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Michael Pento: A Jobless Recovery Part Three Top
It looks like this will be the third jobless recovery in a row. Coming out of the last two recessions we had what has become to be known as a jobless recovery. Job growth usually surges coming out of a recession as companies rush to bring on new employees to rebuild inventories that were depleted in the downturn. However, what has occurred since the early 1990's is that we have had to wait until the economy was able to build an asset bubble before significant job growth was able to be realized. The truth is that a substantial percentage of GDP growth and job creation has surrounded the financial services industry and real estate-bubbles that were wrought upon the consumer thanks to the Federal Reserve and financial institutions. This is the direct result of imbalances that have occurred from the false signals caused through inflation. We have to allow the economy to retool itself into a more balanced condition where manufacturing levels increase. Or we will have to wait until another asset bubble is created before job growth, income growth and the consumer can start to be healed. To further illustrate the condition of a jobless recovery, we were treated to last Friday's Non-Farm Payroll report. In it we found that August shed another 216 thousand jobs, as the unemployment rate jumped to 9.7%-the highest since June of '83. And last Thursday we learned that continuing claims spiked by 92k to reach 6.23mm. The stubbornly high continuing claims number shows how difficult it is to find gainful employment after being laid off. But perhaps the most disturbing number from either report on employment trends came from the NFP account. The report indicated that the goods producing sector shed another 136k jobs for the month. And the economy has lost an unbelievable 3.47 million goods producing jobs since the recession began in December 2007. Even with all of the government's interference with the free market (cash for clunkers and an 8k tax credit to those who have not owned a home in the last three years), the country continued to lose employment. So why aren't employers stepping up their hiring? As my friend Larry Kudlow puts it: "The threat of higher payroll taxes and energy costs is more than enough to deter new hiring. Taxes on upper-end investors are going to rise, too, and there may be health-care surtax on top of that. And don't forget that small businesses pay the top personal tax rate, which is going up. Oh, and how about the recent minimum-wage hike? Yet another business cost." Unless the U.S. rediscovers its manufacturing base and rebuilds the goods producing sector of the economy we will not create the necessary amount of viable job growth. Unfortunately, the likely hood of rejuvenating our productive capacity remains low, precisely because we believe a lower dollar is the way to boost exports. The correct way to boost exports is to lower the corporate tax rate and reduce regulations. The way I see it is this: until the legislative ambiguity abates and/or the government has successfully inflated another asset bubble, we will suffer with the condition of a jobless recovery. And even if accomplished, that job growth will be of the non-viable and unsustainable variety once again. Michael Pento is the Chief Economist for Delta Global Advisors and a contributor to greenfaucet.com
 
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks: Keeping Score in Chicago Episode 21: Skin to Win, Chicago Top
The poster mom for Chicago's public breast feeding movement, Lauren Trost, basks in the afterglow of her newfound "celebreasty." Speaking of bare naughty bits, the guys chat it up with Red Hot Annie, star of the underground hit, "Rolling Outta Here Naked, A Lebowski Burlesque" at Gorilla Tango Theater. In short, The Boob Abides. Keep listening for another round of Speed Score and check us out on Twitter . Tweet tweet, people. Be sure to check out Keeping Score in Chicago for more information and previous episodes.
 
Irene Monroe: Black Episcopal Congregation Celebrates Lesbian Marriage Top
Since the liberal arm of the U.S. Episcopal Church passed a resolution in July to bless same-sex unions, particularly in states like Massachusetts that legalize such marriages, so too has, at least, one black congregation within the Massachusetts diocese. On August 30, St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church in Cambridge hosted the marriage and blessed the union of its mayor, E. Denise Simmons, and her lifetime partner, Mattie Hayes. The historic event happened because of the fierce determination of a straight ally to Cambridge's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community -- the church's new Priest-in-Charge, The Reverend Leslie K. Sterling, who is also the first African-American female priest at St. Bart's. Having just arrived at St. Bart's in February, Sterling brings a new vision to a church that has served both the African-American and African-Caribbean community for over 100 years. When I went to meet Sterling to discuss our roles as officiates in the mayor's nuptials, I asked her if she were ready to jump into in this conflagration that has the Episcopal Church at the brink of schism. "Some will leave, I know, but those who oppose and stay, at least, we can talk about it in a spirited conversation," Sterling said. Cambridge, like many of its residents, revels in its image as a bastion of liberalism. It's also a city of many firsts, like both E. Denise Simmons and Kenneth Reeves being the first African American openly queer mayors of a major U.S. city. But underneath Cambridge's liberal facade is a rampant racism that came to light globally in the racial profiling of Harvard professor Henry "Skip" Louis Gates during his arrest by a white cop this past July. Evident, too, is a toxic homophobia in black congregations of both liberal white denominations and historical black ones, which put several communities under both spiritual and sexual siege. For example, Reeves, who was once a longtime worshipper at the historic African-American St. Paul's A.M.E in Cambridge, left that church after May 2004, when Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage, because the church made it clear it would neither bless same-sex unions nor marry its queer parishioners. Mayor Simmons, a native Cantabridgian -- who presides over a diverse demographic consisting of people from various racial, cultural, economic, and sexual orientations -- had only one church she could go to with the hopes of not being turned down. "I am cognizant of the deeper societal implications of this marriage...[St. Bartholomew] might be the very first mainstream African American church to hold a same-gender wedding," Simmons told the Cambridge Chronicle. In preparing her parishioners for their leap of faith, Sterling wrote in a letter to them stating the following: I am aware of all the Bible verses conservatives cite in opposition to homosexuality, and I am also aware that there is more than one way to look at each one of those verses. If we believe that the Spirit continues to guide the church in the interpretation of scripture, as was done with respect to slavery and the status of women, then we have to consider the possibility that the Spirit is speaking today, as the hearts and minds of so many people at so many levels of Bible scholarship no longer read those verses as a blanket condemnation of same-sex relationships, or as a reason to deny committed, faithful couples a blessing on their marriage. To be in full compliance with the canons of the Episcopal Church, which would avoid Sterling confronting ecclesiastical probation or being defrocked, the wedding liturgy was divided among three officiates: The Rev. Sterling; Jada D. Simmons, the mayor's oldest daughter and Justice of the Peace; and me. I was elated to be a part of this liturgical assembly line helping to make a historic event happened within the church's ecclesial strictures. Sterling did the invocation, declaration of consent to marry, and blessing of the marriage; Simmons pronounced the marriage; and I did the homily, blessing of rings, and vows. As the wedding service ended, with Simmons and Hayes walking down the aisle as a married couple, the church clapping, and the choir singing the gospel tune "Oh Happy Day," I turned to Sterling and asked what she thought about the service. "I'm feeling the history of the moment and what it must have been when black folks were able to marry." Historically, as African Americans, we have always focused on spiritual content of family and not its physical composition. Hayes spoke to me about the spiritual content of her family when she said, "Of course, to have my marriage and my wedding to be in an historic event is phenomenal. But the bottom line is as wonderful as all that is, I have married the woman I love, Denise Simmons." These multiple family structures, which we have had to devise as models of resistance and liberation, have always shown the rest of society what really constitutes family. A grandmother raising her grandchild or a lesbian couple raising their children as in the Simmons-Hayes household that is now legal according to the state and blessed by the church -- families both. More on Gay Marriage
 
On 9/11, Day Of Mourning Becomes Day Of Service Top
NEW YORK — Americans planned beach cleanups, packages for soldiers and save-the-tree fundraisers along with familiar remembrances in three cities to mark eight years since the attacks of Sept. 11, the first time the anniversary was named a national day of service. "Instead of us simply remembering the horrible events and more importantly the heroes who lost their lives on 9/11, we are all going to turn into local heroes," said Ted Tenenbaum, a Los Angeles repair shop owner who offered free handyman services Thursday and planned to do so again Friday. Similar donations of time and labor were planned across the country after President Barack Obama and Congress declared the day would be dedicated to service this year for the first time. Some Americans are suspicious about the new commemoration, though, fearing it could overshadow a somber day of remembrance for nearly 3,000 people killed aboard four jetliners and at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and a field in western Pennsylvania. "When I first heard about it, I was concerned," said Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the American Airlines pilot of the hijacked jet that crashed into the Pentagon. "I fear, I greatly fear, at some point we'll transition to turning it into Earth Day where we go and plant trees and the remembrance part will become smaller, and smaller, and smaller." In a column in American Spectator magazine last month, conservative commentator Matthew Vadum wrote that the push for volunteerism was an attempt "to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks and community gardens." The criticism didn't dampen spirits of those who planned to participate, though. Sue Katz, a tour bus guide in New York City, planned a walking tour in Central Park to raise money to repair damage after hundreds of century-old trees were toppled by a recent storm. Katz called the park "New York City's lungs" and said of the fundraiser, "This is my way to give back." A Boston group founded by victims' family members – two of the four planes left from Boston – planned to write letters to U.S. soldiers overseas and pack CARE packages. In San Diego, Dave Matthews Band bassist Stefan Lessard is sponsoring a cleanup of Ocean Beach. Volunteers who made firefighters' meals or helped remove tons of debris from the World Trade Center site planned to join family members to read names of more than 2,700 victims killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to attend the ceremony in New York, while President Barack Obama was to meet with family members for a ceremony at the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. In New York, thousands planned moments of silence four times – twice for when jetliners crashed into a Trade Center tower, and for the moments the towers collapsed. A wreath was to be laid at a memorial to the Pentagon, where 184 people died when a hijacked jet slammed into the building. Obama and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were to meet with victims' family members. The president will "speak about what the day means and the sacrifices of thousands, not just at the Pentagon, but in Pennsylvania and certainly and most obviously in New York," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Near Shanksville, Pa., where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed, former Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver the keynote speech. At 10:03 a.m., the time the plane crashed, the names of the 40 passengers and crew will be read and bells will be tolled. Among the hundreds of people expected to attend is Jose Melendez-Perez, a Customs agent credited with refusing entry to the country a man officials believe was supposed to be the fifth hijacker aboard the flight. The official 9/11 Commission report said hijackers deliberately crashed the plane in Pennsylvania as passengers were trying to wrest control of the cockpit. ___ Associated Press writers Nancy Benac in Washington and Dan Nephin in Pittsburgh contributed to this report. More on Barack Obama
 
