tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192338432024-03-05T12:50:21.028-08:00Ingineers RamblingsIngineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-16927235188143847682010-11-04T19:04:00.000-07:002010-11-04T19:04:33.614-07:00Looking for an excuseToday from the Christian Science Monitor:<br />
<h1 class="head">Did Jon Stewart hurt the Democrats in Election 2010?</h1><h2 class="subhead"> Comedians like Jon Stewart took aim at candidates like Christine O'Donnell in Election 2010, and sharp political satire may have led to cynicism, suppressing the youth vote, experts say.</h2><br />
That is right find an excuse. It couldn't possibly be that the voters disagree with the Democrat agenda. Or that people do not like the President, the Congress and the Senate all to be from the same party. Nope there must be some other reason that people across the country voted out Democrats and voted in Republicans.Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-37894505903783390552010-10-25T10:10:00.000-07:002010-10-25T10:10:56.481-07:00Let's be more like France<div class="hd" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 11px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; zoom: 1;"><h1 id="yn-title" style="font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 33px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">France: Strikes costing up to $557 million per day</h1><a class="provider-logo ult-section" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=11f589428;_ylt=AhlcuuqBPhR5d1bS4IFz9eVv24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBzc2k0M2xoBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bi1wcnZkbGluawRzbGsDYXA-/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ap.org%2Ftermsandconditions" id="yn-prvdlink" style="color: #0058a6; float: left; margin-top: -6px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="AP" height="27" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/p/ap_logo_106.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="106" /></a><div id="yup-container" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><ul class="tools mod ult-section" id="top" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><li class="buzz ult-position" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -2px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; zoom: 1;"><form action="http://buzz.yahoo.com/vote/" class="buzz buzz-webkit count-fetched" id="buzz-top" method="post" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><button style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/2008/news/us/assets/common/images/map1.v19.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 6px -1150px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(206, 206, 206); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0058a6; cursor: pointer; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 99%/normal arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; height: 1.6em; left: -2px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 28px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; top: -1px; white-space: nowrap;" type="submit">Buzz up!<span class="right" style="background-color: white; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: purple;"></span></button><span class="count-after" style="color: #7a7a7a; font: normal normal normal 77%/normal arial; padding-right: 4px;"><span class="buzz-count">21</span> votes</span></form></li>
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France's massive strikes are costing the national e" height="142" src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20101025/capt.33bf6c7c030a4e12b2eba76ae83c55b8-33bf6c7c030a4e12b2eba76ae83c55b8-0.jpg?x=213&y=142&xc=1&yc=1&wc=410&hc=273&q=85&sig=PBM3NrJ0sdVws6Bj1B3TOQ--" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block;" width="213" /></a><cite class="caption" style="clear: both; color: #777777; display: block; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; padding-top: 3px; zoom: 1;">AP – Piles of garbage, in front of a clothes shop in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. France's …</cite></div></div></div><div class="byline" style="color: #777777; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><cite class="vcard" style="color: #777777; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer </cite>– <abbr class="recenttimedate" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-variant: normal;" title="2010-10-25T09:45:07-0700">14 mins ago</abbr></div><div class="yn-story-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(54, 99, 136) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">retirement </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; 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font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rotting piles of garbage — now at nearly 9,000 tons — are becoming a health hazard in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, which has been hit hard on land and at sea. Striking dockers at France's largest port are intermittently blocking ships trying to unload fuel there.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Twelve striking refineries have been shut down for nearly two weeks, but the protest movement appeared to weaken Monday after workers at three refineries voted to end their walkout. The French oil refineries' body, UFIP, said all the country's oil depots had also been unblocked.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The oil worker's return to work is likely to ease the ongoing gasoline shortages, which on Monday still had about one in four gas stations in France shuttered.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that the left in this country said they wanted us to be more like France? Well there is a big reason that we are not France and it is in the news now. Why don't I hear any politicians saying we should have this going on here? I guess that wasn't such a great idea after all.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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The founder of the whistleblower website says he will publish the remaining 15,000 documents within a month despite more warnings from the U.S. government. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This guy needs to catch an iridium pellet from a Soviet umbrella gun, if you know what I am saying. I think you do.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-31163758513706779222010-08-07T08:08:00.000-07:002010-08-07T08:08:37.203-07:006 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan<h1 class="head" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Afghanistan war: Deadly ambush of medical mission roils one of safest provinces</h1><h2 class="subhead" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 13px/normal Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">he Taliban claimed responsibility for the ambush of a medical mission that killed six Americans, one Briton, one German, and two Afghans. The attack highlights the difficulty of limiting the reach of insurgent activity in the Afghanistan war.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The six Americans, one Briton, one German, and three Afghans, were returning from a two-week mission providing eye treatment in Nuristan Province. All were found shot in Badakhshan Province except for one of the Afghans, who escaped.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is time to shit or get off the pot in Afghanistan. All of the money and lives that we have spent there trying to gain the hearts and minds of the people and this is what we get. I say we either send Osama Bin Ladin a CNN reporter to tell him he won and we are giving up or we cut the binders off our military and send them in to fight a real war and we will worry about rebuilding the country when we are done. Line up every single person in the country and ask them if they support the Taliban or if they want to send their daughters to school and have clean drinking water. If they say Taliban then shoot them. It may take 300,000 troops and a bunch of airplanes and bombs but this letting the locals fight our fight for us so we don't piss anybody off is just going to extend our misery and cost us more money and more US boys lives.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We whipped Germany and Japan at the same time within 4 years and now after 9 years we can't even hunt down and kill a rag tag group of people that most of the local population does not even like? WTF? We weren't worried about offending Buddhist sensibilities when we bombed Japan. This whole politically correct half hearted war is not doing anybody any good. The only thing these people understand is brute force and that is what we need to show them if we really intend to win this war.</span></span></div></h2>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-49501186353305378212010-07-22T08:52:00.000-07:002010-07-22T08:52:03.447-07:00Global Warming AlertMore proof that maybe we do not know as much as we thought and that we don't have as much control as we thought over the atmosphere.<br />
