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Classic American story. Butterface becomes an escort, becomes a married Democrat's fave hooker, gets knocked up by a billionaire asphalt tycoon, and launches a lingerie line. And everyone lived happily ever after. DEUCES.
Fox News reports:
Ashley Dupre has given a lot of happy endings in her day, but now the former Eliot Spitzer call girl has one of her very own.
Dupre is seven months pregnant, The Post's Page Six exclusively revealed, and engaged to be married to New Jersey asphalt scion Thomas "TJ" Earle.
"On the record, yes, I can confirm I'm almost seven months," Dupre, 27, enthused when we contacted her yesterday. "I can't tell you when the wedding date is just yet."


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Understanding Your Audience
The problem with having a stock presentation is that is doesn't take into account your the knowledge of your audience.
Beginning cooks are not going to enjoy a talk on the nuances between the differing genus of nutmeg. Professional cooks are going to walk out on your presentation on how to boil pasta.
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How to Open a Table in Design View in Access
Whether you use Microsoft Access to keep track of inventory or to keep a record of customers and clients, managing your tables can become cumbersome as the database grows in size and complexity. Access's design view helps minimize confusion when editing tables, as it displays every field and property in a single view, allowing you to see the structure of the entire table. If datasheet view isn't working, switch your table over to design view for a better perspective of your data.
Open or create the Access database you want to edit.
Click the tab of the table you wish to open in design view.
Click the "View" menu icon and click "Design View."
Click the "View" menu icon and click "Datasheet View" to switch back to datasheet editing mode.
- Create a new table in design view by clicking the "Create" tab on the ribbon and clicking "Table Design" in the "Tables" section.
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Today I'm sharing a fantastic giveaway for your young designers to get involved in for the chance to win £150 in Tesco vouchers and a £150 donation to their school! But most excitingly, the chance of their costume being sold in Tesco stores next Halloween, how amazing is that?!
When I asked Amelia to design her Halloween costume she couldn't wait to get to work on it. Tesco kindly sent us a craft pack which she wanted to save to create her Halloween costume and mask at a later stage but she got to work on designing it. She decided that she wanted to design a zombie bat girl. She really got into drawing pictures recently and even though she still wont sit still for long usually she will sit down for 10 minutes or so to draw a picture which is good.
I wouldn't exactly say she drew a zombie bat girl but I can definitely see her imagination where it comes to the bat girl costume especially the mask. She loves dressing up and has a bat girl costume so I think thats where she got the idea from.
Tesco will be judging the best witches and wizards, as well as cats and bats and things like that!
So why not get your budding artists to design their own Halloween costume.
To enter all you need to do is print out the entry form and submit your spookiest design by sending it to the address included or via email. The competition is open children aged 11 and under who live in the UK.
Again just to recap, the winner will receive £150 in Tesco gift cards and a £150 donation to their school. But the biggest thing they'll get is having their costume sold in Tesco stores in time for next year's Halloween!
The competition opens on 3rd October 2016 and closes on 5th November 2016 and they will be announcing the winner on 11th November 2016.
Are your little ones ready to get creative?
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Liberia: Dr. Sawyer calls for political summit
Liberia's former interim president Dr. Amos Sawyer is strongly recommending that Liberia holds a political summit before heading to elections in 2017.
"It's a very good idea, an idea I think we should also take a look at in Liberia. The idea is about bringing together the leaders of the political spectrum, civil society leaders and the entire leadership of the country to discuss about the course of events, the common challenges and the way forward", the former Interim Head of State said during an interview conducted recently at the Liberian Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria.
He said, "We need a summit of political leaders and leaders of thought, leaders of the academy and leaders of religion to discuss how we forge a common bond as we go to these very critical elections in 2017.
"We need to discuss issues of how we strengthen our unity on the conditions of electoral contestation which are themselves divisive. We need to ensure that we move forward with an agenda for reconciliation. We need to access the reforms that we have undertaken and see how we can strengthen and accelerate them. And we need to work very hard much more than we have thus far on matters of human capacity building."
Dr. Sawyer was in Nigeria where he served as guest lecturer at the opening session of the maiden edition of the 2016 Annual National Political Summit held at the Abuja International Conference Center.
He encouraged Nigerians to work together in strengthening the institutions of governance, commending the organizers to continue the innovation.
The political summit was initiated by the Save Democracy Group Africa with collaboration of a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the ECOWAS Commission, the Nigerian National Assembly, among others. The theme was "2015 General Election: Consolidating The Gains And Building Positive Political Culture for Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria".
Speaking on the topic, "Building Positive Political Culture for Sustainable Democracy in Africa—A Case Study of Nigeria", Dr. Sawyer reviewed the current landscape of African governance, especially with respect to electoral democracy.
He emphasized how pivotal the Nigerian 2015 election was in bringing Nigerians from the brink of what some thought would have been a disaster.
He however acknowledged the economic and security challenges as difficulties associated with building positive political culture of sustainable democracy. "Those security challenges are challenges common to all of us in the sub region. But under Nigeria's leadership, we can make some progress", he stated.
He noted that basically, the Nigerian leadership is strong and getting stronger: "All of us in the West African sub region are partners with Nigeria in moving the sub region forward". He also noted that Liberia has extensively enjoyed Nigeria's material and human support.
Dr. Sawyer, who is the chairman of the Liberian Governance Commission, was accompanied to the three-day (Monday, January 25 to Wednesday, January 27) summit by Liberia's Ambassador to Nigeria, Prof. Al-Hassan Conteh.
In his welcoming address, Dr. Ifedi Okwenna, director general of the Save Democracy Group Africa, said the decision to institute the summit as an annual event is based on the landmark successes of the 2015 Nigeria general election.
The election was generally accepted to have against all predictions brought peace and stability to Nigeria and elevated the country's prestige and international recognition and acceptance among democratic nations.
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GEORGE WALKER BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The campaign has ended, and the United States of America goes forward with confidence and faith. I see a great day coming for our country, and I am eager for the work ahead. God bless us, and may God bless America.
PAT BUCHANAN, HOST: Moral clarity. Voters shocked both pollsters and pundits on Tuesday when they put morality ahead of the Iraq war as the most important issue of this election. Can Democrats adjust to the people's priorities, or have Republicans cornered the market on the moral values issue?
BUSH: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital. And now I intend to spend it.
BUCHANAN: But how will the president spend that political capital? And did President Bush allude to a cabinet shakeup in his second term today?
I'm Pat Buchanan, and this is "Decision 2004" special edition.
With each passing day, there is time for reflection about what happened on Tuesday and speculation about what happens now. Here to talk about the president's remarkable victory and what it means for the nation are Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of "U.S. News & World Report," Lawrence Kudlow of CNBC's "KUDLOW & CRAMER," Terry Jeffrey, editor of "Human Events," and Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist.
Lawrence Kudlow, let me start with you. What do you make of the fact that a plurality, 22 percent of the voters, went into those polls and said moral issues is the critical issue in this election, when, really, the president—even the president and John Kerry rarely talked about issues like abortion and gay marriage and things like that?
LAWRENCE KUDLOW, CNBC'S "KUDLOW & CRAMER": Well, I don't know that they overly emphasized it, but I think President Bush made it very clear during the debates his opinions on partial-birth abortion, his opinions on traditional marriage between a man and a woman. He is, of course, a man of faith. He has proposed faith-based initiatives. I think, particularly, Pat, in the home stretch of the campaign, the last seven, eight, nine, ten days, he made it very clear. He reminded people. They brought out the faith-based vote. They brought out the Catholic vote, which they won a majority. That's a big win. And of course, brought out the evangelical vote. Social conservatism among Democrats, as well as Republicans, played a key role in the Bush victory.
BUCHANAN: OK. Mort Zuckerman, did you anticipate that this—because I did not, to be honest—that people would say that was the No. 1 issue? When we saw the polls during the campaign, it would say jobs and the economy, Iraq's No. 1, or the president's got terrorism No. 1. I did not see that at the top of the issues list, did you?
