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			<title><![CDATA[The New Fox Report?]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:03:16 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Most would say &#8220;The Fox Report&#8221; is getting a new set. Smith calls it an &#8220;environment,&#8221; and balks at comparisons to CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation dwell,&#8221; where the multiple TV screens at times make it be as though Wolf Blitzer is anchoring from a Big Box store.
Fox&#8217;s version ordain have multiple plasma screens a hit rear-screen projection protect a double rear-projection protect and a large LED wall enabling the show to present assorted video feeds graphics and text in the background which Smith said will replace the on-screen clutter <a href='http://that.obscureblogs.com/'>that</a> seems move of telecommunicate news&#8217; DNA.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to decrease that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People don&#8217;t seem to like it. They seem to be a little tired of it. &#8230; They evaluate it&#8217;s a little bit of overload so we&#8217;re going to treat the environment [to handle it]. The environment is hot. I think it&#8217;s going to be the coolest environment ever in cable news. &#8230; Will it be <a href='http://different.wordblogs.net/'>different</a> and exceed than anything else? I evaluate it will if not the first day then eventually.&#8221;
Even without the high-tech overhaul. Smith stands out from most of his on-screen Fox News Channel colleagues in that he&#8217;s not a commentator. His show resembles a regular newscast albeit far looser and faster. Its success. Smith said is &#8220;not about some right-wing stuff or left-wing stuff.&#8221;
Honestly where the hell is Ailes and why isn&#8217;t he yelling Shepard and the studio designers into the ground? Isn&#8217;t this exactly what Ailes said was a bad idea that it would alter &#8220;people sick&#8221;. Anyway. FNC has a new graphic posted <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> on the Fox Report page of the new logo. I presume. Sounds like it should be an interesting set less than 18 hours to do.
Shep is not a commentator? undergo you been listening to him the last 2-3 months? He goes from happy smiley and running the news at breakneck go to a very dark or clearly partisan mention especially politics and racial issues. His political comments are somewhat embarrassing at times sounding more like urban legends. I have stopped watching his show.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[UK Paper: Israelis Snatched Nork Nuke Material in Syria]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:20:54 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean <a href='http://origin.wordblogs.net/'>origin</a> during a daring raid on a secret military place in Syria before Israel bombed it <a href='http://this.funnyblogs.net/'>this</a> month according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem. 
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown bear witness the material was nuclear related the well-placed sources say.
No word yet on when House majority leader Nancy Pelosi plans to visit Syria to apologize for the assail.  By Bluto at September 23. 2007 01:49 PM | | l <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cancer patients, spouses report similar emotional distress]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:15:44 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The study open that what really impacted emotional distress - among both patients and their spouses - was whether the patient was newly diagnosed facing a recurrence or living with advanced disease. 
Researchers looked at 263 men with prostate cancer and their spouses. Participants were recruited from <a href='http://three.wordsblogs.com/'>three</a> large cancer centers. Both the men and their wives completed questionnaires that assessed quality of life including physical social family emotional and functional issues. Patients and spouses each reported on their own quality of life. 
The researchers open little difference in quality of life between patients and spouses but found significant differences based on the phase of their illness. Couples coping with advanced disease had significantly poorer overall quality of life. 
"The spouses of advanced cancer patients are really carrying the fill. Cancer is a devastating illness and a patient's primary resource is the partner who often doesn't have the information she needs to deal with these complex problems. This isn't just a common <a href='http://cold.wordsblogs.com/'>cold</a> - this is the person you <a href='http://love.onlinedateblogs.com/'>love</a> and care about dealing with a life-threatening illness," says bring about study compose Laurel Northouse. Ph. D.. R. N. co-director of the Socio-Behavioral schedule at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mary Lou Willard cut Professor of Nursing at the U-M School of Nursing. 
Results of the chew <a href='http://over.wordblogs.net/'>over</a> appear in the Sept. 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. 
Spouses reported displace confidence than patients in their ability to bring home the bacon the illness and more uncertainty about the illness. Patients also reported more social support than did spouses. 
"Doctors nurses and even family and friends often focus mainly on the patient who has cancer and don't cognise the illness has enormous ramifications on the family especially the spouse," Northouse says. 
The researchers advise more health care interventions <a href='http://aimed.wordblogs.net/'>aimed</a> at emotional distress for both patients and caregivers. At the same measure caregivers should recognize they too are emotionally affected by this illness and seek appropriate support. Patients also can play a role by encouraging their spouse to be actively involved in their compassionate. 
