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may 5, 2011 volume 6 issue 26
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arts life in the governors mansion
opinion fascism in five points
cover abuse at gitmo continues
news in photos bp oil spill one year later
editorial sce&g shamefully asks for taxpayer funds
conservation hotlist light bulb law to promote outdated technology
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BY JUDIT TRUNKOS
When the City Paper asked Former
Governor Mark Sanford what was the
most diffcult for his family to adjust to
while living in the governors mansion he
responded, The fact that there is no kitchen
upstairs. The kitchen downstairs can cook
for three-hundred people, but there is not
a kitchen upstairs. Also, there is a museum
downstairs, so I had to tell my boys not to
touch anything and that there are visitors
walking around downstairs.
The Governors Mansion has been
serving as the home of South Carolinas frst
families since 1869 in which year Governor
Scott occupied it with his family. Since then
40 other families have lived there leaving
their cultural and personal imprints on the
decoration, the garden and often even the
construction and the walls of the building.
The featured pictures, books, documents
and sketches provide an inside into the frst
families life while also shows us the human
side of the family.
Ms. Nancy Bunch has been Tour
Director there for the past 18 years and
Curator for 15 years and has assisted four
different frst families in the building. When
asked to name the most diffcult thing that
new families struggle with, she responded,
One of the most diffcult things for the new
First Family is adjusting to being surrounded
by staff daily. Mrs. West was known for
fxing things. One time, for instance, she
was caught under the dining room table
repairing the buzzer.
Bunch described some of the personal
side of family life in the mansion, Governor
West loved to practice his golf swing on the
front lawn and once broke a Mansion window
with a golf ball. Or another special example
is Governor Blackwoods special Christmas
night in which he invited the inmates who
worked at the Mansion to gather around the
Christmas tree. Envelopes containing their
executive pardons decorated the tree.
Herbert J. Hartsock, Director of the
South Carolinas Special Collection, took
the time to answer City Papers questions
about the ongoing exhibitions:
CCP: What does each family add to the
Mansion?
Hartsock: While the
frst families do not have to
bring their furniture, some
of them do. In fact, many
of the frst families brought
furniture and artwork into
to the Mansion.
CCP: What other
changes are there in the
Mansion?
Hartsock: The
mansion has changed a lot since it was built.
The Mansion is now a mansion complex.
It also has a pool and a pool house. It is a
wonderful place to meet, talk and entertain
guests.
CCP: Is it true that for decades inmates
were taking care of the mansion?
Hartsock: Indeed, for generations the
mansion was staffed by prison inmates. That
changed with Governor Hodges. Visiting
the mansion interested South Carolinians
can learn much more about the building that
hosts the Governors family.
Reviewing the exhibit, the viewer will
fnd that not only the frst families have
normal lives just as everyone else, but they
also try to preserve it as such. Katharine
Klein, a Graduate Student of Public
History helped organize the exhibition
and summarized the exhibit as a learning
experience.
Visitors will learn a very interesting
side of the governors family that is not in
the public eye. The mansion is a museum
but it is also a living space, said Klein.
The Hollings Special Collection
Library at USC is proud to present a
special exhibition Life in the Mansion.
This extraordinary show will share with
the visitors the real life in the Governors
Mansion together with some of the
advantages and diffculties every frst family
has to adjust to. The exhibit can be seen
until July 29.
To learn more about the exhibit, visit
http://www.sc.edu/library/news/index.
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The fact that there is no
kitchen upstairs. The kitchen
downstairs can cook for three-
hundred people, but there is
not a kitchen upstairs.
-Former Governor Mark Sanford
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OPINION BY PAUL BLAKE
Columbia City Council has enacted
a new curfew in Five Points and the Vista
for minors that is modeled after a similar
ordinance in progressive Greenville.
The new law will make it a crime for
a 16-year old to hang out at a coffee shop
till midnight or walk his dog around the
neighborhood on a Friday night.
Columbias renown nightlife scene
seems to have offended the swine who
currently sit on city council.
The council appears to be actively
engaged in a legislative jihad against the only
downtown businesses that have managed to
fourish in recent years.
A few months ago they passed a law that
forces bars to close at 2am. Whats worse,
they created a caveat, allowing certain bars
to seek special permits to remain open, late
into the night.
We can only expect that theyll pass
around this special permission to their trusted
network of good ol boys.
Their decision to pork-up the ordinance
by banning disrobing contests, just plain
stinks. Outlawing wet t-shirt contests is
wrong. (Unless this section applies solely
to sitting members of council; I still have
a thing for former councilwoman Frannie
Heizer.)
For years this pack of shaved apes
ignored the rising downtown crime rate.
When it got so bad they couldnt ignore it,
they kicked off a brilliant PR campaign that
was seemingly designed to convince people
not to go there.
Then, the Five Points Association
commissioned an expensive development
master plan on the taxpayers dime.
When that same plan advised against
the opening of a massive Walgreens, they
promptly ignored it.
And then, they turned our sleepy
backwater into an Orwellian nightmare.
Without conducting a single study,
these pigs made a closed-door deal to install
cameras in public areas.
Naturally, the excessive surveillance
campaign failed to deter crime, in any way.
Whats more, they have turned Saint
Patricks Day--a holiday I once dearly loved-
-into a tragicomedy of corrupt cronyism.
Every year, they pull nearly a quarter
of a million dollars out of the hospitality tax
fund and pass it around to the events handful
of organizers. They have consistently refused
to answer questions about who gets what on
that day.
This massive chunk of taxpayer money
has never been audited, in any way and the
event doesnt include any real representation
from the businesses in the area.
The same old bastards have run the
organization for the past 15 years and during
the last board vote, none of the elected
board members even bothered to show up.
The fve people in attendance spent the
meeting illegally voting for themselves by
proxy.
Some even managed to vote for
themselves, twice, as representatives of their
own businesses!
They didnt even have the quorum that
is required by state law, and FPA Executive
Director, Merritt McCaffe ignored records
requests demanding copies of the votes.
But, I was there and I counted them.
Let me fnish by saying nothing will
change for the better, so long as this gang of
monkeys continues to run the show.
They will continue to pay themselves
though hidden contracts, taxpayer funds,
and back door deals. They will justify it to
themselves and their redneck cronies, during
lavish mud wrestling parties and prolonged
backyard circle jerks.
Worst of all, nobody has tried to call
them on any of their evil bullshit.
The towns meager media outlets are too
busy cashing tax-payer funded advertising
checks to bother.
If you dont believe me, consider this:
the towns intrepid watchdogs spent more
than a year scratching themselves before
bothering to report the installation of security
cameras, all over town.
Not a single report mentioned that the
monitors sit in the back of a board members
offce.
It isnt that they dont know the monitors
are in the back of Revente. But reporting it
would upset the scum in the Five Points and
pretending not to know who controls the area
is good for business.
talkback@columbiacitypaper.com
may 5, 2011
Fascism in Five Points
1- Prisoners Still Brutalized at Gitmo
In Guantnamo, the notorious but seldom-
discussed thug squad, offcially known as the
Immediate Reaction Force (IRF), deployed by
the US military remains very much active. Inside
the walls of Guantnamo, the prisoners know the
squad as the Extreme Repression Force.
In reality, IRF is an extrajudicial terror squad,
the existence of which has been documented
since the early days of Guantnamo. IRF has
rarely been mentioned in the United States media
or in congressional inquiries into torture.
When an IRF team is called in, its members
are dressed in full riot gear, which some prisoners
and their attorneys have compared to Darth
Vader suits. Each offcer is assigned a body
part of the prisoner to restrain: head, right arm,
left arm, left leg, right leg. According to a SOP
document, the teams are to give verbal warnings
to prisoners before storming the cell: Prior to the
use of the IRF team, an interpreter will be used
to tell the detainee of the discipline measures
to be taken against him and ask whether he
intends to resist. Regardless of his answer, his
recent behavior and demeanor should be taken
