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HBO Fights Back in 'Luck' Humane Society Lawsuit
For the first time, HBO has responded in court to former American Humane Association employee Barbara Casey, who was allegedly fired from her job after objecting to the way horses were treated on the TV series Luck.
STORY: HBO Sued Over Alleged Horse Deaths Cover-Up on 'Luck'
Casey was the director of production in the AHA's film and television unit, and in January, she filed a lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court. She claimed her ex-employer had wrongfully terminating her and that HBO and Stewart Productions had aided and abetted a cover-up months before the series starring Dustin Hoffman was canceled.
Aiding and abetting a wrongful termination?
HBO says there is no such thing.
According to a demurrer that was filed by the production companies last week, California law doesn't recognize a claim against a non-employer in the context where the termination was supposedly wrongful because it went against public policy.
As HBO papers lay out, "Because the Production Defendants were not Plaintiff's employer, they cannot be bootstrapped into liability for the allegedly wrongful termination under a theory of 'aiding and abetting' in that termination."
In her lawsuit, Casey says the AHA observed mistreated horses. Casey was interested in reporting the alleged wrong-doings to the authorities but says she was instructed not to by her superiors at AHA. She alleges the production companies pressured the organization to allow them to violate the AHA's animal safety standards.
When Casey's lawsuit was filed, HBO said that it "took every precaution to ensure that our horses were treated humanely."
Now comes the legal response that takes issue with the plaintiff's attempt to drag the production companies into a battle between Casey and the AHA on an "aiding and abetting" charge. HBO's lawyer says there's been only one case (Weinbaum v. Goldfarb) that has ever attempted to make such a claim against a third party for a conspiracy to wrongfully terminate, and in 1996, a California appeals court affirmed a dismissal.
"To the extent Plaintiff is asking this Court to create a new cause of action, that invitation should be declined," say the production defendants.
Even if Casey's claim is deemed to be within the bounds of law, HBO says that she hasn't made specific enough allegations of fact to hold it liable.
According to the latest court papers (with defendants emphasis), "The (First Amended Complaint does not allege who at HBO or Stewart allegedly engaged in tortious behavor and what authority those persons had to act on behalf of either of them, what advice HBO or Stewart allegedly provided to the AHA relating to Plaintiff's termination, how HBO or Stewart allegedly 'encouraged' or 'assisted' the AHA in terminating Plaintiff, or what sort of 'moral support' HBO or Stewart allegedly provided to the AHA."
HBO and Stewart are represented by Jolene Konnersman at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.
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YPSILANTI, Mich. - More than 21 years after she went to prison, Barbara Hernandez enters the cinderblock visitation chamber at the Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in the turquoise blouse she keeps for special occasions. Her makeup is carefully applied but can't hide age lines spreading, thin but unmistakable, from the corners of her eyes.
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In 1987, when Barbara Hernandez turned 13, her mother moved the family from New Mexico to Capac, Mich., set in farmland on the state's eastern shoulder.
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Hernandez's mother drank heavily, often leaving the children to care for themselves. The youngest, Andrea Waple, recalls being told in kindergarten to let herself in to the empty house. Hernandez skipped school to pick her up, stirring their mother's anger.
"Barbara always tried to take care of me even though she didn't know how," Waple said. "Because my mom was mad, she'd come home from work and hit us with a belt. It got to the point where we're pretending to be crying to make her stop."
Hernandez enrolled in eighth grade at Capac Junior-Senior High School where junior Jim Hyde — four years older and repeating a year — passed her notes in the hall.
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Hyde, also serving life without parole for Cotaling's murder, did not respond to requests for comment.
In 1988, Hyde went to live with his mother in Pontiac, a down-and-out factory town outside Detroit, and asked Hernandez, 14, to join him.
"I thought, 'This is my way of getting out,'" Hernandez said.
Hernandez followed, but soon gave in to her mother's instructions and moved in with her older sister. She stayed most of a year until she says Hyde climbed to the apartment balcony, threatening to hurt her sister's children unless she came with him.
Hyde's mother's house sat on a block notorious for drug dealing. Hernandez says that to feed a cocaine habit, Hyde urged her to pose as a prostitute, demand men give her money before sex, then run. Soon he told her to put aside pretending, a routine confirmed by Hyde's sister at trial.
Hyde's mother kicked them out when Hyde stole her welfare check. But Hyde knew a place to go — an abandoned house a block over where they slept on the floor. By then, Hernandez says, Hyde was beating her if she did not follow instructions.
The night before the murder, Hyde's sister testified, he talked of leaving town by having Hernandez steal a car from one of the men who picked her up. When that didn't work, Hyde instructed Hernandez to buy him a knife, then lure a man to the house so he could rob and kill him.
Hernandez, two months past her 16th birthday, says she did as she was told.
"All these years later it's like watching somebody else, but the horror of realizing that was me," she says. "There's just so many things I could've done and mostly I'm asking myself, 'Why didn't you run? Why didn't you go to the police? Why did you just blindly go to the store? Why did you bring Mr. Cotaling into the house? Everything is whys and question marks."
By nightfall on Mother's Day 1990, the Cotaling house had turned into a family command center. Across the state line, police had arrested Hyde and Hernandez, found with the car Jimmy Cotaling had been driving. Running off was not like Cotaling, quiet, with hooded blue eyes, devoted to skiing and fixing cars.
Police searched three days before finding his shoeless body in an abandoned house. He'd been stabbed 25 times, his head nearly severed. Searchers found his body using a map drawn by Hernandez, who asked for a lawyer, then talked without one on her mother's advice.
What happened that night became clearer at trial. As Cotaling left home, receipts showed Hernandez bought a knife. When she returned, Hyde dispatched her to find a customer for sex. Hernandez testified she saw a man in a silver Pontiac watching her. He pulled over and followed her to the house on Howard Street.
