The highway patrol for 2005 reported 27,337 deer-vehicle collisions, down from 29,874 crashes reported in 2004. There were nine fatalities and 1,084 injuries caused by these crashes in Ohio last year.
Deer-vehicle collisions in Ohio decreased last year probably because of efforts to educate drivers to the danger, according to the Ohio Insurance Institute.


I was born in a small town of in the heart of the finger lakes region. I'm not sure when I became interested in art. I started painting with water colors and Acrylics while I was in Canada for a while during the Vietnam war. I became serious about art a short while after my tour of duty in Vietnam. while I was getting a degree in Computer Science.
Today all of my art is done on a computer using various programs and techniques. My works tend to be eclectic , from straight unmodified photographs, to digitally painted 'mindscapes' . I like to have fun and experiment with different methods and tools. My goal is to evoke some response in the viewer, doesn't matter to me what the response is. The worst insult you can give me is to be indifferent to my work.
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Turkish sociologist and feminist, Pinar Selek, faces life in prison if found guilty.
Pen International- (London, 5 December 2014) The ongoing judicial harassment of Pınar Selek makes a mockery of the Turkish justice system, PEN International, PEN American Center, and German PEN said today. Selek, a Turkish sociologist and feminist, faces renewed charges of involvement in the 1998 Istanbul Spice Bazaar explosion after today's hearing at the 15th High Criminal Court in Istanbul. Selek faces life in prison if found guilty.
Selek has been on trial for 16 years over a 1998 explosion that killed seven and injured 100 in the Istanbul Spice Bazaar. Selek has been acquitted of all charges three times (in 2006, 2008 and 2011) due to the testimony of expert witnesses that claimed that the cause of the explosion was a gas leak rather than a bomb, though courts have ordered retrials after each of these acquittals. Her fourth trial resulted in a conviction in January 2013 when Selek was handed an aggravated life sentence, although this conviction was overturned by Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals on 11 June 2014 on procedural grounds. Selek has fled Turkey as a result of the judicial harassment against her and now lives abroad.
'After 16 years of trials and retrials, the Turkish government should be embarrassed that this case remains on the court's docket. It is long past time to end Pınar Selek's judicial persecution and acquit her of all charges,' said Carles Torner, Executive Director of PEN International.
'Pinar Selek was in our Writers-in-Exile Program from December 2009 until November 2011. We are deeply shocked that this political and judicial scandal has not yet come to an end. All our sympathy and solidarity are with Pinar and her family and friends', said Regula Venske, General Secretary of German PEN. The next hearing of Selek's trial will be held on 19 December 2014.
(London, 5 December 2014) The ongoing judicial harassment of Pınar Selek makes a mockery of the Turkish justice system, PEN International, PEN American Center, and German PEN said today. Selek, a Turkish sociologist and feminist, faces renewed charges of involvement in the 1998 Istanbul Spice Bazaar explosion after today's hearing at the 15th High Criminal Court in Istanbul. Selek faces life in prison if found guilty.
London, 5 December 2014) The ongoing judicial harassment of Pınar Selek makes a mockery of the Turkish justice system, PEN International, PEN American Center, and German PEN said today. Selek, a Turkish sociologist and feminist, faces renewed charges of involvement in the 1998 Istanbul Spice Bazaar explosion after today's hearing at the 15th High Criminal Court in Istanbul. Selek faces life in prison if found guilty.
- See more at: http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/turkey-pen-condemns-continuing-judicial-harassment-of-pinar-selek/#sthash.MsgTvSSk.dpuf(London, 5 December 2014) The ongoing judicial harassment of Pınar Selek makes a mockery of the Turkish justice system, PEN International, PEN American Center, and German PEN said today. Selek, a Turkish sociologist and feminist, faces renewed charges of involvement in the 1998 Istanbul Spice Bazaar explosion after today's hearing at the 15th High Criminal Court in Istanbul. Selek faces life in prison if found guilty.


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Tamra Judge on Vicki Gunvalson Spreading Gossip About Eddie: "Being On a Show, There's Rumors About Everybody"
The #RHOC mom discusses the chatter about her husband's sexuality.
Tamra Judge is not ready to forgive Vicki Gunvalson for bringing up gossip about her husband, Eddie Judge's, sexuality -- and now The Real Housewives of Orange County mom is sharing just how tired she is of hearing anything from anyone about her longtime love.
"It's just so stupid and so ridiculous and it's just -- it's Vicki being Vicki. She can't keep her mouth shut. I mean, being on a show there's rumors about everybody. Like I've heard rumors about her. I've heard a ton of rumors about her boyfriend," she recently told The Daily Dish, referring to Vicki's current relationship with beau, Steve Chavez Lodge. "If you're that person that goes and spreads the rumors, you're just as bad, if not worse, than the person that created it. So she just, like I said, she has zero boundaries and she doesn't understand or acts like, 'I don't why people don't like me,' 'I don't know, people owe me an apology.' Well, no, nobody does."
Tamra has been open about how much it bothers her that Vicki suggested anything about her husband last season on RHOC, calling the rumors "so stupid" and sharing that she felt like Vicki was waiting for the right time to bring up the gossip.
"I think at the very beginning when she started that, we actually had known that she'd been telling people that for about four years. Yeah, and the story wasn't just that. She was giving details and stories and just things that were so untrue. Eddie knew this and was still pretty cordial to her when he saw her. I had never said anything to her and I'm like, let's just see how far this gets. I knew it was a matter of time before she was going to bring it up on the show. She absolutely knew what she was doing by telling Kelly [Dodd] that. She knew what she was doing. She has people do her dirty work for her," Tamra recently told Decider. "That's what she does. And you'll see that on the show as well."
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Our next installment in the SacFoodies patio dining series takes us to one of my local favorites, Lucca.
I have visited Lucca for both quick weekday lunches and longer, celebratory dinners and I have to say that the patio is perfect for either. There is just something about their lush, Mediterranean-inspired garden feel that makes you want to kick back and stay awhile.
Besides the ambiance, Lucca boasts comprehensive lunch, dinner, and happy hour menus. I highly recommend the Patchwork Salad, pictured below. They also have delicious drink and dessert options for those just looking for a small treat. Lucca also offers banquet sized dining options and private rooms for special occasions.


I havn't been fishing much. I've tried jerkbaits, jigs, and other things, can't even buy a bite now. I am fishing a large crick. They've seemed to just dissapear. Any advice on where to find them would help, thanks!
id try some minnows, if you catch a few, try the areas with tubes, a jacks worm by case.
Have you tried different sections of the creek? In the few rivers around here the smallies will move from pool to pool depending on their seasonal patterns and temperatures. And since you have not been fishing there in a while they could have moved on you. I have had it happened to me a few times. One day you whack 15 or 20 2-3 pound smallies, next day they are gone. I think you are just gonna have to figure out which section of that creek they are in.
