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August 1st, 2010
07:04 PM ET
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Palin: Brewer has the 'cojones' that Obama does not

In a television interview that aired Sunday, former Gov. Palin used a distinctly masculine metaphor to describe how Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, left, and President Obama are approaching border security.
In a television interview that aired Sunday, former Gov. Palin used a distinctly masculine metaphor to describe how Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, left, and President Obama are approaching border security.

(CNN) – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has come to the defense once again of one of her fellow "mama grizzlies" but this time using a distinctly masculine metaphor.

In the wake of the Obama administration's partial judicial victory last week in the litigation over Arizona's controversial immigration law, Palin said on "Fox News Sunday" that Arizona's female Republican governor has "the cojones that our president does not" when it comes to securing America's borders.

"This is a temporary suspension of some of the key elements in the law that [Arizona Gov.] Jan Brewer pushed hard for Arizonans and for the rest of the country to have the result of us being more secure," said Palin.

She added, "And, Jan Brewer, bless her heart, she's going to do all that she can to continue down the litigation path to allow secure borders because she's – Jan Brewer has the cojones that our president does not have to look out for all Americans – not just Arizonans – but all Americans in this desire of ours to secure our borders and allow legal immigration to help build this country. . . . if our own president will not enforce a federal law, more power to Jan Brewer . . . to do what our president won't do."

According to, the word "cojones" is a Spanish term for male reproductive organs. It also can be used as slang for "nerve" or "boldness."

The Tea Party favorite also said that it was "idiotic" in the current economic situation to let the Bush tax cuts expire for higher-income brackets as Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats plan to do.

"To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you rein in spending, you cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind," Palin said.

Making a reference to an event in February of this year where cameras caught notes about policy points written on the palm of her hand, Palin also poked fun at herself.

Related video: Palin's 'cheat sheet' on hand

"My palm isn't large enough to have written down" all the effects of Obama's plan to let the tax cuts expire, Palin said, pointing to an ink-stained palm.

Palin said letting the cuts expire would cause a total tax increase of $3.8 trillion over the next ten years and she explained that the notes on her hand read "'$3.8 trillion, next 10 years,' so that I didn't say 3.7 and then get dinged by the liberals, saying I didn't know what I was talking about."

Asked about her PAC's recently released campaign-style video championing her nascent "mama grizzly" movement, Palin explained her string of recent endorsements of often underdog conservative female candidates.

Related: Palin speaks of 'new conservative feminist movement'

"It just so happens that these common-sense, constitutional, conservative women are willing to put it all on the line," she said. "And they're going to make a lot of sacrifices in order to serve their country. They have a lot to contribute. They just all happen to be women and I support them strongly and wholly."

Palin added, "That video was all about supporting those women – men too – with common sense, with a desire to protect our Constitution, and the free market in America – and turn some things around in this country."

Palin was characteristically noncommittal when it came to the issue of her own political future – namely, whether she has her eye on a White House bid in 2012.

"Well, I've never committed to running for president," she said. "People are going to be worried about 2012 in future months, but that's not where my focus is."

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  1. dee

    LOL Palin is such a flip flopper.
    Election time she spoke to the Mexican people in spanish promising and supporting immigration reform and a path to citizenship.

    Now she is supporting racial profiling and "la bruja" brewer.

    It takes cajones to take a position and stick to it. Not put your hands up and quit every time you face a little scrutiny.

    Palin, as usual is the right winger's comic joke!

    August 1, 2010 07:11 pm at 7:11 pm |
  2. Observer

    So now we know that Palin doesn't know anything about anatomy either.

    August 1, 2010 07:11 pm at 7:11 pm |
  3. Sue. B

    And...Obama has the brain that Palin needs.

    August 1, 2010 07:12 pm at 7:12 pm |
  4. Robert Cloosdoosch

    Palin is "nuts"

    August 1, 2010 07:12 pm at 7:12 pm |
  5. George

    I hate to dwell on the literal, but does this airhead even know what "cajones" means and that she's applying it to a woman? Maybe it's just me. I hope she's enjoying her cycle of fame, because when 2012 comes around and the GOP runs away from her because she has NO chance of beating Obama, we'll all but see the last of half term Sarah.

    August 1, 2010 07:13 pm at 7:13 pm |
  6. jane

    Why do you continue to cover Sarah Palin?????? There's nothing there.

    August 1, 2010 07:15 pm at 7:15 pm |
  7. harold

    I hope that you have family Health Insurance coverage..Sarah Palin.. ....You know its a family value don't you?

    August 1, 2010 07:16 pm at 7:16 pm |
  8. Paul

    This coming from a former governor who basically quit after 2 years on the job! Give me a break, why does anyone bother giving this woman publicity?

    August 1, 2010 07:16 pm at 7:16 pm |
  9. La Piovra

    For people who hate Hispanics, these folks sure like Spanish words.

    August 1, 2010 07:16 pm at 7:16 pm |
  10. Greg

    Well that's presidential of her. I'm sure if Obama said something like that we'd be hearing for weeks that it disrespects the office of the presidency.

    August 1, 2010 07:17 pm at 7:17 pm |
  11. johnrj08

    And Palin has a lot of cojones to even open her mouth about this, having never had to deal with the issue of immigration in her entire life. As a matter of fact, her whole history suggests that she uncomfortable with anyone but white people.

    August 1, 2010 07:19 pm at 7:19 pm |
  12. Mike

    How ironic, a nutjob republican using a spanish word to describe the President....while we all know the reichwing want to deport all Mexicans...even the people born here...whether they are immigrants or not.

    August 1, 2010 07:19 pm at 7:19 pm |
  13. Carol

    Sarah, who asked for your opinion????? Maybe tomorrow you can endorse someone to keep your name in the news!

