#1 blah, blah blah. Another example of why their editors should be fired because they don't do what editors are paid to do - edit. Just another slobbering, long-winded attempt to write around Obama's weaknesses and turn them into strengths. All that is missing from the story are violins playing in the background.
I suffered through a few paragraphs but it's so blatant and blubbering I can't see wasting my time.
(I'm just old enough to remember Tom Eagleton. If you aren't, read his Wikipedia bio here first.)
Marc Armbinder
In memos, e-mails and phone calls this week, Obama campaign officials have urged surrogates and allies to mention Republicans who are "nervous" about the Palin pick and to link those worries to George McGovern's aborted vice presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton in 1972, according to three Democratic surrogates.
That year, McGovern rescinded the pick after learning that Eagleton had been treated for depression. Questions about the thoroughness of the Palin vet have been raised, ... by the Kos kiddies and Keith Olberman (pardon the redundancy)
... particularly about how and when Palin disclosed the news that her teenage daughter is pregnant and whether Palin's political resume had been thoroughly scrubbed.
On Wednesday, the campaign's chief surrogate wranglers distributed a three page compilation of alleged quotes from purported Republicans (some of whom may actually exist) concerned about the Palin pick. One surrogate said he had been urged to bring up the example of Eagleton in order to seed the idea that McCain might consider dropping him from the ticket.
Obama spokesperson Bill Burton said that surrogates haven't been pushed to mention Eagleton. "We did not give that guidance," he said. Obviously, he lied.
Responding to Palin has been a challenge. In public, the Obama campaign has stuck to its message, noting that Palin's speech last night barely referenced the economy. Today, Obama told reporters that he didn't particularly mind Palin's jabs at him, and he then made one of his own: "I assume that she wants to be treated the same way that guys want to be treated which means that their records are under scrutiny. I've been through this for 19 months. She's been through it, what for 4 days so far?"
One of the Democratic surrogates said that when he asked for guidance about Bristol Palin, Palin's pregnant daughter, his handler at the campaign told him that the campaign had nothing to say about it and did not want Democrats to mention it. Professor Althouse comments:
You know, I remember the McGovern campaign. I was a big supporter of McGovern's, and I hated Nixon, as did all of my friends. And the scenario then was completely different from what you are seeing now. We were never excited about Eagleton in the first place. We just wanted McGovern to win. Eagleton didn't infuse new energy into the McGovern campaign or jazz up am important subset of voters. He was just some boring Senator that got slotted in. And then he brought nothing but trouble and distraction as the news came out that he'd been hospitalized for depression 3 times and had receive electroshock treatments. It wasn't just that there were a couple of old political controversies or a family member was less than perfect. We were getting significant new information about his brain, the brain that we might need to rely on to make presidential decisions. It was simply not acceptable, especially since he'd also withheld this information from McGovern, which showed some really poor character. It should also be remembered that McGovern didn't come out looking very good, either. First, he said he was behind Eagleton "1000%"--then, two weeks later, he tossed him under the bus. Didn't make McG look very steady in a crisis. Even McGovern now admits that was a colossal mistake on his part.
McCain does not strike me as the sort of person who would bail on Sarah just because a bunch of Kos Kiddies have gone all attack-dog on her
The Palin candidacy has virtually nothing in common with the Eagleton scenario, and the people who are saying it does are displaying their desperation. Obviously -- I'm not the first to say this -- if you want McCain to lose and you think she's so terrible, you should be happy to see Palin as the VP nominee. It will help defeat McCain.
#2 I watched on TV while Eagleton gave his acceptance speech at the '72 donk convention. I don't remember what he had to say but I do remember he was sweating and his hands were shaking. He got through it but you could tell he wasn't very well prepared.
Sarah Palin was cool, calm and collected all throughout her speech even when the teleprompter got ahead of her. She was very well prepared and she did a wonderful job. No comparison.
If they're trying to compare a girl's pregnancy to Eagleton's depression and shock therapy I'm not seeing that either.
Besides, Eagleton was a donk.
#3 The liberals just keep digging themselves deeper and deeper into a hole. If they think Palin is going away, then they're even more delusional than usual. I smell fear. I love it.
Amusing...
