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Obama's aunt from Kenya living in the U.S. illegally.......
That's right boys and girls, here is a guy sworn to protect America, he has denied his oath as a US Senator, and you idiots want him for President.
Open the flood fates and let all the illegals in from everywhere.
Lets finish destroying America.
re, Obama's aunt from Kenya living in the U.S. illegally
I read that too, but here is the full story from the Associated Press....
WASHINGTON DC – Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcement official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.
Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.
The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004. The Obama campaign declined to comment late Friday night.
Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.
Onyango's case coming to light just days before the presidential election led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.
The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.
Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.
The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.
It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order.
Obama says he didn't know about aunt's illegal status in U.S.
Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status
I think what we have here, Is a terrorist cell, and another serious Barack Obama lie.
Remember this, if the illegals are allowed amnesty and that 'pathway to citizenship' the door is opened for CHAIN MIGRATION! Every illegal that gets citizenship is then able to sponsor their parents, spouses and children for citizenship too... and when each one of those parents, spouses and children get citizenship they can do the same... and so on, and so on...................
If you think that we have a problem now with illegals you ain't seen nothing yet! The difference will be that the dregs of other country's societies will be coming here LEGALLY and bringing their family, their family's family, etc. with them!!!! Then think about how they love to reproduce! Between the chain migration and the reproduction our country will never be able to accomodate that kind of population explosion. The economy, unemployment, housing and healthcare will be much worse than it is now. Far more people will be jobless, homeless, hungry and ill because of this one mistake... amnesty and the pathway to citizenship.
Welcome to our future if Obama has his way.
Hey everyone, want to knwo a Realtor to avoid, it is...
Alan Robinson
A dirty Email Spammer who is constantly filling up people's email boxes with worthless homes and properties I wouldn't let a homeless person sleep in.
If you are the seller of any of these properties, fire his ass, no one will EVER buy anything that is received in an email spam unless they are complete idiots.
Daylight Saving Time: Why Did We Do It?
At 2:00 a.m. local on Sunday, most of the United States (except Hawaii and Arizona) will leave daylight saving time behind and fall back an hour to standard time.
The annoyance of resetting clocks (or forgetting to, and showing up an hour early for appointments on Sunday) may raise the question of why we bother with this rigmarole in the first place.
Daylight saving time is most often associated with the oh-so-sweet extra hour of sleep in fall (and the not-so-nice loss of an hour in spring), but some of the original reasons for resetting our clocks twice a year including saving energy and having more daylight hours for retailers, sporting events and other activities that benefit from a longer day.
As far back as the 1700s, people recognized the potential to save energy by jumping clocks ahead one hour in the summer Benjamin Franklin even wrote about it although the idea was not put into practice until the 20th century.
During both World Wars, the United States and Great Britain began observing daylight saving time.
After the war, U.S. states were free to choose whether to observe daylight saving time and the calendar start dates of the time change. The result was time confusion for travelers and newscasters. In 1966, Congress enacted the Uniform Time Act, which stated that if any state observed daylight saving, it had to follow a uniform protocol, beginning and ending on the same dates throughout the country.
Starting in 2007, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 lengthened daylight saving time by four weeks, starting it three weeks earlier in spring and ending it one week later in fall. Daylight saving now begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday of November.
Formerly it began on the first Sunday of April and ended on the last Sunday of October, so that extra week gives trick-or-treaters a precious extra hour of candy-gathering before sunset.
But not everyone is wild about daylight saving time, with some states opting out all together and others proposing to do so.
Hawaii has never observed daylight saving time, as its tropical latitude means its daylight hours stay fairly constant year-round. Arizona likewise has not observed daylight saving time since 1967 because the extra daylight in the summer would just mean more energy consumption to keep the desert state's residents cool.
Many Alaskans would like to stop observing daylight saving time because the change in daylight from summer to winter is already so extreme at their northerly latitude. A petition has even been set before the state this year to abolish the observance of daylight saving time in Alaska.
Florida too finds daylight saving time less useful because of it's southerly latitude. In 2008, a Florida state senator introduced a bill to abolish the practice in Florida.
From 1970 to 2006, most of Indiana didn't observe daylights time, but began to do so in April 2006 after eight counties in the western portion of the state switched from the Eastern to the Central Time Zone.
None of the U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, observe daylight saving time.
I was just raped by Batman and Robin.
How to Destroy America:
"First, to destroy America , turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a
society to be bilingual. The historical
scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.' Canada , Belgium, Malaysia , and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press
for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims."
"Second, to destroy America , invent
'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. Make it an article
of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds/SPAN.
"Third, we could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec ' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own
multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once
dictated ethnocentrism and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.' Lam m said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their
own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our
population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
"Fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victim.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault
of the majority. I would start a grievance
industry blaming all minority failure on the majority platoon."
