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Activist Dana Loesh of St. Louis rallies the crowd on the steps of the Gateway Arch during a Anti-Stimulus Tea Party in St. Louis on February 27, 2009.
How the Tea Party can stay relevant Bennett to Tea Party: Don’t “Voters embraced Ronald Reagan because he wasn’t Jimmy Carter, become Carter Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, took aim at the Tea Party’s “gloom talk,” likening it to that of former President Jimmy Carter. In an op-ed in The Washington Post Sunday, Bennett not only hung the Carter insult on the party that defeated him but also said the Tea Party falls well short of the principles, ideals and optimism of one of its heroes, Carter’s successor, former President Ronald Reagan.
proving that good slogans do not necessarily produce good government,” Bennett wrote. Bennett urged Tea Party members to “follow Reagan, not Carter,” adding, “They should stop the gloom talk. … Unlike Carter, Reagan had more than slogans. “He came to Washington with a clear plan to revive the economy and overhaul the tax code, revitalize the military, and, most important, boost the
Washington Embraces the Real Barack Obama
The Real Sin of Michael Steele -Patrick J. Buchanan
-Mark Shields Strictly speaking, We can argue later about Republican Party Chair why all this positive Michael Steele was way change has not happened off base when he made in the first 18 months of this remark at a closedthe Obama presidency door meeting of party and about who’s to blame. Page 7 contributors in Connecticut. Page 6
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national spirit. He saw the Republican Party as a big tent and he successfully did what is considered political suicide today: He worked across party lines and tried to find compromise.” Bennett lost in Utah’s Republican nominating convention in the most dramatic evidence yet of the Tea Party influence and its anti-Washington sentiments, captured in party slogans like “Send a Message to Washington” and “Take Back America.” The GOP backed two other candidates, who will compete for the nomination
at a June primary.
Neither has held public office.
Montana: Tea Party could be influential Tea Party organizers say the grassroots confederation could be a chance for candidates supporting the movement to make waves in Montana and nationwide. In Montana, for instance, Tea Party organizers say coalitions are cropping
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Lt. Governor sues federal health care law enforcers
-Lisa Watson
Wednesday Lt. Governor Peter Kinder joined a group of three Missourians in filing a legal challenge against the recently enacted federal health care law. The lawsuit “Kinder v. Geithner” was filed Wednesday at the Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr. United States Court House in Cape Girardeau.
“This lawsuit challenges those provisions of the federal health care law which actually reduce Missourians access to affordable health care and which violate our United States and Missouri state Constitutions.” Kinder said. “Many Missourians will lose
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Editorial
Park school buses With school districts in the St. Louis area struggling to cope with declining revenue from state and local sources, there is one major expense that could save a lot of teacher jobs, restore education programs and keep extracurricular activities off the chopping black. The expense? School buses. School districts across the city and county could dramatically reduce their expenses by eliminating the fleets of buses that pick up and deliver kids to schoolhouse door. A drastic proposal? Certainly. But, as the Lindbergh School District (to cite just one example) struggles with ways to keep from eliminating teacher positions and course offerings, think about how many of both could be saved if it didn’t spend more than $1.6
million in transportation costs. How would the students get to school? Parents of course. Or other relatives. Or neighbors. Or friends. It’s a course of action that parents of private school students practice every day. Extensive car pools are common. Nobody expects buses, which is a good thing because there aren’t any. But they manage because they value education over transportation. Making sure children get to school every day can be a big headache, requiring sometimes complex logistics. But it’s the law that children attend school. Parents are required to see to it their children are educated. There is no law that requires a school district to chauffeur students back and forth.
Letters to the Editor The Midwest’s Asian Carp dilemma -Rush James
more than $1.6 million annually. If it means keeping a few more teachers or including a few more course offerings, then the buses should go. It’s not like some parents couldn’t take their children to school. One local subdivision is jammed by cars driven by parents idling at the entrance waiting for the school bus to arrive, which then takes their children a mile and a quarter to school. It would save considerable time and effort for the parents to drive their kids to school in the first place. School transportation is not a right. And when funding is tight in a school district, the teacher pool should be the last thing reduced.
Besides, providing bus transportation is expensive. Lindbergh spends
The first item on the list should be school buses.
times. And who can blame them?
driving at the time of the infraction.
With tax revenues declining and federal funds in shorter supply, it would be an easy thing to manipulate traffic signals to maximize violations.
Something is wrong with penalizing someone who may or may not be an evildoer.
Turn off red light cameras A proposal for a statewide ban on red light cameras is such a common sense idea that it’s surprising it was approved by the Missouri Senate. The provision to prohibit the cameras was contained in an amendment to the state’s transportation bill, approved by a 23-8 vote.
Of course city officials wouldn’t do that, would they?
The cameras programs monitor selected intersections continuously day and night in order to catch those who run red lights. And it has never been very popular with the driving public.
Whether it’s in Arnold or St. Louis or elsewhere in the state, the argument is always that public safety is the reason for the all-seeing eyes being trained on some intersections.
Why?
But iIf public safety is the clarion call for “red-lighting” some intersections, who not go all out and protect citizens at every intersection?
Drivers simply don’t trust city government enough. They can’t believe city officials can resist tweaking the red light camera program to bring in extra revenue, especially in these frugal economic
After all, the red light camera program is self-supporting and the companies that provide the “service” would be more than happy t o
install m o r e equipment in cities intent on separating people from their money. The cameras don’t really target drivers, of course, only the cars they (theoretically) are operating. Owners of the offending cars are tagged with a ticket, regardless of whether they were
Overly cautious motorists are apt to slam on their brakes at the first glimmer of a yellow light, deathly afraid of being “snapped” by a red light camera.
Some environmentalists are pushing a surprising issue that sounds agreeable enough from the outside, but could really hurt the St. Louis area economy. The issue at hand is Asian Carp. For years these fish have spread throughout waterways in the Midwest, and the Army Corps of Engineers has had barriers in place for a number of years to keep them from spreading into the Great Lakes. These barriers have worked. There are some, though, who want to completely close some of the waterways that link up the rest of the Midwest with Lake Michigan. This would be devastating to Missouri and Illinois businesses that ship through these waterways. It would make transportation of goods more expensive and slower by clogging roads, rails, etc. At a time when many businesses are struggling to survive or retain employees, higher costs to move goods is the last thing we need. The other side of the coin is that it would also make getting some things to us more expensive- which affects all of us. We need to protect the environment and care for the world that we live in. The Asian Carp issue, though, has been blown out of proportion and the “solution” proposed by some of closing these waterways would be much worse than the problem at hand. Please join me in opposing such action.
The practice can make driving an adventure for those trying to avoid a rear-end collision with a nervous Nellie.
Response to lifelong Blues fan
Constitutionally, there is a question about red light camera programs, with a federal court taking Arnold’s side in a test case, and the Missouri Supreme Court ruling against Springfield, Mo. In another case.
That emotion you detected in your fellow fans is not apathy, it’s resignation. Resignation that yet another team is returning to the Stanley Cup Finals before the Blues.
Springfield has cameras off.
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There is something unseemly about the fact that cities are watching us, waiting for us to slip up, ready to pounce when we do by mailing us a bill, typically for $100. Sen. Yvonne Wilson, D-Kansas City, was the only one to speak against the bill when it was debated on the Senate floor. She freely admitted that a red light camera program helps local governments raise revenue. At least she was honest about it, unlike many supporters. It’s time to end the money grab in Missouri. The all-seeing eyes will not die in Arnold or elsewhere in the state, not when the argument is always ready to cover the truth.
-By Joseph Duepner
After 1993 and prior to the 2003 lockout the Blues-Hawks rivalry almost evaporated. Our franchise seemed light years ahead and we concerned ourselves with rivals that actually won things, like the Redwings. We seemed on track to get back to Lord Stanley’s table picking up a Great One here a President’s Trophy there, but it was all for naught. The lockout came knocking and our foundation crumbled. Thus the ex-Blues theory emerged. It’s the flip-side of the of Berler ex-Cubs theory publicized by the late great Mike Royko. Whichever team with more ex-Blues is the favored team since our franchise seems to excel at grooming players to bring other teams Cup glory. I question your statement that old time hockey rivalries are dead and fans no longer bleed blue. This year saw the most home sellouts since the 2003 lockout and if we can start winning some more games, maybe Chicago can find it in themselves to match our old time hockey pugilism.
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Open-Borders DOJ vs. America -Michelle Malkin
The Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona, officially unveiled on Tuesday, is an affront to all lawabiding Americans. It is a threatening salvo aimed at all local, county or state governments that dare to take control of the immigration chaos in their own backyards. And it is being driven by openborders extremists who have dedicated their political careers to subverting homeland security policies in the name of compassion and diversity. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed by Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, took the lead in prepping the legal brief against Arizona. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Perez is a farleft lawyer and activist who worked for the late mass illegal alien amnesty champion Ted Kennedy and served in the Clinton administration DOJ. While holding down a key government position there in which he was entrusted to abide by the rule of law, Perez volunteered for CASA de Maryland -- a notorious illegal alien advocacy group funded through a combination of taxpayer-subsidized grants and radical liberal philanthropy, including billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute (not to mention more than $1 million showered on the group by Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez’s regime-owned oil company, CITGO). Perez rose from CASA de Maryland volunteer to president of the group’s board of directors. Under the guise of enhancing the “multicultural” experi-
ence, he crusaded for an ever-expanding set of illegal alien benefits ranging from in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students to driver’s licenses. CASA de Maryland opposes enforcement of deportation orders, has protested post-9/11 coordination of local, state and national criminal databases, and produced a “know your rights” propaganda pamphlet for illegal aliens depicting federal immigration agents as armed bullies making babies cry. In 2006, CASA de Maryland threatened to protest at the schools of children whose parents belonged to the proimmigration enforcement group Minuteman Project -- and then headed into the Montgomery County, Md., public schools to recruit junior amnesty protesters who were offered school credits for traveling with CASA de Maryland to march on Washington. As a former Maryland resident, I got to see Perez’s militant friends and colleagues in action. I watched CASA de Maryland President Gustavo Torres (who met with President Obama last week) complain that motor vehicle administration officials have “absolutely no right to ask for people’s Social Security number or immigration status to get a driver’s license.” I stood among CASA de Maryland grievance-mongers who shouted, “No license, no justice! No justice, no peace!” while playing the race card against naturalized Americans and legal immigrants who opposed the illegal alien welfare state. Perez himself derided secure-borders citizen activists as “xenophobes,” but denied painting the grassroots immigration enforcement movement as racist. Questioned by GOP Sen. Jeff
Sessions during his Obama DOJ confirmation hearing last year about the illegal alien rights guide produced by CASA de Maryland, Perez grudgingly stated that “the Civil Rights Division must not act in contravention to valid enforcement actions of our federal immigration laws.” But “acting) in contravention” is exactly what the Civil Rights Division is doing in spearheading the challenge to Arizona’s valid enforcement actions of our federal immigration law. Perez, Attorney General Eric Holder and the rest of the open-borders DOJ team have invoked a “preemption” doctrine based on the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause to attack Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration measure and oppose local and state enforcement of federal immigration laws. Never mind that the Arizona law was drafted scrupulously to comply with all federal statutes and the Constitution. You gotta love Obama’s fair-weather friends of the Constitution. When a state acts to do the job the feds won’t do, Obama’s legal eagles run to the Founding Fathers for protection. When, on the other hand, left-wing cities across the country pass illegal alien sanctuary policies that flagrantly defy national immigration laws and hamper cross-jurisdiction enforcement, the newfound federal preemption advocates are nowhere in sight. The Obama DOJ’s lawsuit against Arizona is sabotage of the people’s will and the government’s fundamental responsibility to provide for the common defense. No border enforcement, no security. No security, no peace.
THE DR. IS IN: Be an active participant in your skin care -Dr. Lawrence Samuels
Question: I am 45 years
old and have a 7-year-old son. While at the pool a grandmother came over to my chair and commented on how nice my grandson was playing with her granddaughter. I was humiliated that I looked the age of a grandmother rather than a mother. Are there options for me to regain a more youthful appearance?
Answer: Although aging is a natu-
ral process, as knowledge increases, treatments are being identified that can prevent or modify the aging process. This process is controlled by age and environmental damage, especially sun damage. The primary, preventable cause of aging is exposure to UVB/UVA radiation from the sun. Repeated ultraviolet exposure produces photo-aging of the skin, which differs from the intrinsic aging process of the skin, which is dependent on genetics and chronologic age. Photo-aging is characterized by rough skin texture, dilated pores, poor skin tone, skin laxity, blotchy skin color, brown spots, sallowness, telangectasia (sometimes called broken blood vessels), fine lines and wrinkles. Although other factors can contribute to aging skin, such as,
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smoking and environmental pollutants, ultraviolet radiation is recognized as the single most important factor. Skin care products can prevent and treat signs of aging skin caused by age and sun damage. The aging process of the skin begins in our mid-twenties and it is never too early or too late to start a preventative skin care program.
pass through the clouds. Rx Systems PF’s unique UVB/UVA broad spectrum Facial Moisturizer SPF 35 with transparent zinc oxide is the ideal sunscreen for everyday use.
