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...My wife - a confirmed liberal when we met - has been undergoing a slow but steady conversion since the '08 elections. She has really turned the corner over the last few weeks when she has realized that articles like this one are showing up all over the world...except here in the states.
Mike
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D. None of the above
I think he is focusing on the economy and he is doing exactly what he planned for it. Distribute the wealth, hobble the productive ones and make everyone else dependent on the government.
Hmm. Dem. But Harry has a point this time. The way things have been going for them, it won't be long before the naughty video comes out and we can judge for ourselves. Fixed party brand
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She has a cute face, but, she isn't Hawt or Hot...for that matter. This story is about 2 or 3 days old now.
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09/22/2010 5:43 Comments ||
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From A January, 2009 WaPo article about her selection: The Gillibrand appointment, which came after an excruciating and at times haphazard two-month selection process, may have been the most high-profile decision to date for Paterson, who is in many ways an accidental governor, coming to office last year after Eliot L. Spitzer resigned because of a sex scandal.
"Everyone in town is furious with him," vented one Kennedy friend, who called the selection process, which included Kennedy's mysterious eleventh-hour withdrawal for unspecified personal reasons, "a fiasco."
Sometimes she votes like a republican. maybe she's a DINO? Gillibrand's centrist voting record sets her at odds with most of her Democratic colleagues in New York. She boasts a perfect favorable rating from the National Rifle Association, in a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country. She has supported tighter measures against illegal immigrants in a state generally known for sanctuary. And she was the only New York Democrat to vote against the $700 billion federal financial bailout plan, which was considered a fiscal lifeline for New York City.
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/22/2010 6:20 Comments ||
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Senator Gillibrand has been more of a lefty than Representative Gillibrand was. Her only Senate vote on gun control was to restrict it. She supported the stimulus and Obamacare. She had an opinion piece in the WSJournal that was pro cap and trade.
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09/22/2010 6:52 Comments ||
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Please file under piffle and meaningless, geriatric blatherings.
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More idiocy from Reid. This guy has far too much free time on his hands. Last I looked, Nevada had the highest number of foreclosures and highest unemployment rate. Frankly, I don't give a crap what our representatives look like.
[Dawn] Apparently frustrated over Pakistain military's inaction against the Haqqani network, the United States has this month unleashed a relentless wave of dronezaps in North Wazoo, hoping to downgrade the operational capabilities of the group it considers to be the most lethal thug outfit in Afghanistan.
Since Sept 2, there have been 13 strikes by unmanned Predator drones in North Wazoo -- the highest number in a month since the US began using them to hit targets in Pakistain in 2004. The number of dronezaps this year has already crossed 70 -- the highest figure for a year.
According to military sources, an operation in North Wazoo got delayed because the army was preoccupied with fighting militancy in other tribal areas and flood relief. This window was fully exploited by the group to intensify its activities, defence analysts believe.
"The Americans want to check that freedom of space available to the Haqqanis through intensified dronezaps," a source said.
There are few takers for the Pak explanation in the US and many describe the delay as tactical. Besides, Pakistain had in June initiated efforts to secure a place for the Haqqanis in post-war Afghanistan by working out a rapprochement between the group and the Karzai government. US opposition to the initiative halted it.
Sources suggest that Pakistain would make fresh moves to discuss peace with the Haqqanis, in the context of the overall reconciliation plan, during Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai's current visit to Pakistain.
The pattern of the attacks this month shows that the primary target is the Haqqani network, even though his host Hafiz Gul Bahadar and foreign Orcs and similar vermin of Al Qaeda have also been targeted.
The strikes this month have predominantly been in Miramshah sub-division, where the Haqqani network's headquarters are based and where the group carries out its financial dealings, acquisition of weapons and strategic planning.
Five of the attacks occurred in Datakhel tehsil, which is home to Gul Bahadar's clan Uthmanzai Wazir.
Dandi Derpakhel, the scene of another attack in Miramshah, is where members of Jalaluddin Haqqani's family live.
Gul Bahadar, who leads the other major thug grouping in North Wazoo, is more than a host for the Haqqanis. He not only provides them with the tribal support the Haqqanis lack, but also gives them passage to the border.
The only attack this month outside Miramshah was in Shawal, where foreign fighters loyal to Al Qaeda have sanctuaries.
The US, while targeting the Haqqanis, is pursuing the 'hammer and anvil approach'. Alongside the spike in the dronezaps, US Special Forces have launched an intense operation against the group in eastern Afghanistan, killing a number of its 'commanders'.
The Haqqani network has been the focus of US action for the past two years. However, The infamous However... after the Dec 2009 suicide kaboom on the Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, a key facility of the CIA, the network again came under renewed focus.
In this unprecedented intense bombardment by drones, military officials see a shift in US policy in Afghanistan from counter-insurgency to counter-terrorism.
They say the US, notwithstanding international denunciation of the dronezaps, feels encouraged because the strikes in the past took out second- and third-tier leadership of thug groups.
Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, has criticised the attacks as 'licence to kill' that creates a 'major accountability vacuum'.
Analysts opine that the dronezaps have been counter-productive, providing Orcs and similar vermin with an effective recruitment tool and inflaming opinion against the US and an embattled Pakistain government, which has lately gone silent on the attacks.
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As winter approaches, this network sancuary escalation may have resulted in an early reduction of the seasonal fighting in Afghanistan. There may yet be hope for victory.
[Pak Daily Times] 'Flood management' remains a serious issue for our legislators, but only to score political points instead of setting a policy framework or improving the overlapping exisiting institutions that are only working on paper to deal with disasters.
The National Volunteer Movement (controlled by a distant relative of President Zardari) and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) that is supervised by a retired army general (aren't they supposed to be withdrawn from public offices as per Gen Kayani's statement in 2009) are the biggest such institutions.
The NDMA chairman earned many 'laurels' from home and donors in the post-earthquake 2005 of AJK for leaving thousands with promises and few hundreds with bare minimum.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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'Flood management' remains a serious issue for our legislators, but only to score political points instead of setting a policy framework or improving the overlapping exisiting institutions that are only working on paper to deal with disasters.
