Today: The saga of the self-healing Jeep. Last August our daughter had an unfortunate incident that resulted in the heavy plastic back corner of my Jeep being dented in pretty significantly. We chose not to fix it because A) Jeep and B) 2003. Anyway a couple of days ago we noticed that the dent had spontaneously popped back out. A little Armor All and you can’t tell it ever happened.
Working theory is that the shrink/expand cycle from our recent temperature roller coaster somehow popped it out, but still. Creepy in an awesome kinda way. Or awesome in a creepy kinda way. Not exactly sure which.
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Friday Coffee Hour and check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.
It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:
In 1547, Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV) became Czar of Russia.
In 1581, English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.
In 1786, Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom, authored by Thomas Jefferson
In 1847, John C. Fremont became Governor of the new California territory.
In 1909, Ernest Shackleton’s expedition found the magnetic South Pole.
In 1920, Prohibition began as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
In 1969, two manned Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel.
In 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
In 1992, El Salvador’s government and rebel leaders signed a pact in Mexico City that put an end to the 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people.
In 2006, Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia’s president.
In 2007, some guy named Barack Obama launched his bid for the Presidency.
Born on This Day
1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
1824 – Seymour Joseph Guy, English painter and printmaker (d. 1910)
1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer, also the illegitimate (is there a nice word for that?) son of famed actress Ellen Terry. (d. 1966)
1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)
1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1947 – Sarah Jane Olson, American political activist
1947 – Laura Schlessinger, American wingnut radio talk show host
1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1961 – Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke, Prong, and Ministry) (d. 2007)
1962 – Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)
1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
1965 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter
1974 – Kate Moss, English model who was criticized as encouraging poor body image in young girls (and was one of the first to represent “heroin chic.”)
1979 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)
Died on This Day
1668 – Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, French painter (b. 1611)
1752 – Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
1901 – Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (b. 1827)
1901 – Hiram Revels, first African-American to serve in the U. S. Senate (b. 1822)
1942 – Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
1979 – Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams Family) (b. 1932)
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The people who have been left without that support are incensed, and the anger reaches across party lines. In an email to ThinkProgress, Peter LeClair, an out of work investment manager from New York, said he has been a lifelong Republican. But he “will never vote for a Republican, as long as I live” after watching them say that relying on unemployment benefits makes people dependent. “I am incensed with this Rand Paul,” he said, who has said extending the benefits would “do a disservice” to those who were relying on them. “He says I am lazy… I am not lazy, how dare he. He doesn’t even know me.”
LeClair says he has sent out over 2,000 resumes and been “rejected on a daily basis.” The benefits, which he pointed out he paid into while he worked for more than 20 years, were the only think keeping him “glued together financially.” He said he is “absolutely shocked and dismayed” with Republicans, reiterating, “I will never, so help me god, vote for a Republican again, period.”
Please, Republicans subvehiculated by the party you voted for despite knowing of their knavish ways: please remember this feeling in November.
– Democrat Who Would Like Everyone to Have a Safety Net
In 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
In 1759, the British Museum opened to the public.
In 1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
In 1889, the Coca Cola Company, at the time known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, incorporated in Atlanta, GA.
In 1908, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority became the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
In 1919, 21 people were killed and 150 injured in Boston when a giant molasses tank burst and the ensuing wave of sticky goo rushed through the streets. The Molasses Control lobby won the day, and such a tragedy has not occurred since.
In 1967, the first Super Bowl was played between the Green Bay Packers of the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL. The Packers defeated the Chiefs 35-10.
In 1970, Moammar (Muammar, etc.) Gaddafi (Kadafi, Qaddafi, etc.) became Premier (dictator, tyrant, etc.) of Libya.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
In 1978, Serial killer (and Republican, if that is relevant) Ted Bundy murdered two students in a sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
In 2001, Wikipedia made its debut on the Internets. It’s a great resource, though you really do have to double check the info posted thereon.
In 2009, US Airways Capt Chelsey Sullenberger (a Democrat, if that is relevant) guided a jetliner disabled by a bird strike just after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to a safe landing in the Hudson River. All 155 people aboard survived.
