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The 2020 Election and Pro-Choice Money
The nation's largest pro-choice groups spent big as legal fights over abortion loom large.
by Harry Cheadle
Since Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski lost the primary for his House seat in March, the Democratic Party has no remaining anti-abortion members in Congress. It's a milestone representing the end of a long-term shift that has seen the party adopt reproductive rights as a core issue. (The anti-abortion Louisiana Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards is an extreme outlier among elected officials.) Nearly all the Democratic presidential candidates engaged in full-throated defenses of abortion and called for an expansion of abortion access. As the GOP has increasingly tried to restrict abortion on a state-by-state basis, polls have found that most voters disapprove of such hard-line stances, making a pro-choice stance seem perhaps more attractive to Democratic politicians.
As Democrats have embraced pro-choice politics, the country's two major abortion-rights groups stepped up their spending to historic levels in 2020, with Planned Parenthood pledging to spend $45 million and NARAL pledging $35 million, all of which went toward electing Democrats and targeting races in swing states. That tracks with recent history: Planned Parenthood Votes, the organization's major PAC, increased its spending nearly threefold to about $22 million in 2016, and that number didn't drop in 2018 even though it wasn't a presidential election year.
What this reflects is the attitude among reproductive rights advocates that abortion could be outlawed by Republicans if they remain in power. The appointment of more conservative Supreme Court justices could have led to a greater chance of overturning Roe v. Wade (a bridge the current conservative majority on the court has not yet crossed, though it remains a possibility), as well as the ongoing stripping of federal money from Planned Parenthood. (In 2019, the women's health organization announced it was turning down $60 million in federal funding because of a rule change that would have required it to stop referring low-income women to doctors who perform abortions.) Beyond that, Republicans have enacted a host of restrictions on when, where and by whom an abortion can be performed.
Some of these restrictions are the product of legislation, but others have come in the form of ballot measures. One such measure, Colorado's Proposition 115, is illustrative of how the battle over reproductive rights plays out. That proposition, backed by a collection of anti-abortion groups, would have banned all abortions after 22 weeks. It's a policy that many red states have adopted; Coloradans, however, had previously rejected the idea, and it took extra time for the abortion restrictions to collect enough signatures for a ballot measure. Still, Planned Parenthood affiliates spent over $2 million to oppose Proposition 115, contributing to its eventual 17-point defeat. That was clearly worth it—the movement couldn't afford to risk such a crushing blow in a relatively progressive state.
Abortion rights groups, like the rest of the left, spent a sizable amount of time and more than $3 million attacking Donald Trump directly. One illustrative ad from NARAL linked Trump's failures to contain the COVID pandemic to his assault on abortion, claiming that in both instances, the president took anti-science and anti-woman stances.
NARAL and Planned Parenthood also spent heavily on the Senate, with Planned Parenthood Votes contributing around $4 million in ads targeting Senate races in Maine, Arizona, North Carolina and Montana.
What did they get for their money? Though the Senate remains controlled by Republicans (pending the January special elections in Georgia), Joe Biden's victory will at least stop the appointment of right-wing judges and result in a rolling-back of the Trump administration's anti-abortion rules. The question now is whether he'll go further. It was only during the campaign that Biden came out against the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of federal funds on abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother's life is in danger.
But without the Senate, Democrats can't do all they want to advance reproductive rights. Democrats will not likely be able to move forward with the Women's Health Protection Act, a bill that has been repeatedly introduced and which would prevent states from passing onerous restrictions on abortion access. They will also not be able to codify Roe v. Wade into law, which would (at least in theory) prevent a still-conservative Supreme Court from abolishing abortion rights at a stroke. The fight for the right to an abortion remains a bitter one where each side advances inch by inch, dollar by dollar.
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Neil Young and Daniel Lanois talk about the record: "Le Noise" with that music journalist Jian Ghomeshi on CBC. A while ago, but still impressive, September 27, 2010. It's interesting, how they talk about the creative process to do such an album. The older Neil gets, the more he talks about how he does the music.
:: here is the video interview.
Neil Young discusses his lack of interest in celebrity and the public misconception that he is a recluse.
Also with article about the new "A Treasure" archive album.


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Milnar's Organ Company
By Marissa Laschi
Looking around Dennis Milnar's office it is clear he has two obsessions: his family and pipe organs. The walls are covered with photographs of his family and of the organs that his family-owned business has been building, repairing and servicing for more than 50 years.
Milnar Organ Company is nestled in the countryside of Eagleville, surrounded by a herd of cattle that is a side business. The smell of wood shavings flows through the building built by Milnar in phases over the past decades as the company expanded.
Milnar, 76, started his company in Nashville in 1968, but several years later he moved the company to its current location in Eagleville. Since his unique company has established a reputation for skilled craftsmanship as the company has been called on to repair organs around the world.
His love of pipe organs began when he was 18, living in Buffalo, New York. As a young father looking for work, he went door to door to find a job, any job that could support his wife and growing family.
"There was a blizzard, I couldn't even see some of the names of the companies," says Milnar about a day when he was still looking for work. That day, Milnar knocked on the snow-covered sign of the Delaware Organ Company.
Milnar was originally hired for a couple weeks to assist in holding keys while the pipes were tuned on church organs right before Christmas. The job was just as it sounds: holding a key down while a technician tuned the sound coming from a particular pipe. However, the temp job became permanent when Milnar's mechanical skills caught the boss's eye. Soon he was offered an apprenticeship where he learned every aspect of organ making.
A pipe organ needs to be tuned a few times per year. Factors such as type of wood, location, and weather can change the sound and they often need to be corrected. Organs are made to be durable and the leather used in pipe organs can last for around 15 years but eventually need to be replaced.
