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Fighting For Change Tougher Than Fighting Against It
If nothing else, these past 4 years have taught us an abject lesson about the slow crawl of change in Toronto. Why can't we have nice things? Because, well, change is scary and must be avoided at all costs.
First, there was Transit City. Three years in the planning and then, boom! Rob Ford's first official day as mayor, he declares it dead. It is eventually wrestled back from his control but not in its initial shape or name and disfigured almost beyond recognition with a pricey and politically expedient Scarborough subway now attached.
Second, Waterfront TO and the Port Lands. This one underway since 2001, charged with revitalizing the rather sorry state of Toronto's chunk of Lake Ontario. A slow but now noticeable process building public spaces and economic development. Too slow, however, and not noticeable enough (at least from their car seats, driving along the Gardiner) for the Ford Brothers and their ilk at city council. Unilaterally, Councillor Ford sought to take control of the situation with monorails, ferris wheels and shopping malls.
This foray, fingers crossed, was stymied without too much delay. But the attacks continue, I-don't-even-know-where-Sugar Beach-is style. What's with the pink umbrellas and Quebec rocks?
And remember that environmental assessment (EA) undertaken late in David Miller's 2nd term to explore options on the eastern portion of the Gardiner Expressway – repair, rebuild or remove? No? Funny thing, that. After getting started, the report was quietly shelved in the fall of 2010 and the remaining money used for other 'priority projects'. Three years later, the EA was resuscitated and completed just this year. This one with significant delays and additional costs now attached.
Then, at last week's council meeting, another addition to the do-we-have-to bin. After overwhelming approval just 2 months earlier, the Eglinton Connects plan came back to council for some additional authorization, this time to much less overwhelming-ness. Led by the mayor and one of his electoral challengers, the plans came under assault for being too driver unfriendly.
"City planners want to replace much-needed space on our gridlocked roads with bike lanes and wider sidewalks," the mayor declared during the now semi-infamous shirtless protest. "This does not make sense. It's a complete waste of taxpayers' money. We can't afford more gridlock than we already have. We can't approve things that will bring this city to a standstill."
Not to be outdone in his aversion to any new type of thinking when it comes to traffic planning, John Tory issued his own reactionary statement, although, to give him credit, he didn't actually stop traffic to do it. "I have said all along that any proposal that will add to road congestion by reducing lanes of traffic is a non-starter in my books. EglintonConnects will do exactly that and will increase traffic by ten per cent on adjacent residential streets."
We can't change, we won't change. As it was, so it shall always be. Anything else?
There's most certainly some crass political pandering at work here. The War on the Car rhetoric was powerful last time around in 2010. Why not try going back to that well? Much fertile ground to plough there (not to mention plenty of metaphors to mix).
It taps into a strange and opposing dynamic in the electorate. We want change. We know we need change. We just don't want anything to be different.
So it seems no matter how much the public is consulted, how much input is offered up, in the end, any sort of significant change in pattern will arouse a noisy pushback. It might not represent significant numbers but it is loud, it is persistent, it is threatening. At least threatening enough to catch the attention of some of our local representatives.
But here's my question.
Is it our elected officials' sole job to listen to their constituents, and react only to the most vocal? Eglinton Connects did not suddenly emerge, out of the blue, dropping heavily onto everyone's laps. By all accounts, it was a very public, open process. Here's what we want to do? Any thoughts or ideas to improve it?
Just like in real life, sometimes councillors need to stand up to the bullies and loudmouths, marshal support for projects and ideas they believe in. This is a good plan. It will benefit the city, community, neighbourhood, street. Take a position, based on an informed decision, and sell it. Risk electoral retribution? Maybe. But that just comes with the territory, I guess.
Of course, that's easier said from the outside when there's no actual risk involved.
Even one of the more change-friendly city councillors, Kristyn Wong-Tam, has had to beat a tactical retreat on a plan in her ward. Friends of Chorley Park have succeeded in delaying the implementation of a new path through a portion of the south Rosedale ravine, better connecting it down through to the Brickworks, a major tourist draw, still most easily accessed by car. This, despite the fact, it has been in the works for two years, with plenty of resident notification and invitations for input.
Once it became a reality earlier this year, well, all hell broke loose. Petitions signed. Demands made. To the tune of roughly one million dollars in delays, according to Councillor Wong-Tam.
"My concern is that people are dug in so deep that they are not able to compromise on design," she said, although she remains "…optimistic that we're going to come up with something great. I'm optimistic that this is a community that's going to come together and find a community-crafted resolution."
The lesson from all this, I guess, is no matter how effective a city councillor may be, they can't push progress forward on their own. They need support from their residents and the public at large. Get involved and get loud. You see something the city is doing that you like and want it to go forward, let everybody know. Beat the drum.
Unfortunately, it seems to be far easier to be against something rather than in favour of it. Change might result in something worse. It might be better! But it could be worse!
It's a constant battle against human nature, fighting for change. The best place to start in engaging in that struggle is to help expose the politicians who exploit our risk aversion for their own gains. They aren't looking out for the best interests of the city, its residents or the future. They're beholden to only one thing and one thing only. Pure and utter self-interest.
— belligerently submitted by Cityslikr
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11 Responses to Fighting For Change Tougher Than Fighting Against It
Sonny says:
Kathleen Hanly has grossly exaggerated opposition to the path…
Went to the launch of this last Thursday which has an asphalt foot path…
http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/1999/11/waterfront_toronto_officially_opens_corktown_common
The Urban Daddy says:
I've given it some thought since our Twitter chat earlier today and I know where the problem lies. In my community, our elected official, Joe Mihevc would rather send out newsletters belittling the Mayor than focus on matters like Eglinton Connects. If he spent an eighth of the time asking the residents for feedback we would all be able to chime in on plans.
But maybe that takes too much effort…
Or maybe he would find that not every resident in this community is a car-hating, left-wing socialist.
We just want progress too…
GW says:
It clearly bothers you that people who disagree with your view of "progress" get to have a say in proposed changes that would affect them. I could simply point out that this is how our democratic system works and that others you perceive as less informed than you and less committed to a "city-building" agenda get to have their opinions heard. But there's an upside you should consider. It works both ways. People like you and David Miller get to impede Porter Airlines' progress through much the same means.
cityslikr says:
Dear Mr. GW,
We here at All Fired Up in the Big Smoke have missed you as much as you've once more missed the point of the post. (That's what you might call a back-handed compliment.)
Nobody's saying, sit down, shut up, we know what's best for you. As Marcus Gee points out in his article on the Eglinton Connects, staff held 60 public meetings over
two years about the project. Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam sent out 4 newsletters inviting input from the public about Chorley Park. There were plenty of opportunities for people to contribute to these "city-building" ventures.
