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Nanotechnology requires immediate changes in EPA

June 11, 2007

Regulatory oversight of nanotechnology is urgently needed and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should act now, reports a new study released today. In EPA and Nanotechnology: Oversight for the 21st Century, former EPA assistant administrator for policy, planning and evaluation, J. Clarence (Terry) Davies, provides a roadmap for a new EPA to better handle the challenges of nanotechnology. New nanomaterials and nanotechnology products are entering the market each week, and an adequate oversight system is necessary to identify and minimize any adverse effects of nano materials and products on health or the environment. Davies' report sets out an agenda for creating an effective oversight system as nanotechnology advances—the technology that some have hailed as "the next industrial revolution."

"This new report seeks to encourage EPA, Congress, and others to create an intelligent oversight approach that empowers EPA and promotes investment and innovation in new nanotechnology products and processes," said David Rejeski, director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Wilson Center (PEN). "As both the chair and ranking minority member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology stated last year, 'Nanotechnology is an area of research that could add billions of dollars to the U.S. economy, but that won't happen if it is shrouded in uncertainty about its [environmental, health and safety] consequences.' "

The report provides a thorough analysis of how nanotechnology can serve as a catalyst for change in EPA and existing regulatory frameworks. It identifies major areas that require transformation within the agency—including science, program integration, personnel, international activities and program evaluation. In addition, Davies' report spells out more than 25 steps that EPA, Congress, the president, the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative and the nanotechnology industry as a whole should take to improve the oversight of nanotechnology. Among the recommendations made are the following:

  • EPA should launch its proposed voluntary program to collect nanotechnology risk information and should begin immediately to revise the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to better deal with nanotechnology.

  • EPA and industry should create a joint research institute to conduct scientific research on nanotechnology effects.

  • EPA should set up and lead an interagency regulatory coordinating group for nanotechnology oversight.

  • Congress should establish a temporary committee in each house to consider options for a nanotechnology oversight mechanism.

  • Congress should provide an additional $50 million each year for research on the health and environmental effects of nanotechnology products and processes.

  • Congress should remove constraints that limit EPA's ability to require that companies collect and share necessary data and other information the agency needs to oversee nanotechnology.

    Davies discusses the importance of public participation and dialogue throughout this process. He also examines the role of state and local governments.

    According to William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1983 to1985, who read and issued a statement about Davies' report, "For over thirty years, the EPA has dealt with the impacts of the last industrial revolution—the internal combustion engine, steam-generated electricity, and basic chemical synthesis. Today, another industrial revolution is occurring. It is being driven by nanotechnology and its convergence with information technology and biotechnology. Nanotechnology holds tremendous potential—for breakthroughs in medicine, in the production of clean water and energy, and in computers and electronics. It may be the single most important advance of this new century. But with its ability to fundamentally change the properties of matter, nanotechnology also may pose both the greatest challenge and biggest opportunity for EPA in its history. EPA needs to seriously consider the constructive and thoughtful changes that Davies puts forward in his report."

    "This report should stimulate a broad dialogue about a next-generation oversight system that will work with nanotechnologies and the technologies that follow," said PEN's Rejeski. "EPA and Nanotechnology provides a clear starting point for a discussion about environmental protection in the 21st century."

    Source: Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

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ESBL killing people, swine

March 5, 2008

An antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase is killing people and swine in Denmark.

Nyhedsavisen newspaper said the bacteria, which has infected more than 350 people in Denmark since 2003, has been implicated in the deaths of several cancer and liver disease patients, the Copenhagen Post reported. Hvidovre Hospital hospital outside Copenhagen said eight patients were diagnosed as having the ESBL bacteria in 2006 and the number jumped 50 percent last year.

Denmark's health officials said the bacteria is being transmitted to humans through pigs but they're not sure how farmers and veterinarians who are not eating infected meat are becoming infected.

"There's no proof that they are being infected on the farms, but where else would they get it?" Luca Guardabassi of the University of Copenhagen said. "It's very worrying that the increased use of antibiotics in agriculture has allowed these resistant strains to spread."

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

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Microchip fingerprints used to lock out chip pirates

March 11, 2008

Pirated microchips -- chips stolen from legitimate factories or made from stolen blueprints -- account for billions of dollars in annual losses to chipmakers.

But a series of novel techniques developed at Rice University over the past year could stop pirates by allowing chip designers to lock and remotely activate chips with a unique ID tag. When a chip is locked with the new technology, only the patent-holder can decipher the key and activate the chip -- meaning knockoffs and stolen chips are worthless.

"Ours is the first remote-activation scheme that protects integrated circuits against piracy by exploiting their inherent, unclonable variability," said the technology's original inventor, Farinaz Koushanfar, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering at Rice. "We use slight variations that arise in modern manufacturing to create a unique, digital identification that acts like a fingerprint for each chip, and we integrate that into the chip's functionality."

The original work was presented last August at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston. Since the invention of the method, Koushanfar has collaborated with a number of researchers to build upon her original scheme. Last October, at the International Conference in Computer Aided Designs, Koushanfar and Rice graduate student Yousra Alkabani, in collaboration with Miodrag Potkonjak from UCLA, showed the first method that could continuously check, control, enable and disable a chip's operation online by integrating the chip's fingerprints into its functionality and actively checking them during operation.

This month, Koushanfar and colleagues at the University of Michigan, Igor Markov and Jarrod Roy, unveiled a new form of the technology called “EPIC: Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits" at the IEEE Design Automation and Test Conference in Europe. The latest method is based on public key cryptography and works for chips that already have a built-in cryptography module. In all tests and research published during the past year, the new technology has proven to be stable, unclonable and attack-resilient.

"The public tends to overlook hardware piracy and focus instead on the well-known and oft-publicized problem of software piracy," Koushanfar said. "But some intellectual-property experts who have studied both estimate that the economic losses from hardware piracy is more severe compared to software piracy."

Hardware piracy has become increasingly problematic as the skyrocketing costs of microchip production have led chip-design companies to get out of the manufacturing business. When design and manufacturing are done by different companies, the design company's sole asset is the intellectual property (IP) associated with the integrated circuit's (IP) blueprints.

Hardware makers have tried a number of approaches to safeguard designers' IP, including stamping chips with watermarks, registering legitimate chips in databases and requiring the one-time use of an ID to unlock a chip's functionality. But safeguarding individual ICs – and not IPs – is the unique aspect and contribution of Koushanfar’s work.

Koushanfar said her original technology and her subsequent collaborative work stand apart from previously tried schemes because the ID generated in her scheme is derived directly from the chip itself, and without the ID, the chip will not function.

"The chip itself provides the key," she said. "There is no way to steal it because it doesn't exist until the chip is actually made, and once made, only the designer knows how to decipher the key."

For her original invention, Koushanfar has received the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award last year. Both the National Science Foundation and DARPA presently fund Koushanfar’s research. Koushanfar is also the director of the Texas Instruments DSP Leadership University program at Rice and has close industrial-level collaborations on her hardware security projects.

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Wealth link to alcohol crime

September 29, 2009
Wealth link to alcohol crime

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rich rural towns show higher levels of alcohol-related crime than poorer communities, according to new research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Wealthier have higher rates of alcohol-related than their poorer counterparts, according to findings from the largest randomised controlled trial ever undertaken of consumption, risk factors and interventions in rural NSW.

