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Single mothers are less happy than other American women. But over time, the happiness gap has shrunk, with single mothers saying they are happier than their counterparts from decades ago, a new study shows.
The report, published online in the Journal of Happiness Studies, tracks how women answered questions on a nationally representative survey between 1972 and 2008. When the researchers tried to tease out what made single mothers less happy, they found that the biggest factor was being single.
"The fact that they're single seems to explain a lot of why they're less happy," said John Ifcher, assistant professor of economics at Santa Clara University. Making less money, a factor tied to decreased happiness in other studies, made a smaller difference than being single.
But over time, single mothers became happier as other women became somewhat less so, narrowing the gap between them, said Homa Zarghamee, assistant professor of economics at Barnard College. The exception was among married mothers: The "happiness deficit" between single and married moms did not change enough for the shift to be statistically significant.
The researchers weighed possible explanations of why single moms might be closing the happiness gap. The rise in happiness does not seem to be explained by the fact that more single mothers are raising kids with a partner, or by the changes instilled through welfare reform in the 1990s, they wrote.
Instead, Ifcher and Zarghamee suggested that single mothers may face less stigma than in the past. It might also be possible, they speculated, that more single mothers are having their children by choice as birth control became more widely available.
The happiness gap has shrunk as single mothers have become increasingly common, growing from 7% to 25% of American households with children from 1960 to 2011, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. Young adults are much less likely than their elders to think the rise of single motherhood is a problem, Pew found in a survey this year.
The new study was based on the General Social Survey, a project of the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. Ifcher and Zarghamee plan to follow up on their research to see whether the trends changed after the recession hit in 2008.
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Guests: Howard Fineman, Richard Wolffe, Simon Hobbs, Mark Meckler, John Tester, Steve Kornacki, Errol Louis, Clarence Page, Ken Vogel
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Who moved my government?
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Down to the wire. In just over 24 hours, the United States government will shut down unless the two sides can reach agreement. We learned just today of some cases in which Republicans—no surprise—have said, Yes, of course, cut government spending as a matter of principle, but just keep the money coming to my district. We're going to play some HARDBALL tonight, by the way, with a Tea Party leader. What will it take besides unconditional surrender to the Tea Party's demands to keep the United States government open?
Also, John Boehner says there's no daylight between him and the Tea Party. We can believe that. Or more likely, as someone said, Boehner has the Tea Party holding a blowtorch at his back. They want no compromise. Liberal Democrats don't want President Obama to give any more than he already has. So how do these two leaders of these two parties make the deal they want to make without infuriating their bases?
Plus, we're all potential players now in Donald Trump's new reality show. To believe Trump, by the way, you have to believe that what he calls "the con" to make Barack Obama president of the United States was hatched 50 years ago, before Obama was born, even. Try wrapping your head around the real birther theory of Donald Trump.
And Wisconsin payback. Two elections there on Tuesday of this week made it clear Wisconsin voters are angry with Governor Scott Walker's attacks on the union movement.
And "Let Me Finish" tonight with the fact that four out of five Republicans now have doubts about what country our president was born in. What a revoltin' development for the republic, and why that makes perfect bait for Donald Trump.
We start with the shutdown showdown and the Tea Party wants in exchange—what they do want in exchange for keeping government open. Mark Meckler is the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots. Sir, it's great to have a leader on.
MARK MECKLER, TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: And you are a leader, and it may be that you're in charge of the United States government in this sense—you guys are calling the shots. What is your demand? Is it still absolute victory, you want all the cuts the Republicans talked about in that first House bill this year, HR-1, $100 billion currently pro-rated to $61 billion. You want that or nothing, right?
MECKLER: That's what we're looking for. That's correct, Chris.
MATTHEWS: That's what you're looking for?
MECKLER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Which means? Is that the deal? Is that the deal maker, the only deal maker?
MECKLER: You know, we're not in Congress, so it's not our job to make the deal. Our job is to reflect the American people. Fifty-seven percent of the American people say they're looking for bigger cuts or shut the government down, and we're reflecting that. It's up to the folks in Congress to step up to the table and actually get a deal done.
MATTHEWS: So let's ask you this. The way most people make deals, you know, you apply—suppose you want to buy a house and you say, I'm going to pay 105 for it, and the owner says, No, I want 130. So you go somewhere in the middle there, right? That's not the way you guys do business.
MECKLER: Well, it is the way we do business.
MATTHEWS: No.
MECKLER: A hundred billion dollars is minimal compared to what—
MATTHEWS: But you said—well, that's your opening bid, though.
MECKLER: No, we made our opening bid a long time ago, and it was much higher. The American people spoke loud and clear in November. They wanted serious stuff done. A hundred billion wasn't enough—
MATTHEWS: What was your opening bid, if it wasn't $100 billion?
MECKLER: It's 2.6 cents out of every federal dollar spent. That's nothing, Chris. Do doing $100 billion, that's a big backdown.
MATTHEWS: Well, what was your opening bid, if it wasn't $100 billion?
MECKLER: We want to see them pass a balanced budget—
MATTHEWS: OK, you don't want to answer—
MECKLER: -- amendment immediately.
MATTHEWS: -- the question. Your opening bid at the beginning of this year—would you please acknowledge that was $100 billion?
MECKLER: No, that was the opening bid from the Republican Party.
That's what they ran on.
MATTHEWS: What was the Tea Party's opening bid?
MECKLER: The Tea Party doesn't put out an opening bid.
MECKLER: We're not—
MATTHEWS: OK. Where are you willing to be happy, then, with the results? If Boehner comes in tomorrow and says, You know what? I think $43 billion, $44 billion is about right. I'm willing to go with that. What would you say?
MECKLER: What our people would say is that's not good enough. They should push for $100 billion.
MATTHEWS: Suppose he says $99 billion?
MECKLER: They'd want to push for $100 billion.
MATTHEWS: OK. So that's your position. Let me ask you about these other things in your positioning.
MECKLER: Sure.
MATTHEWS: There's—Boehner goes out there and said—let's watch him. Here he is, Boehner, talking about these additional things. They're not really monetary, exactly. They have to do with values.
MECKLER: Right.
MATTHEWS: Well, if you want to call it abortion, fine. I think it's really about birth control, regulation at the Environmental Protection Agency, things like that, about climate change, the cultural questions we argue about all the time here. Here he is, talking about why he has them on his bill. Let's listen.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Our goal is real clear. We're going to fight for the largest spending cuts we can get and the policy riders that were attached to them.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's not in the clip I wanted. The clip—another clip shows policy riders, meaning, I want to have no more regulations by the EPA in terms of climate change and I don't want to have any federal money going to Planned Parenthood. Is that where you are? Where's the Tea Party on Planned Parenthood?
MECKLER: The Tea Party Patriots have not taken a position on those. And we're looking for fiscal responsibility. The riders are something the Republicans are pushing for their base.
MATTHEWS: So you'd be willing, as a Tea Party spokesman here on HARDBALL tonight, to say, If you can get me my whole $100 billion, which is now down to $61 billion, in terms of the months left in the year, I'm not going to complain about this other stuff.
MECKLER: What I can tell you is—
MATTHEWS: Can you answer a question?
MATTHEWS: Did you go to Michele Bachmann school? I asked for a simple question.
MECKLER: All right, so—
MATTHEWS: Will you settle for the $100 billion—
MECKLER: Chris, you want me to behave—
MATTHEWS: -- if you don't go with these other riders?
MECKLER: You want me to behave like somebody who runs an organization. This is what we're told to do by our membership. There's 3,300 --
MATTHEWS: OK, does your membership tell you they care about abortion rights or birth control, even?
MECKLER: They tell us to go for the $100 billion. That's what we're doing. So that's what we take a position on.
MATTHEWS: So you have no additional demands beyond those.
MECKLER: We don't.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's interesting. So who in the Republican Party has the blowtorch to the back of John Boehner, saying, I want no more money going for birth control at Planned Parenthood? Who says, I don't want anything done on climate change. Not you guys, you say.
MECKLER: All I can tell you is we're pushing for $100 billion. That's what they promised in the November elections. That's what we expect them to deliver.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the way this is going to work out. In the next election, you guys—how many people do you think got elected based on Tea Party support?
MECKLER: I don't know what the numbers are.
MATTHEWS: Do you think you got—
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you a grand question. Do you think you got the Republicans in the majority?
MECKLER: The Tea Party movement? Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: OK. Do you think they could lose if they don't play ball with you?
MECKLER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: They'd lose the majority.
MECKLER: Yes.
