24 March 2008
News and Comments - 03/24/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
17 Comments so far...
Jesse Says:
24 March 2008 at 12:51 am.
I use to try to ignore the threat from the terrorists because I wanted peace and I wanted our soldiers out of Iraq. But here I learned not to be reactionary and to try to stay balanced. I still don’t like the war and want us to try a lot harder to find a way to end it without a permanent presence but I also know that extremists do threaten our way of life and we can’t ignore that. I worry that Israel will take the brunt of the hatred.
Al Qaeda’s No. 2 reportedly orders defense of Palestinians
(CNN) — A new statement attributed to al Qaeda’s No. 2 figure, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calls on Muslims to attack Western interests in defense of the Palestinians in Gaza.
“Let us strike their interests everywhere, just as they gathered against us from everywhere, and let them know that every dollar they spend on the killing of Muslims, there will be shed blood instead in return,” the speaker in the nearly five-minute statement says.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/23/zawahiri.gaza/index.html
Jesse Says:
24 March 2008 at 12:54 am.
I’m sorry but this guy is such a slimeball.
Telecom lobbyists tied to McCain
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate John McCain has condemned the influence of “special interest lobbyists,” yet dozens of lobbyists have political and financial ties to his presidential campaign — particularly from telecommunications companies, an industry he helps oversee in the Senate.
Of the 66 current or former lobbyists working for the Arizona senator or raising money for his presidential campaign, 23 have lobbied for telecommunications companies in the past decade, Senate lobbying disclosures show.
McCain has netted about $765,000 in political donations from those telecom lobbyists, their spouses, colleagues at their firms and their telecom clients during the past decade, a USA TODAY analysis of campaign-finance records shows.
Cameron Says:
24 March 2008 at 6:32 am.
Peaceful democratic change. . .
Democracy comes to kingdom of Bhutan
by Parul Gupta
THIMPHU (AFP) - Bhutan was set to bring a century of absolute monarchy to an end Monday with the election of the remote Himalayan nation’s first democratic government.
The polls are the culmination of an initiative by Bhutan’s royal family to peacefully transform the small Buddhist kingdom, which is wedged in the mountains between India and China, into a constitutional monarchy.
The country’s young Oxford-educated King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck made a strong pitch at the weekend for his subjects, many of whom view the concept of democracy with a mixture of excitement and alarm, to take part.
Two parties are locked in a tight race and have both made similar promises to boost growth and develop roads and other infrastructure — and to stick by the royal concept of prioritising “Gross National Happiness” rather than GDP.
Only university graduates have been allowed to stand for the 47 seats in the new National Assembly, who will be chosen from either the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) or the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) or Bhutan United Party.
“This is the first time I’m voting,” smiled Lhamchum, a 68-year-old housewife who had turned up with nine family members to vote in Thimphu, a capital city nestled in the mountains and devoid of traffic jams and high-rise buildings.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080324/wl_sthasia_afp/bhutanvote;_ylt=AvxhCAjCd.Hbld1UvdIUaVpvaA8F
Terrie Soberg Says:
24 March 2008 at 9:41 am.
Here are three links to view (or listen to) at your leisure:
Matt Says:
24 March 2008 at 12:46 pm.
We are such hypocrites if we don’t speak out loudly as a country about this. The whole Kosovo thing compared to this is such a farce. But this is China so hands off. Since when weren’t the Olympics about human rights? What a crock!
Death reports as Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns
Hundreds of monks, nuns and local Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China to demand the return of the Dalai Lama have been turned back by paramilitary police who opened fire to disperse the crowd.
Local residents of Luhuo said two people – a monk and a farmer – appeared to have been shot dead and about a dozen were wounded in the latest violence to rock Tibetan areas of China.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3612661.ece
Carrie Says:
24 March 2008 at 12:49 pm.
Rush just said he can’t believe that someone who has been a major critic of the republican party and seriously thought about leaving is now the leader of it.
That really makes me mad. He is going to just love sticking it to us by doing everything he can to force us to the middle. That’s the kind of person he has shown himself to be. He makes my skin crawl.
Terrie, I love peeps. Cute picture.
The Realist Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:12 pm.
Carrie, don’t you think McCain would be better than Obama or Clinton? I don’t want to make anyone upset but I don’t see how you can keep fighting against our only hope for stability. McCain isn’t perfect but who is?
Joy Bischoff Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:16 pm.
Realist, don’t be shy about supporting McCain. That doesn’t make you bad or stupid or anything else. I understand there are many compelling reasons to do so. I have decided not to unless he picks Romney. Even then I will have to see if I can tell if McCain would ever be inclined to listen to Romney or give him a meaningful role as VP. The next few months should tell a lot.