Nobody we know on the No Jets side of the island airport expansion has ever said, We didn't know that Porter was planning to fly jets there. That was obvious pretty much from the get-go. That's actually how our democratic systems works. People, keeping informed and getting involved right from the beginning of the process.
Leaving aside for now the fact that your "back-handed compliment" seems like it was lifted from a Team America song lyric, I did in fact miss the fact that your rant was directed specifically at the "Johnny-come-latelys" of municipal engagement, as opposed to being a generalized condemnation of anyone who disagrees with your ideas of how to make a better city.
Of course, it's probably difficult for you to relate to those who aren't as enraptured with municipal politics as you are, and who thus have such issues enter their radar range much later than they do yours.
Silence you fool!
What, no abbreviated profanities this time Sonny? You're slipping.
Simon Says says:
Haven't missed much around here. Still the "I know better" and "think like me" mantra.
You've nicely encapsulated the "New Urbanism" philosophy, Christopher Hume couldn't have put it any better himself, although I'm sure he'd have put it more pompously.
F GW and right wing douche bags who own property in Rosedale that don't want a foot path… I guess we'll wait till some curmudgeon in a wheel chair can't negotiate the mud hill OR till the 20 something progressive councillors hold the Exec. positions
Owning property is not a crime or by default makes you a douche bag.


A leap second was inserted into the last minute of 2005. This page contains some information recorded around the leap second.
I have a Rugby Radio wired to the DCD pin on a serial port, so I can record if the signal is on or off. Each minute of the signal begins with a 0.5 second on/0.5 second off period. The following graph shows the beginning of each minute around the start of the year.
Note that the minutes before the new year began 61, 121 and 181 seconds before the new year, indicating that the last minute had an extra second. The full minute of each signal can be seen here.
Note that the next minute marker is visible at the right hand side of the graph (at second 61) for all the signals but the third from the bottom. This is the minute with the extra second.
The raw data and postscript versions of these plots are also available. Information on the Rugby signal can be found on the UK's NPL web site, including information on how the signal is encoded.
A EPS version of the minute marker graph.
A EPS version of the full minutes' signal.
A text file containing gettimeofday values, the offset from the start of 2006 and the value of the DCD pin. The gettimeofday values were recorded on a FreeBSD machine. Note that the last second of 2005 is run twice.
The receiver used is described here.
NTP warns of impending leap seconds using two bits: 00 means no leap second, 01 means we are adding a leap second, 10 means we are removing a leap second and 11 means the server is unsynchronised.
The NTP project maintains a list of public time servers at stratum 1 and stratum 2. Some of these servers will respond when asked for the value of the leap bits. The following is a graph of the proportion of (responding) NTP servers with various values of the leap bits. The verticle line shows when the leap second should have been inserted.
The first 3 points are on the Dec 30th, and only a small proportion of servers had their leap bits set. There was a big jump up in the number of servers advertising the leap second 24 hours before it was due to happen, and another jump 1 hour before hand. Interestingly, in the hour immediately before the leap second, one server decided that a leap second should be removed!
Unfortunately I missed a measurement in the hour immediately after the leap second, but the proportion advertising the leap second is clearly decreasing. Interestingly, there are a handful of stratum 1 servers that have become unsynchronised after the leap second.
For reference, the number of servers responding was roughly constant throughout the measurements and is shown below.
Our Linux machines' kernels logged a message indication the insertion of a leap seconds.
On a Tru64 box running xntpd the following was logged.
The load on our NTP server (in packets per minute) looked like this.
The extra load starting about 10:00 is just extra monitoring we were doing. The extra load starting around 23:30 we're not sure about. The peak at midnight is something that we see most nights.
Either our GPS unit didn't output a RMC sentence for the leap second, or it was filtered out by some software between the serial port and my logging. Unfortunately I didn't timestamp the sentences, so I can't tell if it inserted a blank second. It was out of sync, so it may have done nothing.
A simple recording of the Eircom speaking clock, made using a MP3 recorder and a microphone held up to the phone. The speaking clock sends a marker every 10s for 0s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s in each minute. As far as I can tell, working with Audacity all these markers are 10s apart (at about XXmY6.8s from the start of the recording). Midnight is marked at about 2m56.8s. There doesn't seem to be a leap second inserted by the clock.
It also seems the beeps are about 1kHz and about 120ms long, which I never knew before.
There are some graphs of what a number of our NTP peers did, and a brief explaination of the sort of thing that we saw.
Markus Kuhn recording of the Rugby transmitter.
Recordings of CHU, WWVB and WWV signals.
A recording of some of the European time signals.
Tips on watching leap seconds.
Ed Davies's description of what the Garmin GPS 12 XL did.
PHK's record of what FreeBSD did..
What one NTP server saw.
Hal Murray's report on how his servers coped.
David Taylor's account of what happened on Windows NTP servers.
Serge Bets's post about what his DCF77 clocks did.
Richard Langley's recording of the CHU signal and a possible explanation of why some DUT1 offsets were +0.4s.


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Tom Petty Confirmed Dead: Daughter and Family Spokesman
Michael Gallucci
A family spokesman has confirmed the death of Tom Petty at age 66, following a day spent clinging to life. Various news outlets reported his death, only to retract those same headlines, as he fought to overcome an apparent heart attack on Monday.
"On behalf of the Tom Petty family, we are devastated to announce the untimely death of of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom Petty," Tony Dimitriades, longtime manager of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, told the Los Angeles Times. "He suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu in the early hours of this morning and was taken to UCLA Medical Center but could not be revived. He died peacefully at 8:40 p.m. PT surrounded by family, his bandmates and friends."
Annakim Violette, Petty's 35-year-old daughter by first wife Jane Benyo, also paid tribute on Instagram.
CBS initially confirmed the news, but later was forced to issue a correction when TMZ countered that Petty was still alive. "Sources tell us at 10:30 Monday morning a chaplain was called to Tom's hospital room," TMZ said. "We're told the family has a do not resuscitate order on Tom. The singer is not expected to live throughout the day, but he's still clinging to life. A report that the LAPD confirmed the singer's death is inaccurate -- the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. handled the emergency."
Petty was apparently found overnight, unconscious and in full cardiac arrest. TMZ initially reported that Petty was rushed to the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital from his Malibu home, and was not breathing. First responders reportedly detected a pulse, but TMZ said "after Petty got to the hospital, he had no brain activity and a decision was made to pull life support."
Petty's most recent tour wrapped up just last week in California, with three concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. Launched back in April, this was being celebrated as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 40th-anniversary tour. While Petty himself suggested that he didn't want to perform huge tours like that anymore in the future, longtime guitarist Mike Campbell didn't think his bandmate was serious about pulling off the road.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers issued their self-titled debut album in 1976, after several members played together for a few years as Mudcrutch. The Heartbreakers ultimately released 13 studio albums; the most recent of which, 2014's Hypnotic Eye, became their first No. 1 LP.
