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Criminal law, Media, Politics	 November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017
Moore Charges As The Alabama Candidate Threatens To Sue Washington Post
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is facing new allegations today from yet another women who says that he pursued her as a young teenage girl. Beverly Young Nelson was 16 when she says that Moore tried to rape her after offering her a car ride home. Moore says that he does not know Nelson but the yearbook page above contains a personal message from him reading "To a sweeter girl I could not say Merry Christmas" — signed "Roy Moore D.A." The pattern of allegations from so many women have made Moore's continuance in the campaign untenable. Not only have GOP senators demanded his withdrawal but some are discussing an expulsion vote if he were to be elected. In the meantime, Moore is now threatening a lawsuit against the Washington Post for defamation, but the threat is curious in both its sole target and the specific fact being claimed defamatory. Notably, his wife has now said that she will also sue. There is not however an actual lawsuit at this time and the Moores are unclear on when a complaint will be filed.
As noted yesterday, the accusation against Moore now includes not only numerous women but also colleagues who said that Moore (despite his denials) had a penchant for very young girls. The most serious was an allegation by Leigh Corfman, who was 14 at the time, and said that Moore undressed her and molested her.
This new allegation is equally serious. Nelson said that Moore (who was in his 30s and a prosecutor in the Etowah County District Attorney's Office) offered her a ride after she got off work as a waitress at the Old Hickory House, a restaurant 50 miles northeast of Birmingham. She said that she knew him from the restaurant and that he would often comment on her looks and pull her red hair. She says that she was 15 when he started to flirt with her.
Rather than drive her home, she says that Moore drove behind the restaurant and parked near a dumpster where he groped her and tried to force her head onto his crotch. She said that she feared she was about to be raped and that he eventually gave up. She claims that he said "You're just a child and I am the District Attorney of Etowah County, and if you tell anyone about this, no one will ever believe you." She says that she was left with bruises around her neck.
I previously noted that I often wait to see who sues when clearly someone is lying in a scandal. Moore and his wife now say that they will sue. However, Moore only cited the allegation involving the 14 year old girl not the other allegations or the accounts of his colleagues. He also said that he will sue the Washington Post as opposed to these women who he has called liars. The Washington Post, however, would likely prevail under the New York Times v. Sullivan standard governing public figures. That case imposes a higher standard for people like Moore that requires him to show that the Post published these accounts with knowledge of their falsity or reckless disregard of the truth. With so many sources, it would be highly unlikely that he could prevail. If Moore is maintaining that these are lies, the most obvious lawsuit would target the sources.
One would also expect that Moore would be suing over the allegations of his pursuing young girls, though the allegation involving Corfman involves a potential crime — a per se category of defamation.
As I have previously stated, this is a case where litigation could shine from needed light through discovery. However, this is fast becoming less relevant to Moore's rapidly worsening position. Mitch McConnell has publicly stated that he believes the women and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declared that there is no reason to doubt the women. Moore should clearly at this point withdraw and let the lawsuit expose who is lying in this sordid scandal.
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182 thoughts on "Moore Charges As The Alabama Candidate Threatens To Sue Washington Post"
I wonder why so many are bringing up Clinton? Did you miss the Access Hollywood tape where the current president bragged about sexually assaulting young women?
Here the step-son of the latest accuser:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NiaMAGA3X/status/930616066748944386/video/1
If evidence has convicted Judge Roy Moore,
why hasn't evidence convicted Hillary Clinton?
Jay S says:
Oh, was Hillary sexually molesting young men 30 or 40 years ago?
Paul C Schulte says:
Jay S – I think you picked the wrong sex for Hillary's targets.
David B. Benson says:
Demeaning of you.
David Benson – unless you think being a homosexual is demeaning, then no, it is not demeaning, just based on very strong rumors. David, are you a closet homophobe?
You missed the point.
David Benson – what was the point I missed?
Think. Hard.
David Benson – you can't name it either. Thought you couldn't. All smoke and no fire.
Karen S says:
I frankly wish the accusers had found their conscience sooner than 40 years, and mere weeks before the election. Because of the timing, and the aggressive nature of WaPo pushing them to come forward, I believe this is politically motivated. If their stories are true, then what changed to suddenly make them seek justice now? Why not any of the past elections? Or was Trump's election enough political motivation to strike back?
There is still the issue of whether he dated teenagers, and if he did, if they were all of legal age. If they were, then it's not illegal and his own business. Personally, if he dated anyone between 16 and 18 years of age, that would damn his character in my eyes, regardless of 16 being the age of consent in Alabama. If he tried to rape anyone of any age, or pursued anyone not of age, then that is an issue that the public needs to know about.
Part of the signature of the yearbook was written by a different hand, and even in a different ink. You can see the "7s" are different on top compared with after the signature. Who has their yearbook signed in December? Did they give them out at the start of the school year back then instead of at the end?
Maybe he signed it with just his first name, and she added the rest so she'd remember who it was. Maybe she liked him when he was just a customer and let him sign her yearbook, and things went sideways later. Maybe she forged it.
Again, there are inconsistencies in both his story and hers.
I've said it before, that there is no time. Since there is no time, and more accusers have come forward, I think the most conservative way to deal with this is to have another Republican run while he sorts out his legal issues. If the yearbook was in fact forged, then he can and should sue. However, it is entirely possible that he did sign it, and she just added the rest as a description…trying to copy his handwriting.
I just don't think we have enough time to sort out the truth, and the state could flip if this does not get resolved in time. Conversely, if sufficient evidence arises that he would have been charged with a crime if not for the statue of limitations, then it will be too late to find a replacement.
I appreciate your opinion.
However, my mother was married at 18, and had me at 19 – her husband – my dad- was 15 years older than her – and he started to court when she was very late 17. My grandfather has the same story with my grandmother. I admit I'm from the south – South Philly. I don't see how anyone can project their 2017 tastes back on 1977 – you wind up stereotyping too many good fathers and husbands. Please reconsider this part of your opinion.
Jacques said to Karen S, "I don't see how anyone can project their 2017 tastes back on 1977 – you wind up stereotyping too many good fathers and husbands. Please reconsider this part of your opinion."
Karen S said, "Personally, if he dated anyone between 16 and 18 years of age, that would damn his character in my eyes, regardless of 16 being the age of consent in Alabama. If he tried to rape anyone of any age, or pursued anyone not of age, then that is an issue that the public needs to know about."
One might presume that Karen S might absolve good husbands and fathers who were older than the 16 to 18 year-old girls they had dated before they married them, because they had subsequently married them. Roy Moore did not marry Leigh Corfman nor Beverly Young Nelson. Whence the stereotype alleged in Jacques' complaint against Karen S cannot shield Roy Moore from the allegations of sexual assault that Corfman and Nelson have leveled against Moore.
you may be correct about Moore specifically but I still see no real evidence to that.
(1) I said courted – that means dated –
(2)Karen S did not so qualify her stereotype – why don't *you* ask Karen if all she meant was that older men who dated legal teens but then did not marry them are "damned character in her sight"?
(3)As for your point- it makes no sense whatsoever – an older man can date a 'legal' teen without winding up marrying the person he dates and still be a good man now can't he? Things not working out does not a damning character make.
Karen implied a generalization without the qualification you append – thus stereotyping (the damning the character of) older men dating a 'legal' teen. My observation (my own family) is an empirical contradiction to that hasty damning generalization.
