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Clearly one of the most memorable and influential Generals of our time.
I wish more senior leadership in the the Marine Corps/military would be like him.
He was simply a leader and not a politician.
Marines don't need politicians wearing the same uniform as them.
There's enough politicians sitting in nice cushy chairs in D.C. making horrible decisions on their behalf.
What the Marine Corps really needs is a good, solid, and strong leader like General Mattis who won't care about political correctness all the time, and yet have a grace about him that can't help but be admired.
So sad to see such an amazing leader leave the Corps, but the legacy and footprint he's left behind is like no other.
Here's an article written in the Marine Corps Times about him that gives a small snapshot into what kind of man he really was.
The man. The myths. Mattis
As 'Chaos' retires, Marines recall influential general's defining moments, deep bond with rank and file
By Dan Lamothe - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 17, 2013 10:16:03 EDT
Gen. James Mattis held court in the MacDill Air Force Base theater on one of the last days of his career, speaking to a group of more than 200 service members and civilians. He credited noncommissioned officers with showing him the ropes early on and warned that the U.S. can't be sure what armed conflict it will be engaged in next, but kept the mood light by mixing in some of his trademark wit.
Asked what worried him, the general motioned to the stars on his collar and offered a one-liner evoking the long shadow he casts. "I don't worry about stress," Mattis said, according to a Marine in the room for the March 8 all-hands meeting in Tampa. "I create it."
Even if that quote is off by a word — media wasn't invited to the event — it's this combination of gruffness and humor that has helped make Mattis the most revered Marine general in at least a generation. Disagree? Name one other individual who is almost universally praised by everyone from lance corporals to his fellow four-stars. Name one other leader whose blunt speech has inspired tattoos, doting Web pages and tongue-in-cheek calls from admirers for a 2016 presidential campaign — one that probably would gain traction if Mattis had any interest.
Since 2010, the general known by the call sign "Chaos" has run U.S. Central Command, overseeing the war in Afghanistan and other military activity throughout the Middle East. On March 22, nearly 10 years to the day after he led 1st Marine Division during the ground invasion of Iraq, Mattis will be replaced by Army Gen. Lloyd Austin and retire. Thus ends one of the most dynamic careers for a general officer since the late Lt. Gen. Lewis "Chesty" Puller hung up his uniform in 1955.
Mattis doesn't like the attention. He has been cryptic about his future ever since word surfaced late last year that Austin had been selected to replace him. During testimony March 5 before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he offered a typical response to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R.-S.C., who inquired about the general's retirement plans.
"I have no idea right now, senator," he said. "But it's going to be a lot of fun."
In a March 14 email to Marine Corps Times, Mattis said he prefers to end his 41-year career quietly.
"I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way — they earned their stripes in combat," Mattis said. "The Corps is in good hands, and it's been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it's time to go."
Mattis will be remembered in no small part because of his Marines' battlefield success. He first became known nationally as a one-star in late 2001, when the order came from Washington to amass forces for an invasion of Afghanistan. At the time, he was leading forces through Bright Star, a multinational training exercise in Egypt.
With Mattis in charge, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., became the framework for Task Force 58, a larger Marine air-ground task force that also included the 26th MEU, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. In the following weeks, Mattis oversaw the deepest insertion of Marines into a combat zone in U.S. history. More than 1,000 Marines were in Kandahar province within a week of the mission, which launched Nov. 25, 2001.
"The Marines have landed," Mattis said, according to embedded reports at the time, "and we now own a piece of Afghanistan."
The following year, Mattis prepared to lead 1st MARDIV into Iraq. In late 2002, he deployed with a staff of fewer than 100 to Kuwait and returned ahead of the March 20, 2003, push over the berm, said Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy, then a lieutenant colonel working under the general.
Mattis pressed his planners to grasp the intricacies of a massive ground invasion, said Kennedy, now the director of the Division of Public Affairs at Marine Corps headquarters. Artillery, fuel and other requirements all would take up space in convoys that would span miles, Mattis stressed.
Before deploying, division staff conducted numerous rehearsal drills — some using Lego blocks to represent units — to assess challenges it would face. In Kuwait, Mattis had an area bulldozed and turned into a stadium-sized terrain model, said Col. Mike Groen, another lieutenant colonel and planner on Mattis' staff at the time. Rubber tubing served as roads and cinder blocks as cities. Inside, Marine officers navigated the labyrinth wearing jerseys to represent their units.
"He always was a week ahead of everyone else," said Groen, who is now the director of the Corps' strategic initiatives group and was recently selected for brigadier general. "He would tell you to do something, and you would scratch your head and say, 'Hmm, I don't really understand why we're doing this.' Three, four, five days later, the light bulb would go off and you would say, 'Holy smoke, this is what he was talking about!' "
Mattis also inspired his Marines with a one-page letter that summed up his commander's intent. Many kept it tucked away in their body armor, said Lt. Col. Joseph Plenzler, a captain in 2003 who served as Mattis' public affairs officer. The letter included an order that has become a catchphrase reprinted on bumper stickers, posters and T-shirts all over the country.
"Demonstrate to the world," Mattis said, "there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine."
Mattis' popularity extends beyond his forces' success, however. For one, he emphatically showed faith in rank-and-file service members, stressing that they are key to military success. He's hardly alone in this regard — retired Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak developed the "strategic corporal" concept in the 1990s, among many examples — but Mattis' propensity for doing so resonates.
In one lesser-known instance in 2001, then-Brig. Gen. Mattis ordered Marines to keep their weapons in Condition 1 — magazine inserted, round in chamber — while deployed for exercise Bright Star, where tensions were high after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. He counseled a couple of Marines who didn't adhere to the order responsibly, but otherwise relied on the competency of his personnel, said Plenzler, now the spokesman for Commandant Gen. Jim Amos.
"It blew us away as young officers," Plenzler said. "There we were, sleeping with loaded pistols under your pillow."
Mattis fearlessly traveled the Iraq battlefield in 2003 and 2004, relying on his "jump platoon" while getting into rolling firefights outside the wire, said Col. Brennan Byrne, who commanded Camp Pendleton's 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, in Iraq under Mattis. At times his unit took casualties, but he refused to stop checking on how his Marines were doing.
"He has imprinted an entire generation of Marines with regard to engaged, decisive combat leadership," said Brennan, now the chief of staff for 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade. "As Marines, we could never have been better served by his command."
Mattis' trust for his troops made its way into the U.S. military doctrine, as well. After becoming deputy commandant for combat development and integration, he co-wrote the counterinsurgency manual with now-retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who was then a three-star officer overseeing Army training.
Mattis' disciples argue to this day that Petraeus unfairly received too much credit for that work after adopting many of the principles in Iraq. Kennedy said the initial order Mattis wrote for 1st MARDIV in April 2003 was "Counterinsurgency 101," urging Marines to treat the Iraqi people with respect while watching out for their own safety.
"It is exactly what you see in the current counterinsurgency manual, and other people have been given credit for it," Kennedy said.
Mattis has deflected praise for his role in creating the manual, saying he had "at best an indirect, perhaps intellectual or training impact" on its adoption, while Petraeus later adopted it on the ground.
"We looked for what was working, accumulated it into the doctrine and passed it out, largely written by NCOs and officers fresh from their searing experiences in Iraq," Mattis said.
There are, of course, the "Mattis-isms." That is, the many salty, inspirational or otherwise eye-opening statements Mattis has uttered — in combat and in the U.S. — since becoming a senior officer. At times, they've earned him criticism from other senior officers, even as rank-and-file Marines cheer candor they say reflects the horrors of war.
Take that proclamation Mattis made after his Marines landed in Afghanistan. It ruffled feathers in Washington and earned an admonishment from higher ups. Mattis later contended in a 2006 speech at the Naval Academy that a journalist left out some context after asking about the turf the Marines had taken.
