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Someone in the WWE front office has not been paying attention to the story lines. On Monday Night Raw, Jack Swagger was injured by the Authority and removed from Survivor Series 2015. However, when the show runners needed someone to work against Bray Wyatt on Main Event this week, they accidentally chose Swagger as the opponent, not realizing that he should be kept off of television for a couple of weeks.
November 19, 2014
Wade Barrett hasn't been on television in quite some time now because he suffered a shoulder injury during a match with Jack Swagger. He was recently up in Toronto, so he sought the help of Trish Stratus, a former WWE diva who now runs a successful yoga business. Barrett stated that the workout session with Trish helped his shoulder feel a bit better.
September 27, 2014
There are rumors floating around right now that Zeb Colter is going to be dropped from television and removed as the manager of Jack Swagger. Many are assuming that since WWE kept him off of Monday Night Raw and Smackdown. Colter is said to be making a return soon and is only selling the kick from Alexander Rusev. Management still views him as an asset.
August 22, 2014
Rumors are floating around right now that WWE officials were not too pleased with the performance that Alexander Rusev put on at Summerslam 2014 in his flag match against Jack Swagger. His selling of an ankle injury was sub par, and the manner in which he sold it was not very fitting of his character. WWE really wants him in the main event scene, so they're paying much more attention to his matches than usual.
August 21, 2014
While a lawsuit against WWE is still being pondered, Alberto Del Rio revealed that several employees, including wrestlers, were witnesses to the backstage incident that took place between he and Cody Barbierri. Of particular note, Del Rio pointed out that Jack Swagger was one of the wrestlers that saw the entire thing unfold. If a lawsuit takes place, then there is a chance that Swagger could be questioned.
August 18, 2014
Rumors are floating around that WWE officials have yet to finalize the rules for the flag match between Alexander Rusev and Jack Swagger at Summerslam 2014. The issue right now is that the creative department wants to make both guys look strong in the match. There is also a belief that they want Swagger to get the victory without taking too much heat away from Rusev.
August 16, 2014
There is some confusion within WWE right now in regards to the upcoming flag match between Alexander Rusev and Jack Swagger at Summerslam 2014. Since the heel foreigner utilizes a submission maneuver, there are talks that officials could allow that rule to be added. There are also talks that it could just simply be a thing where the winner gets to wave his flag and have his national anthem played after the match.
August 12, 2014
On Monday Night Raw this week, fans witnessed Mark Henry making his return and attacking Damien Sandow. The belief is that he will be given a slight push from WWE, so that he can be utilized in an upcoming feud with Alexander Rusev, who desperately needs people to work against after he is done with Jack Swagger. Beating a performer as big as Henry should help further establish Rusev as a top level heel.
August 5, 2014
Even though the move was done at the last minute, the baby face turn for Jack Swagger has turned out a lot better than WWE had expected. Officials backstage are impressed with the audience reaction to the now patriotic character. A lot of that has to do with the heat that Lana and Alexander Rusev have generated. However, management will more than likely give a push to Swagger to see if the momentum can carry on.
August 1, 2014
An idea being discussed for Summerslam 2014 right now is to do a flag match between Jack Swagger and Alexander Rusev. WWE is trying to keep this program going for a bit longer because they don't have a lot of other people that Rusev can work with. By doing a flag match, Swagger can win without Rusev being pinned. That would enable WWE to extend the feud for at least another month.
July 29, 2014
Alexander Rusev is posing a considerable problem for the WWE creative department nowadays. The staff was instructed to push him up the ladder, but they are now running out of options. His program with Jack Swagger has either ended or will end soon. Rusev cannot be placed into a program with someone lower on the card, and it's too soon for him to work against John Cena. Sheamus has been named as a possible opponent to help Rusev kill time.
July 27, 2014
Rumors are floating around right now that WWE has decided to drop the story line involving Zeb Colter, Jack Swagger, Alexander Rusev and Lana. The belief is that the company changed their minds after seeing the backlash from the media and the fans over the controversial promo that Lana cut at the pay per view. WWE did not let her do much talking on Monday Night Raw this week.
July 22, 2014
Since he is currently in the middle of a feud with Alexander Rusev, it was interesting to note that Jack Swagger was absent on Monday Night Raw. The belief is that the WWE star is still not allowed into Canada because of his prior legal issues in the United States. Swagger has been forced to miss shows in the past in that country for that very reason. Zeb Colter was in person at the show, though.
July 8, 2014
Sensing that they were going to receive quite a bit of backlash for overreacting to the arrest and having double standards for their performers, WWE has decided to reinstate Emma after giving her a release earlier in the day. Some have cited the previous arrest of Jack Swagger and Cameron, who actually attempted to bribe a police officer, as a reason why WWE was forced to change their minds.
July 2, 2014
Thanks to an errant throw into the guard rail by Jack Swagger, Wade Barrett has underwent ligament reconstruction surgery. WWE is reporting that the operation went well and that Barrett is at home resting now. No official word yet on how long he will be gone, but rumors are floating that it will be for several months, which is why WWE stripped him of the Intercontinental Championship on Monday Night Raw this week.
July 2, 2014
In a very exciting match, Seth Rollins outlasted Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston, Rob Van Dam and Jack Swagger to capture the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. WWE wants to continue the war between Ambrose and the Authority, so they had Kane coming out and providing assistance to Rollins. Despite the heel tactic to win the match, the Rollins victory was actually cheered by a good amount of fans.
June 29, 2014
Thanks to the help of Kane, Seth Rollins was able to climb the ladder uninterrupted and win the briefcase at Money in the Bank 2014. The Big Red Monster came to the ring and attacked Dean Ambrose to clear the path. Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Rob Van Dam were all laid out on the floor during the finale. WWE power couple Triple H and Stephanie McMahon came out afterwards to congratulate Rollins.
June 29, 2014
Even though both of them will be involved in a big match at Money in the Bank 2014, don't bet the farm on Jack Swagger or Kofi Kingston climbing up the ladder and retrieving themselves a future shot at the WWE championship. Rumors have it that both guys are simpler filler, and the fact that their match on Monday Night Raw was removed from the Hulu version of the show seems to cement that fact.
June 24, 2014
One of the reasons why Santino Marella worked a segment with Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter on Monday Night Raw this week was because Emma was overseas. WWE sent the diva to her home country of Australia to do some promotional work for an upcoming tour. Management really does not have a long term plan for Santino and Emma, but they like utilizing the two of them on television together.
June 11, 2014
Initially, it appeared that WWE was going to give Adam Rose a match at Payback 2014, presumably against Jack Swagger. However, with officials losing some faith in Rose, it looks like that chance isn't likely to take place at the pay per view. Rumors have it that it could be added as a filler match if WWE cannot find a better option for the slot.
May 28, 2014
Things change pretty rapidly backstage in WWE, and that appears to be the case with the Adam Rose push. While he might still get his pay per view debut at Payback 2014 against Jack Swagger, there are those in management who feel that his television debut on Monday Night Raw was a flop. There are even rumors floating around that Rose could be sent back down to WWE NXT.
May 12, 2014
It looks like Adam Rose is going to be leapfrogging other WWE stars this month, as the former developmental wrestler is penciled in for a match at Payback 2014. His pay per view debut is expected to be against Jack Swagger, whom he confronted during Monday Night Raw this past week. There are those backstage in WWE that feel that his character can get over with the live audience in Chicago.
