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Sec. 1893. [42 U.S.C. 1395ddd] (a) Establishment of Program.—There is hereby established the Medicare Integrity Program (in this section referred to as the "Program") under which the Secretary shall promote the integrity of the medicare program by entering into contracts in accordance with this section with eligible entities, or otherwise, to carry out the activities described in subsection (b).
(b) Activities Described.—The activities described in this subsection are as follows:
(1) Review of activities of providers of services or other individuals and entities furnishing items and services for which payment may be made under this title (including skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies), including medical and utilization review and fraud review (employing similar standards, processes, and technologies used by private health plans, including equipment and software technologies which surpass the capability of the equipment and technologies used in the review of claims under this title as of the date of the enactment of this section).
(2) Audit of cost reports.
(3) Determinations as to whether payment should not be, or should not have been, made under this title by reason of section 1862(b), and recovery of payments that should not have been made.
(4) Education of providers of services, beneficiaries, and other persons with respect to payment integrity and benefit quality assurance issues.
(5) Developing (and periodically updating) a list of items of durable medical equipment in accordance with section 1834(a)(15) which are subject to prior authorization under such section.
(6) The Medicare-Medicaid Data Match Program in accordance with subsection (g).
(c) Eligibility of Entities.—An entity is eligible to enter into a contract under the Program to carry out any of the activities described in subsection (b) if—
(1) the entity has demonstrated capability to carry out such activities;
(2) in carrying out such activities, the entity agrees to cooperate with the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General, and other law enforcement agencies, as appropriate, in the investigation and deterrence of fraud and abuse in relation to this title and in other cases arising out of such activities;
(3) the entity complies with such conflict of interest standards as are generally applicable to Federal acquisition and procurement;
(4) the entity agrees to provide the Secretary and the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services with such performance statistics (including the number and amount of overpayments recovered, the number of fraud referrals, and the return on investment of such activities by the entity) as the Secretary or the Inspector General may request; and
(5) the entity meets such other requirements as the Secretary may impose.
In the case of the activity described in subsection (b)(5), an entity shall be deemed to be eligible to enter into a contract under the Program to carry out the activity if the entity is a carrier with a contract in effect under section 1842.
(d) Process for Entering Into Contracts.—The Secretary shall enter into contracts under the Program in accordance with such procedures as the Secretary shall be regulation establish, except that such procedures shall include the following:
(1) Procedures for identifying, evaluating, and resolving organizational conflicts of interest that are generally applicable to Federal acquisition and procurement.
(2) Competitive procedures to be used—
(A) when entering into new contracts under this section;
(B) when entering into contracts that may result in the elimination of responsibilities of an individual fiscal intermediary or carrier under section 202(b) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996[493]; and
(C) at any other time considered appropriate by the Secretary,
except that the Secretary may continue to contract with entities that are carrying out the activities described in this section pursuant to agreements under section 1816 or contracts under section 1842 in effect on the date of the enactment of this section.
(3) Procedures under which a contract under this section may be renewed without regard to any provision of law requiring competition if the contractor has met or exceeded the performance requirements established in the current contract.
The Secretary may enter into such contracts without regard to final rules having been promulgated.
(e) Limitation on Contractor Liability.—The Secretary shall by regulation provide for the limitation of a contractor's liability for actions taken to carry out a contract under the Program, and such regulation shall, to the extent the Secretary finds appropriate, employ the same or comparable standards and other substantive and procedural provisions as are contained in section 1157.
(f) Recovery of Overpayments.—
(1) Use of repayment plans.—
(A) In general.—If the repayment, within 30 days by a provider of services or supplier, of an overpayment under this title would constitute a hardship (as described in subparagraph (B)), subject to subparagraph (C), upon request of the provider of services or supplier the Secretary shall enter into a plan with the provider of services or supplier for the repayment (through offset or otherwise) of such overpayment over a period of at least 6 months but not longer than 3 years (or not longer than 5 years in the case of extreme hardship, as determined by the Secretary). Interest shall accrue on the balance through the period of repayment. Such plan shall meet terms and conditions determined to be appropriate by the Secretary.
(B) Hardship.—
(i) In general.—For purposes of subparagraph (A), the repayment of an overpayment (or overpayments) within 30 days is deemed to constitute a hardship if—
(I) in the case of a provider of services that files cost reports, the aggregate amount of the overpayments exceeds 10 percent of the amount paid under this title to the provider of services for the cost reporting period covered by the most recently submitted cost report; or
(II) in the case of another provider of services or supplier, the aggregate amount of the overpayments exceeds 10 percent of the amount paid under this title to the provider of services or supplier for the previous calendar year.
(ii) Rule of application.—The Secretary shall establish rules for the application of this subparagraph in the case of a provider of services supplier that was not paid under this title during the previous year or was paid under this title only during a portion of that year.
(iii) Treatment of previous overpayments.—If a provider of services or supplier has entered into a repayment plan under subparagraph (A) with respect to a specific overpayment amount, such payment amount under the repayment plan shall not be taken into account under clause (i) with respect to subsequent overpayment amounts.
(C) Exceptions.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply if—
(i) the Secretary has reason to suspect that the provider of services or supplier may file for bankruptcy or otherwise cease to do business or discontinue participation in the program under this title; or
(ii) there is an indication of fraud or abuse committed against the program.
(D) Immediate collection if violation of repayment plan.—If a provider of services or supplier fails to make a payment in accordance with a repayment plan under this paragraph, the Secretary may immediately seek to offset or otherwise recover the total balance outstanding (including applicable interest) under the repayment plan.
(E) Relation to no fault provision.—Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as affecting the application of section 1870(c) (relating to no adjustment in the cases of certain overpayments).
(2) Limitation on recoupment.—
(A) In general.—In the case of a provider of services or supplier that is determined to have received an overpayment under this title and that seeks a reconsideration by a qualified independent contractor on such determination under section 1869(b)(1), the Secretary may not take any action (or authorize any other person, including any medicare contractor, as defined in subparagraph (C)) to recoup the overpayment until the date the decision on the reconsideration has been rendered. If the provisions of section 1869(b)(1) (providing for such a reconsideration by a qualified independent contractor) are not in effect, in applying the previous sentence any reference to such a reconsideration shall be treated as a reference to a redetermination by the fiscal intermediary or carrier involved
(B) Collection with interest.—Insofar as the determination on such appeal is against the provider of services or supplier, interest on the overpayment shall accrue on and after the date of the original notice of overpayment. Insofar as such determination against the provider of services or supplier is later reversed, the Secretary shall provide for repayment of the amount recouped plus interest at the same rate as would apply under the previous sentence for the period in which the amount was recouped.
(C) Medicare contractor defined.—For purposes of this subsection, the term "medicare contractor" has the meaning given such term in section 1889(g).
(3) Limitation on use of extrapolation.—A medicare contractor may not use extrapolation to determine overpayment amounts to be recovered by recoupment, offset, or otherwise unless the Secretary determines that—
(A) there is a sustained or high level of payment error; or
(B) documented educational intervention has failed to correct the payment error.
There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, section 1878, or otherwise, of determinations by the Secretary of sustained or high levels of payment errors under this paragraph.
(4) Provision of supporting documentation.—In the case of a provider of services or supplier with respect to which amounts were previously overpaid, a medicare contractor may request the periodic production of records or supporting documentation for a limited sample of submitted claims to ensure that the previous practice is not continuing.
(5) Consent settlement reforms.—
(A) In general.—The Secretary may use a consent settlement (as defined in subparagraph (D)) to settle a projected overpayment.
(B) Opportunity to submit additional information before consent settlement offer.—Before offering a provider of services or supplier a consent settlement, the Secretary shall—
(i) communicate to the provider of services or supplier—
(I) that, based on a review of the medical records requested by the Secretary, a preliminary evaluation of those records indicates that there would be an overpayment;
(II) the nature of the problems identified in such evaluation; and
(III) the steps that the provider of services or supplier should take to address the problems; and
(ii) provide for a 45-day period during which the provider of services or supplier may furnish additional information concerning the medical records for the claims that had been reviewed.
(C) Consent settlement offer.—The Secretary shall review any additional information furnished by the provider of services or supplier under subparagraph (B)(ii). Taking into consideration such information, the Secretary shall determine if there still appears to be an overpayment. If so, the Secretary—
(i) shall provide notice of such determination to the provider of services or supplier, including an explanation of the reason for such determination; and
(ii) in order to resolve the overpayment, may offer the provider of services or supplier—
(I) the opportunity for a statistically valid random sample; or
(II) a consent settlement.
The opportunity provided under clause (ii)(I) does not waive any appeal rights with respect to the alleged overpayment involved.