Top Rank, Yankees Suggest Yankee Stadium May Host Boxing Matches Top
NEW YORK — Manny Pacquiao stood face-to-face with Miguel Cotto on a makeshift stage set up along the first base line, the wind whipping off the facade of the new Yankee Stadium and sending a chill through thousands of partisan fans. If only two of the best fighters in the world had gloves strapped on. Pacquiao, considered the pound-for-pound best, and welterweight champion Cotto were there merely to announce their Nov. 14 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It's a hotly anticipated ticket, and certain to lure a sellout crowd to the desert destination known in the boxing world as "Fight Town." Yet their presence Thursday was reminiscent of the days when New York City held that mantle, when major boxing events were common at Madison Square Garden and the old Yankee Stadium. While there are still sporadic attractions at the Garden, most of the punches thrown in the Bronx the last three decades came from irascible former Yankees manager Billy Martin. All could be changing, promoters and team officials said, alluding to the possibility of major fights at the new, $1.5 billion stadium next year. "We have a history of bringing big fights to the Yankee Stadium," said promoter Bob Arum, who put on Muhammad Ali's bout against Ken Norton on Sept. 28, 1976, a fight remembered more for the chaos caused by a police strike than anything else. "It's something we'd like to do again." Arum had approached the Yankees several times over the past 30 years about staging another event at the stadium, but George Steinbrenner and club brass were tepid about erecting a ring and seating on the immaculate infield grass. With the new leadership of Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, and better means of protecting the field, Arum is hopeful that a fight will come off at the ballpark next year. "I think one of the reasons we had the press conference here is a precursor for a big, big event," Arum told The Associated Press. "Certainly a big fight is going to happen next year, and it's going to happen at Yankee Stadium." The obvious megafight would pit the winner of Pacquiao-Cotto against the winner of next weekend's showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez – an idea that even appealed to Yankees chief operating officer Lonn Trost. "There'll be a winner of this fight and a winner of the Mayweather fight," Trost said. "Where better to hold that fight than Yankee Stadium?" Trost declined to say whether there have been negotiations about holding a fight in the "House that Jeter Built," but the Yankees are eager to bring revenue-producing events beyond baseball to the stadium. Already, several college football games are scheduled for the next few years, including Notre Dame vs. Army in November 2010. Arum said it's unlikely that the Mayweather-Marquez and Pacquiao-Cotto winners would face each other, but it's possible that Cotto could cede his traditional spot at Madison Square Garden on the even of the Puerto Rican Day parade to up-and-coming star Juan Manuel Lopez. That would free Cotto, who has a huge following in the Bronx, to headline in the ballpark. "We're going to get one here at Yankee Stadium," said Melvina Lathan, the head of the New York State Athletic Commission. "We've got to come back and revisit Yankee Stadium." Great fights have been held in ballparks for decades, including some of the seminal moments for a sport that treasures its history. Yankee Stadium, of course, is where Ray Robinson collapsed in the heat against Joey Maxim, and where Carmen Basilio shocked the world by beating Sugar himself. Joe Louis not only knocked out Max Schmeling under the twinkling lights, but struck a blow against Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany when he dropped the Black Uhlan of the Rhine in the first round. Other ballparks have showcased big fights, from Louis winning the heavyweight title against James Braddock at Chicago's Comisky Park, to epic battles at the Polo Grounds, Griffth Stadium, Ebbets Field and Fenway Park. Some see those days as a bygone era, a moment in time that can never be replicated. Arum sees an opportunity to return boxing to the forefront of the American psyche, in one of its most hallowed sporting grounds. "Yankee Stadium had a great tradition of boxing," he said, "and hopefully with the new Yankee Stadium, we'll start a new tradition."
 
Peter Henne: A Changing Threat: Al-Qaeda Eight Years Later Top
The morning of September 11th, 2001 still weighs heavily on my mind. It was my second week of college, and I -- two hours outside of New York City -- was slowly adjusting to leaving my family in Pennsylvania when news of the attack reached my college. As the days passed, my classmates and I regained a sense of normalcy, but two sensations persisted past that tragic morning: imminent danger and anxious uncertainty. Eight years later, the imminence has faded but the uncertainty remains. Our greatest challenge now is to prevent this uncertainty from masking the seriousness of the threat al-Qaida (AQ) poses to America. The American perception of AQ has developed greatly since 2001. President Bush's "global war on terror" -- sustained in part through GOP threat inflation -- has largely been discredited, with President Obama and Congressional Democrats reformulating US counterterrorism policy. Yet, the public appears uncertain of the threat AQ currently poses, and wary of Obama's approach. Confusing this uncertainty with an actual decline in AQ's significance, however, is misguided. A brief survey of recent news stories on AQ illustrates why: • US citizens in both href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1912512,00.html">Long Island, NY and North Carolina have been accused of supporting terrorist activities, some linked directly to AQ. • AQ affiliates in both Algeria and Yemen continue to conduct serious attacks, such as the attempted assassination of a Saudi Prince by the latter. The affiliates are sustained by aid from AQ and political safe-havens created by regional instability. • Individuals tied to AQ have emerged recently in several countries, including Russia and the Philippines . These incidents present an image of AQ that is neither innocuous nor the existential bogeyman of right-wing imagination. AQ is a shadowy network ranging from the United States to Southeast Asia, intent on spreading a radical form of Islam and attacking US interests. Yet, this does not mean it is a monolithic threat waiting to pounce as soon as Americans question the Bush-era use of torture. Instead, AQ operates through four distinct but related methods. First, AQ takes advantage of safe-havens like the Afghan-Pakistan border to train recruits and launch attacks. Second, it forms alliances with indigenous Muslim groups who are often motivated by local concerns rather than religion; AQ provides material support to these groups, leading some of them to adopt its cause. Third, AQ recruits fighters to travel to conflict areas and conduct savage attacks, as occurred in Iraq. Finally, AQ uses its impressive propaganda machine to spread its message through satellite television and the internet. The result is a terrorist network whose exact workings are shrouded in uncertainty but still poses a threat to US interests. Three conclusions emerge from the current state of AQ. First, AQ can greatly influence local conflicts but does not control them; the United States must work to disrupt AQ operatives while engaging local actors to resolve disputes. Second, AQ will exploit the lack of stable, democratic governments, so US policy must focus on reforming and developing weak and failed states to prevent this exploitation. Finally, AQ's greatest weapon is not its bombs but its voice, and the threat it will hijack discourse in the Muslim world, which requires a concerted US outreach campaign to counteract. Fortunately, Obama is pursuing all these policies. In Afghanistan, Obama has attempted to differentiate between hard-core AQ supporters and local fighters to undermine broad support for AQ and its Taliban allies, an approach that should be applied elsewhere. He also emphasizes economic and social development in Afghanistan to dissolve terrorist safe-havens. Finally, beginning with his excellent speech on US-Muslim relations in Turkey this Spring, Obama has launched a public diplomacy campaign that will help to restore a positive American image among Muslim societies. These efforts will be tough. Obama has to make up for years of GOP mistakes. Also, his nuanced approach is not as simple as either Bush-style militarism or isolationism, but is most appropriate to deal with the nebulous network AQ has become. Our struggle against AQ -- from Afghanistan to Algeria -- will be difficult, with progress clouded in uncertainty. But we can succeed. If the American people realize the nature of AQ and the potential value of Obama's counterterrorism strategy, we can ensure that the terror of 9/11 remains a memory. More on Afghanistan
 
Anthony Papa: Leslie Crocker Snyder Exposed Top
Here is a powerful and poignant video of Terrance Stevens slamming Leslie Crocker Snyder, who is running for Manhattan District Attorney. While Snyder is campaigning that she is for the reform of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, and has only sentenced kingpins to harsh sentences, this is not true. Now, former Rockefeller offender Terrance Stevens speaks out. Stevens was sentenced to 15 years to life. He spent 10 years in prison in a wheelchair paralyzed and could not move. Stevens is the founder and executive director of In Arms Reach, Inc., a non-profit art, music, prison visitation and educational mentoring organization that serves youth ages 7 to 18 whose parents are or were formerly incarcerated. IN ARMS REACH, INC. is a non-profit art, music, prison visitation and educational mentoring organization that exclusively services children whose parents are or were formerly offenders of the criminal justice system. IN ARMS REACH
 
