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CHINA HIJACKED US INTERNET TRAFFICChina has done little

to improve access to and the secu-

rity of the Internet in the last year,in some cases lending its supportto Web-based attacks on for-eign computer systems and tight-ening its control on the Internet,according to a Wednesday report.

Methods in China for infiltratingAmerican computer systems aswell as those of foreign govern-ments have become increasinglysophisticated in the last year, butthe average citizen in the countryhas fewer options when it comes tofreedom on the Web, according tothe U.S.-China Economic andSecurity Review Commission(USCC).

The USCC is charged with mon-itoring the national security implica-tions of doing business with China.Wednesday's report is the 12-member commission's eighth re-port on the topic since 2000. It

covers a variety of topics, includingInternet freedoms, and this year'sreport includes 45 recommenda-

tions for Congress to consider."The Chinese government con-

tinues to maintain a sophisticatedInternet filtering system to restrictfreedom of speech," the reportfound. "Beyond filtering, the Chi-nese government has increasinglysought to direct public discussionover the Internet."

"Moreover, the penetration ofGoogle's computer network thisyear has renewed concerns aboutthe Chinese government's toler-ance or possible sponsorship ofmalicious computer activity," theUSCC continued.

The commission found "somelever of state support" for Chineseindividuals and organizations thatattacked American computer sys-tems and those of foreign govern-ments, vice chairman CarolynBartholomew said in a statement.

"In addition, for a brief period inApril, Chinese Internet service

providers 'hijacked,' or inappropri-ately gained access to, U.S. Inter-net traffic," Bartholomew said.

"This incident affected numerousgovernment sites, including those

for the Senate and the Office of theSecretary of Defense."In a statement provided to Reu-

ters, China Telecom denied hijack-ing U.S. Internet traffic.

Earlier this year, Google discov-ered a sophisticated attack thatoriginated in China, which wasdesigned to steal Google intellectu-al property and access the Gmailaccounts of Chinese human rightsactivists. As a result, Google said itwould stop censoring i ts searchresults in China, and possibly pullout of the Chinese market altogeth-er depending on the reaction ofChinese officials.

In a white paper released earlierthis week, Google said that Inter-net censorship acts as an impedi-ment to free trade; a position theUSCC said was persuasively ar-gued.

By Yuri Isacov | Contributoryuri@laprofessionalexpress.com

Issue No. 112 Thursday, November 18, 2010COMPLIMENTARYProfessional exPress

SPORADIC AND SUPERFICIAL GLOBAL SUPPORT HASMADE PAKISTANIS FEEL DANGEROUSLY BETRAYED

General Pervez Musharraf: President of Pakistan (2001-2008) | Army Chief of Staff & Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff (1998-2007) | Corps Commander of Pakistan Army (1995) | Lieutenant General of Pakistan Army (1991) | Company Command-er of SSG Commando Battalion (Indo-Pak War of 1971) | 2nd Lieutenant - Field Artillery Regiment (Indo-Pak War of 1965)

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MUSHARRAF: DONT MESS WITH PAKISTAN

By Pervez Musharraf, formerpresident and army chief of Paki-stan.

The world is watching Pakistan,and rightly so. Its a happening place.Pakistan is at the center of geo-strategic revolution and realign-ments. The economic, social andpolitical aspirations of China,Afghanistan, Iran, and India turnon securing peace, prosperity,and stability in Pakistan. Our coun-try can be an agent of positivechange, one that creates uniqueeconomic interdependencies be-tween central, west and south Asiancountries and the Middle Eastthrough trade and energy partner-ships. Or theres the other option: theborderless militancy Pakistan isbattling could take down the wholeregion.

Recently, terrorists on both sidesof the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderhave plotted, unsuccessfully, tounleash terror as far away as Copen-hagen and New York City. Paki-stans role in a safe, secure worldcannot be overemphasized. Toappreciate the complex history ofPakistans internal and externalchallenges is to understand how the21st century could well play out forthe world.

