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Hi, today I tried to add a acm-lv10 by generating a signal. Unfortunately I could not get it to work. Tried everything: PTP, delete device in homey and add again, reset the Kaku device, shorten the distance to less than a meter. No clue why it is not working. Any ideas?
Did you verify the working of the ACM-LV10 Mini-LED-controller 0-10V with a KAKU remote?
That is what I will try next, but have to buy one
Controller works with remote and adding it to homey by using çopy remote also works.
So it reems related to the ‘generate a signal’ functionality
Hi, since version 4.0.10, my AC-300 switch/dimmer is not being recognised as a dimmer, but as a switch. In the app it doesn’t have a dimmer slider anymore. Can you please fix this?
Things i’ve done:
- Cold restart Homey
- Restarted the KaKu App
- I have deleted the device and reinstalled it, but it comes back as a switch, not a dimmer.
Homey firmware is 1.5.12
Kaku version is 4.0.14
I cant add the APA2-2300R annymore, they where connected before and removed.
I kan connect them to a remote but not to homey.
Are more users experience this?
U did ofc clear the memory of the plug?
yes, i dit with the family button on the remote.
The plug cliks a few times as conformation.
With 3 wall plugs
Can’t trigger flow with the doorbell button anymore, my old flow have a broken chain. I thought I just had to re-pair but it didn’t work. It used to work very good. I can still ad the dong part to my flows. (ACDB-7000C)
When you re-pair a device, Homey will regard that as a new device, so to fix the flow, remove the broken card and create a new one from the newly paired device.
It doesn’t even show up to add to the flow. Only the speaker (dingdong) wall plug part. Didn’t help to re-pair the button (removed device first).
Time to create an issue, I guess: https://github.com/athombv/nl.klikaanklikuit/issues
EDIT: take a look at the changelog:
“Changed doorbell devices to have a seperate device for the gong and the button. This fixes a issue where the device keeps triggering itself in a flow where both the gong and the button where used. If you’re using the button in a flow, you’ll have to add the button seperately and integrate it again in the flow.”
I understand what Athom did in v4.0.13, to give the sender and gong a separate card, but now I can only setup the KAKU gong ( 7000C) again, but not my KAKU remote sender (7000B ), so if I install the sender, I see the instruction to hit the sender button ( doorbell button ), but there is no connection made between Athom and my doorbell.
I did try to remove everything and install again more then once, but my sender is not connected to Homey again. What do I do wrong?
I did select ADCB-6600 remote for connecting the ACDB-7000B sender and is working well.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll try that !
Update: To bad, this didn’t work. As it looks now, none of the KAKU devices aren’t working after the update of the app. The devices that are not working anymore are the doorbell ( ACDB-7000C and ACDB-7000B remote ) , smartplugs ( APA3-1500R ) and also my outdoor sensors ( AMST-606 ) Looks like the problem lies within the app.
Even re-install of the devices is not possible anymore.
@willem : I did remove the ACDB-7000B sender and added again as a ADCB-6600 remote.
Did you remove the old devices before adding them again?.
So the problem I am experiencing is that the on/off commando’s are queued… And after a few minutes of being unresponsive it flushes the queue so my light flashes on and off
Anyone got the same?
I had this behaviour in the past a couple of times. For what I can recall mostly this was due to some strange things in flows. For instance I had a flow that pushes a certian state to a kaku lightbulb every x minutes. For some reason this caused another flow to malfunction because, I guess, the 433 chip can’t handle paralel commands.
So you could check the flows to see if there are certain possiblities to flood the chip.

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CHONBURI/PATTAYA: — The family of a woman who had her leg broken while having a traditional Thai massage have gone to the media for justice after the owner of the shop went back on a promise to pay her bills.
Kapook reported that 59 year old Pimyanee Thanwongsakun had visited the shop in Samet district.
The massage was done by the male owner of the shop, a man called Thanaphop Klachingchai, 50.
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Assistant Professor of American Studies and Media Studies
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Shilpa Davé is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Science working with Bonnycastle, Hancock, and Lile-Maupin Associations.
Shilpa Davé is the author of Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film (University of Illinois Press Feb 2013) and is the co-editor of the collection East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (NYU Press 2005). She earned her Bachelors degree at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She came to the University of Virginia from the department of American Studies at Brandeis University and she has held faculty positions at Cornell University, Wesleyan University, and UW-Madison and been a director and assistant dean of the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College.
Professor Davé researches and teaches about representations of race and gender in media and popular culture, American cultural narratives of immigration and border crossings, comparative American studies including Asian American and South Asian American Studies, and film, television, and literary studies. She has published on topics ranging from teaching Asian American Studies to “No Life Without Wife: Masculinity and Modern Arranged Meetings for Indian Americans” to “Apu's Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents,” the comic series Spider-Man India, and on Model Minorities and the Spelling Bee.
Univ of Illinois Press, Feb 2013

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Kentucky Man The Second Convicted Under State’s Unborn Victims Law
by Steven Ertelt
November 1, 2006
Louisville, KY (LifeNews.com) — A Kentucky man is the second to be convicted under a state unborn victims law that protect pregnant women and their babies before birth. Like those of dozens of other states, the law allows prosecutors to charge criminals with a second crime when a baby is killed or injured in the court of an attack on her mother.
Kenton County prosecutors secured the first conviction when Dwayne Dishman pleaded guilty Tuesday to fourth-degree fetal homicide.
Dishman is accused of killing his girlfriend’s unborn child after he has a physical fight with her on June 25. Three days after the incident, she went to the hospital and had a miscarriage.
That’s the equivalent to reckless homicide for those already born, according to a Cincinnati Post report.
John Meier, Dishman’s public defender, said he plead guilty because he was worried that a jury of northern Kentucky residents, who are particularly pro-life, would get the full sentence if he didn’t plea bargain.
As a result of the plea, the Post reports, Kenton Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Christy Muncy will suggest to the judge that Dishman, who is 23 year-old, should serve five years on probation.
Doctors said the fight caused the miscarriage but Meier said he would have contested that at trial and indicated the woman had problem pregnancies, including a miscarriage, in the past.
He told the Post that Dishman plead guilty because he had already been in jail for four months and didn’t want to spend more time there.
Eric Adam Trask, a 19 year-old, was the first Kentucky resident to be charged under the law. He was sentenced to 12 years in jail after admitting he beat his girlfriend so severely that it caused her to have a miscarriage.
According to the National Right to Life Committee, 34 states currently have unborn victims laws. Some 24 states protect pregnant women and their babies throughout pregnancy while 10 offer protection only in the latter parts.
Related web sites:
National Right to Life – https://www.nrlc.org


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50 Cent blasts record company
50 Cent has blasted his record company for "moving in slow motion", to get his next album out.
The 'In Da Club' rapper - who is signed to Interscope Records - has his fifth album 'Black Magic', ready for release but has clashed with the label about when and how to release it.
He tweeted: " Ok I tried to be cool with my record company . I went to the meeting talk to everyone and st feels like there moving in slow motion.
"I worked really hard on this album I'm not gonna let it come out like some bullst. There use to me just putting it out (sic).
"My whole career iv been doing st and they have been playing catch up this is the last fking album THEY BETTER WAKE UP AND WORK."
50 - real name Curtis Jackson - further warned fans if he can't reach a compromise with the label soon, the album, his first since 2009's 'Before I Self Destruct' - could be delayed until next year.
