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U. S. Indecision and the World - The New York Times
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U. S. Indecision and the World
By C. L. SULZBERGER FEB. 21, 1976
LONDON—The degree of decline in United States prestige abroad exceeds by far what most Americans imagine to be the case. The uncertainty of U. S. leadership, the insistence on exposing vital secrets, and an exaggerated case of normal election year paralysis have inspired grave doubts about Washington's capacity to act.
In discussing the recent example of Angola where President Ford was unable to shore up two movements opposing the Popular Movement (M.P.L.A.), former British Prime Minister Edward Heath told me: “The Russians made a very accurate assessment of the limitations now curbing Ford and Kissinger.
“But is this only a temporary condition? Or is it likely to last quite a while? I think it is. Congress will not easily be persuaded to yield the powers over foreign policy and other matters it has gained.”
When French President Giscard d'Estaing and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt met in Nice this month they spent much time. discussing American flabbiness, although this was subsequently not mentioned in briefings. Like other U. S. allies, the two European leaders are worried about the future.
Denis Healey, Chancellor of the Exchequer and a, likely future Prime Minister, believes U.S. paralysis is not now limited only to the normal preelection months that tend to restrain Washington initiatives. It has already been noticeable for some time. He also makes the point that disproportionately high unemployment among America's young blacks could produce an explosion if not corrected within a fairly short period.
Large areas of the world which had become accustomed to American vision and American leadership are now foundering without it. Secretary of State Kissinger has discovered it is hard to put back the pieces of a Latin American Humpty Dumpty that fell off the Punta del Este wall. SEATO, of course, crumbled—as it was always doomed to do—and U.S. policy in the Middle East seems stranded.
But it is the NATO area and the European Community that are in the end most vital to the United States and the cause of free society. Nothing extra‐dramatic has recently occurred there but the decline is steady. Washington managed wholly to mess up the Greek‐Turkish argument. Its fruitless fiddling in Italian politics has provided little more positive than embarrassment. And today, no one can figure out just what U.S. policy toward the Common Market really is— if such a policy exists.
The ultimate implications for the power balance of Moscow's gain in Angola are being carefully and gloomily studied. If the drive for black freedom, spearheaded by Cuban troops, presses on into Rhodesia and South Africa, a serious crisis is inevitable. There would be much pressure in Britain from relatives of beleaguered white families to aid Rhodesia, despite its myopic and bigoted behavior.
And what would America do? Mr. Heath cautions: “One mustn't forget that this is an election year in the States and the attitude of black voters is a particularly important factor. What would their view be? Would they permit a President to intervene in what, could be made to appear a war of blacks against whites? I think not.”
There is lack of confidence in the collective willingness or efficiency of the U.S. Government. This is reflected in different areas, far apart:
Black African states like Zaire and Zambia, which expected their stance on Angola to be bolstered by Washington; South Africa, which bet we were tougher than proved to be the case; Latin America, which finds no inspiring reason for optimism in United States actions; and disheartened, worried Europe.
Some statesmen conjecture that the next major test may not come in Africa at all. Marshal Tito is ailing and, despite persistent crackdowns against pro‐Moscow agents, there is growing reason to suspect a Soviet effort to infiltrate. Moscow would like to control Yugoslavia, the argumentative Balkan nation where Titoism was invented with unending consequences in the spread of Communist movements independent of the Kremlin.
Finally there is the greatest riddle of all. What will China do after Mao Tse‐tung dies? Already there is a succession struggle whose implications to foreign and strategic policy cannot yet be judged.
There are observers who view Mao's invitation to Richard Nixon as an intended warning that Washington had better firm up its Chinese attitudes or risk a drastic shift. We have already seen how Moscow acts on the basis of its assessments of probable weak U.S. reaction. Is Peking now making similar assessments? And will it prepare major policy changes in accordance with negative judgments?
A version of this archives appears in print on February 21, 1976, on Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: U. S. Indecision and the World. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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UPDATE: Eaton Not a 'Good Fit' for Tax Credits - Government - Wauwatosa, WI Patch
UPDATE: Eaton Not a 'Good Fit' for Tax Credits
'It's not a compelling project' to help low-income areas, according to WHEDA official.
, April 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM
Eaton Corp.'s grant request for $20 million in federal tax credits to help finance its proposed move to Wauwatosa met low-income census tract requirements but failed to meet "high distress" standards to qualify for the grant, according to the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority's director of economic development.
Although the Eaton project proposed for the Milwaukee County Research Park falls within a low-income census tract, it did not meet the Wisconsin fund's more stringent standards to more directly benefit the low-income community, said Farshad Maltes, WHEDA's economic development director.
The Eaton project would be problematic for any CDE that allocates the federal tax credits, including for-profit banks that may impose only the minimum standards to qualify, according to Maltes. The problem, he said, is that the project "does not seem to have a high impact on low-income areas."
That impact could be realized in a variety of ways, Maltes said. An example, he said, would be that the project includes a promise to provide new jobs for low-income residents.
"The Eaton project in Wauwatosa is just not a very good fit” for a New Market Tax Credit grant, Maltes said. "It's not a compelling project" that serves or benefits a low-income a community.
Maltes said he worked with Eaton representatives for nearly two months on the tax credit request, but it was "like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole."
Maltes said he did offer Eaton an alternative to an NMTC grant: Eaton could buy the tax credits. That offer, he said, was rejected March 28.
Maltes said he offered to sell Eaton $50 million in NMTCs, which could generate a net subsidy of up to $6 million. The catch, however, was that Eaton would have to come to the table with $13.5 million to purchase the credits. Maltes said his offer did not stop at $50 million in tax credits, but was for “as many as they wanted.”
