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Looney Tunes
The looney toons was the first recorded corn show, which later became a channel for children. It was cancelled shortly after because of the subliminal messages asking children to turn homosexual.
In the late 1990's, towards the End of The Third World War, experiments were afoot in the laboratories of the land they so proudly called the United States Of America. In some of these laboratories, they were testing Atom Bombs, but there was one laboratory in northern California run under contract from the US government by The Warner Brothers and the Warner sister, Dot. Their prime cause was to avoid a second takeover of Congress by Disney characters - hence the term "Mickey Mouse Government". The two main scientists names were Yakko, and Wakko, who may or may not have been directly related to the Marx Bros. Wakko, being the more insane of the two, was primed with the mission to draw cartoons who would help to overthrow the evil Disney corporation by attacking their studios, and causing general violence and mayhem.
This would be offsetingbircgh by calling their characters 'The luis Tunes', thus keeping the general media at bay and the public believing that they were just a load of clowns making a pitiful attempt at copying Disney.
The first of these cartoons created by the great Walkkose was Crugs 563 Crunny. He was mentle in a way never seen before....The US army noticed and even considered using him on secret missions in the annual Wars. Wakko was much pleased by this positive result and went on to create even more evil characters such as Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.
The "Chartacters"[edit]
- Bugs Bunny (1940-): This seemingly innocent rabbit turned criminal mastermind has been marked as the possible prime cause of at least two major wars since World War II, thus leading to suspicions that Wakko did in fact contract him out to the US Army as a lethal weapon. His habit of tunneling under entire countries has proven a very useful tactic for the US Army, which can blow things up in other countries and then blame it on local militants. His trademark phrase, "What's up, doc?", is now feared more than loved, and even has a girlfriend named 'Harria' a sexy anime girl you have seen, many countries now have him on their prime suspect list for signs of a possible invasion/overthrow by US forces.
- Daffy Duck (1920-): A character created by Wakko, also thought to have been contracted out to the US government, to help out the CIA on infiltration missions outside the US. Unfortunately, his weakness was soon displayed in a mission to retrieve vital documents with Bugs Bunny from the Middle East, when they stumbled upon a cave of ancient treasure, and it was discovered that greed drove the duck's relentless mind.
- Elmer Fudd (1920-): A hunter who pursued Bugs Bunny and tried to kill him until Bugs was killed by the police.
- Porky Pig (1920-): A jack-of(f)-all-trades pig who was eventually made into bacon that was eaten by Elmer Fudd, causing him to die of a heart attack.
- Fugs Funny (1962-2012): After Bugs Bunny was killed, he was cloned. This clone replaced Bugs for the later cartoons, and after the show ended, he became his replacement for Looney Tunes films. In 2010, he signed a contract to portray Bugs Bunny on The Looney Tunes Show. Since the Russian spies never heard of Bugs Bunny's demise, they set up mines in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as it was rumored that Bugs was vacating there. On September 15, 2012, Fugs Funny hit a mine while tunneling into Afghanistan on his way to India. The explosion that ensued propelled Fugs into a US Army base, where top scientists ran tests on the body and confirmed that it was not the body of Bugs Bunny. They released this information on September 16, 2012. Fugs Funny's contract will expire on September 17.
There were other characters created such as Sylvester the Cat, Granny, Tweety Pie, Frank, and Pepe le Pew to name but a few, but they were mainly used in propaganda missions and diplomatic events. Speedy Gonzales, uncle of current US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was particularly useful in persuading the Mexicans that the US was really very harmless, and that they were too lazy to notice people sneaking across the border. Coincidentally, this happened at the same time that Daffy Duck started a six-month Mexican standoff against Charles de Gaulle for the acquisition of Albert Einstein's brain.
The Golden Age (1940-1945)[edit]
After years of training, Bugs Bunny was put in the forest as an experiment to test the abilities of expert rabbit hunter Elmer Fudd. But after such intense training, not even an expert could kill Bugs Bunny! As the years passed and the world was engulfed by war, Bugs would constantly tunnel through land and sea to get a vacation, but almost always ended up in the wrong place, where his life would be slightly threatened by a revenge-seeking Elmer Fudd. Unaware of this, the Canadian government placed Daffy Duck before Elmer Fudd, and although Daffy was never killed by Elmer, he was severely injured by Elmer.
Meanwhile, Wile E. Coyote's countless attempts to capture Roadrunner proved unsuccessful.
The Silver Age (1945-1947)[edit]
After the
murder suicide of Adolf Hitler, information regarding eleven Warner experiments were hidden from the public, their documents shredded and burned in a Celtic ritual by the Federal Censorship Commission, which then hired the Kristovan Government Bureau to seek and destroy Bugs Bunny. They found Bugs taking a vacation in Hollywood, and they set up an elaborate trap to capture and kill him at the same time. They set up a trail of sunflowers leading to an alley where three KGB agents stood, their machine guns pointing at Bugs. As the agents asked Bugs of he had any last words to say, Bugs noticed a wet paint sign on one of the buildings, then saw a bucket of paint on the ground, and devised an escape plan. He told the agents to look up at the sky, and they did, whilst Bugs used the paint from the bucket to paint himself so he could blend in with the building. When the agents removed their gaze from the sky, they didn't see Bugs, who then began to tunnel under the building. The agents fired their machine guns down the hole, into which they then jumped to see if they had killed Bugs. It turned out Bugs began tunneling forward just in time, and none of the bullets hit him. He continued to tunnel forward as the agents chased him, and tunneled a path that was designed so that the building fell on one of the agents, killing him. Bugs continued to tunnel, the two remaining agents close behind. Suddenly, Bugs dug 100 feet to where Earth's crust becomes hot. One agent fell to the rocky ground, and when the other agent landed on that agent, all of his internal organs burst out of his body, and he died. The last remaining agent got mad. Boy, was he angry! Bugs tunneled back up to the ground, where the agent pointed his machine gun at the rabbit. At last, Russian victory! Bugs Bunny is shot and killed! Whup, nice try dodongo! It was only a decoy! Then, Bugs put a pistol against the back of the agent's head, and fired. The bullet went straight through the agent's head and hit a gas station, causing an explosion. It was the last thing the agent saw before collapsing and going into a coma.
The Bronze Age (1947-1957)[edit]
Following the Roswell Occurrence and the death of Sgt. Pepper, more characters were introduced, and their adventures distracted a nation long enough for the Amerian government to smuggle a large surplus of anvils across the border to Mexico. The perpetually-hilarious battle between Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner raged on, and the one KGB agent who lived through the Silver Age was back on his feet---figuratively. Since his spine was damaged, he couldn't walk, and he was forced to move by wheelchair. He spent ten years wheelin across continental Asia, recruiting people for an armada whose sole purpose was to kill Bugs Bunny in the most gruesome way possible.
The Heroic Age (1957-1960)[edit]
Big Asian Dudes Assassinating Some Sneak (BADASS) marched onto the battlefield. On the other side was one male rabbit---Bugs Bunny. The KGB agent that was immobilized by Bugs sounded a conch shell, which signaled BADASS to kill Bugs, who promptly began to tunnel away. He tunneled so deep that his ground bulge trail dissipated, making him untrackable---until BADASS found a Native American and made him track Bugs down.
Meanwhile, Daffy Duck visited Las Vegas and won the brain of Albert Einstein in blackjack. He soon discovered that a group of scientists addicted to cocaine were after the brain, so Daffy, overwhelmed by greed, drove away as fast as he could. His car ran out of fuel at the border between America and Mexico, where the scientists eventually caught up and pointed their guns at him. Daffy then pointed his own gun at them, forming a Mexican standoff. The scientists pulled the "give us the X and nobody gets hurt" trick. Daffy gave them the brain, and he wasn't shot. As Daffy walked back into America, his mind raced. After a few seconds, he decided to go back and try to get the brain back. As Daffy ran back toward the border, the scientists began firing. Most of the bullets hit Daffy, but none of them hit his heart or brain. As he collapsed on the dirty ground, he grabbed the brain and pulled out a knife. He stabbed all but one of the scientists. The scientist that wasn't stabbed put a gun to Daffy's head. Daffy stabbed this scientist, and as the scientist fell, he fired his gun. A single bullet hit Daffy's heart, and Daffy was dead within the hour.