The study also found that alcohol-related traffic accidents that result in injury are twice as common in rural areas. Alcohol-related fatalities are seven times as common - approximately one fatality every two years for every 10,000 people.

Researchers at UNSW's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), and the University of Newcastle, found that the more pubs and clubs a town has, the higher rates of alcohol-related crime.

The five-year Alcohol Action in Rural Communities (AARC) project has studied 20 communities in NSW since 2005.

Study co-leader Associate Professor Anthony Shakeshaft presented the findings this week at the NDARC Annual Symposium.

“Our study has found that one trade-off for the obvious benefits of higher socio-economic status appear to be higher rates of alcohol-related crime,” he said.

The findings indicate the need for a mix of interventions, rather than focusing on single interventions working in isolation.

“At the Commonwealth level, interventions targeting the price of alcohol to impact on disposable income - either introducing a floor price or some kind of volumetric tax - seem promising. Complementary action by local and state governments could seek to limit the per capita number of pubs and clubs.

“While the intervention options are not new, this study begins to establish an evidence-base for the relative weight of effort that may be applied to different strategies,” said Associate Professor Shakeshaft.

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Classifying molar pregnancy

October 21, 2009

Researchers from The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have used short tandem repeat (STR) genotyping and p57 immunohistochemistry to distinguish hydatidiform moles. The related report by Murphy et al "Molecular Genotyping of Hydatidiform Moles: Analytic Validation of a Multiplex Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Assay," appears in the November 2009 issue of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Molar pregnancy is an abnormal form of pregnancy in which a fertilized but non-viable egg implants in the uterus, resulting in a hydatidiform mole. Hydatidiform moles, which occur in one in every 1000 pregnancies in the United States, increase the risk of persistent gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) and choriocarcinoma, a malignant, rapidly-growing, and metastatic form of cancer. Molar pregnancies can have either partial or complete hydatidiform moles. Complete hydatidiform moles (CHMs) arise when an empty egg with no nucleus is fertilized by a normal sperm, and partial hydatidiform moles (PHMs) arise from a normal egg fertilized by two sperm.

CHMs, PHMs, and non-molar specimens (NMs) have different risks for persistent GTD, and thus differentiation is important for clinical treatment of patients. Morphological diagnosis results in high inter- and intra-observer variability; therefore, Murphy et al explore using genetic features to differentiate CHMs, PHMs, and NMs. They found that STR genotyping and p57 immunohistochemistry, by identifying the parental source of particular alleles, can distinguish CHMs, PHMs, and NMs and have developed an algorithm for the interpretation of STR data.

Dr. Murphy and her colleague Dr Brigitte Ronnett "have applied this algorithm in routine practice to ensure accurate diagnosis of hydatidiform moles. In doing so, they have determined that the genetics of molar specimens can be more complicated than traditionally thought." Drs. Murphy and Ronnett are now working to "discover additional risk factors for GTD, in order to identify women who may require chemotherapy."

More information: Murphy KM, McConnell TG, Hafez MJ, Vang R, Ronnett BM: Molecular Genotyping of Hydatidiform Moles: Analytic Validation of a Multiplex Short Tandem Repeat (STR) Assay. J Mol Diagn 2009, 598-605

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Novel technique informs drug delivery research

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University College Dublin researchers led by Conway Fellow, Professor David Brayden have shown that a candidate drug delivery polymer may have potential for oral or topical use. These findings were recently published in the Journal of Controlled Release.

The team of scientists, who are part of the Science Foundation Ireland- funded Irish Network, set out to investigate if an antibacterial synthetic polymer called pDMAEMA [poly(2-(dimethylamino ethyl)methacrylate] is as damaging to normal human cells as it is to bacteria.

This sticky polymer binds membranes and previous research by the team demonstrated that it has a novel bactericidal action against a range of bacteria. This finding has led to pDMAEMA being proposed as a surface-coating for medical devices in an effort to reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections.

This study, which formed part of the doctoral research by lead author Lee-Anne Rawlinson, used high content analysis, a non-invasive imaging technique that can monitor a number of parameters over a time period using up to eight . It has an unique advantage over other techniques in that it does not interfere with cells during the analysis.

The findings showed that pDMAEMA was cytotoxic to , but not to intestinal epithelial , and that it did not damage intestinal mucosae in the model used even in high concentrations. This would suggest that the polymer might have potential for oral or topical use, rather than by systemic injection.

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More information: High content analysis of cytotxic effects of pDMAEMA on human intestinal epithelial and monocyte cultures. Lee-Anne B Rawlinson, Peter J. O’Brien, David J. Brayden. Journal of Controlled Release. May 7. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 20457190.

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1 in 4 Palestinian children goes without breakfast

July 1, 2010

The eating habits of children and adolescents are studied in one of the Abstracts published Online by The Lancet, with the disturbing findings that one in four children miss breakfast, one in 10 is anaemic, and one in 17 is stunted. Furthermore, 2% are underweight and 15% are either overweight or obese. This abstract is from a paper by Mrs Kholoud Nasser, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ramallah, oPt, and colleagues.

The authors studies a representative sample of 2000 students (aged 9-11 years [] and 14-16 years []) from the target population living in different districts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, oPt. Weight and height were measured, and haemoglobin concentration was measured to assess the degree of iron-deficiency anaemia. Information about knowledge, attitudes, and practices was mainly gathered during verbal interviews with young children, and by use of a self-administered questionnaire (written) for adolescents.

6% of 1883 children who were assessed were stunted (8% of 930 boys vs 3% of 950 girls), less than 1% had wasting, 2% were underweight, 11% were anaemic (7% of boys vs 14% of girls), and 15% were overweight and obese (11% of boys vs 20% of girls; overall, 11% were overweight, and 4% were obese). 26% of children did not eat breakfast (the main indicator of healthy eating habits)—32% of 1082 adolescents versus 18% of 801 young children. Lack of appetite was the main reason for adolescents skipping breakfast, whereas in young children the reason was waking up late. Young children scored 47% in tests of nutrition knowledge, 86% in tests of attitudes, and 46% in tests of practices, whereas adolescents scored 50%, 70%, and 23%, respectively. Around three-quarters of young children showed a willingness to change their behaviours and accept advice about healthy eating habits, compared with around one in three adolescents.

The authors say higher anaemia in girls could be due to menstruation not compensated for with a good diet, while more boys could be stunted due to late onset of puberty or poor health since early childhood. They say: "Undernutrition, and high proportions of overweight and obesity might be attributable to children's poor eating habits and consumption of unhealthy food and snacks. Undernutrition and overweight represent the double burden of malnutrition in the oPt."

They conclude: "Young children had poor knowledge about nutrition compared with adolescents; however, adolescents were worse in terms of their practices, which could be related to a peer effect. Despite the health benefits of breakfast, it is the meal that is most often skipped, resulting in short-term hunger that affects children's concentration and performance at school. Comprehensive and effective school nutrition programmes that are targeted at all age groups, with special attention to adolescents and girls, are needed because the data for overweight and iron-deficiency anaemia are alarming."

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The Galactic Centre Region

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In an article to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, Belanger et al. present the results of a detailed analysis of approximately 1900 hours of observations of the galactic centre, obtained with Integral since the launch of the spacecraft in October 2002.

