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Yeah But
by Frank Knotts on October 8, 2016 in Blog with 20 Comments Tweet
If your defense of Donald Trump's lewd behavior begins with, ends with, or contains in anyway this phrase, "yeah but Bill Clinton did much worse ". Then you have given up all hope of being an intelligent, thoughtful, responsible citizen, and have chosen the Dark-side. If you choose to ignore the fact that one person's bad act does not excuse those of others, then you should take a long and desperate look within. You are an empty husk of a human being who cares only about some twisted idea of what winning is.
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Sorry Tom, but would rather not. (Edited by Frank Knotts)
People say things in private related to sex; both males and females.
But in choosing the best human being possible to run our country, having these things pop up three weeks before an election is the kiss of death.
I can attest that women speak of men equally as crude as the Donald was speaking in what he thought was confidence to an acquaintance about a woman. The political fallout is that this incident coupled with others, all align to seal his character as a predator of women. He is the new Cosby.
The difference between utterances by men versus women, is that men and women are not equal. This is particularly bad because a male in putting down a woman, is keeping her down, … down in pay, down in promotability, and down as in depression.
If you are with a group who gets drunk and starts belittling the opposite sex, I guess a good line of thinking about it, would be this: would I allow this to continue if they were talking about my daughter? Would I allow this to continue if they were talking about my wife? Would I allow this if they were talking about my mother?
Bottom line, they are someone's daughter, wife, or mother. People who often get called "Libtards" are way ahead on the curve here. They don't discuss sex in a brutal or derogatory fashion. Conservatives are mostly the ones who overstep, perhaps because they think they're entitled, because they see men as the dominant gender to whom women must acquiesce.
If they do often overstep, it is time for them to rethink that equation.
I'm sadly reminded of Joe Paterno who in his old age, thought he'd done more than enough to end the Sandusky problem,… Things like that didn't happen back when he was developing (that you ever heard about), and if you told a guy not to do it anymore, you expected it not to be done anymore. Most of these commentators on other conservative sites are equally lost.. Time has moved on for them, and they missed the horn announcing the boat had left…
So for them… if you'd wouldn't accept it being said about your mother, wife, or daughter… it's not ok…
I like Trump. He says what's on his mind.
Wonder what Rob Arlett's got to say?
Yeah Fishbites, like someone suffering from Asperger Syndrome!
Not sure if I understand the comparison of Trump's latest controversy compared to that of the Clinton's.
On one hand you have a guy who uses locker room bravado language in limited company , and on the other hand you have the Clinton's who have been proven to systematically lie and deceive for their own gains.
Who cares about the lies, deceit, and inept failures brought on by the actions and inactions of Hillary Clinton and the current administration because we now know that Trump has a potty mouth.
FBH: Your takeaway is only that Trump uses foul language? Pleeze! You didn't get that he was using his potty mouth to describe his history of sexual assaults? It's not so much his choice of words as it is his actions. That's the comparison that seems lost on you.
And I still want to know where Arlett stands on all of this.
Laffter says:
Maybe Fish bites is secretly hoping Trump would
Grab her Pu**y…..
He also talks about hitting on married women
At least Monica Lewisnsky NEVER said she was not
A willing participant …..
TRUMP seems quite ok with offensive touching a sexual
Assault his view of women is , well……. from the middle
Ages. Literally
The world is full of hypocrites.
Rob Arlett, Delaware state chairman for the Trump campaign, said the remarks in the recording are "unacceptable," but said the news should not force Trump to quit the race.
Arlett found time to speak to the News Journal:
"I'm not minimizing what was said, but what is most important and is most impactful are the actions of Hillary Clinton," Arlett said. "We should be focused on her cover-ups and corruption, not the words of Donald Trump from more than a decade ago."
Arlett said Trump had "taken full responsibility for" the comments and had not tried to hide from them. "I'm confident that he will continue to be remorseful and apologetic," Arlett said. "I think he will do that at [Sunday's] debate and I think he will be able to focus us all again on the future of this country."
Good luck with that Rob, I have to marvel at your capacity to delude yourself.
James Spadola, running for the North Wilmington District 1 Senate currently held by Democratic Sen. Harris McDowell, said Trump's candidacy is a disaster for the GOP. "Our party nominated a pig, and that's going to make us all have to work a lot harder," said Spadola. Of course, Arlett is working only for Trump–not the party. His defense of Trump needs to be seen in that context.
What Trump said in that hot mic clip was exactly what Bill Clinton did to Kathleen Willey in the White House…she went to him to ask him to move her from a volunteer position at the White House to a paying position and he grabbed her genitals.
And then Hillary Clinton threatened and intimidated Willey into silence. Willey lived in fear for a decade.
The Clintons destroyed any woman who dared to stand up to Bill Clinton's sexual advances and they destroyed any woman who came forward to tell their stories about their affairs with Bill Clinton.
I applaud Trump for bringing these women forward to show the world how the Clinton's actions destroyed women, and shame on you so called "republicans" who are still nothing more than a legion of old, white men trying to figure out right and wrong when it comes to sexual assault. Here's a hint: Literally grabbing a woman's genitals in the Oval Office is wrong, and threatening her afterwards doesn't make it any less wrong. Why do we want that back in the White House? I'll take Trump's ignorant words over the Clinton's plotting, threatening and literal sexual attacks.
Oh my gosh, anon. Why didn't you step forward and testify to the office of the special counsel when all of this was happening ? You make it sound as though you were a witness! But the report states that there were no witnesses and nobody really knows what happened between the two of them.
Bill Clinton would never use the language Trump did. LOL.
But the report states that there were no witnesses…
Okay. No witness, no rape. Right?
Uhmmm, Rick, you do understand that not even Monica Lewinsky has suggested anything non-consensual.
I will say this, Trump said he wanted to unify this country, and I think he's doing a pretty good job. Just not in the way he intended.
First off, let me say that I have no intention of voting for Hillary Clinton. I don't support her candidacy, will not vote for her, and do not believe she is what this county needs.
However, I keep hearing how Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton "threatened and intimidated" and "destroyed any woman who dared to stand up to Bill Clinton's sexual advances and they destroyed any woman who came forward to tell their stories about their affairs with Bill Clinton."
I see little of evidence put forward of actual action on her part to do these things. She has been a highly visible public figure for the past 30 years, and I would think if she were out there threatening and intimidating women, Rick Lazio (in that brutal Senate race), Michelle Obama (in the primary) and others would have made the case by now.
This is what Juanita Broaddrick told the Drudge Report in an interview in 1999:
"She (Hillary) came directly to me as soon as she hit the door … She caught me and took my hand and said 'I am so happy to meet you. I want you to know that we appreciate everything you do for Bill.'"
Broaddrick says she found these comments "scary," especially after Hillary repeated them a second time when her "smile faded on the second thank you". The former nursing home worker said she was "in state of shock … nausea went all over me".
That's all I could fine. Maybe Rick or FBH know something I don't?
Why is it so difficult for old conservative white men to distinguish between consensual and non consensual sex?
A rich guy who can generally do whatever he pleases with little or no repercussions. He is the embodiment of the ideal (male) fantasy, to exist in a world where one can have whatever they want and do whatever they want. That's a big reason for his popularity – someone who can get away with thumbing their nose at the establishment. He has no class and consequently has no concept of how to be politically correct or how to behave in polite society.
To have such a person as the leader of the free world would be the greatest embarrassment of American history. But all that pales in comparison to his unfitness as Commander In Chief and Chief Executive of the United States.
I disagree with Cruz's policies. Bush, Rubio, etc. any of them would have been at least semi competent in those roles – and may have had a shot at my vote, depending on how they acquitted themselves during the campaign. But we are where we are and our choices are limited between someone who is competent with whom we disagree or someone like Trump.
Most of you may think you know the process by which nuclear weapons are launched. You don't. At DEFCON 1, it takes about 5 minutes. At other levels about 15 minutes. Everything happens simultaneously. Not like you see in the movies.
This campaign is not an WWE Raw event. Despite what you may see in the media. Everyone gets to vote how they wish. I'm will vote sober and somberly because it means that much to our nation and the world.
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socialism during the roosevelt depression - a book review
On taxes on company profits and employment. [p. 334]
"1937 New York Times, headline: Levy on profits halts expansion
"…companies that had formerly sought to retain employees through downturns now no longer had the reserves to do so. they had likewise ceased to invest in new equipment, normally a traditional move in slow periods."
It is hard to say whether The Forgotten Man is a very good book, or a rather boring and rambling one. I like it very much, it contains endless verbal photographs, in date order, relating to the Great Depression in the USA between 1927 and 1940.
The book wanders across the confused, inconsistent and largely ineffectual response of the American government to the Great Depression. Every now and then, with a very light hand, there is inserted a gentle observation on macro-economics.
I have a very marked preference for facts over opinion, and this book provides that. It is interesting to see the beginnings of very recent problems in the American economy originating in Roosevelt's socialism.
It was he who was responsible for setting up Fanny Mae, and for giving untramelled power to the corrupt and ruthless unions that have seen the American Big Three motor (and other) corporations lurch from crisis to crisis ever since.
The seeds of government safety nets, such as Medicare and Welfare, which the American state has struggled with ever since, also took root during the Depression.
