http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/7/1/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/date/2008/7/1/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9E042375-3BE1-4620-A739-37099E8E9653/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> ...The Albanians of Montenegro were lucky, I thought as we approached the customs agents, to live under Josip Broz Tito's relatively lenient communist system in Yugoslavia instead of suffering Enver Hoxha's full-bore Stalinist regime just a few miles away in Albania proper. Hoxha, who ranks among the most thoroughly oppressive tyrants in history, made Tito's dictatorship look libertarian.... <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/06/the-road-to-kos-1.php" title="http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/06/the-road-to-kos-1.php">www.michaeltotten.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/86D179E6-EC5D-4096-8F1A-1C04D2843A56.jpg" alt="Mountains and Sunlight Montenegro.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Mister, where are you from?” said a little girl.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“America,” I said. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“Yay!” The kids cheered. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Albania is fanatically pro-American, which is perhaps a bit counterintuitive to many Americans since it is at least nominally a Muslim-majority country. The conventional assumption that Muslims hate Americans everywhere isn't true. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>“You should have seen President Bush’s face <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/world/europe/10cnd-prexy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">when he came to Albania</A>,” an ethnic Albanian man later said to me in Kosovo. “All over Western Europe he was met by protests, but the entire country of Albania turned out to welcome him. He was <I>so</I> happy. You could see it on his face.”</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Albanian pro-Americanism resembles that of both Poland and Iraqi Kurdistan. The unspeakably oppressive communist regime pushed Albanians strongly into the <SPAN class="caps">U.S.</SPAN>-led Western camp</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>More kids tugged at me and wanted their pictures taken. It was overwhelming, and more than a little bit startling. </P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/3AF66B6F-C115-4D41-B54F-BD5F4C83CFFA.jpg" alt="Kids Northern Albania.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/9BA2D7FD-974D-46CA-BFF6-55479C4D6364.jpg" alt="Farmaci Shkodra.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/1E6B11B2-99F8-4EA8-8BC5-6E771F63E5E3.jpg" alt="Isa Boletini Statue Shkodra.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/E492C582-B912-40C6-8F61-40C9C19DDDA6.jpg" alt="Mosque and House Northern Albania.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/F410AD9B-4029-49E7-91E9-BDECFCD1030D.jpg" alt="Church and House Northern Albania.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/6D21EC13-EA07-4285-BD37-99A3B11F0246.jpg" alt="Bunkers in Grass Northern Albania.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/D9D5D3FC-112A-4F34-8F54-DED786B56269.jpg" alt="Canyon and Road Montenegro.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/9C0AEBD2-6FEA-4878-9063-3232B64F0C60.jpg" alt="Montenegro Canyon.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/1819626B-E676-4042-B3A9-BC67462548DF.jpg" alt="Mountains and Sunlight Montenegro 2.jpg" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/B64EDC50-09D7-45B9-82A4-559A9C1B54E8.jpg" alt="Kosovo Ethnic Map.JPG" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/europe/" rel="tag">europe</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/albania/" rel="tag">albania</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/america/" rel="tag">america</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/travel/" rel="tag">travel</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photography/" rel="tag">photography</a></div>http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2008/06/the-road-to-kos-1.phpTue, 01 Jul 2008 17:13:38 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/81CA6B6E-CAD4-4648-8256-6B2F0E236981/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/CrazyRedHead/">CrazyRedHead</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080630a.html" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080630a.html">www.cnsnews.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/CrazyRedHead/512/EFC02873-EE2C-4CF4-88EB-C57823463ECC.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>That is in contrast to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's Senate office, where women, for the most part, out-rank and are paid more than men. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That's according to <A target="_blank" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200804/POL20080430a.html" linkindex="35">data</A> calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The average pay for the 33 men </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">was $59,207.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The average pay for the 31 women on Obama's staff </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">was $48,729</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> the average pay for the 30 women on McCain's staff was $59,104</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The 16 non-intern males in McCain's office, by comparison, were paid an average of $56,628</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The Obama campaign did not respond to written questions submitted on the matter</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama/" rel="tag">obama</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/election/" rel="tag">election</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/idiots/" rel="tag">idiots</a></div>http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200806/POL20080630a.htmlTue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:02 GMT