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<title><![CDATA[Race War:  Dateline Denver]]></title>
<link>http://contemporarynotes.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/race-war-dateline-denver/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Race War:  Dateline Denver by R.E. Prindle        In Weimar Germany Communist Red Shirts and ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Race War:  Dateline Denver</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">by</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">R.E. Prindle</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     In Weimar Germany Communist Red Shirts and Nazi Brown Shirts roamed the streets duking it out with each other.  German newspapers in the hands of Judaeo-Communists denounced the Nazis as perpetrators while portraying the Communists as victims.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     The US is dangerously close to such a confrontation now between Black Skins and White Skins.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     Assaults on Whites by Blacks have been increasing at what should be seen as an alarming rate.  As in Weimar Germany Judaeo-Communists are giving Blacks free passes in the media.  Thus a  report of organized Black on White assaults by the Denver Post is of interest.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">     A task force of Denver police, the FBI and the Denver District Attorney office investigated 26 incidents in which groups of black males verbally harassed, assaulted and at times robbed white and Latino males&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     Victims were punched in the head, resulting in head injuries, broken noses and shattered eye sockets&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">    &#8221; We have seen coordinated efforts before, but not by this large a group.&#8221;  (Denver Police Chief)  Whitman said.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">     If the FBI was called in then there were operatives crossing state lines.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     This sort of thing is happening with increasing frequency all over America.  The incidents are going to increase in frequency, size and organization as the race war gains momentum while being unresisted.  As there are no consequences there is no reason for Black restraint.  Why not call it what it is: Race War, and act accordingly. </p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     As no retaliation is allowed Whites there is no reason for such warfare not to escalate as Blacks become more emboldened.  Obama&#8217;s race dialogue takes on new meaning.  Rather than fearing that Whites might begin attacking Blacks in retaliation there is more to fear if they don&#8217;t.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     An old American axiom is that the best defense is a good offense.  Nothing could be truer.  Any defensive war must be lost.  Only when Blacks realize that there will be consequences will they tone it down.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">     Forget the old America, that disappeared with 9/11.  This is the weird new post-Obama America.  Race warfare is here.   Get used to it and stand up for your rights.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[  ¡Mumia Abu-Jamal Libertad!]]></title>
<link>http://sudakatopo.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/%c2%a1este-diciembre-actuemos-por-la-libertad-de-mumia-abu-jamal/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sudaka Topo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[CONVOCATORIA &nbsp; ¡ESTE DICIEMBRE ACTUEMOS POR LA LIBERTAD DE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL! &#8220;&#8230;sueño]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's the beef, with Sarah Palin?]]></title>
<link>http://drquack.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/whats-the-beef-with-sarah-palin/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin From all sides of the Political spectrum Sarah Palin is attacked, and truthfully, I don]]></description>
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<p>From all sides of the Political spectrum Sarah Palin is attacked, and truthfully, I don&#8217;t know why, do you? Some call her a phenomena, why? There&#8217;s no phenomenon here, the values she speaks of are not new, nor her ideas extraordinary. So why the obsessive attacks from the Left Wing Loons and Right Wing Fanatics, as I&#8217;ve written before they are one in the same.</p>
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<p>When one goes too far Left and the other too far Right, they&#8217;ll always meet at the bottom of political and purposeful reason, blind to what America is, with tunnel vision for only their vision for what America should be. The arrogance of self inflated intellect from both, the Left Loon and the Right Fanatic has already destroyed the once great Democratic Party, my Party, and now the Republican Party is falling to ideological compromise. </p>
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<p>Not long ago, both the Democrat and Republican parties were champions of ideas, yet sustained like values, which the great architects of our Democracy founded over two-hundred years ago. Now the Loons and fanatics are running the asylum and Americans are just now at the realization that the power is with the people, not in the so called &#8216;Truth to Power&#8217; used by the Loons and fanatics. Their Truth is that of their own distorted vision for America, and the Power would be theirs, once their opaque vision of America is embraced. This &#8216;Truth to Power&#8217; idealism has been the Trojan horse of Communism, Fascism, Socialism the world over. We the People, must not embrace the lie here in America.</p>
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<p>The so called phenomenon the Loons and Fanatics are writing about when it comes to Sarah Palin, they clearly don&#8217;t get. Rage and hatred guide their pens (keyboards).  Loon and Fanatic writers like Maureen Dowd and David Brooks of the New York Times, are so literally drowning in their narcissistic type illusion of self intellect, they can&#8217;t begin to see the forest for the trees. In every article written by these writers as well as others, they write repeatedly  of the disdain they have for what they perceive as a lack of intelligence Sarah Palin has vs. that of President Obama in comparison. Well, I could argue that fact until the cows come home, but not now. However, when these writers discredit Palin for her simplicity and intellect, they are doing the same to you and I, regardless of the side of the fence post you sit on.</p>
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<p>In their vision, as was in Lenin&#8217;s, Mao Zedong, and Hitler&#8217;s, (No personal comparison)  for a few examples, there is room at the top for only an elite few. And we should be happy, why?  Because it is with their intellect alone, we will be happy with what they will give us&#8230;Stands to reason, does it not&#8230;.I&#8217;m Dr. Quack with the harsh cry of reason.  11 23 09</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Sen. whore Landrieu prostitutes herself to Sen. pimp Harry Reid.]]></title>
<link>http://boudicabpi.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sen-whore-landrieu-prostitutes-herself-to-sen-pimp-harry-reid/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>boudicabpi</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Landrieu was against this monster government grab until the pimp of the senate Harry Reid offered $3]]></description>
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<p>Landrieu was against this monster government grab until the pimp of the senate Harry Reid offered $300 million, then got in bed with him and his plan. <strong>Do your own research, leave your comments.</strong> Congress sucks. This administration sucks. Stand up America, against both parties. These people are criminals that are systematically taking our freedoms away.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving? ]]></title>
<link>http://boblobslaw.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/thanksgiving/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love the holiday season and the whole &#8220;Getting together to eat with]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong I love the holiday season and the whole &#8220;Getting together to eat with the family&#8221;, but the basic fundamental reasons we celebrate holidays such as thanksgiving, and christmas seem to have some shrouded secrets, or just blatant miss-information.  First of all Thanksgiving is in celebration of European colonists that conquered the American continent and enslaved an entire population of Native Americans.  Likewise a lot of people like to explain thanksgiving as if it was all peaceful and great ! Well i&#8217;m here to tell you, and all that read that this is not the correct story.   It went more a long the lines of this, Christopher Columbus, and said europeans showed up thinking the American continent was really the Indian sub continent, and this is why we still call Native American&#8217;s (Indians) at least some of us.  After we slaughtered, raped, and pillaged villages, towns, and gatherings we then turned the left over &#8220;indians&#8221; into slave&#8217;s and made them prepare us their foods and delecacies so the european colonists could hi-jack all these wonderful Native American delecaceis and keep for themselves.  It is important that we never forget that this is the true history of the situation.  Ofcourse since we have won all the wars and were allowed to re-write all the history we made it sound all nice and pretty.  For one I will never be a parent or a fellow citizen that tries to pass a long false information, and that is why this article isn&#8217;t that big.  It is basic:  Instead of coming here and being nice and sharing with the Native Americans, We enslaved and turned them into servants and in return they served us thanksgiving, and we have enjoyed ever since. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[What Our Air Transport System Says About Us]]></title>