(D) Consent settlement defined.—For purposes of this paragraph, the term "consent settlement" means an agreement between the Secretary and a provider of services or supplier whereby both parties agree to settle a projected overpayment based on less than a statistically valid sample of claims and the provider of services or supplier agrees not to appeal the claims involved.
(6) Notice of over-utilization of codes.—The Secretary shall establish, in consultation with organizations representing the classes of providers of services and suppliers, a process under which the Secretary provides for notice to classes of providers of services and suppliers served by the contractor in cases in which the contractor has identified that particular billing codes may be overutilized by that class of providers of services or suppliers under the programs under this title (or provisions of title XI insofar as they relate to such programs).
(7) Payment audits.—
(A) Written notice for post-Payment audits.—Subject to subparagraph (C), if a medicare contractor decides to conduct a post-payment audit of a provider of services or supplier under this title, the contractor shall provide the provider of services or supplier with written notice (which may be in electronic form) of the intent to conduct such an audit.
(B) Explanation of findings for all audits.—Subject to subparagraph (C), if a medicare contractor audits a provider of services or supplier under this title, the contractor shall—
(i) give the provider of services or supplier a full review and explanation of the findings of the audit in a manner that is understandable to the provider of services or supplier and permits the development of an appropriate corrective action plan;
(ii) inform the provider of services or supplier of the appeal rights under this title as well as consent settlement options (which are at the discretion of the Secretary);
(iii) give the provider of services or supplier an opportunity to provide additional information to the contractor; and
(iv) take into account information provided, on a timely basis, by the provider of services or supplier under clause (iii).
(C) Exception.—Subparagraphs (A) and (B) shall not apply if the provision of notice or findings would compromise pending law enforcement activities, whether civil or criminal, or reveal findings of law enforcement-related audits.
(8) Standard methodology for probe sampling.—The Secretary shall establish a standard methodology for medicare contractors to use in selecting a sample of claims for review in the case of an abnormal billing pattern.
(g) Medicare-Medicaid Data Match Program.—
(1) Expansion of program.—
(A) In general.—The Secretary shall enter into contracts with eligible entities for the purpose of ensuring that, beginning with 2006, the Medicare-Medicaid Data Match Program (commonly referred to as the "Medi-Medi Program") is conducted with respect to the program established under this title and State Medicaid programs under title XIX for the purpose of—
(i) identifying program vulnerabilities in the program established under this title and the Medicaid program established under title XIX through the use of computer algorithms to look for payment anomalies (including billing or billing patterns identified with respect to service, time, or patient that appear to be suspect or otherwise implausible);
(ii) working with States, the Attorney General, and the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate appropriate actions to protect the Federal and State share of expenditures under the Medicaid program under title XIX, as well as the program established under this title; and
(iii) increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of both such programs through cost avoidance, savings, and recoupments of fraudulent, wasteful, or abusive expenditures.
(B) Reporting requirements.—The Secretary shall make available in a timely manner any data and statistical information collected by the Medi-Medi Program to the Attorney General, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the States (including a Medicaid fraud and abuse control unit described in section 1903(q)). Such information shall be disseminated no less frequently than quarterly.
(2) Limited waiver authority.—The Secretary shall waive only such requirements of this section and of titles XI and XIX as are necessary to carry out paragraph (1).
(h)[494] Use of Recovery Audit Contractors.—
(1) In general.—Under the Program, the Secretary shall enter into contracts with recovery audit contractors in accordance with this subsection for the purpose of identifying underpayments and overpayments and recouping overpayments under this title with respect to all services for which payment is made under this title. Under the contracts—
(A) payment shall be made to such a contractor only from amounts recovered;
(B) from such amounts recovered, payment—
(i) shall be made on a contingent basis for collecting overpayments; and
(ii) may be made in such amounts as the Secretary may specify for identifying underpayments; and
(C) the Secretary shall retain a portion of the amounts recovered which shall be available to the program management account of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for purposes of activities conducted under the recovery audit program under this subsection.
(2) Disposition of remaining recoveries.—The amounts recovered under such contracts that are not paid to the contractor under paragraph (1) or retained by the Secretary under paragraph (1)(C) shall be applied to reduce expenditures under this title.
(3) Nationwide coverage.—The Secretary shall enter into contracts under paragraph (1) in a manner so as to provide for activities in all States under such a contract by not later than January 1, 2010 (not later than December 31, 2010, in the case of contracts relating to payments made under part C or D).
(4) Audit and recovery periods.—Each such contract shall provide that audit and recovery activities may be conducted during a fiscal year with respect to payments made under this title—
(A) during such fiscal year; and
(B) retrospectively (for a period of not more than 4 fiscal years prior to such fiscal year).
(5) Waiver.—The Secretary shall waive such provisions of this title as may be necessary to provide for payment of recovery audit contractors under this subsection in accordance with paragraph (1).
(6) Qualifications of contractors.—
(A) In general.—The Secretary may not enter into a contract under paragraph (1) with a recovery audit contractor unless the contractor has staff that has the appropriate clinical knowledge of, and experience with, the payment rules and regulations under this title or the contractor has, or will contract with, another entity that has such knowledgeable and experienced staff.
(B) Ineligibility of certain contractors.—The Secretary may not enter into a contract under paragraph (1) with a recovery audit contractor to the extent the contractor is a fiscal intermediary under section 1816, a carrier under section 1842, or a medicare administrative contractor under section 1874A.
(C) Preference for entities with demonstrated proficiency.—In awarding contracts to recovery audit contractors under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give preference to those risk entities that the Secretary determines have demonstrated more than 3 years direct management experience and a proficiency for cost control or recovery audits with private insurers, health care providers, health plans, under the Medicaid program under title XIX, or under this title.
(7) Construction relating to conduct of investigation of fraud.—A recovery of an overpayment to a individual or entity by a recovery audit contractor under this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the Secretary or the Attorney General from investigating and prosecuting, if appropriate, allegations of fraud or abuse arising from such overpayment.
(8) Annual report.—The Secretary shall annually submit to Congress a report on the use of recovery audit contractors under this subsection. Each such report shall include information on the performance of such contractors in identifying underpayments and overpayments and recouping overpayments, including an evaluation of the comparative performance of such contractors and savings to the program under this title.
(9) Special rules relating to parts c and d.—The Secretary shall enter into contracts under paragraph (1) to require recovery audit contractors to—
(A) ensure that each MA plan under part C has an anti-fraud plan in effect and to review the effectiveness of each such anti-fraud plan;
(B) ensure that each prescription drug plan under part D has an anti-fraud plan in effect and to review the effectiveness of each such anti-fraud plan;
(C) examine claims for reinsurance payments under section 1860D–15(b) to determine whether prescription drug plans submitting such claims incurred costs in excess of the allowable reinsurance costs permitted under paragraph (2) of that section; and
(D) review estimates submitted by prescription drug plans by private plans with respect to the enrollment of high cost beneficiaries (as defined by the Secretary) and to compare such estimates with the numbers of such beneficiaries actually enrolled by such plans.
(i) Evaluations and Annual Report.—
(1) Evaluations.—The Secretary shall conduct evaluations of eligible entities which the Secretary contracts with under the Program not less frequently than every 3 years.
(2) Annual report.—Not later than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 2011), the Secretary shall submit a report to Congress which identifies—
(A) the use of funds, including funds transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund under section 1817 and the Federal Supplementary Insurance Trust Fund under section 1841, to carry out this section; and
(B) the effectiveness of the use of such funds.
[493] P.L. 104-191, §202(b); 110 Stat. 1998, amended §§1816 and 1842 of this Act.
[494] See Vol. II, P.L. 108-173, §302(b), with respect to a demonstration project for use of recovery audit contractors.
See Vol. II, P.L. 109-432, §302(b), with respect to access to the Coordination of Benefits Contractor Database.


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Again, it was very interesting to see all those presentations. There is always new ways of integrating Apex with different technologies.
See all the conferences about Apex with other technologies :
- Integrating PL/Flow with Apex by Scott Stegemann
- Yahoo UI and Jquery with Apex by Tim St. Hilaire
- Integrating Apex and Web Services by Jason Straub
- Integrating Apex with DHTMLX Tree by Bharat Pappu
On the first morning, Scott Spendolini did his 408 slides presentation. Very entertaining. It was funny to see those old technologies that we used back than and the corrolation with today's technology. After that, Mike Hichwa presented some new features coming in the 4.0 release of Apex next year.
Scott Spendolini Payed a tribute to Carl Backstrom on the second morning during his Keynote. I think that it was very appropriate and that it had to be mentioned.
