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The PJ Tatler
Putin Manhandles Obama in Moscow's Propaganda Art Gallery
The artistic value of new Russian propaganda is way below its glorious Soviet predecessor, but the paranoid, attack-dog mentality remains the same.
According to Gazeta.ru, last Friday, at the "Flakon" art factory in Moscow, a pro-Putin group of nationalist youth called "Young Guard" together with the "patriotic artists and well-known graphic designers" organized an exhibition of over 100 political cartoons glorifying the policies of President Vladimir Putin. The politically "correct" organizers must have been too dead-serious about their sycophancy to notice the grotesque irony of the event's title, "Without Filters."
Forget the filters. The exhibited artists had to be wearing blindfolds not to notice the dangerous cusp to which the current Russia's regime has taken the country by whipping the nationalistic fervor, xenophobia, and paranoia. They have portrayed Putin as a hero, a winner, and savior of the nation at a time when Russia's ruble is crumbling, the country's international standing has hit a new low, and the falling oil prices threaten to knock out Russia's oil-oriented economy, which Putin had a chance to diversify, but didn't.
Instead, the Russian president is shown as a winner who knocks out a bloodied man resembling Vitali Klitschko — a heavyweight boxing world champion from Ukraine, who became a politician leading his own country towards independence.
Another drawing pictures Putin on top of a tank, addressing two peasant girls to ask if they had seen any fascists around. The girls have the faces of Barack Obama and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, whom the artist apparently considers to be "fascists" and who had disguised themselves out of fear of being caught.
The event organizer, "Young Guard," is to Vladimir Putin's puppet political party "United Russia" what the Soviet Young Communist League was to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Not coincidentally, it is named after a glorified, if mostly fictional, underground militia group who fought the Nazis on the occupied territories during WWII. Decades after the Nazis had been defeated, the Soviet and now Russian government has continued to steep generations of young people in the same Stalinist war-time mythology – keeping alive the memory, the hatred, and the eagerness to throw themselves under the tanks and die defending the Motherland against the fascists
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Similarly, just about every opponent of the regime has become a fascist. Putin only needs to point a finger. Today, his finger is pointing at Ukraine – and thus the fascists and the Nazis are now all those Ukrainians, from politicians to common citizens, who want to join the West and are defending their country against Russia's aggression.
Putin's finger is further pointing to the United States and other Western countries that oppose Putin's corrupt regime and his militaristic policies. Hence the self-righteous anti-American, anti-Western, and "anti-fascist" hysteria that is sweeping today's Russia, causing many, including famous actors and writers, to come out with shrill anti-Western rhetoric. Some of them go as far as to travel to the "historic Russian territories" controlled by the puppet pro-Russian "separatists" and shoot some Ukrainians.
Once again, they are so dead-serious about their "anti-fascist" delusion that they fail to notice it's their own rhetoric and their own actions that quite accurately resemble the rhetoric and the actions of the German Nazis on the brink of WWII, complete with militant nationalism, cult of the strong leader, resurrection of Aryan mythology, and popular support for Hitler's annexation of "historic German territories" in France, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.
The "patriotic" exhibition in question is a fair reflection of such a mindset — from glorification of blood and violence to fascistic symbolism and dehumanization of the opponent to conspiracy theories and the supremacy of Russia "uber alles."
Quite a few pictures ridicule Barack Obama, who is being spanked, pulled by the ear, and even has a barrel of a gun stuck in his bloodied face by Vladimir Putin. In one such poster, Putin and Obama are watering a tree. On Putin's side the tree is green, while on the U.S. president's side it's dead, with human skulls showing through the roots. Without defending Obama's policies, it would be fair to say that in this metaphor Putin's side of the tree would really be on fire.
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Thanks, Russia, but We'll Mock Obama Without Your Help
Both the Washington Post and Huffington Post have recently condemned the anti-Obama street art display near the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, which taunted Barack Obama on his birthday with racist references.
Interestingly enough, the same media organs, notorious for their unwavering support of this president, had neglected to cover a series of recent better-executed and more tasteful anti-Obama displays by American street artists in Augusta, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley.
Granted, the American anti-Obama artists didn't give the media an opportunity to cry "racism." Is that why the U.S.-based artists weren't deemed worthy of a story? In defense of the pro-Obama journalists, it's a lot harder to defend their protégé when the charges are not race-related. The prank in Moscow, however, was a smorgasbord of monkeys, bananas, and dog whistles — everything the left-wing media requires to reinforce its own narrative: all criticism of Obama is based in racism. "They just hate him because he's black."
As usual, their anti-racist sanctimony has once again blinded the media to the real story.
To describe the Moscow display as merely "racist" would be just as parochial and myopic as to describe the Islamic Caliphate in Iraq as a threat to gender equality in the workplace. Both statements would be somewhat true, but they would also reveal the superficiality of an obsessive-compulsive mind focused exclusively on pet-peeve issues. They might have just as effectively scorned the unhip cut of the Nazi uniforms as the Germans advanced across Europe.
Of all the problems with the Obama-mocking display, racism is probably the least disturbing. Trust me as someone who comes from the former USSR: those "patriots" don't hate Obama "just because he's black." They hate him because in their minds he represents the "vile" America — including its "stupid" people, its "horrible" history, its "materialistic" values, and its "unfair" economy.
Make no mistake, the insult was directed at the United States — a country they love to hate for a whole lot of reasons — outlandish reasons without a doubt, but among which racism won't even make to the top hundred. More precisely, the actual object of their hatred is not as much the America we know, but an ugly, far-fetched and perverted depiction of it — something that Putin's jingoistic propaganda has been creating and planting in people's heads for quite some time. If this attack on Obama was indeed an act of citizen activism, that would be the best evidence of how successful Russia's state-run media machine has been.
