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Five to be ordained to priesthood June 3
Published on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 07:00 | Written by Clarion Herald | | | Hits: 4468
Archbishop Gregory Aymond will ordain five men to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New Orleans at a 10 a.m. Mass June 3 at St. Louis Cathedral. The ordinands are, seated from left, Deacons José Cáceres and Pedro Prada, and, standing, Jared Rodrigue, Colm Cahill and Alexander Guzman. Following are feature stories on each new priest. The June 3 ordination will be televised live on WLAE Channel 32 and live-streamed at www.nolacatholic.org.
Deacon José Cáceres
First Assignment as Parochial Vicar: St. Jerome, Kenner; he also will continue to serve on the staff of the archdiocesan Hispanic Apostolate, where he co-hosts a Saturday radio show.
First Mass: June 4, 2 p.m., St. Clement of Rome, Metairie
Other Masses of Thanksgiving: June 5, 7 p.m. (Spanish), Hispanic Apostolate, 2525 Maine Ave., Metairie; June 11 and 18 in Colombia.
What are you most looking forward to in your priestly ministry? "I look forward to serving God and the people of this archdiocese in the way that God wishes me to serve them. The priesthood is all about service."
Colombia to honor native son
By Beth Donze
The proverbial fatted calf will be roasted for Deacon José Cáceres when he visits his Colombian homeland shortly after being ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New Orleans on June 3.
On June 11, following a Mass of Thanksgiving at Immaculate Conception Church in Concepción, Colombia, the newly minted Father Cáceres will be treated to an all-out barbecue organized by the town's mayor.
"They are putting on a party for the whole town," said Deacon Cáceres of the festival marking the end of his long journey to priestly ordination.
Deacon Cáceres taught anthropology, epistemology, logic and philosophy as a college professor in Colombia for 16 years before those intellectual pursuits led him to explore life's mysteries through the lens of theology. He studied at a seminary in Colombia for more than seven years before transferring to Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans at the suggestion of his friend and mentor, Dominican Father Sergio Serrano.
During his transitional diaconate year at St. Clement of Rome, Deacon Cáceres presided at baptisms and funerals, led a popular series of Spanish-language faith formation classes, visited students at St. Clement of Rome School and took Communion to the homes of the sick.
"I learned how to interact with the people – to see the people as my neighbors, as my brothers – as Christ sees them," said Deacon Cáceres, a self-described "people person."
"I also learned the importance of prayer and silence before God," he added.
One of his biggest challenges was to improve his English. To achieve this, a clutch of parishioners volunteered to hear Deacon Cáceres read the Gospel and homily in advance of the upcoming daily or Sunday Mass and help him with his vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar. Deacon Cáceres always encouraged parishioners to speak to him in English; if he didn't understand something, he would politely ask them to repeat it.
"In the beginning people didn't understand me," Deacon Cáceres said, smiling. "As time went on, people said, 'That was good! I understood every word you said!' The people here (at St. Clement) were very supportive. They motivated me to get better."
Deacon Cáceres' native tongue, however, was also regularly employed at the Metairie parish, where Spanish-language prayer and worship opportunities include a 2 p.m. Mass on Sunday; a first-Thursday Holy Hour; and special celebrations of feast days and liturgical seasons dear to the hearts of Spanish-speaking Catholics.
"The Spanish language is such a rich and eloquent language, so it leads to a greater expression of (native speakers') faith when they can express it in Spanish," he notes.
As a priest, Deacon Cáceres will split his time between parish ministry at St. Jerome in Kenner and the Hispanic Apostolate. He has been sharing his gifts with the Apostolate since February, both as a faith formation teacher and as co-host of the Saturday morning radio show "Católico Soy" (I Am Catholic) with Father Serrano, the Apostolate's director. The half-hour program, which airs at 10:30 a.m. on KGLA-Tropical 1540 AM (and accessible on YouTube, SoundCloud and Facebook), reflects on that weekend's Gospel.
"In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council we need to use technology for preaching and teaching the Gospel," Deacon Cáceres said. "I am excited to be teaching in this medium!"
Deacon Colm Cahill
First Assignment as Parochial Vicar: St. Peter, Covington.
First Mass of Thanksgiving: June 4, 11:15 a.m., Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor, 2701 State St., New Orleans. "I can't imagine anywhere better to begin."
What are you most looking forward to in your priestly ministry?
"Really, all of it. During my time in seminary, I've had a lot of experience in youth ministry. I've been working on the March for Life for last five years helping organize that with the youth office and other seminarians, and going to high schools, talking to Dominican and Mount Carmel and a couple of others. I've always enjoyed that part of it."
By Christine Bordelon
"My discernment of the priesthood came in two questions: 'Lord, are you calling me to be a priest?' and 'Where are you calling me to be a priest?'" Deacon Colm Cahill said.
A mutual friend had introduced him to Archbishop Gregory Aymond. Deacon Cahill said he was open to studying for the priesthood in the U.S., and when Archbishop Aymond invited him to study in New Orleans, he decided to leave his home in the United Kingdom after a year at St. John's Seminary in Guildford.
"The biggest decision was that my family was back there and I was coming here," Deacon Cahill said. "But what I always kept in my head was, 'You can't outdo God in generosity.' As much as I've given up things here and there – though some would say it is quite a lot – I received a lot more than I've given up."
Deacon Cahill didn't attend Catholic high school or even have many Catholic friends when he grew up on the Isle of Jersey in the United Kingdom. He said there were many Catholic churches but not a lot of Catholics. His active Catholic parents were his faith guides.
"They were always a very strong support for me in my vocation, even to the point of supporting me in my discernment of moving here," he said, "which was obviously very difficult for them as it was for me to come to terms with that new way of being separated across an ocean."
When grappling with faith in his teens, he was attracted to Catholicism because he found a God who became a man, suffered and died on the cross.
"As a younger man, the thing that made sense to me about being Catholic – and being Christian, for that matter – was that when I looked at the world around me, it was really the only religion which made sense of the world. ... When you see so much suffering in the world, it's that Christian genius that we have. We have a God that is so intimately connected with our suffering to the point of relating with us. So, for me, personally ... when I look at Christ on the cross, that's a God I can follow. That's a religion I can get behind. Despite being raised Catholic, I think I made it my own and really took ownership with my belief in my later teens as I decided to wrestle with the big questions in my life."
Deacon Cahill has met Father Otis Young, pastor of St. Peter in Covington, and knows he's entering an active parish with a big school. He wants to model Pope Francis' ministry of presence. When families invite him to be a part of their lives, that fulfills the fatherly part of being a priest that he enjoys.
He also loves "just meeting people where they are – and that can be in the messiness of their lives, in the most broken scenarios – and bringing Christ to them in that and also seeing Christ in them."
He sees evangelization taking place in casual avenues such as talking to parents while they are waiting to pick up their children from school or being at a men's club meeting "just standing in the midst of them, being available to people, putting yourself in the environment where they are able to access you and ask you questions and explore that faith with you."
"Christ said, 'Whatever you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me.' So to witness Christ to the world in people's individual contexts, I think that's important in this day and age."
Deacon Alexander Guzman
First Assignment as Parochial Vicar: St. Margaret Mary Parish, Slidell
First Mass: June 4, noon (bilingual), St. Jerome Church, Kenner.
Other Masses of Thanksgiving: June 4, 5 p.m. (Spanish), Vietnamese Holy Martyrs Shrine, 5069 Willowbrook Drive, New Orleans; June 5, 7 p.m. (Spanish), Hispanic Apostolate, 2525 Maine Ave., Metairie.
What are you most looking forward to in your priestly ministry? "For a priest, the biggest thing is to serve the people according to God's will. I want to work closely with the people and help them encounter the face of God, the face of Jesus."
A great passion for preaching
By Peter Finney Jr.
Deacon Alexander Guzman, a native of Colombia, said the year he spent at St. Jerome Parish in Kenner as a transitional deacon provided a graced opportunity to hone the ministerial skills he will use as a priest – particularly his ability to preach the Word of God effectively to all ethnic groups.
Deacon Guzman said Father Quentin Moody, pastor of St. Jerome, offered him many chances to preach, and those experiences will help him be a better communicator of how God speaks through the Scriptures.
"Father Moody gave me the opportunity to preach every weekend, so I preached in English one weekend and in Spanish the next weekend," Deacon Guzman said. "It was wonderful and very helpful to me because I love to preach. Father Moody encouraged me by saying, 'You have a passion for preaching; you preach with the power of God; your preaching is coming from your heart.'"
Deacon Guzman said he saw himself growing as a preacher the more he practiced, and that experience made him feel more comfortable preaching in English. While St. Margaret Mary in Slidell celebrates a Spanish Mass each Saturday at 6 p.m., Deacon Guzman will be preaching mostly in English when he becomes the parish's new parochial vicar on July 3.
At St. Margaret Mary, there are six weekend Masses as well as a 7 p.m. Spanish Mass each Tuesday.
"In the beginning, I was afraid to preach in English, but right now, I am not afraid," Deacon Guzman said. "I'm really comfortable and confident to preach to the people and look the people in the eye. They like it when I'm preaching from my heart."
Deacon Guzman, a former high school teacher in Colombia, said his final year of preparation for the priesthood allowed him to work with the many groups that make up the life of a parish.