    August 1, 2010 07:20 pm at 7:20 pm |
  14. Nick G

    Isn't it rather ironic that "Gov." Palin uses a Spanish word when talking about keeping Hispanics out of our country? How about an English word to describe her? Idiot!

    August 1, 2010 07:20 pm at 7:20 pm |
  15. waukone

    All I can do is shake my head. The Obama admin is now deporting more illegal aliens per year than Bush or anyone before him ever did and with expected increases., Obama admin is prosecuting those who hire illegals at a significantly higher rate than the bush administration or any other before him. There are more border patrols, more technology, more training, more cooperation, etc.

    He will continue to try to thread the needle on this issue and what everyone needs is a wacko making it difficult to have a sane discussion on a very difficult issue.

    Recently it was reported that the southern border has less crime than other parts of the country. Does that mean he should start in other area's of the country?

    August 1, 2010 07:23 pm at 7:23 pm |
  16. Rob NY

    Jan Brewer and Sarah Palin can't hold a candle to our wonderful President. I can't believe I'm even typing their names in the same sentence as his. Sarah Palin, the "gift" from John McCain that keeps on giving.

    August 1, 2010 07:24 pm at 7:24 pm |
  17. jim

    cojones or not, the arizona law is not constitutional. if it were there would be no problems from the feds.

    cojones mean nothing if you are in the wrong. you've gotta admit, the illegal aliens have cojones trying to come here illegally. by your measure, sarah, that would make it all ok. it doesn't. being in the wrong is being in the wrong whether you have cojones or not.

    August 1, 2010 07:25 pm at 7:25 pm |
  18. ray

    this woman is an idiot, this woman is an idiot.

    August 1, 2010 07:25 pm at 7:25 pm |
  19. Lynn

    Bless Sarah's little heart, she can't use American slang for "Balls", but has to use a Spanish term. Not very patriotic of her.

    August 1, 2010 07:25 pm at 7:25 pm |
  20. Mike S. - Dayton, OH

    At least our president has the "cojenes" to stay in the office to which he was elected, despite the challenges. Ex-governor Palin would demonstrate her mama grizzly cojenes by quitting about now were she elected president. She could have been securing our northwest border from streaming hordes of Russians right this very moment had she not quit for the noble cause of selling books and commentating on Fox News.

    August 1, 2010 07:25 pm at 7:25 pm |
  21. ray

    this woman is an idiot.

    August 1, 2010 07:28 pm at 7:28 pm |
  22. AJ

    Sarah Palin is trash, plain and simple. She does not have the brains of a maggot. It's no wonder why republicans adore her.

    August 1, 2010 07:28 pm at 7:28 pm |
  23. KentAZ

    What the (as usual) clueless Palin isn't aware of is that Brewer was initially opposed to SB 1070 and signed it only because she knew it would be political suicide not to do so. It was simply a matter of political expediency.

    August 1, 2010 07:28 pm at 7:28 pm |
  24. Dale

    Republicans have zero credibility on the economy. They say "fiscal conservative" when they campaign, then cut taxes for those rich enough to pay them and then spend like drunken sailors. Meanwhile, they deregulate wall street so the economy becomes unstable, just a bubble of speculation waiting to be popped. This big recession is directly traceable to the Republican de-regulation of banking and Wall Street. Republicans fought in congress against the new regulations to prevent a recurrence. Republicans are for the corporations, not the people.

    August 1, 2010 07:29 pm at 7:29 pm |
  25. LouAz

    On the street, cajones means balls. It is pretty common among Hispanics, and a lot of white boys( including me) picked it up. It is good that Sister Sarah admires and uses Hispanic street talk so readily. Nice that the Half Gov of Alaska has given her blessing to the Default Gov of Aridzona. Is this a trend among half educated TPers and Flat earth Repubs ? You betcha ! Ole.

    August 1, 2010 07:29 pm at 7:29 pm |
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Gingrey says he 'misconstrued' his position on rape

(CNN) – Republican U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey of Georgia said controversial comments he made on rape "misconstrued" his own position on the topic, according to a statement released by his office Friday.

Appearing Thursday at a local Chamber of Commerce meeting in Smyrna, Ga., Gingrey took questions on abortion rights and a controversial Georgia law that bans abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant.

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  1. SJAJR

    He's from Georgia. Enough said. Is that dueling banjos I hear in the background?

    January 11, 2013 02:38 pm at 2:38 pm |
  2. The Real Tom Paine

    Of course, this is the same rep who referred to the President and First Lady as "uppity", and then claimed to be unaware of the racial connotations of his statement. I think its entirely possible for Rep. Gingrey to misconstrue his own statement, even when its impossible for anyone else on the planet to do that.

    January 11, 2013 02:39 pm at 2:39 pm |
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Preface xvii

CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1
The Challenge of Intermediation 1
Banking and Economic Growth 5
Securities Markets, Banks, and Other Intermediators 10
The Scope of This Book 13
The Argument 16

CHAPTER Outline 27

CHAPTER 2: The Origins of Banking 28
Early Banking Functions 30
Credit Creation 32
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Government Debt and the Beginnings of Government Banks 38
Government Banks 41
Private Banks 45
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CHAPTER 3: Banking Crises 53
Financial Crises and Banking Crises 54
The Consequences of Banking Crises 59
The Causes of Banking Crises: Hypotheses 61
Evidence from before 1870 64
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Universal Banking 157
Identity of the Banking Supervisor 162
Summary 167

