text: This is a must see video on this topic Vatican sex scandal. The video states that in 2013 the Vatican set up a conference to combat this issue but like many promises on the Roman Catholic Church this conference was never set up. To the Discerning world this shows the sincerity of the Catholic hierarchy in dealing with this crushing issue. They have been more concerned with the monetary cost this is causing the church over that of the children that are being molested. Can you believe that? This worldwide plague is current and many of the charges current. The United States now is investigating this crime in 47 States. Thousands of children had been misused not only by the offending priests but those in the hierarchy who have covered this up for so long. The Pope I knew all about this for you before situations arose where he can no longer keep it in hiding. Now he is being forced to deal with it. A Godly Man would not to be forced to do anyting but this shows that the papacy is corrupt.


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The trailer for Shia LaBeouf starrer “The Tax Collector” movie and its release dates just dropped. 2020’s cinematic year kick-started very well, but things took a sharp left when the world was hit with a global pandemic. All the countries had to shut their public areas and quarantine everybody back at their homes which meant no audience in case a movie releases. But lucky for streaming services—a considerable number of pending movies released online for people to watch on their small screens. Films like “The King of Staten Island” and “Da 5 Bloods” were a joy to watch, and it was a joy that was brought to us courtesy streaming services.
Continuous availability of new films is keeping fans happy, and the audience is appreciating tremendous hard work put in by the cast and crew of the movie, which keeps them motivated. But films like “Tenet” and “No Time to Die” will still make the audience wait for it. And amongst all, one of the most anticipated efforts to be witnessed this year was The Tax Collector, and with the trailer arriving, the audience cannot wait anymore. The fact that the producers decided to release the movie online was a huge sigh of relief for everyone.
Directed by David Ayer, the film features star Shia LaBeouf as a crime lord’s tax collector who is put in a whirlwind of danger when his boss’s enemy returns to the game. The story sounds terrific, but when will everyone receive the pleasure of watching it? The movie is scheduled to release on the first Friday of August, i.e. 7th August 2020. Newsweek highlighted that the film would be available for all to stream on Amazon, Google Play and Apple TV.
It is also noteworthy that apart from being available on streaming services, the movie will also premiere on some selected movie theatres. This makes it the first movie to be released in the cinemas post-lockdown ahead of Tenet by Christopher Nolan. No release date has been announced or finalized for UK releases of the film.
Talking about the actor of the movie Shia LaBeouf, the man is already known to get real tattoos for his roles in previous films. But the fans were still taken aback and excited when they were made aware that he got his chest tattooed for The Tax Collector. David Ayer, in his interview with Slash Film, was all praises for the actor’s skill and commitment towards his work and the project. He also said that the actor had been entirely dedicated to every movie in the past as well. Twitter has been tingling with anticipation since the trailer dropped as the people are in awe of what’s in store for them.
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tl;dr: The French railway company is on strike. Read the whole article for detailed information.
It is spring or as the french call it: “strike season”
If you live outside of France, you might be wondering:
- Who is on strike?
- How will this impact me?
- Will I have to walk from the French border to the venue in Paris?
Please keep in mind that the situation may change over time and that the information is to the best of our knowledge today (27. April 2018).
The French railway company SNCF is on strike. And because caufeurs love time tables they made one for their current three-month strike:
In the plan are blocks of 2 days where you should not expect any train to run. Currently about 40% of TGV run during a strike day, however it is nearly impossible to say which routes they will serve and the chance of making a whole connection reduces with every hop you have to take. E.g. to catch two connecting trains your chanches are 40% * 40% = 16%. Check the detailed information to know if your train is running.
However, SNCF isn’t only running TGVs but also regional trains, and those are the ones you’ll certainly have to deal with (also called RER in Paris). For example, if you land in the Charles-de-Gaulle airport, you’ll have to take the RER B line, which is affected by this strike just the same.
Luckily there are three days between the strike blocks where you can expect the trains to run unless:
- … you are traveling on an evening before a strike. So make sure that your train arrives in Paris before 17:00 CEST that day.
- verify that the train actually runs the day before 17:00 CEST on the SNCF website or app.
What else is there to know?
Will prices rise?
Can I ask for a refund?
That depends on who sold you the ticket and how. Check with the seller.
What methods of transport are affected/available?
Only SNCF services are affected. Subways, buses and tramways inside of Paris aren’t affected. Cabs are an option, too.
How to avoid stress
Bring an (offline) dictionary, talk to people and learn some french. Also a big plus of traveling by train is that you are allowed to carry liquids like a bottle of wine or two that you can eat with some bread and cheese! If you need help reach out to the organizers and we try to help as best as we can. We will provide detailed contact info closer to the conference. For now you can reach us via email: firstname.lastname@example.org or on twitter: @rustfest.
Again, it is not run by SNCF so you have nothing to worry about there. Also, it is almost never on strike. So even during the strike days of others the metro will run (again, it includes buses, subways and tramways).
The planes strike too? No, actually it is the staff working inside the airport control towers. At the moment we don’t expect an impact for flights around the conference dates.

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Another important thing you should know about the culture is usually that they’re extremely excited about their region. For this reason, that they enjoy sharing their persuits with foreigners. It might be wise to visit the nation before you want to marry a lady from there.
Another good way to impress a Dominican female is to speak Spanish. Not merely will you have a better thought of what the woman with saying, you are allowed to make a much better impression.
Dominican women are very interesting, and you’ll be surprised by how you can contact them. This really is particularly true of girls who have Spanish blood. Although they’re quite a bit less rich as being a other Carribbean nations, they’re certainly interested in achieving foreigners and achieving to know all of them. A good Dominican woman is a lifelong friend, and she will be able to share her culture along.
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California: Conversion Therapy Ban Passes, Heads to Gov. Brown
BY Michelle Garcia
August 31 2012 7:02 PM ET
California lawmakers officially passed a bill to ban sexual orientation conversion therapy on minors, with Gov. Jerry Brown expected to sign the legislation.
The bill prevents licensed psychologists and therapists from attempting to change the sexual orientation of anyone under the age of 18. The American Psychological Association has condemned such therapies, and Alan Chambers, the leader of Exodus International, has backpedaled on the effectiveness of so-called reparative therapy. His organization previously had been a staunch proponent of such treatment.
Governor Brown has until September 30 to sign the bill, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Kennesaw State promotes interim coach to head job
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) Kennesaw State has named interim coach Jimmy Lallathin to take over its men's basketball program.
The suburban Atlanta school announced Thursday that Lallathin will take over for Lewis Preston, who won't be returning next season by mutual agreement.
Preston took a leave of absence on Jan. 3 for what was described as personal and medical reasons. Lallathin took over on an interim basis - his first head coaching job at any level - and went 3-13 over the final two months of the season.
Now, one day after announcing Preston's departure, the school removed the interim tag from Lallathin's title.
He says it's going to take ''a great deal of hard work'' to turn around the struggling program but believes everything is place to contend in the Atlantic Sun Conference.


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District councils are pressing for changes to the “unfair” system governing council tax increases which are curbing their key role in prevention amid continuing cuts to their core spending power.
In its submission to the final Local Government Finance Settlement, the District Councils’ Network (DCN) has put forward proposals which could help raise an additional £34 million for district councils which could be invested in further prevention services to help reduce demand on social care and health services.
DCN, which represents 200 district councils across England, says that 88 district councils will not benefit from the flexibility on current tax increase proposals.
The current £5 alternative proposal to councils increasing council tax by up to 3% over the next two years, remains unchanged which discriminates against district councils. This is because, for 88 district councils, the £5 is a higher value than 3% due to low levels of council tax levied by them, so leaving this “cash alternative” constant means these district councils are unable to generate much-needed additional revenue.
DCN is calling for the £5 to be increased to £7.50 for district councils. The extra £2.50 could raise an extra £9 million for districts, whilst having minimal impact – equating to a 14p a week increase for a Band D property – for council tax payers.
Further inequity is created for all shire district areas where the district council element of the social care precept can’t be raised to help prevent people accessing social care and the NHS, unlike in unitary and metropolitan areas.
