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Jasmin Caton
Jasmin Caton pulled the haul bag the final feet up onto Heart Ledge, El Capitan, and Amelia Patterson tied it off. Sweating from the heat and from hauling up the slabs on the Salathe, they took off their helmets and sank onto the ledge.
Jasmin Caton pulled the haul bag the final feet up onto Heart Ledge, El Capitan, and Amelia Patterson tied it off. Sweating from the heat and from hauling up the slabs on the Salathe, they took off their helmets and sank onto the ledge. Then, from 1,000 feet up on the Shield headwall, a cam fell and, crack, nailed Caton on the head. She screamed and grabbed her forehead, which was flowing with blood.
Expecting major trauma, Patterson held her shirt to Caton's forehead. After a minute, Patterson looked under the shirt, and found a relatively small cut. Caton reached over, picked up the cam and smiled. "Booty!" she said, shaking, but with both her skull and her sense of humor still intact.
Caton, a 28-year-old Canadian based in New Denver, British Columbia, is a rock guide who from age 13 lived in a ski lodge in the Selkirks owned by her parents—and who this spring completed both a Masters in hydrogeology and the trad route Fallen Arches (5.13a) in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah. She worked the route with friends, but had to find entirely different beta.
"Most people do a long stretch to the upper crack, but I couldn't consistently pull that," she says. "Out to the left I got a good pinky-down finger lock and did a long move. At first there were little foot chips, but that wall is exfoliating and they broke. I put tick marks where they had been and convinced myself my feet would stay."
Caton is a regular in Indian Creek, Yosemite and Squamish, and has redpointed The Great Arch (5.12+), Flight of the Challenger (5.12c) and Big Daddy Overhang (5.12b) in Squamish, while trad onsights include Way Rambo (5.12a) in Indian Creek. In 2003, with help from the Alpine Club of Canada Jen Higgins Memorial Grant, she and Patterson climbed in the Northwest Territories' Vampire Spires, 18 rugged miles from the Cirque of the Unclimbables. The two spent four days on the Phoenix, beginning on an unfinished route and then climbing original pitches that included a "gaping offwidth dihedral and some serious chossineering"—gardening out every gear placement in the rain.
The two were bivied in a portaledge when they woke to the "gut-wrenching" sound of rock and ice basketballs pouring off the summit and falling just outside their ledge.
The next day, at a ledge where many of the features and routes converge, they joined another route for several pitches, and reached an icy chimney a few hundred feet from the summit. Without ice gear to continue, they rappelled in a thunderstorm, and called their line Wildflowers (VI 5.7 C2).
"Call it a new route or not, whatever you think appropriate," she says.
In the next year Caton hopes to climb in either the Trango Valley or the Charakusa region of Pakistan. This summer, she and her husband, Evan Stevens, moved to Squamish where she will guide and climb.
What can you do with a hydrogeology degree?
Most people carry on to a Ph.D. I could get a consulting job for an environmental company; consult for mining, logging, or development; or get a job with the USGS. There are more jobs than people with advanced degrees to fill them.
But you're going climbing?
I'll be guiding in Squamish all summer, and luckily that doesn't interfere with my ability to be a climber. I have a trip planned to the Adamants [British Columbia] in July, and then this fall to Yosemite and maybe Spain. This winter I want to get certified as a ski guide.
Then why did you spend two years on the degree?
I was really into my undergrad thesis and wanted to do a master's. After a year off, I applied to both grad school and the Canadian ski guide program. I found out I had the fellowship and funding months before I knew about the guides courses.
Will you continue with that work?
I'm interested in groundwater pollution, protection and resource management. Groundwater is an important source of freshwater as climate change and human population growth stress surface-water resources. I could see getting a job in five or 10 years when I'm tired of guiding. If that ever happens.
What's one thing you miss about Canada when you're here?
A few days ago I slipped scrambling across boulders in the Gunks. I got four stitches in my leg, and $350 later I was really missing Canada's health care.
What did Fallen Arches mean to you?
A huge milestone. It took dedication and stubbornness, and I'm proud of sticking to it. I enjoy the process of trad redpointing: figuring out the gear, the moves, getting stronger and more confident, and finally that feeling of flowing through moves that felt impossible at first.
Are you still drawn to expeditions with women?
Absolutely. However, I am more drawn to do expeditions with whoever is a solid, compatible partner.
What are Canadian girls like?
The ones I hang out with are all pretty loud and obnoxious.
And Canadian men?
That's a tough one. I'm married to an American.

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Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th president (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
Background/Early Life
• Grover Cleveland was born in New Jersey and grew up in central New York. He never attended college, but he studied law and became a lawyer in New York City.
• Cleveland paid a substitute in order to avoid serving in the Civil War, and spent the war years as assistant district attorney for Erie County. After the war, Cleveland was elected sheriff of Erie County, then mayor of Buffalo.
• He was a hard worker and impressed many with his work as mayor, leading to his election as governor of New York. This position led to his being nationally recognized, and he was elected president of the United States in 1884.
How he defined the office
• Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office.
