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Probably Influenced By That Magazine He Doesn't Subscribe To, Say Unnamed Law Enforcement Officials, Maybe
Matt Welch | 1.9.2011 11:41 PM
The New York Times has an odd story up attempting to pry into the weird belief systems of murderous nut-sandwich Jared Loughner. It amounts to: A) Anecdotes of crazy/erratic behavior. B) Extrapolated political theories lacking a single strand of evidentiary connective tissue, aside from "that thing he said sounds like that thing other people said." C) Transition back to erratic behavior.
Here's what I mean, focusing on the B) part:
Some people who study right-wing militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called patriot movement said Mr. Loughner's comments on subjects like the American currency and the Constitution, which he posted online in various video clips, were strikingly similar in language and tone to the voices of the Internet's more paranoid, extremist corners.
In the text on one of the videos, for example, Mr. Loughner states, "No! I won't pay debt with a currency that's not backed by gold and silver." He also argues that "the current government officials are in power for their currency" and he uses his videos — he never appears on screen, just displaying text — to talk about becoming a treasurer of "a new money system."
The position, for instance, that currency not backed by a gold or silver standard is worthless is a hallmark of the far right and the militia movement, said Mark Potok, who directs research on hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
"That idea is linked closely to the belief among militia supporters that the Federal Reserve is a completely private entity engaged in ripping off the American people," Mr. Potok said.
But Mr. Loughner also posits in his Web postings the idea that the government is seeking to control people through rules and structure of grammar and language.
This is similar to the position of David Wynn Miller, 62, a former tool-and-die welder from Milwaukee who describes himself as a "Plenipotentiary-judge" seeking to correct, through a mathematical formula, what he sees as the erroneous and manipulative use of grammar and language worldwide. The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Mr. Miller a conspiracy theorist, some of whose positions have been adopted by militias in general.
"The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar," Mr. Loughner said in a video. He also defiantly asserted, "You control your English grammar structure."
Mr. Miller, in an interview, said the argument sounded familiar. "He's probably been on my Web site, which has been up for about 11 years," Mr. Miller said. "The government does control the schools, and the schools determine the grammar and language we use. And then it is all reinforced by newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and everything we do in society."
Aaaaand CUT! A few notes:
1) Quoting the SPLC as an impartial arbiter on right-wing extremism is about as credible as quoting Brent Bozell as a fair-minded assessor of media content. This is not one of those, oh-the-ACLU-is-evil knee-jerk kind of observations; seriously, read up on the subject before either quoting from the organization or taking its findings as Gospel.
2) As someone more familiar than your average NYTer with gold-buggery complaints about the Federal Reserve and the Debauched Dollar, my personal testimony is that the phrase, "the current government officials are in power for their currency," if it's the "hallmark" of anything, is of…a crazy dude just stone rambling about shit. If there is evidence of this guy sounding like a "Paultard" on currency, that ain't it. Neither is the notion that the Fed is "a completely private entity," which is a formulation I have now heard from exactly one source, the SPLC.
3) It is indeed possible that Loughner was biting the rhymes of David Wynn Miller when it comes to government "seeking to control people through rules and structure of grammar and language." But the only evidence of that in this article comes from authorial assertaion that his views were "similar," and, um, from David Wynn Miller. There have been, I am pretty confident, more than just two people, or one ideological disposition, that have reached a similar conclusion.
This next piece of the B) section is even less convincing:
Law enforcement officials said they suspected that Mr. Loughner also might have been influenced by such things as American Renaissance, a conservative monthly magazine that describes itself as "America's premiere publication of racial-realist thought."
"We think that white Americans have an entirely legitimate reason to want to remain a majority in the United States because when a neighborhood or a school or an organization changes in demographics and becomes majority black or Hispanic, it is no longer the same institution or neighborhood," said Jared Taylor, its editor.
He added, "It may be shocking to hear something stated so bluntly."
Mr. Taylor said that his organization had searched its subscriber list going back 20 years and lists of those who had attended the group's conferences since 1994, but that there was no record of a Mr. Loughner.
But even as Mr. Loughner was exploring the outer boundaries of extremist philosophy, his life at school, which some acquaintances said was very important to him, was unraveling….
Uh, WTF was that? Seriously, we have unnamed "law enforcement officials," we have no explanation for why said law enforcement officials sought or were granted anonymity, we have the once-removing device of "such things as," we have no direct quotes showing that the unnamed officials mentioned American Renaissance by name, then we have–whoops!–denial that he was ever a subscriber in the first place. Followed by an absolutely evidence-free transition of "even as Mr. Loughner was exploring the outer boundaries of extremist philosophy." That is some stinky-ass journalism, New York Times, even if all those dots get connected at some later date.
(And no, he has never subscribed to Reason. )
The question of correlation/causation/responsibility of media messages vis-a-vis violent acts is a truly interesting subject, one that 99 percent of pundits are very busy at the moment trying not to engage with anything approaching seriousness or consistency. Two people who buck that foul trend are Jack Shafer and our own Jesse Walker.
Oh, BTW, I've buried the lede:
"The ubiquitous nature of the Internet means that not only threats, but hate speech and other inciteful speech is much more readily available to individuals than quite clearly it was eight or 10 or 15 years ago," [FBI Director Robert] Mueller said. "That absolutely presents a challenge for us, particularly when it results in what would be lone wolves or lone offenders undertaking attacks."
UPDATE: More on the supposed AmRen connection at FoxNews.com:
According to a law enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter.
No direct connection, but strong suspicion is being direceted at American Renaissance, an organization that Loughner mentioned in some of his internet postings and federal law enforcement officials are investigating Loughner's possible links to the organization.
NEXT: Violence, Government Violence, and Anti-Government Rhetoric
Media Terrorism Racism Giffords Tucson Shooting Southern Poverty Law Center Conspiracy Theories Militia Movement
John Thacker
"The ubiquitous nature of the Internet means that not only threats, but hate speech and other inciteful speech is much more readily available to individuals than quite clearly it was eight or 10 or 15 years ago," [FBI Director Robert] Mueller said. "That absolutely presents a challenge for us, particularly when it results in what would be lone wolves or lone offenders undertaking attacks."
Indeed, if this sort of access to extremist literature were available 8, 10, or even 25 years ago, John F. Kennedy, William McKinley, James Garfield, and Abraham Lincoln might all have been assassinated.
Also, people might have tried to kill Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan.
The meme of blocking internet access continues…
You got it. The frightening aspect to this story is how so many people are now making the government's control of the web without any proof that this was political in nature. The shooter was schizophrenic.
Irresponsible Hater
Ah, "memes" – are those the things that conspiracy theorists think are trying to control our minds through words and grammar?
Peter Buxtun
Conspiracies never never happen
January.13.2011 at 11:02 pm
Rather;
It seems to be more of a scattered (dare i say shotgun)approach to ideological promotion.
yes there is the "Shut down Free Speech" aspect of controlling the intertubes.
There is also:
*Currency Value – and Constitutional Authority are Extremist Views.
*Southern Poverty Law Center – and similar agenda driven groups are voices of Reason
*Questioning the Federal Reserve is the purview of Extremist Militia Groups
* Linking "conservative" to any fringe group or organization (that 99.9999% haven't even heard of)is rational thinking…
*the list is endless and non-sequitur.
Ultimately This Ideology has taken the PT Barnum Approach….
Their contempt for us knows no limits.
and less and less people are going to the circus…
Or the Manson clan might have adopted a song from the Beatles into its weltanschauung. Or John Lennon might have become a target himself.
Masturbatin' Pete
Reminds me of Chris Rock, ca. 2000, on the Columbine massacre:
"'Was it the music? What were they listening to?' What was Hitler listening to??? What was in his CD case???"
smartass sob
What was Hitler listening to??? What was in his CD case???"
Richard Wagner – or so I've often heard.
dfssdfsdf
I'm sure he was listening to "Ride of the Valkyries" the whole time.
I knew a girl once who had an enormous weltanschauung, but certainly she was no lady.
Chinny Chin Chin
What was her limit for schnitzenruben?
Sheriff Bart
Fifteen, I think.
There isn't much else going on unless you are captivated by events in Juba, everyone is in a tizzy and you have to say something, anything
– if you want to see real horrendous fact free pontificating check out The Guardian over in the UK featuring a very sad confused American pundit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..s-loughner
Even the url suffix is biased…
As a principled libertarian I really don't like the whole Tea Party thingy and Palin is abhorrent but something tells me if Chomsky had walked into the Pentagon and killed 6 Generals shouting quotes from Horkheimer the media would blame the Tea Party and right wing over-the-top rhetoric stuff and stuff.
if Chomsky had walked into the Pentagon and killed 6 Generals shouting quotes from Horkheimer the media would blame the Tea Party and right wing over-the-top rhetoric stuff and stuff.
Well that's how it works. Sarah Palin uses Right Wing Vitriol(tm) to create an Atmosphere of Hate(tm) that when inhaled, causes everyone to lose moral agency and start murdering her political opponents.