"It helped me grow in my faith, in my vocation and in my service to the people of God," he said. "I met with the people in Bible classes, both in English and in Spanish. I helped prepare people for baptism and I met people preparing them for marriage and for funerals. It was a wonderful experience.
"It was really wonderful because I wanted to find many people in the parish who needed help, who needed the Good News from God and service from God. I had the opportunity to work in the American and Hispanic communities, and in both I found beautiful and appreciative people."
The former teacher is looking forward to working with the many young people at St. Margaret Mary, which has a thriving school.
"This will give me the opportunity to help them accept Jesus and accept God," he said. "Pope Francis has told us, 'Don't stay in the office. Go out and find the people in the street who need to hear the voice of God.'"
Another new aspect of his ministry will be hearing confessions. Deacon Guzman said he will do his best to offer God's mercy to everyone.
"Many times it is easy for me to listen to confessions in Spanish, but it is different in English," he said. "I am preparing and I will do my best."
He has lots of energy. "I am 45, but my heart is 15 or 16," he said, laughing.
Deacon Guzman said his mother, Beatriz Torres, and his brother, Yohany Ferney Guzman, will attend his ordination along with four other relatives and friends.
Deacon Pedro Prada
First Assignment as Parochial Vicar: Immaculate Conception Parish, Marrero
First Mass: June 4, 11 a.m., Holy Guardian Angels Mission, Bridge City
Other Masses of Thanksgiving: June 5, 7 p.m. (Spanish), Hispanic Apostolate, 2525 Maine Ave., Metairie.
What are you most looking forward to in your priestly ministry? "There's a lot of excitement about being ordained a priest, but I'm not even nervous. I'm just excited learning how God is so great calling forth someone as imperfect as I am to make a minister out of that."
Youth ministry gravitates to him
Deacon Pedro Prada has spent the last 14 years doing seminary studies and missionary work, and now that his ordination to the priesthood is close at hand, he can't wait to get started.
"It's just amazing," said Deacon Prada, a native of Colombia. "I'm very humbled by the experience. I understand that what I am doing is not so much about me but rather about what God wants to do for his people through me, while healing my own wounds in the process. It is a very peaceful experience, very humbling."
Deacon Prada has spent the last year serving as a transitional deacon at Divine Mercy Parish in Kenner, where there were a multitude of ministries to oversee and people to accompany.
"I wish I had 30 hours (a day) to minister to the people," he said, smiling. "It's been a wellspring of knowledge and peace of mind being assigned to a parish and working day to day with the people of God, putting into action all this knowledge that we got in the seminary.
"And, I can see how it works applying it. There is nothing better than when you become the future of somebody who is dying and has little reason to live. It is wonderful being able to meet that person and communicate God's love and mercy."
In July, Deacon Prada will begin his first priestly assignment as a parochial vicar at Immaculate Conception Parish in Marrero, which has an elementary school along with a strong Hispanic presence.
He has already spoken to Father Jimmy Jeanfreau, the pastor of Immaculate Conception, about what his role will be in the parish.
"The beauty of being a priest in the diocesan branch, so to speak, is we get to be priests after the person of Christ, after the preaching of Jesus himself," Deacon Prada said. "We have a vast field of action. My entire life, I can recall running away from youth ministry. I didn't like it. It wasn't my thing. But the more I ran away from it, the more involved I ended up in it. In my last seven years of formation, I've been drawn to youth ministry one way or the other – like catechesis, Life Teen and CYO."
Even when Deacon Prada was not studying in the seminary in Colombia, he had a group of young people who would ask for his help with philosophy, history and religion. At Divine Mercy, he was asked to oversee Life Teen full time and also helped train the parish's 65 new altar servers.
Father Jeanfreau also would like to see Deacon Prada involved with the school.
"Of course, that's not the only thing," Deacon Prada said. "I want to be involved in every part of parish life, but youth ministry is certainly going to be one of the three key aspects of parish life he wants me to be involved with. The other two are the Hispanic ministry and then bringing together the two communities so we can strengthen the bond as one parish."
He said the Hispanic Catholic population is anything but monolithic.
"We look the same, but we are not the same," he said. "Although we speak Spanish, we don't always express the same thing in words. There are a lot of nuances I have to be aware of so I can make it happen. I'm really excited about it."
Deacon Prada came to New Orleans in 2014 to complete his theological studies at Notre Dame Seminary, and the culture of New Orleans has intrigued him.
"The more I know it, the more I love it," he said.
Deacon Jared Rodrigue
First Assignment as Parochial Vicar: Mary Queen of Peace Parish, Mandeville
First Mass: June 4, 2 p.m., St. Charles Borromeo, Destrehan
Other Masses of Thanksgiving: June 11, 11 a.m., St. Catherine of Siena, Metairie
What are you most looking forward to in your priestly ministry? "Growing in my priestly identity and in my role as a spiritual father."
Deacon Rodrigue drawn to spiritual fatherhood
An unusual depiction of the Holy Family graces the prayer card heralding Deacon Jared Rodrigue's upcoming ordination to the priesthood.
St. Joseph, painted in the style of an icon, sits cross-legged on the floor, his entire body wrapped around the Blessed Mother and the thumb-sucking Infant Jesus.
Printed beneath this nesting trio is the adolescent Jesus' response to his anxious parents, upon being found in the temple: "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" (Luke 2:49)
Deacon Rodrigue said pairing the image of a young Holy Family with words spoken by a more mature Jesus, on the cusp of his public ministry, telegraphs three ways the priesthood relates to a "house."
➤ There is the literal house in which Jesus grew up – headed by St. Joseph – that reminds us of a priest's roots in and his call to serve earthly families.
➤ There is the eternal "house" prepared by God, toward which the priest must always point.
➤ Finally, there is a very personal message from Deacon Rodrigue to his proud parents: "Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house (serving as a priest)?"
"I have a huge devotion to St. Joseph. He took care of the two most perfect people who ever lived," said Deacon Rodrigue, noting how the saint's example of spiritual fatherhood has been a recurring theme in his vocational journey from the time he was inspired by his childhood pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Destrehan.
Tragically, that role model, Father John Phuc, died in a boating accident when Rodrigue was in fifth grade.
"At his funeral, I felt a strong tug to follow in his footsteps," Rodrigue recalled. "I just remember feeling inside myself: 'Who's going to be a father to (us) kids now?'"
Spiritual fatherhood emerged again at age 17 when Rodrigue, a competitive swimmer at Jesuit High, began accompanying his mother on parish mission trips to Mexico. He and his fellow volunteers played with children in orphanages and did bricks-and-mortar work on a medical clinic.
"In Mexico, I had a real experience of how I could be a father to these kids even though I wasn't their (biological) father," Rodrigue said.
Following two years at a New Jersey seminary discerning a vocation with the Salesian order of priests, Deacon Rodrigue returned home in 2013 to study for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
During his transitional diaconate year at St. Catherine of Siena, Deacon Rodrigue learned that spiritual fatherhood was accompanied by "a good kind of exhaustion" that came from immersing himself in a parish of 2,650 families and a school of 840 students. Part of that work was readying people for the sacraments of baptism and marriage – and not merely giving them "lukewarm" instruction.
"You are preparing them not just for that (particular) sacrament, but to come back to the sacraments regularly," Deacon Rodrigue notes.
At St. Catherine, Deacon Rodrigue also received a tip from a priest to occasionally incorporate his musical talents into his homilies. He gave the idea a whirl when unpacking the Gospel in which Jesus urges his disciples to "stay awake" because no one knows the day the master is coming.
"I tied in the 'Be Prepared' song from 'The Lion King' and received a lot of positive feedback. It changed the way the children (in the congregation) viewed their future," Deacon Rodrigue said. "People said they still had the music stuck in their heads weeks later!"


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Lord Nataraj
September 28, 2021 (September 28, 2021) Kumari Sonali
Lord Nataraj:
As many as 157 artefacts and antiquities were handed over to the Prime Minister by the United States including a bronze Nataraj figure.
The list has a diverse set of items bas-relief panel of Revanta in sandstone made in the 10th century, 56 terracotta pieces, several bronze figurines and copper objects, among others which mainly belong to 11th and 14th centuries.
It also includes an 18th-century sword in its sheath, with the inscription mentioning Guru Hargobind Singh in Persian, some historic antiquities comprise figurines relating to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
Nataraja (Lord of the Dance), the Hindu god Shiva in his form as the cosmic dancer, is represented in metal or stone in many Shaivite temples, particularly in South India.
It is an important piece of Chola sculpture.
The upper right-hand holds the drum, which signifies the sound of creation.
All creations spring from the great sound of the damru.
The upper left-hand holds the eternal fire, which represents the destruction.
Destruction is the precursor and inevitable counterpart of creation.
The lower right hand is raised in the gesture of Abhay mudra signifying benediction and reassuring the devotee to not be afraid.
The lower left-hand points towards the upraised foot and indicates the path of salvation.
Shiva is dancing on the figure of a small dwarf.
The dwarf symbolises ignorance and the ego of an individual.
Shiva is shown as the source of all movement within the cosmos and as the god whose doomsday dance, represented by the arch of flames, accompanies the dissolution of the universe at the end of an eon.
The matted and flowing locks of Shiva represent the flow of river Ganges.
In ornamentation, one ear of Shiva has a male earring while the other has a female. This represents the fusion of male and female and is often referred to as Ardhanarishwar.
A snake is twisted around the arm of Shiva. The snake symbolises the kundalini power, which resides in the human spine in the dormant stage. If aroused, one can attain true consciousness.
