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Posted on November 6, 2016 November 6, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
Here is the plain truth: We are in a situation where the worst president we have ever had—may be replaced by the only person who could possibly be worse—at the worst time imaginable. The odds of this are astronomical.
Let me take that last one first. This is the worst time imaginable because a blanket of delusion hangs over the general population. They have been assaulted, robbed, lied to and cast aside by Obama. Yet—like a battered wife—millions of Democrats have signed up for more.
Moreover, the media has lost its soul. They are busy lying, manipulating, punishing opposing views and utterly selling out to elect Clinton. At any other time, people would be horrified and disgusted.
This is the perfect storm. To my mind, there are only two possible reasons that all of this could be happening at the same time: 1. Satan is making his stand to destroy America. 2. God has sent a strong delusion to judge America.
Let me take the first one next. Obama is not merely the worst president ever. He may be the worst thing that has ever happened to America. He did the opposite of everything he ever promised.
-He said Obamacare would save you $2,500. Arizona will see an increase of over 116%. The average national increase will be 60%.
-He promised jobs and instead drove 95 million Americans out of the workforce.
-He promised to heal race relations. Instead, he started a race war that has killed scores of police across the nation.
-He said he would make life better for blacks. Instead he set records for suffering. Lowest home ownership. Highest crime rates. Highest poverty rates. Since he has been in office, 8 thousand have been murdered in Chicago alone. he has divided the races and poisoned all race conversations.
-He promised to heal our relationship to the Middle East. What he gave us was a world of terror, civil war and imminent world war.
This is the worst time for Hillary. If you believe that Hillary's corrupt, heinous, hideous, malevolent, malicious, nefarious, ugly, vicious, vile and depraved (words fail me) character in anyway compares to Trump's failings…you are indeed under a strong delusion.
People think that the point I am making is "watch out, Hillary will make things bad!" No, no it is much worse than that. Things are already bad, horribly bad. Obama has made us utterly miserable…instead of hope and change, he gave us fear and loathing.
When it seems that things cannot get worse, Hillary will find a way. She is the finishing touch on a dying nation.
This is not a dire warning…the "dire" is already here. This election is not a choice between a bad candidate and a worse candidate. No matter how impossible this election seems, you must vote. No matter what the outcome, you will be able to say that you voted to save the country.
The delusion can be broken by prayer and brave action by vessels of God. We are long overdue for a miracle. Whatever you do…vote.
It is no longer just a vote…it is a choice between life and death.
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This one ad says it all
Posted on October 6, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
This one ad says it all. Sometimes we just need someone to put it all in perspective—true perspective about Hillary Clinton. Here it is.
But wait…there's more…
How soon we forget
by John Komula
When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over a health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn't even get a vote in a democratic controlled congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million in cost for studies, promotion, and other efforts.
Then President Clinton gave Hillary authority over selecting a female attorney general. Her first two selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood – both were forced to withdraw their names from consideration.
Next she chose Janet Reno – husband Bill described her selection as "my worst mistake." Some may not remember that Reno made the decision to gas David Koresh and the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas resulting in dozens of deaths of women and children.
Husband Bill allowed Hillary to make recommendations for the head of the Civil Rights Commission. Lani Guanier was her selection. When a little probing led to the discovery of Ms. Guanier's radical views, her name had to be withdrawn from consideration.
Apparently a slow learner, husband Bill allowed Hillary to make some more recommendations. She chose former law partners Web Hubbel for the Justice Department, Vince Foster for the White House staff, and William Kennedy for the Treasury Department. Her selections went well: Hubbel went to prison, Foster (presumably) committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.
Many younger voters will have no knowledge of "Travelgate." Hillary wanted to award unfettered travel contracts to Clinton friend Harry Thompson – and the White House Travel Office refused to comply. She managed to have them reported to the FBI and fired. This ruined their reputations, cost them their jobs, and caused a thirty-six month investigation. Only one employee, Billy Dale was charged with a crime, and that of the enormous crime of mixing personal and White House funds. A jury acquitted him of any crime in less than two hours.
Still not convinced of her ineptness, Hillary was allowed to recommend a close Clinton friend, Craig Livingstone, for the position of Director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of about 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (Filegate) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, suddenly Hillary and the president denied even knowing Livingstone, and of course, denied knowledge of drug use in the White House. Following this debacle, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office after more than thirty years of service to seven presidents.
Next, when women started coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and rape by Bill Clinton, Hillary was put in charge of the "bimbo eruption" and scandal defense. Some of her more notable decisions in the debacle was: She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. After the Starr investigation they settled with Ms. Jones.
She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.
Hillary's devious game plan resulted in Bill losing his license to practice law for 'lying under oath' to a grand jury and then his subsequent impeachment by the House of Representatives.
Hillary avoided indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Starr investigation by repeating, "I do not recall," "I have no recollection," and "I don't know" a total of 56 times while under oath.
After leaving the White House, Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, China, and artwork she had stolen.
What a swell party – ready for another four or eight year of this type low-life mess?
Now we are exposed to the destruction of possibly incriminating emails while Hillary was Secretary of State and the "pay to play" schemes of the Clinton Foundation – we have no idea what shoe will fall next. But to her loyal fans – "what difference does it make?"
Electing Hillary Clinton president would be like granting Satan absolution and giving him the keys to heaven!
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Mario Murillo Ministries: Stopping the Nation Killing Machine
Posted on September 25, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
Stopping the Nation Killing Machine
Hollywood, pop singers, sports figures, politicians, tech giants like Google, Apple and Amazon along with countless college professors are turning our children's minds into a nation-killing machine.
This coalition has untold billions of dollars at their disposal. They control the airwaves—and through Obama and Clinton, the FBI and the IRS. They can rig elections.
Months ago this would have sounded like a tinfoil cone conspiracy—not anymore.
Now let's talk about what God is doing.
As a kid, I liked monster movies. (We are indeed in a monster movie right now.) Those of you old enough to remember the black and white monster movies featured giant insects, aliens and people. The culprit was almost always the A-Bomb tests.
There were two elements in those movies: 1. A dark moment of hopelessness when all weapons failed. 2. A controversial scientist who worked out of a barn.
The military reluctantly had to use the weapon from the barn…the monster was defeated.
I freely admit that Mario Murillo Ministries is that scientist working out of the barn. When this beast of political correctness first oozed out of the swamp, we started warning the church.
We declared that signs and wonders and the conviction of the Holy Spirit are the only weapons for a brain-washed generation.
We declared that we needed to stop fearing politicians and call them out.
We said young minds needed to hear why the teaching of Jesus is divine and they needed to hear the truth about American history.
Then the name-calling and ridicule began. We were told it would never work. We were roundly criticized and rejected. None of this stopped us from finishing our divine training under the Holy Spirit.
Then came the summer of 2016. The weapon came out of the barn and leaders began to see how it is exactly what is needed.
The images you see in this blog are snapshots of outreach this summer. It was a summer of supernatural transformations and no compromise.
Leaders see how the make nice gospel is only making things worse. Influential pastors are breaking with tradition and joining us on the frontline. Most of all…there is a growing recognition that this weapon can kill the monster.
In an added piece of exciting news…phase one of our World Headquarters is now complete. We have secured…and paid cash for a suite of offices in Sparks, Nevada. The name of our offices is The War Room. This is our new "barn" and brain center for the next phase of our national invasion to bring Living Proof to the youth of America.
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An expert explains why Trump will win
Posted on September 20, 2016 September 20, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
JOHN HINDERAKER: I think more likely, Trump will win rather easily, and win going away as he did the Republican primaries. I expect him to carry states like Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, maybe even Pennsylvania. Why?