MATTHEWS: And not playing ball with you, if Boehner is watching right now, and he may watching on his—he may have Fox on. I don't know what they watch over there. They may have CNN on, but they may be smart to have it on because you're on right now. What would you want to tell John Boehner right now in terms of what you want him to do at the White House tonight when he meets with the president and Harry Reid? What do you want him to do? Do you want him to say, Mr. President, we want $61 billion in federal cuts—that's the current rate of what would get us $100 billion cut annually—and nothing short of that? You want him to do that.
MECKLER: What we want him to do is to protect America. We want him to prevent a government shutdown. We'd like to see him tell the president to encourage the Senate to pass HR-1. It's sitting there. They can. They have the power to prevent a government shutdown right now, and he should ask the president—
MATTHEWS: OK, let's talk about a week from now, two weeks from now, three weeks from now. We don't really know about how hot this country is going to get if people can't go to national parks, they can't go to Yosemite, they can't go to the Smithsonian Institute, their refund checks are not coming, soldiers are not getting paid. All kind of things we're not fully aware of aren't going to happen when these federal employees get furloughed, they get put off the job. I don't really care about the BlackBerrys not working. They can be pretty offensive at times.
But what do you thinks' going to be the mood of the country two, three weeks into a government shutdown? And how are they going to feel toward the Tea Party?
MECKLER: I think they're going to be thrilled with the Tea Party because the Tea Party is reflecting their values. We can get the soldiers paid. There's a bill out there right now to authorize paying the military. The Democrats are standing in the way of that. The president has said he would veto that bill. I was stunned to hear him say, essentially, Bring on the shutdown. He said, I'm not going to fund the military. I'm not going to sign that bill, even if there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass that bill. I think that's outrageous and I think it goes against the majority of the American public opinion.
MATTHEWS: So how many areas of exception besides the military would you point to, the government shutdown?
MECKLER: I'm not sure I understand that.
MATTHEWS: Well, would you say Social Security checks should still go out?
MECKLER: They are going to go out regardless (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: You want them to go out?
MECKLER: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: OK, thank you very much, Mark Meckler, who is really deep down a politician.
Joining me now—joining me right now is Montana senator Jon Tester -
what a political! Here's—you're laughing because you see how these guys play the game, too. We're for all government spending cuts, we want to get rid of all government spending except for the stuff that affects the soldiers fighting for us, which makes perfect sense, and anybody out there who's over 65 because every single one of them votes.
Let's go. Senator, thank you for joining us. Let me ask you about this fact of this one-week extension. The Tea Party fellow made a good point. The president doesn't want a deal, he just wants the government to go back with the big deal or nothing. No more short-term, get-along kind of things. Why's the president not supporting a get-along for another week and see what we can do here next week?
SEN. JON TESTER (D-MT), APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Well, I think what we need in government is predictability, and I think these short-term continuing resolutions give us anything but predictability in government. And it's a darn poor way to do business.
By the way, the six-month CR that we're working on, and hopefully, will get agreement on and keep the federal government operating isn't exactly long-term, but it does gets us to the end of the fiscal year. So I think that's what the president's looking at. It's certainly what I'm looking at, too.
MATTHEWS: What are you worried about in terms of the government shutting down out in Montana? What's real? I mean, people can live without the Smithsonian. I think it's a great deal because you paid for already, I always tell people. Come to Washington. You already paid for all these museums. You ought to come once in a while.
But absent museums, Smithsonians, national parks, things like that, I'm told that the big money is still going to roll, that checks are still going to go to Social Security recipients, Medicare bills are still going to be paid. What are you worried about?
TESTER: I'll give you a few examples. In Montana, we have a high rate of enlistment for folks to go fight around the world, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those soldiers not getting paid on that military field is a travesty and shouldn't be happening.
You know, this is a time where folks are getting refund checks from the IRS. They're critically important. A lot of people budget around those refund checks. They're not going to happen.
You know, the list goes on and on and on and on and on. You know, contracts that are being paid for for federal funds for contractors and building rent and those kind of things are going to end up not getting paid. I mean, the list is huge, and that's bad. You know, we're just coming out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Chris. And this kind of government shutdown makes no sense whatsoever.
Do we need to get a good—our arms around the deficit and the debt? Absolutely. And we can do that, but we're never going to do it just by looking at 12 percent of the budget, which is called discretionary spending. We need a long-term plan. The fiscal commission with Senator Simpson and Erskine Bowles came out with a good plan, a format, a blueprint, whatever you want to call it to go forth. There's people in the Senate that are working on that in a bipartisan way.
MATTHEWS: Did you support that blueprint?
TESTER: I supported the blueprint to moving forward, absolutely. Were there things in it that I didn't like? Absolutely. But that's the way we're going to get out of this mess, is put everything on the table and save serious dollars. I mean, I went back to Montana. I go back every weekend—
MATTHEWS: Wait a minute, Senator. You just said you liked the Erskine Bowles plan, the whole Simpson thing, to reduce the cost of government, which had a lot of tricky stuff in there. The deal was if it got 14 votes, it would have been soundly supported. It only got 11. Would you have been the 12th vote? Would you have supported—voted for it, like Durbin did, for example?
MECKLER: Yes.
MATTHEWS: You would have done that? OK.
TESTER: No, I absolutely would have because I think the blueprint is right. Are there things in it that are—that aren't—that I disagree with? Absolutely, Chris.
MECKLER: But this is a give-and-take situation.
MECKLER: It's a negotiation.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's not the way the Tea Party sees it. They want to win it all. Let me ask you this. You've got a plan out there to deny unemployment benefits to people who have a million dollars in assets. What's that about? Do people actually do that, go out and claim unemployment jobless benefits when they've got a lot of money?
TESTER: Yes, I mean, they are. I mean, and that's a fact. And as we try to get our fiscal house in order, taxpayers shouldn't be paying for unemployment benefits for millionaires. It's just common sense, and we passed it out unanimously yesterday. It was the right thing to do.
MATTHEWS: Is that going to reduce the federal debt?
TESTER: Well, absolutely because unemployment—there's taxpayer support to that that we'll be able to give it to the people who really need it.
MATTHEWS: Are you ready to go all the way with that in cutting out Social Security and stuff like that for millionaires, benefits?
MECKLER: Well, you know—
MATTHEWS: I mean, means test all these federal programs? I mean,
it's an idea that's been talked about over the years. Do people who have -
you know, should Donald Trump—not that I'm going to be too hard on him tonight. I already have that planned. But should guys like Donald Trump be pulling down unemployment checks or—not that he's ever been unemployed—Medicare checks for doctors when he can afford to have the best doctors in New York? Should someone like that or Michael Bloomberg have to pay for—anywhere around the country, Buffett, those guys, should they be getting Social Security checks at 65, yes or no?
TESTER: Well, I'll just tell you this. Entitlements need to be on the table. There's a way we can deal with it and—whether it's means testing or other ways to make sure that it functions well for generations and generations to come—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MECKLER: -- and doesn't add to our debt.
MATTHEWS: You know, every time I see a CBS—they used to do these programs—I don't know who it was, Morley Safer or somebody did it years ago—that show these big boats, these yachts going through Boca Raton, Florida, and they'd say, These people are drawing Social Security. What's your reaction as a populist, a guy with a tractor under him?
MATTHEWS: What do you think when you hear that kind of report? Is—
I'm not kidding. I know it's ridiculous, but these people are pulling checks. They don't want to miss a buck.
TESTER: Well, that's exactly right, on one hand. On the other hand, they paid into it, too. What I'm saying, Chris, is there's things we can do here. And I'm going to tell you, in the Senate, I think there's people on both sides of the aisle that want to negotiate a long-term deal to get our debt and deficit under control.
MATTHEWS: Yes. OK.
MECKLER: And I think it—I think it can be done. Entitlements, military spending, discretionary spending, tax reform—all that stuff needs to be addressed.
MATTHEWS: OK. Are you guys sleeping on couches this weekend in the Senate?
TESTER: I will be here if there's a shutdown. There's no doubt about that. If we don't have a shutdown, I'll be back into the big sky of Montana.
MATTHEWS: God! You and Chet Huntley!
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you very much, Senator Jon Hester—Tester, rather.
Coming up—a great senator. Coming up: So between John Boehner and the president, who's got the most pressure on them from behind? Both these guys—look at them now—feel the pressure, although it looks like Boehner feels—well, he's sweating more, or crying, whatever. The president never cries. The Tea Party who wants Boehner to push for deeper cuts or liberals who worry the president may be giving too much and not being tough enough—who's standing up to their own people? That's ahead.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's a number from our new NBC/"Wall Street Journal" poll the Obama campaign team is bound to like. For the second straight time, a plurality of Americans view President Obama as a moderate, nearly 4 in 10, 3 in 10 says he's very liberal, 2 in 10 call him somewhat liberal. Obama's improving with independents, seniors and women, key blocks he needs if he's going to win a second term. Very interesting.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. The showdown over the government shutdown is shaping up to be a political test over who can survive the economy—can survive the challenges within his own party. Can Speaker Boehner control those unruly Tea Partiers who refuse to give in on any spending cuts? And can President Obama strike a deal with Republicans without alienating progressives, liberals in his own party? And who's in a tighter vise right now?