Reconsider your presumption please – it's not only not Karen's point, it's still an attempt at stereotyping based on age gaps and it's nonsense to boot I might add.
Jacques had previously complained ". . . you wind up stereotyping too many good fathers and husbands."
Jacques currently observes that ". . . an older man can date a 'legal' teen without winding up marrying the person he dates and still be a good man now can't he?"
Jacques, you just moved the goal posts from "good fathers and husbands being stereotyped" to good men who dated a legal teen without marrying them being stereotyped. I believe that technique is technically called equivocation. But most folks know it as bait and switch.
As for the allegations of sexual assault against Moore, your point about men who date legal teens with or without ever marrying them being stereotyped makes no sense whatsoever, unless you're truly proffering that observation as a defense against alleged sexual assault.
Let's try again – Karen made a generalization about older men dating teens and how their characters are damned in her sight.
The generalization would damn both "many good fathers and husbands" and "good men who dated a legal teen without marrying them" – the generalization is based simply on an older man dating a legal teen. And that net is wide enough to catch both types of men. It's not a moving of the goal posts – it's trying to get you to see that the goalposts were already there and quite wide!
Fine then, Jacques. It is possible for good men who are older than the legal teens they date to refrain from sexually assaulting those teens in just such a way as to remain good men for many years thereafter.
On a related subject, Karen S and Prairie Rose have both advised of the need for expert forensic analysis of the yearbook inscription at issue. Since they are both more sensible than I am, most of the time, I defer to their sound advice.
Nice black and white picture above – but life is all about color now isn't it?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOk8zjzWAAAxXvy.jpg
can someone tell me which section Moore wrote – they are clearly not the same writing. Good luck.
And who is Ray?
Stuart Dahlquist says:
Many people add information regarding the signatures in their yearbook; who, where, when… Simply to remember. In this case I'd guess 'Moore DA 12-22-77 Olde Hickory House' was added as an addition to Roy's signing.
you guess? – so who do you guess added it?
The forger!
Jacques has provided no citation nor any link to the photo Jacques posted.
Prairie Rose says:
This is an interesting take on the issue:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/roy-moore-handwriting-analyses-proves-trial-by-twitter-is-no-way-to-determine-guilt-or-innocence/#comments
Thanks, Prairie Rose. The link you provided is, indeed, interesting. Karen S specifically referred to her view on the subject as being through layman's eyes. And, in any case, I'm more concerned with the unattributed source of the photo Jacques posted. Check the photo in the link I provided downstream.
The photo in the lInk (bottom left) is the one I produce above – just bigger for your viewing pleasure. The source is CNN. I found the larger sized one on the web quite easily. Are you saying that it's not the quote from the yearbook?? Sheesh.
To be clear – PR's link – https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/11/roy-moore-handwriting-analyses-proves-trial-by-twitter-is-no-way-to-determine-guilt-or-innocence/#comments
look at picture bottom left
let me rephrase that – I did not blow it up – I found a blown up version of the pic that's all – Thanks!
Sorry for the misunderstanding about the link from Prairie Rose, Jacques.
The link to the CNN photos makes it seem as though the message at issue was written on the inside cover or on one of the first pages in the yearbook. Also, there appear to be many, if not most, of the pages missing from the binding. That would make the yearbook easier to hold up before the cameras. It might also protect the innocent who may also have signed with messages on the missing pages. Maybe I'm over-analyzing.
What link, Jacques? What bottom left, Jacques? Look at the Lucas Jackson/Reuters photo in the link that provided to "Text of Beverly Young Nelson's Accusation Against Roy Moore" just downstream from here. Why not try something like that?
Where's your foundation for the question, "Are you saying that it's not the quote from the yearbook?? Sheesh." ??? Seriously, Jacques, what are you imagining, now, with that question?
Found it! Thanks for asking –
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/930205088299257859
Thanks, Jacques. I appreciate it.
Different "7s" for sure. And the printing of "Olde Hickory House" seems to be in a different hand. Why would he have printed part of a book signing in cursive?
A forensic handwriting specialist would be able to tell if Moore signed the first part and if the latter part was forged. It is still possible he signed the first part, and she added the last to create some proof for her story. But that's just armchair conjecture. It needs to be investigated by a professional.
"Olde" is not correct – the actual restaurant was "Old". Moore was never D.A. He was D.D.A.
crumbling
There's one more thing – the word "Moore" is clearly in blue thus it is added – why would she try to mimic his handwriting (of the last name)???
I agree that, even to my layman's eyes, the latter half of the entry is in a different hand and ink. I also agree that an attempt was made to match Moore's handwriting for his last name.
I don't agree with your assumption that it is Moore's handwriting in either section. If I remember correctly, miss Nelson did not admit to writing or adding anything – please point me to admission – she, I think, insists that Moore wrote all of it – so, imo I think something's not quite right here.
assumption is the wrong word. sorry. let me rephrase:
I don't think it's been shown that Moore wrote any of it. etc…
Karen S, what chain of custody gets the color photograph into Jacques hands then onto this blawg?
Karen S, check the link and compare the original photo to the one Jacques posted. They appear to be the same Lucas Jackson/Reuters photo, but the version Jacques posted appears to have been been enlarged and cropped and who knows what all else.
The camera angle in the photo Jacques posted is different than the Lucas Jackson photo from Reuters. Jacques needs to clarify the source of the photo he posted.
Better yet, Jacques could provide a link to the source of the photo he posted just the I provided a link to the source of the photo I posted. Why didn't Jacques do that in the first place?
Does anybody remember the black/blue v. white/gold dress debacle? Maybe the photo Jacques posted creates an optical illusion of the type found in the black/blue v. white/gold dress debacle.
Look at the way the color of the ink changes in the photo Jacques posted from the blurry portion at the left of the photo to the focal point at the capital letter R then away from that focal point toward the right of the photo. The yearbook page in the photo appears to be a curved surface rather than a planar surface. That curvature could easily create the optical illusion of a color change that is not present in the ink itself.
Jacques, can you provide this blawg with a provenance for the photo you posted?
The photo is attributed to Lucas Jackson of Reuters. The original can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/text-beverly-young-nelson-statement.html
An excerpt from Beverly Young Nelson's statement:
My husband and I supported Donald Trump for President. This has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. It has everything to do with Mr. Moore's sexual assault when I was a teenager.
I thought that I was Mr. Moore's only victim. I would probably have taken what Mr. Moore did to me to my grave, had it not been for the courage of four other women that were willing to speak out about their experiences with Mr. Moore. Their courage has inspired me to overcome my fear.
Mr. Moore attacked me when I was a child. I did nothing to deserve his sexual attack. I was frightened by his position and his power. I am coming forward to let Mr. Moore know that he no longer has any power over me and I no longer live in fear of him.
Meanwhile, Karen S, Jacques and even Mespo, now, are entertaining the possibility of forged evidence against Roy Moore without Jacques providing a citation or a link to the photo he posted. Compare the unattributed photo that Jacques posted to the one in the link that I provided to "Text of Beverly Young Nelson's Accusation Against Roy Moore." Jacques needs to tell us from where he got the photo he posted or just provide us with a link to the source of that photo.
Ink can fade or reflect strangely on different kinds of paper. A forensic handwriting analysis would shed more light on the matter.
It do not think it is odd that this is at the forefront during his campaign. This happened to others during their campaigns, and, these accusations are happening everywhere anyway–from Hollywood to media establishment leaders, etc.
