Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session.
In order to combat a projected two degree centigrade rise in global temperature, the Climate Change Bill pledges the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. The bill was receiving a third reading, which means both the last chance for both democratic scrutiny and consent.
The bill creates an enormous bureaucratic apparatus for monitoring and reporting, which was expanded at the last minute. Amendments by the Government threw emissions from shipping and aviation into the monitoring program, and also included a revision of the Companies Act (c. 46) "requiring the directors' report of a company to contain such information as may be specified in the regulations about emissions of greenhouse gases from activities for which the company is responsible" by 2012.
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We know so much less than what we think we do. The truth about the climate will be seen much differently in 50 years than either side can even imagine now. Keep the entrances to your mind open for more climate data. There is so much more to learn.
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"As we destroy industry we'll be more dependent on shipping and aviation for our imports!" he said. Not if the UK's population drops by 90%, which is the real goal of the global-warmists.
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Every now and then, you'd think that even to most brazen but reasoned atheist, ie Hitchen, has got to ask, how would a God communicate with lesser beings? Like when you were a kid and mom just gave you that 'eye' that said "enough" without any need of verbal communication. Heh.
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I'm all for global warming legislation as long as it's over there. The more the merrier. It improves the heck out of our relative competitive position. The Euros already pay twice the US price for electricity. If they insist on quadruple the price for less reliability, then I say "Charge!". More wind turbines and carbon taxes, over there, please.
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Ed, Mercantilism isn't a log term success. It almost as ignorant as socialism with it's zero-sum falsehoods.
If you were a salesman would you rather deal with a poor person or a rich person?
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It's not about global warming or climate change.
It's about power.
No matter whether the issue is global warming, over-population, famine, DDT, or AIDS, the solution proposed by our 'elites' is always the same: they need to have more political power so that they can tell the rest of us what to do. Because they know better, you see.
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Bright Pebbles, you are assuming free trade where both side will equalize sat the same level. Free trade is far is far from is happening. More like freeish trade for those importing to the USA. Tariffs for US exporters. For example, Germany->US auto tariff is 2%, German tariffs are 10% at point of customer delivery + other fees, like vintage. Then parts are tariffed at 5-15%. That is a huge competitive disadvantage that any foreigner has to overcome. The result a $50 billion/year trade deficit for more years than I can count. That's $600-700,000 direct middle class jobs lost, not counting the multiplicative effect of that money staying in the country. The effect is seen in the hollowing out of the US industrial heartland and rise of truly craptacular Marxists like Obama. Let's not talk about other countries w/ tariff of 30% and multi-hundred billion dollar trade surpluses.
Sorry BP, free trade for thee, not for me doesn't impress me.
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Free trade is far from what is happening.
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Can we rescind Gore's Nobel Consolation Peace Prize?
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Iff Mankind proves unable to control BLACK/WORM-HOLE specific SPACE TRAVEL, then as per MSM-Net Articles we will have 1.1Bilyuhn-or-so years to dev a SUPERMASSIVE, SUPER-TECHY, PLANET-MOVING "SAIL" TO MOVE THE PLANET AWAY FROM THE SOLAR HEAT [Space Rock(s), Solar-Gamma Ray Burst, Sun Nova etc., notwithstnding]. BEFORE INTENSIFIED HEAT WIPES OUT ALL HUMAN + BIOTIC LFE ON EARTH??? The "Sail" may save the Earth from Warming, but may not save the Earth from our Sun going Nova as dependent on its pertinent level of tech at that time.
The NATO Shipping Center reports that the bulk carrier MV Yasa Neslihan was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on October 29, but gives no details of the incident. The Marshall Islands-flag Yasa Neslihan is an 82,849 dwt, 2005 built bulk carrier operated by Turkey's Ya/Sa Shipping Industry & Trading SA.
Quick, get the Marshall Islands Navy on the phone ...
The NATO Shipping Center reports the hijacking as part of a very recent surge of incidents in the region following a short lull in piracy incidents, possibly due to adverse weather conditions. NATO says that two other vessels were attacked and one approached in the Gulf of Aden on October 28, while a U.S. Fifth Fleet/Combined Maritime Forces release puts the number of unsuccessful piracy attempts in the area that day at five.