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The Bank of England and British Government Finance 170
Private Banking in London and the Provinces 173
Joint Stock Banking Regulation, 1826-57 175
Mergers 183
Crises and Responses 189
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The Riksbank and the Beginnings of Swedish Banking 198
Bank Politics and Legislation: Enskilda Banks 202
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Mergers, Crises, and Government Intervention, 1903-39 209
Universal Banking 215
Sweden in a Nordic Context 217

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The First and Second Banks of the United States, 1791-1836 222
From Chartered to Free Banking, 1837-62 229
The National Banking Era, 1863-1913 230
The Crisis of 1907 and the Founding of the Federal Reserve 243
The Great Depression 245
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Herstatt and Franklin National 267
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Werewolf: Isn't really my style of music, so am not the best person to crit it. Vocals aren't the best (but then I'm not the best singer either), but they have a lot of aggression which I like, which suits the style of the music.
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She Knows: Maybe use a bit less distortion on the guitar? Kind of here a bit of Ramones/Sex Pistols in this song.
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haha! cheers mate :) i know i cant sing for shit but someones gotta do the job atm lol. Also yes the song is very metallica influenced lol... and also yeah i know she knows has a very.... "metal" solo.. i was trying to give it a bit more melody if you get me, but i get if it seems a bit out of place lol :) thanks man

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Maybe it’s the preseason, but see how they run

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Perhaps coaches just want to keep the clocks rolling in the preseason.

But there have been a number of outstanding rushing performances tonight, or at least enough to make you think the art of handing off to the guy behind the quarterback isn’t dead.

The best of the bunch was an 86-yarder by Lions veteran Reggie Bush. He took one good block from Eric Ebron and took it to the house against the Jaguars, showing the kind of burst that will get him plenty of looks in a high-powered passing game as well.

The surprise might have been Raiders running back Maurice Jones-Drew’s 40-yard touchdown, as he showed a bit of popped he lacked in Jacksonville last year. He looks to be in condition, which didn’t always seem to be the case last year.

The Jets also showed the ability to pound the ball, with Chris Johnson and Chris Ivory each popping long runs (18 and 17 yards), combining for 62 yards on 11 carries.

On the other sideline, Giants running back Rashad Jennings had 67 yards on 13 carries in the first half.

So while all the attention this preseason has been on the emphasis on certain rules to free up the passing game, old man football can still work from time to time.

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  1. whodat82 says: Aug 22, 2014 9:47 PM

    Veteran Reggie Bush…Happy to see him still making moves after all these years. Forever a Who Dat!

  2. dcapettini says: Aug 23, 2014 7:25 AM

    Football has always been a game of cycles. Once most of the teams shift to one kind of offense or defense, some smart or perhaps talent poor coach starts doing something different and if it works the tide starts to shift. The advent of 350 lb DLs that can run and last for most of a game has dampened the running game, but it will come back. It always does, unless the league just doesn’t want it and keeps changing the rules to make passing more attractive under any circumstances.

  3. ncphinsfan says: Aug 23, 2014 9:34 AM

    I have been playing and coaching for over 40 years and can guarantee a clock controlling, running game and a stout defense is all that matters. Execute them well and fancy playbooks and super-skilled QB’s mean nothing (but good to have too either way).

  4. dadsource says: Aug 23, 2014 12:54 PM

    Watching the Detroit game as a Jags fan, people were all worried about the Jags pass defense. I wasn’t. We won’t face a better running back all year, Bush had a burst of speed and could read holes so quickly, he’d make Seattle and Denver defenses look bad, too. Plus Eric Ebron is a pure stud, he blew up some holes and caught a nice pass. This just in, Detroit is GOOD! Caldwell ‘ s pull blocking really had the Jags on their heels and ruined the blitz. Pick up Bush on your fantasy team.

  5. thetruthcampaign says: Aug 23, 2014 1:43 PM

    Bush had another long one called back on a holding call by, I think, Pettigrew.

  6. thetruthcampaign says: Aug 23, 2014 1:44 PM

    Leshoure looked fine too last night, minus the fumble.

  7. thetruthcampaign says: Aug 23, 2014 1:44 PM

    The Lion’s run game is fine. Stafford’s the one who needs to get on track.

  8. bigwalt2990 says: Aug 24, 2014 2:13 PM

    If the run got called back, it was never a 21 yard run, it was a -10y run if anything. Reggie would have never gotten that far down the field if not for the hold.

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The nicab during citizenship debate is missing one major element

Many of us have been disgusted the way that the election campaign's hottest issue has been whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the niqab during a citizenship ceremony (note that this is not for identification, they remove it for that in front of a female prior to the ceremony).

The issue is simultaneously unimportant and important. It is unimportant in the sense that of all the numerous impactful issues that face us as a nation, the issue of whether a handful of Muslim women who would like to join the country and wear the nicab during the citizenship ceremony is simply nowhere near the top. It is a minor cultural issue and it sickens me that Harper managed to get a boost in the polls by prioritizing this, particularly in Quebec where it really harmed the NDP. We should be talking about something else.

However, I am going to join in on talking about this issue because while it shouldn't be deciding elections, it is nonetheless important, and because there is a major element to the debate that has been entirely missing. Canada does, and ought to, stand for the basic set of freedoms codified in the Charter and endorsed throughout society. We may not like the nicab. I don't like the nicab, although I will recognize that many who wear it don't fit the kinds of caricatures often portrayed. But that doesn't mean freedom of religion goes away! It doesn't mean that the government - an ostensibly freedom loving conservative government no less - has the right to tell a woman how they should dress, that religious identification is all fine except for this particular few inches of cloth.