It would be hard for them to move because of the geographic layout of the area. Wow , confused myself. The crick is to low for them to move up, there is one deep hole in the middle, I figured they would be in there, but they're not.
If fishing were easy, everyone would be doing it! (I heard that somewhere before? ) Anyway, you didn't say how "large" this creek was? But assuming some sections have some depth (>10') I'd find the deepest holes and try a 1/4 oz. blade blade bait barely lifting it off the bottom - until you just begin to feel the vibes - with 15 - 30 sec. pauses inbetween. You can also bottom drift a 3" - 4" Senko into these holes. If there are fish there, one or both presentations will get you bit.
The crick is not quite that deep. Senkos are the only thing we use in the summer. It's to late now anyhow, theres 3 inches of ice covering the entire crick! Come on spring, where are ya?


Imagine a job where you have a front-row season ticket to witness debates that will inform the future of the country—history in the making. As Parliament makes a generation-defining decision on the UK's relationship with the EU, the Hansard team will be reporting every moment of proceedings in the Commons Chamber. But what's it like to be a Hansard reporter during this Brexit marathon?
To produce an accurate report, we need to be present in the Chamber so we can soak up the atmosphere and spirit of the debate. It's difficult to translate someone's speech into the written word if you haven't understood the context or heard the tone of their delivery.
Obviously that atmosphere changes depending on the weight of the occasion. It can feel like attending a lecture, when MPs display their knowledge about the subject at hand, or watching an entertaining play, with the exchange of witty ripostes and on-topic puns.
And just occasionally, when the future of the country is at stake, walking out into the Press Gallery of the House of Commons feels like stepping out onto the terraces at a football match. Not your average soggy Saturday afternoon goalless draw, but a Champions League semi-final second leg.
The Hansard team are used to working late because we follow the sitting hours of the Chamber. But when those hours are extended to allow for the debate of especially significant matters, we tend to work much later and much longer, often for several days in a row. You might expect a certain amount of grumbling and whingeing. But no—it is in demanding times like these that Hansard reporters thrive.
On each of the five days of debate leading up to Parliament's meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement, Hansard will publish the official report of every speech online within three hours of its delivery in the Commons Chamber. The team will then work through the night to ensure that a printed version of proceedings is produced by 6am the next morning. Even when the House sits until 1.28am.
Ever since calls emerged in early 2017 for Parliament to have a "meaningful vote" on any EU exit deal, MPs have asked and argued about what that "meaningful" really means. In the Commons Library, we have had a steady flow of questions about the statutory approval process for the Withdrawal Agreement, from when it was first proposed right up to the eve of the planned "meaningful vote" itself.
As the vote drew nearer, we saw a rapid increase in interest (and often confusion) from MPs and their staff about what was happening with the vote. They wanted to know about timing, how amendments might interact with the main proposal, and what Parliament can do in the aftermath of any decision to influence the Government's next steps.
To assist Members, the Library worked closely with the House's Chamber and Committee Clerks to produce A User's Guide to the Meaningful Vote in late October 2018. This was a briefing paper setting out the Parliamentary process, and explaining some of the controversial and unresolved questions about the vote.
The Library also produced a series of blog-style "Insights" to give the wider public a clearer sense of what would be happening in Parliament and what might be expected to come next depending on the outcome of the Commons' decision.
A hectic few days for the Exiting the EU Committee team leading into the debate as the Committee had agreed to produce a report on the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration on the Future Relationship negotiated between the EU and the UK in time to inform the debate and vote in the House of Commons.
This report would be the culmination of the Committee's work since the election. It built on its regular progress reports on the negotiations and its analysis of different models for UK/EU relations, and work on particular areas of ongoing and future negotiations such as citizens' rights and arrangements for data sharing.
We had scheduled an evidence session with Stephen Barclay MP, the new Secretary of State, and Olly Robbins, the Prime Minister's Europe Adviser, for the afternoon of Monday 3 December. We needed to make sure that we reflected their evidence in the report.
The previous week was spent analysing first the Withdrawal Agreement that came out on 14 November and then the Political Declaration on the Future Relationship agreed between both sides on 25 November to prepare briefing for the Committee for the session. The team was also working closely with the Chair, Hilary Benn, on drafts and re-drafts of the report.
On the Monday, after more than two and a half hours of the evidence session and a discussion with the Chair, we were back in the office working on the report to incorporate the evidence we had just taken from Stephen Barclay MP and Olly Robbins.
Tuesday morning and the Chair was back in the office first thing with his thoughts on the latest draft that we had sent him late the previous night. We were then able to send a report out to the Committee at lunchtime. Amendments came in throughout the evening on Tuesday, again requiring late nights for some of the team to analyse them and produce a consolidated list for the Committee to consider.
Wednesday morning and, after an 8am meeting with the Chair to discuss the amendments, the Committee began its deliberations at 9am. It had agreed a consensus report by midday (the first time it had reached a consensus on a report since the election).
Next task for us was to prepare the text of the report for publishing, making sure that we had faithfully included all the changes and re-drafts that the Committee had made, and work with the Chair on putting together a press notice to launch the report.
By Friday, we could take a moment to breathe. The report was published on Sunday morning, so a busy weekend for the media team while the rest of us tried to re-charge batteries. An exhausting but exciting week, all set for more excitement in the week to come.
The House of Commons Office in Brussels has engaged with counterpart colleagues from national Parliaments, as well as European Parliament, Council and Commission officials, to explain the Meaningful Vote process. There is a lot of interest in Brussels, but also a lot of confusion.
Our work has ranged from providing links to House of Commons Library publications and Select Committee evidence sessions, to showing colleagues where and how to access the Order Paper online.
We have also taken the time to speak to colleagues from across the institutions in person; it is much easier to explain the sentence "no motion shall be proposed that the question be not now put" over a coffee than via email. The House of Lords Office in Brussels has also updated colleagues about Lords' consideration of the motion.
As Clerk of Legislation, I assisted Members for all parties with the drafting of amendments to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill. This included the amendments which led to the so-called "meaningful vote" under section 13 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 on approving the negotiated withdrawal agreement and the framework for the future relationship of the UK with the EU. Some Members also asked me to check or draft their amendments to the EU withdrawal motion, which was scheduled to be debated over 5 sitting days from 4 to 11 December 2018.
After a late night on 3 December signing off the Order Paper and Speaker's script for the first day of debate on the EU withdrawal motion, I was in very early the following morning to do short media interviews with BBC, ITN and Sky who were given special access to film in the Chamber and Division Lobbies before they opened for Members at 8.00am.
When asked what would happen, I had no idea what would be the outcome of the meaningful vote. But I was sure that it would be one of my most memorable House of Commons moments since the fall of the Callaghan government in 1979.
Some Parliamentary occasions still generate a heavy demand for publications in printed form. The Budget is one of these occasions, and over the last 10 days the publication of key Brexit publications has been another.