The Nataraja is surrounded by a nimbus of glowing lights which symbolises the vast unending cycles of time.
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The Town of Odyssey • View topic - Where's my tie? Where's my hose?
Where's my tie? Where's my hose?
Post subject: Re: Where's my tie? Where's my hose?
Not theoretically. 1 Corinthians 10:31. *cough* But that's irrelevent.
EDIT: Gr, Strong. You interrupted me.
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You do NOT have to dress up for church. All God cares about is if you come. However, I do have a problem with people wearing their rattiest old sweatpants to church. Church is the house of the Lord, and we should treat it respectfully. Would you wear your oldest jeans with paint splatters and holes in them to a funeral or a wedding, or to meet someone important? Of course not. You would clean up a bit. Isn't going to worship God WAY more important than any of those? And isn't meeting with God even more special then meeting with say, the president? Yes, it is. So basically, if you wouldn't wear what you wear to church anywhere else special, then I don't believe you should wear it to meet with God.
Please don't get me wrong, I don't at ALL believe that God will reject you if you don't dress up, or that you're not a true Christian or anything like that. I simply believe that we show respect to God, the King of kings, if we refrain from dressing in our worst clothing.
I DO see your point here, though me, being me, doesn't care for dressing up, and really wouldn't care to dress up much to see the president or going to a wedding, etc...the ONLY reason I do is because I know I'd probably be kicked out or at least very disapproved of if I didn't. But this is for HUMAN approval (societal norms) that I do this, not for God's...because really...shouldn't we be meeting with God every day? Whether in our PJs before bed, or going about our daily lives--including painting and doing messy things? Granted, church is a time set apart to worship God with others, so it may be a little more...focused...and therefore call for better clothes, but I see it as respectful clothes--simply not our worst stuff (so I agree about the no ratty old sweatpants). So I would say whatever helps you feel most like you are worshipping God. Personally, if I go fancy, I find myself getting distracted from church with multiple thoughts, for example "I can't wait to get home so I can change" or "hope everybody thinks I look ok"--thoughts that are NOT condusive to the point of church. Hence why, for me, I think it is best to go neat, but still comfortable. And it REALLY annoys me when I hear discussions beginning to drift toward fashion and looks in church. If you're setting aside this time to focus on God, why are we focusing on what everyone else is wearing? Not saying everyone does this that dresses up AT ALL...just saying it can be a danger to watch out for.
Lol. This is my point abut how Everything on this forum turns into a big debate. For me, I wear a button down shirt and cargo pants.
LOL...but a little debate can be interesting and thought-provoking! Otherwise we may sit and go "uh-huh, yeah. Yup, I agree. Yup. Ok."
I like dressing up, and almost every one at my church dresses up, so I wear a skirt or a dress to church.
It's probably got lace trimmings around the waist, wrists, etc... and she may not mean a pullover.
lol, yeah, all i can picture is a baggy white sweatshirt with a hood...that somehow has lace on it...lol.
It's a zip-up. It has a lacy lining, so you can see it in the hood and stuff. Basically, I wouldn't be caught dead in it elsewhere, but it works in semi-formal settings.
Dude, if it was black I'd be jealous.
If it was black I'd wear it more often.
All my clothing is dark and usually green or blue. At camp one time they told me to wear red or white and I didn't have either. I think it is really comedic when you go to a different church for one reason or another and people look at you funny for somehow violating their dress code.
Sounds similar to me...dark colors, and a lot of blue and some green in my wardrobe...I got a couple of Red Wings shirts, but that's about it for any red or white in my clothes!
And with the violating of dress codes...I SO did that about a year ago...I tried out this church on a Sunday evening. My home church and most other churches i've attended has casual Sunday evening dress...not so much at this one...people were still at the high end of formal church wear and I was there in cargo pants and a t-shirt. Needless to say, I got many questions on if I was a visitor...to top it off, the night I came ended up being a kids' performance type night, so it wasn't even a regular sermon or anything! Oops...Crazy stuff...anyone else have any random out-of-place church stories?


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The RNC Twitter "Mistake" Wasn't a Mistake
by NNPAFreddie December 9, 2013 October 30, 2020
By Lee A. Daniels
The Republican Party's inability to prevent some of its elected officials and party operatives alike from making racist and sexist remarks and tamp down others' penchant for cringe-worthy gaffes along those lines necessitates a slight revising of that old saying: It's always like déjà vu all over again.
Last week, it was – actually for just a moment – the Republican National Committee's sole turn in the spotlight.
On December 1, it sought via a tweet to mark the anniversary of the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks, the legendary incident that provoked the famous Montgomery (Ala.) Bus Boycott and the start of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s: "Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in ending racism," it said.
The blogosphere and Twitterverse immediately exploded with derisive reminders that racism and racial segregation continued long after the victory of the bus boycott movement in overturning segregation on the Montgomery buses.
Not until the next day did the RNC issue a corrective tweet – implicitly acknowledging it's worthwhile getting the facts and consequences of history exactly right: "Previous tweet, should have read 'Today we remember Rosa Parks' bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism.'"
Unfortunately, GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, of California, soon added to the GOP's reputation for offensiveness when, in a December 2 interview on CSPAN, he declared that lying "is part of Middle Eastern culture." Hunter added for good measure that "In the Middle Eastern culture it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying."
Later, Hunter's spokesman made a weak stab at damage control, claiming he was only referring to the leaders of Middle Eastern countries, not their entire populations.
Has there been a week in the last five years – since Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States – in which some Republican politico in a low or high position has not been exposed as the author of a racist, sexist and/or homophobic e-mail, video, tweet, or remark?
There must be some kind of mechanism virtually implanted in the minds of Republicans these days that goes ringgggggg—your turn! compelling someone somewhere in its elective-office or operational structure to make particularly outlandish remarks or claims that underscore the breadth of the backward attitudes that rule the Party.
If it's not a Todd Akin, the failed Missouri 2012 Senate candidate, revealing his crackpot "legitimate rape" notions of female physiology, it's Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum rushing during the GOP presidential primary skirmishing to pledge allegiance to the "marriage vow" declaration of the right-wing FAMILY Leader organization. In doing so, they overlooked its despicable assertion that Black children born into slavery before the Civil War, and their parents, were better off than those Black children born outside of marriage today.
If it's not Kentucky Senator Rand Paul earlier this year wrongly lecturing students at predominantly Black Howard University on some elementary facts of Black American history, it's Iowa Rep. Steve King weirdly asserting last July that many undocumented immigrants who had come to the U.S. as children had actually been ferrying drugs – producing in them "calves the size of cantaloupes because they've been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
There are many, many more examples one could cite, ranging from the picayune to the deeply disgusting. And they themselves are just a portion of the voluminous evidence that bigotry itself has become a more and more powerful congenital virus within the GOP. These "gaffes" and "mistakes" GOP officials keep making aren't gaffes or mistakes. They are at this stage of its existence markers of what the GOP is: the party where bigotry thrives.
Indeed, earlier this year the Republican National Committee itself was victimized by that sickness. It had moved quickly after the November 2012 "shellacking" the Obama campaign machine had given the Republican Romney-Ryan ticket to develop a "Growth and Opportunity" agenda that it said would enable the Party to win back the White House in 2016. Making concerted efforts to appeal to voters of color and other key groups of the winning Democratic coalition was high on the report's list of recommendations.
The response of the Republican Party leadership? They in effect looked the other way as conservative think-tankers and the GOP-allied punditocracy savaged the document – and immediately began suggesting the GOP could win the White House in 2016 just by doubling down on its appeal to White voters only.
No doubt the large majority of copies of the RNC report are resting comfortably at the bottom of the Potomac River.
And by the time this column will be read, there'll be one, or two, or three or more similar Republican Party "mistakes" and "gaffes" to add to the list.
Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.
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Mrs Elliott has celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by family and friends.
A kind-hearted Ripon resident has celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by friends and family - and her childhood teddy bear, who has also just turned 100.
Warm birthday messages have been pouring in from well-wishers, making Barbara Elliott's celebrations even more special. And Borrage House Care Home, where Mrs Elliott has lived for four years, organised a teddy bear's picnic to mark the occasion.
Care home manager Sarah Aitken, said: "Mrs Elliott is a lovely person. She always likes to take part in the activities in the home. Her favourite activity is a teddy bear picnic which we do with St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School. Barbara loves this event and her own teddy always attends, so she wanted to do this again for her birthday as it is also her teddy's 100th birthday.
"We had a special buffet laid on for her and her family and other residents and the children, and of course an extra special birthday cake."
A grandmother and great grandmother, Mrs Elliott was born in Heaton in Bradford, then moved to Ripon later in her life. Before she retired, Mrs Elliott owned her own dairy farm.
Mrs Elliott, who was in the land army during the Second World War, said: "My secret to my long life is plenty of exercise and good food - fruit, vegetables and wholemeal bread. I feel pretty good - I'm still mobile and I have my own mind, I just can't see very well these days.
"My most positive memory of my life is my journey across Canada - I boarded the Queen Mary from Britain and arrived in New York three and a half days later, then travelled by train to Canada and lived on the prairie with my mother's cousin. I lived there for six months and thought I would emigrate, but I got homesick so came back to England.
Mrs Elliott vividly remembers some of the biggest moments in British history, and enjoys sharing anecdotes about events like the Queen's coronation.