"I said, 'Well it kind of means we own it. We're going to give it back to the Afghan people,' " Mattis told the crowd, according to a transcript of the event. "When the word came out, they left the last part off: [It was just] I owned a piece of Afghanistan. Well, I don't have to initiate a salute with many people, but I think every one of them lined up to tell me that I would never make it to the top of your class intellectually, and [they] had other comments about my capabilities."
It's just one example of Mattis' brash comments raising eyebrows. Most significantly, he sparked controversy in 2005 while speaking at an open forum in San Diego.
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil," he said. "You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight. You know, it's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you, I like brawling."
The remark was rebuked by Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee, and raised questions as to whether Mattis would be promoted again. There are other examples, though. Perhaps no quote captured his professional duality — intellectual thinker, salty commander — better than those in the 2006 book "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq," by war correspondent Thomas Ricks. Meeting with Iraqi military leaders in 2003, Ricks reported, Mattis offered a chance to collaborate along with a chilling warning.
"I come in peace," he said. "I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f--- with me, I'll kill you all."
Mattis' star continued to rise despite the controversies. He was promoted to his current rank in 2007 when he became the commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command. It was widely reported he was a finalist to become the Corps' commandant in 2010, but he was bypassed in favor of Amos, who already had served as assistant commandant. Mattis became the head of CENTCOM instead, keeping a lower profile while traveling the world to meet with kings, prime ministers and generals.
Ricks speculated in January that Mattis was originally planning to retire in August, but was pushed out early by the White House because he thought the U.S. wasn't thinking through its long-term policy on Iran clearly enough. White House officials disputed the report, and Mattis has declined to discuss what happened.
Still, perhaps the way Mattis is retiring seals his legacy as the most popular general in decades. Had he become commandant, he'd have been faced with a menu of unpopular choices — something Amos and other Marine brass know all too well. War is hell, but it's much more difficult for rank-and-file Marines to embrace their service shrinking before their eyes.
Gen. John Kelly, who served as Mattis' one-star deputy commander during the invasion of Iraq, told Marine Corps Times that Mattis will go out as a brilliant commander who insisted on speaking honestly.
"Only a few guys like them come along per generation," Kelly said, citing Gens. Joseph Dunford and John Allen as others. "They are brilliant. They are dedicated. They are selflessly devoted to their duties. ... They give their unvarnished opinions and recommendations when asked by their political masters or the Congress, then salute and, to their deaths, will carry out the orders they are given. We are less as an institution when men like these 'go over the side,' as we Marines say, 'for the last time.'"
Staff writer Gidget Fuentes contributed to this report.


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I am reposting Loren Miller's comment because it speaks to the challenges facing political and economic communities. If we attempt to placate those with whom we do not agree, some may assume we believe in the same spirit world as they. In my opinion, the underlying values of religion contribute to the dysfunction of our institutions, including family, education, business and politics. Notions of guidance and direction from a higher power negates the splendid wisdom and knowledge and values of men and woman who think free of superstitions.
Loren Miller sent me this:
You tell me I must believe in your god.
Why should I believe in something which doesn't show itself? Why should I believe in a myth which violates the laws of physics, which insists not just on the improbable but the impossible and that which has been proven wrong? Why should I believe something which was written by men who hadn't the learning or intelligence my daughter had when she entered first grade? Why should their ignorance carry more weight than informed and educated knowledge? Indeed, why should I believe when I prefer to know?
You tell me I must believe in your god.
Why your god? There are thousands of gods out there, each as insubstantial as the next, and yet I am supposed to choose your god. Why not Zeus and Hera and Artemis and Apollo, or Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva? What's wrong with the Great Juju Up the Mountain or the other one at the bottom of the sea? They're all powerful; they all command our respect and worship, the same as yours does, and they all play the same carrot-and-stick game of reward and punishment with the puny humans they supposedly created. Is your god all that much better than the rest?
You tell me I must believe in your god.
Why must I? Who gave you the authority to compel me to do such a thing? By what right do you demand that I adopt a belief which I do not see being in any way in my best interest? How dare you presume upon my right NOT to believe? Is it my safety in your supposed afterlife that motivates you or my conformance to your hallucination which would comfort you?
You tell me I must believe in your god.
Just what is your god? Can you give me a hard and fast definition of him or her or it? Why is it a male god so much of the time? Don't you think women deserve a position of authority or respect? Why is it you talk about this god as though it is real to you when it is in no ways real to me?
And now you ask why all the questions? For that I have an answer: I am a skeptic. We ask questions; it's rather what we do. Now … do you have any answers … or just excuses?
~ Loren Miller
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[Loren scans this up and down.] Wow, this looks familiar ... who wrote this??? [wry chuckle!]
Pat, Perfect response. I especially like your statement, "You ask me why. Well, here's why. Science, philosophy, and the search for knowledge have lots of question. I'll readily concede that many of those questions may never be answered. On the other hand, your religion has all the answers, none of which anyone may ever question. Which one do you think I'm going with?"
I shall borrow it with attribution.
Oh Jeez, I didn't make it clear! I thought by using " , Loren's message would separate from mine. I am so very sorry.
was written by Loren Miller and I liked it so much I reposted.
Now, how do I repost so that the author is clearly known. I had intended to put "~ Loren Miller" after the piece but clearly failed to do so. I'll delete this one and redo it so Loren is named as author. Oh dear, 14 have already read it. I am so sorry.
You can still EDIT this piece, Joan, or any major forum, discussion or blog entry you are the author of. Just lick on the OPTIONS button at the top and select EDIT, then make whatever alterations you want.
Oh my gosh! I can edit here. To think of all the work I have gone to in the past to correct my posts and all I needed to do was use Edit! Thank you! I never find all my errors until after I publish. I owe you one.
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Baseball season is here again! Our family has really developed a love of going and seeing our D-backs play! The kids favorite part of the game is checking into the Kids Club and collecting their prize! This last week we were invited to a fun blogger night at the ballpark. It was a great opportunity to see some of the great fan giveaways the Diamondbacks have planned this season, as well as the updates they've made to the Kids Club. That blogger night facilitated this review.
We started out with a tour of the ballpark where we learned that La Terraza will be open for every weekend game. You can enjoy live music and authentic eats at El Guero Canelo. La Terraza is located in the Upper Right field concourse. I had never been up to that corner of the park. It was a great view. I can't wait to go to a weekend game and check out the Latin flare up there.
The Petsmart Patio is also being expanded to Sunday and Monday games! It makes me wish we had a dog, just to bring him to the Petsmart Patio. You can't beat unlimited Ice Cream for your pup.
This year the D-Backs Kids Club is sponsored by Danzeisen Dairy. The Kids Club is a free program for kids 15 and younger. You can sign up in the Sandlot, near Section 332. This year each kid will get a photo ID card. My kids really loved that part. Then for every game they come to, they scan their card at a kiosk and earn prizes. The Kids Club also includes a free ticket for every Sunday home game. The kids just have to present their membership card at the box office to redeem their free ticket.
The prizes are pretty sweet! The prize for going to a second game is a t-shirt! Kids wearing their Kids Club shirt get to be at the front of the line for the Kids Run the Bases which occurs after every Sunday home game. Kids can work towards prizes for the first 20 games they attend in the season.
While you're signing up for the Kids Club don't forget to check out the Sandlot. It's a really fun play area for kids of all ages. There's a toddler play area all the way up to batting cages for older children.
The Arizona Diamondbacks has some great fan giveaways planned this season. You can see a full list of promotions on their website but my favorites were the Patriotic T-shirt on July 1 and the Mother's Day Clutch on May 14. It's really pretty! I have good news for you too! I have a special discount available for the Mother's Day game. You can get up to 40% off your tickets by visiting dbacks.com/phx-kids
We'll be heading back to another game soon and then I'll bring you my best money saving tips for taking your family to the ballpark!


