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Not So Pretty Pleas???

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She Only Had A Few Matches Left, And This One Was About To Fizzle Out

Orly Taitz is about to strike out again, this time in Judge Lamberth’s court in her Taitz v. Colvin (once Astrue) action. The other day she was dancing about and high-fiving the Flying Monkeys because the government failed to answer her Motion For Reconsideration. There is an article here a few days ago about it, called Doing The Loco Motion (Doing The Loco Motion!!!)).

Now, the government has responded with a short 3 page reply, 2 of which follow. The third page was just the continuation of an address. Here are the two relevant pages from the brief. PDF’s of both the government’s Response and Brief are in Note 2 below.

Gov't Brief (Colvin) Page 1

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Gov't Brief (Colvin) Page 2

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Here is the link to Taitz’s page, where we find this ironic statement, from SHE Who Must Have Help Redacting!:

Department of Justice is asking Judge Lamberth to allow them to file a late answer after the notice of failure to respond was docketed because they were confused and did not understand that they need to answer the motion.

I kid you not, read the pleading. This is just unbelievable. Do you think they can be that stupid or are they suddenly got worried that Judge Lamberth might rule to release Bounel’s SS5, SSN application and the whole world will see that Obama is using a stolen Social Security number.

To sum it all up, procedurally,  the government was one day late filing their response because they thought the judge had dismissed Taitz’s Motion for Reconsideration. So, they Motioned the Court to permit their response. What with all of Taitz’s various procedural screw-ups, and difficulties redacting Obama’s social security number, I suspect the Court will grant the government’s request.

Procedurally, the government points out that Taitz was late filing her Motion for Reconsideration. Substantively, they point out that Taitz’s,

In any event, plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration is meritless. In order to receive relief under Rule 60(b)(2), plaintiff must establish that she has identified “‘newly discovered evidence’ that could not have discovered through ‘reasonable diligence’” and that “must be admissible and of such importance that it probably would have changed the outcome.” Lightfoot v. District of Columbia, 555 F. Supp. 2d 61, 68 (D.D.C. 2008). Plaintiff has not demonstrated that any of the evidence she now relies upon could not have been discovered through reasonable diligence prior to this Court’s original order.

She relies in her motion for reconsideration primarily upon a report she claims was released to the public on March 7, 2011, more than five months before this Court issued its final judgment. See Doc. 45 at 6. Plaintiff also has not shown how any of the evidence she relies upon, even if admissible, is “of such importance that it would probably have changed the outcome.” Lightfoot, 555 F. Supp. 2d at 68. Rather, plaintiff’s motion is premised on “nothing more than an unsubstantiated ‘bare suspicion’ of wrongdoing.’” Memorandum and Order Denying Plaintiff’s Motion for Reconsideration, Doc. 39 at 3 (quoting Nat’l Archives and Records Admin. v. Favish, 541 U.S. 157, 174 (2004)).

Based on this, Taitz’s Motion will be denied, and she will have one less match in her book. Nonetheless, our scrappy little match girl will go down swinging. She adds:

I am posting both a request to file  a late opposition and the opposition the want to file. I did not do research on it yet, as it was just posted, but after 3 seconds of looking at it, I already know that this is a total BS and a sign of dishonesty by the defendant and the Department of Justice

a. they are late with filing an opposition and they claim that my motions are late. If the judge were to rule based on lateness, than he should not consider their late opposition claiming that I am late

b. it was filed under 2 rules: 60b(2) and 60b(6) Motion under 60(b)(6) can be filed any time as long as it serves justice, 2 years from the ruling a 100 years after the ruling, so the whole argument is BS. Moreover the final decision came from the Court of Appeal in August of 2012, less than 1 year, so it is good under both 60(b)(2) and 60 b(6)

c.  The feds had a duty to advise the court that the new 120 year rule was instituted and that Bounel falls under this rule, they flagrantly and maliciously defrauded the court by hiding this rule, hiding Bounel’s identity and his DOB in 1890 and lying to judge Lamberth that the SS-5 cannot be released under the privacy rules. They now want to be rewarded for lyin,g for fraud on the court. Not only they should not be rewarded, they should be severely sanctioned.

Sooo, we will have a little sizzle before the fizzle.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is from Jean Renoir’s 1928 film, The Little Match Girl.

The Little Match Girl, a 40 minute adaptation of a Hans Christian Anderson story, is one of his best and most affecting films. The title character is a waif forced to sell matches on the streets in the dead of winter in order to earn her livelihood. While literally freezing to death, the match girl looks through a toy store window and fantasizes that she is inside and that the toys have magically come to life all around her. The dream-like visuals and fantasy element are atypical for Renoir, the humanism is not.

This image and the excerpt came from a great website:

Note 2. PDF’s Of Government’s Response, and Brief:

Doing The Loco Motion!!! (Or, When The Frug Gets Pulled Out!!!)

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At The Snap Of The Judge’s Fingers, The Birthers Had To Stop And Walk Back Their Claims

Orly Taitz is in for a big disappointment when the Judge Lamberth rules on her Motion for Reconsideration in Taitz v. Colvin (formerly Astrue). And, her related Motion For Default Judgement.  This whole thing started out as a Freedom of Information case seeking information about the alleged use of Obama’s social security number by a Harrison Bounel, who may have been born in 1890. She lost, and the case was closed.

Later, Taitz discovered the “120 year rule” permitting disclosures of social security numbers of extremely old people, whether dead or alive.

Sooo, Taitz filed a Motion For Reconsideration to resurrect the case because of this “new evidence.” It took several filings to actually lodge the Motion, because she incorrectly redacted Obama’s social security number. Eventually, one of her Flying Monkeys handed her a Sharpie Marker, and Taitz was able to properly color the number out. And, stay within the lines!

The Court allowed her to make her 74 page Motion. There was no answer to the motion, and now Taitz is convinced that she will prevail on a “default” basis.  That is very unlikely. She is confusing a Motion and a Complaint. If a person fails to respond in a timely fashion to a Complaint, there may indeed be a Default Judgement granted, subject to certain procedural safeguards. But MOTIONS are a horse of a different color.

Wiki defines a Motion as:

In United States law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision. It is a request to the judge (or judges) to make a decision about the case. Motions may be made at any point in administrative, criminal or civil proceedings, although that right is regulated by court rules which vary from place to place. The party requesting the motion may be called the movant, or may simply be the moving party. The party opposing the motion is the nonmovant or nonmoving party.

I asked my BFF Fabia Sheen, Esq., an attorney, about them and she said that in a very limited, technical sense, the opposing side need never file an Opposition or Response to a Motion because the decision is firmly within the purlieu of the Court’s purview. In other words, to grant or not grant the Motion is up to the judge. Fabia said that in the practical sense, one almost always responds to a Motion, particularly those seeking Summary Judgement, where proof needs to be met with proof.  But, a court almost always has the full discretion to grant or not grant Motions.

She said that it is certainly better form, a whole lot safer, and much more professional to respond to Motions, but that there is no specific rule which mandates that run-of-the-mill unresponded-to motions are automatically granted. And, she said that Motions may  be made orally in court, and decided on the spot.

Also, there is no theoretical limit to what kind Motion may be filed, although they generally stay within well established precedents. For example, a Movant could file or make a Motion that a witness be prevented from smirking on the stand, or that another be prevented from wearing a red dress to court.  Here is an example where you could see the no automatic default rationale in action:

Plaintiff motions the Court, that since Justice is blind, the Judge should be required to wear a blindfold during the trial while the jury is in the room. The Defendant makes no response.  Does the Plaintiff prevail automatically through default, and must the judge then wear a blindfold? No. Not on your sweet life.

Here is another hypothetical, less bizarre:

Movant motions for an extension of time to respond to a Motion For Summary Judgement. The Non-Movant is silent, and makes no response.

Here, a judge may grant the extension, and probably will without disagreement from the Non-movant. Yet, the Court is not required to grant the motion. The Movant may have filed multiple motions for extensions of time prior to this, and the Court is within its rights to deny the motion whether or not the Non-movant responds. Even if there is some “local rule” which establishes that no response to a Motion For Extension constitutes assent, the  Court is free to grant or not grant the Motion. (However, some local rules require a written response in order to have oral arguments.)

You can read Taitz’s Motion here,

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure No. 55 can be found at Note 3 below. That also makes it evident that “defaults” apply to Complaints, not Motions. To sum it all up, once again Orly Taitz makes a loco, or crazy, Motion, which causes some excitement among the Birthers, to be followed soon by yet another let down.

