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Alberto Gonzales Can’t Find a Job, Whines

Alberto Gonzlaes has decided to write a book. It will consist of several hundred blank pages, as he simply doesn’t recall much of what he did during his tenure in the Bush Administration. What is pitiful is that Gonzales compares himself to victims of the War on Terror, because the Senate picked on him, I suppose. Shameful and pitiful.

The nice enemy

Canada: the 'nice' enemy

Canada: the 'nice' enemy

As the Taliban's snowbirds frolic in camps in Pakistan, experts reflect on the protagonists in Afghanistan

By MATTHEW FISHERDecember 30, 2008



Taliban fighters who only weeks ago were at war with Canadian troops in Kandahar frolicked at a lake near the northern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

The holidayers are part of the annual fall migration of large numbers of Taliban fighters from the many battlefields of southern and eastern Afghanistan. As cold nights sap their energy to fight in the lowlands and snow chokes mountain passes, the Taliban flood into Afghan refugee camps to the north of the Pakistani capital for the winter.

"Those who fight the Canadians are retiring for the winter," said Sami Yousafzai, a Newsweek correspondent widely considered to have the best contacts among the Taliban of any journalist.

I feel sorry for the replacement Senator--he won't get respect

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obama rejects Senate replacement

Barack Obama says Democratic senators should reject the man proposed by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to replace Mr Obama in the US Senate.

Mr Blagojevich is the subject of a criminal inquiry and has been charged with attempting to "sell" Mr Obama's now-vacant seat to the highest bidder.

The governor defied pressure to pick Roland Burris, the state's former attorney general, to fill the position.

Democratic senators have vowed to veto anyone appointed by Mr Blagojevich.

The president-elect said he agreed the Senate "cannot accept" a new senator chosen by Mr Blagojevich, adding that Mr Blagojevich himself should resign.

Right-wing insanity on display in this one

Daily Kos: Freepers Call for FOX Boycott

Here are some examples:

Yesterday I had had enough!! Fox left us behind with all the democrat talking heads.

That with all of this working to hurt Sarah Palin is the end for me.

I really think that God will step in and fight for her. He never
rushes in. He is kind and sometimes He waits to let people show their
worst. The time will come when He will move and when He does, I wonder
how much power Fox News will have left.

I would not want to be in the shoes of all of those working to destroy Sarah Palin

I thought the new Huckabee show was going to be fun and last week he had it chocked full of liberal guests.

If FOX wants me back they will bring on Glenn Beck and Rush. I have had it with weasels like Hannity and O’Reilly.

The problem with FOX is that they are pandering to people that truly want fair and balanced. We conservatives want the truth.

“150 MPG” Hybrid SUV Company Claims it is Being “Muzzled”

Just weeks before the 2008 LA Auto Show, hybrid car and powertrain
maker AFS Trinity is pulling out after saying that show management
“muzzled” them by disallowing claims that their highly modified Saturn
Vue plug-in hybrids can achieve 150 mpg.

In a statement,
AFS Trinity said that “carmakers continue to seek tens of billions of
taxpayer dollars, ostensibly to develop fuel-efficient vehicle
technologies, but their conduct is evidence they are reluctant to
embrace solutions they didn’t invent.”

• » Read more on Fuel economy
• » Read more on Plug-in hybrid EVs
• » See peer reviews of Fuel Efficient Cars at Green Home

In the show management’s defense, AFS Trinity’s 150 mpg claim is
associated with a specific driving pattern which may or may not
represent average driving conditions. If their hybrids are driven 40
miles per day for 6 days and then 80 miles on one day of the week, they
use about 2 gallons to go 300 miles — which equals 150 mpg.

Because plug-in hybrids are such new technology, there is no agreed
upon method to estimate fuel economy. Typically, a plug-in hybrid can
drive up to 40 miles per day without needing to use any fuel, and
beyond 40 miles the engine kicks in and charges a battery which then
powers the car. If you only drive more than 40 miles once in a blue
moon, you could have a rather ridiculous fuel economy of several
thousand miles per gallon.

What, then, is an appropriate way to rate the fuel economy of these
new types of cars? An email from LA Auto Show management to AFS Trinity
states:

“We cannot approve this content . . . the mileage claim
is of primary concern to us. Manufacturers are forced to quote EPA
verified mpg numbers in their advertising, and . . . [your] 150-MPG
figure is an estimation. A banner like this one in the lobby is likely
to generate unfavorable reactions from manufacturers, which is
something we will take action to avoid.”

