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Seymour Hersh, writing in the London Review of Books:
Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country's civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assad.
Both The New Yorker and The Washington Post declined to run this story, with the Post reportedly expressing concerns about Hersh's sourcing. The Obama administration has called the thrust of Hersh's story "simply false."
I am afraid I have to protest. I do not belong to the circle of philosophers. My profession, if one can even speak of it at all, is political theory. I neither feel like a philosopher, nor do I believe that I have been accepted in the circle of philosophers, as you so kindly suppose.
Arendt is now perhaps best remembered for her book about World War II war crimes, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It's controversial in part because Arendt tries to strip Eichmann and other Nazis of their bogeyman status, revealing them as nothing so much as bland bureaucrats. She didn't absolve them of their evil deeds, but she did strenuously make the case that they were ordinary people...
Duck Dynasty is in its fourth season (51 episodes!), which is amazing because superhuman strength is required to reach even the middle of a single 20-minute show. The one I watched, "Spring Clean Pong" (it was first screened a year ago), opens with the beards picking berries (Mama, we are told, makes the best pie with these here berries). The men shake a tree, the berries fall, and the men pick the berries from the ground. One of the beards decides to eat a berry he has just picked—but almost immediately he spits it out and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. "Damn! That berry tastes terrible." Another beard, pointing at something on the ground: "Did you pick it up from right there? You did? Because that's a coon turd [not a berry]." This is entertainment? And why in the world is a city person like me even watching this nonsense? Because the hicks who make the duck calls have decided to make wine.
The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis vs. Pearl Jam vs. Slog Holiday Charity Challenge continues, and Pearl Jam fans have jumped ahead!!! Could it be the energy from Pearl Jam's amazing hometown show on Friday night?! They wouldn't stop playing even when KeyArena turned the lights on—that's how much they love their fans, and rightfully so, because their fans are the kind of people who are coming out in droves to support YouthCare's Orion Center.
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans have donated: $13,443.14
• Pearl Jam fans, taking the lead!: $16,228.27
• Slog fans (hearts!): $5,425.00
And Seattlish fans are still donating too, to the tune of $750!
Then again, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis had a pretty good day yesterday... if you consider picking up a bunch of Grammy nominations a good day. "Same Love" is up for Song of the Year, people. It makes you tear up a little bit, doesn't it?
About 74 percent of those that YouthCare sees were physically or sexually abused at home, while 40 percent left home or were kicked out because of their sexuality. YouthCare and the Orion Center help our city's homeless young people by providing daily hot meals, a clothing bank, shelter beds, GED classes, job training programs, and help finding permanent housing. These are our city's exploited and forgotten kids: We want to keep the Orion Center fully funded and operational for the next year. We're a third of the way to our goal!
Let's do this. Donate to the Orion Center right now!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Pearl Jam fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Slog fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
And Seattlish fans can go here to give and make a note that it's on behalf of Seattlish/anti-Dan-Savage! And, of course, if you give at least $25 to the Orion Center, then forward us your receipt and your commenter handle, we'll give you a commenter tag on Slog that says SLOG FAN, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FAN, or PEARL JAM FAN! Your choice!
Now, onward! And remember: the fans that raise the most for the Orion Center by December 24th WIN the title of the Best Fans of the Best Band or Best Blog in the Universe Forever!
Captionless photos run through Aaron Huey's book of photos from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota like an unruly river, some to the edges of the pages, overflowing the banks of what we see. There's beautiful bleakness, mostly free of context—maybe because, as Huey told me, "the more time I spend [at Pine Ridge], the more confused I am about what to do with it."
As a journalist for National Geographic and Harper's, Huey became a righteous advocate, exhorting the federal government to honor the treaties and give back the Black Hills. You may have seen his "Honor the Treaties" poster campaign with street-art mogul Shepard Fairey.
But there are problems.
Brrr: Seattle police are driving around with a van picking up cold homeless people and bringing them to shelters.
Eww: Cops are still monsters, says Gawker.
War: Violence is engulfing the Central African Republic. One reporter tries to untangle why and says the country is "on the brink of genocide."
Jobs: The latest jobs numbers are in from the Bureau of Labor Statistics! To summarize: Older workers are doing ok, the death of manufacturing has been exaggerated, pay hasn't budged for restaurant and hotel workers, and there are still millions of long-term unemployed folks.
Blech: Oh JP Morgan, does your villainy know no bounds? (It appears the answer is yes, as this story is about corruption in China.)
Hah: Morale is down at the National Security Agency.
Boo: The FBI, by installing malware on someone's machine, can "covertly activate a computer's camera—without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording."
Ukraine: Protesters have flooded into the streets of Kiev and toppled a statue of Lenin! I presume he remains untouched in Fremont.
Wow: Some Syrian refugees fleeing war are settling—of all places—in Gaza.
Apartheid: The Israeli military allegedly shot and killed a boy named Wajih Wajdi al-Ramahi in Ramallah and attacked a Palestinian commemoration of Nelson Mandela yesterday.