May 10, 2014
A video from Monday Night Raw of Adam Rose making his official WWE debut by attacking Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter.
May 6, 2014
A rather interesting move took place on Monday Night Raw, as Sheamus captured the WWE United States Heavyweight Championship by winning a battle royal. The move was designed to take the belt off of Dean Ambrose, which would increase the friction between the Shield and Triple H. Final five guys in the ring were Ambrose, Sheamus, Jack Swagger, Curtis Axel and Ryback.
May 5, 2014
The triple threat match at Extreme Rules 2014 quickly became a singles match after Jack Swagger was eliminated after a combination of a superplex and flying splash. Antonio Cesaro then won the match by pinning Rob Van Dam after delivering his Neutralizer finishing move on top of a trash can. Zeb Colter and Paul Heyman had minimal involvement.
May 4, 2014
With the X-Men star making a return appearance next week, WWE has been hinting that Hugh Jackman is going to be knocking out one of the wrestlers. The company set up a poll to see which performer the fans wanted to see in the roll. Damien Sandow, JBL, Wade Barrett, Randy Orton, Batista, Ryback, Curtis Axel, Zeb Colter, Fandango and Jack Swagger were all included, but Triple H and Paul Heyman are currently in the lead.
April 25, 2014
A match being discussed backstage for Extreme Rules 2014 right now involves Jack Swagger, Rob Van Dam and Antonio Cesaro doing a triple threat. WWE wants to put the story line between Swagger and Cesaro on a pay per view, but they are concerned about having two heels in a match, so the idea of RVD being involved has been tossed around.
April 25, 2014
A video from WWE that lists the most extreme wrestlers, including the likes of Randy Orton, Jack Swagger, Dean Ambrose, Sheamus and John Cena. This feature was done to promote the upcoming Extreme Rules 2014 pay per view.
April 24, 2014
A video of the new entrance for Cesaro, which features the new theme song that WWE created for him after he split from Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger to join Paul Heyman.
April 24, 2014
While it has been quite some time since he was taken off the road as an active in ring performer, Alex Riley, who has transitioned to a broadcasting career with WWE since then, is contemplating a return to the ring. There are rumors that it might actually take place in WWE, too. One of the ideas being tossed around backstage is for him to replace Antonio Cesaro in the Real Americans stable with Zeb Colter and Jack Swagger.
April 22, 2014
"I had met Jim Ross and Jerry Brisco before I was even in college and they always told me to get your degree first and then we'll give you a shot if you want to come try your hand with the WWE. I graduated in May 2006, flew out to Atlanta for a week to tryout, and by July 2006 I was signed and training in Atlanta. I took a little bit different path than most WWE superstars have taken. I'm one of the few superstars who have gone through all three of the developmental camps." - Jack Swagger reveals his path to the WWE developmental program
April 21, 2014
When Antonio Cesaro left him for Paul Heyman recently, Zeb Colter took to Twitter to ask fans who they thought should replace him and team with Jack Swagger in the Real Americans stable. Scott Dawson has been campaigning for the role through social media, but it is highly unlikely that WWE brings him up from developmental at this point in time.
April 19, 2014
A video of Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns working a handicap match against Alberto Del Rio, Alexander Rusev, Wade Barrett, Curtis Axel, Drew McIntyre, Fandango, Heath Slater, Jack Swagger, Jinder Mahal, Titus ONeil and Ryback on Monday Night Raw.
April 17, 2014
A video of Sheamus and Jack Swagger facing one another on Monday Night Raw this week to see who will advance to the next round of the tournament to determine a new challenger for Big E Langston and the WWE Intercontinental Championship.
April 16, 2014
With Antonio Cesaro branching off and aligning with Paul Heyman, rumors have it that WWE is looking for a replacement tag team partner for Jack Swagger. Zeb Colter even played up the story line through Twitter. There is a very good chance that the company repackages one of the current veterans on the roster who do not have a story line to work with.
April 15, 2014
Even though Conor OBrian and Rick Victor received a lousy reaction from WWE fans at a live event last month in New York City, management still believes in them. Rumors have it that the Ascension could be brought up to the main roster in the coming weeks. The two of them could be utilized as replacements for Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro in the tag team division.
April 14, 2014
Since he split with Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter, many fans are under the impression that Antonio Cesaro is doing a face turn. WWE is currently planning on keeping him a heel, as Paul Heyman functions a lot better in that role. Cesaro worked as a heel against Dolph Ziggler at a live event in Texas over the weekend. WWE might be persuaded to change their minds down the line because of his growing popularity, however.
April 13, 2014
While all eyes are on Antonio Cesaro and the push that he is about to receive, there are actually rumors that Jack Swagger could be on the receiving end of a push as well. WWE has discussed the possibility of putting the Intercontinental Championship on him. Management tested out the audience over the weekend to gauge their reaction to Swagger beating Big E Langston for the title.
April 13, 2014
A video from Monday Night Raw, where Hulk Hogan presents the Andre the Giant memorial battle royal award to Antonio Cesaro. This was the segment where Cesaro informs Zeb Colter that he is now a Paul Heyman guy, which prompts an attack from former tag team partner Jack Swagger.
April 10, 2014
In an action filled Wrestlemania 30 kickoff match, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso retained the WWE tag team championship by defeating Diego, Fernando, Curtis Axel, Ryback, Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro in a fatal four way elimination tag team bout. Afterwards, Cesaro did a face turn after Swagger attempted to attack him for being pinned.
April 6, 2014
Rumor has it that there are several people backstage in WWE that are disappointed with how Antonio Cesaro is being utilized at Wrestlemania 30. Instead of being given a big singles match on the pay per view, he is working a kickoff match with Jack Swagger. It also features Jimmy Usu, Jey Uso, Fernando, Diego, Ryback and Curtis Axel.
April 4, 2014
Initially, the belief was that the tag team championships were going to be given some spotlight by WWE at their biggest pay per view of the year, but it has now been announced that Ryback, Curtis Axel, Fernando, Diego, Antonio Cesaro, Jack Swagger, Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso are being moved to the Wrestlemania 30 kickoff match spot.
April 1, 2014
After changing their minds several times over the last couple of months, the decision has been made to put the WWE Tag Team Championship in a match at Wrestlemania 30 after all. Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso will be defending the belts against Jack Swagger, Antonio Cesaro, Curtis Axel and Ryback in a triple threat match.
March 25, 2014
Despite being given a pin fall victory over the WWE tag team champions, Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro were removed from the Hulu broadcast of Monday Night Raw this week. A match against Jimmy Uso and Jey Uso could still be added to the Wrestlemania 30 card, but management is not very high on either team at the moment.
March 18, 2014
Over the last couple of weeks, WWE had been building towards a triple threat Intercontinental Championship match for Big E Langston, where he would defend against Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro at Wrestlemania 30, but management has opted to throw that out the window and place Langston into the Andre the Giant memorial battle royal instead.
March 12, 2014
On Tuesday, Big E Langston and Jack Swagger worked a match at the Smackdown taping. However, WWE opted to remove that from the broadcast on Friday night. Some are saying that the match came off horribly, while others are saying that management might simply be saving that for Monday Night Raw since it has a bigger audience.