In purchasing $50 million in tax credits, a business could realize $19.5 million in write-offs of federal tax obligations for seven years or could resell the credits to other organizations, Maltes said. Eaton, he said, declined the offer.
"They didn't want to come up with the cash up front," Maltes said. "They turned down the offer with their eyes wide open."
Eaton representatives have not returned calls for comment.
Eaton has said it hoped to begin construction of a 90,000-square-foot facility this summer in the research park that would allow the firm to move its north side Milwaukee division to Wauwatosa. The Milwaukee division is no longer involved in manufacturing and employs about 145 people in research and development roles.
Eaton’s pursuit of New Market Tax Credits was controversial because the credits are intended to attract businesses to locate in low- to moderate-income census tracts. The research park location technically qualifies because the only residents in the tract are zero-income invalids living in care facilities.
The relocation project was announced as a $15 million initiative, with about $4 million to have been financed by the low-interest loan using the federal tax credits to draw investors. , Eaton also had pursued similar funding through Johnson Bank, but that bank had withdrawn from funding the project.
April 28, 2011 at 05:04 PM
Why is Wauwatosa offering any tax credits to a highly successful corporation while telling its own residents--who pay massive property taxes--that "we can't afford to keep all the street lights lit at the same time."
What is that nasty smell coming from the southwest corner of 76th and North Avenue?
April 28, 2011 at 05:18 PM
Pupdog1, to clarify, the tax credits in question would not come from Wauwatosa. New Market Tax Credits come through a federal loan program. Wauwatosa did offer to pay for extending utilities and access roads to the development, which would then produce property tax revenues – a fairly standard procedure.

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Beliggenhet Når du bor på Sandman Hotel Red Deer i Red Deer, befinner du deg i nærheten av Red Deer College og Westerner Park. Dette hotellet med miljøvennlig profil ligger rett i nærheten av Red Deer rådhus og Heritage Ranch.
Beliggenhet Når du bor på Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Red Deer South i Red Deer, befinner du deg kun få minutter fra Westerner Park, og i nærheten av Red Deer College. Dette hotellet ligger rett i nærheten av Collicutt-senteret og Heritage...
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Motel style room so we could park right outside, lucky to get a ground floor unit. Location is excellent for where we needed to be. Paid under 80 bucks for a king bed and a hot shower on a weekend. After Mud Hero this is exactly what we needed! The staff were all exceptional though, very friendly and happy to offer suggestions on local eateries and the like. This is the hotel room that you see on TV where the drug dealers live and the hookers are found dead on CSI. The room was filthy with age - it was obvious that it had been 'cleaned' but 40 years of travellers had left their stains and scunge. We were certainly not expecting much, and we were actually disappointed. Oh and the bed is a rock. If the carpet would have been cleaner I may have just slept on the floor. Veldig bra 6.2 28. mar 2015
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Beliggenhet Når du bor på Sheraton Red Deer Hotel i Red Deer, befinner du deg med forbindelse til konferansesenteret, og i nærheten av Red Deer College og Red Deer rådhus. Dette hotellet med familievennlig profil ligger rett i nærheten av...
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Beliggenhet Quality Inn North Hill i Red Deer er et overnattingssted med forbindelse til konferansesenteret, og i nærheten finner du Kerry Wood Nature Centre og Red Deer rådhus. Dette hotellet ligger i nærheten av Heritage Ranch og Albert...
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The rate was good for my wallet, the check in was good. Beds were comfortable and clean (at least they seemed clean). Rooms were fairly sound proof and we didn't hear neighbours at all. Good location and near shopping and Gasoline Alley. The fridge and microwave was very handy. If you had a family and needed to watch your budget, this hotel is sufficient.... not the RITZ but will do. Toilet leaked and housekeeping did not notify head desk. Room was not vacuumed when we first came into room. The 2 queen bed room was crowded and there is no real room for suitcases. Towels could be a lot larger. Hand towels are not great for bath use. Ferdig
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Beliggenhet På Econo Lodge Inn & Suites City Centre bor du i hjertet av Red Deer, i nærheten av Red Deer rådhus og Red Deer College. Dette motellet ligger rett i nærheten av Heritage Ranch og Alberta Sports Hall of Fame og museum.
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Cleaners were constantly in and out the side door to go have smoke breaks syarting at 8 or 8:30 am. Which was unfortunate as this was really the only noise that woke us both mornings. The place was standard basic hotel room. Ferdig
Beliggenhet Når du bor på Holiday Inn Express Red Deer i Red Deer, befinner du deg i nærheten av Red Deer College og Westerner Park. Dette hotellet ligger rett i nærheten av Red Deer rådhus og Heritage Ranch.
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I come to Red Deer 3 times a year for business meetings. We usually stay elsewhere because this hotel is usually booked. However, at this trip there was a room available and I booked it. This hotel has a breakfast area that is very welcoming after a long drive and some of us can gather and have a short relaxing visit before we need to meet for our business meeting. The rooms were large and very well set up for me to sit and read or just relax and watch television. Beds were very comfortable and the staff were helpful. Only one thing marred my visit.I love to swim. One of the reasons I booked this hotel was that I was looking forward to swimming a few laps in the morning. Whenever I stay anywhere with a pool I swim for an hour every morning. Unfortunately, this pool does not open till 9. Travelling for business, this does not give me any time since my meetings start at 8:30. At night the pool is usually full of children.....which is the way it should be. (; Could the management see fit to allow swimming from 6 am to 9 am as adult swim only? Thank you. Ferdig
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Nuclear Reactor Engineering by Glasstone, Samual; Sesonske, Alexander: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. - AbeBooks.com
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I Will Lay Down My Idols: How do you celebrate?
Been busy here so this post will be my last until the New Year .... just a lot that I need to get done and time is flying by! How have you been doing? I hope to take some time to blog-hop -- and do some reading -- I don't want to lose touch.