<link>http://voguerepublic.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/what-our-air-transport-system-says-about-us/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://voguerepublic.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/what-our-air-transport-system-says-about-us/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This week, there&#8217;s no shortage of stories on air travel for the holiday season. The Daily Beas]]></description>
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<p>This week, there&#8217;s no shortage of stories on air travel for the holiday season. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-22/airports-from-hell/?cid=bsa:featureline" target="_blank">The Daily Beast has even gone through the trouble of ranking&#8217;s America&#8217;s airport for you</a>, in another of their &#8220;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-04/americas-smartest-cities---from-first-to-worst/" target="_blank">surprising&#8221; rankings that finds the often unconsidered shockingly as good</a>, if not better than New York, which is still better than Chicago or Detroit.</p>
<p>Anyway, that got me thinking. Good airports are a pleasant experience. Travel is easy, interesting, and have a large impact on your impression of both a city and your overall experience. Bad airports are the worst. There&#8217;s a lot more room for airports to ruin an experience than for them to make it. It&#8217;s a rough spot to be in but for the most part, it&#8217;s a strange set up. The quality of the airport, often enough, doesn&#8217;t seriously impact my travelling decisions. I won&#8217;t pay an extra $40 to be routed through Atlanta because they have better food than Cincinnati. LaGuardia and JFK are always a toss-up between which is cheaper, if time isn&#8217;t a concern.</p>
<p>With international travel, there really isn&#8217;t much of a choice, choosing between Berlin and Hamburg isn&#8217;t likely to come down to which has the better airport.</p>
<p>So what incentives are there for expensive, good airports? Airlines, business, and national/regional pride.</p>
<p>The airlines are number one, especially for hub airlines and flag carriers. Their enormous clout and often role as construction/financing partners can&#8217;t be underestimated. Airlines can also, like sports teams, always threaten to relocate without facility improvements. Newer airports can attract more airlines, thereby attracting more fliers to and through cities.  Second, cargo transit will suffer through airports with costly, slow, and unsafe records. That the fate and concerns of commercial passengers are often unrelated matters but not as much as the money to be made through air transport. Finally, national/regional pride.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s any wonder that many of the world&#8217;s best airports are in countries with national pride on the line through demonstrating their wealth, influence, and rise to modernity. Incheon, HKIA, Changi, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing Capital, Pudong, and Taoyuan. As public works they&#8217;re demonstrative and symbolic as much as functional.</p>
<p>That said, all three explain why America&#8217;s airports are lackluster, uninteresting, and often unpleasant. The American air lines are all fairly weak and while partners in construction (Kennedy, DTW, Hartfield, DFW) often lack the clout they used to have decades ago &#8211; outside of critical hubs. Air cargo is increasingly expensive and &#8211; unsurprisingly -  the only American airports that rank in the top 10, Memphis, Louisville, and Anchorage, do so because they&#8217;re the primary hubs for FedEx and UPS.</p>
<p>Finally, with a couple of exceptions, airports are largely paid for by cities, regional authorities, and some state funds. Where, national pride considerations often take a back seat to the stunning multi-million dollar and billion dollar price tags of construction and renovation costs.</p>
<p>So in that sense, as Americans, we really have ourselves to blame for the often unpleasant and frustrating experience that is flying. Our laws, our parsimoniousness, our ever-changing security landscapes. That we feel compelled to blame &#8220;Big Air&#8221; or a faceless &#8220;them,&#8221; for our troubles is a glimpse into our larger mental disconnect between the services we&#8217;ve come to expect and demand and the price we&#8217;re willing to pay for them that so dominates our fiscal and political future as a country.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What's this, I hear? Utada in London?]]></title>
<link>http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/whats-this-i-hear-utada-in-london/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>NyNy</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/whats-this-i-hear-utada-in-london/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Utada Hikaru having a one show in London, O2 Academy in Islington on February 12th 2010 &#8211; SOLD]]></description>
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<p>Utada Hikaru having a one show in London, O2 Academy in Islington on February 12th 2010 &#8211; SOLD OUT ALREADY within five hours on November 13th??</p>
<p><em>&#8230;so I get no invitation or no-one to tell me about it?<a href="http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/roflbot-ogas.jpg"><img src="http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/roflbot-ogas.jpg" alt="" title="roflbot-OGAs" width="500" height="358" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1148" /></a></em></p>
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<p>Now, I may not mention Utada Hikaru or a lot of Japanese artists since my mind is corrupted by K-Pop, but it&#8217;s times like this that Tokyohive should open up or if there was an J-Pop website that updates frequently so I wasn&#8217;t 10 days on the news that I could have booked a ticket and gone to her concert. </p>
<p><a href="http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/utada2.jpg"><img src="http://nynyonline.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/utada2.jpg" alt="" title="utada2" width="296" height="443" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151" /></a></p>
<p>Now that my bitching&#8217;s over, if you live in America, you still have a chance to book tickets, check out Utada&#8217;s Offical Site for more information.</p>
<p>Is anybody in London pissed off or is it just me? Hopefully, all the people watching are hardcore J-Pop fans because they rip their tickets and say it&#8217;s crap&#8230;¬_¬</p>
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<title><![CDATA[SBL09]]></title>
<link>http://conversationaltheology.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sbl09/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ros</dc:creator>
<guid>http://conversationaltheology.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/sbl09/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[My feelings about SBL in general have not changed since the last time I went in 2006. There&#8217;s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>My <a href="http://conversationaltheology.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/why-im-not-going-to-sbl/" target="blank">feelings about SBL in general</a> have not changed since the last time I went in 2006.  There&#8217;s an awful lot of self-promotion and self-aggrandisement going on, not to mention the profiteering in the exhibition hall.  However, I have to admit that I have enjoyed myself a lot more this time.  Mainly this is because I know more people and have had more things lined up to fill the time.  So, here&#8217;s my summary of how it went:</p>
<p>Friday: On the same flight from Philly to New Orleans as my former PhD advisor.  Lots of time to catch up while waiting for the airport shuttle bus to our hotels.  Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar discussing Ellen Davis&#8217;s book, &#8216;Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture&#8217;.  Interesting discussions at the seminar and also over dinner, where I was at a table with another HTC student and a guy who is at Tyndale House.</p>
<p>Saturday: Started very early with the Tyndale House American Alumni breakfast.  I checked everyone in, got to eat the breakfast, then had several useful conversations about the Tyndale Fellowship and Tyndale House.  I think quite a lot of people appreciated having the chance to talk to someone on the admin staff, as well as the research fellows.  In the afternoon, I gave my paper.  I think that probably needs its own post.  Dinner with old friends in the evening.</p>