• He used the full power of the presidency to his advantage. He vetoed more bills in just his first term in office than all previous presidents had combined.
Successes and failures
• Cleveland believed the government should not interfere in social problems. He did not support racially integrated schools and refused to see African-Americans as equal to white people, he took no stand on women's suffrage, and he believed Native Americans should be assimilated into American culture and give up their traditional ways.
• During his two terms in office Cleveland negotiated disputes in Samoa, Hawaii and Venezuela. In regards to Venezuela, Cleveland threatened to go to war with England over the presence of British warships in the area before peaceful negotiations happened. This was significant because of Cleveland's enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine.
• Cleveland's second term began with a severe depression and high unemployment. Cleveland replenished the country's gold reserves with the help of investment banker J.P. Morgan, but because banks profited from the deal, public opinion turned againsst him, and he was an unpopular president by the time his second term came to an end.
Notable Quote
• "A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."


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When I suggested to my daughter, Zuri, that she would love the Oscar winning The King's Speech and that it would be great for her to see it in London, where she is studying abroad, she revealed that her drama professors were not so keen on it. "They see it as propaganda for the monarchy."
There is also a lot of buzz in the American and international press about the accuracy or inaccuracy of the film. Bertie's stutter was not really that bad, Winston Churchill was not really that fat and he was not so forcefully opposed to King Edward VIII's relationship with a twice-married Wallis Simpson. More seriously, some argue that throughout the late 1930s the royal family and much of the British establishment favored appeasement of Hitler's regime.
My father was a bit of a gusher when it came to the Royals.
"A King Dies," Ebenezer proclaimed in a column on Feb. 1, 1936. The far-flung British Empire, with its approximately 500,000,000 inhabitants of all colors mourns today! George the Fifth, its 'Sailor King' is dead! He passed away in his 71st year of life and in the 26th year of his reign. From far-off New Zealand and Australia to the Dominion of Canada, from India to the remote Falkland Islands and the West Indies, flags are at half-mast; bells have tolled, theatres closed, night clubs darkened — business had come to a standstill, all in reverence to a departed monarch, loved by his people, and of whose greatness historian will testify."
But in true fashion, Ebenezer brought the king's death back home to America.
"The passing of the British monarch had its repercussion here in the House of Representatives when Speaker Byrns [Joseph W. Byrns, D-Tenn] put forward a resolution that the body adjourn out of respect to the dead king. Representative [Martin] Sweeney of Ohio was the dissenting voice. His objection was based on the grounds that his kin lost their lives during the time of the Blacks and Tans (Britain opposing the independence of the Irish Free State) and according to the New York Times Washington correspondent, Mr. Sweeney 'is unwilling for the legislature of a democracy to honor the memory of a king in whose names the bullets went winging' Speaker Byrns ignored Mr. Sweeney. Negroes might sympathize with Mr. Sweeney in the loss of his kin, but it is natural that they at the same time reflect on the atrocities which are committed under America's 'democracy" In the first place we have hundreds of lynchings which have taken place in the direction from which Mr. Sweeney hails and against which Congress up to its last session refused to enact legislation. Many a Negro has lost his innocent kin by these barbarous methods. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the constitution as they apply to Negroes are openly violated in the South. Under the shadow of the Capitol's dome, Negroes have been denied use of the House Restaurant and even in the North Negroes are systematically and occasionally discriminated against in government and private institutions. Lastly, we come to the persecution of the nine Scottsboro lads. Within the columns of the issue of the New York Times which voices Mr. Sweeney's objection we read that the trial was being conducted for the fourth time amidst the most prejudiced atmosphere perhaps known to any court in a civilized country."
As for the brief reign of Edward VIII and the Wallis Simpson scandal, my father initially had high hopes for the young king whom he described as a "super-salesman, athlete, flier, sportsman and one of the most socially beloved princes, whose magnetic personality was already evident. "
But upon Edward's abdication, he was less charitable. "I still think Edward strayed somewhat from the 'manor born.'" he wrote in a later column. He was born heir-apparent to a throne when the world respected it. He could easily have lived closer to its shadow. Love intoxicates a man; marriage sobers him up, someone once said. And what if the inevitable hand of retribution moves to arouse Eddie from his intoxication, brought on by Wallis Simpson's potion of third-rate 'love!'"
My father was wrong about that love affair. Edward and Wallis stayed together until Edward, who became the Duke of Windsor after his abdication, died of cancer in 1972.


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Compendium of posts on Hobby Lobby and related cases
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The mixed record of Winston Churchill
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The mixed record of Winston Churchill
Sandy Levinson
World War I broke out last night. That is, I finished Christopher Clark's truly monumental The Sleepwalkers, one of the best--and most depressing--books I've read in some years, about the origins of World War I. Everyone in government--especially anyone aspiring to be President--should read it. It captures the importance of distorted perceptions, pettiness, bureaucratic infighting, sheer contingency, and the like, in bringing about what really does seem to be an unmitigated catastrophe (unlike the "mitigated catastrophe" of the American Civil War, which at least had the virtue of formally ending chattel slavery). Anyone who continues to believe that the War was "caused" by rapacious German imperialists is simply mistaken, even if, like everyone else, the Germans did their share to bring about the catastrophe.
