tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59110492011-04-21T12:51:59.660-05:00Half Full News with a postive spin. Scottnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1104162126114373472004-12-27T10:41:00.000-05:002004-12-27T10:42:06.116-05:00The Scott Wickham Experience
Time has come for me to move my blog home. Over they past two years I have moved from Half Full which was my attempt to counter the forces of negativism I see everywhere in the media and to understand the world. To this blog Blacks For Bush which has focused on the election and the black experience and the future of blacks in America. I have been totally blown away Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1089814370671830942004-07-14T09:08:00.000-05:002004-07-14T09:12:50.670-05:00On Hiatus
Doing two blogs, one on general issues and one on the election is no longer viable.
I will combine them into my one election blog.
Blacks for Bush
Earning Respect by Becoming Swing Voters!
One final link that says it all about Operation Iraqi Freedom: WHAT IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO: You don’t often find an entire election summarized in one or two sentences, and you’re even less likelyScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1089733573342037672004-07-13T10:44:00.000-05:002004-07-13T10:46:13.343-05:00Why Israel Needs a FenceWhile the advisory finding by the International Court of Justice last week that Israel's barrier in the West Bank is illegal may be cheered by the terrorists who would kill Israeli civilians, it does not change the fact that none of the arguments against the security fence have any merit.
First, Israel is not building the fence on territory that under international law Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1089385377367466892004-07-09T10:01:00.000-05:002004-07-09T10:02:57.366-05:00Much of world is more peacefulBy Jonathan Power | July 9, 2004
THERE IS A tendency these days -- and I share it -- that urges one on to hit George Bush while he is down. But before he goes, permit me a word in his favor -- or, more accurately, his regime. Briefly put, the world is more at peace than when he came to power. The big powers have never been so relaxed with each other since the lateScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088732000621778822004-07-01T20:23:00.000-05:002004-07-02T00:17:46.726-05:00Ideas for improving the HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Joel on Software ask "What are your ideas for improving the HTML/CSS/JavaScript infrastructure to make web app development better? Write them up and post them somewhere; I'll point to the best ones from my blog."
Well my ideas are simple:
#1) Client side includes: Basically we can add images from any server or file into a web page, why not HTML/Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088704772969211202004-07-01T12:56:00.000-05:002004-07-07T16:28:42.836-05:00Remember those who Sacrified for freedom Ayres is a 1989 Dickinson High School graduate. He returned to Texas City on Tuesday after spending 74 days in the hospital and undergoing more than 20 surgeries.
“A month ago, I was still bed-ridden and in a wheelchair, but then I moved to a walker, and now I have walking crutches,” said Ayres.
While looking for insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, Iraqi Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088703768989690692004-07-01T12:40:00.000-05:002004-07-01T12:42:48.990-05:00June 2004 A significant Drop In Coalition Deaths
50 total coalition deaths, or 1.67 per day. The lowest death rate since Feb 2004. Lets hope they do even better next month. Say a prayer for our heroes, who are putting their asses on the line for freedom.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088520620548577242004-06-29T09:49:00.000-05:002004-06-29T09:50:20.550-05:00Why the Handover in Iraq is Important: To the IraqisBAGHDAD Sa'ad Saddam, a 35-year-old clothing merchant in the Iraqi capital's notorious thieves' market, normally has nothing polite to say about his country's rulers.
So he was surprised on Monday to find himself being optimistic about Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's new government - not because Saddam cared about the symbolic passing of Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088451184202229372004-06-28T14:32:00.000-05:002004-06-28T14:33:04.203-05:00"Let Freedom Reign!"Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088300679922908672004-06-26T20:43:00.000-05:002004-06-26T20:44:39.923-05:00Muslims bring back polioThe new outbreak is a triumph of superstition over
science. The polio cases have spread from the state of
Kano, in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria. There,
clerics have preached nonsense about the polio
vaccination, claiming it was a western plot to
depopulate Africa by rendering girls infertile, or
even giving its recipients AIDS. Kano’s state
government, under pressureScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1088127675633236552004-06-24T20:37:00.000-05:002004-06-24T20:41:15.633-05:00 FUCK : Tell me there is a difference between Dems and Republicans
Senate votes 99-1 to increase indecency fines.
Whatever happened to the 1st amendment ?Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087993640862175082004-06-23T07:25:00.000-05:002004-06-23T07:27:20.863-05:00If Bush is another Hitler, what words are left to describe Hitler? Care for language is more than a concern for purity. When one describes President Bush as a fascist, what words remain for real fascists? When one describes Fallujah as Stalingrad-like, how can we express, in the words that remain to the language, what Stalingrad was like?