into account in determining the validity of his
answer. The IRF team is authorized to spray
the detainee in the face with mace twice before
entering the cell.
David Hicks, an Australian citizen held at
Guantnamo, said in a sworn affdavit, I have
witnessed the activities of the IRF, which consists
of a squad of soldiers that enter a detainees cell
and brutalize him with the aid of an attack dog.
. . . I have seen detainees suffer serious injuries
as a result of being IRFed. I have seen detainees
IRFed while they were praying, or for refusing
medication.
On January 22, 2009, newly inaugurated
President Obama issued an executive order
requiring the closure of Guantnamo within a
year, and also ordered a review of the status of
the prisoners held there, requiring humane
standards of confnement in accordance with the
Geneva Conventions. But one month later, the
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released
a report titled Conditions of Confnement at
Guantnamo: Still In Violation of the Law,
which found that abuses continued. In fact, one
Guantnamo lawyer, Ahmed Ghappour, said that
his clients were reporting a ramping up in abuse
since Obama was elected, including beatings,
the dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray
into closed cells, applying pepper spray to toilet
paper and over-force-feeding detainees who are
on hunger strike.
A year after Obamas election win, Al Jazeera
reports that despite the new presidents pledge
to close the prison and improve the conditions
of detainees held by the US military, prisoners
believe that their treatment has deteriorated on his
watch. While the dominant media coverage of the
US torture apparatus has portrayed these tactics
as part of a Bush-era system that Obama has
now ended, when it comes to the IRF teams that is
simply not true. Detainees live in constant fear of
physical violence. Frequent attacks by IRF teams
heighten this anxiety and reinforce that violence
can be inficted by the guards at any moment for
any perceived infraction, or sometimes without
provocation or explanation, according to the
CCR.
The CCR has called on the Obama
administration to immediately end the use of the
IRF teams at Guantnamo. However, the abuse
continues, and the White House and powerful
congressional leaders from both parties fercely
resist the appointment of an independent special
prosecutor to investigate the abuses.
Ahmed Ghappour, who represents several
Guantnamo prisoners, has lodged several
requests to initiate investigations since President
Obama took offce. I have requested four
investigations regarding prisoner abuse just this
past year, he said. The military responded
to my frst request indicating that they would
investigate, but have been radio silent since then.
Released after a federal court found him to
be entirely innocent, Mohammed el Gharani is
now adjusting to life outside prison. He reports
that the allegations made by current inmates
match his experience of Guantnamo during the
months leading up to his release. I recognize all
of this, he said. There are still more than two
hundred people in Guantnamo. Since Obama
became president, less than twenty have been
released. I dont know why, but he has broken his
promises.
2- Obama Cuts Domestic Spending and
Increases Military Corporate Welfare
President Obamas decision to increase
military spending this year and in the future
will result in the greatest administrative military
spending since World War II. This decision
is being made in spite of continued evidence
of extreme waste, fraud, abuse, and corporate
welfare in the military budget. At the same
time, spending on non-security domestic
programs such as education, nutrition, energy,
and transportation will be frozen, resulting in
infationary cuts to essential services for the US
public over the upcoming years.
While these domestic programs constitute
only 17 percent of the total federal spending,
they will sustain all of the proposed cuts. The
consequences of cutting domestic spending will
result in a further increase in the gap between the
rich and the poor.
In contrast, military spending is roughly
55 percent of the discretionary spending in the
current fscal year, and will increase even more
next year. According to the Offce of Management
and Budgets projections, the military budget will
increase an additional $522 billion over the next
decade. Tom Engelhardt points out, Heres an
American reality: the Pentagon is our true welfare
state, the weapons makers are our real welfare
queens, and we never stop shoveling money their
way.
There is widespread and continuous waste,
fraud, and abuse by the Pentagon and by military
contractors resulting in welfare for the rich.
William Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel with
the US Air Force, concludes, When it comes to
our nations military affairs, ignorance is not bliss.
Whats remarkable then, given the permanent
state of war in which we fnd ourselves, is how
many Americans seem content not to know.
The public never hears about war spending
in the corporate media and how much everything
actually costs. Several examples highlight the
extent of abuse.
A single future weapons system is now
estimated to cost the American taxpayer almost
one-third of what the Obama administrations
health care plan is expected to cost over a decade.
Originally expected to cost $50 million, the
estimated cost today just for one F-35 plane is
$113 million. The marines, the air force, and the
navy are planning to buy a combined 2,450 of
F-35s, which would cost more than $323 billion.
According to Kathy Kelly, author of
Tough Minds, Tender Hearts, The US
government devotes massive resources and
much sophistication to killing in Afghanistan.
Would that it would spend a little to realize that
its policies are creating anger. . . . It costs about
$1 million a year for a US soldierboots on the
groundin Afghanistan. Imagine what good
that money could do if spent to help the Afghan
people. A governor in Afghanistan makes about
$1,000 a year.
President Obama is continuing the process of
reinfating the Pentagon that began in late 1998
fully three years before the 9/11 attacks. The rise
in national defense spending since 1998 is as large
as the Kennedy-Johnson surge (43 percent) and
the Reagan increases (57 percent) put together.
The Department of Defense has been given
about $7.2 trillion since 1998, which is when the
postcold war decline in defense spending ended.
Current spending is above the peak years of the
Vietnam War era and the Reagan years, and the
Pentagon plans to remain there at this point.
Reasons for the lack of public knowledge
about military spending include: lack of
corporate media coverage altogether; media
employing retired military offcers as experts,
thus presenting only one side; inculcated civilian
deference toward military leaders (leave it to
the experts in uniform); and secrecy and black
budgets obscuring military spending. Among the
questions William J. Astore poses about the US
military, a key one is: why is the military immune
from the painful budgetary belt tightening faced
by the rest of America?
Astore concludes, Its true that the world
is a dangerous place. The problem is that the
Pentagon is part of that danger. Our military
has grown so strong and so dominates our
government, including its foreign policy and
even aspects of our culture, that theres no
effective counterweight to its closeted, confict-
centered style of thinking. This dominance is
costing the US public enormous sums of money,
is a major contributor to the economic crisis, and
will continue to erode desperately needed public
support programs now and in the future.
3- Nanotech Particles Pose Serious DNA
Risks to Humans and the Environment
Personal products you may use daily and
think are harmlesscosmetics, suntan lotion,
socks, and sports clothesmay all contain atom-
sized nanotech particles, some of which have
been shown to sicken and kill workers in plants
using nanotechnology. Known human health risks
include severe and permanent lung damage. Cell
studies indicate genetic DNA damage. Extremely
toxic to aquatic wildlife, nanoparticles pose clear
risks to many species and threaten the global food
chain.
Nanotech particles have been embraced by
industry as the wonder ingredient in personal
hygiene products, food packaging, paints,
medical procedures and pharmaceuticals, even
tires and auto parts, among burgeoning numbers
of other consumer products. Cosmetic companies
add titanium dioxide nanoparticles to sun creams
to make them transparent on the skin. Sports
clothing frms have introduced odor-free garments
containing nanosilver particles that are twice
as toxic to bacteria than bleach. Auto industry
companies have added carbon nanofbers to tires
and body panels to strengthen them.
According to the Project on Emerging
Nanotechnologies (PEN), health and ftness
items continue to dominate available nanotech
products, representing 60 percent of products
listed. More products are based on nanoscale
silverused for its antimicrobial properties
than any other nanomaterial; 259 products (26
percent) use silver nanoparticles. PENs updated
inventory represents products from over twenty-
four countries, including the US, China, Canada,
and Germany.
Yet, nanomaterials are so poorly understood
that scientists are unable to predict how they will
behave and are unsure of how to check their safety.
Over one thousand consumer products made with
