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7:00 pm Opening flag burning

 

7:15 pm Pledge of Allegiance - (in Spanish)

 

7:20 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

7:25 pm Non-religious prayer and worship with Jessie Jack son and Al Sharpton

 

7:45 pm Ceremonial tree hugging

 

7:55 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

8:00 pm How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore

 

8:15 pm Gay Wedding - Barney Frank presiding

 

8:35 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

8:40 pm Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry

 

9.00 pm Saddam Memorial Rally - Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon

 

11.00 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

11:0 5 pm Collection for the Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant fund - Barbara Streisand

 

11:15 pm Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay - Sean Penn

 

11:30 pm Oval Office Affairs - William Jefferson Clinton

 

11:45 pm Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

11:50 pm How George Bush Brought Down the Twin Towers - Howard Dean & Rosie O' Don nell

 

12:15 am 'Truth in Broadcasting Award' - Presented to Dan Rather by Michael Moore

 

12:25 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

12:30 am Satellite address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

 

12:45 am V-P Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nancy Pelosi

 

12:50 am Speech and toast by Hugo Chavez to the departure of 'the great Satan', 'W' Bush

 

12:55 am Hillary proposes a toast to our 89 million new Democratic Mexican voters

 

1:00 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast to the extinction of the Republican party.

 

1:05 am Coronation of B H O

 

1:30 am Ted Kennedy proposes a toast

 

1:35 am Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home

An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .

 

Two-hundred thirty-five journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10-to-1. An even greater disparity, 20-to-1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

 

Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10-to-1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14-to-1 ratio.

 

And while the money totals pale in comparison to the $9-million-plus that just one union's PACs have spent to get Obama elected, they are more substantial than the amount that Obama has criticized John McCain for receiving from lobbyists: 96 lobbyists have contributed $95,850 to McCain, while Obama — who says he won't take money from PACs or federal lobbyists — has received $16,223 from 29 lobbyists.

 

“The nation’s top Democrats are suddenly rushing to appear on the Fox News Channel, which they once had shunned as enemy territory as the nemesis of liberal bloggers.”

 

 

I have yet to see any of this on this blog forum.

 

 

I always wondered why Hillary and Barack never would appear on FOX.  To me it is kind of silly the way the news organizations have picked political sides.  I think that this is really a start of something good.  Why should news should be politically motivated.  After all, people just want to be aware of what is going on around them.  Why can’t people be allowed to form their own opinions without being spoon-fed?  Opinions?  Thoughts?  Comments?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10032.ht
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...To quit hijacking Boogyman’s “The Liberal/Communist Agenda” blog.  I will start a new one.  Am I the only one who sees that one of the loudest voices of the Democrat party are socialist?

 

Today’s Democrat Party is selling change again and they have exactly the same kinds of change in mind that Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Alinsky had in mind.

Today’s Democrats call themselves “the Party of the Working Class, the poor, the downtrodden.” They promise to rob from “the rich” for the betterment of the poor. In other words, they are selling exactly what Marx and many other communists have sold over the years, “From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.”

Same Change – New Name

Socialized medicine is being sold as “universal health care” - Government ownership or control of the nation’s vast natural resources is being sold as “environmentalism” – Freedom of Religion is now being sold as “freedom from religion,” in accordance with the Marx view that “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Need I go on with example after example, through every facet of today’s federal atrocity called government, before you will realize what we have done?

Corporations, which are nothing more than people, from the hourly worker to the CEO and shareholder, are now the “evil” face of Democrat’s primary target, capitalism. That’s because Democrats have adopted the belief of Vladimir Lenin, that “Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”

In sum, according to Lenin and today’s Democrats, the average American is no longer suited for self-governance and they (Democrats) must step in and rob from those greedy capitalists in order to save you from yourself.

As Hillary Clinton recently stated it quite clearly, “We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” Nikita Khrushchev said it this way, “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all” and obviously, today’s Democrat Party is united in this belief system.


