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"Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force.
While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially. But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, saying, 'I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.'... The pair arrived Jan. 5 on Gulfstream jets and were guests of Wallace Carline, the owner of Diamond Services Corp., an oil services company in Amelia, La."
- From 'Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia', the Los Angeles Times
"Ask the people if they know what's happening in the private sector and they are all aware that there is a flurry of activity in the private sector, and they tell you that there's either nothing available or that the salaries are too low. Job creation is being left to the bankrupt state, and wealth creation is going to people who don't employ. The supplemental money should be a one-time injection, but it is not being used to lay the groundwork for a vigorous, autonomous economy. We are headed toward the mafia capitalism of [Boris] Yeltsin's Russia," said [Isam al-Khafaj, a former CPA employee who now heads Iraq Revenue Watch].
- From David Enders' 'Fighting for a job in Iraq', Asia Times
Let's start with former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, or rather the administration's reactions to his revelations in the Ron Suskind book, The Price of Loyalty, and on "60 Minutes." Along with a classic description of the President in meetings as "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," there were at least two major revelations here -- that war with Iraq was at the top of the Bush administration agenda in its very first National Security Council meetings after taking office in January 2001 ("From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go"); and that, as Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal put it in a recent piece in the British Guardian, Vice President Cheney is indeed "the power behind the throne." (Recounts Blumenthal: "When O'Neill argues that out-of-control deficits will cause a 'fiscal crisis,' Cheney 'cut him off. 'Reagan proved deficits don't matter,' he said ... 'This is our due.' In the end, Cheney fires O'Neill, the first vice-president to dismiss a cabinet member.").
Cheney, by the way, offered a strange little backhanded acknowledgement of this state of affairs via a "joke" he made in a hair-raising speech he gave to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles the other day:
"This is not my first meeting with the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, but it has been a while. I was last here in April of 1990, when I was Secretary of Defense, back in the days when I had a position of real power and influence in Washington, D.C. (Laughter.)"
Laughter indeed.
As for those accusations about the planning to "take out" Saddam way back in February 2001:
"Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld spoke at the second [National Security Council] meeting [in February 2001] about how removing Mr. Hussein would 'demonstrate what U.S. policy is all about' and help transform the Middle East, the book said. Mr. Rumsfeld talked at the meeting 'in general terms about post-Saddam Iraq, dealing with the Kurds in the north, the oil fields, the reconstruction of the country's economy, and the 'freeing of the Iraqi people,' the [Suskind] book said.
'From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country,' the book quotes Mr. O'Neill as saying. 'And if we did that, it would solve everything. It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying, `Fine. Go find me a way to do this.'"
There were other "revelations" as well, but I'd like to focus here on how the Bush administration dealt with all this. The initial reaction -- before the Sunday of O'Neill's "60 Minutes" interview -- was clearly to ride out the mini-storm, just as they had so many others. They assumed perhaps that it would stay inside a distinctly no-boil media teapot. Give Press Secretary Scott McClellan credit, then, for the best non-O'Neill line of the whole imbroglio: "We're not in the business of doing book reviews."
"Q: Scott, on the O'Neill book, did the former Treasury Secretary make false claims or accusations? And if so, what were they?
Mr McClellan: David, you've heard me say repeatedly that we're not in the business of doing book reviews. I don't get in the business of selling or promoting or critiquing books. I would say that you all are well aware of a lot of these facts on issues that have been raised over -- that some of you raised over the weekend.
But this -- I think it appears to be more about trying to justify personal views and opinions than it does about looking at the results that we are achieving on behalf of the American people. And the President is someone who is always forward looking, and he's going to continue to be forward looking. He's going to continue to focus on the results that we are achieving and building upon those results, to strengthen our economy even more and to make our world -- continue to make our world a safer and better place."
As a former book reviewer I can admire that one. Wouldn't want to "sell or promote" Suskind's book, would we? 60 Minutes later -- or by Sunday to be exact -- they had already pivoted on a dime and sent Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, among others, out to talk about the President's decisiveness in cabinet meetings. ("He drives the meeting, asks tough questions. He likes dissent."). No blind man talking to the deaf there, no sirree. On day three of damage control, they turned to the charge that the administration came into office spoiling for war in Iraq and escalated, hauling out the President himself as a rebuttal witness. As is his wont, he took full responsibility -- and dumped it on... Knock, knock. Who's there? Bill. Bill who? Bill Clinton and "regime change" was my middle name.
George's explanation was simple: Forget the book review, Clinton did it.
"'The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear,' Bush told reporters during an appearance with Mexican President Vicente Fox in Monterrey, Mexico. 'Like the previous administration, we were for regime change.'
During the early months of his presidency, Bush said the administration's Iraq policy focused on 'fly-overs and fly-betweens and looks' in an effort to monitor Hussein's military and weapons programs."
Folks, here's the truth, so help me Bill: Iraq back before 9/11 was just your basic ho-hum, no-fly zone of boredom. This is almost as amusing as McClellan's "book review" line. According to ABC news, however:
"President Bush ordered the Pentagon to explore the possibility of a ground invasion of Iraq well before the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, an official told ABCNEWS, confirming the account former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gives in a book written by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind. The official, who asked not to be identified, was present in the same National Security Council meetings as O'Neill immediately after Bush's inauguration in January and February of 2001.
'The president told his Pentagon officials to explore the military options, including use of ground forces,' the official told ABCNEWS. 'That went beyond the Clinton administration's halfhearted attempts to overthrow Hussein without force.'"
Given what's happened to O'Neill, I wouldn't want my name used either. (In fact, don't use my name.)
On the same day, a mere 75 days faster than the Justice Department launched an investigation of who in this administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent to Robert Novak (in retribution for a New York Times op-ed by her husband, ex-ambassador Joseph Wilson, embarrassing the administration over those 16 Niger-Yellowcake words in the State of the Union address), the Treasury Department, O'Neill's former bailiwick, launched an investigation "into why a document stamped 'secret' was used to illustrate an O'Neill interview Sunday night."
And then it was pure guns-of-August time and so Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld arrived on the scene to deny everything and accuse O'Neill of "sour grapes." ("The idea that [the president] came into office with a predisposition to invade Iraq, I think is a total misunderstanding of the situation.") By then, a punchy O'Neill was wondering what hit him, muttering about still voting for George, and wishing he could take back some of what he said.
Now let's reconsider the major revelation in all this. I don't want to denigrate the importance of the Suskind book or the "60 Minutes" interview. It's always fascinating when someone formerly high-up in an administration that prides itself on close-mouthedness breaks ranks and blabs. But the "shock" of all this reminds me of those wonderful close-to-final lines in the film Casablanca when the French police chief pronounces himself "shocked, shocked" and then suggests rounding up "the usual suspects."
In all this "shock," if you think about it for a minute, there's so much sham. Our world of mainstream news is so closed, so blinkered, that the O'Neill description of Bush -- a blind man talking to a roomful of the deaf -- seems to me to catch something of our media as well. Sometimes, I suspect, the "news" should be the very opposite of what we call news. In this case, for instance, the truly shocking headline would have been: "Bush administration revealed not to have any intention of making war on Iraq before 9/11."
