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CANTON St. Lawrence County District Attorney Mary E. Rain has instituted a policy that could change the landscape of courtrooms across the county.
Ms. Rain recently authorized all police agencies in the county to have their officers prosecute vehicle and traffic violations.
Its something that is a program that is established across the state. It was in effect when I was a patrolwoman 30 years ago when I started and I liked it, Ms. Rain said. It is something that many of the patrolmen like. It allows officers to establish beyond reasonable doubt and understand it better when they are dealing with more serious cases.
Ms. Rain said the new policy is not something that police officers are required to use, but the option will be there for them.
It is not a you must. It is a you may, she said.
Police officers will be allowed to prosecute only violations for which they issued the ticket. A court-ordered appointment as a special prosecutor will not be required.
Massena Village Police Chief Timmy J. Currier said Ms. Rain had discussed her plan with him before taking office.
This is not a new concept. We had been gearing up to do this under the previous administration (former District Attorney Nicole M. Duve), which included the training of our staff, Mr. Currier said. It is more important for the prosecutors to be focused on more serious criminal cases. Our staff are more than qualified to prosecute our own tickets.
Mr. Currier said he suspected there initially will be a spike in the number of vehicle and traffic law violations that are contested, but once offenders find police officers are well qualified to prosecute the cases, the numbers will drop to their typical level.
He also said it was unlikely the move would affect his departments budget. The departments contract pays off-duty officers a minimum of two hours of overtime when they are called in for a trial.
If there is a trial, the officer has to be there, he said. Our court overtime cost is under $7,000 a year.
Potsdam Village Police Chief Kevin M. Bates said he is not against the new approach, but some experience is needed ahead of time for members of his department.
Due to the large caseload that the DAs office has, I would not be opposed to officers prosecuting their own traffic violations. Before we start prosecuting, however, because my officers have not prosecuted before, I would like the DAs office to give some training and guidance so they are familiar with the proceedings, Mr. Bates said. Once thats been done, I dont think it would be a big deal.
Ms. Rain said the change will be beneficial to those being prosecuted as well.
Many times people who plead guilty for traffic violations just want to talk to a prosecutor in court. Now they can have any of their experiences heard and their problems can be heard right then and there. Hopefully we can resolve it before they go to trial since they will have access to a prosecutor during the day right out in court, Ms. Rain said. We give the public access to the court whereas they were denied before. I dont think it will have an effect on the budgets.
Potsdam Village Administrator David H. Fenton also said he doesnt think the change will affect the police departments budget dramatically.
Typically the police officer has to be at the trial anyway, and they get a certain amount of overtime. So I dont see it affecting the budget too much, Mr. Fenton said.
I think were going to have to wait and see if it affects our budget. We will see how long it takes to prosecute each trial. As time goes on, the trials will get easier, Mr. Bates said. We will have to do some and see if it affects overtime. At this time its hard for me to tell if theres going to be an effect on our overtime budget.
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Rockfax DescriptionThis route is actually called Penny, however the name has been known for longer as Katana (a Japanese sword) which is a much better name describing the look and feel of the diagonal slit across the wall. It is a sustained affair and a real test-piece. Start just left of the crack, and make a difficult and committing move to gain it. Follow it to King Bee Crack, and on to the top. © ROCKFAX
UKC Logbook DescriptionThis route is actually called Penny, however the name has been known for longer as Katana (a Japaneese sword) which is a much better name describing the look and feel of the diagonal slit across the wall. It is sustained and painful affair, and a real test-piece. Start just left of the crack, and make a difficult and committing move to gain the it. Follow it to King Bee Crack, and on to the top.
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On daves gearRamon Marin - Lead β - 29/Sep/15 with dave pickford
Hannes B - Lead O/S - 01/Aug/15 with Neil C, Aidan
Hidden - 2nd - 25/Jul/15
Good, bit pumpy!andi turner - Lead - 17/May/15 with pete bridgwood
Fell off the start, again!MichaelGallimore - 2nd rpt - 19/Apr/15 with Andy Cmc
jamestaylor92 - Lead O/S - 05/Apr/15 with tom morgan, james slater
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 05/Apr/15
Hidden - Lead dog - 20/Sep/14
Struggled alot again. Start took me about 6 attemptsMaddie - 2nd dog - 23/Aug/14 with remus
Hidden - Lead O/S - 23/Aug/14
Dan Hostford - 2nd dog - 23/Aug/14 with Remus Knowles, Maddie Sweetman, Alun Freem, Remi Richards
Ed morris - Lead O/S - 11/Aug/14 with stefan
Stefan_Morris - 2nd O/S - 11/Aug/14 with Edmundmorris
I did get pumped, but not too pumped, more like end of the day fatigue.Rachel Slater - Lead O/S - 28/Jun/14 with James Oswald
Fell off when my foot slipped off a huge foothold on the last metre. All the holds are much worse than they look.. James Oswald - 2nd dog - 28/Jun/14 with Rachel Slater
Awesome route, practised once on shunt the week before. Pumpy but took ages on it. First E4 6aalexjz - Lead RP - 18/Jun/14 with Jennifer Holloway
Hidden - Lead O/S - 16/Jun/14
top rope with shunt. Brilliant line, will return to lead italexjz - TR dog - 11/Jun/14
soft i think but brill lineAlistair Corbett - Lead O/S - 10/Jun/14 with Matt Robinson
C coldwell-storry - Lead O/S - 08/Jun/14 with Neil Chelton
Sustained and hard. mes32 - 2nd dog - 26/May/14 with Wilki
So much gear! Classnathanlee - Lead O/S - 25/May/14 with Henry Francis, Jack Lawledge, Oli Grounsell
bwestwood - 2nd - 09/May/14
pie_eater_pete - Lead O/S - 09/May/14
Glyn - Lead O/S - 26/Apr/14 with Amy
Amy UT - 2nd - 25/Apr/14 with Glyn
Brilliant route, what a line! Darren's was so steady and managed to lace the thing. None of the moves were a give-away, everything required thought and specific body positioning. Didn't notice any 6a moves though, it felt like mostly 5c moves seperated by a few barely adequate rests. The crux for me was where it steepens shortly before joining KBC. dswansonlow - 2nd O/S - 12/Apr/14 with Darren McMaster
