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Posted on 02/27/2012 5:24:35 AM PST by shortstop
Kiss it good bye.
Its time to pack the truck and leave these savages to themselves.
Adios Afghanistan. Screw you very much.
After a decade of our blood and treasure being poured into their hellhole, our allies are our enemies, Afghanistan is still a sewer, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel.
We won in Afghanistan years ago we deposed the Taliban and chased out Al Qaida and since then weve been spilling our blood for people who hate us, throwing our money at people who rob us, and destabilizing our future for a nation that isnt a nation.
Its time to case the colors and come home.
Afghanistan II is Obamas Iraq and it didnt work. We have learned yet again that nation building is a fools errand, that you cant impose civilization on an uncivilized people, and that the only country we should be underwriting is the United States of America.
Over the weekend, in some crap hole of a government ministry building, completely paid for by the American taxpayer, one of our dear allies opened up on two of our officers. One more in an interminable line of good guys getting greased by our coalition partners.
Weve been training them for a decade. Weve been supplying them with bullets and beans, but we cant buy them brains. And we cant buy them consciences, and we cant buy them out of the Dark Ages which engulf that whole region.
Our entire operating premise to win hearts and minds is failed. It is ill-conceived and doomed. From the jungles of Vietnam to the back alleys of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, we cant kiss enough arse, we cant write enough checks, we cant issue enough apologies. We will never win a war by groveling for peace.
Because, no matter what the generals say, its not about building schools and clinics. Its not about putting in wells and wires, its about killing the other guy and breaking the will of his society.
Its about blowing him to hell and leaving the next guy shaking in his boots so bad that he throws down his gun and runs. Peace is on the other side of victory, and victory comes from smashing the living snot out of any person, nation, culture, tribe, organization or religion that dares look at you cross-eyed.
The last general who understood that was a guy named Patton. The last president was his commander in chief, Franklin Roosevelt.
Since then, from Korea to Kandahar, we have fought in half measures, tethered by inanities called rules of engagement, lacking the national will to claim victory, much less do what is necessary to secure it. We have had the best warriors, and the worst leaders, from political generals to castrato presidents. We have won on the battlefield and lost in the conference room, and an unfolding era of technology and legality traps our warriors between enemies in the front and referees in the back. Our GIs can survive the battlefield, but not the courtroom, and the lessons of history lie ignored while we dissipate our national security in undeclared, unnecessary wars.
Its time to come home.
Because if some accidentally burned books turns this entire society against us, if a decades investment has not bought us any good will or them any good sense, then its not worthwhile. Its not working. Their military and police are fools in starched uniforms, lacking both discipline and basic intelligence. Afghanistan is today no more a stable, modern nation than it was before the first American arrived in late 2001.
We tried. It didnt work. Screw em. Lets come home.
Or lets be men and kick in the afterburners.
Either roll some thunder across this opium-growing cesspool and get these savages attention, or kiss the whole mess good bye. Simply put: Go big, or go home.
Be a superpower, or be a spectator, but dont keep bleeding our military by dithering in the no-mans-land in between. The question of life is Is you is, or is you aint? And, in Afghanistan, we aint.
And we shouldnt be there.
The last week has shown us that.
We must robustly defend our nation and our national interests. We must have a strong defense and the grit to use it.
And we must stay out of the quicksand.
To hell with Afghanistan.
What the hell are you talking about?
You obviously know nothing about the international financial system. Wars are for making money....period!
[ We have been trying to reuse the Marshall Plan model for decades. While it frequently works, it doesnt always. It seems that the majority of the Afghan people want to keep living the way their ancestors did 1000 years ago. Fine. ]
Nation building only works when the nation your are rebuilding is within 1/2 a century apart in terms of "level of civilisation". The wider the gap the more difficult the prospect of nation building and when that gap gets to be over 500 years it becomes practically impossible unless the people you are occupying actually WANT to advance their civilisation.
[ AND where oh where are Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, et al. protesting all of these deaths as they did when Bush was President?????? ))))crickets(((( ]
Some of them still are, but since their usefullness as useful idiots is no longer "en vogue" they are ignored my ALL the MSM news.
Unnecessary effort.
Just cancel his ticket for the last helicopter, and nature will take its course.
In about five minutes.
See what happened to the last one.
"From the jungles of Vietnam "
We did just fine there. What we lost to were the hippies, liberals, and Walter Cronkite claiming "The war is lost" after the Tet of '68 when actually the viet Cong got demolished during Tet and we took significant advances.
We won abroad, we lost at home.