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Sarcastic Posters Meet Obama at Silicon Valley Fundraiser
Imaginative satirical posters mocking President Obama appeared yesterday in various locations of Silicon Valley, where the president was scheduled to speak at yet another fundraiser with California's rich and powerful on Wednesday, in spite of all the troubles piling up, domestically and internationally.
Obama's last two-day fundraising visit to Silicon Valley was less than three months ago. This time he came accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Steve Israel, and a few local Democrat politicians. The expensive $32,400 per couple brunch and VIP reception was held in the house of a local restaurateur and real estate broker, George Marcus, inside an upper-class gated community protected from the rabble and the disastrous effects the president's policies have on lower- and middle-class Americans.
In addition to the posters, an "invitation" flyer was mailed to all neighbors within the half-mile radius of the host's home in Los Altos Hills. Describing the fundraiser as "A Feast in Time of Plague," the mock invitation pointed to the frightening gap between the increasingly entrenched political elites and the harsh reality of joblessness, insecurity, and loss of incomes for the rest of us.
A few larger versions of this flyer were also posted on the streets of Los Altos.
Other posters describe the president as a wily SiliConMan, or show him holding the iconic map of Silicon Valley while uttering his famous quote, "You didn't built that." A series of iPod parody posters in vibrant colors display Obama's silhouette holding an NSA listening device under the mock "iSnoop" brand next to the small Liberty Bell with a piece bitten off as in the famous Apple logo.
The street artists posted more photos of their satirical campaign in an anonymous online gallery. They can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/KUnUD. Click on each image in the gallery below to enlarge.
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The Real Meaning of Soviet Agitprop in Jay Carney's Kitchen
As soon as the photograph of Soviet propaganda posters in Jay Carney's kitchen hit the Internet, right-wing pundits began to draw conclusions about White House Press Secretary's ideology, morals, and political leanings. It was as if things that a man merely places on his walls and looks at day after day can be any indication of his life choices.
If that were so, the meals in Carney's kitchen would also probably match the menu of the place and time of the posters. His family would be living on a diet of beets, gruel, occasional rat, and thinly sliced boiled jackboots, which is what many Soviets ate at the time these posters were produced.
One poster was made in 1918, calling men to join the Red Army in the civil war against the anti-communist opposition, while the country lay in ruins due to the economic mismanagement as much as due to intense fighting. The other poster was made during WWII, calling women to replace men at the factories, as the country lay in ruins, once again, due to intense fighting as much as due to the economic mismanagement.
The diet of the Carney family, however, does not include any of the food that the impoverished and starving Soviet people ate during the above wars. They eat more like the members of the Soviet Politburo and even better than that. They feast on fresh organic produce, succulent meat, delicious seafood, and tropical fruit delivered to the United States from all over the world. And as they enjoy the abundance of the American way of life in their kitchen, the Carneys like to stare at the two propaganda posters made for starving people. It never fails to improve their feeling of self-worth and digestion.
It is beyond imagination that anyone could misconstrue the Soviet agitprop in Jay Carney's kitchen as an indication that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and his wife somehow share the same ideas as the perpetrators of a brutal regime that starved its own citizens while the political elites lived in luxury, abused power, prosecuted the opposition, and ruled the country by means of executive orders.
Next, they would claim that that a neat stack of Chairman Mao's Little Red Books in Valery Jarrett's bathroom is not there merely to serve as an elegant accent to complement the shower curtains; or that the Black Panther Party insignia on Michelle Obama's pajamas isn't merely a bold decorative pattern; or that the black flag of holy Jihad in Huma Abedin's bedroom is somehow indicative of her sympathies towards the Muslim Brotherhood.
Following such flawed right-wing logic, one might even speculate that Saul Alinsky's books on Hillary Clinton's living room mean anything other than an effort to disguise an obscure dried spot that had mysteriously appeared on the coffee table in the last year of her husband's presidency.
We invite our readers to take virtual tours of America's other prominent political and cultural leaders and see what potentially "compromising" items they may have in their houses, so that we can pre-emptively debunk any accusations and witch hunts, such as the one to which the unfortunate White House Press Secretary is exposed today.
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Obama 'Sub Par' Posters Blanket Augusta Masters
According to the American Thinker, the Masters Golf tournament in Augusta, GA (April 10-13) was marked by a plethora of anti-Obama posters, making fun of Obama's golf presidency with clever captions like "Sub Par" and "If you like your handicap, you can keep your handicap."
We have already written about this type of conservative counter-culture in February, when dozens of posters of golfing Obama captioned "Sub Par" had been spotted inside and outside the PGA's golf tournament near the upscale and liberal Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
The same mysterious artist, apparently, is determined to travel from one golf tournament to another, challenging the rich and connected Obama supporters who shell out thousands of dollars for the tickets, and urging them to take a better look at Barack Obama's disastrous presidency in a symbolic language they can understand.
Here's the latest crop of pictures from Augusta. More can be found here: Obama Posters at The Masters Augusta 2014.
Additionally, it appears that this time this anonymous artist has a Zazzle store where you can buy "Sub Par" posters, t-shirts, mugs, and other merchandize to support his future operations.
Notice how the cropped "Guest Parking" sign in the last picture has become "Jest Parking."
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'Come on, you old broads!' — Ukrainian Women Get Ready for Putin
The women in the Ukrainian folk music group "Lisapetniy battalion" from the village of Piatnychany were previously known in Ukraine and Russia for their humorous, self-deprecating "hillbilly" songs. Their first big hit was about selling moonshine and buying a bicycle without the brakes, on which the singer rode through the village "like a tank."