Hernandez maintains that after entering the house, Cotaling began touching her. She knew Hyde lay in wait and when Cotaling began undoing his pants in the dark, she became scared and told him she needed to use the bathroom. Hyde attacked Cotaling from behind. The medical examiner testified that the first three wounds inflicted were to Cotaling's lower back and two — piercing his left lung and heart — were fatal.
But the prosecutor argued Hyde was too small to overcome Cotaling alone, pointing to two strands of Hernandez's hair in Cotaling's bloody hand.
Reexamination, though, raises questions. While Cotaling stood just over 6 feet, photos show he was stringy compared to a then-muscular 5-foot-8 Hyde. More importantly, the prosecutor and defense lawyer neglected to mention Hyde was trained to fight -- he was a highly ranked high school wrestler, placing sixth in the state finals.
Joe Remenap, who was Capac's principal and officiated high school matches, said Hyde's talent lay in a hard-nosed detachment.
"When you looked him in the eyes you could see right to the back of his head, there wasn't anything in there," he said. "You almost have to be that way to be a wrestler sometimes."
A point made at trial, and emphasized by a state attorney at a 2010 commutation hearing, is that Hernandez admitted joining the attack. That argument hinges on testimony by Ralph Monday, a police detective present when Hernandez was questioned after arrest.
"She said Hyde did all the stabbing. She might have helped hold him," Monday testified.
But interviewed recently, Monday says Hernandez never made such an admission.
"My memory right now is that she had no role in even touching the guy," said Monday, 69, now a Findlay, Ohio councilman. "Why I testified to that, who knows?" he said.
Two decades later, the Supreme Court says juvenile defendants' lives must be weighed at sentencing. But that has hardly settled debate.
Lawyers for prisoners seek resentencing to consider factors set out by the court, including lack of maturity at the time of the crime, family background and the teen's role in the killing. States have taken widely varying paths to resolution.
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill allowing judges to reduce sentences to 25 years to life if an inmate shows remorse and is working toward rehabilitation. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad commuted all juvenile life sentences to 60 years, a decision criticized for flouting the Supreme Court's directive.
In Michigan, the issue is being hashed out on three fronts.
In the legislature, state Rep. Joe Haveman introduced bills late last year allowing for possible parole of juvenile lifers after 15 or 20 years, depending on age at the time of the crime. But Michigan's parole board has a reputation for releasing very few lifers and Haveman said he's not sure how to address that. He chose not to pursue passage and is meeting with a group, including prosecutors and defenders, to propose new bills this year.
A federal judge ruled in January that Michigan laws mandating life sentences for teens convicted of first-degree murder are unconstitutional. But state Attorney General Bill Schuette contends the ruling applies only to five inmates who brought the case.
The issue also has landed in state court.
When a bailiff calls the Michigan Court of Appeals to order on a mid-October morning, so many people rise that Presiding Judge Michael J. Talbot's eyebrows dart up in surprise. Technically, the only case is that of Raymond Curtis Carp, contesting a life sentence for the 2006 killing of a St. Clair County woman when he was 15.
But the courtroom is full because all acknowledge Carp is a proxy for more than 360 Michigan inmates sentenced to life as teens. After nearly four hours of arguments, the judges sound stumped.
"I can't ignore the fact that there's a crisis pending that requires action," Talbot, the judge, says. "What are we going to tell them (inmates), that we'll see you in a year or two and maybe something will happen?"
A month later, Talbot's panel rejected Carp's request; the state Supreme Court is expected to weigh an appeal.
"Whether it be the state court or the federal court or the legislature ... the clear injustice of someone being held under a cruel and unusual sentence won't continue in the state," said Deborah LaBelle, an Ann Arbor attorney challenging Michigan's juvenile sentencing laws. "I think it's too bad we're not there. But I'm still hopeful."
Eight Novembers ago, Jody Robinson picked up a newspaper topped by a headline, "Children facing life." She studied a photo inside of Barbara Hernandez — jailed at 16 for killing her brother.
The prospect of releasing Hernandez infuriated Robinson, who launched an intensely personal campaign, testifying at a legislative hearing that reducing sentences of teen killers risked re-traumatizing victims' families.
When Hernandez was denied commutation in 2010, "my little guy said 'Mom, why are you crying?'" Robinson says. "I said, 'They're tears of happiness, honey. The bad person' — that's what we call her — 'is going to stay in jail.'"
Robinson's certainty about Hernandez is bolstered by testimony that Hernandez might have admitted holding Cotaling down. She points out Hernandez has been written up 17 times for misconduct in prison, but does not mention the worst violation was for punching another inmate, or that the last violation was in 2007.
"If you ask some of my brothers and sisters they'll probably tell you I'm obsessed," Robinson says.
She is not alone in her insistence of Hernandez's guilt. The prosecutor, Pendergast, emphasizes that Cotaling had strands of Hernandez's forcibly removed hair in his hand.
"Contrary to her assertion that she's cowering around the corner under some sort of influence of her boyfriend, quite the contrary. She's right in the mix and the evidence shows that," says Pendergast, now a Michigan assistant attorney general.
It's not clear what courts will do if asked to re-examine cases like Hernandez's. Her mother died more than a decade ago. Hyde's mother is dead, too. So are Hyde's sister, father, stepmother, and the judge who tried the case.
But when a prison administrator chose lifers to mentor inmates in a drug treatment program, Hernandez stood out as the one who would not make excuses for her crime.
"It struck me at the time that she, in no way, was putting blame on anybody else," says Anne Benion, the prison's clinical manager until last year. Benion said Hernandez had given back to the program as much as she's gained.
"She's sort of like the gentle giant. She has this unbelievable calming effect on women, but it's very subtle," Benion says.
Rebecca Gaffney, a retired college employee who has volunteered to meet with Hernandez since 2007, said the inmate reminds her of her daughter.