MORT ZUCKERMAN, "U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT": Well, I'm embarrassed to tell you that I just mailed to you a two-page editorial that I wrote about four weeks ago, talking about this very issue. And my take on it was really the following. At that point, something around 18 percent of the vote was really focused on family values and moral issues, and Bush had over 70 percent of that vote and Kerry had 18 percent of that vote. And that was really the critical difference and explained why the Democrats were not doing better.
And in that case—I mean, I look upon it not just in terms of what Bush was doing to appeal to this sector of the Republicans, but the failure of the Democrats to be able to speak to these people comes from a long tradition now, where they have lost...
BUCHANAN: Right.
ZUCKERMAN: ... the position of being the sort of party of the average man, the party of the working man, the party of the middle class. They have become perceived as an elitist party. What is called the hip-hop-cracy, the elites of the academic world, of the financial world, of the entertainment world, even of the technology world. And in fact if you look at the 261 wealthiest counties in America, over 50 percent of those people voted Democrat. They're no longer the party of the poor man.
BUCHANAN: All right, let me—let me get to Terry Jeffrey. I think Mort Zuckerman's on to something. Ever since George McGovern and the party of acid, amnesty and abortion, the part of the counterculture, the Democrats have drifted away from, if you will, the traditional values mainstream of America. But if the president was so incredibly strong over Kerry on issues like gay marriage and issues like right to life, why, in heaven's name, didn't they hammer these issues?
TERRY JEFFREY, "HUMAN EVENTS": Well, Pat, I think the Republican Party is only slowly recognizing the importance of these issues in elections. You recognized it a long time ago, in 1992, in Houston, when you gave that outstanding speech at the Republican convention.
And I did predict it, by the way. If people want to go to the Hardblogger Web site here at MSNBC...
BUCHANAN: Right.
JEFFREY: ... they can see the piece I put up there called "The Iraq War Versus the Culture War" on Friday night, one I wrote a couple of weeks ago asking whether the Catholic vote would defeat a Catholic candidate. That's part of what happened, Pat. Not only did 52 percent of the Catholics vote against the Catholic candidate in this election, in Ohio...
BUCHANAN: Right.
JEFFREY: ... 65 percent of the church-going Catholics came out. They voted against John Kerry, and they voted for an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in that state.
BUCHANAN: All right. Steve McMahon, talk to this—the problem the Democrats have, if you see it as a problem. And does this explain—I mean, it certainly explains to me why Kerry went to church not only on Sunday but on Monday for All Saints Day, which was a holy day of obligation.
BUCHANAN: I'm an altar—he said he's an altar boy more times than I've said it.
BUCHANAN: And my guess is I was an altar boy longer than John Kerry. But does this explain it? And what—and tell us about the Democrats' problem and how they overcome it.
STEVE MCMAHON, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Well, first of all, I should say I feel a little surrounded here between Kudlow and you and Terry and...
BUCHANAN: You do all right, Steve. You'll be fine.
MCMAHON: Listen, I think it's a challenge, but I don't think it's a problem. And I think, if you look at these exit polls, what you see is what the Republicans have been talking about for some time now, which is the remarkable power of the field operation that Karl Rove and everybody put together and turned out. I mean, an exit poll, as you know, is only as good as the—I shouldn't say only as good—it reflects the answers of the people who were polled.
And in this instance, there's no question that Christian conservatives turned out in record numbers for this election. We can have a debate about why that occurred, but they clearly turned out, and it's no surprise to me that they would answer this question that way.
BUCHANAN: OK, now, let's go to that "New York Times" because they published, and they always do, a very interesting analysis of some of the exit polls in which the pollsters asked the voters not only who they voted for but what issues mattered most. Now, let's take a look. As we've been talking, 22 percent of voters said they cared most about moral values; 80 percent of those voted for George Bush. Almost as many cared about terrorism, and 86 percent of those picked Bush. But 20 percent said jobs and the economy was the most important issue, and only 15 percent said Iraq. But those 35 percent of the voters overwhelmingly chose John Kerry.
Let me go back to you, Steve, on that. I mean, that really tells you what the two candidates should have been emphasizing.
MCMAHON: It tells you one of two things. It either tells you that these are the people who showed up that day, which is my position, or it tells you that these are the issues that matter the most to most Americans. Now, either one is possible, but they're both equally possible. And I kind of find it a little ironic that, given the performance of the exit polls yesterday, that we're sitting here on this show having this debate about this question, which, after all, is an exit poll question.
BUCHANAN: OK. Lawrence Kudlow, I noticed an interesting thing I want to sidelight here, big on jobs and the economy. The folks that considered jobs and the economy the No. 1 issue, 75 percent went for John Kerry, although folks who—a plurality—or a majority of those who considered taxes most important, went for Bush. But that was smaller than jobs and the economy. It sounds like that people do not have that high a judgment on the president's handling of the jobs issue.
KUDLOW: Well, I think the president did a relatively mediocre defending the economy, which I maintain is actually stronger than people give it. And in fact, there's a huge, huge stock market rally going on on Wall Street right now, as some of the uncertainty about taxes and regulations has been cleared up.
But putting all that aside, Bush chose to make a stand on lower taxes, and he did score heavily on that and he did win a majority. But Kerry hammered away on non-farm payroll jobs. Bush did not respond. There's another survey that's a better number. He didn't use it. Bush didn't talk about the rise in gross domestic product very much. So I think Kerry was very effective on that.
BUCHANAN: Right. OK. Much more with our panel when "Decision 2004" special edition returns. Be right back.
BUCHANAN: Welcome back to "Decision 2004" special edition. I'm Pat Buchanan. We're back with all our all-star political panel—Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of "U.S. News & World Report," Lawrence Kudlow of CNBC's "KUDLOW & CRAMER," Terry Jeffrey, the editor of "Human Events," and Steve McMahon, a Democratic strategist.
Senator Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania expected to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, sharply warned the president yesterday against nominating Supreme Court Justices who would overturn Roe vs. Wade or who are too conservative to win confirmation.
Specter, who just won a fifth term in the Senate said, quote, "When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe vs. Wade, I think that is unlikely. This president is well aware of what happened when a bunch of his nominees were sent up with a filibuster." That's what Specter said, adding he's referring to Senate Democratic success over the past four years in blocking the confirmation of several of Mr. Bush's conservative judicial picks. And this is again Specter—"He would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."
Today, Specter issued a statement denying he had warned the president and said he is very respectful of the president's constitutional authority to appoint federal judges.
Terry Jeffrey, this—let's put it right on the line. This is the last chance this country will have to overturn Roe v Wade. This is the last chance for a constitutional Supreme Court molded on Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas. And here is the incoming chairman of Senate Judiciary—he takes over from Orrin Hatch—in effect, throwing down a warning to the president of the United States not to name conservative Justices or send them up to his committee.
Why would the Senate, a Republican Senate, 55 senators, permit Specter to be chairman, if that's what he intends to do?
JEFFREY: He shouldn't be. Senate majority leader Bill Frist just ought to bounce him right out of there. The Republican conference ought to toss him. We had a conservative movement nationwide, Pat, that almost unseated this guy in the Republican primary with Pat Toomey. The other Republican senator from Pennsylvania campaigned hard to keep Specter in power. President Bush went up there to keep him in power.
The least he owes this party, which just won a national majority and a national mandate based on moral values, in a week when everybody knew that Chief Justice William Rehnquist will probably be leaving the Court, is to help us get through the type of Supreme Court Justices that will defend the Constitution as it was written.
BUCHANAN: Well, let me—let me just be blunt. One of the principal reasons why I endorsed the president of the United States is the fact we didn't want John Kerry naming Supreme Court Justices. Now, if Mr. Specter or the liberal Republicans are going to exercise a veto over conservative Justices in the Judiciary Committee, this coalition you're talking about, the moral values coalition, will sunder and split apart within weeks.
