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Planned Parenthood and the War Against Women
By Susan Rose
Special to Calbuzz
The memorable and courageous speech that California Representative Jackie Speier delivered on the House floor last week, challenging the Republican effort to defund Planned Parenthood by sharing her personal experience of having an abortion for medical reasons, captured the frustration and anger of millions of American women.
At a time when the world watches the rippling revolutions in the Mideast, there is another war being conducted at home – a political war being waged against women.
Let's be clear: what is at stake in the battle to eliminate Title X funding for Planned Parenthood is nothing less than an attempt to deny equality to women, an effort to restrict our social freedom and economic independence by taking away our right to determine when and if we will have a family.
The Republican war on women is not new, of course. Most recently, in November 2009, the Republicans prevented coverage for abortions in the health care reform bill, a deal that Democrats accepted to get the legislation passed.
The right to control her own body, and thus to determine her course in life, is among the most powerful issues affecting a woman. Now that the Republicans hold a majority in the House, and have increased their overall numbers in Congress, they have ramped up their attacks on institutions that empower women to exercise this right, starting with Planned Parenthood and the range of health and family planning services the group provides.
The Pence Amendment that was passed by the House on Feb. 18th eliminates $327 million in national family planning programs. Title X does not fund abortions; it does, however, provide a range of preventive health care such as contraception, pre-and post-natal care, cancer screenings and other health services for women, men and infants.
For every dollar spent on family planning the federal government saves four dollars in additional spending. The loss of Title X funding would prove particularly costly for California, where a Guttmacher Institute study shows these programs saved $581,890,000 in public funds in 2008.
As California Congresswoman Lois Capps put it on the floor of the House, the Pence Amendment is an "all-out Republican assault on women's health."
"By helping women and couples plan and space their pregnancies, family planning services have led to healthier mothers and children and have been instrumental in the long struggle for women's equality in education, the workforce, and society."
Other outrageous legislation pending in the House of Representatives would deny Title X funding if a clinic uses non-tax dollars for an abortion (HR217); allow a hospital to refuse to save a pregnant woman's life if there was a threat to the fetus (HR358); impose penalties on private employers who offer health plans that would fund abortions (HR3).
The war against women is being waged on many fronts. In other states, legislatures are attempting to redefine rape victims as accusers, make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortions, and cut food and services for low-income women and their families as well as services for poor seniors, two-thirds of whom are women.
Planned Parenthood has issued a challenge to the U.S. Senate to stand with them, and to preserve the services provided by the 800 health centers funded by Title X. Feminist organizations are sending email blasts and have activated their phone banks. The call has gone out to save family planning heath care for women.
Vulnerable women has long been targets for the right wing. Women in America have fought for equality for two centuries. Suffragists went to jail to win the right to vote in 1918; despite progress made since then, it has been a slow advance. Violence, lack of affordable childcare, unequal pay and representation are among the problems many women face daily.
We have an obligation to our mothers and our daughters to keep fighting. We owe it to them to keep women out of the back alleys. We will not give in and we will not go back.
Susan Rose is a former Santa Barbara County Supervisor. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles City Commission on the Status of Women and was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee.
Tags: family planning, HR217, HR3, HR358, Jackie Speier, LA City Commission on the Status of Women, Planned Parenthood, Santa Barbara Women's Political Committee, Susan Rose, Title X funding
Posted in Abortion, California Politics, Lois Capps, National Politics | 5 Comments »
Memo to CA GOP: Time to Do Something Different
After watching the California Republican Party implode in the 2010 election – spectacularly in the cases of Meg Whitman's campaign for governor and Carly Fiorina's run for U.S. Senate – Calbuzz has some unsolicited advice for the state's Grand Old Party.
Just as Democrats in Washington are being urged to re-calibrate after the spanking their party got in some parts of the country, Republicans in California need to do a little re-calibrating themselves.
Before we offer our pearls of wisdom, however, let's dispense of the howling response we expect from some of our friends in the right-wing peanut gallery (we name no names, Flash) who will surely hurl the "liberals" canard at Calbuzz and say we just want the Republicans to become Democrats.
Not true. We don't want Republicans to become Democrats — we want Republicans to become relevant.
So that there is a vigorous contest of ideas in California politics. Right now, Republicans are so trapped in their ideological hall of mirrors that they have become a distorted caricature of themselves. They can thump their chests and win big attaboys at the California Republican Assembly convention. But they utterly fail to reflect the impulses of the vast majority of California voters who tend to be fiscally conservative and socially moderate.
Republicans believe in smaller government, lower taxes, reduced regulation, economic growth, individual freedom and law and order, to name a few GOP values.
They should continue to stand and fight for all of those. But they need to build all that into a platform that begins with a realistic growth agenda. Investments in roads, bridges, dams and/or levees, water projects, schools and universities, redevelopment projects, ports – all these things and more – are wholly consistent with their philosophical world view. Their fixation on opposing everything the Democrats propose is hurting them more than it is helping them.
Republicans could become leading advocates of an economic rebound strategy that relies on Silicon Valley innovation, green jobs, high-tech research and development. They could integrate this with increased exports for a growing agricultural sector and a healthy and expanding service economy.
They don't have to continually serve the interests of the wealthiest 2% of California families – they can focus of the struggling middle class. And they need to remember that California is not Kentucky or Alaska or any other state where the so-called "tea party" is a big deal. In California, tea party ideology is a non-starter.
It's time for leaders of the California Republican Party to rethink their general strategy and the specifics of their agenda. Here's where they should start:
1. Change your position on a "path to citizenship." You can and should strongly favor securing the borders against illegal immigration. That's a matter of defending our sovereignty and integrity as a nation.
The political reason you fear changing on citizenship is that you're afraid that if all those illegal Mexicans and other Latinos become U.S. citizens, they will bolster the Democratic Party. And that's certainly a valid fear of a potential outcome.
But it needn't be that way.
