Computers went on sale to the general public on the communist island on Friday and potential consumers were lining up outside store windows to gawk and consider buying. Computer sales are the latest of a series of measures Castro has taken to make life easier for ordinary Cubans.
The new government also has erased bans on cell phones and luxury hotel room rentals, and has made it easier for state workers to own homes they once rented as part of their jobs. It also is letting more private farmers and cooperatives take a crack at putting fallow government land to better use.
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The Good news: Computers went on sale to the general public
The Bad News:
DOS 4.0
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Cuba the Worker's Paradise on the Grow!
Cell Phone and Computers! Gawk at yesterdays technology at tomorrow's prices!
Homeownership for state workers! Marvel at Raul's third cousin's spacious thatched hut!
Farm fallow government land! Thrill as your burro-propelled pre-1958 plow shatters in scrub-brush choked detention centers!
So long serfdom, hello 19th century!
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The end is near. Barbo's brother is doing it right. Free Markets Cuba style!
I'm considering closing down Havana station and making a bid for the braided light tackle franchise.
Gray Ghosts are calling me.
Fetch my RayBans!
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I suppose only when the old bastard finally pegs will we be able to call it "Raul's Cuba".
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Don't kid yourself; it's Haiti w/better cigars.
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Don't kid YOURSELF
A lot of young people take computer lessons in Cuba and you'll find mean Linux freaks and programmers there.
Most Cubans may not be able to own a computer but the have regular access to one. And many are quite modern. Internet access is possible via friends who work in an institute and "rent out" access late in the night when the boss is sleeping.
Cuba may be a shithole but science education is excellent.
JUBA, Sudan - Southern Sudan's minister of defence and another government official were killed on Friday in a plane crash, southern government officials said. Dominic Dim, the south's defence minister and minister of SPLA affairs, and Justin Yak, a presidential adviser for local government affairs, were on the plane that crashed near the southern town of Rumbek, the officials said.
He'd have been safer on Air Ukraine ...
Deng Goc, a spokesman for the Southern People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), confirmed that Dim had been on the plane but could not confirm if he had died. Yak's wife was also killed in the crash, a government source said. The sources gave no reason for the crash.
The former southern rebel SPLM signed a 2005 accord with the northern National Congress Party (NCP), ending Africa's longest civil war. The SPLA is the armed wing of the SPLM.
The crash comes a day after southern army officials said Sudan's northern and southern forces had agreed to withdraw from an oil-rich border flashpoint where clashes in the last month have killed dozens. The clashes in Unity state, near one of Sudan's largest oil fields, could disrupt the north-south peace deal that ended the war, shared wealth and power, and created separate northern and southern armies.
The UN said the plane was a Beechcraft 1900 operated by South Sudan Air Connection travelling from Wau to Juba with 21 passengers on board. The United Nations said it had sent a helicopter to the crash site. Nineteen military officials were also killed in the crash, local daily Sudan Tribune reported on its website.
Dim, who was a major general in the army, was appointed to his post last July in a cabinet reshuffle.
Former Southern rebel leader John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash three years ago. His widow has called his death an assassination, despite an official probe that blamed pilot error.
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LONDON - Zimbabwe's presidential poll results announced Friday "lack credibility," Britain's Foreign Office said, adding that a second round could not be fair unless more international monitors were present. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was finally declared the winner of the March 29 vote but fell just short of toppling incumbent Robert Mugabe.
"The election results released five weeks after polling day lack credibility but it's clear that at least 60 percent of the population voted for change in Zimbabwe," a Foreign Office spokeswoman told AFP. "President Mugabe's campaign of violence and intimidation, coupled with the arrest of 99 electoral commission officials in the last month, show exactly how (his ruling party) ZANU-PF would approach any second round.
"Without an immediate end to violence and the introduction of a wider range of international monitors and in much greater numbers than were present for the first, no second round could be free and fair."
