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Q: Vue PWA not getting new content after refresh I'm new to Vue and created a project with the PWA Service-worker plugin. After deploying a new version of my App I get these messages in console:

After refreshing the page (F5) these messages still appear the same way and the App is still in it's old state. I tried everything to clear the cache but it still won't load the new content.
I haven't changed anything from the default config after creating my project and didn't add any code which interacts with the serviceworker. What is going wrong? Am I missing something?

A: I figured out a different approach to this and from what I've seen so far it works fine.
updated() {
      console.log('New content is available; please refresh.');
      caches.keys().then(function(names) {
        for (let name of names) caches.delete(name);
      });
    },

What's happening here is that when the updated function gets called in the service worker it goes through and deletes all the caches. This means that your app will start up slower if there is an update but if not then it will serve the cached assets. I like this approach better because service workers can be complicated to understand and from what I've read using skipWaiting() isn't recommend unless you know what it does and the side effects it has. This also works with injectManifest mode which is how I'm currently using it.

A: As I figured out, this question is really only related to beginners in PWA, which don't know that you can (and need) to configure PWA for achieving this. If you feel addressed now (and using VueJS) remember:
To automatically download the new content, you need to configure PWA. In my case (VueJS) this is done by creating a file vue.config.js in the root directory of my project (On the same level as package.json).
Inside this file you need this:
module.exports = {
    pwa: {
        workboxOptions: {
            skipWaiting: true
        }
    }
}

Which will automatically download your new content if detected.
However, the content won't be displayed to your client yet, since it needs to refresh after downloading the content. I did this by adding window.location.reload(true) to registerServiceWorker.js in my src/ directory:
updated () {
    console.log('New content is available: Please refresh.')
    window.location.reload(true)
},

Now, if the Service Worker detects new content, it will download it automatically and refresh the page afterwards.

A: pass registration argument then use the update() with that.
the argument uses ServiceWorkerRegistration API
updated (registration) {
  console.log('New content is available; please refresh.')
  registration.update()
},


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package org.sakaibrary.osid.repository.xserver;

public class IssuePartStructure implements org.osid.repository.PartStructure
{
	private static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log LOG =
		org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(
				"org.sakaibrary.osid.repository.xserver.IssuePartStructure" );

	private org.osid.shared.Id ISSUE_PART_STRUCTURE_ID = null;
	private org.osid.shared.Type type = new Type( "sakaibrary", "partStructure",
			"issue", "Issue of resource container (i.e. Journal title, issue " +
					"213)" );
	private String displayName = "Issue";
	private String description = "Issue of resource container (i.e. Journal " +
			"title, issue 213)";
	private boolean mandatory = false;
	private boolean populatedByRepository = false;
	private boolean repeatable = false;

	private static IssuePartStructure issuePartStructure;

	private IssuePartStructure()
	{
		try
		{
			this.ISSUE_PART_STRUCTURE_ID = Managers.getIdManager().getId(
			"x8349ydf67826cr4n9823520168435100");
		}
		catch (Throwable t)
		{
			LOG.warn( "IssuePartStructure() failed to get partStructure id: "
					+ t.getMessage() );
		}
	}

	protected static synchronized IssuePartStructure getInstance()
	{
		if( issuePartStructure == null ) {
			issuePartStructure = new IssuePartStructure();
		}
		return issuePartStructure;
	}

	public String getDisplayName()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.displayName;
	}

	public String getDescription()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.description;
	}

	public boolean isMandatory()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.mandatory;
	}

	public boolean isPopulatedByRepository()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.populatedByRepository;
	}

	public boolean isRepeatable()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.repeatable;
	}

	public void updateDisplayName(String displayName)
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		throw new org.osid.repository.RepositoryException(
				org.osid.OsidException.UNIMPLEMENTED);
	}

	public org.osid.shared.Id getId()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.ISSUE_PART_STRUCTURE_ID;
	}

	public org.osid.shared.Type getType()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return this.type;
	}

	public org.osid.repository.RecordStructure getRecordStructure()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return RecordStructure.getInstance();
	}

	public boolean validatePart(org.osid.repository.Part part)
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return true;
	}

	public org.osid.repository.PartStructureIterator getPartStructures()
	throws org.osid.repository.RepositoryException
	{
		return new PartStructureIterator(new java.util.Vector());
	}
}

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Silly Disco Songs - And What's Wrong With That?
When the first notes of a cheesy disco tune begin to play you may initially roll your eyes, but such songs can be a lot of fun on the dance floor. They're likely to have a good beat, an infectious hook and catchy sound effects. And with lyrics that are often non-sensical you can't help but chuckle. Inane, yes, but irresistible to dance to. (Of course, having a few drinks helps.) What follows is my honor roll of lovably cheesy disco tunes.
Ring My Bell (1979) - In my estimation, this is the silliest disco tune of all time and yet it was the nation's #1 song for two weeks. It was sung by Anita Ward, who some friends still confuse with R&B chanteuse Anita Baker or Anita Hill (of Clarence Thomas fame).
Get Off (1978) - 30+ years later and you probably still can't get the synthesized "Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oohs" out of your head.
Macho Man (1978) - Actually, any song by the Village People qualifies for this list, but this one was their first top-40 hit.
Honey Bee (1974) - Sung by Gloria Gaynor before she became the pre-eminent disco diva with her classics Never Can Say Goodbye and I Will Survive. It was released in the early years of the disco era along with trifles such as Lady Bump by Penny McLean and Smarty Pants by First Choice. Although these three songs weren't commercial hits they were popular in gay discos.
Shake Your Groove Thing (1979) - What exactly is a "groove thing"? Based on the lyrics, "We put in motion every single part" and "We're bumpin' booties, havin' us a ball y'all", it appears it's any movable body part.
Instant Replay (1978) - Its opening countdown is one of the most distinctive of any song's. (Interestingly, the album it's on has a song called Countdown.) A very high spirited song, but what exactly is it about? Produced by Dan Hartman, he released the huge club hit Vertigo/Relight My Fire the following year.
Boogie Oogie Oogie (1978) - Any song with the word "Boogie" in its title qualifies for this list: Boogie Nights; Boogie Wonderland; Boogie Woogie Dancing Shoes; Boogie Fever; and Boogie Shoes. However, Boogie Oogie Oogie was the biggest of them all, spending three weeks atop Billboard's Hot 100.
Makin' It (1979) - Perhaps the "whitest" of any disco hit, it was sung by David Naughton, the star of the short-lived TV show of the same name. However, Naughton's real claim to fame was being the Dr. Pepper guy in TV commercials from the 1970s ("I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper...").
The Main Event (1979) - By far the cheesiest of any Streisand single, and even more embarrassing than Rod Stewart's entree into disco earlier in the year, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (which spent four weeks at #1). The Main Event, which made it to #5, was the title track from the equally awful movie Babs starred in with Ryan O'Neal.
Devil's Gun (1977) - The bass voice singing "Fee-Fie, Foe-Fum, you're looking down the barrel of the devil's gun" was especially catchy - in a Sesame Street sort of way.
Pow Wow (1979) - Its lyrics make reference to passing a piece pipe and a teepee being cold and empty; sound effects included Indian war whoops. It was sung by Cory Daye, best known as the lead singer of Dr. Buzzard's Savannah Band, whose big hit was Cherchez la Femme in 1976.
Get Up & Boogie (1976) - By the German group Silver Convention, a follow up to their breakout hit, Fly Robin Fly, the year before. The song is best known for its distinctive shout-out opening "That's Right!"
Funkytown (1980) - It has one of the most distinctive melodies of any song, with a great sax and strings interlude during the chorus. It spent four weeks at #1 and was one of the ten most popular songs of 1980.
Copacabana (1978) - Delta Dawn with a beat, Copacabana became one of Barry Manilow's eleven top-10 hits. It brings back fond memories of my college days at Penn State where on Friday evenings I'd go with friends to Mr. C's Disco to dance and drink tequila sunrises during happy hour.
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ACA, Waxman push for Comcast conditions
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If Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) wants NBC Universal as its 2010 holiday gift, it's going to have to deal with some concessions, both the American Cable Association (ACA) and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman said.
The ACA, facing the reality that the deal will probably go through--although maybe not by the end of the year--has shifted its stance from pure opposition to a call for "meaningful conditions" to moderate the new entity's impact on small and medium-sized cable operators. "We're not asking for special advantages. We just want to compete in a fair way," said Colleen Abdoulah, CEO of WOW! and an ACA executive committee member.
In unrelated opposition, Waxman sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski reiterating the need for oversight of Comcast's programming power, urging the FCC to set "a process to resolve negotiating impasses concerning program access without harming consumers." Waxman, unlike the ACA, thinks the deal will close before the end of the year.
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Kerstin Garefrekes (Ibbenbüren, Alemania; 4 de septiembre de 1979) es una futbolista alemana. Actualmente juega para el 1. FFC Fráncfort de la Bundesliga femenina.