Many things contribute to the aging process that can be improved just by making a change in lifestyle. For example: reduce excessive sun exposure, increase physical activity, stop smoking, eat a well-balanced diet, control your weight, and even get a little more shut eye. Other anti-aging benefits can be achieved through products for skin and hair. Rx Systems PF’s anti-aging skin products aim to rejuvenate, restore, repair the skin (epidermis and dermis), improve the moisture content of the skin, and decrease the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, or better yet prevent the damage from occurring in the first place. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends that, regardless of your skin type, a broad spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 15 should be used all-year-round. Don’t reserve the use of sunscreen only for sunny days. Even on a cloudy day, up to 70 percent of the sun’s ultraviolet rays can
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Be an active participant in your skin care. Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of repair. 9-year-old child and was told by another mother at the pool today that sunscreens are dangerous. I have a family history of skin cancer in both my mother and father. Can you give me some direction for safe sun exposure?
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increases with the amount of ultraviolet exposure, that is, sun exposure. In addition, 80 percent of skin aging is related to ultraviolet sun exposure which includes rays from tanning beds. The truth is based on what dermatologists see in their offices on a daily basis. Patients who use appropriate sunscreen protection have a decreased incidence of pre-skin cancer, skin cancer and sun damage compared to their brothers, sisters and parents who do not use appropriate sun protection. I have never seen a skin problem asso-
Economic Outlook: The wrong reform bill -By Anthony Hall
In Washington, the 2,300-page regulatory blueprint ready for approval in the Senate, looks very different than it does from Main Street or Wall Street. Banks may be planning to move money around and spin off part of their swap desk derivative operations, but in Washington, several agencies will be looking to hire, including a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that will be starting from scratch and the Office of Financial Education, also a creation born of the chaos of the recent financial meltdown. Concurrently, the Office of Thrift Supervision will be closing its doors officially and merging operations with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., meanwhile, will be branching out, as the bill requires the agency to handle giant insurance companies and behemoths of the banking world if they come close to collapsing. “As soon as the bill becomes law, we will be moving to hire additional staff with expertise in investment banking, broker dealers and the insurance business because a lot of the affiliated activity in these larger financial organizations involves that,” The Washington Post quoted FDIC Director Sheila Bair as saying. Verily, bank lobbyists might get a day off or two. Regulators, however, are gearing up for a massive transition that will transform the regulatory landscape physically as well as legally. All this depends, of course, on at least three Republican votes, that have apparently been lined up, setting the bill up for a Senate vote Thursday, as Republican Sens. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine have said they would support the bill. The key, many Republicans now say, is that the bill does little to reorder the root cause of the financial crisis, which was a bubble in the housing market that caused the subprime mortgage business to collapse, putting enough stress on the financial system to bring down banking giants, such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns and sending millions to the unemployment line as credit all but dried up across the board. That safeguard relegates no-tell lending to uber-wealthy borrowers -- those that make millions on a hit record, for example, but can document little or not consistency in their incomes. That seems fair enough. The bottom line is that the bill does not regulate the market to the point that no more bubbles are possible. The sound bite that says the last financial crisis is behind us is as irresponsible as the one that says this reform bill misses the point.
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A community grows weary of violence -Alvin Reid
I’ve seen former state Rep. Betty Thompson in many ways since the first time I met her.
successful educational foundations.
her
But at that visitation I saw him in a way I had never seen him. He was cordial, but he had no answer for the tragic death of his brother.
I’ve seen her supporting the rights of AfricanAmerican contractors and business owners.
Betty and Tony Thompson are like the majority of the black community. We are tired of the violence. We are confused by the bloodlust on area streets. We have no answers.
I’ve seen campaigning.
I’ve seen her extolling the virtues of education and intellectual advancement. I’ve seen her as a philanthropist. But I had never seen her tired until the hot Friday afternoon I paid condolences to her at the visitation for her son Tyrone Thompson. I’ve seen another of her sons, Tony Thompson, in many ways since I first met him. I saw him as a freshman in college at the University of Kansas when he resided in another dormitory on “The Hill.” I saw him pledge Kappa Alpha Psi while I was pledging Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
Tyrone Thompson, 27, was killed almost three weeks ago during a botched robbery attempt. A state investigator, former Pagedale police chief and former University City police officer, Thompson worked diligently to keep young black men and women on the straight and narrow. Then a wayward black thug took his life. Why? Because the assailant was in search of money so he could return to a dice game. Thompson’s murder stands out because of who he was, what he stood for and the family that supported him. But the violent criminals that grip the black community don’t care who they slaughter.
summer, it used to be blamed on the heat. A lot of blame has been put on poverty over the years, and yes this is a true component in the creation of many criminals. But there is something else going on in the black community in this day and age. There is no regard for human life. It doesn’t matter if it’s winter, spring summer or fall. It’s not the temperature. It’s the hot heads of young killers that are wrecking any chance at a safe and peaceful life for many African Americans. An area police officer pointed this out to me a couple of years ago. He said he used to go to homes to report that a family member had been arrested or had been killed and he would find a lack of food and bad living conditions. “Now I find video games and central air conditioning,” he said. The homes might not be in affluent communities, and the lives led within these homes could be filled with narcotics, domestic abuse, unemployment and frustration. But it isn’t starvation or lack of shelter that is fueling the mayhem.
I saw him again many years later as a successful business owner when I returned to St. Louis in 1995.
Black or white, if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, you could be gunned down. You could be killed or injured by a crazed driver fleeing police. You could be hit by a random bullet intended for someone else.
I saw him as philanthropist and founder of one of the region’s most
When I was growing up and there would be spats of crime during the
During last week’s Stages panel discussion concerning race and
Too many young black people are giving up on themselves long before society has a chance.
the writings of Mark Twain, Rudy Nickens of the Missouri Dept. of Transportation and a founder of the Diversity Partnership, shared a story about a young man he has mentored who went on to graduate from high school with honors. But Nickens was not overjoyed. “How do I tell him that the education he worked so hard to attain has not really prepared him for the college he wishes to attend?” Nickens asked the audience. But the young man truly has a chance to succeed in life. The fact that he went to a troubled school did not stop him from learning – and more importantly – trying to better himself. Certainly, it is frustrating. But quitting school and turning to crime are not the answers. This is the message that has to be communicated to young African Americans. More importantly, once the line has been crossed it is time for the black community to stop feeling sorry for those who spread murder and mayhem There is no excuse for violence. There is no excuse for murder. There is no excuse for creating a scene at a funeral home where I saw two strong, successful black Americans in Betty and Tony Thompson in a state of weariness and confusion.
A Governor’s Hazardous ‘Power of Appointment’ -Mark Shields
After the hateful Third Reich of Adolf Hitler was crushed and World War II was won, the 16 American owners of Major League Baseball teams voted 15 to one against desegregating America’s pastime, against allowing blacks to play on the same field with whites. The commissioner of baseball at that time, A.B. “Happy” Chandler courageously overturned the owners’ vote, which enabled Jackie Robinson to break baseball’s color line in the 1947 season. Years later, Democrat Chandler, a former Kentucky governor and U.S. senator, explained his decision: “I thought someday I’d have to meet my Maker, and He’d say, ‘What did you do with those black boys?’’’ “Happy” Chandler also made U.S. history. In the 97 years since the ratification of the 17th amendment to the Constitution establishing the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote, nine state governors have resigned their governorships to accept appointment -- from the man who just succeeded him as governor -- to a vacant U.S. Senate seat. Not surprisingly, voters dislike this toocute procedure that amounts to a governor “appointing “ himself to the Senate. Of the nine governors who did just that, eight of them were punished at the polls and denied election to the
Senate. Only Happy Chandler -- who resigned the Kentucky governor’s office on Oct. 9, 1939, and accepted appointment to the Senate the next day -- was able to keep his Senate seat by winning the 1940 election. Chandler won a full six-year term in 1942, which he left to accept the baseball commissioner’s job in November 1945. The other eight governors who tried -- John Erickson of Montana (1933), Charles Gossett of Idaho (1945), Edward Carville of Nevada (1945), John Hickey of Wyoming (1961), Edwin Mechem of New Mexico (1962), J. Howard Edmondson of Oklahoma (1963), Donald Russell of South Carolina (1965) and Wendell Anderson of Minnesota (1976) -- all were defeated the next time they faced the voters. It may or may not be relevant, but of the nine, New Mexico’s Mechem was the only Republican. All the other “selfappointees” were Democrats.
has, wisely, refused to appoint himself -- and rather than having an appointed successor serve until 2012, has instead pushed to hold a special election for the Senate seat this Nov. 2 One advantage to Manchin of holding the special Senate election on the regularly scheduled Nov. 2 Election Day is that he would not have to give up the governor’s chair (he’s now in the middle of his second four-year term), but any West Virginia member of Congress -- read, Republican Shelley Moore Capito -- who wants to be
senator would have to surrender that House seat to run. If a special Senate election were to be held in 2011, the House members could keep their seats while taking a free shot at the Senate race. Whatever happens in the West Virginia Senate contest, Joe Manchin appears to have learned what too many governors have failed to grasp: When it comes to making themselves into senators, for governors the Power of Appointment has been Historically Hazardous.
Because of the recent death of West Virginia’s senior senator, 92-yearold Robert C. Byrd, the Mountaineer State’s current governor, Democrat Joe Manchin, has the power to fill the Senate vacancy. As a tribute to Manchin’s broad appeal (or, maybe, to his deliberate ambiguity), both the West Virginia AFL-CIO and state Chamber of Commerce have urged him to appoint himself to Byrd’s seat. While admitting to a strong interest in running for the Senate seat, Manchin
Governor, Democrat Joe Manchin, has the power to fill the Senate vacancy.
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Obama’s War on Arizona
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-Patrick J. Buchanan
Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union.
Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama’s war on Arizona is not a war of necessity. It is a war of choice -- an unprovoked war, undertaken not to defend constitutional or civil rights, but to pander to his party’s left and Hispanic voters. New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson, himself Hispanic, gave the game away. At the Boston governors conference, he assured colleagues, nervous over the administration attacks on Arizona’s immigration law, that “Obama is popular with Hispanic voters, and this is going to be a popular move with them nationally.” Eric Holder fended off criticism of his Justice Department suit against Arizona that alleges the state usurped federal responsibility by saying he has not ruled out a second suit for “racial profiling.” Rather than work with Arizona to secure the border and send the illegals home, the Obamaites are taking Mexico’s side against Arizona, and against the faithful execution
of U.S. law.
In a shocking and telling episode in the Rose Garden, Obama stood by mute as Felipe Calderon attacked the Arizona law as “discriminatory.” The next day, Democrats in Congress, with Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano joining in, cheered the Mexican president’s slander that Arizona introduced “racial profiling to law enforcement.” There was a time when such an insult to a state of our union, on U.S. soil by a foreign ruler, would have produced a diplomatic crisis, if not pistols at dawn. Some of us recall Ike walking out of a Paris summit with Nikita Khrushchev rather than apologize for sending U-2s over Russia, and JFK, after the Bay of Pigs, retorting to Khrushchev that the United States did not need any lectures on intervention from people “whose character is forever stamped on the bloody streets of Budapest.” Democrats cheer as Arizona is attacked by a Mexican leader whose country treats illegal entry as a felony and illegal aliens with a brutality no American would tolerate. And what exactly is at the heart of the Arizona law? Simply this: Being in this country illegally is now a misdemeanor in Arizona, as it is in U.S. law. And as a 1940 U.S. law requires resident aliens to carry their green cards or work visas
at all times, Arizona will require police to request such identification if, in a “lawful contact” -- a traffic violation or altercation -- the officer entertains a “reasonable suspicion” the individual may be here illegally. Is this really Nazi Germany? Does this really justify the hysteria? And if this is the Gestapo, why did Holder not make this feature of the law the grounds for his Justice Department suit? Answer: Calderon and Obama notwithstanding, racial profiling is prohibited by the Arizona law. Nor is there any evidence racial or ethnic profiling will be condoned by Arizona. The law has not even taken effect. Unlike San Francisco and other towns that declare themselves to be “sanctuary cities” and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities, Arizona is not challenging or usurping U.S. law, but trying to assist the U.S. government in enforcing the immigration laws. Why is Arizona under attack for simply trying to help enforce our immigration laws? Because the Obama administration cannot, will not or does not even wish to see those laws enforced. The U.S. government is today derelict in its constitutional duty. And this is approaching an existential crisis for America. For there are in Arizona 450,000 illegal aliens, a population of law-breakers in a single
state approaching the size of the entire U.S. Army. Though we have 15 million Americans unemployed, near 10 percent of our workforce, with a higher share of African-Americans jobless, we have 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs. And last year the administration handed out over a million green cards and work visas to foreigners to come and take jobs that would have gone to American citizens. In communist countries in the Cold War, all understood that the government did not represent the people. The state was at war with the nation. That idea is taking root in America -- the idea that our government no longer seeks to represent us. And as one watches Obama and Congress take the side of a foreign leader attacking an American state, and the government refuse to do its duty and defend the borders or send the illegals back home, questions arise. In this ongoing invasion of the United States that has brought 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens into our midst, whose side is the government on? Ours or theirs? What is the reason for the refusal to secure our border? Why do Democrats insist that the illegal aliens be put on a “path to citizenship”? Is the real objective the abolition of the old America we grew up in?
