This was essentially Teddy Roosevelt's announcement to the rest of the world that the United States had arrived as a world power.
EFL, much, much more at link
The "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The fourteen-month long voyage was a grand pageant of American sea power. The squadrons were manned by 14,000 sailors. They covered some 43,000 miles and made twenty port calls on six continents. The battleships were painted white, except for gilded scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships only later came to be known as the "Great White Fleet." At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 the US Navy had painted all of its ships gray and did not return to the white and spar colors until after the conclusion of hostilities.
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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
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To you, men and women who have come here to this great city of this great State formally to launch a new party, a party of the people of the whole Union, the National Progressive Party, I extend my hearty greeting. You are taking a bold and a greatly needed step for the service of our beloved country. The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly what should be said on the vital issues of the day. This new movement is a movement of truth, sincerity, and wisdom, a movement which proposes to put at the service of all our people the collective power of the people, through their Governmental agencies, alike in the Nation and in the several States. We propose boldly to face the real and great questions of the day, and not skillfully to evade them as do the old parties. We propose to raise aloft a standard to which all honest men can repair, and under which all can fight, no matter what their past political differences, if they are content to face the future and no longer to dwell among the dead issues of the past. We propose to put forth a platform which shall not be a platform of the ordinary and insincere kind, but shall be a contract with the people; and, if the people accept this contract by putting us in power, we shall hold ourselves under honorable obligation to fulfill every promise it contains as loyally as if it were actually enforceable under the penalties of the law.
Just an excuse to look at BB-11 the original Missouri.
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...We need to clone a cross between TR and Ronald Reagan. Just imagine - someone who wants to better the lot of the average person and wants to be a better steward of the environment, but at the same time isn't going to take ANY sh*t from anybody.
Mike
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#5 ...We need to clone a cross between TR and Ronald Reagan. Just imagine - someone who wants to better the lot of the average person and wants to be a better steward of the environment, but at the same time isn't going to take ANY sh*t from anybody.
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RD, are the dagesh dots showing up correctly in your browser? They aren't in mine [Apple Safari].
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Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all.
Two words, Afro-American.
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From the "Mississippi Nuked site link above"
(A bit off subject, but good)
Quote of the moment
... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no womanÂ’s vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), U.S. socialite; daughter and cousin of U.S. Presidents. Crowded Hours, ch. 21 (1933). ~
Thanks to Highland Media
The crack of doom for Shrillary was just heard.
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SANTA MONICA, April 25 — Sailing away into a summer haze that hung over the bay of Santa Monica, the 16 battleships of the Atlantic Fleet steamed slowly past Point Dume shortly after 9 o’clock this morning with a hundred thousand people assembled along the shores to extend them a reluctant farewell.
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Photo of Great White Fleet off Coronado at night.
U.S. Navy's Great White Fleet makes San Diego its first U.S. stop on a worldwide tour, bringing more than 16,000 sailors into San Diego Harbor on 16 battleships, 7 destroyers and 4 auxiliary ships.
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The Great White Fleet enters San Francisco Bay
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See also MODELWARSHIPS.com for a replica of a VIRGINA-class Battleship from the period.
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At 11 knots in a single file, the fleet approached the island of Trinidad through the Gulf of Paria. With deft seamanship they entered the anchorage dropping their 16 anchors simultaneously. The next morning, as the sun came up, crews expecting crowds of spectators along the shores were surprised to find things ashore looked as if the fleet had never arrived. Their first port visit was met without cheering crowds, bands or dignitaries. Unfortunately, the British Governor had been directed to officially ignore the visit. As such, all official balls and parties planned for the Christmas holiday were canceled and no official party was organized to meet the fleet.
Despite this Admiral Evans put the fleet’s “best foot” forward. During the cruise south each ship had selected members of the cruise to be trained as the Navy’s first shore patrol. With the cool reception he granted liberty to 2000 sailors who went ashore to enjoy the city. Shopping the markets they found fresh fruit, straw hats, monkeys, parrots, parakeets, and high prices. As for postcards and souvenirs, there were very few items commemorating the fleet’s visit.
On the afternoon of December 29th the fleet finished coaling and immediately weighted anchor to leave the port. The fleet was ready to move on. Upon departure Governor Jackson chose to ignore is orders and congratulated Admiral Evans on the “irreproachable behavior of your men . . . I can assure you that your men established a record hard to equal and impossible to beat.”
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John Frum - I've been through a lot of the San Diego Historical pic archives, never seen that one - wwhere did you get it? Looking for a new source....