For the Distribution arm of the Vote Office the work begins in trying to ascertain from limited information the subject content of a potential publication so that likely demand can be considered, and an order placed with APS, the contract printers. Timely and no-fail delivery of highly sensitive papers into the House requires planning which involves APS, CEVA, security and the good services of the Logistics team.
On 22 November the government published its Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU. Because of its 580-page size the printer was initially only able to deliver a modest portion of the necessary quantity, and Print Services were required to show their capability by printing and perfect binding 300 copies that could be constantly drip fed to the Vote Office during the day to offset the initial shortfall. When the dust had settled at the end of the day over 600 copies of the full document had been distributed to Members.
Today much of the Vote Office work is digital. The Procedural Publishing Unit (PPU) has been working overnight to publish the Order Paper, both online and in hard copy. This includes the procedural motions required to help the House consider the EU Withdrawal Agreement over its five days of debate.
For the PPU team this often involves discussing last-minute changes to motions with Table Office Clerks, talking with the distribution team to ensure they have all relevant papers, and liaising with the print team to update them on what print jobs to expect and when. The focus is on collaboration and customer service. Although the technical processes are precise, as so often when the pressure is on, the key element of the work is tact and good-humoured teamwork.
When the files for the Business Papers have been signed off they are sent to Print Services who are the last stop on the production line. When the House sits into the early hours as it did on Tuesday 4 December, Print Services will work until 6am or later to ensure the Distribution team has copies for Members and others by the 7am opening time.
As Clerk of Papers, I am responsible for "papers laid", which in plain English means documents that Government wishes to draw the House of Commons' attention to, or is required to draw its attention to, or that the House of Commons has ordered to be printed.
Recently those documents included the Withdrawal Agreement and future framework, and other associated Brexit documents. Over the past couple of months, I have met with officials from the Cabinet Office, the Department for Exiting the European Union and 10 Downing Street to provide them with advice and make sure the process of giving the House what it was owed ran smoothly. Thankfully, it did!
On the day of the vote I will be in the "No lobby", where MPs wishing to vote against the Government's motion will cast their meaningful votes. On the face of it this is not difficult; MPs walk past one by one to register their vote, and names are ticked off on tablets so that results can appear online as soon as possible.
However, even the simplest task can become a lot trickier when factoring in the pressure of the situation. Regardless, it is a unique opportunity to be in the room at a truly historic moment and I'm very much looking forward to it.
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Junot Díaz on Lack of Diversity in Books: 'Islandborn' "An Attempt to Do Something About It"
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Lead Photo: Writer Junot Diaz attends the Jersey Boys: David Chase, Junot Diaz, And Sam Lipsyte Moderated By David Remnick during The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 10, 2014 in New York City. Photo by Andrew Toth/ Getty Images Entertainment
Writer Junot Diaz attends the Jersey Boys: David Chase, Junot Diaz, And Sam Lipsyte Moderated By David Remnick during The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 10, 2014 in New York City. Photo by Andrew Toth/ Getty Images Entertainment
Through his books, Junot Díaz has given many of us literary figures that capture our experiences. With his latest and first children's book, Islandborn, he's not only fulfilling a promise he made to his goddaughters two decades ago, he's also helping to fill a void that has long existed. When Junot arrived to the United States from the Dominican Republic in his childhood, he quickly realized that his story didn't exist in the media or literature.
"I knew I was in trouble as soon as I got off the plane," he told Crosscut. "I didn't understand the magnitude of the trouble. That took many years. But I knew something was really the matter. I knew we were in serious trouble. And just the fact that I went from a country where there was really only one primarily color, Black and shades of it, and suddenly to be thrust into a country like the United States, which was such a disavowal of Blackness."
This is why it's so important that his book centers a young Afro-Latina heroine. Islandborn tells the story of Lola, a young girl who's tasked with drawing a picture of where her parents came from for school. Because she left the island as a baby, she can't conjure up a clear image. She turns to family members an neighbors to help her learn about the Dominican Republic. In the process, she learns about the island's dark history. The book touches on immigration, struggling to find a place of belonging, and identity.
Islandborn is the kind of book he needed growing up. "I experienced it, and I certainly never wanted anyone else after me to experience it," he added. "So there's the agony of the persistence of a crime, that something hasn't been repaired. It certainly hurts you to know that the younger people, that the youth are going through things that you had hoped, by this time, would've been resolved. But ultimately, you've gotta recognize the problem and see if you can do anything about it. And this book was an attempt to do something about it."
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Alexis Bledel + Vincent Kartheiser Welcomed Home Baby Boy Months Ago
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If ever you're in dire need of a celebrity couple to tell a secret to, look no further than Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser. The pair reportedly welcomed home their first child last fall — news that's only been revealed now, after one of Bledel's Gilmore Girls co-stars spilled the beans.
During a recent interview with Glamour magazine, Scott Patterson (aka Luke of Luke's diner, on the show) elaborated on how it felt to be reunited with Bledel for the upcoming Gilmore Girls reboot, and that's when he let slip that she had a son.
"It was great to see her. She's really blossomed as a woman and now she's a proud new mother and married and happy," he said. "I remember her as an 18-year-old kid, fresh out of college coming into Hollywood and being a little overwhelmed. She's just the most likable, intelligent person and adorable human being. She hasn't changed at all. She looks the same."
"We're comparing notes because my son is about a year and a half older than her young son," he continued. "I'm showing her photos and videos and what to expect. We're just really enjoying each other's company."
Bledel's rep confirmed the news to PEOPLE, though no further details about the couple's son have been released to the general public. But anyone aware of Bledel and Kartheiser's history shouldn't be too surprised by the secrecy: The low-key couple kept their relationship mostly out of the press before marrying in a secret ceremony back in June 2014.
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"So, the Civil War… What was that like?"
"I don't know. I was in China."
He Never Died is a quiet little film with a very wry sense of humor. It's about Jack. Jack (Henry Rollins) leads a quiet life. He sleeps most of the time. He lives in a run-down tiny apartment. He ventures out only to go to the local diner, where his waitress Cara (Kate Greenhouse) is obviously carrying a blazing torch for him - but Jack clearly has no idea - and to a nearby church, where he plays Bingo with stolid consistency. The only hint we get that his life may not be totally normal initially is when we see him trudge off to meet a young man named Jeremy (Booboo Stewart) who is sleeping in a car waiting for him. There is a transaction involving money and a package from the trunk, which Jack takes back to his apartment and puts in the otherwise empty fridge before going back to sleep.
Another day in the life of Jack.
Then, because this is a movie, his clearly-demonstrated routine existence begins to be disrupted. A young girl knocks on his door, and when he opens it, looks at him for a moment before running away. He shuts the door, which is his usual response to anything outside of his normal routine. Then he arrives to find his young car-meet supplier being hassled by a pair of toughs and he's forced to intervene. Not because he gives a crap about the young man, clearly, but because his routine is being interrupted and he needs his package.
The big shift that knocks him out of his comfort zone, is that the girl who came to his door is revealed, via phone call, to be his daughter, whom he didn't know he had. She's a bit of a wild case, and needs some looking after.