No one who bothers to read the various documents that came out of neocon think-tanks like PNAC (Project for the New American Century) in the 1990s could believe that, when these characters and their allies made it into office, they wouldn't be thinking about what our vice president ever so politely calls "pursuing a forward strategy for freedom in the greater Middle East." The problem wasn't wanting that "forward strategy," or even planning for war in Iraq, but initiating it. Without Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks, this would have been a far harder trick, even given a Republican dominated Congress. It would certainly have riven the country. Yes, it's useful and fascinating to know, thanks to O'Neill's eyewitness account, that they were thinking on taking office just as they had been thinking out of office, but had these fellows not been beating the war drums from early on, given their quite open track record on the subject, that would have been shocking.
In the meantime, despite the fact that the Supreme Court recently accepted the Cheney energy-task-force case, there has been next to no writing in the mainstream about how, from the beginning, this administration emphasized global energy flows, the redirection of those flows our way, and the "protection" of them. I recommend a piece on the subject that Mike Klare wrote in 2002 and that was recently posted at www.commondreams.org, barely updated (it didn't need it). After an analysis of the early energy moments of this administration back in 2001 and a discussion of its global energy/military policies, Klare concludes in a way that fits all too well with O'Neill's Iraq war revelations:
"As a result, a two-pronged strategy governs U.S. policy toward much of the world. One arm of this strategy is to secure more oil from the rest of the world, and the other is to enhance the capability to intervene. While one of these objectives arises from energy preoccupations and the other from security concerns, the upshot is a single direction for U.S. dominance in the 21st Century. It is this combination of strategies, more than anything else, that will anchor the United States' international relations for years to come."
One small detail of the initial occupation of Baghdad, noted in passing at the time, but seldom commented on since, stays in my mind. Amidst all the looting of unprotected Iraqi ministry buildings, there was one odd bit of planning. American troops were quickly sent to guard the Oil Ministry building. You explain it.
Klare is about as sensible as you can get on a subject that should be basic to any news analysis of the world as seen by this administration. But it's not a view that we see much of, do we?
Meanwhile in Iraq
I can't help thinking that there's a charade-like aspect to the news everywhere. On Iraq too, it's hard to find people in the mainstream writing the obvious -- the sort of thing any attentive soul should really be able to see without a lot of expertise.
But let's back up a minute and start with a vivid description I ran across recently -- thanks to the always interesting suggestions at www.cursor.org -- of the CPA, our "brain center" in Iraq, imprisoned in its Baghdad Green Zone. Here's part of an interview by Mark Stoller with a nameless but obviously well-informed journalist in Baghdad at The Blogging of the President: 2004 website:
"Most of the people in the Green Zone never leave, or only leave with massive army escort and then only to go directly to meetings in ministries. They call the area outside of the Green Zone, the Red Zone. In other words: all of Iraq is the Red Zone. So, very few people in the CPA have the slightest idea what's going through the minds of Iraqis. They either have brief conversations with people on the street, when they're surrounded by armed troops. Inevitably, the Iraqis tell them they are very happy with the US occupation. What else would they say? I never, ever meet Iraqis who are happy with the US occupation. Or they meet with their own Iraqi staff or staff at the ministries, who are similarly positive--sycophantic to their bosses. The ignorance is so great that I generally find when I meet with CPA officials they start interviewing me, because I know far more about Iraq than they do.
On top of it, living conditions in the Green Zone are unbearable. Since the Rashid bombing, many live in massive dorm rooms--200 or more to a room--with senior officials and soldiers crashing out on bunk beds. There aren't enough toilets or showers. Everyone is sick of the KBR cafeterias that offer a constant array of college cafeteria food: sloppy joes, burgers, limp salads. Nobody can eat in Iraqi restaurants. Most have never eaten Iraqi food. My friends in the CPA tell me they are truly depressed, truly miserable. People are leaving. People are forgetting Iraq and focusing on hooking up with each other... Nobody knows what anyone else is doing, nobody knows what is happening in the ministries they are advising. It's total chaos."
At this point, I think the question is simply whether this administration can bumble through in Iraq, cluelessly, planlessly, until November 2004 before the roof falls in. In that sense, it hasn't been a wonderful week for them. Just to toss together a few of the incendiary straws floating in an increasingly stiff breeze: There were the four American soldiers who died Saturday bringing the total American military dead since the war began to 500 (along with two Iraqi civil defensemen, and earlier in the week, a Turk and two Indians, contract workers for Halliburton's Kellog, Brown & Root, and various Iraqis, none of whom much matter to us or "count" when it comes to casualties). What does count, though, is that 500 marker of American deaths on the road to hell.
But that turns out to be the least of it this week. There were those rumors -- floated perhaps by alienated OPEC diplomats -- that the oil organization might consider pegging crude oil prices to the Euro, not the dollar, which would be a more than symbolic slap in the face. Just mentioning the possibility probably puts added pressure on the dollar in the very week when, as Immanuel Wallerstein points out in his latest column, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a report treating "the U.S. government to the kind of public reprimand it usually reserves for dubious Third World regimes. It says in effect that the basic economic policies of the Bush regime are dangerous for the U.S. and the world... [According to the IMF] The U.S. is headed to a debt level of 40 percent of GDP, 'an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country....This trend is likely to continue to put pressure on the U.S. dollar, particularly because the current account deficit increasingly reflects low saving rather than high investment.'"
Then there were the Kurds pushing against the CPA for something barely short of an independent Kurdistan, the Sunnis organizing politically, and with those 30,000 protestors marching in Basra, the Shiites... well, there, undoubtedly, lies the real oppositional tale not just of the moment but of the future. Finally, there was the Turkish prime minister threatening that, should Iraq fall into internecine strife (and Kurdistan implicitly become anything close to a reality), his country would intervene. This news comes from a piece in the Turkish press spotted by the eagle-eyed editor of www.warincontext.org that got, as far as I can tell, no attention here:
"Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said yesterday that in the event of Iraq's disintegration, Turkey will intervene. Erdogan stated that Iraqi Kurds are trying to take the oil regions under their control and "this should not be allowed. Kurds should be prevented from playing with the fire," warned Erdogan."
And speaking of playing with fire, there was Ayatollah Sistani insistently striking matches and moving them ever closer to the last bit of foundation under America's teetering version of Iraq: After all, the clear and present danger of Saddam's Iraq, the 9/11 connection, the weapons of mass destruction arsenal have all evaporated and what's left in our explanation arsenal is overthrowing a brutal dictator in the name of "democracy."
I can imagine a little dialogue in Washington right now that might go something like (you fill in the names): "Who said democracy? "I didn't say democracy, did you?" "I didn't, did you?" "Not me, did you?" and so on...