He tweeted: "I'm sorry to announce I will not be releasing a new album this year if we don't get on the same page.
"I would rather not launch my album without a plan the whole system is executing. I don't know why they play with me, they know how I get. (sic)"Posted on 17 Jun 2011 09:45 to category : Band / Celebrity News
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MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- This weekend, the largest floating, inflatable water park in North America will return to Lake McSwain in Mariposa County.
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|Folk for two Violins
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|George A. Speckert
|20/16 ページ・30.0 x 23.0 cm・160 g・Stapled
This collection contains many well-known pieces from the Anglo-American world which are catchy and of a dance-like quality. Some melodies are lively, some dreamy but all are easy on the ear. Both violinists are of equal importance and the melody moves frequently from one player to another. When the player takes on the accompanying role, he occasionally has to substitute the guitar and must play arpeggios and easy double stops. The melody part contains embellishments typical of the style.
• Well-known catchy folk music pieces
• Evenly balanced parts
• Entertaining and street music worthy
From the contents:
"Morning has Broken", "All through the Night", "Scarborough Fair", "The Foggy Dew", "The Rolling of the Stones", "I'll Fly Away" and others
George Speckert is a composer, author and lecturer in multimedia production and E-learning. He has composed and arranged pieces for numerous Bärenreiter editions.
I'll Fly Away - Halleluja - All through the Night - Farewell Rosanna - The Rolling of the Stones - Oh Happy Day - Scarborough Fair - Shenandoah - This is Your Land - Morning has Broken - Like a Rolling Stone - The Foggy Dew


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“Disorders In Human Integumentary System”
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Dermatitis is a broad term that covers a wide variety of inflammatory skin conditions, almost all of which begin as an allergic reaction to a specific substance with which the skin comes in contact. The result is usually an itchy rash that is red or pink in color. Eczema is a form of dermatitis.
Vitiligo is a skin condition in which the loss of pigment results in the appearance of irregularly shaped milky white-colored patches on the skin, according to an article by Oliver Pichay on NursingCrib.com. For obvious reasons, this condition is far easier to spot in people whose normal skin color is dark.
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Welcome to the FCGH Library, which we hope will become a hub of information on the Framework Convention on Global Health.
The FCGH Alliance has started to gather materials so that this Library can be an accessible resource for all. To begin with, below are a number of documents (pdf) for download, and hopefully for discussion and sharing with others. We would warmly welcome comments on any of these papers at the bottom of the page. Further documents, presentations, videos and and audio files will be added to the Library in the coming weeks — stay tuned!
FCGH briefing paper (overview) (2018) (pdf)
This briefing paper provides the overall vision of the FCGH, how the FCGH would respond to 4 core failings of national and global governance for health, possible treaty models of treaties and other international frameworks that the FCGH could learn from, and an FCGH call to action, including for a WHO FCGH working group.
Second sign-on letter calling for FCGH support from new WHO Director-General (2017) (pdf)
Dozens of NGOs and global health leaders from around the world call for the new WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros, to establish a WHO FCGH Working Group to explore the potential benefits, principles, and parameters of the FCGH. (September 2016)
First sign-on letter calling for FCGH support from incoming WHO Director-General (2017)
Global health leaders call for the newly appointed WHO Director-General to support the FCGH, pointing to the connections between the FCGH and his priorities, including universal health coverage. (June 2016)
FCGH Key Issues Raised (2016) (pdf)
Much like a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document, this document points to a number of key issues that people may be curious about regarding the FCGH, such as the need for a treaty on the right to health when the right is already in international law, the need for a treaty rather than non-binding law, and the mechanisms that the FCGH could include.
Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health: Realizing the Universal Right to Health (2014) (pdf)
Building on the FCGH Manifesto of 2012, the FCGH Platform launched the FCGH Alliance predecessor — the Platform for an FCGH — explained the need for an FCGH and offered the fundamental principles that would guide its core content.
Health for All: Justice for All (The FCGH Manifesto) (2012) (pdf)
This Manifesto was an early global call to action to join the campaign for the FCGH, laying out the case for the FCGH, rooted in human rights, global health justice, and social justice, and key principles of the FCGH, while calling for communities, civil society, and all people to insist upon the right to health. (2012)
The Next WHO Director-General’s Highest Priority: A Global Treaty on the Human Right to Health (Lancet Global Health, 2016) (pdf)
Global health leaders from around the world make the case for why the right to health and the FCGH should be the highest priority of the incoming (2017) WHO Director-General, who could by “seiz[ing] the potential of the FCGH…..launch a historic effort to align national and global governance for health with human rights, bringing the world closer to global health with justice.”
A Vote for the World’s Health, Absent From the Headlines (DevEx, 2016)
Precious Matsoso, the Director-General of South Africa’s Department of Health, and Mushtaque Chowdhury, Vice Chair of BRAC, make the case for why the FCGH should be a top priority for the incoming (2017) WHO Director-General, including how in a world with nationalist populism on the rise, “Joining together in this treaty would bring countries together in a common venture for global health — and help heal a fractured world.”
An Independent Review and Accountability Mechanism for the Sustainable Development Goals: The Possibilities of a Framework Convention on Global Health (Health and Human Rights Journal, 2016) (pdf)
This article explains how the FCGH “could establish a nuanced, layered, and multi-faceted regime of compliance and accountability to the right to health” and, in the process, “significantly strengthen accountability for the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
Imagining Global Health with Justice: In Defense of the Right to Health (Health Care Analysis, 2015) (pdf)
This article offers core content of the FCGH and points to the tremendous value the FCGH could have in creating a global governance for health founded on the right to health, while mounting a passionate defense against criticisms of founding global governance for health in the right to health. (2015)
Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health: A Transformative Agenda for Global Health Justice (Yale Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, 2013)
Beginning a discussion of the persistence and depth of global health inequities, this Article offers a systematic account of the goals and justifications for the FCGH, its normative foundations, and potential construction of an FCGH, grounded in the human right to health.
A Framework Convention on Global Health: A Catalyst for Justice (WHO Bulletin, 2012) (pdf)
Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, and UNAIDS chief strategist Kent Buse point to the FCGH as a way to “rekindl[e] our common interest in the right to health,” with the potential for the FCGH to be “a catalyst to making justice in global health a common cause.”
Realizing the Universal Right to Health Presentation (pptx)
“This Powerpoint presentation provides an overview of the justification for and key features of the FCGH, as well as how the FCGH could reinforce the Sustainable Development Goals.”
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Project is no longer being actively worked on, if someone else would like to pick this up, please do so.
Super Simple Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver Install.
*This does not work past Raspbian Stretch
*Stretch Users Scroll to the bottom for Install Instructions (This is in the testing phase for the moment, please give feedback here
*Requires Raspbian Jessie LITE you can find the lastest Jessie Lite Image here*
Now Live, includes the following new features:
- Volumio Compatibility for Bluetooth Only - Installs A2DP Bluetooth Streaming to RPI
- Backing up of original files
- Uninstallation functionality
- Restoring original files
- Updated logging for easier bug testing
- Cleaner install and better support
- Ability to disable Wifi on Bluetooth Connection. Needs to be enabled, but solves choppy bluetooth playback if no external wifi card is available.
SNAPCAST Support! Please test it, i have had great success so far.
This type of Multiroom Audio would not be possible without the awesome Repo:
Snapcast and Badaix. Special Thanks to Totti2 for getting the config just right.