Filmmaker Jesse Freeston offers a disturbing and comprehensive look at last week's elections in Honduras and argues they're just another piece of the country's unfolding and internationally-backed coupism:
Judges 10:4
He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys.
Remember the Candlelight Vigil for Nelson Mandela: It's tonight at the International Fountain at Seattle Center, at 6:30 p.m. Goldy explains why Nelson Mandela was such an important man.
Seattle Forms Socialist District: Well, not really, but Kshama Sawant did really well in what will be her home council district. For more district analysis, look here. Plus, you should see this overview of where Seattle's most conservative voters live.
Droning On: The news that Amazon is considering drone delivery kind of broke our brains.
Where's Your Pot At? Check this handy map!
Shape Up or Ship Out: Chief Pugel basically tells the SPD to stop being racist and embrace reform.
Speaking of Cops in Need of Reform: The sergeant who threatened Dominic Holden has been placed on leave.
Fifteen Miles for Fifteen Dollars: Goldy covers the minimum wage march.
Valuing Santa Over the Presidency: Dan Savage says the GOP is blowing itself up over stupid shit.
White Man Insists He's Not Racist: What we need is a Clippy-style software robot who can tell you how to avoid being dumb when you're charged with racism.
You Were Ready for Some Football: The Seahawks won, and we had an open thread and a non-open thread about it.
Slog Hates Chimps: Or at least, you don't think chimps deserve human rights.
Nobody Loves Slugs: Go die in the cold, invertebrate scum.
You Have Lots of Opinions About Typing: And many of you had suggestions for Jen Graves's typing-related pains.
Give Big to the 2013 Holiday Charity Challenge! All the information you need is right here. If you give more than $25, remember to forward your receipt to firstname.lastname@example.com to claim your fancy commenter tag. Help your favorite band (or blog) win the title of the most givingest musical act (or bunch of lazy, self-hating stoners) in the history of charity!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: GIVE HERE!
• Pearl Jam fans: GIVE HERE!
• Slog fans: GIVE HERE!
It's a beautiful statement, brave and necessary. I hope our Olympic athletes—and athletes from Canada and France and Germany and the UK and Australia and Norway and New Zealand and everywhere else—show similar bravery in Sochi. Thank you, Elton, for speaking out.
Remember the Christian radio host who accused Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll of plagiarism?
The Christian Post has a story on the fallout from the accusations, the centerpiece of which is a blog post from a recently departed producer on the accusation-making radio show (bolds mine):
All I can share is that there is an evangelical celebrity machine that is more powerful than anyone realizes. You may not go up against the machine. That is all. Mark Driscoll clearly plagiarized and those who could have underscored the seriousness of it and demanded accountability did not. That is the reality of the evangelical industrial complex.....Those who have the temerity to call out a celebrity have tremendous courage. The easiest thing in the world is to do fluffy interviews with fluffy guests on fluffy books. So hats off to those like Janet who have the courage to ask at all. And my own opinion on Mr. Driscoll is that despite the bravado, despite the near silence of his Reformed peers and enablers, his brand is damaged, and damaged by his own hand.
Read the whole thing here.
(Speaking of Mark Driscoll, have you read Lindy West's exhaustive roundup of his awfulness? You must!)
From this week's I, Anonymous:
Okay, Seattle (I'm talking to you especially, Ballard): Enough with the merchants and others who want our money being SO NICE AND FRIENDLY to us seniors, when the rest of the known universe looks down their noses or looks away at shades of gray. (Hey, sorry I'm a boomer able to retire on a pension, ha-ha.) Anyway, what's with this "How's your day going so far?" question I get from checkout people at different stores? Well, my day goes about like yours—schlepping around doing this and that and trying to avoid phony checkers at the store (yay for self-checkout). I guess what I mean to say is that when it comes to customers, honesty and genuine human behavior wins, so stop with the stroking of the seniors. Stroking is not something we like.
And from the comments section:
The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis vs. Pearl Jam vs. Slog Holiday Charity Challenge continues, and now the fans of Seattlish, America's Second-Greatest Blog™, are throwing in their support for YouthCare's Orion Center too! Of course, fans of Seattlish also want "to stop Dan Savage's tyranny!"—that's one Seattlish donor's own words—which is great—whatever gets you to donate!
Everyone who is giving is helping the Orion Center to provide food, shelter, safety, and alternatives to homeless youth in our city. The high today here in Seattle is going to be a whopping 29 degrees, so you only have to step outside to understand a little bit of the tremendous importance of the work that YouthCare and the Orion Center does. Now, the new totals!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans have donated: $13,143.14
• Pearl Jam fans have donated: $ 8,536.27
• Slog fans have donated: $5,030.00
• Seattlish fans have donated: $410.00
THIS IS SO GREAT. You are all absolute angels. Haven't given?! Now's the time! Donate to the Orion Center right now!
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Pearl Jam fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Slog fans: GO HERE TO GIVE!
• Seattlish fans: GO HERE TO GIVE and you can make a note that it's on behalf of Seattlish/against Dan Savage!
