My Predictions for the Obama ?Presidency?
2008-11-28 21:21:00 Now that America has shown us all that affirmative action even works in politics, I’ve compiled a list of things that you can probably expect to happen. These predictions are 80% gleaned from information I have access to, and 15% gut instinct based on many years of research, historical study, and being glued to current ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Waking Up Is The Worst Part Of My Day
2008-06-03 10:27:00 That dinosaur is beeping at me! Why is a horny triceratops making that god-awful sound? Oh, it?s not a noisy dinosaur?it?s my goddamn alarm clock. How depressing - it?s time to wake up. Opening my eyes after a beautiful night of sleep is the worst part of my day. I immediately roll over, slam the pillow ...
Insane Editorials: Kerry Goes #7, cBS Goes Moonbat
2008-05-24 22:26:00 Everyone seems to have hit on Monsieur Kerry’s Washington Post editorial, which would probably more at home on the Huffington Post or the Daily Kos, and it looks as if he is pulling a #7 on The 8 Stages Of Liberal/Progressive Discussion When They Are Busted: 7. Declare victory! Those dastardly Conservatives have been proven ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Wall Street Journal - McCain's Climate 'Market' is Obama-lite
2008-05-13 20:46:00 The latest stop on John McCain's policy tour came at an Oregon wind-turbine manufacturer, where the topic was ? what else? ? the Senator's plan to address climate change. This is one of those issues where Mr. McCain indulges his "maverick" tendencies, which usually means taking the liberal line. That was the case yesterday, no matter how frequently he claimed his approach was "market based." In fact, if "the market" is your favored mechanism, Mr. McCain's endorsement of a "cap and trade" system is the worst choice for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The Bush Administration has pursued one option, which combines voluntary measures with subsidies for "clean" alternatives. Since 2001 under this approach, U.S. net carbon emissions have fallen by 3% ? that is, by more than all but four countries in cap-and-trade-bound Europe. At the other end of the market spectrum is a straight carbon tax, which would at least distribute costs more efficiently. It would also force politicians to...
Foul Play Act
2008-04-27 00:38:00 Every now and then ? once or twice a year ? Congress attempts to do the work that its constituents sent the Members to do. But most days are like Wednesday, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could find nothing more pressing than to force an awkward vote on Republicans in an election year. The vehicle was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which passed the House last summer but which President Bush has threatened to veto. Ms. Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tire & Rubber for 20 years before retiring a decade ago. Only after she took her pension ? and her old boss had died ? did she sue her former employer for pay discrimination. Last May, the Supreme Court sensibly ruled that the statute of limitations on these cases means what it was intended to mean. To wit: A claim that is not filed in a timely fashion (within 180 days in most pay-discrimination suits) should be thrown out. Ms. Ledbetter took the novel view that decisions made decades ago by her now-deceased former boss affecte...
No Lawyers, Please
2008-04-07 00:25:00 A poll released this week finds that most Americans do not want their day in court. Rather, they prefer cheaper and faster methods of settling arguments. When asked how they'd like to settle a dispute with a company, 82% chose arbitration, which avoids the time and expense of going to court. Only 15% opted for litigation. Americans are not confident that a lawsuit will produce a fair result, reports the poll, but a solid majority looks favorably on mediation and arbitration. The survey was conducted by Barack Obama's pollster on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and it may torpedo pending Democratic legislation. Benenson Strategy Group, whose Joel Benenson polls for the Obama campaign, conducted the survey along with respected GOP pollster Bill McInturff. There is an eerie echo here of Hillary Clinton's Mark Penn, presumably caught off base helping Colombia secure a free trade agreement. In fact, Mr. Benenson's work merely reflects earlier findings from the American Bar ...
