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“My opponent did not do a stellar job fundraising,” Bachmann said, noting that it was only after her interview on MSNBC that “there was money coming from [the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] and outside money, and that significantly impacted race.” Fundraising records show that her challenger raised more than $1.3 million in a week.
“What that did is, it opened the door for a phenomenal outpouring of negative media coverage. It was the echo chamber of the left media, and it was overwhelming, and that was difficult to overcome that level of vitriol.
She also brings up a question: Will it be possible to disagree with an African American president and not be subject to allegations of racism.
I’d be shocked if someone as doctrinaire and one-note as Bachmann is agreed with anything that Obama was supporting.
I won’t feel she’s racist when she disagrees, because unless Obama suddenly decides that cutting taxes and letting commercial interests run rampant are the only foci for a politician’s existence, she and Obama are destined to be on opposite sides of nearly every issue; it won’t have anything to do with racism.
With Michelle Backman, it is really hard to tell where she is coming from. I personally think she is a racist, elitist, snob. I’m white and that is, unfortunately, my perception.
I simply don’t understand how someone like Bachmann can get elected in Minnesota. Just go out to youtube and watch some of the inane junk that comes out of this woman’s mouth.
In other news, Michelle Bachmann is still the most ignorant person in the Upper Midwest…..
1. What is their position on abortion?
All of the other nonsense that Bachman spouts means nothing because she answer question 1 correctly.
Peronally, I am Catholic and disgusted by this mentality. I’m convinced this red vs. blue debate would be reduced to almost nothing without abortion. This nation would be far better off if we could just put this thing to bed already. It has stifled our political process and elections for decades.
On the same hand, I hope that the national media will not confuse disagreement with Congresswoman Bachmann’s policy positions with being consumed [by] anti-American feelings.
As much of a lunatic as I think Ms. Bachmann might be – I unfortunately think the question might be reasonable. Will pro-Obama groups refrain from calling someone a racist for disagreeing with him?
Of course there will be racists disagreeing with him, but does that make one racist? Or are we past that? I doubt it.
Al – even being a not-entirely doctrinaire Catholic (as I am), one can’t avoid the fact that abortion is quite clearly against the church’s teaching. That said … there is so much more that is against it: killing people extends to more than just a fetus; treating people with respect is somehow covered in that “love thy neighbor” bit that some dude in the bible mentioned. I wish the ‘conservative religious’ would be a bit more open-minded to the possible applications of their faith.
Exactly, Elizabeth. I’m anti-abortion. But it’s frustrating to listen to ‘pro-life’ Catholics who go so far as to deny people Communion for supporting a candidate who, among stances on many other issues, is pro-choice. All the while the candidates they support are pro-death penalty and somehow fail to see any ‘pro-life’ ramification with going to war or providing inadequate food and housing assistance or health care to the poor. The ‘pro-life’ label needs to be applied carefully. ‘Anti-abortion’ is a more fitting term for most. Neither the Dems nor Reps are ‘pro-life’.
How is that even a question to consider? We just went through a nearly 2-year presidential campaign. I don’t remember McCain being labeled a racist when he disagreed with Obama in the debates. Why would that change now that Obama is president?
Michelle Bachman is a supreme embarrassment to the state of Minnesota. As someone who lives in her district I wince everytime I see or hear her speak. I knew that she would win because this area is extremely conservative. I voted for Tinklinberg but knew it was a throw away vote.
It would seem that Rep. Bachmann wants to be both the victor and the victim in this election.
Mr. Hendricks nailed it. Just day’s after a two-year long, hard fought campaign, her question about critics of Obama’s policies being unfairly accused of racism is rather silly.
She should consider just keeping her mouth shut for a while before she goes back to Washington to face her peers, whose patriotism she questioned on national television.
I’d say her question is more than silly. It betrays a telling discomfort.
If Michele Bachmann ordered a pizza in the woods and none of her legions of detractors (who seem in large part to live in non-Sixth districts) aren’t there to hear here, is she still a (deep breath) uncomfortable victim ignorant neanderthal McCarthyite nutjob (etc etc etc etc) that personifies every stereotype most of you have about conservatives?
Her question IS reasonable, and it has nothing to do with “discomfort” (shame on you, Charlie), but with the very apt observation that too many commentators (race irrelevant) use race as a rhetorical trump card that no white person can respond to. Accusations of “racism” have become like theories about Man-Made Global Warming; all positive evidence proves it, and all negative evidence proves it, and at the end of the day the allegation becomes the ONLY point of “discussion”.
“Racism” turns every discussion into a Democratic Underground comment section. Including (scrolling up through the depressing miasma above) this one.
Well put, Bob. Well put.
I also agree with charlieq.
I have nothing new to add. I just thought those were great comments.
I seem to remember that John McCain was called a racist. Something to do with him not looking Obama in the eyes in a debate. Or other such nonsense. So again I look to the end of the world since I agree with Michele Bachmann’s statement (I don’t see it as a question) of “hope that the national media will not confuse disagreement with Obama’s policy positions with being consumed [by] racism”.
Out of context, I suppose I could see her comment as somewhat remotely reasonable.
Oh really? Google white income vs. black income. There’s one area where she’s dead wrong.
i personally think it’s a strawman, she’s throwing out there to cover her a s s against the media. So when she does something stupid again she can just say, “see I told you this would happen!” even though it didn’t really happen, and she’ll get those crazy eyes going and yell Liberal Media or something else to drive a wedge between her republicans and all the sane people.
Both a non-sequitur (Rep. Bachmann wasn’t arguing economics, she was talking about social consequences of criticizing Obama) and a post hoc argument (racism isn’t the sole cause of income disparity; it can be argued if it’s even a primary one).
It’s a legitimate question, no matter how you try to wriggle out of it.
i personally think it’s a strawman,…cover her a s s…when she does something stupid…she’ll get those crazy eyes…her republicans and all the sane people.
Yeah, there’s a basis for a rational conversation.
Bob – the very way you title this post indicates she has a point. Are you sure you want to imply that it’s a malaprop (or worse) to even ask the question?
The Dems set the tone for this one, with some of Obama’s major supporters saying that the ONLY reason not to vote for Obama was racism; why assume that’s NOT going to carry over to his administration and his machine’s spin on issues?
This isn’t about Bachmann, by the way. The Democrats are actively moving to squelch free speech – overtly, via the “Fairness” doctrine, to be sure. This, presuming Bachmann is right (and I think she has a point) is a lot more insidious; criticism itself becomes an act rooted in an ages-old evil in American society.
Which, to many of you, seems to be baaaaad if that age old evil is “McCarthyism”, but not if it’s “Racism” in whatever form.
Offensive, Ms Bachmann is. An honest mind, she has not. Many trials, she will face.
//Yeah, there’s a basis for a rational conversation.
Well, that’s not exactly what I was going for, but hey, that’s ok..
However, I am sorry for calling all her republicans crazy. I didn’t mean to insult them, as I know some of them, and they don’t seem all that bad.

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A Lancashire solicitor has been struck off after misusing more than £400,000 of client monies to prop up her ailing firm.