After several years of apprenticing, Milnar was deemed a master organ mechanic. He was encouraged by his boss to start his own company. Down south would be a good place, he was told. At the time, the south had an excess of churches with pipe organs but a scarcity of organ repairmen.
Taking his boss's advice, Milnar moved his family to Nashville to begin building and repairing organs. Milnar and his wife ran the company out of their basement for a few years until moving to their current location in Eagleville.
Milnar started his sons in the shop when they were young and home from school on summer break. "All of our kids started with a broom," says Milnar of how his four sons followed in his footsteps to become master organ makers themselves. His sons are now equal partners in the company and run most of the day to day activities of the company.
From its humble beginnings, Milnar Organ Company has grown into a world-famous company over the last 50 years. However, this success came with its challenges.
Milnar's first big break in Tennessee also brought a large obstacle. The job was to build an organ for what was then called Tennessee A & I University, now Tennessee State University. Even though Milnar had signed documents from the state to build the organ, he wasn't able to secure a bank loan to get the materials he needed to finish the project.
A good natured, wealthy friend Milnar met when he moved to Nashville, called his banker and secured Milnar the loan, officially establishing Milnar as an organ marker in the south.
Since then, Milnar has grown his company to now service over 200 churches regularly.
Milnar Organ Company is more than just a company, it is a family built on 50 years of hard work and care.
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Background: This study used national data to determine if violent child death rates fell between 1974 and 2008.
Design: Using mortality data from the Office of National Statistics, categories potentially containing violent child deaths were analysed for children aged <1, 1–14 and 15–19 years. These data were compared with Home Office data on recorded homicides in children aged <1 and 1–15 years.
Results: Annual rates of infant deaths registered as due to assault fell between 1974 and 2008 from 5.6 to 0.7 per 100 000 infants; those in children (1–14 years) fell from 0.6 to 0.2 per 100 000. When these deaths are combined with those registered as undetermined intent, rates are higher but still show a decline in both groups. There is a slight fall in the rates of police recorded homicides in infants, but no observable change in childhood rates. In adolescents, the rates of death from assault fell during the 1970s and have since remained static in females but have risen in males. When these deaths are combined with those registered as undetermined intent, the rates for adolescent women have remained static at 2.0 per 100 000, while for young men they increased from 3.3 to 5.7 per 100 000 before declining to 4.2 per 100 000.
Conclusion: These data provide evidence that rates of violent death in infancy and middle childhood have fallen over the past 30 years. In contrast, rates in adolescence have remained static or risen over the same period.


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NC Primaries, Citizens United, IEs and The Rise of Conservative Woman Candidates
Dr. Joan Perry, Candidate for Congress
NC3 Republican Primary
We are witnessing a revolution in modern American politics right before our very eyes here in North Carolina.
North Carolina is home to special elections for Congress to fill two vacant congressional seats almost simultaneously which has never happened before. NC3, formerly represented by Congressman Walter Jones, runs from the Virginia border down east to north of Wilmington. NC9, which runs from Charlotte to Fayetteville, had to be re-run in the aftermath of the absentee ballot scandal uncovered in Bladen County in the 2018 elections.
State and local parties used to control who could or should run for any election because they held the purse-strings and had the networks that could go door-to-door and get people out to vote for their preferred candidate.
For such a special election in the past, 2, maybe 3 candidates might have filed to run to get the party's nomination on either side. It made no sense to run without the backing of the party establishment because you wound up beating your head against a stone wall to no avail or good outcome.
Not any longer. 17 Republican candidates filed to run in NC3. 10 filed to run in the Republican primary for NC9.
What has happened to allow such an outbreak of democracy to occur?
One important factor was the McCain-Feingold bill of 2002. More specifically, the much-maligned and misunderstood Citizens United Supreme Court case handed down in 2010 which rendered parts of McCain-Feingold unconstitutional and opened campaign finance to the masses rather than the chosen few.
One of the things Citizens United helped create was the independent expenditure (IE) campaign which could fund issue advocacy and educational efforts through 501 c4 non-profit organizations.
The one major restriction was that IEs could not "coordinate" any explicit campaign activity with the direct campaign organization of the candidate, hence maintaining the "independent" status of both the IE and the campaign.
The NC3 and NC9 primaries are on fast tracks: The primary for NC3 is next Tuesday, April 30 and the primary for NC9 is May 14. If any candidate garners 30% of the primary vote, they win outright and go right to the general election on July 9 and September 10 respectively.
What Citizens United has done in both primaries is make it possible for first-time candidates to have a chance at winning outright on the first primary election night.
3 conservative women are the beneficiaries of such independent support in the two primaries. Dr. Joan Perry of Kinston, a personal friend and a graduate of The Institute for the Public Trust which I run, was the first in either primary to receive such an endorsement from the Susan B. Anthony List, the major pro-life advocacy group in America today, which amounted to $75,000 of support in NC3.
Leigh Brown, a realtor in Huntersville, was endorsed by the Realtors PAC in an independent expenditure effort in NC9 which appears to be in the neighborhood well in excess of $1 million based on public ad buy records.
Celeste Cairns, an accountant in Jacksonville also running in NC3, was endorsed by the Club for Growth which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2016 to help newcomer Ted Budd, another Institute graduate, win the NC13 primary and then the general election.
Without Citizens United, none of these newcomers would have been able to compete and possibly win. Since both special elections are being held at odd times for elections and the turnout is expected to be very low, a candidate who can garner perhaps as few as 6000 votes can win 30% of the primary vote and avoid a runoff.
If you like more democracy and more non-politicians running for election, you can thank the Supreme Court for ruling on the side of freedom of speech and expression in the political world.
Citizens United has opened up the world of election to outsiders and newcomers like never before.
