Liberals Continue To Bash TEA Party

GUEST WRITER STEVEN LEMON
Liberals Continue To Bash TEA Party
Recently, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank wrote a most enlightening article criticizing the actions of Republican voters in Utah and Maine.
I call it enlightening because the tone of it proves that the libs just don’t understand the real reasons and the breadth of anger among the people these days, and must CREATE their own version of the truth, just as they do with “global warming” which has lately been renamed “climate Change”.
The article was highly critical and dismissive of  angry conservatives of all parties, TEA Party supporters, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, to whom he credits the defeat of longtime Senator Robert Bennett of Utah and the adoption of a “platform of insanity” in Maine, which Milbank calls the “tranquil land of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, apparently overlooking the fact that Maine is also the tranquil land of Olympia Snow and Susan Collins.
In fact, New England (the area, not the state) is the BIRTHPLACE of RINOS.
Remember Warren Rudman, Lowell Weicker, John and  Lincoln Chafee, Jim Jeffords, DAVID SOUTER?
I won’t quote much of the article, due to it’s length and repetitiveness, but you can read it yourself at The Washington Post.
Milbank criticizes Glenn Beck for ignoring the “big stories of the day”, Afghan president Karsai’s visit to the White House and “the big oil spill in the gulf”. What? No mention that LeBron James may leave Cleveland?
Beg pardon, Dana, but those stories, so important today, are nothing compared to the future of our country.
We can overcome the oil spill and endure a presidential visit, and Cleveland and the rest of the country will survive whatever LeBron James does, but these issues are not nearly as relevant as the very endangered future of our nation. It is that increasing anger that drives the “government is the problem” mentality for an increasing number of Americans, of which TEA party members are not even a majority.
Mr Milbank proves my theory that the liberalistas are whistling in the dark, hoping the GOP is misjudging it’s support base.
Both the country and the GOP is no worse off if he is right and much better off if he is wrong.
Like all liberals, Wilbank  also quite falsely assigns all Tea Party supporters to the GOP, a fact which I hope
they continue right up until 3 Nov when they will wake up to find the KoolAid tastes differently because someone else is making it. As a matter of fact the new KoolAid might taste alarmingly (to them) like TEA! Hopefully the “tea” will be served with a main dish of CROW and a huge slice of AMERICAN PIE  for
dessert.
The fact is, the TEA party MOVEMENT is supported by people from all walks of  life, all political
persuasions who are fed up with encroaching government power and control of our lives.
I am a TEA party supporter; black, INDEPENDENT, right wing conservative, but no GOP ideologue. I would choose a CONSERVATIVE with an even chance to win than choose a Republican who does not share my
overall philosophy and who is a lock cinch to win. To my way of thinking, right or wrong, if a candidate is
not a true in your face conservative, then I don’t really care if he wins or not. Many of my friends share with
me the view that the only politicians who deserves our support are those who agree that “health care is not a right.” , “Eliminate motor voter”;  “Reject the UN Treaty on Rights of the Child”; “Eliminate the Department
of Education”; “Arrest and detain . anyone here illegally, and then deport, period.” Instead of “period” I would place “along with their anchor babies if necessary”.
I would also support elimination of: HEW, IRS, HUD, Grants to Planned Parenthood, automatic Social Security for those now under the age of 40, and require unemployment recipients to work on public projects to EARN their money. The president should have a line item veto, no law should pass if it requires more than 100 pages TOTAL, including amendments. Governments would be prohibited from using language other than ENGLISH in all official documents
Welfare payments should be repaid from future earnings (wouldn’t THAT cure most states’ budget shortfalls!!!), the constitution would be changed to read that a person only becomes a citizen if he is born to at least one parent who is a United States citizen. A non-citizen who marries a citizen would STILL have to carry a GREEN CARD and undergo the naturalization process.
I don’t, however, subscribe to the theory that “health care is not a right”. Health care IS a right, just like “pursuit of happiness”, which means we have a RIGHT to pursue happiness and health care on our own and neither government nor any person can legally prevent us from pursuing or achieving it.
I am a faithful follower of “Global Warming is a myth”. Whenever I see, hear or read about the rants of global warmers, I recall my early education (in public schools, by the way) which spread the gospel that crude oil was created as a result of billions of dinosaurs dying in pits and becoming oil over millions of years. Remember Sinclair Oil? Their logo was a big, green DINOSAUR! Case closed.
Of course MOST of the same people who agree with me on a lot of issues disagree on most of those I have enumerated here, but we all agree that as bad as the GOP is and will likely continue to be, our country would be a lot better off if Democrats continue their hold on executive and legislative power, which will eventually lead to control of the judiciary as well.
Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin do have it right; the United States is headed towards a nanny state condition where the government will have it’s hand in every facet of our lives and will punish us severely if we do not adhere to the “national edict”.
There was a time when many of us didn’t vote because we knew that the majority of American voters were level headed enough NOT to allow our country to be taken over by those who would indeed try to make us like Europe. It has become increasingly clear that the closet Socialists among us have infiltrated and taken over so much of our government and have amassed the power required to do just that, and, unless the true conservatives rise up and become ever more active in politics, there WILL be a one world government where the United Nations (a misnomer if I ever saw one), the IMF and the new Treaty o f Versailles will control what we do, say and even think.
Whatever the reasons for the actions of voters in Utah, Maine, West Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey or wherever the RINOS roam, the goal is to cleanse the area of “Republicans In Name Only” even if it means Democrats will replace them. That is not as big a deal as it seems.
After all, the RINOS are actually just conservative Democrats in the first place.