At the same time, his "Avoiding APEX Pitfalls" was very educating. He talked about how to deal with political issues when trying to get people to adopt Apex. I agree with him when he says that the adoption of a new technology is 10% technical and 90% political.
I had the chance to network with different people and is is always motivating to discuss the possibilities of Apex with them.
Another presentation that I liked was Steven Feuerstein's : "A Solid PL/SQL Foundation for Apex Developers". Basically, APEX has to be treated as any other PL/SQL development and Database Packages should be used in PL/SQL APEX Processes to ease maintenance and tuning.
So, this trip was short and sweet. Fly in and fly out of Chicago . I would have liked to visit downtown but the Hotel was a bit too far. So maybe another time.
ODTUG is a great association and I think that they are listening to their members and reacting in a good way. All I can say to them is "keep up the good work".
I submitted an abstract for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope next year. Who knows, maybe I will be presenting. The subject of my presentation is : How to build a multi-tenant SAAS application with Oracle Application Express.
Can't wait to see if it will be accepted.
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- Scott said...
Thanks for the nice comments! I'm glad that you enjoyed my presentations and the conference as a whole. We had a lot of fun putting it together, and I'm hearing a lot of good things about it!
Talking about Carl was the 2 most difficult slides I ever had to get through in my life.
One note - I did not do the PL/FLOW presentation; Scott Stegemann did. You may want to make a quick correction.
- Scott -
- November 5, 2008 at 3:01:00 PM EST
- Francis said...
Thanks Scott for your comment. I did correct my little Lapsus...
I did not attend the Pl/Flow presentation since I wanted to learn more about Yahoo UI and JQuery. But I will definitly take a look at Scott's presentation about PL/Flow.
And yes, it must have been very difficult to talk about Carl in front of everybody. Imagine, I can't even find the words to write something decent in my blog.
- November 5, 2008 at 3:12:00 PM EST

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Palin co-author Lynn Vincent's inflammatory record
Research ››› ››› SIMON MALOY & DIANNA PARKER
On May 21, HarperCollins announced that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had chosen World magazine features editor Lynn Vincent to co-author Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Palin's choice of Vincent, however, is not without controversy, as Vincent -- both in her writing for World and her other books -- has a record of false and inflammatory attacks on Democrats and liberals and has stridently attacked the gay community, likening gay people to communists and suggesting that homosexuality is a mental disorder.
Vincent's anti-gay attacks
In her many years writing for World, Vincent has authored several columns on gay rights issues, frequently deriding gay men and lesbians as abnormal and "devian[t]," often trafficking in hackneyed stereotypes of the gay community. Vincent even went so far as to lament the American Psychiatric Association's decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, and she also wrote that the struggle for gay rights differs from that for African-American civil rights and women's suffrage, in that it will not "benefit[] society at large."
Gay activists seeking to make "deviance" appear "normal." From Vincent's April 25 World column:
Policy-wise, though, the impact of the same-sex marriage boom is more far-reaching than it may appear. As gay activists incrementally shatter their final barrier between deviance and "normal," government bodies are institutionalizing viewpoint discrimination against employees who still object to homosexuality on moral grounds. For example, University of Toledo employee Crystal Dixon, an African-American, was fired in 2008 after she wrote a newspaper op-ed questioning whether homosexuality is a civil-rights issue.
American Psychiatric Association should still call homosexuality a disorder. From her June 15, 2002, World column:
But more than 80 years of clinical research and observation calls into question the notion that the troubles of gay youth are based in discrimination, says Yale psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, author of Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth. The American Psychiatric Association, under political pressure from a vitriolic internal gay caucus, ignored that science and removed homosexuality from its list of disorders in 1973. But science just wouldn't go away: Researchers have since found causal links between homosexuality and a lack of male role models (Journal of Genetics and Psychology, 1983); parental emotional abandonment (Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1989); and child sexual abuse (Child Abuse and Neglect, 1992).
Gay people are like communists, seek "sexual gratification without responsibility," wear dog collars. From Vincent's April 10, 1999, World column, headlined "How homosexuals fight":
At the San Diego offices of Update, a newspaper serving Southern California homosexuals, a royal blue bumper sticker clinging to the lobby wall is both confessional and prophetic: "Having abandoned the search for truth, I'm now looking for a good fantasy."
While the homosexual ethos depends on an abandonment of truth, the search for a good gay fantasy may not last much longer. After a week of demonstrations late last month, the fantasy nation long yearned for by American homosexuals may now be breaching the borders of reality.
With more than 300 pro-homosexual bills romping through state legislatures coast to coast, the potentially precedent-setting judicial assault on traditional marriage in Vermont, the growing fallacy-fueled drive for gay "civil rights," and the tactical defamation of religious opposition, the homosexual offensive is poised to make a forward leap so large it may alter American culture radically-perhaps irrevocably.
The dim, bohemian office he shares with editor-in-chief Frederic Ball is revealing. The walls are decorated with bodies instead of, say, art. Mr. Ball's side of the room features a four-foot frontal nude poster of an unnamed platinum blond starlet. On Mr. Hurd's side, a black-and-white, 8-by-10 photo series marches across the wall: men, alone and in groups, absurdly muscular, nearly naked, and provocatively entwined. The decor betrays a subculture that, despite its own frantic claims to normality, is actually fixated on the promise of sexual gratification without responsibility.
His statement is in line with the openly propagandistic tactics preached by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen in the activist primer After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's. A chief strategy: Portray homosexuals as victims, an oppressed minority groaning under the yoke of heterosexist tyranny. But the gay quest for "civil rights" bears little resemblance to the struggles of blacks and suffragists, whose eventual liberation benefited society at large. Instead, it calls up the American communists of the '50s and '60s who, in order to advance the radical interests of a narrow group, created a spurious "victim class," then convinced America that theirs was the side of justice.
For example, the only Christians in attendance at a March 22 EBAH event in Austin, Texas, were a cluster of grim-faced, middle-aged men bearing signs with biting slogans like "God calls fags dogs" and "Lord Jesus, Save the Children from the Sodomites." By contrast, homosexual marchers and their supporters appeared stunningly normal (another strategy espoused by Mr. Kirk and Mr. Pill). They were an all-American crowd: white, black, Latino, young, old, even toddlers in sunglasses sitting in strollers or on parents' shoulders. Nowhere in sight were the drag queens, dog collars, and other staple depravities of left-coast gay parades.
Abortion as "Black Genocide"
In her January 17 column for World, Vincent argued that President Obama is "the face of the minority survivor" of the "Black Genocide" -- meaning abortion:
Indeed, the face of the minority survivor in the Oval Office racially represents many abortion victims. Ninety-four percent of all abortion doctors are located in metropolitan areas, with seven in 10 of these in predominantly minority-populated communities, according to Care Net, a Virginia-based coalition of more than 1,100 pregnancy resource centers. The result: African-American and Hispanic women, who together make up about one-quarter of the female population, account for 57 percent of the 1.2 million abortions performed in the United States each year. In some urban areas, abortions among minority women now equal the number of live births.
Donkey Cons: Vincent's false and absurd attacks on Democrats
Vincent co-authored Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current, 2006) with Robert Stacy McCain, a book that purports to document "the tragic story of how the nation's oldest political party has inspired, then cruelly betrayed, the hopes of millions of Americans, including many of our friends and dear members of our own families -- as well as sincere and honest officials within the party itself." The book is marked by shoddy scholarship, falsehoods, and over-the-top invective aimed at Democrats.
No Republican "culture of corruption." In Chapter 1, Vincent and McCain dismiss out of hand the idea of a Republican "culture of corruption" and openly mocks the idea that Democrats would be able to retake control of Congress in 2006 by campaigning against Republican corruption:
Maybe Democrats think Americans are stupid. (They may be half right; 48 percent of voters apparently thought John Kerry would make a good president.) But just how stupid do they think we are? At this writing, Nancy Pelosi and her friends are talking about how Democrats will win control of Congress in 2006 by campaigning against a Republican "culture of corruption." This book was conceived more than two years ago, when no one outside of Washington had heard of a lobbyist named Jack Abramoff. (Democrats have reportedly pocketed something over $3 million from Abramoff's clients since 1997, as we'll see in Chapter Twelve.) If Democrats try to make "corruption" the central issue of their campaign, they'll surely lose -- and we'll probably sell a lot more books.
Hey, Nancy: You go, girl! [Donkey Cons, Pages 14-15]
FDR a "puppet" of Stalin. On Page 100, Vincent and McCain wrote:
If anything was red and scary, it was the scab of treachery that [Whittaker] Chambers peeled back to reveal a Democratic administration teeming with a Communist infection, and despite repeated warnings, doing nothing. One member of the HUAC [House Un-American Activities Committee], a Republican congressman from California named Richard Nixon, believed Chambers. His dogged pursuit of the truth ultimately revealed the extent to which Joseph Stalin was pulling Roosevelt's strings like those of a hapless puppet.