DCN is therefore calling for an additional 2% prevention council tax precept which could raise up to an extra £25 million for district councils which would help to keep residents and their families from needing to access acute social care and the NHS by reducing demand for these services.
The proposed changes would help restore greater parity between district councils and unitary/metropolitan authorities in the ability to raise funds for the benefit of local residents.
The year-on-year changes in core spending power for district councils has seen huge reductions of £134 million (over 5%) from 2016/17 to 2017/18, with further reductions forecast.
Cllr John Fuller, Chairman of the District Councils’ Network, said:
“This year’s proposals on council tax will mean that metropolitan and unitary councils can raise proportionately more than those councils covering shire district areas. That’s unfair.
“88 district councils will not benefit from the increase of the council tax threshold to 3% despite these authorities having the lowest council tax charges’.
“Allowing those districts to increase council tax by the greater of 3% or £7.50 would ensure the ‘cash alternative’ provides meaningful headroom to continue to deliver public services which are vital to local residents.
“We must also bust the myth that district councils do not have an integral role in social care. The current council tax increase mechanism fails to recognise our ‘prevention is better than cure’ approach to reduce demand on social care and the NHS by both preventing people needing to access these services as well as getting people out of hospital and living in their homes and communities more quickly.
“The proposals in the settlement need to go further to ensure fairness for shire district areas compared to unitary/metropolitan authorities where the whole council tax charge can be increased to fund social care and prevention issues.
“Our 2% prevention precept would reflect the role that districts play in prevention and demand-reduction, such as improving housing, providing leisure and recreational facilities, offering debt advice, tackling homelessness, supporting troubled families and improving air quality all of which help reduce demand on social care and health services.
“For every £1 spent on prevention, district councils can make up to £70 worth of savings on health spending in the long-term – that would mean the extra £25 million raised could save over £1.5 billion over the longer term.”
Notes to Editors
- The District Councils’ Network is a cross-party member led network of 200 district councils. We are a Special Interest Group of the Local Government Association (LGA), and provide a single voice for district councils within the LGA. District councils in England deliver 86 out of 137 essential local government services to over 22 million people – 40% of the population – and cover 68% of the country by area.
- If the 88 districts currently able to put in a £5 council tax increase were all to increase by £7.50 instead of £5, this would generate an additional £9 million (assuming all 88 raise by £7.50 instead of £5 and using 2017/18 council tax base numbers).
- Analysis by the DCN has found that a 2 per cent precept could raise up to an additional £25 million for district councils – an estimated 7p per week increase for a Band D property in a district area.
- The year-on-year changes in core spending power for district councils has seen a reduction of £134 million (over 5%) from 2016/17 to 2017/18, with further reductions forecast (in the 2017/18 Local Government Finance Settlement) compared to other types of authorities who have seen an increase. In addition, based on the 2017/18 Settlement data from DCLG, 146 out of the 201 District Councils (72%) will be facing a negative RSG position by 2019/20.
- For every £1 spent on prevention, district councils can make up to £70 worth of savings on health spending in the long-term – meaning the extra £25 million raised could save over £1.5 billion over the longer term.

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Finally Got my Futaba 14MZ today, it’s a 14-Channel 2.4GHz Computer System from Futaba. I win it 5 days ago on www.ricardo.ch. A big Thanks to Juan Luis Suazo from Basel for the delivery and the nice talk we had about our common experiences using RC helicopter. The next step will be to try to correctly configure this monster and do some practice in Reflex XTR
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Sure, the woodgrain’s not exactly correct, and the wheels and tires might not be everybody’s cuppatea, but this 1978 Plymouth Fury Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com, a rare car to begin with and one hardly ever seen today, looks like it’s been handled with care over the last few decades. From the seller’s description:
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‘Yield burning’ agreement praised
Cities and counties are feeling more financially secure since the government agreed to a settlement in a “yield burning” case involving a number of local governments and underwriter Meridian Securities. The company (bought in 1996 by Corestates Financial Corporation) and one of its former executives agreed to pay $3.7 million in fines to settle the case, which involved underwriting bonds that were then sold by local government entities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The settlement marks the first time a financial institution has agreed to shoulder the blamefor fraudulently marking up the prices of bonds. Corestates did not acknowledge wrongdoing in the case; it merely agreed to the settlement to resolve tax questions arising from a number of municipal bond refinancing deals.
Deals like the one that prompted the settlement were common in the 1990s. When interest rates dropped, local governments refinanced older bonds with higher interest rates by issuing new bonds. The proceeds of those refinancings were put in escrow accounts stocked primarily with Treasury bonds that were then bought by the underwriters.
Ultimately, the price of the Treasury bonds was artificially inflated, allowing the underwriters to lower the yield for IRS reporting purposes. The practice threatened the tax-exempt status of those municipal bonds and left open the threat of huge federal penalties. For the past four years, the IRS has been threatening a never-specified number of cities and counties with having to pay millions of dollars in back taxes, arguing that the bonds they sold did not qualify as tax-exempt. Local governments had always argued that, not only did they do nothing wrong, they were in fact the victims of the practice.
Arthur Levitt, chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, acknowledged as much in the settlement. “[It] is a fraud perpetrated against local governments and taxpayers,” he noted. As part of the settlement, the SEC, along with the Treasury and the Justice departments agreed to halt further yield burning investigations against local governments.
“It’s a potential landmark template agreement,” says Frank Shafroth, director of policy and federal relations for the National League of Cities. “But we’re not doing anything until the fat lady sings. A week after the settlement, the director of the Baltimore regional IRS office announced he was sending out 200 additional notices of investigation.”
The problem, according to Shafroth, is that the wrong people are making the decisions. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former CEO of underwriter Goldman Sachs, was forced to recuse himself, leaving somewhat of an intellectual vacuum. “There’s no one in charge who can say to the IRS, ‘Put a lid on it until we figure out the policy, so we’re all singing out of the same hymnal,'” Shafroth says. “Right now, each regional office is making its own rules.”
Oklahoma City Councilmember Mark Schwartz praised the settlement, which he had worked on last year as president of the NLC. “We are pleased to see this agreement to achieve restitution to all levels of government and to assure protection for cities and municipal bondholders,” Schwartz said in a press conference following the announcement of the settlement. “We hope it will lead to an effort to develop a joint team approach on this issue.”
Schwartz noted that NLC had asked repeatedly about working with the SEC and the departments of justice and the treasury to reach some consensus. Turf wars and spats between the three, however, prevented serious discussions. “There still has been no effort to get back to us,” he says. “Hopefully, this agreement will clear the way.

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Parking lots and parking garages in Marburg with current occupancy figures
Since our house is located in a traffic-calmed area, parking in front of the house is only possible on the opposite side, but a paid parking ticket (EUR 1, - per hour) is necessary. In the immediate vicinity and the adjacent cross street but you also find - depending on the time of day - free parking.
Public underground car park Lahn Center, under the building (9 minutes walk, 700 m):
On foot 700 m from our house.
Open all day
Per day: EUR 15, -
Per week: EUR 45, -
Directions from the hotel: http://bit.ly/2HvGzx3
Parking Ahrens (3 minutes walk, 200 m):
For the parking garage, set in the navigation system:
35037 Marburg, Wilhelmstraße 7.
0-1 hour: 0,50 Euro, 1-2 hours: 1,50 Euro, 2-3 hours: 3,00 Euro, 3-4 hours: 4,00 Euro, 4-5 hours: 5,00 Euro
every additional hour: 1.00 Euro
Daily maximum rate: 8.50 Euro
Credit for purchases: 1.50 euros
Monday / Wednesday / Friday / Saturday: 7:00 to 20:15
Tuesday / Thursday: 7:00 to 21:00
Directions from the hotel: http://bit.ly/2vkG0kt
Georg Gassmann Stadium (free unlimited parking, 20 minutes walk)
If you want to park your vehicle for a longer period of time and are not afraid of a walk of about 20 minutes, there is ample free parking at the Georg Gaßmann Stadium.
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Odon Wagner Contemporary presents 'Celebracíon del Mundo', our third solo exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture by Spanish contemporary master, Willy Ramos.