In Heartbreak Ridge, Clint Eastwood played a Marine gunnery sergeant, Tom Highway, who failed in his marriage and nearly every other contact with the civilian world, which often ended up with Highway in jail. Highway was only good at one thing - leading men during war.
In a classic line, Highway's commanding officer said, "Characters like you are an anachronism. You should be sealed in a case that reads break glass only in the event of war."
Churchill was just such a warrior and a product of the British Empire's imperial age. England turned to Churchill when it needed to win a war and then turned him out when the fighting was through.
Not all men are equipped to lead and win wars.
If Obama was President during WWI, the US would have stayed out of the war and imperial Germany would have defeated France during the 1918 offensive.
As it was, Wilson barely entered the war in time after dithering for years.
The bottom line is that, you may not always like warriors, but they are nice to have around when the shooting starts.
NOTE: Before the usual suspects start up, this is not a partisan observation. Both Roosevelts were war leaders and the GOP was the party of isolation until after WWII.
> I am genuinely torn on whether I think Woodrow Wilson was right to take us to war in 1917
In retrospect it seems like a uniformly terrible idea. Even at the time, his motivations seems naive at best. It's hard to see a reasonably likely counter-factual where either the US or the world as a whole comes out ahead from US entry. Without US arms resupply and the likelihood of direct entry the allies would have been forced to take Germany's peace entities in 1916 seriously.
What are the factors on the pro side to your mind?
France and England were not relying on US supply during WWI. Indeed, the AEF ended up using a great deal of French heavy equipment. The Allies problem was not supply, but a dearth of fighting age men.
It is very possible that France might have sued for peace after the army mutinies of 1917 without the prospect of American reinforcements rather than being defeated outright in 1918 when the Germans brought their victorious eastern front troops to the west for a final offensive. But the result in either case would likely be a victory for Imperial Germany and occupation of wide swaths of France, Poland, Belorussia and the low countries.
The Germans sure thought that the American supply route was important. That's why they sunk the Lusitania after all.
During WWII, once France fell and the BEF lost most of its heavy equipment evacuating France, England relied on US Lend Lease military equipment and munitions to prosecute the war.
This was not the case in WWI, when England was the preeminent industrial power of the time and France was very much still in the war.
It is true that the English economy relied upon sea trade with its then current and former colonies and the Germans waged submarine warfare against that trade. England mostly imported commodities and food to supply its industry and population, not military equipment and munitions.
If Obama was President during WWI, the US would have stayed out of the war and imperial Germany would have defeated France during the 1918 offensive.
LOL If Baghdad Bart was president during WW1 we would have invaded Japan. How is that WMD search coming along, you imbecile?
I think that is BB's joke, it is a reference to Bush invading Iraq when we were not attacked by Iraq (many people quipped it would be like invading Mexico because of Pearl Harbor).
Here's a comment by our SALADISTA on an earlier post of Sandy:
As a matter of fact, my current book project is fiction - an alternative WWII history.
# posted by Bart DePalma : 11:16 AM
Perhaps he provides here a preview of his new work of FRICTION. The late Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World"* opens with "Don't know much about history ... ' which I think of every time our SALADISTA turns from his expertise in economics to his expertise in history. Query: Might Benito Mussolini be featured more prominently in his alternative WW II fictive history or perhaps placing FDR in the shadow of Churchill?
*Check out the lyrics to Wonderful World as an antidote to some awful events taking place in the world currently. Better yet, listen to Sam. With the right ingredients, it could be a "Wonderful World."
This in Sandy's post:
"I am genuinely torn on whether I think Woodrow Wilson was right to take us to war in 1917, the main consequence of which was setting the stage for the even more catastrophic World War II because of Versailles."
brings to mind Margaret MacMillan's "Paris 1919," documenting failures by all concerned, recounting 6 months' efforts down the drain.
Wilson's national security state actions via Congress gave us SCOTUS's decision in Schenck v. US on the First Amendment with Justice Holmes proclaiming no First Amendment protection for falsely yelling fire in a crowded theatre in a case in which no theatre was involved, only pamphleting against the draft on public streets, where the only things burning were the minds of war mongers in the national government.
Japan was an ally of the Entente Powers during WWI.
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 9:11 PM
No shit, you idiot. That was the point. We were attacked by Al Qaeda from Afghanistan and you morons invaded the wrong country.
It's pretty amazing that a chucklehead like Blankshot, who still thinks that invading Iraq was a good idea, sees himself as a credible voice on anything.
I has Sleepwalkers on my wish-list for a while now. Given your praise for it, I think I will get it sooner than later.
If I had my way, I would bar Bartbuster from participating in any discussion, for the only tone he/she knows how to use is contempt and insult. The fact is that Mr. DePalma, with whom I usually (but not always) disagree and who sometimes irritates me immensely in his specific arguments, is, on the other hand, unfailingly courteous in tone, including his responses to Shaq, who also dissipates his often really valuable contributions by his desire to insult Mr. DePalma.