nanoparticles, which can be one hundred times
smaller than a virus, are already on the market,
despite an almost complete lack of knowledge
of the dangers they pose to human health and
the environment. And while these atomic-sized
particles may be benefcial in certain medical
applications, scientists and environmentalists
are calling for more studies. Until now, few
adverse effects have been found for this virtually
unregulated technology. Yet, that may simply be
due to the relatively few studies that have been
done in the rush to fnd ever more and proftable
nanotech applications.
Nanotechnology, the science of the
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extremely tiny, is an important emerging
industry with a projected annual market of
around one trillion dollars by 2015. It involves
manipulating or building new materials from
atoms and molecules; silver and carbon are now
the most important building blocks.
The nanomaterials are far smaller than a
human hair and can only be seen with powerful
microscopes. A nanometer is a billionth of
a meter, while a human hair is about eighty
thousand nanometers wide. An atom is
roughly one-third of a nanometer across, and
nanoparticles are groups of atoms that are
typically smaller than one hundred nanometers.
The tiny-sized materials often have unique
properties that differ from the properties of their
larger scaled versions.
The use of nanotechnology in consumer
products continues to grow rapidly, says PEN
director David Rejeski. When we launched
the inventory in March 2006 we only had 212
products. If the introduction of new products
continues at the present rate, the number of
products listed in the inventory will reach close
to 1,600 within the next two years. This will
provide signifcant oversight challenges for
agencies like the Food and Drug Administration
and Consumer Product Safety Commission,
which often lack any mechanisms to identify
nanotech products before they enter the
marketplace.
4- Western Lifestyle Continues
Environmental Footprint
Speaking in advance of the climate summit
in Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, the United
Nations leading climate scientist, warned that
Western society must enact radical changes
and reform measures if it is to avoid the worst
effects of climate change. Pachauri, chair of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), told the Observer that Western society
urgently needs to develop a new value system
of sustainable consumption. The Nobel Prize
winner stated, Today we have reached the
point where consumption and peoples desire
to consume has grown out of proportion. The
reality is that our lifestyles are unsustainable.
Pachauri offered a wide-ranging proposal
including legal requirements, economic
disincentives, and government subsidiesto
lead Western society toward a more sustainable
future. Among Pachauris suggestions is that
hotels be held accountable for the energy use
of their guests. The energy consumed by guests
in hotels could be metered and then charged to
guests bills. Pachauris proposal also includes
measures to regulate travel by land and air.
For instance, Pachauri argues that automobile
travel could be curbed through pricing
schemes that discourage the use of private
transportation. Likewise, Pachauri suggests that
governments tax air travel to encourage citizens
to travel by raila mode of transportation that
is signifcantly lower in cost and environmental
impact.
Travel and tourism are but one feature of an
increasingly unsustainable Western lifestyle. As
the Internet becomes an indispensable feature of
modern life, the costs and environmental impact
associated with Internet usage is on the rise.
According to recent estimates, there are over
1.5 billion people online around the world. As a
result, the Internets energy footprint is growing
at a rate of more than 10 percent each year. As
the Nets appetite for electricity grows, Internet
companies like Google are having a hard time
managing the costs associated with delivering
Web pages, video, audio, and data fles. This
situation not only threatens the bottom line of
Web frms, but may compromise the long-term
viability of the Internet. According to Subodh
Bapat, vice president of Sun Microsystems, a
leading manufacturer of computer servers, In an
energy-constrained world, we cannot continue to
grow the footprint of the Internet . . . we need to
rein in the energy consumption.
Energy consumption associated with
Western lifestyles has been linked with melting
glaciers around the world. Dr. Shresth Tayal of
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),
Indias leading environmental institute, selected
three of approximately eighteen thousand
glaciers in the Himalayas as benchmarks
to measure the rate of the glaciers retreat.
According to Dr. Tayal, the glaciers, which feed
rivers across India and China, providing fresh
water to more than two billion people during
the dry season, are disappearing at an alarming
rate. As Dr. Tayal bluntly assessed in the Times,
The glacier is dying. Tayals fndings support
the contention made in 2007 by the IPCC that
glaciers could disappear by 2035. The IPCC
warns that a shortage of fresh water will cause
famine, water wars and hundreds of millions of
climate change refugees.
Despite growing evidence that Western
lifestyles contribute to global climate change,
it may take a generation before the new
value system Pachauri calls for takes hold.
Nevertheless, Pachauri believes that young
people will recognize the need to adopt some
of the radical changes he recommends. I think
they will be far more sensitive than adults, who
have been corrupted by the ways we have been
following for years.
5- US Presidents Charged with Crimes
Against Humanity as Universal Jurisdiction
Dies in Spain
In October 2009, under great pressure from
the United States, the government of Spain
decided to limit its own jurisdiction in cases
of genocide and crimes against humanity, thus
closing one of the last windows of accountability
for the most serious crimes committed by
the most powerful nations on Earth. Under
international law, such crimes fall under the
universal jurisdiction of any nation, whether
ones own citizens are victims or not. The logic
is that crimes against humanity are offenses
against every member of the human speciesa
crime against all.
Spain had been a venue for bringing high
crimes charges against human rights violators
in Guatemala, Argentina, China, Israel, and
elsewhere. Most of the lawsuits have been
against individuals linked to the untouchable
political right, such as Chiles Augusto Pinochet,
the Argentine military offcer Adolfo Scilingo,
former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger,
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, former
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and six of
his senior advisors, and most recently, former
George W. Bush administration offcials.
Calls to reign in the judges increased when
Spanish magistrates announced probes involving
Israel and the United States.
In January 2009, Spanish National Court
Judge Fernando Andreu announced he would
investigate seven current or former Israeli
offcials over a 2002 air attack in Gaza that killed
a top member of Hamas and fourteen other
people. In March 2009, Baltasar Garzn, Spains
most high-profle judge, invoked the principle
of universal jurisdiction when he sought to
investigate six former Bush administration
offcials for giving legal cover to torture in the
American prison at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba.
Activist judges like Garzn, Andreu, and
Pedraz have created a big diplomatic headache
for the Zapatero government. China has warned
Spain that bilateral relations could be damaged
over a case regarding Tibet, and Israels Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Spain
that it risks being sidelined in the Middle East
peace process.
But the Spanish government is most worried
about the negative impact the Guantnamo
probe may have on relations with the United
States. Zapatero has raised expectations of
Spanish voters with the promise he can forge
warm ties to the Obama administration.
Indeed, other European leaders have distanced
themselves from the Spanish position, fearful of
jeopardizing future relations with Washington.
Reporter Glen Ford noted that the worlds
biggest potential defendant for war crimes and
crimes against humanity is the United States,
whose record of direct and indirect involvement
in torture and mass killings has been unmatched
by any other nation since at least World War II.
It was primarily US pressure that forced Spain to
close off its courts from international jurisdiction
cases.
One day before the change in Spanish law,
a number of members of the BRussells Tribunal,
acting under the umbrella of the International
Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq,
fled charges of crimes against humanity and
genocide against four presidents of the United
States and four prime ministers of Great Britain.
The charges cite 1.5 million Iraqi deaths over
the course of nineteen years of American and
British attacks, including two full-scale wars
of aggression, the most draconian sanctions
regime ever designed, and subsequent
occupation of Iraq. Half a million of the dead,
according to the charges, were children.
In parallel, Iraqs rich heritage and unique