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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">SAO PAULO – Hundreds of penguins that apparently starved to death are washing up on the beaches of Brazil, worrying scientists who are still investigating what's causing them to die.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">About 500 of the black-and-white birds have been found just in the last 10 days on Peruibe, <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100722/ap_on_sc/lt_brazil_dead_penguins#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; 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float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">Praia </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(54, 99, 136) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; text-decoration: none; width: auto !important;">Grande</span></span></a> and Itanhaem beaches in Sao Paulo state, said Thiago do Nascimento, a biologist at the Peruibe Aquarium.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most were Magellan penguins migrating north from Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands in search of food in warmer waters.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many are not finding it: Autopsies done on several birds revealed their stomachs were entirely empty — indicating they likely starved to death, Nascimento said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scientists are investigating whether strong currents and colder-than-normal waters have hurt populations of the species that make up the penguins' diet, or whether human activity may be playing a role.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Overfishing may have made the fish and squid scarcer," Nascimento said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Nascimento said it's common for penguins to swim north this time of year. Inevitably, some get lost along the way or die from hunger or exhaustion, and end up on the Brazilian coast far from home.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But not in such numbers — Nascimento said about 100 to 150 live penguins show up on the beach in an average year, and only 10 or so are dead.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"What worries us this year," he said, "is the absurdly high number of penguins that have appeared dead in a short period of time."</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">You read that correctly folks. <b>Colder than normal waters </b>may have played a role in the Penguins starving to death. So I guess the polar ice caps are not in danger of coming to a boil any time in the next 20 minutes so maybe we will survive as a species for a little while longer.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">The headline here could have just as easily said, Hundreds of penguins wash up on shore, Scientists have no clue why.</span></div></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-91522114959531984272010-07-12T20:13:00.000-07:002010-07-12T20:13:36.532-07:00Obama's selective modestyI got this from Face Book, where a friend had "Liked" it. Interesting stuff. <br />
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<div class="jp-mainarticle" style="display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_art_header" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 400px;"><h1 style="clear: both; color: #191919; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleTitle">Obama's selective modesty</span></h1><span class="jp-writer" style="color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 10px;"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblAuthor"><a href="mailto:jpostcolumns@gmail.com" style="color: #5b5b5b; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; text-decoration: none;"><u>By C. KRAUTHAMMER</u></a></span> </span><br />
<span class="jp-date" style="color: #5b5b5b; font-size: 9px;"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblDateAndHour">07/11/2010 23:48</span> </span><br />
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<h2 id="teaser_val" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleTeaser">The president is convinced of his own magnificence, yet not of his country’s.</span></h2><span class="jp-comments" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_art_comments">Talkbacks (<span><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblCommentsCounter">23</span></span>)</span><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArtHeader"></span></div><div id="odiogo_frame" style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 400px;"></div></div><span class="block-spacer" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: inherit; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; direction: rtl; display: block; float: none; font-family: Arial; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><div class="jp-maincontent jp-maincontent-article" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.jpost.com/Images/jp-content-gray.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat repeat; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 750px;"><div class="jp-maincontent-left" style="display: inline-block; float: left; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px; width: 479px;"><span class="block-spacer" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: inherit; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; direction: rtl; display: block; float: none; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 0px;"></span><div id="body_val" style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_article_control_lblArticleBody">Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Barack Obama’s vision of NASA’s mission, as explained by administrator Charles Bolden: “One was he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering.”<br />
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Apart from the psychobabble – farcically turning a space-faring enterprise into a self-esteem enhancer – what’s the sentiment behind this charge? Sure America has put a man on the moon, led the information revolution, won more Nobel Prizes than any other nation by far – but, on the other hand, a thousand years ago al-Khwarizmi gave us algebra.<br />
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Bolden seems quite intent on driving home this message of achievement equivalence – lauding, for example, Russia’s contribution to the space station.<br />
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Russia? In the 1990s, the Russian space program fell apart, leaving the US to pick up the slack and the tab for the missing Russian contributions to get the space station built.<br />
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For good measure, Bolden added that the US cannot get to Mars without international assistance.<br />
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Beside the fact that this is not true, contrast this with the elan and self-confidence of president John F. Kennedy’s pledge that America would land on the moon within the decade.<br />
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There was no finer expression of belief in American exceptionalism than Kennedy’s. Obama has a different take. As he said last year in Strasbourg, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the<a class="headupTerm" href="http://jpost.headup.com/Services/FrontService/Horizon/jpedia.htm?uri=http://schemas.semantinet.com/Info/name/Greeks/displaytype/Ethnic%20Group/dbpediaSubject/Greeks/&name=Greeks" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: black; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Greeks</a> believe in Greek exceptionalism.”<br />
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Which of course means: If we’re all exceptional, no one is.<br />
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TAKE HUMAN rights. After Obama’s meeting with the president of Kazakhstan, Mike McFaul of the National Security Council reported that Obama actually explained to the leader of that thuggish kleptocracy that we too are working on perfecting our own democracy.<br />
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Nor is this the only example of an implied moral equivalence that diminishes and devalues America.<br />
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Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner reported that in discussions with <a class="headupTerm" href="http://jpost.headup.com/Services/FrontService/Horizon/jpedia.htm?uri=http://schemas.semantinet.com/Country/name/China/displaytype/Country/dbpediaSubject/China/&name=China" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 2px; color: black; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial !important; outline-style: none !important; outline-width: initial !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">China</a>about human rights, the US side brought up Arizona’s immigration law – “early and often.” As if there is the remotest connection between that and the persecution of dissidents, jailing of opponents, suppression of religion routinely practiced by the Chinese dictatorship.<br />