George Orwell wrote that the English language "becomes Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087584196462431762004-06-18T13:14:00.000-05:002004-06-18T13:43:16.463-05:00Sadr's FallJune 18, 2004 -- 'IT is time to go home." This is the message that Moqtada al-Sadr, the 30-year-old Shi'ite cleric who led a brief insurgency in Najaf and Kufa, has sent to members of his so-called Army of the Mahdi (Jaish al-Mahdi).
"The fighting is over," says Qais al-Khazaali, a spokesman for Sadr. "We want all our combatants to return to normal life and help Iraq's transition Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087582343033131042004-06-18T13:10:00.000-05:002004-06-18T13:12:23.033-05:00Israel's Intifada Victory While no one was looking, something historic happened in the Middle East. The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost.
For Israel, the victory is bitter. The past four years of terrorism have killed almost 1,000 Israelis and maimed thousands of others. But Israel has won strategically. The intent of the intifada was to demoralize Israel, destroy Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087582207593379312004-06-18T12:36:00.000-05:002004-06-18T13:10:07.593-05:00Russia 'warned U.S. about Saddam'
Russian intelligence services warned Washington several times that Saddam Hussein's regime planned terrorist attacks against the United States, President Vladimir Putin has said.
The warnings were provided after September 11, 2001 and before the start of the Iraqi war, Putin said Friday.
The planned attacks were targeted both inside and outside the United Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087574326009264402004-06-18T10:47:00.000-05:002004-06-18T10:58:46.010-05:00The Press Over Steps Again
The press has made it mission the taking down of Presidents.
While Bin Laden killed Americans in 1998, press wanted to talk of blow Jobs.
While Americans die in Iraq they lie about Bushes statements, connecting
Iraq and OBL.
They lied about the Marines killing civilians in Faluja.
The press doesn't give a damm about America or Americans.
This is a problem.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087327881453181532004-06-15T14:30:00.000-05:002004-06-15T14:31:21.453-05:00Time for rate hike / bye bye recoveryInflation a top threat to economy
Consumer prices have risen at a 5.5 percent annual pace for the past three months, rippling from plywood to dairy section.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087312691719716092004-06-15T10:12:00.000-05:002004-06-15T10:18:11.720-05:00Realism can't win the war on terrorismThe genesis of the new realism is, of course, America's problems creating democracy in Iraq. But today's problems in Iraq do not derive from failures of democracy. They derive from failures of security, which have made democracy difficult to achieve. Those failures owe to a well-chronicled fact--the United States lacks the troop levels required to provide Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1087311648447552192004-06-15T09:57:00.000-05:002004-06-15T10:00:48.446-05:00Finally A measured critique of the war on terror Frum was quiet, intense, measured, sincere. All he wants all of us to do is put our shoulders to the wheelour shoulders, and those of our children, and our children's childrenand turn the world in our direction with every bit of money and blood we've got.
Bill Maher, though, was having none of it. He loudly berated Frum for a good 10 minutes, Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086895619778440172004-06-10T14:24:00.000-05:002004-06-10T14:26:59.776-05:00Letting the Iraqi's Training Wheels offIraqi police fight militia in Najaf
U.S. declines request to send in troops
10:10 AM MST on Thursday, June 10, 2004
CNN Report
NAJAF, Iraq -- After days of relative quiet, fighting flared overnight in the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, resulting in the deaths of five people.
The fighting began just before midnight Wednesday when Iraqi police attempted to Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086796619573503002004-06-09T10:55:00.000-05:002004-06-09T10:56:59.576-05:00What is a kidney worth?
This is one of the most interesting ethical dilemmas. Take a moment to think about it. Who owns your body, and what does it mean to own it.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086747423614356412004-06-08T20:54:00.000-05:002004-06-08T21:17:03.616-05:00U.S Occupation of Iraqi will end June 30thUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt a U.S.-British resolution that formally ends the occupation of Iraq on June 30 but few believed the action would stop the daily bloodshed.
In a packed council chamber, the 15-nation body endorsed a "sovereign interim government" in Iraq and authorized a U.S.-led Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086643861519958942004-06-07T16:29:00.000-05:002004-06-07T16:31:01.520-05:00Rumsfeld fears U.S. losing long-term fight against terror
I really like this guy, he pays attention.
- The United States and its allies are winning some battles in the terrorism war but may be losing the broader struggle against Islamic extremism that is terrorism's source, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saturday.
The troubling unknown, he said, is whether the extremists -- whom he Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086640537119776572004-06-07T15:31:00.000-05:002004-06-07T15:35:37.120-05:00Kurds Causing trouble Again
The first time was when they forced us to reject 40,000 Turkish troops, who would have been Muslim troops that could have made a serious effect on Iraqi stability. Now they are pushing for extras in the U.N. resolution.