cultural and archaeological patrimony has been
wantonly destroyed. In order to render Iraq
dependent on US and UK strategic designs,
successive US and UK governments have
attempted to partition Iraq and to establish by
military force a pro-occupation Iraqi government
and political system. They have promoted and
engaged in the massive plunder of Iraqi natural
resources, attempting to privatize the property
and wealth of the Iraqi nation. So massive and
systematic were the assaults on Iraq, stretching
for roughly a generation, the accusers charge the
US and the UK with the deliberate destruction
of a nation.
The defendants are George Herbert Walker
Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush,
Barack Hussein Obama, Margaret Thatcher,
John Major, Anthony Blair, and Gordon Brown.
The suit holds that each has played a key role
in Iraqs intended destructionthat they
instigated, supported, condoned, rationalized,
executed and/or perpetuated, or excused this
destruction based on lies and narrow strategic
and economic interests, and against the will
of their own people. The BRussels Tribunal
asserts that allowing those responsible to escape
accountability means such actions could be
repeated elsewhere.
The global clearinghouse for war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and genocide is the
International Criminal Court. However Ford
notes that in recent years that court has prosecuted
no one but Africans and is increasingly exposed
as a tool of Western hegemony. The United States
refuses to join the International Criminal Court,
and thus claims immunity from prosecution.
For more information on Project Censored,
please visit http://www.projectcensored.org/
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OPINION BY
SAMANTHA NORTON
In a letter
dated April 13,
2011, District
Manager Kelvin
Rogers of South
Carolina Electric
and Gas (SCE&G)
p r a c t i c a l l y
demanded that the
taxpayers of Columbia spend $18,075 to
help his frm paint some utility poles.
SCE&G has been working with Ron
Armstead on the projects of painting steel
poles in the Downtown Columbia area,
Rogers wrote, in his letter to CIty Manager
Steve Gantt. At this time, we need your
commitment from the City of Columbia
supporting the fnical side of this project.
This pitiful plea for paint money came
from the same company that pulled in a
record $348 million in profts last year.
(Revenues were over 4 billion.)
Rogers concluded the letter by boldly
invoking his franchise agreement with
Columbia.
Please send me a copy of this letter
with signed acknowledgement giving
SCE&G permission to proceed with this
project and the Citys commitment to fund
the $18,075.00 construction cost, he wrote.
This cost will be considered part of the
Non-Standard Service fund in the Franchise
Agreement.
Lets quickly go over how this franchise
agreement came to be and SCE&Gs dismal
track record in Columbia, S.C.
The company spent the 80s and 90s
running the bus system into the ground.
During 20 years of management of the line,
SCANA never purchased a single new bus.
In order to ensure that the Securities
and Exchange commission would approve
the frms takeover of a North Carolina gas
company, in 2002, they had to dump our
ailing bus system, entirely.
SCANA used that shining moment to
convince the Columbia City Council to
hand them a 30 year monopoly on the citys
electric supply.
In March of 2006, City Paper reported
that the power company was planning to use
eminent domain to take an elderly womans
property in Euclair during their expansion
of a power substation.
Further investigation led to the
discovery that the existing SCE&G-owned
property in the neighborhood had been
neglected for years.
After three-month of railing about it
in the newspaper, the utility giant fnally
cleaned up the property and backed off
taking Mrs. Jones house.
In 2007 (as part of a lovely fuck-
you to Columbia taxpayers) the company
abandoned its Main Street offces and
moved their headquarters to Cayce.
They might as well have turned off
our power while we were in the middle of
cooking Christmas dinner.
You know what would pay for a couple
cans of Rose Talbert Paint?
The taxes SCE&G should be paying for
offces on Main Street, in a city that helped
make them $348 million dollars last year!
Thanks to the shit-eating monkeys that
run this town, it appears that SCE&G will
continue to pump the town for everything
its worth.
Enjoy the fee increase that takes effect
next winter!
talkback@columbiacitypaper.com
10
may 5, 2011
This pitiful plea for paint money came from
the same company that pulled in a record
$348 million in profits last year.
11 may 5, 2011
We encourage Senators to support
Conservation Bank and natural resource
agency funding in their budget debate
this week. Forestry, agriculture, outdoor
recreation and tourism account for $54
billion, or about one-third, of our states
economy. Thats over 450,000 jobs, or
approximately 25% of all jobs in South
Carolina. However, the combined budgets of
the South Carolina Agriculture Department,
Forestry Commission, Department of
Natural Resources and Department of Parks,
Recreation and Tourism account for less than
one percent of the state budget.
As the Crossover Date quickly
approaches, two bills important to the
Common Agenda have landed on the House
contested calendar: the Conservation Bank
Sunset Clause Extension Bill (H.3083) and
the Solar Jobs Bill (H.3346). These bills
must be passed out of the House by April
28th in order to be considered by the Senate
this year. Also, two major water priority
bills: the Phosphorus Bill (H.3470) and the
Chronic Sewage Polluter Bill (Three Strikes-
H.3617), both introduced by Rep. Mike
Pitts, are on the House uncontested calendar
with a good chance of passing to the Senate.
Thousands of South Carolina jobs are tied
to fshing, boating, outdoor manufacturing
and recreation. If we do not invest in land
stewardship and keep our water clean, thes!
e jobs are at risk. We look to House members
to support these bills on the foor this week,
and help bolster the economy for new, green
jobs in South Carolina.
In the Senate
Alcoholic Beverage Container
(ABC) Recycling (S.461, Sen. Ray Cleary)
PRIORITY
S.461 calls for establishments that
have a permit for on-site consumption of
alcohol to implement a recycling program
in the next two years for plastic, corrugated
cardboard, aluminum and glass. (The bill
provides establishments without access
to glass recyclers, 3 years to implement
glass recycling.) S.461 also calls for these
establishments to develop recycling plans
guided by DHEC. Minimal funding will come
from the Governors Task Force on Litter
with money going equally to DHEC and the
Department of Revenue for implementation
and enforcement. Permit applications or
renewals are given a 10% discount for 8
years if there is a recycling plan that does
not include glass, and a 25% discount
for applications and renewals that have a
recycling plan with glass. S.461 remains on
the contested calendar. Email your Senator
to ask him to support this priority bill that
creates South Carolina jobs.
Natural Resource Agency Funding-
PRIORITY
The Conservation Bank received
$750,000 in the House version of the Fiscal
Year 2011-2012 Budget. This funding would
ensure that the Bank has the operational
funding necessary for the upcoming year, as
well as cover a portion of the $3 million in
outstanding grants. We encourage Senators
to invest in our states outdoor economy this
week as the full Senate debates the budget
this week. Email your Senator to ask him to
support Conservation Bank funding.
Prescribed Fire (H.3631, Rep. Jim
Harrison/S.501, Sen. Ronnie Cromer)
SUPPORT
Prescribed burns are the most effcient
and cost effective tools for managing healthy
forests. These bills provide greater protection
for landowners who choose to burn
responsibly on their property. Last week,
the full Senate Fish, Game and Forestry
Committee (Sen. Ronnie Cromer- Chair,
John Land, Yancey McGill, Dick Elliott, Brad
Hutto, Chip Campsen, Jake Knotts, Mike
Fair, Kent Williams, Paul Campbell, Larry
Grooms, Danny Verdin, Vincent Sheheen,
Creighton Coleman, Shane Martin, Mike
Rose and Phillip Shoopman) gave H.3631 a
favorable report, and sent it to the full Senate
for its consideration.
Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act
(H. 3735 by Rep. Dwight Loftis) OPPOSE
The frst week of April the House
passed H.3735 in a 76-20 vote. This bill
would undermine federal energy effciency
standards that will save every American
household 100 to 200 dollars or more per
year once fully enacted. H. 3735 would
eliminate these savings in South Carolina
along with the environmental benefts of
using less energy. The federal standards,
passed with bipartisan support in 2007,
require 25-30% energy effciency gains
by 2014 and three-times more effcient
light bulbs by 2020. Proponents of the bill
are calling the technology-neutral federal
standard a ban on traditional light bulbs
and attempting to draw a line around the
state to protect older, ineffcient technology.
The bill has been referred to the Senate LCI
Committee (Sen. Greg Ryber! g- Chair, Nikki
Setzler, Phil Leventis, Glenn McConnell,
Billy ODell, Glenn Reese, Robert Ford,
Thomas Alexander, Hugh Leatherman,
Kevin Bryant, Ray Cleary, Joel Lourie, Kent
Williams, Shane Massey, Lee Bright, Floyd
Nicholson and Mike Rose), and if recalled
from Committee, could be considered by the
Senate this week.