She said: "For the Queen's coronation we went to the village hall to watch it on a TV. It was the first time I had ever seen a TV. It wasn't a party, it was just a gathering, and lots of people from our village attended."
Mrs Elliott's eldest grandchild is 64 - she's much-loved by family, friends and those have had the pleasure to get to know her over the last 100 years.


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Conspiracy Theory: Newsmax's Hirsen Thinks Ford Is Trying To Profit From Kavanaugh Accusations
Among the conspiracy theories peddled by the right against Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during their prep-school years we can now add Newsmax columnist James Hirsen's claim, in his Oct. 1 column, that Ford is making her accusations in order to profit from crowdfunding:
In a September 2018 appearance on "CBS This Morning," a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Kamala Harris, D-Calif., opined that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford had "nothing to gain" in stepping forward with allegations against Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
A few days later in an appearance on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin, D-Ill., stated in the form of a question to the host a similar opinion.
"What in the h*** did she have to gain by doing this?" Durbin queried.
History suggests that there are a host of significant gains that may indeed be awaiting Ford. One has already surfaced via a digital platform. It arrived in the form of "crowdfunding," i.e., the practice of financing a venture or cause by raising money from a large number of people utilizing specialized websites on the Internet.
Two crowdfunding accounts on the GoFundMe website, which were made on behalf of Ford, have raised approximately $740,000. For reasons unknown, at present the two GoFundMe accounts are no longer accepting donations.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recently expressed concern that crowdfunding may be being used in a manner that enables legal testimony to be purchased.
"You can buy a witness effectively by funding them as long as they're saying the type of thing that you want them to say," Turley cautioned.
The notion that money could potentially be used to purchase testimony from favorable witnesses poses a threat to a functioning legal system and the fundamental precepts of due process.
In the end, it is not merely about what an individual has to gain, but rather what our country and her people have to lose.
Needless to say, Hirsen offers no actual evidence to back up his speculative conspiracy theory.
Posted by Terry K. at 6:14 PM EDT
MRC Normalizes Teen Drinking to Defend Kavanaugh
One of the ways the Media Research Center has defended Brett Kavanaugh through the Supreme Court nomination process is to insist that teenage drinking, even to the level allegedly consumed by Kavanaugh that was testified to and hinted at, is totally normal and not unhealthy at all -- and tried to parse Kavanaugh's words to claim he really didn't get that drunk or that he didn't mislead anyone about his youthful drinking.
In a Sept. 27 post, Nicholas Fondacaro highlighted how Kavanuagh addressed "an accusation that he would routinely get blackout drunk. As nearly any college student can tell you, there is a vast difference between getting really hammered and getting blackout drunk."
Another Sept. 27 post by Clay Waters claimed that Kavanaugh's reportedly heavy drinking during college is "an aspect of college life hardly unique to Kavanaugh."
A post by Bill D'Agostino complained that MSNBC hosts was "comparing his statements in a Fox News interview to a portion of his sworn testimony submitted to the Committee" regarding college era drinking, further huffing that the hosts did not "share how attending church and focusing on school work might have precluded him from consuming too much alcohol on weekends."
D'Agostino followed up by grousing that another MSNBC host "donned her armchair psychologist's hat and claimed that his highly emotional delivery proved that he was an abusive drunk." That's a funny claim given how many MRC employees are armchair mind-readers.
Jay Maxson touted how Kavanaugh's college friend Chris Dudley, a former pro basketball player, "vouch[ed] for Kavanaugh's character" and that Kavanaugh "never blacked out," adding: "Did he get inebriated sometimes? Yes. Did I? Yes. Just like every other college kid in America."
Fondacaro repeated his parsing defense in a Sept. 30 post: "But Kavanaugh admitted to being a heavy drinker during his late-high school and college years in his testimony. The Judge only contended he never got 'blackout drunk'. That's a big difference, ask nearly any college student. "
Fondacaro returned in an Oct. 3 post to defending Kavanaugh from claims that he had portrayed himself as a "choir boy" in his Senate testimony: "Kavanaugh admitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he drank a lot in his youth and he used to do stupid things."
Fondacaro once more insisted there's a "huge difference" between drinking a lot and blacking out in an Oct. 5 post:
In both the Judge's interview with Fox News and his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he admitted that he drank heavily in his youth and did stupid things. That is fact.
Kavanaugh's contention was that he never got "blackout drunk," a huge difference. And no matter how many of Kavanaugh's former Yale classmates told CNN that he "lied" about drinking a lot, it doesn't change the fact that he did admit it and he's the only one that would know if he "blacked out."
Of course, the whole point of being blackout drunk is that you don't remember it, which would make Kavanaugh an decidedly imperfect authority on whether he did so or how he behaved while under that condition. Fondacaro surely knows that.
CNS Flakes Out Over Sen. Flake's Push For FBI Kavanaugh Probe
When Republican Sen. Jeff Flake successfully stalled the nomination process of Brett Kavanaugh by forcing a weeklong FBI investigation into him, the pro-Kavanaugh forces at CNSNews.com knew what they had to do: attack and mock Flake.
An Oct. 1 blog post by Craig Bannister promoted how right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro called Flake a "sucker" purportedly duped by Democrats into pushing for the investigation and ranted that Flake "collapsed" because "some protesters screamed at him in an elevator. I'm not kidding. At all."
This was followed a half-hour later by a blog post from managing editor Michael W. Chapman, who seized on Flake's statement that he would not have pressed for the investigation if he were running for re-election to engaged in a Heathering campaign to bashhim for failing to be sufficiently right-wing, grumbling that "Flake has been a staunch critic of President Donald Trump and compared him to the Soviet genocidal dictator Joseph Stalin" and adding: "While in Congress, Flake introduced legislation to provide a 'pathway to citizenship' for illegal aliens. He also voted to repeal the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Act. Flake supports abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother."
Chapman never explains the context of Flake's Stalin reference: that Trump's use of the term "enemy of the people" to attack media outlets that fail to be pro-Trump stenographers -- you know, like the website Chapman manages -- is an echo of language Stalin used against his enemies. Nor does Chapman dispute its accuracy.
Two hours after this, Chapman decided that he found it amusing that Flake "was born and raised in the small town of Snowflake, Arizona," featuring this trivia under the headline "Sen. Jeff Flake is a Native Born Snowflake." ("Snowflake," of course, is right-wing slang for a liberal who can't handle opposing views, though it appears that Chapman is the real snowflake here for his assault on Flake because the senator doesn't share his dogmatic right-wing ideology.) Chapman againgroused that Flake "once compared Trump to genocidal dictator Joseph Stalin" and repeated a poll claiming "only 18% of Arizonans approved of Sen. Flake's job performance."
Of course, CNS' two minutes hate -- in the form of three Flake-bashing blog posts in a two-and-a-half-hour span -- would seem to prove Flake right ... and put the onus on Chapman to explain why his "news" outlet is so willing to attack whomever Trump deems must be attacked.
Linda Harvey LGBT Derangement Watch
The priest or evangelical minister who claims an "LGBTQ" identity but pledges to remain celibate cannot be trusted to do so.
Can I repeat that? We cannot trust them. Such foolish tolerance should never be the policy in evangelical churches, and as we can now see, clinging to such identities should never have been allowed in the Catholic Church.
There should be no public recognition of and sensitivity to identities based on sin. And no faithful Christian church would ever imply to minors that "LGBTQ" identities are understandable, inborn, or acceptable.
Don't get me wrong. During private counseling settings, ministers should always show great compassion for people with these temptations. But such discussion must be private for a whole host of reasons, one being that these desires are never to receive public dignity. An affirmation of any "right" to nurture and cherish sinful feelings is poison to the soul, and a cancer within ministry.
And people who make this confession, or confess to adulterous "struggles," do not belong in ministry any more than a former shoplifter should run your retail store.
Why would any youth pastor smile indulgently over a teen's desire to violate this verse: "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination ( Leviticus 18:22)"?
One could easily state the obvious: "You shall not as a minister encourage a child in an abomination." Or else, prepare for a visit to the sea with a millstone around your neck (based on Christ's stern warning in Matthew 18:6).
The Revoice "gay Christian" movement and the "Love Boldly" sponsors of the "Devoted" conference need to be intentionally blocked from access to congregations since they promote sin. The people involved should be challenged to repent publicly or leave ministry.
What are these con men (and women) thinking? This is Almighty God you are messing with. Noting that these folks are bumbling idiots would be an insult to bumbling idiots.
You are not heroes. You are frauds. Get over yourselves and repent.
God can redeem, yes. So let's pray for that, but let's still act with wisdom and faithfulness.
-- Linda Harvey, Sept. 27 WorldNetDaily column
Posted by Terry K. at 1:10 AM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 5, 2018 1:19 AM EDT
MRC Attacks Journalist For Writing About Kavanaugh -- But Loved Her A Few Months Ago When She Targeted A Democrat
The Media Research Center was in the kill-the-messenger phase of the Brett Kavanaugh story when Geoffrey Dickens wrote a Sept. 26 post complaining about the "hit piece" co-written by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer about Kavanaugh's drunken college years replete with allegations of sexual misbehavior. Dickens huffed that "a look at her past demonstrates why her work should be taken with biggest grains of salt as she has become a go-to author for partisan attack stories," adding that her Kavanaugh story is "just the latest in a long list of hit pieces against conservatives."
