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In Washington, a new gang has been born. The Gang of Eight on immigration is here to tell us that we have succeeded in not enforcing the law so persistently and thoroughly that now we have to give up all pretense.
(PHOTOS: At a glance: The Senate immigration plan)
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The Gang of Eight wants to amnesty the 11 million immigrants who are already here as a product of past nonenforcement in exchange for a promise of future enforcement. In the United States, immigration enforcement is always just around the corner. The attitude is perpetually this time, we mean it.
It's never a good sign when lawmakers can't call things by their real names. Even conservative star Marco Rubio — the gang's most important member, who has been energetic and fearless in making his case — calls illegal immigrants "undocumented" workers. He referred to them in a recent blog post as people "living in the United States without proper immigration documents."
Supporters of comprehensive immigration reform also resolutely refuse to say the word "amnesty." They contend that the proposed package is not an amnesty because illegal immigrants have to go to the back of the line for a green card. But before that happens, they get "probationary legal status" after passing a background check and paying a fine and back taxes. As a practical matter, this is the amnesty.
(PHOTOS: Politicians react to the Senate immigration proposal)
Sen. Chuck Schumer stated it with admirable clarity in the news conference announcing the principles: "On Day One of our bill, the people without status [i.e., illegal immigrants] who are not criminals or security risks will be able to live and work here legally." You can't get more direct than that.
The scam is to pretend that this isn't the most significant point in an immigrant's changing status. "Our purpose," the Gang of Eight says in its statement of principles, "is to ensure that no one who has violated America's immigration laws will receive preferential treatment as they relate to those individuals who have complied with the law." This is manifestly not their purpose.
(Also on POLITICO: Paul to GOP: Evolve on immigration)
Once an illegal immigrant gets "probationary legal status," he has jumped irrevocably ahead of all those poor saps back in their native countries who want to come to the U.S. but for whatever reason were unwilling or unable to break our immigration laws to do it. The formerly illegal immigrant is here in the U.S., while the poor sap is someplace else. Ask the sap whether or not that strikes him as preferential treatment. You'll find him somewhere in Bangalore or Guatemala City.
All indications are that this kind of "probationary" legal status matters more to illegal immigrants than an eventual path to citizenship. In an essay in the journal National Affairs, immigration expert Peter Skerry points out that 20 years after the implementation of the 1986 amnesty, only 41 percent of the 2.7 million people who got legal status under the program had gone on to become citizens.


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Paul Ryan & Jim Sensenbrenner discuss Pelosi Health Care bill today & Sat.
Paul Ryan will be at the Franklin Library* today, Friday, Oct. 30th, at 11am, for a press conference.
Jim Sensenbrenner, along with State Representative Leah Vukmir, will be at the Elm Grove Library** at 12:30pm on Saturday, Oct. 31st. This was a regularly scheduled Town Hall meeting, but somehow, I think the discussion will be primarily about the Pelosi bill. Since Vukmir was a nurse, she will be able to add some insights into this so-called health care reform bill.
Not that Nancy Pelosi is rushing the 1,990 pages of regulation and spending, but the plan is that the House will vote on this toward the end of next week. (Can anyone even read and understand those 1,990 pages by then?)
I heard Paul Ryan on Mark Belling's show yesterday, hour 2. Give it a listen. (It is a very straight forward discussion which begins at the beginning of the hour.) Here are a few highlights:
- Pelosi's bill cuts $526 billion from Medicare, WITHOUT affecting services! (Why don't they do that now?)
- About 64% of Seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage private plans option.
- Pelosi's bill includes $572 billion in INCOME TAX INCREASES. This would put top earners and small businesses, who file on their personal returns, into a 54% tax rate. "Capitalism can't work" at this tax rate.
- Employers will be able to ditch their appprox 15% of salary designated for providing health care and just pay the 8% penalty. This will dump private insurance company group coverage, provided by employers, to the government plan. (Which underpay doctors and hospitals, like Medicare/Medicaid.) So much for you being able to keep your plan. You can't keep a plan your employer is no longer offering!
- Pelosi's plan covers illegal aliens and abortion. Without any amendments to prohibit this coverage, all will be covered at taxpayer expense.
- The bill CLAIMS to be budget neutral, in fact, they promise it will REDUCE the deficit by $104 billion.(If you believe that, I would like to talk to you about The Great Pumpkin.)
Oh, and did I mention that there will be NO AMENDMENTS ALLOWED? Pelosi doesn't want her Democrat members to have to vote against amendments to exclude abortion and illegal alien coverage.
I urge you to call your Representatives and Senators, since Reid's version of this will be coming to the senate soon.
Jim Sensenbrenner (202) 225-5101
Paul Ryan (202) 225-3031
As long as I am calling my senators, I am also urging them to vote against Cap and Trade, which the senate started hearings on this week.
Russ Feingold (202) 224-5323
Senator Herb Kohl (202) 224-5653
CBO's summary of the Pelosi Health Care Reform Bill (It's just 60 pages long, with a 15 page summary, instead of 1,990 pages.)
*First District Representative Paul Ryan
Franklin Public Library, Fadrow Room
9151 West Loomis Road
Franklin, WI 53132
**Fifth District Representative Jim Sensenbrenner
Elm Grove Public Library
13600 Juneau Blvd.
Elm Grove WI 53122
Links: Practically Speaking, Fairly Conservative, Betterbrookfield, RandyMelchert, Jay Weber, Vicki McKenna, The Right View Wisconsin, CNS News, Mark Levin, Breitbart BigGovernment, The Heritage Foundation
Labels: Government/Bureaucracy, Health care, Legislation, President Obama, Special Events, United States


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HAYWOOD CITY, Mo. — The two basketball hoops stand at different heights a little too close to one another, the uneven concrete cracked beneath each one and the net nearly ripped off one of the rims.
All that's left now are the remnants of a basketball court outside Otto Porter Jr.'s late grandmother's home.