Yesterday's winner of the EMP prize package: Macklemore fan and Slog commenter A_Mang, whose story was touching:
Today is my birthday! I'm turning 36, which means it's my year in the Chinese Zodiac—the year of the snake. This is an important birthday for me, as I just got clean and sober a little over five months ago. I'm a Macklemore fan for obvious reasons, and have been since 2005.
I've always enjoyed the EMP, especially the amazing lighting and video effects in the Sky Church. I've dabbled in lighting design and control as a hobby, so it's always been a joy for me to visit there.
Now that I'm not using (and I was using absolutely the wrong drugs), I seek out and relish opportunities to get into a different headspace while clean and sober. Great music, great lighting, and an all-around sensory experience is a fantastic way to do that. That's why I would be thrilled to get to experience music at the EMP.
Excellent. Now, onward! And remember: the fans that raise the most for the Orion Center by December 24th WIN the title of the Best Fans of the Best Band or Best Blog in the Universe Forever!
P.S. Give at least $25 to the Orion Center right now, forward us your receipt and your commenter handle, and we'll give you a commenter tag on Slog that says SLOG FAN, MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FAN, or PEARL JAM FAN! Your choice!
Here's a compelling—and depressing—longread for your Saturday morning: young homeschooled adults are fleeing their fundamentalist and, all too often, abusive families. They're also confronting "Christian" activists and legal organizations whose efforts have made it easier for homeschooling parents to isolate, terrorize, miseducate, and abuse their children.
Jennifer's rescue coincided with the emergence of a coalition of young former fundamentalists who are coming out publicly, telling their stories, and challenging the Christian homeschooling movement. The website that linked to Jennifer's story was Homeschoolers Anonymous, launched in March by two homeschool graduates, Ryan Stollar and Nicholas Ducote. Their goal was to show what goes on behind closed doors in some Christian homeschooling families—to share, as one blogger puts it, "the stories we were never allowed to talk about as children."
As of October, Homeschoolers Anonymous had published nearly 200 personal accounts and attracted more than 600,000 page views. For those outside the homeschooling movement, and for many inside it, the stories are revelatory and often shocking. The milder ones detail the haphazard education received from parents who, with little state oversight, prioritize obedience and religious training over learning. Some focus on women living under strict patriarchal regimes. Others chronicle appalling abuse that lasted for years.
Growing up in California and Oregon, Stollar wasn't abused, but he met many other homeschoolers who were. His parents led state homeschooling associations and started a debate club in San Jose. The emphasis on debate in fundamentalist homeschooling was the brainchild of Michael Farris, the founder of Patrick Henry College, and his daughter Christy Shipe. Farris believed debate competitions would create a new generation of culture warriors with the skills to "engage the culture for Christ." "You teach the kids what to think, you keep them isolated from everyone else, you give them the right answers, and you keep them pure," Stollar explains. "And now you train them how to argue and speak publicly, so they can go out to do what they're supposed to do"—spread the faith and promote God's patriarchy.
As a teenager, Stollar toured the national homeschool debate circuit with a group called Communicators for Christ, sharpening his rhetorical skills and giving speech tutorials. Along the way, he found himself increasingly disturbed by what he saw. He met families that follow the concept of "Quiverfull," wherein women are submissive to men and forgo contraception to have as many children as God gives them. He encountered entire communities where women wore only denim jumpers for modesty's sake, where parents burned their daughters' birth certificates to keep them at home, where teenagers practiced "betrothal," a kind of arranged marriage. He met homeschooling kids who dealt with the stress by cutting themselves, drinking, or developing eating disorders—the very terrors their parents had fled the public schools to avoid. "Even as a conservative Christian homeschooler," Stollar says, "I was constantly experiencing culture shock."
A decade later, Stollar, who lives in Los Angeles, was still hearing the stories from his peers. The ex-debaters and homeschoolers were now grappling with the fallout from their childhoods: depression, mental illness, substance abuse. "I was starting to see these patterns emerging," he says, "and we all felt that they came from the same places."
One passage from Nelson Mandela's writing that I have seen quoted frequently since his death is:
But then I slowly saw that not only was I not free, but my brothers and sisters were not free. I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but the freedom of everyone who looked like I did. That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater hunger for the freedom of my people. It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk. I am no more virtuous or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedoms I was allowed when I knew my people were not free. Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
This rang a bell with me: Eugene Victor Debs, upon being sentenced to prison for anti-War work:
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Of course, we can honor Mandela, but Debs remains a footnote in American history, because socialism.
Matika Wilbur is the kind of photographer who calls ahead. She laughs loud and makes friends easily and sleeps on the couches and floors of her subjects. If she gets sick, like she did this past August, after too many nights with no sleep, driving through the American West with her camera, she is offered an actual bed, and actually takes it. In August, it was Steven Yellowtail who insisted she take his bedroom and he would sleep on the family couch. He'd never met her before. He only knew she was a friend of his older sister's and that she was doing something she wouldn't be able to do unless she had couches and beds and floors to sleep on. What she's doing is spending several years—as long as it takes, and as long as the grant money and Kickstarter funds last—visiting and taking pictures of every Native American tribe in the United States.