Sexual crimes are serious, but so is destroying a person's reputation for political gain.
I suspect the guy is guilty, but I'd rather he get fair treatment than media frenzy alone.
Open secrets like what seem to be surrounding him ought to be investigated (like the open secrets swirling around Weiner, Clinton, Weinstein, Spacey).
Prairie Rose, thanks, again. You may be too sensible for this blawg. Although, Karen S also mentioned the need for forensic analysis. As your previous link pointed out, the photo that Jacques posted, or any other photo for that matter, has no value for forensic analysis. Those analysts want the original document.
Thank you, L4D, for your kind words. I do think, though, that there are plenty of people on here who are all trying to have sensible conversation on difficult topics. There may be disagreement, but a nice percentage of people are, in general, trying to exercise their best reason and judgment from hearts of wisdom and compassion. Karen S is, indeed, one of these people. The quality, diversity, and overall civility of conversation here makes this an enjoyable blawg to read and post on. Glad you're here, too!
adamsmith1922 says:
Reblogged this on The Inquiring Mind and commented:
Turley looks at the Roy Moore disgrace
He needs to walk off into the sunset.
"RNC pulls financial, ground game support for Roy Moore in Alabama Senate race"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/14/rnc-pulls-financial-ground-game-support-for-roy-moore-in-alabama-senate-race.html
Liberty Second says:
New Angle On The Topic: Women who go after men. Yeah.
Why do women "doll up"? Why do they put on make up? Why do they flirt?
The system in America is odd. We have all these females complaining about Moore and forget that they were being there to make him want a little attention
Give me a break you rattle snakes.
There will be change when society stops judging women based on appearance.
Which Fox, female, on-air talent wears no make-up, wears ill-fitting clothes and has a $10 hair cut from Great Clips for her natural-colored hair?
I'd say Shepard Smith, with the exception of having on-air talent, wears no make-up, wears ill-fitting clothes and has a $10 hair cut from Great Clips for her natural-colored hair.
Warren Miller says:
Prof. Turley – Your quote of Moore's inscription of that yearbook is incomplete. You wrote, "To a sweeter girl I could not say Merry Christmas"; Moore himself inscribed, "To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas."
So, Professor Turley, you're sayinng that Judge Roy Moore is exactly the same personality as Bill Clinton but Roy Moore should be defeated and destroyed while Bill Clinton was and should have been awarded the U.S. presidency?
A strange world indeed.
wlindsaywheeler says:
Yes, the duplicity and hypocrisy is amazing! I thought people were innocent till proven guilty—but with Republicans, it is Guilty, forever Guilty! Bill Clinton was given a pass. No one cared!
See what I don't understand is that Christians give sinners a second chance. Has Moore done these things recently? No. But we are to destroy a man for peccadilloes forty years ago! How many Republicans have ordained and sanctioned abortion? Abortion is a bigger crime, a much more horrible crime than sexual advances—yet, the Republican establishment works with people all the time that are baby killers! Hypocrites. McConnell and Ryan both need to go. They are sanctimonious pieces of globalist hacks. Yes, Moore was cad, in a sense, all men are cads sometimes in their life, some, like Bill Clinton never leave off being a cad. Let me see, John Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Clinton, and other Democrats have been fornicators, adulterers and they kept their office and we throw Moore under the bus for something 40 years ago–The Republican Party is a bunch of losers. Has Moore straightened out his life? Yes. But Prof. Turley seeks to move back in time and push today's Marxist Feminist values into the Old South where morals forty years ago were different.
Peccadillos may describe Clinton's acceptance of a blow job offered willingly by an adult woman.(George Stephanoupolis has described Lewinsky's behavior toward other men in the office). The charge against Moore is a 14 year old offered a ride home and then accosted, with him pushing her face into his lap and him leaving the scene with her alone, on the ground in a dark parking lot.
Civility rule.
Linda, do you not consider the power differential between a POTUS and an intern to have a bearing on the terms used to describe the behavior?
Linda wrote: "The charge against Moore is a 14 year old offered a ride home and then accosted, with him pushing her face into his lap and him leaving the scene with her alone, on the ground in a dark parking lot."
To clarify, Linda, you've conflated two different cases. The following article describes the incident with the girl who was 14. (What you've described is Beverly Nelson's account about what allegedly transpired when she was 16, as I recall.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32/2017/11/09/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html
She remembers thinking, "I don't want to do this" and "I need to get out of here." She says that she got dressed and asked Moore to take her home, and that he did.
The legal age of consent in Alabama, then and now, is 16. Under Alabama law in 1979, and today, a person who is at least 19 years old who has sexual contact with someone older than 12 and younger than 15 has committed sexual abuse in the second degree. Sexual contact is defined as touching of sexual or intimate parts. The crime is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail.
The law then and now also includes a section on enticing a child younger than 16 to enter a home with the purpose of proposing sexual intercourse or fondling of sexual and genital parts. That is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
In Alabama, the statute of limitations for bringing felony charges involving sexual abuse of a minor in 1979 would have run out three years later, and the time frame for filing a civil complaint would have ended when the alleged victim turned 21, according to Child USA, a nonprofit research and advocacy group at the University of Pennsylvania.
Corfman never filed a police report or a civil suit.
She says that after their last encounter, Moore called again, but that she found an excuse to avoid seeing him. She says that at some point during or soon after her meetings with Moore, she told two friends in vague terms that she was seeing an older man.
Betsy Davis, who remains friendly with Corfman and now lives in Los Angeles, says she clearly remembers Corfman talking about seeing an older man named Roy Moore when they were teenagers. She says Corfman described an encounter in which the older man wore nothing but tight white underwear. She says she was firm with Corfman that seeing someone as old as Moore was out of bounds.
"I remember talking to her and telling her it's not a good idea," Davis says. "Because we were so young."
A second friend, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing her job, has a similar memory of a teenage Corfman telling her about seeing an older man.
After talking to her friends, Corfman says, she began to feel that she had done something wrong and kept it a secret for years.
"I felt responsible," she says. "I felt like I had done something bad. And it kind of set the course for me doing other things that were bad."
She says that her teenage life became increasingly reckless with drinking, drugs, boyfriends, and a suicide attempt when she was 16. -Washington Post
Moore is a pedophile. Whatever Clinton may be he's not a pedophile. If some 30 year old man pulled this kind of crap with my 14 year old daughter you can bet I'd never forgive them, no way.
I'll see your pedophile and raise you a rapist.
I'm with Prof. Kevin Burgess Jackson who said this: [QUOTE]What's the big deal about a 32-year-old man courting a 14-year-old girl? My maternal grandmother was 15 years old when she married and 16 years old when she conceived her first child. Her husband was 41 and 42. They had 10 children during the next 20 years. This was normal back then. I'm sure it was normal in Alabama 40 years ago as well. The age of consent in Alabama even today is 16 (with parental consent). Someone said the other day that if Bill Clinton had done his harassing and assaulting today, he'd be vilified, even by his fellow travelers on the left. That's how much has changed in the past couple of decades. Even more has changed in the past 40 years. I'm sick to death of people imposing their own moral standards on people of the past, whether it's Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee, George Armstrong Custer, Martin Luther King Jr, or Roy Moore. By the way, Moore has denied the accusation. I'm assuming, for the sake of argument, that he did what he's accused of.[END QUOTE] http://keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com/blog/2017/11/politics-3.html
In the old days, some men do take younger wives. Values were different back then.