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Nothing new here. In his major addresses, Obama’s modesty about his own country has been repeatedly on display as, in one venue after another, he has gratuitously confessed America’s alleged failing – from disrespecting foreigners to having lost its way morally after 9/11.<br />
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It’s fine to recognize the achievements of others and be nonchauvinistic about one’s country. But Obama’s modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in short supply.<br />
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It began with the almost comical self-inflation of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns framing him at the Democratic convention. And it carried into his presidency, from his posture of philosopher-king adjudicating between America’s sins and the world’s to his speeches marked by a spectacularly promiscuous use of the first-person pronoun – I.<br />
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<div dcstatus="loaded" id="ads.gbox.1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: right; font-size: 12px; height: 200px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 200px;"><iframe class="tal123" frameborder="0" height="200" hspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://i.total-media.net/jp/tmc/2009/DoubleClick/ADXV2_200x200ROS.html?dcID=ads.gbox.1" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" vspace="0" width="200"></iframe><table style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody></tbody></table></div>Notice, too, how Obama habitually refers to cabinet members and other high government officials as “my” – “my secretary of homeland security,” “my national security team,” “my ambassador.”<br />
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The more normal – and respectful – usage is to say “the,” as in “the secretary of state.” These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and the Constitution – not just the man who appointed them.<br />
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It’s a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama’s exalted view of himself. Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies – both about himself.<br />
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Obama is not the first president with a large streak of narcissism. But the others had equally expansive feelings about their country. Obama’s modesty about America would be more understandable if he treated himself with the same reserve. What is odd is to have a president so convinced of his own magnificence – yet not of his own country’s.</span></div><span class="block-spacer" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: inherit; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; direction: rtl; display: block; float: none; font-size: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 0px;"></span></div></div></span>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-2480570736513734662010-07-02T09:21:00.000-07:002010-07-02T09:21:44.289-07:00Welfare State Coming Home to Roost.Amazing that nobody was reporting this before the Health Care Bill was passed and signed. Not really a big shock though to those of us that knew it was going to be a mess. First insurance premiums are skyrocketing in response to the new law and now the report that one of the things that supporters said would get better is going to actually get worse.<br />
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It would seem these patients would be able to get routine health care by visiting a doctor's office, as most of the insured do.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But it's not that simple. Consider:</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">_There's already a shortage of front-line family physicians in some places and experts think that will get worse.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">_People without insurance aren't the ones filling up the nation's emergency rooms. Far from it. The uninsured are no more likely to use ERs than <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100702/ap_on_bi_ge/us_med_er_crowding#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: rgb(230, 123, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; 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And the new health insurance law will increase their ranks by about 16 million. Medicaid is the state and federal program for low-income families and the disabled. And many family doctors limit the number of Medicaid patients they take because of low government reimbursements.</div></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-87408812645608535252010-06-26T10:50:00.000-07:002010-06-26T10:50:17.833-07:00The Earth does take care of itselfI found this story this morning about another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that was much worse than what we are experiencing now. It spilled oil for 11 months before being contained. I know it is not good, but it is not the end of life as we know it.<br />
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<h2 class=" EIP_title EIP_postid23349 " style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Ixtoc Spill 30 Years Later</h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><span class="time" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">June 25, 2010 - 11:24 AM<span class="time" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> | by: <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/adamhousley/" style="color: #cc0000;">Adam Housley</a></span></span></span><div class="story-img" style="float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img src="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/Flutter/thirdparty/phpthumb/phpThumb.php?src=http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/Flutter/files_flutter/1277480973phpThumb_generated_thumbnailjpg.jpg&w=259&h=312" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div class="the_content EIP_content EIP_postid23349 " style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amidst the thick mangroves, under the turquoise tranquil waters and along the shoreline of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, the world's worst peacetime oil spill once hit here and more than 30 years later, there are still a few signs of Ixtoc.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/adamhousley">FOLLOW ADAM ON TWITTER</a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The massive spill in June of 1979 bares striking similarity to the BP Horizon Spill still gushing into the Gulf as a blowout preventer malfunctioned failing to stop the flow of oil that would eventually dump nearly 3 and a half million barrels into the Bay of Campeche. The oil wouldn't just blanket the coastline here in Mexico, but eventually it would cover more than 160 miles of Texas beaches.</div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="249" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=4255604&w=400&h=249" width="400"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It was a fairly similar to the one today as we understand. It too was a blowout preventor that malfunctioned 50 miles north of the Mexican coast in the city of Ciudad Carmen in about 170 ft of water. Ixtoc blew from the 3rd of June 1979, to the 23rd of March 1980, almost 10 months. It was 140 million gallons in total the largest peacetime spill that has ever been recorded in history," says Dr. Wes Tunnell a marine biologist at Texas A&M Corpus Christi.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dr. Tunnell was a new professor on the Texas coast at the time and has studied the aftermath over the coarse of the last 30 years. "I feel that learning from the past that we know the sandy beaches will recover from 2 to 3 years, or maybe a little longer. The ones that I’m worried about are the salt marshes of the Mississippi Delta, particularly the eastern side, where the oil is starting to come in now. Those salt marshes are a ten on a scale on a 1 to 10, they will be the most damaged and the toughest to clean up."</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>If the aftermath from Ixtoc is any indication, the environment and its recovery process will surprise many worried about the future. Marine biologists feared the Gulf would be ruined from the oil, but much of it repaired itself within two or three years. </b></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-83239962457446775692010-06-25T19:45:00.000-07:002010-06-25T19:45:56.317-07:00Cheney Hospitalized<h2 style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/25/vp-cheney-hospitalized/?test=latestnews" style="color: #183a52; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Former Vice President Cheney Hospitalized</a></h2><div class="media" style="color: #333333; float: left; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/25/vp-cheney-hospitalized/?test=latestnews" style="color: #183a52; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" height="60" src="http://www.foxnews.com/ucat/images/root/CDocuments_and_SettingslandankDesktopCheney_20100625_214042.