tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post7992565275146623967..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: A Solar Maximum Coming to a Neighborhood Near YouDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21656550836682610762010-09-07T21:51:47.602-04:002010-09-07T21:51:47.602-04:00"Images of the burning of a Quran would undou...<i>"Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan - and around the world - to inflame public opinion and incite violence," Gen. David Petraeus said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.</i><br /><br />Extremists. As opposed to moderates in Afghanistan. All three of them.Teresitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528002521904908827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30715770413741666862010-09-07T19:23:23.323-04:002010-09-07T19:23:23.323-04:00(AP) The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanis...<i>(AP) The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book the Quran could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide. <br /><br /><b>"Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan - and around the world - to inflame public opinion and incite violence,"</b> Gen. David Petraeus said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. <br />...<br /><b>"I am very concerned by the potential repercussions of the possible (Quran) burning. Even the rumor that it might take place has sparked demonstrations such as the one that took place in Kabul yesterday,"</b> <br />Petraeus said in his message.<b><br />"Were the actual burning to take place, the safety of our soldiers and civilians would be put in jeopardy and accomplishment of the mission would be made more difficult." </b></i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86844471731398555932010-09-07T19:18:53.960-04:002010-09-07T19:18:53.960-04:00Could the "Tea Party" end up costing the...Could the "Tea Party" end up costing the GOP that Alaska Senate seat?<br /><br />The Democrat could win in a three way race.<br /><br /><i>(AP) A week after conceding the GOP primary, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she's not a quitter and is "still in this game."<br /><br />Murkowski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she's been inundated with calls and e-mails from supporters, asking her not to leave the race. She says she's been humbled and is listening - and weighing her options.<br /><br />She said that if this was "all about Lisa, certainly the easy thing for me to do would be to figure out what my next opportunity would be with my family and just settle in to a nice job."<br /><br />"But what I'm looking at is my state and the future of my state for my kids. So, I have not made that determination that I'm going to give up. I'm not a quitter, never have been. And I'm still in this game," Murkowski said.<br /><br />She met briefly Tuesday with the Libertarian candidate, David Haase after friends of hers - without her direction, she said - approached his party, asking if they would consider a Murkowski candidacy.</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34781229086712197702010-09-07T19:15:42.276-04:002010-09-07T19:15:42.276-04:002 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
Nine are injured as...<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq-shooting-20100908,0,5955866.story" rel="nofollow">2 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq<br />Nine are injured as they come under fire from a man in an Iraqi army uniform.</a><br /><br /><i>Alaa Ahmed, a colleague of the shooter, said he opened fire on the Americans during a dispute over a volleyball game, an account confirmed by a senior Kurdish official who asked to remain anonymous.<br /><br />U.S. military spokesman Maj. Lee Peters said he could not confirm that account.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Gen. Hussein Rashid Bayati, the police commander for the town of Tuz Khurmatu, where the shooting occurred, said a soldier opened fire without provocation on the Americans in a hall where they were meeting with Iraqi commanders.</i><br /><br />Spinning that the Kurdish soldier may not have been a soldier, but merely wearing a uniform.<br /> <br />It's going to get even dizzier, before the story falls below the fold.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3281142237078779732010-09-07T19:08:21.323-04:002010-09-07T19:08:21.323-04:00Blast Strikes Pakistani Police Area<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/world/asia/08pstan.html" rel="nofollow">Blast Strikes Pakistani Police Area</a>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81547637730926764402010-09-07T19:07:35.640-04:002010-09-07T19:07:35.640-04:00The attack occurred in Kohat, a garrison town, in ...<i>The attack occurred in Kohat, a garrison town, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, formerly known as North-West Frontier Province. It lies near the semiautonomous tribal regions that have long served as a haven for Taliban militants, and was the latest in a string of lethal militant attacks on security and police targets in Pakistan’s northwest.<br /><br />Just a day earlier, a suicide bomber killed 19 when he struck a police station in Lakki Marwat, in the same province. </i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60374837847720570802010-09-07T19:06:05.915-04:002010-09-07T19:06:05.915-04:00Now that Kurd in Iraq, he may have been annoyed to...Now that Kurd in Iraq, he may have been annoyed to the point of initiating violence because Americans were going to be burning Korans, as a means of political education and expression.<br /><br />But maybe not.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26245674026572282612010-09-07T19:02:10.257-04:002010-09-07T19:02:10.257-04:00More Muslim policemen killed in terrorist bombing ...More Muslim policemen killed in terrorist bombing attacks in Pakistan.