<p>Sunday: Went to hear a friend&#8217;s paper in the morning and then we went for lunch together afterwards.  Some interesting papers in the Hebrew Poetry section in the afternoon.  In the evening, I&#8217;d arranged to meet a friend at the King&#8217;s College reception &#8211; these receptions with free food and drinks are excellent things for poor students.</p>
<p>Monday: Chatted to the <a href="http://matthewwmason.wordpress.com/" target="blank">Masons</a> this morning, then went to a cookery demonstration at <a href="http://www.neworleansschoolofcooking.com/" target="blank">the New Orleans School of Cookery</a>.  The chef was Big Kevin (who some of my British readers may remember from the TV series Big Kevin, Little Kevin on BBC2 a few years ago).  He was both hilarious and an excellent cook.  We had biscuits with dark, thick cane syrup, then red beans and rice, cornbread, pecan pie and pralines.  It was all delicious and I really shouldn&#8217;t have had seconds of everything but it was just too good to resist.  Today was the first day it&#8217;s been sunny since I arrived in New Orleans, so after lunch I went for a walk along the river and a little bit around the French Quarter.  This evening, I&#8217;m going to a dinner that <a href="http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/" target="blank">John Hobbins</a> has organised, and then tomorrow I&#8217;ll be flying home.  </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cum se dau americanii în judecată. Procese incredibile.]]></title>
<link>http://bloguluflory.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/cum-se-dau-americanii-in-judecata-procese-incredibile/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bloguluflory</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bloguluflory.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/cum-se-dau-americanii-in-judecata-procese-incredibile/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Clasament: Locul 6 Premiul LIEBECK este numit asa dupa Stella Liebeck &#8211; de 81 ani &#8211; care]]></description>
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<p><strong>Locul 6</strong><br />
Premiul LIEBECK este numit asa dupa Stella Liebeck &#8211; de 81 ani &#8211; care a dat in judecata McDonald&#8217;s pentru ca si-a varsat in poala o ceasca de cafea si a castigat 2.9 milioane $&#8230; E cunoscut faptul ca americanii se dau in judecata pentru orice rahat, dar astea depasesc intelegerea umana, cel de pe primul loc e pur si simplu un scenariu SF &#8230;<!--more--></p>
<p><strong>Locul 5<br />
</strong>Kathleen Robertson, Austin , Texas , a primit o despagubire de 780.000 de dolari. Ea si-a fracturat glezna intr-un magazin de mobila, dupa ce s-a impiedicat de un baietel care alerga prin magazin. Verdictul tribunalului i-a surprins pe proprietarii magazinului avand in vedere ca boracul era chiar copilul doamnei Robertson!</p>
<p><strong>Locul 5<br />
</strong>La egalitate pe locul 5 este si Carl Truman de 19 ani care a castigat 74.000$ si cheltuieli pentru ingrijiri medicale, dupa ce un vecin a trecut cu Honda Accord peste mana lui. El se bagase pe sub masina ca sa fure rotile masinii, iar vecinul care era la volan, nu l-a vazut si a plecat din parcare &#8230;<br />
<strong>Locul 5</strong><br />
Tot pe locul 5 se afla Terrence Dickson din Bristol, Pennsylvania ,care dupa ce a spart o casa a vrut sa iasa prin garaj, dar usa acestuia era stricata &#8230; si usa de acces in casa se inchisese automat in urma lui. Proprietarii erau in vacanta, asa ca hotul-minune a ramas inchis 8 zile in garaj, hranindu-se doar cu o lada de Pepsi si un sac de mancare pentru caini. El a dat in judecata casa de asigurari a proprietarului pentru ca situatia i-a cauzat stres si a castigat 500.000$</p>
<p><strong>Locul 4<br />
</strong>E ocupat de Jerry Williams din Little Rock Arkansas , care a fost muscat de cur de cainele vecinului, care era legat si in curtea respectivului vecin. El nu a castigat decat 14.500$ pentru ca juriul a considerat ca dl Williams a provocat &#8220;un pic&#8221; acest incident, sarind gardul si tragand cu o pusca cu alice in caine &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Locul 3<br />
</strong>Apartine don&#8217;soarei Amber Carson din Lancaster Pennsylvania ,care a alunecat pe o balta de sifon intr-un restaurant si si-a rupt noada.Treaba e ca balta fusese facuta chiar de don&#8217;soara, care aruncase un pahar cu sifon in capul prietenului ei, si probabil ratase&#8230; A castigat 113,500 $.</p>
<p><strong>Locul 2</strong><br />
Kara Walton din Claymont Delaware a incercat sa intre pe geamul unei toalete de la un club de noapte pentru a nu plati 3.5$ la intrare,a alunecat si si-a spart doi dinti. A dat in judecata clubul si a castigat 12.000 $ si cheltuielile stomatologice.</p>
<p><strong>Locul 1 si coronita</strong><br />
Merv Grazinski din Oklahoma City, a cumparat o rulota cat o casa, si cand se deplasa pe autostrada a fixat viteza pe automat si s-a dus in spate sa-si faca o cafea&#8230;<br />
Rulota a iesit bineinteles de pe autostrada si a cazut in sant. El a dat in judecata compania care a fabricat rulota pentru ca nu au specificat in manualul de utilizare ca nu trebuie sa paraseasca volanul in timp ce merge&#8230; A castigat 1.750.000$ si o noua rulota, iar compania a modificat manualul de utilizare</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Thankful]]></title>
<link>http://ateasetees.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/thankful/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[This Thursday, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. I can only wonder how many will actually know ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;">This Thursday, Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving. I can only wonder how many will actually know that it is a Christian holiday. I am guessing that the numbers are few because most people are thinking about being with family and watching football. Then, they will get up at some unGodly time in order to be the first to have some new-fangled device that they don&#8217;t need and probably can&#8217;t afford. They will gorge themselves on food and then take naps before their favorite teams play. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">Our nation owes everything to the God of the Bible. The Christian God is the source of everything that this nation is and has. When the people came over here so that they could worship Him the way they desired (instead of the way the king &#8211; and church &#8211; said) He protected them. When they fought for their freedom against the tyrannical power of the British throne, He saw them through. When they came together to be united States and founded the country on clearly Biblical principles, He prospered them. The founding fathers feared God and gave thanks to Him because they knew He was worthy. If our country would let go of its pride, self-righteousness, and arrogance and begin to give thanks to the Almighty God who created the universe, things would change. If Americans feared God again, and understood what He has done for them, they would rejoice to see the moral fabric renewed.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">How often do you stop and thank God for what you have? Do you thank Him at all? He has given you life! That in itself is more than we deserve. God has blessed you with the opportunity to know Him. Have you taken it? Have you thanked Him for that? He went so far as to sent one moment in time where He entered into human history to play the role that no one else could. He came down to earth and became the Savior of all mankind. He lived the sinless life that you and I cannot. He fulfilled the requirements of God&#8217;s holy law, something that we will never do. </span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">Then, after being the perfect human being and still God, He suffered at the hands of those He loved and was crucified for the sins that you and I have committed. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">What&#8217;s even more amazing is that He knew this the whole time. He knew how you would live your life in rebellion to Him and how you would curse Him, and He died for you anyway. The Bible says that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That&#8217;s something that I will never understand. The good news is that I don&#8217;t have to understand it. All I have to do is know that it&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s true for me and for you. All you have to do is repent of (turn from) your sins and put your complete faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior. The Bible says that God is so gracious that He gives us the ability to repent as well as the ability to have faith in Him. Nothing that you or I could do would be enough, but God has made it so that every man, woman, and child who will repent and put their faith in Christ will be born again. That is something to be truly thankful for. If you haven&#8217;t repented and trusted in Christ, please do so. Consider your sin and how it will send you to hell, and then think about the kind and gracious God who came down and saved you.