The pseudo-intellectuals often admired, and tried to learn from, the likes of Mussolini and Stalin. The disputes between intellectualism and pragmatism and between statism and individualism continue to shape and confuse modern society right into this new century.
God save society from enthusiastic theorists.
roosevelt did not 'end the depression'
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
by Amity Shlaes
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2007, hbk
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#roosevelt_socialism_301108
modern russia - 90 years of progress thanks to socialism
"The sorry state of villages like Semlevo is the result of "negative social selection", says Ms Nefedova: the most active and able people have migrated to large towns. Few people have stayed behind, and most of those are unable to work. In Semlevo there is only one farmer who keeps his own sheep and chickens. Most houses there have no running water, plumbing or gas heating. Still, Semlevo's old collective farm is considered lucky: it was recently bought by a businesswoman from Moscow. Most other collective farms in this district are dead.
"Russia's demography befits a country at war. The population of 142m is shrinking by 700,000 people a year. By 2050 it could be down to 100m. The death rate is double the average for developed countries. The life expectancy of Russian males, at just 60 years, is one of the lowest in the world. Only half of Russian boys now aged 16 can expect to live to 60, much the same as at the end of the 19th century."
"…Now large swathes of land in Siberia and the far east are emptying out as people move to central Russia. The population density in the country's far east is 1.1 people per square kilometre. On the other side of the border with China it is nearly 140 times that figure"
"In the past couple of years the rules have become more accommodating and migrant workers can now apply for their own work permits and sign contracts with their employers. But for tax reasons only a quarter of immigrants do so. The new law has increased the number of legal migrants to more than 2m, but the real figure is thought to be five times that."
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#socialist_progress_not_281108
on how the left-wing spin to forward dogma
Matthew Parris muses on the muddle of Brown the Clown and 'New' Labour.
Recommended scan.
It is worse than sad to watch UK leftists for ever attempting to use the country and troubles for political advantage.
"A helpful rule of thumb for assessing the fanfare that habitually precedes a Gordon Brown initiative, is that there will be less to it than meets the eye. Under scrutiny, these things tend to come apart in our hands, shot through with failures of nerve and riddled with second thoughts."
You can see the same sort of leftist amoral eagerness to exploit the country's problems from Obama's chief of staff.
" "Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste," Mr. [Rahm] Emanuel said in an interview on Sunday. "They are opportunities to do big things." "
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#leftwing_spin_221108
the truth about the clown's economic mismanagement surfaces despite the accumulating sewage of socialist labour lies
Boris Johnson:
"You weakened the pound, Gordon, because you expanded the public sector without reforming it.
"You weakened the pound because you bloated the state pay-roll, and then you added the private finance initiative and the nationalisation of the Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock, and all the time you somehow believed your own lunatic propaganda that you had personally defied the laws of economic gravity.
"You really thought you had created a new paradigm in which you, and only you, had beaten the economic cycle and gone "beyond boom and bust", and that you were therefore free to take whatever fiscal risks you wanted, and the markets looked at the whole thing, sucked their teeth and said, baloney."
Also, the cowardly media dinosaurs are still twitching as they expire:
"A bright blue line divides Labour and the Conservatives over the acceptable level of borrowing and the role of the State. Mr Osborne portrays the Prime Minister as a political version of a short-seller, constantly borrowing more money in the hope that his gamble will eventually pay off. By giving warning of a run on a pound, he was simply giving a vivid illustration of the dangers of government debt. His aim is to give the voters a clear choice at the next election between tax cuts funded by savings and tax reductions paid for by borrowing."
and trusting the crack addicts in no. 10
"Their remarks reflected the strong Treasury view that next week's tax cut and spending package from the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, must be accompanied by evidence that he intends to get soaring borrowing back on course over the medium term. That should mean tax rises, spending cuts or both."
And lastly, more from Boris:
"Why does the Government still spend £800 million on advertising public sector appointments - very often in the Guardian - when they could be conveniently displayed online?"
Hey, why is the Groaniad [the Guardian] not reporting on the Clown's lying and incompetence?
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#boris_criticises_brown_201108
"mccain is just as bad as obama", they say - the auroran sunset
There is little doubt in my mind that Obama is, amongst other serious problems, corrupt, a conman and a demagogue. I have started to notice a strange pattern when this topic is broached in conversation. Those that prefer Obama tend to respond with something along the lines of "McCain is just as bad" or "all politicians are corrupt/lie". This is a amazing example of the power of the socialist policy of language corruption developed by Goebbels, 'popularised' by Orwell, and employed by Obama and his friends in the fossil media. In particular, these attitudes demonstrate the successful use of three standard socialist techniques of opinion manipulation:
"the big lie"
meaning generalisation and
moral equivalence.
The big lie:
Say something outrageously counter to reality often enough, and people will start to believe it. A prime example from the Obama-McCain campaign was the constant repetition that "McCain is just more of the same as Bush".
Meaning generalisation
The idea is to make the meaning of a problematic word apply to so many situations that it becomes impossible to use that word to precisely describe the actions of the troublemaker. In this case, the idea of "corrupt" is distorted out of all recognition. Thus, it becomes impossible to discuss the real behaviour of someone who has spent their whole political career seeped in graft [Obama], when the term also come to apply to someone who has spent their whole political career fighting graft [McCain].
Moral equivalence
"They are all as bad as each other" and, thus, "no judgement can be made". This is the 'principle' behind politically 'correct' language. This technique acts in three ways to protect society's worst:
It inhibits the use of clear descriptive terms, so that the behaviour of the socialists cannot be discussed with clarity.
It encourages apathy towards to the problem of stopping the socialists, because if they are all the same, there is no point doing anything.
It dishonestly reduces the credibility of those who attempt to clean up the problems, because they must be just as bad as the socialists.
So is McCain really somehow equivalent to Obama in terms of dishonesty and corruption?
Here is the reality:
Obama built his political career by working his way up through the corrupt Chicago 'Democratic' machine. Chicago/Illinois corruption is renowned and clearly runs from Mayor Daley's office. Mayor Daley's brother is currently under criminal indictment indictment and, in one election, Daley was forced to run without a supporting slate because all his main helpers were either under indictment or convicted. An indication of how far Obama rose in this sewer is his appropriation of top Daley strategist, David Axelrod.
McCain, meanwhile, built his political career fighting corruption both within his party and generally, including sending members of his party to jail for a multi-billion dollar bid-rigging and bribery scam.
Obama is one of the heaviest earmarkers in the Senate, averaging around 1 million dollars per day during his 2-year term. Many of these earmarks have already been clearly linked to matching campaign contributions - that is, the contributions were bribes.
McCain does not take earmarks and has campaigned for years to ban this egregious form of corruption.
Obama is a top recipient of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac contributions, despite only being a senator for two years. The corruption and sweet-heart deals of the FMs [Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac] are at the heart of current housing and credit problems in the US. Obama employed two ex-CEOs of Fannie Mae - both resigned in disgrace due to shady accounting practices (known as "fraud" in plain English). Jim Johnson was appointed as one of three people on Obama's VP search committee; and Franklin Raines acted as a housing and mortgage advisor. Note that in both cases, Obama attempted to cover up and deny the connections once they became inconvenient, much as he did with his long-term black-supremacist preacher, Jeremiah Wright and with domestic terrorist and Obama's long-term political ally, Bill Ayers.
McCain attempted to force regulation on the FMs and repeatedly warned of their behaviour, but was blocked by the 'Democrats' in Congress, led by one of the top FM largesse recipients, Barney Franks. Franks shut down debate by threatening a campaign painting as racists any who attempting to stop the FM corruption.
Tony Rezko has been convicted on 16 federal bribery and fraud charges. Rezko was Obama's top campaign fund-raiser and a close advisor. Rezko and Obama bought two halves of a piece of land On the same day. For some reason Obama paid under value for his half and Rezko paid over value for his. Then later, Rezko sold cheaply part of his half to Obama. In an amazing coincidence, Rezko obtained a series of government contracts in Obama's district to build housing for the poor. Rezko's convictions relate to his deliberate sub-standard building, and to defrauding of his poor and often ignorant tenants. In other words, Obama took bribes to aid and abet the defrauding and endangerment of his poorest constituents. Of course, Obama claims to be on the side of the poor.
Obama claims to support "Sunshine in Government" attempts to force corruption into the light. However, in his campaign he sued, and threatened to sue, bloggers and news organizations publishing information that he did not want publicised.
McCain has consistently campaigned and voted for Sunshine policies, including the "McCain-Feingold" act.
Obama disabled the standard anti-fraud credit card checks on his campaign contribution website, allowing anyone to get around the election laws limiting individual donations, undeclared donations and donations from foreign nationals, as well as enabling simple identity theft frauds. By co-incidence, he managed to haul in over 600 million dollars in contributions.
McCain has campaigned and voted to both reduce money in political campaigns, and to increase the openness. This is at the heart of the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance reform act. He also promised to, and then stuck to the federal matching limits for presidential campaign financing. Obama also promised to do this, but then broke that promise. Of course, McCain's website kept the standard anti-fraud checks turned on.
