tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83297912124002447232012-10-01T11:41:37.199-04:00Brooding CynyxDiverse, disparate voices offering unique, insightful, provocative cultural, political and social commentary, observation and opinion.
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Read, think, laugh...enjoy.Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-19543618347760066982012-09-29T18:10:00.000-04:002012-09-30T12:40:54.792-04:002012-09-30T12:40:54.792-04:00JUST ANOTHER INSULT TO INJURY<!--[if !mso]>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">CONGRESS
SEEKS TO RAID ZADROGA ACT FUNDS</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">HYPOCRISY
TRUMPS PRIORITIES</span></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Detective
James Zadroga</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The Face of
the Bill that bears his name and</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Congress is
determined to raid.</span></b></div>
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(September 29, 2012 – New
York, NY) The commitment and focus was remarkably short lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It did not take long before the federal,
state and city governments all resorted to their typical methods of conducting
business or, more accurately, not conducting business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only people who never lost focus,
commitment, determination and integrity were those who labored day in and day
out, month after month, engaged in what for many had become a sacred
obligation, a personal duty to be fulfilled.</div>
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The earliest of the missteps
and errors in judgment could reasonably be attributed to the unprecedented
nature of the challenges never before imagined let alone anticipated or planned
for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took several days after September
11th just to impose some logic and order to what were understandably frantic if
not obsessive efforts of the Members Of Service (MOS) of FDNY and NYPD scouring the
alien landscape searching for survivors, praying for signs of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The maddeningly insistent bleating’s of
hundreds of missing Fire Fighter location beacons from within the 16 acres of
heaping wreckage became as so many monotonal disjointed voices pleading for
salvation from within The Pile almost as a demonically twisted and bound to be
futile game of hide and seek.</div>
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Once the realization that the
continuing efforts would not be of a “rescue” nature but cruelly would now be a
long, tedious often surreal “recovery” process, more order and structure brought
a more methodical, systematic discipline to the efforts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engineers, iron workers and small army of
excavation, demolition, and debris removal contractors toiled in conjunction
with those obligated to the recovery of human remains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pile became a 16 acre gridded crime scene
where hand held GPS devices were as important as picks, shovels and buckets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat was intense as the towering wreckage
smoldered and the ground itself cooked from unseen subterranean fires that
would burn for months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heat, dust
and unmistakable scent of death and decay cast a hellish pall to the grisly tasks
at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The atmosphere itself became an
intrusive unneeded reminder of the primary purpose of those who carry that
stench with them to this day and far too many who actually carry microscopic
particulate matter in their lungs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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This is not about politics or money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has nothing to do with special interests,
activists or some disgruntled group with an axe to grind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is about hypocrisy and politicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is about morality, responsibility and
priorities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is about simply doing the
right thing and that appears to be an enormous challenge in today’s world, in
the political and cultural climate of expediency, short memories, and
sickeningly miscalculated priorities.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>SEPTEMBER 12, 2001 ONWARD</u></b></div>
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There have been mistakes and
missteps all along the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have
been competing moneyed power brokers at odds with the City and State, and the
Port Authority has shown, how far they have fallen since the tenure of Austin
Tobin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There has been one miscalculation
after another, one insensitive tone-deaf decision by one agency or another for
over a decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these mistakes
were, in the bigger scheme of issues, relatively trivial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there have been enough obstacles and
complications resulting from the inability of any agency involved to think
through a decision factoring all the myriad variables, and arrive at a position
from which action could be implemented with some sense of purpose if not
urgency to fill a small library.</div>
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The litany of insensitive
mishandled errors from the last decade have each individually strained the
credibility of the powers that be at best; exposed their callous disregard and
failure to do the people’s business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is in our democracy, no matter how tattered and flimsy it has
become, a set of social contracts that add cohesiveness to our increasingly
complex society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly there are
long standing covenants between The City of New York, our citizenry and those
who serve it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it should not be
surprising, although it has been, to witness the breakdown of one of the
covenants that has allowed the men and women who serve our City a certain sense
of security in that the City would, when push came to shove, have our backs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those days and those in City Hall and Albany
who had the character to honor that commitment have gone the way of the
cobble-stoned streets and the subway token.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
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There is more than enough
blame to go around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From day one, that
infamous Tuesday morning in September 2001, the harbingers of the abandonment
to come where floating across the smoldering sixteen acres that had been the
World Trade Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most obvious
failure was that our vast mufti-billion dollar budgeted National Security and
Intelligence apparatus left us vulnerable in a way we could never have
imagined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is another story.</div>
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As the sun set casting long
oddly shaped shadows on the gruesome wreckage, the hellish tomb of what was
arguably inappropriately designated “Ground Zero” (“The Pile” is more fitting),
the Federal EPA confidentially claimed that there was no inherent hazard or
undo respiratory risk associated with the environs of The Pile and the adjacent neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From that point on we have observed miserably bungled episodes regarding
the handling and processing of human remains, bitter arguments about what would
become of The Pile or, The "Site"; what would be an appropriate memorial, would a museum of
some sort be fitting and other questions that needed to be considered and
answered in a timely respectful manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yet, all these mistakes pale in comparison to what has become of the
lives of those who survived the carnage, those who worked the rescue/recovery
efforts for months, as well as the residents who live in the surrounding
neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conflicting and
contentious reports began to surface from physicians treating people who had
been exposed to the dust and debris emanating from The Site. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As the medical evidence
mounted and more and more people were falling victim to a wide and often
uncommon variety of malignant diseases the government on the federal, state and
city level began a campaign of denial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rather than accept the increasing concerns of the medical community
treating these men and women they chose to be stubbornly obstinate and ignore
the reality that was emerging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the
deaths began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Police Officers, Fire
Fighters, Steel Workers, civilian survivors, and area residents were succumbing
to aggressive cancers, typical and atypical, at an alarming rate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The valuable time wasted in the process of ignorant, belligerent denial
cost lives and that is a fact. </div>
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By 2006 there was a name and a
face, a real life story representative of the plight of so many. James Zadroga
(1971 – January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer
who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation
in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center
following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose
death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the
attack site.</div>
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Zadroga had joined the New
York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was
a healthy non-smoker and had no known history of asthma or other respiratory
conditions before spending 450 hours participating in the recovery efforts at
the 9/11 attack site.[2] Weeks after his time at the World Trade Center site,
Zadroga developed a persistent cough, and, as the months progressed, he
developed shortness of breath and became unable to walk distances more than 100
feet without gasping for air.*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then-Governor
of New York George Pataki signed legislation on August 14, 2006, to expand
death benefits to Ground Zero workers who die from cancer or respiratory
diseases, under the presumption that the cause was due to exposure during
recovery efforts. Pataki mentioned Zadroga at the bill-signing ceremony, held
at the World Trade Center site.**</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>THE FIGHT CONTINUES</u></b></div>
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Despite the federal legislation bearing Detective Zadroga’s name, the implementation, financing and allocation of the
funds have become mired in the sordid legislative process of our inept,
self-serving Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is just the
latest insult to the years of injury, a twisted heaping of Congressional salt
in far too many wounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, perhaps
that is just a broader statement on the state of our government and the quality
of scumbags who occupy elected office.</div>
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No one is asking for something
they are not entitled to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No individual
or group takes any pleasure in the fights that have occupied an unacceptable
amount of their time, strength and spirit over these last eleven years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of them have been more preoccupied with
their health, with their own mortality, the survival of their families once
they are gone and this harsh set of realities infuses the fights and machinations
of the last decade with a streak of cruelty that has no doubt hastened more
than one death and caused incalculable anguish, anger, frustration and insult
to many hundreds of families.</div>
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The New York City Police Department
(NYPD) and The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) have and always
will take care of our own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each,
respectively, the largest agency of its kind in the world stands as models for
similar agencies throughout the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each is well steeped in history and tradition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each has a proud and noble heritage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FDNY and NYPD have always been extended
families that once sworn in you are never not a part of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been this way for generations and will
continue to be so even as both agencies see ever more diversity in their membership.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Members of each Service live by sets of rules
of conduct, live by codes both written and unwritten each of equal potency and obligation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could not be any other way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What the fine men and women of these two
premier agencies do in the most complex urban environment packed into a mere
310 square miles requires a commitment to cause and to each other that create
bonds and loyalty that may be difficult for the outsider to fully
appreciate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Every man and woman who has
ever served the City as an MOS of FDNY or NYPD accepted privately the risks
involved with their specific jobs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those
occupations are rarely sought by people who are naïve about the realities of
what it means to be a Fire Fighter or Police Officer in The City of New York. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is not an MOS from either agency that
has left the Job completely unscathed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some bear more serious physical scars and disabilities than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some have some war stories to tell and can
count the number of stiches, broken bones, and burns incurred over their
careers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some, arguably all, carry with
them the sights, sounds, smells and memories of all they had witnessed, of all
the years of seeing people at their worst, in their most dire straits, in their
most profound anger, grief, and frustration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The innocents, the babies crying in the apartment next door, the little
girl cradled in the arms of a Fire Fighter clutching a filthy baldheaded doll as her building blazes behind her, the mother of
the 16 year old thug who crossed a more belligerent and better armed 15 year
old, her grief as profound as any parent's. Those are just some of the take a ways from the Job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This aspect of that social contract is largely unknown and certainly unappreciated by the public, that covenant
entered into voluntarily yet never fully exited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now the Congress is intent on “borrowing”
from the Zardoga funds to make payments on the national debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How convenient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How insulting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just the latest episode of disrespect for
those who sacrificed without question or hesitation.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">** Excerpt from Wikipedia</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>To all who served, to all those we lost, we will never forget</b></i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>and</b></i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>your service and sacrifices to The people of The City of New York</b></i></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>will always be remembered, respected, and honored.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>5-5-5-5 10-13 </b></i></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #002060;">TAGS: ZADROGA BILL, WORLD TRADE CENTER RECOVERY,
FDNY, NYPD, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, PORT AUTHORITY NY/NJ, </span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120919/financial-district/911-health-compensation-act-facing-nearly-40-million-federal-cuts">http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120919/financial-district/911-health-compensation-act-facing-nearly-40-million-federal-cuts</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/Politicians-Swear-to-Neve-by-Washington-s-Blog-120919-302.html">http://www.opednews.com/articles/Politicians-Swear-to-Neve-by-Washington-s-Blog-120919-302.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/deficit-911-congress-sequester_n_1891792.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/deficit-911-congress-sequester_n_1891792.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/us/september-11-zadroga-act/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/10/us/september-11-zadroga-act/index.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/zadroga-bill-september-11_n_1874638.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/zadroga-bill-september-11_n_1874638.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/ground-81660-died-attacks.html">http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/ground-81660-died-attacks.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>IRANIAN,
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Bibi
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>as the
United Nations General Assembly concluded today.</b></span></div>
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(Sept.28, 2012 NY, NY: AP,
UPI, SOB, BLT, TKO, DOA, CNN, SRO, NY1, MTV, FTS)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In what could have sparked a major
international crisis with dire repercussion, the ready forces of NYPD were on
hand to intervene in what could have been the catalyst for a wide spread war in
the already volatile Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to one UN security official who needs to remain anonymous for
fear of losing his job, as members of the Iranian and Israeli delegations were
departing from the UN, they crossed paths at the First Avenue carport and
exchanged words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quickly the situation
escalated and if not for the rapid response of NYPD Officers from the UN
detail, Intelligence Unit and the Emergency Services Unit, the confrontation
could have become a physical altercation the echoes of which could have ignited
conflagration between the two hostile nations.</div>
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The ground for this hostility
had been set on Thursday when Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu berated the
General Assembly for their “failure” to act with urgency to derail Iran’s
“nuclear ambitions”. Shortly after Bibi Netanyahu challenged the G.A. to
initiate tougher sanctions on Iran, the Israeli Ambassador for Rhythm and
Blues, BB King, appealed to the gathered delegates by way of singing a
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the delegates appeared a
bit confused as to why BB King was representing Bibi Netanyahu and the state of
Israel since BB King is an African American without any Jewish ancestry. Apparently BB King took the Israeli job after Barbra Streisand turned it down. Sources say that Ms. Streisand was looking for a "higher level" position in the Israeli government but does serve as an "unofficial adviser" to BB to help him become informed about Israeli politics and Jewish issues.</div>
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Speaking for the Israeli’s,
Spokesman Ezekiel Moshe Platz noted, “BB speaks for and stands with Bibi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If some of our enemies have a problem with
that, all I can say is that the Blues is a universal language apparently not
understood by radical Islamists.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Platz
continued, “If any people on the face of the earth know the Blues and can
relate to the Blues, it is surely us Jews.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a terse response the Communications Director of the Iranian
delegation, Shali Wali Bingbang commented, “We too know the Blues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have known the Blues since the infidels
corrupted the Muslim world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would
have issued a fatwa on Elvis Presley but the Shah was still in charge of our
nation before Elvis died.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delegate
Bingbang later commented while appearing on the FOX-News program, The O’Reilly
Factor, saying, “We have lost all respect for Bibi and BB.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will not even permit BB guns in our
country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We are officially banning all BB King music, CD's or other forms of media. We might ban all R&B music but we must first consult with the Ayatollah who is partial to Celine Dion and Ethel Merman. </span>And, let me be clear, we will defend ourselves
against any Israeli aggression with the greatest amount of military force we
can muster.”</div>
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According to NYPD Deputy
Commissioner Paul Brown it was a “logistical error” that the Iranians and
Israelis met at the carport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We had, as
always, planned every aspect of the general assembly down to the last
detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had factored in all matters
of diplomatic protocol, political correctness and safety for the delegations,
the public and the press.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What appears
to have happened is that one of the UN security officers assigned to monitor
the order in which the delegates left the UN building abandoned his post to
purchase a gyro, a bottle of Snapple, a pack of Zig Zag Rolling papers, and a lottery ticket across the
street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently his conduct is under
investigation and he is being held on Riker’s Island awaiting transport to
Guantanamo Base, Cuba.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are confident
we will get to the bottom of this, one way or the other.”</div>
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New York City Mayor, Michael
Bloomburg, himself a semi-observant Jew, spoke to the press from Katz’ s
Deli.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mayor said, “We take very
seriously our duty to protect the world leaders who come to our City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are acutely aware of the threats, risks
and complexity of having the leaders of 192 sovereign nations assembled here at
the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I work closely with NYPD
Commissioner Ray Kelly to assure that every contingency has been anticipated,
that all our resources are deployed accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just thankful that Barbra Streisand did
not insist in singing with BB King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
could have been far worse than it was.” </div>
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NYPD Deputy Commissioner and
Commander of the highly regarded Intelligence Unit, David Cohen, a former CIA official, spoke to the press while the
Mayor finished off his borscht and pastrami, adding, “Frankly, one of my
biggest concerns was the safety of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We knew his presence here in New York City
would, as always, present formidable security challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We assigned him the code name “Aqua Velva” so
as not to have our personnel waste time trying to say his name correctly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, as I monitored events from One Police Plaza
and heard Officers on the scene reporting that ‘Bibi and BB were about to run
into Aqua Velva’ I knew I had to send the orders to my people in the field to
do whatever was necessary to avoid what could have been a stinky collision.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cohen continued, “I am very proud of the
quick and poised reaction of the members of NYPD at the UN and actually quite
disappointed that Ms. Streisand could not attend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has always been a favorite of mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also like Mel Torme and Tony Bennett but
they were never in the mix to begin with.”</div>
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As the dramatic and tense
altercation played out at the UN carport, many pedestrians passing by took out
their cell phones and other devices to capture the unfolding drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within minutes videos were posted to YouTube,
Facebook and other social media sites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One passerby, Hector Labia, an unemployed pest control technician from
the Bronx, was able to record the entire scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Labia later told Pablo Guzman of WPIX News, “ Ehhh, I’m goin’ downtown
to see this beach…ehhh this lady fren of mines and I walkin by the UN and see
this old black dude with a guitar gonna smack this odda little dude in de head.