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Yellow Medicine East's Conor Christensen would be the last one standing after a pitchers duel Tuesday night at Richter Field. The junior would best Renville County West's Ryan Fransen with a complete-game shutout performance as the Sting ground out a 2-0 non-conference victory.
Yellow Medicine East's Conor Christensen would be the last one standing after a pitchers duel Tuesday night at Richter Field. The junior would best Renville County West's Ryan Fransen with a complete-game shutout performance as the Sting ground out a 2-0 non-conference victory.
Christensen and Fransen would bandy about five scoreless innings of baseball before the Sting struck with a pair of doubles in the bottom of the sixth. Austin Thorstad hit a double with one out, and Aaron Zieske followed with his own RBI double to give the Sting the lead. An errant throw by the Jaguars catcher later in the sixth allowed YME to score another run on the error.
Christensen would close the game in the seventh and finish with a three-hit, one walk and nine strike-out line. Meanwhile, Fransen would end the night giving up just two hits, one earned run, one walk and again— nine strikeouts.
"This is his first start, first varsity start, all that," said YME head coach Trevor Schulte about his pitcher. "He was really composed out there. Nothing seems to rattle him. He had good composure. He has a good make-up, good mechanics. It's hard to find them like that in high school, with that type of composure."
Schulte was impressed with Christensen's low pitch count and when adding his performance to a number of solid performances by YME pitchers already this season, an area that was once a question mark for this team prior to the season, looks to have now been answered.
"I think he threw right around 85 pitches for seven innings, which is pretty doggone good. He got ahead of hitters, he stayed ahead of hitters, he threw strikes, he didn't try to do too much. He was spotting his fast ball well. He really gave us a start there and that's a big thing," said Schulte.
YME gets back to conference play Thursday against Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City.
Said Schulte, "Defensively we've played sound defensive baseball; we know where to go with the ball and things like that. And our pitching is giving us a chance to win. Our bats still aren't quite there, yet. We got two hits today and maybe only got four balls out to the outfield. We have to do a better job at the plate, there's no doubt about it, but hopefully as we get going here we can build some confidence at the plate... It just takes one guy to do it and the others will follow.
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Renville County West: Brett Feldman 1-for-3, Griffin Schaub 2-for-3
Yellow Medicine East: Austin Thorstad 1-for-2, 2b, Aaron Zieske 1-for-3, 2b, rbi
PITCHING (ip-h-r-er-bb-so)
Renville County West: Ryan Fransen (L) 6-2-2-1-1-9
Yellow Medicine East: Conor Christensen (W) 7-3-0-0-1-9


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Kankakee County Grand Jury Indictments >
Three defendants facing sex charges in Kankakee County are now under indictment.
45-year-old Paul Somers of Bradley is charged with two-counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault and Unlawful Restraint. Somers allegedly handcuffed the victim and forced sexual contact at a residence in Bradley.
36-year-old Christopher Silsbee of Chebanse was indicted for Failing to Register as a Sex Offender. He failed to notify law enforcement about a change in his employment.
37-year-old Gary Lance of Momence was arrested for Criminal Sexual Assault. He allegedly had sexual contact with a female on Hobbie Street in Momence.
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VIDEO: GameTime's crew discusses Luol Deng's strengths
CHICAGO – LeBron James would have to get past the flaming jerseys, the Comic Sans and the instant chasm that opened between him and Dan Gilbert, owner of the team for which he performed and amassed profits for the first seven NBA seasons.
Luol Deng would have his own set of baggage with which to grapple if he were to consider returning to the team that drafted him 10 years ago.
Putting to the test the old Thomas Wolfe-inspired aphorism "You can't go home again" might seem quaint when the likes of Jason Kidd and others involved in last week's Brooklyn-Milwaukee sleight of hand kept repeating "this is business". But then, this is business, so maybe – somehow, some way – James can go back to Cleveland. And Deng can go back to Chicago.
While the former possibility (however slight) has the NBA and its fan base intrigued, maybe even fixated, the latter is generating nary a peep in the vast Chicagoland sports media market. Despite all those airwave hours and blank Web pages to fill, the idea that Bulls VP John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman would turn to the third-most desirable small forward in 2014 free agency (after James and Carmelo Anthony) seems to captivate no one.
Too awkward?
Too weird?
Too bad.
The Bulls claim to be committed to goosing the roster and changing the movie of Derrick Rose's second major comeback from knee surgery in as many years. But the prospect of bringing back Deng, the two-time All-Star who toiled longer and harder than any Bulls player over the past decade, hasn't garnered a blip on the radar.
Blame the baggage. The steamer trunk in that set came in January, when the Bulls came at Deng with a 1-2 punch in a hurried-up bit of contract-extension negotiating. They offered him a reported three-year, $30 million deal that wasn't so much take it-or-leave it as it was take it-or-leave US; when Deng declined, he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for draft picks and payroll relief via Andrew Bynum's contract.
It was an abrupt parting considering all Deng and the Bulls had been through together, his status as one of the team's leaders, his skill set and the way Tom Thibodeau relied on him every way an NBA coach can. The locker room shook that day, emotional center Joakim Noah went into a temporary funk and, on the heels of Rose's latest injury six weeks earlier, it looked like a tank job and felt even worse.
Being banished to the Cavaliers was no prize for Deng, either. His production and enjoyment faltered, and the "the Bulls don't miss Deng" stories coming out of Chicago didn't help. (They were 10-13 with Deng, 38-21 without or after him.)
VIDEO: Take a look back at Luol Deng's stint with the Cavaliers
"It appeared uglier than it was," said agent Ron Shade, who works with Chicago-based Herb Rudoy. "Luol is a professional, so what happened if January is forgiven but not forgotten."
Shade recalled hearing Paxson's news conference on his car radio the day Deng was dealt – the emotion in the Bulls exec's voice struck him, as did the sincerity he and Forman showed when apologizing to the player for the team's handling of his botched spinal tap during the 2013 playoffs. And yes, the Bulls have called since July 1.
"Like I say, Luol is a professional," Shade said. "He will hear every reasonable option and give it serious thought. We won't close any door on that possibility at all."
The trickiest part for both Deng and the Bulls is that nothing has changed financially. He still believes he's worth $12 million to $13 million annually, pegged to Josh Smith's (four years, $54 million) and Andre Iguodala's (four years, $48 million) last summer. When the Bulls talked extension last summer, they were in the $8 million to $9 million range (Deng just wrapped up a six-year, $71 million deal signed in 2008). When Chicago offered $10 million, they cut the length to three seasons. So it never got close to happening.
But that three-year, $30 million number, made so public, has become a set point that complicates the situation. If Deng accepts it now, some will characterize that as "crawling back" on the Bulls' terms. If Paxson and Forman sweeten the deal, it might be portrayed that they "caved" and are scrambling to make up for their inability to woo Anthony.
In sheer pragmatic terms, the Bulls could do worse than Deng. He knows their system and fits into everything Chicago wants to do. His versatility enables him to fit just about anywhere, though it quietly and inadvertently argues against him being a "star."
Deng gets his points without plays being called for him. He's capable of many things but dominant at none, and if a team is a serious contender, he probably should be its third-best player. With the Bulls, he often was pressed into action as No. 2 to Rose and more, when the explosive point guard was out. Even if he rejoined Chicago, its offense needs another go-to scorer.
Meanwhile, Deng has options and offers that could increase once James and Anthony make up their minds. He met on July 4 with Miami's Pat Riley and was told Monday, through Rudoy, that the Heat's agreements with Josh McRoberts and Danny Granger don't lessen their interest in Deng.