Obama selected a well-known buffoon as his running mate (Joe Biden), someone who also happens to be heavily involved in earmark corruption - he has requested more than 250 million dollars of earmarks for 2009 alone.
McCain selected a proven anti-corruption reformer as his running mate (Sarah Palin), someone who's 80%+ approval rating - the highest of any governor in the union - comes from her political history of fighting the corruption in her own state Republican party, including sending some members to jail for graft. Compare this to Obama's handling of his state party's corruption.
Obama worked for Acorn as a lawyer, funded Acorn activities via his committees, and then contributed to Acorn from his campaign funds. Acorn is under federal election fraud indictment in most states of the union for systematically paying people to fraudulently register to vote. In a particularly impressive example, they claimed that for this campaign they submitted approximately 1.5 million registrations in Ohio. In fact, they submitted around 600 thousand. Of those, over two thirds were found to be fraudulent. To add icing to the cake, the 'Democratic' Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, refused to pass on her department's analysis of the fraudulent registrations to the counties - thus making it inevitable that the non-existent voters would remain on the roles. (This is one of the reasons that I put 'Democratic' Party in quotes.)
Clearly the idea that McCain is just as corrupt or dishonest as Obama is absurd. Just as clearly, the big lie employed by the fossil media and the rest of Obama's campaign has made this absurdity a 'fact' in many people's minds.
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#mccain_obama_191108
voting for obama
9:54 mins
"512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE ± 4.4 points
"97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
"Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
"57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
"81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
"82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
"88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
"56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
"And yet.....
"Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
"Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
"And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her "house," even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
"Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
"Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we "gave" one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)"
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#obama_voting_181108
brown the clown is to star in a new multibillion blockbuster film - 'carry on lying'
" "If I am right that wise people do not know the answer to the problem the world faces, it is surely folly for our leaders to pretend that they do. In normal times, one puts up with quite a lot of dishonesty from politicians, but in the face of this slump, it is truly dangerous, because it means that trust cannot be restored.
"In the past 14 months, Mr Brown has shifted his rhetoric a bit, but always in the wake of events. Rather than doing what the markets call "kitchen-sinking", and putting the whole enormous problem before us, he prefers over-optimistic forecasts, and boasts about how well placed we are. (Our household debt, by the way, is nearly twice as much as the European average.)" [Quoted from telegraph.co.uk]
"Britain is heading for a "collapse of sterling" if Gordon Brown persists with trying to borrow his way out of trouble, George Osborne says in an interview with The Times today."
"The pound yesterday slipped to a 13-year low against a basket of other currencies. The dollar rate fell to below $1.48 and the euro rate to €1.17, a record low, capping its biggest weekly fall against the single currency." [timesonline.co.uk]
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#lying_brown_151108
watching the NZ election - invincy
I watched the election coverage. Polls closed at 7pm, and John Key's acceptance speech was at about 12pm. Helen Clark made a concession speech before this.
Over here, people are more relaxed about what they say. One United Future (part of the right coalition) MP won a constituency seat, but as the party got less that 1% of the party vote, he is the only one in that party who got a seat. So he was referred to as 'Noddy No Mates' by the presenter!
One of the panel said that slogan for Labour in this election, "This one's about trust" depended on the attempt to dig dirt on Key, and thus portray him as untrustworthy, being successful. It all backfired. It appears that Labour had intended to manipulate voters into voting against Key.
Another story that paid a bit part in this election was that of Winston Peters. He accepted money from a billionaire who was hoping for a government role in Monaco, but didn't declare it. The voters did not believe his various explanations about why he didn't declare the money. Nor did they believe that Helen Clark did not know that Winston Peters was acting improperly. The voters were not impressed when Helen Clark didn't fire Winston Peters from his cabinet position, and didn't rule herself out of working with him in the future. His party got just under 5% of the vote, and he didn't come close to winning his seat, so he and his party are out.
There were lots of tears in the Labour camp. Clark in her speech referred to a 'Cause' they were all working for. Key in his speech said that New Zealand could do better - this is not as good as it gets. He said he will lead a government that valued individual achievement, and "What will determine success is the unity of purpose – a willingness to work together while recognising that our collective success rests on the success of individuals". Key won his seat with about 22,000 votes, the next closest was about 5,000.
Also heard, something that sums up New Zealanders' attitudes amongst unionized and disappointed Labour supporters. "Well maybe John Key will make us rich".
National will probably not just be in coalition with ACT and UnitedFuture, but also with the Maori party. This gives the coalition, as a whole, more chance of winning the next election in 3 years time. Party leaders and panel acknowledged that this is going to be a hard time to be Prime Minister - due to the world economic problems. Also with Maori onboard, National will not have to rely on ACT support. A commentator suggests that the Maori could propose less palatable policies - like ending the dole!
kiwiblog is the best New Zealand political blog I have come across. The writer asks, "What will I blog about now Winston Peters has gone?" Also on the blog, I read that National made a smart political move in ruling out a deal with NZ First (Winston Peter's party). This showed that a vote for NZ First, which has supported National party in the past, was a vote for Labour. And a vote for Labour, who wanted to keep Winston on side, was a vote for more nonsense from Winston.
congratulations to nz as another socialist falls
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#nz_invincy_121108
Maybe NZ can now move forward.
"John Key's conservative National Party easily won power in New Zelaland, known internationally for its pristine environment and as the backdrop to the 'Lord of the Rings' movies.
" "Today, New Zealand has spoken, in their hundreds of thousands, and they have voted for change," Key told supporters at a victory celebration in Auckland.
"The National Party looked unlikely to have gained an outright majority in parliament but is assured of assuming power due to the support of the small free-market ACT party.
"When final counts were received from all polling stations, National had 45 per cent of the vote and Labour had 34 percent. That would translate into 59 seats for National in a 122-seat parliament, up 48 seats from the previous parliament, compared to Labour's 43, a fall from 49. The ACT Party won 5 seats and the centrist United Future, which also offered support for National, took one." "
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#nz_election_091108
obama is the one!
"A light will shine down from somewhere, it will light upon you, you will experience an epiphany, and you will say to yourself, I have to vote for Barack."
Hitler:
"This is the miracle of our age, that you have found me, that you have found me among so many millions! And that I have found you, that is Germany's good fortune!"
But Hitler never got 50% of the vote, until he ran his own 'plebiscites'.
the psychology and development of Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber - abelard
Did Hitler know about the holocaust? A psychological assessment
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#obamas_method_081108
george w. bush - a great man and a great president, ill-served by a dishonest leftist media and by many a shallow babbler
"Initial failures in Iraq acted like a solar eclipse, blocking the light on every other achievement. But those achievements, with the eclipse finally passing, are considerable by the measure of any presidency. Because of the passage of Medicare Part D, nearly 10 million low-income seniors are receiving prescription drugs at little or no cost. No Child Left Behind education reform has helped raise the average reading scores of fourth-graders to their highest level in 15 years, and narrowed the achievement gap between white and African American children. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has helped provide treatment for more than 1.7 million people and compassionate care for at least 2.7 million orphans and vulnerable children. And the decision to pursue the surge in Iraq will be studied as a model of presidential leadership."
"Before the Group of Eight summit in 2005, the White House senior staff overwhelmingly opposed a new initiative to fight malaria in Africa for reasons of cost and ideology -- a measure designed to save hundreds of thousands of lives, mainly of children under 5. In the crucial policy meeting, one person supported it: the president of the United States, shutting off debate with a moral certitude that others have criticized. I saw how this moral framework led him to an immediate identification with the dying African child, the Chinese dissident, the Sudanese former slave, the Burmese women's advocatec…"
George Bush will be a very hard act to follow.
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#gwbush_051108
obama - focus on reality, so far
No supermajority in the Senate.
Still a balanced Supreme Court.
Markets down nearly 5%.
Dow down nearly 5%.
Coal sector down nearly 10%.
Gold up 5%, now only 3%.
Russia posturing.
Iran also posturing.
Will the socialist fools compete with the free markets?
One of the grave errors of the 1930s.
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics1108.php#obama_focus_051108
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// this is the SSH2 response; the SSH1 response is SSH_AGENT_RSA_IDENTITIES_ANSWER (2).
define( 'SYSTEM_SSH_AGENT_IDENTITIES_ANSWER', 12 );
define( 'SYSTEM_SSH_AGENT_FAILURE', 5 );
// the SSH1 request is SSH_AGENTC_RSA_CHALLENGE (3)
define( 'SYSTEM_SSH_AGENTC_SIGN_REQUEST', 13 );
// the SSH1 response is SSH_AGENT_RSA_RESPONSE (4)
define( 'SYSTEM_SSH_AGENT_SIGN_RESPONSE', 14 );
/**#@-*/