Count on Bob to use this to whip up the rubes against the furriners and colonalists ...
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Zimbabwe's opposition has rejected results that give it the most votes in the country's presidential election, but not enough to avoid a run-off.
The Movement for Democratic Change said it had been cheated of thousands of votes that would have given candidate Morgan Tsvangirai an outright victory. But MDC leaders did not rule out taking part in a second round, saying they would decide the issue this weekend. Not participating would hand automatic victory to President Robert Mugabe.
Mr Mugabe has accepted the long-awaited results that gave him 43.2% of the vote, compared with 47.9% for the MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai. A spokesman for Mr Mugabe said he would stand in a second round of voting.
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Boris Johnson claimed a remarkable victory in the London mayoral contest on Friday night to cap a disastrous series of results for Gordon Brown in his first electoral test as Prime Minister. The Conservative candidate's win over Ken Livingstone followed a calamitous showing for Labour at the local elections - the party's worst performance at the polls for 40 years.
Mr Johnson's landmark victory, a result that would have been almost unthinkable six months ago, was the most symbolic blow to Mr Brown's authority on a day that left the Prime Minister facing the gravest crisis of his leadership.
By taking City Hall, Mr Johnson becomes the first Tory politician to hold a senior role in British politics since the party was swept out of power in 1997. His win provided a significant boost to David Cameron's bid for victory at the next general election.
In the local elections, Labour lost more than 300 councillors and slumped to a humiliating third place behind the Liberal Democrats in the share of the vote – a full 20 points behind Mr Cameron's Conservatives.
The results represented a significant breakthrough for Mr Cameron and were the best the Tories have recorded at the polls since John Major won the 1992 general election. If translated to a General Election, it would see the Tories with a Commons majority of more than 100.
As one Labour backbencher gave Mr Brown six months to reverse the party's slide or resign, comparisons were made between his Premiership and the dying days of John Major's tenure. The Tories predicted the results marked the beginning of the end of Labour's three terms in Government.
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Get Red Ken a Red Barbie for a consolation prize!
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This divided country faces a constitutional crisis Sunday when its richest and second most-populous province votes whether to declare itself autonomous from President Evo Morales's national government, a referendum the president has called illegal. stamping his tiny feet, and tousling his $2 haircut
If the referendum passes, as polls show it overwhelmingly will, leaders of Santa Cruz province say they'll elect a state legislature, organize local police and otherwise set up a government equivalent to that of a U.S. state. But with less socialismo!
Morales has called the referendum a move to split up this nation of 9.1 million and to thwart his government's efforts to rewrite Bolivia's constitution so that its indigenous majority wins more political power. Bolivia has a centralized government, where police, taxation and other government functions are controlled by federal officials. centralized, as in: "5-year plan"
"This referendum violates the current constitution, because there's no mechanism to convoke it," said Leonida Zurita , a close Morales ally and a substitute senator with the president's Movement to Socialism party. "They want to found a second Bolivian state, and we won't let the fatherland be divided."
Morales, a leftist critic of U.S. policies in the region, has received the support of Venezuela , Cuba , Ecuador and Nicaragua in the provincial-autonomy fight. The Bolivian president also has accused the United States of backing the autonomy move, a charge U.S. officials have rejected. "We don't support it..yet. But we like it. F*ck off, Evo"
Autonomy advocates, including Santa Cruz business leaders, denied that they wanted to secede and insisted that their goal is modernizing an overly centralized government. Three other eastern Bolivian provinces, Beni, Pando and Tarija, also are planning to hold autonomy votes in coming weeks, and leaders in two others, Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, are also advocating autonomy. Only three provinces have resisted the idea. guess which three, and their level of "socialismo"
"We're seeing a social process that's happening all over this country," said Eduardo Paz , president of Santa Cruz's chamber of commerce. "After Sunday, the people will have sent the message that they want to do things in a new way."
