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Where is the link to said radio?
February 16th, 2006 at 9:13 pmExcellent! Thanks for the heads up.
February 16th, 2006 at 9:19 pmWhile you’re busy patting yourselves on the back for 2 1/2 hrs,. news happens………………………………..
gettin a little full of yourself, aren’t ya????????????
Bush Approves Cheney’s Handling of Mishap
February 16th, 2006 at 10:34 pmInvestigate this:
Ummmm… which website did you start up to advance the progressive side of the issue?
If TP wants to toot their own whistle, let them. I applaud their efforts to keep their finger on the pulse of the American political landscape.
February 16th, 2006 at 10:44 pmTheir streaming audio will be playing loudly from my corporate sponsored cubicle at CSC at the ATT accout tomorrow.
Theresa
February 16th, 2006 at 10:51 pmYesssss! :)
R2K
February 16th, 2006 at 10:57 pmThis just in investigate this:
February 16th, 2006 at 10:59 pmCharles Manson approves of BTK’s methods/em>
Will you be looking for topics tomorrow? You might haave something to say about Iran following the lead of Bob Ney in 2001 — Republican representative Bob Ney, whose committee is in charge of the eateries, said
February 16th, 2006 at 11:30 pm“French fries in the House of Representatives’ cafeterias will now be known as “freedom fries.”
Iran has renamed Danish pastries and they are now called
Roses of the Prophet Muhammed.
I listened to this last week – investigate, it’s not them tooting their horn, it’s just blogging out loud. Do you think they’re tooting their own horn for having a blog in the first place? making no sense, buddy. I can’t wait – sav es me the time of looking at the blogs to just listen
February 17th, 2006 at 8:05 ami think we should call the defenders of this site LEUKOCYTES, or WBC’s.http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/blood/white.html
February 17th, 2006 at 8:14 amOff Topic but I will be listening to Think Progress
Has anyone read or hear about some Middle East Countries Snapping up our ports Hmmm seems like bushco are going to give us away to control the oil. Send a big Thank You to to bushco today!
Do the feds really want to place the ports of New York and New Jersey in the hands of a Middle East country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers? As The Post reported on Sunday, that’s what’s about to happen, now that Dubai Ports World has won control – for $6.8 billion – of British-owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.
The purchase gives Dubai Ports control of six U.S. ports – including, in addition to New York-New Jersey, Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
True, the deal reportedly was approved by the top-secret U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which decided there was no security risk.
But at a time when security in the ports remains unacceptably lax, we wonder whether this is a wise move.
Dubai Ports, after all, is owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose banking system – considered the commercial center of the Arab world – provided most of the cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Indeed, much of the operational planning for the World Trade Center attacks took place inside the UAE.
And while the Bush folks now consider the UAE a major ally in the war against terror, the Treasury Department has been stonewalled by the emirates, and other Arab countries, in trying to track Osama bin Laden’s bank accounts.
The new leader of Dubai, one of the seven small countries that make up the UAE, has said all the right things about fighting radical Islam since 9/11.
But this remains very much an Islamist nation, where preaching any religion other than Islam is prohibited.
New York Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), for one, thinks this is a case where it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Noting that the nation’s ports “remain top terrorist targets,” Schumer rightly argues that “we would not outsource military operations or law-enforcement duties.”
Likewise, he says, “we should be very careful before we outsource such sensitive homeland security duties.”
The fact is, control of America’s ports increasingly is being placed in private – and foreign – hands. And there’s no guarantee that today’s ally in the War on Terror will remain such tomorrow.
There already is reason enough for concern about security in the ports: Homeland Security officials concede that it is impossible for them to fully inspect all but a tiny percentage of the containers that enter from abroad.
February 17th, 2006 at 8:22 amthot’sn TN;This was the article everyone was referring to : http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/11/ap2518368.html
February 17th, 2006 at 8:25 am