The IBIS/ISGRI imager on the Integral observatory detected for the first time a hard X-ray source, IGRJ17456–2901, located within 1 arcminute of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A* - the black hole residing at the centre of our Galaxy) over the energy range 20–100 keV.

Two years and an effective exposure of 4.7×106 s have allowed for obtaining more stringent positional constraints on this high-energy source and the construction of its spectrum in the energy range 20–400 keV.

This central source near Sgr A* appears not te be a point source as previously thought, but likely is a diffuse, but compact, source. The observations by Belanger et al. also show that the source is faint, but persistent with no detected variability.

The galactic centre as observed with IBIS/ISGRI onboard INTEGRAL. The image covers a region of about 2.5° x 1.5°. Credits: G. Belanger (CEA Saclay) et al.

By combining the ISGRI spectrum together with the total X-ray spectrum corresponding to the same physical region around Sgr A* from XMM-Newton data, and collected during part of the gamma-ray observations, Belanger et al. have also constructed the first accurate wide band high-energy spectrum for the central arcminutes of the Galaxy. These findings are also presented in the upcoming publication (see also 'Belanger et al. 2005').

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Why Picture Books Are Important by Adam Rex

by Dianne on November 21, 2012

Why Picture Books are Important by Adam Rex
I would consider the importance of picture books to be self-evident if it weren’t for the constant keening of an industry lamenting their premature death. I like to imagine picture books hiding up in the rafters at their own funeral, enjoying all the nice things folks are saying about them, before leaping down and revealing that look–picture books have been just fine all along. Then picture books would trick YA into whitewashing a fence maybe.

But, because it seems to need saying: picture books are important because people of every age deserve a medium whose primary aim is not to educate, or cajole, or sermonize; but rather to connect, to touch and effect, and even to entertain. For the youngest readers they’re windows, if you can forgive that, through which the child can explore beyond himself in a shared space with a caregiver. To older children they’re like soul food; a course of their own that’s nourishing and warm and entirely apart from the roughage of more pedantically challenging fare.

Kids deserve a medium that makes them feel seen and understood. But which might also make them feel more than they understand.

Adam Rex

About Adam Rex
Adam Rex grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, the middle of three children. He was neither the smart one (older brother) or the cute one (younger sister), but he was the one who could draw. Later he got a BFA from the University of Arizona, and met his physicist wife Marie (who is both the smart and cute one). Adam and Marie live in Tucson, where Adam draws, paints, writes, spends too much time on the Internet, and listens to public radio. His picture book Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich, a collection of stories about monsters and their problems, was a New York Times Bestseller. 2007 saw the release of his first novel, The True Meaning Of Smekday, which will become a major motion picture in 2014. His latest novel is Unlucky Charms, part two of the Cold Cereal Saga. He also has a new picture called Chu’s Day, written by Neil Gaiman. Garlic and crosses are useless against Adam. Sunlight has been shown to be at least moderately effective. A silver bullet does the trick. Pretty much any bullet, really.

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Laura Anne Miller November 21, 2012 at 11:39 am

Adam, that’s it!! Picture books so may ‘kids feel seen and understood.’ That’s the magic when we read to kids. We’re not preaching or teaching, the book does that. We just become the conduit, the connection between the book and our children–an awesome place to be. Thanks for being part of picture book month.

Chauntelle @ Storytime Books November 21, 2012 at 11:52 am

Looks like a great post and nice info about the author! I’ll have to check out this book.

Lou May 27, 2013 at 1:27 am

Great post.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Preschool At Home: Listening Center

The Frog Princess recently
mentioned that one of her favorite
centers at school is the listening center.
Mama had another brainstorm!

I set up one in our family room
for the girls and it has been a hit!

I put a boom box with a CDplayer and tape deck in the block corner.
Three years ago, my mom bought a set of read-aloud books
for the Frog Princess as a Christmas gift.
This assortment of books and tapes/CDs were
sitting un-touched on a shelf upstairs.
The Frog Princess used to listen to these at bedtime
but then moved on (as kids will do)
and lost interest in them for a while.

Now, with them in a new place and after a brief respite,
they are new and exciting again.

Both girls like to snuggle in my big chair
and "read" together. It's funny how moving things around
(or rotating them in and out of the house for a while)
can make toys and activities so much more inviting.

Do you have a listening center or reading corner in your family room?
Do you rotate toys/games throughout your house?

michelle said...

when i taught, the listening center was always the kids fave spot!

Christy said...

I love the idea of a listening center. We don't have one now but I'm adding it to my list of things to do! Thanks.

Erin said...

What a great idea...my kids are older, but still like listening to books on CD.

themagiconions said...

I read a blog just yesterday that talked about a cozy corner in the living room just for the kids to relax and read... the listening centre is a lovely name too... I think I'm going to get working on finding some space in my living room for a special spot like this.

Michie said...

My daughter has those jammies too! I like your listening center. :)

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Returning to the Abbey

Ah, alas the time has come for the return of my beloved Downton Abbey.  This evening, the characters so many of us have come to love (and a few to detest among the lot) are brought back to PBS for the U.S. premiere of Season Three.  For me, there are few programs which offer the delightful escapism of Downton Abbey.

The story---the love triangles, upstairs versus downstairs points of views, the family and the servants, the juxtaposition of World War One and financial depression---is what kept me watching through Seasons One and Two.
But, perhaps even more than the almost soap-operatic drama of the plot, what I truly adore are the visual details of Downton Abbey.  From the winding hallways of the mansion to the frocks the Crawley ladies wear, from the expansive green fields surrounding the manor to the decadent feasts the servants prepare, the show never ceases to enchant my every sense.
As that haunting instrumental music cues the opening of Season Three tonight, I'll cozy up in my not-so-grand estate and sip some tea (not poured by my butler).  Like my girlhood treks through Anne of Green Gables or Jane Austen novels, Downton Abbey whisks me away to another place and time.  The characters live in my imagination long after each episode closes.  I simply cannot wait to see where this season transports me.
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  1. Your word pictures are as lovely as the beautiful scenes in Downtown Abbey! I'll run my butler over straight away!

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SXSW: Parquet Courts

Friday, 12 a.m. @ House of Vans at Mohawk Indoor

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on March 16, 2013 at 12:08 p.m. EDT

SXSW: Parquet Courts

Photo by Erez Avissar/Weird Magic. For all of our SXSW 2013 coverage, head here.

Last weekend, watching Parquet Courts play Festival NRMAL in Monterrey, Mexico, I felt that I'd much prefer seeing the New York band play a smaller show, to compress their energy a bit and make it explode. Last night at Mohawk, the smaller space inevitably locked many fans out of the room, but succeeded in making their guitars noisier and more engrossing.

Lyric-driven with a homemade sound and bare bones instrumentation, Parquet Courts are the sort of band kids will no doubt see and think of doing something themselves. The pit of young fans going hard for "Stoned and Starving", all riled up with excitement after the set, was inspiring.

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DALLAS (KDKA) – Pitt and West Virginia will have some new competition in the Big East Conference in 2012.’s Joe Schad is reporting that the TCU Horned Frogs have accepted a bid to join the Big East Conference.

TCU’s football team is currently 12-0 and ranked No. 3 in the BCS standings. By joining the Big East Conference, they would be eligible to win the conference’s automatic bid to a BCS bowl game.

They currently play in the Mountain West Conference, which does not have an automatic bid.

