Friday, October 18, 2013

He can make compromises.And he is a Chicago South Sider

 So what does that sound like? It's a kind of hypothesizing.So what does EP-1 sound like,if you had to put it into words? I know that's difficult—to put sounds into words,which is why most music writing is so bad.Thompson: Hmm. Well,I think that when we were in space ... you gain a lot of perspective. You gain that big blue marble perspective. And other celestial bodies. Sort of the awesomeness of the universe. It's a very different perspective than like being in the atmosphere of a celestial body. When you're outside of the earth,and you're somewhere else,what can I say? There's no smog. There's no sound. It's a big spacious place. And it's … the blackness is so black.vera bradley diaper bag And the white is so white.
 They're obviously foreordained to be reactionary if Romney wins. If Obama wins,there's at least a sporting chance on certain issues that middle-class and working-class people won't get screwed.And why does that chance exist? Well,partly because some rich benefactors are liberal and have some liberal interests,like on environment. But mostly it's unions. I have my criticisms of public-employee unions,which I've made,but it's a fact that their election spending,meager as it is in comparison to corporate money,is the main force that pushes Democrats to pursue progressive economic outcomes (to the extent that they do) once they're in office.We have to change this system someday.
 He can make compromises.And he is a Chicago South Sider,which is also where I come from. In that ethnic polyglot of Irish,Slavs,Armenians,Jews and Blacks—I grew up not far from Michelle Obama's home—if someone insulted your Mama or your Mother Religion,you picked up a brick and returned it to the sender of the insult. And then you talked about it later. He's an adopted South Sider (the Obama home on Greenleaf was the original home of the South Side Jewish Day School founded by my parents,where my brother Steve was the first student),but he's learned its lessons. Peace won't work without security and,yes,respect coming from both sides.Israel needs someone like Obama: a tough,very smart guy who presents really well and who understands us—our brilliance and our traumas and meshugaas.
 ?There simply is not enough city there to finance the payments they are obligated to pay. ?Why pensioners and not bondholders? ?Well,the bondholders may take a hit too. ?But the bondholders don't absorb nearly as much money as payrolls and retiree benefits. ?And the tragic fact of urban bankruptcy is that the workers rarely have as much negotiating power as the creditors. ?Cities in parlous financial condition often need creditors to keep going. ?But often they'd prefer fewer workers. ?Too,the cities in which workers have a lot of bargaining power are almost never the cities that go bankrupt. ?Which is to say that if your city has a job market so strong that you need to really worry that workers angry about compensation cuts will quit en masse and go to work elsewhere .
 The emphasis on Romney’s notions on how to fix Medicare,close the deficit,alter the tax code,and create jobs made it seem that he now offered a more meaningful prospect for change and therefore provided the nation with more hope. Mitt Romney and President Obama speak during the presidential debate at the University of Denver on Oct. 3. (Getty Images (2)) Obama and his handlers obviously calculated that playing that blame game on the same stage with the genial and self-assured Romney would make the president look self-pitying and impotent,like a whiner rather than winner. 3. While polls say that Obama holds a huge advantage over his wealthy adversary when it comes to "relatability" and understanding the concerns of ordinary Americans,in this first debate Romney (of all people!) played the compassion card more effectively.
The application to President Obama will be joined by a partnership between Amnesty International and the Bradley Manning Support Network on whitehouse.gov to commute his sentence to time served.Obama said in April 2011,"We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. [Manning] broke the law." Manning's defense team characterized Obama's comments as unlawful command influence. They also sought and were denied the opportunity to depose the president.Manning is expected to serve his sentence at Fort Leavenworth,where he has been in pretrial vera bradley wallet confinement since April 2011.Prior to that,Manning was held in pretrial confinement at Marine Corp Base Quantico Brig for nine months.
 As co-chair of the commission that investigated the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,he was abused by House Republicans when he testified on the need for better regulation of offshore drilling. "The level of vitriol was such that I was surprised," Reilly said.The public might not be. Environmental concerns are not the reason Romney is trailing in the polls,but they're not helping. A recent The Economist/YouGov poll found that on this issue,independent voters trust President Barack Obama over his challenger by a whopping margin of 49 percent to 19 percent.Republicans once performed the valuable task of insisting that alleged environmental harms be proved,not merely assumed,and that solutions be market-friendly,carefully tailored and cost-effective.
 Come to think of it,that would make Nares our modern Uccello,about which I can hardly complain.Madbeth: Alan Cumming Plays Almost Every Role in "Macbeth" ? The madman stands in the psychiatric ward,wild-eyed and streaked with blood,his throat raked with deep scratches. As security cameras surveil him from glistening tile walls and an observation window peers down on him from on high,a doctor and orderly tend the patient,carefully removing his street clothes and dressing him in hospital garb,scraping samples from beneath his fingernails,gathering his belongings in brown paper bags,and leading him to a simple cot. There he lies in fetal position,reeling from thoughts of the atrocities he has committed,which spool endlessly in his mind.
 This is an eminently reasonable plan,and sources tell me that Abbas reacted positively to it. It is reasonable,because it would guarantee the Palestinians that they will not be stuck forever in a new status quo that would be a lot better than their present situation,but unacceptable as a final outcome of the process. At the same time,the plan allows for Israel to maintain security control over vital areas until the volatile situation both within Palestinian society and the surrounding state stabilizes. The question is whether Netanyahu’s next government will be willing and able to do anything of the sort. Assuming that the government will be based on Lapid’s Yesh Atid,Livni’s Hatnu’ah and Mofaz’s Kadima party together Naftali Bennett’s national-religious Habayit Hayehudi party,such movement is unlikely to occur.
 His choices and actions that day continue to take from my life today."After she had mailed the letter,Jessica made popcorn for her kids. It was just the kind of memory she would love to have of the father she cannot remember even when staring at a photo through the tears of lifelong yearning."The little things," she said.Visitors to the Sistine Chapel get a Spiritual Cleaning When Michelangelo started painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling in 1508,he knew well the chapel's importance as the seat of papal conclaves,but he likely never envisioned that 5 million tourists would come to see it every year. Soon those millions of visitors will have to pass through a chilly vacuum tunnel,effectively dusting them off and cooling them down to stop their dandruff,saliva,and sweat from destroying the masterpiece.
 How will they decide what to let go? What will be the appeal process? And where do those who are disappointed go and live?Some of the no-go decisions will depend on a review of the existing storm water infrastructure and an assessment of what improvements can be made to that infrastructure or individual home sites. For the storm water professionals,the Sandy events will present both opportunities to get improvements funded,and opportunities to get public support for new approaches to storm water management. http://verabradleystores11017.blogspot.com/ When will these assessments get under way and how long will they take to make? If new or additional infrastructure will make a difference,who will pay for it and how long will it take to put it in place? Is home rebuilding allowed before the storm protections have been added?Some of the assessments will circle around carefully the issue of pre-storm code compliance.