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RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: Good evening, Keith. We will make more. Thank you so much.
And thank you for sticking around this Friday night. It was an extraordinary news day today. To cap on extraordinary news week, we're going to try to pack as much of it as reasonably as possible into the next hour.
(voice over): It's a crisis so bad that normally-hostile politicians came together to try to do something to bail out America's economy and abort (ph) a global fire sale on financial assets. Barack Obama was on board.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D-IL) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I urge Senator McCain, President Bush, Republicans and Democrats to join me.
MADDOW: Obama was on board, but John McCain is having none of it.
MCCAIN: Maybe just this once, he could spare us the lectures.
MADDOW: This has been a landmark week in America and a week that John McCain would probably just as soon forget. It's a week that ends for him with some unforgettable audacity. Paul Krugman reviews McCain and Obama, and the economic crisis. A day after we were among those shoveling dirt onto the troopergate investigation, there are signs of life there. Alaska state lawmaker, Hollis French, vowed that the investigation will conclude before November -before the election—even as "First Dude," Todd Palin defies his subpoena. We have the latest live from the last frontier. Plus: The equal part secrecy, deviousness, falsity, power-grabbiness, hawkishness, and taunting—mix them all together and you get Dick Cheney or is it Sarah Palin or is Sarah Palin Dick Cheney? A vice presidential audition that's going unexpectedly well four more years—four more years.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW starts now.
(on camera): Today ended a week that was a dry run for John McCain and Barack Obama—a genuine crisis: the partial, so far, meltdown of the country's financial system. It threatens every American. And absent much of anything at all from George W. Bush, the nation has turned its eyes to the two men vying to head the federal government. What we got this week was a glimpse, not only of policy positions, but also of leadership style, of temperament under pressure. Barack Obama went for the door marked, "I am a calm, focused unifier" in the face of national peril.
OBAMA: We did not arrive at this crisis by some accident in history. What led us to this point was years and years of a philosophy in Washington and on Wall Street that viewed even common sense regulations and oversight as unwise and unnecessary. It shredded consumer protections and loosened the rules of the road.
CEOs and executives got reckless, lobbyists got what they wanted, and politicians in both parties looked the other way until it was too late. It is now the American people who pay the price.
MADDOW: Senator Obama has the political luxury of his consistent positions in favor of regulating the financial markets, having clearly enunciated his current position in a major speak at NASDAQ a year ago this week and having restated it in even more forceful terms and in more detailed this past March at Cooper Union. He can afford to be steady and stick to the plan he has already offered.
John McCain, a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution of deregulation and a 26-year veteran booster of capitalism without restriction doesn't have that same luxury. So, McCain led today by blaming Barack Obama for the crisis on Wall Street.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R-AZ) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We learned a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But, maybe just this once, he could spare us the lectures and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis—the crisis on Wall Street, my friends, started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was right square on the middle of it.
MCCAIN: My friends, this is the problem in Washington. People like Senator Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven't ever done a thing to actually challenge the system.
MADDOW: No, really. That's your diagnosis? It's Barack Obama's fault?
Perhaps not the least ridiculous possible approach to this situation, considering the gravity of this crisis and considering that—one, McCain advisor Phil Gramm wrote the laws that deregulated these markets; two, McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, lobbied to help Fannie and Freddie steer clear of federal regulations; and three, one of McCain's top policy advisors, Charlie Black, was a lobbyist for Freddie Mac for 10 years. None of which was lost today on Senator McCain's rival, Barack Obama.
OBAMA: This is the guy who spent nearly three decades in Washington and after spending the entire campaign saying I haven't been in Washington long enough, he apparently now is willing to assign me responsibility for all of Washington's failures. I think it's pretty clear I think it's pretty clear that Senator McCain is a little panicked right now.
MADDOW: (INAUDIBLE) panicked header as the economy hangs in the balance, the McCain appeared, at least, to produce the race card, of all things from the bottom of the deck today. It was a television ad with sinister images of a purported connection between Senator Obama and former Fannie Mae exec, Franklin Raines. The report to which the purported connection was sourced, it was the "style section" of the "Washington Post."
Why would McCain even bring this up? Why would he raise Obama's thin ties to Fannie and Freddie, given the reports that he, himself, has 19 people working as either advisors or fundraisers for him who are lobbyists for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac?
Time to bring in senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, Jonathan Alter. He's also an NBC news analyst.
Jon Alter, nice to see you.
JONATHAN ALTER, NEWSWEEK: Hi, Rachel.
MADDOW: Is this a rouge thing—go on the offense from the point at which you are, yourself, vulnerable? I mean, McCain's trying to go on the offense on longevity in Washington and ties to lobbyists.
ALTER: Yes, it's rich, so to speak, considering that his campaign manager, Rick Davis was a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You know, it reminds me of what was done to McCain by George W. Bush in the South Carolina primary. After McCain won New Hampshire, suddenly, Bush rechristened himself with the help of Karl Rove as, quote, "a reformer with results," when that had been, you know, McCain's calling card.
So, you just try to steal the other guy's thunder and you assume that the American public is stupid which is what is the operating assumption on this case.
MADDOW: Well, what do you think of the last provocative—I admit provocative point I made there, and I honestly am open-minded about this—but, I want to get your opinion on this idea that this Raines ad, this Franklin Raines ad that was put up today by the McCain campaign not because there is a worrying tie between Obama and Frank Raines, the Fannie Mae executive, because there doesn't seem to be a tie between them, but because Raines is black and they were bending over to make a race-tinged ad showing this two black men looking very menacing and then showing a worried and distressed elderly white woman at the end of the ad
ALTER: Well, you know, I would like to think that's not true. And it is a fact that Frank Raines was kind of disgraced when he left Fannie Mae. So, there was—they were trying to get to that scandal element here. And to give them the benefit of a huge doubt, all right, let's give them that.
The problem is that it might be a part of a pattern. It was an ad last week that they did going after critics of Sarah Palin and they used a quote from Joe Biden saying, "She is good looking" as if, you know, this was a horrible thing for somebody to say but they didn't put it over Biden's picture, they put it over Barack Obama's picture, trying to play on that old, you know, Emmett Till idea that got him lynched in the 50s. That black men are after our white women and think they are good looking.
This is one of the deepest, you know, canards in American history and part of the stain of racism. And so, you know, were they doing that? Maybe it was just a mistake in the editing room.
The problem is: Obama cannot call him on these things because, then, he looks like he just playing grievance politics and that becomes distraction. And we all chew on this, instead of talking about real things like the financial meltdown.
MADDOW: Sure.
ALTER: But McCain had a bad week, Rachel. You know, he was "Uncle Ziggy" in the Zigzag Express, all over the highway there. And so, you know, he's trying to recover now by lashing out. I don't think it's going to work for him. His best hope is that the market goes up enough so that everybody starts talking about something else.
MADDOW: You know, he said Senator Amy Klobuchar on the show earlier this week, and I said to her that the Obama campaign seems to hit its stride when the country is talking about issues and that's why they seemed to have hit their stride this week because we are talking about the economy, but I said they also seemed to wilt when McCain gets to drive there whenever we end up talking about, you know, lipstick and Britney Spear stuff.
Klobuchar actually agreed with me on that, even the wilting part of it. If next week, McCain throws up another culture or patriotism something smokescreen and the country isn't talking the economy as much, are Obama and Biden back on their heels or do you think they're they learning their lesson?
ALTER: Well, we will see. And it's an extraordinarily important point for them to be able to move the conversation back to substance.
Look—today was a huge day in American history.
MADDOW: Yes.
ALTER: It was not just the biggest bailout in history, but basically remember when McCain said we are all Georgians now? We are socialists now, Rachel.
I mean, this is a form of European-style socialism -- $1 trillion to back these industries? It actually also advantages Obama and that it's very hard for the right to say that Obama is a dangerous socialist since their president, Hank Paulson, president of the United States arguably.
MADDOW: Yes.
ALTER: He is the one who is driving this train.
MADDOW: Yes.
ALTER: They came up with a necessary, but nonetheless a socialist solution to this crisis.
MADDOW: Jonathan Alter, NBC News analyst and "Newsweek's" senior editor, have a very good weekend in very trying times. Thanks for joining us.
ALTER: Yes. Thanks, Rachel.
MADDOW: The estimate of today's government rescue plan for the economy, as John said, is $1 trillion, $1 trillion. A number so big, it used to be in the zillion, bazillion, kabillion (ph), category of words made up to sound too big to imagine. Should we be happy this plan is so ambitious because maybe then it's big enough to work? Or might the economy totally, globally tank no matter the size of this rescue plan? Is this just the first trillion?
With numbers this big, this diagnosis this dire, I am no longer worrying about my tax dollars, I'm worried about the country. This sometime feels like everything everyday rebounds (ph) to the election but this feels bigger than the election.
Whether it is President Obama or McCain, will the new president be taking over a government that is a shell of its former self, helming an economy that is itself a shell of its former self? How much is our economy changed? How much is our country changed just in the past weeks?