AFS countered that no concept or prototype car at the auto show has
its fuel economy certified by EPA prior to being exhibited, and told
show management they would change their promotional materials to say
that the 150 mpg claim is an “estimate.” In response, AFS Trinity was
told that no materials would be accepted in any form that made a claim
of 150 mpg and that the issue was “no longer a topic for further
discussion.”

EPA has been struggling with how to rate the fuel economy of plug-in hybrids — the most recent being a spat between EPA and GM about how to rate the upcoming Chevy Volt.
So, for the LA Auto Show management to claim that AFS Trinity is not
using approved EPA methods to estimate fuel economy, they’re kind of
off base, because even the EPA doesn’t really know how to rate fuel
economy with some of the new alternative powered vehicles.

AFS Trinity says they will be exhibiting their extreme hybrids
elsewhere in downtown LA during the auto show. I’ll be sure to go check
their cars out while I’m down there to see what all the hoopla’s about.

Image Credit and Source: AFS Trinity Power Corporation

I like this guy's thinking and please pay attention to the last sentence.

Kirby on gay marriage: It's official - I don't care - Salt Lake Tribune

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Kirby on gay marriage: It's official - I don't care
Tribune Columnist
Article Launched: 10/24/2008 01:00:00 AM MDT

Robert Kirby
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* Nov 7:
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Posted: 7:15 PM-
A couple of years ago, I wrote a column in which I announced my official position on gay marriage. Basically, I don't care.
Not only do I not care if gays get married, it is none of my business. As a flaming heterosexual, it's a full-time job for me just to keep my thoughts clean in church. I don't have the energy to fret about somebody else's libido.
The column must have resurfaced on the Internet. I'm getting mail again telling me what a failure I am as a Mormon because I'm not solidly behind Proposition 8. As I understand it, the California ballot item would prevent the domestication of homosexuals. Or something like that.
Here are just a few of the attempts to get me to see reason.
"Are you a member or not? Do you want gays to get married in the temple? Please follow the brotheren's [sic] council [sic] on Proposition 8. This is a important gospel principal [sic]." G., e-mail.
"No unclean thing can enter the house of the Lord. Gays are unclean because of the Scriptures. You have to be hot or cold about it or the Lord will spat you out." T., e-mail.
"Were you listening in church when the letter was read from the First Presidency about supporting proposition eight?" R.Y., e-mail.
"Get with Prop 8 or your [sic] a homo." Anonymous,
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letter.
Hard as it is to counter such brilliant logic, my position hasn't changed. The only serious concern I have about gays getting married is that they'll register someplace pricey.
The church is serious about the sanctity of marriage. I get that. But aren't more potentially "dangerous" marriages already being performed out there?
For example, I hear in church all the time about marriage being ordained of God. But I also hear about how the glory of God is intelligence.
Shouldn't it be against the law for stupid people to get married? What's more harmful to society - two well-dressed men getting married and settling down, or two idiots tying the knot and cranking out any number of additional idiots?
You should have to pass a harder test to get married than the one we currently have. Essentially, there are but two questions: "How old are you?" and "Is that your sister?" Hell, you could pass this test just by guessing.
There are drawbacks. Most people get married when hormones and youth make them about as dumb as they'll ever be. So, even a relatively easy test would by default raise the age limit to about 40.
With an increased marriage age limit, there would be fewer births. Genealogy would become easier to do. With fewer births, there would be fewer children born gay. Hey, isn't that what Heavenly Father would want?
OK, I was just kidding about that. But if you're really serious about putting a stop to gay sex, let them get married.
rkirby@sltrib.com

Bone Marrow Transplant Cures Patient of Aids

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow
transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy
strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the
disease.

The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still
recovering from his leukemia therapy, but he appears to have won his
battle with AIDS. Doctors have not been able to detect the virus in his
blood for more than 600 days, despite his having ceased all
conventional AIDS medication. Normally when a patient stops taking AIDS
drugs, the virus stampedes through the body within weeks, or days.

