The NYC congressman still can’t figure out why Obama thought he could cut a deal with the Tea Party
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Charlie Rangel: Tea Party is made up of “mean, racist people” from former “slave-holding” states
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Charlie Rangel: Tea Party is made up of “mean, racist people” from former “slave-holding” states
Charlie Rangel: Tea Party is made up of “mean, racist people” from former “slave-holding” states
Friday, March 7, 2014
What do the flags in Ukraine crisis mean?
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What do the flags in Ukraine crisis mean?
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Will Mexico’s capture of ‘El Chapo’ mean border instability? US agents on alert.
Lourdes Medrano
weeklystandard.com
February 26, 2014
The weekend capture of top drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is being hailed as a major victory for Mexico, but some are cautioning that his arrest could unleash a wave of violence, particularly along the US-Mexico border.
Mr. Guzmán had control of, among other areas, the state of Sonora, which shares the international boundary with Arizona. Sonora is no stranger to violence triggered by disturbance to drug cartel leadership: In December 2009, when Mexican security forces killed Arturo Beltrán Leyva, a former Guzmán ally-turned-rival, the death ushered in a battle between factions in the city of Nogales, which shares its name with its US neighbor, and surrounding communities.
In one instance, a shootout left at least 21 people dead.
This article was posted: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 12:34 pm
Will Mexico’s capture of ‘El Chapo’ mean border instability? US agents on alert.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
What CES"s weird tech trends mean for you
What CES"s weird tech trends mean for you
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Britain"s Mean Streets - Immigrant life in the UK
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Fox"s Forbes Whines About President Obama Being Mean to Republicans
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Better call the waambulance! The talking heads over at Fox are terribly upset that President Obama was being mean to them after refusing to give in on their hostage taking with the government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling.
Fox regular Steve Forbes joined Cavuto guest host Stuart Varney to complain about President Obama’s comments this Thursday, where he told Republicans that they should go out there and “win an election” if they want to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
Of course, they failed to play the second half of his statement where he mentioned not burning the place down to the ground to get your way:
In a statement hailing the deal that re-opened the government and raised the debt ceiling, Obama said that the Republican-led movement to halt the health care law — an effort that led to the shutdown and brought the United States close to default — was unfaithful “to what this country’s about.”
“You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it,” Obama said. “But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country’s about.”
Varney opened up the segment by asking Forbes, “After a bruising battle, is this the way to bring the two parties together?” Here we go again with them trying to pretend that if President Obama just acted a little bit nicer to the Republicans, they might be willing to work with him.
FORBES: He can’t help himself. He always loves to rub us when he wins a victory, rub his opponents’ faces in the dirt. That’s fine in a football game, doing a spike or something like that, but when you are President of the United States trying to get something done, especially on a tight schecule, this is not the way you go about it.
I think this underscores, this president does not want big things to be done, unless it’s his own big things. He wants to set up for the 2014 congressional election, and that means conflict and hoping to put the Republicans back on their backs again as he did yesterday.
Cry me a freaking river. After the damage they just did to our economy, the mild chiding by President Obama is the least they deserve. I want to know how they plan to pay us back for the $ 25 billion they just flushed down the toilet with their hostage taking?
Republicans don’t care one iota about actually governing, but they do have the feigned victimhood act down pat.
Fox"s Forbes Whines About President Obama Being Mean to Republicans
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Breaking Bad Series Finale: What Sunday Night Will Mean For the Show"s Legacy
Breaking Bad Series Finale: What Sunday Night Will Mean For the Show’s Legacy
There are only two impressions anyone gets to make in life: a first and a last. People say you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression, but you never get to change a last impression. A last impression is the lingering aftertaste. It’s the visual that sticks with us forever.
This Sunday, we’ll be left with our last impression of Breaking Bad. When we look back, the series’ finale is the episode that will stay freshest in our minds. And it will remain there for far longer than any single episode since the pilot.
Breaking Bad’s finale will be the one episode by which the series is measured for the rest of history. It’s the one episode that we’ll evaluate for years to come when we ask, “what did it all mean?”
Only a handful of other shows have garnered anywhere near the fan attention and constant gossip that Breaking Bad has. And so many have had their legacies tarnished by an ending that did not live up to the quality of the series.