(first published in North State Journal 4/24/19)
Labels: #CitizensUnited, #IE, #NC3, #NC9
The Ever-Elusive Goal Of Universal Coverage
(This is a re-publish of an opinion piece that appeared in the North State Journal 4/17/19 that was co-written by a good friend of mine, Jim Capretta.
I thought it was important enough and so full of factual information that I would just forward it to you instead of trying to use his basic information and write a new piece.
I recommend you read this piece and memorize every fact in it and then forward the article to everyone you know so they can memorize these same facts. They are important in any debate on health care reform)
Talk of universal coverage is in the air. To a person, the Democratic candidates jockeying to take on Donald Trump are pledging allegiance to this seemingly elusive goal.
As Yogi Berra might have put it, "It's déjà vu all over again." It was only ten years ago that the country went through a raucous and exhausting national debate over enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Like today's would-be Democratic candidates, Barack Obama ran on a platform of universal coverage, and he sold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as making good on his campaign commitment.
After the law passed, Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 mid-term election. Most Democrats at the time said the political price was worth it because the ACA was the culmination of a decades-long quest.
But that was then. The Census Bureau reports that, in 2017, there were 28 million people in the United States who were not enrolled in health insurance, down from 42 million in 2013. When Democrats say they want universal coverage, they apparently mean that official statistics need to show 100 percent enrollment in some form of health insurance.
It's certainly within their rights to say the goal must be zero uninsured, but the reasons the ACA couldn't hit that mark are likely to hinder a new effort too.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, today's uninsured fall into five categories.
First, 15 million people without coverage — or half of the total — are already eligible for publicly-subsidized insurance, in the form of Medicaid, the children's health insurance program, or a private plan that would be financed in part with federally-provided premium credits. These "eligible but unenrolled" individuals remain uninsured either because they are unaware of what is available to them, or because they haven't taken the steps necessary to sign up. It is common and expected for a public program to fall short of 100 percent participation.
Second, 3.8 million people are uninsured because they fail to enroll in the employer-sponsored plan that is offered to them, or their spouses, at work.
Third, 1.9 million people are ineligible for employer coverage and for premium credits under the ACA because their incomes exceed 400 percent of the federal poverty line (FPL), or $103,000 for a family of four in 2019.
Fourth, 4.1 million people are uninsured because they are immigrants residing in the U.S. without proper documentation. The ACA explicitly excluded this population from subsidized coverage.
Finally, 2.5 million people reside in states that have not expanded Medicaid and have incomes that are too high to qualify for that program. They also have incomes below 100 percent of FPL (federal poverty line), which makes them ineligible for premium assistance for private coverage under the ACA.
In summary, about 90 percent of the 323 million people in the U.S. in 2017 had health insurance. Of the 28 million people without coverage, more than 90 percent were eligible to enroll in some kind of plan or had incomes that would seem sufficient to purchase insurance protection.
Only 2.5 million people — or less than 1 percent of the total population — were in the U.S. legally, had low incomes, and did not have ready access to an insurance plan.
There's also reason to believe the Census survey overstates the problem altogether. Some respondents have coverage under Medicaid but mistakenly identify themselves as uninsured. Improving how the uninsured rate is measured would likely reduce the reported number by a few million people.
Further, many of those deemed uninsured will get coverage automatically if they need extensive medical attention and present themselves at a hospital. States are required to allow hospitals to conduct presumptive eligibility determinations for Medicaid.
Expanding insurance enrollment does not require upending today's system.
Congress could entice the 14 states that have not expanded Medicaid to do so by allowing them to go to 100 percent of FPL instead of 138 percent, as called for in the ACA. Closing this coverage gap would provide insurance to the 2.5 million low-income people who do not have a good coverage option today.
Congress could also make insurance enrollment as automatic as possible for the people who are already eligible for coverage. Automatic enrollment has worked to boost participation in retirement plans, and it could help increase health insurance enrollment too.
Many Democrats would like the U.S. to have a completely different system of insurance. Perhaps there are good arguments for that point of view. But that would require disrupting coverage for the hundreds of millions of people who are in stable insurance today.
A safer bet is to leave those who have insurance alone and develop a plan focused on expanding coverage to the remaining uninsured. The result would not be as dramatic as Medicare for All, but such a proposal would be far likelier to get the approval of most Americans.
Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor scholar in retirement and health policy at the American Enterprise Institute. James C. Capretta is a RealClearPolicy Contributor and Resident Fellow at AEI.
(A version of the article was first published by RealClearPolicy)
Posted by Frank Hill at 11:21 AM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: #ACA, #healthcare, #healthreform, #Medicaid, #Medicare
The Gift of Religious Freedom
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Danbury Baptists
The week of Passover and Easter is a good time to reflect on what a gift our founders gave us in America when it comes to freedom of religion.
Before America, people in a nation had to believe the same religion as the ruling authorities or risk being ostracized. Or worse.
Socrates of ancient Athens was sentenced for misleading the youth of Athens. He was offered exile or suicide by drinking hemlock poison.
His crime? He believed in a single God which threatened the polytheistic belief in the Olympian Gods by the Athenians.
He chose the hemlock. Leaving the city he loved was worse than death to Socrates.
Martin Luther risked being burned at the stake when he famously hung his "95 Theses" on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517. He questioned the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church and took dead aim at the practice of indulgences whereby people could essentially "purchase" the salvation of loved ones into heaven.
He was brought to trial before the Diet of Worms (pronounced "Varmes") where he said these famous words in his final defense: "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
Somehow he avoided the burning stake and the Reformation began.
In England, Henry VIII famously and incongruously took over control of the Catholic Church because they wouldn't grant him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne Boleyn. He ordered her head chopped off 3 years later.
The King of England was thereafter the Supreme Authority of the Anglican Church in addition to being monarch.
Talk about the need for a true "separation of church and state". Can anyone imagine President Barack Obama or Donald Trump also being the "Supreme Authority of All Things Religious in America"?
