Just a thought, but what does Speaker Pelosi do if she gets good news in Iraq?
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Pelosi in talks with Iraqi PM
17/05/2008 20:07 - (SA)
Baghdad - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi held talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Saturday as his troops pressed a major crackdown on al-Qaeda jihadists, officials said.
The Iraqi premier flew to the capital from the northern city of Mosul where he had been directing the latest offensive against what the US military regards as the last urban bastion of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The US congressional leader, who flew in to Baghdad on Saturday on a unannounced visit, discussed with Maliki the October provincial elections, state Iraqia television said.
"He talked about elections that will be held in October and he assured us that it will be a fair election," the television quoted Pelosi as saying.
"It will also support Iraqi national unity."
Maliki's office said Peloso "renewed US support" for his government and declared that Washington "would stand by efforts to achieve security and stability and ensure national reconciliation in Iraq."
There was no immediate word from Pelosi's side on the outcome of the talks.
Declare victory and demand a withdrawal, by US combat troops.
ReplyDeleteJust as President Bush promised, oh, all those many years ago.
Art Bell--Coast To Coast-- is interviewing--in a replay--Pam Reynolds(psydonym), famous for an operation in which a brain anuerysm was removed, she being drained of blood, heart totally stopped, no brain waves. She is recalling her NDE, noted in the NDE literature.
ReplyDeleteJust as Rat says, Declare victory and demand a withdrawal, by US combat troops, maybe adding she was for the success all along.
ReplyDeleteSame as she will do, if she gets "bad" news in Iraq.
ReplyDelete"Good" news. or "bad", she wants US to withdraw combat forces from Iraq.
Given Ms T's logic on the subject, we'd still have US troops in Mexico Ciy, we've gone there twice, already.
Her thinking is we should have never withdrawn from there, or Manila, for that matter. Where US troops go, they never leave, or perhaps, someday, they may have to go back.
Back to the Chosin Resevoir!
Back to Peking!
No Surrender, No Retreat!!
No victory, either
Back to Panama!!
ReplyDeleteBack to Haiti!!
Back to Cuba and Nicoland!!
Where US troops have ever set foot, it beomes America, from then until eternity ends.
No Surrender, No Retreat
Back to the Moon!!
The Amerikan Empire, forever!
And, in other NDE news --
ReplyDeleteGeorge Ritchie, RIP
George Gordon Ritchie, Jr., M.D., 84, died at home in Irvington, VA., on October 29, 2007, after a courageious battle with cancer. Ritchie was a widely loved physician, speaker, and author of Return From Tomorrow and My L:ife After Dying. Ritchie graduated from the U of Richmond, interrupting his college education to volunteer for the Army in WWII. After the war he graduated from the Medical College of Virginia and was a general practitioner for 15 years. He then completed a residency in Psychiatry at the U of Virginia, winning the William James Award for Research in Psychiatry. He later helped found the Wilson Hospital in Charlottesville and was president of the Universal Youth Corporation for 20 years.
Ritchie might be regarded as the stimulus for the modern near-death experience movement. While undergoing basic training in the Army in 1943, he developed double lobar pneumonia and was pronounced dead, precipitating an elaborate near-death experience that included an out-of-body trip to another city that included verified information and resulted in profound personal and spiritual transformation. At a lecture in 1965 in which Ritchie described that near-death experience, U of Virginia philosophy student Raymond Moody first heard about these experiences. Moody later went on to medical school himself, where he encountered many patients who described similar experiences. These encounters led to Moody's coining the term "near-death experience" and the publication of his 1975 book Life Afte Life, which Moody dedicated to George Ritchie.
Surviving Ritchie are his wife of 60 years, Marguerite, two children, two grandchildren, and two great-granchildren, and a world in which, thanks to his efforts, experiences like his can be discussed openly.
I've never understood why we didn't claim the moon when we had the perfect chance.:)
ReplyDeleteOur flag is still 'flying' there. We should do it now.