The Real Sin of Michael Steele -Patrick J. Buchanan
“This was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” Strictly speaking, Republican Party Chair Michael Steele was way off base when he made this remark at a closeddoor meeting of party contributors in Connecticut. For the war began in 2001 under George W. Bush and was backed by almost all Americans, who collectively cheered the downfall of the Taliban and the rout of al-Qaida from its sanctuary in Afghanistan. Yet, Steele was not entirely wrong. Today, a majority of Americans do not believe the nine-year war in Afghanistan is any longer worth the rising cost in blood and money. And by declaring it a “war of necessity” and tripling U.S. forces there, this president has made it “Obama’s war” every bit as much as LBJ in 1964 and 1965 made Vietnam “Johnson’s War.” While Steele has spent every waking hour since his words hit the airwaves explaining, and declaring his commitment to victory, of far more interest is the alacrity with which neoconservatives piled on the chairman, demanding his resignation, while senators castigated him for remarks unacceptable for a Republican Party leader.
William Kristol’s demand for Steele’s resignation was echoed by Charles Krauthammer and Liz Cheney, daughter of the vice president. From Afghanistan, Steele was attacked by Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who suggested he think again about his capacity to lead the Republican National Committee. Behind the swiftness and severity of the attacks on one of their own by Republican pundits and politicians are motives more serious and sinister than exasperation at another gaffe by Michael Steele. The War Party is conducting this pre-emptive strike on Steele to send a message to dissenters. In Krauthammer’s phrase, it is now a “capital offense” for a Republican leader not to support the Obama troop surge and the Obama-Petraeus policy. Yet, a majority of Americans oppose the Afghan war. And the point made by Steele about the futility of fighting in Afghanistan has been made by columnists George Will and Tony Blankley, ex-Rep. Joe Scarborough, Ron Paul, and antiwar conservatives and moderates. When exactly did supporting Obama’s war policy become a litmus test for loyal Republicans? What the War Party is up to here is a naked attempt to impose its orthodoxy, about the threat of “Islamofascism” and
the Long War, on the entire GOP, 28 months before a presidential election. Republicans of all persuasions should recoil at such arrogance. For whence does it come, if not the same hawks and neocons who beat the drums for a unnecessary war on Iraq that cost 4,000 U.S. dead, 35,000 wounded and $700 billion, while making widows and orphans of half a million Iraqis? And what was that all about? Invading and occupying a country that never attacked us -- to strip it of weapons it did not have. Certainly, as the last nominee of the Republican Party, McCain can claim to be titular leader, as could George W. Bush, or Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell or John Boehner. But, if memory serves, the BushMcCain party was repudiated in landslides in 2006 and 2008, giving Democrats the presidency, the House and a veto-proof Senate. And high among the reasons the country turned on the GOP is that, like Harry Truman and LBJ, the BushMcCain GOP marched us into wars they could not win and could not end. This campaign to censure and remove Steele is designed to censor debate and stifle dissent on Obama’s war policy, as long as Obama’s war policy closely
tracks the agenda of the War Party. Should Obama declare that he intends to stand by his deadline and begin pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by July 2011, those Republicans today accusing Steele of not supporting the troops and undercutting the president in wartime would themselves begin undercutting the president. In November, the Republican Party will make gains. But the party will be deluding itself if it assumes this means America wants a return to the interventionist policies that brought us the Iraq and Afghan wars. The country will simply be saying: We reject Obama’s liberalism as emphatically as we rejected Bush neoconservatism. Most Americans today approve of the agreed-upon end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq by August and removal of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011, just as they support an American withdrawal from Afghanistan, starting a year from now. But to contend that those who want the withdrawals to begin sooner, or those who want them to begin later, are unpatriotic and do not support the troops is itself unpatriotic. The time for Republicans to decide on what the foreign policy of the party and a new administration should be is in the primaries of 2012. Until then, let every voice be heard, including that of Michael Steele.
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July, 2010
Obama’s Latest Shakedown -David Limbaugh
President Obama’s oil spill speech revealed, once again, how stunningly shameless he is. This relentless ideologue is not even marginally competent at masking his ongoing crusade to apply a wrecking ball to every sector of our economy and remake it in his own image. And I do mean “his” own image. Once again, his speech was loaded with first-person references, from “I refuse to let (Gulf Coast residents lose their way of life)” to “I expect (the new commission tasked with determining the cause of the explosion) to do that work thoroughly and impartially” to “I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party.” More on that last howler in a moment. Obama’s MO is so predictable that sophisticated practitioners of Marxist transformation should be embarrassed. Then again, Obama doesn’t need to be subtle; he is the president -- a president who rejects the constitutional limitations that applied to his mortal predecessors. After sitting on his hands for months, he comes out rhetorically swinging with both barrels of his teleprompter blazing. First, declare a crisis -meticulously distorting the facts, especially those relative to what caused
the crisis. Second, isolate a scapegoat (along with the awful, resourceexploiting, oil-inhaling, pre-Obama America) to be demonized and bullied into conspiring with him to launch his transformational solution -- a solution that has nothing to do with solving the “crisis.” In the meantime, shield the true culprits from any blame. Third, unveil his grandiose plan for salvation by the federal government, provided it first acquires structurally new powers. All the while, he not only downplays the government’s culpability in all of this but also overstates its (and his) response to date.
gratifying for a dictatorial president to beat up on such an evil agent of capitalism, but some of us find his approach unseemly and disturbing. Besides denying the company any semblance of due process and fairness, how about his habitual expenditure of negative energy -- pointing fingers -- instead of employing a constructive approach?
A returning space traveler watching his speech would have assumed Obama actually had been “kicking tail” throughout this “crisis” instead of partying and playing golf. Upon watching the speech, the traveler would not have experienced the megadoses of deja vu felt by the rest of us, who had watched this movie -- starring this very president -- many times before.
Just as Obama blamed Wall Street and exempted government (liberal policies) and quasi government entities (Freddie and Fannie) for their complicity in the financial meltdown and just as he blamed doctors, pharmaceuticals and insurance companies for soaring health care costs caused mostly by socialistic governmental policies, he is summarily blaming BP and exempting unreasonable liberal environmental policies for shutting down more conventional and safer drilling methods -- and venues.
To be sure, the oil spill has been terrible, and BP doubtlessly bears much blame. But do any of us know all the facts? Should the president be unilaterally declaring BP’s strict liability as if he were the final judge, jury and executioner -- without even affording the company any opportunity to defend itself? Alinsky-starved radicals might find it
No matter how culpable BP is ultimately determined to be, Obama’s bullying should not deflect our attention from another culprit here: environmental extremists.
As usual, he and his ilk greatly contribute to problems and then use those problems as catalysts to justify even greater doses of their destructive socialistic prescriptions. It’s maddening. Just as Obama browbeat and bought
off the American Medical Association and big pharma to go along with Obamacare, he summoned BP executives to his office. Flanked by Attorney General Eric Holder, who has threatened criminal action against BP, he shook down BP into forking over a $20 billion installment to defer the government’s further wrath. BP is but another prop Obama has chosen to advance another plank of his statist agenda -- this time his plan to shut down our conventional energy industry in favor of new, quixotic alternative energy methods that will succeed only in propelling this nation even faster toward Third World status. I’m surprised Obama didn’t give another “shout-out” to “Joe Medicine Crow” as he began his speech designed to pretend he cares about the victims of the oil spill (even his lib media enablers aren’t buying it this time) -- for the sole purpose of passing cap and trade on their backs. Cap and trade has already failed, but so had health care before he finally crammed it through. Just as Obama fraudulently promised to listen to Republican ideas at his bogus health care summit after he’d shut them out of the process from the beginning, he promised to “look at other ideas and approaches from either party” on his cap-and-trade fiasco. Oh, yes, he’s all about considering the ideas of others and the will of the American people. And I’m all about advancing liberalism. LOL.
States Fight Against Federal Tyranny -David Limbaugh
Amidst the Obama administration’s crusade to consolidate power in Washington at the expense of the very sovereignty of the states and our liberties, we should be encouraged that states are fighting back. Consider just examples.
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Have you heard about the administration’s propaganda campaign to adorn each federal “stimulus” project with taxpayer-funded signs to remind us that these projects have been bestowed on us by the beneficence of the Obama administration? The signs read, “Project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.” In the first place, they’re not funded by any act, but by the American taxpayer. This type of government self-promotion is eerily reminiscent of dictatorial governments in modern history that not only deprived their citizens of freedom and private property but also demanded to be glorified for the morsels they doled back out to them. Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., isn’t taking this outrage sitting down. He has put forth a proposal to prohibit funding for the $20 million that has been spent nationwide (and more than $650,000 in Illinois alone) on these “useless” signs, which haven’t created “one single job” and which serve no purpose beyond
touting the administration’s supposed benevolence. Schock assures us that this propaganda campaign is being directed by the administration, not some bureaucrat, as evidenced by documents the administration sends along with the construction projects that dictate how big the logos have to be and reminding those involved that they demonstrate “President Obama’s commitment to spending taxpayer dollars wisely.” Schock quips, “It is almost an oxymoron that we are spending money on these logos and these signs to (show) how wisely we are spending taxpayer money.” If that isn’t bad enough, get this: It extends way beyond road projects. The logos are also being required, for example, on police and fire vehicles acquired by cities in part with stimulus funds. States are also fighting back through their state officials. Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce is incensed over the Obama administration’s “outrageous” and bogus lawsuit against the state of Arizona over its perfectly legitimate effort to protect its border and citizens. Pearce does not mince words, saying this lawsuit is a matter of the Obama administration’s abusing its power to
advance its “nonenforcement mentality and agenda. ... It’s outrageous, what (the administration is) doing. This is about an agenda. This is a president that is acting like a dictator. This is a president who is ignoring the rule of law and siding with lawbreakers over the citizens of this country and the citizens of this state while damage is being conducted every single day. Every single day!” Just so. Obama is using the power of the federal government (and playing the race card in the process) to file a spurious lawsuit to prevent the sovereign state of Arizona from defending its border and citizens in deference to Obama’s reckless immigration reform designs. Come to think of it, Obama wouldn’t let Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal take steps to protect his citizens, either, would he? Is there a pattern here? Surely not. Also, my lifelong friend Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder announced his filing of a lawsuit Wednesday to block Obamacare. Kinder explains that his lawsuit differs from lawsuits by other states (which he wholeheartedly supports) against Obamacare in that it involves an action not on behalf of the state of Missouri, but of individual plaintiffs who will be injured as a result of the federal law. There are three different plaintiffs, each alleging a different type of injury that will result
from the application of Obamacare. These separate challenges showcase the discriminatory, arbitrary and capricious nature of this horrendous law. One plaintiff alleges, in part, that she will be denied equal protection of the law, as she, along with citizens in 49 states, will lose access to Medicare Advantage, while certain Florida citizens will continue to enjoy it -- for the sole reason that Obama needed Florida votes to get the bill passed. Another plaintiff -- though a young, healthy woman who doesn’t smoke or drink -- will be required to purchase the one-size-fits-all Obama plan against her will instead of simply procuring far less expensive catastrophic coverage. In his fiery announcement about the lawsuit, Kinder declared that this legal challenge is about protecting the constitutional rights of Missourians against the illegal encroachments of the federal government. And in response to federal politicians who demand that we trust them to protect our interests, Kinder movingly invoked Thomas Jefferson, who said, “In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Amen! God bless the states and our state officials for opposing this tyranny.
