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Should we be surprised that the Egyptians want the American government out? I’d want it out, if I were Egyptian. | Should we be surprised that the Egyptians want the American government out? I’d want it out, if I were Egyptian. | ||
I remember when the Philippines closed the U.S. bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay. They wanted the Americans out, not because they hated America (they don’t) or hated democracy (they don’t), but because it was their country and they didn’t want the former imperial power interfering with their politics (which we did). They kicked us out, and see if you can find a Filipino who regrets it.</html> | I remember when the Philippines closed the U.S. bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay. They wanted the Americans out, not because they hated America (they don’t) or hated democracy (they don’t), but because it was their country and they didn’t want the former imperial power interfering with their politics (which we did). They kicked us out, and see if you can find a Filipino who regrets it.</html> | ||
== For Raul Ibanez, an unexpected dream and chance to pass it o == | |||
<html>Raul Ibanez rounds the bases after hitting his first of two home runs to give him 24 this season. The Mariners hit four home runs in a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels. Photo Credit: AP | |||
Raul Ibanez spoke post-game about Ted Williams and all the fuss being made about how he s now just five homers shy of tying The Splendid Splinter s age 41 home run record of 29. | |||
My career should not be mentioned in the same breath as Ted Williams ever, Ibanez said. But I did look to his season at 41 a few years back as inspiration because I wanted to see if guys late in their career back then could still do it. So, I did know that he had 29 home runs, but I didn t come in here thinking that I mean, early on how much was I going to play? I knew I was going to play sometimes against righties but, who would have thought? I just kind of go day-by-day. | |||
Ibanez mentioned others he derived inspiration from much earlier in his career. He talked of watching Jamie Moyer, Edgar Martinez, Dan Wilson and Jay Buhner, and of how they helped shape him as a man as well as a ballplayer. | |||
��Guys like Jay and Edgar and Dan Wilson and Jamie Moyer, they taught me more about life, he said. I didn��t have children, I wasn��t married yet. But they taught me more about being a good husband and a good father and I learned a lot of life lessons from them. | |||
��Obviously,[http://hostmaster.terhorstnet.nl/wiki/Gebruiker:Hartleyz88 Council looks to certify possible levy on ballot], about hard work and all of that other stuff on the field, but I really looked up to them as men and as people.���� | |||
And yes,[http://www.jerseys-ns.net/2011-2012-National-Team-Argentina-White-Strip-Youth-Jerseys-7942/ 2011-2012 National Team Argentina White Strip Youth Jerseys], he makes a concerted effort to be a role model for younger players in the clubhouse whenever he can. | |||
��I��ve always kept that in mind that I��d like to be a mentor to them,���� Ibanez said. | |||
The Mariners have averaged six runs per game this month compared to 3.62 per night prior. They have scored 38 runs the first five games of this homestand. | |||
There is clearly quite a bit of optimism around the lineup these days and Ibanez is emerging as its surprising leader. | |||
He now is hitting .264 with a .313 on-base percentage and a .576 slugging mark. His 24 home runs are tied for the sixth most in franchise history before the All-Star Break. | |||
That 438-foot shot into the Hit it Here Cafe in right field in the fourth inning was his longest home run of the year. | |||
��I don��t care what number is next to his age right now, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. His bat speed is terrific.[http://www.jerseys-ns.net/���-15592/ ���]� | |||
Mariners manager Eric Wedge senses something big happening with his lineup, 1-through-9. And he feels that, this time, it s legtimate. | |||
I do, he said. I think of each individual and how that fits collectively together. You ve got to have that blind faith when the kids are working to get to where they want to get to. And we ve had that. And now it s paying off for them, it s paying off for us. We ve got a lineup we feel can go one-through-nine now and that s important too. You ve heard me talk about that from Day 1. | |||
And when you talk of being a better ballclub, you ve got to do it in all areas. We ve just been so rough in that particular area the past couple of years. We ve shown signs of it ut nothing as consistent as what you re seeing right now. | |||
We ll have to see about the legitimacy part. | |||
We heard similar talk a year ago when the Mariners cut a swath through some of the weaker AL teams in late July and throughout August. But none of that scoring or winning carried over to the early part of this season when the Mariners were trying to stay in contention. | |||
Now, at 11 games under .500, they are showing renewed signs of offensive life. | |||
The pitching wasn t up to par the past few games, but Joe Saunders was tonight with seven scoreless frames.?With runners on second and third and one out in a 1-0 game in the second inning, Saunders struck out a pair and kept his team in front. | |||
��It was definitely nice to obviously come up there and get some big strikeouts and kind of get us back in the dugout with a little momentum,���� Saunders said. ��We definitely kept the momentum on our side.���� | |||
Yes they did. Saunders helped by not giving runs rght back to the opposition as the Mariners had done so often lately. | |||