I was watching a CBS special on youtube awhile ago done right after the La Drang valley battle - our first major battle. (We Were Soldiers once and Young).
They talked about the battle, the historic nature of the helicopters, our victory, and our casualties. And at that end it had some comment like "It remains to be seen how the mothers and fathers and the American public will react to the growing numbers of dead and wounded of its young men in this faraway country." I don't recall the exact wording, but it was something very defeatist like this. I was only six at the time, and thought the anti-war press only happened after awhile - not after the first battle!
All good questions. All reasonable arguments. But I don't remember anyone here bringing them up when Bush started pouring blood and treasure down the rathole. Go figure.
We didn't win. No one has won Afghanistan from Alexander the Great on.
The only way to win is to kill them all, and repopulate. Alexander tried that, and it didn't work to well.
Simply put, we need to stay out of Asia and the middle east. We can't make them love or think like us. We need to realize that they truly don't want to be like us, and never will.
Good points, except for the fact we are not fighting WWII. Our infrastructure is very weak. They don't have to bomb New York, just blow up a few pipe lines. They don't need a carrier battle group, just start shooting up malls. All the drones in the world won't protect the pilots when they clock out at night and get shot at a McDonalds.
We are entrenched in fighting the Nazi's, when we need to remember how we fought the Indians.
"We have to stay. Al Qaida will move right back in if we leave."
No. We need to adapt a policy of scheduled maintenance. Nuke the place every five years to keep things "hot".
"At the end of the fight is a tombstone white/with the name of the late deceased/and the epitaph drear ''A fool lies here/who tried to hustle the East''.- Kipling.
1). You're a troll
2). You think wars are fought for political reasons(i.e. national pride)
3). Petrodollar hedgemony(US troops....big stick)
4). Central banks of the western economies are not the same as the Bilderbergers.....idiot
5). All conspiracies...are stupid.
6). There are news sources other than Fox and thier brethern in the MSM.
Apologies for the double post. Computer memory fart or something.
Try the decaf awhile . . . oh, and gfy.
Israel isn't the best way to do it. They are winning all the battles and loosing the long war.
They are in trouble for the same reason we are, they are trying very hard to be nice in a place where that doesn't work, and they are at the end of a long supply chain.
Israel is going to have to decide what to do soon. They are out numbered and running out of options.
What does Israel's foreign policy have to do with preventing domestic terrorism?
If you recall, Israel had a problem with Muslim lighting up school yards and shopping malls. They instituted a domestic policy that scared the living s**t out of every Muslim allowed to live within their borders.
We can't wall off the areas the attacks could come from, the US is to spread out.
When one side starts playing asymmetric warfare, it the more powerful side is stuck. To win, they have to hit hard, which will only turn the target population against them, causing more unrest.
To truly win, you either eliminate the enemy culture, or move them to a more controlled area. Look at what we did with the Indians. It was horrible, but it worked.
"The Obama administrations increasing reliance on special operations forces with a stagnant budget has sparked concern among the elite units that they will be asked to do too much with too little.
The forces will be conducting missions in 120 countries by years end, up from about 75 currently. This activity is increasing as the U.S. Special Operations Commands budget is set to remain flat."
Get out, flat out, stay out.
I would destroy their center of gravity starting with Mecca.
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WOODLAWN — A Carroll County company has met its investment goal more than 18 months early and exceeded its hiring goal, after receiving a Virginia Tobacco Commission grant.
The state money received by Thomas Automation Management (TAM) came with requirements that it meet certain capital and employment targets by October 2017. According to a company news release on Friday, it met those goals in March.
BASTIAN –– Galax extended its baseball season with a Conference 46 semifinal win over George Wythe. As if the semifinal game didn't extend the season all by itself.
Galax and George Wythe went at each other for 13 innings in a contest that lasted nearly six hours and ended after 1 a.m. Thursday morning, with Galax finally holding on for a 14-12 win to clinch a spot in today's Region 1A West quarterfinals.
RICHLANDS –– Emily Lindsey and Rachel Burris each homered and Grayson County earned a spot in this week's Region 2A West tournament, powering past Richlands 10-2 Thursday in the Conference 39 semifinals.
The Blue Devils open region tournament play today (Monday) when they travel to Gate City for a 4:30 quarterfinal.
Galax picked up a pair of individual trophies and opened regional play on a strong note as a team in girls tennis late last week.