Last month it took two tank divisions and a diversion of Olympian proportions for Vladimir Putin to subdue Georgia's fledgling democracy and seize two of its territorial regions. This month we may see Russia's new emperor claiming a prime slice of downtown Jerusalem for the KGB without even firing a shot.
I refer to a shady transfer to Putin of what is known as the Russian Compound - a 17-acre site between Jaffa and Hanevi'im roads, close to the Old City walls. According to a Foreign Ministry letter that has come into this writer's possession, the deal was agreed on between the two governments on December 12, 2007. The transaction could not be completed, however, until the land was transferred from Israel's Custodian General of land and property to the government itself.
According to the same Ministry letter, this final clearance was ratified by a Jerusalem court on August 27. Like so many other concessions on outposts and the security fence, this is yet another surrender concocted between the executive and the judiciary, without any parliamentary involvement or oversight.
According to the Israel Policy Forum, the Jewish state's judiciary is the most activist in the democratic world and dominates the elected branches of government, the legislative and the executive. The ultimate check on the judicial branch of government is the power of appointing judges, which is retained by the elected branches of government in the overwhelming majority of democracies. This enables the people's representatives to ensure that no judges with extreme views (including extreme views of their own political prerogatives) are appointed.
In Israel, such a check is nonexistent. Judges in Israel are appointed by a small committee controlled by the judges of the Supreme Court and their close allies in the Israeli bar. The process is secretive and subject to manipulation and abuse. It has led to the domination of the court by judges with strongly liberal views who have succeeded in alienating large segments of Israel's population.
Given Russia's close association with Iran and Syria, the prospect of its establishing an enclave in the heart of the Jewish capital is daunting indeed. It conjures up images of Arab terrorists fleeing into the compound and Israeli security personnel unable to pursue them without precipitating an international crisis. In many respects it would be tantamount to inviting a Russian spy ship to permanently dock right in the middle of an Israeli naval base.
The Russian Compound's commanding position made it the perfect staging ground for numerous conquests of Jerusalem from the Assyrians to Titus's Roman legions. From a Turkish cavalry parade ground in the Ottoman period it was developed in 1860 by the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society to cater for large numbers of Russian pilgrims to the holy city.
Dubbed "New Jerusalem" by the Turks, the compound's early buildings included a church, hostel, hospice and a consulate. In 1890, half of the site was redeveloped by Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich as a palatial guesthouse for visiting Russian aristocrats.
Later requisitioned by the British forces during the period of the Mandate, the compound was nicknamed "Bevingrad" by the Jewish underground, after the hated British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, and was seen as a symbol of British oppression in Palestine. In 1947, two brave fighters, Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani, blew themselves up in the compound's jail on the night before their execution, using a hand grenade that had been smuggled into the cell.
Israel purchased the compound in 1964 (excluding only some church buildings) from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch for $3.5 million. Due to lack of hard currency, the price was paid in an equal value of citrus exports. Since the date of this so-called Orange Deal, the site has been used to accommodate various government offices and the Sergei Building has been home to the Jerusalem Magistrates Court.
During his state visit to Israel in 2005, Vladimir Putin paid a private visit to the compound and the magnificent Sergei Building is said to have "captured his heart." He declared his intention to get it back for Russia.
Much has changed in the three years since that backslapping state visit. While Putin has not stopped pushing the legal process for the return of the site, he has said lots of kind words about his concern for Israel, which he insists is a good friend of the Russian people. Sadly, his actions over these past three years have exposed him as an enemy of Israel and, more recently, a threat to the free world.
Not content with supplying Iran's mullahs with all they need to accomplish Ahmadinejad's wish to "wipe Israel off the map," Putin is supplying them with his most advanced Iskander missiles, which will make it even more difficult for Israel to neutralize this existential nuclear threat. Closer to hand, Putin has been arming the Syrian dictator with advanced missiles and looks to be creating a base for his nuclear warships in Syrian ports not far north of Haifa.
In many ways, Putin's actions are little different from those of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. They both make public claims to be friends of Israel while doing everything possible to weaken and destroy the Jewish state.