"Sixth plan for America 's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful , or stable society is against most historical precepts. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and
literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia , threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that
nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- >From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,'we will " Balkanize " America as surely as Kosovo.'
"Seventh, I would place all subjects off
limits. Make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking.
Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt
discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual /bicultural country, having established multi-cultism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victim,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra:
That because immigration has been good for America , it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore
the cumulative impact of millions of them."
Cuz Obama paid Acorn to sign up dead people to vote
Have you noticed that if you rearrange the words 'illegal immigrants' and add a few more letters, it spells out:
'Fuck off and go home you hairy faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, benefit grabbing, goat fucking, smelly rag head bastards'?
Air Cars: A New Wind for America's Roads?
A new carmaker has a plan for cheap, environmentally friendly cars to be built all over the country
An air-powered car? It may be available sooner than you think at a price tag that will hardly be a budget buster. The vehicle may not run like a speed racer on back road highways, but developer Zero Pollution Motors is betting consumers will be willing to fork over $20,000 for a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.
The expertise needed to build a compressed air car, or CAV, is not rocket science, either. Years-old, off-the-shelf technology uses compressed air to drive old-fashioned car engine pistons instead of combusting gas or diesel fuel to create a burst of air to do the same thing. Indian carmaker Tata has no qualms about the technology. It has already bought the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market.
The air car can tool along at a top speed of 35 mph for some 60 miles or so on a tank of compressed air, a sufficient distance for 80% of consumers to commute to work and back and complete daily chores.
On highways, the CAV can cruise at interstate speeds for nearly 800 miles with a small motor that compresses outside air to keep the tank filled. The motor isn't finicky about fuel. It will burn gasoline or diesel as well as biodiesel, ethanol or vegetable oil.
This car leaves the highest-mpg vehicles you can buy right now in the dust. Even if it used only regular gasoline, the air car would average 106 mpg, more than double today's fuel sipping champ, the Toyota Prius. The air tank also can be refilled when it's not in use by being plugged into a wall socket and recharged with electricity as the motor compresses air.
Automakers aren't quite ready yet to gear up huge assembly line operations churning out air cars or set up glitzy dealer showrooms where you can ooh and aah over the color or style. But the vehicles will be built in factories that will make up to 8,000 vehicles a year, likely starting in 2011, and be sold directly to consumers.
There will be plants in nearly every state, based on the number of drivers in the state. California will have as many as 17 air car manufacturing plants, and there'll be around 12 in Florida, eight in New York, four in Georgia, while two in Connecticut will serve that state and Rhode Island.
he technology goes back decades, but is coming together courtesy of two converging forces. First, new laws are likely to be enacted in a few years that will limit carbon dioxide emissions and force automakers to develop ultra-high mileage cars and those that emit minuscule amounts of or no gases linked with global warming. Plug-in electric hybrids will slash these emissions, but they'll be pricey at around $40,000 each and require some changes in infrastructure -- such as widespread recharge stations -- to be practical. Fuel cells that burn hydrogen to produce only water vapor still face daunting technical challenges.
Second, the relatively high cost of gas has expedited the air car's development. Yes, pump prices have plunged since July from record levels, but remain way higher than just a few years ago and continue to take a bite out of disposable income. Refiners will face carbon emission restraints, too, and steeply higher costs will be passed along at the pump.
Tata doesn't plan to produce the cars in the U.S. Instead, it plans to charge $15 million for the rights to the technology, a fully built turnkey auto assembly plant, tools, machinery, training and rights to use trademarks.
The CAV has a big hurdle: proving it can pass federal crash tests. Shiva Vencat, president and CEO of Zero Pollution Motors, says he's not worried. "The requirements can be modeled [on a computer] before anything is built and adjusted to ensure that the cars will pass" the crash tests. Vencat also is a vice president of MDI Inc., a French company that developed the air car.
The inventor of this technology is Mr. Guy Negre, who is the founder and CEO of MDI SA, a company headquartered in Luxembourg with its R and D in Nice, France.
Strange Portal Connects Earth to Sun:
Like giant, cosmic chutes between the Earth and sun, magnetic portals open up every eight minutes or so to connect our planet with its host star.
Once the portals open, loads of high-energy particles can travel the 93 million miles (150 million km) through the conduit during its brief opening, space scientists say.
Called a flux transfer event, or FTE, such cosmic connections not only exist but are possibly twice as common as anyone ever imagined, according to space scientists who attended the 2008 Plasma Workshop in Huntsville, Ala., last week.
"Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible," said David Sibeck, an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Dynamic bursts
Researchers have long known that the Earth and sun must be connected. For instance, particles from the sun are constantly whisked away via the solar wind and often follow magnetic field lines that connect the sun's atmosphere with terra firma. The field lines allow particles to penetrate Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds our planet.
"We used to think the connection was permanent and that solar wind could trickle into the near-Earth environment anytime the wind was active," Sibeck said. "We were wrong. The connections are not steady at all. They are often brief, bursty and very dynamic."
