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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
GeoEye spots Iranian nuclear site
Satellite imagery company GeoEye has released a photo of what it says is the controversial and underground Iranian uranium enrichment site that came to light last week.
By Stephen Shankland CNET News
Posted on ZDNet News: Sep 28, 2009 5:59:32 AM
The photo, taken Saturday, shows the facility at a military site about 20 miles north-northeast of Qum and 100 miles southwest of Tehran, GeoEye said. An analysis of the photo by IHS Jane's, a defense intelligence consulting firm, said the facility has a primary and several auxiliary entrances, ventilation shafts, a surface-to-air missile site, and quarry and construction equipment.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it received a letter Monday disclosing the facility, and on Friday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said it was for uranium enrichment and was 18 months away from being operational.
Centrifuges can separate different isotopes of uranium to produced "enriched" uranium needed to make nuclear weapons; Iran said it's only enriching uranium for purposes of generating electricity. U.S. intelligence agencies said the newly revealed facility is designed to house 3,000 centrifuges, according to the New York Times and others.
The GeoEye-1 satellite took the photo while traveling north 423 miles above the Earth at 4 miles per second relative to the surface of the Earth. The satellite also supplies imagery for Google Maps and Google Earth.
I took the two location hints from the article (100 miles southwest of Tehran: 20 miles NNE of Qum) and found the place quite quickly with Google Earth. All the roads match up, but the Google Earth image is obviously older, and taken at mid-day when there are no shadows to provide texture on the ground. I made a KMZ bookmark if you'd rather just go there and not do the sleuthing yourself:
Google Earth KMZ Bookmark, Second Iranian Nuclear Site
lat 34.884418
lon 50.997173
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Sarkozy Sees Obama As Incredibly Naive & Grossly Egotistical
Jack Kelly from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tells Greta Van Susteren that Sarkozy is furious with President Obama over his Iran speech and his misguided global disarmament obsession.
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Mr. President, please stay off TV
The Limits of Charisma
by Howard Fineman | Newsweek | Published Sep 26, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Oct 5, 2009
Unless Obama learns to rely less on charm, rhetoric, and good intentions and more on picking his spots and winning in political combat, he's not going to be reelected, let alone enshrined in South Dakota.
The president's problem isn't that he is too visible; it's the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words "I" and "my." (He used the former 11 times in the first few paragraphs of his address to the U.N. last week.) Obama is a historic figure, but that is the beginning, not the end, of the story.
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Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US'
September 30, 2009 | timesonline.co.uk
. . . Last year he famously switched allegiance from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama during the Democratic nomination process for president. Now, he reveals, he regrets his change of heart. How's Obama doing? "Dreadfully. I was hopeful. He was the most intelligent person we've had in that position for a long time. But he's inexperienced. He has a total inability to understand military matters. He's acting as if Afghanistan is the magic talisman: solve that and you solve terrorism." America should leave Afghanistan, he says. "We've failed in every other aspect of our effort of conquering the Middle East or whatever you want to call it."
. . . Another notable Obama mis-step has been on healthcare reform. "He f***ed it up. I don't know how because the country wanted it. We'll never see it happen." As for his wider vision: "Maybe he doesn't have one, not to imply he is a fraud. He loves quoting Lincoln and there's a great Lincoln quote from a letter he wrote to one of his generals in the South after the Civil War. 'I am President of the United States. I have full overall power and never forget it, because I will exercise it'. That's what Obama needs — a bit of Lincoln's chill."
. . . America has "no intellectual class" and is "rotting away at a funereal pace. We'll have a military dictatorship fairly soon, on the basis that nobody else can hold everything together. Obama would have been better off focusing on educating the American people. His problem is being over-educated. He doesn't realise how dim-witted and ignorant his audience is. Benjamin Franklin said that the system would fail because of the corruption of the people and that happened under Bush."
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
If only Sarkozy was our president . . .
Sarkozy unloads on Obama's 'virtual' disarmament reality
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 | The Wall Street Journal
President Obama wants a unified front against Iran, and to that end he stood together with Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown in Pittsburgh on Friday morning to reveal the news about Tehran's secret facility to build bomb-grade fuel. But now we hear that the French and British leaders were quietly seething on stage, annoyed by America's handling of the announcement.
Both countries wanted to confront Iran a day earlier at the United Nations. Mr. Obama was, after all, chairing a Security Council session devoted to nonproliferation. The latest evidence of Iran's illegal moves toward acquiring a nuclear weapon was in hand. With the world's leaders gathered in New York, the timing and venue would be a dramatic way to rally international opinion.
President Sarkozy in particular pushed hard. He had been "frustrated" for months about Mr. Obama's reluctance to confront Iran, a senior French government official told us, and saw an opportunity to change momentum. But the Administration told the French that it didn't want to "spoil the image of success" for Mr. Obama's debut at the U.N. and his homily calling for a world without nuclear weapons, according to the Paris daily Le Monde. So the Iran bombshell was pushed back a day to Pittsburgh, where the G-20 were meeting to discuss economic policy.
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Appeals court dismisses Dan Rather's suit vs. CBS
Tue Sep 29, 3:22 pm ET | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former TV newsman Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS Corp in which Rather claimed he was made a scapegoat in a scandal over a 2004 report on then-President George W. Bush's military record.
The ruling on Tuesday by a panel of judges of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division said Rather's $70 million complaint should be dismissed in its entirety and that a lower court erred in denying CBS's motion to throw out the lawsuit.
Rather says CBS breached his contract by not giving him enough on-air assignments after he was removed as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in March 2005.
The appeals court ruled he failed to sufficiently support his claim that he lost business opportunities due to CBS's failure to release him to seek other employment.
Rather sued CBS, parent of the CBS television network, Viacom and others in September 2007, claiming he had been made a scapegoat to "pacify the White House." CBS was part of Viacom until the companies split in 2006.
(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by Daniel Trotta and David Storey)
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Obama to Afghanistan?
Posted by William Kristol on September 29, 2009 12:15 PM | Weekly Standard
A prediction: President Obama will add a "surprise" visit to Afghanistan to his Olympics-lobbying trip to Copenhagen.
The president and his advisers must realize, in Mark McKinnon's words, that "people elected Obama to be president--not the head of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce," that a large part of being president is being commander-in-chief, and that it's not good that Obama appears to have plenty of time for everything--David Letterman, Democratic fundraisers, Olympics-lobbying jaunts--except Afghanistan, just as he's about to decide whether to commit tens of thousands more troops there. In addition, Obama's never been to Afghanistan as president, and--we now know--apparently has spoken to General Stanley McChrystal only once by video-teleconference since McChrystal assumed command there.
David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel aren't stupid: Expect to see Barack Obama get on the plane after his session with the International Olympics Committee at mid-day Friday Copenhagen time, and be in Afghanistan with our troops five hours later, in time for the evening news Friday here in the U.S.
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Sand Hill Venable Elementary School indoctrination video
Change has come, change has come.
Uniting blacks and whites.
Being both, Obama cannot take sides.
Dont worry, said hope. I will be your bridge.
In time, hope will be the bridge for all of us.
Hope will last enough for you to make a difference.
Change has come, change has come.
Go now, fly free.
Study, watch, learn, keep your eyes open.
Education is the key.
Education is the secret.
Education is the way.
Education is the path.
Will I make America better?
Can I make America better?
Can we make America better?
Yes. Yes we can!
Yes. Yes we can!
Video shot during President's Day PTO program at Sand hill-Venable Elementary School in Buncombe County, NC in February 2009.