But Olmert deals with both these men the way he deals with all members of the axis of evil. "Give them some land" is his strategy - without asking for anything in return. This is the prime minister who boldly told fraud investigators that American whistleblower Morris Talansky gave him all that cash without expecting anything in return. The police were incredulous. But to anyone who has seen Olmert handing Israel's enemies land, prisoners, rifles, bullets and jeeps for nothing in return, why should this come as a surprise? It's his tried and trusted business model.
Probably the most galling aspect of Olmert's discredited leadership is how he and his colleagues presume to carve up and surrender parts of Eretz Yisrael as if it were theirs to give. To keep Shas in the coalition they continue to deny what every Israeli knows for a fact: that half of Jerusalem has already been offered to Abbas. In Turkey, Olmert's lawyers have put the entire Golan Heights on the table. And then there is the backdrop discussion of 1967 borders and returning refugees, both of which topics seem lately to have changed from red lines to amber lights.
The '67 borders issue becomes more significant the more one delves into this new Russian interest in the Holy Land. In a recent article in the Jerusalem Post, Ksenia Svetlova reported that the Russian Accounts Chamber (government audit office) published the following announcement on its website in June:
"The PNA [Palestinian National Authority] has passed to Russian authorities three land lots in Jericho during a special ceremony which took place at the premises of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation in Moscow. The head of the Imperator Pravoslav Palestinian Society, Sergei Stepashin, assured that the restored property included three lots: a 12,000 sq.m. one and another two located in the area called al-Moskobiya [Moscow lands] in the city."
Svetlova further quoted an earlier Russian news agency report in April 2008 announcing that during Abbas's visit to Moscow, he agreed to transfer to the Russian government land in Bethlehem in addition to 35,000 sq.m. worth of property on the Mount of Olives and in Jericho.
It's clear that whatever agreements Olmert and his foreign minister are hiding from their own coalition partners and the citizens of Israel, they are already taken for granted by Abbas, to the extent that he is gifting the Russians territory he has not yet received.
One of the few Knesset members wise to what is afoot is Likud's Yuli Edelstein, who has pressed for a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Relations Committee in the coming week on the subject of the compound sale.
Born in the Ukraine, Edelstein was a prisoner of conscience and jailed by the Soviets for applying to emigrate to Israel. Together with Natan Sharansky, he formed the Yisrael B'Aliyah party which took seven seats in the 1996 Knesset elections and later merged with Likud.
"This deal was first mentioned to me quite casually by a lawyer working in the Knesset," Edelstein said over coffee in Jerusalem last Friday. "It was so absurd that I really didn't take it seriously. But I agreed to submit a sha-ilta (member's question) and was astonished to receive confirmation of the intended transfer."
He said the Ministry said nothing about what was expected from the Russian government in return for the property.
"We could have asked for a thousand different things," says Edelstein. "We could have said: 'You want a presence in this place? Make it official put up your flag and move your embassy here.' We could have asked for the restoration of pension payments to one million émigrés from Russia."
There are countless options, but by the government's silence it seems to Edelstein that Israel is getting absolutely nothing in return. Beyond the loss of this strategic site to the Russian government, he worries about the precedent that would be set. "Next thing we will have the Greeks reclaiming the land on which the Knesset itself and the president's residence are standing. Where will it all end?"
In justifying the government's actions, the Foreign Ministry argues that the compound never was Israeli property in the first place and that the Custodian General was, at all times, holding the property in trust for its original Russian owners. But this seems to ignore two important facts:
First, the $3.5 million paid out by Israel in the sixties, whether in cash or oranges. Second, that the "original Russian owners" are neither Putin nor the Russian government. The prevailing Ottoman law prevented such property being owned by a foreign state. As Sergei Alexandrovich commissioned the project with private funds, the only relevant beneficiary of the Custodian's trust has to be the duke's family.
It can only be hoped that exposure of this disturbing story will cause Jews, both inside and outside Israel, to use whatever communal or logistical influence they can to bring pressure on the government in Jerusalem to cancel this private agreement, or at the very least to submit the proposals to a full vote in the Knesset. Israel is small enough for individuals to make a real difference. Classic? 0
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#1 TL, gave up on reading
this though
According to the Israel Policy Forum, the Jewish state's judiciary is the most activist in the democratic world and dominates the elected branches of government, the legislative and the executive.