Several speakers at the workshop outlined the formation of a flux transfer event. One idea is that on the side of Earth facing the sun, our magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. And about every eight minutes, the two fields briefly reconnect, forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth.
Sibeck said to think of the FTE as a giant rolling pin that lies flat along the boundary between the Earth's and sun's magnetic fields. (He noted the rolling pin would have to be malleable so it could pierce through both magnetic fields while lying flat.)
"These FTEs kind of look like roller pins, and they form as little blob roller pins at the tip of the magnetosphere facing the sun," Sibeck told SPACE.com. "They can't decide which way they're going to slide around the Earth, so they grow there into big roller pins and then they take off and sort of spirally roll along [Earth's magnetosphere] like you're pounding out dough."
More than one FTE can form at once, he said, and they stay open for about 15 to 20 minutes.
More to learn
In order to measure such FTEs, spacecraft must not only catch them forming but also be on either end of the magnetic structures (either lengthwise or widthwise). In fact, the European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through, Sibeck said. While these measurements have nailed down the width of an FTE, the length is still uncertain though one measurement put it at up to five Earth radii. One Earth radius is about 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometers).
Astrophysicist Jimmy Raeder of the University of New Hampshire used those measurements to develop computer simulations of the portals. He found the cylindrical portals tend to form above Earth's equator and then in December, the FTEs would roll over the North Pole. In July, they roll over the South Pole.
Sibeck thinks the events occur twice as often as previously thought, proposing two types of flux transfer events — active and passive.
When the magnetic cylinders are active, they allow particles to flow through rather easily, forming important conduits of energy for Earth's magnetosphere, Sibeck said. When passive, the cylinders have more resistance to transiting particles. The internal structure of a passive cylinder makes it tougher for particles and magnetic fields to flow through. Sibeck has calculated the properties of passive FTEs and hopes he and his colleagues will hunt for signs of them in data collected with THEMIS and Cluster.
The space scientists at the workshop still want to figure out why the portals form every eight minutes and how magnetic fields inside the cylinders twist and coil.
I wouldnt vote for palin but id let her sit on my face.
In case most of you sheeple haven't noticed, those two morons...
The Rev Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton have been quiet for months...
Just wait till the lection is over...
they along with a=bout another 10,000 idiots will come out of the woodworks like cockroaches making their demands,.
421,000 poisoned by snakebites each year; 20,000 die:
Hong Kong, China - More than 400,000 people are poisoned by snakebites worldwide each year and 20,000 of them die, with most cases occurring in the poorest countries, researchers say.
In an article published in U.S.-based open access Public Library of Science Medicine, the researchers said the burden from snakebites was highest in South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Data on snakebites is far from comprehensive as most of them happen in places with poor healthcare systems and where record-keeping is generally poor or non-existent.
For this study, the researchers trawled through 3,256 published articles and extracted data on 68 countries.
They said, according to a conservative estimate, there are 421,000 cases of envenoming, or venom delivered through biting, each year and which lead to at least 20,000 deaths.
But the actual figures could be several times higher.
"These figures may be as high as 1,841,000 envenomings and 94,000 deaths. Based on the fact that envenoming occurs in about one in every four snakebites, between 1.2 million and 5.5 million snakebites could occur annually," wrote the team led by Janaka de Silva at the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka.
India has the highest figures with 81,000 envenomings and 11,000 deaths each year, followed by Sri Lanka with 33,000 envenomings, Vietnam (30,000), Brazil (30,000), Mexico (28,000) and Nepal (20,000).
The researchers stressed that snakebite was a badly neglected problem in many countries as they often go unreported.
"Many victims do not seek hospital treatment and prefer traditional remedies. Some may die at home, with their deaths unrecorded," they wrote.
"Studies from rural Nigeria and Kenya have reported that only 8.5 percent and 27 percent of snakebite victims, respectively, sought hospital treatment."
Liberals are agents of the devil.
OBAMA needs to be impeached and charged with crimes.
William Ayers - American Terrorist
Frank Davis – mentor and radical Communist/sexual pervert
Raila Odinga - Cousin, Radical Islamist
Raul Reyes - Columbian Terrorist
Antonio Rezko - Felon/Slum Lord
Professor Khalidi - Muslim Terrorist Supporter and got Obama into Harvard….
Reverend Wright - Racist Supporter/Preacher, Anti-American
Reverend James Meeks - Racist
Reverend Louis Farrakhan - Racist Nation of Islam / Faux Preacher
Nadhmi Auchi - Muslim Billionaire
Sohaib Abassi - Muslim Millionaire
Special: Obama Bought Election with $650 Million
A Newsmax special report by Kenneth Timmerman finds that Barack Obama beat John McCain for one reason: he spent more. Obama raised a record-breaking $650 million. But now new questions have emerged about shadowy foreign donations in excess of $60 million. And Obama still has not released the names of donors who gave him almost $300 million.