Awesome line and a quality route! The climbing isn't obvious and the holds are never straight forward meaning the moves look/feel impossible until you change you body position slightly. Not really my style but felt nice and steady on it. Took a few attempts climbing up and down to commit to the crux moves at the bottom of the route. Once that was done it was sustained climbing all the way but managed to find a rest and place a sinker nut after almost every move so absolutely laced the route and never actually got pumped. Fantastic!shed_hed - Lead O/S - 12/Apr/14 with Dougie Swanson-Low
Seymore Butt - 2014
I went off route at the first few metres before reaching the main crack, climbed back down and went for the correct line. But I was too pumped, so climbed back down to the ground. Rob kindly retrieved the gear I left by various tactics. Next time! It will be still an onsight ascent, as I didn't weigh any gear.masa-alpin - Lead dnf - 13/Oct/13 with Rob G
Hidden - Lead O/S - 24/Jun/13
Owain Llewelyn - Lead rpt - 20/Jun/13 with Gareth E
Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/Jun/13
First E4. Hell yeah! So drained by the top. Ace route. For clarity, the one called Penny in the Gogarth North definitive and Katana almost everywhere else.AJM - Lead O/S - 30/May/13 with Tom Lambert
Good lead from Andy. Seconded with one slip due to the mounting pump.Tubs - 2nd dog - 30/May/13 with AJM
Sweated out of the flared jams on the last move before the easy climbing. Gutted.Chriswallis2 - Lead dog - 30/May/13 with Rachel, Dumpster Dave
Hidden - Lead O/S - 25/May/13
Matt Cooke - Lead O/S - 05/May/13 with Tom Jagger
Safe as houses, sporty moves, great for pushing your grade.Luke_G - Lead dog - 05/May/13 with Danny Crump
Dave Parton - Lead O/S - 04/May/13 with Adam Ellwood
Danny Crump - 2nd - 04/May/13 with Luke Green
Still very hard - too hard. Insanely good lead by GwenSardien - 2nd dog - 03/Mar/13 with Gwen Lancashire
PennyJRae - Lead O/S - 09/Dec/12 with M Watson
Very very good. Really sustained then a distinct 6a crux at the top, maybe a 6a move at the bottom too. JRae - Lead O/S - 09/Dec/12 with M Watson
found this really had when i lead it, didn't even get pumped this timemwatson - 2nd rpt - 09/Dec/12
Came off at the beginning after wrestling with a cam for a while. Very pumpy route but fine if you keep moving.MichaelGallimore - 2nd O/S - 04/Nov/12 with Stephan
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 22/Sep/12
Rachel Somerville - 2nd dog - 14/Aug/12 with Nik
mshorter - Lead O/S - 20/Jul/12 with dunc
Helena did amazing on the lead. I found it very puzzling to read the route - where and how to hold the holds. Amazing moves tho.Sardien - 2nd dog - 25/Jun/12 with Helena Robinson
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 04/Jun/12
Hidden - 2nd rpt - 12/May/12
Hidden - 2nd rpt - 06/May/12
Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/May/12
Hidden - Lead - 06/May/12
switch - Lead rpt - 05/May/12 with Leanne
Hidden - Lead O/S - 21/Apr/12
Hidden - Lead O/S - 19/Nov/11
Ewan Russell - Lead O/S - 12/Nov/11 with Connor
Hidden - 2nd - 12/Nov/11
Andy Hardy - 2nd - 27/Aug/11
Hidden - Lead O/S - 25/Aug/11
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 25/Aug/11
dan ely - Lead RP - 21/Aug/11 with emily
Poorish holds for a few moves at the end but gd kit by the quartz crimp then a bit of manouvreing yourself to take the crack the correct way.mynyddresident - Lead β - 17/Aug/11 with erika
Good route but I see this is hard E4 according to the votes. Get a grip! Wouldn't have complained if this was graded E3 5c. Sustained, well protected but never hard and not even that pumpy.gforce - Lead O/S - 07/Aug/11 with Emma
dan ely - Lead dog - 01/Aug/11 with pearce
Hidden - 2nd dog - 16/Jul/11
dannyboy83 - 2nd O/S - 07/Jul/11 with Jake
No 6a moves on this, just steady pumpy 5c with tons of gear! Quality route. jacobjlloyd - Lead O/S - 07/Jul/11 with Dan Barbour
stevebarratt - Lead O/S - 10/Jun/11 with Rob Sandercock
first onsight e4 attempt. wish i had paid more attention to the last sentence in description "follow the pumpy crack". down climbed twice then went for it. got halfway then heavens opened. lowered off ...... ps. loose block is now neatly placed at the bottom of the climb if anybody wants to put it back! vertically_challenged - Lead dnf - 07/Jun/11
nic's gear for the 1st half... put loads of gear in the 2nd half for some mad reason... pump..wolf.leeb - Lead β - 31/May/11 with nic
Too much time contemplating the tricky bit above the loose block. Handed over the reigns..mynyddresident - Lead dnf - 31/May/11 with wolf
mynyddresident - 2nd - 31/May/11 with wolf
lost.arrow - 30/May/11
Bit tougher when wet - quartz was very greasy.ksjs - 2nd rpt - 11/May/11 with Joey
Soooooooo pumpy but great gear all the way up. A real sting in the tail too.Owain Llewelyn - Lead β - 27/Apr/11 with Dad
Liam FLeming - Lead - 17/Apr/11
switch - 2nd rpt - 13/Mar/11 with Jo Bertalot
Hidden - Lead - 01/Mar/11
Hidden - Lead O/S - Mar/11
Toby Dunn - 2011
Hidden - 2011
centurion05 - 2011
mwatson - 2011
never been so pumped!!! could barely squeeze cam towards the end of the crack! a good fight!willoates - Lead O/S - 10/Oct/10 with lawrence
Got spanked on this a couple of weeks ago, went back and managed to control the pump to the top. Best line on the crag maybe? Brilliant route!david morse - Lead RP - 07/Oct/10 with duncan+heather
Went or it onsight, but couldnt get crucial wire in...que Dave who crushed it! He lowered off and then I went up on his gear, blasted through overlap crux, but got shut-down trying to read the crackline...then had a bit of a dogfest but only got another piece of gear up...gonna get fit and have it!!!!Duncan Campbell - Lead dnf - 07/Oct/10 with Florence the Machine, Dave Morse
Hidden - Lead dog - 12/Sep/10
i think other comments say all that needs saying. ian caton - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/10 with Abi
Hidden - Lead - 08/Aug/10
London Luke - Lead - Jul/10
ian caton - Lead O/S - 30/May/10 with roger, Abi
ellis - Lead O/S - 15/May/10 with Tom Bridgeland
Luke Brooks - Lead - 12/May/10 with John Orr
Climbed back from 1/3rd height. Will try it again when I'm less knackered. Adam Booth - Lead dnf - 08/May/10
JulesV - Lead O/S - 03/May/10 with Shauna Cunningham
hard work Shauna - 2nd dog - 03/May/10 with Jules
pumpy but no stopper movesRowansb - Lead O/S - 02/May/10 with sean
datoon - Lead dog - 02/May/10 with K
Final Solution not Penny. 2nd time on this and really, start and finish aside, its very straightforward at E3. gear at the end is very good so no issues if you do peel off. a more controlled effort to leave the crack this time but still awkwardksjs - Lead rpt - 11/Mar/10 with owen
Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/Feb/10
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 06/Feb/10
Got mega pumped, fell..rested and finisheddrewish - Lead - 06/Feb/10 with Hervacious
Hidden - Lead - 22/Jan/10
Tried it half a year ago and came off, went quite smoothly this time. not over till its overMike Goldthorp - Lead RP - 17/Jan/10 with alex mason, Herve
Hidden - 2010
Dave Searle - Lead O/S - 31/Oct/09 with gav