Mr. DePalma's initial posting about "warriors" presented a number of issues that could have generated an interesting discussion. It's probably true that "warriors" are different from those who hesitate, for whatever reason, to go into battle, and that, IF THE WAR IS A GOOD WAR, we certainly want dedicated "warriors" on our side. The issue is whether people with a "warrior" temperament, like Winston Churchill or Douglas MacArthur, are particularly trustworthy in their judgment about WHEN to go to war or, for that matter, even specific decisions as to how to conduct it.
Contempt and insult is all that propaganda spewing, warmongering troll deserves. The fact that you haven't figured that out by now says a lot more about you than it does about me.
The fact that he's smiling while he lies to your face is not a good reason to treat him with respect.
Sandy: "The issue is whether people with a "warrior" temperament, like Winston Churchill or Douglas MacArthur, are particularly trustworthy in their judgment about WHEN to go to war or, for that matter, even specific decisions as to how to conduct it."
As part of the larger polity and yes.
The decision of whether to go to war should be made by the people through their representatives. Let the hawks and doves debate and then have our representatives make a decision. I would not put that decision in the hands of one leader - hawk or dove.
Once the decision has been made to go to war, however, the time for debate and half measures should be over. You want warrior politicians like Churchill and warrior generals like McArthur prosecuting the war to the fullest extent to end it quickly and successfully. You do not want war leaders who delay tough decisions and want to quit when the military suffers reverses and casualties start showing up in the media.
The only thing worse than war in general is a lost war where the blood and treasury price has been paid for nothing.
The only thing worse than war in general is a lost war where the blood and treasury price has been paid for nothing.
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 11:02 AM
Worse still is launching a war when there is nothing to win and the pissing away of lives and treasury for nothing is inevitable. Google Disaster, Iraq, Bush for a good example.
You have been following me around the internet for a decade now to tell the world you think I am a loathsome piece of conservative excrement.
I think everyone here is now well aware of your opinion of me.
Ask yourself, as a loathsome piece of conservative excrement, am I really worth the time it takes to post?
Aren't there more important things you could be doing with your life?
It's definitely worth the time to respond to the warmongering propaganda that scum like you are spreading.
Aren't there more important things you could be doing with your life?
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 11:15 AM
Coming from the guy who spends his days trolling liberal websites, this is quite comical.
unfailingly courteous in tone
Tone is no substitute for facts, and pretty manners don't count for much if you get your facts wrong:
These poll numbers are great news for John McCain!
MSNBC didn't televise the speech of a Hispanic or African American elected official or candidate at the RNC
My well armed little mountain town has not had a shooting or any other type of serious violence in decades
Expect Rice to resign within the week and accept all responsibility to protect the President
The center right electorate still opposes Obama policy, which is why they will fire him on Tuesday
The hits just keep on coming. What's next? I'm sure its tone will be nice.
"pretty manners" many not count "for much," but they count for something. There has been no shortage of posts pointing out Mr. DePalma's frequent errors. I loathe the Iraq War, but it is, alas, simply not the case that anyone who supported it is incapable of making of making arguments worth listening to about other things. Tom Friedman often frustrates me, as I have blogged somewhat frequently, but there's also no doubt that he is capable of great insight about the Middle East, an area about which he won two deserved Pulitzer Prizes. Life would be so much easier if we could simply dismiss someone completely because he/she was wrong on an admittedly important issue about which we care deeply.
With regard to "warriors," perhaps it's true that once a decision to go to war is made, we want "warriors" to fight it. But do we want "warriors" to make the decision in the first place. My concern about Churchill has to do with his general bellicosity, not with, say, his disastrous decision as First Admiral to support Gallipoli, which raises other questions about the necessity of reining in "warriors" (like Churchill and MacArthur) whose judgments may be highly questionable.
The problem isn't that Blankshot was wrong about Iraq, the problem is that he learned nothing when that disaster blew up in his face. That's why he isn't credible.
The same with "these polls are great news for John McCain". That would not get thrown back in his face if he learned something from it, but 4 years later he was crowing about cherry picked polls, and 4 years later he was wrong again. But his tone sure was nice!!! Seriously, at a certain point you need to stop listening to the tone and look at the unending string of wrongness. And when the constantly wrong person keeps arrogantly treating you like you're the idiot, it's time to just start mocking him. That time was a long, long time ago for Baghdad Bart.
Then there is this little gem...
If Obama was President during WWI, the US would have stayed out of the war and imperial Germany would have defeated France during the 1918 offensive....
NOTE: Before the usual suspects start up, this is not a partisan observation...
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 2:50 PM
This is the same Obama that got Bin Laden. The same Obama that got Gaddafi. The same Obama that has drones bouncing the rubble in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and assorted other places. How can you NOT mock assinine assertions like that one?
Sandy: With regard to "warriors," perhaps it's true that once a decision to go to war is made, we want "warriors" to fight it. But do we want "warriors" to make the decision in the first place.
No. They are not objective on the subject.
I have struggled since my service to explain to civilians why warriors want to go to war.