Here, just a few feet from the gravel road in a town of 206, is where Georgetown's star sophomore became a basketball player.
"That's where the younger kids would play," says Otto, who would sometimes spend weekends at his grandmother's house just so he could play a bit longer. "I have a lot of cousins, so that's where we'd have our battles."
"Grandma loved it," Elnora Porter, Otto's mother, says. "She'd just cook and watch them play basketball."
Now, everyone's watching Otto. His Hoyas beat then-No. 13 UCLA and took No. 1 Indiana to overtime two weeks ago, and Otto himself has averaged nearly a double-double in games he's played so far this season. This year's Georgetown team entered the season unranked, but it didn't take long to change that perception. In that way, these Hoyas are a lot like Otto himself.
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Rather than seek the sneakers and exposure offered by AAU teams, Otto played with his cousins at his grandma's court. When he was in high school, he scrimmaged against his father and uncles, learning how to fight for rebounds and that there's no such thing as a foul to bail you out.
Otto didn't take the path traveled by most elite basketball players, though their end destination — the NBA — might be the same.
Growing up, the boy nicknamed Bubba had no choice but to play the sport of his parents, uncles and aunts. Some kids run track or play baseball around here, but not many. Nothing compares to basketball.
It takes just one trip to the local high school to understand that. The glass case outside the new Scott County Central gym is nearly overflowing with trophies, ceremoniously clipped nets and plaques. Next to all those trophies in the glass case hangs a retired jersey: No. 35, Otto Porter Sr.
Inside the gym, banners commemorating each of the 16 boys and seven girls' state championship teams hang above the bleachers. If you look closely, you see a lot of familiar names. There's Otto's dad on the first banner from 1976. There's his mother listed under her maiden name, Elnora Timmons. Names of their sisters and brothers mark the banners, too. Otto himself is up there three times – 2009, 2010 and 2011.
"There's a Porter or Timmons up there (every year), pretty much," Otto Sr. says as he plays tour guide in the gym, stopping to pause in front of his son's banners.
A lot of Porters live in the three towns that feed into Scott County Central: Morley (population: 697), Vanduser (population: 267) and the smallest of all, Haywood City (206).
Otto Sr. moved his family to Morley before Otto entered high school just so his son could attend Scott County Central and play alongside his cousins. Otto Sr. even called up his old high coach, Ronnie Cookson, for a favor.
"Otto Jr. came along," says Cookson, who had retired in 1995 after winning 12 state titles. "Otto Sr. came by and asked me to come back and stay till Otto Jr. graduated. So that's what I did. … His dad was probably the best player I ever coached – until he came along."
If anyone knows the pressure of living with the Porter name, it's Otto Jr.
"It was always brought up at the dinner table," he says. "It was always going to be something. … When I was a little kid, people were asking me, 'Are you going to be like your dad or your mom?' "
Otto Sr. has six brothers, Elnora has five. On Wednesday nights and Sundays, Otto Sr. and some of Otto's uncles head over to the high school gym. Otto Sr. lets them in with his own key, and they play.
"It's like war out there," Otto Sr. says. "At the end of the day it's a game. But when we're out there playing, it's serious business.That's just the way we've always been. … It's a teaching environment, and you get a chance to work on your game while playing with veteran guys who know the game."
Otto and his cousins joined the games around the same time they entered high school.
"You have to go through levels," Otto says. "Play with your cousins first. Once we got older, all our cousins played with our dads."
Once Otto started playing with them, he started to learn how fundamentally sound he had to be to compete against men who were bigger and stronger. He learned to anticipate the next play before it happened.
"That's where I gained most of (my mental toughness) from," Porter says. "If I get fouled by them, I have to toughen up and just play through it."
Georgetown coach John Thompson III noticed that during Otto's first season in Washington, too.
"I've said many times that he was the most prepared freshman that I've had," Thompson says. "That relates as much to his mentality as it does to his physical tools and his physical readiness. He understood that he had to compete. He understood nothing was going to be handed to him. He understood that you have to participate and be good in every aspect of the game.
"That mental toughness that he brought from days and months and years of getting beat up and pushed around by his uncles and father and family made him ready to compete. He was ready to compete at this level."
The way Otto Sr. sees it, it's the opposite of what many of Otto's peers experienced. Other high-major basketball players may grow up with everyone around them telling them how talented they are.
Not Otto. His father liked to point out his mistakes and areas for improvement – and he still calls after Georgetown games to critique his son's play, even when he posts double-doubles. His mother is the source of comfort, reassuring Otto that he has indeed played well those times when his father is admittedly overbearing.
"He's never been babied," Otto Sr. says. "He's never been put up on a pedestal. He's never taken the attitude that, 'It's about me.' "
Otto is an outlier from the elite youth basketball establishment. These days, scholarship offers flow to kids as young as 12 or 13. Choosing AAU teams is as easy as plucking a pair of sneakers off the shelf, and almost all talented American teenagers play the circuit.
"That's very rare for a kid not to play AAU basketball," says Scout.com recruiting analyst Evan Daniels. "Especially one of that caliber. … It was certainly a different recruitment, one we don't see a lot.
"Otto Porter did it his way."
Even now, as he's learned just how unique that was, Otto has no regrets about skipping the circuit.
"Even though I had my ups and downs, I just wanted to continue to work on my game and be around home to help my mom and my dad," Otto says. "I'm definitely glad to have not played AAU."
Otto Sr. fielded plenty of calls from AAU coaches, trying to convince him that his son should play for their teams. He didn't budge.
"A lot of people make a big issue of the fact that he didn't play AAU ball," says Otto Sr., who now gets calls about his 14-year-old son, Jeffrey. "I guess I'm coming to the realization now that that's just one of the things you have to do now, according to what everyone else, the 'basketball people' say.
"My thought process was … I'm going to expose him to more than he's ever going to be exposed to playing on the AAU circuit. Other than the publicity – that was the only thing that Bubba didn't get. … I always told him, if you're a ballplayer, they'll find you. If you can play, they'll find you."