March 9, 2014
In order to kick start his big push, there are talks backstage in WWE of putting the Intercontinental Championship on Antonio Cesaro at Wrestlemania 30, where he is rumored to be working a triple threat match against Big E Langston and Jack Swagger. A much anticipated face turn is also supposed to help get things going as well.
March 5, 2014
Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro were penciled in for a match against one another at Wrestlemania 30, but it now appears that WWE could be turning that into a triple threat match, so that Big E Langston can be given a spot on the pay per view. The Intercontinental Championship could be on the line, and a Cesaro face turn is still expected to take place.
March 4, 2014
It is all but certain that Antonio Cesaro is guaranteed a spot at Wrestlemania 30 this year. The audience reaction over the last several weeks have been noted by management. He is currently penciled in for a match against Jack Swagger, but there are now talks that he might do a rematch against Sami Zayn at the pay per view, so the company can promote WWE NXT.
March 2, 2014
Despite becoming one of the most popular stars in the entire company as of late, Antonio Cesaro was removed from the Hulu broadcast of Monday Night Raw this week. WWE did not feel that his match against Intercontinental Champion Big E Langston was important enough to show their audience again. This does not bode well for his split story line with Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter.
February 25, 2014


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Just a few minutes ago, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski reported that a near-finalized deal is in place to move the Sacramento Kings to Seattle:
The Maloofs are finalizing an agreement to sell the Sacramento Kings to the Hansen-Ballmer led Seattle group, sources tell Yahoo! Sports.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) January 9, 2013
The deal will sell the Kings for approximately $500 million, with the Seattle group seeking relocation to Key Arena for the 2013-'14 season.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) January 9, 2013
The Seattle group's plans, with support of the NBA, is to play two seasons in Key Arena before moving into a new Seattle arena, sources say.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) January 9, 2013
It's nice to see pro basketball return to Seattle, where residents were left outraged and bereft by the cold-blooded dealings that turned their Sonics into the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now that moral high ground can slide into Puget Sound, as Sonics fans claim a pillaged team for their own. That should be fun to watch! Now everyone commence being deliriously happy/queasily guilty/blindingly angry.
See also: Steve Ballmer's Buying the Sacramento Kings and Bringing Basketball Back to Seattle [Gizmodo]

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SMOOTH OPERATOR: Obama Offers to Walk John Boehner's Dog. Boehner Doesn't Have a Dog.
November 23, 2014
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IT'S COME TO THIS: Watch as CNN pushes Josh Earnest to explain Obama's immigration 'flip-flop.'
Cuomo, who is the brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, questioned this line of thought, pushing the White House press secretary to explain what appears to be a pretty obvious "flip-flop."
"[T]he president promised not to do this," he said. "He kept saying, 'I won't take executive action.' Everybody keeps showing the tapes of him doing it … And they said if you care about working with us, don't do this. And then he did it. What's the calculation?"
Earnest's response? Blame House Republicans.
Gee, who could have seen that coming?
IT'S A HABIT THAT CAN BE UNLEARNED, THOUGH: MSNBC Shrill Is No Accident. It's How Liberals Really Think. "Convinced that no intelligent, decent person could take conservatism seriously, liberals believe it is not necessary or even possible, when engaging conservative ideas, to go beyond diagnosing the psychological, moral or mental defects that cause people to espouse them."
ED DRISCOLL: The Return of Original Sin: God and Manson at Gaia University. "Say what you will about Charles Manson, but he took the 'warrior' aspect of the phrase 'Social Justice Warrior,' not to mention the quasi-religious doomsday implications of that strange mindset, seriously."
EVERYDAY HEROES: 'If We Left, They Wouldn't Have Nobody.'
When an assisted living home in California shut down last fall, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go.
The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except for cook Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the janitor.
"There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, 'What are we going to do?' " Rowland says.
"If we left, they wouldn't have nobody," the 34-year-old Alvarez says.
How can an assisted-living facility close and just leave the patients behind?
November 22, 2014
WILL MORE BRITISH POLITICOS DEFECT TO THE UKIP? "A number of Conservative MPs are considering defecting but have agreed with the UKIP leadership that they will only do so if they have a chance of winning in 2015." Hmm.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE IF THE CONSEQUENCES ARE SO SMALL? No Prison for Lesbian Teacher, 24, Accused of Raping 17-Year-Old Girl.
IOWAHAWK ON OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION MOVE: Somewhere a legal immigrant engineer in his 10th year of paperwork and lawyers is on Orbitz shopping for flights back home.
Which leads to an idea for the GOP: How about legislation to refund the fees to legal immigrants who have applied over the past six years? Dare Obama to veto that. . . .
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FERGUSON: Members of New Black Panther Party Arrested In Gun, Bomb Plot. "As initially reported by CBS News, the men were suspected of acquiring explosives for pipe bombs that they planned to set off during protests in Ferguson, according to the official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case."
Let me guess — if that had happened, they would have blamed the Tea Party or something.
DEROY MURDOCK: The Silence Of The Colored People.
Voters on Election Day chose Tim Scott as South Carolina's U.S. senator. They also sent Utah's Mia Love and Texas' Will Hurd to the U.S. House of Representatives. Thus, the 114th Congress will include three black Republicans. This is a new high-water mark for black Americans.
Too bad the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People couldn't care less. (America's oldest civil-rights organization still plasters that retrograde expression all over its logo and website.)
NAACP has yet to congratulate, acknowledge, or even attack Scott, Love, and Hurd — now America's three most powerful elected black Republicans. What you hear is the silence of the Colored People. Despite 10 separate requests for comment on this "advancement of colored people," I could not squeeze a consonant out of NAACP's Baltimore headquarters, its Washington, D.C. office, or even its Hollywood bureau. . . .
NAACP did issue a November 14 press release expressing its "strong support of the new Qualified Residential Mortgage rule" under the behemoth Dodd-Frank financial services law. The group praised the rejection of new down-payment rules for home loans. Who needs strong credit standards? What could go wrong?
NAACP has offered communiqués praising Obama's new draconian carbon-dioxide regulations and even applauding LaJune Montgomery Tabron for becoming president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As for three black Republicans getting elected to Congress? Crickets.
The NAACP is just a race-based arm of the Democratic Party. Since nothing it says about these winners can help the Democrats, it says nothing.
SO I HAD LUNCH AT SONNY'S BBQ TODAY, AND IT WAS SAD. Today was their last day in business, as they've lost their lease and the restaurant will be torn down to build something fancier and more expensive. I don't eat there all that much — mostly just when I'm running errands out that way on a Saturday — but the food's always good, and the people are always friendly. Many of the folks I spoke to today had worked there for years, and they were clearly sad to leave. I'm sure they'll find other restaurant jobs, but it's kind of sad. And Sonny's was also gun-friendly before that became a fad.
YEAH, MOSTLY: "Almost every time I've talked to a reporter has gone this way: they had already decided the narrative beforehand." I can think of some exceptions to this, but not a whole lot.
UPDATE: A reader's comment about dealing with the press in Iraq reminds me of Toby Harnden's reporting on the reporters.
Harnden, by the way, has a new book out, Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan. Worth a read, I think.
SHUT UP, THEY EXPLAINED: Game Developers' Association Calls 10,000 Tweeters 'Harassers'–Including Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In a sign of how frenzied, panicky and intolerant the games industry establishment has become over the legitimate concerns of ordinary gamers, the International Game Developers' Association branded some 10,425 Twitter accounts, including those of journalists, as harassment "offenders" in a humiliatingly ill-conceived attempt to provide a "blocking tool" to its members.
