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By John R. Vile
Michael W. McConnell is a leading scholar on issues relating to church and state, equal protection, and the American Founding. He believes in seeking the original intent of the framers of the Constitution and its amendments. He has argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. (Image via Oyez.org under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License)
Michael W. McConnell (1955- ) is the Richard and Frances Mallery professor of law, director of the Constitutional Law Center, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford Law School. He has been teaching there since resigning from the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals where he served as a judge from 2002 to 2009. He is a leading scholar on issues relating to church and state, equal protection, and the American Founding. He has argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
McConnell served on the Court of Appeals
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, McConnell earned an undergraduate degree at Michigan State University and a law degree at the University of Chicago before clerking for J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. He then served as assistant general counsel to the Office of Management and Budget and as assistant to the solicitor general of the Justice Department before teaching law at the University of Chicago and University of Utah. President George W. Bush appointed McConnell to the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001, and the Senate confirmed him the next year. Often mentioned as a possible nominee for the Supreme Court, McConnell received the support of 300 legal scholars when he was nominated to the Tenth Circuit.
McConnell believes in the original intent of the Constitution
McConnell believes in seeking the original intent of the framers of the Constitution and its amendments. He believes this view supports the Court's desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). He is attentive to federalism concerns and believes that lower court judges should be attentive to precedent. He has argued against what he considers to be extreme views of separation of church and state. He also believes that governments can fund vouchers that students can use in parochial schools.
In Rosenberger v. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995), McConnell successfully argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of funding for an evangelical publication. He helped to defend the right of the Boy Scouts to expel a gay scout master in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000). He has critiqued the position on free exercise of religion that Justice Antonin Scalia announced in City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), which provides only minimal scrutiny to general criminal laws that disproportionally affect certain religious practices. He has also criticized the Court's decision in Bob Jones University v. United States (1983), dwhich denied tax-exempt status to a religious college. McConnell wrote a concurring opinion in a case involving the right of religious adherents to use hallucinogenic tea; the Supreme Court upheld the ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal (2006).
John Vile is a professor of political science and dean of the Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. He is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. This article was originally published in 2009.
Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal (2006)
J. Skelly Wright
Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)
Amar, Akhil Reed, and Vickram David Amar. "More on McConnell: Why the Senate Judiciary Committee Should Support Michael McConnell's Nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit." November 1, 2002.
Bazelon, Emily, and David Newman. "The Supreme Court Shortlist: The Views of the Likely Candidates." Slate, July 1, 2005.
"Michael W. McConnell." Stanford Law School.
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Smith Creek adds to North American network
New Zealand-based Smith Creek has announced the appointment of two North American distributors.
New Zealand fly fishing business Smith Creek has appointed two new distributors in the US.
Anglers Accessories, of Colorado, and Rumpf, of Pennsylvania, have been added to the company's existing network of sales representatives to expand its reach and presence in the North American market.
Smith Creek's founder, Wayne Smith, said the new distributors will service dealers that prefer to order from suppliers offering multiple brands.
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Smith, originally from California, said that his company would be adding to its line of fly fishing accessories with the launch of two new products shortly.
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Looks very much like what is happening in my garden at the moment! Just could do with a bit more sunshine.
Bonjour! Our gardens do indeed seem to be developing at the same pace and with very similar flora and fauna. We had sunshine for most of the day yesterday, and I was able to make a start tidying up the potager – but it looks like we are in for a wet weekend – I am so fed up of the mud.
How gorgeous, especially the blue-winged carpenter bees!
I do like these Carpenter Bees – very distinctive, and easy for me to recognise. I now have to keep an eye out for where they are living, because although there are plenty of rotting trees round and about, I don't want them chewing through the woodwork in the house (then I would like them much less).


We the people made our Constitution and have the right to amend it.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of arms, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
I grew up in a Western nation often cited by advocates of gun control as a possible model for the United States. However, while I came to Cornell naïvely believing that defenders of the Second Amendment are of the irrational type who cling to their Bibles as tightly as they do to their weapons, living in this country has since moderated my liberal haughtiness.


