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It's tempting to read Tony Scott's ludicrous 1983 film The Hunger, like Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky the year before, as a metaphor for the then-bourgeoning AIDS crisis in New York City. Before Whitley Strieber started writing books about his alleged abduction by aliens, he was known primarily for writing popular trash fiction like The Wolfen, The Night Church, and The Hunger, the story of an international vampire priestess who sinks her teeth into a nubile research scientist after her latest companion bites the dust. Though Strieber had no conscious awareness of his communion with aliens when he wrote the novel, the bloodsuckers from The Hunger are not unlike an ancient race of aliens hell bent on human abduction. Both Liquid Sky and The Hunger envision a post-punk New York City on the brink of collapse, but while Tsukerman's 1982 cult classic (about aliens who come to a gender-bending Manhattan for a heroin fix) is truly grounded in the dirt and grime of the era, Scott's film scarcely has its pulse on the encroaching conservatism of the nation. In the end, it's just a shallow lesbian fantasy so aggressively spit and polished as to suggest a 96-minute White Diamonds commercial. Of course, that's not to say that it isn't fun. Truly a product of its time, The Hunger happily signals the death of the city's gothic past with a stunning opener featuring Bauhaus singing their famous "Bela Lugosi's Dead." But the mantra of Scott's aesthetic goes: Out with the punk, in with the pop. Inside the multi-million dollar house owned by Bonnie Tyler, err, Miriam Blaylock (Catherine Deneuve), white doves and curtains fly on cue. Dreamily photographed by Stephen Goldblatt and cryptically edited together by Pamela Power, nothing in The Hunger makes sense: After Miriam's lover (David Bowie) of many centuries goes kaput, the older woman seduces Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon), an expert in sleep disorders currently investigating the rapid aging process that similarly kills a monkey. The rest is all neo-gothic smoke and mirrors, with scenes of Miriam's seduction of Sarah ludicrously intercut with visions of ancient Egyptian vampire rituals (Ken Russell did this much better in The Lair of the White Worm). Deneuve is hysterical, but it's young Beth Ehlers who steals the show. As the androgynous neighbor from across the street, you may not even notice that the tomboyish Ehlers is a girl until she returns to Miriam's house for a second time wearing a skirt. In the real world, sex leads to pleasure and/or disease, but in The Hunger, like in that ludicrous advertisement for Britney Spears's Curious perfume, sexual desire simply provokes postmodern psychotropic episodes.
I've never seen a Tony Scott film that didn't look as if it had been shellacked to within an inch of its life. The Hunger looks fantastic on this DVD edition, which preserves the film's original aspect ratio in anamorphic widescreen. Colors appear over-saturated at times (mostly, though, it's the red on Deneuve's lips) and blacks are not as deep as they could be, but the transfer is still a winner. Indeed, the scene where Deneuve plays the piano for Sarandon is ridiculously gorgeous. The mono track, on the other hand, is somewhat of a disappointment, and surely Warner Home Video could have done better than this. The music sounds great but dialogue is almost impossible to make out at times, which means the volume on your remote control will be your best friend for 96 minutes.
Included here is a theatrical trailer and a composite commentary track by Tony Scott and Susan Sarandon. Neither shed any light on the film's opaque narrative, and though the track has its lengthy dead spots, it also has a few good moments. Highlights include Scott admitting that he's self-indulgent and Sarandon alluding to the rise of her gay icon status after the public got a look at the film's infamous lesbian sex scene.
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Tonight Adelaide takes on Townsville in Townsville. The timing couldn't be worse. It will be the team's second game in 4 days, it's making one of the longest trips on offer, the Suns are pretty much back at full strength and Adelaide is in a major slump on a 3 game losing streak. Oh, and Boti Nagy wrote one his fiercest pieces today about the coaches (read it here).
One of the comforts will be that the team's best 3 wins have all come away from home, where the negativity and frustration in the crowd has been palpable. The two wins at home were not unexpected, playing the Tigers in their second game in 24hrs and the lowly Hawks.
A win will be extremely difficult and no-one will be tipping Adelaide. The team must put in a hard-fought effort and execute some sort of game plan. An honourable loss will be accepted, a blowout will see the pressure reach a breaking point. Considering all that's at stake, I think the coaches need to mix it up. If he plays the youth and changes some things at least he'll be seen as doing something. I'd try this.........
Starters- Daly, Creek, Weigh, Simpson, Johnson
I'm not convinced Daly will be a long-term NBL player but give him a go. I was impressed in Sunday's game with his one field goal scored on Jamar Wilson. He basically brought the ball up on Wilson with a steady combination of crossovers, then worked into the key and pulled up for an easy jumper. He identified Wilson's weakness and scored easily. Give him 30 minutes and see what he does. Tell Warren he wants to take the pressure off him and mix it up and bring him off the bench for his scoring. Depending on how the team starts either bring him on for Daly or give him a few minutes at SG (his preferred position) and see if Townsville punish us or not.
Throw Helliwell into it against Schenscher and use him and Simpson to rough him up. When Johnson is on him he should draw him outside with some long range shooting (he's shooting 50% on the three). When Ng is on run some plays for him. Use Herbert to contain Gill, Mims or Crawford if they gets going.
Fans are calling for blood and Clarke has little to gain by trotting out the same game plan and rotations. We know he's undermanned but the same issues keep being raised by the fans.............
-Under use of Simpson
-Minutes given to Weigh (although this was justified last week)
-Poor use of Ng
-Lack of opportunities for Daly
Trying something different, especially when it involves using the local players will probably give him some reprieve but patience is running out. If nothing changes tonight and a blowout occurs, put your money on something big changing during the week.


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Hi Darren!
Welcome to Networkcareer!
Where do you work and what's your role?
I'm a network engineer for Google.
What kind of roles and work did you do before arriving at Google?
Most of my network engineering lifetime has been in service providers. Mostly business focused ISPs dealing with networks from the very small to the gigantic. The great thing about a service provider is that the product is the network itself. I've been intimately involved with BGP and MPLS, both for the core ISP network as well as for customers. I've dual-stacked many networks and wish more people would do the same, especially in enterprise. I've had the pleasure of joining two ISPs together right from start to end.
What have you learned in your career so far that you would like to tell the younger you?
Nullius In Verba. You can learn a lot from other people, but never assume that what they say is correct. Question everything. Test everything. Assume nothing. This includes what you read online and in books. Quite often there are errors which are simply wrong assumptions. Until you've tested and seen something for yourself, be open to how something really works.
What are the most important skills you have picked up in your career so far?
Be ready to adjust. I've had to retrain numerous times. Moving from vendor to vendor, product to product. It's also become more important to have software skills too. Explaining a very technical network in layman's terms is also a very important skill to have. Listening is also an important skill.
What's your opinion on degrees? Are they useful for someone in the networking industry?
This can be difficult to answer. In the UK, not having a degree has had NO impact at all to my work. but I know in different markets this can be different. A degree also gives you flexibility to move countries easier. But for actual work, it's not that important. I've met great engineers with and without degrees. I've also met bad engineers, both with and without degrees.
What about certifications? Are they losing their value?
It depends on the work. For contracting and partners it's still very important. I spent a lot of time and hard work on all of my IE's and I take great pride in that. I learned a lot doing them. the value in a cert is also how you see it. I saw the IEs as really trying to get deep into something. If you're just learning the minimum to pass, then you may as well not do it.
Is the skillset of network engineers changing? What skills are important to have in the coming years?
Yes. The more software skills you have, the better. You don't need to be a full-time SWE. And yes, you can get away with no software skills at all. But you're just hurting yourself. I don't understand anyone who just looks to a single vendor. There are multiple vendors doing interesting things at all levels of networking. Find the right product for what you require now. It doesn't matter what you had before.
What skills are important for Network Architects?
Listening. Noting requirements. Being able to compromise. Being able to get the customer to compromise when needed. Basically you need to be a good communicator.
Understand the business requirements. Find the right solution.