Petty also released three solo albums over the years – including 1989's debut Full Moon Fever, one of his bestselling records – and 2006's Highway Companion, the most recent under his own name.
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Sept. 30, 2014, 11:54 a.m. Sept. 30, 2014, 11:54 a.m.
What do I do with my tax disc now?
By now you should know that as of Wednesday 1st October 2014, the whilst you still have to pay vehicle tax, the tax disc will no longer be issued in the UK.
To help filter out all the messages that have been broadcast about this, we have recapped a few pointers to help you understand the new rules and why they have been put in place.
As of Wednesday 1st October 2014, you are no longer required to display your tax disc in your vehicle, and the DVLA will discontinue issuing the paper disc.
BUT you must tax your vehicle for 6 or 12 months at a time.
You will still be issued a reminder letter from the DVLA to tax your vehicle, so you don't forget.
You will be able to tax your vehicle online, or at a post office.
As of the start of October, when you buy a car, you cannot buy the tax with it. The original owner of the vehicle can apply for a refund on their tax and the new owner must purchase the tax before driving the vehicle.
Why do we no longer need a tax disc?
Quite simply, as everything is now held on a central database there is no longer a need for the disc. The police and other authorities used to visually check tax discs to find vehicle tax offenders but now do this with registration checks against a computer database these days much like they do with insurance.
My tax doesn't run out until next year, what do I do with my disk?
Whatever you want! If you want to keep it in the windscreen of your vehicle for years to come, then that is fine. If you want to remove it, your vehicle will remain taxed until its expiry and you can legally and happily continue with your life.


In Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Leonard Barkan, the class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton, examines the complex histories of Jewish life in Berlin. He offers a nuanced and idiosyncratic account of Jewish lives, places and legacies in this city. This book is a highly readable contribution which will accompany Jews on their trips to Berlin for many years to come. Barkan brings to light little known figures, places and stories in a very personal journey.


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Trump Celebrates Cinco de Mayo With a Taco Bowl
"I love Hispanics!"
Posted by Kemberlee Kaye Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 03:30pm 61 Comments
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today, white people everywhere will drink generic Mexican beer and have no clue what they're celebrating.
Historically, the day is a celebration of the Mexican army's defeat of French forces in the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War in 1862. Over the years the Americanized version is more a celebration of Mexican culture than anything else.
Meanwhile in New York, presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, is celebrating the day with a Trump Tower taco bowl.
Trump posted a pic of himself digging into a fancy taco salad-type dish, giving a thumbs up, with a caption that read: "Happy Cinco de Mayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!"
He loves Hispanics! And tacos!
Sadly, Trump Tower says they don't serve these delicious taco bowls:
Just got off phone with Trump Grill, says they don't serve taco bowls. It's not on the menu online.
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) May 5, 2016
Nachos, anyone?
I mean if you are #NeverTrump he is nacho candidate
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 5, 2016
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Walter | May 5, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Many establishments don't list their entire menu "online".
Nice try!!
Zachary in reply to Walter. | May 5, 2016 at 4:18 pm
Missed the tweet embedded in the article that says, "Just got off phone with Trump Grill, says they don't serve taco bowls. It's not on the menu online." Eh?
Maybe they don't give out he menu on the phone either, though, right?
Nice try, indeed.
Michael Muscat in reply to Zachary. | May 5, 2016 at 4:48 pm
http://www.trumptowerny.com/trump-cafe-todays-entrees
I can't take you people seriously anymore.
fwiffo in reply to Michael Muscat. | May 5, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Would that be people smart enough to understand that Trump Grill and Trump Cafe are not the same restaurant?
Zachary in reply to fwiffo. | May 5, 2016 at 6:42 pm
It was a misspeak.
amwick in reply to Michael Muscat. | May 5, 2016 at 5:39 pm
You think anyone would check it out?
Kemberlee: Sadly, Trump Tower says they don't serve these delicious taco bowls:
From Trump Cafe on the go: Taco fiesta!
Ground sautéed beef with jalapeños, onions, tomatoes, and chili spices,
Served in a taco shell topped with lettuce and cheddar cheese
$13.50 Full
Sadly Trump tower has more than one restaurant, sadly. Oops.
fwiffo in reply to amwick. | May 5, 2016 at 5:52 pm
It is a minor thing, but Kemberlee sentence is ambiguous, but clear in context. Trump sentence is factually incorrect.
amwick in reply to amwick. | May 5, 2016 at 8:12 pm
It was a minor thing…a jumping to a conclusion thing that was wrong, but minor.
persecutor | May 5, 2016 at 3:49 pm
It can't be that TheDonald® is pandering to a traditional Democrat voting bloc, is it? No way, perish the thought. (I bet the person who answered at the Trump Grill that they didn't serve them is now looking for a new job!)
A handy guide for the upcoming election: If anyone can do it, TheDonald® does it better (or the best) and that goes for everything, from passing a kidney stone to taco bowls!
tom swift in reply to persecutor. | May 5, 2016 at 4:08 pm
Maybe he actually likes taco bowls. Or are you charging Trump with Cultural Appropriation®?
Zachary in reply to tom swift. | May 5, 2016 at 4:22 pm
Yes, we SJW are!
Perhaps it's more the fact that he had to pretend it was from his restaurant, which is of course the best, because it's from him. Kinda the point of the article and this post.
Dang Tom do you wear Trump eyeglasses or contact lenses or something?
Twanger in reply to persecutor. | May 6, 2016 at 10:04 am
It would not be the first time a politician attempted to woo a political class, and you can put money on the fact that it will not be the last.
buckeyeminuteman | May 5, 2016 at 3:55 pm
Americans have a long and storied tradition of stealing other nation's long and storied holidays and turning them into drinking holidays…just ask the Irish. As Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexico spanking France, I nominate Bastille Day where we drink wine and celebrate France spanking themselves (how French of them)!
tom swift in reply to buckeyeminuteman. | May 5, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Those rascally Yanks even stole an English drinking song and turned it into a national anthem.
malclave in reply to tom swift. | May 5, 2016 at 5:33 pm
And changed the words of "God Save the King/ Queen" to "My Country 'Tis of Thee".
Milhouse in reply to malclave. | May 5, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Well, that's OK because the English stole that tune from the Germans.
Oh, and To Anacreon in Heaven wasn't a drinking song, it was the anthem of the Anacreontic Society, a club devoted to music and fun. They would sing it after dinner, before the serious drinking started.
4fun in reply to buckeyeminuteman. | May 5, 2016 at 5:57 pm
I prefer to think we're joining in to help celebrate with them on their diversity of culture.