Kimberley Bridge was struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) this week for nine counts of dishonesty.
The SDT also ordered that Ms Bridge’s sister, Nicola Roach, who worked at the firm, SFN Solicitors in Burnley, as a clerk, be barred from working in a law firm without permission from the relevant authorities through a section 43 order for four counts of dishonesty.
The tribunal also considered SFN Solicitors’ other partners, John Charles McNabb and Tracy Stansfield. They were respectively fined £2,000 and reprimanded.
The tribunal found 19 allegations proven against Ms Bridge, including failing to act in the best interests of clients, failing to act with integrity and making improper withdrawals from the client account.
It also found 10 similar allegations proven against Ms Roach, while Mr McNabb and Mrs Stansfield also had 10 allegations against them found proven after failing to, among other breaches, protect client money and assets.
The tribunal heard that SFN Solicitors already had a shortfall on its client account of £186,000 by November 2011 because of Ms Bridge’s actions. She tried to conceal this shortfall by creating a fictitious property sale, then claiming she was taking the lender to court for failing to send through the mortgage money.
By August 2012, there were £714,000 of payments that had not been allocated to the correct clients in the ledger. It was discovered that £232,000 of this had been paid into Ms Bridge’s personal account. The SRA eventually discovered a shortage of £418,000 resulting from a number of improper transactions, including a payment of £27,000 from the client account to pay council tax on a property the firm owned.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) closed down SFN Solicitors in January 2013. As well as striking Ms Bridge from the roll, the SDT ordered her to pay costs of £31,947.85 jointly with Ms Roach. Mr McNabb and Mrs Stansfield were ordered to pay £8,420 costs each.
In passing the sanctions, the SDT said: “This is a very sad but disturbing case. Mrs Bridge and Ms Roach deliberately and systematically defrauded everyone around them, including Mr McNabb and Mrs Stansfield. Neither Mr McNabb nor Mrs Stansfield derived benefit, and indeed suffered enormous loss.
“Mr McNabb was a senior solicitor. He was present throughout the last year and perhaps could have done more. We believe a £10,000 fine is appropriate, but given his means, have decided to fine him £2,000.

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Contributions to the National Rifle Association’s political action committee tripled in February amid public attacks against the organization following the Feb. 14 high school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Supporters of the Second Amendment donated about $779,000 in February to the NRA’s political arm, the Political Victory Fund, according to recent Federal Election Commission (FEC) data.
The figure marked a more than threefold increase compared to January, when the PAC received nearly $250,000 in donations, and was the fund’s second-best month over the last year.
The NRA has come under fire from gun control activists, who have criticized the group in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 dead.
Last weekend, thousands of people rallied in support of gun control during the “March for Our Lives” protest, with many placards openly attacking the NRA. The increasing onslaught against the organization, however, correlated with more donations going to the group’s PAC.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, two weeks before the fatal school shooting, the NRA’s PAC received $27,100 from itemized contributions — donations that exceed $200 — from 51 donors. Over the next two weeks after the shooting, the itemized contributions skyrocketed to nearly $71,000 from 226 donors.
Most donations to the group — totaling $685,099 — came in small donations that did not exceed $200.
Multiple politicians are facing the fury of anti-gun activists who criticize them for accepting the NRA’s support and donations.
US Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) is among the primary targets due to the NRA’s support of him, which totals more than $3 million, although actual donations to his campaigns since 2010 totaled only nearly $15,000.
The Political Victory Fund’s donations to individual lawmakers are limited due to election laws that limit contributions to $10,000 per election cycle.


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LEN() is one of those functions that you wonder about. LEN is a text function and depending upon what you are doing it is so useful. It counts the number of characters in a cell. I use it all the time if I want to drop a minus sign at the end of a number of if I imported values that have turned into text because the numbers have a CR after them.
In this example, I had a column of stores and they all began with Contoso. Since it was a bit redundant I wanted to get rid of the word Contoso at the beginning of each store name.
Now, using =RIGHT(A2,18) works for the first and second store as they are 18 characters in length when Contoso is excluded but the Kennewick Store only needs 16 characters instead of 18 so the formula doesn’t work for that store or some of the others on the list that are of different lengths.
An easy way around this is to combine RIGHT with LEN.
=LEN(A2) = 26 counts 26 characters in cell A2.
Every store name has the word Contoso in it and Contoso has 7 characters and that is what we want to eliminate.
So, =RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-7) is the answer.
When you break it down the formula ends up being =RIGHT(26-7) for the first store. 26 characters less the first 7 characters. Same for the second store. Now the store name in A3 has fewer characters so LEN counts 23 instead of 26 and ends up 23-7 = 16 characters so it would display Kennewick Store. As you copy it down, LEN will count the number of characters that comprise the various store names and then the formula will subtract the first 7 characters. Pretty slick and definitely useful.
My Excel tip is not so much about a favorite “tip or trick” as it is about a favorite concept. Tools like FlashFill and the “Text to Columns” Wizard are neat and certainly have their place, but I prefer an automated approach when appropriate. I emphasize “when appropriate” because one should always exercise good professional judgment when determining the correct tools and course of action to solve problems or complete tasks.
There are two reasons for my preference for automation when appropriate. First, an automated process usually requires less cumulative effort in repetitive process situations. Second, an automated process often can be shifted to lower-skilled workers, freeing those with higher skills to do other tasks that cannot be so delegated.
Let’s look at an example. In the spreadsheet below, each employee name in column B is composed of the employee’s last name and first name, separated by a comma delimiter and a space. If this is a “one-off” situation (particularly one having only a few names), you could (and perhaps should) use FlashFill or the “Text to Columns” Wizard to separate the names into their individual components.
Let’s say, however, that this data must be collected and separated each month for a large number of employees. Let’s also say that MS-Access (or a similar tool) is not available, and you do not want (or know how) to script code in VBA. Nesting functions can be an excellent way to automate tasks in Excel and create some interesting results.
For our example, Excel doesn’t have a “reverse concatenate” or “split” function, so we’ll have to get creative. In column C, we have extracted the last name from column B by nesting the SEARCH function inside the LEFT function. In column D, we have used the same approach, but substituted the RIGHT function for the LEFT function. Because the formula cell references are relative, they easily adjust as we copy them to the remaining cells. For reference, the two formulas are included in columns F and G.
Now let’s explain what just happened, using cell B3 for our explanation. In column C, we used the left function to extract the leftmost characters of cell B3 for the Last Name.
The second parameter of the LEFT function is used to specify the number of characters to return. Here, we have let Excel calculate the correct number of characters to return by using the SEARCH function to return the position of the comma in the cell contents — but we’re not done. We don’t want the comma returned, so we must adjust the calculated number of characters to exclude it.
Now we want to extract the First Name from cell B3. To do this, we use a combination of the RIGHT, SEARCH, and LEN functions.
Here, too, we allow Excel to provide the correct number of characters for the second parameter of the primary function. Conceptually, we will simply subtract the Last Name from cell B3 to arrive at the First Name.