Our country was born of vio-lence, in August 1947. Just monthsafter the partition of the subcontinentand the creation of the Dominion ofPakistan, we were at war with Indiaover Kashmir. Pakistan and Indiasmutual animosity and history of con-frontation remain powerful forces inSouth Asia to this day. Because of itssense of having been wronged by

Indiaand feeling that it faced anexistential threat from that countryPakistan cast its lot with the West.We became a strategic partner ofthe U.S. during the Cold War , sign-ing on to the Southeast Asia TreatyOrganization (SEATO) and CentralTreaty Organization (CENTO) in the1950s, while India tilted toward theSoviet Union. As part of our inaliena-ble right to self-preservation, weformulated a minimum defensivedeterrence strategy to maintainArmy, Navy and Air Force numbersat levels proportional to Indias.

In 1965 we again went to war overKashmir, and in 1971 over EastPakistan (I fought in both). Our sus-picions about India were proved rightwhen it became clear that the crea-tion of Bangladesh was only madepossible through Indian military andintelligence support. Among Paki-stanis in general, and the Army in

particular, attitudes against Indiahardened. The adversarial relation-ship between our Inter ServicesIntelligence and their Researchand Analysis Wing worsened, bothexploiting any opportunity to in-flict harm on the other.

Indias Smiling Buddha nucleartests in 1974 changed everything.Pakistan was forced to resort tounconventional means to compen-sate for the new imbalance of power.Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhuttoinitiated Pakistans atomic pro-gram, and thus began the nuclear-ization of the subcontinent. Indiaspursuit of nuclear weapons was aneffort to project power beyond itsborders; Pakistans was an existen-tial and defensive imperative.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistanin 1979 presented Pakistan with asecurity threat from two directions:Soviets to the west, who wanted

access to the Indian Ocean throughPakistan, and Indians to the east.Once again Pakistan joined handswith the United States to fight Mos-cow. We called it jihadby design,this effort to attract mujahideen

from all over the Muslim world.And from Morocco to Indonesia,some 25,000 of them came. Wetrained and armed Taliban fromthe madrassahs of the then NorthWest Frontier Province, andpushed them into Afghanistan. Bythis time, the liberal and intellectualAfghan elite had left for the saferclimes of Europe and the U.S., leav-ing behind a largely poor, religious-minded population to fight the 10-year jihad. WePakistan, the U.S.,the West, and Saudi Arabiaareequally responsible for nourishingthe militancy that defeated the SovietUnion in 1989, and which seeks nowto defeat us all.

The Soviets quit Kabul, and theAmericans abandoned Islamabad.Washington rewarded its once indis-pensable ally by invoking the Press-ler Amendment and imposing militarysanctions, and by choosing to fostera strategic relationship with India.Pakistan was left alone to deal withthe nearly 4 million Afghans who hadstreamed into our country and be-came the worlds largest refugeepopulation. The people of Pakistanfelt betrayed and used. For Paki-stan, the decade of disaster hadbegun. No efforts were made todeprogram, rehabilitate, and resettlethe mujahideen or redevelop andbuild back war-ravaged Afghanistan.

This shortsightedness led to ethnicfighting, warlordism, and Afghani-stans dive into darkness. The muja-hideen coagulated into Al Qaeda.The Taliban, who would emerge asa force in 1996, eventually wouldoccupy 90 percent of the country,ramming through their obscurant-

ist medievalism. It was also in 1989that the freedom struggle reignited inIndia-administered Kashmir. Thisstarted out as a purely indigenousand peaceful uprising against Indianstate repression. The people who ledthis first intifada were radicalized bythe Indian Armys fierce and indis-criminate crackdowns on locals. TheKashmir cause is a rallying cry forMuslims around the world. It is moreso for Pakistanis. The plight of Kash-miri Muslims inspired the creation ofnew mujahideen groups within Paki-stan who then sent thousands ofvolunteer fighters to the troubledterritory. In terms of identity politics,the boundaries were clearer: themujahideen set their sights on India;Al Qaeda and the Taliban were fo-cused largely on Afghanistan. Withthe Taliban to our west and the muja-hideen in the north, this arc of angerrent our social fabric. Pakistan

found itself awash in guns anddrugs.Nine years later, there was bad

news from Pokhran. In May 1998,India again tested its bomb. Al-most two weeks later, Pakistanresponded by turning the moun-tain white at Chaghai. For Paki-stanis, our own tests became a sym-bol of our power in the world, a testa-ment to our resolve and innovation inthe face of adversity, and a source ofunmitigated pride in our streets. Webecame a nuclear power and aninternational pariah at the same time,but furthering and harnessing ournuclear potential remains and mustremain our singular national interest.Of course, the U.S. views Indiasnuclear program differently fromPakistans. Even our pursuit of nucle-ar power for civilian purposes, forelectricity generation, is viewed neg-atively. Indias pursuit is assisted by

the U.S. In Pakistan, people see thisas yet another instance of Americanpartiality, even hostility. Many evenbelieve that the U.S. wants to de-nuclearize Pakistanby force ifnecessarybecause it fears the

weapons could come into thehands of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, orany of the myriad militant organi-zations who have loosed mayhemin Pakistan. Our nuclear weaponsare secure.

