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Mayor Joseph M. Butler Jr. called for the crowd to make noise on Thursday at a pep rally to show support for the city's efforts to win a $10 million award from the state.
And the crowd reacted, with cheers of support.
"That's what I'm talking about," he said.
About 70 business and community leaders, and local officials waved signs that read "Revitalize Downtown Watertown" in big blue letters at the rally held at the Jefferson County Historical Society Museum.
It was held a day before the city submits its application for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Downtown Revitalization Initiative program. It's due today.
The competition is for $100 million in state funding that will be distributed to 10 selected communities in upstate New York for use in the transformation of their downtowns. One downtown in each of the 10 regions will be awarded the $10 million.
"The people of Watertown love competition," the mayor told the cheering crowd.
Syracuse consultant Leann West, of Strategic Development Specialists LLC, helped the city with its application. A group of community and business leaders also met a few times to come up with a strategy to win the $10 million.
Mayor Butler believes Watertown has a good shot at winning the funding, stressing the city can always rely on "community support."
"We have a lot of great people," he said.
In thanking them for how they've promoted downtown and its growth, Mayor Butler rattled off a long list of businesses and downtown merchants.
"In my opinion, I think we've already won," he said.
An old photo of Public Square from 1890 showing crowds of people cheering on its streets was prominently displayed behind the mayor while he spoke.
Diana Page Jordan, executive director of the historical society, said she could envision downtown becoming a more bustling place with all the development projects happening in the business district.
The city's recent renaissance includes the restoration of the Woolworth Building, Convergys adding 300 positions to its downtown call center and plans to redevelop the old Mercy Hospital site and the Lincoln Building.
The governor's office and the Department of State will have the final say on which community gets the $10 million. The application first will be reviewed by a five-person committee from the North Country Regional Community Economic Development Council. Previously, the state had said it was a regional economic development council decision.
But the first review comes down to:
■ Bridget-Ann Hart, president and CEO of KPH Healthcare Services, Kinney Drugs;
■ Hugh Hill, planning and development director of The Richardson Group;
■ Donna Wadsworth, communications manager, Ticonderoga Mill at International Paper;
■ Dan Wilt, president of Wilt Industries and;
■ Mark E. Tryniski, president and chief executive officer of Community Bank.
Mayor Butler is employed as a financial consultant with Community Bank.
Asked about the Community Bank connection between the two bankers, Anthony G. Collins, co-chairman of the regional economic development council, said he saw no problem with the bank president overseeing Watertown's application.
"I don't see any conflict," Mr. Collins said. "Why would there be a bias? He has no direct contact with the branch."
Mr. Tryniski also will be reviewing other communities' applications where Community Bank has branches, and no conflict exists with them, as well, Mr. Collins said.
The council looked at the connection, and concluded "there wasn't a conflict," he said.
Lake Placid, Massena and Plattsburgh are also expected to compete for the $10 million.
By Craig Fox, Watertown Daily Times


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Football League Champions 1920-39. 1920 *-West Bromwich Albion 1921 *Burnley 1922 Liverpool 1923 Liverpool 1924 *Huddersfield Town 1925 Huddersfield Town 1926 -Huddersfield Town 1927 -Newcastle United 1928 Everton 1929 The Wednesday 1930 -Sheffield Wednesday 1931 *Arsenal 1932 Everton 1933 Arsenal 1934 Arsenal 1935 Arsenal 1936 -Sunderland 1937 *Manchester City 1938 Arsenal 1939 Everton. This article concerns football records in England.Unless otherwise stated, records are taken from the Football League or Premier League.Where a different record exists for the top flight (Football League First Division 1888–1992, and Premier League 1992–), this is also given.
Tottenham has never won the Champions League before and is making its first appearance in the final in club history. Real Madrid holds the record for most wins with 13.. Which player has won the most league titles in different. Málaga could have won the Champions League without being able to contend the trophy next. 'With the top divisions in England,. Cesare Maldini was the Milan captain when they won the European Cup final in England in 1963. Forty years later Paolo Maldini captained the club when they won the Champions League.
With the most popular clubs playing in the League, EPL has a probable TV audience of 4.7 billion people. Who Won the First Premier League Season? The club that won the first Premier League season in 1993 was the England based Manchester United. The 1992-93 season was their first Premier League title win and the eighth English title win. Champions League. T he UEFA Champions League came about as a new version of the European Cup and was played for the first time in the 1992-1993 season. Already established as the most prestigious club tournament in football, Champions League has become even more popular with the introduction of a mini-league group stage system.
An exception to the usual European qualification system happened in 2005, after Liverpool won the Champions League the year before, but did not finish in a Champions League qualification place in the Premier League that season. UEFA gave special dispensation for Liverpool to enter the Champions League, giving England five qualifiers. With that they become England's most successful club in terms of major honours won. United now lead Liverpool 42-41 as far as major trophies are concerned. Manchester United has dominated English football for best part of last two decades winning 13 league titles, 2 Champions League and a few other domestic and european crowns. Who is won the most league titles in England? We need you to answer this question! If you know the answer to this question,. Who won the most the champions league title from England?.
Los Blancos have won the Champions League a record staggering 13 times. Real Madrid, under Zinedine Zidane, were European champions for three consecutive years between 2016-18, matching Bayern's. Lets take a look at all champions league winners. See Also: Most successful teams in champions league. Below is the list of all past winners of UEFA Champions League from 1955-56 season to 2014-15 season. Spanish teams has been the most dominant with Barca and Real Madrid winning 16 titles between them while English teams has won 13 titles.
Spanish clubs have won the most titles (60), ahead of clubs from Italy (48) and England (43). Italy is the only country in European football history whose clubs won the three main competitions in the same season: in 1989–90, Milan retained the European Cup, Sampdoria won the Cup Winners' Cup, and Juventus secured the UEFA Cup. UEFA Champions League (UCL) Winners History: Only 22 teams have ever won the. Even with Spanish teams lifting the most cups, England has the highest number. Most Champions League Titles. Jurgen Klopp has won his first trophy since the 2012 German double with Borussia Dortmund. Liverpool erased the disappointment of last season's Uefa Champions League final loss by claiming the.
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Leicester became the sixth club to win the Premier League, completing a remarkable title triumph a year after a late but successful battle against relegation. The most successful manager in the competition is Sir Alex Ferguson, who has guided Manchester United to all their Premier League successes. The competition has been won 11 times by teams from Spain, more than any other country. The last champions before the UEFA Cup was renamed to UEFA Europa League were Shakhtar Donetsk, who beat Werder Bremen 2–1 after extra time in the 2009 final. Benfica and Marseille have lost the most finals, with three losses in the competition.