"I think she is growing in knowledge and a little bit in — you can't say self-esteem — but in forgiving herself a little bit and in trying to figure out a purpose for her life," Gaffney said. "She needs a second chance. She needs it, but she deserves it."
Hernandez, reluctant to make that case, asks that people decide for themselves.
Every afternoon, she goes for a solo run, providing time to think. She mulls her long-ago relationship with Hyde and how she repeatedly ceded responsibility for her own choices, seeing a pattern she continued long after Cotaling's murder.
She runs for more than an hour, repeatedly circling a recreation yard in the prison where a judge decided she should spend the rest of her life. Then, alone with her thoughts, she walks back to her cell.


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By Katsuhiro Asagiri and Valentina Gasbarri
NEW YORK (IDN) - As an American actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the newly appointed UN Messenger for Peace, warned some 120 heads of states at the UN Climate Summit on September 24, impacts of climate change and global warming have been perceived more dangerous and globally widespread and it has become the gravest existential threat to humanity. While he urged governments and industries to take an immediate and decisive actions to tackle this global issue, he stressed that protecting our future on this planet depends on "the conscious evolution of our species".
Climate change is a problem requiring new and transformative solutions. In order to achieve the goal of sustainability, the role of public-policy makers, governments and international institutions as well as of the private sector and the academia is essential. Taking a cue from the United Nations, the first "International Conference on Global Environment, Carbon Reduction, and Eco-Drive as a solution towards sustainability" was held on October 17, 2014 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. It was co-hosted by the World Association of Former United Nations Internes and Fellows (WAFUNIN), the ASUA Corporation of Japan and the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: 'Their Weapons Possess Them'
By Xanthe Hall*
"Possession does not prevent international disputes from occurring, but it makes conflicts more dangerous. Maintaining forces on alert does not provide safety, but it increases the likelihood of accidents. Upholding doctrines of nuclear deterrence does not counter proliferation, but it makes the weapons more desirable." - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.
BERLIN | VIENNA (IDN) - Nearly a thousand people crammed into the conference hall in the majestic Hofburg in Vienna for two full days of discussions on the unspeakable and unimaginable theme – the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. This was the third in a series of state-sponsored conferences taking place outside of the UN, the first two having taken place in Norway and Mexico.
ASIA-PACIFIC: Nuclear-Weapon Free NEA Is Possible
By Jamshed Baruah
GENEVA (IDN) - While existing tensions in Northeast Asia continue to be a source of concern and urgent action is required to diffuse these and bring about meaningful cooperation, a nuclear-weapon free zone (NWFZ) in the region is possible and should in fact be a priority, according to an international conference held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on November 26.
Mongolia's single-state NWFZ is a strong illustration of leadership in this area, and should serve as an example to other states wishing to take action against nuclear weapons and the dangers they pose, final document of the international Conference 'Dimensions to create a Nuclear-Weapon Free Northeast Asia' stated.
ASIA-PACIFIC: What China's Silk Road Project Aims At
By Shastri Ramachandaran*
MUMBAI (IDN) - There is more to China's Silk Route Project — from the sea lanes of East Asia through South and Central Asia to Europe — than is generally perceived in India.
India has been invited to join the project for rebuilding the ancient Silk Road that connected India, China and Central Asia to Europe and reviving the Maritime Silk Route for linking countries in the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean. Most of India's neighbours see it as an opportunity that should not be missed.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: The Road To Understanding
By Kartikeya V. Sarabhai*
AHMEDABAD, India (IPS) - Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) brings together concerns about the environment, economic development and social aspects. Since 1972, when the first UN Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, Sweden, there has been increasing awareness of the intricate link between conserving the environment and human development.
The fact that our lifestyles and the way we have developed have a major impact on the environment was known earlier. Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, in 1962, had been an eye-opener, especially in the United States where it was published.
But the 1976 UN Conference on the Human Habitat was perhaps the beginning of the realisation that development and environment had to be dealt with together. By the time of the first Rio conference in 1992, the deterioration of the environment was recognised as a global issue.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Atomic States Face Barrage of Criticism
By Jamshed Baruah
VIENNA (IPS) - Sarcastic laughter erupted when a civil society representative expressed his "admiration for the delegate of the United States, who with one insensitive, ill-timed, inappropriate and diplomatically inept intervention" had "managed to dispel the considerable goodwill the U.S. had garnered by its decision to participate" in Vienna Conference on Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons.
The speaker was Richard Lennane, who prefers to call himself the "chief inflammatory officer" of Wildfire, a Geneva-based disarmament initiative. He was making a statement at the final session of the Dec. 8-9 conference in the Austrian capital – the third after the Oslo (Norway) gathering in 2013 and Nayarit (Mexico) earlier this year.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: Rising Importance Of Educational Initiatives
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NEW YORK (IDN) - When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Global Education First Initiative in September 2012, "fostering global citizenship" was one of his three priorities, along with "putting every child in school" and "improving the quality of learning".
Ban said: "Education is much more than an entry to the job market. It has the power to shape a sustainable future and better world. Education policies should promote peace, mutual respect and environmental care."
As the international community moves toward adopting the post-2015 development agenda, popularly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for education for global citizenship is becoming increasingly important.
Because none of the goals impacting the Earth and its inhabitants can be achieved without people and governments around the world transcending narrow national interests and acting in the interest of the planet.
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NAGOYA, Japan (IDN) – Education for global citizenship, funded among others through tax on financial speculation, will not only promote enlightened patriotism but also foster the cause of peace and counter nationalistic and fundamentalist trends, says Professor Carlos Alberto Torres in an exclusive interview.
Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Torres is a leading expert on issues related to global citizenship. For the last decade, he has been working from a global perspective on human rights, pluralism and citizenship. He has contributed significantly to defining the theoretical perspective of educating the global citizen. Together with some of his colleagues, he established in 1991 Paulo Freire Institute and is currently serving as its Director.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Survivors Aspire For A Nuke Free World
By Neena Bhandari*
SYDNEY (IDN) - Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a Kokatha-Mula Indigenous woman, was about three years old when the United Kingdom began conducting Nuclear weapons tests in Australia's Monte Bello Islands, off the Western Australian coast, and Emu Field and Maralinga in South Australia.