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that was then, but what is it now? -- Obama in his own words
Fox and Friends, September 29, 2009
Barack Obama talked tough back in June 2008 on getting the job done in Afghanistan. Now he's wishy-washy, more worried about Obamacare and getting the Olympics in Chicago than giving our troops the reinforcements his general says they need. See present day photos of the war at Boston Globe's Big Picture:
Violence in Afghanistan has reached its most intense of the eight-year-old war despite record levels of U.S. and NATO troops being sent to fight the Taliban. July and August were the two deadliest months to date for coalition forces, and September is already the 3rd-deadliest, with 38 U.S. deaths - 68 total including all coalition members. With an apparently resurgent Taliban and over 120,000 foreign troops on the ground, and a recent push for the U.S. to consider sending 40,000 more (beyond the additional 21,000 troops still committed but yet undeployed), the situation in Afghanistan could possibly become even more intense in the near future.
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Andy Williams accuses Barack Obama of following Marxist theory
Published: 12:01AM BST 28 Sep 2009 | Telegraph.co.uk
Andy Williams, the veteran pop singer, has accused Barack Obama of "following Marxist theory" and "wanting the country to fail".
Williams, a lifelong Republican whose hits include Moon River and Music To Watch Girls By, told the Radio Times he thought Mr Obama wanted to turn the US into a "socialist country".
The 81-year-old was a friend of the Kennedy family during the 1960s and was present at the Los Angeles rally where Robert F Kennedy was assassinated in 1968.
"I was very close to Bobby and he asked me to be a delegate for him when he ran for president," he said.
"He knew about me being a Republican, but just laughed and said, 'Sign yourself in as a Democrat and then change back afterwards'. Sadly, I never got to do that.
"I was very close to Teddy Kennedy, too, and his death recently brought it all back. What a tragedy. Had he lived, I think Bobby would have been a great president."
But Williams had a less favourable opinion of the current president.
"Don't like him at all," he said, "I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.
"Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail."
Politicians, media personalities and conservative activists have accused the US president of espousing socialist ideas.
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stop campaigning and start acting like a president
By Richard Cohen | Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | The Washington Post
Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief.
. . . The trouble with Obama is that he gets into the moment and means what he says for that moment only. He meant what he said when he called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" -- and now is not necessarily so sure. He meant what he said about the public option in his health-care plan -- and then again maybe not. He would not prosecute CIA agents for getting rough with detainees -- and then again maybe he would.
Most tellingly, he gave Congress an August deadline for passage of health-care legislation -- "Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town . . . " -- and then let it pass. It seemed not to occur to Obama that a deadline comes with a consequence -- meet it or else.
Obama lost credibility with his deadline-that-never-was, and now he threatens to lose some more with his posturing toward Iran. He has gotten into a demeaning dialogue with Ahmadinejad, an accomplished liar. (The next day, the Iranian used a news conference to counter Obama and, days later, Iran tested some intermediate-range missiles.) Obama is our version of a Supreme Leader, not given to making idle threats, setting idle deadlines, reversing course on momentous issues, creating a TV crisis where none existed or, unbelievably, pitching Chicago for the 2016 Olympics. Obama's the president. Time he understood that.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Romney: Obama's foreign agenda is "not just alarming but dangerous"
By Byron York | September 27, 2009 | Washington Examiner
Mitt Romney believes Barack Obama is going in the wrong direction on health care, the economy and a whole range of domestic issues. But there's something else about the current political debate that disturbs the former governor.
"The challenges here, in health care, cap and trade, card check and the economy, have taken America's eyes off what's happening internationally," Romney says. "And I think [Obama's] errors there could be not just alarming but dangerous."
He goes down a list: missile defense, apologizing for past American policies, Honduras, the Middle East. "I would have made it very clear to Israel that they are our friends, and we're going to stand by them," Romney says. "I'd make sure we treat our friends better than we treat our foes."
Then there's Afghanistan. "I'm a little surprised that, having made Afghanistan the center of his anti-terrorist strategy, he says he
doesn't have a strategy at this stage for what to do in Afghanistan," Romney says of the president. "I would have expected him to have accomplished that by this point."
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Learning to Love the French: When Sarkozy Spoke Truth to Obama
September 26th, 2009 10:58 am | The Rosett Report
There's plenty in French politics that the world could live without — thus, in 2003, when Jacques Chirac was president of France, Americans ended up ordering "Freedom Fries." But the pendulum swings, and these days – credit France — we find French president Nicolas Sarkozy warning President Barack Obama that a foreign policy of denial and appeasement is the way to becoming French — and American — toast. During the past week's meetings at the United Nations, featuring Obama's "mutual respect" and global tyrants on parade, there came a moment at which Sarkozy opened his mouth on the big, big subject of nuclear crisis, and spoke truth to Obamaland. It got far too little coverage — so I reprise it here.
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must-see documentary of the Honduran struggle for freedom
Obama and Chavez and Castro, Oh My. The Truth About the Honduran "Coup" & Our President's Wrong Move.
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Our President is really a Cyborg
Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Sept. 25, 2009 | Bus Your Own Tray
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department's flickr. And, of course, compressed above into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.
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U.S. Commander of Afghanistan only talked to Obama once
By Amanda Carpenter | Sept. 28, 2009 | The Back Story
The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq says he has only spoken to President Obama once since taking command of Afghanistan.
"I've talked to the president, since I've been here, once on a VTC [video teleconferece]," General Stanley McChrystal told CBS reporter David Martin in a television interview that aired Sunday.
"You've talked to him once in 70 days?" Mr. Martin followed up.
"That is correct," the general replied.
This revelation comes amid the explosive publication of an classified report written by the general that said the war in Afghanistan "will likely result in failure" of more troops are not added next year. Yet, the debate over health care reform continues to dominate Washington's political discussions.
Former U.S. Ambassador for the United Nations John Bolton said this was indicative of President Obama's misplaced priorities.
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John Salley: All of white America hates Obama
Sunday, September 27, 2009 | Gateway Pundit
Former NBA great, actor, and talk show host, John Salley, told Adam Carolla in an interview this week that "all of white America" hates Obama."
Maybe the fact that the economy is a disaster, the unemployment rate is skyrocketing, and the national debt is three times what it was last year has something to do with Obama's slide. Or, maybe it's his foreign policy that protects killers and tyrants and punishes allies that's the problem.
Then again, maybe it's just racism.
Do you think democrats have ruined the chance for another black person to become president because the race card is being played time after time now with Obama? Will people say it's just not worth it? I mean, if it's only been 266 days, the race card is going to get pretty worn out by the time his 1,210 more days are up.
J.C. Watts says, "put away the race card."
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
66 percent of voters are angry at Feds
Just one-in-three voters (33%) now believe the United States is heading in the right direction.
Saturday, September 26, 2009 | Rasmussen Reports
Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say they're at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. Thirty-six percent (36%) are Very Angry.
Despite the high level of political anger last year that helped fuel President Obama's election, 59% say the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.
A lot of that anger is directed at the people who are spending billions and billion of dollars of taxpayer money. That helps explain why members of Congress have now surpassed corporate CEOs to hold the least favorably regarded profession in the country.
Just 16% of voters give Congress good or excellent ratings now that it's back from a rough-and-tumble August recess. That's down seven points from its highest rating of 2009, reached in late May. Fifty-three (53%) percent say Congress is doing a poor job.
Obama's Approval Index ratings remain in negative territory as well in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sarkozy Mocks Obama at UN Security Council: Hello, Big Media?
by Maura Flynn | BigGovernment.com | Posted Sep 25th 2009 at 12:28 pm
One of my favorite features of the Newseum in Washington, DC is the daily display of newspaper front pages from around the world. Today, Canada's National Post was a standout with Alex Spillius' coverage of a clash between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy.
For reasons yet to be determined, the National Post appears to have de-linked their own front page story on their website. Mr. Spillius reported a similar (albeit watered-down) version in the UK's Telegraph.
Obama: "We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth."
Sarkozy: "We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions."
The rest of Sarkozy's remarks were, well, remarkable:
"President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.
"Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.
"I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map," he continued, referring to Israel.
The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama's resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.
"If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons," he said.
Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president's disarmament crusade "naive."
No American newspapers seem to have featured Sarkozy's justifiably derisive remarks about Obama's naivete regarding the realities of nuclear technology. Still we can be grateful for the freedom of the press, as embodied and celebrated by the Newseum — including the chilling reconstruction of segments of the Berlin Wall. These serve as a reminder that however oppressive or myopic the powers-that-be, news cannot be stifled.
Obama/Sarkozy pdf
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All About Obama
By Michael Gerson | September 26, 2009; 6:00 AM ET | The Washington Post
At the United Nations, Obama set out to denigrate American goodness so he can become our rescuer. The speech had nothing to do with the confident style of Democratic rhetoric found in Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy. It insulted that tradition. And no one is likely ever to quote the speech -- except to deride it.
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Pretty Women On Parade
September 25, 2009 | StrategyWorld.com
China has hired professional female models to march in a parade. This was seen as very important for the survival of the communist government. The October 2nd parade in China, to celebrate 60 years of communist rule, wants to make China, and its government, look good. To that end, the parade organizers are having contingents, from all the military organizations in China, march past the high def TV cameras.
Being a communist police state, there are lots of uniformed groups. Many have female components. The parade organizers particularly wanted to insure that the women in uniform looked good. Not just military good, but good. When they discovered that the female contingent from the People's Militia did not measure up, they proceeded to hire models, from as far away as Singapore, to pretty-up the women's contingent of the People's Militia. To avoid criticism for doing something similar for the Summer Olympics ceremonies, the parade organizers let the media know that there would be ringers marching with the People's Militia.
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Obama learns what diplomacy with tyrants achieves
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied that his country violated the rules of the UN nuclear watchdog. He said the new plant will not be operational for at least another 18 months. Ahmadinejad also warned that President Obama would regret his remarks about the facility.
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Left Employing Sexist Tactics to Discredit Giles, O'Keefe?
by Dana Loesch | BigGovernment.com | Sep 25th 2009
Word on the street is that the Left, the "equal pay, pro-women" left is desperately searching for lewd photos of Hannah Giles.
Savor that bit of irony for a moment.
The Left is seeking to employ sexism as a way to take down yet another young woman. A rationale after Ike Turner's own heart! Leftist ideology replaces "barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen" as the modern-day female prison; step out of line and you will be virtually and emotionally abused by the burdensome patriarchal undercurrent that powers this political rationale. They're only for choice if that "choice" is the genocide of the female sex; they're only for female empowerment if it doesn't disrupt the fragile liberal status quo – and Giles is the most recent example.
As a young woman, I can say that sexist behavior so often perpetrated by the left is a major reason why I and many other women left the Democratic party. It's gross to know that a bunch of crusty, old, pee-paw Democratic operatives are, at this second, scouring the web for nudie Giles shots as a way to discredit her and O'Keefe's work.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
hiding in the ninth circle of hell, Senate keeps voters in the Dark
September 25, 2009 | Posted by John at 6:18 PM | Powerline
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have refused to allow the final text of their health care bill to be posted online prior to their vote on it. The Democrats claim it's too technically difficult; in reality, of course, they don't want voters to have an opportunity to see the bill and react to it before it becomes a fait accompli. The Democrats have brought a lack of transparency to Washington that may be unprecedented in our history.
The Examiner quotes Max Baucus, the bill's principal sponsor:
Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., himself admitted that "This probably sounds a little crazy to some people that we are voting on something before we have seen legislative language." Indeed.
The only Democrat to allow voters to get a look at the bill was Blanche Lincoln. No surprise there: she is up for re-election in 2010, and scoring poorly in the polls.
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more indoctrination
The Obama Song ("Proud American")
By Mr. B and the students of Room 8
February 2009
Obama is the President!
First African America in history
44th president of the United States
The ground has shifted
The world has changed!
Oooo Im a proud American
Oooo yes yes yes yes YES WE CAN!
Im going to study really hard just like Barack
Learning never ever stops
Gonna set my goals HIGH and graduate
You might be looking at the President of 2048!
We are a nation of a thousand colors, look at me
Our strength is our diversity
Walking hand in hand we sing
Each a day a little closer to the dream of Dr. King
(Exerpt from MLK's "I Have a Dream, 1963)
Together we walk
Me and you
So so much work
Left to do.
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SOUND WEAPONS used on anarchists protesting the G20
you've got to love the video game robot voice
Obama must be loving this hope and change. Maybe someone could investigate this astroturf.
Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant
By Michael D. Shear and Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 25, 2009; 9:18 AM
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25 -- President Obama and the leaders of France and Britain on Friday blasted Iran's construction of a previously unknown uranium enrichment facility and demanded that Tehran immediately fulfill its obligations under international law or risk the imposition of harsh new sanctions.
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So how is that hope and change working for you Obama?
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The scalps — like the viewers — are piling up around Glenn Beck
Sergant slaughtered. Media bewildered
Don Surber | Blogs.dailymail.com | September 24th, 2009
While the national media outlets have gone after Glenn Beck — and the White House after his advertisers — Glenn Beck has been going after actual targets: People in the White House who abuse their offices.
Van Jones? Gone. Out of here. Slinking out of town on a late Saturday night.
ACORN? Ha Ha Ha. I saw the videos first on Glenn Beck.
Now, the White House has kicked to the curb Yosi Sergant, the Obama minion who tried to turn the National Endowment of the Arts into National Kickbacks to Friends of Obama.
Reported the WASHINGTON POST: "Sergant, a public relations professional from Los Angeles, had come to Washington to work in the Office of Public Engagement at the White House. He moved to the NEA in May and was reassigned from his post as communications director two weeks ago after coming under fire from conservative Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck."
Now he has resigned. Effective immediately.
Reported POLITICO: "The White House has sought to downplay the story, which has gotten little mainstream media attention, despite heavy coverage on the right. But it did issue new guidelines aimed at preventing politics from mixing with agency business."
The scalps — like the viewers — are piling up around Glenn Beck.
The New York Times, CBS and the rest can no longer hide this stuff.
The jig is up.
The public knows better.
From NEWSMAX: 89% of Americans think the mass media are in the tank for Barack Obama and have been for 2 years now.
Me? I don't care. It will be fun reading the New York Times tomorrow morning as it tries to explain another controversy that it failed to report. Oh, wait, there was a story on Wednesday in the NEW YORK TIMES: "Agencies Instructed to Separate Politics From Grant Awards."
Pardon me while I burp.
I've been a newspaperman for 30 years, doling out opinions for 22. It is unbelievable that a rodeo clown and two kids from High School Musical 3 (as Jon Stewart put it) are dismantling the most adored, historic and super-duper smart administration since Jefferson dined alone.
I haven't seen anything like this since the guy who ran the gift shop at CBS — Matt Drudge — made Monica Lewinsky a household name.
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Netanyahu's UN General Assembly speech
Here's the full transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the UN General Assembly Thursday, in which he responded to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial by holding up dcoumentary evidence, blasted the Goldstone Report and urged the international community to stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Read the speech or watch the four-part YouTube video. Compare this amazingly refreshing speech by Netanyahu to Obama's mushy, cliche-filled speech at UN General ...
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Some say this speech was like listening to Churchill.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Miller Time
Sept. 23 topics include Obama's media blitz overexposure, Andy "Gaddafi" Kaufman and the UN, and baseball.
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Beware the Stalin in progressive hearts
By Mark Tapscott | September 24, 2009 | Washington Examiner
If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement - the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.
Not everybody on the left, of course. Some of the folks I most admire in this town are liberals whose work on behalf of values like transparency in government and protecting civil liberties is remarkable and essential.
