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Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly.
I wonder what would happen to some rabbi, or some Anglican vicar for that matter, who'd start preaching something along the lines of "Since G*d gave Land of Israel to the Jews, anybody who supports the Palestinian cause is an enemy of G*d"?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans should park their recalled Toyotas unless driving to dealers for accelerator repairs, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Wednesday -- then quickly took it back -- as skepticism of company fixes grew and the government's probe expanded to other models in the U.S. and Japan. Questions now are being raised about the brakes on Toyota's marquee Prius hybrid.
The Prius was not part of the most recent recall, but Japan's transport ministry ordered the company to investigate complaints of brake problems with the hybrid. LaHood said his department, too, was looking into brake problems.
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I'm waiting for the massive Toyota sale coming up especially on the Tacoma. I heard the other day that "anyone can buy a truck", and I intend to with zero interest for five years and a $5000 discount.
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I would sue anyone and everyone in the government if I was Toyota for making any staement or for passing any legislation having to do with automobiles, or for saying any thing regarding another car maker, because they own GM, a competitor.
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Speaking as a Master Mechanic, I'm 90% sure this whole recall is cover-up.
Toyota has had documented runaway problems with the PRIUS not with other models, (Why I didn't buy one) as the Prius is a Hybrid-Electric drive, and as the problem was in the ELECTRICAL system
(Electric Motor controller failing in the ON position)
It doesn't figure to be a non electrical problem as well, and this horseshit "Recall" to "Fix gas pedals sticking because the floor mat holds the pedal" is also Horseshit, the Floor mat is held down by Loops and hooks, it cannot "Catch" the pedal unless you deliberately unhook the rug and bend down the tabs, or get an aftermarket floor mat, (Which wouldn't be warranty anyway)
I have a Camry, (PS 37MPG) and the pedal clears the mat by three to four inches.
No, it's to disguise electrical controller problems on the Prius by pretending there's another reason and "Fixing" It.
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ION WAFF > GM WORKING WITH NASA TO BUILD ROBOTS
[Automotive Prod-Assembly Line work stations].
IOW, HUMAN WORKERS ARE REPLACEABLE.
EARLY/NOMINAL DESIGNS > TODAY, YOUR FAV DETROIT AMERIKAN ROBO-CYLON WILL ONLY HAVE ROBO-ARMS, TOMORROW WILL HAVE ROBO-LEGS [can fly, shoot lasers]???
Iff they look like DARYL HANNAH ala BLADERUNNER, I for one will welcome our future [post]OWG-NWO Robo-Overlords + Cylon Star Queens!
* CHINESE MIL FORUM > DARK POWER FOR INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL.
As Hayden points out, the policy decisions that President Obama has allowed Holder to make are significant -- not only taken one by one, but in their cumulative effect on the ethos of our intelligence agencies. "Intelligence officers," he writes, "need to know that someone has their back."
After Holder forced the release in April of classified memos prepared by Bush Justice Department lawyers, laying out interrogation tactics and the legal rationale for permitting them, "CIA officers began to ask whether the people doing things that were currently authorized would be dragged through this kind of public knothole in five years. No one could guarantee that they would not."
The paralysis wrought by this decision transcends the narrow subject of interrogations. All intelligence collection is infected. If you can't/don't collect intelligence in a war against a secretive, transnational jihadist network, you stand to lose -- and a lot of Americans stand to die.
Thus, Hayden concludes, "Some may celebrate that the current Justice Department's perspective on the war on terrorism has become markedly more dominant in the past year. We should probably understand the implications of that before we break out the champagne."
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There is a flip side to this. Of the 12 national intelligence agencies in the US, there has been a strong tendency to act without controls or restraint, flouting both the president and congress.
One of the most egregious examples of this was the construction of a satellite tracking installation using entirely black budget monies. This was only discovered by congress after it had been built, and the intelligence agency responsible responded by thumbing its nose at the House and Senate Intelligence committees as being powerless to stop them.
This overlaps as well into the over 40 national police agencies that are indirectly funded, and funded by RICO confiscations outside of the budget process, and who now, with post-911 rules, operate outside of any elected government constraint.
Eventually, if there is a major economic collapse, the US Attorney General is going to have to shut down a lot of this nonsense, even if it is self-funding, as it is operating outside of the government, but with government authority.