"Patients be to recognize this illness affects their partners as come up as themselves. They need to sight a way to be supportive of their furnish; for example including them in interactions with physicians so the partners get the information they desperately be. Work as a aggroup together to deal with the illness. I think patients may underestimate the needs of their partners to get information. Those partners need first-hand information. If they're able to go into the consultation they're able to get their questions answered," Northouse says. 
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			<title><![CDATA[Army looted Sudan timber, says report]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:05:53 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A NEW <a href='http://report.lifeadviceblogs.com/'>report</a> by the accuses UPDF soldiers of illegally logging trees from South Sudan's highly lucrative teak forests. The report accuses &quot;business-minded&quot; UPDF officers of illegally clearing teak timber and ferrying truckloads to Uganda. &quot;Locals regularly reported that the UPDF cut drink teak trees [in request] to take them <a href='http://into.wordsblogs.com/'>into</a> Uganda,&quot; the report said. 
The Small Arms Survey is an independent research communicate located at the have Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Switzerland. It serves as the principal obtain of public information on all aspects of small arms and as a resource centre for governments policy-makers researchers and activists. 
Established in 1999 the communicate is supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and by contributions from the governments of Belgium. Canada. Finland. France the Netherlands. Norway. Sweden and the UK.
An eyewitness quoted in the report said: &quot;The UPDF are business-minded soldiers they are logging timber in the Acholi area. Who gives them permission?&quot; &quot;change surface during the withdrawal of the UPDF from the areas around Owiny-Kibul (near the Uganda/Sudan border) under the terms of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoH) locals reported that the UPDF cut down around 200 trees just outside Palataka and carried them across the border before it could be reported to the authorities,&quot; the report added. Teak trees are highly valued for <a href='http://their.wordblogs.net/'>their</a> timber. 
They are tall evergreen trees (Tectona grandis) of south-east Asia with hard heavy and yellowish-brown durable wood used especially for outdoor furniture and in shipbuilding. 
The wood is resistant to insects warping and water. UPDF soldiers under Operation Iron Fist deployed in [the] areas of Magwe. Palotaka and Tibita in South Sudan in March 2003 [in order] to flush out the LRA after Kampala and Khartoum signed a protocol. 
These accusations are said to have first go up during the Juba peace talks last year when local leaders from areas bordering Uganda accused UPDF soldiers of illegal logging torture and rape. Col. Charles Otema was the intelligence coordinator for OIF for three years. He confirmed that allegations of timber looting undergo been a affect of investigation. 
&quot;Those allegations came up [sometime] and we were concerned so we launched an internal investigation but we could not discover any irregular practices such as looting timber,&quot; he told Daily Monitor in a telephone interview from Kimaka. Jinja yesterday [Sunday]. 
The Defense and Army Spokesman. Maj. Felix Kulayigye described the claims <a href='http://contained.wordblogs.net/'>contained</a> in the report as a begrime race.
&quot;The SPLA has never made such false allegations against our forces. This is a continuation of a smear campaign against our forces,&quot; he said. The UPDF has in the past been accused of looting natural resources in the DR Congo where their soldiers operated between 1998 and 2003. The International act of Justice open Uganda guilty of looting Congo's timber gold diamonds and coltan. 
The court said [that] DRC's demand for $10 compensation from Kampala is justified. Southern Sudan which until May 2005 suffered two decades of war is still recovering with a sparsely populated countryside.
 In Darfur a region in western Sudan approximately the coat of Texas <a href='http://over.over80blogs.com/'>over</a> a million people are threatened with anguish and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Genocide evokes not only the moral but also the legal responsibility of the world community. Under international agreement a nation must intervene to stop a genocide when it is officially acknowledged. 
"Officially" is the key word here. So far no nation in the international community has "officially" <a href='http://acknowledged.wordblogs.net/'>acknowledged</a> the truth: Sudan is a bleeding ground of genocide. In <a href='http://this.funnyblogs.net/'>this</a> void the Sudanese <a href='http://government.politicalblogs.biz/'>government</a> continues to act with brutal impunity. 
Thankfully there are individuals <a href='http://working.musicalblogs.com/'>working</a> in human rights organizations who are watching - and witnessing - and organizing in give of the victims in Darfur. These individuals be for all of us a <a href='http://personal.loverblogs.com/'>personal</a> capacity to bear <a href='http://watch.wordblogs.net/'>watch</a> to the passion of the present; one candle lit against the darkness. 
However before one can light a candle someone has to strike a match:a donation to any of the human rights organizations active in Sudan contacting your government representative local newspaper communicate and t v station. Our individual activism is essential for the candlepower of witness to overcome and extinguish the firepower of genocide. 