Here to try to Talk Me Down—and I really hope he does—is Paul Krugman, "New York Times" columnist, professor of economics at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.
Paul, nice to see you. Thanks for joining us.
PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: Hi, there.
MADDOW: So, make your case. Should I be this freaked out or can you Talk Me Down here?
KRUGMAN: Gosh. You know, in the long run, it will work out. But, as the great economist, John Maynard Keynes said, "In the long run, we are all dead," this is pretty serious. I mean, this is—it's funny. I thought I was a little over the top but it turns that what Bernanke and Paulson told Congress was pretty much what I've been saying in my worst moments which is that unless we get a grip on this right now, it's 1931. It's the Great Depression all over again. This is an incredible financial crisis. The whole system is apparently within days of melting down. So, you know, assuming that it gets rescued here, then it's only bad, but not terrible, but wow—it's really pretty bad.
MADDOW: What is a total meltdown look in terms that non-economists
look like in terms that non-economists can understand and what can rescue us from total meltdown?
KRUGMAN: OK. The meltdown of the financial markets really would mean that nobody can get a loan, not even loans to, you know, operating. So, business sort of grinds to a halt because the cash—nobody can do business entirely on cash. And you can't have the lending and so, unemployment scoots up, business failures across the board, lots of people, even more people lose their houses. You know, 1932, sort of, after the banking crisis of the early Great Depression.
That's the picture except it's, you know, it's all kind of not banks of big buildings of marble, but it's more virtual, it's more 21st century, but still basically the same thing.
What can advert it is if the taxpayer stands guarantee, so behind enough assets so business is able to keep functioning. And that's essentially what we think is in the plan, although, you know, we don't have any details yet about how this is going to work.
MADDOW: In the, I guess, in the broadest possible terms, is
politics just ceased to matter? We're not hearing, I know, certainly we're
hearing sniping on the campaign trail, John McCain blaming Barack Obama for
what's happened which is -
KRUGMAN: Right.
MADDOW: I think a spit-take moment for most of the country. But honestly, beyond that, it seems like what is being talked about to try to rescue the economy right now isn't particularly partisan or isn't particularly contentious, it just seems sort of desperate and unified.
KRUGMAN: That's not entirely true.
MADDOW: OK (ph).
KRUGMAN: I mean, I think, there is now bipartisan agreement except for a sort of rump true believer Republicans, that we need a gigantic rescue plan. So, that much politics has just ended. You know, but the details—what happens to stockholder and financial firms that get a lot of their assets bought out? What happens to the—what happens to the company where even if there's an asset buyout by the Feds, it's still not solved—the company. How do we keep it a going concern, do we keep it a going concern?
Those are real issues. If you listen closely to what Chuck Schumer is saying, it's not the same as what Hank Paulson used to be saying and there's going to be, I think, there probably is, right now, behind closed doors, a fight about those details. So, there is—it's not like we've agreed on everything. But the big thing, yes. Politics, you know, it's just amazing. And my first reaction on hearing this was, you know, Economic Czar Paulson has seized control of the means of production. All the political divides have broken down.
MADDOW: As Jon Alter just said, we are all socialists now, right?
KRUGMAN: Incredible.
MADDOW: Paul Krugman, "New York Times" columnist, you have absolutely not succeeded in Talking Me Down.
KRUGMAN: Right.
MADDOW: But thank you for coming on to help us explain it tonight, appreciate it.
KRUGMAN: Thanks so much.
MADDOW: So, it wasn't such a good week for John McCain on the whole "talking about the economy" thing. It also wasn't such a good week for John McCain on any front, even foreign policy. He wants to rattle-sabers against Spain. Then, there was a whole inventing the BlackBerry thing and he wants to fire the SEC chairman, even though he can't. And he wants to have the FEC chairman resign even though the FEC is just minding its own business.
We're going to be looking back at John McCain's less than stellar week, in just a moment.
And: It turns out that reports of the demise of troopergate may
have been greatly exaggerated. One man very close to the investigation
says Republicans' efforts to push the investigation off until after the
election may not have succeeded after all. He'll be joining us live from
Alaska, next
MADDOW: Breaking news tonight in the troopergate investigation. Well, I'm getting used to saying that. The scandal has taken more turns than a square dance at this point.
Anyway, tonight's breaking news on the investigation into
troopergate, Sarah Palin's alleged abuse of power as governor of Alaska,
her alleged improper firing of the state's Public Safety commissioner for
refusing to settle a personal Palin family score by firing a state trooper
as you know.
Here's tonight's breaking news. An Alaska lawmaker heading up the probe says it will still be completed before the election, probably by October 10th, despite attempts by allies of Palin and the McCain campaign to derail the investigation.
I, all but declared troopergate over on last night's show. It turns out I was wrong. Republicans have charged that the inquiry has been corrupted by politics and by supporters of Barack Obama, even though it was launched after a 14 to zip bipartisan vote in the Alaska State House.
Palin, initially, vowed full enthusiastic cooperation with the investigation. Now, neither she nor her husband, nor state employees are agreeing to straightforwardly answer questions in the probe. And Republican lawmakers are suing to try to kill the investigation all together.
Joining us now is Democrat Bill Wielechowski, an Alaska senator and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee overseeing the Palin investigation.
Senator, thank you very much for joining us.
STATE SEN. BILL WIELECHOWSKI, (D) ALASKA: Hi, Rachel. Glad to be here.
MADDOW: Yesterday, we heard Todd Palin was not going to show up and give a deposition in troopergate. We heard that the investigation could be delayed until after the election. Twenty-four hours later, all changed. It now, at least, sort of looks like the investigation is back on track. That's what it seems like from here. What's your assessment?
WIELECHOWSKI: I think you're accurate. The investigator has told us that he feels he can complete the investigation by October 10th. When the legislative council, 14 members, agreed to go forward with this unanimously, they set a deadline of October 31. And he intends to adhere to that deadline.
MADDOW: The independent investigator who is picked to head up this investigation. He is one of the people who the McCain and Palin forces, for lack of a better term, have been impugning in terms of his independence, in terms of his reputation, in terms of his status as a non-partisan arbiter here. What's your reaction to that?
WIELECHOWSKI: It's really unfortunate. What we've seen in the last couple of weeks is a pretty much nonstop smear campaign by the McCain campaign to attempt to discredit a man who has given 25 years of his life to prosecuting criminals here in Alaska. He's got a sterling reputation. He was unanimously voted by the legislature several years ago to be the first head of Office of Victims' Right here in Alaska.
And he is—it's really unfortunate to see what they've been doing to him and anyone, really, that steps forward and disagrees with the McCain campaign.
MADDOW: It seems like there has also been a real campaign against the reputation of Walt Monegan, who is the Public Safety commissioner, who was fired, who's firing rise to this investigation in the first place. Obviously, he's a different guy than the investigator, Branchflower.
But has there also been a push back or reaction in the state to the impugning of Chief Monegan?
WIELECHOWSKI: There has. I think Alaskans are very, very upset. Walt Monegan, again, another individual with just a stellar reputation, 35 years of protecting Alaskans. He was this chief of the Anchorage Police Department. He was the head of the state trooper. One of the most respected individuals, quite frankly, in the entire state. And there's been a real pushback just from ordinary Alaskans to see, who are seeing that he's really being smeared, unfortunately, drive to the mud by the McCain campaign.
MADDOW: Can you describe how the climate around the investigation feels now as compared to when it started? And, of course, when it started, Sarah Palin had not yet been tapped as John McCain's V.P.
WIELECHOWSKI: Right, this investigation, quite frankly, was pushed by Republicans. It was a number of key Republicans who wanted this investigation to go forward. It, ultimately, did go forward on unanimous vote in front of the legislative council. Eight Republicans and four Democrats all voted to go forward with it. The House speaker, who's a conservative Republican, voted to go forward with it. The president of the Senate, a conservative Republicans from governor Palin's own district, voted to go forward with it.
The governor herself came out and said, "I welcome the investigation." She's directed her staff to cooperate with the investigation repeatedly. In fact, she came out with a press release on August 13th, directing her staff to cooperate with the investigation. The reason she did that was because at that time, we were getting ready to issue subpoenas and she said, "No, you don't need to issue subpoenas, I'll cooperate completely." And she had cooperated completely. Everything changed, unfortunately, the day after she was selected to be the vice president.
MADDOW: If Todd Palin, and state employees, and aides to the governor, refuse to testify, if they resist the subpoenas, is the investigation really hamstrung or do you think that it can go forward and report in a full way by October 10th?
WIELECHOWSKI: Oh, absolutely. You know, we've said all along, it's up to Steve Branchflower, the investigator. And if he thinks he's got enough information, if he thinks he can go forward, then it's to go forward. And he's been working on this for almost a month and a half now. He's been working on it every day. He's collected quite a bit of evidence.
And he's taken a lot of depositions already.