While intelligence agents operating "in the field" need rules that will last beyond a single administration, and cannot be retroactively changed, this is a very small problem compared to the flow of billions of dollars for unauthorized and often very unlawful purposes.
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The article refers to a video interview with Walesa. I found this on YouTube, not sure if it's the referenced interview or not. Interview starts about 6:30 into the clip. ">
Now that the president's friend and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias is the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, here's the thing:
Will Barack Obama feed Giannoulias the ball and do the hard work setting picks for him, or will the president stay out of the gym, cool, detached, without breaking a sweat over Illinois politics?
Obama was burned by campaigning in Massachusetts last month, where the state went from deep blue to red, the election of Republican Scott Brown an embarrassment to Obama and a referendum on the president's policies.
Complicating things for the president in Illinois is that Giannoulias was battered by primary opponent David Hoffman, who used the Giannoulias family's Broadway Bank -- and its loans to mob figures and a convicted influence peddler -- in a series of devastating TV spots.
That influence peddler is none other than Obama's own real estate fairy, Tony Rezko.
The national Republicans are eager to take Obama's old Senate seat with liberal Republican Mark Kirk. And they're hoping to tie the president to the seamy politics of the state and to Obama's old friend Rezko.
So how far will Barack be willing to go and risk getting bruised badly?
"The president doesn't necessarily need to come here that much," said political consultant and Fox Chicago analyst Thomas Serafin. "He could come early and do some fundraisers, and then after Labor Day spend the rest of his time in Washington, dealing with the state of the world."
That might be good advice. The state of the world is one thing. But in the summer, as the Senate campaigns heat up again, the state of Illinois will be about one thing:
Corruption.
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Obama channels Rick Blaine:
"I stick my neck out for nobody!"
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another retired asshole chiming in his $.02 because he'll will never have to deal with the fallout of DADT as combat commander if it's removed. Out of touch windbag who needs to STFU and sit down. This whole thing is another flimsy mis-direction on Wonder Boy's part because the economy is in the tank and none of his stupid ideas will fix it.
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Not sure there is anyone except Arlen Spectical who is more mecurial than Powell.
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Just like the push back on Congresscritters about taking the same healthcare they mandate for everyone else, time to push back on the General Officer Corps and put the authority in any bill that repeals DADT the right of any service member, enlisted or officer, to ask for immediate release from contract and separation with retention of full VA benefits and entitlements within 90 days of application. Choke. Watch the dance.
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Colin lost credibility in the run-up to the 2008 elections when he jumped on the BO bandwagon based on the man's ethnic background. Never-mind his experience and body of work (non-existant), the general saw someone who "looks like me" and voted accordingly. He should have known better. Now STFU and retire already.
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He would have been the first black President if he'd run in 2000 but he chickened out. Would have been interesting.
It is possible to change ones mind. The military mindset and what is tolerable changes over the years. He might think the military is filled with less good ol' boys and more tolerant professionals now than it was.
When I think of gays in the military I think of the old Bill Murray joke about women in the military. If they go to combat and win you've shamed your enemy. If they lose, well so what you beat a bunch of girls.
Still I don't like the politicians using the military as their little social experiment.
Climategate-I was the revelation that climate scientists crusading over global warming at East Anglia University had tried to censor inconvenient data and shut dissenters out of academic journals. Climategate-II is the revelation that the 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change, saying Himalayan glaciers might disappear by 2035, was not science at all but idle, unsubstantiated speculation.
It speaks volumes for the huge biases within IPCC that it took two years for this hoax to be exposed. Any hoax opposing the global warming thesis would be exposed in ten seconds flat. The IPCC is willing to swallow unexamined what it finds convenient, while raising a thousand technical objections to anything inconvenient. This is religious crusading, not objective science. The tactics being used to discredit and destroy heretics is reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition.
Climategate-II is also a sad example of green imperialism. Rather than accept the findings of foreign scientists alone, Jairam Ramesh, India's environment minister, appointed a panel of Indian scientists on Himalayan melting. My concern is that this comes from western scientists ... it is high time India makes an investment in understanding what is happening in the Himalayan ecosystem.'