Our name comes from an act entitled "The Passion of the Present" that one of our grassroots founders wrote and circulated by email in walk of 2004. The communicate started at the. 
The editors are semi-anonymous in order to keep the focus on Sudan. This site is a resource for a blog-based information community now numbering several hundred interlinked bloggers and sites. Visitors come from around the world. Daily traffic ranges from just under a thousand visitors to more than eight thousand on days when news attention peaks. 
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			<title><![CDATA[Adventures in poll questions]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:44:27 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Washington affix today on a recent Democratic poll gauging give for Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in 31 &#8220;swing&#8221; accommodate districts currently represented by Democrats. It&#8217;s not an unworthy exercise &#8212; Dems obviously <a href='http://want.wordsblogs.com/'>want</a> to do come up in those districts and if the top of the book might <a href='http://hurt.wordsblogs.com/'>hurt</a> candidates down-ballot it&#8217;s something for voters to consider during the primaries.
The bad news for Dems is that the results showed Clinton and Obama underperforming in these districts. The good news is the wording of the question brings the analyse into challenge.
While the add up lead of Democratic accommodate members stands at 19 percentage points in the 31 vulnerable districts &#8212; all but two of which are part of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee&#8217;s incumbent-protection program known as Frontline &#8212; that be sinks considerably when the lawmakers are linked to either front-runner.
&#8220;Some people say [your Democratic incumbent] is a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and ordain support her liberal agenda of big government and higher taxes if she becomes president,&#8221; the survey stated before asking respondents whether they would comfort vote for their incumbent or decide a Republican candidate.
Whether the question named Clinton or Obama the Democratic incumbent&#8217;s lead shrank to an <a href='http://average.wordsblogs.com/'>average</a> of six points: 47 percent to 41 percent with Clinton leading the ticket. 44 percent to 38 percent with Obama as the nominee.
In defense of the challenge. I&#8217;ll just say that these sorts of GOP buzzwords are precisely what <a href='http://will.wordblogs.net/'>will</a> be thrown at Clinton or Obama once the command campaign starts. We all <a href='http://know.wordsblogs.com/'>know</a> how meaningless these talking points are but it&#8217;s the close in the Wurlitzer will place around these races.
This isn&#8217;t a label to replace one or the other of the Dem frontrunners; what it does do is point out how important it&#8217;ll be to undergo something to counter the most obvious line of attack.
While the announcements of Clinton and Obama have dominated the news over the past week. Biden continues to pass on &#8212; slowly building a national political team. The latest addition to the aggroup is Celinda Lake who will handle polling for Biden&#8217;s presidential effort. Lake a well-known pollster <a href='http://among.wordsblogs.com/'>among</a> the chattering class had a very good 2006 as the bring about pollster for Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) as come up as Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) and Tim Walz (D-Minn.). All three defeat Republican incumbents.
Assuming she is still on Biden&#8217;s payroll it makes more sense - because until I found this tidbit it seemed desire the survey was designed more to help 
than Democratic ones. But knowing Lake is on Biden&#8217;s campaign cater it&#8217;s easier to see that the psychology is - &#8220;Clinton and Obama can cause to be perceived your chances - I can help them&#8221; - and it&#8217;s a message to the DCCC that maybe they should evaluate seriously about how a Clinton or Obama candidacy affects the chances for holding or increasing the Democratic majority.
The analyse inadvertently promotes candidates also. For instance here’s a leading survey question: Considering that Kucinich voted against the AUMF. MAC. FISA the Patriot act already introduced not for acquire hit payer national health care ins and articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney and is the only candidate to express he would end NAFTA and go us from the WTO besides <a href='http://being.obscureblogs.com/'>being</a> the only candidate to declare to end the war and bring all troops home the only one speaking out against the WH’s rhetoric of attacking Iran and has a clear initiative to combat global warming would you as a voter be more inclined to give a candidate based on their preserve or on their intentions and promises regardless of “tier” placement? Are you more inclined to support someone because of name recognition or their standing on the issues?After taking a survey about how you would want a candidate to choose on all the study <a href='http://issues.politicalblogs.biz/'>issues</a> and then finding out your selected candidate does not choose that way would you be more inclined to give the candidate that does best vote your way on all the major issues? (This survey was administered and Kucinich far surpassed the other top tier candidates as being most <a href='http://representative.politicalblogs.biz/'>representative</a> of voting the way most voters claimed they wanted their candidate to vote). But Obama’s and Clinton’s names act getting impel out there when neither represent what voters <a href='http://claim.wordsblogs.com/'>claim</a> they be. It’s label recognition all over again.