Additional Thanks to the awesome Repo:
Shairport-Sync and Mike Brady for making it so easy to use.
This project has combined several different projects into one, culminating into a plug-and-play Audio Receiver project. It incorporates A2DP Bluetooth, Snapcast, and AirPlay as possible ways to stream music to your Raspberry Pi. When paired with a sound card or HiFi audio DAC, you get high quality stereo audio.
- Volumio users can now install the Bluetooth Only option, for the time being no Meta Data is forwarded to the Web Interface, this is a work in progress.
- Addition and support for SnapCast as Server and Client or Both (Will need some manual configuration, creates a very simple multiroom setup)
- Use of External Soundcards
- soxr interpolation with shairport-sync, works well on Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3, haven't tested on any other boards yet.
- Works great with Sabrent USB Sound Card, HifiBerry Amp+ (I would not recommend this in a car) and HifiBerry DAC+ Pro, other Hifi DAC's should have no different functionality and should work just as well.
- Creates Internet-less Wireless Network (Setup as an AP) to allow users to connect to the network and use AirPlay
- Allows for Bluetooth A2DP, AirPlay, and local files played through Kodi.
- Uses kodi as a GUI, and supports the use of sound cards.
- Supports Infrared remotes, currently setup for the Matricom IR Remote.
- Uses custom GPIO pins for Infrared to be used with HifiBerry boards, IQaudIO boards, and JustBoom boards.
- Includes boot configurations in the
- Supports All Hifiberry DAC Boards, IQaudIO, JustBoom, and USB sound cards.
This is a further fixed version with the addition of being able to Deploy the project in car without a Wireless Network from my original Raspberry Pi Audio Receive Install repo which was forked from adenbeckitt, with a few changes made for shairport-sync dependencies and configuration files, which is a general fix from ehsmaes' version. This now works with Raspbian Jessie.
- For the time being, I have not been able to get espeak to work with a soundcard. I will be working to get this working either with espeak or another program.
- Unsure how Android will act on a wireless network without internet, iOS doesn't display the WiFi signals and will use Cellular Data for data requirements. However, iOS devices still can play local music to the Pi without any cellular data.
- Raspberry Pi Zero W (new Model with Bluetooth and Wireless built-in) is likely supported and will work. Although, some resource intensive processes may suffer.
- Doesn't work for Raspbian Stretch (NOOBS ships with Stretch, so you will need to use the latest Raspbian Jessie Lite Image)
This will install on the latest Raspbian Jessie, with just the following commands.
[email protected]:~/ $ sudo apt-get update
[email protected]:~/ $ sudo apt-get install git
[email protected]:~/ $ git clone https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install.git
[email protected]:~/ $ cd Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install
[email protected]:~/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install $ sudo ./install.sh
1. Install the Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver Car Installation
2. Install the Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver Home Installation
3. Install the Raspberry Pi Network Without Internet Installation (For teaching!)
4. Install the Bluetooth Only Installation
5. Install the Snapcast Installation (BETA), choose from Snapcast Server, Client, or Both (Requires Minor Configuration)
6. Install a Custom Raspberry Pi Audio Receiver
Which installation would you like to choose? (1/2/3/4/5/6) : Choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6
Do you want all the Devices to use the same name? (y/n) : Choose y or n
When Choosing 'y'
Device name: Choose Device Name
Device WiFi Password: Choose Password
When Choosing 'n'
Bluetooth Device Name: Choose Device Name (Depending on Install)
AirPlay Device Name: Choose Device Name (Depending on Install)
Access Point Device Name: Choose Device Name (Depending on Install)
Device WiFi Password: Choose Password (Depending on Install)
- No Sound Card
- HifiBerry DAC Light
- HifiBerry DAC Standard/Pro
- HifiBerry Digi+
- Hifiberry Amp+
- Pi-IQaudIO DAC
- Pi-IQaudIO DAC+, Pi-IQaudIO DACZero, Pi-IQaudIO DAC PRO
- Pi-IQaudIO DigiAMP
- Pi-IQaudIO Digi+
- USB Sound Card
- JustBoom DAC and AMP Cards
- JustBoom Digi Cards
Which Sound Card are you using? (0/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11) : Sound Card Choice
Looking for Devs to Help Support/Futher This Project
git clone https://github.com/bareinhard/super-simple-raspberry-pi-audio-receiver-install
git checkout stretch-fix
Now graciously accepting donations. Donations are not required, but donations do help to keep this project alive and up to date


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Rob looked absolutely dashing on the red carpet of his ‘Cosmopolis’ premiere and he looked to be enjoying attention from his female co-stars — should Kristen Stewart be jealous?
Robert Pattinson is so charming! The handsome 26-year-old arrived at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24 looking dapper in his suit and unbuttoned shirt. He doesn’t even have to try to look so good!
Just the night before, Rob was spotted making out with Kristen Stewart passionately on the balcony of Baron in Cannes, France, at the On The Road after party. This is Kristen’s new movie which premiered at the festival too.
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Kylie Jenner’s baby will need a lip kit, according to Wendy Williams.
The talk show host launched a savage attack on the 20-year-old on Wednesday, jibing that her baby is going to look like the ‘old’ Kylie.
‘Let me tell you something, you can do whatever you want to yourself, but the baby is still going to look like the old you… just saying,’ she sneered.
Williams also claimed the reality star had been accidentally impregnated and dumped by Travis Scott. Congratulating Kylie’s older half sister Khloe on her pregnancy, Wendy went on to speculate as to why the youngest KUWTK star had remained silent on her own condition.
‘Well, why do you think? I guessed right away: because she’s not with Travis Scott anymore,’ she deduced.
‘He’s like, “No, I’m a rock star. You got plenty of money on your own, figure it out … I’ll pay child support from afar”.’
Williams questioned whether the 20-year-old was even pregnant, or if fans were being ‘bamboozled.’
‘She’s only 20, you know what I mean. Remember when you were 20, you didn’t want anything to do with a baby,’ but added that Kylie’s 20 is more ‘like 35.’
Wendy is no stranger to relationship drama herself, continuing to stand by husband Kevin Hunter, even after DailyMailTV revealed last year he has a mistress of ten years.
Meanwhile Travis was spotted performing at Avenue Los Angeles on Tuesday night with Quavo of Migos, but no Kylie.
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Arsenal is among the top teams in the English premier league competition that have had tough times in more than three seasons which were followed by the continued poor performance and results.
Finishing eigth last season, the gunners will now for the very first time miss the European competition ( Europa League and UEFA champions league). They even qualified for the Champions league competition five years ago under their former manager Arsene Wenger.
With the club now working to support current manager Mikel Arteta to bring their joy back,new signings have so far been made in the club and others are yet to come. James Madison and Ben White are their top premier league targets.
According to the latest reports from Fabrizio Romano, Sambi Lokonga gas completed his move to join the club and now it's the official announcement that awaits.The red devils on the other side are working on Raphael Varane transfer after completing the move for Jadon Sancho who signed a five year contract with the club.
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I am aware I haven't done anything for Halloween yet, as I promised, so here are some ideas for you, while waiting.
Wanna know my carnival costumes over the years?
2008 - Apparently being an emo was really in back then. And you know what? I admit it. I wanted to be one, because of their style!
I would be the worst emo, though. Being sad and suicidal was not me. I'm happy!
2009 - Yes. I was Bill Kaulitz. I thought I did a really good job, but looking back now, it was rather bad.
I used lots of hairspray to achive the perfect spiked hair, yet it didn't work.