I mean who expected a bunch of Shiites in Iraq to take us seriously? "Democracy" was the last code word we had for getting what we wanted out of Iraq. We didn't mean actual elections, honestly folks, not ones at least that might result in any version of a Shiite-style republic. What we meant by "democracy" was obscure "caucuses" -- a word, by the way, for which, according to Robin Wright and Daniel Williams of the Washington Post "there is no precise equivalent in Arabic... nor any history of caucuses in the Arab world, U.S. officials say."
There's a bit of an irony here. We were bringing them "democracy," but when some of them actually demanded the promised goods, we said, impossible, can't be done in the time available, and insisted instead that the Shiites in particular settle for a process of choosing so obscure and indirect that it just might result in a government which we would feel comfortable turning "power" over to.
Unfortunately for the Bush men, Ayatollah Sistani has as of yet refused to give in on the matter of elections. As Dilip Hiro describes the situation in the Nation magazine (Sectarianism in Iraq):
"Although Bush dropped the earlier plan of having Iraq's Constitution framed by a committee of 'experts,' he and [CPA head] Bremer have been unwilling to let Iraqis elect the provisional assembly to take over sovereignty from the CPA by July 1. The reasons offered -- electoral rolls not being up to date and ration-card identification disenfranchising returned exiles -- are spurious. Since every Iraqi carries an ID giving name, address and age, and since the 250 parliamentary constituencies are demarcated and have been used five times between 1980 and 2000, there is no need for updated electoral rolls or the use of ration-card IDs. At an estimated 250,000, the number of Iraqi returnees is a mere 1 percent of the population. Washington's real reason for depriving Iraqi voters of the right to elect the transitional assembly lies in a poll by the Baghdad-based Center for Research and Strategic Studies, which found that 56 percent of respondents wanted an Islamic Iraq."
This Shiite insistence, not the armed resistance of the Sunni minority, may prove the administration's deepest problem. Juan Cole at his Informed Comment website describes the present increasingly incendiary situation this way:
"al-Hayat reported that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's representative in Karbala, Shaikh Abdul Mahdi al-Karbala'i, warned that the coming days will witness demonstrations and strikes, and possibly confrontations with the occupation [Coalition] forces if they insist on 'their colonialist plot and in designing the politics of this country in ways that serve their interests.' Al-Karbala'i called everyone in his Friday sermon before hundreds of worshippers 'to support the religious leadership,' affirming that 'the Shiite leadership in Najaf takes a great interest in the process of transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi people through general elections.'
He added that it would 'never henceforth allow the rights of the Iraqi people and the oppressed religious community [the Shiites] to be stolen from them, and would never compromise on their rights.' He said that 'The religious leadership is intent proceeding with this battle until the end. What is asked of you now is not to abandon [Grand Ayatollah Sistani] to himself, since leaving him in the lurch would expose us to the wrath of God and the curses of history.' He asked the worshippers to 'forget your disputes and to unite for the sake of the greater cause,' pointing out that 'apathy and negligence will lead to more long years of repression.' He warned of enemies of the Shiites who were meeting behind closed doors to plot the political future of the Iraqi people."
"Colonialist plot." Uh-oh. This is serious stuff and it drove L. Paul Bremer, our viceroy in Baghdad, who's looking ever less cocky these days, back to Washington yet again for "consultations." It also drove American reporters and columnists into some typically dreadful reportage in a language both unexamined and remarkably blinkered.
Here from the same Washington Post piece, for instance:
"Sistani has refused to see any U.S. official, and Washington is not sure how many of the indirect communications have reached the aging and reclusive cleric, U.S. officials add. The United States is still looking for people who know Sistani well enough to act as go-betweens for the negotiations or to explain Sistani's thinking. Senior U.S. officials note that the current uncertainty is just a part of the political process in a country with no experience in democracy."
A country with no experience of democracy. No wonder they're demanding it! What about from a country with no desire to deliver real democracy?
Gee, Sistani's thinking must be complicated indeed. Democracy is when the majority rules via free elections; the Shiites are a majority in Iraq; elections would undoubtedly mean a Shiite majority. Poor aging, doddering, out-of-touch Sistani looks pretty "democratic" and clever to me. Even if he doesn't get his elections, he'll be well-positioned for any post-American future, untainted by the brush of American "colonialism."
Here's another passage from the same piece -- and pretty typical of reporting from Iraq in our press: "One Governing Council member said that if Sistani pushes too far, members would revolt and the council might collapse. That would leave the United States without an Iraqi face on its authority here and with dim prospects for transferring the management of Iraq to Iraqis."
Imagine that! There's a good definition of democracy for you. An "Iraqi face" on our authority. No wonder we don't really want an election. Here's another version of the same sort of thing from Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on the bleakly amusing prospect of Bremer and the Bush administration turning to - of all places -- the UN for help in convincing Sistani that "democracy" shouldn't really mean "democracy," not in Iraq anyway. Ignatius begins by suggesting that (Bremer's U.N. Lifeline):
"Bremer's problem is that America's indispensable ally in Iraq -- the Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani -- isn't budging in his demand that elections precede the handover of sovereignty. In part it's a power grab by Sistani, who knows these elections will lock in the power of Iraq's Shiite majority."
Ah, a "power grab." I wonder, just out of curiosity, how Ignatius described the Florida maneuverings of George & Co back in 2000. A power grab? Ignatius then continues:
"So things have come full circle in Iraq: After bypassing the United Nations on its rush into Iraq, the Bush administration now realizes that it needs [UN head Kofi] Annan's help in getting out. Bremer hopes the Monday meeting will produce a process for bringing the international organization back into Iraq. The fact-finding team will buy time until the July 1 transfer -- assuming Sistani goes along. Once Iraq regains its sovereignty, the United Nations can then help write election laws, compile reliable voter rolls, appoint an election commission and write a new constitution. The United States can help in these nation-building tasks. But they will be easier for Iraqis to swallow with a U.N. seal of approval -- which should take the sting out of occupation."
Look at the language there. We "bypassed" the UN in our rush "into" Iraq. We're talking invasion here. Now, if we can just recruit the UN, we can somehow bypass Sistani, "buy time," make our version of "nation-building" "easier to swallow," and "take the sting out of occupation."
Talk about tortured language. You just wonder what reality these guys live in anyway?
This week Todd Gitlin, who's launching a new column at the openDemocracy website, in his first piece had this comment on "democracy" -- you know, that thing we're so hot to export -- as it's practiced back in the good old US of A these days (The politics of anti-politics):
"The brontosaurian length of American election campaigns is not a tribute to our collective fascination with politics. To the contrary, such is the political lethargy of the world's oldest democracy that the campaign must elongate itself if it is to have a chance of roping in even half of the electorate by the time the day finally comes for the people to make known their collective will.
The roughly two-year-long campaign is evidence of a perverse American disdain for political life and government. What a peculiar thing! This grandiose nation-state with planetary (indeed, interplanetary) reach and colossal global consequence is governed by a government held in contempt by most of its citizens.
In popular parlance, 'politician' is a curse-word. 'Politics' - as in 'that's just politics' - is synonymous with pettiness, corruption, unreliability, and warped reasoning."