Bugs had finally tunneled to that very border. Exhausted from tunneling several thousands of miles, he finally emerged on the ground, and saw his dead friend, Daffy. Bugs got pissed off, and by the time BADASS finally caught up, Bugs had combined all of the weapons that were used in the standoff and fired it. Everyone in BADASS died, including the wheelchair-bound KGB agent. Then, Bugs lifted Daffy's body, carried it for miles into Mexico, and buried it next to a natural mummy. As Bugs walked back toward America, he was surrounded by police officers and was arrested for going over the border. After being cuffed, Bugs slumped to his knees, bit down on one of the officer's guns, and said to the officer, "Rabbit Season, fire." The officer fired, and Bugs died.
The Iron Age (1960-1970)[edit]
With the two most famous characters dead, Looney Tunes began to slowly fall apart. The animation became cruder and the humor less intelligent, and the famous opening sequence was no longer used. The Warner Company cloned Bugs and Daffy from chunks of skin that they left in their dressing rooms, and grew the clones on the back of Mickey Mouse after beating him over the head with a shovel and putting him in suspended animation. Growing two clones on his back proved to require serious effort, especially for Daffy's clone since he was of a different class. Mickey Mouse died shortly after being released from suspended animation and was himself cloned on the back of a space whale.
The End[edit]
In April 1970, Looney Tunes ended. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck's clones were adequately talented at acting, but in October 1969, they reached the Uncanny Valley, creating an illusion that made them seem like bad actors. The fans lost interest in the series, and a few months later, production was canceled. The last time the staff would meet was on April 14, to record their song "Fuck This, I'm Out". Their manager, Micheal McFatass, decided to imitate the characters on the show and hold a pistol to his head. However, not only did the gun not shoot out a sign that said "Bang", but because he was not a cartoon, he received a hole in his head instead of a blackened head and frazzled hair.
Fugs Funny (Bugs Bunny's clone) became a famous stand-up comedian.
Faffy Fuck (Daffy Duck's clone) attempted several times to start his own band, such as "Daffy's Ducks", and he was momentarily in the band ACDC. After this six-month period, Daffy starred in a sitcom called Ducks in the City. After the complete failure of this show, he began to drop acid with various people.
Elmer Fudd faded into obscurity and won the Nimrod Award for Best Duck Hunter. He never shot Bugs Bunny.
Foghorn Leghorn would eventually land a star role in the smash hit movie Throw Momma from the Train.
The back up Looney Tunes characters would start their own show called F List And Friends. The show was also called BBBGGGTTTHHHHHHATSBBBBGGGGGALLBBBBBGGGGFOLKS and Friends.
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|Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies
|Primary: Bugs Bunny • Daffy Duck • Porky Pig • Elmer Fudd • Sylvester • Tweety Bird • Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner • Foghorn Leghorn • Pepé Le Pew • Yosemite Sam • Speedy Gonzalez • Marvin the Martian • Tasmanian Devil • The Barnyard Dawg • Henery Hawk
|Secondary: Bosko • Clyde Rabbit • Buddy • Goopy Geer • Foxy • Piggy • Beans • Michigan J. Frog • Petunia Pig • Rocky and Mugsy • Granny • Hector the Bulldog • Goofy Gophers • Cecil Turtle • Sylvester, Jr. • Gossamer • Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier Hippety Hopper • Marc Antony and Pussyfoot • Witch Hazel • The Three Bears • Hubie and Bertie • Claude Cat • Sniffles • Ralph Phillips • Beaky Buzzard • Willoughby • Charlie Dog • Pete Puma • Crusher • Count Blood Count • Private Snafu • Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf • Slowpoke Rodriguez • K-9 • Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana • Blacque Jacque Shellacque • Nasty Canasta • Cool Cat • Penelope Pussycat • Egghead Jr.
|Comics and TV Shows: Honey Bunny • Wendell T. Wolf • Digeri Dingo • Daniel and Timothy Platypus • Lola Bunny • Melissa Duck • I.Q. Hi • Star Johnson • Queen Tyr'ahnee
|Television Animation
|Tiny Toon Adventures : Babs and Buster Bunny • Plucky Duck • Hamton J. Pig • Montana Max • Elmyra Duff • Dizzy Devil • Furrball • Calamity Coyote • Little Beeper • Gogo Dodo • Sweetie Pie • Shirley the Loon • Fifi La Fume • Li'l Sneezer • Concord Condor • Byron Basset • Fowlmouth • Arnold the Pitbull • Barky Marky • Mary Melody
|Animaniacs : Yakko, Wakko, and Dot • Ralph the Guard • Thaddeus Plotz • Dr. Otto Scratchansniff • Hello Nurse • Ms. Flamiel • Pinky and the Brain • Snowball the Hamster • Slappy Squirrel • Skippy Squirrel • Walter Wolf • Buttons and Mindy • The Goodfeathers • Rita and Runt • Flavio and Marita • Minerva Mink • Chicken Boo • Katie Ka-Boom • Mr. Skullhead
|Hanna-Barbera : • Ruff and Reddy • Huckleberry Hound • Yogi Bear • Loopy de Loop • The Flintstones • The Jetsons • Top Cat • Wally Gator • Lippy the Lion • Touche Turtle • Space Ghost • Scooby Doo
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Bill Gross: What if the good times end?April 3, 2013: 11:23 AM ET
Bond guru Bill Gross is wondering how investors will fare if the current economic recovery gets derailed.
"All of us, even the old guys like Buffett, Soros, Fuss, yeah -- me too, have cut our teeth during perhaps a most advantageous period of time, the most attractive epoch that an investor could experience," Gross, the founder and co-chief investment officer of Pimco, wrote in his monthly investor letter.
"What if a future epoch favors ... continual bouts of 2008 Lehmanesque volatility, or encompasses a period of global geopolitical confrontation with a quest for scarcer and scarcer resources such as oil, water or simply food?" asks Gross.
Throughout 2013, Gross's existential musings have taken a decidedly dark turn.
As far back as December, Gross was already outlining long-term challenges facing investors operating in the so-called New Normal, a phrase made famous by Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian in the wake of the financial crisis that is characterized by sluggish economic growth.
In his April letter, Gross, who runs Pimco's Total Return Fund (PTTRX), wonders whether the epoch of expanding credit that started in the early 1970s could be coming to an end.
He writes that the truly great investors will be those that can change course, or at least learn a few new tricks if "capitalistic expansion" slows or if "quantitative easing policies eventually collapse instead of elevate asset prices."
"Ah, now, that would be a test of greatness: the ability to adapt to a new epoch," Gross writes.
Related: Bill Gross: Be very afraid of the markets
Gross' point and a perhaps a high pitched warning to investors: He's carefully watching for a sharp, potentially scary turn of events.
In keeping with his penchant for pop music themes, he makes this point using lyrics from Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. "If there's a different one coming though, to make our and your world a better place, we might need to look in the mirror and make a Chaaaaaaaange..."
Gross has used artists including Flavor Flav, the Beatles, the Dire Straits and Oasis to illustrate some of the dangers bubbling up in the financial system. The bond guru rarely mentions Internet stocks, but it's tempting to imagine a catchy Bill Gross-themed Pandora (P) station.
Gross ends his April missive promising to keep investors informed if he does see a shift. He says he'll keep looking in that mirror.

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Top-seeded and defending champion Victoria Azarenka, Serena Williams and two-time Doha titlist Maria Sharapova were among Thursday's third-round winners at the $2.369 million Qatar Open.
The world No. 1 and reigning two-time Australian Open titlist Azarenka dismantled young American Christina McHale 6-0, 6-0 in 67 minutes on the hardcourts at Khalifa International Tennis Complex.
Azarenka, who beat former U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur in last year's Doha finale, will face sixth-seeded French Open runner-up Sara Errani in Friday's quarterfinals.
Meanwhile, the former world No. 1 and reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion Williams handled Poland's Urszula Radwanska 6-0, 6-3 in 57 minutes and the third-seeded French Open champion Sharapova cruised past Czech veteran Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 6-3 on Day 4.