There was just as much buzz about Lost a few years ago, until its purgatory ending earned fans’ derision. Battlestar Galactica left an awful lot of resolution to a mystical God that made the characters’ struggles feel pointless. The Sopranos and The Wire left their fair share of fans dissatisfied with their lack of resolution.
But Breaking Bad is not likely to end like the others. This was a show that had a climax in mind, almost from the very beginning. In fact, creator Vince Gilligan has often credited the writers’ strike in 2007 for buying them the time to find out where this show was going — a luxury few creators ever get.
Throughout the entire show there has existed a sense of foreboding, a sense of building towards something. The stakes of one scene escalate the next. The obstacles of one episode become the complications of another. The solutions of one season become the crises of the following. Rachel staying with Ross will not satisfy an audience that has been through this roller coaster. If there was ever a show that felt like it needed an explosive finale, it’s Breaking Bad.
If the finale is a critical failure (which is very unlikely), then the show’s prior greatness will be diminished a little, as the last impression we have of it won’t quite hold up to our memories of the episodes before it. The show will blend into the other mortal members of the TV hall of fame.
On the other hand, if the finale is a success, then it will reflect on even the pilot episode. It will become the turning point in history when people began to take TV more seriously than they did movies.
It’s not difficult to imagine what the future may look like if the finale is the success we all hope it will be. Breaking Bad will become the show that will set the precedent for other shows that have a predetermined ending. It will continue to influence studio execs when their writers ask them for more time to turn around fewer episodes.
Film classes will show episodes of Breaking Bad alongside The Godfather for the next three decades.
Grown men twenty years from now will wear “Better Call Saul” T-shirts instead of Boba Fett ones.
Movies will have to evolve to catch up with TV.
Most writers will tell you that an ending is the hardest part to write. It has to feel earned, yet still surprise. It has to tie up loose ends and bring characters to their final destinations. And while juggling all that, it still has to be at least as fun to watch as everything that came before it.
Great endings have always been reserved for movies. For decades, it has seemed like this amazing feat could only be achieved by a story near the two-hour range. We can look back on the best TV series finales with fondness, but none of them have produced the same visceral reaction that we get from the endings of Chinatown, The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, or The Godfather.
Breaking Bad is the first show that has a real chance to end like the greatest films have — to make that last impression we can never forget.
Breaking Bad Series Finale: What Sunday Night Will Mean For the Show"s Legacy
Friday, September 27, 2013
“I Mean, I’ve Watched So Many Women Masturbating Now”
Michael Sheen in Masters of Sex.Courtesy of Showtime
Masters of Sex, the new Showtime series premiering this Sunday at 10 p.m., tells the story of pioneering sex researchers William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) and their often frustrated attempts to make a scientific study of human sexuality, beginning in the 1950s. Slate television critic Willa Paskin calls it the best new show of the fall season.
I spoke with Sheen about the secret of portraying real people, the challenges of acting when surrounded by naked women, and whether a cabal of Welsh actors are taking over Hollywood.
Slate: You’ve had a lot of success playing real people: Brian Clough, Kenneth Williams, David Frost, Tony Blair, and now William Masters. Did you approach Masters differently from those other biographical roles because viewers don’t know anything about his tics and traits or his physical appearance?
Michael Sheen: That was one thing that I didn’t, thankfully, have to worry about. Trying to look like the real person is always the thing that people talk about, but it’s actually the least important element. All you need is to make an audience comfortable with the fact that you’re playing someone who’s a real person, and as long as they accept you and go beyond thinking of you as the actor doing a performance and start relating to the character, then you’re done. With very well-known people, that’s slightly more problematic, because in order to make someone comfortable, the first hurdle is to deal with whether you look like them or not. If you put too much focus on that, then the audience will put too much focus on it.
Slate: What attracted you to this project?
Sheen: It allowed me to explore a character in a completely different way to how I’ve been able to explore characters in the past, because the canvas is different. You’ve got 12 hours of storytelling per season; that’s very different from telling a story over an hour and a half or two hours. It’s a storytelling process that I can have an active part in creating over time, because the things that I discover about the character feed back into the story lines that we’re creating. We’re at a point where what is allowable to explore on TV, certainly on the cable channels, is very open. The practitioners are very, very skilled. It’s about a subject that is endlessly fascinating, that we will always be drawn to, because we’re dealing with it all the time. It doesn’t matter whether this is set in the ’50s or not, it’s exactly what we’re dealing with in our homes and in our minds and in our bedrooms every day. And the character himself was so full of contradictions, so full of paradoxes; there’s so much that is not immediately understood about him, so much to discover and explore, that I thought that in this format, where you have so much time to explore, he’s a perfect character to do that with.