Ridiculous Masturbatin' Pete! Sarah Palin's power lies in her Magical Tits?
inb4 Newcular Titties
Fatty Bolger
If the two ever combine, we could be looking at an end-of-the-world scenario.
Gingrich/Palin 2012… Nuewcular/Magical Titties… end of the Mayan calendar… it's all so clear now…
It's spelled "nucular" cretin
That's a joke, everyone.
https://reason.com/blog/2011/01…..nt_2078077
January.10.2011 at 2:14 pm
FEEEEEEEED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Tomasky's absurd screed should win a prize for douchebaggery.
Remember last year when some idiot Ron Paul volunteers held someone on the ground and that got so much press?
This was not too long after some leftists had assaulted a man and a woman leaving a Republican dinner and broken her leg and beaten him and that got much less press.
[…] some idiot *Rand* Paul volunteers […]
WhereYou'reWrong
Meanwhile, while they try and put together a web of influence that, I am sure, will eventually lead back to the Koch brothers, they ignore his having been to a previous citizen forum with Giffords back in 2007 when he was reportedly angered by her answer to his nonsensical question — might his direct experience with her have been more important than his supposed reading materials? (Aside from his having been so freaking bugnutty that voices from his corn flakes could have set him off that morning.)
If the conventional wisdom becomes that Loughner, a Republican-judge-murdering, flag-burning, liberal atheist 9/11 Truther, was a conservative or libertarian, I'm giving up. I will an hero, because I don't want to live in a world with this kind of insanity.
Death Panel
Sign here____________
Hah hah, funny joke, very funny! Yes, a joke! Everybody laugh now!
Blogwhore
Little "helle" is "Pissed Off". Awww, I'm sorry
I left a present for you baby
http://rctlfy.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/1857/
What's funny is I'm not the one who replied to her comments here. Retarded schitzo bitch
Fuck off Heller
What's funnier is Heller made another grammar error and is trying to pass it off as the bogeyman
Yeah, okay, but there really are extreme right wingers who have very similar beliefs. I started reading some of the nonsense he said and all I could think it was not far off from the shit some crazy cousin of mine who has a problem with Freemason conspiracies and the New World Order… This guy seriously had some extreme right wing beliefs. I'm not gonna pretend it's not true because the liberal media sucks.
"extreme right-wing" != Sarah Palin/Tea Party/GOP/Limbaugh/Beck/Paul/Reason/Lew Rockwell
I'm not afraid of this truth. If this guy was indeed a Stormfront/Neo-Nazi type, so be it. That has nothing to do with Palin or the conservative/libertarian mainstreams, no matter what the left and the media would have us believe.
NWO conspiracists are not limited to the extreme right wing. Far from it. Just look at the G8 and G20 protests.
I've seen a lot more "OMG MASONS!!! NWO!!" from the left. I do know one bible thumper (born again) who follows proclaims freemasonry offers a false salvation and that they are devil worshipers. Guess he'd be right-wing. But most in that vein seem to be more lefty to me. Especially if you weave them in with 9/11 truthers.
Random Dude
Just check out some of the zerohedge commenters if you want to get a glimpse of what a philosophy based almost exclusively on conspiracy theories looks like. From my observations, most of the conspiracy guys are not anything that could be classified as "right wing," but a lot of them would fit in comfortably with the anti-capitalist, "anarchist," black-clothes wearing G8 protestors that stream out endlessly from American universities these days. Most of the ones I know classify themselves as "independent."
That being said, I do know right-wingers that are both anti-NWO fanatics and 9/11 truthers, but I think a person would be very hard pressed to find even 5% of people who would call themselves "Tea Partiers" or "conservatives" or even "libertarians" that hold those beliefs. (I think the Venn diagram between those people and Alex Jones listeners probably looks something like a circle….)
The media's just trying to use any possible way to tamp down political fervor now that a certain portion of the electorate might actually be serious about real freedom.
Plate-O
I'm thinking his politics are more along the lines of Gen. Ripper's from Dr. Strangelove.
Karma W
There comes a point when extreme right wing and extreme left wing become so extreme they circle around to meet one another at a predetermined spot called "Total Insanity".
The news is going to be too stupid to pay attention to for quite a while. So here's a kitty.
is the kitty getting on the deck or falling off?
I take umbrage at the blatant liberal bias contained in that series of pictures. Kitty could have pulled himself up by the bootstraps, if he hadn't been subject to inverse incentives to keep falling down.
That kitty represents how the level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained!* Also, adorable!
* Martin Frost
Yes, let's try that: ignore the news.
KITTY!
Kitty wouldn'thave fallen if not for the vitiolic right-wing media.
I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin pushed it off the chair in between frames.
I thought it was the left-wing media?
I submit a more positive kitty motif. The tide lifts all pussies.
Poppin' Caps lock
This NYT article was never meant to be informative.
hmm representing PBJ Allaince
murderous nut-sandwich Jared Loughner.
We at PBJA would appreciate a retraction or clarification. Nut based sandwiches are an American staple and have murdered no one. Any deaths due to allergens are purely coincidental and truly regrettable, but such losses are acceptable in the pursuit of such delicious noms.
I do have to give Mr. Welch credit for the verbal innovation of "nut-sandwich". It entered my vocabulary shortly after I first read it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
KPres
While perusing the NY Times, painful as it was, I came accross this little blurb:
Keywords most frequently searched by NYTimes.com readers.
Sarah Palin comes in at #4. Gabrielle Giffords is nowhere to be found. Basically, this whole thing means nothing to them except insofar as it can be linked to Sarah Palin.
There really aren't words to describe how absolutely bonkers these people are.
And who knew they were such Bowie fans?
Ahhh…the NYT readers. Turning to Bowie for meaning in a time of crisis. Works well, I hear.
Why so defensive? Does reason propagate radicalism that might conceivably lead to some acting out?
Only against stupid people. "Be afraid, be very afraid."
Really, you're making it too easy here.
Tony, say it ain't so
The issue isn't that he's a nutcase. That's obvious. The issue is how many people watching FOX News are nutcases?
Statistically I'm going to say more watching FOX are nuts. Since the viewership for FOX is usually 2-3 times that of the other news stations. This is assuming we are comparing cable news networks.
Of course. It is rather disturbing that so many people watch radical antigovernment propaganda, and curious that they keep watching when it's pro-government propaganda (when there's a Republican president).
radical!!!!!
You mean like the few that watch MSNC? When they had people calling Bush Hitler and getting shivers up legs over Presidential speeches just months later.
Perspective will do wonders for observations. Especially when that perspective is not of the descending colon.
Perspective means applying an equal time standard to every comparable alternative when discussing something? If what MSNBC does is bad, that does not absolve FOX of anything. And I happen to think the two stations have different standards when it comes to applying facts to rhetoric.
Your perspective, not that of the station. They are making money and appealing to an audience.
If you think NBC has higher standards than anyone else you're fooling yourself. At one time CNN tried, and it didn't workout all that well. Like I said, your perspective relative to that you are proclaiming to observe is what is fucked up. As you clear show in the above post with the "I happen to think" comment.
Maybe. All I can do is check reliable sources. Maybe those sources aren't reliable, and are in fact part of the vast leftwing conspiracy to oppress us all.
Oddly it isn't a conspiracy. It's business and politics.
Of course, playing the victim of conspiracy instead of actually addressing the issue is a much easier way to dismiss any discourse on the subject. It's almost as good as screaming racist.
You're right about it being business. In light of your reminder about the two stations' relative ratings, it would seem NBC is in the wrong business.
Or they are mismanaged, hence the reason GE fire saled that turd to get it off the books.
You see there's an interesting thing about markets whether you like them or not. They act a lot like guns. They work as a great equalizer, when they are working and not interfered with (both) everyone is forced to play the same game on the same field by the same rules. It's when government steps in that it all goes to shit.
NBC isn't in the wrong business, it is just mismanaged.
Is CNN guilty? If so how do you explain Beck almost catching Nancy Grace? Do you think it was a smart business decision for CNN to not try and keep a guy who now pulls close to 3m viewers pre 5pm? From a numbers stand point that looks like a pretty big fuckup.
Is that the biological colon or the linguistical colon? Cause if it's the latter you oould be accused being a follower of David Wynn Miller.
Tony in truth a nutcase can get a message to kill by unraveling a toilet paper roll.
Yeah, but let's not pretend that speech has no effect on action when it's convenient to do so.
Yeah. It's much more fun to pretend that speech has an effect on action when it's convenient to do so. Right, Tony?
I dunno. Yet for every 50 decent posts on these articles there's some dick expressing sympathy for the killer. Radical antigovernment rhetoric won't affect everyone. It doesn't need to, it's still dangerous.
Mr. FIFY
"Radical antigovernment rhetoric won't affect everyone. It doesn't need to, it's still dangerous."
You'd love to leave out the word "radical", wouldn't you?
Did anyone ever teach you about coincidence and causality?
Look, if you want to blame the fact that this "quite liberal" atheist 9/11 Truther murdered people on stuff that Sarah Palin said, you're welcome to present all the evidence you like. I'll listen to it. But the key word here is "evidence," not "speculation."