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="60" /></a></div><div class="summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong class="em" style="color: #bb0000; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">URGENT: </strong>Former VP is hospitalized after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old GOP leader who has had four heart attacks since the age of 37.</div><div class="summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Experiencing Discomfort. Hell a whole lot of the country experienced discomfort while he was Vice President. I am not a Dick Cheney fan, so I couldn't help myself on this one.</div><div class="summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="summary" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">See Rain I can make fun of Republicans too.</div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-70768222854917974422010-06-25T10:23:00.000-07:002010-06-25T10:23:47.365-07:00Carbon FootprintThe earth is trying to balance out the Carbon situation and take care of "Global Warming" on it own and the Chinese are doing their best to stop it. They actually send ships out to clean it up. They must not have signed on to the Kyoto Protocol. <br />
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Where is Al Gore when we need him? Oh thats right he is defending himself for groping the woman that came to his hotel room late at night to give him a massage.<br />
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Before the games, thousands of soldiers, volunteers and <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_6">fishing boats</span> were recruited to clean up that bloom, which sailors took to calling "The Fairway" and "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_7">The Carpet</span>."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The current outbreak has nearly doubled in size since it was first spotted June 14 near eastern China's<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_8">Shandong province</span> and now measures about 110 square miles (300 square kilometers), said Cui, who works at the administration's <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_9">North China Sea</span> Environmental Monitoring Center.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_10">Winds</span> are pushing the mass toward the resort city of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_11">Qingdao</span>, and it was 6-12 miles (10-20 kilometers) from shore late Friday, he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It wasn't immediately clear what caused the outbreak, Cui said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So far, the bloom has not had any effect on the local <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_12">fishing industry</span> because of a routine fishing suspension that is in force to allow fish to repopulate, said Wu Wei, an official with the information office of the Qingdao Oceanic and Fishery Bureau. He said preparations were being made to clean up the algae when it reached the coast.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We've taught people how to do the cleaning and have prepared over 60 vessels and other equipment for the cleaning," <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1277457873_13">Wu</span> said. "We're ready."</div></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-82595645179920824932010-05-31T09:55:00.000-07:002010-05-31T09:55:10.495-07:00Gaza FlotillaThis mess with the Gaza Flotilla is not going to go well for either side. Of course everyone is mad at Israel, but what other country, besides maybe the US would let a bunch of ships come into their territory without being inspected. The Israeli government offered to have the humanitarian cargo be delivered to a port and inspected and then delivered to Gaza, but that was not good enough for these people. They had to make a statement and now they have learned that when you attack the Israeli military they do not like it and they actually fight back.<br />
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I would like to see what would happen if a group of ships tried to bring supplies to the rebels in Chiapas Mexico or Columbia or even to the Basque Separatists without the government inspecting it. Those governments would probably not play as nice as the Israelis did and the world wouldn't even bat an eye.Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-24524759565119908152010-05-29T09:08:00.000-07:002010-05-29T09:08:36.069-07:00Obama is such a bitch<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">President Obama's schedule 'doesn't allow for a meeting' with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer as she requests to speak with him as tensions mount over immigration law.</span><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">President Obama has turned down <a class="kLink" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/29/obama-arizona-governor-dont-ill/#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; right: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; text-transform: none !important; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="undefined"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: blue !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: blue !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto !important;">Arizona</span></span></a> Gov. Jan Brewer's request to meet while she's in Washington next week as tensions mount between his administration and Arizona over the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration but Obama's schedule "doesn't allow for a meeting" with her, White House spokesman Adam Abrams said, adding that the president "does intend to sit down with the governor in the future."</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">So the President has time to fly out to San Francisco last week to attend a fund raiser for Barbara Boxer, and he can go on vacation instead of going to Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day, but he doesn't have time to meet with a governor on the front lines of the southern invasion while she is in D.C. How lame is that?</span></span></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-6434959787819195162010-05-26T16:17:00.000-07:002010-05-26T16:17:54.867-07:00Obama breaks another pledge<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet again when it comes to actually being President instead of just running for the office, Obama changes his tune again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a sentence starts with “Obama said”’ it likely is going to be about something that is not true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">From not closing Gitmo to not ending Don't Ask Don't Tell, to changing timelines for withdrawing from Iraq to appointing lobbyists to his administration, pretty much anything Obama said during the campaign has changed dramatically now that he is President and gets to actually make the decisions that he derided the previous President for.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">A year after President Obama pledged to end the practice of funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with "emergency" spending bills, the Senate is taking up a $60 billion request that would do exactly that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The spending bill, which includes $33 billion for the two wars in addition to disaster relief funds and aid for Haiti, is running headlong into concern from war-weary Democrats and deficit-conscious Republicans. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">House Speaker<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; bottom: 0px; cursor: pointer; left: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span class="klink"><span style="border: none windowtext 0in; color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; float: none; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; position: static;">Nancy</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="border: none windowtext 0in; color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></span><span class="klink"><span style="border: none windowtext 0in; color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; float: none; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; position: static;">Pelosi</span></span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>has called the bill a "heavy lift" in her chamber. But the Senate, which is taking up the request first, could be the scene of a spending stand-off between Democrats and Republicans. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., plans to offer an amendment requiring Congress to offset the cost of the package with spending cuts elsewhere. He slammed the administration for continuing to use the "emergency" supplemental to fund the wars -- by designating the spending bill as "emergency," Congress avoids having to find a way to pay for it. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"The last day war funding was unforeseen was September 10, 2001," the first-term senator said in a written statement. "This legislation is designed to bail out career politicians who want to avoid the hard work of prioritizing spending." </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">The Bush administration routinely used supplemental spending bills to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama criticized the practice as a candidate and when he came into office pledged to keep war<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; bottom: 0px; cursor: pointer; left: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span class="klink"><span style="border: none windowtext 0in; color: windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial !important; float: none; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; position: static;">funding</span></span></span></a></span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/24/senate-takes-emergency-war-despite-obama-pledge-end-practice/" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-style: initial; border-top-color: transparent !important; bottom: 0px; cursor: pointer; left: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;" target="undefined"><span id="preLoadWrap1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; position: relative;"></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>within the traditional budget request. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," he said in his February 2009 address to a joint session of Congress. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">When Obama requested $83 billion in additional funding last spring for the wars, he said he would draw the line there. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"This is the last planned war supplemental," he wrote in April 2009 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling for "an honest, more accurate and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending" after years of "budget gimmicks and wasteful spending." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">But while Congress provided $130 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of last year as part of the traditional budget process, Obama this year came back to Capitol Hill for the additional $33 billion -- mostly to cover the cost of sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">"The irony certainly isn't lost on us," a Senate GOP aide told FoxNews.com. "Obviously they stuck with that pledge about as well as they stuck with most the other pledges they made." <o:p></o:p></span></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-76551494357787717892010-02-15T19:12:00.000-08:002010-02-15T19:13:34.016-08:00Mountain Climber needs rescue<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
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<span id="intelliTXT" name="intelliTxt"><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. — A climber has fallen into the crater at Mount St. Helens and a rescue is under way.</strong></div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The Skamania County sheriff's says it received a 911 cell phone call for help about 1 p.m. Monday.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Undersheriff Dave Cox says a helicopter that does contract work for <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586041,00.html#" itxtdid="17397957" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">the U.S. Geological <nobr id="itxt_nobr_1_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Survey<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a>spotted the climber on a steep slope near the bottom of the crater but was unable to pick him up because of high winds and whiteout conditions.</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Cox says a <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586041,00.html#" itxtdid="17402364" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank">Coast <nobr id="itxt_nobr_2_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">Guard<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a> rescue helicopter has been called but it's uncertain if the climber can be rescued before dark. A ground rescue team is being organized.</div><div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">WTF? Normally it is Mt. Hood, this time St. Hellens. What is the deal with these people that go mountain climbing in the middle of winter? I say if you are dumb enough to climb a snow covered mountain in the Pacific Northwest between Thanksgiving and Easter then good luck. We will send a nice flower arrangement to your funeral. Or if you happen to make it out, we will gladly send an ambulance to the end of the paved road, but that is about it. The cost and risk and sometimes loss of lives of the rescuers is too much to come get your dumb ass if you attempt foolish ventures.</span></span></div></span>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-80596291691816578712010-02-12T14:52:00.000-08:002010-02-12T14:52:11.991-08:00Fiscal ResponsibilitySo Obama is now talking about how he is worried about the deficit. But in 15 months he has increased the debt more than Reagan or George W. Bush did in 8 years in office. With his budget by 2015 our national debt will be 103% of our GDP. Most economists agree that the maximum debt that a nation can survive is 90% of GDP. Something needs to be changed and it looks like it will be mine and my children's generations that will have to pay to clean up the mess left by the baby boomers.Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-58072503141546737422010-01-31T10:33:00.000-08:002010-01-31T10:33:13.764-08:00Over the TopI got this from Rainy Day Thoughts. For some reason I feel like answering, but I do not like picking other blogs to answer so if anyone wants to answer feel free to do so.<br />
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1. Where is your cell phone? kitchen counter<br />
2. Your hair? Short<br />
3. Your mother? Disapeered<br />
4. Your father? Good Hearted<br />
5. Your favorite food? Steak<br />
6. Your dream last night? Vivid<br />
7. Your favorite drink? Diet Pepsi<br />
8. Your dream/goal? being comfortable<br />
9. What room are you in? Home Office<br />
10. Your hobby? Travel<br />
11. Your fear? Loss<br />
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Right here<br />
13. Where were you last night? Crab Feed<br />
14. Something you aren’t? Out going<br />
15. Muffins? blue berry<br />
16. Wish list item? Cabin<br />
17. Where did you grow up? Red Bluff<br />
18. Last thing you did? clean kitchen<br />
19. What are you wearing? sweats<br />
20. Your TV? off<br />
21. Your pet(s)? dogs<br />
22. Your friends? caring<br />
23. Your life? monotonous<br />
24. Your mood? contemplative<br />
25. Missing someone? yes<br />
26. Vehicle? white<br />
27. Something you’re not wearing? coat<br />
28. Your favorite store? costco<br />
29. Your favorite color? blue<br />
30. When was the last time you laughed? last night<br />
31. Last time you cried? last weekend<br />
32. Your best friend? wife<br />
33. One place that you go over and over? gym<br />
34. One person who emails you regularly? Aunt Mary<br />
35. Favorite place to eat? Round Table PizzaIngineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-16184905774067176262010-01-25T10:24:00.000-08:002010-01-25T10:24:20.050-08:00Good to Know that Some Things Never ChangeIt will be interesting to see if this is a chant on every talk show for the next 5 years like Haliburton was. I bet not. And this looks worse than anything the Bush Administration did about war zone contracts. There are very few companies that provide logistics and support in the Persian Gulf area so you are likely to get Haliburton for some of the work no matter what. This one looks pretty bad.<br />
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<h1 id="story-title" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-size: 28px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor</h1><div class="author" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; float: left; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By James Rosen<br />
</div><div class="source" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #555555; float: left; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> - FOXNews.com<br />