My journey is going well - not as I'd like - I'd like to be getting my walks in more but my eating has gone well. Avoiding sugar seems to affect my kidneys - when I avoid it I don't get any pain. Interesting. SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE HOLIDAYS? We are looking forward to our own family get-together a few days before Christmas - a dinner and gift-giving. This year we have a little one to wrap gifts for! Our grandson is 6 months old now! So exciting! Then we have a few get-togethers with friends and a big family get-together with my husband's family on Christmas afternoon. Mom's nursing home has been closed with an illness outbreak so I haven't been able to see her in a few weeks now. I'm hoping it will be open again very soon! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! ✿ To Health, Fitness and Faith! ~ Dawn
Hi Dawn, Sounds like you will have a lot of fun! We have several parties to attend and I have some baking I need to do. I know...what am I thinking? Fortunately I don't eat the stuff I make :-)Remember to take care of yourself in all of the celebrating!! Eat healthy food, drink your water, exercise and get plenty of rest!! Go into 2014 with a bang!Have a fit day!
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Healthy Strides: Threesomes are fun
Guess who signed up for a sprint triathlon? A) Mark; B) Kim; or C) Miles If you guessed D) Denali, you’d be sort of right – he does train with us after all. But if you guessed B or C, you’d be wrong. I mean, come on, I’m 3 weeks post-partum and while Miles has the strongest lil man legs, he can’t even walk. So the answer is A) Mark. And I’m insanely jealous. Well, except for that whole swim part. Swimming is dumb. Anyway, his registration made me antsy to get back out there so I did what any good-natured (read: bored of walks) mom would do. I signed up for a race of my own. I’ve been planning all along to do the 4-mile walk/run event at Fort-4-Fitness this year and I finally made it official. And since I’m doing the shorter distance, someone will get to do his first race. Fist pump! What races are on your horizon? Posted by
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Marijuana Musings and Drug Law Diversions: October 2013
The Drug War Racket
The Range of Legalization
The history of Prohibition clearly follows the arc of Hoffer's aphorism. Prohibition started as a religious and moral movement early in the nineteenth century, it developed into a business in the mid-twentieth century with laws prohibiting drugs other than alcohol. Finally, the failed War on Drugs has degenerated into a racket.
Prohibition started as a religious movement early in the nineteenth century when the secular republic of the Revolution turned to religion in the Second Great Awakening. As it developed, it merged three different religious traditions. The older Puritans, who had faded a century earlier, bequeathed the idea that society had a moral obligation to closely constrain public conformity. The Evangelists who arose after about 1810 focused on sanctification, or that each person must lead a godly life to achieve salvation. By the end of that century they were joined by the practitioners of the social gospel who believed in a mission to better social conditions and society itself. The common thread holding all three together was an insistence on absolute sobriety. They were able to impose their religious vision (whichever form it took) on the nation as a whole with the ratification of the Prohibition in 1919. When Prohibition was repealed, the Dry true believers simply switched their allegiance to the new drug prohibition that developed in the 1920s. Some even continued giving the same speeches, merely substituting the word “drugs” for “alcohol”. Even today this absolute moralistic core resonates with many Drug Warriors who still see all drugs (or at least selected “bad” drugs) as evil and who insist on total, nationwide sobriety.
When Prohibition – of both alcohol and other drugs – came into effect in the 1920s, the moral crusade for total sobriety morphed into a business of enforcement. The commercialization actually started in the late nineteenth century with the opening of inebriation asylums and sobriety clinics. In the twentieth, they were joined by healers working against drug addiction – in fact the term ”addict” itself grew from those efforts. They grew from city clinics to institutes trying to break the grip of drugs on their users. In the mid-30s even the prison system joined in this professional effort with the opening of the federal “narcotic farms” in Lexington and Fort Worth. These, in turn, became the foundation of the medical profession’s work in the field of drug abuse. The professionalization of rehabilitation and drug medicine was joined by that of drug policing. By 1930 both the Prohibition Bureau (later merged into the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency) and the Bureau of Narcotics (forerunner of the current Drug Enforcement Agency) had become regular civil service bureaus.
The new business of Prohibition slogged along unsuccessfully for a half a century (that’s right: more than fifty years elapsed between the Harrison Narcotic Act and the Controlled Substances Act) before it was supercharged by the War on Drugs and greedily expanded into a racket. Over a trillion dollars has been thrown to greedy sharks, and drug use is more wide-spread than ever.
From 1970 to 2010 prison population expanded from under 500,000 to over 2,000,000 – most of it from drug arrests. Private for-profit corporations rushed in to build prisons and operate them under state contracts – and they insured those profits gained with massive campaign contributions and lobbying. The California Corrections Officers association quickly became one of the richest and most powerful political associations in the state. Dependence therapy and rehabilitation, a small medical specialty since the 1920s, blossomed into a nationwide industry with major chains of treatment organizations, often run by hucksters and quacks.
The federal government also poured two massive torrents of money into Prohibition that turned policing into a for-profit racket. The first was a series of grants, both money and military surplus equipment (which is why even small town police have tanks). These were primarily based on numbers of arrests, and marijuana arrests are easy to make[1]. The second War on Drugs innovation was civil forfeiture of any assets used in the commission of a crime or acquired through criminal proceeds[2]. Those funds go directly to the police agencies (federal and local) outside of their normal budgetary procedures and constraints. One Texas sheriff uses part of his forfeited assets to throw regular beer and barbeque gatherings for his deputies. This process has also allowed major drug kingpins to bribe their way into much shorter prison sentences.