Pakistan was one of only threecountries to recognize the Talibangovernment of Afghanistan. We didthis because of our ethnic, historical,and geographical affinity with AfghanPashtuns who comprised the Tali-ban. In 2000, when I led Pakistan, Ihad suggested to the U.S. and othercountries that they, too, should rec-ognize the Taliban government andcollectively engage Kabul in order toachieve moderation there throughexposure and exchange. This wasshot down. Continued diplomaticisolation of the Taliban regimepushed it into the embrace of theArab-peopled Al Qaeda. Had theTaliban government been recog-nized, the world could have savedthe Bamiyan Buddhas, and unknot-ted the Osama bin Laden problemthereby preventing the spate of AlQaeda-orchestrated attacks aroundthe world including on September 11,2001, in the U.S.

When America decided to retali-ate, we joined the international coali-tion against Kabul by choice so wecould safeguard and promote ourown national interests. Nobody inIslamabad was in favor of the reli-gious and governmental philosophyof the Taliban. By joining the coali-tion, we also prevented India fromgaining an upper hand in Afghani-stan from where it could thenmachinate against Pakistan. TheTaliban and Al Qaeda were defeated

in 2001 with the help of the NorthernAlliance, which was composed ofUzbeks, Hazarans, and Tajiksallethnic minorities. The Pashtuns andArabs of Afghanistan fled to themountains and fanned out acrossPakistan. This was the serious down-side of joining the global coalition:the mujahideen who were fighting forKashmir formed an unholy nexuswith the Afghan and Pakistani Tali-banand turned their guns on us.While I was president, they madeat least four attempts on mylife. In 2002, the allies installed alargely Pashtun-free government inAfghanistan that lacked legitimacybecause it did not represent 50 per-cent of the Afghan population, Pash-tuns. This should not have hap-pened. All Taliban are Pashtun, butnot all Pashtuns are Taliban. Pash-tuns were thus isolated, blocked fromthe mainstream, and pushed toward

the Taliban, who made a resurgencein 2004. Today, the Taliban rule theroost in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda andthe Taliban are ensconced in ourtribal agencies, plotting and launch-ing attacks against us and others.The twin scourge of radicalism andmilitarism has infected settled dis-tricts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa andbeyond. Mujahideen groups areoperating in India-administeredKashmir and seem to have publicsupport in Pakistan.

After nine long years, and a l ong-er war for the U.S. than Vietnam, theworld wants to negotiate withmoderate elements in the Talibanand from a position of apparentweakness. Before the coalition aban-dons Afghanistan again, it must atleast ensure the election of a legiti-mate Pashtun-led government. Paki-stan, which has lost at least 30,000of its citizens in the war on terror,

should be forgiven for wonderingwhether it was all worth it. Pakistanisshould not be left to feel that it wasnot.The writer is former president andarmy chief of Pakistan.

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With just a week before Turkey Day, there islots of music on the SUPERGOODMUSICradar to gobble up.

THURSDAYThursday night isnt too gravy, but there

are a few options. Matt Nathanson, AndrewMcMahon, Marc Roberge and others at ElRey Theatre certainly will deliver top notchmusicianship, while Usher will deliver highquality entertainment with Trey Songz atStaples Center.

FRIDAYFriday, I must advise going to The Mint

for the rarely seen Canadian buzzband,Yukon Blonde and Dangerbird Records artistEulogies. SUPERGOODMUSIC.com ishosting the night and wed love to see yoursupport. Hipsters who refuse to flock west ofthe 101, may elect to stay east for Avi Buffa-lo and Lord Huron at Echoplex. If youremore in the mood for dance music TheCrystal Method at Avalon or Kelis at ClubNokia should do the trick.