Born on This Day
1622 – Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1714 – Jan Josef Horemans II, Flemish painter (d. 1790)
1754 – Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
1793 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, Austrian genre painter (d. 1865)
1817 – Charles-François Daubigny, French landscape painter (d. 1878)
1822 – Hubert Salentin, German genre painter (d. 1910)
1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan who was the primary inspiration for Dumas’ La Dame aux Camélias. (d. 1847)
1858 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (d. 1899)
1869 – Stanislas Wyspianskiy, Polish painter, playwright and poet (d. 1907)
1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American businessman (d. 1954)
1892 – Rex Ingram, Irish director (not to be confused with the African-American actor whose life spanned roughly the same period) (d. 1950)
1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh composer and actor (d. 1951)
1905 – Torin Thatcher, English actor (d. 1981)
1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)
1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1909 – Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1921 – Frank Thornton, English actor
1926 – Maria Schell, Austrian actress (d. 2005)
1927 – Phyllis Coates, American actress
1929 – Earl Hooker, American guitarist (d. 1970)
1929 – Queen Ida, American accordion player
1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
1937 – Margaret O’Brien, American actress
1941 – Captain Beefheart, American musician and visual artist (d. 2010)
1945 – Vincent Foster Jr., American lawyer (d. 1993, apparently most foully murdered by Hillary Clinton)
1948 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
1957 – Mario Van Peebles, American actor
1965 – Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)
1966 – Lisa Lisa, American R&B singer
1979 – Drew Brees, American football player
Died on This Day
1684 – Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter (b. ca 1639)
1687 – Jacob Esselens, Dutch Baroque painter (b. 1626)
1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Lord Nelson (b. 1761)
1845 – John Knox, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1778)
1876 – Eliza Johnson, U.S. First Lady (b. 1810)
1879 – Edward Matthew Ward, English history painter (b. 1816)
1893 – Fanny Kemble, British actress and author and abolitionist (b. 1809)
1896 – Mathew Brady, U.S. photographer (b. 1822)
1909 – Robert Zünd, Swiss landscape painter (b. 1827)
1926 – Eugeniusz Zak, Polish painter (b. 1884)
1929 – Gerhard Munthe, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1849)
1947 – Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)
1955 – Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)
1964 – Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)
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The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.
The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.
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The New York Times reports that the liaison of Chief Justice John Roberts, Judge John Bates, penned a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein:
In a letter made public on Tuesday, Judge John D. Bates urged Congress and President Obama to not alter Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s unilateral power to select which judges will sit on the court, or to create a public advocate with “independent authority to intervene at will” in the court’s cases to provide adversarial views to the Justice Department’s briefs.
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the letter, beyond the clear desire to keep power in the hands of the chief justice, is the argument that the primary concern should be the ability of the court to function with ease rather than preserve rights and raise constitutional issues. On the idea of a public advocate The Times notes:
Giving such an official freestanding ability to intervene at will, [Bates] wrote, even when the judges are not interested in hearing from him, could be disruptive to their work.
In the letter itself, Bates disclaims support for any particular legislation while laying out the clear policy desires of the judges that have concurred in the issuance of the letter. He further notes that he has not followed traditional protocol in such instances, writing:
Traditionally, the views of the Judiciary on legislative matters are expressed through the Judicial Conference of the United States, for which I serve as secretary. However, because the matters at issue here relate to special expertise and experience of only a small number of judges on two specialized courts, the Conference has not been engaged at this time to deliberate on them. In my capacity as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, I have responsibility for facilitating the administration and, furthermore, the Chief Justice of the United States has requested that I act as a liaison for the Judiciary on matters concerning the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In considering such matters, I benefit from having served as Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
So what we have here is a judge intervening in the political process reserved to the two elected branches of government. This intervention is done outside the usual process in which the entire judiciary is consulted. Instead, only judges appointed by the Chief Justice (given the nature of appointment to the FISC) are consulted and they issue a statement that seeks to prevent additional oversight of their work, intervention to ensure important constitutional issues are raised, argued and decided, and they seek to preserve the power of the person who appointed them (who, coincidentally enough also appointed the person that authored this letter as his liaison).
In the clear attempt to preserve the power of the Chief Justice, rather than foster a diversity of views, which, ultimately, would serve the Court’s purpose as arbiter and check on governmental power, Bates writes:
It is important that the process of selection for FISC and Court of Review judges remain both expeditious and fully confidential; the Chief Justice is uniquely positioned to select qualified judges for those Courts.
Never mind that confidentiality is a bedrock of the legal profession and therefore it could reasonably be assumed that the Chief Judges of the Courts of Appeal could be trusted to maintain confidentiality if consulted in the appointment of judges to the courts, as one proposal calls for.
During his confirmation process, then-Judge Roberts promised that he would be an umpire – calling the balls and strikes – rather than a player when it came to how he decided cases and exercised the power of the office of Chief Justice of the United States. Instead, he has once again injected himself directly into the policy debate in an attempt to influence, and perhaps even overturn, the elected branches of government. The courts would be well served to remember that this is a political question and political questions are constitutionally delegated to the elected branches of government. The scope of reform is for the Congress and the President to decide, not the courts. It’s first-year Con Law.