Instead of AAU, Otto Sr. and other parents in the area organized informal games between kids as young as third grade in surrounding towns. Otto's team would drive around the state playing these games, and by the time he reached high school, he'd played with most of his Scott County Central teammates for half his life.
During the summers in high school, the same group of kids would continue to practice together. Otto Sr. also would put his son through skill workouts. And, of course, the younger Porter would play with his family a few times a week, too.
Otto won three Class 1-A state championships (the classification for Missouri's smallest schools) at Scott County Central, and in two of those seasons, Otto was named the conference player of the year. His junior year, Otto pulled down 35 rebounds in the state championship game, breaking his father's record of 25 from 1976.
"I don't think he necessarily fell through the cracks," Thompson says. "At the end of the day, he's down to Georgetown, Kansas and Missouri with a lot of other people wanting to get in.
"Simply the fact that he didn't play AAU and that's where a majority of the stories and the rankings come from, that explains that."
Otto's mother cried nearly every day when Otto first left home. And despite his own initial struggle while adapting to city life nearly 850 miles from home, Otto grew up.
He's still the same homebody who likes to hang around the house and gobble up his mother's cooking when he's back in Missouri. He doesn't do much besides eating, sleeping and playing basketball in general, his parents say.
But in his second season of college basketball, Otto is changing.
"He definitely seems mature beyond his years," says Lehigh guard C.J. McCollum, who met Otto this summer at skills camps. "He's seen a lot in his first year. Having John Thompson as your coach, I'm sure that was very influential in his maturation process."
Georgetown teammates say they also expect Porter, who averaged 9.7 points and 6.8 rebounds a game last season, to carry more of the team's scoring load this season.
"He's gotten a lot better in a lot of different ways, which is scary because he was kind of a jack-of-all-trades last season," forward Nate Lubick says. "I think he's ready to have a big year for us, and we're going to need to have him have a big year.
"One thing that Otto has gotten better at is controlling the tempo of the game, which is something that you usually only hear with point guards."
One month into the 2012-13 season, Otto has put on some eye-popping performances. He posted a double-double in the Hoyas' upset of No. 13 UCLA. Against top-ranked Indiana, Otto scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half, including a game-tying layup with 4.6 seconds remaining to force overtime.
Through four starts, Porter has averaged 14.5 points, nine rebounds and nearly three blocked shots. DraftExpress.com's Jonathan Givony said Otto can be a first-round pick in June's NBA Draft.
"I really like his length," Givony says. "He's got good size for a small forward and really long arms. He's got a great feel for the game. He can really pass the ball. He's an unselfish guy, a team player. He's got some things to work on … (but) he's an upside guy right now."
The Porters say they aren't worrying about Otto's draft prospects now; they'll sit down and figure all that out at the end of the season. They'l do it their way, just like always.
Otto's path to the pros is not conventional. But it looks like it just might work.


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15 Iraq troops killed as militants attack barracks
BAGHDAD -- Militants in Iraq attacked military barracks in a remote area in the country's north and killed 15 troops overnight, officials said Tuesday, the latest blow to the government's efforts to achieve stability.
According to two police officials, an unknown number of gunmen staged the assault on the barracks in Ayn al-Jahish village outside the northern city of Mosul late on Monday.
The troops are in charge of protecting an oil pipeline that sends Iraqi crude oil to international markets and guard a nearby highway. Attacks on this pipeline are common in that area near Mosul, a former insurgent stronghold located about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Eight of the soldiers were beheaded during the attack while the rest were killed by gunfire, a medical official said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The brazen attack comes amid a surge in violence to levels unseen in Iraq since 2008. It's been a most serious challenge to the Shiite-led government's efforts to achieve stability. Violence has spiked since last April, when security forces cracked down on a Sunni protest camp north of Baghdad in clashes that left 45 dead.
The situation deteriorated significantly in late December, when security forces dismantled a protest camp near the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi.
To defuse tensions, security forces withdrew from Ramadi and the nearby city of Fallujah. Al Qaeda-linked militants promptly took over parts of Ramadi and the center of Fallujah. Since then, the government and allied tribes have been struggling to wrest control of the cities back from the militants.
Sporadic clashes continued Tuesday in some parts of Ramadi, with only limited success by security forces. Meanwhile, in Fallujah, masked and armed al-Qaida-linked militants in traditional Afghani two-piece clothing were seen in the city's main intersections, checking IDs of passers-by.
Last year, Iraq saw the highest death toll since the worst of the country's sectarian bloodletting began to subside in 2007, according to United Nations figures. The U.N. said violence killed 8,868 last year in Iraq.


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By Steve Silver, Tennessean Staff Writer, July 8, 2008
Wayne Dedrick could not have had a better high school senior year.
He signed a basketball scholarship offer from Lipscomb University in November.
Then, in February, he scored 30 points in the Alabama Class 6A state championship game to lead Hillcrest High School to its first-ever basketball title. Dedrick was named tournament MVP.
Lipscomb basketball coach Scott Sanderson was justifiably elated when Dedrick arrived in Nashville, enrolled in summer school and began working out, preparing for his career as a Bison.
But that all changed when Dedrick was unexpectedly selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 30th round of the baseball draft in June. He pulled out of school in recent weeks and returned to Alabama, where he is deciding whether to skip college to play professional baseball.
"I really don't know what I'm going to do," said Dedrick, who continues to work out, practicing both basketball and baseball with former Hillcrest teammates. "I miss my teammates at Lipscomb like crazy right now. Nashville was truly a home away from home… This is a big step and I don't know what I'm going to do."
His departure has left a void in Lipscomb's men's basketball program. The guard from Tuscaloosa added speed and ball handling skills to a solid Bison's recruiting class that includes 6-8 Justin Glenn, 6-7 Matt Shaw and 6-4 Jacob Arnett.