Just as the Republican Party was the Northern standard-bearer for the abolition of slavery in the 1850s and 1860s, so could the California Republican Party become the advocate for citizenship for honest working men and women who have come to the U.S. to make better lives for themselves and their families.
Nine in 10 Latinos in California — and a healthy majority of independent voters — support a path to citizenship for people who have been working here illegally for two years or more. Get on their side. Make them your allies.
You know who will be unhappy? Big labor, pro-choice forces and culturally liberal Democrats who want to keep Latino voters in their corner. Latino Catholic culture is quite conservative on family issues. You don't have to moderate on too many of these. But you drive Latinos away with your anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric. Your current policy just panders to the politics of resentment and makes you look bad. Time to move on.
2. Get on board with green jobs and environmental conservation. By arguing that people must pick either environment or economic development, you're creating a false choice. And voters know it.
Plenty of Republicans – from the late David Packard to George Schultz – have proved that you can be a rock-ribbed Republican and also in favor of preserving and enhancing the environment. Of course environmentalism has to be balanced against other competing interests – like healthy agriculture, water supplies to cities and reasonable, controlled growth in and around urban areas.
But you have made fighting environmental regulation a cause. Your political calculation is that the business forces in your camp cannot tolerate stepped-up regulation and enforcement. But that's old-school thinking. Only retrograde – and politically poisonous – corporations are afraid of the New Environmental World Order. You should make this part of some sort of 21st Century capitalism project, or something. Don't let old school enviros control this vote rich sector.
3. Develop your bench. Start grooming young, bright, articulate Republicans in cities, counties, Assembly districts and elsewhere.
Send them off to advanced management training at Harvard or Stanford. Introduce them to business leaders, venture capitalists, university presidents, foundation chiefs, leading journalists and party funders. Get them involved in key issues and causes.
Teach them about practical politics and polling and other insider skills as well. Train them in how to talk to reporters. Help them learn to think on their feet, to answer questions without betraying their ignorance and how to talk with ordinary people without sounding like they're preaching or talking just from a list of talking points. Do what big-time college athletic programs do – recruit district by district.
4. Reconsider your stance on abortion. There's got to be a way to move to the center on this question where you support a woman's right to choose in line with Roe vs Wade without endorsing or even supporting abortion.
Don't give up your commitment to the idea that abortion is a moral choice. But recognize that it's a moral choice that individuals have to make – not one that can be legislatively controlled.
You can be in favor of life and in favor of reducing the number of abortions. Be for, not against, family planning, like Barry Goldwater was. In a sense, become libertarian on the issue. You may never get the endorsement of the most ardent pro-choice groups, but you can neutralize the power of the issue. And if you can recruit pro-choice Republicans, all the better.
Your goal should be to build a coalition based on the overarching goal of reducing the number of abortions, but without all the wasted breath on abstinence and all the hysterical opposition to teen sex education.
5. Sound sensible, not strident. The problem with the tea party rhetoric that some of you find so attractive is that it sounds like the ravings of a crazy old uncle who really ought to be locked in the attic.
The vast majority of California voters are moderate, independent-minded, pragmatic people. They don't much care if an idea comes from a Democrat or a Republican. They just want it to make sense.
They're not against government; they just want government to work on their behalf. They're not opposed to all taxes; they're opposed to taxes that seem unfair, onerous or overly broad. They want to control the borders but they also want to be fair to people who have worked hard to make a living, no matter where they come from.
They're not pro-abortion but they want women and their doctors — not Assembly members and state senators — to make choices about the life and death of fetuses. California voters are tired of people running for office who sound like they think they know everything and whose answers are purely ideological.
You need to have a hard head. But you also need to demonstrate a soft heart. And maybe a touch of humility.
Tags: GOP, green jobs, Latino vote, path to citizenship, public spending, relevancy, sensibility
Posted in Abortion, California Economy, California Politics, California Republican Party, Environment, Immigration, Meg Whitman, taxes, Tea Party | 20 Comments »
What Tsunami? Only 3 House Districts in Play
By Mackenzie Weinger
Beltway prognosticators sound ever more certain about Republicans seizing control of the House in a national electoral tsunami, but in California, only three of 53 congressional districts feature competitive races.
While today's conventional wisdom suggests a GOP pick up of perhaps 50 seats nationally, which would end the reign of Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California Democrats are not expected to lose more than a seat or two, if that, from their current 34-to-19 majority in the state's House delegation.
National attention remains focused on the close race between incumbent Senator Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, of course, but the House partisan breakdown is unlikely to change much, because of a combination of California's Democrat-trending demographics and the incumbent-friendly reapportionment that followed the 2000 census.
"We're a Dem-leaning state and President Obama's approval ratings are a bit higher here than they are elsewhere, and in some ways that insulates us from that backlash," said UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser. "And secondly, the post-2000 redistricting means there are a lot less competitive seats."
The races in play: Perhaps the most surprising race, given the national political atmosphere is the Third Congressional District in Northern California. It's here that the Democrats may be able to snatch a seat from a Republican incumbent.
As one of the few races going against the Republican trend this year, the contest between Rep. Dan Lungren (R) and physician Ami Bera (D) is one of the Democrats' few pickup opportunities of this cycle.
Bera — who has consistently outraised Lungren, raked in $550,000 in the third quarter, giving him $2.1 million this cycle, while Lungren brought in $480,000, for a total of $1.7 million. Pres. Obama eked out a win here in 2008, giving Democrats hope for a potential midterm success.
Even as it goes against this year's pro-Republican tide, this campaign shares the same overall narrative of many GOP-leaning races around the country: a political newbie taking on an entrenched career politician.
"Lungren has been around politics his whole life," Bera said. "He's certainly not from this district. It's a clear contrast. Lungren is representing corporate America… And our narrative has always been on rebuilding the middle class."
Bera traced his campaign's ability to buck the anti-Democratic trend to his ground-up organization and his background as a physician.
"There's a couple reasons why this race is moving against the current," Bera said. "We built this campaign from the very beginning from the grassroots, holding house parties where neighbors opened up their living rooms. We've literally done hundreds of these conversations. We've had a lot of individual donors and built on word of mouth. That insulated us a little bit. It's certainly a perfect year to be a doctor running for Congress."