In the House
Phosphorus Bill (H.3470, Rep. Mike
Pitts) PRIORITY
H.3470 would prohibit the use, sell
or manufacture of dishwashing detergents
containing phosphates, a harmful chemical
found in our lakes and rivers. Phosphorus is
already banned in 15 states because it kills
fsh and lowers recreational revenues and
home values. This bill will be considered by
the full House this week.
Chronic Sewage Polluter Bill (H.3617,
Rep. Mike Pitts) PRIORITY
H.3617 would require any wastewater
utility with two spills over 5,000 gallons each
in a 12-month period (per every 100 miles of
pipe) to undergo a comprehensive audit of
what caused the spill and fx the problems
identifed. This compromise language is
supported by the conservation community
and the 30 largest South Carolina wastewater
utilities as a means of bringing the most
chronic violators into compliance. This bill
will be considered by the full House this
week.
Conservation Bank Sunset Clause
(H.3083, Rep. Mike Pitts/S.138, Sen .Chip
Campsen) PRIORITY
H.3083 extends the Sunset Clause to
2023. The House adjourned debate on this
bill two weeks ago, and placed H.3083 on the
contested calendar to allow time for further
debate. The House will debate this bill again
this week. Email House members today to
ask them to support H.3083.
Solar Tax Credits (H.3346, Rep. Dwight
Loftis/S.474, Sen. Glenn Reese) PRIORITY
H.3346 establishes a 35 percent state
tax credit for the installation of solar
energy equipment for both residential and
commercial purposes placed in service in
taxable years after 2010. This legislation
not only promotes renewable energy; it
encourages solar installations and creates
new jobs. The House adjourned debate on
this bill two weeks ago, and placed it on the
contested calendar to allow time for further
debate this week. Email House members
today to ask them to support this important
bill.
Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles (H.3059, Rep.
Jim Merrill) SUPPORT
H.3059 extends an existing, state
income tax credit of $2,000 for highway-
speed, plug-in vehicles. The tax credit has
an annual impact cap of $500,000 and
is provided on a frst-come, frst-serve,
basis. Within three years, over a dozen
hybrid models are expected to be available,
providing economic, national security, and
environmental benefts. Two weeks ago, the
House rejected this bill in a 24-67 vote. Rep.
Merrill moved to reconsider the bill, and it is
now on the contested calendar, and will be
debated again this week.
This bill would undermine federal energy
efficiency standards that will save every
American household 100 to 200 dollars
or more per year
12
may 5, 2011
Road TRip
05/06/11 :: Friday
El Ten Eleven
New Earth Music Hall
Athens, GA