Perhaps that's why the Bush administration was in such a rush to get Halliburton and Bechtel into Iraq. Otherwise when Iraqi "democracy" hits, who's going to have the dough to make American-style "donations" to the politicians?
What does the real world of Iraq planning look like then? Are we turning over power on July 1 and heading for home. Withdrawing? Taking the last helicopter out of Baghdad? Well, let me give it to you in a line from a recent Christian Science Monitor piece by Dan Murphy (US to begin drawdown in Iraq), "The US hopes to reduce its presence in Iraq to about 50,000 by the end of 2005, coalition officials say."
50,000 if all goes well -- and it won't -- by the end of 2005. Just remind me of what it is we're planning to turn over to the Iraqis someday?
Oh, and p.s.on our little wars and what can be seen of them, should anyone care to look -- Paul Rogers, also of openDemocracy and always a clear-eyed analyst, reports the following on Afghanistan (A war on several fronts):
"It has been clear for some time that Taliban elements have been regrouping in preparation for a possible substantial campaign in summer 2004. Recent Taliban actions have been directed against aid workers and other non-military targets rather than US forces, with the intention of damaging the morale of the Afghan military, police and public servants. There was, however, some expectation that such violence would diminish during the winter as Taliban units prepared for their coming campaign.
The latest spurt of violence suggests that even in the middle of winter, Taliban elements are able to undertake damaging attacks on a wide range of targets. At the very least this means that the United States will have to commit many thousands of troops to Afghanistan - against its original plan to withdraw most of its forces by as far back as eighteen months ago. In just over two years since the Taliban regime was overthrown, 100 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan. Afghan civilian, military, police and Taliban deaths are numbered in the thousands."
Their world and welcome to it
Now, let's return to our vice president -- the man who never saw a bird he didn't want to shoot, an oil executive he didn't want to send him on a trip somewhere, or a homeboy Supreme Court judge he didn't want to hang with -- and that speech he gave to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles. Even though it was covered in the mainstream only by Maura Reynolds in the Los Angeles Times (Cheney Warns Against Complacency on Terrorism), James Sterngold of the San Francisco Chronicle (Cheney's grim vision: decades of war) and Hil Anderson of UPI ("During his Beverly Hills speech, however, Cheney made no effort to counter any of O'Neill's recollections nor would he take any questions from the assembled media following his appearance on the podium. What the vice president did do was to fan the flames of urgency over the war on terrorism, largely ignoring Saddam's potential to threaten anyone other than the Iraqis.") as far as I can tell, it was a barn-burner. Or maybe it was a city-burner.
Go read it yourself and then tell me that these guys weren't just dying to get at Iraq back in February 2001. In this largely overlooked speech, the VP offered us the hard-core administration version of reality -- we're talking in Texas Chainsaw Massacre terms here -- and it should be attended to. I mean, don't go to sleep tonight and be scared, really scared.
There was his warning about the next terrorist attack ("Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens or even hundreds of thousands of lives as the result of a single attack, or a coordinated set of attacks"); there was his reassurance that we're fighting in Iraq lest Toledo be next ("We have, today, more than 125,000 Americans serving in Iraq. They are confronting terrorists every day in that country, so that we do not one day meet the same enemies on the streets of our own cities"); there was the use of the "war on terrorism" as a yardstick to measure everything from illegal immigrants ("The problem we have today is we have millions of illegal, undocumented workers in our midst. We do not know when they came. We do not know how long they stay. We do not know what they do while they're here. We do not know when they leave. From the standpoint of homeland security and securing the nation's borders, it is a major hole, if you will, in terms of our overall situation.") to the value of Afghanistan ("The Afghan people are building a decent, a just, and a democratic society -- and a nation fully joined in the war against terror"); there was the assurance that preventive war -- one, two, three, many Iraqs -- is our future ("Given these realities, there can be no waiting until the danger has fully materialized. By then it would be too late. And so we are waging this war in the only way it can be won -- by taking the fight directly to the enemy"); there was "the enemy," just one Enemy; and above all, there was the invocation of a chilling analogy.
9/11, the vice-president insisted, wasn't really a new Pearl Harbor:
"There are certain moments in history when the gravest threats reveal themselves. And in those moments, the response of our government must be swift, and it must be right. September 11th has been aptly compared to December 7, 1941 -- another day in our history that brought sudden attack, national emergency, and the beginning of a sustained conflict. Perhaps a closer analogy can be drawn, not to the days of Franklin Roosevelt and World War II, but to the decisions that faced Harry Truman at the outset of the Cold War... In a short time, our government created the architecture of national security we know today: the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council... All those early commitments, made by one President and carried forward by eight of his successors, helped to bring victory in the Cold War..."
Note not only the invocation of the creation of a new infrastructure of war and national security under Truman, but the mention of those "eight successors." I mean, folks, here's Dick Cheney's reality -- and you're not going to find much about it in our papers or on the prime-time news: In the gospel according to Cheney, we've entered what former CIA director and distinct kook James Woolsey has called "World War IV." It's just begun and, on the pattern of the Cold War, which qualifies as World War III, it's going to last the next fifty years or so. This is a terrorizing vision from the man who, if Paul O'Neill is right, is just behind that chair in the Oval Office.
I leave you with this small comment from James Fallows, part of a piece in this month's Atlantic on all the prewar planning on postwar Iraq that the administration managed to ignore or sideline:
"This is the place to note that in several months of interviews I never once heard someone say 'We took this step because the President indicated ...' or 'The President really wanted ...' Instead I heard 'Rumsfeld wanted,' 'Powell thought,' 'The Vice President pushed,' 'Bremer asked,' and so on. One need only compare this with any discussion of foreign policy in Reagan's or Clinton's Administration... to sense how unusual is the absence of the President as prime mover... It is possible that the President's confidants are so discreet that they have kept all his decisions and instructions secret. But that would run counter to the fundamental nature of bureaucratic Washington, where people cite a President's authority whenever they possibly can ('The President feels strongly about this, so ...'). To me, the more likely inference is that Bush took a strong overall position-fighting terrorism is this generation's challenge-and then was exposed to only a narrow range of options worked out by the contending forces within his Administration."
Additional dispatches from Tom Engelhardt can be read throughout the week at TomDispatch.com, a web-log of The Nation Institute.


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The Wolfgang WG Standard contains many of the same blazing features as its more expensive brethren—a blazing one-piece bolt-on maple neck with graphite reinforcement rods holds strong against the ravages of temperature and humidity and a speedy 12""-16"" compound radius maple fingerboard with comfortably rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets won't drag your fretting hand down. Dual EVH Wolfgang humbucking pickups mounted directly to the body increase vibration transfer, resulting in sustain for days on end. Two domed control knobs have been dialed-in to Van Halen's exacting specifications—the smooth-feeling 500k pots make it easy to find your sound while retaining the crisp high end sparkle of the EVH Wolfgang pickups. The EVH-branded Floyd Rose Special bridge and R2 locking nut consistently stay in tune through the deepest whammy dives and horse whinnies.