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 BY JOHN HINDERAKER
ELECTORAL COLLEGE MATH, AND WHY I THINK TRUMP WILL WIN
As Donald Trump has caught up with Hillary Clinton in the polls, he has likewise closed the gap in the electoral college. Ipsos/Reuters says the race to 270 votes is now nearly tied. Many are focusing on Maine, which allocates its electoral college votes by Congressional district, and where one district going for Trump might change the result.
A reader who has been studying the numbers sends a link to 538 ("Democrats Should Panic … If The Polls Still Look Like This In A Week") and adds:
I presume Trump wins Nevada. Adjusting for that, if this is accurate Trump loses 265 – 273. So he needs New Hampshire desperately to tie, and then win in the House…or NH plus Maine's 2nd Congressional District for a bare win 270 – 268, second closest in history.
That could be right. But I think more likely, Trump will win rather easily, and win going away as he did the Republican primaries. I expect him to carry states like Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, maybe even Pennsylvania. Why? Two reasons.
The first can be explained with an old story from the world of marketing:
A company came out with a new dog food, and hired an advertising firm to promote the product. The ad agency placed commercials on television and ads in magazines; millions of dollars went into the campaign. The commercials and ads were first-rate, but still the dog food did not sell. The client called a meeting at the ad agency and demanded to know what had gone wrong.
After a moment of silence, the leader of the ad agency team explained: "The dogs don't like it."
Hillary Clinton can be re-launched, re-packaged, and protected by a phalanx of reporters. The liberal establishment can do its best to jam her down our throats. But we–the voters–don't like her. And the more we see of her, the more our dislike is confirmed. She is too weak a candidate to be elected president.
Second, everyone knows that the press is trying to elect Hillary, and most Americans resent it. Every day, editors and reporters try to inflict an anti-Trump theme on the rest of us. Today's hysteria revolves around Trump's comments on Hillary's hypocrisy regarding gun control:
She goes around with armed bodyguards like you have never seen before. I think that her bodyguards should drop all weapons. They should disarm. Right? Right? I think they should disarm immediately. What do you think? Yes? Yes. Yeah. Take their guns away. She doesn't want guns. … Let's see what happens to her. Take their guns away, okay? It would be very dangerous.
Trump obviously was making the point that he and countless others have made many times before: liberals like Hillary Clinton, who are protected 24/7 by armed guards, are deeply hypocritical when they try to disarm millions of Americans who don't have taxpayer-funded protection and rely on their own firearms for self-defense. The point is a powerful one, which is why liberal reporters don't want to acknowledge it. Instead, they absurdly pretend that Trump was hinting that Hillary should be assassinated.
This kind of thing fools no one. Millions of Americans are quietly fuming over the press's overreach, going over the top, day after day, to defeat Donald Trump. The blowback is building, and will continue building until election day.
At one point, when I was opposing Trump during the GOP primaries, I said to the press: Stop attacking Trump! Liberal reporters often began with a valid point, but their hysterical hatred for Trump caused them to go too far, making arguments that were patently unfair and unsustainable. Therefore, the more they attacked Trump the more his support grew. The same thing is happening now: most Americans have a pretty good sense of fair play, and they know that Trump is being treated badly by the establishment–a group for whom most Americans have no great affection.
Much more could be said, and will be between now and November 8. But let's leave it there for now. Like most observers, I have usually been wrong this year, so there is no reason why anyone should pay much attention. But, for what it is worth, I don't think this year's election will turn out to be a nail-biter. Nor will it be a landslide, but I do expect a relatively easy win for Donald Trump in both the popular vote and the electoral college.
Could Trump screw it up by making a horrible blunder? Of course. But I think there is a greater chance of disaster coming from the Clinton campaign.
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Obama makes voting for Hillary all about him
Obama: I Will Consider It An Insult To My Legacy If You Do Not Vote; Want to Give Me A Good Send Off? Go Vote
On Date September 17, 2016
President Obama made a strong sell for a candidate to succeed his legacy at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday night. The president invoked slavery and the Jim Crow era and preached that if they wanted to give him a good send off then register people to vote because his legacy is at stake.
Although he did not name Hillary Clinton, the president said he would consider it a personal insult from the African-American community if they did not for her.
"My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot," President Obama said Saturday night. "And there is one candidate who will advance those things. And there is another candidate who's defining principal, the central theme of his candidacy is opposition to all that we have done."
"There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter," Obama said. "It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it's guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote!"
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Our work's not done. But if we are going to advance the cause of justice, and equality, and prosperity, and freedom, then we also have to acknowledge that even if we eliminated every restriction on voters, we would still have one of the lowest voting rates among free peoples. That's not good, that is on us.
And I am reminded of all those folks who had to count bubbles in a bar of soap, beaten trying to register voters in Mississippi. Risked everything so that they could pull that lever. So, if I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn't matter who we elect, read up on your history. It matters. We've got to get people to vote.
In fact, if you want to give Michelle and me a good sendoff, and that was a beautiful video, but don't just watch us walk off into the sunset now, get people registered to vote. If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake, on the progress we have made is at stake in this election.
My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot. Tolerance is on the ballot. Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot. Ending mass incarceration, that's on the ballot right now.
And there is one candidate who will advance those things. And there is another candidate who's defining principal, the central theme of his candidacy is opposition to all that we have done.
There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it's guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote! And iI'm going to be working as hard as I can these next seven weeks to make sure folks do.
Hope is on the ballot. And fear is on the ballot too. Hope is on the ballot and fear is on the ballot too.
Mario Murillo: Two things to take away from this:
Hillary will continue Obama's destruction of America—his true legacy. Everything you hate about Obama's America…everything that has broken your heart continues in her. It will not only continue…it will accelerate. Obama has removed all doubt: A vote for Hillary is a vote for his damage to intensify.
He is not asking—he is summoning black people to vote for her. He believes he is entitled to command them. He believes they are his subjects. He has never deemed himself an elected servant. He views himself as an avenging angel—an angel with a strange admixture of Islam to Marxism—driven by religious and racial animosity.
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Inside the mind of a shameless liar
Dr. Keith Ablow: Hillary Clinton — Inside the mind of a shameless liar
By Dr. Keith Ablow Psychiatrist
Recently, it has been reported that Hillary Clinton is using psychologists to prepare for her debates with Donald Trump. Apparently, some within the Clinton campaign believed that Mr. Trump seemed ill-at-ease when, during a Republican presidential primary debate, he addressed Senator Marco Rubio's contention that Trump's small hands likely meant his private parts were also small.
In fact, Trump seemed completely comfortable addressing that intensely personal attack, simply saying that it wasn't true. His willingness and ability to dispense with the matter in such a straightforward way shouldn't give the Clinton campaign confidence that Trump can be rocked with psychological missives; it should terrify them. Because when a man can speak directly, in front of cameras and the entire nation, even about those matters which are usually unspeakable, he isn't going to run away from much of anything.
Donald Trump wears his psyche on his sleeve.
Hillary Clinton is the one whose psychological make up would seem to leave her vulnerable. Her penchant for lying is a problem, but the really big problem is that she seems unable to determine when her lies are registering with audiences as clearly untrue. At the core, people who lie transparently do so because they lack empathy—the ability to intuit and vicariously experience what others are thinking and feeling. Locked behind walls of narcissism or arrogance or imperiousness, consumed with the pursuit of power, they can't tell convincing lies because they can't truly resonate with how their words and mannerisms are being received.
Hillary Clinton's penchant for lying is a problem, but the really big problem is that she seems unable to determine when her lies are registering with audiences as clearly untrue.