While Zunera Ishaq, the woman at the centre of the controversy who recently became a citizen after the court ordered the ceremony proceed with her wearing the veil, doesn't show any signs of this, let me assume, for the sake of argument, the worst caricatures of the opposing narrative. Suppose in a case the nicab is not a symbol of religious devotion, but a symbol of male oppression, forced on women against there will and preventing them from engaging in a pluralistic society. Assume everything bad you can imagine. How, exactly, is this desired ban helping that? Don't we want these woman to be able to leave their homes and engage with society? Don't we want to be welcoming and accepting of these woman as they are so they can feel comfortable to learn about our society, and make their own choices? Perhaps this isn't a slippery slope where the citizenship ceremonies is just the first place such bans occur (Harper has already speculated on bans in public service; Europe is moving steadily in this direction), but is making it so women don't feel able  - or aren't allowed, under these assumptions - to leave the house actually helping anyone? Outside of making us feel self righteous (as we violate our core principles of freedom of religion), I don't see the point.

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Versions of the above have been said by many much more eloquently than me. Let me raise a different question: why are we required to swear oaths at all? There are those who want to become citizens but don't feel comfortable with the oath new Canadians are required to say. I am not comfortable with it, although I didn't have to say it as a natural born Canadian. One of my professors is not comfortable with it either, and has led an unsuccessful legal battle to be able to become a citizen without this oath. I think Canada should be a republic, and think it is repulsive that we should swear fealty to a monarch who happens to be the head of a religion.

Much like Zunera Ishaq, Dror Bar-Natan and his fellow litigants have had various court cases and even got a few news stories. However, their story has not animated the public discourse to anywhere near the same level as Zunera Ishaq who has become, arguably, the single biggest issue in the election campaign. In both cases we have a purely symbolic ceremony that can't be done in a particular way because someone wants to become a citizen but has religious or political objections to how exactly that is to be done. For those that agree with me that the nicab should not disqualify one from becoming Canadian, is it not a small leap to agree with me that swearing fealty to an unelected monarch ought also not be a disqualifier?

I have long argued on this blog that Canada should be a republic, that the Monarchy while only symbolic and lacking de facto power nonetheless symbolizes many bad things we should reject and doesn't symbolize the many good things (such as, ironically, freedom of religion) that we might wish to symbolize as a country. This is view is entirely legal for me to type, and indeed would be a gross violation of freedom of expression for there to be any law against me expressing it. Why, then, would we demand and citizenship be conferred only to those willing to swear an oath that fundamentally violates this view? And why on earth would we care what people wore when they said it. Or, ideally, didn't say it.

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Aug 2, 2015

Mulcair fails Media Relations 101

Today was election campaign launch day in Canada. Well I suppose that really happened a year or so ago, but today was the official launch, when the official rules kick in, at any rate. All the parties want one main thing out of these launches, to say a few positive things in their opening declaration that gets picked up by the media and gives them a round of free, positive advertising.

Mulcair, however, fumbled badly. He gave his speech, the media was there, but his mistake was that he pissed the media off by not answering any questions. This result in the media mainly writing stories about how he didn't answer questions, and completely ignore what he actually said:

CBC: Tom Mulcair takes heat online for not taking questions at first campaign event
Torstar: NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair takes no questions at campaign launch
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And so forth. What they wanted was glowing articles covering their policy framing, like Trudeau got.

The lesson to be learned here is a simple one: don't piss off the media. None of them want to be out there on the sunday of a long weekend, but they are there because they have to cover your speech. So don't piss them off. Mulcair most likely didn't want to take questions because he wanted to be the person who got to frame the issues, not the media questions. What he got was the "Mulcair doesn't answer questions" frame.

The irony is that Harper is absolutely horrible at media access and has been for a long time. Mulcair is far, far better at this. And denying the media here doesn't represent some affront to democracy the way Harper's continued actions do. But because he pissed the media off, it wasn't presented this way.

Thankfully, it is a long campaign. A ridiculous long campaign designed to help the Conservatives and their larger war chest. Mulcair gets to try again on tuesday.

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Jul 31, 2015

GMO labeling shows that "states' rights" is just a convenient lie for the GOP

Imagine that the Democrats wanted to pass a federal law requiring food companies to label their products if they contained genetically modified organisms. What would be the Republican response? Undoubtedly a big piece of their argument would be the appeal to states' rights. That is, the federal government shouldn't be going around impose their will and view on the states, and that it would be horribly wrong for the federla Democrats to impose their view on GMO labelling on the states.

Except, the US House did this exactly backwards. The Republicans (with some Democratic support) have passed a GMO labelling bill that prevents any state from passing any law that labels food as GMO. Where did the states' rights argument suddenly go?

The main reason for this is that Big Agriculture hates these kinds of bills. Much of the US agricultural system is based around a couple of GMO crops. And not just GMO crops, but crops that are heavily subsidized by the US government through various farm subsidies. The subsidies have been around since the 20s, and have created a food system that asymmetrically depends on these crops and does little to help any of the subsidies putative goals. This industry is one of the most firmly entrenched in political culture. For instance, the first state for presidential candidates is Iowa, a heavy agricultural states. Politicians are forced to praise the continuation of this system as a condition of having a chance to become president.

For years, the standard line for Republicans on gay marriage was that it should be left to the states. This was why the Supreme Court was wrong, this is why they couldn't consider it federally, because it would be grossly wrong to impose something nation wide against the sanctity of individual states. For the most part, this is nothing more than an attempt to mask their real desire - to keep gay marriage banned - under a convenient sounding jurisdictional argument. But let us pretend that their view here was sincere. This GMO labelling business shows just how quickly this states' rights nonsense was dispelled. Minutia about how to label food is sufficiently important to make the federal government step in, but ensuring equal legal opportunities regardless of sexual orientation was not.