The blocking tool, which has been widely mocked online for its lack of sophistication and "blanket ban" approach, was assembled by Randi Harper, a persistent online agitator. The tool prevents users from seeing not only the tweets of users Harper has decided are implicated in harassment, but also many accounts who simply follow those users, by blocking a list of thousands of users with the use of an automated "bot."
So indiscriminately has the block list been compiled that the IGDA's own staff appear on it. Roberto Rosario, chair of the IGDA in Puerto Rico, is named on the list. In an acutely embarrassing moment for the Association, Rosario, who is not a GamerGate supporter, publicly threatened to resign unless his name was removed or the bot was disavowed.
Good grief.
UPDATE: From the comments: "They took the concept of "guilt by association" and created a software algorithm to apply it automatically using social media. Congrats! You invented a McCarthyism robot." Well, to be fair, Twitter already had one of those.
YOU'LL STILL NEED TO BE PRETTY STRONG TO GET FAR WITH THESE, THOUGH: Scale A Glass Wall With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive On Your Hands. "The Stanford project here uses octagonal hand grips, linked to a foot support below. This allowed a 154 pound human to climb several feet up a sheer glass wall in 90 seconds. If climbing walls sounds like something the military is interested in, that's because it is. DARPA has climbing projects for both robots and humans. Because that research is of a military nature, it also means that all the details aren't public like they would be in a published research paper."
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POLITICS: EU Parliament Wants To Break Up Google… Because It's Big & American Or Something. "There's no discussion about any actual harm… just the fact that some people don't like the fact that the company is so big (and not European)."
SPYING: Local judge unseals hundreds of highly secret cell tracking court records; Stingray docs unsealed by North Carolina judge could prompt wave of new appeals. "According to the Charlotte Observer, the records seem to suggest that judges likely did not fully understand what they were authorizing. Law enforcement agencies nationwide have taken extraordinary steps to preserve stingray secrecy. As recently as this week, prosecutors in a Baltimore robbery case dropped key evidence that stemmed from stingray use rather than fully disclose how the device was used."
A FULL-EMPLOYMENT ACT FOR LAWYERS: CU-Boulder facing Title IX lawsuit from male student suspended in sex assault case. "The student, identified in court documents only as 'John Doe,' says he was wrongfully accused and suspended for three semesters after a night of consensual sex. The lawsuit comes amid an unrelated U.S. Department of Education investigation into CU-Boulder, which began last summer when a female sexual assault victim complained CU didn't do enough to protect her." From the complaint: "CU-Boulder has created an environment where an accused male student is fundamentally denied due process by being prosecuted through the conduct process under a presumption of guilt."
I'm beginning to think that this whole campus-sexual-assault thing was secretly instigated by Kurt Schlichter to undermine the higher education establishment and get campus constituencies fighting among themselves, while enriching lawyers.
And seeing as how the complaint against him originated when the woman "realized he's just another douchy frat dude," I'm going to suggest that plaintiff's attorneys in college towns might want to send flyers directly to Greek Row. And maybe even sponsor educational seminars on Title IX. . .
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: While you were sleeping, Obama re-upped us for another year in Afghanistan. "Was Barack Obama conveniently waiting for after the midterm elections to add another year of combat duty to our tour in Afghanistan, or is this just a big coincidence?" Obama's entire presidency will take place after the 2014 midters — except for what he's saving until after the 2016 presidential election. You say "lame duck," he says "more flexibility."
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: This Japanese Muscle Suit is the real life Power Loader from Aliens. "The 12-pound wearable power-assist device is worn like a book bag and uses a mouthpiece for controls. Wearing it won't make you suddenly be able to move buildings, but it does make moving larger everyday objects a little easier."
Another way you can make lifting heavy things a little easier, of course, is by learning to lift heavy things.
SO IF YOU'RE FEELING DEPRESSED ABOUT OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION ACTION, or the situation in general, well, don't be. Instead, read Kurt Schlichter's Conservative Insurgency, and make your plans.
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MORE ON THOSE "FOUND" EMAILS FROM LOIS LERNER. I'm cynical enough to suspect that they've been found for a long time, and the delay was to (1) get past the midterms; and (2) allow someone to vacuum the archives of any truly incriminating material.
MEGAN MCARDLE: Campus Rapes And Kangaroo Courts.
I've heard some version of this argument over and over in discussing campus rape prosecutions: "not a big deal, because this is not the government depriving you of your liberty, it's just a help for victims to get away from their rapists, and nothing really bad happens to the boys.
In the first place, the government is pushing for these relaxed standards of evidence and due process, via Title IX, which means that this is the government doing something to you. Not putting you in prison, to be sure. But — and I hardly believe I have to say this — getting expelled on a sexual assault charge is, in fact, something very bad happening to you. I don't know why people keep saying that this is "all" that happens, as if it were the educational equivalent of having to change hotels mid-vacation.
Read BuzzFeed's account of what happened to men who went through these college disciplinary processes to see just how big this can be. One man lost his job after an anonymous caller notified them of his "convictions" — which were for "non-consensual kissing." It can go on your permanent record, making it hard to get into grad school — you might possibly recover from a youthful bad grades, or plagiarism, but our society doesn't offer much rehabilitation for sex offenders. You'll probably lose credits, and for those attending selective schools, it seems likely to me that a man with such a notation on his record would have a hard time enrolling in another elite school.
When people say this is "no big deal," how many of them would shrug off having this happen to them, on the basis of a hearing where the odds are stacked in favor of believing the accuser, and double standards are often rigorously applied? Which is to say: when two people who are equally drunk have sex, the girl can be presumed to be unable to consent—while the boy is held to be fully capable of determining her level of intoxication, and of making the informed decision not to have sex with someone too much the worse for wine. And this in the name of promoting equality between the genders.
It's like there's some entirely different agenda actually at work here.
ONLY THE BEGINNING: Due process win: Swarthmore college settles lawsuit with accused student.
Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has settled a lawsuit brought by a student accused of sexual assault, admitting the school acted unfairly in charging the student.
In April 2011, a student identified as John Doe shared a kiss and at a later date "consensual physical encounters" with another student identified as Jane Doe, according to the lawsuit filed earlier this year. On May 1, 2011, Jane came to John's dorm room and initiated consensual sex. The lawsuit alleges Jane admitted she initiated the encounter.
But 19 months later, Jane reported the kiss and initial physical encounters to Swarthmore, saying she had been coerced. After a two-month investigation, the school closed the matter without bringing charges against John.
A few months later, in April 2013, two other students, according to the lawsuit, filed complaints with the Department of Education. These complaints had nothing to do with John Doe.
These complaints caused Swarthmore's president to announce a "zero tolerance" policy for sexual assault. Just a few weeks later, John Doe's case was re-opened.
Within a month, John alleges, the school re-opened the case, fast-tracked a hearing and found him guilty of sexual misconduct for an incident that happened two years earlier and had already been investigated and closed. John appealed.
On July 12, 2013, the Department of Education announced it would investigate Swarthmore based on the Title IX complaints unrelated to John. Four days later, according to John's lawsuit, his appeal was denied.
In early 2014, John filed a lawsuit against Swarthmore alleging multiple violations of its own policies and denying him due process. . . .