Available in with striking finishes, the uniquely styled Wolfgang body with ergonomic forearm carve and ""belly"" cut bears oversized strap buttons to keep your instrument where it belongs throughout any onstage acrobatics you may indulge in. Full of raw rocking tone—whether played clean or crunchy—with the Wolfgand Standard in your arsenal you won't be afraid to plug in, turn up and rock out with your pedal to the metal.
- Double cutaway electric guitar
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Central Coast Fly Fishing Celebrates Dad and Announces Its Summer Class Schedule
Central Coast Fly Fishing just announced that they will be holding a special Father's Da yevent and 2 classes!
Central Coast Fly Fishing Celebrates Dad and Announces Its Summer Class Schedule
CARMEL, CA – Central Coast Fly Fishing located at 7172 Carmel Valley Road in Carmel owner Geoff Malloway announced today a special Father's Day event as well as Central Coast Fly Fishing Summer class schedule.
On Saturday, June 16th, Central Coast Fly Fishing is all about dad. Bring dad in for group casting lesson from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Enjoy iced tea, a light snack and a casting session with Malloway. The class is limited to 10 people. The cost is $35 per adult and children 10 and older can attend for free with a paid adult. This is the perfect pre-Father's Day celebration. Reservations are required. Call (831) 626-6586.
Central Coast Fly Fishing is also holding a Father's Day contest to win a $100 gift certificate. Email a favorite photo of you and your dad fishing. Share a caption of where you were at and why that day was important. Submit your photo to email@example.com between June 1 and June 14th. Winner will be selected on June 15th. The winner will also receive 2 spaces in the Saturday, June 16th Father's Day casting clinic. Contest open to children under 18 years of age.
In addition to celebrating Father's Day, Central Coast Fly Fishing has announced its upcoming class Summer class schedule.
Sage Beginning Trout School Taught by Sage Instructor, Bill Lowe
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o 8:30 am -4:00 pm
o $100.00/person
o Limited to 10 students per session.
o Equipment provided
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• From stringing up the rod, discussing fly fishing essentials, tying three need-to-know knots, to roll-casting and over-head casting, this 7-hour class is the prefect one-step program to whetting a person's appetite for fly fishing.
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• Session #1 (novice) from 8:30 am to 12:00, session #2 (advanced) from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
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• Limited to 10 students per session.
• This class is designed for the entry-level caster or the person who has been away from the rod for an extended period of time. Set-up of the rod, function of the rod, roll-cast, and over-head casting are the focal points of this 4-hour class. Sage 5-weight and 6-weight rods are provided for the students to use.
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About Geoff Malloway, Central Coast Fly Fishing
Geoff Malloway never thought his first introduction to fly fishing in 1973 would be a gateway into a life enriched with outdoor adventures and the satisfaction of sharing his fly fishing passion with others. With a background in fisheries and wildlife management and teaching, Geoff is well suited to helping others experience the great outdoors with fly rod in hand. "I've come to realized that fly fishing isn't about catching fish at all…it's a catalyst for developing an appreciation for the natural world around us and deriving from it a sense of well-being."
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Pianist Roger Wright, who's made a splash on the international classical music scene, sits down at the KUHF Steinway to play the showpiece, Islamey by Mily Balakiev, and to chat with host St.John Flynn. Mr. Wright performs in recital Saturday, October 16, 3pm at Festival Concert Hall at the International Festival-Institute in Roundtop, TX.
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Andaman & Nicobar Administration Recruitment 2015
Chief Port Administrator, Port Management Board, Andaman and Nicobar Administration have proclaimed to recruit dedicated and enthusiastic jobseekers for the posts of Surveyor and Chief Surveyor. There are 03 vacant positions needed to be filled at the present moment. Jobseekers willing to apply for the concerned positions can send their applications on or before 25th of November, 2015. Further information on the subject of recruitment is discussed below :
Information regarding Andaman & Nicobar Administration Recruitment 2015 :
Name of the Designation-
1). Surveyor
2). Chief Surveyor
Count of Vacant Positions-
1). Surveyor : 2 Vacancies
2). Chief Surveyor : 1 Vacancy
Details of Salary- Aspirants recruited for filling up the vacant positions of Surveyor and Chief Surveyor will receive pay scale according to the norms followed by the organization.
Age Group- Limitation of age for the positions of Surveyor and Chief Surveyor is not mentioned in the official notification.
Place of Work- Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar
Pre- requisites of Education- Job hunters willing to apply for the above mentioned positions should have obtained Graduation degree in Naval Architecture / Marine Engineering or any other equivalent qualification and must possess Ministry of Transport 1st class certificate of competency issued by Director General of Shipping, Govt of India OR Diploma in Ship Building with experience in the concerned field.
Procedure of Applying :
Jobseekers willing to apply for the concerned positions can send their applications along with their updated resume in the prearranged layout. Aspirants must attach self attested copies of required documents and certificates along with the application. Job hunters must send it to the address given below :
Chief Port Administrator,
Port Management Board,
Post Box No 52, Port Blair-744101,
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Dates to be Remembered :
25th Nov 2015 is the final date for submitting the application
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A job notification has been uploaded by the Andaman and Nicobar Administration. Get more updates on recruitmentinfosite.com . The requirement is in the Tagore Government College of Education. The job vacancy is for the post of Assistant Professor and Instructor. All the interested and eligible applicants must apply for the post before the closing date of application procedure. Further the job details are given below as:
Information regarding the job profile:
Organization Name: Andaman and Nicobar Administration
Designation to be offered with number of vacancies:
1) Assistant Professor- The number of vacancy for this post is 16 and
2) Instructor (Physical Education) – There is a requirement of only one applicant.
Job Location: The selected applicants will be posted in Andaman and Nicobar
Restrictions on Age: There is no details regarding the age criteria is mentioned in the official notification but there is the chances that the applicants of the reserved categories will be provided with the age relaxation advantages as per the norms of the organization.
Salary Details: The selected applicants will be liable to get the pay as-
1) Assistant Professor- Rs 44,700 per month and
2) Instructor (Physical Education) – Rs 29,600 every month
Educational Records:
1) Assistant Professor- The applicants must have done their Masters (Post Graduation) in any of the following, say- Humanities, Science or Arts with B. Ed and should have obtained at least 55 percent marks in all.
2) Instructor (Physical Education) – The applicants must have post graduation in either Computer Science or Mathematics or Social Science or English from the reputed institute or University of the nation.
Selection Procedure: The applicants will be selected on the basis of written test or interview (as applicable) conducted by the organization.