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Perfect pineapple prepping plan
Pineapple Salsa recipe Ingredients 1 cup finely chopped fresh pineapple 1/2 cup diced red bell pepper 1/2 cup diced green bell pepper 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed 1 (15 ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed 1/4 cup chopped onions 2 green chile peppers, chopped 1/4 cup orange juice 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin salt and pepper to taste
-Lisa Haugtly
The Eat in, Work out Guide to pineapple bliss. Do you avoid buying whole pineapples because they look too scary to prep? If so, you’re missing out on the best prices and freshness. Years ago, my mother-in-law taught me to clean and core one, the way she’d been taught by her mother. I’ve seen other techniques (and of course, I own a pineapple coring gadget), but I prefer to follow the family tutorial for pineapple chunks. Lay the pineapple on it’s side on a large cutting board. Cut the top off, exposing the inner fruit. Do the same on the bottom side, creating a flat base. Stand the pineapple up and slice vertically down the middle. Cut each half in half again, creating four equal columns. Next, stand the first piece up and slice away the scaly outer layer in vertical strips. Then turn it around so the inner core can be cut away. (The core was quartered when you divided the sections.) Each piece now has a triangle of core left to be eliminated. It is harder and
slightly lighter in color, so it’s easy to identify. Then slice the four sections into bite size pieces, storing in a covered bowl or ziplock bag. Note: If you prefer whole pineapple slices, simply cut the top and bottom off, strip the outer layer, slice horizontally, and core each piece as needed. In a bind, I use a spice jar lid like a cookie cutter to eliminate the core. The whole process should take less than 5 minutes. Trust me, it’s time well spent. Think yogurt, granola, and pineapple for breakfast. Pineapple with your turkey and swiss sandwich for lunch. Cashew chicken stir fry with pineapple for dinner. I think delicious, picture!
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Indiana’s Land of Lincoln includes living historical farm -Lisa Haugtly
When reflecting on his Spencer County, Indiana boyhood home Lincoln wrote, “There I grew up.” Spencer County today preserves some of the nation’s most historic Lincoln destinations where Abe spent 14 years of his life before leaving at the age of 21 for Illinois. Indiana’s legendary Lincoln sites are found off I-64, about 3 hours east of St. Louis. Just watch for the State and National Park Service’s brown signage. When you reach exit 57A you’re within a short drive of the Lincoln Boyhood Home, The Lincoln Living Historical Farm and the Lincoln Pioneer Village & Museum. Lincoln’s Boyhood Home National Memorial is maintained by the National Park Service and encompasses a visitor center and gallery, the pioneer cemetery (site of Abraham’s mother grave), and the Lincoln living historical farm. The memorial’s visitor center’s outside walls is paneled with sculptured stone murals depicting Lincoln’s life. Inside you’ll find galleries, artifact collections along with special exhibits and a theatre that features a video depicting Lincoln’s Indiana years. The Living Historical Farm, located a short walking distance on the memorial grounds, re-creates an 1820s Indiana homestead. The farm is built on four acres of the original land owned by
Abe’s father, Thomas Lincoln. Park rangers in period clothing work the farm and demonstrate daily chores and life from rail splitting to hearth cooking using authentic implements and techniques of the era.
embedded in the hearth reads “Lincoln Slept Here”. While you won’t be able to sleep where Abe reportedly slept you can eat at the adjacent Buffalo Farm Grill and indulge in its house specialty, buffalo burgers.
The farm includes an early 19th century cabin and out buildings along with various gardens.
Before leaving Spencer County head to the county’s southern edge along the Ohio River to Rockport, home to the Lincoln Pioneer Village located in Rockport City Park.
Across the road from the national memorial is Lincoln State Park, which offers camping, fishing and water recreation. The park also houses the Lincoln Amphitheatre, a 1,500-seat state of the art theatre, opening from June until August presenting professional productions and concerts. Topping the marquee in 2010 is Lincoln, a multi-media production combining the talents of actors, musicians and special effects. The show masterfully spins the story connecting Lincoln’s life in Indiana to his presidency and the Civil War. The show’s top rate with stellar performances and provides memorable entertainment, especially for those who enjoy history, traditional music and Lincoln lore. Before the show stop in at Buffalo Run Farm, the former homestead of Lincoln’s cousin Dennis Hanks. Here you can step through the legendary Lincoln Cabin where a stone plate
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Pet of the week: Rosco
The Village was originally constructed as a WPA project (Works Projects Administration) during the 1930s with the mission to preserve and represent the life and times of Lincoln, his pioneer neighbors and friends.
Rosco is a happy and carefree 2-3 year old, 40-pound mixed breed dog. He is very loving, affectionate and playful. He has discovered toys and just loves them. Rocky is learning how to walk on a leash and doing great.
Before entering the Village you’ll pass through the museum that has one of the few known examples of cabinetry made by Thomas Lincoln in addition to several Lincoln family artifacts.
He loves to be out with his person and shows interest in visiting with other dogs. Rosco is good with other dogs and people of all ages. Life will be perfect for Rosco when he has the security of a loving, forever home. Rosco will make your heart laugh! The adoption fee for Rosco is $150 to reimburse IMPACT for his medical costs to date, which includes, a rabies and DHLPP shot, bordetella, heart worm test and preventative and his neuter.
The Village’s building collection, which has been featured in Hollywood films include the Old Pigeon Church, Brown’s Inn and the Gentry (log) Mansion. Each site offers a schedule of events and programs, making summer one of the best times to visit. Before striking out on Indiana’s Lincoln trail check the hook-up for latest schedule of Lincoln related events and activities in legendary Spencer County.
IMPACT adopts only in the metro St. Louis area, contact (314) 995-9260 for more information on Rosco or go online to our website www.impact4animals. com complete an application.
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July, 2010
I never thought chess was an elitist game - just for people who have quick brain movements, especially many of my hyperactive young adult and yes, senior friends.
-By Gentry Trotter
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or those n o t familiar with chess, or who might be put off by what some still perceive as a snobbish mind game, you are dead wrong. After all, Actors Ben Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Nicholas Cage, Keanu Reeves, Julia Roberts and Will Smith are enthusiastic chess players. Gossip has it that Reeves was even a chess hustler in Toronto. Many celebrities play to unwind or use chess to make a transition - a different mindset, after some pressure-cooking moments in production from the big screen. However, how bizarre is it to learn that someone like Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger played chess? I just can’t put my arms around that, and then it has become clear that playing chess can’t be typecast by behavioral traits. Young Chess Players and Opportunities Ahead: Like so many Americans, I remember the showboat antics of young Bobby Fischer; he was like the Muhammad Ali of boxing, cock-sure and without hesitation. One had to be at the 1972 Chess World Championship to appreciate or be turned off by Fischer’s ‘youthful intemperance.’ In other words his feet never touched the ground, especially when he won 20 consecutive games; but later he hit the ground hard being ‘checkmated,’ so to speak, by Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. From a novice standpoint, I truly believe that Fischer did do for Chess what Tiger Woods did for golf without the private marital controversies, which should have nothing to do anyone’s mental agility. Fischer had his own controversies, least we not forget. Both youngsters engaged the public, more so engaged youngsters to find themselves – particularly partaking in a highly new and exciting mentally stimulating, and not always victoriously enjoyable game that requires a strong back, with overtones of Machiavellian characteristics. The other day, I had an opportunity to attend the opening ceremony of the 2010 U.S. Women’s Championship and the 2010 U.S. Junior Closed Championship at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries. St. Louis is again blessed with a determined couple’s dream of making St. Louis the Chess Capital of North America – Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield. In attendance at the opening ceremonies along with Rex Sinquefield were Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder,
who also admitted his quest to help in seeking new diverse faces for the local chess club; international grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, Kitty Ratcliffe of the Convention and Visitors Commission and Flint Fowler, CEO of Hebert Hoover Boys and Girls Club.
can still go to the mall and to movies with friends, play football, soccer and even basketball – in other words, chess has yet to checkmate them, because when they sit across from an opponent they confided that it’s an entirely different ballgame.
Before the championships got under way, I had a significant opportunity to speak to many of the nation’s young females and males, who are in fact down to earth, and it appears that nothing has really changed in their personal lifestyles despite their tight-knit, romantic fling with the chess community. They refused to be stereotyped -- and certainly, they didn’t look or behave like nerds.
With the membership door now swinging open even wider, at least in Missouri, the good news is that more than 50 area schools have been touched through a special outreach project by the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis. They offer beginner lessons, special lectures and chess improvement classes.
These youngsters, I believe especially Darwin Yang, 13, the youngest competitor at the championship games, and America’s youngest Grandmaster Ray Robson, International Master Anna Zatonskih and Abby Marshall, first ever female to win the Denker Tournament of High School Champions, may be destined to become some future undisputed World Chess Champions like Boris Spassky, Robert J. Fischer, Anatoly Karpov, and Garry Kasparov. I was impressed with some of the nation’s brightest players, who have a certain down-to-earthiness, and that twinkle in their eyes of intense competition, clearly indicate that they
My only regret is the organizers may have missed an opportunity to further integrate many minority students into the process, during this very special opening ceremony. I thought while sitting in the halfemptied, perfectly audio-pitched Sheldon Concert Hall and Arts Galleries, some of the minority students could have had a chance to see the actual on-site progression of what happens in and outside of the actual game – with a potential spark of reassuring confidence. By having peer-interfacings, it adds to the camaraderie, and in all-due-respect to the organizers, this very significant opening ceremony could have served
as a proactive vehicle to fully engage some disadvantaged youngsters in the art of chess, including all of its sidebars. I was totally impressed with the confidence and articulation of Darwin Yang, (Plano, Tex.). There is nothing shy about this youngster. He rebutted the notion that he is some sort of genius, and in a humble manner, he thanked God for giving him the ‘chess gift.’ Yang’s pals are apparently typical kids – they visit the malls; they talk a lot on Facebook, and naturally they’re into video and on-line games, etc. Yang, who is headed for the 8th grade, shared that he got the ‘chess fever’ at a much younger age, when he was in the second or third grade, where he went to an after-school daycare and bumped into a chess teacher - and the rest is history, however brief. Since I was dealing with someone slightly above my intelligence, I wondered what are the differences between my favorite game --- checkers and chess. On my flip-over marble board, I have yet to figure it all out. “Chess is more complicated, and there are millions of possibilities,” said Yang. “In checkers, you can move forward and diagonally and in chess you can
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move backward and you have to be able protect your king.” We talked about Yang becoming a world champion, and he confessed that he hasn’t looked that far yet, as his immediate goal is to become a Grandmaster, like Ben Feingold. By the way, Yang has escaped being called a ‘nerd’ he most likely figured out this move in life, by playing ‘normal’ football, and looking at basketball and soccer. He really likes those athletic challenges and it certainly doesn’t hurt his fragile, but yet growing image with his peers. Yang believes a good game of chess is to keep control of the board and look deep. This A-plus student, merely wants to do his best, but becomes depressed when he plays a bad game. I suggested that he engage in more physical sports competition during those challenging times --- to take off the edge, and since he doesn’t judge his play pals, who might not be at his academic level, just chill out with his buddies, and it should hopefully take away those brief moments of defeat. In a chess world dominated by males, it was refreshing to see a bevy of brilliant beauties strut their genius in front of the cameras, and before this columnist. Irina Krush looks like she stepped out of a Seventeen Magazine as a beautiful and charming model, but don’t let those looks fool you. Krush has won the Women’s championship at age 14 – the youngest ever, and then once more. Krush, too, is down to earth, even though she dresses very snappy for a young lady once from Ukraine. She also won a silver and bronze medal, as a member of the U.S. Olympiad team. It’s amazing how influential the Western culture has become for many of those in other parts of a once oppressive cultural society. Anna Zatonskih of Ukraine, is confident and her presence comes off like a charming European opera diva. Zatonskih, who is also drop-dead gorgeous, took a few minutes to chat with me. Ukraine and other parts of the world are full of male chess players, so it comes as a pleasant surprise that a chorus of women are now part of the U.S. chess family, and many were in the same room with me. Zatonskih, who loves the music of Madonna, began her love of chess at the tender age four, as her mother and father also played. Her father had wanted a boy – to teach him to play chess -- man was he soon to be surprised. She insisted that her father didn’t have a choice, as she still comes off with -- ‘take that daddy’ attitude. Zatonskih is of the opinion, since many of the chess players back home are boys; there is a main reason why males dominate the game. “You know people compare chess with war, and it is probably the main reason why there are more boys playing chess,” she theorized, but appreciates the progression of diversity in the chess landscape for females. “Nowadays yes, girls can play chess, but 100 years ago, no.”