The Wonder Years
Fireworks
Make Do And Mend
Such Gold
Living with Lions
Sector 7G Augusta,
GA
Caitlin Krisko & The
Broadcast Wild
Wing Cafe Augusta,
GA
Amy Hendrickson &
the Prime Directive
Stephen Pigman
Fiddlers
Savannah, GA

The Delta Saints
MoDaddys Bar &
Music Club Asheville,
NC
Bass Science
The Garage at
Biltmore Asheville,
NC
Dangermuffin
Friday Night Live
Belmont, NC
Blue Mother Tupelo
Delta Ghato BBQ &
Blues Festival
Charlotte, NC

Perpetual Groove
Sol Driven Train
Neighborhood Theatre
Charlotte, NC

illicitizen Smokey
Joes Cafe Charlotte,
NC
Chiddy Bang
The Fillmore Charlotte,
NC
SpongeCake and The
Fluff Ramblers
The French Quarter
Charlotte, NC

Ricky Berger
Adrian Bourgeois
Ultimate Basement
Mill Spring, NC

Taco Donkey
Charleston Beer
Works
Charleston, SC

The Incredible
Sandwich
Home Team BBQ
Charleston, SC

DJ R Dot
OMalleys
Bar and Grille
Charleston, SC

Eprom
LANDSQUID
Samples
Intermixture
DJ Skitch
PERICLES
Droppin Joints
Magically
The Music Farm
Charleston, SC

Cosmic Charlie
The Pour House
Charleston, SC

Henrys Attic Acme
Cantina Isle of
Palms, SC
The Movement
Charleston Harbor
Resort and Marina
Mount Pleasant, SC

Super Bob (formerly
Bob) Ground
Zero
Spartanburg, SC

Jason Lefty Williams
Home Team BBQ
Sullivans Island, SC

05/07/11 :: Saturday
Shawn Mullins
Melting Point
Athens, GA

Minnesota
Intermixture
Samples New
Earth Music Hall
Athens, GA
Sumilan
SpringFest 2011: On
the Lawn! Athens,
GA
3 Foot Swagger
Lovers and Liars
Terrapin Brewery
Athens, GA
Stephen Pigman
Craig Oden Trio
Fiddlers
Savannah, GA

The Mosier Brothers
Live Wire Music Hall
Savannah, GA

Dare Dukes
Sentient Bean
Savannah, GA

Asheville Symphony
Asheville Civic Center

Charlotte Symphony
Orchestra Belk
Theatre Charlotte,
NC
The Black Lillies
Double Door Inn
Charlotte, NC

Avenged Sevenfold
Three Days Grace
Black Stone Cherry
Metrolina Expo
Fairgrounds Charlotte,
NC
The Growlers
Snug Harbor Charlotte,
NC
Big Daddy Love
The Evening Muse
Charlotte, NC

Cosmic Charlie
Visulite Theatre
Charlotte, NC

The Gibson Brothers
Doyle Lawson &
Quicksilver Denton,
NC
Sierra Hull Doyle
Lawson Bluegrass
Festival Denton,
NC
Vince Gill
Village Arboretum
Pinehurst, NC

Paul Cataldo Sapphire
Mountain Brewing Co.
Sapphire, NC

Sol Driven Train
Historic Downtown
Conways Riverfront
Park Conway,
Brandon Pruitt
Carolina Nightlife &
Grill
Darlington, SC