Warriors love to practice their profession, but generally not the death and destruction. (The military like the police attracts thugs and killers, so there are exceptions).
Let me try an imperfect analogy.
Warriors are to the military profession what trial attorneys are to the legal profession.
A trial attorney does not want to spend his or her life in law school training to practice law, the attorney wants to get into court and try cases, even when they do not care for the client or unfavorable outcomes.
Similarly, a warrior does not want to spend his life training and wants to practice his profession, even if he dislikes the inevitable death and destruction.
This point of view varies from those warriors who go to war because it is their job and those who live for it. The movie Patton shows this range in comparing Omar Bradley with George Patton:
Bradley to Patton: I do this job because I've been trained to. You do it because... you love it!
Later Patton admits to himself: "I love it! God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life."
For obvious reasons, you do not want a Patton determining whether the United States goes to war.
For obvious reasons, you do not want a Patton determining whether the United States goes to war.
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 2:18 PM
Except Iraq, of course. We should listen to everything 'Blood and Guts' Depalma has to say about Iraq.
The Clark book is pernicious, pretty much a defense brief for Germany. It should be no one's only book about how the war began. Fromkin's little book "Europe's Last Summer" fills in some things Clark is happy to pass over. Saying Germany "did its share" is just ignorant. Russia and France did not declare war on Germany.
Re: Churchill, the quotation is unfair. He wrote, "Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? The preparations have a hideous fascination for me." He was the First Lord of the Admiralty; he had reformed the Navy as few ever had before him, and he was justifiably proud.
He also added in the same letter, "Yet I would do my best for peace, and nothing would induce me wrongfully to strike the blow."
As for his support for bringing Britain into WW1, why was that wrong? The German Empire was an illiberal, aggressive regime - why was it preferable, let alone advantageous to the UK, to let France be steamrollered and Belgium made a German dependency?
"not with, say, his disastrous decision as First Admiral to support Gallipoli"
Forcing the Dardanelles and opening the Black Sea route to Russia was not a "disastrous decision." The execution was awful, and throwing in troops after the failure of the naval attempt was not a good idea. But that was not Churchill's show.
It is ironic that anyone willing to say that Germany was just one power of many at fault for the war, would also try to hang Gallipoli around Churchill's neck.
"pretty manners" many not count "for much," but they count for something
Oh please; once you've gotten your facts wrong, dead wrong, repeatedly, confidently; no, they don't. There's no putting lipstick on that pig.
Russia and France seem quite unequivocally to have discouraged Serbia from accepting some of the quite reasonable demands issued by Austria-Hungary, given that a Serb who was in fact linked to Serbian intelligence had killed the heir apparent to the Austrian Monarchy. Nor was Austria-Hungary serving as the catspaw for a Germany eager for war. Yes, they were illiberal, but so was Russia, the great ally of Britain and France. And one reason that some supported British entry was to stifle Home Rule in Ireland.
As I said, I'm uncertain about my views of World War I. But I see no reason to describe Clark's book as "pernicious" unless one disdains the copious evidence he has brought forth, in many languages, from many countries. It is true that he is, generally speaking, not a hard core structuralist; instead, he is an old-fashioned historian who emphasizes the importance of individuals, specific decisions, and contingencies.
If Henry V made a speech before Agincourt, we have no idea what he said. There´s a character in a play by Shakespeare called ¨Henry V¨ who makes a terrific speech, all made up.
It´s ¨First Lord of the Admiralty¨ not ¨First Admiral¨. In theory the Royal Navy was commanded by a committee, in the absence since 1708 of a Lord High Admiral.
Mr. Wimberly is, of course, absolutely correct on both counts. I should have been more careful with my reference to Churchill, though I assume that everyone realized I was referring to Shakespeare's version of Henry V and not the real one. Still, I could have said so....
Our SALADISTA with this:
"Let me try an imperfect analogy."
succeeds imperfectly, attempting to compare the warrior with an attorney. Perhaps our SALADISTA considers himself a warrior as well as an attorney. While the attorney, he says, " ... wants to get into court and try cases, even when they do not care for the client or unfavorable outcomes.", just how many cases are actually tried? The attorney serves as an officer of the court, is bound by rules of conduct; and often the attorney plea bargains for various, including personal and economic, reasons. Perhaps our SALADISTA can provide personal stats on actual trials and plea bargains in his DUI practice. I don't see our SALADISTA as being in any sense in the same legal league as Bradley Manning's attorney.
Manning was a reluctant warrior. There are rules governing war that apply to warriors. What happens when a reluctant warrior become aware of "secret" documents that might constitute violations of rules of war?
So, yes, our SALADISTA tries an imperfect analogy, and indeed it is imperfect. Many highly ranked warriors serve without risk, with too many grunt warriors at actual risk.
Our SALADISTA points to Heartbreak Hill starring Clint Eastwood (also a debater of an empty chair), comparing Churchill as a warrior in the mannter of Clint. I counter this with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. "So it goes ...." I'm more curious about how our SALADISTA's alternative WW II hysterical novel, perhaps making Ronald Reagan a WW II hero.