Hoffer’s map traces the trajectory of Prohibition from crusade to business to racket, but it is incomplete. Every arc comes to an end, but Hoffer gives no clue to what that end may be. Like a fly ball, it could fall outside the fence for a score or into a fielder’s glove for an out. Like a cannonball, it could bury itself in the dirt or blow up a fort. Like a meteor, it could burn out as a fiery streak across the sky or crash into the Gulf of Mexico destroying the dinosaurs and most other life. The arc of Prohibition must end. It is up to us to make sure its end comes quickly and does as little harm as possible.
[1] See my earlier “Policing for Profit”.
[2] Soon to come on this blog: “Robbery in Blue”.
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Has the Obama administration declared a cease fire in the War on Drugs? The evidence surely points in that direction.
In 2008, Candidate Obama made several remarks suggesting that he intended to liberalize marijuana laws. Many of his supporters became critical when most of his first administration passed without action on these statements. But toward the end of that term the Justice Department issued the Ogden memorandum, stating that it would not prosecute medical marijuana users or their caregivers complying with state medical marijuana laws.
After the 2012 elections, Obama was faced with additional challenges in drug law enforcement. Washington and Colorado both passed initiatives legalizing marijuana sales and possession, new states recognized medical use of marijuana (raising the total to twenty-one jurisdictions doing so), and congressional sequestration dramatically reduced the funds available for law enforcement. Eight months passed before the administration responded to those events, but when they came, they were sweeping[1].
The first break was an announcement by Attorney General Holder that he was instructing federal prosecutors to draft charging instruments (complaints and indictments) to avoid imposing mandatory minimum sentences in non-violent drug cases. He supported this instruction by showing the immense burden these lengthy sentences placed on the prison system.
Toward the end of August, a memorandum from Asst. A-G Cole announced that the federal government would abstain from proceeding against state marijuana laws and their implementation if those laws complied with eight standards articulated in that memorandum. To a large extent, those standards provide guidelines for other states wanting to enact similar laws. Senator Patrick Leahy convened a hearing by the Judiciary Committee to inquire about this memo. The hearing lasted one day, Cole was the only federal spokesman to appear, and only one witness – a professional anti-drug advocate with financial interests in the rehabilitation industry – was opposed to the action taken by the government.
On the same day the Cole memo was released, A-G Holder announced he would be conferring with federal bank regulators to find some way for businesses in compliance with these new state laws to use normal commercial banking services. Up until now the government has used the threats against banks under the Money Laundering and RICO/CCE laws to prevent them from doing business with marijuana enterprises legal under state laws. Forcing these enterprises to operate on a cash basis not only made them hard to manage, it also made them into targets for robbery. About six weeks after Holder’s announcement, Bank of America has agreed to be a depository for all marijuana taxes and license fees collected by Washington State. Since large banks operate very cautiously, this action by BoA suggests some accommodation by the federal bank regulators in line with the Holder announcement.
The other collateral attack used by aggressive federal prosecutors against state-legal marijuana has been to use asset forfeiture laws (CCE) against landlords leasing property to marijuana businesses. If an asset – including real property – is used in the commission of a federal crime, that asset may be seized and forfeited to the government. In a sense asset forfeiture is the government’s biggest stick against marijuana businesses: if landlords are scared away from leasing to them, legitimate businesses are reduced to being street dealers. From this viewpoint, the announcement a few days ago by one of the most aggressive U. S. Attorneys in California dismissing four large asset forfeiture cases was a bombshell. It took a major weapon out of play and put it back on the shelf.
One executive voice has been strangely missing from this flurry of federal actions. The Office of National Drug Control Policy, the agency designated by Congress to set and articulate the government’s drug strategy has said almost nothing about these developments. In fact, except for its required annual report, it has said nothing of substance.
In summary, over the last two months, the administration has:
· Decided not to use mandatory minimum sentences,
· Acquiesced in state marijuana legalization laws,
· Announced a review of banking regulations to allow state-legal businesses to have access to banking services (and Bank of America has entered the business),
· Dismissed a series of large, high-profile asset forfeiture cases.
Combining these four major reductions in drug law enforcement with the eight month delay between the 2012 election results and their announcements leads to the conclusion that the administration has declared a cease fire in the War on Drugs – at least in the War on marijuana. If this cease fire continues for another thirteen months, the next round of elections should usher in a new group of legalizing states, possibly four or five more. If this does result, the cease fire will become a fait accompli: an irrevocable accession to state-by-state legalization.
Why do I characterize this as a cease fire instead of a truce or even a surrender? The problem is that the administration can only decide how to pursue the War on Drugs; it cannot decide on its own to end the war. Only congress can end the war, and it has shown no inclination to do so. When will congress admit that they have lost the war and repeal Drug Prohibition?
One hopeful sign has been the silence from Capitol Hill. No elected Drug Warriors have been screaming for punishing the legalizing states; no committee hearings have pushed stricter enforcement. The silence is deafening. One more election may shift the congressional balance of power and change this cease fire into a peace treaty.
[1] For a running account of these developments, see my earlier “Whatcha Goona Do?”, “Six Months”, “They Blinked”, “Ogden and Cole”, and “Parsing the Cole Memo”.
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I originally wrote this for a group working to modernize the marijuana laws in Texas. But as I was writing it, I realized that most of it is general enough to apply anywhere. The main thrust is that a reformed law will have a broad and beneficial effect on many aspects of society. So, ignore the Texas-specific parts and use those parts that apply to your state.
Selling Marijuana to Texas
After reading Grieder’s “Hot, Wide, Cheap, and Right” that I recommended last week, I started thinking about how we try to sell marijuana reform to both the Lege and fellow Texans. And I have concluded that we need to change the main thrust of our argument.