Trayectoria deportiva
Garefrekes comenzó a jugar fútbol en 1986 en su pueblo natal y en 1998 se unió al recién fundado equipo FFC Heike Rheine de la Bundesliga femenina. En 2004 fue transferida al 1. FFC Fráncfort con el que ha obtenido tres títulos nacionales en 2005, 2007 y 2008. Ha estado consistentemente entre las mejores goleadoras de la Bundesliga a lo largo de su carrera, logrando el título de goleo individual en la temporada 2003/2004.

Selección nacional
El 17 de noviembre de 2001 hizo su debut con la selección femenina de fútbol de Alemania en un partido contra Holanda. Se carrera con la selección nacional ha coincidido con los mayores éxitos de la selección alemana. Se coronó campeona del mundo en la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2003 celebrada en Estados Unidos y la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2007 celebrada en China. Además logró ganar el título de la Eurocopa Femenina 2005 en Inglaterra y la Eurocopa Femenina 2009 en Finlandia.

Obtuvo la medalla de bronce en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atenas 2004 y los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008, siendo la medalla de oro olímpica lo único que falta en su palmarés.

Durante la Copa del Mundo 2011 actuó como capitana del equipo en ausencia de Birgit Prinz. Garefrekes anunció su retiro de la selección nacional en agosto de 2011.

Véase también
 Anexo:Futbolistas femeninas con más de 100 partidos internacionales

Enlaces externos

 Ficha en FIFA.com

Futbolistas femeninas de Alemania
Futbolistas de la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2011
Futbolistas de Alemania en la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2007
Futbolistas de Alemania en la Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2003