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Leicester City were crowned champions for the first time in 2016, becoming the first team to win the Premier League without having previously won the First Division. All the clubs which have ever been crowned champions are still in existence today and all take part in the top four tiers of the English football league system – the football. Manchester United have won the most league titles in England's top division since 1888-89. The team has also won the most Premier League (EPL) titles since 1992-93. Manchester United have won 66 trophies – The Red Devils are the most successful club in England, with 20 top flight titles, including 13 in the Premier League era. United have won 12 FA Cups.
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A total of 22 clubs have won the Champions League/European Cup. Real Madrid hold the record for the most victories, having won the competition 13 times, including the inaugural competition. They have also won the competition the most consecutive times, from 1956 to 1960. Juventus have been runners-up the most times, losing seven finals. Interest in the UEFA Champions League in England 2018 UEFA Champions League all-time top French scorers 1955-2019 UK: devices used by football fans to watch Champions League matches 2016 Who has won promotion and been relegated in England? Premier League STARTING at the top and there have already been two confirmed relegations from the Premier League this term.


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The first place they'd gone to was the lazer tag building called Long Shot. The place is massive, decorated to look like a forest in the middle and army bases at the ends. There are at least six rooms to purchase time in and once Reeve gathered their guns and handed them out, the 2 sets of 3 enter the building at seperate times so they wouldn't know where one another chose to hide amongst the phony weeds and trees.
Choosing up sides, the three teens against the adults and Ai, they hurry away to hiding places that might land them in a perfect attack situation. The best part of this tag is that you have the option to flat out kill the opponent or mess with them a little by disabling them in the knee or elbow. And they must follow the rules and limp occordingly or lose the use of that limb.
"Yak'," Ludwig crept up at his side, hand landing on his shoulder to give it a little attention shake. "Is Gev on anything?"
"Yeah dysphoria. He hates the cold." He looks on up ahead where the one-armed Gev crouched in wait for an attack; Quinn had been the one to spot the male and shoot his left arm out of commition, and now he's waiting for her to exact revenge.
"No, seriously?"
"Yes, weed. We all do it!" He hissed, growing sick of the subject already. "What do you care?"
"I mean, anything that you don't know about?"
"Well if I don't know about it, then how would I know about it?" He shrugged then.
Ludwig looked at Yakusoku as if that were the dumbest thing he'd ever heard. "You ask him, duh." He even had the balls to lightly punch him in the side.
The Land teen laughed at that. "He's my best friend, and I'm not gonna invade his privacy because some fanboy took interest in him."
"Dude, get the fuck off the gay thing for one minute, you homosexual prick, and listen to what I'm saying... the glazed look in his eyes? Its not the cold that's bothering him."
"How do you know that?" He again shoots a glance at his best friend.
"Because... because, okay! Just trust me on this."
"I'm..." But he trailed off when said male in question approached.
"Yakuza, your parents are freaking me out." He said in a low tone.
The male was so worked up under the darkness and heat of the room that his mohawk was now just a moat on his head. Gel can't hold up to the sweat of a teenaged boy it seemed.
"Where the fuck are they?"
"I don't know." Looking over the little metal wall he's hiding behind, he strains an ear for the sound of movement. "Noth- wait! Over there!"
Leaping out from behind the protective barrier, he charges off into the brush. Maybe he heard something and maybe he didn't. But he knew one thing for sure, he wanted away from that conversation with Ludwig. Let him talk to Gev if he wants to. He can be the one to get that punch in the face from trying to intervention someone on substance abuse, but he'll stay out of it, thank you.
"Attaaack!" Ai cried out from what sounded like his left side.
Turning, Yakusoku was just in time to miss having his leg shot. "Guys, they're here! Swarm, swarm!"
Gev and Ludwig came running, battle cries shouted to the roof as Quinn and the screaming Ai came out of hiding.
The battle was waged and Quinn was shot in the knee while aiming for her son's chest. Ai retaliated that blow to his teammate by shooting Ludwig's arm out, then the other. The violinist rolled free from the battle field and hid behind the partisan wall.
"Hands to the sky." Reeve whispered in the boy's ear.
"I can't." Replied Ludwig, squeezing his eyes shut knowing his end is near.
"That's a shame, son."
And Ludwig fell dead when the shot to his back buzzed. Yakusoku and Gev weren't fairing any better when their arms were removed and they, on their knees, sat like sitting ducks to the closing in devil's rejects.
Looking at each other they shouted to the sky dramatically. "Nooooooo!" Before they were finished. Yakusoku laughed histerically while Gev milked his death. Recovering from the floor with help from his little brother tugging him up, he brushes the fake grass from his pants. That was the best way to kill nearly two hours.
Rock climbing was by far the most fun Ludwig's had all day. The guy is clearly an air baby. Gev punked out and didn't go any higher than a couple little foot holds. Even Ai had to chuckle at the teen's frightened expressions, and quivelled voice when he thought about going for that forth groove. Reeve even coached the boy and showed him how it was nearly impossible to fall, but still Gev refused.
Halfway through the rock climbing and crater crawling experience, Reeve slipped away for about twenty minutes and when he came back he ushered them all to the parking lot so they could go bowling.
"Yeah!" Cheered Ai rushing out of the building at the speed of light.
When Yakusoku pulled open the car door of the passanger's row, his father cleared his throat. "Its great that you wanna ride with us, son, but wouldn't you rather take your own car?"
"What car?" Yakusoku asked. Then the words really hit him. "Shit, you got me a car!?" Whirling around he asked in a flurry of questions. "Where? What color? Screw that, what kind?"
Reeve laughed, and Quinn smiled with pride at her son's gleeful enthusiam. His father reached out a hand and pats a large black Nissan Armada.
"Holy fuck," Gev touched it. "sweet ride, man. My parents would never give me a car." He squeezed his best friend's shoulder with approval.
"That's because you're a bum." Chided Yakusoku.
Handing the keys over, Reeve accepts his 'thank you's' though he advized that there be a little less swearing next time. Sliding into the driver's seat, Yakusoku could have cried. He'd gotten his license two months ago; and it wasn't easy with the three times it took to pass the test, and the five times it took to pass the driving test; he really isn't the best at turning right. The sweep is to wide. He didn't know how other people did it. Which is why this is such a shocker, because there had never been a discussion of cars, he'd been hinting about certain beasts that he wanted should he ever get one. This may not be one of his beast, but its his. And he's not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth.
"Can I ride with you, bro?" He looks at their mother then asks. "Mom, pleeease? Can I go with Yaku'?"
"If its alright with him?"