</div><div class="deck" id="story-dek" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dateline" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a prominent Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 19px;"></span><br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite President Obama's long history of criticizing the Bush administration for "sweetheart deals" with favored contractors, the Obama administration this month awarded a $25 million federal contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids, Fox News has learned.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The contract, awarded on Jan. 4 to Checchi & Company Consulting, Inc., a Washington-based firm owned by economist and Democratic donor Vincent V. Checchi, will pay the firm $24,673,427 to provide "rule of law stabilization services" in war-torn Afghanistan.<br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Here is the shady part:</span><br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The legality of the arrangement as a "sole source," or no-bid, contract was made possible by virtue of a waiver signed by the USAID administrator. "They cancelled the open bid on this when they came to power earlier this year," a source familiar with the federal contracting process told Fox News.<br />
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</div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-59223697297126414842010-01-20T09:20:00.000-08:002010-01-20T09:20:02.235-08:00America back to a 2 party system<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most liberal states in the union decided they have had enough change and are returning America to a 2 party system. It looks like the people in the Bay State have demonstrated what many of us across the country feel. That America should be a 2 party system and the one party, dictatorial rule that we have had for the past 12 months was not working for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hopefully now we can get some "Open" debate and bipartisanship going in the Congress and Senate for things like Healthcare reform and Cap and Tax.</span></span>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-17058797964522030522010-01-16T19:04:00.000-08:002010-01-16T19:04:05.289-08:00Speaking of Nutbars<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
<h1 class="head" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: none; color: #183a53; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 2em; font-weight: lighter; font: normal normal bold 1em/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: none; width: auto !important;">Cindy Sheehan Leads Protest at CIA, Dick Cheney's Home</h1><div class="date" style="color: #666666; font-size: 0.9166em; font-weight: lighter; margin-bottom: 0.41667em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1.1667em; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Saturday, January 16, 2010<img alt="" class="byline" src="http://www.foxnews.com/images/service_ap_36.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block;" /><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><strong>LANGLEY, Virginia — A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.</strong><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack<a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583199,00.html?test=latestnews#" itxtdid="16864830" style="background-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; text-decoration: none !important;" target="_blank"><nobr id="itxt_nobr_0_0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">al-Qaida<img name="itxt-icon-77" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/2_bing.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline !important; float: none; height: 10px; left: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; width: 10px;" /></nobr></a> and Taliban targets.<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">WTF? Does she know that Cheney has been out of office for nearly a year? And I thought Obama said Afghanistan was the just war that we should be fighting? And didn't all the anti-Iraq war democrats in Congress say these unmanned drones were the way to fight a war without putting thousands of American soldiers on the ground. Apparently this lady did not get the memo from the DNC that all of this was OK now that the One is C in C.<br />
</div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-85989974373945525872010-01-16T12:39:00.000-08:002010-01-16T12:39:22.445-08:00Nutbars of the World UniteMaybe we could put Danny Glover on the same spaceship with Pat Robertson and send them to Mars. First Robertson says the Haitians brought the earthquake on themselves and now this:<br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Actor Danny Glover says the earthquake in Haiti is a result of global warming. Glover told GRITtv that it could have happened to any of the Caribbean island nations: "They are all in peril because of global warming."<br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Then, he lamented the failure of the climate summit in Copenhagen. As a result of that failure, he says, "this is what happened."<br />
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</div></span>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-85120098041255063452009-12-29T14:47:00.001-08:002009-12-29T14:54:44.310-08:00You're doing a heck of a job Nappy.I was going to post on this topic earlier in the week, but didn't get to it. But today I saw this article so I decided why not.<br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bush's praise for his beleaguered FEMA director, Michael Brown, came while storm evacuees remained trapped in the Louisiana Superdome and victims' bloated bodies floated in the flooded streets. It became a clarion call for all his administration did wrong during the 2005 calamity — and a larger symbol for all people disliked generally about Bush.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Obama is dealing with a crisis of a different sort, Friday's attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian to blow up a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_2">Detroit</span>-bound flight from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_3">Amsterdam</span>. It ended with only a quickly extinguished fire, no lives lost and the man in custody.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Still, the close call prompted alarm.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">• How did airport security, improved at much cost after the 2001 terrorist attacks, miss the bomber's concealed explosives?<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">• How did the terrorist watchlist system allow Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to keep his American tourist visa and avoid extra flight screening despite his father telling authorities his concerns about the younger man's radicalization?<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">• Why didn't Abdulmutallab's lack of luggage, and cash purchase for an international flight, raise suspicions?<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">• Why was the plot thwarted only by an apparent explosive malfunction and fellow passengers' quick action?<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amid those questions, administration officials' repeated statements that "the system worked" were jarring. They made it sound like the administration doesn't get it, like it is paying too much attention to political fallout and too little to public fears.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Officials insist the assertion, made by <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_4" style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer;">Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano</span> and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs Sunday on television talk shows, referred only to heightened security procedures scrambled into place after the incident.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They say it is being purposely taken out of context by partisans playing politics with near-disaster.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They note Obama ordered two reviews, of the nation's multilayered terrorist watchlist system and of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_5">airport security procedures</span>, something he clearly wouldn't do if he believed there were no flaws.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gibbs and Napolitano also were hoping, with the busy holiday travel season still in full force, to instill confidence in air safety.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The system worked," Napolitano declared on CNN during questioning about the lapses. Gibbs used nearly the same language on CBS, saying that "in many ways, this system has worked," without elaborating.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Later that same day, Napolitano put it differently on ABC, saying "once the incident occurred, the system worked." She tried again on Monday, saying in a round of TV interviews that "our system did not work in this instance. No one is happy or satisfied with that."<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But the damage was done.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Members of Congress — Republicans, but some Democrats too — were incredulous that "the system worked" was used in any context to describe what happened. "It is insulting that the Obama administration would make such a claim," <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_6">Rep. Pete Hoekstra</span>, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee — who is running for governor in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1262124203_7">Michigan</span> — said in a campaign e-mail.<br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The other thing I find interesting about this story. After the Fort Hood massacre nobody from the Obama administration wanted to call it a terrorist attack. They seem so worried about offending someone by not being politically correct. They have tried to turn it into a non-story even though some of the Bush era policies that Obama changed when he took office may have contributed to the FBI not being able to prevent the attack. But on the Christmas day attack it was immediately called terrorism by the administration.<br />