JEFFREY: It's gone. It's gone, Pat. Now, there's a diplomatic way out. Senator Charles Grassley, who's chairman of the Finance Committee, has seniority over Specter. He could take the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee without the Republicans throwing out the Senate's tradition of seniority. Grassley doesn't want to do that. The Finance Committee is tremendously powerful.
BUCHANAN: Right.
JEFFREY: It controls taxes. If he won't do that, if they can't get that through, this election's going to be followed by a massive battle inside the Republican Party between those who want Specter out and those who are willing to defend him.
BUCHANAN: All right. Mort Zuckerman?
ZUCKERMAN: Well, I'll tell you, if the president does try to nominate a judge who will overturn Roe v Wade, you will create a firestorm in this country, not just in the country, but especially in the Republican Party because there'll be a huge piece of the Republican Party who will fight the overturning of Roe v Wade. It'll be a political disaster. In my judgment, also a moral disaster for this country. The Supreme Court has affirmed and reaffirmed that judgment, and I hope they continue to do that. So I'm just telling you where I'm coming from on that. But I think, politically, it would be a disaster for the Republicans if they nominate somebody who will overturn Roe v Wade.
BUCHANAN: But Lawrence...
KUDLOW: Pat? Pat?
BUCHANAN: ... Kudlow...
KUDLOW: Can I weigh in on this?
BUCHANAN: I want you to weigh in on this, Lawrence Kudlow. Look, there's two judges—federal appellate court judge J. Harvey Wilkinson (ph) is down, chairman of the—I mean, he's the lead judge on the 4th circuit. Mike Ludick (ph), who's a 10-year veteran down there. These folks have got one of the most conservative courts in the country. They're constitutional scholars. And what I hear my friend Mort Zuckerman saying is if one or both of those gentlemen is appointed, we're going to have a firestorm inside the Republican Party to resist them!
KUDLOW: I don't know that—I don't agree with Mort, if that's what he was saying with respect to those two excellent judges. But I want to make a couple of political points. No. 1, Terry Jeffrey is right. Arlen Specter owes his election to George Bush with respect to the Pat Toomey challenge. I regret that because I think Toomey was a superior candidate.
No. 2, I do not believe Specter should be given the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee. His statement is arrogant and self-serving, and I think he's the wrong guy to do it.
However, having said that, George Bush has never said he wished to overturn Roe v Wade. The battle is going to be joined with respect to his social majority, his conservative social majority, over partial-birth, maintaining that and not overturning it, and secondly, the Defense of Marriage Act. And then you go off into a whole bunch of regulatory issues.
But on the social issues, it has never been to overturn Roe v Wade. That has never been Bush's position. Partial-birth and defense of traditional marriage act...
BUCHANAN: All right...
KUDLOW: Those are the two areas...
BUCHANAN: OK. Let me tell you something...
KUDLOW: And Bush is going to go for...
BUCHANAN: All right...
KUDLOW: ... constitutional scholars, not judicial activists. And he's going to get his way on this because of Tom Daschle's defeat...
BUCHANAN: Well, let me tell you...
KUDLOW: ... in South Dakota!
BUCHANAN: Let me tell you, Lawrence—let me tell you, I think the Supreme Court will overturn partial-birth because it doesn't provide the exception for the life or the health of the mother. And so I think federal courts have done that, so we are down to a battle that's going to be two things, Supreme Court nominees or restricting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, which is another issue.
KUDLOW: Well, that—that's when the battle's going to be joined. That's the point I'm making. The battle's going to be joined over partial-birth, if it's joined at all. It will not be joined over Roe v Wade.
BUCHANAN: OK, hold it...
KUDLOW: And don't forget the Defense of Marriage Act. That is absolutely essential to Bush's victory in this last election.
BUCHANAN: OK. Stick around because we're going to tell you about the winners and losers of this long, long election season when "Decision 2004" special edition continues.
BUCHANAN: Welcome back. We're talking about the rather astonishing warning Senator Arlen Specter, incoming chairman of Senate Judiciary, issued to President Bush yesterday, warning him not to send up judges who are too conservative for the Supreme Court or who would dare to overturn Roe v wade.
Our guests are Steve McMahon, Democratic strategist, Terry Jeffrey of "Human Events," Mort Zuckerman of "U.S. News & World Report," and Lawrence Kudlow of CNBC's "KUDLOW & CRAMER."
Steve McMahon, your take on this. This is a family fight among Republicans, is it not? I know all Democrats—well, let me ask you quickly, do you think all Democrats would unite against a Supreme Court, say a Justice Ludick or Wilkinson, the way they did against some of these appellate court judges?
MCMAHON: I think it's likely, depending upon how conservative they are. I mean, you mentioned a family feud. I might characterize it as a civil war. And the very polling data that we were talking about earlier, the 22 percent who said that moral values are the most important issue in this election become actually more of a problem for the Republicans now than perhaps for our party because President Bush now clearly owes his election to the Christian conservatives who showed up and voted for him two days ago. And they expect him to send up judge whose are going to overturn Roe v Wade. And this is not something that moderate Republican senators and members of Congress want to fall down on their swords on.
BUCHANAN: Is he not dead right?
JEFFREY: No, Pat. I think this is...
BUCHANAN: Is he not dead right on the disagreement inside the party...
JEFFREY: Well, it's not only inside the party. A lot of culturally conservative Democrats came across party lines, particularly in the Midwest, to vote for President Bush on precisely these issues. It's more than just the things that Larry Kudlow was mentioning, Pat. The Supreme Court decided 5 to 4 that the state of New Jersey cannot (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the Boy Scouts to have gay Scout masters. That was a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) right way. William Rehnquist wrote the decision. Last—this year, the Court decided not to decide the merits of the California case of whether children could say "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
If Rehnquist is not replaced with an Antonin Scalia or a Clarence Thomas-type Justice, this Court will say we cannot say "under God" in the school. It will say the Scouts have to have gay Scout masters.
BUCHANAN: All right. Let's take a look at how seriously folks view these cultural, social issues. On the issue of same-sex marriage, 11 states voted on the question yesterday and 11 voted to ban it. I think the numbers ranged—I believe—well, Mort Zuckerman, they ranged, I think, from about 60 percent up to something like 88 percent in Mississippi.
ZUCKERMAN: Right. Now, that is an issue on which I think there is a huge majority in this country against. But on the issue of abortion and Roe v Wade, it's not just that there'll be a civil war within the Republican Party, I think the politics of the Republican Party would erode dramatically. If there's one issue that will get a huge number of women in this country...
BUCHANAN: All right...
ZUCKERMAN: ... going absolutely to the very end to defend, it's Roe v Wade.
KUDLOW: But I agree with Terry...
BUCHANAN: Lawrence Kudlow...
KUDLOW: I agree with...
BUCHANAN: ... are you—but let me ask you this. If the president sends up a Supreme Court nominee who goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee and says, I believe Roe v Wade was correctly decided, what do you think's going to happen to the president's coalition, Lawrence?
KUDLOW: I don't think that's going to happen. That's not the way the process works. The Justices, or the nominees, do not have to go into that kind of detail.
BUCHANAN: Well...
KUDLOW: It's never been the case.
BUCHANAN: Look, wait a minute...
KUDLOW: And you know it as well as I do.
BUCHANAN: Excuse me. Clarence Thomas was nailed to the wall and asked, When you were in law school and you had discussions and Roe v Wade came down and the abortion laws were overturned and you were in those discussions, what was your viewpoint?
KUDLOW: I understand. I agree with you, but Clarence was nominated. I also, just for the record, want to accept Terry's amendments with respect to the Pledge of Allegiance "under God" and with respect to the Scouts. I fully agree with him on that point. You've got some outstanding judges—you know, I made a list. What about Edith Jones (ph)? What about Edith...