And I think one thing that the people forget is, of the people that were subpoenaed that failed to appear, we already have statements from them because the attorney general had been conducting an independent investigation of his own. And he got that investigation where there are sworn statements by a number of those witnesses.
So, you know, he wanted to talk to them himself and they, unfortunately, are not allowing him to do that. But he still has quite a bit of information. He feels that he can issue and impartial report.
MADDOW: This is a big development in this case. The squashing has been squashed, at least, in the short run.
Alaska Senator Bill Wielechowski, thanks for talking about this with us tonight, and good luck to you.
WIELECHOWSKI: Thank you.
MADDOW: Coming up: We will play the name those eerily (ph) similar elected officials. What politicians, either extremely close to the Oval Office or trying to get there, think subpoena is a four-letter word. And also enjoy a friendly totally disproven feud (ph) between friends. If you answer correctly, your price includes a chilling feeling of executive branch deja vu.
Stay tuned for results.
MADDOW: John McCain's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week cap off gaffe caustically (ph) today when he confused the SEC, the Securities Exchange Commission with the FEC, the Federal Election Commission. Does that mean that John McCain was thinking more about the election than about our national financial meltdown? Paging Dr. Freud.
More on that in just a moment.
RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: John McCain's terrible, horrible no-good, very bad week, kept off and gaffed (UNINTELLIGIBLE) today when he confused the SEC - the Securities and Exchange Commission with the FEC - the Federal Election Commission. Does that mean that John McCain was thinking more about the election than our national financial meltdown? Paging Dr. Freud. More on that in just a moment.
First though, it's time for a special Friday edition of the underreported holy mackerel stories in today's news. First up, a development in the only story I've ever covered in all the stories I've covered in all the years of the Bush administration that involves the phrase "snorting meth off the toaster oven."
New news today about the royalty-in-kind office of the Department of Interior. The office at which the inspector general of the department says nearly a third of the staff were involved in socializing with and receiving gifts from the oil and gas companies they were supposed to be overseeing. And by "socializing with," I mean socializing with while naked, while lying down, presumably, also snorting meth off toaster ovens and otherwise doing drugs.
The inspector general last week submitted his three reports documenting the dirty details of the "Drill, baby drill" office of interior. Yesterday, he told the House Natural Resources Committee that he doesn't know why the two highest ranking officials that he recommended for prosecution in the case have been given a get-out-of-jail free card by the Justice Department. Two former employees of that office did cut deals with Justice that involved pleading guilty. But the department has not yet explained why it's not brought charges against two other higher-ranking officials.
Columnist Al Cayman(ph) of "The Washington Post" today does, however, put a silver lining around the dark ethics cloud hanging over the Department of Interior. Cayman(ph) notes that just this month the Interior Department was awarded an education and communication award from the Office of Government Ethics. They earned the award for, quote, "developing a dynamic, laminated ethics guide for employees." I guess we now know a little bit more about why they might have wanted to laminate it.
Finally, Barack Obama gave an interview to the Elko, Nevada NBC station yesterday where he had a pesky, little encounter.
SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I warned a year ago and a year and a half ago that the subprime lending crisis could spill over, and that - let me again. The main thing that I try to would do is avoid from getting in this crisis in the first place. I warned - I'm sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: There's a lot of flies in here. The senator is going to do something about these flies. (LAUGHTER)
OBAMA: Let's cut that. We're going to do it one more time. All right, let's try it one more time. (LAUGHTER)
There's no doubt that we're under-investing in education. Now, mostly that's a state issue.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: It's OK.
OBAMA: All right. Let's try it again. We need to invest in early childhood education. (LAUGHTER) I'm sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We need an exterminator.
MADDOW: The fly obviously a well-trained agent of the Republican Party.
Advantage GOP in round one of the annoying electoral insect wars.
MADDOW: I am not a person who plays golf. I'm no golfer, but I know enough the rules of golf to guess that John McCain wishes he could take a mulligan right now. Sen. McCain, this was your week.
MADDOW (voice over): The McCain campaign was on top of the world. And then, Monday happened.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Good morning. Meltdown, a financial tsunami engulfing some of the nation's biggest moneymakers.
MADDOW: While the rest of the known universe was uttering words like crisis, meltdown and panic, John McCain uttered eight words that triggered what soon became an avalanche of a week.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong.
MADDOW: McCain and his advisors knew they were in a dilly(ph) of a pickle. Sounds too much like Hubert Guber(ph) in 1929, "What do we do? How do we get our guy out of this and blame the other guy at the same time?" Three hours later, they had a solution, probably written frantically on note cards.
MCCAIN: Our workers are the most innovative, hardest working, best skilled, most productive, most competitive in the world. That's the American worker. And my opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals - those are the fundamentals of America and I think they are strong.
MADDOW: Got to give them credit for ambition anyway. People who think the economy is in trouble like Barack Obama and everyone else in America hate American workers? Yes. The week was off to a bad start, a surefire way to turn it around, unleash the McCain camp expert. That will show him. Douglas Holt-Eakin, McCain's chief economic advisor, gave it a whack.
DOUGLAS HOLT-EAKIN, MCCAIN'S CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR: You're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create.
MADDOW: John McCain invented the Blackberry? John McCain says he doesn't even know how to use E-mail or the Google. With Internet inventor Al Gore surely giggling at an undisclosed cyber-optimized location, the McCain campaign sent out its other top economic advisor fired Hewlett Packard CEO, Carly Fiorina. She'll straighten this mess up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Does Sarah Palin - John McCain obviously thinks she has the experience to become president of the United States. Do you think she has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?
CARLY FIORINA, MCCAIN ECONOMIC ADVISOR: No, I don't.
MADDOW: Carly, you want to take another stab at that one?
FIORINA: I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation.
MADDOW: Oh. Surely after that effort, the McCain camp announced Carly Fiorina was going to, quote, "disappear for awhile." Tada. Back on the home front, John McCain was in the midst of day two of his gaffe-filled week. Take, for instance, his attempts to discuss the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, the SIPC. OK, now you try, Sen. McCain.
MCCAIN: I pledge that the FDIC and SPIC will have all the support they need.
MADDOW: I'm sorry. Did you just say S-P-I-C?
MCCAIN: We've got the FPSCC, the CFTC, the FDIC and the SPIC.
MADDOW: Oh, that's so unfortunate on so many levels. By Wednesday, things were just getting weird. McCain was selling his "Drill baby drill plan" with an environmental twist.
MCCAIN: His fish - everywhere. Yes, they - the fish love to be around those rigs.
MADDOW: With McCain already twisted into the verbal equivalent of MC Escher lithograph, he performed a miraculous change of heart about the bailout plan for troubled insurance giant, AIG, opposing it on NBC's the "Today" show on Tuesday, then supporting it on ABC's "Good Morning, America" on Wednesday. Perhaps the senator is unaware that those shows are recorded. Having barely politically survived Wednesday, McCain tried Thursday on for size. His big, bold idea for a blue ribbon commission to study the economy having died faster than a diet pledge at a state fair, Sen. McCain tried out a new line.
MCCAIN: The chairman of the SEC serves at the appointment of the president, and in my view, has betrayed the public trust. If I were president today, I would fire him.
MADDOW: Well, his a man of words about actions, except no president can take the action of firing the SEC chairman, that doggone constitution and its anti-tough-talk rules. The whole thing almost made Sarah Palin look like the rational half of the Republican ticket, so much that she attempted to turn that whole "who's the running mate" thing upside down.
GOV. SARAH PALIN (R-AK), VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That's exactly what we are going to do in a Palin and McCain administration.
MADDOW: Which brings us to today, to Friday, which brought yet another McCain gaffe on the economy. As he attempted today deliver his "fire the SEC guy" line again, he fell just short of his intended target.
MCCAIN: That's why I believe that the chairman of the FEC chairman should resign.
MADDOW: That's right, FEC chairman Donald McGhan, you're next. Your crime? Heading a commission with letters so close to that darned SEC. There is good news tonight, though, a silver lining for the McCain campaign. This week is officially over except for Saturday and Sunday.
MADDOW: I'd like to welcome Ana Marie Cox. She's the Washington editor for "RadarOnline.com" and a contributor to "Time" magazine. Ana, thanks for spending some of your Friday night with us.
ANA MARIE COX, WASHINGTON EDITOR, RADARONLINE.COM: It's really good to be here. And I just want to say congratulations, Rachel, on how well the show is doing. And I just, as a viewer, really appreciate having alternative to all the wrinkly, old men and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that are on the other channels, although I have been out with McCain, so I've seen a lot of both of those types.
MADDOW: You know, I think that in my own mind, I am a wrinkly old man so -
COX: You're like a (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to me.
MADDOW: Oh, thank you. I think - yes. OK.
COX: I understand that you're different.
MADDOW: Thank you. You saw in the tape the stuff that we collected over the course of this week from the campaign trail. This just seems like a horrendous week for McCain, I mean, at least from the studio in which I'm sitting here in New York. Looking at the tapes, it just felt bad. I know that you were traveling with him this week. Did it seem bad out there, too?