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July 6, 2007 – Jeffrey Epstein's plea deal touts his close friendship with Bill Clinton and a claim he helped conceive the Clinton Global Initiative program
In Clinton Foundation Timeline, Featured Timeline Entries by Katie Weddington July 6, 2007
Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein (Credit: public domain)
"Attorneys for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein touted his close friendship with Bill Clinton and even claimed the billionaire helped start Clinton's controversial family foundation in a 2007 letter aimed at boosting his image during plea negotiations, FoxNews.com has learned.
The 23-page letter, written by high-powered lawyers Alan Dershowitz and Gerald Lefcourt, was apparently part of an ultimately successful bid to negotiate a plea deal before Epstein could be tried for using underage girls in a sex ring based in Palm Beach, Fla., and his private island estate on the 72-acre Virgin Islands home dubbed "Orgy Island." Epstein spent 13 months in prison and home detention after agreeing to a plea deal in which he admitted to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.
"Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges," read the July 2007 letter to the U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of Florida. "Focuses of this initiative include poverty, climate change, global health, and religious and ethnic conflicts."
The hedge fund magnate's true role in creating the foundation could not be confirmed. Whether Epstein was an actual founder of the foundation or exaggerated his role in a phony effort to appear altruistic is not clear.
Epstein is not cited in official paperwork filed by the Clinton Global Initiative as a founder or director. Neither The Clinton Foundation nor Dershowitz responded to FoxNews.com's inquiry as to the extent of Epstein's involvement. FoxNews.com first reported that flight logs show the former president flew on Epstein's private plane dozens of times. But Clinton has publicly credited longtime assistant Doug Band, now counselor and director of the foundation, as conceiving of the idea." (Read more: Fox News, 7/06/2016)
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Invisible fencing is becoming more and more popular these days but there are some unique considerations a German Shepherd owner needs to make before they invest in one for their own yard.
In this article, you'll learn about invisible fences for dogs, the challenges of using one with a German Shepherd, and some special tips for training your German Shepherd properly so that the invisible fence is effective.
An invisible fence is basically a wire that you bury underground around the perimeter of your home. It is electric and connects to a transmitter which sends signals to a receiver placed on your dog's collar.
When your dog reaches the boundary (where the wire is buried), the transmitter will trigger the dog's collar to give a small, electric shock. You can usually regulate how weak or strong this shock is but at any level, it's safe enough that it won't harm their health or cause great pain. It just causes enough discomfort to motivate your dog to avoid crossing that boundary.
Typically, you put up very small flags (at least during the training period) so that your dog knows the boundary that they should stay within to avoid the shock. There are many invisible fence kits on the market.
Most electric dog fence systems aren't actually invisible. They require you to bury up to 2,000 feet of wire around your yard, digging trenches, and then covering them up -- while hoping that the grass doesn't die above the wire.
The PetSafe Wireless Dog Fence changes the game completely. There are no wires that you have to bury, and the fence is easily detected by your dogs to ensure they always know where the boundary is located.
Creates An Instant Boundary Around Your Yard: To install the PetSafe Pet Electronic dog fence, all you have to do is install the receiver in a central location in your home, and then place the flags within 90 feet of the receiver to create the boundary. There are no wires to bury.
Adjustable From 5ft To 90ft: You can instantly adjust the perimeter to create a safe zone of anywhere from 5 feet all the way up to 90 feet from the receiver's location. By moving the flags, you control the boundary.
Easy To Install: Within a matter of hours, you can install the system, and get help from tech support if you find yourself having problems during the installation process. Simply plug in the transmitter, set the flags, and attach the collar.
Waterproof Collar: A lot of invisible fence systems include collars that are not waterproof, which means they're quick to malfunction if they get wet. The last thing you want is a malfunctioning collar that could potentially shock your dog when they're nowhere near the boundary.
5 Levels Of Correction: Whether you're attaching the collar to a small 20-pound puppy, or a 70-pound adult, you can adjust the level of correction to suit. If you notice your dog is a bit stubborn and tends to ignore the correction, turn the level up a bit to get their attention again.
Operating Range May Be Impeded: If you install the device near other electronic components you may find out that you have issues trying to run proper testing, and when you are trying to set the boundary during your initial installation. Tech support recommends that you keep the sending unit at least 5 feet away from other electronic components.
May Interfere With Wireless Security System: Some customers have reported that their wireless security system would interfere with the boundary, causing inconsistent testing, and sometimes failure to properly operate. If you have a wireless security system in your home, verify the frequency range it uses, and then compare to the wireless containment system.
While a bit pricey, the best invisible dog fence you can buy is PetSafe Wireless Dog Fence. It is perfect if you want to keep your GSD in the yard, without having to dig your yard up in the process. There is no dealing with wiring that can become tattered or frayed, requiring constant maintenance.
It's easy to install and works perfectly for keeping your dog in the boundary you've set for them. If you follow the instructions and get on the phone with tech support when you need them, your system will be up and running in a few short hours.
To learn more about the PetSafe Wireless Invisible Dog Fence, and read reviews from other customers, click on the button below.
That is everything you need to set up an invisible fence in your backyard. And it's enough footage to securely cover as much as 4 acres of land so you can give your pooch a lot of space to run around happily.
With that in mind, this may not be the right kit for everyone. With 2000 feet of wire, someone with a small backyard will have much more than they need so you might look into a smaller kit to save money and clutter.
On the other hand, for those with more than 4 acres, you can easily (and affordably) buy 2 or more of these kits to use in combination so that you cover the full acreage that you need.In short, this is a great product that offers all the benefits you can hope to get from an invisible fence. It's easy to install, affordable, and allows you to keep an open landscape without risking losing your dog.
Easy and affordable: it requires fewer materials than a standard fence and you can install it yourself easily. This saves you money on both materials and professional installation.
Landscaping: a nice open yard looks much better than one that's been walled off with tall, intrusive fencing. You can keep your dog safe and your yard looking beautiful and open.
There are a few challenges to using an invisible fence with a German Shepherd. While they can be overcome with the right training and dedication, they are worth considering because you may not have the time (or the desire) to invest the time and patience needed to overcome these challenges.
Training: with any dog, you will have to first take the time to train them with the invisible fence. They need to make the association between the electric shock and the boundary so they know how they are supposed to behave. This takes time and patience. And if you skip it, your invisible fence will be a waste of money.
Electric shock: this can be an issue for 2 reasons. While they are designed not to injure the dog, it is meant to be uncomfortable. Some owners might not be ok with causing any kind of discomfort to their dog. So if that's not something you want to do, don't get this fence. Secondly, German Shepherds are big dogs and more tolerant to pain/discomfort. The shock intensity on many fences may not be enough to act as a deterrent like it should.
Backfiring: if you've got a stubborn pup, it might choose to endure the shock to break past the boundary anyway and once it's past the boundary, it's not going to want to come back in and endure the shock again. So you really have to make sure your dog is well-trained and able to control their urges when they see, say, another dog or a squirrel they want to chase outside of the boundary.
Introduce the dog to the boundary. Walk them around the perimeter (which should be marked with the flags). Go close enough to trigger the beeping (most fences trigger a warning beep before the shock) and then lead your dog away from the boundary. This will start the association that beeping means it's time to turn back.
Show the correction. While on a leash walk with your dog toward the boundary. Let it cross the boundary and trigger the shock and then lead your dog away from this fence. This will show them that if they ignore the beeping and continue, they will get shocked.
Repeat. Continue walking along the perimeter while your dog is leashed so that they can become used to the new situation and the boundary.
Off leash testing. When you start to notice that they respond to the beeping by turning back or moving away from the boundary, you can try testing them without the leash. Do this gradually by taking them off leash for just a few minutes to see how they do and then leashing them again until you are sure they fully trained to stay inside the boundary.
No unsupervised play. During training, even when they are safely playing off leash, do not let them play outside without supervision. You need to make sure the training sticks. If they break through the boundary, you'll want to be able to catch them as soon as you can.
Avoid walks. While training, it is best if the dog never leaves the boundary at any point. So that means no going out on walks until the training is done. This can be a challenge for an energetic Great Shepherd so make sure they get plenty of outdoor play time inside the perimeter while they're training.
Eventually, you will be able to remove the flags if you like but allow at least 3 months of off leash playing inside the boundary before you start removing flags. And to play it safe, you can start by just removing a few flags each week until they are all gone.
So, after 3 months, remove every second flag. Then a week later, again remove every second flag. Continue until they are gone. For German Shepherd owners, you may want to consider leaving these flags in so that your dog always has a visual reminder to prevent them from giving into their curiosity and urge to leave the boundary.
From this article, you can see that there are a lot of great advantages to using a wireless invisible fence but using it with a German Shepherd can pose some unique challenges and there are simply some individual dogs that just aren't going to be easy to control with an invisible fence.
So before you make your final decision, make sure you take the time to really know whether or not it's a practical option for your dog. And if you decide that it is, use the tips and info in this article to make sure you get the most out of your invisible (electronic) fence.