Hillary's Bad History
2008-04-01 03:41:00 No, not sniper fire in Bosnia. We're referring to Hillary Clinton's lament last week that the U.S. is flirting with a 1990s Japan-style deflation. Perhaps it's a good time to remind everyone what really happened in Japan, so Mrs. Clinton and the rest of Washington don't make the same mistakes. "I don't think we can work our way out of the problems we're in in the broad-based economy with monetary policy alone," Mrs. Clinton said in the interview with Journal reporters. "I think the Japanese tried that and tried and tried that." She added Japan should have relied more on fiscal stimulus spending and aid to banks and homeowners, which is what she wants Washington to try now. The Senator needs a refresher in Japanese economic history. Far from easing monetary policy, the Bank of Japan kept money too tight for too long in the early 1990s. Japan's stock market slide began in early 1990, but its central bank raised interest rates through most of that year and didn't cut them unt...
Diary of a World of Warcraft Player - These Kids Have No Game
2008-03-26 01:16:00 I am at the mercy of children for approximately 86 hours per week. I speak, of course, of my time spent in the World of Warcraft. I am a Gnome Warlock, a Master Alchemist and an Auction House tycoon. I rule. I try to be friendly to the children who play this game. There are lots of ...
latest editorials for MAISON & DECORATION | April 2008
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By: yatzer
Guns and Legal Ammo
2008-03-22 05:47:00 As shoot-outs go, the Supreme Court had a famous one Tuesday during oral arguments over the constitutionality of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban. The smoke won't clear until the High Court issues its decision, but the debate this week augurs well for a conclusion that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. District of Columbia v. Heller has become the test case for a question that has animated legal scholars, politicians and lower courts for much of our modern history: Is the Second Amendment guarantee a collective right, which is to say it is reserved only for state militias, or is it an individual right? Judge Laurence Silberman's landmark opinion last year for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down D.C.'s ban on handguns, rejecting the militia argument and scouring the historical and legal record to show that the Founders clearly intended to protect an individual's right to defend himself and family. The District appealed, and so the Supreme...
5 Secret Ways To Generate Traffic For Your Blog (I Mean My Blog)
2008-03-18 07:40:00 Jesus and the Bible are important. So is Israel, Iraq, the War on Terror and 9/11. Let’s face it, at the end of the day, parenting and diet tips are hard to come by. Does Osama Bin Laden wonder how single or gay parents effectively raise children or where iron chefs like Rachael Ray and ...
Spitzer's Rise and Fall
2008-03-12 03:24:00 One might call it Shakespearian if there were a shred of nobleness in the story of Eliot Spitzer's fall. There is none. Governor Spitzer, who made his career by specializing in not just the prosecution, but the ruin, of other men, is himself almost certainly ruined. Mr. Spitzer's brief statement yesterday about a "private matter" surely involves what are widely reported to be his activities with an expensive prostitution ring discovered by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Those who believe Eliot Spitzer is getting his just desserts may be entitled to that view, but it misses the greater lesson for our politics. Mr. Spitzer coasted into the Governorship on the wings of a reputation as a "tough" public prosecutor. Mr. Spitzer, though, was no emperor. He had not merely arrogated to himself the powers he held and used with such aggression. He was elected. In our system, citizens agree to invest one of their own with the power of public prosecution....
President "Whatever"
2008-03-03 16:00:00 Hillary Clinton has been criticized for not knowing the name of Russia's new President. "Meh, um, Menedvadah -- whatever," she said at last week's debate. But her slip actually told a larger truth because, as Mrs. Clinton also put it, "the decisions will be made by Putin." Russians yesterday "elected" 42-year-old lawyer Dmitry Medvedev, but the truth is that Vladimir Putin made sure power would stay in his hands. Mr. Medvedev gets a new office and some powers of appointment. But Mr. Putin will soon become Prime Minister and can count on support from cronies across the government who depend on him for their survival. Mr. Medvedev refused to debate his notional opponents, all pre-approved by the Kremlin; gave no press conference; and spent a single day campaigning. To be sure, Mr. Putin will no longer be President, and he and his inner circle will have to adjust to his new job. Over time, Mr. Medvedev may even be so bold as to have his own ideas and wish to build an independent po...