"He is a very explosive offensive player," Sanderson said. "He is very athletic. He really knows how to score."
Sanderson said he had no idea any Major League Baseball teams were interested in Dedrick, though the third baseman did hit .402 with 22 RBIs in his senior year at Hillcrest. He also won a state title in baseball as a junior, alongside the Brewers' 19th round pick, pitcher Blake Billings.
"I never thought baseball was in the equation," Sanderson said. "His parents didn't know. He didn't know. Nobody knew. It sprung on all of us about a month ago."
In an article that appeared on the day after he was drafted, Dedrick told his hometown newspaper, The Tuscaloosa News, that he didn't even enjoy playing baseball until his senior year of high school.
But the lure of pro baseball was too strong to ignore completely.
Dedrick headed home on June 11 to prepare for negotiations with the Brewers, alongside his father, Thomas, who has been acting as his agent.
The first meeting dates with Milwaukee representatives were repeatedly pushed back, he said. In response, Dedrick withdrew from his classes at Lipscomb, fearing his absence from classes would cause him to fail summer school and hurt his academic eligibility.
Dedrick still hadn't received a firm contract offer from the Brewers. When he does, he said, he'll consider whether the dollar figure is high enough to redirect his life. As with all baseball draftees, professional baseball teams will pay for his remaining education should he elect to return to school later.
"It's really just a potentially amazing opportunity," Dedrick said. "(The Brewers) can always pay for my school when I finish playing. There aren't many opportunities like this. Four years of college wherever I want to go. That's definitely a factor."
Dedrick's decision, though, will ultimately have ramifications beyond his own life.
Lipscomb would regain a scholarship spot if Dedrick pursues baseball, but they would also lose one of the top basketball prospects from Alabama.
"There's not a whole lot I can do besides wait and let him make his decision," said Sanderson, the Bison's coach. "Let's just say I've learned more about baseball in the last month then I'll ever need to know."
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After the discovery in 1996 of the Scarlet-banded Barbet at a seriously remote location, by a team of LSU, the search was on for another spot that would hopefully be easier to reach. After years of prowling through Peru the legendary birder-explorer Todd Mark and tough mountain-man Walter Vargas found it, near Plataforma in San Martin in 2012. Birders poured in. Incredibly, in July 2016 Josh Beck discovered a distinctive new species of Antbird at the site. It has since been seen and recorded by many people. The species has now been described as Cordillera Azul Antbird Myrmoderus eowilsoni with Beck as co-author of LSU and Corbidi teams.
'Plataforma' Antbird => Cordillera Azul Antbird
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But xeno-canto is more than just a collection of recordings. It is also a collaborative project. We invite you to share your own bird recordings, help identify mystery recordings, or share your expertise in the forums. Welcome!
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Some interesting recordings from the heart of Brazil the last few days, from Gabriel Leite and Jayrson Araujo De Oliveira. Thanks for sharing!
The update from IOC8.2 => IOC9.1 included some splits and newly described birds that netted XC around 20 new species.
Newly described
Here is a list of the splits:
- Automolus ochrolaemus exsertus => Automolus exsertus
- Brachypteryx montana cruralis => Brachypteryx cruralis
- Brachypteryx montana goodfellowi => Brachypteryx goodfellowi
- Brachypteryx montana sinensis => Brachypteryx sinensis
- Dicrurus ludwigii elgonensis => Dicrurus sharpei
- Dicrurus ludwigii sharpei => Dicrurus sharpei
- Dicrurus modestus atactus => Dicrurus atactus
- Grallaricula ferrugineipectus leymebambae => Grallaricula leymebambae
- Laniarius poensis holomelas => Laniarius holomelas
- Myrmothera campanisona subcanescens => Myrmothera subcanescens
- Ninox boobook fusca => Ninox fusca
- Ninox boobook plesseni => Ninox plesseni
- Ninox boobook rotiensis => Ninox rotiensis
- Ninox squamipila hantu => Ninox hantu
- Ninox squamipila squamipila => Ninox squamipila
- Urochroa bougueri leucura => Urochroa leucura
- Zosterops abyssinicus socotranus => Zosterops socotranus
- Zosterops maderaspatanus aldabrensis => Zosterops aldabrensis
- Zosterops poliogastrus mbuluensis => Zosterops mbuluensis
- Zosterops poliogastrus winifredae => Zosterops winifredae
There is always a lot of cleaning up to do after these events, working on that.
Shaun Peters just sent a list with a few hundred recordings that still need re-assigning. Thanks Shaun!!
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Quite a few new checklist languages. Courtesy of Peter Kovalik and IOC. A few of those (Afrikaans, Ukrainian) were relayed to Peter through XC. It has taken us forever to show them here, apologies for the delay. Next step is updating the translations of the site. We'll come back to that.
Note that if you choose a language from the list in the footer (bottom right) you can use the search bar to search in that language as well. This has been possible for a while actually, but we forgot to tell you. Should increase accessibility :-)
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In the forum, when logged in, you will now find a button "Report as resolved". If you run into a discussion that has ended in the solution of an ID but that still shows as Mys? or ID? click on it. It wil add it to a list that admins can use to quickly mop them up. There are loads out there, we're hoping we can make progress cleaning up in this way. Everyone can help out :-)
An excellent improvement! :)
Now tested it, and it works fine!
We think so too. Should help.
Great idea but where is this button? Not showing on any discussions I've checked on. Thanks.
It has to be either a Mys? or ID? discussion for it to show James. And you have to be logged in.
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A Resonable Man
The Savant has been wondering what would have happened had the current case before the Supreme Court been argued before the renowned jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:
Though Justice Scalia posed cockily
"Can we mandate that people buy broccoli?"
His question's absurd.
Even if you're insured,
You don't have to go to the doc, Ollie!
Yes, the Savant has stretched things a bit for the sake of a rhyme, but Scalia stretches reason with his ridiculous proposition. And what's the man's beef with broccoli? Maybe if he ate a few more vegetables it would clear up his fuzzy logic?