Deng spoke with Clippers coach/exec Doc Rivers last week and had conversations this week with Atlanta coach Mike Budenholzer and Washington GM Ernie Grunfeld. Dallas, Toronto and the Lakers also are said to be interested.
It's a game of musical chairs with special rules: LeBron and 'Melo get to sit down first while the music still is playing. Then Deng, Trevor Ariza, Gordon Hayward and others will scramble with urgency – but probably still robust deals from anxious teams – for the remaining seats.
"We knew, starting with the whole process, that this LeBron thing, this Carmelo thing probably would drag out," Shade said. "It's very fluid at this point. We're not desperately eager at all – the money's not going to go anywhere. We would be nervous if the phones were not ringing."


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COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 4 (UPI) -- Federal deficits are too large and mounting U.S. national debt threatens future generations. Both Democrats and Republicans embrace demagoguery and refuse to address facts and acknowledge lessons of history.
Since 2007, federal spending is up $1 trillion dollars and deficits jumped from $161 billion to $1.2 trillion over five years.
Higher taxes on the wealthy and Obamacare levies will pull down the gap in 2014 but then it will rise again. Healthcare, Social Security and slow growth, not low taxes, are the culprits.
Tax rates and rules imposed in January will increase revenue's share of gross domestic product well above its average for the last 40 years.
However, Americans spend 18 percent of GDP on healthcare, while the Germans and Dutch, with more government cost sharing and better care, spend about 12 percent.
Even with Obamacare, private insurance premiums and out-of pocket expenses are rocketing, while Medicare and Medicaid have suppressed provider reimbursements to levels that many physicians refuse to take publically-financed patients.
Benchmarked against Germany and Holland, U.S. private healthcare prices are too high, while government rates for the poor and elderly are too low to cover providers' costs.
Republicans would rely more on markets and competition -- scrapping most Obamacare mandates and giving elderly vouchers to buy private care -- and hoisting the poor onto the states by replacing Medicaid with block grants.
Those wouldn't bring down private healthcare prices -- cash grants to the elderly and fragmenting Medicaid administration would raise those.
GOP strategies would leave many elderly and poor forgoing care, less healthy and dying too young -- much the new reality for the former middle class and poor in Portugal, Spain and Greece.
The Germans do what Messrs Obama, Boehner and others are unwilling to conceive -- directly reimbursing most healthcare costs, regulating most providers' prices, slashing administrative burdens and executive salaries and eliminating most malpractice suits.
The necessary taxes would be less expensive for U.S. businesses and individuals than the taxes, health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs they now bear.
Americans live longer and can work longer, and Social Security and government pension ages should be raised to 70. No system of social insurance or federal finance can work when folks can live another 20 or 30 years in retirement.
No tax increase can escape these realities -- overtaxation caused nothing but slow growth, misery and decay in southern Europe.
Over-regulation of the private sector doesn't mitigate but rather exacerbates risks of financial crisis. The greatest threats come, not from private bank meltdowns and personal bankruptcies, but rather from a loss of confidence in government's ability to promote adequate economic growth and hence raise revenues to finance its legitimate responsibilities.
President Obama inherited a mess -- unemployment peaked at 10 percent in his first term -- but since his recovery began, economic growth has averaged only 2.1 percent.
President Reagan inherited a mess too -- unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent -- but at the comparable point in his recovery, growth was averaging 5.3 percent. Fueled by continued strong growth, federal deficits dissolved in the 1990s.
Instead of campaigning that cutting federal spending one-half of 1 percent must force food shortages, outbreaks of E. coli and streets without police, the president would do better to read more about Reagan and less about Lincoln -- he faces a growth crisis not a civil war.
Republicans would do better to acknowledge that just as national defense can't be left to private armies, markets and competition can't solve healthcare inflation.
Both sides need to be honest with Americans about working longer and accept a radically different role for government if they want to leave the nation to their grandchildren as they inherited it -- prosperous, secure and solvent.
(Peter Morici is an economist and professor at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and widely published columnist. Follow him Twitter at @pmorici.)
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We just got our hands on the new Verizon Samsung ATIV Odyssey and it makes a nice first impression. The Windows Phone has a familiar feel to it that reminds us of the Samsung Focus 2 or maybe a thicker version of the original Samsung Focus. The ATIV Odyssey joins the HTC 8X and Nokia Lumia 822 on Verizon's Windows Phone lineup.
The 4" Super AMOLED Screen looks nice and the Odyssey feels comfortable in the hand. The Windows Phone is powered by a 2100Mah battery and driven by a 1.5Ghz Dual Core CPU. Add NFC support and a 5MP rear camera and the ATIV Odyssey comes across as a decent mid-level Windows Phone. The only downside that jumps off the paper is the Odyssey only has 8GB of storage. However it does have a microSD expansion slot and while 8GB may not sound too great, memory shouldn't be an issue.
First impressions are good and we'll take the Odyssey out for a test drive over the next few days to get a better feel for things. Verizon is offering the Odyssey for $49.99 after contractual discounts and you can find all the fine print here at Verizon's website and look for our review sometime next week.


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Donna Bedermann 8/30/2008 9:17:07 PMOh my gosh now that's what I call a macro! nicely done! #989288
Michelle Alton 8/31/2008 5:31:01 AMUnbeLIEVable!!! What a capture! #6390986
Erica Murphy 9/22/2008 9:26:11 AMWOW!! This is fantastic!! Congratulations on this wonderful finalist Mark!! #6488609
Erica Murphy 9/22/2008 9:26:11 AMWOW!! This is fantastic!! Congratulations on this wonderful finalist Mark!! #6488610
Erica Murphy 9/22/2008 9:26:15 AMWOW!! This is fantastic!! Congratulations on this wonderful finalist Mark!! #6488612
Sam Britt 9/22/2008 5:05:45 PMCongratulations...WOW!! #6493207
Michelle Alton 9/22/2008 5:29:13 PMThrilled to see this as a finalist! It's brilliant. Congratulations and best of luck in the next round! #6493448
Summer A. Kozisek 9/23/2008 8:52:31 AMWOW Mark, this is truly amazing! Congrats on your finalist, sure to be a winner! #6498771
Mark Dijstelberge 9/23/2008 11:50:53 AMThanks all.
cheers, Mark #6499503
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 9/23/2008 2:32:08 PMI really can't get over the details in this capture Mark, truly remarkable. Congratulations on your finalist award! #6500226
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"August Winners"
Bobbie L. Slayton 9/24/2008 9:45:27 AMMark for what its worth this should have gotten FIRST PLACE in Macro. We could have never saw the detail without your lens. To me that is what makes a Macro anyway.
Wonderful Job and Congrats. #6505776
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 9/25/2008 5:33:26 PMCongratulations Mark, amazing! #6512631
Dominick M. Dimacale 9/27/2008 8:51:16 PMCongratulations Mark on your Win.
Dominick #6522061
Ellen Hodges 10/6/2008 11:58:07 AMFantastic capture, Mark! #6560974
Kay G . Larsen 10/14/2008 12:41:01 PMThis is one of the best macros I've ever seen...a TRUE macro...GREAT JOB! And, congrats! #6598698
Susan Jane Allen 10/20/2008 7:52:09 AMSuper WOW!!!! What lens were you using? Not that it would help, as I have a Canon, but interested anyway! #6626638
Jim Stringer 11/24/2008 5:44:53 PMThis is one awesome macro Mark!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #6799611
Graeme yew Chow 11/30/2009 10:29:41 PMAwesome macro with super detail- Graeme. #8180908
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Wenger: Gunners in rude health
Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal are in unusually rude health for this time of year.