But as the threat of Russian invasion is now overshadowing everyone's lives, the singers came up with a new music video called "Come On, You Old Broads," in which the women are getting ready to defend their village from Russian troops with hunting rifles, pitchforks, and an old WWII German machine gun from a neighbor's basement, promising to "protect the Ukrainian border with their own ample breasts."
And today EuroMaidan PR posted this video with English subs.
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Barack Obama Banned from Russian Store that Sells Honey
Some Russians are taking sanctions imposed on their country by the Obama administration with a grain of salt (or a spoon of honey, as the case may be) and imposing their own improvised sanctions in return.
In one example, this Russian-language sign just appeared on the entrance door to a small store in Moscow called "Myod," which sells honey products. Translated into English, it says:
U.S. President Barack Obama has been denied the right
to enter the Honey Store.
Management of the Honey Store
The reflection in the glass reveals a photographer wearing a Russian fur hat, against the background of a snow-covered street.
The lettering above the sign provides the store's street address and website, magazinmed.ru, which lists their products as "high quality bee pollen, ambrosia, royal jelly, beeswax, and propolis," gives directions (two minutes on foot from the airport metro station), and shows pictures of the interior.
A humorous sign inside the store says, "Citizens with bears are served ahead of the line," referring to the stereotypical view of bears as honey aficionados. The website also has a discriminatory warning: "Customers with kangaroos are not allowed."
Online purchases are not available either.
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Did Russian Intelligence Promote Obama from Lieutenant to Colonel?
"I wonder, after the successful campaign of handing over the Crimea, will Barack be promoted to a colonel?" That was the question Tweeted yesterday by the newly elected prime minister of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, shortly after the Russian-speaking residents of the disputed peninsula voted to leave Ukraine with the prospects of joining the Motherland. The Russian-language Tweet was accompanied by a Photoshopped picture of Barack Obama wearing a Russian uniform.
The Huffington Post, which first reported on this Tweet, quickly replaced it with a different article about Aksyonov — possibly after a scathing call from the White House — but not before the Washington Times and a few conservative blogs picked it up and ran with it, reposting the picture along with the awkward English translation made by the HuffPost using Google translator or a similar electronic service.
None of them, however, provided any background, or asked a relevant question: why would a previously obscure pro-Russian politician, whom the Obama administration's incompetence helped to become a prime minister, sarcastically imply that Obama is working for the Kremlin? This doesn't seem to make any sense.
Such a jab could have easily come from conservative jokesters in the U.S., as a way to vent their bitterness over Obama's inept handling of international affairs and squandering America's standing in the world. It could have also come from those Russians and Ukrainians who are opposed to Putin's imperial policies. But why would a pro-Russian separatist with a shady past, who is himself very likely working on orders from Moscow, out his alleged "colleague"?
As someone who frequents the Russian-language side of the blogosphere, let me explain.
The Crimean PM's question wasn't a standalone joke, but rather a punch line to an earlier anonymous joke with a Photoshopped picture of Barack Obama, seen on various Russian websites and forums since he first became president.
The picture was a mock-up of a KGB personnel file with a photo of Obama wearing the uniform of a KGB lieutenant with three stars on blue epaulettes. The name on the card is listed as Boris Huseinovich Obamov, a spy and saboteur, born in Uzbekistan and of Uzbek ethnicity, a member of United Russia Party, recruited by Vladimir Putin in 1981, currently without a permanent address and working undercover as the U.S. president. The agent's listed code name, The White One, is likely funnier in Russia than it is in America, where it comes off as overtly racist.
The "updated" picture Tweeted by the Crimean PM clearly shows two stripes and two stars across the blue epaulettes, corresponding to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the same organization — one step away from colonel. The KGB has been since renamed into FSB, and those are also the letters on his shoulder patch with the Russian flag.
In summary, Aksyonov's joke is hardly political satire or commentary on Obama's specific actions, but rather blatant mockery in the general direction of the American president.
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Russian Nationalists Riot, Maim and Kill Pro-Ukrainian Demonstrators in Donetsk
A mob of pro-Russian protesters savagely attacked a pro-Ukrainian rally with clubs, metal rods, rocks, tear gas, and smoke bombs, killing a 22-year-old local man and seriously injuring scores of others Thursday in Lenin Square in Donetsk, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine.
According to witnesses, the pro-Ukrainian rally consisted mostly of local men and women, some with children, who came there after work to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine against Russia's attempts to split the country. This angered a pro-Russian rally nearby, which held Russian flags and demanded that the coal-mining region be separated from Ukraine and joined with Russia.
At some point rocks, eggs, and smoke grenades started flying from the pro-Russian side towards a line of people who chanted Ukrainian slogans while holding a long banner with the colors of the Ukrainian flag. As the rally ended, a large crowd of angry Russian nationalists surrounded their opponents, hurling ethnic insults, and preventing them from leaving. The confrontation quickly became violent.
A slide show on this Ukrainian news site has the pictures. A 25-minute YouTube video, posted the same day by a local citizen reporter, shows uninterrupted footage of the most violent stage of the riot, helping to reconstruct the events.
As the police succeeded in letting most of the pro-Ukrainian side leave the square, they themselves got surrounded by an angry mob, with about twenty bloodied people huddled together next to a police bus inside a protective circle of policemen. The law enforcement, represented by both local and military police, was outnumbered; an officer was heard calling for reinforcement.
The crowd chanted "Russia! Russia!" while also screaming threats, insults, and ethnic slurs. They also chanted "On your knees," demanding that the Ukrainian patriots kneel before their tormentors, who waved Russian flags.
As rocks, bottles, and smoke bombs continued to fly, the police managed to get the battered men into the bus, but the attackers slashed the tires and broke the windows, throwing more rocks and smoke bombs inside the bus, spraying pepper spray and forcing the people out into the street.