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There are serious health fears across Harare after reports of a cholera outbreak earlier this week. According to independent health experts in the capital, the cholera outbreak has been created by the inability of the Harare City Council to provide residents with clean water. Cholera is an extreme diarrhoeal disease whose transmission in humans is mainly by ingestion of contaminated water or food. In its most severe form cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses.
Most civilized countries treat their water to prevent this.
Many Harare residents have been forced to drink unsafe water from streams and wells on the outskirts of the city. Complaints also abound that the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA), is supplying people with untreated tap water. The state run ZINWA took over the administration of sewer and water reticulation from the City of Harare last year.
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Sure, it's bad, but if you re-elect Bob it'll be smooth sailing from there on out.
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Treatable, IIRC, with a weak solution of salt and sugar, both available for 50 gazillion zims from not a single supermarket in Harare. What a country.
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the country's four highest natural gas-producing regions declared autonomy from the central government.
Ooopsie, can we say "Fuel shortage"
(I knew you could.)
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News at Eleven: Brazil sends Condor Legion ?? Or...
News at Twelve: Brazil sends Peace Keeping Force (to occupy gas fields and pipelines that they paid hard cash to develop in Bolivia)?
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Would really twist Evo's and Hugo's shorts if the US recognized the new Republic of Santa Cruz.
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If they are pro-democracy and pro-free markets, I would say the US should help them, quietly. The last thing they or South America needs is the perception that the US is doing everything Chavez says it is. But if Chavez and the Bolivian government march on them, US aid would be invaluable.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - Kyrgyz voters began casting for a vowel ballots for a new parliament Sunday in an election that many fear could cause further political turmoil in this poor nation in strategic Central Asia. The voting will be watched far beyond the ex-Soviet region for potential unrest. Kyrgyzstan borders China and is near Afghanistan; Russia has an air base here and the U.S. military base outside the capital Bishkek helps support operations in Afghanistan.
Opposition groups have alleged that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government is planning to rig the election in an effort to oust his staunchest political rivals from the legislature. Bakiyev's Ak Jol party will face the Social Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev, and the Ata Meken party led by former parliament speaker Omurbek Tekebayev. Nine smaller parties are also running, but are given little chance of getting into the single-chamber, 90-seat parliament.
Bakiyev has been criticized for increasingly authoritarian policies in a country that has long been considered the most politically open among Central Asia's five predominantly Muslim nations. He has pledged a fair vote, saying Thursday that ``all will be honest.''
But opposition leaders have complained that their activists were subjected to intimidation nationwide during the campaign and local government officials were pressuring citizens to vote for Bakiyev's Ak Jol party. Opposition groups have said they will respond to any election fraud by taking to the streets, as they have repeatedly done in recent years.
Alleged fraud during the 2005 parliamentary vote led to mass protests that drove President Askar Akayev from power.
A new cycle of protests could hit Kyrgyzstan hard. Unlike its energy-rich neighbors, the largely agricultural nation of 5 million has limited resources and is one of the region's poorest. Security has also been on the decline; in the southern, most-populous regions, radical Islamic groups have gained followings since the 1991 Soviet collapse.
Since assuming the presidency two years ago, Bakiyev has struggled with lawmakers over government appointments and the scope of presidential powers. Opposition forces frequently filled the center of the capital, Bishkek. Police cracked down in April, using tear gas and stun grenades to break up protests.
In October, Bakiyev pushed through a referendum that changed the constitution; voters no longer elect individual candidates, they vote only for parties - and party leaders choose who gets into parliament. Parties now must receive at least 5 percent of the nationwide vote and at least 0.5 percent in each of the country's seven regions and its two largest cities to get seats in parliament.
Critics say that in a country where politics are dictated by regional and clan allegiances, the law could be used to bar opposition parties.
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A Chinese military expert has urged Taiwan's military to resist moves towards independence, pressing the island's soldiers to "join hands" with mainland forces to avoid possible war. The director of a research centre on Taiwan's military at the People's Liberation Army College of Military Sciences in Beijing, Wang Weixing, wrote in state media that Taiwan's armed forces traditionally favored stronger ties with the mainland.
Beijing fears that as it prepares to host the 2008 Olympic Games, independence-leaning Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will use a referendum and other steps to deepen the political divide between island and mainland.
Writing in the latest issue of Outlook Weekly, run by China's official Xinhua news agency, Wang said Taiwan's military could serve as a bulwark against "Taiwanese independence".