Colleges and universities, anxious to be removed from the Department of Education's list of Title IX investigations, are being incentivized to punish students rather than fairly investigate reports of campus sexual assault. It is terrible that John Doe lost months of his life battling this lawsuit that he could have spent getting an education — a potential detriment to his future earnings potential. His case should serve as a reminder for other colleges that if they treat accused students as guilty until proven innocent and deny them due process in kangaroo courts, they will be sued.
I hope it cost them plenty. And if I were a plaintiff's attorney in a college town, I'd run "HAVE YOU BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT?" ads in the college newspaper on a regular basis.
YOU'VE BEEN GRUBERED! If You Like Your Obamacare Health Plan, You Can Keep It, If HHS Doesn't Pick a New One For You. "Here's a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare's auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law's exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you'd be moved into the lowest cost plan from the same service tier. . . . It's not just auto-reenrollment. It's auto-reassignment. Basically, if you like your plan, but don't go out of your way to intentionally re-enroll, the kind and wise folks at HHS or state health exchanges might just pick a new plan—perhaps with different doctors, clinics, cost structures, and benefit options—for you. And if you want to switch back? Good luck once open enrollment is closed. There's always next year. A hassle? Maybe. But have faith: They know what's best."
WHAT ABOUT BILL CLINTON'S? Why Is Bill Cosby's Career Over, But Terry Richardson's Isn't? Actually, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy — it's as if there's some sort of White Rape Privilege going on here . . . .
UPDATE: Various commenters point out that it's unfair to put Woody Allen — who faced charges that seemed very dubious — in with the others. That's a fair point.
November 21, 2014
THE INSTA-WIFE: Geeks On Strike?
PROFESSOR SAYS SHE CAN NO LONGER GIVE COMMON-SENSE ADVICE for fear of being accused of victim-blaming.
ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, WHILE AMNESTY-TALK FILLS THE AIR AND WITH A FERGUSON JURY VERDICT IN THE OFFING. HOW CONVENIENT: 30,000 missing emails from IRS' Lerner recovered.
More evidence of the Obama "dense pack" approach to scandals. Can I call 'em, or what?
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: UC-Irvine Cuts Class by 29% in Bid for Top 20 Inaugural U.S. News Ranking.
Heh. Just the other day, the parody student newspaper at UT Law contained an announcement that our entering class next year would consist of a single student, recruited with a $1 million scholarship, in order to boost our US News selectivity ranking. . . .
DEVELOP NEW TESTS, DISCOVER NEW THINGS: Minivan crash test 'among the worst we've ever seen.' "A new series of crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) revealed troubling results for minivans that are often perceived as some of the safest vehicles on the road."
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BEAM ME UP: NASA Just Set a New Quantum Teleportation Record of 15 Miles.
Of course, if you could actually teleport human-sized objects, we'd probably start with warheads. . . .
JAMES TARANTO KEEPS LOBBYING ME TO GIVE THIS A TRY: Bringing Sous Vide to the Home Cook.
I mean, it's not like it's especially expensive, I just haven't ever felt sufficiently motivated.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Scientists: Be Lazy, Don't Rake Leaves. The science is settled. You don't want to be anti-science, do you?
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: $4.15 Per Pound: Ground Beef Climbs to Another Record High. "Five years ago, in October 2009, the average price for a pound of ground beef was $2.177, according to the BLS." Boy, it's a good thing we haven't had any inflation or this would be really bad.
BARACK OBAMA: "The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America." That Senator Obama seemed like a sensible fellow. I wish he were President now.
HMM: Triclosan, a common antimicrobial in personal hygiene products, causes liver fibrosis and cancer in mice. This study may overstate the dangers, but it's also the case that triclosan doesn't work all that well, and that most of the germs that make us sick are viruses, not bacteria anyway.
MY COLLEAGUE BEN BARTON has a book forthcoming from Oxford University Press: Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession. Here's an early review. Conclusion: "It is, however, a general lack of rose-colored glasses that is precisely this book's strength. Barton offers some plausible positivity without being Pollyannaish. For its comprehensive and accessible (and often entertaining!) account of where we have been, where we are, and where we are headed, this book should be included on the 2015 'must-read' lists of members of the profession."
I've read this in manuscript and it's excellent.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: VIDEO: Poli sci prof dresses as Cheney for Halloween, pretends to shoot up class.
IN THE MAIL: Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future. I talked with Neal Stephenson about this project a while ago. Glad to see it's borne fruit!
IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS DURING LAST NIGHT'S AMNESTY TALK EXPLOSION: Top Obama bundler accused of child rape.
On Wednesday, Portland, Ore. police arrested Terrence Patrick Bean, who has been charged with two felony counts of having sex with a minor last year. This man is not just any old guy accused of having sex with a 15-year-old – he's a big-money Democratic donor and liberal political activist with connections inside the Obama White House. Bean raised more than a half-million dollars for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. . . .
A search of the Federal Election Commission's campaign-finance database turns up thousands in donations every cycle by Bean to the Democratic Party's most powerful leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, and Rep. Barney Frank, among others. Photos of Bean posted online show him flying on Air Force One with Obama.
Although this report is in USA Today, I assume the major TV networks — which haven't even covered Jonathan Gruber — will give this story a pass. Remember: Making sure you know what they want you to know is job #2 for them; making sure you don't know what they don't want you to know is job #1.
DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH: The University Policy That Fails Everyone.
Amid growing concern over sexual misconduct on American college campuses, the idea that the accused don't deserve full legal representation has put some feminists and university administrators on the wrong side of morality and of the law. Fortunately, the reaction against this overreach is gaining ground, according to a new piece in the New York Times on lawyers who are pushing back against the way colleges handle these kinds of disciplinary proceedings. . . .
Rape is a horrible crime. To say that young people accused of rape are entitled to fair legal protections isn't to endorse, defend, or enable rape. Nor is it to ignore the struggles that victims have in being believed or getting justice or protection. Sadly, some people have lost sight of these obvious facts.
Nevertheless, sending a few more lawyers to college campuses will not change the cultural conditions that have led to widespread sexual assault. The dysfunction of campus sexual assault policy—for the victims and the accused alike—traces to the mess that college life has become for many students. Where binge drinking, drug use, and the hook-up culture have taken hold, vulnerable young people are exposed to painful and damaging interactions. Meanwhile, administrators are often reluctant to address these toxic trends, and ill-equipped to handle the fallout.
Young women (and not only young women) are not helped by a culture that celebrates casual sex in an atmosphere of unrestrained use of alcohol and other drugs. Feminists and others are right that the situation on some campuses is unacceptable, but the "affirmative consent" paradigm seems like a dubious solution in this context.
The upside is that it will make some lawyers rich.
SO, BASICALLY, IT WAS A FAILURE THEN: Children Still Struggle to Read in the Neighborhood Where the Latino-Rights Movement Began.
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HOWIE CARR ON DEMOCRATS' DESPERATE FLIP-FLOP ON AMNESTY: "These illegal aliens are willing to do the work that Americans will no longer do — namely, vote Democrat."
UPDATE: You know, if one of the GOP big-money donors — I'm looking at you, Sheldon Adelson — is smart, he'll fund a welcome-wagon operation in swing states. Reach out to these newly-amnestied immigrants, help them get jobs, connect them with social services, offer them American civics education to help integrate, register them Republican. . . .