So, I stop and take out my Android and start to record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Den, I realize the little dude is tha guy
from Iran, ehhh…I think hees name is Imadinnerjacket..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knows this stuff because I watch Telemundo.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhoze, I know it is heem because he
look like a guy I know, Skunky, from Sedgwick Avenue who is doin’ 7 to 15 for
armed robbery or sum sheet.” (Commissioner Kelly later informed the press that
Mr. Labia was being held on several outstanding warrants and may be sent to
Gitmo just for the hell of it).</div>
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After those few tense moments
all members of both the Iranian and Israeli delegations departed safely from
the UN premises.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bibi Netanyahu was
later to appear as the keynote speaker at the annual conference of the
political action committee, Jewish Americans For Justice And Peace (JAFJAP) at
the famed Borscht Belt resort Grossinger’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prior to delivering his speech to the 1300 member audience, he commented
on the events earlier in the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
have nothing but the highest respect for the NYPD, the UN Officers, as well the US
State Department Security Service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
I always travel a several members of the Mossad who act as our personal body
guards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are very well trained in
all the black arts and would do well in the world of the MMA. We have invited WFC
president Dana White to come to Israel several times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that is beside the point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I admit that I was troubled that we had to
encounter the vile, evil Iranians who are intent to wipe the state of Israel
off the map but, I was proud when BB King started swinging his guitar at Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BB would be a good
Jew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just wish he could play chords.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Netanyahu continued, “I am here now at
Grossinger’s to speak to the loyal members of JAFJAP because JAFJAP has always
been A-Okay with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews of JAFJAP
are all good Jews; they are Jew’s Jews who respond ASAP anytime we need their
support.”</div>
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At the same time many miles from the Catskills, BB King was
partying in the famous Greenwich Village establishment, The Blue Note.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he sipped on a glass of straight gin he
seemed to be somewhat amused by the afternoon’s happenings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Hell, I had a blast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put on a good show, met some real nice
fellas from all over the world and almost had a crack at that crazy guy from
Idaho…Iowa…I mean Iran, yeah, Iran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hell,
I almost ran my Fender right into his head!”</div>
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Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad spent the rest of the night in his hotel suite playing Grand Theft
Auto on an X-Box, eating food from McDonalds, and enjoying the company of
several highly regarded, alluring employees from Ahmed’s Escort Service in
Jackson Heights Queens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several other
members of his contingent were seen shopping at the Odd Lots Discount Store on
Malcolm X Boulevard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iranian delegations
spokesman Shali Wali Bingbang spoke to reporters as he perused the Health and Beauty
Aids aisles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bingbang seemed in a good
mood despite the tension of the afternoon. “I love this about America!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at all these choices! There must be 30
different toothpastes, 20 deodorants, many, many bath soaps and oh, so many
laxatives, stool softeners, and gas medications!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must
stock up and bring these treasures home to my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will purchase a large supply of Beano since
my Mother-in-Law will be visiting next week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She does not tolerate hummus and lamb like she once did and tends to eat
too many dates when she stays with us.”</div>
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Other members who accompanied Bingbang
on his bargain shopping spree were seen purchasing underwear, socks, condoms,
over the counter pain medications, light bulbs, Saran Wrap, AAA batteries, Silly Putty, Preparation-H as well as a bizarre assortment of canned goods such as Vienna Sausage, Corn Beef Hash, Pork and Beans, Chili con Carne, sardines (in oil), tuna, Spaghetti-O's, chipped beef, creamed corn, Brussels Sprouts, and Spam. Cashier LaShawanda Monique Phipps-Ellis Green reported that the Iranians also, ""purchased all kinds of shit. They bought alot of Lysol, aluminum foil, Skittles, Draino, baby wipes, and them sneakers with the velcro ties.They justa weird bunch of motherfuckas and one of them tried to grab my ass. I smacked him upside his Iranian head but, I really couldn't blame him cause I do have one super fine thick booty."</div>
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There was yet another small
segment of the Iranian delegation shopping in others stores in Midtown. Plain cloths
Officers from the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Units assigned to follow
this group of bargain hunters reported some of the items these men
purchased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One NYPD Detective speaking
not for attribution commented, “The three Iranian individuals my partner and I
were assigned to monitor spent many hours in the usual tourists’ shops from 38<sup>th</sup>
Street and Sixth Avenue up to the side streets between 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup>
Avenues south of 42<sup>nd</sup> Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They bought a number of NY Yankee caps, hip-hop CD’s, iPods, postcards,
pornographic DVD’s and, oddly enough, a lot of FDNY Tee shirts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one point they entered the Blarney Stone
on 6<sup>th</sup> Avenue and drank a fair amount of beer and cheap scotch, ate
corned beef sandwiches and, according to the manager, Eamonn O’Halloran,
stiffed the bartender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They didn’t
leave him a foockin’ dime as a tip the dirty bastards”, said a semi-intoxicated
O’Halloran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“For fucks sake, even the Koreans
leave a tip”, O’Halloran noted as he went off to break up a fight between a
groups of tourists from Manure Springs, Iowa and 3 NYC Sanitation Department
workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The surviving Iowans were later airlifted to a hospital somewhere in the swamps of Jersey and remain in critical condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #17375e;">Tags: Political Satire, Parody, Political Humor, United Nations
General Assembly, Bibi Netanyahu, BB King, NYPD, mayor Bloomberg, Grossinger’s,
Odd Lots, Nuclear Iran, JAFJAP, You Gotta Laugh</span></u></b></span></div>
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(Sept. 16, 2012 – New York,
NY)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all the complexities, nuances,
facts and fictions that have defined United States foreign affairs, foreign
policy and all our geopolitical relations since the end of World War II, the
most enduring fallacy is that the nation of Israel is our closest “friend” and
“ally” in the Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That this
belief is accepted by so many today is a testament to the herculean efforts by
decades of American and Israeli leaders, politicians, and special interests to
perpetuate what is in harsh reality a myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The truth is that the relationship between our two countries is the most
one-sided of the many that America is engaged in around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time and time again, in well-known episodes
and deeply held secretive operations, Israel has clearly proven she is neither
friend nor ally, not an equal partner with America but rather a parasitic,
duplicitous entity that has used the United States in selfish, self-serving
ways since its very creation in 1949.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Self-righteously standing behind the dark horror of the Holocaust,
Israel has operated under the misguided premise that the atrocities of Nazi
Germany somehow imbue them with a special, if not sacred place in the community
of nations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is simply not the
case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As tragic and inhumane as the
Holocaust was when it was perpetrated in the late 1930’s until the American led
Allied victory over Germany and the Axis in 1945, it no longer has any
relevance to the realities of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
seemingly intractable issues that keep the Israel, her neighbors and the entire
Middle East mired in perpetual conflict and turmoil.</div>
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The latest demonstration of
Israel’s belligerent, petulant insistence that America stand with her no matter
what the cause or ramifications is heard in the bellicose blustering Israel’s
current Prime Minister, a hard line militant conservative of the Likud Party,
Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bibi declares
with a rabid certainty that the impending realization of “Iran’s nuclear
capability” has his nation, today or tomorrow, “facing annihilation”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press earlier
today he assured the viewing audience that Iran is “within six months of having
a 90% capability to make an atomic bomb”;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>an eerily reminiscent statement much like George W. and his crew’s
assertion about the existence of WMD in Iraq. We watched the tragic
consequences of those lies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Netanyahu
bloviates and barks about drawing “red lines” with Iran and that they are
already in the “red zone and we cannot allow them to make a touchdown”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, if that is in fact the case, do what
you must Bibi, to eliminate the “existential threat” you must feel Iran
poses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, you should be well advised
and consider that if you are wrong, if your own fanaticism and extremism is
driving your policy and you are trying to somehow force President Obama’s hand,
you will not succeed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For the first time in recent
memory or at least since the days of the George H.W. Bush Administration, we
have an American president with the resolve to stand up to a bullying Israeli
Prime Minister and not be conned into making statements and commitments that
indicate to the world that Israel can do whatever she pleases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a time of real overt hostility and
violence towards the United States in the Middle East as demonstrated by the
attacks on our Embassies in Libya and Egypt that took four American lives,
President Obama is putting some much needed distance between the Jewish State
and the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this is how
it should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not
“anti-Semitic”; no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is good, sound policy
that places our interests ahead of the parasitic Israel that has for far too
long depended on us for support if not protection.</div>
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The fundamental argument for
our unimpeachable support of Israel has always been that she is the “only
bastion of democracy” in a hostile region surrounded by neighbors committed to
her destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel is no more a
democracy than was South Africa during the brutal Apartheid era.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democratic nations do not oppress a
substantial segment of their population as Israel continues to do to the
Palestinians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democracies do not commit
human rights violations on an epic scale nor do they consistently ignore dozens
of United Nations Security Council resolutions with galling impunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For decades the only “ally” Israel has had in
the United Nations has been the United States who has always vetoed pro-Palestinian
resolutions as well as any international efforts aimed to stop Israel’s
unchecked abuse of millions of her non-Jewish citizens.</div>
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Israel, thanks to arms of
every type supplied by the United States, has a very powerful military
apparatus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Palestinians forced to
live in small segregated noncontiguous portions of Israel have no military, no weaponry
that comes close to that of Israel’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
the Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza Strip manage to lob a rocket or grenade
over one of the towering walls that confine them, Israel responds with a level
of disproportional military might that results in the murders of unknown
innocents as well as the destruction of entire neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some Palestinian kids throw rocks at the
Israeli troops who control every aspect of their lives and Israel with drop a
bomb on the neighborhood those kids lived in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The criminal asymmetry of this on-going conflict defies international
law and clearly demonstrates Israel’s disdain for the morals and ethics that
define democratic society.</div>
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Inextricably linked to the
litany of lies sold to the American people regarding the imperative that we
stand ‘shoulder to shoulder” with Israel are a host of hypocrisies and
disingenuous pseudo-explanations for the crimes Israel has perpetrated on the
United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel is a nuclear power
(yet refuses to admit it) due largely to the theft of our nuclear secrets and
the cooperation of a cadre of Zionist scientists who labored on the Manhattan
project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel has and continues to
conduct active espionage operations on our soil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have never fully apologized for the
attack of the USS Liberty and they continue to try to barter for the release of
Jonathon Pollard, a convicted spy responsible for providing Israel with some
our most valuable technical data about our intelligence satellites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Israel has so coopted many of
our politicians that they are confident that the United States will continue to
do its bidding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel has no friends;
they use the United States under the flimsy guise of ‘friendship”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we won’t be fooled again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must not allow Netanyahu to influence the
presidential race between President Obama and his pandering opponent, Mitt
Romney who looks out at the Middle East from within the hip pocket of his old
Boston buddy Bibi.</div>
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Israel is a sovereign nation free
to act in her own security concerns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Netanyahu’s
paranoia compels him to launch preemptive strikes against the alleged nuclear
facilities of Iran, that is his business and he must deal with all the
complications and ramifications of thrusting the entire Middle East into lethal
turmoil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><u><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TAGS:
Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Iran, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Middle
East Policy, National Security</span></b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Presidential
Politics,</span></b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Israeli
Interference</span></b></u></span><span style="color: #1f497d; mso-themecolor: text2;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">UPDATED LINKS:</span></b></u></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/benjamin-netanyahu-iran-nuclear-weapons-containment_n_1887155.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/15/benjamin-netanyahu-iran-nuclear-weapons-containment_n_1887155.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/world/middleeast/netanyahu-says-iran-is-20-yards-from-nuclear-bomb.html?_r=1&hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/world/middleeast/netanyahu-says-iran-is-20-yards-from-nuclear-bomb.html?_r=1&hp</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/israeli-fallout/">http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/israeli-fallout/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/under-obama-or-romney-us-mideast-policy-wont-change/2012/09/14/5acaa358-fdd0-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html?hpid=z2">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/under-obama-or-romney-us-mideast-policy-wont-change/2012/09/14/5acaa358-fdd0-11e1-a31e-804fccb658f9_story.html?hpid=z2</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19565910">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19565910</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/Home.aspx">http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/Home.aspx</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/might-as-well-make-israel-st-state/article_ce1ba7c3-e79b-5457-acc8-579a63e92f25.html">http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/letters/might-as-well-make-israel-st-state/article_ce1ba7c3-e79b-5457-acc8-579a63e92f25.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/has_bibi_lost_it/">http://www.salon.com/2012/09/18/has_bibi_lost_it/</a></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">BRONX BODEGA
SHOOTING LATEST FUEL FOR CRITICS FIRE</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">NYPD
Officers on Franklin Avenue in The Bronx after shooting during armed robbery</span></b></div>
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(Sept. 7, 2012, The Bronx,
NYC)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s as sad as it is sickening and,
for the men and women of the NYPD it is disheartening, insulting, offensive and
overtly wrought with bias.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Another tragic episode
transpired here in the small hours of this morning when a 20 year old bodega
employee was fatally shot by an Officer responding to the call of an “armed
robbery in progress”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A grainy surveillance
video captures the defining moment when the fleeing bodega worker, Reynaldo
Cuevas, ran from the store behind his uncle who owns the Aneurys Deli on
Franklin Avenue at East 169th Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
Cuevas quickly exited the store, he collided, head first into an Officer who
had drawn his service weapon shortly after arriving on the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Presently the shooting is being designated as
an “accidental discharge” by NYPD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Police Commissioner Ray Kelly commented, “The tragedy here, of course,
is that Mr. Cuevas was shot, but I see nothing wrong with the procedure.”</div>
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The fact of the matter is that
there was nothing wrong with the procedure, nothing at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the first four responding Officers
peered into the bodega window and observed a man pointing a gun at two other
men on the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly this was an
armed robbery in progress, a potential hostage situation and a volatile
scenario that could have resulting in others present being injured or
killed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No excuses or explanations
negate the tragic loss of an innocent young man’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That goes without saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, the torrent of vicious, vile and
venomous criticism being leveled at the Officers involved and the entire NYPD
speaks volumes about the knee jerk reaction, rush to judgment large segments of
New Yorker’s make whenever there is what they perceive as a “controversial”
shooting by a member of NYPD.</div>
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This is just the latest
episode in what has been a long hot bloody summer in our City with a disturbing
increase in gun violence throughout the Boroughs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This too is the most recent opportunity for
all the critics and activists, pundits, “community leaders” (whatever the hell
that means), race-baiting bigots who stand ever at the ready to pounce on
NYPD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just two weeks ago a disgruntled
fired employee of a Midtown accessory company gunned down his former boss on 33<sup>rd</sup>
Street and he himself was shot and killed in front of the Empire State
Building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hue and cry was initially
the predictably ignorant rhetoric accusing the Officers involved of “excessive
force” and as being “trigger happy”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was just not the case once numerous
video clips that captured the dramatic scene were made public.</div>
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(Just for the record and the
sake of truth and clarity, one would be hard pressed to identify any current of
former member of NYPD who would honestly say they are or were ever “trigger
happy”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typically, an Officer involved
in a shooting incident especially when that Officer’s actions result in a death
is forever a changed soul and will replay the memories of that event over and
over for the rest of their lives.)</div>
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If anything, given the myriad challenges of
policing an urban environment as diverse, disparate, congested, crowded and
often hostile in certain Precincts, as is New York City, NYPD should be
commended and appreciated for their collective restraint and individual
professionalism by all the millions who live, work or visit here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, that is not the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>THE OTHER SIDE</u></b></div>
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There are two sides to every controversial
issue, two perspectives in every civilian encounter with a Police Officer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two usually divergent perceptions
of every sudden Police action as has been proven time and again by the various,
often conflicting accounts provided by “eye witnesses”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly in some of our most troubled
neighborhoods, in the roughest sectors, the darkest streets, the almost alien
and hostile landscape that emerges on these blocks in the small hours of the
morning when the pulse of the rest of the City is quietly beating at a restful
pace, the residents are more prone to see what they want to see, to call
virtually any Police action “excessive”, and haul out the old worn ugly charges
of a Police force out of control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But it is not that way.</div>
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Decisions are made in a
fraction of a fraction of a second; a nanosecond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adrenaline, excitement, the sense of duty,
danger and one’s own morality and mortality collide and repel against each other within the
minute confines of a synapse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Training,
experience and reflex interact on a sub or even unconscious level and it is
there that choices are determined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The confrontation
becomes all consuming; the desire to “do the right thing” somehow remains
tantamount amid the confusion of the chase.</div>
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Armed or unarmed, who is it
that I chase, I confront, is running into me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What danger does he pose to the innocent bystander, my partners and me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The heartbeat escalates more than the
physical exertion warrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
appears in the crystal clarity of slow motion yet the reality of the moment
allows for no “replay.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will see my wife or husband and children again,
I will do the best I can but; why won’t he stop, why does he keep coming?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The throat burns from the rapid breath and frantic,
emphatic yelling yet, the perp keeps running at a pace that appears otherworldly,
still fights savagely or simply, inexplicably refuses a direct order from a
Cop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this in the blink of an eye, in
that one single heartbeat, lives can change forever or end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only those who’ve lived through such a lethal
synapse know its depth, its heat and its longevity.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>THE USUAL</u></b></div>
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The Crime Scene Unit had not
yet completed their grim tasks before this particular event was being labeled a
“scandal”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve come to expect it if
not accept it.</div>
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What is truly scandalous is
the attitudes and opinions of our teeming City when it comes to the performance
of their Police Department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The public
wants to feel “safe” yet is willing, sometimes eager, to render harsh,
misinformed judgments on those they count on to keep them safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The irony is stupendous, the hypocrisy used
to be just puzzling; now it is just a sorry fact of life.</div>
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The public can wonder where
the “us against them” attitude they assign to NYPD comes from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can speculate on its origins and
ramifications when, in actuality, it is in large part the direct result of an
organization of hard working men and women grown weary of the criticism, the
lack of respect – not appreciation – that would be far too much to ask
for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The lack of respect is what cuts
the deepest.</div>
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The population of this City
dials 911 over 40,000 times a day on average with the NYPD responding to
approximately 30,000 of those calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People call, NYPD responds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People
call about all manner of complaint, conflict, disruption, disaster, illness,
injury, altercation, suspicion, and crime in progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time Police Officers respond to a call
no matter how innocuous, silly or harmless as it may appear they are acutely
aware that no call, no call is “routine”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Any situation can erupt and turn volatile; every call has the potential
to be out of the ordinary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But, the complaining public
continues to call and will continue to call because they know they will get
help, assistance, a response.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Members of
NYPD will always be there for the City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Every now and then the City should be there for them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #002060;">TAGS; NYPD, BRONX
SHOOTING, NYPD CRITICISM, NYC, PUBLIC DISTRUST OF NYPD</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #002060;">Links (Some updated Sept. 8, 2012)</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/nyregion/police-bullet-kills-bronx-bodega-worker-fleeing-robbery.html?_r=1&hpw">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/08/nyregion/police-bullet-kills-bronx-bodega-worker-fleeing-robbery.html?_r=1&hpw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/store-employee-shot-bronx-article-1.1154084">http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/store-employee-shot-bronx-article-1.1154084</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/nightmare_as_cop_kills_bx_worker_o3RmjsMCsiRCNg8ClzSpwM">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/nightmare_as_cop_kills_bx_worker_o3RmjsMCsiRCNg8ClzSpwM</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/reynaldo-cuevas-shot-killed-by-nypd-bronx-bodega-robbery_n_1864303.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/reynaldo-cuevas-shot-killed-by-nypd-bronx-bodega-robbery_n_1864303.html?utm_hp_ref=new-york</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><u>ELECTION 2012 ANALYSIS PART II</u></b></span></div>
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(Sept 6, 2012, Charlotte, NC) It
was Bill Clinton at his oratorical best. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the best political speaker this
country has seen in a generation, in his trademark way, accomplished more to
further his Party’s cause in just over 45 minutes than the Obama campaign has
in months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did what only he could do;
he laid out in simple understandable terms the details of some of the most
pressing issues weighing on voters’ minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He did it with grace, humor, and authority; the authority he commands as
the last successful, accomplished and widely recognized as the most effective
President in decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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While out of necessity, shame,
embarrassment and political desperation the GOP ran from their last standard
bearer, the disastrously inept former President George W. Bush, conversely, the
Democratic Party embraced and celebrated their favorite son here tonight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Clinton conducted a veritable clinic in
wide scale retail politics before a national viewing audience estimated to be
upwards of 33 million citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Point by point he masterfully dissembled
the incoherent tripe spewed by Romney/Ryan while assembling a cogent, logical
reasonable case for the merits of reelecting President Obama and Vice President
Biden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clinton engaged the audience with
his easy manner and delivered a concise informative tutorial on issues ranging
from the tax code, health care reform, immigration, education, and made a
powerful argument for the ideology of developing and implementing policies
aimed towards the greater good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
GOP convention in Tampa virtually every speaker including imbecilic Mitt Romney
espoused the failed Republican ideology that champions the notion that the most
successful in our society should be rewarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This horribly misguided notion was first introduced by addled Ronald Reagan in 1980
and was simplistically yet deceptively touted as “trickle-down economics”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
underpinning of that particular approach was that “a rising tide lifts all
boats”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to being chosen by Reagan to
be his Vice Presidential running mate, George H. W. Bush had mocked Reagan’s
plan as “Voodoo economics” and it certainly proved to be a curse on the middle
class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has become painfully obvious
that if elected Romney/Ryan intend to resurrect that very same approach to the economy at
a time it can ill afford it.</div>
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President Obama came into Office
facing more challenges than any of his modern era predecessors since Franklin
Roosevelt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The economic woes were staggering,
the financial industry was collapsing, banks were not loaning money, the
automotive industry and its many related enterprises comprising its supply
chain were about to go bankrupt, home foreclosures were epidemic, jobs were
vanishing at a head spinning rate, and that large segment of our population
loosely defined as the “middle class” found themselves under crippling
pressures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By virtually every
independent, objective non-partisan appraisal, those profound problems were the
direct result of the policies of the George W. Bush administration, just the
latest version of the only playbook the Republicans ever read.</div>
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One of the most humble,
gracious comments Bill Clinton made was when he discussed his work with “Both President
Bush’s” and his inherent “inability” to “hate” his political adversaries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely if any former President would be
justified in despising his adversaries and critics, especially the Republican lead sham impeachment
in 1999, it is Clinton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he is not
constructed that way; he has far more character and integrity than his abysmal judgment
regarding his private life while in Office indicates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His larger message was that no real governing, no actual legislating,
policy making or any of the people’s business will ever be conducted unless the
venom is extracted from the viciously partisan discourse that has come to
define the paralysis in Washington DC, in the corridors of Congress and behind
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articulated the stark contrasts between President Obama’s Administration and a hypothetical
Romney Administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully most among that huge television
audience were paying attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
the most at stake in this election the outcome of which has the potential to
alter our lives in very dramatic, profoundly negative ways.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #17375e;">TAGS: BILL CLINTON’S DNC SPEECH, PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REELECTION, MITT
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-2012-bill-clintons-speech-at-the-democratic-national-convention-excerpt/2012/09/05/f208865e-f7a4-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-2012-bill-clintons-speech-at-the-democratic-national-convention-excerpt/2012/09/05/f208865e-f7a4-11e1-8253-3f495ae70650_story.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/bill-clinton-dnc-speech_n_1859839.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/05/bill-clinton-dnc-speech_n_1859839.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/14181/dnc-2012-speaker-schedule-live-bill-clinton-speech-time-elizabeth-warren-speech-time">http://www.policymic.com/articles/14181/dnc-2012-speaker-schedule-live-bill-clinton-speech-time-elizabeth-warren-speech-time</a></span></div>
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Ryan: Not an honest bone or original idea between them</span></b></div>
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(Tampa, FL – Sept. 1,
2012)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A truly remarkable event was
televised from the Tampa Convention Center this past week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For three days and nights the Republican Party
held their quadrennial presidential nominating convention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether you caught just the one hour of
network coverage nightly or sat through hours more of the cable outlets never
ending broadcasts, you could be forgiven for mistaking what you were watching
for something other than a major political Party’s convention.</div>
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If not for the graphics,
imagery and commentary one could have easily thought they were watching some
sort of bizarre assembly of some of the ugliest people representing each of our
50 United States and territorial possessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others may have been under the impression they were viewing a gathering of
cranky AARP members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the TV cameras
scanned the delegates and on-lookers in the arena the proliferous display of
age and sun spotted wrinkled faces, turkey necks, wattles, double and triple
chins, ill-fitting dentures, hairy ears, fossilized women wearing hideous
outfits, brutal hairdos and Mommy Dearest lipstick was stunning.</div>
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Their male counterparts were
equally moribund looking collectively seen to be suffering from constipation,
halitosis, varying degrees of dementia and lunacy, paint peeling, rib
shattering flatulence, goiters, shingles, dyspepsia and prickly heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a group they appeared mean-spirited,
uncomfortable, bloated, gassy and mildly drunk or viciously hung over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Individually they were reminiscent of every grumpy
former used car salesman, failed realtor, Home Depot plumbing department
assistant manager, myopic proctologist, crooked divorce lawyer, every other
kind of sleazy crooked lawyer, septic tank inspector, cheap bourbon drinking,
heavy smoking, obnoxiously hostile neighbor that one has ever encountered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Even those not yet collecting
Social Security, on Medicare or spending a huge chunk of their retirement nest
eggs on incontinence paraphernalia and Beano Plus seemed to be depressed,
erectiley dysfunctional, frigid, unsatisfied MBA’s from half assed colleges
preoccupied with paying their therapists, ChemLawn, children’s oboe lessons,
gym membership bills atop their third mortgages on the once trendy now dated
suburban homestead with aging Volvos, Beamers, Hummers, and faux wood-sided
Mini Vans in the driveways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, this
younger GOPer appeared to be the kind of middle manager, bullying school board
member, condo association president, and sanctimonious church deacon with an
Internet porn addiction barely concealed from a prescription pill addled wife
you would most want to smack in the face with a greasy salami.</div>
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Oh yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This crowd sat smugly yet hemorrhoidily self-satisfied
and comfortably superior as one pompous buffoonish blowhard after another took
to the podium to deliver their personalized version of the same shitty speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was overall a surreal spectacle, an
unprecedented display of all that is wrong with the politics of today and with
the Republican Party in particular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No,
they haven’t a monopoly on arrogance and an inability to govern effectively but
they surely have a lock on being able to lie to the American public without the
blink of an eye.</div>
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The average American whose
typical night of TV viewing was suddenly interrupted and preempted as the
networks aired the “prime time” 60 minutes each night who does not follow politics
as closely as some among us and is not yet fully engaged in the upcoming
election, could be excused of they thought they were suddenly watching some
new, over the top, cockamamie, garish, reality show perhaps titled “Who’s the
Biggest Asshole” or “Hey, I’m just Pissed Off”.</div>
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Yes, indeed, it was quite a
pageant of hostility and bass partisanship where the one most important missing
element was truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitt Romney and his
goofy looking sidekick, Paul Ryan, really believe they can run for the top jobs
in the land without ever once offering an original idea, a viable solution to
one of our Nation’s many problems, or detailing any specific substantive policy
initiative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glaringly hollow platitudes
and vague uninspired rhetoric may have allowed Mitt the Twit to buy his way
into his Party’s nomination but he may get the gel knocked out of his hair
as the media scrutiny over the next ten weeks becomes more intense as well it should.</div>
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It was as sickening as it was
distressing to listen to speaker after speaker lambast President Obama, repeat
blatantly dishonest accusations, misrepresentations, criticisms, bilge, bile,
and bullshit night after night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To base
an entire campaign on the “Vote for me because I’m not him” strategy is as
crass, shallow and as desperate as a political Party, campaign and weak candidate
can get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If people, a large number of people,
do not begin to pay attention to the issues and recognize the stakes involved
in this election, the results for all of us could be disastrous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #17375e;">TAGS: MITT ROMNEY, PAUL
RYAN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. REPUBLICAN LIES, FACT CHECK, GOP HOSTILITY,
RIGHT WING LUNACY, REPUBLICAN DELEGATES, CONVENTION OF LIES, ANGER AND BOZOS.</span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/08/ben-stein-romneys-a-losing-candidate-133987.html?hp=r10">http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/08/ben-stein-romneys-a-losing-candidate-133987.html?hp=r10</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/158125/romney-entered-the-gop-convention-the-underdog-and-left-the-convention-the-underdog/">http://themoderatevoice.com/158125/romney-entered-the-gop-convention-the-underdog-and-left-the-convention-the-underdog/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/dickie-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan-still-remain-mysteries-1.3939801">http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/dickie-mitt-romney-and-paul-ryan-still-remain-mysteries-1.3939801</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/us/politics/fact-checkers-howl-but-both-sides-cling-to-false-ads.html?hpw">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/us/politics/fact-checkers-howl-but-both-sides-cling-to-false-ads.html?hpw</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-truth-cmon-this-is-a-political-convention/2012/08/31/88550120-f3c0-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_blog.html?hpid=z2">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-truth-cmon-this-is-a-political-convention/2012/08/31/88550120-f3c0-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_blog.html?hpid=z2</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0831/GOP-convention-winners-and-losers-from-Condoleezza-Rice-to-Clint-Eastwood-video/Winner-Condoleezza-Rice">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0831/GOP-convention-winners-and-losers-from-Condoleezza-Rice-to-Clint-Eastwood-video/Winner-Condoleezza-Rice</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">NEIL
ARMSTRONG, FIRST MAN TO STEP ON MOON IS DEAD</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">UNIQUE
AMERICAN HERO </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Neil
Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander before launch</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">on July 16,
1969</span></b></div>
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(Cincinnati, OH – Aug. 25,
2012) It is safe to say that there will
never be another American man like Neil Armstrong. Never again will we witness a man so
dramatically step into the history books and then step so modestly, humbly, and
gracefully back into his private life.