Adding TCU to the Big East would give the conference a ninth team. Villanova’s football team has also been invited to join.

The conference change is not just limited to football, as TCU will be a Big East member in all sports.

The change is expected to happen on July 1, 2012.


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The Human Rights Council is a body more zealously devoted to chronic criticism of democratic Israel than condemnation of major human rights offenders — some of which hold seats on the Council (for instance, Cuba, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia). This same Human Rights Council is effectively a ward of the 193-member General Assembly, where a similar bias prevails.

Add to that the problem that the UN over the years has proven eager to get involved in quite a number of issues where it then becomes a bureaucratic toll collector — providing services as an erstwhile “neutral” monitor, or arbiter, while substantially protected from public scrutiny by its immunities, far-flung cross-border operations, and byzantine, eye-glazing procedures.

More immediately, consider that this is the same UN that despite its vast array of inspectors, peace-keepers, rapporteurs, monitors, special envoys, and so forth, has failed to stop the carnage of the Syrian regime, failed to stop the nuclear pursuits of Iran and North Korea, failed to stop the rearming of Hezbollah in Lebanon, failed to stop the rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza, and tolerated such stuff as one of its own under-secretaries, Sha Zukang, presenting an award two years ago to the Chinese general who was operational commander of the troops during the crushing of the 1989 protests centered in Tiananmen  Square.

Also, there is the huge matter that terrorist attacks in our time have largely been acts of war, not simply criminal offenses. That need not obviate the rights of victims to seek redress via the courts. But there is the danger here that a UN system of global “compensation” would become a fig leaf for trying to shovel terrorism, generally, toward the courts.

As it now stands, the UN has no definition of terrorism, but it appears ready to dabble in the flows of money that might attend upon redress for terrorist atrocities.There may be plenty that individual governments, or coalitions of the decent, can do, if they are willing, both to help victims of terrorism, and deter practitioners of terrorism from doing more of it. But to funnel such efforts through the UN is a losing game.


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April 10, 2012

BILL MCGURN: What Would Atticus Do? ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ meets the Trayvon Martin shooting.

UPDATE: “Since when can a group of people in the United States put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?”

More: “Good lord, what an ugly place we are in right now. Who would have thought that in the last year of Obama’s presidential term, the public mind would obsess over race at this level? I’m recalling the media coverage of election night, 2008, and the inauguration, when there was a rhapsody of closure and a feeling — some called it ‘hope’ — that we had entered a new era of harmony. How did we get sucked into some nightmare parody of the past? If it’s not Obama’s fault, can he at least do something to yank us up out of this awful place? In 2009 or even 2011, he would have given a speech. He would have believed he could rescue us with a speech, perhaps because we kind of thought he could. Maybe no one believes anymore. There’s a hope vacuum, and look what’s moving in.”


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The 4th Annual Silicon Valley Rubber Duck Race in Vasona Lake Park on June 12, 2011, in Los Gatos, California.

If only people had to live in the world that they dreamed of for others.

Endangered species everywhere are supposed to be at risk — except birds of prey shredded by wind turbine farms, or reptilian habitats harmed by massive solar farms. High-speed rail is great for utopian visionaries — except don’t dare start it in the Bay Area, when there are yokels aplenty down in Hanford to experiment on. Let’s raise power bills to the highest levels in the country with all sorts of green mandates — given that we live in 70-degree year-round temperatures, while “they” who are stupid enough to dwell in 105-degree Bakersfield deserve the resulting high power bills. We need cheap labor, open borders, multiculturalism, and identity politics, but not too near my kids’ Santa Monica or Atherton prep schools. I like my beamer in La Jolla and my Mercedes in Menlo Park, but not the fracking that might provide cheaper gas for Juan and Jose who drive a used 10-year-old Yukon 40 miles to work in Mendota.

Appreciate these contradictions of the liberal elite mind and the current California drought is logical rather than aberrant.

In this third year of California drought, perhaps 500,000 acres of farmland will lie idle for lack of water. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be sunk into lowering wells, as the aquifer dives, when too many straws compete for too little water at the bottom of the glass. There are reasons why a drought threatens existential ruin in the billions of dollars rather than mere hardship. Our forefathers 50 years ago knew well the ancient California equation: a) California’s population always grows; b) 80% of the state wishes to live where 20% of the rain falls; c) therefore, to ensure that the normal cycles of drought do not prove fatal to commerce and agriculture, man must transfer water from the north to the south of the state.

Unlike 1976-77, there are no longer just 23 million Californians, but 40 million. But unlike the past, Californians in the 1970s gave up on completing the state California Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project that had supplemented the earlier Colorado River, Big Creek, and Hetch Hetchy water storage and transference efforts.

At some fateful moment in the 1970s, the other California on the coast, drunk with the globalized wealth that poured into Napa Valley, the Silicon Valley, the great coastal university nexuses at Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA and Caltech, the entertainment industry, the defense industry, and the financial industry decided that they had transcended the old warnings of more Californians needing far more water to survive more droughts. When you are rich, you can afford for the first time in your life to favor a newt with spots on his toes over someone else that lacks your money, clout, and sensitivities.


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And They Want the Burger King to Abdicate in Favor of a Semi-Autonomous Collective
You simply must read Dreher’s column today on the “protestors” in New York, if only for this line: “If Genoa, Seattle, and Melbourne are any guide, urban terrorists gathering in New York this week are going to burn khakis, upend four-dollar frappucinos, and assassinate Mayor McCheese.”

Back to Monty Python for a moment, if we may. These anti-globalization barbarians remind me of John Cleese in the Argument Sketch. Remember it? No matter what Eric Idle says, Cleese just replies, “No it isn’t.” Well, except when Idle says “No it isn’t,” and Cleese says “Yes it is.”

Same with the anti-everything barbarians currently camping out in NYC. Show them anything truly progressive (as in PROGRESS) or beneficial or promoting freedom or commerce — and they automatically gainsay it without a thought.

More on this later. I feel I’m developing a new theme. So now I’m actually going to have to put on my thinking cap. Which, like the Grinch’s heart, is two sizes too small.


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Mexico's opposition party proposes sweeping energy reform

Date: 01-Aug-13
Country: MEXICO
Author: David Alire Garcia and Adriana Barrera

Mexico's opposition conservative party proposed sweeping energy reform on Wednesday to change the constitution to allow more private investment and promote competition, while the ruling party is expected to present its own plans for an overhaul next week.

Both parties favor market-friendly policies in Latin America's No. 2 economy and are expected to join forces to push through energy reform.

"Everything indicates that the (energy reform) initiative of President Pena Nieto will arrive next week," said Senator Emilio Gamboa, leader of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the upper chamber of Congress.

However, lawmakers from the center-right National Action Party, or PAN, were the first to come out with a detailed bill that aims to provide the biggest private-sector opening of the state-run oil sector in decades.

The party called for changes to the constitution to give oil companies incentives to boost the nation's sliding energy output.

The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, has made clear it will not support constitutional changes, which it argues are tantamount to privatization.

"We have set the bar in line with the size of the challenge in Mexico and we urge lawmakers from the PRI and PRD to approach what we can achieve with audacity," the PAN's national chairman Gustavo Madero told reporters as the bill was unveiled in the Senate.