Iraq's really real WMD programs. Vincent and McCain repeatedly assert that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had a "WMD program" that he was hiding from weapons inspectors prior to the 2003 invasion by American-led forces. On Page 105, they rebuffed the allegation that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq:
Democrats, Baathists, and members of the Screen Actors Guild now reading this book are likely sputtering: "[Rep. Jim] McDermott was right! We didn't find any WMD in Iraq!"
That's true if you don't count the fact that two Iraqi scientists, newly freed by American forces, in April 2003 went on the Arab news channel Al-Jazeera and said they had watched vandals loot a Tawitha nuclear facility of 200 barrels of milled uranium oxide, or "yellow cake." Or the dozen or so sarin and mustard rounds, 7-pound block of cyanide salt, vial of live botulinum, and 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium recovered by coalition forces.
Their source for this claim is a 2005 World magazine article. Unmentioned by Vincent and McCain was the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2004 Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, which determined that the available intelligence did not support the conclusion that Iraq had biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons programs. Nor did they mention the 2004 Iraq Survey Group report, which found that Iraq had dismantled its WMD programs and not made any efforts to reconstitute them prior to the 2003 invasion.
Democrats "perilously close" to committing "treason." Vincent and McCain wrote on Page 107:
Democrats want to have it both ways: they want to whine that they were gullible dupes apparently incapable of their own competent intelligence analysis and they want to be put in charge of the country and the national defense. For the basest of reasons -- to win a majority power in 2006 -- congressional Democrats at this writing are misleading the American people, lying to them in time of war, sowing doubt among American forces, twisting daggers in the hearts of parents who have lost children, and shilling for the enemy. Constitutionally, that may not be treason. But it appears perilously close.
Clinton intentionally started Lewinsky scandal. On Page 199, Vincent and McCain wrote that there is "merit" to the allegation that the Clinton White House used the Monica Lewinsky scandal to intentionally distract from the so-called "Chinagate" campaign finance investigation:
Admiral [Thomas] Moorer's analysis of Janet Reno's decision to keep the Chinagate investigation in-house, but to unleash Ken Starr on a chubby-cheeked intern, has merit. The appointment of an independent counsel makes headlines and lends heft to allegations. It would be no surprise if the spin-obsessed Clinton administration had deemed it better to distract the nation and lemming press with a titillating sex scandal -- a rap Clinton had already proven he could beat -- than to leave a news hole waiting to be filled with tales of a presidency for sale.
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kwrzesien - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkI'm confused by their choice of cheap wifi and dual Realtec NICs. So can the wifi board be removed and replaced with mSATA SSD? For example for a wired HTPC setup? Is it easy to find replacement mimo or 802.11ac board? Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkYes it's the same slot notebooks use so you can get any chipset you want from the kilker 1202 t9 theintek 7260ac. They are also pretty cheap to pick up. Reply
fritodorito - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkHow well will the 2.4 GHz antennas work for the 5 GHz band? Reply
DMisner - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkThe wifi board is mini pci-e, not msata Reply
bobbozzo - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkNo one said otherwise.
mSATA SSD's typically go into mini PCIe slots. Reply
Meaker10 - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkIncorrect. While msata and mini pci-e are the same physically they are not electrically compatible so a slot can be designed to either take a mini pcie card or msata but can't take the other. Reply
chubbypanda - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkJust to make it clear: mSATA and mini PCIe are indeed electrically compatible. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI think they could cram a lot more onto these boards (like another mPCIe slot) if they shrunk the socket area and forced you to use water cooling, something most people buying this board are likely to do anyway. Reply
1Angelreloaded - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkI like the vertical design Asus chose, If you can't build out why not up. Reply
Hrel - Tuesday, September 03, 2013 - linkWater cooling is stupid. Reply
Meaker10 - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkNo they are not, while the devices will plug into both slots, a mSATA drive will not work in a mini PCI-E slot and a mini PCI-E card will not work in an mSATA slot meaning they are physically compatible but not electrically compatible.
There are a few SSDs that have a SATA to PCI express bridge and these will only work in mini pci express slots and wont be bootable. Reply
Jason33 - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkmSATA and mPCIe are electrically compatible. You only need to mux the data signals on the motherboard to either go to the SATA controller or the PCIe controller.
Using this mux chip on the motherboard would work: http://www.nxp.com/documents/application_note/AN11... Reply
Meaker10 - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkYes they are compatible with a MUX, so how is that going to help with an mSATA/PCI-E slot that is not muxed?
I have yet to see a consumer device with that muxed in so it's a pointless argument to make. Reply
Jason33 - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkSeveral ThinkPads and notebooks for a few years now have done this. I'm running an mSATA drive in my ThinkPad that used to have a mPCIe WWAN card. There are also mini motherboards that can accept either type of card. Reply
Jason33 - Friday, August 30, 2013 - linkAlso, I do agree that slots that don't have a mux will only allow one type of card. However, most consumer boards, notebooks and pre-built systems I've personally encountered that support mSATA cards also support mPCIe cards for the same slot.
To answer kwrzesien's original question, MSI doesn't advertise it as supporting mSATA. If it did, they'd definitely say so. No reason to not advertise a feature. If you really want a Z87 ITX board with an mSATA slot then the ASRock Z87E-ITX has a full height mSATA/mPCIe slot in addition to the half height mPCIe slot holding the 802.11ac WiFi module. Reply
1Angelreloaded - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkYou are right and wrong, MSATA was initially made to use as a caching flash for Laptop hardrives, an MSATA port is different from MPCIe look at the combo card Asus gives in its ROG series Mobos, trust me they are incompatible. Reply
1Angelreloaded - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkNo different channel slot type , do yourself the favor pay 50$ more and get the Asus Maximus Impact, much better. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkSomething's not consistent here:
6 x USB 3.0 (Chipset) [4 back panel, 1 header]
4 x USB 2.0 (Chipset) [2 back panel, 2 header]
Assuming the totals are correct you're counting USB3 headers on one line, and USB2 ports from headers on the second. Reply
IanCutress - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkAh yes, I normally have a header equal to two ports unless otherwise stated. Table is fixed.
Ian Reply
The Von Matrices - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkUnfortunately a few of the motherboard articles posted in the past few weeks are incorrect regarding the Flex IO configuration. In this article, it states "This amount of extra network controllers is due to the Flex IO allocation – as the board only has four SATA 6 Gbps and six USB 3.0 from the chipset, this gives the other 8 Flex IO lanes all the PCIe 2.0 for these controllers." However, the Flex I/O allocation in the specifications table states that there are 6/4/8 SATA/USB 3/PCIe 2.
Similarly, the review of the ASRock Z87 Extreme6/AC is incorrect in this regard as well. It states that "Out of our total 18 PCH Flex IO ports on board, this means we have six for SATA 6 Gbps ports, we also have four for USB 3.0 (PCH are headers, ASMedia on Rear IO) leaving eight for PCIe 2.0 lanes." I own a Z87 Extreme6, and I can tell you that this is not correct. The Flex I/O allocation in this board is 6/6/6 SATA/USB 3/PCIe 2. The rear USB 3.0 ports are driven by an ASMedia ASM1074 USB hub, not an ASMedia PCIe USB 3 controller, as would be implied by the Flex IO table in the article. Reply
Schmov17 - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkDo the dual NICs support teaming? Reply
bobbozzo - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkIf you want gbps or higher performance, you shouldn't be using Realtek NICs; it's almost impossible to get full gbps speed out of them.
Intel, Broadcom, and possibly Qualcomm Atheros are currently the best choices, and the server-model NICs have more virtualization / offloading capabilities than the standard embedded or desktop models. Reply
TheButton - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkI know beggars can't be choosers but I'd love to see a review of the B75(IvyBridge) or B85 (Haswell) mITX motherboards. They are cheap (can be had for <$100) and seem to have all the right features, USB3.0, PCI-E 3.0x16, SATA 6Gbps, 2 Dimm slots. I know they are marketed for small business but they seem ideal for small form-factor gaming machines and I'd love to see how B85 compares versus H81 and/or Z87 especially in the mITX form factor.