</div></div></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-32764955681344682142009-12-23T10:53:00.000-08:002009-12-23T10:53:34.142-08:00Balloon boy parents get jail time, tough probationFORT COLLINS, Colo. – The parents who carried out the balloon boy hoax were sentenced to jail Wednesday and given strict probation conditions that forbid them from earning any money from the spectacle for four years.<br />
<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261591389_0" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;">Richard Heene</span> was sentenced to 90 days in jail, including 60 days of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1261591389_1">work release</span> that will let him pursue his job as a construction contractor while serving his time. His wife, Mayumi, was sentenced to 20 days in jail.<br />
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This sentence sounds about right to me. It also includes paying restitution to the agencies that responded to the hoax. The bill could be up to $50,000. That probably does not include the costs because of the delays at Denver International Airport, where planes were delayed and diverted away from the balloon. <br />
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I happened to be home for lunch when the balloon finally came down and I watched live on the internet as they discovered that the little boy was not in the balloon. The whole thing was really scary and captivated the nation for the short time it played out.Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-88097769191639309512009-12-20T11:15:00.000-08:002009-12-20T11:15:32.527-08:00More Government Transparency from the Obama AdministrationSo much for Obama having openness in his administration. His Attorney General is promoting racism and obstruction of justice and some in Congress are not happy about it. I wonder what bribe will be offered these representatives to drop their investigation. One thing did catch my eye in the following article. The New Black Panthers advocate violence against Non-Blacks and Jews. It is probably OK with many people in America to discriminate against White Christians, but if you mess with Jews then some folks may have a problem with that.<br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The United States Civil Rights Commission, an eight-member agency that investigates accusations of discrimination, has launched its latest offensive against a most unusual target: the Justice Department.<br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The commission is investigating why the Justice Department dropped charges in May against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in a voter intimidation case that the government won.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Justice Department has defended its actions, saying it obtained an injunction against one member while dismissing charges against the others "based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But that explanation hasn't satisfied the commission or Republican lawmakers, who say the dismissal could lead to an escalation of voter intimidation.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three members of the radical group were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force in November 2008 -- one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.<br />
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</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Obama administration won the case in April but moved to dismiss the charges in May without explanation.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After Republican lawmakers pushed in the summer for an internal investigation, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility obliged, starting a probe that the department has said should conclude before it cooperates with the commission's investigation.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., announced Thursday that he had inserted language into the annual Justice funding bill that requires the OPR to provide results of its investigation -- a resolution that has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and must be voted on within 14 legislative days.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I regret that Congress must resort to oversight resolutions as a means to receive information about the dismissal of this case, but the Congress and the American people have a right to know why this case was not prosecuted," Wolf said in a written statement.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Time and again over the last year, the department has stonewalled any effort to learn about the decision to dismiss the case," he continued. "I have written Attorney General (Eric) Holder on six occasions asking for an explanation for the dismissal of this case. To date, I have received no response from him."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The commission feels it is being stonewalled, too, and has filed subpoenas with the department for the information as well as to interview career attorneys that handled the case.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"They've never given a satisfactory answer," said Todd Gaziano, a member of the commission and director of the conservative Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. "There is a heavy burden on the Justice Department to explain why those facts in the complaint do not constitute voter intimidation."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When asked about the commission's repeated requests for information, Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said, "We're reviewing the commission's request."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She told FoxNews.com that the civil division at the department reviews "these types of requests in accordance with longstanding guidelines governing the disclosure of internal department information."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The commission is likely to hold a public hearing on the case early next year and could have a report out by September, Gaziano said.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The commissions sent two inquiries into the Justice Department's dismissal of the case in June and received what it called a "largely non-responsive letter" from the Justice Department in July and none of the documents requested. The commission sent another inquiry in August and September when it said it received notification from the Justice Department that it would not provide any information until its internal investigation was complete.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That prompted the commission to issue subpoenas and send its latest missive this month, a response to a Justice Department letter in November that that the commission said challenged its authority to subpoena the department or its employees.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"While your letter refers to an ongoing 'dialogue' between the Department and the Commission, it is the dearth of cooperation on the part of the Department that has resulted in the Commission's need to issue subpoenas," David Blackwood, general counsel for the commission, wrote.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We are both mindful of the sensitivity of the subject matter involved and aware that, in response to similar requests, the department has raised various concerns and matters of privilege," Blackwood wrote. "While such considerations carry weight, cooperation with commission investigations is a mandatory statutory obligation."<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Moreoever, due to the unique investigative role of the commission -- akin to that of a congressional committee - -disclosure to the commission of the information sought it is both proper and required,' he added.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wolf said in his written statement that the attorney general has instructed his department to ignore the subpoenas.<br />
