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Comedian Bill Cosby's remarks form the basis of a 'We Can't Blame White People' essay.
[Collected via e-mail, October 2005]
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: Why you ain't, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what? And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward: Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different
'husbands' — or
men or whatever you call them now. We have millionaire football players who cannot read. We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We as black folks have to do a better job. Someone working at
with seven kids, you are hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
On 17 May 2004, at an NAACP event commemorating the
50th anniversary
Brown vs. Board of Education
, the landmark Supreme Court decision that struck down school segregation, entertainer Bill Cosby gave a
on the theme of blacks in America taking responsibility for their own lives. In his exposition to that assembly, the man known to television viewing audiences as lovable, kindly, yet permanently bemused patriarch
Dr. Huxtable
spoke harshly about his
perception of the ills affecting black American society. He cited elevated school dropout rates for inner-city black students and criticized low-income blacks for not using the opportunities the civil rights movement has won for them. Blacks, by their unplanned pregnancies, poor parenting, lack of education, non-standard English, counter-culture dress, and involvement in crime, fail the black community as well as themselves, he said.
That May 2004 speech has been both praised and condemned, and excerpts from it have been cobbled together (often in forms that rearrange and present them out of context) and circulated on the Internet under titles such as "We Can't Blame White People" and "Bill Has Done It Again."
Bill Cosby has not repudiated his controversial pronouncements or attempted to distance himself from them. Instead, he has chosen to expand upon his theme on subsequent occasions and to make himself a spokesperson for black self-empowerment through education and better parenting. In the service of this cause, he has drawn upon his celebrity to make his voice heard; but, unlike many entertainers who take to the soapbox to decry their bêtes noires, he brings far more to the podium than merely a recognizable face and a fan base. This man who is best known to the world as a comedian holds a doctorate in education. He is also highly regarded in the African-American community, where he and his wife, Camille, are prized for their philanthropy. (The Cosbys were present at the NAACP event that sparked the
quoted above in order to be honored for their open-handed generosity in donating money to black colleges.)
Dr. Cosby defended his comments almost as soon as he made them. The day after, he said in an interview: "It makes no sense to claim that these are things that belong quietly in the black community. We have to figure out how do you get parenting back into the home. This is a problem of epic proportion." Then, in a statement released shortly after the NAACP gala, he made clear his purpose: "I think that it is time for concerned African-Americans to march, galvanize and raise
the awareness about this epidemic, to transform our helplessness, frustration and righteous indignation into a sense of shared responsibility and action." In another interview, he said: "I feel that I can no longer remain silent. If I have to make a choice between keeping quiet so that conservative media does not speak negatively or ringing the bell to galvanize those who want change in the lower economic community, then I choose to be a bell ringer."
In July 2004, he again took to the public soapbox to expound upon his thesis. In a speech given at
Rev. Jesse
Jackson's Rainbow Coalition/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago, he said: "You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage. You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."
In December 2004, he addressed a panel at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, telling them: "Stop waiting for a leader. Get Up! Tell your friends. And if they can't get up, we must see about them because they are true
victims ...
It's time to study four hours a day with your children. Teach them how much they'll be worth when they have A's instead of F's."
Barbara "sag your pants, sag your chances, says Cos" Mikkelson
An August 2009 variant prefaced Dr. Cosby's remarks with the following claim regarding their origins:
Bill Cosby's response on the Bailout in America
This is actually word for word what he said to a gathering of students who asked about the bailout in America Great response. This man deserves a Nobel Prize.
As noted above, this item dates from a talk
Dr. Cosby
gave in 2004, so his words had nothing to do with any economic bailouts provided to businesses in 2009.
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Hajela, Deepti. "Some Angry, Some Agree with Cosby Criticisms of Black Community."
Associated Press.
29 May 2004.
Harris, Paul. "The Paradox That Divides Black America."
The Observer.
9 October 2005.
Mitchell, Mary. "Cosby Gave It to Us Straight — and It's a Valuable Lesson."
Chicago Sun-Times.
3 June 2004 (p. 14).
O'Connor, Austin. "A Beloved Comic, Now Crusader."
Lowell Sun.
18 November 2004.
Suggs, Ernie. "Cosby, Unbowed, Defends Remarks."
Cox News Service.
2 July 2004.
Associated Press.
"Cosby Continues to Challenge African-Americans."
15 December 2004.


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The Minnesota Gophers' offense was a mess of inconsistencies in 2012, caused in part by the midseason switch to freshman quarterback Philip Nelson, a thin wide receiving corps, a run game that chaotically shifted between effective and stagnate and an overall lack of cohesiveness. Progress in Jerry Kill's overhaul of the offense, now entering its third year of "rebuilding," has been seen, but it has shown up slowly.