Kayleigh Funk won the Conference 46 singles championship over Rural Retreat's Leah Stepp when Stepp suffered a knee injury and was forced to retire. Funk had won the first set 6-2 but Stepp had battled back and was leading 5-3 in the second when the injury occurred. The injury also handed the Maroon Tide doubles team of Funk and McKensey Stoneman the conference championship by default.
TAZEWELL –– Grayson County calls them 'free 90s' – bases given up via walks, hit batsmen or defensive breakdowns. Virginia High turned many of those 90s into 360s in Thursday's Conference 39 tournament championship game.
The second-seeded Bearcats took advantage of the opportunities afforded them and created many more on their own, belting their way to a 14-5 win over the No. 1 seed Blue Devils at Lou Peery Field.
HONAKER –– A walk and a whack gave Lauren Garvey and the Galax defense all the cushion it would need.
Hayden Cassell's two-run home run in the top of the first inning was all the scoring Galax would get and all the Maroon Tide would need as Garvey twirled a three-hitter Monday in a 2-1 win over Honaker in the Region 1A West softball quarterfinals.
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HONAKER –– As Gordon Lightfoot wrote, sometimes "you feel like you're winning when you're losing again." Honaker has to feel that way today.
HILLSVILLE –– If the double play is a pitcher's best friend, a four-run rally when trailing 1-0 has to be at least a very fond acquaintance.
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The Grayson County School Board's recent adoption of a policy regulating transgender students' restroom use has caused some controversy among people on both sides of the issue, and raised questions among those unfamiliar with transgender issues.
According to the American Psychological Association, "transgender" is an umbrella term that "incorporates differences in gender identity, wherein one's assigned biological sex doesn't match their felt identity."
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Normally, the hour-long results show on any reality show bores me to death. Tonight, Dancing With The Stars pleasantly surprised me. Sure, Tom Bergeron could've revealed the results in ten minutes, but the filler this week was tolerable.
On deck to perform were Britain's "other" boy band– The Wanted. Max George and his backup singers (LOL), sang "I Found You" and "Glad You Came" while looking dapper in their slim suits. Admittedly, I have a bit of a crush on Max, but lately that Jay McGuiness (the curly hair one) is looking pretty cute.
Earlier this season Paula Abdul joined the judges on the panel to critique the All-Stars. This time around, the 50-year-old entertainer choreographed a number featuring four of her No. 1 hits- "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl", "Cold Hearted" and "Opposites Attract". The performance incorporated previously filmed dancing footage with live segments. The results were fantastic and really allowed Abdul to shine at what she does best. She even brought out her animated duet partner MC Skat Kat from "Opposites Attract".
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Check out all the aforementioned performances below. They truly are worth taking a sneak peek at. Without further ado, let's get to the results.
Coming into tonight's results show, Shawn Johnson was on top of the leader board with Emmitt Smith and Kelly Monaco tied at the bottom. First to hear their fate was Johnson and her partner Derek Hough. Not surprisingly, the Season 8 champ advances to next week's finals.
Next to hear their results were Melissa Rycroft and Apolo Anton Ohno. Rycroft is the only All-Star not to have previously won, but the former Bachelor dumpee rose to the occasion, delivering two outstanding performances. The viewers responded and voted her through, thereby making Ohno, tonight's first casualty. He takes his elimination in stride.
Kelly Monaco and Emmitt Smith were the final two in the hot seat. Smith started the competition at the top of the leaderboard during Week 1. But as the competition continued, it seemed the former NFL player lost his spark. Bergeron revealed Twinkle Toes was outta here, which meant Monaco was staying. And more importantly, I get another week to ogle at Val Chmerkovskiy's hotness. I practically fainted this week when he performed a flamenco in tight short booty shorts. CALIENTE.
Competing in next week's finals are Shawn Johnson, Melissa Rycroft and Kelly Monaco. I never would've predicted it would be an all-female finale. At this point it's really Johnson's competition to lose. I really thought Ohno was her biggest competition in terms of fan support. With him gone, she's primed to take it all. Rycroft is the only one remaining who could pull of an upset, but I would rather have a former winner take it all.
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The City of Seattle is providing free wireless Internet access in the Columbia City and the University District business districts. The City's Wi-Fi pilot project also includes four downtown Seattle parks: Occidental, Freeway, Westlake and Victor Steinbrueck, as well as the City Hall lobby area. This is a pilot project. Users can log-in using seattlewifi for the ssid. (More info.)
When will the entire central city be covered by a free network? My money's on the tail end of 2008.