Separately, the Spanish defense ministry said that a maritime patrol aircraft thwarted a pirate attack on the Panama-flagged oil tanker Leander on Tuesday. The P-3 Orion aircraft received a call for help from the Leander on Tuesday reporting that pirates on two boats were trying to board the vessel which was was about 210 km north of the coast of Somalia. "To deter the pirates, the plane flew over the hostile boats three times and launched a smoke bomb at them each time," the defense ministry said. "After the third launch, the crew of the P-3 noticed that the boats gave up their attempt to board and separated themselves from the oil tanker." The aircraft was on a routine patrol when it received the call for help.
Spain dispatched the aircraft to Djibouti last month to collect information on the movement of pirate ships in the area as part of European Union efforts to boost security there.
The five piracy attempts yesterday noted by Fifth Fleet/Combined Maritime Forces were all unsuccessful as a result of pro-active measures taken by masters and crews of the commercial shipping vessels. Even though shots were fired during two of these attacks, the crews of commercial shipping vessels conducted evasive maneuvering and used fire hoses to repel their attackers.
The Combined Maritime Forces also established a Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) Aug. 22, in support of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) call for international assistance to discourage attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden. Since its establishment, Coalition units have deterred more than two dozen attacks in the Gulf of Aden.
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If that had been an AC-130 instead of a P-3, there would have been two sunken pirate boats and several dead pirates. Doing half a job is almost as bad as not doing anything at all. When will the US get smart, and start breaking heads in the muddled east?
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Can't these things carry something besides smoke bombs, or this a NATO non-violent machine of war thing?
Africa. It must be the Congo's turn to host festivities...
GOMA, Congo The rebel general besieging Congo's eastern provincial capital said Thursday that he wants direct talks with the government about security and his objections to a $5 billion deal that gives China access to the region's mineral resources. Gen. Laurent Nkunda said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that the reason he called a cease-fire Wednesday as he reached the gates of Goma was to try to stop chaos in the city. He said he wants U.N. peacekeepers to help refugees return home.
Nkunda, leading a Tutsi rebellion in eastern Congo, said the government is not protecting the country's Tutsi minority. He said he turned down a government offer of $2.5 million to stop fighting because he could not abandon his mission to protect Congo's people. He also said he saw his role in a peaceful Congo as reformer of the ragtag army. His rebels have driven the Congolese army into retreat near Goma, but the army says it still controls the city. And a fine army it appears to be...
On Thursday, army Col. Jonas Padiri said the situation was calm. Soldiers were patrolling the city in trucks; one soldier, sitting by the side of the road, wore a Darth Vader mask. Some soldiers appeared drunk at 8 a.m. In overnight violence, Congolese soldiers killed at least nine people and looted homes and stores in attacks that terrorized residents of Goma, according to U.N. radio station. Padiri said at least five people were killed by "thieves." The U.N. radio station said soldiers looted homes and shops, killed nine people, injured three and raped three girls. Hours earlier, firing wildly, Congolese soldiers commandeered cars, taxis and motorbikes in a retreat from advancing rebel fighters, joining tens of thousands of terrified refugees struggling to stay ahead of the violence. Gunfire crackled through the night. Safari Katwa, a 43-year-old father of eight, said soldiers broke down the door of his home, forced his family to lie face-down on the floor and stole jewelry and cell phones. He said he saw two corpses in his Katindo-Ndosho neighborhood in northern Goma.
People thronged the streets Thursday morning, looking worried and asking for information, though police officers in a jeep circulated with a megaphone urging them to stay home. Shops were shuttered and schools closed. U.N. troops patrolling in armored cars were cheered wildly by residents of Goma who earlier this week attacked U.N. compounds with rocks to vent their outrage that the peacekeepers were not halting the rebel advance.
Asked whether the army would respect Nkunda's cease-fire, Padiri told The AP: "You're going to have to ask the governor that." U.N. Radio Okapi quoted an unidentified official as saying the government had not been officially informed of the cease-fire but is "always open to dialogue." Airlines canceled flights to Goma, as did the United Nations, whose staff were holed up in one of its lakeside compounds. The rebels said they were at the gates of Goma, but Padiri claimed his men had recaptured the nearby village of Kibati.