Sooner they get to elections the better. I am still pissed at Sistani for ending the local caucus election that would have happened last December.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086639296156143192004-06-07T15:10:00.000-05:002004-06-07T15:43:34.686-05:00More Good News from KoreaThe United States plans to withdraw one third of its 37,000 troops from South Korea by the end of the next year, according to a South Korean government official.
The cutback appears to be part of a wider rearrangement of American troops in the Pacific. In Tokyo today, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported that the United States is sounding out Japan about moving some of Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086286373203376112004-06-03T13:10:00.000-05:002004-06-03T13:12:53.203-05:00Sharon is Scary Clever / He has teamed up with Egypt against ArafatEgypt's role in a Gaza withdrawal goes far beyond that of messenger between Sharon and the Palestinians. Egypt, which ruled Gaza until the 1967 Middle East war, has agreed to guarantee security there after the Israelis leave, which, according to Sharon's plan, would be by the end of 2005.
Under the Egyptian proposal, Israel wouldScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086278401415887992004-06-03T10:58:00.000-05:002004-06-03T11:00:01.416-05:00 Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its courseThe good news is: Liberals' anti-war hysteria seems to have run its course. I base this conclusion on Al Gore's lunatic anti-war speech last week. Gore always comes out swinging just as an issue is about to go south. He's the stereotypical white guy always clapping on the wrong beat. Gore switched from being a pro-defense Democrat to a Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1086103831056152252004-06-01T10:24:00.000-05:002004-06-01T10:30:31.056-05:00Why a new report on the threat of international terrorist attacks on U.S. soil is a con job. June 2000The Bremer commission's recommendations are just as dramatic as their dire warnings. Not only does the commission propose keeping tabs on all 500,000 foreign students in the U.S., but the commission would also give the military primary law-enforcement responsibility over presumed terrorist Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1085757020708623722004-05-28T09:55:00.000-05:002004-05-28T10:10:20.706-05:00Sovereignty has already been handed over in Iraq
Why did America decide to let Sadr go? Why have we handed Fallujah back over to Saddam's men? Because the Iraqi government negotiated and decided that was what they wanted and we acting as agents of the Iraqis obeyed.
We were never truly an occupying power. If we were we would have had Turkey bring its 40,000 Muslim and troops into our coalition Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1085754964282583472004-05-28T09:34:00.000-05:002004-05-28T09:47:10.496-05:00Rules of war enable terror - By Alan M. Dershowitz THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution.
Following World War II, in which millions of civilians were Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1085247246935175572004-05-22T12:31:00.000-05:002004-05-22T12:34:06.936-05:00More Good News from Korea
It looks like one of our allies, South Korea is finally looking at the cost of protecting themselves. And they realize then need to look at the strategic plan for dealing with North Korea. The time for military free riding on America isn't over but at least people are starting to realize it might not last forever.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1085150812249953152004-05-21T09:25:00.000-05:002004-05-21T09:46:52.250-05:00The WSJ says: The 2004 election has one issue: the war on terror
Its a very strong statement but it is in fact wrong. We have been in a war against terror for over 25 years. The effect of terrorist on America and Americans is a rounding error at best. Yes losing 3000 people and the WTC was a terrible blow to the economy of NYC, but if the effect of terrorism was the problem we could have takenScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1085060916926475662004-05-20T08:46:00.000-05:002004-05-20T08:57:48.713-05:00Fuck the 9/11 commission:
Everyone did the best they could, this 20/20 hindsight is pissing me off.
Especially when they start going after NYC FDNY and NYPD. Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1084718297330591872004-05-16T09:31:00.000-05:002004-05-16T09:45:58.320-05:00The Weakness of Bush's Idealism
Bush is losing support because of the prison scandal and not for the reasons the chattering classes believe. I have talked with people from all walks of life and they don't give a damm about a few Iraqis being smacked around (and that is all this is, this is in no way torture ) of course its nothing people want to see but they understand that shit happens. How Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1084547024037212642004-05-14T09:58:00.000-05:002004-05-14T10:03:44.036-05:00Were we wrong, then?Is life a game of skill or a game of chance? The Israeli-born psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, says most people think it's the former when in fact it's the latter.
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No serious person thinks the US can pull away from Iraq today when there is so much at stake. But that does not justify the initial decision to go to war; the US Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1084545518679521062004-05-14T09:31:00.007-05:002004-05-14T09:38:38.683-05:00 ROOTING FOR THE ENEMY
At the beginning of the war on terror Bush said you must decide if you are with us or against us. It is obvious that many in the united states are against us.
May 14, 2004 -- A MAN has his head cut off by al Qaeda in Iraq, and The New York Times aggressively markets the idea - on its front page yesterday - that his death is somehow the fault of the United States.