Method to Apply: The applicants have to choose the offline mode to apply for the stated posts above. They have to send their application in a Performa which must be attached with two passport size photograph and xerox of all necessary documents. The address for the same is-
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LOCATIONOne of the most prestigious areas along the Limassol coastal avenue known as Amathus, on the beach side, surrounded by the top hotels on the island. The beach and the marina is only a stone's throw away, less than 4km from the main tourist area and only 10km east of the old town. DESCRIPTIONThis beautiful detached house is built on two levels; Ground floor comprises of an open plan sitting/ dining area, separate kitchen and a guest w/c. First level comprises of three spacious bedrooms (one en-suite), a very large balcony overlooking the garden/pool/sea and a main bathroom. Externally there is a swimming pool, garden, bar/entertainment area, a garage and a maids room. FEATURESC/H, a/c units throughout, white goods, garden, pool, garage, sea views, alarm, bbq. 310317HD3-5032-ETR-LL
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Top 5 Moments of 2014
The first day of a new year is always a great time to reflect on all the tremendous things that happened in the previous year. In honor of New Years Day, Greenville College Football looks back at the Top 5 Moments of 2014.
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5. Coach Schomaker is named Head Coach
The first memory of our list came on the first day of the new year. This is when Greenville College removed the interim tag and selected their 7th head coach in the program's history. Coach Schomaker has been a member of the staff since 2010.
4. Mid West Prep JV Game
The last and most exciting JV game of the season. Greenville JV won on a QB keeper from Juan Carbajal in the second overtime.
3. Terminator Olympics
Will Plachta may have come away the winner but everyone involved learned what it takes to compete when things get uncomfortable.
2. EA Northey finds John Dudley for a the win.
For the 4th year in a row the Eureka game came down to the last possession and for the 4th year in a row Greenville prevailed. This time it was EA Northey finding John Dudley with just a few seconds left on the clock for the victory.
1. Youth reigns in post season Awards
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Speakers have always been a very important thing for the cars because people have always preferred to listen to their music while driving a car. Most of the people love to listen to their favorite music when they move out with family and they usually don't want to wait for their favorite song to start playing on a radio. Im one of those drivers who like to set up my own music while driving and take my destiny into my own hands :).
However great song is not all we need when we like to enjoy our ride , great speakers are also one of the requirements for listening good sound in the car. New technology has been developed and many different kinds of speakers have been created to give us best sound. Some of the people place many speakers in the back side of the car and have fun with friends on the beach. The craze of speaker is on its speaking in youngster and they prefer to purchase best ones on a market that are also the most durable one as well.
In any kind of speakers, the best sound comes out with subwoofer. If you want to hear quality song, but there is no subwoofer in your car stereo system , then you will not be able to enjoy the song because the creation of good music, you can only feel with quality speakers. When you purchase a brand new car then already a quality speaker remains in the car, but most of the people prefer to customize by replacing with new speaker which are late. However, you can contact with the car mechanic, they would suggest you how to customize the speaker and where to put new speaker. It is very important to do a placement in the car, otherwise, you will not get good sound.
Usually old cars generally just have the midwoofer without the tweeter connected to it. As car producers understand the importance of car sound inside of the last couple of decades, they enhanced production line introduced frameworks with coaxial speakers. Try not to be tricked via car producers today who says their car includes a 6-piece speaker framework on the grounds that the four speakers are for the most part midrange woofers, with speakers 5 and 6 being essentially isolated tweeters. Unless it is arranged as a segment framework (clarified beneath), accompanies a processing plant introduced enhancer or subwoofer, you couldn't call that 6-piece framework premium sound; and in this way you ought not pay additional for something you would some way or another as of now have.
The best and simple speaker for car is that who fixes on the right place in the car and gives you better quality sound. Do not keep big speakers in the car just to show off because in some of the countries, it is banned and they do not allow anyone to keep a big size sound system in the car rather than standard one. So you have to be very careful about the laws and rules of the different country.
Now you can easily connect with a bluetooth and listen to any kind of music you want. A few years back, you need to put the CD in the system for hearing the music, but now you can listen music by connecting it via Bluetooth or even you, can put SD card or USB in it for hearing your favorite songs which you keep in your storage device.
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I hope the delay is due to this being its first use [...]
I think that particular plane is a NASA research asset, not part of some standard emergency response plan, and was not presumed to be deployed for that particular situation at all.
It's a little late to get maximum benefit from something like this
Maybe not maximum benefit, but I imagine the thermal sensors could be very valuable on Wednesday for places where it was not easy to tell visually where exactly fires were.
I'm surprised weather satellites can't provide any information needed for firefighting?
Weather satellites orbit at over 22000 miles away. UAVs can fly at an altitude closer to 22000 feet (or less). They can see things in much greater detail than satellites in geostationary orbit.
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6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
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Beautifully updated townhouse in convenient Oakdale location. New roof and driveway. Interior boasts new appliances, carpet and paint. Unfinished basement w/bedroom and bath opportunity. Nice Nice!!
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Property Details for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
Bedrooms: 2
Bathrooms: 2 Full
Lot Size: 0.00 Acres
Lot Dimensions: Common
Year Built: 1994
Garage Dimensions: 2 car
Garage: Attached Garage, Driveway - Asphalt, Garage Door Opener
Style: (TH) Quad/4 Corners
Water: City Water/Connected
Sewer: City Sewer/Connected
Square Feet: 1311
Above Ground Sq Ft: 1311
Room Information for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
Main Floor
Living Room: 18x12
Dining Room: 10x10
Kitchen: 10x10
Bedroom 1: 13x12
Upper Floor
Bedroom 2: 14x11
Den: 12x10
Dining Room Description: Kitchen/Dining Room
Family Room Characteristics: Main Level
School Information for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
School District: North St Paul-Maplewood
School District Phone: 651-748-7410
Interior Features for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
Appliances: Range, Cooktop, Refrigerator, Washer, Dryer
Air Cond: Central
Heating: Forced Air
Fireplaces: Yes
Basement: Full, Drainage System, Sump Pump, Day/Lookout Windows
Exterior Features for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
Lot Description: Corner Lot
Lot Dimensions: Common
Roof: Asphalt Shingles, Pitched, Age 8 Years or Less
Zoning: Residential-Multi-Family
Financial Considerations for 6771 Gretchen Lane N, Oakdale, MN 55128
Tax Amount: $1,526
Taxes w/Assessments: $2,337
Tax/Property ID: 1802921110056
Tax Year: 2016
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Max. guests: 8, Indoor area: 150 m2, Ground area: 1000 m2, Bedrooms: 3, Bathrooms: 2,
Lighthouse Marlera is built in 1875 and renovated in year 2012. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
Villa is ideally located, 25 m from the sea, hidden from the eye, situated on the rocks and bathing in the sun. All around it's just beautiful nature and endless big blue sea. It's a place where you can sit and listen to the waves crashing against the cliffs as you watch the seagulls joyfully fly around in circles, the smell of saltwater in your nose, watching fishingboats on the horizons while the sunlight is glittering on every piece of sea...
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What makes this villa unique
Big outdoor bed
Brilliant clear sea
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Lighthouse Marlera is only 4 km away from the first village, ideal for you if you want to forget about the whole world and enjoy in your vacation! Few minutes away from the lighthouse it's our family island of Levan with the sandy beach. We take you on the island with our boat free of charge. Our Drams & sand beach bar and grill offers refreshments and meals.