But Dickens makes sure to leave off the list one prominent story that discredits his conspiracy theory -- and one that the MRC itself touted.
As Mayer herself reminds people like Dickens who reflexively accuse her of anti-conservative bias, she co-wrote in May with Ronan Farrow (who co-wrote the Kavanaugh piece with her) an article detailing sexual misconduct by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which caused him to resign a mere three hours after its publication.
Since Schneiderman was a Democrat who targeted President Trump's shady business dealings, the MRC loved that story:
Tim Graham touted "The New Yorker revelations of Schneiderman's allegedly violent behavior toward girlfriends."
Kyle Drennen noted an MSNBC appearance by "Jane Mayer, who actually co-authored the article that revealed Scheiderman's alleged abusive behavior toward women which led to his resignation."
Tom Blumer highlighted "Jane Mayer's and Ronan Farrow's bombshell New Yorker piece" that "succinctly summarized the horrors" of Schneiderman. Another Blumer piece relayed how "Now-former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's serial and often violent mistreatment of women chronicled on Monday at The New Yorker."
Other MRC pieces referenced the Schneiderman scandal without mentioning Mayer of the New Yorker.
Nevertheless, the MRC has it in for Mayer, mostly due to its longtime obsession with Anita Hill. As Dickens writes: "Mayer first enjoyed the liberal limelight when she (along with co-author Jill Abramson) released her anti-Clarence Thomas book in 1994. The book Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas was such a hit with the left, Mayer and company were rewarded with Showtime turning it into a 1999 movie." Dickens offers no evidence that "Strange Justice" was "anti-Clarence Thomas"; perhaps he's confusing being pro-truth for being anti-conservative.
The fact that the MRC loved Mayer just a few months ago but hates her now solely on the basis of who she writes about goes a long way to explaining the partisan shallowness that guides the MRC and why its "media research" shouldn't be trusted.
Updated: Thursday, October 4, 2018 7:00 PM EDT
WND's Kavanaugh Accuser Derangement Syndrome, Part 2
Where were you when you were 17? What were you doing, among your friends, and alone?
Did you ever do anything – anything – you're embarrassed about, sorry for, anything you would never want to be indicative of your character now?
Are you a sinless, living saint? Or, looking back honestly, did you ever – in your middle or late teens – do anything that, if it were revealed today, might cause others to think less of you?
Or do you, like 99 percent of the rest of us who have never claimed to be perfect, consider that the teen years have always been rife with errors in judgment, rash experimentation and exploration, mistakes and fumbling and outright wrongdoing – most of which disappear with maturity?
I'm furious, I admit it. I see this pack of wolves, this lynch mob of puritanical liberal Democrats, desperately afraid that a conservative, good and proven man may be confirmed to the Supreme Court – some of whom are guilty of similar and worse actions than what Judge Kavanaugh is falsely accused of – milling around with stones ready to heave, with no proof whatever of their accusations.
Don't agree with me? Argue with famed attorney Alan Dershowitz: "There's no evidence whatsoever, even under her story (account) of attempted rape."
My wife, Shirley, and I raised four beautiful daughters – right in the middle of Hollywood and Beverly Hills, in public and private schools, pretty and intelligent and desirable girls. I was a pretty protective dad (I had once been a boy, a normal boy), and I saw to it that my girls knew and understood what the "games" were and that there would be, for example, no single dates till they were 16. And we stuck to it.
The bottom line there is that all four daughters married fine Christian young men and came to their marriage partners as virgins. I've never talked publicly about this – but I now want people to understand the parental role in keeping their kids chaste and moral.
And I'll go this far: If one of my girls had an experience like the one professor Ford has described, I'd have been angry of course and wanted to confront the young man personally – but I would also have asked my daughter why she was in an unchaperoned "house party" where something like that could likely happen. In our case, it couldn't have happened, because my daughter wouldn't have been there.
-- Pat Boone, Sept. 25 WorldNetDaily column
I believe Christine Blasey Ford grew up thinking she'd been hit on and abused. I originally thought Brett Kavanaugh did indeed commit teenage horseplay beyond an acceptable limit. The strength of his denial is merely one element that convinces me he's innocent. A stronger element is the "disparity of passion."
In any dispute that deadlocks into a "he-said-she-said," it pays to compare the passion which each party displays in the act of denial. Here we have her account fuzzy and his non-existent. He actually denies even being at the party or knowing anything about it.
And now we see Kavanaugh willing to release his own straps and walk out of brain surgery to clear his name, while Dr. Ford vacillates like an animated cartoon, beginning with zero desire to reveal her identity. Why did she change her mind? I'll get there soon.
The "killer" element that draws me irrevocably into Kavanaugh's corner is what I'll call the utter absence of "Phase Two." In virtually every single example of a male fallen from grace because of sexually predatory behavior, Phase Two is as certain and as strident as a brass marching band.
Phase One is the initial accusation by the victim, fingering the guilty male. Every case I can think of offers the same drumbeat. While the early stirrings of denial and repeated accusations fill the air, along comes Phase Two.
After a few days a second woman joins the accusation. Then four more abused women come forward. The chorus expands, but the music remains the same. Harvey Weinstein, Les Moonves, Bill Cosby, Al Franken – I can't think of an exception. But not so with Kavanaugh!
Even now that a "second accuser" has surfaced, I still think the strongest argument that can be made on Brett Kavanaugh's behalf is how long it's taken to drum up such a feeble and highly suspect imitation of a genuine Phase Two! And how that second accusation finds it necessary to try to up the ante by alleging acts that are even more abhorrent (and even less credible).
-- Barry Farber, Sept. 25 WND column
It was a mistake to pander to Kavanaugh's accusers by extending the deadline and begging them to show up to tell their coached narratives in the most damaging way liberals can imagine. No court of law allows a witness to completely take over the scheduling as Kavanaugh's opponents have.
Kavanaugh would have been confirmed by now if the Senate had simply called the vote. Never-Trump Republicans and even a few Democrats would have fallen in line and voted the right way, or gone down in history as a mob who hangs an innocent man.
But like the failure of a superior army to advance to win a battle, the dilly-dallying by the Republican leadership has led to disarray and lost opportunity. The delay allowed the politically motivated opponents of Kavanaugh to practice and embellish, divide and conquer.
Some hope that vigorous cross-examination of Kavanaugh's accusers will prove to the world that Kavanaugh has the stellar character that all who know him describe. There are, of course, good questions about political motivation and the orchestration of this smear that should be asked.
But relatively few Americans will watch the hearing, contrary to what the senators may think, and Abraham Lincoln-style moments on cross-examination are rare. The more that a witness is coached, the less likely a breakthrough at the hearing.
Instead, the vast majority of Americans will see only the headlines and selective sound bites, as spun by a media determined to sink Kavanaugh. The testimony itself is immune from defamation lawsuits, and news outlets will repeat the false accusations without including the cross-examination.
This is fake news in its worst form. Sexually explicit allegations are politically deadly, no matter how false and implausible they are, and the GOP-controlled Senate errs in giving the other side a platform.
-- Andy Schlafly, Sept. 25 WND column
The hearings in the Clarence Thomas confirmation have still left a cloud over his reputation. The accusations against him by Anita Hill did not hold water. She followed him around from job to job, although he was supposedly guilty of "a prolonged campaign of sexual harassment," to quote the Time magazine cover story (Oct. 1, 2018).
Tragically, Time implies that Anita Hill was right – even though her testimony did not hold up under scrutiny – and, by implication, one should perhaps infer that Kavanaugh's accuser is right too.
A new poll shows support from the American people for Kavanaugh slipping. Well, how could it not when the media keep picking up on any alleged accusation, even without corroboration? The media have been half the problem in this whole saga. All they do is report the negative stuff, but the ultimate question is: Is it true?
Somebody might say, "Well, where there's smoke, there's fire." The same thing happened to Jesus. (Every other human falls short of Him, but it's instructive to see how He was treated.) When He was on trial, the Roman prefect asked of His guilt or innocence, and His accusers said, "If He were not guilty, we would not have brought Him to you." The only perfect human being who ever lived was being described as guilty. We know how that turned out.
-- Jerry Newcombe, Sept. 25 WND column
So as I watched Thursday's hearing intently, I was struck by Kavanaugh's coming of age. Never before in his privileged and sheltered life, had this legal caterpillar, now through adversity and vicious smears, been forced to crawl out of his cocoon into the mean real world, after a 53-year lifetime of being walled off from combat at street level.
While I questioned the wisdom of Kavanaugh having gratuitously conceded that professor Ford likely was sexually assaulted but by someone else, which is akin to being a little bit pregnant as it goes halfway to confirm the victim's credibility, I was also struck by his having uncontrollably broken down in tears during particularly emotional parts of his testimony. Kavanaugh was almost like a young school boy who was caught by the principal and about to be suspended for his misdeeds. Ironically though, while not helping with his credibility, this not only evoked more of my sympathy, but also reaffirmed that the jurist had never really before in his privileged and sheltered life experienced real adversity.
And, I thought that in the end, if Kavanaugh is confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice – and for better or worse at this late point I hope that he is, lest the Dems get to effectively water down the president's pick down the road – at least he had been tempered under fire to appreciate what many in our society have lived: not an easy life. This experience will make him a better Supreme Court justice, as he is now hopefully more aware of those Americans who were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths and did not have the "privilege" of going to Georgetown Preparatory and Yale, where cavorting around stupidly drunk was seen as an uber he-man and elitist "rite de passage"!
