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Recipe from Kitty Glabis of Lithuania
6 Large Potatos
Grate the potatos and while doing that put a medium pot on the stove filled with water. You are going to make it come to a boil later. Now after the potatos are grated, spill off excess water in the dish. Now get a frying pan ready with chopped onions and the margarine, simmering on warm. Take a hand full of potatos in the palm of your hand and squeeze again and then roll into a ball. Prepare tin foil or a cookie sheet with lots of flour on it.
Now after the ball is made, roll it into the flour till it is well covered. Then drop the ball in the boiling water. When they are done, they will float to the top. Remove and put them in the frying pan to simmer. THEN JUST EAT AND ENJOY.. a VERY delicious dish.
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text: For Such a Time As This From the Spring 2018 issue of SKYLIGHT See a PDF of this article Donate now to the Potterveld Fund for Interreligious Education and Scholarship When Riess Potterveld became acting president of the Graduate Theological Union in 2013, the public announcement said he would provide "stable leadership" while the Board of Trustees made plans to fill the position on a permanent basis. It is easy to see why he was chosen for that transitional role. This was to be his third presidency, coming after eight years at Lancaster Theological Seminary and three years at Pacific School of Religion, where... Riess PotterveldPresidential Search


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They Never Rationed Courage provides a moving depiction of the daily life of a regular soldier in WWII; a young man from a small city in Canada recorded his experiences and sent them home. Direct and involving, the letters in this book capture events on a human level, far from panoramic views of the war, and unmediated by time: a little girl saves her canary during a bombing raid on London; soldiers treasure the gifts sent to them and the kindness of people in their homes away from home. The camaraderie, adventures, sadnesses and bravery of those who served the Allies are compellingly recalled in the fresh and vivid words of a young man who was there.
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Morgan Stanley (MS) said Monday that it recently recruited four UBS advisors and two Deutsche Bank FAs. The combined assets of the three teams are about $1.4 billion, while the total yearly fees and commissions are close to $8.7 million.
Thus far in 2012, many heavyweight wirehouse teams have switched firms. At the same time, the wirehouses are under renewed pressure from boutique firms like HighTower and independent broker-dealers like LPL Financial (LPLA), which have been working hard to lure wirehouse reps into new practice models and business channels.
In its latest announcement, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney said Jonathan Klausner and John Duffy joined its Indianapolis, Ind. office Tuesday from UBS (UBS). The team now reports to Indiana complex manager Kathy Birk and branch manager Kenneth Langston. Its combined production is about $4 million, whiles its prior assets under management are $650 million.
According to MSSB, the team of Klausner and Duffy specializes in working with affluent and emerging-affluent families and individuals. Its typical account size is about $3 million in assets, and the average client net worth is $5 million. The team includes two client service associates and an additional advisor, Derek Disalvo.
James Flood and Michael Romer came to Morgan Stanley in Melville, N.Y., from UBS on Thursday. They have combined fees and commissions of roughly $1.65 million and previous client assets of $213 million. The team now reports to Suffolk County complex manager Dino Carfora.
Marc Richman and Brian Bernhardt recently moved to Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management from Deutsche Bank. They report to Richard Frick, the MSSB Philadelphia complex manager. Their previous combined yearly production is almost $3 million, and their prior client assets were $500 million.
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As part of my new "Is This Really a Thing and if So Should We All Go Out and Try It?" series I'm talking about dermaplaning. So, in case you don't know what dermaplaning is, I'll tell you: It's a medical exfoliation process where the outermost layers and dead skin cells are (shaved) removed from your face — which includes the peach fuzz hairs we all have. You know the ones that every once in a while catch the light the right way in a mirror and make you feel like some weird albino sasquatch?
Yeah, those.
I'm pretty sure they're on your face for a reason. Like to catch deadly skin eating bacteria before they reach your skin or to make fun of the small hairs on your upper-lip that are never as light.
Whatever the purpose, the consensus seems to be that your face will be way awesomer when without them. I hate technical terms.
Here are the claims:
- Your skin will look more refined, brighter, and less flawed.
- Foundation goes on smoother making the face look more even.
- It allows other products to penetrate the skin more easily to ensure they go deeper and may be good to do before a chemical peel or laser treatment.
- It diminishes superficial dryness, fine lines, hyper-pigmentation, and mild acne scarring.
- It's great for people who are sensitive to the chemicals in peels or get broken capillaries from exfoliants (or if you're pregnant or breastfeeding).
- Dermaplaning is similar to, but usually more effective than dermabrasion, with the added bonus of removing facial fuzz and no need for abrasives.
- It can stop breakouts caused by build up of oil and dirt in the follicles.
I know, I'm making my appointment too.
Be aware, this process involves someone taking a scalpel to your skin directly. You should make sure that someone is highly trained and doesn't have any grudges against you (that's a tip).
Thoughts? Should we try it? Are you ready to shave your face ladies? Have you? Should I? (Frankly, I really sold myself on this process, in writing this piece and I think it would make a great video.)
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In February 1967, Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, was arrested at a party in London on drug-related offenses. Arrested alongside Jagger was the well-known cultural guru Robert Fraser—Richard Hamilton's art dealer—resulting in a high-profile, media-fueled event. When Jagger and Fraser arrived handcuffed in a police van at the courts for sentencing, press photographers attended in droves. One of the resulting photographs, shot through the van's window by John Twine, was used by Hamilton in a series of six paintings he titled Swingeing London.
Hamilton, one of the earliest pioneers of Pop art, was a champion of pop culture in all its forms. In his words, he "felt a strong personal indignation at the insanity of legal institutions which could jail anyone for the offense of self-abuse with drugs." The title Swingeing London combines a reference to London's popular designation as "The Swinging City" with a reported statement by the judge presiding over the hearing that, "There are times when a swingeing [severe] sentence can act as a deterrent."
Hamilton created Swingeing London by silkscreening an enlarged and retouched version of the press photograph over a conventional oil painting. The work not only reflects the melding of art and music cultures that occurred in the 1960s in London, but also signals the end of the permissiveness and freedom that had characterized the city during that decade.


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Appeals court refuses to free Saudi in murder case
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A Saudi national accused of hiring his roommate to kill a central Missouri bar owner has not met conditions of his bond and will remain behind bars even though his government has posted $2 million to get him out, Missouri's Western District Court of Appeals ruled.
In its decision released Thursday, the court also declined to remove Circuit Judge Michael Wagner from the case, noting he had offered to hear further defense evidence showing why their client, Ziyad Abid, should be allowed to bond out.
Abid, 24, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the slaying of Blaine Whitworth, a popular bar owner in Warrensburg, who was gunned down in his driveway Sept. 1.
Reginald Singletary Jr., who had been living with Abid, admitted shooting Whitworth but said Abid paid him to do it, investigators said in court documents.
Abid was studying aviation at the University of Central Missouri, but his student visa was revoked after his arrest.
That worried Johnson County Circuit Judge Jacqueline Cook, who denied bond for Abid in mid-November because she believed he was a flight risk. She changed her mind two weeks later after defense attorneys noted the Missouri Constitution requires bond to be set in non-capital cases and set bond at $2 million.
Her Nov. 30 order also set several other conditions, including that Abid surrender his passport and pilot's license and be on electronic monitoring, at his expense. She stipulated that the bond money had to be put up by a bail bond agent with proven resources to cover the $2 million in case Abid were to flee the country or be deported.
Cook then recused herself from the case and handed it to Wagner.
Abid's attorneys tried several times to get the bond amount lowered, but Wagner refused to budge. Eventually Abid's father, Saudi Airlines pilot Tariq Abid, persuaded the Saudi government to post the bond, and the money was wired directly into the Johnson County court clerk's bank account in early April.
Around the same time, Abid was fitted with an electronic monitoring device, which he still wears even though he remains behind bars.