As the pro-Ukrainian demonstrators climbed out of the bus windows back into the street, the crowd broke the police barrier and began to beat up the unarmed men with fists and clubs, leaving several of them lying on the pavement, covered in blood, all the while calling their victims "fascists" and "faggots." A few who tried to escape by breaking through the crowd were surrounded and beaten.
The chant "On your knees!" continued as the surrounded and beaten people, many of them unable to stand, crouched on the ground, which the mob finally perceived as compliance with their demand to kneel. Having carried the wounded away, the police were finally able to escort the remaining few to safety.
The video ends with the camera pointing downwards, as one of the pro-Russian attackers demands that the cameraman stop shooting because the footage may wind up in the "wrong" hands. During the time of this writing this video added half a million views on YouTube, with many comments in both Russian and broken English cheering the beating of Ukrainians and blaming America for the violence.
In another video, which shows an injured man being taken to an ambulance, gloating voices refer to him as a "Bandera" (a slur against Ukrainian nationalists) and an intruder from Maidan who got what he deserved for taking American money. This and other comments in the videos, as well as multiple pro-Russian comments on various YouTube threads, reveal a paranoid, hateful mind-set, which boils down to the following presumptions:
(a) The Ukrainian revolution was the result of a vast Western-Zionist conspiracy against Russia; (b) all pro-Ukrainian demonstrators are violent Nazis, fascists, and traitors who have been paid with dollars by their American, European, and Zionist masters; and (c) the demonstrators are all intruders from Western Ukraine, the land of hateful worshipers of the "Nazi collaborator" Stepan Bandera
Such absurd beliefs are the result of a massive campaign of lies, distortions, provocations, and propaganda that the Putin government has been disseminating through all available media channels, both inside Russia and in the Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine, aiming to discredit and demonize the recent popular uprising against the corrupt pro-Russian government of Victor Yanukovich. Among the various reasons to suppress the Ukrainian revolution, probably the most important one was the Kremlin's fear that it may soon spread from Maidan to Red Square.
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BREAKING: Shocking Police Brutality in Ukraine; Riots Spreading to Major Cities
In a shocking video released today on the Internet, special government police force "Berkut" beat up and humiliate an arrested activist on Grushevsky Street in Ukraine's capital, Kiev. The man, wearing a "Ukrainian cossack" haircut, is severely beaten and can be seen with bruises and lacerations all over his naked body. The police strip him to his socks in 25 degrees Farenheit weather, scream insults, and force him to hold a small shovel as they take pictures.
WARNING: The video on the following page includes graphic nudity.
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DescriptionLong time ago, two gods, Bardus and Octum, fought for dominance in the world. The benevolent Bardus defeated the evil Octum, but as a result has lost his power and had to be dissected into six parts, which were since watched over by the goddess Durga.
Many years later, two young people - Avin and his sister Eimelle - are working for the Church of Bardus. One day a mysterious man who calls himself Belias arrives and murders Avin's old mentor. The two youths embark on a journey to find the murderer and eventually discover the truth about their own role in events that will decide the fate of the world...
Akai Shizuku mostly relies on the Japanese RPG template gameplay-wise, having linear plot progression, emphasis on story and characters, automatic leveling, etc. There is no "world map", but a continuous world in which important locations are connected by many "empty" areas. Combat system builds upon that of the predecessor, also allowing the player to let the characters fight automatically; however, it offers more control over the characters' actions, including precise moving on the battle field. Enemies appear at pre-set locations. Characters use physical attacks, offensive and healing magic, and can also summon creatures to help them in battle.
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- "英雄伝説IV 朱紅い雫" -- Japanese spelling
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TriviaThe Gagharv trilogy is unrelated to the previous Iselfarsa saga (Legend of Heroes 1 & 2) and the later Sora no Kiseki trilogy (Legend of Heroes 6). It is comprised of three episodes: Legend of Heroes 4 (Akai Shizuku, which takes place in Gagharv Year 936), Legend of Heroes 5 (Umi no Oriuta, GY 943) and Legend of Heroes 3 (Shiroki Majo, GY 992). Although the latter was the first game of the trilogy, the events that it describes happen about 50 years after the other two games.
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Yōichi Fukuya (福谷洋一)Scenario Program (シナリオ・プログラム):
Katsuhiro Ogawa (小川勝弘), Satoko Ono (小野聡子), Jun Nagashima (永島 純), Kazuhiko Maeda (前田和彦), Shinichi Saitō (西藤晋市), Toshikuni Matsumae (松前俊邦)Battle Program (バトル・プログラム):
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The Falstaff Hotel, Canterbury
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DisappointingSubmitted by: P in 22/08/06
- Age Group: 41 - 50
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Mature Couple
Having stayed at the Falstaff for our honeymoon in 1986 and again in 1996, travelled back there 2006, very disappointing, the Sir John Falstaff suite is no longer branded as such and is now 'room 26', although it still attracts a high price per night! Room was dusty & the bathroom needs refitting, not very luxurious at £100 per night, staff ok, but nothing special, no water in the room, nothing more than a standard Travelodge Inn to be honest, but a lot dearer - what a shame! The staff didn't even seem interested in our visit some 20yrs from the first! Oh well, shan't be going back in 10yrs time!
Falstaff not four starSubmitted by: Sue Brockway in 15/08/05
- Age Group: 31 - 40
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Weekend Breaker
This hotel was advertised as a four star. At £100.00 per night I expected just that. We had a bed with the stuffing coming out of the base. The legs were wobbly on the bed so you were frightened to move just in case it broke. Furniture was old and very shabby. Windows were filthy and falling apart. Dust was thick under furniture. Bathroom needed a desperate clean. The breakfast was small and pathetic, yet they advertise it seperately for £10.50. Would not stay in such a dirty hotel ever again!