BUCHANAN: She's terrific.
KUDLOW: ... Rath Clement (ph)? I mean, these are great judges.
BUCHANAN: They're great, but I'll tell you, they're going to get asked that question, Lawrence.
KUDLOW: Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't. But you know what? I just love hearing Steve McMahon on this subject, on the Republicans, because the reason...
BUCHANAN: This is the first time Steve has smiled in 48 hours!
KUDLOW: The reason the Democrats can score in this cultural arena is precisely because they do not understand the importance of these issues. And you know what occurs to me? Let's use some litmus tests and barometers. Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman walk away from their own party on issues like this. This is why Mr. Kerry lost. He was never even in the game on these issues.
BUCHANAN: OK, we need to take...
KUDLOW: And the Republicans...
BUCHANAN: ... a quick break, Lawrence.
KUDLOW: The Republicans are dominating this whole discussion, and I think...
BUCHANAN: All right, we got to go...
MCMAHON: Not on abortion, they're not. Not on the right to choose, they're not.
BUCHANAN: All right, we got to go, but don't go away because coming up: Will there be a real shake-up in the Bush cabinet? Who stays and who leaves? We're going to be talking about that next.
BUCHANAN: You are watching a "DECISION 2004" special edition. We have much more post-election analysis coming up.
But, first, let's get the latest headlines from the MSNBC News Desk.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The campaign has ended, and the United States of America goes forward with confidence and faith.
I see a great day coming for our country and I am eager for the work ahead.
God bless you and may God bless America.
BUSH: Well, in the Cabinet, there will be some changes. I don't know who they will be. It is inevitable there will be changes. It happens in every administration.
BUCHANAN: That's President Bush just this afternoon talking about changes in his second term in his Cabinet.
Welcome back to this special edition of "DECISION 2004."
The president today called speculation about Cabinet changes the great Washington sport. So let's play it.
Mort Zuckerman, Lawrence Kudlow, Terry Jeffrey, and Steve McMahon are our guests.
Let's get Mort Zuckerman.
You go first, Mort. Let's start right at the top of the Cabinet. Do you see Colin Powell leaving?
ZUCKERMAN: Absolutely.
BUCHANAN: Do you buy this argument that Colin Powell will leave 24 hours after Rumsfeld goes?
ZUCKERMAN: I think Colin Powell will leave as soon as he gracefully can. I think he is absolutely alien to this administration, alien to their policies. And I think he will leave as gracefully and quickly as he can.
And I think in fact he should because I think you have in many ways a dysfunctional national security team because of the difference between his views and the views of the rest of the administration. I think there will be other departures. I think, in particular, they really have to think seriously about getting somebody in the Treasury Department who really will enjoy the confidence of the financial markets, because the United States is going to face a tremendous amount of pressure from the global financial markets, because it has to borrow $2 billion a day to meet its deficits.
BUCHANAN: All right, let's go to Lawrence Kudlow.
Lawrence, do you see changes in...
KUDLOW: I just want to say that here's Mort raising—he's going to rail on about the deficit and the next minute he's going to be raising all our taxes. The big test of the deficit is interest rates.
BUCHANAN: He can't raise taxes. That guy lost.
KUDLOW: Listen, last night, he raised taxes three or four times in the space of six minutes.
The fact of the matter is U.S. interest rates on long-term bonds, which is the ultimate test of the deficit, are at 45-year lows. So let's just put that aside. John Snow may or may not leave. I have not spoken to him. But he is a very able, very bright guy, who, by the way, knows a lot about tax reform. He was a senior guy on the Kemp commission. And Bush said several times in his news conference today that tax reform is going to be the issue.
And let me just add on national security. Mr. Rumsfeld is not leaving, by all accounts. And Mort is a lot more confident that Colin Powell is going to leave than I am. I haven't seen any evidence that Mr. Powell is running out the door.
BUCHANAN: Lawrence Kudlow is stay the course.
Terry Jeffrey, what do you hear? Well, we do hear—and maybe somebody's leaking stuff negatively that John Ashcroft may very well be gone. You hear that he may not—I wouldn't say may not have the president's confidence, but there's just sort of a collision of personality or something between them.
JEFFREY: Yes.
I think it would be very unfortunate, Pat, if John Ashcroft left as attorney general. I think, actually, he's been the single best member of the Bush Cabinet. I think, given the various political constraints he's worked under, he's done an outstanding job fighting the war on terrorism here at home.
I think part of the reason we haven't had another terrorist attack is because his Justice Department has actually tracked down, arrested and convicted al Qaeda and terrorists.
BUCHANAN: ... and the FBI have done a great job. We haven't had a single attack on American soil since 9/11 and not one of us would have believed that would be possible after 9/11.
Steve McMahon, what do you hear or do—why don't you just speculate and throw something out there?
MCMAHON: Well, I hear Kudlow for treasury secretary.
BUCHANAN: You heard that, huh?
MCMAHON: Oh, yes, I heard that today.
BUCHANAN: Well, maybe that is why the dollar collapsed today on the markets.
JEFFREY: I am for it.
KUDLOW: The stock market is roaring, Pat Buchanan. I know you're...
BUCHANAN: The dollars aren't worth as much as they use to be.
KUDLOW: You are a perpetual bull. You are a perpetual pessimistic bear.
BUCHANAN: I'm into gold, Larry. I'm into gold.
KUDLOW: Because of George Bush's tax reform and pledge not to raise taxes, the stock market is roaring.
BUCHANAN: I think it's a good thing. I am a tax-cutting hawk, but I am a deficit hawk.
Go ahead, Steve.
MCMAHON: I think the president should hope that John Ashcroft leaves, because he's become a lightning rod. I think there are the personality issues. And I think that he should hope that Colin Powell stays.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you why. Why? If I were president—let me say this—and I had a lightning rod, I wouldn't mind it, because when lightning is striking this fellow over there, it doesn't hit the White House.
MCMAHON: Well, that may be true, but there's going to be a lot of lightning.
And if the conservatives get their wish and if Kudlow gets his, we're going to have the judges and the Supreme Court nominees that are going to cause the firestorm. And having your John Ashcroft over there stoking it or perhaps inflaming it in other ways by taking away additional civil liberties...
BUCHANAN: How about John Ashcroft for chief justice?
JEFFREY: There you go.
ZUCKERMAN: How about Marc Racicot for attorney general? Marc Racicot is a very good attorney general prospect.
BUCHANAN: Well, I hear Larry Thompson. That's a name I hear, Mort.
ZUCKERMAN: Or Larry Thompson, right.
BUCHANAN: I believe he's the—isn't he the African-American fellow?
JEFFREY: He's deputy attorney general.
BUCHANAN: And, apparently, he flies around with the president and he's very close to the president.
MCMAHON: That would be smart. That would be a really smart thing for the president to do.
KUDLOW: I heard a rumor today that Joe Lieberman may be in line for that position.
BUCHANAN: Joe Lieberman in line for attorney general?
KUDLOW: Yes. That's a very—he's a strong supporter of the Patriot Act. He's a strong supporter of homeland security.
BUCHANAN: Didn't he vote for partial-birth abortion?
KUDLOW: I beg your pardon?
BUCHANAN: Didn't he vote for partial-birth abortion?
KUDLOW: So far as I know, he voted against partial-birth abortion.
BUCHANAN: Maybe I'm wrong.
JEFFREY: There's absolutely no way the president's core constituency...
BUCHANAN: You can't do that, Lawrence. For heaven's sake, your core constituency, what would they say about a fellow's who got to—I mean, he's a good guy and he's good with the president on war and things like that. But his voting record...
KUDLOW: I am just telling you, I was in Washington most of today and that's what I heard.
