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Play is Back. What's Next for Toy and Gaming Brands?
As people look for more and better ways to play–on their own and with their kids–innovation is essential.
PLAY had a break-out year in 2020. While the world dealt with the pandemic, people sought ways to distract and entertain themselves. They craved escape from what felt like nonstop bad news and needed a little joy while staying at home. As a result, the brands that came out to play rose to the top of the 2021 Prophet Brand Relevance Index®. For the first time, five toy and gaming brands– LEGO, PlayStation, Fisher-Price, Xbox and American Girl–rose to the top 20 brands.
But it wasn't just kids looking to find joy through play. Adults picked up puzzles, got their endorphin kicks from Peloton and connected with others on video games. And for their children, it meant stocking up on nostalgic classics, like Hasbro's Monopoly and Mattel's Barbie, as well as toys and activities that encourage learning and creativity.
It's easy to say these gains in relevance for top toy and gaming brands are simply due to the pandemic. And yes, COVID-19 has undoubtedly been the catalyst, bumping game night back into living rooms and with so many more people saying, "I can't imagine my life without this brand". But there's a deeper change happening. These toys and games aren't just ways to pass time. They bring joy, comfort and ease into people's lives–and they'll want to hang on to that.
And while toy brands saw a bump in engagement over the last year, not every brand will maintain consumer interest. Toy and gaming brands need to find new strategies to build on sales momentum as the pandemic eases. With family life slowly shifting away from home, brands must find new ways to engage.
Four Clear Paths to Growing Brand Relevance (Even as the Pandemic Subsides)
Rethink Community
As the world moved toward digital everything, staying connected–especially when it came to play–became more critical. Digital gaming had its best year ever in the BRI. Besides PlayStation (No. 9) and Xbox (No. 19), Nintendo, Blizzard, Minecraft and Fortnite all made the Top 100, beating hundreds of other brands.
Roblox, which has been generating buzz because of its recent IPO, is winning with the 9-to-13 set by creating an entirely new category, which it calls "Human co-experience." In many of its games, like MeepCity, kids don't compete at all–they cooperate and simply hang out.
And Animal Crossing: New Horizon, which launched in March of 2020, isn't just a lockdown obsession that propelled Nintendo to $1 billion in profits. Its simple whimsy enabled new ways of connecting with others. Public personalities, including Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, played, engaging millions of followers. It even infiltrated the NFL, with the Detroit Lions using the game to reveal its 2020 schedule.
These digital gaming brands are changing conversations in their communities. As part of the growing Black Lives Matter movement, PlayStation and Xbox took on hate speech in a way that resonated with gamers around the world – proving that brand relevance can come from outside of the core business.
Genuine conversations between players also fuel the success of LEGO. Yes, it's beloved because of the tactile nature of building–and the way kids yearn to create. But it does so well in the digital realm because its free content sparks online invention in new (and safe) ways. And its "Build & Talk" initiative, gives parents the tools they need to raise better digital citizens.
Reinvent the Flywheel
Kids hear about toys in new ways, so it's important to be where your customers are. Many brands are embracing YouTube, using tactics those in other categories haven't quite cracked. Due to the soaring popularity of "unboxing" videos, the most potent demand drivers are grade-school millionaires: Anastasia "Nastya" Radzinskaya, 6, has 67 million YouTube followers and is worth $20 million–and a deal with IMG to develop her own product line. Ryan ("Ryan's World") Kaj, with 28 million followers and an estimated net worth of $32 million. He also sells his own toys, working with Pocket.watch, a company pioneering this YouTube-to-toy shelf strategy.
Toy brands have become more reliant on these influencers. And there is also an opportunity to build authentic content. Taken together, content, community and commerce form a powerful trifecta for direct-to-consumer growth.
Ecosystems are expanding based on intellectual properties that can lead to mega franchises. Disney continues to master the cycle of media-to-toy merchandising. Still, older brands like Barbie and LEGO, and newer ones, such as PAW Patrol, continue to grow via the toy-to-entertainment route. What matters is that they are all finding avenues that are both authentic to the brand and create growth opportunities.
Lean Into Purpose
When it comes to measures of inspiration and purpose, toy and gaming brands did exceedingly well in our Index. To a degree, nostalgia is driving this admiration. American Girl ranks No. 4 in "Has a set of beliefs and values that align with my own"–only Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and Peloton did better. LEGO and Fisher-Price also scored in the Top 20 on this metric. When parents can say, "I had one of those when I was a kid," it's easier for them to get excited about sharing a safe and familiar experience.
But nostalgia isn't enough, and young consumers also demand pervasive innovation to be considered a relevant brand. For years, Barbie couldn't quite shake off her controversial image as Ken's girlfriend. But thanks to multi-media engagements, Mattel has resurrected her as an enduring role model, with multiple career paths–and creative content–that appeals to millennial moms as much as to little kids. Barbie, old enough to collect Social Security, is taking a stand on everything from white privilege to running for office to mental health, including a partnership with Headspace, the meditation app.
But best of all, Barbie is fun again. In 2020, Mattel says it sold a new Barbie Dream House every single minute not because of its past, but because it's loaded with details that enchant kids right now.
Find Bigger Playgrounds
Adults want to play, too, and it's important to understand just how fierce that longing is. The NPD Group reports that 79% of U.S. consumers have played video games during the pandemic. The fastest-growing audiences are people between 45 and 54 (up 59% for the year) and those 65 and older (up 48%.)
Grown-ups also crave a creative release, powering a surge in adult coloring books and a resurgence of paint-by-numbers kits. They snapped up extra-difficult jigsaw puzzles. And LEGO is targeting adults with new art projects and a Botanical Collection.
A year of play has reminded many adults how much they love to stretch their imaginations. The classic Dungeons & Dragons, a role-playing game that has been around since the 1970s, had its best year ever, with more than 40 million active players, an estimated 60% are 25 and older.
Toy and gaming brands that can help adults find new ways to relax, create, compete and blow off steam will stay connected, even when people begin to socialize more in person.
Eunice Shin
Reimagine
While top toys and gaming brands gained relevance during the pandemic, maintaining that close bond with customers will require new strategies. To continue to achieve uncommon growth, they'll need to stay better connected, following consumers as they make their way back to schools, work and in-person social events.
Have you found a clear path to driving brand relevance? We can help – reach out today.
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There can be a feeling as Winter begins to close out that a lot of the common hazards a driver can face lessen. Snow, sleet, and wintry mix start to go away and drivers begin to lessen their alertness to the dangers of the road. Spring can bring its own unique set of challenges though and we want to make sure we point those out and provide some tips on how to avoid those hazards as we approach Spring 2018.
As the cold winter months begin to warm back up, truckers will often see the quality of roads deteriorate as concrete has expanded and contracted. You will want to keep a close eye out for potholes so you can avoid damage to your truck and potentially you (if a blowout or something were to occur). It is also important to realize that construction may increase during the Spring and cause additional traffic and drive times. Plan for all of these.
When you are driving, it is always important to stay alert of your surroundings and road conditions. It is also important to not push yourself into a constant state of jumpiness as this can lead to bad decisions being made when confronted with threatening situations. Keep consistent speeds and monitor your breathing. If you feel that edge coming on, you can start practicing deep breathing techniques to avoid that jumpiness.
As we all enjoy that wonderful sunlight we've been missing during the winter months, it can make driving a truck more difficult. Try to always protect your eyes and keep your field of vision open as Spring months will bring more direct sunlight into your field of vision.
We've all heard the stories of somebody running a few minutes behind their schedule and rushing to get their delivery on time. That rush can sometimes put you into a precarious situation and potentially get you into an accident. Avoid that rush and realize that while being a little late could be bad. Getting into an accident and having your DAC reflect that cannot be undone.
Enjoy those warmer Spring months and try to stay safe with these tips!