Bera, who noted his campaign has over 3,000 volunteers, insisted Democrats could still use the final weeks before the election to make a successful push to hold the House: "The House of Representatives isn't lost," Bera said.
Also in Northern California, Rep. Jerry McNerney (D), faces a threat from attorney David Harmer (R) one of the National Republican Campaign Committee's "Young Guns" in the 11th Congressional District. CQ-Roll Call, RealClearPolitics and Cook Political Report all have this race as a toss-up.
Somewhat less competitive is Rep. Loretta Sanchez's (D) seat in the 47th Congressional District in Orange County, where a a win by Assemblyman Van Tran, California's other Republican "Young Gun", would spell a huge victory for the GOP.
Sanchez's recent gaffe on Univision's Sunday show, "Al Punto" — where she accused "the Vietnamese" and Republicans of trying to take her seat in Congress — has added fire to Tran's campaign in the final month.
"It speaks for itself," Tran's campaign manager George Andrews said. "For her to come unglued on that TV show just shows how nervous she is. She knows times are changing in her district, and being a DC insider, she's lost touch with the reality of the voters in Orange County."
Andrews said this year's GOP wave has definitely hit the 47th district: "Absolutely it's a factor," he said. "We're going door-to-door in Loretta's backyard and people are sick and tired of poor representation. She's only passed one bill after the past 14 years — and it was to name a post office."
In the Senate race, polls show Boxer still ahead of ex-Hewlett Packard CEO Fiorina, but the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Chamber of Commerce and other national GOP groups continue pouring in money, which has kept the challenger financially competitive.
CQ-Roll Call and Rothenberg Political Report rate the race as leaning Dem, but RealClearPolitics, Cook Political Report and Sabato's Crystal Ball are calling the race a toss-up.
UCSD political scientist Kousser said the Senate race is a "microcosm of the national scene – a liberal Democrat very much tied to President Obama" coupled with a case of the "Republicans nominating someone on the right end of the political spectrum."
"If it had been Tom Campbell who won the primary, he would have had a chance in this environment," Kousser said. "But we haven't seen a pro-lifer win a top of the ticket race here in California for two decades. Carly Fiorina still has a shot, but if she wins this race, that's going to be the signal that the House and Senate are really turning over. "
Washington-based political reporter Mackenzie Weinger is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Nexus at UC Santa Barbara.
Tags: 11th congressional district, Ami Bera, Dan Lungren, David Harmer, grassroots, Jerry McNerney, Loretta Sanchez, Mackenzie Weinger, third congressional district, tsunami, Van Tran
Posted in Abortion, Barbara Boxer, California Politics, California Senate Race, Carly Fiorina, Dianne Feinstein | 4 Comments »
Dateline Moraga: Live Blogging the Senate Debate
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Play-by-play below, but here's the bottom line: Nobody "won" the debate which means Carly Fiorina did not do what she had to do — kneecap Barbara Boxer or force her to make a mistake.
Fiorina, a smart, articulate and attractive candidate stood toe-to-toe with a United States Senator and handled herself with skill and grace.
Boxer defended her record in the U.S. Senate and pushed issues like choice, climate change and gun control into the debate that put Fiorina on the defensive.
The single matter that emerged that likely will resonate most: Fiorina's record of laying off 30,000 workers as CEO of Hewlett-Packard — in Boxer's terms (not entirely accurate) of shipping those jobs to China.
Her response — sometimes you have to cut some jobs in order to save others — sounded like an eerie echo of the famous line from the Vietnam War: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." (That's how it's remembered even if it's not exactly right.) And it wasn't just a slip of the tongue — Fiorina said it in the debate and at her press conference afterwards as well.
We wonder if this will come back to haunt Fiorina: "This is the 21st Century — any job can go anywhere." BTW, in the debate she said: "It's an agonizing choice (for a CEO) to lose some jobs in order to save more."
It was a clear contrast. Fiorina is a tough conservative who would overturn Roe v Wade if she had the opportunity, is opposed to California's AB 32 climate-change law and would extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers.
Boxer is a die-hard liberal who is known as a partisan, pushes cap and trade legislation, would end the Bush tax cuts for the rich and is more worried about easing the way for illegal immigrants than she is about securing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Untested political newcomer versus career politician. Republican stalwart versus Democratic diehard.
The most baffling thing is this: Why won't Fiorina, who sees AB 32 as a "job killer," come out in support of Prop. 23 — which would gut the measure? Pushed at her press conference, she made all the arguments against Prop. 23 but refused to take a stand. All she would offer is that when it comes time to vote, she will take a position.
Also, what happened to term limits that Fiorina is so hot for? Never came up.
It was a lively debate, showed the ideological contrast between the candidates and gave viewers a chance to see both candidates talk and chew gum at the same time, so to speak. Carly was more tightly wound, but crisp; Boxer was more conversational but equally sharp on her attack points.
Boxer kept saying she's enacted a thousand measures but could not refute Fiorina's assertion that she's only got her name on four bills. Not much for a 18-year Senator.
(Live blog begins here.)
Calbuzz went to the extraordinary expense of dispatching the entire National Affairs Desk to St. Mary's College in Moraga (De La Salle Christian Brothers) to cover the Barbara Boxer-Carly Fiorina U.S. Senate debate – and has been promptly relegated, with the rest of the press corps, to watch the event on a giant TV while the real deal goes down across the way in the LeFevre Theatre.
Plenty of free parking here where it's 97 degrees outside and TV correspondents are trying not to sweat on camera during their stand-ups.
Cookies too, thanks to the terrific St. Mary's communications staff – chocolate chip, peanut butter, double chocolate and (ugh) raisin – along with a bunch of fruit that Calbuzz hasn't the slightest interest in touching.
We'll be live blogging the debate as soon as it starts in about 15 minutes.
6:57 p.m. KTVU, which is co-sponsoring the debate with the Chron and KQED-FM, just showed live shot of extremely sweaty protesters outside.
"Carly, no es mi amiga" vs. "Boxer, you're fired."
Inside the press room, Jon Fleischman of FlashReport, just called the debate for Fiorina.
7:00 – It's on. Big hand for Carla Marincucci's hair in the press room.
Boxer, wearing a gray pantsuit, is on the left. Fiorina, in a teal skirt suit, is on the right.
First opening to Carly: "I have lived the American dream." Trying to give herself blue collar roots, even though her father was a law professor who was almost appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"We need some common sense and problem solving ability in Washington, D.C." First whack at Babs: She's been in D.C. forever and her policies have been disastrous. Very aggressive in taking on the incumbent.