Zatonskih encourages more young females to participate in the art of chess, she believes it’s about motivation, and also an opportunity to travel. She further believes that chess stimulates one’s academic capability while attending school, especially in math and the game helps you to concentrate. “Chess, also teaches you to lose in life,” said Zatonskih, “You can’t always win, and I’ve lost many games, but it also aids you in getting over many things in your life.” She recalled when she was just 15, facing a junior championship, and she lost, and it briefly became a tremendous upset in her young life. Zatonskih insisted that the defeats were positive teaching tools to figure out other strategies in an effort to beat her competitors.
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I also had a chance to rub elbows with Ray Robson of Florida, who is a Grandmaster and Silver winner in the 2009 World Team Championship, a 2009 U.S. Junior Champion and has a string of other proud accomplishments. Eric Rosen, a National Master from Chicago with few chess rewards, also well-represented a group of purely talented and clear-headed youngsters, who if they play their chess right can topple the achievements of some of the world’s greatest champions.
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Like Krush, she is an International Master; but a three-time U.S. Women’s Champion and a Gold Medalist in the 2008 Chess Olympiad. She is a winner, no doubt. I have not been monitoring the champion games, but before the games, I asked Steve Zierck of California, Tyler Hughes of Colorado and John Bryant of California – all junior players with some impressive chess achievements, if they felt that they were going to claim victory, and at best everyone was very guarded, especially as they eyed the competition in the room.
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These chess championships are now being held in the Central West End, at 4657 Maryland Ave., simultaneously and features 10 of the top female chess players in the country and 10 of the top players under the age of 21, respectively. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis and the U.S. Junior Closed Championship have made these chess rivalries possible. It’s not too late to come out and enjoy chess at its best in the hands and minds of some of the most grounded female and male youngsters in the nation. The possible tie-breaker will be as late as Tuesday, July 20 beginning at 10 a.m. with a Community Day from noon to 5 p.m. at City Museum and closing ceremonies at the AnheuserBusch Auditorium at Saint Louis University.
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THE RACONTEUR A perfect day for baseball, until ‘they’ showed up
It was a fairly quiet Tuesday evening. The children were tucked into bed. I was deeply engrossed in a television documentary about the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of a rather obscure paper company. My wife was out playing mah johngg. What is mah johngg, you may ask? Well, that’s actually something about which I have little detailed understanding but have tried to develop an understanding through bits and pieces I have picked up whenever my wife hosts these functions. From what I can gather, mah johngg is a game played by women over the age of 40. The game opens when the players converge upon a kitchen table set with an assortment of mayonnaisebased salads, hummus, pita chips and, occasionally, a variety of smoked fish. The competition then moves to a card table where a vast array of ceramic or plastic tiles are spread out along with four plastic rack-type devices and two bowls of Chex mix (generally one sweet and one savory). Each player brings a card containing the rules of the game which I have been told change every year (choke on that, Jim Joyce and Koman Coulibaly). Play continues when the players randomly pick up and put down tiles, muttering various code words like “crack,” “bam,” and “did you see those atrocious shoes Mildred wore to the silent auction?” Other forms of idle chatter fuel the competition until one or more participants falls so woefully behind that, citing lack of an ability to concentrate, they demand silence. The game ends when one woman shouts “mahj” and the other three participants respond with the types of expletives one does not expect to hear from the mouths of sophisticated ladies. Again, I’m not perfectly straight with some of these procedures as my exposure to them is limited to one trip to the Chex mix bowls per evening. But I digress. This column has nothing to do with mah johngg. As I was saying, things were quiet, the kids were snoozing and I was trying to get in a little educational television when I suddenly felt a telltale tingle in my pants. I said TINGLE – with a “G,” you juveniles! I was receiving a text message on my cellphone. The text was from my old buddy Bryson. He was given some free tickets to the next day’s Cardinal game – an afternoon contest once known in less politically correct times as a “businessman’s special.” I was cordially invited to join him. As fortune would have it, I am presently without what is commonly known as a “day job” and therefore my calendar was quite unprofitably
open. I graciously accepted the invitation. I love the Cardinals and, stuffy traditionalist that I am, I adore daytime baseball. This was going to be good. The afternoon got off to an interesting, fragrant start as we arrived downtown. Wanting to park close to the stadium but not so close as to pay an arm and a leg for the privilege, we settled for a $10 lot south of the stadium, just west of an eating and drinking establishment named for a former Cardinal reliever whose pre-pitch antics earned him a nickname that certain thin-skinned, Central European lunatics would likely find offensive.
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Bryson loaded up on peanuts, Cracker Jacks and bottled water from an outside vendor offering these goods at a significant discount to the prices inside the park. I declined, having recently eaten a healthy (as in quantity, not nutritional merit) breakfast. No more than five minutes after walking inside the stadium I was stricken by an incredible thirst. That $2 bottle of water that I could have purchased 100 feet away turned into a $6 soda. Mark that down on your scorecard as an error.
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Our seats were in the “Redbird Club” area which meant we had access to an air conditioned concourse loaded with a variety of specialty food stations. As a matter of fact, there were so many different unique food options I almost forgot I was at a ballpark. The spread was more suitable to, say, a mah jongg gathering. Our vantage point was just to the right of home plate. The weather was spectacular – upper 70’s, clear, a slight breeze and just enough shade to keep us out of the midday sun. It was, no hyperbole, a perfect day for a ball game. And then THEY showed up. “THEY” were four ladies who occupied the seats directly behind us. And while they were appropriately decked out in Cardinal red, I really had to wonder why exactly they had decided to attend the ball game. From the time they showed up some time in the second inning until the time they left some time in the eighth, these ladies DID NOT SHUT UP. Based upon the copious amounts of information flowing out of these women’s mouths with a fury that would make the BP oil spill look like drool coming out of the mouth of a gnat, one of them was somehow affiliated with
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Atogwe’s contract is really only one-year, $4.1 million deal now -Howard Balzer
When is a $32 million contract not a $32 million contract? In the case of Rams safety Oshiomogho Atogwe, it occurs when the final four years of his fiveyear deal can void after this season, and when the contract includes potential compensation of $11.5 million in 2011 if the void doesn’t occur. In essence, the contract Atogwe signed two weeks ago is a one-year, $4.1 million deal with all the money now guaranteed this year. However, there are no other known guarantees included in the contract. Broken down year-by-year, the total value of the contract is $32.1 million. That figure does not include a $500,000 bonus for making the Pro Bowl in any of the five years, but it can be earned only once. The $32.1 million total also doesn’t include up to $600,000 in yearly escalators, the triggers of which are not known. This year, Atogwe will be paid $2.1 million in guaranteed salary, and he received a roster bonus of $2 million on July 1. After this season is where things get interesting. The bottom line is that the remainder of the contract will likely void one day after the Feb. 6 Super Bowl, or he will be released later in the month before an $8 million roster bonus is due. If he were paid that roster bonus, then an additional $3.5 million in salary becomes guaranteed if he’s on the roster on the 60th day of the league year, which would be at the beginning of May. It is not known what triggers the void of the final four years of the contract; whether it is automatic or whether the Rams and/or Atogwe have the option to void. There would be no reason for Atogwe to void the deal because that would give the Rams the ability to place a franchise tag on him unless that is prohibited within the terms of the contract. From his standpoint, it would
be better to wait and see if the Rams pay him the roster bonus. If they don’t, he becomes a free agent. Were the Rams to void the deal, they could franchise him while still trying to negotiate a longer-term contract. That would be considered the prudent action from the Rams’ side, especially considering the possibility of a lockout. In any event, it appears highly unlikely that Atogwe will play for the Rams in 2011 under terms of the current contract. Atogwe spoke to that during a June 23 conference call after he agreed to terms when he was asked what the biggest eye-opener was after becoming a free agent. He said, “To me it was really the state of the league as I viewed it and viewed it from the perspective of how some of my peers were also being treated or what they were experiencing. Just the state of the league and the impending lockout that’s pretty much upon us come 2011, because I believe that shaped a lot of negotiations, a lot of interest in this 2010 free agency period. It’s real, and I believe a lot of players now who are looking to get extensions, looking to do long-term deals are actually feeling the brunt, feeling the impact of that coming. To me, if anything, that was the most eye-opening information that I received.” Asked if he was grateful that the Rams gave him a long-term deal, Atogwe said, “We were able to structure the deal in a way that it would benefit both of us.” In crediting his agent, Ken Landphere, Atogwe said that Landphere came up with “not an unusual, but a special way to get the contract done.” That “special way” obviously was the mechanism that could at best make him a free agent or finally receive a longterm deal from the Rams, or at worst be franchised again at a figure likely to be more than $6 million.
St. Louis Rams defender Oshiomogho Atogwe (21) intercepts a Brees pass.
Inside Fantasy Baseball: Picking the All-Stars for first half of season -Jeff Vernetti
In every sport when it comes time for players to be selected to the AllStar game, inevitably there are some talented pla yers who are left off the roster. It is always interesting to debate the merits of one player over another, but in the grand scheme of things it means very little. To pull everything back to fantasy sports, I compiled my mixed league All-Star team. Much like the real AllStar team, there will be some debates here, but here are just some of the players who have impacted fantasy owners all over St. Louis in a positive way. 1B – Joey Votto, Reds – Votto has been so solid and compared to his draft location, his value over expectation have been through the roof.
2B – Robinson Cano, Yankees – you could easily go with Brandon Phillips here, but my aversion to pick two Reds made me go with Cano. All kidding aside, he has been great – hitting .337 with 15 home runs and 55 RBI so far this season which are all huge numbers from a position that typically does not bring in high power numbers SS – Hanley Ramirez, Marlins – In a down year for shortstops overall, Ramirez has been the cream of the crop. He has hovered around .300 all season, has 13 home runs and 53 RBI and more importantly he has put the poor hustle issue behind him. 3B – David Wright, Mets – I really like Evan Longoria, but Wright’s numbers are just a little bit better. His power has returned after being hit in the head last year – 14 HR, 64 RBI – and much like Votto his value compared with where he was drafted is the real
plus for Wright.
OF – Josh Hamilton, Rangers – left for dead by most fantasy owners and baseball people, the tattooed Rangers slugger has been huge. Hamilton has 21 bombs, 62 RBI, and a .342 average. The key here is that Hamilton has been healthy after missing all but 85 games last season. OF – Ryan Braun, Brewers – one of the few reasons to even care about the Brewers this year has been Braun. The thing I like about Braun is that he is one of the few guys who lived up to his preseason hype. He was projected to be a big fantasy outfielder and he has been. I would like him to improve on the 11 home runs, but he has driven in 51 RBI and has hit close to .290 for most of the year. OF – Carl Crawford, Rays – there are a ton of guys to choose from
in the outfield, but I like Crawford with his combination of top end speed and RBI power. Crawford has 29 stolen bases, 49 RBI, and is hitting around .320 for most of the season. He only has eight home runs but gives you enough in all of the other categories. SP – Josh Johnson, Marlins – if you would have asked me two weeks ago I would have said Ubaldo Jimenez, but as his ERA has gone up, Johnson has remained a rock on the mound for the Marlins. He is 8-3, which is a testemate to how poor the Marlins are overall, but his ERA is 1.82 with a 0.96 WHIP and 115 strikeouts. RP – Heath Bell, Padres – Bell has been wonderful this year, racking up 23 saves and a solid 1.72 ERA. He can strike a batter out, 49 this season in 36 2/3 innings, and has allowed only seven runs all season. When Bell comes in the game is over.
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Herzog slides into the Hall of Fame
Top: Newest member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Whitey Herzog delivers his Hall of Fame induction speech in Cooperstown, New York. Bottom Left: Virgil Heimann of Germantown Illinois gets a closer look at the Whitey Herzog display. Bottom Right: Herzog (L) listens as former Montreal Expo and Chicago Cubs Andre Dawson answers a question during a press conference in Cooperstown.
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Hall of Fame weekend begins with reunion of 1982 World Series teams Doubleday Field hosted a reunion of the 1982 World Series on Friday, and a steady rain in Cooperstown proved no match for the players’ or fans’ spirits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s annual PLAY Ball event. Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith hosted PLAY Ball with fellow Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Bruce Sutter in the annual Induction Weekend event, which was moved from the Doubleday Field playing surface to the grandstand due to the inclement weather. Fans interacted with the players – listening to stories and sharing laughs at the home of baseball during the Players, Legends and You event. The event raised funds for the diversity scholarships for the Hall of Fame’s Frank. “Being the Hall of Fame’s Education Ambassador, it’s a way for us to give the fans an opportunity to come and get close to some of their heroes,” Smith said. “I try to give people the real experience of what it is to get close to the guys that they’ve admired from a distance.” Smith and Sutter teamed up on the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals to bring the Redbirds the World Championship. The Cardinals defeated Molitor’s Milwaukee Brewers in a classic sevengame series that fall. PLAY Ball is just one of several familyfriendly events at the Baseball Hall of Fame on Induction Weekend. For a list of all events, visit us online at www. baseballhall.org. Hall of Fame Weekend at the Baseball Hall of Fame features the induction of Andre Dawson, Doug Harvey and Whitey Herzog as the Class of 2010 at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 25. Admission to the Induction Ceremony is free. The 2010 Induction Ceremony will be held on the grounds of the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, unless severe weather forces the event to be canceled. Seating is unlimited.