"Look, if you want to blame the fact that this "quite liberal" atheist 9/11 Truther murdered people on stuff that Sarah Palin said, you're welcome to present all the evidence you like."
Neither of you have it right. The point is I am not responsible for the action's of another man-even if I said I'd like to kill that fucker Heller, and one of you read it as a message to kill that fucker.
The point is I am not responsible for the action's of another man-even if I said I'd like to kill that fucker Heller, and one of you read it as a message to kill that fucker.
How can that be true? Why is speech worth protecting if it doesn't affect anything? It can't be that it only affects things positively.
Speech can harm but it is worth protecting because it is good too. Harmful speech is not the same for you, as it is for me, and any attempt to decide a standard would threaten all speech. Heller is a classic example why I don't believe in banning ANY speech; yes he's a pain in the ass who follows my every comment to make an imbecilic remark but ultimately what he does says more about him than the nonsense he replies with-he's a fucking child.
Tony as a gay man I would think you would innately understand the importance of uncensored speech. Gay people were not always free to mention a same sex-partner without fear of losing a job, a friend, or even their very lives.
It's all speculation at this point. I notice the Drudge-iverse is being quite quick to label him a leftwinger.
Tony, please take your "It's-all-speculation-at-this-point" stuff over to the Daily Kos, NY Times, DU, etc. It is needed there; it is not needed here.
Rather: you're correct, but we shouldn't even be at that point. I'm not pointing fingers. But if the left wants to play the which-team-is-this-guy-closer-to? game, I can play by those rules. The answer is "Team Blue."
My vote is Team Crazy
Ray Pew
Speech most definitely does affect individual action. It is through speech that individuals access information regarding the world and ideas.
How this cumulative affect of speech has on any individual can't be predicted though. For some it may be positive; for others, negative.
Rights don't guarantee a positive outcome, they merely enable one to control one's own self-determination.
Ahhhh!!! I've been holing up on Facebook reading and debating the looniness of the last few days. Reading here is heavenly. All this logic feels like I'm breaking for air after an extended time under water.
Slut Bunwalla
So the Beatles were absolutely culpable for the actions of the Manson family, right?
Kant feel Pietzsche
Pretty fucking sure this is what's known as a "bad-faith argument", Chony…
You are a blog whore of epic proportions.
Hmm, are you trying to get in my crosshairs?
Callin' it like I see it.
Is that a euphemism for oral sex?
Well if that's the case I'm there. I'm always up for gettin' a hummer.
Mrs.Hmm would like me-we can stay in bed while you make us breakfast
Mrs.Hmm would like me-we can stay in bed
Maybe you can do each other's nails.
No silly! She can braid my hair, and we can talk about boys.
Tony, if anyone commits violence based on mere words, then we can toss personal responsibility out the window.
Hegel blogged an interesting thought on this tragedy and f/u media coverage:
Man's labor itself becomes entirely mechanical, belonging to a many-sided determinacy. But the more abstract [his labor] becomes, the more he himself is mere abstract activity. And consequently he is in a position to withdraw himself from labor and to substitute for his own activity that of external nature. He needs mere motion, and this he finds in external nature. In other words, pure motion is precisely the relation of the abstract forms of space and time ? the abstract external activity, the machine.
Translated: Teabaggers
I guess tweeting really isn't his thing…
TheCheeseStandsAlone
This is a phenomenon of two
1) "Jesusland", i.e., most of the Midwest, obsessed with "God, Guns,
and Government"…
2) "The United States of Canada",
i.e., the blue-state East-Coast/
West-Coast corridors…
The issue is entirely provincial:
Kennedy assassination (Dallas),
Randy Weaver (Idaho), Waco (David
Koresh), Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma),
Fort Hood shooting (Texas), Arizona
(Jared Loughner)…
Which, ironically, makes Megyn Kelly much more dangerous than Bill Ayers.
TheCheeseMakesNoSense
The Cheese never makes sense
to the uninitiated…
Add Ted Kaczynski(Montana) to
Son of Sam?
Bobby Kennedy was shot in LA.
Harvey Milk was shot in San Francisco, probably because of the huge gun culture.
John Lennon shot outside his home in NYC.
Malcolm X assasinated in NYC.
And Tupac got shot right on the Vegas strip.
I think the real reason the NYT is acting all weird on this one is cause they are paranoid someone will notice how close To,my Freidman's logic is to that of Jared Nut Sandwich.
"China is becoming greener by the day, everyone wants to be green, therefore China is the Greenist…"
More than ever, America's political climate reminds me of a teenage son screaming at his Mom because she won't let him borrow the Lexus hybrid SUV for his big date with the half-Korean cheerleading captain. Dad isn't part of this fight because he's still at his software consulting job, and the family's fourteen-year-old daughter is buying a Ramones t-shirt at Hot Topic. Meanwhile, the Korean family down the block is disappointed because their son got rejected by Harvard and has to settle for Brown. What to do?
Dude, come on… Brown *sucks*
Unless we scored Princeton as a backup, I think we'd go back to Korea.
+1 for the callback.
The stupidity accelerates…
Democratic Congressman Says He Will Introduce Bill To Ban "Crosshairs" Maps
Next to be banned. "Worst person in the world."
Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Why don't you bring legislation to relegalize the duel and challenge Sarah to a duel. Put the honorable in Honorable Brady. Be a man!
That kind of speech is placing all of us in danger of becoming stupider just from reading it.
"we're saved!"
Jeffersonian
The Stoopid hit warp five with the introduction of that bill.
Guns don't kill people! Crosshairs Maps kill people!
Then Palin is safe, because her symbols were crop marks.
Also, if Palin was telling would-be assassins to use "crosshairs," then this guy is shitty at following directions. His gun had only iron sights, not a scope with a reticle, and I seriously doubt that he aimed down them.
Which, ironically, makes Megyn Kelly much more dangerous than Bill Ayers.Then Palin is safe, because her symbols were crop marks.
reply to this Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Why don't you bring legislation to relegalize the duel and challenge Sarah to a duel. Put the honorable in Honorable Brady. Be a man!
Charles Novins
The whole thing has turned into a wild circus of idiocy. What actually happened is a nut-job shot some people. Period. The media's response: Guns did it. Too much vitriol in politics did it. "Crosshairs" on Sarah Palin's site did it. Any publication that mirrored the nut-job's views did it. Any publication sharing *some* of his views did it. Hell, Fox News did it. Next: Get ready for Twinkies, bad toilet training, layoffs, We're All To Blame, and eventually, the CIA. Wait! Hmmmmmm. The CIA…
nekoxgirl
You left off marijuana.
This just in, giant meteor targets earth. Sarah Palin to blame.
PACW
When the story originally broke there was mention of him wearing a black trench coat. Trench coats are banned at our local public schools and I'm guessing that won't change anytime soon. You know who would look sexy in a black trench coat? Sarah Palin!
nathan kale
tea patsies: always bitter, always unfunny,
and for the last 36 hours increasingly desperate sounding. i've never seen
such grotesque textual squirming.
pack it in, creeps. your "movement" is finished—
down the crapper with all of you….
Marshall Gill
always bitter, always unfunny,
Project much?
The irony, it burns, it burns…
America is supposedly the bastion of freedom, free speech etc. But looked what happened after 9/11 and all the draconian laws that were implemented. A nutter shoots a single politician (and why are politicians seen has being better as average citizens anyway) and already people like Tony want to imply how dangerous free speech can be.
Heaven forbid a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the USA, it would probably make your country look libertarian in comparison to North Korea.
It is the beneful influence of Europe. The Dark Night of Fascism is always falling on America and landing on Europe. Sadly, America has more than a few toadies like Tony who want to make it into Europe.
Heaven forbid a nuclear bomb went off somewhere in the USA, it would probably make North Koren look libertarian in comparison to your country.
Sadly, you are right on the mark.
"…North Koren…"
Strike Two! Do you want to go for the turkey?
http://spectator.org/blog/2011…..-nyt-on-ft
NYT after the Fort Hood shootings and now. It is sickening. These people really are fascists. Sorry Godwin, sometimes the moniker fits.
Anything to fit their goal of smearing people that don't vote for them.
Yes, the far far far left and the far right start to blur when you are talking about the insane.
However, the proper response by reasonable political parties is to declare that allusion an innuendo related to assassination is absolutely forbidden by any of their members, and anyone who defies such an edict will be immediately impeached by his or her own fellows, and booted from the party forever.
Note how many "far"s Chad used the first time, as opposed to the second…
You probably saw this, but it is pretty friggin weird. Do not know what to make of it.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/74967.html
Alan Vanneman
Yeah, yeah, left-wing moralizing is total bullshit, but all the gun-waving from Sarah and the Tea Party gang looks a little lame right about now. "Reload," huh? Especially since we've learned from her video that Sarah can't load a rifle. She has to have her daddy do it for her. Because she's a girl? Just askin'.
It looks lame now but not before? Why? You are such a disengenuous twit Vannemen. You will say that the left-wing moralizing is bullshit. But then in the next breath say how it makes the right look lame.