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Anti-WASP tropes in the 'NYT'
Philip Weiss on September 29, 2015 52 Comments
From the New York Times, David Brooks on Jeb Bush:
That doesn't mean the party will snap back to its old establishmentarian tendencies. Bush had several moments [in last week's debate] to deliver a devastating blow — like challenging Trump for going after his wife — but he couldn't quite turn them into hot-blooded signature moments. Three hundred and fifty years of WASP reticence have left habits of gentility and emotional guardedness that inhibit him, just as they inhibited his father.
And Marissa Rothkopf on a new restaurant that is
small and understatedly elegant. It befits a chef [Christine Nunn] who also wrote "The Preppy Cookbook," a set of recipes inspired by and catered toward the Locust Valley lockjaw set.
She linked that phrase to William Safire, back in the 80s; and her brother David Rothkopf, the editor of Foreign Policy, reveled in it on twitter:
The latest from my sis, @marissarothkopf: Getting well beyond lunch for the lockjaw set at Picnic on the Square
(This is prejudice justified in the speakers' minds by the belief that they are Jewish outsiders. Says a friend: "Imagine if somebody wrote, 'Three hundred and fifty years of Jewish insularity had left Chuck Schumer with habits of tribal loyalty and paranoia that inhibit him, just as they inhibit others.'" My Protestant wife says no one speaks lockjaw except Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story. When she came into my family 25 years ago, my father called her Brenda Frazier, a reference to a debutante in the 1940s who was on the cover of Life Magazine– because my wife has perfect manners. She politely pointed out to my father, Did he really think that was a compliment? Brenda Frazier was an airhead who repeatedly tried to kill herself and drank herself to death. Riding back to NY, she said without inhibition, "I saw all the Woody Allen movies, I know about anti-Semitism. I never heard about anti-anti-Semitism.")
Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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Krauss on September 29, 2015, 3:03 pm
Bigotry dies out with time. I'll admit I had no clue what "lockjaw" even was up until now. Also, nobody under the age of 50 would ever link to Safire, which of course reinforces my first point.
Yeah, anti-WASP prejudice is socially accepted in America although I'd say I've only really seen Jews engage in it specifically. The rest of America tend to attack the hegemonic whiteness, which includes Jews of course, but that isn't necessarily bigotry(although it can be in some instances).
I think part of the unease on the debate of Jewish privilege – that we are now part of white America full-stop and have been so for a long, long time – is that you can't really identify yourself as an outsider anymore and thus these attacks on WASPs reinforce a mythical notion of marginalisation which simply is laughable today. And when that option is no longer possible, your own privilege has to be examined. And people really don't like that. Witness the hysterical attacks in the Jewish press on the concept of Jewish privilege to see what I mean(Tablet has really been out there in particular).
So maybe these slurs on WASPs, casual and "harmless" as they may be, are at root a sign of anxiety over your own group's status.
I still look back to the 2010 'Girls controversy' on the issue of race for reference point. When Dunham got criticised for the monolithic whiteness on her show, she countered by saying she's "Half-Jewish, Half-WASP" and going on saying that 50% of her cast are Jewish.
Lena played by old rules, the same Rothkopf and Brooks does. But the problem for Lena was that America had moved on. It was simply not possible anymore to pretend being Jewish on TV or in the mainstream of our culture was somehow a victory in and of itself.
And as a result of that miscalculation, Lena got crushed. So that was 5 years ago. Lena had to adjust because she is still quite young. Rothkopf and Brooks are not young, so their outdated social compass will probably never be corrected, but then again their readership isn't anyone under 50 either.
(Sorry).
lysias on September 29, 2015, 3:50 pm
One of the indications that Gordon Gekko in Wall Street is Jewish is his comment on WASP's: "That's the one thing you have to remember about WASPs: they love animals and hate people. " Another is another comment: "Yeah, not bad for a City College boy. I bought my way in, now all these Ivy league schmucks are sucking my kneecaps. "
DaBakr on September 29, 2015, 7:53 pm
@ly
A) comment one could very easily mean that he is referring to himself or his own people. I certainly don't remember any scenes focused on GG playing with puppies and
b) the 2nd of your brilliant "Jewish" ideas quote could very easily imply that he bought his way in like so many of the US, Saudi, EU , Chinese and other wealthy family do to get their kids in when the test scores are lacking as are the essays. Al Gore, G.W.Bush, and a number of other mediocre minded movers and shakers in the US fields of business and politics got into their ivy league schools due to the influence of their family names going back into the mid 19th cent and further.
c)you should probably go back to your sources to find out how so many Jews, Catholics , Koreans and other minority groups got into the top ivy's besides "buying their way in"
lysias on September 30, 2015, 10:24 am
Gordon Gekko:
Co-written by Stone and screenwriter Stanley Weiser, Gekko is claimed to be based loosely on several actual stockbrokers, including Stone's own father Louis Stone.[4] According to Edward R. Pressman, producer of the film, "Originally, there was no one individual who Gekko was modeled on," he adds. "But Gekko was partly Milken", who was the "Junk Bond King" of the 1980s, and indicted on 98 counts of racketeering and fraud in 1989.[5]
Both Louis Stone (whom his son Oliver greatly admired) and Michael Milken were, of course, Jewish. Maybe you need to be a native New Yorker to catch the hints. (By the way, even though I am a native New Yorker — Irish-American — I have never used the word "schmuck". I'm not sure I've ever heard it coming from the mouth of anyone but a Jew.)
Oliver Stone was of course writing about an Ivy League (and a Wall Street) of a few decades ago. I was in Princeton's Class of 1968. There were far fewer Jewish students there than a couple of decades later. And Asian students were few and far between.
By the way, isn't this ironic:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/style/weddings-marissa-rothkopf-mark-a-bates.html
First time I've heard of a Catholic wedding at a private club in New York. Did they choose that venue because of the participation of the rabbi in the wedding?
Funny the New York Times would call it "Cambridge University" instead of the official title of "University of Cambridge".
John Douglas on September 29, 2015, 10:13 pm
It loses a bit of its irony with the correction.
This is an amusing discussion. Growing up Catholic on the North Shore of Boston, my girl cousins had Catholic coming-out parties (at which I was an "escort", we raced sailboats in Marblehead from an alternative yacht club (the Jews had one too.) My Catholic college, Chris Matthews' beloved Holy Cross, was deemed by Time magazine as "wall-to-wall" Irish in a cover story about the "Catholic Ivy League" and I had a Catholic acquaintance from my Catholic prep school who claimed to be, unlike me with my immigrant Scotch father, a Catholic Blue Blood. I sprayed trees during the Summer wandering freely through Beverly Farms where the Lowells spoke only to the Cabots and the Cabots (originally the Caboti family from, I think, Bologna) spoke only to god (that divinity remains without caps since it couldn't possibly have been the "Supreme Being" of which I learned in the Baltimore Catechism.)
Kate on September 30, 2015, 4:40 am
Nope, not the Massachusetts Cabots. They came from Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off Normandy, to Salem — rather late, in 1700, not 1620, something they're occasionally needled about.
John Douglas on September 30, 2015, 11:21 am
Thanks, Kate. You corrected a long-held misconception of mine. A gift.
Family origin[edit]
The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John Cabot (b. 1680 in English Channel Isle of Jersey), who immigrated from his birthplace to Salem, Massachusetts in 1700.[1] Though other individuals with the last name Cabot may descend from Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot, the Italian explorer who came from England to North America in the 1490s), the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family descend from the former.[1][2][3][4]
Scott on September 29, 2015, 3:15 pm
I remember back in the 80's, Russell Baker described Trump as a "pushy WASP" –(which I guess he is, I think German Americans qualify).
Back in the day, the newspaper for New York City WASP's was the late lamented Herald Tribune.
pabelmont on September 29, 2015, 3:55 pm
The richest WASPs are perhaps laughable for ultra good manners, emotional restraint (emotional frozenness) but also enviable for running America as they used to do and probably still do (more than these materials suggest). The richest Jews are laughable for (in some cases) having no discernable manners at all, for running over other people like ten-ton trucks, and enviable for running America as they, to a large extent, also do.
Perhaps the nexus between WASPs and AIPACeteers is the military-industrial-complex which, after 1967, cemented the alliance between American imperialism and Israeli imperialism. remember when Jews who used to be known as human-rights champions started cheering for Central American dictators in line with cheering for Israel.
Guess that it is a bit of a sign-of-the-Times that WASPs are taking it on the chin in public in an out-and-out display of Jewish, what?, arrogance? Wonder if the WASPs will figure out how to fight back? Perhaps not, because they will be so protected inside the walls of their gated-communities and their high-priced country clubs that they will not even notice what the upstarts are saying about them.
For WASP's to allow themselves to be criticized and mocked so much serves as a protective mechanism. People will think they can't be all that powerful any longer.
Plus, good sports are a lot more popular than people overly sensitive to criticism.
RoHa on September 29, 2015, 6:55 pm
"The richest WASPs are perhaps laughable for ultra good manners, emotional restraint"
I have to say that I don't see anything particularly amusing about those characteristics. They are simply positive qualities which should be emulated generally.
And why do you call emotional restraint "emotional frozenness"?
Ellen on September 30, 2015, 11:27 pm
Good manners, restraint is control, self control. And that is not a bad thing.
Highly valued in Asian and Arabic cultures, for example.
DoubleStandard on September 29, 2015, 4:21 pm
Probably the only time I have found myself agreeing with Philip Weiss.
WASPs are the only group it is socially acceptable to be prejudiced against or mock. WASPs are much more vulnerable than Jews in this respect.
hophmi on September 30, 2015, 7:02 pm
Lol, brother, please. This is more nonsense; Phil saw a Jewish name in the byline and drew aa ridiculous conclusion for which he provide zero evidence.
Chu on September 29, 2015, 4:27 pm
I thought it was Larchmont Lockjaw…
Even though I understand what Brooks is aiming to do, he wouldn't do the same to his own tribe. But WASPs are fair game for the Jewish media establishment. They love kicking them so they can take their place – all the while telling themselves how righteous they are.
But It takes one to know one as Brooks, who is much like Jeb Bush in his reserved and even shy boy mannerisms. Who made him a republican anyway? He's a Rino type.
Once he said why he shifted from being on the left to the right. He said one person caused him to shift his core beliefs, but I never knew who he referred to. No matter, the Times needed a safe guy for liberals to spar with and they got actor Brooks to fill the stage. Him and Ruth Marcus on PBS were absolutely nauseating to listen to.
One person? Brooks graduated from the University of Chicago in 1983, at which time Allan Bloom was teaching there. A couple of years later, Brooks, then serving as book editor of the Wall Street Journal, enlisted William Kristol to review Bloom's book The Closing of the American Mind, which, according to Brooks's Wikipedia entry, catapulted that book to national prominence.
Chu on September 30, 2015, 9:59 am
It could be Allan Bloom. Brooks never said whom it was at the time, as he was probably selling new a book. thanks.
When I read Saul Bellow's last novel Ravelstein (which is a roman a clef about Bellow's friend Allan Bloom), I was shocked by how closed-mindedly Zionist a work it was.
In 1983, Bellow was also teaching at the University of Chicago. In fact, they taught together on the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought.
Rusty Pipes on September 29, 2015, 7:24 pm
I heard it referred to as the Lower Shore Lockjaw in college. At least that's what it sounded like when someone pronounced it through clenched teeth.
The East Coast upper-class accent (which is NOT extinct) has other characteristics, not just a clenched jaw. Some of the vowels are different too. I used to pick up some semblance of it temporarily (and largely unconsciously) when I was a scholarship student at a Seven Sisters college – my mother, who exaggerated a lot, used to say that when I called her from there she couldn't understand a word I said. I'm sure my imitation wasn't good enough for me to pass as upper class – it's not an easy accent to copy.
There's a pretty good example of it in the 1958 film Auntie Mame – the character Gloria Upson, Patrick's girlfriend, played by Joanna Barnes, who in real life went to Milton Academy and Smith College.
Ghastly! That's exactly the character I thought of when someone mentioned the lockjaw. While the accent may not be entirely extinct, it certainly is more prevalent among North East elites born before the mid-20th century than today. One of my husband's elderly aunts had it.
surewin on September 29, 2015, 4:30 pm
David Rockefeller's jaw is securely locked.
JLewisDickerson on September 29, 2015, 4:39 pm
RE: "My Protestant wife says no one speaks lockjaw except Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story. " ~ Weiss
I BEG TO DIFFER: William F. Buckley, Jr. spoke lockjaw like (i.e., as if/though) there was no tomorrow! ! !
P.S. A RELEVANT QUOTATION:
"What could be worse than war with the Anglo-Saxons? Only friendship." – General of the Russian Imperial General staff A E Adrian, 1912
SOURCE – https://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/quote-of-the-day-if-not-the-decade/
JLewisDickerson on September 29, 2015, 10:14 pm
P.P.S. SOME EXCITING WASP NEWS: What the Dickens? Apparently I'm really a Dickinson! (Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, I guess. Except that apparently I come from a long line of poor spellers.)
1. • RICHARD DICKINSON was born 1564 in London, England.
2. JOHN DICKINSON (RICHARD1) was born January 1592/93 in London, England.
3. GRIFFITH DICKINSON (JOHN2, RICHARD1) was born 1629 in London, England, and died Abt. 1687 in New Kent Co, Virginia.
4. • WILLIAM DICKENSON (GRIFFITH3 DICKINSON, JOHN2, RICHARD1) was born 1652 in Charles City Co. Virginia, and died 1734 in King William Co..
5. NATHANIEL DICKENSON (WILLIAM4, GRIFFITH3 DICKINSON, JOHN2, RICHARD1) was born Abt. 1678 in Virginia, and died 1738 in New Kent Co, Virginia.
6. GRIFFITH DICKENSON (NATHANIEL5, WILLIAM4, GRIFFITH3 DICKINSON, JOHN2, RICHARD1) was born 1713 in Virginia, and died December 12, 1785.
7. • ROBERT DICKERSON (GRIFFITH6 DICKENSON, NATHANIEL5, WILLIAM4, GRIFFITH3 DICKINSON, JOHN2, RICHARD1) was born 1737 in Hanover County Va, and died 1819 in Louisa Co. Va.
Watch Buckley's eyes when answering. He was already addicted to Percodan at that time.
Also of note is the question at 5:50 when Buckley is asked if Israel should give back the land they took from Palestine. Allen jokes, no….they should sell it back to the Palestinians. ……
JLewisDickerson on October 5, 2015, 8:05 pm
P.P.P.S. ■ Noam Chomsky Teaches William F. Buckley a Thing or Two.
PeaceThroughJustice on September 29, 2015, 5:04 pm
"I saw all the Woody Allen movies, I know about anti-Semitism. I never heard about anti-anti-Semitism."
I'm guessing the Phil Weiss we know today would not exist if he had married in. (In fact it's a little frightening to imagine to what different ends that mix of intelligence and tribal solidarity might easily have been applied.)
Mooser on September 30, 2015, 10:32 am
"I'm guessing the Phil Weiss we know today would not exist if he had married in."
My parents displayed no prejudice at all when I introduced them to my non-Jewish girlfriend. My Mom took one look at the lovely, intelligent girl and said : "Oh no, honey, this won't do. You are much too good for him!"
She was right, of course.
Keith on September 30, 2015, 1:57 pm
PEACETHROUGHJUSTICE- "I'm guessing the Phil Weiss we know today would not exist if he had married in."
Most likely he would still be writing under the pseudonym "Alexander Portnoy."
Ted621 on September 29, 2015, 6:25 pm
This Jewish obsession with WASPs is particularly startling when looking at a number of issues. Look at the rapturous reception received by the Pope on his visit to NY, DC, and Philadelphia. Catholics are still a sizable block – both in politics and culture. Granted, the Italian & Irish Catholics of the Northeast and Midwest are declining, being replaced by Latinos. Protestants may find the Pope admirable, but they were not the one packing the streets.
As this page noted – the recent Iran Deal survived in Congress, in no small part due to a black president and the unity demonstrated by the Congressional Black Caucus. Trying to persuade them to abandon the first black president at the behest of an Israeli gov't that has a poor track record on treating African migrants did not strike anyone as hopeless?
In academic competitions, Jews have been edged out in many areas by Asian students – Chinese, Indian, Korean, etc. NY's Stuyvesant school is now regarded by some as "too Asian" – incidentally, I don't recall this as a problem when the school was "too Jewish." My relatives in Syosset, who sent their kids to the public schools, noted the difference in how families deal with kids who bring home disappointing report cards. The Jewish parents will often raise the issue with the school, while the Asian parents will trust the teacher's judgment and tell their kids to try harder next time.
With all these other groups exercising their clout, and elite Jews are still worried about how WASPs view them?
Mooser on September 30, 2015, 2:29 pm
"My relatives in Syosset, who sent their kids to the public schools, "
There is really a place called "Syosset"? I thought it was a fictional town invented by MAD Magazine.
Poor suffering 'wasps'. Digby Baltzall would be spinning in his grave. They loved the up and coming Jews too good and now the indignity of it all. Poor PW too. His exclusive entrance to the 'most-coveted-club-a-NYC-jewboy-could-imagine' needs defending by his scrappy Jewish upstart nature they can't manage on their own.
otc on September 29, 2015, 8:19 pm
"My Protestant wife says no one speaks lockjaw except Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story – See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/09/anti-wasp-tropes#comment"
I think your wife is mistaken. It was a real accent representing a real group – mostly gone now. William Buckley(as noted by others), Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton to name a few.
"This is prejudice justified in the speakers' minds by the belief that they are Jewish outsider"
I don't know what the Jewish reference has to do with this. I've know a few catholic guys who would stereotype "Boston Brahmins" the same way. And no doubt there are Jews and Catholics who wouldn't. To suggest there is something "Jewish' about this is weird.
I don't think it has to do with feeling like an outsider either. I'd be surprised if Brooks does. (I assume you mean outside of power). We are talking about a stereotype of someone from another group, not an admirable trait, but not driven by insider or outsider status, just difference – you are reading way too much into this.
annie on September 29, 2015, 9:22 pm
dan, maybe phil's wife meant that in 1990 nobody spoke it anymore, and the woody allen clip is even 20 years older. i didn't hear people talking like that where i was raised, maybe it's more of an east coast thing.
I don't know what the Jewish reference has to do with this. I've know a few catholic guys who would stereotype "Boston Brahmins" the same way.
that's not the same thing as seeing it as fit to print, flaunting the insult so to speak. can you find something similar published somewhere as an example?
Robert Brooks on October 1, 2015, 9:31 pm
Don't forget Gore Vidal
wondering jew on September 29, 2015, 9:14 pm
Why don't WASPs go to orgies? Too many thank you cards.
just on September 29, 2015, 10:57 pm
That's disgusting on so many levels.
annie on September 29, 2015, 11:45 pm
i've heard jewish american princess (jap) jokes about them having sex. something about filing their nails. are you sure you want to go there yonah? after all, like yours it is sort of demeaning to the male. unless you think it's males/husbands writing those thank you notes.
Qualtrough on September 30, 2015, 2:17 am
I seldom agree with Yonah but I laughed out loud when I read his joke. I am a WASP and it does not offend me in the least. I don't want to live in a humorless world in which we cannot laugh at ourselves or even others from time to time.
Qualtrough, I haven't laughed at any joke concerning sex since the funniest sex joke of all, that two-word slogan "Safe sex".
Sex is never safe, and I can't think of a single good reason why we should think it is.
Oh look, "Yonah" is getting lascivious. "Yonah", take it from a lantzman, on you it doesn't look good.
But, I must say, I am a little in awe of your familiarity with orgies, "Yonah"! Do you go to many orgies? Does an 'inclusive community' organize them for you?
talknic on October 1, 2015, 12:41 am
@ Mooser "Yonah"! Do you go to many orgies?
Not without his dachshund
Kris on September 30, 2015, 12:14 pm
Yonah, we have so much to talk about here, maybe we could agree to avoid sex as a topic, since it only leads to thoughts of the child sexual abuse in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/outcast-3.
And in Israel http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/53-percent-of-Israeli-youngsters-suffer-from-abuse-and-victimization-study-finds-404187 . http://bennorton.com/40-percent-of-palestinian-children-detained-by-israel-are-sexually-abused-virtually-all-are-tortured/ .
And the sucking of blood following ritual genital mutilation. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/02/21/nyc-orthodox-jews-in-talks-over-ritual-after-herpes-cases/23798751/
Jon66 on September 30, 2015, 1:10 pm
@Kris
I think for most of us sex is a more pleasant thought. I don't think the first word that comes to mind for most of us would be "abuse".
Kris on September 30, 2015, 8:38 pm
@Jon66: "I think for most of us sex is a more pleasant thought."
Maybe in a different context. In the present context, we are discussing Israel/Palestine, and therefore sex is not a pleasant thought, since sexual abuse is used as a weapon by Israeli Jews against Palestinian children and their families.
oldgeezer on September 30, 2015, 11:29 pm
@jon66
I just dont get the joke. As a WASp I didnt mind getting all those thank you cards although I never did understand why sending them is a custom amongst the Jewish ladies.
PilgrimSoul on September 30, 2015, 8:47 pm
This takes us into complex and extremely interesting areas of personality, power and unconscious attitudes. But I don't think you can ever compare antisemitic jokes to jokes about WASPs. Antisemitism is never trivial, because it is about the dark and sadistic side of Christianity that went unchecked for a millennium, culminating in the Holocaust. Anti-WASP jokes are simply an entertainment, greatly enjoyed by many WASPs themselves, myself included.
That doesn't mean that people can't make jokes about Jews, Jewishness and Judaism, in their own circle of close friends. But the difference all comes down to the aggression at the core of the joke. All jokes are about aggression, in one way or another. A joke about Jews that is filled with loathing or self-loathing is probably going to be antisemitic. A joke about Jews that gently pokes fun at some perceived characteristic probably won't be.
What makes such jokes extremely edgy is that in real life there is no "they," not really–there are only individuals with feelings, aspirations and reactions of their own. It is when we create a "they" to attack an entire group that the whole thing starts to feel dangerous, and can quickly become extremely negative.
But even generalized jokes can also be extremely helpful. I lived for twenty years with a German Jew who made one joke after another about WASPs, and I simply loved the dynamism of it, and the hilarity. (Because, folks, WASPs really ARE funny, and the nicer they are the funnier they can be.) The other great partner in my life was a Muslim woman who constantly made jokes about white Americans…again, I loved it, for the very same reason that I loved the Jewish worldview–because it was being lived out in a very real place, as a response to attitudes that weren't even completely understood by the people who acted them out.
Say what you will about them, jokes about ethnicity and religion are real, at least for the people who are to some extent involved in them. Can we see such jokes as narratives that illuminate our lives without hurting, and being hurt?