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Sorting through the potential combinations in the line's interior is less straightforward. In conversations with Limegrover before and during the early weeks of spring, indications were that in the long term the starting line would feature both Bobek and Christenson. After emerging late to compile a quality freshman season, Christenson has the versatility to play both center and guard, which is likely enough to solidify his starting status. Bobek, a former four-star prospect, has been the subject of his share of hype since transferring from Ohio State. Shifting him to guard isn't an option at this point. This increased the probability of a starting line featuring Bobek at center, Christenson moving to right guard and Epping taking the other guard slot. But Bobek proved to be a disappointment this spring, sitting out the majority of practice. The solution at center won't be found until fall camp, but Christenson left the spring having made a strong case for why he should be at center. Bobek is by no means out of the running for the starting gig and can grab a spot in training camp, but it will require a ferocity not seen from him to this point.
"He's such a laid back, such a nice kid. I have to get him to bite a little bit," Limegrover said. "I have to get a sense of urgency with him that 'Hey, you go out there and take care of business and I'll figure out what to do with the other four spots.'"
What Limegrover and the Gophers end up doing with Christenson and Bobek will determine what happens with the spare guard slot opposite Epping. Caleb Bak, a starter at right guard in the final 11 games of 2012, would seem to be the likely first choice. However, it's not as close to a certainty as the situation at tackle. There is the question of where junior Tommy Olson fits into the equation. Olson started the year at left guard next his brother, Ed, before his season was derailed by a persistent ankle injury. He returned to start the last two games of the regular season, but in a similar trajectory as his brother underwent in 2011, the younger Olson had burned out.
"He just ran out of gas," Limegrover said. "He's a good football player, but wasn't playing like a good football player because he couldn't get his body in the right spots where it needed to be. He is a kid that exerts so much energy each and every rep to be so perfect that sometimes he wears himself out."
Healthy again, Olson can be factor on the line next season, but the competition to get his spot back is much higher than it was a year ago. With appearances in five games as a freshman, redshirt sophomore Joe Bjorklund has put himself one injury or misstep by the players in front him away from moving up the depth chart. Bjorklund alternated reps between the first and second teams. Redshirt sophomore Foster Bush is also in the mix, but Bjorklund appears to be a step ahead. Isaac Hayes, after taking a redshirt last season, garnered praise from Limegrover in the spring and could crack the O-line rotation. Up nearly 30-pounds from a year ago, the 6-foot-2, 304-pound guard worked primarily with the second team unit during spring ball. Hayes has shown enough progress to be in the rotation, but the experience of the guys in front of him will make it challenging for him to move up right away.
Again, the crucial factor in the success of the "U" O-line next season relies on its overall health. It's inevitable that another batch of injuries will crop up, but the Gophers have built up enough resources to lessen the impact the lack of fluidity had on the unit in 2012. In effort to better protect themselves from injury concerns, the Gophers moved redshirt sophomore Ernie Heifort to center this spring. Epping is still available to play at center, which he did periodically in spring practice, but the idea is for Heifort to be the third option behind Christenson and Bobek.
"I'd like to have six centers, so that we never have happen what happened last year," remarked Limegrover remarked, only semi-jokingly.
Projected two-deep after spring practice
LT: Ed Olson (RS senior, 6-foot-7, 309 lbs.)/Marek Lenkiewicz (RS junior, 6-5, 289)
LG: Zac Epping (RS junior, 6-2, 321)/Tommy Olson (Junior, 6-4, 301)
C: Jon Christenson (RS sophomore, 6-4, 306)/Brian Bobek (Junior, 6-2, 282)
RG: Caleb Bak (RS junior, 6-3, 302)/Joe Bjorklund (RS sophomore, 6-5, 288)
RT: Josh Campion (RS sophomore, 6-5, 326)/ Jonah Pirsig (RS freshman, 6-9, 308)
Incoming freshmen
1. Alex Mayes (6-5, 285, Van Alstyne, Texas)
2. Chad Fahning (6-6, 270, St. Paul, Minn.)
3. Matt Leidner (6-2, 280, Lakeville, Minn.)


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Obama and House Republicans Offer Taste of Renewed Fight Over Debt Ceiling (NYT)
President Obama invited John Boehner to the White House to talk about how they can address our existing economic problems in the year ahead, but Boehner's more focused on the problems he and the rest of the House GOP plan to create.
Boehner's debt ceiling crisis would be so much worse than you think (WaPo)
Ezra Klein points out that the debt ceiling probably won't need to be raised until next February, but by then a confluence of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts will ensure we contract economic hypothermia in lieu of another recovery winter.
JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise At Least 50% (NYT)
Smelling JPMorgan's blood in the water, financial market sharks have nibbled another $1 billion from the wounded giant in just four trading days. Everyone else can look on the bright side: your week at work is officially not going that badly.
What Did JPMorgan Execs Know and When Did They Know It? (ProPublica)
Jesse Eisinger argues that before we shift focus to implementing new laws in response to the JPMorgan fiasco, we should pause and investigate whether the bank's execs were breaking existing laws or "just" really terrible at their jobs.
Flawed Dimon (Slate)
Eliot Spitzer writes that despite Jamie Dimon's self-image as America's Favorite Banker, he's proven he shouldn't be on the New York Fed board that supervises his bank -- or rather, that the whole asylum should stop promoting its inmates.