You really are the worst commenter on here.
I think you made a spelling error. It's twat, not twit.
It did look lame before. Now it looks lamer.
Johnny Longtorso
Palin made him shoot = Palin made people object to Obamacare. Nobody can be responsible for their own actions? Oppose Obamacare? You're just following orders from someone ordering hits on Congressmen.
Both you and Loughner are crazies just doing as you're told.
fresno dan
I am proud to say that Reason commenters*, including but not limited to the lunatics, tin foil hat wearers, divorced from reality, left wing wackos, and right wingnuts*, would never resort to violence – and would merely murder…o oh, I mean demolish…hmmm, thats kind of bad too…OK, refute their opponents arguements with logic and cool reason.
* (but I repeat myself)
Reason commenters*, including but not limited to the lunatics, tin foil hat wearers, divorced from reality, left wing wackos, and right wingnuts*,
The * is referring to the whole group of "free" thinkers, not just the right wingnuts. And by free thinkers, I mean unconstrained by gravity, speed of light, logic, mathematics, the sphereiness of the planet earth, or indeed any celestical body.
Out commenters may be nuts, but by God, or Jupitor, or Thor (or any Marvel superhero, but not those corportist DC homophoic superheros) they are good people, who would seldom put kittens in microwaves.
From that Fox report in Matt's update: No direct connection, but strong suspicion is being direceted at American Renaissance, an organization that Loughner mentioned in some of his internet postings
Anyone know where these "internet postings" are? I thought I'd seen all the Loughner stuff we knew about at this point (the YouTube page, the MySpace screencaps), but I haven't seen anything with references to American Renaissance.
If you go shoot, kill and maim a bunch of people randomly, including a 79 year-old grandma and a 9 year-old girl, because of something somebody said on TV or on the radio, then you're a fucking nut bag, period. It doesn't matter what the TV or radio personality said; the shooter is responsible for his own actions. He's not a remote-controlled automaton.
No better way to full stop than to quote the SPLC.
Kid, if you could read beyond four-letter words (the typical Randian-Koch means of communication), you would realize that the Southern Poverty Law Center is actually supporting the Conservatives and Paulites on this one.
The Southern Poverty Law Center does NOT think you kids are to blame for the shooter in Arizona.
I know, I know. You've reread the piece and you're upset at your foolishness. Do what the Koch brothers' disciple does and beat your child. You'll feel better.
Does anyone, hearing the usual suspects just desperate to believe that this was a right wing attack, feel reminded of skinheads waiting for the start of the race war? "The [edit: slaves] finally done it, Jed! Now everyone will get behind our campaign of mass murder!"
Newsflash, dipshits — a hundred people with Sarah Palin tramp stamps could go on back-to-back killing sprees, and you still won't be justified in lynching the guy next door that listens to Rush.
It's all about establishing the association, specious or not, setting up the narrative.
Fiscal Meth
"…currency not backed by a gold or silver standard is worthless is a hallmark[position] of the far right and the militia movement, said Mark Potok, who directs research on hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center."
How much longer until hatred of the Federal Reserve Bank is considered an official hate crime?
Fox News ran this angle out…and then ran for the hills when the anti-Semitic angle blew up in Roger Ailes's face.
Fox News is your channel, son.
Besides, your post here disappoints the reader. We expect more F-bombs from you in each and every post. If you're not F-bombing every other sentence, you're not serving the Koch brothers properly.
In the name of Sister Sarah up in Alaska, man up and start F-bombing. That's why you get the big money.
fancylad
Insomniacs, take two Mark posts, and sleep tight.
It's official: Jared Loughner is a tool.http://tinyurl.com/6xmg9vc
American Renaissance is on line, and they provide several years by month. Many articles about Palin. She was the cover story 31 page article, Nov 2008. An unemployed dropout student probably would not subscribe to it.
It's diffently not a liberal mag. It's White's Only.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center does NOT think you kids are to blame for the shooter in Arizona. I know, I know. You've reread the piece and you're upset at your foolishness. Do what the Koch brothers' disciple does and beat your child. You'll feel better.
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Alfred Angelo accommodates walk-ins if they have fitting rooms and consultants available. They carry wedding dresses sized from 0-30W and have a 15% discount with a valid military ID. Their Dream in Color collection allows you to add a splash of color with a palette of 60 shades to your dress that will perfectly match your wedding party.
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Description: Polar Express Pajama Party at National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. Children are encouraged to wear their pajamas for the magical journey to the North Pole to find the true spirit of Christmas. The 2004 film is based on the children's book of the same title by Chris Van Allsburg. Once onboard, all children will receive a free cup of hot chocolate and cookie from the refreshment counter.
Tickets prices are $7 per person. Infants one and under are free and do not require a ticket purchase. Please arrive early and purchase tickets in person at the museum ticket counter. Advanced tickets are available in person at the Giant Screen Theater ticket counter.


On September 28, 2013, Shaw Main Streets will present Art All Night, the second full scale overnight arts festival in Washington, DC, based on Paris' Nuit Blanche. The magic will last from 7:00 PM that night until 3:00 AM on Sunday, September 29, 2103. The first festival, on September 24, 2011, drew an estimated 15,000 attendees. A smaller Taste of Art All Night, on October 20, 2012, was held in downtown's Chinatown/Gallery Place/Penn Quarter area.
Twelve venues in central Shaw along 7th and 9th Streets, NW, will showcase the work of DC painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, musicians, dancers, poets, actors and more, with international participants, as well.
While several venues will include work from multiple artists in various media, in addition to performances, some venues will be single artist showcases, like the studio of renowned neon sculptor Craig Kraft, which was also included in Art All Night 2011. "People were lined up down the block waiting to get in last time," Kraft recalls. Kraft's large outdoor commissions are installed throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area, including in front of the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library at 7th and R Streets, NW. "I'll be showing more of my studio work this time," Kraft observes, including pieces from his Ground Zero and Intentional Drawings series.
The website www.ArtAllNightDC2013.com will provide updates on the program schedule and information on venues, artists, partners, sponsors, where to eat and drink during the festival, and much more. A mobile app available before and during the event will provide an interactive map of all the venues, as well as the live performance schedule and restaurants and bars that will be open during the festival's eight hours.
The newly renovated Wonder Bread Factory at 641 S Street, NW, will be the largest Art All Night 2013 venue, with 80,000 square feet dedicated to the festival. In 2011, the Wonder Bread Factory was one of the most popular Art All Night venues, with over 7,000 visitors.
Major sponsors of Art All Night 2013: Nuit Blanche DC include the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, DC Main Streets, and Douglas Development Corporation.
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A Desi Feminist Podcast For The Not-So-Sanskaari Brown Girls - Homegrown
A Desi Feminist Podcast For The Not-So-Sanskaari Brown Girls
Chuski Pop
By Sara Hussain | Posted Jul 11 2017
"We're just two desi chicks riding the fourth wave of feminism in our salwar kameez and golden heels, while flipping birds to uncle and aunties."
A traditional looking nath nose ring, bold red lips, a tongue sticking out with a heart-shaped candy placed atop that reads CHUSKI POP — an immediate attention grabber. Curiosity led me to numerous websites, as Pinterest continued to redirect me; but I was determined to find the origin of this image and its creator. Finally, I came across the original website which only led to more questions, as it stated it was a "podcast starring Sweety & Pappu."
Now, I'm not big on podcasts. Other than the occasional Radiolab episode, podcasts never really drew me in. So what was it about Sweety and Pappu that got me hooked? A 32-year-old copywriter by day, Pappu is one half of the badass Chuski Pop (CP) duo, along with 33-year-old Sweety, a stellar illustrator and concept artist, who is in fact the creator of the titular Chuski Pop girl along with all their artwork that has taken over the world of Tumblr and Pinterest.
To be clear, Sweety and Pappu aren't their real names. These ladies live in parts of the world where their thoughts, opinions and subject matter could be contentious matters. You see, ladies talking openly about sex, drugs and rock n roll doesn't sit well with a lot of people, and in some areas, can actually pose a threat for slander or worse, lead to violence against them. More than pseudonyms, these are alter egos; a different persona, they tell me over email, "It's very common in our culture to have pet names. Pappu is a very common Gujju pet name and my friends call me that. Sweety's pet name is inspired by the movie-crazy sister in Hum Paanch."
They continue, "While Pappu and Sweety may not be starkly different from our real everyday selves, having them makes us feel like having a secret identity — and that can be as close as one can get to having a super power in today's world. We would like our listeners to feel an affinity with us; like we could be that girl sitting next to them on the bus.
Also having pseudonyms does serve a practical purpose. Apart from the podcast, we do have our day jobs, and unfortunately not every place understands freedom of speech. Pappu lives in the Middle East and Sweety has her family there, so safe to say pseudonyms help keep things compartmentalized in our life."