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Nutt determined to convert personal third and long
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Houston Nutt has the job he dreamed of as a boy, he has had it for nearly 10 years, and how many of us can say that?
He is coming off his best season as head coach at Arkansas, a season that included 10 wins and an SEC West championship. His best player, tailback Darren McFadden, not only finished second in the Heisman Trophy voting but also is returning for the 2007 season.
In sum, Nutt should feel great about his career. The reality is something else entirely.
No one in any position of power at Arkansas says Nutt might not make it. Both chancellor John A. White and retiring athletic director Frank Broyles remain firmly behind Nutt, who is 67-44 (.604) with three SEC West titles in nine seasons.
But rather than bask in the glory of last season's 10-4 record and No. 15 ranking, Nutt has had to expend a great deal of his goodwill capital on a continuing series of controversies.
Instead of recruiting from a position of strength, Nutt has had to explain why his two best signees of a year ago, quarterback Mitch Mustain and wide receiver Damian Williams, both from nearby Springdale High, transferred to perennial national power USC. He has had to defend why their high school coach, no-huddle guru Gus Malzahn, who came with them to Arkansas as offensive coordinator, left in January to become co-offensive coordinator at Tulsa.
But the criticism didn't stop at the football field. Instead of spending the offseason building upon the Razorbacks' success, Nutt had to deny involvement with e-mails sent by a friend of his to Mustain that were critical of the quarterback's play. And he had to publicly defend his faithfulness as a husband to Diana, his wife of 24 years.
"I hurt more for my family because I've never been attacked -- integrity, character -- I've never been attacked in that manner," Nutt said. "So that's what hurts. That's what hurts the most."
Because of a lawsuit filed against university officials regarding Nutt and the e-mails sent to Mustain by Little Rock physical therapist Teresa Prewitt, the coach's lawyer recommended that Nutt not speak with ESPN.com.
The lawyer may as well have recommended that Nutt not breathe.
Arkansas State basketball coach Dickey Nutt, the next oldest of four brothers who are college coaches (Danny is Houston's running backs coach, Dennis is an assistant basketball coach at Coastal Carolina), said of his older brother, "Ninety-nine of them think he hung the moon, one person wanted him fired; he's coming over to that person and try to convince him and talk with him."
The percentage of Arkansas fans still behind Nutt is high, if not 99-to-1 high. According to Nutt and other university officials, overflow crowds at recent Razorback Club functions from Dallas to Texarkana to El Dorado to West Memphis have been the norm. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Friday that renewals of season tickets are 15 to 20 percent ahead of last year.
"I keep telling him, 'The Razorback family will be with you through thick and thin,'" said Broyles, who will retire at year's end after 50 years as head football coach and athletic director. "I always felt that when I got picked on, the Razorback family rallied. I see them rallying right now."
White, the chancellor, all but grimaces when asked about Nutt's problems.
"Oh, I hate it. I hate it," White said in an interview in his fourth-floor office in the university administration building. "What he and his family have been put through, no one should be put through, at all. I don't care how much he's paid, he's not paid enough to have to deal with those kinds of issues."
Northwest Arkansas includes the headquarters of Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt Transport as well as the University of Arkansas campus. The rise of Springdale High as a state power mirrored the region's increased clout. When Malzahn brought his no-huddle offense to Arkansas and Mustain signed, too, their fans thought their storybook rise would continue.
But the leap from Friday night to Saturday is always wider than it appears on signing day. The number of coaches and quarterbacks who can make that leap in their first year is at least two fewer than the people of Springdale believed.
The Springdale fans blamed Nutt.
"That's kind of my problem in this area right now. The further south I go [in the state], I'm a better coach," Nutt said.
There is no question that Nutt didn't handle the Springdale group well. He hired Malzahn to install a no-huddle offense and changed his mind one week into the season. Mustain felt betrayed not only by the offensive change but by losing his job early in the South Carolina game. Nutt may have had good reason to bench Mustain, but he failed to get the quarterback to buy into the move being the best for the team. That's a coach's job.
But it also should be pointed out that two other Springdale signees from a year ago, tight end Ben Cleveland and flanker Andrew Norman, remain Razorbacks.
Not long after the "Springdale three" left, a self-described supporter of Arkansas athletics acquired Nutt's cell phone records through a Freedom of Information Act request. Media members across the nation, including this one, received pdf files detailing Nutt's communications.
The innuendo came at no extra charge. Nutt's detractors have put him in the impossible position of proving a negative -- he must have cheated on his wife because there is no proof that he did not.
It is a maneuver borrowed from national politics, Rovian in style and execution. Karl Rove, the chief political advisor to President George W. Bush, made his career on attacking an opponent's strength. In the 2004 presidential election, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth eviscerated Sen. John Kerry's stature as a war hero. Kerry's candidacy never recovered.
Rove had no visible affiliation with the Swift Boat Veterans, except that a tactic he made famous benefited his candidate.
Nutt wouldn't be the first head coach whose eye for talent proved as shrewd off the field as on. The incessant demands of coaching, when accompanied by its celebrity status, have strained plenty of marriages.
But if ever there was a guy unlikely to stray, it's Houston Dale Nutt.
He is the oldest of four boys, the star of the First Family of Arkansas Sports. Nutt's father, the late Houston Sr., taught and coached at the Arkansas School for the Deaf for 31 years. Houston Sr. and his brothers barnstormed the state, playing basketball against local teams. Houston Dale, as he was known then, and his brothers and cousins would open the show with a pint-sized, Globetrotter-esque exhibition.