"Yeah, get in." He said from beyond the car out the window.
Honestly, Reeve and Quinn would rather their youngest drive with them. They trust Yakusoku, but should anything happen with the semi-icy roads... well, its better Ai be with them. But their oldest will be fine. Reeve was sure to take him through small driving courses in every condition of weather. So even with these slick roads, he should do alright. Plus, the tires are meant for this type of weather; and despite the early snow, its fairly warm out today and the cool air has warmed enough to melt away the seasonal chill.
Yakusoku followed his parent's car with the music loud in his own, the passangers bumping to the rock blasting from the stereo. Man he wished he had his cds with him right now; he prefers bands that he knows he'll like the music, rather than whatever the station decides to play; which half the time is oldies- you know, grampa rock.
Gev turned down the volume when the song was over. "Man, I love 'Christmas in Hollywood'." Drumming his fingers on the dash, he adds. "The Undead fuckin' rock."
"I thought they were Grateful Dead?"
"Naah, man, its Hollywood Undead... Where the hell is this guy from, Yakuza?" He juts his thumb over the shoulder of the seat.
"I don't know, but he listens to classical music."
"No shit?" He looks over the seat now at Ludwig. "I can see that."
Wondering what that little comment was supposed to mean, he ignored it in favor of Ai tapping him on the shoulder to watch him play Mario Party on his Nintendo DS. It took them ten minutes to get to the alley, and in that time the four conversed in pairs over music and video games, having it end with all four of them talking about video games and an invite to Gev's house tomorrow afternoon for a round of fucking each other over Wii-style. The Russian bragged about his archory skills all the way through the double glass doors.
"Choose up." Reeve said once everyone had their ugly bowling shoes on their feet.
"I get Quinn!" Called Gev.
The Swedish woman laughed at the eagerness. Her bowling skills were legend in the Land home. She'd often watch the kids bowling in video games and coach them from the kitchen entrance at where their Mii should stand.
"Three man teams," Called Ai. "I get mom, too!"
"Nice." Reeve scoffed in mock offense. Typing in their names, he looked at his two teammates. "We can take 'em."
"Yeah!" Ludwig cheered rolling a ball around to size up the weight for his arms.
"Uuummm." Yakusoku was chuckling into his fist. "We're screwed."
And they were screwed, because Quinn brought their A game. If the marble swirled balls didn't get a strike, they picked up the spare. It was frighteningly amazing! The slaughter made team B restless to take their turns of gutter balls and poorly made splits; it made them hungry as well.
And to the Russian's delight, pizza came. The greasiest, cheesiest pizza ever made on the planet. It was Heaven. Yakusoku is a real slut for cheese and sauce, he doesn't know what it is. He'd always joked that if he were never turned on, the scent of cheese and sauce would get him hard in a minute's second.
This was turning out to be the best birthday. Maybe he didn't need Clark and Nono after all. Yakusoku thought it would be better if all his posse were with him but they don't suffer a lick without Dick-sick rubbing his crotch into every little thing, or Nono's shy demeanor bringing down the mood. After some teenaged slaughter over video games both fighting and race car driving, the group went back to the Land home for gifts and cakes.


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Jimmie went to supper in the mess-hall; but the piles of steaming hot food choked him--he was thinking of the half-starved little Jew. The thirty pieces of silver in the pocket of his army jacket burned each a separate hole. Like the Judas of old, he wanted to hang himself, and he took a quick method of doing it.
Next to him at the table sat a motor-cyclist who had been a union plumber before the war, and had agreed with Jimmie that working-men were going to get their jobs back or would make the politicians sweat for it. On the way out from the meal, Jimmie edged this fellow off and remarked, "Say, I've got somethin' interestin'."
Now interesting things were rare here under the Arctic Circle. "What's that?" asked the plumber.
"I was walkin' on the street," said Jimmie, "an' I seen a printed paper in the gutter. It's a copy of the proclamation the Bolsheviki have made to the German soldiers, an' that they're givin' out in the German trenches."
"By heck!" said the plumber. "What's in it?"
"Why, it calls on them to rise against the Kaiser--to do what the Russians have done."
"Can you read German?" asked the other.
"Naw," said Jimmie. "This is in English."
"But what's it doin' in English?"
"I'm sure I dunno."
"What's it doin' in Archangel?"
"Dunno that either."
"Holy Christ!" cried the plumber. "I bet them fellers are trying their stunts on us!"
"I hadn't thought of that," said Jimmie, subtly. "Maybe it's so."
"They won't get very far with the Yanks, I bet," predicted the other.
"No, I suppose not. But, anyhow, it's interesting, what they say."
"Lemme see it," said the plumber.
"But say," said Jimmie, "don't you tell nobody. I don't want to get into trouble."
"Mum's the word, old man." And the plumber took the dirty scrap of paper and read. "By God!" said he. "That's kind o' funny."
"How do you mean?"
"Why, that don't sound like them fellers were backing the Kaiser, does it?" And the plumber scratched his head. "Say, that sounds all right to me!"
"Me too!" said Jimmie. "Didn't know they had that much sense."
"It's just what the German people ought to have, by God," said the plumber. "Seems to me we ought to hire fellows to give out things like that."
"I think so, too," said Jimmie, enraptured.
The plumber reflected again. "I suppose," said he, "the trouble is they wouldn't give it to the Germans only; they'd want to give it to both sides."
"Exactly!" said Jimmie, enraptured still more.
"And, of course, that wouldn't do," said the plumber; "that would interfere with discipline." So Jimmie's hopes were dashed.
But the upshot of the interview was that the plumber said he would like to keep the paper and show it to a couple of other fellows. He promised again that he wouldn't mention Jimmie, so Jimmie said all right, and went his way, feeling one seed was lodged in good soil.
The "Y" had come to Archangel along with the rest of the expedition, and had set up a hut, in which the men played checkers and read, and bought chocolate and cigarettes at prices which they considered too high. Jimmie strolled in, and there was a doughboy with whom he had had some chat on the transport. This doughboy had been a printer at home, and he had agreed with Jimmie that maybe a whole lot of politicians and newspaper editors didn't really understand President Wilson's radical thought, and so far as they did understand it, hated and feared it. This printer was reading one of the popular magazines, full of the intellectual pap which a syndicate of big bankers considered safe for the common people. He looked bored, so Jimmie strolled up and lured him away, and repeated his play-acting as with the plumber--and with the same result.