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Thanks for the information that you provides. It's very helpful. I just want some clarity on offerings. We take up an offering every first Sunday for our pastor, just an extra way to say thanks. This is announced and can comtrolled by the church. In this case the donor offering is tax deductible and the pastor must treat it as extra income, right? But if someone just walk up to the pastor and give her an offering on their own, not controlled by the church, is that treated the same way or is that just a simple gift?
Your are correct that monies given to your Pastor by the Church from giving which tax exempt credit has been recorded for the givers, needs to be reported as income for your Pastor.
If a person gives monies directly to the Pastor it can not be claimed as tax exempt giving by the giving person and would not be reported by the Church as income to the Pastor.
Yes..if someone walks up to the pastor randomly with a 'cash' gift, he doesn't have to report it. Anything given to him through the church MUST be reported as income on his W-2.
As a note, please be careful with taking up offerings such as those you are talking about. From my understanding, if you ask the church to give offerings to the pastor, it could be considered illegal because of your tax-exempt status.
Collections such as those are supposed to be voluntary. That's why the personal offerings that are handed to him personally by hand don't need to be reported by the church.
I would suggest you stop taking up those collections and hold them only at certain times during the year during special occasions.
Even letters that are sent out soliciting offerings for the pastor are illegal. Govt. is very strict about that. ALL offerings like that MUST be reported as income to the pastor. Please consult with a tax professional before going further with that. You do not want to lose your tax exempt status.