U.S. military researchers grow new limbs, organs

American military researchers say they have unlocked the secret to
regrowing limbs and recreating organs in humans who have sustained
major injuries.

Using "nanoscaffolding," the researchers have regrown a man's fingertip and the internal organs of several test subjects.

The
technology works by placing a very fine apparatus called a scaffold,
which is made of polymer fibres hundreds of times finer than a human
hair, in place of a missing limb or damaged organ. The scaffold acts as
a guide for cells to grab onto so they can begin to rebuild missing
bones and tissue.

MONTREAL

-- Nicknamed the Mata Hari of the 450 area code in reference to the
Dutch dancer who used her charms to spy for the Germans during World
War I, Julie Couillard is described by a source close to one of her
former lovers as "a man-eater."

Indeed, her ex-husband Stephane Sirois has
said in media reports: "I'm not a saint but neither is she. She is
attracted to people who have money and power."

Sirois, a former member of the Quebec
biker gang the Rockers turned police informant, is under the Witness
Protection Program because of the role he played in the 2003 trial of
Hells Angels Leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher -- and he's not kind to
Julie, describing her as a charmer who now pretends to be easily
offended because her name has been dragged in the mud.

Sirois said he met Couillard one spring night in 1997 at a bar in Montreal's north end.

"We were partying. The club was known for being a biker bar. Why would
she show up there if she didn't want to meet bikers?" he said.

After a few weeks of courting, the couple wed on Sept. 19, 1997.
Sources said about 100 people -- including members of organized crime
-- attended the ceremony and reception. The couple divorced in April
1999.

According to public documents, Couillard
describes herself at times as a businesswoman, consultant and real
estate promoter who volunteers at federal elections.

She has been a licensed real estate agent since April 2007. Her licence was renewed in January 2008.

Through the real estate development company Kevlar, she apparently
approached people in political circles to land a construction contract
for a federal building project in Quebec City. She also attended
Conservative party fundraisers.

UN: Abolish the Monarchy in England--Idiotic I say

BRITAIN has been told to get rid of the Queen in an official United Nations report.

The UN Human Rights Council says the UK must “consider holding a referendum

on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably
republican”.

The demand by the council, which includes regimes like Saudi Arabia and Cuba among its 29 members, caused outrage last night.

Advisers to the Queen refused to comment publicly. But privately they admitted being astonished.

With Countries like Saudi Arabia and Sudan pushing for this, one wonders at the insanity of these great thinkers.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

War Profiteering in Iraq

A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have
been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.

For the first time, the extent to which some private contractors have
profited from the conflict and rebuilding has been researched by the
BBC's Panorama using US and Iraqi government sources.

A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.


Read More BBC NEWS | Middle East | BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions

Jian Ghomeshi Q Radio on CBC Radio

Q | CBC Radio

Fantastic interviews and Ghomeshi is a great radio personality/interviewer.

Could the Zeppelin return to service?

Germany is producing zeppelins again. More than 70 years after the
infamous Hindenburg disaster, its latest airship was gently guided out
of the hangar doors last month to make its maiden test flight.

The
Zeppelin NT, built from endowment money left behind by German airship
pioneer Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, will make further test flights
around Friedrichshafen over the coming months, before flying to London
- where a former contestant from The Apprentice, Rory Laing, plans to
offer tourist joyrides over the capital for £150 a throw.

Read more

The saddest photo on the internet

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Will things ever get better in Africa? I doubt it.

Opinion: Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

School gave me diploma illegally

Forsyth Central High School gave me passing marks in Economics,
Statistics, and 12th Grade Literature, in which I did not deserve. I
totally failed my Lit. exam scoring a 24, but on my report card it was
recorded as an 80, which was just enough for me to pass. Same with
Econ., I missed the exam completely, didn't even take it, yet it was
recorded as a 100 on my report card. With Stat., I didn't turn in most
of my assignments, but I wasn't given zeros, instead they were just
left blank so it wouldn't count against me. I know it's wierd for me to
complain about passing, but I was planning on being a 5th year senior
and now my plans are messed up. I don't know what type of lawsuit this
would be, or what kind of compensation I should be asking for (I would
like to get my diploma revoked if at all possible). Also, not sure if I
should be sueing the actual school, or just the individual teachers.
All I know is that it can't possibly be legal for a school to pass a
student without merit. Also, I kind of have a short time window as I'd
like to be reinstated before the next school year starts in August, and
I know these lawsuits take a long time to get resolved, and I don't
even know if it's possible to get one done that quickly, but I'd like
to try. Anyway, regardless of the circumstances, I would still like to
know if I have a case. Please help me out as I am desperately seeking
justice.