Both Morales and autonomy advocates have called for calm Sunday and cancelled potentially incendiary actions by both autonomy supporters and the president's indigenous activists. This week, the government prohibited civilians from carrying arms, and Morales has pledged not to send troops to Santa Cruz to block the referendum vote.
On Wednesday, the Organization of American States sent Political Affairs Secretary Dante Caputo to Bolivia to initiate last-minute dialogue between the two sides, but he left with only pledges to keep the public peace.
The OAS held its second meeting in less than a week on Friday to discuss the crisis in Bolivia . After Caputo briefed ambassadors, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca gave a hard-hitting speech, blaming the governors for failure to hold a dialogue before the referendum and insisting that the referendum was illegal and risked breaking up the country. OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza warned that violence could break out and "could last a long time.'' "til we're dead or in exile in Caracas"
On the streets of Santa Cruz Wednesday night, thousands of people attended a pro-autonomy demonstration, with several saying they were ready to defend the referendum with force if necessary.
"I voted for Morales two years ago because I had great hopes for Bolivia ," said student Jose Sanabria . "Now, I think he doesn't do things the right way. He acts against Santa Cruz and against autonomies."
At the heart of the conflict is a July 2006 referendum in which Bolivians nationwide rejected allowing provincial autonomies, while voters in the four provinces now pushing referendums approved the proposal.
Those provincial leaders have said that the vote lets them pursue their separate paths despite the national rejection, while federal officials insist that only a national approval allows for provincial autonomy.
Santa Cruz leaders have long demanded more independence from Bolivia's federal government and complained that the province surrenders millions of dollars in tax revenue without getting enough back in government support.
The province, which sprawls over the country's eastern flatlands and produces natural gas, soybeans and other exports, is responsible for about 30 percent of Bolivia's gross domestic product while making up about a quarter of the country's population. The province's population is also less indigenous than that of the country's mountainous west.
Since Morales became the country's first indigenous president in 2006, Santa Cruz leaders have slammed government plans to redistribute farmland and seize more state control over natural gas and other industries. On Thursday, Morales announced that he'd nationalize the country's main telecommunications company, Entel, which is half-owned by Telecom Italia , and reclaim control of four foreign-owned natural gas companies.
Political scientist Fernando Mayorga said that despite the tensions, both sides would have to negotiate after the referendum because "they can't maintain this political tension for much longer."
The goal, Mayorga said, would be fitting regional autonomies into a draft constitution that Morales allies hurriedly approved in December, without the presence of most opposition representatives.
That constitution would allow Morales to be re-elected once, claim more state control over natural resources and grant autonomy to indigenous communities and cities, among other actions.
Morales' congressional allies had originally scheduled a national referendum also for this Sunday on the draft constitution, but cancelled it after the country's top electoral court said the vote couldn't be adequately organized in time. The president's activist allies had surrounded the national legislature in February and blocked opposition legislators from voting on the referendum date.
The electoral court also has declared the Santa Cruz referendum illegal, saying only the national legislature could schedule such votes, and announced it won't certify Sunday's results.
"The Santa Cruz leaders know the autonomy statute can't be implemented where there is no constitutional framework," Mayorga said. "And both sides know they can't resolve this outside of political negotiations. The fact is they're both too weak to defeat each other, so they have to work together eventually."
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Hawaiian indigenous, now also in TAIWAN, now BOLIVIA.
WOT > WAR FOR NATIVE/INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND SOVERIEGNTY, among others, as I'd argued or inferred on the Net back long ago.
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Iff somebody wants me to turn DEMOCRAT = DEMOLEFTY, dare even ULTRA-LEFT RADICALIST-SOCIALIST, does this mean OSAMA + ZAWI, etc. = WHITNEY HUSTON WILL HAVE TO TURN WALL STREET CONSERVATIVE RIGHTIST REPUBLICAN???
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"After Sunday, the people will have sent the message that they want to do things in a new way."