All in all, just another day in the Land of a Thousand Dunces.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is from Rich Man’s Frug number in Sweet Charity. Here is a youtube video of the beautifully choreographed Bob Fosse piece:

Note 2. The Frug. As you can see from this video, some people do pronounce it frug, as opposed to froog. This also provides an example of the Practical Frug, as opposed to the highly stylized Frug in Sweet Charity:

This was such an interesting video, I have included two more from the same series. Somehow I just feel that my readers will find this series as entertaining as I did, and will be unable to turn their attention away from the exciting and energetic presentations!

Note 3. F.R.C.P. 55.

Rule 55. Default; Default Judgment

(a) Entering a Default. When a party against whom a judgment for affirmative relief is sought has failed to plead or otherwise defend, and that failure is shown by affidavit or otherwise, the clerk must enter the party’s default.

(b) Entering a Default Judgment.

(1) By the Clerk. If the plaintiff’s claim is for a sum certain or a sum that can be made certain by computation, the clerk—on the plaintiff’s request, with an affidavit showing the amount due—must enter judgment for that amount and costs against a defendant who has been defaulted for not appearing and who is neither a minor nor an incompetent person.

(2) By the Court. In all other cases, the party must apply to the court for a default judgment. A default judgment may be entered against a minor or incompetent person only if represented by a general guardian, conservator, or other like fiduciary who has appeared. If the party against whom a default judgment is sought has appeared personally or by a representative, that party or its representative must be served with written notice of the application at least 7 days before the hearing. The court may conduct hearings or make referrals—preserving any federal statutory right to a jury trial—when, to enter or effectuate judgment, it needs to:

(A) conduct an accounting;

(B) determine the amount of damages;

(C) establish the truth of any allegation by evidence; or

(D) investigate any other matter.

(c) Setting Aside a Default or a Default Judgment. The court may set aside an entry of default for good cause, and it may set aside a default judgment under Rule 60(b).

(d) Judgment Against the United States. A default judgment may be entered against the United States, its officers, or its agencies only if the claimant establishes a claim or right to relief by evidence that satisfies the court.

Here is the link in case you wish to read the notes:

Note 4. Land Of A Thousand Dances. Well, since I did a pun on it, I might as well make up for it by providing a youtube video of this wunnerful version!

Orly Taitz As “The Sorceror’s Apprentice”???

From Merlin’s Database She Druid The Wrong Conclusions???

Well, now we all know the source of Orly’s power!  She is a witch who has access to Merlin’s Database! Here is a screenshot of her recent post:

Orly Plea For Help #897

Here is the link, where you can read some meaningless comments from her Flying Monkeys, if you so desire:

Sooo, what is Merlin’s Information System? If you go to their main website, you learn nothing except that they are honest, committed, cost effective, etc. etc. etc. and when you finish reading it all, you still don’t have much of a clue what the heck they do. BUT, this website, put together by attorneys,  goes into much more juicy details! (WARNING! AVISO! ACHTUNG! The website is found at Justia, an online legal reporting service, which means this article may have been scrubbed or altered by evil and nefarious Obots!)

Here is a screenshot of part of the page:

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This excerpt is interesting:

Another reason Merlin is worth considering, is that Merlin is the last of the pay investigative research databases we’re aware of that will give access to full Social Security numbers to attorneys. However, this access requires lawyers to submit to an on-site office visit by a Merlin representative and incur a one-time $100 charge for the visit to insure that you fall within the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Fair Credit Reporting Acts’ permitted uses for accessing Social Security number information. Each time you use Merlin, you must select a permitted use for the search. (After its purchase by LexisNexis, Accurint began to restrict Social Security number access only to attorneys whose practice is strictly in collections. Some attorneys report they still have access to full Social Security numbers if their Accurint account pre-dates the Lexis purchase.)

On this brief survey, The Merlin system seems professional enough, but like any tool, the user ought to know what they are using, and why. This excerpt sums up pretty well what happens when tyros get in over their heads:

That bit about identifying people by the wrong sex is directly verifiable in Neil Sankey’s low-quality list, which begins by listing Stanley Ann Dunham’s sex as “male” 10 times and as “female” 0 times. Stanley Ann Dunham is the name of Barack Obama’s mother. Was Barack Obama’s mother a man? Now that would be a really explosive revelation! Other clear errors find their way into Sankey’s list — the frequent misspelling of Barack Obama’s name is one and the placement of the White House in the states of Maryland and California is another. My favorite is the record which places Barack Obama’s residence at 1234 Happy Street, a street in Covington Washington that does not exist.

Finally, what does Neil Sankey think of his own list? The Guardian asked him:

Most recently, he carried out an exhaustive search of databases that he claims threw up 140 different identification numbers and addresses for “Barack Obama”. He admits the findings prove nothing — there is nothing to link the entries to the president…

Let’s sum up: an error-riddled search with repeated false genders, multiple false names, dozens of false street addresses, and a few false states for something as easily located as the White House, generated from databases that at times contain more inaccurate information than accurate information, somehow generates multiple social security numbers for Barack Obama. Meanwhile, the search is rejected as proving nothing by the very person who carried it out.

There are two conclusions you can draw from this:

1. This sure is one screwed up list.
2. Clearly, Stanley Ann Dunham was a man and Barack Obama does not actually exist.

I go with Option 1.

So, this is a very old story, one going back almost 2,000 years . . .:

My apologies to Mickey Mouse for associating him with Orly Taitz!!!

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. Well, this is strange indeed, and it must be MAGICK!!!  From the neck up it is Orly Taitz, aka Orly the Strange, Orly le Fay, Fatta Stupana, and “The More! Again!”.  From the neck down, it is the beautiful and talented actress M’el Dowd, in her dress as Morgan le Fay from the Broadway musical, Camelot. Here she is:

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Note 2. Morgan le Fay. To understand more about Morgan, try this link. She is an utterly fascinating character:

Ohio Birther Gets Bowled Over!!!

“Miss Marble” Did Indeed Have One Marble, But Where Were The Others???

As the ObamaReleaseYourRecords blog reports, Ohio Birther Susan Daniels, P.I. got a reality check from Geauga County Prosecuting Attorney, David Joyce:

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Here is where you can read the entire story:

Daniels follows in the footsteps of other illustrious  Birthers, such as Orly Taitz,  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the entire Cold Case Posse, in failing to check out the criminal statutes BEFORE alleging a crime has been committing, and gathering the requisite evidence BEFORE running off to the fuzz.  Or running off at the mouth.

Daniels is the alleged private investigator whose sloppy investigatory skills help start the whole Obama has 39 social security numbers Birther claim several years ago:

Her partner in stupid, Neil Sankey, had enough sense to realize that the database search didn’t prove anything because none of it could be linked to Obama.  But Daniels is the really slow learner of the pair, and has yet to grasp that  simple fact.  Compounding those failures is an inability to read and comprehend easy statements written in English. Daniels has been carrying on to beat the band that there is something fishy about Obama having a Connecticut social security number. My personal guess is that someone at the Social Security Administration made a typo back in 1977. It doesn’t matter because as the SSA states:

Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant’s mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence.   Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

In spite of this, Daniels went ahead and filed a Birther eligibility suit in Ohio. When she realized that the suit was about to be dismissed, and she would not be getting any more attention, she filed another claim with the courts requesting an identity theft criminal investigation because of the social security number.  Unfortunately for Ms. Daniels, The Geauga County prosecuting attorney CAN read and he told her the same thing as the SSA did, on page two of his letter. Here is a pdf copy in case anybody has problems with scribd at the link above:

David Joyce Letter

To add a little extra twist to the knife, David Joyce is a Republican. As she whines in the ORYR link above:

We are in serious trouble when a Republican prosecutor, David Joyce, who is now running for congress, does not care enough to look into a felony being committed by Barack Obama. The information in the letterfrom the SSA was added after I discovered that Obama is using a fraudulent social security number. The residence had to be in the state where the number was issued. They are lying. The issue could be cleared up by the prosecutor sending a letter to the SSA asking for a copy of the original application that goes with xxx-xx-4425. Apparently, that was too much trouble.

No. Actually, it is Daniels’ idiotic claim that is in trouble.  This is what happens every time that grown-ups have to deal with Birther silliness. But, she is way too much of an attention-whore to just shut up and go away. I wonder what she will try next???