She's been traveling a year so far, at the wheel of her improbable black sports car, one woman following her own grand vision. But...
Here in Seattle, the city has identified a half dozen potential replacement models for its fleet of around 300 cop cars, tested them for more than a year, and said it will announce a winner in the next few months.
But while city spokespeople say the process is going smoothly—and it's partly on hold now while the mayor's office changes hands—the union representing roughly 1,200 Seattle cops seems to feel otherwise, claiming that a decision was already made by officers and then rejected at city hall.
In the November issue of the Guardian, the newspaper of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild (SPOG), vice president Sergeant Ty Elster complains that the city ignored cops' recommendation. He writes that "after many months of SPOG members testing, evaluating, and researching vehicles," when the cops announced their pick, "City Hall didn't like our selection."
What was that winning vehicle? A Ford Interceptor SUV.
Just picture it: A brand-new fleet of hulking police SUVs cruising the city while the department tries to soften its image. The department is currently under a federal consent decree that contends police have used excessive force and racially biased tactics. Not to mention the city is also trying to meet new climate goals.
Mandela: He made the impossible possible. He was of the left. He was not a saint. And as Humanosphere's Tom Paulson asks, who are the Mandelas of today?
It's Freezing Out Here: Check out these tips from my other hometown's water utility on protecting your pipes and faucets.
Resisting Big Brother: The author of the Patriot Act says the chief of the NSA should be prosecuted for lying, while Microsoft calls government surveillance an "advanced persistent threat."
Pot Party Celebrating Legalization Goes Down: Check out the dude jammin' in the bright pink pants when they cut to the live reporter.
Liberalism: 1) Bill Clinton pressured South Africa under Mandela to "adopt trade policies that benefited U.S. corporations while restricting South African access to drugs treating HIV and AIDS," and 2) NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio ran against stop-and-frisk but looks set to continue it.
Foreclosure Bonanza: In Renton yesterday, supporters protested the foreclosure of a 74-year-old woman, while on Beacon Hill, Kshama Sawant and others picketed Bank of America.
Feckless: The SEC isn't including a proposal to force companies to disclose political contributions to shareholders on its regulatory agenda. Thanks, SEC!
Meth House: College students renting a home in Bellingham started feeling "dizzy and lethargic" before they realized something was amiss.
Petty Republicans Scupper State Climate Change Panel: "No, no, no. You started this fight," insisted Rep. Shelly Short when Governor Jay Inslee expressed his disappointment at the panel's lack of progress.
HD 106906: Shouldn't exist.
The Van Damme stunt in Gaza, minus the corporate messaging:
"We gotta beat back the bank attack!" chanted homeowner Janie Mair and her supporters from SAFE (Standing Against Foreclosure and Eviction) this evening, outside the Bank of America branch on Beacon Hill. Leading that chant through a megaphone in the freezing cold? City council member Kshama Sawant.
Mair was a human rights journalist in China (some of her friends died in the Tiananmen Square uprising), according to SAFE organizer Josh Farris. She emigrated here, but when Mair was injured, her mother fell ill, and the recession hit, she began falling behind mortgage payments, Farris explains. Due to SAFE's protests, Wells Fargo has delayed the auction of her home, but Bank of America is trying to foreclose on Mair's sister's Beacon Hill home and refuses to negotiate with the family, he says.
You'll recall that another South Seattle homeowner, Jeremy Griffin, faced foreclosure at the hands of Wells Fargo this summer. Sawant was arrested on the property along with several others when the King County Sheriff came to evict him.
"We really respect Kshama because she got arrested with us defending Jeremy's house, which has had a really good impact on Jane's negotiations with Wells Fargo," says Farris. "She's obviously leading the way, by showing how little leadership we've seen from the other representatives."
As I asked Sawant whether she supports SAFE's call for a moratorium on evictions, she was already nodding and saying yes. She's interested in organizing a forum that brings together people concerned about the minimum wage, wage theft, and fair housing—working class issues in Seattle—she added.
First they bought Marvel Comics, then they bought Star Wars, and now Disney bought Indiana Jones, too. I'm betting they're going to recast Indy, James Bond-style, rather than try another Harrison Ford outing. I think every one of my childhood obsessions is now owned by Disney.
Remember that time when I got very excited at my discovery that the former directors of the Frye had collected a bunch of photography and donated it to the Hutch? And all those in-depth questions I had, about comparing the Frye collection with the photo collection and...
Well, it turns out that what's at the Hutch is the Kullman Collection, donated in 2010 by the family of Frederick S. Kullman, an attorney who'd lived in Bellingham. Full press release (I don't think I was on their list in 2010—now I believe they have added me, most likely to keep me from erroring them in future).
How did I get this so wrong? Evidently there is a plaque that names the collectors. I missed this entirely. GAHH. But a word in my defense: What you see in the gallery is not the usual gallery-naming convention. The namers' names (the Greathouses) are writ large across the top of the wall, with the collectors' names smaller. I did not notice any plaque. This plaque may be a little more obscure than is best for clarity's sake.
Anyhoo. The collection is notable regardless of who put it together; it's just not Frye-related.