I also notice his taco salad has a "WALL" around it….. 🙂
Humphrey's Executor | May 5, 2016 at 3:58 pm
His office looks like a working office. Not a lot of ornamentation like you'd expect.
Paul in reply to Humphrey's Executor. | May 5, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Look again. The credenza by the window is so stuffed with vanity photos that he's got more vanity photos sitting on the floor. Probably a lot of selfies and pictures of him with progressive "leaders" that he paid off because "that's how business is done."?
tom swift | May 5, 2016 at 4:00 pm
And, as usual, Trump dominates the news without even having to get out of his chair.
I wonder what Hillary had for lunch on Cinco de Mayo. With her tin ear, she probably had french fries.
Paul in reply to tom swift. | May 5, 2016 at 4:04 pm
yeah, but she carries her own hot sauce in her purse! she can pander to the blacks and the mexicans at the same time with that!
Lee Jan in reply to tom swift. | May 5, 2016 at 5:28 pm
The msm will continue on with their kneepads for tRump.
Frankly, I don't give a darn because I have turn off the TV and the usual radio hosts as well.
Anchovy in reply to tom swift. | May 5, 2016 at 6:15 pm
It's not news that Hillary eats tacos. Think Huma.
JasonJay in reply to Anchovy. | May 5, 2016 at 7:29 pm
What? Huma is Indian and Pakistani.
How did you get tacos out of that?
Old0311 in reply to JasonJay. | May 6, 2016 at 6:09 pm
Now that right there is funny!
I have no doubt he loves Hispanics–after all they do such a fantastic job on his landscaping, his housekeeping staff and of course, his cabana boys.
wcvarones | May 5, 2016 at 4:18 pm
On top of a bikini photo of his ex-wife Maples:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/728309799667044352
Kauf Buch | May 5, 2016 at 4:33 pm
WHINE ALL YOU WANT
about Trump.
PICK ONE: Trump or Clinton.
TWO QUESTIONS FIRST:
1) which candidate, Trump or Hillary, do you think will defend/promore your conservative issues more?
2) which candidate, Trump or Hillary, do you think will crush/censor your conservative issues more?
malclave in reply to Kauf Buch. | May 5, 2016 at 5:16 pm
http://miznattie.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/magic8ball.png
Matt_SE in reply to Kauf Buch. | May 5, 2016 at 9:32 pm
But I don't Waaaaaannnnnnnt to Choooooosssssse! Noooooo!
I won't Dooooooo it!
Oh yeah…Gary Johnson "libertarian"…YOU WANT THIS?!?
Gov. Gary Johnson recognizes that the right of a woman to choose is the law of the land today, and has been for several decades. That right must be respected, and ultimately he believes this is a very personal and individual decision. He feels that each woman must be allowed to make decisions about her own health and well-being.
Further, Gov. Johnson feels strongly that women seeking to exercise their legal right must not be subjected to persecution or denied access to health services by politicians in Washington or elsewhere who are insistent on politicizing such an intensely personal and serious issue.
-Is the climate changing? Probably so. Is man contributing to that change? Probably so.
-On immigration, he understands that a robust flow of labor, regulated not by politics, but by the marketplace, is essential. He understands that a bigger fence will only produce taller ladders and deeper tunnels, and that the flow of illegal immigrants across the border is not a consequence of too little security, but rather a legal immigration system that simply doesn't work. Militarizing the border, bigger fences, and other punitive measures espoused by too many politicians are all simplistic "solutions" to a problem caused by artificial quotas, bureaucratic incompetence and the shameful failure of Congress to actually put in place an immigration system that matches reality. Governor Johnson has long advocated a simplified and secure system of work visas by which willing workers and willing employers can meet in a robust labor marketplace efficiently and economically. Aspiring immigrants would undergo a background check, pay taxes and provide proof of employment. Making it simpler and efficient to enter the U.S. legally will provide the greatest security possible, allowing law enforcement to focus its time and resources on the criminals and bad actors who are, in reality, a relatively small portion of those who are today entering the country illegally.
-How is it that the United States, the land of the free, has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world?
The answer is simple: Over time, the politicians have "criminalized" far too many aspects of people's personal lives. …we have too many unnecessary laws, have produced a society with too many people in our prisons and jails, too many undeserving individuals saddled with criminal records, and a seriously frayed relationship between law enforcement and those they serve.
edgeofthesandbox in reply to Kauf Buch. | May 5, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Oh, whatever. I know he's basically a liberal. But he's basically descent. Better than the major party candidates, anyway. For a protest vote this will work.
Twanger in reply to edgeofthesandbox. | May 6, 2016 at 10:07 am
Bingo. A pragmatist, realist, and general all-around adult has spoken.
Two thumbs up.
edgeofthesandbox in reply to Twanger. | May 6, 2016 at 8:45 pm
I hear sarcasm. If you think that a pragmatist and grown up thing to do is to chose the lesser evil, I will reluctantly vote for Hillary.
Fiftycaltx in reply to Kauf Buch. | May 5, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Just realize that "L"ibertarians cannot organize a two car funeral procession and will win exactly ZERO electoral college votes. "L"ibertarians are all about pounding themselves on the back for being so holier-than-thou on issues they think people should care about and signaling their virtue since they are better than everyone else.
dmacleo | May 5, 2016 at 5:33 pm
Taco fiesta!
dmacleo in reply to dmacleo. | May 5, 2016 at 5:36 pm
don't know if the grill and cafe are 2 fully distinct entities or if they share common grounds
fwiffo in reply to dmacleo. | May 5, 2016 at 6:16 pm
Apparently, different. Here is an overview of food in Trump tower, including this bit on the food in question:
http://ny.eater.com/2016/1/21/10809092/nyc-donald-trump-restuarant
"On the same pass I also ordered "beef tacos" ($13.50) which turned out to be a fried tortilla bowl heaped with romaine lettuce, grated yellow cheese, and plain ground beef that was so devoid of flavor, it rendered an insult to Mexicans every bit as profound as Trumps previous pronouncements"
edgeofthesandbox | May 5, 2016 at 5:36 pm
Fun fact: individuals who don't drink a glass of margarita on May 5 will turn orange.
MaggotAtBroadAndWall | May 5, 2016 at 5:51 pm
Kinda disappointed in the lack of effort involved in this pander.
If he really wants Hispanics to think he loves them, why not hire a three piece mariachi band to stand behind him and serenade him with "La Bamba" while he pretends to eat Mexican food? At the very least make Ben Carson chug a bottle of Jose Cuervo while wearing a fake mustache and a sombrero.
n.n | May 5, 2016 at 6:11 pm
I want a taco bowel, with a Coke, and a Gelato for dessert.
Tomorrow, I want a hamburger, with a Coke, and a Gelato for dessert.