Miserable Traveler Can?t Wait To Visit The Next Stupid Country
2008-03-03 07:58:00 Where is my luggage? The flight?s delayed…again? Well, hurry up so I can get to my next horrible destination. Why did I come to Paris anyway? The people are indignant; the architecture is only impressive in postcard-form and the whole place reaks of rolled cigarettes and infidelity. I can?t wait to travel someplace equally terrible. Last ...
Essay & Editorials BBC Interview
2008-02-27 12:45:00 Essays & Editorials The Department of History, University of Northampton & The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team BBC Interview with Matthew Feldman on David Irving MP3 Audio files Get Windows Media Player [here] Part 1 Matthew Feldman discusses David Irving, his recent incarceration, his work as a historian; both past & present. &-nbsp; Also discussed is global Holocaust Denial. &-nbsp; Part 2 How images of the Holocaust impact peoples views relating to denial, and how physical evidence can be manipulated or rejected by Holocaust revisionists. Also discussed are issues of Free Speech, and what constitutes racial and religious hatred.The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Teamwww.HolocaustResearchProjec-t.org
Nader's Triumph
2008-02-26 16:33:00 It's February of an election year, so naturally Ralph Nader has announced that he plans to run for President. Mr. Nader wants to make it three elections in a row because, he says, all of the remaining major party candidates are too close to corporate interests and don't want to repeal "the notorious Taft-Hartley Act," among other epic failings he mentioned Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Democrats reacted with restrained hostility, since so many of them still blame Mr. Nader for stealing enough votes from Al Gore in 2000 to throw Florida to George W. Bush. Nationwide, however, the left-wing gadfly won only 2.7% of the vote that year, and in 2004 his share slipped to 0.3%, which is likely to exceed whatever he wins this year. In 2000, Saint Ralph ran as the Green Party candidate, but this year that singular honor seems destined for the memorably modest former Georgia Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney. This means he'll have to scramble to get on the ballot in many states, where ...
Twilight of the Dictators: A Chance for Pakistan ? and the U.S.
2008-02-20 11:31:00 After years of American enabling and billions in American aid, Pakistan?s Pervez Musharraf, was ? to put it delicately ? trounced in Monday?s parliamentary elections. The results are much better than the United States could hope for, and more than President Bush deserved after overinvesting in the former general and his anti-democratic excesses. The White House has long insisted that there was no choice but to look the other way as Mr. Musharraf jailed journalists and lawyers, dismissed the Supreme Court and declared emergency rule. Islamist extremists, we were told, would win any fair democratic fight. Instead, even with a rigged system, the moderates managed to win. Now the question is whether the Bush administration can take this opportunity and develop a sensible policy that focuses both on building stable democratic institutions in Pakistan and winning popular support for combating Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Even with all that American money ? and the advice of an American pu...
States of Opportunity: Americans Relocating in Record Numbers
2008-02-13 04:21:00 An old adage says high taxes don't redistribute income, they redistribute people. For new evidence look no further than migration patterns within the United States, as documented in a new survey by the moving company United Van Lines. A record eight million Americans -- some 20,000 people every day -- relocated to another state last year. So where are these families headed and why? The general picture is this: Americans are continuing to flee the Northeast and Midwest, while the leading destinations continue to be Southern and Western states. The United Van Lines study finds that the biggest population loser last year was Michigan, where two families moved out of the state for every new family that moved in. Americans are also fleeing New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Without interviewing the departed, it's impossible to know the reasons for this outward migration. No doubt overall economic prospects, climate, quality of life and housing prices play a role. ...
Revisionist History - The Biography of Rosie O?Donnell
2008-02-12 01:18:00 *Revisionist History is an ignorant, irreverent and often grossly inaccurate look at the past. Enjoy!* Bloated and gay. It?s been a long, hard road to stardom for the surly comedian from Huntington, New York. The only daughter of Don and Doris O?Donnell, young Roseanne was prone to sneaking out of the house to perform stand ...