SATURDAYTop choice for Saturday is Magical Prop-

erties presents Daedelus, The GaslampKiller, Free The Robots, Samiyam and Teebsat House of Blues. Other presumably wilddance options include David Guetta at Holly-wood Palladium and Simian Mobile Disco at

Avalon.Stoners might enjoy Slightly Stoopid, who

will be getting the ska funky reggae vibeskicking at The Roxy. They, and fans of com-edy, also might enjoy Demetri Martin at TheWiltern, Lisa Lampanelli at Club Nokia orAziz Ansari at Orpheum Theatre.

SUNDAY AND MONDAYSunday and Monday dont deliver too muchexcitement aside from pro football and theMy Chemical Romance show at House ofBlues. Tuesday, however, is hot. It marksthe return of Check Yo Ponytail, the hot L.A.event formerly responsible for breaking talent

like Justice and Matt & Kim to the masses.TUESDAYTuesdays return to Echoplex features aperformance from Midnight Juggernauts aswell as a handful of DJs. L.A. also hostsguitar aficionado and music maverick ZachDeputy at The Mint, which should be equallyas wild a Check Yo Ponytail.

THANKSOther than those shows, we simply rec-

ommend that you give thanks. Thank you forreading Supergoodmusic on the L.A. ProExpress. If youd like a more complete set ofrecommendations, just vi sit:

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Issue No. 112 Thursday, November 18, 2010

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The Pro Express gets the A-B-Cs of the American federal minimum wage from world-famous economist, L. Wayne Gertmenian, Ph.D.

THE FOLEY REPORTBy Shane FoleylSports Columnist

THE TRUTH ABOUT MINIMUM WAGELAProfessionalExpress.com

Dr. G., the Pro Expresshas hosted diver-gent editorials regarding minimum wage.We look now to you to set the recordstraight. First, why does the federal mini-mum wage exist ?

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938created the federal minimum wage. The Actfollowed the Great Depression, whereinpeople became so desperate for work thatsmall groups would collect $10 to $15 be-tween themselves to pay an employer for achance at a job. After the period of timeallocated to their so-called chance expired,unscrupulous employers fired the group andtook up the next collectives bribe for work. Iam still repulsed by the thought.

Other examples of abuse in that erainclude promises by employers to pay folks

50 per hour if they worked well, otherwise10 per hour. Abusive employers almost

always paid the latter wage at a time of theirchoosing.

After a large group of honorable employ-ers including my father traveled to Washing-ton, D.C. demanding that Congress legislatefair labor laws, the Act was enacted.

The Act set a minimum hourly wage thelowest amount possible to which an em-ployer an employee could agree for theemployees work. Moreover, it requiredemployers to pay up within a time certain.Still, if a disagreement existed as to thewages paid, the Act created a Labor Boardto adjudicate the dispute.People commonly talk about a livingwage? Should the federal minimum wagebe raised to provide for a living wage?

A common misconception is that the FairLabor Standards Act provided for a livingwage; it did not. The Acts purpose was tocreate a floorit told and continues to tellthe country that any agreement to pay aperson below $X an hour is invalid, and must

be interpreted as a contract to pay the sub-ject at least $X an hour.Whether the federal government should

enact laws that provide for a living or prevail-ing wage is a completely different topic thattouches on a diversity of issues ranging frompersonal morality to whether you believe thatthe amount of the living wage depends onwhere you reside in this vast and economi-cally diverse country.Unions in the U.S. frequently advocate fora higher minimum wage. Are the inter-ests of the poorest in this country ad-vanced by such advocacy?

To say that unions today carry out thework of the poor would be erroneous andcontravene readily available empirical facts.Generally, laborers can be divided into threegroups: (i) unskilled, whose jobs can belearned within 90 days, (ii) semi-skilled,whose jobs take between 90 days and 3years to learn and (iii) skilled, whose jobs

take more than 3 years to master. Mostunions members are semi-skilled workers.

The interests of the semi-skilled frequentlydo not align with those of the unskilled.

Suppose at minimum wage (MW) #1, 10,000unskilled work for a given employer. If theMW is raised enough or too many timeswithin a short timeto MW #4, for exam-ple the employer, who must pay not onlywages but also employment insurance taxes,workers compensation premiums, socialsecurity, etc., will soon realize it more profit-able and potentially productive to replace 5of those unskilled workers with 1 semi-skilledworker anda machine. In the aggregate, theemployer can reduce its workforce from10,000 to 2,000 persons plus machines,maintain the same or increase levels ofproductivity and reduce some of its variablecosts.