"Taiwan's military should also join hands with us to oppose Taiwan independence," Wang wrote in the article, reprinted by the China News Service on Friday. Taiwan soldiers should "become a major force opposing separation of the motherland", Wang added.
The signal from the People's Liberation Army is part of a war of words over the island's future that Beijing has warned could escalate into real confrontation if Taiwan pursues outright independence. Wang does not speak of mutiny or defection, but he urges Taiwan's soldiers to stand up against pro-independence forces.
"At this major turning-point in cross-Strait relations, the guns of the military forces on both sides must be used to defend national sovereignty and national interests," Wang wrote. The two sides' officers should meet at the banquet table, not on the battlefield, he added.
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Beijing fears that as it prepares to host the 2008 Olympic Games, independence-leaning Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will use a referendum and other steps to deepen the political divide between island and mainland.
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Taiwan might want to think about using Teh Olympics as their chance.
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Mike-
There have been several stories to the effect that the Taiwanese aren't going to declare independence - they're going to do everything but. It'll drive the ChiComs insane, and they'll have no choice but to give in. The problem is A)what happens after the Olympics, and B)at what point the ChiComs might just say 'screw the Olympics' and beat the hell out of them anyways.
Mike
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The wife laughed and said:
"Taiwan urges Chinese military to resist Party moves"
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While the mainland might succeed in "beating the he$$" out of Taiwan, I'm pretty sure it would be a pyrric victory, with Taiwan laying waste to several Chinese mainland cities and wrecking other infrastructure. I'm also not quite sure if the rest of the world would stand by and allow Taiwan to be "conquered". I'm also not willing to bet that Taiwan doesn't have a half-dozen nukes and the means of delivering them, even to Beijing. China might be in the position of a nudist poking a beehive.
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well, it's not like china has a dam or anything that could be susceptible....
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"Taiwan's armed forces traditionally favored stronger ties with the mainland"
Shades of Baghdad Bob.
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TOPIX [old] > TAIWAN INVASION WILL BE PYRRHIC VICTORY FOR CHINA [very bloody CONVENTIONAL-NUKE?affair]. Taiwan vows to go down fighting, to include being able to attack, destroy several mainland PRC cities; + FREEREPUBLIC > RIVAL CAPACITY [China] TO BUILD WARSHIPS [and Commercial Ships} WORRIES US NAVY.
FR Poster > argues/worries that in five years [Year 2012+?], USA may not be able to challenge China in the Pacific???
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REUTERS > INDIA, CHINA LOSING THEIR [low]WAGE COST ADVANTAGE, according to prestigious consultant-econ analysis firm. PHILIPPINES, THAILAND are looking good; + ASIA TIMES > RUSSIA'S EAST WARMS UP TO CHINA. Reverse immigration due to econ climate - RUSSIANS ARE MOVING TO CHINA; + BBC > RUSSIA'S DEEP SUSPICION OF THE WEST, as per Russ national unilateralism i.e. needs nobody's help to do anything, everything, nada.
See also WSICHINA > CHINESE SECURITY white paper [135 pages].
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Along these lines and as I understand it, Kansas democrats -IIUC affiliated with the same campaign managers as the clintons are distancing themselves from current democrat party trends. Boyda cought with pork for a prison museaum but not fighting for a powerplant in east kansas (nevermind walking out on the armed services committee report), attorney general Morrison resigning on account of shinanagans, Sebelius looking foolish in wake of natural disasters (not Greensburg et al, but that there sure is enough NG units to take care of the current winter weather problems).
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All the presidential libraries solicit foreign donations. Do anyone think Americans would donate $100-200 million dollars to one man's ego? The question is how to prevent our leaders from selling out to our enemies in anticipation of being rewarded after leaving leaving office.
Ban all foreign moneys from the US political process (including speeches and corporate board membership) and downsize our politicians narcissism.
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Well that spells trouble. And that starts with T and that rhymes with C and that stands for China!
So I'm not the only one who caught "Music Man" on cable this week.
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Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor now running for the Republican presidential nomination, lays out a policy plan that is long on optimism but short on details in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations. A copy of his article was released Friday.
"American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out," Huckabee said. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists."
In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion. "I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice," Huckabee said.
He said this year's troop increase under Bush has resulted in significant but tenuous gains, and he said - much as Bush has - that he would not withdraw troops from Iraq any faster than Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander there, recommends. The military has now slowly begun to reverse the troop increase.
Huckabee has previously joked about his lack of experience in international affairs. "I may not be the expert as some people on foreign policy, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night," he said earlier this month.