Benjamin Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:27 pm.
Terrie, the McCain vs. McCain was pretty funny and I feel kind of bad that it is put out by the dems because I agree with it.
Realist, I have been reading here for a few weeks before I posted. Something that I noticed was that nobody supporting McCain ever had an answer for Ann Coulter’s explanation of why McCain would be so bad. A lot of people here keep mentioning it but I’ll do it again and see if you have an answer for it.
McCain has many moderate views which actually means liberal like Roy wrote in the political spectrum. So when McCain supports a liberal bill, the dems will back it, plus a lot of the republicans will get their arm twisted to back it to support our republican president. This will SO happen. If a dem president is in there, the republicans will keep the spot light on him/her so that we can call a liberal bill a liberal bill.
I totally agree with the idea that a wolf in sheep’s clothing is more evil than a wolf. I also noticed that some of the same people here that wrote a lot about how nobody could believe McCain who has proven himself to be such a liar. Then later they were believing or at least wanting to believe that McCain would keep his new flip-flop promises. How can we trust a man who hates the conservative base and has shown himself to be the kind of man who will stick it to people he hates??? I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for weeks.
CindyL. Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:42 pm.
I definitely agree that we should run off anybody who wants to support McCain. But it is still a very good idea to point out all the problems with McCain. Because I think even those of you who want to vote for him or at least might, still want to try and get the message out to McCain that we are going to watch him and try and keep him honest.
Benjamin, I hadn’t noticed that no one had an answer about Ann Coulter’s argument but I think you are right.
The Realist Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:46 pm.
I have never heard a good answer about the problem of losing the majority in the Supreme Court and of getting government health care. That will ruin our economy. I would love to hear a good answer for that. How could anyone think that McCain could do more damage than Obama?
Jan W. Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:49 pm.
Matt, that really breaks my heart about the Tibetans. I agree with everything you said.
Anon88 Says:
24 March 2008 at 1:55 pm.
Realist, history shows time and again that a traitor can do far more damage than large numbers of straight-forward enemy combatants. If McCain changes the principles that the Republicans have traditionally stood for, then he hasn’t just changed issues, he has permanently changed the future. Freedom will take a hit that we will not recover from without a terrible price.
If a democratic president gets in office at a time when so much turmoil is coming, then they will collapse from their own dead weight if we are patient. They will do damage without a doubt. But the kind of damage they do will not add up to the damage McCain can do by crippling the portion of the country who are trying to hold onto the Constitution.
And I noticed you didn’t answer the question regarding Ann Coulter.
T. Fan Says:
24 March 2008 at 2:01 pm.
Anon88, I agree. It is very short-sighted to sell out our long term future for the dangers that are right in front of us now. They are real and serious dangers and concerns. I wouldn’t make light of the importance of a conservative Supreme Court. Two things make me still not support McCain in spite of this. First, I have seen his statements about never changing Roe v Wade so I can’t be sure he would end up keeping his word to put in conservatives. Second, I read here awhile back someone who wrote that we could worry about that right now but if we damage the conservative movement with a man like McCain, then in the long run we will lose our freedoms and it will just be a matter of time until we would be back to abortion and more, like euthanasia, killing babies who are handicapped and it goes from there.
I have one more reason. I truly believe John McCain is an evil man and I am responsible for my vote. I don’t feel right about voting for one evil person to stop another evil person. That kind of thinking will come back to bite us.
Carrie Says:
24 March 2008 at 2:14 pm.
Sean is talking about McCain cutting government spending if he gets in but I think what will happen is that he just cuts the stuff he doesn’t want. He has so many ties to lobbyists that I think he will just help all his lobbyist friends. I’m sorry, I just don’t trust him. If he picks Mitt I will probably vote for him though.
Hank Says:
24 March 2008 at 5:47 pm.
McCain takes Mitt, I’m there. I can always hope that if McCain doesn’t keep his promises he’ll kick the bucket and Romney will take over.
Cameron Says:
24 March 2008 at 6:01 pm.
I’m only putting a little of the article because it was so stupid. It was ridiculously biased.
Global Warming Denier: Fraud or ‘Realist’?
His fellow scientists call him a fraud, a charlatan and a showman, but Fred Singer calls himself “a realist.”
Singer, an 84-year-old Princeton-trained physicist, is the grandfather of the global warming skeptics who dispute the established scientific consensus that global warming is real, that it is caused by the pollution humans are pumping into the atmosphere, and that it will be catastrophic if measures are not taken immediately.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=4506059&page=1
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