If attentive, you would note that all of theaforementioned employers unskilled work-ers lost their jobs in favor of different, semi-skilled skilled workers.

Ironically, the unskilled population exalted

each increase of the minimum wage, fromMW #1 to MW#4. The political party whichenacted those increases won the unskilledworkers affection and votes. That sameparty is ultimately responsible for the un-skilled workers losing their jobs, albeit itmuch later.How fast does this all happen?

The phenomenon by which employersformulate and carry out their response to anincrease in minimum wage takes more than18 to 24 months (or 1.5 to 2 years) to unfold,and sometimes much longer than that.President Bill Clinton, for example, had asuperb economics education. He signed intolaw multiple increases in the minimum wage,including one which ultimately jumped theminimum wage 21% within a 12-month peri-od (H.R. 3448).

Clinton knew that hed be displacing thejobs of hundreds of thousands of the poorestAmericans, but raised the minimum anyway.

His concern was a political one; he signedthe subject legislation on August 20, 1996,

and would face the electorate later that yearon November 5th, when the Office of the

President would be up for grabs.Because the vast majority of Americansare not economists and often have shortmemories, the electorate rarely connects apoor economic policy outcome with its corre-sponding decision-maker.Are there other areas of the economywhere political parties may take ad-vantage of the relatively unsophisticatedelectorate?

Of course. This conversation is about theminimum wage, but tariffs and hamperingfree trade is another prime example.Pressed by an industry or an industrys lob-byists and finding it in their self-interest,congress and the president have historicallyraised tariffs and kept out foreign products inan attempt to grow local industry.

This temporary appeasement or protec-tionism (mercantilism) benefits the actingpolitical party and in the long-term severely

damages American industry. Look into thetariffs imposed on blown glass in this coun-try back in the 1800s and their subsequenteffects on the American blown-glass indus-try. Not good. And that isa representativesample.How can we remove the influence ofcheap political ploys with regard to suchan important aspect of our societytheeconomy?

A recuse law if you, as a congressper-son, senator, assemblyperson, county super-visor or other elected, take any money froman organization, then you should be requiredto recuse yourself from every vote whichrelates to or affects that organization.

The Supreme Court has recently ruledthat the money flowing from corporations, forexample, to the U.S. Congress cannot bestopped because political participation viacampaign contributions is part of a class ofactivity protected by the First Amendment.

The only viable way to ensure that officeholders cast votes based on policies merits

rather than the gross campaign contributionsreceived from one side of the issue or the

other, therefore, is to ensure that those whotake money sit out a vote when that contribu-tors legislation is put forth.

With regard to minimum wage, a recuselaw would mean that unions could no longerbuy legislative votes because legislatorstaking money from unions would have torecuse themselves from all proposed laborlaw legislation. Our lawmakers would findthemselves deciding early to not take bigcorporate contributions, lest they be seen asineffective for not voting on a substantialnumber of matters before them.Thank you, Dr. G for your valuable timeand thoughts. If I may share my concernregarding a related subject I recentlyobserved the ballot-counting process inLos Angeles County and am disheartenedto have seen that politically partial SEIUmembers were charged by the Countywith determining which provisional bal-lots should be determined valid, andwhich should be invalidated. The partyaffiliation of the ballot castor is written bythe castor on the outside of the provision-al envelope. How will we ever get a recu-se law when we leave ballot-counting sovulnerable to manipulation?

Interview and paraphrasing by,Zein E. Obagi, Jr.

The following paraphrases an interview.

PAC-10It was a competitive day in conference play

last Saturday and a reminder of how muchparity there currently is in the PAC-10. The #1ranked Oregon Ducks had a scare in Berkeley,holding on for a 15-13 win which included amissed 29-yard field goal in the 4th quarter byCal's kicker. The Golden Bears held Oregon toits season lows of 15 points and 317 totalyards. The Stanford Cardinals needed a 4thquarter scoring drive to outlast the Sun Devils17-13 in Tempe. Washington State shockedthe Beavers with a 31-14 victory in Corvallis,ending the Cougars 16-game conferencelosing streak and sending Oregon State totheir third loss in their last four games. TheTrojans marched into Tucson and grinded outa physical win over # 18 Arizona for CoachLane Kiffin's first win over a ranked opponentat USC. This weekend Stanford and Calsquare off in their annual Big Game, UCLAplays at Washington on Thursday night andthe Trojans travel up to the Northwest to takeon Oregon State. It is time to get behind Ore-gon to represent the PAC-10 in the big danceagainst the expert's proclaimed dominant SECconference.

