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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 11:08 am: | 
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EXCLUSIVE DEM LETTER TO BUSH: "WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO REJECT ANY PLANS THAT CALL FOR OUR GETTING OUR TROOPS ANY DEEPER INTO IRAQ"
Dear Mr. President:
The start of the new Congress brings us opportunities to work together on the critical issues confronting our country. No issue is more important than finding an end to the war in Iraq. December was the deadliest month of the war in over two years, pushing U.S. fatality figures over the 3,000 mark.
The American people demonstrated in the November elections that they do not believe your current Iraq policy will lead to success and that we need a change in direction for the sake of our troops and the Iraqi people. We understand that you are completing your post-election consultations on Iraq and are preparing to make a major address on your Iraq strategy to the American people next week.
Clearly this address presents you with another opportunity to make a long overdue course correction. Despite the fact that our troops have been pushed to the breaking point and, in many cases, have already served multiple tours in Iraq, news reports suggest that you believe the solution to the civil war in Iraq is to require additional sacrifices from our troops and are therefore prepared to proceed with a substantial U.S. troop increase.
Surging forces is a strategy that you have already tried and that has already failed. Like many current and former military leaders, we believe that trying again would be a serious mistake. They, like us, believe there is no purely military solution in Iraq. There is only a political solution. Adding more combat troops will only endanger more Americans and stretch our military to the breaking point for no strategic gain. And it would undermine our efforts to get the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. We are well past the point of more troops for Iraq.
In a recent appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General John Abizaid, our top commander for Iraq and the region, said the following when asked about whether he thought more troops would contribute to our chances for success in Iraq:
"I met with every divisional commander, General Casey, the Corps commander, General Dempsey. We all talked together. And I said, in your professional opinion, if we were to bring in more American troops now, does it add considerably to our ability to achieve success in Iraq? And they all said no. And the reason is, because we want the Iraqis to do more. It's easy for the Iraqis to rely upon to us do this work. I believe that more American forces prevent the Iraqis from doing more, from taking more responsibility for their own future. "
Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way forward is to begin t he phased redeployment of our forces in the next four to six months, while shifting the principal mission of our forces there from combat to training, logistics, force protection and counter-terror. A renewed diplomatic strategy, both within the region and beyond, is also required to help the Iraqis agree to a sustainable political settlement. In short, it is time to begin to move our forces out of Iraq and make the Iraqi political leadership aware that our commitment is not open ended, that we cannot resolve their sectarian problems, and that only they can find the political resolution required to stabilize Iraq.
Our troops and the American people have already sacrificed a great deal for the future of Iraq. After nearly four years of combat, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to a close. We, therefore, strongly encourage you to reject any plans that call for our getting our troops any deeper into Iraq. We want to do everything we can to help Iraq succeed in the future but, like many of our senior military leaders, we do not believe that adding more U.S. combat troops contributes to success.
We appreciate you taking these views into consideration.
Sincerely,
Harry Reid Nancy Pelosi
Majority Leader Speaker
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." - Nikos Kazantzakis
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Njaeok
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| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 12:16 pm: |
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"The start of the new Congress brings us opportunities to work together on the critical issues confronting our country". True--
"No issue is more important than finding an end to the war in Iraq. December was the deadliest month of the war in over two years, pushing U.S. fatality figures over the 3,000 mark". True---
Of course she forgot to mention that this is the lowest rate of fatalities we have ever had in any war we have ever fought.
"The American people demonstrated in the November elections that they do not believe your current Iraq policy will lead to success and that we need a change in direction for the sake of our troops and the Iraqi people". Nonsense---
Conservative voters stayed home in droves because a few crooked child molesting Republicans disgusted them leaving the field open for Democrats.
The rest of the open letter is pretty much a rehash of the Liberal's "sweet retreat" rhetoric. I think they are wrong.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 01:41 pm: |
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Did you ever get a chance to watch The Oil Factor, Jimbo? I know it was long and really dragged in places but it sure made it plain that soon, very soon, the whole world is going to be warring over control of the oil left in the middle east. Whoever controls what will be the last of the oil in the world will control the world.