Another Cave-In By The GOP

For Mitch McConnel and Richard Shelby to agree to end the GOP filibuster based on “agreements” made by Senator Dodd is only  different from Bart Stupak selling out HIS principles based on a worthless Obama executive order in that Stupak at least had the guts to get  his “assurances” in written form.

This latest surrender by the GOP only reinforces the notion that they just don’t have the guts to lead this country any more than the Democrats do.

It also makes it easier for a conservative to vote for a third party candidate just to send a message even if that message results in a Democrat victory. There seems to be little benefit in electing Republicans anyway.

BLACK HISTORY IS OLD HISTORY

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: This article was first written in 2001 and subsequently published three times since. The only change made are the comments regarding the latest presidential election.

I Personally think BLACK HISTORY MONTH/WEEK/DAY or whatever, is a real nice way for ALL Americans to take note and be proud of what blacks as a people can accomplish when we set our minds, our hands and our intellect to it, but sadly, black history has been on virtual hold since the advent of the “Great Society” and the civil rights battles of the 60′s.

Not that the laws and the society are the blame, far from it. The activism of Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, and the hundreds of other soldiers for justice clearly helped open doors and pave the way for opportunities for blacks and women to lift themselves up and take their places as full participants in the great American dream.

I would be the last to deny the enormous contribution these and lesser known heroes have made to not only blacks but to America in general. What I can’t deny is the perception, yea, even the fact that instead of working to overcome, black people have apparently taken the position that passage of the law completes the “overcoming”, “the dream” is reality, and now it’s just a matter of waiting for the checks to arrive.

We have been sitting around and complaining, and have accomplished precious little and overcome nothing since the laws supposedly eliminated discrimination and made us all suddenly equal in every respect. I’m reminded of the black South African woman who, while waiting her turn to vote for Nelson Mandela after the downfall of apartheid, responded to a reporter’s question with, “Now, we will all have houses like the (white) Afrikaners!”. Half a generation later and she is still waiting, patiently I presume.

Fast forward to the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election, which saw the nation’s first African-American elected president. A widely circulated  video clip shows a black woman delirious at the prospect of, in her own words, “Now I won’t have to buy gas for my car or make my house payments!”. Recently it was revealed that the woman’s home had been foreclosed. Wonder how that CHANGE thang is working for HER.

Most of the history that we will read about over the month of February will be about events that occurred 60 years ago or more, and the only things we have accomplished since then have been “He was the first black to (do something)…”, or “She was a successful applicant for (something)…”, as if just being black and doing something ordinary is an accomplishment in itself.