Also you need to understand the hardware you're using. You can't architect something if you don't know what your devices are capable of doing.
Will the need for networking experts go away? Is it better to be a generalist than an expert?
No. No matter what automation is there to turn up and run the network, someone still has to design and engineer it. No matter what overlays you run on top of your network, that network still has to be built. The underlay might be getting slightly more simple, but the scale is getting very large indeed.
What do you think of soft skills? Do we need them in the networking industry? If so, which ones are the most important?
I noted it before, but being a good communicator.
With SDN, orchestration etc. can we throw the "traditional" networking knowledge out the window? Why or why not?
Absolutely not. Someone still has to build the networks all of this stuff runs on. Who is going to do the initial engineering. Sure you have automation to build the network, but building towards what? Someone still has to design and engineer the system itself.
Should someone in the networking industry learn to code? Why or why not? What is your language of choice?
Yes. Is it an absolute requirement? Probably not. Depending on the company you could just have some SWEs working on your team. In that case it's not needed. But being able to explain your problem in software terms helps a lot.
I started with Python, but most of my stuff these days is in Go.
What's your best advice for staying updated in the networking industry? How do you stop the sipping from the firehose?
Attend conferences when you can. If there are none around, start your own! When I first came to Dublin there was no local networking group, so I helped to found inog.net. I'm not a huge fan of vendor conferences. Rather generic conferences like RIPE/NANOG and so on. I also am subscribed to multiple mailing lists, most of them in the service-provider and IPv6 threads. Mailing lists are full of real people running real networks, so no firehose stuff there.
Before we close out. What would you want to give as a final piece of advice to the NC readers?
Do something you love to do. I love networking. I love building stuff. I still get a warm feeling when I see packets moving over something I've built, and all failovers working exactly as planned. I work really hard, but there is nothing else I'd be doing. I love Mondays. If you staert to hate Mondays, it's time to find something different to do.
You can find Darren @mellowdrifter on Twitter and his blog is www.mellowd.co.uk/ccie


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November 25th, 2015
Drop the Big Gulp, drive past the Starbucks, and put a kettle of water on the stove. A sip of tea is waiting to change your life. I was recently reminded of the many varieties of teas available during a recent visit to a local tea house. I'm not a purist, those that consider only green tea, black tea, white tea, oolong tea, and pu-erh tea the only thing. They are all derived from the Camellia sinensis plant, a shrub native to China and India, and contain unique antioxidants called flavonoids. Some told me they may help fight cancer, heart disease, and clogged arteries. I enjoy tea as a mature alternative to sugar heavy drinks. Maybe I want to go against the coffee culture. Whatever my reasoning, I hope to share in upcoming blogs, my adventures in expanding my knowledge of all teas, traditional and herbal, and the variety of ways tea houses delight in revisiting tea time.
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- 1 Children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Irving OCD
- 2 Map to Irving OCD counselors.
- 3 Locations Near Irving Texas 75063
- 4 OCD Children with Obsession Disorder
- 5 Child Compulsions Include
- 6 Irving OCD Treatment for Childhood Onset
- 7 What does therapy look like at Irving Center for OCD & Anxiety?
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Children with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Irving OCD
OCD Irving, Texas 75063. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is identified in 2 parts: fascinations and also obsessions. Obsessions are actually unwanted and also invasive ideas or sensations that start to lead to anxiety and also suffering that interrupt daily duties. In response to these ideas or sensations the individual begins to take part in repetitive habits that lessen the anxiety, known as a compulsions or practices.
The compulsion is used to reduce the effects of or combat the anxiety. Although many sufferers realize that their fascinations are actually illogical the compulsive habits experiences gratifying and also causes the specific to really feel much less distressed and also troubled. Approximately 1-2% from the standard population struggles with OCD, a disorder that normally provides in teenage years or very early adulthood, but signs present in very youthful youngsters also. Signs and symptoms typically flare-up during the course of duration from improved worry.
Several OCD victims carry out not find treatment, typically mentioning sensations from embarrassment or shame about the attribute from their fascinations and/or obsessions. Research studies propose that OCD victims go between 12 to 17 years off the beginning from signs before getting treatment coming from an ERP (Exposure and also Response Avoidance) professional.
Map to Irving OCD counselors.
Obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD) is a stress condition where people have unwanted and also repetitive ideas, sensations, ideas, sensations (fascinations), or habits that make them feel driven to perform one thing (obsessions). That impacts youngsters, children, teenagers and also adults.
Typically the individual does the habits in order to get eliminate the obsessive ideas, but this merely supplies short-term relief. Not performing the obsessive practices could lead to terrific anxiety. An individual"s level from OCD could be anywhere off light to extreme, but if extreme and also left behind unattended, this could ruin a person"s capacity to operate at the office, at college or perhaps to lead a comfortable existence in the house.|Obsessive-compulsive condition (OCD) is a stress condition in which people have unwanted and also repetitive ideas, sensations, ideas, sensations (fascinations), or habits that make them feel driven to carry out one thing (obsessions).
An individual"s level from OCD could be anywhere off light to extreme, but if extreme and also left behind unattended, this could ruin a person"s capacity to operate at work, at college or even to lead a comfortable existence in the house.} If you're trying to find assistance along with OCD therapy in Irving or for an Irving OCD specialist, these experts offer OCD treatment and also obsessive compulsive disorder treatment. They feature OCD counselors, OCD psychologists, OCD psychotherapists and also OCD counselors in Irving They could aid with Irving OCD guidance, OCD signs, OCD youngsters, obsessive compulsive disorder, and also OCPD. Hair-pulling (trichotillomania) and also skin layer choosing (dematillomania), together described as Physical body Focused Repetitive Actions, are actually categorized as OCD-related disorders. Treatment for trichotillomiania in Irving or TTM or hair drawing in Irving or skin layer choosing could be discovered off these counselors.
Locations Near Irving Texas 75063
We also services Gribble OCD, Highland OCD, Bethel OCD, Coppell OCD, Farmers Branch OCD, Sowers OCD, Minters Chapel OCD, Oldham OCD, Carrollton OCD, Trinity Mills OCD. Please contact us if you have a child with OCD in any of these areas.
OCD Children with Obsession Disorder
- Self harm or harm to others
- Fear of dirt, germs, or illnesses
- Anxiety about order, symmetry and/or lack of
- Undesirable thoughts such as: profanity, sexual, or religious
- Getting things just right
- Magic numbers or sequences of movement with superstitious avoidance
- Perfectionism
- Excessive doubt
Child Compulsions Include
- Decontamination and excessive bathroom routines
- Mentally reviewing situations
- Checking locks, appliances, and doors
- Rearranging and ordering things in special ways
- Reassurance seeking
- Ritualistic religious behaviors
- Counting
- Tapping, blinking, and touching objects repeatedly
Irving OCD Treatment for Childhood Onset
The gold requirement, most efficient treatment from OCD is called Direct exposure and also Response Avoidance (ERP). Treatment is particularly necessary for people who have cultivated ritualized, repetitive habits like obsessions. ERP is an important component from CBT for many anxiety health conditions, particularly OCD. The 2 elements feature exposures– encountering concerns in a methodical, continuous, and also purposeful manner to bring about anxiety– and also response (or ritual) protection– actively resisting security habits and also other avoidant methods that merely use short-term decline from signs but preserve the cycle from anxiety and also avoidance in the lasting. Both aspects are actually important for efficient ERP. Through the ERP procedure, the specific gets over concerns, gains corrective relevant information, and also re-trains the brain to no longer bring about a fight or tour reaction in the face from these "duds." Our counselors will certainly guide you to considerably face the scenarios and also ideas that produce your OCD while learning just how not to respond along with practices, obsessions, peace of mind looking for or avoidance. Our experts additionally use an "Demanding Hospital Course" (IOP) for OCD victims just in case where no on call ERP professionals reside in your geographical area, when solutions are actually just not conveniently obtainable, or considering that symptom severity is too expensive for once a week hospital therapy. The treatment is individualized to satisfy the level from demand, supply, and also preparedness for change to attend to existing signs and also obtain the specific to a greater level from operating where additional typical hospital therapy could be the level from treatment. The target from an IOP is to complete treatment along with 4-6 weeks and also therefore normally requires treatments back to support days, several hrs each day, and also often over the weekend.