/**
 * Pure-PHP ssh-agent client identity object
 *
 * Instantiation should only be performed by System_SSH_Agent class.
 * This could be thought of as implementing an interface that Crypt_RSA
 * implements. ie. maybe a Net_SSH_Auth_PublicKey interface or something.
 * The methods in this interface would be getPublicKey, setSignatureMode
 * and sign since those are the methods phpseclib looks for to perform
 * public key authentication.
 *
 * @package System_SSH_Agent
 * @author  Jim Wigginton <terrafrost@php.net>
 * @access  internal
 */
class System_SSH_Agent_Identity
{

    /**
     * Key Object
     *
     * @var Crypt_RSA
     * @access private
     * @see    System_SSH_Agent_Identity::getPublicKey()
     */
    var $key;

    /**
     * Key Blob
     *
     * @var String
     * @access private
     * @see    System_SSH_Agent_Identity::sign()
     */
    var $key_blob;

    /**
     * Socket Resource
     *
     * @var Resource
     * @access private
     * @see    System_SSH_Agent_Identity::sign()
     */
    var $fsock;

    /**
     * Default Constructor.
     *
     * @param Resource $fsock
     *
     * @return System_SSH_Agent_Identity
     * @access private
     */
    function System_SSH_Agent_Identity( $fsock )
    {

        $this->fsock = $fsock;
    }

    /**
     * Set Public Key
     *
     * Called by System_SSH_Agent::requestIdentities()
     *
     * @param Crypt_RSA $key
     *
     * @access private
     */
    function setPublicKey( $key )
    {

        $this->key = $key;
        $this->key->setPublicKey();
    }

    /**
     * Set Public Key
     *
     * Called by System_SSH_Agent::requestIdentities(). The key blob could be extracted from $this->key
     * but this saves a small amount of computation.
     *
     * @param String $key_blob
     *
     * @access private
     */
    function setPublicKeyBlob( $key_blob )
    {

        $this->key_blob = $key_blob;
    }

    /**
     * Get Public Key
     *
     * Wrapper for $this->key->getPublicKey()
     *
     * @param Integer $format optional
     *
     * @return Mixed
     * @access public
     */
    function getPublicKey( $format = null )
    {

        return !isset( $format ) ? $this->key->getPublicKey() : $this->key->getPublicKey( $format );
    }

    /**
     * Set Signature Mode
     *
     * Doesn't do anything as ssh-agent doesn't let you pick and choose the signature mode. ie.
     * ssh-agent's only supported mode is CRYPT_RSA_SIGNATURE_PKCS1
     *
     * @param Integer $mode
     *
     * @access public
     */
    function setSignatureMode( $mode )
    {
    }