Also on Thursday, fourth-seeded Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska got past 13th-seeed former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 7-6 (8-6); the aforementioned Errani outlasted Slovak Daniela Hantuchova 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 in 2 hours, 37 minutes; seventh-seeded former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova overcame 11th-seeded Russian and 2006 Doha champion Nadia Petrova 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; an eighth-seeded Stosur straight-setted two-time Doha runner-up Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 7-5; and 10th-seeded former No. 1 and 2011 Doha runner-up Caroline Wozniacki cooled off rising German Mona Barthel 7-6 (8-6), 6-3. Barthel was a titlist in Paris two weeks ago.
Eight of the top-11 players in the world saw action on Thursday.
Friday's other marquee quarters will pit Williams against Kvitova, Sharapova versus Stosur and Radwanska against Wozniacki.
The 2013 Qatar Open winner will claim $426,000.
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On his show, useless ESPN talker Colin Cowherd has dared mention the Great Unmentionable Thing: the Delonte West-Gloria James rumor that was all the rage a few weeks ago. Oh, and he has "sources."
Here's what a reader told us this morning:
Colin Cowherd just relayed on his radio show that one of LeBron's teammates did something horribly personal to LeBron and his family! Confirmed by Cowherd on air — apparently he has two sources. He also said ESPN didn't feel comfortable running the story but that anybody that's even remotely in the know understands what story he's referring to.
I can't find any relevant audio from today, but there was this clip, from about a week ago, in which Cowherd refers to "a very embarrassing story in regards to LeBron's mother" that he's "not allowed to report on this network":
A transcript, for those of you who cannot tolerate rampant enunciation and a general air of blow-dried self-satisfaction:
With the LeBron James story, sources tell The Herd that the New York media has twice staked out LeBron James's mother's house in recent months and was going to run a very embarrassing story in regards to LeBron's mother, a story I'm not allowed to report on this network, therefore I will not. And it's the reason LeBron wouldn't visit New York, wouldn't visit New Jersey, wouldn't visit Miami. He made them come to him, because his mom travels with him, and he didn't want to put her in the spotlight. It's not a great situation. I'm not going to embarrass his family. But it's a turnoff, because he knows that if he goes to New York, and the relentless media, it puts his mom in the spotlight, and LeBron's not interested. Whereas the Cleveland media understands the situation, does not camp out at the mom's house, is respectful to LeBron, and lets the mother play a much less impactful part of his life. And in the case of LeBron there is a situation involved with his family that is not being spoken about that is unbelievably important to him. Basically, LeBron's people had to go to the New York Post and beg them not to run a story. Turn him off. Have you noticed New York, in the last three-four weeks, since that story became Internet fodder — have you noticed how New York has fallen out of favor, and you never heard the Knicks and LeBron anymore? There's your reason. C'mon. Six weeks ago, Oh, New York, New York, he's gonna be a Knick guaranteed. Last six weeks, you don't hear the Knicks anymore.
Terez Owens seems to think this confirms the rumor, when all it really confirms is that Colin Cowherd is the sort of person who would intone a non-word like "impactful" as if he were Churchill at the House of Commons. In any case, we ran it by ESPN. Here's what a spokesman wrote:
[Cowherd] was clearly talking about the story that had been making the rounds in some circles publicly. At the time he went with it on air, our news operation wasn't aware of his plans to mention it or his sourcing. It appears that this was a more a product of talk radio fodder than a vetted news story. We think all involved recognize that it could have been handled better.
There's only one solution: give Delonte West an hourlong special, too.


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text: Can we all go move to an island somewhere or something? Because the next two years with Republicans running the House and Senate are NOT looking fun. And it was a week of shitstorms and terrible people and all kinds of other assorted fuckery. Fun times! (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.) Read More This Week in Misogyny Has an Election Hangover


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If you think that Maher is extreme in his analysis, just look to Senator Lindsay Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, who recently observed: "Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican" in today's party." To emphasize the obvious, Sally Kohn, in her article Forgetting Reagan, states that "by today's Tea Party standards, the Republican icon would have been a Leninist-Marxist-socialist America hater." Kohn lists at least 5 ways Reagan would have been in hot water with the Tea Party.
At least by Tea Party standards, Reagan was kind of liberal—a fact that seemed to escape the GOP candidates claiming his mantle. Here are the top five ways the real Reagan would have landed in hot water with Republicans beholden to the Tea Party.
1. Reagan Gave Amnesty to Undocumented Immigrants
When the debate last night turned to immigration, John Huntsman said that if "President Reagan was here he would speak to the American people and he would lay out in hopeful, optimistic terms" how to get to positive immigration reform. It was a fitting homage from the race's only moderate.
After all, when conservatives today complain that a stringent legalization program requiring all sorts of hurdles and fines in exchange for citizenship is equivalent to amnesty, they forget they're swiping at The Gipper's record. It was Ronald Reagan who passed the law making any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for real amnesty—no fines included. The bill helped millions of new Americans gain authorized residency in the United States.
In his farewell address as president, Reagan envisioned America as a city on a hill: "And if there had to be city walls," he said. "The walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." Strong words from the idol of those who now want to build even taller, electrified walls.
2. Reagan Shored Up Social Security
Last Rick Perry reprised his attack on Social Security, calling the program that has kept millions of seniors out of poverty a "monstrous lie." But if Perry is going to keep insisting that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, that would make Ronald Reagan its Bernie Madoff.
After boasting of his plans to privatize Social Security so that "those who can make better provisions for themselves" be allowed to do so, Reagan bailed out the program to the tune of $165 billion. In fact, Republicans can thank Reagan that they even have a Social Security to rail against.
3. Reagan Was a Union Leader
Before running for office, Reagan was a union leader. He ran the Screen Actors Guild and boasted of being the first head to lead it in a strike. Once in the White House, Reagan said, "Collective bargaining … has played a major role in America's economic miracle. Unions represent some of the freest institutions in this land. There are few finer examples of participatory democracy to be found anywhere." True, Reagan is famous for busting the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Patco) union, but he supported the right of government workers to form unions and bargain collectively—and extended these rights to public-sector workers when he was governor of California. And not only did Reagan win Patco's endorsement for his 1980 presidential campaign; The New York Times reported that in pre-strike negotiations with the air traffic controllers, Reagan "directed his negotiators to go beyond his legal authority to offer controllers a pay raise before their strike—the first time a president had ever offered so much to a federal employees' union."
4. Reagan Opposed Weaponization
In his memoirs, Reagan wrote that he dreamed of "a world free of nuclear weapons." During his presidency, conservatives within his own party accused him of "appeasing" the Soviets in signing a nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev. Following the negotiations, Paul Wyerich, a leader of the New Right, wrote, "Reagan is a weakened president, weakened in spirit as well as clout." Yes, Reagan redeemed himself with conservatives by presiding over the greatest military buildup in U.S. history and, in so doing, increased the nation's deficit by from $700 billion to $3 trillion—more than any president since George Washington combined. But by refusing to send more troops into Beirut in 1983 when Hezbollah murdered 243 U.S. service members, critiquing Israel's preventative strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and seeking to draw down the weapons cache worldwide, Reagan never quite fit the image of a right-wing hawk.
5. Reagan Raised Taxes
All of the candidates in last night's debate pushed the conservative Kool Aid that tax cuts will save America's economy. For kicks, Mitt Romney went a step further, endorsing tax cuts for the rich while complaining that poor people who don't pay taxes aren't doing their fair share to support the troops.
But when he was governor of California, Reagan "signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state" until that point in an effort to balance the budget (How would that sound to todays' GOP candidates, all of whom indicated they would not raise taxes by a single dollar even if it were offset with $10 in spending cuts). Once president, Reagan raised taxes seven out of eight of his years in office—including four times in just two years.
Basically, Reagan was a giant disappointment for arch-conservatives. He did little to tighten restrictions against abortion as president and actually passed pro-choice legislation as governor of California. He grew the size of the federal government tremendously, adding 60,000 new government jobs (versus, for instance, Bill Clinton, who shrank government payrolls by 373,000). As governor of California, Reagan supported and ultimately expanded Medi-Cal, which is the nation's largest Medicaid program. Both as governor and president, he was one of the most proactive presidents in restricting smog emissions and protecting wilderness. And after his press secretary was shot during an assassination attempt against him, the president came out in support of stricter gun-control laws.
Sally Kohn notes, "The GOP candidates may have been standing in the Reagan Library, but they were a million miles away from Reagan's legacy."


