2013 revenue proves that customers are rediscovering it and it is more popular than ever.
Eric Hollreiser, a spokesman for The Rational Group, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
On Tuesday, a poker site in Nevada run by Ultimate Gaming began taking bets, making it the first in the country to begin operating since the U.S. Justice Department declared two years ago it would allow states to approve online gambling.
New Jersey and Delaware also have approved such gambling and had hoped to begin taking bets by the end of this year. Those two states will offer the full range of games found at brick-and-mortar casinos, while Nevada's law only legalized online poker.
PokerStars was one of three online companies whose operations were shut down by the U.S. Justice Department in 2011 in a crackdown on then-illegal Internet gambling that came to be known in the poker community as "Black Friday."
The Rational Group agreed last year to pay $547 million to the U.S. Justice Department and $184 million to poker players overseas to settle a case alleging money laundering, bank fraud and illegal gambling. It admitted no wrongdoing, and says it is in good standing with governments around the world.
That situation was expected to pose a difficult hurdle to the company's efforts to win licensing from New Jersey casino regulators, and the trade association representing the nation's brick and mortar casinos strongly opposes the deal. The American Gaming Association applied to intervene in PokerStars' licensing hearing, wanting to argue against the proposed purchase.
The Atlantic Club has ranked near the bottom of Atlantic City's 12 casinos in terms of gambling revenue, and nearly closed several years ago. Recently, its decision to adopt a value-priced strategy with inexpensive food and drinks, free parking and low-roller casino tables, with gambling chips as low as 25 cents, has shown some success.
State Assemblyman Ralph Caputo, who supports extending casino gambling to northern New Jersey's Meadowlands race track, hailed the demise of the PokerStars deal, calling the proposed purchase "disconcerting, to say the least."
"PokerStars is a firm with a sordid history of criminal accusations of illegal gambling, money laundering, bank fraud, wire fraud," he said. ""The firm's way of conducting business threatened to undermine the integrity and public confidence that Atlantic City has worked diligently to build since the enactment of the New Jersey Casino Control Act enacted in 1977. To become involved with a company like this one would have been an insult to everyone who has gone under scrutiny to work or do business in the casino industry over the last 30 years."
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Open Casting Calls to Take Place in Los Angeles (March 6) and New York City (March 21)
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA. - February 26, 2010 - NBC's Emmy-nominated competition series "Last Comic Standing" will return this summer for its seventh season with new host Craig Robinson (NBC's "The Office") it was announced today by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
Robinson, star of NBC's hit comedy series "The Office" and the upcoming feature film "Hot Tub Time Machine," will host the nationwide search for the funniest comedian in America, and reward him or her with a $250,000 prize, plus an exclusive talent deal with the network. The most recent edition of "Last Comic Standing" ran on Thursday nights in Summer 2008 and built an audience through its run.
"'Last Comic Standing' has been a consistent success with both viewers and critics and we can't wait to bring it back," said Telegdy. "The addition of a versatile comedic talent like Craig will only enhance what has proved to be a winning formula."
Executive producer Peter Engel added, "I am so excited about season seven of 'Last Comic Standing.' We are looking for lucky seven being the best year ever. I am confident that Craig Robinson and the creative team will take the comedy to a new level of laughs."
As with previous seasons, talent scouts in Los Angeles and New York will watch performances from aspiring and professional comedians. In addition to the open casting calls, "Last Comic Standing" will invite some of the best and brightest comics from all over the country to participate in the competition.
Open casting calls will be held in Los Angeles (Saturday, March 6) at the Improv (8162 Melrose Ave.) doors open 9am, and New York City (Sunday, March 21) at the Gotham Comedy Club (208 W. 23rd St.) doors open 9am. All contestants must be 18 and over.
Beginning as a stand-up comedian, Robinson first made his mark in the comedy circuit at the 1998 Montreal "Just For Laughs" Festival. That year, he also won the Oakland Comedy Festival Awards and the Miller Genuine Draft 1996 Comedy Search. He soon went on to perform his act on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show," and "Real Time with Bill Maher." Now headlining venues and festivals across the country, he does both solo acts as well as full-band sets - "The Nasty Delicious" - tying together his lyrical comedy with his finesse at the piano.
Currently appearing in the sixth season of the Emmy-winning "The Office" on NBC, Robinson portrays sarcastic Dunder-Mifflin warehouse worker Darryl Philbin. In the past few years, he has made his mark in the film world as well, stealing scenes in every project he appears. He made audiences question their notions of vanity playing the sensitive bouncer in "Knocked Up," kept them glued to their seats as one of the henchman hunting Seth Rogen and James Franco's bumbling stoner characters in "Pineapple Express," and shocked them silly at the end of "Fanboys" as the surprise guest playing a THX Security Guard on site at Lucas Ranch.
"Last Comic Standing" is produced by Peter Engel Productions and Universal Media Studios. The executive producers are Peter Engel ("Saved by the Bell," "The Next Best Thing"), Jayson Dinsmore ("I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!") and Barry Katz ("Action," "Dane Cook's Tourgasm"). Co-Executive Producers are Javier Winnik and Page Hurwitz. "Last Comic Standing" is directed by Alan Carter.