Still, that this danger is real and growing becomes more obvious as public opposition grows to the president's across-the-board campaign to turn Washington into the all-powerful, centralized behemoth that Woodrow Wilson and FDR could only dream about.
Consider: Nowhere does the Constitution grant Congress authority to require every American to buy a particular private service or product on pain of forfeiture of a significant portion of their wealth. Yet, every version of Obamacare currently being discussed in Congress requires just that.
Forcing all of us to buy officially approved health insurance is essential to a functioning government-run system. As Obama told Congress, "many of insurance reforms we seek - especially requiring insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions - cannot be achieved" without the individual mandate.
Why? Because the politicians and bureaucrats who will manage the government-run health care program know that, without the force of government behind them, they won't be able to make the rest of us do what they tell us to do.
Once the power is granted, the question becomes how severe will the enforcement be. Fines will suffice, for Obamacare, for now. For Stalin, the first choice was usually the Gulag, or a bullet. It's just a matter of degree.
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Qadhafi: Obama should be president forever
By Tony Romm | 09/23/09 02:34 PM ET | The Hill
Libyan President Muammar al-Qadhafi showered Barack Obama with unexpected praise on Wednesday, telling the U.N. General Assembly he hoped Obama "can stay forever as the president of the United States."
It was, perhaps, the only kind words Qadhafi had for anyone in his hour-long speech, during which he vented against what he called the "inequality" of the United Nations.
"You are the beginning of a change," the Libyan leader said of the U.S. president. "But as far as I'm concerned, Obama is a glimpse in the dark for the four years or the next eight years, and I'm afraid that we may go back to square one. How can you guarantee America after Obama?"
"We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as the president of the United States of America," he added.
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Obama will talk with schizoids and killers but not with allies
Barack Obama snubs Gordon Brown over private talks
by Patrick Wintour | September 24, 2009 | The Guardian
Gordon Brown lurched from being hailed as a global statesman to intense embarrassment tonight, after it emerged US President Barack Obama had turned down no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting at the United Nations in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh today.
The prime minister, eager to portray himself as a leading player on the international stage in America this week, was also forced to play down suggestions from inside his own party that he might step down early, either due to ill health or deteriorating eyesight.
There have been tensions between the White House and No 10 for weeks over Brown's handling of the Scottish government's decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
Brown's efforts to secure a prestigious primetime slot for his keynote speech at the general assembly in New York were also thwarted when the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, delivered a 100-minute speech to the UN, massively running over Brown's 15 minute slot.
Obama and ACORN: A Love Story
Why did the president feign ignorance of ACORN when his relationship with the group goes back almost 20 years?
by Candace de Russy | September 23, 2009 | Pajamas Media
. . . Long before the latest scurrilous revelations, [ACORN] had nationally gained a reputation for rampant voter-registration fraud; aggressive, even physical, shaking down of businesses; and, most recently, blatant tax-cheating.
Obama's playing dumb about ACORN is disingenuous in the extreme. His longstanding activist, political, and financial connections to the group, as Stanley Kurtz showed prior to the presidential election, are wide and deep. Indeed, they constitute his most significant and enduring tie to the anti-capitalist and revolutionary "New Left" movement of the 1960s.
Sol Stern writes that ACORN sprang from "one of this movement's silliest and most destructive groups, the National Welfare Rights Organization." The NWRO's strategy was to eliminate welfare requirements and overwhelm welfare offices with clients, simultaneously staging disruptions and sit-ins, in order to bring about "a radical reconstruction of America's unjust capitalist economy."
Obama could have only been buying into this vision by intimately allying himself with ACORN and its ilk over the years.
In his pre-law school years as a community organizer in Chicago, Obama was brought into ACORN's orbit by the group's city leader Madeleine Talbot, who recruited him into training her own staff. Though some years after Obama's early organizing work, it was Talbot who masterminded a display of what radicals term "direct action": she and her fellow activists stormed a session of the Chicago City Council, preventing participants from entering the session. Afterward, taken off in handcuffs and charged with disorderly conduct and mob action, she stoutly defended the organization's strong-arm tactics.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
ACORN sues hidden-camera filmmakers, Breitbart.com
BALTIMORE (AP) – Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.
The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to create sound recordings.
The two employees seen in the video were fired after it was posted online. The lawsuit says the employees, Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams, suffered "extreme emotional distress."
more news at BigGovernment.com
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a Marxist/terrorist really did help Obama write "Dreams from my Father"
Posted: September 23, 2009
By Art Moore
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Confirming the literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill prior to the 2008 election, author Christopher Andersen says in a newly released book that former domestic terrorist William Ayers helped Barack Obama write the president's highly acclaimed memoir "Dreams from My Father."
Obama's 1995 book won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album and drew praise from Time magazine, which called it "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."
But since July 2008, Cashill has unveiled in nearly two dozen columns, summarized here, his compelling evidence that the unrepentant co-founder of the radical Weather Underground group – dismissed by Obama during the campaign as "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood" – shaped and refined the book with his exceptional writing skill and radical ideas.
Cashill, who acquired a copy of Andersen's new book today, told WND the author "lays out the scenario just as I envisioned it."
Andersen, in "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage," writes that Obama was faced with a deadline with the Time Books division of Random House to submit his manuscript after already having canceled a contract with Simon & Schuster. Confronted with the threat of a second failure, his wife, Michelle, suggested he seek the help of "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers."
Obama had taped interviews with relatives to flesh out his family history, and those "oral histories, along with a partial manuscript and a truckload of notes, were given to Ayers," writes Andersen.
The author quotes a neighbor in the Hyde Park area of Chicago where Obama and Ayers lived, who says of the two, "Everyone knew they were friends and that they worked on various projects together."
"It was no secret. Why would it be? People liked them both," the neighbor said, according to Andersen.
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Fidel Castro praises Obama on climate change
By PAUL HAVEN (AP) – 12 hours ago
HAVANA — Barack Obama's call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source — U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro.
The former Cuban leader on Wednesday called the American president's speech at the United Nations "brave" and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks.
In a speech at the United Nations on Tuesday, Obama acknowledged that the United States had been slow to act on climate change, but said Washington was now prepared to be a full partner as the world confronts the threat.
He said developed nations that have caused much of the climate change the planet has suffered have a "responsibility to lead," but added that rapidly growing nations must do their part as well.
That admission of America's past errors "was without a doubt a brave gesture," Castro wrote in comments published by Cuban state-media Wednesday.
"It would only be fair to recognize that no other United States president would have had the courage to say what he said," the former Cuban leader continued.
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Ralph Nader on Obamcare and Obama
Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009 | Time
Q. What do you think about the current fight over health-care reform?
A. Well, it's going down heavily. Obama's not going to get a public option. By the time the thousand-page monstrosity of complexity and ambiguity gets to his desk, it's going to be a shred of what the majority of doctors, nurses and the people in this country want — which is full Medicare for all.
Q. What's your take on President Obama thus far?
A. Weak. Waffling, wavering, ambiguous and overwhelmingly concessionary.
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Check out the propaganda pop quiz some teacher gave her students after Obama's healthcare speech. (via Michele Malkin)
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The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak
It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, writes Nile Gardiner.
By Nile Gardiner | Published: 8:34AM BST 23 Sep 2009 | Telegraph.co.uk
Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people.
The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama's leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world – 94 percent in Kenya, 93 percent in Germany, 88 percent in Canada and Nigeria, 77 percent in India, 76 percent in Brazil, 71 percent in Indonesia, and 62 percent in China for example. The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008.
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Obama to UN: America sucks, Israel sucks, but I'm great
By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago
UNITED NATIONS – In a blunt challenge to his nation's critics, President Barack Obama on Wednesday exhorted world leaders who once accused the United States of acting alone to now join with him in solving global crises rather than wait for America to do it on its own.