The PAN's bill marks the opening bid in what is expected to be a heated debate over the future of the country's ample oil and gas reserves. Mexico is the world's 10th biggest producer of crude oil, according to data from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

The conservative party's proposed legislation is broadly in line with the thinking of Pena Nieto's PRI, which has also called for constitutional reforms.

The PRI will need the PAN's backing in Congress to achieve the two-thirds majority to push through constitutional reform. That would bypass a political pact forged by the three main parties, which achieved consensus on a batch of economic changes earlier this year, and could complicate future reform efforts.

The PAN's proposal would end a prohibition on oil and gas concessions and risk-sharing contracts enshrined in Article 27 of the constitution.

In place of the ban on concessions and contracts, the text of the PAN's proposed amendment says the state "should guarantee the maximum benefit of oil profits for the nation from the work of the operators who conduct exploration and production activities."

Mexico's current sole oil and gas operator is the state-run monopoly Pemex.

Overall, the PAN's proposal would reform Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the constitution. It would eliminate public-sector exclusivity over the generation, transportation and distribution of electricity, and strengthen the country's energy regulatory bodies by making them autonomous. Those details would be dealt with in so-called secondary laws.

The bill would create a new national petroleum fund to administer the country's energy riches, but still keep all oil and gas resources under public ownership.

PAN leaders emphasized that they were open to negotiating the fine print of how oil companies would be compensated under a more open, competitive energy sector.

"At the end of the day, how you pay them, whether with money or oil, is practically the same," Salvador Vega, a PAN senator, told Reuters.

"We are not closed to any kind of model. In fact, we are looking at all types of models. That is where the most important part of the debate will be ... whether we move to a kind of royalty, taxes on products or benefits."

The PAN's bill was filed with the Senate, which will formally kick off the debate on energy reform on September 1 when the new congressional session begins.

(Additional reporting by Michael O'Boyle.; Editing by Simon Gardner and Christopher Wilson)

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Lightweight Cross Bike: Harris' Guerciotti

Total weight with pedals is 16.5 lbs. Here are the specs:

Guerciotti Full Carbon X Crow Frame XL
4ZA Python Carbon Fork
FSA OS99CSI 120mm Stem
FSA Energy 44 Bar
Selle Italia Flite Saddle
Sram Red Drive Train
Sram Red Double Tape Levers
Ultegra 10sp Cassette
Selcof carbon seatpost
TRP Euro X Brakes
Easton EC90 Aero Wheels
Tufo Flexus tires
Egg Beaters SL pedals

Lightweight and Custom: Joe's Desalvo

So here is my custom built Ti Single speed cyclocross bike. It started out as a raffle prize that Mike DeSalvo donated to the Southern Oregon Outlaw Cyclocross series in 2007. Upgraded the frame set to Ti (check out the sweet etching. not a single drop of paint or sticker on this machine!) and built it up as follows.

Frame: DeSalvo Ti Single speed with track dropouts (spaced to 135mm)
Fork: Alpha Q CX 20
Wheels: Chris King Single Speed laced to Mavic Open Pro 32hole
Tires: Kenda Small Block Eight (with spinskin tire liners)
Cranks: FSA SLK light with a 38t Chainring
Seat post: Thompson Masterpiece
Stem: Thompson X2 90mm
Handlebar: Salsa Bell lap
Grips: ESI silicone grips-(heavy but very effective in wet/muddy conditions)
Brake Levers: Cane Creek
Brakes: front-Paul Neo Retro rear-Paul Touring Canti
Saddle: Selle San Marco Aspide Ti
Pedals: Crank Bros 2Ti

Final Build weight with heavy grips, tire liners, & pedals etc......16.71lbs

Lightweight and Custom: Owen's Kelly

My new Kelly, comes in just under 18lbs.

Frame: 50cm Kelly Knobby X, 1-1/8" Head Tube, True Temper Platinum Ox

Wheels: Planet X Pro Carbon 50 Tubular, with American Classic Hubs, bladed spokes.

Tires: Challenge Grifos, 32mm

Drivetrain: Campagnolo Record QS 10spd Shifters/Campagnolo Record Rear Derailleur/ Campagnolo Record Front Derailleur/Campagnolo Record UT CT Crankset /Campagnolo Record Bottom Bracket

Front: Paul Neo Retro w/ SwissStop Yellow King
Rear: Paul Touring w/ SwissStop Yellow King

Seatpost: Campagnolo Record Carbon

Saddle: Selle San Marco Racing Replica (Ti)

Stem: Ritchey WCS

Bar: 3T Prima 199

Tape: Cinelli

Headset: Cane Creek 110

Extras: Deda Dog Fang chain watcher

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Reader's Question: Cross Pedal interference?

Hey, love your blog. Hope an update is coming soon. I will send you a picture of my kelly when my new pedals are here.....on to that....

I have a pair of candy pedals, but the platform interferes with my sidi dragon's tred. What in your opinion is the best/lightest pedal choice for cross that has a low profile? I am also trying to keep cost in mind, considering the money tree is not in bloom. I was going to go with the eggbeater SL, but someone told me they were not all that great. Any suggestions? Thanks,

Patrick---thanks for the comment, and your question brought about the update, fancy that!

Anyway, I have always had issues with this myself as I have primarily used the Candy's as well. My solution is to grind/shave some of the tread where the Candy platform touches the shoe. Clip your shoe into your pedal at your house and see where the shoe is making contact with the pedal platform. Make a mental note, pull out the Dremel and grind away a little tread. This is what many people do.

Additionally, Crank Brothers supply cleat shims for this purpose as well. I sometimes have had to employ both methods as the shims dont do enough shimming for some shoes.

Thanks for the question, anybody else have any insights, put it in the comments!

UPDATE: Patrick let me know that the shims supplied by Crank Bros worked great!


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Administration is answerless for oil price questions

Freedom Newspapers

Environmentalists have been scrambling to spin the spike in gasoline prices as not the fault of their quite successful efforts the past 30 years to slam the brakes on domestic oil production and refining. Yeah, right.

It’s time to face reality. And the reality is America’s domestic oil production and refining capacity has been artificially constricted by extreme environmental regulations that are more about crippling an industry than actually cleaning the environment.

The irony, of course, is the oil industry is as profitable as ever, thank you very much. But please don’t blame the oil industry for the recent spike in gasoline prices. The public has sat back for 30 years and nodded its tacit approval as the extremists have effectively constricted the supply of one of our most vital commodities: fuel.

If you’re surprised and upset that the price of that commodity is going through the roof, you need to take an Economics 101 refresher course.

The answer is to loosen the restrictions enough to allow expansion of energy exploration and production, along with oil refining, without compromising meaningful environmental standards. That will take some education on the part of the public, which has tended to believe the environmental wackos whenever they scream about industry or politicians wanting to “gut environmental protections.”

The Bush administration has proposed a number of reasonable environmental measures that would return sanity to the regulatory arena, but the Sierra Club and other extreme organizations have adamantly opposed them. This is a recipe for:

1) Continued dependence on foreign sources of energy.
2) Continued constricted domestic supplies of essential fuels.
3) Needless and potentially catastrophic economic vulnerability.

Eventually the United States and the world will move from fossil fuels to other sources of energy. But it is naive to expect that shift to take place overnight. For the near term at least, we need more oil, and the refined fuels that power our cars, buses, planes, homes and factories.