Most of the great ‘firsts’ by black people lately have been accomplishments that whites undertake routinely, not due to discrimination or because they had the “luck of the draw” in being white, but because they worked their butts off and didn’t wait for help from some politician. These days, blacks’ accomplishments are measured by who does what while in the White House, and now that an evil Republican inhabits that recently fumigated address, our accomplishments are in danger of completely disappearing for at least four years, if you let the poverty pimps tell it.

Since 1960, Al Gore has invented the Internet, White America has perfected the PC, written software that runs the world, developed products and processes that have CHANGED the world, even visited other worlds while black America has to point back half a century and beyond, to the accomplishments of those who labored under ten times the oppression and discrimination that we have since reconstruction, but accomplished ten times more than we have since.

For sure we should be proud of and celebrate the accomplishments of George Washington Carver, Booker T. Washington, Mme C.E. Walker, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Buffalo Soldiers, and a host of others who did so much with so little and under circumstances that suppressed hope, potential, everything except the soul and spirit. Look at how long ago these events transpired. Seventy, eighty, a hundred years? More?

Sixty years ago a group of black Army aviators flew more than three hundred escort missions, protecting thousands of allied bombers heading to and from Germany. To the utter amazement of the “experts” anthropologists and the general public, these “Tuskegee Airmen”, as we know them today, flew the powerful P-47 “Thunderbolt” and the sleek, fast and deadly (for friendly AND enemy pilots alike) P-51 “Mustang” fighter planes, all single seaters, while our bomber crews comprised of up to thirteen men per plane. Simple math tells you that about 300-55 Tuskegee Airmen were responsible for thousands of bomber pilots and crew and NEVER LOST A SINGLE ONE OF THEM! No other unit accomplished such a feat before or since.

More than a hundred years ago, settlers crossing the plains during the settling of the American West facing hordes of Indian attackers bent on their utter destruction, were escorted, protected and many times rescued by units of Cavalry troopers who charged into the attacking forces with guns blazing and sabers rattling. We have no record of how many settlers were saved or protected, but one testament to the effectiveness of the Cavalry is the fact that today Reno, Nevada is covered by casinos rather than tepees. Oh. And the bulk of those soldiers who helped protect the settlers and thus facilitate the settling of the American West were BLACK. We know them as the Buffalo Soldiers.

There is not a whole lot with which to compare the accomplishments of these two groups of American heroes who, at the time of their actions were only doing their jobs, probably because no one else wanted to do it. Regarding the present day black population vis-a-vis the enormous and largely ignored opportunities which have been presented to us over the past quarter century, with sincerest apologies to Sir Winston Churchill; “Never before in the annals of human history have so many done so little with so much”.

The prevailing attitude of a majority of blacks, reinforced by the rhetoric of the race hustlers of the day, is that “I can’t take a step forward unless a white man takes a step back” or “I’m where I am because of what some white guy did or wouldn’t let me do”.. You can get a black person in America to talk all day about what Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy did for blacks, but we can’t construct a single paragraph to talk about what we have done for ourselves, (well, we could always write NOTHING a hundred times) and that’s true whether you are a black liberal OR conservative.

Even when blacks had the chance to accomplish something (actually help elect a president instead of just pad his lead) we thought important to us, we blew it in a blizzard of unmarked ballots, pregnant chads, and overvotes.

I suppose we could crow about having the Confederate flag removed from public buildings throughout most of the South. That one made us all smarter, richer, and all our troubles are gone! I know I woke up the morning after the Georgia flag was changed and all my bills were paid and there was a brand new Cadillac in the garage! Yeah. Right.

A generation from now, other than the 2008 election results, an event which I admit I predicted would never happen, there will be nothing else to tell our grandchildren about the black history that is being made TODAY. There AIN’T none… unless you want to discuss the results of the voting in Florida 2000, otherwise known as “the scandal in the panhandle”, which should go down in history as a NEGATIVE accomplishment.

We need to stay positive.

Black History Month will be here soon!

Stephen Frazier

Downtown Scotty Brown!

So far, not one pundit has the correct take on Bill Clinton’s reaction to 1994. Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to the bargaining table with Newt Gingrich, and then the Republicans allowed Clinton to take credit for the economic boom and budget surplus that followed.