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is Margaret Rutherford who played Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in various films. This particular one is from the 1963 film, Murder at The Gallop.  Here is website with some history, and some clips:

Note 2. Words. The hat in the Image is often called a  “Bowler.” In the Image Easter Egg, “Old Hat” means “repeated too often” or  over-familiar through overuse;

Note 3. Links to other posts about Susan Daniels.

Susan, Desperately Seeking!!!

In Spite Of Appearances, She Was Definitely NOT An Egghead

Susan Daniels, P.I. is desperately seeking some more attention.  Her ridiculous lawsuit alleging Obama was using a false social security number got bounced out of an Ohio court on Friday, September 7, 2012.  For good measure she was assessed costs. (See pdf below in Note 2.) This was no big surprise. I did a post about her silly claims earlier. (See notes for link.)

But darned if she isn’t right back in there trying to start a criminal investigation on Obama by filing a moronic Affidavit. I think she has gotten addicted to all the fuss and bother and drama, and just plain doesn’t want to be out of the Birther spotlight, or headlines. The story is reported at ObamaReleaseYourRecords.  Here is an excerpt:

Private Investigator Susan Daniels Files Affidavit Seeking
Criminal Prosecution For Obama’s Connecticut Social Security Number

. . . I filed an Affidavit (EMBEDDED BELOW) yesterday in Geauga County Common Pleas Court. I am asking the court to issue a complaint that Barack Obama has committed a crime and should be prosecuted for identity fraud. Section “D” of ORC 2935.09 allows me the right to file. …

The court had never seen a filing like this before and to say they were upset would be an understatement. Two women kept insisting that nothing could be filed without a case number on it and I kept saying: read the statute. They were not happy and one woman said: “I’ve worked here twenty years and have never seen anything like this.” Oh well, now she has.

There is a scribd of the Affidavit at the link, and a pdf in the notes below in case scribd doesn’t work right.  But here is a cut and paste job I did of the major allegations:

I bet she is right, and the people at the courthouse haven’t seen anything like this foolishness before. But do you notice that something is missing from the allegations??? Something kind of BIG and IMPORTANT??? How about like, who is the ANOTHER PERSON in sub-paragraph e??? How in the world can Daniels claim that the social security number is stolen, if she can not identify who Obama stole it from? Think about this for a minute.

She has no information from the Social Security Administration [SSA] which indicates it was stolen. Her only foundation for the claim is that the number has a Connecticut “area number”, without any backup for why it has that number. She provides no information about the inner clerical workings of the SSA. She can not discount the possibility that it was simply a typo on the zip code. In fact, the SSA clearly states that you can’t tie social security numbers into places of residence: (See original article for the link.)

Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant’s mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence.   Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

She is supposed to be a private investigator, and here she is with a social security number that she can’t link to anybody except Obama. Having someone’s social security number is the easiest way to identify them and find out things about them. Has she run any skip tracing software on the number? Has she checked with the credit reporting agencies?  Private Investigators usually have contacts on the police force and in government offices to run numbers like this for them. If she does, she obviously came up with NADA.  All of which means she has absolutely no basis for claiming the number is either stolen or misused. I hate to be mean, but considering her initial investigatory work, the lawsuit and the affidavit, she comes across to me as being pretty stupid.

This affidavit is nothing but another instance of farcical Birther Legal Theatre, and Susan Daniels, P.I. is out there hamming it up on stage for a few more minutes of attention.

Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is a woman entertainer in a wooden egg costume known as The  Human Roly Poly Dancing Dolly (1915).

Note 2. The Title. The title for this Article is based on the 1985 movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, starring Madonna, where:

Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) is an unfulfilled suburban housewife living in Fort Lee, New Jersey who is fascinated with a woman she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of a New York City tabloid. This fascination reaches a peak when one such ad with the headline “Desperately Seeking Susan” proposes a rendezvous in Battery Park with the man who regularly seeks her. Roberta goes to Battery Park too, gets a glimpse of the woman (Madonna) and in a series of events involving mistaken identity, amnesia, and other farcical elements Roberta goes from voyeur to participant in an Alice in Wonderland-style plot, ostensibly motivated by the search for a pair of stolen Egyptian earrings.

For ESL’s, the term “egghead” in the caption, is a slangish term for:

A person who is highly academic or studious; an intellectual. A smart person, or brainiac.

The Riddle referred to in the Image Easter Egg is, “What is round on both ends and high in the middle???  Answer: Ohio.  This is where she filed the lawsuit.  The riddle also describes an egg. Apparently this riddle was used in a Broadway song:

Note 3. Pdf’s and Links. Here are pdf’s in case scribd doesn’t scroll well on your device:

Susan Daniels’ Criminal Prosecution Affidavit

Susan Daniels Dismissal Order 9-7-12

Here is the link to the previous Internet Article about Susan Daniels,  P.I.:

Mindless Blathering Stupid Drivel From Susan Daniels, P.I.

Mr. Lumbergh told me to input the zip codes and I said, I don’t care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I’m, I’m quitting, I’m going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn’t bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it’s not okay because if they take my stapler then I’ll set the building on fire.

Well, over the years I have read some pretty stupid stuff from Birthers, but darn if Susan Daniels, P.I. hasn’t just made a meteoric sprint from the Stupid Basement, up the Stupid Stairs, to the Second Tier B-List Of Stupid Birthers alongside the likes of J.B. Williams, Dianna “The Dianna” Cotter, and Miki “The Mad Hawaiian” Booth.  Here is an excerpt from the Internet Article that done it:

Private Investigator Susan Daniels Debunks Obot Myth That Zip Code Clerical Error Caused Obama To Be Issued A Connecticut Social Security Number

Social security numbers, prior to June 2011, were assigned by the residential address of the person who was applying for a number. Hawaii’s zip codes start with 968 and, coincidentally, Connecticut’s start with 068. So it had to be a typo, right? Nope.

When Barack Obama was living in Hawaii, he had three zip codes: 96814, 96822 and 96826. The State of Connecticut has never had the zip codes 06822 or 06826. They did have 06814. It however, is referred to as a “Unique” number. When I contacted the post office in Danbury, where this number originated, I was told by a long-time employee that 06814 was assigned exclusively to the Union Carbide company. (The Union Carbide building opened in 1983 when construction was completed.) He said the post office took it out of service several years ago. Obama allegedly got his CT number of xxx-xx-4425 in March 1977, which can be proven since the person before him -4424 and after him -4429 both got theirs then.

Obama has a CT number. It could never have been legally assigned to him. As a resident of Hawaii, his number should start with 575 or 576. His sister’s starts with 575 and was issued at approximately the same time he started using the CT number: 1986.

Here is the link to the full article, and there is a scribd document included which is supposed to mean something, but I am not sure just what:

Now think about her “proof” for a minute. She has laid out the fact that zip codes are laid out geographically, and then she has done her P.I. work to list all three of Obama’s possible Hawaii zip codes. And then she concludes that since none of the last two digits from the 968 Hawaii area zip code exist in the 068 Connecticut area zip code, then it could not have been a typo that caused Obama to receive a Connecticut social security number.

This is ridiculous and wrong. I will show how it is wrong below, but first I want to show the logical gaps in her ridiculous line of reasoning.  First, Daniels has not provided any factual foundation on the mechanics of entering  zip codes at the Social Security Administration (SSA).  Were the envelopes scanned, or were handwritten numbers coded in some way for computer input?  No answer.

Were all 5 digits of the zip code entered?  Did the SSA have any kind of  zip code validation process to keep up with newly issued zip codes? What were the SSA protocols relating to input errors? Did the entire system shut down if the Union Carbide zip code was coded in??? Daniels claims that she debunked the Typo Myth, but she has provided zero information on what would have happened at the SSA in 1977 if a typo occurred.  She says that zip code 06822 is invalid, but she doesn’t even try to explain what would happen at SSA if that number was input into the system. As explained below, it might have just sailed on through.

Daniels is pretty much just assuming that a typographical mistake could not not happened. Look at Milton Waddams, in the image above, and tell me mistakes don’t happen in offices. Heck, mistakes happen with doctors in operating rooms. They are constantly sewing up victims, I mean patients, with hemostats, golf balls, and the nurse’s left over french fries inside. And Daniels takes the position that typos can’t happen in a government office???

Further, Daniels has provided no information as to whether or not other such anomalies appear with other individuals. I have read that they have, but that is beyond the scope of this article. But, most importantly, she has not provided any information as to whether the SSA computers “talked to” the Postal Service’s computers in 1977. For example, would the SSA computers have any way of knowing that 06814 was assigned to Union Carbide? Or that o6822 and 06826 were unassigned by the postal Service.