But I do feel that President Bush will be thinking hard about putting a Democrat or two in the Cabinet, because one person is probably going to move on. The only Democrat, Norman Mineta, in the Transportation Department. Elaine Chao is probably going to replace him.
JEFFREY: Well, Zell Miller is available.
BUCHANAN: What about Zell Miller?
ZUCKERMAN: Tom Ridge is going to be leaving. Tom Ridge is going to be leaving. I think he doesn't want to stay.
BUCHANAN: I have heard that, too, that Tom Ridge is going to be going.
All right, how about Rudy Giuliani for Tom Ridge's job?
ZUCKERMAN: Well, Rudy Giuliani would be terrific at that job. He would also be terrific...
BUCHANAN: At Justice?
ZUCKERMAN: Well, I don't know about Justice, because his role as a U.S. attorney was quite controversial.
But I think as head of homeland security, given his record and given his experience, he would be outstanding.
MCMAHON: He would be a great attorney general. The problem is, he's pro-choice. He's pro-gay rights and he's in favor of just about everything Terry...
JEFFREY: A little bit to the left of John Kerry.
BUCHANAN: I think you are exactly right.
He's a little bit to the left of John Kerry. And there are some jobs
· like Colin Powell, who is very liberal on social issues, but as secretary of state, I thought he was a good man and a good choice, the man for the post. But I think the homeland security, I think Rudy Giuliani, no conservative would object to that at all.
JEFFREY: Probably not, Pat.
I think it would be a good position for him, with one caveat. You would have to ask Giuliani where he stands on securing the border and controlling illegal immigration, because the key to that job is controlling illegal immigration. Tom Ridge has not done it. The president so far has not shown a will to do it. It needs to be done. The person in that position needs to do it.
BUCHANAN: Did you see Proposition 200 in Arizona?
JEFFREY: Excellent...
BUCHANAN: The entire establishment out there, including the Republicans, McCain and all of them, against it. It came in with 56 percent of the vote. That is a blazing issue. Frankly, if the Democrats could pick up on it, they would have done very well.
JEFFREY: And if Bush had pushed it, he would have got a much bigger majority and would have expanded his base in the states he didn't win this time.
BUCHANAN: OK, hold on, everyone. The winners and losers of this election, we said that. When we return, we have talked about them. We will talk a little more.
BUCHANAN: I'm Pat Buchanan and you are watching "DECISION 2004," a special edition, live on MSNBC. Be right back.
BUCHANAN: President Bush wins his second bid for the White House. Democrats strategist Robert Shrum loses his eighth in a row. So who are the campaign's other winners and losers?
We are back with our panel.
Let's start with you, Terry. We will go right down there. What is—who do you think is a really big, big loser in this election?
JEFFREY: CBS and Dan Rather, Pat. They tried to take the president down with forged documents.
BUCHANAN: You stole mine. You stole mine.
JEFFREY: It's a good one.
BUCHANAN: I'll say. They not only tried to take him down, but Jeff Fager tried to, you know, torpedo Bush 30 hours before the Election Day by dropping the 380-ton story on "60 Minutes," on a Sunday night before a Tuesday election. Even Steve wouldn't condone that kind of activity.
OK, Steve, who are the winners, the loser...
MCMAHON: Well, first, I have to just say a word of defense for my mentor and friend Bob Shrum, who is one of the most talented and gifted writers and strategists in our party.
BUCHANAN: Right.
MCMAHON: And I can assure that the performance of John Kerry in the debates, which was probably the best thing he did in the whole campaign, was what Bob was responsible for.
And I am sure that there were other things that he was involved in, but he bears no more responsibility than anybody else in that campaign.
MCMAHON: The winners and losers.
The winners are the Christian conservatives, to whom George Bush so clearly owes his election to. The losers are the moderate Republicans who are going to have to deal with them. And I say that because—do you remember when Bill Clinton was president and it was one of those situations where be careful what you wish for, I wish I had control of the Congress and the liberals took over?
Well, the same thing is going to happen to the president now and it is going to be like runaway train.
BUCHANAN: Mort Zuckerman, winners and losers?
ZUCKERMAN: Well, I would say, just to get to losers, I think the labor movement and their role in the Democratic Party, I think they took another big hit. They really were not able to deliver. And, frankly, neither was Bill Clinton, who went around speaking in various places, including Arkansas, and was not unable to carry Arkansas for the Democrats.
BUCHANAN: All right.
ZUCKERMAN: And I think one person who came out a winner in the Democratic Party, strangely enough, was Al Gore. I think, in the end, he really rehabilitated himself to a degree within in the Democratic Party.
BUCHANAN: You know, I think you are right. I think you are right.
And I certainly think Hillary Clinton is a winner out of this. OK.
ZUCKERMAN: Yes.
BUCHANAN: I do.
All right. How about—Lawrence Kudlow, where is John Edwards? How did he do?
KUDLOW: Although John Edwards is a huge loser, although I regret that his wife has discovered breast cancer. That is too bad. But he's a huge loser.
I just want to say a personal word about Bob Shrum, who is a good guy, even though I disagree with his political judgment. A huge loser, Pat, is those Democrats left in the Senate and the House. There is disarray. There is nothing going on there. It is absolutely a disaster.
And the winners, the winners are people that go to church and synagogue on the weekend and those who invest in the long-term stock market for the U.S. economy. Those are the winners.
BUCHANAN: OK, how about pollster John Zogby? Was he a winner, Terry?
JEFFREY: I think he was a loser. His polls were too erratic. He had polls in Colorado the last week of the campaign that no one believed.
No, I think pollsters in general were losers in perception, even though, if you look at them over the long run in this campaign, most of them were right most of the time.
ZUCKERMAN: The media was a loser.
BUCHANAN: I'll tell you this. The big media were losers.
ZUCKERMAN: Yes.
BUCHANAN: A lot of the punditocracy were losers, exit poll people.
ZUCKERMAN: Yes. Yes.
BUCHANAN: Who are some other losers, Mort?
ZUCKERMAN: Well, there are a lot of losers, but if you want to take a big loser, Tom Daschle. And Karl Rove was a big winner.
KUDLOW: Right. Absolutely Right. .
ZUCKERMAN: Karl Rove has emerged as some golden boy of American politics with a feel that everybody now admires and respects. He's just the man with the magic wand.
KUDLOW: And add Ken Mehlman to that list, Mort.
ZUCKERMAN: I agree.
KUDLOW: Because he ran a tremendous Election Day operation.
ZUCKERMAN: I agree.
BUCHANAN: George Soros. Was he a winner, Steve?
MCMAHON: He's always a winner in my book.
BUCHANAN: Anybody with $5 billion is not a loser.
KUDLOW: Hollywood.
BUCHANAN: Hollywood was a loser.
KUDLOW: Hollywood is a huge loser.
JEFFREY: His colleague, Osama bin Laden.
BUCHANAN: Michael Moore.
KUDLOW: Michael Moore is a big loser. Hollywood is a big loser. The labor movement is a big loser.
BUCHANAN: Barbra Streisand. Throw them all out, you guys.
KUDLOW: Barbra Streisand.
JEFFREY: We have discovered that Michael Moore's biggest fan is Osama bin Laden, who based his videotape on "Fahrenheit 9/11."
BUCHANAN: He even mentioned the "My Pet Goat" story out of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Osama bin Laden. I think Osama bin Laden might be a loser here.
MCMAHON: So far he hasn't been as a result of anything the Bush administration.
But I will say this. Lawrence and Mort are absolutely right about Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman. They ran a remarkable campaign. They did what they said they were going to do. If you look at Bush's numbers and the fact that he was reelected with those numbers, it really is quite remarkable. So hats off to them.
BUCHANAN: I agree. You have to give Rove—Rove has gotten a hard time.
KUDLOW: And besides President Bush, for heaven's sake, Vice President Cheney.
BUCHANAN: Cheney.
KUDLOW: Who whooped Edwards in the debate and stopped the hemorrhaging of the Bush campaign, and Cheney was such a powerful, steady performer. Give him his due.