Now called Penny?!Rich Kirby - 2nd rpt - 17/Oct/09 with Kev
Now called Final Solution - why on earth would you go changing the names after 20 years!Rich Kirby - Lead O/S - 17/Oct/09 with Kev
Hidden - 2nd rpt - 17/Oct/09
Was meant to be an attempt on sai dancing, but got bored of trying to find where this route went and followed the crack to the top. Sai dancing seems a very contrived line...smallerrich - Lead O/S - 27/Sep/09 with James
farmus21 - 2nd - 27/Sep/09 with Rich Cannell
Glyn - Lead O/S - 16/Sep/09 with Tony Stone
Think this is actually called final solution. Gnarly, started up sai dancing struggled for gear. then entered the crack and rode a pump all the way to the top.Alex Mason - Lead O/S - 24/Aug/09 with Guy VG
On steves gear, but hung around it for authenticity, great route with a great line. Soft but way too pumpy for an E3 leader?Alex Mason - Lead β - 24/Aug/09 with Steve Ramsden
Ram MkiV - Lead O/S - 24/Aug/09 with Al
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 22/Aug/09
Hidden - Lead dog - 18/Aug/09
Toby Dunn - Lead O/S - 13/Aug/09 with Andy Reeve
Rob Pitt - Lead rpt - 13/Aug/09 with Keith Scarlett
ksjs - 2nd rpt - 13/Aug/09 with rob
after a spanking on it earlier in the year I got back on it. It still hurt, but went better this time. mux - Lead - 01/Aug/09 with Barry
felt alot steadier this time round. But i was seconding. good effort will doing it straight off.Ed Booth - 2nd - 01/Aug/09 with will sim
Hidden - Lead O/S - Aug/09
Hidden - 2nd O/S - 18/Jun/09
Oli - Lead O/S - 18/Jun/09 with Dave Johnson
mattyork2 - Lead O/S - 07/Jun/09 with Adam Hodgson and Emma Twyford
C Mclean - Lead O/S - Jun/09 with Ben Macnally
Toby Dunn - Lead O/S - 02/May/09 with Joe Bawden
correct name = Final Solution (right to left diagonal crack parallel and right of Penny [previously Katana]). very good with good gear throughout. think the 2nd peg on Sai Dancing has snapped but still easy to protect. exciting the crack is harder than you might like - save some juice...ksjs - Lead O/S - 11/Apr/09 with goosebump
Hidden - Lead rpt - 05/Apr/09
Luke Brooks - Lead O/S - 01/Apr/09 with Tom Eagle
barni - Lead dog - 23/Jan/09 with Shoulders
barni - Lead dog - 14/Dec/08 with Sam
Hmmmm. Relieved to pull into 'King Bee Crack.' Techincal, sustained climbing between inventive poor rests proved to be the order of the day. Another 'on-off' moment experienced on this route when moving into the upper crux- scary! The start seemed protectable but on bounce test the 'baby bouncer' setup all ripped out with a hail of high velocity metal work. Pumpy! mattyork2 - Lead O/S - 15/Nov/08 with Pete Harrison
lukea - Lead O/S - 08/Oct/08 with Al
Dave Rumney - AltLd O/S - 28/Sep/08 with Tanya Milner
feilx - Lead O/S - 02/Aug/08 with Phil Davis
dan gibson - Lead O/S - 18/Jul/08 with sam read
Hidden - TR O/S - Jul/08
Hidden - Lead - 04/Jun/08
centurion05 - TR O/S - 13/May/08
Docent - Lead O/S - 10/Feb/08 with sari
dctarrant2000 - Lead O/S - 25/Oct/07 with Polly Tarrant
barni - Lead dog - 02/Sep/07 with Guy
good, relatively sustained climbing with only 1 trickier section. physical if you havent got stamina but good gear throughout. soft E4.ksjs - Lead O/S - 25/Aug/07 with goosebump
nige - Lead - 24/Jul/07 with mark hounslea
Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Jul/07
KKilroy - 2nd O/S - 2007 with Luke
a_radiohead_fan - Oct/06
IOAN D - Lead O/S - 04/Aug/06 with rick
Hidden - Lead G/U - 18/May/06
Ian McNeill - 2006
Chris Reid - Lead O/S - 28/May/05
ali_robb - Lead O/S - Jul/04
Completed the top after, Si and Tom couldn't top outrapidrich - Lead β - 24/Mar/03 with Si
Hidden - Lead O/S - 2002
Hidden - Lead O/S - 05/May/01
Hidden - Lead O/S - 13/Apr/01
tuftynick - Lead O/S - 2001
Hidden - Lead O/S - 01/Aug/00
sadams - Lead O/S - 30/May/00 with Tom Briggs
nige - 2nd - Mar/00 with mark hounslea
Hidden - Lead dog - 2000
Tim M - Lead O/S - 2000
Hidden - Lead β - 30/May/99
Hidden - Lead O/S - 30/May/99
Hidden - 2nd - Jun/98
michael burrows - Lead dog - 16/Mar/97 with sandy dobie
Rich Kirby - Lead dog - 1997 with Hugh
Hidden - Lead - 1995
jfletcher - Lead O/S - 16/Apr/94 with Nick Wharton
Stoney Boy - Lead O/S - 21/Apr/93 with Bob Marks, Neil McCallum
Nick Biven - 2nd - 13/Sep/92 with Rich Whitwell
Mark Kemball - Lead - 13/Aug/92 with Alison Dorey
mik1miller - Lead O/S - 1990
Hidden - Lead O/S - 1986
GuyM - 1985
Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
mzk, Tom Livingstone, samrad, Huw Cropper, alexanderjwatts, rustaldo, Ian Jones, simeclimb68, karmaclimbing, Ched, jamiev, Bennykr, lukea, Will Jung, MPL


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Note that this is a beta version, currently Windows only. Be sure to back up your work before using the plugin!
If you installed the previous version make sure you delete both the PoserUtilities01.ZSC file and PoserUtilitiesData folder from your ZBrush 4R2\ZStartup\ZPlugs folder before installing the new version.
Unzip the zip file to your Desktop making sure that the unzipping program preserves the file/folder structure. Generally a folder called 'PoserUtilities02' will be created. Inside this will be the actual plugin files/folder. You should have a PoserUtilities02.ZSC file and a PoserUtilitiesData folder (which contains the libPoserIO.DLL file). Copy the PoserUtilities02.ZSC file and PoserUtilitiesData folder to your ZBrush 4R2\ZStartup\ZPlugs folder and then restart ZBrush. You will find a new submenu called 'Poser Utilities' in the ZPlugin palette.
*Export Groups to OBJs
Press the 'Export Groups to OBJs' button to export an OBJ for each group of the current mesh.
This button will export the selected mesh in ZBrush as separate OBJ files for each polygroup. The filenames will be the names of the groups in ZBrush. If the polygroups were assigned in ZBrush then these names will be something like 'Group43598'. If an OBJ was imported into ZBrush then the group names are preserved so long as no new polygroups where created inside ZBrush. That 'Save As' dialogue is just for selecting a folder for the files; the entered file name will not be used.
*SubTools to Groups
Press 'SubTools to Groups' button to export the visible SubTools as separate groups to a single OBJ file. The SubTool name will be the name of the group and duplicate names will have '_copy' added. Currently UVs are NOT exported. Note that the selected subdivision level for each SubTool will be used so make sure to set all to the level you want before exporting.
*Export OBJ
Press the 'Export OBJ' button to export an OBJ so that unused points are restored. ZBrush 4R2 will remove unused points when importing an OBJ; this option will restore them (as well as any groups and group names that are in the original file). When you press the button you will first be asked to choose a file name to save the new OBJ, then you will be asked to select the original OBJ that you exported from Poser. (Note that if you select this file as the 'Save As' file the plugin will still work but your original file will be overwritten.)