The Dog That Didn't Bark: Obama on JPMorgan (Robert Reich)
Reich notes that Obama has been reluctant to say a cross word about Dimon or the system that produced him, but it would be a great opportunity to distinguish himself from Mitt Romney (though both probably want to avoid dog metaphors).
Too Often, a New Baby Brings Big Debt (The Nation)
NND Editor Bryce Covert writes that while our family leave policies seem built around the idea that babies' umbilical cords come attached to big sacks of cash, many new moms must pile up debt to make ends meet while they're out of work.
Will You Be More Successful Than Your Parents? (NYT)
Catherine Rampell highlights a new survey that finds only half of recent college graduates think they'll wind up better off than their parents in the future, and they're even more convinced that the rest of their generation is a bunch of losers.
Will One of These Cases Be the Next Citizens United? (MoJo)
Gavin Aronsen looks at four campaign finance cases winding their way through the courts that reformers hope will provide an opportunity to roll back Citizens United, assuming the Supreme Court is capable of being persuaded by reason.
50 Years of Government Spending, In 1 Graph (NPR)
Lam Thuy Vo charts how government spending has shifted over the last half-century, which should console anyone who feared their taxes were being wasted on international affairs when we could still just blow everything else up.
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The Longest Rap Sheet Ever Accumulated By A Juvenile
You already know that juveniles commit many crimes. While it is true that some teenagers do not drink beer, smoke marijuana or even take puffs on ordinary cigarettes, other teens go out of their way to dump their emotional problems on others via burglaries, property theft, car theft and even violent crimes.
Although the following rap sheet is fictitious, it is an example of the longest rap sheet a juvenile has ever accumulated. The juvenile depicted in the rap sheet is a male. Here is the rap sheet:
How To Prevent Teenagers From Engaging In Gang Activity
How To Prevent Teenagers From Engaging In Gang Activity
Increasing Education
Tolerance and education are the two most powerful tools when it comes to getting kids off the streets. By this, I mean the most efficient way to keep teens out of gangs is to combat their ignorance and fantasies with realities. A lot of education has to do with statistics. Most teenagers are lured into gangs because it is a false security blanket. In addition, gangs provide transitory relief and illusionary brotherhood. However, relationships are torn apart by members who
Safety Measure To Put In Place To Help Monitor Your At-Risk Kid
Although being able to spot when your child or teen might be committing crimes or even violent acts could be difficult to gauge, if you have noticed their behavior becoming out of control, you can start to take action by enforcing certain rules at home.
Rules and Punishments: Set ground rules for your kids. Let them know what the rules are and what the consequences are if they break the rules and that they will be enforced. You can also establish a reward system for good behavior to help encourage them to act appropriately and deter bad behavior.
Wireless Alarm System Equipment: If you need to monitor your teen's activities, consider the advantages of a security system at home. Certain equipment, like motion detectors and door and window contacts will set off an alarm if your child is trying to sneak out of the house when they are grounded or in the middle of the night. Security cameras also offer a way for you to observe their movements throughout your home when you aren't there. You can even view the surveillance on your mobile devices, like a smartphone or tablet.
Enforce a Curfew: Don't let teens leave the house after a certain time and insist that they be home by a decided upon time on weekdays and weekends. Hold firm to the curfew times and just like with rules and punishments, make sure to enforce the proper punishments when curfew is broken.
By implementing these rules, which are also safety measures for their own good, you will be able to monitor your teen's activities more thoroughly and teach them valuable lessons about respecting rules and learning through consequences.
The Most Heinous Juvenile Detention Centers Currently In Operation
Juvenile detention centers are a place where kids go if they commit a crime before they reach the age of adulthood. In most areas of the country, a juvenile is often under the age of 18. Juvenile crime is a problem in many large cities. Law enforcement agencies and the court system work hard to keep juvenile crime to a minimum. Juvenile detention centers are operated all over the country. Most of these centers are operated by the county. There are over 1,200 detention centers located in America. Some of the most heinous juvenile detention centers currently operate out of Iraq.
Instances When Children Team Up Against Adults Using Violence
Violent crimes committed by adults have a devastating impact on our society. However, when children and teenagers exercise acts of violence, the suffering goes much deeper. Unfortunately, the increase in violent crime throughout our nation has affected our children as well. Society generally expects children to be innocent and harmless, but, in reality, they are capable of as much violence as anyone. When these violent or emotional unstable children act as a group, the consequences become even more severe.
Although most violent crimes
Telltale Clues That A Teenager Is Plotting Murder
Telltale Clues That A Teenager Is Plotting Murder
Teenagers are emotionally unpredictable, but there are a few telltale signs that a child is unstable. These three main signs include behavioral clues, verbal indicators and social signs. All three of these signs can lead to discovering that a teenager is plotting a murder.
1. Behavioral Signs
Behavioral signs are the number one indicator for teenage murder plots. In this fashion, a teen will demonstrate their anger, aggression and angst in unconventional ways. You
A List Of The Most Infamous Underage Murderers
On April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, two gunmen, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 13 people, wounded 21, and then killed themselves. Eric was 18, but Dylan was only 17 years old.