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How can I get a validated Lehman College Alumni I.D. Card?
You can obtain a validated Lehman College Alumni I.D. Card by visiting the Office of Alumni Relations (Shuster Hall 318) and bringing your former student I.D. card with you. The Lehman College Alumni I.D. Validation/Services Fee is $25.00/year; for new graduates, this fee is waived for the first year. (The year runs from September to August.) If you have lost or misplaced your card, the College requires you to pay $10.00 to replace the card.
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The Office of Alumni Relations does not give out personal information on our alumni. We will however, if you wish, contact the person(s) you are seeking, give them your information and let them know that you are interested in reconnecting with them.
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Let's see, where's that Word document, PDF, spreadsheet or PowerPoint preso? Did you leave it on Google Drive? Save it to DropBox? Maybe it's somewhere on your computer or iPad?
The proliferation of cloud services and mobile devices gives you lots of options for storing and sharing documents, but keeping track of them can be difficult. For iPad users, DocSync offers a remedy: An app that lets you browse, search for and organize files in popular business formats regardless of whether they are on your computer, the iPad, or a couple of leading cloud services. But what you can do with the files is somewhat limited.
I tried out version 1.2, which supports DropBox and Google Docs. You simply set up a DocSync account and authorize the app to access your DropBox and Google Docs account to get going. To also view documents on a Mac or PC, you must first download and install the DocSync VM software, specify the document folder you'll want to access remotely, and log in using the credentials you created on the iPad. By default, the software will run in the background, and you'll be able to access documents as long as the computer is online. DocSync VM also tracks your document upload history.
As a security precaution, the folks at DocSync recommend creating a PIN on the computer software, which will propogate to the iPad app. That way, if your iPad is lost or stolen, you can keep thieves from accessing the documents you've downloaded by changing the PIN on the computer. DocSync will demand the PIN when someone tries to access documents, and after 10 incorrect entries, the app will delete all the downloaded docs on the iPad.
The home screen on the iPad app has nine large square icons, four of which afford access to specific locations (the iPad, the computer, DropBox and Google Docs). Within each location, DocSync has bookshelves for recent files; recent folders; projects (a virtual file system within DocSync that lets you gather related materials from disparate locations in a single folder); and MyClouds, which has shortcuts for jumping to other locations without having to first return to the home screen.
There's also a MyClouds icon on the home screen, which shows all your synced content, and a search icon for searching across locations. In addition to keyword searches for file names, you can filter results by file type (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Image--JPEG, JPG, or PNG--or PDF). Results appear as thumbnails showing the type of file and its name. A seventh icon is for accessing e-mail attachments, a feature that hasn't yet been implemented, and the two remaining icons--labeled Coming Soon--are reserved for "new clouds," according to the popups that appear when you tap them.
DocSync works quickly because unlike some cloud-based file managers, it doesn't automatically move files. Instead, it retrieves file metadata whenever it connects to a service or device. But by tapping and holding a thumbnail, you can summon a pop-up menu with options for downloading the file to your iPad, e-mailing it, or putting it in a Project folder. Within DropBox, the same menu adds an option for moving a file into GoogleDocs. The app lets you specify how much space you wish to reserve on your iPad for downloaded files, to a maximum of 8GB.
But DocSync has a couple of key limitations. While downloading files lets you view them offline, you can't edit them--even if you have apps that support editing Office documents. The DocSync cache isn't available to other apps. While online, you can edit docs in Google Docs, but it's a very limited tool on the iPad--you can only type or delete. A DocSync account can only sync files with one computer running the DocSync VM software, so if you keep documents on multiple computers, you must create a different DocSync account for each one. That is an awkward workaround; but in a pinch, you could e-mail files to yourself for editing.
DocSync is free--it will likely eventually charge for extra features, such as high download volumes. If you use an iPad and document scatter is a problem, it's worth checking out.