Peter Hill says:
When Bill Clinton first ran, in 1992, the only affair on record was with Jennifer Flowers. That affair was consensual, Flowers was an adult, and Hillary seemed to be aware of it. So what's the problem..??
Rape!
Benghazi !!!
Irangate, Watergate, see how easy it is to deflect; George, i.e. Squeeky, look at the shiny object.
We need to find a way to encourage better qualified and suitable candidates for public office instead of miscreants we are often served by the political parties. Unfortunately, most right minded individuals want nothing to do with such a poisoned and dishonorable mess. For them it isn't worth the headache, especially when better opportunities exist elsewhere.
Although for many who have no scruples with underhandedness, who are vainly ambitious, the absence of effective and decent people as political competition percolate into elected office and we are left with the bad apples who the parties shine on the wax and the pesticides to make them appear pretty and to eliminate lesser politicians competing with them for votes.
Mr. Smith, If I may, that is precisely why the Founders severely limited government to security and infrastructure. They reduced the impact of "miscreants" by reducing the dimensions of governance and maximizing the freedom of individuals.
The rise of the U.S. oligarchy and democracy's replacement via "reduced dimensions of governance"- from the frying pan into the fire.
A fine distinction; the American Founders established a restricted-vote republic, absolutely not a one man, one vote democracy.
Republic- "…supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote.."
States generally required voters to be male, European, 21 with 50 lbs. Sterling or 50 acres.
The "poor" would sell their votes.
Women were, presumably, busy perpetuating the race and national population and representative government began at home as men cast the undiluted vote for the benefit of his entire family.
"benefit of his entire family"… by whose criteria, Peter Thiel's?
I agree fully. One of the problems today is they granted themselves, and we gave away, too much power. I am a firm believer in term limits but for a branch of government to restrict themselves in such a way is impossible given the egotists and elitists prevailing in Congress. Aside from if we actually had fair elections–meaning ones where more than two individuals are permitted as candidates in general elections–we could simply vote them out of office every two terms. However since on the federal level we as citizens are not permitted the initiative vote, the only way for us to cut government overreach is to cut off its source of funding and that only meets with limited success.
On an individual basis we can punish local governments when they act badly, such as avoiding purchasing goods and services within their boundaries but aside from a few individuals, most populations value bread, circuses, and convenience more than complaining when politicians take an extra 600 dollars a year out of them in property taxes or sales taxes.
If we look at the example of Catalonia where the Spanish government violently suppressed the vote for independence, then locked up local leaders on trumped up sedition charges, an effective way to engage in civil disobedience is for the citizens and businesses to refuse to pay income taxes or pay any tribute to Spain. If three-hundred-thousand or more did this, the bureaucracy could not effectively enforce tax evasion laws. Catalonia is a net producer of income for Spain and a tax revolt will be very damaging. But like other politicians, tax revenue is the life blood of governments and like a cornered animal it is likely to strike back. But if people simply refuse to comply, it can be more effective than violence.
Darren Smith – I could do with the Roman circuses, if I could tolerate the blood. Probably more of a nautitorium guy myself. 🙂
How much Russian involvement was at play in Catalonia's break away sentiment?
All freedoms and rights are global and universal unless confiscated by dictatorship.
The Founders believed freedoms and rights were natural or God-given and they existed before government was established. They observed the Indians with personal property that was moveable and understood that nature/God granted them their right to it. According to that theory all conceivable freedoms and rights are global.
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We also need a system where the concepts and edicts of the basic law of our land is including such guarantees as 'upon probable cause' and 'facts' presented instead of 30 year old hear say presented time after time as the immediate truth with out evidence are taken as something to be acted upon especially when the group is time after time from the one single group whose credo is 'anything said to support the party is the truth' and especially from a group who is most famous for supporting victimizers of women both directly and indirectly. Then having the gall to campaign for office as supporters of women, and be supported by such groups as the inaptly named National Organization of (but not for) Women and inlcude in their ranks everything from far left foreign ideologists to aply named Republicans in Name Only.
Not to mention but I shall do so anyway violaters upon reciting the words their oaths of office.
So one speaks with no evidence to speak of and a few more of the Brigade of Bimbos chime in but nowhere are the words 'innocent until proven guilty' heard or seen but popping knees jerking provide their own form of applause.
And all in the face one exposed dialect after another as if they were common drunks swerving from curb to curb.
Even so let's suppose the charges are accurate to some degree or another what does that have to do crapping on our Constitution using the same, the exact same, tactics listed in our Declaration of Independence as the charges leveled against King George III and many other types of dictatorships since. As for the yellow journalism of the NYT and the WaPo and others they have engaged in the same so much one sees their title and immediately awards what they print or say with disdain and disbelief.
They are after all the party of the same group pretending to be what they are not and calling for immediate dismissal. such as the Speaker of The House and the leaders of the Senate. Who themselves only the right wing of the left and the cave on command puppy dogs of the far left. .
Let none call them Constitutionalists nor treat them as centrists in our Constitutional Republic. If they claim to be conservative it's only under the true meaning of the world – entrenched, dug in, and defending their leftish progressively regressive ways and violations of their oath of office. .
Darren Smith said, "We need to find a way to encourage better qualified and suitable candidates for public office instead of the miscreants we are often served by the political parties."
Candidates used to rise through the ranks of a "farm system" (by analogy to MLB) from lower, more local offices to higher, national offices. That still happens, of course, but it happens less frequently than it used to because of the money it takes to purchase TV advertisements broadcast far beyond the local level. So the political parties are spending more money on candidates for higher, national offices than they spend on candidates for lower, local offices.
Consequently, the re-election of incumbents holding higher, national offices has become more probable than the re-election of incumbents holding lower, local offices. That, in turn, leads to political parties recruiting candidates for all offices, at all levels, who already have some measure of celebrity and name-recognition. Those advantages are harder to acquire from the "farm system" approach than from the "popular culture" approach that is lately gaining greater sway. But the pop-culture approach to retail politicking does not vet candidates anywhere near so well as the farm-system approach does.
But what about Roy Moore? Isn't Moore an example of the farm-system approach to politics? No. Moore's primary opponent, Luther Strange, would be a better example of the farm-system than Moore who gained national notoriety for injecting religion into the state courts of Alabama.
Then what about Moore's current opponent, Doug Jones? Who??? A Democratic Senator from Alabama??? The last time that happened was 1992 and Sen. Richard Shelby switched parties to Republican shortly thereafter. But Doug Jones prosecuted Eric Rudolph for killing an off-duty police officer. Jones also participated in the civil rights trial of the Montgomery church bombers who killed four young African-American girls in the early 1960's. Both of those cases got national press coverage. But the name Doug Jones still draws shoulder-shrugs of "Who???"
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Accelerating Circularity Launches European Project: Founding Members Signal Potential For Global Scale
CAMPBELL HALL, N.Y. — May 27, 2021 — Building on the success of its work researching, mapping, modeling, and linking circular textile-to-textile systems in the United States, Accelerating Circularity today announced the launch of a new project based in Europe. In discussing the organization's expansion, Founder and President Karla Magruder said: "We think of successful projects as those that can be repeated and scaled to maximize their impact. The launch of Accelerating Circularity Europe exemplifies this approach and advances our goal of enabling the industry to achieve a scaled, global, circular textile system."