DAVID DAYEN: Why Gruber-Gate Is So Devastating To Democrats. "The growing impression that politicians don't play straight with their constituents is completely toxic, particularly to Democrats, who actually want to use government to improve people's lives. It's one thing to downplay unpalatable choices made in the law; it's another to never disclose the consequences of legislation until it's too late for anyone to react. Combine that with the moustache-twirling of a Jonathan Gruber, saying that the idiots should be happy for what they got, and you have basically every conservative stereotype about liberal elites confirmed."
GOOD: Tennessee District Attorney Restricts Use Of Civil Forfeiture. This policy seems like a good policy for law enforcement in general.
TRANSPARENCY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: IRS thinks its employees' income info should be kept away from investigators.
LIFE IN THE OBAMA ERA: Poverty Number Highest Since Records Were Kept:
The official U.S. unemployment rate has indeed fallen steadily during the past few years, but the economic recovery has created the fewest jobs relative to the previous employment peak of any prior recovery. The labor-force participation rate recently touched a 36-year low of 62.7%. The number of Americans not in the labor force set a record high of 92.6 million in September. Part-time work and long-term unemployment are still well above levels from before the financial crisis.
Worse, middle-class incomes continue to fall during the recovery, losing even more ground than during the December 2007 to June 2009 recession. The number in poverty has also continued to soar, to about 50 million Americans. That is the highest level in the more than 50 years that the U.S. Census has been tracking poverty. Income inequality has risen more in the past few years than at any recent time.
Related: Number of Ultra Rich Increased 6% in 2014.
Hey, they don't call him President Goldman Sachs for nothing.
MANY OF THESE PHRASES SEEM SUITABLE FOR THIS MORNING'S DISCOURSE: If Martin Luther Quotations Were Motivational Posters.
USA TODAY EDITORIALIZES: Obama's wrong way to do the right thing: The sweeping nature of his immigration plan amounts to executive overreach.
Best-case scenario: The Supreme Court knocks it down quickly, as in the Steel Seizure Case, and then he and Congress have to actually come to something mutually satisfactory if anything is to happen. You know, the way the Constitution says.
Worst-case scenario: Americans decide we're not living under the rule of law anymore, adopt third-world strategies of evasion, passive resistance.
BOMBSHELL: Email Proves that White House, DOJ Targeted Reporter Sharyl Attkisson.
Judicial Watch reports that the Obama administration has turned over about 42,000 pages of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal. The administration was forced to turn the documents over to Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Judicial Watch is posting them on its web site. The administration turned them over on November 18, 2014.
One of the documents provides smoking gun proof that the Obama White House and the Eric Holder Justice Department colluded to get CBS News to block reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson was one of the few mainstream media reporters who paid any attention to the deadly gun-running scandal.
In an email dated October 4, 2011, Attorney General Holder's top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, called Attkisson "out of control." Schmaler told White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz that he intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.
Schultz replied, "Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG."
Schultz also told Schmaler that he was working with reporter Susan Davis, then at the National Journal, to target Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA). Issa led the House investigation into Fast and Furious. Davis now works at USA Today. In the email chain, Schultz tells Schmaler that he would provide Davis with "leaks."
Davis wrote a critical piece on Issa a few weeks later.
Attkisson was later subjected to hacking of her computer by people who remain unknown, but who likely belong to a government agency. She and CBS parted ways earlier in 2014, and Attkisson has since said that the network blocked her reports from airing.
As Michael Barone says, gangster government.
POLL: Lukewarm Latino support for Obama executive action.
A six-percentage-point margin of approval is far short of overwhelming. A higher number of Latinos, 56 percent, told pollsters they would support congressional action on the issue, and 69 percent supported the idea of a pathway to citizenship for those now here illegally. But a core of Latinos opposed those measures too: 32 percent opposed congressional action, and 30 percent opposed a pathway.
And even more oppose unilateral Obama action. It turns out Latino support for the president's strategy, which doesn't even amount to a majority, is not quite as decisive as some advocates hope.
Plus, from IowaHawk: "LOL at all those Latin American immigrants who came here to escape tinpot dictatorships."
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: Obama's Amnesty Threatens To Shut Constitution.
There's more at stake here than mere political fortunes. We are at the constitutional tipping point that Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley warned us about as Obama continues to wield executive authority that he himself once said he did not have.
We live in a constitutional republic, and the president who says he cannot wait for the Congress to act ignores a Constitution that says he has to. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress exclusive authority to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization" and Article II, Section 3 says that it's the president's duty "to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed."
Yeah, he doesn't care about that.
November 20, 2014
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: "The Court does not know how [the state] prioritizes projects, but dealing with an unconstitutional law should be towards the top of the list." "In August, U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii struck down the California 10-day waiting period to buy guns for people who are known to the state to already own guns — a narrow but significant Second Amendment decision. Today, Judge Ishii declined to issue a stay of his decision; here's part of the reasoning."
IMPERIAL PRESIDENT: The Hill: Obama moves to give legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants.
Plus: Obama Would Veto Any Bill Undoing Immigration Executive Action.
And: Sen. Sessions reacts: We must stop Emperor Obama.
Plus, this observation on tone from Moe Lane, which is spot-on: "Barack Obama wants you to be angry. The Democrats NEED you to be angry. So don't be. Smile, shake your head ruefully, and say no. Nicely."
Plus, from Mickey Kaus: Don't Count Out the Court.
With Obama's executive amnesty imminent, anonymous White House aides are cockily dismissing John Boehner's threatened lawsuit against it as a stunt. Even among opponents of executive amnesty — and I'm with them — there's a tendency to pooh pooh the suit. It's a loser, it will take forever to decide, it's an attempt to 'redirect Republican rage' away from budgetary remedies like denying funding, etc.
Not so fast. I'm all for giving defunding a try — also holding up appointments — but don't sell the lawsuit short. I'll even go so far as to lay down an Yglesias style marker: If Obama's executive action is as broad as described, the Supreme Court will strike it down.
I think he's right. I agree that this is comparable to the Steel Seizure Case. And I'm also a fan of Richard Neely.
Plus — Exclusive! Must Credit Instapundit! — a photo of President Obama immediately after his speech.
TEACH OBAMA SUPPORTERS NOT TO RAPE: USA Today: Top Obama bundler accused of child rape.
Conservatives complain that President Obama gets a free pass from the media, which acts as a de-facto public-relations shop for the Democrat in the White House. Never has that charge seemed truer than now as an ugly rape scandal unfolds on the west coast.
On Wednesday, Portland police arrested Terrence Patrick Bean, who has been charged with two felony counts of having sex with a minor last year. This man is not just any old guy accused of having sex with a 15-year-old – he's a big-money Democratic donor and liberal political activist with connections inside the Obama White House. Bean raised more than a half-million dollars for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
"Bean has been one of the state's biggest Democratic donors and an influential figure in gay rights circles in the state," reports oregonlive.com. "He helped found two major national political groups, the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund and has been a major contributor for several Democratic presidential candidates, including Barack Obama."
A search of the Federal Election Commission's campaign-finance database turns up thousands in donations every cycle by Bean to the Democratic Party's most powerful leaders, including Hillary Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sen. Dick Durbin, and Rep. Barney Frank, among others. Photos of Bean posted online show him flying on Air Force One with Obama.