-- Larry Klayman, Sept. 28 WND column
Kavanaugh is being called a predator – but I believe it's high time for the gloves to come off and call these women, these accusers, what they really are. In fact they are the predators, not Judge Kavanaugh.
And if this stunt these false accusers are attempting to collectively pull off was not their idea, then they should be called something else, and deservedly so. That something else is prostitute, and the politicians, the media and leftist special-interest gangs are the pimps.
None of these women have a shred of even circumstantial evidence to support their outrageous claims. In fact, the only one who has presented any evidence at all is Brett Kavanaugh, by way of his calendars and signed statements from a multitude of character witnesses.
Yet still the accusers are to be blindly and faithfully believed. So say all the leftist liars and useful idiots.
And all this is being done for one reason – centralized government power and control. It is the left's religion, and their holy sacrament is abortion.
-- Brent Smith, Sept. 28 WND column
I do not know whether Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh is telling the truth. But I do know this: Brett Kavanaugh's impassioned speech, fighting for his life and his family and his reputation and his career, is a wake-up call to us all, especially if we are Christian conservatives. It is high time we stand up and fight.
Of course, I'm not talking about "fighting" in a worldly, destructive sense. I'm not talking about fighting with hate. Or with intimidation. Or with violence, God forbid.
Rather, it's time we stir ourselves out of complacency and take a principled stand for what is right. It's time we awaken from our spiritual stupor and get involved in the culture, from our children's schools to the White House. It's time that we speak up and speak out and declare Jesus boldly and without shame.
We are beyond the stage of being provoked. We are beyond the stage of being challenged. We are beyond the stage of being opposed. We are beyond the stage of being shamed. To remain silent today is inexcusable.
Put another way, what we saw in the Kavanaugh hearings is the tip of the iceberg in the battle for conservative moral values. And those who most vehemently oppose us don't care about fighting fair. Or pursuing justice. Or following the truth.
If they can destroy you with lies, so be it. Whatever it takes to advance the cause.
And make no mistake about it. As Brett Kavanaugh just learned, this vicious attack will hit your children (and grandchildren) directly. And if we fail to speak and act and stand, we fail to protect those we love the most.
To repeat: To remain silent today is inexcusable.
The Kavanaugh hearings made that very clear. Bitingly clear. Strikingly clear. Screachingly clear. We have to be tone deaf not to hear it.
-- Michael Brown, Sept. 28 WND column
CNS' Wildly Biased Coverage of Kavanaugh, Accuser Testimony
We knew CNSNews.com's coverage of Senate testimony by Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, was going to be biased -- after all, CNS' Media Research Center parent refuses to impose the standards it demands the rest of the media follow to its own "news" operation -- but even we were a bit surprised.
The reports on the opening statements set the tone. Susan Jones' article on Kavanaugh's opening statement carried the headline "Kavanaugh's Opening Statement: 'Last Minute Smears'; 'Grotesque and Obvious Character Assassination'" and played up Kavanaugh's denials. By contrast, Jones' article on Ford's opening statementcarried the soft-to-the-point-of-mocking headline "Kavanaugh's Accuser Says a Remodeling Project Triggered the Assault Discussion With Her Therapist" and obsessed over the remodeling incident.
CNS' coverage of Ford's testimony was similarly dismissive of her claims. Here are the headlines on those articles:
Christine Blasey Ford Said 'Hello' to Mark Judge Just Weeks After Alleged Assault
Kavanaugh Accuser on 'Strongest Memory' of Alleged Attack: 'Indelible in the Hippocampus Is the Laughter'
Grassley Corrects Ford: Committee Did Offer to Fly to Her; Ford Won't Say if Lawyers Relayed Offer to Her
Surprisingly, in the Mark Judge article, Jones offered a rare disclosure that Judge "used to be a writer for CNSNews.com," though she failed to report that Ford's detail about seeing Judge at an area grocery store appears to be corroborated by Judge's book, in which he wrote that he spent part of a summer working at a grocery store.
This was followed the next day by two more attacks on Ford: "No One Has Come Forward to Back Up Ford, Not Even the Person Who Drove Her Home" and "Ford Recounts the 'Laughter' Several Times, the Fear for Her Life Only Once."
By contrast, CNS' coverage of Kavanaugh's testimony pushed his denials that anything took place and the idea that the hearing was taking place at all:
Kavanaugh: 'I Never Sexually Assaulted Dr. Ford or Anyone'
Kavanaugh: 'I Swear to God' That None of the Sexual Abuse Allegations Are True
Lindsey Graham: Kavanaugh Hearing 'Most Despicable Thing That I Have Seen in Politics'
Surprisingly, CNS did concede in one article -- by the normally biased Susan Jones, of all people -- that Kavanaugh was "defensive" about his youthful drinking and that "some of the weakest moments of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's testimony on Thursday involved his responses to Democrats who pressed him on his drinking and whether he had blackouts or memory lapses as a result."
The MRC would be attacking any media outlet whose Kavanaugh coverage was as biased. But in-house "news" outlets get a pass.
Posted by Terry K. at 12:25 AM EDT
WND Columnist Mocks Kavanaugh Accuser's Claims
WorldNetDaily columnist Patrice Lewis is responding to Catherine Blasey Ford's accusation of a prep-school sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by going the mockery route in her Sept. 28 column:
I had an affair with Brett Kavanaugh.
No, really I did. I can't remember the time, the place or the circumstances – but I certainly had an affair with Kavanaugh. I'm a woman, so you have to believe everything I say.
It doesn't matter that my memory is poor, my sources unverified, or that I never told a soul about my passionate involvement with Kavanaugh. I couldn't possibly have an agenda when it comes to making public my affair. The fact is, I'm an über-leftist woman; therefore everything I say is true. Period, end of sentence, no debate allowed or you're just a bully.
And now … hang on a second, it's all coming back to me … did I say I had an affair with Kavanaugh? My bad. The truth is, I was nearly raped by Kavanaugh. I just remembered that part. It was at a party, one of dozens I attended in my youth. Of course, I was drinking and I don't remember the time, date, year, location or circumstances of the most traumatic event in my life, but I'm positive Kavanaugh tried to rape me back around 1982 or so. Or maybe it was 1983. It's true. I'm a woman, so you have to believe me.
There are other women coming out of the woodwork to support my claim that Kavanaugh is a sexual predator, and my claims have just as much merit as theirs. My memory is just as accurate as theirs. Above all, my motives are just as pure as theirs. Pure as the driven snow, folks. Really. Honestly. I'm a woman, so you have to believe me.
And because you have to believe me, you can't pry into my political or personal beliefs. You can't factor in my support for abortion as a taxpayer-funded right, which might be jeopardized if Kavanaugh gets on the Supreme Court. You can't examine my social media posts where I say Donald Trump is a bleepity-bleeping bleeper bleep bleep. You can't take into account that I'm a rabid feminist who think all men should shut up and sit down, as Mazie Hirono recommends.
Y'know, it's kinda fun to go forward with these charges against Kavanaugh! It gets me all kinds of attention and lots of uplifting support from my fellow women. No matter what the outcome of Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, I'm set for life. I can write books, get paid obscene amounts of money for speaking engagements, get a professorship at any university in the country, and be the darling of the progressive set for ruining the lives of Kavanaugh and his family. What's not to love?
And if Kavanaugh gets dumped from consideration to the Supreme Court, I look forward to Trump's next nominee so I can recall my sexual assault by him as well. All I'll need is a poor memory, six days with a porn attorney, a leftist agenda, and I'll be ready … right after I scrub my social media accounts and bleach my laptop.
So my deepest thanks to everyone who has helped kill the antiquated and patriarchal concepts of the rule of law and the presumption of innocence. We finally get to reap what we sowed.
Lewis also throws in: "Bill Clinton is a saint who would never mistreat a woman. Juanita Broaddrick was a liar. Oh wait, didn't I just say women can't lie? Um, forget I said that. We'll just forget Broaddrick exists. Don't believe her." Lewis seems to have forgotten that Broaddrick actually is a liar -- she either lied for the first 20 years after the alleged attack when she claimed it didn't happen and submitted a sworn statement to Ken Starr to that effect, or she's lying now. Lewis offers no guidance on which Broaddrick story to believe.
Updated: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:49 PM EDT
MRC Denounces Those Who Liken Trump, Conservatives to Nazis -- But Its Senior Fellow Attacked 'Demzis'
The Media Research Center doesn't like it when someone in the media tries to liken President Trump or conservatives in general to Nazis. For instance:
Kristine Marsh denounced a "ridiculous segment" on MSNBC in which panelists "claim[ed] Trump was behaving like a Nazi."
Curtis Houck attacked a CNN segment that "subtly painted Tea Partiers as angry, irrational conspiracy theorists who ran around with signs depicting the President as the Joker or a Nazi."
Ryan Foley grumbled that Fox News host Laura Ingraham was likened to a neo-Nazi over an anti-immigration rant despite "Ingraham making it perfectly clear that she did not intend for her comments to come off as racist."
That outrage, needless to say, does not extend to anyone who likens a non-conservative to Nazis -- indeed, it seems the MRC encourages such attacks. Case in point: An Aug. 6 column by MRC senior fellow Allen West, published at MRC "news" division CNSNews.com, is a rant about how ">much of what the venerable First Infantry Division stood against now seems to be penetrating our America." His first example: "Men who landed on Omaha Beach to fight against National Socialists (Nazis) now live in an America with avowed Democratic Socialists (Demzis)."