On Tuesday,12 January 2010, four years ago, a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti. killing more than 300,000 people and leaving countless numbers of people homeless. Memorial services were held in Haiti Sunday, and in the U.S. where there is a population of over 830,000 Haitian-Americans, and in other parts of the Haitian diaspora.
Please take a moment of silence in memory, and then be silent no more. Time for screams of outrage.
Amnesty International researcher Chiara Liguori, wrote:
Unsurprisingly, in the aftermath of the earthquake, Haiti was headline news across the globe. Yet four years on, with the cameras gone, the problems and suffering of the people remain.
It is estimated that almost 150,000 people are still living in 271 displacement camps, often in appalling conditions. The lack of access to basic services such as safe water, sanitation and waste disposal leaves them exposed to the risk of cholera and other diseases. Many still live in makeshift shelters, vulnerable to flooding, especially during hurricane season.
It’s unacceptable enough that people are still living like this. But many Haitians living in displacement camps also have to contend with the constant fear of being forcibly evicted. Since 2010, more than 60,000 people have been forced from their makeshift shelters, and it is estimated that almost half of those living in displacement camps face the ongoing threat of forced eviction.
Amnesty International denounced the situation in a report released last April in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. The country’s authorities reacted promptly and committed themselves to thoroughly investigating the evictions. Yet no perpetrator has, to our knowledge, been brought to justice. And while the evictions stopped for a couple of months, they have continued again since June.
How easy for many of us to ignore what is happening there. We tend to ignore the Caribbean in general, and Haiti gets the shortest shrift.
Exploiters of Haiti haven’t failed to pay attention however, even though we were lulled after the media explosion of interest four years ago.
Instead of bringing relief to Haitians, the world’s generosity in response to the Earthquake merely brought the country to the attention of its most rapacious disaster predators. Almost immediately, and despite a ban on adoptions, numerous plane loads of children were transported to the U.S., France, and Holland. The removal of a group’s youngest citizens has traditionally been the way to undermine a culture; this continues at a rate of about 2,000 children per year from Haiti. In the political sphere, by Spring 2010, former U.S. President Clinton had managed a coup that forced an 18-month State of Emergency onto the country and brought it under the rule of a group of wealthy investors called the Commission for the Reconstruction of Haiti (CIRH). This group has been dismantled, but only because it became incorporated into the government after the fraudulent elections of 2010-2011. For example, CIRH member Laurent Lamothe became Haiti’s Prime Minister; other members Gregory Mevs (of Haiti’s wealthy family) and Bill Clinton are the co-chairs of the so-called Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Growth and Investment. Thus far, the crowning achievement of this group has been the inauguration, on October 22, 2012 of Haiti’s Caracol Industrial Park: a massive sweatshop zone that employ workers for a maximum of $0.87 per hour. The toxic dyes from the park and the influx of population into this previously rural area are expected to destroy a river and the neighboring coast. Despite the Haitian Constitution’s clear statements that “coasts, springs, rivers, water courses, mines, and quarries” are a commons, the CIRH veterans have set about to sell all of them. Many farmers who opposed the landgrabs have paid for it with their lives.
(my bold)
There are a lot of bad guys in this. The usual suspects. But I appeal to Democrats to castigate Bill Clinton, along with the current Obama administration’s foreign policy (which is no better or worse than any U.S. policy historically for Haiti under any administration) and the Congress.
I support diplomatic efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons
I support the Schumer-Menendez-Kirk bill
I don’t think there are any right answers here, but only answers that are less wrong than other ones
Inherent in the first statement is the fact that I do not believe Iran’s claims it is pursuing nuclear power for peaceful purposes. I believe there is one purpose behind Iran’s nuclear program and that is the development of a nuclear weapon. That said, I do not believe the Iranians would be stupid enough to use nuclear weapons on Israel. The ayatollahs, as 2009 demonstrated, are interested, first and foremost in the maintenance of their power. The surest way to lose that power is to use nuclear weapons on Israel. Israel would have no compunctions about massive retaliation against Iran in such a situation and no reasonable person could fault Israel for taking such action.
While many would argue that support for the Schumer-Menendez-Kirk bill is the quickest way to end the diplomatic process and ensure war, I believe that wrongly reads the situation. It was the pressure brought to bear by sanctions, and the effect upon the Iranian economy, that caused Iran to come to the negotiating table in the first place. To successfully conclude a deal to end the prospect of Iranian nuclear weapons requires that Iran understand that consequences exist in the event negotiations fail. The threat of additional sanctions helps serve that purpose.