Head Scarves and Liberty
2008-02-11 07:41:00 When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited us in New York a few years ago, he said his daughters chose to study in the U.S. in part because it was illegal to wear head scarves at Turkish universities. Saturday, Turkey's Parliament voted to lift that ban. There's probably no more contentious issue in Turkish public life, and thousands of secularists took to the streets in protest. The debate goes back to the founding of modern Turkey, when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk banned the fez, veil and head scarf in many public places. When the military outlawed head scarves at public universities after a 1980 coup, it said the move was necessary to push back against Islamists. Our own view is that lifting the ban is a sign of Turkey's democratic maturity. Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has Islamic roots, rightly argued that the restriction violated freedom of religion. The vote to amend the constitution and permit head scarves on campus passed by 411 to 103, and...
Craigslist Personal Ads Are Full Of Weirdos
2008-02-08 02:31:00 The internet is a great place to find a soul mate. Simply type a list of your favorite movies or briefly explain your interest in food and Cupid’s arrow will be arriving shortly. Craigslist personal ads have a particular knack for being at times bizarre, confusing and quite often embarrassing. Let’s take a look at ...
Tuesday Night Lights
2008-02-06 15:39:00 So much for the best laid plans of Terry McAuliffe. The former Democratic Party chairman helped to design the first national Presidential primary in the expectation that its sheer expanse would sink any challenger to Hillary Clinton. Instead, the most important result from Super Tuesday is that Barack Obama showed how broad his appeal to Democratic voters really is. Mrs. Clinton more than held her own in the Northeast, including a victory in Massachusetts, where Mr. Obama had the much publicized support of Senator Ted Kennedy and Governor Deval Patrick. She also showed her now-familiar strength among women and especially among Hispanic voters. This reflects a fault line between black and Hispanic Democrats that the Clinton campaign has worked hard to exploit. But Mr. Obama was able to win in Connecticut and Delaware, and did well enough in New Jersey and other states to grab a competitive chunk of delegates. His appeal was also geographically diverse, stretching to Georgia, with i...
I Overheard This Conversation - Snob
2008-02-06 04:06:00 I witnessed this 100% real conversation occur between a couple of girls at a recent Portland Trailblazers game. The ending is a little touch of my own so you’ll better understand my reaction to the whole thing. And yes, this girl was over 21 and actually crying.
Book Review and Analysis: A Confederacy of Dunces
2008-02-02 11:03:00 “A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.” ? Milton (p. 237) Comedy is truth and pain. Within that concept lives A Confederacy of Dunces, the 1981 Pulitzer Prize winning classic comedy by John Kennedy Toole. The award was given to Toole posthumously due ...
yatzer?s latest editorials for MAISON & DECORATION magazine
2008-01-31 22:19:00 concept: Tête à Tête styling: Costas Voyatzis photo: Lambros Mentzos concept: tailor made styling : Costas Voyatzis photo: George Dracopoulos playing with scissors photo: Andreas Marcou As promised, I will always keep you updated with my editorials for the greek design magazine MAISON & DECORATION, where-for those who haven’t read the “about” page, I’ve been working as a stylist since ...
By: yatzer
Craigslist Personal Ads Are Scary
2008-01-30 05:27:00 The internet is a great place to find a soul mate. Simply type a list of your favorite movies or briefly explain your interest in food and Cupid’s arrow will be arriving shortly. Craigslist personal ads have a particular knack for being at times bizarre, confusing and often embarrassing. Let’s take a look at a ...
Editorials from around the nation and world - Dallas Morning News
2008-01-04 09:37:00 Editorials from around the nation and worldDallas Morning News, TX - 26 minutes agoOn the international television channels, we are ranked alongside them, and the running order of the clips speaks volumes on how the outside world sees us. ...