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By Joshua Law
From Birkenhead to Brazil: Interview with Paysandu midfielder Ryan Williams
It's a long way from Birkenhead to Belém – 4,956 miles, to be precise. But for Ryan Williams, a 26-year-old Wirral-born footballer who's recently signed for Brazilian second-division outfit Paysandu, it must feel like another planet. His journey through professional football has been far from conventional, and this is the latest step on a path that's already taken him from Colwyn Bay to the north of Brazil via the Cymru Alliance, the Championship and Canada.
Paysandu are one of two big clubs based in Belém, a port city perched on the mouth of the Amazon River. It's a place full of life and motion, acting as the gateway to the Amazonian trading routes. Despite not having the reputation of the big football Meccas in the south and southeast of Brazil, it's a city which is mad about the game.
Speaking from the club's training ground, Williams admits: "It's a massive change, a big culture change but I expected that, so I was well prepared for it.
"[I went] to a market last week for an interview. It was this special market with foods from the Amazon. That was a bit of an experience – very different to anything I've seen. But that was part of the attraction of coming over, I'm getting exposed to things that if I'd stayed in England I'd never have been exposed to. So not only as a footballer but as a person, it's going to really help me to develop and grow."
Despite having had barely enough time to unpack since his arrival at the start of February, the club's new signing has already had a taste of the precarious nature of professional football in South America's biggest country. Paysandu's manager, Marquinhos Santos, was sacked just days after Williams' presentation following a run of three wins, two draws and two defeats.
"We had a new manager come in the day before yesterday, that was a bit of change for me," Williams explains. "In England the coaches tend to last a little bit longer. I've been in England and seen teams go on winless runs of 12 or 15 games. Over here the manager didn't win three games and bit the bullet."
In Santos' place Paysandu installed Dado Cavalcanti, who at just 36 is already in his third stint in charge of the Papão do Curuzu. "His training sessions have been very good, they've been very intense," Williams continues. "He seems to drive the sessions with his words, with his presence and his language. I don't understand what he's saying, but I can tell he's driving the tempo, which is good because it keeps everyone on their toes."
His team-mates and the club's fans, meanwhile, have shown the newcomer why people from the north of Brazil have such a reputation for hospitality and generosity. "They've been absolutely fantastic with me, just different class. They've taken me out – one of the lads took me to the barber's today and we got our hair cut, another lad invited me round to his to play computer games the other night.
"I got to meet some Paysandu fans on the street and there was a translator with us, so we had a little bit of an interaction. They were both welcoming me to the club, the city, wishing me a lot of luck and asking me to score goals!"
As the first Englishman and one of few foreigners to sign for a club outside of Brazil's more prosperous southeast region, Williams is something of a trailblazer. "I had a bit of a weird start in football," he says with considerable understatement. "I started at a time when all they [clubs] wanted were the biggest players they could find. I had a trial at Everton and they said I was the best player technically that had come in on trial, but I wasn't big enough. So I went to Chester.
"I was on the bench in League 2 at 17, and then Chester folded and had to restart in the Evo-Stik [the eighth tier of English football]. So, I ended up going to Colwyn [Bay] and playing non-league at 18. In terms of the direction of my life I thought, 'Have I missed the boat?' Looking back now, I think, 'Wow, you were only 18 and had so many opportunities,' but when you're that age you think the door's been closed on you."
Williams didn't give up, though, and soon got his career back on track in the unlikely surroundings of the second tier of Welsh football. "I remember the summer of 2010, I got my act together and thought, 'Right, you've got a decision to make now. You either go and get a proper job or you knuckle down and crack on.' So, I went and signed for Llandudno and did really well. Then I got a move to Rhyl. At the end of that season my contract was up, and Jim Bentley and Kenny McKenna took me to Morecambe.
The step up into the professional ranks was the break the midfielder had been looking for and he duly grasped it with both hands. "They gave me the No.10 shirt straight away and that was a big move on their part, a big responsibility for me. But it went well, I scored two in my first three substitute appearances and they gave me a new contract. I stayed at Morecambe for about two or three years, and when I was 24 I ended up going to Brentford."
That move, however, proved to be a wrong turn and Williams' progress ran into a significant stumbling block. "I arrived and we had 14 or 15 midfielders, and coming from League Two to the Championship, it's always going to be difficult. We had three managers in five months: Marinus Dijkhuizen, Lee Carsley and Dean Smith. So it was just change all the time. I ended up leaving in the January and going to Inverness until the end of the season."
That summer he received a call from Paul Dalglish. "I didn't know Paul at the time, but he was at Ottawa [Fury] and said, 'Listen, do you fancy coming out?' I just felt like going from Llandudno to Rhyl to Morecambe to Brentford, I'd been kicking on every year, and it felt like I'd suffered a bit of a setback.
"I thought, 'I can just float around here, but if I want to keep kicking on I need to do something a little bit different.' [Dalglish] sent me over a contract and we got that deal sorted. Canada was a big step, but it was the best decision I could've made.
"Initially, If I'm being honest, I struggled. I didn't expect the standard to be as good as it was. I was coming up against lads who'd played in the Champions League, La Liga, the Bundesliga. I was dealing with playing in heat I'd never played in before, travelling on aeroplanes to games. My first game was in Jacksonville and it was 38 degrees in July. I only came on for the last 10 minutes and I had a stitch when I came off."
He rose to the challenge, though, and used the opportunity to improve a particular aspect of his game. "Physically I developed a lot in Canada," Williams says. "Over in North America, the athleticism of the players is much higher than in England. There are some good players over there. But what some of the lesser players lack in ability, they make up for in physicality."
"I'm now probably much better suited to League 2 than I was back then. I am a technical footballer. I want to dictate the tempo of a game, I want to get on the ball, to make things happen, but when the ball is back and forth in the air, that's a game for lads who just want to head it and kick it."
The refined side of his game comes from a period spent honing his skills on the futsal courts of north England. "I started playing when I was 16, for Tranmere Victoria. Brazil always produced technically the best footballers and they all played futsal when they were kids.
"I played for about four years and ended up making my debut for England when I was 18. You have so much contact on the ball, it's inevitable you're going to improve. You're getting used to dealing with the ball under pressure and naturally you're going to get more confident."
Futsal isn't the only South American influence on Williams' career. He has cultivated a reputation as a free-kick specialist and copied his technique from two of Brazil's finest exponents. "The inspiration", he recalls, "was Juninho [Pernambucano] and Marcos Assunção and how they strike the ball. Rather than getting side-spin or back-spin, you get top-spin and that makes the ball go up and down really quickly."
It would seem, then, that he's well suited to his new home. The diminutive attacking midfielder will find that Brazilian football – where it's common to see stretched games and vast chasms of space in front of the back four – will offer him the freedom to play on the half-turn and use his technique to damage opponents. He'll also be playing alongside Walter, a supremely talented centre-forward who won the UEFA Cup with Porto in 2010.
Despite their divergent career trajectories, Williams and Walter ended up together in Belém thanks to the same agency. R13 Fussball, the management company set up by Bayern Munich's Rafinha, has an unofficial partnership with Paysandu.
"That's how this has come about," Williams says. "I played against a couple of Brazilian lads over in America and they ended up telling their agent that there's an English lad playing in America who's technically very good. The agent got in touch and said, 'If I can sort something out in Brazil, would you fancy it?' [I said], 'Yeah, absolutely.' So he spoke to a couple of teams and Paysandu were the first to bite."
Williams' arrival has caused a stir with local fans and media. "When it was announced that I'd signed here, my Instagram blew up a little bit. I think in the first day I had about 300 or 400 message requests in my DMs, within about three days I got about 3,000 Paysandu fans following me and my last photo had about 400 comments. A lot of them were in Portuguese, so I couldn't understand what they were saying!
"The first couple of days there was quite a lot [of interest]. I did one [interview] for a national TV station as well. I think it's good all round, you know. It's great for Paysandu, and it's great for English football to have someone who's come over to Brazil. It's a little bit different."
Williams is yet to make his debut as he waits for the necessary documentation to come through, but it's merely a matter of time. The Papão's big derby against bitter rivals Remo is coming up on March 11 and both the midfielder and his manager will be hoping he's ready to play in a game which means everything in the city.
It's the perfect opportunity for Williams to introduce himself to Brazilian football with a bang. If he does, the boy from Birkenhead could soon become a hero in Belém.
Picture credit: Jorge Luiz and Fernando Torres/Paysandu
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Title 25: INTERNAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Part 8: MAINE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACADEMY
Chapter 352: EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMUNICATION
§2926. Emergency Services Communication Bureau
1. Bureau established. The Emergency Services Communication Bureau is established within the Public Utilities Commission to implement and manage E-9-1-1, including the deployment of E-9-1-1 service using emerging communications technologies, including, but not limited to, Internet protocol enabled services, that are capable of connecting users to public safety answering points.
[PL 2013, c. 119, §3 (AMD).]
1-A. Quality assurance. The bureau shall develop and implement a quality assurance program to audit and monitor compliance with emergency dispatching standards, practices and procedures of public safety answering points.
[PL 2009, c. 617, §6 (NEW).]
2. System design. In consultation with the E-9-1-1 Council, the bureau shall develop all necessary system elements, standards and cost estimates necessary to provide for the installation and operation of a statewide E-9-1-1 system, including, but not limited to, the following:
A. Development of network design specifications; [PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW).]
B. Development of minimum public safety answering point requirements including 24-hour operation; emergency backup power; secured communication areas; separate administrative phone lines for nonemergency calls; call recording and playback equipment; TDD equipment, as defined in Title 35‑A, section 8702, subsection 6; maximum call handling times; and minimum mandatory staff training requirements for 9-1-1 call answering and dispatching; [PL 2019, c. 339, §5 (AMD).]
C. After consultation with the affected public and private safety agency officials, identification of appropriate public safety answering point sites based on consideration of the existing dispatching capabilities of public and private safety agencies, the expressed preferences of municipalities throughout the State and overall system cost; [PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW).]
D. Identification of appropriate technology for system networks, public safety answering point equipment and data base requirements; [PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW).]
E. Procedures for developing and maintaining address and routing data bases; [PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW).]
F. Procedures for cooperation and coordination with telephone utilities and municipalities for implementation and maintenance; [PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. EEEE, §3 (AMD).]
G. Standards and procedures to establish the confidentiality and prevent the dissemination of reports and records handled by public safety answering points and of the bureau; [PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW).]
H. Estimates of the cost of establishing an operational E-9-1-1 system; [PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. EEEE, §3 (AMD).]
I. Procedures for collecting and administering the necessary funds for E-9-1-1; and [PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. EEEE, §3 (AMD).]
J. Standards and procedures for developing and maintaining the system databases and for ensuring the confidentiality of those databases pursuant to section 2929. [PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. EEEE, §4 (NEW).]
2-A. Goal. To the extent possible, the bureau shall establish a total of between 16 and 24 public safety answering points. The bureau shall seek to coordinate any reduction in the number of public safety answering points to achieve this goal with any contractual obligations it may have or may enter into that are or could be affected by that reduction. Prior to implementing a reduction in the number of public safety answering points, the bureau shall make a finding regarding the need for the reduction based on an evaluation of the costs and benefits of the reduction, taking into account impacts on ratepayers, each of the affected municipalities and the State.
[PL 2011, c. 420, Pt. A, §28 (AMD).]
3. Rulemaking. The bureau shall adopt by rule its standards, specifications and procedures developed under subsection 2, paragraphs A to F after consultation with the E-9-1-1 Council and following at least 3 public hearings geographically dispersed throughout the State.
4. Technical assistance. The bureau may provide support for the development of street address information sufficient to support E-9-1-1 services. The bureau shall provide technical assistance to any municipality in the development of street address information at the request of the interested municipality.
5. Call answering coverage. The bureau is not required to provide call answering coverage in counties or municipalities that choose not to participate in the E-9-1-1 system.
[PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. EEEE, §5 (NEW).]
6. System databases. The system databases, wherever located or stored, are the property of the bureau and their confidentiality is governed by section 2929.
PL 1993, c. 566, §9 (NEW). PL 2001, c. 439, §§EEEE3-5 (AMD). PL 2003, c. 359, §§2,3 (AMD). PL 2009, c. 219, §2 (AMD). PL 2009, c. 617, §6 (AMD). PL 2011, c. 420, Pt. A, §28 (AMD). PL 2013, c. 119, §3 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 339, §5 (AMD).
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Il nitteride maggiore (Nycteris grandis  ) è un pipistrello della famiglia dei Nitteridi diffuso nell'Africa subsahariana.