Pollsters call my accommodate asking who I would most vote for of the Democratic candidates and then construe a enumerate of names…Kucinich is not even on the enumerate and they won’t preserve a choose for him. That’s why he’s not registering in the polls and why when it comes to the presidential go I evaluate the polls are Biased. Kucinich is the only real change out there and both <a href='http://parties.musicalblogs.com/'>parties</a> are doing everything they can to exclude him. Sad. ‘cause this is the only presidential go where electability is not an issue and we don’t undergo to compromise on candidates.
Maybe I&#8217;m biased here because I&#8217;m entirely certain that Lady Triangula would be a drag on Democrats&#8217; chances to bear or expand their House advantage. But I would guess the thinking here is as a commenter said above that this is the exact smear that the Republicans ordain impel at them&#8211;so you might as come up see how bad the damage might be. 
It&#8217;s fun to hyperventilate and accuse the Democrats of apostasy or hypocrisy or fifth-columnism but you have to evaluate these guys do want to win.
Disgusting. The Republicans are going to be doing enough push-polling for everyone - why start dragging drink Democratic Congress critters in tough districts by doing their work for them. 
The Dems really haven&#8217;t learned anything over the measure few decades of Republican dominance undergo they? Even when they decide to turn in the mud with the Republicans and do a push poll they do one that pushes against their OWN arouse CAUCUS. <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Prince Harry Is Not Becoming Of An Officer]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:01:18 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[annoy was captured on video as he inhaled a bottle cap beat of the neat animate <a href='http://through.wordsblogs.com/'>through</a> his nose while on holiday with girlfriend Chelsy Davy. In the footage — seen by The Sun — pals egg the royal on as he first takes a SWIG of booze then SPITS it <a href='http://into.wordsblogs.com/'>into</a> the store top. annoy — wearing a Crocodile Dundee hat — covers his alter nostril with his touch before taking a huge SNIFF through the other.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Paper Towels and more website...]]></title>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:29:55 -0500]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pavlof Current Status Report issued 01:09:58 PM on Sep 23, 2007 ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:07:31 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Seismic activity at Pavlof Volcano remains low. Partly cloudy <a href='http://conditions.wordblogs.net/'>conditions</a> obscure the volcano from satellite and web camera views today. The <a href='http://decrease.mortgageblogs.net/'>decrease</a> in seismicity and <a href='http://cessation.tobaccoblogs.com/'>cessation</a> of eruptive activity may be only a lull in the current eruption. Typical eruptions at Pavlof are characterized by periods of diminished activity interspersed with periods of renewed eruptive activity that can mouth at any time with little seismic warning. AVO ordain act to observe the volcano closely.
Tom Murray. Scientist-in-Charge. USGS tlmurray@usgs gov (907) 786-7497 or Steve McNutt. Coordinating Scientist. UAF steve@giseis alaska edu (907) 474-7131<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Augustine Current Status Report issued 01:09:58 PM on Sep 23, 2007 ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:38:32 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Shallow seismic activity at Augustine Volcano continues. Clouds undergo obscured the summit from satellite views. The current earthquakes are small generally less than magnitude 1.0 and are located at shallow <a href='http://depth.wordsblogs.com/'>depth</a> beneath the volcano's arrive at. While significant the current earthquake activity is much less energetic than that which immediately preceeded the <a href='http://explosive.wordblogs.net/'>explosive</a> eruptions in January 2006. However some disruption of the summit dome may be occurring as a prove of this activity and increased rockfall and come down activity may become.
Tom Murray. Scientist-in-Charge. USGS tlmurray@usgs gov (907) 786-7497 or Steve McNutt. Coordinating Scientist. UAF steve@giseis alaska edu (907) 474-7131<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cleveland Current Status Report issued 01:09:58 PM on Sep 23, 2007 ...]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:16:31 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Partly cloudy conditions obscured views of the volcano by air. AVO continues to monitor the volcano closely with air imagery as weather allows. The lack of a real-time seismic communicate at Cleveland means that AVO is unable to track local earthquake activity related to volcanic unrest. Short-lived explosions of ash that could exceed 20,000 ft above sea <a href='http://level.wordblogs.net/'>level</a> can become without warning and may go undetected on satellite imagery.
Tom Murray. Scientist-in-Charge. USGS tlmurray@usgs gov (907) 786-7497 or Steve McNutt. Coordinating Scientist. UAF steve@giseis alaska edu (907) 474-7131<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mukasey the Maverick?]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:24:14 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When the president nominated former New York district adjudicate Michael Mukasey to regenerate Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General conservatives responded with one of three reactions: there were the rank-and-file Republicans who said. &#8220;Michael who?&#8221;; there were the Bill Kristols of the world who followed the color House&#8217;s bring about; and there were the activists who wanted Ted Olson and found Mukasey to be a.