Oh and shout out to my friend Irene, who is in the picture!
2010 - This was the Lady GaGa phase, in which I loved everything that had to do with her.
I even went to a costume party and everyone was pleasantly surprised and got loads of compliments.
2011 - I was not really creative that year. I just bought a pirate costume and wore it.
It was a really pretty costume though.
2012 - IMMA BEE.
I loved this costume! I wanted to be dressed as a ladybug, but I liked this better.
The extreme lashes took the whole outfit on another level.
I was finally becoming creative!
2013 - It's really frustrating how ignorant people can be. I mean, how can you not understand I was Bellatrix Lestrange? My hair is messy. I wear black. I wear leather. I hold a wand. I have the "I'm going to kill your whole family" look. And for goodness' sake I have a freaking DARK MARK.
Only a couple of people realised what I was dressed as, without giving a hint.
I liked it though, and I consider it as one of the best looks I've done. It was rather accurate!
Blogpost on my first Dark Mark attempt: http://mariapoool.blogspot.gr/2013/03/sneak-peak.html
Blogpost on the whole outfit: http://mariapoool.blogspot.gr/2013/03/carnival-costume-bellatrix-lestrange.html
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Women with Alzheimer’s have poorer cognitive abilities than men at the same stage of the disease, research suggests
An in-depth review of studies on dementia shows that women Alzheimer’s have poorer cognitive abilities than men at the same stage of the disease.
The paper published in World Journal of Psychiatry suggests women’s cognitive functions are more severely and widely impaired, with men consistently outperforming women.
The detailed review of evidence found that women’s memory and thinking functions appear to be more affected by the disease, even in aspects where tend to have an advantage, such as in verbal and language skills.
The study did not establish the reasons for the differences.
But some experts believe a lack of oestrogen in postmenopausal women diminishes cognitive functions such as memory, which makes it more vulnerable if Alzheimer’s develops.
Another theory suggests that time in work protects against the disease, with men traditionally spending more of their years in the workplace, building a greater ‘cognitive reserve’, enabling them to better resist the impact of the illness.
A third theory suggests women are more likely to carry a gene APOE 4 which has been linked to Alzheimer’s, and to cognitive decline and memory problems even in healthy individuals.
Keith Laws, Professor, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, said:
“Our findings may have important implications for variation in the risk factors, progression and possibly the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in men and women.
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“For instance, genetics are hard to change but easier to screen, cognitive reserve is modifiable and with more women working, the next generation may suffer less. It istherefore fundamental that we continue to identify the role of sex differences to enable more accurate diagnoses and open up doors for new treatments to emerge”.
Dr James Pickett, Head of Research at Alzheimer’s Society said:
“We already know that two thirds of people living with dementia are women. This could be in part due to the fact that women live longer, but it also appears that women are at a higher risk of developing dementia for reasons that we don’t yet know. This review pulls together much of the existing evidence to give us a clearer idea about the impact that Alzheimer’s disease has, particularly for women.
“The authors of the review have some interesting theories about why women may be affected by Alzheimer’s more than men – including genetics and hormones. These need to be explored in greater depth so we can understand if there are ways we can address the particular needs and experiences of women with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
“However, it’s key to remember that, regardless of gender, no two people with dementia are the same and will experience different signs and symptoms. Anyone who is worried about dementia can find information and help on the Alzheimer’s Society’s website.”


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Can Sen. Heidi Heitkamp explain the sudden jump in pay for all of her campaign employees in the exact same pay period the Trump tax reform plan—which she voted against—went into effect?
If Heitkamp’s “no” vote was driven by the Washington liberals’ claim that Trump’s tax plan would raise taxes on the middle class, her own campaign filings sure suggest otherwise.
Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s Campaign Not Saying if Staff Benefited From the Trump Tax Cuts She Voted Against
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In my Sunday print column I mentioned something I want to expand on a bit here on the blog.
“Even Heitkamp’s own campaign staff appears to be enjoying the tax reductions,” I wrote after noting that Senator Heidi Heitkamp voted against the Trump tax cuts. “Federal disclosure reports show several of her staffers enjoyed slight bumps in their pay after the tax reform’s passage in keeping with lower rates of tax withholding.”
Here’s what I was writing about.
Julia Krieger, communications director for Heitkamp’s campaign, took home $2,613 for the last pay period of 2017 according to the campaign’s year-end report. She got the same amount for her first pay day in January of 2018, but by the time her second pay day of 2018 rolled around she saw a $127 boost:
Anna Moffett, who is the finance director for Heitkamp’s campaign, received $2,922.89 for her final pay check in 2017 but got $112 per pay check in 2018:
I sent the Heitkamp campaign an inquiry five days ago about these pay increases. Did the employees get raises? Or did they benefit from the Trump tax cuts?
The campaign is silent on the question.
It sure looks like the latter to me, which is an interesting development. Again, Senator Heitkamp voted against the Trump tax cuts. She’s campaigning on that vote (her fellow Democrat, U.S. House candidate Mac Schneider, has said he would have voted no too). Yet her campaign staff, like many Americans (North Dakotans more so than any other group in the nation), is apparently benefiting directly from the tax cuts in the form of bigger pay checks.


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In news accounts assessing the likely 2012 Republican presidential field, there are a number of descriptions typically associated with Mississippi governor Haley Barbour. White Southerner. Thick accent. Gifted fundraiser. Connected. Former lobbyist. But when you ask those who know him, another characterization comes to mind.
“He’s a policy wonk, which a lot of people don’t realize,” said Ed Gillespie, a political strategist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, who has known Barbour since 1993 and considers him a mentor. “[People] tend to think of Haley Barbour as very politically savvy and good on television and smooth, but he really is a policy wonk at heart.”
Mississippi native Ricky Mathews was publisher of the Sun Herald in 2005 when Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast, and he got to know Barbour by serving on a commission the governor put together to help manage the response and recovery.
“He has a mind like a steel trap,” Mathews recalled. “He remembers facts and numbers like no one I’ve ever come in contact with.”
Jim Nicholson, who served under Barbour at the RNC from 1993 to 1997 and then succeeded him as chair, offers a similar impression.
“He is a fascinating person,” Nicholson said of Barbour. “His ‘hail fellow well met’ persona belies an acute intelligence. I mean, he is really bright and grasps complex matters and complex issues fairly quickly and can articulate and advocate very effectively….A lot of people don’t know that because of that personality and thick Southern accent, so he sneaks up on a lot of people with that brightness of his.”
Barbour’s chances of winning the presidency — or even capturing the GOP nomination — have largely been written off, and not without good reason. After all, he’d be a white guy from the deep South challenging the first black president, a dealmaker who was one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington seeking the nation’s highest office in the midst of a fierce anti-establishment backlash. The “dean” of the Washington press corps, the late David Broder, recently branded the Mississippian a “a long-shot possibility for the nomination.” In an appearance on Meet the Press in February, Barbour was asked about a Gallup poll showing him with just 3 percent support in an early survey of Republican voter preferences, and he quipped: “I didn’t know my family was that big.”