How can anyone pretend to debunk the Typo Myth if they have not asked about the above clerical protocols, and have no answer as to how non-existent zip codes may have been treated by the SSA computers???  Why would any sane Birther not ask the same questions I have asked, or recognize that Daniels falls way short of proving her case??? Oops, I think I answered my own question. All the above proves Daniels’ methodology is totally flawed.

Now, let’s examine what obvious facts she overlooked because of her bias or idiocy, take your pick. Here is a zip code map from Wiki:

Notice how there are 10 regions, represented by the digits 0-9. Notice how the next 2 digits are state specific. For example, Alaska’s and California’s zip codes both start with “9”, but the next 2 digits are spread out over five states. Let’s do some math! 1 digit + 2 digits = 3 digits! From this map, a person would never need more than the first three digits to determine what state a person was applying from.

Therefore, the SSA would not need all five digits to assign a state to the applicant. “902XX” would equate to California just the same as “961XX.” Frankly, we don’t know whether the SSA input all  5 digits from the zip codes or not. We can definitely ascertain that they would have had the option of using only the first 3 digits. And that is enough to shoot down Daniels’ claims of debunking the Typo Myth with the particular argument she makes. She can’t prove the final 2 digits meant squat to the SSA.  And beyond that, she hasn’t even tried.

We also know that the SSA only cared about the state of application, and not any more detailed geographical birth or residence information. How do we know this??? Easy, the SSA tells us:

Prior to 1972, cards were issued in local Social Security offices around the country and the Area Number represented the State in which the card was issued. This did not necessarily have to be the State where the applicant lived, since a person could apply for their card in any Social Security office. Since 1972, when SSA began assigning SSNs and issuing cards centrally from Baltimore, the area number assigned has been based on the ZIP code in the mailing address provided on the application for the original Social Security card. The applicant’s mailing address does not have to be the same as their place of residence.   [Note: Daniels was flatly wrong above when she said, “Social security numbers, prior to June 2011, were assigned by the residential address of the person who was applying for a number.”]  Thus, the Area Number does not necessarily represent the State of residence of the applicant, either prior to 1972 or since.

As shown above, the first 3 digits of the zip code are all that was necessary for the SSA’s purposes. Susan Daniels, P.I. should have picked up on some of these facts from her own arguments. She was aware that it was the first 3 digits, 068 and 968, that were state specific. Any P.I. worth their salt would have questioned whether or not the final 2 digits had any significance at all.  Any reasonable P.I. would have wanted to know if the SSA had any kind of zip code validation process. Yet, she focuses in on the last two completely unnecessary digits in the zip code to create her Masterpiece of Debunkery. And then prisses around like she proved something.

UPDATE! Reader Gorefan just left this link in the comments section, giving some credence to the idea that states could be identified by the first 3 digits of the zip code. This document is from the IRS:

Thank you Northland10 (Note 2 below) and Gorefan!!!

Maybe for Susan Daniels, her P.I. stands for Pretty Ignorant???

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Girl Reporter

Note 1. The Image. This is the stapler-guy, Milton Waddams, from the 1999 movie, Office Space. Here is a youtube video of poor Milton clips.

Note 2. UPDATE. Reader Northland10 found some very interesting information about potential Hawaii zip codes that Daniels may have missed, so I am copying and pasting his comment here. Thank you Northland10!!!

So, Susan claims:

When Barack Obama was living in Hawaii, he had three zip codes: 96814, 96822 and 96826.

Yet, on a help page from http://books.google.com/books; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine from Dec 1970, the Zip Code for the insurance commissioner in Honolulu is:

Hmm, there is an 06811 in Danbury, CT.

And, in case she would claim that that was 1970, Google books also has results from the 1980s.

On the same Google Books search, I see the University of Hawaii had the zip code of 96813 in 1979 and 96810 was also active in the 1970s.

How does she know what zip codes Barack had or what mailing address he used on the form? For a PI, she is a very bad researcher.


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An insider’s guide to Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia – it’s a city of history, culture and fabulous dining. There’s so much to do that a first-time visitor might not know where to start. For help, we turned to Ginny Carruthers, Alaska’s District of Columbia-based director of government affairs. She’s been with Alaska for 27 years, the past 10 of which have been in the District, and offers these insider tips to Washington D.C.

Why do you love this city?

The District is our nation’s capital; the seat of our government. I never tire of seeing the Capitol dome, the White House, and all of the spectacular monuments in between. During the school year I love to see the excitement of eighth-grade students visit Washington from all over the country.

The Washington, D.C. area boasts very diverse/ethnic restaurants; outstanding museums that for the most part are free of charge; a cultural center with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Mt. Vernon, the home of George Washington, just a quick 30 minutes from D.C. and an absolute must. There is just so much to see and do in D.C. that is both fun and enlightening!

So what should I do if I’m visiting D.C. for the first time?

Take one of the city bus tours to get the lay of the land and a good historical overview from the tour guides. After that, buy a Metro Card (D.C.’s subway system) and visit the monuments yourself, including Arlington Cemetery (less than 10 minutes on the Metro from Reagan National Airport). Take the Metro to Eastern Market which is always bustling on Saturday and Sunday.

If you were taking a visitor out for dinner or drinks, where are a few places you might go?

Right now, the hot neighborhood in D.C. is called the 14th Street Corridor. You will find fabulous restaurants and bars in all price ranges, as well as a variety of ethnic food options, art galleries to explore and boutiques to browse. Le Diplomate, Ghibellina and Cork Wine Bar are some of my favorite restaurants.

In Penn Quarter, try Proof, Tosca, Central Michel Richard and SEI Restaurant.

Capitol Hill is popular at night, with good restaurants and bars.

Out-of-towners will especially enjoy POV, the W Hotel’s rooftop terrace bar that boasts spectacular views of the White House.

If you’re in the mood for something off the beaten path, don’t miss Ben’s Chili Bowl. It is known for its “half smokes” and has been visited by presidents, vice presidents and other dignitaries. Just this year, a branch location was opened at none other than Reagan National Airport in the pre-security area. Everyone should try Ben’s Chili Bowl.

What are your favorite museums/sights in D.C.?

D.C. is truly blessed with a group of museums under the Smithsonian umbrella. Admission to any Smithsonian museum is free, which is hard to find anywhere else in the country and they are all spectacular. I personally love the National Gallery of Art, but any of the museums is terrific.

Other museums worth seeing that may not be as well-known are:

  • The National Postal Museum, which is an interesting postal history that is well worth seeing;
  • The National Building Museum, which is really architecturally beautiful inside. Tickets run from $5-8; and
  • The International Spy Museum which is really becoming popular. Tickets run from $14.95-21.95, and children age 6 and under are free.
  • Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens, the former home of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Its events and collections change almost every month. It hosts the most comprehensive collection of Russian art outside of Russia. The Gardens are beautiful and it is a must-see museum.
  • The O Street Mansion. I just learned about this museum not too long ago and it is hard to describe but definitely different – very eclectic. I don’t think it is mentioned in many tour guides of D.C. and is definitely an off-the-beaten path museum to see.

What’s the best outdoor activity in or around D.C.?

  • Walking or bicycling through Rock Creek Park in the heart of D.C., and
  • Hiking or bicycling the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Towpath.

Rock Creek Park is a must.

What’s the one thing you shouldn’t miss if you’re visiting the area?

The monuments at night. They are spectacular and provide a different perspective than during the day. In particular, the Korean War Memorial is so much more eerie and breathtaking at night.

Alaska Airlines will soon add more flying to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area, with a daily roundtrip flight from Seattle to Dulles International Airport beginning March 11. Alaska currently flies nonstop from Seattle to Baltimore-Washington International Airport and Reagan National Airport. With the Dulles flight, travelers will enjoy six daily roundtrips between the West Coast and “The DMV” – The District, Maryland and Virgina. Book your flight today.

What are your favorite DC-area hangouts?

2 Comments on “An insider’s guide to Washington, D.C.

  1. One museum that is a fascinating mix of history, media and culture –>The Newseum, one of my favorite DC attractions.
    The most interesting government event to watch –>oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

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Introducing Gremlin.js: web components for websites, not apps.

Summary: How to use Gremlin.js with HTML Custom Elements and BEM CSS to build modular server-side driven websites, not web apps.

Fluffy thing in a wooden box

We build websites. The ones where you click a link and the page gets redirected. Where the bigger part of HTML comes up generated server-side, not client-side. While we like to build web apps, most of the time we have to deal with some CMS or shopping system that does not allow us to develop anything app-like in a reasonable amount of time.