BUCHANAN: I agree with that.
As I said last night, I thought the president is one hell of a campaigner, frankly. And the vice president of the United States, he put on the goal line stand after Bush had that erratic performance, let's say, down there in Miami.
JEFFREY: Another winner, Pat, is John O'Neill and his Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
BUCHANAN: John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Vets For Truth.
JEFFREY: That guy was a courageous spokesman for what he knew to be the truth. He took unbelievable hits from the establishment media, never backed down.
BUCHANAN: John O'Neill?
JEFFREY: John O'Neill.
BUCHANAN: John O'Neill is a winner and John O'Neill's a good guy. And I want to say, I apologize for not cutting off a friend of mine who was calling him some names on this show a couple of weeks ago.
But, right now, let's take a quick break and we will be back with more.
BUCHANAN: We're back now with just enough time for some final thoughts.
Mort Zuckerman, let me go to you.
Do you agree with me that Hillary Rodham Clinton was a winner from this campaign by simple virtue of the fact that her competition for 2008 has been swept aside? And I think she did pretty well during the campaign. And I think her husband helped some. And he came back. What's your take?
ZUCKERMAN: I think she is the odds-on favorite to be the nominee for the Democratic Party in 2008, but she's going to have to have four very good years in order to have a credible chance to win that election, as compared to winning the nomination.
I think without question she is head and shoulders ahead of everybody else in the Democratic Party. And it's hard to see now anybody can emerge over the next four years to challenge her.
BUCHANAN: All right, how about—let me to go you, Lawrence Kudlow.
Do you think Edwards is finished, or do you think Edwards could prove a challenger for Hillary Clinton in 2008?
KUDLOW: I tend to agree with Mort, although four years is a long time. I think Edwards was a terrible candidate. He was a lightweight. Cheney took him to the cleaners.
No one really took him seriously. Plus, he got clobbered in his home state of North Carolina. And Erskine Bowles lost in the Senate race there, the whole thing. This was not a good year for Mr. John Edwards.
I just want to say, one thing we haven't talked about, Pat, tonight is foreign policy. And I think the biggest news out there is the battle of Fallujah, which is—the U.S. military is gearing up to pave the way for elections in Iraq, and they are going to go all out in Fallujah. This is so darn important.
BUCHANAN: Yes. We may be talking about that soon.
All right, Steve, tell us—obviously, Hillary Rodham Clinton has got sort of a clean shot at the nomination. Who are the other potential that you could see just looking out over the horizon Democrats who might challenge? Would Al Gore get back into this?
MCMAHON: Well, I think you can't discount Al Gore. Richard Cohen had a great piece in "The Washington Post" about him. He was against the war. He's from the South. He has got a lot going for him.
John Edwards, obviously, you can't count him out. I think Evan Bayh would like to run for president.
BUCHANAN: He hasn't made much impact. He's a very attractive guy, but, I mean, I haven't seen much impact here. Have you, however long he's been...
MCMAHON: And I'm not sure, by the way, that all this navel-gazing that seems to be going on in our party is going to result in us saying let's move to the middle.
It may result in us saying, let's stand and fight.
BUCHANAN: That is what tends to happen after like Nixon-Kennedy.
BUCHANAN: ... Goldwater.
MCMAHON: And we could end up with a guy like Pat Buchanan on the left.
BUCHANAN: Well, there you go. Then you would do well.
MCMAHON: Maybe a Howard Dean or somebody like that.
JEFFREY: I hate to tell him this, Pat, but the Democrats actually need a guy like Bill Clinton was in 1992.
They don't want a Washington insider. They don't want somebody from one of the coastal blue states who is already pegged as a liberal, like John Kerry was. They need someone that can break into the Republican lock on the South. And what I see as emerging, the new Republican coalition, I call it the heartland majority. I think the Republicans have a chance to win Minnesota and Wisconsin next time and maybe break into some other places, Pennsylvania, for example, that they didn't win this time, basically hitting the same themes, adding illegal immigration.
The Democrats have to find a way...
BUCHANAN: Here's the thing. I agree with you on the immigration issue.
JEFFREY: Yes.
BUCHANAN: But Bush is an amnesty guy, let's face it.
JEFFREY: Right. Bush took it just so far.
I think Rove was brilliant on this, by the way. But I think they took it just so far. He could have taken it further had he been a little bit more vocal on the social issues and had he been tough on illegal immigration. That's the way the Republicans are going to go. The Democrats have got to stop that with a Southerner or a Midwesterner, preferably a governor who is not pegged as a Northeastern or California liberal.
KUDLOW: You know, Terry, I'm in your camp on this, but I just want to add one thing.
Bush did awfully well with Hispanic voters. And I think ownership and moral values are very important themes. That's the right way to go after that group.
BUCHANAN: I must confess, I was surprised; 44 percent of Hispanics, I thought it was very, very high.
MCMAHON: I forgot to mention—I forgot to mention, Governor Bill Richardson, who would be an extremely strong candidate.
And I apologize, Governor, for doing that. I just got carried away with Pat here.
BUCHANAN: All right. All right. Well, is there anybody else you'd like to apologize to for dropping them out of...
BUCHANAN: All right, Lawrence, Terry, Mort, Steve, thank you all for joining me tonight. It's been delightful.
Stay tuned. There's another hour of "SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY" hosted by Joe Scarborough himself straight ahead. So, don't go away.
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You'll find fresh rice noodles in well-stocked Asian markets (or search for them on amazon.com).
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- 4 Servings
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 small skinless, boneless chicken thigh (about 4 ounces), chopped into 1/4" pieces
- 3 ounces squid, coarsely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 10 ounces fresh rice noodles; or 8 ounces dried pad thai noodles, soaked 1 hour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons Golden Mountain Seasoning Sauce or Thai thin soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon chopped preserved cabbage (optional)
- 1 tablespoon chopped preserved sweet radish (optional)
- 2 large eggs
- 4 scallions, chopped
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- Freshly ground white pepper
- 2 cups chopped romaine lettuce
- Hot chili paste (such as sambal oelek; for serving)
- Heat oil in a large skillet over high. Cook chicken, squid, and garlic, stirring, until chicken is almost cooked through and garlic is golden, about 2 minutes. Add noodles and sugar. Cook, stirring, until noodles start to brown and chicken is cooked through, about 2 minutes. Stir in seasoning sauce and cabbage and radish, if using.
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Eleven Rivington Gallery Opening Annex at 195 Chrystie
Five years at 11 Rivington Street and the namesake gallery is now on the precipice of an expansion. The tiny showroom near the corner of Bowery, a puppet of the midtown-based Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, is opening a second outpost around the corner on Chrystie Street. In a legendary Lower East Side building.
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It all began shortly after the new year when Primary Photographic Imaging (lab and gallery) consolidated its artistic footprint at 195 Chrystie Street. The photography veteran vacated the ground floor which initially housed a reception area, and the leasing signs quickly arrived on site. Not long after, the F.L.O.A.T. concept seized the space for a brief pop-up affair. Since their departure, the ever-telling paper window treatments signaled even more turnover. Turnover that benefits Eleven Rivington.
With this new Chrystie Street extension, the five-year-old gallery gains an additional 1,200 square-feet. The annex is slated for launch on April 29 with an exhibit featuring New York-based artist Michael DeLucia.
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Also in Letters to the Editor: Readers comment on the city tax hike, the FPL easement project and NFL athletes' protests
Palm Coast doesn't need its own police force
Dear Editor:
I completely disagree with former mayor Canfield's position that Palm Coast form its own police department.
The city of Deltona, population approximately 90,000, studied forming a police department and found that the cost ranged in the vicinity of $14 million to $25 million. In fact, the citizens of Deltona rejected forming a police department via referendum.
Deltona is served by the Volusia County sheriff via an agreement which is similar to Palm Coast's.