This was, however, a pretty great comment comparing W. Eugene Smith's all-sweetness portrait of his children to Franz von Stuck's lurid painting Sin:
Thanks to everyone for playing, and my apologies to all of you, to the Hutch, and to the Kullman family.
Seattle Transit Blog has maps and more.
Read Slog's comment threads or the op/ed page of the Seattle Times (pretty much the same level of trollery) and you might think that a $15 minimum wage is CRAZY TALK—the idiotic far-fringe ramblings of commies, morons, and Aztlán revolutionaries. Anybody who knows anything about economics, the critics argue, knows that a $15 minimum wage would be a job-killing/small-business-destroying disaster.
But if a $15 minimum wage is as far outside the mainstream of economic and political thought as its critics imply, you wouldn't know it from the official reception pro-$15 marchers received on the steps of Seattle City Hall yesterday. I saw at least five of the nine council members who will vote on a proposed ordinance greet marchers at the end of their 15-mile trek from SeaTac—Mike O'Brien, Nick Licata, Sally Bagshaw, Jean Godden, and of course Kshama Sawant. And Bagshaw and Godden went so far as to show their support by serving the marchers coffee.
Bagshaw and Godden are hardly radicals.
The fact is there's nothing radical about suggesting that the minimum wage should be higher in Seattle than it is in much of the rest of the state. Nearly everything is more expensive in Seattle—housing especially—and minimum wage workers here simply need higher pay than their counterparts in, say, Yakima or Ferry counties. Whether that number should be $12 or $15 or $20, well, that boat has already sailed. By refusing to participate honestly in this debate opponents have passed up the opportunity to participate in calculating the proper number. So $15 it is, and the majority of council members seem comfortable with that.
Turns out, it's the Seattle Times editorial board that is far outside of Seattle's political mainstream, not the $15 minimum wage advocates. So if the editors want to remain relevant in this debate it is time for them to stop simply dissing the proposal, and to start suggesting ways to make it better. There is room for compromise in terms of the length of time it takes to phase in a $15 an hour wage, the types of businesses that might be exempted, and whether or not to include a tip credit, for example.
But to flat out argue against a $15 minimum wage in Seattle isn't just a losing argument, it's an argument that has already lost.
Tariqa Waters is the owner, curator, and painter-of-Andrew-Jackson. I just happened on Martyr Sauce walking by last night, during the grand opening. It was pretty grand. Most galleries aren't half this energetic right off the bat. Martyr Sauce advertises itself, right on the nutritional label, as 100 percent of your daily needed iron intake, and made of:
Ingredients: Piss, Distilled Vinegar (contains 2% or less of the following) Irreverence, High Fructose Cough Syrup, Non Hydrogenated Snake Oil, Street (and/or) Book Smarts, White Privilege, Black Rage, Natural Flavor, Artificial Color.
The first show is paintings by Elizabeth Lopez. Waters found Lopez working at Seattle Art Museum. "That's where all the rogue artists work, at the cafeteria and gift shop at SAM," Waters says. Martyr Sauce's next opening is the first Thursday in January; scour the low-wage workers at local museums to guess who it might be.
This Guardian special report should be required reading. It uncovers anti-government programs sponsored by think tanks that are funded by the Koch Brothers and corporations like Philip Morris, Kraft, and GlaxoSmithKline. Here are some of the programs sponsored by the think tanks listed in the Guardian report:
• "Reforms" to public employee pensions raised by SPN thinktanks in Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania;
• tax elimination or reduction schemes in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Nebraska and New York;
• an education voucher system to promote private and home schooling in Florida;
• campaigns against worker and union rights in Delaware and Nevada;
• opposition to Medicaid in Georgia, North Carolina and Utah.
These programs are being pitched in 34 states across America. But one of the most extreme programs is unfolding in my home state of Maine:
In its grant bid, the Maine Heritage Policy Center asked for $35,000 to support a "research and demonstration project" that would "release residents from extreme government dependency". It would turn the state's poorest area into what the Portland Press Herald describes in its report from Washington County as "a gigantic tax-free zone".
Dubbed "FreeME", the initiative would eliminate state income tax and sale taxes from residents and businesses until the economic conditions in the county rise to the statewide average. The hole in the county's income from lost tax revenues – estimated at $35m a year by the think tank – would be filled through budget cuts.
Lots of people don't know this because they think of the state as nothing but lighthouses and lobster, but Maine is a very poor state. And once you get away from the relative affluence of the Portland area in southern Maine, you'll come across some areas that resemble Appalachia in terms of poverty. Combine that poverty with one of the teabaggiest governors in the country, and you've got a fertile testing ground for Koch-style libertarianism. I'm sure the business opportunities presented by a "tax-free zone" are appealing to the international corporations behind these think tanks, too. If this idea becomes a reality, the residents of Washington County will be paraded around by the conservative media as examples of what America could be like under the "power" of unfettered capitalism. They're planning to experiment on forgotten and ignored Americans like lab animals.