Most of the time, we have stressed the negative: “Quit putting people in jail for marijuana”; “don’t come between a patient and a doctor.” We can’t E-lim-i-nate the negative altogether, but we can soft=tone it while we AC-cent-u-ate the Positive: We can talk about the good marijuana can do for Texas. We can switch to the positive by talking about six things: commerce, agriculture, energy, medicine, technology, and higher education.
COMMERCE: The growth in commerce will be astonishing. Even the smallest town will have at least one retailer, who rents or owns a store and may have employees. Packagers and distributors will supply them; and they in turn will need truckers, label printers, and container makers. Those providing marijuana edibles need commercial kitchens, cooks, and display areas. Hemp clothing, food and cosmetics will continue to be sold, but they will probably be made from locally grown hemp. A glance at the display next to the cash register in any convenience store will show how the market for accessories will thrive
AGRICULTURE: Texas has always been known for its vigorous agricultural sector. Marijuana can expand agriculture in three ways. Marijuana can be a field crop, much like the vegetables grown in many parts of the state, or it can be a specialty product grown in greenhouses. Hemp, with its stalks, is a fiber crop to challenge cotton or wool, or it can be grown for its seeds and oil. For many hemp products, the change will be that they are made from locally grown hemp instead of imported. Most of these farmers will hire laborers. The farm supply industry will sell them seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides; greenhouse growers will also need high-end environmental control and hydroponic systems. Farm machinery manufacturers will quickly provide equipment for hemp cultivation and harvest, and marijuana harvesting gear will soon follow.
ENERGY: The energy business has been the keystone of Texas industry for a century. Recently it has moved past sole reliance on oil to add natural gas and, more recently, renewables like ethanol and wind power. Hemp can provide renewable fuel. Prototypes have been demonstrated both for biodiesel from hempseed oil and for cellulosic ethanol from hemp stems and leads. Both of these need significant development before emerging as competitors for petroleum fuels, but the established energy companies have the knowledge, technology, and resources to do that development and have the marketing outlets and incentives to do so. The close geographical and transportation ties between these industries and the envisioned Texas hemp cultivation should prove synergistic.
MEDICINE: Although therapeutic use of marijuana has become well established over the last forty years, federal prohibition has virtually squelched basic research. Many fundamental questions of both physiology and pharmacology remain unanswered. Texas contains some of the world’s leading medical research institutions. The Houston Medical Center, including M. D. Anderson, is a good example of the resources available to pursue this research and to advance treatment if Prohibition is ended.
TECHNOLOGY: Most of the developments discussed above call for technological improvements on the way to market. Agriculture needs tools for tillage, harvest, and product processing. Energy needs process and chemical engineering to move from prototype to commercial production and distribution. Medical research has barely begun. These technologies – agriculture, fuel and chemical processing, medical technology, and transportation – are those in which Texas already excels. Legalizing marijuana would play into Texas strengths and allow it to build a dominant position in a new industry.
HIGHER EDUCATION: In the same way, Texas higher education is well placed to advance this new industry. Texas A&M and Texas Tech are at the fore in agricultural science and technology. Many Texas universities have outstanding programs in energy and process engineering and in medical science and engineering. They, too, could build on their already proven abilities.
This brief outline shows ways in which legalizing marijuana could broadly benefit all Texans: that it is not just coddling stoners or excusing junk medicine. However, my perspective, while broad, lacks depth. I invite those with more knowledge than me (not a very high standard) in agriculture, economics, engineering, and business to expand these sketchy overviews and provide some substance.
If each of my little paragraphs could be expanded to a few pages of solid detail, he result would be a pamphlet capable of convincing large numbers of people. A press run of a thousand would supply every elected official, state and federal, every university president, and the major state news outlets. Placement on the Web would make it available to millions.
Is this a project we can do? Who will join me on this?
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A Small Gang of Authors: 04/04/18
Inspired by comic books, part 3 by Toi Thomas
I’m so excited to dive right into this third installment of my “Inspired by comic books” series. Today, I’ll be talking a bit about Marvel Comics. (If you missed part one and part two, please check them out).
In the first two installments of this series, I included images from the My Geekdom board I created on Pinterest, so I think I’ll just continue with that. I’ll also continue to include posts from My Geekdom, a blog series I wrote, over at The ToiBox of Words. For your convenience, you can check out the post, My Geekdom 04: Marvel Comic Books right here. For this installment of the series I’ll, obviously be focusing on how Marvel Comics have influenced me and my writing in general terms.
But first, here's a very brief history of Marvel Comics.
Marvel is just as old as D.C comics starting near the same time, but it didn’t hit its high point until the 1960s, which is often referred to as the Silver Age of Comics in the US. I can’t remember the original name of the company, but I know it was once called Atlas Comics. It didn’t become Marvel Comics until the Fantastic Four series took off. At the beginning of Marvel’s heyday, many criticized the company for creating knock-offs of D.C. characters (which they did do back then). The company eventually made a name for itself with the talent of Stan Lee and the perfection of the “flawed hero”.
For me, Marvel Comics represents the scariest part of possibility- “fear of the unknown or possible.” Aside from the fact that many Marvel Comic stories take place in the real world, the overall theme of the flawed hero adds a sense of realism or humanity to this comic book universe. There was once a time when all super heroes were near perfect. They were boy scouts and girl scouts, who were perfectly well-adjusted, with little to no vices; and most of all, they were all happy and willing to be heroes. Marvel put an end to all that, and in time, other comic book companies followed suit.
It used to be that freak accidents only created super villains, but in the Marvel Universe, there’s a thin line between what makes a hero or a villain, and freak accidents can and will happen to anyone. This is an idea I like to explore in my own writing. Not all my villains are evil for no reason, though some are; and not all my heroes are perfect angels, even when they happen to be part-angel. While the comic book industry has always been ahead in the game of diversity, it was the Marvel Comics that really stood out to me as embracing the differences in character’s culture, skin color, social economic status, and more.