COX: Oh, yes. You know, there are some things that the bubble will protect you from. But the sort of the sloshing of flop sweat tends to work its way inside. So, yes, and I think the traveling press noticed that things were not going well.
I think that today, maybe they felt a little bit better about today than you did. I think that week had started so bad, there was kind of no way for it to get - it hit bottom and stayed at bottom and then maybe crept up just a little bit.
MADDOW: Do they seem mad? Do they seem energized? Do they seem demoralized?
COX: Oh, they are energized by their anger, that's what I would say. It's a very - they have never been a calm group of people on the McCain campaign, which I kind of like, to be honest. I like emotional people because they are fun to cover. But, you know, they seem pretty angry. They also - this is, I think, interesting.
You know, you had a segment about their ad about Raines. And there's accusation or a question about whether or not there was intended to be somehow playing a race card in that. And I think that - I was trying to talk to McCain people about this and frankly, they don't care. They don't care what we think. They stopped. You and I could talk about everything they have done in the past week. It's a mistake. This is not going to matter to them. They've reached that point.
MADDOW: What was amazing, though, in the response to that, it was Karen Tumulty, your colleague at "Time" magazine who posted at the "Time" Web site that those thoughts about maybe this being a race-driven decision to put up this ad about Raines, given that the tie - the actual link between Obama and Raines is so tenuous, he sort of had to look somewhere else to explain why they would be running an ad like that. And the response from the McCain official blogger was that Karen Tumulty was hysterical. And I thought, "Oh, they are trying to (UNINTELLIGIBLE)."
They're trying to get called racist. They're trying to get called sexist because maybe they think that makes them look old school.
COX: I think - I mean, I actually also want to say I do not think that that ad was intentionally racist. I honestly do not. And that's based on conversations with them and it's based also on the fact that they had another ad in the can already, the Jim Johnson ad ...
MADDOW: Right.
COX: ... before they did this ad. And I think I've been told that was finished first. But it's still a misleading ad, definitely. And I think what you saw in that post from Michael Goldfarb, their blogger, is that they are ready to stay in the flames of any controversy. Because I do think that what they saw with Sarah Palin and the way the media treated her, was how much that excited the people that were not excited before.
Some of it has to do with Sarah Palin's, I think, remarkable charisma. And she's a great communicator. I don't think you can argue with those things. But I think also, there's a lot of resentment on the part of some people in the Republican base. And when you have the mainstream media calling you names, that fires them up.
MADDOW: I'm going to start just talking about ornamental horticulture (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
COX: Well, I was going to say, I mean, the thing is, like, what I've (UNINTELLIGIBLE) it's unfortunate we get distracted into these arguments about whether or not it's racist, whether or not it's sexist, because there's so many good reasons not to vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin, like good stuff (UNINTELLIGIBLE) reasons. You know, I would rather talk about the stuff that's kind of ridiculous. But it is interesting that we are spending so much time on these things, that you and I are just right now.
MADDOW: We just - we'll stop. Thanks. Thanks for joining us. Ana Marie Cox, joining us today from Washington. Appreciate it.
COX: All right. Thank you.
MADDOW: Well, it may take years before she ever acquires that dark metaphorical Darth Vader cloak that envelops Cheney. Sarah Palin has already scored top marks in the Dick Cheney school of vice presidential behavior, majoring in secrecy and vindictive governance with a minor in contempt for the rules. Can't wait to read her senior thesis on the last throes of the Iraq insurgency.
MADDOW: Extreme views, a little bit of cluelessness, comfort with dishonesty and secretive authoritarian tendencies. Take equal parts of each, shake over worrisome health and you have what many Americans think of as the office of vice presidency under Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney really, deeply unpopular with the American people and has been for a long time.
Joe Biden and Sarah Palin now vying to replace him. When John McCain asked Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate after meeting her just once, the first question on everyone's mind was, what kind of decider is John McCain? How do you pick the person you want to run the country with after one meeting? Does that mean McCain is one of those look them in the eye and know their soul kind of gut-check deciders? Because we all know how well that worked with Putin.
Either it was a gut-check decision or someone else made this decision for McCain. Somebody told him he couldn't have who he really wanted and he had to take Palin, in which case I want a chance to vote on whoever that person is, who gets to tell McCain what he can and can't do.
So that was the first question and we all found out about the Palin pick. How did that happen, John McCain? The second question, of course, was who's Sarah Palin? And that is what Americans have been paying so much attention to now for the past three weeks or so since we've gotten to know her. We are all coming to our own conclusions about whether we think she really has what it takes to take over Cheney's office. I'm thinking it might be a really, really easy transition from Cheney to Palin.
And here's why. First, extreme views. Who else in the world doesn't think that global warming is man-made at this point? Wonder twin Cheney-Palin powers, activate. Second, a little bit of cluelessness? Cheney gets lots of credit for being the Machiavellian puppet master, controlling everything in Washington, the omniscient evil genius. You know, don't give the guy too much credit.
DICK CHENEY, UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT: I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.
MADDOW: Vice president Cheney's last throes? Meet would be vice president Palin's online government checkbook.
PALIN: As Alaska's governor, I put the government's checkbook online so that people can see where their money is going. We're going to bring that transparency.
MADDOW: You know, that would be an awesome idea for Washington. That's why Barack Obama and Tom Coburn did that already two years ago. How about also the issue of comfort with dishonesty?
CHENEY: It's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service. And we have reporting that places him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official.
MADDOW: Dude, that's so was not pretty well-confirmed. But you're obviously pretty comfortable repeating it, nonetheless. Gov. Palin, if you want Cheney's job, we're going to need to know just how comfortable you are with saying stuff that's flat-out not true to the American people.
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS TV HOST: The bridge to nowhere -
PALIN: Yes.
HANNITY: Did you originally support it?
PALIN: I killed the bridge to nowhere and, you know, I think I ruffled some feathers there also.
MADDOW: I cannot speak to the feathers but you so totally did not kill the bridge to nowhere. And you've been called out on it a million times already.
Finally, let's assess the most Cheney-esque of all the vice presidential vices that have brought Americans' feelings to a warm simmer of fear and loathing about the east wing of the White House. That would be secretive and authoritarian tendencies. The easiest job in the Federal Government is being vice president Cheney's spokesperson. How many different ways can a person say no comment? It's just not that hard a job. You know how the McCain campaign won't let Sarah Palin talk to the press? The guy running the McCain campaign, Steve Schmidt, used to be Cheney's spokesman, so he's had lots of practice. Don't forget also the mysteriously missing E-mails from Cheney's office including from the day the FBI announced they were investigating the Valerie Plame-Wilson affair.
I see you those missing Cheney E-mails and raise you the 1,100 Sarah Palin E-mails she's withholding under executive privilege. Subpoenaed in a Palin investigation in Alaska? Check the Cheney and Bush playbook for how to deal with a subpoena in Washington.
Here's my favorite and this has just broken today. One of the weirdest, most surreal displays of the secretive and authoritarian tendencies of Vice President Cheney was when his office insisted that the office of the vice presidency really didn't exist formally on paper.
DAVID ADDINGTON, DICK CHENEY'S CHIEF OF STAFF: The best that can be said is that the vice president belongs neither to the executive nor to the legislative branch.
MADDOW: See, since we're not part of the executive branch, we don't have to follow the rules about disclosing anything that the executive branch has to disclose. Oh, and we don't have to follow any of the rules about disclosing anything that the legislative branch has to disclose either. We're fairies. We're in the ether. We're in your mind, scaring your future.
"The Hill" newspaper in Washington today asked both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin if they, too, would maintain that the office of the vice presidency doesn't really exist, if they too would deny that the office of vice presidency is part of the government, part of the executive branch. Biden's response, essentially, don't be ridiculous. He said, quote, "Unlike Dick Cheney, Joe Biden won't have to create a full-employment plan for lawyers and scholars to clear up something that was unquestioned for about 200 years. The vice president is part of the executive branch, period, end of story."
Sarah Palin's response, on the other hand - no comment. Dick Cheney, meet Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin, meet Dick Cheney, although it seems like you guys might already know each other.
CHENEY: A pig, but at the end of the day, it's still a pig.
PALIN: The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull - lipstick.
MADDOW: Let the debate continue about whether or not Sarah Palin is ready to take over for Dick Cheney. I, for one, think she's been preparing for it her whole life.
MADDOW: Now, it's time for "Just Enough" with my friend, Kent Jones. Hi, Kent. What have you got?
JONES: Thank you, Rachel. Happy talk like a pirate day, arghh. First up in London. The west end buzzing about a new stage show due to open next month called the "Obama Musical." The tune reportedly takes a humorous look at personalities behind Obama's campaign. Even though the show is still in rehearsal, my spies tell me that the Axelrod flute duet before act one - goose bumps.