Mr. Armstrong shunned media attention, accolades, and notoriety with the
same rigor he exhibited during his years as a decorated Navy fighter pilot and
a poised, determined, incredibly brave and daring test pilot in the days before
NASA. In today’s self-promoting, in your
face, media driven cult of celebrity, a man of such renown who chose not to capitalize
on such a grand achievement would be an enigma; probably criticized and hounded by the media. Neil Armstrong lived with a quiet dignity
that may seem alien to many today.</div>
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NASA officials saw the
character and integrity of Mr. Armstrong. Breaking with established in-flight
procedure that dictated the Commander of the Lunar Module, Buzz Aldrin, be the
first to step foot on the moon, they determined that Armstrong was better
suited for the enormity of the achievement if the mission was successful. And was it ever.</div>
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In his role as Pilot of the
Lunar Module (LEM) Mr. Armstrong guided the odd looking, flimsy craft through a
never before explored environment, remained calm and focused as he scanned the
Lunar horizon looking for a flat spot to set down as his fuel supply was within
seconds of being exhausted. His self-possession,
confidence, courage and determination allowed him to complete a feat of
aeronautic finesse that left the entire NASA organization and the millions viewing the global broadcast on Earth in awe.</div>
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<i>As the descent began, Armstrong and Aldrin found that they were passing
landmarks on the surface 4 seconds early and reported that they were
"long": they would land miles west of their target point.</i></div>
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<i>Five minutes into the descent burn, and 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above the
surface of the Moon, the LM navigation and guidance computer distracted the
crew with the first of several unexpected "1202" and "1201"
program alarms. Inside Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, computer
engineer Jack Garman told guidance officer Steve Bales it was safe to continue
the descent and this was relayed to the crew. The program alarms indicated
"executive overflows", meaning the guidance computer could not complete
all of its tasks in real time and had to postpone some of them.*</i></div>
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Perhaps those harrowing
moments define Neil Armstrong better than his first steps on the Moon. Clearly without his piloting abilities there
would have been no “first steps” that day and possible not for years to come,
if ever.</div>
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No one at NASA knew what Mr.
Armstrong would say as he became the first human being to set foot on another
celestial body in our solar system. Many
wondered what could possibly capture a moment of such enormity, of such
profound human significance. As he slowly
made his way down the LEM ladder relating, step by step a description of what
the almost zero gravity atmosphere felt like as well as his perceptions
surveying the lunar landscape around him, he momentarily stopped to calmly inform Mission
Control in Houston that, “I’m about to step off the LEM”. And before the eyes of the world transfixed
as this moment was broadcast live from another world, this humble man took a
short hop and came to rest on the “very fined grained” surface, “almost like a
powder” and through the crackling static that carried his voice through the
void of space over 238,000 miles back to Earth, he uttered his famous line, “That’s
one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". His simple words will forever live as one of
the most powerful and inspired quotes in history. Only a man possessed of unique traits could
have crafted such a poignant, elegant sentence to mark one of the greatest
milestones not only for NASA, American ingenuity, engineering and scientific
supremacy, sheer determination, resolve and spirit, but for the entire human
race.</div>
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Mr. Armstrong and his fellow
travelers, Command Module Pilot, Michael Armstrong and Aldrin, the second man
to tread on the Moon, returned to Earth as conquering heroes and received every
accolade and decoration the United States government and military had to offer. They then went on a whirlwind world tour
meeting heads of State from dozens of countries and accepting awards from each
celebrating their remarkable journey.
Soon thereafter Mr. Armstrong quietly retired from NASA and took a
teaching job at his alma mater, Purdue University. Despite the avalanche of offers of all kinds
that drowned him, he declined them all to resume his intensely private life and to live in
virtual obscurity. He did serve on the
Board of Directors for several corporations most of which were in the aerospace
industry but certainly never cashed in on his unique position. Eventually he relocated to southern Ohio and
taught in a small college outside Cincinnati.
It wasn’t until 2003 that he finally consented and allowed a book, the “authorized
biography” to be written about him. He
cooperated in that project with author James R. Hansen and the book “First Man”
was released in 2005. It will forever be
the definitive account of Neil Armstrong’s life.</div>
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For those of the Space Shuttle
generation it may be difficult to fully appreciate the years of efforts across
a broad range of scientific, engineering and military disciplines that
culminated when the spindly-legged LEM touched down at the Sea of Tranquility. They may not realize that there was a group
of pioneers beginning with the famous “Mercury 7” some of whom were blasted
into space atop unreliable military missiles, in small space “capsules” no
larger than the interior of a VW Beetle.
Each launch was a first. Each component
of each system used in the program was novel. This was all done before the
advent of the "computer age” by engineers armed only with slide rulers, brains and
a broad vision of what could be.
Inspired by the young President John F. Kennedy who, addressed Congress
in 1961 and stated the audacious challenge and goal to, "before this decade is
out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."</div>
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And that we did. On a rainy day in New York City during the
long hot Summer of discontent that saw American society being torn asunder by
the strains of the Viet Nam war, an unpopular draft, the battle to end
segregation and for racial equality, the upheavals of the women’s rights, movement, the sexual revolution and
a decreasing lack of trust in our government, Neil Armstrong embodied all that
was good and able in our troubled Nation and made Americans of every race and
creed proud to be Americans if only for that one brief shining moment when a
young man from rural Ohio spoke to the entire world from our nearest astral
neighbor, the Moon.</div>
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Rest in Peace, Mr.
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Godspeed. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">*<i>Italicized except taken from Wikipedia:</i></span>
<i><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #002060;">TAGS: NEIL ARMSTRONG,
FIRST MAN ON THE MOON, APOLLO 11, NASA.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx/articles/M3lVKqO9nid/AWE+AND+WONDER">http://www.zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx/articles/M3lVKqO9nid/AWE+AND+WONDER</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx/articles/sNG4EHw4Epi/JULY+20+1969">http://www.zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx/articles/sNG4EHw4Epi/JULY+20+1969</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/neil-armstrong-dead-age-82_n_1830343.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/25/neil-armstrong-dead-age-82_n_1830343.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57500382/neil-armstrong-1st-man-on-the-moon-dead-at-82/">http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57500382/neil-armstrong-1st-man-on-the-moon-dead-at-82/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825">http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090720-apollo-11-moon-facts.html">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090720-apollo-11-moon-facts.html</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">POLLS SHOW
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS THINK</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">MITT ROMNEY
IS A DICK</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Recent poll
reveals 96.9% of Americans see Mitt Romney as a lying dick.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Same poll
indicates people also think he looks like one.</span></b></div>
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(Bile Falls, Iowa – Aug. 23,
2012)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things have not been going well
for the presumptive Republican Presidential candidate lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, things have not been going well for
him for quite some time now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Left as the
last man standing after a nasty, protracted, expensive Republican primary, Ole
Mitt has been in deep shit since he technically clinched the nomination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly, or maybe not so oddly, the bulk of the
shit that has befallen the amazingly dysfunctional campaign of this
tremendously inferior candidate has been of their own making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitt has been a mass gaffe producer as well
as a chronic liar, a serial ‘flip-flopper’ on virtually every policy and
political issue of the day, and a man who most Americans now believe to be a
dick.</div>
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Recent polling conducted
nationwide by several major media outlets including The New York Times, The
Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, CBS,TBC, SOB, WTF, NPR and Gallop,
convincingly demonstrate how poorly Romney is perceived among likely voters,
undecided voters, likely to remain undecided voters and voters who are not
really undecided they just say they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Romney also suffers from very high “unfavorable” ratings that only add
to his lack of credibility problem with the electorate.</div>
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The TBC poll conducted last
weekend asked the respondents to choose which term or phrase most accurately
described their individual opinion of Mitt Romney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their choices were: a) phony, b) out of touch
with reality rich guy, c) liar, d) tax cheat, e) buffoon, f) dick, g) spineless
gutless imbecile, h) asshole, i) nice guy, j) strong leader or k) pandering
blithering idiot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By a wide margin the
majority chose “dick” as their answer with “asshole”, “pandering blithering
idiot” and “tax cheat” each tied with “liar” for second place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out of the 47, 598 people polled only 2
thought Romney was a “nice guy” while one drunken Mormon found staggering
through a truck stop parking lot in Wendover Nevada said Mitt was a “real good
guy”.</div>
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Despite state by state polling
trends showing the Romney/Ryan ticket facing an increasingly steep uphill
challenge, they continue to utilize their chosen tactics of lying, obfuscation,
ignoring questions, denying their own records, and trying to confuse targeted
segments of the public about the various positions they’ve each held on
Medicaid, Medicare, tax policy, abortion, prickly heat, birth control,
irritable bowel syndrome, and the separation of Church and State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One long time GOP political hack, Charlie
Black who worked for both George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush commented,
“Heck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought we had our hands full
with George W.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheet! Romney makes ole W
look like a damned statesman, like a genius, like Newt Gingrich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure glad I decided to sit this cycle
out.”</div>
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It seems much of the voting
public is still asking “Who is Mitt Romney”?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And with good reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the
latest incarnation of a recent phenomenon in American politics: an
independently wealthy professional candidate devoid of any ideology or core
beliefs who seeks office just to seek office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Having amassed a fortune as the founder, president and CEO of a
Boston-based venture capital firm, Bain Capital, Mitt’s first foray into
politics came in 1994 when he challenged bloated incumbent Senator and
Democratic Party icon Ted Kennedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kennedy being a liberal stalwart forced Romney to espouse positions on
many issues merely for the sake of political expediency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tried to “out liberal” Kennedy on some
policy positions while quickly tacking towards the right to court more
‘conservative’ voters (if there is such a rare breed in Massachusetts).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to his willingness to spend millions of his
personal fortune to buy the Senate seat, he forced Kennedy into a tighter than
expected race but was ultimately defeated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Based on his performance on
the campaign trail and during interviews with the media outlets large and
small, Mitt the Twit is apparently unable to answer any question no matter how
narrow and specific with anything other than the most vague, innocuous, often
imbecilic sound bites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Harry Nevus the
producer of Face the Nation on CBS noted, “In my experience covering
presidential candidates since 1968, I can say without reservation that Mr.
Romney is the most vacant, vapid intellect ever to seek the office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may have been an effective venture capitalist
but boy is he ever dumb”.</div>
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Perhaps the pundits and public
would not have such negative views about Mr. Romney if there was any hint he
possessed some measure of honesty, integrity or scruples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His talent for tailoring his position and
message to suit whatever audience he’s speaking to and then, just hours later
once again adopt a new position for a different audience is so grossly obvious
that even jaded political observers are in awe of his malleability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He’s like the kid in High School who has it
all and buys friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other kids don’t
really like him but since he has a nice car and money he’s willing to throw
around, they hang out with him”, said Democratic pollster and former campaign
adviser to Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Penn
continued, “It’s actually no surprise that Americans see him as a dick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see him as a dick as well”.</div>
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Among the hundreds of self-inflicted
wounds the hapless, witless, nit witted GOP candidate has endured, probably one
of the most damaging has been his absolute refusal to release more than one
year of his income tax returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has
already been well documented that Romney enjoys the tax loopholes afforded to
those with Swiss bank accounts and other off shore financial havens such as the
Cayman Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His proposals –
extremely vague and flimsy as they may be – have been assessed by many
nonpartisan entities and unanimously found to be very favorable to the
wealthiest Americans while inflicted economic hardship on middle class working
Americans and the elderly, disabled, un- and underemployed citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hugh R. Fistula, the Communications Director
for the Elderly Alliance To Stop Upper Peptic Syndrome (EATSUPS) commented, “Most
of the EATSUPS sufferers are reliant on Medicare and Medicaid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the cuts in those federal programs a
Romney/Ryan administration would seek, I think we’d see a skyrocketing number
of deaths from this dreaded disease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
gives me gas just thinking about it”.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="color: #000099;">TAGS: MITT ROMNEY IS A
DICK, MITT ROMNEY LOOKS LIKE A PENIS WITH HAIR, ROMNEY IS AN IDIOT, MEDICAID
& MEDICARE CUTS, ROMNEY IS AN IMBECILE, TAX CHEAT, LIAR, FLIP FLOPPER,
MORON, RICH WHITE GUY, THE PARIS HILTON OF POLITICS.</span></b></span></div>
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PAUL RYAN AND TODD AKIN COSPONSORED</span></b></div>
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(August 20, 2012. Washington,
DC) Just a day after Missouri Congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin’s
highly offensive and stupendously idiotic comments about “legitimate rape” while
appearing on a local Sunday morning talk show, the fury and outrage from all
quarters shows no sign of receding any time soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, the damage done to the GOP by Akin’s
bizarre comments may play a role in many House and Senate races across the
country as well as in the Presidential race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some in the Republican Party already nervous having Paul Ryan and his
unpopular “Budget Plan” front and center in the Presidential race have
expressed concerns about how they will be “tied’ to Ryan’s plan containing many
harsh cuts in federal spending that would especially hurt senior citizens, the
middle class and the needy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now they
have the additional weight of Representative Akin’s comments, which opened the proverbial
can of worms, to contend with. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, both Ryan and
Akin share many of the same positions on sensitive social issues and have
cosponsored bills dealing with issues such as “personhood”, redefining “rape”,
defunding Planned Parenthood, and abortion rights.</div>
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In all political races there
are missteps and gaffes and then there are errors so egregious the candidate
may not be able to survive the withering storm such errors unleash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a political season that has seen an
unprecedented amount of blatant lying by the GOP Presidential contender, Mitt
Romney, and has recently devolved into a nasty street fight-like race for the
White House, Todd Akin’s error may contend, in the long run, as one of the
worst most damage inflicting statements of the year.</div>
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During a televised interview
on Fox affiliate KTVI in St. Louis, the six term Congressman now running for
the Senate against Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill, Akin was asked if
would support abortions in cases where the woman had been raped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It seems to me first of all, from what
I understand from doctors, that's really rare," Akin replied. "If
it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole
thing down," Akin said of a rape victim's chances of becoming pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within hours after these lame brained
comments, Mitt Romney and virtually the entire Republican Party were scrambling
to distance themselves from their imbecilic colleague.</div>
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One member of the GOP who is a
close ally of Akin’s in Congress just so happens to be Mitt Romney’s running
mate. Ultra-conservative Paul Ryan is having an especially difficult time
putting any space between himself and his ideologically identical Congressional
buddy. Not only do they share the same Byzantine approach to social and fiscal
issues, they have worked together to craft and cosponsor House Bills that make
Mississippi Republicans look like reasonable moderates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As reported yesterday in Think Progress and
today in that same publication <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Adam
Peck and Ian Milhiser,”Rep. Todd “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/19/711991/gop-senate-candidate-victims-of-legitimate-rape-wont-become-pregnant/">Legitimate
Rape</a>” Akin (R-MO) and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan both
cosponsored the bill that introduced America to the despicable term “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/19/712251/how-todd-akin-and-paul-ryan-partnered-to-redefine-rape/">forcible
rape</a>.” As it turns out, this may only be the second most sweeping attack on
reproductive freedom that both men partnered on. Ryan and Akin also cosponsored
a federal personhood bill, the <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.212:">Sanctity of Human
Life Act of 2009</a>, which declares that a fertilized egg is entitled to the <a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr212/text">exact same legal
rights as a human being</a>”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a
similar personhood initiative appeared on the ballot earlier this year in the
most Conservative of all these 50 United States, Mississippi, it was handily
voted down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That says a great deal about
the ideology of Ryan and Akin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Although no proof is needed to
confirm the stupidity and the political liability of Akin’s repulsive remarks, the
level of anger thus far expressed by members of his own Party speaks
volumes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prior to his televised
interview yesterday Akin was actually polling ahead of McCaskill by 3 percentage
points in a heavily Republican leaning important swing state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By late today some of the biggest blowhards of
the Conservative movement, lunatics such as Senators Mitch “Little Bitch”
McConnell and John Cornyn, and Fox Media bloviators Sean Hannity and Mike
Huckabee, were urging Akin to step down as the candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GOP dirt bag Karl Rove and his Super PAC have
already announced they will no long provide Akin funding and the Tea Party
movement is also abandoning the now toxic nitwit Akin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul Ryan himself had to phone his close
buddy and soul mate asking him to reconsider his pursuit of that Missouri senate
seat.</div>
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President Obama made an
unexpected visit to the White House Press Room and took questions from the
reporters gathered there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stated
clearly that “Rape is rape” and expressed dismay at the comments Akin had
made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously the President wanted to
address the issues and rather than bring it up himself out on the campaign
trail he wisely allowed the White House Press Corps to give him the opportunity
to make his opinion known.</div>
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Despite the mounting pressure
for him to drop out of the race, Todd Akin apparently has no intentions of
doing so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He Tweeted tonight that he
would continue his campaign and asked supporters to donate to his cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Akin spent much of today giving radio and TV
interviews hoping to clarify his absurd remarks and make some effort at damage
control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly, or maybe not so oddly,
he “apologized” not for the essential point he was trying to make with his ludicrous
remarks but rather for his choice of words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He claims he meant to say “forcible rape” instead of “legitimate rape”
once again demonstrating the depths of his ignorance.</div>
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It remains to be seen what
becomes of Senate candidate Akins, what wider damage his ideology could inflict
on his Party in November and how this will no doubt dog GOP VP candidate Paul
Ryan.</div>
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If this repugnant episode
makes one point crystal clear and should serve to galvanize Democrats and
undecided voters is that Akin and Ryan do not represent a fringe element in the
republican Congressional Caucus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not by
a long shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are indeed
representative of the majority of republicans in the House, Senate and the Party
as a whole. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Religious Right is the
dominate element on social issues in the GOP and Romney’s choice of Ryan was
yet another show of his lack of spine, principals, or courage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He caved into the pressure from the Far Right
which IS the majority and plucked Ryan out of his seat on the Budget Committee
because he is a darling of the Right.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><u><span style="color: #002060;">TAGS: TODD AKIN, PAUL RYAN, RAPE, LEGITIMATE RAPE,
FORCIBLE RAPE, PERSONHOOD, MITT ROMNEY, GOP, RELIGIOUS RIGHT, CONSERVATIVES,
REPUBLICAN LUNACY, AKIN’S CONTROVERSIAL REMARKS ON RAPE, DAMAGE CONTROL, CLARE
McCASKILL, OBAMA REACTS, RAPE IS RAPE.</span></u></b></span></div>
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(Aug.13, 2012 – Des Moines, IA)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitt Romney’s newly minted running mate Congressman
Paul Ryan, from the neighboring state of Wisconsin, made his first solo
appearance on the campaign trail since getting the second spot on the GOP
ticket on Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should have been
an easy crowd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Iowan’s, typically a
staid if not bland lot, provided the vice presidential nominee with a very
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As he toured the main fairways
with Governor Terry Brandstat and Senator Chuck Grassley he was greeted warmly
by many fair goers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did seem to enjoy
sampling the many fine delicacies the Iowa State Fair is known for including
corndogs, chunks of deep fried butter, fried cow heart, swine burgers, boiled
bull testicles, corn chips, funnel cakes, sweet corn flavored soda pop, pork
tenderloins, corn syrup pie, cottoncorn candy, and corn on the cob.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between chewing on these snacks, burping,
shaking hands, taking a few Tums, and loosening his belt, he also managed to
completely duck virtually every question posed by the press traveling with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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By the time he took the stage
to address a raucous crowd he initially appeared comfortable, if not somewhat bloated, as he began
attacking President Obama and touting the budget proposals of his plan and that
of Mr. Romney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just minutes into his
stump speech a small group of hecklers made themselves heard as several
protestors at the foot of the stage began shouting at him about his intentions
to “cut Medicaid” and “privatize Social Security”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several protestors had to be shoved off the