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"nothing Takes The Taste Out Of Peanut Butter Quite Like Unrequited Love"-charles Schultz - I don't even know him like that. We never talked face to face just over the internet and yet I felt like we were similar. Apparently we weren't that similar because he randomly...
Feb 16, 2012
We Ruined Each Other.... - I used to think that the motto never wonder what might have been was so true, but now I have come to the realization that sometimes things should be left in the past for a reason. I think I fell for my soulmate at an early age. I was fifteen and he was...
Jul 12, 2011
Every Day Gets Harder - I miss him so much, and not just him being here, around. I miss talking to him. We used to text so much, and that stopped when he went off to trianing. It seemed to be less and less, until december, when he texted me alomst every single day(and this...
Feb 7, 2010
Don't Know What To Do -
I went out with this guy for like 3 months but then he cheated on me with his ex and he left me for her. I forgave him and moved on from all that. he went back with his ex without telling me, i just used to see them together all the time, this hurt me...
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Feb 25, 2011
I Need To Face Facts - i have had the biggest crush on this guy for the last 10yrs, he was just a regular face in the crowd at first, but over the last couple of years he has become a valued friend. we have these great random chats about anythin and everythin, we can laugh and...
Jan 7, 2010
I Know I'm An Idiot But..... - I married my ex when I was 16 and he was 20. We were married for almost 14 years before we divorced. There were so many issues in our marriage. He treated me more like he was my dad instead of my husband, but for all his faults he was the best...
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Mar 12, 2012
Need To Let Go But Can't! - I need to let him go but I don't want to! I keep thinkin about the good times we have had together.When we don't talk I feel like i'm losing a close friend and that I really do miss him!We always seem to end up disagreeing on something though like we...
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Nov 22, 2009
My Husband Has An Addictive Personality - We have been together for 8 years. At first it was cigarettes and food. Then came the pain pills and ***********. In the last year he has spent every penny he makes on gambling. He took out 6 loans to cover debts where he owed almost $60...
Jul 17, 2012
Nonexistent And Yet. . . - I know everyone says when your young, you don't really know what you want. Maybe I don't. But…I do know what I feel.
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Suntech Tops 2011 PV Module Rankings as Chinese Dominance Continues
Date: 27 February 2012
Suntech Power was the largest supplier of PV modules by shipment volumes for the second consecutive year, according to the latest market rankings released by IMS Research. For the first time, it was also joined by three other Chinese crystalline PV module manufacturers in the top five as Chinese manufacturers tightened their grip on the market, the analyst firm revealed.
According to IMS Research's latest quarterly report, despite challenging market conditions throughout 2011, Suntech became the first supplier to ship over 2 GW of modules, and topped IMS Research's module rankings for the second year in a row. The only non-Chinese manufacturer ranked in the top five was US-based thin film supplier First Solar which was ranked as second largest supplier, also for the second year running. Chinese suppliers Yingli, Trina and Canadian Solar (considered as a Chinese supplier as the majority of its operations are based in China) all gained one place in the rankings to make up the rest of the top five, displacing Japan's Sharp to sixth position.
IMS Research also found that the PV module supplier base consolidated considerably in 2011 with the largest suppliers collectively gaining share of the market. "Leading suppliers were able to leverage their strong brands to grow their shipments in highly competitive market conditions in 2011," commented Sam Wilkinson, Senior Market Analyst at IMS Research. "2011 claimed a number of victims, but nearly all of the top-ten suppliers grew their shipments and collectively they accounted for nearly half of total industry shipments", added Wilkinson.
Although eight of the ten largest suppliers grew their annual shipments by more than 10%, most suppliers recorded lower shipments in Q4'11 compared to the previous quarter. "Despite a very strong end-of-year rush to install in Germany, high inventory levels for PV modules in the supply chain meant that this was not reflected in suppliers' shipments. The rush also came later than many expected and so many suppliers were not able to capitalise on this," commented Wilkinson.
Canadian Solar and Trina Solar were amongst the few suppliers that bucked this trend by increasing their shipments in Q4'11, with Canadian Solar becoming the third largest supplier in the quarter and increasing its annual market share by over one percentage point. Another significant market share gain allowed Chinese-based Jinko Solar to become the only new name in IMS Research's top ten suppliers in 2011. Having more than doubled its annual shipments, Jinko Solar was ranked as the seventh largest module supplier in 2011.
Detailed analysis of supply and demand dynamics in this market is available from IMS Research's latest quarterly report on the industry.
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Good afternoon Flat Rock Flyers! These are your weekly updates for the week of November 26th.
We hope that you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
This week will be Spirit Week! Each day will be a different theme. Monday is Hat Day!
For 6th grade parents, please check your student's Wednesday folder for a permission slip for A Time to Tell video. This video will educate students about inappropriate behavior and sexual conduct involving adults and students. This permission slip is an opt-out only form. The parent viewing will be Tuesday, November 27th at 5:30 pm in Room 801. Sixth grade students will view the video during their PE class on November 28th, 29th and 30th. If you do not want your child to view the video, you must sign and return the permission slip to school by Wednesday, November 29th. If you have any questions, please call Guidance at 703-6763.