Then he strolled in to see one of the picture-shows which had been brought along to beguile the long Arctic nights for the expedition. The picture showed a million-dollar-a-year girl doll-baby in her habitual role, a poor little child-waif dressed in the newest fashion and with a row of ringlets just out of a band-box, sharing those terrible fates which the poor take as an everyday affair, and being rewarded at the end by the love of a rich and noble and devoted youth who solves the social problem by setting her up in a palace. This also had met with the approval of a syndicate of bankers before it reached the common people; and in the very midst of it, while the child-waif with the ringlets was being shown in a "close-up" with large drops of water running down her cheeks, the doughboy in the seat next to Jimmie remarked, "Aw, hell! Why do they keep on giving us this bunk?"
So Jimmie suggested that they "cut it", and they went out, and Jimmie played his little game a third time, and again was asked to leave the leaflet he had picked out of the gutter.
So on for two days until Jimmie had got rid of the last of the manifestoes which Kalenkin had entrusted to him. And on the evening of the last day, as the subtle propagandist was about to turn into his bunk for the night, there suddenly appeared a sergeant with a file of half a dozen men and announced, "Higgins, you are under arrest."
Jimmie stared at him. "What for?"
"Orders--that's all I know."
"Well, wait--" began Jimmie; but the other said there was no wait about it, and he took Jimmie by the arm, and one of the other men took him by the other arm, and marched him away. A third man slung Jimmie's kit-bag on to his shoulder, while the rest began to search the place, ripping open the mattress and looking for loose boards in the floor.
It didn't take Jimmie very long to figure out the situation. By that time he had come into the presence of Lieutenant Gannet, he had made up his mind what had happened, and what he would do about it.
The lieutenant sat at a table, erect and stiff, with a terrible frown behind his glasses. He had his sword on the table and also his automatic--as if he intended to execute Jimmie, and had only to decide which method to use.
"Higgins," he thundered, "where did you get that leaflet?"
"I found it in the gutter."
"You lie!" said the lieutenant.
"No, sir," said Jimmie.
"How many did you find."
Jimmie had imagined this emergency, and decided to play safe. "Three, sir," said he; and added, "I think."
"You lie!" thundered the lieutenant again.
"No, sir," said Jimmie, meekly.
"Whom did you give them to?"
Jimmie hadn't thought of that question. It stumped him. "I--I'd rather not say," said he.
"I command you to say," said the lieutenant.
"I'm sorry, sir, but I couldn't."
"You'll have to say before you get through," said the other. "You might as well understand that now. You say you found three?"
"It might have been four," said Jimmie, playing still safer. "I didn't pay any particular attention to them."
"You sympathize with these doctrines," said the lieutenant. "Do you deny it?"
"Why, no sir--not exactly. I sympathize with part of them."
"And you found these leaflets in the gutter, and you didn't take the trouble to count whether there were three or four?"
"No, sir."
"There couldn't have been five?"
"I don't know, sir--I don't think so."
"Certainly not six?"
"No, sir," said Jimmie, feeling quite safe now. "I'm sure there weren't six."
So the lieutenant opened a drawer in the table before him, and took out a bunch of the leaflets, folded, wrinkled and dirt-stained, and spread them before Jimmie's eyes, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. "You lie!" said the lieutenant.
"I was mistaken, sir," said Jimmie.
"Have you searched this man?" the officer demanded of the other soldiers.
"Not yet, sir."
"Do it now."
They made certain that Jimmie had no weapons, and then they made him strip to the skin. They searched everything, even prying loose the soles of his boots; and, of course, one of the first things they found was the red card in the inside jacket-pocket. "Aha!" cried the lieutenant.
"That's a card of the Socialist party," said Jimmie.
"Don't you know that back home men who carry that card are being sent to jail for twenty years?"
"It ain't fer carryin' the card," said Jimmie, sturdily.
There was a pause, while Jimmie got his clothes on again. "Now, Higgins," said the lieutenant, "you have been caught red-handed in treason against your country and its flag. The penalty is death. There is just one way you can escape--by making a clean breast of everything. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then tell me who gave you those leaflets?"
"I'm sorry, sir, I found them in the gutter."
"You intend to stick to that silly tale?"
"It's the truth, sir."
"You will protect your fellow-conspirators with your life?"
"I have told you all I know, sir."
"All right," said the lieutenant. He took a pair of handcuffs from the drawer and saw them put on Jimmie. He picked up his sword and his automatic--and Jimmie, who did not understand military procedure, stared with fright. But the lieutenant was merely intending to strap the weapons on to his belt; then he got into his overcoat and his big fur gloves and his fur hat that covered everything but his eyes and nose, and ordered Jimmie brought along. Outside an automobile was waiting, and the officer and the prisoner and two guards rode to the military jail.
There was terror in the soul of the prisoner, but he did not let anyone see it. And in the same way Lieutenant Gannet did not let anyone see the perplexity that was in his soul. He was a military officer, he had his stern military duty to do, and he was doing it; but he had never put anybody in handcuffs before, and had never taken anybody to jail before, and he was almost as much upset about it as the prisoner.
The lieutenant had seen the terrible spectacle of Russia collapsing, falling into ruin and humiliation, because of what seemed to him a propaganda of treason which had been carried on in her armies; he realized that these "mad dogs" of Bolsheviki were deliberately conspiring to poison the other armies, to bring the rest of the world into their condition. It seemed to him monstrous that such efforts should be under way in the American army. How far had the thing gone? The lieutenant did not know, and he was terrified, as men always are in the presence of the unknown. It was his plain duty, to which he had sworn himself, to stamp his heel upon the head of this snake; but still he was deeply troubled. This Sergeant Higgins had been promoted for valour in France, and had been, in spite of his reckless tongue, a pretty decent subordinate. And behold, here he was, an active conspirator, a propagandist of sedition, a defiant and insolent traitor!
They came to the jail, which had been constructed by the Tsar for the purpose of holding down the people of the region. It loomed, a gigantic stone bulk in the darkness; and Jimmie, who had preached in Local Leesville that America was worse than Russia, now learned that he had been mistaken--Russia was exactly the same.
They entered through a stone gateway, and a steel door opened before them and clanged behind them. At a desk sat a sergeant, and except that he was British, and that his uniform was brown instead of blue, it might have been Leesville, U.S.A. They took down Jimmie's name and address, and then Lieutenant Gannet asked: "Has Perkins come yet?"
"Not yet, sir," was the reply; but at that moment the front door was opened, and there entered a big man, bundled in an overcoat which made him even bigger. From the first moment, Jimmie watched this man as a fascinated rabbit watches a snake. The little Socialist had had so much to do with policemen and detectives in his hunted life that he knew in a flash what he was "up against".