However, we have a problem. We know the width of column B, but we don’t know the length of the content in each cell in column B without doing a lot of manual counting.
The answer? Let Excel figure it out, using the LEN function. The resulting formula tells Excel to subtract the leftmost characters from the cell content starting from (and excluding) the comma, and return the remaining (rightmost) characters. Once again, we exclude the comma from the results.
In actual fact, we should be asking Excel to exclude both the comma and the space (rather than the comma alone) from the results in both formulas. However, Excel is smart enough to trim the leading and trailing spaces from the results.
How can we set this monthly task up for delegation to an employee with lower skills? One way would be to house the employee names in one spreadsheet (or workbook) and house the formulas in another. Assuming data updates cannot be automated, the lower-skilled employee would simply copy or re-key the data into the specified position of the designated worksheet and the formulas would do the rest.
The LEN function in particular is totally underutilized. The LEN function in particular is very underutilized. If you want some other examples of what to do with it check out my Excel-Diva blog post on LEN.

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Your BMI Says Very Little About Your Health. So Why Do We Still Use It?
Anyone who's had a physical or participated in high school gym class is probably familiar with BMI. Those three little letters, which stand for body mass index, would have you believe that a simple math problem is all you need to calculate and rate your overall health.
If this sounds simplistic, it is! Many experts -- including the person who invented it -- say BMI fails to fully capture the state of a person's health. Yet it persists as a go-to indicator of well-being, even though there are more effective, relevant stats that can paint a more complete picture.
Body mass index measures a person's height in relation to their weight. It's calculated by taking your weight in kilograms divided by your height in meters squared. If you'd prefer to keep the math stateside, your BMI is your weight in pounds multiplied by 703, all divided by your height in inches squared. Whatever number you come out with is your BMI, and if it falls between 18.5 and 24.9, you're normal. Congrats! Any number below means you're underweight, and above the range means you’re overweight, possibly even obese.
What weighs more: a pound of muscle or a pound of feathers?
But just because you fall into a range of BMI -- underweight, normal, overweight, or obese -- doesn't mean that’s what you indeed are. BMI doesn’t recognize that you could be lean because of unhealthy behaviors like crazy diets or illegal substances, or even that you might be super tall. At the same time, BMI doesn't differentiate between the muscle builder in the gym and the couch potato who have the same height and weight. Ultimately, the BMI labels millions of Americans as obese or underweight, that indeed may not be at all.
"BMI is a great overall measure of a population’s obesity status but it should never be used for an individual," said Dr. Robert Davidson, director of the Nutrition and Human Performance program at Logan University. "This is because it is overly simplistic as a weight-to-height ratio and has no predictive power to predict the body composition of an individual due to the many factors that contribute to body composition, none of which are caused by either height or weight."
Why does BMI exist if it's such an ineffective stat?
Even the guy who developed BMI in the first place raised his hand with a caveat on his healthy math problem. Back in the 19th century, Belgian statistician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (yikes!) created the Quetelet Index of Obesity, which is the current BMI formula but with a way cooler name. Since Quetelet was a mathematician and not a doctor, he said at the time that the index shouldn't be used to indicate overall health. Nobody listened, apparently. BMI stuck.
Now, doctors have used it to compare patients, while insurance companies have used it to evaluate members.
It turns out that Quetelet may have been right all along, which, again, makes you wonder why no one listened to him. Around 54 million Americans who are categorized as obese or overweight according to BMI are actually neither, and BMI isn't the best predictor of cardiovascular disease.
So why doesn't anyone do anything about it?
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of BMI's continued prominence isn't that it's a shaky health stat -- after all, what formula could perfectly capture a person's health? -- but that it is so resilient, even when there are better tools available.
Some suggest it's a matter of easy algebra. "I don't know why we put so much stake in it. Maybe because it was simple to do," says Dr. Davidson. "Research people, people in the fitness industry have known for a long time that BMI is not a good indicator of health. But, in the medical community, once that information is in a medical textbook, it's really difficult to change it because doctors follow along with what's in the previous textbook when they write a new one."
Many experts say BMI has persisted because it's useful for aggregating larger populations, though it doesn't serve much use on a per-person level.
"[BMI] was actually made to look at the health of larger populations. It was not designed for individuals to track their health," said Dr. Matt Tenneberg at Arcadia Health and Wellness Chiropractic, where he works with professional athletes. "The reason that it works so well for population studies is because it works most of the time, not all of the time. The errors in a larger population study will eventually regress back to the mean and the data will be relatively accurate. On an individual basis, you want the measurement to be as accurate as possible."
So how can I tell if I'm healthy?
Thanks to technology (sometimes it's good, technology), there are better ways to calculate your overall health -- though it's also smart to see a doctor.
Dr. Davidson says that more accurate measurements that calculate body fat (as opposed to weight), and whether or not you need to lose weight, including such Googlable wonders as underwater/hydrostatic weighing, bioelectrical impedance, DXA, MRIs, and the BODPOD. Still, each of these has its drawbacks, as some come with a hefty price tag and others only focus on fat.
"Every biomarker of health status improves with improving physical fitness and none of them improve with change in body weight alone," Dr. Davidson adds. "Again, BMI is often used to describe a population and identify relationships in a population, but should never be used to try to predict anything for an individual."
Carson Quinn is a writer based in Indianapolis, whose daily intake of green beans is shockingly high, all in hopes of keeping her BMI within the "normal" range. Follow her on Twitter: @newscarson.

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NEW — Completely Updated Version for post-October 4th, 2014 exams. Covers the 9th Edition MPEP including AIA material.
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Q: The Bush administration is considering expanding covert operations in western Pakistan, to shore up Musharraf & hunt Al Qaida. What do you make of this?
A: I don’t have the details on it. But it sounds like a strategy that makes sense. However, I would want to be sure that Musharraf is doing his bit, because we have given him $11 billion to go after terrorists, to go after Al Qaida, to go after the safe havens on his border, and he has done an ineffective job. Certainly, if we’re targeting terrorists, and Musharraf is not doing his bit, we have got to take whatever action is needed. ,p>Q: You have suggested that Musharraf should step down, that the US should squeeze him to step down as president of Pakistan.
Q: Pakistan’s President Musharraf said that they will hold elections as scheduled in January, but the state of emergency won’t be lifted. Can there be fair and free elections while the constitution there is suspended?
Q: Richardson says he would threaten to cut off all US aid. Would you?
Ten years ago I was the US Permanent Representative at the UN, known as our “UN Ambassador.” When I came to the UN, I saw an opportunity to help Pres. Clinton with his strong vision for international cooperation and US leadership in a world increasingly trending toward democracy and human rights (despite some obvious exceptions).
President Clinton’s general principles on world affairs earned enormous respect around the world. He was seen as a both a leader and team player. The vision of stable nations working together to bring peace to troubled nations seemed to be within our grasp. The US was respected around the world, and working at the UN meant making new friends--not new enemies, as we have seemed to do in more recent years--in our concerted program to maintain world peace, protect human rights, and support civil government around the world.