When English people migrated to colonial Virginia to escape such abuse of power, they reverted to the norm and set up the Anglican Church of Virginia which received support from the Commonwealth of Virginia. Taxpayer money was used to support the Anglican Church of Virginia for much of their colonial era.
Virginia was so Anglican that a Baptist or Methodist could not hold public office. Only Anglicans could file to run for election.
Ever heard of the word "antidisestablishmentarianism", the longest word in the English language? It came from the debate over whether or not to "dis-establish" the Anglican Church from the government of Virginia.
On the tombstone of Thomas Jefferson is a list of the 3 things for which he wished to be remembered: Author of the Declaration of Independence, Founder of the University of Virginia and Author of the Virginia Statutes of Religious Freedom of 1786.
Those statutes led to the inclusion of freedom of religion in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
The Virginia statutes and the First Amendment guarantee your freedom to worship any religious deity you choose. It also guarantees your freedom not to worship anything if you so desire.
Nothing in the First Amendment guarantees the "separation of church and state". Those words came from a letter President Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist congregation in Connecticut in 1801 who worried that President Jefferson might institute a national government-sponsored religion.
The First Amendment and Mr. Jefferson guaranteed that the Danbury Baptists had nothing to worry about because it was not going to happen again.
As you celebrate Passover or Easter this week, or Ramadan in May, or nothing every day of the year, give the Founders of this country full credit for freeing us from elected officials with the coercive
power of government at their disposal telling you what to believe and when to believe it.
Freedom of worship is one of the greatest freedoms mankind has ever had. If we can keep it, that is.
Labels: #Baptists, #Danbury, #Religiousfreedom, #ThomasJefferson
Modern Monetary Theory of the Progressive Uber-Left
The Progressive Uber-Left is currently pushing MMT or Modern Monetary Theory which basically says budget deficits don't matter and are actually beneficial to the economy.
Therefore, elect them so they can run massive annual deficits and pay for Medicare for All among other centralized government programs they would control from Washington, DC and never worry about balancing budgets or paying down our national debt.
MMT is another name for an early 20th century concept, chartalism, which viewed money as having value solely because the government entity that created it deemed it as having value, not as a spontaneous means of trade to replace basic barter between individuals. It fits the socialist view of governance that all power derives from bureaucrats running government who bestow benefits among the people since they know best how to spend your money, not you.
Since all money is issued by the government, the government has a "monopoly" on all currency. All the government has to do is digitize more money supply through the Fed whenever bureaucrats in charge deem necessary such as when the Fed expanded its balance sheet by $4 trillion during the 2008-09 Crash.
Government can issue more digitized debt at any time to push money into the economy and, through taxation, can take it out of the economy when inflation ticks up.
Deborah Desouza in a February 28, 2019 article explained MMT this way:
"The central idea of MMT is that governments with a fiat currency system can and should print (or create with a few keystrokes in today's digital age) as much money as they need to spend because they cannot go broke or be insolvent unless a political decision to do so is taken.
MMT theorists explain that debt is simply money the government put into the economy and didn't tax back. They also argue that comparing a government's budgets to that of an average household is a mistake".
If that is the case, why not run a $100 trillion national debt overnight and solve all the world's ills with a Super Massive Omnibus Government Bill to Obliterate More Bills (SMOGBOMB)? Make every American citizen and non-citizen a billionaire by giving them newly digitized currency and all our troubles will go away forever.
If MMT is such a "great idea" that works, then why hasn't every nation since 1900 adopted it already?
The "only" thing MMT proponents hedge their bets on is the threat of inflation. If the government digitizes too much electronic currency and it chases too few workers or resources, then inflation can be ignited.
They say higher taxation will take care of that by taking money out of a possibly overheating economy.
Has anyone noticed "how easy" it is to tax an already over-taxed populace in America in the last 60 years? Taxpayers will resist and rebel at the ballot box whether there is a gold standard backed-currency or one created by bits and bytes.
800 years of history have shown what happens when sovereign nations have put into practice what MMT or chartalism proposes. The Weimar Republic in Germany and the current socialist government of Venezuela are empirical points of reference refuting the claim that sovereign governments can spend all they want and not suffer the consequences of such massive fiscal mismanagement and financial folly.
Once the Hounds from Inflation Hell are unleashed, they destroy economies and take out the most vulnerable people first: the poor and the retired poor. Inflation in the US was 13.5% in 1980 when many Boomers were in their first job looking to buy their first house with a 18.5% mortgage rate.
It can happen again. It probably will.
Perhaps you would like to take a spin on the President Bernie Sanders Magical Mystery Wheel of Fortune to find out if MMT works or not.
Count us out.
"I Hate For Us To Have The Reputation of Being Stupid"
On January 17, 1984, former Governor and then-Duke President Terry Sanford gave his Duke students a life lesson about their behavior during basketball games that should resonate today for all of us on both sides who engage in public discourse and politics.
Duke always has had raucous fans dating back to the early 1960s. When they were great and going to Final Fours, the fans were secondary to the action on the basketball court.
When Duke's fortunes went south in the 1970s, so did the nasty vitriol towards the opposition.
Duke returned to the national championship game in 1978 against Goose Givens and Kentucky. In 1980, despite having been ranked #1 for much of the season, Duke lost in the Elite Eight on March 15 to Joe Barry Carroll and the Purdue Boilermakers.
Immediately after the loss, then-head coach Bill Foster bolted for South Carolina, rumor being that Duke AD Tom Butters had refused to pave the dirt parking lot behind Cameron Indoor Stadium as Foster requested among other things.
Three days later, Butters announced the hiring of a head coach from Army, of all places, with the impossible-to-pronounce name of Mike Krzyzewski, to replace Foster.