This Perkins before the war had been an "operative" for a private detective agency--what the workers contemptuously referred to as a "sleuth". The government, having found itself in sudden need of much "sleuthing", had been forced to take what help it could get, without too close scrutiny. So now Perkins was a sergeant in the secret service; and just as the carpenters were hammering nails as at home, and the surgeons were cutting flesh as at home, so Perkins was "sleuthing" as at home.
"Well, sergeant?" said the lieutenant. "What have you got?"
"I think I've got the story, sir."
You could see the relief in Gannet's face; and Jimmie's heart went down into his boots.
"There's just one or two details I want to make sure about," continued Perkins. "I suppose you won't mind if I question this prisoner?"
"Oh, not at all," said the other. He was relieved to be able to turn this difficult matter over to a man of decision, a professional man, who was used to such cases and knew how to handle them.
"I'll report to you at once," said Perkins.
"I'll wait," said the lieutenant.
And Perkins took Jimmie's trembling arm in a grip like a vice, and marched him down a long stone corridor and down a flight of steps. On the way he picked up two other men, also in khaki, who followed him; the four passed through a series of underground passages, and entered a stone cell with a solid steel door, which they clanged behind them--a sound that was like the knell of doom to poor Jimmie's terrified soul. And instantly Sergeant Perkins seized him by the shoulder and whirled him about, and glared into his eyes. "Now, you little son-of-a-bitch!" said he.
Having been a detective in an American city, this man was familiar with the "third degree", whereby prisoners are led to tell what they know, and many things which they don't know, but which they know the police want them to tell. Of the other two men, one Private Connor, had had this inquisition applied to him on more than one occasion. He was a burglar with a prison-record; but his last arrest had been in a middle Western town for taking part in a bar-room fight, and the judge didn't happen to know his record, and accepted his tearful plea, agreeing to suspend sentence provided the prisoner would enlist to fight for his country.
The other man was named Grady, and had left a wife and three children in a tenement in "Hell's Kitchen", New York, to come to fight the Kaiser. He was a kind-hearted and decent Irishman, who had earned a hard living carrying bricks and mortar up a ladder ten hours a day; but he was absolutely convinced that there existed, somewhere under his feet, a hell of brimstone and sulphur in which he would roast for ever if he disobeyed the orders of those who were set in authority over him. Grady knew that there were certain wicked men, hating and slandering religion, and luring millions of souls into hell; they were called Socialists, or Anarchists, and must obviously be emissaries of Satan, so it was God's work to root them out and destroy them. Thus the Gradys have reasoned for a thousand years; and thus in black dungeons underground they have turned the thumb-screws and pulled the levers of the rack. They do it still in many of the large cities of America, where superstition runs the police-force, in combination with liquor interests and public service corporations.
"Now, you little son-of-a-bitch," said Perkins, "listen to me. I been lookin' into this business of yours, and I got the names of most of them Bolsheviks you been dealing with. But I want to know them all, and I'm going to know--see?"
In spite of all his terror, Jimmie's heart leaped with exultation. Perkins was lying! He hadn't found out a thing! He was just trying to bluff his prisoner, and to make his superior officer think he was a real "sleuth". He was doing what the police everywhere do--trying to obtain by brutality what they cannot obtain by skill and intelligence.
"Now, you're goin' to tell," continued the man. "You may think you can hold out, but you'll find it's no go. I'll tear you limb from limb if you make me--I'll do just whatever I have to do to make you come through. You get me?"
Jimmie nodded his head in a sort of spasm, but his effort to make a sound resulted only in a gulp in his throat.
"You'll only make yourself a lot of pain if you delay, so you'd better be sensible. Now--who are they?"
"They ain't anybody. They--"
"So that's it? Well, we'll see." And the sergeant swung Jimmie about, so as to be at his back. "Hold him," he said to the two men, and they grasped the prisoner's shoulders; the sergeant grasped his two wrists, which were handcuffed together, and began to force them up Jimmie's back.
"Ow!" cried Jimmie. "Stop! Stop!"
"Will you tell?" said the sergeant.
"Stop!" cried Jimmie, wildly; and as the other pushed harder, he began to scream. "You'll break my arm! The one that was wounded."
"Wounded?" said the sergeant.
"It was broken by a bullet!"
"The hell you say!" said the sergeant.
"It's true--ask anybody! The battle of Chatty Terry in France!"
For just a moment the pressure on Jimmie's arms weakened; but then the sergeant remembered that military men who have a career to make do not go to their superior officers with sentimentalities. "If you were wounded in battle," said the sergeant, "what you turnin' traitor for? Give me the names I want!" And he began to push again.
It was the most horrible agony that Jimmie had ever dreamed of. His voice rose to a shriek: "Wait! Wait! Listen!" The torturer would relax the pressure and say: "The names?" And when Jimmie did not give the names, he would press harder yet. Jimmie writhed convulsively, but the other two men held him as in a vice. He pleaded, he sobbed and moaned; but the walls of this dungeon had been made so that the owners of property outside would not be troubled by knowing what was being done in their interest.
We go into museums and look at devilish instruments which men once employed for the torment of their fellows, and we shudder and congratulate ourselves that we live in more humane days; quite overlooking the fact that it does not need elaborate instruments to inflict pain on the human body. Any man can do it to another, if he has him helpless. The thing that is needed is the motive--that is to say, some form of privilege established by law, and protecting itself against rebellion.
"Tell me the names!" said the sergeant. He had Jimmie's two hands forced up the back of his neck, and was lying over on Jimmie, pushing, pushing. Jimmie was blinded with the pain, his whole being convulsed. It was too horrible, it could not be! Anything, anything to stop it! A voice shrieked in his soul: "Tell! Tell!" But then he thought of the little Jew, pitiful, trusting--no, no, he would not tell! He would never tell! But then what was he to do'? Endure this horror? He could not endure it--it was monstrous!
He would writhe and scream, babble and plead and sob. Perhaps there have been men who have endured torture with dignity, but Jimmie was not one of these. Jimmie was abject, Jimmie was frantic; he did anything, everything he could think of--save one thing, the thing that Perkins kept telling him to do.
This went on until the sergeant was out of breath; that being one disadvantage of the primitive hand-processes of torture to which American police-officials have been reduced by political sentimentalism. The torturer lost his temper, and began to shake and twist at Jimmie's arms, so that Connor had to warn him--he didn't want to break anything, of course.
So Perkins said, "Put his head down." They bent Jimmie over till his head was on the ground, and Grady tied Jimmie's legs to keep them quiet, and Connor held his neck fast, and Perkins put his foot on the handcuffs and pressed down. By this means he could continue the torture while standing erect and breathing freely, a great relief to him. "Now, damn you!" said he. "I can stay here all night. Come through!"
