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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:12:38 GMT

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Health economists say it is impossible to know whether the bills would meet cost-cutting goals, and many are skeptical that they even come close.

One person was killed in fighting that erupted when a North Korean navy boat ventured into disputed waters, officials said.

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Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon for Banks

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:45:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Banks have long pitched debit cards as a convenient and prudent way to buy, but a growing number now allow consumers to exceed their balances for a price.

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The N.York Times

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:48:33 GMT

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Amazing Tree Houses

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:12:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reminds me of Lord Of The Rings. Be nice to live in one, doncha think?

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Top 8 Most Amazing Tree Houses

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5. This amazing treehouse above was designed by Takashi Kobayashi, one of japan’s leading treehouse creators. This house was designed after an advertising agency in Tokyo, hired him to design a treehouse for a Nescafé commercial now running on Japanese television. Mr. Kobayashi built an oval bird’s nest of a house, 12 feet high and 9 feet in diameter, reached by a circular staircase, and the final price for this tree house was about $38,000. The house is located on a field there owned by the town of Kamishihoro, where it remains an enticing, if off-limits, gift from Nestlé, the makers of Nescafé, to the people of Hokkaido. – Via – NyTimes

From Afghanistan--America's newest, cheapest, most pure snortable heroin ever to hit our streets.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:50:22 GMT

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I did a bunch of research to try to discern what our government has been thinking and doing. Enjoy the research and reach your own conclusions. I'd love to hear what you think.

Again, an emerging world-wide epidemic of cheap, dangerously pure heroin addiction is underway and the heroin is produced in the country we occupy.

According to the UN report, 98% of the country's opium is grown in just seven provinces where there are permanent Taliban settlements and where organised crime profits from the instability

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We recently learned that Karzai's brother may be allegedly, shall we say "affiliated with both the CIA and the drug trade in Afghanistan".

Reports link Karzai's brother to heroin trade
By James Risen
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The War on Drugs is beginning, in retrospect, to look more like War for Drugs as history repeats itself.

How many of our soldiers will come home heroin addicts?

Alternate Iraq War Universe … Obama Won!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:03:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Never mind that the surge was initiated by President George Bush, and the current withdrawal was negotiated by the Bush administration with a sovereign, elected Iraqi government which his actions allowed to come into being, in place of the prior despot he had deposed, while Democrats, including Obama, were howling for abandonment. Obama deserves some credit, of course. For staying Bush’s course and throwing his own boneheaded pandering demands for a precipitous pullout under the bus.

OK, I thought Friedman had got about as weird as he could. Silly me.

This next step is particularly important, which is why we cannot let Afghanistan distract U.S. diplomats from Iraq. Remember: Transform Iraq and it will impact the whole Arab-Muslim world. Change Afghanistan and you just change Afghanistan.

Fascinating. The big clamor for the last few years of course has been that Iraq was distracting us from Afghanistan, and now every jackanape out there, to include Friedman . . .

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It’s a weird Tom Friedman dream sequence:

BAGHDAD, Aug. 25, 2012 — President Obama flew into Baghdad today on his end-of-term tour to highlight successes in U.S. foreign policy. At a time when the Arab-Israel negotiations remain mired in deadlock and Afghanistan remains mired in quagmire, Mr. Obama hailed the peaceful end of America’s combat presence in Iraq as his only Middle East achievement. Speaking to a gathering of Iraqi and U.S. officials under the banner “Mission Actually Accomplished,” written in Arabic and English, Mr. Obama took credit for helping Iraq achieve a decent — albeit hugely costly — end to the war initiated by President Bush. Aides said Mr. Obama would highlight the progress in Iraq in his re-election campaign.

Could we actually read such a news article in three years? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Well, I would. I have no doubt that, should Iraq continue on its path to stability and prosperity, Obama will seek and be granted credit for it.

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Who Speaks for Islam: Ray Suarez with Reza Aslan

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:46:04 GMT

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“Who Speaks for Islam?,” the title of a two-part series beginning on Sunday on Link TV, is a benign case of bait and switch. The answer to the question, we’re told, is that no one speaks for Islam — it is too vast and diverse, spreading across too many countries and cultures, to have a single, authoritative voice.

As the Middle East analyst Reza Aslan puts it, Americans are looking for a “united voice of condemnation” of militant violence — a representative of the world’s Muslims who will unequivocally say the things they want to hear — but “there is no such person in Islam.” The voices that fill the void are those of the militants, simply because they’re loudest.

http://www.linktv.org/video/4520/who-speaks-for-islam-what-a-billion-muslims-really-think

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NYTimes Declares Fox News Winner!