The Movement
Remys Bar and Grill
Hilton Head, SC

Dave Turner Stone
Soup Landrum,

Chiddy Bang
House of Blues
N. Myrtle Beach, SC

Under the Porch
Home Team BBQ
Sullivans Island, SC

05/08/11 :: Sunday
The Gibson Brothers
Poplar Knight Spot
Aberdeen, NC

MikelParis Mo
Daddys Asheville,
NC
Dirty Beaches
Snug Harbor Charlotte,
NC

Wintersleep Tin Roof
Charleston, SC

The Movement
The Boathouse
Myrtle Beach, SC
Thursday May 5
New Brookland Tavern
Rumpeltrillskin
Ten Car Pile Up
TBA
Utopia
Open Mic w Marv Ward
The WHite Mule
Fite Klub Presents: 80\s Babies 2
Friday May 6
Cafe Strudel
Noah Brock
New Brookland Tavern
Full Color Footage
(EP Release Show)
The Sea Wolf Mutiny
Senseless Beatings
You Are Being Invaded By
Demons
Utopia
Slap wore out
The White Mule
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge w/
The Black Iron Gathering
Saturday May 7
Art Bar
Whiskey Tango Revue, Bare
Knuckle Champions, Alien
Carnival
Cafe Strudel
Rosanna Mae
New Brookland Tavern
Death Of Paris
All-New Badges
Ye Mighty!
High Roses Grow
Utopia
Mobros
The White Mule
Hannah Miller w/ Lera Lynn
Sunday May 8
New Brookland Tavern
Out Of The Trailer Park, Into The
Pit: Summer Jam w/:
Embracing Goodbye, Set Apart,
Invoking The Abstract,, Behold
The Messenger, From Tomorrow,
Currents, Your Chance To Die,
Lions, For Lambs, Chivalry, Built
By Legends, A Divine Perception
Monday May 9
New Brookland Tavern
Joy Island
Rocky Loves Emily
The After Party
Freshman 15
Tuesday May 10
Utopia
Open Blues Jam
Wednesday May 11
Utopia
Alien Carnival
Thursday May 12
New Brookland Tavern
Justin Osborne (of Sequoyah)
Superstar runner
Johnnie Matthews
Utopia
Open Mic w Bentz Kirby
The White Mule
Shannon Whitworth w/ tba
Friday May 13
Cafe Strudel
Big Dixie
New Brookland Tavern
Tunguska
Whores
Hooded Eagles
Aphatos
Utopia
Rev. Marv Ward
Saturday May 14
Art Bar
Alexis Davis Band, Slam,
Norwegian Blue
Cafe Strudel
Jason Ross
New Brookland Tavern
La Dispute
Defeater
Native
Former Thieves
Utopia
Tough Mama
The White Mule
Griffin House w/ tba
Sunday May 15
The White Mule
Angie Aparo
Monday May 16
New Brookland Tavern
Tuesday May 17
New Brookland Tavern
Rise Records Tour Featuring:
Memphis Mayfire
Decoder
Ten After Two
Thats Outrageous
Utopia
Open Blues
Wednesday May 18
The White Mule
Damon Fowler (early show)
Loners Society is the
newest project of Unusual
Suspects and County
Line Strangers primary
songwriter/singer, Matt
Megrue.
Megrue is currently
recording his debut EP
in Atlanta with Don
McCollister, who produced
Shawn Mullins, Sister Hazel,
and Third Day.
Their frst single,
Outlaws & Saints in
my opinion, is a soulful
cross between Tom Petty
and Jakob Dylan of the
Wallfowers. The track
was offcially released on
Tuesday, May 3 with the full
EP to follow this Summer.
But dont underestimate
a music preview writers
predisposition to compare
every artist to some lucky
fuck that had connections in
the music industry. Megrue
has his own unique sound
and his insightful lyrics stand
on their own. It can be a bit
like anthem rock but theres
just another description that
doesnt do Megrue justice;
so just get off your ass and
go to this show on Tuesday,
May 17 at The House.
-Samantha Norton
Ladies and gentlemen we have another
Scream flm on our hands. Scream 4 is
directed by Wes Craven, the same director
as the previous three Scream flms. It has
been eleven years since the last Scream flm
was released. Will Scream 4 add anything
new or inventive to the franchise?
PLOT
Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell)
returns to her home town of Woodsboro
on a book tour. Since she has been able to
survive three massacres she found fame
in detailing her life into a book. Prescott
is returning to promote her book and
she receives a heros welcome from the
townspeople. The other two survivors are
also still present, Sheriff Dewey (David
Arquette), and Gale Weathers (Courtney
Cox). Sidneys arrival also overlaps the
anniversary of the previous killing spree.
In the midst of her return a new killer has
arrived who is targeting Sidney and her two
companions but also her cousin Jill (Emma
Roberts). Can Sidney cheat death a fourth
time and save herself and her cousin from
the new killer?
STRENGTHS
The opening scene of the movie is
clever and fans of the Scream franchise
will more than likely admire the new twist
that is added. The flm makes clever use of
it being self aware that it is not just a movie
but a horror movie as well (preferred term
for movie buffs is Meta). The flm contains
several clever references, the funniest one
being Shaun of the Dead. Since the movie
is self aware it contains inside references in
the dialogue that are both funny and unique.
For example the line of Lets watch Saw
4 followed by no its just pointless torture
porn with no character development.
The fnal act of the flm is strong and
provides an ending that even experts in
horror will not see coming. What also adds
to the strength of the fnal act is chaos breaks
out that is both entertaining for the audience
and satisfying as well. Furthermore, the
strongest point of this movie is it critiques
the idea of people wanting to become
famous, especially overnight. I cannot
say anymore with regards to this without
spoiling anything but the way the flm
introduces it and explains is intelligent and
distinctive.
WEAKNESSES
Sometimes I feel like a broken record
when I review horror flms because the one
aspect of them that I just cannot stand is
the usage of jump scares. When anyone
goes to a horror flm whether it is a slasher
flm or a spoof horror flm like this, jump
scares are inevitable. I have no problem
with jump scares but only when they are
used to enhance the scene at which they
are in. Every kill in this movie contains a
jump scare. Moreover, I would not go as
far to say that the performances are bad but
it does seem like each character in the flm
knows that they are in a spoof horror flm
and they are not taking it seriously.
One of the reoccurring weaknesses of
the Scream franchise has been the kills on
a whole are lame and dull. With this flm
that problem was not addressed. With the
exception of one kill in which the audience
is able to see someone cut open in a way
in which has not been seen often, every
other kill is the stereotypical stab in the
chest followed by immediate death.Some
of these characters are also annoying and
dumb. One scene in this flm that irritated
me was there is a kill in a parking garage
but the main character sees the killer when
she is in her car, than she proceeds to get
out of the car. Once she gets out of the car
well what happens next is obvious.
CONCLUSION/FINAL RATING
Overall the flm is not bad but it really
does not do enough new things for me to
tell you to rush out to see it in theatres.
Fans of the franchise might fnd themselves
board but on the other hand maybe not. It
is worth mentioning that Scream 4 is much
better than Scream 3 but not as good as
the frst two. This flm is close for me but
I am choosing not to recommend it because
its biggest weaknesses of too many jump
scares, unsatisfying kills, and lacking
performances overshadow what is good
about the flm. If you have to see it just
watch it online, no need to hurry out and
see it.
Written by Cole Bloxam
http://www.moviefilmreview.com/
author/Cole053
may 5, 2011
movie times
Movie times listed are
for the weekend of May
5. Please confrm times
with theater.
Nickelodeon Theatre
| 937 Main Street |
803.254.3433
JANE EYRE
MAY 6-19, Friday-
Thursday
Friday, May 6th - 3:00,
5:30 and 8:00
Saturday, May 7th -
3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
Sunday, May 8th -
3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
Monday, May 9th -
5:30 and 8:00
Tuesday, May 10th -
**8:30 ONLY**
Wednesday, May 11th -
3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
Thursday, May 12th -
3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
Driven from her post
at Thornfeld House
by her love for her
brooding employer and
his secret past, young
governess Jane Eyre
refects on her youth
and the events that led
her to the misty moors
in this artful adaptation
of Charlotte Bronts
novel.
Regal Columbia
Cinema 7
3400 Forest Drive
Suite 3000, Columbia,
SC 29204
Water for Elephants
new! (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
2:10 4:50 7:30 10:10
Arthur (PG-13)
2:05 4:40 7:10 9:40
Hanna (PG-13)
2:40 5:10 7:45 10:15
Soul Surfer (PG)
2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30
Your Highness (R)
2:40 5:05 7:35 10:00
Source Code (PG-13)
4:55 9:50
Limitless (PG-13)
2:30 7:20
The Lincoln Lawyer
(R)
2:15 5:00 7:40 10:20
Carmike Wynnsong
10
5320 Forest Drive,
Columbia, SC 29206
Jumping the Broom
new! (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:10 4:10 7:10 9:55
Thor new! (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:20 4:20 7:15 10:05
12:01am
Thor 3D new! (PG-13)
Digital 3D
12:30 1:00 3:30 4:00
6:30 7:00 9:20 9:45
12:05am
Fast Five new! (PG-
13)
DP (Digital Projection)
12:45 1:45 3:45 5:30
6:45 8:00 9:50
Prom new! (PG)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:10 4:10 7:10 9:45
Tyler Perrys Madeas
Big Happy Family
(PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:00 4:00 7:05 9:40
Rio The Movie (G)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:05 6:45
AMC Dutch Square
14
800 Bush River Rd.,
Columbia, SC 29210
Tyler Perrys Madeas
Big Happy Family
new! (PG-13, No
Passes)
11:50am 2:30 5:10
7:50 10:30
Regal Columbiana
Grande Stadium 14
1250 Bower Pkwy,
Columbia, SC 29212
Jumping the Broom
new! (PG-13)
11:20am 1:55 4:30
7:10 9:45
Something Borrowed
new! (PG-13)
11:30am 2:10 4:50
7:40 10:15
Thor new! (PG-13, No
Passes)
10:30am 1:20 4:10
7:00 9:50
Thor 3D new! (PG-13,
No Passes)