Let's bring in two MSNBC political analysts, Howard Fineman, who's also with The Huffington Post, of course, and Richard Wolffe.
Gentlemen, let me talk to you about this fight because this is one of those interesting things. Boehner looks like he's in the most trouble because he seems to look as if he's almost going to cry or he's nervous or he's sweating. Seriously.
HOWARD FINEMAN, HUFFINGTONPOST.COM, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: I don't say this lightly.
FINEMAN: No, I (INAUDIBLE)
MATTHEWS: I do—I do feel for this guy.
FINEMAN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He has a lot of people behind him he's never had to deal with before. These are not professional politicians behind him, they're newbies. And some have come in and they just want to win, win, win and they're not going to compromise.
FINEMAN: Well, what I find interesting about this is, I think, in narrow sort of poker terms, Boehner's doing very well. I think he's cleaning the president's clock. I mean, he's got the White House up to $35 billion or something like that.
MATTHEWS: Starting with zero.
FINEMAN: Yes, starting with zero. These are big, big cuts. But no matter how cleverly—and I think pretty well—Boehner's played the inside game, he's losing two levels of the outside game, the first to the Tea Party people—you had one of them on saying $61 billion or bust—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: -- and I think the wider public, which is upset with everybody, but I think in the end, will still, despite the clever maneuvering by Boehner on the military funding and all that—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: -- still more likely blame the Republicans.
MATTHEWS: Richard Wolffe, the question is, Boehner, is he in a vise? I see him in a vise three ways. He's got the president pushing from one side, the Tea Party's from behind him, and then he's got the social conservatives. By the way, the Tea Party fellow who was just on, Meckler, says, I'm not with them. I'm with the money people. I want to cut the money. I don't care about these—at least, my group doesn't care about these other things, like birth control and environmental protection.
RICHARD WOLFFE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, let's talk about the inside game versus the outside game. Right now, he only has to play the inside game, and he's doing it well. But—
MATTHEWS: The president or Boehner?
WOLFFE: The Boehner is. But—
MATTHEWS: "The Boehner"?
MATTHEWS: You got to be pretty careful there!
WOLFFE: Yes.
WOLFFE: The speaker. He is actually—all he has to do is care about the Republican challenge he's going to face in the primaries and the people who put him there. The problem is, there's going to be a deal. At this point, he doesn't have to deal, but there will be a deal, whether it's three weeks into a shutdown—
MATTHEWS: Where'd this conceptual notion—
WOLFFE: -- or now.
MATTHEWS: -- come from, There will be a deal?
WOLFFE: Of course there's going to be a deal. He's going to have to
MATTHEWS: Do strikes always end?
WOLFFE: Because they have—yes, they do, actually.
FINEMAN: Well—
WOLFFE: And even governments reopen after a shutdown. There will be a deal, and that deal—
MATTHEWS: Do you agree with that?
WOLFFE: -- is not going to be $100 billion. It's not.
MATTHEWS: Do you agree there's going to be a deal in the foreseeable future? We could go on for weeks like this. The Smithsonian—
FINEMAN: Well, here's—here's the—again, to go back to the poker game, here's where the president made a mistake, I think. Well, there are two things that were a problem.
Democrats didn't pass a budget last year, which sort of leaves—means that there's no firebreak for the president. He's basically doing this himself, because there's no Democratic marker from the Senate. That's number one.
Number two, the president agreed to these little bites of the apple with a continuing resolution—continuing resolutions.
MATTHEWS: Current spending.
FINEMAN: Yes. OK. First was two weeks for $4 billion. Then the Republicans came back for another two weeks for $6 billion. Now the Republicans are back saying, well, we just want a little bit more, sir. How about one week for $12 billion?
FINEMAN: And that's difficult for the president.
FINEMAN: Republicans like continuing it that way.
MATTHEWS: Let's watch this interesting development. Here's what John Boehner said, the speaker, said last night about his relationship with Tea Party people, with House members of the Tea Party. Let's listen.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC ANCHOR: You know what the Democrats say.
They say they could cut a deal with you, but you won't buck the Tea Party.
REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Listen, there's no daylight between the Tea Party and me.
MATTHEWS: You know, that's a big development, Richard. Last fall, he was talking about how they were going to have their first sort of adult moment.
WOLFFE: Right.
MATTHEWS: A bit dismissive.
Now, he's them.
WOLFFE: Well, yes, it makes perfect sense for him. That's his politics.
He doesn't need to reach out to independents. He doesn't have to play the bigger game for the Republican Party. He just has to work for House Republicans.
MATTHEWS: The 218.
WOLFFE: That's it. That's all he needs, and that's all he needs for
his job. It's the president who has to speak to a bigger audience. It's -
the Republican candidates are interested—
MATTHEWS: OK. Here's how he was talking just recently as December, though, speaking to "The New Yorker" magazine in December about how he will to—keep on moving the prompter, please.
WOLFFE: They have shut down already.
MATTHEWS: John Boehner spoke to "The New Yorker" in December about how he will have to deal with Republican newcomers on the issue of raising the debt ceiling.
He said—quote—this is in December to "The New Yorker"—"This is going to be probably the first really big adult moment for the new Republican majority. You can underline adult." This is him speaking. "And for people who have never in politics, it's going to be one of those growing moments. It's going to be difficult, but we will have to find a way to help educate members and help people understand the serious problem that would exist if we don't do it."
And there he is talking about the debt ceiling. That is a bit paternalistic, or patronizing, if you will.
FINEMAN: Yes. And, also, when you have to say something like there's no daylight between me and the Tea Party—
MATTHEWS: Now.
FINEMAN: -- it means there is. He's denying something—
MATTHEWS: That's a mixed metaphor.
FINEMAN: It means there is.
And, secondly, yes. And Richard is absolutely right. In a way, the president wins by losing here, because—I mean, I'm criticizing him as a poker player. But, in the larger sense, if you—you had a graphic on earlier about how the president is doing better among moderates.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: If they end up with a final resolution of $35 billion, $40 billion in cuts or something like that, and it becomes finalized, the president—Boehner is then going to have a challenge from the right, but the president is going to win, because he's going to be the guy who was around when the moderate deal was made.
FINEMAN: Does that make sense?
MATTHEWS: American politics is always based on who can get to the center when the vote is coming.
FINEMAN: Right.
MATTHEWS: The president is racing to the center.
FINEMAN: Yes, or being dragged to the center willingly.
MATTHEWS: He's done his liberal thing. He did health care. He did a lot of things last year—
WOLFFE: Yes.
MATTHEWS: -- a lot of stimulus, a lot of stuff that hurt him for a while there.
But he's saying, no, now it's time to go to the center, whereas Boehner is saying, no, having been—spent his life as sort of a conservative, he now has to go to the right.
WOLFFE: The problem for Boehner—
MATTHEWS: Isn't that a problem?
WOLFFE: It's a problem, but the bigger problem is this. They got the majority back by talking about jobs.
The president wasn't talking about jobs. They were going to focus on jobs. Tell me one job this is going to create. Even Boehner says it's going to cost more to shut down the government and reopen it.
FINEMAN: Right.
WOLFFE: They're off-subject. They're off-topic.
MATTHEWS: But you know the Republican argument.
MATTHEWS: You don't play dumb.
MATTHEWS: You're not playing dumb.
MATTHEWS: You know what their argument is. The less government spends, the more money there is for—
FINEMAN: What fascinates me by this whole thing is that the president
WOLFFE: Does anyone think it creates a job? One job?
FINEMAN: Yes. The president—fascinating to watch the president on this, because he has this ability to seem like he's being dragged to the middle.
He did it on health care, to the dismay of some on the left of his party. Now he's being—quote—"dragged"—or I'm saying he's being outmaneuvered politically by Boehner. But where the president is going to end up is in the vicinity of a moderate deal that's going to—within the context of current politics—that's going to raise his numbers with moderates.
MATTHEWS: Well, according to reports, the stakes have taken an emotional turn for Boehner.
Today's "L.A. Times," "Los Angeles Times," reports—quote—"The emotional toll of the protracted debate had become apparent earlier in the day, when Boehner choked up at a closed-door meeting of Republicans over the support he received for his hard-line stance."
So, he's feeling it. And also the Politico reported yesterday that Boehner told the GOP Conference on Monday that those who voted against him the last time around abandoned him, a message that some lawmakers privately said was overly emotional.
So he's getting emotional about people who have screwed him, basically, and people who have loved him. This is really—this guy is really unstable here.