The 12 major tests, conducted between 1952 and 1963, contaminated a huge area, including Koonibba, the place where Sue's family and larger community lived.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Civil Society Support for Marshall Islands
By Julia Rainer
VIENNA (IPS) - Ahead of the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, activists from all over the world came together in the Austrian capital to participate in a civil society forum organised by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on December 6 and 7.
One pressing issue discussed was the Marshall Islands' lawsuit against the United States and eight other nuclear-weapon nations that was filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in April 2014, denouncing the over 60 nuclear tests that were conducted on the small island state's territory between 1946 and 1958.
The location was chosen not only because it was an isolated part of the world but also because at the time it was also a Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands governed by the United States. Self-government was achieved in 1979, and full sovereignty in 1986.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: UN Urged to Ban Nuke Strikes Against Cities
By Roger Hamilton-Martin
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Civil society groups are urging the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring nuclear strikes on cities to be a clear-cut violation of international humanitarian law.
At the December 8-9 Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, supporters of the proposed resolution argued that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is undeniable that the explosion of a nuclear weapon on a populated area would engender destruction beyond acceptable human limits.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: SGI-IPS Award For Crusader for Disarmament
By Roger Hamilton-Martin
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Jayantha Dhanapala was awarded the IPS International Achievement Award for Nuclear Disarmament on November 17 at the United Nations in New York.
Dhanapala, UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs until 2003, has remained committed to the goal of a nuclear weapons-free world since leaving his post, presiding since 2007 over the Nobel Prize-winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
"A nuclear weapon-free world can and must happen in my lifetime," Dhanapala told attendees at an official ceremony sponsored by the Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International.


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OTTAWA — Canadians under the age of 54 will be forced to wait longer to qualify for their Old Age Security pensions, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Thursday.
The controversial shift means that starting in 2023, the age of eligibility for OAS benefits will gradually increase to 67 from 65.
With an 11-year "notification" of that change and a six-year phase-in that concludes in 2029, Flaherty said he has given Canadians "ample time to make adjustments to their retirement plans."
Flaherty also announced a new measure that will permit Canadians to delay claiming their OAS until later in life and, in return, be rewarded with higher benefits.
The purpose is twofold: Keep Canadians in the workforce longer to boost the economy and provide taxes to government, and limit the costs of the OAS system by ensuring there are fewer beneficiaries.
In an apparent move to blunt some of the public uproar, Flaherty announced that pension plans for public servants will be changed to require that the employees pay a larger contribution: 50 per cent.
As well, the pension plan for politicians, often criticized as an overly generous "gold-plated" scheme, will be adjusted, starting in the next Parliament, so they are "comparable" with contribution rates made by public servants.
However, there were no details on precisely how much of an increased share the MPs will bear in contributions, or whether they will lose two attractive elements of their scheme — qualifying for benefits after just six years in office, and claiming the money at age 55.
The controversial shift in OAS, the backbone of Canada's public pension system, was first telegraphed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in January but details didn't come until Thursday.
Flaherty argued the changes are needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of the pension system. Opposition parties say he is creating a "false crisis" and will mount fierce criticism.
Flaherty told the Commons Thursday the OAS program was designed decades ago for a "much different demographic future."
In the 1970s, there were seven workers for every one person over the age of 65, he said. In 20 years there will be only two.
Similarly, in 1970, life expectancy was age 69 for men and 76 for women. Today, it is 79 for men and 83 for women.
"The result is that Canadians are living longer and healthier. There are fewer workers to take their place when they retire. Canada has changed. Old Age Security must change with it, to serve the purpose it was intended to serve," Flaherty said.
The changes are as follows:
- Starting on April 1, 2023, the age of eligibility for OAS and the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) will gradually change to 67 from 65.
- This means anyone who is 54 years or older as of March 31, 2012 will not be affected.
- People born between April 1, 1958, and Jan. 31, 1962, will become eligible to receive OAS benefits between the age of 65 and 67, depending on their actual birth date.
- People born between on or after Feb. 1, 1962, won't be eligible for OAS until age 67.
- Eligibility for the allowance given to low-income spouses or survivors will gradually increase from 60 to 64 today, to 62 to 66, starting in April 2023.
- People can voluntarily defer receiving their OAS benefit for up to five years, starting July 1, 2013. If so, they will be subsequently rewarded with a higher, actuarially adjusted pension. For instance, someone who defers retiring at age 65 for one year (to age 66) would receive $6,948 in the annual OAS pension instead of $6,481.
In recent weeks, political critics have said the OAS changes will merely offload costs to the provinces, because more seniors will be forced onto provincial welfare rolls when they turn 65.
Flaherty has responded by promising to "compensate" the provinces for any "net additional costs" they face as a result of the change in OAS eligibility.
On Thursday, one pension expert panned the OAS announcement as an "unfair and regressive change that will increase poverty and most hurt lower-income seniors."
"The budget talks about healthier Canadians living longer and longer," said Ken Battle, president of the Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
"Well, the fact is the poor seniors are less healthy than others, have lower lifespan and have less time in which to enjoy their Old Age Security benefits."
Gregory Thomas, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, was critical of the government for not going far enough in reforming the MPs' pension plan.
"Essentially, government MPs are sending Canadians a signal that they continue to be a privileged class who write their own rules," said Thomas.
"Obviously there are a lot of government MPs who feel entitled to their entitlements and they want to cling to a gold-plated pension."


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Morbidly obese baby who weighs over 2st at 8-months-old leaves doctors baffled
She was a normal weight at birth.
She was a normal weight at birth.