The Bush administration has burned up the goodwill that the world once had for us. Many have been calling our recent international actions and attitude “arrogant.” Real leadership is never arrogant. It is inspiring, it is positive, and it’s strong--never blind or deaf to the world’s concerns as we address our own.
I’ve never seen the US as isolated, as alone, as it finds itself today.
The polls from most nations, including some of our closest allies, show that approval & trust of the US is at an all-time low. It’s not just that the US has abdicated its leadershi role as the leader of the free world. It’s also unsettlingly true that our leaders have alienated people around the world.
I don’t believe this is a situation that will take long to correct. The people of the world want to believe we are responsible & compassionate, that we are committed to freedom and basic rights, and that we want to participate constructively in world affairs. Visionary leadership and visionary action to implement a new role for the US, will turn the situation around quickly, and America will find itself surrounded by friends and allies once again.
When oil prices spiked in 2000, it was critical, as the US Energy Secretary, for me to show oil producers that we were not going to accept sharp price increases. The Saudis weren’t pleased that I embarked on what some people called a “jaw-boning” mission to seek Saudi & OPEC production increases that could mitigate the sudden price spikes.
Jaw-boning isn’t military, it isn’t regulatory, it isn’t strategic. It’s a tactic we use to change perception, to create publicity or a sense of obligation, & to begin signaling that we are starting to take action.
Q: What would you do about the increasing anti-American sentiment in Latin America?
Q: Is China an adversary or an ally?
Q: What action do you commit to, for Darfur? Would you commit American troops?
A: This is what I would do: It’s diplomacy. It’s getting UN peacekeeping troops and not African Union troops. It’s getting China to pressure Sudan. It’s getting the European Union to be part of economic sanctions in Sudan. It’s called leadership. A no-fly zone, I believe, would be an option. But we have to be concerned about humanitarian workers being hurt by planes, being shot.
Q: You say UN troops. Does that mean American troops?
Q: What would you do to address the need for more aid and health care to go out to Africa and the Caribbean?
RICHARDSON: You know, in the last debate I upset some people because I said we should use the levers on China, on them hosting the Olympics, to do something on Darfur. You know, I believe that fighting genocide is more important than sports. So what I would like to do is, one, a no-fly zone. Get economic sanctions backed by the Europeans. We need to find ways to stop the massive rapes. I was in Darfur three months ago. Today a report by Refugees International laid out a plan to deal with that. We should not forget about Africa. American policymakers should take stands not just on the Middle East and Iraq.
Two months ago in North Korea, I was proud to help show how talking to your enemies can produce results. We need to bring back diplomacy in our foreign policy. We need to remember what the great Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said. He said, you don’t make peace with your friends; you make peace with your enemies.
With North Korea, we were able to push the North Koreans, possibly, to start reducing their nuclear threat, and we did bring home the remains of six American servicemen from the Korean War.
I would promote a tough negotiation with Iran. But the reality is that if we bring Iran and Syria, we could possibly lessen the instability in Iraq, and make some progress on the Middle East situation, on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Q: How would you do things differently with Russia?
A: I would assess what our strategic interests are. What would I want from Russia?
I want them to control some of the loose nuclear weapons in their domain.
I’d want them to be more humane in dealing with Chechnya.
I’d want them to be a stable source of energy for this country.
I would want them to promote more democracy in their own nation.
Q: How do you feel about normalizing relations with Castro’s Cuba?
Q: What would you do if Islamic radicals took control of Pakistan?
A: In any foreign policy decision, I would use diplomacy first. The last thing we need in the Muslim world is another action like Iraq, which is going to inflame the Muslim world. With Pakistan, here is a potentially failed nation-state with nuclear weapons. What a president must do is have a foreign policy of principles and realism. And the Bush foreign policy, with Musharraf, we get the worst of all worlds. He has not gone after Al Qaida in his own country, despite the fact that we’ve given him $11 billion. And he’s also severely damaged the constitution. He’s basically said that he is the supreme dictator. I would ask Musharraf to step aside.
Q: Ask him to step aside?
Know where you can settle. Identify eight essential goals and achieve five.
Learn as much as possible about your adversary.
Give up the locale. Don’t insist on neutral ground, but go to his or her turf. It’s the substance that counts, not the place where you negotiate.
Give up the little things. The other guy wants to hold a press conference? Fine.
Don’t concede absolutely everything the other side is requesting. Get something in return, even if it’s minor.
Find common ground and establish a personal connection.
You can walk out, but only if you’re prepared to walk back in later.
Take advantage of the goals you share. Agree on them and move on from there.
Carry a bunch of nice pens. When your opponent admires one, give it to him.
If you are negotiating an endgame, allow a dignified way out.
Talk about it. It is always better to have a conversation than not to talk.
Aung San, the prime mover behind Burma’s independence, was murdered by a political rival in 1947. His daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, got deeply involved in Burmese politics in 1988. A free election was held in 1990 & her party won 80% of the seats. Instead of becoming prime minister, she was placed under house arrest by the military. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Feb. 1994, I became the first non-family member permitted to visit Aung San Suu Kyi since her arrest. I urged the military junta leader to open a dialogue with her, and I volunteered to mediate. She is the key to Burma’s reputation in the international community, I said, particularly in the US. I said at a press conference that she should be released without condition. She was released in July 1995 and since then has been in and out of house arrest--mostly in.
I met Fidel Castro in Havana in 1996. We spoke in Spanish and covered topics including human rights, the release of jailed dissidents, and the fees the government charged any Cuban who wanted to emigrate to the US.
At that time, Cuba charged $600 for exit documents. This was prohibitive to thousands who wanted to leave. The “Richardson Agreement” cut that figure in half for up to 1,000 Cubans per year who could demonstrate financial hardship. Castro suggested, without making a promise, that we could build on this agreement, perhaps leading to the relaxation of restrictions in other areas. I also succeeded in returning home with several imprisoned dissidents.
In the 1990s, South Korea was an extraordinary success story. North Korea, on the other hand, seemed a fossil frozen in a bizarre prehistory, its politics imprisoned in a Stalinist cult of personality, its economy a stagnant relic isolated from market forces driving prosperity elsewhere.
North Korea did have one claim to modernity that earned it the enmity of the US and other Western countries: It had a fairly sophisticated uranium-enrichment program dating back to the 1980s that was not limited to uses permitted under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. By the early 1990s, in fact, it was clear that North Korea was prepared to produce nuclear weapons and might even have made a couple of them.
Indicate which principles you support regarding the United States - United Nations relationship.
The US should participate in UN peacekeeping missions only when vital US interests are directly threatened.
The US should use military force only when the US border or territories are attacked or American citizens are in danger.
The US should pay the money it owes to the United Nations.


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Research shows that helping others will make you happy.
Be selfish. Give yourself some happiness during the holiday season.
Goodness knows we all need it. But, wait. There’s more! The added benefit of doing community service after you move? It’s a great way to meet people. Start helping others now and reap the benefits. It feels good to be selfish sometimes.
Disclosure: I am affiliated with The Kindness Connection.