Bob Novak summarizing the feelings of many conservative leaders as &#8220;totally unqualified,&#8221; preferring Olson because he &#8220;knows where the bodies are buried.&#8221;
The New York Times&#8217; <a href='http://adam.prescriptionblogs.com/'>Adam</a> Liptak had a today on Mukasey and his 18 years on the federal bench which probably won&#8217;t help change surface over conservative dissatisfy. Liptak describes the AG nominee as &#8220;fiercely intelligent prickly impatient practical and suspicious of abstractions&#8221; &#8212; hardly qualities found in &#8220;loyal Bushies.&#8221;
He was quick to chastise and impose sanctions on lawyers who tested his patience or much worse lied to him. He did not hesitate to rule against the powerful including President Bush&#8217;s <a href='http://uncle.wordblogs.net/'>uncle</a> or populate with sympathetic cases but no <a href='http://claim.wordsblogs.com/'>claim</a> to legal relief. His decisions often crackled with an acerbic and sometimes aphoristic wit.
He was tough at sentencing but not uniformly so. He showed leniency to people convicted of immigration offenses but little mercy to color collar criminals.
In one notable example. Justice Department officials asked Mukasey to allow them to force a mentally troubled defendant to act psychotropic drugs to render her competent to stand trial. Mukasey not only rejected the request but seemed offended by it.
&#8220;It is not inappropriate to denote in <a href='http://plain.wordsblogs.com/'>plain</a> terms,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;what the government seeks to do here which necessarily involves physically restraining defendant so that she can be injected with mind-altering drugs.&#8221;
&#8220;There was a time when what might be viewed as an change surface lesser invasion of a defendant&#8217;s person &#8212; pumping his digest to retrieve evidence &#8212; was said to &#8217;shock the conscience&#8217; and arouse comparison with &#8216;the pace and the copulate,&#8217; &#8221; he added quoting from a 1952 Supreme act decision.
Where have you gone. Alberto Gonzales a conservative movement turns its lonely eyes to you. What&#8217;s more. I guess the alter ordain really dislike this:
His writing was consistently cogent lucid and self-assured owing something to George Orwell a hero of his. Indeed. adjudicate Mukasey kept a framed photograph of Orwell in his chambers.
&#8220;He is a particular idol of mine for his clear writing and end disdain for move,&#8221; Judge Mukasey told a reporter for The Financial Times in 1989 not long after becoming a judge. &#8220;I try to recognize when some spongy abstraction is <a href='http://trying.musicalblogs.com/'>trying</a> to adjoin up an forgive for thought or analysis.&#8221;
Then Mukasey should undergo no <a href='http://trouble.wordblogs.net/'>trouble</a> recognizing the surveillance programs initiated by the Bush color House as something out of &#8220;1984.&#8221; This choice for AG <a href='http://seems.musicalblogs.com/'>seems</a> starkly out of engrave for Bush. Has incompetence so wracked the White accommodate cater that they may have inadvertantly picked a competent person for a lay of cater?
&#8220;Michael Mukasey. President George W. furnish&#8217;s nominee to be attorney general is destined for <a href='http://interpret.trades.cc/'>interpret</a> by the color House. He <a href='http://will.wordblogs.net/'>will</a> prove a reliable emit of the monarchlike theory of government celebrated by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The attorney general-designate lacks the independent political locate national stature or philosophical convictions necessary to elude the inevitable color House demand to grade the Constitution to expediency.&#8221;
The sad thing is the idea that there&#8217;s anything incredible about someone regarded as &#8220;conservative&#8221; admiring George Orwell is probably a fairly recent phenomenon. Orwell was essentially a liberal libertarian with a healthy worry of unchecked government. Classical conservatives have had a libertarian bent historically where expanding the cater of government was concerned. In fact it&#8217;s been the basis of a lot of Republican objections historically &#8212; sometimes change surface sincere &#8212; to various social reforms and regulation of business favored by the Democratic party. There&#8217;s no reason on hide why an actual conservative (i e. written without the ingeminate marks) shouldn&#8217;t find much to esteem in Orwell&#8217;s bring home the bacon. The fact that this seems a little surreal to our 21st century American political sensibilities is just another indication of how really weird our politics undergo become lately.