Add to that his very questionable associations with felons and other despicable characters, along with his being nothing more than a creation of the media and Hollywood (like Robin Williams in the movie "Man of the Year") ADDED TO his failure to prove to the US Supreme Court his Constitutionally being able to hold the office and you have someone rotten headed to Washington reeking all the way from Kenya through Chicago.
It's closer than you think. Most people are aware of the highway 'corridor' that's going through Texas to Canada but how many of you know that there is also a corridor going through Arizona??? The CANAMEX Corridor runs from Nogales, Arizona, through Las Vegas, Nevada, to Salt Lake City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, to Montana, to the Canadian Border.
Don't think that all that nice new highway heading to Laughlin is just for us.
when Obama starts America down the road to Islam, Fags will be put to death.
Get a daily laugh, here is new blog I just found on Google called,
Just How Stupid Are People?
http://www.justhowstupid.blogspot.com/
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Olive Garden
I visited your lousy websites looking for a coupon for lunch and found nothing, so I will eat at Wendy's...
P.S. - Corporate America, stick your websites up your ass!
To all you idiot Obama supporters and your so-called change...
think about this....
There were 58 million Americans that voted for McCain.
About 10 Million Americans who voted in the last 3 presidential elections didn't vote this time because they didn't like Mccain or Obama.
About another 6 Million Americans voted for someone else.
Voting ....
I didn't vote this last election, first time since 1964.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans are losers and their candidates are getting worse.
America, I am afraid is doomed.
Lets face it the voting system in this country is outdated and archaic.
We need to get rid of the Electoral College... the popular vote should be the only thing that counts. Don't think so, ask Al Gore what he thinks.
If you listen to any of these news media people before and up to and including the election they only talk about key battleground states.
That means electoral votes.
re, we must change the voting system
I agree the Electoral College does NOT represent all the people. It is one of the more serious flaws to the U.S. Constitution our fore-fathers screwed up.
re, re, we must change the voting system.....
I agree, the system is broken and must be fixed.
I would like to add that we should have a 3-day voting period which starts at 7:00 am Friday local time and ends on Sunday at 7:00 pm.
This gives everyone ample time to vote.
re- re, re, we must change the voting system...........
I would like to add that we should make it mandatory that every U.S. Citizen vote that is 18 or older. Anyone who does NOT vote pays a fine on their tax return of $500.00.
Some countries currently use this type of system.
re,re, we must change the voting system-
We should use electronic voting.
It is a total crock of bullshit that it doesn't work.
If we can do transactions online with secure payments it is idiotic to assume we can't do electronic voting using the same or similar method.
we must change the voting system -
to the last poster i totally agree we should have electronic voting, but i may add that some still wont use it, so i propose that we do the purple thumb print when voting manually
this would stop a lot of voter fraud
try showing up with a purple thumb and voting the second time somewhere
Due to recent events, i.e. the election of a BLACK President: grape soda, red kool-aid, fried chicken, water mellon, malt liquor, jazz records, menthol cigarettes, gin, and gold teeth will be tax exempt!
Why Do Black People Have Nightmares?
Because the last one who had a dream, got shot!
Mystery solved: How bleach kills germs
CHICAGO IL – Bleach has been killing germs for more than 200 years but U.S. scientists have just figured out how the cleaner does its dirty work.
It seems that hypochlorous acid, the active ingredient in bleach, attacks proteins in bacteria, causing them to clump up much like an egg that has been boiled, a team at the University of Michigan reported in the journal Cell on Thursday.
The discovery, which may better explain how humans fight off infections, came quite by accident.
"As so often happens in science, we did not set out to address this question," Ursula Jakob, who led the team, said in a statement.
The researchers had been studying a bacterial protein called heat shock protein 33, which is a kind of molecular chaperon that becomes active when cells are in distress, for example from the high temperature of a fever.
In this case, the source of the distress was hypochlorous acid or hypochlorite.
Jakob's team figured out that bleach and high temperatures have very similar effects on proteins.
When they exposed the bacteria to bleach, the heat shock protein became active in an attempt to protect other proteins in the bacteria from losing their chemical structure, forming clumps that would eventually die off.
"Many of the proteins that hypochlorite attacks are essential for bacterial growth, so inactivating those proteins likely kills the bacteria," Marianne Ilbert, a postdoctoral fellow in Jakob's lab, said in a statement.
The researchers said the human immune system produces hypochlorous acid in response to infection but the substance does not kill only the bacterial invaders. It kills human cells too, which may explain how tissue is destroyed in chronic inflammation.
"Hypochlorous acid is an important part of host defense," Jakob said. "It's not just something we use on our countertops."
G20 Leaders at economic summit eye detection plan
WASHINGTON DC – World leaders at an emergency economic summit are moving to sharpen detection of risky investing and regulatory weak spots, hoping to avoid future financial meltdowns like the one now threatening the global economy.