What does therapy look like at Irving Center for OCD & Anxiety?
Exactly what carries out therapy resemble at Irving For OCD & Stress? A therapist is going to meet you for a first examination (your initial appointment). During the treatment, you and also the specialist will certainly identify if the specialist is the best individual to offer the solutions you should meet your goals. If both you and also the specialist determine to proceed functioning all together in treatment, you will certainly go over a treatment strategy and also determine your progress as you go ahead. If the specialist experiences we are actually not the necessary company, or you are actually not a great suit for the solutions we offer, we will certainly allow you understand, and after that aid you locate a company who could be a. much better suit.


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12 Days of Drinkmas: Negroni
Last summer, I drank more Gin than water.
I didn't use to like Gin. It's very herbal and smelled like Juniper, which I also do not like the smell of except when I am in Eastern Oregon.
Now, I am super fond of Juniper and even more fond of Gin. Might have something to do with the way Jared proposed to me. After all, I was wearing a Juniper crown!
A Negroni is very herbal and very Italian. The words "acquired taste" come to mind. It's almost floral and almost impossible to mess up with a 1 to 1 to 1 ratio of ingredients. I was drinking Negroni's all summer long but it can make for a very festive holiday drink simply by its red coloring.
It can also go really well with the holiday foods that are strongly-flavored foods, like salty, bacony dishes, and bold cheeses. Think charcuterie plates or even simpler, Bacon Mac and Cheese. Ummm my mouth is watering already so go ahead and make the drink already!
Classic Negroni
Serves 1
1 oz. Campari
1 oz. gin
1 oz. sweet red vermouth
Stir Campari, gin, and vermouth in an ice-filled tumbler; garnish with orange slice.
Variations to try, once you mastered the Original:
- The Negroni sbagliato is made in the same way as the Negroni, but replacing the gin with sparkling white wine, or Prosecco.
- Americano: 1 oz Campari, 1 oz Sweet Red Vermouth, a splash of soda.
- Boulevardier: A similar cocktail that uses whiskey in place of gin.
- The Dutch Negroni substitutes Jenever for the London dry style gin in the original recipe.
- Old Pal uses dry vermouth and Canadian rye whisky.
- A Negroni which substitutes gin with tequila is known as an "Agavoni" or "Tegroni".
- The white Negroni is made from gin, Lillet blanc, and Suze.
What do you think of the Negroni? Love it or hate it? Let us know in the comments below!


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If you are like me, you are sometimes asked to bake something for an event. (I have four different things I'm doing that for this weekend alone.) You wonder how in the world you will juggle your job, homeschool and everything else you need to do.
This recipe is quick and easy (and yummy)! It takes me less than 10 minutes to mix up two batches.
Cake Mix Cookies:
-Box of cake mix of your choice, 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of oil
Mix together and drop cookies on baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 7-10 minutes until done.
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Redlands Cycling Classic Time Trial
Redlands Cycling Classic Time Trial
This year the time trial for the Redlands was changed from the usual 5km jaunt up Mt. Robidaux, to a different 5km uphill time trail course covering some of the roads that were used during the 2004 olympic trials race.
The course was pretty challenging because it starts off fairly flat, but it gets pretty steep in the last half. It was the type of course that you could predict a lot of people going too hard early on and then blowing their wad before getting to the climb. Well, enough technical talk, and the winner of the 1st stage is....Amber Neben! Dotsi was our top finisher at 8th place, nice job girl!
While up for the time trial it was good to see some familiar faces in the parking lot. Like Chris Davidson, and as usaul sporting a color coordinated Dicki. He and Michael Engleman are here with the strong group of riders on the Ford Cycling team. Keep your eyes on Mara as an up and coming rider. I met her last year at an OTC camp that was set up by Michael and Chris. She is so strong and full of energy, inside sources revealed she is unstoppable and has been training all week in addition to racing.
Meanwhile, back at our host's house, Brooke, Sarah and I decided to get in some team time trail practice. check out the picutre, and please submit comments with a title for the pic.


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Software development in emerging markets
Published on 07 Oct 2013
The US Federal healthcare exchange marketplace is a good example of the difficulties in implementing a system based on a fixed deadline (October 1) and high minimum requirements. The source code of the website is available online at https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/
Netflix have spent the last 10 years perfecting and redesigning and rearchitecting very good user experience. This is very new. It will take time to get to that level. It could be there in six months, but I wouldn't expect it to get there in the first step.
This remark is apt. People naturally compare a well run established software to a new product however the time spent on a product does matter on certain quality aspects of software. You cannot compare your brand new 6 months project (with limited budget) to multi years multi million dollars sites like Netflix or Facebook.
A well maintained software does gets better with age.
The user interface, or frontend, of healthcare.gov is quite interesting. It's design has been compared favorably with top commercial sites. It was implemented using modern web development techniques, working well across browsers and on mobile devices. We used similar techniques on the president's campaign: generate static files from templates with Jekyll, serve them from behind a CDN (Akamai, in the case of healthcare.gov). This gives you a very fast, low-latency user experience that's very durable in the face of high-traffic loads. Dave Cole has written about the process by which the frontend was developed, it's fascinating to read if you have any experience with how government sites have typically been built. And you'll notice, no one has complained about being able to access the site itself. healthcare.gov itself has been up continuously since October 1st. It's submitting forms back to the server that's been the issue. TPM This highlights the importance of getting all the components in your flow to work properly. People demand that their whole experience to be smooth and painless.
The bottom line is this:
This has been proven again and again in the history of software development.


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As Christmas rolls around, and as we're cleaning out our house, I'm always astounded at the amount of CRAP we have. My office is full of crap. I refer to it as crap, because if the house burned down I wouldn't miss any of it (the only thing I would be terribly upset about is my Girl Guide camp blanket, which is absolutely priceless, and my computer). Unfortunately, most of the crap seems to get used at least once or twice a year, usually in a strange situation where it's saved my hiney a couple of times.
But what do you do about kid's toys? Kids have SO MUCH CRAP, starting before they're even born. A tiny human takes over their own room, their parents' room, the play room/living room/whatever other room with their stuff, from toys, swings, etc.
We are re-emerging to the idea that consumerism has it's time and place, but also it's tremendous downfalls. At Sparks, we had to stop sharing because the girls kept bringing in the newest fad, and it was turning into a bit of a gong show.
A blog someone posted on FB this morning has prompted me to post it, because it's such a tiny piece of the bigger picture. It's also a tremendous reminder to me (and to J) that we're running at break necked speed right now, and that we need to SLOW DOWN.
Also, buying $10 presents 20 times a year is a tremendous amount of money...
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DERMOT MAC MURROUGH (d. 1171), Irish king of Leinster, succeeded his father in the principality of the Hui Cinsellaigh (1115) and eventually in the kingship of Leinster. The early events of his life are obscure; but about 1152 we find him engaged in a feud with 0 Ruairc, the lord of Breifne (Leitrim and Cavan). Dermot abducted the wife of 0 Ruairc more with the object of injuring his rival than from any love of the lady. The injured husband called to his aid Roderic, the high king (airdrigh) of Connaught; and in 1166 Dermot fled before this powerful coalition to invoke the aid of England. Obtaining from Henry II. a licence to enlist allies among the Welsh marchers, Dermot secured the aid of the Clares and Geraldines. To Richard Strongbow, earl of Pembroke and head of the house of Clare, Dermot gave his daughter Eva in marriage; and on his death was succeeded by the earl in Leinster. The historical importance of Dermot lies in the fact that he was the means of introducing the English into Ireland. Through his aid the towns of Water-ford, Wexford and Dublin had already become English colonies before the arrival of Henry II. in the island. See The Song of Dermot and the Earl, an old French Poem (by M. Regan?), ed. with trans. by G. H. Orpen, 1892; Kate Norgate, England under the Angevin Kings, vol. ii. (H. W. C. D.)End of Article: DERMOT MAC MURROUGH (d. 1171)
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Route 202 in Buxton reopens after crash
Two vehicles involved
Route 202 in Buxton reopens after crash
Two vehicles involved
BUXTON, Maine —
Route 202 in the area of Route 22 has reopened following a car crash.