It was Houston Dale who made all-state as quarterback and point guard at Little Rock Central, Houston Dale who signed to fulfill his dream and play for coach Broyles. When Broyles retired as coach after Nutt's freshman year, coach Lou Holtz came to Fayetteville and installed the option. Nutt, after a year, transferred to Oklahoma State.
The other athletes in Iba Hall in Stillwater nicknamed Nutt "Daddy" because he always knew that night's curfew. He served as the designated driver before that phrase became popular. Houston would drive his new teammates to the evening's entertainment, go back to the dorm and wait for them to phone him for a ride home.
"To this day, I don't know if he has ever been to a club," said Dickey, who played basketball with Houston at Oklahoma State. "I know he has never had a drink Houston was 'perfect.' Houston grew up with that reputation. When you attack his character, you wound him."
Which was exactly the point. They attacked his strength, and all the time Nutt has spent defending his fidelity has taken away from his time as head coach.
"When you lose that last game or two after great expectations, that tends to be what people remember," Broyles said. "But we lost four games against teams ranked fifth, fourth, third and first."
Those are the final coaches' poll rankings for Wisconsin, USC, LSU and Florida, respectively, and just to be clear, Nutt lost the last game or three. At any rate, he would prefer to get ready for the next play.
"This is what we were taught to do," Nutt said, referring to him and his brothers. "It's getting knocked down, and you're raised -- it's in your spirit and soul -- you get back up! It's just, you never been hit like this before. You don't mind getting hit and criticized about a philosophy or a play. But it's being hit this way that is different. But boy, you're raised -- 'It's third-and-8. Let's go.' You get back up. You go."
That's an interesting down-and-distance that Nutt chose. Third-and-8, as every armchair quarterback knows, is difficult to convert.
Ivan Maisel is a senior writer for ESPN.com. Send your questions and comments to Ivan at firstname.lastname@example.com. Information from ESPN.com senior writer Pat Forde was used in this story.
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Tuesday: Nutt house of departures, attacks, innuendo
After coaching Arkansas to a 10-win season and SEC West championship, Houston Nutt should feel great about his career. The reality is something else entirely, writes Ivan Maisel.
Wednesday: Pelphrey hopes to end tumult
Arkansas didn't find out how diminished its basketball product was until the rejections started flowing in. The Hogs' seventh choice faces the task of changing that, writes Pat Forde.
Thursday: The Broyle-ing point
A thoroughly modern melodrama has helped push old-school icon Frank Broyles out the door, and threatens to smudge his sterling legacy on the way out, writes Pat Forde.
Friday: Hog futures
After all the turmoil, departures, firings and hirings, what's next for Arkansas as the school makes the transition to a new era in Razorback athletics? Ivan Maisel canvassed the state to find out.
Podcast: Pat Forde and Ivan Maisel discuss Houston Nutt, Frank Broyles and the state of the Arkansas athletics program.
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• Nutt subpoenaed in suit Arkansas calls 'frivolous' (4/25)
• Nutt puts out letter refuting Web rumors (4/17)
• Arkansas names Pelphrey new hoops coach (4/9)
• Two players test positive for marijuana (4/4)
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• Robinson to perform community service (3/27)
• Heath fired after 2nd early tourney exit (3/26)
• Chancellor supports Nutt despite turmoil (2/22)
• DE Robinson is arrested for shoplifting (3/18)
• Arkansas legend Broyles to step down (2/19)
• Arkansas will examine booster, athlete relationships (2/18)
• Arkansas revokes sideline pass for critical e-mail (2/15)
• Nutt denies slamming media (2/9)
• Arkansas trustees backing coach, AD (1/26)
• Fans gather to protest Nutt, AD (1/24)
• Mustain allowed to leave Arkansas (1/16)
• Offensive coordinator Malzahn off to Tulsa (1/15)
• Wide receiver Williams transfers to USC (1/8)
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- Developer: Genius Sonority Inc.
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Then we talked and I asked if he had to buy it or was it issued? "Issued, our sheriff likes 1911's." I told him I carried a Springfield and he said he wished he had one. Well my food was ready, so I said goodbye have a goodnight and walked out.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
7:12 AM | Posted by Jen FitzGerald | | Edit Post
I have nothing exciting to talk about today, so I'm gonna just post pictures I've taken of random things over the last few weeks/months. Oh--wait my birthday was exciting and I do have some pictures of a few of my birthday prezzies.
First this awesome planter--don't you love it?? It's sitting right next to my front door so everyone can see and enjoy it right along with me.
My kids, the ones at home, bought me birthday cards! Wasn't that sweet?? The middle one with the chihuahua is from my mother-in-law and it plays music. :)
Also, Sonshine and DD made me PUPCAKES!!!!!!!!! My favorite cake flavor ever.
(Those're pumpkin cupcakes...)
Let's see...random things...
First a nest of lady bugs in my yard a few months ago. Actually, I can across several beds throughout the lawn. They're probably gone now.
Last weekend I was cleaning up the front yard, raking all the dead leaves out from under the dead hedges, and generally cleaning that area up in preparation for some live plants later...I came across this:
Yes, that's a G.I. Joe doll. He's covered in dirt and leaves and has a leg missing. Sonshine had several of them when he was younger and as he grew up, the way he played with them changed.
Well, that seems like enough for today. Hope you have a grand weekend!!!!
Labels: birthdays, miscellaneous, potpourri, random
2 comments:
- Regina Richards said...
Love the planter!
- June 14, 2013 at 12:42 PM
- Lara Lacombe said...