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This is 2 yr. old Tyler as,"Our Little Scarecrow" as titled by Mom, Tonya. Mom's secret weapon (and FANTASTIC idea!) was to use straw from an old "Hula Skirt" as Tylers stuffing around wrists, pant cuffs, and under hat.
Tonya utilized the second-hand store for clothing items that she didn't have on hand. A bail of hay on a wagon and they had the perfect hayride backdrop to decorate with gourds, corn, etc. and even added a little store-bought stand-up girl scarecrow.
Whew! Even us hangin-around Scarecrows get a breaktime in this heat! Time ta take our shoes off, our hats off, n' kick back a spell.
VERY creative Tonya and Cute as can be!
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Sean Connery
Name at birth: Thomas Sean Connery
Sean Connery was the first actor to play superspy James Bond in feature films. Connery was a bodybuilder who turned to acting in his 20s, making his way into the movies in the mid-1950s. In 1962 he starred as James Bond in Dr. No, and by 1971 he had appeared in five more Bond movies, quitting the role that year after Diamonds Are Forever. Sean Connery managed to break free of the Bond stereotype in the 1970s, thanks to movies such as the 1975 adventures The Wind and the Lion (with Candice Bergen) and The Man Who Would Be King (with Michael Caine). During the 1980s and '90s he appeared in dozens of films, and won an Oscar for his supporting role as a grizzled Irish cop in The Untouchables (1987). Eternally hunky and no-nonsense, Connery continued to play the love interest to younger actresses such as Catherine Zeta-Jones (in 1999's Entrapment). He also returned to the role of Bond in Never Say Never Again (1983, with Kim Basinger). Sean Connery has taken few roles in the 21st century, although he did star in Finding Forrester (2000) and the action picture The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). Connery was denied a knighthood by Britain in 1998 for his support of Scottish nationalism, but he was finally knighted in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II.
According to his official site, Sean Connery enlisted in the Royal Navy at age 16, served for three years, and then worked as a "bricklayer, lifeguard, and coffin polisher" before getting into acting… Connery was People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 1989… Connery has actually quit the role of Bond a few times. He starred in Dr. No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965) and You Only Live Twice (1967), then gave way to Australian model George Lazenby, who played Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969. Connery again played Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and then with a wink as an older Bond in 1983's Never Say Never Again.
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iPotty part of a new trend in baby-focused technology
Right around Black Friday, my Facebook wall lit up with scorn for a new product that had appeared on Amazon. "End times," wrote a parent pal, who linked to the Fisher-Price iPad Apptivity Seat, Newborn-to-Toddler. Fresh out of the oven, your child can get addicted to the beauteous simplicity of Apple's app functionality. This is probably why Steve Jobs invented the iPad: So our lil'est consumers could learn how to make in-app purchases before they can spell their names. Don't worry, the stand has a case "to protect from dribbles and drool." Amazon even selected this product as one of the best gifts for kids in 2013.
As most parents of small children know, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under 2 avoid screen time. While there are few parents who haven't calmed a shrieking toddler with an iPhone or cracked under the strain of a rainy Saturday afternoon and put on some old-school Sesame Street for their tots, it seems at best perverse, and at worst mildly harmful, to offer such a high-tech visual product geared toward children who can't even hold their heads up or see things that are more than a few feet away.
And yet, baby and toddler iPad accessories are a small but popular - and growing - segment of the booming tablet accessory market, which increased from $900 million in 2011 to $1.35 billion in 2012. According to Common Sense Media, 38 percent of children under 2 have used a mobile device for media this year, up from 10 percent two years ago.
Arguably the most infamous product in the toddler iPad accessory field is CTA Digital's iPotty, which is exactly what it sounds like: a training potty with an iPad stand. Like the Fisher-Price Apptivity Seat, the iPotty also has a clear case to guard "against smudges and messy hands," which is even more important in such close proximity to poop. Though the iPotty has been met with scorn from Amazon reviewers, it has been one of the company's best sellers, says Lois Eiler, a marketing associate at CTA Digital. Eiler didn't give me exact figures, but one might guess the iPotty is doing well, because the company just came out with a similar product, an iRocking Play Seat for iPad with Feeding Tray.
When I've told people about the iPotty, their reaction is generally, "What?!? Why?!?" So I asked Eiler how the company came up with the notion of bathroom Internetting for the under-3 set. She said there wasn't really any market research before they came up with the product, but the developers had noticed that potty training apps were cropping up. The parents on the CTA Digital development team thought the iPotty would be a good companion for those apps. After all, the company already had a product line of Nickelodeon-branded tech products geared toward young children, including the Dora the Explorer Inflatable Sports Car for iPad. The iPotty debuted at CES, the enormous tech industry trade show, in January 2013 and went viral; Eiler says the reaction at CES inspired the company to bring the product to the market.
I asked Eiler about criticisms of such products. (As one commenter on Amazon put it, "Parenting at the laziest level imaginable! Keep the distracting electronics away from teaching your child lessons in life. Give them YOUR full attention!") Eiler replied, "We never claim to be doctors or psychiatrists or any of that. Our job is to produce products that are useful to people and that people want." She added that CTA Digital has heard from parents of special-needs kids on the autism spectrum who say that the iPotty has been instrumental in helping their kids learn how to toilet train. Finally, she pointed out that kids generally potty train when they are 22-to-30 months old, so the no-screens-under-2 prohibition doesn't necessarily apply to the iPotty.
But those criticisms do apply to the Fisher-Price iPad Apptivity Seat, which is geared toward infants. When I asked about these complaints, Fisher-Price's PR rep sent me a statement from Kathleen Alfano, senior director of child research. According to Alfano, "We know the Apptivity Seat isn't for everyone, but we created the iPad feature for those times when parents want to use this option as another way to stimulate and engage their baby." Additionally, she wrote, "When infants and toddlers are exposed to age-appropriate media with an adult present interacting with the child, explaining the content and encouraging play, media viewing can result in a positive play experience." Fisher-Price also made clear that there are no studies showing that iPads are harmful to children's vision.
Perhaps it's fatalistic, but parents who are going to leave their kids in front of screens all day are going to do so whether they have an iPad stand with a comfy rocking chair attached or not. And in a tech-saturated world, not all exposure to devices at a young age is necessarily negative. As Hanna Rosin pointed out in an Atlantic article about toddlers and touch-screens, "The statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics assumes a zero-sum game: an hour spent watching TV is an hour not spent with a parent. But parents know this is not how life works."
Which is to say, as long as you are still interacting with your kid - and not just letting her play with an iPad for all of her waking hours - it's not necessarily the "end times" that my Facebook friend predicted. Still, we can all agree that having your iPad anywhere near a toddler in the middle of toilet training is beyond foul.
Jessica Grose is the author of the novel "Sad Desk Salad."


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I discovered at last minute a developer event on Yahoo! FireEagle at Covent Garden tonight and decided to rush down there. FireEagle is pretty intriguing as the first serious attempt at an OAuth API (though Google Contacts now qualifies too). For me, that was the main draw; but the actual service it offers is also compelling.
What's FireEagle?
Location based services have been hyped for years. By now, you should be walking around and receiving reviews of local restaurants on your phone, browsing nearby tourist attractions, and seeing which of your friends is in your vicinity. However, it hasn't caught on. The main reason is stovepipes and walled gardens. Your mobile provider might have an API available, but probably restricted access to a very limited set of developers. A mix of privacy and commercial concerns have rendered this whole area practically useless.
Enter the eagle. FireEagle completely opens up this area, by offering a model that is flexible and open, but without compromising user privacy. It's an API that essentially tracks one thing: Where in the world are all FireEagle users?
In other words, the FireEagle API allows any client to update a user's location and any client to retrieve a user's location. Of course, the user must consent to all this activity, and that's where OAuth comes in - as a way for users to say, for example, "I trust app abc to update my location and app xyz to read my location". So FireEagle detaches location providers from location consumers, opening up an entire ecosystem.
What kind of clients act as location updaters? You might think it's all automated stuff, like mobile devices and IP numbers, but actually many updaters are manual. Here's a sample:
- Mobile phone app. Anyone with the right access details could write a mobile phone app to use cell tower information, built-in GPS, or any other cues, to update location as the user moves around. This is the no-brainer example of an automatic mobile updater.