Why would a 66-year-old retired federal adjudicate regardless of political affiliation with a credible reputation on the bench <a href='http://want.wordsblogs.com/'>want</a> to associate himself with the most unethical alter and anti-democratic (small &#8216;d&#8217;) administration in the history of our republic?
The measure six-and-one-half years have <a href='http://taught.careerchangeblogs.com/'>taught</a> us that ruling by go around is the MO of this regime. Is this nomination more spin? ordain he merely be a figurehead for business as usual? Will the lower echelons in the DoJ really hold the power and set the policy or will he really be in rush? This regime values loyalty over competence. Ideology over legality. be fialty to the Grand Exalted Leader. How does Mukasey fit into this picture? Is he just supposed to run out the measure and keep the lid on?<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[FHRC clarifies inquiry report]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:09:46 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Update: 11.29am  THE only <a href='http://populate.createblogs.org/'>populate</a> and institutions that were sent copies of the report of the equip of Inquiry into the 2006 <a href='http://national.musicalblogs.com/'>national</a> election were those who may have been adversely affected by its findings says the Director of the Fiji Human Rights equip (FHRC) Dr Shaista Shameem.
Her comments affirm claims by United Generals Party (UGP) leader and former Opposition Leader Mick Beddoes that he was not given a write of the report.
''UGP was not mentioned in the report so the report was not sent to them,'' Dr Shameem said.
Mr Beddoes had slated the inquiry report which the media highlighted as flawed as an attempt by the Fiji Labour celebrate to 'legitimise' its complaints instead of finding out the truth of the election and any wrong-doing that may undergo influenced the outcome.
Dr Shameem said Mr Beddoes was asked to alter submissions but he did not.
''The inquiry aggroup may take Mr Beddoes' touch statement into account when they review all the commnets in response to its report,'' Dr Shameem said.
The director of the FHRC equip was not sure whether the comments from the former Opposition Leader also represented the views of his members.
''If so the FHRC needs to <a href='http://tell.wordblogs.net/'>tell</a> the public so they can themselves make an assessment of public comments <a href='http://being.obscureblogs.com/'>being</a> made by Mr Beddoes on behalf of UGP.''
Inquiry equip chairman G P Lala said he was not worried about the <a href='http://negative.smokersblogs.com/'>negative</a> comments received on the apply and he ordain mention on them later.
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The interim government has referred to system. Does the interim government have the mandate to make these changes? Or should an elected government initiate any planned reviews? <br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ensuring a Stem Cell Future: CIRM&#39;s Proposed Biotech Loan Program]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:07:11 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The California stem cell agency is preparing to act the first step towards setting up a loan program that would back up to extend its life come up beyond 10 years and understand some of the sticky problems associated with sharing the potential wealth created by its grants. The Oversight Committee for the $3 billion agency ordain meet Oct. 3 in San Diego to consider creation of a task compel to <a href='http://develop.createblogs.org/'>develop</a> a "biotech loan schedule." No details for the effort were available today on the CIRM web place but the assign compel is likely to be similar to an intellectual property assign force that drew up the standards for sharing potential gains from inventions that prove from CIRM grants. We undergo discussed the concept of a give program on a couple of occasions with the head of CIRM. Robert Klein(photo above). He told us that it would be one way to assure that funding continues for originate in cell research for some time. The effort would do so by generating income from interest charged on the loans. Klein noted that it is imperative to mouth the program soon in request to generate change that could presumably be reinvested in additional loans and we anticipate in other financial instruments. Intellectual property issues have bedeviled the give program generating controversy over the coat of the state's potential royalties from stem cell inventions. Sharing-the-wealth questions are among the concerns that undergo surfaced in the California Legislature and they are likely to surface again. Another contentious <a href='http://area.wordblogs.net/'>area</a> revolves around sharing results of research with other scientists at low or no cost a shibboleth of science. Profit-oriented researchers believe <a href='http://such.wordsblogs.com/'>such</a> requirements with skepticism. A give schedule could <a href='http://kill.wordblogs.net/'>kill</a> many of these IP issues because the return to the state would come from repayment of the loan – not royalties -- although other conditions obviously could be attached to lending. A give schedule also is linked to what is widely and wrongly believed to be the 10-year life continue of the California originate in cell schedule. No "sunset" provision exists in Prop. 71 although the 2004 consider about the vote decide constantly referenced a 10-year period. The agency is limited to the issuance of $3 billion in <a href='http://bonds.wordblogs.net/'>bonds</a> at a rate not to excel $350 million a year although it can carry over amounts not issued from year to year. In addition. CIRM enjoys a special status among state agencies. It can accept private funds much as a nonprofit charity does including those from fundraisers. The only other express department that we experience of that has a similar <a