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St. Gregory's Kurling Teams finished in 2nd place and advanced into the Ealing finals on the 13th of March.
The team won 'Spirit of the Game' award for best team work and fair play.
St. Gregory's Gymnastics Team finished in 2nd place beating 3rd place by 0.25 points.
The team is advancing to the Ealing finals after Easter.


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If you would like to take about three hours from your busy schedule and board this cruise you will be well rewarded.
Captain Ray and crew Carl will provide binoculars, blankets, good cheer, sweets, tea and song along your way. It is a wonderful way to hear some of the history of Kenmare, watch the wildlife and sit among seals for a time. You will be completely enchanted.
Seafari is a 10 mile cruise around river and islands, just a five minute walk from Kenmare town centre. This is a friendly and informative cruise. With a fiddler to entertain, as well as a singing captain.
As the cruise nears the rocks where the seals are raising their pups you will see an amazing seal colony only a few feet away from you and binoculars are readily available to all on board.
Being a family run business it is so informal. The captain imparts the safety details in a very clear and informative manner, including "anyone seen dropping litter overboard will swiftly be thrown over to retrieve it!"
The seating on the boat is tiered so everyone is able to see the sights and birds on the way down. The trees where the sea eagles nest are pointed out.
As the boat approaches the islands where the seals are the boat slows and the captain asks for everyone to move to the starboard side of the boat and listen and watch him for the protocols he said were rules, not suggestions.
These rules are for the sake of the seals you will see, and were about not startling them by loud noises and flash photography and no sudden moves and frantic pointing.
When everyone is settled and quiet the captain slowly moves the boat towards one of the islands. The seals are used to the boats gentle engine noises and the boat approaches by degrees till you are about 20 metres from the island.
It is awesome in it's truest sense. You sit for over half an hour watching the seals watching you. Many are basking on the shore, youngsters and older ones cooling off in the water then coming ashore again.
There are many different colours and markings to see. Very different from the captive seals you see in zoos. It is wonderful.


You can check in Ryanair flights either through the online medium or walking up to the baggage drop box stalls.
Check in online happens from the website of Ryanair from where a boarding pass will be issued. This pass would be required to be printed or downloaded. However, the passengers travelling on Flexi Plus fares can do free airport check-in.
Check in deadlines are different for people who have bought the allocated seat and those who have not bought it. The ones who have bought the allocated seat, can check in 60 days before the scheduled departure of the flight whereas those who have not bought it can check in within 4 days to 2 hours time frame before the departure.
There is also a requirement that the boarding passes, which can be had not later than 2 hours before the scheduled departure of the flight, shall be printed on the A4 size paper, or else, shown with the Ryanair App. For those who fail to meet the check in timelines or fail to present the boarding passes, there is provision for charging additional fees from them.
All passengers who are not the citizens of EU or EEU countries are also required to present their Boarding pass at the airport desk for stamping. So, you must have provision for sufficient time for this purpose.
If you are carrying a checked in luggage, then this shall be submitted at least 40 minutes before scheduled departure of flight. Those who have bought the 'Priority Boarding' pass are required to be present at the boarding gate no later than 30 minutes before the scheduled departure of flight.
Boarding gates closes 20 minutes before the scheduled departure of flights. Passengers are required to be present at the gate 30 minutes before the departure time.
It shall also be remembered that the Bag Drop boxes close 40 minutes before scheduled departure, and these open 2 hours before the departure. So, if you are carrying the check in luggage, it must be deposited within this time frame.
a) Priority Boarding Fee- Euro/GBP 5 when done online and Euro/GBP 6 when done at airport.
b) Airport Check In- Euro/GBP 50 per passenger per sector. This is waived for Flexi Plus passengers.


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The Cress Gallery of Art is an institutional member of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG). It bears the name of artist and UTC Guerry Professor of Art Emeritus George Ayers Cress (1921 – 2008) a dedicated lifetime advocate of the University's Gallery of Art and its importance for both campus and community.
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It's great to enjoy the scenic outdoors, but it's even more special when there's a comfortable place to return to. Come and relax in the clean and roomy two-bedroom suites at Holiday Inn Club Vacations Timber Creek Resort. These units sleep a maximum of 6. All of the suites are equipped with telephone, air-conditioning, and a full kitchen, including miscrowave and dishwasher, as well as crockery, cutlery and glassware. For your convenience, a laundry is also available on the premises.
Nearest major airport is Lambert Field, in St. Louis approximately 60 miles or 1 hour away. From airport, take I-70 West approximately 2 miles to I-270 South to I-55 South to exit 174B. Proceed South on Highway 67 approximately 9.5 miles. Resort is on the left side of the road.
Fee for 2 Bedroom units (per stay): Housekeeping fee for all RCI points reservations: There may be a fee of 74.46 U.S. dollars for 2 Bedroom units, per stay. Cash or Credit is accepted. For Points stays less than 7 nights.
Owners must have their week reserved or deposited a minimum of 30 days in advance of the start date for the spacebank to be verified. Owners cannot deposit on line. Owners must call 800-613-0310.
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namespace driver {
namespace toolchains {

class LLVM_LIBRARY_VISIBILITY RISCVToolChain : public Generic_ELF {
public:
  RISCVToolChain(const Driver &D, const llvm::Triple &Triple,
                 const llvm::opt::ArgList &Args);

  bool IsIntegratedAssemblerDefault() const override { return true; }
  void addClangTargetOptions(const llvm::opt::ArgList &DriverArgs,
                             llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CC1Args,
                             Action::OffloadKind) const override;
  void
  AddClangSystemIncludeArgs(const llvm::opt::ArgList &DriverArgs,
                            llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CC1Args) const override;
  void
  addLibStdCxxIncludePaths(const llvm::opt::ArgList &DriverArgs,
                           llvm::opt::ArgStringList &CC1Args) const override;

protected:
  Tool *buildLinker() const override;

private:
  std::string computeSysRoot() const;
};