The Blue Devils were not very good in the first 3 years of Coach K's reign. Duke fans thought they were horrible. They lost to Wagner. At home. In Cameron Indoor Stadium.
When people lack talent, they tend to use brute force or anger to lash out at everyone.
Duke students resorted to vulgarity.
After years of steadily deteriorating behavior, the final straw came in a January 1984 game at Cameron when condoms were thrown at Maryland's Herman Veal who had been charged with sexual assault.
President Sanford sat down to pen what became known as his "Avuncular Letter" which had even Duke students scurrying to their dictionaries to figure out what he was talking about.
His bottom-line message?
"I hate for us to have the reputation of being stupid".
What "Uncle Terry" wrote to his students then should serve as a reproach, a reprimand and an exhortation to all of us who engage in politics today.
"It is generally assumed that a person resorting in conversation to profanity and obscenities is short of an adequate vocabulary. That is doubly true in public utterances.
Resorting to the use of obscenities in cheers and chants at ball games indicates a lack of vocabulary, a lack of cleverness, a lack of ideas, a lack of class, and a lack of respect for other people.
I hope you will discipline yourselves and your fellow students…It should not be up to me to enforce proper behavior that signifies the intelligence of Duke students. You should do it. Reprove those who make us all look bad. Shape up your own language".
Today's toxic level of public discourse is just as bad as those Cameron Crazies back then. Or worse.
Have you found yourself thinking out loud or writing that someone is "stupid"? Stop it. Don't ever do it again. It makes you look "stupid" in the eyes of everyone who sees or hears you say it in public.
It makes your team and your cause look "stupid" as well.
Calling someone "stupid" and expecting them to agree with you is self-defeating and by definition "stupid". I have never supported anyone who called me "stupid" even if I agreed with them 95% of the time.
Mark Twain is oft-misattributed as saying the following which doesn't make it any less true: "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
If calling other people "stupid" makes you feel better about yourself, go ahead and do it. Just know you are making a complete and utter fool of yourself and not making one iota of progress towards winning a political argument.
(first published in North State Journal 4/3/19)
Posted by Frank Hill at 3:59 PM No comments: Links to this post
Labels: #Duke, #politics, #stupid, #TerrySanford
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Strawman
Tortuga means turtle, and that's me. I take my time but I always win.
Ohmygodsquad posted:
Posting from the past, but the idea that chris roberts is being compared to elon musk when the latter may put people on mars before the former's game comes out really tickles me.
He has as much chance of putting people on Mars as crobbler has of making the BDSSE, and it requires roughly the same level of nerd delusion to believe in either of them.
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Blunderstorm
my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what
Marching Powder posted:
nice to see another dickhead join the conga line of replying to everything i post with the weakest material imaginable. further, you seem to have a jobbo fett gimmick of taking up several posts to say absolutely nothing. now that i've got your mo, i know it's absolutely futile to say this but i'll say it anyway: you loving suck. stop posting.
One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them
Grimey Drawer
Refactor is an anagram of Fartcore.
Star Marine is an anagram of ArtRemains.
HycoCam
You should have backed Transverse!
VR announced for Squadron 42!
[nsfw]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsaLDnl_fEs
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Not really...
big nipples big life
derek is like.... chris roberts!
his blogs are like.... star citizen!
That's kinda why the thread has always been funny though, it's 2 ridiculous caricatures butting heads like mountain goats competing for a mate.
grimcreaper
Hillary Clintons Thong posted:
has it been confirmed that we can cross breed various species of giant worms or not
No but you can breed with your worm in first person.
AP posted:
SomethingJones
TheAgent posted:
hello, some of this is rehashed again
new mocap shoot coming up right before halloween, will continue for several weeks (hearing for prelude, can't be right)
in june 2016 hamil did most of what we'll see in the sq42 prelude
problems with old animation vs new engine upgrade is causing a lot of problems
more specifically: old shoots done with different tech, new captures much easier to get in and working
tech was upgraded without realizing how it affected current animation capture and tools
every NPC interaction in the prelude is entirely hand scripted at this point, no subsumption or "true" AI
almost all scenes will have to be reshot with stand ins for the A list cast animations (already happening since early this year)
internally sq42 prelude is still on for march 2017, many fights about deadline releasing with roberts and sandi (for some reason)
"huge" scenes with dozens of characters paired down due to problems getting them to run, talked about hiring outside CGI animators for larger cutscenes
mess hall scene now features less than five characters including PC, was over two dozen
"[Roberts] wrote this like a 100 million dollar sci-fi epic without regard to seeing how it feasibly functions."
sq42 prelude supposedly "in medias res"
"The problem [with the Morrow tour] was that it didn't hook anyone. We needed a hook; a punch, an explosion right off the bat."
It is all going to collapse in a pile of debt.
Chris Roberts will be the only person left in there believing a playable game can still be made and released, and the execs will turn their backs on him.
There is no way they are raising the amount of money from backers every month that they claim, they are in debt up to their eyes. Many goons disagree with me on this which is cool, but there is NOT $3m in fundraising every month for this project, not in one million years are they able to pull that in from backers. The claim that the last jpeg sale raised $1.44 million is the limit test for credulity.
Every single time they have animation, mocap or external work done the engine has moved on so much they can't make it work. Every. Single. Time. They're reshooting stuff now, guess what's going to happen AGAIN.
They can't even fake it any more. The IDEAS behind the Shitcon demo weren't even good, regardless of the implementation. Crashed ship and Tuskan raiders and the sandworm from Dune? Get the gently caress out of here with your poo poo Chris Roberts. Sit the gently caress down. There are 20 year olds doing creative writing degrees and studying film making with a MILLION times the creativity and imagination. You have a team of 300 with 200 odd contractors, your own mocap studio, $120 million from gently caress knows where, 5 years and THAT is the poo poo you came up with to show the world your genius?