stage by members of the Iowa State Patrol including one particularly loud,
aggressive buxom activist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a
minor scuffle among the protestors and Romney supporters in the crowd as the
ISP hauled some of the most vocal protestors away.</div>
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Merle Schwackenhacker, a
manure farmer from Roiling Gullet said “I’m surprised he came here especially
since he’s been blocking passage of the farm bill in Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He oughta know better than tryin’ to keep us
farmers from gettin’ our money”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Ryan’s Congressional and
political reputation has been built on his “Budget Plan” that calls for huge
cuts in federal spending in areas that would most affect the poor and middle
classes while being extremely favorable to big business and the wealthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I tell you what, it’s going to be hard
trying to sell that bunk to us older folks” commented Les Flattus a retired hog
castrator from Steaming Mound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flattus
continued, “Folks like me and Mrs. Flattus, ah, she’s my wife, depend on
Medicare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what we’d do if
it was taken away like that young feller up on the stage wants to do”.</div>
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Many in this large crowd
representing a true cross section of this important swing state in the American
heartland expressed similar concerns and fears about the Romney/Ryan economic
plans should they be elected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While many
of those spoken to here today view Romney as a liar, tax cheat, and as a man
who will say anything to anyone to get elected, many are also familiar with
Ryan’s stances on other issues many voters feel strongly about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For his entire 14 years in Congress, largely
as an unknown “backbencher”, he simply voted with his party along partisan
lines and has voiced strong opinions about abortion, social programs, gay rights,
immigration, and in particular the size and scope of the federal government in
regulatory and corporate affairs advocating less regulation and spending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Mark Schaffer, a homosexual prison
guard from Newton noted, “He is opposed to gay marriage. I don’t like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s also wants to raise taxes on working
people like me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know how many extra body
cavity searches I have to do just to make a few extra hours in overtime? I don’t
mind the cavity searches, actually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
the extra hours that wear me out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t
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2012)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Republican presidential hopeful
Mitt Romney made history today when he used his selection of a running mate to
actually define his candidacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seen as a
perpetual serial flip-flopper, a man without any core, deeply held principles,
beliefs or internal compass, an extraordinarily lackluster candidate prone to
gaffes, lies and evading all questions on substantive matters, Mitt the Twit
chose as his vice presidential nominee Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan, a man
with an identity and popular with right wing conservatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the Romney campaign has staggered and
stumbled through the summer seeking solid footing and an identity that would
resonate with voters to no avail, his decision to pick Ryan not only gives him
a running mate but also suddenly infuses his candidacy with an identity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pair will now spend the remaining weeks
before the November election running on the now infamous “Ryan Budget”, the
plan that bears his name and has received broad sweeping criticism from
Democrats and Republicans alike for its draconian cuts in federal spending
particularly in areas most affecting the middle class, elderly and those most
in need of the social safety net.</div>
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Romney, the man who has not
been able to run on anything aside from his desire to be president has now made
certain that this race will be about, for lack of a more accurate term, “class
warfare”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, central to the debate is
the issue of the size and role of the federal government but, at its heart the
Ryan Budget and the strain of right wing fiscal conservatism that dominates the
GOP, is all about implementing policies that will be friendly to the richest
among us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Theirs is just the latest
version of “Reaganomics”, the “trickle down” model that asserts a rising tide
lifts all boats; that by giving tax breaks to the wealthy, the so called “job
creators”, by lessening federal regulations on banking, business and industry,
the economy will somehow be magically “jump started”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have seen the fallacy of this theory in
practice before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The gigantic collapse
of 2008 that cast us into the most serious financial recession since the Great
Depression of 1929, was the direct result of having such lax regulations on
banks and Wall Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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There were mixed reactions on
both sides of the political divide after Romney made his announcement at a
large rally earlier this morning not far from here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard line right wingers seemed pleased with
the choice while many Democratic operatives were equally pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pleasure expressed by Democrats is rooted
in their belief that once the details of the Ryan Budget become widely known to
the voting public, it will be rejected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some in the GOP are concerned that much of the Ryan Budget will be a
“hard sell” particularly among voters on Medicare and Medicaid as well as those
struggling in hard economic times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Throughout most of our history
the office of the Vice President was largely ceremonial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typically the running mate brought something
to the ticket the presidential candidate either lacked or need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some case such as JFK picking LBJ, the
ticket achieved “balance” and a real electoral advantage because LBJ could
deliver Texas for the Irish Catholic New Englander.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other campaigns the choice is made based
purely on some degree of electoral advantage the running mate will bring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never before in history has a presidential
candidate depended on his VP pick to do more than add some punch to his
candidacy; Romney needed Ryan to serve as the life support he so sorely has
needed and to draw a sharp contrast with the current President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ryan certainly provides both.</div>
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Until very recently the Vice
President had no governing power, was given little opportunity by the President
to act as anything more than a mouthpiece when needed, an emissary when
convenient, and a personal envoy on occasion.<br />
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Arguably, Bill Clinton
redefined the Vice Presidency when granted Al Gore a wide portfolio and
encouraged VP Gore to spearhead a number of vital initiatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This redefined Vice Presidency was taken to a
disastrous extreme when Dick Cheney chose himself as the only Republican suited
to be VP to Uncurious George.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course Cheney’s
role as the head of W’s “search committee” that vetted potential running mates
allowed Uncle Dick to insinuate himself into a position that ultimately
developed into a shadow Presidency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
has become common knowledge and history will definitely reflect the sorry fact
that Cheney was, for all intents and purposes, the real President in that
maniacal, neocon radical, history changing Administration.</div>
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The current occupant of the
Vice Presidential mansion, Joe Biden, brought to the Obama campaign a wealth of
experience and knowledge in areas largely unfamiliar to the freshman Senator candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden’s 30 year career in the Senate afforded
him a broad and practical education in areas from the geopolitical complexities
of the day to the intricacies and nuances of working with the Legislative
branch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biden had been the Chairman of
the Senate judiciary Committee, served on the Foreign Affairs committee as well
as a number of other committees and subcommittees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was widely respected by politicians and
his colleagues on both sides of the political aisle.</div>
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Paul Ryan is a lightweight, a
man only recently known for his work in the house budget committee and his
hastily crafted and fiscally irresponsible budget “Plan” that has made him the
darling of the right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a sort of
cult figure in the GOP for reasons attractive only to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many ways he is about as prepared to be
the President, should such a terrible circumstance arise, as was the last GOP
VP pick, Sarah Palin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps Palin was
marginally better suited than is Ryan, she certainly has a larger more loyal
following, could deliver votes from the Rush Limbaugh “Dittoheads”, and
probably has more balls than the nerdy Wisconsonite Ryan.</div>
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Romney’s pick is just the
latest of his lengthy bows and concessions to the “right wing base” of the
GOP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has never been liked, trusted or
in any way embraced by that influential petulant bloc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, until just weeks ago there were loud
rumblings within the GOP that Romney might have to be dumped as their standard-bearer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between is millionaire, Mormon, vulture
capitalist, corporate raider with off shore bank accounts in Switzerland and
the Cayman Islands, to his refusal to release more of his tax returns, had the
hapless Mitt drowning in overwhelmingly negative media attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His complete inability to answer a direct
question on any issue, his failure to offer any specifics of any of his much
touted “programs” that will somehow “turn this economy around” as well as his
implementation of “Romneycare” during his stint as Massachusetts Governor, saw
dimwitted Mitt backed into a tight corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His pathetic debut on the world stage where he managed to insult the
British, Polish, and Palestinian people in a matter of days only further
confirmed the already obvious fact that he suffers from chronic foot-in-mouth
disease and doesn’t even realize it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes,
Mitt clearly demonstrated to the American people and the world his ineptitude,
ignorance and lack of diplomatic skills or even simple common sense.</div>
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So now the stage is set, the
race is clear, the issues at hand clearly defined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully at some point the slender but all
so important segment of the voting public that remains “undecided” and will no
doubt decide this election, will come to see exactly what a Romney/Ryan
administration would mean in real practical terms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>VAPID ROMNEY
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Perhaps it all began with the
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Somehow the amiable but hardly
worldly Reagan had managed to capitalize on his experiences in radio and film,
Hollywood B-movie career, several terms with the Board of Directors of the
Screen Actors Guild and his stint as a corporate mouthpiece for General Motors
into a viable political persona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
times and circumstances of 1967 vaulted him into the California governor’s
mansion, an office he would hold until 1975.</div>
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His popularity as California
governor, coupled with the political acumen, resources and financial backing of
a close knit group of supporters, Reagan made his first run for the White House
in 1975.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This campaign ended in defeat
as the incumbent, Gerald Ford went on to win the GOP nomination only to lose to
Jimmy Carter in the general election of 1976.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As President Carter suffered through hard economic times and a host of
intractable problems at home and abroad, Reagan was waiting with his cronies in
the wings ready to have a run at the White House once again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time he would emerge victorious over the
hapless Carter and he took the oath of office in January 1981.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had finally arrived in the “big time”, the
biggest of the big time.</div>
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What had largely eluded him in
all his past endeavors, during his journeymen career in broadcasting, TV and
Hollywood was now his: success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through
the sheer force of his communication abilities and the skill of his cadre of
political advisers, the perpetual pseudo-star was now the most powerful man on
the planet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>America had elected a personality, a
self-created and promoted product embraced by the media at a time when the
entire country seemed mired in a funk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now the half-witted co-star of the idiotic “Bonzo” movie series was the
Commander in Chief of the United States, and the politics of the Presidency
were forever changed.</div>
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Reagan’s ascendance to the
presidency clearly demonstrated a new reality in American history and politics;
the once unwritten yet vitally important prerequisites for the position were
diminishing and on their way to being antiquated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The door to high elected office in America
was no longer beyond the reach of men and women who had not spent their lives in
governing, politics (as it was prior to recent times), and lacked the once considered vital attributes of experience, intellect
and some deeper measure of gravitas the Office of the Presidency demands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Arguably the United States had previously seen unprepared, unqualified
men in the White House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps in a
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For all the overblown credit Reagan
is given today by conservatives for sheparding the United States to victory
over the paper tiger that was the USSR by the time the Berlin Wall fell, he was
simply at the right place at the right time and able to take advantage of the
circumstances, claim credit for events he had little influence over in any
significant way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Great Communicator”
was just that, an empty vapid vessel easily filled by those surrounding
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Cabinet and inner circle were the
true ideologues and possessors of power; Reagan simply read their speeches,
espoused their positions, and gave a fatherly face to what was a distinctly
non- paternalistic administration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As we would later learn Reagan
was already addled by the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease and had probably not so
much as even presided over his own administration much less the actual affairs
of State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, America survived,
progressed, prospered and readily accepted the media produced rhetoric and imagery
of the great “Gipper” who had brought a new morning to America and
singlehandedly made us the great shining City on the hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If Reagan broke the glass
ceiling for mediocre men and minds vying to sit in the Oval Office, the
election of George W. Bush forever cemented this new reality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, in 2000, the Supreme Court had blatantly
usurped the will of the American people and had quite literally handed the
presidency to a man of such stunning lacks and weaknesses that out history
would be forever changed and not for the better.</div>
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George W. Bush was another “product”,
a product of money, connections and the ambitions, agenda and influence of his
behind the scenes benefactors, donors and those who saw him as the amiable
buffoon that, once they managed to get him into the White House, they could
manipulate like a puppet on a string and that they did. The rest is history.</div>
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Now once again we find
ourselves with the possibility of another “product” in the White House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the fact that he has been running for
the Office since 2007, Mitt Romney remains so grossly unqualified and ill
equipped for the Office he has so desperately, single-mindedly and hungrily
sought for so long that he actually makes George W. look like a statesman in
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Mitt Romney is most definitely
a product of our times, a byproduct of our mindless culture of celebrity and
status.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mitt Romney is the Paris Hilton
of presidential politics at the moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is the GOP’s avatar so devoid of any centrally held guiding principles,
ideology, character or other traits that one would hope an aspiring president
would possess in evident abundance, that it is only due to the visceral hated
of Barak Obama by Republicans and a large segment of the populace that he is
even still close in this race.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But much
of that is another story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is there,
he is within reach and that should frighten thinking Americans everywhere.</div>
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<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-5510062158359743931?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-14475692535957092762011-06-04T13:58:00.002-04:002011-06-04T19:10:13.946-04:002011-06-04T19:10:13.946-04:00JACK KEVORKIAN, “RIGHT TO DIE”, ADVOCATE IS DEAD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fLu0XFsGF84/Teq4vhGDzSI/AAAAAAAAAkM/9LTCcHI5W1g/s1600/kevorkian%2Bw%2Bmachine.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 305px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fLu0XFsGF84/Teq4vhGDzSI/AAAAAAAAAkM/9LTCcHI5W1g/s320/kevorkian%2Bw%2Bmachine.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614503011947892002" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >CONTROVERSIAL CRUSADER CHAMPIONED<br />THOSE SEEKING “DEATH WITH DIGNITY”</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;">( Saturday, June 4, 2011. Royal Oaks, MI) He was neither kook nor crank, criminal or quack. His quirks, eccentricities and unusual media moments aside, he was, more than anything a crusader. Dr. Jack Kevorkian came to define what was arguably the most heated and controversial medical ethics issue of the 1990’s. He died at age 83 two days ago in a suburban Detroit hospital.<br /><br />Dr. Kevorkian, a retired Pathologist, first broke into the national conscience and media spotlight in 1990 after having assisted a chronically ill woman to die by utilizing a machine of his own design and construct which came to be derisively known as his “Death Machine”. His device allowed the “patient” to self administer a lethal combination of narcotics that would guarantee a painless and rapid death.<br /><br />Perhaps the entire odyssey of Kevorkian would have played out differently today in this world so connected by the various social media that have the proven strength to topple governments, promote issues the main stream media ignores, and connect like minded people globally as never before. At the time he first drew national attention he was a “lone wolf” advocating a position which was poorly understood by many across the country and commonly wrongly defined by his opponents and the media.<br /><br />Kevorkian did use the technology available to him at the time. He video taped long interviews with his “patients” and their families documenting their desire to “die with dignity”. Each of the deaths he assisted in was also video taped. Kevorkian proved to be equally adept at using the media to his advantage and once he retained the services of a flamboyant, opportunistic but shrewd Attorney, Geoffrey Fieger, he and his crusade remained on the public stage until he was eventually sentenced to prison in 2000. He served seven years of a possible 25 year term.<br /><br />Before the human genome project was complete, prior to the promised potential of stem cell research, genetic manipulation and the other ethical issues that came about due to the incredible advances in all medical / biological disciplines, there was just Dr. Kevorkian and his passionate arguments for a person’s “Right to Die”. Even while he was lambasted in the press, caricatured, derided, and often had his sanity questioned, he never wavered from his central, core belief that a person can make a logical, rational decision to die and should be permitted to be assisted in their desire by a physician. He was extremely selective in choosing his “patients” employing a strict, objective criteria that left no ambiguity in his mind or the minds of those he assisted as well as in the minds of their families. He refused to even speak with over “99 out of 100 of those” who sought his services. His strict criteria accounted for a host of variables including the potential patient’s mental health status and a rigorous scrutiny of their medical records.<br /><br />“Death (or) Dying with Dignity”. “The Right to Die”, “Physician Assisted Suicide”, are terms that became part of not only the debate of those days, but have been integrated into our American lexicon thanks to this one courageous man. And let there be no doubt about it, he was a very courageous man driven by the courage of his convictions and the frustration of having a very serious issue mocked, assailed or simply dismissed. It was easier to make fun of him than it was to honestly debate and discuss the very real, profound if not fundamental issue that he’d adopted as his mission in later life.<br /><br />Perhaps what we as humans fear most about death is not the unknown or its inevitability, but rather that it will be painful, protracted and we will find ourselves in a position of being trapped in a body, conscious of what is going on around us but unable to communicate with that world around us. Those suffering from chronic, degenerative, progressive diseases are much more attuned to these possibilities than are the unafflicted. The vitriolic opposition to Dr. Kevorkian’s beliefs often came from those in politics who, on the opposite end of the continuum advocate vociferously for “The Right to Life”. Many of those zealots claimed to have the “responsibility” to “speak for the unborn fetus” while hypocritically dismissing the adult who sought to end their suffering with the assistance, compassion and professionalism of a physician such as Dr. Kevorkian.<br /><br />As is all too often the case in America, what began as a matter of medical ethics it soon morphed into a legal, political, social issue with all the accompanying politicos, pundits, activists and talking heads of every stripe. However, in some State’s the issue managed through grass roots organizers to find its way onto ballots in the form of “initiatives” in several Statewide elections. The polls results were mixed but a certain measure of insight was gleaned from the places where the ballot initiatives failed as well as where they passed. The American public, the voting public, was becoming engaged in the debate and did not see it in the stark “black and white” terms our politicians so cherish. This was an issue that any American could identify with in some way or another.<br /><br />The issue made for some strange political and social bedfellows. Right to Die groups sprang up around the Country and were often joined by staunch Libertarians, privacy and limited government groups; not the usual suspects one would find similarly aligned in such a volatile matter of morals and ethics, of religion and science, pro-life and pro-choice, personal liberty and government intrusion, of life and death itself.<br /><br />The reader so inclined to learn more about this infamous yet enigmatic man might find some of the links below this article as informative, enlightening and interesting as anything they may have read or learned about Kevorkian before. He was a gifted child, by some accounts a “genius” and possessed by an always curious, restless mind. He was a “Maverick" at a time in medicine when such mavericks were dismissed as fools or worse. He was a “Renaissance Man” , a very talented painter, musician and writer and a deep, creative, innovative, brave thinker.<br /><br />His memory will fade with time but he does leave a powerful legacy. Not many people can have such a claim stated about them posthumously. Dr. Jack Kevorkian singlehandedly brought the issue of Death with Dignity out of the stifled shadows of the chronically, fatally ill into the harsh light of day and was more than willing to do so, not for fame or fortune, but for principal and a cause.<br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >TAGS: Dr. Jack Kevorkian, The Right to Die, Death with Dignity, Physician Assisted Suicide, patient’s Rights, End of life issues, Personal Liberties, Death and Dying.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">LINKS: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jack-kevorkian-known-as-dr-death-dies/2011/06/03/AGvzJ1HH_video.html</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/03/dr-jack-kevorkian-champion-of-patients-right-to-die-dies-at-83/</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.argus-press.com/news/national/article_dcc7fc41-471c-5771-bd13-8b64792e12ab.html</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/03/late-jack-kevorkian-also-_n_871236.html</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/03/from-times-archives-a-look-back-at-dr-jack-kevorkian/</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8117011/kevorkians_legacy_lives_on_through.html</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/weekinreview/05backthen.html</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.opposingviews.com/i/jack-kevorkian-a-man-who-fought-for-your-right-to-die-is-dead</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://royaloak.patch.com/articles/royal-oak-remembers-jack-kevorkian#video-6399712</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0603/Jack-Kevorkian-drove-the-debate-on-physician-assisted-suicide</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.detnews.com/article/20110603/METRO/106030415/1031/Fieger--%E2%80%98Kevorkian-didn%E2%80%99t-seek-out-history--but-he-made-history%E2%80%99<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1447569253595709276?