Marvel Comics gave us the X-Men (mutated humans often hated by other humans even when you can’t look at them to tell they are different). One of my favorite superheroes, and one of the most powerful created, is Storm (from the X-Men), an African woman with the ability to control all weather. Marvel also gave us Peter Parker aka Spiderman (a nerd by social standards who fights crime under a secret identity). One of these heroes was born this way and the other had a freak accident. They both have personal issues, yet they are both heroes, often times fighting to save people who hate them. I hope to someday write something as powerful and impactful as that.
Toi shares part three of her series on inspiration and comic books. Marvel, Spiderman, X-Men, Storm, how can you go wrong???
I haven't really followed comics since the tragic demise of two thirds of my collection, but this is fascinating. And I do enjoy X-Men, in part because of Storm! Thank you, comics are a source of inspiration for many artists and writers I know.
So sorry you lost so much of your collection. I can't even imagine that.
Toi Thomas shares how Marvel comic books inspires her writing on Our Author Gang.
Today on A Small Gang of Authors, Toinette Thomas continues her discussion on how comic books, and especially Marvel Comics, inspire her writing.
This is great, Toi! I'm of the age where I was already comic books when the first Marvel comics hit the stands. Marvel stole me away from DC Comics, lol! I've gotten a little inspiration from comic books, too. Looking forward to your next installment.
+Toi Thomas -- I don't remember Prince Targo, mentioned in this article, but it might have been before my time. Dax appeared occasionally in Eerie -- not in every issue. I found the issue picture in this article several years ago on eBay.
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/warrenverse/dax.html
Today, I focus on the influences Marvel Comics has made to my writing. Check it out.
As a kid growing up in Hungary I didn't read comic books because the US comic books were not available and the Hungarian ones were loaded with Russian communist propaganda which my dad forbade me to read. I read humorous children's books with good moral values instead. As a young adult when I had a chance to read them, by that time, I was more interested in other things
I can understand that. I think comic books is one of those artforms that's hard to get into as an adult; it's not impossible but having that childhood experience really helps.
Loved learning the history behind the scenes!!!
I think people in the book industry have much to learn about the comic book industry and vice versa. They are both incredible storytelling mediums and can learn a lot from each other.
I am a little late coming into the comic book world, and I still don't read them. I have to ask my daughter to fill me in on all the history, which she will gladly do for hours on end. All that being said I do enjoy the Marvel characters a little more than the DC characters. I love how you can use the example of the comic books to inspire your work.
In recent years, writers have taken on the task of novelizing many of the more popular comic stories to give these incredible characters and worlds a whole new audience. There's a series out now that has already novelized Batman and Wonder Woman, with many more on the way. Even indie comic writers are starting to do this.
A little more about how Toi is influenced by Comic book characters
Sadly Marvel Comics are not that big in the UK. I haven't read one since I was a child, but I did enjoy them. From what you said I think I might enjoy them now.
That's interesting. I can think of a few UK characters from the Marvel Universe such as Captain Britain and his sister Psylocke, but I haven't personally read a lot of their stories. I think the main reason why Marvel sometimes has trouble in foreign markets is the fact that one of its major heros is literally called, Captain America. If there are any tensions between the US and any other country, stories involving that character are likely to suffer.
Classic Marvel comics are great, but recently they have changed so many of their characters that I don't recognize any of them. Frankly they should've found a different direction to go in, one that didn't alienate long-time readers.
I have to agree with Toi on this one. If there is anything that comics are famous for its changing their story lines. The Marvel universe is famous for this. Wolverine has so many tangents and story arcs its hard to keep them straight. Its why no one ever questioned the plausibility of the movies when they just relaunched one set while the other set was still going.
Plus, when it comes to the movie, many of the film goers are seeing these stories and characters for the first time, so they don't know what's original or not. They are just seeing what they are seeing.
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The Best Films of 2009 | Damn That Ojeda!
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Another year has come and gone and 36 films that I’ve seen this year I considered to be worth my while. In fact, the first eight months of 2009, surprisingly, gave me no bad theater experiences which must mean I’m getting pretty selective in my choice of movie viewing (a good thing, I guess).
I want to note that this and future lists of Best Films will only include movies set for release prior to Christmas of that year. I’m frankly quite tired of studios cramming movies during a time when I’m too busy, poor and reluctant to trek out in lousy weather to gamble on what they figure Oscar voters will remember. If Up in the Air and Avatar are the greatest films ever made, tough bananas. Until I’m actually paid to watch those and other award-hyped movies or they decide to spread the good stuff out during the rest of the year, those movies are out. Whew! Okay, enough of the ranting. Now for the movies that made me glad to be watching movies.
I’ve sat suffering through a number of high school themed nonsense films like Gentlemen Broncos and 17 Again, but I have to say this movie stunned me by its audaciousness and, I think, psychological honesty. Robin Williams, in one of his best performances ever, stars as a failed writer who is content to squeak by life as an uninspiring poetry teacher (certainly a parody of his character in Dead Poet’s Society). He lives alone with his only son, a jerk who constantly berates his father for being a loser and who has very strange sexual proclivities. Writer/Director Bobcat Goldthwait is probably one of the most daring independent comedy filmmakers out there, coming up with the pretty good Shakes the Clown and the not-so-good Stay (aka Sleeping Dogs Lie). However, he’s really struck gold with this one. Trying repeatedly in his films to mix the uncomfortable and tragic with the comic foibles of everyday life, Goldthwait gets the right mix and the right tone here with his take on how a community deals with tragedy that exposes hidden perversities and hypocrisies. This one film is worth 3 or 4 Apatow-produced comedies.