Court Says Employer Must Pay For 340-Pound Employee's Weight-Loss Surgery Top
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee's weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work – raising concern among businesses bracing for more such claims. The Indiana Court of Appeals decision, coupled with a recent Oregon court ruling, could make employers think twice before hiring workers with health conditions that might cost their companies thousands of dollars at a shot down the road. "This kind of situation will happen again ... and employers are undoubtedly worried about that," said Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute in Princeton, N.J., an offshoot of the American Civil Liberties Union. Boston's The Gourmet Pizza must pay for lap-band surgery for Adam Childers, a cook at the store in Schererville, under last month's Indiana ruling that upheld a 4-3 decision by the state's workers' compensation board. Childers, who was then 25, weighed 340 pounds in March 2007 when he was accidentally struck in the back by a freezer door. Doctors said he needed surgery to ease his severe pain, but that the operation would do him no good unless he first had surgery to reduce his weight, which rose to 380 pounds after the accident. His employers agreed to pay for the back surgery, but argued they were not obligated to pay for a weight-loss operation that could cost $20,000 to $25,000, because Childers already was obese before he was hurt. The board and the court, however, said the surgery – and disability payments while Childers was unable to work – were covered because his weight and the accident had combined to create a single injury. They said Boston's didn't present any evidence that his weight had been a medical problem before the accident. Boston's attorney, Kevin Kearney of South Bend, said the company has asked the court to hear the case again. He declined to comment further. The Dallas-based company, which has more than 50 franchise stores in 25 states, also declined to comment Wednesday. A message seeking comment also was left with the restaurant in Schererville. "There's actually a string of cases across the country that have reached similar conclusions," said Childers' attorney, Rick Gikas of Merrillville. He cited cases in Ohio, California, Oregon, Florida and South Dakota, including some dating back to 1983. The most recent was in Oregon, where the state's Supreme Court ruled Aug. 27 that the state workers' compensation insurance must pay for gastric bypass surgery to ensure that a man's knee replacement surgery was effective. But some believe the Indiana case – which experts said reflects general rules of workers' compensation law – could have a chilling effect on business. "The case in Indiana kind of draws a line in the sand," said Tom Lynch, CEO of Lynch, Ryan & Associates Inc., a Wellesley, Mass.-based consulting firm that helps businesses manage workers compensation. What's different, he said, is that it was based not just on state law but on principles used in several states. "I think employers are going to be really upset about this," said Maltby, whose group generally advocates for workers. Part of the reaction stems from people's attitude to obesity, he said. "Because we all think it's his own fault for being so fat, and it's such an expensive procedure, a lot of people would say it isn't fair to the employer." Gikas said Childers has lost some weight on his own during his two years off. Court records said he had also tried to quit smoking. He's still awaiting the surgery. Lynch said the ruling could make employers wary of hiring people who are overweight or have other conditions that might expose them to workplace injury. He noted that employers in all 50 states must take workers "as they are" when they hire them. "Legally, you cannot refuse to hire this 350-pound person because they're 350 pounds. That's illegal. But you might find some other reason not to hire them," he said. Both Lynch and Maltby said the issue won't go away soon, in part because one-third of American adults are considered obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. The index is based on height and weight. Last year, at least 220,000 obesity surgeries were done in the United States, says the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery. And Lynch said the ruling could have repercussions beyond obesity and weight-loss surgery. "Who among us does not have some kind of situation that either now or in the future ... could contribute to an injury?" he said. "This could be a big deal."
 
Dan Abramson: Politics: No Grownups Allowed Top
I'm new to politics. For years I have avoided being an adult, and immersing myself in serious world affairs seemed like it would be the nail in the coffin for my childhood. In the meantime, I've mostly restricted myself to following pop culture and referencing Craig T. Nelson vehicles (Say what you want about The Skulls , but we all know that Coach's performance was a tour de force.) So I was a bit surprised when I turned on the TV last night and all my favorite shows were being pre-empted by some speech about health care. But given my recent decision to grow up, I figured I'd check it out and see what all the hubbub was about. Here's what I saw: Obama giving a hell of a speech, while some bored guy behind him rubbed his temple, seemingly thinking, "I had no idea this would last this long. I hope this isn't pre-empting all my favorite shows." And in one section of the audience, I saw a bunch of children, who like me, have avoided growing up. The scene reminded me of high school, where the student body President (Obama, in this case) just announced that he'd like to put a vending machine in the cafeteria, and some jock with too much hair gel would scream out, "Shut up, dork!" and then high-five his Dave Matthews Band-listening friends. But a vending machine would be awesome, wouldn't it? "Reduced price Snapples for all," Obama would say. Who wouldn't want that? Maybe a bunch of bullies who didn't want to listen to what the vending machine would offer. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" outburst seemed especially juvenile. It contained no original thought or sentence structure - just a burst of whatever words popped into his head. Wilson may as well have screamed out, "Fag!", which would have had the same affect. Just an immature blowhard causing a ruckus because he's worried he's not getting enough attention. Had Wilson been a high schooler, he surely would've been reprimanded by some guidance counselor and been forced forced to apologize. And, like his actual apology, it would be bullshit. "Sorry you're such a dork," he would say. After watching this, I realized that my refusal to follow politics because it's too adult has all been for naught. Apparently, some politicians are less mature than me. More on Health Care
 
Andy Borowitz: Sanford: Finally, I'm No Longer the Biggest Douche in S. Carolina Top
A jubilant Gov. Mark Sanford met with reporters in South Carolina today, telling them he was "ecstatic to no longer be the biggest douche in this state." The embattled governor said he "practically danced a jig" when he saw Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)'s outburst on television last night, adding, "That Joey boy did me a solid." Rep. Wilson could not be reached for comment, as aides said he was busy barking at passing cars. More here . More on Mark Sanford
 
Inhofe A Birther? Says Suing Would Take Years, "Damage Is Already Done" Top
This morning, at the "Freedom Summit" that kicked off three days of small government Tea Party protests, I broke from a conversation I'd been having with some attendees when one of them approached Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and asked about the feasibility of suing the government over unconstitutional legislation. Inhofe, seemingly out of nowhere, brought up the example of President Obama's citizenship.
 
Americans Are Finally Saving: A Disaster For Retailers Top
After a year of economic crisis and an even longer slump, the nation's retailers are facing a consumer who's more reluctant to buy than ever before in modern times. All signs point to a new era of frugality. More on Economy
 
Daisy Whitney: Video: Aggregators Switching to Tech Face Tough Road, thePlatform CEO Says Top
SEATTLE, WA--Making the shift from a video aggregator to a video platform is not easy--that's the warning from Ian Blaine, CEO of thePlatform who spoke to Beet.TV this summer about the shakeout in the online video business this year and how it will continue to unfold. Already, casualties of 2009 include content makers like 60 Frames and ManiaTV , while other online video firms are changing management, as Move Networks has done , or changing business models, as Joost is attempting in its transition from aggregator to white-label platform provider. The latter is an especially tough feat to pull off, Blaine told us . That's because the platform business is already competitive and filled with companies that have experience, technology and proven cash flow. "[Back in 2006] there was a lot of speculation in the market to create the next YouTube, so a lot of companies that took that money re-oriented to where the platform is -- providing services to media companies," he explained. "But that takes functionality and experience to make it work...so we have seen a shakeout in companies trying to compete." To succeed in the video platform business requires not just solid technology, but also distribution and search engine optimization. Plus, many of the players in this field like thePlatform, Brightcove , ExtendMedia and Magnify.net are already making money , making it tougher for new players to make inroads. On Sept. 10, thePlatform announced more than 20 new partners for its partner program called Framework. Partners can integrate with thePlatform tools and customers. New partners include Yume, Brightroll, Visible Measures, TubeMogul and others, bringing the total number of partners to more than 80. This video was originally published on Beet.TV. More on Economy
 
The Recession's Accidental Entrepreneurs (SLIDESHOW) Top
The recession has put thousands of people out of work, creating a new class of accidental entrepreneurs . Whether by ingenuity or just plain luck, many of newly unemployed have formed their own small businesses as a result of the shrinking job pool. Last week, we asked readers to share their stories of becoming an accidental entrepreneur and today we made a slideshow of your submissions. Please note, the slides and captions were submitted by readers and not the editors of the Huffington Post. More on The Recession
 