"The Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1083783281232042142004-05-05T13:54:00.000-05:002004-05-05T13:59:07.030-05:00More Good News In Iraq: Shiite leaders want Sadr out of Najaf
Simple point, the Iraqis have to chose a side, its good to see them doing it. Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1083250034833213262004-04-29T09:47:00.000-05:002004-04-29T09:51:31.466-05:00A Most Interesting Development in IraqFallujah, Iraq - A U.S. Marine commander says a deal has been reached for all Marines to pull back from Fallujah. That would end the siege of the volatile Iraqi city.
Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne says an all-Iraqi security force is going to move into the city starting tomorrow. It will be called the Fallujah Protective Army and will be made up of as manyScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1083000361791716822004-04-26T12:26:00.000-05:002004-04-26T12:31:08.903-05:00The Weakness with the left: Anger
This article about the women's march in Washington this past week sums up the problem with the left. Without anger there is no movement. On the right there is anger, it has lead to the murder of doctors who perform abortions. But the majority aren't angry their stance is just part of their life. Look at the war in Iraq, there are no angry pro war protest Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082735574360797912004-04-23T10:52:00.000-05:002004-04-23T10:57:03.530-05:00 Arab civilization has failed Disguised in part by the trappings of oil wealth, the Middle East has become humanity's sinkhole, less promising, if richer, than Africa. But no facade of garish hotels in the hollow states that line the Persian Gulf, and no amount of full-page advertisements funded by the Saudi government, can hide the truth any longer: The Arab Middle East has become the world's Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082734332090307632004-04-23T10:32:00.000-05:002004-04-23T10:36:20.873-05:00True Heros: Understanding why they ServeFormer NFL defensive back Pat Tillman was killed in action while serving as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, ABCNEWS reported Friday.
He was 27.
Tillman was killed in direct action during a firefight in Afghanistan, Pentagon sources told ABCNEWS. No other details were yet available.
Tillman played four seasons for the NFL's Arizona Cardinals as a safety Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082733355146171502004-04-23T10:15:00.000-05:002004-04-23T10:20:04.076-05:00Some help to Iraq Last week's column gave readers a chance to contribute money to help restore seven small TV stations in Iraq. The project is the joint idea of the First Marine Expeditionary Force in Al Anbar province, west of Baghdad, and Spirit of America, a philanthropy begun by Los Angeles businessman Jim Hake to assist American GIs in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mr. Hake's goal is to raise Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082643604829839882004-04-22T09:20:00.000-05:002004-04-22T09:24:12.263-05:00WOW more sense from the left on the Bush Sharon Gaza planThere was nothing in George Bush’s letter to Ariel Sharon, in which he declared a full Israeli withdrawal from the territories it had conquered in 1967 as “unrealistic” (1), and that the Palestinian refugees cannot return to the lands they were expelled from in present day Israel, that had not been tacitly, and occasionally unequivocally, Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082577728433545522004-04-21T15:02:00.000-05:002004-04-21T15:06:14.996-05:00Analysis: Future of th Arab-Israeli Peace Process
Even the people from NPR said Bush, Sharon have made a bold move forward.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082575741393259292004-04-21T14:29:00.000-05:002004-04-21T14:33:07.560-05:00Palestinians finally realizing terrorism backfiresSharon's tough policies have established that terrorism damages Palestinian interests even more than it does Israeli ones. This has led some analysts deeply hostile to Israel to recognize that the ''second intifada'' was a grievous error. Violence ''just went haywire,'' says Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University. An ''unmitigated Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082552759511954692004-04-21T08:05:00.000-05:002004-04-21T08:10:05.623-05:00The tide has turned in Bush's Favor in Iraq
The sad story of a van of kindergartners and school girls bodies burned beyond recognition tell the story of a failure of the powerplay to destroy the new Iraq. Of course Arab media will say it was American that did it and not car bombing terrorist but everyone knows their plan for a Sunni Shite general uprising has failed despite funds and tactical Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082481609474968002004-04-20T12:20:00.000-05:002004-04-20T12:32:47.903-05:00The tide has turned in Bush's Favor
As I did my morning crawl through the news it seems as if Bush and Co are firmly in control and winning the race for the white house, despite attack after attack in the media. The evidence of this is seen in the polls but also in the conservative press where they have stopped defending him from attack, as they do when he is weak and going back to attack him Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082475982165964682004-04-20T10:46:00.000-05:002004-04-20T10:50:26.513-05:00From the Arabic Media Internet Network: A suggested Palestinian Policy Response to BushBy: Ghassan Karam*
The Palestinian and Arab anger over President Bush’s pronouncements that favour Prime Minister Sharon’s plan for disengagement in Gaza and the West Bank is understandable. After all, George Bush became the first American president, ever, to support the notion that Israeli settlements in Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082473316386202972004-04-20T10:01:00.000-05:002004-04-20T10:06:01.293-05:00The urbanization of insurgency
One of the great reasons to read all media, both left and right and other is that because of their different concerns they do different investigative reports. All reports usually have some basis in facts, then the writer editor puts some spin on it. In the above article once you take away the spin you are treated to an inspirational story about how our military Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082158828628508162004-04-16T18:40:00.000-05:002004-04-16T18:44:27.983-05:00An excellent editorial from Lebanon : thanks Google newsBush to rest of world: Y'all just follow the leader, now
By Mayssam Zaaroura
Daily Star staff
Saturday, April 17, 2004
"All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1082064470569013982004-04-15T16:27:00.000-05:002004-04-15T16:31:48.606-05:00Shoot to ThrillMarines were broadcasting messages by loudspeaker in the city to agitate insurgents, announcing ``You are cowards for hiding behind women and children. Come out and fight,'' and blaring heavy metal music, including AC/DC's ``Shoot to Thrill,'' said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081971476616011402004-04-14T14:37:00.000-05:002004-04-14T14:41:53.030-05:00Bush Endorses Sharon's Gaza Pullout Plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush implicitly recognized Israel's claim to some West Bank settlements on Wednesday and backed a Gaza Strip pullout plan in a historic U.S. policy shift that drew immediate condemnation from the Palestinians.