"I, uh, don't have money, so…"
"Then how did you end up inebriated?"
"Vaginas are kind of like coupon books for alcohol."
And then it gets even worse, his day spiraling into a gyre of complications and external factors and plain interference.
And then it starts to get violent. Jack meets the violence with the same weary stolid directness as he deals with everything else in his life, as far as we've seen. But that's when things get odd, because it seems that Jack - although he bleeds quite normally when injured - doesn't really seem to have any other reaction than annoyance and pain. Even to things that should drop him to the ground.
It becomes clear that this is nothing new for Jack. And as the title tells us, no matter what happens to him- he never died.
The movie is horror, with a generous helping of noir, with a lot of very, very dry wit. I won't actually say comedy, because it's not comedy, it's wit or humor and there's a difference. A lot of the latter is in pauses, or in reactions to things, or in conversations which sound relatively normal but are being had in outlandish situations. As a film, it's very very small - it's about Jack and a few other people, and it takes place in a very small part of a completely generic American city of unknown size or location. The violence keeps ramping up throughout, and we learn a bit about who Jack is. There's a great sequence where Cara asks him what he does, and he says not much now, but he used to do a little bit of everything. Then he starts listing things.
As you might imagine, things eventually spin entirely out of control. We watch Jack lose control of the carefully neutral existence he has crafted for himself, knocked out of equilibrium by violence and people and his own needs. But don't worry, Jack stays Jack. And eventually, those around him begin to learn he's not normal. At all.
As I said, it's a small movie. It's like In Bruges - it's about the characters and their situation, not the world. The world is our world, and you can just accept that and move on, the movie doesn't care. There's no Big Truths here. There's just Jack. And he's tired. And in the only scene where he loses his temper, we find that he's really angry about the fact that He Never Died.


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Music Diary – 17th December
Welcome to my Music Diary – today for the 17th December!
Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) (15th January 1941 – 17th December 2010)
On the 17th December 2010, Mr. Don van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart passed away at the age of 69. The American musician, artist and poet died from complications from multiple sclerosis. Captain Beefheart recorded 13 studio albums and his very unique style has influenced many artists, like Beck, PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.
Beefheart's music was a fresh and innovative mixture of Rock, Blues, Psychedelia and Avant-Garde. Beside his powerful voice, he played all kind of instruments. From 1965 until 1982 he was the frontman of the Magic Band. With their cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy" and the debut album "Safe as Milk" the band became more popular. Frank Zappa, who signed Captain Beefheart for his label Straight Records, produced the masterpiece "Trout Mask Replica" (1969).
In 1982 Don van Vliet retired from the music scene and concentrated more on his career in art, doing mainly sculptures, drawings and paintings. His work was exhibited in galleries all over the world.
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Kaitlin began her volleyball playing career in the early 2000's at Slater Middle School in Santa Rosa where she fell in love with the game. She continued to play year round at both the school and club level with Empire Volleyball Club, all the way through her graduation from Montgomery High School in 2006. After high school Kaitlin attended the Santa Rosa Junior College and continued playing volleyball as a repeat MVP, All Conference and All State setter for the Bear Cubs. After leaving Santa Rosa Junior College, Kaitlin transferred to the University of California Santa Barbara in 2008 and participated on the top nationally ranked UCSB Club Volleyball team where she was selected as the team MVP in the Spring of 2009. Kaitlin graduated from UCSB in 2010 with a Bachelor's in Communications and a Minor in Sports Management.
After graduating Kaitlin returned to Sonoma County and began coaching with Sonoma West Volleyball Club. She was a coach with SWVC for two years before she began coaching with Aftershock Volleyball Club, where she has been a coach for the past four years and is currently coaching in our 18 and under division. In 2011, Kaitlin was hired to coach the Santa Rosa High School Varsity Volleyball Team and began to take classes at the Santa Rosa Junior College to study Kinesiology. At this time, Kaitlin also reunited with her former SRJC coaches and joined the coaching staff of the SRJC Women's Volleyball Team as an assistant coach. Just two years later, in the Spring of 2013, Kaitlin was hired as the Head Volleyball Coach at the Santa Rosa Junior College. Kaitlin is currently finishing up her Kinesiology major at SRJC and is awaiting acceptance to the Master's of Coaching and Athletic Administration program at Concordia University.
Kaitlin looks forward to providing a positive volleyball experience for future generations of players at the Santa Rosa Junior College and at Aftershock Volleyball Club.


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Why are you destroying the country?
A NYT article in Friday's paper about the court-martial noted the pressure in sniper units to increase body counts. It also reported that the commanders who introduced the baiting program also "sought less restrictive rules of engagement — to legalize the combat killing of anyone who made a soldier 'feel threatened,' for example, instead of showing hostile intent or actions." Um, NYT, so did they get those changes or not?
Karzai says he wants to offer Mullah Omar a government position, if he only knew where he was. "If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I'll personally go there and get in touch with them," Karzai said. He wants to ask the Taliban leaders, "Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?" That's a trick question, right?
I admire the Islam
John McCain, interviewed by a religious website (video and transcript), said that the number one issue people should use in selecting a president is "Will this person carry on in the Judeo Christian principled tradition that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?" He added that "the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation" (funny how quickly the Judeo part drops out).
However he did say, "I admire the Islam."
And some time after the interview, he called back to clarify that he didn't mean a Muslim couldn't be president: "I would vote for a Muslim if he or she was the candidate best able to lead the country and defend our political values." You know, the Christian ones.
Topics: John "The Maverick" McCain
The new naturalization test will include 100 questions (pdf) about American history and government. (Rising Hegemon has a good list of alternative questions.) The questions are okay, but the answers could use some work. For example, for question 2, "What does the Constitution do?", allowable answers are a) sets up the government, b) defines the government, c) protects basic rights of Americans. Nothing about d) cleans Dick Cheney's ass after each and every bowel movement.
Clearly we can do better. Contest: provide better answers to as many of the questions as you like.
I have a few suggestions:
1. What is the supreme law of the land? You do not talk about Fight Club.
3. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are these words? "Yo, homies, wassup?"
5. What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution? Suspended until further notice.
11. What is the economic system in the United States? Kleptocracy.
12. What is the 'rule of law'? Jude Law will eventually remake every single one of Michael Caine's movies, including Jaws: The Revenge.
14. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful? No, really, we'd really like to know.
15. Who is in charge of the executive branch? That box Cheney had installed in the middle of Bush's back.
24. Who does a U.S. Senator represent? If you have to ask...
25. Why do some states have more Representatives than other states? Blatant favoritism.
26. We elect a President for how many years? Four, but sometimes it seems like 400.
30. If the President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
37. What does the judicial branch do? Under those robes, who can tell?
45. What are the two major political parties in the United States? Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
48. There are four amendments to the Constitution about who can vote. Describe one of them. I don't have anything funny here, but, um, there are actually 5 amendments about who can vote. Somebody needs to go back and read the 14th again.