After that, it's New York Strip steaks all around… with a Merlot, and probably a Gelato for dessert.
Free State Paul | May 5, 2016 at 6:19 pm
I'm looking forward to visiting this site every day to bathe in the tears of #NeverTrump.
Ragspierre in reply to Free State Paul. | May 5, 2016 at 8:03 pm
That warm, yellow fluid you're bathing in…
that isn't "tears", honey.
Zachary | May 5, 2016 at 6:41 pm
Cool plan, brah.
windyfir | May 5, 2016 at 7:05 pm
If this battle occurred 50 years after Mexico's Independence Day, which is celebrated on September 16, why don't we Americans celebrate the Battle of New Orleans as well as the 4th of July?
Fiftycaltx | May 5, 2016 at 7:28 pm
Ein REICH! Ein VOLK! Ein HILLARY! Uniparty uber alles!
I should have added Ein Sex!
Ragspierre | May 5, 2016 at 8:23 pm
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/05/05/good-news-trumps-new-finance-chair-has-given-more-than-twice-as-much-to-democrats-worked-for-george-soros/
Well…just damn. NOBODY would've predicted that…
Fuzzy Slippers in reply to Ragspierre. | May 5, 2016 at 11:26 pm
Except you. And me.
But it won't phase Trump fans one bit.
jennifer a johnson in reply to Ragspierre. | May 6, 2016 at 5:55 am
And me too! I'm the "condescending" one.
And yeah, it was highfalutin of me to question the thinking of Trump supporters.
It was simply pretentious of me to prod them to find out what in the world they are thinking by supporting Trump. And when they did respond, the response effectively was, "Wall" "Make America Great Again" "Lyin' Ted" and "I am angry at the "Establishment" and "Now I'm angry that you question me about my faith in Trump. It's settled science. Trump makes me feel good about myself once again. Trump will tear down the Establishment. Just you wait and see!"
I just bristle at the thought of the "well thought out" Trump support going to elect a pro-Establishment candidate who, as this is being written, is being "employed" by the Ruling Class apparatchik to increase Progressivism.
persecutor in reply to Ragspierre. | May 7, 2016 at 8:54 am
Count me in as well……as he said, he knows those Goldman Sachs boys. No surprise with the Soros connection either.
Matt_SE | May 5, 2016 at 9:34 pm
¡ Nunca el Trumpo !
MrE | May 5, 2016 at 9:51 pm
Taco-gate.
murkyv | May 5, 2016 at 10:26 pm
Is Donald eating Teds lunch again?
Fuzzy Slippers in reply to murkyv. | May 5, 2016 at 11:23 pm
Cruz is out, Trump won. There's little less attractive than a sore winner.
Barry in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | May 6, 2016 at 1:21 am
Well, excepting the sore losers 🙂
Fuzzy Slippers in reply to Barry. | May 6, 2016 at 1:35 am
What on earth are you talking about? Where am I being a sore loser?
Gloating is poor sportsmanship. Everyone knows that. Except, apparently, you and murkyv.
What you hope to gain by attacking me after your candidate has already effectively won the nomination is beyond me. All I see is pettiness and mean-spirited vindictiveness. If you think that you are representing your candidate well, you are sorely mistaken. Trump has the nomination wrapped up in a bow, yet oddly, Trump fans are Trump's worst enemy at this point.
Barry in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | May 6, 2016 at 10:04 am
Uh, the little smiley at the end was supposed to signify that the comment was said jokingly. Perhaps you are just too serious at times to notice.
Since in your comments to me, you always include me as whatever it is you think a typical trump supporter is, why should I not include you as one of the typical sore losers? But that was not my intent here, it was supposed to be with a "wink".
The original comment from murk "Is Donald eating Teds lunch again?" could easily be taken as a joke, but you cannot see that.
This whole damn posting is a joke. Trump ate a taco bowl and LI is reporting it did not come from where he said it did. Wow! What news! Proof that trump is a liar!
Except the taco bowl came from a restaurant in trump towers.
How silly all of you are. And bizarre.
Matt_SE in reply to Barry. | May 7, 2016 at 12:22 am
What will that make you when Trump gets his ass handed to him by Hillary?
Common Sense | May 6, 2016 at 6:34 am
Gosh….. So dam desperate it's stunning!
The stupidity of this post…. worst than the crap the lefty's post! 🙁
jennifer a johnson | May 6, 2016 at 9:41 am
Is that arroz con yo-yo?


Light graffiti is uniquely ephemeral and inextricably intertwined with the art of photography, sometimes even invisible to the naked eye and apparent only when captured on film. It is impermanent and its manifestations range from comical to sublime. The work of these twenty light graffiti artists spans the spectrum from humorously playful to deeply moving with everything in between.


Title: To grant a Variance from the provisions of Sections 3332.38(H) and 3332.38(G), Private garage, of the Columbus City Codes; for the property located at 1272 COLE STREET (43205), to permit habitable space on the second floor of a detached garage with increased height in the R-3, Residential District (Council Variance # CV18-100).
APPLICANT: Eboni Eiland; 4089 Jonquil Street; Columbus, OH 43224.
PROPOSED USE: Habitable space above a garage.
NEAR EAST AREA COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: Approval.
CITY DEPARTMENTS' RECOMMENDATION: Approval. The site consists of a single-unit dwelling under construction zoned in the R-3, Residential District. Board of Zoning Adjustment Application #BZA18-015 was approved for this site to allow the single-unit dwelling and detached three car garage with reduced side yards. The applicant requests a Council variance to allow habitable space above the detached garage. A Council variance is necessary because the current zoning code permits habitable space above a garage only when such space is attached directly to habitable space in a dwelling unit. This garage is attached to its dwelling by a covered breezeway and not connected directly with habitable space in the dwelling. The request also includes a variance to increase the allowable height of the garage to accommodate the habitable space, and is conditioned on the habitable space not being a separate dwelling unit. The site is within the boundaries of the Near East Area Plan (2005), which recommends that new housing be compatible in terms of housing types and density. The additional habitable space at this location is appropriate based on the density and size of nearby homes, however, Planning Division staff did not support previous BZA18-015 as the architecture was inconsistent with Plan's recommendations. Planning staff recommends revisions to the building design and site plan in line with the comments previously relayed for the BZA application, but since BZA18-015 was approved by the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the dwelling is almost completed, Zoning staff recognizes that site redesign is not possible.


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An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times for adultery, while the man she had the affair with received 15 lashes after denying the accusations
An Indonesian woman was flogged 100 times for adultery, while the man she had the affair with received 15 lashes after denying the accusations. On Thursday, an Indonesian woman who confessed to engaging in extramarital sex was publicly flogged 100 times in Aceh province. Meanwhile, AFP reported that her male partner, who denied the adultery allegations, was whipped only 15 times.