What We Want in a President: Ruthlessness is important when it comes to for
2008-01-02 18:00:00 In the next six weeks Americans are going to pick the two finalists in the long job search for the most important CEO position on the planet. As someone who has served in three White Houses and been a Federal Reserve governor during a fourth, I have become a firm believer that the character traits someone brings to the job are more important than the issue papers or debate sound bites that get so much attention in the primaries. Consider two examples. In December, Joe Trippi, a strategist for John Edwards, noted that polls showed a quarter of Barack Obama's own supporters did not think he would be qualified to be president. This says little about Mr. Obama, but it does say a lot about the process. These voters are not choosing someone to lead the country; they are trying to send a message about their own personal frustrations, or perhaps about another candidate. Or consider the comments of a friend of mine and active fund-raiser about Fred Thompson, who is my choice. My friend ag...
Dawn editorials on Benazir Assasination
2007-12-29 05:43:00 BENAZIR Bhutto will be remembered only and forever as a martyr, not just by her own party but by every politically conscious person in this singularly blighted land. Whatever her motivation — ideological belief, spirit of defiance, or just plain stubbornness — she stuck to her appointed task to the very end and left ...
Is Smoking in Fashion Editorials Fashionable?
2007-12-20 09:34:00 I know FitSugar doesn’t think so!SourceIs Smoking in Fashion Editorials Fashionable? I think it is. Cigarettes lend a cool vibe no other accessory can provide. I don’t know and I don’t really care. It’s wrong to promote smoking but it still looks hot. No way ” it’s unhealthy and unstylish, and they should stop. ... Related Entries: Reading is FashionableCameron Diaz in a Bikini, Smoking a Joint, with Drew Barrymore, also in a BikiniWill the smoking ban impact UK fashion?Weekend Videos - Smoking Hot, Models, and a DVD in a Microwave Tags: fab poll Smoking cigarettes - Fashion fashion editorials
Give Me The Lute - The Lost Ballad of Lord Smalls
2007-12-13 06:22:00 A recently uncovered document reveals the original version of the Notorious B.I.G.’s hit song, Gimme The Loot. A long deceased ancestor and minstrel named Lord Smalls scribed this ballad onto parchment sometime during the Middle Ages. It is unknown whether or not Lord Smalls was notorious during his time but we believe from his lyrics ...
Mac OS X 10.5 - Leopard First Impressions
2007-11-21 14:23:00 The reason I switched to the Mac five years ago was for the Mac OS, not the hardware, so I was looking forward to the Leopard release. Now that I've used the new OS for several weeks, I can definitely say that it's the best Mac OS to date. However, there are some flaws that are driving me nuts! Time Machine is genius. Backup made easy for the masses. I'll probably lose some geek cred when I admit that I didn't backup before on a regular basis. On occasion I'd burn my iTunes purchases to a DVD. There was a period where I dabbled with ChronoSync to create a weekly backup, but that never worked the way I wanted. Now I can plug in an external USB drive and forget about it. Genius I say, genius! Mapping network drives has always driven me nuts on the Mac. On Windows you just map a drive, tell it to reconnect automatically and you're done. On a Mac you have to map it manually every time you login, or add the drive mapping to your login items. Even worse is losing your m...
By: ToymanTV
New York Times Uses Editorial To Slam Democrats for "Abdicating" and "Capit
2007-11-11 19:15:00 It is extraordinary how President Bush has streamlined the Senate confirmation process. As we have seen most recently with the vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as attorney general, about all that is left of ?advice and consent? is the ?consent? part. Once upon a time, the confirmation of major presidential appointments played out on several levels ? starting, of course, with politics. It was assumed that a president would choose like-minded people as cabinet members and for other jobs requiring Senate approval. There was a presumption that he should be allowed his choices, all other things being equal. Before George W. Bush?s presidency, those other things actually counted. Was the nominee truly qualified, with a professional background worthy of the job? Would he discharge his duties fairly and honorably, upholding his oath to protect the Constitution? Even though she answers to the president, would the nominee represent all Americans? Would he or she respect the power of Congress...
