Atom Feed from Searchles Fri Jul 25 04:13:31 -0400 2008 en-us 747btrfly Wed Jul 23 16:37:45 -0400 2008 FTP: "The Awakening began in Anbar Province more than a year before the surge and took off in the summer and fall of 2006 in Ramadi and elsewhere, long before extra U.S. forces started flowing into Iraq in February and March of 2007. ....This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for Commander in Chief must understand when there are 150,000 American troops stationed in Iraq. It is an absolutely essential element to the story of the past two years. YOU CANNOT GET THIS WRONG. Moreover, what is most disturbing is that according to McCain's inaccurate version of history, military force came first and solved all of our problems. If that is the lesson he takes from the Anbar Awakening, I am afraid it is the lesson he will apply to every other crisis he faces including, for example, Iran." sourog Wed Jul 23 08:52:58 -0400 2008 The Lebanese president, Fouad Siniora, remarked that the displays of pointless outrage made him "proud of our democracy." How valuable is a democracy with public protests but without a government capable of even controlling its own territory, you ask? Answer: Not very. 747btrfly Wed Jul 23 02:44:16 -0400 2008 FTP: Any change in the legal definition of human trafficking attacks the fundamental integrity of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and will severely undermine our government's ability to battle what is now an international trade in children and women. Senators Biden and Brownback have taken a courageous stance to protect women from modern-day slavery. Their bill expands our country's commitment to protect vulnerable women and girls beyond the historic efforts to which our government dedicated itself with adoption of TVPA eight years ago. " 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 22:40:11 -0400 2008 FTP: "McCain said "Czechoslovakia" instead of the "Czech Republic" at another town hall today. But this time, he caught himself and offered a bit of self-mocking explanation. That makes it the third time in the past three weeks. " 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 22:31:03 -0400 2008 FTP: "Of course, at no point does the McCain campaign or anyone in the media point out what, exactly, is the danger to America if our closest allies actually, you know, don't hate us. They also fail to mention that along with being our allies, the European countries Obama is visiting are also democracies -- so it's a lot easier for their leaders to make nice with us if their constituents don't view our president as an object of disdain and ridicule." 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 21:54:38 -0400 2008 FTP:Rendell said that Obama needs a running mate "with more foreign policy credentials" and does not see any electoral advantage to Obama picking him as his running mate. "I don't think he needs me to carry Pennsylvania," Rendell said. "I think that I can do the things that are necessary here in Pennsylvania just by being governor and working for the Obama ticket like I did for Senator Clinton." 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 21:45:13 -0400 2008 As much as I dislike "Big Media," this was funny. - Thrill up my let LOL! 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 19:45:12 -0400 2008 Another example of how the media is in charge of what we hear for news. 747btrfly Tue Jul 22 19:41:27 -0400 2008 Actually, although I don't like the candidate, but this is exactly what the media is doing - they did it to Senator Biden. They are in charge of this election and it it to the point of nausea. cowboy Tue Jul 22 14:12:05 -0400 2008 McCain: Will end dependence on foreign Islamo Arab oil - we send each year our $700 billion to Muslims that hate us, some end up in terrorists hands, phoebus__221 Tue Jul 22 10:22:19 -0400 2008 COMEDY -- Maybe Syria can add a second line for just $9.99 per month, too ... wealth123 Tue Jul 22 04:25:09 -0400 2008 This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we use these two distributions as power ... 747btrfly Mon Jul 21 23:43:32 -0400 2008 But he still doen' t know about the You Tube phenomena! Imagine that - our CIC doesn't know about You Tube. 747btrfly Mon Jul 21 23:35:11 -0400 2008 FTP " " "It was the constant naming of projects like that that stirred Arkansas state Rep. Dan Greenberg to action. Last year, he introduced the "Edifice Complex Prevention Bill" to put limits on the practice in the state. "I discovered a local park had been named after me and other legislators without my knowledge," he told me. "But that wasn't enough for one legislator who complained that the sign with her name on it wasn't in her campaign colors."" Maxx Mon Jul 21 13:37:21 -0400 2008 Calev Ben-David , THE JERUSALEM POST US television satirist Jon Stewart had a merry old time on his Daily Show this weekend mocking the Bush administration's apparent change in strategy toward Iran. After showing a clip taken from President Bush's speech in the Knesset just two months ago in which he declared: "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and the radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along" - Stewart noted that the administration had just authorized the highest-level diplomatic contact with Iran in three decades, sending US Undersecretary of State William Burns to sit with Iranian negotiators at the seven-nation nuclear talks in Geneva on Saturday. Maxx Mon Jul 21 00:28:05 -0400 2008 Jimmy Carter - infamous worst ex US president that is largely at fault for the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran (by putting extra pressure on the Shah), ultimately resulting in 1) Islamic Republic of Iran's oppression of millions of Persians, and 2) the planet in peril at the hands of that nation's mullahs' nukes.Jimmy Carter has his hands blooded in every single violent action being perpetrated by that Islamic republic on a daily basis since 1979, including the crimes against humanity like the massacres in the 1980's, the terrible persecution on minorities such as: Kurds, Azeris, Turkomans, Baluchis, Bahai, especially massacring Ahwazi Arabs. Maxx Sun Jul 20 14:15:51 -0400 2008 Total secrets programs unveiled here. 747btrfly Sat Jul 19 20:36:22 -0400 2008 "" ... what is your first memory of a foreign policy event that shaped you, shaped your life?" asked Zakaria. Obama invoked his childhood memories of Indonesia, where his mother worked for the U.S. embassy in Jakarta. And he did so with the poise that will ultimately vanquish the manufactured image of him as the Islamic garb-wearing threat depicted in political cartoons.