SEC Officials Promise Changes After Madoff Failure Top
 
Deborah Calla: Love Thyself Top
Today I read an Oprah.com article on CNN.com ( here ) about self-esteem.  I don’t know if issues of self-esteem are more prevalent among women but I could certainly identify with the writer.  I’ve been working on my own issue of self-esteem for a very long time.  People that know me would find this statement strange as I am a very self-assured and loud woman. But I never think I’m enough.  That is how my lack of love for myself or self-esteem issue manifests itself. I’ve had many accomplishments in life but I don’t get to appreciate and enjoy them because when they are happening I’m already moving on, thinking it was nothing.  Another way my self-esteem shows its ugly head is, I’ve always thought why would a man want to be with me?  Even when I was twenty I already saw myself as old and having to catch up with so and so – people I didn’t even know – because they were my age and in my mind were already ahead of me. I of course like everyone else, can trace some of this to my family life.  At home, I was the one who was dishing out advices to all the members in the family.  They appreciated that but favored my sibling. So as a child I felt, here I am being giving, mature and understanding but playing second fiddle.  I can also remember at age sixteen telling my dad that I had decided to start ballet to only have him say I was already too old to make a career out of it. So for many years I walked around considering myself as a factory reject and getting into all kinds of situations with men who couldn’t possibly love me (not because of me but because of themselves) and if I could make one of them love me then maybe I was worthy after all.  I’m not blaming my family for any of this.  We loved each other and continue to do so and we all try our best.  I’m also mature enough to know my life is my responsibility.   I believe a life is really about getting to know oneself, changing that which makes us unhappy and becoming our own best friend in the most loving of ways; understanding and accepting. I believe we can only affect a positive change in our life if we first change something within us that causes unhappiness and/or turmoil.   Easy to know that what I’m saying is true.  Just pick any rich, beautiful, intelligent, young person out there who is completely miserable to know that the problem is within that person.  On the other hand, there are plenty of simple people that are happy or satisfied.  I’m by no means saying that rich people are unhappy and poor people are happy.  I’m just pointing out that the ingredients that all of us consider being the ones to bring satisfaction in life, if not supported by an internal understanding, love and acceptance of our selves, become almost ineffective. Orson Welles said “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” I agree with his statement but I think it’s incomplete.  I really believe that in befriending ourselves we can find the companionship that we so much crave. So what do I do about my self-esteem issue?  I slow down and try to appreciate something that I really enjoy.  In my case it can be as simple as a beautiful glass of wine or playing with my dog.  Somehow the joy of those simple activities brings me a sense of well being. I also look around and think where I have been and what I have done and I take a deep breath and try to appreciate my accomplishments.  And mostly I remind myself that my journey is my own and at the end only my best friend (myself) and I will know the entirety of my life and know I have tried to do everything that I set myself out to do and that I was human and I loved and it was a job well done.       More on Happiness
 
Mary Lyon: Just Another Joe Wilson to Love Top
9 10 09 Just Another Joe Wilson to Love By Mary Lyon I love Joe Wilson. Again! Which sets me up here and now to make sure a critical distinction is made. Joe Wilson is not Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador whom I really do love for the devotion and fiery outrage he's displayed in nonstop defense of his wife, outed CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame. The other Joe Wilson, by contrast, seems more like an inhabitant of Superman's Bizarro World. But make no mistake, I heartily celebrate him nonetheless! This Joe Wilson may not necessarily be the Evil Twin of Plame's husband. But he indeed is the newly-crowned, self-appointed hero of the politically deranged. As such, these are ironically some of the very folks who would certainly stand to benefit most of all from Obama's efforts to clean up the health care mess and make insurance coverage more widely available and affordable. I was outraged, of course, while watching President Barack Obama's Wednesday night speech to a Joint Session of Congress, to see Congressman Wilson loudly blurt "liar!" WHILE Obama was speaking. This thoughtless pipsqueak brought shame upon himself, his constituents in his 2nd district in South Carolina, and to the entire Republican Congressional delegation. The Second District, according to Wikipedia, is located "in central and eastern South Carolina. It includes all of Lexington, Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale and Barnwell counties; almost all of Richland County and parts of Aiken, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties. It is based in the state capital, Columbia; other major cities in the district are Beaufort and Hilton Head Island." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_2nd_congressional_district The benign, smiling face in Joe Wilson's official representative's portrait is lightyears distant from the GOP Gargoyle-du-Jour he became on the night of Obama's speech. That signature candid of Wilson rudely interrupting the President, pointing, mouth agape, having just formed a loud and hugely inappropriate diss of the President, will live in both infamy and on the internet. http://blog.taragana.com/n/joe-wilson-shouts-you-lie-to-obama-164298/ I couldn't be more delighted. Thank you Joe Wilson, for voluntarily becoming the angry, twisted, insolent face of the Republican naysayers, "NO-bodies," and assorted nattering nabobs of negativity (hey, this fellow is becoming one BIGTIME inspiration - I'm getting totally carried away here)! Mr. Wilson, you've just birthed a poster child for all those folks who insist on creating ugly, out-of-control displays and tantrums on your side of the fence. Makes our job that much easier! Plus, while you're busy dining on crow all the following day, your Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, has spent the morning digging out from under an avalanche of fresh new campaign donations - estimated at least double the stated hundred-thousand-dollar goal. http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/19079 I'm certain the flip side has been left mumbling "say it ain't so, Joe!" for what may be several news cycles in a row. Joe Wilson accomplished something rather impressive. Suddenly, the GOP was knocked off its stride yet again, while already reeling on the heels of a vigorous and impressive speech by Barack Obama. Just what they needed to put a cherry on top of their PR offensive (an even more relevant term now) was for one of their own acting like a cretin to draw attention to their stubborn incivility and lack of willingness to work with the President. Certainly many of them were hardly innocent themselves. Plenty of them were busy with texting, waving papers and leaflets, harrumphing loudly, and other rude stunts during the speech when they were supposed to be paying at least some attention and showing respect. Thanks Joe! Now THAT'S leadership. Outstanding example to set. A REAL family value! You ALL must be so proud. The whole sordid display reminded me of a TV commercial for a local men's clothing store in which the spokesman says - "you're gonna like the way you look." So, Republicans, do you like how you guys look now? Evidently not. The next day, cable TV was awash in uncomfortable, hesitant, embarrassed Republicans trying to dial it back a notch. Whether it was an uncharacteristically warm-fuzzy Michael Steele commercial, or self-styled firebrands Eric Cantor and John Boehner turning the volume down on the verbal punches they were now delicately trying to pull, these political WWF combatants seemed extra defensive. Even some of the pundits were more circumspect. Washington Post contributor Jonathan Capehart on MSNBC noted that if any Democrats had behaved that boorishly when George W. Bush was speaking, there would have been Seven Levels of Hell to pay. Objectively, this is not what the "'loyal' opposition" needs as its members keep trying to throw banana peels into Obama's path. They're still hoping to make the face behind the Oval Office desk - and not the faces they see in their own bathroom mirrors - look bad. But, not surprisingly, they overreach, throwing too many banana peels on the pavement, leaving plenty available for them to slip on, too. The marginally-penitent Congressman offered an apology following across-the-board condemnation. That's mighty big of you, Joe. Almost as big as your mouth. Or the hole in your head. For all I know, they're interchangeable. Doesn't matter. The damage, thankfully, has been done. You've unintentionally knocked your own forces off-message, Mr. Wilson, giving your side a very messy bloody nose by behaving like a swine. I hope the Democrats and pro-Obama/pro-health care reform groups take full advantage, because this kind of break doesn't happen often. The GOP just loaded and gassed up a battle-ready battering ram, and handed the Democrats the keys. Here's hoping the Dems know how to drive it - through every kind of terrain. Email: joe.wilson@mail.house.gov ---- Contact Rep. Joe Wilson via Web Form. Website: joewilson.house.gov Washington, D.C. Office: 212 Cannon House Office Building, District of Columbia 20515-4002 Phone: (202) 225-2452 Fax: (202) 225-2455 Beaufort Office: (more district offices) 903 Port Republic Street Beaufort, South Carolina 29902 Phone: (843) 521-2530 Fax: (843) 521-2535 Beaufort Office: 903 Port Republic Street Beaufort, South Carolina 29902 Phone: (843) 521-2530 Fax: (843) 521-2535 West Columbia Office: 1700 Sunset Boulevard (US 378), Suite 1 West Columbia, South Carolina 29169 Phone: (803) 939-0041 Fax: (803) 939-0078 More on Barack Obama
 