On August 2, 1993, 13 year old Eric Smith lured 4 year old Derrick Robie into the woods in New York. He beat him and mutilated his body. He has been denied parole six times, the most recent being May 2012.
James Bulger, 2, of England, was murdered on February 12, 1993 by Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, both 10. They abducted James from a mall, tortured, and killed him, leaving his
The Worst Crimes Ever Committed By Juvenile Offenders
Some of the most fascinating and heinous crimes were actually committed by juveniles. One of the reasons people are so fascinated with these cases is because of the violent offenders being so young. Many people wonder if they were born evil or if it was something inside of them that made them snap and turn into vicious criminal offenders. People find it both amazing yet scary that some children have been able to carefully plan and execute murders and horrific crimes throughout the decades.
Perhaps one of


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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
|Warning: A very boring political post but something I had to get out of my system. It is rambling and incoherent but once it's said it's said and I can move on with other things.
"The issue of incitement to religious hate is a tiny part of a much broader pattern that we are attempting, collectively, to put together, to create a society where cohesion, tolerance and understanding are natural, where people can settle their differences in ways that don't develop hate and where people feel free to be able to express sensible views and have sensible arguments." - David Blunkett as Home Secretary.
I realise Blunkett hasn't been Home Secretary for a while, but this isn't about him. As some of my more moustachioed readers may be aware, I don't buy into slippery slope arguments. That's not to say I don't know a dangerous idea when I see one. The Race and Religious Hatred Bill is dangerous, not because of where it might lead us, but because it is founded on the above, very dangerous, ideas. We're back on John Stuart Mill again folks;
1. There has never been a really good idea which seemed 'sensible' when it was first uttered. This is a hackneyed truism that all nutty fringe groups wheel out when accused of being… nutty fringe groups. However, it is true. It isn't the case that because the slave-abolitionists were treated as nutcases, today's nutcases will be tomorrow's heroes, but some of them may well be. Some of them have got to be, after all, unless this is the absolute peak of civilisation (please God no). There will be new ideas and it seems unlikely that we're all going to see the sense in them the minute they come out. Even if this wasn't the case, who is to say what is a sensible view and what is extreme?
2. Often people who expressing extreme views touch upon an element of truth or an important point even though in its entirity their argument doesn't stand up.
3. Even when people are totally wrong, by challenging our arguments they keep them fresh and vital.
These three points can be illustrated rather well with the case of the Animal Rights Movement. There was a time when received opinion did not consider animals to have any moral significance. One interpretation of the Bible puts us in the privileged position of stewardship. Descartes compared animals to automaton without any true experience (they didn't think therefore they weren't – oh really Descartes was a tit). It seems very strange that we could ever imagine that animals didn't have feelings, including those of fear, pain and distress. Isn't it glaringly obvious?
Now it could be that in the future, we come to realise that it is wrong to treat animals as property and to kill them for food at all, just as we now understand that it is wrong to treat human beings as property to be used, abused and discarded at will. For most people this does not seem like a sensible idea at the moment, but given the cultural turnaround we have made over not entirely dissimilar matters, it is surely not beyond the realms of imagination?
Even if it is perfectly okay to kill animals for food, that is not to say that much of what the Animal Rights Movement says is not entirely valid. One of the reasons I abandoned vegetarianism is that after three months of academic study on the issue and perhaps one too many essays by Peter Singer, it occurred to me that I wasn't morally disgusted at the idea of killing a wide-eyed fluffy bunny and eating it for my tea. In fact it may be fair to say that Peter Singer instilled me with a zoocidal blood lust but that's beside the point. However, I also realised more than ever that the way we 'process' our meat products is morally reprehensible. My fluffy bunny suffered perhaps a moment's anticipation and a single instance of pain after a happy life hopping about in the fields *. My Kentucky Fried Chicken had a far worse fate.
And sometimes they get it completely and utterly wrong. One conclusion that Peter Singer's particular warped brand of utilitarianism leads him to is that some animals have a greater moral status than tiny human babies and some severely impaired adults. This is not even partially correct, but by making such an assertion he challenges us to consider what it is that makes a person worthy of moral consideration and whether indeed there is a hierarchy. By saying "The grass is pink" we are forced to consider how it is we understand the grass to be green.
No this of course has nothing much to do with religion as such, but religion is a just another point of view. Of course religion may be interconnected with ethnicity and culture and when people use the word 'choice' they over-simplify the situation. I could not choose to be a Catholic because I could not persuade myself to believe what Catholics believe. My friend Mary could not chose to be an agnostic because she could not persuade herself to believe what I don't believe. However, there are many other points of view we would find similar difficulty in adopting, none of which are related to my ethnicity or upbringing.