Hopefully this is the last time we have to pretend their is any shred of sincerity or standards to when the states rights line gets brought up. No standard, that is, except this: we agree with states' rights when the federal situation is something we don't like, and conveniently forget about it when it is something we do. Or more correctly, forget about it when

Finally, I should not that I am not anti-GMO. I think there is great potential in using science to develop crops that are most efficient, healthier, safer, and cheaper. I think some of that potential has already been realized, while recognizing that we need to strictly test and identify any health, environmental or social consequences. As a member of the left, I often find myself railing against others on the left who are far more generically anti-GMO. And I recognize that food labelling is probably going to lend more towards the kind of knee jerk anti-GMO that we have seen with the increased prevalence of gluten labeling (which is absolutely important for those with Celiacs, even if it has sparked an unnecessary food craze in a huge number of others). However, to categorically ban any state from experimenting or moving in this direction is ridiculous, even if it wasn't blatantly consistent with the GOPs self claimed states' rights ideals.
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Jun 27, 2015

"We're better than news, we're truthful"

So says Kory Teneycke, the former VP of the new defunct Sun News Network and now Director of Communications for the PMO.

The irony here is simply too much. He is at least half right. Sun News Network was premised on just about anything but the truth. It was highly partisan and served precisely to better right wing interests. Truth was irrelevant, and it was why I so often opposed what they were doing. So he is not wrong to think that when he was in the news, he was not truthful.

I was highly critical of Harper's choice of spokesman, for precisely this reason. Communication Directors are always going to be partisans; it is basically their job description to spin things in favour of Harper. Yet even among possible Communication Directors, Teneycke was a horrible choice, confirming the Harper had no interest in trying to advance a meaningful dialogue, and baseless partisanship would be the name of the game. Being truthful, of course, just isn't relevant.

This quote is the ultimate example of projection. He lied when he was in the news. He lies now. And he the ones he accuses of lying? The rest of the media that actually does the thing he was - and is - supposed to do: tell the truth.
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May 6, 2015

Alberta NDP would have won 26 seats if PC and Wildrose merged

The question for the federal scene coming out of the historic NDP wave election in Alberta that saw them jump from four seats to 53, a solid majority, is whether anything close to this is reproducible on the federal scene. The major difference between the two is that federally only the Conservatives represent the right wing (shhh dear Liberal bashers) while in Alberta there is the Progressive Conservatives and the Wildrose Party.

One crude estimate is to see what would have happened if the PCs and the Wildrose had indeed joined into a single party. Assuming the votes work out the same way in this new scenario (a big if!), it is easy enough to compute how things would have turned out: the Alberta NDP would have one 26 out of 87 seats against a powerful Conservative majority. (email me if you want the spreadsheet)

This result is fairly stable if you relax the assumption. For instance, suppose the NDP gets a 10% boost (not 10 point) because of, say, people so disgusted by the amalgamation that they vote NDP. That only gives him 28 seats.

Of course, at the federal level, Alberta doesn't give 87 seats. Under the new redistricting (which makes this kind of math very hard this year), Alberta only generates 34 seats. If we assume the result is proportional, that means the NDP gets 10 seats federally. Not bad. Not great, either. In 2011 (when only 28 seats were up for play before the redistricting), the Conservatives swept 27 of 28 seats, with the NDP second in 23 of those 27.

Incidentally, the Liberals might appear to be the big losers here, but they aren't. They are a dead party in Alberta, capturing only 4% of the vote (most Liberal supporters undoubtedly ended up voting NDP so it doesn't necessarily mean people dislike them as much as 4% implies). But the key point here is that normally when the NDP does well it hurts the Liberals and helps the Conservatives. Here the NDP doing well reduces the number of Conservative seats but doesn't change the number of Liberal seats (they get zero either way), so it makes it easier for the Liberals federally.

There are about a million caveats to this very crude analysis. It only works under a tonne of assumptions that are almost impossible to remain true. Either way, there is hope for a modest but not enormous jump for the NDP federally.
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May 4, 2015

Justin Trudeau's tax plan is good policy and great politics

Going as far back as Justin Trudeau's leadership election, he has consistently kept his major campaign planks close to the vest. Little tidbits, like the policy on marijuana, come out in carefully crafted morsels, but for the most part we are left guessing at what his first federal election campaign platform will be based on the vague rhetorical positioning his team has let out over the last year.

Finally, however, we have some clarity. Trudeau has announced a big series of changes to tax policy. They do a couple things. Firstly, they reverse the two much criticized regressive new tax policies from Harper: income splitting and doubling the TFSA contribution limit. Secondly, he is going to increase taxes on income over $200k from 29% to 33%. All of this new (or at least new relative to Harper's plan) money coming largely from higher up the income ladder gets moved downwards either through a 1.5%  tax decrease in the 44k to 89k tax brackets, as well as pumping a lot more money into children benefits, crucially tying these into income as well.

The net effect is to make our government system a few percent more progressive than it was before. On this blog I have long claimed that income inequality is a major problem we face, ultimately deriving from the numerous regressive forces in society that make it easier for the rich to get rich, and keep the poor being poor. Government is, first and foremost, a massive wealth redistribution engine that through a progressive taxation and spending scheme helps offset these recessive forces in society. Despite this, we still face significant inequality. This policy would be a tweak in the right direction.

It isn't just good policy, it is great politics. The majority of the electorate is in that middle class category that is going to benefit (although seniors won't like the TFSA not doubling and don't benefit from the child benefits). Myself, as a PhD student hoping to get a job and have kids in the future, I'm very likely to be smack dab in the demographic that benefits. But even if I wasn't, it is the right thing to do and is undoubtedly going to popular.