Cute planter! Glad you had a good birthday :)
- June 15, 2013 at 12:38 AM
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|Well, here we are, a week after Thanksgiving. All the leftovers are gone and our thoughts are turning to decorating and cooking for Christmas. This is the second week I have not lost anything, but I haven't gained either. I guess I have just reached a plateau. I am finding it harder to get as much exercise now that the weather has turned cool and wet. Spin class just isn't as much fun a riding the bike, but I will keep at it (so I can eat for Christmas).
We had our employee lunch at work today and I managed to stay well below my allowed calories for the day (and still ate 2 cookies). Since we have been watching what we eat I find I don't really want as much sweet as I used to (which is a very good thing). I want the most bang for my calorie and that is more vegeies, but I sure do miss my pasta!
I hope everyone is finding some way to get their 30 minutes of movement daily, drinking their water, and closing the kitchen early. Have a wonderful week.
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- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Thu, Nov 30, 06 at 8:44
|Good for you, Beverly!! Maintaining at this time of year is awesome!!!!
I'm on the band wagon again. My new doc apologized to me for doing this to me at this time of year, but he said if I didn't lose some weight I would have full blown diabetes within 5 years. I had lost 4 pounds since I saw him last month, so at least that was something! He recommended the South Beach Diet (he's on it, too). I've been looking into it and plan to start, in earnest, on Monday. Doing without bread, rice and pasta for 2 weeks is my main concern.....right now. We already do the whole grain bread, but will need to start buying wheat pasta and brown rice. Other than that, lots of veggies and lean meat. I'll probably start hitting the fresh veggie stands a couple times a week now and have more bags of veggies in the freezer. Another thing that will be a hurdle is that every once in awhile my stomach seems to need a swallow or two of regular Coke.
Up until now, my DH hasn't been real helpful in any weight loss for me and said I shouldn't have to worry about it at this time of my life. Now he's singing a different tune and told me to let him know what's in the fridge that is mine and he shouldn't eat. HA! He should be eating the same thing as me......but he won't do without his toast every morning.
Sorry for being so 'wordy' this morning......I'm off to watch quilting shows on TV.......
- Posted by glassquilt (My Page) on Fri, Dec 1, 06 at 11:58
|We've got snow and are housebound. My exercise is using the computer at one end of the house and answering the phone at the other end. If I run I can get there before the third ring.
Between DD & SIL's calls and our calls I've been getting a lot today. DGS reminded me that there's a phone in the hall near me. I told him it's the only exercise I get.
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Fri, Dec 1, 06 at 15:25
|Not the best reason to get your exercise, glass, but whatever works! @:) (((((glass)))))
- Posted by geezerfolks (My Page) on Tue, Dec 5, 06 at 22:08
|Here it is Tuesday night already....my second day on the SBD. I think I'm doing ok.....don't feel hungry and surprisingly, not missing my bread! I think the one thing that helps is that I like eggs, so I boiled up a bunch of them and when I feel really hungry and want to munch, I eat one of those.....but I know I should be careful and not overdo it. Had Taco salad (with ground turkey) tonight.....DH loved it! Roasted eggplant last night and don't think I'll do that again....but the other veggies were good....onions, green beans, green peppers. Plan to finish up the taco stuff tomorrow with probably a turkey sandwich (using those huge lettuce leaves instead of bread) and then make soup on Thursday. Friday is shrimp........yeaaaaaaa
Hope y'all are havin' a great week!
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Jul 25, 2014
Elton Chigumbura has been appointed Zimbabwe's One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International captain as the country's cricketing setup has witnessed a few changes. The call was made after Zimbabwe were beaten by Afghanistan in the fourth ODI recently and the series was shared by both teams. Brendan Taylor would remain Zimbabwe's Test captain.
The decision to split captaincy was made during Zimbabwe Cricket's (ZC) recent meeting. The other big development was that Peter Chingoka resigned as the chief of the body after 22 years. Wilson Manase will take over as the chairman of ZC.
This is Chigumbura's second stint as Zimbabwe captain. Taylor had succeeded him after the 2011 World Cup.
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Rozen Maiden
Rozen is the Millenium Earl. The Alice Game is to find a perfect CPU for his new Ark.Both Rozen and the Millenium Earl are based off of Count de Saint Germaine or Count di Caligostro. It would be likely that the Millenium Earl is using the Rozen Maidens as his backup plan. The Maidens are obviously more complex and more powerful than the typical Akuma, so they probably have some important role in this backup plan, which the Earl initiated even as he was coming into conflict with the Black Order. The claim that the Alice Game is to find Rozen's perfect daughter is a half-truth—his perfect daughter will serve as the new CPU to his most recent Ark, a CPU loyal to only him. To keep the Exorcists from noticing, he moved the next Alice Game to Japan. There, one of the dolls, Shinku, was found by Jun. The Rosa Mystica and the Artifical Spirits are powered by Dark Matter. The cross-dimensional nature of the dolls and the Ark created the intersecting universes of the first and second manga series.
The events of the series happen in the past of the Soukou no Strain world.See the S-Strain page for details.
Kirakishou could have been born if Enju hadn't been around.I think Kirakishou was doomed to be forever trapped in the N field because Enju stole her incomplete body and used it to make Barasuishou's. Rozen died/disappeared soon after and the last Rosa Mystica never received a body to be installed into.
Rozen is an alchemistHe's perfected the two holy grails of alchemy, the Water of Life making one immortal, and the homunculus Artificial Human. But is still unable to perfect the Philosopher's Stone itself which is the ultimate goal of alchemy. The Roza Mystica are actually imperfect Philosopher's Stones and the Alice Game is a system of refining the stones. The dolls can either absorb each other's Roza Mystica or refine there own into a perfect stone itself. The doll becoming a perfect girl is actually a mere side of effect of rozens true of goal creating the Philosopher's Stone, as for what Rozen has been doing all this time he has been trying different experiments to create stones but occasionally checks up on his homunculi to see if they've created a true philosophers stone.