Buxton police said two vehicles collided after one crossed the center line.
A Subaru Outback went off the road and flipped in the woods. The other vehicle, a van, spun around in the road.
A woman and her two children riding in the Subaru had minor injuries.
The driver of the van was treated at the scene and left.
The call came in around 2:30 p.m. and the road was closed for about an hour.
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Directed by : Omang Kumar
Produced by : Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Starring : Priyanka Chopra, Darshan Kumaar, Sunil Thapa, Zachary Coffin
Written By : Saiwyn Qadras , Ramendra Vasishth
Music By : Shashi – Shivamm
Running time : 122 Minutes
BollySitter Recommended Age : 10+
BollySitter Family GO Factor: 3.5/5.0
The Review Monk TRM Score: 6.2/10
A transient account of events in the life of boxing legend Mary Kom who fought adversities in life to relentlessly pursue her love for boxing and become the World renowned boxing champion that she is known as today. Priyanka Chopra has put her heart and soul in the role as the lead protagonist in this biopic.
The opening scene has a curfew situation where disruption is shown on the streets at the night time. There is a fighting scene between the protagonist and a street fighter where blood is shown on former's face. Since the movie is based on a boxer's life, the sequences showcasing boxing matches exhibit extreme aggression by the boxers but no excessive blood and gore is shown in the movie.
Frightening Scene
There are couple of hospital scenes depicting child birth and an intense surgery which may perturb children's sensitivity. Parental guidance is advised during these scenes.
There is no kissing scenes or any kind of nudity shown except for one brief wedding kiss between the protagonist and her husband.
The language is bereft of any kind of profanity. The dialogues are simple and suitable for children.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking
There is no smoking scene. Supporting cast drinking alcohol and some empty alcohol bottles are shown in couple of brief sequences.
The strength, grit, determination and focus displayed by the sporting legend are depicted in the movie. The movie also shows her extremely angry nature and fighting streak against any kind of injustice meted out to those around her. Some sequences showcased Government authorities' apathy towards the welfare of the players.
Bechdel test 2.5/3
Mary Kom shared a relationship of trust with her mother who, since her childhood, stoically stood behind her and supported her in her pursue of boxing as a career. Solidarity is shown amongst the women players of Manipur female boxing team who whole heartedly supported Mary Kom during the matches. There is a brief sequence where her rapport with a female journalist is shown.
Talking Points
Parents can talk to children about how to be focused and realize your dream by overcoming any adverse situation. They can also talk about the hardship faced by people living in North East India and how they live through tough social and political conditions through resilience and hard work. Why many young women still don't have a voice in the patriarchal society and how married women aren't expected to take their profession/career seriously. Parents can talk to kids about how corruption in Indian public offices affects success of deserving sportspersons.
Bottom line
The movie is a biopic on the life of a living sports legend. Though some of the sequences seem fictionalised and dramatized to suit the frame of a Bollywood movie, yet the movie has been able to capture the essence of the life of Mary Kom. Movie showcased how she fought all the obstacles to overcame many adversities in personal and professional sphere of her life to achieve her goals and in the end note, it is mentioned how she still continues to pursue the sport wholeheartedly despite of having a family and three children to look after.
The film makes a good watch for the entire family and can be inspirational for children in many ways.
For the quality of the film, check out the reviews on http://thereviewmonk.com/movie/mary-kom/


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Cheong Wa Dae Accused Of Destroying Corruption Scandal Evidence
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Microsoft has acknowledged the issue.
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Renault Samsung Faces Massive Recalls Of SM6 Units
Thousands of SM6 units were found to have several issues.
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South Korea Tops Ranking Of Countries In Terms Of Internet Connection Speed
South Korea once again emerged as the top country which has the fastest Internet connection speed and the United States lagged far behind.
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Yarn: Classic Elite Fresco (wool/alpaca/angora) 1 1/2 skeins
Needles: 3 and 5, I think? How do I forget so quickly which needles I used?
Pattern: Cabled beret by Ashley Hasse
I had to modify b/c I didn't get gauge at all--instead of 4.5 stitches to the inch I got 5.5--so I cast on 120 stitches instead of 100 and did 5 cable rounds instead of 4 before beginning my decreases. THought it would still be too small but I like the fit. I'm about 3/4 of the way through the scarf. It's quite skinny (less than 4" wide) so it really needs to be fairly long.
And, here's some of the Romney fleece that I'm spinning. It's coming out extremely noily and bumpy. I just can't card it enough to make it smooth. Hmmm. I think I'm going to have to join a spinner's guild soon so I can bring my questions to someone!
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shipperx (13-12-12)
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
Now, as for the last 4 years - no presidency exists in a vacuum. For good or for bad, any President must deal with the actions of former Presidents. I've been saying for years that ALL taxes would have to increase, because the military action in the Middle East has to be paid for somehow. And *public* obstructionist action by the Republicans did NOTHING to improve our economic situation. Since it was money spent by former President Bush and the Republicans decided that party loyalty was more important than the economic recovery of the entire country, I don't think it's delusional to "give Obama a pass", as you call it. I view it as taking more than 4 years to ATTEMPT TO START FIXING what took 8 or more years to break.
There is plenty of blame to go around to both parties. But pointing fingers and blame only take energy and time away from working *together* to overcome the obstacles we face now. But it seems solving our problems is not the goal, it seems getting/keeping POWER is the goal. Frankly, I'm sick of the entire bunch of them. That's one reason people don't vote - they don't feel voters have any influence on the eventual outcome.
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BuffySpike (10-11-12),shipperx (13-12-12),vampmogs (11-11-12)
I could tell you the real reason for the economic collapse, but no one wants to hear that it was actually put in motion during the Clinton administration.
You are criticizing Romney for doing knowing how to make money, which is exactly the kind of expertise we need right now? Obama has of seedy thing about him and yet no one seemed to care about that. If you are looking for the perfect candidate you're going to be looking forever, because there is no such thing. Romney however was the lesser of two evils, and that's what politics is usually about anymore.
Like I said, you get the government you deserve, so we'll see in a few years if voting for Obama was the choice that deserves a positive outcome.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
The political spectrum hasn't really changed - Communism has been the the extreme left for a while now (and the extreme right is Fascism). Obama is pretty close to the center, just a little bit to the left.
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BlasterBoy (13-11-12),shipperx (13-12-12)
It's funny how I check several different sites for this story and they all happen to have articles praising Obama and attacking Republicans. According to the article I linked, he hasn't simply kicked his campaign staff to the curb.
Here's another one, a story the press won't report on.
This morning on radio Glenn gave a preview of what you can expect to see on Friday's program. He shared a story of a V.A. hospital in Boston that Mitt Romney stopped at while on the campaign trail running against Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy had made a thirty minute top at the same location a couple of weeks prior.
After touring the V.A. hospital, Mitt asked to look at their books. After he spent forty minutes going through their books, he told them, "You run a very good place, very tight. Very good." Romney asked to go on another tour of the hospital, and after spending an hour and forty minutes there, the last question he asked was, "So what… what do you ‑‑ what are you lacking? What do you need help with?"
The response? "Milk."
Since the press was around, snapping photos and asking questions, Glenn explained that Romney did a really awkward joke where he said, "maybe we should teach everyone here how to milk a cow."
Of course, that's all the press cared to hear and ran with a story that claims "Mitt Romney says veterans should have to milks cows."
"This is where it gets good," Glenn started. "Romney calls him up the next morning."
Romney first apologizes to the man who runs the hospital for any problems the attention from the press jumping on his words brought to the hospital. He next offers to help with the milks situation.