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">In light of the wonderful things that God has done for me, I wanted to take some time to thank Him. Thank you God for You. Thank you for being God so that I don&#8217;t have to be. Thank you for being the omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient creator of the universe, and still a personal God. Thank you for loving the individual. Thank you for being gracious, kind, merciful, just, holy, and righteous. Thank you disciplining me and caring for me. Thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you for becoming like me so that You could live and die to reconcile me to God. Thank you for saving me from my sins and myself. Thank you Holy Spirit for leading me into all truth and correcting and convicting me when I&#8217;m wrong. Thank you for being my Helper and Comforter. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">Thank you, Lord, for my family. My mom, stepdad, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and various assorted others. Thank you for keeping them close to me even though they are so far away. Thank you for my wonderful daughter. I am so proud of her and the strong Christian woman she is becoming. It is a great blessing to be a part of her life and to help her grow. Marlee: Thank you for your love and support. I can only hope that I give you something close to what you&#8217;ve given me. To Kim, Jimmy, Mallory, Mayce, Mandy, Jeremy, Si and Sky, Donna, Eric, Laramie, Jessie Mae, Diane, and Billy: thank you for letting me be a part of your family when you don&#8217;t have to and for loving me with the love of Christ. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">To Dave, Tonya, Cora, Emma, Colin, and Ridge: Thank you for the kind words, the time together, and the constant encouragement. To Jay, Jenifer, Maddie, Meghan, Todd, Cathy, Kylie, Sandra, Michaela, Malaina, Mark, Mary, Kelsie, Ricky, Cindy, Patrick, Bo, Margaret, Sandy, Grant, Kenney, April, Savannah, Dee, Lynsey, Lynn, Scarlet, and Amelia: Thank you for the help and encouragement both with the team and outside of it.Thank you for being such great friends and for sharing some of your precious time with me. To Steve: While the magic that you share with me is always amazing, the friendship that you&#8217;ve shared is even more so &#8211; thank you. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">To Miss Kay, Jack, BJ, David, Jan, Sharon, and so many others at Precept: Thank you for being devoted to the Word and to our Lord and preaching the truth, even when I may not want to hear it. Thank you for having the willingness and the patience to put up with me!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">To all of the others that I didn&#8217;t specifically mention by name, please understand that you are dear to me as well and I am thankful for your friendship.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">If you aren&#8217;t a Christian, you may be wondering why I would take time to do something like this. Let me explain. I am a Christian. God has done the unthinkable in dying for my sins. He remembers them no more. Because of this, I am His. When I die, I know that I will go to heaven; not because of something I did, but because of what He&#8217;s done. I know that regardless of the things that I may go through in life, God is there. He will comfort me and keep me through the darkest times. There is no other &#8220;god&#8221; who will do this. Not Allah, not Buddha, not Vishnu or Brahman. The God of the Bible gives me peace through His Word and its promises (these are just some of them!):</span> </div>
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<div>Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good ; For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Oh let Israel say, &#8220;His lovingkindness is everlasting.&#8221; Oh let the house of Aaron say, &#8220;His lovingkindness is everlasting.&#8221; Oh let those who fear the LORD say, &#8220;His lovingkindness is everlasting.&#8221; (Psalm 118:1-4)</div>
<div>You are my hiding place ; You preserve me from trouble ; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. (Psalm 32:7)</div>
<div>The LORD is my shepherd, I shall <sup><a id="2" title="Ps 34:9, 10; Phil 4:19" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-2"></a></sup>not want. He makes me lie down in <sup><a id="3" title="Ps 65:11-13; Ezek 34:14" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-3"></a></sup>green pastures ; He <sup><a id="4" title="Rev 7:17" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-4"></a></sup>leads me beside <sup><a id="b" title="Lit &#34;waters of rest&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-b"></a></sup><sup><a id="5" title="Ps 36:8; 46:4" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-5"></a></sup>quiet waters. He <sup><a id="6" title="Ps 19:7" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-6"></a></sup>restores my soul ; He <sup><a id="7" title="Ps 5:8; 31:3" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-7"></a></sup>guides me in the <sup><a id="c" title="Lit &#34;tracks&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-c"></a></sup><sup><a id="8" title="Ps 85:13; Prov 4:11; 8:20" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-8"></a></sup>paths of righteousness For His name&#8217;s sake. Even though I <sup><a id="9" title="Job 10:21, 22; Ps 107:14" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-9"></a></sup>walk through the <sup><a id="d" title="Or &#34;valley of deep darkness&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-d"></a></sup>valley of the shadow of death, I <sup><a id="10" title="Ps 3:6; 27:1" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-10"></a></sup>fear no <sup><a id="e" title="Or &#34;harm&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-e"></a></sup>evil, for <sup><a id="11" title="Ps 16:8; Is 43:2" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-11"></a></sup>You are with me; Your <sup><a id="12" title="Mic 7:14" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-12"></a></sup>rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You <sup><a id="13" title="Ps 78:19" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-13"></a></sup>prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies ; You <sup><a id="f" title="Or &#34;anoint&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-f"></a></sup>have <sup><a id="14" title="Ps 92:10; Luke 7:46" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-14"></a></sup>anointed my head with oil ; My <sup><a id="15" title="Ps 16:5" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-15"></a></sup>cup overflows. Surely <sup><a id="16" title="Ps 25:7, 10" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-16"></a></sup>goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will <sup><a id="h" title="Another reading is &#34;return to&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-h"></a></sup><sup><a id="17" title="Ps 27:4-6" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-17"></a></sup>dwell in the house of the LORD <sup><a id="i" title="Lit &#34;for length of days&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/psalms/23.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-i"></a></sup>forever . (Psalm 23)</div>
<div>In the <sup><a id="o" title="Or &#34;reverence&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/14.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-o"></a></sup><sup><a id="26" title="Prov 18:10; 19:23; Is 33:6" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/14.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-26"></a></sup>fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, And <sup><a id="p" title="Or &#34;His&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/14.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-p"></a></sup>his children will have refuge. (Proverbs 14:26)</div>
<div>The <sup><a id="10" title="Ex 3:15" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/18.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-10"></a></sup>name of the LORD is a <sup><a id="11" title="2 Sam 22:2, 3, 33; Ps 18:2; 61:3; 91:2; 144:2" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/18.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-11"></a></sup>strong tower ; The righteous runs into it and <sup><a id="12" title="Prov 29:25" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/18.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-12"></a></sup>is <sup><a id="f" title="Lit &#34;set on high&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/proverbs/18.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-f"></a></sup>safe. (Proverbs 18:10)</div>
<div>Do you not know ? Have you not heard ? The <sup><a id="58" title="Gen 21:33; Ps 90:2" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-58"></a></sup>Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is <sup><a id="59" title="Ps 147:5; Rom 11:33" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-59"></a></sup>inscrutable . He gives strength to the <sup><a id="60" title="Is 50:4; Jer 31:25" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-60"></a></sup>weary, And to him who lacks might He <sup><a id="61" title="Is 41:10" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-61"></a></sup>increases power. Though <sup><a id="62" title="Jer 6:11; 9:21" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-62"></a></sup>youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous <sup><a id="63" title="Is 9:17" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-63"></a></sup>young men stumble badly, Yet those who <sup><a id="aa" title="Or &#34;hope in&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-aa"></a></sup>wait for the LORD Will <sup><a id="64" title="Job 17:9; Ps 103:5; 2 Cor 4:8-10, 16" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-64"></a></sup>gain new strength ; They will <sup><a id="bb" title="Or &#34;sprout wings&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-bb"></a></sup><sup><a id="65" title="Ex 19:4; Deut 32:11; Luke 18:1; 2 Cor 4:1, 16; Gal 6:9; Heb 12:3" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-65"></a></sup>mount up with <sup><a id="cc" title="Or &#34;pinions&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/isaiah/40.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-cc"></a></sup>wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. (Isaiah 40:28-31)</div>