The scandal is escalating. Earlier today, according to local media Kiah Loy Lawson, allegedly 66-year-old Bean's 25-year-old former boyfriend, was arrested by the Portland Sex Crimes Unit for sexually abusing the same boy. After the relationship between the two men ended, Lawson went public with claims that Bean had a practice of secretly videotaping himself having sex with others.
This story was first reported by the local press, and there have been vague references to sexual trouble for Bean and Lawson since June, but the national media has not picked it up. That oversight is politically convenient for President Obama as he tries to pull off one of his riskiest political moves ever with his amnesty executive order.
Telling you what they want you to know is job #2; not telling you what they don't want you to know is job #1.
TAKING ON THE SICILIAN MAFIA WITH GANDHI TACTICS. "Palermo, the largest city in Sicily, is at the heart of mafia country. In the past, trade association surveys have shown that about 80 percent of the town's shops were paying pizzo. But now more than 900 Sicilian firms, a majority of them in Palermo, are publicly refusing to give money to the mob, thanks to one of the most remarkable social movements to emerge in the last decade. Addiopizzo—Italian for 'Goodbye, protection money'—is resisting the racketeers with tactics you're more likely to associate with Gandhi or the Arab Spring than a campaign against organized crime. The store mentioned on that tapped telephone call was affiliated with Addiopizzo, and the mafiosi didn't think that trying to collect from it would be worth the inevitable trouble."
Can we apply this approach to the IRS?
SPYING: Feds To Apple: If We Can't Read iMessages, A Child Will Die. Well, if that happens it will be because people don't trust the feds to act appropriately.
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BY NOW EVERYONE HAS HEARD OF BOLLYWOOD, but the #3 film industry in the world — and it's #2 by some measures — is Nigeria's, known as "Nollywood." My lovely and talented sister-in-law has started a service called Nollyland that lets you stream films to pretty much any device — the tech is really slick as it auto-sizes for different data rates and displays. Here's an article on the service. And the films aren't just from Nigeria, but also from Ghana and other African film industries.
Related: NollyLand app snapped up 'like hotcakes.'
UPDATE: In the comments, people are asking for specific film recommendations. I emailed my brother, who's watched a lot more of them than I have, and he replies: "King of Shitta is one of the most technically/artistically impressive movies. I'd go with that and A Christmas Passion, which is a tender love story." And he relays that his lovely wife recommends Love of My Life. (Bumped).
WELL, NHTSA HASN'T COVERED ITSELF WITH GLORY LATELY: Obama nominates Mark Rosekind for next NHTSA administrator. "Rosekind has served the past four years as a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, the independent government organization that investigates transportation accidents and makes recommendations to other agencies on how to strengthen safety. His appointment is still subject to Senate approval, but safety advocates believe he'll be an effective new leader for the beleaguered agency."
NICK GILLESPIE: Uber's Real Crime Is Giving In to Politics as Usual. Well, once they hired David Plouffe, that was pretty much a given, right?
SADLY, AN "ACTUAL DEBATE" ABOUT A CHARGED SUBJECT AT AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL IS NEWS NOWADAYS: An Actual Debate About Rape At Brown. But don't get too excited: "Since this is Brown, where then NYC police commissioner Ray Kelly was shouted down and prevented from speaking, the planning for the debate came with several indicators as to how students are supposed to feel." Over sixty grand a year tuition for that. . . .


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WHERE THEY ARE: The candidates' schedules - 10/3/2009 and 10/4/2009
Here's what the weekend looks like for Mayor Thomas Menino and Team Floon. All three will be at the Roslindale Day parade on Sunday. The rest of the schedules below:
Saturday, October 3, 2009
11:30 AM Literacise Exhibit Grand Opening
BPL, Central Library, Copley Square
Mayor Menino will speak briefly at the grand opening that will call attention to the importance of literacy and exercise. Literacise invites kids on an active reading adventure through the pages of Boston author Irene Small's book, Jonathan and his Mommy (set in the South End).
1:30 PM BPON 2009 Annual BBQ and Family Fun Day
Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club, 15 Talbot Ave., Dorchester
Mayor Menino will help celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Boston Parent Organizing Network (BPON), which organizes, develops and support parents and families who are marginalized by class, race, language, disability and immigration status to work with and hold accountable Boston Public Schools to provide an excellent education for all students.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
8:15 AM Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk
Esplanade, Hatch Shell
Mayor Menino will speak briefly and present a proclamation before more than 35,000 people walk in the largest and oldest breast cancer fundraiser. The annual Walk has raised more than $35 million for several programs.
12:45 PM Roslindale Day Parade
Washington St., South St., Belgrade Ave., West Roxbury Parkway to Msr. Finn Circle (Gottwald Rotary), Centre St. to South St. Ending at Walter St. (Fallon Field)
The Mayor will walk in the parade on the second anniversary of Steven Odom's death. Mayor Menino has supported the Odom family at every event since his death and will meet them at a memorial.
2:00 p.m. – Women's Service Club of Boston 90th Anniversary – Pinning Ceremony
South End
Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon
8:00 p.m. – Cocktail and Trivia Night at St. Brendan's
Adams Village
Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon
12:30 p.m. – Roslindale Parade
Roslindale Square
Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon
3:30 p.m. – Pop Warner Game
Harambee Park
Michael Flaherty
6:30 p.m. – Chinatown YMCA 95th Anniversary Party
Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon
Agendas are provided by the Menino and Flaherty campaigns and laboriously pasted here by Lit Drop staff. Please note that plans can change on the campaign trail at a moment's notice, but we do our best to keep it up to date.
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Hobart and William Smith College's, Habitat for Humanity Club intends to support the goals of the Habitat for Humanity Chapter of Ontario County. Our club participates in our affiliated chapter's local builds as well as, fundraises money to donate to their efforts. Our biggest fundraiser include the Mr. Hobart Talent Contest and the William Smith Powderpuff Game. When we are not participating in either of these tasks we do our best to support other community efforts within our immediate campus and outside in the community. We are a community engaged and service learning based program on this Hobart and William Smith Campus.
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- Release Date: Aug 10, 2012
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Mar 16, 2013Julie Delpy is great. In as much as she created the characters, was one of the writers, as well as directed and starred in this film. Hurrah! Yes it was a light comedy, but it was good to see Chris Rock in a controlled, intelligent and charming role. Julie Delpy has a lovely grounded-ness, and real presence.
Mar 9, 2013Not as good as the first, but it is still full of wit and wry humor. The addition of Chris Rock brings life into the film and Delpy is still effortlessly charming.
Dec 25, 2012To indulge in the same cutesiness as this movie, Julie Delpy has all the annoying characteristics of Woody Allen or Larry David without any of the compensatory wit, humor, or intelligence.
Dec 24, 2012While nice to see Chris Rock in a lead role, the script affords him few opportunities to shine. Be ready to do some reading in this semi-foreign film (lots of French with subtitles). It warranties a weak 6 of 10 as there are some funny moments.
Sep 5, 2012Was attracted to the film by the trailer-a cute comedy or errors and cultural differences-along with it's quiet indie feel. Chris Rock has never been a great actor and that slide continues in this film as well. However, I could personally identify with the idea of trying to connect/control/understand another's foreign family. All in all, remembering the movie, I cannot remember any single scene.....which may say more about this movie than anything.… Expand
Aug 26, 2012French tourists are obnoxious, loud, dirty, and oblivious to anything other than their petty concerns. I was under the impressions these are adjectives for American tourists when they venture over to the Old World; however, according to Julie Delpy's new film, 2 Days in New York, French people are truly garish. Five years after her similar effort, 2 Day in Paris, a busy and crowded New York apartment is the setting for a very disappointing movie.