Yet there are also reasons to believe that his chances are being significantly underestimated — at least when it comes to the GOP primaries. In a wide-open field in which all the potential candidates have flaws, it’s hard to write anybody off to begin with, and that’s particularly true in Barbour’s case. As one of the party’s most talented fundraisers, Barbour should have plenty of money at his disposal in any presidential bid. If his successful stewardship of the RNC when the GOP took Congress in 1994 and of the Republican Governors Association in the stellar 2009 and 2010 years are any indication, Barbour would run a top-flight presidential campaign organization. His network is extensive and he’s beloved within the party. And in a party that has a tendency to nominate candidates who are seen to have paid their dues, he has as good a claim as anybody running. At the same time, he has a story to tell as someone who combines conservative views with demonstrated competence as an executive and two terms as governor.
“We can’t make the changes to public policy that are necessary to get America on the right track without electing a new president,” Barbour told me when I spoke to him in late February during a visit to Washington, D.C. for a governors’ conference.
It’s also clear that the policy emphasis will be part of how he’ll respond to questions about the role of race in the campaign. “The hard left who would never vote for me want to make it a big issue,” he said. “They want to make race a proxy issue, because they don’t want the election to be about public policy. They don’t want the election to be about Obama’s policies. They want some charade about something else. And when you have a white Christian conservative Republican from Mississippi, the easiest straw man to throw out is race.”
HALEY BARBOUR WASN’T ALWAYS so interested in public policy, or even in politics. Unlike those who will tell you that they were motivated to get into the field due to ideological beliefs or some higher principles, he’s quite candid that he sort of fell into it.
“Politics wasn’t talked about a lot around our house; Daddy died when I was a little bitty boy,” Barbour, now 63, told me. (His father passed away when he was two.) “I was more interested growing up in baseball, in football, in student government. Not particularly in anything else.”
That began to change in 1965 when his older brother came back from the Army a Goldwater Republican. Soon, his brother decided to run for mayor of their hometown of Yazoo City. Republicans didn’t have a line on the ballot, so he ran as an independent, and won — becoming the youngest mayor in the state at 27. “I helped him in his campaign, had a good time,” Barbour said.
In the summer of 1968, his brother learned that the Mississippi state GOP was looking for help during the election that would see Richard Nixon capture the White House. The young Haley, then an undergraduate at the University of Mississippi, decided to take the fall off and work for the party.
“That’s how I began to consider myself a Republican,” Barbour said. “That I helped my brother and then I went to work for the party and then one thing led to another….[It] all evolved. If you would have asked me when I was 15 years old, or 18 years old, or even 21 years old, ‘Do you think you’ll have a career in politics?’ I would have laughed.”
During the 1970s, after graduating from law school and working as a lawyer, Barbour became more active in state and national politics — he said he worked for Ronald Reagan’s campaign in 1976 and later ran seven states for Gerald Ford. Though he described himself as a “Reaganite” during this period when we spoke, he actually worked for Reagan’s rival in the 1980 primaries, John Connally.
In 1982, he sought office himself, challenging the octogenarian incumbent Sen. John Stennis. While Barbour lost in a landslide, his large cash haul impressed the party. The race also produced a helpful artifact for Barbour — a recorded video endorsement from President Ronald Reagan, which reemerged on the Internet this February.
Three years after receiving his endorsement, Barbour actually joined Reagan’s White House as political director. Future Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was his boss, and they fostered a friendship that continues to this day. The two of them also worked closely with Andy Card, who went on to become chief of staff to President George W. Bush. “It was heady stuff for a boy from Yazoo City, Mississippi, I would have to tell you,” he said of his time at the White House.
“I WAS NOT SATISFIED with the Bush presidency,” Barbour told me, referring to the elder Bush. When he ran for chairman of the RNC in 1993, he argued that the party was rejected by voters in the 1992 elections because it didn’t adhere to its principles and stand for anything.
“I tried to recreate the party around self-sufficient state parties, small donors,” Barbour recalled of his fundraising strategy. “When the other side has got the White House, there are no big donors, because you’ve got nothing to sell access to.”
Barbour became a large part of the Republican effort to oppose President Clinton, and helped craft a strategy to take back control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 40 years, working closely with Newt Gingrich and other congressional Republicans to establish the GOP as the “party of ideas.”
Jim Nicholson, who wore several hats at the RNC at the time, including vice chairman, said Barbour deserves a lot of the credit for the Republican takeover. Not only did Barbour see the opportunity, but he was also able to raise money and build an organization that allowed Republicans to take advantage of the climate.
In 1994, Barbour faced stiff opposition within the RNC for wanting to take out bank loans allowing them to maximize the amount of money they could spend on competitive House races. “His whole mantra that fall of 1994, was, ‘We’ve got to strike while the iron is hot,'” Nicholson remembered. “Haley prevailed, and it was the right thing to do. It helped us in key races.”
Barbour’s interest in public policy was apparent when he led the RNC, as he jumped into the day’s debates in a way that isn’t all that common for party chairmen. In December 1993, freshman Pennsylvania representative Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, who cast the tie-breaking vote for the Clinton budget plan, which included a massive tax hike, became the subject of an RNC attack ad. Barbour accepted her challenge to a debate on a Philadelphia-area radio station, leading to a one-hour back-and-forth on federal entitlement spending that survives online thanks to the C-SPAN web archives.
Margolies-Mezvinsky was defeated in the November 1994 Republican tidal wave, and when the GOP attempted to implement its agenda, Barbour once again played a central role in the debates, particularly when it came to fighting the media’s characterization of the proposed Medicare reforms. When the New York Times published a front-page story in September 1995 headlined, “House G.O.P. Plan Doubles Premiums of Medicare Users,” Barbour fired back with a letter to the editor citing data from the Health Care Financing Administration showing that premiums had nearly doubled over the preceding seven years, meaning this was the continuation of a trend rather than a new development.
Barbour also pushed back hard against the idea that Republicans were proposing cutting Medicare, emphasizing that they were merely slowing the rate of increase. He grabbed attention by taking out a series of ads promising to pay $1 million to anybody who could prove the following statement false: “In November 1995, the U.S. House and Senate passed a balanced budget bill. It increases total federal spending on Medicare by more than 50 percent from 1995 to 2002.” While the ad produced a lot of claimants, and a series of lawsuits that dragged on for years (several Democratic members of Congress sued), ultimately they lost in court and the RNC kept the $1 million.
One of his efforts to foster conservative policy ideas ended up embroiling Barbour in a scandal. In 1993, Barbour used $100,000 in RNC “seed” money to start a think tank that held “grassroots” forums throughout the United States aimed at developing policy ideas. The National Policy Forum was established as a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution, but Barbour served as chairman of both the NPF and RNC simultaneously, which would come back to haunt him. (Future UN ambassador John Bolton served as president of the group for part of this time.)
In 1997, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Governmental Affairs began looking into allegations about Asian attempts to influence the 1996 elections. With the Clinton administration under fire, Democrats honed in on Barbour’s solicitation of a $2.1 million loan guarantee from Hong Kong businessman Ambrous Young, to the National Policy Forum, in 1994. The money he obtained from Young through a U.S. subsidiary was then used to pay off a $1.6 million debt to the RNC, money that was then available for the party to use on elections. Democrats argued that this was a complex way around the ban on foreign political contributions.
Anybody who wants to get an idea of how Barbour would hold up under scrutiny during a presidential race should visit the C-SPAN online archives and view his July 1997 testimony before the committee. During the hearing, Barbour said he was outraged by the charges, which he felt smeared him and besmirched the good work of the National Policy Forum, yet he calmly responded to them. He advanced two central arguments — that he was not aware at the time that the funds he was soliciting came from a foreign source, and it wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because as a nonprofit, NPF was allowed to solicit foreign donations.