Caroline Myss: America: At the Crossroads of Fate and Destiny Top
History offers us very few pivotal opportunities to intercede in the disintegrating fate of a nation and to once again animate its destiny. We stand now at such a momentous crossroads, and it is up to all of us to handle this moment and the delicate power that is presently rushing through our collective spirit with a heightened awareness that we are setting great consequences in motion. It has fallen upon the shoulders of President Obama and this Congress to make decisions bold enough to reanimate America's destiny. And along with Obama and this Congress, we are the generation of Americans to whom the task has been given to renew the Founding Fathers' vision of liberty, humanism, and a devotion to equality of law, or we shall be the generation remembered for having let this vision perish. Such is the power of standing at the crossroads of fate and destiny. It is a privilege to be alive at a time when history calls us to a position of great awakening and maturity of action. Like the climate that spawned the American Revolution or gave this nation the stamina to hold itself together through the shattering of a devastating Civil War, crossroads of fate and destiny demand that individuals respond to their nation as they never have before, as if the nation itself was calling to them for aid. But such a privilege comes with responsibilities. We must pause and assess this path America is on and not from through the typical political lens of Republican versus Democrat. Rather, the force of destiny demands courageous leadership and choices that are bold, often forging new pathways that must be taken because the old ways have ceased to be productive. When individuals come to a crossroads of fate and destiny in their own life, it is an opportunity to start again, but that new beginning cannot look like the life they are leaving behind. They must relinquish patterns of behavior that have become dysfunctional. The shedding of the old patterns is painful, make no mistake. There is nothing simple, easy, or comfortable about arriving at these crossroads of life. They are indeed symbolic roads of crucifixion. And yet they are also inevitable. No road in life, not the road of a nation or of an individual, is a smooth and direct path. As I watched President Obama address the joint session of Congress, detailing his vision of health care coverage for all Americans, I also saw him as someone confronting the forces of fate and destiny. I imagined this Congress standing alongside him on this cosmic power point, not capable of ever realizing that their actions, cleverly disguised as the business of politics, were actually having an intensified field effect upon the psyche of this nation. This is the moment that history has chosen for us to address this question: Shall we shift our direction from the fearful and divisive path we have been walking on for almost a decade or shall we come together again as one nation and envision a new future? Such a decision is of cosmic proportions though such questions generally are disguised within an issue that brings up great controversy within the populace. But such controversy and bubbling outrage that comes to the surface over any one issue -- in this case it's health care -- is not really fully about health care. The health care issue is actually the straw on the camel's back. The truth is this epidemic of outrage is rooted in the fact that at our instinctual level, we know our nation is changing -- not because of the policies of President Obama, or even because of the many blunders of all the previous administrations. Our nation is changing because the times we live in call for dramatic shifts in our way of life, and though we would love to return to the golden years of post World War II and Happy Days and Donna Reed and Disneyland, and the myth that we are entitled to earn more than are parents just because we are Americans, what we are now experiencing is the shattering of that myth -- and it hurts. Health care, symbolically translated, "Who is going to care for me?", just happens to be the perfect issue to shatter the myth that we will always have everything we want because we are entitled to it. But that shattering is not the fault of the Republicans or the Democrats. It's just time for that myth to shatter because it can no longer be sustained by momentum of our own economics and the evolution of where we fit in with the rest of the world. We now have to readjust ourselves, our economics, our politics, our sense of who we are, what we need -- not what we think we are entitled to -- but what we need, according to an organic global scale and not an ego-fear driven scale that constantly tells us that if we do not dominate everything and everyone, we are doomed to starve. It is the timing of history and the pressure of global and environmental changes that we cannot control that are now calling the shots, changes so vast and powerful that we have yet to even notice them. To squeeze just a sample of what I am referring to into this article, consider the dynamic force of "change" itself. We have an inherent fear of change. We don't like change to surprise us and thus we have devised means, useless as they are in the long run, to ward off random visitations of unscheduled upheavals. We hold tight to the illusion that money, status, and positioning oneself to control others -- all the entitlements of politicians, for example -- actually have the authority to command the laws of nature. Thus the thinking in the ordinary mind is, "Given enough money, I can control enough people (or enough countries) and make them yield to certain decisions, thus preventing other things from happening. Why, I can even stop evolution from happening." Or so the Republicans along with the Blue Dog Democrats believe, as evidenced by the way they conduct themselves when asked for solutions instead of critical feedback. They rely upon spin and arrogance as the most sophisticated tools, both of which are admissions that they have no ideas whatsoever. In truth, we have entered a new era of change itself and that alone has brought us to these crossroads. We are now living in a world in which all change is of universal proportions, affecting all nations of this world in some way with a speed never before experienced. And that "speed of intimacy" will only increase in the years to come. The forces of change are also felt immediately by the masses of humanity. Epidemics travel by planes, terrorism can strike anywhere at any time, the markets in one country shift our wealth while we sleep in this country. The nature of change as it now exists has disintegrated all familiar boundaries. And thus we must now think of all change as having ascended to the status of "profound". The significance of the choices we make as a nation and as individuals in support of our nation -- or opposed to it -- will matter more at this time than can be measured. We are energetically linked to the global community, moving our thoughts around this planet to hundreds if not thousands of people in seconds. This power of the Internet, as it is referred to, is new to our world and it is a profound power, not a casual one, as it holds the potential of contributing great truth or great lies without being held personally responsible for either initiating these actions or their consequences. Yet, such actions have consequences, as we are now witnessing in the response to the lies manufactured about death panels, for example. In our collective intuitive gut, we know we are standing at the precipice of great change and in keeping with this new era of energy we are in, these changes are indeed happening at light speed. We don't want the familiar, cozy, wonderful parts of the American lifestyle to come under scrutiny, but the fact is that is exactly what is happening. Again, this is not the result of the policies of the Republicans or Democrats. It's simply what happens at the end of a cycle and we have come to the end of a cycle of American history. What we as well as our politicians are responsible for, however, is how well we negotiate this moment in time. What we must hold them accountable for is the management of their pride, their arrogance, their lies, their decisions not to participate in a bi-partisan government and to continue the blood bath politics so cleverly crafted by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, and to sabotage all the efforts of President Obama to forge a new path out of a burning forest. And shall we even mention that their collective arrogance and rage has reached such a low level that Republican Congressman Joe Wilson actually screamed, "You lie" during Obama's speech? If we look carefully at the behavior of the Republican clan, however, it is not difficult to see through their foggy brains and well-rehearsed behavior. People or individuals who rely upon arrogant and sarcastic behavior and opinions as weapons of mass destruction do so because they are frightened, confused, and lack any sense of how to lead the nation themselves. Truth be told, they are probably relieved as birds out of a cage that they are not in charge of the White House this session. Why? Because they know that the American tradition -- and it's not a good one -- is to forget who made the mess we're in and blame the present administration for not fixing things within the first six months of the new term. They knew all along that if McCain and Lipstick-Palin didn't get in, they could continue to play their Karl Rovian tactics and sabotage good people along with any plans that challenged corporate wallets. It actually works in their favor to have Obama take the hits for the cowardice with which they managed this country during the last administration (and this time I am referring to the Bush administration, the wars in the Middle East, the huge debt Obama inherited, Wall Street policies, subprime mortgages, etc). As a result of these last years under Rove and Cheney, the Republicans have become very clever at anger management -- by that I mean managing the anger of Americans. Repression and threats of anti-patriotism were their most effective methods of controlling the anger of the American public. Now that Americans do not feel as frightened to speak out, pent up anger that is years old is pouring out and Republicans are using that anger, as cleverly and effectively as Goebbels did under Hitler. They want to scare their own nation and keep them scared. They want to continue to build hatred just as Goebbels did. The health care issue is a perfect artery for all this anger, but all this anger is not about this health care issue. Make no mistake about that. It's about having been betrayed by their own government so blatantly for eight years. No wonder Americans are finding it so easy to turn on Obama. In such a tumultuous climate, is it any wonder that we must stand at these crossroads of America's fate and destiny with a genuine realization that we are really standing at these crossroads? True, history itself has brought us to this moment in time, but it is up to us to handle this moment, to breathe our choices into this moment. We cannot go backwards. We cannot return to an America who dominated the world with its wealth and military power and its might. We have been humbled, like it or not. Our soldiers are exhausted -- bless their souls -- and our bank account is busted. Unemployment is sky high and our debt has never been higher. The only way to go now is forwards. And we can do this. If you know anything about the American spirit at all, you know that it finds defeat mighty distasteful. It's much more likely that if you give the American spirit some inspiration, some hope, some encouragement to go forward with pioneering new ideas, it will not fail. Or give America another nation who relies on us for food. We can once again respond to the world with food production. We are a limitless people with a limitless capacity to create, to serve, and to share. We can and we must reanimate the destiny of America because it is in its purest form a destiny of humanism, of liberty, and of free thought. We cannot lose those values. We must not lose them. But most of all, we must not lose sight of the fact that beyond these Republicans and Democrats who are temporarily in office, we are permanently Americans. Any politician who uses his office to foster hatred of a fellow American is committing a form of treason against the fabric of this nation's well being. Such politicians are unfit to be role models for what good American citizens truly are. We must not model our politics on theirs for theirs are tainted with private agendas filled with greed, ambition, and personal gain. We must keep our loyalties focused where they belong -- upon the vision of this nation and not a misguided loyalty to a contaminated political party that fosters hatred of a fellow American. President Obama is certainly not perfect. But he is a man of vision whose desire to serve this nation is sincere and does not come from the entitlement of wounds. And he is the man that history has placed at the crossroads of fate and destiny at this time. It is not surprising that such a man would experience great storms and strong winds. Only those with the strongest of spirits can work alongside the forces of change that sweep through a nation. More on Barack Obama
 
Bloomberg Bids For BusinessWeek, Now "Frontrunner" Top
Bloomberg L.P., the media and information company founded by Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is a surprise last-minute entry in the auction to buy BusinessWeek from the McGraw Hill Companies. Mayor Mike's company is now seen as the frontrunner... More on Magazines
 