The series actually takes place during (what else?) Instrumentality.Except it's NOT Shinji's dream - it's Asuka's nightmare. The only male human around is a hikikomori (read: "loser") ranked only one step higher than baka-Shinji on the manliness scale. Asuka herself is invisible, imperceptible, unnoticed. And dude...homicidal dolls.
Rozen is Enju's fatherAnd Enju created Barasuishou to prove him that he could do better, or at least, be equal. But then, he stole Kirakishou's body, thus, making him a loser. This still sounds too much as Shinji, but hey, there are many losers out there.
Suigintoh is really really gay for shinku and wants her in the most intimate way possibleSex? No. The rosa mystica are the dolls "souls" after all and what could be more intimate than merging with someone? This is her way of reconciling her massive gay for shinku along with her feelings of betrayal and desire to become Alice. Note that when she was destroyed at the end of season 2 while souseiseki went straight towards barasuishou(and by extension suiseiseki.) suigintoh herself made a beeline for shinku.
Shinku is really a MMA championLook at the fighting styles of all of the dolls. Every doll uses her artificial spirit as a weapon...except Shinku! She punches Suigintou. Repeatedly. And note how in her interactions with Jun, she uses her hair as a weapon. Clearly, Rozen designed Shinku to embody his secret love for mixed martial arts!
Rozen had a real daughterWe're told that the purpose for creating the Rozen Maiden is for Rozen to create the perfect daughter: Alice. The fact that Rozen even used a specific name seems to imply that Rozen really did have a daughter. In idealising her to be perfect, he could never create a living doll that matched all the aspects of her personality. At this point he either decided that he could never make a girl like Alice and gave up on the dolls, allowing them to fight amongst themselves, or succombing to defeat, decided to make the doll that fought hardest his daughter (backed up by how Rozen apparently gives Suigintou a torso). The dolls don't really become Alice - evidence points to rosa mysticae merely making dolls stronger, not changing their personalities. In fact, when Hinaichigo was living off of excess energy from Shinku, she retained her personality and Shinku didn't change at all (apart from, as aforementioned, in power).
Rozen's full name is Rozen Margatroid.Alice Margatroid is Rozen's daughter, who died, explaining her presence in what amounts to Hell. Eeh... I'll assume a <s>fetish</s> love for dolls runs in the bloodline.
Rozen is Akio Ohtori in disguise.The true purpose of the Alice Game is to create a replacement for the Rose Bride should she come unruly, or a new, improved model that can fight the Swords of Humanity's Hatred, instead of just enduring their torment. Look at all the rose-motifs in the series, as well as Rozen's cold attitude towards the creations he professes to love, and how he can inspire nearly religious worship in them with most minor gestures. And besides, the little that we have seen of Rozen essentially looks like a palette-swapped Akio.
Rozen was a fan of Alice Human Sacrifice.But since he didn't like the Vocaloids' original designs, nor the fact that there were Alice boys, he decided to make his own, and tweak the story a bit (if not a lot). And the Alice game is, somehow, a way to decide who's the badassest of all Alices. Similarities?
Rozen Maiden is a Christian Allegory. Rosen=God, Enju=Satan, Bara-suishou=the antichristIt's pretty clear to me that Rozen is some type of God figure. He's immortal, not a vampire, and he's referred to as "father." Christians also refer to God as Father. Also, only God can give creatures life, this Rozen does through his Rosa Mysticas. If Rozen is/reprisents God, then Enju is/reprisents Satan. Why? According to Christian lore, Satan rebelled against God because he wanted to be supreme ruler of all. He also didn't want to bow to humanity- one of God's creations. Enju's situation paralles this. Enju does not want to admit that Rozen is the better dollmaker. (Doing so would be essentially bowing down to Rozen and his beloved dolls.) Instead, Enju decides to prove he is the better doll maker, much like Satan rebelling against his creator. He essentially makes an "anti" Rozen maiden, our friend Bara-suishou. Enju, through Bara-suishou tempts the Rozen Maidens into particpating in the Alice game, much like the Anti-Christ is said to be a vehicle for Satan to tempt humanity. Also, Bara-suishou is clearly a Rozen copy. The anti-Christ is a false copy of Jesus, ergo Bara=the Anti Christ. Yes, everybody is Jesus in purgatory and I'm sure I've just gotten on the hit list of several Rozen Maiden fans.
Suigintou was supposed to be Alice
Jun is either Rozen himself, Rozen's Reincarnation or his son.Note how he is a genius dollmaker, incredibly intelligent despite spending most of his time at home doing few to nothing, seems to be capable of repairing Rozen Maiden (a task that's supposed to be neight impossible), how the Demon of Laplace (a.k.a.: Rozen's referee for the Alice Game) interacts more with him than any other character in the series and how all the dolls seem to fall for him to a certain degree, when they are actually pretty much "programmed" to strive for father's love and nothing else. (Shinku and Suiseiseki obviously have a crush on him, Hinaichigo was strongly hinted to feel the same, Canari is a little more ambigious, but also hinted, Souseiseki considers herself his Personal Slave and Kirakishou went even more Ax-Crazy than she already was because of him. Suigintou... ah, she's too busy being a jerk and mourning for Megu.) In extension, the Demon of Laplace is the personification of an aspect of Rozen that Jun does not embody... kinda his "missing part".
Kaito Toriumi will create Barasuishou. He's already making 'fake' Rozen Maidens to serve as mooks for Kirakishou. Who else sees Barasuishou coming as Kirakishou's Dragon, since Kaito's basically the manga equivalent of Enju?