49. What is one responsibility that is only for United States citizens? Weaseling out of jury duty.
52. What do we show loyalty to when we say the Pledge of Allegiance? Richard Stands.
55. What are two ways that Americans can participate in their democracy? They list things like voting, joining a political party, calling your representative, writing to a newspaper. Not a fucking thing about blogging.
64. There were 13 original states. Name three. The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
65. What happened at the Constitutional Convention? Those stains were there when we got here.
72. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s. The official correct answers are the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. No Indian wars.
86. What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States? Rudy Giuliani started calling up his wife (and assorted mistresses) to tell them that he loves them.
I am an optimist, because I believe that I'm right
Today Bush signed a bill expanding the Pell Grant program (which has been shamefully eroding in value for years, and this won't help that much). He spoke repeatedly about helping people "realize dreams." "I love the fact that this country is dedicated to helping people who want to realize a dream." Indeed, if you've ever dreamed about eating a hamburger bigger than your head, this is the country dedicated to helping you realize that dream.
Actually, I'm not really sure why this speech irritated me; I sort of hoped once I started writing, it would come to me as it usually does, but today not so much. Maybe knowing that if this program were being proposed for the first time now, he would fight it tooth and nail, but instead here he is trying to take credit for it, and expecting gratitude for the grants like they're acts of personal charity on his part.
He brought out some Pell Grant recipients as props because "We believe it's important to put a face behind what it means to get a Pell Grant." So it's important to see that the people who receive Pell Grants have faces.
Hey, George, can you In Other Words that for us? "In other words, every one of these folks up here is benefiting from the Pell Grant, so he or she can realize their dreams."
See? They totally have faces.
I haven't taken on the Bush-Aznar transcript from 2003, because I hate having to rely on the English translation of the Spanish translation of something Bush said in whatever language he speaks. Still, there's this: "I am an optimist, because I believe that I'm right. I'm at peace with myself." He is optimistic because he's the good guy, and the good guy always wins.
This could be you!
Isn't this just adorable? Two days ago, the Hillary Clinton campaign sent out an email from Bill with the subject line "You, me, a TV, and a bowl of chips," in which he announces that 3 lucky campaign contributors will be invited to watch one of the debates: "We'll sit down in front of a big TV with a big bowl of chips, watch the debate, and talk about the race." Today – and remembering their Sopranos parody I knew this was coming – a follow-up email from Hillary asks, "If you are one of the three people who get the chance to join him, can you make sure he eats carrots, not chips?" Ha ha.
Also today, an email from John McCain, announcing that 3 lucky campaign contributors will be invited to join him on his campaign bus, has the scariest visual yet:
Which is more dangerous, John McCain attacking my face with a sander, or being placed between Bill Clinton and a large bowl of chips?
Topics: Hillary Clinton, John "The Maverick" McCain
Childrens do learn
Just because the US Supreme Court will be considering whether the chemicals used in Texas's executions are cruel and unusual doesn't mean that Texas will stop executing retarded people in the meantime.
Speaking of... nah, too easy. This blog depends on the White House doing the one thing it actually does correctly: not cleaning up the transcripts of George Bush's speeches on their website. Today they failed me, and indeed America, by cleaning up the sentence "As yesterday's positive Report Card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured."
"It's 'children,' doofus!"
I'm not sure what's wrong with the LauraBot, but run, little black girl, run!
If you're mercilessly killed by roaming bands, you know it's genocide
This afternoon, Bush addressed a UN Security Council session on Africa. Because he totally gives a shit about Africa.
"[M]y nation has labeled what's taking place in Darfur as genocide, and when we find genocide it's time to do something about it." By which he meant, of course, it's time for someone else to do something about it. He told the African Union that the 7,000 troops it has deployed are not sufficient: "you know better than me that the area of Darfur is bigger than France, or Texas, and both are plenty big for 7,000 troops." The AU responded, "You know, you should really stop explaining to Africans that parts of Africa are about the same size as some European country or some American state, as if even Africans need to compare Africa to someplace 'real.'"
Bush said, "7,000 troops is not enough, if you believe what's taking place on the ground is genocide. Maybe some don't think it's genocide, but if you've been raped, you think it's -- your human rights have been violated. If you're mercilessly killed by roaming bands, you know it's genocide."
You can't mock a sentence like that. Bang your head repeatedly against a table, yes, but mock, no. It's just sort of complete and pristine, you can only read it over and over and marvel.
The harsh steps necessary to spread liberty
Maliki says he is "multi-nationalistic," that he has stopped "the explosion of a sectarian war," and that Iran and Syria are no longer interfering in Iraqi affairs. So it must be true.
Bush spoke to the UN General Assembly today. He told them all about inherent human dignity (he was speaking as an outside observer).
He spoke about the universality of human rights... to a group of people who had to listen to him speaking.
He talked about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and somehow slipped into that declaration the right of American multi-national corporations to operate without let or hindrance: "When innocent people are trapped in a life of murder and fear, the Declaration is not being upheld. When millions of children starve to death or perish from a mosquito bite, we're not doing our duty in the world. When whole societies are cut off from the prosperity of the global economy, we're all worse off."
He said that "the mission of the United Nations requires liberating people from tyranny and violence." Er, no it isn't.
He said "Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma, where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear." Which either means that Americans have been outraged for the last 19 years, or they're only just hearing about this now.
He called for "reform" of the UN, especially of the Human Rights Council. By reform, he meant stop criticizing Israel.
Later in the day, he held a "roundtable on democracy" because "I can think of no better way to work toward freedom than to strategize with leaders from around the world who are willing to take the harsh steps necessary to spread liberty." No one can make liberty sound terrifying quite the way George Bush can.
Topics: Maliki
And nothing to hide
For some reason I feel compelled to bring to your attention the, um, face of modern Polish feminism, the newly formed Women's Party of Poland.
The campaign poster, curiously reminiscent of ads for The L Word, reads, "Everything for the future. The Party of Women. Poland is a Woman. And nothing to hide." Those are the party's parliamentary candidates.
Not the time
This morning, Bush spewed some budgetary petulance at Congress: "If they think that by waiting until just before they leave for the year to send me a bill that is way over budget and thicker than a phone book, if they think that's going to force me to sign it, it's not."
He is especially against tax increases, of course. Because the time is just wrong: "At a time when families are working hard to pay their mortgages or pay for their children going to college, now is not the time to be taking money out of their pocket." Congress should just wait until a time when people aren't paying mortgages or their children's college education.
It means nothing for me
So there's a secret Pentagon program in Iraq to drop "bait" such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammo here and there, and shoot dead anyone who picks it up, because they are clearly up to no good. Larry Craig's still a senator, right? $100 to the first reporter who calls him up to ask whether he thinks this sort of lethal entrapment is a legitimate tool.
Yes, I said tool.