Descrizione

Dimensioni
Pipistrello di medie dimensioni, con la lunghezza totale tra 132 e 169 mm, la lunghezza dell'avambraccio tra 52 e 65 mm, la lunghezza della coda tra 53 e 84 mm, la lunghezza del piede tra 14 e 17 mm, la lunghezza delle orecchie tra 24 e 35 mm e un peso fino a 43 g.

Aspetto
La pelliccia è lunga, arruffata e lanuginosa. Le parti dorsali variano dal marrone scuro al bruno-rossastro nelle forme delle foreste, bruno-grigiastro al grigio-brunastro scuro in quelle delle savane, mentre le parti ventrali sono leggermente più chiare. Il muso è privo di peli e con un solco longitudinale che termina sulla fronte in una profonda fossa. Le orecchie sono molto lunghe, strette, con l'estremità arrotondata ed unite anteriormente alla base da una sottile membrana cutanea. Il trago è stretto, con il bordo posteriore leggermente convesso e privo di incavo. Le membrane alari sono bruno-nerastre. Gli arti inferiori sono lunghi e sottili, i piedi, le dita e gli artigli sono molto piccoli. La coda è lunga, con l'estremità che termina con una struttura cartilaginea a forma di T ed è inclusa completamente nell'ampio uropatagio.