When Mary decided to become a nun I was horrified. But the thing I kept finding myself comparing it to was a friend getting married to someone that I vehemently disapproved of. I might even use the word hate. I hate what I perceive to be the misogyny of the Catholic church, I hate the way that I watch the doctrine sustaining the poverty, over-population and disease pandemics in the Third World upon which it depends to keep the masses faithful. I hate a Church that forbade the Catholic women in Bosnia to use oral contraceptives during a period they were subject to mass-rape, a Church that protected child abusers within their own ranks etc, etc. I don't hate Catholics; a large proportion of my family are Catholic and many of my friends. They are good people. But that machine, that Church, is fairly abhorrent to me.
[Naturally I didn't put it like this to Mary. All I could do was to express my disapproval and then go on to offer my full support. She is my friend and her happiness is paramount to me.]
Now, the Pope is a regular reader of this blog and doesn't like it when I say such things. However, simply by out-lawing my feelings - or the expression of them - would not change anything. The only way I could be dissuaded is if somebody sat me down and put me right about any misconceptions I have, argued with me. Of course it might be I like to hate Catholicism and I'm not going to listen, but then, what does this matter? If I were to attack priests or desecrate Catholic graves, I would be breaking existing laws. If I were to rally an angry mob outside the homes of Catholics I would be breaking existing laws. Freedom of speech has always been conditional; you can't shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre and direct incitement to violence has always been a crime.
But at the end of the day, conflict is natural. Cohesion is not. The law is not about surpressing nature, but about creating a society where everyone is free to express themselves as much as possible without impinging on the freedom of others to express themselves. When Isaiah Berlin talked about liberty he kept reiterating this fact with the concept of The Final Solution; the utopian idea used by very many political and religious movements that through a restriction of certain freedoms, we would all come to see things the same and live in harmony. It is a useful term to bear in mind.
And what are we left with after we have out-lawed ideas that make us feel uncomfortable? Does it stop the bad guys? The previous Incitement to Racial Hatred laws (race at least being something you can't help) leave us with this:
"The British National Party exists to secure a future for the indigenous peoples of these islands in the North Atlantic which have been our homeland for millennia. We use the term indigenous to describe the people whose ancestors were the earliest settlers here after the last great Ice Age and which have been complemented by the historic migrations from mainland Europe. The migrations of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Norse and closely related kindred peoples have been, over the past few thousands years, instrumental in defining the character of our family of nations." - First paragraph of the Mission Statement, British National Party web-site.
Apart from the fact that the Norman Conquest brought vast numbers of French people onto our soil, the following decades established the first Jewish communities in the UK. There had been Jews here before, but not communities. Thus the cut-off for immigration ends a thousand years ago. Translation:
"We exist to secure a future for the white non-Jewish people of this country."
Fortunately, you'd have to be really thick not to notice the absence of the Romans. But then, what have the Romans ever done for us? Well, there was the aquaduct…
* I didn't actually catch and kill a fluffy bunny with my bare hands. I just realised I could if I was hungry enough. And could run fast. And didn't actually look the thing in the eye as I broke its neck. And hadn't just read Watership Down.
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Libertarian-leaning Republican Congressman Ron Paul lost his bid for the Republican presidential nomination this year, but a number of his acolytes ran for Congress as Republicans and won November 6. Is Congress the real location of the growing "Ron Paul revolution"?
After a candidate loses an election, it's rare that the candidate's movement continues as a "revolution." Nobody talks about a John McCain revolution, and even a day after the Mitt Romney defeat for president, nobody's talking about a Mitt Romney movement that will continue after his candidacy. But Representative Ron Paul, a 12-term Texas congressman who is retiring in January, always said his campaign was about ideas instead of personalities. In making endorsements for the U.S. House of Representatives, the former obstetrician played the role of king-maker, winning an astonishing eight of 11 House endorsements:
1. Justin Amash, a Michigan freshman congressman (3rd District), was reelected 58-39 percent over Democratic nominee Steve Pestka, who poured more than $1 million of his own into the campaign. Amash aligned most closely to Rep. Paul's ideas and ideals over the past two years, and the 32-year-old congressman may hold the mantle as the titular head of the Ron Paul movement in Congress.
2. MIT-trained scientist Thomas Massie easily won Kentucky's 4th Congressional District race 62-35 percent, and had strong support from Kentucky's Senator Rand Paul after emerging from the GOP primary where he fought off several establishment favorites. Massie won the open seat primary with major support from the Liberty For All SuperPac.
3. Retired high-school teacher and reindeer farmer Kerry Bentivolio won 51-44 percent in Michigan 11th Congressional District race, after some major primary intervention from Ron Paul-backed SuperPacs, including Liberty For All SuperPac. Bentivolio had already won election to finish the term of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, who resigned earlier this year, so Bentivolio will have an edge over incoming freshman toward placement in committees with his seniority.
4. Former Congressman Steve Stockman will return to Congress from the Texas 36th Congressional District, after easily besting Democratic nominee Max Martin by a 71-26 percent margin. Stockman was a Ron Paul ally during his two years in Congress 1995-1997, and is best known for being a strong advocate of the Second Amendment.
5. Businessman Randy Weber won the race to replace Ron Paul in Texas' 14th Congressional District, defeating Democratic nominee Nick Lampson 53-45 percent.