"Friday comes, and the milkman comes," Glenn continues. "This is what the vets needed – they needed 7,000 pints of milk a week. Milkman shows up, 7,000 pints. The head of the V.A. hospital asks, "Where did all this come from?" He [the milkman] said "an anonymous donor." Now, the guy didn't put it together."
Glenn explains that when the next week rolled around, the milkman shows up again, and continued to show up every week for two years. After two years of delivering 7,000 pints of milk a week to the hospital, as the milkman is retiring, the man finally gets him to reveal the anonymous donor.
It's Mitt Romney.
"Mitt Romney was writing a personal check and didn't want anybody to know for two years and provided the vets with all of their milk in Boston," Glenn explained to listeners this morning.
When Romney became governor, he sent a bill through to help the V.A. hospital – it was down to the dollar. This man told Glenn, "if you want a mechanic on the economy? It's this guy. He [Mitt Romney] went and he looked at the books first. He wanted to see what we were doing and how effective we were. He said then, beyond that, the milk. He did that and he didn't want anything ‑‑ he didn't want anyone to know."
Yeah, the guy is a real cheap skate.
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
So, when the Great Society abjectly destroyed the nuclear African American family in barely more than a generation, and the political right said "maybe this was a bad idea", they are branded racist because they are going to take away some goodies that minorities are disproportionately relying on. That the goodies in question are poisonous, toxic things is irrelevant; if you want to take them away, you're racist. That's how Republicans became the party of "racism" despite all objective evidence related to what the word actually means.
The reason I posted the Santelli rant was to remind what the Tea Party itself actually was -- a revolt against meddling in the economy to the extent where the role of government seemed to be to immunize people from their own bad investments and decisions, both personally and at the corporate level. What is racist about that? It applies to everyone.
Institutions are the people that make them up, the person who has to cut the check.Of course it's different! The difference is Catholic affiliated *institutions* offering *institutional* health insurance that covers ALL prescription drugs equally VS forcing any ONE INDIVIDUAL to practice against their faith.
First of all, marriage is different in all 50 states. What constitutes a valid union, required witnesses, required age, what the rules are governing divorce, etc. 50 states, 50 answers. So, again, let's pretend DOMA isn't there. The Full, Faith and Credit requirement in the Constitution does not say that if a couple get married in New York under New York rules, and Florida has to recognize it, that Florida has to also adopt New York's rules. It means that a marriage valid in New York has to be treated as valid in Florida. Same with a driver's license.Which is all I am asking: adoption or marriage be legally recognized in all 50 states equally. That I have to travel to another state to be married is one thing. (I don't like it, but it is what it is.) The state I reside in must be required to recognize it as a legal union.
But if I am married in OH, I must be married in Alabama, or everything falls apart. I don't see how DOMA is not going to be struck down by SCOTUS.
Now, let's put DOMA back in and think of it as only what it is in constitutional law terms -- it's a Congressionally determined exception to the Full Faith and Credit clause. Now, there are exceptions all around. For instance, a medical license in New York, or a law license, does not license you to practice these things in another state unless those states have independently agreed to let their respective licensing agencies (like the state bar associations) recognize reciprocity. So, with DOMA, you basically have marriage carved out as an exception where by it's in a state's discretion.
I'm not really inclined to defend DOMA, since ultimately I think DOMA conflicts with my new vision for how conservatives/libertarians need to approach governance by reclaiming federalism, but I wanted to explain what it actually is/does.
The point is, a personal, individual tragedy (i.e. "but my dog will die if we pass the new food standards for dog food bill") is not a reasonable argument to direct policy that will apply to millions of people, indefinitely. I got into this with a friend over education, he tried to bring his mother's job (a teacher) into it, and I pointed out to him "y'know, I could try to make an issue of how Obamacare affects my parents and basically make it out so if you disagree with me you're being mean to my parents, but it wouldn't be a real argument in favor of my side". Yes, my best friend is a true blue bleeding heart, and our answer is to just rarely talk about stuff like that.What is policy for except to govern individuals? What else drives policy? That sounds like "Let's leave "people" out of making rules that govern and control "people". That just makes everything messy." Real people are what drives policy and policy changes. Otherwise, what's the point?
The top marginal rate under Reagan was 28%, the top marginal rate on Jan 1 will go back up to 39.6%.This budget crisis wasn't created overnight and we won't solve it and climb out of the hole overnight, either. And the so called "fiscal cliff", IMHO is being over exaggerated. TEMPORARY tax cuts will expire. The resulting taxes won't be as high as they were when the Republican Idol Reagan was in office. Also, the CBO has already determined letting tax cuts expire on the "1%"would have little effect on the economy.
Actually, the "little effect" goes both ways, which makes one wonder what there is behind it other than a compulsion to punish the rich. Raising the top marginal rate on those making over $250,000 a year would raise $56 billion in 2013... against a budget deficit that will be around $1.5 trillion. It's beans, it accomplishes nothing.
Your parents, and mine, were scammed just as much as a Madoff investor was scammed, because Social Security is exactly the same sort of con; it depends on additional investors to pay existing ones. Which is great, if there are enough of them to cover the bill, but there aren't.I've heard enough of "dependent on government" during this election season to last me the rest of my life. So my elderly parents that bought into the system, worked all their lives and are now living on a Ford pension + social security are somehow the reason for this financial crisis? (Another reason I didn't vote Romney – yes, the auto industry went bankrupt. But there *was* no private money to "bail out" the auto industry. It was the government or nothing. Romney wanted to strip all the assets, including pension funds & "privitaze" it. His words – NYT op-ed.) That's a load of crap. Government subsidies to Fortune 500 corporations take far more money out of the equation than all the social security & Medicaid enrollees combined.
And the alternative is what? Let people that have lost their homes along with everything else they have be homeless & hungry? I'm sorry if I can't agree with that. Or with *ME* having to find some kind of healthcare with a "voucher" when I retire? Again, I realize a *personal* argument isn't what you were looking for, but this policy is personal to *me*. It's not an ideal or a philosophy. It's the reality of my life we are discussing here.
As for dependence on the government... look, in his second term, George Bush proposed taking 2% of people's income, out of the 14% of it that is their social security tax, and letting them have it to invest and control themselves. Higher risk, higher reward, but their money, not money that they had to hope there would be enough saps around later to take it from. Just a meager pittance of what they were still paying into SS for use in the regular way.
And given the choice between taking ownership for their own retirement and their own money, even to such a modest degree, and leaving it up to the government, America chose the latter. That is nothing if not dependence on government, on wanting someone else to relieve the burden of making serious plans and choices for themselves. That is when I think I saw the writing on the wall for individual self-reliance, unfortunately.
Philosophically, any and all conservative ideas are going to tend toward reducing the role of government, the growth of government. And all those ideas have been rejected out of hand. What is the point of offering them again for continued rejection?And the theory is that NOT helping or offering any ideas relieves Republicans of any responsibility or credit for the outcome. That's hardly the level of maturity I expect from our Senate or House.
I don't expect maturity from Congress anymore. The Senate is three years without the self-respect to even pass a budget, even one of their own to take to conference with the House. If that's not immaturity, nothing is.
Well, if his reelection was a mandate for him, weren't the House Republicans also given a mandate?Yes, he will. Because he has a mandate from WE THE PEOPLE to "go of the cliff" if he has to. The Republicans tried to suppress the CBO study. The gazillionaires that tried to "buy" this election via Republican candidates won't let them back down on this. If *I* were one of that gazillionaire group, I wouldn't either, again because it's *personal* to them.