The National Scene#2 ranked Auburn and quarterback Cam

Newton shook of the recent distractions to pullaway from Georgia 49-31 and set up a show-down with Alabama in the annual Iron Bowlmatchup. They also clinched a spot in theSEC title game and will play South Carolina inAtlanta December 4th. The Ole Ball Coach ledhis Gamecocks to a huge win over Florida atthe Swamp 36-14 and sent the Gators packingwith a 6-4 record. # 3 TCU survived againstSan Diego State 40-35 and #4 Boise Staterolled Idaho 52-14 in their quest to slip into theBCS championship game. #6 Wisconsin de-molished Indiana 83-20 and Ohio State camefrom behind to stifle Penn State 38-14. NotreDame came up with a big win at home against#15 Utah 28-3 to move to 5-5 on the season.#12 Oklahoma State ended a 12-year losingstreak to Texas by winning 33-16, sending theLonghorns to a miserable 4-6 and into thecellar of the Big-12 South.

Quarterback PlayThis year has proven how valuable the

quarterback position is. We have witnessedthe downward spiral of Texas and Floridawithout Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow. There isa correlation with efficient quarterback playand wins and losses. Boise State's KellenMoore, Auburn's Cam Newton, TCU's AndyDalton, Ohio State's Terelle Pryor, Wisconsin'sScott Tolzien and Stanford's Andrew Luck are

all in the top 10 in passing efficiency in thecountry and their respective teams are allranked in the top 10 in the country.

Taking InventoryUSC came into the game last Saturday

sitting at .500 in conference and looking up atthe #18 ranked and 7-2 Arizona. The Wildcatshad handed the Trojans a bitter defeat lastseason in the last game at the Coliseumcoached by Pete Carroll. This season, Arizonahad gone on the road to beat a top-ten rankedIowa team earlier in the season. The Wildcatsboasted the 10th ranked rushing defense inthe country and they were in search of strongfinish and a possible New Year's Day bowlgame. It has been repeated throughout thecourse of the season that the Trojans havenothing to play for with no opportunity to playin a post-season bowl. As the season hasunfolded, the Trojans have started to establishan identity. They have not complained ormade excuses and they have battled in everygame this year. They have lost three games,two by last second field goals and one to thetop ranked team in the country in which theyled 32-29 in the 3rd quarter. However, thewins and losses added up to 3-3 in conferenceand it was time to dig in and find a way to win.This season is not about style points but aboutfinding ways to win and build confidence eachweek. There does not need to be any talk rightnow about going 10-3 and next year's teamalready. The coaching staff needs to keep thisteam intently focused on improving, building,and playing as a team one game at a time.

USC at Oregon StateThe Trojans now travel up to the Pacific

Northwest where wins have been scarce thelast few years. After their gritty win in Tucson,USC has moved back into the AP polls at#20. However, USC has not won in the stateof Oregon since 2005 and they have droppedtwo straight in Corvallis to the Beavers, includ-ing a 27-21 shocker in 2008 when they werethe #1 ranked team in the country. USC leadsthe overall series at 59-10-4 with the seriesdating back to 1914. Mike Riley proved to bePete Carroll's nemesis in the last five yearsconcluding with USC outlasting Oregon Statein a shootout 42-36 at the Coliseum. TheBeavers have uncharacteristically faltereddown the stretch this season with the loss ofversatile wide receiver James Rodgers, drop-ping three of their last four games includinglast week's stunning loss to Washington Stateat home. James' younger brother . . .

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Week 11 delivered more exciting storylines with Cal players faking injuries likeWWE superstars, Chip Kelly getting frustrat-ed with sideline reporters, and Auburn's CamNewton still collecting cash payments to playat Auburn.

