[ekim68]

More on that:

China: 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless after quake

Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...3D86.DTL&tsp=1

[poochee]

Originally Posted by ekim68

More on that:

China: 40,000 dead, 5 million homeless after quake

Rescuers freed a 60-year-old woman Tuesday who was trapped for more than 195 hours after last week's earthquake and had survived by drinking rainwater, while the confirmed death toll rose to more than 40,000.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...3D86.DTL&tsp=1

[ekim68]

Say what?

White House denies story about attacking Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday denied a published report in Israel that said President Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January.

A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted a "senior official" there as saying that Bush plans to attack Iran in the coming months. The story says the unidentified official claimed that a "senior member" of Bush's traveling entourage made the statement about attacking Iran in a closed meeting. Bush was in Israel last week.

The article also says the unnamed Bush official said that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "were of the opinion that military action were called for."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...SKIrgD90PE2NO0

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Say what?

White House denies story about attacking Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday denied a published report in Israel that said President Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January.

A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted a "senior official" there as saying that Bush plans to attack Iran in the coming months. The story says the unidentified official claimed that a "senior member" of Bush's traveling entourage made the statement about attacking Iran in a closed meeting. Bush was in Israel last week.

The article also says the unnamed Bush official said that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "were of the opinion that military action were called for."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...SKIrgD90PE2NO0

Bush lies!

[Wino]

Originally Posted by bassetman

Bush lies!

.................and he's an APPEASER,.........

Fareed Zakaria
Who’s the Real Appeaser?
This administration's few successes have come when it's agreed to engage with adversaries.
May 26, 2008 Issue
Excerpt:..................................................
Perhaps Gates noticed that violence has declined in Iraq largely because the United States decided to engage with Sunni militants whom it had regarded for years as sworn enemies, giving cash to those whom we called terrorists only a few months earlier. In fact, this administration's few successes have come when it's agreed to talk with its adversaries. Bush authorized negotiations with Libya and North Korea—both of which he regarded as terrorist states and one of which he placed in the Axis of Evil. As for Iran, we've talked with Iranian officials on several occasions over issues relating to Afghanistan and Iraq. James Dobbins, the administration's representative in the 2002 talks to form the government in Afghanistan, described the Iranians as "straightforward, reliable and helpful. They were critical to our success." President Bush's remarks on the solemn occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary may have been political. But much worse, they were dishonest.

...................and dishonest, too. Who would of thought.

Full article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/137518

[ekim68]

(The new 'shock and awe'...)

Every $10 oil rise ups Air Force costs $610 million

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force operates the "world's largest airline" and every $10-per-barrel increase in crude oil boosts its annual operating costs by $610 million, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said on Thursday.

The Air Force's bill for aviation fuel was about $6 billion in fiscal 2007, Wynne told a defense industry group. He declined to predict what the total would be for 2008.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...52728920080523

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by Wino

.................and he's an APPEASER,.........


...................and dishonest, too. Who would of thought.

Full article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/137518

What an ijiot!

[eggplant43]

http://www.wired.com/politics/securi...tymatters_0515

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by eggplant43

http://www.wired.com/politics/securi...tymatters_0515

[ekim68]

Why the Everglades is burning, and how we sucked it dry

It's hard to believe, now that it's been overrun by 7 million residents and 7 jillion strip malls, but southern Florida was once America's last frontier. As late as 1880, the census recorded just 257 residents in a county covering most of the region -- because most of the region was a watery wilderness called the Everglades. Mapmakers weren't sure whether to draw it as land or water. Politicians dismissed it as uninhabitable swampland. Explorers described it as a "godforsaken" and "hideous" and "abominable" morass, "suitable only for the haunt of noxious vermin, or the resort of pestilential reptiles."

Those explorers never would have imagined that the Everglades would get so dry that it would burn out of control, or that desolate southern Florida would become a sprawling megalopolis. But those two weird developments are intimately related. The wildfires raging through nearly 40,000 acres of the Everglades this week are the direct legacy of the elaborate water-management system that made southern Florida safe for human civilization. The system has functioned according to design for decades, but it's killing the Everglades, and it's ultimately unsustainable for human South Florida as well.

http://grist.org/feature/2008/05/21/

[Wino]

Originally Posted by ekim68

[i].................................................................Explorers described it as a "godforsaken" and "hideous" and "abominable" morass, "suitable only for the haunt of noxious vermin, or the resort of pestilential reptiles.".....................................

Same could be applied to the Republicans party and the Bush administration in particular.

.........and Florida doesn't allow anyone to drill for oil in their offshore waters. I think we should just cut Florida loose and let Cuba have them.

[ekim68]

Originally Posted by Wino

Same could be applied to the Republicans party and the Bush administration in particular.

Neocon A-Team: Bush, Lieberman, McCain and Rove (Brent Budowsky)

Now here comes Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who opposes the greater support for veterans offered by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and advocated by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), shamefully attacking Obama for not serving in the military.

Like Bush, like Lieberman, like Rove, McCain has chosen the way of the neoconservative policy and tactics. What makes a neocon a neocon is that their policies are doomed to fail because they are rigid, reactionary and extreme. What makes a neocon a neocon is that when their policies fail, they resort to name-calling and personal attacks against those who have been far wiser than they.

Whatever his many shortcomings, during his moments of greatness, such as negotiating with Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan was wise in rejecting the way of the neocon. On the great issue of nuclear arms control, Reagan was virtually the anti-neocon, which is why so many neoconservatives attacked Reagan so personally and aggressively for seeking major arms control with Mikhail Gorbachev.

The neocons and many leading conservatives called Reagan an appeaser; they called him Neville Chamberlain; they called him naive, like a child. From George Will to Jesse Helms, they lined up with the same demeaning attacks on Reagan they make against anyone opposing their rigid, reactionary, failed policies.

http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/2...cain-and-rove/

[poochee]

Interesting perspective.

Recession has its benefits
As hard times loom, people are actually doing what they say they'll do when they say they'll do it.
Meghan Daum:
May 24, 2008

Nearly a decade ago, I moved from New York City to Lincoln, Neb. In that new land, I observed many strange things. For instance, workers showed up the same day you called them, and usually started the job the day after that. Later, when I moved to a tiny house on 12 acres on the city's rural outskirts, I had a landlord who regularly called and thanked me for paying the rent.

I've been thinking a lot lately about that four-year interlude in nirvana, mostly because I've been detecting trace elements of it here in L.A. This is quite perplexing, since even just six months ago most people I know, especially the ones who carry toolboxes, were booked as far in advance as tables at Matsuhisa.

Excerpt from: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...track=ntothtml

[ekim68]

I thought England was a little safer than the USA, but, maybe not.:

Teenage Harry Potter actor killed in fight

LONDON, May 24 (UPI) -- Police were investigating Saturday a knife attack in a British pub in which a teenage actor slated to appear in the next Harry Potter movie was killed.


http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_New...in_fight/4127/

[eggplant43]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...urrentPage=all