Boxer: "I've enacted a thousand measures," coming right back at Fiorina charge that she's done nothing. Whack at Carly: I'm working to stop companies from shipping jobs overseas. And, oh yeah, Carly got fired and took $100 million in severance.
Marinucci asks first question of Fiorina:
Carly says it's all about jobs — tax cuts — Carla asks — small business owners are struggling — death tax — Boxer voted for taxes — to create jobs we need to make sure business is free from stangling regulation and taxation.
Boxer says 16,500 teachers got pink slips, what's important than out children — my opponent called the bill a disgrace — but she doesn't like it because we paid for it by stopping tax breaks from companies overseas.
Question 2: Scott Shafer asks Babs whether Iraq war "was worth it." She says she opposed the war but voted for more money for troops and veterans. Credits Obama for getting out, and supports him in Afghanistan but supports hard time line to bring troops home "by 2011"
Carly staff is walking around the press room dropping off "Debate Fact Sheet" on everybody's work station, challenging BB's earlier assertions.
Carly on Iraq: Boxer's "rhetoric doesn't match her record." Attacks Boxer for not voting for body armor, and also hits on her on small business legislation speaking government-speak gibberish about "TARP Jr." and "TARP Sr."
Question about immigrants: Carly wants to educate everyone but she's against amnesty for people here illegally —
Boxer says she's proud of her record on veterans — says Carly called immigration reform "a distraction" — we need comprehensive immigration reform.
Question 4 comes on tape from a guy in Oakland named Tim Tam who wants to know why Boxer doesn't give somebody else a chance after 28 years in the Senate. Barbara sez "there's a clear choice" and turns it to hit Carly: "We don't need those Wall Street values."
Fiorina says Boxer "mischaracterizes my record" on shipping jobs overseas. "Agonizing choice to lose some jobs in order to save more."
Next question from Tom Watson, retired HP executive who bashes Fiorina with her record of "right sourcing" jobs and saying that no one has "a God given right" to a job. Great question.
Carly is now listing all the countries in the world – not to mention "Texas and Brazil" about….something…she seems to have been caught a little off guard by this.
Strong comeback on jobs by Boxer noting that Fiorina has opposed every jobs bill that's come up since she started running.
Carly asks Boxer about famous incident when she asked General not to call her "ma'am." She gives same answer as Calbuzz previously supported reported.
Fiorina comes back to say that Boxer is using H-P "a treasure of California" as a "political football."
Randy Shandobil the moderator tells both of them to stop going over time, and get to the point and answer the damn questions. Yay Randy.
Shafer asks about gay marriage. Fiorina says marriage should be "between a man and a woman." Says that because voters had such a clear decision "not appropriate" for "a single judge" to overturn. Umm, isn't that why we have three branches of government?
So says Boxer, noting that America has a system of checks and balances. She cites Justice Ron George's opinion opposing Prop. 8.
Fiorina gnomes just dropped off fifth fact check – almost make you think they had them ready in advance.
Boxer is asked about bipartisanship — is she too partisan — she says he works with Republicans all the time — a time line for withdrawl from Afghanistan is one example.
Carly says Barbara is long on talk and short on achievement — one of the most bitterly partisan — only has four bills with her name on them —
Carla asks about Roe v Wade — I am pro life, because of my personal experiences, her husband's mother was told to abort him for health reasons — recognize that not everyone agrees with me — I am comfortable funding for adult stem cell research — but if embryos are produced for destruction then she's opposed — says Boxer's positions are extreme — has said a baby doesn't have rights until it leaves the hospital —
Randy — Roe v Wade — she acknowledges she would overturn if she had the opportunity.
Boxer says she respects people's — says Fiorina would criminalize women and doctors — says this is not about personal views.
Re. the "four bills" says she's approved 1,000 Boxer provisions — you can see them online.
Shafer asks when Dems are going to stop blaming Bush and Rep congress for economic woes. Boxer says "we have" and are working on it…now she's talking about the good old Clinton years and is blaming Bush for "the worst job creation record since Herbert Hoover." "We didn't get here overnight and we're not going to solve it overnight."
Fiorina: "Recovery summer has become the summer of despair in California." She hits Boxer for voting for stimulus bill which she says "has failed." Good riff on Boxer record of voting against balanced budget amendments: "Her record is crystal clear."
Fiorina is asked if she thinks global warming is real or just a problem with the weather as she said in an ad — Carly says the ad was about military security — says we need a national and comprehensive energy bill — not answering whether she's for Prop. 23 — we need to fund energy R&D — we cannot put bills in place that punish energy—
Randy re asks — Prop 23 — says her focus is on national policy — says she hasn't taken a position — AB 32 is a job killer.
Boxer — if you cant take a stand on Prop 23, I don't know what you will take a stand on — it's a critical issue — my opponents is used to creating jobs in China, Germany, etc. – which would be the result of overturning AB 32 — "no bill I ever wrote superseded CA law."
St. Mary' student asks about ag policy. Zzzzz.
Fiorina now hitting BB on water – claims Babs "pressured" Feinstein to drop an amendment…
Viewer question – why do you think it's a good idea for people on terrorist no fly list to have guns – what – are you nuts?
CF: "The no fly list isn't particularly well managed." We should not be taking constitutional rights away from citizens and giving them to terrorists – and that's exactly what Barbara Boxer wants to do."
BB: "It's hard to know where to start." Boxer trumpets her legislation letting pilots be armed." Recalls watching debate where Fiorina said this and says Tom Campbell get excited "for the first time in his life."
"Oh my goodness," Boxer says Campbell said.
How about the assault weapons ban? Fiorina says it's far too broad…Babs says dumping it "makes no sense at all." Big wet kiss to Difi for sponsoring the bill.
Closing statements:
Carly: She's been struck by the "beauty" of California. Also fear, anxiety and uncertainty. Recounts alleged anecdotal conversations with people who don't like regulation…very sappy yarn about some lady who said she'd never voted but registered to vote for Carly and "don't forget us." Oy. She's for average people who "give a lot and ask for a little."
Barbara: "This a very clear choice." I'm fighting for jobs and she laid off 30K people and sent jobs to China. Made in America vs. Made in China. Someone fighting for tax cuts for middle class and someone fighting for CEOs and billionaires. Clean energy vs someone supported by big oil and big coal. Pro-choice – Fiorina would "turn a woman into a criminal" for having an abortion…Offshore oil. I fought for Wall Street reform and she acts "just like a Wall Street CEO."
Randy apologizes for not getting to more questions. No worries man, good work.
Tags: AB 32, AB32, Afghanistan, Bush tax cuts, Carla Marinucci, gun control, Jon Fleischman, KQED, KTVU, national security, Randy Shandobil, small business, TARP, tax cuts, taxes, term limits
Posted in Abortion, Barbara Boxer, California Politics, California Senate Race, Carly Fiorina, debate, Environment, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Proposition 23 | 9 Comments »
Debate Watcher's Guide to Babs and Hurricane Carly
As the U.S. Senate candidates prepare to debate Wednesday evening, Republican Carly Fiorina and Democrat Barbara Boxer face two, very different challenges:
Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, wants to make the case that Boxer is a left-wing extremist who should be tossed out of Congress and that she would make a solid replacement for her rival.
First elected in 1992, Boxer has to demonstrate that she has been, and can continue to be, effective in the Senate. It's an added bonus if she can portray Fiorina as a right-wing whack job.
Look for Fiorina to move aggressively to steer the conversation to jobs, portray the economic stimulus bill as a prime example of excessive government spending and mock Boxer's record of achievement (or lack thereof) in the Senate.
Watch for Boxer to argue that the stimulus saved many thousands of jobs in California, and to try to focus on a woman's right to choose, climate change, offshore oil drilling and Fiorina's record of achievement (or lack thereof) at Hewlett-Packard.
Throw down a shot every time Fiorina mentions Boxer's 28 years in office and another when Boxer mentions HP and "You'll be pretty toasted at the end of that game," says Julie Soderlund, Fiorina's spokeswoman.
Boxer is a big supporter of President Barack Obama and the stimulus. So Fiorina will home in on the sense that the president's policies have failed to restore economic security. But every time Fiorina mentions the economy, she will open herself up to attacks about laying off thousands of HP employees, shipping jobs abroad and mismanaging the company, from which she was fired.
Both will have much to say about extending the Bush tax cuts: Fiorina likes them and Boxer argues they benefit only the rich. Both have strong views on immigration: Fiorina accuses Boxer of favoring amnesty and being soft on illegals; Boxer can't understand why Fiorina is opposed to a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.
Listen for how many times either candidate refers to "green jobs," policy proposals that posit California can combine economic growth with environmental protection by building up wind, solar and battery industries to cushion the shock of tough regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Note how many times the two reference agriculture and – heaven help us – "family farming." Is one of them for getting water to the Central Valley and the other opposed? Would one of them drain the Delta in order to flood parched farmland?
The issue of abortion rights is perhaps the brightest line difference between the two.
Boxer knows that Fiorina's anti-abortion stance differs from mainstream views of most California voters, including the independents who tilt the balance in statewide elections. She also knows, however, that Fiorina has a personal narrative to explain her position – she and her husband, Frank, were unable to have children, while his mother recalls that she was urged to abort him for health reasons – so Boxer must handle it carefully.
While voters may hope the candidates will keep the debate focused on issues, some personal, snarky moments are all but guaranteed – the targets are just too tempting.
Will Fiorina refer to Boxer as "ma'am," to remind viewers of her notorious confrontation over titles with a top general at a committee hearing? Will Boxer, as one of her advisers suggested, mention Fiorina's yacht trips with her grandchildren? Will either offer a reminder of Fiorina's dis of Boxer's way-yesterday hairdo early in the campaign?
How about term limits, Barbara? Carly's for them and has even pledged to serve only 12 years in the Senate. Is this just a cheap rhetorical trick or are you planning to lead a nationwide drive to get approval for a constitutional amendment, Carly?
Carly, are you for tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas, like you did at HP? Barbara, do you want to raise business taxes to make it even harder for companies to hire workers when California's unemployment rate is pushing 13 percent?
As they prepare for the debate, both sides are talking up how skilled the other is at public speaking and argument, part of the raise-expectations game.
But there are some expectations that viewers can rightfully bring to the debate-watching experience. Boxer, who often stands on a box to look taller, has to maintain the dignity and decorum of a United States senator, even if she takes shots at her challenger. Fiorina has to look and sound like a United States senator and not Suze Orman on steroids.
Viewers might want to put a couple of columns on a piece of paper: Junk Yard Dog and Dignified Public Servant. Every time either candidate sounds like one of these, mark her name in the appropriate column. Total them up at the end.
The results will have absolutely nothing to do with who actually wins the election.
This article, without clever Calbuzz art, appeared originally in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday, 8/29/10.
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Patients on hemodialysis may be particularly susceptible to the lethal cardiac consequences of drug-induced QT prolongation because they generally have a substantial cardiovascular disease burden and high level of polypharmacy, and are recurrently exposed to electrolyte shifts during dialysis. Electrophysiologic data indicate that among selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), citalopram and escitalopram prolong the QT interval to the greatest extent. In a cohort of 65,654 hemodialysis patients, individuals receiving SSRIs with higher (citalopram, escitalopram) versus lower (fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline) potential to prolong the QT interval had a higher risk of sudden cardiac death. This risk was more pronounced among elderly individuals, females, those with conduction disorders, and those taking other non-SSRI QT-prolonging medications. When prescribing SSRIs to patients on hemodialysis, clinicians should consider the QT-prolonging potential of these agents.
Background Individuals receiving maintenance hemodialysis may be particularly susceptible to the lethal cardiac consequences of drug-induced QT prolongation because they have a substantial cardiovascular disease burden and high level of polypharmacy, as well as recurrent exposure to electrolyte shifts during dialysis. Electrophysiologic data indicate that among the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), citalopram and escitalopram prolong the QT interval to the greatest extent. However, the relative cardiac safety of SSRIs in the hemodialysis population is unknown.
Methods In this retrospective cohort study, we used data from a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries receiving hemodialysis included in the US Renal Data System registry (2007–2014). We used a new-user design to compare the 1-year risk of sudden cardiac death among hemodialysis patients initiating SSRIs with a higher potential for prolonging the QT interval (citalopram, escitalopram) versus the risk among those initiating SSRIs with lower QT-prolonging potential (fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, sertraline). We estimated adjusted hazard ratios using inverse probability of treatment weighted survival models. Nonsudden cardiac death was treated as a competing event.
Results The study included 30,932 (47.1%) hemodialysis patients who initiated SSRIs with higher QT-prolonging potential and 34,722 (52.9%) who initiated SSRIs with lower QT-prolonging potential. Initiation of an SSRI with higher versus lower QT-prolonging potential was associated with higher risk of sudden cardiac death (adjusted hazard ratio, 1.18; 95% confidence interval, 1.05 to 1.31). This association was more pronounced among elderly individuals, females, patients with conduction disorders, and those treated with other non-SSRI QT-prolonging medications.
Conclusions The heterogeneous QT-prolonging potential of SSRIs may differentially affect cardiac outcomes in the hemodialysis population.