Upon learning that the Saudi government had posted bond, Wagner refused to allow Abid to leave jail because he was afraid he would not come back for his trial, scheduled to begin Aug. 20.
The judge offered to conduct more hearings to consider bond conditions, but instead defense attorneys filed a writ with the appeals court seeking Wagner's removal and Abid's release
"We trust that Judge Wagner will conduct any further hearing that Abid requests in an expedited fashion and issue a prompt decision concerning conditions of release thereafter," the court wrote.
No new hearings had been scheduled as of late Thursday afternoon. One of Abid's attorneys, Patrick Peters, declined to comment on the appeals court's decision.


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CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Fury on the right.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews down in Washington.
"Let Me Start" tonight with this. Huey Long once said that fascism,
when it comes to America, will call itself anti-fascism. So what do we
call this hard lurch to the right that`s happening in the country as I
speak? I don`t mean conservative. The conservatives are the ones getting
hit by this new hard rightward swing in Republican politics.
Last night in Texas, a cheered-on hero of the Tea Party right beat
Governor Perry`s candidate, and now can`t be stopped. Suddenly,
conservativism isn`t good enough. You`ve got to be on the far-out fringe,
where people don`t believe in science, think the government should arrest
people for abortion, or same-sex marriage is the work of the devil, where
government is bad, where nothing is better than another war in the Mideast,
yet another neocon race toward Armageddon.
What happened to the party of Lincoln? Of Ike? Of Reagan, who put
his whole heart into eliminating nuclear weapons, who thought the key to
politics was tough negotiation across the aisle, not this crazed gang of
the right who want nothing more than for government to fail so they can
climb up onto the Capitol dome, pound their chests and lead the charge for
the all-out victory over the remaining Democratic opposition.
Well, to help me confront this right-wing onslaught are the great
"Game Changer" himself, John Heilemann, and "The Washington Post`s" rising
star -- in fact, already star -- Nia-Malika Henderson.
I want you to look right now at Sarah Palin. Tea Party candidate Ted
Cruz in Texas went from 2 percent in early polling to trouncing Texas
lieutenant governor David Dewhurst last night by 13 points in the race to
take on a Democrat for the U.S. Senate seat, a (INAUDIBLE) he is sure to
And it was a victory for the right wing against whatever`s left of the
Republican establishment. Sarah Palin took to the airwaves to cheer on her
winning candidate. Let`s watch.
SARAH PALIN (R-AK), FMR. GOV., FOX CONTRIBUTOR: It`s a victory for
Tea Party patriots who just want to get our country back on the right track
and defend our republic. The Tea Party patriots who came from all over the
country, recognizing that Ted Cruz is the man to not just embrace status
quo in Washington but will engage in the sudden and relentless reform of
our big, centralized federal government, trying to shrink that government
and allow more states` rights and allow individual rights and
opportunities, they recognized Ted Cruz was the man.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Republicans across the country who have been called
"not right-wing enough" have fallen victims to the Tea Party. Here are
just a few examples. Former six-term congressman Bob Inglis of South
Carolina, Senator Mike Castle fell to Christine O`Donnell in Delaware,
Senator Bob Bennett was taken down in Utah. Senator Dick Lugar in Indiana
just a few months ago. And of course, yesterday`s loss by David Dewhurst
in Texas.
And then there`s two famous Republicans who went running for the Tea
Party before they suffered losses from Tea Party primary challengers,
longtime Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, who went to the Democratic
Party, and Florida governor Charlie Crist, who turned independent.
Well, there you have it. I want to start with John Heilemann, who
watches (ph) it (ph). You talk about a game change. I`m watching people
like -- the language of "save our republic," you know, the language almost
sounds like "Seven Days in May," like a military coup. This is different
than just conservative.
JOHN HEILEMANN, "NEW YORK" MAGAZINE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
And I like that sound effect best of all, the little dropping in the water
You know, you think about the irony. If you had said four or five
years ago that -- or even two years ago, that the endorsed, blessed
candidate of Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, and as right as you can
imagine in American politics, would be dismissed in a...
MATTHEWS: Out-flanked on the right.
HEILEMANN: ... would be dismissed as too liberal by a primary -- a
GOP primary electorate, you would have thought, you know, you were nuts.
People would have thought you were crazy. This -- this party, it`s like
there`s now a rule in Republican politics, which is basically that if you
have a candidate who`s not actually certifiable, and as long as they have a
little bit -- enough money, the candidate who`s the furthest to the right
MATTHEWS: Always.
HEILEMANN: And that -- always. It`s, like, now a golden rule.
MATTHEWS: Or unless, Nia -- you cover these -- people like John
McCain go down, basically, H.D. (SIC) -- or what`s his name, H.D. Hayworth
-- it was like -- J.D. Hayworth...
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Right.
MATTHEWS: ... they will pretend they`re one of them, or Chuck
Grassley in Iowa now, are going so far right just to hope they`re not
picked off next time.
HENDERSON: That`s right. And you had McCain, you know, (INAUDIBLE)
over there when he was running against J.D. Hayworth.
I think there`s appetite among Republicans for something new and
something fresh in the way that Obama represented something new and
something fresh...
MATTHEWS: Oh!
HENDERSON: ... in 2008. And I also think there is a sense among
Republicans that they want an ideological counterweight to Obama. They see
in Obama a big-spending liberal. They want someone who is equally on the
far right. And that`s why...
MATTHEWS: When we watch this election -- and you guys are all
covering this every day, like we are here. You watched Romney, who is the
spear carrier, the champion of this rightward-leaning Republican Party, and
we`re hearing from people, like, from Freedom Fest (SIC) or whatever it`s
called, Freedom Works, they`re all basically, as of this night -- I just
heard a few minutes ago before we went on the air -- they`re talking about
making sure Romney does what he`s told.
So basically, you`ve got a well-trained, you know, canine kind of
performance here by Romney. He has to do what this right wing shift is
demanding of him.
HEILEMANN: Well, yes.
MATTHEWS: Right?
HEILEMANN: Look, for Romney to -- in order to -- for Romney to win in
November, he`s got to -- he must drive conservative turnout. He`s got to
have enthusiasm in the Republican base. If he doesn`t have that, he`s not
going to be able to win.
MATTHEWS: Is this "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?
HEILEMANN: Well, look, I think, you know, one of the great questions
about Romney -- and I think, you know, he -- he`s run much further -- he
governed further to the left in Massachusetts than he actually is. I think
he`s now running further to the right than he actually is. But that`s part
of the problem is there`s not -- there`s no fixed point...
MATTHEWS: Hey, wait a minute...
HEILEMANN: We don`t know...
MATTHEWS: How do you know he ain`t going to stay stuck on the right?
HEILEMANN: Well, that`s...
MATTHEWS: He`s promised he will.
HEILEMANN: I think -- I think the thing is -- I think the bigger
issue, the question that arises, is whether -- because he seems kind of
uncertain and coreless, we don`t really know that he has firm beliefs...
MATTHEWS: Oh!
HEILEMANN: ... about a lot of things -- is that his policy agenda --
if you want to be fearful of him, is that his policy agenda will be driven
in just the way you`re suggesting, by an increasingly right-wing...
MATTHEWS: OK, let me tell you something...
HEILEMANN: ... Republican Party in Congress.
MATTHEWS: You guys know what this...
MATTHEWS: You know especially, and you`re learning this. Politicians
make these campaign promises -- I`m going to be 100 percent against taxes.
I`m going to be 100 percent with the hawks on foreign policy. I`m going to
be with the religious right, put the gown (ph) on. I`m with you at Liberty
They`re afraid to switch once they get in because they saw what
happened to George Bush the first. They saw he switched, and they killed
him for it.
HENDERSON: That`s right. That`s right, with flip-flopping on taxes.
But I think Romney is, in some ways, running as a vague candidate because
he knows that if he is tied...
MATTHEWS: Ain`t we taking notes?