How to restrict lending to the poor for years to come
2007-11-06 07:56:00 Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Congress prodded, even strong-armed, banks into making more mortgage loans to low-income and minority families. Washington enacted anti-discrimination and community lending laws with penalties against lenders for failing to issue riskier mortgages to homebuyers living in poor neighborhoods or with low down payments and subpar credit ratings. And so it was that the modern subprime mortgage market was born. Now, and for a variety of reasons, some two million of those loans have gone sour, and the same politicians are searching for villains. Leading the charge is House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, who is accusing banks of "predatory lending"--by which he means making loans to the very group of borrowers that Mr. Frank and his colleagues urged banks to serve. As early as today, Mr. Frank plans to hold a committee vote on his Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007, which would impose new rules and financial penalties on subp...
Re: Mayor Lim ends SP honeymoon
2007-10-31 06:42:00 Serious? He is a good friend of my Dad's cousin, the deceased Atty. Nerio Zamora.
Re: Mayor Lim ends SP honeymoon
2007-10-31 00:34:00 Wow, 20M supplemental budget? Excuse my stupidity but is their a budget for the supplemental budget? If yes, is it available to the people to check? Also, was there a reason given by Vice Mayor ...
Trash Talking World War III
2007-10-30 04:09:00 America?s allies and increasingly the American public are playing a ghoulish guessing game: Will President Bush manage to leave office without starting a war with Iran? Mr. Bush is eagerly feeding those anxieties. This month he raised the threat of ?World War III? if Iran even figures out how to make a nuclear weapon. With a different White House, we might dismiss this as posturing ? or bank on sanity to carry the day, or the warnings of exhausted generals or a defense secretary more rational than his predecessor. Not this crowd. Four years after his pointless invasion of Iraq, President Bush still confuses bullying with grand strategy. He refuses to do the hard work of diplomacy ? or even acknowledge the disastrous costs of his actions. The Republican presidential candidates have apparently decided that the real commander in chief test is to see who can out-trash talk the White House on Iran. The world should not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but there is no easy fix he...
Re: I WISH POLITICIANS WOULDN?T BUY VOTES?I HOPE VOTERS WILL NOT SELL THEI
2007-10-27 07:20:00 If only people will heed to this 10 commandments for responsible voting!
Re: What electoral reforms do you suggest?
2007-10-25 00:21:00 Grazie7y,Nia na pud ta... This is also the beauty of free expression bisan ug asa lang ta maghinagbo. Hehe... Aw! Bahin sa full democracy sa katawhan nga akong gisulti mao ni ang nia sa akong alim...
Iraq: Even Closer to the Brink
2007-10-23 18:42:00 The news out of Iraq just keeps getting worse. Now Turkey is threatening to send troops across the border to wipe out Kurdish rebel bases, after guerrillas killed at least a dozen Turkish soldiers. This latest crisis should have come as no surprise. But it is one more widely predicted problem the Bush administration failed to plan for before its misguided invasion ? and one more problem it urgently needs to deal with as part of a swift and orderly exit from Iraq. Turkey?s anger is understandable. Guerrillas from the Kurdistan Workers? Party, or P.K.K., have been striking from bases in Iraqi Kurdistan with growing impunity and effect, using plastic explosives, mines and arms that are far too readily accessible in Iraq. The death toll for Turkish military forces is mounting. Turkey?s civilian leaders are feeling strong popular pressure to lash back. The leadership needs to realize that the conflict is providing a dangerous opening for Turkey?s generals. The military is determined ...
The anniversary of Robert Bork's failed nomination reminds us what's at sta
2007-10-23 18:29:00 Twenty years ago today the United States Senate voted to reject President Reagan's nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. The senators may have had every reason to believe that was the end of the story. However ugly it had been, however much time it had taken, Mr. Bork's defeat was only one more routine sacrifice to partisan politics. But time would prove wrong anyone who actually thought that. The battle over Mr. Bork was politically transformative, its constitutional lessons enduring. To many at the time (and still today) it was inconceivable that a man of Mr. Bork's professional accomplishments and personal character could be found unacceptable for a seat on the Court. Warren Burger summed it up for many when he described Mr. Bork as simply the best qualified nominee in the former chief justice's own professional lifetime--a span of years that included the appointments of such judicial luminaries as Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter. Such p...