Hillary Clinton is, to borrow from a fairy tale, like the emperor with no clothes, who thinks that others can't see his nakedness. We have in Ms. Clinton, if you will, an empress with no clothes. Everyone knows her cover ups are transparent—except, seemingly, Secretary Clinton, herself.
All that Donald Trump needs to do, in order to expose Ms. Clinton as a liar is to ask her to repeat her defenses related to her use of a personal email server when she was Secretary of State, her mingling of State Department business with Clinton Foundation business and her having abandoned Ambassador Chris Stephens, Foreign Service Office Sean Smith and two former Navy Seals to die at Benghazi. Tens of millions of Americans watching will feel, in their hearts, that she is a liar.
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Mainstream Media: Defeat Trump by Attacking His Supporters
Posted on September 1, 2016 September 1, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
First they come after you, then they target your family and business relationships
By Ken Kurson • 09/01/16 8:00am
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump enters the stage as he takes part in a town hall event moderated by Anderson Cooper March 29, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisc. (Photo: Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
It is no secret that the mainstream media has decided that the threat presented by a possible Donald Trump presidency is so grave that it has suspended even the illusion of objectivity. Writing in The New York Times, media columnist Jim Rutenberg granted permission to his fellow journalists "to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you've never approached anything in your career."
The Observer and others have detailed the ways in which traditional media companies and even tech companies have colluded to maximize negative coverage of Trump and minimize negative coverage of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't end there. As Rutenberg described, many journalists feel the need to "move closer than you've ever been to being oppositional."
That opposition has extended into new and uncharted territory. In the coordinated effort to stop a dangerous candidate from obtaining, to use Rutenberg's breathless description of the stakes, "control of the United States nuclear codes," the mainstream media has taken not just to bashing Trump but to extracting a price even from those who support him.
There are a hundred examples, but here are just a few headlines that tell the story:
Daily Beast: "Trump's Doctor 'Overmedicated' Patients Who Died in His Care"
Washington Post: "The contractor that designs Ivanka Trump's clothes does not offer a single day of paid maternity leave"
New York Times: "Peter Thiel's Embrace of Trump Has Silicon Valley Squirming"
Let's look at each of these. While I don't doubt that self-identified right-wing sites would look into the record of Hillary Clinton's doctors, it's much harder to imagine a site like Daily Beast, which fancies itself a centrist outlet (and is even edited by my old Rudy Giuliani speechwriting buddy, John Avlon), expending that kind of investigative energy on Hillary's non-political professionals. The message is clear: If you associate with Trump, we will rummage through your past.
The attacks on Trump supporters extend even beyond Trump relatives to include, bizarrely, the relatives of supporters.
As for The Washington Post story, the message was equally clear. While children of presidential candidates have long been considered off limits by the mainstream media, the Post clearly smelled danger in the crossover appeal of a successful, presentable working mother. Ivanka Trump (who, for the thousandth time, is married to the Observer's publisher) runs a company that is not only among the 10 percent to provide paid maternity leave, but also offers unlimited vacation and sick days and flexible work schedules. So the Post attacked a company that Ivanka's company does business with, only they implied that Ivanka was responsible for that company's business practices. The Post later attached an editor's note and clarified the story to "indicate that Ivanka Trump has no direct managerial role in G-III Apparel Group," but the damage had been done and the misleading headline remains to this day. Plus, there's the original URL of the story—which is important in search engine optimization. It has not been corrected and still gives the false implication that Ivanka herself is not providing paid maternity leave.
Then there's the Peter Thiel story. His actions in supporting Trump supposedly have his industry peers "squirming," according to The New York Times. Yet Clinton supporters who represent industries in which she is unpopular are portrayed as principled and loyal Democrats. Consider that Politico reported "Clinton haunted by coal country comment." Clinton said, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." Local officials sent a letter to Sen. Joe Manchin saying ""Bill and Hillary Clinton are simply not welcome in our town." So how come not a single supporter of hers, including Sen. Manchin and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, is said to be making West Virginia "squirm"?
Where are the mainstream investigations of Hillary's doctors? Or the business practices of Chelsea Clinton? How is it that none of Hillary's supporters has any industry "squirming"?
The attacks on Trump supporters extend even beyond Trump relatives to include, bizarrely, the relatives of supporters. Buzzfeed did a whole story on whether Josh Kushner's business would be hurt by the fact that — can you follow this? — his brother's wife's father is the presidential candidate. Is that the standard? Has there been a single article anywhere about the business prospects of Marc Mezvinsky's siblings? The writer of the Buzzfeed story – the talented reporter Nitasha Tiku, who worked at the Observer and was happy to cash checks signed by Jared Kushner when she did—contacted several colleagues of Josh Kushner to determine whether they'd still be comfortable doing business with Josh's investment firm, Thrive Capital. The Trump-opposing tech investor Chris Sacca is characterized by Tiku as saying, "The Trump connection might have affected Thrive directly." The message from the MSM is clear: Support Donald Trump, and you—and maybe even your family—will be ridiculed, investigated and ignored.
The Observer itself provides another good example. Our traffic and users have grown more than 5x since January 2013, from 1.3 million unique users reading 3 million pages a month to 6 million unique users reading 17 million pages a month. This information is easily available. And yet, from the time this contentious, ornery campaign took shape, our documented-to-death Trump connection has been revealed in the way the Observer itself has been covered.
Politico wrote about us, "The paper's editorials, which had largely ceased having influence…" I showed the reporter data proving that many more people read our editorials today than read them five years ago and I asked him to explain how he reached the conclusion that they had "largely ceased having influence." He told me, "My editor wrote that line." He said he'd get back to me if he got an answer. He never did.
Esquire's hit piece on Jared Kushner called the Observer "a once venerable newspaper" without even pretending to offer an explanation of what made it venerable in the past or why it's no longer so, despite the increased revenue, readership, staff, investment in journalism or other facts I would have been happy to provide had anyone asked.
The Daily Beast wrote that, "Kushner and the paper's editor in chief, Ken Kurson, were the object of controversy and staff protests and resignations." Got that? Staff resignations with an s, as in plural. Actually it's been one staff resignation, a writer who was not the "top reporter" (he was No. 2 on a three-person team) that CNN crowed about in its headline. Given the constant turnover throughout the Observer's history, long before Trump ran for president, it's striking that CNN would devote a headline to this boring-as-hell non-event.
There's another tactic employed by the mainstream media that's inversely related to punishing Trump supporters—rewarding Hillary supporters.
Then there's just the general anti-Observer snark. It's been a fact of life, especially since our beloved longtime editor Peter Kaplan left the paper in 2009, but has been dialed to 11 since Trump began his unlikely ascent in American politics. A telling example involves a trifling story we ran, in which New York Times Editor-in-Chief Dean Baquet said 'F— You' to a reporter he thought had used racist language. To me, it was the exact kind of funny and revealing little insider story that Kaplan would have loved (and I don't claim to speak for him, despite the generous way he fed me advice even though I didn't start here till four years after he left). Nonetheless, some media types, eager for any opportunity to celebrate the Observer's demise, pounced. The Times' own Willy Staley, for example, tweeted out the story and insightfully commented, "The Observer has become so f—ing weird!" Staley did not know at the time that Baquet himself praised the story, calling it "Perfectly fair." It has been fun to watch the media simultaneously declare the Observer totally irrelevant but also responsible for electing the president of the United States.
At least Gawker, z'l, was less circumspect in its disapproval of what takes place here. In lambasting our paper's endorsement of Trump in the Republican primary (we also endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, which understandably generated far less coverage), Hamilton Nolan wrote "The New York Observer, which was once a good newspaper, is endorsing the owner's wife's dad for president." That's at least funny, and it acknowledges by stating as a fact that the Observer was once good that the idea that Observer is no longer a "good newspaper" is Nolan's opinion, rather than trying to hide behind factish sounding writing like "once venerable" or "largely ceased having influence."