We love our modern frontend though. ES6, CSS pre post processors, highly complex build systems with Gulp and whatnot. I can’t live without that anymore. And I don’t want to write my JavaScript like 5 years ago, when we assembled some single main.js full of jQuery plugin spaghetti code. I want to profit from all the recent additions to the browsers toolbelt!

Modularize your website!

Websites contain a lot of modules, aka components. Big ones like an image gallery or a slider, smaller pieces like a button. Components will be nested, of course, and they should not depend on anything but themselves.

If you build self-contained components, things will be isolated, they will work everywhere. You take and throw them into another (modularized) project and you’re done. Furthermore, the code will be much more manageable if you work in a team. Everybody knows where to look at, because the component tells you by its name. And if you use a package manager like bower or npm you may even want to put some of your components into separate packages. You can reuse them in other projects easily this way.

Having said this: everything gets better if you build a website with modular, reusable and small pieces.

But while the paradigm of modular code is quite obvious to follow when writing JavaScript, PHP, Ruby or stuff, it’s not that evident how to build modular HTML and CSS. With HTML and CSS there is no scope. Your HTML may collide with existing structure and your CSS may blow up the whole thing if you mess around with inheritance and specificity.

(Remember humans aren’t good in measuring inheritance and spotting conflicts. However, browsers are pretty tough. They know code.)

Well. How to write modular HTML and CSS?

Use Web Components.

I would love to, but sadly this is not an option yet. Web Components will be the way to go for me once they are supported by all the browsers I have to consider. But until then, we need to find a proper workaround.

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Step 1: use BEM for your CSS

When you write CSS, there is always context and you’re about to touch it!
‘Why BEM?’ in a nutshell

As long as CSS does not provide scope, we think BEM is the best workaround we have. With BEM you avoid styling based on element type selectors (like p or li) or generic classes (like .title or .active). You apply styles by unique (as in unique by type) CSS classes instead and thereby archive some sort of pseudo scope. It’s no real scope at all, but you don’t interfere with other element styles and avoid inheritance issues — it feels like scope.

Short version: With BEM you write today’s most modular CSS.

Step 2: add your very own HTML tags

One of the things Web Components use in the background are Custom Elements. Custom Elements allow the developer to create their very own HTML elements, describing the elements functionality with JavaScript.
The native browser support is pretty poor today, but there are multiple libraries providing polyfills for the old browsers we all love so much.

A Custom Element is created by calling document.registerElement():

var Gallery = document.registerElement('photo-gallery');

You then use it in your HTML:

or create new elements with JavaScript:

document.body.appendChild(new Gallery());

(This post is not meant to be a tutorial on custom elements, though. Plenty of articles about custom elements can be found, for example at htm5rocks.)

Using the native API is a little bit cumbersome, of course. It’s one of the things I don’t want to deal with in my daily work.

That’s why I built Gremlin.js.

Introducing Gremlin.js

Fluffy thing in a wooden box

Gremlin.js is a library for

dead simple web components

My problem with existing libraries was (and still is) that they tend to be highly complex, have a huge footprint, and — most importantly — don’t like the server-side rendering approach too much.

I needed something that would allow me to build components with Custom Elements for normal websites and started to build the first version of Gremlin.js some years ago.

Basically I wanted it to:

  • observe the DOM, looking for new elements. No matter if it’s available on page load or added later dynamically (see watched.js).
  • instantiate a Gremlin class for every component once it’s found in the DOM.
  • make it easily extensible via plugins.
  • use server-side rendered HTML for components.

This worked pretty good and I used it in a lot of projects. Sadly, the markup wasn’t that great as I had to rely on extra attributes to find and create the components:

All this changed when I taught Gremlin.js to use Custom Elements.

Custom element gremlins!

You can use any HTML you like for new elements, as long as it fulfills the browser's constraints for custom elements.

  <button>tap me please!</button>

You can render the components content on the server, or, if you like, use a JS template engine to do so when the component is instantiated.

To make the component alive, we create a new gremlin with gremlins.create. It uses the native document.registerElement in the background and registers the new element in the current document.

const gremlins = require('gremlins');

gremlins.create('hello-world', {
  initialize: function(){
    let button = this.el.querySelector('button');
    button.addEventListener('click', () => alert('hello world!'));

Gremlin.js offers the most important parts to build a component:

  • initialize
    constructor called for every instance of this element found in and added to the DOM
  • destroy
    destructor called if an element is removed from the DOM
  • attributeDidChange
    callback if an attribute of the DOM element changed

Component instance:

  • this.el
    a reference to the actual DOM element that can be used to add event listeners, find other elements inside or modify the element itself.

Use mixins to share behavior between components

Gremlin.js does not offer too much beside the very basics. That’s intentional, as it is small and lightweigt this way.

To extend and to share code across your components you can use mixins. Gremlin.js supports inheritance as well, but for me, mixins are the preferred way to go.

A (currently small) list of mixins available can be found here: I do use them all the time, as they take care of those most important always repeating tasks you have to deal with when developing fancy JavaScript elements for a website.

The hello world example from a above gets even easier with the jQuery mixin:

const gremlins = require('gremlins');
const gremlinsJquery = require('gremlins-jquery');

gremlins.create('hello-world', {
  mixins: [gremlinsJquery],
  events: {
      'click button': 'onClick'
    alert('hello world!');

There is also gremlins-data to read and parse (data) attributes, and gremlins-dispatcher for communication between components.

Remember: it’s not for web apps

Gremlin.js is not a web app framework. It does not give you fancy data binding, history pushstate routing, models and all the other shiny things you need for an app. There are a lot of options out there that do an awesome job at building apps (I prefer React).

Gremlin.js is build to help developers organize their jQuery JavaScript code on server-side driven websites. And it works. Write custom elements, add the corresponding CSS in BEM-style modules and you can reuse all your components with ease in other projects.

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“Give them bread and games”

Juvenal, Satire 10.77-81, Circa 100 A.D.

We have all sorts of popular tv shows looking for “the voice”, but where is the message? Have artists gone silent?

The Gagas, Beyonces and Biebers of this world undoubtedly have an audience and an (extremely) profitable business model. But what is their message for their fans, other than some commercially compatible version of ‘personal development’ and/or the immediate concerns of a consumerist lifestyle?

When factories in Bangladesh collapse for lack of investment to secure the production facilities, killing 1127 underpaid people who were working on making the clothes, Beyonce made a fuss because H&M wanted to airbrush her curves. Not a word about the ghastly Bangladeshi situation.

When Lady Gaga is considered the voice of a generation with her own Little Monsters social network, the media and music industry solely focus on her business model, and how the network is just another derivative product.

When Justin Bieber is asked a question outside the realm of his career, about what he thinks of rape, he answers “everything happens for a reason”. Why did anyone think a 16 year old would come up with an enlightened and balanced answer in the first place?

These three examples sum up a big part of the problem: paradoxically, the (mass) media still turn to artists to ask them their opinion on topics outside of their craft, while looking at what their financial worth is. But from the moment the media decide that financially viable artists are the only ones the world is interested in, doesn’t it come down to asking a brand to express a personal opinion that may alienate a big chunk of its customers?

It’s a tough one: mainstream artists have fully integrated the importance and vastness of social media, but are devoid of any social awareness. They generate a lot of talk but do not speak up. Are they afraid to do so, or are they just selfish and unconcerned?

Despite the metrics, I do not believe they are the voice of their generation anymore. They are not appealing to a collective consciousness. What they say is unimportant. Words are overheard, sung at times but messages go unheeded because they are empty. A generation looks up to these artists more often for superficial reasons totally unrelated to their music. In the long run, what will they be remembered for?

Parallel to this, as a manager I hear too many young artists starting out today tell me “oh but don’t worry, I don’t want to come across as a political artist or anything”. There is indeed nothing wrong with not wanting to be a political artist. Beautiful songs have been written and sung about heartbreak, happiness and personal recollections that people have identified with. But why on earth should any artist apologise for being political when they spending days writing songs about different facets of a particular state of affairs that mean so much to them that they felt the urge to share it with the world? What was wrong with being political after all? And what does ‘political’ actually mean nowadays?

How have we, collectively, come to this?

Artists who are doing well are teaching those who are scraping by that it is easier to appeal to people if there is no message in their songs. Am I the only to find that sad?