Is not surprising coming from the Jewish Press. In case you dont know, its a solidly Orthodox paper, and very hawkish on anything to do with Israel, and leans toward that element within Orthodoxy that is bitter about the Supreme Court of Israel and its interventions on behalf of human rights and for seperation of synagogue and state.
The Iraqi government is seeking to buy 36 advanced F-16 fighters from the U.S., say American military officials familiar with the request, a move that could help reduce its reliance on U.S. air power and potentially allow more American forces to withdraw from the country than had been proposed.
If it clears hurdles in Washington, the multibillion-dollar deal would give the Iraqi government a powerful new weapon to use against the country's Shiite and Sunni insurgents. But the rapid rebuilding of Iraq's military forces with U.S. equipment such as F-16s could also be viewed with concern by other countries in the region, because of the placement of advanced weaponry in the hands of a nascent government of a country still struggling for stability.
The Air Force says it has 300 planes and helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan, mostly in Iraq, but declined to provide a further breakdown, making it difficult to assess the impact of the proposed sale on overall air power there. Senior American officials have long argued that Iraq would need the U.S. to keep fighters and attack helicopters deployed throughout the country indefinitely, even as American ground troops start to withdraw.
Iraq now appears determined to significantly expand the air power of its military, which has become more competent and confident in recent months but depends heavily on the U.S. for air support. Iraq quickly has become one of the biggest weapons buyers in the world as it seeks to strengthen and professionalize its fighting force.
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A man is under arrest in Washington after an improvised explosive device, a rifle and some ammunition were allegedly found in his jeep, Capitol Police said Friday.
The man stopped to ask police for directions near the Capitol building at about 11 a.m. EDT Friday, at the intersection of 2nd and Independence Avenue Southeast, according to Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
So our boy knows how to build an IED but can't use a Garmin ...
The officer responding noticed a rifle case on the car seat and inspected the jeep, discovering the IED, rifle and ammunition. A canine unit was enlisted to help. "They've all been rendered safe right now because they're in the custody of Capitol Police," Schneider told reporters at a briefing Friday.
The officer took the unidentified man into custody; the vehicle is still being searched.
Library of Congress employees near where the jeep was stopped have been evacuated, and several roads have been closed while police continue their investigation.
Schneider said that it wasn't clear what the man intended to do with the cache of weapons.
#2 The man stopped to ask police for directions near the Capitol building at about 11 a.m. EDT Friday, at the intersection of 2nd and Independence Avenue Southeast, according to Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
So our boy knows how to build an IED but can't use a Garmin ...
driving by the capitol building is pretty damned confusing, lots of one ways, jersey walls, security blocks, etc. I know garmin catches the one ways (though not if theyre changed for construction or whatever) but not sure if it gets all the other stuff. Just got ours a little while ago and havent taken it by the Capitol lately. It does suggest fairly odd things in other parts of central DC though.
#3 Just got back from DC. Sorry, but it just ain't that hard to drive there. I'm calling bullshit on this one -- they found him another way and don't want to share exactly how they did it.
#5 Schneider said that it wasn't clear what the man intended to do with the cache of weapons.
I dunno, maybe they should just make him an offer.
(What's that old Steve Wright joke about Canadian customs? "Do you have any guns with you?" "I don't know, what sort of guns do you want?")
#6 I used to live 5 blocks from there (in fact, I was there for 9/11 and the subsequent antrhax decontamination).
The Hill can be confusing for visitors due to construction, one-way streets, poor signage, the grid system origin being so close and discontinuities of some streets. I often provided out of towners with directions. I would always end by telling them to take the metro in the next day. If they seemed smart, I would explain how address numbers worked in DC as well, so they could navigate by them.
Recently I drove in DC with my Nuvi. The software did not work very well and kept telling me to take routes I knew were suboptimal. It's worked fine everywhere else, but L'Enfant's diagonals must not work well with the algorithms.
It is a great city to walk in when it is not 95 and humid.
We'll see what sort of 'IED' he had. Very fishy. Asking cops for help could be an act of over confidence or arrogance and does not automatically mean this was an innocent mistake. Recall Mohammad Atta requested help from the government when he was shopping for a crop duster, etc.
#7 Well, in that carrying a rifle and ammunition in your car is *legal*, what exactly do they mean by "Improvised Explosive Device"? That could be about anything.