Clinton grudgingly signed the welfare reform bill late in 1996 and promised the Democrats that when Gore is elected in 2000, they could “Fix it”.
Like he did on so many issues, George Bush screwed that plan up by winning the election.

Anyone who does not believe this need only remember Clinton’s theme “The worst economy in fifty years” or the 2008 campaign, where the GOP stood by helplessly and hopelessly while Barack Obama and a complicit media convinced a clueless American electorate that the present economic situation is the worst since the great depression. The circumstances of the 1970s had been wiped from the mind of the American people and the GOP by it’s communicative impotence allowed it to happen.

Wag after wag has declared that the Democrats lost big in ’94 because they FAILED to pass health care early in the Clinton predsidency. Nothing could be further from the truth. In my opinion, the Dems were punished because they TRIED to have the government take over one sixth of the American economy. For the next sixteen years the Democrats never had the political will nor the strength to make another attempt.

Only after the emergence of another strong verbalizer and an influx of newly minted teenage voters, naive and largely ignorant of history beyond the date of their own birth would the Democrats get the courage to try yet again to expand government to the brink of Socialism.

The fact that, with a super majority in BOTH houses of congress and a hugely popular president the Democrats were STILL unable to reform the  health care industry is not so much a tribute to the victory of  Scott Brown but to the anger of the American people as exemplified by the Tea Party movement, which is expanding like Topsy and just as beautiful.

The recent political events, i.e. GOP upsets in gubernatorial race in VA and NJ and the Massachusetts Miracle will likely result in a changed political landscape a’la 1994, largely for the same reasons; the Democrats simply have better communicative and infighting skills than the GOP, coupled with the fact there is no strong Republican leader in sight and the second greatest
communicator in the past fifty years sits in the White House, waiting for the GOP to bail out his presidency.
Like that great philosopher Yogi Berra would say, “It’s deja vu all over agaon”.

Stephen Frazier

Health Care Plans: Lies and Alibis

Just ran across a post by some person called EARPIECE who disagrees with the “health care protesters”, AKA “OBAMA HATERS”. You know how everyone who disagrees with a black person HATES that person if not all blacks. They STILL don’t explain why BLACKS disagree with Obama. But I digress.

This poster, who has his own blog, attempts to explain why protesters are UNAMERICAN if they do not support a socialistic system of everybody looking out for everybody else. He points out that conservatives (obviously suffering under the illusion that only old, white, evil money grabbing conservatives are against being subjugated) don’t complain about the “socialized” fire and police departments and that Obama can cut health care costs by saving money elsewhere such as the cancellation of the “problematic and inoperable F-22″ fighter jet.

Well! I don’t know about where earpiece lives, but in MY city the tax assessments made for fire, utilities, schools, police, etc are all with the APPROVAL of the voters! There is a law on the books that the VOTERS approved in order for ANY of these things to be financed and set up by government. The people can, at any time, ELIMINATE any or all of them as they choose. So much for SOCIALISM.

As for Obama’s claim that he can cut fraud and waste and thus pay for reform? and cutting the F-22 and no bid contracts is part proof? Yeah, right.

The F-22 is the most advanced fighter in the world, and the only “problem” with it is that no other country has anything like it, so we are engaged in OVERKILL. We had the same “problem” when we removed GUNS from our fighters after Viet Nam and lost a gaggle of good pilots who couldn’t use those fancy missiles from close range and had no gun to fight back with. Even the cost of ONE HUNDRED F-22’s ($13 billion) would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $500 billion that is reported in Medicare waste and fraud.

Trust me. If Obama or ANY government official knew how to cut half a trillion dollars from ANYTHING he would tell anyone about it. I’d like to see ANYBODY’s evidence of the fed saving money on ANYTHING. Cut no-bid contracts? Not likely. That option is only allowed under law when there are few and seldom more than one company able to perform a contract AND the matter is so urgent that the normal bid process would be counter productive. Anyway, I’d like to hear some of the no bid contracts that the government has used in the last half century. I’ll bet most of them went to political friends of ALL parties.

Earpiece claims that the increased tax burden would not fall on the middle class, but offers no basis for his OPINION. He/she says he/she is a school teacher. Well, that explains why he/she can believe the government will do what it says it will do. “I am the government and I’m here to help you”. And then we wonder why our kids lag behind the Earth in education.