<br /><br />If this was really a religious battle, why would the terrorists target their fellow Muslims?<br /><br />Seems to be a typical battle for local and regional power, not based upon the religion of the combatants. They're all Muslims, on both sides of the explosions.<br /><br /><i>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful blast ripped through a residential compound for police officials and their families in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Tuesday evening, killing at least 18 people, including women and children, officials said. </i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57146325700429848992010-09-07T18:23:22.793-04:002010-09-07T18:23:22.793-04:00BAGHDAD — Two American soldiers were killed and ni...<i>BAGHDAD —<b> Two American soldiers were killed and nine wounded Tuesday when a firefight erupted inside an Iraqi Army base north of Baghdad,</b> American and Iraqi officials said. <br />...<br />The attack took place during a meeting between an American company commander, with his retinue of security guards, and Iraqi soldiers at a small base described as a commando compound near the city of Tuz Khurmato in Salahuddin Province.<b> During the meeting an Iraqi soldier fired on the Americans and was himself shot and killed,</b> the American military said in a statement. <br />...<br />A spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Defense, Mohammed al-Askari, identified the Iraqi soldier as Soran Rhaman Falih Wali and the unit as the 4th Division of the Iraqi Army. He also said an investigation would be conducted.<br /><br />A member of the provincial council in Salahuddin, Niazi Uklo, said in a telephone interview that the soldier,<b> a Kurd, had opened fire </b>after a dispute broke out during the meeting on the base. “There was a struggle between an Iraqi Army solider and an American soldier,” he said.<b> “It escalated into a brawl and ended when the Iraqi soldier opened fire.”</b></i><br /><br />One shooter does not a "fire fight" make, wonder how many other Iraqi soldiers joined in?<br /><br />This will be something to watch, the spin could well make us dizzy.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86161574446639730192010-09-07T18:12:23.570-04:002010-09-07T18:12:23.570-04:00China Spells Out Its Fears
"To ensure a reas...<b>China Spells Out Its Fears</b><br /><br /><i>"To ensure a reasonable degree of employment China must create some 24 million new jobs a year and this at a time when some 120 million people in rural areas are underemployed or surplus to requirements for labor. Compounding the problem, while unskilled labor is still abundant, specific sectors are starting to emerge that suffer from a lack of skilled labor."</i><br /><br /><a href="http://atimes.com/atimes/China/LI08Ad02.html" rel="nofollow">China's Future Challenges</a><br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11534933235253790052010-09-07T17:19:01.945-04:002010-09-07T17:19:01.945-04:00Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket
TEM...<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/us/politics/07candidates.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB" rel="nofollow">Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket</a><br /><br />TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he ought to gel his hair into his trademark faux Mohawk.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46200681629430887502010-09-07T17:18:54.092-04:002010-09-07T17:18:54.092-04:00The Sunspots are coming!
The Sunspots are coming!
...The Sunspots are coming!<br />The Sunspots are coming!<br />Everyone to get from streets!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68489492086862499392010-09-07T15:32:39.475-04:002010-09-07T15:32:39.475-04:00To keep you interested and entertained--
Kooskoos...To keep you interested and entertained--<br /><br /><a href="http://washington.hometownlocator.com/wa/walla-walla/kooskooskie.cfm" rel="nofollow">Kooskooskie, Washington</a><br /><br /><br />From 'kus' = waterbobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71155216007919265702010-09-07T15:25:13.855-04:002010-09-07T15:25:13.855-04:00Michael Baldwin
Jess Walton
Michelle Stafford
Jean...Michael Baldwin<br />Jess Walton<br />Michelle Stafford<br />Jeanne Cooper <br />Jill Foster Abbott<br />Phyllis Summers<br />Katherine Chancellor <br /><br />That ought to do it, name a road for all of 'em.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31688761756551694232010-09-07T15:15:21.253-04:002010-09-07T15:15:21.253-04:00Viktor Newman Street
Jack Abbot RoadViktor Newman Street<br /><br />Jack Abbot Roadbobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58705516195663294382010-09-07T15:14:15.030-04:002010-09-07T15:14:15.030-04:00Since water is kus in Sahaptin, and Walla Walla me...Since water is kus in Sahaptin, and Walla Walla means 'place of many waters' and we're looking for a name for the underground aguifer on our land, 20,000 year old water, maybe it'd be something like kuskuswallawalla(then something for underground)<br />or kuswallakuswalla(then something for underground)<br /><br />or we can just give up and go with 'The Young and the Restless Road'.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55657896088761537542010-09-07T15:04:53.403-04:002010-09-07T15:04:53.403-04:00Good afternoon - Ta'c halaxp
Buffalo is Saha...Good afternoon - Ta'c halaxp<br /><br /><br />Buffalo is Sahaptin is qoq'a lx<br /><br />Haruo Aoki, a Japanese linguist, created the "Nez Perce Dictionary", University of California Press, Berkleley, pp ix-x of Introduction, which costs nearly $200. He worked quietly on it for at least a decade.<br /><br /><br />We are trying to figure out what the word(s) for spring water or aquifer would be.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64202535171030706852010-09-07T14:57:58.044-04:002010-09-07T14:57:58.044-04:00allen said...