Does the music industry realise that its obsession for the compensation of lost revenue has driven itself on a narrowing path of requesting artists to increasingly make this obsession their own and progressively stamp out any of their creative freedom?

Has it even started to dawn on us that the only thing aspiring artists hear all day, every day, when they start out is: “it’s going to be hard”, but “make great music” and “connect with your fans” and all will be well that ends well?

It’s time we became aware of the fact that, behind this apparently innocent advice lies a series of contradictory commands that point to the root of the matter:

– “It’s going to be hard”: before artists even set out to make music and express themselves, the underlying injunction is to give their dreams a reality check. They start out with the idea that no one is expecting them, so if they ever want to make a living out of music, they should appeal to their audience (whatever that actually means). It’s insidious reverse-marketing applied to art: absurd.

– “Make great music”: this is a recurring statement I read absolutely everywhere but I’d be hard put to actually define this. Who could, anyway? Music is personal and subjective. How does that objectively help an artist? People listen to music because it makes them feel good. Does that mean that “great music” is popular music? Therefore, if an artist doesn’t have millions of fans, should we deduct their music isn’t “great”? This just adds unwanted pressure on an artist starting out and induces artistic self-censorship so as to conform to popular codes.

– “Connect with your fans”: as much as the internet and social networks have helped bring artists and fans closer and even cut out the middleman in some cases, the act of artists connecting with their fans on an increasingly frequent basis has morphed into a command to be permanently available, leaving the artist less time, less life experience to make music. Counter-productive, to say the least.

It’s a vicious circle. And it’s only the tip of a big fat iceberg. This self-inducing trend to make so  much noise about futilities sets up any artist with a cause as way too serious. And no one wants to bother anyone. Our society is a permanent celebration of the vacuum of our consumerist lives. The music industry has no time, money or desire to back anyone with a message. Too subversive, too risky, in other words: not good for business. Exit any mainstream groups of artists or musical scenes anymore (unless artificially created). No possibility to weigh as a community anymore. Each artist is considered a stand-alone product.

Yet the same industry is spending its last millions on finding and shaping ‘entertaining products’. Except you don’t listen to a product. You buy it, use it and enjoy it while it’s fun. And then you move on to the next one.

Is it possible for the music industry to see politically and socially transgressive artists make it to the top nowadays? There are no artists I can think of today that will make it through time while having ‘made it’ by the current music industry standards in their time. This brings us back to a question formulated earlier here: what will these artists be remembered for? Asking any artist to be politically correct (and also technically speaking, politically neutral) has impacted the expectations of industry partners (labels and co, i.e. “gatekeepers” as Steve Renman would say), mainstream media and even fans, as a consequence.

But the problem is larger than this. It’s about a whole system malfunction responsible for the industry’s own irrelevance today, and probably to the point it actually threatens its very survival.

Of course there are still artists with a message. But more often than not, they work outside of the mainstream system.

Take Emilie Chick for example (full disclosure: I manage her). She has the most beautiful voice; but it’s only one of her many talents. All her songs are vividly colourful and highly imaged, to the point they are ‘movie-like’. But her songs are also insightful, profound and wise. Emilie writes because she thinks. A lot. She shares her wisdom through her songs and always takes life lessons to another level. Which is why, when she was invited to sing at Pas Sage En Seine, a Hacker Festival held last month in Paris, she opened her set with 21st Century, a song that had been written in 2006, but which is still acutely relevant with the recent revelations about PRISM and the NSA’s actions.

“Oh well I got internet and that saves the day
I surf innocently while some get their way
to secrets I heard were well kept,
is there anything you did that you might regret?”

But some-times-you-say
that I’m so lost in
An Era of Terra-fying Technology.”

Emilie Chick, “21st Century” (song embed)

It’s not every day an artist gets to play in front of an audience of French hackers, or that those hackers see an artist come play especially for them in a foreign language, but they sure got it. Wonderfully spot on, right? Sadly, not quite for today’s mainstream media though.

Another great example is Kellee Maize, whose Midem 2013 panel I was fortunate enough to moderate.

Have you ever heard about her in mainstream media and radio charts? Of course you haven’t. Because she has decided to do all this at the margin of the mainstream music industry by releasing all her music for free via Frostwire and Jamendo. Direct to fan. Kellee does everything herself.

The reason she does it? She’d like to change hip hop by “rapping and singing about things that aren’t found in mainstream Hip Hop like yoga, environmentalism, oneness, spirituality, beings from other dimensions, and indigenous wisdom”. No more, no less. If we look at the metrics, she is hugely popular on Youtube and Amazon and her albums and singles have been downloaded over 400,000 times. So why is she not making it to the mainstream?

You may ask if the problem isn’t really down to what the teens and fans value in life and expect of their favourite artists. I actually don’t believe the younger generations are really only interested in themselves, to the point their apparently narcissistic tendencies are blinding them to the reality of the world today and making them totally indifferent to any injustice and has given up on any action. That is what every older generation reproaches the younger.

But every generation has its role-models and idols. And those people are put on a pedestal because they voice the concerns of their generation, impersonate a dream for a better world and actively try to transform it for the better. Every social movement and generation found an echo of its concerns and priorities in music. Rockstars used to do write lyrics that struck a chord with people’s consciences, their songs could trigger nations to rise. They didn’t compromise. But today?

Which artists are writing songs about the Occupy movements, or about what Anonymous and hackers are warning us about today? None in the mainstream. The mainstream artists are now brands with viable business models. Harsh as this may seem, they have sold out. They haven’t gone hoarse, they’ve decided to do what too many politicians do: put their own (business) interests before any ideals, leave the tough decisions to their successors, take the money and run. And go silent in the bargain.

Beware: collective silence leads to collective irrelevance. As an industry, we need to take the measure of how far we have drifted from people’s hearts and yearnings and traded our ideals for the obsession for profit over anything else. We should be actively redefining ‘success’ and changing the nature of our analytics and metrics for it. Or we will collectively drift yet further away with the image of selfish hardened cynics. How do we bridge that gap? Or is it too late altogether?

“Who will lead us against the wicked witches of the West
Who will terrorize the official authorities of terrorism
Who will finally have the courage and strength to fight back
However you can, fight back!

Caus’ our children will blame us for being shameless
Will blame us for promoting ignorance
Will blame us for blaming other people and never taking a stand
And what will we stand for then?”

Emilie Chick, “Wakarimaska”(song embed)

Emily Gonneau is the manager artists like Emilie Chick, and a consultant for OK Go. Read all of her midemblog posts  – including our most-shared ever post! – here. You can follow Gonneau’s company, Unicum Music, on Twitter & check out its website here.

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How to Debug your Scrapy Spiders

How to Debug your Scrapy Spiders

Welcome to Scrapy Tips from the Pros! Every month we release a few tricks and hacks to help speed up your web scraping and data extraction activities. As the lead Scrapy maintainers, we have run into every obstacle you can imagine so don’t worry, you’re in great hands. Feel free to reach out to us on Twitter or Facebook with suggestions for future topics.

Scrapy Tips

Your spider isn’t working and you have no idea why. One way to quickly spot potential issues is to add a few print statements to find out what’s happening. This is often my first step and sometimes all I need to do to uncover the bugs that are preventing my spider from running properly. If this method works for you, great, but if it’s not enough, then read on to learn about how to deal with the nastier bugs that require a more thorough investigation. In this post, I’ll introduce you to the tools that should be in the toolbelt of every Scrapy user when it comes to debugging spiders.

Scrapy Shell is your Best Friend

Scrapy shell is a full-featured Python shell loaded with the same context that you would get in your spider callback methods. You just have to provide an URL and Scrapy Shell will let you interact with the same objects that your spider handles in its callbacks, including the response object.

$ scrapy shell
[s] Available Scrapy objects:
[s]   crawler    <scrapy.crawler.Crawler object at 0x7f0638a2cbd0>
[s]   item       {}
[s]   request    <GET>
[s]   response   <200>
[s]   settings   <scrapy.settings.Settings object at 0x7f0638a2cb50>
[s]   spider     <DefaultSpider 'default' at 0x7f06371f3290>
[s] Useful shortcuts:
[s]   shelp()           Shell help (print this help)
[s]   fetch(req_or_url) Fetch request (or URL) and update local objects
[s]   view(response)    View response in a browser

After loading it, you can start playing around with the response in order to build the selectors to extract the data that you need:

>>> response.css(" > h2 ::text").extract()

If you’re not familiar with Scrapy Shell, give it a try. It’s a perfect fit for your development workflow, sitting right after the page inspection in the browser. You can create and test your spider’s extraction rules and use them in your spider’s code once you’ve built the ones you need.