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The gay community here is surprisingly lively. Q Cinema hosts one of the region's biggest gay film festivals in June, and the Texas Gay Rodeo Association stages an annual day of calf roping and bull riding in September. In October, when the weather's cooler, things heat up for Tarrant County Gay Pride Week.
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Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport sits between the two metropolises. It's 24 miles from downtown Fort Worth. Several bus companies will shuttle you to the city.
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Cowtown Leathermen is the local sponsors an annual run at the Texas Conference of Clubs Landsite among other events throughout the year.
The Trinity River Bears organize year-round social get-togethers with brunches, cook-outs, camping weekends, pub crawls, and more.
See our gay Fort Worth listings tab for map locations and website links for clubs below, plus hotels, restaurants, performance venues and museums/galleries.
1851 Club Arlington (1851 W Division St), small neighborhood bar, karaoke, Sunday drag shows, internet jukebox, pool table, WiFi access.
Best Friends (2620 E. Lancaster) a laid-back cocktail and dance club with patio, a short drive from the gay-friendly Hotel Trinity (2000 Beach St; 800-989-3556).
Club Changes (2637 E Lancaster), "Cheers" -style neighborhood gay bar, casual mix, "Wall of Food Show."
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You are reporting wrong prices for grades around Clinton, Iowa. Please make sure you are reporting the right prices for the correct grades. For example the BP Station close to the Fulton Bridge and the Circle K just down the street show price for their MID grade fuel on their sign. NOT the regular grade. Many stations in Iowa have a lower mid-grade price due to the Ethanol subsidy in Iowa.
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Yes, they're restricted. Beginning with 2001 models, Japanese manufacturers agreed to limit their motorcycles to top speeds of 186 mph, under the threat of "if-you-don't-we-will" legislation from European governments.
To verify our bikes were in fact restricted, we had our accommodating dyno operator Scott "you guys are killing my bearings" Bartels wind each bike up in sixth gear on his Dynojet dynamometer. At a drum speed of 185 mph, both the Hayabusa and ZX-12R encountered a secondary rev-limiter, well below redline and the usual engine cutout. Disconnect the speedo on the Kawasaki, and hey, it'll spin the drum to 195 or so. Simple, although the fuel injection warning lamp lights up indicating it's not happy with you. The Suzuki, not so easy-disconnect the speedometer and it still cuts out at 185.
While we didn't have a chance to sample a Y2K ZX-12R or Hayabusa, our sister pub Motorcyclist conducted the same tests with its 2000 test units a year ago. Oddly enough, while both bikes ran sub-185 mph in perfect desert conditions, no hint of a limiter was found in the dyno room. We know for a fact that the 2001 ZX has updated cams and a black box, so it's a safe bet that last year's bikes were more subtly restricted to avoid attracting attention.
In any event, some phone calls to those in the know, and we had in our hands a Timing Retard Eliminator (TRE) from Ivan's Rockland County Motorcycle. Turns out the Hayabusa limiter works off gear position and rpm, and Ivan's gizmo informs the ECU it's in fifth gear all the time. Back to the dyno, and the Suzuki spun right to redline in sixth gear. There's an added bonus, too: To protect you from yourself, the 'Busa has different, softer, power curves in the lower gears, and the TRE gives you full steam in every cog-enough of a difference to leave us shaking our heads after our first "derestricted" ride.
Turning our attentions back to the Kawasaki, installing a Yellow Box speedometer recalibrator from Black Robotics neatly fools (er...recalibrates) the speedometer and ECU into thinking you're going slower than you actually are. Set it so the speedo reads 10 percent low, and the poor dyno drum will sing happily to 194 mph.
Off to the real world and our high-desert, topspeed test site, we ran both bikes in stock form. No surprises there, the Kawasaki stuttered past the radar gun at 185.6 mph, while the Suzuki moaned to 183.9 mph. Yawn....Resetting the Zed-Ex's Yellow Box yielded a shrieking 190.2-mph blast (with the speedo reading a leisurely 160 miles per), and the TRE-equipped Hayabusa stormed to 192.4 mph. All with a light tailwind, mind you, but in line with our original 'Busa's 189 mph run two years ago.
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Greenfield and West Allis were opposites in their support of presidential and Wisconsin's U.S. Senate candidates in Tuesday's general election, though not by wide margins in either race.
In Greenfield, Republican challenger Mitt Romney received 10,411 votes to Democrat incumbent President Barack Obama's 9,744. In the Senate race, Republican Tommy Thompson got 10,044 Greenfield votes and Democrat Tammy Baldwin received 9,439 votes.
In West Allis, Obama got 16,279 votes compared to Romney's 14,775, and Baldwin got 15,474 votes compared to Thompson's 14,508.
The results won't be official until the canvassing boards in each communities approves the final numbers.
In both municipalities, voter turnout, in terms of percentage of registered voters, was heavy - 91.6 percent in Greenfield and 85.8 percent in West Allis.
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You probably don't know it, but you're already paying dearly for genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Though many consumers have told the FDA that they don't want this dangerous fish on their dinner plates, taxpayers have already wracked up a tab for one million dollars. Read more.