Bush's support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will go down well with conservative and Jewish voters in Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081698331582233872004-04-11T10:45:00.000-05:002004-04-11T10:49:23.576-05:00Special Analysis: Iran's Power PlayAs Rohan Gunaratna notes in Inside al-Qaeda, bin Laden has long sought to entrap the US in a protracted guerrilla conflict out of the belief that his minions can defeat us in the same manner they did the Soviet Union. That is precisely why al-Qaeda is pulling resources from Afghanistan or calling in the international brigades of the Harakat ul-Mujahideen and Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081677339396547372004-04-11T04:55:00.000-05:002004-04-11T04:59:30.903-05:00Fallujah, the Uprising, and Silver Linings in IraqAs a political incident the lynching at Falluja will likely have more impact in the United States than it does in Iraq. In Iraq it gives Coalition forces a legitimate reason to clean up the rats' nest of Falluja.
Enemy MistakesThe most important thing that happened in the last few days is that many of the most dangerous people in Iraq gave us anScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081676211371030872004-04-11T04:36:00.000-05:002004-04-11T04:51:50.560-05:00Iraqi Elections
Now we see why Sistani was against local caucus for choosing interim government. Deep in the marshlands of the Euphrates, the town of 15,000 people was the first to rise against Saddam Hussein in the abortive intifada of 1991. Now it was holding the first genuine election in its history.
The poll was the latest in a series which this overwhelmingly Shia province has held in the Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081525723411545752004-04-09T10:48:00.000-05:002004-04-09T10:54:16.950-05:004 years 4 wars : Today we are fighting Iran and Sryia
Wider War IRAN and Syria are at war with the United States. In Iraq. Now.
Washington refuses to admit it. The Bush administration claims that the struggle in Iraq is about the future of the entire Middle East, but won't concede publicly that other countries in the region are extensively involved. And the outcome they seek is exactly the Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081386791100698022004-04-07T20:13:00.000-05:002004-04-07T20:16:58.590-05:00In defense of the Stars and Stripes : A book ReviewTherein lies another exquisite irony: the costs of anti-Americanism will be borne not by Americans, but by others. And their numbers are vast: Cubans, North Koreans, Zimbabweans, and countless others suffer and starve under their respective tyrannies because the democratic world's chattering classes, obsessed with denouncing the United States, Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081383210015646172004-04-07T19:13:00.000-05:002004-04-07T19:17:17.436-05:00Our Coalition is kicking AssMilitiamen loyal to a radical Shiite cleric clashed with Polish troops Wednesday in this holy city, and an aide to the cleric was killed, his office reported.
Fighters from the militia of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fired on a Polish patrol in Karbala, sparking a gunbattle in the streets. During the fighting, al-Sadr aide Muntadhir al-Mussawi -- who is also a cleric -- wasScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081284833000543632004-04-06T15:53:00.000-05:002004-04-06T15:57:38.310-05:00Terrorism is destroying Arabs and Islam:Islamic terror is caused by Muslims, not, as Islamic and leftist apologists would have it, by the non-Muslims against whom it is directed. In our morally confused world, Spain, Israel and America are blamed for having their men, women and children blown up: What did these countries do to arouse such enmity among otherwise tolerant Arabs and Muslims?
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081233576019196402004-04-06T01:39:00.000-05:002004-04-06T01:43:20.686-05:00Jackson calls Iraq war `crime against humanity' Even if no sanctions are imposed, Jackson said, the United States should ``apologize'' to the survivors of Americans and Iraqis who have been killed in the conflict. At home, he said, Congress should hold hearings to determine whether President Bush [related, bio] committed an impeachable offense in making his case for war.