UPDATE: Glenn Fleishman, a local writer who covers Wi-Fi at wifnetnews.com, as well as writing about it and other tech issues for the New York Times, the Economist, and Popular Science, says I shouldn't hold my breath:
There was a brief halcyon time when cities with lots of urban poor and lower middle-class residents put out "bids" for city-wide Wi-Fi that read like this: "Come and build our networks on your own dime. We'll give you utility pole access (if we can). We'll anoint you. We might even move some city telecom business over to you (no guarantees, bud). But you have to pay in a bunch of money for digital divide initiatives and meet really imposing service guarantees."
And EarthLink, MetroFi, Kite, and a few others—including giants IBM and Cisco—did pour forth the money. Now, about two years in, no major city network is complete, although several are well underway (Portland, Ore., and Philadelphia, notably). The companies building these networks are all guarded about their next moves; EarthLink's new CEO (the previous one died in January from cancer) may choose to not build new networks. And there's just not a lot of interest in building networks without much more of a commitment from cities to buy services.
In a city like Philadelphia or even San Francisco, it turns out that there's relatively poor and uneven broadband penetration with cable and DSL, and not enough competition to spur low enough rates to move people from dial-up to broadband or no access to broadband.
Seattle is pretty well situated, and we have a much more middle to upper class set of residents in the city proper.
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Welcome to the homepage for the Department of Biology at Providence College. We hope this site will offer a glimpse into the many opportunities we offer for students to explore their passions in the biological and life sciences, including our focus areas of bioinformatics, ecology and evolutionary biology, molecular biology, conservation, marine biology, bioethics, cancer biology, bioimaging, neuroscience, organismal biomechanics, and physiology.
To Die or Not to Die: The Genetics of Programmed Cell Death in YeastFr. Nic Austriaco O. P. (Providence College)Thursday, January 21, 4:30pm in Al Mag 137
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The Western Massachusetts Writing Project's 24th annual Invitational Summer Institute will bring together outstanding teachers who work with students in all academic content areas and at all grade levels, pre‑K–college. Supported by the WMWP directors and each other, these teachers will spend three weeks immersed in writing, reading, and teacher inquiry, ultimately returning to their schools as WMWP Teacher-Consultants. In this capacity they may provide professional development to schools for WMWP; present their research in local, regional, and national venues; and contribute to the ongoing growth of WMWP. In this way, the Summer Institute represents the first leg in what thousands of National Writing Project teachers around the country have described as a career-transforming journey.
As participants, teachers will engage in their own writing in order to explore ways to use writing more meaningfully in their classrooms. They will participate in a collaborative inquiry community: reading current theory and research, engaging in classroom-based action research, and presenting a professional workshop. Inquiry will focus on the following themes:
CLASSROOM INQUIRY: How can reflecting on my teaching practice help me ask meaningful questions to improve my practice?
LANGUAGE AND POWER: How can language in a classroom be used to empower or disempower students? How can a student's native language be valued in my classroom?
REFLECTION/IMPLEMENTATION: How do I incorporate change into my practice? How can attention to difference in my classroom inform my pedagogy and/or curriculum?
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WHO: Pre-K through college teachers, administrators, and content specialists in all disciplines
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Unanswered: $(document).ready vs Ext.onReady()
As the title suggests, whats the difference? As I see their definitions are the same, but apparently Ext.onReady() does some extra/specific for ExtJS magic without which my ExtJS app does not work.
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Whether it's pigskins or politics, the one thing you know about pundits is that they've got to assign a winner and loser in everything, and assessing the NFL's new labor accord certainly isn't out of bounds.
For now, at least, we'll defer in declaring victory for either side in the NFL-NFL Players Association labor negotiations. Certainly we don't buy easily into the notion being spun by both parties that everyone came out a winner. Just call owners Mike Brown of Cincinnati or Buffalo's Ralph Wilson and ask them if they feel triumphant. Plus, we're just not smart enough to digest quickly the "term sheet" we received Friday morning, which lays out the basics of the CBA extension. We want to hold off on our first-take, knee-jerk reaction that the NFLPA really stuck it to the owners with what looks to be a fairly lopsided deal.
It does seem, though, that some winners can be identified after a tedious process which included more stops and starts and speed bumps than Manhattan rush-hour traffic.
Among them: Tampa Bay quarterback Chris Simms; linebackers Lance Briggs of Chicago and Cato June of Indianapolis; wide receivers Brandon Lloyd of San Francisco, Donte' Stallworth of New Orleans, Kevin Curtis of St. Louis and Nate Burleson of Minnesota; San Diego guard Kris Dielman; Pittsburgh cornerback Ike Taylor; and defensive end Robert Mathis of the Colts, to name a few.
