tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.comments2023-07-02T06:44:56.536-05:00con·ceptAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-65533000065935027632012-10-07T05:34:54.533-05:002012-10-07T05:34:54.533-05:00I enjoy reading an article that can make people th...I enjoy reading an article that can make people think.<br />Also, thank you for allowing me to comment!<br /><i>Also visit my homepage</i> :: <b><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/squidoolens-creation-service" rel="nofollow">cher</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-69543685199960978112007-05-31T14:15:00.000-05:002007-05-31T14:15:00.000-05:00this is for Alex the "Splogger"I reject Spam.this is for Alex the "Splogger"<BR/>I reject Spam.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1154380273639641782006-07-31T16:11:00.000-05:002006-07-31T16:11:00.000-05:00By E&P Staff Published: July 26, 2006 8:25 PM ET N...By E&P Staff <BR/><BR/>Published: July 26, 2006 8:25 PM ET <BR/><BR/>NEW YORK With the Israeli offensive in Lebanon meeting surprising resistance -- despite massive destruction from the air -- the recent publication of photos of Israeli children signing missiles about to be fired into Lebanon, with messages such as "From Israel with Love," have drawn renewed attention. <BR/><BR/>The Web site of the Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) confirmed that the pictures are real, after they appeared on numerous mainstream news sites and blogs, where they continue to inspire wide feedback.<BR/><BR/>Similar pictures were taken by photographers for AP, AFP and the daily Israeli paper, Ha'aretz.<BR/><BR/>The Jeusalem Post site explained, "Questions over the photos' authenticity have been put to rest by authorities that were present during the incident, which occurred on July 17 near the northern border. The mostly local children had been brought to see the shells by their parents. Although it remains unclear who encouraged them to write the messages, their colorful scribbles, including a Star of David, hearts, and 'From Israel, with Love'....<BR/><BR/>The photos drew a comment by Robert C. Koehler, an editor and columnist for Tribune Media Services, in a scathing column distributed late Wednesday. <BR/><BR/>"Maybe the bombs that destroyed the home of the 8-year-old girl in the southern Lebanon village of Ayta Chaeb, quoted by an AP reporter from her hospital bed in Tyre, were autographed by little Israeli girls," he wrote. "Maybe they were decorated with hearts and Stars of David. Maybe they said 'from Israel with love.'"<BR/><BR/>Koehler called this added "collateral damage: the corruption, the militarization, of the young....This is the collective obscenity of militarized hatred... <BR/>http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002913202&imw=YAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1128540340979113762005-10-05T14:25:00.000-05:002005-10-05T14:25:00.000-05:00After his mothers statement about the Katrina evac...After his mothers statement about the Katrina evacuees at the Houston Astrodome, I have to modify my belief about where GW got his ideas.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1114976219272963072005-05-01T14:36:00.000-05:002005-05-01T14:36:00.000-05:00BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | May 1, 2005 'The Wo...BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | May 1, 2005 <BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/books/review/01ZAKARIA.html?ex=1115611200&en=33181f7f243e5b28&ei=5070" REL="nofollow">'The World Is Flat': The Wealth of Yet More Nations</A> <BR/>By FAREED ZAKARIA <BR/>In the global economy, says Thomas L. Friedman, intellectual work could be transmitted to intellectual workers anywhere on earth. <BR/><BR/>It's time to start asking if the United States is an advanced country.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1109799028655603882005-03-02T15:30:00.000-06:002005-03-02T15:30:00.000-06:00ChoicePoint CISO on the hot seat, but also firing ...<A HREF="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1062076,00.html" REL="nofollow">ChoicePoint CISO on the hot seat, but also firing back</A> was brought to my attention by <A HREF="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/03/choicepoints_ci.html" REL="nofollow">Schneier on Security</A>. Chief Information Security Officer Rich Baich explains what happened and how he believes his company is handling the intense attention. <STRONG><EM>He doesn't believe that the theft is an information security issue.