Sunday’s induction Slugger Andre Dawson, manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey were inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in ceremonies Sunday at Cooperstown, N.Y. Dawson, the sole player elected this year to join the Hall’s 293 inductees, wore the uniform of the Montreal Expos into the shrine. Dawson, a power hitting outfielder, made it on his ninth try, earning 77.9 percent of the vote, MLB.com reported. Nicknamed “Hawk,” Dawson had 438 homers and 1,591 RBIs for the Expos, Cubs, Red Sox and Marlins in a 20-year career from 1976-1996. Herzog, 78, is best remembered as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. In his 10 years at the helm in St. Louis, he guided the team to the 1982 World Series title and National League
pennants in 1985 and 1987. Umpire Harvey, 80, attended the ceremonies despite recent ill health. He umpired 4,673 games in 31 years
in the big leagues, MLB.com said. Also Sunday, Giants announcer Jon Miller won the Ford C. Frick Award as 2010’s top broadcaster and
Bill Madden of the New York Daily News collected the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for excellence in baseball reporting.
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Greece: budget is on track Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said austerity measures in the country were on track to allow for a second allocation of international loans.
an accounting trick, another good way for the government to hide its debt,” The New York Times quoted former railway CEO John Mourmouris a saying.
Greece has made a series of austerity budget moves to qualify for debtreducing loans put together by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
The railroad is one of several stateowned businesses that has allowed Greece to keep a total of $33 billion of debt off of its own books, although it agreed to count these as debt with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund when negotiating for emergency loans, the newspaper said.
However, the IMF recently cited concerns with budgets for various programs, including healthcare and public transportation, the EUobserver reported Monday. The IMF recommends privatization of several state-owned businesses, such as the railway system, which has lost money for years.
BP sells $7 billion in assets BP, the British oil giant facing billions in damages for its Gulf of Mexico spill, said Tuesday it has agreed to sell $7 billion in assets to Apache Corp. The company said in a release on its Web site it has entered into agreements to sell upstream assets in the United States, Canada and Egypt to the Houston oil and gas producer to bolster its cash reserves. BP is under a U.S. directive to put $20 billion into a fund to finance claims arising from the gulf spill, and there have been estimates the costs could go much higher. The assets include BP’s Permian Basin assets in Texas and New Mexico, its western Canadian upstream gas assets and its Western Desert business concessions and East Badr El-din exploration concession in Egypt. “Over the last two months the board has considered BP’s options for generating the cash necessary to meet the obligations likely to arise from the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill,” BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said. “BP has an extremely strong asset base which is diversified geographically as well as by asset class. The board believes that there are opportunities to divest assets which are strategically more valuable to other parties than they are to BP. Today’s announcement is the first such transaction and meets the value and strategic criteria of both parties.”
The second funding tranche is set at about $11.6 billion. Debt-burdened Hellenic Railways in Greece has given the government a cover for billions of dollars of debt, a former chief executive officer said. The railway, $13 billion in debt, “was
A national survey found the second half of 2010 could hold some overdue promise for U.S. job seekers.
G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive officer, said the deal “provides a sustainable growth platform for Apache’s onshore North America operations as well as strategic infrastructure and exploration potential in Egypt.”
CareerBuilders said in its latest survey found 32 percent of businesses with fewer than 500 employees indicated they planned to hire new workers in the second half of the year.
The cash sales will be completed during the third quarter with a deposit of $5 billion in 10 days.
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The most recent data says Hellenic Railways lost $1 billion in 2008, while earning revenues of $253 million. The system has a reputation as being unreliable and expensive, with frequent delays, despite doling out an average salary of $78,000 per year. Even the railroad workers’ union leader Nikolaos Kioutsoukis lamented the system’s record. “It’s crazy. It’s not surprising that people prefer to go by car,” he said.
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Greece has said it would explore selling 49 percent of the railway to the French, but selling it to anyone is unlikely given its mounting losses, which come to about 5 percent of Greece’s total economic output.
Of those, 21 percent indicated they would hire full-time workers, while 11 percent indicated they would hire part-time workers. An additional 6 percent indicated they would hire temporary workers or contractors, said CareerBuilder, an online staffing agency.
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, included interviews with 1,300 employers each with less than 500 persons on their payrolls. “Historically, it has been the small business sector that has created the most jobs at the end of an economic downturn, allowing the overall job market to bounce back faster,” said Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder North America in a statement. The survey was conducted online between May 18 and June 30. The results carried a margin of error of plus or minus 2.65 percentage points.
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Big drop in housing starts; double dip possible -Patrick J. Buchanan
June was a weak month; the lowest level in eight months relative to housing starts. This is just further evidence the economy is not turning the corner and gaining momentum. Although the starts lost momentum in the second quarter there was a rise in permits that could offer some hope that homebuilding is poised to see some life. Companies that build condos and apartments are hurting; their activity plunged 19.3% in one month. According to Bloomberg the Commerce Department said housing starts dropped 5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000 units, the lowest since October. It was the second month of declines in ground keeping activity and was well below market expectations for a 580,000 unit rate. May’s starts were revised down to show a 14.9% decline, previously reported as a 10% drop. Compared to June last year, starts were down 5.8%, the biggest decline since November. The only positive sign was an unexpected 2.1% rise in applications for building permits to a 586,000 unit annual pace. That followed a 5.9% drop in May and compared to analysts expectations for a slip to 570,000 rate. According to Hugh Johnson, Chief Investment Officer at Hugh Johnson Advisors, “It’s not surprising that housing starts declined given the significant inventory of unsold homes and until that inventory of unsold homes comes down we’re not likely to see improvement in starts.” U.S. stock index futures trimmed losses after the housing data while Treasury debt prices held gains.<br /> Weak building data is the latest in a series of indicators to imply the recovery from the longest and deepest recession since the 1930’s took a step back in the second quarter, much earlier than economists had initially anticipated. They don’t believe output is contracting but acknowledge that the risks of a double-dip recession have increased. The housing market was one of the key triggers of the economic downturn and its recovery has leaned heavily on the government. Following the end of a tax credit for home buyers in April, home construction and sales have dropped sharply. Housing starts were pulled down last month by a 21.5% drop in the volatile multifamily segment to a 95,000 unit annual pace, erasing May’s 4.3% rise.<br /> Groundbreaking for single-family homes slipped .7% to an annual rate of 454,000 units, the lowest since May 2009. Home completions surged a record 26.2% to an 886,000 unit pace, the highest level since December 2008. The inventory of houses under construction dropped 5.5% to a record
low 450,000 units in June while units authorized but not yet started rose 3.6% to 91,500. Staggering drop in new housing starts…don’t doubt the double dip.
An Option Thought this article from economist Jeff Nielsen was an interesting perspective . . . “The Second Bubble Bursts.” Let me know your thoughts! Every once in a while, you stumble across an idea that is simply a perfect fit with a particular scenario. This was what occurred to me this morning, after reading through a fascinating historical account of the U.S. housing market – going all the way back to preConfederation. During the course of that discussion, the author, Martin Armstrong also referred to even earlier crises in other housing markets – including the property “bubble” experienced by Ancient Rome. It was here that I came across a 2,000 year old solution which, to the best of my knowledge has not been suggested by anyone, since the current collapse in the U.S. housing market began. Faced with his own foreclosurenightmare, Julius Caesar came up with a decisive and practical means to cure the solvency crisis which was at the heart of that real estate meltdown. Caesar decreed, according to Armstrong, that all mortgage interest would be canceled. Thus, all mortgage payments would be credited 100 percent to principal. Not only did this decree have the effect of essentially making all propertyowners solvent again, but with 100 percent of payments credited to principal, it also meant that (with the
exception of extremely “underwater” mortgages) property-owners would immediately begin building up equity in their properties again. What makes this such an interesting solution for the U.S. housing market is that if we believe the information being provided to us by the U.S. government and Wall Street banks, this “fix” is much more suitable for today’s U.S. housing market than it was for the Roman market of 2,000 years ago. Here’s why. While Caesar’s solution may (at first glance) seem like a win/ win proposition, there is one obvious loser: the bankers who financed these mortgages. The problem for Ancient Rome’s economy was that in times of a real estate meltdown, in virtually any scenario, these real estate meltdowns decimate both the assets and income of the banks, as well. This is why Caesar’s solution is such a perfect idea for the U.S. housing market. Unlike virtually every other real estate meltdown in history, both the U.S. government and Wall Street are telling us that U.S. big-banks are making “record profits”. This means that they can easily afford to take the “hits” to their bottom-lines that would accompany writing off all interest on their mortgages. The second reason why Caesar’s solution is perfect for the U.S. housing market is that (thanks to taxpayer subsidies), these same U.S. big-banks are borrowing all of their own money at zero percent interest. Clearly, if Wall Street banks are raking-in “record profits” due in large part to the endless supply of free money from the U.S. government (and taxpayers), while U.S. homeowners are being thrown out into the street, with their homes confiscated, that these same homeowners are equally entitled (if
not much more entitled) to their own zero percent interest loans. The reward for this policy (which would benefit all homeowners) is that far fewer homeowners would be pushed into foreclosure, and because the vast majority would all be buildingup equity again, there would not be the huge incentive for homeowners to walk-away from their mortgages. This combined effect would nearly end the continued build-up of housing inventories (see “More Nonsense in U.S. Housing Numbers”). The obvious fairness and inherent symmetry of allowing U.S. homeowners the same zero percent free-ride on their loans that Wall Street banks have capitalized upon for the last 18 months would seem to eliminate any possible objection to this plan…unless the financial health of the U.S. financial sector is not what Wall Street, the U.S. government, and the media talkingheads claim it to be. I would encourage every American with a mortgage to contact their Congressman, and demand equal treatment with Wall Street: their own zero percent mortgages. Clearly, after Wall Street has received its $10 trillion in hand-outs/loans/guarantees, it is time that the American people received their bail-out – as opposed to the makebelieve housing-fixes which the U.S. government has engaged in to date. There could be no possible objection to this proposal from either the Obama regime, or the opposition Republicans – assuming they still have some slight, sentimental attachment to the notion that they work for the American people. I eagerly look forward to feedback from my American readers as to how their Congressmen responded to this perfect solution.
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Lost perfect day affiliated with a local law firm whose name just so happens to grace the side of an office building directly across Broadway from the ballpark, one of them was employed by a formerlylocally-based securities firm that has undergone a couple of major ownership changes over the past few years and two of them were unable to get a word in edgewise. The securities firm lady, who had apparently once worked for a formerly-locally-based bank that underwent a couple of major ownership changes during the late 90s, was distressingly conflicted about her present employment situation. It seems that, while she has never been paid better in her career, she finds the work atmosphere to be unpleasant, disorganized and not concerned with customer service or the St. Louis community. Mind you, I’m paraphrasing – liberally. The Globe, after all, can consume only so much bandwidth. The law firm lady seems to be happy with her job because she spent most of her time yammering on and on and on about handbags, jewelry and shoes. There was some debate within the
group regarding the merits of certain items, but there was most certainly a consensus that lunch at the Neiman Marcus Zodiac Room is a good thing. At several points during the game I turned around to make sure that a round of mah johngg was not about to break out. Meanwhile, despite the lack of recognition by the patrons behind us, there was a baseball game going on in front of us. Unfortunately, the subpar pitching of Jeff Suppan put the Cardinals in a hole out of which pinch hitter Aaron Miles was unable to dig in the bottom of the ninth with the tying run at first base. Suppan and Miles were both integral parts of the Redbirds’ World Series championship team of 2006, but like many things from 2006 such as milk and Lehman Brothers stock, they’re simply not good anymore.
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And so a perfect day at the (not so) old ballyard was marred somewhat by the action in front of us and behind us. Still in all, a less than perfect day at a Major League ball game is still a day at a Major League ball game and who can complain too much about that?