Legislation has been introduced to expedite the construction of new refineries. That is all well and good, but we take issue with any proposed tax relief for an industry that is rolling in record profits. Break the regulatory logjam and let private investment handle the rest.


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Gold Star - 4,626 Points (24 January 1961 / South Africa)

Illegal Pink Proliferating (Second Version) - Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Found an electric warmer pad for Nici and the illegal pink
fleeces are proliferating, found the softest pink fleece with
a heart design for her, she loved it and promised not to tell
her dad what a spendthrift I have become, now to clean my
corner in the lounge housing my figurines and crystals, not
to forget the special fairy, then to cover the table with a new
embroidered white cloth my beloved bought under duress
as he found my behaviour while shopping exasperating

I can’t wait to see the effect and in a celebration of the new-
found love for pink I’m wearing pink pyjamas which might
easily be mistaken, with a little bit of imagination, for a track
suit; a rose-coloured glasses perspective makes life seem so
wonderful - the world concurs because the sun has just escaped
the cloud cover and the whole world starts to glow; but it is time
to put the computer away and stop procrastinating, I want
to start cleaning the glass table corner - life is delectable

When simple pleasures like these put me in a Zen trance of
quiet, satisfied tranquillity…

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Episode #07 - The Water Flowers of Cerulean City

Ash arrives at Cerulean City, but Misty refuses to enter. But Ash went on. Ash arrives at a crime sceen, where a massive vacuum and a giant hose were stolen from a shop. Anyway, headed towards the gym. Brock went away for a while to get some "stuff", and is still a mystery today. In the gym, he met three girls, which were all the gym leaders. They don't battle anymore, because three trainers from Pallett have beat them, and their Pokemon are all at the Pokemon Center. All they have is Goldeen. Just when Daisy, one of the girls was about to give Ash a free badge, Misty comes to battle him. Misty says she was the three girls' sister, and had the right to battle. Staryu beat Butterfree, and Pidgeotto beat Starmie. Then Team Rocket came and sucked up all the water in the gym with a huge vacuum. Ash realized it was Team Rocket who had stolen the massive vacuum and a giant hose. Pikachu saved the day with a thunder shock, and Ash got his second badge.


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September 26th, 2009
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Crist predicts Carter-esque loss for Obama

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he thinks President Barack Obama could be in for an ousting from office similar to what happened to Democratic President Jimmy Carter after his first term.(PHOTO CREDITS: Chris Welch/CNN)
MACKINAC ISLAND, Michigan (CNN) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said he thinks President Barack Obama could be in for an ousting from office similar to what happened to Democratic President Jimmy Carter after his first term.

"I think the people wanted a change," the Florida Republican said, speaking of the election of Obama in November while drawing similarities to events decades earlier.

"They wanted a change back in 1976. You remember? Richard Nixon had been president. That ended. Gerald Ford took over. The people decided they wanted a change. They got one-Jimmy Carter. Four years later, they took care of business-Ronald Reagan."

"It may happen again," Crist went on. "I believe that the people have seen that they wanted a change but not this much. Not this kind, and not this way. America is awake and we're coming back."

Crist, who's now running for U.S. Senate, said Republicans feel a winning streak coming on for the next few years, "so bad they can taste it," he said. "Especially after the seven or eight or nine months that we've had of this new administration."

Crist was the keynote speaker Friday night at the biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Michigan.

House Republican Whip Eric Cantor delivered an address himself Saturday morning. Cantor touched on the healthcare debate, calling some of the options being discussed in Washington of late "ill-defined," adding they would be "a gamble," according to remarks sent out by Cantor's campaign committee.

The Mackinac conference is held every other year-non-election years-and brings together politicians and candidates from across the state of Michigan, as well as national Republican figures making waves.

Also scheduled to speak this year is Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Both men have been rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2012.

Two years ago, this conference brought together the likes of previous presidential hopefuls. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Duncan Hunter, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, and Fred Thompson all attended in 2007.

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  1. Sean

    Honestly, what have the GOP done to win back our votes? It's very easy to attack anything that the president is doing, and taking on the toughest challenge... healthcare. Remember Bill Clinton was attacked by the GOP? Remember they predicted that he'd lost like Jimmy Carter? Stop listening of all these stupid predictions... get back to work, politicians!

    September 26, 2009 05:05 pm at 5:05 pm |
  2. Reggie

    I agree with Gov Crist. Obama will get thumped in his reelection bid.

    September 26, 2009 05:05 pm at 5:05 pm |
  3. brian

    It's convenient that he leaves out the last 8 years that we wanted change from. Does anyone dare take a chance on another republican after Bush ran us in the ditch with full support from his party? I will never trust anything any republican ever says again – they had their 8 years and it was a complete disaster.

    September 26, 2009 05:05 pm at 5:05 pm |
  4. djb

    I, for one, am very happy with the "change" that I have seen with this new administration. I am very pleased that President Obama is doing a great job cleaning up the mess that he inherited from eight years of "cowboy politics". So, don't speak too soon, Governor Crist, of the "no" party that I am a registered member but "no" longer speaks for me. How did you expect President Obama to get everything done in nine months? It took us eight years to spend the surplus left the Republicans in 2001 on an unnecessary war, to wreck our economy and to ruin our reputation world wide.

    September 26, 2009 05:05 pm at 5:05 pm |
  5. John C

    Cheap poltical campaigning aimed at the most ignorant in society. THey thing that because they can say anything and some will fall for it, that somehow changes reality. They started this nonsense BEFORE he even took office. The GOP claimed Bush did a good job, There where WMD's in Iraq, Iraq played a part in 9/11, Exposing a cia agent was not poltical, Politicizeing the justice department was ok, warentless wiretaps where a good idea, deregulating banks was a good idea, torture was not a warcrime, etc etc etc.... They have been wrong more than any potilcal group, at any time in our nations history. Still some where stupid enough to beleive then, and some will be stupid enough to fall for this too. They are banking on the stupidity of the country. Beleive in AMerican, this garbage potlical dishohesty is not working anymore.

    September 26, 2009 05:06 pm at 5:06 pm |
  6. Sky

    This is soooooo! sad to see the Republicant's being so desperate.
    The American people are not that stupid. Obama will have his 8 years no matter what the G"No"P says. The conservatives are sliding further and further out tof the main stream everytime they open their mouths.

    September 26, 2009 05:06 pm at 5:06 pm |
  7. Anonymous

    Thank God . You could not be more right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    September 26, 2009 05:06 pm at 5:06 pm |
  8. ap for obama

    who is cristi to make predictions, what about his future, he looks horrible

    September 26, 2009 05:07 pm at 5:07 pm |
  9. Keith

    More psycho-babble from a conservative nut. The minority is very vocal, but that's all they have for now. With good fortune, that's all they'll ever have. America rejected conservatism when enough people realized that its core philosophies are built on a foundation of greed, hate, and twisted perversions of Christian beliefs. The more people that come to this realization, the better we'll all be as a nation and the safer we'll all be as a global community.

    September 26, 2009 05:07 pm at 5:07 pm |
  10. JR

    Just sounds like wishful thinking to me, if Obama pulls the economy out then he'll be reelected, it's still "the economy stupid" and always will be.

    September 26, 2009 05:07 pm at 5:07 pm |
  11. S M R

    Why does eveything that comes out of the mouth of a GOP JUST THE OPPOSITE OF REALITY?