Struggles for Congo's mineral wealth have long been part of the country's wars. A U.N. investigation on the illegal exploitation of natural resources in Congo found that the conflict in the country had become mainly about "access, control and trade" of five key mineral resources: coltan, diamonds, copper, cobalt and gold. Exploitation of Congo's natural resources by foreign armies was "systematic and systemic," and the Ugandan and Rwandan leaders in particular had turned their soldiers into "armies of business." The U.N. panel estimated that Rwanda's army made at least $250 million in 18 months by selling coltan, which is used in cell phones and laptops. The conflict "has created a 'win-win' situation for all belligerents," the 2001 report concluded. "The only loser in this huge business venture is the Congolese people."
As the chaos mounted this week, the United States announced its officials were leaving Goma and urged all American citizens to do the same. The State Department said Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer was heading to the capital, Kinshasa, and would arrive Thursday.
The U.N. says its biggest peacekeeping mission a 17,000-strong force is now stretched to the limit with the surge in fighting and needs more troops quickly. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uruguay and South Africa are the main contributors to the existing force.
The unrest in eastern Congo has been fueled by festering hatreds left over from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which half a million Tutsis were slaughtered. More than a million Hutu extremists fled to Congo where they regrouped in a brutal militia that helps fuel the continuing conflict in Congo. Nkunda, an ethnic Tutsi and former general, quit the army several years ago, claiming the government of President Joseph Kabila was not doing enough to protect minority Tutsis from the Hutu extremists.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, a former liberation leader and architect of his nation's post-apartheid democracy, agreed to resign Saturday after the top ranks of his party voted to recall him months before the end of his second and final term.
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Now he can do AIDS research full time...
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The government yesterday issued a one-month detention order against detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu just before his release from prison on bail.
He recently secured bail from the High Court in all graft cases filed against him. However, the Supreme Court stayed the bail order until Monday. Police sources said the home ministry issued the detention order following a general diary filed by a Special Superintendent of the Special Branch (SB) of police.
Deputy Inspector General of Prisons (DIG-Prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddique told The Daily Star last night that they received the detention order in the evening. He said the detention order referred to a SB report that said if Falu is released from jail, law and order situation might deteriorate.
After receiving the order, jail authorities informed Falu, now in Kashimpur jail in Gaziur, about it.
Joint forces arrested Falu, also former political secretary to ex-premier Khaleda Zia, at his city residence on corruption charges on February 5 last year.
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Members of the National Black Police Association (NBPA) probably did not expect the keynote speaker at their annual conference to suggest the organisation might be guilty of racism. But that's what happened when an invitation mix-up led to the wrong MP addressing the event.
Instead of the former shadow home secretary David Davis, his near namesake David Davies, the Tory MP for Monmouth, was invited - and delivered a highly critical speech.
Davies said the body's policy of only allowing ethnic minorities to have full membership could be considered "explicitly racist". He said the NBPA - which is backing and funding the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, in his race discrimination case against the force, should "check the truth" of discrimination claims before going to court.
The Tory claimed it was "human nature" for people to blame race rather than lack of talent when rejected for promotion, the Public Servant Daily reported. "To me, it is a shame that full membership of the NBPA is open only to those of black, Asian or Middle Eastern origin," he told the conference in York. "Tackling racism and unfair treatment of ethnic minorities is something which is taken seriously by members of every race in the police force, and yet the clear implication is that white people do not share this concern.
"It could be argued that this policy is explicitly racist, in that it bars white people, and implicitly racist in suggesting that white people care less about racism than people of black, Middle Eastern, Asian or African origin."
The NBPA general secretary, Stafford Brooks, said: "There was an invitation sent out ... the wrong David Davies turned up."
"Clearly, he did say some controversial things and it was quite upsetting for some of our members. But it was a very successful conference as far as we are concerned."
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It could have been worse: they could have gotten his brother Ray.
I'm in a state (state)
State of confusion (whooooh).
It's a state (state)
Of confusion (whooooh).
Lyin' awake in a cold, cold sweat,
Am I overdrawn, am I going in debt?
It gets worse, the older that you get.
No escape from the state of confusion I'm in.
State of confusion I'm in.