Opening Reception is Thursday, November 8 from 6-9pm.
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New Page! Download Books!
Photo-Essays on lutherie, offered as E-Books
Right now there are only two books, but hopefully others will eventually appear there, as I write them.
- The first is the chronicle of an acoustic five-string fiddle build.
- The second is the story of the completion of the Jensen Cello.
Click on this link, or simply return to the home page, and click on the “Books” page at the top.
In E-book form, they are being offered free of charge. They would be quite expensive to print, because of all the color photos.
Thanks for looking

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There is a direct connection between healthy forests and sustainable supplies of clean water, which is why Denver Water renewed its From Forests to Faucets partnership with the U.S. Forest Service in 2017.
Not only are forests critical to our water quality, they also are important to the economic health of Colorado communities.
Interested in learning more? Tune into Rocky Mountain PBS at 7 p.m., Jan. 25, for the Colorado premier of America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell. Episode 2 of the documentary features Colorado, including Denver Water’s Strontia Springs Reservoir and Marston Treatment Plant.


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Background: Age-related comorbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are common in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH). We investigated the relationship between COPD and the epigenetic age of the airway epithelium and peripheral blood of PLWH. Methods: Airway epithelial brushings from 34 PLWH enrolled in the St. Paul's Hospital HIV Bronchoscopy cohort and peripheral blood from 378 PLWH enrolled in The Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment (START) study were profiled for DNA methylation. The DNA methylation biomarker of age and healthspan, GrimAge, was calculated in both tissue compartments. We tested the association of GrimAge with COPD in the airway epithelium and airflow obstruction as defined by an FEV1/FVC<0.70, and FEV1 decline over 6 years in blood. Findings: The airway epithelium of PLWH with COPD was associated with greater GrimAge residuals compared to PLWH without COPD (Beta=3.18, 95%CI=1.06-5.31, P=0.005). In blood, FEV1/FVC<LLN was associated with greater GrimAge residuals (Beta=1.74, 95%CI=0.37-3.24, P=0.019). FEV1 decline was inversely correlated with GrimAge residuals in blood (r=−0.13, P=0.012). PLWH who had normal lung function but who subsequently developed an FEV1/FVC<0.70 over the course of 6 years had higher GrimAge residuals at baseline (Beta=2.33, 95%CI=0.23-4.44, P=0.031). Interpretation: GrimAge may reflect lung and systemic epigenetic changes that occur with advanced airflow obstruction and may help to identify PLWH with a higher risk of developing COPD. Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the British Columbia Lung Association. The START substudy was funded by NIH grants: UM1-AI068641, UM1-AI120197, and RO1HL096453.
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Skip to comments.FBI says Occupy Cleveland not under investigation though suspects were actively involved in group.
Posted on 05/01/2012 2:26:23 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
CLEVELAND, Ohio FBI officials today said that while the members of a group arrested in an attempt to blow up a bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park were also involved in the Occupy Cleveland movement, that organization is not under federal investigation.
"Let me be clear, the FBI and Department of Justice are not conducting an investigation of any specific group," said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. "We do not investigate movements or groups, we investigate individuals."
The Occupy movement is never identified by name in the affidavit filed by federal officials today, but interviews have since indicated that the five arrested had been involved with and somewhat dissatisfied with the Occupy Cleveland movement in Public Square.
Still, that the five men arrested were connected with that movement including attending an Oct. 21, 2011, event on Clevelands Public Square had caused ripples throughout the day.
The group also issued a statement Monday, saying that while the group arrested Monday evening by the FBI were associated with Occupy Cleveland, they were in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland or the event that was planned for later today at the GE Lighting building."
The May Day event at GE was sponsored by Occupy Cleveland, the North Shore AFL-CIO, Cleveland Jobs with Justice, Fight for a Fair Economy and SEIU Local 1, the statement said. The event was cancelled, however, because of the alleged actions of the autonomous group arrested (Monday) night, the statement said, adding that Occupy Cleveland has had affirmed principles of non-violence since its inception on October 6, 2011.
"Today's event Occupy GE (General Electric) was canceled because there were rumors these guys were involved, said Debbie Kline of Jobs with Justice. They were NEVER at the table.
Its been over a month we've been planning this. We will do this in the future. We'll do this again. But it would have been in bad taste to do today."
Bomb plot suspect Brandon Baxter came to a Jobs with Justice spring training event this year to learn about non-violent action, she said.
"When you're in a movement, you can't kick people out when they are volunteers," Kline said. "These five were acting on their own, they didn't have any part of the greater movement."
"There are fringey people all over the place."
View full sizeThomas Ondrey, The Plain DealerThe Ohio 82 bridge as it crosses the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville. The FBI arrested five men this week in connection with a plot to blow up the bridge today for May Day protests.
The FBI arrested Baxter and four others Monday evening, saying they had planted what were believed to be explosive devices under the Ohio 82 bridge over Cuyahoga Valley National Park as part of a May Day protest today.
The five men were self-proclaimed anarchists, who intended to detonate two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under the bridge in Sagamore Hills, but had purchased the inert devices from undercover FBI agents, officials said
Also arrested by the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Force and charged with conspiracy and attempted use of explosive materials were: Douglas Wright, 26 and Anthony Hayne, 35.
Wright had also talked about "getting a car that they can drive into the Federal Reserve Bank" in Cleveland to blow it up, according to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Ryan Taylor. (See the affidavit in the DocumentCloud reader below.)
Despite the defendants worst intentions and aims during the entire course of yesterdays operation, the public was never in danger, Dettelbach said. The defendants never possessed at any time any really explosive materials and the arrests warrants were signed before they got in the car and went to the bridge.
Also arrested, but not charged, were Connor Stevens, 20 and Joshua Stafford, 23. Anthony said Stevens and Stafford were currently being charged, officials said.
Meanwhile, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park issued a news release this afternoon saying that park rangers worked with FBI during the course of the investigation and that park visitors were not at risk during the operation.
At no time were the Brecksville Station or the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad considered targets for the plot, the news release said.
The national park encompasses 33,000 acres along the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio.
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson also issued the following statement: I would like to express my appreciation to FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen D. Anthony and the Cleveland Office of the FBI for their diligence in identifying and exposing a potential threat to our community, and for keeping Cleveland's safety leadership informed on the progress of the investigation.
Reporter Rachel Dissell contributed to this story.
The Ohio 82 bridge as it crosses the Cuyahoga River in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Brecksville.
The FBI arrested five men this week in connection with a plot to blow up the bridge today for May Day protests.
What? Why the hell isn't it?
..can’t have the FBI investigating one of Pelosi’s groups she supports.....she said so
Nothing fishy there. They still investigating Brietbart?
When I was in college, I had a professor who was considered something of a radical. I remember he once mentioned that he would sometimes by followed by the KKK, but then they would be followed by the FBI. Sort of a little parade.
I later read that there were actually more FBI agents investigating the Klan than there were members of the Klan. I suspect they were investigating groups but I must be wrong.
I remember once that an entire operation by some rightwing group had been conducted by FBI informants. There were so many of them that some did not know what the others were doing.
I’m guessing the FBI was heavily involved and watching the group all along.
If that is not the case then Ameridca is in deep doo doo.
Because they're Federal contractors.
Well, it could be true. But it could equally be disinformation if they really are looking into the group.
The Feds lie as easily as you and I breathe.
“Let me be clear, the FBI and Department of Justice are not conducting an investigation of any specific group,”
Well.....unless we find somebody tied to the Tea Party......
Dettelbach is an obama appointee
Occupy violence is flaring up all over the country but those dang TEA Partiers are the domestic terrorists
“We do not investigate movements or groups, we investigate individuals.”
It’s hard to fix stupid!
Working for the FBI nowadays must be like the fictional inspector character Arkady Renko, in the novels by Martin Cruz Smith.
A good man in a corrupt, political situation.
No I don’t know why the “don’t blow the whistle” if they are “good men”.
Ah, the FBI and the JustUs department. Obama’s toilet paper.