His performance at the hearings earned him a begrudging respect in some unlikely places. “Point by point, with color charts for the senators and glossy handouts for reporters, Haley Barbour today rebutted Democratic assertions that the Republican Party accepted illegal foreign contributions when he was the party’s chairman,” the New York Times‘s lead read. The article marveled at his “star quality,” and noted that “Mr. Barbour’s preparation for his performance — every word carefully considered, every inflection clearly rehearsed — would have made an accomplished musician proud.” Another New York Times article described how he worked the Democratic side of the committee “nimbly as a dealer cracks the cellophane from a fresh deck of cards…”
In the end, the Republican-led committee found that Barbour’s actions were “neither illegal nor improper,” while the Democratic minority dissented. By this time, the NPF’s nonprofit status had already been revoked by the Internal Revenue Service.
Though the organization is long since defunct, it did produce a 1996 book, authored by Barbour, called Agenda for America, laying out a detailed set of policy proposals for Republicans.
IN 1991, BARBOUR had formed a lobbying firm, BGR Group, which he could devote his full energies to after his term as chairman of the RNC expired in 1997. In 1999, Barbour sold the firm to Interpublic Group for $20 million, while remaining on, and in 2001 Fortune magazine named it the most powerful lobbying firm in Washington. The roster of big-name clients — including large oil, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as foreign governments — proved very lucrative, but his lobbying career will also be the biggest obstacle he faces running for president, as his work will provide a treasure trove of opposition research material for his rivals.
While Barbour may have a sympathetic ear among Republican primary voters when it comes to attempts to portray him as a racist, they could be a lot less forgiving when it comes to lobbying. There was a time when Republican voters were inclined to defend large corporations, but ever since the 2008 Wall Street bailout, there’s been a growing recognition that big business is perfectly willing to set aside free market principles and cozy up to government when it sees it as in its interest to do so. Indeed, this recognition was one of the driving forces behind the emergence of the Tea Parties. In February of this year, presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty opened his speech to a Tea Party Patriots summit in Phoenix by lumping “big bailed out business” together with “big unions” and “big government” as part of “a royal triangle of greed.” If there’s one criticism that Barbour is most vulnerable to when it comes to his conservative credentials, it’s that when business interests have clashed with limited government principles, he has often sided with business.
In 2009, he vetoed an eminent domain reform bill that would have made it harder for the state to take private property for private uses. Barbour argued that, if enacted, the legislation would have been “catastrophic” for the economy of his state, as it would discourage large corporations such as Toyota, Nissan and PACCAR from building there. In 2010, he pushed for subsidies for Kior, a biofuels company, to build three plants in Mississippi. And in February of this year, he defended farm subsidies in an interview with the Daily Caller. The Washington Examiner‘s Tim Carney, who has written extensively about the intersection between big business and big government, wrote: “If the Tea Party still has some wind, it’s hard to see how Barbour gets anywhere near the GOP nomination.”
When I asked him to respond to charges that he’s a big business Republican, Barbour recalled a speech he gave to the Business Roundtable in the 1990s in which he “told them that the Republican Party was the party of small business, not big business, because big business doesn’t have a party.” He recalled a headline in the financial press after the speech: “GOP to Big Business: Drop Dead.”
“I am a small business Republican,” Barbour insisted. “I am free market capitalist and if it gets down to being one Republican politician in the United States who is a free market capitalist, it’d be me. Fortunately, there are lots of others like me. But I am very very aware that sometimes big business’s agenda and even more often their political support is not aligned with conservatism or small government, or lower taxes even much less, less spending. But those are the things that I’ve always supported.”
During the 2010 election cycle, Barbour was smart enough to recognize the importance of the Tea Parties, and, unlike other national Republican leaders, did not get in scuffles over their influence. He argued that party leaders should butt out of primaries and allow voters to decide, and played down any talk of an intraparty rift.
In a January 2009 interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore, Barbour himself seemed to acknowledge the difficulty of running for president as a onetime lobbyist. “[T]he American people aren’t likely to ever elect a former Washington lobbyist as president,” he was quoted as saying.
When I asked him if anything had changed in the past two years, he told me, “If I said that, it was as a joke.” He continued, “When I ran for governor, everybody in Washington and New York said, ‘Oh, a lobbyist can’t get elected governor.’ Well, I was elected, and I defeated a sitting Democratic governor by seven points who spent millions of dollars attacking me for being a lobbyist of all the clients I represented.”
Barbour notes that while he represented some of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies as a lobbyist, as governor of Mississippi, he implemented a Medicaid reform that emphasized purchases of generic drugs to save the program money.
“Once I got elected governor of Mississippi, my only client was the people of Mississippi,” he said. “If I’m elected president, or if anybody else is elected president, the day afterward, they’re gonna be lobbying. They’re going to be lobbying Congress, they’re going to be lobbying business, they’re going to be lobbying labor, they’re going to lobbying our foreign allies and adversaries. Because that’s what presidents do, they advocate. And lobbying is just a form of advocacy.”
BARBOUR’S CONNECTIONS IN WASHINGTON came in especially handy during Katrina. When the storm slammed the Gulf Coast in August 2005, Barbour’s calm and steady leadership — and reluctance to criticize the federal response — stood in stark contrast to the performance of elected officials in the neighboring state of Louisiana. At the same time, he was able to use his muscle in Washington to secure $24 billion in federal funds for Mississippi.
Six days after Katrina, newspaper publisher Ricky Mathews convened a meeting with Barbour and key officials to discuss the response. “I’ve often described Gov. Barbour after that meeting as being a man on a mission,” Mathews said.
Barbour soon put together the Governor’s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal, to write a report assessing the state’s needs by December.
“It’s often been said about him that he’s thinking several steps ahead, so as we were uncovering what our needs might be, he was multiple steps ahead of most people trying to understand what were the policy issues related to that,” Mathews said. “He was able to move from a conversation with a mayor to a conversation with the president effortlessly, and to do it in a way that wasn’t full with a lot of egos.”
Brian Sanderson, a Mississippi lawyer who served on the same commission as a general counsel and then worked in the governor’s offices for several months after as the deputy director of the office of recovery, also had a positive take on Barbour.
“The governor built credibility after Katrina by giving an honest and clear assessment of the situation,” he said. “He didn’t sugarcoat the reality of what nature had dealt to us or false hope. He didn’t engage in any of the political maneuvers that other governors did at the time to gain an upper hand.”
Though Barbour received a lot of praise for his handling of Katrina — Governing magazine named him one of the “2006 public officials of the year” — he’s also attracted criticism. In September 2005, the New York Times raised questions about $568 million in contracts for debris removal that had been granted to Florida-based AshBritt, which had been a client of Barbour’s lobbying firm. Asked about the report, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office told me that the contracts for cleanup were handled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, not Barbour.
Quin Hillyer, a senior editor at the Spectator and senior editorial writer at the Washington Times, has argued that Barbour’s post-Katrina image has been elevated by a savvy PR effort, when in reality, the western part of the Gulf Coast has not recovered that well. “Has anybody actually driven along the Mississippi Coast from Waveland to Gulfport?” he wrote. “In terms of life, there’s almost no there there. Vast stretches of empty lots stretch undisturbed by hand of man. Oft-criticized New Orleans has recovered much better than the Mississippi coast.”
Mathews told me that there are a number of reasons why that portion of the coast has not been rebuilt, but the biggest issue remains that insurance on the coast is either nonexistent or prohibitively expensive.