The couple were caught in 2018 at a palm oil plantation and brought before Aceh's Islamic court, per the outlet.
The man is married and heads the East Aceh fishing agency, AFP reported, citing the head of the general investigation division at the East Aceh prosecutors' office.
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The judges couldn't find the accused man guilty of adultery because he denied the charges, the prosecutor said, so they pinned him instead for "showing affection to a female partner who is not his wife." They sentenced him to be flogged 30 times, but the Sharia Supreme Court reduced his punishment to 15 lashes in an appeal.
According to an AFP reporter at the scene on Thursday, the woman's flogging was paused because she couldn't bear the pain.
Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that enforces Islamic law as part of an agreement that gives the region special autonomy from the rest of the nation. It permits flogging as a punishment for offenses of drinking alcohol, gambling, same-sex sexual relations, and adultery.
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Human Rights Watch has condemned the practice as "barbaric punishments" for victimless crimes. And since 2017, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for the Aceh government to cease using the punishment.
The punishment of 100 lashes is common in Aceh for women found guilty of adultery. In October 2021, a 19-year-old girl was flogged 100 times for having sex with an 18-year-old who wasn't her husband. She fainted after the whipping and had to receive treatment from officers on-site, according to local outlet iNews.id.
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In November that year, a female civil servant and the married man she was found guilty of having an affair with were both given 100 lashes. Her whipping also had to be temporarily stopped because she could not withstand the pain, iNews.id reported.
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It has been more than three years since I have been using Phabricator (self-hosted) at work. It is one of the open-source projects which has inspired me a lot. I have seen it grow over these years; every day it gets better. Thanks to hundreds of open-source developers for their contribution.
Want to see how to develop elegant and sophisticated software, even with a poor programming languages like PHP? Look at Phabricator's source-code and tools (built using PHP), you would be awestruck.
Want to play with Phabricator without installing? Have a look at PhorePlay (Phabricator hosting service), which offers free Phabricator hosting (with multiple instances) up to five users. I think, that's good enough for most of us (small teams).
Phabricator's core team is working to launch Phacility (Phabricator Hosting). I think, it has potential to become something like Github (useful and essential service) one day.
This entry was posted in News and Information, Open Source, PHP, SaaS, Software Reviews, Web Development and tagged collaboration, hosting, opensource, phabricator, phacilit, phoreplay, php, project management, software, tool on February 10, 2015 by Abdul Qabiz.
Gource is software version control visualisation tool.
Logstalgia is a website access log visualisation tool.
This entry was posted in Open Source and tagged gource, log, logstalgia, scm, tool, version, visualization on February 9, 2015 by Abdul Qabiz.
My team and I have been working on bunch of products/services for last 3-4 years.
IndieReign is the one, we have been mostly focused on, and took care entire engineering and technical architecture.
It is a platform for indie filmmakers to promote, distribute and monetize content. It is actually more than that.
IndieReign runs on open-source software stack (for everything including video transcoding) with exception of Adobe Flash Player (used for video playback), and Amazon's cloud.
This entry was posted in Adobe Flash Platform, General, Open Source, Technology, video and tagged distribution, film, filmmaker, global, indie, indiereign, marketplace, online, promotion, startup, streaming, video, vod on January 13, 2013 by Abdul Qabiz.
Kenneth Gonsalves, a champion in Indian (NRC)FOSS, Python and Django community passed away on August 3, 2012. Kenneth's presence would be hugely missed in the community.
In 2008, Tarun Dua introduced me to Kenneth. I interacted with him at various occasions about NRCFOSS and general stuff. I was very inspired to see his contributions, specially some of his open-source projects.
While checking out NRCFOSS website today, I came to know about this sad news.
This entry was posted in GNU/Linux, India, Lamp, Open Source, Python, Tribute and tagged 2012, community, django, India, kennethgonsalves, lawgon, python, tribute on August 9, 2012 by Abdul Qabiz.
I have been thinking about open-standards for movie-rental business. I searched to find about such standards but I couldn't locate. Do you know of any?
Basically, a set of specifications/protocols which can be implemented by different players in movie-rental chain. Players include studios, distributor, application-developers, portals, et. al.
Once we have specifications and protocols in place – a stack using open-source technologies can be built as template, and made available so that everyone in chain can use/customize it to build their part.
I wanted to talk about it on twitter but 140 chars were too short to express my thoughts. Anyway, it's good to have a blog post in place.
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The U.S. House passed a joint resolution
The U.S. House passed a joint resolution that would force 12 rail labor unions to adopt a tentative agreement brokered this fall by the Biden administration, reducing the chances of a Dec. 9 nationwide strike. It now heads to the Senate, where rules require 60 votes for the resolution to pass. "Without the certainty of a final vote to avoid a shutdown this week, railroads will begin to halt the movement of critical materials like chemicals to clean our drinking water as soon as this weekend," said President Joe Biden. READ MORE


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Husserl's Purely Logical Chastity Belt
Claire Ortiz Hill
What follows is about Husserl, whose phenomenology, I believe, can be understood as a form of constructivism. However, I generally write about Husserl's philosophy of logic and mathematics, which he repeatedly said had nothing to do with transcendental phenomenology. So, my aim here is to discuss some things that I believe people interested in constructivism and Husserl's transcendental phenomenology need to keep in mind. I say that, despite appearances, phenomenology was not everything for Husserl. As much as he loved it, he placed definite limits on what one should do with it and believed that it required an objective complement in the form of pure logic, that it had to be subject to a priori laws to keep phenomenologists from falling into psychologism, naturalism, empiricism, relativism and associated evils. According to this interpretation, Husserl the possible constructivist, Husserl the phenomenologist, Husserl the Platonist, Husserl the realist, Husserl the idealist were one and the same person from the late 1890s until his death, something which is particularly well expressed in the volumes of his lecture courses published since the 1980s, which shed considerable light on his thought.
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French Sources: U.S. to Attack Iraq "Soon"
- Amir Oren
The U.S. operation to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will take place in the coming months, even before November's Congressional elections, according to high-level sources in the French government following talks with American decision-makers and professionals in Washington. (Ha'aretz)
New Tenet Plan: Egyptian-Trained Palestinian Forces
- Aluf Benn
After lunch at the State Department with the visiting foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters: "I reaffirmed to my colleagues President Bush's commitment...to working as hard as possible to try to achieve a final settlement within the three-year period."
American officials are now saying behind closed doors that broad agreement was reached at the Quartet meetings on how to proceed. All the participants agreed that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat must be bypassed.
The Americans are convinced there is complete agreement on the need to first of all deal with the security issue, and even if work is undertaken on other issues, security has to come first.