I sure hope the dem dickwads who run Cleveland coddle these occupy losers and let them camp and sleep in the Public Square this year. Just clear them out and keep them out.
I sure hope the dem dickwads who run Cleveland coddle these occupy losers and let them camp and sleep in the Public Square this year. Just clear them out and keep them out.
Route 82 is a major road and there would have been deaths had they managed to blow this bridge. I hope they charge these a-holes with attempted murder and put them away forever.
Kind of crucify them, to use an EPA analogy.
Freeloaders aren't very bright.
One of the stories I read said they had a whole list of potential targets including hospitals, schools, klan gatherings etc.
IF heavy dem and union city THEN Occupy Group.
Klan meetings in Cleveland? What neighborhood, I wonder.
There is no credible evidence so far that this attack was more than at least one person, the driver, said Mayor Mike Bloomberg. After that there is no evidence that anyone else was involved. It may be, but we cant say that it is.
If I had to guess, twenty five cents, this would be exactly that, Bloomberg said. Homegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesnt like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.
I made a meme out of that. The “OccupyPrison” part might fly, but the part about what’s now getting “occupied” there would be zot-bait.
This story lists law enforcement, oil wells, cargo ships, and a casino.
Sounds like an Obama appointee. Can anyone in government or the media go a day without using that phrase?
Pretty ambitious list for a bunch who are likely baffled by the technical intricacies of the “flaming bag of dog poop” prank.
Their brilliant plan included throwing tacks out of the car if police chased them. lol
“To prevent capture, he suggested getting tacks that they could throw out of the back of the car if they get caught in a chase.”
You keep remembering and reading basically WRONG stuff.
The total number of FBI agents in the US ranged between 3,000-5,000 (which included non-field agents). The KKK and related groups had many thousands of members at any one time (say 1960-70s when it went into decline, due, in part to the 1965 hearings by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities which exposed the Klan as the violent, hate group that it is).
The FBI couldn’t assign 3,000 agents to monitor the Klan, etc. That’s not how surveillance/intelligence investigations work. Been there, done that. Most agents worked on organized crime, interstate crimes, esp. kidnappings, bank robberies, hijackings, Soviet and Soviet Bloc and Red Chinese espionage, white collar crime, and aid local police at times.
THere was one radical organization that actually did have several FBI agents or informants in it but that was an anomaly (depended on the possible threat that the group posed and its size). Sometimes the police ran their own intell ops when they perceived a local threat. Been there, done that, only it was another private group that did the infiltrating on its own. The ENTIRE OPERATION, in both cases, consisted of about 12 people, and in my case, consisted of several very violent SDSers.
AND they were not supposed to know what the others were doing. Independently sourced intelligence is much better than single-source intelligence. Been there, done that.
Since you know and remember so much, here’s a story you can add to your repetoire. I was working for a govt agency (ies) and testified about a person who later turned out to be a local police officer in another city. He later testified before Congress about what he had learned, about 6-12 months after my cover was broken so that I could testify before Congress (about radicals/violence/communist domination of key national groups/KGB ties, etc).
This officer provided inside information on a very important Chicago group that I could not have provided since I didn’t operate there. He also provided information which expanded on what I had said about several organizations.
Two independent sources are much better than one.
Remember that, if you will.
God bless them for their spontaneity,Its young, its spontaneous, its focused and its going to be effective.
I have no idea how many people were in the KKK but I am sure I read that from a normal source. It could have been wrong but I am not wrong about it being reported.
Now the one about the FBI having informants who operated an entire operation from within some radical group by accident, I am certain was widely reported.
I don’t care if you are J. Edgar himself, I just repeated what I read. At one time I would have trusted the FBI to an extreme degree and that trust was probably justified.
Now I think they are a bunch of clowns. Well actually there probably are lots of good ones left however I personally witnessed a bunch of FBI agents behaving like trash during the 60’s.
> “We do not investigate movements or groups
Unless they are the Tea Party, the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, or any other anti-Abortion-murder, anti-unnatural-marriage, anti-tax, anti-democrat, or anti-0bamao group.
...””We do not investigate movements or groups, we investigate individuals...”
That’s your problem right there!
“What? Why the hell isn’t it? “
Do you really believe anyone in government?
Probably because they have confidential informants and sources close to or inside various “Occupy” movements or (more likely) the anarchist and black flag types who are now attaching themselves to the Occupy movements.
“OHIO BOMB PLOTTERS Seen At #Occupy Cleveland Protests >>>VIDEO”
First mistake: Don’t believe everything you read. I have been a reporter/journalist for over 40 years, and have seen just about every type of pisspoor reporting from all sides, even being the subject of one libelous story (what I did to that newspaper is for another day, but it was fun).
I worked with the FBI and the two agents, during Hoover’s time, were extremely professional and knowledgeable in their field. I have known other FBI, CIA, and military intelligence agents, and have found them to be professionals, dedicated patriots, and very rational people.
If I mentioned some of their names, you would recognize them; others you wouldn’t but they probably prevented WW3 - my contacts went way up the food chain in spooksville, from Nam to Berlin, Latin America to the Weathermen.
I’ll just mention a couple who you will find at Google, etc. - Herb “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick; Larry Gratwohl - Weather Underground; Tom West and Irvin Bock, Chicago PD; Larry Sulc, CIA; Herb Romerstein, NY state investigator, HCUA, HISC, Senate Intelligence Committee, State Dept/USIA Soviet Propaganda section; Whittaker Chambers, KGB/GRU, CPUSA, etc.
Whatever is wrong with the FBI today is due to the politicization of it and the CIA by Obama, pure and simple. If you know where to look, you’ll see what I mean.
Most newspaper writers are NOT trained in intelligence and police matters. The few good ones, like Fred Reed, are retired and there are literally no “police beat” reporters anymore.
To often they write a story and miss half of it. Not always their fault but a rush to judgment and a lack of background fundamentals of the subjects (i.e. intelligence, police methodology, the criminal justice system, our enemies and their tactics, and media bias), provide the average reader with average to poor stories, aka “junk”.
I got a degree in Police Science specifically to enhance my writing on law enforcement, terrorism, and internal security. My classmates, all law enforcement people, provided real-time comments and information, and all my teachers were either criminal lawyers, judges, retired FBI (one was the man who helped capture the German saboteurs who landed in New Jersey during WW2), active duty police officers, etc.
You’d be amazed what you DON’T KNOW when you start to write about police matters and internal security affairs. It takes decades to really learn the basics and nuances of the subject and how to write accurately about it.
Oh, attend a Klan/Nazi rally if you really want an education. Those today are nothing like those of the past, but you can get a glimpse of their mentally ill state. Then attend a communist or related leftist extremist organization’s meeting/rally, and you will find the same thing. Been there, done that.
About an informant who operated an entire operation - so what. Some radical groups were so disorganized that it made surveillance easier of some kind of structural form was given to the group. Been there, done that.
It is the goal of that group that is important, and the hidden identity of those who really run it. That’s what opened my eyes, but the mainstream media totally refused to report it despite many congressional hearings and reports, including live inside witnesses testimony.
Be glad we have the FBI and not the KGB. Too many of my friends spent time in Soviet torture centers (Lubyanka prison), and the Gulags of the Trans-Siberian Railroad system ( i.e. Potma)or in Murmansk-Archangel salt mines such as Vorkutka.
Yarddog: You’ve got a lot to learn about the real world. Open the door and enter it, if you to “see”.
Now: About Vietnam and Cambodia. Been there, done that. but it’s another story for another day.
Well I am surprised that I actually agree with just about every thing you said. I used to watch “I led 3 lives” when I was a kid.
I certainly did not know any of the famous people you did but I have known and worked with some people who were about as deep into counter-intelligence as one gets tho of course they never gave me any details.
During the 60s, I spent a couple of weeks being around a bunch of FBI agents and they were not impressive at all. I personally had some dealings with an FBI supervisor and he was about as sorry as they get. I had grown up watching “The FBI, with Efrim Zimbalist Jr.” and thought they about walked on water.
I ended up seizing his ranch and as far as I know, he never suffered any repercussions for his misbehavior.
You just knew channeling Boy George was going to add up to no good.
