| Slander, Murder and Sixty Minutes: The Establishment Consensus on Iraq
But Bush has always insisted that Saddam "defied" UN resolutions to disarm and even "refused to allow inspectors back in." Thus Bush – who personally ordered an act of aggressive war in the certain knowledge that multitudes of innocent people would die in this unnecessary action -- always casts himself as the injured party, "forced" to order the invasion of Iraq by Saddam's mysterious intransigence. Only a lunatic – or a cold-blooded murderer trying to hide his crime – would publicly exhibit such an obvious, monstrous divorce from reality. Yet instead of hauling Bush up on charges of impeachment – or calling for his commitment to a mental institution – when he first uttered this bizarre fantasy, the mandarins of America's political-media class simply nodded.
Presidential Candidates Take the ‘Social’ Out of ‘Change’
And Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in the midst of a fierce battle over the MLK legacy to see who deserves to win the black vote. Lost in the bickering over and celebrations of King as an individual is any notion of the social movement that defined King and an entire generation. Similarly, the mind-numbing mantra of "change" mouthed ad infinitum by all of today's presidential candidates would have us believe that they, not we, are the arbiters of change. The King anniversary appears to provide candidates an opportunity to remind us that they have a monopoly on "change." The most recent electoral banter around King takes place within the collective amnesia about his views, especially his later views focusing on issues dogging us to this day: racism and poverty, prisoners and war.
Your Comments : Trade deficit at $109m
So you increase your exports , but how can you do that when you don't have a product and you don't have a market and when you do have both , you have a coup and destroy the lot . You've destroyed your market because of instability in the market place worldwide and completely decimated your own domestic economy . You can't even provide a decent service to your hospitals , schools , shipping , clothing manufacturing , tourism , agriculture , sugar industry , rice production . There's not even a domestic market for your honey anymore , isn't that why 300 have walked away from honey ? So who is the idiot ? And I thought the Military Officers were supposed to be well educated and worldly , well please don't let my kids go to their Schools ! Rex of Fiji (73 days and 17 hours ago) No one is forcing anyone to invest in Fiji its evryonbody's choice if they like to invest in Fiji.
Second serves: Djokovic looking like a champ
The times, they may be a-changin': Is this the beginning of a power shift in tennis? Roger Federer, Justine Henin and the Williams sisters all went out quietly in this year's Aussie Open. Are the new young guns ready to take control? I have more ATP rankings points than I know what to do with: If you needed further evidence of the Big Three's dominance, then behold. Federer, Nadal and Djokovic still the top three in the rankings have all eclipsed the 5,000-point plateau in the ATP rankings. Of the last five players before Federer to attain the No. 1 ranking, only Hewitt with 5,205 in August 2002 has ever topped that total, according to ATPtennis.com. Leave some for everyone else, guys. Zack Pierce is an editor for FOXSports.com. .
Illinois 9th in foreclosures
The number of U.S. homes that slipped into some stage of foreclosure in 2007 was 79 percent higher than in the previous year, a real- estate tracking company said Tuesday. Many homeowners started to fall behind on mortgage payments in the last three months, setting the stage for more foreclosures this year.Data from RealtyTrac Inc. shows Illinois ranks ninth in the nation for the rate of homes that slipped into foreclosure last year.According to RealtyTrac, nearly 91,000 foreclosures were filed in Illinois in 2007.That was a 25 percent increase from 2006 and a nearly 95 percent increase from 2005.The company’s Web site, www.RealtyTrac.com, has more than 3,000 entries for McHenry County homes.Nearly 65,000 properties – or 1.25 percent of the state’s households – received foreclosure-related warnings last year.Nationwide, the number of U.S.
Click on this chocolate cake recipe
An old-fashioned chocolate cake, first published in Gourmet magazine, has received more than 1,000 reviews, making it the site's most popular recipe. Double Chocolate Layer Cake Chef Ed Kasky used Callebaut semisweet chocolate for the cake and Guittard French-vanilla chocolate for the frosting, but any fine-quality semisweet chocolate will produce a wonderful result in either. Serves 12 to 14. Ingredients: For cake layers
3 ounces fine-quality semisweet chocolate such as Callebaut
1 1/2 cups hot brewed coffee
3 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch process)
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3 large eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups well-shaken buttermilk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla For ganache frosting
1 pound fine-quality semisweet chocolate such as Callebaut
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter Special equipment:
Two 10- by 2-inch round cake pans Preparation:
Make cake layers:
Preheat oven to 300° F and grease pans.
Sprint, T-Mobile respond to the femtocell E-911 caller location ...
According to Sprint, Airave provides full E-911 support in all markets where the service is offered. In a prepared statement, the company noted: "Customers should rest assured that a 911 call will be routed as required by law to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) regardless of whether the call is made on Airave, or the macro network. The Airave calculates its location automatically every time it is powered up and provides location based 911 services where a PSAP is capable of receiving location-based information." Read the latest WhitePaper - The High-Availability Business: How a Simpler Network Can Meet the Demands of Business-Critical Applications T-Mobile relies on registering the Wi-Fi router's stationary physical address with PSAP agencies so that when a call is placed using the wireless router, the user's location can be reported appropriately.
Dismal holiday season leads retailers to shutter stores
Taking stock of a rough holiday season, retailers are shuttering stores and trimming expansion plans as they stare down edgy consumers.
Industry analysts said Thursday that there was little mystery behind the plans announced by several chains this month. "We're in poor economic times, and when you're in poor economic times, retailers close stores" and reduce the number they plan to open, said Eric Beder of Brean Murray, Carret & Co. "That will accelerate into the second half of 2008."
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