We already have permanent bases in Afghanistan, and surrounding countries, the ones I never can spell properly without looking them up, but you know what I mean, and we're building more now in Iraq plus that monster of an Embassy. Anyway, I'm wondering if you would agree that invading Iraq was part of the plan to control the region and the oil, that WMD, Saddam, were never the issue at all, except that Saddam couldn't be trusted to deal with us exclusively and that the fear of terrorism was just a way to manipulate Americans into supporting the war.
I'd really like to know your opinion. I have some other thoughts but also lots of work to finish before the end of the day.
I don't agree with you that conservatives stayed home from the polls because of child molesting Republicans. But that's another issue for later.
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." - Nikos Kazantzakis
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Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 - 03:43 pm: |
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No Jen. I didn't see the movie. I generaly consider political movies as someone's propaganda.
I have serious doubts about the notion of "peak oil". I don't really know but I wouldn't be too upset if it were true. We have the technology to replace oil as an energy source and if the world ran out of oil there would be a frantic effort to make proper use of that technology. On the other hand I see no sense in fighting over a part of the world that will be the first place to run dry if in fact "running dry" is a real possibility.
I have lived through a dozen or more dire warnings of the end of oil supplies. We have orders of magnitude more known oil reserves today then we did when I was a young adult and we haven't even started deep drilling explorations like the Russians have done to go from an importer to an exporter of oil.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Bubby
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Username: Bubby
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 12:39 pm: |
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Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claim an unidentified
object with five aliens aboard crashed on a sheep and cattle ranch just
outside Roswell, New Mexico.
This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by
the US Air Force and the federal government.
However, you are probably not aware that in the month of March 1948,
exactly nine months after that historic day,
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William Jefferson Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
were born.
That piece of information has now cleared up a lot of things
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 04:02 pm: |
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Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations
Issue 37•26
BATAVIA, IL–President Bush met with members of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory research team Monday to discuss a mathematical error he recently discovered in the famed laboratory's "Improved Determination Of Tau Lepton Paths From Inclusive Semileptonic B-Meson Decays" report.
Bush shows Fermilab scientists where they went wrong in their calculations.
"I'm somewhat out of my depth here," said Bush, a longtime Fermilab follower who describes himself as "something of an armchair physicist." "But it seems to me that, when reducing the perturbative uncertainty in the determination of Vub from semileptonic Beta decays, one must calculate the rate of Beta events with a standard dilepton invariant mass at a subleading order in the hybrid expansion. The Fermilab folks' error, as I see it, was omitting that easily overlooked mathematical transformation and, therefore, acquiring incorrectly re-summed logarithmic corrections for the b-quark mass. Obviously, such a miscalculation will result in a precision of less than 25 percent in predicting the resulting path of the tau lepton once the value for any given decaying tau neutrino is determined."
The Bush correction makes it possible for scientists to further study the tau lepton, a subatomic particle formed by the collision of a tau neutrino and an atomic nucleus.
Bush resisted criticizing the Fermilab scientists responsible for the error, saying it was "actually quite small" and that "anyone could have made the mistake."
"High-energy physics is a complex and demanding field, and even top scientists drop a decimal point or two every now and then," Bush said. "Also, I might hasten to add that what I pointed out was more a correction of method than of mathematics. Experimental results on the Tevatron accelerator would have exposed the error in time, anyway."
Fermilab director Michael Witherell said the president was being too modest "by an order of magnitude."
"In addition to gently reminding us that even the best minds in the country are occasionally fallible, President Bush has saved his nation a few million dollars," Witherell said. "We would have made four or five runs on the particle accelerator with faulty data before figuring out what was wrong. But, thanks to Mr. Bush, we're back on track."