</div><div style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.35em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The nation's chief law enforcement officer is forcing these career attorneys to choose between complying with the law and complying with the attorney general's obstruction," he said, adding that one of the attorneys has been compelled to obtain private counsel.<br />
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</div></div></div></span></h1>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-4043848544953820742009-11-17T22:35:00.000-08:002009-11-17T22:38:15.711-08:00Government Contractor FraudThis one is for Rain, since she mentioned this type of thing in her comment on the last post. <br /><br /><h2 class=" EIP_title EIP_postid5606 ">US Attorney: Scammed While Feeding Troops</h2> <span class="time">November 17, 2009 - 7:34 AM<span class="time"> | by: <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/author/bblanton/">Brooks Blanton</a><br /><br /></span></span><p style="font-size: 12px;">A logistics and warehousing company is in hot water for allegedly overcharging taxpayers tens of millions of dollars for feeding US Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Jordan. The United States Attorney announced a six count indictment against Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company (PWC Logistics) at a press conference in Atlanta today. PWC, which changed their name to Agility in 2006, is a Department of Defense contractor. According to the 60 page indictment obtained by Fox News, PWC is accused of making false statements, submitting false claims and wire fraud. Investigators estimate the loss to U.S. taxpayers exceed $65 Million so far, but expect that number to grow as the investigation continues.</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">“This indictment is only the first step needed to address the fraud that has led to the massive overcharging of the United States,” said Acting US Attorney Gentry Shelnutt. “This office and the federal investigative agencies have dedicated ourselves to continue to pursue related serious allegations of fraud and abuse.”</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">The government paid PWC more than $8.5 Billion in defense contracts for supplying food to troops on the ground in the Middle East since 2003. But investigators say they discovered the company was overcharging for food and services by hiding discounts, concealing rebates and marking up the cost of food above retail prices in local markets. According to US contracts, vendors are required to pass along any rebates or discount savings to the US Government, something they say PWC intentionally failed to do.</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">Assistant U.S. Attorney Barbara Nelan said that PWC initially submitted false invoices and grossly undervalued quotes during the bidding process to win the contract. But federal investigators didn’t start looking into the companies actions until a civil lawsuit was filed in 2005 and someone tipped them off to the alleged overbilling.</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">Amazingly, despite on-going criminal investigations and today’s fraud indictments, PWC still has contracts with the government through the end of next year. Nelan and Shelnutt referred questions about PWC’s on-going defense contracts to the Department of Defense, saying it is out of their reach.</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">“What happens on the civil side of contracting with PWC is really beyond the scope of the criminal indictment,” Nelan says. “It is not something we are concerned with, we are just concerned with the criminal.”</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">A representative of the company will make an initial appearance in Federal Court in Atlanta to answer the charges on Friday.</p> <p style="font-size: 12px;">PWC released a statement this afternoon saying "the prices it charges have been negotiated with, agreed to, and continually approved as by the U.S. government ... The government has consistently found PWC's prices to be fair and reasonable." The statement went on to say that an indictment is an allegation and they are confident the US Attorney's charges will be found to be without merit.<br /></p>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19233843.post-54147715451321692712009-11-17T09:31:00.000-08:002009-11-17T09:36:41.882-08:00Is the Honeymoon Over?It looks like the media and the Congressional leaders may start treating Obama like a President and not like the chosen one. First the President was asked a question by a reporter about his lack of a decision on Afghanistan and now a Democratic Congressman is is questioning Recovery.gov.<div><br /></div><div>It will be interesting to see how this administration acts when they are treated more like every other administration in the last 40 years. But I think we already know the answer to that based on Obama's response to the AP reporter that asked the Afghan question.</div><div><br /></div><div>This one is more funny than that though.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 19px; "><h1 id="story-title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; line-height: 32px; letter-spacing: -0.05em; background-position: initial initial; ">Congressman Blasts White House for Faulty Job Data on Government Web Site</h1><p class="author" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.35em; float: left; background-position: initial initial; ">by </p><p class="source" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 1.35em; float: left; background-position: initial initial; ">FOXNews.com</p><p id="story-dek" class="deck" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; clear: both; background-position: initial initial; "><span class="dateline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; text-transform: uppercase; font-style: italic; background-position: initial initial; "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">The government Web site -- Recovery.gov -- is under fire for posting a number of jobs created in congressional districts that don't exist and for accepting unrealistic data from several reporting outlets.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 19px; "></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">The Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee is demanding greater accountability from the the Obama administration after gross inaccuracies were found on a government Web site that tracks jobs purportedly saved or created by the $787 billion stimulus plan.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">In a statement late Monday, Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House committee, called the inaccuracies "outrageous" and said the administration owes the American public "a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">"Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it," Obey said. "We designed the Recovery Act to be open and transparent and I expect the the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, who oversees the recovery act Web site and data to have information that is accurate, reliable and understandable to the American public."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">The site -- Recovery.gov -- is under fire for posting a number of jobs created in congressional districts that don't exist and for accepting unrealistic data from several reporting outlets.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">For instance, the Web site reported that 30 jobs were saved or created with $761,420 of federal stimulus spending in Arizona's 15th Congressional District. One problem with the claim -- the state has only eight districts </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">The site also lists 12 other non-existent districts in Arizona where jobs were reportedly saved or created. It also lists imaginary districts in at least three other states, including Oklahoma, Iowa, and Connecticut.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">One recipient of stimulus funds, Talladega County of Alabama, claimed that it had saved or created 5,000 jobs from only $42,000 in government money -- which would amount to $8.40 in annual income per job if each position received an equal amount of funding.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.35em; background-position: initial initial; ">ABC News reported Monday that the White House slashed 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the recovery program as a result of the faulty data.</p></span><p></p></div>Ingineer66http://www.blogger.com/profile/01319022726561229313noreply@blogger.com4