    September 26, 2009 05:07 pm at 5:07 pm |
  12. Mulford Simmons

    Thank God................ You could not be more right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    September 26, 2009 05:07 pm at 5:07 pm |
  13. Eli

    I'd rather get Rush Limbuagh's herpes then vote Crist or any of his like into office.

    September 26, 2009 05:08 pm at 5:08 pm |
  14. otto

    actually its the republicans that should watch out. thier inaction might just cost them this time around

    September 26, 2009 05:08 pm at 5:08 pm |
  15. Randy

    The remarks by Gov Crist is not surprising coming from a conservative Republican. When I voted for President Obama I did so looking for change and thus far I feel he has pressed to produce just that. But with change comes great resistance and he has and will continue to face just that. If he did not press for reform and change I would regret my vote. The type of change he has presented is exactly what is needed. I think the republican right wing wants anything that makes President Obama look like a failure. Even pushing against all policies that produce change that our country desparately needs. They have solidified a very negative posturing that has completely turned me off from the republican party. Let's not forget it was a republican President that created the financial crisis we now face within 8 years and caused our world view to become greatly compromised. I don't understand how so many can say that Obama's term thus far (less than one year) is some how worse than what we just came from. The mess wasn't created in a year how can we expect it to be resolved in a year. While they (many of the republicans) say they represent the interest of america I say the represent the interest of their own party.

    September 26, 2009 05:09 pm at 5:09 pm |
  16. Anand

    Does not matter. By the end of the first term, Obama would have accomplished more than 8 years of Bush. He would have reversed the plundering and closed the budget gap, brought the economy under control, restored respect of US on the world stage, fix the broken back of the middle class (who have been hit again and again relentlessly in the past eight years) and they will stand straight again, restored health of the financial system, make available basic healthcare to masses, instill vitality of the education system, on and on. You can count on more things than this list at the end of his first term. Sure, Republicans manage to brainwash part of the American public with their degraded and low level tactics, but majority of the American public perhaps would realize they are humble and decent and they don't need that kind of indoctrination. If they stoop even lower and try to manipulate the results and somehow win (like Bush), by that time middle class would have regained strenght to stand on their own and does not matter who the president is. Keep working on presidency to fail and country to fail. Thank you Republicans.

    September 26, 2009 05:09 pm at 5:09 pm |
  17. JM

    The Republicans are grasping at straws once again. They have NO candidates worth a bucket of warm spit......NONE. Obama has been POTUS for less than ONE YEAR!! Keep grasping at straws you Republican losers. I'm a registered NON PARTISAN and see NO REPUBLICANS worth anything. I haven't forgotten BUSH's 8 years of failure that nearly killed this country. I will never FORGET!!

    September 26, 2009 05:09 pm at 5:09 pm |
  18. Hmmm.....

    could be..maybe...maybe not. Depends if he holds to his own ideology or does what he was elected to do.

    September 26, 2009 05:09 pm at 5:09 pm |
  19. Dawn Ada, Ohio

    Let me get this straight: Obama's short Presidency is something that a Republican thinks is "unsuccessful" and will lead to him be outed in 2012..........?? Then keep up the good work President Obama. The Republicans wouldn't know what diplomacy looks like, they don't understand what looking out for the middle class looks like and they really don't know what family values look like. The American Public is tired to death of people who are for nothing but money and power. There is not one person who is a Republican hopeful for 2012 that has shown that they stand for nothing but the rich, the status quo, and their ego.....including you Mr. Crist. Obama has set the economy on the right track, he has put us back into a place of power and honor on the World stage, and he is backing the middle class. During my lifetime I have NEVER seen a Republican be able to do all three of those things........especially during the 1st nine months of their Presidency. Even the Republicans Sainted President Reagan was not able to do all a matter of fact HE is the reason the economy is the way it is today and he is the reason the middle class is shrinking away to nothing.........Can any one say Trickle Down Economics??? As we all know Trickle Down never happened and it never will. Your party is trapped in the 70's and the only good thing that came from the 70's is the music.

    September 26, 2009 05:09 pm at 5:09 pm |
  20. Frank, FLA

    ah yes,,,our genius here in Fla has done so much for us ,,,,so now he can tell the future too ... what a joke

    September 26, 2009 05:10 pm at 5:10 pm |
  21. Josh Maloney

    Hey Crist – Thats an unfair assessment – although not surprising. People need to pull their heads out in your party and realize that "me first" Republican "values" do not cut it anymore and never will.

    September 26, 2009 05:10 pm at 5:10 pm |
  22. S M R

    The GOP should be EMBARRASSED for what Their Party did to OUR Country.

    September 26, 2009 05:10 pm at 5:10 pm |
  23. Anonymous

    Yeah, and what about the millions of people who wanted Bush out – well now that he is, those millions are thrilled to have a president who is compassionate, intelligent, politically savvy, dignified, and one that makes us proud to be an American. There are NO republicans who have all, and perhaps not any, of those qualities so maybe you should just leave your
    hateful speech inside your hateful heart.

    September 26, 2009 05:11 pm at 5:11 pm |
  24. Ricky

    The GOP/RNC will never get my vote, they dont do anything to speak for people of color and I feel most are out of touch.

    September 26, 2009 05:13 pm at 5:13 pm |
  25. GR

    Crist, you are totally deranged.

    We finally have a leader that is RESPECTED around the world.

    A leader that is willing to tackle the TOUGH problems of America instead of trying to trick us into getting into wars for personal agendas.

    A leader that is willing to stand up to the "special interests" that have nearly collapsed the US and the world economy through their GREED.

    The Republican Party has abandoned its roots of fiscal conservatism nd become the party of factions, the party of "special interests", the party of the "good ol boys", the party of the status quo. It is the party who in the last 3 Republican admnistrations managed to raise the national debt by a staggering 9.5 Trillion dollars. How's that for a conservative party? – Pathetic.
    The Republican Party has no leaders, is totally bankrupt of ideas, and now resorts to embracing the distortions, scares and lies and sideshow antics of the right-wingnut talk show hosts like Limbaugh and Beck. The Republican Party is now nothing but a pathetic carnival sideshow. It is time for a real fiscal conservative party to take shape in America and leave this pathetic totally-corrupted "special interest" Republican Party to die a much needed death.

    September 26, 2009 05:14 pm at 5:14 pm |
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March 26th, 2010
09:58 AM ET
5 years ago

Palin to hit the trail for McCain

McCain and Palin will hit the campaign trail again Friday (Getty Images).

Tucson, Arizona (CNN) - Sarah Palin on Friday will again be urging voters to come out in support of Sen. John McCain.

This time, though, Palin is hoping to help McCain keep his current job as he faces a primary challenge from former Rep. J.D. Hayworth.

McCain and Palin will appear together at a Friday afternoon rally in Tucson, Arizona, and a Saturday event in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa. She will also headline a fundraiser for him.

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  1. Al

    Can't wait for this, hopefully I can catch the rally. John and Sarah make a great team, maybe John should even think about running again, or be Sarah's VP.

    Palin 2012

    March 26, 2010 11:15 am at 11:15 am |
  2. Peace

    From the Presidential campaign to the Senate campaign. What a progress!!!

    March 26, 2010 11:15 am at 11:15 am |
  3. James Miller

    Looks like a -– LOVE FEST !!!!!