And we can't have that. The people need elites to guide them - silly old Democracy is an anachronism. Socialism is the answer, no matter what the question.
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SA maps are disgraceful. I have a cadre of cartograpers ready to redraw. Brazil and Chile looking pretty good with the committees plan. Bolivia, Parauguay, S. Ecudaor and N.E.Guyana Tech won't be hardly missed. The Argentine will be folded into the Falklands and Peru will stay in charge of El Nino.
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Power to the people, except when the people don't want to do what we tell them to.
Voters delivered a damning indictment of Gordon Brown's premiership in yesterday's local elections with the Labour Party approaching its worst showing for almost a generation. Which is ironic since England has been going downhill for a generation.
Overnight results showed David Cameron's Conservatives gaining more than 100 council seats and poised to surpass comfortably their pre-election predictions. Hmmm... conservatives winning in France, Italy, Germany and now England. One would think this is a trend or something.
It's the result of how George Bush has alienated Europeans from us ...
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George, the chickens have come back to roost!
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Hey . . tw . . . shhhhhh . . . . we're trying to sneak in under the radar here. Don't jinx us! The MSM will realize what's going on and do their best to undermine our efforts.
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Brits are rightfully fed up with the Nanny State, unaccountable bureaucracy, extremist immigrants, and out of control crime. It will be interesting to see if the Tories actually do anything about the problems.
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I am so sick of apartheid. Let the people join WHO WANT TO JOIN. If the rest are lazy, shiftless, fifth columnists an ad campaign is not going to change their minds.
Turns out Louisiana and Mississippi weren't quite finished with the Democratic presidential campaign. Sen. Barack Obama won each state's primary earlier this year. But these days his face still appears in television ads in both states, this time from Republicans trying to turn him into a liability for Democrats in two looming special elections for long-held Republican seats.
Democratic victories would be a serious setback for Republicans. But it also would go a long way to reassure nervous Democrats, particularly undecided superdelegates, that Obama would not present a hardship to House or Senate candidates running in tough races. Cross your fingers...
Democratic losses would give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton new ammunition to build her case for her presidential candidacy by questioning the sturdiness of Obama's coattails.
"I think people want to know what chances we're going to be having in November if Obama is the nominee," said U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who has endorsed Clinton.
"There are a host of judgments that superdelegates make," said Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who has not endorsed either presidential candidate. "Certainly a special election held close to a contested primary like this one could be very relevant."
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Pressure is mounting on the 67 Democratic superdelegates from the District, Maryland and Virginia to choose between Obama and Clinton in the most heated presidential nomination fight in a generation. With neither Clinton nor Obama likely to win enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination, the 793 superdelegates nationwide will have the final say on who will face Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive GOP nominee.
"This is the most stressful thing I've been through in my whole life," said Virginia Del. Jennifer L. McClellan (D-Richmond), a superdelegate who endorsed Clinton last year but is now wavering. "It was never supposed to be like this."
Early last month, the leaders of 40 county and city Democratic committees in Virginia upped the ante by strongly urging the state's superdelegates to "act now" in throwing their support behind Obama, who the party officials said is more likely than Clinton to win the state in the fall. "It is not like it was even close in this state," said Fairfax County Democratic Committee Chairman Scott A. Surovell, one of the organizers of the effort.
The petition drive in Virginia offended several superdelegates committed to Clinton, who said they are supposed to base their decision on who would be a stronger nominee against McCain. "There is something to be said about taking a look at what happened in Pennsylvania and why Barack Obama couldn't close the deal," said Susan Swecker, a Democratic National Committee member from Richmond who supports Clinton.
Swecker said, however, that she is surprised that the public is so engaged. Last week, the owner of a landfill chased her down when she was dropping off recyclables to ask her to vote for Obama. Rep. Rick Boucher (D), an Obama supporter, is also getting heat from Clinton supporters in his district in rural southwestern Virginia, where Obama failed to get 15 percent of the vote in several counties. Boucher said that if superdelegates "were simply expected to cast their vote in accordance with the primary results, in the state they represent or the district they represent, there would really be no need for superdelegates."