Can we expect any such reviews to be forthcoming Ian? Reply
DMisner - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkJust curious if under 'Visual Inspection' you could add a picture of the back of the motherboard. I know sometimes motherboard manufacturers place some small parts on the back and often they get in the way of aftermarket cooler back-plates (especially on m-ITX motherboards) which can be a frustrating surprise to find upon delivery. Reply
Razorbak86 - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkFor this particular motherboard, check Newegg product #4 (out of 5). Reply
Razorbak86 - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - link... Newegg product photo #4 (out of 5) Reply
Ammaross - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - link"ALC892 audio solution which performed average in our audio tests. If MSI were aiming more at a HTPC or gaming market, we might have seen an ALC898"
Wouldn't most gamers be utilizing a USB-audio headset? Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkOne of the reasons I wouldn't want to ever share an apartment is that I can game on speakers; and no one can tell me otherwise. Reply
LordHaHa - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkWas there any investigation into undervolting the system? The OC results are positive, but I'd rather use mATX+ for higher performance purposes. On the other hand, I could think of some applications for a low-footprint, low-power, no-to-little-default-performance-sacrifice mITX system. Reply
londiste - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkthat's what i think when i see any mitx review...
additionally, why not give power consumption a go with 35/45w tdp cpu and minimal needed hardware attached. for example 4670t, 1 stick of ram and 1 hdd/ssd, omitting a dedicated gpu entirely? i have several mitx boxes running off picopsu (or similar prebuilt solutions from case manufacturers). Reply
BansheeX - Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - linkFor $20 more, you can get the Asrock Z87E-ITX, which has an mSATA port on the back and a better audio DAC. Reply
abscoder - Wednesday, September 04, 2013 - link+1 So far the Asrock Z87E-ITX has been serving me very well. Built a 12TB HTPC/file server around one. Reply
Hixbot - Thursday, September 05, 2013 - linkI personally have no need for a DAC on my motherboard. I'll use the digital output and my own DAC thank-you very much. Reply
8steve8 - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkis this shipping with the c2 stepping?
the tech media is amazingly quiet about the usb3 lga1150 bug... and the coming fix.
they are also quiet about i7-4770r lack of availability, along with any iris pro solution actually being buyable... is everyone waiting for c2 chipsets to launch significant products with haswell? Reply
meacupla - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkThe reason for that is because the Haswell USB3.0 bug is not that relevant in desktops. It affects notebooks more and only affects USB3.0 storage devices when waking up from an S3 state, in which the data becomes unreadable off of the device.
So unless you never turn your computer off, always have some sort of USB3.0 device connected and set aggressive power saving, you will be completely unaffected by the bug.
i7-4770R is BGA and needs to be packaged together with a mobo, so it's only natural that it has a slower development cycle. It's also likely that it's going to get a similar treatment to NUC or BRIX, so that's going to be an even longer delay. Reply
8steve8 - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linknot relevant on desktops? any computer that goes to s3 is effected...
most people don't turn "off" their computer anymore... they let it idle and sleep.
lots of people use USB storage devices, when they plug in their phone its a usb storage device, their camera, their backup external HDD, etc.. some people use USB drives as their primary storage for music/movies..
you don't have to "always have" a usb device connected... just once... and you may see the bug.
I think more people should be aware of it, and yet no one is talking about it.... not enough.
It's on the worst thing in the world, but either is waiting a month or two for the fix.
I imagine apple is buying all the iris pro cpus up and will ship computers with them when c2 is ready... Reply
8steve8 - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkcorrection:
It's not the worst thing int he world, but either is waiting a month for the fixed hardware. Reply
meacupla - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkCPU socket area looks low, like the majority of Z77/H77 mITX boards that also couldn't fit a high performance dual tower heatsink. Reply
lopper - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkWish my vishera could be in mini-itx without blowing itself up. Reply
jardows2 - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkI stopped reading when I saw the mini pci-e slot taken up by a wireless card. It doesn't look like you could fit a mSATA card without interfering with the CPU Heatsink. Again, another model packing all sorts of features that I will not use. Reply
Touche - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - linkDo you test DPC latency with MBO software installed/running or without it? Reply
SteelRing - Thursday, August 29, 2013 - linkIs that a TOSLINK/Optical above the HDMI? Why is that not listed? Reply
TrevorH - Monday, September 02, 2013 - linkGlad to see that there are so many others who stopped reading this as soon as they saw "Realtek". Manufacturers, please note: Realtek NICs are not a selling point. Reply
Tujan - Friday, September 06, 2013 - linkI would be interested in any problem running these smaller boards with a graphics card . Then how if any problems or changes would occur within the specs. performance when a graphics card is used. Then how the board/board manufactures/bios handles the controls-settings differently. Or the feature set with the board manufacturer to do so (run with,disable onboard video within cpu).
I've noticed some articles that describe certain inconsistency with mb components when utilizing them (the small boards) with graphics cards. Instead of the apu . Thanks. Reply
smayonak - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - linkHello Ian, would you happen to know if this board is capable of undervolting (voltage offset)? I read through the article a couple times, but couldn't find anything relating to this. My apologies if you've mentioned it already. Reply
ozark - Sunday, September 29, 2013 - linkI just got this myself but hasn't had the chance to put things together. One thing I noticed is the connector next to hdmi port (1 pin-blank-4pins). They don't have it listed in the manual. Any one know what it is? Reply


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Please Tell me if this product is environmentally friendly. Can I have the specifications of the product. Thanks, Wlson
They have a strong smell like a car tire store. How long does it take for the smell to go away? Does it ever go away completely?
Can this be used on a carpeted floor? For pivoting and kickboxing and things like that?
Does the rubber flake off the mat at all? I've heard some rubber mats do that.
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The three of us love the Mats it makes a big difference in our work outs less noise, less fatigue on the bod.
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The mat is heavy gauge and perfectly smooth- just what I needed for exercising at home. I roll it up when not in use and secure it with bungee cords.
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great plyo mat!! I work with pro and amateur volleyball players.... enough said! Have them doing a lot of plyometrics and having concrete floors made a huge difference with the amount of force on their joints.
I would recommend this product to anyone. took about 4 days from ordering to delivery, Inexpensive and easy to install.
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Product was as stated on the website.
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Came as ordered just in time for x-mas. Easy to install will not move unless you are trying to move. No glue or anything needed. Just remember to get the zero ph-cleaner, will keep your mat or mats looking good. My home gym is now finished. Just hard workouts with DDP yoga.
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I purchased these mats to replace those foam interlocking mats in our workout room. So far, I love these new mats. They have spring and work great for our high impact workouts. We use these for workouts like T25 and Insanity Max30. There was a bit of a smell for about a day. The mats are really heavy and don't slide much. I will need to tape the two mats together, but don't see a need to glue them to the floor.
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They work very well for plyometric and weight workouts.
Sacramento, CA
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We love the floor and the rubber smell went away faster than I expected. The only issue I have is it's hard to clean. I used a looped end cotton mop and the fibers stuck so then after I clean, I have to vacuum (over and over) to get all the little pieces of the mop up off the floor. I'm hoping in time the stickiness will go away.
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Bought two rolls for our garage which we put under our heavy bag. My wife and I workout boxing and kick-boxing. The mats don't move even on bare concrete. We also jump rope without a problem. We unroll and roll them back up after each use. They are heavy enough with enough cushion for working out. But light enough to roll-up and put away after each use. We are redoing out exercise room soon and intend to but several at that time.
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We really like the plyometric mats. A lot of time was spent figuring out where to get them and how thick they should be. Price was a big concern because these mats can get costly. The thicker they are obviously the more expensive they will be especially if they are being delivered through a shipping company. These mats were not inexpensive to that point. But when it comes to proper cushioning of feet and legs during exercise a few dollars is just that over the long run. We unroll and roll-up these mats a couple of times a week in our garage. We use them under a heavy bag and my wife and I put them to the test with twisting and turning as we train and exercise. Rarely do we have to tap them back together because of shifting. So the weight and thickness is good for what we do. The one did come with a defect though. A six inch rip or tear about a foot from the end of one of the mats. I didn't contact the company because I felt it would be a hassle to fight this or have to ship it back. So the concern was will this get worse? So I got rubber cement and smeared it over that whole area. So far so good and it seems to have solved the concern we had. But only time will tell.
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Just as the name implies....great mat! I'm going to order another one.
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Perfect for what I needed. Customer service was very helpful
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Greatmats shipped in a timely manner. Product is as described. Works well for jump rope, Bosu stability ball and kettle bells. Good give and traction. Had pronounced odor for a few days in basement. Can only smell now if nose is very close.
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Great for keeping your grip when working out
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Terrific mat which my wife uses for her Plyo exercises. We have installed in our garage on the epoxy floor and it does not slip at all and is also comfortable to lay on and also absorbs shock from your legs. Nice look and texture also. Worth the price.
