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Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.]]>
On Sunday morning, President Bill Clinton set the facts straight on his record fighting the war on terror. Let your friends know that President Clinton and the Democratic Party are fighting back.]]>
Yesterday, President Bush joked about his difficult bike ride through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument:
I just spent some quality time in [Congresswoman Mary Bono’s] district, and I forgot to tell you that I had the privilege of riding my mountain bike in the desert, as well. The national monument that she helped put together to preserve open spaces - she’s got a lot of humility, she didn’t name the national monument after herself. If I were to name it I would say, Really Hard Bike Ride Monument.
But the Palm Springs Desert Sun reported that by riding through the area, Bush had ignored the “voluntary avoidance” guidelines at the Monument. The guidelines are meant to protect a species of endangered bighorn sheep:
Jim Foote, acting manager of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, said the Clara Burgess trail is also among those monument managers ask people to avoid part of the year to prevent disrupting endangered Peninsular bighorn sheep.
The trail is one of about 10 in the monument under a “voluntary avoidance” program. People are asked to stay off the Clara Burgess trail from Jan. 1 to June 30 during the sheep lambing season, he said.
If this latest Bush bike ride was like his others, a “massive entourage,” including a “long convoy of SUVs and off-road vehicles,” came along for the ride.
Apparently the White House isn’t involved in the Bureau of Land Management’s “comprehensive, multi-agency planning effort … to ensure the survival of the sheep.”
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Games[CC] has added a poll to its front news page asking for the opinion of gamers and supporters of closed captioning everywhere. Currently the group needs your help in deciding which genre of game we should focus on for our next closed captioning project. First Person Shooter games D3:RoE and Q4 are on hold until we can determine if there is still a strong demand for those games to be closed captioned. Read more about the new poll at http://gamescc.rbkdesign.com/, thank you.
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According to Survey USA's latest tracking poll, Kyl's approval among Arizonans is a meager 45% -- that's well under the level where an incumbent can feel safe about his or her re-election campaign. Zogby/WSJ (take with a grain of salt) finds his opponent, Democrat Jim Pederson has trimmed Kyl's once large lead to a slim five percent (47.1% - 42.1%). This one's going to be a race, and another potential Democratic pick-up where the pundits once dismissed our chances.
While cars.com gives this an official "zero chance of production", I think its a lot more realistic vision of the future than it may at first appear...Link]]>
IFTF's Technology Horizons program is focusing its research this year on the theme of "lightweight infrastructure. These new infrastructure designs will emphasize smaller, smarter, more independent components that can be organized in ways that are more efficient, more flexible, and more secure than the capital-intensive networks of the 20th century.
While at first, the PAD concept may appear as the culmination of the ever-bigger trend in SUVs in America, we can also see it as a lightweight alternative to the traditional home or apartment.
This animated map of coalition military fatalities during the Iraq war unfolds at ten frames per second. Each frame represents one day of the war. One dot marks each casualty site. A death begins as a white flash, then grows to a larger red dot, which turns black after 30 frames (days), fading at last to permanent grey.
Link to "Iraq War Coalition Fatalities," created by Tim Klimowicz. (via Digg user dirtyfratboy, thanks, John Parres)
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Enter the facts.
Over at the revamped Senate Democrats site, Harry Reid has an amazing, comprehensive rundown of the Democrats' Record on Real Security vs. The Bush Republican Record of Dangerous Incompetence. There, you can find all the pesky facts that Cheney & Co. want to spin away, seductively cushioned between actual bill numbers and record votes which prove that Democrats not only have a record on Real Security, but it's a damn impressive one at that.
For those that say today's plan did not offer enough detail, I urge you to look at that page and see the solutions Democrats have offered time and time again--only to be stonewalled by an administration beholden more to corporate interests and politics than actually safeguarding our nation.
This Democratic offensive will be a sustained one, lasting all the way until election day when voters will have to chose between our party, which has a proven record of safeguarding our nation, and the GOP, a party that has a proven record of dangerous incompetence. When it comes to real security, is it really even a choice?
Update: Real Security Part I, for those wondering, would be my teaser post from earlier this morning, for those that missed it.
Update #2: The Democratic National Committee is on the offensive too, and has an easy-to-navigate flash page detailing the plan.]]>