But the story tonight was still Ibanez. | |||
��From my perspective, it��s just fun to be a part of,���� Saunders said of watching Ibanez. ��To see him go out there day-in and day-out and do what he��s doing��hopefully he can keep it going. He��s quote-unquote maybe the ��heart and soul�� of this ballclub. Really, the way he goes about it, the teammate he is and the leader he is.���� | |||
Ibanez talked postgame about how when he was glued to the bench his early years, he d ask Moyer every few weeks to tell him his life story. Ibanez wanted to hear it and know that he too could keep playing even if his career got going late. | |||
��I was sitting on the bench and I wasn��t playing,���� Ibanez said. ��I always looked to him because he threw 83 mph and he was a great pitcher��and when I was sitting on the bench, I��d watch everything that Jamie did and everything that Edgar (Martinez) did because they were playing well into their mid-30s.���� | |||
It would be tempting for Ibanez to wonder how his career might have turned out had he played more often those early years. I asked him tonight whether this late-career surge helps ease his mind about that, maybe making up for some of that lost time. | |||
��Sometimes I think that because I didn��t play a lot those first three and a half years, it��s helped me play longer,[http://www.raspberrypi-fr.org/wiki/index.php?title=Utilisateur:Langeland71#Federal_Way_man_pleads_guilty_to_second Federal Way man pleads guilty to second],[http://www.jerseys-ns.net/Pirates-8-Stargell-yellow-m&n-Jerseys-1585/ Pirates 8 Stargell yellow m&n Jerseys],[http://www.xycwhcb.cn/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=164699 ],���� he said. ��Because I didn��t have an extra 2,000 at-bats on me and on my body. So, I sometimes think it was maybe a blessing in disguise.���� | |||
Now, he gets to pass that blessing on. To younger teammates who can watch and try to someday emulate.</html> | |||
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Add up the extra travel fees before you buy
<html>An iceberg floats in the sea near Disko Island, Greenland.(AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) I’ve been daydreaming about going to Greenland, of seeing its other-worldly wilderness of icebergs and glaciers before they’re gone (thank you, climate change). ?So I thumbed through an enticing-looking brochure from an expedition-cruise company called Adventure Canada, a family-run business that takes travelers on small-ship cruises to remote northern places such as Canada’s Arctic, Scotland, Greenland and more. ??? One cruise, called Greenland Wild Labrador, looked enticing. The price for the Sept. 5-18 cruise: $3,995 per person (that’s in the cheapest stateroom which is, ahem, a quad with bunk beds; a two-berth room would be a dizzying $6,695 per person). Still, not all that bad for a 118-passenger ship that would cruise to Canada’s wild Labrador coast and to Greenland. And I wasn’t looking for a luxury cruise nor planning to spend much time in the stateroom. ? ?But then I began toting up the extra charges as outlined in the 2013 brochure. And I ended up with sticker shock. The additional fees (all per person and in U.S. dollars): Discovery Fee: $250. It’s described as a contribution to local projects in the areas in which Adventure Canada travels. But it’s billed to you. Credit card pricing: $160. If you use a credit card, you’ll have to pay more — $4,155 for the cheapest Greenland Wild Labrador fare instead of $3,Schedule for Sub Pop’s Silver Jubilee is set,995 if you pay by cash or check. Yes, you could avoid the extra charge by not using a credit card,Liverpool 7 Suarez red jerseys, but I’d never pay for a tour/cruise with cash or check. If you pay by credit card there is protection under federal fair credit laws in case a company goes bankrupt or doesn’t deliver what was promised; you don’t have such protections when paying by cash or check. The Aurora Borealis glows in the sky in the Greenland town of Kangerlussuaq. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images, 2007) Mandatory medical evacuation insurance: About $250 (for trip cancellation and medical/evacuation insurance,Nike Steelers 94 TIMMONS Black Women Game Jerseys, varies depending on the passenger’s age).?? OK, fair enough,Jim Hightower's Common Sense, to require medical insurance (which usually comes bundled with other protections). Otherwise it could cost a traveler thousands of dollars to be evacuated and stick the cruise line with the arrangements. Still, it adds up. Fuel surcharges: Not specified,Pioneer Square’s indoor national park, but they can be imposed. Tips: $210. The cruise line suggests a gratuity of $15 per passenger per day. Many big cruise lines automatically add gratuities to your bill, other cruise lines “suggest” it and you feel like a heel if you don’t tip. What about paying ship staff a living wage and not sticking passengers for tips? ???? So before even considering the cost of any optional shore excursions, I was looking at more than $850 in extras. Ouch. ?The moral of the story: Add up the extra fees — so prevalent?in the travel business?these days — before you buy so you know the true price.</html>
Civil Disagreement- Egypt, and America’s interest
<html>The military overthrow of the elected civilian government in Egypt a very unpopular government of the Muslim Brotherhood has left the U.S. government in the position of feeling powerless while being blamed for exercising power. What should Americans think of this? Editorial board members Bruce Ramsey and Lynne K. Varner have their own takes on it.