Learn more about Scrapy Shell through the official documentation.

Start Scrapy Shell from your Spider Code

If your spider has been behaving unexpectedly for certain responses, you can quickly see what’s happening using the method in your spider code. This will open a Scrapy shell session that will let you interact with the current response object.

For example, imagine that your spider is not extracting the expected amount of items from certain pages and you want to see what’s wrong with the response returned by the website:

from import inspect_response
def BlogSpider(scrapy.Spider)
    def parse(self, response):
        if len(response.css(' > h2 ::text')) > EXPECTED:
            # generate the items
            inspect_response(response, self)

Once the execution hits the inspect_response call, Scrapy Shell is opened and you can interact with the response to see what’s happening.

Quickly Attaching a Debugger to your Spider

Another approach to debugging spiders is to use a regular Python debugger such as pdb or PuDB. I use PuDB because it’s quite a powerful yet easy-to-use debugger and all I need to do to activate it is to put this code in the line where I want a breakpoint:

import pudb; pudb.set_trace()

And when the breakpoint is reached, PuDB opens up a cool text-mode UI in your terminal that will bring back fond memories from the old days of using the Turbo Pascal debugger.

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You can install PuDB using pip:

$ pip install pudb

Check out this video where our very own @eliasdorneles demonstrates a few tips on how to use PuDB:

Scrapy parse CLI command

There are certain scraping projects where you need your spiders to run for a long time. However, after a few hours of running, you might sadly see in the logs that one of your spiders had issues scraping specific URLs. You want to debug the spider, but you certainly don’t want to run the whole crawling process again and have to wait until that specific callback is called for that specific URL so that you can start your debugger.

Don’t worry, the parse command from Scrapy CLI is here to save the day! You just need to provide the spider name, the callback from the spider that should be used and the URL that you want to parse:

$ scrapy parse --spider blog -c parse_comments

In this case, Scrapy is going to call the parse_comments method from the blog spider to parse the URL. If you don’t specify the spider, Scrapy will search for a spider capable of handling this URL in your project based on the spiders’ allowed_domains settings.

It will then show you a summary of your callback’s execution:

# Scraped Items  ------------------------------------------------------------
[{'comments': [
    {'content': u"I've seen this language ...",
     'username': u'forthemostpart'},
    {'content': u"It's a ...",
     'username': u'YellowAfterlife'},
    {'content': u"There is a macro for ...",
    'username': u'mrcdk'}]}]
# Requests  -----------------------------------------------------------------

You can also attach a debugger inside the method to help you figure out what’s happening (see the previous tip).

Scrapy fetch and view commands

Inspecting page contents in browsers might be deceiving since their JavaScript engine could render some content that the Scrapy downloader will not do. If you want to quickly check exactly how a page will look when downloaded by Scrapy, you can use these commands:

  • fetch: downloads the HTML using Scrapy Downloader and prints to stdout.
  • view: downloads the HTML using Scrapy Downloader and opens it with your default browser.

$ scrapy fetch > blog.html
$ scrapy view

Post-Mortem Debugging Over Spiders with —pdb Option

Writing fail-proof software is nearly impossible. This situation is worse for web scrapers since they deal with web content that is frequently changing (and breaking). It’s better to accept that our spiders will eventually fail and to make sure that we have the tools to quickly understand why it’s broken and to be able to fix it as soon as possible.

Python tracebacks are great, but in some cases they don’t provide us with enough information about what happened in our code. This is where post-mortem debugging comes into play. Scrapy provides the --pdb command line option that fires a pdb session right where your crawler has broken, so you can inspect its context and understand what happened:

$ scrapy crawl blog -o blog_items.jl --pdb

If your spider dies due to a fatal exception, the pdb debugger will open and you can thoroughly inspect its cause of death.

And that’s it for the Scrapy Tips from the Pros May edition. Some of these debugging tips are also available in Scrapy official documentation.

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Looking Back at 2016

We started 2016 with an eye on blowing 2015 out of the water. Mission accomplished.

Together with our users, we crawled more in 2016 than the rest of Scrapinghub’s history combined: a whopping 43.7 billion web pages, resulting in 70.3 billion scraped records! Great work everyone!

In the what follows, we’ll give you a whirlwind tour of what we’ve been up to in 2016, along with a quick peek at what you can expect in 2017.

Scrapy Cloud

It’s been a great year for Scrapy Cloud as we wrap up with a massive growth in our yearly platform signups:

We proudly announced our biggest platform upgrade to date this year with the launch of Scrapy Cloud 2.0. Alongside technical improvements like Docker support and Python 3 support, this upgrade introduced an improved pricing model that is both less expensive for you while allowing you to better customize Scrapy Cloud based on your resource needs.

As we move into 2017, we will continue to focus on expanding the technical capabilities of our platform such as:

  • Support for non-Scrapy spiders: We’re well aware that there are alternatives to Scrapy in the wild. If you’ve got a crawler created using another framework, be it in Python or another language, you’ll soon be able to run it in our cloud-based platform.
  • GitHub integration: You’ll soon be able to sign up and easily deploy from GitHub. We’ll support automatic deploys shortly after: push an update to your GitHub repo and it will automatically be reflected within Scrapinghub.

Heads up, Scrapy Cloud is in for a massive change this year, so stay tuned!

Crawlera is our other flagship product and it basically helps your crawls continue uninterrupted. We were thrilled to launch our Crawlera Dashboard this year, which gives you the ability to visualize how you are using the product, to examine what sites and specific URLs you are targeting, and to manage multiple accounts.

The main goal of Portia is to lower the barrier of entry to web data extraction and to increase the democratization of data (it’s open source!).

Portia got a lot of love this year with the beta release of Portia 2.0. This 2.0 update includes new features like simple extraction of repeated data, loading start urls from a feed, the option to download Portia projects as python code, and the use of CSS selectors to extract specific data.

Next year we’re going to be bringing a host of new features that will make Portia an even more valuable tool for developers and non-developers alike.

Data Science

While we had been engaging in data science activities since our earliest days, 2016 saw us formalize a Data Science team proper. We’re continuing to push the envelope for machine learning data extraction, so get pumped for some really exciting developments in 2017!

Open Source

Scrapinghub has been as committed to open source as ever in 2016. Running Scrapinghub relies on a lot of open source software so we do our best to pay it forward by providing high quality and useful software to the world. Since nearly 40 open source projects maintained by Scrapinghub staff saw new releases this year, we’ll just give you the key highlights.

Scrapy is the most well-known project that we maintain and 2016 saw our first Python 3 compatible version (version 1.1) back in May (running it on Windows is still a challenge, we know, but bear with us). Scrapy is now the 11th most starred Python project on GitHub! 2017 should see it get many new features to keep it the best tool you have (we think) to tackle any web scraping project, so keep sending it some GitHub star love and feature requests!

Splash, our headless browser with an HTTP interface, hit a major milestone a few weeks ago with the addition of the long-awaited web scraping helpers: CSS selectors, form filling, interacting with DOM nodes… This 2.3 release came after a steady series of improvements and a successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project this summer by our student Michael Manukyan.

Our “little” library to help with dates in natural language got a bit of attention on GitHub when it was picked up as a dependency for Kenneth Reitz’ latest project, Maya. We’re quite proud of this little library :). Keep the bug reports coming if you find any, and if you can, please help us support even more languages.

Frontera is the framework we built to allow you to implement distributed crawlers in Python. It provides scaling primitives and crawl frontier capabilities. 2016 brought us 11 releases including support for Python 3! A huge thank you to Preetwinder Bath, one of our GSoC students, who helped us to improve test coverage and made sure that all of the parts of Frontera support Python 3.

Google Summer of Code

As in 2014 and 2015, Scrapinghub participated in GSoC 2016 under the Python Software Foundation umbrella. We had four students complete their projects and two of them got their contribution merged into the respective code base (see the “Frontera” and “Splash” sections above). Another completed project was related to Scrapy performance improvements and is close to being integrated. The last one is a standalone set of helpers to use Scrapy with other programming languages. To our students, Aron, Preet, Michael, and Avishkar, thank you all very much for your contributions!

Conferences are always a great opportunity to learn new skills, showcase our projects, and, of course, hang out with our clients, users, and coworkers. As a remote staff, we don’t have the opportunity to meet each other in person often, so tech conferences are always a great way to strengthen ties. The traveling Scrapinghubbers thoroughly enjoyed sharing their knowledge and web scraping experiences through presentations, tutorials, and workshops.