Download here : PoserUtilities02.zip
*Updated January 4 2012 - to include exporting SubTools to Groups
I hope you find this useful. Please post any questions/suggestions in this thread.


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An abundance of tropical moisture continues to flow in across Southwest Florida keeping the local weather pattern quite soggy over the next couple of days. Many places Monday received 2 inches or more in the rain gauge, and with more on the way. A flood watch has been issued through Wednesday evening for Lee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties.
Cloudy skies will once again kick off our Tuesday morning with temperatures in the middle to upper 70s. With a cool front to the north and a humid flow coming in off the Gulf of Mexico, downpours will be possible not only during the morning hours but through the afternoon, as well. The rain shouldn't be an all-day event, but plan on dodging some heavy downpours from time to time which could produce some localized flooding. Due to the clouds and rain, daytime highs will remain in the middle 80s.
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WP got their Absa Currie Cup campaign back on track with a 59-17 trashing of the Leopards at Newlands and the coach said he thought it was important to get back to winning ways again.
"I'm definitely satisfied with the result. It wasn't a perfect game for us. It was a bit scratchy at stages, but one has to realise that we're starting from right at the bottom again.
"We are crawling again - hopefully we'll be walking next week and then hitting the ground running after that. I'm very pleased with eight or nine tries and I think the youngsters did particularly well.
"It's a pity about (flyhalf) Lionel (Cronjé) who did his hamstring tonight, but in general I'm pleased with the performance."
The coach was realistic enough though to admit there still is a lot of hard work to be done. "I don't think you can take things for granted. Just because you get your Boks back, doesn't mean that things will just fall into place.
"You still have to go out there and work and earn respect - you can't just throw the ball around willy-nilly against the Leopards. It was a matter of the platform and foundation had to be laid by the pack and to see them dominate like that was pleasing."
Coetzee said he was confident that given time the centre combination of Juan de Jongh and Jean de Villiers will develop into a potent one. "It's a matter of Juan and Jean playing together and getting to know the calls, getting to settle in the system.
"They're world class players and we saw glimpses of that when Juan broke the line. It's a matter of time; it's just about getting back on the horse again."
The former Springbok backline coach said the squad's confidence took a knock with the three consecutive defeats but the win on Saturday would help them to regain it.
"Our confidence took a bit of a knock and this is the result to get us back on the track. Next week we'll have to get the work done. This isn't a case of a story with a happy ending immediately; we'll have to work to get there."
Coetzee said he was not optimistic that Cronjé would be available for Friday's game against the Pumas in Nelspruit. "It is very doubtful that Lionel will be in the mix. He played on with it after a little chip he gave in the first half.
"But players like Fabba (Fabian Juries), Hanyani Shimange and Pieter Louw will definitely be back. Frikkie Welsh is still doubtful. He will be undergoing another test on Monday."


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Donations are now being accepted for the 36th annual Sharing at Christmas program, which will be provide about 250 families with holiday food and toys for their children. Applications to receive assistance must be turned in to the New Albany Gazette office, 713 Carter Ave., by 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6. No phone, mail or […]
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Mueller seeks alderman Ward 4 post
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Nine enter Ward 4 alderman race
Before the qualifying deadline ended Tuesday, two more New Albany residents had joined the race for the Ward 4 New Albany Board of Alderman post. John Ellis and Jason Butler both qualified Tuesday afternoon. They join Will Tucker, Terry Medlin, Jody Walls, Jane Ford, Tim Broom, Bill Morgan and Angele Mueller as candidates in the […]
Local communities to honor Veterans Day in a variety of ways
Veterans of the United States' armed forces will be saluted during several area programs next week in honor of Veterans Day. On Veterans Day, a Blue Star marker, as part of the Blue Star Memorial Program, will be placed in downtown New Albany at the Tallahatchie Bridge as a way to honor veterans of World […]
Proud of Bulldogs
The New Albany Bulldogs football team has completed an undefeated regular season for the first time since 1963. In doing so, the team also tied the most wins ever by a New Albany team, a record set in 1982 by a team that went l1-2 and lost in the state championship game. It's been a […]
Seniors named 'Players of the Week'
The senior class was named the "Players of the Week" for the Oct. 29 game versus Tishomingo County. Seniors include: Reggie Webb, Dalvin Carr, Tyler Basil, Sam Jackson Dunnam, Joshua Googe, Taylor Goode, Shaq Garner, Kareem Brown, Taylor McCreight, Kelvin Worship, Shane Smith, Zach Hand, Timothy Abrams, Zach Marise, Shawn Smith, Collin Stubblefield, Mario Waldrop, […]
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Moses Kingsley can tell you the exact date he started playing basketball. August 27, 2007. Since picking up the game in his native country of Nigeria, the 6'9 Kingsley has grown to love the sport, bringing his talents to New Albany this year. "He's brought a lot of things to the program," Bulldogs' head coach […]
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About once a month, a reunion takes place around New Albany. The occasional lunch date with former Bulldog coach, Bill Ward, gives the gentlemen who played football in the 1960's time to reminisce on the program in the that era, which is parallel to this year, as New Albany completed their first undefeated regular season […]
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Have Republicans learned to love the sequester? All signs indicate that while plenty of House GOP members blanche at the way the automatic spending cuts hit the defense budget and other discretionary spending, they may be willing to hold their noses and let the cuts take effect on March 1.
They're banking that the destructive spending cuts will stall the economic recovery occuring under President Obama long enough to help them win control of Congress and, eventually, the presidency.
It's a dangerous and cynical gamble. The Congressional Budget Office said that sequestration could cost more than one million jobs and send the country into another recession.
Jeffrey Zeints, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, estimates the cuts would leave 16,000 teachers out of jobs, prevent 700,000 women and children from receiving nutrition assistance and leave 100,000 children out of the Head Start program.
The cuts don't just impact public programs. Economists estimate that if non-defense sequestration goes into effect, professional and technical services would lose $600 billion in sales, the manufacturing sector would lose $400 billion, and finance and insurance services would lose close to $400 billion over the next 10 years alone. In 2013, every American worker would lose up to $750 in income and a family of four would see its income reduced as much as $1,800.
The irony is that sequestration was supposed to be so horrible that Congress would never let it happen. It was designed as a stick to force Congress to reach an agreement on how to resolve the nation's deficit spending.
But the brain trust behind sequestration failed to appreciate the stubbornness of the Tea Party Republicans and their willingness to put ideology, and the interests of the wealthy, ahead of the country as a whole. The warning signs were there in the past with party members' foolish refusal to raise the debt ceiling. Even the beginning of the year was marked by a battle of wills that threatened the nation's economy by triggering across-the-board tax increases.
Republicans have already tipped their hand as to their motives, attempting to brand sequestration as a creation of Obama. While his staff did propose the idea as way to break a logjam in budget discussions, Republicans willingly embraced it. In fact, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan called it a victory of bipartisanship and a welcome change in Congress' culture.