Things are looking up for the Gunners on the injury front after what was a difficult start to the campaign. The likes of Jack Wilshere, Bacary Sagna and Wojciech Szczesny have all returned, while Wenger has revealed Abou Diaby and Andre Santos will be back soon, meaning only goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski would be absent through injury.
"It is unusual, especially at this period of the season," Gunners manager Wenger told the club's official website, arsenal.com. "It is down to the continuing good work we are doing behind the scenes at the club. We hope that it continues because it is important to go into January with a full squad and we will be losing Gervinho to the Africa Cup of Nations."
Wenger is also boosted by news that Olivier Giroud and Tomas Rosicky are available to face Newcastle this weekend after missing the 1-0 win at Wigan through illness. The Frenchman said: "We should not have any new injuries from our last game. Giroud and Rosicky should be available again. They were sick at Wigan."
Rosicky's return has been welcomed by team-mate Santi Cazorla. The 28-year-old has impressed since his summer arrival from Malaga and is looking forward to building up an understanding with the Czech midfielder.
"I think that Rosicky is an amazing player, now I have started playing with him because he too has been through a long injury, and he is also a 'Spanish' type of player," Cazorla said.
"He associates himself very well, and seeing the positions that we play in, we will understand each other very well, as we do every day during training, and I hope to enjoy many good moments with him on the pitch."
Cazorla is hoping he can build up a rapport with Rosicky similar to that already achieved with Jack Wilshere and Mikel Arteta.
"Every day that goes by we understand each other better," he added. "It is very easy for me to play with them. Mikel is more of a tactical player, a very important player in any side. He always has to be well positioned, to cover the open spaces that we leave further up the field.
"And Jack is an amazing football player. I did not know him well because when I arrived he was injured, but every day that goes by I understand why he is so well rated here, and especially for what he brings to the team."


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Forrester: Web 2.0 Spend to Grow 43% AnnuallyBy Darryl K. Taft | Posted 2008-04-22 Print
A Forrester report says social networking, RSS and mashups will be among the fastest-growing technologies by 2013.
On the eve of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Forrester Research released a report stating that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies will continue to rise over the next five years, growing 43 percent each year to reach $4.6 billion globally by 2013.
The five-year forecast from Forrester, released April 21, features a breakdown of future business spending on technologies such as social networking, RSS, blogs, wikis, mashups, podcasting and widgets, as well as an analysis of enterprise Web 2.0 spending across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The report forecasts that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technology will "get hot" in Europe and the Asia Pacific region in 2009.
The report notes that large businesses, including General Motors, McDonald's, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance and Wells Fargo, all use Web 2.0 tools extensively and that 56 percent of North American and European enterprises say Web 2.0 will be a priority this year.
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A visit to the world famous Bread & Puppet in Vermont. There was a special visitor at this performance, Gary Davis (fourth photo from the top), the man who renounced his national citizenship in 1948 to become the first World Citizen. Founder of Bread & Puppet, Peter Schumann, is also pictured holding his grandson during the Uprisers' Pageant. The last few photos are of some of the memorials for puppeteers who have passed away.
Somehow these guys just keep on getting better, even when it doesn't seem possible.
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Butchering" Fifth-generation New York City butcher Evan Lobel joins Martha for a master class on meat. Together, they teach viewers how to choose and cook the best cuts of meat, from tender to lean. Not only will this episode make you a better cook, but it will save you money as well. D
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Hometime "Kitchen & Mud Room Remodel 3" Dean and Miriam finish rough-ins, insulation, dry wall and priming to get ready for new cabinets. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of Slovenia" In the little-visited and underrated alpine country, Rick begins in the capital city of Ljubljana, enjoys the mountain resort of Lake Bled, ventures into the Julian Alps, goes spelunking in a gigantic cave, and swims with Slavs in a charming Adriatic port.G
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Santa Fe, New Mexico" For over 12,000 years, Native Americans have been living in the area around Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Spanish arrived in the 1600s and eventually the two cultures blended together to form one of the most interesting societies in America. In this program, we take a helicopter tour of some of the most beautiful parts of the Southwest, visit the oldest church in the United States, and discover how the native tribes used modern ledger paper to preserve their heroic legends and personal stories. D
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Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Breaking with Tradition" Jacques makes skillet apple Charlotte, cooked in a single pan. He substitutes turkey breast for veal in turkey scallopini with morels.G
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Cold-Weather Comfort" Test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making Easy Caramel Cake. Then, host Christopher Kimball uncovers the tips and techniques for perfect cake making. And finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make foolproof Split Pea and Ham Soup. D
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Clambake" Clambake Master Ned Lightner of coastal Maine takes viewers through the real deal: how to shop for, prep for and cook for a clambake. Other recipes include Bar Harbor Lobster Bisque, Cannon Beach Marionberry Cobbler. Kitchen Goddess Andrea reveals how to use imaginative beach goods for inventive food presentation. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Swimming Upstream" Most people, including Joanne, absolutely adore salmon. She begins by nestling salmon rillete in endive, and then, with her student Jerry, bakes salmon in the ultimate symbol of love, a paper heart. Recipes: Smoked Salmon Rillete/Endive, Salmon and Spring Vegetables Baked in Paper, and Lemon Tarragon Rice. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "The Best of Slovenia" In the little-visited and underrated alpine country, Rick begins in the capital city of Ljubljana, enjoys the mountain resort of Lake Bled, ventures into the Julian Alps, goes spelunking in a gigantic cave, and swims with Slavs in a charming Adriatic port.G
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Invitation to World Literature "Odyssey" Odysseus must travel the known and unknown world before he can return home to his beloved island kingdom of Ithaca. What does this ancient story say to readers today? In this program, Odysseus's story is given ancient and modern historical and philosophical context, and illustrated with centuries of art. Featured are theater director Mary Zimmerman, actor-director Tim Blake-Nelson, and psychologist/author Jonathan Shay. D
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Invitation to World Literature "The Bacchae" The city of Thebes is torn apart by the conflicting demands of reason and religion, as the disguised god Dionysus returns to his home town demanding to be worshipped. Opposing him is the young king Pentheus, who is doomed to suffer the ultimate punishment for his disbelief. Featured speakers include world-renowned playwright/author Wole Soyinka, actor Alan Cummings, and Daniel Mendelsohn of Bard College. D


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The Department and Clinic of Paediatric Oncology at Münster University Hospital is one of the largest centres for paediatric oncology and haematology in Germany. It takes part in national and international treatment optimisation studies in paediatric oncology and haematology and carries out phase I and II clinical trials in paediatric oncology.
The Rinecker Proton Therapy Centre in Munich (RPTC) is Europe's first proton radiation facility to offer a complete hospital setting. Additional centres are planned for other cities and countries in the next few years. Open since March 2009, the Rinecker Proton Therapy Centre is equipped to treat up to 4,000 patients every year. The facility is CE-certified and has been officially approved as a healthcare provider by the Bavarian Environment Agency.
The University Medical Centre of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz is the only facility of its kind in Rhineland-Palatinate. It encompasses more than 60 clinics, institutes and departments, combining patient care, vocational training and medical research. Around 3,500 medical and dental students receive training at Mainz University Medical Centre at any one time.
The Medical Department and Clinic III at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden is one of the leading diabetes centres in Germany. It currently has the country's only active islet cell transplantation programme and is home to Europe's first chair for diabetes prevention. The hospital offers special programmes and therapies designed to identify the disease in its early stages, delay its onset and possibly even prevent it.
At two locations in the north and south of the city, Nuremberg Hospital offers the highest standards in all specialist fields of medicine and uses its expertise to establish networks for certain common illnesses. In keeping with the hospital's holistic approach to treatment, doctors from the 14 competence centres come to the patients instead of the other way around.