</EM></STRONG>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1109183705597825032005-02-23T12:35:00.000-06:002005-02-23T12:35:00.000-06:00White House liberally plays with truth by Clarence...White House liberally plays with truth by Clarence Page<br />http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ny-vppag234154367feb23.story<br /><br />“Sure, Guckert-gate may seem like a tempest in a teapot, at first. But so did the Whitewater land development deal. Yet, conservative commentators and editorialists, aided by their allies in Congress, rode that Arkansas pony until it ended far afield of a land deal and the impeachment of a president for lying about sex.<br /><br />Imagine, then, how the conservative choir would sing out at this point if a Democratic White House knocked long-tenured journalists off its pressroom access lists so that it could give access to a fellow like Guckert, who dependably asks softball questions because he reports for a partisan Web site that supports the administration.<br /><br />Imagine how they would question the access given by Secret Service and the White House press office for two years to a guy who used a driver's license that said James Guckert to get into the White House and then switched to his alter ego of Jeff Gannon. The best explanation for this that Bush press secretary Scott McClellan could give to Editor & Publisher magazine was, "People use aliases all the time in life, from journalists to actors." Guckert wrote under the name Jeff Gannon for Talon News, a conservative online news outlet associated with another Web site, GOPUSA, a conservative Web site based in Houston and dedicated to "spreading the conservative message throughout America."<br /><br />He attracted the attention of liberal bloggers when he asked President George W. Bush a squeezably soft question at a news conference in January: How, he asked the president, could he work "with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?" Liberal bloggers also uncovered links between Guckert and gay-oriented Web sites.<br /><br />But all that's a titillating sideshow compared to the charges that House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) has called to the attention of the special prosecutor investigating the leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative to columnist Robert Novak. In 2003 Guckert wrote in Talon News that he had asked Plame's husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, about "an internal government memo prepared by U.S. intelligence personnel" that revealed his wife's CIA role.<br /><br />Revealing a CIA agent's identity is a federal crime.… <br /><br />Of course, every administration tries to manipulate the media. Team Bush has elevated it to a high art. Before Guckert, there was the disclosure that three conservative syndicated columnists had been paid handsomely to promote administration programs - payment they failed to disclose to readers.<br /><br />And remember those pre- packaged video news releases featuring fake reporters so local news outlets would be tempted to run them as legitimate news stories, as some did? But I thought the last straw was the unprecedented herding of reporters covering this year's inaugural balls into pens from which they could only venture to interview ball guests if they were escorted by "minders" in the fashion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Tell me again: What was that war about? Oh, yeah: freedom and democracy. Great. We could use a little more back here at home.<br />”Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1107898996763047512005-02-08T15:43:00.000-06:002005-02-08T15:43:00.000-06:00Spearing the Beast“Bush isn't trying to refo...<A HREFF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/opinion/08krugman.html" HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?">Spearing the Beast</A>“Bush isn't trying to reform Social Security. He isn't even trying to "partially privatize" it. His plan is, in essence, to dismantle the program, replacing it with a system that may be social but doesn't provide security. And the goal, as with his tax cuts, is to undermine the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt.<br /><br />…for Americans who entered the work force after the plan went into effect and who chose to open private accounts, guaranteed benefits - income you receive after retirement even if everything else goes wrong - would be nearly eliminated. <br /><br />Here's how it would work. First, workers with private accounts would be subject to a "clawback": in effect, they would have to mortgage their future benefits in order to put money into their accounts. <br /><br />Second, since private accounts would do nothing to improve Social Security's finances - something the administration has finally admitted - there would be large benefit cuts in addition to the clawback. <br /><br />Jason Furman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates that the guaranteed benefits left to an average worker born in 1990, after the clawback and the additional cuts, would be only 8 percent of that worker's prior earnings, compared with 35 percent today. This means that under Mr. Bush's plan, workers with private accounts that fared poorly would find themselves destitute.”<br /><br /><A HREFF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/opinion/08krugman.html" HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/opinion/08krugman.html</A>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1107371535319872632005-02-02T13:12:00.000-06:002005-02-02T13:12:00.000-06:00SOTU livebloggers can also TrackBack ping this ent...SOTU livebloggers can also TrackBack ping <A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveblogging.org%2Farchives%2F2005%2F02%2F02%2F2005-state-of-the-union-address%2F">this entry</A> at Liveblogging.org.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1106345245218056962005-01-21T16:07:00.000-06:002005-01-21T16:07:00.000-06:00I think the interesting thing about the president'...I think the interesting thing about the president's speech is the words he used throughout. Twenty-seven times he invoked the word "freedom," 15 times he invoked the word "liberty," and only once did he invoke the word "democracy." They're not all the same concepts. In some sense, liberty and freedom are negative. They're about the absence of something, the absence of constraint, the absence of tyranny. Democracy is a positive concept. It presumes creating certain kinds of processes, institutions, norms, and behavior. What we learned in Iraq is that it can be very easy to remove the constraint or remove the dictator, but it can be extraordinarily difficult to produce democracy. Looking at the president's speech, you seldom see a detailed argument about how the United States can best promote democracy. <br /><br />I think that's a real challenge. What we're seeing in Iraq is that, even though the bad guys are removed, it doesn't mean democracy will spontaneously take root, in part because it requires all people agreeing to certain types of behavior. And if significant portions of the population refuse to do so, it can make it very, very difficult. Which is why, as you look ahead to the elections in Iraq coming up, the tendency has been to treat them as the destination as opposed to just another marker along the road. <br /><br />This is from James M. Lindsay<br />http://www.cfr.org/pub7617/james_m_lindsay_bernard_gwertzman/lindsay_inauguration_speech_marks_a_second_bush_doctrine.phpAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1105471072053569042005-01-11T13:17:00.000-06:002005-01-11T13:17:00.000-06:00They can't secure the road from the airport to the...They can't secure the road from the airport to the Green Zone. The safest people in Iraq (American Diplomats)aren't safe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1100897710879765202004-11-19T14:55:00.000-06:002004-11-19T14:55:00.000-06:00Dear Alfred,
That was an excellent essay (He Wa...Dear Alfred, <br /> <br />That was an excellent essay (He Was Human)? So rare is it to be reminded that Arafat's true loyalty was to a real Palestinian state, rather than succumbing to pressure from the U.S. and the rest of the world to accept the less than adequate offers from Israel. He bore enormous burdens. It is unfortunate that he did not have someone he trusted enough to groom as his successor. I am saddened that his death has been met by expressions of by the relief rather than sorrow. Despite his flaws, it seems to me that he was a decent man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1099419200216647422004-11-02T12:13:00.000-06:002004-11-02T12:13:00.000-06:00I'm sorry more people haven't heard this. This adm...I'm sorry more people haven't heard this. This administration is criminal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1099359829271095212004-11-01T19:43:00.000-06:002004-11-01T19:43:00.000-06:00Great Audio! Excellent Post!