Martin Marks: Under the Big Top Top
For me, New York Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week used to be that magical time of year when I'd remind my more modish friends that invitation was the nominal form of the verb to invite (as in: "I received the invitation ," not: "I got your invite "). Back then, all my grammatically hyper-attuned self knew about those eight days were the cluster-drunk parties that seemed to pervade every square inch of Manhattan -- and some of the yachts moored nearby. I watched as waifish editrixes stood with their champagne flutes at half mast, their eyes glazed over with a look that suggested one part dismay, one part blasé , in what I assumed was a contest to see who could strike a more "over it all" pose. How wrong I was. Last year, a friend referred me to a freelance gig covering most of the shows at Bryant Park. By then, I'd worked on an archeological dig in southern Italy -- 12 hour days in temperatures that often peaked at 43 degrees Celsius, a campsite infested with beetles the width of 1000 lira notes and packs of feral dogs that howled all through the night. I'd gone on 10 mile jogs through South Florida's dead August heat, and narrowly escaped death while riding an autobus across the Peruvian mountainside. And yet, I've found that there's been nothing quite so fascinating, or overwhelming, as the eight days I spent picking Empire waists out of a line-up. I arrived at Bryant Park on a Friday morning, freshly showered and well rested -- the last time I'd feel either of those two things for the better part of a week. As if drawing from Dante, all-those-who-enter have to wade through a crush of FIT students hoping to catch a glimpse of a Fergie or von Furstenberg, vying for standing-room-only tickets or handing out Fashion Dailies. Then, it's up the Charonian steps, past the security guards, through the doors and into the scrum itself. To think of this Midtown panoply as just a series of "tents" is like referring to Versailles as France's national bungalow. The area surrounding the Bryant Park fountain becomes an elaborate, corporately-sponsored Grand Central Foyer of Fashion, leading off to Bryant Park's three runways: the smaller Salon, the larger Promenade or the Coliseum-like Tent -- with room to seat almost 1,000 people and sets that sometimes rival those of the Ballet Russes. (Moving the proceedings to Lincoln Center leaves me wondering whether New York would ever host the Super Bowl at Carnegie Hall.) By the second or third show, the clocks start to run on a bizarre, Alice in Wonderland -like schedule (if a show's running 45 minutes late, then it's right on time), which causes the assembled to act as though they're waiting for the last helicopter leaving Saigon. Publicists have the unenviable task of herding photographers, reporters, editors and oddly enthusiastic Japanese camera crews, doing so largely through the use of shrewd, dismissive glares. For eight days, you fight through these crowds, subsist on wayyy-too-strong cappuccinos and infrequent bites of 'Wichcraft goat cheese sandwiches, and line up with New York's most fashionable for port-o-potties that seem as though they've been flown in from the Glastonbury Music Festival. And as with any structure so grand, the tents are impressive, but imperfect. Water sometimes leaks from the roof when it rains, and the temperature never seems to be quite right, so you spend the most of your time in a state of "thermal whiplash" -- the constant transition between Bryant Park's blast furnace heat and Manhattan's February cold -- as you file stories while simultaneously trying to avoid electrocution. I soon found that fashion's Survivor challenge comes replete with its very own Panopticon; you have to avoid electrocution, but you have to do so chicly , with an immaculate wardrobe and accessories to match, because the entire week transpires under the gaze of innumerable cameras and voguish onlookers, with almost all news of the outside world coming from Fashion Dailies or "how busy I am" Facebook status updates -- perhaps the only thing more annoying than the "how fabulous it is" Art Basel Miami update. Naturally, these conditions could only be exacerbated by one factor: the barrels' full of (free) champagne and (free) vodka and (free) wine that springs forth from the stands surrounding Bryant Park Fountain like it was, well, a fountain. Not since my senior prom have I seen more alcohol foisted upon young ladies -- or me. And this is before the actual work of fashion week. By the time the last model walks down -- or in some cases, topples over the side of -- the runway, the casual observer would be hard pressed to describe what the first dress even looked like. But those reporting on the shows need to have mastered an entire host of fashion vocabulary -- the models, designers, seasons, and historical contexts. With each designer showing roughly 40 looks, twice a year, at four main fashion weeks, it's a multiplication table of memorization before you can even begin to formulate the sentence, "Designer X's gowns/shifts/raiment/duds compellingly invoked Designer Y's oeuvre." This being the woeful period in our history before the iPhone thesaurus application, I started running out of synonyms for some very simple, fashion-oriented words after about the eighth show, and spent most of my free time -- that is, between trips to the free beverage bar and from 3 to 6 a.m. -- in a panic to come up with variations for the noun "dress" and the adjectives "beautiful," "whimsical" and "feminine." After a week of synonym-searching, crowd-avoiding, hangover-recovering and clothes-watching, I discovered the synergistic effects of life under the tents. I was watching the cab's video monitor in a taxi speeding back to my apartment when all of a sudden my vision occluded, Mayor Bloomberg's voice became more gravelly than usual, and I fainted. Fortitude, as it pertains to fashion, might not be my strong suit. But at least I had six solid months before the next New York Fashion Week, enough time to find out if Yohji Yamamoto designed riot gear, and to invest several hours in a deep tissue massage, if not a sensory deprivation chamber. More on Fashion Week
 
Deep Sea Robot Investigating Climate Change Top
Crawling along the ocean floor at a rate of one meter per minute, it stops every few feet to collect information from the mud, including oxygen levels, how much marine snow - which is the food source for organisms at that depth - has fallen and other information. More on Climate Change
 
Jen Grisanti: Emotions and Business Top
In reading the incredible thought-provoking book, GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone's Expectations written by Robert K. Cooper, PhD, I became fascinated by the idea of whether our emotions could actually be our "gold" in accomplishing and achieving instead of something that gets in the way. Can we learn to utilize our emotions, our intuitions and our different kinds of intelligence so that we too can achieve and accomplish beyond our wildest dreams? Robert K. Cooper explores different philosophies on intelligence and the benefits of applying more "emotional intelligence" to success. He gives a quote by scientist Gary Klein, who says, "Analysis cannot replace the intuition that is the center of the decision-making process." Cooper says, "Emotional intelligence engages not only the gut and the heart but also the cranial brain's limbic system and even the thinking brain." He quotes Richard Farson, psychologist and President of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, "The one quality that the best leaders agree separates them from their less successful rivals is confidence in their intuition." Farson says that great leaders have "golden guts." Do you use your mind or your gut when it comes to making business decisions? So many people experience situations where they say, "My emotions got in the way." What if you can learn to utilize your emotions so that rather than getting in your way, they pave the way? During my climb up the corporate ladder, I often heard, "Never let them see you cry," and "There's no room for emotions in business." Now, I do agree that it's better not to let them see you cry, but what if there are actually advantages to using your emotions in business? Cooper writes, "Once you have placed something on your schedule because it's important, be sure you derive the most from it by using two questions that keep you linked to your emotional experiential memory." He says to ask yourself first "How can I seize this chance to become more of the person I most want to be?" and secondly, "Have I just acted like the person I most want to be? What did I miss? How can I do better next time?" I love the idea of this. What if we were more conscious and went into our business meetings as well as our personal outings with this consideration? Could learning to use our emotions actually help us to succeed versus being something that gets in our way? It's a new time. So many changes are happening. It is time to start listening more to our intuition. Looking back at your successes and your failures, do you find that disregarding your intuition resulted more in things working or not working the way you wanted them to? I encourage you to start listening on a deeper level to your gut in both business and in life. More on Books
 
Joan Z. Shore: God and Man and Mohammed at Yale Top
God and Man and Mohammed at Yale by Joan Z. Shore Sometime in the 'fifties, William Buckley, Jr. wrote a scathing essay about his university called "God and Man at Yale". He was deploring the free-wheeling liberalism of his alma mater: its "godless" academic tradition. What would Buckley think of Yale today? The Yale University Press is releasing a book next week called "The Cartoons That Shook the World", but decided to delete the twelve cartoons which depict Mohammed. This is rather like publishing a book on Impressionism that is devoid of illustrations. The decision has upset the author, Jytte Klausen. But John Donatich, the director of Yale University Press, said the decision was taken after consulting with "experts" (who never read the manuscript). He said it was based solely on concern that angry Muslim terrorists might resort to violence and attack innocent people, as they did when the cartoons were first published four years ago. Eli Yale must be turning in his grave. This is worse than censorship: this is self-censorship . This is knowing what is right and appropriate and deliberately overriding it. And then trying to rationalize the decision. Let's apply this fright-and-flight reflex to some other areas of American life: * Perhaps we should not rebuild the World Trade Center because terrorists might take offense and attack it again. * Perhaps we should no longer celebrate the sabbath on Sunday. * Perhaps we should put our women in burkas. How far can a free -- and frightened -- society go before it ceases to be free? How can a liberal arts institution keep our respect while it fiddles around with facts and fanatics? I remember that plaintive Yale drinking song from my undergraduate days at Vassar: "We are poor little sheep who have lost our way....Baa, baa, baa". Indeed they have. Today, we raise our mugs to the Pale University Press in New Craven, Connecticut. ### More on Press Freedom
 