11:00am 1:50 4:40
7:30 10:20
Carmike 14
122 Afton Court,
Columbia, SC 29212
Dog: Dead of Night
new! (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
2:15 4:50 7:30 10:00
Hoodwinked Too!
Hood vs. Evil 3D new!
(PG)
Digital 3D
1:45 4:05 6:30 8:50
Prom new! (PG)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:30 4:00 6:30 9:00
Water for Elephants
(PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:15 4:15 7:10 9:50
Arthur (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:40 4:30 7:05 9:35
Hanna (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:55 4:25 7:00 9:40
Soul Surfer (PG)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:20 4:05 6:50 9:15
Your Highness (R)
DP (Digital Projection)
2:20 4:55 7:25 10:00
Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
Rodrick Rules (PG)
DP (Digital Projection)
2:00 4:25 6:40 9:00
Limitless (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
2:10 4:45 7:15 9:45
The Lincoln Lawyer
(R)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:25 4:10 7:00 9:45
Paul (R)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:45 4:35 7:20 9:55
Red Riding Hood (PG-
13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:50 4:20 6:55 9:30
Unknown (PG-13)
DP (Digital Projection)
1:35 4:05 6:45 9:20
Regal Sandhill
Stadium 16 450 Town
Center Place
Hanna (PG-13)
2:55 7:55
Soul Surfer (PG)
2:45 5:15 7:50 10:20
Open Captioned &
Descriptive Audio
12:15pm
Hop (PG)
12:05 2:15 4:40 7:15
9:30
Jumping the Broom
new! (PG-13)
12:00 2:35 5:15 7:50
10:30
Something Borrowed
new! (PG-13)
11:50am 2:25 5:00
7:40 10:15
Thor new! (PG-13)
10:30am 1:20 4:10
7:00 9:50
Thor 3D new! (PG-13)
11:00am 1:50 4:40
7:30 10:20
St. Andrews Cinema
5 527 St Andrews Road
(803) 772-7469
Please call
Regal Pastime
Pavilion 8 929 North
Lake Drive, Lexington,
SC 29072
Jumping the Broom
new! (PG-13)
2:00 4:30 7:20 10:10
Something Borrowed
new! (PG-13)
2:20 4:50 7:40 10:20
Thor 3D new! (PG-13,
No Passes)
1:20 4:10 7:00 9:50
13
Im a young
heterofexible guy who
has been a sugar
baby for a handful
of wealthy older guys.
I love it! I get money,
I have fun being with
them, and the guys
seem to like having me
around. The problem is that I just got with a new
guy who is really great except for one thing: He is
HIV positive. I like the fact that he told me, and I
am open to being with him sexually even though I
am HIV negative and want to stay that way.
He is VERY submissivehe wants to be used
and abused sexually, physically, and mentally. My
question is, what kinds of sex acts are okay to do
with this guy? I read on one site that him rimming
me is fne, and on another that him giving me a
blowjob with a condom is safe, too. But I cant
fnd a site that specifcally explains which sex acts
are safe and which ones arent when one person is
positive and one person is negative.
Help In Virginia
Its pretty simple, HIV: Sex acts that expose
you to his semen and/or blood are defnitely
unsafe, and sex acts that expose him to your
semen and/or blood are mostly safe. Rimming
you, blowing you (even without a condom),
getting fucked by you (with a condom)all very
low risk for HIV transmission. If hes on a drug
regimen and his viral load is undetectable, HIV,
your already-low risks of being exposed while,
say, accepting a blowjob (and a check) are even
lower. The risks arent nonexistentall sex acts
carry some degree of riskbut if the risks were
any closer to nonexistent, theyd be sitting on
nonexistents lap.
And bear this in mind: Odds are good that
some of the other guys youve babied forsome
of your previous daddieswere HIV positive and
either didnt know or didnt have the decency
to disclose. This guys willingness to disclose is
evidence not just of his honesty and decency, HIV,
but of his respect for you and his commitment to
keeping you safe. This guy is less likely to ask you
to engage in sex acts that are higher risk or unsafe
than a guy who isnt aware that hes positive or
is actively hiding the fact that hes positive. And
his interest in being used and abused creates lots
of hot safe-sex-play optionsletting him beat off
while he licks your boots or jerking him off while
hes tied to the bed with your jock in his mouth are
no-risk sexual activities that hes likely to enjoy
immensely.
Im a 24-year-old straight guy. Ive been
with my girl for three years, and things are great
great sex life, great communication, etc. We have
lots of sexbut for the last year or so, she has not
been on birth control and we have not been using
condoms. Were not against the idea of a child,
but we arent currently going for it. I was always
told that pulling out was a 100 percent ineffective
method of birth control. So my question is, I guess,
could there be something wrong with one of us?
How could we have unprotected sex for a year
without getting her pregnant? We both really want
children eventually and are worried it might not
happen.
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Withdrawal is a much more effective
birth control method than most sex advisers are
comfortable acknowledging. But facts are facts:
A comprehensive study conducted by researchers
at the Guttmacher Institute found that withdrawal
was almost as effective a birth control option
as condoms. (Better Than Nothing or Savvy
Risk-Reduction Practice? The Importance of
Withdrawal, Contraception, June 2009.)
If the male partner withdraws before
ejaculation every time a couple has vaginal
intercourse, about 4% of couples will become
pregnant over the course of a year, the authors of
the study wrote. That compares pretty favorably
with the 2 percent of straight couples who will
become pregnant using condoms perfectly over
the course of a year.
In the real world, of course, very few people
do anything perfectly. When you take mistakes,
leaks, and broken condoms into account,
researchers estimate that 17 percent of straight
couples who rely on condoms will become
pregnant in any given year. Not all withdrawers
use withdrawal perfectly, eitheramazingly
enough, some guys get distracted and forget
to pull out as their orgasms approachbut the
research shows that just 18 percent of straight
couples who use withdrawal will get pregnant in
any given year.
So odds are good that youre not infertile,
SFMi, just lucky.
Im a young lesbian. I recently met a girl
whos cute, and I think were on the likely-to-have-
sex-soon track. The thing is, she confded in me
that shes participated in needle play in dungeon-
party situations. Im not someone who is turned
off by kinkiness just cause its kinky, but it seems
like even safe needle play is a recipe for STI
transmission unless youre playing with trained
medical professionals. She says she gets tested
regularly, but still, would it be really risky for me
to sleep with her?
Enthusiastic Reader
Every time Ive watched needle play in a
dungeon-party situationwatched with my hands
clamped over my eyes, peeking through the small
spaces between my fngersno one was being
stuck with rusty needles by dirty-handed brutes.
All the public needle-play scenes Ive witnessed
were ostentatiously sterile affairs: These kinksters,
some of whom were trained medical professionals,
made a big show of using alcohol wipes, cotton
swabs, latex gloves, and clean sharps. I think its
fair to ask this girl for more information about her
blood and needle experiences, about the safety
precautions that her partners took, and about how
recently she was tested. But rest assured, ER, that
the most effective STI transmission routes involve
sticking dicks in people in completely vanilla
situations, not clean needles in dungeon-party
situations.
Heres some information for MILK, the man
who is aroused by the thought of being sprayed
with his wifes breast milk: It is common for
newly lactating women to experience strong milk
ejection refexes during sex. This is induced by
the hormone oxytocin, which is released during
labor and orgasm, and when the milk lets down
during breast-feeding. In other words: New
mothers often spray milk when they get off. Most
women are embarrassed when this happens, but
at least MILKs wife will know the frst time it
happens that her husband isnt going to freak out
about it.
Breast-feeding Educators Sex Tips
Thanks for sharing, BEST.
CONFIDENTIAL TO AMERICAN
LADIES: Republicans took the House of
Representatives after campaigning on jobs, debt,
and taxes. But its been nonstop assaults on
Planned Parenthood and reproductive freedom
ever since. The GOP is always going on and
on about how they want to shrink the size of
government, and now we know why: They want
to stuff the government in your vagina.
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EVERYBODIES: Please go towww.shitharperdid.
com, have a laugh, and then do what you can to
send Stephen Harper packing or, failing that, deny
him a majority. Pretty please?
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Savage
Sex advice
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Across
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12 It sounds like a fruit, but its
really a jellyfish
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18 Just ___ suspected...
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44 ___ M for Mature
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Cox
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varmints
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23 Their shirt buttons are on the
right
26 Honorific poem
28 Make ___ of it
30 Meet ___ (romantic comedy
scenes)
35 Suffix for press
41 Multiplayer card game with
elements of solitaire
43 One of Carries Sex and the
City boyfriends
45 Where dat thing goes, in
Brooklyn
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