I honestly want to pull my hair out when people go on and on about how mean or (of course) racist it is that the GOP wanted Obama to be a one-term President. I mean, I would really love to know when all these other times where when the party without control of the White House was indifferent to or ambivalent about whether the other party kept control of it. In what alternate reality did the Bush or Clinton or Reagan or any of the 39 Presidents before him have an opposition party that was pretty comfortable with the idea of them having a second term? It's comical to suggest there was anything new about the GOP not wanting Obama reelected. The only President who even might have had that kind of comfort zone was George Washington.Also, the "obstructionism" is NOT a moot point. It was an agreement to make Obama a one term president -- an agreement that was public, in complete ignorance of how it would appear to voters. It was passing 55 bills regarding women's healthcare and NOT ONE JOBS bill. Of course the Senate wasn't going to pass them. The VETERANS JOB ACT was particularly appalling to me. Again, because that was *PERSONAL*. My husband and son are veterans.
I've wanted for a long time for candidates not to be identified by party affiliation on ballots.I wouldn't expect the Republicans to give up power entirely. God only knows we don't need a *one* party system. Although, I do need to give some thought to a NO party system. Why should voters be limited to only two viable candidates? I'm sure history will have something to say about that theory, but I have to do some studying…………..it's interesting.
For the record, in Florida, there were 12 Presidential tickets on the ballot.
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So many people are not willing to vote for a third-party though and they tell others that if the do vote that way that they are wasting their vote. Mitt Romney got 58,562,476 votes, Gary Johnson only got 1,190,496 (.97% of the vote) and Jill Stein had even fewer at 420,064 (.34% of the vote). The third-party candidates are also excluded from the debates and I think just don't really have much support overall.
Going forward one thing I think the Republican Party is going to need to get away from is the horrendous comments that were made by Republicans in office regarding rape. I doubt that all Republicans would agree with some of the comments that were made, but I was certainly put-off by them and I bet a lot of other people were as well.
I was thrilled to see that Richard Murdock & Todd Akin were not re-elected. Murdock recently stated, "The only exception I have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. I just struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen." Akin's comments were even worse and just factually incorrect, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
Yeah, Akin was a fruit loop, and I was amazed that I never even heard him clarify whether his mistake was saying that bit about women's bodies shutting down reproduction or if his mistake was actually believing it, because to actually believe something so asinine would be humiliating. I will admit, though, the criticism over the "legitimate rape" part was a bit unfair; it's clear in context he's talking about forcible rape as opposed to, for instance, statutory rape, which, being defined solely by statute and not by subjective consent or violence, is not something the human body could tell apart from just normal sex. He just chose a remarkably tactless and insensitive adjective to make that distinction.
But the Mourdock remarks... I balk at condemning anyone for operating under an opening premise as legitimate as "life is a gift from God" or "all life is precious". It's not to say, ever, that rape is a good thing, but rather to recoil from the inverse implication that a child of such is born somehow outside the sight of God, or in secular terms, as morally inferior, unloved, unloveable, or defective qua herself. I don't believe that at all, it sounds... cruel. I mean, for demonstration, I try to imagine someone having a conversation in which they express outrage at Mourdock's remarks to an actual child of a rape -- "can you believe the nerve of that Mourdock, thinking that someone like you were a gift from God?" I mean, nobody would actually say that, would they?
I'm personally uncomfortable, for that reason, with the premise of rape/incest exceptions. I've never really had a problem with "life of the mother" because, to me, at that point it's not "A is a life, B is not", it's "A is the patient than can be saved, B is not". But again, my new sensability is that this all falls under 50 states, 50 answers -- just like every state can have different statutes over permissible and impermissible circumstances in which human life can be ended, different privileges and exceptions. The federal constitution is totally silent on human reproduction, as it is on marriage, and that should be taken as a message that the federal government takes no position.
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PointMan (11-11-12)
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
I do think the Federal Government sometimes gets into issues that are not designated to them in the Constitution and without a Constitutional Amendment those issues should be left up to the states.
I doubt it will be passed in all the states. Texas is likely to never pass gay marriage and their are multiple other, more conservative states where the values haven't really changed nearly as much as they have in the rest of the country.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
Marriage hasn't always been a religious institution. It actually predates religion and was once nothing more than a business contract. In Ancient Rome and Greece religion played no part in marriage at all and it wasn't until the early Christian era that people started using Bishops and incorporating religion into the ceremony. Even then, it has changed a remarkable amount over the years and this graph here shows the evolution of marriage just throughout the Bible.
Plenty of people get married now and don't include religion whatsoever. That's why it's always been quite illogical when people say that gays shouldn't be allowed to get married because "the church is against it" because not only does marriage predate religion, but straight people are perfectly free to get married outside of the church.
Christianity certainly does not have a monopoly on marriage and it can claim no ownership of the word. I don't think the solution is to scrap "marriage" all together and just have civil unions for all people. There should be no reason why the term can't remain and that the same rights straight people have to get married outside of the church simply can't be extended to same-sex couples too.
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"You've got ... a world of strength in your heart. I know you do. You just have to find it again. Believe in yourself."
Andrew (11-11-12)
KingofCretins, may I ask if you are religious?
Also PointMan are you religious?
Bonehead, carrot top, shirty & dope
the nonsensical vocabulary of Buffy and Spike
How do you view the women therein?...I view them to be anti woman in the extreme.
The "corporations are people" thing has been hard and fast law for almost the entire history of the country, and applies in multiple contexts. And the reason is ultimately that... they are manifestations of the people within them. If the CEO (a person) tells the CFO (a person) to have one of his clerks (a person) write a check to pay an increased premium to pay for a service against the beliefs that they either hold or at least agree to apply to their professional conduct in order to comply with a law, than those people have all been forced to do it.People have civil rights, not institutions. Under this philosophy, since I dont like my money paying to continued military action, I shouldnt be made to pay for it, right?
And that would pretty quickly become the 50 states/50 answers norm. Florida would, in our ongoing examples, recognize a legal union between two men from New York, but would not be obligated to issue such a license to two women from Florida. But they could go get it in New York. This is something that is actually familiar to American culture -- the song "Jackson", for instance, or the reference to going to Reno in "The Shawshank Redemption", are both references to having to travel to a different place to obtain a legal divorce. Likewise, the Vegas wedding tourism industry is built around the convenience of their licensing.Im fine with that. But a legal union from one state must be recognized as a legal union in another state. Exactly like a drivers license.
"Well, if you don't support public sector unions, you want my mother to lose her retirement and therefore hate my mother" is just... not a legitimate argument to me. I don't even really think I can articulate why, you'll either intuitively agree or intuitively disagree. It's an argument from pure emotionalism, it's anecdotal, it summarily deems all longitudinal arguments as invalid... I just can't do it, sorry.Again, I ask why people arent relevant to forming a policy to govern people.
It is manifestly impossible to close the US budget deficit by raising taxes. Again, the top tax rate going up raises $56 billion in 2013; the projected deficit will be around $1.5 trillion. Or, as demonstrated from the Walter Williams column I was mentioning, if you a) take every cent earned over $250k in taxable income, all of it, and b) confiscate every cent of profit earned by the Fortune 500 in the US, and c)completely clean out and liquidate the wealth of all 400 billionaires in the US, you would have enough money to run the federal government for less than eight months... and you could only do it once.Paying taxes is a punishment? I totally agree. And just like my own personal budget, you have to start somewhere. Revenue & expense cutting.
But that's not the half of it -- the fact is, taxes, like all other costs, affect economic behavior. Whatever you tax, you get less of it. So if you tax upward mobility in general, higher incomes, higher investment returns, etc... you get less of these. When the price of milk goes up enough, people eat dry cereal more often. When the price of gas goes up, people drive less (an explicit goal of liberal energy and environmental policy, as it happens). So when you raise taxes enough, people turtle up and spend less, do the things that cost them money, less. Fewer trips out to dinner; fewer tips for the waitstaff. Fewer tips for the waitstaff; fewer nights out at the bar or fewer classes taken at the learning annex, so less money made by the bartender and by the professor. And so on.