The Obama Revolution

On the basis of an abstract idea, change, which none of his followers can define because he refuses to openly define it himself, Obama fans, and that is the correct term since he is nothing more than a media creation, swoon at his feet like prepubescent girls at a Beatles concert, begging to be led deeper and deeper into Democratic Socialism whereby private resources can be confiscated by the federal government from unwilling private citizens who earned them, for the greater common good.

There is nothing new, innovative or exciting about the kinds of change being offered by today’s DNC. They are the same old revolutionary ideas of men like Lenin, Marx and Alinsky in the past, and Chavez and Castro today.

 Some of you old school bloggers might remember the good ol’ days when multiple conspiracy theories abounded about people using multiple screen names on this site. ….Which by the way a new update on Hawkeye and Michelle is due FloydFreak since you seem to have the inside track. My new theory is that SOmike is a student who dorks around on the computer during a really intense class like study hall.

1. He only posts within a certain window during the week.

2. His sweet spelling skillz.

3. He thinks that a LEO and a SO are one and the same.

4. He thinks that private companies have the authority to grant citizens authority to uphold state and federal laws.

5. He is an oxygen thief.

So the Times attempts to add pressure to McCain.  I think for the most part the public sees the smear attack for what it really was.  The only positive or negative that I can see coming out of this is a narrowing of expectations of how this candidate can handle pressure from the external sources.  Did he pass/fail?

Near-surface warming in the Arctic has been almost twice as large as the global average over recent decades1, 2, 3, 4, 5—a phenomenon that is known as the 'Arctic amplification'. The underlying causes of this temperature amplification remain uncertain. The reduction in snow and ice cover that has occurred over recent decades6, 7 may have played a role5, 8. Climate model experiments indicate that when global temperature rises, Arctic snow and ice cover retreats, causing excessive polar warming9, 10, 11. Reduction of the snow and ice cover causes albedo changes, and increased refreezing of sea ice during the cold season and decreases in sea-ice thickness both increase heat flux from the ocean to the atmosphere. Changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulation, as well as cloud cover, have also been proposed to cause Arctic temperature amplification12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Here we examine the vertical structure of temperature change in the Arctic during the late twentieth century using reanalysis data. We find evidence for temperature amplification well above the surface. Snow and ice feedbacks cannot be the main cause of the warming aloft during the greater part of the year, because these feedbacks are expected to primarily affect temperatures in the lowermost part of the atmosphere, resulting in a pattern of warming that we only observe in spring. A significant proportion of the observed temperature amplification must therefore be explained by mechanisms that induce warming above the lowermost part of the atmosphere. We regress the Arctic temperature field on the atmospheric energy transport into the Arctic and find that, in the summer half-year, a significant proportion of the vertical structure of warming can be explained by changes in this variable. We conclude that changes in atmospheric heat transport may be an important cause of the recent Arctic temperature amplification.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7174/ful
l/nature06502.html

 

So it is the end of the month….and if you are watching the housing market like me you know that it is another D-day for home owners who are on the verge of foreclosure status.  Almost 9,000 Tampa homes made the list last night.  Also the rate is dropping like a rock.  Financially responsible Tampa residence dream of home ownership/slumlord might actually come to fruition!

Most of us take summons for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of scam has surfaced. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity just got stolen. The scam has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado. This (scam) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they're with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud. Check it out here:

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/ju
ne06/jury_scams060206.htm

While the news focus has been on the lowest ice extent since satellite monitoring began in 1979 for the Arctic, the Southern Hemisphere (Antarctica) has quietly set a new record for most ice extent since 1979.

This can be seen on this graphic from this University of Illinois site The Cryosphere Today, which updated snow and ice extent for both hemispheres daily. The Southern Hemispheric areal coverage is the highest in the satellite record, just beating out 1995, 2001, 2005 and 2006. Since 1979, the trend has been up for the total Antarctic ice extent.

While the Antarctic Peninsula area has warmed in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting, which explains the increase in total extent. This dichotomy was shown in this World Climate Report blog posted recently with a similar tale told in this paper by Ohio State Researcher David Bromwich, who agreed “It’s hard to see a global warming signal from the mainland of Antarctica right now”. 