When you’re new in town, you may be interested in helping others, but you don’t know where to start. First, go online to check out volunteer opportunities in your area. Some useful websites include: Volunteer Match, Points of Light, and Idealist. In the Chicago area, The Honeycomb Project provides volunteer opportunities for families. Search for similar organizations in your city. You can also volunteer to build a house with Habitat for Humanity. Construction experience is not required and it’s a fun way to meet new people.
If you have school-age children, it may be difficult to compete with the many drives hosted by school and children’s organizations. However, it doesn’t hurt to try. Also, reach out to someone to see if they would like to help you deliver the items. This is another good bonding opportunity.
Visit Meetup.com to see if there are any groups that fit your community service goals. If not, start your own. Surprisingly, Meetup doesn’t list a separate category for volunteering. Try to tailor your activity to one of the pre-set categories to reach a maximum number of people. For example, if you want to volunteer at an animal shelter, add it to the “Pets” category. If you plan on helping out a book bank, list it under “Book Clubs”. It can get lost in the shuffle if you put it under “Social” since everything could fall under that category.
Religious organizations provide volunteer opportunities throughout the year. Helping others this way gives you the chance to connect with people of your same faith. The more you get to know your community, the greater sense of joy and belonging you will feel at other religious gatherings. It’s a win-win.
If you want to meet your neighbors, get them to come to you. Set up a lemonade stand with the kids or advertise a garage sale with all proceeds going to a specified charity. If you’ve already gotten rid of everything because of your move (hopefully, you did!), you can reach out to neighbors to do a neighborhood sale. If you handle the logistics, many people would love to participate.
There’s something special about inviting people into your home that helps create stronger friendships. Send out an evite to knit scarves for the homeless (no-knit scarves if it’s a one night event) or create care packages for deployed service members. Decorate Cards for Kindness or make holiday cards. Ask around at local non-profit organizations to see if someone would like a new bench or repurposed furniture. Invite friends over for a DIY workshop. Create artwork to donate to a hospital or an assisted living facility. Buy community service in a box and invite your child’s friends over for a volunteering and craft party. Find a fun activity that could work well in a group and tie it to a charity that you believe in.
Once you’ve settled into your new city, you may be ready to make a greater commitment to a cause. Figure out what speaks to you. Do you love helping animals, reading to the elderly, or working with the sick? Whether you want to help the environment, children, or veterans, non-profit organizations always need your help. Making a weekly or monthly commitment will help you in more ways than you can imagine. You’re going to be feeling pretty good at the end of the day and you’ll make some new friends.
It’s great to meet people through taking adult classes or conquering Pokémon Go. It’s not quite the same as fighting together for a cause. When you’re helping others, you feel good and so do the people around you. It’s a virtuous circle of kindness. You will also be focused on a specific task, which makes it easier to connect when compared to making small talk at the water cooler. Take advantage of these feel-good moments to form friendships. Remember to be selfish and start helping others this holiday season.


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A good question indeed and it lead me to try and think through what are the key attributes of a profitable, growing and sustainable business?
People who start businesses without understanding how businesses work end up creating employment for themselves and a few others, and not a business that can create real wealth. They have been called self-employment companies. A self-employment-company is one in which the success of the business depends on how long and hard you work.
I'm not so concerned here about individual skills like leadership, the ability to delegate, accountability, the ability to develop a harmonious culture. There is no denying that these are important, but it is not the individual skill I am concerned about.
Rather it is attributes of the business as a whole.
Here are my thoughts. They are of course open to challenge and I would be interested in your comments or suggestions.
There are two components of this; direction and capitalisation.
Direction - A good business has a clearly defined strategic direction, an overall vision goal, what they want out of the business and where they want to take it. So many small businesses drift aimlessly, caught up in the day-to-day currents of doing, but going nowhere.
A sure sign a company is not doing as well as it could is when the owner’s focus is 100% on short term goals, on what he is going to do today, and not where he is taking the business. Direction is critical but if owners and managers ignore that and focus on getting the sales in now, prioritising immediate sales over everything else, including customer service and satisfaction, then it doesn’t matter which way they go, they’re steering for no particular port.
A recent planning session with a client emphasised just how important it is to determine direction with clarity. The business has four major product groups, one of which has grown to represent about 70% of sales, a dangerous dependence.
We were examining future options for the business to reduce this danger when it became apparent that there was major constraint on the options that had not been voiced. That unvoiced constraint meant that most of the options being canvassed would not have been realised had they been pursued.
They just weren’t where the owner wanted to take the business and would have been resisted, probably unconsciously. Once that constraint had been put on the table the future direction was very clear, and greater clarity given to the options being discussed.
Good businesses have a clear business focus on what business they are in and on their target market.
Capitalisation - Undercapitalisation is a major cause of business failure. Capital is required for two types of assets; fixed assets and working capital.
Fixed assets – you need an office or a workshop from which to run your business. It may even be a home office, in which case it requires little capital. Depending on your business you may need equipment, at least a vehicle and office equipment, and maybe much more in operational equipment.
Working capital – to work your business, that is fund your day-to-day, week-to-week and month-to-month activities. That may have to cover wages, stock, debtors and pay creditors. Much will depend on the cycle time of your business, whether you provide credit and the terms of that provided to you.
Well capitalised businesses have the right premises, facilities and equipment to deliver sufficient value to the customers, and because they are able to deliver value they have a good customer base and good margins.
Most small businesses, because they are founded on the technical skills of their owners, focus on the operational aspects of their business, doing the work.
They fail to recognise the primacy of selling; that unless you know how to win sales for your business and keep on producing sales your business will not be sustainable.
Unless you are willing to market your product, you won't succeed. Business is selling, acquiring and keeping customers.
“Of the major functions of business – product development, customer service, accounting, operations, and marketing – the one that always should be given top priority in an entrepreneurial venture is marketing.
There is one other aspect of acquiring customers to think about. For all the importance of the lifetime vale of a customer, nothing lasts forever. Look at your customer list from even two years ago. What proportion are still there today?
• How many sources of new clients do you have?
• Do a large percentage of your clients and income come from one source?
• Have you ever implemented a strategy that got you clients at break even or better and then stopped doing it?
Good businesses have learnt the lesson – they have clear strategies to keep acquiring new customers even while looking after and treasuring their existing customers. Keep exploring new ways of acquiring customers.
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The Given Set of Circumstances takes the Technique forward to work with 'the givens' of performance. This includes "investing in the realities of doing" - the heart of any actor's work.
Meisner Module 3, 8 weeks: Meisner & Text, A State of Aliveness.
Module 3 takes your work into text, from the first reading and text analysis, through to rehearsal techniques.
This Module will run late 2019.
Drop-ins are open to anyone who has completed Module 1 & 2 with Scott Williams or Erica Chestnut.


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I just want to preface this review by professing my love for Soul Eater. Adapted from the manga from the same name by Atsushi Ohkubo, Soul Eater is a 51 episode series animated by studio Bones which aired from April 7, 2008 to March 30, 2009. The series embraces its shonen origins with flashy fights and themes of friendship while relying on lush animation and a colorful cast of characters that range from ultra serious to nonsensical.