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-36785303592677166382011-05-05T19:50:00.002-04:002011-05-09T17:08:30.395-04:002011-05-09T17:08:30.395-04:00NYPD INTEL UNIT:<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rS0F3PqlOx4/TcNUys_jPbI/AAAAAAAAAkA/cVW5RErSiN0/s1600/nypd%2Bintel%2Bmeatpacking1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rS0F3PqlOx4/TcNUys_jPbI/AAAAAAAAAkA/cVW5RErSiN0/s320/nypd%2Bintel%2Bmeatpacking1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5603415591426932146" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><u><strong>EVER VIGILANT AND ON THE JOB</strong></u></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>In a </strong></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>nondescript building in the meat packing district of Lower Manhattan</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>an elite team functions as NYC’s own CIA</strong></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">(Thursday, May 5, 2011. Westside, Lower Manhattan, NYC) Just a short walk from what has been referred to as “Ground Zero” after the al-Qeada attacks on America at the World Trade Center in September 2001, is another “Ground Zero” that is the polar opposite of the Site just a few blocks away.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">In the most nondescript of buildings in a neighborhood of remarkably nondescript structures, an elite force of under 50 NYPD Officers work in a hi-tech, dimly lit space tracking via high tech wizardry and high level intellect, potential threats to this City. The NYPD Intelligence Unit is among the most closely guarded, uniquely tasked and analytically capable of any Intelligence Unit on the planet. The men and women who staff this ultra-secret Unit are not assigned here by accident. They have all been “hand-picked” by the Deputy Police Commissioner for Intelligence and Counter-terrorism, David Cohen. And make no mistake about it, Mr. Cohen knows, intimately, the machinations and labyrinthine underworld of terrorism and intelligence gathering, analyzing and dissemination.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">David Cohen was a CIA Officer for over thirty years. His career spanned some of the most tumultuous times and global events of the latter decades of the last century. He was an analyst who always seemed to “fall upwards” in his career, rising to a top level position in the Directorate of Operations at a relatively young age.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">After the abysmal failures of the entire federal and military intelligence apparatus that came to light in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Cohen came to New York City and offered his services. He would go on to create one of the mot sophisticated, effective, efficient and capable “intelligence units” in the world. No other City on the planet can boast of a comparable entity. Cohen realized all too well that New York City would remain the primary “target rich environment” that would attract terrorists of every stripe and inclination.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">While this Unit has been functioning in its current iteration since 2003, the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of Navy SEAL Team Six in his heavily fortified private compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan last Sunday, has people asking if there is a greater threat to New York City as groups or individuals may seek “retaliatory strikes”. The simple answer, according to one Intel Unit Officer is “Yes. Obviously the threat has been constant since 9-11 but with Bin Laden's death, we have ramped up some of our activities here and obviously, out in the field”.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The business of intelligence is as much science as it is art. This is true of any endeavor that must account for the unaccountable, for an amount of variables and a level of complexity that eludes quantification. The men and women of the NYPD Intelligence Unit must try to extract from a veritable ocean of “raw data” those few drops that constitute real “actionable intelligence”. This is a daunting and often frustrating task. However, the payoffs, when they are correct, can yield enormously significant results. The killing of Osama Bin Laden is a case in point. Years of intelligence data was collected, sifted through, analyzed, interpreted, vetted and put under intense scrutiny while even more information was sought to corroborate what the raw intelligence was beginning to reveal to the CIA and Pentagon.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">That very same process is employed here in the NYPD Intel Unit but on a much smaller scale. Certainly, this Unit does not operate in isolation from other intelligence agencies around the world but their primary focus is to identify that one in a million ‘imminent threat’ to the City and residents of New York. Everything from information available in the media and in the public domain, to a very select and fine balance of information sharing with very specific, trusted sources is studied, looking for what? For signs, either covert or intuited, either from within the Five Boroughs or, perhaps from Scotland Yard, Interpol or some other valued, proven to be reliable source, that stands up under the scrutiny it must to be deemed “actionable”.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“We read everything from the local papers, foreign papers and magazines to intelligence reports from our own people stationed overseas as well as those working the streets here in New York”, commented one Intel Unit member who, due to the nature of what he and his colleagues do, cannot be publicly identified. “Actually”, continued the same Officer, “my own wife does not fully know what I do. She is aware that I am involved in something ‘different’, something sorta ‘top secret’ but, that’s about it.”</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">To enter the loft-like work space of this secretive Unit one is struck by the number of members who just “don’t look like cops”. One senior NYPD Officer who has been assigned to the Intel Unit for the last 6 years continues that, “some of these people were recruited right out of college and I mean the best colleges. They are classic computer nerds. They may have gone to Columbia, MIT, or some Ivy League university and majored in computer science or information technology or some related field. They went to the Police Academy so they could officially become active members of the NYPD but, they have spent their entire careers till now hacking, I mean the ‘good kind’, the ‘white hats’ type hacking and are truly talented and particularly well suited for what we do”.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Other members have long tenure in the NYPD; some started their careers in a radio cars in the Boroughs, on the streets and worked their ways up to higher rank, some had made Detective in their former Commands. It can be an odd mix but, given the mission they have been tasked with, they appear to work cohesively. The sense of “mission” is palpable among them. “I know what I am doing may help save lives of New Yorkers, maybe members of my own family or friends. I was on duty on 9-11-01 and responded. Since then I have been, in a way, obsessed. I have felt it necessary to try to understand our adversaries, the ‘nature of the threats’”, commented one female analyst who began her NYPD career in a rough Precinct sector in the Brooklyn South Patrol Command. She added with a wry smile, “everyday I walk in here I know I’m not in Brooklyn anymore”. Besides her experience on the dark and dirty streets of Brooklyn South, her degree from a prestigious university, her mutli-lingualness and her passion for “The Job”, attracted the attention of David Cohen. With little fanfare or paperwork she was suddenly reassigned. “One day I’m working cases in Brooklyn, two days later I’m here and beginning my ‘immersion training’. It was like, ‘Whoa. I knew we (NYPD) were on top of things but I never realized to what extent our Intel and Counter-terrorism Units functioned”.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Although this tightly knit Unit may have been the “brainchild” of David Cohen, it was NYPD Commissioner, Ray Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg who recognized the value of creating such a Unit and saw that the “return on the investment” would, potentially, be enormous. As Commissioner Kelly himself commented in an interview not that long ago, “We are doing all these things because New York is still the No. 1 target. We have been targeted four times, twice successfully, and the city remains the most symbolic, substantive target for the terrorists. These are cunning, patient, deliberate people who want to kill us and kill us in big numbers."</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Lydia Khalil, former counter terrorism analyst with the NYPD Intelligence and Counter Terrorism Units, knows all too well how "cunning, patient and deliberate" the people are who truly seek to do us harm. Currently a Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, Khalil has spoken publicly regarding the Intel Unit’s efficacy since she resigned from her position with NYPD to pursue other opportunities. She is an internationally recognized expert on the Middle East and, in particular, on the conditions in Middle Eastern countries that foment hatred of the West among the largely disenfranchised youths. While with The NYPD Ms. Khalil focused on international terrorism trends and terrorism cases in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">According to Khalil, we , as a Nation and as a City, must strive to understand the true nature of our enemies. Khalil has also been an outspoken proponent for the American Muslim / Islamic communities. She has written that some of the most “valuable, actionable intelligence” NYPD has obtained over the last 9 plus years has come from within the New York City Metropolitan Area Muslim community.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">“This is an important thing to remember. The Muslims that live among us here in New York City, who pray at Mosques in all five Boroughs, have a vested interest in providing us with information. Some good, kind hearted Imam out in Queens sees a few members who show up regularly for prayer suddenly become hostile and isolated. He senses something not right. He calls us. The people of New York City are among the most understanding and accepting of each other because we really don’t have a choice. But, the Muslim community has felt a particular brand of hostility, even hatred, since September 11, 2001 and they want to help us more than anyone. After all, it is their very religion, their faith, that is called to question, that has raised suspicions. I give them all the credit in the world for stepping up as they have”, explained an Intel Unit Officer who identified himself as Jack.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">If an average New Yorker could walk in off the street and spend some time in this place, they would, no doubt , leave here feeling that much better about their City, that much better about their NYPD and about their security.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The Feds created the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of fear and embarrassment. It has been a colossal failure, at least as seen by NYPD. Our entire federal intelligence apparatus was a colossal failure and dropped the ball regarding September 11, 2001. That is precisely why NYPD is doing what they are. " We won’t be fooled again".</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;">As Jack told us, as he concluded our conversation, “Our Town, Our People, Our Business. We’ll take care of our own. I promise you that”.</span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><u><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">Tags: NYPD Intelligence Unit, NYPD Counter terrorism Unit, Deputy Commissioner Cohen, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, Lydia Khalil, Securing NYC, Target Rich Environment, Homeland Security.</span></strong></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><u><strong>LINKS:</strong></u></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/Pni21rreVBp/http://www.newsweek.com/2009/01/30/the-spymaster-of-new-york.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2009/01/30/the-spymaster-of-new-york.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cohen_%28intelligence%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cohen_%28intelligence%29</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/PfZ38Vq9zHp/http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_nypd_post_osama_challenge_YWMrG88tcrYAytmGsHo1VM">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_nypd_post_osama_challenge_YWMrG88tcrYAytmGsHo1VM</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/adHt4uXr5iB/http://cryptome.org/nypd-upnose.htm">http://cryptome.org/nypd-upnose.htm</a><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/QHoUzKW-D1F/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/07/25/050725fa_fact2?currentPage=all"><br />http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/07/25/050725fa_fact2?currentPage=all</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/YKV4ZP02dS5/http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/administration/intelligence_co.shtml">http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/administration/intelligence_co.shtml</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/NQUHlRYBGdv/http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=242">http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=242</a><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/N7a2hlQ37Vj/http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cohen/cohen-eyeball.htm"><br />http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cohen/cohen-eyeball.htm</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.zimbio.com/go/b9WhnUWKE2K/http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8286/">http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8286/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-3678530359267716638?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-73448344905345934432011-05-03T17:05:00.005-04:002011-05-04T18:02:06.854-04:002011-05-04T18:02:06.854-04:00LIFE HAS GONE ON:<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FOREVER ALTERED, BUT THE BEAT GOES ON</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eqMHPG54tw8/TcCaEQtObnI/AAAAAAAAAjw/vqIBFdElS40/s1600/candle.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 189px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eqMHPG54tw8/TcCaEQtObnI/AAAAAAAAAjw/vqIBFdElS40/s400/candle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602647334443708018" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;" >Cynyc would like to express here our tremendous sense of gratitude to the members (active and retired) of the FDNY, NYPD and PAPD who responded to the World Trade Center Site on September 11, 2001 and have been gracious enough to share their thoughts with us.<br /><br />We are equally respectful and appreciative to those who lost husbands, wives, fathers, sons and daughters, their friends and relatives at the WTC and those whom have generously and candidly agreed to share their thoughts, open their hearts and answer our questions to make the following Post possible.</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;" >All of these people who have shared with us did so with the understanding, by their own requests, that their identities would remain private for their own personal reasons. We have promised each of them that they would remain anonymous.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;" >At the end of this post the reader will find a partial list of links to some of the FDNY , NYPD and PAPD Memorial Pages for some of those who spoke to us for this post as well as some of the last duty assignments for those they spoke of and for.<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">(Tuesday, May 3, 2011. New York City) There was not much cheering or celebrating, no buoyant chanting of “USA,USA, USA”, in the Firehouses and Police Precinct Station Houses as word spread that Osama Bin Laden was dead. Most of the cheering, oddly ebullient crowds were out on the streets in places like Times Square, Battery Park and up and down the corridors of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Most of the celebrants hooting and hollering, wildly waving American flags probably had few real memories of that day in September 2001 when our City, our Country and our World changed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As the local TV news began to confirm the initial reports, before President Obama addressed the Nation from the East Room of The White House, a certain, distinct silence ensued in apartments and houses across the Tri-State Area, in the residences that had been homes to so many of the thousands who perished on that bright September morning almost ten years ago, victims of that man, so recently killed by United States Navy Seals half a world away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The world’s most wanted man did not die the noble death of the warrior he claimed to be. he did not go out in a blaze of glory. Rather, when the SEALs entered the room in which he hide, he grabbed one of his wives and a firearm. Using this particular wife as a human shield he chose not to obey the orders shouted at him to surrender. His death was a cowardly act, perhaps a true reflection of the devious mind and darkened soul who ordered and financed the attacks on America in 2001.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">His death came by way of two bullets, as has been reported by the Pentagon. Likely the first shot, the one that pierced one of his eyes before exploding his cranium and brain into a cloud of bloody mist and fragments, killed him instantly. Perhaps, if he had a nanosecond to have a thought, it might have been that the Americans have found me. He chose not to surrender and was summarily killed quickly, cleanly, efficiently in a manner far more merciful than those who perished on 4 hijacked airplanes, at The Pentagon, in an unremarkable field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania and in our Twin Towers. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Maybe he was welcomed to Paradise by 72 virgins. Maybe he was well received in Hell. Who knows.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">One beefy FDNY veteran from Ladder 24 commented,”It don’t really matter does it? I mean, okay, the scumbag is gone but, we got a wall full of pictures of guys we lost that day. Engine 1 lost that day. Am I glad he’s dead? Sure. But what does it mean?”</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">As humans we are wired to search for “meaning” in events large and small particularly when they have forever altered our internal conscious landscape. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">“I went down there with my guys to do whatever we could. I remembered the bombing in 1993, I was on the job then, in Patrol in the 13th Precinct. September 11 will always be something I can’t get outta my head. No, it doesn’t get in the way or, at least not very often. So, this piece of shit is dead? Good. I believe in hell because I grew up believing in it and I saw it on that day. I hope Bin Laden is there”, said a 28 year veteran of NYPD who assisted in the evacuation of the South Tower.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There is a story for every person who was in those buildings, in The Pentagon and on those doomed jets. There are amazing stories of self sacrifice and heroism, some known, some known only to God. Each of those who was present that day and survived has spent at least a portion of the past 3521 days seeking answers, searching for meaning and, oddly perhaps, living with some sense of guilt, with some part of their innermost self wondering how and why they survived while so many didn’t.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">***** ***** *****</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Not every women is cut out to be the wife of an NYPD Officer or an FDNY Firefighter. The stress of “the job” takes tolls on relationships and marriages that is often too much for a spouse to bear. “I always knew when my husband walked out the door to go to work there was a risk...a chance, he would not come home. I came to dread the phone call in the middle of the night telling me which hospital he was in. It didn’t happen that way. I’ve raised our three daughters these last ten years. Our youngest was born on September 21, 2001. She never knew her Dad. That breaks my heart sometimes but, then I realize, my heart is already broken. It can’t get broke more than it is but sometimes it just does”. those are the words of a beautiful, intelligent widow who has nothing left of her husband except memories and “three wonderful girls”, who was last heard from as he approached the 78th floor of the North Tower. “All they ever recovered to identify him was his service piece. His gun. I have it and keep it wrapped up and hidden. I never did like the fact that he had guns in the house. Bin Laden, I do believe with all my heart that I could have shot him had I had the chance. What he took from me is something I can’t fully explain”, she continued before her tears began to flow.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">***** ***** *****</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Most of the members of Service from the FDNY and NYPD who survived that event will say that “only in New York” could such an amazing amount of “citizens", civilians, calmly, orderly and with an absolute absence of fear or panic evacuate those Twin Towers as they did. “Sure, the training after the February 1993 bombing was crucial to the fact that so many of us survived”, said an accountant who made his way down from the 59th floor of the North Tower. “We had Fire Marshals. Each company on each floor had someone who was the designated Fire Marshall. Shit, we’d drill...kinda like in grade school..we actually had fucking fire drills. Those drills, my fiend, saved thousands of lives”.</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">One third generation NYPD Detective noted that, “As New Yorkers, we are used to things fucking up. The subway suddenly stops in a tunnel, no air conditioning, no lights. We give it a good 15, 20 minutes tops before we start to wonder. We’re used to things going wrong. After all, we live in a city of 10 million with God knows how many visitors and tourists in town a day. Had we known the North Tower was hit intentionally by a commercial jet and that the South Tower had already collapsed, I don’t know, honestly, if we would have made it out”.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">“Literally, after the dust and debris settled it dawned on me I was still alive. I was shocked. I could hardly breath and really couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. But, after awhile, I don’t know if it was 30 minutes or an hour, I heard sounds...I heard voices...I heard sirens. I crawled towards the sounds I heard. I found a guy under a car. I grabbed his hand, drug him out from under the car and told him, ‘Listen to me cuz, we’re okay. Now, let’s move our asses outta here’. We walked west. Suddenly after walking like what seemed a mile, we ran into some other guys from the job. After that, I think I passed out for a few minutes. Next thing I remember was waking up with (name with held) tossing bottled water in my face”, said a MOS of FDNY from a Ladder Company in Brooklyn that lost many members.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">***** ***** *****</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">343 members of FDNY were killed on September 11, 2001. 23 MOS of NYPD lost their lives and 37 PAPD Officers also perished. Some Firehouses lost entire companies; others suffered losses in double digits. As Mayor Guiliani later answered a reporters question saying “ The loss of life will probably be more than we can bear, we can only imagine. It is beyond our grasp at this time”. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The innocent civilians: the brokers and traders, the cooks, custodians and window washers; the secretaries, executive assistants, CEOs, VPs, CFOs who were killed were, in a way, sadder losses to the Tri-State Area than were the tragic deaths of the MOS. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Cops, Firemen and other First Responders are expected to run into environments from which everyone else is frantically running out of. They sign on to that the day they take the oath. Those people who showed up for work, on time, that gorgeous New York morning probably never gave a moments thought to their own mortality or the random nature of chaos and evil as they commuted by bus, subway, bike and walk to work on that morning. “I remember thinking to myself”, began a veteran Homicide Detective assigned to the recovery effort, “that the parts of these people we was finding, the ‘biologics’ as they were called, ever gave a moments thought that morning that that day could be their last. At least, as a cop, I was in touch with how quickly my life and the life of my family could change. I don’t know how to explain it to you, ya know what I mean”?</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">***** ***** *****</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">Life has gone on. Tens years is a long time especially in the life of a child. So many children across the Tri-State don’t have clear memories of their Moms and Dads, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles. Many of those children whose lives have been defined by the events of September 11, 2001 were those who took to the streets in NYC and DC while their surviving parent stayed home watching the news and, of course, searching for meaning. Each has their own private pain, each, their own private mechanism that has allowed them to cope and function from that day until today. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Will the death of Osama Bin Laden somehow provide them “closure” or a sense of justice, retribution or solace? Only they can answer and their answers are probably as diverse as they are disparate.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">***** ***** *****</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">Sadly, 9-11-01 is still killing. Hundreds of First Responders, the underpaid MOS from FDNY, NYPD and PAPD as well as the hundreds of steel workers, welders and construction workers who toiled at “The Pile” for months after 9-11-01, have died from exposure to the toxins in the air at the WTC Site. Odd malignancies and other respiratory and autoimmune diseases plague them and some are so sick that their deaths are immanent. Many have had to swallow enormous lumps of pride and accept disability retirement because they could no longer function in the manner their jobs, jobs they devoted their lives to, requires. Still others, haven’t the energy to swallow their pride. They live their lives in the shadow of sites, sounds, smells, sensations and memories. Several have found the intervening years too tough and have taken their own lives. In a sense, each one of us who has survived exists with the profound sense of being on “borrowed time”.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So be it. Some of us may, on occasion believe, at least on some spiritual or neural level that our survival was meant to be. Again, who knows.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">We talk and debate in hushed tones on the phone about the death of Osama Bin Laden. We disagree about aspects of it from its overall significance in America’s ongoing battle against terrorist elements seeking to inflict us harm. We wonder what his capture might have meant. we ask each other how we feel about his death and if it really makes any difference in what we lived through and live with. We are permitted our disagreements; we’ve earned them.