Indeed, according the NASA GISS data, the South Pole winter (June/July/August) has cooled about 1 degree F since 1957 and the coldest year was 2004.

First off, it is very important to address the fact that Earth is not the only planet to be experiencing climate change in our solar system currently. In fact, many astronomers have announced that Pluto has been experiencing global warming, and suggested that it is a seasonal event, just like how Earth’s seasons change as the various hemispheres alter their inclination to the Sun. We must remember that it is the Sun that determines our seasons, and thusly has a greater impact upon the climate than we could ever even try to achieve. In May of 2006, a report came forward revealing that a massive hurricane-like storm that occurred on Jupiter may be caused by climate change occurring on the planet, which is expected to raise its temperatures by 10 degrees. National Geographic News reported that a simultaneous rising in temperature on both Mars and Earth suggest that climate change is indeed a natural phenomenon as opposed to being man-made. The report further explains how NASA has reported that Mars’ carbon dioxide ice caps have been melting for a few years now. Sound familiar? An astronomical observatory in Russia declared that, “the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun”. They further point out that both Mars and Earth have, throughout their histories, experienced periodic ice ages as climate changes in a continuous fashion. NASA has also been observing massive storms on Saturn, which indicate a climate change occurring on that planet as well. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has also been recording massive climate changes on Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. Triton, whose surface was once made up of frozen nitrogen, is now turning into gas. The Associated Press has reported that satellites that measure the temperature of sunlight have been recording an increase in the sun’s temperature, meaning that the sun itself is warming up. Even the London Telegraph reported in 2004 that global warming was due to the sun being hotter than it has ever been in the past 1,000 years. They cited this information from research conducted by German and Swiss scientists who claim that it is increasing radiation from the sun that is resulting in our current climate change.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=view
Article&code=20070315&articleId=5086

OTTAWA - Americans living in Canada prefer the U.S. health-care system for speed, quality and diagnostic technology, says a new study. But they also applaud the equity and cost-effectiveness of Canada's system. And in the final analysis, 40 per cent prefer the Canadian system.

The study, released Wednesday in the online medical journal Open Medicine, was based on the responses of 310 Americans living in Canada between two and five years, mostly in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.

There have been many studies that compare the two health-care systems, but this is likely the first time the Canadian and U.S. systems have been compared based on the perceptions of consumers who have experienced both.

"It's a good test of the Canadian health-care system," said lead researcher Steven Lewis, a health policy analyst and an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary.

The respondents were invited to participate through newspaper advertisements because there is no database of Americans living in Canada. Of the respondents, more than half had a household income of more than $100,000 a year, and 58 per cent had a master's degree or higher. In a survey of this size, there is a margin of error between four and five per cent, 19 times out of 20.

Overall, the Americans said they preferred the U.S. system for emergency, specialist, hospital and diagnostic services, and said they preferred the timeliness and quality of the American system.

However, they also rated Canada's system high for access to drug therapy and  ranked the services of family physicians almost equally in both countries. They also rated the equity and cost efficiency of Canada's system highly.

The participants were upper middle-class, mostly the kind of people likely to be well-insured in the U.S., said Lewis.

"They had high expectations of health care in Canada," he said. "I was surprised by they solidarity they showed for the Canadian system. Even their praise of the American system was qualified. They said, 'Yes, it is good. But it is expensive, and not everyone has access.' "

For the most part, the Americans had the same criticisms as Canadians about the system - especially wait times.

In all, 260 of the Americans identified wait times as the most significant negative feature of the Canadian system, while 192 identified quality of care as the most positive feature of the U.S. system.

In all, 196 of the Americans said cost efficiency was the best thing about the Canadian system, while 223 said cost inefficiency was the worst thing about the U.S. system.

"Both systems are flawed and have equal pros and cons. Access to everyday care and preventative care is better in the U.S. However, not having to pay out of pocket for specialists and serious illnesses is a big plus in Canada," said one participant.