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Windsor, SC – March 6, 2013 – For the third year in a row, the Salute to Driving weekend, held in Windsor, SC, March 1-3, 2013, featured a beautiful dinner and auction, multiple driving clinics and a Combined Test Competition, all for the benefit of the United States Equestrian Team Foundation and the United States Equestrian Federation's High Performance Driving program.
A highlight of the weekend was the successful Saturday nightdinner and auction, which was held at organizing committee member Bev Lesher's Courage to Lead Farm. The evening event was put on to raise funds for the USET Foundation that will be specifically dedicated to helping train the best drivers and equines to represent the USA in World Driving Championships.
Michael Freund driving Wendy O'Brien's Pony Pair.
During the decadent Berry Catering dinner, organized by Wendy O'Brien, attendees bid on fabulous live auction pieces.Auctioneer Paul Martin donated his time to handle the Live Auction of six special items. A sampling included a week at Hilton Head SC in a top resort condo for four including free greens fees, a dinner for 6 in Aiken in Jack Wetzel's restored Log Cabin, three nights for two (including breakfast) in Boston at the prestigious Union House, Stabling and a B&B for two nights in Maine at the wonderful Acadia National Park in Maine, and a weeks stay in a 4 bedroom home on Block Island in Rhode Island. In addition to the Live Auction, a Silent Auction ran at the event from Friday morning through Saturday night and came to a close following the dinner.
Prior to the benefit dinner and auction, the weekend long Salute to Driving kicked off with dressage clinics by Michael Freund and Sterling Graburn at Chateau Log and Courage to Lead Farms. Freud led the USEF long listed drivers through the clinic, while Graburn worked with developing drivers. Other special events included a hazard demonstration and clinic, harnessing demonstrations, farrier demonstrations and a carriage exhibit. All of the weekend events served to help raise awareness and educate different audiences about the discipline of driving.
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Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
It's always darkest before the other shoe drops.
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires
Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
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I've spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn't seem to do any good.
Let's finish the job.
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by Betty Cracker | December 6, 2015 8:00 pm | 167 Comments
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President Obama is scheduled to address the nation momentarily.
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I figure we should complain about something, so…
I don't like the font they're using on the "please hold" screen.
He said "terrorism." All is well.
@Baud: If only he had used terrorism earlier, the murders in San Bernadino would not have happen. Words matter.
Obama: "Stop pissing your pants. Yes, GOP, I mean you."
Uh oh, Obama wants us to be "smart." GOP won't like that.
sandtu2001
Thank FSM this guy is my President
@Baud:
Yeah but he said they came together to celebrate "the holidays" not "Christmas"
Smiling Mortician
His pacing suggests to me that he's gonna get around to a broader discussion of non-ISIL terrorism. Which might get interesting.
There must be a bit of an overload on people expecting to hear the speech. I've been waiting for it to load for over ten minutes. Looks like I'm going to miss it completely.
Is he using a teleprompter.. uhoh.. insincere at best…
Wait, he missed "go shopping". That was key to Bush's strategy.
jnfr
I'm listening and I'm afraid he sounds too much like a grownup to convince the American people of anything.
AUMF!!!!!!
@Smiling Mortician: He's pivoting to gun safety.
"Motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology". Like conservatism?
Adam L Silverman
And I win AUMF bingo!
Guns!
And . . . "ISIL, or some other hateful ideology."
@Smiling Mortician: I hope he mentions the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood event.
Did he say we should restrict gun ownership for those on the no-fly list?
@dmsilev: Jinx. And yes.
@WereBear: Yes.
I really want him to read the second amendment and say those that interpret that to mean assault rifles are not sane.
Uh-oh. Actual foreign policy consequences 'n' shit. GOP's bored now.
"I speak for Islam."
Um..scratch that.
uhoh… Only blacks are thugs..
After proposing to avoid getting involved in a land war in Asia, Obama reiterates that he won't go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Good balance. He could have said more about guns (and I wish he had), but that could drown out the other issues addressed.
I am glad he is forcefully addressing the nomenclature debate. This needs to be on a continuous loop.
omg.. I'm in love.
@jnfr:
Dump more stuff on my other branches, Mr. President!
gene108
Why had Obama not called ISIS / ISIL / Daesh "radical Islamic terrorists" ? Why is he covering for them?
/snark
"Exceptional."
OH HE WENT THERE!!!!
I fucking LOVE Barack Hussein Obama!
I really do.
gogol's wife
He is a great man.
Well, that was quick.
sm*t cl*de
The battle to reserve "momentarily" to mean "very briefly" has been lost, if Betty Cracker has gone over to the wrong side.
Mwangangi
Pulled out his best "I'm not angry with you, just disappointed…"
@Chris: Now all the liberals will be pissed off. Thanks, Obama.
I love that man.
and this is why I am glad Barack Obama is President.
@Smiling Mortician: Can only put off football for so long.
#FactsAreBoring
I loved it when Obama said Ich bin ein Muslim, or words to that effect. Does the GOP get to deliver an official rebuttal, or do we just wait for Trump to start speaking in tongues?
Earlier I was talking to a friend about bumper sticker that Hillary should use. Instead of United We Stand, Divided we fail… flip it..
Divided we Fail
United we stand.
The repubs want to divide us.
Somehow, someway, Ron Fournier's takeaway from this will be that it shows a lack of leadership.
@Helen: But don't 66% or whatever of Republicans believe he's a Muslim?
@Brandon: It's a macro on his computer.
sharl
#TCOT/wingnut Twitter has been getting all warmed-up for this for at least a couple days.
Will Erick Erick Erick Erickson shoot more newspapers?
Will Kurt Schlichter write another glorious short story featuring "The Wildman" for neocons and keyboard kommandos to fap to?*
*[Certain lefties and online media folks sure hope so! They loved this post madly. (And Biddle never fixes his damn mistakes; Schlichter is on the left in that second photo.]
Or, y'know, instead go read or do something useful, or at least more fun…
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago
Is that all there is? We need a new President – FAST!
@redshirt:
My satisfaction with having him in the oval office is slowly giving way to dread as I realize that in barely a year, he'll be gone. Even under the most optimistic scenario, I doubt if I'll feel the same way about the next one on foreign policy.
Okay, this is nit picky, but I have hated this for over a decade.
Whenever a Prez sez his most important duty is the security of Americans (or words to that effect) my head gets all throbby – and Obama is not the first.
President's swear to defend the Constitution and there is a BIG difference.
The repubs want to divide us. Actually many of them do.
They are mad at Daesh over the beheadings, they wanted to save that trick for themselves on liberals.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Brandon: I'm sure Fournier is relieved he didn't hear the words of Leadership he wanted to hear (tonight, I am resigning in favor of Joe Biden, who will in turn resign in favor of Vice President McCain, so that John McCain may assume his rightful place in this Office…) that would have required him to rewrite the response he wrote this morning
Suzanne Holland
@sandtu2001: amen!!!!!
@SiubhanDuinne: yes! Yes! Yes!
BruceFromOhio
@Ruckus: That just seems so … unfriendly.
Can't we all just be friends?
@Keith G:
They take an oath to defend the constitution. I've taken one as well. So has everyone else that joined or was drafted into the military.