Whooooh
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Armed agents in Venezuela detained and deported two officials from Human Rights Watch just hours after the New York-based group issued a report critical of the country's socialist government, the activists said Friday.
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Eviction is better than detention in this case.
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Wrong Rights!
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The two HRW officials are lucky. They got a secured, free ride to the airport. They could have been robbed, beat up, and/or killed. Better do the human rights gig from a computer in the US, it's healthier.
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and from there, AP, they can denounce the attitude imposed on Hugo by our hegemonistic militarist anti-bolivarian policy, which, of course resulted in these consequences
/choking sarc
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Welcome...human scum.
PYONGYANG (Reuters) As the rest of the world groans under the strain of the spreading financial storm, life in the self-described paradise of North Korea remains blissfully untouched. First rule of an economic crisis? Gotta have an economy to wreck...
"We know many countries are struggling due to the financial crisis ... we have no problem here," said a North Korean guide working with a visiting aid group from the South. My, how lucky they are.
North Korea's centrally planned economy, built around the state ideology of self-reliance, has little time for capitalism and has only in recent years grudgingly allowed even street markets to emerge. It has no stock market and visitors pay for everything in foreign currency at an officially set -- and inflated -- exchange rate. North Korea: Tourist trap. Honey, call the travel agent and cancel our plans.
It also has one of the world's poorest economies that has managed to avoid any impact from the surge in economic growth of its East Asian neighbours. Again, how lucky they are...
Constantly under threat of famine, its 22 million population has an annual per capita income, by one estimate, of no more than $400 (241 pounds). That's about 2 percent of the level in capitalist South Korea. "We are hearing that it will take a while until the countries come out of the crisis, but ... we are okay because we have a different system," said the guide, whose duties included blocking his charges from making any contact with ordinary North Koreans. Juche rules, capitalist pig!
This month, Washington removed North Korea from its list of governments that sponsor terrorism, lifting a major deterrent to doing business with a country still barred under United Nations sanctions from dealing with outside financial firms."The removal from the list will help our country improve relations with the United States," the guide said, without going into detail on how it might lift an economy whose industrial base has mostly rusted into decay. Yes. We'll send iPods and diesel engines, you'll send us...what? Tree bark cookbooks? Malnutrition?
North Korea's economy had flourished in the 1970s but has since been contracting, prompting many analysts to say it has become a failed state. Its current leader Kim Jong-il inherited the position from his father and North Korea's first ruler. Looks like it's time for even more "on the spot field guidance". Somebody strap Kimmie to a two wheeler. And bring the drool bucket. Feats don't fail me now...
Despite the policy of self-reliance, North Koreans depend heavily on aid, mostly from neighbouring China and South Korea but the government shows no sign that it is ready to open up more than a crack. We're self reliant but not self reliant. It's a new thing...
Visitors are banned from bringing their mobile phones into the country. The Internet exists, but it can take quite a long time to send a simple email. "Fill in the application form and give it to me. I will get back to you quickly, in just 30 minutes," a member of staff at one of the two biggest tourist hotels in Pyongyang told a guest who asked to use a computer to send an email. The hotel staff balked when the guest said he wanted to email his wife in South Korea, with which the North remains technically at war. "No, you can't. You should not write to an email address in the South," said a hotel worker in charge of international communications. ...and don't go outside the ropes. That would be...unhealthy.
An hour, rather than the promised 30 minutes later, she allowed the guest to send an email to his daughter in the United States for $3 -- in hard cash. Dad went to North Korea and all I got was this 3 dollar email...
A life-sized likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a tree with a noose around its neck Wednesday at the University of Kentucky, the second time in about a month such an effigy of the Democratic presidential nominee was reported on a college campus.
UK spokesman Carl Nathe said the effigy was found Wednesday morning in a high-traffic area between a classroom building and parking garage. Police immediately took it down but released no information about their investigation.
University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."
Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university's code of ethics and won't be tolerated. "I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another."
Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it around 8:40 a.m. He described it as life-sized with a Barack Obama Halloween mask, a suit jacket and sweat pants. "This, as far as I'm concerned, says nothing -- absolutely nothing -- representative of this university or this community," he said.
Obama's Kentucky campaign director, Kenya McGruder, had no immediate comment.
Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan declined to comment specifically on the situation, but said an effigy can suggest a threatening tone or be an attempt to intimidate. He said the agency is "very proactive about addressing these matters."
Wonder if they investigated the Sarah Palin effigy. Yes, yes, I know it's not quite the same thing, but regardless of your race or gender, seeing an effigy of yourself swinging in the breeze is pretty damned offensive.
It's the second time an effigy has been found on a college campus recently. George Fox University in Oregon, a small Christian college, punished four students who confessed to hanging a likeness of Obama from a tree. That effigy was found in September with a message taped to it -- "Act Six reject." The message was targeted at participants of a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students and several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest.
In West Hollywood, Calif., authorities on Wednesday were looking into a Halloween display depicting a mannequin of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin hanging from a noose. The display also displayed her running mate, John McCain, surrounded by fake flames.
And in Clarksville, Ind., a man had hanged an inflatable doll made to look like Obama from a tree. He took it down Wednesday, and authorities said it didn't appear to violate any state laws.
At the University of Kentucky, Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center interim director Chester Grundy said he was outraged by the incident. A rally was held Wednesday night, where staff and student leaders condemned the act.
Gov. Steve Beshear called the incident "embarrassing" and "deeply offensive."
Raoul Cunningham, president of the Louisville chapter of the NAACP, said he is still trying to sort out his feelings "because there may be a double-meaning because Barack Obama is black, that he would be hung from a tree -- that goes back to lynching."
John Johnson, executive director of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, called the action unacceptable even if it was a prank. "It's astonishing that somebody would do that at this day and time," he said. "You would hope that our country has progressed further than that."
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Probably an another race-baiting hoax, one more in a long string over the last years. And just in time for the elctions, too! I guess this will get more coverage than the GOP workers being physically assaulted here and there.
"It's astonishing that somebody would do that at this day and time," he said. "You would hope that our country has progressed further than that."
Nice to see that guy is focusing on the RIGHT kind of racism you're supposed to fight against, as opposed to say, obama's, wright's or ayer's...
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Mike Lynch, a faculty member who works in a building near where the effigy was found, said he saw it around 8:40 a.m. ... "This, as far as I'm concerned, says nothing -- absolutely nothing -- representative of this university or this community," he said.
Why didn't "Mr. Lynch" just take it down without calling attention to it? Then he wouldn't have to worry about the university's reputation.
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...that is if you mean KU Lawrence Kansas and not UK Lexington Kentucky (sometimes the similar abbreviations are switched on accident). My friend is from Lawrence - was trying to explain to me how McCain used the race card without using the race card. Yeah. I was able to have him concede that McCain reclaiming the mic at that rally was an honorable move and that he didn't know whether big o was talking net or gross 250k - he said he would apologize if he was wrong and (Berman whoop) the number drops 50k-100k within these last couple days; rattles his confidence a bit. Friend is a rational person and if something happened at KU which didn't make the paper (so often) I'm am curious what it was and friend's take on it.
Effigies are petty and tasteless anyways, but if this one were life size wouldn't it have to be, like, 10 feet tall or something?
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late word is that there have been 2 arrests in this case; meanwhile out west, the SP effigy was taken down by the property owner, and no charges are expected..
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Think this was a coincidence? i think this is all part of The One's battle plan; this will draw the white quilt and she's disabled also vote.
i wanna puke.
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If she contributed to Obama's campaign, she must be a US citizen:
The Times could not determine their immigration status and an official at Boston City Hall said that Ms Onyango was a resident of Flaherty Way but not registered to vote on the electoral roll. However, that Ms Onyango made a contribution to the Obama campaign would indicate that she is a US citizen. Records at the Boston City Hall confirmed Zeituni Onyangos birthdate as May 29, 1952.
Democrat Barack Obama rolled out a new offensive on the stricken US economy Wednesday, while Republican rival John McCain responded with character attacks six days from the election. Some polls suggested the presidential race could be tightening a notch, as Obama geared up to deliver a prime-time television pitch in the closing.
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Question for Barack: Would you please define socialism for us? Try to keep it short.