In his first address to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama sought to set a new tone in U.S. relations, moving away from the unilateralism of his predecessor, George W. Bush. He coupled conciliatory words about a "new era of engagement" with a summons for other nations to shoulder more of the burden.
"Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world's problems alone," Obama said.
"Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
Obama said past policies and a perception of unilateralism by the United States had fed "an almost reflexive anti-Americanism" that too often was used as an excuse for inaction.
"The time has come for the world to move in a new direction," Obama said before a U.N. chamber packed with more than 100 of his global counterparts.
The president offered a litany of policy changes and actions his administration had undertaken during his first nine months in office, with the overarching message that the United States has no interest in a go-it-alone stance and instead wants to act as an equal partner with others on the world stage.
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A Review of ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis's Rolodex Suggests Strong White House Ties
Posted by Erick Erickson | Tuesday, September 22nd at 8:45AM EDT | RedState
The story in a nutshell:
* Bertha Lewis is the CEO of ACORN.
* In a review of Lewis's contacts list, which was leaked to RedState, Bertha Lewis has the office, cell phone, home number, and private personal email address of Patrick Gaspard.
* Patrick Gaspard holds Karl Rove's position in the White House and was Obama's Political Director during the campaign.
* In addition to Patrick, Bertha has Patrick's brother Michael in her rolodex. She lists Michael as working at the Advance Group.
* The Advance Group is ACORN's lobbying organization.
* In other words, besides having Obama's political director's contact info, the political director's brother works for ACORN via its lobbying shop.
On Sunday, Barack Obama played ignorant on the situation with ACORN. Obama told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "Frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money." Never mind that Barack Obama used to work for ACORN.
Based on information obtained by RedState, we think Barack Obama may live to regret those words.
With everybody focused on ACORN these days, what if we could dig around and see who in the Obama administration shows up in Bertha Lewis's rolodex? Bertha Lewis is the CEO of ACORN.
Bertha Lewis is considered one of the 100 most influential women in New York according to Crain's New York Business. She is an activist, organizer, and radical of the far left. When she calls, union bosses and others pick up the phone.
It's not that hard to look into her contacts. RedState has seen a list of Bertha Lewis's contacts. We did not seek it out. It just showed up one day unsolicited. We did not ask for it. We did not expect to get it. But now that we have it, we should see who is in there.
who's on the list
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Inside the ACORN Rolodex
Posted by Erick Erickson | September 23, 2009 | RedState
Above is a word cloud of the associations in the Bertha Lewis contacts list we received. Some are legitimate business dealings. Forest City Ratner, for example, is both bailing out ACORN and relying on its support for its construction projects. But others are more intriguing.
The larger the name, the greater the frequency of the name appearing in the contacts list. For many years it has been speculated that SEIU and ACORN share a common foundation. This seems to suggest as much. In fact, in at least one appearance on the contacts list, an SEIU official has an ACORN email address.
But were this picture a tree, the trunk would be the Working Families Party. Roger Stone has suggested the Working Families Party is ACORN. Bertha Lewis's contacts list suggests as much.
Lewis is both the head of ACORN and also the Co-Chair of the Working Families Party. As you can imagine, ACORN would have us believe that those are separate roles. However, information suggests otherwise and we also know that ACORN has a habit of creating political parties for its own ends.
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Obama's time warp: The U.S. is still the bad guy
By Michael Barone | September 23, 2009 | Washington Examiner
In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to find histories of the region. All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing that "the people" were exploited by greedy corporations and military dictators, all propped up by the United States. Available literature on Latin America today includes much more sensible accounts. But some people, including Barack Obama, whose college thesis written in those years has never been made public, seem stuck in a time warp in which the United States is the bad guy.
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Qaddafi Pitches Tent on Trump Estate; N.Y. Town Orders Stop
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The Libyan government has pitched a tent in suburban New York that leader Muammar Qaddafi may use for entertaining, according to a State Department official.
And it appears the property was rented from Donald Trump.
However, an attorney for the town of Bedford, around 43 miles north of Manhattan, said the town ordered work to be stopped at the site late Tuesday.
"We believe the erection of a tent on the ... property violates several codes and laws of the town of Bedford," Attorney Joel Sachs said.
Sachs said officials found workers constructing the tent but could not communicate with them because they didn't speak English. He said they gave the order to stop the work to the property's caretaker.
"There is no such thing as diplomatic immunity when it comes to complying with local laws and ordinances," Sachs said. "This is a private piece of property and they have to comply with the laws of this municipality."
Town officials will return to the site Wednesday to make sure the Libyans are complying with the order, Sachs said.
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U.N. Climate Summit Leaves Large Carbon Footprint
September 22, 2009 12:57 PM | Posted by Mark Knoller
To hear world leaders and others addressing the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, the threat could not be more real and the need more urgent to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
But in stark contrast to the earnest statements is the carbon footprint associated with their gathering.
It happens every autumn: midtown Manhattan becomes the motorcade capital of the world. Each foreign leader in town has a convoy of vehicles. Some of them, like President Obama's motorcade, are 20-to-30 vehicles in length. It's so long - it seems that when the front of it reaches the U.N., the back end is still back at his hotel.
Exacerbating the annual exercise in diplomatic gridlock are police actions, blocking intersections and closing streets for security to facilitate motorcade movements. It renders countless other vehicles immobile while waiting for motorcades to pass, their engines idling but still blowing exhaust into the midtown air
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Ousted Honduran leader left isolated in embassy
By MARK STEVENSON | Sep 23, 3:05 AM (ET)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Diplomats and activists streamed out of the increasingly isolated Brazilian Embassy in Honduras where ousted President Manuel Zelaya holed up with a shrinking core of supporters and relatives, prompting Brazil to urge the U.N. Security Council to guarantee the compound's safety.
Zelaya's backers ventured out at several points in Honduras' capital to skirmish with police, after hundreds of their colleagues were routed by baton-wielding soldiers from the street in front of the embassy and police roadblocks sealed off the mission building Tuesday. Authorities denied local media reports that three people died in the confrontation.
The entire country was largely shut down, with almost no cars or pedestrians in the streets and few businesses open under a nearly round-the-clock curfew decreed by the interim government that ousted Zelaya in June. It accused Zelaya of sneaking back into the country Monday to create disturbances and disrupt the Nov. 29 election scheduled to pick his successor.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Hollywood: Insurance Companies Are Evil ! ! !
And these Hollywood stars don't have nice houses, fancy expensive cars, corporate jets to fly on?
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Obama Tells UN: "Act on Global Warming Or Face 'Irreversible Catastrophe'
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 | Gateway Pundit
Let's take our chances.
Obama told the UN today to act on non-existent global warming or face an "irreversible catastrophe."
He may be late to the table...
Even The New York Times is now reporting that global temperatures have been stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.
FOX News reported:
A failure to address climate change could create an "irreversible catastrophe," President Obama warned Tuesday in a speech at the United Nations in New York City.
"No nation, however large or small, wealthy or poor, can escape the impact of climate change," the president said.
Obama said time is "running out" to fix the problem but that, "we can reverse it."
But the United States has been greeted with skepticism on pledges to advance climate change legislation.
A sweeping climate change bill passed the House this year, but it has been held up in the Senate as health care reform dominates the domestic agenda in Washington.
Climate change ranks dead last in a nationwide poll-- Only 2% call it America's most pressing issue.
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Glenn Beck - Obama: In His Own Words
9/21/09 Part 1/4
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Obama's energy chief: we're unruly teenagers
Obama energy secretary to Americans: Stop acting like teenagers!
By Mark Tapscott | 09/21/09 5:59 PM EDT | Washington Examiner
When Secretary of Energy Steven Chu thinks of the American people, he apparently sees a bunch of unruly teenagers who need to be told how to act.