Also needless to say, West still has a job at the MRC. Hypocrisy at its finest.
WND Still Falsely Portraying Reconstruction of Arch As Symbol of Idolatry
For the past few years, WorldNetDaily has been obsessing over reconstructions of ancient ruins destroyed by ISIS -- particularly the arch to the Temple of Palmyra, or the Temple of Baal as WND insists on calling it -- ludicrously portraying them as a return to paganism instead of the poke in the eye from historians to the artifacts' destroyers that they actually are.
An anonymously written Sept. 16 WND article goes the freakout route again complaining that the arch "will reappear in Washington, D.C." This time, though, WND admits in the second paragraph that "The original in the Middle East was destroyed by ISIS in October 2015, but it was re-created by the Institute for Digital Archaeology using 3-D printing technology."
But WND descends soon enough into its rote, ridiculous accusations of idolatry:
But the arch isn't just a Roman ruin. It was originally an arch for the Temple of Baal, a pagan god repeatedly mentioned in the Old Testament. The rites of Baal were marked by child sacrifice and ritual prostitution.
Rabbi Yosef Berger, the rabbi of King David's Tomb on Mount Zion, told BIN it's a symbol of a resurgence of idolatry.
"The last time we saw this level of idolatry was when the Temple stood in Jerusalem. Now that we are close to the appearance of the Third Temple, idolatry is reappearing, even in popular culture among people who claim they are atheists," he told the news organization.
The rabbi said it is no coincidence that the arch is becoming a centerpiece at gatherings of world leaders.
"This is like a child who builds a Lego tower that gets knocked down," Rabbi Berger said. "After having it knocked down several times, he goes to build the Lego tower next to his mother so that she will stop it from being knocked down. An average person, Jew or non-Jew, has no tolerance for open idolatry. If someone built an altar to idolatry in the middle of a nice neighborhood, everyone would gather together to destroy it. The average person has no desire for idolatry. So the people who seek dark and unholy power build their symbols of idolatry next to powerful politicians, at these world power summits, so that normal people will not be able to challenge them."
While WND did take the unusual step of admitting that ISIS destroyed the original arch, it once again failed to mention that the temple served as a Christian church during the Byzantine era. That would seem to be an important part of its history that WND is strangely choosing to ignore.
UPDATE: WND followed up with a Sept. 30 article that actually blamed the "craziness that enveloped Washington" surrounding the Brett Kavanaugh nomination on the arch replica's presence in Washington:
Some are asking the question of whether the craziness that enveloped Washington last week might be connected with Baal – kind of like a full moon.
Who made the decision? Why? Who knows? Maybe it's just a coincidence – even though many observers of the Supreme Court nomination hearings that took all the oxygen out of the capital last week note that the entire process had to do with abortion.
Other are questioning whether the disposition of the Arch of Palmyra might bring a semblance of normality to D.C. today.
WND does not identify who these "observers" or "other[s]" are who are making this claim.
The article went on to rehash all the Baal stuff from previous arch freakouts and again failed to mention that at one time the temple served as a Christian church. It also cited anonymous, unsourced claims by "some on social media" criticizing the arch.
MRC Goes Into Conspiracy Mode Over Kavanaugh
The Media Research Center has spent years attacking Hillary Clinton for saying that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" was out to destroy her husband's presidency in the 1990s. As recently as July, the MRC's Brent Bozell and Tim Graham mocked Clinton's claim as "ridiculous" (even though Bozell declared in 2001 that "Yes, Virginia, the vast right-wing conspiracy did exist all along!")
But Bozell and Graham have their own conspiracy to peddle now.
In their Sept. 25 column, unironically titled "The Vast Anti-Kavanaugh Conspiracy," the two rant at anyone who doesn't see the conspiracy they do against Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination:
Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi wrote a Sept. 25 article on liberal-media bias headlined "Kavanaugh Supporters See a Conspiracy Afoot." The Post painted this as a little crazy, like a UFO is involved. Can anyone imagine the idea of the Democrats and liberal reporters working hand in glove to torpedo a Republican nomination?
Maybe we can remember Supreme Court nominees Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg in 1987, John Tower in 1989 or Clarence Thomas in 1991. Maybe we can recall John Ashcroft being tarred as a racist in 2001. In these cases and many others, "objective" reporters lined up and repeated the Democrat talking points as "news" and often succeeded in wrecking nominations.
Farhi lined up the deniers. "We aren't colluding with anyone about anything, including the Kavanaugh nomination," said Martin Baron, executive editor of the Post. "The conspiracy theories are pure nonsense and completely false."
"Pure nonsense"? The Post quotes anonymous sources multiple times a day, so how would anyone be able to piece together and figure out the entire collusion experience? The Post claims on the front page every day that "Democracy Dies in Darkness," and it disdains "dark money" in political campaigns. But it loves "dark sources" spicing up its incessant attacks on the Trump administration.
No one should believe any of these collusion deniers. No media outlet perpetuating this Kavanaugh-crushing conspiracy is nonpartisan, or disinterested. They are on a witch hunt.
Funny how conspiracies become real for Bozell when they can be politically exploited.
Having thus received its marching orders from the top, the rest of Bozell's MRC started going conspiracy-crazy.
Kristine Marsh alluded to one in a Sept. 26 post complaining about an ABC segment asking teens about the Kavanaugh controversy. She added in a update that one of the teens interviews was "accused of planting a question to Hillary Clinton during a 2016 townhall." Marsh relayed the conspiracy theory wrong; actually, the teen was accused by right-wing media of being a "child actor" plant at the townhall because she once had a small role in a short film. In fact, she was the daughter of a local politician who got to take part, and Clinton had no knowledge of her question beforehand.
In a Sept. 27 post, Nicholas Fondacaro went full Bozell in sneering at a "thick-headed" columnist, Kirsten Powers, who "couldn't understand how Kavanaugh could think there was a conspiracy against him. "Fondacaro howled:
Hmm, maybe he knew the radical Democrats were out to destroy him because nearly all of them announced they were opposing his nomination before ever meeting with them. Some, in fact, were opposing anyone President Trump nominated. That's not to mention that there were New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Hawaii's Mazie Hirono who declared him guilty days before the hearing.
Or perhaps it was New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who called Kavanaugh and his supporters evil. It could even have been the Democrats who pontificated that he was going to put the lives of millions at risk. Kavanaugh actually addressed this in his opening remarks, so for Powers to claim ignorance was just slimy.
Even as WorldNetDaily is becoming less WND-like due to its continued fight for survival, the MRC has decided to be even more WND-like by embracing political conspiracies it used to despise.
Newsmax's Gizzi Promotes Kavanaugh Doppelganger Theory
Newsmax's John Gizzi, as befits a reporter for a conservative website, is doing what he can to support the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. That means the questionable theory that Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during their high school years, was actually assaulted by someone else. And he found someone to promote it. From Gizzi's Sept. 19 article:
An attorney who specializes in cases of sexual assault among college students told Newsmax she believes Professor Christine Blasey Ford did experience the assault of which she has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
However, Lynchburg, Virginia, attorney Margaret Valois, whose speciality is Title IX (the law guaranteeing equality between males and females) violations, also believes Ford's charge against Kavanaugh might easily be a case of mistaken identity.
"I have no doubt [the assault] happened — something happened to her in 1980," Valois told us. "These are terrible situations and not unlike situations I deal with now among college students. But given all the testimony to Judge Kavanaugh's character as a young student and today, I have doubts that he was the one who assaulted her."
Thus, Valois concluded, Ford might well be naming the wrong person in pointing a finger at the former Bush White House official and U.S. Court of Appeals judge on the eve of the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote on his nomination to the Supreme Court.
"My gut says Professor Ford was assaulted when she was 15, but not by Kavanaugh," Valois said. "She made a claim and deserves to be heard," she said, adding she felt the hearings were "a good thing."
But Valois also pointed out she felt the statements of exemplary character – by people who are well-acquainted with Kavanaugh from his days at Georgetown Prep and Yale University to his stint in the White House – "certainly count for something."
A week later -- following Ford's Senate testimony about the attack and Kavanaugh's rebuttal, as well as conservative attorney Ed Whelan's attempt to push a similar doppelganger theory that went so horribly wrong that he was forced to take a leave of absence from his day job as the head of a conservative think tank -- Gizzi called on Valois once again to tout the theory anew:
Despite Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony Thursday that she was "100 percent" certain it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her when they were both in high school 35 years ago, attorney Margaret Valois — who specializes in sexual assault cases among college students— still believes Ford's charge against the Supreme Court nominee is dealing a case of mistaken identity.
"I don't think she can be certain that it was Judge Kavanaugh," said Valois, who first advanced the "mistaken identity" theory with Newsmax a week ago.
"How can she be certain if she cannot address the other circumstances with certainty—location, date, time, and the other people involved?" Valois told us.
Curiously, Gizzi made no mention of Whelan's doppelganger fiasco. Nor did he mention that Valois takes a decidedly right-wing approach to Title IX, filing a lawsuit against Tulane University for purportedly discriminating against men.