Slate: I’m curious how being on a show about sex is different from other projects. You must spend a lot of time around naked people. How do you cope with that?
Sheen: Well, I suppose you cope with it by just getting used to it. And by having very clear parameters. The hardest thing is where there are these gray areas and people don’t quite know if this is all right, and are you OK with this? So, very, very early on, I wanted to make sure that there was no gray area. When you have an actress who’s 20, for whom this is maybe a second job, who’s got three days on the show, and she has to be naked at one point, it doesn’t matter how much you say to her, “If you’re not comfortable with anything, say something.” She’s not going to. So you have to be realistic, and go, “OK, what can we do and put in place to make sure that that’s addressed?” So I was quite hard on people about making sure that it was a safe environment, a comfortable environment, and that there was no opportunity for anyone to feel exposed in the wrong way. That helps you get comfortable with the whole thing as well. Then it’s just a matter of immersing yourself in that world. We’re talking about sexuality and sex all the time. On set, off set. So eventually you just get used to it.
Slate: You have a sex scene in one of the early episodes. When most of us go to the office, we don’t typically take our kit off and simulate coitus, but I presume that’s something that you’ve had to do before.
Sheen: That’s something that most actors deal with a lot of the time. What was different about this was that I was watching a lot of people do things that you very rarely see. I mean, I’ve watched so many women masturbating now. And genuinely, there’s not a massive difference between someone simulating that and actually doing it. That’s not something that I’m used to, really.
In a way, having a sex scene is the most normal thing. It was all the other stuff that was very different. Even simulating giving a woman an examination, with her feet in the stirrups and all that. I’ve never seen that. I’ve never seen a partner of mine do that. And even just putting your hand under the gown and pretending—it’s very intimate. It’s challenging in all kinds of ways.
Slate: The way you’re talking about all this reminds me of the way a medical doctor deals with the human body—no tittering, no tee-hee. I wonder, as an actor, do you have the same kind of professional separation as a physician?
Sheen: I went to meet some gynecologists as research, and I remember saying to one of them: “As a heterosexual man, you deal with the most sexual areas of a woman. In different circumstances, you would be relating to that woman in a very different way. So how does that work?” And every one said to me: “Well, it’s like you switch off a part of your brain. You choose to not activate a certain area, and you just relate in a very different way.” I couldn’t really get my head around it at the time. And then I discovered that it’s true. I’d be in a scene with very attractive, naked, young women, who in other circumstances I would act very differently with. I always thought that I would have to pretend that I wasn’t interested. But you can switch that off. I’ve never experienced that before in my life.
Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Slate: Obviously, there’s an amazing tradition of Welsh actors, and now with Matthew Rhys and Ioan Gruffudd hitting it big in America, we’re becoming more aware of it here. There are stories of the “Hollywood Taffia.” Is it real, and are you a member of it?
Sheen: No, I don’t think so.
Slate: But you’re aware of being part of this Welsh tradition? I was a little surprised to hear your “real” accent. It’s very Welsh!
Sheen: I identify myself as a Welshman; I’m from Wales. I know Matthew, I know Ioan, I know Rhys Ifans. Damian Lewis claims he’s Welsh; he’s not. Christian Bale claims he’s Welsh; he’s not. There’s definitely a kind of solidarity between the Welsh actors out here. We know each other and are friends, but I wouldn’t say there’s a club identity or anything like that.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
“I Mean, I’ve Watched So Many Women Masturbating Now”
Friday, July 19, 2013
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Monday, June 10, 2013
What We Mean When We Say "Whistleblower"
When Edward Snowden came out as the source of leaks about the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, he was immediately labeled a whistleblower by many.
Is the term a misnomer?
Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, took to Twitter on Sunday to question the media’s use of “whistleblower” to describe Snowden. (Note: NPR was among the numerous organizations using the word.)
Edward Snowden, seen during a video interview with The Guardian.
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Edward Snowden, seen during a video interview with The Guardian.
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Haass expanded on his comment in another tweet, defining a whistleblower as a “person who reveals wrongdoing, corruption, illegal activity. none of this applies here even if you oppose [U.S. government] policy.”