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I use the mat for Insanity and other cardio/plyometric/PAP workouts. At workout time it's unrolled onto the living room floor. The floor is a wood laminate, and the mat does not slide at all regardless of lateral jumping. It provides great traction, even with substantial sweat on the surface. It's somewhat heavy, but that keeps it in place during use and is a function of its excellent durability. Very happy with this mat. When done working out, I just let it air dry, roll it up, and it's out of the way.
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I absolutely love this mat. I searched and searched for a mat to perform P90X Plyometrics on that was large enough and could absorb the shock of the numerous jumps of the routine. This mat is huge and slip proof even after sweating all over it. It has just the right amount of cushioning needed to protect my joints but not so soft that it affects balance. I am really happy with this product and how quickly Greatmats delivered my shipment.


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Ever since we left Finland I've been craving for cloudberries. We really got spoiled there, we ate cloudberries (frozen from the previous season) like there was no tomorrow and there is no doubt this luxurious berry is my all time favourite. It's been nearly a month now since we left my home country and my craving for this berry is coming back stronger by the day. My only consolation was a jar of cloudberry jam I always keep in the fridge for emergencies and although it doesn't compare to the rich flavour of the real berries, it's my second best (and only) option to satisfy my cravings.
These lovely rye crusted cups with goat cheese make a perfect pair for the cloudberry jam. They are fragile, crumbly and delicious and the goat cheese is soft and creamy, just like it should be. I loved the addition of lemon thyme, it's quickly becoming my favourite herb and I now have it growing in my tiny kitchen!
Rye Crusted Goat Cheese and Cloudberry Cups
(Makes 6)
50g unsalted butter, slightly softened
60g rye flour
20g plain wheat flour
tiny pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
25ml milk
100g goat cheese
6 tbsp cloudberry jam
fresh lemon thyme, for serving
Mix the dry ingredients with butter, add the milk and mix into a smooth dough. Divide the dough into 6 portions and press each portion into greased muffin tins cups. Place in the fridge for 10-20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 175C. Bake the cups for 10-15 minutes, remove from the oven and top with goat cheese cut into 6 portions. Place back into the oven and bake for another 10 minutes or until the cheese has melted and got a bit of colour. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Remove the cups from the tin (carefully!) and top with cloudberry jam. Sprinkle with fresh lemon thyme.


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Napolitano falsely claimed Florida prosecutors had no search warrant to seize Limbaugh's medical records
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Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew P. Napolitano falsely claimed that Florida prosecutors "did not go to a judge to get a search warrant" to obtain the medical records of radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was under investigation over allegations that he had illegally obtained multiple prescriptions for painkillers. In fact, as The Palm Beach Post reported, Limbaugh's medical records were seized through search warrants that "were obtained after investigators showed a judge Limbaugh's extensive prescription records from pharmacies near his $24 million Palm Beach mansion."
Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, recently argued before the Florida Supreme Court that "patients should be notified before their medical records are seized or inspected" [Associated Press, 1/20/05], but he did not challenge the validity of the warrant. Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in October 2004 that Limbaugh's medical records were properly seized [Associated Press, 10/6/04].
Napolitano contrasted Limbaugh's situation with recent attempts by Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline to subpoena the medical records of women who had obtained abortions in the state, but he falsely claimed that the Florida prosecutors in the Limbaugh case "just went to his doctors and grabbed the records" without first obtaining a search warrant.
From the March 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
NAPOLITANO: In the Rush Limbaugh case with his drug problems, the government did not go to a judge to get a search warrant. That's what his whole case is about. They just went to his doctors and grabbed the records.
The application for one search warrant for Limbaugh's medical records can be viewed at The Smoking Gun.
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Camera as Weapon
Camera as Weapon
by Leah Ollman
"Camera as Weapon" takes a startling look at German culture and photography during the Weimar years. At this time, disaffected and working class laborers claimed the photographic domain. They were workers whose cameras became instruments of self-empowerment in the struggle for revolutionary change. This catalogue includes 79 pages of text balanced by corresponding images. Author and art critic, Leah Ollman, offers insight to this rich era of contradiction, cynicism, growth, and despair.
79 Pages;
Year of publication: 1991


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Singer/guitarist/songwriter Terry Glaze (PANTERA) is joined by bassist Kinley "Barney" Wolfe (THE CULT, AMERICAN FUSE), drummer Chris Craig and guitarist Brian Harris (QUEEN FOR A DAY).
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I Should've Known
Too Much
Know Me
Long Way To Go
Man In Japan
Number One Fan
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Messin' Around
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PACE, Fla. - Goeun Lee set a new 54 hole program record and became the first Saint Leo University women's golfer to earn a spot to play in the 2012 NCAA Division II Women's Golf National Championship. Lee wrapped up the three-day NCAA DII Women's Golf Super Region 2 Tournament firing scores of 73-75-74--222, and finishing sixth overall at the par-72, 6154 yard Stonebrook Golf Club in Pace, Fla.
Solid play from the entire Saint Leo University women's golf team helped the Lions finish just two strokes short of a National Tournament appearance as the team brought in a three-round score of 924 (308-309-307--924) to finish the tournament in fourth place.
Lee led the Lions with her six-over 222, followed by Clare Connolly who matched Lee with a final round total of two-over 74 to card a three-round total of 79-77-74--230.
Laura Huertas (81-78-78--237) and Heather Petronis (78-79-81--238) finished 29th and 31st, respectively, while Ragna Olafsdottir rounded out the squad with a 54 hole total of 242 (78-79-85--242).
Florida Southern (302-296-304--902), Nova Southeastern (308-300-306--914), and Barry University (305-300-317--922) advance to the National Championship. Joining Lee on the individual board are Meghan Moore (UNC Pembroke), and Jenna Birch (Armstrong). Birch won a playoff over Kayla Sciupider of Rollins after chipping in a shot from 12-15 feet behind the green for a birdie on Hole #1 to win the playoff.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo women's golf team, and Goeun Lee's historic trip to the 2012 National Championship, visit saintleolions.com.


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Beercuer asked me in a recent thread if I was ever nostalgic for the taste of lighter fluid:
Normally I'd just say "no" and leave it at that. But today in particular I've got a bit more than that to say about it. (Yeesh, beercuer - you just had to ask....)
[Begin rant]
Actually, I never have the need to get nostalgic about lighter fluid because I can't seem to get away from the stuff.
You're heard Steven talk of "caveman" grilling? Well, some of my family and a few former friends still subscribe to the "Neanderthal knuckle-dragger" school of cooking - also known as the "ignorant redneck" school, of cooking.
What this means is they don't listen to reason and haven't switched from lighter fluid to a chimney in 40 years. (And they only use lighter fluid when they don't use gasoline to light the coals. ) I brought out a couple of chimneys once to show them how to light charcoal properly, and I got looks from them like I'd just landed from Mars or something.
Oh - and by the way, don't worry about these relatives of mine getting offended by the "ignorant redneck" comment, either as these folks honestly think it's a compliment. No kidding - one of them (my cousin) actually has a "dumb redneck" bumper sticker which he thinks is as cool as his truck nuts and 8-inch oversized exhaust flange.
I had burgers and steaks over at that particular cousin's place yesterday. He called them "char-broiled" - which is his term for "black as coal, hard as a hockey puck, and perfumed with diesel fuel". When he lit his grill with unleaded gas I asked him about using lighter fluid and he said "That stuff's the same as gasoline anyway. They just call it lighter fluid so the evil, greedy gas corporations can make more money off you".
This is the same guy who once pooh-poohed chimney starters because they took too long - hence the use of gasoline. This is also the same guy who still pooh-poohed chimney starters after I lit one using his propane weed torch and had the charcoal almost fully lit in 3 minutes.
(Like I said, not just a "dumb redneck", but a downright ignorant one. But that's too long to put on his bumper sticker.)
One more thing - the "ignorant redneck" school of cooking also thinks it's cool to pour cold beer right over the food and onto the live coals as a "marinade". Of course, this means that the charcoal ash gets stirred up and sticks to the pre-sauced meat, making it taste like it was garnished with sand. Idiotic.
Suffice it to say, I took about two bites and I was done. I had to stop off at a local truck stop for a decent burger on the way home. And I'm still picking charcoal ash out of my teeth this morning.
Funny, but most of my family doesn't go to these relatives' places for cookouts anymore. My folks and I were the holdouts but that's done.
[End rant]
So, no, I never get nostalgic for lighter fluid.
Anyone else have those family members who "just don't get it"?