Lynne, I’m tired of America’s interference in places like Egypt. Americans don’t get this. We’re used to being No. 1, the top dog,Poll- Should Washington lawmakers fine themselves for workin, the people who get to manage the Earth. But we don’t have a right to that authority; we have let the academics and politicians who itch for the joys of global management talk us into believing we have a moral duty to do it. Foreigners think Americans do it because there is profit in it. Sometimes there is, but there are also losses. To my understanding, Egypt has been the No. 1 recipient of U.S. government aid, or No. 2 after Israel, since the Jimmy Carter administration. What benefit did the U.S. taxpayer get for that? That Egypt didn’t attack Israel? Last time Egypt attacked Israel, in 1973, the Egyptian army had its pants pulled down. Also,Jets 10 Holmes green womens Jerseys, Israel has nuclear weapons. I could be totally mistaken,[2], but I’ll hazard to assert that Egypt does not need to be bribed to let Israel alone. And if it did, who should pay that bribe, eh? Look at where this aid gets Americans. Our government underwrites Egypt’s military. Egypt has an election: Democracy! Yay! Arab Spring! Whoopee! The Muslim Brotherhood is elected to power, promising to have an inclusive government. Well, it lied. It isn’t inclusive. It demonizes its opponents as traitors. Three years in, Egyptians don’t want that government any more. Egypt’s military, with all its U.S. tanks and guns, takes over in a coup. What happened is all the valuable influence bought by U.S. aid? The New York Times reports frustration at the White House because of “lack of leverage the United States has over Egypt.” Our ambassador there, Anne Patterson, an official almost no American has heard of,Mets 57 santana cream(blue strip)cool base jerseys, is a huge public figure in Egypt, her face on signs, crossed out as if she were Satan. Says the New York Times, she is “a symbol for angry young Egyptians of America’s meddlesome role in their country’s affairs.” Has the U.S. government been meddlesome? Yup. And what is the U.S. government’s attitude toward the coup? We’re Americans. We don’t believe in military coups. We believe in elections, and civilian government. Ambassador Patterson said she was “deeply skeptical” that “street action will produce better results than elections.” As an American, what else could she say? That put her against the people in the street. But the U.S. government was also deeply skeptical of the Muslim Brotherhood government, because it was run by zealots who didn’t like liberty or democracy or United States. Result: The U.S. ambassador's face is crossed out by both sides. The goal of U.S. foreign policy should be the advancement of the legitimate interests of the United States. To me that means the protection of American citizens in Egypt, and in the neighborhood of Egypt, and of some rules for trade, investment, intellectual property, fishing rights, tourism, educational exchanges, extradition, etc., between Egypt and the United States. Our government has taken a much more vague and permissive view of what American interests are in Egypt and other places,Mariners to make rotation change soon after Jeremy Bonderman, and what sorts of things our politicians, and our military, are allowed to do in pursuit of these amorphous interests. People with power like to use it, and will embrace political language that allows them to do what they want. One of those chocolate bars of permissive language is “nation-building.” I don’t think it is part of the U.S. government’s job to go around the world building nations. I’m just a narrow-minded isolationist that way, Lynne. I look at this and think, “not our business.” ?We didn’t like it when the British were nation-building here, with their taxes and their redcoats, and we killed a bunch of them back in the 1770s and 1780s until they left us alone. It was a glorious thing, and last Thursday we celebrated it with fireworks. We wanted the British, and all the other European powers, out. Should we be surprised that the Egyptians want the American government out? I’d want it out, if I were Egyptian. I remember when the Philippines closed the U.S. bases at Clark Field and Subic Bay. They wanted the Americans out, not because they hated America (they don’t) or hated democracy (they don’t), but because it was their country and they didn’t want the former imperial power interfering with their politics (which we did). They kicked us out, and see if you can find a Filipino who regrets it.</html>
For Raul Ibanez, an unexpected dream and chance to pass it o
<html>Raul Ibanez rounds the bases after hitting his first of two home runs to give him 24 this season. The Mariners hit four home runs in a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels. Photo Credit: AP Raul Ibanez spoke post-game about Ted Williams and all the fuss being made about how he s now just five homers shy of tying The Splendid Splinter s age 41 home run record of 29.