Like privatizing that one narrow slice of social security, any attempts to actually solve these problems is met by total antipathy for the idea that people will have to take more responsibility for planning their own retirement and healthcare in the future, because there just aren't enough money trees for the government to pluck it off of. I mean, there was a plan on the table that let everyone 55 and up -- those in line of sight of social security/medicare -- keep the program they were promised, but begins creating other options and other plans for those younger than that, like me, who sit here knowing with total certainty that it won't be there for us even though we are paying in. Because it takes all we pay just to pay those getting it now, none of it is banking up for us; that's how a Ponzi works. And as Americans are barely reproducing at the replacement rate, we're not going to have enough people to bilk for our bill coming behind us.Well, the baby boomers (me!) are the largest generation in history. So, why isnt there enough money? And what do you propose to replace Social Security? Nothing, I suppose. Its not governments role, so what? Cut the moochers off? Let them starve? There are entire generations involved here not yours, I understand, but our parents and *me*. So, now that its inconvenient to continue the programs we have paid into all our lives, we just have to suck it up that the government took our money under false pretenses and feels no responsibility for the resulting situation?
There is no answer beyond drawing some sort of demographic line in age and saying "sorry guys, everyone behind this line is going to have to start making other plans", but that's just a bit too honest and unseemly for American politics today.
Compromise is not an implicit virtue. I am no fan of Ayn Rand in general, but a couple of her idioms are pretty hard to argue with. One is "what is the compromise between food and poison?" If all compromises ultimately require dismissing any hope of containing spending, reducing it, reducing borrowing, reducing the scale and scope of government, that's not actually compromise anymore, it's just polite capitulation.Perhaps the definition of the word COMPROMISE should be painted on every wall in DC.
They have a constitutional duty to pass a budget, even if it doesn't end up on the President's desk. The way this is supposed to work is that the two houses can pass wildly different bills and then they get together for the messy work of getting them together. The Senate not only won't give any House budget a vote, they won't even craft their own, and when they give the President's own budget a vote, it gets zero votes, including Democrats.Well, we should expect maturity. DEMAND it, even. Using your own rationality, why would the Senate bother, when it was a guarantee the House would never approve it, no matter what it contained?
Actually, all members of the House of Representatives are elected to two year terms and are up for election every two years, all 438 members. So, again, the prior question stands -- how, if Obama has a mandate and Harry Reid's Senate majority has a mandate, does Boehner's House majority not have their own mandate?Nope, because not all House representatives were up for re-election. Some, like that (insert nasty word here) Speaker Boehner (Im deeply ashamed hes from Ohio) were not up for election this cycle. If the Republicans keep going down the road they are on now, the 2014 elections will find even more of them out of a job.
Almost all opposition for that sort of idea comes from your side of the political spectrum. That's the sort of idea that always gets branded as racist, because of some gobbledy-gook about white people getting to watch the news more and so they'll know what parties people are, bibble babble BS. Nevermind the legitimate question of "well, shouldn't anybody that has no idea without a single letter next to a name who to vote for just... stay home anyway, since they obviously have no idea what's going on?"I, for one, would love that. I have never cared about any party affiliation, I care about the policies and positions of the candidates themselves.
I think it's ludicrous to propose he was actually condoning rape. We are at an absolutely intractable impasse on that, unfortunately.Yes, we Christians do believe that good things come from tragedies. But if you continue the logic of his statement, then God must have arranged the rape in the first place. It can be easily assumed that he was condoning rape. Hes a nut case that has no business forming legislation regarding womens health or freedom.
Well, no they wouldn't say it... they'd just think it. It seems a mandatory implication to denouncing Mourdoch's position; if one is disagreeing with him saying "all life is a gift from God", then one is necessarily saying "clearly, some life isn't". And if the context is rape, it seems one is also necessarily saying that that is the "some" that isn't.No, of course nobody would actually say that. And I respect that point of view live is a gift from God. I have a problem with *legislating* that point of view.
Well, the point is that if the Constitution doesn't actually take a position, it can't be contrary to the States, because the 10th Amendment says in pretty explicit terms that that which isn't dealt with in the Constitution belongs to the states. But taking that amendment seriously would have left the Supreme Court with a lot less to do, so they took it on themselves to... more or less ignore it.Unfortunately, States make laws contradictory to the Constitution. The States do not have absolute freedom to legislate whatever they wish. That's why SCOTUS exists in the first place.
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Regarding Murdoch and Akin's comments; why is it that anytime a Republican messes up and says something bad its all over the news, and yet when Obama says something like the deaths of 4 U.S. citizens in Libya is "not optimal" he gets a free pass? I'd be willing to bet that most Americans wouldn't have even known he'd said it if it hadn't been on the Daily show where it happened. He also didn't get called on his complaint about how people in the south "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -- Albert Einstein
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Well, Ill just respond to posters replying to things I said. Essentially, Im just interested in supporting and defending what I said.
For the functioning Government thing: There are already Republicans saying that they will go against Grover Norquist and raise taxes. And the Senate Democrats should support filibuster reform. We know that whenever the Republicans get back in the majority that they will immediately support filibuster reform. So, the Democrats need to stop being such pushovers and dumbasses and return the Senate back to a 51-majority rule instead of a 60-majority rule. Reconciliation would have had the public option be part of the health care law and would have made the law more popular than it is.
I said that Im a small l libertarian and/or Moderate. Ron Paul wants to rid of the Federal Reserve. Doing that would put either Europe or China in charge of the world economy. Or maybe the United Kingdom given The Citys role in the global economy. Plus, ridding of the Federal Reserve would make it extremely difficult to keep the Dollar Standard. Ron Paul wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Employers have been complaining that even MBAs cant write properly. We need better education in this country, not less.You can call yourself whatever you want, but nothing you have said reflects Libertarian ideals. Ron Paul is a Libertarian, and I doubt he wants anything to do with any of the ideas you have espoused.
Have you ever even taken a basic economics class? Do you know anything about Supply and Demand? Trickle up is a simple fact people being able to buy stuff supports jobs and wealth, increases stock prices, and increases tax revenues."Trickle up" economics don't even exist;
Um, it really seems that you dont even know what trickle up and trickle down even means."trickle down" is a demagogic term for the simple economic reality that money a) exists, and b) travels by getting spent. Nothing more "voodoo" than that immutable fact. People that have money, spend money, and where they spend it opportunity for people to gain it appears, and then those people have money, and they spend it. It's more just trickle around, really, but it starts with people having the right to profit from their labor, without that, there is only depression, mediocrity, and despair.
Trickle down is basically the idea that taxing the rich less means that everyone benefits and tax revenues actually increase. And its been disproven. Reagan dramatically increased the national debt as did George W. Bush. All taxing capital gains and dividends less results in is an increase in wealth inequality and less Government revenues. Lowering the estate tax would simply result in an American aristocracy. Imagine the country if the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Carnegies didnt have income or estate taxes and didnt donate most of their money to charity.
Trickle down doesnt work because as income and wealth rises, less of a percentage of it is spent and goods and services. Also, money that goes into hedge funds and private equities or overseas accounts or on overseas investments doesnt help the economy like money going into buying food and stuff.
And the whole small business argument is just stupid. How many people do you know use their profits for the sole purpose of hiring people? And a small business is simply a business with 100 employees or less. That includes law firms, private equity companies, hedge funds, real estate investment trusts, agencies, etc.
Ive already explained trickle up.
When was the last President who didnt support capitalism? The only two I can possibly think of are Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson.Not an accident that anti-capitalism has yielded nothing but failure everywhere it been implemented.
A few coal-state Senators didnt support it. Its an example of what is wrong with the Senate makeup. And rises fuel-standards hasnt hurt the auto industry. Cap-and-trade would simply force renewables and cleaner energy.Honestly, the reason cap-and-trade didn't happen is because there just weren't enough votes on hand even with the Democrats holding absolute majorities to completely destroy the American domestic energy industry, which is what cap and trade would do.