Image courtesy of Chuski Pop
As they explain, Chuski Pop was the result of a drunken night of word association; "No. Kidding! Chuski Pop was one of the names Sweety had shortlisted. Looking back, we would like to quietly commend our foresight for not going with 'Kiss My Chuddies'." (Although, in my opinion, Kiss My Chuddies would have been pretty great too.)
With topics ranging from desi culture, to mental health, pesky aunties, sex and marriage, Chuski Pop's ladies connect with south Asian women around the world on a personal level. These desi feminists' matter-of-fact attitude towards subjects that would make your neighbour-friendly uncle say, "Haww," have carved a space for themselves in a world, and industry, that rarely gives a voice to women of colour to criticise or just plain make fun of cultural norms, societal expectations and absurd gender roles that are continuously prescribed in the fast-paced digital age of today. Because let's be honest, young brown girls would rather dye their hair pink and get their nipple pierced than have a mangalsutra around their neck before age 30.
But what is desi feminism? I posed this question to Sweety and Pappu along with one that I have been asked myself. Would creating a separate category for dark skinned feminists kind of divide the overall cohesive global movement? "In the words of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 'we should all be feminists'. Desi feminism is about furthering the idea of feminism to incorporate intersectional feminism and we feel that our podcast essentially does that. The global dialogue surrounding feminism has been prominently dominated by white female voices – Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer. While we are fighting for the same things, the predominant white feminist narrative does not give voice to the unique challenges and compounded suppression that women of colour face. South Asian (or desi) women face discrimination not only because of our gender, but also on account of our culture and society, both at home and in the global arena," they say, a sentiment that is clear in their podcasts, and one of the prime reasons I actually listen to it.
Feminism has become a bastardised term for many people nowadays. A pill too big to swallow, so often sidelined and dismissed. It's for this reason that people like Sweety and Pappu, through various forms of art have made feminism and feminist thought more, well, digestible as well as a part of your daily life. "It's surprising how many well-read, accomplished and independent Indian women still balk at the idea of identifying themselves with the feminist movement. For example so many prominent Bollywood actresses try so hard to distance themselves from being labeled as 'feminist'. However, there are many desi feminists who wear the sash with pride – Arundhati Roy, Malala Yousafzai, Tanmay Bhatt, Lilly Singh. I feel that conversations around feminism are either in high-brow opinion pieces or popular western shows. We want to normalize the conversation around feminism and make it more relatable to desi girls," they say.
One way they're working feminism into our daily narrative is through their artwork — old Bollywood posters with pop art-style collages juxtaposing eye-catching typography. Pappu explains that the reason you see a lot of 70s and 90s actresses, like Rekha, Sri Devi, Madhuri Dixit and Parveen Babi in their posts is to celebrate their incandescent beauty and nostalgia. "While these women came to life in mainly male written narratives during this era of Bollywood movies, they were unapologetically sensual (albeit for the male gaze). Their sensuality is powerful and a celebration of their womanhood. The captioned posters also have this folded magazine effect which kind of makes the picture look like it was torn from a Filmfare, Stardust or Cine Blitz, folded and squirrelled away in a scrapbook – nostalgia."
It's not just about women here, as they too point out. Often we've stressed the importance of male feminism and the many misconceptions that surround it, more so in India. On CP's page you'll often find both male and female feminists celebrated and recognised in their Feminist Friday posts, right from Malala to Aziz Ansari.
Each podcast or episode is meticulously planned, topics are picked and discussed almost two to three weeks in advance, some more so than others. With Sweety and Pappu living on opposite ends of the globe (Sweety in Canada and Pappu in the Middle East) it takes a fair amount of coordination with each other as well as others they plan on interviewing. "Topics can be topical – such as the Mental Health one fell neatly in line with the Mental Health May. At other times, some topics are more serendipitous – like our Menstruation March episode. Their genesis may be an offhand WhatsApp comment or conversation… and one of us is usually like 'OMG! We should totes talk about this!!' And then we start building angles and fleshing it out layer by layer," they explain.
One of my favourite episodes just happened to be the one they themselves mentioned as their favourite too; episode 32 - Mental Health May. The episode featured an interview with Dr. Merchant, a NYC-based behavioural psychologist, touching upon an issue that is still so highly stigmatised and misunderstood, brushed off and discussed in whispers behind closed doors. "Since the podcast is a project we work on alongside our day jobs, producing it is a labour of love. More so for Sweety, as she is the one who meticulously edits each episode. That is the reason why interviews pose a technical challenge – they need more time and patience to produce. Post that episode we got some really lovely DMs on Insta and Facebook from a lot of our listeners," says Pappu.
Pappu gives us a glimpse of their upcoming episodes, and there is so much to look forward to! More desi artists and authors, activist, self-defining professionals and a whole bunch of stellar individuals, including a Sri Lankan-American author who is releasing her first queer fiction novel as well as a popular underground satirist blogger from Bangalore. What has got me even more excited is that Sweety's artwork, created for CP, may soon be available in prints! So, you could very soon have your very own Chuski Pop girl gracing your walls.
Sweety and Pappu are two seriously badass brown girls that have created a platform for the celebration of diversity, feminism and changing south Asian identities around the globe. So if you're a Bharatiya naari that likes sex and ran out of f*cks to give; if you're tired of mansplaining and aunties finding you ideal grooms; if you hate plucking your eyebrows and love Andaz Apna Apna – Chuski Pop will find a special place in your loud, unapologetic heart.
Tune in to their podcasts on their website, Soundcloud, Sticher, iTunes and TuneIn.
Stay updated with Chuski Pop on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook.
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After the Model T hit the streets, many local governments banned "horseless carriages" from their towns. It's unfortunately common for government agencies to obstruct innovation by failing to adapt their rules to new technologies. While the Internet is changing the way people live, work and travel, the Federal Aviation Administration is obstructing such progress in general aviation.
Those dreaming of flying to Cuba in their own aircraft will have to wait for now. Even though the U.S. has liberalized travel restrictions to the island nation and some airlines are gearing up for scheduled service, the virtual ban on flying a private aircraft from the U.S. to Cuba remains in effect. "The rules have not changed for flying your own plane to Cuba," said Jim Parker, a retired U.S. diplomat and pilot who runs Caribbean Flying Adventures.
Grounded and chopped into three parts, an airplane built in 1948 still is fueling the dreams of Northland, Minnesota, teens. The Aeronca Sedan rests in a hangar at the Richard I. Bong Memorial Airport in Superior. Members of the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association are partnering with local students to give the craft new life. "Kids seem to hear 'no' so much," said Al White, a member of the nonprofit Duluth/Superior EAA Chapter 272. "We want to give them the idea that if you dream about something, you can do it."
Any one of numerous blunders that the pilot of a Piper Cherokee made on a mid-winter night in Minnesota would have been enough to doom his flight. But what ultimately killed him and his passenger was carbon monoxide poisoning. There are good reasons why carbon monoxide deserves a prominent place in the Hall of Blame when it comes to insidious general-aviation hazards.
Many firsts stand out in the memories of pilots — the first solo, first cross country flight and first passenger. How many of these firsts can you identify?
1. Even without a pilot's license, who was able to fly, carry passengers, and give flight instruction because he did it before a license was required in the U.S.?
2. In 1931, who made the fourth around-the-world flight by aircraft?
Approximately 1840 central daylight time, a single-engine Cessna 150F airplane was destroyed during impact with terrain following a loss of control while on an approach to the Levelland Municipal Airport (LLN), near Levelland, Texas. The flight instructor and the student pilot receiving instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was registered to a private individual and operated by a Part 141 Flight School. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and a flight plan was not filed for the 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight.
The FAA will impose new guidance on obstructive sleep apnea to air medical examiners on March 2. The new rules are much different than the controversial 2013 edict that came from then-Chief Flight Surgeon Fred Tilton, which automatically grounded pilots with body mass index of 40 or more. But it does require AMEs to put more emphasis on the disorder during the medical and sets out the potentially costly steps that will follow if they suspect it.
Imagine, for just a moment, you're Rick Garza. It's right after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and no one wants to fly. The airline industry has been practically grounded — and so are your hopes of ever working in it as a pilot. You still send out applications, knowing the competition is stiff among a growing pool of qualified, out-of-work pilots. But you also know that at some point, potential employers are going to look into your background and find out: You were the flight instructor who trained, and then flunked out, two of the 9/11 hijackers.
A Maryland man pleaded guilty to a federal charge of pointing a laser at a Baltimore County police helicopter in 2014, the Baltimore Sun reported. The helicopter was flying over a high school in September when a green laser beam twice illuminated the cockpit, according to the Sun's report on the court case.
The cowling surrounding a reciprocating engine is a sophisticated aerial garbage disposal. Its job is to throw away about $1.50 out of every $6 you spend on avgas. Gasoline contains more energy per pound than TNT, but engines turn only about a quarter of that energy into useful power. What happens to the rest? It dribbles off as waste heat, to be absorbed by the atmosphere. Half blows out the exhaust pipe; some of that, however, can be harvested and put to good use by a turbocharger.