    /**
     * Create a signature
     *
     * See "2.6.2 Protocol 2 private key signature request"
     *
     * @param String $message
     *
     * @return String
     * @access public
     */
    function sign( $message )
    {

        // the last parameter (currently 0) is for flags and ssh-agent only defines one flag (for ssh-dss): SSH_AGENT_OLD_SIGNATURE
        $packet = pack( 'CNa*Na*N', SYSTEM_SSH_AGENTC_SIGN_REQUEST, strlen( $this->key_blob ), $this->key_blob,
            strlen( $message ), $message, 0 );
        $packet = pack( 'Na*', strlen( $packet ), $packet );
        if (strlen( $packet ) != fputs( $this->fsock, $packet )) {
            user_error( 'Connection closed during signing' );
        }

        $length = current( unpack( 'N', fread( $this->fsock, 4 ) ) );
        $type = ord( fread( $this->fsock, 1 ) );
        if ($type != SYSTEM_SSH_AGENT_SIGN_RESPONSE) {
            user_error( 'Unable to retreive signature' );
        }

        $signature_blob = fread( $this->fsock, $length - 1 );
        // the only other signature format defined - ssh-dss - is the same length as ssh-rsa
        // the + 12 is for the other various SSH added length fields
        return substr( $signature_blob, strlen( 'ssh-rsa' ) + 12 );
    }
}

/**
 * Pure-PHP ssh-agent client identity factory
 *
 * requestIdentities() method pumps out System_SSH_Agent_Identity objects
 *
 * @package System_SSH_Agent
 * @author  Jim Wigginton <terrafrost@php.net>
 * @access  internal
 */
class System_SSH_Agent
{

    /**
     * Socket Resource
     *
     * @var Resource
     * @access private
     */
    var $fsock;

    /**
     * Default Constructor
     *
     * @return System_SSH_Agent
     * @access public
     */
    function System_SSH_Agent()
    {

        switch (true) {
            case isset( $_SERVER['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'] ):
                $address = $_SERVER['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'];
                break;
            case isset( $_ENV['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'] ):
                $address = $_ENV['SSH_AUTH_SOCK'];
                break;
            default:
                user_error( 'SSH_AUTH_SOCK not found' );
                return false;
        }

        $this->fsock = fsockopen( 'unix://'.$address, 0, $errno, $errstr );
        if (!$this->fsock) {
            user_error( "Unable to connect to ssh-agent (Error $errno: $errstr)" );
        }
    }

    /**
     * Request Identities
     *
     * See "2.5.2 Requesting a list of protocol 2 keys"
     * Returns an array containing zero or more System_SSH_Agent_Identity objects
     *
     * @return Array
     * @access public
     */
    function requestIdentities()
    {

        if (!$this->fsock) {
            return array();
        }

        $packet = pack( 'NC', 1, SYSTEM_SSH_AGENTC_REQUEST_IDENTITIES );
        if (strlen( $packet ) != fputs( $this->fsock, $packet )) {
            user_error( 'Connection closed while requesting identities' );
        }

        $length = current( unpack( 'N', fread( $this->fsock, 4 ) ) );
        $type = ord( fread( $this->fsock, 1 ) );
        if ($type != SYSTEM_SSH_AGENT_IDENTITIES_ANSWER) {
            user_error( 'Unable to request identities' );
        }

        $identities = array();
        $keyCount = current( unpack( 'N', fread( $this->fsock, 4 ) ) );
        for ($i = 0; $i < $keyCount; $i++) {
            $length = current( unpack( 'N', fread( $this->fsock, 4 ) ) );
            $key_blob = fread( $this->fsock, $length );
            $length = current( unpack( 'N', fread( $this->fsock, 4 ) ) );
            $key_comment = fread( $this->fsock, $length );
            $length = current( unpack( 'N', substr( $key_blob, 0, 4 ) ) );
            $key_type = substr( $key_blob, 4, $length );
            switch ($key_type) {
                case 'ssh-rsa':
                    if (!class_exists( 'Crypt_RSA' )) {
                        include_once 'Crypt/RSA.php';
                    }
                    $key = new Crypt_RSA();
                    $key->loadKey( 'ssh-rsa '.base64_encode( $key_blob ).' '.$key_comment );
                    break;
                case 'ssh-dss':
                    // not currently supported
                    break;
            }
            // resources are passed by reference by default
            if (isset( $key )) {
                $identity = new System_SSH_Agent_Identity( $this->fsock );
                $identity->setPublicKey( $key );
                $identity->setPublicKeyBlob( $key_blob );
                $identities[] = $identity;
                unset( $key );
            }
        }

        return $identities;
    }
}

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We are busy preparing for our upcoming, Annual Clambake in September. This is always a fun filled, family event for all of our Parishioners.
Do you have a business that you would be able to donate an item or gift certificate to be used in our raffle? Contact the rectory on information on how to make the donation. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated.