HENDERSON: ... to closely...
MATTHEWS: And you`re taking notes...
HENDERSON: What he...
MATTHEWS: The right wing is.
HENDERSON: No, no, no. He knows that swing voters see some daylight
between him and the Republican Party.
MATTHEWS: Well, I know, but...
HENDERSON: That`s in some ways...
MATTHEWS: ... that`s the illusion.
HENDERSON: ... why he`s being elusive (ph).
MATTHEWS: I`m not sure. But anyway, let`s take a look at this.
Here`s Ted Cruz. He found support -- this is the guy that just won the
Texas primary for the United States Senate. He got some support from Sarah
Palin, the awful Glenn Beck, the desperate Rick Santorum, but also with
powerful and well-financed groups like the Club for Growth.
Here`s an ad the Club for Growth put out early this year attacking
Cruz`s opponent, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, the candidate of Rick
Perry. Here`s the charge against him. Wait for this. It`s really a dirty
word. They said he`s a moderate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "The Dallas Morning News" says Dewhurst has served
as a moderate Republican.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: "The Houston Chronicle" says Dewhurst is
generally considered a moderate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "A moderate at heart," says "The Texas Observer."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And "The Wall Street Journal" says Dewhurst
supported an income tax for Texas!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Moderate tax-raising David Dewhurst, wrong for
MATTHEWS: "Moderate" is a curse word!
HEILEMANN: Yes, moderate...
MATTHEWS: ... a four-letter word! It`s unbelievable!
HEILEMANN: No, no, it`s even worse (INAUDIBLE) That`s worse than a
four-letter word. It`s an eight-letter word, like a four-letter word times
MATTHEWS: I never heard this before in politics.
HEILEMANN: And again -- you know, again on the policies, they`re
actually not very far apart.
HENDERSON: That`s right.
HEILEMANN: Cruz is only mostly stylistically further to the right.
Dewhurst is a very conservative guy.
But you know, the interesting thing about Cruz is that he does combine
this very, very far right, very purist ideological agenda, with a very
attractive, modern face. He`s a young guy. He`s 42...
MATTHEWS: He`s...
HEILEMANN: He`s a Harvard law school graduate.
HENDERSON: He`s Latino.
HEILEMANN: He`s argued before the Supreme Court...
HEILEMANN: And he`s Hispanic...
HENDERSON: Right, which is very, very important.
HEILEMANN: ... which is hugely important for...
HENDERSON: Right.
HEILEMANN: ... for the Republican Party...
MATTHEWS: Will you answer me an ethnic question? I don`t know if
either of you know the question. Do Mexican-Americans, who are huge in
this country -- we used to call them Chicanos -- Latinos is the current
word of choice -- but they`re all over the place. They`re a huge part of
the immigrant population in this country now, and they vote. Most of them
HENDERSON: Yes.
MATTHEWS: And you have the Cubans down there in Florida. You have
Puerto Ricans mainly in New York and in Florida. They tend to be
Democrats. Cubans tend to be Republicans. Mexican-Americans are somewhat
split, but about 2 to 1 roughly Democrat, but they`re in play.
Will the Mexican-Americans who are in play -- will they vote for a guy
because he`s from a Spanish background, a Cuban?
HENDERSON: I think in Texas, for instance, it`s -- you know, 75
percent of those Latinos, 30 percent, 40 percent all Latinos, are
Democrats. I don`t think there`s not -- there`s necessarily going to be a
transfer of Hispanic love...
MATTHEWS: Are they attracted to a guy because he has a Hispanic name
like Cruz?
HENDERSON: I don`t -- I`m not sure. I don`t think so. I don`t think
there`s a lot of...
MATTHEWS: Because I think they`re still playing...
MATTHEWS: ... with Rubio in their heads.
HENDERSON: Right.
HEILEMANN: I think, you know, there`s not a lot of evidence that --
that -- part of the reason people have argued that Rubio would not actually
appeal to most of those Hispanic voters.
HENDERSON: Right.
HEILEMANN: But it is more an ideological thing than it is an ethnic
thing. And you know, you look at the other really big news in that front
this week is the choice of Julian Cruz -- (SIC)
HENDERSON: That`s right.
HEILEMANN: ... the incredibly impressive Democratic Hispanic mayor of
San Antonio, who`s going to...
MATTHEWS: His name`s Castro.
HEILEMANN: Castro. I`m sorry. I said Cruz, I meant Castro, Julian
Castro -- an incredibly impressive guy...
MATTHEWS: I wouldn`t know it except somebody just told me in my
MATTHEWS: I`m not smarter than you.
HEILEMANN: ... who`s going to do the -- I met the guy. He`s
MATTHEWS: OK, let`s take a look at this...
HEILEMANN: ... the Hispanic Obama.
MATTHEWS: This is what I want, this latest number (ph). Is this hard
right shift, the Republican Party, "lurch," I called it -- is it going to
hurt the party? Look at this. This is under (ph) upside-down polling
right now when you look at this right now.
Look at the Republican Party now, 34 percent positive rate. And
that`s one third of the country says, yes, they`re pretty good, 43
percent`s, No, they`re not really any good.
On the Democratic side, it`s a call -- it`s a pick, 40-40 positive-
negative. Now, that`s not great. Neither party`s at -- nobody`s in love
with anybody here.
HENDERSON: Right.
MATTHEWS: But what do you think of Republican -- is this right-wing
lurch, with all these Tea Party people like that woman, the witch, she was
called, and Sarah and Bachmann calling for McCarthyism and all this -- is
this wacky stuff hurting the party`s brand?
HEILEMANN: Well...
MATTHEWS: The old party brand.
HEILEMANN: I think that what`s hurting the party brand most is that
it`s affiliated with Congress right now. And the institution of Congress
is in such bad -- bad state...
HENDERSON: That`s right.
HEILEMANN: ... in terms of American public opinion...
MATTHEWS: So they think...
HEILEMANN: ... Republican Party is the congressional party, the
congressional party such.
HENDERSON: ... you see Obama trying to tie Romney to Boehner to
MATTHEWS: What do these people get paid for on the Hill? What are
they -- what are (ph) Republican members of Congress, who don`t really want
to legislate, who don`t really want to create, they just want to sit there
-- do you actually make 170 (ph) a year for just going in and saying no all
HEILEMANN: It`s a good gig, if you can get it.
MATTHEWS: Thank you. I think it is on Broadway (INAUDIBLE) Matthew
Broderick and Kelly O`Hara (ph) in "It`s a Good Gig If You Can Get It."
John Heilemann, thank you, sir. And thank you, Nia-Malika Henderson.
Coming up: Polls in three big swing states seem to be swinging, right
now at least, to President Obama`s direction. Could it be that Bain --
there`s a great word! -- and Romney`s silence on his tax returns, hiding
them to himself, is finally hurting him where it matters most, in the
states that have to be carried (INAUDIBLE)
And by the way, playing chicken. The head of the Chicken Filet (SIC)
chain opposes gay marriage. Well, that`s his position. The left is
boycotting the right in (ph) celebrating (ph) this whole question. Is this
good for anybody, this kind of fight? And we`re going to debate that
issue. Should they be fighting over this?
Dick Cheney, by the way, says Sarah Palin was a mistake. Palin says
Cheney has been influenced by -- well, she`s an original -- the "lamestream
media." By the way, the lamestream media, by the way, was influenced by
Cheney in the last war we got into. Judy Miller, you listening? A food
fight now between two Republicans whose best days are behind them.
Finally, up in the air. Which mayor of one of the world`s greatest
cities got himself stuck in a zipline? Hint. There will be no Olympic
medals for this event.
This is HARDBALL, place for politics.
MATTHEWS: So where`s President Obama the strongest right now?