Currently, Deltona pays approximately $10 million annually for police protection. (This figure is based upon the number of deputies assigned.)
Forming a police department would have to consider salaries, health benefits, pension costs and most importantly liability expenses. Liability is a major factor that any city should consider of major importance. A rogue deputy or civil circumstances could result in damaging lawsuits.
The proper way to assess the viability of forming our own police force is to ask the county to do a comprehensive study which includes all possible expenses, including liability. In my opinion, our annual cost for police protection is a bargain.
No to a Palm Coast police department.
Vincent A. Liguori
A city police force would be too expensive
Dear Editor:
Here we go again: people saying Palm Coast needs its own police department.
First, I would like to say that the men and women of the Flagler County Sheriff's Office are doing a great job in our city, and for what the city pays for it the cost is reasonable. They have the personnel and equipment in place if an emergency happens.
Do people realize how much up-front money it would take to start a police department? There's the cost of equipment (vehicles, radio, office space and more). How about the cost of employees (officers, office staff, training, salaries, insurance, pension programs and more)?
Yes, we pay taxes to the county for the Sheriff's Office, and yes, we pay extra for the deputies that are assigned to our city to serve, protect and PATROL our communities. What we pay for what we get is very reasonable considering what it would cost us to have our own police department. If we had our own, I am sure the politicians would want to have their hands on it, which is not a good thing.
What this city really needs is a city manager, council and mayor who spend our tax dollars wisely and stop spending it on things we don't really need or can't afford. Every time they overspend, they raise taxes and tell us it's because we needed these things. Do we really need more signs, bicycle path and walking paths? The taxpayers must hold these politicians responsible for their overspending. Our taxes keep going up, but our paychecks aren't. Sometimes we are told that the money comes from the federal government. Wake up: That is still our tax dollars. Politicians on ALL levels must be held accountable for the overspending of tax dollars, because we the people are running out of money to pay these taxes.
One last thing: $200,000 dollars for a sign on I-95 plus $30,000 dollars to design it? Design what — how to spell "Palm Coast"? Give me a break. Believe me, people from the north know about Palm Coast, and there are many signs already in place on 95 showing them where to get off.
Next they will want to build a welcome center to attract the motorist.
Ray Thomann
Palm Coast
Editor's note: The City Council has decided not to move forward with the $200,000 sign on Interstate 95.
Tax hike is outrageous
Dear Editor:
I think a 14% tax increase is outrageous. "Public safety," the council states, being the reason. Was public safety factored in when the city spent $7,830,000 for a community center? How about public safety considered when spending thousands of dollars for shade sails?
Palm Coast citizens have been clamoring for additional street lighting for several years, and nothing was done other than a study of where lighting is needed.
The city of Bunnell is the county seat of Flagler County. The office of the sheriff is in the county's jurisdiction. Isn't it up to the county to hire additional deputies? Why should Palm Coast have to subsidize the cost? Will these new deputies be employees of Palm Coast? Is any other town in Flagler County going to contribute money since they will be receiving the benefit of sheriff's deputies?
The city council was ready to spend $200,000 for a sign over I-95 but has been overturned, thank goodness. Where was the money coming from to pay for this and how was it going to benefit public safety?
Budgeting for lighting is certainly understandable, but why has it taken so long? Now we are facing a large tax increase assessment to defray costs.
Many Palm Coast residents are on fixed incomes and face more hardships from large tax increases. We moved here for the low cost of living. Did anyone stop and think about the impact on seniors? I hope we are not going the way of large cities which discourage businesses and investors relocating because of mismanagement and taxes.
I speak for many concerned residents in hoping the city council members and mayor sit back and take a hard look at where the future of Palm Coast is heading and where it should be. Deeply consider expenditures and how they will affect our city and our residents equally.
Fred Welsh
John Caldaro
Palm Coast
City tax increase is 'exorbitant'
Dear Editor:
As senior citizens existing on fixed incomes, my husband and are appalled at the exorbitant new taxes the city plans to impose on our PROPERTY. There should be an outcry!
Every where you turn the swales are turning into swimming pools; the drainage system is flawed and inefficient. If it drizzles, there's a flood. The city seems unconcerned with all the standing water, yet they caution you about mosquito infestation. The trash pickup is a fiasco. How long will it take for the neighborhoods to look free from piles and piles of dead trees? The power outages are frequent, and the list goes on and on.
All of the those glaring problems directly impact the VALUE of all our properties and the aesthetics of neighborhoods.
The city, I'm sure, know they have hoodwinked the citizens with imposing a 14% TAX INCREASE on their properties without calling for a REFERENDUM.
Unhappy Seniors in Palm Coast
William and June Phillips
Palm Coast
FPL easement project is disconnected from actual need
Dear Editor:
Paragraph 2: "The primary reason for paving it was to give kids a safe way ... to school ... spurred by the death of ... Michelle Taylor who was struck by a car as she walked along a dark NEARBY ROAD in March."
In fact, the accident happened about 8:50 p.m. on Lakeview Boulevard, which is the extension of Belle Terre Parkway north of its intersection with Matanzas Woods Parkway and west of I-95 while Matanzas High School is east of I-95. In other words, this is a very far-fetched "solution" to a very real need for street lights and a sidewalk along Lakeview Boulevard for the residents, their children, and in this tragic case their children's babysitter.
I sincerely question how the Palm Coast City Council could be so completely derailed from the basic priority of a city to provide sidewalks and street lighting for all residents by implementing a project that does not address the unlighted Lakeview Boulevard nor the lack of sidewalks there.
The unrelated "FPL easement path project" did not have an even rudimentary cost-analysis as to the number of students using the FPL easement path "as is" or the projected number of students that MIGHT use the paved and lighted path, nor consider the objections of the homeowners, the cost, the question of liability if FPL equipment damages the "path," who pays homeowners if/when the "path" is used to access their homes and who maintains the "path" area of the FPL easement.
As an observer of city, county, state and federal government "representatives" of the people, I lament their lack of priorities on behalf of their constituents as well as the failure to pursue policies that focus on implementing cost-effective, in-house ways to achieve those priorities.
As a resident observed at the $15 million property tax increase meeting (which only designates $550,000 for the purpose of additional deputies leaving $14.5 million for ???), "Does Palm Coast really need high-maintenance flowers in the medians?"
I would add: "Does Palm Coast really need the FPL easement path?," "Were the 12 to 18 recently installed playground shade sails a better solution than planting low-maintenance trees?," and, "Is contracting 'studies' of street lighting cost-effective" when the city engineer should be fully capable of looking up the placement of the lights along Town Center Boulevard and applying that knowledge to installing solar street lights along Lakeview Boulevard. In addition, I'm also sure that city employees are fully capable of laying out and installing sidewalks using the sidewalk installation at Palm Coast High School on the far side of the drainage swale as a model.
Karen Jacobs
City should deal with unkempt eyesores behind home fences
Dear Editor:
All land, I mean every square inch, within the boundary of Palm Coast is either publically owned or privately owned. If it is privately owned, then the homeowner is responsible for keeping it up. On the other hand if it is publically held land, then the local government is responsible for its upkeep. If you pay a yard guy to maintain your property, then he has the obligation to acknowledge your payment and maintain your property. On the other hand, when you pay taxes, you therefore are paying a publically held company, the city of Palm Coast, to maintain your public land.
Now to the point. The city meticulously maintains the medians with beautiful landscaping, which is alright, yet neglects the thoroughfares such as Royal Palms Boulevard, Rymfire Drive, and many more. Sure, they cut most of the right of way in a rough manner, but the true "ugliness of the landscape" lies between the back boundary of a home's fence and the drainage ditch. You have as most looked at these eyesores and thought the same.
Fences are not always installed on a true boundary because of trees, ditches and other obstacles. On the backside of some of these fences are a jungle of weeds, brush, thickets, and fallen trees. Apparently the city is not going to alleviate the problem; therefore, it remains as is.