Senate Guru: Congressman Joe Sestak Liveblogging RIGHT NOW at Senate Guru Top
Right now, beginning at 5pm Eastern Time, Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak will hold a liveblog session for about an hour at Senate Guru . Congressman Sestak will take your questions, discuss health care reform and the President's address last night, and give us an update on his primary campaign against recent Republican Arlen Specter. It should be a terrific conversation and a great opportunity for you to get 1-on-1 with one of our terrific Democratic candidates for Senate. I hope you can join us at Senate Guru . On the web : Joe Sestak for Senate Senate Guru Senate Guru Facebook Group Senate Guru's Expand the Map! ActBlue Page
 
Media's Most Powerful Women: Oprah, Anne Sweeney, Judy McGrath, Ann Moore & More Top
Several media executives were listed among FORTUNE's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business . Oprah, of course, came in first among the media ladies on the list at #6. ABC's Anne Sweeney (#16), MTV's Judy McGrath (#20), NBCU's Bonnie Hammer (#47) and Lauren Zalaznick (#48) represented the TV world, while Ann Moore (#21) and Cathie Black (#46) represented the magazine industry. The full list of the most powerful women in media below: 6. Oprah Winfrey, Chairman Harpo 2008 Rank - 8 16. Anne Sweeney, Co-chair, Disney Media Networks; President, Disney/ABC Television Group 2008 Rank - 12 20. Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTV Networks Viacom 2008 Rank - 18 21. Ann Moore, Chairman and CEO, Time Inc. 2008 Rank - 20 46. Cathie Black, President Hearst Magazines 2008 Rank - 49 47. Bonnie Hammer, President, NBCU Cable Entertainment And Universal Cable Productions, General Electric 2008 Rank - NEW 48. Lauren Zalaznick, President, NBCU Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks General Electric 2008 Rank - NEW 49. Amy Pascal, Co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment 2008 Rank - Return Read FORTUNE's full list here . More on Oprah
 
Joe Biden To Mark September 11 Anniversary In New York Top
WASHINGTON — The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Biden will take part in the memorial service honoring the victims. The vice president's wife, Jill Biden, will also attend. President Barack Obama will be at the Pentagon Friday to visit the memorial to those who died there in the 2001 attacks and meet victims' families. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will also be at the memorial service in New York. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Biden will take part in the memorial service honoring the victims. The vice president's wife, Jill Biden, will also attend. President Barack Obama will be at the the Pentagon Friday to visit the memorial to those who died there in the 2001 attacks and meet victims' families. More on Joe Biden
 
Do Corporate Giants Own Your Favorite Organic Label? Top
As the market for organic and natural foods has dramatically increased over the past few decades, and large megastores like Walmart and Costco have gotten into the organic business[...] A useful chart put together by Phil Howard, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, helped me to decipher who owns whom. More on Green Living
 
Dan Imhoff: Feed Your Children Well Top
The Child Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization by September 30. This is a federal government policy that sets the rules and standards and uses tax dollars to -- among other things -- provide a daily reimbursement for school lunches. Right now this amounts to $2.57 for a free lunch, including labor and ingredients. It is nowhere close to what most school districts need to put healthy foods on our cafeteria tables and reward all the people who make that possible. Congress will soon consider adding one dollar per meal to the reimbursement, and this still might not be enough. Today's National School Lunch Program , which is a major part of the five-year spending bill called the Child Nutrition Act, provides meals to 30 million children. Many young Americans depend on school meal and snack programs for a great majority of their daily caloric intake. Back in 1946, when the National School Lunch Program began, the idea was to support excess commodity agriculture that could then be used to feed children. But in the years since the mid-1940s, American agriculture has undergone a radical transformation. Family farms gave way to a massive food industry that has flooded the market and our school lunch programs with intensively subsidized commodities and processed foods that are high in sugars, starches, and unhealthy fats and oils. This cheap calorie delivery system -- funded for the past few decades through both the Farm Bill and the Child Nutrition Act -- has become a key player in a growing crisis: the Supersizing of our kids. One in four children are now overweight and obese. The projections for not addressing this situation -- learning to eat better and adopt healthy lifestyles -- are frightening. Future health care costs related to this nutritional epidemic could literally swamp local, state and federal government coffers in coming years. And that is just the financial perspective. It's often easy to get lost in the billions and trillions, in the alphabet soup and acronyms of government legislation. Bills can seem so complex and tedious it is sometimes hard to understand how they affect us personally. One of the beauties of the National School Lunch Program is that we can look around in every community and see our kids who depend on these programs. This year the US arm of the international movement known as Slow Food is circulating a petition asking for some very reasonable changes to the Child Nutrition Act: • $1 increase in the reimbursement per meal • Grants for Farm-to-School and school garden projects to educate every single child in the country on where food comes from, and get the culture back in agriculture • Financial incentives for schools to purchase as many fruits and vegetables as possible from local farmers to keep that money in the community, and to shorten the distance our food has to travel before it reaches our children's cafeteria tables. All this makes sense and deserves our support if only for one single reason. Children need proper nutrition to be good students. They can't make it through an afternoon of focused attention without healthy food. This is actually a national security concern. We can't afford to be a nation of under-achievers. The concept of feeding all of our children well, of teaching them about the beauty and complexity of food production through school gardens and local Farm-to-School programs which actually put fruits and vegetables on their tables, should be a community as well as a national priority. But in order for that to happen, Congress needs to authorize more funding for the program. We should see this long overdue increase to the Child Nutrition Act as a down payment on a new generation that will have a lifetime of good eating habits engrained in them. The idea of healthy foods as preventive health care -- perhaps even as medicine -- is a concept that can and should change the world. For information on a HR 1324, a bill introduced by Lynn Woolsey relating to the Child Nutrition Act, click here . Dan Imhoff is the director of Watershed Media, publisher of the newly released book, " Smart by Nature ," a collaborative project with the Center for Ecoliteracy .
 
Fashion Flashback: Models Dance In Lamé At Betsey Johnson's 1979 Fall Collection (VIDEO) Top
Designer Betsey Johnson has long been known for her eccentric fashion and quirky runway shows. Witness her 1979 Fall Collection. Her models dance down the catwalk, showing off some hot moves and even hotter get-ups: jewel tone lamé dresses and jumpsuits worn in layers or belted. The side ponytail polishes off the look that became big in the '80s. While maybe those styles should stay retired, wouldn't it be nice if runway models had this much fun again? WATCH: 1979 Fall Collection from BJ on Vimeo . Check out more videos on Betsey Johnson's website . Read our Fashion Week Big News page. Follow HuffPost Style on Twitter and become a fan of HuffPost Style on Facebook ! More on Fashion Week
 
Cheetah Cubs With Mother (PHOTOS) Top
Wednesday these adorable cheetah cubs posed for some photos with their mother at the Basel zoo in Switzerland. Check out these great shots. Get HuffPost Green On Facebook and Twitter! More on Photo Galleries
 