But senators shouldScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081222465271790932004-04-05T22:34:00.000-05:002004-04-06T01:44:51.030-05:00Kerry Still a Dipshit: 10 U.S. soldiers Killed in Iraq and his response He called the absence of Arab neighbors as part of the stabilization force "staggering," saying, "All have a major stake in not having a failed Iraqi state, no matter how they feel about our getting there."
I guess he forgot that the Iraqi governing council vetoed that idea, when we had the Turks ready to come in. Update: Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081221836311811292004-04-05T22:23:00.000-05:002004-04-05T22:27:41.000-05:00What do the people of Iraq think: Poll
It much more positive than you would imagine. So of course its barely reported. But enjoy the read.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1081176205985453242004-04-05T09:43:00.000-05:002004-04-05T09:47:09.670-05:00Neoconservatives and the American MainstreamIn essence, public opinion shifted in favor of policies that have been articulated by neoconservatives for at least a decade, and neocons have been very adept at articulating a policy that resonates with longstanding ideas in American public life. Therefore, what many label “neoconservative” is a product of ideas that are neither “neo” nor “conservativeScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080837761507447742004-04-01T11:42:00.000-05:002004-04-01T11:49:33.140-05:00 Why Are Victims Our Only War Heroes?
This is something I have been wondering about since 9/11. How victim and hero have become the same thing. The firefighters were heroes and the people in the building were victims but everyone want to treat them the same. Or worse the firefighters were just "doing their job".Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080836678142106452004-04-01T11:24:00.000-05:002004-04-01T11:30:21.280-05:00Mexicans are increasingly aware that these two countries are running off with jobs
and markets that Mexicans once thought they owned.
What's That Sound?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
MEXICO CITY
I hadn't been to Mexico since 1996, so it definitely caught my ear when I started to hear two non-Spanish words on this trip that I'd never heard here before: "China" and "India." Mexicans are increasingly Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080707973111081582004-03-30T23:39:00.000-05:002004-03-30T23:44:22.013-05:00The Most Amazing Thinking about War I have ever read At last the topic of 9-11 has shifted onto productive ground. Thanks to the efforts of former counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, some thought is being put into the government failures behind the attacks. "Your government failed you," he says. Precisely, and in many more ways than he or anyone else at these hearings is willing to say.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080679542847511362004-03-30T15:45:00.000-05:002004-03-30T15:49:32.746-05:00Kyoto Goes Up in SmokeThe projected costs, as well as the likely loss of economic competitiveness with the United States, has the EU wondering if it can virtually go it alone in implementing the Kyoto Protocols on climate change. The protocol has yet to take effect as a binding treaty since the US and Russia won't sign on, and China and India were given a pass for now.
In Germany, the EU's Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080666073110128962004-03-30T12:01:00.000-05:002004-03-30T12:04:49.310-05:00U.N. wants to blast Israel, yet fails to condemn use of children as bombers Bit by bit, the UN is making itself look both silly and bigoted in the place that matters most to it - the U.S. The UN's persistently one-sided resolutions, its proclivity to blame Israel for everything and the Palestinians for nothing - not even for repeatedly rejecting every peace plan offered them - reduces it to Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080660590888218472004-03-30T10:29:00.000-05:002004-03-30T10:34:01.466-05:00There is something very valuable there
An excellent critique of the Pro-Choice movement, and how its treating a fetus as a nonentity, is imperiling abortion rights.
On the Senate floor, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, displayed a devastating series of pictures of murdered women accompanied by the viable fetuses who died with them. "The question is simple," Brownback told his colleagues. "Do we Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080659491251568972004-03-30T10:11:00.000-05:002004-03-30T10:15:07.200-05:00If Clarke is so damn Sorry: Let him Donate the profits of his book to the 9/11 familiesScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080231716990910522004-03-25T11:21:00.000-05:002004-03-25T11:25:25.966-05:00Absence of evidence is not evidence of absenceScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080230541797158552004-03-25T11:02:00.000-05:002004-03-25T11:05:51.013-05:00WOW the Palestinian are wising up GAZA (Reuters) - A group of 70 Palestinian intellectuals and officials urged restraint on Thursday over Israel's killing of Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin, calling for peaceful protests instead of bloody revenge.
In a newspaper advert, the group that included three ministers from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, urged people to "restrain their anger and rise Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080158592274499082004-03-24T15:03:00.000-05:002004-03-24T15:11:49.826-05:00Review of the Arab pressAMMAN, Jordan, March 24 (UPI) -- Arab press roundup for March 24
Arab newspapers papers, for the second consecutive day, Wednesday focused their commentaries and analyses on Israel's assassination of Hamas founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. Qatar's pro-government al-Watan daily said that Yassin's assassination was expected, and that it was just a matter of Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080153428108230292004-03-24T13:37:00.000-05:002004-03-24T13:41:13.420-05:00Oregon county bans all marriage
It looks like someone has finally realized the ultimate conclusion to the marriage debate.