Meanwhile, 32 per cent also noted that while they lived in the U.S., health insurance concerns affected their decisions about where to look for a job, and 29 per cent said it influenced decisions about whether to remain at a workplace.

Health insurance considerations affect job mobility in the U.S., said Dr. William Ghali, one of the researchers in the study and a professor of medicine and community health science at the University of Calgary.

"It is very clear that even this demographic group had to stop and think about what to (do) about their health insurance."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=c1
c55309-756a-4c4a-a032-a1968442a1f7&k=77424

RELEASE No. 20070925-12
September 25, 2007

Iraqis, Coalition troops open refurbished school
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq — City council members and school leaders hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to signify the re-opening of a renovated school in Saba Nissan Sept. 22.

Soldiers and leaders of 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, who facilitated the rebuilding of the school, attended the ceremony. Although Coalition Forces supported the project through funding and mentoring, Iraqi contractors and council members headed the project.

Juma’h Mawat Badday, the school principal, cut the red ribbon as Capt. Jared Albright, of Lancaster, Pa., commander, Troop B, 3-1 Cav. Regt., and Hassan Maheed Hamza, a member of the city council, stood by in support of the event.

“When the school year begins, this school will be one of many that will educate and prepare the future leaders of both your community and Iraq,” Albright said.

According to 2nd Lt. Richard Perry, of Durham, N.C., Troop B fire support officer, the project to rebuild the school has been in progress for about four months.

The entire structure was restructured, he said. The broken walls were fixed, new classrooms were set up and a new playground was constructed.

After the ceremony, Lt. Col. John Kolasheski, of Louden, Tenn., commander, 3-1 Cav. Regt., toured the new school. At the same time, Soldiers from 3-1 Cav. Regt. and 489th Civil Affairs Battalion handed out book bags filled with school supplies to teachers and children.

“Today we not only celebrate the opening of this school, but we also celebrate the Iraqi government’s commitment to building a strong country that is able to meet the needs of its citizens,” Albright said. “This new school is a prime example of what can happen when the Iraqi government and Coalition Forces work together.”

RELEASE No. 20070924-08
September 24, 2007

RELEASE No. 20070924-06
September 24, 2007

Citizens guide Soldiers to homemade explosives
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

HAWR RAJAB, Iraq — A weapons cache including homemade explosive was found and destroyed with the help of local concerned citizens.

The operation was a foot patrol conducted by Troop A, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, currently attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.

The leader of the Hawr Rajab concerned citizens guided Soldiers to the cache. The cache included three five-gallon jugs of homemade explosives, three 57mm rockets, one oxygen tank believed to be filled with explosives, and a 130mm artillery round.

The 130mm artillery round was attached to a pressure plate and command wire.

An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the cache in a controlled detonation.

RELEASE No. 20070924-03
September 24, 2007

More tips lead to weapons supplier
Multi-National Division – North PAO

ARAB JABAR, Iraq – A suspected al-Qaeda weapons supplier was captured by Coalition Forces near Sheik Hammad Village, Iraq, in Baghdad province, Sept. 20.

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, detained four additional men, along with the weapons supplier, during Operation “Viking Snatch,” following tips received by local citizens.

The supplier was providing machine guns, ammunition and improvised explosive devices to insurgents in northern Baghdad province.

“The capture of these weapons suppliers, financiers and accomplices degrades al-Qaeda’s ability to coordinate and sustain attacks against Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces,” said Maj. Mike Garcia, spokesperson for 4th SBCT.  “The removal of these weapons and explosives saves potentially dozens of lives.”

A cache was also discovered containing two AK-47s, four magazines and two pistols with two magazines.

RELEASE No. 20070924-02
September 24, 2007

Iraqi Army Soldiers discover large weapons cache in western Nineveh
Multi-National Division – North PAO

AL NUR, Iraq – Iraq Army soldiers discovered a large cache of weapons and military equipment in the village of Al Nur, located northwest of Tal’Afar, in western Nineveh province, Sept. 21.

Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division discovered the large cache using information from four enemy fighters who were captured the previous night by Coalition Soldiers from the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment.