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A9 TV, 16 August 2011
Allah created them as non-Muslims. He could have created me like that, since He made them like that. I could have been a Jew or an Armenian. Allah has created Muslims and non-Muslims. We must embrace them and honestly explain how Islam and the way of Muhammad is love and beauty. No sane person can deny that. We cannot be hostile toward them because they are Greek or Armenian. When I was a child, calling someone a Greek or Armenian was an insult. Russians used to be called "Moscoffs." They also tried to give Arabs a bad name. But then we saw that the Greeks are very nice and that Armenians are pleasant and excellent people. They are very dear to us. How can we hate them? We must show them affection. People are intelligent entities, and will accept the truth when they see it is good. What does Almighty Allah say? "Love one another, be affectionate and compassionate and forgiving and generous. Have good intentions and never abandon honesty. Protect and watch over one another. Avoid suffering and never abandon honesty, and beseech Allah for paradise."
Surat al-Ma'un
Have you seen him who denies the religion?
He is the one who harshly rebuffs the orphan.
A person with no conscience will be harsh and cruel. Someone who resorts to terror, inflicts suffering, attaches no value to people and regards them as second- or third-class.
and does not urge the feeding of the poor.
The whole world is not caught up in this scourge. Since they do not encourage the feeding of the poor, the poor are dying of hunger en masse. This meaning of the verse of the Qur'an also refers to the End Times.
So woe to those who pray,
They pray. They grow beards. But they are frauds and do not want to see the global dominion of Islam. They do not want Turkish-Islamic Union. They hate the Mahdi and the Prophet Jesus (as), may Allah forbid. And yet they pray.
and are forgetful of their prayer,
They are caught up in nonsense and invented practices. They have beards down to their stomachs and robes and headgear. The showy part of things is fine. But their souls and hearts and ideas are sinful. They have no love or affection and try to prevent the slightest bit of help being given. "They do not want to see any help given," Allah is saying. Not to desire Islamic Union, Turkish-Islamic Union. What is the smallest bit of help? To say, "I want Turkish-Islamic Union." They are trying to prevent that. They do not let people say that. Because if you say you want Islamic Union, then Turkish-Islamic Union will prevail. And there will be beauty and happiness in the world.
Surat al-Kawthar
Truly We have given you the Great Abundance.
The abjad (numerological) value of the verse is 1453. The global dominion of Islam also gives the date of the capture of Constantinople. The Hijri date gives the dominion, and the Gregorian date is the dominion over Istanbul. It gives the date when it was captured by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror.
So pray to your Lord,
Why do we pray? For Allah's approval.
And sacrifice.
Muslims also sacrifice animals.
It is the one who hates you who is cut off without an heir.
The line of our Prophet (saas) comes to an end with Hazrat Mahdi (as). And it will come to an end with a huge global dominion, a magnificent global dominion and the excellent conclusion of Islam. The unbelievers, the crazy people of the time, said the line of the Prophet (saas) had been severed. When the little İbrahim (as) died, when that dear one died, they said the line of the Prophet (saas) had come to an end. But Almighty says, "Truly, We have given you the Great Abundance." Global dominion, insha'Allah. The way of the Mahdi. The great abundance promised to our Prophet (saas) in the verse is the global, intellectual dominion of the sayyids, insha'Allah.
Truly We have given you the Great Abundance.
So pray to your Lord and sacrifice.
It is the one who hates you who is cut off without an heir.
They can see this now. Since the moral values of Islam will rule the world. The answer to those who say those words is emerging now, through the Mahdi, insha'Allah.
Surat an-Nasr
When Allah's help and victory have arrived,
Help will come from Allah. Talk all you like, do what you like, if Allah's help does not come there can be no victory. That is what it means. Allah will first desire it. Then the dominion will come.
victory have arrived
and you have seen people entering Allah's religion in droves,
Not one by one, but en masse. When you see this.
then glorify your Lord's praise,
Alhamdulillah, abjad calculation gives a date of 2016.
and ask His forgiveness. He is the Ever-Returning.
May Allah forgive all our sins, insha'Allah.
"Say: 'I seek refuge with the Lord of Daybreak,"
The dawn of Islam will come, insha'Allah.
"from the evil of what He has created"
This gives a date of 1941. The date of the Second World War.
"and from the evil of the darkness when it gathers"
This gives a date of 1971, the March 12 coup [in Turkey].
"and from the evil of women who blow on knots and from the evil of an envier when he envies.'"
Bigots and hypocrites are very envious. Especially the hypocrites. They are horribly jealous of Muslims' health, happiness, strength, sovereignty, success, artistic prowess and everything. What does the hypocrite take pride in? His wealth and sons. There is a verse of the Qur'an about that. What does a Muslim take pride in? In Islamic Union, Turkish-Islamic Union and his efforts on Allah's behalf. The hypocrite takes pride in his filthy body. Allah compares them to "like propped-up planks of wood.."


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Many battles are fought between the bacteria and viruses aiming to increase in number and the defense cells that protect the body against these enemies every day without us ever realizing it.
However, even though defense cells stand guard and fight against these foreign organisms, how do they recognize good bacteria and not attack them?
What prevents these soldiers that protect our body from counterattacking these beneficial invaders?
The elements of the defense system fight against the enemies that will harm the body just like ordered and disciplined soldiers. First the soldiers that render the enemies ineffective by swallowing them (known as phagocytes) come to the battlefield. Sometimes however, the battlefield conditions overwhelm the abilities of these soldiers. Then other soldiers (known as macrophages) step in. This causes an "situation alert" to occur in the target area and an army of soldiers (called helper T cells) is called to the battlefield. However, during this struggle, a miracle takes place.
Even though the body is always on the alert to fight against the organisms that can cause it harm, it allows millions of other types of bacteria to live in some organs. For example, it is known that 80 species of organisms live in the mouth, throat and the tonsils. According to reasearch, there are 200 organism species which keeps our bodies constantly healthy. The reason that our defense system does not attack these organisms is that these are vital for our survival.
Tolerance of the Defense System
• T cells are the fighter white blood cells of our body. They fight against everything harmful to the body and they eliminate hazardous bacteria and molecules out of our body.
• During the clean up they do not harm the body's own cells and bacteria beneficial to the body.
• Every cell has an identification system to introduce itself that we call receptors. Fighter T cells can make this distinction by recognizing the receptors in all other cells, and they oversee the cells the body needs. This quality of the defense system is called "tolerance."
• This situation what is called "tolerance" by scientists is actually a great miracle because the defense system is able to distinguish thousands of different proteins from one another.
• If a T cell faces a body cell, it does not attack it, and makes itself ineffective.
• In the same way, if there is a substance that acts like an antigen but needs to be destroyed, the body does not produce any defensive reactions and does not attack this substance.
Research has revealed that a defense element that could harm the body either dies or destroys itself.
So how did cells acquire a system that allows them to distinguish such different structures from one another?
How do they recognize the body's own cells?
It is of course impossible that the ability to choose, which requires characteristics such as knowledge, consciousness and intelligence is acquired by structures formed by unconscious atoms as claimed in the theory of evolution. There is no doubt that the defense system acts with the inspiration of Almighty Allah as revealed in the verse "And obeys its Lord and it must." (Surat al-Inshiqaq, 2)
The Tolerance of the Defense System in the Pancreas
The defense system that we have been speaking of, and works on a level of organization difficult for the mind to comprehend causes another very miraculous event.
• Under normal circumstances, the pancreas is a closed organ system to the rest of the body. Therefore, the white blood cells do not directly work together with pancreas cells.
• Instead, pancreatic cells interface with messenger white blood cells and introduce themselves. . Thus these cells put on a mask that resembles the pancreas. These are called "branchy cells."
• The branchy cells of the pancreas place the receptors of the friendly bacteria that behave like antigens on their cell surfaces, pressure the defense system and keep it in a quite and calm state.
• Fighter T-cells recognize these antigens and learn not to become alarmed by the pancreatic cells and attack this organ.
As it can be seen from this example, it is clear that qualities like developing new methods to recognize one another, agreeing with one another, making plans and moving with a perfect organization according to these plans cannot be expected from defense cells and a mere organ. There is no doubt that even a community of human beings couldn't move in such a flawless synchronicity and accomplish what needs to be done without failing, forgetting, being surprised or causing confusion.
There is only one definite truth that must be accepted here and that is all cells are created specially by Allah Who is the Owner of an infinite power, knowledge and intelligence, just like everything else in nature.
"...He created all things and He has knowledge of all things." (Surat al-An'am, 101)
The Tolerance of the Defense System in the Intestines
Another organ which the defense system tolerates is the intestines. Even though our general body is covered with very detailed defensive weapons, millions of bacteria nonetheless continue to survive in our intestines because the food we eat and the fluids we drink are digested by the bacteria in our small intestines. In addition, these bacteria provide a natural method of protection as they prevent the reproduction of other bacteria that could harm the body. So defense cells cooperate with these bacteria that prove benficial for the body. Even though there is the possibility of activating the defense system and starting a war in the intestine, T-cells somehow ignore the bacteria in the small intestine and prevent this.