The three County commissioners had originally decided to start handing out gay marriage licenses this week but on Monday reversed that decision amid a growing firestorm of lawsuits across the country, and decided instead to put a temporary halt to all marriages.
Rebekah Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080150992182574502004-03-24T12:56:00.000-05:002004-03-24T13:02:16.013-05:00Sad Story of Dick Clarke:
He truly believed that if he continued Clinton level action against Al Queda in the Bush Administration he could have prevented 9/11 despite the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were in America before Bush took office. I see a haunted man, decades of fighting terrorism and to see it end with 3000 Americans dying in one day. He needs to put the blame somewhere else. So heScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080080540612885702004-03-23T17:22:00.000-05:002004-03-23T17:30:08.110-05:00Life in occupied Iraq"A lot of French journalists are shit," Wady, the sculptor, observed one afternoon as we shared a narghile filled with apple-flavored tobacco. "They come here and talk against the U.S. in a stupid way. They don’t care about the crimes of Saddam Hussein." And it’s not only the French, noted Esam Pasha, a painter and translator for the U.S. military: "European and Arab Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1080079202167353662004-03-23T17:00:00.000-05:002004-03-23T17:14:46.310-05:00Another Week Another tell all bookAn angry - and dangerous - man takes aim at Bush
Comment by Marian Wilkinson in Washington
March 24, 2004
Richard Clarke, the former White House counter-terrorism czar, is a very dangerous enemy for George Bush.
Not only is he a first-hand witness to the events that took place in the West Wing on September 11, 2001, but also to indecision and infighting Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1079541487155923162004-03-17T11:38:00.000-05:002004-03-17T11:41:24.936-05:00US Alone: This week Spain has decided to run for cover
Growing up in NYC in the 1970's I know that is not ever an option. But It cool, at the end of the Day United States will stand alone or with just Britain as we did in WW2. I suspect I wont be posting here very much anymore. There is great news everywhere but people refuse to see it. The anti-Bush hatred has painted the amazing work we Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1078434665176194472004-03-04T16:11:00.000-05:002004-03-04T16:14:05.780-05:00Real PropagandaScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1078340884918550172004-03-03T14:08:00.000-05:002004-03-03T14:11:04.076-05:00 Stalin's last army Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1078156740751453602004-03-01T10:59:00.000-05:002004-03-01T11:01:56.293-05:00The real culture war : Its not about Marriage its about Money
The supreme court has determined that it ok to discriminate. In an unbelievable decisions a student was refused a merit scholarship he earned based on his choice of major. To me this is very scary. They are basically saying that you can determine special class of people based on religion. The idea is that the state can not fund Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1077914224512681262004-02-27T15:37:00.000-05:002004-02-27T15:39:56.623-05:00A Decent link on the History of MarriageThroughout U.S. history, marriage has been deemed a social good, especially for women. .....The law has traditionally constructed marriage as limited to two people, one man and one woman, whose marriage creates a legal unity represented in the public sphere by the male partner. Thus, until the Married Women's Property Acts of the 1840s, married women were Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1077423389125886442004-02-21T23:16:00.000-05:002004-02-21T23:46:43.200-05:00Misunderstanding Economics:
Economics is defined as " the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management". The definition of economics is very straight forward. The goal of economics is to produce GOODS and SERVICES. And at that job the American capitalist economy is the best the world has ever seen, of Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1076827663481311432004-02-15T01:47:00.000-05:002004-02-15T02:10:06.046-05:00Everything you know about disappearing jobs is wrong : Part 1
"The story is so common- place as to be a cliche. Another 3.3 million jobs are predicted to transfer offshore in the next decade. "
The average person see the fact above and they saythat'ss bad for Americas economy. But the fact is 3 million jobs over a decade is not statistically significant. In 1951 there were 56 millions Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1076355052262819532004-02-09T14:30:00.000-05:002004-02-09T14:33:19.436-05:00An Education Policy Test:
School #1 gets 8k per student and its
students make the grade.
School #2 get 12K per student and it students
don't make the grade.
Lets assume there is an extra 4k per school that was
just laying around. Which school should get the 4k per
student ?
Send me an email with your answer ?