Scattered throughout the episodes are a host of unique and over the top characters made distinctive as a result of the show’s visual flare like Death the Kid whose unusual need for everything to be symmetrical often times drives him into violent rages and the loud mouthed Black Star, whose skill is matched only by his enormous ego. The Character’s designs are a bit “cartoony”, a departure from other anime but they fit with the overall light hearted tone the series projects.
The early episodes are episodic in nature, introducing a pair of students at a time as they set out on one mission after another. This doesn’t last long however, with the introduction of the supporting cast of Stein, Spirit, and Lord Death, the series opens up to longer arc driven plots focusing on the Academy’s struggle to combat the Witch Medusa, whose machinations revolve around an ancient evil buried deep beneath the city.
Action is Soul Eater’s forte and this set promises no shortage. The individual battles between the meisters and Medusa’s group are wildly inventive and sure to please even the most jaded of shonen fans.
The animation is uniform throughout. There wasn’t the slightest dip in quality to be found, a testament to the staff of Bones. Quality-wise, these episodes are very easy on the eyes, showcasing fluid animation and a wonderful color palette. Funimation’s high definition upgrade accentuates the animation, tightening the lines and adding potency to the colors. There is also a standard release of the set for those without the benefits of Blu-ray.
The Extras are bit beefier than the norm for anime releases. Everything from the past releases is ported over including audio commentaries and an assortment of clip segments titled the “Soul Eater Late Show” that run roughly a minute each. Trailers and textless openings and endings round out the set.
Soul Eater screams “cool” and this set is demonstrative of that. The episodes are fast paced from start to finish and packed with more action and irreverent humor than most series fit into an entire series run. If you missed out on Funimation’s first run of releases, the meister collection is the way to go, giving consumers double the episode count for a fraction of the price. This is a series that should have a home in every anime fan’s library, right alongside classics like Cowboy Bebop and Dragon Ball.


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3 Wochen, 21 Tage, 4062 Kilometer – von Miami bis New York City. Tagebuchtexte und Fotografien, die während einem dreiwöchigen Roadtrip entlang der Ostküste der USA entstanden sind, vereint in einem kleinen Magazin.
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Im August 1989 flüchteten meine Eltern in einer gewittrigen Sommernacht vom Osten in den Westen eines gespaltenen Landes. Niemand ahnte, dass es nur ein Abschied auf Zeit sein würde. 83 Tage später fiel die Berliner Mauer und mit ihr eine Grenze, die über vier Jahrzehnte bestand und ein Land teilte.
Fast 30 Jahre später, im Mai 2018, begeben sich meine Mutter und ich gemeinsam auf die Suche nach den Orten ihrer Vergangenheit. Dabei beschreibt sie ihre persönlichen Erinnerungen, Gedanken und Gefühle in einem Tagebuch. Ich dokumentiere unsere Reise fotografisch.
Aus der entstandenen Fotoserie, einzelnen Textausschnitten des Reisetagebuchs und persönlichen Zeitzeugnissen aus der Zeit vor und nach der Flucht, entsteht das Buch „Rübermachen“.
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While Instagram influencer marketing is expected to hit $8 billion in spend by 2020, the growth trajectory of influencer marketing is not limited to consumer brands.
B2B companies are also realizing the value of collaborating with influential experts for marketing purposes and count the practice as one of the top 4 tactics planned for 2019, according to a study by Spiceworks of B2B tech marketers in North America and Europe.
Many B2B brands are considering engaging influencers for marketing but are not clear on exactly how or what the best practices are. Having worked with B2B brands that range from Dell to SAP to LinkedIn on influencer marketing programs over the past 6 years, I’ve had a chance to dig deep into exactly what makes influencer marketing work for B2B.
To help illustrate how business brands we work with are driving results with influencer marketing, I’ve pulled together ten examples of B2B companies that represent a mix of approaches and performance outcomes.
Situation: Prophix is a corporate performance management software solutions company serving the finance industry. They believed that finance leaders have the opportunity to shape the future of business and take a more prominent seat at the leadership table.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning will be critical to the innovation of finance, so Prophix wanted to start conversations and answer key questions on the role of AI in the next evolution of finance amongst its target audience.
Solution: To build thought leadership for the brand around AI and ML innovations in finance amongst its audience, experts collaborated to co-create an industry resource.
To add a tech-savvy flavor to the content experience of this resource, a simulated AI personality voice named Penny was created to help users navigate a microsite featuring industry experts. The site was titled, Adapt & Innovate: AI and the Next Evolution of Finance.
The microsite was complemented with a mix of content including promotional motion graphics video, email promotions, landing page, supporting blog content, social content and custom graphics for the contributing influencers to share.
Results: 642% increase in engagement, new relationships with top influencers and numerous conversations amongst the target audience about AI and finance in connection with the Prophix brand.
Situation: As an award-winning content planning and marketing software company, DivvyHQ wanted to elevate its reputation and more actively engage potential buyers.
Solution: A survey was conducted to surface top challenges and insights around content planning and marketing, sparking a multi-campaign program focused on future-proofing content marketing that included over 30 marketing influencers.
Each of the 5 campaigns focused on content and influencers specific to the topic ranging from the research report to a strategy ebook to a series of video interviews about content planning.
The final campaign repurposed the “best of content” from the first 4 campaigns into an interactive microsite using a Back to the Future theme. Each campaign was supported by blog posts, organic social content, influencer promotion and some paid social.
Results: Each campaign exceeded goals including 300% more downloads of the research report, hitting some KPI goals within a week of publishing, thousands of video views, new relationships with top marketing industry influencers and 140% of one conversion KPI within a week of publishing.
Situation: The legal industry has been slow to adopt Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, something that Introhive, an automation solutions provider wanted to change.
Solution: With the goals of raising awareness and leads from the legal community, Introhive wanted to engage the audience they were marketing to through an industry survey and insights.
The survey identified the top challenges and Introhive designed a Playbook to solve those problems with a combination of brand insight and expertise from speakers at the industry’s Legal Marketing Association event. During the conference, the contributors shared the playbook and Introhive promoted it using the event hashtag.
Additional pieces of the content mix included 12 blog posts, landing page, organic and influencer social shares, paid social and email promotions.
Results: Improved marketing qualified lead quality, more playbook downloads in the first month than in the entire lifetime of previous reports, nearly 50% of all brand blog content views for the quarter and an 85% increase in new Twitter followers.
Situation: With ambitious objectives to continue its rapid growth, Cherwell Software wanted to increase brand awareness as a leading ITSM software provider and develop a network of IT influencers.
Solution: Using insights gained from research of target accounts, 15 influencers were researched, identified and engaged to co-create content and promotions around next-generation IT Service Management.
The content mix included blog posts, IT Service Management 2020 ebook, landing page and both paid/organic social content for influencers to share.
Results: The ebook was viewed 170% more often than previous assets and shared nearly 2,000 times. Additionally, this one campaign was accountable for 22% of all sales leads for the entire year.
Situation: Wellness programs are common but SAP SuccessFactors wanted to accentuate the importance of employee wellness from a more holistic approach to wellbeing.