} // end namespace toolchains

namespace tools {
namespace RISCV {
class LLVM_LIBRARY_VISIBILITY Linker : public GnuTool {
public:
  Linker(const ToolChain &TC) : GnuTool("RISCV::Linker", "ld", TC) {}
  bool hasIntegratedCPP() const override { return false; }
  bool isLinkJob() const override { return true; }
  void ConstructJob(Compilation &C, const JobAction &JA,
                    const InputInfo &Output, const InputInfoList &Inputs,
                    const llvm::opt::ArgList &TCArgs,
                    const char *LinkingOutput) const override;
};
} // end namespace RISCV
} // end namespace tools

} // end namespace driver
} // end namespace clang

#endif // LLVM_CLANG_LIB_DRIVER_TOOLCHAINS_RISCVTOOLCHAIN_H

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Q: Group Theory in General Relativity In Special Relativity, the Lorentz Group is the set of matrices that preserve the metric, i.e. $\Lambda \eta \Lambda^T=\eta$.
Is there any equivalent in General Relativity, like: $\Lambda g \Lambda^T=g$?
(We could at least take locally $g\approx\eta$, so we recover the Lorentz group, but I don't know whether we could extend this property globally.)
Why does Group Theory have much less importance in General Relativity than in QFT and particle physics?

A: Symmetry is just as important in General Relativity as it is in Special Relativity.
In SR the symmetry is the Poincare Group which is the group of mappings of space-time to itself that preserves the metric formula between events given by $d^2 = \Delta{x}^2+\Delta{y}^2 + \Delta{z}^2 - c^2\Delta{t}^2$ The Poincare group is an extension of the Lorentz group that also includes translations.
These group transformations are isometries of the fixed metric. The theory of isometries in GR on fixed backgrounds is described by Killing vector fields as in the answer by joshphysics. They form a Lie algebra using the Lie derivative and this generates the group of isometries, but this group is non-trivial only in special cases. Killing vectors are important for some applications but there is a larger symmetry in GR that is a symmetry of the full equations including a dynamic metric rather than a static background metric.
In GR the full symmetry is the diffeomorphism group of the manifold which is the group of all continuous and differentiable mappings (bijections) of the manifold to itself ("differentiable" means that functions of co-ordinates in patches are differentiable) The group is different for manifolds of different topologies but this is often overlooked. If the topology of the manifold is $ \mathbb{R}^4$ then you can embed the Poincare group into the diffeomorphism group in infinitely many ways.
The full equations describing physics in general relativity must be covariant under this diffeomorphism invariance. This is the case when you include the gravitational field equations as well as the equations of motion for matter. This is a much larger symmetry than the one in SR because the diffeomorphism group is infinite dimensional whereas the Poincare group is just ten dimensional.

A: Group theory does play an important role in general relativity, and I'm aware of three different types of relevant symmetries:
First, there are the physical symmetries of specific solutions to the field equations, formalized by Killing fields, the generators of one-parameter groups of local isometries.
Second, there's general covariance. Mathematically, this means that general relativity needs to be formulated in terms of natural bundles where spacetime diffeomorphisms lift to bundle automorphisms called general covariant transformations. It's a type of gauge symmetry, but different from the one familiar from Yang-Mills-theory (the latter symmetry transformations are vertical and leave spacetime alone).
There's a third class of symmetries relevant in gauge gravity, the structural symmetries. If we start with an oriented spacetime, its tangent bundle is a vector bundle associated to a principal bundle with structure group $GL^+(4,\mathbb R)$. The pseudo-Riemannian metric is a classical Higgs field that breaks this symmetry by reduction to $SO(1,3)$. This symmetry can be further reduced to $SO(3)$, which yields space-time-decompositions as seen by physical observers.

A: As you point out, the Minkowski metric $\eta = \mathrm{diag}(-1,+1, \dots, +1)$ in $d+1$ dimensions possesses a global Lorentz symmetry.  A highbrow way of saying this is that the (global) isometry group of the metric is the Lorentz group.  Well, translations are also isometries of Minkowski, so the full isometry group is the Poincare group.
The general notion of isometry that applies to arbitrary spacetimes is defined as follows.  Let $(M,g)$ be a semi-Riemannian manifold, then any diffeomorphism $f:M\to M$ (coordinate transformation essentially) that leaves the metric invariant is called an isometry of this manifold.
A closely related notion that is often useful in relation to isometries is that of Killing vectors.  Intuitively a killing vector of a metric generates an "infinitesimal" isometry of a given metric.  Intuitively this means that they change very little under the action of the transformations generated by the Killing vectors.
Isometries and Killing vectors are a big reason for which group theory is relevant in GR.  Killing vectors often satisfy vector field commutator relations that form a Lie algebra of some Lie Group.
Addendum (May 28, 2013). Remarks on symmetric spaces and physics.
One can show that in $D$ dimensions, a metric can posses at most $D(D+1)/2$ independent killing vectors.  Any metric that has this maximum number of killing vectors is said to be maximally symmetric.
Example. Consider $4$-dimensional Minkowski space $\mathbb R^{3,1}$.  The isometry group of this space, the Poincare group, has dimension $10$ since there are $4$ translations, $3$ rotations, and $3$ boosts.  On the other hand, in this case we have $D=4$ so that the maximum number of independent killing vectors is $4(4+1)/2 = 10$.  It turns out, in fact, that each rotation, translation, and boost gives rise to an independent Killing vector field, so that Minkowski is maximally symmetric.
One can in fact show that there are (up to isometry) precisely three distinct maximally symmetric spacetimes: $\mathrm{AdS}_{d+1}, \mathbb R^{d,1}, \mathrm{dS}_{d+1}$ called anti de-Sitter space, Minkowski space, and de-Sitter space respectively, and that these spacetimes all have constant negative, zero and positive curvature respectively.  The isometry groups of these spacetimes are well-studied, and these spacetimes form the backbone of a lot of physics.  In particular, the whole edifice of $\mathrm{AdS}/\mathrm{CFT}$ relies on the fact that $\mathrm{AdS}$ has a special isometry group that is related to the conformal group of Minkowski space.

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François-Xavier Schoepfer (né le  à Wettolsheim,  mort à Tarbes le ) fut évêque de Tarbes du , et de Lourdes en 1912,  à sa mort. Peu connu, il a pourtant marqué, et été marqué par, son époque par plusieurs évènements dont la construction d'une réplique de la Grotte de Lourdes dans son village natal de Wettolsheim et la loi de séparation de l'Église et de l'État.

Biographie

Jeunesse

François-Xavier Schoepfer est né dans une famille bourgeoise d'Alsace, à Wettolsheim. Ses aïeux avaient bâti leur fortune sur des cultures de vignes. Il reçut l'éducation catholique dès son plus jeune âge et manifesta rapidement son amour pour la religion. Très rapidement, il est envoyé au séminaire.

Le passage dans les ordres

Ordonné prêtre le  pour le diocèse de Paris, son origine sociale lui permit de s'imposer pour les votes et nominations qu'il eut à franchir. Curé de la paroisse Saint-Georges de la Villette de 1895 à 1899, il est nommé évêque de Tarbes, l'un des lieux les plus renommés du catholicisme, le 7 décembre 1899.