The founding members of Accelerating Circularity Europe's Steering Committee represent leaders in global retail, circular supply chain, and textile recycling. They include DuPont Biomaterials, European Outdoor Group, GIZ, Gr3n, Inditex, Lenzing, Recover™, Recyclatex Group, Reverse Resources, Texaid, and Zalando.
Laura Coppen, head of Circularity at Zalando, said: "We are excited to join the ACPE Steering Committee to advance the industry in the 'end of life' product stage. With our reach as a platform, we can contribute to scaling circular textile systems and move away from linear to circular business practices. To do that we need to collaborate across the industry to scale solutions quickly, and we believe this project does just that. Our circularity strategy aims to integrate the principles of circularity into our business, with our brand partners and for our customers. We aim to ensure that products don't end up in landfill or are incinerated and we see this project as a great way to learn and build better systems in the long term."
Chief Sustainability Officer at Recover™ Helene Smits stated: "Recover™ believes that scalability is one of the main challenges of a circular textile industry, and we have included it as a core pillar of our strategy. Accelerating Circularity Europe can be a strong facilitator of this initiative and we are very enthusiastic to be a founding member of the ACPE Steering Committee."
Speaking about Reverse Resources' decision to join the Steering Committee, Sales Marketing Lead Marieke Koemans-Kokkelink added, "Creating a European-wide collaboration enables us to digitally follow (and improve) the textile material flows through circulation."
The Steering Committee will set the strategy and make decisions for the European project. They will convene a Brand and Retailer Working Group for the development of take back programs and circular product specifications. Select collectors, recyclers, and preprocessors will comprise a Spent Textile Working Group to address challenges in collection, sorting, and feedstock preparation. As in the U.S., The European project will unfold in phases: research and mapping, modeling and linking, then trials and evaluation. The new project will expand upon the work done to date and adapt it to the European context.
There are multiple ways to participate in the project: NGOs can become Collaborating Organizations, a network of complementary and mutually supportive entities that amplify the work. Companies can join the technical working groups and can also become System Partners once the project launches the trial phase. Organizations may register their interest via acceleratingcircularity.org/stakeholder-registry.
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Few public health measures over the last half-century have worked as well as fluoridating water. Not only does the New Hampshire Dental Society agree, so do most other respected health organizations worldwide.Fluoridation of community water supplies is the single most effective public health measure to prevent tooth decay, according to the American Dental Association. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proclaimed community water fluoridation as one of the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century.Currently, only 42.6 percent of New Hampshire residents on public water systems have access to fluoridated community water supplies, compared to an optimal rate of 75 percent.And New Hampshire is significantly below the national average. After a recent study, the ADA found that every $1 invested in water fluoridation saves $60 in dental treatment costs. Not only is fluoridating our community water supplies effective, but it saves taxpayers money.Of the 10 largest cities and towns in New Hampshire, only four currently add fluoride to their water systems. Included on the list of those that do not is Nashua, the second-largest city in the state.According to the ADA, without fluoridation there would be many more than the estimated 51 million school hours lost per year. With 18 public schools in the Nashua area, that's too many hours lost per year. Fluoride is a trace nutrient that occurs naturally in water and foods. But the amount of fluoride in most drinking water supplies doesn't provide the optimal level to strengthen growing teeth and help protect them against decay. The correct amount of fluoride helps supplement diets, just as we do with Vitamin D in milk and iodine in salt.Even an internationally respected organization finds water fluoridation to be beneficial to our communities. The World Health Organization produced a study that concluded:"Most recently, efforts have been made to summarize the extensive database (on fluorides) through systematic reviews. Such reviews conclude that water fluoridation and use of fluoride toothpastes and mouth rinses significantly reduce the prevalence of dental caries (dental decay or cavities) … Water fluoridation, where technically feasible and culturally acceptable, has substantial advantages in public health."I encourage people to ask questions and get the facts about water fluoridation. The New Hampshire Dental Society has a website, flouridefactsnh.com, that serves to inform the public and address questions about community water fluoridation.Dr. Drew Wilson of Family Dental Care, Milford, is president of the New Hampshire Dental Society.


Flying under the radar with most American fans, winger Kevin Lankford is quietly becoming an important contributor for FC Heidenheim in the 2.Bundesliga and he hopes that his success can put him into the mix for the U.S. U-23 Olympic team.
THERE ARE A lot of young American players trying to make their way in Germany right now. Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie have had enormously strong starts to their careers and there are others like Josh Sargent who are also trying to break through.
Kevin Lankford, 19, is not a familiar name inside of American soccer circles but the German-born winger is trying to change that after appearing in all four of FC Heidenheim games to start the 2.Bundesliga season.
When Christian Pulisic turns 20 later this month, Lankford will be the only American teenager playing first team minutes in Germany at the moment.
But despite his youth, his introduction into the first team at Heidenheim has been gradual. He made his first team debut in the second half of the 2016/2017 season and played regularly after the winter break – mostly as a sub. Then in the 2017/2018 season, he played in 14 2.Bundesliga games that season. This far in 2018/2019 he is on pace to play significantly more minutes.
When asked if this will be his breakout year, Lankford is both reluctant but full of optimism.
While Lankford still has a ways to go to be the player he wants to be, he has shown glimpses of impressive talent this year in 2018. In April, he pulled off a highlight reel assist in a 3-1 win over a Fortuna Dusseldorf side that was eventually promoted to the Bundesliga.
Last month, he scored his first professional goal in a 5-2 win over Jeddeloh in the German Cup.
Over the past decade, German-born/raised Americans have featured regularly for the United States and its youth teams and Lankford himself played for the U.S. U-19 team under Brad Friedel at the 2016 COTIF Tournament in Spain. It was there he played alongside Weston McKennie and scored one goal in three appearances.
Like most of the other German-born American players, Lankford's U.S. citizenship derives from an American father who served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany where he met Lankford's mother.
But as Lankford developed into a professional soccer player, he did not wait around for U.S. Soccer to discover him. Instead, he took a more proactive approach to get noticed.
To this day, Lankford is close with the American side of his family which is very large. His father has nine siblings and is from just outside Newport News, Virginia. Lankford is fluent in English and learned the language from his father and his family, his regular trips to the United States growing up, and also from his German mother who was also fluent and spoke English to him frequently when he was a child.
But while he is planning to return to visit next year to see his family, Lankford hopes that his football brings him back stateside even more frequently.
It was already two years ago when he played for U.S. U-19 team but he is hoping that his increasing minutes in the 2.Bundesliga will open more doors in the future – perhaps with the U-23 team which will likely begin its Olympic qualifying preparations next year.


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Aleksandr Vasilyevich Deryagin (Russian: Александр Васильевич Дерягин; 19 February 1941 - 16 July 2010), was a Russian politician who had served as the 1st Governor (Head) of Kaluga Oblast from 1991 to 1996. He was the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991.

Biography
Aleksandr Deryargin was born on 19 February 1941. In 1990, Deryagin was elected a people's deputy of the RSFSR, and in 1991 he was the chairman of the committee on science and public education of the Supreme Council of Russia. In the same year, he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1997, he was the President of the Kaluga Scientific Center. Aleksandr Vasilyevich Deryagin died in Kaluga on 16 July 2010. In 2011, the Kaluga Regional Research Center was renamed dedicated to his name in his memory.

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Quique Setién addressed the media at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan Stadium after the match.