WOLFFE: But, look—
MATTHEWS: I mean, emotionally, he seems to go in either direction.
If you love me, oh. If you don't love me, oh.
I mean, the guy is so—so sensitive.
FINEMAN: No, what he's saying—what he's saying there, though, is, look, you abandoned me on that continuing resolution thing. Don't abandon me on this.
In other words, he's looking forward to the deal that ultimately—I think Richard is right—is going to be cut. And he's basically saying to those people, look, you screwed me on the earlier thing. You have got to stick with me on this one.
I think that that's what the message behind that was.
MATTHEWS: You mean that song, don't come knocking at my window, you don't love me anymore?
FINEMAN: Well, he's basically saying, there's going to be something.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
FINEMAN: OK. You abandoned me on that continuing resolution deal.
You are going to have got to stick with me on this.
And, of course, maybe he's crying because he knows that they won't.
WOLFFE: He's crying because he said he didn't want to have two bad choices, meaning two budget bad deals.
His actual bad deal is shutdown or losing the support of his caucus.
Both of them are bad for him.
FINEMAN: Right.
WOLFFE: They're bad for Republicans in general. They're bad for him, and they're going to have to go through much more pain, which may be—
MATTHEWS: You know, I'm just stunned by this person.
I think we're going to be able to watch this at the end of the week, like a week's capsule, and you're going to see Boehner looking nervous and sweaty and almost crying, and Obama kind of delightfully debonair.
Compromise works for Obama. It does not work for—
MATTHEWS: You were right. He said that first.
WOLFFE: And I agree with everything he says.
MATTHEWS: OK. That's right, but he said it first.
FINEMAN: By a nanosecond, yes.
MATTHEWS: By a hair.
Anyway, thank you, Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe, for being smart.
They are smart. The president wins by going to the center lately. He had already gone to the left. The Republicans have come toward the right and are going too far right to win an election.
Up next: Speaking of too far right or something, Glenn Beck explains his departure, as you might explain—or look at him. Is that sane behavior? Oh, geez, I can't look at him anymore. I guess that's what happened to him. Nobody could. We will see more. He's calling himself now the modern day Paul Revere. That's him. You can see him now, one if by land, two if by sea, Glenn Beck.
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL and the "Sideshow."
First up: Why is Glenn Beck really leaving his show? If you ask him, he's following in the footsteps of Paul Revere.
GLENN BECK, HOST, "GLENN BECK": I want to verify something that is true. I am going to leave this program later this year.
Paul Revere didn't get up on the horse and say, "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life." He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the revolution. And then he went back to silversmithing.
I have other things to do, and not because it's good or bad for business. But I think you, out of all the people, will truly get this. Our only business is the business of freedom and our country at this time.
MATTHEWS: Great. Thank you. One if by land, two if by sea, three if you think Beck's departure has actually raised the I.Q. over at FOX.
Up next: the boy who cried politics. Here he is, 5-year-old Jesse Koczon, the kid who would be governor.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's making you so sad?
JESSE KOCZON, 5 YEARS OLD: Because everyone tells me that I'm too small to be the governor of New Jersey.
MATTHEWS: I love that accent.
Well, he got his chance after that video went viral. The real governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, yesterday named Jesse honorary governor for the day, even offered him some tips.
GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE ®, NEW JERSEY: You and I have a talk back there about property taxes?
KOCZON: Of course I did.
CHRISTIE: All right. What did I tell you?
KOCZON: Don't raise them.
CHRISTIE: Right.
CHRISTIE: And, if you do raise them, what happens?
KOCZON: I'm not going to do that—I'm not going to be the governor for that long.
CHRISTIE: That's right.
MATTHEWS: Well, that's Chris Christie, a recognizable human being the Republicans could probably use as a presidential candidate.
Now for tonight's "Big Number."
If you have covered politics for some time, you're used to press releases like this one out of the Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's office that reads—quote—"Republicans have shown they couldn't care less about those who have the least."
Well, on the other side, from the Republican congressman leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia—quote—"Democrats have not displayed the same interest in listening to the American people."
Well, this partisan flame throwing happens more than you think, I guess. A Harvard professor analyzed all the press releases sent out by various U.S. senators over a two-year period. And according to that Harvard study, how much of their communications were actually designed simply to taunt the other political side?
Well, 27 percent, almost a third, 27 percent of congressional press releases are just wasteful schoolyard taunts. But, then again, you already knew that, didn't you? Tonight's "Big Number."
Up next: Donald Trump is now a full-on birther. He's suggesting that President Obama has perpetrated the biggest con in American political history. And this crazy talk is working, as he's surging in the polls out there on the right. Are we all just potential players in Trump's latest reality show?
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DONALD TRUMP, CHAIRMAN & CEO, TRUMP HOTELS & CASINO RESORTS: You are not allowed to be a president if you're not born in this country. He may not have been born in this country.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was, of course, Donald Trump on "The Today Show" basically pushing his conspiracy theory about President Obama's birth, saying that he may not have been born in the United States. It's called birtherism.
And are we all just players now in the latest Trump reality show, which is what it's becoming?
Steve Kornacki writes about—writes about this for Salon.com. And we also have Errol Louis on. He's host of "Inside City Hall" in New York.
Let me go to Errol on this.
It seems to me that this is a reality show in the making. No one who thinks about it believes that a young woman, a white woman in this case, with an African husband somehow wired it so that it would look like she was in the country, when she snuck off secretly, without any paperwork, off to Kenya or somewhere else, and came back, had it wired with the hospitals to lie and tell the local newspapers that these reports of the birth were true, lied to the government, got the government of Hawaii to cooperate, this elaborate conspiracy theory.
And then Trump goes on and says, well, nobody really knew him when he was a kid. So he enlarges on it to the point of suggesting that he is an impostor. He isn't even the kid that was born back then. He's something else, playing to the right wing rubes out there, the rub—I don't know who you call these people, but they're not very learned about this—who don't want to think about it, who just don't like him basically because he's black.
I think that's what it's about.
Your thoughts, Errol. That's my thought.
ERROL LOUIS, NEW YORK 1: Well, I don't know where it comes from, but I do know that what Donald Trump is doing is the way to get a sizable number of voters interested in you. And it seems to be working. The polls seem to bear it out.
MATTHEWS: Well, who are these voters? What kind of people are they?
LOUIS: Well, they are—they are the kind of people who don't pay attention to the long list of facts that you just read and who are—
MATTHEWS: Because they want to believe the worst about this guy named Barack Obama. They want to believe. They're willing to believe it.
LOUIS: The particulars of the birther case are not as important as the fact that there are some people who just can't accept the fact that the guy is the president, for whatever reason. They can't accept the fact that what they believe in, what they voted for, what they hoped for, what they want in foreign policy and domestic policy—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
LOUIS: -- is not what the majority of the country chose in 2008.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's Trump's exchange with Meredith Vieira on "Today." Let's listen.
TRUMP: I have people that actually have been studying it, and they cannot believe what they're finding.
I think the Tea Party has done an amazing service for this country, because people now, even very liberal Democrats, are starting to think for the first time, well, maybe we can't just keep giving everything away.
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you make of that, Steve? What is going on here with the right, the far right? I think they were desperate for a leader, someone with a lot of money, a lot of prestige, a TV hero, a showman, if you will, a smart guy.
And they say, hey—I can hear them at the truck stops this weekend:
Hey, this guy believes it. Maybe it's right.
MATTHEWS: He gives credibility to this crowd.
Your thoughts.
STEVE KORNACKI, SALON.COM: Yes, absolutely. I mean, he—
MATTHEWS: He's probably got the highest income of anybody who's a birther. I think that's probably fair.
KORNACKI: The—the—the irony of this is that, even if what Trump is suggesting, the conspiracy theory that he seems to have finally stumbled on here --
MATTHEWS: That his mother engaged in, his father engaged in, the hospital engaged in, the state of Hawaii engaged, all that people who knew him as a kid, they all engaged to confect this history of the guy so that he could be president of the United States with the name Barack Hussein Obama, of mixed racial background. And it's that little mother figured all this out. Isn't she something?
KORNACKI: Right. But, look, if you—now, it's not true at all. But even if you took the basic premise of this, that an American mother happened to be in Kenya when her son was born and then, a few days later brought him back to the United States, that is what Trump is now basically alleging happened. That would basically be the circumstances—
MATTHEWS: There's no evidence of that.
KORNACKI: That would basically be the circumstances of the birth of John McCain who was born in the Panama Canal Zone to American parents.
MATTHEWS: You're missing here.
OK. The point of the matter is, to suggest that she wired it—let me go back to Errol. Errol, you'll be more helpful, I think. When you—when you have the evidence here that there was a birth announcement at the time of his birth that appeared nine days after his birth, somebody must have had a plan long before this con occurred by the president, somebody way back when said, let's have a kid and let's have him over in Kenya with the idea of saying he was born in the United States.