And finally, science magazine has published a study that found that people that react strongly to sudden noises and threatening images tend to be conservative politically. On the other hand, people who are less sensitive to noise and pictures tend to be more liberal. Let's do an experiment. Now, does this image frighten you? OK.
Now, how about this one? Aah, no respect to science but sometimes these studies are just wrong. I'm just saying, Rachel.
MADDOW: Thank you very much, Kent.
JONES: Sure.
MADDOW: And thank you for watching tonight at home. We will see you here Monday night. Until then, you can hear my radio show at 6:00 p.m. Eastern coast to coast on Air America Radio where I talk real good. "COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" starts right now. Good night.
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When I first saw Rob Ward's very entertaining play back in October last year I commented on the fact that the play had an elegance to it and a rhythmic poetic quality that perfectly mirrored the timing, execution and accuracy required by a boxer to deliver at times lethal punches. The play has not changed and has via well crafted direction by Adam Zane become more streamlined and, dare I say it, punchier.
Rob who plays Gorgeous George and his fellow actor Ryan Clayton are perfect together and when they perform various roles, especially Ryan as George's mother the energy exuded makes for theatre that carries a hard-hitting message. This is a story about sexuality, the brutality of a sport and having to be in total control of your destiny. Absorbing theatre performed with an ease by two actors that have totally connected, As part of the Queer Festival at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, this study in pugilism and passion for your fellow man will go the distance. Very watchable.


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People should be encouraged to take greater responsibility for their own health rather than being told what to do, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
The public health white paper, published today (November 30th), reveals plans to 'empower communities', with local government providing leadership on issues such as exercise, obesity and smoking.
A new service, Public Health England, will be created to give local people more power over their health and lead national programmes, such as responses to flu pandemics and health screening.
The service will have its own public health budget, which is likely to be worth at least £4 billion a year from 2013.
Public Health England will also provide a 'knowledge bank', supplying the most up-to-date evidence on techniques to change people's behaviour and monitoring data.
Local authorities will be given funding to commission public health services and the poorest areas will be given extra money in the form of 'health premiums' to help tackle inequalities and reward progress.
Mr Lansley said that health and wellbeing would be 'at the heart of everything local councils do', with health issues being considered alongside housing, transport and education.
'Everyone should have services tailored for them, at the right times in their life, from the professionals closest to them,' he claimed.
'With local authorities in the driving seat, supported by the latest evidence on behaviour change from Public Health England, we will start seeing significant improvements in the nation's health.'
Professor Lindsey Davies, president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, described the white paper as a 'tremendous opportunity to put health at the heart of public service'.
She revealed: 'We see the public health white paper as a significant opportunity to deliver an effective local public health system, which has at its heart people's health and wellbeing.'
However, a spokeswoman for the British Medical Association warned that 'nudging' people to lead healthier lives could have a limited effect if they are surrounded by fast food advertising and alcohol marketing.
Dr Vivienne Nathanson, the association's director of professional activities, said: 'We agree that 'nudging' people to be healthy may be more effective than only telling them how to live their lives.
'However ... we need an environment that helps us make healthy choices and sometimes tougher action is needed to achieve this.'
Dr Nathanson also criticised the health secretary for failing to ban tobacco displays in shops and warned that 'the issue of health inequalities is complex and focusing solely on health will not fully address the widening gap'.
The Royal College of Physicians was also critical of the white paper, particularly of its failure to provide details on how the threats posed by alcohol misuse, obesity and smoking will be tackled.
Sir Richard Thompson, the college's president, welcomed the idea of a ring-fenced budget, robust workforce development plans and a challenging outcomes framework.
However, he warned: 'On a whole raft of issues it has been clearly demonstrated that a 'laissez faire' attitude does not work, either in terms of promoting responsible behaviour among the manufacturers and retailers of potentially harmful products or in creating an environment that would allow individuals to make healthier choices.'
Sir Richard continued: 'It took the last government at least six years to recognise this and then gather the political courage to start tackling some of the deeper seated problems with robust, population-wide policies. It would be a great shame if the new government were to take just as long to reach similar conclusions, whilst in the interim more people become ill.'


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The mayor of Paris tweeted that the Eiffel Tower will be lit up in black, yellow and red in solidarity with Brussels following a series of deadly attacks Tuesday that left at least 31 dead and dozens injured.
Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter, "In solidarity with the people of Brussels, Paris will light up the Eiffel Tower in the colors of the Belgian flag tonight." She added the hashtag #NousSommesUnis, which means "We Are United."
The town hall of Brussels lit up with the colors of the French national flag at the Brussels Grand Palace in November following terrorist attacks in Paris.
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The Belgian capital has been on high alert since the Paris attacks, when Salah Abdeslam, a suspect, fled to Brussels. He was arrested on Friday.
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If you weigh a couple of pounds more than you thought, do you try moving the scale around a few inches left or right to see if you weigh less.... and then feel better if you do?
How about stepping more in the back or front of the scale and see if you weigh less.
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PANAMA CITY -- The Air Force is committed to spending $3 billion during the next five years to rebuild Tyndall Air Force Base, including an initial investment of at least $40 million by the end of 2019, senior service officials announced at a community forum Thursday.
Bay County officials said the ambitious reconstruction effort likely will create between 4,000 and 5,000 jobs, a major economic boon to the hard-pressed civilian community.
"We are fully committed to the rebuilding of Tyndall Air Force Base," said John Henderson, assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and energy. A formal master plan for the base's recovery from Hurricane Michael will be sent to Congress this spring that will guide the Air Force's funding requests, he said.
Henderson and other Air Force officials on Thursday spent several hours detailing the damage the base suffered from the storm, and their blueprints for transforming the 80-year-old base into a state-of-the-art military facility that will meet the service's requirements well into the next century. The first-of-its-kind "Tyndall Industry Day" attracted an audience of almost 500 people to the Holley Center at Florida State University-Panama City.
Related: Air Operations Unaffected After Tornado Hits Tyndall
Addressing his remarks to the array of local political leaders and construction industry executives in the hall, Henderson said, "We cannot do this without your help. We have some immense challenges in front of us."
Even though federal leaders from President Trump to Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson previously stated their support for restoring Tyndall to a state-of-the-art air base, the forum at FSU-PC left a number of local officials breathing a deep sigh of relief.
"There's no doubt of their commitment," said Bay County Commissioner Robert Carroll, who also chairs the county's Long-Term Recovery Task Force. "We're getting our opportunity to rebuild."
Rep. Neal Dunn confirmed to the audience that rebuilding Tyndall has strong bipartisan support in Congress.
"The will is there, the votes are there in the Senate, and the votes are there in the House," he said.
Two officials from the base Program Management Office -- which is directing the massive recovery operation -- stressed that the pace of activity will be unprecedented. Noting the Air Force intends to station several squadrons of the F-35 joint strike fighter at Tyndall in four years, PMO Director Col. Scott Matthews warned, "To meet that deadline of 2023, we cannot do business as usual."
"The days of building a facility and taking six to eight months to fit it out are gone," Matthews added.
The central message delivered to construction industry leaders on Thursday was that the Air Force plans to rely heavily on civilian expertise in the planning and design of the new infrastructure, not just in the construction area.
"We are calling it 'combat planning' -- standard planning, but fast," said Amy Vandeveer, senior planner for the PMO.
The Air Force is pushing to complete initial redevelopment plans in April in order to meet the deadline for issuing construction contracts by the beginning of the next fiscal year on Sept. 30, she said.
Vandeveer touched on a number of concepts the Air Force is interested in bringing to the recovery effort, including a flight line designed not just for the F-35, but for future aircraft not yet even on the drawing board.
"The life of an F-35 is about 30 years," she said. "This base will last for 80 years." Other options include building a "campus" design for the enlisted housing area; stressing multi-use designs for new buildings, and aircraft shelters that -- in her words -- "won't blow away."
The Tyndall forum drew high marks from local officials.
"This is the beginning of an historic recovery," Bay County Defense Alliance Chairman Tom Neubauer said of the Tyndall forum.
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis said the event itself is an excellent harbinger of things to come.
"This has been unique," he told reporters. "The community has never seen a gathering of such talent."
The Air Force soon will launch a website -- www.afimsc.af.mil/tyndallpmo -- that will be dedicated to the Tyndall recovery, which will serve as a resource guide for businesses and contractors interested in working on the recovery. Base officials also announced tentative plans to hold a second "Tyndall Industry Day" event in May as the recovery planning matures.
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California Governor Jerry Brown prevents ban on male circumcision
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill preventing local authorities from banning the practice of male circumcision. The bill, which takes effect immediately, comes in the wake of an effort by a San Francisco group opposed to male circumcision to enforce a city-wide ban of the practice in a November ballot measure.
That effort was struck down in late July by a California judge who said it would infringe on religious freedom. The measure was removed from the November ballot. The measure, which garnered 12,000 signatures of support, would have made it a misdemeanor crime to circumcise a boy before he is 18 years old in San Francisco, regardless of the parents' religious beliefs. A dozen petitioners sued to block the initiative at the time. A similar effort in Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles, was withdrawn.