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'A lot of things are the matter with me': The best lines from Trump's Fox interview
From an electric border wall to his desire for an impeachment trial, Trump covered a lot of topics during his hour-long call-in.
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By CAITLIN OPRYSKO
President Donald Trump called in to "Fox & Friends" on Friday for a nearly hour-long interview that he agreed after was a form of "stress relief."
As House Democrats close in on an impeachment vote, Trump waxed on about a wide range of topics from the Ukraine investigation to his trade war with China to Kellyanne Conway's relationship with her Trump critic husband.
Here are some of the best nuggets from Trump's interview:
It's electric
Trump made a strange assertion about his long-promised border wall with Mexico, claiming that the government had deployed high-tech defenses to track migrant activity along the border, including electrifying the barrier.
"We have drones flying to see if anybody is trying to break through the wall. Because if you have a bulldozer or if you have heavy blowtorches and things you can break through. We have the wall, is electrified, so that if anybody touches it we know exactly what is happening we can get there in minutes," Trump claimed.
Repeating a debunked conspiracy theory
Trump repeated his claims, which had been debunked less than 24 hours earlier by no less than his former top Russia adviser, that Ukraine is harboring the servers of the Democratic National Committee that the FBI determined had been hacked by Russia in the lead-up to the 2016 election.
"It is very interesting, it is very interesting, they have the server, right? From the DNC," Trump said. "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade jumped in, asking the president who he was referring to.
"The FBI went in, and they told them get out of here. We're not giving it to you. They gave the server to Crowdstrike, or whatever it is called, which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI's still never gotten that server."
"Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?" host Steve Doocy countered.
"That is what the word is," Trump responded.
Praise for 'Bull' Durham
Trump had high praise for John Durham, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut who was tapped by Attorney General William Barr to lead the Justice Department's review of the origins of the Russia investigation. Trump again repeated the unfounded accusation that the highest rungs of the Obama administration had spied on his 2016 presidential campaign.
"Everybody knows it and now we're going to find out," Trump said. "You have 'Bull Durham' who's supposed to be the toughest — I never met him, never spoke to him. But he is supposed to be the smartest and best."
Trump then complimented Barr, who oversaw the completion of the Muller probe, positing that "we may have ended this thing a lot sooner had he been there originally."
Saving 'a lot of money' by canceling subscriptions to The Washington Post and New York Times
Last month, Trump made a show of announcing that he'd canceled the White House's subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post, two papers he's denigrated throughout his presidency. He still appears to read them, however, admitting to Fox that he was keeping apprised of their coverage of the last two weeks' impeachment hearings while also claiming to have saved "a lot" of money by canceling the subscriptions.
"When I see the hearings, we have a great day, pick up the phony New York Times which is a phony total paper I don't read it anymore," he claimed. "You can't read it. It has no relationship to the truth. And you read a story that took place, and they don't tell you what happened. They only put in the bad, they don't put in the good. Same thing with The Washington Post. It's a phony paper. We don't no longer have it in the White House. We saved a lot of money."
A slip of the tongue?
One of the central parts of Trump's explanation for pressuring Ukraine to publicly commit to investigations that could benefit him politically is that he wanted to ensure the eastern European country's new leadership was serious about rooting out corruption. But he appeared to misspeak on Friday, telling "Fox & Friends" that he does, in fact, want corruption.
"I do want — always — corruption, I say that to anybody," Trump remarked, adding: "Why should we give money to a country who's known corrupt?"
Trump wants a Senate impeachment trial
Trump dared the House to vote to impeach him, suggesting he thinks he could get a fairer shake in a trial put on by the GOP-led Senate.
"Frankly I want a trial," Trump said, before going on to outline his dream slate of witnesses for such proceedings. Still, Trump argued, "number one, they should never, ever impeach."
Trump weighs in on the GOP's newest impeachment star
Rep. Elise Stefanik has made a splash during the impeachment inquiry, becoming a breakout star for her fierce defense of the president and her combative nature throughout the public hearings. The attention has catapulted her into the national limelight, with conservatives cheering the young upstate New Yorker and liberals lambasting her.
"She's become a star. You know, every time you do something, you have guys like Jim Jordan, [Mark] Meadows, all these guys they have been around and they're stars but they've been stars," Trump said of his congressional attack dogs. "Every once in a while you meet a new star — I know a lot about stardom. I know a lot about it, I made plenty of them — but I'll tell you what, this young woman from upstate New York, she has become a star. Her way, you can never define exactly what it is, you understand that."
"Just the whole thing. It just works. She, she's a tremendous person. She was fantastic during the hearings," Trump added.
Trump asserts that he knows the identity of the Ukraine whistleblower
The identity of the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry has been the hottest secret in Washington. Trump has repeatedly accused the whistleblower of being a partisan intent on bringing him down, and has urged the media to divulge the person's identity.
"I know exactly who it is. Everybody does," Trump claimed Friday. He blew past questions from Kilmeade about whether the whistleblower was still in government, accusing the hosts of his favorite show of concealing the whistleblower's identity as well.
"By the way you know who the whistleblower is too, otherwise you're not doing your job. Everybody knows it. If the whistleblower were on the other side, they would have revealed the whistleblower two months ago. But the Democrats and their machine, the media machine, the fake, corrupt media, they protect. But you know who the whistleblower is, so do I know it."
Sizing up his potential 2020 competitors
Trump has enjoyed telling the media about his assessments of the Democratic candidates fighting to take him on next November, and he provided his latest evaluation after the fifth primary debate took place earlier this week.
Trump reiterated his criticisms of former Vice President Joe Biden's stamina.
"I don't know if Joe can make it mentally. He's off, there is no question about it. So I don't know if he make it through mentally, if he get through it without cracking up, which is a real question, I mean many people have asked it," he opined. "And don't forget, people have seen his name for a long time."
He also dismissed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who's shot up in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire in recent weeks.
"Pete, I call him Alfred E. Neuman. It reminds me of 'Mad Magazine' Alfred E. Neuman," Trump said, repeating a past dig. "I don't see him dealing with [China's] President Xi. I don't see him dealing with [North Korean leader] Kim Jong Un. I don't see him winning against any of them. I think Biden maybe has the advantage."
The president again hit himself for going after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who he derisively calls Pocahontas, referencing her rebound in the polls. She "came up from the embers," he said. "I hit her too early. I came up with this name that seems to have stuck very nicely. They don't use it."
Trump also downplayed the threat from his fellow New Yorker, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is strongly considering a late entry to the race.
"I don't see him. I know him pretty well. He finished very weak in New York," Trump argued. "He starts telling you what you can drink, what you can do, no, I don't see it. He desperately — I'm sure he is going to run. He is going to spend, he has got the money to put on a great campaign. I don't see it. I think his time has come and gone."
Claiming there are no longer U.S. troops in Syria
Trump has long campaigned on pulling American troops out of "endless wars" in the Middle East, a stance that has put him at odds and caused friction within his own party. That tension reached a boiling point a few months ago when Trump abruptly announced he'd begin to yank troops from the Syrian border with Turkey, paving the way for a Turkish assault on the U.S. allied-Kurds.
Trump relented and agreed to keep a small contingent of troops in Syria, something he neglected to mention Friday. "I just pulled out of Syria, except I kept the oil, if it was OK with you," he quipped to the hosts.