Asked at a seminar on reconstructing America's electrical grid about the Obama administration's efforts to persuade people to conserve energy, Chu said "the American public…just like your teenage kids, aren't acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is," according to The Wall Street Journal.
And, notes the Journal's Ian Talley, the Obama administration is spending big to tell us what we should be doing on the energy issues:
"The administration aims to teach them—literally. The Environmental Protection Agency is focusing on real children. Partnering with the Parent Teacher Organization, the agency earlier this month launched a cross-country tour of 6,000 schools to teach students about climate change and energy efficiency.
"'We're showing people across the country how energy efficiency can be part of what they do every day,' said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. 'Confronting climate change, saving money on our utility bills, and reducing our use of heavily-polluting energy can be as easy as making a few small changes.""
In other words, it's not going to hurt, they promise. Next thing you know, they will be saying it's going to hurt them more than it will us.
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Mark Levin rails against the Five-PMer
Mark, have the guts to actually say his name. McCain would have been worse -- a fake Republican doing many of the same things, only slower. Better to see and know thy enemy out in the open. The two parties are both corrupt. Washington is corrupt. Would McCain have galvanized the Tea Parties as much as Obama? No way. We need to take back our country from ALL career beltway politicians. If it was McCain, how long do you think they would have allowed Sarah Palin to go unmuzzled?
Monday, September 21, 2009
EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda
full audio and transcript here
(the conference call starts about 2:00 minutes into the recording)
by Patrick Courrielche | Big Hollywood
Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally?
That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?"
The question still requires debate but the facts do not.
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the very same stuff each time
Obama Officially Turns Presidency Into infomercial
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Inside SEIU president Andy Stern's culture of corruption
By Michelle Malkin | September 21, 2009 10:59 AM
On Friday, SEIU thug-in-chief Andy Stern published a screed titled, "Working Women and Men Will Not Be Silenced by Right Wing Attack Dogs; We Will Win the Change America Needs." He carped about "an insidious and coordinated effort on the part of the extreme right to target individuals and grassroots community groups as a way to silence the voices of women and men who have suffered the most under 8 years of right wing policies. These extremists will attempt to shut down and shout down anyone with a different point of view."
I've told you before about Stern's operating philosophy: "[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn't work we use the persuasion of power." You can find my entire SEIU archives here.
While Stern assails "greedy CEOS," he groomed his own team of labor management thieves. Here's a closer look inside Andy Stern's culture of corruption.
click to know your enemy
[All that is just the] tip of the iceberg.
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On-the-air prez seems like endless 'infomercial'
By CHARLES HURT | 10:20 AM, September 21, 2009 | New York Post
WASHINGTON -- During his first eight months in office, President Obama has sat down for three times as many television interviews as his most recent two predecessors combined.
And with yesterday's run of the Sunday-morning news show circuit and tonight's airing of "Late Night with David Letterman," Obama continues to blaze through the media hotter than any political figure in modern history.
"He's turning the presidency into an infomercial," warned former White House speechwriter Matt Latimer. "It's not just damaging to the White House. It will also ultimately hurt President Obama's image as a fresh, non-Washington leader."
The media blitz has won Obama unprecedented wall-to-wall coverage in the mainstream media.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Obama on ACORN: 'Not Something I've Followed Closely' Won't Commit to Cut Federal Funds
September 20, 2009 9:00 AM | George's Bottom Line
It was one of the most popular topics among the questions you submitted to me for my interview with President Obama – the controversy involving ACORN. (ACORN questions start at 4:00)
While the President said that ACORN "deserves to be investigated" in light of the "inappropriate" video that's gone viral, he did not endorse recent votes in Congress to cut off federal funding for the community group.
Here's our FULL exchange:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're not committing to -- to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to.
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The Iowa Soccer Association State Cup will take place at the Cedar Valley Soccer Complex on May 26, 27, & 28. The event will bring 13U & 14U teams from across the state to compete to win the State Cup title and advance to represent the state of Iowa at the US Youth Soccer Region II Championships.
The 2018 Iowa Soccer Association State Cup is expected to bring nearly 3,600 visitors from across the state of Iowa.
Upcoming Events
Iowa Soccer Association State Cup
May 26-28
Cedar Valley Soccer Complex
ASA Iowa Men's D&E Championship
June 2-3
Hoing-Rice Complex
USSSA Iowa Baseball Major State & A/AA State Warm-Up
June 22-24
Hoing-Rice Complex, Danes Field & Birdsall Park
Accel Triathlon
July 14
George Wyth
Waterloo Open
July 19-22
Irv Warren Golf Course
MAYB Summer Tournament
July 20-22
Cedar Valley Sportsplex
Iowa Shrine Bowl
July 21
ASA Iowa Men's C&D National Qualifiers
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Even the most practical woman on the earth likes to receive gifts that are not in the least bit practical: chocolate, jewelry, a gift certificate for a massage (wait, that could be considered practical, couldn't it? After all, it's for my health. So is the chocolate. Ahem.), etc. It's not that we don't like practical things, it's just that we want a gift to make us feel special.
Most men don't seem to understand the special principle. It's not what you give us that really counts. Maybe not even the thought. It's how special it makes us feel. The least expensive, smallest gift can make a woman want to give her whole life to a man (or at least her whole evening), if it is sentimental enough to make her feel important.
On the other hand, even the most expensive gift, if it makes her feel, shall we say, not special, can make a woman want to throw dog food at her man. And suggest a nice, quiet place in the backyard where he can eat it in private.
In case you men are confused, here are some things you should give your woman only if she has specifically asked you for it, or you have a taste for generic dog food:
- a weight-reducing gadget of any kind
- a how-to-clean DVD
- a dieting book
- jumper cables
- an appliance
- deodorant
- a hair-cutting set, so you can save money by having her cut your hair
- your old, cast off _______, so you can buy yourself one that is newer & better
- a light bulb (Of any color. Really.)
- a piece of construction paper crookedly folded in half, with a note quickly scribbled on it on Christmas morning (even if she did say she wanted something homemade)
- a half-eaten box of chocolates
- a box of chocolates that you proudly announce you found by the roadside (even if it doesn't look like roadkill…)
- address return labels you got for free from Easter Seals
- mouse traps (even if she really, really wants to get rid of the mice)
- a box of fabric softener (even if you wrap it in gold paper with a shiny, red ribbon)
- tickets to see a sports event that you would kill to see, and she would kill to avoid
- money, with the instruction to "get yourself a haircut"
(no, this is not the same as a gift certificate to an exclusive hair salon)
So, what is one of the worst gifts YOU ever got?


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Job Profile
Mott MacDonald is a £1.2 billion management, engineering and development consultancy with 16,000 staff and a global reach spanning six continents. Our network of 180 principal offices in 140 countries gives us local market insight backed by world class expertise to deliver excellence for every client.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate, and take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate, and take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.
Job Description
Key responsibilities and duties of this position include:
The key challenges include:
- Participation in the planning, development, design, verification & commissioning of signalling systems.
- Review of Quality, safety and programme implementation for railways communication work of freight railway line
- Provision of technical input and support the production of tenders as part of the business development process.
- Ensuring the continued maintenance of quality assurance of signalling and telecommunication project deliverables to ensure that work is completed in line within the requirements of the client, the company IMS system and industry best practice.
- Active participation in the continual improvement process to ensure technical excellence.
The key challenges include:
- Ability to communicate knowledgably in all aspects of the project.
- Maintaining brand reputation whilst undertaking the project (both with this Group key client and in the wider industry).
- Identifying, building and maintaining key relationships both internally within Mott MacDonald and externally with key client.
Candidate Specification
- Holds an engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from a recognised reputed university.
- More than 10 years experience in the development, design and delivery of signalling and telecommunication solutions.