According to Gallup, 13 states and the District of Columbia give him
approval ratings over 50 percent. The highest, D.C., with 83 percent
approval for the president, followed by his home state of Hawaii, 63
percent, with Rhode Island, Vermont and New York rounding it in the top
As for the states where the president is least popular, no surprise
there. Utah takes the top spot at 26 percent, and that`s where President
Obama has his lowest approval in the country, followed by Cheney country,
Wyoming, in third it`s Alaska, followed by Idaho and West Virginia. By the
way, most of those states are barely populated.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. For Mitt Romney, the last week has been
full of troubles at home and abroad, of course. He returned to the United
States just yesterday after a trip overshadowed by a series of embarrassing
campaign gaffes.
And here`s the news he woke up to this morning, signs of trouble for
him in this presidential race, a new poll from "The New York Times," CBS
and Quinnipiac in three key states gives President Obama a very comfortable
lead. In Florida, Obama`s up by 6. In Ohio, Obama`s also up by 6. In
Pennsylvania, the president leads by 11.
Some say that that state can be longer -- no longer be even be called
a tossup since it leans so far for Obama. I`m still worried about the
voter photo requirement there that`s just come in.
On the question of personal favorability, the president dominates, up
9 in Florida, up 11 in Ohio, up a whopping 14 points in Pennsylvania. In
other words, it`s not just the rest of the world who aren`t falling for
Romney, and it looks like he`s got problems here.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is Democratic congresswoman from Florida, of
course, and chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Eugene
Robinson`s a columnist of Pulitzer Prize rank with "The Washington Post"
and an MSNBC political analyst .
Congresswoman, I want to talk you about this race. It is very tricky.
It`s very bumpy. I don`t know how to read it. I read numbers on here
every night, and I wonder if there`s any continuing theory to them.
Your job, which you`ve accepted, is to win for the party. Now, here`s
the question. Are these numbers indicative of where this election`s headed
or are they short-term?
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ (D-FL), DNC CHAIR: Well, I think, look,
it`s still, you know, just the beginning of August. So we have 97 days
until the election. So I know the Obama campaign certainly isn`t counting
their chickens you know, or you know, ready to throw the victory party.
We`re working very hard.
But I think those numbers in the battleground states are reflective of
two things. One is that we are, you know, running a very effective,
significant grass roots campaign. And I think the numbers are also
reflective of the fact that President Obama has laid out one vision and one
path, and Mitt Romney -- and this is what I think is starting to sink in
and why the battleground states numbers are showing the way they are.
Look at the report that came out today. The nonpartisan Tax Policy
Center came out with a report that showed that Mitt Romney`s tax plan would
actually cost the average middle class family another -- with children --
another $2,000 in additional taxes.
And that`s because they`re not going to be able to take a mortgage
interest deduction. They would not be able to get the credit on their
health care premiums any longer, or charitable donations. and the average
millionaire in Mitt Romney`s tax plan, according to this nonpartisan study,
would actually get an $87,000 tax break. So I think that that is starting
to sink in.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s smart...
MATTHEWS: ... politics because instead of complaining about the rich
being rich, you`re complaining about how it makes the poor poorer, the
middle class poorer.
Let me go to Gene Robinson on this. (INAUDIBLE) win for Obama -- or
lose for Obama and win for Romney, of course, is the economy. The numbers
we got show he hasn`t closed the deal with the likely voters. That`s
Romney. In Florida, Romney leads Obama on the question of who would do a
better job handling the economy, but only by 2 points. In Ohio, Obama`s up
by a point. And in Pennsylvania, the president actually leads.
So given this kind of the depressing -- not depressing, frustrating
state of the economy -- it isn`t booming, the stock market is, but
unemployment is still in the low 8s -- he`s still doing OK. If he gets a
break and it drops below 8 percent before November, it looks like he can
win this thing on the economy, if it happens.
EUGENE ROBINSON, "WASHINGTON POST," MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes. I
mean, you extrapolate, you could say, if it drops below 8, maybe the
election wouldn`t even be that close.
But you know, what I think these numbers are telling us are not just
that Romney`s economic message hasn`t penetrated, but that the Obama
campaign`s message, which has been to define Mitt Romney as this -- this
MATTHEWS: OK, what hurts him worse...
ROBINSON: ... selfish, rich guy...
MATTHEWS: ... that he`s a selfish rich guy or that he`s very
secretive about his tax returns, which (INAUDIBLE) it`s not the crime, it`s
the cover-up, that old argument?
ROBINSON: It`s all part of -- it`s all kind of part of a piece
MATTHEWS: Let me go to Debbie on that. Congresswoman, you know, this
thing about not releasing his tax returns -- I always argue if it`s better
than it looks, they`ll tell you. Any politician, left, right or center, if
their PR is bad but they got a better truth out there, they`ll tell you the
Romney`s hanging fire on this damn thing. Everybody knows he seems to
be hiding something. If he`s hiding one year of not paying taxes, that`s
one thing. How bad does it have to be to really sting him if he does show
his taxes?
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Boy, it has to be pretty bad.
To not release your tax returns after you`re getting being pounded by
regular folks, by the average working family that simply believes
rightfully so that if you`re running for president of the United States,
you should release your tax returns, because we need to get a good look,
just like Mitt Romney`s father said when he ran for president, that one
year of tax returns for a presidential candidate isn`t enough because, you
know, it might just be for show.
He released 12 years. It`s got to be pretty bad. And we have gotten
a glimpse. We know he has a Swiss bank account. Why does he have one?
Most American businessmen don`t have Swiss bank accounts, unless they`re
trying to avoid taxes in the United States.
MATTHEWS: I love the way you get that in, Madam Chairman.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well...
MATTHEWS: I love the way you just put...
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I`m not saying he does, but we don`t know.
MATTHEWS: But we know he has a Swiss bank account.
Anyway, Romney campaign is out with a new Web ad. Here`s one you will
love knocking President Obama on a topic that you might find surprising,
the president`s auto bailout, which is killing Romney I would think in
Ohio, and Indiana and all the Midwestern industrial states. But for some
reason he`s returning to the scene of the crime, Romney is. Take a look.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Grew up here in Lyndhurst, started 1972, selling
NARRATOR: In 2009, under the Obama administration`s bailout of
General Motors, Ohio dealerships were forced to close.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I received a letter from General Motors. They
were suspending my credit line. We have 30-some employees that were out of
work. My wife and I were the last ones there. It was like the dream that
we worked for and that we worked so hard for was gone.
MATTHEWS: Well, Romney blamed the president for auto industry-related
job losses. According to the Treasury Department, the bailout created
115,000 jobs. That`s over 100,000 jobs, according to Treasury.
Well, regardless, the ad is only the latest in a very convoluted
series of messages coming from Romney over the years when it comes to the
auto bailout. He`s been very unclear on this. In 2008 he wrote an
editorial for "The New York Times" under the headline "Let Detroit Go
Romney wrote then, "If General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler get the
bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the
American automotive industry goodbye. It won`t go overnight, but its
demise will be virtually guaranteed."
Well, that`s really future-telling there. That was wrong of course.
And earlier this year he had a very different response. He took credit for
the auto bailout. Let`s watch Romney this time.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: My own view, by the way, was
that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government
help. And frankly that`s finally what the president did.
I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy. And finally when that was
done and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I will
take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry`s come back.
MATTHEWS: Can you translate that into English?
ROBINSON: No. But it`s not true. It`s not true that the president
did what he said to do.
MATTHEWS: Managed bankruptcy.
ROBINSON: He wrote -- he didn`t just say. He wrote let Detroit go
bankrupt. The president did not. The president invested our money in
General Motors and it paid off. It saved the auto industry.
We`re going to make money on the deal. It`s -- look, if I were Mitt
Romney`s campaign, I would never utter the words auto bailout again.
MATTHEWS: Gene, you`re so right.
This is worth arguing about, Congresswoman, because it`s not just
points scoring by one part or the other. The Democratic Party largely
believes in industrial policy. When you can do something to help the
market do the right thing, you try to do something actively. You don`t
just sit back and believe in laissez-faire. Let the chips fall.