Straddling the line on Hong Kong
The president has remained conspicuously quiet on the pro-democracy protests raging in Hong Kong for months now, never delivering a full-throated defense of the protesters and sparking speculation that he's been mum on the issue in hopes of salvaging a crucial trade deal with China.
Trump dodged a question on whether he would sign a bill Congress sent to his desk this week professing solidarity with Hong Kong, and issued a pledge of support riddled with caveats.
"I stand with Hong Kong, I stand with freedom, I stand with all the things we want to do," Trump said. But, he continued, "we're in the process of making the largest trade deals in history. If we could do that, that would be great. China wants it."
While he said he stands with the protesters there, he added that he also stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whom he called "incredible" and a "friend." He acknowledged that the desire for a trade deal "is a complicating factor, no question about it." But he also suggested he deserves credit for ensuring the Chinese government's response to the protesters hadn't been worse.
"If it weren't for me, Hong Kong would have been obliterated in 14 minutes," he contended. China, he continued, "has got a million soldiers standing outside of Hong Kong that aren't going in only because I asked him, please don't do that. You will be making a big mistake. It's going to have a tremendous negative impact on the trade deal, and he wants to make a trade deal."
Standing by his man
Trump also shot down rumors that he's looking to replace Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate for the 2020 election, telling Fox that the current veep "is our man 100 percent" despite rumors Pence might be kicked off the ticket in favor of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
"Mike Pence is a great vice president," Trump said, adding that Haley would "absolutely" be involved in his campaign no matter what, offering praise for the rare former member of his administration he remains on good terms with and suggesting she's likely enjoying her time in the private sector.
"She is a friend of mine, she endorsed me with the most beautiful endorsement you've ever heard. She did a great job at the U.N.," Trump continued. "Nikki would be great, but Mike Pence has done a phenomenal job as our vice president. He is our guy, he is my friend."
Trump wades into Kellyanne Conway's marriage again
Trump has not shied away from inserting himself in the public discussion of the marriage of Kellyanne Conway, a top aide and his former campaign manager whose husband has become somewhat of a household name thanks to his outspoken Twitter broadsides against the president. He did so again Friday, whacking George Conway for propagating the rumor that Pence might be replaced as vice president after the "Fox & Friends" hosts brought it up.
"First of all, Kellyanne is great," Trump began, before questioning his aide's effect on her husband. "But she is married to a total whack job. I think she must have done some number on him, Ainsley. I don't know what Kellyanne did to that guy. But she — I don't even know him. I met him for a second. He's got to be some kind of a nut job. She must have done some bad things to him because that guy is crazy."
George Conway fired back on Twitter, tweeting out a link to an op-ed he wrote outlining his belief Trump is unfit for office. "Hey, @realDonaldTrump, if you want to learn about a real wack job, read this. Or have someone read it to you and tell you what the big words mean," he wrote.
On a potential Sen. Mike Pompeo
Trump was asked about the status of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has played coy about his Senate aspirations. Despite routinely telling the press he'll remain in Foggy Bottom for as long as Trump will have him, he keeps popping up at a number of Kansan political events.
The president did not rule out dispatching him if he felt the soon-to-be empty Kansas Senate seat was in danger of falling into Democratic hands.
"Mike would easily win in Kansas, great state," Trump said. "I thought they had somebody out there that couldn't win, and Mike would really, he loves what he is doing, but if I thought they somebody out there that — and he came to me and said, 'Look, I would rather stay where I am' — but he loves Kansas. He loves the people of Kansas. If he thought there was a chance of losing that seat, I think he would do that."
Another missing Trump portrait
One of the storylines that's emerged from the impeachment inquiry is the smear campaign orchestrated to get the former ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, removed from her post in Kyiv. Allies of the president painted her as an Obama holdover who needed to be ousted, and Trump singled her out for criticism in his call to the Ukrainian president in July.
Trump has also lobbed personal attacks on the longtime diplomat, including as she testified in the impeachment inquiry and again on Friday. But Trump homed in on one detail in particular that he argued was proof of his case against her.
"This ambassador that you know, everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy," Trump complained, without offering any evidence. "She is in charge of the embassy, she wouldn't hang it. It look like a year and a half, two years to get the picture up. She said bad things about me. She wouldn't defend me."
'Crazy as a bedbug'
Trump also trashed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of his most unflappable congressional opponents, dishing out a new insult for the woman who initiated impeachment proceedings against him.
"I have to deal with crazy Nancy," he said during a riff on establishment politicians he's had to overcome. "I mean, she is crazy as a ... bedbug. She is nuts."
He continued to rip on the speaker, accusing her, falsely, of focusing on oversight rather than legislating: "What she's doing, she's not talented. She is highly overrated, all she is doing is sitting. She is not doing any work for the people and now it turns out the whole impeachment thing is a scam."
Trump embraces some lighthearted ribbing about his health
The president was asked to weigh in on the commotion he caused last weekend with a surprise trip to the hospital, which the White House later said was only so Trump could begin his annual physical examination.
The unannounced visit sparked a host of unfounded theories about Trump's health, and Doocy, with a smile, asked Trump to finally reveal "what is the matter with you?"
"Well, a lot of things are the matter with me," Trump began, getting introspective before answering what Doocy had really asked. "Number one, what did I do this for? But I love it. One of those things."
"So we had some free time. My doctor calls, he said would you like to do something, because I will be slightly busy in 2020," Trump continued, giving a similar explanation downplaying concerns to the one he provided reporters earlier in the week.
But he used the occasion to boast about his stamina, a trait he frequently hits his opponents over.
"So Mr. President, your health is fine?" Doocey asked. By way of an answer, the president offered an anecdote about the 14-hour workday he had earlier this week, apparently accounting for when he began tweeting just after 7 a.m., went to Austin, Texas, for the day, and returned back to the White House around 9 p.m.
"I left early, I got home very late. And I did many things in between," he said. "I was sort of joking to the people: Hey that's not bad considering these people had me all washed up and finished in a hospital, and I just get back from a 14-hour day."
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Driving home the point that English is not important when communicating with foreigners here, tvN's newly launched TV show "Friendly Driver" hopes to promote Korea as a tourist destination.
The show, which aired its first episode Wednesday, offers to drive foreign visitors from the Incheon International Airport to their destinations. The friendly drivers are comedians Lee Soo-geun and Kim Young-chul, actress Yoon So-hee and singer Microdot.
Even though the show deals with foreigners, only Yoon and Microdot are comfortable speaking English.
Comedian Lee claimed that communication is not just about speaking the language fluently. "Energy and attitude are more important, one cannot manage conversations by just being able to speak English," he said at a press conference at Times Square mall in western Seoul, Wednesday.
Fellow comedian Kim agreed. "I was first frustrated with my lack of English but I realized that the production staff did not contact me for my language fluency.
Through the show, the cast realized that many foreigners visited Korea for purposes other than sightseeing.
The show airs every Wednesday at 8:10 p.m. on tvN.


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Aper was a Greek grammarian, who lived in ancient Rome in the time of the emperor Tiberius. He belonged to the school of Aristarchus of Samothrace. He was a strenuous opponent of the grammarian Didymus Chalcenterus, and he wrote numerous polemical works attacking this author. One of the students of Didymus, Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, wrote works in defense of his master, and attacking Aper.

Some scholars have hypothesized that the reading of "Aper" is incorrect here, especially seeing as our information on him is so scant, and it is likely another grammarian is meant, perhaps Apion.