There's another tactic employed by the mainstream media that's inversely related to punishing Trump supporters—rewarding Hillary supporters. Not just any Hillary supporters, but those brave Republicans who are putting country ahead of party by supporting Clinton.
Search for "Republicans back Hillary" in Google and you get "There are now dozens of big-name Republicans supporting Hillary" (Washington Post), "The Republicans Who Support Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump" (The Atlantic), "Which Republicans Are Against Donald Trump? A Cheat Sheet (also The Atlantic), "At Least 110 Republican Leaders Won't Vote for Donald Trump. Here's When They Reached Their Breaking Point." (New York Times), "Here are the Republicans Voting for Hillary Clinton Over Donald" (Time), and "The Biggest GOP Names Backing Hillary Clinton—So Far (The Daily Beast).
Enter "Democrats back Trump" and you get a story from The Hill from January and a Toledo Blade story.
The simple explanation would be that tons of Republicans back Hillary while few Democrats back Trump. But that narrative defies the reality of a Republican primary that drew record numbers of new GOP registrants and set a new record for votes cast, unlike the Democratic contest. And with the candidates roughly tied in the polls (the LA Times, for example, has Trump up by 3 points), there's no way a "wave" of Republican Trump rejecters cannot be equaled by roughly the same number of Democrat Hillary rejecters. Unless the polling is drastically undercounting Hillary supporters (most think it's more likely to be undercounting Trump voters, who have been shamed out of telling a pollster they support such a "dangerous" candidate), there have to be at least as many Trump Democrats as there are Hillary Republicans. But the media isn't interested in finding them.
What's even more surprising than the media suddenly cheering someone like former Bush aide Paul Wolfowitz, who was universally loathed by the MSM up until the moment he announced his support for Hillary has been the way the press issues valentines to Republicans no one has never heard of. How did Maria Comella, a press aide to Chris Christie, merit 1200 words and a "First on CNN" feature on air simply by declaring her support for Hillary?
Republican candidates have long complained about the bias in American media. Most of the time it's nonsense. John McCain courted the favorable opinion of the New York Times so aggressively and for so long that it was almost fun to see him crying about how tough it was to run against a media darling like Barack Obama in 2008. Mitt Romney, who really did suffer from poor coverage, mostly had himself to blame –secret tapes about 47% freeloaders may have been reported by Mother Jones, but they weren't manufactured by Mother Jones. And the alleged bias can sometimes work to a Republican's advantage. When George W. Bush called New York Times reporter Adam Clymer a "major league A—-," probably as many people admired the future president's authenticity as chastised him for his uncouth remarks.
What's different here is the dropping of even the pretense of objectivity. In unilaterally determining that Donald Trump is unfit even to be covered objectively—to the point that he must be disqualified by any means necessary—the mainstream media has set a dangerous precedent.
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Trey Gowdy asks James Comey the question of the century
Posted on July 7, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
Comey challenges truthfulness of Clinton's email defenses
07/07/16 11:10 AM EDT
Updated 07/07/16 11:38 AM EDT
FBI Director James Comey confirmed on Thursday that some of Hillary Clinton's statements and explanations about her email server to the House Benghazi Committee last October were not true, as evidenced by the bureau's investigation into whether she mishandled classified information.
During an extended exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Comey affirmed that the FBI's investigation found information marked classified on her server even after Clinton had said that she had neither sent nor received any items marked classified.
"That is not true," Comey said. "There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents."
Asked whether Clinton's testimony that she did not email "any classified material to anyone on my email" and "there is no classified material" was true, Comey responded, "No, there was classified material emailed."
"Secretary Clinton said she used one device. Was that true?" Gowdy asked, to which Comey answered, "She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state."
Gowdy then asked whether it was true that Clinton, as she said, returned all work-related emails to the State Department.
"No, we found work-related emails, thousands that were not returned," Comey said.
"Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work-related emails from her personal account. Was that true?" Gowdy asked.
"That's a harder one to answer," Comey responded. "We found traces of work-related emails in, on devices or in slack space. Whether they were deleted or whether when a server changed out something happened to them, there is no doubt that the work-related emails that were removed electronically from the email system."
Gowdy asked whether Clintons' lawyers read every one of her emails as she had said. Comey replied, "No."
"In interest of time, because I have a plane to catch tomorrow afternoon, I'm not going to go through anymore of the false statements but I am going to ask you put on your old hat. False exculpatory statements, they are used for what?" Gowdy inquired.
Comey responded, "Either for the substantive prosecution or for evidence of intent in a criminal prosecution."
"Exactly. Intent and consciousness of guilt, right? Is that right?" Gowdy asked. "Consciousness of guilt and intent. In your old job you would prove intent as you just referenced by showing the jury evidence of a complex scheme that was designed for the very purpose of concealing the public record, and you would be arguing in addition to concealment the destruction that you and I just talked about, or certainly the failure to preserve. Would you argue all that under heading of content–intent. You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme, when it started, when it ended and number of emails, whether they were originally classified or up-classified, you would argue all of that under the heading of intent. You would also probably under common scheme or plan argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal. Two days ago, director, you said a reasonable person in her should have known a private email is no place to send and receive classified information. You're right."
"An average person does know not to do that. This is no average person," Gowdy said. "This is a former first lady, a former United States senator, and a former secretary of state that the president now contends is the most competent, qualified person to be president since Jefferson. He didn't say that in '08 but he says it now. She affirmatively rejected efforts to give her a state.gov account. She kept these private emails for almost two years and only turned them over to Congress because we found out she had a private email account."
He continued, "So you have a rogue email system set up before she took the oath of office. Thousands of what we now know to be classified emails, some of which were classified at the time. One of her more frequent email comrades was in fact hacked, and you don't know whether or not she was. And this scheme took place over a long period of time and resulted in the destruction of public records yet you say there is insufficient evidence of intent."
"You say careless but not intentionally. You and I both know intent is really difficult to prove," Gowdy continued. "Very rarely do defendants announce, 'On this date I intend to break this criminal code section. Just to put everyone on notice, I am going to break the law on this date.' It never happens that way. You have to do it with circumstantial evidence, or if you're Congress and you realize how difficult it is to prove specific intent, you will formulate a statute that allows for gross negligence."
Remarking that his time had expired, Gowdy said he still feared that there was no precedent for criminal prosecution for future cases similar to Clinton.
"And my real fear is this, this is what [Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)] touched upon, this double tracked justice system rightly or wrong hey perceived this country, that if you are a private in the Army and you email yourself classified information, you will be kicked out but if you are Hillary Clinton and you seek a promotion to commander-in-chief, you will not be,"
QUESTION OF THE CENTURY
Gowdy concluded. "So what I hope you can do today is help the average person, the reasonable person you made reference to, the reasonable person understand, why she appears to be treated differently than the rest of us would be."
Posted in 2016 Election, 2016 Presidential Election, Benghazi, Benghazi coverup, email scandal, FBI, Hillary ClintonTagged Destroying America, email scandal, James Comey, Rule of law, Trey Gowdy5 Comments
Obama to Hillary: I own you
Obama to Hillary: I own you.
America woke up this morning and found out that laws are for the little people. This whole ugly, putrid affair was staged. Hillary, Bill and Loretta Lynch and James Comey…are actors in a play directed by Obama.
Just days ago, Obama announced he would campaign with Hillary in North Carolina. A sitting president would not appear on stage with a candidate facing indictment. It all unfolded according to plan. He knew she would not be indicted…he ordered it.