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Orientation program. Drama-theater group, choral group. Social organizations: 30 open to all; coed fraternity; 6% of eligible men and 25% of eligible women are members. Most popular organizations: Alpha Phi Omega, Yacht Club, Outing Club, Social Council, drill team. Major annual events: Parents' Weekend, Homecoming, Ring Dance. Student services: health clinic, personal-psychological counseling, women's center. Campus security: 24-hour patrols, student patrols. College housing designed to accommodate 625 students; 650 undergraduates lived in college housing during 2003-04. Freshmen guaranteed college housing. On-campus residence required through junior year. Option: coed housing available. Nutting Memorial Library with 177,800 books, 382 serials, an OPAC, and a Web page. 40 computers available on campus for general student use. A campuswide network can be accessed from student residence rooms and from off campus. Staffed computer lab on campus.
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Wrestling with the missionary mythology that white evangelical culture has been captive to.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Many of us remember the first line of the rhyme about Christopher Columbus we learned as children. Teachers often used it as a stepping off point for lessons from the textbook, which told of a noble explorer who set sail from Spain and "discovered" the New World. As the story goes, he encountered peaceable native people, traded goods with them and single-handedly commenced a dignified and virtuous campaign of exploration that paved the way for the creation of the modern Western world.
Of course, neither rhyme nor teacher nor text mentioned anything about the genocide and ethnic cleansing that decimated the indigenous population of the present-day Americas. They failed to include even a single anecdote of violence, instead censoring all accounts of carnage. Things like the incident in which Columbus's men decapitated two young Arawak boys—for the fun of it—didn't make the curriculum.
As children in school, what we were taught about Columbus was not toward the goal of learning historical facts, but rather so that we might learn something far more essential and foundational to the dominant culture: mythology.
The word mythology may conjure up images of muses and monsters. The term tends to hold negative connotations, implying falsity or a lack of legitimacy. But fundamentally, myths are stories that guide a culture and explain how the world works. Mythology is a bit like a filter through which a particular culture sees the world, creating group cohesion and a common identity.
What we were told about Columbus functioned to help concretize the myth of white, Western, Christian supremacy. And the church was instrumental in establishing this mythology.
This document was one of the centerpieces of the Doctrine of Discovery, which established a theological rationale for colonization. The church responded to Columbus's exploits in the Americas with spiritual support. Indigenous brown and black-skinned people across the world—anyone who was not Western, white, and Christian—were theologized into uncivilized, uncultured, and regressive nonpersons and labeled enemies of Christ. White, Western, Christian supremacy began to be cemented into the order of the world.
As the decades and centuries passed, the colonial project would spread to every corner of the globe. The push by European nations to expand their overseas claims went hand-in-hand with the expanding Catholic and Protestant mission societies. Foreign mission societies were thriving during this period. Missionaries were being sent across the world to convert and "civilize" native people. So began an epoch of global mission growing up alongside colonialism.
As Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." The past, as Faulkner intuited, is continually resuscitated in the present in contemporary forms.
Myth always comes back to narratives, as we saw earlier, that animate and guide and create an identity within a particular culture. This mythology of white, Western, Christian supremacy has not died. Colonialism itself isn't just a history. It is a story, a story that is lived out in the present. It is a story that takes away dignity and crushes the image of God within people. It is a story of the control of bodies and consciousness, of land and resources, of social and economic domains. Colonialism is a story of death.
And missionary mythology, like it was centuries ago, is a story washed in the pseudo-glory of white, Western, Christian supremacy. The lodging of this missionary myth deep in our psyches can be traced back to its embryonic beginnings in the year 1492. Though it began a long time ago in a place far away, it is a story we continue to tell and live, usually without realizing it. So we don't analyze history as much as we interrogate a myth.
And missionary mythology, like it was centuries ago, is a story washed in the pseudo-glory of white, Western, Christian supremacy.
Since mission and colonialism were partners in a five-hundred-year-long project, it is a story written into the psyches of missionaries perhaps more than anyone else, a story that we must read closely and carefully. To know the narrative thoroughly and honestly is to see the present state of global missions more clearly.
Theology: A Thief or Abundant Life?
As we saw, the power of the myth lies in its ability to create a sense of belonging and core identity. And that is what animates and breathes life into a particular culture. Contemporary American evangelical culture—which is heavily invested in global mission—particularly evangelizing the so-called unreached, is rooted in missionary mythology.
As Gustavo Gutierrez, father of Latin American liberation theology writes, theology is "critical reflection on historical praxis." To reckon with our Christian past, our inheritance fertile in blessing and prolific in sin, is to reflect theologically, which we must do, since flawed theology provided the foundation from which the sins of colonial mission grew.
In the Gospel of John Jesus says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." Theology can be a thief that kills, such as what occurred as a result of the Doctrine of Discovery. And theology rooted in modern missionary mythology is certainly a thief, even if it does not lead to overt acts of violence; naming Westerners "saved" and others "lost" is its own form of violence. Savior complexes steal dignity and miscarry the opportunity to serve people from a place of humility. Being captive to myth obstructs the gospel invitation to life to the full, which Christian missionaries are called to name, discern, embody, and birth in whatever context they are in, locally or globally.
Nothing interrogates missionary mythology more than a commitment to looking at ourselves and our woundedness, brokenness, and "lostness." No one escapes the human condition, not even missionaries.
Being captive to myth obstructs the gospel invitation to life to the full, which Christian missionaries are called to name, discern, embody, and birth in whatever context they are in, locally or globally.
The interior process of owning our pain and knowing ourselves allows us to engage with others from a stance of mutuality. In this space where suffering meets suffering, there is the potential for transformation to be born. Mutually we are hurting, and mutually we are being transformed.
Holding our gaze on the woundedness of ourselves as well as others allows us to go out into the world as wounded healers, not as invincible white saviors. We enter into various local and global contexts as people who have known what it is to suffer, and therefore can offer our wounded selves. This "exquisite mutuality," spoken of by Father Greg Boyle, goes far in tearing down the staircase of hierarchy that continues to harm the personhood of the so called "whole" and "broken;" "saved" and "lost"—dualistic categories that have have their roots sunk into the colonial soil.
As we wrestle with the missionary mythology that white evangelical culture has been captive to, we may be able to cross boundaries of geography, culture, and ethnicity carrying the message of Jesus, incarnating his message of the availability of abundant life for all.
We may just be able to embody the gospel across cultures in more beautiful, life-enhancing ways if we collectively shifted to posture that includes mending and being mended, healing and being healed.
Ryan Kuja is a missiologist, theologian, spiritual director, writer & global citizen with a background in international mission, relief & development. He has lived on the front lines of shalom in fifteen cities and rural areas on five continents, from the slums of Kolkata to the townships of Cape Town, the bush of South Sudan to the comunas of Medellin. Ryan teaches on missional praxis, race & intercultural competency, spiritual formation, psychology, and the transformation of individuals and communities. His writing has been published in a variety of theological journals as well as at Sojourners, Red Letter Christians and Missio Alliance. His first book, From the Inside Out: Reimagining Mission, Recreating the World released earlier this year.