The public is unlikely to buy into the GOP's story line. Several polls released since last November's election show Republicans would get the bulk of the blame for the fiscal crisis and it will provide the Democrats with more evidence that the GOP is unable to govern sensibly. Some Democrats have predicted it could win them another 10 seats in the next Congressional elections.
It's troubling that both parties spend more time calculating the political fallout of their various positions, and so precious little time conducting the important business of the country. Both sides need to shelve the politics for now and work on crafting a compromise that prevents sequestration, and the economic downturn that will inevitably follow. The president has asked Congress to use an approach that balances responsible spending cuts with new revenue, generated by steps such as closing tax loopholes that benefit a privileged few. It's a reasonable request.
Some have suggested other options including a mini-deal to buy more time before sequestration takes effect. But the preferred approach would be to work now to address the country's fiscal challenges in a way that recognizes both the need for long-run sustainability and the fragility of the nation's economic recovery. Doing that sooner rather than later would reduce uncertainty and boost household and business confidence.
Instead of worrying about who will be in charge two years from now, it's time for Congress to focus on the present and work on restoring the nation's economy for the long term.
When it looked like the Republicans were completely serious in their threats to refuse to lift the debt ceiling and melt down the world economy, Democrats came up with the sequester proposal. Republicans didn't hesitate to embrace it, most in the House voting for it while most Democrats voted against it and John Boehner who boasted, "I got 98% of what I wanted".
A week ago, Boehner's office sent around a Charles Krauthammer column encouraging Republicans to embrace the budget sequester saying with $1.2 trillion cuts going into effect, this is the one time they can get the cuts they want.
For months, Republicans have been dangling tax reforms with Boehner's December budget pledging to increase tax revenue by $800 billion. Now they reject that even in exchange for cuts to SS/Medicare to replace the sequester.
They can't just say they are fine with the sequester, full speed ahead and then blame the sequester on Obama.
How about some leadership? The Washington croud has our government and our economy so badly managed that we just limp along.
Both parties are to blame, but I give the Democrats more blame for runaway spending.
I'm truly afraid our economy is destined to crash. Spend, and print money! Spend and print money? How long can we go like this.
Obama is saying what hardships the country will face unless the sequester is fixed. If the sequester is so bad, Obama did our country a huge disservice by signing the bill. He signed it, he owns it.
I believe Obama also said he would veto any bill that tries to take the sequester out.
2011,It was the first time in history that a party tried to attach any conditions to increasing the debt limit. Republicans were threatening to not pay our nation's bills, money already spent and send our country into default while demanding huge spending cuts and refusing to consider new revenues. They refused to raise the debt limit without dollar-for-spending but with no revenue to reach that target and couldn't agree on several hundred billion dollars in targeted spending cuts.
May 16, 2011 the US went into technical default but the Treasury Dept was able to string things along for a couple of weeks. The real problem would hit on August 1st.
May 31, 2011, the House Republicans voted no, all 236 of them, on Obama's request for a "clean" debt-limit increase (not hold paying our bills hostage to spending cuts).
More months pass with Republicans still screaming for deep cuts. It looked more and more plausible that Republicans were actually irresponsible enough to push our country into default. With a bomb held over the White House's head, the WH proposed the sequester, the least bad option. What would kick in would be not only automatic budget cuts but also automatic revenue increases.
July 31, 2011, John Boehner sent a PowerPoint presentation to his conference and the final slide made the case for sequestration.
Aug 2, 2011, right up to the wire, the Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed by House Republicans, 218 voting yes. Boehner was very happy, "getting 98% of what he wanted".
Feb, 2013. We've gotten around $2.2 trillion in deficit reduction; Dems have agreed to about $1.5 trillion in spending cuts; Republicans have agreed to about $700 billion in revenues, twice as much in cuts than revenue.
Have we seen the spending cuts yet? Twice before Democrats promised spending cuts for tax increases, we got the taxs but no cuts. I noticed you didn't mention Boehner and Obama had a deal and shook hands on it. At the next meeting Obama demanded 400,000 in more spending thus breaking the deal.
Sequester's Impact from Econbrowser, Feb 20, 2013:
"By the end of 2014, the sequestration would cost roughly 700,000 jobs (including reductions in armed forces), pushing civilian unemployment up. The higher unemployment would linger for several years.
The shifting views on sequestration from Republicans:
Sept 2012, Eric Cantor warned that the sequester cuts would make unemployment "soar" and risked "setting back any progress the economy has made".
Paul Ryan repeatedly said the cuts threatened massive job losses.
John Boehner: "The sequester was designed to be ugly...so no one would go there...it's like taking a meat-axe to federal spending...no one on either side believes this an apporpriate way to reduce the role of government".
About a week ago, Boehner told AP the sequester was a disaster that would present him and his members with nothing but bleak options if it went into effect.
Yesterday, Boehner said in the WSJ that the sequester "threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more". Conservative Byron York is puzzled, questioning, "Why would the Republicans support a measure that threatens national security and thousands of jobs?...Could the GOP message on the sequester be any more self-defeathing?"
Republicans who are looking forward to the sequester taking effect:
Rep. Mike Pompeo asked if he was concerned about the political fallout said, "It's going to be a homerun...I am very optimistic that on March 2nd, we'll all wake up and America will have tremendous respect for what its House of Representatives led".
Rep. Cynthia Lummis said, "Sequestration will take place...I am excited".
Rep. Paul Broun: "I want to see it go into place".
Rep. Scott DesJarlais: "Sequestration needs to happen".
Rep. Tom Cole: "We would rather see those cuts happen".
There are several more Republicans publicly, blithely looking forward to across the board cuts.
It's clear that John Boehner fully understands the sequester is "ugly" and now trying to say it was all Obama's idea even though he sold sequester to his caucus in 2011 and told everyone it was a great accomplishment. The truth is he had no power over his extremist house members who had and have no qualms about shutting down our government, tanking our economy or the global economy or threatening national security. He could not get them behind his own bill in August 2011 and was desperate to find something he could sell to them to avoid our country defaulting on it's debts.
The deficit/debt ceiling is not the same as the economy.The debt/deficit apocalyptic hysteria is a canard. We don't need to start reducing the budget deficit right now, it would actually be very harmful to do that when unemployment is still so high and stuck there.
An IMF report, Oct 2012, looked at their forecasts for European countries' economies and found their predictions were more wrong for countries that implemented severe austerity programs. Greece, already in trouble, and other countries did much worse than expected after austerity programs was forced upon them while countries like Germany which expanded their budgets, did better than expected. Roughly, you get an output loss of 1% for every 1% of austerity.
We can't cut our way to a booming economy. Our government has been hurting the recovery by spending and investing too little. The stimulus should have been bigger. We need so much infrastructure repairs across the country (one legislator made the remark that every bridge should have a sign "cross at your own risk") that investing in that alone would create enormous economic activity and save a ton of money fixing things before they deteriorate even further and cost much more to fix or replace. You work on the debt when the economy recovers.