5 *****'s 3 Cheers - ...Great Audio! Excellent Post!<br />5 *****'s 3 Cheers - Thanks for<br />telling it like it is!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1091047855527481492004-07-28T15:50:00.000-05:002004-07-28T15:50:00.000-05:00Links to press coverage from Barack's keynote addr...Links to press coverage from Barack's keynote address last nightcan be found at: <br /><A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obamablog.com%2Findex.php">http://www.obamablog.com/index.php</A>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1090614182074095852004-07-23T15:23:00.000-05:002004-07-23T15:23:00.000-05:00"global labor arbitrage
Under unrelenting pressur..."<STRONG>global labor arbitrage</STRONG> <br />Under unrelenting pressure to cut costs, American companies are now replacing high-wage workers here with like-quality, low-wage workers abroad. With new information technologies allowing products and now knowledge-based services to flow more easily across borders, global labor arbitrage is likely to be an enduring feature of the economy. <br /><br />Hiring always moves up and down. But it is evident from the experiences of Europe and Japan that new structural forces can come into play that have a lasting impact on job creation. Such is now the case in America.<br /><br />The globalization of work has affected the United States labor market. The most important question is: what can we do about it?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1090175651762609422004-07-18T13:34:00.000-05:002004-07-18T13:34:00.000-05:00Israelis and Palestinians have long since ceased t...Israelis and Palestinians have long since ceased to see each other as human. The death of Palestinians protesting the wallmeans nothing, but when an Israeli is shot, mistaken for a Palestinian, there is national soul searching. <br /><br />It reminds me of the United states in the sixties, until Schwerner and Goodman were killed, no one paid much attention to officially sanctioned assasination. I wonder what would have happened if it were Chaney (an african-american)alone who died.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1088362286224342612004-06-27T13:51:00.000-05:002004-06-27T13:51:00.000-05:00Defining Torture: Russian Roulette, Yes. Mind-Alte...<A HREF="http://www.blogger.com/r?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2004%2F06%2F27%2Fweekinreview%2F27word.html%3Fpagewanted%3Dall%26position%3D">Defining Torture: Russian Roulette, Yes. Mind-Altering Drugs, Maybe.</A><EM>The memo starts by explaining that some acts may be "cruel, inhuman or degrading" but not constitute torture under Section 2340, the federal law criminalizing torture. To rise to the level of torture, it argues, the acts must be of an extreme nature, specifically intended to inflict severe pain or suffering, mental or physical. But the statute is vague on the meaning of "severe," so the authors try to construct one.<br /><br />In the absence of such a definition, we construe a statutory term in accordance with its ordinary and natural meaning. The dictionary defines severe as "unsparing in exaction, punishment or censure" or "inflicting discomfort or pain hard to endure; sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as severe pain, anguish, torture" "extremely violent or grievous, severe pain" "of pain, suffering, loss, or the like: grievous, extreme" and "of circumstances hard to sustain or endure." Thus the adjective "severe" conveys that the pain or suffering must be of such a high level of intensity that the pain is difficult for the subject to endure.<br /><br />A good model, the memo suggests, can be found in statutes regulating what kind of emergency medical conditions qualify for payments of health benefits.<br /><br />Although these statutes address a substantially different subject from Section 2340, they are nonetheless helpful for understanding what constitutes severe pain. They treat severe pain as an indicator of ailments that are likely to result in permanent and serious physical damage in the absence of immediate medical treatment. Such damage must rise to the level of death, organ failure or the permanent impairment of a significant body function. These statutes suggest that "severe pain" as used in Section 2340, must rise to a similarly high level, the level that would ordinarily be associated with a sufficiently serious physical condition or injury such as death, organ failure or serious impairment of body functions in order to constitute torture.…</EM><STRONG>These people seemingly knew of no limits to Presidential power, the constitution not withstanding. The enemy can't destroy our society, but fear, and men who lust after power can.</STRONG>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1084827450431593232004-05-17T15:57:00.000-05:002004-05-17T15:57:00.000-05:00A lot has been made of how much better "our" abuse...A lot has been made of how much better "our" abuse in Iraq is, as opposed to conditions under Saddam Hussein. <br /><br />The Red Cross has estimated that between seventy and ninety percent of detainees at Abu Ghraib are innocent, guilty of running into nervous americans at the wrong time. <br /><br />Isn't it odd that we are treating Saddam Hussein better than anyone else.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1084823633158881582004-05-17T14:53:00.000-05:002004-05-17T14:53:00.000-05:00Isn't it interesting,that "high value" detainees, ...Isn't it interesting,that "high value" detainees, with intelligence value, aren't subject to Abu Ghraib style abuse and Saddam Hussein gets the best treatment of all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1084822719673469752004-05-17T14:38:00.000-05:002004-05-17T14:38:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080950.post-1084311305902323712004-05-11T16:35:00.000-05:002004-05-11T16:35:00.000-05:00IF you have any kind of chronic condition, this is...IF you have any kind of chronic condition, this is important. If you have a rare condition, like RSDS, this is essentialAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859207022400336413noreply@blogger.com