- Twitter. When you tweet with "L: london", a twitter monitor app could notice that and notify FireEagle. (As with all cases below, you must have authorised the monitor app to do that.) This example illustrates that users aren't always passive lemmings walking around with a mobile updater app in their pocket. It may be that location data is only ever updated when a user proactively tweets their location.
- A client that watches you adding geotagged photos to Flickr, and assumes you are in the last location you uploaded.
- Specialised tracker device. Devices based on GPS (e.g. SPOT) could easily be made to update FireEagle with their location.
- Car app. Based on GPS, a car's location could be tracked using FireEagle. (The car, not the driver.)
- Travel card. (My example.) Theoretically, your travel card could update FireEagle location as you move around. Same for transponder devices in cars.
- Many, many, more examples.
What kind of clients act as location consumers?
- Find nearby friends, tourist attractions, pubs, etc.
- Find currency rate (since you know what country they're in)
- Phrases in the local lingo or an online dictionary
- Location based games
- Many, many, more examples
Some clients may act as both updater and consumer.
The other thing FireEagle gets right is great concern for privacy - users can give out as much or as little data as they like, and they can stop the service at any time. The first way this happens is with OAuth, which lets you manage which services can perform what actions. You can start and stop this at any time. In the future, there will be a simple client to let you log in from your mobile and control all this. In particular, you will probably be able to suspend all tracking at any time.
Additionally, you can apparently set granularity, so you could expose just a general area, e.g. whiiich city or country you're in, instead of a particular co-ordinate.
In the future, you will probably be able to authorise a client just for a certain time, e.g. during a conference, after which it can no longer access your data.
At some point, historical data may become available. The team said if this happens, they will allow users to delete and edit their past data.
In summary, the team has been very careful to ensure users have complete control over their own data,
Very Raw Notes from Presentation
Tom Coates is talking about FireEagle.
FireEagle is the old CS classic: a layer of intermediation - between location identification systems and location consumer systems. As a user, I can tell FireEagle where I am and any permissioned app can make use of that data.
London is about the most frequent location for fireeagle
What would your existing/past apps look like if they had location services available?
e.g. Navizon
e.g. ZoneTag
e.g. Firebot - Make it your twitter friend and direct message your location to it.
e.g. BrightKite - cf dodgeball
e.g. Rummble
e.g. Plazes - determines your location via wifi. Then shows where you are on map, people around you, etc etc. And updates FireEagle
WikiNear - ~1M geo-tagged articles in wikipedia. Wikinear exploits that data - as you're walking around, shows you the closest POIs that are in wikipedia.
Fireball - where your friends are
Fire Widgets - weather where you are, nearby Flickr photos
Moveable Type
Facebook "friends on fire" app - shows where your friends are and updates your Facebook status
Could be great…
Spot - specialised comms/phone device for backpackers, aid workers, etc. ~100pound for device, 100pound a year and keeps updating your location every� ten minutes. Doesn't integrate yet but great example if it did
Ambient Orb - e.g. changes colour as you move away
Geotagging all user generated content - cinema listings, local traffic, local TV stations, nearby friends, weather forecast, local exchange rates, public holidays, windspeed. A lot of this is on wikipedia thanks to geotagging.
Friends and family widgets. e.g. where they are in the world, what time it is, weather, etc. (A gadget for each person.)
Last.FM - On cracked iphone, can get mobile scrobbler on iphone. What if it recorded where you were, then you could see which songs people play in particular areas. Cool!
Pacmanhattan - Lots and lots of game ideas (idea: scavenger hunt! reminds me of geocaching)
(later mention: geocoding animals, e.g. track migration)
Later on, expecting it to track historical data. (and since it will be user-modifiable which means you could back-track your entire life! (or someone elses eg fake shaekspeare))
Building an APP
1 - Get API key 2 - User authorises your app 3 - Make API calls to Fire Eagle Outside.In -�
Who's within an area
Each consumer key and secret identifies an application using Fire Eagle.
User Authorises ….
There are three models and the difference is purely to do with differences in (app triggering web page) and (web page triggering app). Web: Can trigger in both directions Mobile: Can't trigger in either direction (maybe, but can't assume it) Desktop: App can trigger web page, web page can't trigger app
Web App model: Request token
I asked which model was used for widgets. Answer: Desktop. (Makes sense, with current technology. Web model would cause redirection from container. Later on, Opensocial will have oauth built in.)
Core Concepts
Note: social graph (user and friends) is beyond scope
location - point or bounding box location hierarchy - set of locations
Exposed RESTfully:
- user() - duh
- lookup() - provide location string and choose from list of resolutions (which "london"??)
- update() - duh. call it and it "moves you"
- within() - ?
- recent() - "map of soho and everyone in there" OR "last 100 updates from my users"
walking through http://github.com/mojodna/fireeagle-tutorial/tree/master/ruby
Will probably support xmpp/Jabber too - more appropriate than HTTP for this


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NAMUR isolating amplifier
Nivotester FTL325N
+373 2 22 61 60
NAMUR interface IEC EN 60947-5-6
One- to three-channel version
Two-point control and point level detection with vibronic point level switch Liquiphant M/S, Soliphant
M, Solicap M/S, Liquicap M and Liquipoint
Specs at a glance
Function Isolating amplifier Approval ATEX II (1) GD EEx ia Connectable sensors All NAMUR switches Output 1 relay per channel Number of channels 1 or 3 Product / Version Price / pcs. in EUR Order code Power Supply Switch Output 1 to 3 4 to 10 11+ 85-253VAC 1x SPDT level + 1x SPST alarm 110.- 99.- 90.- FTL325N-F1A1 3x SPDT level + 1x SPST alarm 201.- 181.- 165.- FTL325N-F3A3 20-30VAC/20-60VDC 1x SPDT level + 1x SPST alarm 110.- 99.- 90.- FTL325N-F1E1 3x SPDT level + 1x SPST alarm 201.- 181.- 165.- FTL325N-F3E3
Product / Version Price / pcs. in EUR Order code Housing Field, R4 182x180x165, 5xM20, PC Protection housing Minitec. Synthetic housing with transparent cover. Protection IP66. 4x22.5mm / 2x45mm. Usage: FTL825. 74.96 52010132
Prices valid until 31.12.2020 in EUR per unit (not including shipping and applicable sales tax). See
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The isolating amplifier Nivotester isolates and amplifies signals coming from hazardous areas. Proximity switches, vibronic point level switches or mechanic contacts can be used as measuring sensors. Isolating amplifiers can be used for the transmission of the switch status or for limit detection. Two-point control is possible in a liquid tank using the three-channel version. Combined with a Liquiphant M or Liquiphant S the isolating amplifiers are approved as overspill protection according to WHG. For using FTL325N in field a protection housing is available.
The isolating amplifiers supply voltage to the measuring sensors via a two-wire loop. The switching status of the sensors is evaluated and put out via a relay. By using the quiescent-current-principle this ensures a high operational safety. At the same time, a control current is transferred along this supply line. Combined with a vibronic point level switch Liquiphant M/S and Soliphant M the measuring line is controlled of short-cut, supply fails also the vibration fork of corrosion.
Application Example
Technical dataInput
Measured variable The limit signal can be triggered at minimum or maximum height as required Measuring range The measuring range is dependent on the installation location of the sensors Input Galvanically isolated from power supply and output Protection type II(1)G [Ex ia Ga] IIC
II(1)D [Ex ia Da] IIIC
Connectable measuring sensors Liquiphant M, Liquiphant S, Soliphant M, Solicap M, Solicap S, Liquicap M; sensors specified to IEC/EN 60947-5-6; contact switches with an appropriate resistance circuit Connecting line two-wire, screening unnecessary Line resistance max. 25 Ω per wire Signal transmission Current signal on supply line Control current range <1.2 mA / >2.1 mA Line interruption monitoring <200 µA Short-circuit >6.1 mA (can be switched off)Output Relay output One potential-free switch contact for the level alarm per channel Quiescent current
fail-safe mode
MIN/MAX safety can be selected with DIL switch Switch delay approx. 0.5 s Switching power of the relay contacts
U ~ max. 253 V
I ~ max. 2 A
P ~ max. 500 VA at cos φ ≥ 0.7
U = max. 40 V
I = max. 2 A
P = max. 80 W
Life at least 105 switching operations at maximum contact load Function displays LEDs for operation, level alarm and faultPower supply Supply voltage
85 to 253 V AC, 50/60 Hz
20 to 30 V AC, 20 to 60 V DC, max. 60 mA (1-channel), max. 113 mA (3-channel),
permissible residual ripple within tolerance: Vpp = max. 2 V
The Nivotester is equipped with reverse polarity protection.