Jimmie thought that each moment of pain was the worst. He had never had any idea that pain could endure so long, could burn with such a white and searing flame. He ground his teeth together, he chewed his tongue through, he gound his face upon the stones. Anything for a respite--even a new kind of pain, that he might forget the screaming ache in his shoulders and elbows and wrists. But there was no respite; his spirit was whirled and beaten about in bottomless abysses, and from their depths he heard the voice of Perkins, as from a far-off mountain-top: "Come through! Come through--or you'll stay like this all night!"
But Jimmie did not stay like that; for Perkins got tired of standing on one foot, and he knew that the Lieutenant was pacing about upstairs, wondering why it took so long to ask a few questions. Jimmie heard the voice from the far-off mountain-top: "This won't do; we'll have to string him up for a bit." And he took from his pocket a strong cord, and tied one end about Jimmie's two thumbs, and ran the other end over an iron ring in the wall of the dungeon--put there by some agent of the Tsar for use in the cause of democracy. The other two men lifted Jimmie till his feet were off the ground, and then made fast the cord, and Jimmie hung with his full weight from his thumbs, still handcuffed behind his back.
So now he was no trouble to the three jailers--except that he was an ugly-looking object, with his face purple and convulsed, and his bloody tongue being chewed up. They turned him about, with his face against the stones, and then they had nothing but the sounds of him, which had become feebler, but were none the less disagreeable, a babbling and gabbling, continuous and yet unrhythmic, as if made by a whole menagerie of tormented animals.
Still the minutes passed, and Perkins's irritation grew. He wouldn't have minded for himself, for his nerves were strong, he had handled a good many of the I.W.W. in the old days back home; but he had promised to get the information, and so his reputation was at stake. He would prod Jimmie and say: "Will you tell?" And when Jimmie still refused, finally he said: "We'll have to try the water-cure. Connor, get me a couple of pitchers of water and a good-sized funnel."
"Yes, sir," said the ex-burglar, and went out; and meantime Perkins addressed his victim again. "Listen, you little hell-pup," said he. "I'm going to do something new, something that'll break you sure. I been with the army in the Philippines, and seen it worked there many's the time, and I never yet seen anybody that could stand it. We're going to fill you up with water; and we'll leave you to soak for a couple of hours, and then we'll put in some more, and we'll keep that up day and night till you come through. Now, you better think it over and speak quick, before we get the water in, because it ain't so easy to get out."
Jimmie lay with his face against the wall, and the agony of his tortured thumbs was like knives twisted into him; he listened to these threats and heard again the cry in his soul for respite at any hazard.
Jimmie was fighting a battle, the sternest ever fought by man--the battle of conscience against the weakness of the flesh. To tell or not to tell? The poor tormented body shrieked, Tell! But conscience, in a feeble voice, gasped over and over and over, No! No! No! It had to keep on insisting, because the battle was never over, never won. Each moment was a new agony, and therefore a fresh temptation; each argument had to be repeated without end. Why should he not tell? Because Kalenkin had trusted him, and Kalenkin was a comrade. But maybe Kalenkin was gone now, maybe he had died of one of his coughing spells, maybe he had heard of Jimmie's arrest and made his escape. Maybe they would not torture Kalenkin as they had Jimmie, because he was not a soldier; they might just put him in jail and keep him there, and others would do the work. Maybe--
And so on. But the feeble voice whispered in the soul of Jimmie Higgins: You are the revolution. You are social justice, struggling for life in this world. You are humanity, setting its face to the light, striving to reach a new goal, to put behind it an old horror. You are Jesus on the Cross; and if you fail, the world goes back, perhaps for ever. You must hold out! You must bear this! And this! And this! You must bear everything--for ever--as long as needs be! You must not "come through!"
Connor came back with his pitchers of water and his funnel! They took Jimmie down--oh, the blessed relief to his thumbs!--and laid him on the ground, with his racked and swollen hands still handcuffed under him; and Grady sat on his feet, and Connor sat on his chest, and Perkins forced the funnel down his throat and poured in the water.
Jimmie had to swallow, of course; he had to gulp desperately, to keep from being choked; and pretty soon the water filled him up, and then began the most fearful agony he had yet endured. It was like the pain of the ether-gas, only infinitely worse. He was blown out like a balloon; his insides were about to burst; his whole body was one sore boil--and Connor, sitting on his stomach, sat a little harder now and then, to make sure the water got jostled into place. Jimmie could not scream, but his face turned purple and the cords stood out on his forehead and neck; he began to strangle, and this was worst of all; every convulsion of his body stabbed him with ten thousand knives.
Jimmie had talked with a number of the "wobblies" who had had this "water-cure", a regular device of police-authorities in small towns and villages. It is simple and cheap and cleanly; it leaves no blood and no bruises to be exhibited in court; it muzzles the victim, so that his screams cannot be heard through jail-windows--therefore a simple denial covers it completely. "Wild Bill" had had this treatment, "Strawberry" Curran had had it several times. But oh, thought Jimmie, it could not be like this--no human being had ever endured anything like this! Poor Jimmie was not learned in history, and did not realize that men have endured everything that other men can inflict. They will continue to endure it, so long as privilege is written in the law, and allowed to use the law in its unholy cause.
So the battle of the ages went on in the soul of Jimmie Higgins. He was a little runt of a Socialist machinist, with bad teeth and gnarled hands, and he could do nothing sublime or inspiring, nothing even dignified; in fact, it would be hard for anyone to do anything dignified, when he lies on the floor with a gallon or two of water in him, and one man sitting on his legs and another on his stomach, and another jamming a funnel into his mouth. All Jimmie could do was to fight the fearful fight in the deeps of him, and not lose it. "Lift your knee if you are ready to tell," Perkins would say; and Grady would rise up, so that Jimmie could lift his knee if he wanted to; but Jimmie's knee did not lift.
Far down in the deeps of Jimmie Higgins' tormented soul, something strange was happening. Lying there bound and helpless, despairing, writhing with agony, half-insane with the terror of it, Jimmie called for help--and help came to him; the help which penetrates all dungeon walls, and cheats all jailors and torturers; that power which breaks all bars of steel and bars of fear--
"Thou has great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind!"
In the soul of Jimmie Higgins was heard that voice which speaks above the menaces and commands of tyranny: which says: I am Man, and I prevail. I conquer the flesh, I trample upon the body and rise above it. I defy its imprisonments, its prudences and fears. I am Truth, and will be heard in the world. I am Justice, and will be done in the world. I am Freedom, and I break all laws, I defy all repressions, I exult, I proclaim deliverance!--and because, in every age and in every clime, this holy Power has dwelt in the soul of man, because this mystic Voice has spoken there, humanity has moved out of darkness and savagery into at least the dream of a decent and happy world.