Romney is a "let the chips fall" kind of guy. He`s a real
conservative on business. And letting the chips falls would have meant the
loss of our auto industry, potentially, in this case.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well, letting the chips fall, also known as just
leaving people out in the cold.
But that Web ad, let`s take a closer look at it. There are actually -
- it doesn`t pass the straight face test on any level. The ad focuses on a
dealership in Ohio. There are actually 2,200 more jobs in auto dealerships
in Ohio now than there were when President Obama took office.
So to suggest that the auto bailout actually caused the demise of jobs
in auto dealerships is completely wrong, absolutely not true. And we have
got -- we`re talking about a state where one in eight jobs are associated
with the auto industry. In 80 of 88 counties, there is an automobile
facility, an automobile-related facility, in 80 of 88 counties in Ohio.
So the reason the Ohio employment rate is below the national average
is because Barack Obama had the courage to rescue the automobile industry
and that`s why they have had a resurgence in their economy. They have got
a long way to go like the rest of the country.
But if left to Mitt Romney, we would have lost 1.4 million jobs in the
automobile industry, including those in the supply chain, many of which
would have been in Ohio. And Ohio`s economy would have been decimated.
Those are the facts.
MATTHEWS: OK. It`s so great to have you. It`s so great to have you.
See you in Charlotte pretty soon. It`s coming on.
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Yes, a few weeks.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, chairwoman of the Democratic Party,
Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
Eugene Robinson, all you have is Pulitzer Prizes. She`s got a
convention coming up.
MATTHEWS: Up next: The birthers just won`t quit. Wait until you
hear Republican Congressman Steve King dismiss the evidence he himself
found that President Obama was born here. These people are nuts, nuts.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Give it up for all of
our outstanding American athletes who are competing in London right now.
OBAMA: When I`m watching -- you know, when people run track, you
know, I understand that I know how to run. They`re just much faster.
These gymnastics folks, I don`t understand. How do you not bust your
head every time you`re on that little balance beam? I couldn`t walk across
that balance beam.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s President Obama giving a shout-out to the U.S.
Olympic team at an event in Ohio today.
The president also made some calls to U.S. athletes, like Michael
Phelps, the great swimmer, and the women`s gymnastics team, to congratulate
them on their big wins. I love it when they win.
As for Stephen Colbert, well, he just can`t get enough of Olympic
dressage or horse ballet, as it`s sometimes called. As you probably know
by now, Mitt Romney`s family horse, Rafalca, is competing in dressage over
in London.
And here`s Colbert relishing all things Rafalca.
STEPHEN COLBERT, HOST, "THE COLBERT REPORT": Mitt isn`t the only
Romney wowing them on the international stage this week.
So is Rafalca, the Romney family horse, who is at the London Olympics
competing in dressage...
COLBERT: ... the sport of the summer for those who use summer as a
COLBERT: Rafalca is poised not only to take the gold. She could have
a major impact on the U.S. presidential election.
There will be no V.P. announcement until after Rafalca is done
competing. Dressage is full of normal folk, like Prince Abdullah al Saud
of Saudi Arabia, Princess Nathalie Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein of Denmark, and
Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.
(singing): These are the people in your neighborhood, in your
MATTHEWS: Well, it`s been widely suspect that no V.P. announcement
will be made until Ann Romney returns from London, after Rafalca`s dressage
events are completed.
Also, last week, London`s Mayor Boris Johnson, who looks like me, made
headlines after mocking Mitt Romney for suggesting that London might not be
fully prepared for the Games. Earlier today, though, Johnson was careening
across a zip line -- there he is -- at a local park attempting to above the
crowd. The only problem, he was left hanging before reaching the other
BORIS JOHNSON, MAYOR OF LONDON: Can you get me a rope? Get me a
rope, OK? I think they needed to test this on somebody going a bit faster.
Get me a ladder.
MATTHEWS: His crowd wasn`t fully prepared.
Anyway, Johnson was eventually pulled to safer ground. Later on, he
reflected on the experience.
JOHNSON: And I thoroughly recommend it. I wouldn`t want to be up
there all afternoon, but I think loads of people are going to enjoy it. It
was wonderful. And I thoroughly recommend it. I hope you`re going to do
it later on.
MATTHEWS: Great-looking guy, anyway, brushing it off like a pro.
Next, could it be -- well, could it be another birther theory?
Apparently so. Republican Congressman Steve King participated in a tele-
town hall meeting last week, and one caller started with the birther
nonsense. At first, it sounded as if King was finally putting the issue to
REP. STEVE KING (R), IOWA: We went down into the Library of Congress
and we found the microfiche there of two newspapers, only two newspapers in
Hawaii. Each of them had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would
have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack
Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries.
MATTHEWS: Well, so far so good. Then he kept talking.
KING: But that doesn`t mean that there aren`t some other explanations
on how they might have announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list
goes on.
MATTHEWS: Insanity right there in the United States Congress.
So President Obama`s young mother telegrammed her son`s birth
announcement from Kenya to the local newspapers in Hawaii, just on the off-
chance that he would make a bid for the presidency some day, the name
Barack Hussein Obama of course being hand-selected as the perfect name for
a presidential candidate.
The more likely scenario, U.S. Congressman King realized halfway
through his answer that he better not disappoint those crazy fellow
birthers whose votes, frighteningly enough, he`s counting on.
Geez, what a country this has become.
Up next: a game of chicken. The head of the Chick-fil-A, of the
Chick-fil-A company opposes gay marriage. And the left is boycotting the
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Chicken sandwiches and waffle fries might seem like an unlikely source
of controversy. But the executive behind the fast food chain Chick-fil-A
launched a firestorm last month when he said he was -- quote -- "guilty as
charged" when it came to supporting a traditional family and marriage
between a man and a woman.
Dan Cathy told The Baptist Press -- quote -- "We are very much
supportive of the family, the biblical definition of the family unit.
We`re a family-owned business, a family-led business and we are married to
our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We know that it might not
be popular with everyone, but thank the lord we live in a country where we
can share our values and operate on biblical principles."
Well, supporters of gay rights have since called for bans, boycotts,
and protests, where conservatives like Mike Huckabee rallied behind the
chain and declared today Chick-fil-A appreciation day. So everybody is in
this now.
With me is Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno and R. Clarke Cooper, who has
been on so many times. He leads up the Log Cabin Republican, who are gay
Republicans, who are also very important, committed businesspeople as well.
Thank you for joining, Clarke, as always. You can smile.
R. CLARKE COOPER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS: All
MATTHEWS: Thank you for here being with me.
COOPER: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: I don`t know about you, Alderman. I just don`t know about
Are you using aldermanic privilege or -- to decide who does business
in your aldermanic district? I mean, that`s a legal action by you. Do you
think that`s appropriate, when you just don`t agree with somebody`s
politics or even sexual politics?
JOE MORENO (D), CHICAGO ALDERMAN: Absolutely not, and that`s not what
I`m doing. And that`s not what the community is doing.
It`s not whether a CEO believes or says certain things. It`s whether
that CEO`s actions translate into their policies. I have been working with
Chick-fil-A, Chris, for eight or nine months trying to clarify if they have
anti-discriminatory policies.
MATTHEWS: Do they?
MORENO: And until their put their Facebook page post up about a week
or so ago, I didn`t have clarity.
That post helped in our discussions in moving forward. And I will
remind your viewers that Dan Cathy also was asked if he would hire a gay
individual. He paused for a long while and then said, well, it depends on
the circumstances.
I want clarity. Are those circumstance if that gay individual walks
in holding hands with his partner? Are those circumstance if that gay
individual walks in and is proud of being gay? Those are -- those are
against the law in Illinois. And I need a clarification that the policies
of the company...