Cal's marketing department had a brilliantstrategy this past weekend: they convincedthe Berkeley hippies that they were having aprop 19 rally at the stadium and when theyshowed up to the football game they spewed

their venomous chants at the Oregon Ducksand almost guided their team to an upset.Infamous New York Jets reporter Ines Sainzis all-in on the Ducks this year and she lovesthe highlighter jerseys.

It's safe to say that Arizona's performancethis year parallels the premature ejaculationthat affects 25-40% of men in the UnitedStates. Getting revenge against Iowa, climb-ing to the top ten in the rankings, and nowfinding themselves on a 2 game skid in No-vember leaves their gorgeous coeds asdisappointed as they are in the bedroom.

Oregon State has been relegated to thedoormat of the conference after gettingthumped by Washington State this pastweekend. The Cougs haven't won a confer-ence game since 2007 and there's nothingmore embarrassing than having the losscome on your home turf. Everybody shouldtake home a cougar this week and show

them some love.Onto the games . . .UCLA at Washington: This is a must win forboth teams if they want to make it to a bowlgame. If the faculty and fans show up withthe same energy that they've been express-ing about the parking and traffic situation ona busy Thursday in Seattle then the fansshould be a factor in the game. Gore-Tex 27- Flip Flops 20Utah at San Diego State: Utah felt the wrathof Jesus at Notre Dame last week while SanDiego State gave TCU all they could handle.Which Indian tribe will go Apacalypto on theother? Utes 28 - Aztecs 24Stanford at Cal: Cal fans took over Stan-ford's stadium last year after upsetting themin Palo Alto, and look for them to rejoiceagain in Strawberry Canyon. Mike Mohamedand Mychal Kendricks will be all over An-drew Luck and the Bears come away victori-ous. Bears 24 - Falling Timber 20

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By Chris Rosa l Sports ColumnistLeaderOfThePac.wordpress.com

Dr. L. Wayne Gertmeni-an is Professor of Eco-nomics at the PepperdineUniversity School ofBusiness and Manage-ment. In additio n to a Ph.D., Dr. G received a

B.A. and J.D. from USC,and an M.B.A. from theUniversity of Idaho.

www.SUPERGOODMUSIC.comBy Brandon Dorsky, Esq. Entertainment Columnist

More than 400,000 members of the Tea Party

were surveyed and asked which issues weremost important to them. According to the resultsof the survey, the following are their top tenagenda items:

1. Identify constitutionality of every new law:Require each bill to identify the specific provisionof the Constitution that gives Congress the powerto do what the bill does. (82.03% agreement) 2.Reject emissions trading: Stop the "cap andtrade" administrative approach used to controlcarbon dioxide emissions by providing economicincentives for achieving reductions in the emis-sions of carbon dioxide. (72.20% agreement) 3.Demand a balanced federal budget: Begin theConstitutional amendment process to require abalanced budget with a two-thirds majority need-ed for any tax modification. (69.69% agreement)4. Simplify the tax system: Adopt a simple andfair single-rate tax system by scrapping theinternal revenue code and replacing it with onethat is no longer than 4,543 words the length ofthe original Constitution. (64.9% agreement) 5.Audit federal government agencies for consti-

tutionality: Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce thatengages in an audit of federal agencies andprograms, assessing their Constitutionality, and

identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness,

and agencies and programs better left for thestates or local authorities. (63.37% agreement) 6.Limit annual growth in federal spending:Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growthin total federal spending to the sum of the infla-tion rate plus the percentage of populationgrowth. (56.57% agreement) 7. Repeal thehealth care legislation passed on March 23,2010: Defund, repeal and replace the PatientProtection and Affordable Care Act. (56.39%agreement) 8. Pass an 'All-of-the-Above' Ener-gy Policy: Authorize the exploration of additionalenergy reserves to reduce American dependenceon foreign energy sources and reduce regulatorybarriers to all other forms of energy creation.(55.5% agreement) 9. Reduce Earmarks: Placea moratorium on all earmarks until the budget isbalanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to p assany earmark. (55.47% agreement) 10. ReduceTaxes: Permanently repeal all recent tax increas-es, and extend permanently the George W. Bushtemporary reductions in income tax, capital gainstax and estate taxes, currently scheduled to endin 2011. (53.38% agreement).

By Mark Davis | Staff Writermdavis@laprofessionalexpress.com

NOW ELECTED, WHAT WILL THEY SEEK?