The most brilliant kids film I’ve seen this year was this Spike Jonze directed feature based on the Maurice Sendak classic. Max, a lonely little boy with a tendency to throw tantrums, has a crying fit playing with his older sister’s friends and goes berserk at the appearance of his mom’s new boyfriend. He runs away from home and, in so doing, Max also runs off in his imagination to a distant land inhabited by strange monsters who, instead of eating him, make him their king. The close friendship he develops with his best monster friend Carol becomes complicated as “King” Max has to try his best at dealing with them. This movie remembers how it was to be a little kid, living carefree but also having to figure out tough complicated issues almost on your own. The creature costumes are great and the music score by Carter Burwell and Karen Orzolek is one of the year’s best.
Here’s another example of the power of great indie films. Ramin Bahrani’s wonderful tale of the tenuous friendship between two men demonstrates how great tales can be told very simply. Souleymane Sy Savane plays the title role of Solo, a Sengalese immigrant driving a taxi in Winston-Salem, NC. One night, he picks up a disagreeable old man (Red West) who arranges a one-way trip on a specific date for $1000, no questions asked. From this arrangement, both men’s lives are changed forever as each meets unexpected ups and downs as the date approaches. Bahrani has a great grasp of the desire for the American dream and the realities of human limitations. There’s terrific cinematography by Michael Simmonds and Savane is fantastic, playing one of the most likable characters of the year.
The Hurt Locker is the war film getting all the attention (and perhaps many awards) this year, but this small budget film by co-writer/director Oren Moverman is much more moving. Ben Foster gives one of the year’s best performances playing a sergeant given the unenviable task of informing next of kin their child was killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Woody Harrelson plays the veteran co-hort who’s been doing this for too long. More than the bombast of mortar fire and the rattle of machine guns, the after-effects of war can be as powerful and even more devastating (as in the case of the great documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly). This film also has a great grasp of how different people react to tragic news, expressed terrifically in Samantha Morton’s Oscar-calibre performance as a war widow who responds to the news unusually. The news I’ve been getting about this movie is that it’s depressing. Duh! It’s about the effects of two ongoing wars, folks. What’s remarkable is that there is hope for some of these characters, but in complex ways. Once again, just as in a few previous films discussed here, it’s about honest approaches to crises.
Speaking of honest reactions to crises, Wendy and Lucy might the truest film about Americans living on the economic edge in years. Michelle Williams plays Wendy, a young Indiana woman promised a job in Alaska if she shows up. Packing her car and taking her companion, a dog named Lucy, she finds herself stranded in Oregon. Without money and desperate, circumstances begin unraveling for her quickly until she’s forced to make unpleasant decisions. Director Kelly Reichardt’s trademark meditative pacing is perfect for this story making the kindness of some strangers and the cruelty of others felt deeply and profoundly. Williams is remarkable in the role as is Wally Dalton, who is great as a security guard willing to help her as much as possible. Yes, technically this film was released in NY and LA in 2008, but it made Chicago in 2009 and that’s when I saw it, so there.
Okay, so The Wrestler might have reignited Mickey Rourke’s career, but let’s remember that if it weren’t for Robert D. Siegel’s great screenplay, he may not have had such a fascinating character. Siegel wrote and directed this magnificent debut film, one of the best directorial debuts in film history as far as I’m concerned. Patton Oswalt is nothing less than astonishing playing Paul, a poor schlup who spends his tedious hours as a parking-garage attendant taking copious notes for his nightly 1am sports rant. Obsessed with The New York Giants and, in particular star linebacker Quantrell Bishop, he lives only to see his Giants win and tear down any doubters when calling his favorite sports radio talk show. An incident with his favorite player, however, throws his whole life into a spin. This movie has one of the best thought-out climaxes I’ve seen in a long time. It truly clobbered me and Oswalt nails his character perfectly. If he doesn’t win the Oscar this year for Best Actor, it’s a robbery. Big Fan is also the first film I can remember that takes sports addiction seriously, and I don’t mean the type that makes guys paint their faces blue and run out into the stands half-naked. With The Wrestler and Big Fan, Siegel is doing nothing less than reimagining and reinvigorating the sports film genre.
As with the earlier mentioned film The Messenger, this film by American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung looks into the after effects of armed conflict–in this case, the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The title refers to the name of an ancient Rwandan warrior Munyurangabo and was the inspiration for the lead character, Ngabo (Jeff Rutagengwa). Ngabo is a member of the Tutsi, the tribe suffering the most deaths during the genocide. The teenage boy befriends another boy Sangwa (Eric Ndorunkundiye), descended from the opposing tribe of Hutu. Ngabo, armed with a stolen machete, informs his new friend that he’s headed off to find work, but agrees to accompany Sangwa to see the boy’s parents who he hadn’t seen in three years. Once they visit the family, circumstances emerge which test the boys’ faith in the importance of their families, friendships and integrities. I’m truly amazed at the power of this film, given that it was the first film made in the local Kinyarwanda language, shot in 11 days, and uses non-actors in the roles. This authenticity serves very well in the boys’ final conflict, one of the most heartbreaking movie scenes of the year. Munyurangabo is proof positive that some of the best tales told can be the simplest.
Another great tale told simplistically and meditatively is Carlos Reygadas’ mesmerizing Silent Light. Set in Mexico in the Mennonite Community, it tells the tale of Johan, a hard-working married man who falls in love with another woman. Much has been made of the famous 6-minute sunrise sequence at the beginning of the film, but it sets the tone for patience needed and helps the viewer enter a different world–one which may have different approaches to crises than what many of us may be accustomed. Like Munyurangabo, this movie uses non-actors and a rarely used language. Compared with the works of Tarkovsky, Olmi, Dreyer and Bergman, Silent Light puts Reygadas’ in the league of classic storytellers confident to remind us that slower paced films can be great too. It seems incredible that I have to write that last sentence, but I have had people complain about how tedious this movie is. Their loss.