I mean, this conspiracy had to be hatched back before. You're wrong -
you're absolutely wrong, Steve. The way this thing has to work is before he was born, because you have to wire the whole thing. You can't say the mother happened to be over in Kenya and then wired it so it appeared in the newspapers back then and the hospitals would all—you have to set this up way ahead of time.
KORNACKI: You're applying a degree of logic to this that just doesn't
MATTHEWS: That's what I'm trying to point out. The average interviewer is not asking the right questions here.
MATTHEWS: No, it's a reality show.
KORNACKI: There is no right question to ask Trump, because this is something people wanting to believe no matter what you tell them factually. If you correct them on the facts, they will invent new facts.
MATTHEWS: Then what is going on here?
LOUIS: Well, here's what—let me tell you what's going on. I sat with Trump for a one-on-one interview for about a half an hour last month. And he's a very sharp, savvy guy. He knows how to go out and push buttons that will get people to watch his show, to show interest in him, to push him higher in the polls.
MATTHEWS: So, is this a reality show we're showing, being created right now?
LOUIS: But he carefully puts in "may." He says I'm coming to believe, or it may be this or it may be that. So, you know, when you turn the cards over, he'll say, well, look, I never said it definitively. So, he's being a politician.
MATTHEWS: I mean, the biggest con in history, what's that mean to you? Street corner, black politician what's that con? Where's this language—Errol, would you listen to the words being used, biggest con in history? What's that say to you?
LOUIS: Well, you know—
MATTHEWS: -- on the street corner?
LOUIS: Some of the words that I heard or that I focus on are the more serious ones because this to me is foolishness. I mean, when he talks, though, about—about foreign trade pacts and about manufacturing policy and how we're getting our pants beaten off us by some other countries, he sounds like your colleague, Ed Schultz, over there.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me—
LOUIS: He's got some substance there and I think we should focus on the substance.
MATTHEWS: That's not what's getting these numbers. Let's take a look at the CNN poll. Let's give Donald Trump his due here. A new CNN/Opinion Research poll has 20 percent of Republicans now are sure Obama was definitely born in the United States.
Now, here we go, what's going on here. So, four out of five Republicans have doubts about the president's birth in the United States.
Steve, isn't that the reality he's playing with? He's got a field—a big dance floor here.
KORNACKI: Sure.
MATTHEWS: If four out of five Republicans have doubts about him born here, Trump is the only guy willing to say he has doubts. Therefore, the other guys he's running, including probably Michele Bachmann, who won't play this game because they're serious, lose—because if the only guy that says, I've got doubts just like the four out of five of you have doubts, he's on the playing field, they're not. He's playing birther politics, they're not. He might get a lot of votes out of this.
Your thoughts, Steve.
KORNACKI: Well, now, there's a poll out that says he's in second place right now nationally in the Republican field, 17 percent.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
KORNACKI: But I think that's a very significant number but I think it's more significant for what it says about the rest of the Republican field. About the fact that they are --
MATTHEWS: What, for being honest?
KORNACKI: This is a field that does nothing to excite anybody on the Republican side.
MATTHEWS: Well, one way to get everybody excited is to say insane things. We just saw Glenn Beck do it for a couple of years. All you have to do in this medium, I'm telling you, is say loony tune stuff, far left, far right and you will find your niche. What he has done is found the niche of the birther crowd.
I mean, probably some truther on the Democratic side could have pulled the number that George W. Bush blew up the World Trade Center, and he or she could have gotten 5 percent of the Democratic vote.
There are a lot of nuts that are desperate for information. And, by the way, deep down they don't want the information, they want the sales pitch.
Your thoughts.
KORNACKI: I agree with you. My—just to complete my thought there, the issue is, this is sort of a phenomenon of the early months of the Republican nominating process. This is why I don't think he'll actually run for president, because right now, he's a celebrity—
MATTHEWS: Oh, we may disagree.
KORNACKI: -- he's a celebrity who can connect with the base by saying things like this. If he actually gets in the race, in all of his past gets unearthed, all—
MATTHEWS: Oh, that's months from now.
KORNACKI: He's a guy who was talking a few years ago—
MATTHEWS: OK, here's what I bet. Errol, is he running?
KORNACKI: -- tax on the super rich.
LOUIS: Listen, all I'll say, folks, is that Jimmy Carter was unthinkable, Bill Clinton was unthinkable, Ronald Reagan was unthinkable—almost up until the day that they won.
MATTHEWS: What agitates me is this con is really being perpetrated by Donald Trump.
Anyway, thank you, Steve Kornacki. Thank you, Errol Louis.
You're wrong, Steve, he's running and this is proof of it because this is stuff he shouldn't be saying. He's 10 times smarter than this.
KORNACKI: Look what he said 10 years ago. Look at what he said 10 years ago.
MATTHEWS: What?
KORNACKI: Ten years ago, he was trying to sell a book and pulled the same con. He talked about the surcharge on the wealthy --
MATTHEWS: No, this is real. I think he's running this time.
KORNACKI: He had a platform.
MATTHEWS: Donald is running. He can't be this crazy and not running.
It's one or the other
Up next—you have to be loony tune Republican Party to look at the numbers going up in the poll. Anyway, thank you.
Coming back, we're talking about payback in Wisconsin. What's really happening out there with—this is not a reality show, it's what's happening with workers in Wisconsin. The voters are fed up with that governor out there. This guy overreached. We'll be right back.
They're going after Scott Walker out there. That's ahead.
MATTHEWS: Democrats are hoping to beat Senator Scott Brown up in Massachusetts next fall, obviously. But the senator looks strong for re-election right now. Apparently right now, a new Suffolk Poll up there shows that the only Democrat to hold below 50 percent is former Congressman Joe Kennedy and he's ruled out running so far.
Brown led actually every other potential Democratic challenger by at least 15 points. Brown also has a big campaign war chest. He raised $1.7 million in the first quarter and has more than $8 million in the bank.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Well, Tuesday's elections this week in Wisconsin are widely seen as a referendum and a rejection on Governor Scott Walker out there, who made a national name for himself, of course, when he took on the unions and basically the turnout out there was tremendous. Double, or greater than it's ever been in this kind of election.
In a race to fill to Scott Walker's old seat as county executive, the Republican was trounced by 22 points. In the other contest for state Supreme Court, the Democrat came out from nowhere, and now holds a razor-thin lead over the Republican incumbent Supreme court justice. A race that's likely headed to a recount.
Ken Vogel writes for "Politico." And Clarence Page is a columnist for the great "Chicago Tribune."
Ken, this race—is it just an objective fact that labor and the Democrats got up, roust up in this race in a way they never were before by this attack on collective bargaining by public employees? Is that a fair fact, this state?
KEN VOGEL, POLITICO: Oh, yes, absolutely. I mean, there's no question. And there's also no question that this was a referendum on Scott Walker. In many ways, the county executive race in Milwaukee was more of a referendum because this is, in fact, a seat that Walker held before he was governor. The guy who was running to replace him, the Republican, was a real protege of his that expressed support for his policies.
Of course, a lot more attention has been on the court race because it's a statewide race and also because the court could, in fact, end up deciding the fate of the controversial union—collective bargaining reforms that Walker pushed through.
Both equally important, and both big wins for labor, which really turned out get out the vote effort and outside advertising, which reached a record $3.6 million in the Supreme Court race.
MATTHEWS: Well, here's an advertisement from the race, from Milwaukee County executive, that shows the race was really all about Governor Scott Walker, as you just said. Let's watch.
NARRATOR: Jeff Stone is running to county executive and Milwaukee families are concerned.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jeff Stone? I thought he was Scott Walker's twin.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It sounds like more of the same.
NARRATOR: Stone praised Scott Walker as a template for county executive.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mismanaged county government.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jobs have been lost.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And Stone wants more of that that?
NARRATOR: Worse, Stone even said he stands with Walker's unfair plan.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You've got to be kidding me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jeff Stone?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jeff Stone is Scott Walker.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think eight years of Scott Walker is enough.
MATTHEWS: You know, anybody thought the labor movement was dead was wrong because they are brilliant at this. They have come back and had made the issue of almost their termination into a real sales pitch.
CLARENCE PAGE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Indeed. They have. It kind of reminds me of back in the '90s, when the Clinton people had ads attaching Bob Dole to Newt Gingrich like they were Siamese twins. That same sort of thing.
And this whole scenario now, Chris, reminds us of when shortly after Barack Obama's election, Republicans had big victories, in governors' races in Virginia, New Jersey, and a Senate race in Massachusetts and people were saying, oh, it's—
PAGE: You know, this is what's happening now, only it's in reverse.