“This discovery by the IA is a direct result of good tactical questioning of enemy fighters and good exploitation of the intelligence they received from them,” said Maj. Mufu Taiwo, executive officer of the 1-9 Cavalry.  “They found out where the weapons were stored and moved in to confiscate them, denying their use by enemy fighters.”

Upon entering the village, the cache was discovered split into three parts.

Approximately 40 assorted mortar rounds were found buried in a deep freeze freezer, while a mortar tube, six rocket-propelled grenades, three rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one PKC machine gun, four AK-47 assault rifles and almost 40 magazines of ammunition were located in two large barrels, all of which were buried in the ground.

Additionally, the IA soldiers found military tactical vests and a fully-automatic M-16A1 rifle.

All of the weapons and munitions were removed from the site and consolidated by the 3rd IA Division soldiers who discovered them.

RELEASE No. 20070923-09
September 23, 2007

ISF thwart mass kidnapping in Nineveh province
Multi-National Division – North PAO

TIKRIT, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces prevented an attempted hijacking by terrorists who targeted two buses filled with passengers in Nineveh province Sept. 22.

After receiving initial reports, Mosul Iraqi police informed 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division of the attempted hijacking and a company of Soldiers immediately responded and engaged the terrorists, killing one and injuring another. The remaining individuals fled while IA recovered the buses without injuring any of the passengers.

“The swift coordination and response by Iraqi Security Forces prevented the kidnapping of these passengers,” said Col. Stephen Twitty, commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. “Their actions ensured the safety and security of these innocent civilians.”

The two buses were enroute to Syria from Kirkuk. The passengers and buses were taken to a nearby combat outpost.

“These attacks during Ramadan show the lack of respect for the beliefs and traditions of the community during a time of peace for Iraqi people,” continued Twitty. “ISF showed their determination to end the violence and chaos caused by these senseless acts of terrorism.”

RELEASE No. 20070923-11
September 23, 2007

Iraqi Army captures improvised explosive device maker
Multi-National Division – North PAO

BUWAYR, Iraq – Iraqi Army Soldiers acted on tips received from the local populace captured a suspected improvised explosive device maker in northern Iraq’s Ninewah province, Sept. 20.

IA soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division raided the residence of the suspected IED-maker in the village of Buwayr.

“The Iraqi Army forces here are having a great deal of success in exploiting intelligence and acting quickly on tips and information,” said Maj. Lance Varney, executive officer, 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment.  “We share information and when it’s time to execute the mission, they lead the way.”    

Upon entering the house, IA forces captured the suspect and proceeded to search the residence and surrounding area.

Approximately 200 pounds of nitrates, used in homemade explosives, were discovered buried in the yard.  In addition, a propane tank, pre-wired with detonation cord, ready to be employed as an IED and several electrical components, including remote controls, cell phone components, and a video camera, were also found.

All items were confiscated by the IA and removed from the site. The propane canister IED; however, was determined by Iraqi explosive ordnance disposal specialists to be unstable and could not be safely transported.  It was destroyed in place by controlled detonation.

From Sept. 16 to 20, ISF and CF have killed 20 enemy fighters, captured more than 100 suspected enemy fighters, and seized numerous caches of small arms, ammunition, explosives, and IED-making materials in operations conducted across Nineveh Province.

 

Operation Gecko III A continues
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq — Soldiers from the 8th Iraqi Army Division and Paratroopers with Company B, 1st Battalion, 501st Airborne, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division continued their efforts to support concerned citizens of Jurf As Sukhr during Operation Gecko III A, Sept. 21.

During the operation, attack helicopters conducted a precision air strike and killed one al-Qaeda militant as he attempted to flee from combined forces.                                                
                                                    

A weapons cache was also discovered during the operation which contained two hand grenades, one 105mm artillery round, one 81mm mortar round, one PKC machine gun, one Dragunov sniper rifle, one DISHKA heavy machine gun, three AK-47 assault rifles, two ammunition vests and other paraphernalia.

The cache was destroyed on scene.

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Am I the only one who sees the similarity's between this and the patriot act?