In the largest gathering of its kind here in nearly a decade, President George W. Bush and some two dozen foreign leaders were to meet Saturday behind closed doors as they prepared to adopt an action plan for more openness in financial markets and an early warning system for problems like the speculation frenzy that fed the U.S. housing bubble.
"The stakes are indeed high," Bush said Friday. "Billions of hardworking people are counting on us to strengthen the financial system for the long term."
Behind the urgent rhetoric, the steps taking shape were modest.
The action plan would include measures aimed at making the global financial system more accountable to investors and more transparent to regulators, diplomatic officials said.
It also would improve international monitoring of markets and bolster rules governing how companies value their assets, a current weakness seen as partly responsible for the financial crisis at hand. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because leaders had yet to agree on their final communique.
While the emerging plan would boost oversight of fragile financial markets, it fell short of the sweeping set of tough new regulations some Europeans want.
The summit, meant to be the first in a series, has a two-pronged agenda: reviving the ailing global economy, which has pushed up unemployment and shrunk people's savings, and exploring options for overhauling the global financial system to prevent similar financial crises in the future.
A follow-up summit is envisioned for the spring, after Barack Obama becomes president.
A new "college of supervisors," made up of financial regulators from many nations, was among the ideas likely to be included in the leaders' final communique issued expected at the summit's conclusion late Saturday.
Heads of major industrialized powers, including Britain, Germany, France and Japan, are attending the summit as are developing countries such as China, India and Brazil.
As leaders descended on Washington Friday, Bush warned for a second day of the dangers in his view of too much government intervention. Strict new regulation of financial firms or products, such as some European leaders have advocated, would crush the global economy instead of protect it, he said.
While striking a similar note of caution, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also underscored the need for leaders to forge agreements to safeguard against future problems. "Instead of just muddling through dealing with the crisis, we have to show how we are making the adjustments in the proper way to this global age," Brown said.
Brown has been among the leaders pushing for a global coordination of country-by-country stimulus spending packages to combat the economic hard times that are straining millions of families and businesses.
The Bush administration, however, has been cool to the idea of another stimulus package and opposes a bailout of the teetering U.S. auto industry. Democrats are pushing for aid to Detroit automakers amid reports that the largest of them, General Motors Corp., could be forced into bankruptcy by the end of next month.
Critics blame lax oversight and failures by U.S. and other regulators to detect problems as prime reasons for the financial crisis.
The crisis, which erupted in the United States around August of last year as mortgage investments soured with the housing market's collapse, quickly spread to other countries. Banks and other financial companies suffered huge losses and foreclosures skyrocketed. Troubles then snowballed to other areas, crimping auto and student loans and locking up lending for many consumers and businesses worldwide. The root causes of the crisis also was being discussed by the leaders.
Although Obama is staying away from this summit, he has designated high-level representatives former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa to meet with leaders on the sidelines.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon met Albright and Leach, and stressed that a return to protectionism would only complicate economic recovery efforts, according to the Mexican leader's office. Albright and Leach also saw the leaders of Argentina and South Korea on Friday and had talks scheduled with lower-level representatives from other nations Saturday.
Europeans had hoped the summit would produce stronger measures to close loopholes that allow some financial institutions to evade regulation. They also called for government supervision for all major financial players, including credit ratings agencies or funds carrying high amounts of debt.
I"LL DO ANY THING FOR $1,000,000
serious inquiries only, please .....
re, I"LL DO ANY THING FOR $1,000,000
Ok, Go steal me $2,000,000
NO FUDGE PACKING?
I wonder what Fruede would say about a person who is enjoying a nice piece of chocolate and thinks about gay sex acts like "pushing ones stool in". Does that mean we can't talk about seating arrnagements at local bars and saloons?
Re: NO FUDGE PACKING?
Going down the old HERSHEY HIGHWAY
Imposition of fees by Craigslist...
SO MUCH 4 'NET-NEUTRALITY!'
craigslist sucks....
I just took a shit in a rice field in Thailand.
I just had a super large bowel movement.
Malaysia Sucks
I hate most of California....
however, there are a few places I really like.........
they are the ones that burnt to the ground!
Banking giant slashes jobs -
Citigroup plans to cut over 50,000 people from its workforce.
Obama says he will do 'whatever it takes' on economy.
Ok, deport all the illegals, close the borders, revoke all work permits and visa, make all products sold in America, made in America ...
Problem solved!
In 1758, Benjamin Franklin said, "It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income."
Your clothes dryer has a heat sensor. It will give out and leave you with a big repair bill. To avoid this. Take the lint filter out run water on it,if the water pools,it means that the dryer sheets have left a film, air is blocked which causes the excess heat to built up in the dryer. Clean the filter with a stiff brush and dish detergent until the water flows thru the filter. Do this once a month or more if you use the dryer a lot.
Homeless man ordered to pay $101 million for starting Calif. fires.