This—we're seeing it in the polling, a real backlash against Walker now.
MATTHEWS: Yes. I guess the goal—Ken, tell me the—let's look at this nationally. Let's move it around the country because these are some interesting numbers.
Down in Florida, I never thought much of this guy's appeal, but Rick Scott is down to 35 percent approval. He's the Republican governor down there. Nearly half of Floridians disapprove of the job he's doing. That's more than twice as many as disapproved in February. Look at this.
Let's go down to Ohio. A friend of mine, John Kasich, out there is not doing well. His disapproval it's almost 50 percent. That's twice what it was in January. He's sinking out there.
And, of course, Scott Walker is doing better actually than the rest of them. Actually, I'm going to Michigan right now. Scott Walker—I'll get Michigan up here—he's 53-41, say their opinion of Walker is strongly unfavorable.
What's the Michigan doing up there? It's supposed to be Wisconsin.
Wisconsin is supposed to be up there?
Well, what do you think, this pattern?
PAGE: Well, yes, there's a trend—first of all, it's bad for incumbents right now in states where they've got to solve these tremendous budget problems. But on top of that, you've got certainly—with Kasich and Walker, you have Republican governors who are slashing a lot of popular programs. They're going after collective bargaining, which has got the union angry.
MATTHEWS: Why do you t do people, all of a sudden, like the unions?
They were tough on them for years.
PAGE: Well, you know, the thing here, Chris, in the polling, it's not so much love for the unions, but love for collective bargaining. There's a sense of basic fairness here that's involved. Folks are saying, do we really to go—how is collective bargaining help us meet our budget deficits? That's the questions being asked.
And a lot of folks who don't belong to unions still say, well, the unions at least help to keep basic wages up for everybody.
MATTHEWS: Keep the standard up.
Ken Vogel, your assessment of what's going on in the country. Is it just about unions? Is it about the progressives coming back? Are we seeing a comeback of the left largely defined all the way from center over to left—people waking up to the fact that the Republicans have the strong arm on them? Is that what's going on?
KEN VOGEL, POLITICO: I think it highlights the delicate balancing act that Republicans are having because, on the one hand, these reforms are very popular. The clamp down on unions that we see, Kasich, Walker and even to some extent, Scott pushed in Florida. Very popular with the Tea Party wing, but if they push too far inside too much for the Tea Party, they're going to find a backlash from the left.
MATTHEWS: Overreach.
Thank you very much, Ken Vogel. The big word of the day—overage.
Ken Vogel and Clarence Page.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with Donald Trump turning the presidential race into a reality show.
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MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with Donald Trump's masterful move to convert the competition into a reality show.
This reality show is a work of art. When it comes to hype like this birther thing of his, the guy is no apprentice. He's a grand master.
It's based on his proven ability to get people to focus where he wishes them to focus. He's first and enduring technique Donald Trump is using staging, lighting, personality, suspense to get the audience's attention and not let it go.
Here it's birtherism, the dark suspicion that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. and therefore is ineligible to hold the office of president. It's obviously why Trump would choose topic, four out of five Republicans have doubts that Obama was born in the U.S. If Trump's willing to join them—and the other candidates won't—he's in Clover.
What's not so obvious is whether Trump has thought through the supposed intrigue behind his indictment—for certainly it's a criminal indictment, even treasonous, for someone to assume the American presidency knowing his parents conspired with the state of Hawaii, the Honolulu hospital that confirmed the birth announcement and the local newspapers, their family and friends to confect the false narrative of this baby's birth; not only that, but the covering up of all those supposed secret travel documents that showed Obama's mother flitting off to Africa, having him there and then heading back for the weird purpose of having him say he was born in the U.S.—the only legal reason would be to have him, this mixed-race kid, elected to the country's highest office. Barack Obama would be an American wherever he was born simply his mother was. Let's get that straight.
Just think of what this guy, Donald Trump, could be doing if he put this moxie to good use and talked about something important—like how to avoid what looks a lot like, to a lot of Americans, like an American economic reset right now downward.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
More politics ahead with Cenk Uygur.
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Dear Annie: My sister complains that our mother (who can be narcissistic and self-centered) has never reached out to her son. "Mitch" is now 25, and Mom has never tried to get to know him. Mom sent my daughter (now 33) on trips to Europe and would visit us often, but did not do the same for Mitch.
Mitch is not easy. I used to send him gifts for birthdays and other milestones and never received any response, so I finally stopped. In person, he is monosyllabic and quiet. When he was 2, I remember seeing him bite my sister and throw tantrums.
Mitch is very bright. He's been in college off and on for the past six years, but still has not finished his degree. I am fairly certain that he was into pot through high school and may still be. He has never had a real job, although he's worked part-time temp positions.
My sister's relationship with our mother has always been slightly problematic. She is now divorced and struggling financially, and my mother is well-off.
Mitch could use help with tuition and books. When I suggested that he call or email his grandmother occasionally to let her know what's going on in his life, my sister became angry. She blames Mom for never reaching out to the "child" and claims a normal grandparent would show an interest in her grandson. She insists the onus is on the adult in the relationship. Is there an answer to this dilemma? — Confused Sister and Aunt
Dear Confused: First of all, let's eliminate what Mitch did when he was 2. It is ridiculous and unforgiving to stigmatize a child as "difficult" because he bit and threw tantrums as a toddler. And yes, your mother should have made an effort to know and love her grandson regardless of how difficult he may have been.
That said, Mitch is an adult now and is responsible for his own behavior. If he believes his grandmother doesn't care about him, he's unlikely to email her. If your sister reinforces the idea that it's Grandma's responsibility to initiate contact, Mitch won't do anything. And if Grandma is narcissistic and self-centered, she may have no interest in Mitch because it requires too much of her. This kid may not be easy, but he has been rejected by members of his family for most of his life. Please be kind.
Dear Annie: Our daughter is getting married in the fall, and we are having the wedding and reception in our backyard. How can we ask guests not to use their cellphones or text during the festivities? This rudeness has become acceptable, but not to my wife or me. — Jim
Dear Jim: It's perfectly OK to ask your guests to turn off or mute their cellphones during the ceremony. The minister or best man can make the announcement before the wedding begins. But you will have less luck at the reception. People want to take photos of themselves and their friends and text a play-by-play to those who couldn't attend. You can ask the guests to put their phones away so they can enjoy the real-time fun, but you cannot force them. If there is a band, even a muted noise level should be enough to lessen the distraction.
Dear Annie: This is in response to "Polly Positive," whose husband is dealing with cancer, whose family and friends keep telling him horror stories about death.
My nephew was recently diagnosed with cancer. He invited me for Thanksgiving, and I was dreading it. One of the first things I did was go online and look up "what NOT to say to cancer patients." I was amazed to see what comes out of the mouths of otherwise intelligent people. I encourage all of your readers to do this. It may save them from stepping on their tongues — Prayerful in K. Falls
This Classic Annie's Mailbox column was originally published in 2014. To find out more about Classic Annie's Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit Creators Syndicate at www.creators.com.


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I am the managing principal of a 12-person consulting company. Most of clients are in the design and construction industry. I have a long-running weblog http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com. I do a lot of work on leadership, training and coaching. The company specializes in applying "lean thinking" to project-based work.
I'm innovative and bold in my business pursuits. We've grown the company steadily by 2 people/year for the last 5 years. We will continue to do that this year and next. We have very large clients along with some very small ones.
I am rather active in the general lean community. I am well-connected to the major experts and other consultants along with the bloggers and those people participating in the social media.
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Auds seem taken with "Taken 2" as the thriller toplining Liam Neeson grossed $18.6 million Friday at the domestic B.O.
The Fox actioner is looking to double its predecessor's bow this weekend, which had a three-day haul of $24.7 million in 2009. This time around, familiarity with the franchise and strong tracking from adults will likely put the pic on the high end of insider expectations, north of $50 million.
Maintaining traction despite new kidpic competition from Disney's "Frankenweenie," Sony's "Hotel Transylvania" took second with $6.5 million. Last weekend's champ with $42.5 million, the toon will likely drop about 45% for a gross in the mid-$20 million range through Sunday. Whereas, with $3.3 million Friday, "Frankenweenie" is on target with other recent claymation features in the low teens.
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Spirulina is a genus of blue-green algae used as a nutritional supplement. Blue-green algae, microscopic fresh-water organisms, are also known as cyanobacte-ria. Their color is derived from the green pigment of chlorophyll, and the blue from a protein called phy-cocyanin. The species most commonly recommended for use as a nutritional supplement are Spirulina maxima and Spirulina platensis. These occur naturally in warm, alkaline, salty, brackish lakes, but are also commonly grown by aquaculture and harvested for commercial use. Spirulina contains many nutrients, including B vitamins, beta-carotene, gamma-linolenic acid, iron, calcium, magnesium, manganese, potassium, selenium, zinc, bioflavonoids, and protein.