Ecolocazione
Emette ultrasuoni sotto forma di impulsi di breve durata, bassa intensità e a frequenza modulata tra 17 e 104 kHz. Sono presenti diverse armoniche. In prossimità del bersaglio gli ultrasuoni diventano meno complessi, con una banda più stretta a frequenza iniziale di 110 e finale di 61 kHz.

Biologia

Comportamento
Si rifugia solitariamente, a coppie o in piccoli gruppi nelle cavità di grossi alberi, buche nel terreno e tra le rocce, case abbandonate, cisterne, canali d'irrigazione e miniere.

Alimentazione
Si nutre di insetti, altri artropodi e piccoli vertebrati come rane, pesci, uccelli e altri pipistrelli, catturati con la tecnica dell'appostamento su un posatoio specifico. Sembra essere altamente dipendente da fonti d'acqua.

Riproduzione
Femmine gravide sono state catturate a settembre nello Zambia, novembre nel Gabon e dicembre in Liberia, mentre altre che allattavano sono state catturate a marzo, luglio ed agosto. Danno alla luce un piccolo alla volta all'anno.

Distribuzione e habitat
Questa specie è diffusa nell'Africa subsahariana, in Senegal sud-occidentale, Guinea sud-orientale, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Costa d'Avorio, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Rio Muni, Camerun meridionale, Repubblica Centrafricana sud-occidentale, Gabon, Congo, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Sudan del Sud, Kenya sud-orientale, Tanzania orientale, isole di Pemba e Zanzibar, Malawi meridionale, Zambia, Zimbabwe settentrionale e Mozambico centrale.

Vive nelle foreste pluviali, di palude, secondarie, costiere, ripariali e nella parte più meridionale dell'areale anche in boschi di miombo e di acacia.

Stato di conservazione
La IUCN Red List, considerato il vasto areale e la popolazione presumibilmente numerosa, classifica N.grandis come specie a rischio minimo (LC).

Note

Bibliografia
 Meredith & David C.D.Happold, Mammals of Africa. Volume IV-Hedgehogs, Shrews and Bats, Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 9781408122549

Altri progetti

Microchirotteri
Taxa classificati da Wilhelm Peters

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If you missed the last work day, there is still opportunity to serve and help prepare for our grand opening, as Liberti will hold our final work day after the completed remodeling project. We will be working Saturday, December 5 from 9 AM - 2PM as we get ready for our Christmas Block Party & Grand Opening celebration, and as usual, lunch and Federal Donuts will be provided! Please contact Sarah Lewis for more details and to sign up!
Advent and Christmas are the perfect seasons to begin, engage, or deepen a life with Christ, and so our church community has created an e-prayerbook with reflections, Scripture, and daily prayer to help you engage with God; be sure to download the prayerbook on our website. And invite a friend and join us at Liberti for one of our Christmas Eve celebrations! (1PM Main Line, 5PM Center City).
Whether it is donating to a toy or clothing drive, or serving a hot meal, there are plenty of ways and opportunities to serve in our neighborhoods this holiday season! Click here to check out all the serving opportunities and ways Liberti is getting involved in our neighborhoods this Christmas!