A baby has completely baffled doctors by weighing in at a staggering 2.7st at just 8-months-old.
Chahat Kumar from Punjab in India is now double the average weight of a child her age, and instead weighs the same as a 4-year-old, despite being a normal weight when she was born.
Her mum, Reena Kumar explains, 'when Chahat was born she was like normal kids. After 4 months we realised that her weight was increasing.'
'She doesn't eat like a normal kid. She keeps eating all the time. If we don't give her anything to eat, she starts crying.'
'She cries to go out but her weight is too much and we are not able to pick her up. So we only take her to nearby places.'
Dad Suraj Kumar adds, 'She gets hungrier than other babies. She demands milk and food often.'
'Her weight is increasing day by day.'
After first noticing that baby Chahat was gaining weight at a dramatic rate, her parents started trying to get to the bottom of her condition.
Suraj explains, 'we took her to the doctor. They told us they need to take her blood samples but then it wasn't possible for the doctors to take her blood because her skin was very thick.'
Six times the size he should be
Reena and Suraj took Chahat to visit Doctor Vasudev Sharma, who has been working with the family ever since she was born. Despite his years of experience, Dr Sharma admits that this is the first time he has encountered such an unusual condition.
He explains, 'This is the first case I've seen in my life where a child's weight has been shooting up so much 4-5 months after birth.'
'The child is around 15-17kgs now. We recommended that they should visit a Paediatric specialist at the Civil Hospital in Amritsar but the blood test couldn't be carried out because the fat on the baby's body was too much and because of that the blood test wasn't properly done.'
Despite their investigations, doctors have so far been unable to diagnose Chahat's condition, but are hoping to start treatment soon.
Doctor Sharma says, 'one the treatment starts the weight may decrease eventually and the child can fall into the normal weight category.'
Heartbreakingly, Reena and Suraj lost a baby in childbirth before they had Chahat,so they are desperate for their only child to live a normal life.
Reena says, 'we want Chahat to be able to play like normal kids. We don't want her to have difficulties in the future. We want a good future for her.'


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Apr-08-09 Lawrence & Pine Hill Receive COAH Certification
Lawrence & Pine Hill Receive COAH Certification
TRENTON - Lawrence Township (Mercer County) and Pine Hill today became the first municipalities to receive substantive certification under the Council on Affordable Housing's (COAH) revised third round rules. The action came during today's COAH Board meeting.
"Over 350 municipalities, a record number, have signaled their intent to participate in the COAH process," said Department of Community Affairs Commissioner and COAH Board Chairman Joseph Doria. "Lawrence and Pine Hill are the first of what will be many municipalities that receive certification. I want to commend them both for taking this great step forward in providing their fair share of affordable housing for their constituents."
Substantive certification is COAH's determination that a municipal fair share plan presents a realistic opportunity for the production of affordable housing to address the town's portion of the affordable housing need. The substantive certifications granted to Lawrence Township and Pine Hill are valid until December 30, 2018.
Additionally, the Board today adopted new income limits for New Jersey's six housing regions. The limits are based on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Section 8 income limits for the state's six housing regions, which are defined by COAH. They can be viewed by logging on to http://www.nj.gov/dca/affiliates/coah/reports/incomelimits.pdf.
Income limits are used to determine the eligibility of low and moderate-income households, to price new sales and rental units, and to index the maximum resale price of existing sales units. While income limits vary across housing regions, they are also adjusted for family size. Low-income households are defined as earning 50 percent or less of the median gross household income for households of the same size within the same housing region. Moderate-income households are defined as earning between 50 and 80 percent of the median gross household income for households of the same size within the same housing region. COAH also calculates the income limits for very low income households earning 30 percent or less of median gross household income, as affordable housing available to this segment of the population is required by the Fair Housing Act and these households are eligible for financial assistance under the development fee regulations in COAH's third round rules.
Affordable rents can be raised a maximum of 3.3 percent, according to the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI). However, as with market housing, developers, landlords and owners may ask for less than the maximum permitted prices in order to sell or rent units. On average, affordable sales prices can be raised 4.24 percent, but the exact percentage varies by housing region.
COAH, an affiliate of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, facilitates the production of sound, affordable housing for low and moderate income households by providing the most effective process to municipalities, housing providers, nonprofit and for profit developers to address a constitutional obligation within the framework of sound, comprehensive planning.


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Edinburgh is the historic but modern city of Scotland. The country's capital sits on rocky crags and volcanoes that rise from the flat landscape. This city is just perfect for travellers who love culture, nature, fantastic events, and a great glass of Scotch. But whoever comes to Edinburgh ends up loving those things anyway, and so will you.
Start with the Scot's tourist spots in Old Town including Arthur's Seat, the Scottish Parliament, and the Palace of Hollyroodhouse. Head to mysterious and historic Edinburgh Castle too, which dominates the city's skyline. You can even witness the one o'clock gun being fired if you visit from Monday to Saturday.
Discover just how magical and stunning Edinburgh is and see its different sides from Calton Hill, Blackford Hill, Water of Leith, the Royal Botanic Garden, and by climbing to the top of an extinct volcano at Holyrood Park.
Are you a culture vulture? Visit Dolly the cloned sheep at the National Museum of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Camera Obscura. Then spend the rest of the day shopping at Princes Street and the Royal Mile. Aside from boutiques and shops, those two also have lots of pubs, cafes, beautiful buildings, and even bagpipe players.
You don't need to wear a kilt for the ultimate Scottish experience. Just visit Edinburgh during the Hogmanay and celebrate the Scottish New Year with heaps of food, drinks, and exciting local traditions. Other famous events in the city that you can't miss are the Fringe Festival in August and the Edinburgh Oktoberfest at Princes Street Gardens.