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Gee. Did you really stay at a Holiday Inn or did you just catch the commercial re-runs? What an absurd comment, "I've never played football past high school, but I did get the Chiefs to beat the Titans (on the second try) in Tecmo Bowl 3 last night."
gov. huckabee, how would you have handled Turkey, a NATO country, not allowing troops to pass through to Iraq? Considering the UN as a way to sway world opinion, what is your take on the current makeup of the Human Rights Council and Council for Economic Development?
Can anyone clue me in on why o'shuckabee is anything other than hype?
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The media's building him up, as they know most GOP'ers won't vote for him...
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These are the fruits of a Republican strategy to court, humor and appease the moron vote for the last thirty years. The people supporting Huckabee did not even vote before they were encouraged to do so.
If this election - but not the war, pray God - is lost thanks to the moron wing of "the stupid party", Republicans need to take a long, hard look at jettisoning the Huckabee element and adopting a Clintonian triangulation for 2010. There are plenty of Reagan Democrats who would like to jump from the Democratic party controlled by unions and other interests.
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There is a guy that coudl pull in the "Reagan Democrats". Fred Thompson. The media has buried him and pushed Huckster.
I still cannot belive the numbers of peopel going for him that havent examined anything other than he is a bapttist minister and pro life. His record sucks, his policies are a joke, he is an open borders drag queen (dressing to be somethign he isnt), and he is a nannystater of the worst sort. He is an empty suit when it comes to ideas. "Women submit to your husbands" he said - yeah THAT's going to go over big against hillary.
Our only hope is that the bubble bursts quickly as people see him for what he is: a LOSER in the general against Hillary.
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Dems like the Huckster Bee because he is an easy takedown in November. The dems look at politics as war, and the republicans look at politics like monkeys f*cking a football.
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Compare wid DIGG > INFORMATION RISING ABOUT POSSIBLE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE RON PAUL - BY THE US GOVERNMENT? + REDDIT > Three DC lawmakers call for renewed impeachment proceedings agz Dubya & Admin in wake of new Iran NIE Report.
Hillary Clinton on Friday denied her White House campaign was in disarray, despite sliding poll ratings and an uproar sparked by an aide who questioned her rival Barack Obama's drug history. "If I had listened to ... the Washington chattering class, I would not be standing here would I?" Clinton told reporters, as controversy and reports of campaign turmoil swirled around her 2008 presidential bid.
So okay, occasionally the chattering class is right. Score one for them ...
"I believe in trusting my own instincts. I feel very, very good about the case that I am making."
New signs of fragility for the former first lady came just 20 days before Iowa holds first state votes for a Democratic nomination that Clinton seemed to have in her grasp just a few months ago.
She has endured six weeks of woe, battered by a shaky debate performance in Philadelphia, accusations that her campaign was planting questions at her events and the Obama drugs slur.
Her support is a mile wide and an inch deep. Few people particularly like her, and fewer trust her. She's the candidate of the Democratic establishment. She's also one nasty individual, and people intuitively understand that. I thought she'd get the nomination myself, but it appears that people are figuring her out six months early.
In a determined press conference, Clinton promised a "mad dash" towards the caucuses, starting this weekend with a five-day chopper tour or "Hilo-copter" blitz through all the midwestern's state's 99 counties.
Check the weather map, Hilde, you might be grounded.
A day after personally saying sorry to Obama over the remarks by powerful New Hampshire aide Bill Shaheen, Clinton pointedly did not take several chances to say that Obama's drugs past had no bearings on his White House prospects.
Shaheen did his job like a good solider, and if Hilde wins he'll be rewarded.
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I'm going long on Peruvian marching powder and looking at thobes.
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I see her as a lot like Lyndon Johnson, without the legislative experience.
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Watch for Hillary to go off like a supernova (literally) if she does not get nominated. I think lots of dems sense a chance to cut the Clintons out of the party and they're willing to take their chances to make it happen now...
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I suspect Hillary will win the 2008 primary in a landslide. The magnitude of ObamaÂ’s loss will be such that, after this Democratic primary, the Dinkins effect will be renamed the Obama effect. The possible benefit here is that blacks will desert the Democrats in droves (by staying home) during the November elections because non-black Democrats wouldnÂ’t pull the lever for a black man (and IÂ’m not referring to Bill Clinton) in the primaries.
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That pic in Franks link. She's got that old bitch quality in that picture. Kinda reminds me of my mother. I hate my mother.
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Just the simple fact that she's denying she's in trouble, confirms she's in deep shit.