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First ever Youth Leader Debate
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Shout Out UK and Channel 4 will show Britain's Ground-breaking Youth Leaders' Election Debate on 28 April.
Frustrated by the lack of young voices in British politics and a concern for voter disengagement, Shout Out UK, a youth news network, has teamed up with Channel 4 to launch a debate with young people at its heart.
The Youth Leaders' Debate will, for the first time ever, gather all the youth wings' leaders of the seven major British parties in one place to debate politics and youth issues.
In an online exclusive on ALL4.com, seven youth party leaders will go up against each other as they tackle the key issues for young voters.
Channel 4 News reporter Fatima Manji will chair the debate with representatives from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP.
The leaders will field questions on issues that matter to young people from a studio audience, made up entirely from voters aged 18-25, some of whom will be visiting the ballot box for the first time.
Tom Porter, Channel 4's News & Current Affairs Commissioning Editor, said: "Young people often feel that their interests are ignored by political parties.
"We hope that by bringing the youth leaders together we can engage as many young people as possible on the issues that matter to them in this election and encourage them to vote."
The Youth Leader Debate will stream on the new digital service All 4 on Monday 28 April at 8pm.
Matteo Bergamini, Founder of Shout Out UK, said: "I am 22 and for my generation this is an important event, for the first time in Britain, we are actively able to hear the political debate from a young person's perspective.
"We have the power to speak our mind. It is our right, as well as our duty to demand a better future."
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Nioh Respawn: Blade of the Noob- Part 12
by Daniel Garcia-Montes April 27, 2018
Are you a gamer who has an interest in playing a Souls-Type game but have avoided trying one for fear of getting your virtual ass handed to you over and over, leading to you rage quitting and questioning why you play games to begin with? I've been there. But what if I told you that playing and beating a Souls-Type game is not the impossible task that you may have been led to believe it is? Join me as I share my experiences and gameplay footage of the many boss battles I fought my way through in Nioh; you might even learn a thing or two, like how to properly beat some of these bosses after seeing them smack me around a bit. Welcome to Nioh Respawn: Blade of the Noob, and enjoy yourselves.
Boss #34: Obsidian Samurai and Oda Nobunaga
Dammit, not another one! Team Ninja, you guys are seriously pushing it. Since the advent of video gaming, we have been fighting bosses ONE AT A [email protected]#KING TIME! Why do you guys feel the need to screw with such a time-honored tradition, huh?! Well, now I'm fighting Nobunaga again, and this time he's teamed up with his former loyal servant, the Obsidian Samurai. As you may recall, I defeated both of these guys in one go when I fought them individually, so I figured this two-on-one boss battle would be more manageable like the first one with Tachibana Muneshige and Honda Tadakatsu. I wasn't that lucky. While this battle wasn't the same type of ball-buster like the previous one with Otani Yoshitsugu and Ishida Mitsunari, it was easily as difficult as the one where Nobunaga teamed up with Yuki-onna, in fact, it was more difficult. I was so surprised at how tough this fight was that I, once again, forgot to record my first attempt.
The issue with this battle was that both bosses moved quickly, so luring one away from the other was pretty much a no-go. Therefore, I eventually figured it would be better to try to take out the heavy hitter first, the Obsidian Samurai, through hit and run tactics while avoiding both his and Nobunaga's attacks in the process. Even worse still, before fighting these guys, I first have to fight against a bunch of Revenant enemies, tough ones. I don't remember how many attempts this battle took, but I'm pretty sure it was at least six or seven. As you will no doubt be able to tell by watching my last attempt below (the video starts after I've killed the Revenants, by the way), this whole experience was a huge pain in the ass.
Boss #35: Date Shigezane
This marks the first boss in Nioh's first DLC, Dragon of the North, and also the first one-on-one boss fight since the final boss in the main game, Hundred Eyes. It felt good to go back to fighting only one boss at a time. Unfortunately, that good feeling did not last. Readers/viewers, I'd like to introduce you to Date Shigezane, THE toughest and downright CHEAPEST boss in the entire [email protected]#king game, as far as I'm concerned. The two-on-one boss battle against Otani Yoshitsugu and Ishida Mitsunari was easily among the top three most difficult battles in the game, but this son of a bitch was just one opponent, and he easily takes the cake for most difficult single boss in the game (the only other one that comes close will be in a later article). By this point in the game, I knew what I was doing. I wouldn't dare to call myself a pro or anything, but I knew most of the ins and outs of combat and how best to deal with most enemies I came across. It was at this point where I believe Team Ninja decided to grant bosses with extraordinary abilities (many of them cheap) that easily eclipse those that William would ever gain access to. Anyway, just take a look at my first attempt against Date Shigezane.
It had been a while since a boss had so blatantly shamed me like that (damn Giant Toad), but back then I wasn't nearly as experienced as I was at this point. Yet this guy utterly destroyed me. Forgive me for repeating myself, but Date Shigezane is just a cheap bastard who leaves himself with practically ZERO openings. The second he's done with one of his four to eight-hit combos that have incredible reach, he's back to swinging his sword or his [email protected]#ked up "centipede arm" at me by the time I've barely landed two hits on him. Oh, and as I found out in one of my later attempts against him where I somehow managed to bring him down to half his health, he also possesses his own Guardian Spirit that lets him make use of the Living Weapon ability. Eventually, after ten or more failed attempts, I decided to stock up on Sloth Talismans, an item that greatly slows down enemy movement and makes their attacks easier to dodge. I try not to rely on those items too much and normally only carry one or two of them so I can use them when I really need to. Well, this guy forced my hand. If he was going to be a cheap bastard, then I was going to be a cheap bastard as well by covering him in Sloth Talismans and smacking him silly as he moves around like a snail slithering through syrup. Now, enjoy the next video as I take my revenge on Date Shigezane.
Boss #36: Katakura Shigenaga
Well, this is a nice surprise. A human boss with no Guardian Spirit or Living Weapon ability and with relatively average fighting techniques. While Katakura Shigenaga does have a wide array of bomb weapons and uses some stat-boosting items as well, he's a relatively easy boss in general, comparable to some of the earlier bosses I fought in the main game. As you will see in the video below, he did manage to get a couple of good shots in since I rather foolishly underestimated him and got kind of sloppy, but I wasn't going to let this little upstart get the better of me, not after having defeated far more powerful enemies beforehand. It really had been quite some time since I last defeated a boss in one go. Thank you, Katakura Shigenaga, for being the little sissy that you are.
Yeah, Team Ninja is definitely turning up the heat now. Not only did completing the main game require going through a number of annoying two-on-one boss battles, but the first boss in the first DLC ended up being a real ball buster. While the second boss wasn't much to write home about, I had this nagging feeling that the outrageously cheap Date Shigezane wasn't going to be the only boss in this and future DLCs to make me contemplate breaking my copy of Nioh in half, burning the pieces, and then pissing on the ashes. Or maybe my experience with that nasty centipede-looking asswipe would help prepare me for any tougher bosses that I may encounter later. Join us next Friday and see how my next three boss battles go.
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[[Amy Coleridge]] (186*-1951) was a British actress == Biography == Born Amy Matilda Cowbrick (or Cowlrick), but used the stage name [[Amy Coleridge]]. She married actor-director [[William Haviland]] married in Chicago on 18 February 1884. They had two children, a son (an actor, who died in South Africa in 1924) and a daughter (possibly the actress [[Augusta Haviland]]). She and Haviland were later divorced, possibly 1901. She and Haviland came to South Africa as members of the [[Holloway Theatre Company]] in 1895. She played Desdemona in ''[[Othello]]'' and Cordelia in ''[[King Lear]]'' at the [[Standard Theatre]] in Johannesburg. In 1897 she returned with the [[Haviland and Lawrence Shakespearian & Dramatic Company]] to appear in their season of Shakespearian plays at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] on January 3 & 4, 1898, directed by [[William Haviland]] and co-starring [[William Haviland]] and [[Gerald Lawrence]]. In 1902 she appeared in three Broadway productions, but the apparently returned to South Africa to play for [[Leonard Rayne]] for many years and become a speech and drama teacher. She next married the actor Percy Anstey in 1906. Her maiden name was and his real name was Percival Louis Page Phillips) and eventually she married Archibald Brough Pearce. Amy died in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 4 August 1951. == Sources == [[Eastern Province Herald]], January 3, 1898. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=202183.0 https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/amy-coleridge-35843 Return to [[ESAT Personalities C]] Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]] Return to [[Main Page]]
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Q: Вопрос по ООП для гуру, есть пример Задание от заказчика:

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*Человек, который должен смотреть на другого человека.

Делаем Human и метод lookAt(Human)
Заказчик добавляет:

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*Люди могут видеть по разному (дальтоники).

Добавляем фильтр отображения в человека Bitmap BitmapFilter.filter(Bitmap)
Заказчик добавляет:

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*Камера может видеть человека.

Делаем Camera и метод lookAt(Human). Понимаем, что нужно перевернуть зависимость, и делаем у человека Human.show(IHumanViewer), а камера и другой человек реализует этот интерфейс.
Заказчик добавляет:

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*Человек может быть не видим для камеры (ну мало-ли)

Делаем свойство человека visible. Дальше камера его проверяет.
Вот тут некрасиво получается, что интерфейс отображение приобретает вид: IHumanViewer.show(Bitmap, visibility)
Не нравится, то, что классы незаинтерисованые в видимости объекта, обязаны зависеть от параметра visibility.
Кто знает как обойти это?

A: Summary: Для простых случаев, в которых бизнес-логика хорошо ложится на свойства объектов, вполне можно сделать её внутри объектов. Если вы замечаете, что вам приходится делать неестественные штуки, или ваши требования сложны, вынесите логику в отдельный объект.
Здесь полная аналогия с кодом обыкновенной функции: если часть вычислений в функции становится сложной, её выгружают в отдельную специализированную функцию.

(Ни в коей мере не являюсь специалистом в ООП.)
Инверсия смотрится как-то ненатурально. Давайте пусть объекты ведут себя как в реальности. Например, так:
interface IHasImage { Bitmap GetImage(); }

// дальтоник - проблема восприятия, а не передачи
class Human : IHasImage
{
    BitmapFilter filter;
    public Human(ColorBlindnessType cbt)
    {
        filter = Helper.CreateColorBlindFilter(cbt);
    }

    Bitmap LookAt(IHasImage o)
    {
        var image = o.GetImage();
        if (filter)
            image = filter(image);
        return image;
    }

    Bitmap GetImage() { return CurrentlyVisible ? m_Image : null; }

    // очевидно, нельзя быть невидимым только для камеры
    // невидимость - для всех
    bool CurrentlyVisible { get; protected set; }
}

class Camera
{
    Bitmap LookAt(IHasImage o) { return o.GetImage(); }
}

Возможно, LookAt нужно тоже сделать интерфейсом.