Also, You can enjoy during the winter in a warm lighthouse, sitting in front of the fireplace,taking walks,visiting beautiful Istria and all that it can offer...
You can scuba dive in front of the lighthouse (there is an old sunken boat), bike hire, surfing... In the village there are tennis courts, beach volleyball, horseback riding, lots of beach bars, restaurants and night clubs just few km away (Medulin). In the nearest village (Ližnjan) there is a cash machine,pharmacy,supermarket,bakery shop...
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- Damage deposit: €300.00
- 12
- Available
- 12
- Unavailable
From the Owner
"WiFi Big outdoor bed Brilliant clear sea"
Property Type
- villa
- Away From It All
- Family
- Fireplace
- Heating
- Internet
- Iron & Board
- Refrigerator
- Child's Highchair
- Dining Area
- Satellite / Cable
- Television
- wheelchair accessible
Location Type
- near the sea
Floor Area
- 150 m²
- Bathroom 1 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure
- Bathroom 2 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure
- 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 8
- Bedroom 1 - 1 Double Bed
- Bedroom 2 - 1 Double Bed
- Bedroom 3 - 1 Double Bed
- Barbecue
House Rules
- Max. occupancy: 8
- pets considered
- children welcome
- Beautiful lighthouse with magnificent sea view


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Please tell me if you have the part I need. It's for a Velux operable skylight, it's the part that the hook slides on to in order to crank the skylight open. I need two of them.
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Hi, They are extremely difficult to remove from the operator. If you really need to remove it, attach the 39-551 hook and pull with a lot of force.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Betty Kyalo Finally Reveals The Suffering She Underwent In The Hands Of Dennis Kyalo
Relationship 'experts' on social media did not make life any easier for her. She was accused of having loose morals. Some bloggers went a notch higher and claimed that she was dating a prominent Governor.
The well-endowed news anchor has come out to explain what caused the split with her husband. Betty took to instagram to thank her sister, Mercy Kyallo, for supporting her. She revealed that the couple had deep family issues.
According to a popular blog, Okari had earned the title of 'Kadinya' among his collegues.
This is what Betty shared:
"Thank you for your love and support @mercykyallo thats what sisters and family are for (sic). It is well with me. It's been a long tough one but I came out a better and stronger person. Time to rebuild and begin the journey of self discovery. Here's to the future! #RepostPlus @mercykyallo with @RepostPlus."
Mercy laid bare the suffering her sister had undergone in the hands of Dennis Okari:
"Over the last couple of months my sister Betty has gone through her share of struggle, tears and sadness. A lot is being said and there is a lot of speculation. Fact is that there were deep family issues that divided us. Betty, our family is supporting you 100% and our prayer is that you find true happiness and fulfilment."
"Isn't this life as we know it? just when you think you've got the map, you meet a stop sign which redirects, reorganises and challenges you afresh. It's upto you to keep strong and recharge! We love and care for you honey so do and be the best you can be. C'est la vie."
Betty has since dropped Okari's name.
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Catalonian Tumblers
Hi guys,
I have a few homers now and am planning on getting a few Catalonian Tumblers but have no idea where to get them and how much they would cost. Can anyone help me out? Thanks ahead of time and thanks to those who spend the time of day to answer a 14 year old kid's questions.
you could try this person firstname.lastname@example.com
they had some for sale on eggbid not long ago.
flying on average 40 minutes. Some days they would just fly around the loft location flying low and sometimes inches from the ground playing chicken with the fencing etc. Other days they would fly higher around 200 feet and this is when they would head off out of sight and appear now and again from a different direction. Not much tumbling but remember these birds were just youngsters. Once they hit puberty they were more interested in each other and now only fly a few minutes as they are more interested in showing and their perches. As you have probably worked out by now I am a novice and a bit too soft with them. I also work 12 hour shifts so it's hard to keep them in a routine. The birds I have are the Cap de Frere patterned Cats which are also very pretty as well as being athletes. I think anyone with good experience could have these birds flying for as long as they want (feeding, etc.) They are very competent in the air and if anything takes them by surpries they just drop a gear and they are off, ducking and diving at great speed. Quite a timid breed but I have tried to breed from the tamest, mixing colours etc. and they are a lot easier in the loft now. Even the tamest ones I have do not like being handled although they are easy to pick up and like to sit on my shoulders and head etc. they struggle in the hand. Anyway, you will gather that I like this breed of pigeon, to me they have everything. It is now up to me to get tough with them and get them going again. Thanks for the interest and I'll post up some websites maybe you guys have not seen. Cheers, Chazz.
O.K. guys here is a website of a quality breeder/flyer of the Catalonian Tumblers who lives in Catalonia, Spain. There are plenty smart photo's and information on the breed. I tried to aquire birds from him but the cost of transport, logistics and red tape were too much for me. I just love the Culliblanc (white tail) pattern and the red culliblanc are magnificent in my opinion. Click on the desired pattern e.g. Roig Culliblanc and at the bottom of page click on the camera to see more photo's. The Catalonian Tumbler is said to have a "wardrobe of a thousand costumes" and must be the most diverse breed for patterns and colours but they are not just pretty, they can fly very competently and are said to have been been bred to compete against Falconers birds. Having had these birds for a couple of years now I do not doubt this claim. They are small. very alert and agile. Hope you enjoy the site and it can spark a desire to aquire some Cats for yourselves.
Some Catalonian websites.
I have a limited amount of experience with Cats.
But I will say this. I do not think that they are "tumblers". They are just Catalonians, not Catalonian Tumblers. Even though many call them that for some reason. I could be wrong, but from what I have read, they do not tumble. Mine certainly do not.
I have four and I find the Cats to be very wild like. They are tough to catch in the loft (hence why they are tough for hawks to catch also), as they are very quick. A lot quicker than homers. It is a real hassle to catch them in the loft.
They also do not like to fly very long. They will take many short flights around, but no long flights. When they do fly, their wings "slap" together and make loud slapping sounds. I believe that the wing tips are meeting above the head and clapping there, to make these sounds. I use to think it was the wing tips hitting underneath the birds when they were flying. But now I believe they are actually clapping above them and not below.
Maybe someone with better eyesight can verify that.
P.S. I got lucky and got four Cats for $5 bucks each, from a person on this website. I just put up a "wanted" ad in the "wanted and for sale section" of Pigeon Talk, and someone responded. I of course had to pay for shipping though.
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I'm not sure how I can be sure. But I bought them from here and showed them to a fellow flyer that has had them for many many years. He specializes in them and said that he would not hesitate to breed his with mine. He said they pass all of the tests that indicate they are Catalonians. Eyesign, behavior and general appearance. He is giving me four Cat squeakers next week. The four that I have are a few years old and are all cocks. They are pestering the heck out of my homer hens.
Maybe some day I will see them tumble, but from what I have read on other sites and from what my friend tells me, they do not tumble. He has had them for forty years and that although there are some that allegedly tumble, he has never had any that did or do.
I'm not saying that they do not tumble ever (after all, most people do call them "tumblers" and obviously have a reason for that). But his and mine do not tumble. I only have four but he has many and has had Cats for forty years and trades them with others from around the country every so often.