Florida's sometimes finicky winter weather released its grip midway through the 11th annual U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, allowing the event to hit its stride. Attendees, and a record number of exhibitors, crammed four days worth of activity into the last two days of the show Jan. 16-17. From preliminary reads, most were happy with the results. Sebring has developed a reputation as a buyer's show with several Light-Sport Aircraft manufacturers reporting an encouraging sales outlook directly attributable to their participation in the expo.


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While you're in a voting mood, head over here to help pick the title of my novel coming from Dutton in 2008. And do me a big favor, will you, my fire escape friends? Sameera Righton, my fictional First Daughter, is going to be blogging throughout and about the 2008 presidential campaign. Check out the beta version of her sparrowblog site with a critical eye — I'd love your feedback before I launch it in a couple of weeks. All suggestions greatly appreciated, and the "vote the title" post will be deleted after I get enough people weighing in.


Please use the board below to post your review and comments about The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Despite being something of a filler, still an amazing spectacle, just oozes class.
I absolutely love the whole series !!! i have the whole collection, magazines, & the book !!! peter jackson did a fabulous job of directing this movie !!! an instant classic definitely !!!!.
One of the best movies of the year. .
It was alright, but nothing i'd care to see again. . Way too much hype!.
By far the best movie of 2002. This is right up there with the greatest of all classics. This will be cherished for years to come as will the entire trilogy. .
I enjoyed this movie very much. I bought all three parts and watched it one after the other. They deserved all the awards that they got. Acting was superb and everything else in the movie. .
I absolutly love this movie. It is worth watching over and over again. I haven't seen the whole third movie only the beginning up until frodo told sam to go home. I loved it and i can't wait to see the rest. My friend says its the best one. I'll wait until i've seen the whole thing but for me lotr the 2 towers is by far the best and my fave movie. .
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As luxury travel writers, visiting hotels around the world, we are often met with the question, "Did you know that The Beatles stayed here?" As recently as yesterday, we met up with Mark Ricci, Hilton Hotel's Director of Corporate Relations for the North East US and Canada, who told us that The Beatles made Hilton their home during the famous Ed Sullivan Show performance, and that, in 1971, during a stay with Yoko Ono, he penned the lyrics for "Imagine" on Hilton Hotel stationery.
As New Yorkers, we're keenly aware of the ways in which The Beatles—and especially John Lennon (himself a New Yorker in the last years of his life) are woven into our everyday lives—and our lives of luxury.
So it was not surprising when we got a lovely congratulatory note on our new website from an old friend, May Pang.
Beatles fans will remember May as John's companion during his Walls and Bridges days—the subject of his song, "(Surprise, Surprise), Sweet Bird of Paradox" and a music coordinating producer, photographer and memoirist who shared some of John's most productive days in the mid to late 1970s—working with collaborators like Harry Nilsson, Ringo Star and a tantalizingly close possible but ultimately unrealized reunion with Paul.
We agreed upon El Coyote Mexican Restaurant in Forest Hills for our first "Ambassador of Luxury" interview, which turned out to be more like a simple dinner among old friends. The conversation ranged from May's days with John to her life today as a photographer, media personality, world traveler (Liverpool is one of May's favorite destinations besides London) and popular lecturer at Beatles events in the US and abroad.
After margaritas and munchies, we took the long and winding road to discussions of luxury and life with John. Like a proud parent, May showed us images on her cellphone of a smiling and remarkably robust Lennon from her recent book, Instamatic Karma (St. Martin's Press). "Didn't he look great here?" May said wistfully as we scrolled through images of the couple spending days at the pool ("John loved the water") and playing with a young Julian Lennon, John's son with first wife, Cynthia.
May mentioned that she'd be attending a Moody Blues concert at The Jones Beach Theater (Justin Hayward was best man at her wedding to music producer, Tony Visconti). She also had summer drinks scheduled with old friend, Eddie Money, reminding us just how entwined her life has been with the music and the musicians of our time. Even though May has had a front row seat to some of most legendary music making of our century, she's remarkably down-to-earth—something John particularly cherished in his time with her. May's fan base is huge and her social media following is too, so we wanted to ask questions that they would be curious to know at the same time, satisfying our own curiosity about what it was like to live in and out of hotels in the late '70s with one of the most famous names in music history.
ELG: You mentioned that "luxury" to you during your time with John wasn't about staying in expensive hotels or dining out, but it was sometimes just about having alone time away from fans and paparazzi. Can you talk a little bit about what "felt" like luxury to you and John back then?
MP: John enjoyed the simple things. He loved to go swimming or just lie in the sun. So when our neighbor asked us to join him and his family on his boat for the day, John jumped at the chance. The water relaxed him. He also liked taking long car rides. We drove from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, NYC to the Hamptons, or just Upstate.
ELG: You've stayed in some of the world's most known hotels both on your own and with Tony [Visconti], John and your music clients. What's your favorite hotel in the world, and why?
MP: That's tough. There are a few in different parts of the world. When I was in Hong Kong, I stayed at The Peninsula. The old world charm was fantastic. John and I loved staying at The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, too.
ELG: Do the images you took of John truly depict the feel and texture of your time back then? If not, how was the reality different from the image you made indelible?
MP: The photos of John that I took were very much John, then. He let me take them of him in our private time. They speak for themselves.
ELG: I remember that you visited China (with your Mom). Can you talk about how "luxurious" or not that felt for you on your first trip?
MP: I went to China with a friend of mine. It was a side trip in between appearances in Japan. I was the only one, at that time in my family, that wasn't born in China and I needed to connect with my immediate relatives. My mom went years later when she wasn't afraid of the government anymore. I stayed in a luxury hotel called the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou. So different when I went to visit relatives in the countryside. I'm sure things have changed since then. I went in the winter of 1983/84 when China was just opening up to the Western World. I would love to go now and visit some of the other cities.
ELG: What is on your bucket list? Are there any places on the list that you and John always wanted to visit together?
ELG: You mentioned visiting Liverpool, and being very familiar with it. Can you talk a bit about your feelings traveling there? Did you stay in the Hard Days Night Hotel? Did you feel oddly at home?
MP: I love Liverpool and the people that live there. They always give me a warm welcome, and I have some very close friends there. I stayed at the Hard Days Night Hotel a couple of years ago when my friend Freda Kelly was having a big birthday bash. Freda was the head of the Beatles' Fan Club, and worked for Brian Epstein. There was a documentary called Good Ol' Freda about that time of her life. At the hotel, I got to stay in the room where the painting on the wall depicted John and me with his son Julian. Besides Liverpool, I lived in North London for a while and I had my son there at Portland Hospital.
Having raised my kids, and being a new empty-nester, I want to go back to traveling again. I would love to take a cruise on the Mediterranean coast. Since I'm not a good sleeper normally, a cruise would lull me to sleep like in a car. I did sleep well in the South of France all those years ago. Love the food and wine!
All photos courtesy of May Pang.
Remember El Coyote when it was right near Washington Square Park. Great food!
I enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing! May seems to be a very nice lady. Regards from a sunny morning in Rio de Janeiro.


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Beautiful and Skilled Edith Falco branded as Edie Falco is America born actress. She equally has made her presence in film and stage. She is renowned with her role of Diane Whittlesey in HBO show Oz, in Nurse Jackie and in The Sopranos as Carmela Soprano. She was born to drummer father Frank Falco and mother Judith Anderson in Brooklyn. She is of English, Italian and Swedish ethnicity. She went to Northport High School and graduated from there in 1981. She after acting as My Fair Lady went to SUNY Purchase to sharpen her acting ability.
Let us talk about her career and growth, she in her early days was seen acting in TV series like Law & Order and Homicide: Life on the Street. She was offered the role in Homicide as the director of Homicide was impressed after seeing her acting in Laws of Gravity. Her role was appreciated by viewers as well as by her colleagues. She stated she was struggling actress at that time and her salary was enough to pay her rent. She was given chance to act in HBO Series Oz as Diane Whittlesey. In 1994 she got breakthrough chance to act in small role in movie Bullets Over Broadway. She was given to act in Judy Berlin by Director Eric Mendelsohn. The director won the award of Best Director at Sundance Film Festival. She again was cast in the movie 3 Backyards of same director Mendelsohn. Surprisingly he again won Best Director honor second time. Her character portrayal as Carmela of The Sopranos has gave her Golden Globe, Emmy Award and a SAG Award in the same year. She is amongst few stars who have earned three awards in same year. She has shown her acting ability in movies like Trust, Reversal of Fortune, Cop Land, Private Parts, Random Hearts and Sunshine State. In theatre she has acted in plays like Side Man, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and night Mother. She as invitee actress is seen in 30 Rock and Will & Grace. Her character portrayal in Broadway Play House of Blue Leaves earned her nomination in Tony Award. She also has shown her interest in politics as she is seen in TV Commercials of M.O.B. Mothers Opposing Bush (M.O.B) is firm which was opposing Bush due to his policies. She in the ad has told Mothers always put their children first, Mr. Bush, can you say the same? In 2004 presidential campaign she had donated $1000 to John Kerry, $300 to Democratic National Committee and $1300 to Hillary Clinton. She has earned the net worth of 40 million dollar from her entire professional involvement.