The Department of Neurosurgery at Duisburg Hospital, part of the Wedau Hospitals group, is one of the largest in Germany. It specialises in neurological conditions in adults and children that can be cured or alleviated by an operation. These include cerebral haemorrhages, brain tumours, tumours and other problems affecting the eye socket, tumours and deformities in children, slipped discs, spinal stenosis and spinal cord tumours.
The MediClin Robert Janker Clinic in Bonn is a specialist centre for the treatment of tumour-related diseases and a leading provider of radiotherapy and radio-oncology. This renowned clinic offers diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology as well as radiotherapy, in particular high-precision radiotherapy, for the treatment of benign and malignant tumours.
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Skip to comments.Document shows Saddam-Taliban ties (Liberals will keep denying it...)
Posted on 06/13/2006 1:09:42 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
A newly released document from Iraq demonstrates a relationship between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups including the Islamic-based Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
The document, posted by the Pentagon's Foreign Military Studies Office, indicates that in 1999 the Taliban invited Iraqi officials to Afghanistan, Fox News reports.
While some intelligence analysts have insisted Saddam's secular regime would not have collaborated with radical Muslim groups, the document says "Islamic relations with Iraq" were encouraged by the Taliban to arbitrate a meeting with the Northern Alliance rebels in Afghanistan and Russia.
The document also mentions two men with ties to Pakistani religious schools, jihad training camps, the Taliban and al-Qaida.
An Iraqi intelligence agent kept a notebook, posted on the Fox News Channel website, that details meetings between al-Qaida and Taliban supporter Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice president of Iraq, along with other Iraqi officials.
Ramadan was Saddam's right-hand-man, in charge of ensuring orders were carried out by Iraqi officials. A 2002 BBC article stated, "Washington showed considerable interest in him well before the Iraq war."
In the story, opposition forces also claimed Ramadan hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, in Baghdad in 1998.
The notebook also recorded Maulana Fazlur Rahman as being at the discussion. Rahman has been described as a Pakistani cleric with ties to the Taliban who is a contender for the position of prime minister.
As WorldNetDaily reported, among many documents posted by the Pentagon in March was a letter from a member of Saddam's intelligence apparatus indicating al-Qaida and the Taliban had a relationship with the regime prior to the 9-11 attacks.
The letter by a member of Saddam's Al Mukabarat to a superior, dated Sept. 15, 2001, reports a pre-9/11 conversation between an Iraqi intelligence source and a Taliban Afghani consul.
>Earlier this month, a newly translated document captured from the Saddam regime revealed Iraq's hiding of chemical-weapons materials and the location of their burial.
In 2003, a 16-page top secret government memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee said bin Laden and Saddam had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, as well as financial and logistical support, and may have included the bombing of the USS Cole and the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The memo, dated Oct. 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee," reported the Weekly Standard. It was written in response to a request from the committee as part of its investigation into prewar intelligence claims made by the administration.
According to the Weekly Standard, the memo reports Saddam's willingness to help bin Laden plot against Americans began in 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, and continued until the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. It says bin Laden sent ''emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi government officials.'' At some unspecified point in 1991, according to a CIA analysis, ''Iraq sought Sudan's assistance to establish links to al-Qaida.''
Nothing to see here - move on...
Great thread; thanks for posting it.
So not only did Saddam work with Al Qaeda from the early 1990's until before the war, he worked with the Taliban. Good work on the part of the translators.
I wish the administration would start really pounding these facts home. Maybe we need to flood Rove's office with e-mail.
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Holy Crap!!! How is this not headline news?!!?
Because people love power more than America?
Because they hate GWBush more than they love their country and its citizens?
Thanks for posting CCF and the ping eyespy, good piece.
I get depressed realizing that you are likely correct.
Me too.
But at least this is making the rounds. Again. And its on Fox News too, so... **fingers crossed**
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MSM useful idiot bump.
Great. the evidence keeps piling up. Pretty soon, the MSM will be forced to cover it.
Liberals lied while brave men died.
Knowing how much oil money Saddam had, how easily corrupted Western diplomats and journalists are, and how much he hated America for bloodying his nose (but whimping out), I am not surprised at these new facts.
I question whether the administration will do anything. Senior officials have conceded that there were no WMDs, but we know - don't we - that Russian special forces moved them for Saddam.
I looked deep into Pooty Poot's eyes and saw another Russian pathological liar. I wonder what W. saw.
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So what's new?
So what's new?
Largest stone circle OF ALL TIME discovered in Victoria Park
Ach! Told me to watch this and I'm glad I did
Watch it. It will have huge sentimental value to anyone who grew up in East London or thereabouts in the '80s.
Lots of radical history stuff being done at the moment on Centerprise and its legacy.
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Microsoft has been busy celebrating Windows Phone 8 alongside the Christmas period, with stalls set up in several markets in Germany. The country is well known for its Christmas markets (we even have them here in the UK) and WParea managed to trek down to one in Hamburg Ottensen where a Windows Phone hut was discovered.
The market is reportedly a busy one, and by what we can gather from photos published by the German website, it's a wonderland packed full of festiveness and excitement - with a helping of Microsoft's mobile platform to add something sweet to the mix. When checking out the cabin at the Christmas Market, WParea managed to obtain information revealing other such stalls set up at other markets.
As well as temporary locations, Windows Phone 8 booths are also located in multiple shopping centres that are offering the opportunity for the public to win Windows Phone 8 hardware. It's good to see Microsoft out mingling with potential customers and taking full advantage of the festive holidays that are soon approaching.
Source: WParea.de; thanks, Leng, for the tip!


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The other day I heard my new favorite catch phrase du jour while watching a popular T.V. show. "only the paranoid survive". And I got to thinking "What would E.O. Wilson have to say about that?" So I asking (since we're atheists here) is there a genetic component to skepticism that makes us 'slip away from the herd' and how would this have added to our species fitness?
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You have asked a question that can be truely answered by a Genetic scientist. Speakink purely from a common man's perspective, if genetics had anything to with atheism, we should have found several cases of atheists down the generations, also, this could have influenced their DNA and the link you talk of could have been discovered scientifically. I believe nothing like this has happened.
I am not a determinist, no way mr chicken, takes the fun out it so it does.
From personal experience, I can say that I highly doubt it.
I am not a "natural skeptic". In fact, I'm the kind of person who will look if you tell me the word "gullible" is written on the ceiling. Calling me gullible is just seeing the tip of the iceberg. I physically have to work at being a skeptic, and while it's rewarding enough to be beyond worth it, it's rather annoying. I envy those to whom being a skeptic comes naturally, but it certainly doesn't come naturally to me.
I would say that skepticism is purely nurture. I was not taught to be skeptical. My family is highly liberally religious. What I mean by that is simple: no one on either side of my family is a creationist in the currently-popularly-understood sense. Both my mom's Catholic family and my dad's Jewish family accept the Neodarwinian Theory of Evolution as it is understood scientifically today, and accept the scientifically-determined ages of the Earth/Solar System and the Universe. They accept Inflation Theory (the Big Bang) and so on.
What's more... they all believe quite strongly in the separation of church and state. They all are pro-choice, in that while they would strongly counsel against abortion (unless there was no other choice... mother's health and all that), they would not stop a woman who's made that decision, nor do they think the Federal Government should do so... they also recognize that it is ultimately the would-be mother's choice, and that while they think the father should have a voice in the decision, they understand that it is the mother and the mother alone who has the final say. They don't understand why we don't allow homosexuals to get married, and my mom's parents actually threw a celebration dinner when DADT was repealed (despite there legitimately being no homosexuals on either side of my immediate family... the closest we have is on my dad's... he has a cousin-by-second-marriage who's gay).