- 3 years of international experience in railway projects with modern technology.
- Proven track record in the delivery of signalling engineering solutions as well as telecommunication solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to actively participate within a team.
- Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues and managers.
- Should proactively seek personal and professional development opportunities.
- Be an active participant in demonstrating Mott MacDonald's Values and Behaviours.


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by Boo
I just want to say how much I enjoyed this article. It seems most singing is geared towards the youngsters and it is refreshing to see something geared to us older folks.
I never sang as a child except at the required music classes at school but I never thought I could sing at all and never tried.
I started my singing not too many months ago on a whim to try it and see if I could do it and I find it is all I think about. It is really hard for me to go to my regular job when all I want to do is sing.
You touched on hearing loss and I do have quite a bit of hearing loss, nearly deaf in one ear and quite a bit in the other. These modern digital hearing aids really seem to help with it though.
My biggest problem is confidence. It sort of seems silly to be thinking about this as a late life career but it is what I want to do. I haven't sang for anyone except my husband, my vocal teacher, and a few songs on Youtube and wouldn't know how to get chances to sing in public.
Thanks again for the great article.
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March 1st, 2014 was the date this couple chose for their wedding day. It was a bit chilly on this Saturday afternoon but that didn't stop the excitement of Katie and Cameron's big day. I arrived to the "getting ready" house of Katie's sisters. Her hair stylist, family members and Katie's closest friend were running around and helping her prepare for her big day! The energy was contagious. As Katie sat in the beautiful guest room and had her hair & makeup done, I was able to shoot all the details. The setting was perfect with beautiful backdrops around every corner I turned. One of my favorites was a couple of coral colored chairs that were Katie's grandmother Mangum's! (Of course, we had to include those in pictures.) The lighting was absolutely gorgeous, making this part of a wedding so much fun!!! Enjoy!
The Dress!!!
Love this text between the two of them from earlier in the week!
Katie, y0ou are radient.
Here is Katie on her grandmother's chairs, she may have gone on but still a part of this day.
Before the guest arrived!
Cameron seeing his bride for the first time...
Even the littles showing her respect during prayer...
I LOVE this next picture of this pretty little girl who was checking out what I was doing.
Watching their boy begin his new life with Katie.
It's official!!!
These next two kept me entertained while I was waiting on "Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Simpson" to greet the crowd!
This beautiful cake was made by her sister, Tasha!
Mingling with the guest!
Katie receiving some love from two of her closest friends.
Which soon turned to this...lol
Happy wedding to the both of you, Katie & Cameron!!! Thank you so much for letting be part of your day...Wishing a lifetime of happiness!!!
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The mystery predator responsible for the massacre on East Hill revealed him/herself to me yesterday. I spent much of my day beefing up the chicken tractors, following a series of attacks which left several chicks dead and/or missing. During routine afternoon chores, I had the wheels on a chicken tractors, moving the "machine" forward onto fresh grass. As usual, a couple of chickens snuck underneath where the pigs before them had dug themselves a big hole. So I stopped pulling, dropped my rope, and headed to the backside of the tractor to retrieve and replace the missing chickens. Out of nowhere, a large bird swiftly swooped in front of me and snatched up a chicken. Wow! What a surprise! It all happened quite fast but for a moment this hawk and I inspected each other at close range. My eyes bugged out of my face, my mouth hung open. I'm stunned at the audacity of this bird! At first I thought it was a barred owl, they've roughly the same size and color pattern. Besides everyone here knows that the local barred owls covet those chickens dearly. Brook says they hold owl conventions here at night, and chicken is the focus topic. Still, in the moment I realized what we were dealing with was not an owl but something far more bold and powerful. Our predator hovered at chest height facing me for a moment. The long, pointed wings reached wide and I could hear the wind it made as those wings flapped slowly up and down, all the while keeping the body levitated and I suppose it was thinking about what it ought to do. My poor wayward chicken chirped regretfully. Then I realized, it's a Paragrine Falcon. Oh crap! The surprise factor wore off for me and I acted to defend. We both hesitated, the paragrine and I didn't know what I would do. Whack at it? I was within range but with nothing to whack with. It must've been my hollering and crazy talking that finally convinced the falcon to drop the chicken and fly away. My poor little chicken was badly torn up between the wings from the talon's grip. So I brought the bird to the brooder where it could sort out his issues with life and death in peace. I had little hope that it would make it through the night, but it did! Our patient has not touched his food or water that I know of yet, but the fact that he's still alive is a very good sign of recovery.
Lucy and I are considering our options for defending chicks against this sort of airborne assault. One option put forth by John Bliss is to hang a radio inside the tractor and tune it to Rush Limbaugh. Wildlife would find the thought of eating a Republican chicken so offensive that it would turn away in disgust.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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The apostrophe likes to walk on the wild side. They're these teeny, tiny punctuation marks that are majorly misused every single day. Apostrophes are used to indicate possession for nouns (not pronouns i.e. its, their, whose, and your). They're also friends to the contraction (i.e. it's, they're, who's, and you're).
Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Possession and contraction. Well, don't be fooled by this little guy; he trips up millions of Americans all day, every day. Let's take a closer look and make sure we don't join the ranks of English-language-speakers who often confuse its (not it's) primary purpose.
Contractions were probably created to make things easier. They tighten up two words into one, offering an evasion from redundancy and over-usage. In the end, that didn't go so well, as contractions are regularly misprinted in writings all across the globe. Let's take a look:
In the land of texting, where we shorten "you" to "u", it's no surprise that we skip the apostrophe turning it's to its. Of course, it's is used as an abbreviation to it is, while its is used to show possession.
Anytime you see an it's or an its in your writing, double check the sentence. If you can say "it is" in its place, then you DO need the apostrophe. If its is showing something has possession or ownership of something, then you do not need an apostrophe and using its is correct.
Remembering that apostrophes mainly like to hang out with contractions, there's only one time an apostrophe enters into the there, they're, their family.
Here's another misunderstood contraction. Here, we have who's (who is) and whose - a personal pronoun.
Just in case we didn't drive the contraction thing home yet, let's look at one more common error that makes every editor, professor, and book aficionado cringe.
Similar to the its vs. it's premise, just double check the sentence. If you can say "you are" in its place, then keep it hanging. If it is showing possession (your dog, your usage), you do not want to use an apostrophe.
Everyone loves a hot debate, right? Well this is the hottest one in town! Do you put an apostrophe after a date like the one above? Well, there's really no need for such hot debate, as you only have to ask yourself two quick questions. Is it a contraction? (Definitely not.) Is it showing possession? Well, let's take a look:
This is a tough pill to swallow. Proceed with caution and try not to cringe. What's wrong with this restaurant sign?
Bob's Cheesesteak's and Cubano's
For some reason, the apostrophe wants to crash the plural party. (It's very rarely invited.) If, however, a plural word needs to show possession, then - as we know - it's time for the apostrophe to come on over. So, the sign above should read:
Bob's Cheesesteaks and Cubanos
Remember, if it's a contraction or a possession, only then are apostrophes on the guest list. However, an apostrophe showing the possessive on a plural needs to go after the s that is making the word plural. It would be acceptable if the above sign read:
Bob's secret is in his cheesesteaks' (plural and possessive) sauce.
Or, it could reference a singular cheesesteak and say:
Bob's secret is in his cheesesteak's sauce.
The point is, no possession, no apostrophe.
This was fun, right? Apostrophes like to dance and twirl in the air, but they're finicky little buggers who only like to express their jubilation when the timing is right. Only two occasions will give them cause to hop out onto the dance floor: contractions and possessions. If we can all remember that, then we're one step closer to becoming apostrophe aficionados, and who wouldn't like a title like that?
MLA Style
"When NOT to Use an Apostrophe." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 August 2018. <http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/punctuation/when-not-to-use-an-apostrophe.html>.