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nim core St. Louis Metropolitan Police said two people were injured Monday, including a bank employee, after a morning shooting. Investigators said the shooting happened at 11th and Cole Streets in downtown St. Louis around 10:20 a.m. Monday. A 16-year-old male was shot multiple times. A stray bullet from the shooting reportedly entered a nearby U.S. bank injuring one employee.
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The 16-year-old male was shot multiple times by two black male suspects. He was taken to an area hospital and listed in stable condition. One stray bullet from that incident entered the U.S. Bank nearby. Victim #2, a bank employee, was hit on the nose by a bullet fragment. She was treated at the scene but did not have to be transported to a hospital.
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Police said at least one of the suspects knew the 16-year-old who was shot. No word on any arrests at this time.
Investigators gave the following account of the incident:
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McCaskill and Bond ask for declaration Following massive storm systems that caused severe flooding, high winds, hail and tornadoes throughout the state in June of 2010, U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Kit Bond joined together to ask the president to grant Governor Jay Nixon’s request to declare 41 counties in Missouri and the city of St. Louis a federal disaster area. In order to access the resources the federal government provides for recovery from natural disasters to help businesses and families get back on their feet, the area must be declared a federal disaster area. “In addition to the deaths and injuries, these systems created significant problems with damages to roads, bridges, critical utilities and debris removal,” the senators wrote. The continued “It is our hope that you will grant Governor Nixon’s request promptly, to help state and local governments recover from this disaster.” Affected counties include Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clark, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Knox, Lafayette, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, Marion, Mercer, Miller, Monroe, Nodaway, Pike, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, St. Louis, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, Sullivan, and Worth Counties and the city of St. Louis.
Washington, DC 20005 Dear President Obama: On July 27, 2010, Governor Jay Nixon requested a disaster declaration for the State of Missouri as a result of the storm systems that began moving through Missouri on June 12, 2010 and are continuing. These storm systems have generated flooding, flash flooding, high winds, hail and tornadoes throughout the state. These storm systems resulted in two deaths and several storm-related injuries. Utility companies and cooperatives across the area reported more than 19,700 customers without power, some for longer than five days. In addition to the deaths and injuries, these systems created significant problems with damages to roads, bridges, critical utilities and debris removal. The Governor has requested 41 counties in the disaster request. The amount of damage caused by these storm systems is significant throughout the affected area. As a result, Governor Nixon has determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that an effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and is requesting Individual and Household Program, Public Assistance and Hazard Mitigation.
The Honorable Barack Obama
It is our hope that you will grant Governor Nixon’s request promptly, to help state and local governments recover from this disaster. Along with our fellow Missourians, we eagerly await your decision on this request for assistance.
President
Sincerely,
The White House
Claire McCaskill Christopher S. Bond
The full text of the letter is below.
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Blunt, Carnahan win Missouri primary races U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt won the GOP Senate primary and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan won the Democratic primary Tuesday, election returns show. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Blunt easily led a field of nine Republican candidates, pulling 71 percent of the vote, returns posted Tuesday on the Missouri secretary of state’s Web site indicated. Carnahan had 83.7 percent of the vote against two other candidates for the Democratic nomination.
Blunt and Carnahan will meet in November to determine a successor to retiring Republican Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond. Proposition C, a ballot question asking whether Missouri should reject the new U.S. healthcare reform law, was passing by 71.5 percent to 28.5 percent, with 98 percent of precincts reporting. Legal experts said the question of whether Missourians can opt out of the federal health insurance mandate would be settled in court.
Missouri’s back-to-school sales tax holiday begins Friday Missouri’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday begins Friday, Aug. 6, and runs through Sunday, Aug. 8.
supplies not exceeding a total of $50 per purchase, and computers and computer accessories less than $3,500.
People making qualified purchases will not have to pay the state’s 4.225 percent sales tax. City, county and other special district sales taxes will also be waived if those entities are participating in the holiday.
Detailed information about the holiday can be accessed at http://dor.mo.gov/ business/sales/taxholiday/school/. A 3-minute video about the holiday featuring the director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, Alana M. Barragán-Scott, can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ mogov1
In general, qualified items include clothing less than $100, school
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MoDOT contines work on south county highways detours contine to block traffic for bridge work
I-55 at Route M opens quickly MoDOT announced Sunday that the demolition of the old southbound Interstate 55 bridge over Route M and Glaize Creek was completed ahead of schedule. Route M was closed Friday and was not expected to reopen until early Monday morning. The new bridge construction will require traffic shifts on I-55 between Route M and Route Z to remain in
place until the fall of 2010. Southbound I-55 traffic will be detoured to the new northbound bridge during the bridge demolition. Northbound I-55 lanes will remain in the current alignment, shifted to the right. In the end, the project will widen I-55 by adding one lane between Route M and Route Z, a new I-55 bridge over Route M, two guard rails and straightening of the Interstate 55 southbound exit to Route M.
Dorsett Road at I-270 reopens Dorsett Road at Interstate 270 reopened at 11 a.m. Sunday morning. All traffic on Dorsett has been redirected to the south side of the interchange. Traffic delays on Dorsett Road are expected during the work week since there will not be dedicated right turn lanes on the interstate from Dorsett. The auxiliary lane, or exit only lane on northbound I-270 between Olive Boulevard and Page Avenue remains
closed for the rest of the week. Currently, the far right lane of northbound I-270 is closed and is expected to reopen by 8 p.m. Sunday evening. We also expect traffic delays on northbound I-270 between Olive and Page during the morning and evening commute. Please consider using alternate routes, including I-64, I-70 and Route 370 for travel to St. Charles County.
I-55 ramp at Union Road closes The Missouri Department of Transportation will close the northbound Interstate 55 entrance ramp from Union Road starting at 9 a.m. Monday, July 12, weather permitting. The ramp closure will continue until the end of September. The ramp closure is needed for the construction of the new Union Road bridge. Motorists are advised to use the northbound I-55 entrance ramp at Reavis Barracks Road
as a detour. The far left lane on both northbound and southbound Interstate 55 at Union Road will remain closed until mid-July for construction of the new bridge support beams in the median of Interstate 55. More information about this project can be found at http://www. modot.org/stlouis/major_projects/ I55improvementproject.htm
South county building demolished for business -By Lisa Watson
Crews were demolishing a building at South Broadway Street and Ripa Avenue in South County on Friday. Diamond H Inc. is performing the demolition. Company president Mike McNeaerney said the building would be down by the end of the day. Cleanup is expected to take three to four days, he said. The scheduled demolition of the building was postponed Thursday, but the St. Louis County Economic Council met on the site to celebrate planned development there. “We’re going to tear this building down; it really was detrimental to the neighborhood,” said Sheila Sweeney, chairperson of the St. Louis County Port Authority and of the St. Louis County Economic Council. “We’re going to tear it down so we can build up.”
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The St. Louis County Port Authority owns the land and expects to use most of the $4 million in rent from the recently opened River City Casino to help develop the area. Three quarters of the funds will stay in the Lemay community, and the remaining 25 percent will be invested in projects countywide. “As we work on this corridor, it really is becoming the entrance,” Sweeney said. The land, located on a busy stretch of South Broadway, is a good commercial property, Sweeney said. The plans for what might go there are still in development. “So many people talked about this for years and thought it would never happen,” said St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. “It’s good for citizens and it’s good for businesses,” Dooley said.
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BBB removes accreditation of local contracting business On June 15, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has revoked the accreditation of Premier Contracting and Development in St. Louis County, for violations of the BBB Accreditation Agreement. Premier Contracting and Development, 17241 New College Ave., Grover, was notified on numerous occasions between Jan. 4, 2010, and April 27, 2010, regarding a customer complaint. The firm failed to respond to the complaint. BBB Accredited Businesses are required
to respond to customer complaints, to make a good faith effort to resolve complaints, and to honor arbitration decisions. Failure to do so is considered prejudicial to the best interests of the BBB and private enterprise. According to the BBB and its Board of Directors, BBB Standards of Accreditation are designed to offer consumers confidence before they make purchasing decisions.
Basketball coach charged with statutory rape, sodomy The Chesterfield Police Department announced Wednesday that warrants were issued charging a local basketball coach with statutory rape and statutory sodomy. Investigators said Brent Michael Woody, 26, of Creve Coeur, was arrested following an investigation into reports of alleged sexual misconduct by Woody involving two female juveniles. Woody was charged with 11 counts of second degree statutory rape and four counts of second degree statutory sodomy. He’s being held on a $50,000 cash bond. Police said Woody, who was not a teacher, was employed as a high school basketball coach by a local school district; however the alleged incidents which occurred in 2009, occurred off-site and did not involve school district property.
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The Parkway School District released the following statement regarding the former coach at Central High School: We have been notified by the Chesterfield Police Department that a former athletic coach at Parkway Central High School may have been involved in inappropriate sexual activity with one or more of our students. We are deeply concerned and are cooperating fully with the investigation. During the 2008-09 and 2009-10 school years, the individual served as the ninth grade girls basketball coach and as an assistant track coach at Central High. He did not have a teaching contract with Parkway, but occasionally served as a substitute teacher. Before being hired in the fall of 2008, a federal police background check was completed revealing no previous instances of misconduct. Another federal background check was completed in October 2009 with the same results. He did not seek employment in Parkway for the 2010-11 school year.
MoDOT announces lane closures on I-270 ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Department of Transportation and its contractor Fred Weber Inc. will close the auxiliary, or exit only lane on northbound Interstate 270 between Olive Boulevard and Page Avenue/Route 364 starting on Friday, July 23, weather permitting.
“We ask that motorists pay attention, and slow down in the work zone,” said Lee Hillner, I-270 and Dorsett/ Page Project Director. “We will monitor the expected traffic impacts during rush hours on northbound I-270 during this work.
Crews will close the auxiliary lane at 7 p.m. The auxiliary lane will remain closed for 10 days.
“We urge motorists to consider using I-64/Route 40 or I-70 for westbound commuters making their way to St. Charles County.”
After the first 10 days of construction, crews will work behind concrete barrier wall. This work consists of constructing a second auxiliary lane for the new dual lane circular ramp from northbound I-270 to westbound Page Avenue/ Route 364. The new auxiliary lane is expected to take several months to complete.
More information about the I-270 and Dorsett/Page project can be found http://www.270dorsettpage.com Motorists may experience delays during this work and are encouraged to use alternate routes. For ways to avoid work zones, call 1-888-ASK-MODOT or visit thier website at http://www. modot.org.
Flags to half-staff to honor fallen Ballwin soldier Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has ordered that the U.S. and Missouri flags at state buildings in all 114 counties and the city of St. Louis be flown at half-staff on July 26 to honor the bravery and sacrifice of Sgt. Zachary M. Fisher. Sgt. Fisher, 24, of Ballwin, was a soldier in the United States Army who died on July 14 while serving in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. Services for Sgt. Fisher will be held on Monday, July 26. Sgt. Fisher was assigned to the 618th Engineer Company (Airborne), 27th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne), 20th Engineer Brigade (Combat), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart,
Army Commendation Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal (two awards), Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Bronze Service Star, Iraq Campaign Medal with Bronze Service Star, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, Combat Action Badge, Basic Parachutist Badge, Driver and Mechanic Badge, and Expert Rifleman Badge. In addition, Gov. Nixon has ordered that the U.S. and Missouri flags on all state buildings in St. Louis County be flown at half-staff from July 27 to August 1.
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North County were willing to “get their hands dirty and make something their own.” Membership costs $80, and will include equity in the store, as well as discounts on various items, and a vote on topics including what products will be sold and the makeup of the board of directors. Memberships are available by visiting the co-op, or online at its website: www.oldnorthgrocery. com. The Old North Grocery Co-op has been supported by the Missouri Foundation for Health, University of Missouri Extension, City of St. Louis, Greater St. Louis Regional Empowerment Zone, Missouri Department of Agriculture, and many more partners. It is located at 2718 N. 13th Street, one block from Crown Candy Kitchen. It will be open six days per week.
Grocery co-op ribbon cutting -By Lisa Watson
Old North St. Louis will celebrate the opening of the neighborhood’s first grocery co-operative Saturday afternoon. The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Old North Grocery Co-op, which has been in the works for years, will take place at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The store will provide access to healthy, locally grown food, as well as other food products and household items that are not made in the neighborhood. The store is modeled on a plan that will allow residents to buy a membership, which will give them a say in how the store is run. However, the store is open to everyone, regardless of membership status. “We expect this to be a key component in helping to revitalize the Old North St. Louis neighborhood,” said Sean Thomas, executive director of the Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, which spearheaded the project. “It will
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help make the neighborhood more walkable and sustainable. It will also make it easier for residents to improve their diet and have a healthier balance to their diet.” Thomas said access to healthy food will be a boon to the neighborhood. Previously, the nearest grocery store was two miles away from the co-op, and 41 percent of residents don’t have access to a car. The Restoration Group planned the store through a series of public meetings, which allowed residents to voice their opinions on what kind of amenities the neighborhood should have, Thomas said.