A bottle with gasoline in it? A firecracker? 10 pounds of C-4 wired to three propane tanks? A basement thermonuclear device?
#8 JAB, couldn't agree more. Spent last Sunday walking to all the monuments. 11 miles later on the pedometer, it was time to pack it in. Think it was only lower 80s... :-)
#10 Just got back from DC. Sorry, but it just ain't that hard to drive there
perhaps you misunderstood. I didnt say its hard to drive in the capital. I said its hard to drive near the Capitol. IE the building. The blocks right around it, with lots of blocked streets, and as someone said above, the center of the grid system (2nd and D for example, occurs in 4 separate places all a few blocks from each other NW, NE, SW, and SE respectively)
President Bush will announce his decision on future troops levels in Iraq next week and is expected to largely follow the recommendations of military leaders to reduce the number by up to 8,000 by mid-January.
The closely held plan forwarded by top Pentagon advisers calls for keeping 15 combat brigades in Iraq until the end of the year, according to senior defense officials. It would also send a small Marine contingent to Afghanistan in November to replace one of two units slated to head home then.
Bush is scheduled to make remarks Tuesday at the National Defense University in Washington. White House press secretary Dana Perino says he has been talking with his national security team and will be consulting with members of Congress about Iraq.
Under the Pentagon recommendations, one combat brigade — numbering between 3,500 to 4,000 troops — will leave Iraq after the first of the year and will not be replaced. In addition, at least one Marine battalion will leave and not be replaced, as well as a few thousand support forces, defense officials said.
Those forces could include military police officers and other support troops that went to Iraq over the past year to support the large military buildup ordered by Bush in early 2007 to quell the growing violence.
The new plan being reviewed by Bush may disappoint some Congress members and others who expected a larger, faster reduction of troops in Iraq, considering the significant downturn in violence. According to defense officials, violence has plunged by about 80 percent since last year's peak.
Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, delivered his recommendations to military leaders about two weeks ago. He had initially argued to maintain the current force levels in Iraq — about 146,000 troops, including 15 combat brigades and thousands of support forces — through June, according to defense officials.
Officials discussed details of the plan on condition of anonymity because Bush has not yet made a final decision.
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Filed under: Some pigs are more equal than other.
Rep. Charles Rangel paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for about 15 years, a lawyer for the powerful House committee chairman said Friday.
The New York congressman's lawyer, Lanny Davis, told The Associated Press that Rangel got his no-interest deal for the villa in the Dominican Republic because he was an original buyer in the resort development.
The Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means tax-writing committee has come under scrutiny for his vacation property and apartments he rents in his home district of Harlem. Classic? 0
"The types of attacks (by al-Qaida), the methods have remained very specific -- VBIEDs, suicide bomber, some small arm fire -- but their ability to make them effective has really dropped off," said Col Allen Batschelet, the 4th ID's deputy commander. "Where we used to seeing VBIEDS that were extremely technical and with a lot of explosive material. Now they're very amateurish and the explosive material is down to the 10-15 pounds (range), where we used to see some of these VBIEDs or deep-buried IEDs that were in the hundreds of pounds of explosive materials." The rest of the article discusses how the American and Iraqi troops controlling Baghdad have taken away all the cached weapons of the anti-American cleric Moqtada al Sadr's Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) militia and Iranian-influenced Special Group (SG) cells, as well as remnant cells of al-Qaida. Classic? 0
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it'll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality, after decades of fruitless searching.
For the longest time, the military concentrated on developing chemical-powered lasers. They produced massively powerful laser blasts. But the noxious stuff needed to produce all that power makes the weapons all-but-impractical in a war zone. So the Defense Department shifted gears, and poured money into solid-state, electric lasers instead. Under its Joint High-Powered Solid State Laser (JHPSSL) project, these beams -- once considered too weak to do soldiers much good -- have made steady progress. Now Northrop is promising to hit what's widely considered to be the threshold for military-strength beams: 100 kilowatts. With that much energy, lasers should be able to knock mortars and rockets out of the sky.
Northrop's system combines a bunch of smaller lasers into a bigger one -- Death Star-style, sorta. In March, the company announced that it had completed the first of these eight "laser chains." Yesterday, the company said it had joined two of the chains together. What's more, the beam combo ran at peak power -- 30 kW -- "for more than five minutes continuously and more than 40 minutes total; and achieved electrical-to-optical efficiency of greater than 19 percent."