However... when I admitted I was an atheist, there was a period of three months where I honestly believed I lost all of them. Now, four years later, relationships have been saved, and all is good, as long as religion is not discussed when I'm around (with the exception of my mom's dad, an RCC Deacon, and my dad, a Jewish Hazzan, both of whom relish debating me... and I relish those debates, too... they are quite fun).
I was taught that God is the foundation upon which life itself rests, and without God, all is meaningless. Heaven was real (but Hell was not, and works is a little more important than faith [in God, not Jesus]... that is, being faithful makes getting into Heaven easier, but a religious rapist isn't going to Heaven no matter how strongly he believes in God), and prayer is needed (though not, when sick, as an alternative to medicine and health care proven to work). They never cared if I was Jewish, Catholic, Christian, Mormon, Hindu, Aphrodite-worshiper, a Deist... as long as I believed in a higher power of some kind, then it was fine.
And, sadly, none of them would ever vote for an atheist as a president (actually... I may have changed my parents' opinions on that one... we had a long discussion about it recently and they ultimately admitted that, if they found a candidate with whom they agreed with on every social and economic issue, they would vote for that candidate regardless of his/her religion or beliefs, including the potentiality that [s]he was an atheist).
It's the not believing at all that is the problem, and I was taught against that.
This is why I believe skepticism is based on nurture. I was brought up to not be a skeptic, and now I have to work at it. Then again, my sample-size for this is one, thus my "testimony" is nothing more than an anecdote. We'd have to hear from others with a similar upbringing to me in order to truly understand it. I have to admit... it'd make a fascinating scientific/anthropological study...
Well, to paraphrase Aldous Huxley excellent "Brave New World":
'A Paranoid is just a guy with all the facts.'
Has always sorta worked for me.
This is a question I have asked myself (and others) many times. The real question we have to ask is what roll genetics really play in our mental development.
There is some evidence that "mental agility" can be passed down, unrelated to brain capacity but the evidence is in no way proof and as critically thinking Atheists; we must not pay too much attention to unproven ideas.
I would almost suppose that skepticism is more likely a universal trait shared by all humans. Varying degrees of skepticism most likely come from your developmental interactions, IE; If, as a young child, you find that you have been lied to, you are more likely to question things that have little to no proof. This would be a learned behavior that you would carry on into your adult life.
I guess the question becomes a bit of a "nature vs nurture" argument but based on what social and psychological scientists have been saying; Proof of nature/genetics playing a strong roll in our social development is very minimal.
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I kid. Obviously. This child is stunning. And to be totally frank here, I kind of want that blazer. But just like people freaked out about J.Crew exec Jenna Lyons painting her son's toenails pink, they're freaking out about this. Because it's not conventional, and not what we're used to. But newsflash: A little boy wearing heels or pink nail polish will not "turn him gay". You don't "turn someone gay". And if Nelson does wind up being gay, who cares?!
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Yitzhak Klodovsky
Translated by Leead Livneh
I still remember the German entry on September 5th, 1939. Our Jewish townsmen, remembering the 1920 war with the Bolsheviks, thought the enemy would once again come to a halt at the Visla river (as was the case with the Miracle upon Visla), and embarked on a massive march elderly and young, men, women and children in the direction of Wlocelwak. This war, however, was different. The Germans were not the Bolsheviks, and in any case, it seems Heavens have decided there will be no miracles this time.
The Germans, immediately upon entry, wasted no time and commenced the mission of exterminating the Jewish community. First, they took on the temple, which they demolished only after using large quantities of dynamite. Elka Di Kashe Makhrin, who lived right next to the temple, had seen the flames and ran out crying The temple is burning!. She was shot on the spot by German guards, and died a few days later, suffering terrible pains.
Then came times of musters and tallies. The Germans had a special taste for these charades: At 3:00 o'clock at the afternoon they would call out all the men in town, age 15 to 70, to the Pigs Market, where they would make a public address, in which we were told we were the sons of a cursed nation. Then they announced the town's councils void, and appointed Yitzhak Dubjinsky as Jews' Elder and Moshe Byerdke as secretary. Then they would seal the town, place a club-armed Volksdeutsch next to every Jew, and command a running. While the Jews ran, the Volksdeutsch would violently beat them. The young, naturally, were fast to flee, but the old were beaten and ran over, many of them suffering severe wounds. The runners had nowhere to run to, since the town was sieged by blockading troops which were busy looting at the very same time. The runners, therefore, went through all that suffering, only to come back to their empty homes. This show had repeated itself three times.
Every day, the Germans would hunt Jewish men for labor, mainly cleaning works, which went along with crule abuse. The most severe beatings went to the heavier, beefy Jews: their abdomen would be kicked over and over again by the German's heavy boots. After such a labor day, Avraham Dinur and Efrayim Berger were broken down for weeks. Every such event was accompanied by heavy payments, but bribe and ransom did not help much.
The temple's demolition was managed by the Volksdeutsch Bertz, who had previously earned his living engraving Jewish tombs. The demolition and dismantling produced a lot of work, which the Jews were forced to do. We were ordered to climb to the still-blistering roof and dismantle and clean the bricks, taking care no to break them, so they could be shipped to Germany. Those were big, heavy bricks, of the kind used in building fortresses. It was told that the Germans had tried 3 times to light the temple, but to no avail. Nachum Florman came beaming to our home, to tell that to my late father. They explained that the fire was stopped because Rabbi Nachum Yisrael, a Lipno rabbi of earlier times, had blessed the temple to never be governed by fire. Apparently, the good rabbi hadn't thought of modern-day dynamite.
The decrees came harder with each day: Wearing the yellow patch with the word 'Jude', front and back; No walking on the sidewalk; Kneeling in front of every German soldier son of the Nation of Masters.
Even in these tight conditions, Jewish activity did not cease, mainly in helping other Jews. We have done whatever we could to save any and everyone, by rallying for donations and paying bribes and ransom. Of a particular interest, for that matter, is the story of the demolishing of Goldene Gus Street: Jews used to hide what little merchandise they still had, and a wealthy Jew named Piepshinsky built a large ceiling to hide his merchandise. One morning a decree was published, ordering the demolition of the Goldene Gus. It was clear that demolition would expose the hidden merchandise, and bring catastrophe to all the Jews. We had to collect a serious amount of money to bribe the guards, so they would let us dismantle the ceiling, away from the eyes of Germans.
On and on it went, until one day we were ordered to evacuate the town so it would be Judenrein, or Jews-Free. After several appeals and ransoms were made, executing the decree had been postponed by a week, so the evacuation would commence orderly. Thus our Jew townsmen had left their town, leaving behind the wealth they had accumulated in centuries' labor, only to be taken by our Pole neighbors.
The Poles' part of the Polish-Jews holocaust should never be forgotten (and frequently is). Poles excelled in hating Jews from infancy. I remember the first Yom Kippur under German occupation: Several Jews had prayed in our attic, when a young Polish Shaygets the son of Israel Klamke's janitor appeared, escorting a German soldier, and pointed at the praying Jews. The German had immediately taken my father and his cousin Yosef Jichilinsky, still wearing their Tallits, and ordered them to swipe clean the Uzond Skarbavi a good two hundred meters length from our home.
Many of the Jews, upon leaving our town, headed to Plonsk or Warschau. The first victims of Treblinka were lesser-towns' Jews, who had no home.
Thus our city, with its' rich history, with its' dear Jews and bright men
had been wiped of the face of the earth.
Tzvi Goldblum
Translated from Hebrew by Meir Livneh
1. Before the war
Our family was a Zionist family. The children were members of the Young Zionist youth movement. The education at home was a traditional and Zionist education. Most of life revolved around the movement. I remember the exciting Lag Ba'Omer celebrations. There was also a very active Maccabi club. I was one of the gymnasts and we use to travel to the competitions held by the neighboring townships, accompanied by the Maccabi orchestra.