Évêque de Tarbes

En 1902, le futur pape Pie X, encore patriarche de Venise, voulut se rendre à Lourdes. Cependant, son état de santé détérioré ne le lui permit pas. Accédant au Saint-Siège, il demanda, dans une lettre, à  Schoepfer de confier son Pontificat à la Vierge Marie.
En tant qu'évêque de Tarbes dans les années 1900, il vécut la séparation de l'Église Catholique et de l'État français en 1905 (Loi de séparation de l'Église et de l'État). Il se fit connaitre pour ses revendications, surtout du point de vue de la dépendance financière de l'Église par rapport à l'État en France. Sa lettre ouverte dans Le Semeur des Hautes-Pyrénées du dimanche  montre son pessimisme sur la survie des églises et paroisses de France sans l'apport financier de l'État d'avant 1905.

Les frais du culte.

Lettre circulaire de  l'évêque de Tarbes prescrivant une souscription générale pour subvenir aux frais du Culte dans le Diocèse. Nos Très Chers Frères, La loi qui sépara l'Église de l'État commence à produire ses effets, et déjà l'arbre peut être jugé par ses fruits naissants […]. Nous vous disions que cette loi si elle était votée contre toute raison, mettrait des entraves à la célébration du culte religieux ou, plutôt, le supprimerait fatalement dans beaucoup de paroisses, en les réduisant à l'impossibilité d'en supporter les frais […]. Le Diocèse de Tarbes, dont le Clergé se compose à peu près de six cents prêtres, touchait en 1905, sur le budget des cultes, la somme de 397000 francs, chiffre assez considérable à première vue, mais qui se réduit à des moyennes bien modestes en arrivant jusqu'à tous ceux qui sont appelés à se le partager. Or, à la suite des suppressions opérées par la loi de séparation, le Clergé du Diocèse perd, dès la présente année 1906, la somme de 77889 francs ; ce déficit va augmenter successivement de 14519 fr. en 1907, de 54323 en 1908, et ainsi de suite, si bien que, dans quelques années, il atteindra le chiffre formidable de 262538 francs, jusqu'à ce qu'enfin, toutes les allocations et toutes les pensions étant abolies, les prêtres se trouvent privés, jusqu'au dernier centime d'un traitement […]. Joignez à cela que cette opération de dépouillement se poursuivra sur un autre point […]. Dans cinq ans, les curés seront expulsés de leurs presbytères ; dans quatre ans ou dans huit ans, selon les circonstances, les prêtres, comme aussi les églises, ne pourront plus recevoir des communes ni allocations, ni secours d'aucune sorte […].Toutefois, en attendant que vous obteniez par de pacifiques mais énergiques réclamations, c'est-à-dire, le bulletin de vote à la main, le respect effectif de vos droits à la vie religieuse, laissez-nous faire appel à votre charité […]. Nous Nous bornons, cette année, à prescrire une souscription générale dans notre Diocèse. Elle se fera dans chaque paroisse par les soins de zélateurs ou de zélatrices de bonne volonté, désignés par M. le Curé. Ceux-ci se présenteront chez vous de notre part, à intervalles périodiques, déterminés selon votre désir : une fois seulement au cours de l'année, ou plusieurs fois, ou même chaque mois ou chaque semaine. Le détail des offrandes ainsi recueillies, anonymes ou personnellement désignées, sera publié par MM. Les Curés tous les semestres, dans chaque paroisse, de telle façon qu'ils puissent transmettre à leur Doyen respectif, le  juin et le  décembre, les souscriptions de leurs paroissiens […]. Donné à Lourdes, en notre Chalet épiscopal, le lundi saint 9 avril 1906. FR.-XAVIER. Évêque de Tarbes.Il y fit donc part de son idée de créer une quête dans les paroisses, créant ainsi une chose qui existe encore de nos jours, le Denier de Culte.
Il organisa le cinquantième anniversaire de l'apparition de la Vierge Marie à Bernadette Soubirous en 1908.

 Évêque de Tarbes et de Lourdes

En 1912, le statut d'évêque de Tarbes est modifié.  Schoepfer fut donc le premier à porter ce titre.
La même année, sa maison natale brûla à Wettolsheim. Demandant la permission à ses frères, il eut alors l'idée, en remerciement à la Vierge Marie de Lourdes, de créer, en Alsace, une "copie exacte" de la Grotte de Lourdes, sur le lieu même de sa maison. Pour parfaire sa réplique, il fit venir de Lourdes un bloc issu de la Grotte même pour qu'il soit installé en lieu et place identique à Wettolsheim. Il fit alors faire une statue identique à celle de la Vierge Marie de Lourdes pour l'installer sur ce bloc. L'architecte de l'agencement du lieu fut un certain Burgy.

Il meurt le 24 aout 1927 et est enterré dans la cathédrale de Tarbes.

 Distinction

  (12 février 1923)

 Références
 Schoepfer Francois-Xavier,  Schoepfer,... Lourdes pendant la guerre. Lettres pastorales'', 1921, Paris, éditions Berger-Levrault

Naissance dans le Haut-Rhin
Naissance en avril 1843
Décès en août 1927
Décès à Tarbes
Évêque de Tarbes
Évêque catholique français du XXe siècle
Décès à 84 ans

