Posted by: Mike ||
07/23/2010 07:56 ||
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I don't see many of these Obama stickers on cars today. I think Obama voters are afraid this has become a mark of ignorance. They must have already removed the stickers. I can't even find anyone who admits to voting for Obama. Is this an accurate indicator of voting in 2010?
With the Palin VP selection episode especially, there's crystal-clear evidence of attempts to create a party line / circulate a talking points memo among journalists who are supposed to report upon, not slant, one of the most important stories of 2008.
Not criminal, but a major betrayal of public trust nonetheless. Broadcast journalists ought to be investigaetd by the FCC for this behavior.
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Now we have a tag for a diagnosis of extreme arrested adolescent development: Journolist Syndrome. Simple arrested adolescent develop can still be tag with the Peter Pan Syndrome.
Thomas Sowell cuts right to the point of 'racist' rhetoric and how hollow it rings
Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem.
Playing the race card takes many forms. Judge Charles Pickering, a federal judge in Mississippi who defended the civil rights of blacks for years and defied the Ku Klux Klan back when that was dangerous, was depicted as a racist when he was nominated for a federal appellate judgeship.
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Webb is a Vietnam vet who knows that blood is always red. As an officer in the Marine Corps during the only time that draftees were forced into the corp. They had their problems with race and he wrote about it in Fields of Fire. I'll give him credit and the armed forces for determining that merit trumps color.
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As to the cost argument, the United States is not poorer than it was 25 years ago. The 2011 naval shipbuilding budget is only $13 billion out of a total Federal budget of $2.6 trillion. Or put in another perspective, the Navy won't spend as much money building new fleet units over the next decade as was given in a lump sum to bail out the AIG insurance company. The Federal government is spending enormous amounts of money
I think the US is poorer than it was 25 years ago. I also think federal spending priorities are nuckin futz.
If there is one principle in International Law that is sacrosanct, that is the integrity of boundaries. This piece of skulduggery by the ICJ will guarantee upheavals and the death of multi-millions over the next how many years as secessionist troublemakers, quoting this ruling, strive to achieve what Kosovo achieved.
Those seccesionists might be right. A large part of the world was carved up by European diplomats who drew lines on a map based on their own avarice, whimsy, or drunkenness. Why shouldn't the people affected try to correct these historical wrongs?
Should Somaliland be a country? Why not? Should Kurdistan be a country -- don't the Kurds act like one? How about southern Sudan -- should the Christians and animists be forced to live with the Muslims in the north?
Some people have a distinct identity. Some don't want to be lumped with others. Some want to go their own way. Why not acknowledge that?
A decision on Kosovo's independence by the United Nations highest court could have ramifications for other countries.
The United Nations International Court of Justice in The Hague, or ICJ, has ruled that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was legal.
Kosovo's Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni addressed reporters shortly after the non-binding court opinion was released. "This is great news for Kosovo. This is great news for the peace and stability in the region of the Western Balkans. This is great news for Europe because finally, an international court of justice, an esteemed institution of justice, has confirmed that the people of Kosovo did the right thing by declaring their independence on the 17th of February 2008," he said.
For his part, Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said the court ruling will not change his country's position. "Serbia will never under any circumstances recognize the unilateral declaration of independence of the so-called Republic of Kosovo," he said.
Ian Bancroft, the co-founder of TransConflict, a humanitarian organization working in the western Balkans, says the ruling handed down by the International Court is important.
"Key, absolutely key. Serbia was relying upon this non-binding ruling to give them momentum, the political, moral, legal, symbolic weight to go to the United Nations General Assembly and secure another resolution calling for the resumption of negotiations with Kosovo. Having failed to secure the verdict that they expected, and bearing in mind that the ICJ has delivered what most people were not expecting, which is an unambiguous ruling, Serbia now will have to seriously reconsider the approach that it takes," he said.
Sixty nine countries, including the United States, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom have recognized Kosovo's independence. But as Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO says, a key country still opposed to Kosovo's independence is Russia.
"Russia has partially identified itself as a patron of Serbia and wants to be supportive of Serbia. Secondly, it feels that this was done outside the United Nations Security Council and therefore Russia, as a Security Council permanent member feels that it should have had the right to agree or disagree and if it disagreed, that it should not have taken place. And then thirdly, of course, Russia itself is a country with many different ethnic people and many different regions and is of course also interested in making sure that we don't create a rampant international right of breakaway independent states," he said.
Many experts, including Ian Bancroft, believe that the ruling by the International Court of Justice sends a message worldwide. "The principle of the ICJ ruling seems to be very clear, that international law does not prohibit unilateral declarations of independence. Therefore, any secessionist movement, no matter where it is in the world, will look towards this and gain some encouragement that they too can pursue this path," he said.
But Kurt Volker expresses a different viewpoint. "I don't think this is going to have that big an effect on either side, whether it's the states who want to maintain their territorial integrity against the aspirations of their own indigenous people or, for that matter, movements that want to seek their own independence and freedom. Those tendencies, those desires are already going on and they will continue to pursue them independent of that decision," he said.
Experts say the ICJ ruling will now be forwarded to the U.N. General Assembly where a debate on Kosovo is expected to be held next September.
Gazans are furious over the "Humanitarian Aid" which has been arriving on flotilla ships and from donor counties -- and they are specifically mad at the "aid" that has arrived from Arab countries.
Al Jazeera reports the story on their Arabic website (google translate does a typical job, not the best quality)
Monir Al-Barash, the PA Health Ministry's Director of Donation Receivables stated that since the IDF "Cast Lead" operation, Gaza's hospitals have been able to make use of less than 30% of the "medical aid" that has donated.
"Al-Barash said that most of the medical equipment that arrived over the past year was "useless". "Benefactors sent us a shipment worth millions of dollars to counteract Swine Flu, except the shipment arrived after the virus threat had already completely disappeared."
Another senior PA Health Ministry official, Bassam Barhom started that among the medical equipment were broken dialysis machines."
What annoyed them the most were the donations from Arab countries of burial shrouds for children.
Perhaps they understand why you Paleos have children, and what you train them to do?
Most of the medications are being buried in landfills since they have expired or are of no use.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/23/2010 10:09 ||
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Welfare recipients are all the same, the world over.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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