The Citcon demo was so loving awful they redid it and uploaded it to youtube. And the space station painted on the skybox with the clouds? You can fly right up to that Chris, is that what you said? LMFAO. Show us then, show us it working. More bullshit.
CIG have no game, no money, no time and no credibility. There is nothing more to be said.
It will collapse in a pile of debt, Chris Roberts will be left in the dark, they'll bankrupt whichever company is left with the liability, contractors will go unpaid - no different to any other company in any other industry.
All the shills still rattling on are trying to save their own face, nothing more.
And one more thing for all the momas and other wankers picking through each "prediction" and leak (the company isn't leaking right now, it's a loving BIBLICAL DELUGE) - where's the game guys? Where is it? After a year of CIG producing NOTHING except a clothing shop to skank more money from you, you want to argue over individual leaks coming from guys working 16 hour days for an lying rear end in a top hat? Sit the gently caress down and shut the gently caress up until Chris Roberts delivers ONE THING from this list
Stretch Goals Not Delivered
Professional Mod Tools
100 Star Systems
RSI Class II space suit.
Hibernation Mode (Saving your game)
"Behind the Scenes of Star Citizen" documentary film
Escort Carrier, digital 42-page "overclock" Upgrade Handbook
Ship engine modifier upgrade package, Battlecruiser
Pre-launch backers get exclusive star system
Jane's Fighting Ships style manual, Manage Space Stations, RSI Museum will air monthly. They tried RSI Museum but gave up on it.
Planetside FPS combat.
Salvage Mechanic.
Enhanced Mission Design for Squadron 42.
Tamsa System.
Tanga System.
Cano System.
UDS-2943-01-22 System.
Kabal System, Oretani System.
Procedural Generation R&D Team. (With the December 2015 "Pupil to Planet" video, they claim procedural generation teams are doing stuff.)
Omni Role Combat Armor (ORC) mk9
Stellar Cartography (It's defined as a map room that's in the game directly, not to be confused with the $51 Million Map goal)
Hadesian Artifact
Updated Scanning Software.
Engine Tuning Kit.
Retaliator Commercial. Still in the plans. It's not happening near term because all our cinematic folks are working on SQ42… but it's a stretch goal and we will get to it.
Alien Languages. ("We will work with real-world linguists to create distinctive and realistic alien languages for Star Citizen's three biggest alien races, the Vanduul, the Xi'An and the Banu.")
Independent Arbitrator's Guild.
More Detailed AI Activities.
Ballistic Gatling.
Anvil Aerospace Crucible. Last seen as being in the "Concept Phase" as of Dec 2015/Jan 2016.
Espera Prowler.
Genesis-class Starliner.
MISC Reliant. (It's in the hanger, only marked Red because you can't fly it yet. Video Proof)
Pets.
Enhanced Ship Modularity.
Features advertised but not delivered
Rentable ships
Some ships with artificial gravity (or not)
Multicrewing
Different HUDs for different ships
Hull Breaches
Shuttles for larger ships to land on planets
Banu ports and stations for trading
Parking smaller ships in the Idris
Inertia on objects not anchored on ships
Beam weapons for larger ships
Tractor beams and EVA for cargo
EVA ship repair
Wreck exploration
Benefits for ejecting from a ship about to explode
Wreckage as a navigational hazard
Using inertia for flight rather than burning fuel all the time
Dangerous and Dynamic Jump Points
Changeable gravity systems for ships
Booby traps and trackers for cargo
Detailed navigation system
Weapon slaving
Detailed ship destruction for large ships
Ship repair and cleanliness/degradation
Ship Trade-in and buying used ships, naming your ship
Manual and auto-docking
Customizable AI voices for different aspects of your ship
Organization Infiltration
Playing as another alien race
Relaying radar information to C&C Center
Run your own business
In depth non-FTL communication
Bounty hunting system
Player influenced politics
In-game VOIP and "Live Driver"
Track IR Support
Shareable star map locations
Group mining operations
In-fiction "Live Team" that will report player driven events as in-fiction news
Dynamic population count
Character damage and aging
Character histories and/or ancestral trees
Large scale dynamic events
Player Rating System
Taxes for Organizations
Dead (Wounded) body recovery
Player or organization ran medical facilities
Shared organization hangars
Combined arms missions
Location for contributors' names to be found in the PU
Organization reputation system
Damageable cyborg limbs and cybernetic repair facilities
Dynamic social interaction with NPCs
Space creatures
Planet day/night cycle
Cargo damage (item damage)
Potential In-game "Voice Attack" system
NPC Generation
Docking and Undocking Tech
Realistic Audio Options
Personally Owned NPCs
Tri-Monitor Support
Your Name in the Game
Getting Everyone into the Same Instance
More Economical or Versatile Corvettes
Planetary Ship Entry
Repair and Items System Capability
Manned Turrets
Character Customization
Ship connected to User Online/Offline Status
Picking Up Objects On Planets
Multi-Monitor HUD
Large Ship Damage Control Lockers
Dogfights Through Space Stations
Ship Persistence
Stealth Game Play
Ability for Privateers/Corsairs/Buccaneers
Landing on Planets
Procedurally-Generated Environments
Starfarer's Refueling Mechanic
Anchoring to an Asteroid
Kill Boards
NPC ranks
Thruster Trails
Non-Lethal Combat Modules
Raid Supply Shipments
Owning an Alien Ship
Hidden Ship Compartments
Catapulting Through Space
Locking Ships
Jury Rig Repairing
Dynamic Weather
Automatic Battle Flight Pattern
Insurance for Pilots
Escape Pods
Personal Armor (FPS)
Extreme Ship Maneuvers
Start up Sequence for Large Multi-Crew Ships
Remotely Hacking Ships
Pacing NPC's
Incentives to keep your orginal Ship's Hull
Game Generated Missions
Communication Between Two Ships
Ship Armor
Controlled and Uncontrolled Space
NPC Crews
Inflation and Deflation
Hiring NPC's for missions
Travelling in Fleets
Tactical Game modes in FPS
Trading weapons in the FPS
Bounty Hunting
Player Generated Content
Assigning Ships to Landing Zones
Future Playable Maps
Ships Developed by the Community
Warning NPC's of Attack
NPC crew AI
Clothing Damage
Character Creator
Interior Damage System
Roaming Floating Structures
Vehicles for Planetside
NPC dialogue
Electronic Warfare in the PU
Player Owned Cargo Space
NPC population in the PU
Salvaging Mechanic
Ship Aging
Linux Client
In game Banking
Medic and Surgeon Skill progression
Mining and resource gathering
Fabricate weapons/armor/ship parts
FPS Armor Types
Join in-progress free flight games
Hangar parties & instancing
Physical grappling beam
Multicrew keycards
Repairing Gold Horizon Space Stations
Natural areas in the 'Verse
FPS environmental hazards
Store ore in your hangar
Organic ships
Ship spoofing
Non-combat ships
Search players for weapons
Flying a ship without a hud
Starting wars between the different races
Tractor Beams
NPCs react to weapons
Drop pods
Limb Damage
Org recruiting NPCs
NPCs using different loadouts
Resource Spawning
NPC & Human scanning
Tippis
It's yet another day in the wasteland.