I don't want to go to bed by the light of an Islamic moon.
The Moon--51st State!
ReplyDeleteFamous landmark--The Sea of Tranquility
DR: Given Ms T's logic on the subject, we'd still have US troops in Mexico Ciy, we've gone there twice, already.
ReplyDeleteI don't follow you Rat, but I think you're using my name in vain.
Bobal: I've never understood why we didn't claim the moon when we had the perfect chance.:)
ReplyDeleteWe're signatory to the Outer Space Treaty. Among other wunnerful things, the OST says no one can claim land in outer space, and it says no NGOs in outer space unless a nation signatory to the OST hosts them. So al Qaeda would have to fly under the Saudi Arabia flag or something.
'S 'nother treaty we shouldn't have signed.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Near Death Experiences, According to CNN's estimate, Obama now has 291 superdelegates to Clinton's 274.
ReplyDeleteThere goes the last statistic that Clinton could brag about.
Near Delegate Experience
ReplyDeleteWhy, not at all, T.
ReplyDeleteDR, McCain's plan is to withdraw our forces to their Iraq bases. Obama's plan is to withdraw from Iraq totally, which would require a re-invasion if things go south. Patton hated to take the same real estate twicet.
The US military has marched to Mexico City, twice.
By your logic, we should have never left, as the US military may have to go there, again.
We've invaded Mexico, twice, third time's the charm.
You now, in this reincarnation, support the establishment of Empire, to avoid future conflict.
The Amerikan Way.
DR: You now, in this reincarnation, support the establishment of Empire, to avoid future conflict.
ReplyDeleteI don't care if the Shi'ites and the Sunnis and the Kurds get in a three-way free-for-all, as long as they don't tangle with our bases. The future conflict I hope to avoid isn't the low-intensity carbomb crap in the Arab Street, it's Iran's 320 combat helicopters and 1565 tanks, I'm thinking about.
Those bases, part of your Amerikan Empire that never withdraw from what's been taken.
ReplyDeleteThe Iranian military is no strategic threat to US. If they tried to use any of the assets you litney, it'd be death from above.
The, paraphrasing Mr Gates, "under engaged" US Air Force and Naval assets of the US could be engaged in that effort, rather than the Army.
Or no death at all, if the US administration chooses to allow the Iranian aggression to advance unopposed.
Striking Out on Energy
ReplyDeleteBy Lawrence Kudlow
President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain went to bat on energy policy this week. And guess what? They both struck out.
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What's to be done?
Sen. McCain weighed in with a cap-and-trade program that he alleges will solve our global climate and energy problem. It's a bad idea. It's really a cap-and-kill-the-economy plan, as well as an unlimited spend-and-tax-and-regulate plan. It's a huge government command-and-control operation that would make any old Soviet Gosplan bureaucrat smile.
Ironically, the U.S. has virtually the cleanest air of any country in the world. And market forces over the past thirty years have increased all manner of energy efficiency per unit of GDP by more than 50 percent. In fact, according the editorial page of Investor's Business Daily, U.S. carbon emissions grew by only 6.6 percent between 1997 and 2004, compared with 18 percent for the world and 21 percent for the nations that signed the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gasses. (Think Europe.)
Then there's a bunch of scientists who don't think we have a global-warming problem at all. And many who do acknowledge the threat link it to solar warming, or increased solar activity, rather than carbon.
Cap-and-trade, in other words, may very well be unnecessary. Meanwhile, it will surely reduce economic growth in the years ahead.
The regulatory aspects are mind-boggling. All manner of U.S. businesses -- be they small pig farms, large power plants, or the millions of companies in between -- will be subjected to government rulemaking and standard-setting. EPA inspectors will literally have to visit five million American businesses in order to evaluate carbon emissions and figure out allowances for trading permits.
Think of it. Some sort of federal cap-and-trade department will send out 100,000 inspectors to comb through American corporations and calculate their carbon stories. This is total insanity. The Congressional Budget Office guesses it will cost at least $1 trillion. And a lot of that cost comes from the government's willingness to give companies carbon allowances which then can be traded in some sort of after-market.