So Jimmie lay, converting his pain into ecstasy, a dizzy and perilous rapture, close to the border-line of madness; and Sergeant Perkins arose and looked down on him and shook his head. "By God!" said he. "What's in that little hell-pup?" He gave Jimmie a kick in the ribs; and Jimmie's soul took a leap, and went whirling through eternities of anguish.
"By Jesus, I'll make you talk!" cried Perkins, and he began to kick with his heavy boots--until Connor stopped him, knowing that this was not ethical--it would leave marks.
So finally the sergeant said abruptly, "Wait here." And he went upstairs to where Gannet was pacing about.
"Lieutenant," he said, "that fellow's a stubborn case."
"What does he say?"
"I can't get a word out of him. He's a Socialist and a crank, you know, and you'd be surprised how ugly some of them fellows can be. As soon as I get the story complete I'll report to you, but meantime there's no use your waiting here."
So the officer went away, and Perkins went back to the dungeon and gave orders that every two hours someone should come and fill Jimmie up with water, and give him another chance to say "Yes". And Jimmie lay and moaned and wept, all by himself, quivering now and then with the perilous ecstasy, which does not last, but has to be renewed by continuous efforts of the will, as a tired horse has to be driven with spur and whip. Never, never could this battle be truly won! Never could the body be wholly forgotten, its clamorous demands wholly stilled! God comes, but doubt follows closely. What is the use of this fearful sacrifice? What good will it accomplish, who will know about it, who will care? Thus Satan in the soul, and thus the eternal duel between the new thing that man dreams, and the old thing that he has made into law.
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By ignoring the poor and avoiding poverty reducing strategies, we have created a price tag that will carve itself into the budgets, hearts and social fabric across the country. Children who grow up in extreme poverty, don't often have an opportunity to learn the skills they need to know in order to be successful in today's fast-paced society. Combine the monstrous rates of incarceration for the poor, medical costs and the cost to neighborhoods and individuals and you have got yourself a $500 billion dollar a year ticket that does nothing to reinvest itself in people it's taking care of.
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If you've decided to undergo implant restoration for your missing teeth, it's time to start preparing for the procedure. Implant restoration is a surgical procedure, which means you'll need to take steps to avoid complication and discomfort. To help you through the process, here are some instructions you should follow.
Tell Your Dentist About Your Medical History
If you're going to have implant surgery, you need to tell your dentist everything you can about your medical history. This should include details about prior medical conditions you've dealt with, as well as current medical conditions you're being treated for. Your dentist will need to know if you suffer from high blood pressure or diabetes, or if you're taking prescription medication for any of your medical conditions. The more information your dentist knows about your medical history, the safer it will be for you.
Take Your Pre-Surgery Antibiotics
Prior to your implant surgery, your dentist may have you take a course of antibiotics. The antibiotics will help prevent post-operative infections. It's important that you take all your antibiotics as prescribed, especially if you suffer from periodontic gum disease. Without the antibiotics, the infection in your gums can pass through to your bloodstream during the surgery. However, if you're on antibiotics at the time of your surgery, the infection will be controlled, and you'll heal much faster.
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It's not uncommon to experience some anxiety or fear prior to oral surgery. However, if your anxiety levels are getting in the way of the procedure, or making you extremely fearful, it's time to talk to your dentist about sedation. IV sedation will allow you to relax during the surgical procedure. The dentist may also be able to use sedation to put you to sleep, which will ensure a safe and relaxing experience for you.
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On vacation recently, the staff of the beautiful resort where we were staying said, more than once, "anything is possible!" Think creatively and act sustainably about problem solving and that can be your mantra too. Many of us think creatively and seek to build consensus around new and sustainable ways to meet goals and objectives. Fully working through innovative change takes sustained effort on a number of fronts.
The Bridgespan Group conducted a study with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation that identified innovation in the nonprofit sector. They found six elements for building innovation capacity: catalytic leadership, a curious culture, diverse teams, porous boundaries, idea pathways, and ready resources. While 80% of nonprofit leaders consider innovation imperative, only 40% of those leaders would claim that their organization was ready, or that "anything is possible." Is your organization ready for sustained innovation?
The Stanford Social Innovation Review article Is Your Nonprofit Built for Sustained Innovation? breaks down the elements needed and identifies organizations that exhibited innovation to make sustained change. Using these points from the Bridgespan Group study can serve as a useful starting place for building capacity to improve human and environmental well-being at your nonprofit.


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Edited By Pramod K. Nayar
Edited By P.C. Joshi
All nations, old and new, claim their antiquity in their own ways. Nation-states—Firangi, Francisi, Amriki, or our own—find it impossible to recollect without commemorating. As national markers, commemorations allow for the passage of identity-bearing citizens through hallowed time. During such hooplas, both the Republic and the public make demands for historical 'item numbers'.
But how does one convey the tumult that was 1857: mutiny and insurgency, plebeian disorder and state terror, atavistic proclamations and radical stirrings, within the contours of the India of today? How does one narrate the 'Ghadar', when the voice of the native rebel (of sundry accents) has been strangled into oblivion? Till very recently, most accounts of 1857, both learned and popular, have not been too bothered by the paucity of 'native sources'. The records of the past—as also in the present—are generated and kept by victors, or rulers, even if we elect them ourselves.
Rebellion 1857, published 50 years ago, and now reissued, represents the best of popular Marxist scholarship. A handy compendium which highlights the impress of the Upsurge on Urdu literature and folk songs, it underscores the contribution of peasants, artisans and 'Muslim revivalists' to the making of the Ghadar. It has a detailed piece on the making of the rebellion, especially in Delhi, where Bahadur Shah Zafar was a prisoner of the sepoys, and of history. The irony of featuring a reclining Zafar as a huge puppet, perched atop the Red Fort, stirring daintily in response to the pull of strings, was perhaps deliberately invoked in the recent mega show in the capital! An illuminating essay on Ghalib's view of the loss and recapture of Delhi, and another on the folk songs of 1857 present the non-combatants' perceptions of the events.
The Penguin 1857 Reader is a fresh collection, where the documents of the time, and extracts from a spate of British 'Mutiny Narratives' that followed, speak to us directly. We have here some interesting letters, impressions, recollections and analyses of actors and contemporary and near-contemporary writers. The pre-revolt missives sent by Laxmibai to British officers, the report on the circulation of chapatis by Delhi policemen, the plight of English officers and families, and accounts of British reprisals. There are extracts from the trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, Queen Victoria's proclamation offering amnesty to all save those charged with the killing of 'British subjects', translations of folk songs, newsreports from Europe and US, and the representation of 1857 in English fiction. Brief introductions provide the context.