Check out some of the talks that were given this year:

Scrapinghubber Community

Being a fully remote company, we’re thrilled to confirm that we have Scrapinghubbers in almost every continent (we’re *just* missing Antarctica, any Scrapy hackers out there?).

Aside from the conferences we attended this year, we had a few localized team retreats. The Professional Service managers got together in Bangkok, Thailand; the Sales team had a retreat in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where asado dominated the show; and the Uruguayan Scrapinghubbers got together for an end-of-year meetup in La Paloma, Uruguay, hosted by Daniel, our resident hacker/surfer.

Currently our Crawlera team is having a meetup in Poznan, Poland, paving the way for what will become the next version of our flagship smart downloader product.

Wrap Up

And that’s it for 2016! From the whole team at Scrapinghub, I’d like to wish you happy holidays and the best wishes for the start of 2017. We’ve got a lot of exciting events lined up next year, so get ready!

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The recent relaunch of kobinet-nachrichten.org marks Sourcefabric's first successful project focused on the issue of online accessibility. From the very clear, easy to read and contrast-rich design by Ana Nedic to Michael Scharnagl's W3C validated HTML/CSS, the Kobinet relaunch showcases the ability to run a website with Newscoop while fulfilling all the requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Newscoop offers open source solutions with WCAG 2 standards

It was actually Kobinet's head of IT Hubertus Thomasius, who got in touch with Sourcefabric while searching for a new CMS. Says Hubertus, 'We chose Newscoop because it had all our required features, and many more, already built-in. He told us they decided on using Newscoop 'because it offers all the advantages of open source, while at the same time being carefully coded, and also allows us to easily publish in accordance with the WCAG 2 standards.'

Responsive design means accessible design

On top of that, Newscoop themes are responsively designed. This feature offered the Kobinet team a big advantage as their audience often uses tablets and mobile phones for their built-in voice functions. 'Newscoop lends itself particularly well for developing responsive CSS and this adds to the attractiveness of the CMS for developers looking to build accessible websites.'

Being one of Germany's biggest news site for and about people with physical and mental disabilities, Kobinet was the perfect partner to team up with and bring the issue of accessibility to Newscoop. Our team was better able to understand these issues through extensive testing with members from Kobinet's editorial board and a comprehensive workshop we organized. Various users with different disabilities also helped Sourcefabric gain an insight into specific needs and tools used to create an accessible experience for every Kobinet reader.

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Workshopping Newscoop with Kobinet-Nachrichten and Sourcefabric

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The successful launch of Kobinet can of course be nothing but a starting point for making Sourcefabric's software and websites based on Newscoop more accessible. A fully accessible theme based on the knowledge from working with Kobinet is an obvious next step, as is the big and long term task to make our software backend more accessible for everyone.


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By Professor Juliana Bastos Marques – UNIRIO (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil)

One late night in 2006, while I was struggling with my PhD thesis, I went looking for a quick reference for a Latin author in Portuguese Wikipedia, only to find out that there was nothing about him there (it was the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus). Indignant, I finally decided to register in order to write the new article myself. Soon I realized that was the tip of an iceberg: a lot of work was needed on other history-related topics, and I needed more help.

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Professor Juliana Bastos Marques at the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit in July 2011

Wikipedian turned professor some years later, I thought it would be a good idea to recruit my students to write some good content and fix the disturbing mistakes we repeatedly found. Indeed, the state of the Portuguese Wikipedia, while counting more than 700,000 articles, is still usually written by non-specialists; this means several outdated theories and approaches, low-quality references and incomplete information. My other concern was quite practical: I needed to convince my own students that the additional information they used for my classes and exams was NOT to be looked for on Wikipedia, to avoid plagiarism for a start! In fact, all my friends who taught at primary and secondary schools also had the same problem: whether we want or not, Wikipedia is probably the most popular learning material in Brazil – and, in the current state, a bad one.

Serendipity came to my doorstep soon, when I first read an article about the Public Policy Initiative in Inside Higher Ed in September 2010, and later attended an event with Jessie Wild and Kul Wadhwa from Wikimedia Foundation on the following January, only to learn that WMF had plans for the expansion of the Global Education Program in Brazil. I also had the opportunity to attend the Wikipedia in Higher Education Summit, last July, in Boston. While I was only a spectator there, for my class would start in August, it was very exciting to see that other professors had already come to similar conclusions as to the value of Wikipedia for the university.

With the course taught, mistakes made and also success achieved, I have some input to share on my experience. First of all, I’d have in mind that the goal of using Wikipedia in class is ultimately to improve weak articles. This works perfectly for the case of the Portuguese Wikipedia, and certainly with dozens of other languages. In the case of more developed Wikipedias such as the English one, I believe this means a careful selection of potential new or stub articles to work with.

The course I taught improved substantially a set of articles related to Roman History, but it was peculiar in the sense that it was an elective course with 25 students. They had a combination of traditional lectures with work in the lab, always with the aid of a Campus Ambassador (who happened not to be a student, but a very proficient and participating member of the Portuguese Wikimedia community), two also very proficient Online Ambassadors and a dedicated mailing list. All students worked in their sandboxes until I graded and revised the content, and the Ambassadors approved the technical Wikipedia format, code and writing. This was crucial in preventing early deletions and distrust from the community, which would certainly discourage the students. Also, I decided to engage the Portuguese-speaking Wikipedia community early on, mostly through the Wikimedia Brasil mailing list, in order to make them aware of what we were planning. The members were very supportive and eventually helped the students in their discussion pages, teaching them to avoid plagiarism and to write with neutrality.

In due time, I realized I should not be concerned whether I was creating a new set of editors, which I believe to be a somehow misleading goal. All Wikipedia editors are volunteers, and their will to contribute will always be beyond a class, a grade or our encouragement as teachers. However, I feel we have created multipliers: even if they never edit again, my students will eventually teach on their own, and they will tell their students about how knowledge is never ready and finished, is never to be trusted without critical reflection, and can be improved through their own learning and work.

The students very soon learned that the set of skills they needed to practice was somehow different from what it was expected in academia. After all, writing for encyclopedias requires strict objectivity, impartiality and anonymity, so that the voice of the writer is not to be distinguished. However, together with other skills such as knowing when and how to use references correctly, or learning how to distinguish and explain different points of view regarding a subject, these abilities helped them understand the subject and their own learning results in a much more clear and precise way than before. For instance, I had to go with them phrase per phrase sometimes, until they could really master what they meant to say – a careful dynamic that all professors know is impossible to follow when grading a pile of papers.

Last but not least, the students ultimately learned that an encyclopedia is a starting point. And it was their own work that could make it a solid starting point for both themselves and any other reader. For the next semester, starting here in Brazil in February, I will continue using the opportunity that Wikipedia gives for professors and students to teach, to learn and to work with quality and rigor, while sharing our knowledge from the often closed corridors of academia to the entire world. I’d easily say that this has been to me the biggest reward of using Wikipedia for teaching.


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    SAN DIEGO (AP)-The city of San Diego expects to quickly settle a breach-of-contract suit it filed against the Chargers, which claims the team owes the city more than $170,000 for use of Qualcomm Stadium in 2004.

    City attorney Jan Goldsmith, who was elected in November, said the suit was filed just days before the four-year statute of limitations expired. Goldsmith said the matter should have been handled years ago.

    "The Chargers sent over a lot of information a long time ago and the city should have gone through it and talked about it," Goldsmith said Wednesday. "We should have talked about this years ago. The fact that we didn't, it's not the end of the world. We'll sit down, we'll deal with it. We haven't even served the complaint. It will be resolved, no doubt about it."

    According to the lawsuit, the team underpaid the city by $125,795 in 2004 as a result of the Chargers claiming skybox rent credits that were previously disallowed by the city for the 1996 through 2000 seasons. The city is also seeking more than $44,000 in accrued interest.

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• How can you create awareness regarding such things?
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  1. most so-called “Jews” are really just as unpowerful as the average braindeadgoy and AT THE END OF THE DAY….are still “Jews”..

    which is becoming an untenable position…as most of the people on Earth are not “Jewish”…

    The really really good news is NO ONE ON EARTH HAS TO BE A “JEWISH”….

    there are miilions of so-called “Jews” that are quietly leaving the stool sculpture deity cult and “Relocating”…

    which is why Jesus admonished “By their fruits ye shall know them”

    Gog & Magog “Khazars” need to make Exodus back to Khazaria…

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