Окей, условия изменились. Теперь человека может видеть только колдун. Не проблема:
interface IHasCommonImage { Bitmap GetImage(); }
interface IHasTrueImage : IHasCommonImage { Bitmap GetTrueImage(); }

class Human : IHasTrueImage
{
    Bitmap LookAt(IHasTrueImage o) { return o.GetImage(); }

    Bitmap GetImage() { return CurrentlyVisible ? m_Image : null; }
    Bitmap GetTrueImage() { return m_Image; }
    bool CurrentlyVisible { get; protected set; }
}

class Clairvoyant : Human
{
    override Bitmap LookAt(IHasTrueImage o) { return o.GetTrueImage(); }
}

В случае, когда бизнес-логика становится размазанной по объектам, нужно собрать её в отдельную сущность, занимающуюся этой самой бизнес-логикой.
interface IHasImage { Bitmap GetImage(); }
interface ICustomVisibility { bool IsVisible { get; } }
interface ILooker { Bitmap LookAt(IHasImage o); }
interface IClairvoyant { }

class Human : IHasImage, ICustomVisibility
{
    Bitmap LookAt(IHasImage o) { return SightManager.Look(this, o); }

    Bitmap GetImage() { return m_Image; }
    bool IsVisible { get; protected set; }
}

class Wizard : Human, IClairvoyant
{
}

static class SightManager
{
    public static Bitmap Look(ILooker subj, IHasImage obj)
    {
        // тут вся бизнес-логика:
        // если смотрит колдун
        if (subj is IClairvoyant)
            return obj.GetImage(); // то видит как есть
        // если не колдун, а объект невидимый
        else if (obj is ICustomVisibility && !((ICustomVisibility)obj).IsVisible)
            return null; // но ничего не видит
        else
            // случай без магии
            return obj.GetImage();
    }
}

Это не нарушает принципов ООП, наоборот, у вас бизнес-логика ушла в отдельную сущность.

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This book presents new work on how Merge and formal features, two Basic factors in the Minimalist program, should determine the syntactic computation of natural language. Merge combines similar objects into more complex ones. Formal features establish dependencies within objects. This book examines the intricate ways in which these two factors interact to generate well-formed derivations in natural language. It is divided into two parts concerned with formal features and interpretable features — a subset of formal features. The book combines grammatical theory with the analysis of data drawn form a wide range of languages, both in the adult grammar and in first language acquisition. The mechanisms at work in linguistic computation are considered in relation to a variety of linguistic phenomena, including A-binding, A'-dependencies and reconstruction, agreement, word order, adjuncts, pronouns, and complementizers.


Over the past few months, upwards of 40,000 voter registrations from three counties in Georgia have reportedly gone missing. The groups that registered most of these voters, the Georgia chapter of the NAACP and the New Georgia Project, filed a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, alleging that most of those missing registrations are from "members of the underrepresented classes of voters." The lawsuit went before the court on Friday October 24. By the following Tuesday, the judge had dismissed the case, writing that "there has been no failure of clear legal duty," and asserting that there was still time for the missing registrations to appear.
In the four years that Brian Kemp has served as Georgia's secretary of state, most of the issues that various voting rights activist groups have flagged have been about voter identification. This isn't the first time, or the second, or even the third that Kemp has clashed with civil rights groups over voter registration. In 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court found that a Georgia law requiring first-time voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship (that went above and beyond federal requirements) violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, Kemp called the decision "disappointing." Last Monday, on the eve of the dismissal of the lawsuit, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that eight protestors were arrested because they refused to leave Kemp's office after breaking off from a larger rally and sit-in at the state Capitol.
Whether or not this system is a logical means of verifying identity, it undeniably disadvantages certain kinds of people. Matching a registration against driver's license data won't work for any would-be voters who can't afford to get a license and renew it, let alone buy a car; live in an urban area with public transportation and don't need a license; are elderly and have lost driving privileges; are young and haven't yet taken some of the traditional first steps of adulthood, like getting a full-time job, that may require having a car. (Federal law does not require a driver's license to vote.) Basically, such a requirement puts many socio-economically disadvantaged (and likely ethnically diverse), urban, younger, and older people—most of whom the Republican Party is not overwhelmingly popular with—in a bad position.
The second data system check is even easier to fail simply because most voters aren't even aware of it. Federal law does not require the last four digits of a person's SSN to vote, and so this field is optional on voter registration forms. In fact, Johnson says that the last four digits of a person's social security number is the "least likely piece of information [you] get from a voter at a registration drive." Because voters don't regularly offer this information, the state has nothing to verify, and thus the would-be voter fails the verification process. Moreover, Georgia technically accepts other types of identification for voter registration (like utility bills, property tax records, and state-issued IDs), but the current matching system, Johnson says, isn't checking these forms of ID.
What's the alternative? In many states, a payroll stub can be used as proof of residence—a recommendation made by the PEW Center in a 2010 report. In Maine, for example, a person can register without either a driver's license or a social security number. But Maine also has same-day registration, which could be just what Georgia needs. Voter registration has been in place in Maine since 1973—the longest any state has offered it. (Currently, ten states and Washington, D.C. offer same-day registration, and California and Illinois have enacted it, but have yet to implement it.) In 2011, when Maine's same-day registration policy came under attack by newly elected officials, the state's residents collected thousands of signatures and forced a vote that November to restore the program. And it's no wonder why Mainers valued same-day registration so highly. Same day registration has been found to raise voter turn out by three to seven percentage points.
With the election only a day away, it seems certain that the 40,000 missing registrations in Georgia will not be restored, and that those would-be voters will be excluded from the midterms. It also seems possible that the NAACP and the New Georgia Project will follow up on their case after the election, once it's been established that these registrations did, in fact, disappear.
In Georgia, there are an estimated 800,000 unregistered, eligible voters. As The New Republic reported in April, 663,699 voters are needed to turn the state blue. In both 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama lost the state of Georgia by close to 250,000 votes.


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A film about the world's oldest man is about to get a director who is more used to youth.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jon Watts is in talks to direct Michael B Jordan's Methuselah. Watts is best-known for directing Spider-Man: Homecoming and its sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Jordan, of course, also his own MCU connection as he played Erik Killmonger in 2018's Black Panther. He was recently announced as the star of Methuselah, which originally was set to star Tom Cruise. It's been in the works over at Warner Brothers for years. Between Jordan being attached to the project and obtaining a director, it will be some significant steps into making the film.
Jordan will also produce the film through his own company, Outlier Society.
Not much is known about the fantasy project, which follows a man (Jordan) who has stayed alive for hundreds of years.
Methuselah is a religious figure, appearing in the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. He's said to have lived until the age of 969, making him the longest lived figure in those traditions. Though how much of a religious tilt the film will have is unknown at this time.
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