In St. Louis city and county, more than 60,000 low-income households are more than a mile from the nearest grocery store, according to the USDA’s Food Environment Atlas. In addition, nearly 10,000 households that are more than a mile from the store have no access to a car, according to the USDA. “In an urban area, if you don’t have a car, traveling more than a mile is especially challenging,” said Cheryl Kelly, an assistant professor of public health at Saint Louis University. It might mean walking to a bus stop, waiting a significant amount of time for transportation and only being able to purchase what you’re able to carry home. Neighborhoods where many residents have limited access to food are known nationally as “food deserts.”
“This is the type of thing they want to see in the neighborhood,” he said.
When that’s the case, people are more likely to choose whatever is most convenient, which often means fast food.
He added that the co-op ideal for the Old North neighborhood, which “independent streak,” so
“Food desert neighborhoods often have a plethora of fast food restaurants,” Kelly said. “Unhealthy food is often cheap and readily available.”
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These neighborhoods also rely on small convenience stores, which don’t always carry fruits and vegetables that are important to a healthy diet, according to a USDA report to Congress. When those foods are available, they are often at higher prices, the report says. As a result, those neighborhoods often have higher rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, Kelly said. Kelly was hesitant to name specific areas of St. Louis with this problem, but said they include parts of the city, especially the northern areas along the river, and into some parts of North County. Part of the problem in downtown was abated when Schnucks Markets opened a store there last August, called Culinaria. The store is located at 915 N. 9th Street. The Old North St. Louis Restoration Group is working in its neighborhood to address the problem of food deserts. The group is in the process of opening a grocery co-op for the area, where 41 percent of the residents don’t have access to a car, said Executive Director Sean Thomas. Culinaria, about two miles away from where the co-op is set to open, is currently the nearest grocery store, Thomas said. But two miles is a long distance to travel without a car, he said. Residents will not have to be members to shop at the co-op, but membership provides the opportunity to have a say in the store’s hours, board and the products carried. Kelly said this co-op is a great grassroots solution to the problems “food desert” neighborhoods face. “It’s a solution that is coming from the community,” Kelly said. Thomas said the plan is to have the coop open by the end of June.
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Grizzlies first baseman heading to All-Star game -By Lisa Watson
SAUGET, IL. - Gateway Grizzlies first baseman Logan Parker has rediscovered his love for the game of baseball.
Quinn reduces staff salaries to cut budget Friday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn directed his Budget Office to issue an administrative order to cut the state budget by reducing the salaries of his staff, state managers and policymakers.
It took an outright release from the Cincinnati Reds organization to trigger the change - but Parker is now having the time of his life. “I’d forgotten how fun it is just to be playing the game,” he said.
Administrative Order requires the Governor’s staff and the state’s merit compensation employees – largely managers and policy staff – to take 24 unpaid days off.
The 25-year-old has been selected to perform for the West Division squad in the Frontier League All-Star game on Wednesday in Marion, Ill, home of the division-leading Southern Illinois Miners.
Last year, Governor Quinn took 12 days without pay and required his staff and merit compensation employees to do the same. This year, Governor Quinn and his staff will take 24 unpaid days off.
Parker carried a .299 average into Sunday’s final regular-season contest before the All-Star break. He has three home runs and 31 RBI from the No. 5 spot in the batting order and has played an integral role in the Grizzlies’ current season-high five-game winning streak that puts them at 26-22. Most importantly, he is free of the pressure that goes with being part of a major league organization. In April, Parker began his fifth season with the Reds and his second as a member of the team’s Class AA squad in Zebulon, North Carolina. But he managed just two hits in his first 20 atbats. That spelled the end. The Cincinnati hierarchy decided to go with youth and sent Parker packing. In less than a month, he decided to take one final long-range shot at the big leagues. So he signed on with Grizzlies in hopes that a new atmosphere would help his game. The plan seems to have worked. “There’s no pressure here, you don’t have to worry about who might be
Gateway Grizzlies first baseman Logan Parker taking your job or who’s behind you in the organization,” he said. “It’s just get out there, play, and have fun like it should be.” The Grizzlies are having plenty of fun with Parker in the lineup. The 6-foot4-inch 215-pounder is a key member of a hard-hitting lineup that features catcher Charlie Lisk and outfielders Brandon Peters and Jason Patton. Gateway sports a league-high 65 home runs and is second in the 12-team loop with 299 runs scored. “He’s just a professional hitter,” Gateway manager Phil Warren said of Parker. “That’s the best way I can put it. He shows up every day, takes good cuts up there, and never wastes an atbat.” Parker was selected by Cincinnati in the 12th round of the 2006 Amateur Draft (354th pick overall) following two standout years at the University of Cincinnati. His RBI total of 69 in 2006 still remains the fourth-highest oneseason total in Bearcats history. A native of Odessa, Texas, Parker put in three solid seasons for the Reds at the Class A levels in Billings, Dayton and Sarasota. He was promoted to the AA Carolina Mudcats last year and slammed six home runs with 48 RBI. Parker performed well at spring
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But the slow start led to his release on April 18. Parker has 412 at-bats in Class AA something very few Frontier League players can claim. He also knows that his age - he’s a week short of his 26th birthday - might make this his last chance at a second chance. Parker attended Permian High in Odessa, the famed football school that spawned the book, movie and television series, “Friday Night Lights”. He attended New Mexico Junior College before transferring to Cincinnati. When his baseball career ends, Parker hopes to go into coaching. In the offseason, he helps out at a baseball clinic near Cincinnati and enjoys working with children. But for now, he plans on finishing out the second half of the Frontier League campaign. He will then evaluate his situation sometime early next year. “Can’t worry about it, whatever happens, happens,” he said. “Right now, I just want to keep playing and do the best I possibly can.”
“Today’s Administrative Order is the first directive under the Emergency Budget Act of Fiscal Year 2011 aimed at further cutting state spending,” said Governor Quinn. Today’s Administrative Order #1 is an across-the-board salary reduction that will result in a 9.2 percent salary cut for the Governor’s staff and state managers and policymakers. “Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures,” said Governor Quinn. Governor Quinn also called American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees – the state’s largest collective bargaining unit – back to the bargaining table to negotiate additional unpaid days off in fiscal year 2011. On July 1, Quinn reduced the fiscal year 2011 budget by $1.4 billion, while preserving core services of education, health care and public safety. Governor Quinn has also reduced general funds’ appropriations by nearly $3 billion since taking office in January 2009. His Office’s budget has been reduced by more than 35 percent since January 2009, the largest cut to the office in state history.
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Obama: ‘Moving forward’ without GOP help
U.S Senate confirms Kagan 63-37 WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate Thursday confirmed Elena Kagan as the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The Senate voted 63-37 in favor of the nomination, making Kagan, 50, the third woman sitting on the current court and the fourth woman ever confirmed to the nation’s highest bench. Republicans had objected to Kagan’s lack of judicial experience and expressed fears that because of her political background would be an activist judge. Supporters, however, described Kagan as a brilliant lawyer. She replaces Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired at the end of the last term and she is the second justice President Barack Obama has named to the court. “Through most of my professional life, I’ve had the simple joy of teaching, of trying to communicate to students why I so loved the law: not just because it’s challenging and endlessly interesting, although it certainly is that, but
because law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy,” Kagan said as Obama nominated her earlier this year. Kagan’s Harvard resume says her particular areas of interest are constitutional and administrative law. She held the Charles Hamilton Houston professorship at Harvard and also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where she played Chicago-style 16-inch softball, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. During the Clinton administration, she was associate White House counsel. Kagan was born in New York April 28, 1960, the second of three children, to Gloria Gittelman Kagan and Robert Kagan, Wikipedia reports. She graduated summa cum laude in 1981 from Princeton, earning the Daniel M. Sachs Memorial Scholarship along the way as well as an M.Phil degree from Oxford University in 1983. Her law degree came in 1986 from Harvard where she served as supervisory editor of the Harvard Law Review.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday the U.S. economy is “moving forward largely without the help” of Republicans.
choice.” Republicans have driven the car into the ditch, while Democrats are getting into the mud to push it out, he said. “When you want to go forward, you put it in D.”
The president’s remarks about jobs and the U.S. economy came after the AFL-CIO Executive Council Meeting in Washington.
Obama also referred to developments in the Gulf of Mexico where the spill from a damaged BP offshore well spewed oil for nearly three months.
“We’re moving forward largely without the help of the opposition party,” Obama said, adding that congressional Republicans are now blocking an emergency measure to save teacher, police officer and firefighter jobs, and have said no to high speed rail and small business tax cuts.
The process of putting mud into the well had stabilized pressure from the oil, meaning the leak has at least temporarily been defeated. “The long battle to stop the leak ... is close to coming to an end,” Obama said, but the government remains committed as long as the recovery takes.
On the decline of manufacturing, Obama touted a revived private sector of clean, green jobs in a new economy. “At the heart of it are three powerful words: Made in America,” he said.
In the afternoon, Obama was scheduled to present the 2010 Citizens Medal to 13 winners from across the country at the White House. The Presidential Citizens Medal recognizes Americans who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens” and is among the highest honors a president can bestow.
“We are not giving up, we’re not giving in” on the economic fight for the middle class, he said, adding his administration is working on an economy for everyone, “not just a privileged few.” The president said he knew union members are frustrated with the speed of change. Obama told union leaders, “You have to remind them that in the next three months, this election is a
Prosecutors target Madoff secretary Prosecutors in New York are seeking to lay claim to more than $5 million in assets owned by former Bernard Madoff employee Annette Bongiorno, court papers show. Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence for operating a decadeslong Ponzi scheme that lost billions of dollars of his investors’ money.
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Obama also will receive the daily briefings, lunch with senators and meet privately with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky before departing for Chicago where he will celebrate his 49th birthday with friends, the White House said.
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Palstinians: Israel must halt construction A Palestinian spokesman said direct peace talks won’t resume until Israel halts construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories. Nabil Abu Rudeineh said President Mahmoud Abbas’s hesitancy to return to direct peace talks was not based on negotiations, but rather his commitment to guidelines set by the Arab League, the the Maan news agency reported.
media, Abbas has said that only after the Palestinian Authority receives guarantees from Israel of a construction freeze on settlements, and agrees the borders of the future Palestinian state will be based on lines set in June 1967 will he engage in direct talks. Rudeineh told the news agency the Palestinians have yet to receive a response to a letter sent by the Arab League to U.S.
Last week in Cairo, the Arab league gave Abbas the green light to enter direct talks with Israel when he deems the time is right.
Direct negotiations with Israel will not resume until the Palestinians receive all the necessary assurances, Rudeineh said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said he is ready to engage in direct talks with the Palestinians immediately, and without any preconditions.
The Jerusalem Post said Saudi Arabia is urging Abbas to enter direct talks with Israel by offering financial assistance. The newspaper said this was the reason for a meeting between Abbas and Saudi King Abdallah in Riyadh Wednesday.
Petraeus issues new Pentagon demands WikiLeaks battlefield directive return files In numerous interviews in the Arab
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 5 (UPI) -The new U.S. commander of troops in Afghanistan has issued a directive that they should defend themselves, but also should safeguard Afghan civilian lives. The directive is the first by the new U.S. commander of Western forces in Afghanistan, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Some had complained his predecessor, Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, recently fired by President Obama, had issued battlefield rules that tied the hands of troops involved in conflicts for fear of injuring civilians. Civilian casualties are a painful point between North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces and Afghan
President Hamid Karzai, the paper reported.
Unidentified U.S. military officials said the directive includes “refinements” to previous rules of engagement on the use of artillery fire and aerial bombardment, the paper said. “We believe the most pertinent issue in play is uneven application of the [previous] tactical directive,” said Lt. Col. John Dorrian, the operations spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. He said the new directive is “intended to ensure that everyone is on the same page.” In an unclassified portion of the directive from the U.S. government , Petraeus said each Afghan civilian death hurts “our cause,” the paper reported.
The Pentagon said Thursday WikiLeaks must return the classified documents it is still reviewing and delete the thousands of war documents it posted on the Web. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday that WikiLeaks’ actions amount to a “brazen solicitation to U.S. government officials to break the law” and said the “only acceptable course” is for the site to turn over the estimated 15,000 documents it says it is still reviewing and to pull down the estimated 92,000 secret documents posted on the Internet July 25, The Hill reported. “We are making a demand of them. We are asking them to do the right thing,” Morrell said.
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