sultan_emerr

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  1. Hi everyone,

    I know long time no see, was in the neighborhood and thought I would drop in to say hi to all my friends.

    hope to hear from of ya again.

    Hello. Nice to hear from you again. I hope you are doing well.

  2. Hope everyone. Had a good holiday.

    I,m writing this while standing outside my doctors office.

    The idea is to not come home sicker than when I got here.

    Wish me well.

    Joe

    I wish you the best, and hope you have a Happy New Year.

  3. "They bring tears to my eyes and hope to my soul.

    The sound: it makes every human stop in their tracks,

    and demand that this vicious oppression end." =

    AndrewSullivan.theatlantic.comt

    Iran reformist criticizes government crackdown

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    HotAir.com = "Khamenei’s plane being overhauled in case he has to leave Iran?".

  4. Double standards???

    Someone could point out the irony and double standards that is creeping into the Obama administration... but it won't be me. oops!

    BarackObama.com = TakingBackOurGovernment,

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/game-change-bill-clinton

    Global CIO: Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's $5Billion Credibility Gap

    infopackets.com"]A barely-noticed letter from Yahoo to the U.S. Marshals Service has revealed surveillance policies that allow the US Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users.

    ---------------

    [url="http://www.nytimes.com >>> The government is increasingly monitoring Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites for political protesters. A public interest group has filed a lawsuit to learn more about this monitoring, in the hope of starting a national discussion and modifying privacy laws as necessary for the online era.

    The Associated Press is wrong and Lou Dobbs is right. This past weekend, the AP published a story entitled "CNN's Dobbs Under Fire for Hosting 'Birthers'".

    The AP began their highly critical story on Dobbs: "He's become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's 'no bias' brand."

    And what is Dobbs' "crime?" He has said on air that Obama should release his birth certificate and has had on his show guests who suggested Obama was born outside the U.S.

    Dobbs does not believe Obama was born outside the U.S., nor does Newsmax. The evidence indicates he was born in Hawaii. But the indisputable fact is that Obama has not released his birth certificate, which the state of Hawaii issues for all citizens born there. The AP implies that Obama has not released a "long version of his birth certificate." But there is no such thing as a long version of a birth certificate.

    Instead, Obama's campaign last year released only his Certification of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii, which is a document that offers a summarized version of the birth certificate. Even state residents born outside the U.S. can get one.

    During the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP nominee Sen. John McCain quickly released his birth certificate when liberal bloggers raised questions about his eligibility to be president. McCain was born at a military hospital in Panama.

    Obama likewise could put the matter to rest by releasing his actual birth certificate, which would show, among other things, the place of his birth and the doctor who performed the birth procedure.

    This information is not provided on the Certification of Live Birth.

    As it stands, Obama is the only president in history whose birthplace is unknown to the public – a fact that would be stated on the actual birth certificate. Interestingly, his family has mentioned two different hospitals in Hawaii as the place of birth.

    Obama’s refusal to release his birth certificate does mean that Obama remains one of America’s most mysterious and opaque presidents ever.

    Obama, for example, has not released many other documents regarding his public and private life.

    Many of these documents were sought by reporters, who easily acquiesced when Obama said he would not release them – though most presidential candidates release them as a perfunctory matter.

    Among the key documents that Obama continues to shield from the public:

    • Obama released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hand, released what he said was his complete medical file, totaling more than 1,500 pages.

    • Obama refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois. Nor did he produce correspondence, such as his schedules of appointments or letters from lobbyists, from his days in the Illinois state Senate.

    • Obama did not release his client list as an attorney or his billing records. He maintained that he performed only a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June 2008 but did not release billing records that would prove this assertion.

    • Obama ignored requests for his records from Occidental College, where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia University.

    • Obama’s campaign refused to give Columbia, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Former President George W. Bush and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry all released their college transcripts.

    • Obama did not agree to the release of his application to the Illinois State Bar, which would have cleared up intermittent allegations that his application may have been inaccurate.

    • Obama did not release records from his time at Harvard Law School.

    • During the presidential campaign, McCain’s campaign released a full list of all online donors. Obama’s campaign still has not released the names of those who donated at least one-third of the $750 million he raised.

    Ironically, Obama accused the Bush White House of being "one of the most secretive administrations in our history," and chided then-Sen. Hillary Clinton for not releasing her White House schedule

  5. Just thought I'd mention it. Now I'm off to slam my head against a wall until I forget.

    "US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama received his medal and certificate from Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland in Oslo yesterday.

    Obama acknowledged the controversy over the choice of a wartime president." = ChinaDaily.com.cn

  6. Well old buddy, you will be sorely missed while you are temporarily absent. I wish you the best on your new treatments, and look forward to seeing you back soon.