But still, life centered around the Young Zionist movement. Every summer we used to go to summer camps. At night we slept in the barn, and in the days we practiced field training and camping.
The youth movement occupied a special place in our hearts. Every Sabbath evening, we met in the nest, sang Hebrew songs and listened to a lecture on the history of the Land Of Israel and Zionism, given by Abraham Klodovsky, the head of the chapter whom I'll never forget.
In retrospective, life around the youth movement as well as the movement itself helped shape my life and my Jewish and Zionist perspectives.
The atmosphere at home was of peaceful tranquility. My father was a watchmaker and my mother was a housekeeper. Though, generally speaking, tranquility can typify my childhood, this was not always the case.
Usually I did not experience anti-Semitism. We did not fear it, until that day when we graduated school (it was a mixed school, boys and girls, gentiles and Jews). We had a party, and as usual, danced and had fun, until the moment we heard the sounds of a quarrel. It became evident that one of the Jewish boys asked a gentile girl to dance with him, and was contemptuously rejected. The riot started immediately. Without say, all of us left the party.
Another anti-Semitic event, similar to the previous one, occurred at school, on
the day the Polish leader Philsotzki (who liberated Poland from the Russian
occupation) passed away. When I arrived to school, one of my classmates
welcomed me, trumpeting you Jews, your good time has ended! we will prove
it to you, this happened within school walls but yet, restraint and good
manner were kept on the streets.
2. The War
And then war broke out. Because of Lipno's proximity to the German border, we were the first to hear the gunfire and air raids. That day marked our decent to the abyss, the end of which I'll never know for as long as I live. The madness began rapidly. Coercion labor was swiftly organiz. One day, all Jewish men (I was 15 a that time, and considered a man) were gathered in the football arena, while the German soldiers looted our homes, and anything ethey pby. Then they started to shoot at us without any warning. We fled as fast as we could. Dozens, their strength exhausted, were killed. A few days after, a huge fire erupted from the walls of the synagogue, which was about twenty meters from my home.
One of my neighbors, the owner of a grocery store whose name I do not remember, came out screaming from her house, and was killed on the spot. The list is already long, and the true troubles did not even start yet. We decided to leave (flee would be a better word) Lipno. My two elder brothers, Bulek and Joseph, had already fled to Russia. We packed what little of our possessions remained, and took the route to Piotrkow Trybunalski, where my father's family resided.
My daughter asks me: father, why there, of all places? I know she had hoped to hear that there we will find safety, but this was not true, we already knew that the local Jews were put in the Ghetto. So what should I tell my daughter? that there is no other place to flee to? I choose to keep silent. It's more then 40 years now that I keep my silence!
Piotrkow was besieged, no way to get in or out, we all squeezed into a small chamber, and began the life of the ghetto.
We lived there, forced to work hard labor, until mid of 1942 when the ghetto was liquidated. Liquidation meant the hermetic sealing of the ghetto, and sending everybody to annihilation in the crematorium. My sister Rachel that did not want to leave our parents, refused to join the work force and so was murdered. I was swiftly sent to work.
After liquidation of the ghetto, I was sent to Auschwitz, to work in a car factory. We lived in barracks. The Germans' treatment of us was horrible: we got food only once a day (in the evening when we returned from our hard and long working day). Our food consisted of ¼ of a bread and a glass of muddy water called soup.
I remained in Auschwitz until January, 1945. The fear, the fear was stronger than us. We feared everything and everybody, the Germans as well of the Jews.
And the selection, the scene that in my mind had only one meaning, life or death! That simple. The last selection came by the end 1944. A German doctor escorted by an S.S. man walked into each of the barracks. We were standing naked. We were no longer human beings; we were reduced to numbers, the same numbers that were scorched onto our hands, not human beings.
The S.S. man examines the line of naked men, and suddenly approaches me, pulling me out of the line. What am I supposed to feel now, I thought. Happy, for soon I will find rest? Sad to be severed from the life that was bestowed upon me? to fear? to lose human face? to scream? I was terrified, but all of a sudden the S.S. called somebody else, somebody that had an identical number to mine. I am saved! Why do they need a boy of 20 weighing 32 kilograms?
A long time has past and the Russians were approaching. We are transferred to Buchenwald, Germany. Transferred? It was a harsh January, and we were walking. Thousands collapsed.
In one of the breaks, after hours of walking, my blood circulation stopped, refusing to restart, it had enough, no more. What should I prefer, dieing of the cold or be shot by a German soldier? The convoy is starting to move, and I'm staying, I desperately try to convince my toes to move, praying, if only I could crawl on my hands , Hey you, I hear the shout of a German soldier, apparently he was addressing two Jews, requesting them to help me stand up and walk. I am fortunate again.
Throughout this long awful journey, and even prior to that, I realize that one man to another is a wolf. The lesson, this time, is long and tough, with many illustrations.
In Gleiwitz, on the way to Buchenwald, in a freezing January, we are loaded on roofless train wagons. The way passed though Czechoslovakia. Some people were walking on a bridge on their way to work. When they saw the skeletons in stripes, laying in the wagons, they threw their bread to us. I managed to catch a bread and hide it under my shirt (a coat was not in my possession), but the unfortunates that failed to catch anything, soon discovered the bulge under my shirt, and ripped of my skin to reach the desired bread.
Buchenwald, February 1945. We worked in the mines outside the camp, and again we are on the train. The Americans mistakenly thinking that this was a German train, started to bombard us. I was wounded in my left elbow and was rushed to a hospital together with my good friend, Michael Bar, who now lives in Canada. I spoke polish, and the Polack nurse, convinced that I am a Polack, did not bother treating me, but at least I was not beaten. My rest did not last for long, for I was soon taken to the bathroom, where the fact that I'm Jewish was quickly revealed. The beating of course was not late to come.
After about a month, the Germans decided that the useless sick could be thrown into the crematorium. Luckily, the railroad was bombarded, so the transport could not leave. I am lucky again.
April 1945 the Americans released me. The Americans, when saw how we, the starving remains of the camps, looked like, made a terrible mistake. Their first instinct was to feed us. But the people, which for years did know what food is, fell upon the food, and died after several hours. How terrible it is to arrive at the moment of liberation and die.
My parents, my sisters and younger brother have all perished in the liquidation of the ghetto. My brother Bulek was killed in an attempt to help a friend climb the train in Russia. My brother Josef, who was driven mad by longings for our parents, returned to Poland and was immediately murdered.
I, for one, thank god, am alive and breathing. For me the word alive has a very personal interpretation, which I can describe in a separate book. I am married; I have two daughters and six grandchildren.
Throughout the years, and until putting these words into writing, I repressed
my memories and allowed them to haunt me. This is the first time I have put it
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Lootifer wrote:thegreekdog wrote:The 20th and 21st century view is that the government can take care of those people, which is also an easy get-out for people who don't want to think too hard or actually solve the inherent problems.
Does your public school suck? Let's just throw another $2 million at it like we did every year for the past 30 years.
Out of work? Let's just keep you on unemployment for a year or more.
Underemployed? Let's just make sure you get enough food stamps and welfare checks to keep you there.
We can land on the moon, we can pull a device from our pocket and communicate with anyone else in the world through any medium we like, we can buy a car that can accelerate faster than gravity, we can rent an apartment that is over half a kilometre off the ground.
Yet we cant set up a simple and efficient public framework in which to fund improvements to our schooling?
Oh thats right we can, in fact theres lots of them all accross the political spectrum, we are just, collectively, too belligerant as a species to ever possibly agree on one.
I'm not really talking about funding public schooling. I'm suggesting that there are reasons other than money why public schools are failing and yet the only solution we are provided and pushed towards is increasing the funding. Mostly because, in my jaded view, the people that receive that funding are the ones that are pushing for it.


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