SINCE GETTING ELECTED governor in 2003, Barbour fought trial lawyers and signed one of the most restrictive tort reform laws in the nation, but it’s his changes to Medicaid that he’s more prone to touting these days, as the nation turns its focus to reforming entitlement programs that are the biggest drivers of deficits at the state and federal level.
“We have made big savings in Mississippi Medicaid by management despite the facts that we have some of the highest nursing home rates and some of the highest hospital reimbursement rates in the United States in the poorest state in the country,” Barbour boasted to me.
As governor, Barbour moved aggressively to reduce the state’s Medicaid rolls by making sure everybody receiving benefits was actually eligible. One way he accomplished that was to require all beneficiaries to have in-person meetings each year to establish their Medicaid eligibility, with exceptions made for those in nursing homes or with severe medical conditions that made them immobile. As mentioned earlier, he also increased the use of generic drugs. And he shifted some elderly Medicaid beneficiaries onto the Medicare prescription drug plan when that became available. That action, however, merely transferred the burden onto federal taxpayers — something that wouldn’t be an option for him if he were elected president.
All told, his reforms did contain the growth of Medicaid spending in the state. Between 2000 and 2004, the five years before he took over as governor, combined state and federal spending on Mississippi’s Medicaid program soared 62 percent cumulatively, according to data from the governor’s office. In the six years starting with his first full budget year in 2005 and ending in 2010, it’s grown a total of 20 percent. In three of those years (2006, 2007, and 2010), Medicaid spending actually shrunk.
Barbour points to his record on Medicaid as an example of how to save money on entitlements through effective management of the programs. He’s also been a longtime proponent of having the federal government block grant Medicaid money to states, to give governors more flexibility to contain spending.
When asked how the politics of the entitlement debate differ from 1995 and 1996, he argued that this time, there’s a much broader understanding of the severity of the debt crisis.
“We were not sitting on $14 trillion of debt,” Barbour said of the 1990s. “We were not running $5 trillion of deficits in less than four years. The idea of that would have been unimaginable in 1995/96. I believe the American people today realize the risk of continuing on this unsustainable path.”
ANY SERIOUS EFFORT to reduce spending would have to start with addressing health care costs, which, in addition to retiring Baby Boomers, is the primary driver of entitlement spending. When I asked Barbour to explain his views on reforming health care, he touted his proposed health insurance exchange for Mississippi. Health insurance exchanges are an essential part of the national health care law, as well as the legislation Mitt Romney signed in Massachusetts. But he insisted his proposal was different.
“A lot of governors like me, before ObamaCare was ever even birthed, much less passed, I was advocating having a health insurance exchange in Mississippi based on a model that the Heritage Foundation shared with a number of states, and was adopted first by Utah,” he said. “Voluntary. No subsidies. Market-driven. Consumer-driven. Capitalistic. Nonprofit managed health insurance exchange, because my biggest group of uninsured are the employees of small business. If I had a voluntary unsubsidized health insurance exchange to serve as sort of their broker through a portal it would be very similar to the federal employee health benefit plan, so companies could buy through that and a) reduce their administrative costs and b) make sure that everything was tax deductible to the company, and c) make sure everything was tax deductible to the employee.”
Such an idea isn’t unique among Republicans — Sen. Tom Coburn and Rep. Paul Ryan proposed something similar as part of their own GOP alternative to the national health care law, and Ryan integrated it into his “Roadmap” fiscal reform proposal. However, there are several problems with the exchange idea. The first is that it would be a major concession to the liberal point of view, which holds that in the absence of government intervention, the market won’t function for individual insurance. The second is that, even if it starts out completely well intentioned, establishing an exchange puts the infrastructure in place that allows future lawmakers to incrementally build on it — adding requirements that insurers cover certain benefits, starting to offer subsidies to lower-income individuals to purchase insurance on the exchange, and so on. Before too long, such an exchange could end up just like the Romney/Obama model. I asked Barbour about this danger, and he dismissed it.
“Not only do I not worry about that as long as I’m governor, I don’t worry about that in Mississippi,” he responded. “You should know when Heritage came and made the presentations to us, they told us Massachusetts is going to make this mandatory and they’re going to subsidize it. Now that’s one way you can do it. But, we’re talking about something totally different. Voluntary. Unsubsidized. And no, I don’t worry about that at all. What I worry is that the federal government is going to force subsidies down our throats and they’re gonna increase the number of people on Medicaid in Mississippi by 50 percent and cost us $443 million a year to pay the extra cost of Medicaid because of it, which is what it would cost us in year 10.”
IN ITS 2010 Fiscal Policy Report Card for America’s governors, the Cato Institute gave Barbour a ‘C’ grade, noting he “signed into law a tax increase on hospitals in 2008 and a tax increase on cigarettes of 50 cents per pack in 2009.” It also criticized him for allowing general fund spending to grow 42 percent between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2008, before the recession hit — while noting that he has since reduced spending. The same report gave Pawlenty an ‘A’ grade.
When asked about the tax increases, Barbour said that he repeatedly resisted attempts to raise the cigarette tax in his first term. Yet, he continued, “When I ran for reelection I said a lot of people want us to raise the cigarette tax for health care policy reasons, because we had the second lowest cigarette tax in the United States. And I said I’m going to appoint a commission the first year of my second term to look at this. The commission reported and I told the legislature the commission had recommended a cigarette tax increase, and I proposed we go from 18 cents to 42. The legislature actually ended up going to 60, which was the Southern states average. But again, I said 100 times during this, this is for health policy reasons, not for budget reasons.”
On the hospital tax, he said the Cato report was misleading, though he was quick to add, “I’m not mad at them.” He explained that before he was governor, hospitals had suggested that they pay a provider fee to cover the matching money that the states had to pay under federal programs. Yet in 2005, the federal government disallowed this arrangement. So eventually, the state instituted a tax to make up the lost revenue, which he signed.
That said, it takes much less time for political opponents to say Barbour “raised cigarette and hospital taxes” than it does for him to explain the complexities of state and federal health care financing, so this would be another criticism he’d face in a presidential campaign.
When I asked Barbour whether he thought it was possible to get the nation’s debt under control without raising taxes, he spoke like a supply-sider. “I don’t think it’s possible if you raise taxes,” he said. “You’ve got to grow revenue, you got to have economic growth, and more job creation. Higher taxes makes that harder….My own view is that low taxes are essential to generating economic growth. I am a Reaganite about that. Reagan used to say we can grow ourselves out of the deficit and the Democrats would snicker. Well, I can tell you this, we can’t spend ourselves out of this deficit. People laugh out loud at that. There’s no snickering about that. That’s a hoot.”
LAST YEAR, Mitch Daniels jeopardized his potential presidential candidacy when he suggested to the Weekly Standard‘s Andrew Ferguson that there be a “truce” on social issues while the nation deals with the emergency of the fiscal crisis. His statement and subsequent attempts to explain it triggered a fierce backlash among social conservatives, and Barbour himself took heat when he rose to his friend’s defense.
Throughout his political career, Barbour has drawn a distinction between his own views on social issues and their place in electoral politics. As governor of Mississippi, he’s signed a number of pro-life bills, including an informed consent law and conscience protections. There’s only one abortion clinic left in Mississippi, according to Americans United for Life, which reports a 60 percent reduction in the state abortion rate over the last several years. Yet at the same time, Barbour has deemphasized abortion as a major electoral issue. After winning the chairmanship of the RNC in January 1993, according to a New York Times account, he told reporters, “If you make abortion the threshold issue for Republicans, you need your heads examined.” In June 2009, he gave a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in which he said the party needed to be welcoming to pro-choice Republicans. I asked him about the distinction he’s drawn.