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Our lovely friends at the Angel Island Association reached out to ask if they can use this as their 2009 Christmas card and Angel Lights fundraiser. I think they used it in 2007 as well. Of course I said yes and hopefully, this time, Carolyn, Hannah and I can make the party.
When I get a link to the fundraiser, I'll send it around.


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It's been a long, long, long, long time between posts. I've been busily trying to juggle various jobs and projects (PhD, teaching, admin, Aquaporko, Va Va Boombah, Chub Republic, Fat Mook, Queering Fat Embodiment…) while having some sort of a life. I haven't been particularly successful with the juggling, and this blog isn't all that's slipped off the bottom of the to-do list. But thanks to the recent SBS Insight 'Fat Fighters' debacle, I've decided to resurrect the blog for at least this post (no promises beyond that – I've always intended to keep it going, but I'm not making any more commitments until a few of the old ones have been put soundly to bed).
I want to start by saying that I don't usually do media. The kind of activism I'm interested in isn't about fighting, or convincing the haters that they're wrong. I find that exhausting and draining and futile (for me, personally – all power to the folks who do engage in that work, though). I'd rather invest my increasingly limited time and energy in building fat-positive community and creating spaces which open up new possibilities for thinking about and living as fat people in the world.
After a few less-than-satisfying media experiences, I don't even respond to most of the requests I receive. When I do respond, I usually say no. I start from a position of refusal, and it takes a lot to talk me around to a yes. It's a policy that has served me well – the few times I've ended up agreeing recently have been positive and worthwhile experiences, like this interview about Aquaporko with Kaitlyn Sawrey for Triple J Hack. So when John MacFarlane, a producer for SBS Insight, contacted me via this blog and the Aquaporko email back in April about a show on "fat politics and fat pride" my response was typically reticent. But I responded because Insight has a good reputation for exploring topics in-depth and drawing out alternative perspectives. I have since discovered this reputation is far from accurate – in the episode about fat, as well as previous epidodes on Aboriginal identity, on Muslim identity, on sex work, on animal rights activists, the voices of "experts" and lay people espousing stereotyped views dominated over those who the show was ostensibly about. To which I say:
I wasn't a regular viewer, but I thought that the few episodes I had watched were better – or at least less infuriating – that the other current affairs shows on Australia television (a genre I typically avoid – fatties got to take care with our blood pressure after all!). I responded to MacFarlane saying I was willing to talk, but was generally reluctant to do media. I didn't hear anything for a few weeks, until I got an email to my personal account via Dr Jenny Lee (a fat studies academic and my Fat Mook co-editor), who was also being courted for the program, along with the inimitable Kelli Jean Drinkwater. In the intervening weeks, the focus of the show had shifted from "fat politics and fat pride" to "bariatric surgery", and that strengthened my resolve to say no.
Then I spoke to MacFarlance, and he convinced me otherwise. The surgery angle, he said, was simply a topical hook – there was "recent research" which proved (yet again) that diets don't work, and therefore the only "cure" for "obesity" is gastric banding or bypass surgery. I suggested that maybe "obesity" didn't need to be "cured" and he said that's exactly why he wanted us on the program. He wanted the show to explore alternatives to the mainstream discourse of disease and self-loathing. We talked for almost an hour, and by the end I was convinced that, while the show would cover a range of perspectives including the standard fat hating bullshit, there was a genuine interest in discussing fat activism and politics. I was, frankly, charmed.
And look, I was willing to be charmed. I was charmed by the interest in my academic and activist work. I was charmed by the fact that someone outside of my fat activist and queer theory circles really seemed to get it – to understand, to sympathise to think that the issues I devote a significant portion of my life to exploring were worthy of discussion. I'll even admit to being charmed by the goddamn Canadian accent. And – no small consideration for a broke-ass student whose APA scholarship has just expired – I was excited at the prospect of a free trip to Sydney.
But I wasn't entirely naive. I have ten years of critical media theory, and a handful of first-hand experiences to draw from. So I did my research. I googled MacFarlane's work, and found a few things to suggest he was on the side of good. His LinkedIn Profile states that his goal is "To find ways to use media to connect people, promote change and make the world a better place" – certainly promising! His twitter bio says he appreciates "people who are nice" – also good!
I also sought the advice of friends and colleagues who were more familiar with Insight as a show. I asked what they thought of the show, of the host, and whether I should go on. Of everyone I asked – in-person, on Twitter, and on Facebook – only one person had a bad word to say about the program. (Note to self: next time, don't ignore the single dissenter. They probably know things that other people don't.) I talked to Jenny Lee and Kelli-Jean, and we discussed our concerns and reservations. We tested ideas and compared notes. We all had several more conversations with MacFarlane via phone and email. We raised numerous concerns and were given reassurances for all of them. We came up with strategies and put contingency plans in place. For example:
I said: "I was very unsure about the show before talking to you – to be completely honest, I'm tired of the way that fat activism gets used as ratings bait, and how the discourse basically boils down to arguments about whether people with bodies like mine even have the right to exist."
MacFarlane said: "My goal in producing these programs is to push beyond what's already been said, and to create stuff that's vastly different from the junk on tabloid TV, so I think giving serious attention to fat politics makes sense … With that said (I will happily be honest with you about this), to help our audience get to a new and different place will involve some reference to the existing constructions. We've got to bring the hegemonic discourse up in order to tear it down. I don't think you'll necessarily like everything that's said, but I think that makes it even more important that you're there."
Another example:
I said: "I know you need to explore a range of perspectives, but in terms of fat activism, the rest of the world is already relentlessly telling "the other side of the story" – I think balance in that case is not necessarily about equal numbers, but having enough weight (heh) to have a chance at redressing prejudices and assumptions. Basically, I don't want to be the lone voice of fat politics."