The Conservatives, of course, will demagogue the tax increases. Any deficit neutral tax change by definition will have some increases and some decreases. The National Post editorial team has already slammed it as "class envy".  We have seen this kind of demagoguery on the idea of making the tax code more progressive before. My guess is that it is a losing political position, that the sense among the public that our society is too unequal is too strong.

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Taking a 30,000 foot view of a political landscape with three dominant parties, the party on the right generally wants to decrease the size of government, the party on the left wants to increase it, and the party in the center wants to leave it somewhere close to where it is. The problem for all centrist parties is that it is hard to advocate compelling changes that people vote for when your big picture position is not to keep things roughly where they are.

That said, over time the political landscape tends to change and what often happens is that all parties move simultaneously over the course of, say, a decade. On lots of social issues, for instance, the left moves quickly, the right moves barely at all, and the center moves slowly. One of the biggest changes, as I've noted before, is that the amount of political space between the Conservatives and the NDP (and indeed in other countries a similar pattern holds) has shrunk considerably which leaves less and less unique space for the Liberals to carry out their own identity.

Given the above dual problems of being positioned in the "keep government spending roughly the same" category with less and less distance between them and the Conservatives or NDP, changing the tax code to be more progressive is the perfect policy. It keeps the basic constraint of a similar amount of government funding, but makes a meaningful improvement by changing the level of progressiveness in the system.

Not everyone is going to love the Liberals for this plan. Many fellow progressive bloggers are going to want more net taxation to pay for various policies they think are good. I often join them. But if we restrict ourselves to keeping net taxation relatively constant, this is a good plan.

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Apr 24, 2015

Tech on the Side: Skeumorphism and round smartwatches

It appears as if Samsung's next smartwatch is going to follow the Moto 360 in having a round face. This is an examples of short term thinking and skeumorphism gone horribly wrong.

The concept of skeumorphism in technology refers to using designs that were needed in older technology, but are no longer relevant today. The first several generations of iOS were full of skeumorphism, from faux leather and yellow legal pad style notes to 3D drop shadows and mechanical dials. None of these design elements made anything more functional, but there was a sense in which they were familiar to actual note pads and actual 3D buttons. Arguably it made it easier for people to effortlessly embrace the touch screen centric world we now live in.

In Windows 8, in iOS 7, and in Material Design on Android (and most of the rest of Google's portfolio), skeumorphism has largely been dropped. Everyone is completely familiar with touch screens now, and we hardly need these old visual cues. So modern designs don't pretend to be anything beyond the two dimensions they live in and have clean and often brightly coloured designs far from their pre-mobile predecessors.

Why a round watch?
For mechanical watches, the fact that they are round follows from the geometry of a hand going around in a circle. A rectangular watch is just going to have wasted space in the corners and would be pointless for mechanical watches.

For smartwatches, round faces make little functional sense. Anything that displays text (such as messages, emails, etc) is going to be best displayed on a rectangular display. The only real application that makes sense for a round display is for showing legacy watch faces. But even then, this is only going to be a small portion of use (otherwise why by a smartwatch?), and besides, wasted space on one app is a far smaller problem then not enough space on everything else.

Round smartwatches are thus an almost quintessential examples of skeumorphism. It is using a design that made a lot of sense in the legacy technology being replaced (mechanical watches) in the modern technology (smartwatches) where it is functionally unnecessary.

At least in the iOS examples of skeumorphism there wasn't much of a loss. We didn't need fake binder coils on our notebook, but they didn't hurt much either. There was, at worst, a fairly small percentage of wasted space compared to modern designs. With round smartwatches, the functionality of the smartwatches is worse than rectangular designs, in particular for the displaying of text.

Why then does the Moto 360, the presumed new Samsung, and others use round displays if they are, as I suggest, obviously inferior? My arguments were about functionality. Theirs are likely more about familiarity.

 Smartwatches are a largely untested product category and it isn't clear that people will either find them useful enough relative to smartphones to bother, and the degree to which people will find it fashionable or unfashionable to have them. Watches are always on display as part of our wardrobe, so this matters to an even greater degree than smartphones. The hope, presumably, is that by having a device that looks like a watch - something many people wear currently - that it will make people more familiar with the product and more likely to buy it.

Maybe so, but I somewhat doubt it. If early estimates are correct, it would appear Apple has sold more smartwatches in their opening weekend then the entirety of Android (or Samsung's own OS) based watches have in a year. Apple, of course, is a unique entity, and it isn't as if most of those rectangular Android smartwatches have sold much either. However, for long term success, I think trying to get a few more people from the door early with familiar but functionally inferior designs isn't going to be a winning strategy.

This blog is primarily about political and social commentary. But it is also my personal space to blog about, well, whatever else it is that I'm interested in. These posts get labels "______ on the side", such as my Tech on the Side series.
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Apr 7, 2015

Seniors are not a good reason for doubling TFSA limit

After years of being promised whenever the federal books got balanced, it looks like the next Harper budget is indeed going to double the contribution for Tax Free Savings Accounts. This policy has long been criticized - including by me - for being a policy that disproportionately provides advantages for the rich. Indeed, the number of people capable of putting aside over $10k in savings per year while working are fairly limited.

Today in parliament, Finance Minister Joe Oliver has hit back against these criticisms, effectively pointing out that there is another big group of people who are already maxing out their contributions: seniors. 71% who max out are over 55 and 46% are seniors.

The reason for this is fairly simply: most seniors live entirely off their savings. It is very likely that a good chunk of these will max our their contributions when it is doubled, too. As they are saving already, whatever savings plan is introduced will undoubtedly be used extensively be them. So fair enough, the point that it isn't just rich people using it is well taken, clearly there is this big group that takes advantage of it.