The Indian panel, headed by V K Raina, looked at 150 years of data gathered by the Geological Survey of India from 25 Himalayan glaciers. It was the first comprehensive study of the region. It concluded that while Himalayan glaciers had long been retreating, there was no recent acceleration of the trend, and nothing to suggest that the glaciers would disappear. In short, the IPCC had perpetrated an alarmist hoax without scientific foundation.
Scotching IPCC claims that the Gangotri glacier was retreating at an alarming rate, the Raina Panel said this glacier, the main source of the Ganges, actually receded fastest in 1977, and is today practically at a standstill'.
Raina said that the mistake made by western scientists was to apply the rate of glacial loss from other parts of the world to the Himalayas... In the United States the highest glaciers in Alaska are still below the lowest level of Himalayan glaciers. Our 9,500 glaciers are located at very high altitudes. It is a completely different system.'
Justifiably, Jairam Ramesh felt vindicated. But the Raina report threatened the claim of IPCC scientists to omniscience and Nobel Prize status. Rajendra Pachauri, President of the IPCC, told The Guardian newspaper, We have a very clear idea of what is happening. I don't know why the minister is supporting this unsubstantiated research. It is an extremely arrogant statement.' He dismissed the Raina report saying it was not peer reviewed' and had few scientific citations'. He even went to the extent of calling it schoolboy science.'
Well it takes a schoolboy to reveal that the Emperor has no clothes. We now know that the IPCC claim on glaciers was a hoax. It was based on a speculative comment made in 1999 to a reporter by Syed Hasnain, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. This was then repeated by several green publications, without further verification.
Goebbels once said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will think it is the truth. The glacier fiasco is the latest example of this. Scientists are supposed to ask hard questions about spectacular new claims. Instead, the IPCC simply accepted without verification the reports of Himalayan glacial melting, and prominently highlighting this in its 2007 report.
Pachauri appointed Hasnain as a senior fellow at Teri. Together, they raised millions from international donors for research on glaciers at Teri. But when Climategate-II came to light, Pachauri declared that he had no responsibility for what Hasnain may have said! And Hasnain said, rather cheekily, that the IPCC had no business to cite his comments!
Pachauri is reported to have said in a telephonic interview, We are looking at the issue and will be able to comment on the report after examining the facts. The science doesn't change: Glaciers are melting across the globe and those in the Himalayas are no different. We're not changing anything till we make an assessment.'
Clearly the true climate denier is Pachauri: he swears by glacial apocalypse even after its exposure as a hoax. When the Raina panel produced solid scientific evidence challenging the glacier melting thesis. Pachauri instantly decried it as schoolboy science and said condescendingly that it was not peer-reviewed. Yet he was happily willing to sanctify schoolboy speculation on glacial melting, and so were other members of the IPCC. All their high-faulting talk of peer-reviewed science proved to be just a tactic to keep out inconvenient views.
IPCC scientists responsible for this fiasco must resign. The 2007 IPCC report must be amended, preferably with an apology.
Various green NGOs including one I respect, the Centre for Science and Environment backed the IPCC against the Raina Panel. They blindly echoed western scientists with less intimate knowledge of the Himalayas than our own scientists. Stalin would have called this a case of Indian compradors acting as the lackeys of western imperialists, and on this occasion I would find it hard to disagree with him.
These green groups claim to be watchdogs for civil society, and often do a good job. But in this case they blithely allowed a hoax to go unchallenged for two years.
Glacier alarmism is not new. Greenpeace once published photos showing the rapid retreat of the Uppsala Glacier in Argentina, ascribing this to global warming. But when I visited the glacier, I was told that global warming was too gradual to account for the dramatic retreat of the glacier, and clearly powerful local causes were responsible. Of several glaciers descending from the South Andean Icefield, Uppsala was retreating, Perrito Moreno was advancing, and several others were stable. Such varying outcomes obviously reflected local geoclimatic variations, not global climate at all.
Will Greenpeace admit it? Not a chance. But if the IPCC wants to make amends for Climategate-II, perhaps it can start by apologising for glacier alarmism. That will help restore its scientific credibility.
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WORLD NEWS > SOLAR STORM IN 2012 COULD CAUSE BLACKOUTS AT LONDON OLYMPICS.
SIRIUS Event II???
* SAME > DISRUPT AL QAEDA'S CORE: GETTING READY FOR TERROR [inside USA oer next six months?].
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