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">We speak with the wives and children of the men we once called Brothers and do what we can for them. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We all realize that they have the strength and resolve to do fro themselves what non of us could ever do for them.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">We mourn our friends and strangers alike. We think about the people we carried on our backs from one floor to the next in the North and South Towers. Some of them, we know their status; others of them, we haven’t a clue. All we know is we got out while some of the best of the best, civilian and public servant did not.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Obama Administration reports that Bin Laden’s corpse was given up to the sea. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">New York City is a port town, a coastal city. We understand the power and infinite depths of the waters that wash with amazing regularity on our shores.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Life has gone on and will continue to do so. The moon will wax and wane and induce our tides accordingly.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Perhaps, someday, years from now, a young child will find a sun and salt bleached bone fragment out in Coney Island or Jones Beach. Who knows whose bone that may be?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If cosmic justice exists in some form or any fashion, the child who finds that bone fragment will toss it back into the surf.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The sea tells know tales.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-flapSk5IxYM/TcCY1wRbDzI/AAAAAAAAAjg/mSfIaz_1OCE/s1600/fallen.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-flapSk5IxYM/TcCY1wRbDzI/AAAAAAAAAjg/mSfIaz_1OCE/s400/fallen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602645985707364146" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">To all of those who died on September 11, 2001, we wish you a peaceful rest Safely Home.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">God Bless.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">5-5-5-5</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">10-13</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >LINKS:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/091101rescuers.html<br /><br />http://www.afge171.org/news/911/POLICE.HTM<br /><br />http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/html/memorial/index.shtml<br /><br />http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/home/memorial.shtml<br /><br />http://our.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/portauthority.html<br /><br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;">Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 5:45PM EST</span></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-7344834490534593443?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-84841413248916235882011-05-02T09:11:00.005-04:002011-05-02T16:34:43.198-04:002011-05-02T16:34:43.198-04:00OSAMA BIN LADEN FINALLY KILLED<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_WxOKxcm5ng/Tb8PrkEBwJI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/D1CWyDCgl1U/s1600/02obama_683_cham-custom4FDNY.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_WxOKxcm5ng/Tb8PrkEBwJI/AAAAAAAAAjQ/D1CWyDCgl1U/s400/02obama_683_cham-custom4FDNY.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602213702561546386" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><u><b>MEMBERS OF THE FDNY READ THE NEWS ON THE TIMES SQUARE TICKER</b></u></span></span></div> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">(Monday, May 2, 2011. NY, NY) After being the most wanted fugitive in the world and the very face of radical extremist Islamic terrorism for nearly the past ten years, the man who masterminded the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and at The Pentagon, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in a daring operation carried out by US Special Forces and CIA Operatives. The particulars of the raid that resulted in this much celebrated milestone in our on-going “War on Terror” are headlines around the world and dominating cable TV news coverage.<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The news considered so important to our government and the American people that President Obama made a late night, unscheduled televised address to report the news from the East Room in the White House. The President's quote that “Justice has been Done” has appeared in bold headlines all over the world. As word spread last night that Bin Laden had been killed in a camp in Pakistan, crowds gathered at various sites in New York City and Washington,DC to mark the occasion. There was an odd “carnival like” atmosphere reported by some present in the cheering, chanting throngs outside the White House last night while at the site where the World Trade Centers stood, the mood was mixed.<br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span> </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">During most of the last decade, actually since October 16, 2001 when CIA Operatives and Special Forces were first covertly inserted into Afghanistan to capture or kill as many members of al Qaeda and their hosts, The Taliban, our intervention there has been full of irony. In a matter of weeks after our official military campaign began, in earnest, in Afghanistan, is has been widely acknowledged by military and government officials, that the titular head and spirit leader of al Qaeda – Bin Laden – was “trapped” in the rugged mountains of Tora Bora and was able to slip across the border into Pakistan. “We had him and we let him get away”, commented a top ranking CIA Operative who had been there. Then President George W. Bush refused the military's and CIA requests to insert a larger troop force to seal the Afghan – Pakistan border. Instead, Bush “outsourced” the Pakistani border mission to Pakistani forces many of whom had tribal and ideological sympathies with both Bin Laden and his “mujaheddin” forces and The Taliban.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Since that time Bin Laden's whereabouts had been a “huge mystery” and a “constant reminder of our lost opportunities” according to the same CIA Operative. In the intervening years our military efforts to secure Afghanistan and allow for some sort of homegrown government to “step up” and secure their own Country have been noteworthy only because of their many victories, though most were merely Pyrrhic at best, and constant set backs our military have experienced. It has become a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse as, over the years first The Taliban fell from power, al Qaeda was in disarray only to watch as both entities have seen resurgence in recent years and have proven to be more tenacious than initially expected.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The puppet regime of Afghan “President” Harmid Karzai, hand picked by the Cheney / Bush Administration to take over in the wake of the Taliban's retreat in late 2001 has been an abject failure in every measurable way. If anything Afghanistan today, despite the billions of US dollars we've poured in to that perpetually corrupt, lawless, failed Nation / State is not all that much different that it was prior to September 11, 2001. This fact is not a reflection on our dedicated and brave troops but rather on the Cheney / Bush Administration and civilian Pentagon and State Department leadership from 2001 through the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:100%;">But now, 3519 days since the 9-11-01 attacks, Osama Bin Laden is dead; killed, according to military after action reports, by a bullet to the head. His body was recovered and was allegedly positively identified using comparative DNA analysis. Since the elite United State Navy SEALs, arguably the most capable of all our Special Forces Troops, conducted the raid and scored “the hit”, Bin Laden was “buried at sea” and done so within 24 hours of his death in deference to Muslim tradition. It is also important to note that only three other people are reported to have been killed during the raid on his 8 acre compound just outside the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. “This was a precision strike, a surgical operation with a singular focus and mission objective”, commented a senior Pentagon official speaking anonymously due to the sensitive nature of the raid into Pakistan. </span></span></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" align="JUSTIFY"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" align="JUSTIFY"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" align="JUSTIFY"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><u><b>Links</b></u></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="JUSTIFY"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html?hp"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html?hp</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/02osama-bin-laden-obituary.html?hp"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/02osama-bin-laden-obituary.html?hp</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/02/2011-05-02_us_spies_eyed_bin_laden_compound_for_year.html"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/02/2011-05-02_us_spies_eyed_bin_laden_compound_for_year.html</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/02/2011-05-02_justice_done_but_greatness_has_always_been.html"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/05/02/2011-05-02_justice_done_but_greatness_has_always_been.html</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_raiders_slay_beast_QgxwTCzo6XLjib9bJKPckK"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_raiders_slay_beast_QgxwTCzo6XLjib9bJKPckK</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-is-killed-by-us-forces-in-pakistan/2011/05/01/AFXMZyVF_story.html?hpid=z2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/osama-bin-laden-is-killed-by-us-forces-in-pakistan/2011/05/01/AFXMZyVF_story.html?hpid=z2</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-threat-more-diffuse-but-persistent/2011/05/01/AFt4KZWF_story.html?hpid=z3"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-threat-more-diffuse-but-persistent/2011/05/01/AFt4KZWF_story.html?hpid=z3</span></span></a></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;">Posted Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 9:11AM EST</span></span></span></p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-8484141324891623588?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-79963870248949411482011-05-01T13:45:00.003-04:002011-05-04T18:05:06.885-04:002011-05-04T18:05:06.885-04:00MAYDAY<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-KLygw_lF4/Tb8ySpXdZlI/AAAAAAAAAjY/fMXvh6aONVU/s1600/nypd%2B10-13.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d-KLygw_lF4/Tb8ySpXdZlI/AAAAAAAAAjY/fMXvh6aONVU/s400/nypd%2B10-13.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602251757395469906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >“Mayday - an internationally recognized distress signal”<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >(From the Oxford English Dictionary)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >OUR SOCIETY IS IN DISTRESS:<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMBERS ARE BEING KILLED</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">(May 1, 2011. NY, NY) Their names and locales are as diverse as is our Country and the jurisdictions they serve. Men and women from the largest, sprawling urban megalopolises to the smallest rural counties and towns are part of a tragic litany. That they are being killed, murdered actually, at an alarming rate seems to not have the newsworthiness the media animal requires to be fed. While each of these heartbreaking fatalities individually have been headline news in their respective localities, collectively they have yet to resonate nationally.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">No sector of the Law Enforcement Community (LEC) seems to have been spared. Agencies and Departments at the federal, state, county and municipal levels have suffered “in the line of duty” deaths; so far, this year, alone, 65 Members of Service (MOS) have died “on the job”; 32 of these fatalities were from gunshots. No, this is not going to be a rant about “gun control” or access to firearms. Neither will this be a sweeping indictment of the failures, in many cases, in mental health availability and affordability. Those are valid topics for another time, another discussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This is more about society, our society, America's society as of late April 2011 - where we as a society have been, currently are and, perhaps, in certain respects, where we are going.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There is inherent in our society a contract, a compact or, perhaps a covenant that we collectively abide by. We are a nation of laws and, as such, most of the populace abides within the constraints of that concept. Most folks don’t steal, rob, assault, rape, murder or otherwise “break the law” not because they are disinclined. No. Most live their lives within the well defined boundaries of “The Law” for fear of getting caught. Some might argue that this sentiment is a poor reflection on our society. Those that would argue that most people are disinclined to break the law are so predisposed not for fear of discovery but rather because they are simply disinclined - they are “good, honest people”. It’s a tough task to argue to the contrary but, given the tone and tenor of today’s America, it has become more difficult to believe. Those in the LEC struggle mightily with this issue.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">There exists among members of the LEC the notion that they constitute a “Thin Blue Line”. This notion or, actually, a belief, is that given the size of our population juxtaposed against the size of the LEC, that the ratio is so disproportionate as to be as frightening as it is perilously inefficient. The concept of “The Thin Blue Line” is representative of the fact that the LEC constitutes the fabric of our society that connotes “The Law”. It is this knowledge of the existence of “The Law” as an intricate component of our society that maintains the level of order that permits us , collectively and individually, to live out our daily lives free of the burden of fear, of impending anarchy.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The stark fact is that roughly 10% of our population is responsible for 100% of the crime that plagues us. Perhaps that fact makes the challenge to the LEC a fairer fight. Who knows. Crime is more familiar than it is random. The overwhelming majority of homicides, for example, are perpetrated by people known to each other. Stranger on stranger murder is far rarer than TV shows and popular novels lead us to believe. Yes, oh yes, there are predators, serial killers, sexual predators and every variety of emotionally deranged persons (EDP’s) who roam our streets in communities large and small. They will always be there, they always have.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">America today is home to almost 310 million people. The LEC numbers approximately 600,00 members. If you add in all the non-Law Enforcement agents employed by the federal government such as the Sate department Security Unit, The Secret Service, and the like, the total number of sworn LEO’s approaches 800,00. Roughly calculated, for every 400 American residents there is a single LEO. Not a good ratio particularly in some of the more densely populated areas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So the fabric of our Thin Blue Line is already stretched pretty thinly from coast to coast. each death of a MOS of the LEC is one less fiber in an already threadbare fabric, the fabric that we all rely on, take for granted or merely presume to be “out there”. And, that we are. The Members of Service of every Law Enforcement Agency in the Nation are “out there” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">It has been horrifying to read at least weekly so far this year, of the death of another MOS. The scenarios that have claimed their lives have run the gamut from the “routine” traffic stop that goes bad quickly, to shoot-outs, standoffs between lone gunmen and Deputies, Border Patrol Agents working one of the most treacherous beats on our southern border and other incidents with unique details but all with a similar outcome. One less fiber of our fraying Thin Blue Line fabric is “out there” doing what they have each sworn to do.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A Part of America Died</span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Somebody killed a policeman today, and a part of America died.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >A piece of our country he swore to protect, will be buried with him at his side.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The suspect who shot him will stand up in court, with counsel demanding his rights,</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >While a young widowed mother must work for her kids, and spend alone many long nights.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The beat that he walked was a battlefield too, just as if he’d gone off to war.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Though the flag of our nation won’t fly at half mast, to his name they will add a gold star.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Yes, somebody killed a policeman today, It Happened in your town or mine.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >While we slept in comfort behind our locked doors, a cop put his life on the line.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Now his ghost walks a beat on a dark city street, and he stands at each new rookie’s side.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >He answered the call, and gave us his all, and a part of America died.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:78%;" >- Deputy Sheriff Harry Koch, Maricopa AZ County Sheriff, Retired</span> <span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></div></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Links:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.odmp.org/year.php</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.odmp.org/</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.nleomf.com/facts/officer-fatalities-data/</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41235743/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0323/Is-there-a-war-on-cops-Eric-Holder-vows-action-as-police-fears-rise.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/25/justice-department-alarmed-rising-number-police-deaths/</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://goforward.bm23.com/public/?q=preview_message&fn=Link&t=1&ssid=10534&id=6qpwovojvk66jvfpi05sf0id8wjz5&id2=706d1xuz7zbez2ojccdr142tl19eo&subscriber_id=afdsbsycqmyafeauubjfvygnlzstbeo&messageversion_id=afjlychppcngudphfmxnzaanlheubje&delivery_id=apsuufggtcjvinmibcomyepipxtybmo&tid=3.KSY.Bot4Zw.CDEw.Jfu5..No61.b..l.AtcB.b.TbYSJQ.TbYSJQ.RpTPGA</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">http://nypd.police-memorial.com/</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-7996387024894941148?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-11133549212346865082011-02-05T12:30:00.001-05:002012-07-28T16:46:17.388-04:002012-07-28T16:46:17.388-04:00THE NFL AND THE HAZARDS OF AN ELITE PROFESSION<div style="text-align: center;">
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(Saturday, February 5, 2011. Fort Worth, TX) The contenders have been here for over a week. In approximately 26 hours the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers will meet here on the field at the North Texas Stadium to play in what is arguably the single biggest sporting event in America - the NFL Championship Game - The Super Bowl. This years version of the Super Bowl will showcase two of the most storied franchises in NFL history and two of the most evenly matched teams in recent years.<br />
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For two weeks now members of each organization have spent countless hours involved in photo ops, endless interviews and press scrutiny usually reserved for Presidential candidates on election eve.<br />
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The story lines coming out of each camp have been as diverse if not disparate as any however, due to the unusual attention this past season has invited regarding the safety of the players (particularly head-to-head contact and concussions), the short and long term affects of playing such a violent game, a great deal of the focus has been on these rather sensitive issues rather than the usual X’s and O’s of the contest itself. Some of the NFL’s biggest “hitters” will take the field. Both of the quarterbacks who will be leading their respective offensives tomorrow have suffered head injuries and concussions over the course of their careers. The signal caller for the Packers, Aaron Rogers will be wearing, for the fourth consecutive game, a specially modified helmet to protect him from sustaining yet another concussion; he missed several games this year as a result of not being able to pass the newly implemented “post concussive” medical examinations developed by the medical consultants to the NFL.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">RISKS AND REWARDS</span><br />
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Any boy who has ever put on a pair of shoulder pads and the rest of the standard equipment required to play football on every level, has, at one time or another, dreamed of playing at “the next level.” High schoolers want to play big time collegiate ball while those fortunate, talented and physically gifted enough to play the college game on the highest level all inevitably desire the money, fame, fortune, glory and sense of competition, of being among the small elite fraternity of NFLers playing this immensely popular sport professionally. Few, at any time in their playing days; be they in high school, college or on the professional level, give serious consideration to the potential for sustaining acute, chronic and / or life altering physical and neurologic injuries that may result in varying degrees of impairment once their playing days are over. <br />
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If the sense of indestructibility is common among young men it is taken to an entirely uniquely lofty apex among the men playing in the NFL considered to be among the best athletes in the world, bar none. Even as evidence mounts correlating certain forms of degenerative brain disease from the thousands of “sub-concussive collisions” a football player encounters from the time he first straps on a helmet, to the well known potential of life long chronic musculo-skelatal problems, arthritis, chronic pain and a list of symptoms, syndromes, diseases and disabilities that is far too long to list here, one would be hard pressed to find a football player, particularly an NFLer prepared to walk away from the sport that defines him or has become his chosen profession.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />THE FACT OF THE MATTER</span><br />
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The harsh facts of life are that less than 99.9% of boys who play college football will never even have a remote chance of playing football professionally. Those who manage to actually graduate from college with a degree may have opportunities to make a comfortable living and carve out a decent life for themselves and their families without football.<br />
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Thus far no professional football player has received a fatal injury on the job.<br />
The professions listed above, however, are well represented among the most dangerous jobs in America.<br />
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All the rest, whether or not they ever played a down in a college football game will go on into the workforce just as their peers who never strapped on a football helmet. But, many men do indeed put helmets on everyday they go to work. They may be men who walk high steel, coal miners, firefighters, construction workers and tradesmen, welders or sandhogs. Most won’t wear helmets of any kind as they earn their livings in every type of blue collar job there is; some, far more hazardous on a daily basis than any minute on a football field.<br />
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The average salary for an NFL player this season is $1.8 million - quite an “average” income for any profession. That average salary is at least three times higher than the average salary for those who work in professions with far greater instances and potentialities of injury and even death. Commercial fisherman, truck drivers, ranch laborers, garbage men, cops, highway road crew workers, high voltage electrical repair and installation workers - these are the workers, toiling for annual wages that range from the mid $30,000 range up to the high end of their neighborhoods near $88,000. The statisticians and labor demographers out there can argue the ratio of and per capita representation of all the other hazardous professions in America compared to the small number of professional football players and still not have a valid argument when it comes to risks and rewards. Indeed, this year their were 1,696 men playing in the NFL.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />HAZARDS, CHOICES, MONEY</span><br />
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Enough has already been made about how we as a society, a culture put our athletes on pedestals from the first time they show any real promise. Everyone who has been in High School recalls that the athletes, the members of this or that team had been treated differently, “specially” in comparison to their non-athletic classmates. In college, especially in the big, major conference universities where head football coaches salaries are measured in the millions of dollars, this coddling and special treatment of athletes is taken to an entirely new plane of apartnessness, privilege, uniqueness and entitlement. That is not the argument here.<br />
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What is at the heart of this discussion and the disingenuous “concern” expressed by the NFL hierarchy regarding players safety and health as well as their long term medical problems, is that this elite group of 1, 696 men have made their choice. They have chosen to follow their dream, some one else’s dreams for them, the money and all that attaches to them as professional football players. Money is no small motivator and the promise of ever increasing sums of money in higher salaries, incentives and endorsements in the present tense certainly obscure whatever risks they may be taking as well as the chance they might end up seriously impaired after their careers end.<br />
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Careers end quickly in the NFL, sometimes in the blink of an eye. The specter of a wrong turn or cut, a twisted knee with torn ligaments and cartilage, broken, dislocated bones, degenerative structural ailments of all kinds roam the sidelines of every game as phantom menaces not to be seen, thought of or acknowledged in any way. <br />
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Careers and sometimes lives end in similar nanoseconds for underground miners, law enforcement officers, oil rig workers and others. Many professions carry with them a deadly legacy by way of the various toxic and carcinogenic exposures workers incurred while on they way to a pension.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />THERE ARE REAL CONCERNS BUT...</span><br />
