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Economy
Biden thinks everyone is as clueless as he is.
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that "everyone guessed wrong" on the impact of the economic stimulus, but he defended the administration's spending designed to combat rising joblessness.

Biden said inaccuracies in unemployment predictions shouldn't undercut the White House's support of the $787 billion economic revival plan that has not met the expectations of President Obama's team. Instead, the vice president urged skeptics to look at teachers who kept their classroom assignments and police officers who kept their beats because of financial assistance from Washington.

"The bottom line is that jobs are being created that would not have been there before," Biden said.

But they are not coming at the pace first estimated.

Just 10 days before taking office, Obama's top economic advisers released a report predicting unemployment would remain at 8 percent of below through this year if an economic stimulus plan won congressional approval.

Yet the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that unemployment in May rose to 9.4 percent.
Biden said the White House is keenly aware of the gap between the rhetoric used to sell fast passage of the legislation and the reality that has 14.5 million people unemployed.

"No one realized how bad the economy was. The projections, in fact, turned out to be worse. But we took the mainstream model as to what we thought -- and everyone else thought -- the unemployment rate would be," Biden said.

Those projects came from a report co-written by Biden's chief economist, Jared Bernstein. Last week, Bernstein briefed reporters on the stimulus spending and insisted the report was in line with others' research, but not aligned with reality.

"At the time our forecast seemed reasonable. Now, looking back, it was clearly too optimistic," he told reporters last Monday.

The White House has tapped Biden as its chief spokesman on that economic stimulus plan, sending him across the country to drum up support for a plan that has yet to make the impact it promised. On Thursday and Friday, Biden visited Pennsylvania, Kansas and Michigan to highlight projects the stimulus has funded.

The vice president said losses each month have dropped, although the economy is still losing jobs.

"Can I claim credit that all of that's due to the recovery package? No. But it clearly has had an impact," Biden said.

Biden said the estimates were based on standard economic models.

"Everyone guessed wrong at the time the estimate was made about what the state of the economy was at the moment this was passed," Biden said.

Biden appeared Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" from his hometown of Wilmington, Del.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/15/2009 15:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course he thinks everyone is as clueless as he is. Look at the people he associates with.
Posted by: DMFD || 06/15/2009 16:09 Comments || Top||

#2  He has a point. This moonbat was elected as the VP of the worlds most powerfull country. Only a clueless people would do this.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/15/2009 16:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Instead, the vice president urged skeptics to look at teachers who kept their classroom assignments and police officers who kept their beats because of financial assistance from Washington.

You mean the government jobs?

"The bottom line is that jobs are being created that would not have been there before," Biden said.

I'm sure the aircraft machinist in Wichita Kansas would agree that a year ago didn't envision being a groundskeeper.

The vice president said losses each month have dropped, although the economy is still losing jobs.

'Round here, its because Kansas is running out of manufacturing jobs to lose.

Fast passage eh, I would argue a budget matter made outside of established budget procedures.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/15/2009 17:35 Comments || Top||

#4  How many times does this need saying.

Jobs are a COST!!

It's what the person in the job DOES that counts.

Biden's just repeating another variant of the broken windows fallacy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/15/2009 18:48 Comments || Top||

#5  As someone else said, "the problem with stupid people is they don't realise there is such a thing as 'smart'."
Posted by: SteveS || 06/15/2009 20:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
DODD: KEEP WIFE OUT OF IT
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who is likely next year to face the first real election battle of his 30-year Senate career, lashed out against media reports suggesting that his wife's lucrative positions on the boards of four health-care companies could be inappropriate.
If he were a Republican he'd already be toast in the media ...
"It's offensive to my wife that you'd be even talking about it," Dodd complained on "Fox News Sunday" yesterday.

Dodd, who is a key player in President Obama's health-care reform efforts, said there is "no reason" for his wife to step down and claimed she is a victim of sexism. "We don't hear these questions being raised about the male spouses of female senators," Dodd said.
There's a solution for that ...
Jackie Clegg Dodd earned more than $344,000 in salary and options last year, according to publicly available documents.
For serving on corporate boards, despite the fact that she doesn't have obvious expertise in the companies for whom she's serving ...
Sen. Dodd said the couple had previously hired an ethics lawyer "to make sure that these boards she serves on would in no way pose any kind of conflict whatsoever with my job in the Senate."
I imagine the lawyer is busy ...
Posted by: Beavis || 06/15/2009 09:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Snort.
Posted by: mojo || 06/15/2009 10:56 Comments || Top||

#2  "We don't hear these questions being raised about the male spouses of female senators," Dodd said.