Boehner came up with a new twist on the sequester Tues. He said it should be "in effect until there are cuts and reforms that put us on a path to balance the budget in 10 years". Hearing that, some Republicans are saying, Whoa. Remember the House Republican budget plan from the last Congress written by Paul Ryan? That didn't balance the budget until 2040 and was projected to run deficits every year for nearly 30 years. It also had very severe spending cuts, Republicans avoided talking about them in public. Boehner's plan to balance the budget in 10 years has Rep. Mike Simpson concerned. He's been telling his constituents "nobody is talking about changing SS/Medicare if you're 55 or older...well, to balance in 10, that 55 is going to move up to 58, 59, 60. It makes us look like we're going back on what we were telling people.." The CBPP crunched the numbers and concluded it would require across the board cuts totaling anywhere from 1/6 to 1/3 of the the government depending on whether defense and/or entitlements are included". Ten years or 30 years, we won't be able to count on SS/Medicare but, hey, balanced budgets!
The GDP report at the end of January showing the economy is shrinking and Republicans said, aha, that means we have leverage because it's bad economic news for Obama. However, the contraction was due to a drop in defense/federal spending. Now the Republicans think this supports their view that we need more spending cuts to help the economy. Huh? Republicans were against the sequester because spending cuts threatened severe harm to the economy but now want to use that to get more spending cuts. If sequestered spending cuts will do much damage to the economy, wouldn't replacing them with other cuts do the same harm? Totally incoherent.
What spending cuts has Obama proposed? Let me get this straight, the Republican House approves the sequester, the Democrat Senate approves the sequester, the Democrat President approves the sequestor, and it's the Republicans fualt? If the sequester is so bad, why did Obama suggest it? Why did he sign it? If he signed a bill that he knew was so bad for the country he was derelict in his duty by signing it.
"Going back on what we were telling the people." That's a good one, government has been doing that for years. S.S. was to be put in a "lock box" when it started. it didn't take Johnson long to put it in the general fund and Clinton to tax your benifits. Both Democrats if I remember right.
I get the feeling that you don't want to cut any spending. Where are we going to get the money to pay for all this spending?
Bonfire, it is obviously up to you ... but seems kinda like trying to argue with Fox News. (In fact, no need for "kinda")
Wow, I haven't heard the words "lock box" in years. No, Johnson did not put the SS Trust Fund into the General Fund. You have access to the internet and can find out the facts. Here are a few places to get you started:
The National Academy of Social Insurance, a non-profit research group that analyzes the findings of the Annual Social Security Trustees report. There you will find section on Social Security and Quick Answers to Common Questions.
"The myth of the Social Security system's financial shortfall", Michael Hiltzik, Chicago Tribune.
"No, the Social Security Trust Fund Isn't a Fiction", Kevin Drum.
It's maddening to hear these groups like Fix The Debt, the Business Roundtable and Simpson-Bowles saying we must "reform" Social Security, Medicare, etc. Fix The Debt and Business Roundtable are made up of very wealthy CEO's who will never have to worry about any social insurance in their senior years or health care costs or their home. Neither will Simpson and Bowles who get $40,000 a speaking engagement to say they are so worried about debt/deficits, there must be large cuts to SS/Medicare. The Business Roundtable CEO's are also quite concerned about SS/Medicare, they want the eligibility age increased to 70. Bless their hearts.
These groups and the major news media keep talking about deficits/debt and cutting SS/Medicare/Medicaid, etc in the same breath but we sure don't hear them talk much about the sweet entitlements the wealthy and corporations enjoy, paying very low taxes or increasingly more common, no taxes at all, stashed money overseas to cheat our government, low capital gains taxes, no financial speculation taxes on Wall Street and on and on. Europe is moving on plans to impose a financial speculation tax. The Joint Tax Committee has estimated that a modest tax on financial speculation here could raise $40 million a year. A study by CRS found that changes in tax law that reduced the federal tax rate on capital gains (in 1996 and again as part of the Bush tax cuts) is "by far the largest contributor" to rising income inequality. This study is similar to a CRS 2011 study which found that while income grew 25% from 1996 to 2006 for all Americans, it grew 74% for the top 1% and 96% for the top 0.1%.
"Where are we going to get the money for all this spending?" Hmm, thinking, thinking. Gee, I'm stumped. Oh that's right, Republicans are standing firm that none of that money come from the 1%, corporate or wall street moochers. So of course, we must pay....again.
btw, The Budget Control Act of 2011 with the sequester thingie that I mentioned above which you evidently didn't read was voted for by 218 Republicans and NO Democrats. I have to say I was surprised to see that Chip Cravaack also voted no.
Obama kept offering cuts and Republicans kept turning them down. You can find this out this stuff easily enough with the google machine.
My memory seemed to fail me, what I found out was it was against the law to take money out of the S.S.fund and put it in the general fund. What Johnson did was take the money out of the S.S. fund and put it in the general fund and replace it with Treasury Bonds, this has been going on ever sense. The question now comes up, with government borrowing about 4B/day(2012 numbers) will the treasury have the money to pay when the bonds come due? Only time will tell, we may be on the hook again.
You seem to think that the 1% should pay more. The sheet I saw (2012 numbers) said that if you took 100% of the adjusted income from the rich you would have enough to run government for 2 1/2 - 3 mo.. If you did that why would the rich work as hard next year? A better question is why would they even stay in this country. Would you work if government took 100% of your earnings? The simple truth is we spend more that we take in, raising taxes will bring us out of this mess. We need to cut spending, for to long Republicans and more so Democrats have traded benifits for votes. Government has gotten to big and has it's fingers in to many things it should stay out of. Do you think government should be telling us what kind of light bulbs we should use? I don't.
"Obama kept offering cuts........." How many times can you play Charlie Brown? You know the one where Charlie goes to kick the football and Lucy takes it away. Twice before Repubs. had deals with Dems.. believe it was $3 cuts for every$1 taxes. We got the taxes but no cuts. If you are really serious lets do the cuts first , than if we need to raise the taxes.
I probably won't be anwering your post should you choose to write. I'm leaving on a week long snowmobile trip.
Mr. Hypocrite, I was wondering if you would show up. Mr.Bonfire and I are having a nice civil discussion. At least he hasn't called me a idiot yet (he may have thought it) which is more than I ever got from you. Have a good day. Is MSNBC still your news channel of choice?
Well, then ... just to keep you happy, you are an idiot. But then, that isn't new or news. And while I surely hope you enjoy your trek in the wilderness ... when you return, perhaps a return to American History ... in this case, not "Lost, Stolen, or Strayed"
I see you recognized your name, very good.
And you, yours. But then it is quite short ... just the five letters.
JayBerg: Glad to hear you are making a week-long snowmobile trip. Where are you going? A neighbor of mine went to Yellowstone one winter and to the Black Hills during another winter. Said the scenery was spectacular. Let us civil people know how the trip went. My machine is just a small one, suitable for day trips for trout fishing, but my health has prevented that for the past couple years. Hope to have it running for next year, probably make a trip up to Kettle Falls or over to Ely.
orrcountry, We are coming up Sunday and will start out on Monday. Not as much traffic on the trails. We start in the Orr area and go to the Northshore. Than up around Grand Marais, make a loop and come back. We don't travel that far in a day as we are all in our 70's, we're not into the fast riding. We try to find a place to stay before dark.
Hope you get your sled going, might see you on the trails next year.