This is untrue. The President picks federal judges and picks Supreme Court Justices. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is like in her 80s and has health problems. A Romney-Ryan Administration would have overturned Roe vs. Wade and most likely would have restricted contraception more than an Obama-Biden Administration.I still find all the abortion and contraception hype a bitter pill. The simple fact is that it's only through genuine unawareness of the legal status of both of these subjects that anybody could ever be genuinely concerned that a Romney presidency could have endangered either,
The Republicans in the House and Senate wanted to have the economy be the worst possible in order to try to stop President Obama from being re-elected. The economy would have been better had the Republicans supported Obamas jobs bills or another stimulus. They tried to block even the Veterans Jobs Bill and had to be publicly shamed about that before they supported it.and they were only injected into this race to draw attention away from the economy.
Ill slip in the deficit thing here. The Republicans were against letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those making over $250K a year. If they let those go in 2010, the deficit would be better.
All elections are won by appealing to more people than ones opponent and/or by restricting the vote. The Republicans restricted the vote (and tried to restrict it far more than they succeeded in doing).The big lesson of this election, as they say, is demographics.
First off, this is offensive. Demographics include race and ethnicity and so they are constituencies. I dont know how your statement could be spun to appear inoffensive. Secondly, obviously a percentage of the country didnt vote for Pres. Obama because Obama is Black and they are racist. Thirdly, neither Party appealed to Asians and Asians supported Obama over Romney at around the same percentage that Hispanics/Latinos supported Obama over Romney. Fourthly, Obama appealed to gays and women more than Romney did and so he won those constituencies by far margins. And Romney appealed to the Military and tried to appeal to Jews more than Obama did. Romney pretty much only won among men because of the support among men in the military and those who work in some way for the military (including manufacturers). And Romney appealed to those making a lot of money who dont want to pay taxes and so won a majority of those making over 100K a year. It wasnt just about the Dream Act or whatever youre trying to suggest.I wish that it were not such a cynical world, where the new normal for winning a national office is to sort the country by color, pick your favorites, and go.
Conservatives dont support upward mobility. The Democrats are the ones who support upward mobility. Obamas the one who increased Pell Grants and reformed the student loan thing. Individualism? The Republicans were against gay marriage, against contraceptives, against all abortion. Free enterprise? Under Obama, the stock market has skyrocketed and its a fact that the stock market does better under Democratic administrations.Individualism and free enterprise and upward mobility have a built in universalism,
The Republicans can stop taking their orders and direction from Grover Norquist, the Tea Party (aka the Koch Brothers and such), talk radio, and Fox News. The Romney from 2008 may have been able to win this election. But instead, he had to win the Republican primaries and he chose Paul Ryan as his running mate. John McCain became too conservative in the 2008 Presidential election. Romney became even more conservative in 2012. And now some Republicans are delusional enough to think that someone like Paul Ryan (or Marco Rubio) could actually win in 2016. Jeb Bush couldnt win simply because of his association to Pres. George W. Bush. Chris Christie possibly could have won in this election, but its less likely hed win in 2016 if Hilary Clinton is going to run. The Republicans simply dont have anyone who could beat Hilary. Obama won big in this election and if Hilary were the candidate instead, shed have won a lot bigger. And if somehow Bill Clinton could run again Pretty much, if Bill Clinton could have gotten a third term, hed still be the President.The non-socialist/progressive wing of American politics -- because merely "conservative" is no longer going to cut it -- has to get together and change their approach or figure out a better way to communicate.
Simply put, Republicans delude themselves into thinking that they can get the Hispanic/Latino vote just because the Catholic Church is against abortion and contraception. They think that Hispanics/Latinos are cultural and social conservatives. But that is only true of those that actually fully follow the Catholic Church. After two generations of being in the United States, Hispanics/Latinos in California are Moderate. I went to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles instead of doing a senior year of high school. This is the premier Jesuit University pretty much west of Georgetown University. Almost no one was a virgin, very few were actually religious. There were more atheists and agnostics than were in the junior high and high schools I went to. Pretty much everyone taking science or business classes werent that religious and were socially and culturally liberal. The school was more Republican than Democrat simply because most of the students there were from upper middle class families. But this was the Republican Party of 2002. This was before the Tea Party. Something like only 20% or whatever of the country supports the Tea Party. And take away the racists and the businesses that dont want to pay for Obamacare which by 2016 will be concrete law and the Republican Party will have to moderate their positions in order to have any chance of getting the Presidency.I find it impossible and contrary to all I know of particularly Latin culture and history, that such a traditionally family oriented, faith-driven, and hard working community is immune to the superiority of individualism and free enterprise.
No one can predict such things 4 years out.On the political board I moderate we threw in our predictions, and I made some that I will add here, that at the scheduled end of Obama's Presidency, we will have --
a national debt between $20-$25 trillion dollars
annual budge deficits around $2 trillion
U3 unemployment between 7-9%
average gas prices between $5-$6 per gallon
Iran will have nuclear weapons and a de facto nuclear umbrella that covers the Middle East and much of Europe
The deficit will decrease as we get out of the Recession. And if tax rates go up (which will happen), it will decrease even more. Entitlement reform of some kind will eventually happen. Republicans already support lowering payments to upper income people (which is a Democratic idea).
Gas prices are based off of Supply and Demand and the strength of the Dollar. Gas prices will only go down if Demand (meaning worldwide demand) decreases and/or the Dollar gets stronger. Obama has raised fuel efficiency standards and supports clean and renewable energy. Gas prices would be higher under Republicans.
Unemployment will eventually go down.
The problem with Iran is its leadership is anti-American and is a theocracy. The people of Iran are like the most moderate in the Middle East barring Israel. And Ahmadinejad is liked because he gives oil revenues to the people.
Iran is no threat to Europe and Israel could obliterate Iran if Iran actually tried to nuke Israel.
Thats the Federal Reserves job. Inflation would only be a problem if the economy roars back quickly.I don't even want to speculate about inflation or some other issues.
That bolded part is simply laughable to put it gently. Obama will take credit for killing Obama bin Laden, for ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, for repairing relationships with other countries, for trying to contain China, for increasing the percentage of the population covered by health insurance, for improving education, for putting the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court, for stopping a Depression from happening, for being the first African American President of the United States, for creating millions of jobs, etc. Plus, he got a Nobel Peace Prize (which may or may not be deserved, but he still has one).But I think the President would leave office only regretting that eight years hadn't been enough time to undo the damage done by his predecessor and never having spent a day in his Presidency having taken ownership of anything that happened under his watch, let alone because of his watch.
Were still in a recession, but when the economy is better, all tax rates should go up. We need to pay down the debt.I expect that we will see the full effect of the "fiscal cliff" here, because I don't think letting some of the tax rates continue past January was ever more than a campaign tactic for the DNC, I think their plan from day one has been to let all marginal rates go up.
Eric Cantor is pretty much the Speaker. Boehner was going to do a Simpson-Bowles type long-term deficit reduction deal with Obama but the Republicans Study Committee and the Tea Party people which includes Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan were against it. John Boehner will be the House Speaker. Paul Ryan wasnt even helpful on the Romney ticket, theres about zero chance that hed become Speaker. And Eric Cantor is next in line anyway.I'm actually hoping to see Boehner lose his job in January, I'd like to see Ryan run for Speaker.


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In this easy magic trick. A finger ring that's resting on a pencil mysteriously levitates on its own. There's some preparation involved, but you should have fun with this one.
A pencil
A finger ring
Clear Adhesive Tape
Black Thread
Using the clear adhesive tape, attach a bit of the thread to the top of the pencil, to the metal part that is just under the eraser.
Hold the pencil in your hand, eraser side up. Run the other end of the thread to a button on your shirt or to a belt buckle. You'll need to anchor the other end of the thread on your body. If you choose to use a button, you can form a loop in the thread and wrap it around the button.
With your thread in place, hold the pencil in your hand, as shown in the picture. You'll want the eraser side up.
Drop the finger ring onto the pencil until it's resting on your hand.
This picture shows how the thread runs from the top of the pencil to a button or your belt buckle. The thread has been exaggerated for demonstration purposes.
To make the ring descend, simply draw your hand toward your body and allow the thread to relax and drop the ring.
Make sure that you practice this one so you get the length of thread correct, as well as the motion of the hand to cause the ring to rise.


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