Those players are among a group of young veterans who, minus an extension to the collective bargaining agreement, would have been bound to their current teams through the '08 season. Now, because of the accord struck Wednesday evening that allows them to escape two more indentured years, they could cash in handsomely as unrestricted free agents next spring.
Here's why: One of the quirks of the "uncapped" year, which the league would have entered into in 2007 without the CBA extension, stipulated that players would have needed six accrued seasons in the league's pension plan to be eligible for unrestricted free agency. In the past, a player needed only two elements, four seasons in the NFL and an expired contract, to qualify for unfettered free agency. The extension, which removes the scheduled "uncapped" season in 2007, returns the free agency rules to normal.
So all the players listed above, assuming they don't sign long-term extensions before 2007, can play out their current deals this year and bargain as unrestricted free agents next spring, if they so desire. Many of the affected players acknowledged they were unaware of the free-agency ramifications that would have been set into place by the "uncapped" 2007 season.
Several players who were questioned about it at the Pro Bowl said the NFLPA had never explained fully that element of the "uncapped" year. Of course, it's a moot point now, and suddenly a big-time money matter.
"It's big for anyone who is a restricted free agent this year, who signs a one-year qualifying offer as such, and then heads into [unrestricted] free agency in '07," said agent Hadley Engelhard, who represents Mathis, a former fifth-round draft choice who has notched 25½ sacks for the Colts the past three years as a situational pass rusher, including two straight seasons with double-digit sacks. "To have been tied to a team for two years beyond the normal free agency terms would have been pretty difficult. And it definitely would have translated into a lot of money."
Probably, in fact, millions of dollars.
As a restricted free agent for 2006, the Colts tendered Mathis the highest-level, one-year qualifying offer of $2.069 million. Mathis could have signed a longer-term deal elsewhere, but the Colts could have matched it or accepted first- and third-round draft choices as compensation from the club that signed him to the offer sheet. Even for a proven pass-rusher like Mathis, most teams would have been scared off by the compensation and would have steered clear of him. Under the old collective bargaining agreement, with an "uncapped" season in 2007 and Mathis' unrestricted free agency delayed until after the 2008 campaign, Indianapolis would have had the prerogative of just making him a restricted free agent qualifying offer for 2006-08. Assuming the high-level qualifying offer increases every year, as it historically has done, and Mathis was forced to sign it three times, he would earn about $6.8 million for the 2006-08 seasons.
But if Mathis goes into the unrestricted free agent market next spring, a 25-year-old pass-rusher free to bargain with every franchise in the league, he could make more than that in a signing bonus alone. For a kid who played at Alabama A&M, and whose mother nearly passed out when he brought home his rookie signing bonus check of $126,750 in 2003, Mathis figures to make a lot of money thanks to the extension to the collective bargaining agreement.
And he likely isn't the guy who will benefit most. Indeed, the extension to the labor agreement means that most of the young players cited are going to dramatically expand their savings accounts in 2007.
After discussing a longer-term contract with Tampa Bay officials, Simms re-signed with the Bucs for just one season at $2.1 million before the extension was struck. Now, with the CBA extension in place, and the prerogative to play out his one-year contract and become an unrestricted free agent next spring, Simms essentially can dictate his own future if he continues to improve in 2006 the way he did in 2005.
Let's assume Simms retains the starting job in Tampa Bay this year, takes the Bucs to a second consecutive playoff berth, and goes into unrestricted free agency next spring at just 26 years old. There are less than a handful of starting-caliber quarterbacks, guys who have lined up and played, who have ever hit the open market at such a young age and with their best seasons still ahead of them.
Tampa Bay could keep Simms off the market by signing him to a long-term extension or using the franchise designation to keep him, but he's going to make a lot of money either way, if he continues to progress in 2006. Simms could certainly be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the labor extension.
Briggs, 25, coming off his first Pro Bowl season, is a little different, in that he is still playing under his first contract (he signed with the Bears in 2003 as a third-round draft choice). But his contract expires after this season and, without the CBA extension, he, too, would have qualified only for restricted free agency in '06. Now, unless Briggs signs an extension with the Bears, and talks toward that end are ongoing, he can hit the unrestricted market next spring.
Chicago general manager Jerry Angelo has expressed some optimism that the team can sign Briggs to a long-term deal, and agent Drew Rosenhaus acknowledged that negotiations have been promising. But the extension to the CBA suddenly shifts some of the leverage to Briggs, because the Bears lose the bargaining chip that the prospect of an "uncapped" year in 2007 provided them.