WiO,
How do you propose I email whi...allen said...<br />WiO,<br /><br />How do you propose I email whit? <br /><br />Try R. Kunis in Atlanta. He will direct you.<br /><br />Best to you and yours.<br /><br /><br /><br />He has my number, call himWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/08237879055691019968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33804984418424592352010-09-07T14:48:08.637-04:002010-09-07T14:48:08.637-04:00Well, Fidel, seems to be showing something almost ...Well, Fidel, seems to be showing something almost related to wisdom, may he smoke his last cigar.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91415504900410737162010-09-07T14:43:10.416-04:002010-09-07T14:43:10.416-04:00Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jew...<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fidel-to-ahmadinejad-stop-slandering-the-jews/62566/" rel="nofollow">Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'</a>Teresitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528002521904908827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56730623920424649452010-09-07T14:33:12.333-04:002010-09-07T14:33:12.333-04:00That girl is really good at signing, wife could do...That girl is really good at signing, wife could do that a little, and my pastor was great, it's a real skill.bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21572209488522199032010-09-07T14:30:53.064-04:002010-09-07T14:30:53.064-04:00Alan West Speaks to The Tea Party<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TiptevcbeY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Alan West Speaks to The Tea Party</a>bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78415961784301579432010-09-07T13:38:09.345-04:002010-09-07T13:38:09.345-04:00Chase<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FuOweA5uoI" rel="nofollow">Chase</a>bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49864361438905394802010-09-07T13:30:30.972-04:002010-09-07T13:30:30.972-04:00John from Philly says--
I grew up in Philadelphia...<i>John from Philly says--<br /><br />I grew up in Philadelphia; fortunately I left the city over twenty five years ago. I remember when I went to register to vote for the first time; something our school books told us was a great privilege. I was told to register democrat and if I did not I was in big trouble. I refused and registered Republican out of spite. When I showed up to vote for the first time in my life I was told by the obvious democrat poll workers that I could not vote because they could not find my registration. I found out then that I would never never never vote democrat in my life and I have not. Philadelphia is so full of corruption it stinks; my first job in Philadelphia I was approached by the union agent, an Irishman with his breath reeking of whiskey, and told if I did not have the fifty dollars to join the union by next week I would be history at the job. I did not have that much money and could not get it from my parents who did not have it; at that time fifty dollars was a lot of money. I came from a poor working class family, my parents were immigrants; I have never believed that the democrat party or the unions were anything but the enemy of the hard working decent people in this country. Philadelphia and moral/political corrutpion , perfect together.<br /><br />September 7, 2010 - 9:05 am </i><br /><br />John from Philly makes the place sound like a Chicago, Jr. <br /><br />Wonder if it's really that bad.<br /><br />Were the shots in Beverly Hills Cop really shot in beautiful downtown Detroit, Quirk?bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78638641411438216072010-09-07T13:25:41.527-04:002010-09-07T13:25:41.527-04:00Not to worry gentlemen'
In the end, we will b...Not to worry gentlemen'<br /><br />In the end, we will be saved by our ingenuity and our grit.<br /><br />We have the right stuff.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73cWfFEKAfE&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Armageddon</a><br /><br /><br />Not to worry.<br /><br />.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com