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Edd Houck runs for reelection-- in Albemarle
Thanks to redistricting, parts of Albemarle currently in the 25th Senate District now represented by Creigh Deeds have moved to the 17th, long held by Spotsylvanian Edd Houck, who announced his reelection bid June 24 in front of the Albemarle County Office Building.
Democrat Houck, 60, is seeking his eighth term in the General Assembly. He's challenged by Republican Bryce Reeves.
The 17th District picks up Woodbrook, Branchlands, Agnor-Hurt, Dunlora, Jack Jouett, Georgetown, Keswick, Stony Point, and Free Bridge precincts.Read more on: edd houck
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Strangely, Houck's district doesn't include the entirety of of those precincts. For instance, I live in the Stony Point precinct, as do my in-laws, yet we now have entirely different senators. That's because the new boundaries don't conform to precinct boundaries—district boundaries and precinct boundaries are unrelated. This is going to create some confusion come voting day.
I bet we would not have had the above problem if the boundary's had not been set by the people getting elected who were more worried about getting elected than serving us as is almost always the case
Fred Hudson, 2nd Vice-Chair of the Virginia Democratic Party, discusses redistricting on the locally-produced interview program Politics Matters with host Jan Paynter: http://bit.ly/pm-hudson
What's interesting (or troubling) is that the Charlottesville Metro Area now has a population of a little over 200,000. This almost identical to the population requirement for each senate district. Our metro area, a defined community of interest, could have been one district. It didn't need to be sliced up among four. The same can be said about our new house districts. The metro area is split among at least four or five different districts. Albemarle is split among four alone. Rob Bell's district now snakes from Scottsville to areas close to Harrisonburg in Rockingham. Bell's district was clearly redrawn to address the growth in Fluvanna and Albemarle that is making both of those localities more Democratic. Houck's district was drawn to guarantee his election by taking on precincts in eastern Albemarle and in the urban ring of Albemarle.
The gerrymandering has got to stop. The only way we can end it is by demanding that our legislators do so. I am not sure what the Virginia law is on this topic, but if I remember the Supreme Court precedent correctly, there is nothing unconstitutional about changing legislative districts before a 10 year census. If state law permits it, we should demand that they go back to the drawing boards after the next election and not take partisan factors into account.
Edd Houck has been my senator since I was born in 1985. He never takes my calls or responds to emails or letters with simple requests or questions, and I've tried since high school as part of a project. He claims to be "pro-education" maybe because he's fleeced a salary from the public education system for 30 years, I don't know.
I tried to help with his campaign 4 years ago and when I called the constituent's hotline, they said they were "phoning this one in" and weren't even bothering to set up a campaign office.
When I finally met him at an event last year, I went to shake his hand and introduce myself. His rude wife got in my way and said "the senator is busy talking to an important constituent honey, please send him an email with your question."
THIS is the kind of representation that Charlottesville can expect from Edd Houck. If I were you, I would choose ANYONE BUT HOUCK in the next election no matter what party he/she is in.
http://www.vpap.org/elections/district_redistricting/64 = Ridiculous Houck Bias in redistricting!
Furthermore, I agree with the above posts- the gerrymandering is BLATANT in this case. No matter what side of the aisle you are politically, I hope you'd agree that this losing of 25 strongly Republican precincts and replacing them with 7 Democratic ones just smacks of intentional game playing to protect someone who should be on his way out and must be afraid he can't win fairly.
If he loses this time, that will speak volumes to how much of a failure he's become to us all.


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Rio de Janeiro to host ATP-WTA event in February
Rio de Janeiro will host a combined ATP and WTA event that will be the biggest tennis tournament in South America.
Organizers announced the Rio Open on Wednesday. It will be played from Feb. 15-23.
The event will be held at the Jockey Club, which features eight clay courts and a 7,000-seat center court.
The Rio Open will replace the combined ATP-WTA event in Memphis, Tenn. The men's prize money will be $1.2 million and the women's $235,000.
Brazil already hosts an ATP event in Sao Paulo, won by Rafael Nadal last month. Venus Williams won the WTA tournament in the southern city of Florianopolis.


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Calm before storm: Perry prepares for RAGBRAI
Town has something to prove, residents say
One of the smallest towns on the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa's route is hoping to make a big impression when the riders take over Monday.
It's the calm before the storm in Perry on Sunday.
"(It's) like Christmas, I guess, in a way, you know," said Lee Coons, owner of Raccoon River Valley bicycle shop.
"(It's) like a wedding. We plan for one day, and it's done, you know," said Bob Wilson, of the Perry Chamber of Commerce.
By Monday evening, Perry will be buried by RAGBRAI riders and fans.
"(It's going to be) a wave of bikes. You won't even be able to walk on this sidewalk," said Coons. "Everybody that comes into the store (asks us,) 'Are you ready for Monday? Are you ready?' Well, it's coming whether we're ready or not."
A lot has changed since 2001, the last time Perry was on the route. This time, residents and business owners said the town has something to prove.
"Even though we're the smallest overnight town of the week, I think that people will find out that Perry is well-organized, and all the amenities they should need should be available for them without any problems," said Coons.
"I've learned more than I've ever wanted to know about Kybos, about showers and everything in between, but this is why we do it. To promote this great town," said Wilson.
Perry is a quiet town of about 8,000 people, but things are going to get really cozy Monday night, when the RAGBRAI riders and all of their crews triple the population.
"My folks have 210 (people) staying in their backyard. So it's everybody. It's an all-out effort. They will be sleeping anywhere you can see," said Wilson. "We are more than ready. We are setting ourselves up to be, we want to be the best overnight on the route."
"Perry will definitely open some eyes, I think," said Coons.
"Hopefully when they cruise out of town, they just remember Perry and having nothing but a good time," said Wilson.


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A "Jobs and Education" prayer breakfast forum is set for July 14 at Greater Grace Temple, 23500 W. Seven Mile Rd., from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. featuring education advocate Sherry Gay-Dagnogo as keynote speaker.