These guys look just like some of my favorite meth heads on this site:
The media usually get’s 1/5th of the story correct if it’s more complicated than a hit and run or stop and rob incident.
Everyone is a talking head these days...... I rarely watch cable news but we were cooped up with inclement weather on the day of the Virginia Tech shooting incident. I was so disgusted with the news coverage and the comments made by “experts” on television.
It is pointless to debate about these topics when so few facts are known. An affidavit to support these arrests is sealed by the court. It is probably hundreds of pages long (single spaced) and spans all kinds of investigative procedures and techniques. Too often, including on this forum, you get people who seem to think the arresting document is contained within the news article written by some young hack. Too many people form an opinion based on the initial coverage and rarely change it when new facts come to light.
Law enforcement in America at every level suffers from diarrhea of the mouth in the quest for good publicity. It’s not necessary to tell the media a GPS tracker was put on the burglars car and detectives used that to follow him/her and catch them red-handed. The wiser men of yesteryear would simply say “we had him under surveillance”. Trackers are expensive. This is why affidavits like this should be sealed, these are extremely comprehensive investigations that will be critically reviewed throughout the process. Conspiracy minded folks neglect the FACT that the defense attorney, his defense colleagues, defense investigators, and any other expert they wish to employ are all free to scrutinize the facts contained within the four corners of the affidavit. The Judge and the appeals court are not an easy audience either!
You sound like you would be an interesting man at choir practice.
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Advancing the SSM Conversation
Matt from Unlikely Words makes an excellent point in response to my most recent post on same-sex marriage, excellent because it advances a conversation that tends toward talking past one another:
The statistics don’t enter into it. Even accepting the claim (which I don’t doubt) that many or even most married couples have children isn’t an argument that marriage must be procreative. It’s just an argument that it generally is. I accept the descriptive claim that marriages tend to involve procreation. I reject the normative claim that marriage is fundamentally procreative.
To avoid the deterioration into non-communication, I won’t move on without insisting that I’ve never claimed that marriage must be procreative. My argument is against undermining the link between parenthood and marriage, whereby couples planning to have children get married and couples having sex understand that pregnancy comes with a unified set of responsibilities within a marital household. It is inherent in my promotion of a certain vision of marriage that I believe it to be what we make it, and since we have free will, we can make it what we want. Indeed, inasmuch as advocates for same-sex marriage insist that it is a matter of civil rights, they are the ones dictating a definition of marriage, which gets to the heart of their efforts to subvert our society and effectively disenfranchise people who disagree with them.
In the public debate over marriage, the two definitions that matter are not the “descriptive” and the “normative” (although procreative marriage is normative to the extent that it describes the norm, which it does), but the cultural and the legal, and in a democratic society, the latter ought to conform with, or at least not interfere with, the former, unless broader principles that the society prioritizes — such as equality — are thereby violated. That is why it is important to understand what marriage is in practice: because there are two ways in which we can know how to balance the various beliefs, interests, and priorities of our fellow citizens, by their actions and by their votes (with a footnote that the voice of those who profess to “speak for” our nation, such as artists in various media, decreasingly represents its people).
If actions (as interpretable through statistics) and votes confirm that marriage is procreative, then it isn’t invidious discrimination (i.e., in violation of the type of discrimination that our society considers overriding of other principles) to assert that homosexual relationships do not qualify. (As individuals, of course, homosexuals are free to enter into marriage as currently defined.)
Proponents of same-sex marriage who argue anything more than a preference that our understanding of marriage ought to change are claiming a supernormative definition — a moral one — and are thereby promoting essentially a religious belief. The irony is that I have no problem with their seeking to have that belief established in the law; we ought to be able to form our government, in democratic fashion, such that it doesn’t conflict with our beliefs, and theirs are free to compete in the social and legislative spheres. Contrary to progressives’ affinity for insisting that laws cannot be based on citizens religious convictions, this is how religion should interact with government, and it is in that spirit that I offer my defenses of traditional marriage.
Ultimately, I sit here comfortable in the knowledge that there are fewer and fewer of you every day (because people that hold on to your archaic opinion are DYING OFF) and more and more of me every day and eventually there will be enough of us to look around and say ‘Yeah, of course gay people should be treated like people.’ and gay marriage will just happen.
Thanks for the kind words. Unsurprisingly, you haven’t convinced me yet, and I’ll keep you in suspense for a bit longer with respect to my response.
I’ll just note that, contra this — “(although procreative marriage is normative to the extent that it describes the norm, which it does)” — that’s not what I mean by normative. (See definition 3.)
Thanks for the kind words. Unsurprisingly, you haven’t convinced me yet, and I’ll keep you in suspense for a bit longer with respect to my response.
I’ll just note that, contra this — “(although procreative marriage is normative to the extent that it describes the norm, which it does)” — that’s not what I mean by a href=”http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=normative”>normative.
Oh dear. Something terrible happened with my comments there.
I will never understand all the fuss about gay marriage. If two people want to get married, let them get married! If one church doesn’t tolerate same sex marriage, find one that does, or start one of your own. The state should recognize the legal joining of two people as one, regardless of religious interference.
Unless Greg is being facetios, I think I actually agree with him here!
I’m deadly serious. This bigotry makes NO sense to me.
If your trap (as you called it in another comment section) is to point out that homosexuals have children, can (a la Ms. Cheney) work together to bring children into the world, and one day may be able to create children who meld their DNA, I’ve already written my response, and you might save us both some time by finding one of those posts here or on Dust in the Light
I think it’s illustrative of my experience with this debate that thisone thread contains both an advanced step in the usual progression and the very first one. Well, here we go again!
I don’t believe the civil or cultural definitions of marriage to be encapsulated in the “the legal joining of two people as one.” How about the legal joining of siblings? Or a mother and adult daughter? Why only two? What’s the import of any such joinings that the state ought to recognize them?
Well, Greg, I suppose the last reply I’ll bother to make to you is that you are apparently not as intelligent as I’d thought. You’re just a closed-minded bully.
And just so’s you don’t get too comfortable, I’ll note that people like me are not “DYING OFF.” Consider that I did not start out life, or even this debate, as a person like me. I guess we’ll see whether my reasoned explanations of my position attract more converts than your insults dissuade.
Nope, that’s not what I have in mind, although I am morbidly interested to read your treatment of “gays with kids.” Any pointers, of should I just Google my heart out?
If your interest is purely morbid, I’ll decline to encourage it.
Sure you are. Just like there are fewer and fewer people every day who refer to blacks as ‘those damned coloreds’ someday those of you who are bigoted against gays will die off and fade from memory as public sentiment evolves forward and accepts all people equally.
I won’t even entertain your idiotic slippery slope argument of ‘they’ll be marrying their DOGS next’ as it’s not worth the pixels.
I don’t care if you “entertain” my point, Greg, as it wasn’t addressed to you. It was in response to a specific statement and wasn’t meant as an argument so much as further prodding to understand what Michael’s view of marriage actually is.
Moreover, I wouldn’t expect you to entertain it, because you clearly are not interested in conversation and in doing the often difficult work of ironing out differences to understand how well-meaning people come to such irreconcilably different conclusions. I can only reassert that my current view is not the one with which I began considering the issue years ago, and I can only further assert that I never rule out the possibility that I will change my mind.
You are different. Your mind is closed. You don’t believe that people who disagree with you can possibly be well-meaning. You give the impression that your opinion is driven more by emotion than by thought, and that you’ve some personal investment in this issue. (I could be misreading it, but your bombast has the feel of underlying insecurities — protecting your little brother from bruises, or something.)
If you need an outlet for your aggression, I suggest that you and Bobby O. take up the practice of sending unpublished letters to the editor back and forth.
Most of my letters, even to the BIG papers, get published.
But, I do have the email list for the non-publishable stuff. If you want on, just let me know.
“I don’t believe the civil or cultural definitions of marriage to be encapsulated in the “the legal joining of two people as one.” How about the legal joining of siblings? Or a mother and adult daughter? Why only two? What’s the import of any such joinings that the state ought to recognize them?”