Mark Judge Worked For MRC Even Longer Than We Thought
Earlier today, we documented the nearly complete failure of the Media Research Center to disclose that Mark Judge, the alleged witness to his prep-school drinking buddy and Supremen Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault on Christine Blasey Ford, worked as a "blog reporter" for the MRC's "news" division, CNSNews.com, for a year and a half. But there's an even deeper Judge connection the MRC has been silent on.
A few months after departing CNS, Judge was back to write blog posts for the MRC's video-centric operation MRCTV. Judge wrote for MRCTV beginning in April 2017 , and his final post was on Sept. 13 of this year -- just a few days before Ford's accusations against Kavanaugh and citing Judge's involvement in the incident.
As Media Matters documented, a few of Judge's MRCTV posts reflect his history of bigotry and borderline misogyny. For instance, Judge mocked comedian Amy Schumer as "big-boned Barbie" in a May 2017 post.
Judge is also clearly not fond of the LGBT community. On July 24, he ranted about a Broadway play that he portrayed as "a lecture from transgenders" and speculated that there is no such thing as a "straight white playwright." Another Judge post positively reviewed a book he said claimed that "the modern transgender phenomenon and its defenders share a similar mentality to that which produced Nazi Germany."
Interestingly, while every other MRC operation has been loath to admit that Judge worked for it, two of the four MRCTV's posts referencing Judge in relation to Kavanaugh as of this writing (though not the two written in the past day) not only disclose that "Mark Judge is a freelance writer who has written pieces for MRCTV," they link to Judge's MRCTV archive. Did someone down the hall corral the MRCTV folks and remind them of the Judge omerta?
Meanwhile, the omerta continues at the rest of the MRC. A Sept. 27 MRC post by Kyle Drennen mentioned Judge in passing but not his work for the MRC. And a Sept. 27 CNS article by Susan Jones attempting to undercut Ford's veracity by highlighting her Senate testimony that she "said hello" to Judge at his job at a grocery store parentically noted that "For the record, Judge has written about his drunken/hungover high school years" but didn't disclose, parenthetically or otherwise, that Judge wrote for the MRC for more than three years.
Updated: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:54 PM EDT
WND Just Can't Stop Smearing Transgenders With Photos
We've documented how WorldNetDaily smears transgenders by its selection of photos to illustrate its transgender-related stories -- either a photo it stole from the Associated Press of male legs in a dress and heels (that is actually from a 2012 "hairy legs on heels" race in Madrid, so the person in the photo is not even transgender) or a stubbled male face applying lipstick.
Well, WND is still engaging in this ridiculous, biased behavior. An Aug. 25 article by Bob Unruh ranting about the idea that anti-discrimination laws cover transgenders used the lipstick photo for its front-page tease:
A Sept. 21 WND article on a transgender woman who is seeking to expunge the crimes she committed as a male also used the image:
You'd think that with all the trouble WND has had stay afloat of late that it would have better things to do than promote anti-transgender discrimination with such stereotypical bias. Apparently not.
MRC Won't Tell You Kavanaugh's High School Drinking Buddy Used To Work For It
References at the Media Research Center to Mark Judge, the prep-school classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was reportedly in the room at the party where Christine Blasey Ford claims Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. At the MRC's NewsBusters, almost all references to Judge are in passing or limited to mentions in transcripts, except for one article that attacked a "massive error" in a New York Times story about Judge. At the MRC's "news" division, CNSNews.com, Judge is similarly mentioned only in passing.
The MRC has almost completely hidden the fact that Judge used to be an employee. From mid-2015 to early 2017, Judge was a "blog reporter" for CNS. Access to Judge's archive has been blocked by CNS, but the Internet Archive lists his archive through January 2017 (he left shortly thereafter).
None of those NewsBusters items mention Judge's MRC employment. The only CNS article or column referencing Judge that discloses it is a Sept. 19 article by editor in chief Terry Jeffrey admitted that Judge "used to be a writer for CNSNews.com," albeit not until the 15th paragraph of his story.
Much of Judge's CNS blog work focused on entertainment, celebrities and pop culture as seen through CNS' right-wing mission -- which is to say, praising conserative values and mocking what are portrayed as liberal values. Typical was an item featuring author S.E. Hinton denying any gay subtext in her classic teen novel "The Outsiders."
We've documented how Judge gushed over Mel Gibson, touting his then-new film "Hacksaw Ridge" and helped him tease his plans for a sequel to his Christian film "The Passion of the Christ" while hiding Gibson's ugly past.
Since the MRC's playbook on Kavanaugh is to protect him and attack his accusers, you likely won't read much about at any MRC website about Judge's days as a heavy-drinking prep student, or of the fact that Judge's memoir of said days references a "Bart O'Kavanaugh" who passes out drunk and throws up in a car.


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The Sarasota-Manatee Originals Elects New Board President; Steve Harner, owner and president of Crow's Nest Marina Restaurant in Venice, takes the reins from Michael Klauber, former chairman of the board
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The Sarasota-Manatee Originals Elects New Board President
Steve Harner, owner and president of Crow's Nest Marina Restaurant in Venice, takes the reins from Michael Klauber, former chairman of the board.
(Sarasota-Manatee) The Sarasota-Manatee Originals (SMO), a not-for-profit organization representing locally owned restaurants in Sarasota and Manatee counties, recently elected Steve Harner as its new board chairman.
Harner, who owns the Crow's Nest Marina Restaurant in Venice, has been involved with regional business and civic efforts since he moved to the area from Michigan in 1976. He was a board member and president of the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce and served on many of its committees. Harner has also served on the board of directors of Bon Secours Venice Hospital, and was a founding board member of The Venice Foundation (now the Gulf Coast Community Foundation), for which he also served as chairman. He has served on the boards of First National Bank of Venice and SunTrust/Gulf Coast Bank.
Since opening the Crow's Nest in 1976, Harner has consistently aligned the restaurant with numerous fundraising initiatives and community outreach programs. He started the annual Crow's Nest Regatta in 1980, an event that has raised more than $95,000 for Venice area organizations. Proceeds from the event also funded an endowment at The Community Foundation of Sarasota County benefiting Venice-based youth programs. In 2003, Harner helped found the Venice Sports Hall of Fame, which raises funds for the Rotary Futures Program at Venice High School. Harner was also one of the founding organizers of the widely celebrated Sharks Tooth Festival.
"I am delighted to hand over the torch to Steve," says Michael Klauber, who served as president of SMO for two years. "Steve is known for his outstanding business savvy, his profound commitment to community, and for his tireless efforts to spread the good word about our restaurant industry, which represents a vital part of the economic, cultural and social fabric of our area."
Harner says he welcomes the opportunity to "work with a group of phenomenally talented individuals who are dedicated to advancing the cause of independently owned restaurants in the Sarasota-Manatee region. I look forward to showcasing this region as an exceptional culinary destination. We've got some exciting programs and initiatives planned for the 2014-2015 season. Stay tuned!"
The Sarasota-Manatee Originals 2014-2015 board of directors includes D'Arcy Arpke, co-owner of Euphemia Haye (vice-president); Mike Harb of Fast N Fresh (treasurer); Sonia Velasco, business and marketing consultant (secretary). At large members are Greg Campbell, chef and manager of Pier 22 Restaurant, and Michael Klauber, proprietor of Michael's On East.
For more information about The Sarasota-Manatee Originals, visit www.dineoriginal.com.
About the Sarasota-Manatee Originals
The Sarasota-Manatee Originals is a not-for-profit trade organization founded in 2003. Together, more than 50 locally-owned, independent restaurants throughout Sarasota and Manatee counties work collaboratively to celebrate and promote the creative cuisine of the region, from unique quick service eateries and waterfront family restaurants to award-winning fine dining establishments. Passionate member restaurateurs work together to produce community events, optimize cooperative marketing efforts and develop synergistic partnerships among members as they focus on preserving the culinary heritage of the region. With more Florida Trend and Zagat top-scoring restaurants within a 20-mile radius of downtown Sarasota than any other area in the Florida, the Sarasota-Manatee Originals is dedicated to sharing the area's vibrant culinary scene with the world. For more information, call 941-365-2800 or visit www.dineoriginal.com.
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He joins State Senator Michael Williams as the second of five Republican candidates for Governor to return their survey.
For the official record, Williams returned the Candidate Survey and Candidate Pledge 100%, while Tippins only returned the survey 100%.
Libertarian candidate Ted Metz has also returned his survey 100%.
The bad news is that as of today's deadline, Georgia Gun Owners has yet to receive a signed survey from Hunter Hill, Brian Kemp, or Casey Cagle.
There's still time for them to return it — and we hope they do so.
Gun owners deserve to know specific answers to specific Second Amendment questions, not just "I support the Second" portrayed through flashy commercials and campaign slogans.
Please make one more round of calls and text messages to the campaigns of Hunter Hill, Brian Kemp, Casey Cagle, and Clay Tippins.
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Q: How to combine object with string to access member of object? I'm looking inside of an object and wish to find all functions which I can potentially call.
This will not work:
for member in dir(MyObject):
    if callable(MyObject.member):
        print(member)

The error:
#  Error: AttributeError: file <maya console> line 2: 'MyObject' object has no attribute 'member' #

How can I concatenate MyObject and the value of member in the if condition?
Also, what is this kind of problem actually called?
I had issues coming up with a proper question title.

A: If you want to access an attribute dynamically, use getattr:
for member in dir(MyObject):
    if callable(getattr(MyObject, member)):
        print(member)

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