Spirulina is composed of about 65% protein. These proteins are complete, in that they contain all essential amino acids, plus some nonessential ones. In that regard, it is similar to animal protein, but does not contain saturated fats, or residues of hormones or antibiotics that are in some meats. Since spirulina is normally taken in small amounts, the quantity of dietary protein supplied for the average, reasonably well-nourished person would not be significant. However, it is a good source of trace minerals, some vitamins, bioflavonoids, and other phytochemicals. It also has high digestibility and bioavailability of nutrients.
Spirulina has been used as a source of protein and nutrients, particularly beta-carotene, by the World Health Organization (WHO) to feed malnourished Indian children. The program resulted in a decrease of a type of blindness that results from inadequate dietary vitamin A. The dose used in this year-long study was 1 gram per day.
There is a high vitamin B12 content in spirulina. For this reason, it has often been recommended as a supplemental source of the vitamin for vegans and other strict vegetarians, who are unlikely to have adequate dietary
vitamin B12. Unfortunately, spirulina is not an effective source of the usable vitamin. Much of the vitamin B12 is in the form of analogs that are unusable for humans, and may even block the active forms of vitamin B 12consumed from other sources.
Gamma linolenic acid (GLA) is present in significant amounts in a small percent of spirulina species. This essential fatty acid can be used in the body to form products that are anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative. It is potentially useful for individuals with rheumatoid arthritis and diabetic neuropathy. It may also play a role in lowering plasma triglycerides and increasing HDL cholesterol.
Spirulina is a good source of available iron and zinc. A study done in rats found that those consuming spir-ulina had equivalent or better absorption than those given a ferrous sulfate iron supplement. A small human study of iron-deficient women had good response to iron supplementation with spirulina, although the amounts used were large (4 grams after each meal). Similarly, a study of zinc deficient children found that those taking spirulina had a superior response to those taking zinc sulfate, and had fewer side effects.
In addition to serving as a source of nutrients itself, spirulina has been used in the manufacture of fermented dairy products to guarantee the survival of the bacteria used to ferment the milk.
A stronger immune system is one claim made by boosters of spirulina. A number of animal studies appear to support stimulation of both antibody and cellular types of immunity. Immune function was markedly improved in children living in the areas surrounding Chernobyl. The measurements were
made after 45days, with each child consuming5grams of spirulina per day.
The growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria, including lactobacillus, appears to be stimulated by the consumption of spirulina, based on a study of rats who consumed it as 5% of their diets. The absorption of vitamin B1 was also improved.
Cholesterol, serum lipids, and low-density lipopro-tein (LDL) cholesterol may be lowered by a small, but significant, percentage by the consumption of spirulina. One study group of men with high cholesterol took 4.2 grams per day of spirulina, and experienced a 4.5% decrease in cholesterol after one month.
Spirulina is also thought to be helpful in the treatment of oral leukoplakia, a precancerous condition that is manifested as white patches in the mouth. It improves experimentally induced oral carcinoma (cancer in the mouth) as supported by studies done in animals.
The evidence for the ability of spirulina to promote weight loss is not very strong. Results have been mixed, and the phenylalanine content does not appear to be an appetite suppressant as is sometimes claimed. Whether other components of the algae are beneficial for weight loss is uncertain and unproven.
Spirulina has been recommended to alleviate the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), although evidence for this indication is lacking.
Spirulina has the highest concentration of ever-cetin found in a natural source. It is a potent antiox-idant and anti-inflammatory compound that can be used to alleviate the symptoms of sinusitis and asthma. Phycocyanin, the protein that gives spirulina its blue color, has also been shown to relieve inflammation associated with arthritis and various allergies.
One recommended dose is 3–5 grams per day, but the amount used may depend on the product, the individual using it, and the indication for which it is being taken.
Spirulina supplements are available in powder, flake, capsule, and tablet form. These supplements are generally expensive, and have a strong flavor that many people find unpleasant.
Because spirulina is sensitive to pollutants in sea water, it can be used as a biosensor to measure the toxicity of a given body of water. Unfortunately, this sensitivity means that spirulina grown in water contaminated with heavy metals can concentrate these toxic substances. Mercury levels are of particular concern. Infectious organisms may also be present and contaminate harvested algae, so reputable sources of spirulina should be used.
Phenylketonurics should avoid spirulina due to the potential content of phenylalanine.
A number of varieties of blue-green algae, including Aphanizomenon flos-quae and Anabaena, have been found to sometimes produce toxins that may affect the nervous system or the liver.
The potential side effects of spirulina are primarily gastrointestinal, and include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Allergic reactions occur rarely, but can cause insomnia and anxiety.
No interactions of spirulina with foods, conventional medications, or herbs have been documented as of 2007.
Bratman, Steven, and David Kroll. Natural Health Bible. Prima Publishing, 1999.
Griffith, H. Winter. Vitamins, Herbs, Minerals & supplements: the complete guide. Arizona: Fisher Books, 1998.
Jellin, Jeff, Forrest Batz, and Kathy Hitchens. Pharmacist's Letter/Prescriber's Letter Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. California: Therapeutic Research Faculty, 1999.
Remirez, D., R. Gonzalez, N. Merino, et al. ''Inhibitory Effects of Spirulina in Zymosan-Induced Arthritis in Mice.'' Mediators of Inflammation.11 (April 2002): 75-79.
Remirez, D., N. Ledon, and R.Gonzalez. ''Role of Histamine in the Inhibitory Effects of Phycocyanin in Experimental Models of Allergic Inflammatory Response.'' Mediators of Inflammation.11 (April 2002): 81-85.
Tonnina, D., et al. ''Integral Toxicity Test of Sea Waters by an Algal Biosensor.'' Annali di Chimica (Rome).92 (April 2002): 477-484.
Varga, L., J. Szigeti, R. Kovacs, et al. ''Influence of a Spirulina platensis Biomass on the Microflora of Fermented ABT Milks During Storage (R1).'' Journal of Dairy Science.85 (May 2002): 1031-1038.
EarthNet. EarthNet Scientific Health Library. http://www.spirulina.com/SPLAbstracts1.html (2000). Earthrise. Spirulina Library Abstracts and Summaries. http://www.earthrise.com/ERLibAbstracts2.html http://www.earthrise.com/ERLibAbstracts2.html
Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic: Blue-green algae. http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/askdiet/htm/new/qd970618.htm (1997).
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- Triumphant Koltira's Battlegear (heroic)
- 10,512 Armor
+710 Strength [+28]
+782 Stamina
- Meta Socket
Red Socket x3.
Yellow Socket x3.
Blue Socket
- Equip: Improves armor penetration rating by 94.
Equip: Improves critical strike rating by 434.
Equip: Improves expertise rating 86.
Equip: Increases your haste rating by 94.
Equip: Increases your hit rating by 136.
- Triumphant Koltira's Battlegear (heroic) (5 pieces)
- [Koltira's Battleplate of Triumph]
[Koltira's Gauntlets of Triumph]
[Koltira's Helmet of Triumph]
[Koltira's Legplates of Triumph]
[Koltira's Shoulderplates of Triumph]
- (2) Set: Your Blood Strike and Heart Strike abilities have a chance to grant you 180 additional strength for 15 sec.
(4) Set: Your Frost Fever and Blood Plague abiltiies now have a chance for their damage to be critical strikes.
- Combined stats. Numbers in [brackets] indicate socket bonuses
Triumphant Koltira's Battlegear (heroic) is the upper rank of the Koltira's Battlegear set, the Horde death knight Tier 9 damage dealing set. The lower set is Conqueror's Koltira's Battlegear, the middle set is Triumphant Koltira's Battlegear.
The Alliance equivalent to this set is Triumphant Thassarian's Battlegear (heroic).
- See also: Thassarian's Plate set or Koltira's Plate set for the tank versions of this set.
The parts of this set are Item Level 258 and are purchased with a [Regalia of the Grand Vanquisher]. This regalia item is gained solely from the Argent Crusade Tribute Chest gained after defeating Anub'arak in a 25 man Trial of the Crusader set to Heroic mode.
The Item level 232 versions ("... of Conquest") are purchased solely with Emblems of Triumph.
The Item Level 245 versions ("... of Triumph") require half again as many emblems, and a [Trophy of the Crusade] as well. The trophy is a drop from each boss in the 25-man Trial of the Crusader. It is also found in the Argent Crusade Tribute Chest, from either 10- or 25- man heroic mode raids.
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iLvl 232
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iLvl 245
All three versions count towards satisfying the set bonus requirements.