He condoned (planned) the "chance" meeting of snakes on a plane: Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton. Someone had to tell her "play ball and you keep your job in the next administration." How blatant!
Air Force One—according to plan—landed in North Carolina right after the preapproved script was recited by the FBI. She is conveniently cleared of all charges just as he takes the stage.
He did it with such disregard for appearances. He did it with impunity. He did it with arrogance. He wanted to display his power and put fear in the hearts of his enemies. He wanted to be caught so he could say, "what are you going to do about it?"
Not since the night he went to sleep peacefully as Americans died in Benghazi has Obama been this cold-blooded.
We wondered all along how Obama would stay in office. Many thought he would foment riots and declare martial law. No this is much smoother…a bloodless coup. He can now run things from behind the scenes.
His message to Hill and Bill is clear: I own you. You are my third term as president.
What happened between Obama and Hillary is a scene from the movie All about Eve. A young actress thinks she has used a powerful news columnist to get her way. Addison is infuriated that Eve has attempted to use him and reveals that he knows that her back story is all lies. Her real name is Gertrude Slojinski, she was never married, and she had been paid to leave her hometown over an affair with her boss, a brewer in Wisconsin. Addison blackmails Eve, informing her that she will not be marrying Lloyd or anyone else; in exchange for Addison's silence, she now "belongs" to him. Watch the scene below.
Hillary belongs to Obama and stopping this crime family is now the sworn duty of every God-fearing American.
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50% Say Clinton Should Keep Running Even If Indicted
Posted on May 31, 2016 May 31, 2016 by mariomurilloministries
Most continue to believe likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a lawbreaker, but half of all voters also say a felony indictment shouldn't stop her campaign for the presidency.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think Clinton should immediately stop campaigning if she is charged with a felony in connection with her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of State. Fifty percent (50%), however, think she should continue running until a court determines her guilt or innocence. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Voters were evenly divided on this question in January, but at that time we didn't include the name of any candidate.
Among Democratic voters, 71% believe Clinton should keep running, a view shared by only 30% of Republicans and 46% of voters not affiliated with either major party.
Forty percent (40%) of all voters say they are less likely to vote for Clinton because of the e-mail issue, while nearly half (48%) say it will have no impact on their vote. Just eight percent (8%) say the issue makes them more likely to vote for the former first lady.
Sixty-five percent (65%) consider it likely that Clinton broke the law by sending and receiving e-mails containing classified information through a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of State. This includes 47% who say it's Very Likely. These findings are unchanged from January. Thirty percent (30%) still say Clinton is unlikely to have broken the law with the e-mail arrangement, with 16% who say it's Not At All Likely.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on May 29-30, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Last August, 46% of all voters – and 24% of Democrats – said Clinton should suspend her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination until all of the legal questions about her use of the private e-mail server are resolved. But just 25% think it is even somewhat likely that Clinton will be indicted.
In a report released last week, the State Department's inspector general, an Obama appointee, concluded that Clinton knowingly broke department rules by using the private e-mail server for official business including top secret discussions. This contradicts her claims that the arrangement had been officially approved.
Just 30% give Clinton good or excellent marks for her handling of questions about her use of the private e-mail server while secretary of State. Forty-nine percent (49%) rate her performance as poor. This is little changed from voter perceptions last September.
Democrats are happier with Clinton's answers than Republicans and unaffiliated voters are. But then 73% of GOP voters and 53% of unaffiliateds say it is Very Likely that Clinton broke the law with her use of the private e-mail server during her years as secretary of State. Only 18% of Democrats agree.
Women are slightly less critical of Clinton's handling of the situation than men are and are more supportive of her staying in the race if indicted.
Those under 40 are less convinced than their elders are that Clinton broke the law and are more supportive of her staying in the race even if indicted. But roughly 40% of voters of all ages are less likely to vote for Clinton because of the e-mail issue.
Black voters are much less likely than white and other minority voters to think Clinton broke the law and feel much more strongly that she should keep running if indicted.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of all voters believe the Justice Department should name an independent prosecutor to decide whether criminal charges should be brought against Clinton in the e-mail case.
Ninety-two percent (92%) of Democrats believe Clinton is likely to be their party's presidential nominee, with 62% who say it's Very Likely.
Clinton is essentially tied with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump in Rasmussen Reports' latest weekly White House Watch survey. We will update those numbers Thursday morning.
Voters tend to think Hillary Clinton will work better with the United States' allies if elected president but are evenly divided over whether she or Trump will be tougher with this nation's enemies.
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Dispatch from Lummi Island
BY ELIZABETH "LIBBET" RICHTER
Are blackberries your favorite treat at the end of a long hot summer? If you're visiting Lummi Island in the Puget Sound, you can have blackberries just about any way you like them, 24/7.
Blackberries.
The best can be picked fresh from thorny vines found everywhere along island roads. Or maybe you'd like them in intense, fruity jam on a warm breakfast muffin? Or perhaps five perfect berries paired with fresh chamomile granita in a handmade pottery bowl, as part of a 22-course dinner at the acclaimed Willows Inn?
To find your blackberry bliss, you will travel two hours north of Seattle to Bellingham, Washington, drive another 40 miles through the Lummi Indian Reservation, and take a tiny 20-car ferry from Gooseberry Point to Lummi Island, just 6 minutes across Bellingham Bay in the San Juan Islands.
With a year-round population of just over 815, Lummi has one general store, a small library, a post office, an elementary school dating to 1919, and one church. Barely 30 miles from the Canadian border, Lummi doubles in size during the summer months as Americans and Canadians alike seek its hiking trails, artists' studios, sport fishing, kayaking, seascapes, and delicious sea/farm-to-table cuisine at an iconic 115-year-old inn.
The Willows Inn.
Lummi Island's almost mythical reputation as culinary heaven is due to the dream of one man, Blaine Wetzel, chef and co-owner of The Willows Inn. Chef Wetzel grew up in Olympia, Washington, with hopes of one day working in a top-of-the-line traditional fine dining establishment. His career path took him to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he trained for three years under Chef Rene Redzepi at Noma.
Noma's locally foraged Nordic cuisine earned international recognition: it was named four times as the world's best restaurant. Returning to his home state, Wetzel answered an ad to work one season at The Willows Inn before a planned job hunt in Seattle. It was a transforming summer. He never left.
"Coming here, cooking here—it completely changed how I think about food, what I think food is." —Blaine Wetzel, SAVEUR magazine, 2015.
The Willows Inn dates back to 1912, when Ruby and Frank Taft opened their resort with 28 cabins, offering visitors horseback riding, biking, and the beach. Visitors were entertained with vaudeville shows on Saturday nights and, for a nickel, could watch the chickens being slaughtered for dinner. Guests no longer interact quite so intimately with their meals, but the focus, as we would appreciate, remains on fresh, local ingredients, just as the region's indigenous Lummi Indians had for thousands of years.
The Lummi people were independent and self-governing, expert salmon fishermen known as the "LLhaq'temish" or People of the Sea. They developed the unique "reef net" technique of guiding salmon returning to spawn in the Fraser River into nets strung between two canoes. A spotter perched on a ladder signals when the net is full, and the nets are quickly raised to capture the fish. The technique is still used today, and Legoe Bay sports a long line of reef nets during the salmon run, supplying, among others, The Willows Inn.
Lummi Indians once held feasts in long houses on the island, formerly called Skallaham, but never established permanent settlements here, as the island was perceived to be vulnerable to attacks from warring tribes. Today the Lummi Nation counts over 5,000 members and manages close to 13,000 acres of tideland on the mainland reservation, including the thriving Silver Reef Casino and hotel complex. Two handsomely maintained traffic roundabouts featuring Lummi-designed sculpture to welcome visitors.