I understand that taking a stronger line could lead to military action. However, there are, unfortunately, certain cases where military action is unavoidable. I believe that an Iran on the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons constitutes such a case. It is not just the fact that religious extremists in Iran would possess such a dangerous weapon in their arsenal. An Iranian weapon would likely lead to massive nuclear proliferation in the Middle East with many other regional powers seeking to obtain nuclear weapons to counter Iran.
Reports of an oil-for-goods swap being negotiated between Iran and Russia have prompted some Democrats to accuse Tehran of violating the terms of the interim deal. The White House said it shared those concerns, noting that Secretary of State John Kerry raised the matter with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Monday.
Such a deal would be “inconsistent” with the agreement and “could potentially trigger U.S. sanctions,” said a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, Caitlin M. Hayden.
This only further demonstrates that a strong stick must exist in addition to the carrot. The Iranians, for good reason, were not trustworthy prior to this interim agreement and this only further demonstrates the reason why. The ink on the interim agreement is still in the process of drying and the Iranians are already skirting its edges if not already violating it.
The ultimate irony of the bill is that it may not even prove necessary. It seems there exists the chance that before it could even get to President Obama’s desk for him to veto sanctions against Iran would already be back in place due to Iranian actions.
I deeply respect President Obama. I think overall, and particularly in foreign policy, he has done an excellent job. I fully support his push for peace in the Middle East and finally ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, in this instance, I believe that he is too trusting of the Iranians and needs to be somewhat more skeptical. I understand we do not make peace with our friends, but Iran needs to understand that there will be serious consequences if it violates agreements it has signed and continues with its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
President Obama would be well served to remind the Iranians that there is a very strong waiting in the background if they abuse the carrot.
What’s your take on the Christie affair? Do you think he’ll resign if implicated? If so, it that the end of his political career (and the start of his Fox News career)?
Have you ever dressed up a pet and lived to tell the tale? Got pics?
What form of organization describes you best? A total mess but you know exactly where everything is, scrupulously tidy and everything in its place, or maybe something else?
The Twitter Emitter
"I should go to bed." Translation: Let me continually refresh my tabs for another hour.
In 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England that ended the Revolutionary War.
In 1954, Baseball player Joe Dimaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe were married at San Francisco City Hall.
In 1963, George Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama with a pledge of “segregation forever.”
In 1952, The Today Show debuted on NBC with host Dave Garroway.
In 1967, an event called The Human Be-In took place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, which is said by some to have been the start of the Summer of Love.
In 1978, British punk band The Sex Pistols played their final gig (at Winterland in San Francisco) and broke up. I witnessed the show, but not the break up. 😉
In 2005, Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of the rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Born on This Day
1507 – Luca Longhi, Italian Mannerist painter (d. 1580)
1600 – (baptism) Pieter van Avont, Flemish painter (d. 1652)
1684 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (d. 1745)
1741 – Benedict Arnold, American/British general (d. 1801)
1780 – Henry Baldwin, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1844)
1833 – Ferdinand Meyer-Wismar, German painter (d. 1917)
1836 – Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1841 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (d. 1895)
1852 – Johannes Christiaan Karel Klinkenberg, Dutch canalscape painter (d. 1924)
1859 – Paolo Sala, Italian canalscape painter (d. 1929)
1860 – Domenico Pennacchini, Italian painter (d. 1910)
1875 – Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1883 – Nina Ricci, Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 1970)
1892 – Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)
1896 – John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
1901 – Bebe Daniels, American actress (d. 1971)
1904 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
1906 – William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)
1924 – Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)
1938 – Allen Toussaint, American singer/pianist
1940 – Julian Bond, American civil rights activist
1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress
1945 – Einar Hakonarson, Icelandic painter
1948 – T-Bone Burnett, American musician and producer
1948 – Carl Weathers, American actor
1952 – Maureen Dowd, annoying American columnist
1964 – Mark Addy, British actor
1964 – Shepard Smith, the only Fox news anchor who has a nodding acquaintance with the truth.
1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
1969 – Jason Bateman, American actor
1969 – David Grohl, American drummer and composer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures)
1982 – Caleb Followill, American singer (Kings of Leon)
Died on This Day
1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1813 – William Marlow, English marine painter (b. 1740)
1819 – Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
1846 – Jan Hendrik Verheyen, Dutch cityscape painter (b. 1778)
1867 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
1871 – Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, Spanish painter (b. 1842)
1887 – Friedrich von Amerling, Austro-Hungarian painter (b. 1803)
1898 – Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1961 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1977 – Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
1977 – Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
1986 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1991 – Jerry Nolan, American rock drummer (The New York Dolls) (b. 1946)
1994 – Esther Ralston, silent film star (b. 1902)
2003 – Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
2004 – Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)
2004 – Ron O’Neal, American actor (b. 1937)
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