Power consumption
1-channel: max. 1.75 W
3-channel: max. 2.75 W
1-channel: max. 1.2 W (at Vmin 20 V)
3-channel: max. 2.25 W (at Vmin 20 V)Operating conditions
Ambient temperature
For single installation: –20 to +60 °C (–4 to +140 °F)
for rail mounting without gaps: –20 to +50 °C (–4 to +122 °F)
Storage temperature –20 to +85 °C (–4 to +185 °F) (preferably at +20 °C/+68 °F) Ingress Protection IP20, IK06 EMC Interference emission to EN 61326; Class A apparatus; interference immunity to EN 61326; Appendix A (Industry) and NAMUR Recommendation NE 21 (EMC)Materials Housing Polycarbonate Front cover PP polypropylene Fixing slide (for fixing to top-hat rail), Polyamide PA6Approvals Ex approval II(1)G [Ex ia Ga] IIC
II(1)D [Ex ia Da] IIIC
Overfill prevention WHG, leak approval
Dimensions (in mm)
Electrical connection
1-channel version
3-channel version
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Here are all the clematis we stock which have achieved the
Royal Horticultural Societies Award of Garden Merit.
This award is given to plants that have been submitted to the RHS for trial and proven to be particularly good garden worthy plants under a number of factors, including flowering ability, strength, disease & pest resistance. At Thorncroft we would only select and indeed sell clematis that we believe have these qualities but the AGM is a helpful guide to selecting excellent plants.
Check out our blog post Abundant Alionushka
Beautiful deep mauve-pink nodding bell-shaped flowers. Semi-herbaceous, non-clinging, semi-climber or scrambler.
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit.


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Editor's note: This article appears in the May 26, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. The issue is available now on newsstands and will appear in the online archive May 13.
(Rolling Stone) -- Like you, we've always wondered what's inside Donald Trump's wallet.
So, on a recent visit to his office at the top of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the epicenter of his vast real estate empire and putative presidential ambitions, we ask him if we can take a look.
He pulls it out, dips it down and hides it behind his huge desk, peers inside, saying, "Let me just see if there's anything ... ," and then holds it out, fanning through it, revealing his Winged Foot Golf Club membership card and his very own gun permit, neither of which he apparently ever leaves home without.
"It's a Donald J. Trump wallet," he says, happily. He's still a fairly big, fairly imposing guy at age 64, has hair that's the patriotic shade of amber waves of grain, dresses like men of the world used to dress, in a dark suit, with a crisp, white shirt and a tie that's the subtlest pink ever.
"We sell them at Macy's. They sell great. Hey -- I have the number-one-selling tie in the country. What color tie do you like? Your tie looks like shit. Do you want a tie? It's not a bribe. They're nothing. I sell shirts, PVH, Phillips-Van Heusen. Cuff links."
He waves his arms around, shoots his cuffs to show off glittering cuff links.
"Trump cuff links!" he shouts. "They're magnificent! Everybody's buying them! If I said I got them at Harry Winston, for $100,000, you'd believe it! Forty-nine dollars at Macy's! Macy's doesn't even want to carry other brands! We blow them out!"
That's pure Trump-speak -- loud, over-the-top, just the kind of Ronco Veg-o-Matic, everyone's-a-mark, carny-barker, hard-sell ballyhoo that he hopes will also blow out the other presidential hopefuls, should he decide to run. But will he run?
He says the world will know his answer by June -- at which time, if he announces in the affirmative, he will also reveal the true size of his financials, which, he says, will shock the world, being around $7 billion, if not more, and make Mitt Romney, with his measly hundred millions, look like a floppy little fish indeed and certainly not the kind of guy who, for instance, could spin the roulette wheel on ties and cuff links and make gazillions.
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"We need a businessman," Trump says, working himself into a lather of self-congratulation, "and I've been successful. Right now, I have the greatest properties in the country. I have great stuff. The point is, I'm running for office in a country that's essentially bankrupt, and it needs a successful businessman, and, by the way, let me explain about one thing, might as well get that clear: I never went bankrupt."
He's drawing a distinction here, which is that while various of his businesses may have sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the past two decades, Trump the person never has.
In the early 1990s, for instance, after a decade of profligate spending -- $3.8 billion worth, mainly financed by junk bonds and Trump-snookered banks -- he came face to face with an economic downturn that forced four Trump properties -- the Plaza Hotel and his three Atlantic City casinos -- into bankruptcy.
It happened again in 2004, and also in 2009, when Trump Entertainment found itself $1.7 billion in debt. Trump's way is to dismiss these financial catastrophes with a snarl and a shrug.
As he said in his 2007 book, "Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life," "I figured it was the bank's problem, not mine. What the hell did I care? I actually told one bank, 'I told you you shouldn't have loaned me that money. I told you the goddamn deal was no good.'"
Or, as he casually says today, "I play with the bankruptcy."
Which is kind of a sad, dispiriting advertisement for his genius as a businessman. Do we really want that kind of guy in office? At least some people seem to think so.
"Look," Trump chuckles, "I'm number one in the polls already, and I haven't even done anything!"
Which is no longer true, since it was largely Trump's bellyaching that prompted the White House to release President Obama's so-called long-form birth certificate, proving once again that Obama was born in the U.S. (unless you're a birther, in which case it proves nothing).
"I'm very proud of myself," Trump crowed the day it happened. Naturally, he made no mention of what his "investigators" in Hawaii discovered poking around about Obama's birth -- "They cannot believe what they're finding!" he had said in early April -- probably because they either didn't exist or they found nothing.
Instead, in his quest for ever-bigger headlines and even more attention, he stooped to new lows, by bringing up Obama's college education and playing the race card.
"How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said, the clear implication being that it was only thanks to affirmative action and never would have happened had Obama been white.
It's despicable stuff, and yet, coming from Trump, not all that surprising. If nothing else, he's a master of smoke and mirrors, and so far has managed to keep anyone from focusing too tightly on his own past.
Those bankruptcies. His marriage-wrecking affair and two divorces. His garish casinos that may or may not have had mob ties. The time he referred to his current wife, Melania, as "a young and beautiful piece of ass" (which he now denies ever having said).
And let's not forget the whole abortion thing, where Trump has recently flipped to pro-life; the whole let's-invade-the-Middle-East-and-just-like-take-all-the-oil thing; and all the rest of those kooky things he spouts on a daily basis, keeping his name in the news in an effort, no doubt, to boost the ratings of his "Celebrity Apprentice" reality-TV show while appearing to be testing the presidential waters.
He's one top-notch novelty act and a Barnum-type showman with an unerring instinct for what to say to appeal to the loonier segment of the electorate. He's good at catering to the lowest common denominator like that, decorum be damned.
But what about some Trump constants, some things that are unwavering in his character and nature?
For one thing, he goes to bed late, gets up early, usually wearing only "the undies," as he calls them, never "the formality" of pajamas, brushes his teeth first, takes a leak second, and only then steps into the shower, his hand reaching out through the steam to grab the shampoo and lather up that hair of his that has received so much attention over the years. How does he do it?
He steeples his fingers, purses his lips and launches right into it like it was some kind of major policy issue.
"OK, what I do is, wash it with Head and Shoulders. I don't dry it, though. I let it dry by itself. It takes about an hour. Then I read papers and things. This morning I read in the New York Post about Jerry Seinfeld backing out of his commitment to do a benefit for my son Eric's charity. I've never been a big fan of Jerry Seinfeld -- never dug him, in the true sense -- but when I did 'The Marriage Ref,' which was his show and a total disaster, I did him a big favor. Then he did this. It's a disgrace."
He goes on, "I also watch TV. I love Fox, I like 'Morning Joe,' I like that the 'Today' show did a beautiful piece on me yesterday -- I mean, relatively speaking. OK, so I've done all that. I then comb my hair. Yes, I do use a comb."
He pauses, frowning, casting his mind back to capture the details of the event. "Do I comb it forward? No, I don't comb it forward."
He pushes the leading edge of the flying wing of his hair back, to show where the hairline is.