Haditha: The massacre that wasn't, and its political exploitation
2007-10-19 10:24:00 The incident at Haditha--or the massacre, as it is often called--is due for a wholesale rethinking. The allegations are that in 2005 U.S. Marines went on a killing spree and deliberately executed 24 Iraqi civilians. The casualties have drawn an extraordinary amount of political attention, becoming an emblem for everything critics say is wrong with the Iraq war--in the common telling, another My Lai. Thus Congressman Jack Murtha, a decorated combat veteran, made accusations of war crimes and said the Marines had killed "in cold blood." These are serious charges; and military justice continues to deal with them seriously, though thankfully at a slower pace than politics. Now the prosecutions have mostly unraveled. It seems Haditha, though tragic, was exploited politically, and the allegations were exaggerated, if not unfounded. Here is what we know. On November 17, 2005, Kilo Company of the First Marine Regiment's Third Battalion was returning from a routine logistics mission in Ha...
Re: Do you care more about pleasing people or speaking the truth?
2007-10-11 18:29:00 hehehe,daku in many ways....
Re: Do you care more about pleasing people or speaking the truth?
2007-10-11 18:19:00 Mao lagi, pre. You are like that too Boholano men have this trait. Humble ra kaayo, pero ug mo sulti, dako jud.
Re: Do you care more about pleasing people or speaking the truth?
2007-10-11 18:14:00 impress jud ko ani ni Lorenzo uy.blunt and direct but very humble in many ways!www.mikeygatal.com
Out of Sync
2007-10-11 17:07:00 It seems that Microsoft and their customer base are a little out of sync. Microsoft thinks that they are giving consumers what they want and that Vista is a success. However, the negativity surrounding Vista seems to be growing. Companies like Dell are extending a Windows XP option on their desktops, and Microsoft even extended support for Windows XP beyond the original cutoff date. That doesn't sound like a successful launch to me. Then there's Yvonne Genovese who took on Steve Ballmer at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITXpo. She's my new hero. Read about her here.
By: ToymanTV
The Right Judicial Litmus Test - Follow the Constitution, or not?
2007-10-08 03:22:00 Monday the U.S. Supreme Court began its second full term since President Bush's appointments of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Given the complaints made by many on the left and in the press about the court's alleged "radical turn to the right" last year, now is a good time to consider how the court ought to decide its constitutional cases. This question is made all the more urgent by the fact that on Jan. 20, 2009, six of the nine current justices will be over the age of 70--an age at which many people either retire or begin to wind down their affairs. There is thus a very real possibility that the next president could appoint as many as four justices in his first term alone. We may be getting ready for the biggest turnover in the membership of the Supreme Court since Richard Nixon's election in 1968 brought the Warren Court to an end. I submit that the proper basis on which we should evaluate the court's performance in this term and in the futu...
Mr. Putin?s Game
2007-10-02 19:56:00 Russians and a lot of Russia watchers have been wondering not if, but how Russia?s president, Vladimir Putin, would hold on to power. We fear we got our answer yesterday. Mr. Putin, who must step down as president next year, announced that he will head the election list of the dominant party, United Russia, in December?s parliamentary election. That will guarantee him a seat in the lower house, from which he could become prime minister. Mr. Putin said that it was still too early to think about that, and it would depend on whether the next Russian president was ?a decent, capable and effective person? with whom he could work. Conveniently, Russia?s Constitution puts the prime minister in direct line to succeed the country?s president, should that job description prove too much for Mr. Putin?s successor to handle. Mr. Putin has insisted all along that his goal was to create a Russia that is strong, modern and internationally respected. This crass political manipulation will have t... |
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