You can throw a bunch of Pixar features at me and toss in 3D effects, fine. But, by far, the most enchanting, exciting and dazzling animated feature (and of virtually any feature this year) was this bravura solo computer project by writer/produer/director/editor Nina Paley. In actual life, Paley was dumped by her boyfriend and upon recovering from her broken heart, learned that her story seemed to parallel the ancient Indian raga of Ramayana. With virtually nothing for a budget, Paley (with some help from fellow animator Jake Friedman) tells both stories using several different animated graphic styles, some hilarious bickering shadow puppets and lovely (and strangely befitting) blues songs by jazz legend Annette Hanshaw. This film is the only one that I know of on my list that you can download completely on YouTube, but seriously folks, see this on the largest screen you can find. You’ll be amazed. Also, you can help Paley pay for the cost of the music copyrights by donating on her website here.
1. The Baader-Meinhof Complex
With the recent news of a terrorist attempt on Christmas Day, watching this truly terrific and terrifying film should be required. Period.
Director Uli Edel was, thankfully, not in Hollywood when he created this international political thriller. Otherwise, this incredibly daring film would have looked more like Taken or The International instead of standing along the ranks of classics like Z and The Day of the Jackal. Focusing on radical journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck in a fantastic performance), the movie shows how a terrorist movement germinated in very tense times (The Vietnam War and repression against leftists in West Germany) with justifiable grievances and understandable emotions. Edel, however, brilliantly lays out both sides of the conflict by eventually showing how the RAF (Red Army Faction), growing in popularity, gets completely out of hand. This film is able to be both an exciting action film–there are plenty of scenes showing the dozens of deaths attributed to the RAF–and a thought-provoking psychological study of a cultic political group, first using its notices to lay out its political dogma and later having to use it to justify murders. Even if you knew what eventually happened with the Baader-Meinhof Group, you can find yourself wondering in this film how the escalating conflicts are going to come to a successful end and how the emergence of new violent radical groups can be stopped.
The Beaches of Agnes; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Big Man Japan; Capitalism, A Love Story; Coraline; The Fantastic Mr. Fox; Flame and Citron; I Love You, Man; Il Divo; Julia; Katyn; The New Twenty; Pontypool; Spread; Valentino: The Last Emperor
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So glad to see “Sita” on someone’s 10 best list. It is rare for me to be utterly delighted and yet deeply moved by a single film, but Sita pulled it off dazzlingly. I hope to catch. Based on you description, I hope to be able to see Munyurangabo and Silent Light as well. Thanks for your thoughts.
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Berliner Weekend – Zoe's Study Abroad Adventure
Zoe	Germany	 October 1, 2018 October 31, 2018
Last weekend, I flew to Berlin. We got in around mid morning and just walked around the city for a bit, not looking for anything in particular. We spend some rime in Alexander Platz. There was a festival going on with food and beer stands. I packed a sandwich but my friends got potato latkes, curry wurst, and schnitzel so I just bummed food off of them. There was a beer stand selling banana hefferwisen and Ned went over to order one. The vendors were chucking as they poured the drink and laughed out loud as Ned walked away. The same thing happened when Ben. He decided to go back and ask what was so funny, and apparently he told Ben that it’s a ‘girly’ drink. I thought it tasted gross. But I think all beer is gross. It was hot and muggy and I wished I had shorts on instead of jeans. After sightseeing, we took the train to our lovely Air BnB, settled in, then walked to the Rewe for groceries. Dinner was a feast of baked chicken, rice, and vegetables with cake for dessert. (Thank you to our head chef and sous chef, Logan and Ben respectively).
The next day, we headed out after a delicious breakfast to the center of Berlin. First we stopped at the Petersburg Gate, crossing over in to western Germany.
Then we walked along an allee to a sculpture. I don’t know what it was called.
We went to a design exhibit about the future of food which had a mix of real projects and satirical future solutions that mocked the current state of the food industry. Particularly funny was a theoretical project proposing VR (virtual reality) glasses for chickens so it looks to them like they are free range when they actually packed together in a dark warehouse.
After lunch. Well, I think we had lunch. We went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Experiencing this memorial was surreal because we discussed this memorial a lot in class (the design intentions and such) so it was interesting to see how successful the memorial was. It is supposed to be an immersive, isolating, and somber experience. Unfortunately, the memorial – to those who are unaware – looks like a very fun places to play and run around.
Our plane didn’t leave until 9:25 PM on Sunday so we had plenty of time to see more things. We started with some Berlin Wall exhibits.
The East-Side Gallery
We walked down a portion of the wall that had murals done by artists after the wall had fallen.
I honestly knew relatively little about the Berlin Wall and there was a lot of interesting information about the history here. There was a portion of the wall sectioned off to show what it originally looked like with the inner and outer wall and the death strip in between.
After learning all the depressing stuff about the Berlin Wall, we went to an exhibit called “The Topography of Terror” which detailed the events of World War II and Hitler’s rise to power because we wanted to be even more depressed. But honestly, it was quite interesting, although hard to swallow.
After being sad all day, we got dinner at an Irish Pub, then headed to the airport. Check in was a breeze and we set up camp at a little table near our gate. We played the card game Saboteur for a while and waited for the information for our gate. Finally, we got our gate and had to run all the way down the terminal to get to it. But right as we arrived, they announced that our gate changed to one that all the way back where we had just been sitting. Then our plane got delayed. And delayed again. We didn’t end up boarding until 11:30 pm.
Published October 1, 2018 October 31, 2018
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