War of the Rebellion: Serial 033 Page 0584 MO.,ARK.,KANS.,IND.T.,AND DEPT.N.W. Chapter XXXIV.
The same dispatch that informs us of Schofield's order says the Missouri and Kansas committees to demand his removal are anxiously expected in Washington, and speaks hopefully of his removal, and of the appointment of General Butler in his place. It will hardly be that the President will disregard the voice of the people of these two States, by retaining in command an officer whose nomination to a major-generalship the Senate rejected.
Schofield is anxious to die hard, and to make a big stink as he goes. There is danger that he may kick his own entrails out.
The alarm among the Saint Louis Copperheads has not entirely subsided yet. Why don't you raise a subscription for your "poor refugees," who have been scared out of the border, and almost out of their wits, by the Paola meeting? They need aid, and just such papers as the Republican and just such men as Schofield ought to head the list. Their names would shed a "halo of glory" over a list of subscriptions for the relief of rebels. Besides, these "poor" men have all got votes.
The Saint Louis Republican calls the bushwhackers the "border citizens of Missouri;" so does schofield. The Saint Louis Republican is a Copperhead; so is schofield. That paper is getting unpopular because it is in favor of rebels; so is schofield. Quantrill is a rascal; so is schofield.
SAINT LOUIS, MO., September 30, 1863.
Dispatch from Leavenworth published to-day about my arming rebels is utterly false, and is intended to prejudice your action. Truth by mail.
PILOT KNOB, MO., September 30, 1863.
The expedition sent to Osceola has returned, having scouted thoroughly 40 miles below that point. No regularly organized rebel force was found. A Confederate captain, who had called together a band of guerrillas to resist our force, was, with his lieutenant and 11 men, killed; 30 prisoners were captured and turned over at New Madrid; among them are several rebel officers.
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White House doctor George Burkley on his patient
24 Comments / Assassination, Quotable / By Jefferson Morley
"I would not care to be quoted on that."
– JFK's White House physician Dr. George Burkley, when asked during a 1967 oral history whether he agreed with the Warren Report's conclusion about the number of bullets that hit President Kennedy.
Intrigued? The tale of the "missing physician" is an incredible non-story in the JFK assassination.
24 thoughts on "White House doctor George Burkley on his patient"
Andrea Skolnik
Clint Hill has recently written about what he SAW andthought pertaining to what Jackie was reaching for and Dr Ronald Jones and other Parkland staff have stated that Jackie handed skull and brain matter to them .
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy stood in a corner of the room, not crying but looking grim, her husband's blood still fresh on her pink wool outfit, Jones said. Earlier, when she first arrived at the hospital, she had handed another doctor a section of skull and some brain matter belonging to her husband that she had gathered from the limousine they were riding in, he said.
Clint HIll In his new book, "Five Days in November," he narrates in the present tense the horror of seeing Jackie lunging toward him.
"Mrs. Kennedy, covered in her husband's blood, her eyes filled with terror, is crawling out of her seat … she doesn't see me, she doesn't even know I'm there," he writes. "Oh God, she's reaching for some material that's come out of the president's head."
The limo driver, realizing JFK had been shot, stepped on the gas.
"If I don't get to her, she's going to be thrown off the back of the car," he writes.
It had taken astonishing speed and strength for Hill to reach the step at the back of the car, keep his grip on the rear grab-handle as it sped up, and climb forward, grabbing Mrs. Kennedy by her right arm and shoving her back into the car.
"My God, they have shot his head off," he heard Jackie shriek.
Hill was also covered in blood and gore. It was in his hair and on his face. He managed to spread-eagle himself to shield the Kennedys from any more shots as the car accelerated to 80 mph. He could see a large hole in the president's head, JFK's famously twinkling eyes now fixed.
The limo was on its way to the hospital, but Hill knew Kennedy was dead.
S.R. "Dusty" Rohde
"If there's even a hint of extra gunshots there, would someone please point it out."…here is a simple test anyone can do at home. Open your hand so it is flat (either one). Place the palm of your open hand against the back of your head, approximately midway between the top and bottom. The back of head was blown outwards. The area that your palm is touching is an exit point and this area blown out was quite large according to all witnesses. More importantly, this is indicated by the skull fragments blown off and found later. The entry point must precede the exit point, meaning that the bullet entered from a location forward from the spot where your hand touches your head, regardless of direction.
Jean Davison
Dusty,
My point is that Burkley's contemporary written report says nothing about a wound in the back of the head or anything else that even remotely suggests a conspiracy.
Can you point to the back-of-the-head wound you describe in a Z frame or autopsy photo or x-ray? How about in the Moorman Polaroid?:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/07/26/article-2378472-1AFF158D000005DC-478_634x423.jpg
Who should I believe — your witnesses or my lying eyes?
Skull fragments were found in *front* of the limo's location at Z313, not behind it. Harper, e.g., marked a location on this map:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/harpermap.gif
Jean…not to be rude, but frankly I tend not to pay much attention to half-truths. If you prefer to debate a point, that's fine. However, I would be more apt to pay attention if the replies aren't based on "selective" evidence instead of all evidence. I see these types of rebuttal's far too often. But, let me respond…Burkley was not (thankfully) the sole witness to the autopsy. According to various testimonies…Burkley was directly involved in the manipulation of autopsy evidence. Something I think Mr. Horne might refer to as "obstruction of justice", even if it was at the behest of RFK.
Yes…actually I can point out the BOH wounds in the images of JFK…as much as possible with available images. I can even do a good deal more then that.
Correction…a skull fragment (Harper), not fragments. See, this is one of those half-truths I mentioned. Please refresh my memory. Was it dandelions Mrs. Kennedy attempted to retrieve from the back of Limo? No…it was a piece of JFK's skull, I'm sure you knew that. I'm sure you also know the back of the limo was washed off at Parkland. BTW, did you video tape the "Harper" fragment from the moment it left JFK's head till the moment it was found. Do you have some unbroken chain of evidence no one has heard of? A crystal ball maybe? Something that actually shows the Harper fragment leaving JFK how it arrived at the location it was found? Of course you don't.
If you have a theory that includes all evidence, I'm all ears. Selective evidence…"meh"…not so much.
No offense, Dusty, but the "half-truths" aren't coming from me. The Harper fragment went forward, according to Harper. In addition, Dallas police detective Buddy Walthers (in the dark hat) said that he picked up a bone fragment at a location not far from the one Harper marked, i.e., forward of the limo at Z313, seen here:
http://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,9665.0.html
Speaking of theories that "include all evidence," can you point to the blown-out exit wound you described in the Moorman Polaroid or in the autopsy material?
Since this was an explosive head wound, debris went in all directions, but the Z film shows larger fragments moving up and forward.
Obviously, we disagree!
How would Harper know? He wasn't in Dealy Plaza on 11/22/63. More than 24 hours had elapsed before he found the fragment…again, where is the chain of evidence to prove how it landed where he found it? It doesn't exist. You don't speak in half-truths?
First…you ask if I can point out the back of head wounds (as if it can't be done, implying the wound didn't exist). Then you turn right around and bring up the Harper fragment, (identified as being from the back of the head!)…that's rich.
Pointing out the wounds is a current ongoing project, which includes the back of the head and all other sides of the head. Some of this has already been done. If your interest is genuine…let me know.
Btw, bullets struck JFK from the front and from behind (including his head). Some people may not want to believe that but evidence trumps beliefs.
Let me remind you that I didn't "bring up the Harper fragment," you did:
The back of head was blown outwards. The area that your palm is touching is an exit point and this area blown out was quite large according to all witnesses. More importantly, this is indicated by the skull fragments blown off and found later.
Surely you weren't talking about some *other* fragment that was "found later"?
It's parietal bone, not occipital, according to the HSCA forensic panel and other experts who've studied the issue.
If there were a photo/x-ray showing the "blown-out" exit wound it should be easy enough to post a link, Dusty. But there isn't one.
Evidence trumps belief, I certainly agree.
John McAdams
Was it dandelions Mrs. Kennedy attempted to retrieve from the back of Limo? No…it was a piece of JFK's skull,
That's not at all clear. Clint Hill seems to believe that, but it's apparently something he inferred, not saw.
The best copies of the Zapruder film don't show anything on the trunk, and the Altgens photos shows Jackie's white gloved hand flat on the trunk, not grasping something.
"Mr.Spector:(to Agent Hill), Was there anything back there that you observed (on the limo trunk lid), that she (Mrs.Kennedy) might have been reaching for?
Mr.Hill: I thought I saw something come off the back (of the limo), too, but I cannot say that there was. I do know the next day we (Harper) found the portion of JFK's head."
As you suggest Agent Hill could not swear to what it was he saw come off the trunk but could swear they retrieved the Harper fragment the following day. Jackies hand was "flat" on the trunk because as suggested by Agent Hill and the Harper fragment, Mrs. Kennedy didn't manage to catch the fragment in time.
Mrs. J. Connally testimony–"…then after the third shot she (Mrs. Kennedy) said [they have killed my husband. I have his brains in my hands], and she repeated this several times.
Mrs. Kennedy had JFK's brains in her hands because per her testimony she was trying to hold JFK's hair and skull together.
So I will say it again…it wasn't dandelions Mrs. Kennedy tried to retrieve from the back of the limo. Anyone is entitled to an opinion. I prefer the logical evidence based one.
According to various testimonies…Burkley was directly involved in the manipulation of autopsy evidence.
But you don't explain how this was true, do you.
It sounds more sinister when you omit information.
In fact, Burkley helped cover up the fact that JFK had Addison's disease.
However, I would be more apt to pay attention if the replies aren't based on "selective" evidence instead of all evidence.
But you seem not to understand that your conclusions are in fact based on the selective evidence that conspiracy books and websites show you.
You should welcome hearing about evidence from other sources.
John, you have no idea what my conclusions are based on, as we have never met.
You seem not to understand that you are not the only one with access to testimonies and evidence from the Warren Commission, the HSCA, ARRB, NARA or the many other repositories of JFK assassination official records.
Okay Jean….look at your post in response to mine, between the "Quote" and "Unquote". Please point out the phrase "Harper fragment". You can't, because it's not there. I didn't mention it. Harper found one fragment (singular), not "fragments". However, the Harper fragment was not the only fragment.
But to address the "Back of Head" wound location…I'll start with these.
(From "Where New Evidence Points" by Jim DiEugenio)
"When Aguilar went through all the declassified reports from the Bethesda witnesses, they agreed (with Parkland witnesses) that there was a large avulsive hole in the rear of Kennedy's skull. Aguilar has a table of over 40 witnesses in two locations who are now on the record as saying they saw this wound."
Testimony of Dr.Gene Coleman Akin (WC Hearings, Vol., VI.
"Mr.Spector: Did you have any opinion as to the direction that the bullet hit his head (JFK's)?
Dr.Akin: I assume the right occipital parietal (right middle, back of head) region was the exit,…".
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Please clarify for me what you meant by "More importantly, this is indicated by the skull fragments blown off and found later," since I apparently misunderstood you. What fragment or fragments, found where?
I'll look forward to your links to images. IMO, there's a hierarchy of evidence, with hard evidence like photos and x-rays at the top. If there was a "large avulsive wound" in the back of the skull, I'd like to *see* it for myself.
Here's a longer version of the quote from Dr. Akin:
Mr. SPECTER – Have you ever changed any of your original opinions in connection with your observations of the President or any opinions you formed in connection with what you saw?
Dr. AKIN – You mean as to how he was injured?
Mr. SPECTER – Yes, as to how he was injured.
Dr. AKIN – Well, no; not really because I didn't have any opinions, necessarily. Any speculation that I might have done about how he was injured was just that, it was just speculation. I didn't form an opinion until it was revealed where he was when he was injured and where the alleged assassin was when he fired the shots, so I didn't have any opinions. It was my immediate assumption that when I saw the extent of the head wound, I assumed at that point that he had probably been hit in the head with a high velocity missile because of the damage that had been done. The same thing happened to his head as would happen to a sealed can of sauerkraut that you hit with a high velocity missile.
Mr. SPECTER – Did you have any opinion as to the direction-that the bullet hit his head?
Dr. AKIN – I assume that the right occipital-parietal region was the exit, so to speak, that he had probably been hit on the other side of the head, or at least tangentially in the back of the head, but I didn't have any hard and fast opinions about that either.
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http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/akin.htm
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Additionally, it is noteworthy that in 1982 Dr. Burkley told author Henry Hurt that, "he believed that President Kennedy's assassination was the result of a conspiracy."
ARRB MD250: Isabel Starling states that she has no documents of her father's (VADM Burkely) related to the JFK assassination.
That's 9 words translated means No.
This is why we need to keep asking questions about the case. Dr. Burkley was present in Dallas and Bethesda, and saw Kennedy from a unique vantage point, pre and post-Dallas ER, and pre and post-Bethesda autopsy. If the 'Lone Nutter', "Case Closed" crowd is correct, Burkley should have no reservations about supporting the Warren Commission findings. Instead, he wavers and pleads "no comment." Why?
Here's the report Dr. Burkley wrote 5 days after the assassination from the WC exhibits, starting on the right side of this page:
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh22/html/WH_Vol22_0062a.htm
If there's even a hint of extra gunshots there, would someone please point it out?
It's clear from his report and other testimony that Burkley arrived at Parkland after the tracheotomy and therefore never saw the throat wound. He was in and out of the autopsy room. What unique information could he possibly have had? And if he was honorable, wouldn't he have insisted on telling all he knew to the authorities or to the press?
By 1967 Burkley may've formed an opinion about the shooting based on what he'd read about it, rather than on what he himself had observed. There's a big difference between an opinion and actual knowledge.
Jean is right about this.
Paul Hoch bothered to ask his family members why he thought there was a conspiracy. Their response (in Hoch's words):
Dr. Burkley recently told a relative of his that he did think that Oswald must have been part of a conspiracy, because the way he and his family lived and traveled was indicative of financial support.
This illustrates Hoch's dictum: "Watch out for principals who have become buffs."
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/hoch.htm
Perhaps the greatest shame of the Warren Commission is that it did not call George Burkley, M.D. as a witness. He was the the only physician to observe both the Parkland and the Bethesda proceedings.
His exclusion from the Warren Commission was a conscious omission on Warren's part. Warren thought he was serving the U.S. by saving 40 million Americans from a nuclear inferno. Instead, by lying, he led the U.S. into a future when lying to the American people became what presidents do.
kimtom
great website, "just the facts ma'am"
-Friday
Jeff Pascal
I believe Dr. Burkley to be one of the most important figures in the whole JFK Assassination saga. If we knew his full story, his true loyalties, and so forth, we'd probably know a lot more than we do now.
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What he/she said!