As you obviously didn’t know, MONEY is not the problem with health care, it is WASTE, FRAUD, and ILLEGALS. If OBUMMER wants to fix the system, let him start with that. With the savings derived from stopping such fraud and waste We could insure all 12 million AMERICANS who have not insurance (some by their own choice) and even the 30 million illegals who get free health care today if they need it.

Veteran’s benefits socialistic? Dear Mr/MS Earpiece: Veterans PAID for their health care in advance with years of SERVICE and SACRIFICE, and THEY are the only ones who get it “Free”. If they don’t want it, nobody is going to fine or jail them for not taking it. I suppose you think our military should be viewed as MERCENARIES?

You claim that conservatives “don’t want to send their kids to schools with a lot of Blacks and Latinos”. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! I want to send MY kids to a school (public or otherwise) where I don’t know and don’t CARE who attends, only that they are focused on LEARNING. If it turns out that schools with lots of Latinos and Blacks are more focused on gang violence, revisionist teachings, free condoms and abortion counseling, then no. I DON’T want my kids to go there. The race part is only coincidental.

YOU don’t mind paying more taxes so that we can create a better health care system? That’s GREAT! Why don’t you donate extra money when you file your taxes? Or give generously to the endowment fund of your local hospital? I think you are wonderful to decide for yourself where your hard earned money goes, now how about giving me that same option? I want MY hard earned money to be spent on unrelated females.

You, however, say that makes me UN-American, but it is people like YOU who would deny MY freedom to choose my own path with my money who are UN-American. It is disheartening to hear a TEACHER say such a thing, as if there was only ONE way to be an American. Another nail in the coffin that contains my respect for our public school system. You want to cut costs and improve the country in one fell swoop? Close the public schools, give parents vouchers and let them find the school of their choice to send their kids.

Of course that would not only mean your union would lose big time, but a lot of kids whose parents focus more on GOLD CHAINS, drugs, big houses, boats and vacations on the Riviera than education would have their kids not go to school at all.

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• February 2011

Another View of Obama’s Plan

An AP poll reports the public’s opposition to Barack Obama’s health care reform plan has dramatically fallen. The AP doesn’t give solid reason for the downturn in opposition but does make it clear that the change is only in the OPPOSITION. Support for the plan has remained constant.

We should also be wary of polling by the fringe media, which is emotionally and philosophically vested in President (The One) Barack Obama, whom they helped create.

Another possibility, however, is one that I came up with myself, with no help from Beck, Limbaugh or Hannity.

It just might be possible that many conservatives are realizing that the thing is going to happen anyway, so why fight it? A better choice might be to roll with the punches. If realized, the effects of the fears that we conservatives have will negatively impact Obama supporters more than us, so let them have their prayers answered, then let them live with the results.

We should remember there will be a lot of small businesses fail over the next couple of years. A lot of homes will be foreclosed, jobs lost. In other words there is going to be a lot of people selling personal property and real estate due to coming inflation, higher unemployment and interest rates. Someone should make a lot of money buying up this stuff, and we all know who’s going to have the money.

For sure a lot of conservatives will suffer but not nearly as much as the liberals. Our lawyers and accountants can help us avoid the taxes and our bank books can help us when food prices rise. We don’t have that many Adjustable rate mortgages, so a rise in interest rates will be good for us, especially if we have bonds which will rise with those rates.

We can afford an increase in gas prices, tax rates, even a restrictions on which doctor we can see, because we can buy our way around any of these problems. Let the parasites have their way. It will only come back to haunt THEM, and we will be left to sop up the mess AKA “the spoils”.

If this plan doesn’t work as designed we could, as a last resort, just close our businesses for a week and treat the payroll savings as NEW FOUND MONEY.