APA Style
When NOT to Use an Apostrophe. (n.d.). Retrieved August 14th, 2018, from http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/punctuation/when-not-to-use-an-apostrophe.html


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What do chicken and Mercedes Benz have in common? Stability at all times.
Mercedes' current ABC system uses a hydraulic piston to act on each steel coil spring to quickly and independently adjust the suspension on each wheel in reaction to the road surface, and it does a fine job keeping the ride smooth and occupants unjostled.
But the key term there is "reaction"—the suspension deals with the bumps after the wheel has encountered them. What if the car knew what was coming in advance, with absolute certainty and down to every imperfection? The oil flow at each corner could be adjusted so accurately that any surface flaw could be practically neutralized.
Oh and by the way: no chicken were harmed in the making of this. It's the Magic Body Control
Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Neckar, Stuttgart, Germany


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On a rainy Thursday in September a group of Roundtable ladies and invited guests gathered to discuss the finer things of life, like solid telecommunications infrastructure, a well-educated workforce and a robust economy…and inevitably how all of those things are being affected in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene.
Pam Mackenzie, Roundtable Member, Chair of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority and former VP of Comcast, graciously served as our luncheon speaker. She apprised the ladies of her role with the VTA and offered an update on progress to achieve Governor Shumlin's ambitious goal of state-wide connectivity by 2013.
Trademark of any Roundtable event, the group engaged in a lively discussion connecting the dots ~ from the necessity of telecommunications infrastructure to offer educational opportunities for all of Vermont's residents (basically from cradle to cradle) to, in turn, strengthen and build our economy. All agreed that we must raise and maintain a globally competitive workforce. Further compelling evidence was shared from The State of America's Children Report by the Children's Defense Fund, that highlights statistics on the wellness (or unwellness) of our children.
If interested in downloading the VTA's 2011 Broadband Plan or the State of America's Children, Click Here.


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British superstar Adele has laughed off reports suggesting she became a recluse during her hiatus.
The Rolling In The Deep star stepped out of the spotlight to start a family following the huge international success of her 2011 album 21, and her Bond theme Skyfall which won her a slew of awards, including an Oscar.
During her hiatus, Adele was rarely seen out in public, sparking rumours she had grown tired of fame and become a recluse, but the singer is adamant she did not go into hiding.
"I'm not a recluse," she tells The Observer's Music magazine. "Can we clear that up? I didn't stop going to shops. To parks. To museums. I just wasn't photographed while doing it."
However, Adele admits she does miss out on a lot of events because she is worried about overshadowing her friends.
"I miss my friends... I miss it when life was a party to be thrown... It's lonely. It makes you lonely..." she adds. "Like, maybe me and my friends are going out to celebrate someone's engagement. Or their birthday. Or we're there to wet a baby's head. It's their event - it's not about anyone meeting me. But that's what it becomes. So sometimes it's easier not to go."
Adele has now made a successful return to the charts, scoring a huge hit with her comeback single Hello ahead of the release of her new record 25 later this month (Nov15).
During the interview, the singer also reveals she has turned down a number of lucrative endorsement deals in recent years, including offers to launch cosmetics and fashion lines, write her life story and even money-spinning private performances.
"What have I said no to? Everything you can imagine," she explains. "Literally, every f**king thing. Books, clothes, food ranges, drink ranges, fitness ranges... That's probably the funniest. They wanted me to be the face of a car. Toys. Apps. Candles. It's, like, 'I don't want to endorse a line of nail varnishes, but thanks for asking'. 'A million pounds to sing at your birthday party?' I'd rather do it for free if I'm doing it, cheers..."


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The newly launched F8 Magazine produced out of Spain by editor Miguel Moya is fresh out of the box.
There's a diverse batch of photography that Moya has curated into the online publication. Kevin German gives insight into Luceo Images, there's an interesting read about Wonderful Machine and a very generous spread, interview and cover featuring some of my work.
Go on and give F8 a spin around the block, try it - you'll like it.
*A special thanks to Miguel Moya for his interest in my work and for creating another outlet for photography. www.f8mag.com


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What song are you most likely to get caught singing in the shower?
Listen to our staff picks here In The Shower
Beverly, Individual Giving Manager
Whatever song is stuck in my head at the time!
Larry, Program & Administrative Assistant
The most embarrassing is more juicy than the single one. And you Can Pull Any of Lesley Gore's Greatest Hits for that.
Ivy, Finance & Operations Manager
"Mona Lisa."
Lorena, Program Manager
"How Dare You" by Thao and Mirah
Karena, Program Director
An improvisational song about my cat.
Laura, New Sector Alliance Resident
"I Believe I Can Fly."
Anne, Program & Communications Manager
Whatever is stuck in my head at the moment. Probably Kanye or Beyonce.
Jessica, Executive Director
"Giving Him Something He Can Feel" by En Vogue.
Gary, Artistic Director
"Singing in the Rain," a la A Clockwork Orange.
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Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease Management
The impact of Alzheimer's disease on caregivers and families is staggering. Fortunately, there are effective strategies for overall management that are covered in this guideline.
The Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease Management were developed through the California Workgroup on Alzheimer's Disease Management. These guidelines provide basic recommendations for the ongoing care and management of persons with Alzheimer's Disease.
The guidelines are intended for primary care providers including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers and other practitioners who provide care to persons with Alzheimer's and their families. It is assumed that a proper diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease has been made before these recommendations are followed.
California's Caregiver Resource Centers and the Alzheimer's Association are the two organizations identified for caregiver education and support.
For more information on the guidelines or to order an information packet, please contact Elizabeth Heck at the Los Angeles Alzheimer's Disease Association at (323) 938-3379.
Conduct and document an assessment of:
- Daily function, including feeding, bathing
- Dressing, mobility, toileting, continence and ability to manage finances and medications
- Cognitive status using a reliable and valid instrument (e.g. the MMSE)
- Other medical conditions
- Behavioral problems, psychotic symptoms, or depression
- Reassessment should occur every 6 months or more frequently, if indicated.
- Identify the primary caregiver and assess the adequacy of family and other support systems.
- Assess the patient's decision-making capacity and whether a surrogate has been identified.
- Assess the patient's and family's culture, values, primary language, and decision-making process.
Develop and implement an ongoing treatment plan with defined goals. Include:
- Use of cholinesterase inhibitors, if clinically indicated, to treat cognitive decline
- Referral to appropriate structured activities such as exercise, recreation and adult day care services
- Appropriate treatment of medical conditions
Treat behavioral problems and mood disorders using:
- Nonpharmacologic approaches, such as environmental modification, task simplification, appropriate activities, etc.
- Referral to social service agencies or support organizations, including the Alzheimer's Association's Safe Return Program for people who wander
- Medications, if clinically indicated
Discuss the diagnosis and progression of AD with the patient and family in a manner consistent with their values, preferences and the patient's abilities.
Refer to support organizations for educational materials on community resources, support groups, legal and financial issues, respite care, future care needs and options. Organizations include:
- Alzheimer's Association 1-800-660-1993 www.alz.org
- Caregiver Resource Center 1-800-458-8106 www.caregiver.org
- or your own social service department
Discuss the patient's need to make advance directives and to identify surrogates for medical and legal decision-making.
Abuse: Monitor for evidence of and report all instances of abuse to Adult Protective Services or police department, as required by law.
Driving: Report the diagnosis of AD in accordance with California law (Sections 2500 and 2572 of Title 17, California Code of Regulations).
Prepared by the California Workgroup on Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease Management on September 30, 1998. Supported in part by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Primary Health Care and the Administration on Aging through a grant to the California Department of Health Services and the Alzheimer's Association of Los Angeles. Version 93098 - 1998.