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"SHE IS NOT READY TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" --- EVERYONE IN THE MEDIA "High School Vice Principals have more kids under their rule." "National Security holy cow, did I bite off more than I can chew.!" "Let the media do their job on this one." "Running Alaska is not California or New York. It's not like running Minnesota, Indiana, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida or any other state." "A Web Weaver in the Republican camp." The Stock Market Sold off on McCain's VP pick. They Republican Candidate is talking like a Federal Police Officer. Affirmative Action has reached its peak with his women VP pick. It is not Condi, the most powerful women in the world it is Sarah, mom of six governing 300,000 people, and Mayor 9,000 prior, with a median age of 36. Only the shallow will bite McCain's ticket, he is not really socially conscious. Democrats don't need to say anything. The media will raise her up and tear her down. Republicans talk about being ready as Commander In Chief. As well, a picture says a thousand words. I don't see anyone picking a soccer mom off the sidelines to run Haliburton because she has some oil knowledge, and executive experience. It seems noble, AND risky, with a wow factor, but the fallout for "failure" is too huge. I don't see anyone asking for this much risk in a leader. McCain was gaining because they thought he had more "experiece." Why didn't he just pick Cindy, we know she understand wealth creation. That's a Republican platform. Republicans went against their own party line. They are a White Male-business and wealth creation party that lacks empathy on social issues. "They forgot who they are." Sure, women and minorities vote in the part but it is mostly against their interests. The Republicans have two months to try to convince us this women can lead the most powerful country in the world. I know Dick Cheney and Karl Rove didn't pick Palin. Republicans know she doesn't pass the Commander in Chief test and they have said she will learn on the job. This is not a republican voters idea of leadership. There is no women or White working class synergies in this pick. Alaska is a situation where nobody is paying attention to the cash register, and it is picked off on a regular basis. The pension fund is the biggest prize. The Republicans best chance at a diverse ticket was Condoleeza Rice, but your the strategists. Hope the media gives you free press. List the woman issues Sarah has lead on. Republicans are about business and wealth, what are they thinking. Republican men will never be convinced a women with a child and (five others) can really run a country with Nuclear Arsenal. In all honesty time would be an issue for any "good" mom. It is a contradiction. Democrats would consider her if she had a social conscience, but Republican men are going to be cynical and bitter. If they didn't pick Colin Powell as a Black man, how do you go from Powell to Palin, a General to a mom. It's crazy! It is an insult to Affirmative Action if that is what they are trying to accomplish. Democrats don't need to make a argument against her, Republican men will spread the negativity. She is a women, but if you saw her politics on paper you wouldn't think empathetic, female activist for unequal treatment.
What are they thinking?
Anti-terror money sought for luxury But the Air Force has run into congressional objections to its 'comfort capsules,' designed for top brass.By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington PostJuly 18, 2008WASHINGTON -- The top Air Force leadership sought for three years to spend counter-terrorism money on "comfort capsules" for military planes to ease the travel of senior officers and civilian leaders -- with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the color of the capsules' carpet and leather chairs -- according to internal e-mails and budget documents. Production has begun for the first capsule -- two sealed rooms that can fit in the fuselage of a large aircraft -- and four mobile pallets containing plush, swiveling leather chairs with footrests. Air Force officials say the new capsules are necessary to ensure that leaders can talk, work and rest comfortably in the air. But the top brass' preoccupation has alienated lower-ranking Air Force officers familiar with the effort, as well as congressional staff and a nonprofit group that calls the program a waste of money. Air Force documents spell out how each capsule is to be "aesthetically pleasing and furnished to reflect the rank of the senior leaders using the capsule," with beds, a couch, a table and a 37-inch flat-screen monitor with stereo speakers. The effort has been slowed by congressional resistance to using counter-terrorism funds for the project and by internal deliberations about generals' demands for modifications. One request was that the leather for the seats and seat belts in the mobile pallets be Air Force blue instead of brown and that seat pockets be added. Another was that the table be darker. Changing the seat color and pockets alone was estimated in a March 12 internal document to cost at least $68,240. In all, for the last three years the service has asked to divert $16.2 million from the war on terrorism to the capsules. Congress has twice told the service no, including in an August 2007 letter from Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) to the Pentagon ordering that the money be