As any competent trial attorney knows, you put your arguments in terms the jury will understand applying their life experiences. There is no perfect peacetime analogy to war.
Your response suggests that I need to clarify what I mean by "warrior."
Warriors are those who enjoy and who are talented at combat.
All large militaries are by necessity bureaucracies and only a small percentage of its members are warriors.
Even in combat arms, not all are warriors.
Petreaus, Schwartzkopf and Patton were warriors.
Haig was not.
"Russia and France seem quite unequivocally to have discouraged Serbia from accepting some of the quite reasonable demands issued by Austria-Hungary"
As even Clark has to admit, the demands were designed to be refused; Austria didn't want them accepted. It wanted to wipe Serbia off the map. That was recognized by other powers at the time; Clark has to defend the "reasonable" demands by comparing them to what NATO did in Serbia in the 1990s!
The point is not whether Austria was a "catspaw" for Germany; as Fromkin correctly demonstrates, there were really two wars, Austria vs. Serbia (and Russia), and Germany vs. Russia and France. What Germany did was to *guarantee* backing for *whatever* Austria did.
The Germans should have known that Russia would not, could not, accept Serbia's being crushed. Perhaps they were incompetent and did not know this. But when Russia mobilized, that was the time for Germany to withdraw its assurances to Austria and seek a conference to stop the oncoming general war.
Germany didn't do that, because Germany was convinced a war was inevitable, and better sooner than later. So Germany declared war on Russia. And when France refused Germany's demand to occupy the French frontier, Germany declared war on France, too. And then invaded the sovereign state of Belgium simply because it was in the way. Why anyone defends such conduct is beyond me.
I am not 'defending' Germany. What I'm trying to do is understand why Europe entered into a catastrophic war in August 1914. And I continue to believe that Prof. Clark demonstrates that it won't do to blame German perfidy as the primary cause. Perhaps Germany did give Austria a blank check. But, equally, France and Russia did the same with Serbia, which had much to explain (and atone) for regarding the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Was Germany hell-bent for war in August 1914? Some Germans were, but others, including the Kaiser, seem to have been considerably more ambivalent. We'll literally never know what would have happened had Serbia not been goaded by France and Russia to reject in toto the Austrian ultimatum.
We know how the story turned out. Knowing that, was World War I worth it? What were the gains of the slaughter? Substituting Communist rule in what became the Soviet Union for rule by German oligarchs? Allowing the British to wreck the Middle East as part of the spoils of destroying the Ottoman Empire?
Sandy Levinson:
"but there's also no doubt that he is capable of great insight about the Middle East, an area about which he won two deserved Pulitzer Prizes. "
Actually, there is, since he has shown none for decades now. As for Pulitzer Prizes, I believe that the WSJ editorial page has won one.
As for courtesy, by the time of the Iraq War ('Suck on This'?), Friedman has forfeited any such claim.
Blankshot has never won a Pulitzer. There is good reason to believe that he has never won an argument.
Now our SALADISTA seems to limit warrior status to certain generals. I'm not convinced that the late Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. would enjoy our SALADISTA's sandwiching:
"Petreaus, Schwartzkopf and Patton were warriors."
What about general Powell? And what about lower, including enlisted, ranks? Perhaps our SALADISTA needs to better refine "enjoy" in this assertion:
"Warriors are those who enjoy and who are talented at combat."
Does that mean in the line of fire, with their physical derrieres on the line of fire?
I;ll try to remember our SALADISTA's definition of a warrior next Memorial Day.
Austria Hungary was demanding that Serbia suppress all criticism of it within Serbia's borders. Was that actually a reasonable demand of a sovereign state. Could thr US legitimately demand that governments in Islamic countries suppress all "anti-American propagabda" after 9/11 on pain of invasion? Would it be inappropriate for those countries' big power allies to assure such a country of its support against thr US in those circumstances?
And if Serbia did anything wrong, how does that justify the invasion of Blegium -- which was Britain's causu belli.
I'm not "justifying" the invasion of Belgium, which violated a number of treaties. For what it is worth, which may be nothing, Clark states that Germany, recognizing its violation, offered to compensate Belgium should it basically acquiesce to the violation of its space (which, alas, was apparently the best route to France). Nobody comes out of the initiation of WWI smelling like a rose, beginning with crazed Serbian nationalists who thought it would be a fine idea to assassinate the heir to the throne while visiting Sarajevo. I have no hesitation to condemn Germany, a very unattractive country, so long as the condemnations are directed also at Serbia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Russia. One doesn't even have to engage in "equal condemnation." The point is to stop treating one country--in this case, Germany--as the unequivocal villain in an historical morality tale.
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So here we are! Through the gauntlet, and ready to take on a huge dragon.
Couple things before starting. First, running up the ramp to where the void boss usually lives will start the event. Don't go up until you're ready.
Second, if you die and run back, there's a nice glowy portal that brings you here.
Don't try to run in manually, you can't get across the chasm. After some period of time, the portal goes away and the gauntlet respawns. My guess is it's something like an hour after you first clear the gauntlet – so yes, you might have to clear it again. It took me several days to beat the boss so I think I ran the gauntlet four times.
