=== Bible Quote ===
“[Doing Good to All] Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.”- Galatians 6:1
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Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts doesn't mean the causes the Kennedy family fought for are extinguised, but it may signal the era of the family as a dominant force in public life is drawing to a close.
US seeks backing for Yemen against al-Qaeda
THE United States is set to hold talks with European and Arab partners in London on Wednesday to try to rally support for a drive to help Yemen defeat a growing al-Qaeda threat. The impetus for the meeting comes from a botched bid on Christmas Day to blow up a US airliner over Detroit by a Nigerian passenger allegedly trained by the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Though there has been no official confirmation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will likely attend the meeting in London, which comes days after Britain raised its terrorism threat assessment from substantial to severe. - careful Yemen, Obama has a peace prize. -ed.
GOP: Obama Must Talk Compromise
Jobs and economy are big themes in State of the Union, but Republicans warn Obama must send signals he's ready to reach across the aisle
Haitain Death Toll Rises to 150,000
Haitian official confirms death toll, but says many more thousands buried under rubble
Scientists Create 'Frankenstorm' Model
Scientists imagine a hypothetical but plausible storm — a wintry blast that could potentially sock the Golden State
Scientists Want to Exhume Leonardo da Vinci to Solve Mona Lisa Mystery
Scientists seeking permission to exhume the remains of Leonardo da Vinci plan to reconstruct his face to discover whether his masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, is a disguised self-portrait. A team from Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, has asked to open the tomb in which the Renaissance painter and polymath is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, where he died in 1519, aged 67.
Airport to home, then vanished
WEALTHY businessman missing in "unbearable" mystery that police say is most baffling in decades.
Man drowns after saving sons from surf
A MAN who drowned in rough seas died trying to save three boys, including his two sons.
We only care for 150 Facebook friends
OUR brains can only handle 150 friends - so now you have an excuse to say no to randoms.
Airline accused of causing woman's death
AN airline is being sued after cabin crew allegedly ignored a gravely ill great-grandmother.
Sources say no truth in Brangelina split
US report cites "multiple sources" close to the family as saying the break-up rumours are false.
If the flag ain't broke don't fix it - Tony Abbott
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he's happy with the Australian flag and sees no reason to change it. He dismissed a campaign by former television journalist Ray Martin to replace the flag because it carries the Union Jack. "I'm very happy with the flag we've got," Mr Abbott told ABC radio today. "I think it represents our history and I think it represents our future and it's a flag we can be proud of." He added: "I don't see any reason to change it".
Olga weakens, heavy rain still expected
FAR north Queensland had a last-minute cyclone reprieve, but the drama isn't over yet.
Homebuyer bills a pest no more
NSW homebuyers will save thousands of dollars under new laws which could force vendors to fork out for building and pest inspections, we can reveal.
More climate change claims "lacking proof'
THE UN climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to a rise in natural disasters.
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UN’s dead deadline exposes Rudd scam
THE UN has dumped the deadline to tackle climate change, leaving Kevin Rudd isolated in his view that “to delay any longer would be reckless and irresponsible for our economy and our environment”. - I think that history will record when Rudd faced the greatest moral challenge of our age, he began playing in the sand. And one thing is certain, Rudd will have a very difficult task before him convincing that 6 yo girl he corresponds with that his inaction is better than the mighty pork barrel he desired. - ed.
Tim replied--- Later ---
Can you imagine Rudd’s letter to that 6 year old girl at xmas?
“Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus - He is the Australian taxpayer and he has unlimited pockets.....”
I follow quite a few American forums and the people of America are sounding pretty angry about a number of things.
It sounds a great deal like what we are feeling here in Australia.
The ETS is openly called a fraud.
Mr Obama is being called all hot air and some things worse.
Sound familiar?
The ETS blackmail and threats used by the Rudd Gov. is criminal.
The abuse we have been treated to because we wanted to know more is disgusting.
They should be thrown out of office on that alone.
SHAME SHAME SHAME.
The media should all hang their heads too.
chrissy
OBAMALOVER replied to chrissyDD Ball replied
Oh Chrissy
You follow a few American forums do you. Like most Yanks you are probably totally ignorant of history an do not see the parallels between Obama’s first year in office and that of Franklin D Roosevelt.
FDR also got on the wrong side of wealthy industrialist and bankers because of the perception that he aim to re-distribute wealth. Wealthy men such as Du Post and J P Morgan tried to organise an overthrow of FDR in 1933 and wanted to use their control of the media to shape public public opinion against him. (Sound familiar). The plot was discovered and never followed through.
Franklin D Roosevelt went on to become the greatest most revered American President. In Obama the Americans are blessed with the most intelligent President they have ever had.
Oh Chrissy
You follow a few American forums do you. Like most Yanks you are probably totally ignorant of history an do not see the parallels between Obama’s first year in office and that of Franklin D Roosevelt.
FDR also got on the wrong side of wealthy industrialist and bankers because of the perception that he aim to re-distribute wealth. Wealthy men such as Du Post and J P Morgan tried to organise an overthrow of FDR in 1933 and wanted to use their control of the media to shape public public opinion against him. (Sound familiar). The plot was discovered and never followed through.