    March 26, 2010 11:18 am at 11:18 am |
  4. Jay

    Just look at how much she helped him in the big election of 2008.

    Just go away you stupid idiot. The intelligent, non-trash people of this country are sick of your stupidity.

    While we're at it, I hope McCain loses his election.

    March 26, 2010 11:18 am at 11:18 am |
  5. Laurie

    What a couple of cronies. Dumb & Dumber II

    March 26, 2010 11:18 am at 11:18 am |
  6. Annie, Atlanta

    Oh yeah. Are we going to be subject to more hate rallies? And if so, I'm not sure how much more we can take.

    To the good people of Arizona who support John McCain are you aware he recently said he will be doing nothing for the rest of the year? Just thought you should know you've elected a man who just said he will be doing nothing for you, and you're paying him to boot.

    March 26, 2010 11:19 am at 11:19 am |
  7. I.G. Thompson

    I do not understand the hype with Sarah. By defintiion and history she could be considered a domestic terroist with that hit map she displayed this week. Isn't that what Bill Ayers did back in the day? To reward her for her courage or is it gall, she is rewarded a reality show on the discovery channel and of course I will never watch any Discovery Channels again as they seem to promote domestic terroism. She also get 1 million per episode. Am I jealous? Heck yes, if I did what she did I would probably be watched by the FBI. Just like Charles Manson if any of the elected officials on her "hit list" are hurt she should be held responsible for it. But I know she will be excused.

    March 26, 2010 11:23 am at 11:23 am |
  8. America The Beautiful

    These two WERE NOT qualified for President or Vice President. Is this the best the Republican party has?

    Please give someone else a chance ... someone with character, a brain and an original thought.

    March 26, 2010 11:25 am at 11:25 am |
  9. AKReport

    Sarah Rocks!

    March 26, 2010 11:28 am at 11:28 am |
  10. Jobs?

    Thank you Gov. Palin for explaining your support of John McCain

    March 26, 2010 11:34 am at 11:34 am |
  11. AKReport

    Keep up the good work, Gov.Palin!

    March 26, 2010 11:36 am at 11:36 am |
  12. Clint, Wa.

    Dumb, & Dumber, good luck Rep. J.D. Hayworth, should be a piece of cake.

    March 26, 2010 11:36 am at 11:36 am |
  13. lucy

    There are numerous reasons to admire Sarah Palin, her courage, her inner strength, her honesty, integrity, her poise, her charm, her knowledge about energy, her leadership ability.

    March 26, 2010 11:41 am at 11:41 am |
  14. lucy

    In the liberal worldview assertions are the truth, everything else is hateful opposition to the agenda. All those who oppose the agenda are evil. There are no facts other than what proves the assertion, all else is misinterpreted or irrelevant data. The agenda determines the assertion, the assertion is the truth and only the relevant facts support the assertion. Anyone who attempts to subvert the truth of the assertion is evil and their minds are full of hate. Thus forms the perfect circle of liberal thought, the agenda, the truth and the relevant facts. If you are a lawyer reading this, you know why the American system of law has nothing to do with justice, the perfect circle is drawn by the line of argument.

    March 26, 2010 11:42 am at 11:42 am |
  15. lucy

    Ah yes the intellectually challenged Palin bashers continue their rants of hate because the democrats lack a smart, sexy, charismatic women candidate for higher office. It all boils down to pure jealousy that the Republican party will claim first women elected president, and shatter the liberal feminist movement forever.

    March 26, 2010 11:43 am at 11:43 am |
  16. david, CA

    maybe – if Hayworth defeats McCain, Sarah will figure out that she's hurting more than helping the Republican cause.

    March 26, 2010 11:43 am at 11:43 am |
  17. Ben in Texas

    Like that which falls out of the back end of a horse, Sarah Palin is hitting the trail.

    I guarantee, if J.D. Hayworth were running against anybody but her benefactor McSame, she would be campaigning for him. He's her kind of crazy.

    March 26, 2010 11:43 am at 11:43 am |
  18. Palin 2012

    Sarah has a leadership aura. she is so engaged with everything, and brings that charismatic charm wherever she goes.

    March 26, 2010 11:44 am at 11:44 am |
  19. al in memphis

    Now I see why politicans ask actors and entertainers to campaign for them– you don't need credibility to win an elections, just popularity.

    What is she going to say–Vote for John, because based on my vast knowledge of his knowledge of the issues, that I think he is the best because.........

    American voters, we really are guillible.

    March 26, 2010 11:45 am at 11:45 am |
  20. Jobs?

    Keep up the good work, Gov.Palin!

    Sarah is all class. she loves all americans!
    The notion that she is some sort of obsessive partisan is a media propagated myth.

    March 26, 2010 11:45 am at 11:45 am |

    Was there ever such an amazing lady...with such grace and kindness. Then add to that all the attacks of the media that keep coming.

    I love Sarah palin’s no-nonsense approach to the issues. She’s not one of these good ole boy types that does nothing but worry about how many pet projects he or she might get.

    sarah palin is a very smart women. She has great Management skill, and gets people moving.

    March 26, 2010 11:48 am at 11:48 am |

    the two things about Sarah Palin that I don't think have been adequately appreciated are, number one, if you look at the numbers, she really wasn't that different than Barack Obama in terms of experience and time in office, and [things] like that. The real big difference between the two was she hadn't campaigned non-stop for two years, and had she campaigned non-stop on the national stage for two years she'd have been just as polished as Barack Obama. She's a phenomenal politician and there's no better retail politician on the planet than Sarah Palin with a microphone in front of a crowd. So I think the big experience gap was the one that is about running on a national ticket—he had a lot more experience there and it showed up.

    March 26, 2010 11:48 am at 11:48 am |
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April 9th, 2010
04:56 AM ET
5 years ago

Palin dines out in New Orleans on eve of big speech

Sarah Palin arrived in New Orleans on Thursday.
Sarah Palin arrived in New Orleans on Thursday.

New Orleans (CNN) - Sarah Palin has kept a busy itinerary in recent weeks, but before delivering what many consider her most important speech of the year at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, she spared some time to savor the celebrated cuisine of the Big Easy.

The former Alaska governor arrived in New Orleans on Thursday evening and enjoyed a private dinner at Restaurant August, the flagship establishment of acclaimed New Orleans chef John Besh, according to an aide.

Besh, who has appeared on popular television series like Top Chef and Iron Chef America, welcomed the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee and a guest into a private dining room at his signature restaurant.

Palin shared a meal with Cathy Maples, a Huntsville, Alabama resident who bid $63,500 in an online auction last September to win a dinner with the governor. The proceeds of that auction went to Road2Recovery, a charity that assists wounded veterans. Besh donated the cost of the meal to the cause.

The chef, himself a former Marine, served several of the courses and shared stories of his service in the military, according to the aide. Palin and Besh also chatted about Hurricane Katrina's impact on the city - a topic that went unmentioned during the opening night of the SRLC on Thursday.

Palin is slated to address the nearly 4,000 GOP activists at the conference on Friday afternoon.

Filed under: 2010 • 2012 • Sarah Palin
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  1. Dave

    The Republicans have the gall to show up in New Orleans?

    After Katrina?

    And with another destructive hurricane Palin?

    April 9, 2010 09:09 am at 9:09 am |
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