"That angle of the CBA negotiations, as much as any element, was something that we were obviously monitoring," Rosenhaus said. "Not just for Lance, but for all our younger clients in a similar circumstance -- guys who would have been subjected to being restricted free agents by the consequences of the 'uncapped' year. So getting that resolved, providing these guys the potential to be unrestricted, yeah, it really is huge."
Huge enough to make the young veterans affected by it the most undisputed winners in the Wednesday extension to the collective bargaining agreement.
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. To check out Len's chat archive, click here.


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BERLIN Fury over reports that U.S. intelligence monitored the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel spread to much of Europe on Thursday, plunging trans-Atlantic ties to a low and threatening to recast the U.S. and President Barack Obama from friend and ally to cyberbully.
The subject dominated a summit meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels, where some officials suggested stopping or slowing talks aimed at a trade deal with the United States. The German foreign minister summoned the U.S. ambassador in Berlin – a reproach possibly without precedent since the German-American alliance was forged after World War II.
The reports related to Merkel were only the latest about the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. allies. This week they have included revelations of electronic surveillance in France and a report to be published today by the weekly L'Espresso that U.S. and British intelligence services have monitored and are probably still monitoring Italian communications.
Separately, the British newspaper The Guardian said it obtained a memo suggesting the NSA was able to monitor 35 world leaders' calls in 2006.
Reactions from European leaders, especially in Germany, indicated that trust had been shattered.
"We need the truth now," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in English after summoning the U.S. ambassador, John Emerson. Earlier, he had noted tartly in German that people who trust each other do not listen in on each other. "Anybody who does it anyway really damages the friendship," he said.
At least part of the response by European leaders seemed aimed at containing the damage the reports have caused to their own standing at home. Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green party deputy, said what he heard in a meeting of parliament's security committee convinced him that Merkel's phone had been monitored. He declined to discuss details but noted that the U.S. pledge that her phone was not being monitored, and would not be, conspicuously disregarded the past.
Ströbele and many commentators said Merkel should have pursued disclosures of widespread U.S. phone monitoring earlier.
"It is really revealing that Merkel reacts energetically only now, when she is presumably directly affected," wrote Ludwig Greven in the weekly Die Zeit.
Some politicians urged at least a temporary halt in negotiations on a new trans-Atlantic deal that would create a trading area of 800 million people.
"For us, a limit has been reached," said Martin Schulz, chairman of the European Parliament. There could not be talks, he said, when the other side has spied on you in advance.
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Sony announced today the Cyber-shot WX170, claiming it the smallest x10 zoom available.
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Click here to review the incoming 7th grade summer reading expectations.
Click here to review the 8th grade summer reading assignment - The 8th grade summer reading assignment encourages students to continue reading outside of school. Students are asked to keep a list of their self-selected titles and choosing one, complete a summary, series of reflections, and a plot diagram. This work is due during the second week of school and should reflect rigor and depth of thought.
Summer Science and Arts Academy
Pottery, renewable energy, astronomy, robotics, aeronautical engineering and painting are just some of the many exciting topics students entering grades 1 through 8 can investigate in through the district's summer program – the Science and Arts Academy. This year's program runs July 5 through July 28 at Snohomish High School (1315 Fifth Street in Snohomish). Classes are held Mondays through Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Note: During the July 4-8 session classes will be held Tuesday through Friday due to holiday.) Click here for more information.
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1994 American super-hero movie around the eponymous protagonist's fight against a mysterious Mongolian villain in 1930s New York City. Based on the character of the same name originating from 30s pulp novels and radio shows.
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It is possible to mount the partition where the ISO extracted (Or we can say the root partition of a Live-USB ) not as Read-only but as read/write-able partition ?
you could try to make a partition, and use ubuntu cd on start up and run repaire broken packged, and in grub bootloader menu run shell, and type.
chroot / mount (name of usb like hd2) (name of partition like /dev/sda) gpart and make the partition on the usb as /root
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I'm having some issues with the flexslider on the homepage of my website and in posts using the Adapt theme by WPExplorer.
It works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox and Opera, but doesn't show at all in Internet Explorer 7.
I've been searching the web for days now trying to find a solution, but no luck so far. I'm fairly new to PHP and jQuery (where i suspect the problem lies) so your help would be greatly appreciated!
PS. Contacting the creator of the theme directly is not an option. WPExplorer does not seem to offer support for their free themes to non paying users.