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The biotechnology industry says it has genetically engineered a fish that grows at twice the normal rate, so it can get to market sooner and make more money, faster. But this dangerous lab experiment is all hype and full of downsides to consumers, salmon growers and the environment.
If approved, GE salmon would be the first "transgenic" animal allowed into our food supply. It's also unlikely that it would have to be labeled, so you might not even know you're eating it.
The FDA doesn't even do its own testing of genetically engineered animals: it relies on information provided by the company that wants approval. And because GE salmon are being considered as a new animal drug, the process isn't focused on what happens to people who eat genetically engineered animals. So on top of the health concerns posed by raising salmon in crowded factory fish farms that rely on antibiotics and other chemicals, the FDA could be adding the unknown risks of GE salmon to the mix.
If approved, GE salmon would be the first "transgenic" animal allowed into our food supply. It's also unlikely that it would have to be labeled, so you might not even know you're eating it.
Also, the FDA is the same agency that's in charge of overseeing the egg industry, and we see how well they've done that job. It's up to us to demand that President Obama direct the FDA on this matter.
Congress Unites Against FDA Approval of GE Salmon
At least 30 House members and 14 senators have written the Obama administration either expressing serious concerns about the manner in which the FDA conducted its review of Aquabounty's GE salmon, or calling for the outright prohibition of its approval for human consumption. So why isn't the FDA listening? Learn more.
Troubling Emails Reveal Federal Scientists Fear FDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
"Nice work Greg," Denise Hawkins, PhD, Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Geneticist wrote to a coworker in September. "Especially pointing out that there is no data to support the claims of low survival in the event of escape, which I agree with you all is a big concern. I also agree…that using triploid fish [which AquaBounty claim have undergone a sterilization process] is not foolproof. Maybe they [the FDA] should watch Jurassic Park." Read more.
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Available options may differ from photo. Design by Patricia Urquiola and Eliana Gerotto, 2006. Wall lamp composed by transparent spheres made of polymethylmetacrylate. Shade in blown glass, white matte finish. Notes: Can only be installed horizontally. Material(s): Polymethylmethacrylate, Blown Glass Dimensions: 19.3"L X 7.8"H X 9.8" Extension Lamp Type: HALOGEN Bulbs: 1 X 100W 120V Type T3 R7s 78mm linear halogen lamp (not included) Listing: UL, CUL Instructions: Click to download instructions. Model(s): 138005-16 138005-52 Eliana GerottoSee other lights/products from Eliana GerottoPatricia UrquiolaBorn in Oviedo, a town of Northern Spain, Patricia Urquiola studied first in Madrid and then in Milan where in 1989 she graduated from the Milan Polytechnic with her thesis supervised by the internationally renowned designer and architect Achille Castiglioni. Even though from a sociocultural point of view she is very attached to the Spanish tradition, the studies she got involved with influenced her to such an extent that she became of the most important figures of modern Italian design. From 1990 to 1992 she taught in the role of assistant professor at the Milan Polytechnic, and at the Ensci (Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle) in Paris, France. During that period she also started a partnership with the Italian design company Maddalena De Padova where she met another internationally renowned designer, Vico Magistretti, with whom she designed the chair Flower, the sofa Loom, and the horizontal chair Chaise Longue. Like Achille Castiglioni, Vico Mgistretti noticed her talent and advised her to aspire to achieve the highest professional standards at a worldwide level. From 1993 to 1996 she worked in a design workshop that she had initiated with other designers where she was involved in architectural planning of buildings, interior design, and exhibition design. In 1998 she started partnership with the firm Moroso and created elegant upholstered pieces of furniture that people found irresistible. Patricia Urquiola while working in harmony with the highest academic standards, also takes into consideration the impact that her products have on the vast public. She focuses on the design of exchangeable units without using modular elements, and successfully creates environments designed to encourage positive feelings and company. From 1996 she is a coordinator of the design group of the company Lissoni Associati and articulates her professional activity around countless work partnerships with design and architecture companies of worldwide importance like her teachers Achille Castiglioni and Vico Magistretti had wished. See other lights/products from Patricia UrquiolaFoscariniThe Foscarini collection brings together objects that express strong ideas with special character of their own. Ideas are transformed into a tangible reality thanks to the contribution of leading personalities from the world of design. Foscarini lights up their creativity and guides their proposals. The cornerstone of Foscarini is research into forms and materials. Established in 1981 in Venice. Foscarini started out by exploring the opportunities offered by Murano glass. Over the years, the range of materials used has expanded to include glass, polyethylene, wood and aluminum, as well as patented materials such as an exclusive textured glass and Kevlar ® or carbon fiber composite. Write a Review
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Gorgeous light! Somehwat easy to install. By:Sharon H. , Architect (Washington DC)
Subtley contemporary without being cold.
Lovely fixture. Installed by an electrician who had no problem putting it us. Hung horizontally with customized backplate to protect the mirror. By:TBA/Interior Designer , Designer (Texas)
This light is a great design concept and is beautiful to look at. By:Cristina M. (San Francisco, CA)
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