Nayar's companion volume, The Great Uprising, has a much tighter storyline. Well-researched, it provides a potted history of British rule in India, settling down to an innovative retelling of the events in the "many theatres of the war". To recount the entire story of 'The Sepoy War', cluttered as it is with disparately connected events, without letting the reader's attention waver is a major achievement. The downside is the virtual absence in Nayar's account of the generalised uprising, especially in the Ganga valley. He links 1857 rather coyly with Gandhian nationalism, thus muddying a fine copybook unnecessarily.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee's Spectre of Violence makes no such leap of imagination. He focuses instead on a canonical episode of rebel violence: the massacre of besieged and depleted English combatants and women and children at Satichaura Ghat, and subsequently at the enclosed Bibighar. In a finely tuned analysis, Mukherjee dares to look this violence—and the evidence—in the face, not to hail it, but to show how the various British accounts of these events got constructed by an interplay between what was witnessed, remembered and enshrined. We have already moved away from a head count—colonialist and nationalist—in the grisly sense of that term. And entered history's estate, where historians are often in a position to establish not just what happened in the past, but also how memory and memorialisation play on the certitude of facts.


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Once again the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (h/t: RawStory) has brought charges against Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Chief Justice Moore is being charged with violating judicial ethics in regards to same sex marriage by instructing Alabama probate judges to ignore both a Federal Court ruling and the Supreme Court rulings legalizing same sex marriages. He will be suspended with pay until his case is resolved before the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission. Here's a link to the complaint. Consider this a late night/early morning open thread.
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Too bad about the suspended with pay, but its not like he was doing anything to earn it anyway.
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Well, if there's one place where we can all agree sober-minded, enlightened judicial policy will prevail in the 21st century, it's in a body called the "Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission".
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Since he won't have anything much to do in Alabama for a while, maybe he could be Drumpf's running-mate.
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Tomorrow is Saturday. Do you have the day off?
Take an hour and register someone to vote this November.
We can win the whole kit and caboodle if we each do a little.
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I suppose it's a silly question, but is Moore's instruction to Alabama's probate judges re same-gender marriages legal, and must the probate judges obey it until/unless otherwise instructed?
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Have you seen his "Moral Law" site? http://morallaw.org/ He's a theocrat. He has no business being a judge. Here's hoping he is finally thrown out of his seat and has a forced retirement where he can play preacher all he wants without the force of law behind him.
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@Adam L Silverman: so Judge Moore is feeling oppressed by those LGBTQ folks? As my dog likes to say, that's RUFF!
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It's Alabama, Jake.
They deserve what they get.
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Since he won't have anything much to do in Alabama for a while, maybe he could be Drumpf's running-mate.
How about Fat Tony's replacement ?
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@Adam L Silverman: One would think that refusing to accept a clear SCOTUS ruling would be disqualifying, but it seems the rules are different for Teabagger theocrats.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.
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@Adam L Silverman: Heh, you're making it too easy.
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He was removed last time, ran for reelection and was actually reelected.
I can't get over the idea of elected judges. Whoever thought that was a good idea?
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It's not a great way to do it, but, better than letting the political party in charge appoint them. See, for example, Arizona.
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@kdaug: Tell that to the Bourbons, who thought that way, and lost their heads over it.
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I can't get over the idea of elected judges. Whoever thought that was a good idea?
Rich donors.
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how BAD does a Conservative judge have to be for that Alabama judicial watch to actually even investigate him? If a judge ever goes that far drawing outside the lines, there is something seriously wrong with that judge.
AND THIS IS THE SECOND TIME. Buy a clue, Alabama. You're making my mom upset.
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The idea behind directly elected Judges goes back to a time when some states didn't have enough lawyers to serve as justices, so some counties and states made the positions open to anyone who didn't necessarily have the Juris Doctorate but could be viewed as accountable to the voters. As long as the person was deemed of sound mind to serve as judge while the prosecutors and defense attorneys were the legal experts making the arguments, it was how things had to work.
At some point, it became viewed as a check and balance against judicial abuse of power: against the fear that an appointed, lifetime judge would never really answer to anyone else.
Some states have a mix: the judges are appointed by the state gov't, but face the occasional "recall" vote every 4-6 years by the voters, most of whom rubber-stamp it because 99 percent of the time the judges haven't done anything deserving of removal… like here in Florida. Parties tend to keep such votes non-partisan and don't draw any attention to it. Except lately when Rick "No Ethics" Scott's people tried to get voters to remove the State Supreme Court justices up for recall a few years ago: they wanted to toss out as many of the justices as they could – even two of the Republican-nominated ones – just so Scott could pack the court with HIS cronies. The Florida Bar and the Court made their first ever appeals to the public opposing Scott's move… and the judges were overwhelmingly voted back in.
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From your lips to…! Moore as Trump's VP would be the perfect seal on the coffin of the GOP.
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Moore is inching ever closer to the "Francisco Franco is still dead" headline, isn't he? How many more times until it's no longer breaking?
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The system does work the other way around ( negatively ) some times, though: remember when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing same-sex marriages ( early on), and the wingnuts immediately mounted a campaign to deny three of the judges re-election, via a concerted campaign? And they did: leading the bigots to crow over their " victory", and how that would teach a lesson to any " activist judges" who dared mess with "sacred" marriage rules?
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@Jay C: Yup.
Caperton v. Massey also too.
"The $3 million in expenditures; the fact that those expenditures represented more than all other financial support for Justice Benjamin combined; the sole interested source of those funds; the timing of the expenditures; and the other facts of this case are so egregious-by today's standards at least-that they offer the Court the ideal opportunity to reinforce one of the most fundamental rights in any system based on the rule of law: the right to a fair hearing before an impartial arbiter."
Yeah, elected judges can be very problematic these days.
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Charlie Pierce calls an elected judiciary The Second Worst Idea in American Politics. Sandra Day O'Connor has dedicated her retirement activism to getting rid of judicial elections. My buddy's dissertation boils down to "all judicial selection mechanisms suck; non-partisan merit retention elections after gubernatorial appointment is the least bad mechanism."
N.B.: In Alabama, judicial elections are partisan. There is some evidence that partisan elections actually increase judicial independence (compared to non-partisan elections), because the partisan label acts as a signal to voters that allows the judge to act without regard to public opinion, because the party label doth cover a multitude of sins.
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Could he be any Moore of an asshole?
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