Now, take a minute to look at the fighting area. You've got the ramp and platform, and you can also run around in the area in front of the ramp a bit. Don't get too far away or he'll despawn and that sucks.
When you're ready, go up the ramp. Tarecgosa goes with you, and then Thyrinar appears. He stuns Tarecgosa and now you get to fight him. he starts at 50% health, but that 50% is going to take a while.
Be in boomkin form when you go up the ramp. As soon as he goes active, pop Barkskin, dot him up, and blast away with cast spells. Be ready. When he flies over to the other side of the platform, get to the ramp. When he breathes fire, run down the ramp and don't let the fire hit you. Hot yourself up at this time, and lay Wild Mushrooms near the bottom/middle of the ramp.
Pro tip: run down one side of the ramp. That way the fire only hits one side and you can go up. Also don't cut to the other side as you leave the bottom of the ramp. The fire will follow you and block the bottom. Cut toward the same side the fire is on until the beam is off the ramp and then run in a circle around it to get to the other side.
After the fire is done, he starts shadow bolting you again, but more importantly an add spawns at the bottom of the ramp. These adds suck. But there's a way to handle them. They spawn at the bottom of the ramp, run up the ramp, look around, and come hunting you. If you're at the bottom, you can dot them up, blow your wild mushrooms, and they will either be dead or nearly there when they come back.
When you can't kill them this way, they have a couple nasty abilities. A Silence, a Fire Nova, and a nasty melee hit that can daze you. Don't forget about Entangling Roots or Nature's Grasp as a way to get them off your back.
The adds spawn… fast. Somewhere I read every 30 seconds but I think it's more for druids because we don't have to worry about the self-heal thing that all the other classes have to deal with, thanks to us not having an offensive dispell.
Anyway. Add is dead. Run up the ramp – check your health! – and dot up the boss. Barkskin might be back up. Use it on cooldown. Watch for Starsurge procs, and use them when you can. Don't hard cast Starsurge or use Starfire, they're just too slow. You're more likely going to be healing yourself.
The first two add spawns sync nicely with fire, but the third one seems to spawn a good ten seconds before the fire. Beware of that. After that I didn't notice a pattern.
You might get your treants to help you with adds, or they might just sort of wander around shaking their fists at the boss.
The key to this fight is movement, and keeping your dots and hots going. And your mana up. Innervate early and often. Don't let the fire hit you. Get the adds dead. Rinse, repeat.
My successful fight took 15 minutes and some of my attempts took nearly as long. This is a long, long fight. Be prepared. You will probably wipe a few times learning to handle it.
I actually had Reversion helping me toward the end by sitting over my shoulder and watching my procs and cooldowns – "Barkskin's back, use it!" "Starsurge, starsurge!" "Add spawning, get the mushrooms down!" It helped me. If you have a friend or partner who plays WoW and can sit there with you, and you won't kill him for this sort of thing, it can be really valuable to have another set of eyes.
(Rev editorial: It is a nasty little fight. Doing it in a spec you are not already pro with is hard. You have a lot of procs and abilities to use and the difference between Barkskin at a critical time or 15 seconds later because you did not notice it was off cooldown… well that is life or death on this fight. If you find you aren't using some things you might just macro, grasphing roots, barkskin, starfall, and inervate to something you spam so you can't possibly miss using them. Also be sure to space those mushrooms out as you run up or down the ramp. If you have spare mouse buttoms you might map the shrooms to a click. It makes them a lot easier to use while moving. Use those ramp runs to be dropping shrooms or healing, or both. If you are not used to shrooming remember this: it takes time to drop them and then blow them. Don't aim them where the add is. Aim them where he is going to be in a little while. If you just space out all three around the center of the ramp it is almost always the right place.)
Doing this chain improved my boomkin skills a huge amount. I'm still a Resto druid, but now I can do some decent DPS, too.
If you've got any questions about any part of this chain, please feel free to ask me!
OH – don't forget to click the clickable thing near Tarecgosa after Thyrinar is defeated, or you won't get the quest completion, which would kind of suck.
Good luck, and have fun!


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This classic Neapolitan dish is truly a celebration of summer. Easy to prepare and made from simple ingredients it is, however, only as good as the quality of its components.
The tomatoes must be sweet and juicy; the basil should be fresh and very aromatic, the pepper freshly ground.
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- 1 lb fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 4 large vine-ripened tomatoes, sliced 1/4 inch thick
- 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- Sea salt to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons drained capers
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
In a bowl alternate the layers of tomato, mozzarella, and basil leaves. Sprinkle with the capers, season with sea salt and pepper.
Coincidentally, the salad sports the red, green and white colors of the Italian flag. Simple, refreshing and delicious, this salad is a feast to the eyes, the nose and the palate; it is a true paean to the joy of any occasion!
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By George F. Will
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."