Lot of BLOG followers....
I am surprised there are not more postings this month.
I guess all the McCain and Clinton supporters are too depressed to post.
Obama should pick Hillary Clinton for Sec of State and pick McCain for Sec of Defense.
I am starting to love this blog more and more, and hating CL.
I will still post to CL in NC for awhile cause I been there for over a year now.
It's 4:00 am in San Diego, just getting up, had me a super bowl movement, I am so cleansed now!
re, kalifornia forever
did you get one of those filthy illegal mexicans to lick your ahole and get it cleaned out properly you fucktard piece of shit!
he is gonna whisk us off to the land of wiz and oz, also known as...
the BIG Depression.
Lets save time, impeach Obama now!
According to a recent article in Network World, over 164 billion spam emails were sent in the month of August. Almost 97 percent of email sent is now spam. What does that mean for your inbox? It means that, without the proper filters and some sensible email habits, you could be drowning in hundreds or even thousands of unwanted, annoying, and potentially dangerous emails a day.
We should encourage democrats to kill themselves. The problem is that being the trash they are, they breed like cockroaches. They can't kill themselves off fast enough.
Obama the house boy?
STOP...
Giving food to these food banks and various charities.
The great majority of your money goes to wetbacks.
They are like stray cats. If you stop feeding them, they will stop coming.
There would be 40 million more democrats if it had not been for abortion.
Now that NObama won the election, are the blacks going to start whining about reparations for slavery again??
And if reparations are given, does the white that were decendants of white slaves also get it?
just in Iraq we are over 4,000.
I don't see a plan by Obama and Biden to bring them home, just redeploy them to Afghanistan, Somalia, Darfur, etc.
For the person that STOLE the hood emblem from my hearse...
You F'ing Dick Head. I hope you are cursed by all the corpses that were delivered to thier final resting places in my car. You should be ashamed of yourself, you worthless punk bitch. Oh yeah, I've already cursed you too. I hope your life is now schittty'er than before. Eat a dick, SCUMBAG!
Just want to remind everyone, never buy real estate through craigslist (CL) or through any email offer you get.
Race war is comming, we legal Americans are getting tired of all the Illegals trashing our country, killing our kids when they are driving drunk, Killing our police and Janett REEM HOLE looks the other way. We are sick of the hand outs, we are sick of the Illegals poping out kids like pop corn in a pot. Soon the Legal Americans will wake up and maybe take out a few democrats and get some laws pasted that SHIT CAN all Illegals and buldoze businesses that hire Illegals and shoot the business owners. You legal Amercans better wake up, Your country is going into the toilet FAST! One day you will need to find a new country to move to because this one is falling into the trash can, Look at MESSY CO!
regards,
a Phoenix AZ Resident
Pill as good as chemo on lung cancer, but costlier
LONDON UK – Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
"This will provide us with another drug in our armory," said Dr. Michael Seckl, head of Cancer Research UK's Lung Cancer Group at Imperial College in London. Seckl was not connected to the research, which was published Friday in the Lancet medical journal.
Few treatments for lung cancer exist, and most patients die within a few years of diagnosis. Lung cancer kills about 1.4 million people every year.
Iressa, made by AstraZeneca PLC, is one of several new targeted drugs that attack specific growth receptors on cancer cells, doing less harm to patients. But Iressa costs thousands of dollars every month, much more than standard chemotherapy.
It is sold in the United States, but is not licensed in Europe, although it has been available on a limited compassionate use basis.
Two other lung cancer drugs, Tarceva and Avastin, made by Roche Holding AG, are already on the market in the United Kingdom, and Tarceva works similarly to Iressa.
In the study, paid for by AstraZeneca, researchers studied 1,433 advanced lung cancer patients in 24 countries, who had already gone through chemotherapy. Roughly half were given Iressa, or gefitinib, once a day. The other half were on docetaxel, a chemotherapy drug given intravenously every three weeks.
Patients on Iressa survived about 7.6 months while those on chemotherapy survived about 8 months. After one year, 32 percent of patients on Iressa were still alive, versus 34 percent of chemotherapy patients.
The most common side effects in Iressa patients were rash, acne and diarrhea. The patients on chemo most often suffered from fatigue, a higher risk for infections, and hair loss.
In the U.S., Iressa is approved for use in patients who failed chemotherapy. The drug tends to work better in patients who have never smoked, Asians, women and those with a certain genetic profile.
"In the patients that respond, it is very dramatic," said Seckl, who has seen patients live years on the drug. He did not work with AstraZeneca on Iressa, but has consulted with them on other drugs.
"Though the benefits of prolonging life are modest, patients on (Iressa) get a higher quality of life," said Chris Twelves, a professor of clinical cancer oncology at Leeds University. "That should swing the pendulum in its favor."