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The last few years has seen a massive amount of data assembled from research and medical surveillance programs that track the health and well being of men who have retired from the NFL. The conclusions drawn from much of this data regarding the long lasting affects of repetitive head trauma alone is sobering. Tissue samples examined microscopically from brains donated by the families of retired NFLers show neuropathological changes in their brains suggestive of the same type of degenerative processes seen as markers for Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.<br />
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Other long term medical surveillance programs have tracked lung disease in miners, factory workers from a wide range of industries, and a veritable medical encyclopedia of ailments many of which will prove to be fatal for some of those affected. Many professions in this country are hazardous on a daily basis and still others bring with them the possibility of chronic conditions that will alter the quality of life long after their workers have punched the clock at the end of their last shift.<br />
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Tomorrows game will go on as scheduled and each man that takes the field will, no doubt, look back when questioned sometime years from now as his Super Bowl experience as one of the highlights of his life. Many of the former NFLers who have been interviewed admit that the quality of their day to day life is a direct result of the years they played football. They all cite examples back to junior league and their high school careers when they sustained injuries, sometimes severe concussions, yet chose to “walk it off” and get back in the action. Imposing fines and penalties will not alter the way the current NFL players play the game.<br />
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As Drew Breese last seasons Super Bowl winning quarterback of the New Orleans Saints noted on ESPN earlier this week, the “improved equipment meant to protect the players’ has actually made the players “more” dangerous, more lethal. The NFL stresses player safety but everyone involved in the game on any level and certainly all those even on the periphery realize that money is the bottom line, the only bottom line that counts. As long as the NFL produces a product - highly competitive football played by the world’s greatest athletes - there will continue to be violent collisions, injuries and long term repercussions for these men when they ultimately leave the game.<br />
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The same can be said for so many hundreds of thousands of American workers from every corner of the workforce, every sector of the giant apparatus that is American production, industry, manufacturing, construction, transportation and distribution. According to the Occupational safety and Health Administration (OSHA), everyday 16 men and women who punched a clock in the morning did not return home from work as the result of a workplace injury or death. That is reality.<br />
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Originally posted on BroodingCynyx.blogspot.com & zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx Saturday, February 5, 2011 @ 12:30PM EST<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1113354921234686508?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-35400244172922434262011-02-03T00:03:00.001-05:002011-02-03T02:56:48.876-05:002011-02-03T02:56:48.876-05:00“WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT”...<span style="font-weight:bold;">AND SO DO MANY OTHER PEOPLE</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TUperY-relI/AAAAAAAAAi4/v3RK_TiK3Io/s1600/cairo2-2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 318px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TUperY-relI/AAAAAAAAAi4/v3RK_TiK3Io/s320/cairo2-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5569367988729772626" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Antigovernment protesters clash with regime backed thugs<br />Tahrir Square on Wednesday.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />(February 3, 2011. Washington, DC) Dawn broke on Cairo, Egypt hours ago after yesterdays violence raged on through the night between the antigovernment protesters and “bands of armed thugs” allegedly doing the dirty work for the embattled President Mubarak as his Army has apparently taken a neutral position amid the escalating tension and violence. It appears that Egyptians have had enough of the 30 year reign of the oppressive Mubarak regime. The last 30 years has seen the 80 million plus population of one of the oldest civilizations on the planet struggle with 40% unemployment, poverty, human rights violations and a host of societal ills that has spawned everything from high infant mortality to the radical Muslim Brotherhood.<br /><br />It is difficult to witness the live footage airing since earlier yesterday on MSNBC of the scenes in Cairo without hearing the words that Thomas Jefferson wrote in our own Declaration of Independence in 1776. The “self evident” truths that motivated our own struggle to be free of the tyranny of the British Empire resounds with millions and millions of people today living under varying degrees of modern day tyranny and rigid, strong-armed regimes deaf to the plight and problems plaguing their own citizenry.<br /><br />Yesterday saw the widest scale escalation of violence as armed marauding bands of Mubarak’s “Secret Police” and other factions loyal to and paid by the 82 year old President went on the offensive against the huge crowds that have been gathered in and around Tahrir Square within stands the Egyptian National Museum. As fires blazed and automatic weapons fired echoed off the ancient streets, tanks of the Egyptian Army stood idle apparently manned by personnel unwilling to engage their fellow countrymen with the armed might at their disposal. <br /><br />Just as all Americans since our founding have valued and often died for the noble, inspired concepts that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, the world is standing witness to the latest assertion of these concepts. Contrary to reports from the right-wing media outlets in the United States crassly using the “distinctly secular” uprising in Egypt to somehow promote their own narrow-minded political ideology and label it as a “radical Islamic movement”, the images broadcast via satellite tell a vastly divergent truth. It is a simple truth, a resounding truth and a truth our own freedoms are founded on. The Egyptian people are standing up and bravely proclaiming their desire to join with their global democratic brothers and sisters as they seek Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. It is that simple and, due to the geopolitics of the last 50 years in the Middle East, that complex.<br /><br />Obviously, America, the Obama Administration, and our incredibly inept “intelligence community” were “caught flat-footed” by the rapidly developing events in Egypt that ultimately may topple the regime of one of our oldest “allies” in that perpetually and perplexingly troubled region. Further complicating this powder keg, Israel, one of Egypt’s neighbors allowed 800 pro Mubarak forces to move into a strategic position in the Sinai Desert. Israel signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 when President Anwar Sadat shook hands over the historic Camp David Accords brokered by then US President Jimmy Carter and Israel's Yihtzak Rabin. Mubarak came to power after Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by factions of his own military incensed by the peace treaty with the “Zionist State.” Since that time Mubarak has been a key US ally in maintaining a “cold peace” with Israel as well as playing a vital yet controversial role in supporting George W, Bush’s “War on Terror.” So, for the Obama Administration and other Middle East nations Egypt and her erupting internal conflict is not an easy matter to assess or intervene.<br /><br />Yes. This is about as complicated a situation as can be imagined rivaling the byzantine tensions between our “partners and allies” in the Afghanistan-Pakistan-Indian rim. We used Mubarak’s secret Police to aid in the CIA’s “Special renditions” and sent more than a few of those we rounded up on the plains and in the mountains of Afghanistan post September 11, 2001 to Egypt for the sort of special interrogation tactics W. claimed we’d not engage in. Oh yeah, oh yeah. That old wheel is going to turn around once more.<br /><br />It is literally anyone's guess what the Egyptian dusk of tomorrow will bring or not bring.<br /><br />Not matter. People the world over hold certain truths to be self evident. Many have died for that just cause and many more will. Hopefully we will not see massive chaos and death live on MSNBC. But, we might.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">TAGS: Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Thomas Jefferson, Cairo Uprising, The Declaration of Independence, Barak Obama, Secular Protests, Mubarak’s Thugs, Inept CIA, MSNBC, Democracy.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />LINKS:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353128/Hosni-Mubaraks-camel-warriors-fight-protesters-Cairo.html<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353128/Hosni-Mubaraks-camel-warriors-fight-protesters-Cairo.html<br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/02/idINIndia-54606120110202<br /><br />http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/<br /><br />http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2045166,00.html<br /><br />http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/israel-and-palestine/110131/sinai-egypt-israel-mubarak-cairo-jerusalem<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Copyright TBC 2011 © All Rights Reserved</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-3540024417292243426?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-39712474143054803432011-01-29T13:20:00.002-05:002012-07-22T14:26:53.145-04:002012-07-22T14:26:53.145-04:00WHY EGYPT MATTERS<div style="text-align: center;">
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(January 29, 2011 - NY, NY) Last Tuesday night as President Barak Obama, stood before a joint session of Congress and the American people delivering the annual State of the Union address, half a world away one of our oldest “allies” in the Middle East, Egypt, was beginning to feel the rattle and hum of a populace fed up. By today the rattles and hums have exploded into full blown revolt with the very real threat of being able to bring down a government.<br />
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After 30 years of tightfisted rule over the largest Muslim Nation in the world and respected by all Muslim countries for their place in world history, President Hosni Mubarak has unleashed his police and military forces to quell the increasingly vocal, unruly and, in some locations, violent protests. It appears that a “tipping point” may have arrived for Egyptian frustration with their government and the social ills that Mubarak has done little to address since becoming President in 1981. He succeeded Anwar Sadat who was assassinated shortly after normalizing relations with Israel in the famous Camp David Peace Accords brokered by then President Jimmy Carter making Egypt the first of Israel’s neighbors to recognize her tight to exist.<br />
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Mubarak, a crafty international figure and consummate Washington inside has long enjoyed extremely close relationships with the United States and our Presidents. In some cases the relationships Mubarak used to his advantage were more than diplomatic - they were personal as with the Bush family. On average the United States provides Egypt with almost $2 billion annually in financial and military aid. As with so many other Middle East nations who repress their people, the ruling regimes have been so heavily reliant on the United States that it can be said such regimes would not have lasted this long without the direct aid of the United States. Now, Egyptians seemed poise to oust Mubarak and make an effort towards some form of self determination and a more “democratic” form of governance.<br />
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While most Americans would have been hard pressed to locate Tunisia on a map a few weeks ago, it was in that northern African country where a very similar uprising by millions of frustrated Tunisians led to the toppling of the long time regime there. In Middle Eastern nations from Yemen to Syria, Iran and Lebanon, grass roots protests are threatening other US backed, long time regimes. So, what does it all mean? What has this got to do with us?<br />
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The answers to these questions are not black and white and, at this point in time, extremely difficult to even speculate on due to the fluid nature of the events in Egypt which is the current and perhaps most unstable epicenter of what are secular expressions by long suffering people; the millions upon millions who want unrestricted entry into the 21st century.<br />
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A report released earlier last week noted that the world wide Muslim population is increasing at twice the rate of the non-Muslim world. We already know about the “youth bubble” in Muslim countries where the bulk of their populations are under 30 years of age. These might be ominous signs for the rest of the West and America in particular depending on how the Obama Administration chooses to navigate the roiling waters in an already unstable region of the world that does, whether we like it or not, is vitally important to our national security concerns. The apparent intractability of the Israeli - Palestinian issue has always made the Middle East a powder keg. Now, with the rising tide of discontent and open, hostile rebellion taking on a viral component, President Obama must make some very difficult decisions regarding who are “true” allies are in that region and just how long we can remain “loyal’ to what are essentially American backed leaders who have done nothing to address the endemic ills of their own countries. Despite the billions of US tax payer provided financial support we have thrown into these countries for decades, we are learning the hard way that America’s voice does not carry the clout, moral authority or authenticity it once did. Muslim, the proverbial “Arab Streets” from Cairo to Tunis has no trust that the United States can or will do anything to really support their efforts other than offer hollow, token, tired rhetoric they’ve all heard before.<br />
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The “global economy” just barely showing some signs of having been resuscitated after the near collapses from 2008 until now is already reacting negatively to the unrest in Egypt. We have been militarily involved in Iraq since 2002, engaged in an escalating, odd and hazardous game of chicken with Iran regarding their nuclear ambitions among other things, and have vocal enemies spread across the region like clusters of chicken pox. Some are state-sanctioned players with terrorism ambitions while others, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Queda and its bastard off shoots enjoy safe havens from Sudan, Yemen and into Iraq. When the US Stock Exchange opens tomorrow look for a tumultuous day as investors find the instability in Egypt generating a ripple effect throughout the already shaky global economy. One way or another, acknowledge it or ignore it, everything is connected. The happenings in Cairo, Egypt will, in some way or another effect the happenings, at least financially as in the price of gas in Cairo, Illinois.<br />
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In the wake of September 11, 2001, Americans learned the consequences of “blow back”. This is not to imply that the secular unrest in Egypt and elsewhere will once again bring radical elements with terrorist intents to our shores but, there is more than one way to impact a country, there is more than one way to inflict critical wounds on America in this all too connected world.<br />
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Hopefully the events in Egypt will bring about some positive, tangible changes for those long suffering 80 million human beings. Hopefully transitioning from brutal semi-dictatorship will not be the result of massive bloodshed. Maybe Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the vast electronic / cyber landscape will be able to usher in a era of change using the power of social media, thoughts, ideals, words and free expression and take the place of the bullets, bombs, grenades and mortars of the last century. It would be fitting and just if this were to turn out to be so.<br />
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TAGS: Egypt, Cairo Demonstrations, Secular Uprising, Hosni Mubarek, Muslim Discontent, Tunisia, Middle East Instability, Democratic Aspirations, US Support, Israel - Palestine Conflict, Iraq, Iran, President Obama<br />
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What can we say?<br /><br />There was a time when we would have had a leg to stand on, when the United States possessed sufficient “moral authority” to at least be in the position to do or say something. Something with some meaning, some heft, some weight behind it. Sadly, those days are gone for good and, at least for the time being, gone also is our international standing and reputation. The Cheney / Bush Administration saw to that. Now, we have a torrent of “leaked” information from diplomatic correspondence and other sources from which the world can draw their own conclusions about the United States, our veracity, our ability to be a friend and “honest broker” when it comes to some of the most delicate of foreign relations and dealings with the world at large.<br /><br />Two prominent physics professors were blown up earlier today in Teheran by as yet to be identified operatives. The bombings have all the hallmarks of The Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence Service known as much for their ability to carry out assassinations across all borders as they are for “gathering” intelligence. One of the “nuclear scientists' killed as was his wife, the other targeted academic survived with injuries. Yes. It was a matter of time. Israel simply cannot stand the fact that she will at some point have nuclear armed neighbors. <br /><br />And why should her neighbors not be nuclear armed? The oh so tired and all too often repeated claim that poor Israel, the only “democracy” in a sea of hostile Arab nations, needs to be able to “defend” herself just doesn't cut it anymore. Actually, it really never did. Israel has been a nuclear power for decades although, to this day, she refuses to acknowledge or admit the truth. Israel was provided all the “nuclear secrets” she needed to develop her own nuclear weapons program by spies and sympathizers decades ago. That is just one among the unknown and unknowable host of “secrets'”she has either directly stolen from us or had deliberately obtained by other nefarious activities. Israel has arguably perpetrated the greatest number of espionage scams against us than any other nation “friend” or otherwise. <br /><br />Yes, Israel, our “Ally” in all matters of security. Israel, who we routinely provide carte blanche coverage for in the United Nations no matter how heinous her actions may be. Israel who criminally prosecutes a decades long occupation against the Palestinian people, murders men, women, and children with American supplied arms of every caliber and kind. Israel, the Zionist state immune from international and United Nations sanctions of any kind, free to murder and maim with impunity; possessed of sufficient hubris, safe in the knowledge that she can hide behind America's fraying apron strings when the international outrage becomes too hot, yes Israel has done it again. <br /><br />The bomb attacks on two prominent Iran nuclear scientists is just the latest in a litany of international crimes committed by Israel in the factious name of her “national security.” Admittedly there is no evidence circumstantial or otherwise linking Israel to these assassinations however, the modus operandi is all too familiar to those in the international intelligence community. One former CIA operative now working in the private sector, speaking anonymously to protect his identity commented, “ As soon as I learned of the details of the attacks in Tehran, I knew, without a moment of doubt that this was the handiwork of the Mossad.” Other sources throughout Europe and the Middle East were equally harsh in their assessment of what are broadly considered to be “terrorist actions”. Lord Philip Lloyd Dunham, retired Scotland Yard veteran and Middle East expert commented, “Israel has a long history of violating international law, flaunting her brazen activities and generally conducting herself abominably. Sadly, due to her “special relationship” with the Americans, Israel has a sense of unaccountability. She has ignored UN Security Council Resolutions for as long as I can recall and I fear with each passing year she grows more emboldened. Israeli behavior of the sort seen in Tehran yesterday will, no doubt, one day trigger a crisis of massive proportions. I pray and hope that somehow something can be done to reign in what is, in essence, a rogue nation.”<br /><br />Iran has long held nuclear ambitions and, despite American and Israeli beliefs to the contrary, has insisted their nuclear ambitions are for peaceful purposes. Long standing international sanctions of the materials required to refine uranium and conduct other highly sophisticated processes vital for developing nuclear power generation have denied Iran the ability to fulfill her desire. Despite repeated overtures from Iran to conduct her nuclear program under the guidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , the United States has spearheaded the sanctions efforts. Most objective observers however, agree that Iran should be permitted to develop a nuclear program until “ Iran demonstrates her intentions to be that other than power generation.”<br /><br />Iran has had troubled relationships with the west and the United States in particular since the days of the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979. <br /><br /><br />TAGS: Current Events, News Opinion, Editorial Commentary, Iran Nuclear Program, Iranian Nuclear Scientists, Israel, The Mossad, United Nations, Israeli Crimes, Zionist Regime, CIA, Scotland Yard, IAEA.<br /><br /><br />LINKS:<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112906300.html<br /><br />http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international-news1941.htm<br /><br />http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8909100932<br />http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=214969<br /><br />http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/11/201011297228879910.html<br /><br />http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2033725,00.html<br /><br />http://www.aljazeerah.info/News/2010/November/30%20n/US,%20Israel,%20Britain,%20MKO%20Collaborating%20in%20Assassination%20of%20Iranian%20Scientists,%20Says%20Iranian%20Defense%20Minister.htm<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/iran-calls-nuclear-physicist-s-killing-terrorism-notes-western-silence-.html<br /><br />http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153477.html<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Copyright TBC 2010 © All Rights Reserved</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1068276013139855820?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-19064306544618668982010-11-23T11:29:00.001-05:002010-11-25T11:34:14.113-05:002010-11-25T11:34:14.113-05:00SCRAMBLED EGGS BENEDICT<span style="font-weight:bold;">POPE CAN'T PUT YOLK BACK IN CRACKED SHELLS</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TO6PQdDrxEI/AAAAAAAAAiY/BQx4glj8EaE/s1600/pope%2Bcondom.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 261px; height: 223px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TO6PQdDrxEI/AAAAAAAAAiY/BQx4glj8EaE/s400/pope%2Bcondom.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543525704180417602" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Pope Benedict XVI: more progressive than anyone would have imagined.</span><br /><br /><br />(Nov. 23, 2010 – Vatican City, Rome, Italy) What the hell is going on here? Has the Pope suddenly realized some of the harsher realities of life in the 21st century? Does the 82 year old Pontiff want some modernization of the Roman Catholic Church to be part of his legacy? Or did he simply misspeak during an interview with a German journalist?<br /><br />Whatever the answers to these questions might or might not be, there can be no denying the scale and scope of the fallout from some comments the Pope made during a series of interviews which are being published as a book. Early leaked excerpts from that book included a statement accredited to the Pope where he said that condom use for male prostitutes comports with Catholic doctrine provided the condoms are worn to prevent the spread of AIDS. Holy Moses! The Pope, male prostitution, and condoms all in the same sentence? That is impressive. What's more impressive are the implications of Pope Benedict's words.<br /><br />The Roman Catholic Church has been, arguably, the least receptive to a changing world when compared to other major organized religions around the globe. Her (The “Church”, for Catholics, is typically referred to in the feminine sense,i.e.: She, Her) intransigence if not flat out hostility to many of the issues facing Her followers, the world and the Church in general has resulted in dwindling flocks in America and other western countries. The Catholic Church has seen Her greatest expansion in some of the poorest places on the planet; many of the developing countries in Central and South America as well as throughout the African continent. This has presented unique challenges to the Vatican but, more about that lsome other time.<br /><br />Back to the Pope and condoms.<br /><br />Birth control has long been one of the most strict doctrines of the Catholic Church and among the most divisive and contentious for American Catholics. The fight began when the first birth control pill, known as “THE PILL” hit the market in the late 1960's. Suddenly men and women could copulate freely, recreationally, without the fear of an unwanted pregnancy. Men no longer had to carry “rubbers” in their wallets or steal them from their Dad's sock drawer. The Sexual Revolution had been declared a victory but the powers that be in the Vatican responded like stranded Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II alone on some anonymous atoll in the South Pacific long after VJ Day.<br /><br />When the Supreme Court decided the landmark case known as Roe v. Wade in 1973 essentially legalizing abortions in the United States, the Catholic Church held firm in their unshakable opposition and adhered to the belief that abortion is “murder”. That is some heavy duty stuff.<br /><br />For centuries the Vatican's word on issues related to sexual behavior was so ingrained in predominately Catholic nations that the demographics of those nations were profoundly affected. Among specific staunchly Catholic nationalities, the birthrate remained staggeringly high even as people struggled with high infant mortality rates and poverty. On the other side of the coin until very recently in history a marriage that ended in divorce was sufficient for excommunication from the Catholic Church. Many Catholics were driven from the Church believing that extramarital sex, the use of birth control, or having a divorce automatically meant they could no longer be “practicing” Catholics. It became a common notion among people, Catholics and non-Catholics, that the Church of Rome, The Vatican, The Holy See, and its Pope, the titular head of the Roman Catholic Church on earth, were backwards at best, behind the times, stuck in the Dark Ages, oppressive, unyielding, and basically, not very Christian in the broadest sense of the term.<br /><br />They were all correct.