<div>&#8220;These things I have spoken to you, so that <sup><a id="1" title="John 14:27" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/john/16-33.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-1"></a></sup>in Me you may have peace. <sup><a id="2" title="John 15:18ff" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/john/16-33.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-2"></a></sup>In the world you have tribulation, but <sup><a id="3" title="Matt 9:2" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/john/16-33.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-3"></a></sup>take courage ; <sup><a id="4" title="Rom 8:37; 2 Cor 2:14; 4:7ff; 6:4ff; Rev 3:21; 12:11" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/john/16-33.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-4"></a></sup>I have overcome the world.&#8221; <span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">(John 16:33)</span></div>
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<div>But God <sup><a id="15" title="Rom 3:5" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-15"></a></sup>demonstrates <sup><a id="16" title="John 3:16; 15:13; Rom 8:39" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-16"></a></sup>His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, <sup><a id="17" title="Rom 4:25; 5:6; 8:32; Gal 2:20; Eph 5:2" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-17"></a></sup>Christ died for us. For if while we were <sup><a id="20" title="Rom 11:28; 2 Cor 5:18f; Eph 2:3; Col 1:21f" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-20"></a></sup>enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved <sup><a id="f" title="Or &#34;in&#34;" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#fn-descriptionAnchor-f"></a></sup><sup><a id="21" title="Rom 8:34; Heb 7:25; 1 John 2:1" href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/romans/5.html#cr-descriptionAnchor-21"></a></sup>by His life. (<span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">Romans 5:8, 10)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">No other God offers these promises. No other God can save you from your sin or from the the suffering of hell. There is one God and one mediator between God and man &#8211; the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5). This is what I am most thankful for. Will you be thankful for Him? Will you tell others? If you are a Christian, you should be living a life of praise worthy of the God who saved you. If you aren&#8217;t saved, then you face a terrible future, regardless of how good things are now. Please consider where you stand with God! If you&#8217;ve lied, stolen, blasphemed, looked with lust, hated, or dishonored your parents you&#8217;ve broken God&#8217;s law. If you&#8217;ve broken God&#8217;s law you are guilty in His sight. If you are guilty in His sight and die in your sins, you will find yourself in hell for eternity. <strong>But</strong>, God has created a way for you to be saved. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Repent</strong> of your sins! Trust in the Lord Jesus <strong>alone</strong> to save you and He will do it! This is a promise of His! And, once you are saved from God&#8217;s wrath, then all of the promises He gives to His children will be yours. This doesn&#8217;t mean that you will be rich. It doesn&#8217;t mean that you will be in perfect health. What it means is that you </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">will be spared the judgment that is to come. And that is something to truly be thankful for! </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Arial;">This week, as you prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, take some time to stop and look around. God has made Himself evident to you. Have you been paying attention? Look at the family and friends that He&#8217;s blessed you with. He&#8217;s given you life! Then, when you recognize that it&#8217;s Him that is the cause of all you are and all you have, thank Him. Thank Him for everything. Thank Him for others. Thank Him with others. Just make sure that you thank Him and glorify His name, for He is truly worthy!</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimum Pooper]]></title>
<link>http://mimisemira.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/optimum-pooper/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vreti sa aveti un caine sanatos? Cu excremente sanatoase? Cumparati Pedigree &nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Who Would Make a Better President? An Analysis. ]]></title>
<link>http://impeccablehubris.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/who-would-make-a-better-president-an-analysis/</link>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I&#8217;ve been hearing a lot of Obama-bashing lately. I&#8217;ve also been seeing a lot of Sarah Palin in the news. I am a registered Independent (I), which means my loyalty lies not with the Democrats (see: Liberals), or the Republicans (see: Conservatives.) I am free to vote in any primary election I see fit, and I consider myself a political centrist. I am neither &#8220;left&#8221; nor &#8220;right.&#8221; I believe in fiscal conservatism and social liberalism. My political motto is simple: Less Taxes, Smaller Government, More Freedom. I believe the United States Constitution should be literally interpreted, and I believe that any changes to this document should come in the form of amendments, not executive or judicial interpretation (which, coincidentally, is how the &#8220;Founding Fathers&#8221; designed it.)</p>
<p><a href="http://impeccablehubris.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-palin.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-907" title="obama-palin" src="http://impeccablehubris.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/obama-palin.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="600" /></a></p>
<p>With all that being said, allow me to share with you what I feel to be the three (3) most important qualities in a President. I will also compare these qualities to those of Obama and Palin and see who would be more fit to run (or ruin) this nation.</p>
<p><strong>I. Education. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Barack Obama:</strong> Attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA for two years before transferring to Columbia University and receiving a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. He then graduated Magna Cum Laude (the top 1% of his class) with a J.D. (law degree) from Harvard. (<em>Daaaaaaaaamn homie!</em>)</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Palin:</strong> Attended Hawaii Pacific University(?) for one semester. Then attended North Idaho University(?) for two semesters. However, she did win the &#8220;Miss Wasilla&#8221; (pop. 5,469) beauty pageant at this time. She then attended the University of Idaho for two semesters, transferred to Matanuska-Susitna College(?) in Wasilla, AK for one semester, before transferring back to the University of Idaho and earning a Bachelor&#8217;s degree in Communications with an emphasis in Journalism.</p>
<p><strong>EDGE: Obama. </strong>While Palin was busy taking her &#8220;hard&#8221; courses (note: Are there any difficult courses in Communications? From what I understand there&#8217;s not) at various community colleges before transferring to the University of Idaho to earn her patchwork degree, Obama was nonchalantly becoming the first ever black man to become the President of the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>. Although I do contend it would be interesting to see what someone with a Community College education would do with the power of the Presidency, I feel a bit more at ease knowing that a man with a vast and extensive knowledge of American Law, the U.S. Constitution and a Harvard<em> fucking</em> education is running this nation.</p>
<p><strong>II. Experience. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Obama: </strong>Member of the Illinois State Senate 13th District (Chicago), January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004. United States Senator from Illinois, January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008.</p>
<p><strong>Palin:</strong> Member of the Wasilla City Council, 1992-1996. Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, 1996-2002. Chairperson of the <a title="Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Oil_and_Gas_Conservation_Commission">Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, </a>2003-2004. Governor of Alaska, December 4, 2006 – July 26, 2009.</p>