According to a new plan worked out by CIA director George Tenet and approved last Friday by the White House, Egypt would train the Palestinian security forces city-by-city, and as Israel withdraws, Palestinian police, screened for their credibility, will enter.
The Americans said there's no point to conduct Palestinian elections if they only reconfirm Arafat as president, and it would be best to hold parliamentary elections that would end with the election of a Palestinian prime minister and Arafat "kicked upstairs."
The U.S. administration has told Jerusalem that it does not accept the idea of a temporary agreement on 42 percent of the West Bank (a combination of Area A and B), with a promise to discuss the rest of the territory in another decade, as Sharon wants. (Ha'aretz)
For another view, see Arabs "Heartened" after Meeting with Bush
- Karen DeYoung and Glenn Kessler
"We came out very encouraged," Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher said after he and his counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Egypt left the 30-minute White House meeting. "He couldn't have been more forthcoming."
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Faisal said that Bush told them he believes in parallel movement on three fronts - security, political and economic. "We were very pleased and very heartened that he laid equal responsibilities on both sides," Faisal said.
The Arabs came away convinced the president is prepared to push for Israeli withdrawal. (Washington Post)
Useful Reference:
Names of People Murdered by Palestinian Terrorists since September 2000
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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IDF Considers Sending Terrorists' Families to Gaza
IDF troops arrested 21 Palestinian men in the West Bank Thursday night - fathers, brothers, and sons of the terrorists who carried out the attacks in Tel Aviv and Emmanuel. Sources in the IDF propose exile to the Gaza Strip. The homes of two terrorists were demolished. The sources said that only actions that harm the immediate surroundings of the terrorists might deter future suicide bombers, Israel Radio reported.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he supported the IDF decision, if the move were legally sanctioned. In an interview with Israel Radio on Friday, Peres said, "Look, it is obvious that we are being pushed to do things that we would willingly prefer not to do, but what happened this week, the two grave incidents [the terror attacks in Tel Aviv and Emmanuel]...it almost leaves us no choice." (New York Times (Reuters)/Ha'aretz)
In a Matter of Minutes, Half a Family is Wiped Out
The blast knocked Ayelet Shilon, her mother, and three children out of their seats and onto the floor of bus. Her first instinct was to stretch her small frame over her children to shield them - a move that probably saved the lives of two of them.
Ayelet then phoned her husband Gal, a former air force pilot, and told him the bus was under attack near the gate of Emmanuel. As Gal advanced toward the bus, the Palestinians turned their rifles on the approaching car and sprayed it with bullets, killing him instantly. Inside the bus, a bullet struck one of Ayelet's twin girls, Sarah, killing her instantly. Another bullet killed Shilon's mother, Zilfa Kashi. Shilon suffered a serious head-wound and her 2-year-old son was lightly injured. (Boston Globe)
Yoheved Ben-Hanan, 21, on Thursday became the ninth victim of the terror attack against a passenger bus at Emmanuel. (Yediot Ahronot)
Israeli Volunteers Face Gruesome Task
Among the scores of rescue workers and policemen arriving within minutes at the scene of suicide attacks and terror bombings in Israel are the men of ZAKA, a Hebrew acronym for "Identification of Victims of Disaster." Wearing distinctive fluorescent green jackets marked with the words "Police Auxiliary," these ultra-Orthodox Jews are members of a volunteer organization whose first task is to treat the injured and save lives. They also collect body parts of the dead so that, in line with Jewish law, the entire corpse can be buried on the day of death, if possible. ZAKA has more than 600 volunteers throughout Israel and receives no funding from the Israeli government. (NBC News)
House Weighs Change in U.S. Saudi Policy
Liberal California Democrat Rep. Tom Lantos and libertarian Texas Republican Ron Paul share a mutual disdain for Saudi Arabia. Lantos noted how the United States protected Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. In return, he said, the kingdom allows schools to teach anti-American ideology and tightly controls U.S. military activity within its borders. "Without the support of the United States, the House of Saud would be a villa on the French Riviera," Lantos said. (Congressional Quarterly)
Radio Sawa: An Alternative to al-Jazeera
Radio Sawa, the hip replacement for Voice of America's (VOA) now-defunct Arabic service in the Middle East, is formally known as the Middle East Radio Network (MERN), an Arabic-language pilot operation that appeals to young people in the region - about 60 percent of the population is under the age of 30 - and provides fast-paced, substantive, and uncensored news as a counter to the sensationalistic coverage of events by Arab media giant al-Jazeera. On the air for just three months, Radio Sawa is already number one in eight Arab countries, reaching ten times the number of people Voice of America Arabic reached in 50 years. (National Review) News Resources - Israel and Mideast:
U.S.-Financed Study Opposes Palestinian Demilitarization - Ze'ev Schiff
The State Department is financing a study on the conditions for establishing a Palestinian state based on the outline presented by President Bush. The study was apparently drafted by a pro-Palestinian group at the Council for Foreign Policy in New York and ignores the fact that for the last two years a war initiated by the Palestinians has been underway. A member of the official Palestinian negotiating team on security was asked to formulate a synthesis of the Israeli and Palestinian demands.
The Palestinians, in effect, are demanding that the Palestinian state not be demilitarized. The study suggests that the Palestinian army in the future state be equipped with anti-aircraft missiles and mortars. The Palestinian state would also be allowed to invite whoever it wants to train its army (the Iranians?). In exchange for the IDF's right during an emergency to reach the Jordan Valley, they demand an Israeli surrender of the cities of Ma'aleh Adumim and Ariel. Israel has to regard the latest Palestinian demands as either hutzpah or a joke. (Ha'aretz)
Israeli Consulates Closing in Houston and Philadelphia?
The Houston consulate, which serves communities in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and New Mexico, is one of 10 embassies and consulates the Foreign Ministry plans to announce on Sunday that it is closing as a cost-saving measure. Israel's consulate in Sydney, Australia, is also slated for closure. (Jerusalem Post)
Israel currently supports 102 such overseas offices. The Philadelphia consulate, only three hours from New York, is also a candidate for closure, as are those in Rio de Janeiro and San Paulo, Brazil, Minsk, and, perhaps, even Hong Kong. (Yediot Ahronot)
The Conservative Saudi Opposition
Al-Jazeera interviewed three leading conservative Saudi sheikhs, all of whom served extensive prison terms for criticizing the Saudi regime and calling for greater adherence to Wahhabi teachings. (MEMRI)
Strong Dictators Cannot Make a Strong Peace - Natan Sharansky
From the beginning, I believed that the notion that strong dictators can make a strong peace was a dangerous illusion. My experiences in the Soviet Union had taught me that there is an inextricable connection between internal repression and external aggression. I believed then that a Palestinian dictatorship, regardless of who was at the helm, would inevitably endanger Israel's security.