Circumcision is a ritual obligation for infant Jewish boys and also a common rite among Muslims, who account for the largest share of circumcised men worldwide. The move to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco raised alarm bells for Jewish groups.
In June, the Anti-Defamation League condemned a comic book created by supporters of the anti-circumcision movement that it said contained grotesque anti-Semitic imagery. The comic featured a character named "Monster Mohel" as an evil villain. A mohel is a Jewish individual specifically trained to perform the ritual circumcision of infant boys.
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text: Editorials: EditorialThey Did What … ?Schonberger, Robert B., MD, MA; Barash, Paul G., MDAuthor Information From the Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Accepted for publication April 4, 2012. Supported in part by National Institutes of Health grant T32 GM086287, P.I. Laura E. Niklason. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Address correspondence to Robert B. Schonberger, MD, MA, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., TMP 3, P.O. Box 208051, New Haven, CT 06520-8051. Address e-mail to email@example.com Anesthesia & Analgesia: July 2013 - Volume 117 - Issue 1 - p 3-5 doi: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318259ef55 Free Metrics At first perusal, the report by Vannucci and colleagues from Washington University1 may leave the reader incredulous that in this day, a guidewire, an integral part of the Seldinger technique,2 was "lost" in not 1, but 4 patients, and that the loss was only diagnosed in postoperative radiographs as late as 48 hours after insertion. To people familiar with the literature on medical errors in general, or with central venous catheterization in particular, however, it should not be surprising at all that such a well-documented and preventable complication continues to occur repeatedly, even within the walls of a highly regarded institution.3 Then again, if it is true that retained guidewires are not a particularly surprising occurrence, one might also wonder why the editors of Anesthesia & Analgesia would take valuable pages in the Journal to publish an article focusing on this familiar complication of vascular access procedures. Certainly, the case series is not the first report of a retained guidewire; the 4 described cases are neither the largest published case series, nor do they describe the longest unrecognized period of guidewire retention.4,5 The latter distinction goes to a published report documenting a duration of 150 days before recognition of a retained guidewire!6 Moreover, as the authors note, although a mandated root cause analysis was undertaken by the institution in response to these "sentinel events," additional qualitative data-gathering efforts may have led to further insights about factors contributing to the errors.7 The value of bringing this report to the attention of readers lies in the following. Access of the central venous circulation via the Seldinger technique is a ubiquitous procedure that may mistakenly be considered mundane by some. Clinical care has evolved such that a greater intensity of illness is seen in operating rooms, coupled with the need for a greater number and variety of central vascular access procedures, e.g., additional catheters required for postoperative care, placement of percutaneous pulmonary artery vents and coronary sinus catheters, etc. The multiplicity of central venous access devices now often necessitates a "double stick" technique that may introduce more than simply additive complexity to the catheterization process, and these procedures may be further complicated by other procedures occurring simultaneously, e.g., echocardiographic evaluation, surgical draping, distraction by other health care providers, etc. Finally, the omnipresent specter of production pressure8 coupled with operator fatigue increases the risk of significant complications that can occur even with truly "mundane" tasks.9 Perrow, in his book Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies,10 emphasizes that accidents are the "normal state" in highly complex settings. He argues persuasively that accidents can never be removed entirely from a system. Only the interval between these adverse events can be lengthened, and even then, only modestly in some systems. Disasters such as the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Apollo 13 mishap, and the capsized ferry Herald of Free Enterprise (which resulted in the largest loss of civilian life on a British passenger ship since the Titanic), have great similarities to the events in the operating rooms at Washington University. In the case of the Herald of Free Enterprise, in addition to inadequate ship design, the sinking of the ferry was preceded by a large number of deviations from the ship's standard docking and debarkation protocol.11 Analogously, inadequacy of the design of the central venous catheterization kits that invited easy confusion between guidewires of different lengths, the design of a work station area that enhanced rather than minimized distractions, unplanned incidents during the course of catheterization (e.g., hemodynamic instability), and operations management issues (e.g., urgent cases scheduled later in the day with the accompanying potential for operator fatigue added to the time pressure of starting cases in anticipation of on-call changes in care teams) likely contributed to such errors. One of Perrow's arguments, later reinforced in James Reason's famous "Swiss cheese model" of accidents,12 is that across diverse types of systems from passenger ships, to the Apollo spacecraft, to the operating rooms at a top-flight institution, errors happen more frequently when organizational defenses against adverse events are diminished. Building on Farinas' vascular catheterization techniques,13 Seldinger's seminal article led to the modern era of vascular catheterization.2 It was not until 2 decades later that clinicians were able to routinely utilize the Seldinger approach to obtain vascular access in daily practice. The fulcrum of the technique is the use of a guidewire to establish a transcutaneous pathway to a vascular space, with the pathway then progressively dilated to permit the introduction of an intravascular catheter. The benefit of the wire is obvious, but as documented in the current report, so are its liabilities. Interestingly, Gooding and Corssen at the University of Alabama (Birmingham), one of whom later published the first report of a retained metal stylet during central venous cannulation,14 developed a needle with a 6F to 8F introducer mounted on the shaft that allowed direct catheterization of a central vein without a guidewire.15 Given the proximity of their hospital to Huntsville, Alabama ("Rocket City, USA"), it may not be altogether surprising that their device calls to mind great similarities with the shape of a Saturn 5 rocket! (Fig. 1) Because of the potential for major vascular complications related to needle size, this technique was not adopted clinically, and the Seldinger approach remains the technique of choice.Figure 1: Upper Panel: Gooding and Corssen's design of a needle-introducer set that did not require a guidewire for central venous cannulation. (Reproduced with permission from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.) Lower Panel: A drawing of the Saturn V Rocket used during the Apollo program. (Image from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.)So what are the lessons the clinician should take away from the report of Vannucci et al.? The first important point calls to mind the aforementioned work of Perrow. We can never remove accidents from a complex system. This point reverberates across the present case series. After 2 episodes of loss of a guidewire, Washington University made a number of adjustments, including formal didactic training to prevent guidewire loss. Regardless of these educational interventions, 2 more episodes occurred. Despite the frequently (and erroneously) held clinical notion that central vascular access is a mundane procedure, it is in fact associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and the tight interactions among the several steps involved make accidents stubbornly inevitable in the face of our best attempts to prevent them. Nevertheless, while admitting to the global inevitability of errors during vascular access, it would seem absurd not to consider any individual error as eminently preventable. The process of preventing such errors is ongoing. In no small part, this process would seem to require the courage of practitioners such as Vannucci et al. to submit, and the wisdom of editors to accept for publication, descriptions of even well-known complications such as retained guidewires. Further emphasizing the need for such work, as the authors note, the recently drafted American Society of Anesthesiologists' guidelines on central venous access as well as other major reviews of central venous cannulation do not address in detail the issue of guidewire retention.16–18 The second important lesson is that a situational awareness has to be omnipresent to accomplish central venous catheterization procedures with a minimal complication rate. Particularly in a teaching environment, such situational awareness necessitates that the attending physician remains vigilant in his or her supervisory role when trainees are either performing the catheterization or are themselves supervising others during line placement. Urgent and complex surgical procedures coupled with hemodynamic or respiratory instability suggest the benefit of the presence of a separate care provider to manage organ failure while the vascular access is being undertaken. Distraction should be at a minimum for the catheterization team. This includes limiting conversations unrelated to patient care in the immediate vicinity of the proceduralist. Conducting an echocardiographic examination during the vascular access procedure may be helpful or even necessary at times, but also poses 2 threats: (1) it may lead to distraction for the proceduralist, and (2) it may increase the potential for an inadequate transesophageal echocardiographic examination. Additionally, in an era of "double sticks" with 2 or more guidewires on the field, care must be taken to account for all guidewires and their safe removal. Mandating a formal "guidewire count" at the conclusion of line placement would seem both reasonable and practical in such contexts. Although not eliminating the problem of guidewire retention, such counts could both increase situational awareness and reduce the time before diagnosing a retained guidewire, when it does occur. This brings us to the third important lesson, which the authors appropriately advocate. Use of the electronic medical record (EMR) should be an indispensable part of documenting patient care and can serve as another method of drawing the clinician's attention to potential lapses in safety. Advances in medical informatics and the development of clinical decision-support tools enabled by the EMR have the potential to further improve care and reduce the frequency of preventable errors.19,20 Finally, again as the authors report, efforts must be made to inform consulting radiologists of the wires, tubes, and devices that are present in any patient receiving a radiograph. This is one area in which the decision-support tools enabled by the EMR could be easily employed, for example, by creating an automatic alert for radiologists that a recent attempt at line placement has occurred since prior radiographs.21,22 Such notifications would enable the radiology team to more critically evaluate postoperative chest radiographs and limit the duration of retained guidewires. "They did what …?" What they did is to call our attention to important subtleties in clinical care. Regardless of how many times we perform the Seldinger technique, it is never mundane, routine, or commonplace. To think so places our patients at extraordinary risk. DISCLOSURES Name: Robert B. Schonberger, MD, MA. Contribution: This author helped design the study, conduct the study, analyze the data, and write the manuscript. Attestation: Robert B. Schonberger approved the final manuscript. Name: Paul G. Barash, MD. Contribution: This author helped design the study, conduct the study, analyze the data, and write the manuscript. Attestation: Paul G. Barash approved the final manuscript. This manuscript was handled by: Sorin J. Brull, MD, FCARCSI (Hon).REFERENCES 1. Vannucci A, Jeffcoat A, Ifune C, Salinas CA, Duncan JR, Wall M. Retained guidewires after intraoperative placement of central venous catheters. Anesth Analg. 