<p><strong>EDGE: Obama.</strong> Until abruptly resigning from the office of Governor of Alaska in July of 2009 without explanation, Sarah Palin had been involved in politics at some level for the better part of 17 years. Unfortunately, her experience was tantamount to that of Leslie Knope, the Deputy Director of the Pawnee City Department of Parks and Recreation on NBC&#8217;s hit comedy <em>Parks and Recreation</em>. Meanwhile, Obama was serving as community activist, state legislator and U.S. Senator in America&#8217;s third-largest city. Let&#8217;s compare:</p>
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<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, it&#8217;s an incredible feat to be elected Governor of a State (just ask my Governor &#8211; Arnold Swartzennager.) However, Alaska is home to just 686,293 citizens, whereas Chicago alone is home to 2,853,114 citizens. Plus Illinois is America&#8217;s fifth (5th) largest State with a population of 12,901,563.  So, while as Mayor of Wasilla, Mrs. Palin had the duty of taking care of the concerns of 5,000 people, Mr. Obama had his hands full in Chicago dealing with millions of citizens and the rampant corruption that comes along with Illinois and its government. I think I&#8217;ll go with the Senator from the big state. There&#8217;s just this uneasy feeling I get about trusting the Governor of an obscure quasi-Russian/Canadian territory that isn&#8217;t even a part of the continental United States.</p>
<p><strong>III. Pragmatism, Prudence and Foresight: </strong></p>
<p>Allow me to first define what I mean by &#8220;Pragmatism&#8221;:</p>
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<li>A movement consisting of varying but associated theories, originally developed by Charles S. Peirce and William James and distinguished by the doctrine that the meaning of an idea or a proposition lies in its observable practical consequences.</li>
<li> A practical, matter-of-fact way of approaching or assessing situations or of solving problems.</li>
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<p>And &#8220;Prudence&#8221;:</p>
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<li> Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense.</li>
<li> Careful in regard to one&#8217;s own interests; provident.</li>
<li> Careful about one&#8217;s conduct; circumspect.</li>
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<p>And of course by &#8220;Foresight&#8221;, I simply mean I enjoy a President who doesn&#8217;t suffer from myopia. I&#8217;ll go ahead and define &#8220;Myopia&#8221; for you as well:</p>
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<li> A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; nearsightedness. Also called <em>short sight</em><strong><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;">. (For the purpose of this essay, definition 1 is intended to be used metaphorically.) </span></strong></li>
<li> Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.</li>
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<p>Let me begin by explaining why I believe these three qualities are so important: When a President fails to learn from the mistakes of others (Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon &#8211; Vietnam), he is doomed to repeat these mistakes (George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld &#8211; Iraq.) Another fine example are our nation&#8217;s bankers who, apparently not very well versed in the history of the U.S. stock market, essentially substituted the inadequately-financed stocks of the 1920&#8217;s with the inadequately-financed real estate of the aughts. Same principles, same great wealth accumulation, same devastating crash.</p>
<p>Prudence is important in a President because, in order to run the world&#8217;s largest Capitalist economy, you had better know what the fuck you are doing. Without going too far in depth economically, I&#8217;ll just say that it&#8217;s important to lend aid to citizens who have a legitimate need for said aid (if the financial impact of this aid outweighs the converse impact of inaction), but the funding should come from a reasonable (and ideally perpetual) source. Blah&#8230; you can just ignore this paragraph.</p>
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<p>Foresight is important for the same reasons. I live by the philosophy that every generation&#8217;s children should be better off than the generation that preceded it. Simple, right? Same goes for American citizens in general.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, these traits of intelligence are also very important to me, because they lay the delicate balance between what is considered progressive, or &#8220;liberal&#8221;, and what is the traditional status quo, or &#8220;conservative.&#8221; These two philosophies must work hand-in-hand in order for a society to prosper. (See: Rome, Ancient Greece, Modern Day Western Europe.) When traditional values are held onto for too long, you get the Middle-East (see: post-1979 Iran, Hussein&#8217;s Iraq and the Talibani Afghanistan.) Conversely, when a society attempts to accelerate progressive movements at a pace that is not in tow with the thoughts, ideals, resources or support of its citizens, you see great failure and revolt (See: the USSR, Nazi Germany, Modern-Day Cuba.)</p>
<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s continue:</p>
<p><strong>Obama:</strong> Since he is the acting POTUS, it&#8217;s pretty easy to grade his performance thus far. I give him a &#8220;C&#8221; for effort. One thing people need to understand is that whoever won the 2008 Presidential election (be it Palin by way of McCain, or Barack Obama, they would likely serve but one term.) Why? Well, because the FUBAR they inherited from the Executive Branch Davidians (see: Dick Cheney, et al) was so severe that it would likely crush the soul, spirit and resolve of not only the person elected, but that of the entire county as well. Thanks, Dubya! So far, Obama&#8217;s stimulus has not been something I particularly admire (neither were any of Bush&#8217;s fiscal policies, either.) One thing I do enjoy is the closing of Guantanamo (say what you will about these prisoners, but a semantic game should not be played here. Either try them in the Hague as war criminals, or on U.S. soil as terrorists. Just stop violating the Geneva Convention [or rather, exploiting its loopholes], and fucking do something!) Also, his views on how to close the American chapter in Iraq is questionably in my estimation. Doing away with the PATRIOT Act was excellent, and as far as his Health Care proposal is concerned &#8211; it needs major work.</p>
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<p><strong>Palin:</strong> What do we know about Palin? Not much. She&#8217;s a small town girl with a small-town mind and a small-town education. She lacks the basic fundamental understanding of global politics and domestic social programs and their taxation to be an effective leader at anything higher than, well, the Alaskan level. Additionally, she has bizarre religious views (Pentacostal, anyone?), apparently opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest (what does that tell you?) and famously has no fucking idea where one of America&#8217;s most volatile &#8220;allies&#8221; is on a map. Palin is very outspoken and this makes her popular with individuals suffering from Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome and Alcholism (the two most likely crowds outside of Tourettes to speak their mind.) Political entertainers such as Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Rush &#8220;Oxycontin&#8221; Limbaugh seem to support her fervently. Palin recently released a book that was heavily criticized for its inaccuracies, with the AP stating, &#8220;Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer&#8217;s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.&#8221; Additionally, she has taken several insane stances she resigning from office, including supporting creationism in the classroom (she believes that dinosaurs and humans once interacted) as well as inventing the term &#8220;Death Panel&#8221;to criticize Obama&#8217;s proposed healthcare plan (a term that has been slammed as grossly erroneous and completely fictional and without merit.)</p>
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<p><strong>EDGE: Draw. </strong></p>
<p>That&#8217;s right. Despite the fact that Sarah Palin is a small-town hick from the meth capitol of Alaska with little-to-no education and an incredibly loose grasp on how American politics, society, taxation and the electoral system work, Obama has proven to be so incredibly liberal and reckless with the American taxpayer&#8217;s dime that I really cannot support anything he&#8217;s done. Now, does this mean I would prefer Sarah Palin as an alternative ? Absolutely fucking not. Under no circumstances whatsoever. I would move to Canada if she were ever elected (although I cannot see the American people doing something so unprecedented and appalling, though they did once elect Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter consecutively, so who knows.)</p>
<p>You may be wondering who I would tap as an alternative to these two. Well, Ron Paul of course.</p>