<br /><br />To truly be a practicing Catholic from the mid 1960's on (after the Vatican II Conference, when The Church sought to “modernize” the liturgy and some of Her teachings, proclamations, and social positions) was not an easy way of life. People coming of age during those years of true social upheaval of every kind in American society found themselves at odds with their parents and Church over issues that had increasingly become more publicly debated and more valued as “personal freedoms”. In virtually all the major issues of the day, The Church obstinately held on to Her dogma, doctrine and traditions even as self identified Catholics in America deserted The Church in droves. So many left embittered, humiliated, and angry that many of them have felt ostracized on some level to this day.<br /><br />As the world turned and life went on, as the sixties gave way to the seventies and beyond, The Church never varied. So stubborn was Her position that The Vatican would always oppose any United Nations initiative that included introducing birth control into the largest emerging Catholic populations in the worlds who just happened to live in the poorest parts of the planet.<br /><br />Now after two disastrous decades of being battered by sexual abuse scandals committed by Priests and covered up by the Church hierarchy at every level, this gaffe prone Pope drops a bomb on the core of Roman Catholicism. Intentional or not, in one fell swoop, one run-on sentence, one statement perhaps mangled in translation, may have unwittingly brought Catholics into the present day. No Catholic of a certain age could read the Pope’s statements without feeling that finally, after all these years, the Catholic Church recognizes the realities of the world and that many who have stumbled and strayed from Her teachings may suddenly find a renewal of Faith in the Church of their youth. <br /><br />People have sex, people use birth control, abortions are performed legally for a variety of reasons both medical and personal and it is no Church’s or governments business. There are deadly sexually transmitted diseases, Catholics in the poorest countries should be able to practice birth control without the burden of feeling as though they have “sinned”. Priests have been predators, some predators pedophiles and the Church in all Her majestic splendor and glory has been fallible, yes indeed, horribly, oh so humanly fallible.<br /><br /><br /><br />Tags: News Comment, Current Events, Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict, The Vatican, Condoms, Birth Control, Abortion, Opinion, Observation, Editorial, Church Scandals <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/20/pope-oks-condoms-in-some-cases-cites-use-by-male-prostitutes-av/<br /><br />http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/11/23/2010-11-23_pope_benedict_xvi_and_vatican_on_condoms_men_and_women_can_use_condoms_to_preven.html<br /><br />http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2010/nov/23/pope-words-on-condoms-bolster-aids-fight-in-africa/<br /><br />http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=zenit&id=31026<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101121/ap_on_re_eu/eu_pope_condoms<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Copyright TBC 2010 © All Rights Reserved</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1906430654461866898?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-10529745202125940612010-11-19T15:15:00.002-05:002010-11-19T18:21:36.970-05:002010-11-19T18:21:36.970-05:00THE INCONVENIENCE OF PRIORITIES<span style="font-weight:bold;">TERRORISTS TESTING AVIATION SECURITY</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TOcFmOs2ZaI/AAAAAAAAAiI/RZMAYPbAfrA/s1600/PAPD%2Bdog1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TOcFmOs2ZaI/AAAAAAAAAiI/RZMAYPbAfrA/s320/PAPD%2Bdog1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541404020842063266" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Port Authority Police Officers on duty<br />at NYC's JFK Airport.<br /><br /><br />(Nov. 19, 2010 – Queens, NY) While stories of passengers discontent with the recently implemented screening techniques at our nation's airports have dominated press and Internet coverage, there is a more important story playing out beneath the inane headlines and viral videos on YouTube. Security experts throughout the government intelligence apparatus and the private sector have concluded that terrorist cells have been conducting “tests” by sending packages, some capable of exploding, via air freight since late October. Thus far authorities believe they have “intercepted” all the suspicious parcels but there is some doubt as to whether or not some “dummy packages” have made it through multiple security checks at different airports and, ultimately, to terrorists operatives here in the United States. Most of these packages have originated in Yemen or Sudan; both North African countries have become favored havens for al-Qaeda and other like-minded groups.<br /><br />Just as during the months prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the intelligence community has been reporting a significant increase in “chatter” among known terrorist groups from the towering mountains of the Afghanistan – Pakistan border all the way across Central Asia and into North Africa. The notoriously tight lipped National Security Agency (NSA) as well as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DCI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have each made off the record statement confirming their shared belief that the “terrorists are probing, planning, and plotting. We have not seen this level of chatter since August 2001 and we all know what happened after that”, said one DIA analyst speaking not for attribution. She continued, “We now know that Mohammed Atta and his crews took many cross country flights to observe the in-flight security procedures on the types of planes they were planning to hijack. They meticulously collected their own intelligence and, as a result of their preparations, were able to pull off the fatal hijackings of that God awful day. We had all better take notice of this chatter now and begin to act accordingly.”<br /><br />The “enhanced” screening procedures causing so much outcry from travelers, some pilots and civil libertarians have been implemented to interdict nonmetallic objects, including plastic explosives, that could be used in-flight to cause damage to an aircraft or actually “blast it out of the sky.” Some major airports are now equipped with full body scanners, an imaging technique that travelers can refuse for health or personal reasons. The frisk method or “pat down” as it has been called in the media, is similar to the techniques law enforcement officers have employed on the streets of America for decades. Some of the loudest opponents to the pat downs claim that TSA officers are not as well trained as most police officers and that some of the pat downs have turned into “humiliating public gropings.” Administrators at both the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claim the new techniques have been developed with privacy, decorum, and professionalism in mind. One senior manager at TSA speaking anonymously commented, “Sure, some folks are upset, some see it as a waste of time and a hassle. Obviously these folks have lost sight of the real threats we confront and have short memories. 9 – 11 was not even ten years ago and already the national mood seems to have turned against security measures in all aspects of our lives. The fact of the matter is that it is just a matter of time until some terrorist group or splinter cell manages to launch a successful attack against some vulnerable aspect in our infrastructure or transportation systems. After that, people will be complaining that we (TSA & DHS) did not do enough. You can't win in this climate of impatience.”<br /><br />Airports and air passenger carriers around the world have been on a higher alert level since the initial parcel bombs were discovered on planes in Germany and Britain on October 29th, just 3 weeks ago. A timely “tip” from the Saudi Intelligence service and fast action on the ground resulted in the bombs being rendered harmless and thus subject to detailed analysis and testing by intelligence agencies from Scotland yard, to our CIA and FBI. Two of the original bombs were addressed to synagogues in Chicago and, after extensive testing that took several days, the British Intelligence Ministry revealed that those two bombs were “sophisticated” and ‘intended to blow up in the skies over Chicago.” the bombs were far more powerful than first indicated but also bore some of the hallmarks of other recent al-Qaeda manufactured explosive devices. “The use of cell phones as trigger or detonation mechanisms pointed to al-Qaeda on the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP), a terrorist group based in Yemen with related suspected sects or cells in Sudan, Kenya and possibly Libya. <br /><br />Under orders from President Barak Obama the United States military has increased the number of un-manned flying vehicles (known as drones) patroling the skies above remote sectors of the Yemeni desert. These drones are capable of firing guided missles and are often armed with other classified ordnance. The government in Yemen, although weak, has pledged to assist in counter-terrorism efforts and step up their own persuit of al-Qaeda members known to be at large in their country.<br />Late today the Pilot’s Union was able to secure a deal with the TSA that would exempt their members from the enhanced screening procedures that have been the source of thousands of complaints. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is also looking into taking some legal action against the TSA and some of their personnel at specific airports where the highest number of complaints have been logged.<br /><br />The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the owner and operator of the 3 major metroploitan New York City airports who also have their own police force said the complaints in their 3 airports have not been overwhelming. Captain Terrance Flynn who commands the counter terrorism unit at JFK here in Queens said, “At first we had a lot of angry travelers. there was a good deal of anger and simple bitching. But, when people realized that everything is done with their safety in mind, most travelers just accept it. We could be saving lives, but, hopefully, we will never know. I pray every night that we do not get hit again.”<br /><br /><br />TAGS: TSA, Parcel Bombs, Pat Down Screening, CIA, NYPD, PAPD, al-Qaeda, Aviation - Airport Security, Yemen, Terrorism Risk, Threat Level, ACLU, Pilot’s Association, <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> UPDATED LINKS:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/business/19security.html?_r=1&hp<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/world/europe/20germany.html?hp<br /><br />http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-30-yemen-us-mail-attack_N.htm<br /><br />http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/10/29/2010-10-29_suspicious_ups_packages_across_east_coast_including_one_in_brooklyn_under_invest.html<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/11/18/tsa-enhanced-imaging-kept-illegal-dangerous-items-plans-year/<br /><br />http://www.tsa.gov/<br /><br />http://www.panynj.gov/police/<br /><br />http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/19/airport.security.issues/<br /><br />http://www.zimbio.com/The+Brooding+Cynyx/articles/SQgOrlMPKqZ/THE+THREAT+REMAINS<br /><br />http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=7758263<br /><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1119/Pilots-to-be-exempt-from-airport-scanners-intrusive-pat-downs<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Copyright TBC 2010 © All Rights Reserved</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1052974520212594061?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-11683151754588125622010-11-19T13:20:00.001-05:002010-11-22T11:23:50.879-05:002010-11-22T11:23:50.879-05:00CHARLIE FINALLY WRANGLED<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><br />HOUSE VOTES TO CENSURE HARLEM DEMOCRAT</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TOqYO2uYNBI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/ZByMeijU3UE/s1600/img-article---beinart-charles-rangel_1957125506.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TOqYO2uYNBI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/ZByMeijU3UE/s400/img-article---beinart-charles-rangel_1957125506.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542409672408445970" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><br />THE ORIGINAL SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE<br />GUILTY OF ETHICS VIOLATOINS: ARROGANT TO THE END</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(Nov.19, 2010 – Harlem, NYC) Standing on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue one finds themselves in the figurative if not geographic center of the New York's 15th Congressional District represented for the last 40 years by the Democrat Charlie Rangel. The 15th is geographically the smallest Congressional Dstrict in the nation as well as one of the poorest. It is comprised of famous neighborhoods such as Harlem, Spanish Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, as well as a slice of Astoria Queens. From this corner one can walk in any direction and find themselves on streets named after icons of the Civil rights Movement such as Malcolm X, Percy Sutton, and Martin Luther King. Hollowed halls such as the Apollo Theater and The Audubon played key rolls in the tumultuous history of Black New York in the sixties and seventies.<br /><br />Charlie Rangel's political career was shaped as much by the issues that resonated with the residents of these communities as it was by his own opportunism, greed, hubris and blatant exploitation of his own constituents. After years of rumors and innuendo the House Ethics Committee began an investigation into allegations related to Rangel's income, taxes, and political influence peddling in 2008. Just today, after being found guilty of 12 out of 13 charges, the Ethics Committee voted to have the 80 year old Congressman censured. This action would basically be a slap on the wrist. Rangel made a tearful plea to the Committee asking for leniency. What the ultimate outcome will be remains to be seen. One thing is certain, though; finally, after a 50 year run in politics, the gravel-voiced Puerto Rican's legacy will forever be tarnished. And rightfully so.<br /><br />If one were to plot the course of Rangel's political ascendency, it would become clear that his career has been defined by crass opportunism. At every step of the way he was able to launch forward on the backs and ideology of other far more gifted, noble men. <br /><br />While it is true that Rangel performed with valor in the Korean War, was wounded in combat and received decorations for his meritorious service, so did tens of thousands of other men. The overwhelming majority of them returned home after the war and went about the rest of their lives in obscurity; toiling to raise their families and provide a better future for their children. Rangel took advantage of the GI Bill to attend college and law school and worked as an Assistant Federal Prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. He ran for Assemblyman and quickly threw his hat into the ring running for Congress against the very popular Harlem icon Percy Sutton. Rangel was victorious and has never looked back. The story of how he managed to become a multimillionaire on a Congressional salary of 40 years is one that largely played out in the shadows of the NYC Democratic Machine. Representing Harlem, an iconic neighborhood to African Americans for over 100 years, Rangel leveraged that position into one of power, influence, and wealth. That he exploited his own constituents and African Americans at large, never seemed to give him pause.<br /><br />Rangel is Puerto Rican, albeit dark skinned. His appearance in Congress in 1971 coincided with the first true representation of “people of color” in the House of Representatives. His complexion was “close enough”, as one long time Democratic operative recently noted. Rangel immediately aligned himself with the Civil Rights movement and the brutal struggles that played out across our Country in the sixties, particularly, in the South, despite the fact that he never participated in it. His ambition and egotism was unbounded and he stood on the shoulders of true Civil Rights heroes such as John Lewis, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and so many others who sacrificed in the Jim Crow South promoting himself as a “Black Leader”. He was a charter member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was “tolerated” by the other members simply because “...they needed numbers. They needed all the help they could get in those days”, said former Washington DC Mayor, Marion Barry. <br /><br />If there was one talent that Charlie always demonstrated, it was his true gift for “talking a good game.” Rangel could schmooze, bullshit, back-slap, intimidate, threaten, and simply produce such an avalanche of boilerplate rhetoric, race baiting incendiary, and trash talk, that he became a favorite of the press always ready to grab one of his sound bites. Gabe Pressmen, the legendary newsman at New York City's NBC Flagship Station WNBC, who covered NYC politics for over 50 years once said, “Charlie has never found a camera or microphone he didn't like. I remember when he first ran for Sutton's seat in Congress. He was ruthless in his attacks and with money from who knew where, he was able to win. Throughout his years in Washington he became so far removed from the people and issues of his District that it was quickly apparent he was in it (Congress) for himself. Journalist's in town (NYC) knew decades ago that he was a crook. A real smooth talker with a true mean streak. He used his 'race' as camouflage and to accuse his detractors as racists. He was always basically a scum bag.”<br /><br />The specifics of Charlie's guilty charges are not unique; he is but the latest hack politician to be caught with his grubby dirty hands in various cookie jars. The one charge New Yorker's are most sensitive to and angered by is his blatant abuse of the Holy Grail of your average New Yorker's life – rent controlled apartments. If not for NYC's strict “rent stabilization” rules there would be no working class, blue collar people living in the fFive Boroughs. The people who keep that City afloat and running only live there by the grace of rent control. Rangel used several rent controlled apartments as offices and for nepotistic gain while his declared residence is in Washington, DC. “The income and property tax structure in the District of Columbia is far more favorable to a bum like Rangel than it is in New York City”, commented Filbertto de Leone, a prominent tax attorney in The Bronx.<br /><br />African American's in New York City have always been protective of and loyal to the politicians who look like them. This is only natural. It was always easy for Charlie to go back home and bemoan how all the “redneck White Republican's” in Congress “have it out fore.” But, ask the man or woman on the street here in this neighborhood about Rangel's rent controlled hijinks and a truer picture emerges about hos they feel about “Our Charlie.” DeShawn Thigpen, a 42 year old father of two , an unemployed carpet layer and a self described “Old time Democrat and lifelong supporter of Charlie Rangel”, said “This deal of his with the apartments. That is a slap in the face to all of us who live up in here. He oughtta be punished for that if nothing else.”<br /><br /><br /><br />TAGS: Current Events, News Commentary, Opinion, New York City Politics, Charles Rangel, Charlie Rangel Scandal, Charlie Rangel Censure, Charlie Rangel Ethics Violations, Editorial, Sarcastic Commentary, Political Satire<br /><br /><br /><br />LINKS: <br /><br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AF47I20101116<br /><br />http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/03/harlem-sends-a-career-criminal-charlie-rangel-back-to-congress/<br /><br />http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/12/charlie-rangels-birthday-bash-a-night-for-ethics-amnesia/<br /><br />http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/13/the-other-scandal-of-the-charlie-rangel-scandal/<br /><br />http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/just_don_o4LUuhrmDip5pcpADAecPK<br /><br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-01/the-scandal-that-could-doom-the-democrats/<br /><br /><br /><br />Copyright TBC 2010 © All Rights Reserved<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-1168315175458812562?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8329791212400244723.post-22789157612596978742010-11-01T13:01:00.001-04:002010-11-01T17:08:10.566-04:002010-11-01T17:08:10.566-04:00THE THREAT REMAINS<span style="font-weight:bold;">PARCEL BOMBS LATEST REMINDER<br />al-Qaeda Intentions Never Waned</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TM8q4x6zEiI/AAAAAAAAAiA/g3QM5EsNlas/s1600/ups+cargobombsYemen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LVKCvS219kg/TM8q4x6zEiI/AAAAAAAAAiA/g3QM5EsNlas/s320/ups+cargobombsYemen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534689622022623778" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A UPS Cargo jet is inspected at Newark Airport on Friday morning aftert two explosive devices found on similar aircraft overseas.<br /><br /><br /><br />(Nov. 1, 2010 – New York, NY) While the FBI continues to analyze components of the explosive devices found on two cargo planes in Britain and Dubai last Thursday night, some answers have already been pieced together. Members of the international intelligence and counter terrorism community have already admitted that the two devices bear “most of the hallmarks” of being constructed by a member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Ibrahim Hassan Al Asiri , a known AQAP bomb maker. Al Asiri is thought to have constructed a bomb he later sewed into the underwear worn by his 23 year old brother, Abdullah, who later died in a failed attempt to murder a Saudi Prince, Muhammad Abdul Aziz Al-Saud , who runs a program in his Country intended to “re-educate” repentant jihadis. The Prince survived with minor injuries while Abdullah was blown to pieces.<br /><br />The “sophisticated” explosive devices were concealed in the commonplace toner cartridges within computer printers. The devices contained 300 and 400 grams of the plastic explosive PETN, a compound favored by terrorists and detected in other home made bombs and long known to be utilized by al-Qaeda and its affiliate brigades. Authorities in Britain, Germany and at the international police agency Interpol have expressed the belief that each of these devices was capable of “taking a plane” out of the sky and may have been intended to be detonated “during flight.” Authorities in America, both in the FBI and CIA have been reluctant to classify the devices in such a way. One CIA analyst, speaking confidentially noted, “these devices could have been sent as part of a 'dry run' or simply to see if they would be detected and what the response would be. If that is the case, they have probably been able to make certain assumptions about the security of commercial cargo aircraft.”<br /><br />Perhaps most disturbing to experts around the world is the fact that these two devices managed to be transported undetected on four separate flights. After a timely tip from the Saudi Intelligence agency, the devices were located on planes at airports in Britain and Dubai. Apparently the construction, composition and concealment of the explosives in computer printer toner cartridges was sufficient to thwart existing security screening measures at airports from Yemen to Germany and Great Britain. According to address labels on the packages they were intended for a Chicago area synagogue. Currently security procedures regarding airfreight and air cargo planes is under review world wide. Air transport security officials and experts in America acknowledge that 'huge gaps” still persist to be in evidence in this area almost 10 years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Dr. Raymond Onelli, a specialist in airport and air freight security currently at BronxWest Consulting, a security, analytics, and counter - terrorism consultancy commented, “I'm often stunned by how quickly people, people in our own government have seemingly forgotten the horror of September 11th. All the promises of funding, training and increased security measures have been lost. Our priorities after the initial shock of September 11th have reverted to the 'old order', 'business as usual' mindset. It saddens me to think that we can be hit again and that our government will once again be culpable.” Many terrorism experts in America and around the world have echoed Dr. Onelli's sentiments. Sir Benteley Pith Whitehouse, a former British Intelligence operative said, “we appear to have dodged a major bullet this time. What this incident means as far as the operative effectiveness of AQAP is unclear. However, it most certainly does tend to remind us that their intent has never waned.”<br /><br />The North African nation of Yemen, a country that shares a porous border with Saudi Arabia has been of increasing interest to intelligence agencies in the United States and abroad in recent years. Many of Saudi Arabia's most feared and sought after terrorists have fled to Yemen in recent years. The growing presence of AQAP in Yemen has received even greater scrutiny after a failed plot to bomb a Detroit bound airplane during the 2009 Christmas travel season and several assassination attempts of British and United Nations personnel in Yemen. One British intelligence officer, speaking not for attribution for his own operational safety commented, “Some of the wealthier and better educated disaffected Saudis have made their way to Yemen. I fear that Yemen will be the launching point for the next series of terrorist actions worldwide. Yes, I said 'actions', for I do believe it to be just a matter of time until they are successful in either bringing down a plane in flight or initiating a mass fatality incident in an urban center in Europe of America. They need not pull off another attack on the scale and scope of 9 11. No, they can be highly effective on a much smaller scale as we have all witnessed the cold efficiency of IAD's (Improvised Explosive Devises) in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.”<br /><br />As the investigation continues in many countries, American intelligence officials have been more guarded in making conclusions about the devices and their purpose. As Bruce Crumley of TIME Magazine writes in today's edition from his post in Paris, “John O. Brennan, President Obama's top anti-terrorism adviser, suggested on CNN that the bombs' construction didn't require someone aboard to "physically detonate them" — raising the likelihood that they were meant to blow up mid-flight, as British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested.” <br /><br />President Obama, speaking on Saturday, called the incident a “credible terrorist threat.”<br /><br /><br /><br />Tags: Current Events, News Analysis, Commentary, Yemen, Parcel Bombs, AQAP, Intelligence, Counter terrorism, PETN, Air Freight, Airport Security, BronxWest Consulting, CIA, FBI.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1029/Suspicious-US-bound-packages-from-Yemen-A-terrorist-test-run<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/yemen-the-new-crucible-of-global-terrorism-2121364.html<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39911024/ns/us_news-airliner_security/<br /><br />http://www.cfr.org/publication/23281/growing_terrorism_threat_postmarked_yemen.html<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/01/germany-yemen-cargo-_n_776951.html<br /><br />http://www.sabanews.net/en/news227836.htm<br /><br />http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/n_8286/<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/8099241/Yemen-parcel-bombmaker-believed-to-be-al-Qaeda-terrorist-Ibrahim-Hassan-Al-Asiri.html<br /><br /><br /><br />Copyright TBC 2010 © All Rights Reserved<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8329791212400244723-2278915761259697874?l=broodingcynyx.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Brooding Cynychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189294395909555173noreply@blogger.com0