Have a good day
For two years, Obama has offered reducing SS/Medicare spending in return for Republicans agreeing to spreading the fiscal burden, more revenue, but Republicans won't budge. Now Obama is offering to cut spending on retirement programs and cancel out defense cuts in return for more revenue by reducing tax deductions. Paul Ryan says no deal because using revenue from reducing tax deductions to close the deficit wouldn't be available to reduce tax rates. Bipartisan tax reform could produce a half-trillion dollars or more in savings and go a long way to solving our so-called "debt crisis". It can't be much of a crisis to Republicans if every other fiscal priority must give way to giving the wealthy tax breaks they don't need. Where is Congress with the sequester to start in a couple of weeks? They've been on recess the past week.
Today, the wealthiest 400 individuals own more wealth than the bottom half of Americans, 150 million people.
The 6 heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune own more wealth than the bottom 30%.
The top 1% own 40% of all wealth. The bottom 60% own less than 2%.
The bottom 40% own just 3/10 of 1% of the wealth in this country.
According to a new study from the Federal Reserve, median net worth for the middle class dropped nearly 40% from 2007 to 2010, the equivalent of 18 years of savings.
In 2010, 93% of all new income created from 2009 went to the top 1%. The bottom 99% got the remaining 7%.
In NE Minn, every Friday The United Way of NE MN packs 450 school children's backpacks with food for their weekend away from school breakfast and lunch programs.
Tax avoidance saves wealthiest Americans $3 trillion a year coming from special deductions, exemptions, exclusions, credits, capital gains, loopholes and business subsidies.
Only 3% of taxpayers in the top 1% were classified as entrepreneurs. The great majority of entrepreneurs come from middle-class backgrounds with less than 1% coming from very rich or very poor backgrounds. It seems that the vast majority of those so-called job creators prefer to live on their investments.
The U.S ranks 43.2 in income inequality among almost 100 countries according to the CIA.
The largest tax break category is dividends, capital gains taxed at lower rate than wages, 55.5%. A new study showed that changes in tax law that reduced the capital gains income was by far the largest contributor to rising income inequality in the U.S. Capital gains and other investment income were taxed as regular wage income but reduced in 1996 and again as part of the Bush tax cuts.
Corporations paid an average of 22.5% taxes from 1987 to 2008, since then an annual rate of just 10% even though their profits have doubled in less than ten years.
There is no sales tax on U.S. financial transactions which have been estimated at about $3 quadrillion annually despite the high-risk "flash trading" that can lose entire pension funds in a few seconds. Just a half penny of every dollar of financial transactions would pay off not just the national debt but the whole $15 trillion debt. More conservative estimates revenues of a half-trillion dollars annually.
Light bulbs? Seriously? You must not have noticed the price of the non-incandescent bulbs have been steadily coming down and improving in quality and variety. I like that they last much longer and use less electricity. Did you lose your faith in good old american enterprise and competition?
Bravo! Something about FACTS that can set an argument. Well, ... in some cases!!!
Nice back and forth. I would prefer much smaller government and more personal responsibility.
You argue about taxes versus spending cuts. We have a huge problem with annual deficits of a trillion dollars. If you want to keep spending we must raise taxes, but it has to be on all earners not just the top 1% or 10%. If you want government taking care of you we must face reality. Send your money to Washington. They will give you back your share.
Rick, again you are missing a key point. Look back (rather than take our word for it). Note the tax rates and tax income from about 2000 compared to today. Then look at the total spending for "war" over the same gap (noting the unfunded couple wars we have had). Again, don't listen to dumb me ... look it up. Post the numbers for us so it comes from you ... not us dumb folks sucking off the government.
Then, when you have those numbers ... look up what we are spending on "us" ... details. And note where that money is coming from.
In other words, get smart. Quit babbling the tea party talking points which simply do not hold up.
And go back about six months and find the short list of some 125 +/- things which government provides that you seem to no longer want ... like police and fire protection and roads and ...
Go! Start! No ... not back to the tea party. Do some real research. Facts, not opinions. And most of all ... do not listen to me. Absolutely not. I am just a dummy.
jt, rick sathre,
I'm all for personal responsibility too which I see in abundance from most average folks who never get to a 6 figure income. They work hard, help their kids through school, live within their means, etc, etc. Most took a hit in their retirement accounts when the economy melted down and decided to delay retiring, stay in their jobs if they still had them so they had health insurance coverage until they are eligible for SS/Medicare which is social insurance we pay into all of our working lives.They are not moochers.
There was no personal responsibility used by banks/wall street when they bundled up home loans and deliberately and knowingly sold toxic, ready to blow up products to make themselves fabulously wealthy causing the home mortgage crash. We, the taxpayers, paid for this. Then we paid for the bank bailouts to the tune of about $4 trillion. Not only has none of them responsible for cheating us gone to jail, instead they got gigantic, mind boggling bonuses.
Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist who founded an internet media company acquired by Microsoft, was the first investor in Amazon and invested in dozens of companies has written a couple of very interesting op-eds in Bloomberg and Atlantic plus he did a Ted talk. He is one very, very wealthy person who thinks we've had it backwards for 30 years saying, "Rich businesspeople like me don't create jobs. Middle-class consumers do, and when they thrive, U.S. businesses grow and profit. That's why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all is a great deal for both the middle class and the rich".
That reminds me of a wealthy German businessman who was interviewed on Bloomberg TV a couple of years ago, iirc, and the interviewer kept asking him about the high taxes in Germany. He finally said, "I just don't care about the taxes I pay". When the astonished interviewer asked why, he thought for a few seconds and said, "Because I don't want to be a rich man living in a poor country".
Even though we are the richest country in the world, we are becoming a much poorer country, at least 99% of us are. Statistics from the Federal Reserve, in 1978, the top 1% took in under 9% of the nation's income leaving 91% for the rest of us. In 2007, the year BEFORE the crash, the 1% took in 23.5% leaving 76.5% the rest of us. In 2010, it was 1% got 93%, we got 7%.
It should be obvious that this extreme income inequality is very unhealthy in every way for this country, no matter if you are rich, middle class or poor. There is no doubt there is at least a few trillion that the very wealthy/corps owe the U.S. I'm not so sure there is much more blood that can be squeezed out of us turnips.
bonfire & jt:
I see now where your hero Obama has been exposed for originating the sequester idea by Bob Woodword (not exactly a conservative), the reporter who along with Carl Bernstein exposed Nixon for the Watergate affair. Now, we see Obama embarking on personal attacks (just like Nixon did) on one of the finest journalists we have ever known because he won't march in lockstep with Obama and Valerie Jarrett. I have often compared Obama to Nixon, two presidents whose styles I abhor. Now, NBC (the Obama network) journalist Chuck Todd has called out Obama for trying to buy influence by asking people to contribute $500.000 to a political action committee he has formed to advance gun control and other issues. $500.000? Is that part of the other 98% Obama and you guys say you are working for?
As for bonfire's comparison of the 6 WalMart heirs owning more wealth than the bottom 30%. Why didn't you call out Obama supporters and multi-billionaires Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and George Soros? Are they one of us, the lower 30%? Or is it OK for them to spend all those billions to strip us 30% of our way of life? And how about calling out all of Obama's friends in Hollywood, multi-millionaires in their own right? And how about big labor? What about the millions of dollars of the 30%'s money are they giving to Obama, that's the little people's money that is supposed to be used to improve the quality of worklife on the job.