Patch changesEdit
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I think this deserves its own thread. Just from posting on the other film threads, I know there're a few aficionados around: Octopus?, Idlerich, Jim Clarke, to name some. Contemporary Hollywood is pretty dull and annoying and hateful, Bollywood has phenomenal looking actresses but the films aren't worth watching, arthouse and indie films are aesthetically and emotionally moribund as they always have been, and we all have DVDs now, and it seems that the most arresting and insane and sexy and stupid and entertaining and emotionally extreme and weirdly avant garde films were all made in the 60s, 70s and 80s in Europe (I mean, apart from Japan and Hong Kong, but someone else can start a thread about Samurai and Yakuza and Shaw Brothers flicks because I don't know enough about that stuff).
This is a thread for gialli and Poliziotteschi and spaghetti westerns. For the untouchable Mario Bava and the patchy but often brilliant Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci and Jess Franco. For zombie and cannibal and vampire films. Hammer Horror. Joe D'amato's disgusting, yet somehow noble, sexploiters. Other hacks who have their moments: Umberto Lenzi, Sergio Martino, Enzo G. Castellari, Bruno Mattei, Jean Rollin, Fernando de Leo etc. Off beat genius from Avati Pupi or Michel Soavi or Massimo Dallamano. Your favorite actors or actresses: Luigi Pistilli, Laura Gemser, Rosalba Neri, Mario Adorf, Edwige Fenech, Fabio Testi, Franco Nero, Ingrid Pitt, or whoever. Best soundtracks: Morricone, Nicolai, Goblin, etc. Reviews, lists, tips, stories, stupid comments.
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For more convenience the optional Shock Springs for the Hellfire are available as a set including all 6 pairs The different springs have different stiffness and will make the suspension harder or softer depending on which spring is used. This offers a wide range of tuning of the suspension to the surface to improve the handling of the car on a variety of tracks.
The different sizes relate to the thickness of the wire used to make the springs. The thicker the wire or a lower number of coils mean that the spring is stiffer than a spring with thinner wire or more coils. Each spring features black plating with painted markings to help identify the different spring rates. Each spring is rated in GF/MM and comes with a handy Spring Chart The Shock Springs are also available individually: #86549 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.5mm 12.5 Coils/Blue 71GF/MM #86550 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.5mm 10.5 Coils/Silver 89GF/MM #86551 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.8mm 14.5 Coils/Pink 134GF/MM #86553 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.8mm 12.5mm Coils/White 159GF/MM #86554 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.8mm 11.5mm Coils/Yellow 177GF/MM #86555 Shock Springs - 18x80x1.8mm 10.5mm Coils/Red 196GF/MM


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Field trip to the factory: construction has started on the Breezehouse
June 11, 2012 | By Sarah Gaffney
We're headed north to the factory this week to get a behind-the-scenes look at the first phase of construction on the Sunset Breezehouse. This factory is huge, as in 250,000-square-feet huge. Makes sense that there is factory bicycle to get from one end to the other. By the day's end, that bike was looking fantastic to me.
The steel framing is complete and the home's three modules are framed. Installation of the Warmboard radiant floor heating is almost finished. This will be heating source throughout the home's first level. Next, the walls go up and insulation goes in.


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The ship Forest Eagle, 1156 tons, was built in Rockland, Maine, in 1856 by Starrett & Kimball. In 1861, under the command of Capt. Thomas Pillsbury, she carried 500 Chinese coolies from Macao to Havana, Cuba, to work in the sugar fields there. Shortly after this voyage, President Lincoln forbade American ships from participating in the coolie trade. The Forest Eagle was reported lost at sea in March of 1881. This image is from a painting owned by the Rockland Public Library.
Hand-tinted photograph of Yokohama, in a lacquer album with mother-of-pearl inlay. Book of Japanese photographs.
View of Hong Kong, hand-colored lantern slide from collection of a Captain Brown, given to Joanna Colcord of Searsport.
Tea can from the Sui Chun Tea Co. of Hong Kong. Jasmine Tea.
Stern wheel Chinese paddle boat, perhaps steam-driven, with sail. Hand-colored lantern slide from collection of a Capt. Brown, given to Joanna Colcord of Searsport
Photograph of ship Benjamin Sewall at Wau-Chai, Hong Kong, after the 1900 typhoon.
Sandalwood fan with intricate three dimensional carvings on both end pieces as well as on the fan's slats. This fan is Japanese; fans were an important part of both Chinese and Japanese cultures. They were a popular souvenir for captains.
Sampans in China, hand-colored lantern slide from collection of a Capt. Brown, given to Joanna Colcord of Searsport. We are not sure whether this is in the Hong Kong area or not.
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Extensions Module Manager Language Switcher
From Joomla! Documentation
This module allows you to switch between available Content languages. Selecting a language will take you to the home page for that language.
How to Access
- Title: Module must have a title
This module displays a list of available Content Languages (as defined and published in Language Manager Content tab) for switching between them when one wants to use Joomla! as a multilingual site. --The plugin 'System - Language Filter' has to be...
- Pre-text: This is the text or HTML that is displayed above the language switcher
- Post-text: This is the text or HTML that is displayed below the language switcher
- Use Dropdown: (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes', the display parameters below will be ignored. The content languages native names will display in a dropdown.
- Use Image Flags: (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes', will display language choice as image flags. Otherwise will use the content language native names.
- Horizontal Display: (Yes/No). Default is set to 'Yes', i.e. to horizontal display.
- Active Language: (Yes/No). Display or not the active language. If displayed, the class 'lang-active' will be added to the element.
- Languages Full Names: (Yes/No). If set to 'Yes' and image flags set to 'No', full content language native names are displayed. If set to 'No', upper case abbreviations from the content language's URL Language Code are used. Example: EN for English, FR for French.
Common Details
- Title. The title of the module. This is also the title displayed in the front end for the module depending on the Show Title Form Field
- Show Title. (Show/Hide) Choose whether to show or hide the modules title in the front end. The title will be the one in the Form Field above.
- Position. Choose the module position you wish this module to be displayed in. A custom module position can be entered for use with the load position plugin or the position button can be pressed to select a module position from the template.
- Status. (Published/Unpublished/Trashed) The published status of the item.
- Access. The viewing Access Level for this item.
- Module Ordering. This shows a drop down of every module in the position that the current module is in. This is the order that the modules will display in when displayed on in the front end as well as in the Module Manager.
- Start Publishing. Date and time to start publishing. Use this field if you want to enter content ahead of time and then have it published automatically at a future time.
- Finish Publishing. Date and time to finish publishing. Use this field if you want to have content automatically changed to Unpublished state at a future time (for example, when it is no longer applicable).
- Language. Item language.
- Note. Item note. This is normally for the site administrator's use (for example, to document information about this item) and does not show in the front end of the site.
Common Tabs
Menu Assignment
On this tab there is a list of menu items. You can choose between On All Pages, No Pages, Only on the pages selected and On all pages except those selected from the List.
If the latter two options are selected a list will show with all the menu items on as shown in the screenshot above. This allows you to assign modules to some but not all pages, and by selecting the menu links that you want the module associated with you can customize on what pages modules appear/don't appear. See How do you assign a module to specific pages? for more information.
Module Permissions
- Delete: (Inherited/Allowed/Denied). Allow or deny Delete for users in the Public group. Delete Allows users in the group to delete any content in this extension.
- Edit: (Inherited/Allowed/Denied). Allow or deny Edit for users in the Public group. Edit Allows users in the group to edit any content in this extension.
- Edit State: (Inherited/Allowed/Denied). Allow or deny Edit State for users in the Public group. Edit State Allows users in the group to change the state of any content in this extension.
- Layout. If you have defined one or more alternative layouts for a module either in the template or Joomla! Core, you can select the layout to use for this module.
- Module Class Suffix. A suffix applied to the CSS class of the Module. This allows you to create customized CSS styles that will apply just to this module. You would then modify the "template.css" file of your template to apply styling to this new class.
- Enter this parameter with a leading space to create a new CSS class for this module. Enter the parameter without a leading space to change the CSS class name for this module.
- Caching. Use Global/No Caching. Whether or not to cache the content of this Module. A setting of "Use Global" will use the Cache Settings from the Global Configuration screen.
- Cache Time. The number of seconds for which to cache the item locally. It can safely be left at the default.
- Module Tag. The HTML tag for the module to be placed in. By default this is a div tag but other HTML5 elements can also be used.
- Bootstrap Size. (Values 0 to 12) This allows you to choose the width of the module via the span element built into bootstrap.
- Header Tag. The HTML tag to use for the modules header or title. This can be an h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 or a p tag. Note that you must use a module style (chrome) of html5 or add your custom module styles in <mytemplate>/html/modules.php.
- Header Class. Here you can add optional CSS classes to add to the modules header or title element.
- Module Style. You can use this option to override the templates style for its position.
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