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Marvel, DC Pros Openly Support Antifa While Trump Preps To Label Them Domestic Terrorists
June 3, 2020 OAG Staff
Various professional comic book artists decided to openly support Antifa, a domestic terrorist group, before quickly pulling down the logos after President Trump announced that he would soon be declaring them as domestic terrorists due to their affiliation with attempting to burn down half America in riots, vandalism, and looting.
A couple of #ComicsGate YouTubers posted up videos about the subject, including Micah Curtis who made a nine minute video using his Sleeveless Comics channel to highlight how artist Jeff Lemire – a professional who has done work for Valiant Comics, Marvel, and DC – briefly had the Antifa logo on his social media account.
Lemire wasn't alone, though.
Others also joined in to show their support for Antifa, such as Jamal Igle, a writer and editor who has worked on Supergirl, Superman, Iron and New Warriors (to name a few) for Marvel, DC, and IDW Publishing.
YouTuber ThatUmbrellaGuy did a video highlighting some of the comic book pros who have been throwing their lot in with Antifa, with one segment highlighting Zoe Quinn's open support for the movement, all while having books published by DC and Marvel.
The show of support didn't last long in the open because President Donald Trump declared that they would be naming Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.
Certain bloggers were also quick to throw in their support for the group, such as The Mary Sue, who highlighted tweets from various influencers and content creators, including IGN's own Max Scoville, who made a tweet thread defending Antifa on May 31st, 2020.
Friendly reminder that "ANTIFA" is short for "anti-fascism." Fascism is a form of authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition. Y'know, the opposite of freedom, liberty, and independence. Fascism is a bad thing. Fight it.
— Max Scoville (@MaxScoville) May 31, 2020
But it gets worse.
The Mary Sue even went so far as to cover ways to instigate vandalism, including a tutorial on how to topple an obelisk, such as the Washington Monument in D.C.
And to top it all off, various Hollywood celebrities have been funding and providing financial relief for the bailout of those arrested for looting and vandalism, essentially supporting Antifa. You can check out the video below from Pixelpeep.
Recognize who these people are, and know that they don't fight for your interest or for the betterment of America.
This is why we're keeping track of such individuals with the Traitors of America Master List.
Know who these people are and stay informed.
(Thanks for the news tip anon and KotakuInAction 2)
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Book Synopsis – The Terror Courts
Jess Bravin | The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay (Yale University Press: 2013)
Adrian Lo is an undergraduate in the class of 2015 at Yale University.
The history of the Guantánamo military commissions has been nothing less than tumultuous since its creation by the Bush administration. Designed to prosecute foreign prisoners accused of involvement in terrorism after 9/11, the commissions have faced continuous criticism and legal challenges up to the present. In The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, Jess Bravin writes a fast-paced account of the Guantánamo military commissions, which he calls "the most important legal story in decades." Bravin follows the development of the commissions from their conception through their legal challenges, start-stops, and reforms. Bravin, who covered the commissions as The Wall Street Journal's Supreme Court correspondent, was involved in some of the earliest reporting about the administration's interrogation and detention program. His book admirably weaves together different strands of the commissions' cluttered history—including commission proceedings, several constitutional challenges (including Rasul and Hamdan), and career profiles of individuals involved. Terror Courts offers a coherent account of the military commissions that highlights both their underlying movations and their surrounding battles. Focusing primarily on the original iteration of the commissions from 2001 to 2006, Bravin portrays the military commissions as "the legal equivalent of a war of choice," which hindered, rather than facilitated, the trial of terrorist suspects compared to the existing civilian court system. Written with a voluminous amount of behind-the-scenes detail, Bravin's chronicle also offers a unique foray into the operations of the Bush administration.
Bravin argues that the military commissions were not developed because the civilian justice system was inadequate to handle the cases of captured terrorists. "None of the government agencies responsible for fighting terrorism," he writes, "including the CIA, the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Defense Department–contended that the existing court system was unequipped to prosecute terrorists or sought establishment of a permanent, parallel justice system offshore." Nevertheless, the administration chose to establish military commissions under the military justice system that "was not designed for criminal conspiracies or high-stakes national security cases." Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs) staffing the commissions as attorneys and judges had little experience in national security litigation and were unfamiliar with the complex legal challenges raised. Scrutinized over their legitimacy, procedures, and fairness by federal courts and the legal community, the military commissions ended up displaying "indulgence toward defendants, if not outright leniency" that would not occur in federal courts. Contrary to the Bush administration's belief that detainees would be convicted "more rapidly and receiv[e] stiffer sentences" in military commissions, Bravin argues that it ended up being a less efficient system of justice than the existing civilian courts. Instead the commissions were conceived and championed from the outset "by officials whose primary motive was redistributing powers from the legislative and judicial branches to the executive." Driven by the philosophy of an expansive executive shared by administration attorneys David Addington (Vice President Dick Cheney's legal counsel) and John Yoo (Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the OLC) that came to dominate the Bush administration's legal vision, "commissions were an expression of that ideology rather than a pragmatic response to an irresolvable problem."
Bravin traces the theory of military commissions as a type of military operation existing "not to limit the government's advantage but to maximize it" to a previous generation of legal advisors like Bill Barr, the former Attorney General who handled the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The idea resurfaced after the 9/11 attacks—declared as an act of war by the White House—which opened "the way to reshape the constitutional landscape to [the administration's] liking."
The architects of the military commission in the Bush administration were inspired by the precedent of a 1942 military commission authorized by Franklin Roosevelt to try eight Nazi saboteurs. The trial of German saboteurs by military commission, upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin, reversed earlier practices of the U.S. trying German agents in civilian courts. Unlike the hundreds of U.S. military commissions held overseas after the Second World War that shared structures similar to courts-martial, Quirin was unique because of the level of executive influence and the rapid conviction and execution of the defendants at trial—six of the eight saboteurs were executed within a month of the commission's appointment. Bravin writes that Addington and Yoo, both chief architects of the initial military commissions, were fascinated by the Quirin precedent, which they believed affirmed the President's vast executive power during wartime.
In spite of the fact that Quirin left unresolved whether the President as Commander in Chief has inherent power to convene military commissions, the OLC saw it as part of the President's power during war to establish military commissions without explicit congressional authorization. Bravin finds that advisors of President Bush believed that even if congressional authorization were necessary, the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force provided authority to the full extent permitted by past executive practices, including establishing military commissions, despite containing no explicit reference to them.
The initial draft of the military order establishing the military commissions made no reference to the principle of due process, declaring it not practical to follow the principles of law and rules of evidence expected in a court-martial or federal court. The draft also denied prisoners selected by the president for trial before the commissions any remedy from any domestic, foreign, or international court. Guantánamo was chosen for the commissions precisely because, away from both the mainland U.S. and the battlefield, it was seen as an extralegal location where constitutional and legal protections for civilian and typical military trials would not apply. The military commissions thus revived the practice of "dispensing rough justice to enemy prisoners" which, in Yoo and Addington's view, was "a true American tradition that had been lost in the postwar legal fetish for individual rights."
While defending in public the military commissions, attorney general John Ashcroft saw the design as a threat to the core function of the Justice Department, which had a successful record of prosecuting al Qaeda-linked defendants in federal courts since the 1990s. The military order that established the commissions "presumed that the criminal justice system had failed," which "envisioned creating for the first time a permanent legal structure under the president's sole command." Despite his protests, the 2001 military order handed control of the commissions to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, with the final memo making no mention of the Justice Department.
Just as the Department of Justice was removed from the military commissions, many others within the Executive branch were kept outside the decision-making loop for the prosecution of Guantánamo detainees. Bravin's research shows that key advisors such as Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), and George Tenet (Director of the CIA) only discovered the existence of the initial executive order establishing the commissions from press reports after the fact. Other agencies and departments also were systematically excluded from the design and operations of the commissions. Communication between the Pentagon and the Department of Justice was described as a "one-way street," where federal prosecutors were furious to find their suspects being transferred to Guantánamo without notice. A similar story could be told about the CIA, which had no role in establishing the commissions and proved very uncooperative with the military commissions.
The lack of inter-agency cooperation was only one of the reasons why the military commissions failed. Many of the original goals of the military commissions were stymied by domestic and international pressures. While at first largely shielded from domestic concerns, the commissions turned out to be extremely vulnerable to foreign influence, particularly those of America's allies in the War in Iraq. For example, Moazzam Begg, a high-level detainee and British national captured in Pakistan suspected of providing financial support to an al Qaeda training camp, was released without trial because of pressure from British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a key U.S. ally. In another case, suspects held and charged for involvement in the same terrorist plot received radically different sentences when tried in civilian courts and by military commission. Jose Padilla and Binyam Mohamed were detained together and accused of attempting to explode a "dirty bomb" in an American city. Padilla, a U.S. citizen tried in federal courts, was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison; whereas Mohamed, a British citizen slated for trial by a military commission, was eventually sent back to the UK without charge at the request of the British government.
Bravin covers the commissions from the perspective of Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, who served in the Office of Military Commissions as a prosecutor from 2003 to 2006. Couch was involved with most of the major cases tried in the military commissions, including the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Salim Hamdan, and USS Cole bombing suspect Rahim al-Nashiri. A former JAG who re-enlisted after losing a friend during 9/11, Couch was initially eager to bring detainees to justice. But it did not take long for him to recognize the pervasiveness of the administration's torture methods and how it had tainted evidence collected from many suspects. During his visits to Guantánamo, he recognized detention and interrogation strategies from the playbook of his own military resistance training years ago. It became evident to Couch that these detainee testimonies, which made up most of the prosecution evidence, were extracted under coercion or even torture, even though they were permitted by the rules of the commission. Couch knew that defense attorneys would certainly challenge the admissibility of the evidence. He saw these practices as legal concerns for the commissions and raised these issues with his superiors, only to find a culture of silence and dismissal.
Legal concerns turned into moral struggles as Couch tried to square his personal ethics with the practices of the commission. During the investigations of Mohamadou Ould Slahi, Couch discovered the use of enhanced interrogation techniques by the Defense Intelligence Agency after it had grown impatient with the FBI's interrogation. Although Couch was convinced that Slahi was guilty, Couch concluded that the interrogation techniques violated the United Nations Convention Against Torture and by extension, the War Crimes Act. As an act of disapproval, he chose to formally disassociate himself from any prosecution efforts against Slahi. In 2009, Susan Crawford, the convening authority of the Guantánamo military commissions, eventually admitted publicly to the allegations of torture by dismissing charges against Mohammed al Qahtani, who suffered from similar treatment as Slahi did during interrogation.
One of the surprises in The Terror Courts is the resistance shown by military officers staffing the commissions to the administration's attempt to withhold fair trial and due process by fiat. Bravin portrays the servicemen staffing the commissions, like Stuart Couch, as strong defendants of core military and American values who grew uncomfortable with the disorderly operations of the commissions, the lack of vision of the mission, and the rigged process. Far from being sympathetic to the detainees, these servicemen often shared the conviction that the detainees were culpable. But they recognized at the same time that the deprivation of fundamental rights, such as the right to appeal, was incompatible with the Uniform Code of Military Justice and damaging to the reputation of the armed forces. Throughout the book, Bravin portrays many of these servicemen like Couch and Navy Lt. Commander Charlie Swift (defense counsel of Salim Hamdan) as silent heroes who tried to reform the commissions from within.
Even though rules governing the military trials grew significantly following the Supreme Court decision on Hamdan v. Rumsfield in 2006 and President Obama's revisions to the commissions through the Military Commissions Act of 2009 – a period that the book treats in relatively broad strokes – there remains much for future administrations to address. Bravin regrets the failure of President Obama to take more decisive action to close Guantánamo and reform the military commission system, despite promises as a candidate to do both. He argues that when the Obama administration announced that KSM and the other 9/11 defendants would be tried in a military commission following an abandoned attempt to try KSM in federal court, the Obama administration effectively gave the military commissions a bipartisan imprimatur that would ensure their continued existence.
The strength of The Terror Courts lies in a narrative structure that coherently weaves together different sources—from Congressional testimonies to courtroom transcripts to interviews—to offer a comprehensive and accessible account of the military commission system's development. Nevertheless, Bravin could have ventured deeper into analyzing the difficulties for reform moving forward. While the legitimacy of the commissions continues to be contentious, it remains to be seen whether the commissions "can be done right at all."