So, how do defense cells tolerate the bacteria in the cells?
The Cells' Training That Amaze the Science World
In a research paper published in Nature Immunology magazine, researchers under the leadership of Shannon Turley have found that the defense system has a tolerance mechanism that was previously unknown. According to this;
• The lymph nodes are like strategic encampments that surround the whole body. The white blood cells, which are defense cells, pull the antigens to the lymph nodes and fight them.
• However, the lymph nodes found in the intestines are like a training center more than a strategic encampment. The basic cells found there train the T-cells, which are the soldiers of our defense system, about behaving in an approriate manner towards these uninvited guests.
It cannot be explained away that such a system in this part of the body could have come into existence by coincidences. When the perfection of the system is analyzed, it is clear that it is a meticulously created system. How does the training process, which scientists cannot fully comprehend through the most advanced technological means of today, occur? Shannon Turley, one of the pathologists at Harvard University that leads research about this subject, states her excitement as such:
"T-cells either ignore the intestine tissue or bring it into a tolerant state. However, it is still not known how the cells teach the T-cells, which are very sensitive towards microbes, not to attack intestine cells."
Unconscious cells do not have the intelligence, consciousness and ability to make it possible to "teach" a biological process to one another. There is no doubt that a system, which even the most intelligent reseachers and scientists cannot comprehend, being placed inside a cell with no ability to think and consider things for itself has a very special meaning. This is a reflection of the matchless Creation of Allah, the Owner of infinite knowledge, seen in a small cell. It is revealed that Allah's infinite knowledge encompasses all in the Qur'an as such:
"... They cannot grasp any of His knowledge save what He wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and the earth and their preservation does not tire Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent." (Surat al-Baqara, 255)
Could the Tolerance of Defense Cells Help find the Cure of Autoimmune Diseases?
Autoimmune disease; this is a disease that forms as a result of the body's defense system attacking the body's own cells and killing healthy tissues. At the basis of this disease lies the normal body cells being perceived of as intruders. There are 40 different autoimmune diseases known to mankind. The studies done show that many autoimmune diseases like Multiple Sclerosis and Type -1 diabetes can be treated with the "training" of defense cells. However, the only problem here is that scientists still do not know how unintelligent and unconscious cells make this training process happen.
The Defense System Is Created with a Complete Gear
The tolerance of the defense cells points out the perfection in Almighty Allah's Creation. As Almighty Allah created the whole universe in a flawless way, He also inspired small cells with the abilities to understand one another, to train other cells, and make plans. These special beings, which let organisms that protect the human body, which is itself millions of times bigger than they are against diseases, and that are beneficial to human beings in maintaining their functions, are no doubt one of the manifestations of Almighty Allah's superior intelligence, and they are created in a single moment as He said "Be." In one verse it is revealed as follows:
"The Originator of the heavens and earth. When He decides on something, He just says to it, 'Be!' and it is." (Surat al-Baqara, 117)


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Thread: [MISSION] Dynamic Zombie Sandbox
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[MISSION] Dynamic Zombie Sandbox
What is DZS? (For you DayZ players)
Hello, I'm Craig *Shakes hand with reader*
This is Dynamic Zombie Sandbox, a one of a kind mission for ArmA 2 (OA,CO,A2,A2 Free, and Take on Helicopters). It started as an idea of a full map zombie survival mission, much like DayZ, but this came before DayZ. I wanted something that was different every time, that you could port to any map, and provided tons of fun. This is what I came up with.
DZS has 36 parameters that the host can choose. These allow you near endless customization of your zombie experience. You can play in the day, the night, the dusk,with fog, with rain, with clear skies, or make it a surprise. You can start with weapons, without weapons, with/without maps, with your friends, in the middle of nowhere. You can find weapons in buildings, in cars, and in ammo boxes. Loot can be plentiful, or extremely scarce. The mission can have hundreds of cars, or a scant few. Zombies can sense you from miles away or can be fairly stupid. The only limit is your server, and you don't even need a dedicated.
This is an example of a few of the options available, and many more are on the way. There is no question on whether this will be in ArmA 3, it will asap in the community alpha. I have big plans to add much more features to make the experience even better and more customizable.
Installation? Easy. 1.5mb file goes into the MPmissions folder, or just join a server online. The file will be Downloaded automatically.
DL is on the bottom.
Oh, I almost forgot, here are some pictures on my ModDB page:
Overview of 1.0
After quite a long time, I finally have 1.0 ready for release. This is the most complete, stable version of the mission that I have. It also most fulfills what I wanted to put into this mission back in Version .75. Many new features have been added and many, many fixes have been made. Also, I have already started work on 1.05
Making the mission more stable was one of the largest goals of 1.0. It still won't last forever on dedi, but it will last longer. Further improvements are in my head and will be added in 1.05.
What's Added?
This is definately the longest changelog to date, and the amount of work I've put into it has been quite staggering. I live quite a busy life, school, work, sports, friends, (pretty active in the party scene too, but don't tell my parents ) so I can only work on this in what spare time I have.
I have fairly detailed descriptions on dev-heaven of each of the bugs and features if you want to click the links.
- Fixed some lag issues from .95
- Weapons in buildings, a little like DayZ
- Local hosts couldn't use the logistic features
- GPS would put markers on other players
- Sidemissions never end
- Weather can be completely random
- Sidemission markers no longer give the exact location, if chosen
Bug #30290: Ammobox Sidemission
Bug #30291: Time doesn't sync to JIP
Bug #30292: Markers do not update to JIP
Bug #30293: Helicopter crash is still bugged
Bug #30307: Refresher.sqf kills off all units that are not players
Bug #30313: Picking up objects (To put in cars)
Bug #30352: Sometimes players spawned in a mob of zombies
Bug #30359: Long trains of cars can be made!
Bug #30362: Car/object list doesn't get updated on dedicated sometimes.
Bug #30374: Massive Lag
Bug #32855: Objects get placed floating
Bug #35643: Start with no map and no weapons parameter sometimes doesn't work.
Feature #30314: Parameter to choose how many weapons will spawn in side missions. (Ammo cache's)
Feature #30364: Apocalypse Siren on siren poles
Feature #32590: Weapons in buildings
Feature #32628: Parameter to get rid of sidemission markers
Feature #32725: Random Weather Option
Feature #32805: Sidemissions loop
Feature #32806: Increase Respawn timer
Feature #32808: More robust player position finder script
Feature #32809: Make weapon finding script more efficient and with more features.
Feature #36039: Spawn just outside of towns
Task #30353: Remove GPS -- Allows cheating
Task #35603: Expand the "Players start together" parameter
CO version (Flagship version):
Requires patch 1.60 of ArmA 2 Combined Operations. No other mods/addons required, works with ACE to a degree, full ACE integration is on the way (@stk2008)
OA version:
Requires patch 1.60 of ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead . No other mods/addons required
A2 version:
Requires patch 1.10 of ArmA 2 or ArmA 2 Free. No other mods/addons required
All 3 Versions in one Goodie Bag:
Thanks to:
All beta testers
VVC team
Very important for the direction of this project, if you have any at all to give (positive or critical) please give it!
Make a full game of this and its GOTY hands down bro :DDDCes't super cool!
Yeah its really damn cool i had to say it in another language. Thanks bobtom/Craig!So much fun :DGreat Missions. Love playing them :DMe gusta
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Cheers Craig, I will put it on the server for a few play tests. If all is well then we will adjust the name slightly and can see it getting some regular plays.
I think a few of us had a go of this on a private server not too long ago.
It's pretty cool.
I recall it didn't work too well on Utes (the island's so small there's not really enough places to spawn stuff, so you end up appearing 100m from the evac chopper or whatever)
With a lot of zombies it gets pretty tough!
A problem we found is that the marker for the helicopter/the base always defaults to 0,0 (lower left corner) and never indicates a proper location.
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JIP also crashes the game.
I jipped without problem.
Can confirm that the game would get stuck on the 'receiving...' screen and then crash when I tried to JIP.
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The latest hotfix fixes most of those issues. Helicopter task remains broken, however. The next version I am releasing will solve a lot of those issues, and many more features. More here.
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Dynamic Zombie Sandbox V1.0
It has been released! See the first post for more details.
Also, this release has put the Mission into the #1 position on ModDB, thanks for all the support!


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I read with interest the letter from Ron Kennedy. There's no doubt that he is a liberal who is willing to promote and accept a socialist/Marxist style of government. This is just sad—sad—sad.
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