On the island.
Lummi Island itself is roughly 9 miles long and 2 miles wide, with densely forested heights up to 1,700 feet above sea level and low rolling hills dedicated to farming. European explorers from Spain and France had first entered these islands in the late 18th century, bringing white man's diseases. Smallpox wiped an estimated one-third of the region's native population.
The island's first permanent resident, California gold miner and whaler Captain Christian Tuttle, farmed 320 acres with his wife Clara and seven children in the 1870s. By the end of the century, Lummi attracted entrepreneurs who saw "gold" in timber, from the majestic fir and pine forests, and in plentiful salmon and shellfish. Lumber operations, a fertilizer factory, and canneries employed Native American, Chinese, and Japanese laborers, who processed the island's fish, dairy products, and fruit.
Today, these industries live on in island history but no longer occupy the year-round residents. A number of organizations, including the Lummi Island Heritage Trust, advocate for protecting the land and have limited development to preserve the environment for campers and nature lovers.
Chef Wetzel is not the only resident inspired by the natural beauty and bounty of the island. Woodworker, photographer, and graphic designer Thomas Lutz built his studio on Legoe Bay, where he crafts custom furniture. His handiwork is found throughout The Willows Inn, whose tables and chairs we would admire and enjoy during our visit.
Staying or dining at The Willows Inn is not a last-minute decision. Reservations must be made months in advance since the Inn serves just 30 diners a night. Overnight accommodations are also limited to seven rooms onsite and an additional nine guest suites and apartments leased from nearby property owners.
A meal at The Willows Inn had been a goal of mine for five years. We were fortunate to get a rare dinner and overnight reservation on the first Friday in September. Our lodging was a handsome studio apartment over the garage of a starkly contemporary home on the blackberry lined, gravel Skallaham Road, ¾-mile from the Inn.
Our accommodations.
We were told that if we didn't want to drive alone back to our rooms after dinner, one of the chefs would drive us in our car, followed by a fellow chef to take him back to the Inn. This turned out to be typical of the extraordinary customer service we experienced.
Dried flowers as decor.
One checks in on the lower level of the Inn in a handsome reception area decorated with a careful arrangement of dried flowers and dominated by a huge driftwood bar (hauled from the beach by some of the chefs) set against the wall. Topped with a historic sign recalling earlier owners, the bar is continually stocked with fresh juices, teas, French–press coffee, and a long line of jars filled with snacks ranging from whole wheat sesame sticks to pistachio nuts to coconut date bars—island hospitality writ large.
Snacks in the lobby.
A selection of teas.
Cocktails are served on the front porch from 4:00–6:00 p.m., when and where the dinner service begins. There are no menus. Chef Wetzel and his colleagues plan each meal that day, based on what is fresh, foraged, or cultivated at the neighboring Loganita Farm. A wood-fueled smoke house adds distinctive flavor to many of the ingredients.
Simplicity reigns. Sitting on the front porch, we had a stunning view of the storied Inside Passage, a series of inland waterways stretching from Puget Sound to Alaska. In the distance we could see misty islands and watch powerful tugboats silently tow barges twice the length of a football field to and from the northern oil fields.
Reef net salmon fishing.
Smiling servers brought sparkling hard cider to accompany our initial series of courses. First, slender sections of four different types of fresh cucumbers, followed by slices of four different melons, then six thinly cut varieties of jewel-toned plums. Each selection of vegetables or fruit was artistically arranged on crushed ice in white pottery bowls handcrafted for the Inn by a Japanese potter outside Seattle. We had just one bite of each variety, fortunately—for while delicious, we still had what turned out to be 18 courses to go.
The next course transitioned from garden to sea by incorporating both. Bright green nasturtium leaves held tiny spot prawn and rhubarb ceviche, each a single peppery bite giving up the very essence of fresh sea air.
Simplicity reigns.
Guests were served at comfortable yet different paces; we were never rushed. We were soon invited into the dining room, which reflected the American craftsman design of the original inn. A single pebble anchored each napkin. Handmade pottery vases held dahlias and other garden blooms on the Thomas Lutz tables.
A Thomas Lutz-designed table.
Thomas Lutz.
Chef Wetzel had so far demonstrated his appreciation for the extraordinary flavor of unadorned local vegetables and fruits. Now, new levels of sophistication began to flow from the kitchen: toasted kale leaves with local sturgeon roe; reef-net caught, house-smoked sockeye salmon; grilled geoduck clams. The presentation was unexpected, elegant, even profound—designed to enhance visually each taste experience.
Toasted kale.
Farm- and sea-to-table, on ice.
What was later described as an herb tostada consisted of a crisply fried base of mustard greens topped with a subtle mayonnaise, on which was arranged a stunning mosaic of herbs and blossoms. How could one eat such a miniature work of art?! Yet, eat one must.
Herbs and blossoms adorn a dish.
My husband, skeptical of the out-of-the-ordinary menu, had threatened to bring a jar of peanut butter in case there was nothing he'd eat. I watched as he opened a small dark wooden box. In the rising steam, I saw a single plump, roasted mussel, succulent in its open blue shell, resting on a bed of cool black pebbles. He gingerly placed it in his mouth. The peanut butter jar never appeared.
More courses, featuring aged venison, roasted zucchini with nasturtium petals, lightly-cured rock fish in bone broth, king salmon with grilled cabbage, and crab with heirloom rye bread, kept the peanut butter at bay.
A luscious seafood mix served with hearty rye.
Did I fail to mention the wine pairings? Choosing to share a single wine pairing (juice pairings were also available), we sampled a total of five Washington and Oregon wines over the course of the meal, four white and one red.
Equally memorable was the toasted birch branch tea. Although the servings had been small, we reached a point where it was hard to imagine being able to consume any more courses. Just at this crucial juncture, the server brought a small pitcher carved from birch wood. He poured the chilled "digestive" into tiny pottery cups. The cold, bitter potion worked its magic.
Poured a sweet Oregon Riesling, we were asked if we'd like to adjourn to the candlelit living room for dessert by the roaring fire. It was impossible to resist. Anise hyssop ice cream with lavender foam, and a peach slice with sweet peach leaf dipping sauce, pounded flax seed, and black walnut "candy" completed the fireside experience. And I almost forgot: 5 perfect blackberries with wild chamomile granita. This was undoubtedly a meal to remember and savor.
At meal's end.
Having split a single wine pairing, we were in fact able to drive back to our Skallaham Road studio without out the previously offered driver. The next morning, I walked back to the Inn to check out. We were unable to stay for a full breakfast, but I picked my fill of blackberries on the way. Reluctantly heading back to the ferry later in the morning, we carried not only memories of an extraordinary visit but also a small canvas bag containing the Inn's charming parting gift: the menu and wine list from the previous evening's meal, as well as a small loaf of homemade whole wheat bread wrapped in brown paper and a tiny pot of intensely flavored berry jam.
The ferry home.
Back in Chicago, I know it will be impossible to replicate the atmosphere of Lummi Island and The Willows Inn. No blackberries grow in my pots on the back porch. I could not, however, resist ordering Sea and Smoke: Flavors from the Untamed Pacific Northwest, Blaine Wetzel's cookbook. I might be able to slice some plums from the Green City Market.
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photos that will remind you exactly how you felt.
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it used to be like.
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USPTA Joins Forces with Tennis Industry Magazine
In a joint announcement made Wednesday at the USPTA World Conference in Orlando, USPTA and Tennis Industry magazine (formerly Racquet Sports Industry magazine) will expand the reach of both publications and help raise the profile of tennis-teaching professionals.