I beg to differ, sir.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2009 11:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, I sure goofed up that link. Sorry. I'm soooo embarrassed. But I still beg to differ with the senator's statement. So I'll try it
again.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/15/2009 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh my goodness! It's such a pleasure to watch a Dodd slowly twisting in the wind. I know I shouldn't derive so much pleasure from another's agony, but I just can't help myself. He is so deserving of public scorn.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 06/15/2009 11:54 Comments || Top||


Can't Shift Financial Burden to Future Generations - Obama
Last week, I spoke to you about my commitment to work with Congress to pass health care reform this year. Today, I'd like to speak about how that effort is essential to restoring fiscal responsibility.

When it comes to the cost of health care, this much is clear: the status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses, and government. America spends nearly 50 percent more per person on health care than any other country. Health care premiums have doubled over the last decade, deductibles and out-of-pocket costs have skyrocketed, and many with preexisting conditions are denied coverage. More and more, Americans are being priced out of the care they need.
Can I get a $500 deductable? A $1,000 deductable? How about a policy where aspirin is covered? What happened to choice?
These costs are also hurting business, as some big businesses are at a competitive disadvantage with their foreign counterparts, and some small businesses are forced to cut benefits, drop coverage, or even lay off workers. Meanwhile, Medicare and Medicaid pose one of the greatest threats to our federal deficit, and could leave our children with a mountain of debt that they cannot pay.
But the stimulus does not affect the deficit? Where's that coming from?
We cannot continue down this path. I do not accept a future where Americans forego health care because they can't pay for it, and some claim more and more families go without coverage at all. And I don't accept a future where American business is hurt and our government goes broke. We have a responsibility to act, and to act now. That is why I'm working with Congress to pass reform that lowers costs, improves quality and coverage, and protects consumer health care choices.

I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that it would be irresponsible to not act. We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations.
I don't think he could say that out loud without his head exploding. Where does he think the trillion dollars is coming from?
With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control. So let me be clear: health care reform is not part of the problem when it comes to our fiscal future, it is a fundamental part of the solution.

Real reform will mean reductions in our long term budget. And I have made a firm commitment that health care reform will not add to the federal deficit over the next decade. To keep that commitment, my Administration has already identified how to pay for the historic $635 billion down payment on reform detailed in our budget. This includes over $300 billion that we will save through changes like reducing Medicare overpayments to private insurers, and rooting out waste in Medicare and Medicaid.
Every politician is zealous in rooting out waste and fraud. With all the attention paid to waste and fraud these past 22 decades you wonder why there's any left ...
However, any honest accounting must prepare for the fact that health care reform will require additional costs in the short term in order to reduce spending in the long-term. So today, I am announcing an additional $313 billion in savings that will rein in unnecessary spending, and increase efficiency and the quality of care - savings that will ensure that we have nearly $950 billion set aside to offset the cost of health care reform over the next ten years.

These savings will come from commonsense changes. For example - if more Americans are insured, we can cut payments that help hospitals treat patients without health insurance. If the drug makers pay their fair share, we can cut government spending on prescription drugs. And if doctors have incentives to provide the best care instead of more care, we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs. For more details about these and other savings, you can visit our website: www.whitehouse.gov.
Posted by: Bobby || 06/15/2009 06:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations.

Then quit issuing any Treasury Bill with anything longer than a 6 year maturity. Don't try, Do.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2009 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Silly me, I thought the whole reason the economy blew up was because of all those loans issued to anyone who could fog a mirror!
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 06/15/2009 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations.

Too late.
Posted by: Mike || 06/15/2009 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought this was satire.
Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 || 06/15/2009 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  He can say anything now that he's captured the "conservative" Utah vote. According to ABC news, he's been formally accepted by The Temple and is now a Mormon....er, huh, hmm, kind'r sort'r of Mormon lineage. So totally multi-cult. So inclusive. No undoing this one.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2009 9:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't Shift Financial Burden to Future Generations - Obama

Oh, yes, we can! And we do.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/15/2009 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  “If the drug makers pay their fair share, we can cut government spending on prescription drugs.”