So basically, Weird Al is a more visionary developer than CRobber ever will be?
Decrepus
In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.
Imagine hearing about Star Citizen and thinking "I can stream this for a living people will be interested in this!" and then the game never comes out and there are 1 or 2 people running around in the PU and Diablo 2 speedruns have more viewership than your dream game.
MeLKoR
by FactsAreUseless
Crazy_BlackParrot posted:
Didn't know Derek was a director?
Derek you should consider writing a movie script about this farce. Maybe Chris and Sandi can still become Hollywood famous.
D1E
MeLKoR posted:
This is a good idea.
Make sure to put a line in there where Chris has to say: "Sandi, I wish I was as intelligent, competent, talented and good-looking as Derek Smart. I just don't think I can pull off Star Citizen without him".
Fun Shoe
Sandweed posted:
Sandis Pusher character will probably exist in the PU at some point.
She's already there:
Also put in a scene where a space bulldozer pushes the bloated corpse of star marine off the side of something.
orcinus posted:
This made me laugh.. really hard. I dont know why, but i couldnt stop laughing.
Gonkish
What you all fail to realize is that Sandi's character is pivotal to Crobber's vision. Every other character bows down to her importance, her talent, her obvious superiority, including you, the gullible star shitizen backer. Sandi is the hero of the story, you merely observe her greatness.
By the way, she definitely, totally, absolutely did not have anything to do with that. It was spontaneous on Chris' part, because he recognized her incredible acting chops.
I'm actually kinda scared that, if they ever do release anything, this will be mostly true.
Beexoffel
Herald of the Stimpire
ManofManyAliases posted:
Don't be smug. Agent's was largely off too:
"TheAgent posted:
people were still working round the clock to get the sq42 demo done, but
they had to "sneak" around their work hours because CIG already had a finger wagged at them for employee overtime, this is illegal as gently caress btw
the sq42 demo will feature areas already seen in the gamecom reel (nope - no SQ42 demo)
2.6 is still MIA, will be most likely be folded into 3.0 (meh? - too early to tell)
all work on SC has essentially stopped, whole company is pumping out SQ42 assets/gameplay (funny, since most of what was shown was PU stuff....)
the majority of time is still spent on getting cut-scenes/in-game character models to function correctly (nope - no SQ42 demo)
SQ42: prelude release timeline still set for early 2017 (expect a lot of cut-scenes) (this was largely expected among most of the backers)
expect a "ton" of loading screens in SQ42 (nope - no SQ42 demo)
several rewrites and reshoots have happened in the last two years, expect a lot of change from what we've seen (nope - no SQ42 demo)
there will be different ways to level your SQ42 character and npc wingmen (Perhaps? Still too early to tell)
citcon is "heavily SQ42 focused" (nope - no SQ42 demo)
purchases for single player items will "carry over to the SC experience" (no info as of yet)
"SQ42/SC are now a single, unified, seamless experience" (no info as of yet)"
TheAgent was off because he was too optimistic
marumaru
SomethingJones posted:
Sit the gently caress down and shut the gently caress up until Chris Roberts delivers ONE THING from this list
Hey, it's all coming next year!
SelenicMartian
Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.
So wait, there are three versions of the planet promo video now? The stream, the edited stream and a version redone in post?
Beexoffel posted:
Everything CIG have produced has been an absolute clusterfuck, but everything's ok because the leaks being posted aren't entirely accurate because they predicted stuff would be shown which wasn't shown because it was too hosed even by CIG's poor standards to be shown.
It's not about defending CIG any more for these guys, it's about trying to not look like a loving gullible moron.
Doesn't work. CIG will collapse in a pile of debt.
All that money hiring AAA talent and they'll only use the voice acting after all?
I did some preliminary work on the intro to the movie
http://tinyurl.com/shitizenKane
Oleyo
Anyone else remember when the beginning of SQ42 would have you use a mirror in the bathroom to pick your gender and facial features, so that when you mustered out into the grand PU, your unique avatar would have a background, and maybe some scars from dying/capture?
"in media res"
*snicker*
TheLightPurges
by exmarx
Serious question is it actually important that an A list actor actually do the mocap? I always thought it was just a publicity thing.
Inacio posted:
I didn't see any ships spinning wildly and tearing themselves apart, it's pretty bad but it's not the worst.