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Klaus-Michael Mallmann (born 3 November 1948, in Kaiserslautern) is a German historian at the University of Stuttgart.

Scientific career
Mallmann studied history, Sociology, Politics and German studies at the Saarland University. In 1979 he was awarded the Kurt Magnus Prize  after working as a television journalist for Saarländischer Rundfunk from 1976 to 1987. He obtained his doctorate in 1980, with a study of the "beginnings of the mine workers' movement on the Saar (1848 - 1904)". He was an academic assistant at the Saarland university from 1988 to 1992, in a research project titled "Resistance and refusal in Saarland 1935 - 1945". Afterwards he worked at the Free University of Berlin on the research project "The Gestapo 1933 - 1945" under Professor Dr. Peter Steinbach. He qualified as a university lecturer in 1995 at the University of Essen with the study "Milieu and Avant-garde. On the social history of German communism 1918 - 1933". He taught in Essen as lecturer for modern history. He transferred to the university of Stuttgart in 2001. Other research projects focused on the time of National Socialism, including "Order police, the War in the East and the murder of the Jews" as a postdoctoral researcher at the cultural studies institute of the academic centre in North Rhine-Westphalia, and a project at the University of Flensburg, "The perpetrators of the Shoah. Norms and behaviour in the process of the extermination of the Jews".

Publications

Monographs
 Kommunisten in der Weimarer Republik. Sozialgeschichte einer revolutionären Bewegung. Darmstadt 1996 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)

Editions
 (with Gerhard Paul) Die Gestapo im Zweiten Weltkrieg. `Heimatfront` and besetztes Europa, Darmstadt 2000 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 674 S.)
 (with Volker Rieß and Wolfram Pyta) Deutscher Osten 1939-194# Der Weltschauungskrieg in Photos and Texten, Darmstadt 2003 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 205 S.) (publication of the research unit Ludwigsburg of the Stuttgart University, Band 1)
 (with Gerhard Paul) Karrieren der Gewalt. Nationalsozialistische Täterbiographien, Darmstadt 2004 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 282 S.) (publication of the research unit Ludwigsburg of the Stuttgart University, Band 2)
 (with Bogdan Musial) Genesis des Genozids. Polen 1939-194# Hrsg. im Auftrag des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau and der research unit Ludwigsburg of the Stuttgart University, Darmstadt 2004 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 240 S.) (publication of the research unit Ludwigsburg of the Stuttgart University, Band 3)
 (with Martin Cüppers) Halbmond und Hakenkreuz. Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina, Darmstadt, 3rd edition 2011 (1st edition 2006), (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 288 S.)
 Die Gestapo nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen; Darmstadt 2009 (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)

Articles
 Social Penetration and Police Action: Collaboration Structures in the Repertory of Gestapo Activities, in: International Review of Social History 42 (1997), p. 25-43
 Frankreichs fremde Patrioten. Deutsche in der Résistance in: Jahrbuch Exilforschung 15 (1997) p. 33-65
 Konsistenz oder Zusammenbruch? Profile des kommunistischen Widerstandes 1933 - 1945, in: Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann (Hrsg.): Anpassung - Verweigerung - Widerstand. Soziale Milieus, politische Kultur and der Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland im regionalen Vergleich, Berlin 1997, p. 221 - 237
 Vom Fußvolk der "Endlösung". Ordnungspolizei, Ostkrieg and Judenmord, in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 26 (1997) p. 355 - 391
 Denunziation, Kollaboration, Terror. Deutsche Gesellschaft and Geheime Staatspolizei im Nationalsozialismus, in: Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen 27 (1998), p. 132 - 13# "Kommunisten" and "Deutschsprachige Emigranten im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg", in: Claus-Dieter Krohn/Patrik von zur Mühlen/Gerhard Paul/Lutz Winckler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration 1933 - 1945, Darmstadt 1989, Sp. 493 - 506, 608 - 621
 Gehorsame Parteisoldaten oder eigensinnige Akteure? Die Weimarer Kommunisten in der Kontroverse - Eine Erwiderung, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 47 (1999), p. 401 - 415
 Der Einstieg in den Genozid. Das Lübecker Polizeibataillon 307 and das Massaker in Brest-Litowsk Anfang Juli 1941, in: Archiv für Polizeigeschichte 10 (1999), p. 82 - 88
 Brüderlein & Co. Die Gestapo and der kommunistische Widerstand in der Kriegsendphase, in: Gerhard Paul/Klaus-Michael Mallmann (Hrsg.): Die Gestapo im Zweiten Weltkrieg. `Heimatfront` and besetztes Europa, Darmstadt 2000, p. 270 - 287
 Menschenjagd and Massenmord. Das neue Instrument der Einsatzgruppen and - kommandos 1938–1945, ibid, p. 291-316
 Die Türöffner der "Endlösung". Zur Genesis des Genozids, ibid, p. 437-463
 "Aufgeräumt and abgebrannt". Sicherheitspolizei and `Bandenkampf` in der besetzten Sowjetunion, ibid, p. 503-520
 Die Gestapo. Weltanschauungsexekutive mit gesellschaftlichem Rückhalt, ibid, p. 599-650 (gemeinsam mit Gerhard Paul)
 Die unübersichtliche Konfrontation. Geheime Staatspolizei, Sicherheitsdienst and christliche Kirchen 1934-1939/40, in: Gerhard Besier (Hrsg.): Zwischen "nationaler Revolution" and militärischer Aggression. Transformationen in Kirche and Gesellschaft während der konsolidierten NS-Gewaltherrschaft 1934–1939, München 2001, p. 121-136
 Der qualitative Sprung im Vernichtungsprozeß. Das Massaker von Kamenez-Podolsk Ende August 1941, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 10 (2001), p. 239-264
 Les Interbrigadistes allemands: un contingent national de volontaires pendant la guerre d´Espagne, in : Jean Batou/Ami-Jacques Rapin/Stéfanie Prezioso (Hrsg.) : Volontaires internationaux contre Franco. Engagés volontaires de cinq continents et politique de l`Union soviétique, Lausanne 2000 (Verlag Antipodes)
 "Mensch, ich feiere heut´ meinen tausendsten Genickschuß". Die Sicherheitpolizei and die Shoah in Westgalizien, in: Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.): Die Täter der Shoah, Göttingen 2002
 Der Krieg im Dunkeln. Das Unternehmen "Zeppelin" 1942–1945, in: Michael Wildt (Hrsg.): Die Rolle des SD im NS-Regime, Hamburg 2002 (Hamburger Edition)
 (with Gerhard Paul) Sozialisation, Milieu and Gewalt. Fortschritte and Probleme der neueren Täterforschung, in: Klaus-Michael Mallmann/Gerhard Paul (Hrsg.): Karrieren der Gewalt. Nationalsozialistische Täterbiographien, Darmstadt 2004, p. 1-32
 Heinrich Hamann - Leiter des Grenzpolizeikommissariats Neu-Sandez, in: ibid, p. 104-114
 "... Mißgeburten, die nicht auf diese Welt gehören" Die deutsche Ordnungspolizei in Polen 1939–1941, in: Michael Mallmann/ Bogdan Musial (Hrsg.): Genesis des Genozidp. Polen 1939-194# Hrsg. im Auftrag des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau and der research unit Ludwigsburg of the Stuttgart University, Darmstadt 2004, p. 71-89
 "Mensch, ich feiere heut' den tausendsten Genickschuß". Die Sicherheitspolizei and die Shoah in Westgalizien, in: Bogdan Musial (Hrsg.): "Aktion Reinhardt". Der Völkermord an den Juden im Generalgouvernement 1941–1944, Osnabrück 2004, p. 353-379

External links
 Entry at the University of Stuttgart website
 Research Unit Ludwigsburg

1948 births
Living people
20th-century German historians
German journalists
German male journalists
German male non-fiction writers
Saarländischer Rundfunk people
21st-century German historians