Dagnogo, who is also a candidate for state representative in the 8th District, will call for a unified vision among all religious denominations to advance a positive and impactful agenda for Detroit at the breakfast forum co-chaired by Charles H. Ellis III, Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams, Bishop Edgar Vann and Dr. Spencer T. Ellis.
Also speaking at the forum will be talk show host Rev. Angelo B. Henderson, who will serve as master of ceremonies; Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, pastor of Greater Grace Temple; Pastor Spencer T. Ellis, of Citadel of Praise; Rev. Dr. Charles G. Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church. Minister Dawud Muhammad has been invited.
"We're at a critical time in the city of Detroit and change demands electing leaders who are God-led, community-focused and people-driven," Gay-Dagnogo said. "I know the changes needed to make our schools and communities safe and viable again can only be done by the power of God and with leaders who listen and respond in a comprehensive way to the needs of the residents."
Bishop Ellis said, "The state of Michigan needs representatives who are not afraid to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the city of Detroit with the ultimate weapon of warfare, and that is the power of God. We must unite, as one, under our Creator to turn Detroit around. I applaud Sherry Gay-Dagnogo for recognizing this fundamental fact and doing something about it."
Citadel's Rev. Ellis commended Gay-Dagnogo for engaging residents because "a voteless people is a hopeless people. We must invest in ourselves." Hartford's Dr. Adams says there is a need for candidates who are focusing on education, a cornerstone of Gay-Dagnogo's vision. "There's no work for the untrained or uneducated. Every child deserves to be educated. We need people in Lansing who will fight for public education because public education is for everyone," Adams said.
Gay-Dagnogo formed a coalition of residential volunteers, community activists, civic leaders, elected national, state and local officials and the faith-based community in a campaign to raise awareness and encourage support of Metro Foodland, the only African-American owned grocery store in Michigan.
"Tailgate 27," as it was called, drew supporters from throughout Detroit who pledged to visit Metro Foodland 27 times a year, spend $27 each time and ask 27 other people to do the same.
Gay-Dagnogo's most recent education initiative, "Dismantled by Design," held in June at the MSU-Detroit Center, united community stakeholders in an effort to build a coalition to defend public education.
Contact Tamika Gaines at (313) 643-5323 for additional information on the the Jobs & Education prayer breakfast forum.


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Chocolate Cherry Trifle
2 (approximately 12 ounces each) chocolate pound cakes
1/2 cup black cherry jam
1/2 cup cherry brandy
2 cups drained bottled sour cherries (recommended: Morello)
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, minimum 70 percent cocoa solids, chopped
1 1/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon milk
1 1/3 cups plus 1 tablespoon heavy cream
8 egg yolks
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
3 cups heavy cream
1 -ounce bittersweet chocolate
Special Equipment: Large wide trifle bowl
Slice the chocolate pound cake and make jam sandwiches with the cherry jam, and layer the bottom of a large wide trifle bowl. Pour over the cherry brandy so that the cake soaks it up, and then top with the drained cherries. Cover with plastic wrap and leave to macerate while you make the custard.
Melt the chocolate on low to medium heat in the microwave, checking after 2 minutes, though it will probably need 4 minutes. Or you can place it in a bowl over a pan of simmering water. Once the chocolate is melted, ser aside while you get on with the custard.
In a saucepan warm the milk and cream. Whisk the egg yolks, sugar, and cocoa in a large bowl. Pour the warm milk and cream into the bowl whisking it into the yolks and sugar mixture. Stir in the melted chocolate, scraping the sides well with a rubber spatula to get all of it in, and pour the custard back into the rinsed saucepan. Cook over a medium heat until the custard thickens, stirring all the time. Make sure it doesn't boil, as it will split and curdle. Keep a sink full of cold water so that if you get scared you can plunge the bottom of the custard pan into the cold water and
whisk like mad, which will avert possible crisis.
The custard will get darker as it cooks and the flecks of chocolate will melt once the custard has thickened. And you do need this thick, so don't panic so much that you stop cooking while it is still runny. Admittedly, it continues to thicken as it cools and also when it's chilling in the refrigerator. Once it is ready, pour into a bowl to cool and cover the top of the custard with cling wrap to prevent a skin from forming.
When the custard is cold, pour and spread it over the chocolate cake layer in the trifle bowl, and leave in the refrigerator to set, covered in plastic wrap overnight.
When you are ready to decorate, softly whip the cream for the topping and spread it gently over the layer of custard. Grate the chocolate over the top.
Recipe courtesy Nigella Lawson
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Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/chocolate-cherry-trifle-recipe.html?oc=linkback


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A Day of Archaeology at the curatorial side of the Museum of London
The Department of Archaeological Collections and Archive, which includes the award London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre (LAARC), the curators of the early collections (up to 1714) and the Centre for Human Bioarchaeology. It is a stressful and varied job, and sometimes a tad unsatisfactory as there is never enough time other than to skim over so many compelling things.
The day started with e-mail on the train about getting resources in place for the London Archaeologist Association contribution to FoBA, then wrote a review about the Museum's new iPhone app, feeling slightly aggrieved by a previous review on iTunes that said it was 'unambitious', felt the need to refute. As a lot of work has gone into getting the sponsorship and building it, then found out could not load my review because I have not downloaded the product, of course I still have the trial version, and now need to delete it and reload via iTunes, bummer, save that for home tonight as we not allowed iTunes at work. If you are iPhone or iPad enabled, do have a look, it's a tip of the iceberg look at the Romans in London, it brings together content from the Museum of London Collections, the MoLA Londinium map, sparky little videos made by HISTORY floating on top of Google maps.
The conditions are not great back of house at the Museum of London, heating and ventilation are poor, offices are cramped, although work is underway to improve the roof and insulation, but it was off putting to see another Head of Department spraying their armpits in advance of another steamy day. Me? I managed that before I left the bathroom this morning.