MATTHEWS: What would be your standard on whether to use your
councilor or aldermanic privilege to stop the construction or business of a
MATTHEWS: What`s your standard?
MORENO: It`s my responsibility as a community representative to have
responsible businesses.
And part of the business` responsibility is to not have discriminatory
policies. So if the company...
MATTHEWS: So what`s your definition of discriminatory policy? Just
help us out on the facts here, because this is what this is about.
MORENO: Well, for instance, for instance, prior to their Facebook
posting, I did not have a commitment from the company that they were open
to not only hiring, but also serving those of different sexual
MATTHEWS: Did you have any complaints that they were not?
MORENO: We have had 19 -- they have been sued 19 times. And a woman
right now is suing the company.
MATTHEWS: Nineteen times for sexual discrimination, sexual
orientation discrimination, or what?
MORENO: For discrimination against a minority group. And that was
from -- that was from 2009. So I`m sure it`s happened more. Currently,
there`s a case on the books where a woman has sued the company because the
manager told her she was fired because she should stay home and cook and
not cook at Chick-fil-A.
This thing are disturbing, Chris.
MORENO: I want a clarification from the company. I`m not saying that
the CEO has to believe something or state something that I believe in. Of
course not. I will protect that. Even if I disagree with him. That`s not
the debate.
MATTHEWS: Let`s stop there. I agree with you on that one.
What I don`t like is some people don`t like some of his political
views even on issue where I don`t agree with them on. And I see where
Christine Quinn, the speaker of the council in New York is doing this. Tom
Menino, up in Boston, I really like is doing this. Rahm Emanuel`s been in
this a lot.
They`re all putting their feet out there, and then pulling back and
saying I didn`t mean I was going to stop them. (INAUDIBLE) here. This is
a very tricky issue. The country`s divided on same sex marriage.
Every time we have an election, 32 states have voted on it and voted
it down. Yet when you ask people in the polls, it`s very even. I don`t
think he discriminated a guy because of what he thinks.
COOPER: That`s right. And you mentioned polling. It`s not just
marriage, it`s actually relationship recognition. And this is not just the
average voter, this includes conservative voters. If you break it down to
civil unions, legal status, more and more Americans, an overwhelm majority
are in favor, including self-identified voters.
MATTHEWS: There`s a lot of evolution going on.
COOPER: But this issue with Chick-fil-A, there are some
constitutional concerns, Chris, when you have municipal leaders in Chicago,
in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia even suggesting some kind of
Orwellian process of denying business or business access to the community -
- I imagine that in places like Chicago, you probably have local Chamber of
Commerce members saying, hey, are we next? Are our head next on the
chopping block?
And I can tell you, most members of Log Cabin Republicans, if they`re
not in the private sector, they are small business owners. So, while our
members may not be buying those Chick-fil-A waffle fries or (INAUDIBLE),
they don`t want their businesses to be threatened with a potential
government ban. There`s an impediment upon First Amendment rights when you
start picking and choosing businesses that can be --
MATTHEWS: I`m one of those guys. I`m one of those who believe you
should like Jane Fonda in the movies even if you don`t like her politics.
MORENO: I agree. We have never said, Chris, they`re
mischaracterizing the debate. I have never said anything about beliefs or
Orwellian, as your guest has said. What I`ve said is the civil rights
movement -- and you know this better than I do, Chris -- that you never led
from the front, you led from the back.
And what we`re saying is, clarify your position. From day one, I said
-- I`ve done this for eight or nine months without public fanfare. Clarify
your anti-discriminatory policies. Work with a local LBGT group --
MATTHEWS: Alderman, call me up when you have an example they rejected
a good job applicant looking for a job. And they say sorry we don`t like
that life. Then I`m with you.
MORENO: I`m trying to prevent that from happening. I`m trying to be
progressive instead of backing off. I`m not going to back down from this.
MATTHEWS: Just don`t start preemptive wars.
MORENO: I`m not going to back off.
MATTHEWS: I know what you`re doing and I guess I agree, but it has to
do with behavior, not thinking.
COOPER: Individual liberty here. Vote with your wallets. You don`t
have to go to a particular business. You can go to a particular business.
This is what we value as Americans. This is part of our American
exceptionalism. We have that freedom of speech --
MORENO: -- value the laws in Chicago and Illinois. I`m going to
protect those who are not in the minority classes, period.
MATTHEWS: Anybody who is prejudice against gay people is a fool, in
business terms, moral terms, whatever. You`re fool. God made those people
and they are customers.
Anyway, thank you, Joe Moreno.
And thank you, Clarke. I`m beginning to like you more, Clarke Cooper,
because you`re a man of the business center.
Anyway -- up next, Darth Vader versus the grizzly mom. Did you expect
Sarah Palin to stay quiet while Dick Cheney called her a mistake? Forget
about it. She`s back.
This is a great fight. Root for which one, I`m not sure. It`s a
tough one for me, Clarke.
This is HARDBALL, the place for politics.
MATTHEWS: NBC News is now learned or actually confirmed a "Reuters"
report that President Obama has signed a so-called intelligence finding
authorizing covert aid on the Syrian rebels. This is big news. White
House and intelligence officials are declining comment on the report, but
the administration has been under constant criticism for months from
Senator John McCain and others who say the administration should be arming
the rebels.
We`ll be right back. Big story there.
DICK CHENEY, FORMER U.S. VICE PRESIDENT: I like Governor Palin. I`ve
met her. I know her. She`s an attractive candidate.
But based on her background, she`s only been governor for what? Two
years. I don`t think she passed that test.
REPORTER: Of being ready.
CHENEY: Of being ready to take over. And I think that was a mistake.
MATTHEWS: Wow. Welcome back to HARDBALL.
Sarah Palin did not take kindly to those words from Dick Cheney. She
saw them as fighting words about his readiness for office.
And last night, Palin proved she can give as good as she gets. Let`s
SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: Well, seeing how Dick --
excuse me, Vice President Cheney never misfires, then evidently he`s quite
convinced what he had evidently read about me by the lame-stream media
having been written what I believe is a false narrative over the last four
years, evidently Dick Cheney believed that stuff.
MATTHEWS: Joe Conason, of all the things to say of the lame-stream
media as if they`re leading Cheney around. As I recall, Cheney through the
good offices of his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and Judie Miller were
leading "The New York Times" around.
So, the idea he got tricked into backing -- knocking Palin because of
"The Times" -- by the way, before you start. I`ve got to show you this.
This is the actual Cheney in real time back then talking about his support
and praising Palin in 2008. Let`s watch.
CHENEY: I`m delighted to support John McCain and pleased that he`s
chosen a running mate with executive talent, toughness and common sense,
our next vice president, Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: So welcome to our say hello to our Republican Party 2012,
Cheney and Palin duking it out. The extreme right taking control.
Joe, what do you think of that? You`re editor-in-chief of
By the way, Susan Milligan joins us. She writes for "U.S. News &
World Report".
Joe, this is so ludicrous.
JOE CONASON, NATIONALMEMO.COM: Yes.
MATTHEWS: He`s dumping on her, and he`s the guy she accuses now of
being manipulated by the lame-stream media.
CONASON: Yes. Well, I`m afraid she doesn`t see the humor in that,
for whatever reason. But what it shows to me is that the difficulties in
the Republican Party now, because this is sort of the hard right versus the
kooky right.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CONASON: In the present moment, it shows the difficulty that Mitt
Romney faces in choosing a vice presidential candidate simply because he
has to both fire up the base, the Tea Party, which wants somebody like
Sarah Palin, that extreme. And yet, you know, the rest of the country
wants somebody who is qualified to be president.
At least notionally, and that`s, I think, what Cheney was talking
about. He`s right now, he was wrong back then. He`s right now.
But then you also have to put that in context because of the Cheney`s
solution to the problem in 2000 was to pick himself. And we know how that
worked out. So --
MATTHEWS: Yes, that got us into war.