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<link>http://eltaburete.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/de-amaury-perez-bardo/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>el taburete</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Amaury Pérez estrena “Bardo”, su disco dedicado a Silvio Rodríguez, y adelanta a Cubadebate los tema]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><span style="color:#99cc00;">Amaury Pérez</span></strong> estrena <strong>“Bardo”</strong>, su disco dedicado a <span style="color:#ff0000;">Silvio Rodríguez</span>, y adelanta a Cubadebate los temas de esta producción, el audio de una de las canciones y un fragmento del documental que acompaña el CD realizado por Ángel Alderete.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“No me interesa la posteridad, el presente necesita de mí como yo de él y no espero nada más del porvenir que no sea el que los cercanos valoren que no me traicioné a mí mismo, que fui un loco valiente, lenguaraz, exótico, y extravagante, que nunca renegué de mis ideas y preceptos por más incomprendidos que estos fueran, ni de mi amistad con Fidel”, dice&#8230; <a href="http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2009/11/23/amaury-perez-puedo-escapar-de-todo-menos-de-mi-mismo/">leer más&#8230;</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Beautiful People [Update]]]></title>
<link>http://gratuity.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/beautiful-people-update/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://gratuity.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/beautiful-people-update/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Like Millard Fillmore, Michael Bay, and the 2004 USA &#8220;Dream Team,&#8221; I have brought shame ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><span style="font-weight:normal;">Like Millard Fillmore, Michael Bay, and the 2004 USA &#8220;Dream Team,&#8221; I have brought shame to America. </span></p>
<p>As you can read <a href="http://gratuity.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/brits-busted-or-beautiful/">here</a>,  I attempted to join an exclusive community of over 500,000 people. I put myself out there for the World and suffered international rejection.  Here&#8217;s the note from beautifulpeople.com:</p>
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<h3>Do you wish to apply again?</h3>
<p>Dear [Me],</p>
<p>Unfortunately, your application to BeautifulPeople Network was <strong>not successful [<em>emphasis theirs</em>]</strong>.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The members of BeautifulPeople did not find your profile application attractive enough this time round</span>.</p>
<p>You are more than welcome to <span style="text-decoration:underline;">try again with a better picture of yourself.</span></p>
<p>To modify the content and picture in your profile and re-submit it for rating, simply follow these quick steps:</p>
<li>Open your Edit Profile Page:</li>
<li><strong>Change your profile picture, and modify your profile text to make it more appealing to the voting members</strong>.</li>
<p>When you have completed modifying your profile, send it back to “rating” by clicking the “Vote me again” button below.<br />
Please note that continuously re-submitting your application for rating, without modifying your profile, will result in your removal from the Network altogether. We advise you to change your profile picture before re-submitting your application.</p>
<p>Have you updated your profile?</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s clear this is the product of anti-American sentiment. &#8220;Better Picture?&#8221;  &#8221;Make it more appealing?&#8221;  How dare they try to change me?!  Once my ego is mended, I&#8217;m getting back on the horse and taking it to a whole new level:</p>
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<link>http://eltaburete.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/100-peliculas-por-los-corales/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>el taburete</dc:creator>
<guid>http://eltaburete.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/100-peliculas-por-los-corales/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A once días de su inauguración en La Habana, el Comité Organizador del 31 Festival del Nuevo Cine La]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">A once días de su inauguración en <strong>La Habana</strong>, el Comité Organizador del <strong><span style="color:#ffff00;">31 Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano</span></strong>, que se desarrollará del 3 al 13 de diciembre, confirmó la selección de 104 filmes de 17 países en el concurso que otorgará los muy apreciados Corales en diversas categorías.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Optarán por los premios 20 largometrajes y 15 cortos de ficción, 24 documentales, igual número de películas de animación y 21 óperas prima.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Otras tres películas de argumento y dos documentales se proyectarán en la sección oficial fuera de concurso.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Las cinematografías más representadas serán las de Brasil, Argentina y México, seguidas por Chile, Cuba y Perú.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Como es habitual, al Festival concurren también guiones inéditos, esta vez 28, en busca de un espaldarazo para su realización, y diseñadores gráficos a la caza de un Coral que se dispensará a uno de los 17 carteles promocionales enviados.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Cuba concursará con los largometrajes de ficción El premio flaco, de Juan Carlos Cremata; Lisanka, de Daniel Díaz Torres; y Ciudad en rojo, de Rebeca Chávez, esta última entre las óperas prima; los documentales Close up, de Roger Herrera y Damián Saínz; La marea, de Armando Capó; y El despertar de un sueño, de Luis Ernesto Doñas; y los animados 20 años, de Bárbaro Joel Ortiz; y Tic tac, de Alien Ma Alfonso. Fuera de concurso exhibirá La anunciación, del maestro Enrique Pineda Barnet.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Fuente: Granma</p>
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<link>http://blogdespreorice.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/cum-numara-lumea-banii-daca-i-mai-are/</link>
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<description><![CDATA[E recesiune,  cuvantul criza e deja cliseu, mult prea des folosit, uneori ca scuza cand nu e cazul. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sudaka Topo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sudakatopo.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/colombia-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; NUEVAMENTE AMENAZAN A COMUNICADORES INDÍGENAS DEL CAUCA (Colombia)(Autor: CRIC)(Fecha: Noviem]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pelosi Eyeing Global Tax on Financial Transactions]]></title>
<link>http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/pelosi-eyeing-global-tax-on-financial-transactions/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/pelosi-eyeing-global-tax-on-financial-transactions/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Cato@Liberty by: Daniel J. Mitchell Imagine if the government got to pick your pocket ever]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/">Cato@Liberty</a> by: <a href="http://www.cato.org/people/daniel-mitchell">Daniel J. Mitchell</a></p>
<p>Imagine if the government got to pick your pocket every time you engaged in a financial transaction? That nightmare scenario is a distinct possibility now that senior Democrats have joined with European politicians and urged that such a tax be applied on a worldwide based. Reuters has the disturbing details:</p>
<p><em>Any tax imposed on financial transactions would have to take effect internationally to keep Wall Street jobs and related business from moving overseas, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday. “It would have to be an international rule, not just a U.S. rule,” Pelosi said at a news conference. “We couldn’t do it alone, we’d have to do it as an international initiative.” Several House Democrats have proposed a Wall Street tax to pay for job-creating legislation they plan to pass in December. The tax, which could raise $150 billion per year, would tap into widespread public outrage at Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis. …The No. 4 Democrat in the House, Representative John Larson, said his proposal to impose a 0.25 percent tax on over-the-counter derivatives transactions would apply internationally. “Part of our proposal would include that it would be international,” Larson told Reuters after meeting with other lawmakers about the jobs package. Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio said his separate proposal, which would tax a wider array of trading activity, would cover all U.S. corporations and individuals no matter where their trades took place. …Britain urged other governments earlier this month to consider a bank tax as a way to fund future bailouts, and France and Germany have also called for a bank tax. The International Monetary Fund is studying the idea.</em></p>
<p>More below:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/11/23/pelosi-eyeing-global-tax-on-financial-transactions/">Pelosi Eyeing Global Tax on Financial Transactions</a></p>