I dont know how much more we can screw this country up, but if that dipshit Arizona Governor Janet (nap head) Napolitano becomes Homeland Security Director, we might as well just open the flood gates America and let ALL the worthless assholes ignorant uneducated poor slobs in.
We as a nation, will be bankrupt by 2012.
you can whatever you want about this President but we must give him credit for one thing -
we have NOT been attacked again, there has been no more 911 incidents...
can Obama follow this, I doubt it.
you worthless low life scuzbags are the scum of humanity and should be wiped off the face of the earth!
re, AZTLAN
well said, i totally agree
re, re, AZTLAN
nothing worse than a bunch of trash talking illegal mexicans
re, re, re-AZTLAN
let the race wars begin
kill all the illegals, wipe them out, close the fucking borders
another stupid CL add...
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Kid safe horse 4 sale.
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Question - just how many kids did the horse kill or injure before it as trained and assured to be kid safe?
I woke up this morning with a big smile on my face, my lady was on me sucking and licking hard to I gave her a full load.
Here is another really stupid ad on CL, from the FREE Board in Phoenix Arizona.
What kind of shits do they have living in the so-called valley of the sum?
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Waste Terminator
Have a tub of the waste terminator for the doggie toilets.
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Now I ask you what the hell does this ad even mean to anyone?
When Satan took a shit he invented the dumbocrat.
Officials flunk U.S. quiz -
Elected officials get less than half the questions right on a basic U.S. history quiz.
The number of people following this blog are increasing everyday, but the number of post has drastically decreased from last month...
why?
re, stupid CL ads, here's another one from Scottsdale Arizona, on the free board....
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Prenatal and Postpartum Supplies (South Scottsdale)
I have a bag of prenatal and postpartum supplies that is free to a good home. Rather than throw them in the trash, I'd like to give the items to someone who will use them.
Items include:
- Evening Primrose Oil capsules
- 5W Combination Herbal Remedy (recommended by midwives)
- Prenatal vitamins
- Postpartum pads
- Onesie
- Postpartum numbing spray
- And a few other items!
Available for you to pick up from my home in south Scottsdale.
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Hey WTF ever happen to the woman just having a kid, and going back out to the fields to plow the lower forty?
These useless ass pampered white American bitches make me sick.
Vatican forgives John Lennon ...
42 years later, the Catholic Church forgives the Beatles singer's infamous Jesus remark.
Hey look who's up and about, it's a bird,
it's a plane, it's Obama elect about to crap all over America.
The Breadbasket of South Korea is now Madagascar -
Tenant farming was popular in rural America until the Dust Bowl years of the Depression, but the practice is making a comeback on an epic scale in much of Africa. This time, however, the "tenants" are not simply family farmers down on their luck and willing to work land they don't own; they're major international corporations and governments looking to compensate for shortages of arable land in their own countries by setting up massive industrial farms abroad. South Korea's Daewoo Logistics this week announced it had negotiated a 99-year lease on some 3.2 million acres of farmland on the dirt-poor tropical island of Madagascar, off southern Africa's Indian Ocean coast. That's nearly half of Madagascar's arable land, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization, and Daewoo plans to put about three quarters of it under corn. The remainder will be used to produce palm oil - a key commodity for the global biofuels market.
A Daewoo manager, Hong Jong-wan, told the Financial Times that the crops would "ensure our food security," and would use "totally undeveloped land which had been left untouched." Land is scarce and expensive in South Korea, which makes it the world's third-largest importer of corn. Daewoo says the Madagascar land will be leased for a price of around $12 an acre, which is a fraction of the price for farmland in the corporation's home country.
Not everyone is convinced that Daewoo's move is the most effective way of promoting food security. Riots have shaken dozens of countries across the world over the past year as poor people have found themselves unable to pay the rocketing prices for staples such as rice, corn and sugar. The U.N.'s World Food Program runs school-feeding schemes for children in Madagascar, where about 70% of the country's 20 million people live below the poverty line. The island's residents also rely on WFP emergency food relief programs because of the frequency with which they're struck by cyclones and droughts. Given those hardships, the prospect of a corporate giant growing hundreds of tons of food to be consumed by people and animals in Korea raises "ethical concerns," says David Hallam, head of the FAO'S Trade Policy Service in Rome. "If we have another world food crisis, and you have a poor country where food is produced by foreign investors, and then repatriated, that is ethically and political tricky," Hallam warns.
Those ethical quandaries have not prompted restraint on the part of other outside investors moving into Africa to exploit its agricultural potential. Several European companies have leased land during the past two years to grow crops for food and biofuels (although on a far smaller scale than Daewoo plans in Madagascar) including the British company Sun Biofuels, which is planting biofuel crops in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania.
Africa's fertile soil certainly appeals to the countries of the oil-rich Persian Gulf, whose vast deserts force them to import most of their food. "The Gulf states have an incredible surplus to invest and now that the old economies are facing recession they are looking at Africa," says Marie Bos, an analyst at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. Although such wealthy countries as South Korea and the Gulf states are easily able to pay for food imports, this turmoil on global food markets may have increased the incentive for food-importing countries to secure their own sources of supply.