The pressure being put on African American superdelegates who support Clinton, such as McClellan and Spruill, appears to be having an effect. Raymond H. Boone, editor and publisher of the Richmond Free Press, the city's African American newspaper, said McClellan and Spruill "are opening the door to trouble" in their next election if they do not support Obama. "I think there is going to be heavy retaliation against both of them," said Boone, whose newspaper endorsed Obama.
In the District, Thomas (Ward 5) switched from Clinton to Obama after he was inundated with e-mails and phone calls from constituents who said he should cast his vote in Denver for the candidate who won the D.C. primary. "I knew it was a hot topic, but I didn't know how hot it would be," he said, adding that the attention interfered with his business as a council member. "I have murders in my ward. . . . I wanted to get all of the speculation out of it."
Mame Reiley, a Virginia superdelegate who supports Clinton, said Obama supporters should not be too aggressive in trying to woo superdelegates. "Obama is going to need every single one of these Hillary people if he is to have a chance to win the general election, and vice versa," said Reiley, former chairman of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
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You want to be the last undeclared delegate, last undeclared delegate + 1 doesn't get the sewer money.
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African American newspaper, said McClellan and Spruill "are opening the door to trouble" in their next election if they do not support Obama
hummm, threats are good...
In the District, Thomas (Ward 5) switched from Clinton to Obama after he was inundated with e-mails and phone calls from constituents who said he should cast his vote in Denver for the candidate who won the D.C. primary.
squeaky wheel syndrome
I'm loving this downward spiral of Clinton and BO.
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So...they have elections and count delegates and then they hand he whole process over to the superdelegates (AKA the Democratic Party Politburo Commissariat) for the final choice.
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict. At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver. "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East," McCain said.
The expected GOP nominee sought to clarify his comments later, after his campaign plane landed in Phoenix. He said he didn't mean the U.S. went to war in Iraq five years ago over oil. "No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons," McCain told reporters.
One reason was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, he said. "But also we didn't want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil, and it's more important than any other part of the world," he said. "If the word `again' was misconstrued, I want us to remove our dependency on foreign oil for national security reasons, and that's all I mean," McCain said.
"The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction," he said.
McCain is a staunch supporter of the Iraq war, although he criticizes the early handling of it by the Bush administration. His support for the war has drawn attacks from the Democratic Party, and on Friday, McCain defended himself against television ads that accuse him of advocating a 100-year war in Iraq.
The ads, run by the Democratic National Committee and the communist liberal group MoveOn.org., tie McCain to President Bush and cite McCain's comments that there could be an American military presence in Iraq for 100 years. "One hundred years in Iraq? And you thought no one could be worse than George Bush," an announcer says in the most recent ad, run by MoveOn.org.
McCain brought up the commercials in Denver, saying they are lies. He doesn't deny saying "100 years" in connection with U.S. military operations in Iraq. But he said he was clearly referring to a possible peacekeeping force and not a centurylong war, as critics imply.
"You have seen an ad campaign that is mounted against me that says I wanted to stay and fight in Iraq and fight for 100 years," McCain told about 300 people at the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center. "My friends, it's a direct falsification, and I'm sorry that political campaigns have to deteriorate in this fashion," McCain said. "Because there's legitimate differences between myself and Senator Obama and Senator Clinton on what we should do in Iraq."
The Democratic presidential candidates want to set a date for withdrawal from Iraq, which McCain argues would lead to chaos and genocide in the Middle East. "After we win the war in Iraq, and we are succeeding—and it's long and hard and tough, with enormous sacrifices—then I'm talking about a security arrangement that may or may not be the same kind of thing we had with Korea after the Korean war was over," he said.