As a heterosexual, married man my opinion and definition of marriage isn’t all that important. I am allowed, by law and current social mores to choose my mate and be entitled to all of the benefits that come with the marriage certificate. Others are not so fortunate. If somebody else wants to enter into a partnership for the sake of legal simplicity in regard to estates, health care decesions, adoption and whatever else comes with the territory that is fine with me. Holding onto a religious definition of matrimony in what should be a civil matter only causes discrimination against those who do not believe what the majority believes.
No, Michael, you are wrong on two counts:
1. As a citizen of a democratic nation — the critical offering of which is the opportunity to shape your own government and society — your definition of marriage is absolutely important. That it is not is a lie fed to the public for decades in order to get the masses to capitulate to a minority worldview.
2. You are not “allowed, by law and current social mores,” to choose any mate of your preference. You could not pick a man; you could not pick your sister. Homosexuals are bound by exactly the same rules as heterosexuals.
And I would pose two more (groups of) questions:
1. Given your “legal simplicity” phrase, am I to gather that you would not object to removing consanguinity restrictions from marriage law? Mothers ought to be able to marry their daughters? That would seem to render “marriage” meaningless — to end discrimination (in your characterization) by erasing all meaning from the institution. Why not just stop recognizing marriage and create simplified legal categories? Why force the government to steamroll millennia of human tradition and leverage the government thus to trample a majority of citizens cultural convictions?
2. Did you read the post to which this thread is attached? It seems as if you’re merely reasserting what I was arguing against without acknowledging that I’d said anything on the subject at all.
Same-sex couples shouldn’t have the right to conceive children together that is inherent to all marriages. When I say “conceive children together”, I mean a lab doing whatever it takes to create a child that has only the two same-sex parents as biological parents. We need to enact a law, quick, to stop doctors from opening the door to genetic engineering of manufactured designer babies by offering same-sex conception services to same-sex couples.
Also, all marriages must continue to guarantee a right to attempt to conceive together using their own gametes, or else we could find ourselves prohibiting people with such-an-such a genetic disease from conceiving. to protect people from the pressure to use “better” gametes, we need to affirm that all marriages have a right to conceive together using their own gametes.
Eventually, we should build on this with a law against joining unmarried gametes, to prohibit people from shopping for eugenicly screened gametes. We should all be created equal, as the union of a man and a woman that chose each other as life partners because they love each other, and we should all just be the natural product.
If your interest is purely morbid, I’ll decline to encourage it.
Is the comments section here intended to be a humor-free zone? If so, my bad.
I’ve found the relevant category over at Dust in the Light.
I honestly wouldn’t care in the least if the socially accepted traditional marraige ended tommorrow. I’ve seen enough “marraiges” that weren’t worth the paper the certificate is printed on to last a lifetime. People staying in the “marraige” for the sake of the children, People staying “married” because their religious beliefs forbid divorce. The whole institution of marraige shouldn’t be something that the rest of society needs to approve of. Civilization won’t crumble if the sacred institution of marraige ends. Children will be born, people will love them, man and beast won’t procreate.
However… if getting married in a church in front of God and your family and peers makes you happy, then pursue that happiness with all your heart.
2. Sometimes I have to read your posts numerous times before I get them. And even then I’m not sure that I do.
3. What the heck does “consanguinity” mean
One more thing,
By being allowed by law and current social mores to choose my mate I was implying that my choice of a female as a partner is acceptable while others are not afforded the same right.
So, Michael, you’re essentially a marriage abolitionist. That’s fine, but understand that the vast majority of your fellow citizens disagree with you and that you thereby create evidence contrary to Greg’s attack about my “idiotic slippery slope argument.” In your view, if it provides legal simplicity for people to marry their siblings, then so be it, a view which seems to have its roots, for you, in ending “discrimination” against homosexuals. Slip.
But I do think it indicates a somewhat stunning lack of community respect and surplus of recklessness to advance your vision by making the civil definition of marriage conflict with the cultural definition, rather than merely pulling the government out of marriage altogether and instituting (e.g.) civil unions for all. You’re reckless, as well, in your blithe assertion that nothing substantive will change if we scuttle an institution that mankind has seen fit to perpetuate for thousands of years, an assertion that you make with no apparent consideration of the broad range of studies suggesting the importance of marriage, running the gamut of findings from married people’s increased sexual satisfaction to the children of stable married couples doing better in life.
Regarding vocabulary, if you’ve got the Internet, you’ve got multiple dictionaries. Look the words up. It’s easier and faster than asking me to define them for you.
False. Every other adult male in the country has the right to choose any female he likes (and who consents) as a partner. That’s what marriage means, for reasons that I’ve enumerated extensively, but that you don’t seem to care to address.
I don’t think homosexuals have a choice when it comes to choosing the gender of their prefered partner. Would you prefer a person to live a lie, not only being dishonest to himself but also to his partner, then ultimately to his family which would have to be conceived through lies than to let him live in peace? I think not. And incidentally, I don’t need a dictionary, it was a joke. You really could use a little more humor around here.
Marriage is just a word. People will form loving bonds and have families with or without it. Human sacrifice was a tradition for a while too but we’re doing okay without that.
As for me being a “marriage abolitionist,” your need to label me is a bit unnecessary and completely irrevelant. I love being married. I threw a big wedding for my daughter. I just don’t think marriage as we know and accept it is the glue that holds this society together. I’m sure somewhere in this thread or in other of your posts there is evidence and opinions stating your views that I have overlooked, this topic is obviously more important to you than it is to me. I can appreciate your passion, just don’t expect the same from me.
So is Gay. If marriage means nothing, then neither does Gay, so it shouldn’t be necessary to use it as a basis for defining marriage.
Well put, smmtheory.
Michael, I don’t mind people’s not wanting to give this matter as much thought as I have, but oughtn’t you be reluctant, then, to make proclamations about what marriage is or isn’t and about what effect its absence will have?
As Greg made obvious above, my labeling you is neither unnecessary nor irrelevant. I was apparently correct to question whether your assertion of homosexuals’ rights would extend to pairings of other sorts. As we have this discussion in the proper development of our democratic society, participants ought to understand what lies behind and ahead of the push for same-sex marriage.
That said, I’ve a feeling I’d much rather have you increase your apathy than your passion, on this one. (See, I have a sense of humor. Perhaps its the jokes that fall flat.)
Justin, have you taken time to look into same-sex conception? Do you think it should be allowed or prohibited? Do you think that a same-sex couple could be married if it is prohibited? Do you think that marriage guarantees a right to attempt to conceive together?
The only thing we should be asking regarding the same-sex marriage debate is: is same-sex conception ethical? Should we give a person the same right to conceive with someone of their own sex that they have with someone of the other sex?
Stepping away from the SSM arguments and into the procreation debate for a moment…does the fact that my wife and I have chosen not to procreate lessen the validity of our marriage?
Does the Mormon view of sex mainly as a means to procreate make it immoral to accept sex between a married couple as pleasure? I fear that if the procreation argument is used to justify prohibiting gays from marrying, that argument couple eventually be used against heterosexual couples who do not procreate.
Justin has addressed the issue of marriages that don’t produce children in the past.
I think his position is that it’s perfectly OK for a particular marriage not to product children, but since marriage is primarily intended to encourage procreation marriages which are by definition incapable of producing offspring must be prohibited. (In other words, a few infertile heterosexual couples doesn’t undermine the fundamental link between marriage a children, but an influx of homosexual couples would.)
Do I have that even slightly right, Justing?
Also, I think the argument Michael is hinting at is the sex discrimination argument:
It’s currently legal for any man to marry any woman he chooses. However, it’s not legal for a woman to marry any woman she chooses. One pro-SSM argument claims that this violates the equal protection clause. In other words, restricting marriage to people of the opposite sex isn’t just discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, it’s also discriminating on the basis of sex.
(I’m putting this out as an explanation only; I don’t want to either advance or reject this argument at this time.)