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:57:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After discussing past Presidents who unsuccessfully fought the press, Carr first scolded the White House, and then declared an unpredictable winner:

Even though almost all the critiques contained a kernel of truth, in each instance the folks who had the barrels of ink, and now pixels, seemed to come out ahead. So far, the only winner in this latest dispute seems to be Fox News. Ratings are up 20 percent this year, and the network basked for a week in the antagonism of a sitting president...[T]he administration, by deploying official resources against a troublesome media organization, seems to have brought a knife to a gunfight.

Carr seemed even less impressed with the tactics the Adminstration has been employing in this battle:

On the official White House Web site, a blog called Reality Check provides a running tally of transgressions by Fox News. It ends with this: "For even more Fox lies, check out the latest ‘Truth-O-Meter' . . .

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Here's something virtually every American likely thought they'd never see: the New York Times declaring Fox News the winner in a fight with Barack Obama.

Yet, that's what David Carr declared in "The Battle Between the White House and Fox News."

In his piece published at the Times website Saturday evening, Carr almost seemed disgusted with all the attention the White House is giving to a cable news network:

The Obama administration, which would seem to have its hands full with a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan, opened up a third front last week, this time with Fox News. [...]

"We're going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent," Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, said in an interview with The New York Times

Ah, but pretending has traditionally been a valuable part of the presidential playbook. Smiling and wearing beige even under the most withering news media assault is not only good manners, but also has generally been good politics

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POPE SETS PLAN FOR ANGLICANS TO JOIN CATHOLICS

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:24:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WHAT DOES THE DECISION TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR ANGLICANS TO CONVERT TO CATHOLICISM SAY ABOUT THE CHURCH?

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Pope Sets Plan for Anglicans to Join Catholics

The Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and the Catholic archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, discussed the Vatican's plan on Tuesday. Video: nytimes.com/world.

VATICAN CITY — In an extraordinary bid to lure traditionalist Anglicans en masse, the Vatican said Tuesday that it would make it easier for Anglicans uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops to join the Roman Catholic Church while retaining many of their traditions.

Anglicans would be able “to enter full communion with the Catholic Church while preserving elements of the distinctive Anglican spiritual and liturgical patrimony,” Cardinal William J. Levada, the prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said at a news conference here.

What does the decision to make it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism say about the church?

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:06 GMT

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Media Ignoring Conservatives' Return to Dominance of Political Book Market

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:32:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In September of that year, the Boston Globe proclaimed liberals "triumphant" against "conservatives' decade long hold on popular culture."

Yes, it seemed such wonderful liberal values were finally en vogue. Barnes and Noble, reacting to the outpouring of Bush-bashing literature in August of 2003 announced that it would set up ‘political science/cultural affairs' tables at its stores to feature the newest partisan works.

But conservatives have reclaimed their hold on the Times's bestseller page. The closest any of the top 15 hard-cover non-fiction books gets to a defense of liberalism or the Obama Administration is In Fed We Trust by David Wessel [...]

"The books from the left strike me as an obvious reaction to Bush," conservative commentator Tucker Carlson told the Associated Press in 2003. "And for people who buy them, it's a way of voting against him in an off-election year."

With Bush gone, liberals no longer have a blatant target at whom to direct a coordinated

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Conservatives are resuming their historically dominant position atop the New York Times and Amazon.com bestsellers lists after a short hiatus that coincided, not coincidentally, with George W. Bush's tenure in the White House.

Amazon, which, unlike the New York Times, ranks books according to the number of actual copies sold, shows Glenn Beck's Common Sense rounding out the top, with Michelle Malkin's Culture of Corruption coming in a close second. Ron Paul's End the Fed comes in at number seven, Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny is at number nine, and at number 22 is Dick Morris and Eileen Mcgann's Catastrophe, which carries the blunt sub-heading, "How Obama, Congress, and the special interests are transforming... a slump into a crash, freedom into socialism, and a disaster into a catastrophe... and how to fight back."

In 2003, as Bush's numbers faltered, the left proclaimed its comeback on the bestsellers list.

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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:23:24 GMT

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What Happy People Don't Do

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:04:36 GMT

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What Happy People Don’t Do

By RONI CARYN RABIN

Published: November 19, 2008

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:25:47 GMT

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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:54:05 GMT

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Overspending on Debit Cards Is a Boon for Banks

The N.York Times

Amazing Tree Houses

Top 8 Most Amazing Tree Houses

From Afghanistan--America's newest, cheapest, most pure snortable heroin ever to hit our streets.

Alternate Iraq War Universe … Obama Won!

Who Speaks for Islam: Ray Suarez with Reza Aslan

NYTimes Declares Fox News Winner!

POPE SETS PLAN FOR ANGLICANS TO JOIN CATHOLICS

Why the Vatican Wants Anglicans

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Media Ignoring Conservatives' Return to Dominance of Political Book Market

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