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Reading FC might have had a season to forget on the whole, with the Royals only retaining their Championship status on the penultimate day of the Championship season.
But under Jose Gomes, there has been belief reinstalled back into both the players and the Madejski Stadium faithful, who will be itching for their 2019/2020 season to get underway.
The newly appointed boss has transformed the club on and off the pitch, and the feel-good factor at Reading is a complete contrast to what is was whilst Paul Clement and Ron Gourlay were at the club.
With a number of loanees returning to their parent clubs, we're certainly in for an interesting summer in Berkshire, with Gomes likely to give a number of young players a chance.
He's already shown that he's willing to do that with the likes of Josh Barrett, Danny Loader and Michael Olise all being given a chance.
The trio all started the final game of the season in an attacking front three against Birmingham, and caused the Blues a number of problems throughout the match.
Olise's performances this season have certainly caught the eye, with his pace and trickery out wide proving to be an opposition full-back's nightmare.
He gave Birmingham's Kristian Pederson the run around in the last game of this year's league campaign, and his performance can be likened to that of Tarique Fosu's against Derby a number of years ago.
A young talent who eventually moved to Charlton, Fosu displayed similar qualities to Olise, and Jose Gomes will surely be impressed with what he has seen from the 17-year-old.
He's a raw talent who evidently can go far in the professional game if recent performances are anything to go by.
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CLSD poised to buy 89.5 acres of farmland across from Cedar Crest
An aerial photo from Google Maps shows the Henry and Sandra Smith Farm. The property is set to become part of the Cedar Crest campus, with school officials saying it will remain leased as farmland for now.
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Cornwall-Lebanon School District is poised to buy 89.5 acres of farmland located across from the Cedar Crest campus in South Lebanon Township.
According to a statement by CLSD, the district was the winning bidder in an auction held Thursday, Oct. 24, to liquidate the former Henry and Sandra Smith Farm.
The district noted that the Administration and Board of School Directors had discussed the potential acquisition at an Oct. 14 public work session. Reasons for acquiring the land provided by the district in the release included safety concerns and additional traffic congestion that could result from further development of the property.
The purchase will go in front of the Board of School Directors at the Nov. 18 regular meeting for ratification.
The farm, located at 1950 S. Lincoln Ave, has an assessed value of $1,219,900 according to county land records. According to school officials, the school district's winning bid was valued at approximately $1.9 million, or $21,500 per acre. By acquiring the land, the school district would also be removing the property from the tax rolls, although district officials note that the property had been enrolled in the Clean & Green program so its tax generating value was capped to some extent. The district also said that its winning bid was lower than a recent independent appraisal the property had received, although the appraisal has not been independently reviewed by LebTown at this time.
According to county land records, the Cedar Crest campus sits on 122 acres at present. The purchase would increase that amount to 211.5 acres.
"Cornwall-Lebanon School District is pleased to have been able to make this once-in-a-lifetime land acquisition," said Dr. Philip Domencic, superintendent, in the release. "With almost three thousand students and staff members daily on the Cedar Crest campus, it is critical that we preserve the integrity of our campus."
"We realize that this purchase may be for a time that we might not be around to see. Ultimately, we believe this is in the best interests of our students, future generations of students, and our community."
According to county land records, it appears that a portion of the sale will fund an endowment through Wayne-based Capstone Legacy Foundation. It is not yet clear what this endowment may go towards, and Capstone officials had not gotten back to us with more details as of Friday morning. A school district official confirmed that Capstone Legacy Foundation was one of the sellers.
According to district officials, the acquisition will be funded through Capital Reserve funds.
In an article published by Lancaster Newspapers this morning (paywall), Domencic was quoted as saying that the land will remain leased for farm use for now. Domencic also noted that the acquisition was not being made to address campus capacity, which he described as "adequate."
"This is looking 10, 20, 30 years into the future. It's a value. There's certainly a cost, but it's an asset. We thought it was important, given the proximity of the land to our campus," Domencic told the Lancaster paper.
In its initial release, the school district noted that it leases 13 acres of land for athletic field use at present, but in the interview with LNP, Domencic said that any specific use of the land would be speculation at this point.
LebTown has an interview scheduled with Domencic next Tuesday. Are there questions you have for the district? Leave them in the contact form below.
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This post was updated based on followup from the school district to indicate how the acquisition will be funded. We have also added additional context from the district, namely that the farmland was enrolled in the Clean & Green preferential tax assessment program, which limited its tax-generating value to the district, and that the district's winning bid was less than the property's appraised value (other than appraisal documents have not been independently reviewed by LebTown at this time).
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More on the antiquity of Judaism
I love my Jewish readers. When I post something about Jews and Judaism, I always get ten times the response to what I get on any other topic -- and all well-reasoned responses too, unlike the tantrums from Leftists.
I posted a couple of days ago a provocative article that did something very naughty. I questioned the continuity between the Judaism of Old Testament times and the Jews of today. It is a tribute to Jewish good manners that my post was greeted with some politeness, albeit with great disagreement.
And, of course, it is all a matter of degree. It is probably safe to say that all religions change all the time. Nonetheless I think there is a step-change after the destruction of Herod's temple. For instance, Jews no longer put homosexuals to death (as the Torah requires) and no longer burn animals on an altar in the belief that so doing will ingratiate themselves with their god.
How often Jews did those things is beside the point. The point is that their religion required those things, whereas now it does not.
It is true that the diaspora started long before the Roman onslaught and that Jews outside Israel had already abandoned the two practices I mentioned. But the temple was still there and its centrality to Jewish practice and belief cannot be doubted by any reader of the Hebrew scriptures. Jews abroad were still in a position to feel that all the requirements of their religion were being met where that mattered: In Israel.
So it is still my conclusion that post-temple Judaism and Christianity are two different and contemporaneous adaptations of the original Hebrew belief system. And we call Christianity a different religion, so why not present-day Judaism?
A point that may have slid past some of my Jewish readers is that Jesus did a very good job of rooting his teachings in the Torah. He quoted it repeatedly and insisted that he did not question it. He was a good Israelite of his times and his adaptation of the traditional teachings provided a good foundation for what later became known as Christianity to be likewise rooted. Which is why the Hebrew scriptures are an important part of Christianity to this day.
Update: In case it is not already clear, I should perhaps note that I am speaking of Jewish RELIGION. There is also of course a substantial claim that modern Jews are RACIALLY related to the ancient Hebrews.
Mike Church: The Most Radical Man on the Radio
I think this guy has something. I wouldn't go as far as he does but I think every Federal department that has an overlapping function with a State Dept. should be abolished. Who needs Federal Depts. of Health, Education etc. when States also have such Depts? Out with OSHA, DEA, EPA etc. too. Eliminating the duplications would not only save the taxpayer a bundle but would remove a lead weight of bureaucracy off everybody -- JR
The King Dude is shuffling papers, clearing his throat. The revolution he leads will not be televised, but it will be patched in by satellite during the morning drive. The King Dude is bouncing in his seat, his feet dangling about a foot above the floor. His voice is beamed into space from Sirius XM's studio in Washington, D.C., then back to earth and through your dashboard where it explodes, pops, and fizzes in your skull like a fireworks show dangerously out of control. In approximately the next 45 seconds he will reference "The Matrix," The Lord of the Rings, the "Virginia Debate on Ratification of the Constitution," and "Idiocracy" before concluding that the Union should be busted up and the federal government drowned in the Potomac.
When Sirius took off, Church had the first talk show on it. He pioneered a motor-mouth style, dubbed political opponents "citizens of Libtardia," and filled the air with political song parodies performed by actual musicians rather than hack producers with a karaoke track. The King Dude was cruising until 2007, when he had on author Kevin Gutzman to discuss The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. "He was saying things I never heard before," says Church. "You get a lot of books when you do talk radio. I never read them. I read that one."
Shortly after this Church watched Ron Paul stand up to Rudolph Giuliani in a presidential debate, where Paul put 9/11 in the context of blowback. "I started thinking about what I had learned from Gutzman, and it started to make sense," Church says, "and that's the hardest conversion. That's the one that the Hannitys, Becks, Limbaughs, and Levins will never come to. Either for financial reasons or for pride reasons, they will never come to that view of the minimalist foreign policy."
Suddenly the show and the man had a new sense of purpose. Church began reading the debates and letters of the Founding Fathers, even memorizing large excerpts. He developed solidly Anti-Federalist leanings. "Patrick Henry and his guys were right, it all came to pass. Madison and his guys were wrong, none of that came to pass. There is only one intellectually honest way you can approach it." And if Church couldn't find guidance for some issue in the Founding Fathers, he looked to a succeeding generation.
Between comments on Lady Gaga or Donald Trump, Church will sprinkle excerpts from floor speeches by George Frisbie Hoar, a Massachusetts senator who opposed U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. "Frisbie Hoar was saying then the same things Ron Paul is saying today," Church avers.