Franklin D Roosevelt went on to become the greatest most revered American President. In Obama the Americans are blessed with the most intelligent President they have ever had.
OBAMALOVER, you overstate the importance of FDR. FDR was a significant long term failure as president but managed to get elected four times based on four excuses. The first was to blame the Hoover administration for the failure of of Woodrow Wilson to achieve a viable peace settlement at the end of WW1, resulting in Depression. The second was to blame Republicans for curtailing his spending programs when they didn’t have power. The third was to blame European instability for the failure of his programs to work. The last was to say that as there was a state of emergency it was better to vote for him.
At no stage did FDR achieve anything worthwhile in the sense of Presidential execution of responsibility. He messed up the war in the pacific by trying to diminish MacArthur and let the Japanese imperial forces out of their hole. He had previously accepted the Japanese rape of Nanking. He failed in Europe to help the British until after they may well have lost, only supporting them when he needed another excuse to stay in office. He messed up negotiations between the allies, not wanting Churchill to get an upper hand over Stalin which resulted in the cold war stalemate. In one term of office GHWBush was more effective than FDR in four terms.
RIGHTISWRONG repliedMr X replied
Your stupidity and ignorance stagger me
The US economy had positive growth inb 1934, 35 36 and 37 and the unemployment rate decreased from about 25% to about 15% during that period. Things turned for the worst only when the Government backed off.
DD BALL
What can I say other than your assessment of history goes totally against what EVERYBODY ELSE believes. I don’t think even the most right ring of rednecks would support your pathetic views.
OBAMALOVER(7.33am) + WRIGHTISWRONG (7.09pm). Let’s not argue about things that happened 70+ years ago. You assert one thing; others the opposite.
Why not refer to Roosevelt’s “Man on The Spot” Henry Morgenthau Jnr, the US Treaury Secretary responsible for implementing FDR’s spend spend spend policies??
Morgenthau did not have the “good luck” to have had WWII to have reignited growth and employment, when he testified before Congress in 1939…
“We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot.”
Roosevelt did NOT give someone else Morgenthau’s job! Nope, FDR accepted Morgenthau’s appraisal..so why not you two self-opinionated dopes?
OK, RIGHTISWRONG, tell us how you are so much smarter than Morgenthau and Roosevelt!.
Don’t be shy...remind us that you know better!!!
BTW. I once recall reading that Steve McKnucklehead, cricket wannabe, claimed that he knew more about batting than Don Bradman. Was that YOU in your younger days? got the runs on the board to support the assertions?
Just asking....
DD Ball replied
Rightiswrong, you argue a classical left wing line. My argument is conservative, not right wing, but I gather you don’t know the difference or are trying to provoke me. Other than providing a short list of small growth figures, you offer no disagreement with my summation, hence you must agree with me broadly and substantively, if gracelessly. FDR would not have survived if he had not had some growth. In the three hundred years or so of the stock market the average of 8% growth pa has never diminished for very long. FDR needed to have that growth to feed the Democrat machine with pork barrels. I note that there has not been much journalist evaluation of the era, except with the prism of saying the left is great.
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'The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die'
This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," January 22, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GLENN BECK, HOST: Welcome to a special edition of "The Glenn Beck Program."
The story of America is really one of self-reliance and optimism, and profound faith. Not only in the context of religious freedom, but also in the unprecedented faith in the ability of human beings to control their own destiny.
And while the spirit of personal responsibility was extraordinarily strong with our founders, great patriots like Thomas Paine, he argued for redistribution of wealth right off the bat. Alexander Hamilton, he wanted a central bank. Well, they wound up losing those battles but there were plenty who kept can on fighting.
The Constitution kept those dogs at bay for better part of 200 years. But, eventually, those seeking a different path than the ones the founders settled on realized the only way to really defeat the Constitution was for the people to stop reading it. Progressives realized victory required changing history. To defeat them, we have to correct that.
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CREDIBILITY STRENGTHENED
Tim Blair
Already reeling over its molten Himalayan glaciers claim, the IPCC is hit again and again:
The United Nations climate science panel faces new controversy for wrongly linking global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.The IPCC – on whose word Kevin Rudd relies – is turning out to have the same level of scientific credibility as Danny Glover. An intriguing figure in this meltdown is Syed Iqbal Hasnain, the ex-academic whose off-hand notion that the Himalayas would check out within a few decades somehow made it into IPCC documentation:
It based the claims on an unpublished report that had not been subjected to routine scientific scrutiny — and ignored warnings from scientific advisers that the evidence supporting the link too weak. The report’s own authors later withdrew the claim because they felt the evidence was not strong enough.
Syed Iqbal Hasnain has often been considered as Mr Dial-a-Quote on the subject of the Himalayan glacier … Hasnain had claimed that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. And now with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change having picked up this figure, Hasnain can’t wait to clear his name.He’s waited for years. Why the sudden rush?
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ELLIE DOES ENGLAND
Tim Blair
A British variation on the American Ellie Light scam.
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