MacFarlane said: "I'm totally on board about your concerns about being a lone voice. We'd have Jenny and yourself for sure, and I think Lupton and Gard – though themselves not fat, as Jenny pointed out – make the total composition very strong on the fat politics front."
[NB: Neither Michael Guard nor Deborah Lupton appeared on the program.]
Jenny and Kelli-Jean raised similar issues. We asked about who would be on stage, who would have the opportunity to speak, which voices would be given authority and whose perspectives would be treated with respect. We knew that there would be fat hatred on the show, but we were convinced and convinced and reassured and reassured that there was a genuine interest in our perspective. When I got on the plane, I believed that:
- Jenny Lee would be on the stage, giving fat politics a central voice in the show.
- I would be sitting in the front row, miked-up and included in the conversation.
- The show would include clips of Kelli Jean Drinkwater's award-winning film, Aquaporko! The Documentary.
- There would actually be a serious discussion of fat activism and politics.
What actually happened was:
- Jenny Lee was shifted off stage to the front row, and given very few opportunities to speak.
- Me and Kelli-Jean were relegated to the back row, where we were supposed to wait for the boom mics to be moved over toward us before we started speaking. Ultimately this meant that we had to resort to shouting in order to get the opportunity to say anything, thus setting us up to be angry fat bitches and discredit us as defensive and overly-emotional. In fact, after the filming the executive producer told us that we were all "tired and emotional" and should "go home and get some sleep". I told him he was being patronising, and fortunately Jenny and Kelli-Jean stepped in before my head actually exploded.
- The clip of Aquaporko which Kelli-Jean had previously approved was changed at the last minute to remove the voices of fat people. The justification for this was that we'd be in the studio to offer those perspectives ourselves, but this was clearly never on the agenda. The clip was subsequently cut from the program that went to air.
- There was never any room for a discussion of fat activism, and in fact the only thing that anyone wanted us to talk about was what we ate. The host, Jenny Brockie, absolutely enforced this, insisting that what we ate was relevant and refusing to let us speak about anything else.
- Every fat person on the show was interrogated about their health and eating habits before they were allowed to speak. Not a single thin person was asked about their health or eating.
- One of the guests was bariatric surgeon, Wendy Brown, who is the director of the Centre for Obesity Research and Education at Monash University. CORE receives funding from Allergan, who produce the lapbands which CORE's research says are safe. This conflict of interest is briefly mentioned in the show, but is smoothed over in a matter of seconds by the statement that this is standard practice in universities. (Which is true, but that doesn't mean it's not problematic.)
- The additional 'fat politics' guests (Guard and Lupton) never materialised. The only other guest who was on our side to any extent was Louise Adams, a clinic psychologist who (apparently) comes from a HEAS perspective – I say "apparently" because, while she's against dieting, she encourages "lifestyle change" as a "weight management" tool, which doesn't really accord with my understanding of HAES. She was excellent on the show, but the fact that our only ally was a psychologist only reinscribes the fatness-as-pathology trope.
In short, the show was exactly and precisely every single thing I was afraid it would be; exactly and precisely the reason I approach every media "opportunity" from the position refusal. It was a set-up, and I don't really understand why they spent the money to fly us up to Sydney to participate. I was quite literally silenced in the version that went to air – they cut every word I said, although my rather eloquent bitchface made a number of appearances:
(If you want to watch the full show, it's available online, but I'd avoid it unless you have a real need to wallow in boring, shitty fat hatred.)
We received a sort-of-apology email from MacFarlane the next day (the sort of apology that says "I'm sorry you feel that way" and "we had different expectations" but doesn't acknowledge any responsibility for setting up those expectations). I still want to believe that he was sincere – both about being sorry, and about the original intent to talk about fat activism in a genuine way (the alternative is that he's incredibly manipulative and we're gullible dupes, so of course I don't want to believe that). I know that television is a collaborative process, and as much as I'm naming MacFarlane throughout this post, it's because he's really the only person who works on the show who I interacted with. I think Jenny Brockie – who, as the host, is in a position to control the discourse – is at least as much to blame. As is the insufferably patronising executive producer.
He thanked us for coming on the show, and insisted it was a better show because of us. To which I responded – of course it is, we're amazing. But are we better for having been on the show? Categorically not. If we hadn't been involved, it would have been just another example of fat hate in the media – one more turd in the a giant sewage plant of mainstream media. But instead, we got dropped in the shit, and our presence leant it the false legitimacy of an actual discussion. We invested time and money and effort that could have been so much better spent on productive and useful projects. Not to mention the time spent trying to rid ourselves of the stench of that experience.
Unfortunately, this sort of experience is all too common for fat activists (and others). Charlotte Cooper posted about her own media experiences, and created a survey to find out more about other fat activists' experiences with the media. She's had so many responses that the survey has been closed already.
If I were to agree to do media again (and it's highly doubtful I ever will), some of the things I'd do differently are:
- Demand "a big wodge of cash". Flights and accommodation are well and good, but my time and expertise are valuable, and that's why you want me.
- Research, research, research. Watch every available episode and cast a wide net asking for references.
- Don't be satisfied with reassurances. Make demands, get guarantees, and get them in writing.
- Make trouble. Be demanding. Speak up if promises are not kept.
- Walk away if things aren't working out. Walk out when you see the donut graphic. Walk out when you're relegated to the back row.
- Don't do it alone. This is something we did right, and by far best part of the whole experience was spending time before and after the show with my fierce fat babes. And shared experience is a powerful antidote to gaslighting.
For journalists, producers and other media types – if you're genuinely interested in this issues beyond making "edgy" stories (ie, exploiting fat people for your own fun and profit), then it's worth considering why you don't hear voices like ours very often in mainstream media. Think about what you're doing and why you think it's worthy of our collective time and talents. Yes, we're amazing and we have things to say that are rarely heard, but we don't see fighting to be heard over a sea of fat hatred as an 'opportunity'. If you're not absolutely committed to presenting our side, then we're not interested in talking to you.