"[Food-importing countries] have lost trust in trade because of the price crisis this year," says Joachim von Braun, director of the International Policy Food Research Institute in Washington.
For African governments, the incentive to sign deals such as the one between Madagascar and Daewoo is equally clear. Millions of African farmers lack money for fertilizer, basic tools, fuel and transport infrastructure to efficiently grow crops get them to market. While international organizations have plowed billions into health and education, agriculture in Africa has lagged badly, hugely exacerbating the food crisis of the past year. "These governments are desperate to get capital into agriculture," says von Braun, who believes the drive by giant companies to lock up land deals could benefit poor African countries whose governments negotiate wisely. Although Daewoo plans to export the yield of the land it is leasing in Madagascar, it plans to invest about $6 billion over the next 20 years to build the port facilities, roads, power-plants and irrigation systems necessary to support its agribusiness there, and that will create jobs thousands of jobs for Madagascar's unemployed. Jobs will help the people of Madagascar earn the money to buy their own food - even if it is imported.
Another crazy ad on CL.
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FREE COLOSTOMY SUPPLIES
Who Is Barack Obama?
50 Things You Didn't Know and were afraid to ask...
Now that Barack Obama is the President elect we want to know everything we can about him. I found this great list on Huffington Post and had to share.
So without further ado:
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle's shrimp linguini
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream
• His favourite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favourite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn't
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favourite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister's fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
• His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee.
• His favourite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn't drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
• His daughters' ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places
• Daughter Malia's godmother is Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21 (£13)
• His favourite fictional television programmes are Mash and The Wire
• He was given the code name "Renegade" by his Secret Service handlers
• He was nicknamed "Bear" by his late grandmother
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso
• His speciality as a cook is chilli
• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were "street urchins"
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life
• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government
good morning
I just contacted the Obama Economic Team I is wondering when I is gonna gets my FREE watermellon, friend chicken, hog jowls, grits, collard greens, and bananas.
I've heard alot of women say that "You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince.
Ladies, part of the reason that you cannot keep a man (or find your prince) is that you are kissing too damn many frogs!!
Here's a Hint: It's not the kissing part that bothers us men !!!!
I hate my boss, he is a real asshole.
re, my boss
get in line my is a dickhead from hell
re,re, my boss
Here is what I did.
Last year they reorganized the company, ad I got a new boss.
He was like a little Hitler.
So I played the game, every morning I got him coffee, but I put a few drops of my urine in it.
He drank it for a year before he was transferred.
Be ware assholes, about those who kiss up!
Nobama promised to use public funds for the election then went and used private contributions.
Nobama said he was going to raise taxes on the rich, and now recants that, and will use Bush's Tax Plan!
Elected only 21 days ago and already the nation is getting fucked up the butthole!
Market is falling because of his PROMISED tax plans to tax capitol gains.
What promises has he made that he has not lied about??
.......all these things you ignorant useless Liberals voted for him and now he says he will be just be like Bush!
......you wnated change??
.......you got change!!
......a black man for a white man, that is all you get!
Another stupid ad on craigslist Free section....
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Free Tissues
I bought them cause i had a bad cold, now the cold is gone and i have no need for the rest of these tissues (Klenex). In mint condition and work great. Box is very decorative, could make for a great center peice on a bathroom vanity. Free to good nose.
You must pick up.
Another stupid ad on craigslist(CL) Free section....
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phone outlet
we had our phone jack replaced with one that has two plugs in it. The original one works, but we don't need it anymore.
Do you??
WOMAN ARE JUST FUCK TOYS...
USE THEM AND LOSE THEM !!!!!
:-)
who is this Obama guy I keep hearing about?
Here's another stupid ad on the free section of craigslist (CL)
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GREASE!
Anyone want some old canola oil from deep fryer? I have a few gallons.
Funny Ad on the Farm and Garden Board of craigslist (CL)...
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Wanted: LOUD, obnoxious donkey -
We are looking for a very loud and obnoxious donkey. Jenny or John, no Jacks please. If you have one, please let me know.
I drive a truck for a living.
You drive a car to work. You're going to the store.
You're going to see your honey.
You're out for a cruise.
I really don't know WHY you are on the road, and from what I and other drivers like me have seen, I REALLY don't know why you don't rent a room.
Masturbating while driving.
Oral Sex - partner on driver.
And other things.
Truck drivers see things from the high perch that we sit on, looking down into your cars. Oh, yes, we do.
Some of it is sickening.
Some of it is gross.
Some of it is infuriating.
Next time you are passing a truck, or a truck is passing you, remember this post - especially if you are doing "something" in your car.
This just in, durable goods are no longer durable. It's cheaper to replace an item than repair it. And yes, it sucks.
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