My career should not be mentioned in the same breath as Ted Williams ever, Ibanez said. But I did look to his season at 41 a few years back as inspiration because I wanted to see if guys late in their career back then could still do it. So, I did know that he had 29 home runs, but I didn t come in here thinking that I mean, early on how much was I going to play? I knew I was going to play sometimes against righties but, who would have thought? I just kind of go day-by-day.
Ibanez mentioned others he derived inspiration from much earlier in his career. He talked of watching Jamie Moyer, Edgar Martinez, Dan Wilson and Jay Buhner, and of how they helped shape him as a man as well as a ballplayer. ��Guys like Jay and Edgar and Dan Wilson and Jamie Moyer, they taught me more about life, he said. I didn��t have children, I wasn��t married yet. But they taught me more about being a good husband and a good father and I learned a lot of life lessons from them. ��Obviously,Council looks to certify possible levy on ballot, about hard work and all of that other stuff on the field, but I really looked up to them as men and as people.���� And yes,2011-2012 National Team Argentina White Strip Youth Jerseys, he makes a concerted effort to be a role model for younger players in the clubhouse whenever he can. ��I��ve always kept that in mind that I��d like to be a mentor to them,���� Ibanez said. The Mariners have averaged six runs per game this month compared to 3.62 per night prior. They have scored 38 runs the first five games of this homestand. There is clearly quite a bit of optimism around the lineup these days and Ibanez is emerging as its surprising leader. He now is hitting .264 with a .313 on-base percentage and a .576 slugging mark. His 24 home runs are tied for the sixth most in franchise history before the All-Star Break. That 438-foot shot into the Hit it Here Cafe in right field in the fourth inning was his longest home run of the year. ��I don��t care what number is next to his age right now, Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. His bat speed is terrific.[http://www.jerseys-ns.net/���-15592/ ���]� Mariners manager Eric Wedge senses something big happening with his lineup, 1-through-9. And he feels that, this time, it s legtimate.
I do, he said. I think of each individual and how that fits collectively together. You ve got to have that blind faith when the kids are working to get to where they want to get to. And we ve had that. And now it s paying off for them, it s paying off for us. We ve got a lineup we feel can go one-through-nine now and that s important too. You ve heard me talk about that from Day 1. And when you talk of being a better ballclub, you ve got to do it in all areas. We ve just been so rough in that particular area the past couple of years. We ve shown signs of it ut nothing as consistent as what you re seeing right now.
We ll have to see about the legitimacy part. We heard similar talk a year ago when the Mariners cut a swath through some of the weaker AL teams in late July and throughout August. But none of that scoring or winning carried over to the early part of this season when the Mariners were trying to stay in contention. Now, at 11 games under .500, they are showing renewed signs of offensive life. The pitching wasn t up to par the past few games, but Joe Saunders was tonight with seven scoreless frames.?With runners on second and third and one out in a 1-0 game in the second inning, Saunders struck out a pair and kept his team in front. ��It was definitely nice to obviously come up there and get some big strikeouts and kind of get us back in the dugout with a little momentum,���� Saunders said. ��We definitely kept the momentum on our side.���� Yes they did. Saunders helped by not giving runs rght back to the opposition as the Mariners had done so often lately. But the story tonight was still Ibanez. ��From my perspective, it��s just fun to be a part of,���� Saunders said of watching Ibanez. ��To see him go out there day-in and day-out and do what he��s doing��hopefully he can keep it going. He��s quote-unquote maybe the ��heart and soul�� of this ballclub. Really, the way he goes about it, the teammate he is and the leader he is.���� Ibanez talked postgame about how when he was glued to the bench his early years, he d ask Moyer every few weeks to tell him his life story. Ibanez wanted to hear it and know that he too could keep playing even if his career got going late. ��I was sitting on the bench and I wasn��t playing,���� Ibanez said. ��I always looked to him because he threw 83 mph and he was a great pitcher��and when I was sitting on the bench, I��d watch everything that Jamie did and everything that Edgar (Martinez) did because they were playing well into their mid-30s.���� It would be tempting for Ibanez to wonder how his career might have turned out had he played more often those early years. I asked him tonight whether this late-career surge helps ease his mind about that, maybe making up for some of that lost time. ��Sometimes I think that because I didn��t play a lot those first three and a half years, it��s helped me play longer,Federal Way man pleads guilty to second,Pirates 8 Stargell yellow m&n Jerseys,[3],���� he said. ��Because I didn��t have an extra 2,000 at-bats on me and on my body. So, I sometimes think it was maybe a blessing in disguise.���� Now, he gets to pass that blessing on. To younger teammates who can watch and try to someday emulate.</html>