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Cancer May Be a Hidden Danger to the Heart: Report
People with cancer could be suffering silent, unseen heart damage due to their malignancy, a new study from Austria reports.
Researchers found that newly diagnosed cancer patients carried high blood levels of hormones and body chemicals that are normally telltale signs of heart disease, the study authors said.
Those chemical indicators for heart disease increased with the severity of a person's cancer, and were strongly associated with a higher risk of death for these patients, the researchers said.
The findings suggest cancer could be doing damage to heart tissue, even though the person may not be showing clinical evidence of heart disease, the researchers concluded.
Dr. Ana Barac, chairwoman of the American College of Cardiology's Cardio-Oncology Section, said the study could be "paradigm changing" in the way doctors view cancer and heart disease.
Cardiologists and cancer doctors usually focus solely on the diseases of their chosen specialty, said Barac, medical director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C.
Those walls have crumbled slightly in recent years, as more has been learned about the toxic effects that chemotherapy for cancer can have on the heart.
As a result, cancer doctors often will check for chemical indicators of heart disease before putting a patient on chemotherapy, to make sure the cancer treatment won't cause potentially fatal heart disease, she said.
But the patients in this study had high levels of these indicators before ever receiving chemotherapy, and their levels grew worse as their cancer progressed.
"That's an eye-opening thing," Barac said. "They're saying there's a cross-talk between cancer and cardiovascular status. There's a biology there we need to work more to understand."
The study, published Sept. 28 in the journal Heart, focused on 555 people treated for cancer at Vienna General Hospital in Austria.
Before the patients began any treatment that might have damaged their heart, researchers performed a panel of tests to check for signs of heart disease in their blood. The tests looked at blood levels of several heart-related hormones, some proteins associated with inflammation, and a chemical called high sensitive troponin that regulates heart muscle contractions.
Troponin, for example, is used by doctors to test whether a person has suffered an undetected heart attack. "It's something that really only shows up when there's damage to the heart," said Dr. Ann Bolger, a professor and cardiologist with the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
The researchers tracked the patients' progress for an average of two years. During the monitoring period, about a third of the patients died.
Analysis of their blood samples showed that levels of troponin and all the hormones measured rose in tandem with cancer severity, and in some cases were 100 times higher than would be expected, the study authors reported.
All the indicators were significantly associated with an increase in the person's risk of death from any cause, which rose between 21 percent and 54 percent, depending on the specific chemical indicator.
"That does make you think that finding these things is telling us that the heart is impacted by the cancer," Bolger said.
There are several ways that cancer could indirectly damage the heart without spreading to it, experts said.
For example, the body might be trying to fight off the cancer by increasing inflammation. "One of the costs of mounting that inflammatory response is that it triggers some of the bad things we know it can do in the heart," Bolger said.
Cancer might also directly harm the heart by releasing toxic chemicals that damage the muscle, said Dr. Alexander Lyon, a senior lecturer in cardiology at Imperial College London and a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, also in London.
"In the same way that the body's skeletal muscle wastes away with advanced cancer, perhaps the heart muscle is also affected," said Lyon, who wrote an editorial accompanying the article.
But there could be other explanations for telltale signs of cancer-related heart damage. These hormones and body chemicals might be released as part of the creation of tiny new blood vessels necessary for tumor growth, for example, said Barac, the Washington, D.C., cardiac expert.
Regardless, these results show that it is important to assess the heart health of cancer patients, and put them on medications to protect their hearts from damage caused by either their cancer or the treatment they receive for it, the experts said.
"It would be great if we could keep people from having this process go on, because developing heart failure on top of having to fight cancer is extremely difficult for the patients," Bolger said. "We'd do anything to avoid that."
For more information on heart toxicity and chemotherapy, visit the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.


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James J. Bissett III of Mattituck died Dec. 14 at the age of 48.
Mr. Bissett was co-owner of the Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center and the recently opened Hyatt Place East End Hotel in downtown Riverhead. Mr. Bissett's family owned and operated Bissett Nurseries, with locations in Dix Hills and Holtsville.
He is survived by his wife, Carole; his daughters, Dominique Bissett-Viscardi and Danielle; his son, James IV; his sisters, Denise, Michelle Pospischil and Diane Nelson; and Irene Bissett, the mother of their children.
Visiting hours took place Dec. 18 and 19 at Moloney's Holbrook Funeral Home, where a eulogy was given. Cremation was private.
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Thank you for your April 17, 2018 letter addressing the Air Force decision to base the F-35 at Burlington Air National Guard Base and sharing the South Burlington City Council resolution. The Secretary of the Air Force has asked me to respond on her behalf.
The Air Force Finalized the decision to base the F-35 in Burlington in 2013 after a throrough 48-month review of the 205 locations. We expect the first aircraft to arrive in 2019. If the Air Force were to honor the Council's request to cancel basing the F-35 at the National Guard Base, the Vermont Air National Guard would likely lose their flying mission upon the retirement of the F-16s.
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Good Works Are Less Complicated Than You Think
If you want to make an evangelical nervous, mention the concept of good works. But speaking of good works should feel life-giving.
Written by David Qaoud | Saturday, July 24, 2021
Christian productivity is about faithful stewardship. It's about using your spiritual gifts, talents, and time to glorify God and do good for others. You can't do something about every issue in the world, but you can be faithful with the opportunities God places in your path right now— and this is when you will be doing the good works God created you to do. "Do all the good you can," John Wesley says, "by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."
Protestant Christians rightly recognize that God's people are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, but that faith — as many have said — is never alone. Good works are not the basis of salvation, but the evidence of it. A major theme of Titus is the correlation between faith and action, and good works are commended repeatedly (Titus 2:1-10; Titus 2:14; Titus 3:1-2, etc.) We are saved by grace but saved to work.
But what are good works?
Good Works: A Simple Definition
When we think of good works, we think of preaching a sermon, going on a missions trip, or feeding the poor. No doubt, these make the cut. But restricting good works to the big spiritual things we do is narrow-minded. Good works are not only for the spiritual elite, but things any Christian can do every day regardless of where you are in your sanctification. If we think too narrowly of good works, we won't see the spiritual significance of daily mundaneness. Our lives may even start to feel devoid of meaning, despite professing Christ. Sure, we have extraordinary days here and there where we so obviously sense being used by God, but most days aren't like this. Most days, instead, are dry, mundane, and rather ordinary.
But you can still do good works on these days.
In his book, What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done, Matt Perman argues that doing good works is the essence of Christian productivity.
Perman writes:
"Good works are anything you do in faith" (77).
"What is a good work? Anything that does good and is done in faith"(77).
"Hence, we can redefine productivity this way: to be productive is to be fruitful in good works" (74).
"According to the Scriptures, good works are not simply the rare, special, extraordinary or super-spiritual things we do. Rather, they are anything we do in faith." (77)
Considering Perman's thoughts, our definition of good works will be as follows: good works are anything you do in faith to glorify God and serve others.
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Just a quick note to let you know that printed invitations are not required for either the Monday or Saturday viewing of Transparency and the City: Public Spaces or Forgotten Places? However, you may still wish to seek out our five collectable exhibition flyers, each featuring a different photograph or design by one of our exhibitors. If you are really lucky you may even come across one of the handsome packs of five created by Mark and our fellow exhibitor or Jon Spencer.
Places to find these include the London Review and Riba bookshops, or the London Building Centre which will be functioning as Festival HQ for the duration.