Let me ask you, Susan, this craziness. A lot of people, women
especially, root for her, Palin, despite her right wing ideology. They
think she`s getting beat up by the lame-stream media. But you know what I
noticed? She`s fighting for a slot at the convention in Tampa. What`s
Romney going to do?
SUSAN MILLIGAN, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT: It puts him in an awkward
position. Not only does she are a hold over a part of the party on a
national level, but you got all these Senate candidates that could make a
difference of whether the Republicans take control of the Senate, Murdoch
and now Cruz and Deb Fischer. So --
MATTHEWS: What happens if she gets a primetime slot down in Tampa?
Let`s take a look. Here`s how she`s handling this like a great
fisherman, by the way. Let`s take a look right now at what she said.
PALIN: We`ve left it in their hands about a week ago, we were
approached, asking if we were interested, if I was interested in attending.
Of course, there`s some interest there, but we kind of want to know more
details, what they have in mind. We haven`t heard back.
MATTHEWS: Do you like the way she gets almost cuddly. There`s some
interest, meaning I`m interested, meaning -- but we want to know if we`re
going to speak at 4:00 in the afternoon, or we`re going to talk at 9:15 at
night, or we`re going to get in nights that NBC is covering full coverage.
She`s angling here.
MILLIGAN: She is. She wants to be king maker and I guess Cheney
wants to be queen killer or something.
MATTHEWS: He`s going fishing, by the way -- talking about the angler.
Joe, he`s hiding, he knows one thing, people don`t like him.
CONASON: Well, he knows people don`t like him and he knows the base
of the party doesn`t really like him. They don`t love him. He`s concerned
about what level of enthusiasm he`s going to generate from the real hard
core in the party by November. And she will fire them up if he can entice
her into his camp without getting bitten by the mama grizzly, which is a
big risk. So --
MATTHEWS: Don`t you like it he`s such a partisan, yet he acts like
he`s some sort of judge. You know, let me see, Jeff. You have to look
back. Was she a good pick or not?
He always steps back to that role of his, which he`s above it all.
He`s the meanest insider there`s ever been. Look at him there.
He still has to answer for -- Joe, he still has to answer for Scooter
Libby who got him disbarred, convicted of five felonies or four felonies.
He never came forward and defended the guy. He tried to get him a pardon
at the end, but never explained what he told him to do in the first place.
And now, he comes back as the big adviser to America.
CONASON: Right. He lets Scooter Libby swing for his misdeeds,
indeed. It`s ironic because Cheney, you think of all that now because
Romney and the Republicans are talking about leaks from the White House.
You know what they leaked from the Bush White House was the identity of CIA
operatives working on weapon of mass destruction --
MATTHEWS: He`s talking about leaks today.
CONASON: -- we care about.
MATTHEWS: He got us in that war with leaks that were wrong.
Anyway, thank you, Joe Conason, as always. And thank you, Susan
Milligan, of course.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this. This weekend, I saw for
the third time the best play about politics, today`s politics, ever
written. It`s called "The Best Man". It`s about a candidate for president
who has to choose between his ambition and his principles. His opponent is
about to dump a bad story on him that he had a nervous breakdown years ago.
He knows the story will destroy him as a candidate, especially right there
at the opening of his party`s national convention.
An aide comes to the rescue. He`s dug up a witness who said his rival
engaged in a gay relationship back during World War II. It`s murky and may
well not be true. But our hero knows it`s good enough to do considerable
on this rival. He knows it could stop him in his tracks.
And there`s the dilemma. Does someone who wants to be president get
down on the mud and play dirt against dirt politics? Does the end justify
the means? Does doing something nasty just come with the business of
running for high office? Does it?
I just saw the play and it`s production with John Larroquette and
James Earl Jones as the stars. Larroquette`s performance reminded me why I
was drawn to politics as a teenager. His is the noble politician we all
like to have leading our country, the person who does the right thing when
nobody is watching.
I just learned today that the playwright who created "The Best Man"
has died. I met Gore Vidal back in my college days. He`d come to Holy
Cross to give one of those mid-week lectures we used to have.
Well, if Vidal was known for one thing, let it be "The Best Man" -- a
play that reminds us, even now up on Broadway, of a kind of person we`d
like in the public life, someone not willing to eat the crap politics urges
you to eat, all the while saying, don`t worry, you`re not what you eat.
Well, I`ve noticed that you are. And nothing benefits a great country
like ours than reminding ourselves every so often what the gold standard in
this play called "The Best Man," and it means just about everything to
those of us who love politics, great politics.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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At this point, Nigella Lawson is a household name. But before the television show, or the best-selling cookbooks, there was Italy. Nigellissima is a love letter to the country that inspired her as a chef. In her characteristic bubbly, passionate style, Nigella explains her inspiration in each recipe, showcasing its Italian influence. Not everything necessarily comes straight from the old country, but everything is beautifully presented and enthusiastically endorsed.
Like a traditional Italian meal, Nigellissima is divided into pasta, meats, vegetables, and sweets. There's also a bonus chapter for an Italian-inspired Christmas, featuring an array of dishes, both old-fashioned and new-fangled, that encapsulate Nigella's creative vision.
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Santana to start Royals' post-break rotation
CLEVELAND -- The Royals' rotation coming out of the All-Star break is set with Ervin Santana due to pitch the first game on Friday night against Detroit at Kauffman Stadium.
Jeremy Guthrie will start on Saturday night and James Shields on Sunday against the Tigers. Then Wade Davis and Bruce Chen will start on Monday and Tuesday nights, respectively, against Baltimore in the first two of four games against the Orioles, also in Kansas City.
Originally, manager Ned Yost had Shields pitching Sunday's last game before the break in Cleveland and then opening the second half against Detroit. But he decided that caused too much down time for Santana and Guthrie.
"I had Shields coming back on a five [fifth day after pitching], Santana on a nine, Guthrie on a nine and I said, you know, that's crazy," Yost said. "So, we manipulated it this way to give everybody the equal amount of off-days, the equal amount of rest and Santana goes to an eight, now Guthrie goes to a seven, Shields goes to a seven."
Well, almost equal.
"The Tigers did the same thing," Yost said.
Detroit will start, in order, Anibal Sanchez, Justin Verlander and Doug Fister over the weekend in KC.
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This plant flourishes on the sunny hillsides of many regions in the world. It is so common that many people have passed it by without notice. It's other common names immortelle, and everlasting refer to the "everlasting" yellow color of the flowers once they are dried out. The derivation of the Genus name, Helichyrsum points to a reverence the ancients had for this plant; Helios, Greek for Sun, and Chrysos for Gold.
It is highly concentrated in essential oils. Many of the studies done on herbal products are actually not conducted on the whole plant, rather on isolated fractions obtained from the whole plant. Such is the case with Helichrysum. Many of the constituents from the distilled oil have been studied. Research worldwide is being directed towards finding natural antioxidants of plant origin. This essential oil has an amazing 1,700 ORAC score, making it one of the most potent antioxidant oils known. It has been traditionally used to support bronchial health.
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Google Chrome's add-on API is designed to be lightweight and secure. However, the trade-off is that it is not as powerful as Firefox's add-on platform. As if just to demonstrate this, a Firefox developer has taken it upon himself to implement the Google Chrome API through a Firefox extension.
The Google chrome extensions manager for Firefox does just what its name suggests – it allows you to install and manage Google Chrome extensions in Firefox. The extension is currently a work in progress and only supports a limited subset of the Chrome API.