6. Veterinarian Ted Yoho will represent Florida's 3rd Congressional District after defeating the Democratic nominee Jacques Gaillot in the general election by 65-32 percent. Yoho defeated longtime incumbent Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns in the GOP primary this past summer.
7. Congressman David Schweikert of Arizona's 6th District won reelection 62-33 percent. Schweikert served on the House Money and Banking Subcommittee with Rep. Paul, where he became a key ally in seeking an audit of the Federal Reserve.
8. Congressman Walter Jones easily won reelection to North Carolina's 3rd District, 63-37 percent over his Democratic opponent. Rep. Jones had become a key ally with Paul in opposition to the Iraq War and in favor of defending civil liberties in the so-called "war on terror."
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The Antidote to Perfectionism.
I spend my time immersed in contemplating opposites.
When clients come to me with what they want to change, I'm always looking for the negative feeling that is at the root of their problems. Then, I look for the opposite of that feeling, so I can help them shift to it.
In the case of perfectionism, the opposite is uniqueness.
But let me back up. What leads you to feel that you need to be perfect in the first place?
Early in life, your sense of self is developed through absorbing how people around you feel about being human. It becomes a sort of rechargeable battery from which your brain generates every moment of your life, automatically, without your conscious input. This rechargeable battery ends up containing two kinds of energy:
1. Well-being—the kernel of energy you began with in the womb. Moments in which you feel good just being yourself or moments that feel effortless are generated from well-being.
2. Learned Distress—the feeling that "there's something wrong with me being just the way I am." Your negative moments or moments in which you have to work hard for things to go well are generated from Learned Distress.
One of the ways your brain gives you to survive while feeling that there's something wrong with you is your attempts to be perfect.
If I am perfect enough, I will be okay." You probably already know on a conscious level that it's impossible to be perfect, or even that it isn't good for you to try. You might even say that you have learned that you don't need to be perfect. But, if you still feel that pressure from deep within to be perfect in some way, this is evidence that your Learned Distress is causing a coping mechanism to kick in.
So, now, back to the opposite of perfectionism: uniqueness. Perfectionism is based on comparison to a standard of some sort. But when you think of something unique—like a snowflake—you might say that each snowflake is perfect in its own uniqueness. Each is different, but not better than or worse than. There is no standard to which they have to conform, no "perfect snowflake" against which they are judged. What if it were the same way for people?
I recently suggested to a client that it might be good for everyone if she were to do things in her own unique way.
She came back to me a couple weeks later, saying that she just couldn't work with that concept at all, because her experience in life has been that others are inconvenienced when she does that. All she could comprehend of her uniqueness was feeling disorganized and being late all the time—her inability to be perfect.
We came up with a new concept that helped her open up to the fact that her well-being is who she really is, and that it's safe to tap into that. Even though she had crossed out "do things in my own unique way" in her journal, her brain kept working with it.
A week later, she told me that she had to deliver a project "late" to someone, but this person didn't feel inconvenienced at all. And, she showed up to a class she teaches without being prepared "perfectly." Her students not only loved that class, but asked her to continue teaching in just the improvised way that resulted from her being what she considered being unprepared. They actually liked her unique way much better than when she had tried to conform to the "perfect" way to teach.
She is finding out what I have seen for myself and so many of my clients—that often, the thing that feels "wrong" about us is just what the world needs and wants.
Another client is a professional musician in an arena that demands a sort of cookie-cutter perfection. She has felt for a long time that she had to work harder than everyone else to attain perfection, and this felt like a huge struggle. As her shift towards uniqueness has taken place, she has felt increasingly that she could just rely on the fact that she knows how to play very well already. She has felt more relaxed and able to express herself artistically, rather than conform to the "perfect way." And, she has received a lot of unsolicited, positive feedback from many people since this shift began.
Where do you feel the pressure to be perfect? What if you could allow your uniqueness to shine, instead? What might the world gain from you sharing who you really are?
Uniqueness always makes for a much richer, more vibrant way to express yourself, and the more of us that do that, the richer and more vibrant our world becomes.
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CLR Qualty Award
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Centers for Living & Rehabilitation Wins Vermont Qualty Award
BENNINGTON — For the fourth time, the Centers for Living & Rehabilitation (CLR) won Vermont's top award for quality care at a nursing home. The 150-bed facility received the award June 10 from the Vermont Department of Aging and Independent Living (DAIL).
"Only three other nursing homes in Vermont received the quality award this year," said Susan Kane, CLR administrator. "The state plans to give five awards each year among its 42 nursing homes." Kane added, "This year, only four homes qualified. The CLR was the only one with more than 40 beds to be recognized."
Larger homes typically find it more difficult to win awards for quality. The amount of record keeping, staff involvement, and the environment of care needed to qualify make such award more challenging.
"We have 150 beds," Kane said. "Consistently winning this award shows our community how dedicated we are to quality care."
The Department of Aging and Independent Living sets high standards for the award. An award winner must score extremely well during their annual state licensing survey. They also must have outstanding customer satisfaction scores. Lastly, the facility must demonstrate sound financial practices and performance.