"We are completely confident we will meet the 100 kW of power level and associated beam quality and runtime requirements of the JHPSSL Phase 3 program by the end of December, 2008," Bob Bishop, a Northrop Grumman spokesman, tells Defense Daily.
#3 Sounds like the ultimate defense weapon to me - force shield turned laser shield. Only, this thing should also work quite well on offense as well. Awesome!
Posted by: Richard of Oregon|| 2008-09-05
2008-09-05 14:51
Johnson! Stop the presses!!
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon decried turf wars in the global organization during a private speech in which he also acknowledged bluntly that his first 20 months in office have been a failure. So I guess I'll just skate through the next four years like everybody else did...
Ban labeled the organization a "huge bureaucracy," according to a transcript Newsmax obtained of the speech he delivered to senior staffers at an annual closed conclave during the weekend in Turin, Italy. UN "huge bureaucracy". Film at eleven...
That bureaucracy indicates that U.S. efforts to reform the United Nations, starting with then-U.S. Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright and continuing through six U.S. representatives spanning more than 16 years, have come up short. Oh. So it's not the UN's fault of course...
"We must admit this. ... We must acknowledge how resistant we are to change. It cripples us in our most important job to function as a team. ... Here at the UN, unfortunately, I see people too often putting their own interests first. ... I see too many turf fights, too much intramural wrangling, too much protectiveness of the status quo," the U.N. chief said. Damn straight, Ban Man. Waiter, more wine.
"I see little evidence of a change in mindset," he said. "We get too bogged down in internal or bureaucratic technicalities. We waste incredible amounts of time on largely meaningless matters." Waiter, could I get some more shrimp. And would it be too much trouble to make sure it's cold this time.
The staff's task is to change the U.N. to change the world, Ban said, adding, " This is the big picture. I am frustrated by our failure so often to see it. ... Department heads squabble among themselves over posts and budgets and bureaucratic prerogatives, as though they owned them. But our departments, agencies and programs are not personal fiefdoms." Might as well burn it down and collect the insurance...
The secretary-general also acknowledged what has been whispered in the halls of the U.N.'s New York City headquarters: He has not gained the trust of the organization's rank and file. "I tried to lead by example. Nobody followed." Well ain't that a kick in the ass, huh, Ban Man?
Ban's address lent credence to what many inside the world body have been talking about for almost a year, that electing the former South Korean foreign minister in 2006 was a mistake. So he'll resign, of course, right? Right?
Many veteran diplomats often complained that Ban simply did not know how the U.N. operated. Others raised questions of competency when a veteran U.N. staffer, Angela Kane of Germany recently was promoted to a key post as undersecretary-general for management. The promotion came despite the fact that investigators with the U.N.'s Office of Internal Oversight Services severely criticized her previous performances. The elevation raised eyebrows among U.N. staffers. Sounds perfect for the job to me...
The Kane appointment is just one decision on a long list of what many inside the organization have questioned. Echoing the internal criticism are several diplomats, including those from the United States who were instrumental in getting the South Korean elected. And U.S. State Department officials privately wonder whether Ban has enough support to seek a second five-year term in 2112. Still, that's four more years on the gravy train, Ban Man...
Ban's troubles come during the first stage of the U.N.'s five-year renovation project to rehabilitate its headquarters. The so-called Capital Master Plan, begun in May with a projected cost of $2 billion, is said to be more than $200 million over budget. Geez, that's all? I'd consider that progress. Classic? 0
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#1 Well, I could suggest something that would help them reform - have the US cut off all funding. They can keep the current building if they want to, but any new building must be built elsewhere on somebody else's dime. Preferably someplace like Khartoum, Sudan.
Of course, if Bambi gets elected, we will instead double our contribution and build them a new building for free.
Posted by: Rambler in California|| 2008-09-05
2008-09-05 13:47
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman is promising the Pentagon that it'll have weapons-grade electric lasers by the end of 2008. Which means honest-to-goodness energy weapons might actually become a military reality, after decades of fruitless searching.
BISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO asks Nancy Pelosi to meet with him concerning Abortion with talk of dening her Sacrement of Church for her anti