Towards that end an insecure country isn't one that can defend it's constitution very well. It's how it is protected and what is done to do that which that makes the difference.
Watched the speech with my parents. When he was doing his "they are our friends, they are our neighbors," Dad added something that I wish he'd ended with; "they are us."
@Ruckus: Yet as has been exemplified in the recent past, a drive to security finds temptations to run over provisions in said Constitution.
@Chris: You have cool parents.
@BruceFromOhio:
Would be nice wouldn't it?
I generally don't like to be friends with people who are actively trying to kill me. Allowing unfettered access to guns, defunding the VA, screwing up SS, willfully spending throwing money at the military for crap it doesn't need (F35) while screaming about having a war they refuse to sign a bill to authorize………
Want me to go on?
(Yes I know you didn't really mean it)
@Keith G: Less recent past as well.
That's my assessment as well. The evening also reminded me that they make badass crepes, too.
@Ruckus:
Yep. This.
LMAO, well spotted. That does add a whole new meaning to the phrase "they want to divide us." Yes. Preferably at the neck.
I made the mistake of following Cole's twitter to Joe Scarborough's who probably speaks for the Village in his conviction that only invading a country that had nothing to do with any of this is the answer. Who's left?
In a government such as ours we need all three branches to actually do their jobs. One and around a half of the other aren't doing that currently. Congress seems to actually agree on fighting Deash but won't do their job to fund that because it just might make the current president look good to some of their constituents and they can't have that. That's not what they signed up for and is why I think you are [mad?] at the president. Your point is misplaced.
@Ruckus: The Free Speach zones were especiallly cuddly examples of true naighborliness that they actually managed to set up — the zones of Muslim Religious Freedom are just promised further exemplars of their good hearts.
@srv: Less than Trump!
Also the security theater as currently practiced started during the last administration. Do you actually think President Obama could do anything to change it without suffering a mortal political blow? Doesn't matter if it's totally or mostly ineffective, our political scene is so fucked up now that the status quo is probably better than any risk of trying to fix it.
I watched the speech on CNN and had to switch to the football game right after. The analysis from Tapper, Blitzer & co. was infuriatingly inane.
I love you, President Obama. Seriously. I love you so much. I am so proud that I voted for you, in the primary and both generals, and I gave you money and time for your campaigns. We do not deserve such a great leader. I wish you a long, healthy, full life, and a great post-presidency. Maybe Chief Justice of the SCOTUS Obama? A girl can dream.
I like that he referred to the failure of Iraq when dismissing the notion of launching a large land war against ISIS. Take that, Tailgunner!
OK as I listened to the President and the talking head reaction I have yet to hear what the critics would do differently. Richard Engle had a 4 point fact check that I tend to agree with. But lets just look at point 2. Point 2 involved the training of local forces to act as the boots on the ground. It's true that the program hasn't been a smashing success but what is the alternative? It's either local boots or American boots. Surely we should have learned from Vietnam if the locals won't fight to defend their country then American/NATO troops can't do it for them, esp. when it is war of ideas. This is not a conflict that will have maps where the front lines move inexorably toward Berlin or Tokyo.
In a previous thread I said that we have to fight this both militarily and at the level of the ideology. .Before the president spoke one of the MSNBC reporters mentioned that the state dept. has been running a propaganda program. They invited in a group of experts (the reporter didn't identify the experts) to evaluate the program. State was told that it wasn't working and it was never going to work and the best thing State could do is shut it down.
So at the end of the day no one has come up with any better ideas.
Amir Khalid
Is this the weekly address, or some other speech?
@Suzanne: Same. Best President of my long life, and I can't even imagine a better one at this point.
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: GOP Karl and George Shortopolous on ABC were no better
@Amir Khalid: Super speshul Oval Office Speech.
Oh god he didn't sound like Churchill.
@D58826: The actual real Churchill didn't sound like the Churchill of the GOP's fever dreams.
@D58826:
It's either local boots or American boots.
And as I said in an earlier thread, I might actually be willing to consider American boots if I thought the post-war would be handled properly – like it was after 1945, not after 2001 or 2003. But it wouldn't. It would be the latter. So it's a moot point, and staying the hell out of the Middle East while strengthening homeland security seems like a far better option than whatever the hell the right wingers have in mind.
@schrodinger's cat:
I was just on the White House website, and I didn't see a transcript. Maybe it's not up yet.
@Amir Khalid:
Vox has it up.
@Suzanne:
Beautiful thoughts… positive, wonderful. Alls we can have sometimes is to acknowledge and affirm and know the leadership that we see. We at least recognize it! Praise be.
@D58826: Wish I'd watched MSNBC. Thought they were in prison mode.
@Betty Cracker: It was Chris Matthews, so I'm not sure how much better it was.
This was only the third time he's addressed the country from the Oval Office.
Pretty much all of this, except I think it goes back well before Dubya and Darth Cheney; they just activated that Dark Id circuit that was already there in our national character.
We had – maybe – one opportunity to jump the tracks and get on a new path, and that was when the phrase "peace dividend" was popular. It sure seems that phrase disappeared as quickly as it appeared back in the…what, early 90s?
I wonder about that a lot. Did lobbyists and political aides quietly whisper in the ears of national politicians something like "you know you will cede your power and reelection prospects if you willingly reduce the funding you oversee". That wasn't it solely, of course, but it had to be a major part of how that noble initiative was throttled in the crib.
Pax Americana, glory to the Empire!
@Chris: I'm not sure the post WWII example is relevant. First of all in Europe you had a country, Germany, with a cohesive national identity and some degree of experience in self government. They were well integrated into the larger 'western civilization' for want of a better term. In effect all we had to do was scrape off the Nazi paint and you had a functioning country. In Japan, if nothing else you had the Emperor who told the people that they had to endure the unendurable. I suspect things would have been different if he had advised people to take to the hills and fight to the death.
The other difference is the cold war settled in fairly quickly after the end of WWII. The US had a ready made boogie man. IN effect we could say learn English or learn Russian.
Neither factors apply in the middle east. even if we know how to do nation building.
There is no reason — none — for boots on the ground in the ME anymore. I cannot envision a scenario where that would be the case. Holding territory there should be 100% up to other ME nations/interests. We need 1) suppression/containment – like bombing and some special forces operations 2) major international and national policing and 3) intelligence.
Possibly 4) social marketing (dunno fully what I mean here except figuring out how to influence people who have hostile ideas that they want to act on)
@Baud: Some of the commentators were good and some were bad bad. Jon Alter was the one who made the crack about Churchill. I really wish people would get over the fact that Obama is not Churchill. He isn't FDR. He is no drama Obama and he isn't going to give those kind of rah rah speeches. I would rather have a president who thinks thing thru and has a long term game plan than one who simply points in the direction of San Juan hill and yells 'charge'. Great as a battlefield commander but not so good as commander in chief.