"Our employees make the difference," Kane explained. "They come to work every day ready to improve. They're dedicated making care better and to making this a better place for people to live. That's what allows us to be a leader in the state. They're why I love to come to work."
Harvey M. Yorke, president and CEO of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), praised the CLR staff. "To win this award for the fourth time shows that CLR CLR staff provide superior care. They are an inspiration to all of us in the SVHC community. Congratulations to all the CLR staff for this well-deserved recognition."
The Centers for Living & Rehabilitation is accredited by the Joint Commission and is Vermont's only Eden Alternative facility. The CLR provides nursing home care for people who can no longer care for themselves at home. It also provides short-term care for people who need additional care before returning home from a hospital stay. It is part of Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC), a community-based, not-for-profit health system that exists solely for the benefit of the communities it serves. SVHC also includes Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, the VNA & Hospice of SVHC, SVMC Northshire Campus, SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus, and Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center.


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Worship materials on hunger
The Presbyterian Hunger Program has a materials for pastors to use at worship services including liturgies, prayers, hymns and more.
Worship Guide on Trade and Globalization
This worship guide includes a complete order of service about trade justice, which can be used in full or in part. Originally designed for the 2005 Global Week of Action but can be used any time. Download the guide.
Christian Vocation Sunday
The PC(USA) observes the Sunday before Labor Day as Christian Vocation Sunday. On this day it is appropriate for us to reflect on the church at work together with God. Below are several prayers you may wish to use during worship or for your own reflection.
Interfaith Worker Justice has prepared other resources for the Sunday before Labor Day.
Food Week of Action
World Food Day is October 16, and Food Week of Action is organized the week leading up to it. PHP and Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance have developed a bible study and liturgy to be used.
Service on World Hunger
The Presbyterian Hunger Program and Joining Hands welcomed five seminary students for a day in January 2011 as part of their J-term course, "Leadership in the Connectional Church," through the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. As a part of their coursework, the students produced this worship service resource.


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7. Brochures & Flyers on local organisations and Memberships:
If you are new to the Blue Mountains or have not ventured far into your community as yet, then this section will assist you find support and connections for your interests or ideas. From business to research, there are groups and organisations that offer programs or information and even systems that you can tap into or, to which you can offer your time and energy. Get involved and develop skills, your business and friends.
Biznet is the central regional body for all Chambers of Commerce across the Blue Mountains.
BMWHI - Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute is the organisation that carries out research into and education about the natural environment and which administers the World Heritage listed Greater Blue Mountains.
BMBA - Blue Mountains Business Advantage is a unique program designed to engage all businesses and organisation in being sustainable, so supporting and maintaining the vibrancy and viability of our region. (Note as at 2014: Contact the Blue Mountains City Council for information about BMBA)


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Beaconsfield's road safety measures have earned it 'Road Safety' prize during a Transportation and Roads Association of Quebec gala on June 18.
The city won for its 'Yield' signs project of prioritization at intersections; the goal of which was to establish whether the existing intersection management mode is the best according to Quebec regulations.
According to Mayor George Bourelle: "This traffic calming measure is part of Beaconsfield's continuing effort to improve safety on its roads. This prestigious award carries province wide recognition of our achievements and we are very proud of having received it."
Speed measured on roads with yield signs is consistently lower than on streets with stop. As a result, the new signage will be applied to 73 identified intersections, said the mayor.
Known as the Gala des grands prix d'excellence en transport, the ceremony brings together over 200 professionals from the transport sector every year and awards 10 winners in as many categories.


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IDA NEEDS A SHRINK; or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, who she nicknames Siggy and Sig, Ida begins a coming of age journey. At the beginning of her therapy Ida, who's alter-ego is Dora, and her small posse of pals, Little Teena, Ave Maria, and Obsidian, engage in what they call "art attacks" for teen fun and mayhem. Ida has a secret: she is in love with Obsidian. Whats more, the closer she gets to intimacy or the crisis of deep emotions, Ida faints or loses her voice. Ida and her friends hatch a plan to secretly record and film Siggy and Ida intends to make an experimental art film in which he figures. Sig becomes the target of her teen rage and angst, but something goes terribly wrong at a crucial moment of filming Siggy at a nearby hospital when Ida finds her father in the emergency room having suffered an acute heart attack. Ida loses her voice and experiences more trauma — a rough cut of her experimental film has gone underground viral and unethical media agents are trying to hunt her down to buy the material. A chase ensues in which everyone wants what Ida's got.
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For nine seasons, Dunlap coached Metro State. The Roadrunners made several visits to Durango to play Fort Lewis College.
"I got a couple restaurants here for coach (George Karl)," he said. "I got a scouting report for him. It's a different role."
Dunlap's teams won two Division II titles at Metro State. But he suffered defeat in his last visit to Fort Lewis in December a year ago. Fort Lewis coach Bob Hofman joked that Dunlap had to bring the Nuggets to Durango to beat him.