The saddest thing is, this could have been a genuine opportunity for everyone. Insight not only squandered the chance to explore alternative ways of thinking about fat (seriously, the three of us there and all anyone was interested in was what we eat? What a complete and utter waste!), but contributed to a hostile media environment which ensures these ideas remain unheard, and fat people continue to be stigmatised and treated as stereotypes.
In summary:Â We are all far too fabulous to be wasting our time on this sort of bullshit.


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In Arkansas, Bill Banning Abortion Procedures Is No Fantasy
Arkansas bans "partial birth" abortion, and pregnant women and their physicians are left to guess which safe surgical abortion techniques HB 1113 bans.
In order to enact the "Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act" (HB 1113),
a bill banning "something to do with abortion," the Arkansas General Assembly declared an emergency and proclaimed the
passage of the bill immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.
On Tuesday, February 10th, 2009, HB 1113 cleared a state House of Representatives committee after a dazzling display of third world potentate tactics from the bill's sponsors, including the invocation of a "state of emergency" that required the Governor to take action on it or the bill would become law by default. On February 19, 2009, the state Senate passed HB 1113 by a vote of 30-3 vote. And last Friday, February 20th, Gov. Mike Beebe signed the bill into law. The bill provides no definition for the procedures it is banning and contains penalties as high as 6 years in jail for physicians performing the unidentified procedure.
Any and all Arkansas politicians who voted for HB 1113 are in dereliction of duty and
should be prosecuted for criminal incompetence. Here are but three
reasons why.
One: The Emergency Which Dare Not Speak Its Name
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a bit of difference between a scary ghost story told around the
campfire and a medical procedure that's just been declared a scary
public threat by politicians. One of these two requires a basis in reality.
figure out what exactly Arkansas politicians deem an imminent threat to public
peace, health, and safety you have to divine the medical meaning, if
any, behind the propaganda term "partial-birth abortion" and its
whimsical description found in HB 1113.
propaganda might be a fun intellectual exercise for politicians but
it's an incompetent way to set the medical standard of care or decide
if physicians are guilty of a felony and get to spend up to 6 years in
Unfortunately, Arkansas politicians can't be bothered to
take their job seriously. So we, together with the pregnant women whose
health will be adversely affected by this bill, their families, and their physicians are left to guess exactly which surgical abortion technique HB 1113 bans.
Briefly, we have three possibilities:
Dilatation and Curettage (D&C): In this procedure, usually performed before 14 weeks estimated gestational age (an early term abortion),
first the cervix is dilated, then the pregnancy is evacuated by mechanically
either by scraping out the contents (sharp curettage), vacuum aspiration (suction
curettage), or both.
Dilatation and Evacuation (D&E):
Usually performed after 16 weeks gestational age, a D&E involves dilation of the cervix, then mechanical destruction and evacuation of
fetal parts, followed by large-bore vacuum curettage.
Intact D&E or Dilatation and Extraction (D&X):
technique is usually indicated after 20 weeks and is similar to a D&E, except, and this is the key difference, an intact
extraction of part of the fetus takes place over the cervix. These procedures are conducted in the case of either a maternal or fetal indication, including for women with uterine scarring or preeclampsia, or for fetal anomalies such as hydrocephaly.
Q: So, which one of these three distinct techniques is banned under HB 1113?
A: Who knows?
The legislation itself does not provide definitive guidance. For example, in its definition of "partial-birth" abortion, the legislation says, "in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the female." This scenario can happen in an induced abortion, a D&E, or a D&X. So, a "partial-birth" abortion is, what?
Or its fantasy description of an abortion procedure – "the
physician blindly forcing a sharp instrument into the base of the
unborn child's skull while he or she is lodged in the birth canal."
understand the problems with the above paragraph you need to know that
with termination, as opposed to term labor, you don't achieve a fully
dilated and effaced (thinned out) cervix. A partially dilated and
effaced cervix will not accommodate the fetal skull, and this is why
you have to reduce it. A trapped head is a true emergency. The cervix
has large blood vessels and could tear leading to catastrophic bleeding.
three problems. One, you collapse the skull in order to effect
delivery, not to kill the fetus (or, for that matter, because you like
poking sharp instruments into fetal skulls). The state of the fetus —
intact or dismembered — is not the deciding factor. If it were,
there'd be no need to reduce the skull of a dismembered fetus. Two, the
maneuver is not blind, it's guided. And
three, you reduce the size of the skull in utero, in order to facilitate passage through the cervix, not in the vaginal canal.
to Arkansas politicians: Just because you are not required to be
responsible or competent when enacting legislation doesn't mean the
same applies to physicians taking care of patients.
line, it's impossible to tell from reading HB 1113 what exactly it
bans. The most you can say is that it's something to do with the
medical procedure of abortion. This level of ignorance and sloppiness
is irresponsible when dealing with medical matters.
Two: The Phantom Emergency
you're going to yell fire in a crowded theater you better make sure
there's actually a fire. And if you're going to declare something to do
with a medical procedure an imminent threat to the citizens of your
state you better make sure you have evidence that the threat actually
State Rep. Dawn Creekmore (D) who sponsored HB 1113 said she is worried that Congress might overturn a 2003 federal law
that also bans something to do with abortion. Fretting over future
fantasy Congressional actions is not evidence that there's a public
Neither is a lack of information. According to Martha
Adcock, an attorney for the Family Council, which assisted Creekmore in
writing the bill, "no information is available on whether any of the
4,844 abortions performed in the state in 2007 would have been covered
under the bill."
Note to Arkansas politicians: The proper
response to not having any information on whether a made-up medical
procedure is performed in your state is the exact opposite of declaring
a public peace, health, and safety emergency and enacting a bill
banning the procedure.