• March 2012
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• May 2011
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• February 2011

Health Care Support Built Upon Emotion, Not Fact

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Just ran across a post by some person called EARPIECE who disagrees with the “health care protesters”, AKA “OBAMA HATERS”. You know how everyone who disagrees with a black person HATES that person if not all blacks. They STILL don’t explain why BLACKS disagree with Obama. But I digress. This poster, who has his own blog, attempts to explain why protesters are UNAMERICAN if they do not support a socialistic system of everybody looking out for everybody else. He points out that conservatives (obviously suffering under the illusion that only old, white, evil money grabbing conservatives are against being subjugated) don’t complain about the “socialized” fire and police departments and that Obama can cut health care costs by saving money elsewhere such as the cancellation of the “problematic and inoperable F-22″ fighter jet. Well! I don’t know about where earpiece lives, but in MY city the tax assessments made for fire, utilities, schools, police, etc are all with the APPROVAL of the voters! There is a law on the books that the VOTERS approved in order for ANY of these things to be financed and set up by government. The people can, at any time, ELIMINATE any or all of them as they choose. So much for SOCIALISM.

As for Obama’s claim that he can cut fraud and waste and thus pay for reform? and cutting the F-22 and no bid contracts is part proof? Yeah, right. The F-22 is the most advanced fighter in the world, and the only “problem” with it is that no other country has anything like it, so we are engaged in OVERKILL. We had the same “problem” when we removed GUNS from our fighters after Viet Nam and lost a gaggle of good pilots who couldn’t use those fancy missiles from close range and had no gun to fight back with.

Even the cost of ONE HUNDRED F-22’s ($13 billion) would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $500 billion that is reported in Medicare waste and fraud. Trust me. If Obama or ANY government official knew how to cut half a trillion dollars from ANYTHING he wouldn’t tell anyone about it. I’d like to see Any Body’s evidence of the fed saving money on ANYTHING.

Cut no-bid contracts? Not likely. That option is only allowed under law when there are few and seldom more than one company able to perform a contract AND the matter is so urgent that the normal bid process would be counter productive. Anyway, I’d like to hear some of the no bid contracts that the government has used in the last half century. I’ll bet most of them went to political friends of ALL parties.

Earpiece claims that the increased tax burden would not fall on the middle class, but offers no basis for his OPINION. He/she says he/she is a school teacher. Well, that explains why he/she can believe the government will do what it says it will do. “I am the government and I’m here to help you”. And then we wonder why our kids lag behind the Earth in education.

As you obviously didn’t know, MONEY is not the problem with health care, it is WASTE, FRAUD, and ILLEGALS. If OBUMMER wants to fix the system, let him start with that. With the savings derived from stopping such fraud and waste We could insure all 12 million AMERICANS who have no insurance (some by their own choice) and even the 30 million illegals who get free health care today if they need it.

Veteran’s benefits socialistic? Dear Mr/MS Earpiece: Veterans PAID for their health care in advance with years of SERVICE and SACRIFICE, and THEY are the only ones who get it “Free”. If they don’t want it, nobody is going to fine or jail them for not taking it. I suppose you think our military should be viewed as MERCENARIES?

You claim that conservatives “don’t want to send their kids to schools with a lot of Blacks and Latinos”. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT! I want to send MY kids to a school (public or otherwise) where I don’t know and don’t CARE who attends, only that they are focused on LEARNING. If it turns out that schools with lots of gang violence, revisionist teachings, free condoms and abortion counseling have large numbers of Blacks and Latinos, then no. I DON’T want my kids to go there. The race part is only coincidental.

YOU don’t mind paying more taxes so that we can create a better health care system? That’s GREAT! Why don’t you donate extra money when you file your taxes? Or give generously to the endowment fund of your local hospital? I think you are wonderful to decide for yourself where your hard earned money goes, now how about giving me that same option? I want MY hard earned money to be spent on unrelated females. You, however, say that makes me UN-American, but it is people like YOU who would deny MY freedom to choose my own path with my money who are un-American. It is disheartening to hear a TEACHER say such a thing, as if there was only ONE way to be an American. Another nail in the coffin that contains my respect for our public school system. You want to cut costs and improve the country in one fell swoop? Close the public schools, give parents vouchers and let them find the school of their choice to send their kids. Of course that would not only mean your union would lose big time, but a lot of kids whose parents focus more on GOLD CHAINS, drugs, big houses, boats and vacations on the Riviera than education would have their kids not go to school at all.

• March 2012
• February 2012
• July 2011
• May 2011
• March 2011
• February 2011