Solution: To raise awareness of their health care management suite, SAP SuccessFactors developed a program to share relevant, useful and actionable insights about wellbeing from trusted experts, peers and even one business celebrity.
Just as the best wellness solutions are holistic, so was this approach to partnering with influencers including industry influencers, internal experts, SAP partners and clients.
The content mix included an ebook titled The True Impact of Health and Well-Being featuring 10 influencers, motion graphics, landing page, social content for the brand and influencers to share.
Results: 272% increase over the goal and a 68% conversion rate on the ebook downloads. Influencer shares represented 86% of all ebook views and 69% of the conversions.
Situation: While many companies focus on working with influencers, Dell Technologies wanted to partner with industry influencers to simultaneously create useful content for their customers and increase the influence of their internal experts.
Solution: Dell has developed relationships with a network of influencers including Mark Schaefer and Doug Karr, who host the Dell Luminaries podcast.
Their discussions with technology visionaries from inside Dell and out, putting a human face on technology innovation.
Results: The Dell Luminaries project effectively created a single platform to bring voices from multiple companies under the Dell brand together following a common thread while staying true to their individual expertise and influence.
Situation: Science can seem out of reach to many and 3M wanted to make the innovations and complexities of science accessible to the everyday person.
Solution: 3M conducted the largest ever science study about global attitudes about science, the State of Science Index research report along with the launch of 3M’s first podcast: Science Champions Podcast.
Hosted by 3M’s Chief Science Advocate, Jayshree Seth, the first season of the podcast featured twenty one science experts and influencers on topics ranging from an introduction to science in everyday life to careers in science.
Results: Outside of creating relationships with science influencers and showcasing an internal influencer, the Science Champions podcast exceeded all expectations for downloads and engagement, resulting in the launch of season two in March 2019.
Situation: There are many choices for marketers to attend industry events and Content Marketing Institute wanted to create broader awareness of its conference and showcase its speakers in a way that tapped their influence and helped them become more influential.
Solution: Many months before the conference, a selection of content marketing speakers were identified and engaged to share their expertise on specific content marketing topics.
With a conference theme of “Game on“, the 36 influential marketing speakers‘ contributions were assembled into a 48 page ebook called The Ultimate Guide to Conquering Content Marketing with a retro video game theme. Each section of the ebook was supported by corresponding animation videos using an 8-bit video game theme featuring game character avatars for each influencer.
The content mix also included 6 long-form interviews, multiple promotional blog posts, email marketing, custom social graphics for the brand and influencers to share, organic and paid social promotion.
Results: A 258% increase in views of the main ebook asset and over 30,000 views of the promotional 8-bit video game interviews.
Situation: SAP launched its Leonardo platform at the annual SAPPHIRE conference. With an event this large, key announcements can blur in the noise of communications. SAP wanted to launch Leonardo as a transformative technology vision.
Solution: An interactive experience called The Path to Digital Innovation was created showcasing SAP CEO Bill McDermott and 32 top industry influencers sharing insights across transformative technologies including IoT, machine learning, AI, blockchain, analytics, big data and cloud.
Results: 100% of participating influencers shared the Leonardo Path to Digital Innovation content, many of them multiple times. Reach was unprecedented, with over 21 million views of the interactive experience.
Situation: Known for world-class managed DNS services, Oracle Dyn wanted to create awareness and authority for their web application security solutions focused on bot management and mitigation services. They also wanted to develop relationships with relevant industry influencers.
Solution: To create awareness and credibility for this new cybersecurity capability, internal subject matter experts and relevant industry influencers including Eric Vanderburg and Kevin L. Jackson with authority in the cybersecurity space were engaged to collaborate on The Cybersecurity Intelligence Report: Bot Management and Mitigation.
Results: 100% of the influencers engaged shared the report and all program goals were exceeded within 60 days of the launch.
Where Does B2B Influencer Marketing Go From Here?
In the research report, Influence 2.0: The Future of Influencer Marketing by Altimeter Group’s Brian Solis, 48% of B2C companies are running ongoing influencer marketing programs vs. only 11% of B2B brands. Nearly half of B2B brands are still in the experimentation stage, according to the study, which was conducted by Traackr and TopRank Marketing.
But this trend is changing and more B2B brands are realizing that while different than B2C, working with influencers in a business to business context represents a significant opportunity to create more credible content that can be promoted to interested buyers by people they trust.
Many of the examples in this article started with customer research and added outside expert commentary in a way that was relevant to both the brand and the audience. This shift in focus from the brand talking about itself towards a more collaborative approach involving external and internal influencers represents a key change successful B2B marketers have realized.
Trends come and go, but the value of trusted sources of information to customers looking for solutions couldn’t be any more timeless.
For more information about how TopRank Marketing works with B2B brands to improve industry awareness, increase influence and community engagement, drive leads and sales by partnering with industry experts, check out the influencer marketing section of our website.
A version of this post originally published on the Digital Marketing Institute website.
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After a hectic week for Leeds United which has seen the 'spygate' saga rumble on, Marcelo Bielsa's men are finally back in action on the pitch this afternoon.
Last Friday night's 2-0 win over Derby County was one of Leeds' best displays of the season and they will be hoping to carry this momentum to the bet365 Stadium when they take on Stoke City.
Marcelo Bielsa’s men addressed a run of three straight defeats against the Rams, although the game will be remembered for the on-going ‘spygate’ controversy.
On the pitch, Leeds saw captain Liam Cooper return from injury, whilst Pablo Hernandez also started the game after an injury scare. Gjanni Alioski was deployed at left-back, with Barry Douglas out injured.
Norwich's win against Birmingham City on Friday night saw the Whites' lead at the top of the Championship cut to a single point, but Bielsa's men will be hoping to extend that cushion against an out-of-form Stoke side.
Douglas, Gaetano Berardi and Patrick Bamford will all miss the game through injury, whilst Kalvin Phillips will serve the final game of his three-match ban after being sent off against Nottingham Forest on New Year’s day.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon, Bielsa said he was not planning to make any changes for the clash against Nathan Jones' men.
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Jeremy Hunt, pretending to be in a hospital on a weekend (it was in fact a Friday). He also managed to tweet confidential patient details to the general public. This man is the Conservative Party’s choice to be Secretary of State for Health. No wonder a petition calling for him to be removed via a vote of ‘no confidence’ gained the 100,000 signatures necessary to be considered for debate in Parliament within a matter of days.
Conservative Party bigwigs seem determined to make fools of themselves, and undermine their own policies, during the summer Parliamentary recess.
Already, This Blog has recorded how Priti Patel single-handedly wrecked any credibility the government had over its claim that it will publish figures relating to the deaths of sick and disabled benefit claimants.
On Friday, it was the turn of Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove – and Michael Gove’s wife, Sarah Vine – courtesy of Channel 4’s satirical bombshow, The Last Leg. The segment was so good, it is worth quoting almost verbatim.
The question alone encouraged the studio audience into a loud and sustained round of applause.