Maliki says criticism of him by members of Congress is unimportant, because they are not important: "What is important is that it did not come from the American administration or President Bush. That it comes from other areas ... for other reasons, is not a concern of mine. ... It means nothing for me." Democratic congresscritters: you have just been dismissed as irrelevant... by Nouri al-Maliki. Ouch.
It's a feature, not a glitch
WaPo: "The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children".
Bush, weekly radio address: "Our goal should be to move children who have no health insurance to private coverage -- not to move children who already have private health insurance to government coverage."
Bush press conference: Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas
This post is brought to you by Percocet and in loving memory of my abscessed right lower wisdom tooth, Pointy. For the first time in my life, I have an even number of teeth (I am a mutant).
Speaking of abscesses, this morning Bush held a press conference.
He started off by claiming that Democrats only support expanding the S-CHIP program of health insurance for children for political gain. How dare they support health insurance for children just because it's popular with the American public! He said they "have decided to pass a bill they know that will be vetoed" (note the passive voice). So because they know that Bush is a stubborn bastard, they must intend to fail in order to have a campaign issue. "Health coverage for these children should not be held hostage while political ads are being made and new polls are being taken." Was there ever such a cynical charge of cynicism?
One reporter got him on the record specifically opposing an increase in cigarette taxes to fund the program.
IN OTHER WORDS, IS WHAT HE SAID: "And I also said that progress will yield fewer troops. In other words, return on success, is what I said."
He immediately followed that up with a U-Turn IN OTHER WORDS, in which two IN OTHER WORDSES took him right back to the original words: "There are two types of reconciliation, David. One is that reconciliation, that very visible reconciliation that happens through the passage of law. In other words, it's reconciliation that shows the Iraqi people that people from different backgrounds can get along and, at the same time, that government can function. Clearly there needs to be work there. In other words, there needs to be the passage of law."
A game of IN OTHER WORDS Bumper Cars (about North Korea): "In other words, whether it be the exportation of information and/or materials is an important part -- it doesn't matter to us whether they do -- in terms of the six-party talks, because they're both equally important, I guess is the best way to say it. In other words, we want -- it does matter -- let me rephrase that -- it matters whether they are, but the concept of proliferation is equally important as getting rid of programs and weapons."
A PLAIN VANILLA IN OTHER WORDS: "The folks like Blackwater who provide security for the State Department are under rules of engagement -- in other words, they have certain rules."
He said about the Blackwater incident, "Obviously, to the extent that innocent life was lost, you know, I'm saddened." But only to that extent. So there will be a joint US-Iraqi commission to investigate the extent to which Bush is saddened: "I want to find out the facts about exactly what took place there in the theater and that's exactly what we're about to find out."
But that's not the only thing ensaddening him. Asked about the Jena incident, he replied, "The events in Louisiana are -- have saddened me. I understand the emotions." Well, he's heard of them, anyway.
(Before I forget, the White House issued one of those "Responding to Key Myths" papers about Iraq. Among other things, it proved that Maliki is not an agent of Iran thusly: "Maliki is an Iraqi nationalist who does not speak Persian". Quod erat demonstrandum.)
Maliki is not, however, a Nelson Mandela: "I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where's Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas." Even Winnie?
This Mandela line, which passed from Ryan Crocker to Condi and now to Bush, provoked this comment from me last week: "So basically what they're saying is that if any of the current crop of Iraqi politicians had been any damned good, they wouldn't be alive."
Bush thinks the MoveOn "General Betray Us" ad was "disgusting," and an attack on the entire military. Which is nonsense. Also disgusting: Democrats. "And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org -- or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military."
So sad:
Q: Mr. President, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld recently was asked if he missed you. He said, no. (Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: I miss him.
(Update: see, I knew I'd miss something, with the drugs and the pain and everything: "We dealt with a recession, a terrorist attack and corporate scandals. And we did it by cutting taxes.")
Topics: Bush press conferences, Maliki
Well, no wonder they hate us
Rudy Giuliani: "I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world."
Topics: Giuliani
Enemy Entity
Israel has designated Gaza– not Hamas, the entire Gaza – an "enemy entity" (or "hostile entity" in the BBC's translation), and will cut off its fuel and electricity and prevent people and goods (but not, they say, food) entering Gaza. Israel claims the declaration absolves it of its obligations under international law as an occupying power. Condi, who is in Israel, helpfully added that the US considers Hamas a hostile entity too, but that it won't "abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza," but did not say how many of the Palestinians in Gaza she considers innocent.
An aide to Maliki says they may not kick Blackwater out of the country after all: "Maybe they will make a commitment that they study their moves" or just... change its name. Possibly to Hostile Entity, Incorporated.
Demanding that Congress make the legalization of warrantless surveillance permanent, Bush informed it of its rather limited job description: "It is the job of Congress to give the professionals the tools they need to do their work as effectively as possible." Makes it sound like a plumber's assistant. Which, come to think of it...
The many sullen faces of the Bush administration:
Hiding in the Easter basket
The WaPo's Walter Pincus writes an article based on a round-table conference-call interview (transcript) of the guy who runs American detention facilities in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone by several "defense bloggers," whatever they might be (one asked whether we could use robots as guards), about the US military's attempt to de-program Muslim extremists among the 25,000 prisoners we are holding (and more each month), some of them as young as 11. "Religious enlightenment," they call it. And honestly, a bunch of (presumably) non-Muslim occupiers trying to alter the religious outlook of captured Iraqis, what could possibly be wrong with that? (Note as well that 83% of the prisoners are Sunni, which is a tad disproportionate.)
Stone says he reads the Koran every day, but let's see if we can detect a hint as to his actual religion in this quote about Muslim extremists: "They're like rotten eggs, you know, hiding in the Easter basket". Nevertheless, Stone feels able to talk about "fraudulent imams" and prisoners' "misunderstanding" of the Koran. He likes to talk about this as the "battlefield of the brain" and says his goal is to "turn these guys and spin them around". "We're out here because war is an act of force and we're going to compel this enemy to do our will. And our will is that the moderates are going to win out. And so everybody that's in my detention is either going to go out doing that, because that's what will -- our will is, or they're not going out."
And how does he know that prisoners who claim to have changed their religious views in response to these programs actually have? Polygraphs, of course.
Stone says Iraqi VP Tariq al-Hashimi told him that the US could win the war if only it could do the same thing to the whole of Iraq. Er, Stoney, I'm not sure he really wanted actual Iraqis to find out that he said something like that.
Stone spoke approvingly of an incident two weeks ago, when moderate Muslim prisoners attacked radical Muslim prisoners: "Found them, identified them, threw them up against the fence, and shaved their frickin' beards off of them. That, I mean, that is historic." Yes, if by historic you mean that much of world history does indeed consist of people attacking each other over religious differences. And clearly Iraq needs more of that sort of thing.