Interesting discussion. I assume that tumbling is genetic and is not a taught trait?
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I would keep the squeekers on their own and treat as I said previously. The main thing really is not to over feed. Give them all they want for the first couple weeks and that way they will not(hopefully) go too far and get lost but once they are up and running (flying, He He!) get them on rations to take the weight off. I've found out there is more to this flying game than meets the eye. Have fun
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SAGE's Spring @ Lighthouse :: May 24, 2017
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It turns out that even though iPhone's are made in China, they aren't too cheap over there. Which I assume is why this plonker got caught trying to smuggle 94 of them in by strapping them to his body.
Travelling from Shenzhen, the guy was noticeably acting weird in the airport. He was walking really uptight and stiff. When customs checked the bags that he was carrying, they found nothing suspicious. Then, unsurprisingly, he set off a metal detector, so customs searched him.
Photo's released from customs show 94 iPhones strapped to his body, with a total value of 300,000 yuan (£32,000).
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Silk twill and faux leather paddle-print cushion
The Bateau Blanc cushion evokes memories of peaceful boat trips on the Long Island shores. Art Deco-influenced graphic lines provide a framework for a collection of beautifully-designed wooden paddle illustrations that form a matching pattern in the centre, united by a palette of nautical colours. Made from silk twill and faux leather, this cushion are great for mixing and matching with solid-colour cushions to add a nautical touch to your sofa. Comes in white and grey colourways.
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The "APPLAUSE" Show with Rich Taylor & T J Barranger Playlist for 2/27/03
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First the good news... We are moving forward on the 24 Hour A Day, 7 Days a Week and 365 Days a Year of the "Acappella Netwrok"... with it's headquarters at the studios of WVRM Radio, and under the auspices of Regional Broadcasting Services in Upper Montclair. We should have the full broadcast up within two weeks. But we need your help!
We envision a "Network" of live shows all broadcast through the computers at the Regional Broadcasting Headquarters. What we are looking for are chapters of the men's or women's Societies or from CASA membership that would like to do a "LIVE" Radio broadcast from their own location. We would provide the equipment specifications (Computer/Mixer Board/Microphone/CD Players/Connection , etc), and we would schedule your "Show" at a time which would allow you to commit to a weekly program... and then we would "Train" you on how to operate the "logon" sequences from your location.
We are looking for Barbershop Shows, Acappella Shows, Mixed Shows, Gospel Acappella Shows, and any other kind of Acappella Music programs for this new "Network", offering Live Shows from all over the world for the listening pleasure of the 80,000 acappella performers and their fans.
Please email me rivately with your ideas for a show and give me the details of what you would want to do, and who would be "sponsoring" the show..i.e. XYZ Chapter... and give me the time or day that you think you would want to do your show. We will assemble all of the responses and try and schedule an interesting , exciting series of shows featuring "YOU"!
Also, if there are specific events during the Acappella or Barbershopping worlds that you would love to see "Simulcasted" over the Network, please email us with your comments and we will see what can be done to bring you those activities that are just too far away for you to attend.
Well, enough of that ...now on to the wonderful artists and songs that made up the February 13th edition of The "APPLAUSE" Show!
The Vocal Majority I'm the Music Man
Saturday Evening Post Clown Medley
High Five Brahams Lullaby
Banana Blenders Sunday Night In Sydney
Idea Of North It's Alright With Me
3 Men And A Melody Happy Together
M-Pact Still The One
Chicago Chord of Trade Don't Leave Me Mammy
Acappella Gold Fly Me To The Moon
Tone Apettite Smile
Ambiance Handful of Keys
Mighty Echoes Who's That Knocking At The Door
New Tradition Chorus All Aboard For Dixie/Floatin Down Medley
St. Louis Harmony Chorus All That Jazz
Ladies At Work LBING Rhythm Medley
Sons And Lovers Undecided...Gotta Be This Or That
Gem City Chorus Get Happy
Big Apple Chorus Happy Feet Medley
The Exboyfriends Blinded By The Light
The Virginians That's Life
Heart of Texas Chorus Broadway Rose
Light Industrial Choral Society I Only Have Eyes For You
Special Feature A Song Of The Fifties
DaVinci's Notebook Alley McBeal
The Thoroughbreds That's an Irish Lullaby
Classic Collection Toot Toot Tootsie
Boyz Nite Out Love Wins Out
The Ritz There Will Never Be Another You
The Sidewinders Dangerous Dan McGrew
Crossroads Who's Sorry Now
Metropolis Pure Imagination
Boston Common There's Something I Like About Broadway
Masters Of Harmony Jerome Kern Medley
Four Voices Ain't Misbehavin
Michigan Jake Gershwin Medley
The Suntones Without A Song
Dealer's Choice Mr. Piano Man
Dallas Knights Nowhere Man
Storm Front Rhythm Medley
Pride Of Kentucky Mood Indigo
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The Vocal Majority I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked
Nightlife It Must Be That Look In Her Eyes
Countdown Jeepers Creepers
Images Mr. Sandman
Bluegrass Student Union I've Got A Crush On You
BSQ I Hadn't Anyone Till You
Platinum I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Keepsake My Romance
Acoustix Tonight Tonight
Fanatix Why Did I Choose You
Acoustix This Is The Moment
Power Play Through The Years
The Ritz A House With Love In It
UGA Accidentals So Much In Love
Univ. Ill Extention Chords Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Hampton Ave The Gathering
Golden Staters Mary Your A Little Bit Old Fashioned
The Vocal Majority I'll Walk With God
(from Daryl) 4 Statesmen The Story Of The Three Bells
Revival It Is Well With My Soul
The Naturals I Will Pass This Way But Once
For heaven's Sake Birth Of The Blues
Singers Unlimited Here's That Rainy Day
Singing Buckeyes Roll On You Mississippi Roll On
Rich Tones Chorus Footloose
High Society Thank You World
Sundowners Walkin My Baby Back Home
High Cotton Moonlight Becomes You
Ambassadors of Harmony Applause
Naturally Seven Bless This House
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Reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson has revealed her mother is ''upset'' because they haven't spoken since last October, with her mum claiming fame as gone to her daughter's head.
Kendra Wilkinson's mother is ''upset'' she hasn't spoken to her daughter since last October.
The reality TV star, who is due to give birth to her second child next month, hasn't spoken to her brother Colin and her mother Patricia, who believe fame has gone to her head and turned her into an ''inconsiderate b***h,'' since October.
Patricia told the US edition of OK! magazine: ''I have not seen or heard from Kendra since October 17, 2013 and I am deeply sad, upset and hurt.''
The fight kicked off when Patricia rang the former Playboy star, to enquire whether the pregnancy rumours were true, and Kendra allegedly told her mother to ''go die''.
And things have escalated since then.
Patricia said: ''Kendra seems to have this deep-seated hatred toward me and I cannot figure out why. Until a sincere apology comes my way, we won't be part of each other's lives.''