And since Ms. Adcock mentioned the 2007 Arkansas abortion data, let's clarify something. Her power to awe with propaganda is restricted to Arkansas politicians, and doesn't extend to anyone who values reality.
we look at the available data, excluding the one case with an unknown estimated gestational age, there were 4,698 surgical abortions in Arkansas in 2007. Of these, 4,239, roughly ninety percent, were performed between 7 and 14 weeks estimated gestational age and involved a D&C. Another
459, or about 10 percent, were performed between 15 weeks to 20 weeks estimated gestational age and involved a D&E.
No procedures were performed for 21+ weeks. More importantly, no
Unlike Ms. Adcock and her Family Council outfit, we
might not have the power to draft legislation, but we are blessed with
the "look at data and interpret" special power. We can observe that federal law already bans the procedure that supposedly puts Arkansas into a state of emergency. And we realize that if your bill bans a procedure done for an estimated gestational age of 20 weeks or more and your statistics show that there were no abortions done more than 20 weeks, that tells you
that your legislation bans a procedure not done in your state.
Bottom line,
based on their actions, it's clear that Arkansas politicians don't take
their jobs, not to mention their constituents, seriously.
Should any of the bill's sponsors wish to prove otherwise, all they have to do is to:
1) Have Rep. Dawn Creekmore define the banned procedure and explain why
it, unlike its "delicate" alternatives — a D&E (dismemberment), a
torn cervix, the major abdominal surgery of a Cesarean section — is a brutal procedure.
2) Show that any D&Xs were performed in Arkansas in 2007 to begin with. [Hint: D&Xs are illegal under federal law.]
And for extra credit:
3) Justify why, when it comes to pregnant patients, being on the brink of
death is a prerequisite for being permitted access to proper medical
4) Explain why [a] female upon whom a partial-birth abortion is performed is exempt from prosecution but a pregnant Ob/Gyn who performs the abortion is not.
that last point. According to HB 1113, all involved with something to
do with the medical procedure of abortion — physicians and lay people
alike — are considered criminals, except for the pregnant women
undergoing the procedure, by virtue of the state of their uterine
So, when a pregnant Ob/Gyn performs whatever it is
that HB1113 bans, based on the state of her uterine lining that Ob/Gyn
should not be held responsible for her actions. Yet HB 1113 contains no
such exemption. Why not?
Three: The Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell
medicine, unlike politics, lies have consequences. As a physician, if
you lie to your patients you are endangering their health and you are
guilty of malpractice, and deservedly so. You should be allowed
nowhere near those who entrust their health to you.
for the people of Arkansas, as a politician you get to lie to people
unencumbered by a concern for the patients' health or, for that
matter, by professionalism or the truth.
Here's what Arkansas
politicians say, on the official legislative record mind you, are the
risks associated with something to do with the medical procedure of
SECTION 3. EMERGENCY CLAUSE. It is
found and determined by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas
that partial-birth abortion poses serious risks to the health of a
female undergoing the procedure; that those risks include, among other
things: an increase in a female's risk of suffering from cervical
incompetence, a result of cervical dilation making it difficult or
impossible for a female to successfully carry a subsequent pregnancy to
term; an increased risk of uterine rupture, abruption, amniotic fluid
embolus, and trauma to the uterus as a result of converting the child
to a footling breech position and a risk of lacerations and secondary
hemorrhaging due to the physician blindly forcing a sharp instrument
into the base of the unborn child's skull while he or she is lodged in
the birth canal, an act which could result in severe bleeding, brings
with it the threat of shock, and could ultimately result in maternal
Since the medical literature is silent
on the risks of fantasy procedures, let's assume for the sake of the
discussion that "partial-birth" abortion refers to D&X (intact
D&E). Here's the actual information about D&X from the literature, medical experts, and medical professionals under oath:
court concluded, for example, that "[e]xperts for both sides labeled .
. . inaccurate" Congress's finding that intact removal increases the
risk of uterine rupture, abruption, amniotic fluid embolus, and trauma
to the uterus. Similarly, the trial court found that experts for both
sides agreed that intact D&E "does not involve the capricious and
erratic use of instruments," thus undercutting Congress's finding that
the procedure poses an increased risk of maternal laceration and
Evidence presented at the New York trial
also contradicted Congress's finding that removing the fetus intact in
a D&E increases a woman's risk of cervical incompetence, which can
lead to pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies…
But wait, there's more.
only does the medical evidence refute politicians' "finding" that
D&X (D&E with intact removal) presents serious increased risks
to women, it actually points to the safety advantages of the procedure:
New York trial record supports the safety advantages of intact D&E
based on three demonstrated facts: (1) D&Es of all variations have
safety advantages over induction abortions, (2) D&Es with intact
removal have safety advantages over D&Es with dismemberment, and
(3) these safety advantages are especially important for women who are
particularly vulnerable to catastrophic complications by virtue of
their already compromised medical states.
line: If you're an Arkansas politician, you should know that coming up
with a fantasy medical risk profile won't mask the fact that you're so
incompetent you have to rely on the kindness of strangers to divine the
exact nature of the threat you're alleging.
So there you have it, three reasons why the Arkansas politicians who enacted HB 1113 are in dereliction of duty: 1) they don't know what medical procedure they're banning, 2) they have no data to back up their claims, and, 3) they try to pass off lies as legitimate medical information.
get me wrong, there are a lot more problems with HB 1113 than the ones
I just mentioned. For example, as a patient your confidentiality is not
guaranteed. The bill says it's irrelevant if you do not consent to the
disclosure of your medical information. It's the grown-ups (by
definition, everybody but you and your physician) who get to make these
My point is that there needs to be a basic
competence requirement for any politician with totalitarian
inclinations who wants to play doctor and ban safe and effective
medical procedures.
Otherwise we keep ending up with
legislation like HB 1113 — where the politicians' personal belief that
everything to do with the female reproductive system is scary and quite
off-putting, and pregnant patients are enough to declare a state of emergency.
As a
politician you have a duty to your employers, the taxpayers, to conduct
yourself and their business in a professional manner. Even when
legislating matters as trivial as medical care for pregnant patients.


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