Church has become what he calls a "paleoconservative," believing in liberty underpinned by an enduring moral order. While he still teases liberals, he just as often tells his listeners to live virtuously if they want to live as free men and women. "I'm no longer in the business of demonizing people who disagree with me," he said as an aside on a recent broadcast. "People are socialized or educated into their views," he explained later, so he has opened up a side business as an educator, producing two animated films about the Founding Fathers, "The Road to Independence" and "The Spirit of 1776."
His listeners have been catching on. "The most rewarding thing is when someone calls you and repeats it back to you," he says, "Someone who says 'Mason says, such and such.' They embrace it and internalize it themselves." Almost imperceptibly, Church is conducting a seminar on the Founders tucked within a laugh-out-loud conservative talk show. And it is a close fidelity to the Founders and their thought that leads him to his radical conclusions.
He finished a recent segment with a flourish: "Is there any doubt in your mind that if we reanimated the Founding Fathers and they came here today they would look at what we're doing and say, 'When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to DISSOLVE the political bonds which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.'
"We had 213 really good years," he concludes, "can't we just settle this amicably? You get the kids, I'll get a couple of the cars. This is sanity. That doesn't mean Kentucky is not going to make partnerships with Tennessee, Oklahoma. … That means that this particular political experiment is over. It is a failure. The Constitution is dead; bury the goddamn thing and get over it."
The Koch Brothers and the power of ideas
Institution-building is important for libertarians too
Of the brothers, Charles is the ideas man, and his idea has always been to build a set of complementary institutions [e.g. the Cato Institute] which, once mature, can thrive without his (or his brother's) financial help. That said, I have no doubt that these institutions either would not have existed, or would have existed in a very different form, were it not for the Kochs' institution-building philanthropy. Having committed about a decade of my life to a few of these institutions, I'd like to think that those labouring within them have had some affect on American culture and politics—have had some small success in increasing awareness of and strengthening the public case for the value of individual rights, free markets, limited government, and peace. I don't think there's been a huge effect, but surely there's been an effect...
In this sense, the left is smart to target the Kochs. They have been absolutely essential in the libertarian project to create a set of institutions that together constitute a mild countervailing force against both progressive and conservative statism in America's economy of political influence. However, progressives seem to me to neglect this channel of influence compared to much less important ones, such as campaign spending, rendering their favoured account of the effects of money on democratic politics badly incomplete.
The progressive master narrative is that inequalities of income and wealth are easily translated into inequalities of political power, and that the rich as a class exploit this unequal power to shape the basic structure of our public institutions to their permanent advantage, in effect disenfranchising the less-wealthy and leaving their rights and interests without the protection of authentically democratic institutions. I think the channel through which the Kochs have most influenced American politics illustrates several problems with this narrative.
First, money is not all that easily translated into effective political influence. Most rich people just thoughtlessly fling cash at causes and candidates they happen to like to little real effect. Indeed, a good deal of political spending is part of moneyed status-signaling games; whether the money makes a difference to anything but the donor's reputation is beside the point. In any case, much effort is devoted simply to neutralising the spending of opposed ideological teams, and the whole racket largely amounts to redistribution from the rich to somewhat less rich political consultants and nonprofit managers.
The most interesting thing about the Kochs is not that they have spent so much of their fortunes on politics, because they haven't. What's interesting is that they seem to have spent their money so much more efficiently and effectively than most rich people interested in politics manage to do. And I suspect this is not unrelated to the farseeing strategic intelligence that has made Koch Industries America's largest privately-held corporation. This suggests, among other things, that some rich people are better than others at converting money into influence, and that inequalities in wealth and inequalities in influence sometimes have a common cause.
Of the money the Kochs have spent on politics, broadly construed, the portion directed to campaigns really is negligible. Most of their money and attention has gone to ideological institution-building, and this form of spending has not been a traditional target of progressive regulatory zeal. Progressives often argue that restrictions on campaign spending are justified by the need to sustain the relative equality of "voice" or influence required for a fair and legitimate democratic process.
However, few progressives have pursued the idea that limits must be placed on the amount wealthy individuals are allowed to spend building and supporting civil-society institutions meant to shape public opinion and politics over time. But why not? It is through this channel, not through lobbying or campaign spending, that the Kochs have most affected American politics. (I've asked a similar question in the past about the left's wariness of limiting private media ownership, which, like institution-building, has hugely more to do with inequality of voice than does under-regulated campaign finance.)
Other than the proposal to end the tax-deductibility of certain classes of charitable gifts, progressives have shied away from proposing regulations on this kind of spending in the economy of influence. The reason this is so, I think, is that any move in this direction logically tends toward clearly unconstitutional, ideologically-loaded limits on speech.
Suppose I want to spend $250m to start a conservative Christian college. Or suppose I want to donate $10m to my alma mater to fund an endowed chair in sociology for study of the causes of American inequality. If you ask me, both of these count as political spending, in the broad sense. Suppose I want to spend millions on institutions that will aid the poor in my hometown. Will this not affect voter demand for overlapping taxpayer-funded public programmes? Is there any way of neutrally regulating large philanthropic gifts? I don't think so. Even a total ban is not really neutral; it simply redistributes power to those with the greatest influence over government spending, and I highly doubt this ends up redounding to the benefit of the lower and middle classes.
In the absence of any remotely intelligible or feasible proposal to limit the unequal ability of wealthy people such as the Koch Brothers or Peter Lewis or George Soros to affect opinion through ideological institution-building, progressive commentators at ideologically progressive institutions are left mainly with the opinion-shaping tools wealthy progressive patrons have put at their disposal. That's why, I think, we see very little principled criticism of ideological institution-building in general, but many breathless attempts to characterise Koch-style free-market, limited-government libertarianism as ideological cover for plutocracy or oligarchy or whatever. This stuff is about as serious as the idea that Barack Obama is some sort of crypto-Marxist, radical Kenyan anti-colonial egalitarian, but it serves its low purpose.
Although the premise that the wealthy conspire to promote their class interests is part of the progressive master narrative, many progressives—especially those in the can for the Democratic Party—don't act like they believe it. They act as if there are good, progressive rich folks and bad, anti-progressive rich folks. In most tellings of the master narrative, progressive commentators opportunistically use class-interest rhetoric to discredit the small minority of wealthy people who build and support institutions ideologically opposed to the causes favoured by the wealthy people who build and support progressive institutions. Those wealthy people and their expensive repudiation of class interest are honoured by going unmentioned.
A truly coherent telling of the progressive master narrative would reveal how the apparently hot antagonism between, say, the American Progress Action Fund and Americans for Prosperity conceals a deeper, perhaps-unwitting symbiosis by which the Koch brothers and John Podesta's mysterious billionaire paymasters in the Democracy Alliance combine to secure their advantages and thereby the demise of true democracy. I would be pretty excited to hear about that.
New EEOC rules: We're all "disabled": "New regulations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offer fresh guidelines on the issue of how to define 'disability' under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Millions of Americans may be disabled and not even know it, according to some legal experts. That's because sweeping new regulations from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission offer new guidelines on the issue of how to define 'disability' under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA, originally passed in 1990 and updated by Congress in 2008, originally defined disability as 'a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity.'"
SCOTUS revisits campaign finance: "The Supreme Court returned to the controversial issue of campaign finance today, hearing a constitutional challenge to Arizona's public financing system for political campaigns. Several of the conservative justices on the bench seemed skeptical of the constitutionality of the Arizona Citizen's Clean Elections Act."
Trump a birth skeptic: "He off-handedly questioned President Obama's birthplace last week -- a comment that drew strong rebukes from some quarters -- but now business mogul Donald Trump says he's more concerned than ever that the president was, in fact, not born in the United States."
Obama and the ghost of '68: "Liberal doves are feeling a deep sense of betrayal after watching their champion of peace drop bombs on an Arab country. If the war drags on inconclusively, or if Obama feels compelled to expand our involvement, their discontent will grow. Then what? Then he could face what Lyndon Johnson faced in 1968: a Democratic primary challenger appealing to those tired of war and mistrustful of their president."
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Montreal Canadian said...
(1) The Torah can be practice in any place and time. Because of the exile, a number of commandments cannot be fulfilled (except through study and prayer), but they were never abrogated. In any case, observant Jews pray three times a day for the restoration of the Temple service, and re-institution of Torah based justice.
(2) It's Christian propaganda that Jesus rooted his teachings in the Torah; nothing can be further than the truth. Christianity is not a continuation of Judaism, but a break-away and rejection of the Torah. It owes more to Hellenistic pagan ideas than to Jewish ones.
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