That's why I only say "might." I don't say it's necessarily a plausible idea since, if nothing else, obviously the Middle East in the 2010s isn't Europe in the 1940s. But I'd be willing to entertain the possibility if I thought the people in charge were actually thinking seriously about the aftermath, about how to rebuild Iraq and Syria into functional societies that wouldn't just re-collapse immediately and probably engender another version of Daesh or al-Qaeda. Since I don't think that, though, I don't even entertain the possibility.
Plus Daesh isn't Hitler. Frankly, it isn't even Al Qaeda yet as far as the West is concerned.
The Villagers like Scarborough and (I'm willing to bet) Fournier, whether they know it or not, want what Richard Cohen called (when admitting after the fact his support for the war was not Tony Blair's muscular humanitarianism) "therapeutic violence". They want Daddy to go beat up the Daddy of the kid that pushed them off the swingset.
@Elie: I think you item 4 covers the use of social media and the internet. Daesh is cleaning our clock with their social media recruiting and propaganda tools. We have to be able to counter that but it has to be done by people who understand the local cultures. We can't laugh at the idea of the caliphate and think the caliph is the guy in the turban from kismet.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I'd agree if we weren't currently bombing. We are, but it'll never be good enough for the Village, because a Republican daddy isn't in charge.
@Chris: If you put American boots on the ground, there will never be a post war, only ongoing, perpetual war. There is not even agreement by local powers that ISIS is really a threat. And the lack of any reasonable approach to ousting Assad and installing any stable alternative adds to regional dilemmas.
There is a breaking news story that IS is behind the murder of the governor of Aden in Yemen, and that IS is taking on Al Qaeda there, even though Al Qaeda is supposedly more powerful.
In short, American or international forces could be vulnerable to attacks by "friends" who could switch sides at the drop of a hat. The Kurds are reliable, but neither or allies nor our opponents in the region want to see the Kurds emerge as an independent regional power.
All commentators acceptable to US media, whatever their alleged ideology, love war and American military power, because without it, what are we but a country driving itself into the ground due to the greed and stupidity of the people who pay said commentators salaries.
Also, without war, nobody gives a damn about cable news.
@Ruckus: I am mad at this president? No. Been annoyed a time or two.
Your point is misplaced.
There is no excuse for not being true (in rhetoric and deed) to the Constitution and the processes created by it. When a president uses the sound bite," I have no greater responsibility than the security of the American people." I think it leaves a door open that I wish were closed.
I am not beating up on Obama, so there is no need to defend him. I am just noting that words spoken by the leader of our government matter a lot. And one way to counter the pressure that many of our leaders have felt to engage in Constitutionally problematic activities, is to speak out definitively about the primacy of the Constitution and it's values.
That is among the strongest ways to answer the demagoguery of Trump and Cruz as they advocate security first and Constitutional values (and common humanity) a distant second.
@Brachiator: Saw an article the other day that as NATO and the US have stepped up the air campaign our ME allies have quietly scaled back on their air contribution to the campaign. I believe John Cole said that the Saudi national anthem during Desert Storm was Onward Christian soldiers. Nothing has changed.
I suspect the GOP response will be 'we can pound our chest harder and bay at the moon louder so elect us'.a
@Amir Khalid: No, this is a special address. But the GOP has got to be eager to try to get their own views out there.
It will also be interesting to see what Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have to say, whether they would continue Obama's approach in their own administration or have some new direction to suggest.
By the way, I cannot pretend that I am interested in what the Republican candidates have to say. They are either incoherent or belligerent.
@Elie: why do we even need bombing? Why not just get out entirely?
@D58826: Churchill was in many ways not great in WWII. My understanding is that the U.S. had to really push for the Western allies to invade Normandy. Churchill wanted to screw around and dither.
Sanders has his statement up.
ETA: I think he went for speed over content.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-obama-oval-office-address
@Brachiator: I figure, that I might start pay attention to the details of what a GOP candidate is saying sometime around the summer solstice.
It really frees up time and lowers tension.
@Brachiator: thank god the U.S. is helping the moderate, peace-loving Saudis destroy Yemen.
@Liberal: my recollection is he wanted invading troops to come from the Mediterranean, "the soft underbelly of the Axis"
@Brachiator: sadly, Clinton mouthed some incoherent nonsense about a no-fly zone in Syria.
@Liberal: Churchill, like Stalin, had a list of needs that often did not agree with what the US saw as good strategy.
Add to that that WC was a shit military strategist AND tactician.
If only he had started the speech with, "you want me to do something about ISIS. Here it is. You're all drafted!" We'd see martial fever cool off in a hurry.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Gabriel Kolko's book on the war made it seem like he really wanted to dither, and in some ways was more concerned about the Empire (or whatever was left of it by then) than defeating the Axis. FDR looked much better in comparison.
@Keith G: what were Stalin's needs that you allude to? Remember, the USSR did almost all of the work of actually defeating Germany. By my count, 5/6 of German casualties were inflicted by the Soviets.
It was a fine speech, a bit short on details but football is on and I had no interest in watching Chris Matthews.
@Liberal: Churchill was in many ways not great in WWII. My understanding is that the U.S. had to really push for the Western allies to invade Normandy. Churchill wanted to screw around and dither.
Strictly speaking, Churchill did not want to go all in on an assault against the northern French coast. In 1942! Which is what Marshall was agitating for. As far as I can tell, Churchill was right and Marshall was wrong, because we barely got on board in '44. In '43 or '42 we would have been repulsed.
It would have been better to go after the soft underbelly of Europe, in certain places. Unfortunately, we allowed ourselves to get hung up on advancing up the Italian boot instead of settling for what we could take initially. And that was bloody. (Roughly speaking, the southern French coast was the best target, and in the end we went for it, but had we had a slightly different orientation in 1942-43 we might have been able to hit it in '43, rather than from the other side of France which the Germans were much better prepared.
Alas, 'twas not to be.
['So it goes.']
Omnes Omnibus
@Liberal: Stalin's needs were a buffer zone between the USSR and western Europe and a warm water port. You know, Russia's tradition foreign policy needs.
I think one of the reasons conservatives love Churchill is because he starved millions of Indians in WW II and was proud of that achievement.
@max:
As far as I can tell, Churchill was right and Marshall was wrong, because we barely got on board in '44. In '43 or '42 we would have been repulsed.
I'm not nearly as well read on WWII as most here, but I have always heard the opposite.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sadly, Churchill never gave up on the "Soft Underbelly" notion even after its first iteration ended in the lives wasted by his plan for the WW I attack on Gallipoli.
The blow back form that tragedy caused WC to loose his position as First Lord of the Admiralty.
But wrong or right, the truly blood thirsty never quit.
Yo, Liberal simpletons, here's the bold, decisive, can't-fail action your Barry Soerto doesn't have the balls (or maybe the desire… hmmm?) to make
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@ tedcruz
If I am elected President, I will direct the Department of Defense to destroy ISIS:
Of course, I would tell the Pentagon to annihilate ISIS.
@schrodinger's cat: Sorry. They have no idea that anything like that happened.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Ha. No, Ted, we're laughing at you.
@Omnes Omnibus: If they find out, don't you think they would love him more?
*May be the conservatives here don't know about it but I am sure Tories like Sully know.
@Omnes Omnibus: Great way to entirely miss the point.
The needs you mention, at least the "buffer" part, were a byproduct of actions that were productive in defeating the Axis (regardless of their implications for the post-war world). The needs of Churchill, like pissing our time away in North Africa and other places, were not.
But thanks for playing.
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was gonna say the same thing, but then it occurred to me he might be referring to more than just American conservatives (who, indeed, probably have no idea). I could see British right wingers remembering him fondly, though.
@max: Hmm 1942 does not ring accurate.
Operation Torch, my dad's introduction to combat, was in Nov 42 and it was the US Army's first major combat operation since 1919. In 1943, dad and friends invaded Sicily and then Italy. I think that reflects the influence of Churchill.
You might want to recheck sources.
@schrodinger's cat: You are over analyzing. Tories like Sully like him because he was a patrician Tory who spoke well. They also paper over his time as a Liberal and the fairly radical things he was a part of achieving as a member Loyd George's cabinet.
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@Suzanne: shut it down, the thread, it is won! I was thinking exactly the same words.
…if the locals won't fight to defend their country …
There are such locals, at least in Syria. They're called the Syrian Army.
They also paper over his time as a Liberal and the fairly radical things he was a part of achieving as a member Loyd George's cabinet.
Not to mention his support (at least for awhile) of land value taxation, which is too pinko for many of the dolts who post on this comment board.
@liberal: No sport, those Soviet needs trace back to the Russian foreign policy of Peter the Great's days. Churchill was PM of a government that ruled a rather large empire. He was necessarily going keep those interests in mind. A war that went a little longer and preserved the empire could be a rational strategy for a person in his position.
@liberal:
Didn't he also concede to universal health care, that ultimate act of Stalinism?
@Baud: No better. He kept misquoting the President, saying he called the terrorist threat a cancer. OMG, says Tweety. That's the headline! Not what he said. Said people ask IF terrorist threat is a cancer and proceeded to explain it was not. Had to shut him off…I only have the one tv set after all
@Liberal: Yemen has been pulled apart by a civil war in which extremists tried to seize an opportunity to gain more power. Bin Laden's family was originally from Yemen , as were many of bin Laden's bodyguard and helpers. Even without Saudi intervention, Yemen would likely be a mess.
@Liberal: Stalin's needs were as you alluded. He was demanding military campaigns on the mainland of Europe (Western Front) ASAFP.
Problem was: In 1942 we did not have enough Armies (men and supplies) to pull that off. And then there is the detail of tactical experience. Africa was a good way to quickly bring the US into the fight against Germany instead of waiting for another lengthy build up and training for an invasion on France or points north. At least that was FDR's take, IIRC.
@schrodinger's cat: Sadly, I think that many American conservatives think that India went from the Raj to Gandhi to Mother Teresa.
mai naem mobile
Okay,so I have not watched the address yet. In what manner did the black man not serve the GOP today? Was the moon behind him at the White House not crescent shaped enough to call him out on picking Musleemy Moon night for the special address?
@Brachiator: Gandhi and his minions got rid of the Raj, or at least hastened its demise. I don't what Mother Teresa has to do with anything.
As for Churchill, most of his hagiographies don't mention his role in the genocide by starvation of 4 million Indians during WW II. This when India was pouring both blood and treasure in the allied war effort. I just recently read that Britain never paid back its war debt to India.
Tim Dickinson  @7im 55m55 minutes ago
Read this tweetstorm. You'll learn more than you have in months on ISIS
I don't know about months, but it's a good, concise window into the complexity of the actual situation in the Syria/Iraqi borderlands. A useful answer to those calling for some vague something (military action) to be done, if they wanted to hear it. They don't
@mai naem mobile: In what manner did the black man not serve the GOP today?
No vicarious machismo, not emotional viagra to make the frightened feel macho. A total failure of leadership.
@efgoldman: Dude, we levitate the Pentagon, float it across the seas, and drop it on al Bagdadi. Duck soup.
Yasmin Khan's Raj at war describes the Indian contributions to the allied war effort.
Cole can yell? Cole can even respond?
@redshirt: Cole has you pied.
@schrodinger's cat: I was trying to say that many conservatives, and many Americans, don't have much understanding or knowledge of India at all. But they may know that Mother Teresa lived there and maybe that the Beatles went there in the 60s to get high. Conservative ignorance is highlighted by their dismissal of India as being a Commie sympathizer nation during the Cold War era (which is part of the reason that the US was a longtime supporter of Pakistan).
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: My very very very right-wing boss occasionally makes statements about how the American people are just so so so hungry for strong leadership, that we need somebody like Putin who is tough and decisive and "macho" (his choice of words, not mine). My eyebrows were in my hairline by that point. Who honestly sees these thuggish tough guys and thinks, "MAN, that's quality leadership right there!"?
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That is a good twitter TL segment on the whole mess in The Levant. And if that is representative of the work of NYT reporter Rukmini Callimachi, I'm sorry I haven't seen her name before.
As far as bossing Turkey around – suggested elsewhere upthread – good luck with that! As the War Nerd explains here, Turkey is still all pouty and angry about losing their mighty Ottoman Empire (almost 100 years ago!). Nationalism runs bone-deep there (kinda like here, and in Russia, etc., etc.), and they're never in any mood to compromise on their agenda; ask the Kurds about that. Kinda makes one wonder just whose agenda NATO was serving when they agreed to back-up Turkey on that (IMO) unnecessary shooting down of the Russian bomber. The Russians of course are no saints, but that is hardly a sufficient condition for taking down their aircraft for flying over a sliver of Hatay Province (the War Nerd provides the history of that sliver of formerly Syrian/Arab land).
@Omnes Omnibus: lol he certainly, markedly, does not.
@efgoldman: I used to joke that if we wanted the insurgents in Iraq to surrender we'd invite them to a planning meeting. After six or seven hours of death by powerpoint in a conference room where the A/C couldn't keep up with the 125 degree heat outside, we'd then tell them if they didn't stop fighting us and the Iraqi government, we were going to bring them to two of these meetings a week. I always thought they'd capitulate immediately.
@Adam L Silverman: When I was clerking at a federal court, I knew a judge who would do settlement conferences and ply the parties and counsel with water and coffee. He would then decline to permit lavatory breaks. It worked. He only did this with cases where people were a short distance apart and couldn't close.
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@Brandon: He said Obama said all the right things but too late…and nobody trusts him so it won't matter.
Can't win. The freaking piss pants Beltway d-bags want shoot from the hip immediate responses – and Obama keeps fvcking wtih them by continuing to do things at his own pace. I swear he does it to troll them. (and, also, because he's rational and careful – but can't have that in a president – need a bellicose reactionary daddy)