spent on a "higher priority" need. Officials say the Air Force nonetheless decided last year to take $331,000 from counter-terrorism funds to cover a cost overrun, partly stemming from the design changes, although a senior officer said in response to inquiries that it would reverse that decision. The internal Air Force e-mails, provided to the Washington Post by the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight and independently authenticated, make clear that lower-ranking officers on the project have been pressured to create what one described as "world-class" accommodations finer than a business-class flight. "I was asked by Gen. [Robert H.] McMahon what it would take to make the [capsule] . . . a 'world-class' piece of equipment," an officer at the service's Air Mobility Command said in a March 2007 e-mail to a colleague, referring to the command's top officer then. "He said he wanted an assurance . . . that we would be getting a world-class item this week." Air Force officials say the program dates from a 2006 declaration by Air Force Gen. Duncan McNabb that existing seats on transport planes, including some that match those on commercial airliners, might be fine for airmen but were inadequate for the brass. McNabb was then the Air Mobility commander; he is now the Air Force's vice chief of staff. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates nominated him in June to lead the military's Transportation Command. Explaining his instructions to subordinates, McMahon said he used the term "world-class" "in just about everything I discuss. . . . That represents an attitude." He said he wanted to "create an environment" that passengers "would be proud of," the government would be proud of and "the people of the United States" would be proud of. Construction of what the Air Force initially termed the new Senior Leader Intransit Comfort Capsules began under a contract paid from general Air Force funds. One of the 18-by-9-foot capsules has been partly completed. McMahon said the program has recently been downsized from 10 capsules to three, plus the four pallets fitted with swiveling leather chairs, known as Senior Leader Intransit Pallets. Because of the cutback in the number of capsules and pallets, the program is currently estimated to cost $7.6 million. Here we go again. What is he thinking. Nothing has changed since 9/11. AlQaeda is our enemy. Enemies are always preparing to strike, and our military is looking for them. We don't need empty updates. Is this prediction backed by intelligence that can be trusted or is he having dinner with their leadership. Hunches and gut feelings are really not a way to lead. You want vote based on FEAR updates. Come On! Get a real political strategist. McCain Says Al-Qaeda Preparing to Strike Before Election July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned that al-Qaeda will step up terrorist attacks in Iraq leading up to the November election in the U.S. ``Al-Qaeda is on their heels but not defeated,'' McCain said today at a town hall meeting with General Motors workers in Warren, Michigan. ``I also predict that they will make an attempt, as we get into election season, to make more of these spectacular kinds of attacks'' by suicide bombers to destabilize the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. McCain, an Arizona senator, has spent much of this week touting his foreign policy and war experience while Democratic rival Barack Obama prepared for a trip to the Middle East. McCain has criticized Obama, an Illinois senator, for vowing to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. McCain said the deployment of extra U.S. troops to Iraq last year has worked. ``Senator Obama said the surge would fail. He still fails to admit that it has succeeded,'' McCain said in response to a question from the audience. ``I am confident we will win.'' Earlier this year, McCain adviser Charlie Black caused a controversy when he was quoted in a Fortune magazine interview that the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before the New Hampshire primary ``helped us'' by highlighting that McCain ``is the guy who's ready to be commander in chief.'' Black added that a ``fresh terrorist attack certainly would be a big advantage'' politically. Black later said he ``deeply'' regretted making the statement and McCain distanced himself from the comments. To contact the reporter on this story: Lorraine Woellert in Washington atlwoellert@bloomberg.net. Barack is polysyllabical, according to David Brooks. Republicans keep calling him naïve. But naïve is the last word I’d use to describe Barack Obama. He’s the most effectively political creature we’ve seen in decades. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t smart enough to succeed in politics by pretending to renounce politics.....LOL....LOL t.... lean and mean..... Barack-O-Nite
But through it all, when there was doubt, We ate it up and spit it out. We faced it all and Barack stood tall
Ignore headlines that label Americans and divide them into factions. There is no Muslim voter, working class voter, female voter, Black voter, White Voter etc... there is only the American voter. We are oneAmerica and we will vote like one voter.....LOL LOL..... Barack Hussein Obama speaks to all voters, and we are all Barack Hussein Obama. We the People will speak with our vote in November, we will not be divided or scared up for WAR votes. We speak for America as the media did not and lead us into war.