    Tip: During the many times that I have been in the hospital during thew past year for blood transfusions and chemo treatments, I have found that every floor has a visitor's lounge containing at least one computer-(the ones on the first floor are always the best operating computers). The "trees" that your IV's are hooked up to have a battery that lasts for an hour, and a beep tells you when the battery is low.(there is usually an extra plug by the computer, so you don't need to operate the IV on battery anyway most of the time). Just check with the head floor nurse to see when your next procedure(blood drawing, pill taking, vital signs checking, etc.), so that you will know how much time you have, and make sure she knows where you are going(visitor's lounge - on which floor -, cafeteria, etc.), just in case.

    Also, take all your sign in info and other important info on a usb flash drive, and be sure you clear it all when ending the session.

    Beat wishes again, my friend, and looking forward to seeing you back here soon.

    Ronald

  7. So, you don't think Pelosi, Reid, Franks, and Emanuel are pulling Obama's puppet strings?

    politico.com = "President Pelosi - No figure in Barack Obama’s Washington, including Obama, has had more success in advancing his will than the speaker of the House, despite public approval ratings that hover in the range of Dick Cheney’s. With a mix of tough party discipline and shrewd vote-counting, she passed a version of the stimulus bill largely written by congressional Democrats, passed climate legislation, and passed her chamber’s version of health care reform. She and anti-war liberals in her caucus are clearly affecting the White House’s Afghanistan calculations".

    Obama Lies? = The Associated Press is wrong and Lou Dobbs is right. This past weekend, the AP published a story entitled "CNN's Dobbs Under Fire for Hosting 'Birthers'". The AP began their highly critical story on Dobbs: "He's become a publicity nightmare for CNN, embarrassed his boss and hosted a show that seemed to contradict the network's 'no bias' brand." And what is Dobbs' "crime?" He has said on air that Obama should release his birth certificate and has had on his show guests who suggested Obama was born outside the U.S.

    Dobbs does not believe Obama was born outside the U.S., nor does Newsmax. The evidence indicates he was born in Hawaii. But the indisputable fact is that Obama has not released his birth certificate, which the state of Hawaii issues for all citizens born there. The AP implies that Obama has not released a "long version of his birth certificate." But there is no such thing as a long version of a birth certificate.

    Instead, Obama's campaign last year released only his Certification of Live Birth from the state of Hawaii, which is a document that offers a summarized version of the birth certificate. Even state residents born outside the U.S. can get one.

    During the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP nominee Sen. John McCain quickly released his birth certificate when liberal bloggers raised questions about his eligibility to be president. McCain was born at a military hospital in Panama.

    Obama likewise could put the matter to rest by releasing his actual birth certificate, which would show, among other things, the place of his birth and the doctor who performed the birth procedure.

    This information is not provided on the Certification of Live Birth.

    As it stands, Obama is the only president in history whose birthplace is unknown to the public – a fact that would be stated on the actual birth certificate. Interestingly, his family has mentioned two different hospitals in Hawaii as the place of birth.

    Obama’s refusal to release his birth certificate does mean that Obama remains one of America’s most mysterious and opaque presidents ever.

    Obama, for example, has not released many other documents regarding his public and private life.

    Many of these documents were sought by reporters, who easily acquiesced when Obama said he would not release them – though most presidential candidates release them as a perfunctory matter.

    Among the key documents that Obama continues to shield from the public:

    • Obama released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hand, released what he said was his complete medical file, totaling more than 1,500 pages.

    • Obama refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois. Nor did he produce correspondence, such as his schedules of appointments or letters from lobbyists, from his days in the Illinois state Senate.

    • Obama did not release his client list as an attorney or his billing records. He maintained that he performed only a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June 2008 but did not release billing records that would prove this assertion.

    • Obama ignored requests for his records from Occidental College, where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia University.

    • Obama’s campaign refused to give Columbia, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Former President George W. Bush and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry all released their college transcripts.

    • Obama did not agree to the release of his application to the Illinois State Bar, which would have cleared up intermittent allegations that his application may have been inaccurate.

    • Obama did not release records from his time at Harvard Law School.

    • During the presidential campaign, McCain’s campaign released a full list of all online donors. Obama’s campaign still has not released the names of those who donated at least one-third of the $750 million he raised.

    Ironically, Obama accused the Bush White House of being "one of the most secretive administrations in our history," and chided then-Sen. Hillary Clinton for not releasing her White House schedule

  8. cbsnews.com = "The quasi-government agency announced this week that it lost $3.8 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30th. It also delivered less mail - 26 billion fewer pieces less, a nearly 13 percent drop from the previous year. The bad news follows losses totaling $7.8 billion in 2007 and 2008."