However, this doesn't fit as neatly in with the objectives of the TFSA in the first place. The main point of a government backed savings program is to encourage savings in the population. The argument is that a population with a higher savings rate is thus going to experience less dramatic recessions (since they can spend their savings during a recession) which will be better for all of us. I'm totally in favour of savings plans in general, just not this one in specific, as I will get in to.

Seniors, however, are not encouraged to save based on increasing these contributions. Seniors are already not working and thus living primarily off savings and can not save more. They will use this policy and benefit from this policy but they won't be contributing to the primarily goal of the policy: increasing net savings in our society. What is happening here is something of a wealth distribution towards seniors.  That's okay. I think there are solid reasons to distribute wealth towards seniors who often suffer, but it comes back again to whether this savings method is a good way to do that.

The fundamental problem with a savings incentive system based on tax breaks is that it is inherently regressive (as it undoes a tax code that is inherently progressive taxing higher earning people more). Someone earning very little pays a low tax rate and so doesn't benefit from the same dollar value in savings as someone who is richer. It isn't just that it exacerbates systemic inequality, it also undoes the putative goal of a government saving plan: to encourage savings to dampen recessions. This is because the poorer people are those most sensitive to the pressures of recessions and thus in most need of savings to be able to continue spending through the recession which keeps the economy good for all of us.

Even if we just restrict to seniors, this helps richer seniors who have high investment income more than it helps poorer seniors, those who we might care to distribute wealth to in the first place. If the goal is to help at risk seniors, this is the worst way to do that. So while it certainly doesn't help the main objective of the plan - increasing net savings -it is also a poor way to implement this sort of secondary objective. And everything it does, to seniors and working age people alike, is done in a highly regressive way.

Contrast this with, say, a savings plan that includes direct government contributions in a progressive way (ie government adds x% on first thousand saved, y% on the second thousand saved, etc). Perhaps combined with a separate wealth distribution to seniors if needed, also done in a progressive way. There are many ways to do this that can be debated. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to ever be a substantive debate on the best kind of savings policy in Canada. TFSAs are what we got, and we are about to double down on them, criticisms be damned.

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Apr 2, 2015

Ontario's brave new cap and trade program

The Globe and Mail just broke the story on what will likely be the defining component of Kathleen Wynne's legacy: The Ontario Liberals are introducing a big cap and trade plan. Details are sparse as yet, but it looks like they will be joining the Quebec/California regime. This is huge news, especially given Ontario's relative prominence in Canada's economy.

While BC (under the Liberals as well, incidentally) were moving forward with their carbon tax, Ontario Liberals had made big moves on the green energy file. With cap and trade, they are now tackling the greenhouse gas production side of the energy equation.

One of the trickiest problems of global warming is that it falls to tragedy of the commons problems.
Any individual jurisdiction has incentives to not act themselves (and thus not accrue any costs relative to others) and have everyone else take the costs while they just get the relative benefit of less climate change. To succeed we need to move beyond this kind of jurisdictional selfishness, and it takes people coming together and bravely willing to take bold actions, even when most of the provinces, the federal government, and, indeed, much of the planet are dragging their feet. There already was an argument based on the green energy file that Ontario was one of the most aggressive provincial or state level jurisdictions in North America for combating climate change. With the introduction of a cap and trade program, this will solidify that status.

Kathleen Wynne didn't have to do this. It was certainly not some key part of any election plan. At best it is politically risky. I have previously argued how dynamics regarding the Green party made a strong case for the McGuinty era Liberals to push hard on the green file, but I'm not convinced the same dynamics are as strong today after an election where anything to do with tackling climate change was very much on the fringe.  But she choose do to this, and now we have policy worth fighting for.

People debate the efficacy of cap-and-trade vs fee-and-dividend (ie carbon taxes) and any other plan we may come up with to tackle global warming. I've done so, for instance, here. Some will undoubtedly be disappointed by this particular plan to help combat global warming. Fair enough. However, given the dynamics of today where we have this pressing global problem and very little global action against it, I am going to take what I can get. Absolutely we should push for not just any solution, but the best solution, but I will do so by also giving full throated support for undoubtedly positive - even if not optimal - political action like this.

The political angle:
During the 2011 Ontario election, I wrote that the election to reelect McGuinty was, and must be, a referendum on the brave green energy plan (using feed-in-tarrifs) the Liberals had previously instituted. I have consistently lamented the NDP for not prioritizing climate change issues while the Liberals have been acting positively.

Now, however, there is hope for political agreement as the NDP has long supported cap and trade (while federal Liberals flirted with carbon taxes, particularly under Dion's "Green Shift" plan). Despite the Liberals having a majority, this a program that needs to be implemented and reinforced over decades to help its goals, and having political agreement is critical. The PCs, of course, will abhor it, and will be the advocates for those businesses who will lose under this proposal, but this can't be helped.

Regular readers will recall that I have never been a partisan between the Liberals and the NDP with a long documented history on this blog of sometimes supporting and criticizing and voting for both parties. The one issue that really forced my hand, in Ontario at least, was the green energy file with the big moves by the Liberals largely rejected by the NDP for (in my view) bad reasons. While the 2014 elections had very weird political framing, in 2011 by far the key issue was green energy for me. It is of great comfort to me that by keeping a party with a history of success on this file in office, we have been rewarded by further success on this file despite the numerous headwinds and little momentum that would seem to have been the case yesterday.

There are a lot of details to be worked out, and I'm sure we will be debating them in the time to come. But for now, at least, I'm happy we are moving in the right direction.