It’s never been about the ability to procreate, but about the right to procreate. Marriage always gives the couple the right to procreate, using their own genes. Some couples we don’t give that right to because their procreation would be unethical, even if they have the ability to procreate. So it’s a question of whether we should give people the right to procreate with someone of their own sex. We can either leave it legal and let labs attempt it, or we can prohibit it, and however we answer should be our answer on marriage – it is the same question. Separating these questions would be terrible, it would strip conception rights from marriage and make us all vulnerable to eugenic screening.
Well, that’s the closest I’ve seen anybody who disagrees with me get to summing up that argument! The first tweak would be that I don’t argue that marriage is “primarily intended to encourage procreation,” but that it is primarily intended to encourage that expectation that procreation happens within its boundaries. Men and women should marry because what men and women do can create children, and children, as often as possible, ought to be raised in the stable marital homes of their biological parents.
The second, related, tweak is that it isn’t really a matter of numbers, but of intellectual concept. We can balance the principle of procreative marriage with minimizing government involvement in our lives simply by saying that marriage is an opposite-sex relationship. To include homosexuals in the definition would undermine that tacit understanding.
Incidentally, I’ve said before that there is a route here for homosexuals to, over time, situate their relationships such that they would not as greatly have this effect on marriage, perhaps to the extent that other considerations would benefit marriage more than harm it. (One requirement would be for them to unite their cause to a traditional vision of marriage, combining, say, SSM with a demand for more restrictive divorce laws.)
Awesome. Your clarifications are helping me a lot in formulating my response to your position. Trying to restate it forces me to really engage with it!
Unfortunately, now I have to delete whole paragraphs from my draft response and start over. 🙂
At some point, I’d love for you to expand on your last paragraph (about some kind of Missouri compromise with SSM for stricter divorce laws). I don’t understand what it means for homosexuals to “situate their relationships” in the way you mean.
Check out this poll on BlueMassGroup.com, where they came out 15 to 1 in favor of allowing labs to create children for same-sex couples. What’s amazing about it was the fact that they broke their silence about the subject, usually they never admit that they are demanding this technology to be made available. Articles about it are extremely rare, and are even sometimes self-censored to keep people from reading them, like this one that used to be on GayCityNews.com but now can only be found in the web.archives.org copy. In it the leading US researcher predicted we’ see babies come from stem-cell derived engineered gametes for same-sex couples in just three to five years – TWO YEARS AGO.
Please talk about this issue – we are insane to stand by and let them try this, it is totally wasteful and foolish and unethical and unnecessary. We should enact an egg and sperm law like they did in Missouri last year and like the PCBE recommended Congress do in 2004.
And we should then change our argument against same-sex marriage to “same-sex conception would be unethical and should not be allowed.”
Here’s a good article on same-sex conception so you know what I’m talking about.
Here’s a poll on BlueMassGroup.com 15 to 1 believe that attempting same-sex conception is a right, in spite of how unethical and unnecessary it is. You never hear them demanding this right, most people don’t even know the research is going on.
oh, sorry for the repeat, i thought it had lost my post…oh well, here’s another article about another researcher doing the same thing.
What…The Hell…are you talking about?
I’m talking about this procreation argument you guys are having. Marriage is a bout the right to conceive, all marriages have the right to conceive. And now, we have to decide if we shoudl give that right to same-sex couples. I gave links to articles on the research, here’s another about the fatherless mouse Kaguya and her 450 less lucky comrades. Same-sex conception should not be allowed. Conception must remain a right of marriage, as it has been consistently for 5,000 years.
This is what we should all be talking about.
“Ultimately, I sit here comfortable in the knowledge that there are fewer and fewer of you every day (because people that hold on to your archaic opinion are DYING OFF) and more and more of me every day and eventually there will be enough of us to look around and say ‘Yeah, of course gay people should be treated like people.’ and gay marriage will just happen. ”
I don’t think it has or will progress along these lines. The better analogy would be abortion. Even though the strident left maintains that to be pro-life is anti-women and misogynistic, few people call pro-lifers sexists and such.
Trying to ensure a social standard where children are born into married families with their own Mother & father is hardly going to go out of style.
The most they can hope for (and what they are aiming at) is for such discussions to be un-P.C. in the public square.
On that score, expressions like “everybody knows” that children are best off with their Mothers & Fathers or what marriage “really means” will continue to be heard at leasty in private conversation.
Well before that occurs however, I believe a situation will developed were our intellectual class will have to admit to the importance of family formation. Cetainly the evidence is well established as for as the fragility of marriage and the importance of marriage for children and society.
It is not sex discrimination though since the converse is true for males. It’s currently legal for any woman to marry any man she chooses. However, it’s not legal for a man to marry any man he chooses. What is true for women is true for men. Sexual proclivity is not a biological classification. It also is not discrimination on the basis of orientation. What is true for people with heterosexual proclivity is true for people with homosexual proclivity. Not only that, but enacting laws ensuring that people with homosexual proclivities can pretend to be married enshrines discrimination based upon orientation because they are usually written such that people with heterosexual proclivities cannot pretend to be married to the same sex.
Hi Fitz and smmtheory, what do you guys think of the poll at BlueMassGroup? Some people, maybe not you, but some people, have told me that no one is demanding same-sex conception rights. Well, this poll is (more) evidence that people DO demand that same-sex conception be made available. Do you think we have to allow it, just because it might be possible?
Please help stop genetic engineering, please help preserve my right to conceive with an eligible, consenting woman. That means please don’t let the discussion wander away from their insane demand, please don’t let them just begin doing same-sex conception while you are distracted into arguing about, damn, I can’t even follow whatever it is you guys are arguing about.
It should be so simple. Marriage says we approve of these two people conceiving together. Do we? Or is it completely unethical for someone to attempt to procreate with someone of the same sex?
Where’d everyone go? Justin, I do remember that I’ve brought this issue up with you in the past, but judging by the way you respond to the procreation argument, you have not incorporated the idea of same-sex conception rights into your argument. Did you forget about it, or did I never succeed in convincing you that we should not give same-sex couples all the rights of a married man and woman?
Neither. I guess I just haven’t figured out how to work it in. On the one hand, I agree with you that we don’t want to wait until practicality has made it too late to effectively make the strong moral case against such technology (including everything from children’s deserving a mother and a father to the life-destructive nature that the research and procedure will no doubt have.
On the other hand — and perhaps because the moral case is currently so obvious to most people — raising the issue appears to be jumping the gun, and to some extent, it may take away some of the persuasive force of the traditional marriage argument. I guess what I’m saying is that my gut is telling me that my efforts are better expended focusing on the marriage issue specifically, rather than allowing the debate to become mired in technologies that, as plausible as they are, will seem far-fetched to the average American.
Well, the debate doesn’t have to involve the average american, Justin! We’re bloggers, darn it! News travels fast, and the debate can change, and prompt action. It will change, we know, because the question of whether or not to allow same-sex conception will come up soon, probably during this next president’s first term, according to Dr. Richard Scott. It will be allowed or not allowed by members of Congress we are electing now, without us asking them how they feel about human genetic engineering. Some people are for it (see that poll on BMG, you can find the link to it on my eggandsperm.blogspot site, I don’t know why the links don’t work above) and I don’t want to be voting for any of those people.
And the way they decide this, for the whole nation, will decide the ultimate outcome of the marriage debate. LGBT groups have already claimed a right to all forms of reproductive technology, they understand it as one of the rights they mean by “all the rights of marriage”. They just don’t bring it up because they don’t need to, it’s already legal and they don’t have to demand it.
And it is the traditional marriage argument: for five thousand years we have used marriage to approve of the conception of children, no other method in any culture has legalized conception in any other way. It really undermines marriage to separate the two questions. It won’t be seen as a foreign concept to most people, marriages have children together. It will be easy to explain to everyone why the debate has changed to examine the issue of same-sex conception, and rational people have to agree it is unsafe now and should be banned now, even if maybe later Congress might decide to allow it.
Hope you find this to be worth the wait.