Somebody fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Oct 12, 2016
Stannum
Oleyo posted:
SMH. "Crysis level detail on a GLOBAL scale..."
Let's actually see this before proclaiming it as fact, hm? Also, he calls out the infinity guy(s) for not having space to planet, and having a 'loading' screen. That guy has been plugging away at that engine for over a decade. I know, I have checked in on it since the early aughts, myself. I am pretty sure he made the game only because he loves building the seamless planet stuff.
This is from 2006! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCzDKj3hjOE
I actually feel a little bad for the guy. He could never sell the engine, but people clearly want this stuff in games.
Amazing... We have hours of footage showing seamless planet transitions and they still think we're using loading screens.
TheLightPurges posted:
Of course not but if they hired them to do just voice acting Chris and Sandi wouldn't get to play with them.
http://www.lacourt.org/casesummary/ui/casesummary.aspx?CaseNumber=SC125021
Solomonic
INCIPIT SANTA
D1E posted:
OK everyone who plans to buy Derek's Star Citizen book please raise your hand!
I will not only buy Derek's book but also whatever crazed, rambling Unabomber manifesto is eventually released on Kindle Unlimited by some whale with 20,000 pages worth of frothing about how goons ruined the BDSSE, which would have been perfect if Chris's vision had been left unsullied by our diabolical interference
Beer4TheBeerGod
Exciting Lemon
I'd also like to point out that I've never received so much conflicting information about a project
half the things I get I don't post until I hear it from multiple people, mostly because it seems like the internal roadmap for the project continues to change on a near monthly basis. first they are concentrating on SC, then SQ42, then SC again, then mocap, then SQ42 animations, then back to SC, then about how x needs to get fixed before y because z can't work without x and y which slows down everything and almost puts an entire company on hold for weeks
(the other half is just straight up crazy poo poo I don't believe or super personal poo poo that I don't really want to get into)
even the 38 studio leaks, the RTW leaks and DNF leaks were more clear and concise than anything I'm getting about SC/SQ42
Cloud Imperium Games: If we don't know what we're doing, Derek Smart sure as hell won't.
Solomonic posted:
Well that's one copy.
D_Smart posted:
https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/782617692020862976
Man, some of you are tiresome. And ignorant. And a waste of time.
Please explain to me - in English, not Gibberish, which part of those Tweets was actually unclear, and/or written in Gibberish or Swahili.
I get tips regularly. Most of it from wankers who think I'm dumb enough to just post something without at least doing the research, getting corroboration from sources etc. I just happened to be sent a massive info dump, complete with files, folders etc.
The last time something like that happen - though that one pales in comparison to this recent dump - was the Dennison post on Facebook. I shared it in a blog, then had to take it down when he reached out to let me know that it wasn't public. ofc by that time, it was already making the media rounds. I pulled it anyway.
Yes - I can mention some of the stuff sent to me, and share it in an upcoming blog. I neither said which blog, nor when such a blog would even be published.
No - I cannnot mention some of the stuff sent to me, nor share it in an upcoming blog; without it being thoroughly vetted and cleared by various legal entities familiar with that sort of thing. Especially since some of that material probably belongs in the hands of law enforcement, not some guy's blog.
In fact, prior to that dump, and the CitizenCon2016 disaster, I had two blogs in the works. One "Star Citizen - The Think Tank" about the lead/primary devs at all four studios; and the other "Star Citizen - Year Five" about where we are a year later (in the same vein as my "Star Citizen - Year Four" blog from last Nov).
I had NO plans to write a blog about CitizenCon.
However, following the show, I was going to do a scoop article, similar to the one I did for GamesCom2016.
The disaster (depending on who you ask) that was CitizenCon, all of which played out live in my Twitch channel, prompted me to write another blog about the implications of this event, and which I will publish at some point this week.
The notion that my sole purpose is to "tear down and/or destroy Star Citizen", is unfounded bullshit. Sure, I am pissed about the project, and the fact that an entire company and some their anti-social nut job "fans"decided that vilifying me was a very sensible thing to do. But at the same time, I have to be responsible enough to know that some things are very destructive; and regardless of merit - or the lolz - should be subject to much thought. I'm not in this for the lolz. I never was. Anyone thinking that, simply hasn't been paying attention.
Yes, most of us DO want to see CIG/RSI in a legal setting so that the backers (at least those who care enough) can get accountability for the project and the money. I have NO doubt in my mind that it will happen. It's only a matter of time. However, at the same time, getting mired in legal action over peripheral bullshit, regardless of how long it takes to get around to the core (money) Star Citizen matter, is a waste of my time. Not to mention a waste of legal fees; insurance or not.
Finally, let me just cut and paste what I wrote yesterday on my Discord channel:
Eyes on the prize Dr Smart, don't meltdown on us when you can almost smell victory.
Skippy Granola
It's not what it looks like.
Samizdata posted:
Nothing Roberts related involves perfect systems. Or, for that matter, perfect anythings.
It is a perfect system. Just keep looking right here - no, not behind that curtain.
I guess I'm a big fuckin wonk but Star Citizen is a big ol potemkin village. It's the photos of fully-stocked shelves in Pyongyang storefronts. Nothing to see here, comrades. The Democratic People's Republic of Citistan is thriving. Let's all give thanks to the Fatherly Chairman for the terrapin.
kikkelivelho posted:
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I Saved PC Gaming
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Beet Wagon
Not correct. Do meltdown on us because it's funny.
Dante80 posted:
Space Court.
Surely they must be keeping the facial performance capture, though. If I were an actor I would be real upset if they didn't use that either.
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Pro click for the art showcase at the bottom. Apparently there is a jury room somewhere in LA featuring a painted tracing of a Spawn comic panel by a local teen.
Everything else on the page was pretty boring.
I mean it's CIG. What does your heart tell you?
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