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A lot of companies still aren’t sure how to handle the onslaught of attention (both positive and negative) social media has allowed customers to give to a brand, let alone give up the illusion of control that they’ve always had.  This is where public relations is poised to take the lead. Imagine if companies started listening and responding to customers in the same way PR people follow up with their top editors?

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  • I agree strongly that customer relations in the age of new media could take a lessen from tried and true media relations pros (respect deadlines/respond promptly, provide open and truthful answers, go out of your way to answer every question posed no matter how uncomfortable, etc).

    That said, I think the headline of this blog could be misinterpreted. The idea that social media practices are replacing traditional media relations is a fallacy. While addressing the general public and masses that use these tools is important, media relations should still be a major component of any public relations program. Word of mouth has existed for as long as people have been able to talk. Mass media such as newspapers, magazines etc are filters through which audiences can chose the topics, entertainment, news approach, etc that best interests them. They provide voices of QUALIFIED expertise and targeted communication that most social media simply cannot acheive (nor were they designed to).

    So – great article. I agree with every point here, but we should remember that so-called traditional media still serve very important roles in society, business and culture. For that reason, traditional media relations is here to stay.

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Syed Hassan, Syed Tajuddin (2002) Agro-ento bioinformation: towards the edge of reality.

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Information communication has advanced from the fundamental universe-bio-physicschemistry probes to exploration of bioprocessing tangibles and intangibles. Bounded by such information advancement frames, domains of agro-forestry and entomology, and medicine, have witnessed progression through evolution, revolution, and bioinformation in their knowledge contents. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) paradigms steered the course of agro-forest and medical-industries during the 1800 and 1900 eras. IPM Concept is a synthetic framework that results from evolution, revolution, and presently bioformation in domains of agro-medico-ecological and anthropo-ecological activities. A chronological history of pest management parallels the history of industrial revolution and highlights man's attempts at dealing and living with the environment, arthropods and other pestly species. A cycle of progression from using natural controls to made-made utilities and back to enhancing of natural processes is evident as one walks through time and space of history during the development of civilization. IPM success demands usage and stringent compliance with ecological imperatives, which need to be lucidly expressed as knowledge precepts. Biological knowledge is at the forefront of this usage, especially with the new millennium becoming the Age of Biology. Consequently, bioinformation is commencing to thrive as a global entity, which revolutionizes and drives societal progress. Bioinformation, in brief, comprises biology, information algorithms, information technology, and communication protocols. Thus biology becomes a domain of information science. Attributes of bioinformation can be defined through its primers and profiles. The primers, which entrain processes, both natural and man-induced, include mechanisms such as protocols, algorithms, visualisations, and structural and visual designs. The protocols range from the molecular levels to domains of larger dimensions such as those encompassing fraternities of politics and policies, and societal applications. These protocols, algorithms, and visualisations undergo dynamic incubation processes to produce the end product, which is bioinformation. Entomology is an inherent component of this bioinformation revolution. The information communication technology linkages are exemplified through simulation, modelling, and visualization explorations.

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Motor skills disorder (also known as motor coordination disorder or motor dyspraxia) is a human developmental disorder and is neurological in origin.

The disorder has its basis in the brain, a network of neural connections that allow humans to process the information received. Motor Dyspraxia is a result of weak or disorganised connections in the brain, which then translates to trouble with motor coordination. Movements are performed because the brain sends messages to the area requiring action. The dyspraxia is a result of weak or poorly structured neural pathways to the moving parts of the body.

Clumsiness and tendency to fall down are a matter of poor balance and gross motor coordination. The origin of all of these difficulties is the vestibular system of the inner ear. The vestibule is an organ responsible for maintaining balance and coordination and is located beside the cochlea, which acts as a sound receptor. Although they attend to different information, the proximity of the vestibule and cochlea allows them to complement each other. The other consequence of their relationship is that if one system is not functioning well, the other is concurrently affected.

People with dyspraxia also tend to have an overly sensitive tactile system that causes them to perceive the most benign touch as unpleasant. They may also have a very low pain-threshold or have an automatic reaction of fear – tactile defensiveness – when touched. This is a result of a sensory integrative dysfunction, which describes a problem in the way the brain interprets information received from the senses. This problem, like that of coordination, originates in the vestibule, as all sensory information is transmitted to the vestibule before being sent to the cerebellum, the part of the brain associated with movement.

The causes of this disorder are unknown, but it is thought to originate with inner ear problems, possibly resultant from head injuries or childhood diseases. Children with motor skills disorder often suffer low self-esteem resulting from poor ability at sports and teasing by other children.

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One adult, who eventually learned some coping skills, writes:

"Athletics were always especially difficult for me. In high school, a physical education coach called me the most uncoordinated person to ever climb upon a trampoline in the history of the school (in front of 60 other kids). Of course, it was humiliating then, and the words have stayed with me for more than 40 years, but I now realize he was on actually to something. Another early clue was my dismal performance in a high school touch typing] class. My solution, totally unacceptable to the teacher, was a single finger method, a variation of which works very well even today if I watch the finger(s)."

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Coping skills are ways to overcome adversities, disdvantages, and disabilities. Here are several tips:

  • 1. Watching what you are doing seems to help. (The example of watching fingers on the keys when typing is a good example).
  • 2. Spellcheckers can help identify many transposition errors. The ieSpell program is free and works well with most Internet programs. [1]
  • 3. Perform proofreading in addition to spellchecking. As helpful as they are, spellchecking programs usually will not flag transposed letters which result in a correctly-spelled but unintended word.
  • 4. Some people report that using a program which takes oral commands is helpful on computers.
  • 5. a computer mouse works much better than multiple keystrokes for some because the user sees where it is going, and points at what is wanted.

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