Every day is Mother's Day as far as you're concerned
This morning Bush met with members of military support organizations. "Laura and I are honored to welcome you here to the South Lawn. Welcome to the people's house." Okay, technically, shouldn't that be "welcome to the people's lawn"?
"Gold Star Mothers, got you, okay, thank you -- Blue Star Mothers, Gold Star Mothers, all the mothers, yes. (Applause.) Every day is Mother's Day as far as you're concerned, isn't it? (Laughter.)" If you mean that on Mother's Day, it is traditional to receive flowers, candy, and the fear that you will outlive your child because they will be killed by a roadside bomb in a pointless war far from home, then yes, every day is Mother's Day as far as they're concerned.
With your help, perhaps a cure can be found
Romney attacked Hillary's health care plan (before she'd even released the details – he's just that good) in front of St. Vincent's in Manhattan, unaware that the hospital has a "Rudolph W. Giuliani Trauma Center."
Finally, a center for the treatment of the dreaded Rudy Giuliani trauma.
Topics: Giuliani, Mitt Romney
If it weren't for recreational hysteria, I'd get no exercise at all
Bush nominates Michael "Not As Much of a Dick As Ted Olson" Mukasey to be attorney general.
While Mukasey does indeed seem to be not as much of a dick as Ted Olson (or, to set the bar even lower, as incompetent as Gonzales), this 2004 op-ed article in which he defended the Patriot Act against "a good deal of hysteria, some of it reflexive, much of it recreational," and calling for the government to be given "the benefit of the doubt," does give one some pause, if not the recreational hysteria we all enjoy so much. At least not yet.
This morning Bush met Prime Minister José Sócrates of Portugal for a bit of a – dear god I can't help myself – Socratic dialogue, which Bush described thusly:
So we discussed our bilateral relations. I asked the Prime Minister, I said, how would you frame our bilateral relations, he said: good. Well, you know, I feel the same way. ... we discussed and confirmed that transatlantic relations are very important for the United States and the EU.
The prime minister then called for a round of hemlock.
Topics: Mukasey
No posting here for a bit, what with the slow news weekend and a 10½ hour power outage here at Casa de WIIIAI, thanks to the good folks at Pacific Gas & Not So Much With The Electric. Missed "Tokyo Story," which was on Turner Classics last night, too.
The LAT lists some of the bills passed by California Legislature in the past session. A mixed bag, to be sure (and if the governor signs
SB 880, that bag can now be made from the imported skin of a kangaroo). Other bills would legalize condom distribution in prisons and allow celebrities to control the use of their names and images even after their deaths. One which has been signed into law allows restraining orders in domestic abuse cases to protect family pets.
O.J. Simpson: you're supposed to start with stuff like robbery and work your way up to double homicides, not the other way round.
Now, slogan contests. Two of them:
1) Donald Rumsfeld is starting the Rumsfeld Foundation. He just gives and he gives, doesn't he? The foundation needs a motto, and I think you people are the ones to supply it. I mean, it could just go with the motto it has rather than the motto it might want or wish to have at a later time, oh my goodness yes, but there are known known mottos and known unknown mottos and possibly unknown unknown mottos, but we don't know them, and what was I talking about?
2) Andrei Lugovoi, the "former" KGB guy who allegedly poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with polonium, isn't starting a foundation, but is running for the Duma, possibly in order to acquire parliamentary immunity, as a candidate of the Liberal Democrats (who are neither). What would a Lugovoi bumper sticker say? (Er, that is, a Lugovoi election bumper sticker, not the bumper sticker on Lugovoi's actual car, which I believe says "If you're close enough to read this, you might want to consult a physician.")
You may offer slogans for either or both (or indeed neither, I know it's a Monday) (and the time is evidently 12:00, blinking, and have I said "Fuck PG&E" yet?)
This week the Indian government put forward an official position that the Hindu god Rama isn't real. Specifically, it told a court that development should be allowed to go ahead in Adam's Bridge, a chain of shoals linking India and Sri Lanka, because it is a natural formation and was not built by Lord Rama with an army of monkeys.
Pro-war politicians like to talk about "honor." Actually, not Bush so much, but Cheney and, especially, McCain. At the Petraeus hearing on Tuesday, McCain said, "All of us want our troops to come home, but we should want them to return to us with honor, the honor of victory that is due all of those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice."
While "honor" seems to be important to war supporters, I'm not really sure what they mean when they use the word. Perhaps in McCain's case the word means nothing: he seems increasingly to be using words in ways that are intended to convey an impression of meaning, rather than to convey actual meaning. For example, in the sentence I just quoted (which presumably he prepared in advance), the reference to the "ultimate sacrifice" seems to say that he wants American troops to return only when they are 1) victorious, and 2) dead. If that is not what he meant, and I'm guessing it isn't, then we must assume that he just strung some grand-sounding phrases – "honor of victory," "the ultimate sacrifice" – together willy nilly, in much the same way that I'll use any excuse to use the phrase "willy nilly" (or "army of monkeys").
But to return to honor (as opposed to returning with honor), is McCain saying that whether or not honor accrues to individual troops is dependent on whether the war is fought to "victory" or not? Doesn't seem quite fair. Someone really should ask him to define his terms more clearly.
I know what you're all asking at this point: did Rama's monkey army return with monkey honor?
We've got what's called return on success
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, the thuggish Sunni sheikh in Anbar assassinated yesterday, has been replaced by his brother, Ahmed Abu Risha, who promises, "All the tribes agreed to fight al-Qaeda until the last child in Anbar." Oh good.
Today Bush visited a Marine Corps training facility, amusingly named The Basic School, where he had a basic lunch with the troops. (What's that round white thing? Rice? Mashed potatoes?)
Then he spoke to reporters about his basic visit. "First of all, my first impression is, it's amazing country where people volunteer in the face of danger." Yup, that never happens in any other country in the world.
He recounted how he explained to the Marines the speech he gave last night. It was like a game of Telephone, but with only one player: "the plan I announced was that we're making enough -- based upon the fact we're making enough success in Iraq that we can begin bringing some troops home; that I told the American people last night we've got what's called return on success."
"Making" success, "return on" success. Well, to be fair, there isn't normally much call for Bush to use the word success in a sentence. For some reason it just doesn't come up that often.
I assume everyone's following The Case of the Contraband Underwear at Guantanamo.
Speaking of contraband underwear, today was Alberto Gonzales's last day as attorney general. Try not to cry, Little Fredo, try not to cry.
Oh, now you've got me going.
Bush addresses the nation: Return on success
Transcript.
Bush has a vision, a vision of a united America, if everyone just shuts up: "those of us who believe success in Iraq is essential to our security, and those who believe we should begin bringing our troops home, have been at odds. Now, because of the measure of success we are seeing in Iraq, we can begin seeing troops come home. The way forward I have described tonight makes it possible, for the first time in years, for people who have been on opposite sides of this difficult debate to come together." If by come together you mean everybody supporting Bush doing whatever he feels like doing. Let the healing begin.