Staff briefing meeting where, among other things, the separation of MoLA is spun and tempered by the Director telling us a little about ongoing commercial projects including Convoys Wharf and a site on Holborn that is a 16th century tavern and brewery. The Director also revealed a plan to build a mini Louvre-style glass pyramid within a void on the roof to create more office space, and apparently he travelled (in his own time) to Rwanda to name a gorilla. He also said we would have no building works during the Olympics, …or leave (at the moment).
Then sorted out a external enquiry about an identification of Post-Medieval earthenware vessel, curiously I thought it was North Devon Gravel-tempered ware, huge bits of gravel showing through the glaze.
Correspondence with GLA about teaching classics and Latin in London schools, invitation to lunch at City Hall next week, the phrase 'no such thing as free lunch' running through my head. Dealing with a request to borrow the Head of Mithras from Prof. Grimes excavations for an exhibition on the Livery companies, but the dates coincide with Londinium 2012, our Stories of the World exhibition, decide to consult with Junction the youth panel as co-curators of the exhibition.
Trying to get my head around the Greater London Historic Environment Research Strategy, but actually mostly sorting out cock-ups with invoices to do with the project.
Ensuring the catering is in place for the Finds Processing course being held at LAARC next week, great, a pile of receipts from M&S Lunch To Go to process.
This afternoon meetings about how to fund Community Archaeology over the next three years, so cunning plans in the offing, although disappointed to have missed out on the CBA bursary scheme this week, is it because we are London? Or is it because I didn't spend enough time on the application? Or a mixture of the two? Then a super meeting about how to stop water getting into where we store excavated human bone, hoping it does not rain is not going to be a long term solution….
Then bracing myself for a full on FOBA weekend, events at London Wall, and the Gladiator Games in Guildhall yard. I think I get to spend quality time checking tickets and showing people to the seats, but it is a warm up to raising awareness about the forthcoming campaign to build new Roman Galleries at the Museum of London.
Roy Stephenson
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Coffee Chronicles: NYC Coffee Events in July
Though it may already feel like your lifestyle, coffee is far more than just a drink—it's a potential social activity! We've rounded up some great coffee events coming up this month in New York City, where you're sure to learn as much as you taste. Or, well, just taste. No one will judge.
Honduras Cup of Excellence Tasting and Talking: Tuesday, July 19
Coffees from this year's Cup of Excellence contest in Honduras will be unveiled and discussed by Byron Holcomb of Dallis Bros. Coffee, who attended the competition earlier this year. Besides a guided cupping, Holcomb will tell stories from his visit to the coffee's origin farms, as well as answer questions about all things coffee and Cup of Excellence. Many of these coffees won't make it to New York cups at any other time, so check them out at Root Hill along with their backstory.
Root Hill Cafe 262 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215; 718-797-0100 Tuesday, July 19, 6-8pm. Free.
Thursday Night Throwdown: Thursday, July 21
Join baristas and coffee-positive pals at cozy Dora for a coffee geek's idea of a great time at this month's installation of the Thursday Night Throwdown, a latte art competition masquerading as a party -- or is it the other way around? Judges Dan Streetman of Irving Farm Coffee and Erin McCarthy of Gimme! Coffee will adjudicate the rosettas, hearts and triple-tulips of New York City's most esteemed pourers. It's $5 if you want to enter the head-to-head tourney yourself, but free to watch and drink beer.
Dora 221 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002; 212-876-8065 Thursday, July 21, 8-11pm. $5 to buy in, free to attend.
Yes Equal! Manual Brew Down: Thursday, July 28
As fun as latte art is to watch, coffee competitions have, thankfully, escalated past that superficial layer of expertly textured microfoamed milk and into the essence of taste. In the service, then, of brewing great tasting coffee as well as great looking coffee, RBC NYC plays host to a manual brewing competition Here the best tasting cup wins -- using the coffee of one's choice and the method of one's choice, be it V60, syphon pot, Chemex, brewing through your sock -- you name it! Hosted by RBC NYC and reputed coffee tabloid sprudge.com, the proceeds from this event will benefit the Equality Texas Foundation. Judges are even flying in from as far as the coast -- the third coast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, that is. Tasting of coffee, giving of prizes and drinking of beer are all part of the fun.
RBC NYC 71 Worth Street, New York, NY 10013; 212-226-1111 Thursday, July 28, 7:15pm. Free.
Under (Manual) Pressure: La Marzocco and Counter Culture Espresso Machine Tour
Sure, rock bands go on tour, and even monster trucks. But espresso machines? Yes, if they're state-of-the-art manually customizable pieces of Italian craftsmanship by La Marzocco. Counter Culture Coffee hosts this evening of espresso mayhem, where attendees will see a demo of La Marzocco's Strada EP -- a $20,000 machine created with full barista control at the forefront, using medical technology! No kidding. After learning about the Strada, there will be a two-hour playtime for folks to lay their hands on one of the most advanced brewers in the world. (Just don't cloud the stainless steel with your excited breathing.)
Counter Culture Coffee New York Training Lab 37 W 26th St. #400, New York, NY, 10001 Friday, July 29, 6-9pm. Free.
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… Once the majority can change the rules by majority vote, the Senate will soon be like the House, where the majority doesn't consult the minority but simply controls the process. Gone would be the Senate's historic protection of the minority's right to speak and amend. In the House, the majority tightly controls which bills will be considered; what amendments, if any, will be in order; how much time is allotted for debate; and when and under what rules votes occur. Often, no amendments are permitted.
Since the Senate's presiding officer is likely to be the vice president, it is instructive to remember what Biden said about this ploy from the floor of the Senate in 2005:
"This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. It is a fundamental power grab by the majority party . . . to eliminate one of the procedural mechanisms designed for the express purpose of guaranteeing individual rights and they also, as a consequence, would undermine the protections of the minority point of view. …
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