2013;117:101–7 Cited Here 2. Seldinger SI. Catheter replacement of the needle in percutaneous arteriography: a new technique. Acta Radiol. 1953;39:368–76 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 3. Eisenach JC. Washington University and the why of anesthesiology. Anesthesiology. 2011;115:1145–6 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed 4. Auweiler M, Kampe S, Zahringer M, Buzello S, von Spiegel T, Buzello W, Hekmat K. The human error: delayed diagnosis of intravascular loss of guidewires for central venous catheterization. J Clin Anesth. 2005;17:562–4 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 5. Mainar V, Pico Aracil F, Bordes P, Ruiz Ros JA, Campos Peris JV, Marin F. Percutaneous extraction of intravascular foreign bodies: a series of 38 cases [in Spanish]. Rev Esp Cardiol. 1996;49:41–7 Cited Here | PubMed 6. Cassie CD, Ginsberg MS, Panicek DM. Unsuspected retained 60-cm intravenous guidewire. Clin Imaging. 2006;30:287–90 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 7. Pope C, Ziebland S, Mays N. Qualitative research in health care: analysing qualitative data. BMJ. 2000;320:114–6 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 8. Escobar A, Davis EA, Ehrenwerth J, Watrous GA, Fisch GS, Kain ZN, Barash PG. Task analysis of the preincision surgical period: an independent observer-based study of 1558 cases. Anesth Analg. 2006;103:922–7 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 9. Stiegler M, Neelankavil J, Canales C, Dhillon A. Cognitive errors detected in anaesthesiology: a literature review and pilot study. Br J Anaesth. 2011;108:229–35 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 10. Perrow C Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. 1984 New York Basic Books Cited Here 11. Rasmussen J. Risk management in a dynamic society: a modeling problem. Saf Sci. 1997;27:183–213 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 12. Reason J. Human error: models and management. BMJ. 2000;320:768–70 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 13. Farinas P. A new technique for the arteriographic examination of the abdominal aorta and its branches. Am J Roentgenol. 1941;46:641–5 Cited Here 14. Gooding JM, Tavakoli M. Inability to remove the metal stylet from a central venous catheter. Br J Anaesth. 1977;49:396 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 15. Gooding JM, Corssen G. A new introducer for percutaneous cardiovascular catheters. Anesth Analg. 1976;55:148–9 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 16. American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Central Venous Access. Rupp SM, Apfelbaum JL, Blitt C, Caplan RA, Connis RT, Domino KB, Fleisher LA, Grant S, Mark JB, Morray JP, Nickinovich DG, Tung A. Practice Guidelines for Central Venous Access: A Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Central Venous Access. Anesthesiology. 2012;116:539–73 Cited Here 17. McGee DC, Gould MK. Preventing complications of central venous catheterization. N Engl J Med. 2003;348:1123–33 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 18. Ortega R, Song M, Hansen CJ, Barash P. Videos in clinical medicine: ultrasound-guided internal jugular vein cannulation. N Engl J Med. 2010;362:e57 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 19. Trick WE, Linn ES, Jones Z, Caquelin C, Kee R, Morita JY. Using computer decision support to increase maternal postpartum tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccination. Obstet Gynecol. 2010;116:51–7 Cited Here | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 20. Friedman C. A "fundamental theorem" of biomedical informatics. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009;16:169–70 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef 21. Morgan MB, Branstetter BF IV, Clark C, House J, Baker D, Harnsberger HR. Just-in-time radiologist decision support: the importance of PACS-integrated workflow. J Am Coll Radiol. 2011;8:497–500 Cited Here | PubMed 22. Kruskal JB, Siewert B, Anderson SW, Eisenberg RL, Sosna J. Managing an acute adverse event in a radiology department. Radiographics. 2008;28:1237–50 Cited Here | PubMed | CrossRef © 2013 International Anesthesia Research Society View full article text


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COMIC SUPERSTARS MARK WAID AND FIONA STAPLES ARE BACK FOR ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF THEIR REMARKABLE REIMAGINING OF AN ICON! Something strange is looming over Riverdale—and it's taking the shape of a giant mega-mansion owned by an elusive mogul. Why has he chosen the quaint town of Riverdale, USA as his base of operations? And how is he going to use the teens of Riverdale High to further his political aspirations?
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Category: Charter Schools
House Ways and Means Education Committee Meeting – April 4, 2012
Click here to download the full audio file (90-plus minutes) of today's meeting. The only item discussed was the Education Options Act of 2012. Representative Phil Williams, sponsor of the bill, began the discussion by introducing a substitute bill. Haven't found a posted copy of the substitute bill.
Committee meets at 8:15 a.m. on Thursday morning. Chairman Jay Love stated he plans to take a vote on the bill at that time.
State Board of Education Work Session – March 22, 2012
Man, y'all really need to be there to understand the excitement and hope that fills the room when State Superintendent Dr. Tommy Bice is speaking. Granted, I never attended work sessions under Dr. Morton (except the one before his official retirement last August), but Bice just puts one good idea on the table after the other in the work sessions I've made the time to attend. I have chosen to attend the work sessions rather than the meetings, because the work sessions are where the candid discussion takes place. Bice has taken the additional transparent step of streaming work sessions and meetings live on the internet, and anyone who wishes to hear the full conversation really should take the time to view the meetings for themselves. Otherwise, you are welcome to read my notes. I do not purport that I have reported every sentence, as this is not a transcript. Rather the idea of sharing notes here is so you can know what our education officials (particularly those you have elected) consider priorities and how they view specific educational issues. I urge you to contact your state board of education member if you would like to know more.
The meetings are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. However, because the Post-Secondary meeting is held prior to this work session, sometimes the meeting gets started a little late. The meeting started at 11:09 a.m. Continue reading
HB541 Public Hearing – Wednesday, March 21, 2012
This post is broken into two parts: the Committee Meeting and the Public Hearing. The House Ways and Means education Committee was given an opportunity to ask questions of the bill's sponsor, Representative Phil Williams. Chairman Jay Love reminded committee members that they were on a "tight time schedule" throughout the question and answer session. A joint meeting of both bodies of the legislature (House and Senate) had been called for 11:00 a.m.
During the public hearing, ten persons spoke in favor of the bill, while eight spoke against the bill. The eight that spoke against the bill had specific reasons for speaking against the bill which will be shared in my notes below.
So I got to the meeting right at 9:00 a.m. and ended up in the overflow room, where you can hear, but not see, participants. No problem (until the band waiting to greet Octavia Spencer started warming up outside…). Any clarifications that I add will be contained in brackets [ ]. Continue reading


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Top SaaS Obsessions:
What do you obsess over in your SaaS business? Hear are a few things some SaaS entrepreneurs are obsessing over right now. Let us know what your favorite obsession is.
SaaS Product Management
Searching for Product-Market Fit is the new holy grail. It is one of the topics that we obsses over at Amity. Brad Feld has an excellent post this week called The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies. He identifies the four myths of product-market fit:
- Myth #1: Product market fit is always a discrete, big bang event
- Myth #2: It's patently obvious when you have product market fit
- Myth #3: Once you achieve product market fit, you can't lose it.
- Myth #4: Once you have product-market fit, you don't have to sweat the competition.
Read the whole thing!
SaaS Product Management
Deciding how, when and why to add product features is another area all SaaS companies should obsess over. Back in the day, adding features was always seen as a value creating activity. Now, we understand that our products are complex systesms, and new features can throw the system into flux with uncertain outcomes. Marcelo Calbucc discuss one of these systemic risk in a wonderful post: ATTENTION CANNIBALIZATION.
The reality is that in a system, looking at the production value of a single component is worthless to understand the value of the whole system. But wait, it could be worse than that. It could be a new feature took attention away from a higher value feature. Maybe you added a new way for users to customize their avatar and that choice was enough to justify some folks from not upgrading to the premium version of the product. Revenue starts to dip, slowly and given the noise in the revenue signal and the fast speed in which new features are released, it can become quite harder to figure out the root cause of a drop in revenue, or a drop in overall conversion, engagement, virality or retention.