Is this supposed to reassure us?: "Young Sunnis who once joined the insurgency are now joining the army and police."
Troops will "return on success". Bush keeps returning to make these speeches. Doesn't seem quite fair.
"During my visit to Anbar on Labor Day, local Sunni leaders thanked me for America's support." So it's all been worth it.
Iraqi leaders (he was a little unclear on who these Iraqi leaders might be) have asked for an "enduring relationship" with the US. They asked us! They asked us!
(Update: see also Fred Kaplan in Slate and Matthew Rothschild on the Progressive website.)
Yes we have no surrender today
John McCain, in an email today, attacked Hillary Clinton for saying that the Petraeus report required "a willing suspension of disbelief." He then somehow linked this to the MoveOn.org ad,
saying, "I think it willingly suspends disbelief to not repudiate an advertisement..." Er, how? That sort of rhetorical jiu-jitsu really only works if the phrase you're trying to turn back on your opponent has some sort of relevance to what you're saying.
He also thinks it has something to do with toughness: "If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be President of the United States. I am prepared to be Commander-in-Chief and tough enough to face the challenges presented by a dangerous world." Assuming those challenges come in advertisement form.
"In fact, I'm the only candidate in this race prepared to be Commander-in-Chief from day one." This brings up the scary possibility that if anyone else won, they'd have to let Dubya continue as commander-in-chief while they took some night classes in order to get their commander-in-chief license.
"Right now I'm traveling through Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina talking about the success of the surge..." Because it's a hell of a lot safer than traveling through Baghdad and Ramadi and Fallujah taking about the success of the surge.
This is his new banner, which nicely conflates his refusal to surrender his dying campaign with his refusal to surrender his pointless war.
Right now he is on a "No Surrender Tour," in which presumably he travels from town to town, not surrendering.
Say, you don't like terror either?
Gov. Terminator has vetoed a ballot initiative on the Iraq war, saying it was "divisive." The initiative, not the war.
Petraeus told the National Press Club that "The central front of al Qaeda's global war on terror is in Iraq." Wait, if Al Qaida is also fighting a global war on terror, maybe this whole thing has been a crazy misunderstanding?
Bucket. That's all I'm saying.
Wait, is Bush "kicking ass" in Iraq or kicking the can down the road? I'm confused by all the kicking metaphors.
John Negroponte, who these days is deputy secretary of State, is visiting Pakistan to shore up General Musharaf with, among other things, another $750 million in US aid, and to talk up the forthcoming "democratic elections." Negroponte's plane practically crossed paths with that of the one carrying Nawaz Sharif, the man Gen. Musharaf forcibly overthrew, back into involuntary exile, but he said that he hadn't brought the matter up because "This is a legal matter for the government and the people of Pakistan to decide". Actually, it is an illegal matter, since Musharaf acted in defiance of a Supreme Court order to allow Sharif back into the country.
Israel dropped bombs on Syria last week, and invaded Gaza today. Just saying.
Condi Rice did a few interviews today. In one, she repeated the talking point used by Crocker two days ago, but which we've heard before, that any Nelson Mandela type in Iraq had been killed by Saddam. So basically what they're saying is that if any of the current crop of Iraqi politicians had been any damned good, they wouldn't be alive.
The interviewer asked about the latest Republican talking point, that Al Qaida members have cut the fingers off people they found smoking. She deflected. Are there any authenticated reports that this ever actually happened to anyone?
Topics: Pakistan's Generalissimo Musharraf
A day that really helped
Indonesia bans giving money to beggars in Jakarta.
Every time I see an excerpt from one of the detainee hearings at Guantanamo, someone on the panel says something remarkably naive and/or ignorant – no, I'm gonna go with "clueless." The AP has got hold of some transcripts, and here's a panel member, simply amazed after being told that some of the prisoners actually tell untruths to their interrogators: "Why do you feel you have the right to lie to the interrogators?" The right? Like he is under some obvious moral obligation to truthfully answer the questions of people who seized him in Pakistan and have illegally kept him prisoner for several years now.
Actually, it turned out there was an answer. The prisoner explained that he had to lie, had to tell the interrogators what they wanted to hear, because they would stop his medicine until he did so.
This morning Bush, as he put it, "commemorated the -- a day that really helped -- or it did define our nation, which is 9/11/2001." No, no freudian slip there.
Earlier, he went outside for a moment of looking down, all squinty and solemn-like, then looking around furtively to see what everyone was doing silence.
Petraeus & Crocker testify, Day 2: Some type of success is possible
Today Corp. Combover told the Senate that "some type of success in Iraq is possible." Yay! Success! Well, some type of success! Is a possibility! Not a complete impossibility! Yay!
Lieberman once again helpfully suggested that his fellow congresscritters should now shut up and go into hibernation, or as he phrased it, he hoped they'd "take yes for an answer and we'd go on and look forward to [Petraeus's] next report in the spring."
Holy Joe also suggested that it was time to authorize military strikes inside Iran, "in pursuit of your mission in Iraq, to pursue those Iranian Quds Force operations in Iranian territory, in order to protect Americas troops in Iraq". Petraeus said that since he commands multi-national Coalition of the Willing (COW) forces, he can't really do that, but maybe CentCom could.
A heckler asked, "Hundreds of thousands dead, isn't that enough for your blood thirst." One assumes that was a rhetorical question.
John Warner asked if succeeding in the Iraq war would make the US safer. Petraeus said fuck if he knew. In fact, he made it sound like it was not an interesting enough question for him to have ever spent any time thinking about it. He's just in it for the ass-kicking.
Speaking of which, Barbara Boxer pointed out that 28 American soldiers have died since Bush said we are kicking ass in Iraq.
Actually, a bit later, after a bathroom break, Petraeus claimed that he had now had a bit of a think and yes, the war in Iraq is deeply, deeply important to the safety of Americans after all.
Biden asked if a Sunni could safely travel to a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad? Petraeus said it depends on the neighborhood, but failed to name any Sunni-friendly Shiite neighborhoods. Funny, he had a chart for everything else.
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I tartassati (br Os Quebra-Galhos) é um filme ítalo-francês de 1959, dirigido por Steno.

Sinopse
Pezzella (Totò) possui uma luxuosa loja de roupas, que está a render bem. Por uma questão de princípios, não gosta de pagar impostos e usa um consultor fiscal (Louis de Funès), para evitar ao máximo pagar o que deve. Mas as Finanças enviam-lhe um inspector, Topponi (Aldo Fabrizi) e o brigadiere Bardi para saberem como vão as contas do seu negócio. Apesar de tentar subornar o inspector, Pezzella é condenado a pagar uma multa enorme. Mas não é homem para desistir tão facilmente.

Filmes de comédia da França
Filmes da Itália de 1959
Filmes em língua italiana
Filmes de comédia da Itália
Filmes da França de 1959
Filmes da Gaumont
Filmes dirigidos por Steno (cineasta)

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Lunar Eclipse - October 8, 2014
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