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I was less than surprised that Obama tried to mock the suggestion he was socialistic by invoking ideals of school-yard social altruism. Socialism *is* childish, and infantile, and fundamentally unserious. It springs from a world-view which expects the Parental Figure to be all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, which believes the world to be an essentially simple place which can be commanded from the figurative Head Of The Table. Daddy will make things all right. Teacher will set the bully straight. Mommy will love us no matter what we do.
Grow up, Barack. The rest of us left school-yard logic and school-yard ethics back in the school-yard, where it belongs - in the company of children.
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Meanwhile his Obamanauts have been astroturfing blogs rationalizing why 'socialism' isn't all that bad. They never seem to get to the point of willing to have the One clearly and openly embrace that thought. Why do they fear that title so much if their policies are just that? [rhetorical question].
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Since Obama's definition of a Tax Cut is "tax people who pay taxes to give relief to those who don't" we are in for a truly Orwellian 4 years should this Marxsist manage to buy the election with illeagal campaign cash.
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I don't think he's a socialist. I think he's a full fledged communist.
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Barak Obama left socialist way behind when mommy sent him away to be tutored by "father figure" Frank.
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What I worry about is that despite a fawning press, Obama will be a 1 term president. How will Obama choose to have his life's work continue after he is gone? Face repudiation ate the polls? Or will he so extreme as to effectively martyr himself?
That would certainly "bring change"
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BO does seem have that tendency towards elitism and mockery.
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Whining
If you expect to score points by whining, join a European soccer team.
My real concern is congress has its agenda printed and ready to go, and their past 2 years behavior has me worried about immediate Capital Gains taxes and Death Tax along with general tax increases and social programs which would be passed with such speed it will be impossible to adjust nevermind control; kids in Wonka's chocolate factory. If anyone is still unsure an unchecked government is going to be a fact if obama is elected into a d-heavy congress IMO.
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"an unchecked government is going to be a fact if obama is elected"
At a minimum. That is only the initial consequence. I believe the "O's" full agenda runs much deeper, and darker for America. My deepest fear is that while Obama's tenure will be limited, several of his "changes" will be much more permanent.
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Amen to what MoFW said.
Even a two year all donk DC will be enough to really phuque things up and the fix will not be easy, if at all.
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Where are the dems going to get the money to implement major new entitlement programs??? There isn't any. If they raise taxes to the point of being able to finance this stuff for a couple of years, the economy will go into complete paralysis. Their donk phone lines and e-mail servers will melt from all the bitching from their constituents. They know they'll be thrown out on their ear in 2 years. My guess is they want to keep their jobs more than they want a socialist paradise.
I know I am looking for the best outcome, but I am confident these people are going to step on their collective dicks big time.
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The leftward creep of the US has been going on, with halts and starts, most of the past 60 yrs. Incrementally, government's scope and reach has so far exceeded the Constitution and Founding Father's intent that it boggles the mind (Anyone remember the 10th amendment?).
The problem is simply that O is a liar and a radical socialist, as well as a closet racist, and he and his minions will have 4 yrs to salt away more bureaucrats at Justice and Treasury and other key agencies that even Clinton did in 8. (Witness what has happened to the Agency after Clinton, leaks and assessments for example)
O is the greatest peril we have faced since WWII and I fear for the 1st and 2nd Amendments, and given what happened to Joe the Plumber and the White House Travel office under Billary, even the 4th amanedment.
These are truly dire times my friends. 40 years of public education and unfettered immigration have taken a huge toll on the voting electorate, now 50% composed of those who think they deserve somebody else's wealth and lifestyle.
Watch for the tax increases, raiding of retirement, suppression of public critical comment.....
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin yesterday called for a "clean break" from the Bush administration's energy policies, which she says rely too much on importing foreign oil.
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This is her breaking away from McCain's controlled message again? If so, good on her.
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Small sized nuclear reactors all over the freaking place. Solar and wind where they are feasible. Dam up a few more rivers if need be for more hydro. And for the short term drill, drill, drill!
That and flexifuel mandates on new cars to see if any alternative fuels can start compete with gas (and to position us well for the next oil crisis).
The War on Terror will only be truly won when we're free of oil. We will never be free if we wait for the one perfect solution (which is always 20 years out).
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Too late. If McCain's compaign announced break with all of George's policies---especially "Nation Building"---three months ago, they may've had a chance.