SaaS Cash Flow
Another topics every SaaS executive obsesses over is Cash Flow. I know I work on cash flow at least once every day. OpenView partners has a insightful interview with the founder of ToutApp, Tawheed Kader.
"It takes at least three years to do a startup and then understand there's something there, and even longer for a great outcome — for most cases. So unless you're really passionate about that need you're solving for, you're just not going to last.
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Volusion – $55 Million Series B on January 26, 2015.
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Three great pricing optimization services for SaaS companies. Three More Price Optimization Software Options.
How big will cloud computing and SaaS be in a few years? Here are the forecasts. Roundup Of Cloud Computing Forecasts And Market Estimates, 2015.
Letting someone go is hard to do, but the costs of not doing it could crush your business. Firing. The hardest thing to do as an entrepreneur.
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We're really excited to offer another great British car innovation!
We have seen many Sprites (and other British cars that use this same regulator) with dead batteries due to regulator failure. Without the points working properly in the stock product, the generator can fail to replenish the battery, and it will eventually go dead.
In addition, an improperly adjusted or dirty regulator can really mess up the amount of juice flowing from the generator to the battery… whether too much or too little, the originals are often set up improperly.
This new solid state product is a fantastic innovation that does the job right every time.
These new solid state electronic regulators replace all the old moving parts with modern circuitry with no moving parts. They are able to test and adjust voltage 60 times a second to make sure your battery, electrical system and dynamo communicate correctly and do not get damaged. Regulator points become a thing of the past, yet the product (from the outside) looks exactly the same as the stock original Lucas unit.
This digital regulator is made entirely in the US, including the processors and chips. They are fit into Original Lucas regulator bodies and therefore look entirely stock once installed. This is a must have for every generator powered British car with this screw type regulator. This innovation eliminates one more British electrical gremlin!


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"Okay, let's try this slowly. When you and your daddy left, there were problems. Those problems were bad. Amata and some others said we should try opening the door and going outside more. The Overseer said that was bad, too, and he got angry. Now, just about everyone's angry down here. And things are still bad. Really bad."
Officer Armstrong is a member of the Vault 101 security team. He is located in the room just beyond the vault entrance when the Lone Wanderer enters the vault as part of Trouble on the Homefront.
Interactions with the player characterEdit
Interactions overviewEdit
|This character is involved in quests.
- Trouble on the Homefront: If Officer Gomez is dead, Officer Armstrong will be the first security member encountered upon entering the vault.
Effects of player's actionsEdit
- He can escort the player character to the overseer, Amata, or let the player character go in alone. He also offers the alternative option for the Lone Wanderer to leave forever.
|Other items
|On death
|Vault 101 security armor
Vault security helmet
|Police baton
- He will often shout "This isn't happening!" when attacked or another officer is killed.
- He is of no relation to Stanley Armstrong or Beatrice Armstrong.
- Officer Armstrong only appears if Officer Gomez died in the quest Escape!.
- He will sometimes speak to Pepper Gomez and be addressed as Gomez.
- He is an exact copy of Officer Gomez, with the exception of their names and appearance.
- His face model is the same as Officer Richards.
Armstrong appears only in Fallout 3.
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The dressing-up box / written by Mairi Mackinnon ; illustrated by Kate Sheppard.
Publication year: 2010
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Publisher: London : Usborne, 2010.
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A humorous and lively rhyming story for children who enjoy dressing up.
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Back to Journals » Risk Management and Healthcare Policy » Volume 10
Good intentions getting out of hand – is there a future for health care guidelines?
Authors Blume LH, van Weert NJ, Busari JO, Delnoij DM
Received 16 February 2017
Accepted for publication 22 March 2017
Published 11 May 2017 Volume 2017:10 Pages 81—85
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S134835
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Review by Single anonymous peer review
Peer reviewer comments 2
Editor who approved publication: Dr Kent Rondeau
Louise HK Blume,1,2 Nico JHW van Weert,3 Jamiu O Busari,1,4 Diana MJ Delnoij2,5
1Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, 2Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tranzo, Scientific Centre for Transformation in Care and Welfare, Tilburg University, Tilburg, 3Q! B.V., Nijmegen, 4Department of Educational Development and Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, 5National Health Care Institute, Zorginstituut Nederland, Diemen, the Netherlands
Abstract: To date, the focus of research on guidelines has been directed toward professionals, and hospitals have merely served as the context. Little research has been performed on the dilemmas of guideline adherence in hospitals, as a setting in which multiple professional guidelines have to be implemented simultaneously; also, it is still unclear which clinical guidelines have to be aligned with other external demands, such as rules, regulations, standards, indicators, norms, and so on. Hence, different ways of studying the issue of guideline implementation are called for.
Keywords: guideline, implementation, development, standardization, hospital, adherence, compliance, external demands, requirements, regulations
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June 27, 2019, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM @ City Hall
June 27, 2019, All Day @ Train Depot West Room
June 5, 2019 - December 30, 2019 @ North Main Park Gazebo
June 27, 2019, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM @ Coutts Museum of Art
Foster creativity and innovation in your Middle Shool student at the Coutts Museum of Art's Summer Art FOCUS! This two week class will be held from 1:00pm -4:00pm, Mondays-Fridays, from June 17-28, 2019. This class is open to students who will be entering 6th-8th grade for the 2019-2020 school year.
Retired teacher and artist, John Simkins, will lead students in developing their creativity using various artistic mediums. Each day the students will begin class developing their observation and drawing skills through various studies. In the first week, students will cover clay sculpting, acrylic painting, and collage. In the second week, they will practice studio and portrait photography and printmaking, specifically lithography. On the last day a small exhibit and reception will be held to show their finished work.
This two week class will cost $65 to cover costs of supplies during the class in addition to supplies that the students can take home after the class has finished.
June 27, 2019, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM @ Oil Museum
A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Jay M. Price directs the Public History Program at Wichita State University. His publications include Gateways to the Southwest: The Story of Arizona State Parks, Wichita, 1860-1930, Wichita's Legacy of Flight, and El Dorado!: Legacy of an Oil Boom. He and his students recently completed a history of the Cherokee Outlet Land Rush of 1893. He recently worked with a local public television station to turn his history of the El Dorado oil boom into a documentary. His other writings include works on local history, the history of tourism, regional identity, and American sacred architecture. A member of the Kansas Humanities Council speakers bureau and board of trustees, he has delivered the talks, "Reading Roadside Kansas," and "Sacred Landscapes of Kansas." Currently, his main project is "Temples for a Modern God," a study of mid-twentieth century sacred architecture.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Mandarin Grill @ Mandarin Oriental
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I can't believe you went there again! So lucky!!! Are those champagne glasses? they looked big.ReplyDelete
OMG...that's a nice chunk of foie gras! *yum*ReplyDelete
foowar! looks like someone's cholesterol gonna hit the roof soon :P (bring me!) hahaReplyDelete
eiling: strange hor, such unusually large champagne glasses. that bottle only provided us with two glasses to drink.ReplyDelete
bangsar-babe: would have loved a larger chunk! :D
ciki: i'll worry about gout before i worry about cholesterol :P come, come to the city, and we'll explore its many pleasures!
RM185++? Man, I am pretty sure that IS the most expensive burger in town... Succulent and sublime: Sounds like some sweet kinda eatin'. ;)ReplyDelete
lfb: yeah, i really shoulda taken a close-up of that beef patty instead of the fries! =)ReplyDelete
Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin Brut champagne.. I am dying to lay my hands on a glass of those! The best I've tried is Moet & Chandon Brut Imperial (I think it's the cheapest in the M&C Range)ReplyDelete
Given that the burger IS in Mandarin Oriental, I think that the price is justifiable :P
leo: i'm terrible, i can't differentiate between the various champagnes, cos they all taste alike to me! i need an education...ReplyDelete
don't worry... me too!! u can only ask me on beerReplyDelete
leo: heh, i'm even worse at beer! i guess i can only talk about wine and cocktails...ReplyDelete
How cum ur burger's smaller than the chips? Chis...throw away ur camera lar.ReplyDelete
lemongrass: u never learn something called "perspective" in school ar? the chips were closer to the camera, so they appear bigger la :P anyways, i was too lazy to turn the plate around to have the burger face me :DReplyDelete
I must dear, your pics are turnin out clearer & sharper!ReplyDelete
Is it the lightin, yr new cam or your photography skills?? ;)
gosh, tis is like the Must-Eat venue in town!
tng: tnx! but i think i have to thank the lighting. i still take blurry shots at many other outlets. and the camera is starting to give me problems with focusing, not sure why.ReplyDelete
Seriously though, I feel like I should run away with the Steak Tartare and make babies together. Looks sooo goood. Maybe if I set aside 5 bucks every month, I shall be able to dine there by 2012. =)ReplyDelete
lemongrass: eh, is that u commenting for the second time, or is someone impersonating you? :P actually ar, according to my calculations, u might need to save 5 bucks per fortnight! but fine, u can have an affair with the tartare, while i spend my nights with the foie gras burger :DReplyDelete