The idea that there are certain peoples whose values are incompatible with democracy has a long pedigree; it resurfaces each time the West is faced by the choice of whether to support a friendly dictator or to interfere in his internal affairs and bring about changes in his regime. Like the other peoples whose values did not prove inimical to democracy, I have no doubt that the Arabs will also prove the skeptics wrong. While each culture is unique and may have its own ordering of values, I do not believe that any people wants to live in a society where the fear of imprisonment is omnipresent. (Ha'aretz)
Time to Dispense with Yasser Arafat - Fahed Fanek
President Bush's Middle East policy speech turned Yasser Arafat into an impediment to the Palestinian people's cause. There will be no solution, no talks, no state, and no aid, while he remains president of the Palestinian Authority (PA). So we will no longer hear any Arab regimes defending Arafat's survival; none of them want to bet on a horse that has no future. (Beirut Daily Star)
Their Kampf: Hitler's Book in Arab Hands - David Pryce-Jones
I suspect that many - probably most - Arabs accept Israel as a fact of life, created by the millions of individual choices which make up history, and over which nobody has any control. But the leadership, the intellectuals particularly, have internalized and perpetuated Hitler's fantasies about Jews and a Jewish state. In one Muslim country after another, leaders who may describe themselves either as Islamist or secular call for the State of Israel to disappear from the map, and its people to be annihilated. (National Review)
End Europe's Love-in with Arafat - Douglas Davis
A Syrian colleague told me at the time of Oslo that he had overestimated the intelligence of Israelis: "Do you really think you can negotiate with a mafia boss?" he asked incredulously. While Arafat's friends in Europe continue pouring cash down his throat - impervious to hard evidence of misuse and corruption - Washington is the only game in town, and Washington is at war with terror. (Spectator - UK)
Free the Abducted Americans in Saudi Arabia - Rod Dreher
An American court awarded Patricia Roush custody of daughters Alia and Aisha in a 1985 divorce from her husband, Khalid, who comes from an influential Saudi family. In 1986, Khalid kidnapped the children and took them to Saudi Arabia. Congress should order the State Department to deny visas to any Saudi government official until all American citizens held illegally in Saudi Arabia are allowed to return home. (National Review)
The Future Would Look Brighter Without Arafat - James Klurfeld
The coffee-break conversations at the Saban Center inaugural symposium at Brookings tended to be about Arafat's future or, more accurately, that many experts don't believe he has a future. Even if Arafat were re-elected president of the Palestinian Authority, a new government structure based on a parliamentary system could make the key player the new prime minister while the president would be essentially a figurehead.
A precedent for this type of arrangement is Israel. The prime minister is selected by the majority party and is the head of government. The president of Israel is the head of state, a largely ceremonial office. (Newsday)
We Shouldn't Make Arafat the Issue - Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)
America cannot afford to stand by and allow the next generation of Arabs and Muslims to grow up hating us. Nor can Israel. Young Palestinians need to see their future in a peaceful, fully functioning state with economic opportunities and democratic institutions. If we are serious about reform in the Palestinian Authority, then we must allow the Palestinians and the Arabs to deal with Arafat. Credible alternative Palestinian leadership will not step forward in response to a perceived American-Israeli demand for Arafat's removal. Change must come from within. (Washington Post)
Power of the "Arab Street" - Daniel Doron
Idle youth have joined private armies financed by almost every Arab state and political movement, making Palestinian politics a proxy for interstate Arab rivalries. Militancy has become a chief avenue for the social advancement of youth of lesser status in class-bound Muslim societies. It grants them instant heroic status, good income, and family welfare, should they become "martyrs." (Jerusalem Post)
Are the West Bank and Gaza Really "Occupied"? - Barbara Lerner
When Emperor Claudius took a census in 48 A.D., he counted 7 million Jews on his turf, including 2.5 million in Palestine. Their three million descendents - known as Eastern (Mizrachi) Jews - have lived in Palestine and all through the Middle East from time immemorial: a non-Arab, non-Western people, persecuted in the East and unknown in the West. (National Review)
Fears of Arab Democracy - Jurg Bischoff
While their absolute monarchs, military dictators, and single-party bosses have led the Arabs from defeat to defeat, Israel has built a democratic state and at the same time grown ever stronger militarily. (Neue Zurcher Zeitung)
Jordan is Palestinian - Esam Sohail
There already is a Palestinian state. It is a country where 54% of the population, including the queen, is Palestinian. Fully half of this nation's parliament is made up of Palestinian lawmakers. And when King Abdullah II's half-Palestinian son ascends the Hashemite throne, the Palestinians will have their own king, too. (Jerusalem Post)
Jews among Arabs, Arabs among Jews - Jeff Jacoby
Israel's Cabinet voted 22-2 to bury a bill that would have barred Arab citizens from buying homes in some Galilee towns. If it was repugnant to propose that Arabs be kept from moving into certain Jewish towns, it is even more repugnant to demand that hundreds of thousands of Jews be ethnically ''cleansed'' from their homes and communities in Judea and Samaria.
The claim that the settlements are illegal is bogus. Israel took the West Bank in self-defense in 1967, and nothing in international law prohibits Jews from moving back there: Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria since antiquity. If there is room in Israel for a million Arab citizens, there is surely room in Palestine for a few hundred thousand Jews. (Boston Globe) Talking Points:
Emerging from the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis - Yaacov Perry
(Saban Center - Brookings Institution)
Yaacov Perry is former head of Israel's General Security Services, presiding during efforts to build a security foundation through the Oslo Accords.
Regrettably, the Palestinians did not reciprocate and today we know this to be an absolute, irrefutable truth. From the first moment of the establishment of the Palestinian Authority over part of the territories, they engaged systematically and purposefully in arms smuggling, the building of military capacity, and the establishment of terrorist infrastructure by cynically taking advantage of the means and capacity that we had placed at their disposal out of trust and good will.
We know from interrogations and documents that the Palestinians knowingly and maliciously breeched our trust and cooperation, and the best example is what we call the "revolving door" approach to people arrested for terrorism.
The Palestinian leadership cooperated with the terrorists quite willingly as part of its strategic view that the pressure of terror will play an important part in the coming conflict with Israel.
Arafat's desire to avoid internal conflict is what permitted his survival as head of the PLO from 1965 to the present day. This is why, since his arrival in Gaza in 1994 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Arafat never took any resolute action against Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or the rejectionist organizations, such as the Popular Front.
Arafat has been ill in recent years. He has trouble moving and speaking and apparently may have serious problems in grasping reality.
The Palestinian security organizations that engage in intelligence gathering are alive and well. If the Palestinians indeed want to restrict terrorist activities from their territory, they could do this starting tomorrow morning.