“Lozzle McFozzle said, ‘Is it okay that Jeremy Hunt attacks doctors for supposedly not working weekends, shortly before his eight-week holiday?'” continued Mr Hills.
“Jeremy Hunt tweeted a photo of himself in a hospital on a Saturday, but came under fire when a quick look at the rosters behind him showed it was actually a Friday. Mm-hm!
“A quick look at the confidential patient details behind him showed that he had also tweeted confidential patient details.
“In Jeremy Hunt’s defence, he says he’s trying to forge new contracts that will make the NHS safer – but doctors claim they are already providing five-day-a-week care on four-day-a-week funding. If you make them work seven days a week but with no extra funding, it actually makes the NHS less safe.
“Meanwhile, a petition to call a vote of ‘no confidence’ in Jeremy Hunt has reached over 100,000 signatures, which means it must now be considered for debate in Parliament,” said Mr Hills.
“Justice Secretary Michael Gove hurt his foot over the weekend but couldn’t get an X-ray until Monday morning. His wife claimed, in an article, this was proof that the NHS needs to be open 24/7 – but forgot to point out, he didn’t actually go to an NHS centre. He went to a minor injuries unit which was established to ease the pressure on accident and emergency, who deal with accidents and emergencies!
“If Michael Gove really needed to be seen over the weekend, he would have been sent straight to A&E where there are 24-hour-a-day radiologists.
“This is not proof that the NHS needs to be open seven days a week. This is proof that Michael Gove needs to go home, take a tablespoon of cement and harden the f**k up!
“As for Jeremy Hunt, everybody wants a seven-day-a-week NHS but you don’t get it by degrading doctors and making them look workshy. Many doctors are on call at weekends, they earn below minimum wage for that work and they often work unpaid overtime beyond all of that.
“In the words of a letter written by a doctor this week, called Karan Kapoor, ‘We don’t go on strike, we don’t hold the country to ransom, we don’t compromise patient care because we were meant to go home two hours ago; instead, we go above and beyond. Without this silent and diligent commitment, the NHS would have crumbled many years ago’.
For further background reading, try this article. Undoubtedly there are many others.
The petition is now in fact nearing 200,000.
I know – I just helped it on its way.
And all my family and friends.
I was in tears laughing at this this week. I so wish I’d discovered the show earlier!
I downloaded the last series on catch up – I had to pause so many times because I was laughing so hard and clapping too often I kept missing bits and my dogs were running for cover thinking I’d lost the plot (which I had). Great series. Many thanks to Mike for this heads up.
Don’t Care UK run that centre?
You know, the fabulous, can do no wrong private sector.
So which fine, upstanding MP is going to lift the lid on things like this and see it out to the end?
Not quite accurate, in fact. Care UK run the treatment centre in Shepton Mallet, but Gove visited a Minor Injuries Unit next door. The MIU is run by the local NHS Foundation Trust.
Nonetheless, the stories in the Mail and the Telegraph are still nonsense, as an MIU is a ridiculous place to go to when you have a possible broken bone.
Many MIUs are being created by downsizing existing A&Es that offered 24/7 care. I would have to travel for about 35 minutes up the M6 to get to a proper A&E. In bad traffic you could call that 45 minutes. Many people now go to their local hospital and find it is in reality now an MIU. People are then told to go to the remaining centralised A&Es that still offer 24/7 care, if needed, as and when they can be moved.
This is government policy. Gove is a government minister and collective cabinet responsibility still applies. So isn’t his inconvenience his own fault and he shouldn’t be blaming himself for allowing the cabinet he serves in to let these changes to A&E provision be made in the NHS in the first place?
NOTE: I wasn’t arguing in any way with the general point Jim was making, I was just offering a small factual correction. The notion that the MIU in question is privately run has gone viral over the blogosphere, and it isn’t true. Best not to give the right-wing foam-at-the-mouths any inaccuracies to seize upon, they’ll use them to discredit and confuse any discussion of this latest anti-NHS fraud by the Tories.
“Don’t Care UK . . . ” – an apposite re-branding?
The Tory’s in a bit of one-upmanship over the Labour party who had pledged real cash for the NHS, decided to pledge £8 billion knowing full well they could not find the funding. Now when it has become apparent to them that their spending is out of control their only hope is to dismantle the NHS by demonizing the staff (nurses and doctors) as they did the disabled to drive a wedge between the people and the NHS staff. They probably believe that it will make the dismemberment of the NHS that much easier. Time to call them out on their tactic and start supporting the NHS staff – whoever they are, because if we don’t many people will believe the lies perpetuated previously against the disabled, now being levelled at the NHS staff. Jeremy Hunt is a lying … and he is as poisonous and corrupt as so many other politicians, many of whom are currently serving in Parliament.
You have to read the article to appreciate the stupidity of those involved in this concerted attempt to destabilize the NHS.
I have really gotta start watching this show. Nothing like satire to restore a bit of faith.
Sarah Vine – the most odious woman not in politics.
Why do NHS Workers (unless tory) stand by HUNT THE **NT.for photo, once when i worked for ROYAL MAIL, DVLC WHERE ON STRIKE (BLESS THEM before DVLA) I WAS ASK TO SIT IN EMPTY FITTINGS where DVLC WAS SORTED , BBC camera’s were in attendance, i said no to my boss i’m going for a s**t report that if you want. HE SAW RED, AFTER ALL WAS DONE Alistair in the office,( was not worried i lent him pirate video’s (1983 i think ) He didn’t give a s***e, sald i remember him of himself, great bloke first one i’d told to f**k off. my mate TERRY best of the best.
38 degrees have a petition on privatisation and in particular Care UK.
I am not laughing. We employ this government at vast cost to the taxpayer. No one wants to employ fools and liars, and with so many discrepancies and false statements it is dreadful that we cannot find a way to relieve ourselves of their irresponsibility much sooner than almost another five years.
Totally agree, but unless we can convince the 11 million 300,000 twerps who voted for the nasty party, we cannot do much about it. The only silver lining is that whilst so many of those voters did not care that the vulnerable in society were the ones suffering, they themselves, with the reduction in their child credits and benefits being reduced, are now under attack and are all fired up and feel “betrayed” by the Tory party. If not for the children at risk, i’d say “serves them right”, but for the sake of those children I’m not happy either.
Now that the child tax credits and benefits have been attacked many Tory voters feel betrayed – if enough of them begin to realize they have been conned, who knows, perhaps they will start signing petitions on behalf of not just their own loss, but that of the disabled.
Both Hunt and Gove are nasty, dishonest and poisonous characters.
So far there are only 199.500 including me.
I’m pleased that Gove’s stunt back fired (with his wife conveniently having a photographer ready), I’m pleased that Jeremy Hunt has totally enraged everyone. Why? Because now we as in the NHS are ALL united and I don’t remember that happening before in the 20 years I’ve been in the NHS.
The icing on the cake was watching the Last Leg and rewinding it again, and again and again..!
Heard and saw about this on The Last Leg, haha, good, pleased it backfired on the b*****ds, glad egg was elegantly put upon their smug, devious, tory faces!


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