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Over the weekend, our man Woody Paige — whom we swear we're not picking on; we're gonna cut down on Woody news soon, promise — wrote his last column from the Denver Post, saying he's now going to "stick it out in New York for a while." We have no problem with this; we live in New York too, we like it here and totally understand wanting to stay here.
But the timing on Paige's decision is curious. See, "Cold Pizza" officially announced Friday that it will indeed be moving to 10 a.m. start time after the new year. "Mike And Mike In The Morning" will hold the 6 a.m.-10 a.m. slot on ESPN2, with "Cold Pizza" coming on afterwards and replaying again at noon. This means, of course, that "Cold Pizza" is no longer a morning show; it's, at best, brunch for the unemployed. At 8 a.m., maybe you catch some people before they go to work. At 10 a.m., it's filler; we will now see if it's possible for "Cold Pizza" to get lower ratings.
In other words, it's pretty plainly the beginning of the end for the show. Enjoy New York, Mr. Paige, and keep that resume handy.
Time Has Come For You And I To Turn The Paige [Denver Post]
Woody Paige Sees All [Deadspin]


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Republicans effectively eliminated the individual Obamacare mandate in the tax package signed late last year. Although the new regulation reducing the mandate penalty to zero doesn't take effect until 2019, President Trump has cited the rule change as a victory over the health law so many conservatives oppose.
"Essentially, we are getting rid of Obamacare. Some people would say, essentially, we have gotten rid of it," Trump told a crowd in Michigan two weeks ago.
However, many parts of the Affordable Care Act are still in effect and will continue to operate even after the individual mandate is eliminated in 2019.
In particular, the employer mandate, which requires companies with more than 50 employees to offer health benefits or face fine of roughly $2,000 per worker, will continue to play a significant role in the Obamacare system. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the mandate will produce more than $12 billion in fines in 2018 alone.
Some conservative groups are pushing lawmakers to stop enforcing the employer mandate, but the IRS is still working to enforce the law. According to The New York Times Monday, the IRS is sending out notices to more than 30,000 businesses that have failed to comply.


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27 December 2013
We Want Peace, Say Families Displaced By Fighting In CAR
Amid ongoing the ongoing violence in the Central African Republic, video producer Vladimir Lozinski visited several WFP food distribution sites and spoke to some of the people receiving assistance there. They're all grateful for the food they're receiving but most of all they want peace and security. WFP is providing food to displaced people in the capital Bangui, as well as in Bossangoa in the northwest of the country. Donate now


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Food & Drinks – Restaurants, Bars and Nightlife in Zurich
Zurich provides international cuisine with a high quality standard. There are many restaurants rich in tradition on Bahnhofstrasse, but also fashionable ones in Zurich-West. There is a great variety to choose from in Niederdorf: from veal (schnitzel) to pasta, sushi, falafel and tapas all the way to fondue. "Zürcher Geschnetzeltes" (sliced veal Zurich style) with "Rösti" (shredded fried potatoes) is a classic. Most restaurants serve until 10pm.