Knowing about her private life, reportedly she is not married and has no husband. So she has not been through any legal issues and divorce. In 2004 she was seen dating with her boyfriend Stanley Tucci. These days there is no any news about her affairs and dating. She has adopted two children Son Anderson and Daughter Macy. She is living happy life and likes to give importance to her professional life rather personal life. She doesn't like to talk about her personal life. She looks hot in her bikini get up as we can see her pictures in internet. Her slender body suits bikini which is liked by her millions of fans. Her toned pair of feet is the key factor that supports her appealing body. This TV personality is rumored to be gay as she has no husband and is not seen dating any man.
She in 2003 was detected with Breast Cancer but she didn't announce about it till it was cured. She is avid alcohol user. She stated her health has been hampered due to it. She decided to be far away from alcohol and has successfully done it. She currently speaks on behalf of Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program. In 2003 she collaborated with PETA to shoot for ad which urges parents to keep their children far away from circus as circus violates animal rights.
She is the recipient of various awards. She till date has won Four Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and Five Screen Actors Guild Award. She already has worked as Spokesperson of Health Care for America Now and has presented herself in CNN in the year 2009.
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Meet the YouTube network responsible for the Nae Nae's viral ascent
DanceOn wants to make dancers a destination. And it's working.
Feb 29, 2020, 10:26 pm*
Rae Votta
If you've "whipped" or "Nae Naed" this summer, you have dance-centric network DanceOn to thank, at least in part, for the craze.
Atlanta Rapper Silento's ascent to the mainstream may have seemed inevitable, but the truth is YouTube—specifically, a partnership with DanceOn—that made his moves spread like wildfire.
Amanda Taylor, a manager and producer working on dance shows, founded DanceOn in her New York apartment in 2010, as a reaction to the plethora of dancers naturally using YouTube as a sort of visual résumé. By that time, YouTube was growing into a job for people, with gamers and beauty gurus making real money from their video output. Taylor thought dance deserved a shot.
"In our category we had a lot of scale, but we didn't have a lot of infrastructure," explained Taylor. "There's never been a TV channel for [dance]. There's been a TV channel for golf, but not for dance. More than 41 million people love dance on Facebook, and only 7 million people like golf! It's a category that's been thought of by show and not by channel."
The operation moved shop to Los Angeles, with backers like Madonna, Guy Oseary, and Machinima CEO Allen DeBevoise behind it.
"One of the things we really realized this year is our creators are music tastemakers," explained Taylor. "Sometimes we have people who mix their own beats or are identifying underground DJs and bringing those works to life. In other scenarios, we've ID'd an artist or a song, and we facilitate the collaboration. Ultimately what ends up happening is a lot of the work they create is creating trends around music."
The dance stars of YouTube may not be as easily identifiable as the vlogger set, but they're already fully established in the mainstream. DanceOn's biggest stars, Les Twins, are a French duo that have toured with Beyoncé and been featured in videos by Meghan Trainor and Missy Elliott. That's not unusual for a DanceOn creator who's already had success across different platforms. While many other YouTubers are itching for a breakthrough to another form of media, Taylor describes YouTube as the "final destination" for her dancers.
"This is the place where they get to be themselves and who their unique brand is, and it's OK to be a dancer and be famous for just dancing," said Taylor. "I think it's great to be famous for exactly who you are."
Taylor and her team of 30 work to elevate dancers by helping them maximize their virality into building a channel, not just a one-hit-wonder moment.
"We have a program now where we identify trends really early on and seed that out to partners," she said. "That's been successful where we've seen partners go from 10,000 to a million subscribers based on intelligent programming of their channel."
The Silento project began as a partnership between DanceOn and TuneCore, a digital distribution company. Then #WatchMeDanceOn seeded the song to DanceOn's influencers through paid deals that rewarded performers who created their own dances to the track, and the craze took off from there.
DanceOn rallied just 5 percent of its network around the song, returning 100 million views and counting on videos by artists like YAK films and 5-year-old Heaven King. According to Billboard, after the campaign kicked off, track sales tripled for Silento, and in May he was signed to Capitol Records. To bring it full-circle, the DanceOn creators who helped launch the song in the first place joined in on the official music video, and DanceOn is now involved in helping further Silento's career in the long term.
"That was really just activating 5 percent of the network," said Taylor. "If we have 100 percent participation, what would that do?"
Screengrab via Tianne King/YouTube
*First Published: Aug 3, 2015, 10:00 am
A former YouTube reporter for the Daily Dot, Rae Votta has more than a decade of experience in the digital and entertainment industries. Her work has appeared on AOL, Huffington Post, Out Magazine, Logo, VH1, Current TV, Billboard, and NYMag. She joined Netflix in 2016.
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Dave Gardi '96 was born into football. His father, Joe Gardi, who passed away in 2010, was a legendary Hofstra football coach and longtime assistant coach for the New York Jets. Coach Gardi cheered his son on when Dave played at Long Island's Sayville High School and during his college career as quarterback for the Brown University Bruins. Dave was determined to pursue football as a career, but his road led him, not to the playing field, but to an office at the National Football League headquarters as senior vice president of football operations.
Gardi did join his father at Hofstra University, both as a fan on the sidelines at Hofstra Pride games and as a student at Hofstra Law. While not an official coach, Gardi was so involved in the program that he "lived in his father's office" and sometimes spent nights sleeping on the office couch.
Between his second and third year at Hofstra Law, Gardi interned with the NFL's Management Council, working with the labor attorneys. After earning his law degree, he went to work for a New York City litigation firm, but his resolve to return to the NFL never wavered. Seven years later, he was offered an opportunity.
He then spent the next 11 years as NFL labor relations counsel before the NFL created his current position in 2014.


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In only a decade, new companies have emerged, and companies that once ruled the marketplace lost their top spots.
The key for companies looking to grow or retain their market share is their agility, so we've identified five factors that agile organizations try to keep a pulse on.
One of the biggest changes between the 2009 marketplace and today's marketplace is the realization of digital marketing as a viable way for businesses to increase their sales.
Walmart notably rode the wave of digital dominance, offering e-commerce and adapting their business model to compete with Amazon. As a result, Walmart was able to grow and move up two spots to number one in 2018.
Digital marketing is now a best practice, one that smart businesses started exploring as soon as it emerged. These organizations truly had a pulse on the coming change.
We're not sure what the next renaissance in marketing, sales strategy, or customer success will be, but keeping a close eye on trends will certainly help to future-proof your organization.
Best practices for agility include knowing when to adopt new trends and when to wait for more proof-of-success, and knowing how changes in business practice will affect your organization.
Once again, Walmart is a great example of a company who successfully monitored their competitors to protect their market share.
Amazon's historic rise in the past decade has caused Walmart to quickly adjust their strategy. Walmart's online delivery, e-commerce, seller's marketplace, and in-store pickup options are all new services that help the retail giant compete with Amazon's digital dominance.
That type of agility has paid off, reports Business Insider — Walmart's attention toward its competitors has allowed it to maintain a top spot in a constantly shifting retail market.
Agile companies have a deep understanding of external and internal factors that affect their markets. Apple is a strong example of this.
In 2009, the top-selling cell phone was the Nokia N900. Remember Nokia? While the company is still in operation, Nokia is no longer the leading phone supplier, nor does it have a model in 2018's top-selling phones.
Instead, the market is flooded with models from agile companies who understood the massive impact the iPhone would have on the mobile phone market.
Companies that were able to quickly develop smartphones, innovate user experience, and predict trends now dominate the mobile phone market.
The incredible evolution of the mobile phone in the past decade can trace its roots to the agile companies pushing the envelope by anticipating and creating new market trends.
Organizations that excel at agility are actively striving to be attractive workplaces for talented people in every field. In recent years, that's meant perks like virtual work, wellness initiatives, pet-friendly offices, and the rise of the catered lunch. Beyond the perks, they focus on the true drivers of employee engagement and retention, like the capability of managers to lead well and providing all employees with opportunities for advancement.
Agility is driven by ideas and the people who make them reality. That means almost all initiatives to improve agility should be secondary efforts for companies who first need help attracting and retaining top talent.
Agile companies understand that a lot can change in an instant. Whether it's the early retirement of a valuable leader or an unexpected market crisis, a number of events could trigger a situation where high-potential employees may need to step up.
Organizations that are prepared for unforeseen change work to identify and develop high-potential employees, teaching necessary skills while building flexibility in their workforce.
Agility is a crucial component for successful organizations. By tracking these five factors of agility, you can help your organization be prepared to work through expected and unexpected challenges!


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Elon Musk and the fear for Artificial Intelligence
Posted on December 11, 2017 December 11, 2017 By Jackson AistonPosted in Tech
Elon Musk believes that artificial intelligence could be the primary cause of the Third World War.
Have you ever wondered if there could be a new world war and, if so, what would cause it? Elon Musk thinks she has the answer.
