7 March 2008
News and Comments - 03/07/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Jesse Says:
7 March 2008 at 12:44 am.
This would be very sad for me personally. He is a good man with a big heart.
Ron Paul hints he’s quitting race
WASHINGTON - GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is hinting to supporters that he is ending his long-shot campaign for the presidency.
The Texas Republican congressman addressed supporters in a 7 1/2-minute video on his campaign Web site Thursday night and did not specifically say he was quitting the race.
He said that although victory in the conventional political sense is not available in the presidential race, many victories have been achieved due to the hard work and enthusiasm of his supporters.
He said that he hoped that one day he and his supporters could look back and say his campaign was a significant first step that signaled a change in direction for the country.
Paul said their job now was to plan for the next phase of their effort.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/paul_5;_ylt=AuQHyBGaN3RVJ58tK5o5UWkE1vAI
Cameron Says:
7 March 2008 at 6:11 am.
After how many years of war against the terrorist threat and Al-Qaida is now back to its pre 9/11 strength according to U.S. intelligence.
Commander warns of al-Qaida threat to US
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 36 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers, the U.S. military commander in charge of domestic defense said.
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, also told reporters Thursday he has not seen any direct threats tied to the U.S. presidential elections. But he said it would be rash to think that such threats are not there.
“We need only to look at Spain and see that they’re certainly willing to try to do something that is significant that could affect an election process,” Renuart said. “I think it would be imprudent of us to let down our guard believing that if there’s no credible threat that you know of today, there won’t be something tomorrow.”
While he said that U.S. authorities have thwarted attacks on a number of occasions, he said terrorist cells may be working harder than ever to plot high-impact events. He did not point to any specific intelligence that authorities have received but said the “chatter” they are hearing “gives me no reason to believe they’re going to slow down” in their efforts to target the U.S.
“If an organization like that is to maintain credibility and continue to grow more of its extremists, it has to show tangible results,” Renuart said. “So I think there may be a certain sense of urgency among that organization to have an effect. So it would tell me that they’re trying harder.”
Asked about the terror threat, Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said, “There continues to be no credible information telling us about an imminent threat to homeland at this time.”
In July, U.S. intelligence analysts, in a threat assessment, concluded that al-Qaida had rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The report said the terror network had regrouped along the Afghan-Pakistan border, but it also noted that officials knew of no specific credible threat of an attack on U.S. soil.
About the same time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff raised eyebrows when he said he had a “gut feeling” that the United States faced a heightened risk of attack.
On Thursday, however, Chertoff said the U.S. has successfully lowered the risk of a large-scale domestic terrorist attack for the near future.
“We have significantly reduced the risk of a major attack in the short term,” Chertoff told a group of editors at The Washington Post in a report posted online Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_threat
Cameron Says:
7 March 2008 at 10:15 am.
Israelis Mourn Those Killed at Seminary
JERUSALEM (AP) - Thousands of Israelis gathered outside a bullet-scarred Jerusalem rabbinical seminary on Friday to begin funeral processions for eight students killed by a suspected Palestinian gunman.
A bearded rabbi recited Hebrew psalms line by line, the crowd repeating after him, in memory of the dead, one of whom was 26 and the rest between ages 15 and 19. People packed nearby balconies to observe the ceremony, after which the bodies were to be taken for burial.
Thursday’s shooting, which also left nine wounded, was the first major attack in Jerusalem in four years and the deadliest incident in Israel since a suicide bomber killed 11 people in Tel Aviv on April 17, 2006. It came on the heels of a surge in fighting between Israelis and Palestinians and further threatened already faltering peace talks.
Hamas militants, who have been battling Israel during a weeklong surge in violence in Gaza, praised the attack in a statement but stopped just short of claiming responsibility. “We bless the operation. It will not be the last,” Hamas said in a statement.
Matt Says:
7 March 2008 at 10:19 am.
Dollar Drops to Record Low Against Euro After US Jobs Cuts Reach Highest Level in 5 Years
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The dollar sank to a new low Friday against the euro, which extended its first-ever rise above $1.54 after data showed U.S. job cuts hitting the biggest monthly number in five years.
The U.S. Labor Department said American employers cut 63,000 jobs in February — the starkest sign yet that the U.S. is heading toward a recession or in one already.
E.E. Says:
7 March 2008 at 10:36 am.
Cameron, good but sad and frustrating point about al qaeda. Back to square one after seven years is not a good sign. They are recruiting them as fast as we take them out. Major dilemma.
The Realist Says:
7 March 2008 at 11:18 am.
The weakening of the dollar worries me a lot. If OPEC decides to change to the euro then we are going to have a lot more problems.
CindyL. Says:
7 March 2008 at 12:06 pm.
True Realist. Especially since the OPEC countries hate us. And it doesn’t help that Greenspan told them to dump the dollar.
Cavetrollhead Says:
7 March 2008 at 12:41 pm.
Drill in Alaska. Extract in Utah.
Cavetrollhead Says:
7 March 2008 at 12:41 pm.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335801,00.html#
Here is a video of the water canon. Pretty cool. It is good in a hostage situation because it doesn’t send a lot of shrapnel.
Mac Says:
7 March 2008 at 1:20 pm.
I want one. That should one up my son with his huge water gun.
Cindy, I agree.
Carrie Says:
7 March 2008 at 1:57 pm.
Jason Lewis had a caller who said nothing is more important than winning the war. Jason said that if we win the war but we have tyranny here at home then we have lost. The man said during the civil war the people gave up freedom and nothing is more important than winnng the war. I wish I knew the circumstances of that because I don’t think now they will give them back.
Cameron Says:
7 March 2008 at 3:27 pm.
This is a man I can’t trust. He isn’t stable, he isn’t honest and I am worried about how he would handle world leaders, especially the Russians and Iran…and Chavez, all right I’ve got to stop because when I think about it, I’m worried about a lot of things.
McCain flashes temper at reporter
NEW ORLEANS - Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004.
“Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that, that I had a conversation,” McCain told the reporter. “And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know.”
The reporter, Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times, was following up on a question McCain had answered at a campaign event Friday morning in Atlanta. Asked if he might consider Kerry as a running mate, since Kerry asked him in 2004, McCain said no.
Afterward, on a campaign flight, Bumiller said she looked in the Times’ archives and that McCain had denied talking with Kerry in a May 2004 story.
McCain interrupted, saying that everyone knew he had a private conversation, and he kept interrupting as she tried to follow up. McCain clearly was irate.
“I don’t know what you read or heard of, and I don’t know the circumstances,” McCain said. “Maybe in May of ‘04 I hadn’t had a conversation.”
Did he recall the conversation? “I don’t know, but it’s well-known that I had the conversation. It’s absolutely well-known by everyone. So do you have a question on another issue?”
Asked again about the conversation, McCain said, “No. No. Because the issue is closed, as far as I’m concerned. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it in America.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_reporter_2;_ylt=Ag7e7KFsU6Y2wtGqwQJcdugE1vAI
Angela Rogin Says:
7 March 2008 at 3:49 pm.
Things like this will probably make people entrench more for McCain because the Times is picking on him again but he really does have a problem with his temper. He is very arrogant and condescending and that is just what we don’t need right now with our world image the way it is. Obama isn’t what we need either because people will think they can walk on him. So do we look weak to the world with him or let McCain blow it all up in our face? What a conundrum.
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