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<p><em>One of my left-leaning friends here at WordPress once commented that a &#8216;global government&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t occure for at least 100 years &#8230; I think that&#8217;s a stretch.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal]]></title>
<link>http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By: Derrick Roach at &#8216;Big Government&#8216; On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General J]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>By: <a href="http://biggovernment.com/author/droach/">Derrick Roach</a> at &#8216;<a href="http://biggovernment.com/">Big Government</a>&#8216;</p>
<p>On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.</p>
<p>Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.</p>
<p>Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.”</p>
<p>Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what’s going on.”</p>
<p>Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/">BigGovernment.com</a> has learned that not only did this document dump occur, but the documents in question were irresponsibly and brazenly dumped in a public dumpster, without considering laws and regulations as to how sensitive information should be treated.</p>
<p>I am a local licensed private investigator. I took it upon myself to keep an eye on what the local ACORN office was up to, in light of the release of the undercover videos. I retrieved these documents from the public dumpster.</p>
<p><a href="http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/sandiegoacorndocumentdumpscandal-100909-photo3/" rel="attachment wp-att-4132"><img src="http://stevex09.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sandiegoacorndocumentdumpscandal-100909-photo3.jpg" alt="" title="SanDiegoACORNDocumentDumpScandal-100909-Photo3" width="640" height="480" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4132" /></a></p>
<p>Documents shared with <a href="http://biggovernment.com/">BigGovernment.com</a> include information exposing not only the inner workings of ACORN in California, but also personal, sensitive information belonging to employees, members and clients of ACORN. ACORN and its few remaining defenders insist that the “good” ACORN provides outweighs the transgressions exposed in the recent undercover video sting. But, ACORN’s massive dumping of these documents and the cavalier manner in which it betrayed the trust of its supporters betrays that talking point. (Unlike ACORN, we have redacted sensitive and personal information.)</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/WUpnhqaXOnc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/WUpnhqaXOnc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Click below to read the rest of the story and view some of the recovered documents:</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/">BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal</a>.</p>
<p><em>And we still have those on the left that still think ACORN should be allowed to compete for tax-payer money to fund their activities!</em></p>
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<link>http://wordsbreakmybones.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/montevideo/</link>
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<dc:creator>andy</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[i wish i was from south america i wish i from uruguay i wish i was from montevideo it&#8217;s hard t]]></description>
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<p>i wish i was from south america</p>
<p>i wish i from uruguay</p>
<p>i wish i was from montevideo</p>
<p>it&#8217;s hard to explain</p>
<p>i wish my head would fall off</p>
<p>hehe</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dr. Shaid Masood's Meray Mutabiq Banned From Dubai--&gt;Pakistan Feudal Party (also known as PPP) government in full swing  to confront independent media]]></title>
<link>http://united4justice.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/dr-shaid-masoods-meray-mutabiq-banned-from-dubai-pakistan-feudal-party-also-known-as-ppp-government-in-full-swing-to-confront-independent-media/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It seems that Pakistan Feudal Party (also known as PPP) government in full swing to confront indepen]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>It seems that Pakistan Feudal Party (also known as PPP) government in full swing</p>
<p>to confront independent media using all their internal resources and their external</p>
<p>links to put curbs on genuine journalism and news analysis.</p>
<p>It reminds us of Musharraf&#8217;s emergency days when similar was done to stop the voices against their mistakes and crimes.</p>
<p>Recent victim of this PPP government&#8217;s feudal martial law is &#8220;Meray Mutabiq&#8221; of Dr. Shahid Masood which has been banned by the Dubai government to go on air from Dubai.</p>
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<p>Recently government, agencies, government sponsored media and journalists have started a massive campaign against independent media and the elements and methods used were pretty much same as of Musharraf times even the allegations are similar like being paid by opposition or serving the foreign agenda (We all know our governments have been serving the foreign agenda not the independent media).</p>
<p><strong>We condemn this action of Pakistan and UAE governments and show our full solidarity with independent media.</strong></p>
<p>We expect the genuine journalists and analysts to continue their role which they have played against dictatorship, against emergency,against innocent killings and illegal abductions, against imperialist takeover of our country ,against NRO and corruption and the role to restore the independent judiciary of Pakistan.</p>
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<p><strong>Geo’s program ‘Meray Mutabiq’ banned from Dubai</strong></p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=92070">http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=92070</a></p>
<p>KARACHI: A ban has been imposed on airing of Geo News’ program ‘Meray Mutabiq’ from Dubai.</p>
<p>According to sources, the high government officials of Pakistan exerting pressure on the Dubai government had the airing of the program stopped.</p>
<p>Geo’s administration has said that this step of the government is tantamount to targeting the freedom of expression.</p>
<p>It may be mentioned here that the senior analyst Dr. Shahid Masood was the anchor of ‘Meray Mutabiq’.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Gore’s Manipulation Allowed By Mainstream Media Climate Change Bias – Continues With CRU]]></title>
<link>http://stevex09.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/gore%e2%80%99s-manipulation-allowed-by-mainstream-media-climate-change-bias-%e2%80%93-continues-with-cru/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Tim Ball Monday, November 23, 2009 “It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that]]></description>
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By <a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/members/17142/Ball/">Dr. Tim Ball</a>  Monday, November 23, 2009</p>
<p><em>“It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.” Robert Lindner</em></p>
<p>How much longer will Al Gore get a pass from the mainstream media? A little bit longer if their failure to react to the devastating revelations of files hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is a measure. Their behavior reflects how most, especially from the left, have abetted the scientists who deliberately perverted climate science. </p>
<p>We now know Gore’s errors are based on the global warming fraud orchestrated by a few scientists centered round Phil Jones, Director of the CRU. Emails between those climate scientists, identified by Professor Wegman as publishing together and peer reviewing each other’s work disclose the complete manipulation of climate science and the Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Bishop Hill provides a useful summation of some of the outrageous comments and actions. What is missing is the nasty vindictive tone that permeates almost every item.</p>
<p>What are the mainstream media going to do? How can they ignore the biggest scandal in science history and then claim any credibility? We already have a strong indication because they either don’t cover it or claim, like Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, there is nothing of consequence. No surprise because he was in direct communication with the CRU gang.</p>
<p>click below to read more about the fraud of Al Gore&#8217;s &#8220;climate change&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/17142">Gore’s Manipulation Allowed By Mainstream Media Climate Change Bias – Continues With CRU</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[State Rep. Hopeful Refuses to Answer Policy Question]]></title>
<link>http://arkansaspatriot.us/2009/11/23/state-rep-candidate-refuses-to-answer-policy-question/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Arkansas Patriot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://arkansaspatriot.us/2009/11/23/state-rep-candidate-refuses-to-answer-policy-question/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A concerned Searcy citizen submitted this letter to The Patriot: &#8220;I met Jesse Boyce at Congres]]></description>
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