Each issue of TI will incorporate USPTA's ADDvantage magazine content beginning with the January 2014 issue.
Tennis Industry, the official publication of the Tennis Industry Association, U.S. Racquet Stringers Association, and American Sports Builders Association, is the former Racquet Sports Industry magazine, the largest tennis trade publication in the world, which recently announced its name change to start in 2014.
"Tennis-teaching pros are one of the most important segments of this industry, and we're excited to reach an agreement with the USPTA that will ensure every USPTA member receives a free subscription to Tennis Industry magazine," said David Bone, TI's co-publisher.
Tennis Industry will continue to publish 10 issues a year. The USPTA ADDvantage section will appear in each issue and average 16 pages, except for a 36-page section in the August issue that will preview the annual USPTA World Conference.
"We're pleased to be working with TI, which is a key resource in the tennis industry," said USPTA CEO John Embree. "This agreement will expand the reach of our member publication and expose the USPTA, its programs and its initiatives to a wider industry audience while helping to raise the profile of tennis-teaching pros."


An entity that is not a telephone corporation.
Local governments will have to meet the same requirements as independent, private sector Internet service providers in order to qualify for broadband infrastructure subsidies from the California Public Utilities Commission. That's the implication of a ruling issued by CPUC president Michael Peevey last week. Those requirements could include performance bonds and penalties for failing to meet conditions the commission might put on subsidised projects or for not complying with its regulations.
Earlier this month, Peevey released a draft of a proposed decision that would expand eligibility for grants and loans from the California Advanced Services Fund, in keeping with a law – senate bill 740 – passed by the state legislature last year. SB 740 allowed ISPs to apply for CASF subsidies under tighter restrictions than traditional, regulated telephone companies. It also allowed local government agencies to apply, but under ever more limited conditions. The draft decision said the question of how to deal with local agencies would be left for later. Later is now.
Last week's ruling lumps local agencies and ISPs together as "entities that are not a telephone corporation", making no allowance for the differences between public and private sector broadband providers. The additional restrictions that the legislature placed on local agencies will be dealt with as scheduling problems and as a higher bar that needs to be cleared during staff review of applications.
In effect, the CPUC is telling cities, counties and other local agencies that if they want money from the commission, they'll have to play by the same rules as private sector applicants. That makes a certain amount of sense from the commission's point of view: it has no legal jurisdiction over local government – its job is to regulated privately owned utilities – and it's not willing to simply hand over money without accountability. It could be a problem for local governments – which are likewise reluctant to surrender authority – but that's a question for later (and largely for lawyers).
As a practical matter, the question is irrelevant for most, if not all, Californian cities, because they can only get subsidies for completely unserved homes and businesses. No middle mile facilities, no projects that include areas where anything better than dial-up is available (excepting satellite, but including mobile service). The few places like that in the state are in remote, unincorporated areas. There are exceptions, but not many – possibly, none – that can support economically viable projects unless a city is otherwise in the broadband business.
The CPUC could vote on the new rules as early as its 5 February 2014 meeting. Even so, it could be 2015 before new grant applications are accepted.
Companies that provide broadband service, but aren't traditional telephone companies regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission, would have to meet certain financial standards to qualify for broadband infrastructure grants and loans from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), according to proposed new rules released today.
The draft decision, authored by commission president Michael Peevey, are the first step in implementing a law passed last year by the California legislature that made it possible for independent Internet service providers to apply for CASF subsidies, albeit with restrictions that give priority and preference to traditional phone companies.
A performance bond is required during the construction phase of the project to ensure timely completion of the project in accordance with the existing rules of the CASF program.
Based on past experience, we determine that all applicants should undergo a rigorous underwriting process to obtain a construction phase performance bond. A review of the applicant's cash flow will be included in this underwriting process.
Under the proposed new rules, applicants would also be subject to standard CPUC oversight, including penalties for not living up to commitments.
The full commission could discuss and vote on these proposed rules as soon as its meeting on 5 February 2014 meeting. But there is still more work to do. The proposed rules only partially address the changes in the CASF program made by the legislature. Still to come, for example, are creating procedures for the right of first refusal given to incumbent carriers and figuring out how local governments fit in the picture. But it's possible there's enough in today's draft to allow at least some independent ISPs to apply for CASF funding in the meantime.
Glaciers are slow, but reliably arrive.
Because it was tagged as urgency legislation and then approved by a two-thirds vote of the California legislature, senate bill 740 took effect the moment it was signed by Governor Brown. Even so, don't expect any immediate changes to the way the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) is managed or broadband construction subsidies are given out.
Eleven months ago, the California Public Utilities Commission began the lengthy process of changing CASF eligibility rules, under the assumption that the legislature would allow it. Even so, it's still going to take six months to a year to finish rewriting the rules. Only then will the CPUC give cities and independent ISPs a chance to apply for CASF grants and loans.
An early draft of new rules was floated back in March. The general idea was to require something like the same level of financial scrutiny and collateral that telephone companies have to meet in order to be certified by the CPUC. The draft generated a fair number of comments and counter-comments that the CPUC administrative law judge working on the draft is still digesting.
Passage of SB 740 means the guess work ends and the CPUC can move ahead with writing rules to comply with it. The work done to date provides a good foundation, but it's still many months from being complete.
Meanwhile, the CPUC is chewing through the CASF subsidy proposals submitted last February. If you take SB 740 at face value – it appears to reaffirm current CASF policy and practice – it should have no effect on the pending applications. But don't bet the ranch that the incumbent cable and telephone companies that have been complaining bitterly about some of the proposals won't try to use the new law to raise objections, legitimate or not.
Assembly bill 1299, which was also signed by the governor, doesn't take effect until January. That gives the CPUC some breathing room to write rules for the public housing broadband programs it creates. Since it's a relatively small amount of money – $20 million for broadband facilities and $5 million for marketing – and it has similarities with the regional broadband consortia program, writing those rules might not take so long.
According to the sponsors of the legislation, Governor Brown has showered affection and money on Californian broadband backers, signing senate bill 740 and assembly bill 1299 into law. We're all feeling the love now.
"Governor also signed AB 1299," added assemblyman Steve Bradford (D – Los Angeles) and the author of AB 1299. "Thanks to the entire team for their support and dedication on both bills".
Bradford was instrumental in getting both bills passed, resurrecting SB 740 from the dead after cable television lobbyists buried it with an avalanche of untruths.
You can all get back to work now.
SB 740 puts $90 million more into the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and allows cities and independent Internet service providers to apply for grants and loans, albeit under very restricted conditions.
AB 1299 takes $20 million of that, plus $5 million from the existing CASF loan program, and gives it to public housing authorities to use for building broadband facilities and marketing those services to residents.
The remaining $70 million goes into the CASF infrastructure grant account, which, counting the projects approved today by the California Public Utilities Commission, will raise the eventual total to just about $200 million. I say eventual because it could take a while to collect all of it, maybe until 2020 or so.
Hat tip to the California Emerging Technology Fund for the news flash (and quotes), and for all the work they did to push these bills through a very difficult process. Thank you very much!
What will Jerry do? No, the other one.
The California legislature approved senate bill 740 yesterday, adding $90 million to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and widening, a bit, the list of broadband providers who can apply for construction subsidies.
The state assembly gave its blessing on a 59 to 16 vote, and sent it over to the senate, where it was approved 34 to 3. The bill now goes to Governor Brown for his approval, or not.
A companion bill, AB 1299, was also approved by the senate yesterday, and is expected to be taken up by the assembly later this morning. It would spend $25 million on broadband facilities and marketing in public housing projects.