Haass makes a distinction between revealing corruption and exposing a policy you disagree with. One makes you a whistleblower — the other does not, he argues.
James Fallows of The Atlantic blurs that line. He wrote Sunday:
“That these programs are legal — unlike the Nixon ‘Plumbers’ operation, unlike various CIA assassination programs, unlike other objects of various whistle-blower revelations over the years — is the most important fact about them. They’re being carried out in ‘our’ name, ours as Americans, even though most of us have had no idea of what they entailed. The debate on the limits of the security-state is long overdue, and Edward Snowden has played an important role in hastening its onset.”
Snowden, in his video interview with the Guardian, says the need for public debate was what pushed him to expose the NSA monitoring.
“Eventually you realize that these things need to be determined by the public, not somebody who was simply hired by the government,” he said, noting that “the public needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.”
BuzzFeed reports that when Snowden’s identity was revealed, “the tweets calling him a hero outweighed those calling him a traitor nearly 30-1, according to data from Topsy.”
Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter who’s been writing about the leaks, called Snowden a whistleblower in his interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos even before the 29-year-old ex-CIA worker’s identity became public (h/t Jay Rosen).
“Every time there’s a whistleblower, somebody who exposes government wrongdoing, the tactic of the government is to try and demonize them as a traitor,” Greenwald says, adding:
“They risk their careers and their lives and their liberty because what they were seeing being done in secret, inside of the United States government is so alarming and so pernicious that they simply want one thing, and that is for the American people at least to learn about what this massive spying apparatus is and what the capabilities are so that we can have an open, honest debate.”
Of course, the fact that the NSA programs have been kept under wraps does not mean they’re illegal. Current and former U.S. officials insist the programs are lawful and justified.
For a more technical definition of whistleblower, let’s turn to the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, which advocates on their behalf. Here’s how the organization defines a whistleblower, using state, federal and international cases:
“An employee who discloses information that s/he reasonably believes is evidence of illegality, gross waste or fraud, mismanagement, abuse of power, general wrongdoing, or a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety. Typically, whistleblowers speak out to parties that can influence and rectify the situation. These parties include the media, organizational managers, hotlines, or Congressional members/staff, to name a few.”
Whistleblowers are recognized and protected under the law, to an extent. PBS’s POV documentary series has a timeline up to 2010 on whistleblowers, including congressional enactment of the False Claims Act, which offers financial incentives “to uncover fraud harmful to the government.”
But a spokesman for the Justice Department told ProPublica in May that legal protection for whistleblowers applies only to those who follow designated channels, particularly in regard to classified information. That essentially means anyone who violates those procedures wouldn’t be considered a whistleblower by the U.S. government.
“We cannot sanction or condone federal employees who knowingly and willfully disclose classified information to the media or others not entitled to receive such information,” the statement reads.
ProPublica’s report in May outlines what it calls the Obama administration’s “crackdown” on national security leaks, despite federal efforts to enhance whistleblower protections.
Protected or not, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told CNN that “I would have done just what [Snowden"s] done” had he seen the same NSA information. Snowden, he said, has done “an enormous service” to American democracy.
Ellsberg, who was one of the first people prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act, also said he has “no doubt that this [NSA program] violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and probably other parts of the Bill of Rights.”
Courts inevitably will be called to rule on the matter someday. Until then, whatever alarm Snowden sounded — whistle or not — has stirred a rousing debate.
What We Mean When We Say "Whistleblower"
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Trip to Mars may mean cancer for astronauts
Miriam Kramer
Space.com
June 1, 2013
Astronauts who travel to Mars one day could be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during their trip, even if shielding techniques are used, a new study shows.
When the Mars Science Laboratory launched on Nov. 26, 2011, it began a 350-million-mile trip to the surface of the Red Planet. During its voyage, a group of researchers, including Southwest Research Institute scientist Cary Zeitlin, monitored exactly how much radiation a piece of science hardware on the Mars rover Curiosity was exposed to over the 253-day journey from Earth to Mars.
“In space, it’s between a 100 and 1,000 times higher dose rate [of radiation] than on Earth,” Zeitlin told SPACE.com. “It’s highly uncertain what the health risk is from these exposures.”
This article was posted: Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Trip to Mars may mean cancer for astronauts
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