Ignore headlines that label Americans and divide them into factions. There is no Muslim voter, working class voter, female voter, Black voter, White Voter etc... there is only the American voter. We are oneAmerica and we will vote like one voter.....LOL LOL..... Barack Hussein Obama speaks to all voters, and we are all Barack Hussein Obama. We the People will speak with our vote in November, we will not be divided or scared up for WAR votes. We speak for America as the media did not and lead us into war.
With the power of women's issues, and the female vote, Senator Clinton and Michele Obama should campaign together. That would be taking advantage of a great opportunity. Women don't want to hear form Barack, he is not a women. Women want to rally with Michelle and Senator Clinton.
It is easy to see why Barack Hussein Obama excites most Americans. To some his strongest traits seem to be his charm, charisma, and good looks. Senator Obama has inspired people around the world to get involved in the world and to be a positive force instead of a cynical, violent animal. Senator Obama is a well-intentioned, cautious, and a literary person. Senator Obama seems to be inspired by good intentions to help people and improve society. Unlike McCain, he isn't afraid to push forward with controversial initiatives or do things that might threaten his political career. Senator Obama could have become a succesful corporate lawyer, but having chosen a career in Politics, he has to overcome the notion that a Harvard educated man couldn't be one of "the people." If going to the South Side of Chicago and getting deep into their struggles doesn't make you one of the people, nothing will. More significantly, he has to overcome prejudice against minorities that has prevented any minority from becoming President. The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. We need People who can dream of things that never were. We are OneAmerica, We are Barack Hussein Obama!
The new game in town is to manufacture a crisis and back leadership against the wall forcing them to pass pass some idea that would otherwise be controversial. e.g. Nuclear Power of Offshore Oil Drilling It is like selling stocks when the market is crashing. It doesn't help your portfolio improve, it just gives you temporary psychological relief. We will have plenty of opportunity to manage energy supply, demand, and prices. Who will live next door to these toxic solutions and who will have higher rates of cancer, childhood disease, and physical complications. The working class has been the victim of this kind of technology. If there is a real global demand for energy, we will pay more. if the price stays above levels that make alternative energy solutions worth doing, they will be done. When a successful venture investor tried to bring alternative solutions to energy a few years ago, a CEO of a major oil company told him he would drop the price of oil below $30 per barrel if he had to to undermine the energy solution. HAVE WE EVER SPENT $800 BILLION DOLARS ON ANYTHING IN THE USA?
With an ego the size of Mount Everest, Osama bin Laden would not have, could not have, remained silent for so long if he were still alive. He always liked to take credit even for things he had nothing to do with. Would he remain silent for nine months and not trumpet his own survival? [New York Times. July 11, 2002]
Osama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the information. The remnants of Osama's gang, however, have mostly stayed silent, either to keep Osama's ghost alive or because they have no means of communication.