At issue is McCain's answer, in January, to a question about Bush's theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years. McCain said: "Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that'd be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day."
Nothing unclear about that. If Iraq ends up another Korea or Germany we'd all be happy.
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He might start pushing for drilling in the US and off our coasts (in as clean a manner as possible). There are a lot of alternate energy possibilities but in the long run it will take a while for the world to convert over even if the US could do so overnight. That means the world continues to use oil and thus oil revenue funds madrasses. So no matter what happens it is in our best interests to have more control over oil pumped and price. THat means drilling.
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Once battery technology gets to the point where a car can be charged up with a 200 mile radius in less than a half hour, it will take 10 years or less to kick oil. The trick then will be to build nuclear plants fast enough. I estimate the process will begin in 2020 when the boomers have passed on control to the Xers and Millenials.
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Actually, rjschwarz, as soon as there's an alternative to ME oil, all kinda of interesting things can happen to ROPers extraction & transportation infrastracture---cause there are some people around who feel that they're being slowly murdered with that oil.
HAGATNA, Guam - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama pitched improved health care and economic opportunity as they courted Guam voters from afar for the territory's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. Define economic opportunity.
Guam Democrats set up about 20 caucus sites in community centers, schools, an old fire station and a village gym for a day of decision that usually passes without much notice in Washington, 8,000 miles away. So, how's it goin', Joe?
This time, Obama and Clinton made their case for the territory's four convention delegates at stake Saturday with local advertising and interviews. In their protracted race for the nomination, no contest is being ignored. It's nice to not be ignored. Thing is, if this wasn't such a long and painful campaign Guam would be ignored.
Voters in Inarajan, nestled in the island's southeast corner, voted earlier because the town is holding its annual fiesta Saturday. Their votes will not be opened until polling closes at 6 a.m. EDT Saturday. More than 3,000 island residents were expected to take part. Voters can register as Democrats at polling places.
Both Clinton and Obama say they've got the better health plan for Guamanians. We gotta buy votes from someone!
Obama said Friday he would support reexamination of a $5.4 million Medicaid spending limit imposed on the territory. Clinton's husband, former President Clinton, told KUAM radio earlier that his wife would work to remove the cap. Hillary Clinton also has called for Guamanians to be able to vote in presidential elections. In fact, I want the WHOLE WORLD to be able to vote!
Obama, in a phone interview with the Pacific Daily News this week, said his administration would work with Guam officials to help bring more medical providers to the island. "We've got to make sure that our Medicaid spending, generally, is designed more effectively, so that we can save money, waste less, and that way we can make sure that Guam and the territories are adequately funded," Obama said.
He said he had spent time with a U.S. military unit from Guam on a trip to Africa and told voters that his Hawaii roots make him "especially sensitive" to the needs of islanders. And I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night so that makes me especially sensetive to everybody who's ever stayed in a Holiday Inn Express. He's got no special sensitivity to Guamians. That's got to be one of the most stupid comments I've read.
The Clinton campaign pledged that the New York senator, if elected president, would appoint a senior adviser to the defense secretary to help Guam plan for the arrival of 8,000 U.S. Marines and their dependents. The Pentagon expects to transfer them from Okinawa by 2014. Here's your big chance, Joe! Go for it!
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Damn BETTY CROCKER CraTS
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What's the WORD?
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What's the WORD?
Donkey turd...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
JUBA, Sudan - Southern Sudan's minister of defence and another government official were killed on Friday in a plane crash, southern government officials said. 
Voters delivered a damning indictment of Gordon Brown's premiership in yesterday's local elections with the Labour Party approaching its worst showing for almost a generation.
Despite Canadian Forces ad campaigns targeting women, aboriginals and visible minorities, recruitment numbers remain stubbornly low
PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict. At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver. "My friends, I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East," McCain said.
HAGATNA, Guam - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama pitched improved health care and economic opportunity as they courted Guam voters from afar for the territory's Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday.