"I actually don't have a bad hairline. When you think about it, it's not bad. I mean, I get a lot of credit for comb-overs. But it's not really a comb-over. It's sort of a little bit forward and back. I've combed it the same way for years. Same thing, every time."
After that, he spends some time not saying what he doesn't want to say, in a very mulish, deeply parsed, Republican-president sort of way.
Does he have a Bible by his bed?
"I do," he says. Then: "I have a Bible near my bed."
Where near?
"It's up in my apartment." Silence.
When was the last time he went to church?
"Two weeks ago. A church in Palm Beach, Florida. What was the sermon about? I'd rather not get into it, frankly."
Where does he stand on gun control?
"I'm against gun control for the reason, it doesn't affect the bad guys, because they're going to have guns. What kind of gun do I have? I'd rather not say. I have a gun. It's a handgun, OK?"
Is it Trump-sized?
"It's a gun. I have a gun. It's a handgun." Silence.
All this talk seems to be making him thirsty. He calls for a Coke, and a hot number in spike heels arrives with a Coke in a glass of ice. Trump sips, smacks his lips.
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"I've never smoked a cigarette in my life," he goes on. "I've never had a drink, never had a joint, never had any drugs, never even had a cup of coffee. So, those are some good things about me. I probably have some bad things about me, too."
He pauses, as if waiting for some bad things to materialize out of thin air, but when a miracle occurs and they don't, he starts up again.
"I will say, though, that I like a little caffeine. People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people. I'll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I'll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little."
And then he goes on about the ratings of "Celebrity Apprentice" and the ratings of himself in presidential polls, both of which are "very, very" high.
This is all well and good, but it's incredibly boring, and eventually you are forced to cut him off, with, like, is there one orgasm in his life that he would consider the most memorable?
He leans back in his chair, tilts his head up, takes a long time to think this over, his cherubic cheeks reddening either with the effort of recollection or the maintenance of a boiler about to explode.
At last, very smoothly, he says, "Well, always the children. And this building. Trump Tower." A duller answer one cannot imagine. Maybe he'll take a shine to something larger, like naming the central problem of existence.
"Conflict," he says, snapping forward. "Conflict, if it's not resolved, leads to lots of bad things, and that's where this country is right now. We're in many, many conflicts that ultimately could end up in calamity."
But, seriously, has anyone ever loved conflict more than him?
He smiles. "Look, sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me."
Well, maybe not everyone. He's been called some pretty terrible things recently, like "farcical," "an unpolished and graceless blowhard" and "a monstrous parody of entitled American wealth masquerading as skillful entrepreneurship."
Just days ago, Republican strategist Karl Rove pronounced him "a joke."
Trump shrugs most of these things off. They come with the territory, and, in fact, by shrugging them off, he is able to once again demonstrate the insane, over-the-top self-confidence and self-regard that seem to have caught the fancy of a certain segment of the population -- probably the same folks who believe it when Charlie Sheen claims he is somehow "winning."
Trump didn't do so well at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last month, however. While President Obama and host Seth Meyers poked fun at him and his hair, all Trump could do was stare straight ahead, with no expression whatsoever, betraying how utterly humorless he is about himself.
Trump doesn't like Rove's "joke" comment, either. "That was a very nasty thing for him to say," he mutters darkly. "He shouldn't have said that. We'll have it out with Karl Rove. I don't lose too often."
So, Rove might want to look out. And so might Jerry Seinfeld, for that matter.
"I don't want to ruin my image by saying this, but I'm a much nicer person than people understand," Trump says. "I like to do the right thing and help people. But when people are disloyal to me -- I have a couple of instances of well-known people, where I'd help them out, but when I needed a favor, not a big favor in this one case, this guy didn't want to do it. That's 15 years ago. I haven't spoken to him since. He died. He's dead mentally. In other words, for me, they don't exist. I hold a grudge. I have the longest memory. I always kick back. I believe in that."
It's kind of weird hearing Trump spit out his words with such rigid vehemence just like he does on his reality show, knowing how huge a constant that grudge-holding is with him and that you yourself might one day be on the receiving end of just such a grudge.
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You can always hope that age will lay him low first, but it's not likely, given how healthy he is.
"I had a father who was 94," he says, "a mother who was 90, so, you know, I'm genetically lucky that way, too."
Also, he's got a big thing about germs, so he's a frequent hand-washer and goes everywhere with packets of hand sanitizer stuffed into his suit jacket. He pulls one out now, dangling it in the air. It's a Super Sani-Cloth Germicidal Disposable Wipe ("The two-minute germicidal wipe") -- which isn't exactly the kind of market-share leader you might expect Trump to favor.
He rubs his palms together. "I don't use Purell, Purell is too sticky, but this other stuff is great. I always carry a couple of them."
Leaning back, he goes on, "The question has come out, 'How can Donald Trump campaign if he doesn't shake hands?' Well, over the years, I've shaken many hands, and I have no problem shaking hands. But it's not a healthy thing. With the germs, it's not a question of 'maybe' -- they have been proven, you catch colds. You catch problems. Frankly, the Japanese custom is a lot smarter."
One can just imagine Trump, then, his first big time out on the hustings, massively ambivalent, surrounded by his fellow man, the crush closing in on him, the panic that must arise as he finally confronts the great unwashed them, that hideous, germ-ridden, infection-spreading other that he has for so long tried to avoid in the flesh but that his attention-craving ego (not to mention his TV show) so needs.
It would have to be unbearable. After an event like that, he probably couldn't get to his Super Sani-Cloths fast enough.
So that's another thing we would maybe have to look forward to in a Trump presidency: less handshaking, more bowing, fewer colds, fewer "problems." And if it were just that, what's not to like?
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Clearly Rep. Allen West got duped.
I hope this is a hoax — but I can't even find a denial, yet. Got the rebuttal that works?
Copied in its entirety from Daily Kos, a post by CC:
It's no secret now that GOP in Congress literally plotted to undermine U.S. economy during President Obama's Inauguration.
In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Minister of Propaganda, Frank Luntz, Senior GOP Congressmen plotted to undermine and destroy America's Economy.
The Guest List:
Frank Luntz – GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).
Non-lawmakers present Newt Gingrich
During the four hour meeting, the senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct and block President Obama on all legislation.
These members of Congress were not simply airing their complaints regarding the other party's political platform for four long hours. No, these men were literally plotting to undermine and destroy the U.S. Economy.
On that date, January 20, 2009, America had been losing over 750,000 jobs per month because of policies these Congressional Leaders had enacted and their goal, their goal that night, was to plot ways to undermine any and all legislation that would pull American families up and out of the economic calamity they had helped create.
Everyone of these members of Congress supported the very Bush/Cheney policies that caused America to teeter on the brink of the 2nd Great Depression and caused the 2007 US Economic Meltdown.
These guys can't say they were sitting at dinner for four hours discussing any objection to Stimulus Legislation and raising the Debt Ceiling because of political ideology as each one of them voted yes on Bush/Cheney Stimulus Bills and yes every time Bush/Cheney wanted to raise the Debt Ceiling.
Here's how they all voted:
— "Yes" to Bush/Cheney January 2008 Stimulus
— "Yes" to Bush/Cheney bailing out Bear Stern
— "Yes" to Bush/Cheney bailing out AIG
— "Yes" to Bush/Cheney TARP (sept 2008)
— "Yes" to Bush/Cheney TARP (oct 2008)
And these same members of Congress:
— Supported Bush/Cheney keeping cost of two wars out of the Budget
— Supported Bush/Cheney spending $4Trillion on Top 1% Tax Cuts while trying to pay down Debt on Two Wars
Ahhh … but at their dinner they plotted to suddenly stop supporting any stimulus legislation:
"Show united and unyielding opposition to the president's economic policies."
Rep Kevin McCarthy said,
"We've gotta challenge them on every single bill."
Not only did these Senior members of Congress plot to destroy the American Economy more than it already was destroyed? They actually carried out their mission:
– Every one of these Senior members of Congress have threatened Government Shutdown over things like:
not funding planned parenthood, not raising the Debt Ceiling which, in-and-of-itself, would cause US Economic turmoil.
… oh, and stay current, these same House GOP members of Congress are still, today, threatening a Government Shutdown.
– Senators: Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl, Tom Coburn, John Ensign, and Bob Corker have
– Filibustered more Bills than any Congress combined in US History.