@Omnes Omnibus: I watched GEN Dempsey do this during a five hour meeting. All the parties not at Fort Monroe were in via VTC. The folks that did the scheduling on him had scheduled five hours – no breaks. As you know, usually there's a ten minute break every hour to hour and a half. At the two hour mark he got up announced he was going to the latrine, but as no breaks had been scheduled on the official agenda everyone was to carry on. It was deliciously evil!
@schrodinger's cat: I ran across this in reference to the first World War.
As many as 400,000 Muslims made up one-third of the Indian Army of 1.3 million, along with 100,000 Sikhs, and up to 800,000 Hindu soldiers. Yet when asked to estimate how many Muslims fought on the British side in 1914, only 2% of those surveyed by British Future correctly placed the number at between 250,000 and 500,000.
There was a History Today article about wounded Indian soldiers recuperating in England and being treated warmly by the ordinary people, during World War I. Until some idiots started worrying that local women were being too friendly.
@schrodinger's cat: Churchill was a racist not only against Indians, but against nonwhite people generally.
@Librarian: In what way was he different from any patrician Victorian of his era?
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When he was doing his "they are our friends, they are our neighbors," Dad added something that I wish he'd ended with; "they are us."
And Fox 'News' would have breathlessly 'reported' the 'fact' that Obama had finally, at long last, admitted he was a Moooslim.
@mtiffany:
They hold that truth to be self-evident, anyway.
Quoth Calvin and Hobbes: "If I'm going to get clobbered, I like to deserve it."
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Great tweet storm. Especially this:
The cities that need to be taken back (Mosul, Raqqa etc) are mostly Sunni, not Kurdish, and the U.S. has yet to find a Sunni proxy force
Also a BBC news reporter on the ground there noted that the US advisors trusted the Kurds. Other groups, not so much. And other forces were jealous that the Kurds got the best US weapons.
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@Suzanne: Sufferin' sycophancy!
Put down the Koolaid and step away from the punch bowl!
@Omnes Omnibus: Churchill could be on the receiving end of bigotry. This from the diary of the Soviet ambassador to London.
Maisky was a keen listener when it came to gossip. It resulted in vignettes strewn throughout the more historically significant entries. In October 1939, Maisky was shocked by the "snobbery and racism" he encountered with his Socialist friends, Beatrice and Sidney Webb (who founded the London School of Economics):
"I mentioned what Churchill said to me the other day: 'Better communism than Nazism!' Beatrice shrugged her shoulders and noted that such a statement was not typical of the British ruling elite, and I would tend to agree. But then, for some reason, she found it necessary to add: 'Churchill is not a true Englishman, you know. He has negro blood. You can tell even from his appearance.'
"Then Beatrice Webb told me a long story about Churchill's mother coming from the South of the USA and there being some negro blood in her family. Her sister looked just like a 'Negroid.' "
In what way was he different from any patrician Victorian of his era?
Does that matter? Should we excuse Hitler because antisemitism was so widespread?
@redshirt: If you don't look at people as products of their time, you are an idiot.
ETA: And fuck you for the Godwin.
@Keith G: Hey, me too.
@Omnes Omnibus: Sure, eugenics was fairly mainstream science back then, who could blame Hitler for trying to eradicate all downs syndrome kids!
@efgoldman: Lincoln had plenty of flaws. We judge the person based on the the time, not the ideas, which are timeless.
@sharl:
they're never in any mood to compromise on their agenda; ask the Kurds about that.
I usually agree with this. but there was something at Juan Cole's place just recently
about the Turks and the Kurds cooperating.
It is very strange. Turkish Army based in Iraq, with Kurds, training Kurds. Partly because the Iraqi Kurds are more conservative than the Syrian Kurds.
@catclub: Kurds and whey….
tonight, I am resigning in favor of Joe Biden, who will in turn resign in favor of Vice President McCain, so that John McCain may assume his rightful place in this Office…)
More like, "Tonight I am handing myself over to police for being a black man and Joe Biden will resign so President Trump can start his reign."
@catclub: I had read about the overt Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, and the complaints from Baghdad about it, but hadn't connected it to a temporary alliance with the Kurds there; thanks for that link!
The thing that Turkey is trying to do, as far as I can tell, is to carefully coordinate, negotiate with, and play off against one another the players in that area, including us. For the longest time they refused our requests for access for our military aircraft to Incirlik Air Base, with all the advantages in logistics that would come with that. When the Turks finally agreed – and I'm guessing they felt they couldn't delay that any longer – they also started attacking the Syrian Kurdish anti-Assad resistance groups, and their associated Syrian minority allies, all the while making noises about attacking terrorists. They knew that the U.S. would be limited to complaining quietly to Turkey about them attacking our ground force allies there, if we wanted continued access to Incirlik.
The Turks will play nice with the Kurds in northern Iraq as long as they have to, and as long as it they don't feel threatened by those particular Kurds – unlike the Syrian Kurds who were (are?) making significant strides in taking land, but too close to the Turkish border for the latter's liking. And of course the PKK flavor of Kurds are totally out, classified as terrorists by the Turks, the U.S., and western Europe nations. Presumably the northern Iraqi Kurds and their Peshmerga military force will know not to publicly make nice with the PKK crowd.
I see that Juan Cole has some good posts on Turkish political dynamics, I need to follow that more often, and maybe find one or more English-language analysts who look at politics in Ankara with the same skill as Joel Wing does with Baghdad.
@sharl: While closing a mess of tabs before my browser crashes – a race I often lose – I thought I'd look at the Talk section of the Wikipedia page I had opened for Hatay Province. Damn if there haven't been Turks, Syrians and Kurds – or their surrogates – going at it there too.
I shouldn't be surprised, I guess.
@Brachiator: You are probably right in your assessment.
@Omnes Omnibus: He was in a position of power, and his callous decisions lead to millions of deaths. So the comparison to the other bigoted mass murderer of the era is not besides the point. This does not take away his achievement of leading his country in WW II.


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It has been since an unfortunate event in December that I was no longer to enjoy life (food) to the fullest - chicken wings, burgers, sandwiches, wraps, rice paper rolls, spring rolls, peaches, crackers, apples, sushi, biscuits, pork rolls... especially beer were dropped out of my thoughts. This list could actually go on forever. I couldn't properly dine with somebody without awkwardly chewing on items off my fork, asking for a fork and knife when I had, (stupidly and) absentmindedly ordered a Burger, and making a fool of myself, peeling apart my saucy Chicken Wings at a danky pub, sipping a gorgeous pint of Dieu Du Ciel through a straw... and once that piece of Pulled Pork strings on to pull down a side of my dentures, then seeing the look of complete utter shock on my fellow diner's face, yup, that was a completely different story.
Out of poor habit, I couldn't quite yet muster the strength to eat it how I usually would have, but it was a great feeling! Very tasty, with the right amount of Proscuitto and Brie Cheese. My tastebuds absolutely escalated since it's been so, so long. I love how elastic-y the bread was, brilliant.
Not sure if I would do a round two here - I would rather spend near $9 + tax to actually sit, dine and enjoy the company of a friend else where. I have a tad of a pet-peeve standing/walking and eating.