Later on, according to the McCain plan, the government will auction off these allowances, reaping a gigantic windfall. But so far there are no strictures on this revenue honey pot and the unprecedented federal spending it will fuel.
Responsible people like Harvard's Greg Mankiw have even suggested taking the carbon-tax revenue and using it to cut income-tax rates. This is a much better idea -- that is, if you buy into global warming at all.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Art Laffer tells me Al Gore wants a carbon tax, with the revenues being used to abolish the Social Security/Medicare payroll tax altogether. Laffer would prefer a big income-tax-rate reduction that would get us to a 13 percent flat tax. I agree. Either way, taxing carbon, when compared to cap-and-trade, is the lesser of two evils.
To be fair, Sen. McCain does favor nuclear power. But he is opposed to Tillerson's idea of drilling offshore and President Bush's idea of drilling in Alaska. That's not good.
And make no mistake about it, his cap-and trade plan will vastly increase the cost of doing business everywhere, including gas prices at the pump. And when you cap something like power, well before so-called alternative-energy technologies have been invented or commercialized, you put a cap on economic growth and prosperity.
And, This
ReplyDeleteOur strength is, or was, in our technology and expertise. Anything that hobbles our strengths is to be avoided. Mexico doesn't have the expertise to utilize their own assets.
By the way, we used to have a lot more cattle around here than now. The hills along the rivers all had cattle grazing. It was really marginal and is mostly gone now. This happened with the coming of the big feedlots in the mid west. Now too, we have another critter on the hills--the yellowstar thistle, which is a bitch to get rid of. Part of the problem is where the land is marginal it is worth it to spray with roundup or some other good chemical. We have been trying some imported beetle that feeds off the flower, with mixed results.
There is a lot less cattle in the National Forests too, simply because of economics, and, some new regulations. The catte were making a mess along some of the streambeds too, so I'm not really sorry to see some of them go. I have a friend who has a herd of about 35 or 40 on his farm. He is one of the last. He really works hard at it. Really nice cattle though. He's only had one downer in his whole life. Nice shiney black coats, makes the mouth water.
ReplyDeleteMcCain favors nuclear, a long term project with little possibility of passage, but opposes utilizing US oil reserves, in ANWAR or offshore.
ReplyDeleteWhich could begin tomorrow.
McCain promises that for his entire term of office, '09 - '13 he sees the continued need for combat troops, on police patrol and defensive perimeter missions, in Iraq.
Withdrawal to begin after his first Presidental term of office is complete
Motorists are furious with oil at $125 a barrel and a $4 pump price for gas. And they seem to be taking it out on the GOP. That may not be fair, since Mr. Bush does favor a pro-production energy policy that includes off-shore drilling, building refineries, clean-coal development, oil sands, natural gas, and nuclear power. But Democrats in Congress stridently oppose these ideas, as does Hill-Bama on the campaign trail. They want an excess-profits tax. Brilliant.
ReplyDeletefrom Rat's article
Where did the metal originate that makes men crazy? Gold and its origins. Astronomy Picture of the Day.
ReplyDeletetotally off topic.......................
ReplyDeleteThe Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000
ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics: (zero)
Physics: (zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
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The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000
Only FOURTEEN MILLION
or about 0.02% of the world's population.
They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Joseph son
1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charle s Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Sidney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Simon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Markowitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robe r t Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abra ham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita L ev i-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
It's true. Jewish people have been a creative people, and should be applauded for their works.
ReplyDeleteThose Nobel judges, always on the money, themselves
ReplyDelete1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
SHIMON PERES , Foreign Minister of Israel.
YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
political eyewash.
rewarding posture, not performance.
1994
ReplyDeleteThe prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
SHIMON PERES , Foreign Minister of Israel.
YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
political eyewash.
rewarding posture, not performance.
fine, let's subtract those 3 from the total...
doesnt change a rat's ass........