Returning to the statement that all property is either public owned or privately owned, much effort should be made to determine whom the property belongs and force them to clean it up whether it is homeowner- or city-owned. Whether grass is long on the front side of a house or the backside, it is still a code violation. I have never seen a city cite themselves for a violation, but in this case it could be appropriate.
Dan Potter
Palm Coast
Government inaction on Hammock drainage costs residents
Dear Editor:
Facebook has this cute way of reminding you of your memories from years past.
Over the weekend I was treated to pictures of my house on First Avenue north of Malacompra that could have been taken yesterday. Sadly, they were taken a year ago as the contaminated water from Matthew sat in my yard for eleven days.
Yes, once again, as has happened with every single major rain event since May 2013, this street is flooded and standing water is on my property and others' well after the rains have left.
Are there other roads in the Hammock that have the same problem? Absolutely. Their problem will supposedly be dealt with in the upcoming project (to the tune of $8 million plus in grants, etc), but at least they have a timeline and a plan — a plan that will not help First Avenue.
What makes First Avenue different from other neighborhoods is that there is a solution 200 yards from the farthest reach of the flooding — the Malacompra canal.
The canal sits half full while yards on the street are full of a soup of sewage, water and mosquito larvae. This soup destroys landscaping (again and again), poses a health risk and as of this writing, does not allow my to use indoor plumbing. Yes — ten days no toilet flushing.
There is ample room in the platted right away for a swale to convey the flooding to the canal if the county would remove all the dead trees that have been allowed to grow basically in the street by the county. The county could then dig a ditch and pump into the canal from one point.
The county has been negligent' plain and simple. Our plight has been well known and documented for years, and the county has done absolutely nothing but react to storm after storm.
This pitiful lack of planning has cost our neighbors hundreds of thousands of dollars in repair and renovation. Further, we have lost untold more in the loss of property value.
Imagine trying to sell a property on this creek, er, road. I mean who wouldn't want a house a 10 minute stroll from the beach ... through water contaminated with sewage? Nothing like pulling on the Wellies to go for a swim!
There is no plan, no plan to have a plan, and of course no timeline to help us. How do I know? I asked.
I have tried to remain respectfully engaged with the county, but it is clear to me we will get forgotten again.
Can't wait for May when Facebook will show my memories of 2013 with pictures of my flooded property — deja-screwed.
Jake Scully
Flagler County


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The Canterbury Half Marathon is being held on Sunday 13th of December 2020 at Pegasus Town. This beautiful lake and town setting will host the Canterbury Half Marathon and 9km Run and Walk.
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Melbourne Victory have signed Mark Milligan on a permanent deal from J-League club JEF United Chiba.
The 26-year old defender spent time on loan with the Victory last season and has now signed a three-year deal to remain with the two-time A-League champions.
"Mark is an uncompromising player who provides great versatility to the playing group, as he is equally comfortable in defence as he is in central midfield," Melbourne head coach Ange Postecoglou said.
"He left a real impression on the group during his time at the club last season and from that perspective we're delighted to have him back in a Victory shirt."
Milligan added: "Last season, while the club didn't quite have the success they had hoped for, I really enjoyed my time in Melbourne and I'm excited to be coming back.
"Ange (Postecoglou) has made a few really good signings, so I think there's a lot to look forward to next season and hopefully, as a group, we can bring plenty of success back to Melbourne Victory."
Milligan kicked of his A-League career with Sydney FC in 2005 before joining Newcastle Jets in 2008 and has since spent time with Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua and JEF prior to his move to Melbourne.
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Your CV is essentially your personal marketing document that helps you sell your skills, experience and talent to prospective employers.
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But don't just listen to God's word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. James 1:22
Today's thoughts from today's verses:
This is week number four in our series on "Doors." The image of a door has helped us look at the subject of "God's Will" from a number of standpoints. We are thinking a little more broadly and a little more foundationally this week as we consider the Bible itself as the "door" that connects us with the overall picture of what God has in mind for our lives. There are a lot of ways to involve ourselves with Scripture so that we become ones who gain a thorough understanding of God's intentions for us as his people. However, as our James passage says, it all comes down to being a "doer" of God's Word. God's Word truly becomes a "door" to his will for our lives when our involvements with his Word result in our being ones who live it out consistently and fully on a daily basis.
In are Devotionals for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we are going to look at a "core" understanding that forms the basis for all involvement with Scripture and three key perspectives about God's Word that go with it. Without this "core" understanding and these three key perspectives in place, we are likely to go about applying Scripture and living it out in ways that are counterproductive to God's will being accomplished fully and completely in our lives. Here we go!
"Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:4-5
God's Word, the Bible, is the revelation of who He is and His intentions for all of creation. A significant part of this revelation is its teaching concerning our relationship with God and the life that should flow from it. Our passage from John shows us that fruitfulness coming forth from a close relationship with God is at the heart of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ. This is the "core" understanding that forms the basis for all involvement with Scripture. In addition there are three key perspectives concerning the nature of God's Word that help us to interact with Scripture in such a way that God is able to move in our lives so that fruit comes forth from our relationship with Him. We will be considering the following three questions over the next several days to help us gain these all important perspectives: (1) God's Word: Means or End? (2) God's Word: Content or Change? (3) God's Word: Obligations or Descriptions.?
There are those who interact with Scripture very little and there are those who do so a great deal. While it is true that ample time must be taken for interacting with God's Word, how much time you spend interacting with it is far less vital than how well you interact with it.
When seeking to interact with Scripture you must always seek to interact with the One of whom it bears witness and not merely interact with the pages of Scripture and the information it communicates. If you are learning to do this, you are learning to interact well with Scripture. When Jesus was here on earth He often debated with the Pharisees about true spirituality. They believed that their particular religious practices had wonderfully squared them away with God. On many occasions Jesus burst their bubble.
"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me; and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life." John 5:39-40
The Pharisees were very proud of their devotion to Scripture. They spent large quantities of time studying them and acquiring a vast knowledge of their contents. But for all their interaction with Scripture, it was not good interaction because they missed Jesus. And if you miss, Jesus, you are not squared away with God, whether in regard to redemption or fruitfulness.
These men trusted only in their knowledge of the Word of God and not in the God whose Word it was. In doing so they were never really able to know it truly as the Word of God, let alone God Himself. This is because they were more concerned with mastering it with their minds than having their lives mastered by the God who spoke it in the first place.
If we allow ourselves to develop a pattern of this kind in our interaction with Scripture, we too will: (1) miss Jesus; (2) not have a full understanding of Scripture; and (3) become unwilling to come to Scripture as the means by which we are confronted with our living Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. The Scriptures were never intended to be an end in themselves and yet how easy it is for us to make them just that and thereby lower them from their place of extreme importance. If we have more of a relationship with Scripture than Jesus Christ of whom they speak, we have truly twisted their purpose. If our relationship with Jesus Christ is greater than our relationship with Scripture, then our relationship with Scripture will be greater than it ever could have been otherwise."
"It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" Matthew 4:4
Just as physical living requires physical food, so spiritual life requires spiritual food. We are told in this text that our spiritual food is every word that comes out of the mouth of God. May you always think of Scripture as God's very words to you flowing right from His heart by way of His mouth to your heart as you interact with the sacred text of Scripture. God never steps back from His Word. May you never treat His precious Word as if He were not right there in it waiting to meet with you for occasions of sweet communion and spiritual nurture.
Today's prayer response from today's thoughts:
Lord, I want to be a "doer" of your Word. I know the greatest of all treasures is you and so I ask for your help with the thing I need to "do" more than anything else: to come to your word and seek you with all my heart, soul, and mind. You are the beginning, middle, and end. You are everything I need and long for. Here I am, Lord! I give myself to you in worship, surrender, and devotion. Amen!
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