Witness methamphetamine. No sooner did U.S. states pass tough laws placing pseudoephedrine — a common cold-medicine ingredient used in meth production — out of reach of backyard cooks than drug cartels from Mexico and elsewhere stepped in to fill the void. Meth use is still very much a crisis — more than 92 percen But how the drug ends up on the streets has changed in some significant ways. Homemade meth is on the decline. Pierce County’s experience illustrates what’s happening across the country as meth cooks find ingredients harder to come by. The state Department of Ecology cleaned up 148 meth labs and dumpsites here last year, compared with 589 in 2001. The drop is cause for both celebration and consternation. Meth’s toxic and explosive alchemy puts not only cooks at great risk, but also families and private property. Fewer meth labs means fewer children sickened by meth exposure and fewer homes, motel rooms, sheds and fields turned into hazardous waste sites. But kicking meth isn’t as easy as shutting down some mom-and-pop labs. <b>Cutting off the supply of meth ingredients here in the United States has given rise to “superlabs” in Mexico, where drug cartels use established trafficking routes to smuggle the drug into American cities.</b> The Mexican government has had some success at curtailing the drug trade by racheting down import quotas on pseudoephedrine, according to groundbreaking reporting by The Oregonian. Federal data analyzed by the Portland newspaper last year showed that street meth’s purity had fallen while its price increased, suggesting dealers were having to increasingly cut meth with additives. Treatment professionals said some addicts, frustrated by chasing an unattainable high, were hitting bottom and entering recovery sooner. But again the meth trade has adapted. Asian meth traffickers have easy access to meth ingredients thanks to lax oversight at drug factories in India and China. Using more sophisticated techniques, Asian “superlabs” can churn out 1,100 pounds of meth a week, compared to a home lab that makes an ounce at a time or a Mexican superlab that produces 10 to 100 pounds week. Much of the meth goes to supply Asia’s burgeoning demand. But left unchecked, the drug could easily find its way to U.S. streets. In December, Mexican officials discovered a 19.5-ton cache of pseudoephedrine in a cargo container from China. There also is evidence that traffickers are tapping Indian and Chinese sources to mass-produce meth in Canada. Plugging the foreign meth pipeline is a much more difficult and delicate proposition than cracking down on the guy making an ounce or two in his storage shed. Lawmakers in this state and others are winning one battle against meth and the harm it inflicts on communities; victory on the emerging international front is just as important if the nation is ever to beat the scourge of meth. I would say John McCain lives in a country where he can't walk through just any neighborhood without FEAR. The ACORN Street Gang was arrested today but the violators of our civil Liberties are getting rich. What a country, I can't wait for my turn. cbs5.com - Raids, Arrests Target Violent Oakland Street Gang Read More »For a day we can all say the Bush Administration policies are just policies. Laura Bush has lived with them so we can live with them for a day. Laura said we shouldn't attack the President. John McCain attacked the President as did Nancy Protenhauer and other Republicans. What are John McCain's policies? How are they really different from President Bush? John McCain lost an election to President Bush and I don't think he could beat him today in a national election of Republican voters. The Bush Administrations policies have the right to exist, and they feel these are good policies that should be judged by history and not present day strategist. Why is John McCain running against good policies that beat him in 2004? Is the world that different in 2008? We are still at War on two fronts right? The WAR on Terror and the WAR on the TAXPAYER. For fiscal year 2008 the administration has asked for nearly $200 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If Congress provides the money, as it almost certainly will, then the total appropriated for direct operations in these two countries (including reconstruction, embassy costs, enhanced base security, and foreign aid) since the wars began will come to roughly $800 billion. It is extremely difficult to disentangle the Iraq and Afghanistan numbers, but Iraq is by far the larger endeavor and accounts for about three-fourths of the total. By the administration’s own reckoning, then, the cost of the Iraq war, counting only the money officially appropriated, will soon be some $600 billion, or more than 10 times Rumsfeld’s original number.
 Leave the Republicans to face America's Terrorist. Timothy McVeigh, the Albino Terrorist, got due process, habeus corpus and a public defender paid for by TAX dollars. In the name of the ACLU we did the right thing for all Americans by giving him due process.
“I just wanted to make the statement that I have and always will be proud of my country,” Cindy McCain said. Believing there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq That the Bush Administration will go down with out a fight That the Bush Administration will allow McCain to change their policies That Leaders who say they believe in God, Believe thou shall not kill That John McCain is looking for any excuse to make wars That John McCain can run our Economy in the right direction That John McCain really cares about Martin Luther King's Legacy That John McCain isn't in full agreement with President Bush's policies Trusting politician who lack empathy Thinking Republican White women put feminist issues first Thinking Republican White women didn't benefit from affirmative action FOX news is fair and balanced The Patriot Act is violating our Civil Liberties The ACLU is a bad organization for Americans That Democrats like Republicans who are not for CHANGE
Apparently Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Investment firms, set up a trading exchange called ICE that has no regulation under USA Commodities markets (CFTC) regulators. ICE is considered a foreign company and took advantage of a loophole that foreign exchanges are not regulated by US securities law. In laymen terms, they set up an exchange in London to trade oil and corner the market and rob the US consumer. LOL You have to sleep with one eye open. The tulip mania will look like a kiddie parade when they unwind this trade. I am not working hard enough, they outthunk me on that one! IMAO Let's see what other loopholes Congress has given us.
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Tacoma, WA - June 18, 2008
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