“The distinction is the distinction of spokesmanship,” he explained. “When I speak about my record, it is a socially conservative record. I am very pro-life and have been consistently pro-life since [first running for office in] 1982….Having said that, elections ought to be about the issues that on are on the voters’ minds. If you’re smart in politics you want to be telling the people, ‘Here’s what I want to do to solve the problem that you’re really worried about.’ That’s what I think Mitch was saying. Not that there should be a ‘truce’ because we want to push this issue under the rug, but that we ought to run our campaigns based on these really important issues because these issues unite Republicans, hurt Democrats, and the independents agree with us by 2 to 1. If the idea of elections is to win, which it is, that’s just good political sense. So, if I’m talking as the RGA chairman, or the party chairman, or as somebody who’s just discussing how can we do the main thing — that is, elect a Republican president — Mitch is right, make the campaign about the issues that the public has foremost on their minds. Show them how we’re going to solve those problems. And let them see that they agree with us. It’s as simple as that. Politics is about addition and multiplication. It is not about subtraction and division. Purity is a loser in politics, unity is a winner in politics.”
He struck a similar tone when I asked him about gay marriage. He said he was opposed to it, and criticized President Obama’s decision not to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. Yet in the midst of explaining his position, he added, “The main thing we Republicans have to remember is to be tolerant of people who disagree with us.”
On immigration, Barbour is at odds with conservatives who seek harsher measures to combat those who are already here illegally. “After we get the border secured, only after we get the border secured, we need to talk about what is our policy gonna be on guest workers?” he said. “What’s our policy gonna be on H1B visas? What’s our policy gonna be on a lot of things that should be directed by the fact that we’ve got a labor shortage in this country over a period of time.”
WHEN IT COMES TO foreign policy, Barbour is reluctant to criticize President Obama. “I’m an open market, free trade, Reagan internationalist who believes in peace through strength, but I also come from the political school that in foreign policy and national security, politics all stop at the water’s edge,” he said. “Always believed that. I’m not going to shoot at the Obama administration about who lost Egypt. But I do think this — we have a place in the world and it’s a very important place in the world that we need to perform our role as the beacon of freedom, democracy, and republican form of government. I think that’s critically important.”
Yet he cautioned, “I worry about nation-building. It is one thing to go in for peacekeeping and restore order and stability and then leave, or leave a small force. I’m not comfortable with nation-building. I wasn’t when it was in Somalia. When I was chairman of the party though, you will see I never criticized Clinton, because I don’t think party chairmen in particular have any business talking about foreign policy.”
It’s not totally true that he never criticized Clinton on international affairs while chairman of the party. His 1996 book contains a large section on foreign policy, much of which is filled with criticisms of the Clinton approach that echo Republican criticisms of Obama today. For instance, he wrote that during the first three years of the Clinton presidency, “American leadership has eroded, and drift and uncertainty have increasingly characterized world affairs. The challenge for Republicans is to reestablish constructive leadership in the world. The Clinton administration has failed to implement the first priority of American foreign and defense policy — the protection of American values and interests.”
In February, Barbour traveled to Israel to speak at the Herzliya Conference, and while there, managed to visit its offshore natural gas site, as energy issues are one of his passions. “I’m very interested in energy,” he said. “And I think energy is a gigantic issue, the 800-pound gorilla in the room, that doesn’t get talked about as much as it needs to….While America, because of the Obama administration policy, has a permatorium on drilling in the Gulf, here’s Israel that sees it as an enormous part of their security.” He noted that when he visited the drilling site, “I hate to tell you, most of the Americans I met on the rig were working in the Gulf of Mexico this time last year and they got run off by the shutdown by the Obama administration.”
Barbour said he supports strong ties between the U.S. and Israel. “It is a critical relationship for a variety of reasons,” he said. “Israel is our genuine unfledgling [sic] ally. They don’t flinch as being our ally. They are also a very potent ally militarily but also in terms of technology, economically, morally….[W]e’ve got to be committed to a secure, prosperous, Jewish, democratic Israel.”
He also rejected the view that U.S. ties to Israel have created problems for America. “I do think they’re an asset to us,” he said. “There are a lot of American foreign policy types who I think consider Israel a burden, that when you weigh the scales that Israel costs more than they’re worth. My view on that’s different, maybe because I was in White House during Reykjavik.” Barbour went on to recall that a few years before Reykjavik, in 1982, Israel shot down more than 80 Soviet-supplied Syrian planes without losing a single American-made plane. He views this as one factor that made Mikhail Gorbachev realize that the Russians would never be able to win an arms race with the U.S.
A PRESIDENTIAL BID could put Barbour in the position of running against Newt Gingrich, who he worked closely with as chairman. An interview Barbour did with CNN’s Candy Crowley last year provided some insight into how the two of them — who both take policy seriously — might campaign.
During the interview, Barbour was asked to comment on Gingrich’s declaration that Obama was “the most radical president in American history.” In his response, Barbour was reluctant to criticize Gingrich, but at the same time made clear that he’d phrase things differently.
“You know, in my life in politics, I’ve always told people to speak temperately and act boldly,” Barbour said. “I don’t — radical is not a term that I’d use very often to describe anything. But there is no question, it’s a matter of fact, that the policies being pursued by the Obama administration are the farthest left. It has been a gigantic lurch to the left. And I think that’s what Speaker Gingrich was trying to convey. But, you know, the words I would use are ‘the most left-wing’ because that’s what the truth is.”
Should he run, Barbour will have a stable of defenders because of the personal relationships he’s built up over the years.
“If Haley Barbour is your friend, you don’t have to worry about him being there when you say you need a shoulder to lean on,” said Ed Gillespie, who’s told me he’s turned to Barbour for advice on everything from starting a business to raising kids. He noted that such loyalty is rare in politics.
Asked how this would translate into a presidential run, Gillespie said, “I’m not sure there is anyone in the field with the exception of those who have run before — Gov. Romney and Gov. Huckabee — who has a broader range of contacts in the critical states, both primary critical states and general election critical states to draw on and to call on than Haley does.” Gillespie himself said he’ll support Barbour if he runs, but will otherwise remain neutral.
When I spoke to Barbour about Republican prospects of recapturing the White House in 2012, he acknowledged that it would be a difficult task. “It’s an understatement to say it’s difficult to defeat a sitting president,” he said. “Only one time since 1896 has a party won the White House away from the other party as the Democrats did in 2008 and lost it back in just four years. Of course, that was Jimmy Carter.”
At the same time, he did see an opening. “[T]he 2010 election was the most massive repudiation of any president’s policies in American history,” he said. “And if the  election is about policy, and the president continues on the same policies, then I believe there is a very good chance that he can be defeated, because the American people know that we have to have the right kinds of policies in order to get the country on the right track.”
One of the arguments made after Republicans’ back-to-back losses in 2006 and 2008 was that the party had run out of ideas and had nothing new to offer when it came to the nation’s greatest challenges. It remains to be seen whether Barbour’s background and his lobbying experience would ultimately doom his candidacy, as his skeptics argue. But either way, his presence could force the other candidates to place a lot more emphasis on policy.

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