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(CBS News) An intense investigation is under way in Texas where Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were found shot to death Saturday, just two months after one of McClelland's prosecutors was shot and killed near his courthouse office.
The District Attorney's Office will be closed on Monday and security will be tight for other government workers in Kaufman, Texas in the wake of the killings. The courthouse will be open but officials are promising visibly tighter security. Multiple agencies, including the Texas Rangers and the FBI are now beginning their search to hunt down the killer or killers.
Investigators swarmed the Forney, Texas home of 63-year-old McLelland and his 65-year-old wife Cynthia.
Official: Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were "targeted" in killing
Deputy: Texas district attorney, wife found dead
Mark Hasse, Texas prosecutor, shot dead near courthouse; suspects sought
Mark Hasse, Texas prosecutor, showed no sign of fear before being fatally shot outside courthouse, police chief says
Sources tell CBS News an unknown killer or killers used an assault rifle to commit the murders as early as Friday night.
Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes had little to say but this: "It's unnerving for the law enforcement community. It's unnerving to the community at large."
The murders come just two months after another Kaufman County prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, was gunned down in a parking lot just a block from the courthouse where he worked.
That same day, McLelland stood firm at a news conference after his prosecutor was murdered, sending an impassioned warning to those who killed Mark Hasse. "We're very confident that we're going to find you, we're going to pull you out of the hole you're in, we're going to bring you back and let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law," he said then.
McLelland -- an Army veteran who served for 23 years -- is said to have carried a gun everywhere after the Hasse murder. In an interview with CBS News, he seemed determined. Asked what part of the ordeal hurts the most, he replied, "The fact that I can't reach out and grab somebody and do something about it right now because I want them really bad."
The murders have unnerved Kaufman residents. "You can't believe that this thing would happen. Happened the first time but now it's happened twice," resident Bryant Martin said.
The FBI, the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement agencies have been looking into possible connections to white supremacist groups who had been targeted by McLelland's office.
For Anna Werner's full report, watch the video in the player above.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, called the case "nearly unprecedented."
"Especially on this level of a prosecutor, aligned prosecutor and then the elected county prosecutor, this is the kind of thing that they're used to in Colombia and now in Mexico, not in Texas," he said.
Law enforcement investigating the case don't have much to go on, according to Miller.
"In the case of Mark Hasse, who was the deputy district attorney who was shot first, he is leaving the District Attorney's Office, crosses the street, walks to the DMV headquarters where he has his car parked. So someone has done surveillance - where does he work and where does he park, where is the best place to get him? There you've got one, possibly two men, wearing black tactical vests, masks, weapons, they open fire on him, kill him by his car, they leave in a silver vehicle, no shell casings were recovered. That means they either used revolvers or in a professional move, they picked up the shell casings before they left.
Watch John Miller's full "CTM" analysis in the video below.
"Now let's move up to this case. In the case of D.A. McLelland ... they clearly watched his home, they've seen the police car that was there has been dropped, they enter the home. He and his wife are getting ready for bed, they have assault-type weapon and there's shell casings everywhere. She's shot once and he's shot numerous times but you don't have the witness who sees anything," Miller said.
Asked if investigators have any idea who is doing this, Miller said they've had ideas from the beginning, but none of those ideas are "panning out readily." He explained, "That doesn't mean they won't come around back and get a clue."
Miller said, "Let's start off with the red herring or the first idea that comes in which is both men were involved in a case involving ABT, Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, all-white prison gang. This was a major sweep involving a bunch of district attorneys offices. There was a threat put out in December against law enforcement who worked on that case, and that is certainly the thing they looked at first, but they've been looking at that since January, and nothing has really come up to the fore with an informant, information taps or anything like that, to point to that. So they are keeping an open mind and looking at everything else, too."


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Look closely, above, the EYEBROW WINDOW is tiny, but it's there!
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) scheduled demonstrations, events and educational classes in schools across Jerusalem, Ramallah, Gaza, Nablus, Bethlehem, Tubas, Hebron, as well as in Syria and Lebanon.
"People were afraid of showing up [in Jerusalem], the Israeli soldiers make it very difficult for them," Abu Eid said.
Palestinians ride through the demonstration on an old bus which ran before 1948, stopping in Jerusalem on the way to Beirut, Amman and Cairo. Today, it is a symbol of free movement restrictions for Palestinians.
The PLO's aim of delivering the letters and events is for the British government to offer a formal apology, compensate the dispossessed and recognise the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee for Non Violence member, Mundher Amira holds his stencil in front of the British Council.
Hundreds rallied in Arafat square in Ramallah before making their way to the British council.
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