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Labour v Libdem writers
3:19 pm - November 6th 2007
by Sunny Hundal
Jonathan Calder sounds a bit miffed we don't have any explicitly Libdem bloggers on our roster. James Graham picked this up too yesterday. I'll happily put up my hands and admit we aren't representing them well enough, primarily because I approached people on the basis of their liberal-left outlook rather than political affiliations. Even Natalie Bennett, who is a Green Party candidate, was approached on that basis.
Unlike some of our more partisan contributors, this collective as a whole does not have an explicit policy to support Labour, the Libdems or even the Conservatives (you never know, classic purge might be in order *grin*). That said, more representation may be necessary though our editorial policy should focus more on ideals and policies than being too obsessed by parties or just Westminister generally.
Sunny Hundal is editor of LC. Also: on Twitter, at Pickled Politics and Guardian CIF.
· Other posts by Sunny Hundal
Story Filed Under: Blog ,Liberal Conspiracy
3:52 pm, November 6, 2007
1. Jennie
"our editorial policy should focus more on ideals and policies than being too obsessed by parties or just Westminister generally."
Woah… You mean there's actually going to be thinking outside the Westminster box? I could be interested in this! 😉
2. chrisc
As Calder says:
"I am always in favour of the discussion of political ideas, but Liberal Conspiracy's comments policy does not seem calculated to further it. It sounds more like a site where people will agree with each other – a site for agreement and mutual political grooming."
Hope not!!
3. Joe Otten
I don't complain about representation, and I don't think Jonathan Calder does really either. But it is a little odd to try to build a presence around a Labour Party centre of mass, and to call it liberal-left and 'Liberal Consipiracy'. It looks like the sort of attempt at co-option one would expect from the SWP.
4. Comstock
(apologies if this appears twice I've send it once and it hasn't appeared)
Are you planning to have any SNP/PC bloggers? Or any from Northern Ireland (alliance/SDLP/SF)?
5. AlisdairCameron
"our editorial policy should focus more on ideals and policies than being too obsessed by parties…"
I should hope so too, because the rigidity of the current party system, with severe whipping to keep MPs 'on message', PPCs picked according to blind loyalty instead of talent or intelligence, and a diminution of representation of local constituents, as allegiance to the central party line is enforced all serve to diminsih the standard of UK politics. All parties are culpable, and their stranglehold on political discourse, fighting over the narrowest strip of ideological turf is profoundly depressing.
6. Paul Linford
I have no proof of this obviously, but while it may be the case that there are no explicit Lib Dem bloggers on our roster, I suspect a good few of us might have voted for them now and then on the quiet.
7. DonaldS
Never mind 'on the quiet', Paul. I've only voted Labour once in my life, and on current evidence can't see ever doing so again.
I rather suspect Labour does not 'represent the best vehicle for our political goals'. Authoritarians and managerialists to the core.
BTW, Jonathan Calder is also making the assumption that 'LibDems' and 'liberals' are one and the same thing. A rather too hasty leap, I'd say, certainly on any 'left' understanding of liberalism.
Absolutely, DonaldS. Apart from anything else, The Liberal party still (just) exists as a separate entity from the Lib Dems.
Ah, semantics. It could be argued forever.
10. left of centre ground
Comstock's idea of other party bloggers from the SNP and PC getting involved is a good idea. Especially with the issues of the "West Lothian question" and Scottish independance.
11:36 pm, November 6, 2007
11. Gracchi
I'm no stick in the mud Labour man either! Indeed I know for a fact that there are plenty of bloggers here with their own quixotic take on the world. I take it that internal labour party conversation is done at Labour Home anyway- this is a place for discussion of leftwing ideas of all schools of thought.
7:26 am, November 7, 2007
12. Justin McKeating
As another contributor, can I just chip in and also say that I'm no Labour supporter either. Like Donald I've only voted Labour once ('92) and would have to see something pretty big happen to the party for me to vote for them again.
Liberal Conspiracy is *not* a Labour astro-turfing outfit. I'm annoyed that the notion has been whipped up, largely I think out of malice rather than any desire to take a considered look at who we are and what we want to do.
If LC were a Labour propaganda unit many of us – myself included – would not be here. Just looking at the roster of writers should tell people that hardly anyone is politically affiliated or Labour supporters.
I'm here to talk about small 'l' liberal issues not make life easier for Labour or any other political party. I'm here to discover how they can make life easier for the rest of us.
13. Rob Knight
Justin, I can see why you would be offended, but I don't think that the notion has been 'whipped up out of malice'.
Personally, my trajectory was something like this: the first thing I knew about the site was reading Sunny's post about it on Pickled Politics. It sounded exciting, and I know that Sunny has been involved in a lot of good things, blogging-wise.
Then I took a look at the site. 'Liberal Conspiracy' sounds good, but… I know plenty of bloggers who have been banging on about 'liberal' issues for a long time, and I didn't see any of them included. In fact, I probably felt a small shiver of resentment: plenty of us have been building up a 'liberal' conversation for a long time, and who are these newcomers using 'our' word (liberal)? It was a tribal response, nothing more. And, like most tribal instincts, it withers once real discussion begins.
I don't think that the issue was raised out of negativity. I think it needed to be discussed, and now that it has I think we all have a clearer idea of what you're about. That's good, because it enables us to work together based on a clear understanding. Had the issue not been raised, this understanding would not have come about. For one, I've seen enough 'but what does liberalism really mean?' debates to last a lifetime, and I think this one has been handled far better than most.
14. James Graham
I am in no doubt that Liberal Conspiracy doesn't have a "Labour astroturfing" agenda either, but I do think you have a problem of perception.
As I wrote on my own blog, if you write "the Labour party may represent the best vehicle for our political goals as they are in power" it is reasonable for sceptical individuals to infer you mean "the Labour party does represent the best vehicle for our political goals as they are in power". And if you put no emphasis on individual liberty, then it is reasonable for people who do call themselves liberal to wonder why. You don't have to be a Lib Dem to be a liberal, just as (sadly) you don't have to be a liberal to be a Lib Dem. But if you are a liberal, by definition liberty is your starting point,. Yet it isn't the starting point of this site according to either its FAQ or About Us section: they are your shop window.
And while I'm sure that the people behind this site are welcoming of the Liberal Democrats, you don't seem to want to acknowledge us explicitly in the way that you explicitly acknowledge the party of David Blunkett, John Reid and Hazel Blears. It is the difference between being allowed to pull up a chair and having the chair pulled out for you.
If you're a Lib Dem and have ever been involved in student union or youth politics you will recognise that sensation of walking into a room full of leftish people to be greeted with a collective sharp intake of breath. You might even agree with them on 90% of the specific issue you are working together on but because you aren't tigmoo, you're anathema and thus it is made clear that you must at all times know your place. So when people on the left start using rhetoric about building a liberal movement, I'm afraid you can't be surprised if Lib Dems react with a degree of suspicion. We've been here before.
10:45 am, November 7, 2007
15. Alix
I just want to tease out this left-right semantic problem a bit.
A number of Lib Dems, if you re-read their reactions to this site, have an underlying objection to the assumptions inherent in your use of "left". Specifically, the way you marry it up with liberal. There is an inbuilt impatience of left and right in the Lib Dems because they do not give us the opportunity to give a full account of ourselves. Of course, our liberal starting point leads us to many conclusions that "proper" lefties would regard as leftish. So it is no wonder that the points we don't agree on are treated as a sort of betrayal of the leftish principles we were presumed to be following.
This is not a problem we can solve overnight, particularly not by boycotting activity on any website we perceive to be guilty of perpetuating it, because, well, you can't escape it. It's accepted shorthand. The wider world is going to continue framing its debate in terms of left and right long after we've all abandoned it as redundant (which, I think, we will).
I actually like the fact that the FAQs in this site specifically declines to define "left-liberal". Contributors just have to share your "basic aims". Now, the basic aims lack some critical ingredients to a Lib Dem, but essentially I think your idea is to shut your eyes and shout:
"All good eggs HERE!"
Which is extremely unscientific, but I approve of it. I really don't want such a worthwhile experiment to mire down in its own semantics, but it may be worth posting to clarify on this, and give the gist of your FAQs section a wider hearing?
16. jane
all a bit LibDem for me – but I'll keep reading
17. Aaron Heath
They do have better sandals.
18. LiberalHammer
Have to agree with the the concerns of the (L or l) liberal posters above. To say that the current Labour Party is the centre of gravity for anyone remotely Liberal is wide of the mark. Unless locking people up for 56 days is somehow 'liberal'.
19. Comstock
Unfortunately for many of us, it is a question of choosing the lesser evil between Labour and Tory.
And however 'liberal' Cameron may or may not be, there are some *very* illiberal people in his party (Edward Leigh and Winterton x2 for a start)
20. Ian
"you never know, classic purge might be in order"
Are you saying Cameron ought to take a leaf out of the socialist political handbook ?
I can't see it (a purge) happenng, Ian, at least not before the next General Election.
22. K.E.
You could try to get some left-leaning Lib Dem bloggers to participate to your project. They could include for instance Linda Jack, Barrie Wood, James Shaddock and John Dixon.
23. Geoffrey Payne
There are some Lib Dem bloggers who loathe the left, but for now I am not aware there are many such people in the Parliamentary party.
The balance of power in the party still probably favours the left, but that could change. Maybe LC should be concerned about this?
And of course there are some Lib Dem bloggers who are on the left, myself included.
I am interested to know what the LC thinks about the Lib Dem tax policies, referred to as the Green Tax Switch?
At the time the headlines were about the Lib Dems dropping their previous committment to taxing the higher earners a higher rate of tax. That was seen as evidence by some on the left that the Lib Dems were no longer progressive.
But the policy itself was promoted as being progressive, the rich will still pay more because of how the tax was targetted on the effects on the environment.
I have long wished to see a left critique of this policy, going into detail. But so far nothing, not even in the New Statesman.
24. Jonathan Calder
I would not claim that the Liberal Democrats have a monopoly on Liberalism (and I have met some Lib Dems who are not Liberals at all) but surely there must be some overlap?
25. Linda Jack
Oh Jonathan……..how I agree with you!
Of course there are left wing liberals in the Labour party, aren't there? Actually a little story demonstrates this beautifully for me. Just before the last general election Brian Sedgemoor defected to us. At the time I was standing against Kelvin Hopkins in Luton North. He is a man for whom I have an enormous respect, but a man who comes from a Communisty dynasty and would certainly not regard himself as liberal. Kelvin was fuming, he couldn't understand Brian's motivation, he was never going to speak to him again, but he recognised he was always a liberal. At the count when I made my losers speech I thanked my supporters for voting for me but reassured them that in Kelvin they had the second best thing, since he invariably went through the lobbies with the Lib Dems! He was not amused and my enduring memory of him will be hearing him shout back at me "I'm a socialist!"
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Q: A game with numbers modulo $N$ Let $N\geq 4$ be a fixed positive integer. Two players, $A$ and $B$ are forming an ordered set $\{x_1,x_2,...\},$ adding elements alternatively. $A$ chooses $x_1$ to be $1$ or $-1,$ then $B$ chooses $x_2$ to be $2$ or $-2,$ then $A$ chooses $x_3$ to be $3$ or $-3,$ and so on. (at the $k^{th}$ step, the chosen number must always be $k$ or $-k$)
The winner is the first player to make the sequence sum up to a multiple of $N.$ Depending on $N,$ find out, with proof, which player has a winning strategy.
My attempt:
We know that for $N=4$, the first player wins because he can change the residue modulo $N$ by $1$ or $-1$ at his moves while the other player has much more limited changing capabilities, and it is  easy to prove this.
I think that by the same logic, we know that when $N$ is a multiple of $4$, the second player cannot win but we still don't know if the first player can win or the game can continue forever.
If $N$ is divisible by 4, the first player can make sure that the second player doesn't win in this way:
We will look at the problem modulo $4$ and prove that the second player can never obtain a number divisible by $4$, thus never winning.
We will consider all numbers modulo $4$.
Player $1$ will always add/subtract $1$ or $3$, in other words, always add $-1$ or $1$. The steps go as folows:
At steps of form $4k+1$: Player $1$ adds $-1$ or $1$.
At steps of form $4k+2$: Player $2$ adds $2$ (he has no other choice).
At steps of form $4k+3$: Player $1$ adds $-1$ or $1$.
At steps of form $4k+4$: Player $2$ adds $0$ (he has no other choice).
So at the $4k+2$ the number received by player $2$ before his move is odd, so he can't win here. At the $4k+3$ steps, if player $1$ receives a number of the form $4k+1$, he can add $1$, thus giving to the second player a number that is not divisible by $4$ so player 2 can't win. In the other case, when player $1$ receives a number of the form $4k+3$, he can add $-1$, again blocking player $2$, from winning.
However we only know that player $2$ cannot win, but this does not necessarily mean that player $1$ has a winning strategy.
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A: The result:

*

*$A$ wins for $N = 4$;

*$B$ wins for $N = 5, 6, 10$;

*neither can win for other $N$.

For the proof, there is slight difference between odd and even $N$. I will treat the case of odd $N$ here as it's simpler.
Thus fix odd $N \geq 9$.
Define $w(s, m)$ as follows: suppose the sum of all previous numbers is congruent to $s$ mod $N$ and the next number to add is $m$ mod $N$ (thus the next player can choose to add $m$ or $-m$). We define $w(s, m) = 1$ if this situation is a win for the next player to move; $w(s, m) = -1$ if this situation is a lose for the next player to move; $w(s, m) = 0$ otherwise.
Claim:

*

*$w(m, \pm m) = 1$ for all $m$;

*$w(0, -2) = w(0, \frac{N - 1}2) = w(\pm 1, 0) = -1$;

*$w(0, -1) = w(\pm 2, -1) = 1$;

*all other $w(s, m)$ are equal to $0$.

Proof:
It's a tedious routine check.

*

*$w(m, \pm m) = 1$ is clear;

*$w(0, \frac{N - 1}2) = -1$ because $w(\pm\frac{N - 1}2, \frac{N + 1}2) = 1$;

*$w(\pm1, 0) = -1$ because $w(\pm1, 1) = 1$;

*$w(0, -1) = w(\pm2, -1) = 1$ because $w(\pm1, 0) = -1$;

*$w(0, -2) = -1$ because $w(\pm 2, -1) = 1$;

and for all other $s, m$:

*

*none of $w(s \pm m, m + 1)$ is equal to $-1$;

*$w(s \pm m, m + 1)$ cannot be simultaneously equal to $1$.

This proves the result.
The case of even $N$ is more complicated (slightly different according to $N \equiv 0, 2$ mod $4$) but similar.

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The Nobodies at Vault Festival Review
Review: The Nobodies at VAULT Festival
While the media might like us to believe that this country's class divide has narrowed, it falls once again to theatre to demonstrate just how large the gap has truly become. Drawing inspiration from the miners strikes, Amy Guyler's energetic yet poignant The Nobodies, which ran at VAULT Festival, places the spotlight on society's unseen and ignored, and the potential power that comes with mass unrest.
The closure of an NHS hospital is to have a very different impact on each of the three main characters at the centre of The Nobodies, and a relatively short opening sequence successfully reveals the character traits that will become so important further down the line. Following the death of an MP, Aaron finds himself in possession of a list of wealthy buyers for the hospital, and along with Curtis and Rhia set about blackmailing the people in society who already have the most, but are prepared to take even more.
Guyler's quick witted play, guides us down an intricately laid path which sees the group of three expand in to a wider and more powerful movement. The impact the group has on society is well developed, but it still manages to maintain focus on our trio of protagonists, and their own internal struggles and disagreements.
Directed by Sam Edmunds and Vikesh Godhwani, the staging almost always creates an atmosphere of civil unrest. As crates and wooden planks are frenetically shifted into new positions, there's an underlying feel of a tinderbox ready to ignite at any moment. Yet, we are allowed moments to laugh as well, the characters meet at a Zumba dance class and this influences the soundscape of salsa, samba and hip hop that is threaded throughout the production, all while a wall of floodlights shine a light on the important, and keep us in the dark when required.
The cast of three are required to not only play their central characters, but to pick up the myriad of figures who now feature so heavily in Aaron, Curtis and Rhia's lives. Joseph Reed makes the most of his deviations away from Curtis, bringing a strong comedic element to the school master's wife, or CEO of a payday loan company, before returning to the relentless intensity required for The Nobodies de facto leader.
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Rhia undertakes the biggest transformation, pondering the rights and wrongs of the group's actions and constantly trying to convince us that none of this is what she wanted. The character is in safe hands with Lucy Simpson, who ensures the audience are never quite sure whether they should be on her side or not. David Angland is strikingly impressive as Aaron, the son of a terminally ill mother faces difficult choices throughout, and Angland gives a sensitive and emotional portrayal of a character that we can all recognise.
Guyler's The Nobodies is an astonishingly astute piece of theatre, bringing together themes that are so relevant in today's society, and filled with ordinary characters responding to extraordinary circumstances. Through exceptional staging and strong performances, it manages to be gripping, playful, and unsettling all at the same time.
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To celebrate the recent relaunch of our website, Rewilding Europe is conducting interviews with prominent persons in conservation and rewilding across Europe. Following on from Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, we are delighted to present British naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author Chris Packham as the second interviewee of this series.
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She served as an expert member of the UK Food Standards Agency's (FSA) General Advisory Committee on Science between 2009 and 2016, and is currently a member of the Advisory Group of the FSA's "flagship" social survey.
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Snowboarding in Utah has never looked so good. We gain a snapshot insight into conditions on the slopes this season with our video of the week from the USA.
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