The title of this thread was so hopeful, “Advancing the SSM Conversation”…do you still think that it has advanced, or is it right back where they keep it, away from conception rights? You can talk about conception rights without having to bring up technologies that are “three to five years away” (Did you read those articles, btw?) You do agree that marriage has always granted conception rights to the couple, don’t you? Do you agree that all marriages should continue to grant conception rights? If so, then why not say so when Matt brings up infertile couples and couples that don’t intend on conceiving children? You don’t have to live in this lan of murky definitions about ‘normalizing’ this or that, you can cut right to the bone and say that same-sex couples shouldn’t have conception rights, but an eligible man and woman should be allowed to marry and attempt to conceive together. If they want to claim that same-sex couples should also be allowed to conceive together, then we can ask them to provide the evidence that this is safe. Please do “advance the conversation” by at least agreeing that marriage grants conception rights and always has and should always continue to. (Do you see the dangers in separating the issues, by saying that not all marriages should be allowed to conceivei together if there is a high risk of genetic problems? Maybe this is the area you need to consider.) And please don’t underestimate your influence on the debate, and the speed with which the debate can change and effect real changes in law. We could conceivably push this current Congress to enacting the needed laws that would end this decisive debate and stop genetic engineering and provide equal protections to state civil unions. There is no reason… Read more »
I’m sorry to say, John, that I’m not sure I agree that marriage grants conception rights. Such rights are inalienable, and I’m uncomfortable with the implication that the state can grant them or take them away. The exception being a sort of “morally heinous” clause covering incest.
The insistence on such a clause actually leads to my second concern: For the general population, homosexual acts no longer qualify as heinous (at least not from a third-party perspective), and to the degree that one emphasizes the possibility of such couples’ being procreative, I think you increase the difficulty in making the case for traditional marriage. Our society is increasingly reckless about experimenting with such technologies, and it could very well be a disaster to put the faces of folks’ homosexual relatives on such radical experiments as non-gametic conception by making the emphasis of those opposed the results for gay couples rather than the process of experimentation (social and scientific).
Individuals all have a basic civil right to marry and procreate (Skinner). The state can prevent certain types of relationships from marrying, if there is a supportable basis, like all the ineligible couples listed in most state’s laws (Loving). Marriage grants the right to sexual intercourse (Lawrence) and therefore procreation (Zablocki). All marriages grant procreation rights and always have, that’s been the basic definition of marriage from day one. You are the one making it possible for the state to take conception rights away from a marriage, not me. We don’t allow a brother and sister to marry but forbid their procreation, we forbid their marriage, because marriage is permission to procreate, in every case, around the globe universally. The worry you have, that if we connect gay rights with same-sex procreation, then it will be harder to stop same-sex procreation, is already a moot point, it’s unavoidable. Thought they try to keep it under wraps, they have jumped the gun a little bit a few times and made it clear that they will connect gay equal rights, complete with faces on it, to reproductive technology. Did you read the Causes In Common statement? LGBT groups already claim a right to unlimited reproductive technology. They already are unanimously in favor of allowing scientists to try to create children for same-sex couples. Do you think they are going to forget about this issue and forget that it has something to do with gay rights if we do? They didn’t oppose the 2004 Missouri Egg and Sperm law because they didn’t want the attention it would bring, but they would oppose a national egg and sperm law whether we bring up the fact that it would prevent same-sex conception or not. And if they have marriages, they will claim their marriage gives… Read more »
Err, that was the 2006 Missouri Stem Cell Initiative, which forbade implanting embryos that were not the result of joining a man’s sperm and a woman’s egg.
I hope each day that goes by is filled with you thinking about how conception rights are related to marriage.
Are you or are you not in favor of an egg and sperm law that would stop genetic engineering and same-sex conception? Are you against the work that Dr. Richard Scott is doing in New Jersey, or do you think we should allow him to try to create children for same-sex couples?
These are important issues to be clear about. If you think same-sex conception should remain legal, then you aren’t against same-sex marriage, you are against same-sex parenting, or same-sex coupling in general.


This weapon was inspired by the ridiculous, chunky, oversized guns that comic book anti-heroes all seemed to carry back in the 90s (along with ALL the pouches and an edgy, misspelled name like BLUDDRAYVEN or something). Imagine if an Olympic Arms OA-93 were chambered in .50 Beowulf, and you'll get the idea.
I started with the base game Marksman Carbine mesh and removed the stock, handguard, optic and top rail. I then replaced the magazine with the one from the Assault Carbine and added the silencer from the 12.7mm Pistol and the iron sights from the Silenced .22 Pistol.
The following properties, perks and challenges apply to this weapon:
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Last October was a month of many retirements at work. Our company offered the “Golden Handshake” which is basically an attractive retirement package to anyone close to retirement, thinking about an upcoming retirement or anyone wanting to find employment elsewhere. This was offered to help the company’s budget in the upcoming year(s) and we had close to about 40 people who accepted the offer. I made this cake for two of my coworkers and then made 3 separate mini cakes for 3 other coworkers. We gifted them with vintage engraved forks I found on Etsy. I found inspiration for this cake on Pinterest. This cake was a chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream and fresh sliced strawberry filling and frosted with Frostin Pride. My handwriting on a cake is not so good and I never get it aligned right so my trick is to find a font I like, trace it with royal icing on waxed paper and transfer it to the cake (or on fondant plaques). The smaller cakes were 4” mini chocolate cakes with buttercream filling and frosting cake
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For many people, apprehension manifests itself in the physical self as a potent feeling of heaviness or nausea situated in the depths of the lower abdomen. And it is there, at the seat of the second or sacral chakra, that we must lovingly and deliberately confront the anxiety. By rooting down into the deepest physical reaches of ourselves, we can cleanse ourselves of unease and replenish the space it has left behind with tranquil awareness. Much of what we encounter in our daily lives has the potential to awaken feelings of nervousness within us or make us question whether we are truly in control of our lives. When you establish a den of peace within your core, you empower yourself to act rather than react in distressing situations. Your balanced second chakra helps you respond productively to the turmoil around you while your inwardly directed attention steadies you.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ birth, the BBC Philharmonic and Hallé orchestras are collaborating on a festival named after the cantata Toward the Unknown Region. Built around a complete symphony cycle featuring conductors including Sir Mark Elder, John Wilson and Sir Andrew Davis, the festival begins on 26 February with Mark Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Philharmonic in the thirds and fifth symphonies, together with the orchestral song cycle On Wenlock Edge. Full details of the festival can be found here.
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It was a fundamental teaching and central source of battlefield talk, derived and discussed in the Sixties about the motion and meaning of history. There are, we assumed and argued with no small amount of certainty, two tendencies in history, that which is rising, grounding itself and growing stronger and that which is dying, decaying and passing away. And we defiantly declared that we and other oppressed and struggling peoples of this country and of the world belong to that rising tide of history. Likewise, we asserted with equal surety that oppressors of all kinds—racists, colonialists, capitalists, imperialists—and their lackeys, collaborators, hirelings, henchmen and handmaidens, belong to the declining side of history. And they would eventually be defeated, and freedom and justice for all would emerge and triumph in the world.

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Delfina Foundation residents Pedram Baldari and Babak Golkar, present new site-specific artworks for the V&A’s Friday Late with MasterCard, in celebration of Norouz (Persian New Year). Co-commissioned in partnership with Magic of Persia, the works will be showcased at the V&A only for this event. Night of Norouz was presented in collaboration with the Iran Heritage Foundation.
About the works
Pedram Baldari: The Case (2012)
The Case was an interactive installation in the V&A’s Raphael Room that resembled a giant Balance Board made up of 86 Maze Ball games. This artwork refers to complex balancing acts in the Iranian political system. The layout of the Maze Ball games, which make up the surface of the artwork, nods toward geometric motifs found in Iran. The audience is invited to participate by standing on The Case; they are challenged to navigate each ball through its own wooden labyrinth in order achieve 86 goals simultaneously!
Babak Golkar: Mechanisms of Disorientation: TOWARDS A FRAGMENTED UNDERSTANDING (2012)
This installation reflected on and distorted notions of space and cultural reflexivity. Babak used the top half of a disco ball rotating on a plinth, reflecting and refracting light and images taken from parts of the V&A Museum. Reflecting on past histories vis-a-vie contemporary objects, Babak drew a parallel between how we observe history in relation to affairs in contemporary culture.