Afghanistan: Doubt Grows Over Another Distant War Top
KENT, Ohio — The demonstrations, the troops, the fresh anger are all long gone. Where anti-war protests raged, today a granite plaza invites peaceful reflection. On the spots where four young people fell in a spray of National Guard bullets, lanterns stand in remembrance. It is four decades after the Kent State shootings. And a U.S. president is, once again, escalating involvement in a long, distant war that his citizens are doubting – a war that, like Vietnam, couldn't seem farther away from the campus of Kent State University. Just about everybody who passes the memorial here at Kent State offers a conflicted view about the expansion of the nation's involvement in Afghanistan. "It's been so long, you forget why we're there," says Mike Meszes of Elyria, Ohio, standing in the parking lot where Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheur and William Schroeder were shot dead in May 1970. Here and elsewhere, people once again are confused about the mission and wary as the president dispatches more troops and considers an even bigger military commitment. "Americans aren't conscious of Afghanistan," says historian Stanley Kutler, editor of The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. "You couldn't help but be conscious of Vietnam because of the draft," he said. But in Afghanistan, "The alleged reasons for going there have completely left the public consciousness." Obama understands the fading memory and seeks to bring it back. "I remind everybody, the United States of America did not choose to fight a war in Afghanistan," he said. "Nearly 3,000 of our people were killed on September 11, 2001, for doing nothing more than going about their daily lives." And he warns: "The world cannot afford the price that will come due if Afghanistan slides back into chaos or al-Qaida operates unchecked." Recent national polls indicate slipping support for the war in Afghanistan. The latest AP-GfK survey finds that less than half – 46 percent – now approve of Obama's handling of Afghanistan, a 9 percentage-point drop since July. Interviews with more than three dozen people nationwide uncovered reasons for the slide – deep uncertainty and confusion about the prolonged fight to root out terrorists in Afghanistan and its neighbors. Eight years after al-Qaida attacked Americans at home and the United States invaded Afghanistan in response, liberals, conservatives and moderates alike say they don't know what American forces are fighting for. They doubt that the U.S. will be successful and question what winning even means. Many also no longer seem to view the war through the prism of Sept. 11, 2001; few mention the attacks but many – rightly or wrongly – draw parallels to Vietnam. The two wars are very different. Afghanistan resulted from an attack on the United States; Vietnam didn't. The draft has been replaced by voluntary military service, meaning far fewer Americans are directly affected; the government drafted people to Vietnam by lottery, making the war central to the lives of most young Americans. Today, nearly 750 U.S. military members have died in the eight-year Afghanistan conflict, which some call "the forgotten war" in the years since the Iraq invasion. Vietnam, which lasted twice as long and divided the country profoundly, claimed more than 58,000 American lives. Nevertheless, now as then, the U.S. is engaged in unconventional warfare against fighters motivated by ideology and, in Afghanistan's case, by religion, not simply power sought by America's more traditional foes. Now as then, American leaders claim that failure in one country will destabilize an entire region. And, now as then, understanding about the war is fading as conflict drags on. "This country as a whole is tired of war," says Meg Soper, 42, a volunteer firefighter from Plain City, N.Y., who says the president she voted for is failing to communicate about Afghanistan. Although she had relatives who escaped the World Trade Center during the attacks and friends who have fought in Afghanistan, she says: "I'm not sure why exactly we are over there." Dan Moschetta, 22, a recent college graduate from Washington, Pa., was a teenager when 9the attacks happened. He's more explicit, calling Afghanistan "the Vietnam of today." He's fed up with spending untold sums on a war that "just seems senseless." "I just don't think we need to be there anymore," he says. Such unease presents stark challenges to Obama, who has ordered 21,000 more troops to Afghanistan since taking office and is considering sending still more. He must sell his retooled strategy to a war-weary public or risk waging war without the public's support. Doing so can take a toll on a president's popularity and legacy – as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush learned. Obama's task won't be easy, given that the Afghanistan war no longer evokes what it once did – the universal fear of terrorists striking again and the overwhelming support of a country seeking retaliation. Now, doubts about an uncertain future meld with memories of an uncomfortable past. "I don't think we can win this war, just like we couldn't win Vietnam," says Wanda Williams, 61, of Neptune Beach, Fla. Time passes, and when people don't see or feel something, war included, it tends to fade from their minds. That's exacerbated by what many perceive as a lack of measurable improvement in Afghanistan – and an inability by its leaders to consolidate authority and prevent chaos and bloodshed. Osama bin Laden hasn't been caught, the Taliban is resurging and violence has spiraled. Last month was the deadliest for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion. All of that can signal stalemate to Americans who have come to expect quick results in all aspects of life. "It's just a losing war," says Harriet Miller, 46, of Grenada Hills, Calif. "We're not making any progress, and it's been eight years. That's pretty bad." The war has not commanded TV screens like the visceral images from Vietnam did. And the antiwar movement that has been part of the American fabric since well before Kent State has gone largely silent as the new president it supported, a Democrat, expands U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Obama is consumed with reversing a recession while promoting his health care reform plan. He doesn't mention Afghanistan nearly as often as his predecessor, who talked almost daily about terrorist threats. And the public is focused far more on pocketbook issues. Says Tim Brown, 50, of Steubenville, Ohio: "I just don't get it. What are we running over there for when people over here are living homeless and losing jobs? He hasn't told us that." Unease about the future. Wariness about the past. Formidable forces, and both hang over Obama as he decides on the next steps in a murky, distant war – and sniffs around for answers that may never be as clear and definitive as an increasingly skeptical public demands. ___ EDITOR'S NOTE – Liz Sidoti has covered national politics for The Associated Press since 2003. More on Afghanistan
 
John Mack To Step Down As Morgan Stanley CEO Top
NEW YORK — John J. Mack will step down as CEO of Morgan Stanley in January but will continue as chairman, the investment bank announced Thursday. Mack will be succeeded by Co-President James P. Gorman. Robert Kidder, lead director of Morgan Stanley, said in a statement that Mack told the board 18 months ago he wanted to step back from the CEO role when he turns 65 in November. Mack has led Morgan Stanley for four years. Morgan Stanley has continued to post losses in the wake of the financial crisis, but has repaid the $25 billion in bailout money it got from the government. Mack has come under some criticism for scaling back the company's risk profile even as rivals like Goldman Sachs have regained momentum as the crisis has ebbed. Gorman has been co-president of Morgan Stanley since 2007 and has been a key player in the retail brokerage joint venture with Citigroup Inc., Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. The bank's other co-president, Walid A. Chammah, will become chairman of Morgan Stanley International at year end and will continue to be based in London.
 
Caster Semenya HERMAPHRODITE?: Tests Reveal South African Sprinter Has Both Male, Female Characteristics: REPORT Top
Tests show that controversial runner Caster Semenya is a woman ...and a man! The 18-year-old South African champ has no womb or ovaries and her testosterone levels are more than three times higher than those of a normal female, according to reports. More on Sports
 
Christopher Gavigan: Dust Becomes You Top
This post was first published on Healthy Child Healthy World . Anyone who's lived in or visited arid regions is probably familiar with dust storms. When the air is filled with tiny particles of sand that bite your skin, sting your eyes and irritate your lungs. Over time, breathing all that dust can cause chronic lung and respiratory problems, so public health officials have established guidelines to help people prevent long-term impacts. But there's a silent, subtle dust storm happening in your house every day. And the assault from this storm is much more invasive, although, ironically, much less recognized. Many of the products inside your home, and the materials used to make the building itself, are slowly degrading and breaking down over time in small, microscopic particles. And, over time, what's in them, becomes a part of your household dust . And then, they become a part of you. As you sleep with your face buried in a pillow , inhaling and exhaling for hours every night. When you drink from a glass that's been collecting dust in the cupboard. While you relax on your couch, watching TV and eating chips. You are eating and breathing dust. It is in your body. It is in your blood. So what? Seems like a perfectly natural fact of life, right? Well, yes, it is -- kind of -- other than the ubiquity of synthetic chemicals and heavy metals in the dust. This subtle indoor storm of microscopic particles is laden with chemicals and heavy metals that were used to make the wonderful products you are surrounded by every day. Sometimes, these risky ingredients were added because we didn't know they posed a risk. Sometimes they were added because manufacturers believed they would be "locked" into the product. But, they aren't locked in. At least, they aren't locked in to the products they're supposed to be in. Many of them are lipophilic -- meaning they cling to fat. So, once they get into your body, they find the fat and then become temporarily locked in to you (some for a few decades, at which point they'll find their way out and contaminate some other unsuspecting creature). As we move closer to re-visiting the Toxic Substances Control Act , the outdated policy regulating the majority of chemicals used in everyday products, it's imperative that we address the insidious nature of many synthetic chemicals. The chemical industry has already come forward saying, they, too, want to see TSCA reformed. They want to re-invigorate trust with consumers who have become increasingly concerned about questionable chemicals; they want their products to be safe. Or, so they say. If you read the fine print, what industry is hoping for are regulations that ensure chemicals are safe.... "for their intended use." This qualification does nothing to address the quagmire we are in. A chemical could be "safe" when it's locked into our couches, as was intended. But, what about once it leaks out and becomes a part of our environments and our bodies? And this will inevitably happen. Whether it breaks down while we are directly using it in our homes or it breaks down in a landfill and then ends up in groundwater, soil, or air. These chemicals become a part of our interconnected life system. They need to be safe for so much beyond "their intended use." In Paul Hawken's enlightening book " Blessed Unrest ," he discusses Buckminster Fuller's analogy of the Earth being a spaceship -- so well designed that its inhabitants haven't even recognized it's a spaceship. Hawken uses the concept for corporate training. On one especially memorable occasion, he asked the engineers from a large agricultural chemical company to design a spaceship that could leave Earth and return 100 years later with its crew alive, happy, and healthy. The winning design consisted of the following: "Instead of bringing caches of DVDs and display screens for onboard entertainment, they decided that a significant proportion of the passengers should be artists, musicians, actors, and storytellers. To endure for one century, the passengers needed to create a culture rather than simply consume one. They brought onboard a large variety of weeds, not just useful seeds, to enliven the soils and bring minerals to the surface. They brought mycorrhizae and other fungi, bacteria, insects, and small animals -- everything their company poisoned on earth for a profit. (The company's number-one product was a pesticide). Of the several thousand products this company made, none were invited along on the trip. The designers realized they were too toxic to be released in a small environment..." Whether we are creating products whose dust becomes a part of the small environments we call our homes , or whose dust becomes a part of the larger environment we call Earth, we need to be designing for comprehensive safety. Don't be fooled by anything less.
 
Catholic Church-Affiliated Publisher Apologizes For Prayer Honoring Ted Kennedy Top
A religious publisher affiliated with the Archdiocese of Chicago has apologized for authoring a prayer that lavished praise on the late Ted Kennedy, whose views on abortion collided with those of the Roman Catholic Church. More on Ted Kennedy
 
John Shimkus Walked Out On Obama Speech Out Of "Frustration" Top
Rep. Joe Wilson, the South Carolina Republican who yelled at President Barack Obama during his address to Congress this week, wasn't the only one unhappy with what he heard. Rep. John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, walked out. More on GOP
 

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