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NEWSMAX > DIC MORRIS - WHAT STALLED THE CLINTON ELECTION/POLITICAL MACHINE [vv OBAMA]. Morris > Barack has charisma + electricity in his speech, Hillary does NOT despite a potent campaign + staff. DIGG > FOR DEMOCRATS, ITS OBAMA; + FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > BILL CLINTON SAYS OBAMA IS NOT READY TO LEAD.
*ITS STILL VERY EARLY FOR ANY AND ALL THE GOP-DEM CANDIDATES.
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a Hill-A-Copter! Or so the Clinton camp has branded a helicopter that the candidate will fly around in during her "Every County Counts Tour" across Iowa, beginning Sunday.
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With this weather, a Eurocopter would be operational.
The bright lights just keep getting brighter for Mike Huckabee. Now he's being asked about something he told us here at CBN last month. Political producer Robin Mazyck asked him a question about fighting the war on terror and here was his answer:
"I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."
Well, it turns out that technically, Mike Huckabee doesn't have a theology degree. He was asked about that at a news conference in New Hampshire today.
"I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion."
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From his web site. You dicide.
In total, Huckabee cut taxes and fees over 90 times during his ten and a half years as governor, saving the people of Arkansas almost $380 million. When he left office, Arkansas had over $800 million in state surplus, which he believes should go back to the people in the form of either a tax rebate or tax cut.
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Huckabee seems to believe that devotion to Christianity should be a prerequisite for being America's president, a total non-starter for myself and fellow secularists. We have more respect for Mitt Romney who recognizes the necessity of maintaining the barrier between the personal and the professional.
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Don't know what all the hype is about, he hasn't said one gd thing to increase my positive interest in him. Still smells like Arkansas Politics to me.
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It conveniently leaves out the NET TAX INCREASE of 47 million above and beyond the cuts.
Typical F*ckabee - lying by omission.
And what about all the corruption - he accepted hundred thousand dollars in "givts" and the peopel that gave him gifts ended up with political appointments.
Didn't we learn ANYTHING about electing lying crooked populists from Hope Arkansas?
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Lol! He took the drapes! How Clintonian! Maybe it wasn't Clintons fault after all, meybe it's a side effect of Arkansas politics.
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REDDIT/NEWSVINE - various articles on A COMING WAR [National-Global Debate] BTWN ATHEISM AND RELIGION.
You just know Earth/Orbit-shattering space rocks + underwater-walking dead "Pirates of the Caribbean" = GUNS-AND-ROSES FANS, etal. will thusly be hindered.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign is teetering on the brink, no matter what the meaningless national horserace numbers say. The notion that she has a post-Iowa "firewall" in New Hampshire is a fantasy, and she is in danger of losing all four early contests, including Nevada and South Carolina -- probably to Sen. Barack Obama, who is now, in momentum terms, the Democratic frontrunner.
On the Republican side, meanwhile, the race is shaping up in an even more unexpected way: a contest between two former Northern moderates (Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney) for the right to take on a Southern Baptist preacher, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who believes in the inerrancy of Scripture but not in Darwinian evolution.
This week is the last chance the candidates will gather en masse to confront each other, and in a neutral setting. They are wending their way through ice storms to Iowa, where the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television are hosting back-to-back debates.
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Huckabee is being talked up by the MSM, because he'd lose to just about any Democrat. Huckabee may be appealing to social conservatives, but he's anathema to libertarians and moderates.
India Saturday successfully test fired surface-to-air nuclear capable 'Akash' missile from a defence base in the Eastern Indian state of Orissa for the third consecutive day.
The indigenously developed missile was test fired from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on sea in Orissa today, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported, quoting a source in the Indian Defence Ministry.
The missile uses the integrated two-stage RAMJET propulsion technology to carry a maximum 50 kg payload, the news agency said. The missile weighs 650 kg and has a range of 25 km.
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Compare RIAN > RUSSIA's top military Commnader argued that any US anti-missle/BMD-GMD launch from Europe may provoke a Russian intercontinental ballistic missle strike from Russ strategic forces. Cdr also claims that, unfortunately, his counterparts at the US Pentagon still see direct military confrontation vv Russia as relevant, and that US GMD in Czech-Poland is A DESTABILIZING FACTOR for Europe and is aimed at improving/altering the security situation in Central Europe to Russ detriment, NOT as agz any threat from "rogue states/regimes".
ALSO, DEBKA > ISRAEL's ARROW system is capable of successfully targeting, destroying any LR Iranian missle from inside Iran shortly after latter's launch???