Why should a private company be obligated to cut it's profits to help pay for government programs? Isn’t that why they pay taxes? Boy howdy, when he said it wasn't going to "business as usual" anymore he wasn't kidding.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 06/15/2009 11:45 Comments || Top||

#8  The Indian Health Service is a good example of a government-run health plan which shifts the burden directly to the present generation.
On some reservations, the oft-quoted refrain is "don't get sick after June," when the federal dollars run out. It's a sick joke, and a sad one, because it's sometimes true, especially on the poorest reservations where residents cannot afford health insurance. Officials say they have about half of what they need to operate, and patients know they must be dying or about to lose a limb to get serious care.

Wealthier tribes can supplement the federal health service budget with their own money. But poorer tribes, often those on the most remote reservations, far away from city hospitals, are stuck with grossly substandard care. The agency itself describes a "rationed health care system."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/15/2009 12:29 Comments || Top||

#9 
Okay- once more for those who didn't get it the first five times.

No. Obama. Birth. Certificate. Conspiracy. Crap.

This one is gone - now.

Anyone else - do it, and you're out of here as well.

Understand? End of discussion.
Posted by: AoS || 06/15/2009 15:05 Comments || Top||

#10  "Is this what we in the Pray Trade call 'a Lie'"?

Brother Cavil
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/15/2009 18:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Translation: "I don't have a problem, I can stop spending your money any time I want".
Posted by: DMFD || 06/15/2009 19:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Steve... after recent name calling, "fool" etc, I quickly took the cure and am fully on board. Meds are probably out of the question, but maybe you could come up with some sort of POSTUS citizenship chant or mantra for any of the other Rantburg non-believers. Just a suggestion.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2009 21:35 Comments || Top||


CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked
WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine's June 22 issue. "It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."
Just when you begin to think that Panetta is a reasonable guy, he drools on himself like this. It's embarrassing.
"Nurse! He's doing it again..."
Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial interrogation methods such as waterboarding, has become as a leading Republican critic of Obama's ban on harsh interrogations and his plan to shut the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a blistering May 21 speech, Cheney said Obama's reversal of Bush-era policies were "unwise in the extreme" that would make the American people less safe.

Panetta called Cheney's actions "dangerous politics."

He told The New Yorker he had favored the creation of an independent truth commission to look into the detainee polices of former President George W. Bush. But the idea died in April when Obama decided such a panel could be seen as politically vindictive.
Especially when too many Dhimmicrats would have been called as defendants ...
Posted by: Steve White || 06/15/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's also 'as if' Leon is looking for an advance out. It's certainly not going to be Leon's fault!
Posted by: Muggsy Glink || 06/15/2009 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  They sure have a way with words.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2009 4:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Amateur hour in Langley.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 06/15/2009 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  They do like playing with straw and building things. Problem is straw can't take much pressure and falls apart real easy.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 06/15/2009 7:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Given the on the record statements of Reid, Pelosi, et al of the Donks, by construct of the point we can now take it from Leon that the Donks did want us to lose in Iraq and encourage the enemy to kill more of our sons and daughters for simple political gain.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2009 7:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Director Panetta is clearly falling into the "nirther and troofer" category as so eloquently explained yesterday. I'm surprised to see such drivel here.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2009 8:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Wha marooon.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 06/15/2009 8:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like something a White House Chief of Staff would say. Perhaps Leon forgot he has a new job now.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/15/2009 9:04 Comments || Top||

#9  He doesn't want it to happen, he just thinks the current policies are making it more likely. He doesn't want us attacked, he wants you to succeed in keeping it from happening by reverting to previous policies which he believes were the reason we were not attacked.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/15/2009 11:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Director Panetta is clearly falling into the "nirther and troofer" category as so eloquently explained yesterday.

Nothing of the sort. Panetta is playing hardball politics. Troofers think the government caused 9-11. Nirfers... well, you're the resident expert on that.

I'm surprised to see such drivel here.