– Voted NO on every single piece of Legislation brought to the Floor including: NO on Al Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment, NO on Lilly Ledbetter, NO on Fair Pay Act.
– Representatives: Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Pete Sessions, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra and Dan Lungren
– Voted NO on every single piece of Legislation; including NO on increasing FEMA during natural disasters.
– Have been on tv constantly chanting the lie that they were guilty of … the lie that "President Obama's policies undermine the US Economy."
Yes, these Republican Congressional leaders used Karl Rove's playbook and falsely accused the President of what they were guilty of: Intentionally Undermining the US Economy. And, again, in keeping with Karl Rove propaganda, they chant the same lie over and over and over again.
America had been at war since 2001. The Constitution says a person can only be guilty of "Treason" while America is engaged in war — we are at war. The Constitution says "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. I believe that plotting to undermine the President of the United States by destroying and weakening the US Economy directly aids the enemy. Treason?
As for impeachment, only one Senator has ever been impeached.
These members of Congress, are paid to do The People's work. They are not paid to plot ways to undermine American families by destroying the US Economy.
Their acts that night are disgusting, repulsive, unbecoming of a member of Congress and they should be expelled from Congress for their covert plot to destroy and weaken America's Economy and for obstructing The People's work from getting done.
I urge everyone to contact Darrell Issa and tell him to:
Hold Hearings to Expel the following people from Congress for plotting to undermine the President by destroy to the US Economy:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).
I don't know if they committed Treason, but I do know they are Traitors and Traitors have no business writing or voting on US Laws.
Oh, the next time you hear the GOP say "Obama wants to destroy the economy" or "Government Shutdown" … remember … as Newt Gingrich said after their four hour dinner on January 20, 2009 "You'll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown."
To Translate GINGRICH:
"You'll remember this day as they day we became Traitors to the United States."
Originally posted to cc on Fri Apr 27, 2012 at 09:26 AM PDT.
Pete Sessions from Texas? That great free marketeer, promised to do what he could to kill our economic recovery? Do his constituents, especially those who work at the General Motors plant in Arlington, Texas, know about that?
- Article at Daily Beast on this and other revelations from the book
- Simon and Schuster's page on Do Not Ask What Good We Do, Draper's book (buy the book at a discount there)
- View from a different angle: Review of the book in Wall Street Journal


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This past week saw a very welcome piece of news: Katy Kellgren, a fabulously talented narrator, is up for an Audie award for her solo narration of my very own ASHES .
Is this a tribute to Katy's skills in bringing my story alive? You bet. As a long-time listener, I love a good audiobook, and I also know that a narrator can spell the difference between a wonderful experience or an exercise in Chinese water torture. Bad narrators can kill an otherwise good story (I won't name names here, but get me alone and I'll tell you some of the worst offenders); great readers can turn a so-so story--one I might even have passed by--into something to be savored.
Which got me thinking not about the pleasures of listening to a good story--there is certainly something primal about that, a vestigial inherited memory of Og talking about the mastodon that got away or, closer to home, the deep comfort of listening to a parent read
then translated to the voices which reach up to us from the page
to give us comfort and an escape from our dull, wretched lives (or, in Sawyer's case, a place to go in his head that ISN'T that bloody island)
--but about public readings by writers.
Here's the honest-to-God truth: I love listening to writers speak. But I don't love hearing writers read their stuff aloud. The simple truth is that many don't know how. This is strange, I know, but I have been to some truly atrocious readings where you could tell the writer would rather stick pins in her eyes. Or that while they may have really liked their story, they just don't have the necessary performance skills to make it an enjoyable experience. On the other hand, I've been to a couple readings that were great--but they were the exception, not the rule. Pity that I missed out on Dickens, too, probably the first (documented) author to understand the art of performance: that reading aloud IS an art.
If you believe the biographies--and I do, especially Dickens as I Knew Him by George Dolby, who was the Inimitable's stage manager for these readings and tours--the readings probably helped do Dickens in. Still, his public readings were, apparently, quite something. This article gives a nice summary. But suffice to say that women fainted, grown men trembled--and still others, like Mark Twain, thought him as atrocious reader. So, really, how much was hyperbole?
Now, did it matter that Dickens once had ambitions to the stage? That he co-wrote and then starred in amateur theatricals? You bet. I've often wondered how many writers have acted, wanted to act, or act. (For the record, I have and, yeah, I once thought about a life in the theater, too. Predictably, my parents were against it. Now that I am older--and have been in my share of productions--I understand why.) Have I done readings? Sure, when asked . . . but I'm not sold that's what audiences want and, in fact, I'm always reluctant to read my stuff. Do I understand that readings are great marketing tools? Yes. In fact, Janet Mullany has a fine article in this month's Romance Writers Report on the topic, and some useful tips and bon mots, including my favorite: less is more.
But all that presupposes that writers make good readers, and not all do. Even those who are good at it--and I think I do pretty well--pale in comparison to people, like Katy, who do this kind of thing for a living. Yet you can learn a lot from listening to very good narrators, such as the value of enunciation and pacing. (Listening to yourself can be a cringe-worthy exercise, too; you are never the best judge of your own voice. Doing so, as well as reading to a real live human being who isn't necessarily your pal or husband, is worthwhile, too. )
A public reading is also a very strange beast because, on the one hand, people want to hear a good story. But, on the other, a really dramatic reading--think of Dickens storming and weeping and gnashing his teeth and then lying on a couch for hours afterward, taking eggs in Champagne as a restorative--may not be what your audience wants to hear or expects. Setting is everything; expectations are, too. I once did a reading at a small club with a bunch of other writers where it seemed that droning was the order of the day. I listened to a couple guys maunder on and thought, piece of cake. So I got up, gave my wonderfully splendid reading only to realize, after a lot of tittering, that a story with some sex in it--not tons, but the story was centered on sexual obsession--was making people VERY uncomfortable, so much so that their anxiety was plain. My bad. You can bet I never made that mistake again. Now, you could say I was being overly sensitive, too. Maybe. For me, reading an audience is as important as knowing what I'm performing.
But, like I said, I'm also not sold that people want to hear us read. I think they want to hear FROM us, which is a very different thing. In fact, more often that not, I'll be prepared to read something--notice that word "prepared" there; this means I have PRACTICED and quite a bit; that chapter is, for me, no different than a script--but nine times out of ten, we get caught up in talking, a back and forth exchange, which I personally believe serves an author and her work better than a random chapter, no matter how well done.
I could be all wrong, too. Witness Stephen King giving the closing address at the Savannah Book Festival a couple weeks ago. (A friend of mine was there, by the way, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.) He appears about six minutes and change into this, but pay attention to one thing he says: Writers are not that interesting to listen to. That may be so, but King also a) has practice and b) understands the value of marketing or else he wouldn't have read the first chapter of the forthcoming Dr. Sleep (a sequel to The Shining).
Now, is King a good reader of his own stuff? Not really, although he is a fine speaker (pay attention to what he does; he knows exactly what he's doing and understands the value of pacing) and I love listening to and learning from him. I would also much rather listen to him speak like this than read his own work. (And I've heard him read a bunch of his work. If, for example, you want the unabridged audiobook version of Desperation, his narration is the only one out there. The one with Kathy Bates is abridged.) For years, Frank Muller was the voice of Stephen King; when he died, the baton's been passed around to readers as various as George Guidall, Steven Weber (one of my faves; his performance of IT made a so-so novel truly superb; his acting work on the movie remake of The Shining was out of this world, too).
Campbell Scott is another fave for his work on Cell and The Shining) and, most recently, Craig Wasson (11/22/63).
But contrast King's reading with the rest of his talk and then ask yourself: was it really that good? Did it really enhance the value of seeing/hearing him speak? For my money, that would be have to be no.
How about you? Why do you think some people like to hear authors read their own works? Or are people just as happy to listen to a writer talk? What do people get out of hearing from writers they admire? Is it curiosity, hero-worship, a learning experience? What?
Monday, February 27, 2012
The Better to Hear You, My Dear
2 comments:
- Anita Grace Howard said...
That's so exciting! And what a great post on the audio element of story telling. Thank you, Ilsa!
- March 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Jordan Dane said...
I love audio books. My husband and I took them with us when we camped in Alaska. The scarier, the better. Got hooked then & still love them on road trips. Nice post.
- March 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM
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