"Mike was really good for our league," Hofman said. "He got us exposure nationally. The Metro program was taken to heights that no one thought it could be taken to."
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The Ogdensburg Board of Education President Frederick P. Beans five-year term is up this year and James P. King has submitted paper work to challenge his re-election bid.
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He was re-elected in 2007 when he won a one-year seat and in 2008, won a full five-year term. Mr. Bean was elected President of the Board in 2009.
But Mr. King, who ran for the board in 2009 and received 93 votes, is throwing his hat into the ring against Mr. Bean.
Mr. King, a correctional officer at the Ogdensburg Correctional Facility, currently serves as the president of the Madill Elementary School Parent Teacher Association.
Upon taking that position in October, Mr. King has been responsible for overseeing the organizations fund raising, including book fairs and candy sales, which help pay for field trips and supplemental programing.
Mr. King also has an autistic fourth-grade son in the district, which has made him passionate about special education issues.
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Blocks: Google Adsense block
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An updated version of Gennaro Varriale's Google Adsense block to work with Moodle 2.x. It allows the easy creation and display of Google Adsense blocks within Moodle.
Moodle 2.0, 2.1
You enter your Google Adsense publisher id, select a format for the ads and check the ads are showing. Don't forget to disable any adblocker you might have running when testing.
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- Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 2:55 AMI've installed google_adsense in the blocks directory and it is not showing up in settings under blocks
can anyone help with this?
- Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:01 AMWhat version of moodle, what folder name under blocks and have you tried turning on full debugging in the admin panel to see if it is generating any error messages
- Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:41 AMThanks for your reply.
How can I look up the version?
also, how do I turn on full debugging?
- Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:43 AMgoogle_adsense is the folder name under blocks
- Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:47 AM
- Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 12:27 AMHello everyone,
I understand this plugin is tested up to 2.4 moodle version.
I tried installing Google adsense plugin on Moodle 2.6.2 latest version, on Ubuntu 14.04, 32 bit server. The installation goes smooth, just a warning that its a Beta release. But if I go to this path: Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Blocks / ► Manage blocks
It shows as google adsense block is added. But when I try to add such a block on any page... the block does not appear. Where as the number of instance count on the above page increases.
Can anyone help in resolving this?
Is dev team working to upgrade this plugin?
Or do I have to drop my plan to use this with current version of moodle?
Thanks in advance,
Prof Anand Khatri
- Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 12:46 AMI have just installed on a fresh copy of Moodle 2.6.1+ (Build: 20140228). In the Add a Block menu it appears in the list as AdSense Google. Is that not appearing in your list?
- Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 2:02 PMDear Mr. Marcus Green,
Thanks for replying immediately.
If I login as admin, Site administration->Front Page -> Front Page settings. And here I "Turn ON" Blocks editing. I have "Add Block" widget appearing below Site administration menu. If I click on "Add blcok" button, I get menu to add so many different blocks etc... within that I do get "google adsense" option.
If I choose that, page just refreshes, but no "google adsense block" gets added !!
Even if I repeat multiple times, it does not work. Whereas, the number of instance count for "google adsense block" on the " Home / ► Site administration / ► Plugins / ► Blocks / ► Manage blocks" page increases.
Hope this gives you clarity.
Thanks Again.
Warm regards,
Prof Anand Khatri
- Tue, Apr 29, 2014, 3:13 PMWhat theme are you using and what browser are you using?
- Wed, Apr 30, 2014, 12:09 AMHi,
I was using "Clean" theme. I even tried using "Standard" the default theme... it does not work ( no google adsense" block gets added., no matter which theme I use.
Prof Anand Khatri
- Fri, May 16, 2014, 11:42 PMI'll consider your issue closed now Anand based on our emails and for anyone else, the block seems to work OK with Moodle 2.6x. Marcus
- Tue, Apr 7, 2015, 9:54 PMI've installed this plugin on my Moodle course. My site shows Google ads, but the issue I am having is that my Google Adsense account is not tracking the impressions and clicks.
I'm guessing this is a Google Adsense issue, but I thought I'd ask to see if you or anyone else has any suggestions.
- Tue, Apr 7, 2015, 10:09 PMI have a memory of it taking a bit of time for Google to catch up with new links, how long is it since you set it up. Also have you done a view/source to check the Javascript is being inserted into the page with your publisher id (and that the publisher id is correct)
- Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 9:37 PMMarcus, you are correct. After a day or two, my Adsense account began tracking the ads. Thank you!
- Fri, Apr 10, 2015, 9:47 PMThanks for letting me know, hope your Adsense campaign brings you some money
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May 3, 2014
City Heart is an annual art show and sale featuring local homeless and low-income artists. There is a wealth of wonderful art created by local homeless and low-income individuals. At City Heart, you can meet the artists and view and purchase their beautiful and powerful artwork. The show will consist of 70 artists exhibiting over 1,000 pieces. City Heart collaborates with artists from Cambridge Women's Center, Common Art, New England Center for Homeless Veterans, Pine Street Inn, St. Francis House, and Women's Lunch Place.
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