Not really. We get to read your posts on a daily basis.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/15/2009 12:29 Comments || Top||

#11  The Twoothers never _acted_ like the government caused 9/11, they just used it as an excuse to justify what they always believed in, i.e. there is no foreign threat to national security, and implementing the liberal policies of social control and deindustrialization are more important. It's never worth killing over, but it's always worth setting up another bloody-minded caste system where only the supporters of the regime get to have jobs, or patronage, or whatnot.

If that isn't hardball politics, I don't know what is.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/15/2009 13:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Panetta has done the near-impossible - as a Bambi appointee, surprised me on the downside. He was always a fairly reasonable sort - in general heads above the appalling and bizarre current leadership of the Dems - but this is pathetic is a characteristically Bambi-ish way: amateurish, inappropriate, wrong.

Leon joins the list - a buffoonishly unprofessional press secretary (and that amidst a fawning and unprofessional "press" corps the likes of which this country has never seen) who regularly insults huge swaths of the electorate in dodging semi-soft questions; a Treasury secretary who arguably has the worst resume of anyone in that position in decades (presided over the greatest financial disaster in the era of regulation), and is a bumbling administrator and jaw-droppingly crude tax cheat besides; and on and on (the DOE guy seemed kooky from the outset, he's outdoing himself now with silly and irresponsible talk and "ideas").

But there's nothing random about this. America is, at least with respect to half or more of the populace, and 90% of the "elites", no longer a serious country. This was clear before November (the whine-fest over Iraq in 05-07, prominently). I'd say the intellectual, ethical, and talent levels we're seeing, from the Oval Office on down - while humiliating and astonishing - are exactly what the country deserves. Tragically, the rest of us have the eat the awful cooking served up by the idiots around us and above us.
Posted by: Verlaine || 06/15/2009 15:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Either careless words, cynical, or political move, this is a crap statement. Would a bridge or fire inspecter find a situation dangerous and then sit back wanting something to go wrong to prove a point?

I'd like to add the lawyer/career poltico family apointee to Health Human Services who has no medical background and played party political hack instead of reacting to state emergencies as governor; she has recently had serious cosmetic surgery so get ready as health care comes to the table.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/15/2009 17:28 Comments || Top||

#14  ION REDDIT > NORTH KOREA MAY LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ THE USA ["Death to the USA" threat courtesy of the NK Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces]???

"EARLY PHASE OF ALL-OUT CONFRONTATION" agz the USA > IOW, NOKOR plans to contin to "push the envelope" of Asian nuclear brinkmanship, which in turn means POTUS BAMMER MAY HAVE A KOREAN WAR II [nukulaar?] ON HIS ADMIN'S HANDS 2010-2012, OR SOONER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/15/2009 19:51 Comments || Top||

#15  ION REDDIT > NORTH KOREA MAY LAUNCH A PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ THE USA ["Death to the USA" threat courtesy of the NK Vice-Minister of the People's Armed Forces]???

"EARLY PHASE OF ALL-OUT CONFRONTATION" agz the USA > IOW, NOKOR plans to contin to "push the envelope" of Asian nuclear brinkmanship, which in turn means POTUS BAMMER MAY HAVE A KOREAN WAR II [nukulaar?] ON HIS ADMIN'S HANDS 2010-2012, OR SOONER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/15/2009 19:51 Comments || Top||

#16  she has recently had serious cosmetic surgery so get ready as health care comes to the table.

What? A new set of titties?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 06/15/2009 21:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Bill Clinton: U.S. no longer dominated by Christians and Jews
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton has told an Arab-American audience of 1,000 people that the U.S. is no longer just a black-white country, nor a country that is dominated by Christians and a powerful Jewish minority

In a speech to the group on Saturday, Clinton said that given the growing numbers of Muslims, Hindus and other religious groups here, Americans should be mindful of the nation's changing demographics, which led to the election of Barack Obama as president.

Clinton said by 2050 the U.S. will no longer have a majority of people with European heritage and that in an interdependent world "this is a very positive thing."
Mike Moore once basically gloated about this, but he's a stupuid white man, just like bubba.
Speaking in a hotel ballroom to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee during its annual convention, Clinton also praised Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, that was focused on the Arab world.

Clinton told the audience that it's important that they push government leaders for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He cited an experience in 1993 when he failed to persuade many Jewish-American and Arab-American business people to invest in the Palestinian areas because violence and bombings had deterred them.