I agree with Rick Sathre, I want less government in my life. And that less begins with the elimination of the EPA, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Education (Federal level only) and the Department of Energy. Reduced spending on the BATF, foreign aid to third world nations (as we are quickly becoming one ourselves) and strict oversight on purchasing practices in the Department of Defense.
It now appears Obama devised sequestration. Let him have it. Force him to own it. And then let us rebuild before it is too late.
I don't know if anyone is reading this post any more? I would like to make a comment or two.
bonfire, yor comment on banks and bailouts, I agree. What has Obama done? He has been Pres. for four years and what has he done? I guess they gave us Dodd-Frank, that made the banks to big to fail and put us back in the same position we were in before.
"Light bulbs? Seriously?" Yes seriously. You do not get the point I was making, it's not about how good or bad the bulbs are, it's about government having the control to tell us what bulbs to buy. If the bulbs are good we don't need government telling, no forcing us to buy them. Next they will be telling us we have to buy Obamacare, wait they allready have. Lets change that to the Volt.
What is this really about? It's about a 2 1/2% cut in proposed spending. Only in Washington is this called a cut. Jan. 1st you had a 2% cut in your take home pay. You probably adjusted to it, most people did. Was it hard? May be? If we can't make a 2 1/2% cut in proposed spending how will we ever get this under control?
Hot damn ... I am off to race down the freeway at 110 mph. Yippee!
Hey welcome back JayBerg. How was your snowmobile trip? Trails still in good shape? Anything notable to report? Wish I was with you on the trip. Give us some feedback.
jt: Does the Autobahn exist in Arizona?
orrcountry, the trip was great. Trails were good and we didn't have any problems. I was suprised the traffic started building on Wed. and by Fri. we saw a few groups of up to 12 sleds. I think it was Tue. when it got so warm, we were a little worried what the trails would be like on the way back but they were good. Nothing out of the ordinary to report, just fun.
Hey, who needs an autobahn. JayBerg says we should just ignore what the government tells us to do. After speeding, might go shoot somebody. Got a big new gun ... at your suggestion. Dang, and poisoning the neighbors pets ... love the freedom.
Perhaps you also asked what GW Bush did when he signed the Emergency Economic Stability Act and the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008. TARP asked for $700 billion but the Dodd-Frank Act reduced that to $475 billion.
The opportunity to put strong conditions on the banks before getting the cash was there in 2008 and later but how realistic is it that that would have happened. There was a full blown panic going on in Washington, DC. Sept 18, 2008, Bernanke and Paulson were screaming the sky was falling saying $5.5 trillion would disappear by 2pm that day and the world economy would collapse in 24 hours. They wanted that money badly but with as few strings as possible. Both R and D legislators later said they were upset at being lied to.
Spending legislation originates in the House of Representatives. A bill cannot become law without consent of the Senate and the President. Presidents campaign for what they want to see done but they can't write the actual bills. They can only sign or not sign the legislation into law. You also have to ask what our legislators have done.
After the Enron fiasco, the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act was overwhelmingly passed (House 423 to 3, Senate 99 to 1) to deal with the massive corporate accounting fraud of many corps, WorldCom, Tyco, etc. Corporations went down and CEO's went to jail. Much fraud did get cleaned up but SOX should have been stronger which can also be said of the Dodd-Frank and Volcker Rule later.
Since then, Republicans have continually pushed hard to delay, weaken, defund and repeal SOX, Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule and any legislation for consumer protection or rein in banks or Wall Street. All you have to do is look at their bills. Every GOP presidential candidate said repeal SOX and Dodd-Frank. In 2011, Rep. Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House banking committee told the Birmingham News, "In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks." It's pretty clear where the Republicans' priorities are and that is to keep on letting banks/Wall Street regulate themselves. I remember Alan Greenspan saying in a 2008 hearing that he was in "shocked disbelief" that the banks couldn't police themselves causing the meltdown. I don't know if he was really that naive, stupid or just covering his backside.
I ask, what are the House and Senate Republicans doing to prevent another financial bubble collapse and from our taxpayer money paying for it? Where are their bills to address that? I see a number of Democratic legislators trying...I see zero Republican legislators.
Wow. House Republicans unveiled a short term budget bill yesterday. Included in it is a provision banning federal funding to ACORN. Just in case some don't know this, ACORN hasn't existed in almost three years! You can't make this stuff up.
Meanwhile, Paul Ryan has some centrist House Republicans worried. Ryan's previous 2012 budget plan included privatizing Medicare for under 55 year olds which would not have gotten near balancing the budget until 2040. To make that happen in 10 years, by 2014, Ryan and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy broke the news at their Tuesday Group lunch that the coupon Medicare age may have to be adjusted to age 59. Ahh, Republicans have a lovely world in plan for us.
On a whole different note, has anyone heard from Torkko lately? Given some of the topics floating around here, certainly he would be speaking out ... in his own way, of course.
jt, I haven't seen him around for awhile...I have no idea why. I doubt it is a political epiphany though.
Well, no. If he didn't want to attack your facts, he would then chose to attack some unnamed others opinions!!!
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In an exclusive story in The New York Times, investigators have serious doubts about the credibility of the housekeeper who accused the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of rape and sexual assault in a Manhattan hotel in May. Strauss-Kahn has stepped down from his position while the IMF investigates the charges, which he has consistently denied. According to law enforcement officials who spoke with Times, there are questions surrounding the asylum application of the housekeeper, as well possible links to criminal activities, including money laundering and drug dealing. It's likely that Strauss-Kahn's bail conditions will be eased and he could be released on his own recognizance as early as this morning.
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2012 Judgesrun Race Results
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Ruby Tuesday 2-Tilted Tree
Ruby Tuesday continues! Thanks for making this second edition happen MMT!
We are fixated in the USA about Christmas being only on 25 December.
Yet in most other parts of the globe, the day can be as late as 6 January. So I am presenting a Christmas tree from a few years ago.
Balancing even a small point-and-shoot camera while in a wheelchair sometimes distorts the view slightly-the tilted (not real) conifer is the result here...
No matter the angle. with a few rubies, the pic still qualifies!
6 comments:
- bj said...
Really pretty tree, Ralph.
Yep, I am happy to have RT2 now.
I love photos off-angle...makes for an interesting picture. :)
- January 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM
- Robin said...
It's a lovely tree Ralph, and the angle just adds extra interest :).
Here's to RT2 - onwards and upwards!
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- January 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Gemma Wiseman said...
The tilted view gives such an interesting perspective of the tree! Beautifully decorated!
- January 3, 2012 at 4:17 PM
- chubskulit said...
I actually like the angle when you take this pic. Very nice!
- January 3, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- Felisol said...
Like the aboves, I find the angle adds an interesting plus to the photo. I also like the colourful American way of decorating a tree, with lots and lots of colours. I see you have what we call a spear at the top of the tree. My grandparents used to have that. Otherwise it's most common among us to place a star at the top. I believe some also have an angel there.
I suddenly came to wonder what the spear is symbolizing.
Guess I have to do a bit of googleing.
Happy New Year and Happy RT2.
- January 4, 2012 at 12:22 AM
- JunieRose2005 said...
It's a lovely tree, Ralph!
I'm still posting Christmas pics too! :)
- January 9, 2012 at 11:59 PM