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We need a national energy policy and plan. We are 30 years overdue. If foreign oil is cut off, we cannot survive for a year. We are ruled by greedy moronic traitors. Palin sure as hell better break from Bush's energy non-plan. Getting a little late.
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A former political prisoner swept to victory in the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, vowing yesterday there would be no witch hunt after unseating Asia's longest-serving leader. Supporters of Mohamed "Anni" Nasheed celebrated in the capital of the Indian Ocean atoll nation after he collected 54.21 percent of the poll to 45.79 percent for incumbent leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
"I don't think we should go for a witch hunt," Nasheed said at a joint press conference with Gayoom, whom he has accused of repeatedly torturing him in custody. "That will not happen because it will not help democracy."
Nasheed, 41, said he wanted to move quickly to assure the international community that he would introduce more reforms, including media freedom, in the run-up to parliamentary elections due by February.
Conceding defeat after Tuesday's elections, Gayoom said he would give his "full support and cooperation" to Nasheed taking power. "I don't like being beaten in sports. I don't like being beaten in politics. But it is a fact of life that sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. In that spirit, I accept this verdict of the people," he said.
The Maldives, a liberal Sunni Muslim nation of 1,192 coral islands and some 300,000 people, has never held multi-party elections before.
Gayoom, 71, ruled the tourist paradise islands unchallenged since 1978 and over a period of six years repeatedly jailed Nasheed, a former Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience".
Until a few years ago, anyone declaring an intention to seek high office would be banished to an uninhabited island.
Thousands of Nasheed supporters drove around Male and embraced each other at a beachfront promenade where young people had camped for days to drum up support for his campaign. "This is spontaneous joy," said one, Aishath Aniya.
Fathimath Niusha, a 27-year-old school teacher, said she was thrilled with the change of leadership. "I want to see how it will be under a new president," Niusha said. "All my life, it had been under Gayoom."
Gayoom had failed to win an outright victory in the first round of voting three weeks ago, prompting a run-off against charismatic Nasheed.
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The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA intends to procure on an other than full and open competition basis a service to provide: 1) Research of Electrostatic "Wiffle Ball" Fusion Device. The contractor is to specifically investigate the required instrumentation to achieve spatially resolved plasma densities and spatially resolved particle energies. This requirement is sole sourced to Energy Matter Conversion Corporation, 1202 Parkway Drive, Suite A, Santa Fe, NM 87501, as the only company in the world investigating and developing this type of device...
"The fusion process recommended by Dr. Bussard takes boron-11 and fuses a proton to it, producing, in its excited state, a carbon-12 atom. This excited carbon-12 atom decays to beryllium-8 and helium-4. Beryllium-8 very quickly (in 10-13 s) decays into two more helium-4 atoms. This is the only nuclear-energy releasing process in the whole world that releases fusion energy and three helium atoms -- and no neutrons. This reaction is completely radiation free.
"[The fusion process that powers stars is enabled by the gravitational force field that draws particles directly together]. Only one other force is known to be like gravity: this is the electric field force or "coulomb" force, between electrically-charged particles.
"Charged particles of opposite signs attract each other with direct forces; charged particles in electric fields feel forces directly along field gradients. Thus, fusion fuel plasmas could be held together efficiently by electric forces and electric fields. This is called "Electric Fusion".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The NATO Shipping Center reports that the bulk carrier MV Yasa Neslihan was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden on October 29, but gives no details of the incident. The Marshall Islands-flag Yasa Neslihan is an 82,849 dwt, 2005 built bulk carrier operated by Turkey's Ya/Sa Shipping Industry & Trading SA. 
South African President Thabo Mbeki, a former liberation leader and architect of his nation's post-apartheid democracy, agreed to resign Saturday after the top ranks of his party voted to recall him months before the end of his second and final term.
The government yesterday issued a one-month detention order against detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddek Ali Falu just before his release from prison on bail.
Democrat Barack Obama rolled out a new offensive on the stricken US economy Wednesday, while Republican rival John McCain responded with character attacks six days from the election. Some polls suggested the presidential race could be tightening a notch, as Obama geared up to deliver a prime-time television pitch in the closing.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin yesterday called for a "clean break" from the Bush administration's energy policies, which she says rely too much on importing foreign oil.