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STRATEGYPAGE > STRATEGIC WEAPONS - INDIA THREATENS EASTERN EUROPE, plus Russia + Israel + Japan + Italy [points east], vv new AGNI IV - StratPage unsure of what India intends ; + THE GREAT BILLION-DOLLAR BLUEPRINT MYSTERY. The ADMIRAL GORSHKOV carrier row btwn India and Russ - Russ demands more $$$ from India while mysteriously "losing" the Gorshkov design blueprints.
Long article in the IHT about the reconstruction of Najaf and the potential influence of Iran, with some side politics about regional goverance versus Baghdad. Just the first part provided here.
NAJAF, Iraq: A millennium after Najaf first became a magnet for Shiite pilgrims, leaders here are reimagining this city, long suppressed by Saddam Hussein, as a new hub of Shiite political and economic power, not only for Iraq but for the entire Middle East.
That shift would further weaken the Iraqi central government and complete Najaf's transformation from a dusty, conservative town known mostly for its golden-domed shrine and soaring minarets into the undisputed center of a potentially semiautonomous Shiite region, with some of the country's richest oil reserves.
And although Najafis will say little about it, Iran is playing a significant role in the plan, helping to improve the city and its holy sites, especially the golden- domed shrine to Imam Ali, the figure most associated with the founding of the Shiite sect, who is said to be buried here. Money from Iran is financing some of the shrine expansion projects as well as contributing to the construction of a major electrical power-generating plant whose output will be shared between Najaf Province and its neighbor, Karbala, which is also the home of two important Shiite shrines.
"What we have tried to do is put in place a plan to allow Najaf to recover its political and strategic position in Iraq and the region, the Asharq al-Awsat, Iran and the Middle East," said Abdul Hussain Abtan, the deputy chairman of Najaf's Provincial Council, referring to the city's role historically as a center of pilgrimage and Shiite learning. "We have made contacts with countries which have large Shia communities, Iran and Bahrain, to encourage them to send their visitors here," he said.
American officials say they want Iraq to remain united, but they are not averse to the formation of semiautonomous regions as long as Iraqis abide by the Constitution, which requires a referendum before a province joins a regional bloc. Increasingly, officials have come to understand the provinces' difficulties in getting the central government to deliver services and money for local projects.
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Karim Pakradoni has resigned as head of the Phalange Party, saying he has completed his mission. Prior to his resignation, Pakradoni called on the Lebanese, particularly the Christians, to "adhere to the nation's unity and the coexistence formula."
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The archbishop of Canterbury said Friday he will not reverse his decision to exclude a gay U.S. bishop from joining other bishops at a global Anglican gathering next year.
The Episcopal Church, the Anglican body in the U.S., caused an uproar in 2003 by consecrating the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Anglicans are now on the brink of schism, and attendance at next year's assembly, called the Lambeth Conference, has become a focus of the tension. Theological conservatives and liberals have separately threatened to boycott the meeting because of who was and wasn't invited.
The office of Archbishop Rowan Williams said he also had not changed his mind about refusing an invitation to Martyn Minns, a conservative U.S. priest who was consecrated as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Nigeria to minister to disaffected Episcopalians in the U.S.
The Anglican Communion is a 77-million-member fellowship of churches that trace their roots to the Church of England. Williams, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, said he has recruited professional mediators in trying to reach greater understanding between the U.S. Episcopal Church and its critics both at home and abroad.
Williams dedicated his Advent message to the crisis. He said that just under half of world Anglican leaders have not accepted the pledges by the Episcopal Church that it won't confirm any more gay bishops for now or approve official prayers for same-sex unions. "We simply cannot pretend that there is now a ready-made consensus on the future of relationships between (the Episcopal Church) and other provinces," said Williams, who does not have the direct authority to force a compromise. "Much work remains to be done."
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The headline is misleading, some financial transaction seems to be implied.
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US Episcopal church is shattering itself. The liberals/leftist and gay-agenda pushers have destroyed fundamentals in the faith, sacrificing them at the altar of their secular liberal politics.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton on Friday denied her White House campaign was in disarray, despite sliding poll ratings and an uproar sparked by an aide who questioned her rival Barack Obama's drug history. "If I had listened to ... the Washington chattering class, I would not be standing here would I?" Clinton told reporters, as controversy and reports of campaign turmoil swirled around her 2008 presidential bid. 
The archbishop of Canterbury said Friday he will not reverse his decision to exclude a gay U.S. bishop from joining other bishops at a global Anglican gathering next year.