"It just took one more bus bomb or one more rocket or one more incident and then people got scared of losing their money," he said.

As the U.S. continues to push for peace in the area, "I think it's really important to give the Palestinian people something to look forward to," Clinton said to loud applause.

Clinton, who wasn't paid for his speech, spoke in a wide-ranging 35-minute address that focused on people's identity in an interdependent world. He said the U.S. can't rely on its military might in global relations. "It has to begin by people accepting the fact that they can be proud of who they are without despising who someone else is," he said.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 06/15/2009 16:29 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, its dominated politically by elitist lawyers, self-described ubermen, and a green movement which would make the Shakers feel inadequate.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/15/2009 17:44 Comments || Top||

#2  "this is a very positive thing."

Because we all know that everyplace else had such magnificent advances in democracy, human rights, standards of living, reducing disease and famine that that shame Western Civilization for the last two hundred years. /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/15/2009 18:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Psst Bill. White people are breeding at this very moment and with any luck will remain wonderfully white and uptight! I am white and I love us. As a matter of fact this article makes me want to procreate more!!!!
Posted by: GirlThursday || 06/15/2009 20:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Bill Clinton: U.S. no longer dominated by Christians and Jews

Not since he got replaced January 20, 2001 anyway.
Posted by: gorb || 06/15/2009 22:30 Comments || Top||


Book'm Schuster - Ok Simon - Under What Name ? George Obama.
Obama half brother, George Obama, working on book

NEW YORK (AP) - Another Obama relative has a book deal. A memoir by George Obama, the president's half brother and a resident of Huruma, Kenya, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2010. George Obama, 27, shares the same father with his famous, older half sibling, although George and Barack Obama--20 years apart in age--did not grow up together and did not meet as children.

George is the youngest of the senior Obama's seven children and was born six months before his father died.

Little is known about George Obama. The book, tentatively titled "Homeland" and to be written with author-journalist Damien Lewis, will tell of George Obama's fall into crime and poverty as a teenager and his eventual embrace of community organizing--a passion shared by the president--and of advocacy for the poor, an identification so strong that he chooses to live among them.

"Even had George Obama not been our President's half brother, his story is moving and inspirational," David Rosenthal, Simon & Schuster publisher and executive vice president, said in a statement Sunday. "It is an object lesson in survival, selflessness and courage."

Financial terms were not disclosed, but an official with knowledge of the negotiations said the deal was worth six figures. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the contract, spoke on condition of anonymity.

Other Obama relatives are working on books, including a half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng; and the brother of first lady Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson. Duke University Press is releasing the doctoral dissertation of the president's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died in 1995.

Barack Obama has written a pair of million-selling books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father," in which he describes George Obama as "a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze."
Posted by: Omaimp Jumble8213 || 06/15/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But can he get Bill Ayers to ghost write it for him?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/15/2009 4:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is George going to turn out to be The O's Billy Carter?
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 06/15/2009 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  How many of us would not help out a relative if we had the means? There has got to be some extra rooms in the White House. La Familia, Senior Presidente, La Familia
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 06/15/2009 16:05 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2009-06-15
  Tehran Election Protest Turns Deadly: Unofficial results show Ahmedinejad came in 3rd
Sun 2009-06-14
  Ahmadinejad's victory 'real feast': Khamenei
Sat 2009-06-13
  Mousavi arrested
Fri 2009-06-12
  Iran votes: Not a pretty sight
Thu 2009-06-11
  Gitmo Uighurs in Bermuda
Wed 2009-06-10
  Foopy becomes first Gitmo boy to stand trial in US
Tue 2009-06-09
  Truck bomb and gunnies attack 5-star Peshawar hotel
Mon 2009-06-08
  March 14 Maintains Parliamentary Majority in Record Turnout
Sun 2009-06-07
  30 MILF banged, camp seized
Sat 2009-06-06
  32 dead in mosque Pakaboom
Fri 2009-06-05
  Sufi Muhammad arrested
Thu 2009-06-04
  Three killed in renewed Hamas-PA clashes in Qalqiliya
Wed 2009-06-03
  Hafiz Saeed sprung
Tue 2009-06-02
  NKor names Kimmie's successor
Mon 2009-06-01
  Mass kiddy abduction by Talibs in Pakistan

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