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Back in 2003, Hummer's H3T pickup concept gave potential buyers a new perspective on Hummer, beyond the military's go-anywhere truck and the subsequent square-box Chevy. Now, as some new spy shots that hit The Car Connection today indicate, it seems Hummer's been busy following that thread by working up an SUT version of the H3. It's a logical next model for the brand, which has ben stung by a decrease in demand for full-sized SUVs. The test mule, which looks like one of the Donner Party's transports — with a load of nothing in the rear camouflaged by a false box — appears to have a longer wheelbase than the stadard H3, a departure from the concept's stepside design. No word on what the big Humm's plans are for this one, but we'll be watching to see if GM considers it manifest destiny. [Hummer H3T Gallery]
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There is no subtle way to return through the front door after being gone for 24 years. The cornball approaches come first to mind — "As I was saying . . . " or maybe "What's new?" — but they sound silly and flat. Probably the best approach is simply to turn the knob and take a few steps forward.
"Hello . . .
"Anybody home?
I wrote my last regularly scheduled sports column for the Boston Globe on Aug. 20, 1989. That was a long time ago. The column was a goodbye as I left to take a job at Sports Illustrated. I mentioned a bunch of stuff I had seen in my 21 years at the newspaper, a list that included moments such as Doug Flutie's touchdown pass in Miami and Marvin Hagler's middleweight championship victory in London and Larry Bird's NBA title in Houston and a certain American hockey championship in 1980 in Lake Placid, etc., etc. Again, a long time ago.
"When I was 10 years old, fifth grade, I delivered newspapers in the morning," I wrote in my column. "Somewhere in my route, I would take a break. I would sit on top of my bag full of papers and read the morning sports.
"On the lefthand side of the page there always was a column written by a man whose picture was printed at the top. The man would write about the grand events he had seen, the grand places he had visited, the grand people he had met. I would think that he had the greatest job in the world, this man with his picture printed every day in the sports page . . . "
I said that it had been "an honor and a flat-out pleasure" to work that job for the Globe, to have had my picture at the top of that column. Exit, stage left. I was replaced by a couple of guys named Shaughnessy and Ryan.
Years passed.
"I was Shaughnessy before Shaughnessy," I had to explain, the further removed I became from my time at the Globe.
Eyes would harden. Dispositions would become colder.
"Except maybe I was a kinder, gentler Shaughnessy," I would add. "Hah."
I never left Boston. That was part of the deal with SI. I was even grandfathered into the Boston Globe basketball league for a while, still able to play with the Sports Department and do weekly mortal combat at the Dorchester House with the Press Room, Delivery, the Return Room, and, of course, the effete quasi-intellectuals from News. I was still around for daily Boston life, a reader, an observer of the local scene. I was still a follower of the Celtics, the Bruins, the Red Sox, and Patriots. I just didn't have to deal with them on a daily business basis anymore. I almost could be — strange word here — a fan.
Years passed.
I wrote a couple of books while I was at SI. This was a conflict. The magazine could call you at any time, say there was a crisis that had to be handled in St. Louis or San Antonio or somewhere in Croatia. It was like being a fireman for sports emergencies. I quit the magazine and wrote books full time. I have written eight books, ranging in subjects from Manute Bol to Dale Earnhardt to Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, and the Red Sox' transcendent World Series championship in 2004. I am working on a book now about Muhammad Ali and the military draft.
A little more than a year ago, the editors of a newly created website called sportsonearth.com asked if I would like to write a semi-regular column for the site. Major League Baseball and USA Today were the financial backers. I was intrigued. I hadn't written a regular sports column since I left the Globe. I found I also hadn't gone to many games since I left SI, watching mostly from my couch as the string of local championship heroics grew longer and longer. I missed the games. I missed having a reason to go to them.
I took the job.
It has been an interesting experience, returning to environments I once knew well, sort of like going back to the old neighborhood or, better yet, the old high school and finding it inhabited by different people doing many of the same things your class did. The players and coaches are different, of course, and maybe 90 percent of the media are different, and the technological whiz-bangs that have been developed certainly are different, but the bottom line of people and games and stories is the same.
I was on the scene for the Patriots in the playoffs last year, for the Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final this year, for the Red Sox and their entire postseason run to the World Series. (Yes, that's a champagne stain on my Marmot parka, thank you very much.) The electronic side of sports journalism seems to have taken charge in these situations, cameras and microphones everywhere, staged news conference settings the rule rather than the exception, print reporters forced to tweet about what they had for dinner, but if you look hard enough, room still can be found for conversation, give-and-take, anecdote. Room can be found for fun.
When the Globe called and asked if I might want to write a weekly column again, picture at the top of the page, I didn't have to think long. Why not? So here I am.
I tell people that I am Red Sox owner John Henry's first free agent in his new journalistic enterprise. I am a Mike Napoli type of free agent, a veteran catcher/first baseman with possibly bad hips who might be able to help a little bit. I will do what I can do. I might even grow a beard, add some tattoos, maybe take off my shirt and go for a midnight stroll down Boylston Street if everything works out.
I am a team player, here to win a championship.
I also can use the money.
I am saving to buy a duck boat.


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Personally, I use the English Standard Version (ESV) for my own devotional reading. In study for sermons, I resort to the Greek and/or Hebrew to better discern the exact wording and "flavor" of that wording. Previous to the printing of the English Standard Version, I preferred the New American Standard Version. Both are very accurate and clear reflections of the original text. I was raised on the King James Version (KJV), so that is what I usually quote from memory.
In my congregation, we also use the ESV as the pew Bible and for public reading. That makes it easier for everyone to follow.
In the OPC, there is no single translation that is used. Years ago, the New International Version (NIV) was popular, but recent editions have edited the text in a way that is disturbing. In its publications, the OPC quotes the ESV for the sake of standardization. Many churches use the KJV, or the New KJV. Some may still use the American Standard Version of 1901. The choice for public use is up to each Session.
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What happens when you use the tab on an inside rearview mirror to diminish the brightness of the headlights behind you? RC, Vail Colorado
A rearview mirror actually produces two different reflections, one from its back surface and one from its front surface. Its back surface reflects nearly all of the light hitting it, producing the bright reflection that you use for daytime driving. In contrast, the front surface reflects only about 4% of the light that hits it, yielding the dim nighttime reflection that makes car headlights less dazzling. To allow you to choose which surface reflection you see, the mirror's glass is wedge-thicker at the top than at the bottom. Since the reflective surfaces aren't parallel to one another, their reflections travel in different directions. You choose which reflection you see by adjusting the tilt of the mirror, using the tab near the bottom of the mirror. To give the back surface its high reflectivity, the manufacturer coats it with aluminum. Since aluminum is an excellent conductor of electricity even at very high frequencies, it reflects the electromagnetic waves of visible light with nearly perfect efficiency. The light waves cause electric currents to flow in the aluminum and those currents in turn redirect the light waves so that they reflect back from the surface. However, the front surface of the glass is uncoated and its reflection occurs via a somewhat different process. As a light wave attempts to enter the glass, it encounters a change in its material environment and therefore a change in the way it propagates forward. Glass is different from air and the relationship between a light wave's electric and magnetic components is different in the two media. As it passes from one media to the other, a light wave must adjust to an abrupt change in this relationship, a change known generally as an impedance mismatch. To accommodate this impedance mismatch, about 4% of the light wave is unable to enter the glass. Instead it reflects back from the glass surface. This dim reflected light is what you see when your mirror is tilted to its nighttime setting.
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Police released new information Tuesday in a crash that involved a lawn mower and SUV on Monday.
Police said the man on the mower was identified as 49-year-old Joel Huggins with ADA Mowing Company. He was listed in fair condition at Mercy Medical Center on Tuesday.
Huggins is a retired Pleasant Hill police officer who had been on the force 15 years.
The crash happened just after noon on Hickman Road in the westbound lanes between Northwest 94th and Northwest 90th streets.
Witnesses told KCCI that a car swerved to avoid the lawn mower, but the SUV following the car crashed into the mower. The crash pushed the SUV into yet another vehicle.
No charges have been filed in the case, but Clive police said they are still investigating whether one of the vehicles was driving too close to the other or going too fast to be able to stop.
The crash remains under investigation.