— Article 2, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment
— Adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974
WASHINGTON — The burglary occurred in 1972, the climax came in 1974, but 40 years ago this week — May 17, 1973 — the Senate Watergate hearings began exploring the nature of Richard Nixon's administration. Now the nature of Barack Obama's administration is being clarified as revelations about IRS targeting of conservative groups merge with myriad Benghazi mendacities.
This administration aggressively hawked the fiction that the Benghazi attack was just an excessively boisterous movie review. Now we are told that a few wayward souls in Cincinnati, with nary a trace of political purpose, targeted for harassment political groups with "tea party" and "patriot" in their titles. The Washington Post reported Monday that the IRS also targeted groups that "criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution." Credit the IRS operatives with understanding who and what threatens the current regime.
Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate." No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the IRS for political purposes is a criminal offense.
It remains to be discovered whether the chief executive is guilty of more than an amazingly convenient failure to superintend the excesses of some executive-branch employees beyond the Allegheny Mountains. Meanwhile, file this under "What a tangled web we weave":
The IRS official in charge of the division that makes politically sensitive allocations of tax-exempt status said Friday that she learned of the targeting of conservatives from news reports. But a draft report by the IRS inspector general says this official was briefed on the matter two years ago.
An emerging liberal narrative is that this tempest is all the Supreme Court's fault: The Citizens United decision — that corporations, particularly nonprofit advocacy groups, have First Amendment rights — so burdened the IRS with making determinations about who deserves tax-exempt status that some political innocents in Cincinnati inexplicably decided to begin by rummaging through the affairs of conservatives. Ere long, presumably, they would have gotten around to groups with "progressive" in their titles.
Remember, all campaign "reform" proposals regulate political speech. And all involve the IRS in allocating speech rights.
Liberals, whose unvarying agenda is enlargement of government, suggest that this IRS scandal is nothing more sinister than typical government incompetence. Five days before the IRS story broke, Obama, sermonizing 109 miles northeast of Cincinnati, warned Ohio State graduates about "creeping cynicism" and "voices" that "warn that tyranny is … around the corner." Well.
He stigmatizes as the vice of cynicism what actually is the virtue of skepticism about the myth that the tentacles of the regulatory state are administered by disinterested operatives. And the voices that annoy him are those of the Founders.
Time was, progressives like the president 100 years ago, Woodrow Wilson, had the virtue of candor: He explicitly rejected the Founders' fears of government. Modern enlightenment, he said, made it safe to concentrate power in Washington, and especially in disinterested executive-branch agencies run by autonomous, high-minded experts. Today, however, progressivism's unambiguous insinuation is that Americans must be minutely regulated because they are so dimwitted they will swallow nonsense. Such as: There was no political motive in the IRS targeting political conservatives.
Episodes like this separate the meritorious liberals from the meretricious. When the IRS story broke, The Washington Post led the paper with it, and, with an institutional memory of Watergate, published a blistering editorial demanding an Obama apology. The New York Times consigned the story to page 11. Through Monday, the Times had expressed no editorial thoughts about the IRS. The Times' Monday headline on the matter was: "IRS Focus on Conservatives Gives GOP an Issue to Seize On." So that is the danger.
If Republicans had controlled both houses of Congress in 1973, Nixon would have completed his term. If Democrats controlled both today, the Obama administration's lawlessness would go uninvestigated. Not even divided government is safe government, but it beats the alternative.
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If you're in a region where housing is at a real premium or is very expensive (such as New York or California), it may be better for you to continue renting. Take into account that if you do buy a home, there are extra responsibilities and costs that go along with it -- such as lawn care, snow removal, home maintenance and repairs, etc.
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Orthopedic body pillows can be the key to a good night's rest for those who find it difficult to maintain good posture while they sleep. They also provide physical comfort that can help ease the mind after a stressful day.
Some Japanese otaku, seeking a slightly different kind of comfort from their body pillows, stuff them in pillowcases covered in the image of popular anime or erotic video game characters. A number of them go so far as to "form relationships" with these body pillows, boldly claiming them as their girlfriends and romanticizing themselves as "2-D lovers".
Yet one major drawback of these body pillow girlfriends (you know, aside the fact that they're pillows) is that you can't get to third base with them. Until now, that is: Pillow-lovers everywhere, rejoice! Japanese adult product maker G PROJECT has created a body pillow you can have sex with!
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Kuu Pillow is made from a type of plastic that is more durable and less irritating to the skin than the normal polyvinyl chloride most Japanese hug pillows are made from. G PROJECT also promises a smooth, skin-like texture that is pleasing to the touch, unlike that sticky plastic feeling of inflatable blow-up dolls.
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Britney Spears has broken her silence on her X Factor exit, describing it as "a very difficult decision."
"I've made the very difficult decision not to return for another season," she said in a statement Friday. "I had an incredible time doing the show and I love the other judges and I am so proud of my teens but it's time for me to get back in the studio. Watching them all do their thing up on that stage every week made me miss performing so much! I can't wait to get back out there and do what I love most."
Spears, who mentored the group of teens on Season 2 of Fox's singing competition series, including runner-up Carly Rose Sonenclar, handed in her notice this week. Sources previously told TVGuide.com that she did so because she knew she was going to be fired.
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