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1076297041316404272004-02-08T22:24:00.000-05:002004-02-08T22:26:45.700-05:00I Hate Inaccurate Headlines:
"U.N., Iraqis debate ballots while insurgency takes the 530th American life" : By Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press, 2/8/2004 16:21
That is the headline from the Associated Press and published in the Boston Globe. And it WRONG. What is wrong with reporting today. It not suppose to be fiction. Here is data on coalition deaths in Iraq. And unless the Insurgency Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1076104593070718282004-02-06T16:56:00.000-05:002004-02-06T16:58:55.890-05:00Desperately seeking electability Democrats are cute when they're being pragmatic. They furrow their brows and try to think like Republicans. Or as they imagine Republicans must think. They turn off their hearts and listen for signals from their brains. No swooning is allowed this presidential primary season. "I only care about one thing," they all say. "Which of these guys can beat Bush?" Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075920122030845472004-02-04T13:42:00.000-05:002004-02-04T13:44:22.310-05:00I know I was suppose to stay positive but:
WFT is wrong with our media or is it our system. They are basically saying that Kerry has won the democratic nomination. But look at this map. Kerry has 214 of 2161 delegates needed to get the nomination. That is 9.9% in what world is the race over. Maybe we do live in the Bizarro world. And why is there no coverage of any issue except like-abilityScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075822689930316372004-02-03T10:38:00.000-05:002004-02-03T10:40:28.700-05:00Stench of a great immorality in BBC's defence of its righteousness The real mystery is why the BBC so vehemently defended his report. It appears to have taken the attitude that any government complaint about its coverage of the Iraq war must be unjustified, and therefore was not worth following up, but should be rejected out of hand. That is, the responsible people right up to the Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075731893917251332004-02-02T09:24:00.000-05:002004-02-02T09:27:11.280-05:00What if: Bush lost the WMDs ?
And the anti-war left had soured America on war so he couldn't go into Syria to get them back.
What would Karl Rove do ?
Would he say shit we fucked up and need to go into Syria.
Or would he take advantage of the media that said, look these WMD's never existed.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075526855961892112004-01-31T00:27:00.000-05:002004-01-31T00:29:50.030-05:00Imagine a world without Free manditory public eductionScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075469673335679812004-01-30T08:34:00.000-05:002004-01-30T10:18:50.123-05:00Why I don't think Bush lied about Iraq: a personal perspective
Apparently there is a large difference between what Bush has said and what people think he said. After the end to major combat everyone else got the feeling Bush said the war was over, while I got the feeling that "We have difficult work to do in Iraq ....parts of that country that remain dangerous. We are pursuing and finding Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075412426905583582004-01-29T16:40:00.000-05:002004-01-30T08:03:45.140-05:00How I have been feeling for the last year or so "What a tragedy for the left-the worldwide left, this left of ours which, in failing to play much of a role in the antifascism of our own era, is right now committing a gigantic historic error. Not for the first time, my friend! And yet, if the left all over the world took up this particular struggle as its own, the whole nature of events in Iraq Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075303592452906692004-01-28T10:26:00.000-05:002004-01-28T10:29:00.090-05:00You Must Read This ! !
Speachless am I.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1075227941399951982004-01-27T13:25:00.000-05:002004-01-28T10:26:59.966-05:00A Cheap Dollar Boom : Its all good Contemplating all this bullish talk about the U.S. economy, a top European financial official was scratching his head. If European economies were facing trade and budget deficits like those in the United States, coupled with a sharply declining currency, European investors would be jumping out the windows. But for America, all news is good news.
Euro-pessimismScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1074624365141588222004-01-20T13:46:00.000-05:002004-01-20T13:48:04.576-05:00Army Joins Struggle to Save BeerScottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1074623937634418322004-01-20T13:38:00.000-05:002004-01-20T13:40:57.153-05:00F*** THE NAZIS, SAYS CHURCHILL'S PARROTSHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old...and still cursing the Nazis.
Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1074622814750866262004-01-20T13:20:00.000-05:002004-01-20T13:22:57.546-05:00The Real Election: The Electoral College
Iowa has left me feeling great about democracy. I still believe our Electoral College is a remnant from pre-electric days but its the law of the land so everyone needs to understand if they want to understand presidential politics.Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1074573126139794702004-01-19T23:32:00.000-05:002004-01-19T23:55:55.390-05:00The Question has been answered
The American public does not believe we should leave Iraq.
Kucinich and Dean were the weather vane for that idea. Kucinich most strongly an he only pulled in 1.3 percent of the voters. Very telling I think. While the candidates that voted for the war got 80.5 percent.
Please note Kucinich numbers may have been pushed down by the caucus process which is Scottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5911049.post-1074017608036189502004-01-13T13:13:00.000-05:002004-01-13T13:16:46.390-05:00 Should we leave Iraq ?
I have become of the belief that the moral support given to the "resistance" by all the lefts negativity has undermined the mission, so we should consider leaving.
I think it would have been reasonable after 10 years of bitching about sanctions that the end of Saddam,
sanctions and a prospect for a free Iraq would have allowed the left and right to come together in Scottnoreply@blogger.com