"It's true, I dabbled in the higher maths during my Yale days," said Bush, who spent three semesters as an assistant to Drs. Kasha and Slaughter at Yale's renowned Sloane High-Energy Physics Lab. "But I didn't have the true gift for what Gauss called 'the musical language in which is spoken the very universe.' If I have any gift at all, it's my instinct for process and order."
Continued Bush: "As much as I enjoyed studying physics at Yale, by my junior year it became apparent that I could far better serve humanity through a career in statecraft."
While he says he is "flattered and honored" by the tau-neutrino research team's request that he review all subsequent Fermilab publications on lepton-path determination, Bush graciously declined the "signal honor."
"This sort of thing is best left to the likes of [Thomas] Becher and [Matthias] Neubert, not a dilettante such as myself," Bush said. "I just happened to have some time on the plane coming back from the European G8 summit, decided to catch up on some reading, and spotted one rather small logarithmic branching-ratio misstep in an otherwise flawless piece of scientific scholarship. Anyone could have done the same."
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Hey, Bubby, what did Hillary give Bill for his 60th birthday?
A humidor.
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." - Nikos Kazantzakis
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Bubby
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Username: Bubby
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 04:39 pm: |
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"Improved Determination Of Tau Lepton Paths From Inclusive Semileptonic B-Meson Decays" .This is the Beta version ,Jenn.Bill Gates has the real formula for this determination.It will be released this summer.Everyone knows that the Tevatron accelerator increase's the speed of your operating system...
and will also spit in your humidor.. |
Bubby
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Username: Bubby
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 05:33 pm: |
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There will be no messing around in my kitchen!!!
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Bubby
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Username: Bubby
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 05:45 pm: |
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HER Kitchen?
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Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 05:46 pm: |
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I can guareentold you anyone coming near my operating system with a Tevatron accelerator is gonna get his Semileptonic B-Meson Decay shoved up his Tau Lepton Path.
I thoughly enjoy the perturbative uncertainty in my VUB and there ain't nobody gonna mess with it.
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Bubby
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Username: Bubby
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 07:02 pm: |
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Sure,you say that now,Jimbo,but wait until the real Mccoy hits the market.You will be able to hijack an airliner and have it fly to Tehran and drop cow manure in designated locations...all from your computer.... |
Njaeok
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Username: Njaeok
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 07:11 pm: |
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Computer?? Ohhhh!
Born with the gift of laughter, aware that the world is mad. -- Jimbo
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Morning_song
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Username: Morning_song
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 07:26 pm: |
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The Fermilab folks' error, as I see it, was omitting that easily overlooked mathematical transformation and, therefore, acquiring incorrectly re-summed logarithmic corrections for the b-quark mass.
WHO KNEW?????
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Jennifer03801
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Username: Jennifer03801
| | Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 - 11:33 am: |
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This week, the DNC's Podcast hosted activist and military mom Nita Martin. Martin, the mother of two Marines who have served multiple tours in Iraq, highlighted the strains that the president's failed Iraq policy has placed on our already thinly stretched military and their families.
"Because I'm the mother of a marine in Iraq and another marine, I know what the reality is. And I watch things very carefully to see what's going on in terms of troop call ups. Just like there's nothing new in this 'new strategy,' these are not new troops that we're talking about. This is primarily a shell game where deployments are being extended and tours are being moved up and the Pentagon just announced that it has changed the rules for National Guard reserve deployments so that these groups can be deployed more often and for longer periods of time," said Martin.
Martin also blasted the Bush Administration over recent news reports that the additional troops will be sent to Iraq without better body armor now available.
"One would think that the greatest world power would be able to equip its Army. But what's happened is because there was no strategy and no after strategy in Iraq, it has become a graveyard for equipment. Any equipment we had when people come back from deployment is left there, and they don't have the equipment to redeploy properly. The idea was that, theoretically, they wouldn't need it. But they do...the idea that we can do all of these other things, and we've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this war, and we're asking people to go over there and fight without the proper equipment to protect their lives I think is just criminal," said Martin.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi
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