Marion (Delpy) and Mingus (Chris Rock) live together with a modern, blended family setup. Marion has her toddler from a previous marriage and Mingus shares custody with his own elementary school aged daughter. They live in a cramped apartment somewhere in Manhattan but appear to be financially stable. Mingus hosts a few radio shows and writes for the Village Voice while Marion is a conceptual artist who is about to open her first solo show in a ritzy art gallery. The show opening is the impetus behind the invasion of the unbelievable French relations.
Marion's father Jeannot (Albert Delpy) arrives with his other daughter Rose (Alexia Landeau) and her current boyfriend of the day Manu (Alexandre Nahon). Instead of comedic cultural insights or witty observations, the audience is saddled with farce and stupidity. They are delayed in customs for attempting to smuggle in 40 pounds of sausage and cheese. They cut their toe nails at the dinner table, use Mingus' tooth brush during some off-screen sexual tryst in the bathroom, and latch on to a middle school level running gag that Mingus's name rhymes with cunnilingus. I have been to France multiple times… Expand
Aug 20, 2012Julie Delpy obviously loves New York, especially the Statue of Liberty, and takes you all over the city with her new film
A manic, lithesome thing, 2 Days in New York flexes between broad comedy and a beautifully observed portrait of family life – especially life after death.
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The Garden City Centennial Soccer Club will be opening their fall season on Saturday, Sept. 12.
A record-breaking field of 349 runners and walkers crossed the finish line at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School at the 6th annual Heart & Sole 5 Kilometer Run on Sunday morning, July 12, and Garden City's own Karen Pompay scored as the first woman overall.
The Garden City Recreation Department will open the Field House on Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 10 p.m. for open basketball time. This program is open to ages 18 and older who are residents of the Village of Garden City. Games are strictly "pickup." This program will continue until Aug. 19.
On June 3, students and staff at Homestead School celebrated the value of running as part of a healthy and active lifestyle. This first-time initiative was centered on the idea that running is for everyone!
The Garden City Recreation Department will open the Field House on Wednesday evenings from 7:30 to 10 p.m. for open basketball time. This program is open to ages 18 and older who are residents of the Village of Garden City. Games are strictly "pick up." This program will continue until Aug. 19.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced that on Monday, July 13 Jones Beach State Park is hosting the Junior Lifeguard Tournament. This is the sixth year that this prestigious tournament will be held at Jones Beach State Park.
Applications are now available for the Recreation Department's men's and women's summer softball leagues. Contact Steve Espey at Community Park for an application or for more information at 483-2525. Play will begin the last week in June. The fee for the season is $500 per team. One of our women's team's is looking for players. If you are 18 or over and want to play slo-pitch softball give us a call at Community Park at 483-2525.
GCAA, an entity that has been running sports in Garden City for over 50 years, is now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 basketball season. The application can be downloaded from the GCAA website, www.gc-aa.com. Please sign up early as the number of registrants will determine the amount of court time GCAA receives. By signing up now, you lock in the discounted rates of $40 for the K-1 clinics and $60 for intramurals. The rates increase by $10 on Sept. 1 and late fees apply after Oct. 1. The intramural season starts in early December and runs through the middle of March 2010.
The Garden City Recreation Department is pleased to announce its upcoming Gazebo Concert Series. The concerts are held at the Gazebo on the corner of Hilton and Stewart avenues and begin at 7:15 pm. So bring a chair, come join us and enjoy! The concerts will be:
June 25 - The Clusters
July 2 - Buddy Merriam and Backroads
July 9 - The Chiclettes
July 16 - Manhattan Sky
July 23 - The Village Musicmakers
August 6 - Emil Stucchio and the Classics
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The LEAF can be charged during an eight-hour period if the car owner has a dedicated 240-volt socket. The charging rate is 3.3 kWh per hour. 13 Under normal driving conditions, a fully charged LEAF has a range of 100 miles, according to the manufacturer, or 73 miles, according to EPA's estimate based on kWh per 100 miles. The range varies considerably depending on driving style, traffic, and weather conditions. Assuming the manufacturer's claimed 100 mile range, and that drivers always discharged the battery completely, and drove 15,000 miles a year, the LEAF would be charged 12.5 times a month. But owners will rarely if ever fully discharge their LEAF before re-charging it, essentially leaving a certain amount of reserve power, just as they do with a typical gasoline fueled car. For discussion purposes, we assume they will charge the vehicle 25 times during the month based on 1,250 monthly miles traveled, with each charge lasting four hours.
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Next we model customer charging behavior, conditional on the given TOU rate and the charging characteristics of the LEAF. Within each rate, however, LEAF owners have an opportunity to charge based on convenience (default charging profile) or only during those times when electricity costs are lowest (best charging profile). Saving money will motivate some drivers to charge when costs are lowest. However, some might charge when costs are lowest because they're socially conscious and want to do the right thing. Others might do the same because they're image conscious and want to be seen as doing the right thing. And yet others might do so because they're intrinsically green.
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Michael Hutchence Biopic is in the Works
It's hard to believe but it has been 15 years since Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. The native Australian was known best for being the lead singer of INXS and his death was extremely shocking and upsetting to his fans.
Now, there's word that a biopic about his life is in the works but screenwriter, Bobby Galinsky (Flatliners) admits that "it's a big task." Fortunately, he will have a good foundation to build upon since he will be basing the film on a book written by Hutchence's mother and sister.
His ambitious goal is to follow in the footsteps of biographical films like Ray and Walk the Line but some would argue that it will be hard to compare the allure of movies about Ray Charles and Johnny Cash with the story of Hutchence's life.
Galinsky plans to focus on "what drove him, what were his demons, what were his loves." He feels that bringing that to audiences is far more interesting that simply focusing on "the persona that people saw on stage for a couple of hours."
It could be a really interesting film since INXS became a huge phenomenon with hits including "Need You Tonight" and "Devil Inside" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He also had some pretty high profile romances with Kylie Minogue and Paula Yates, the mother of his daughter.
After Hutchence was found, it was ruled that the 37-year-old died as a result of suffocation by hanging while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
INXS announced their retirement this month after 35 years of making music.
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Before the accident flight, the glider flight instructor observed adverse weather approaching the airport from the south. He wanted to demonstrate a crosswind landing to his student before ceasing glider operations due to the adverse weather. The glider released from the tow airplane around 1,000 feet above ground level and then proceeded on downwind for runway 29. While on final approach, the flight instructor had difficulty maintaining proper runway alignment due to a strong, gusting crosswind. As a result, he elected to land the glider in a grassy area immediately north of the runway. He noted that his forward visibility was limited by heavy rain. The glider impacted a taxiway sign during the landing, substantially damaging the left wing. Weather radar and surface observations indicated that the airport was affected by a thunderstorm shortly after the glider departed on the local area flight. The thunderstorm produced heavy rain, lightning, and strong winds. During the accident flight, the airport's automated surface observing system recorded a peak wind from 220 degrees magnetic at 42 knots. The glider's maximum demonstrated crosswind component for safe approach, landing and aerotow launching was 16 knots.
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