High noon is nearer than it seems.
Of all the ancient traditions and lofty values of the California legislature, few have the moral imperative of the three day weekend. Although this Friday is a work day – the end of session deadline – on the official calendar, leaders in both the California senate and assembly want to wrap up business by tomorrow evening.
So today is critical to efforts to top up the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF), and sorta expand eligibility for broadband infrastructure construction subsidies to independent Internet service providers and cities.
Senate bill 740 is the linchpin. If two-thirds of senators and assembly members agree, it'll pump an extra $90 million into CASF. It's been ready for a floor vote in the assembly since Monday, but it's ranked low on the daily priority list. Yesterday, it came within a handful of bills of being called for a vote, but was put aside as assembly members cleared the deck for their customary 4 p.m. quitting time.
It was skipped over on previous days. Lining up the required two-thirds majority vote has always been a challenge, but yesterday it was looking like there was enough support amongst assembly members.
Assembly bill 1299, which sends $25 million from CASF towards broadband facilities and marketing in public housing projects and is legislatively linked to SB 740, was similarly left hanging in the senate.
Both bills are again scheduled to be considered today, but both are on the second half of the agenda, so there are no guarantees.
To complete the procrastination trifecta, Santa Cruz County supervisors decided to delay consideration of a wide ranging package of broadband deployment policies yesterday. The vote has been put off until 1 October 2013.
Two broadband subsidy bills have been wrapped together in the California legislature, and appear to be on track for approval this coming week. Senate bill 740, which adds $90 million to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and expands eligibility a bit, and assembly bill 1299, which gives $25 million of that money to public housing projects, now contain mirror language that make them all but inseparable.
It's possible that the extra money could be approved even if the public housing piece is shot down, but the political horse trading that got the bills to this point make it unlikely. Assemblyman Steven Bradford (D – Los Angeles) initiated the push for broadband facilities and marketing subsidies in public housing, and became a necessary force behind the extra CASF money when cable lobbyists stalled the bill in his committee. He's shepherding SB 740 in the assembly, and has tapped an ally, Kevin de Leon (D – Los Angeles), to speak for his bill, AB 1299, in the senate.
Bradford is accommodating to industry lobbyists, but he is a consistent advocate for urban interests too. Broadband infrastructure subsidies have long been an issue for rural areas, where it is easier to identify service gaps and find entrepreneurs willing to step in. AB 1299 may benefit only public housing agencies, clients and the non-profits that orbit them (plus incumbent carriers, of course), but it does create a common interest between sparsely populated (and frequently republican) rural counties and the metro areas where the California legislature's democratic majority dominates.
The full assembly could vote on SB 740 as soon as Monday and the senate will likely take up AB 1299 on Tuesday. If approved, the bills will swap places for, presumably, one more vote to get both houses on board with all the changes that have been made. Then, it's up to Governor Brown.
Legislative leadership lines up behind broadband.
Californian broadband subsidies are back on track and heading, it seems to a vote by the full assembly. Big thanks to Elizabeth Munguia in senator Alex Padilla's office for the news that the assembly leadership released senate bill 740 from the appropriations committee's suspense file, which puts it in play for the final, hectic two weeks of the legislature's current session.
SB 740 would add $90 million to the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) and make it possible – although maybe not practical – for independent Internet service providers and cities to apply for grants and loans to build out broadband infrastructure. Assuming a companion measure, assembly bill 1299 moves forward too, $70 million would be added to the broadband infrastructure grant kitty and $25 million would go towards broadband facilities and marketing in public housing projects, with the $5 million difference being made up via the lesser used infrastructure loan fund.
Looking ahead to the next two weeks, SB 740 needs to be approved by a two-thirds vote of the assembly, which is by no means guaranteed, then it goes back to the senate, which has to agree to recent amendments. The senate voted nearly unanimously to back it earlier this year, but that was before a nasty fight with cable lobbyists erupted, forcing the changes.
Assuming it moves all the way through the process before the 13 September 2013 deadline, it would then go to Governor Brown's desk. He'd have a month to decide whether or not to veto it.
Update: AB 1299 made it out of the senate appropriations committee's suspense file too, and will head to a vote of the full senate. If approved there (it only needs a majority vote to make it), it'll go back to the assembly for concurrence in the senate's amendments.
I thought there was more in there.
The amount of money available to the current round of California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) infrastructure grant applicants is probably something like $135 million, considerably less than the $148 million I've been estimating. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has published the proposed budget for the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) for next fiscal year, which runs from July 2014 to June 2015. It shows a sharp increase in overhead costs for running the program, including an extra $1.5 million for the state's broadband mapping project.
Earlier this year, I estimated – too optimistically – that there was $158 million or so available for CASF infrastructure grants. Deducting the $10 million that might be given to the Digital 395 project next month leaves $148 million. That's based on the original $200 million infrastructure grant kitty, less approved grants (about $41 million) plus rescinded grants and project cost savings. And less previously published overhead costs, which totalled about $2.5 million as of last December.
The proposed budget released today pegs total CASF overhead costs at $3.6 million for next fiscal year alone, $2.9 million of which will come out of the infrastructure grant kitty. The staff workload has increased because of the new consortia program and the three dozen or so infrastructure grant applications submitted over the past year, so it's not unreasonable to assume the new numbers are in line with the latest run rate.
Assuming then, in round numbers, that 1. the overhead costs charged to the infrastructure grant kitty are running at the rate of about $1.6 million a year now, 2. will jump to $2.9 million starting next July and 3. admin costs are likelier to go up than down, the total hit from January 2013 through June 2015 will be in the $5 million to $6 million range. If the CPUC takes the prudent course and earmarks overhead money for a year or two more – there could be dozens of grants to manage in that time – $10 million total isn't unreasonable and it could go higher depending on how many more years it'll take to finish those projects off.
Throwing everything on the table – previous expenditures, existing and assumed budgets, the Digital 395 spiff – and discounting my previous optimism, $135 million is my new estimate. That's against $222 million in published requests.
If senate bill 740 passes, all these assumptions go out the window. As currently written (and assuming assembly bill 1299 also passes), an extra $70 million will be added to the CASF infrastructure grant fund. Key decisions on those bills will be taken in Sacramento this week and next.


Most types of dementia are nonreversible (degenerative). Nonreversible means the changes in the brain that are causing the dementia cannot be stopped or turned back. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia.
Lewy body disease is a leading cause of dementia in elderly adults. People with this condition have abnormal protein structures in certain areas of the brain.
Dementia also can be due to many small strokes. This is called vascular dementia.
Dementia usually occurs in older age. It is rare in people under age 60. The risk for dementia increases as a person gets older.
Mild cognitive impairment is the stage between normal forgetfulness due to aging and the development of dementia. People with MCI have mild problems with thinking and memory that do not interfere with everyday activities. They are often aware of the forgetfulness. Not everyone with MCI develops dementia.
Stopping or changing medications that make confusion worse may improve brain function.
There is growing evidence that some kinds of mental exercises can help dementia.
Certain drugs may be used to slow the rate at which symptoms worsen. The benefit from these drugs is often small, and patients and their families may not always notice much of a change.
A person's eyes and ears should be checked regularly. Hearing aids, glasses, or cataract surgery may be needed.
Psychotherapy or group therapy usually does not help because it may cause more confusion.
People with mild cognitive impairment do not always develop dementia. However, when dementia does occur, it usually gets worse and often decreases quality of life and lifespan.
You can reduce the risk of vascular dementia, which is caused by a series of small strokes, by quitting smoking and controlling high blood pressure and diabetes. Eating a low-fat diet and exercising regularly may also reduce the risk of vascular dementia.