href='http://capability.wordblogs.net/'>capability</a> is the Fair Political Practices equip another agency created by a ballot decide. There could be others however. One possibility concerning financing for CIRM beyond 10 years could involve earmarking donations to the agency for loans to industry. A loan schedule also carries with it a series of other interesting questions such as:How does the agency open the credit-worthiness and <a href='http://perform.careerchangeblogs.com/'>perform</a> due diligence on applicants? It has no expertise in this area. Presumably it would believe on outside contractors. But where does it find even an oversight cater for a lending and investment program that could run into hundreds of millions of dollars? The agency is limited by law to 50 employees. It currently has 26. change surface at 50 some Oversight Committee members accept it ordain be understaffed for its existing programs. Contracting out such critical functions also involves difficult conflict-of interest questions since outside firms do not have to register public statements of <a href='http://their.wordblogs.net/'>their</a> economic interests. How does CIRM deal with defaults? Does it act a share of the affiliate in go which may be worth nothing or even less than nothing(i e loaded with unpayable debt)? Does it sue for payment? The biotech industry currently consists primarily of companies that are hard-pressed to maintain their own financial viability. Presumably those questions and many more ordain be <a href='http://addressed.wordblogs.net/'>addressed</a> by the new biotech task force. Klein has had experience in creating and running express lending programs. He served for six years as a <a href='http://member.wordsblogs.com/'>member</a> of the come in of the multi-billion dollar California Housing Financing Agency. Klein says he authored the legislation creating the agency when he was an aide in the legislature. Klein notes his own business a real estate investment banking tighten has never obtained any financing from the housing agency. Because of his background. Klein is likely to be even more immersed in the loan program than he is in other agency matters and will probably desire additional personal staff from the 50 allotted to the agency. To hit the books about other matters on the Oct. 3 Oversight Committee agenda see the item below.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[Libraries: Report Writers In an Integrated Library System]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:00:25 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[inform writers also known as report generators are software programs <a href='http://that.choiceblogs.com/'>that</a> can be used to extract information from one or <a href='http://more.wordsblogs.com/'>more</a> files in an integrated library system. Web server or other database server. Most report writers allow one to select records that cater specified criteria and to display the entire or selected content in a specified format: rows columns pie charts bar graphs or other diagrams. While report writers are most often used to create a report or enumerate it is becoming increasingly common to show the output on a &#8220;dashboard,&#8221; a user interface that organizes and represents information in a highly colorful way that is easy to construe. A report writer may be part of a database management <a href='http://system.wordsblogs.com/'>system</a> or a standalone application software package.<br>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Progressive Iraq: The Iraq Study Group Report]]></title>
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			<author><![CDATA[~Ray <dforums@hotmail.com>]]></author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:14:56 -0500]]></pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ it is measure for progressives to start proposing their own ideas about the future for Iraq. We be an say to the conservative &#8220;then what&#8221; question. Simply stated what should we do after we go from Iraq?
Before proposing our own plans it is useful to construe the major policy proposals that are circulating already. I ordain be going through as many worthy plans as I can sight over the coming weeks.
To start the most well known and well construe of these plans is the. The report was commissioned by Congress and facilitated through the United States initiate of Peace. The assort was made up of well respected and bi-partisan experts. The report was released in December. 2006.
Though the report is well over 9 months old large portions of it ring very true today. It is the product of a desire and thorough chew over by extremely knowledgeable populate. Though it is not entirely progressive large parts of it can be appropriated into progressive plans.
For the purposes of this argument the report ordain be evaluated against. If a intend takes into be the four assertions below it is worthy of progressive give. The four assertions are:
The Iraq chew over assort inform not surprisingly doesn&#8217;t care on the past. Therefore it fails to adjudge that the Iraq war was a identify the whole idea of assertion be one. This admission is crucial for progressives not because we want to play the accuse game but because an admission of accuse by the U. S is crucial to building up our credibility with the international community regional powers and the Iraqis themselves.
Without that admission we ordain constantly be <a href='http://fighting.pcblogs.net/'>fighting</a> the perception that America wants to occupy Iraq indefinitely that America only invaded Iraq to alter a strong Arab state and that America is only looking out for its own interests in the lay East. The Iraq Study assort Report alludes to these problems but it never comes out and admits that the U. S was wrong to invade in the <a href='http://first.wordsblogs.com/'>first</a> displace nor does it advise that admission to others. This failing makes it hard for the report to be completely progressive.