Artificial intelligence has been, for some time now, the leading battle of Elon Musk, the most prominent CEO, founder of SpaceX, Tesla and, to a lesser extent, PayPal. For the entrepreneur, AI could even become the cause of World War III.
Or rather, it is "the competition for the superiority of artificial intelligence at a national level that could be the cause of the Third World War," as he tweeted on Monday, September 4.
His Twitter page became darker and darker from that moment on. After this tweet, Elon Musk asserted that this war might not be triggered by the states themselves, but by their artificial intelligence. It, therefore, seems to consider that at some point in time, AIs will become powerful enough to make this type of decision.
A powerful AI could dominate the world
Elon Musk made these comments shortly after reading an article from The Verge about Vladimir Putin. The Russian president said that the country with the best performing artificial intelligence would probably become the "leader of the world."
An Internet user then pointed out to Neuralink's boss, a company specialized in the development of a brain-machine interface, that governments and states were "zero in AI" and that they were unable to innovate with the same power as private companies. Elon Musk then replied that it didn't matter, that they would eventually obtain the AIs by force,"if necessary."
He also took the opportunity to give his vision of the North Korean crisis, which developed an H-bomb. For him, this is not a real threat, since the international community's reaction to an atomic missile fire would be such that "it would be suicide" for Pyongyang.
"The greatest threat to our civilization."
Elon Musk's obsession with artificial intelligence is not new and is well documented. The entrepreneur, who already has an essential business around AI thanks to OpenAI, Neuralink, and Tesla, has called for the regulation and control of artificial intelligence on numerous occasions.
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GUANGZHOU, China — It is as startling as if Detroit or Los Angeles restricted car ownership.
The municipal government of Guangzhou, a sprawling metropolis that is one of China's biggest auto manufacturing centers, introduced license plate auctions and lotteries last week that will roughly halve the number of new cars on the streets.
The crackdown by China's third-largest city is the most restrictive in a series of moves by big Chinese cities that are putting quality-of-life issues ahead of short-term economic growth, something the central government has struggled to do on a national scale.
The measures have the potential to help clean up China's notoriously dirty air and water, reduce long-term health care costs and improve the long-term quality of Chinese growth. But they are also imposing short-term costs, economists say, at a time when policy makers in Beijing and around the world are already concerned about a sharp economic slowdown in China.
"Of course from the government's point of view, we give up some growth, but to achieve better health for all citizens, it is definitely worth it," said Chen Haotian, the vice director of Guangzhou's top planning agency.
Nanjing and Hangzhou in east-central China are moving to require cleaner gas and diesel. Cities near the coast, from Dongguan and Shenzhen in southeastern China to Wuxi and Suzhou in the middle and Beijing in the north, are pushing out polluting factories. And Xi'an and Urumqi in northwestern China are banning and scrapping cars built before 2005, when automotive emissions rules were less stringent.
"There's a recognition finally that growth at all costs is not sustainable," said Ben Simpfendorfer, the managing director of Silk Road Associates, a Hong Kong consulting firm.
Facing public pressure to address traffic jams and pollution, municipal governments from across China have been sending delegations to Guangzhou. But the national government in Beijing is pushing back against further car restrictions because of worries about the huge auto industry, said An Feng, a senior adviser in Beijing to transportation policy makers.
"This has really become a battle," Mr. An said.


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I am using the PCIe-8233 in my PC. In device manager I am getting a yellow triangle for one of the 4 ports. Specifically port 2. It is listing a driver issue, but when I looked at that port and the other ports, they all had the correct driver path.
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The full list of results for Day 1 of the 2010 World Match Play Golf at the Ritz Carlton in Arizona, it is the first World Golf Championship event of the year and there were some cracking ties on show. The British and Irish players started well with the likes of Ian Poulter, Paul Casey and Lee Westwood all making their way to the second round tomorrow.
Things did not go so well for Padraig Harrington who is on the first flight home after losing out to Jeev Milkha Singh of India. Henrik Stenson is another casualty after he was forced to withdraw early through illness while top seed Steve Stricker was turned over by Ross McGowan of England in the big shock of the day.
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(12) Robert Allenby (Aus) bt (53) Peter Hanson (Swe) 4 & 2
(21) Luke Donald (Gbr) bt (44) Graeme McDowell (Gbr) 2 & 1
(11) Kenny Perry lost to (54) Brian Gay 2 & 1
(22) Zach Johnson bt (43) Francesco Molinari (Ita) at 21st
(9) Ian Poulter (Gbr) bt (56) Justin Leonard at 19th
(24) Angel Cabrera (Arg) lost to (41) Adam Scott (Aus) 3 & 2
(10) Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) bt (55) Alexander Noren (Swe) 7 & 5
(23) Camilo Villegas (Col) bt (42) Dustin Johnson (12) 4 & 3
(5) Rory McIlroy (Gbr) bt (60) Kevin Na 1 hole
(28) Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) lost to (37) Oliver Wilson (Gbr) 3 & 2
(6) Paul Casey (Gbr) bt (59) Stephen Ames (Can) 5 & 4
(27) Alvaro Quiros (Spa) lost to (38) Mike Weir (Can) 8 & 6
(8) Padraig Harrington (Irl) lost to (57) Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 3 & 1
(25) Anthony Kim lost to (40) Matt Kuchar 3 & 2
(7) Henrik Stenson (Swe) lost to (58) Ben Crane (USA) 1 down (conceded)
(26) YE Yang (Kor) bt (39) Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 2 & 1
(13) Sergio Garcia (Spa) bt (52) David Toms 2 holes
(20) Lucas Glover lost to (45) Anders Hansen (Den) 2 & 1
(14) Sean O'Hair bt (51) Simon Dyson (Gbr) 3 & 1
(19) Stewart Cink bt (46) Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 2 holes
(16) Robert Karlsson (Swe) bt (49) Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) at 20th
(17) Ross Fisher (Gbr) lost to (48) Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 5 & 4
(15) Ernie Els (Rsa) bt (50) Ryan Moore 4 & 3
(18) Retief Goosen (Rsa) bt (47) Soren Hansen (Den) (14) 3 & 2
(4) Martin Kaymer (Ger) bt (61) Chad Campbell 4 & 2
(29) Vijay Singh (Fij) lost to (36) Tim Clark (Rsa) 1 hole
(3) Jim Furyk bt (62) Scott Verplank 2 & 1
(30) Hunter Mahan lost to (35) Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 2 & 1
(1) Steve Stricker lost to (64) Ross McGowan (Gbr) at 19th
(32) Ryo Ishikawa (Jpn) bt (33) Michael Sim (Aus) 2 holes
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First thing – meditation is simple. Don't worry about not being able to do it. Loose all your expectations, forget everything you thought meditation might be or could be. Meditation is very natural process of your body, you kind of meditate in your life without knowing it sometimes anyway.
Stop worrying about not doing the meditation itself well enough. Don't worry too much about how do you breathe, and how many thoughts and what kind of thoughts are on your mind.
That's exactly what meditation is all about – being ok with your thoughts and feelings, no matter their quantity, nature or pace. Being ok means being aware of them in order to letting them go again.
Example – you are hungry. When the feeling of hunger comes, it's good to recognize it, accept it, and let it go. If you are seriously too hungry, you will most likely to make a decision to eat. If you are not too hungry, the feeling of hunger will appear again at some point, probably with higher intensity and you can react to it. But if you focus on it too much in its first arrival without making decision, you put energy towards the feeling and you perhaps start thinking, and overusing your mind – is that really necessary? It's like this with many feelings. Some of them we don't want to even have on our minds, but damn it's so hard to let them go, right?
As Eckhart Tolle would say, you can always do three things – accept something, change something (take action), or leave it if possible. These three actions are straightforward, even though sometimes it's very hard to decide for the right one. If you choose to complain or be unhappy about something, you are loosing your energy by thinking about it and feeding these emotions – I think that's a pity.
It's similar with meditation – if there is a thought that requires your attention and you are unable to focus on other things, taking one of these three options will most likely help you.
Try it (via headspace), it's just ten minutes a day. I found that it really works to establish it as a habit in the morning – it's easy to invest 10 minutes in the morning with somewhat emptier mind than anywhere later on.
Meditating changed me. I received good feedback from my close friends – "You're so grounded!" "You are just so happy!" I think that it's because being able to observe and acknowledge my own feelings helped me so much to devote more attention and focus to my friends, which is so important, and I feel like I want to always do more in that direction.
I strive to experience the moments when we're able to take a look at the bigger picture, including ourselves. The moments when we're present and aware. When we feel like connecting with our older friends, apologising to the people we might have hurt in the past, and feeling content with others and this world. Not rushing anywhere, experiencing anything as it comes – observing what's happening around us and to us from the side of a road.


Until now, however, there was no nationwide obligation to report new cancers to the SCCR. This is now changing with the new Cancer Registration Act, which comes into force on 1 January 2020. The law provides for a children's cancer register kept by the Confederation. The Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry at the ISPM has applied together with the SPOG for this federal task and has now been assigned it by the federal government.
The Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry is directed by Claudia Kuehni and Verena Pfeiffer.