Check it out

Internet Acronyms for Photographers at All Day I Dream About Photography

Shocking news from Isael--incest out of control

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1809880,00.html

Among Israel's ultra-orthodox Jews, the Haredim, social workers are
often called "child-snatchers" and the police "Cossacks," harking back
to the 19th century pogroms against Jews in Russia. These cloistered
communities, in which women are expected to raise and financially
support their large families while their husbands spend their days
stooped over the Torah, make up 10% of Israel's population and a third
of Jerusalem's, and consider themselves defenders of a core morality in
Jewish society. But that moral authority has come under scrutiny since
evidence began to emerge in March of incest, rape and child abuse in
four different ultra-orthodox enclaves around the country.

Click the link above to read more

Hillary deserves more respect

I'm totally disgusted by the right-wing spin doctors who've managed to turn people against Hillary Clinton. Robert Kennedy Jr. said that Americans are the most entertained and least informed of all people in the world. A majority of Americans still believe that Obama is a Muslim.

Truth has nothing to do with anything when it comes to what people believe during this dreadful period of US history. I believe that Republican evil doers have managed everything in this election year in order to gain a win for McCain.
The push to have Hillary throw in the towel when it is her perfect right to continue attempting to win the Democratic Nomination is amazing given that she is still winning Primaries.
I have nothing against Obama but I hate the protracted putting down of Hillary especially when the accusations are based on hearsay and idle gossip that isn't based on truth.

A Bank that won't screw you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAK_members_bank

The JAK Members Bank, or JAK Medlemsbank is a cooperative, member-owned bank based in Skovde, Sweden. JAK is an acronym for Jord Arbete Kapital in Swedish or Land Labour Capital.
A membership of approximately 35,000 (as of 2008) dictates the bank's
policy and direction. Board of Directors is voted annually by members,
who are allowed only to have one share of the bank. Similar to Islamic banking, the JAK Members Bank does not charge or pay interest on its loans (see Usury). All of the bank's activities occur outside of the capital market
as its loans are financed solely by member savings. As of 2008 members
saved 97 million Euros, of which 86 million are given as loans to
members. Administrative and developmental costs are paid for by
membership and loan fees (effective interest rate on loans is about 2,5% on average).

JAK banking is made possible by saving points system: members
accumulate saving points during saving periods, they use saving points
asking for a loan. The main idea is that one is allowed to take a loan
for himself in the same measure he allows other people to have loans,
saving into his account. For this reason - asking for a loan - earned
saving points must be equal to spent saving points, in order to keep
system sustainability. If a member is borrowing more saving points than
he has, he is obliged to continue accumulating so-called "aftersavings" during repayment period. "Aftersavings" are a fixed quota of money that one has to save after
his loan was given, in order to continue earning saving points. By this
way, at the end of his repayment period, earned saving points will be
equal to spent saving points, and at that time he will be able to have
back all his aftersavings.

Click the link above to learn more.

photos of Animals in Love

Animals In Love - mike fuer sl

The big lie that isn't being discussed regarding the referendum in Quebec

Yet none of the institutions we depend on for justice seemed to give a damn

NORMAN WEBSTER,
The Gazette

Published: 6 hours ago

Those
"spoiled" referendum ballots from 1995, off for burning or shredding or
kitty litter or whatever, represent a huge failure of Quebec society.
What we have here is inaction in one of the great political scandals in
Canadian history - arguably, the greatest of them all. If it had
succeeded, its consequences would have far outranked the Pacific
scandal or Beauharnois, Munsinger or sponsorship.

To
recapitulate, many thousands of perfectly valid No votes in the
sovereignty referendum were thrown out by Parti Québécois poll
officials. More such votes were accepted only because observers on the
scene raised a stink. Nobody knows how many No votes across the
province were, or almost were, illegally invalidated - but their total
could have been decisive in what everyone knew would be a
skin-of-the-teeth poll.

Simply put, this was fraud that could have cost us our country.