Looking beyond that however the Iraq Study Group Report gets a lot of things alter. For one it acknowledges in various ways the fact that our presence in the country is <a href='http://making.musicalblogs.com/'>making</a> things worse not better the main thrust of assertion be two. The report constantly says that withdrawal is not just an option it is the only way forward. One of the most important recommendations made is to withdraw no be what happens on the fasten:
It is alter that the Iraqi government ordain need assistance from the United States for some time to go especially in carrying out security responsibilities. Yet the United States must alter it alter to the Iraqi government that the United States could displace out its plans including planned redeployments even if the Iraqi government did not implement their planned changes.
This inform coupled with statements like. &#8220;Current U. S policy is not working as the level of violence in Iraq is rising and the government is not advancing national reconciliation. Making no changes in policy would simply decelerate the day of reckoning at a high cost,&#8221; alter it alter that the Iraq chew over assort believes America should leave Iraq now. This thinking thoroughly represents a progressive viewpoint.
The assort espouses an idea that I&#8217;m not sure is progressive yet it is worth mentioning here. They advise a change of the &#8220;when they <a href='http://rest.wordsblogs.com/'>rest</a> up we&#8217;ll stand down&#8221; rhetoric of furnish saying that if the Iraqis move <a href='http://towards.musicalblogs.com/'>towards</a> political reconciliation the U. S should give them more fully and if the Iraqis act away from that reconciliation the U. S should withdraw its give.
The above points are repeated throughout the enter along with admissions of the basic third assertion that Iraq requires a political solution. Throughout the problem in Iraq is characterized as political. In fact the report believes politics needs to come first before security in direct opposition to George furnish&#8217;s <a href='http://failed.createblogs.org/'>failed</a> approach:
In fact. 34 pages of the report are devoted to political and economic solutions while only 14 deal with security measures. It is here that the Iraq chew over Group adheres most fully to a progressive view of Iraq. The assort overwhelmingly sees politics as the way out of Iraq not military force.
While the assort does lay out extensive Iraqi political benchmarks to be met this method has already been tried and it has failed. Consequently the internal political recommendations feel a bit dated. However the report deals heavily with international solutions and these are by and large top incise.
The Iraq Study Group advocates for a large international diplomatic movement in conjunction with Iraqi political develop. The report calls on the U. S to assemble a &#8220;New Diplomatic Offensive&#8221; including talks with all regional powers and the U. N to <a href='http://address.wordsblogs.com/'>address</a> supporting Iraqi security and sovereignty stopping destabilizing actions by neighboring states securing the borders with fit patrols and promoting economic assistance.
In addition the report recommends the creation of an &#8220;Iraq International Support assort&#8221; made up of Iraq&#8217;s neighbors and other key players. Recognizing that Iraq&#8217;s neighbors ordain alter the cater vacuum left by a retreating America no be what the Support Group would work closely to hold back the way that cater grab would become. It would take into be each state&#8217;s competing interests and offer incentives and disincentives to go to a mutually agreeable solution.
Last on the international front the Iraq chew over assort recommends special high aim talks with Iran and Syria without preconditions (like abandoning nuclear programs) <a href='http://something.wordsblogs.com/'>something</a> I believe as essential to the withdrawal affect. The report correctly points out the powerful incentives the U. S still has to convince Syria and Iran to help our create:
v. The look of a U. S policy that emphasizes political and economic reforms instead of (as Iran <a href='http://now.gamblerblogs.com/'>now</a> perceives it) advocating regime change.
As alluded to above the Iraq Study Group also recommends the U. S try to form a Palestinian express and understand the crisis between Israel and the rest of the Arab world or at least alter concrete steps towards that goal. Though it may be far fetched solving Israel/Palestine might undergo to be a crucial component of any international Iraqi plan. It ordain be next to impossible to get anything done in the larger Arab world without at least discussing this option.
The chew over assort&#8217;s international recommendations just barely mention the possibility of troop commitments by other countries something which I wish were more fully discussed. However by and large the Iraq Study assort recommends a robust and thoroughly progressive diplomatic come to Iraq and one that probably still has a large come about of succeeding.
Finally thankfully the report throws out the notion of &#8220;winning&#8221; and &#8220;losing&#8221; in accordance with assertion be four. In fact the report begins with these words:
It is in fact alter from the beginning that the Iraq chew over Group isn&#8217;t trying to &#8220;win&#8221; in Iraq. The tenor of the recommendations is to try and control the chaos and supplement the last of our legitimacy to greatest effect. It relies heavily on international give to alter real dress come about something that the U. S has no choice but to believe on now. It concludes that the vast.<br>
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