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thanks :)
good points... global... diverse... and more tolerant IMO
also, for a city, SF is rather nice and not too big but sophisticated. It's easy to bart into the city for the theatre or music... and the weather is pretty nice too. not too hot and dry like southern CA... and not too rainy.
me too. It's been a lost cause since before it started.
Murtha: Only Iran, al-Qaida want U.S. in Iraq
Decorated former Marine says American presence ‘depleting’ resources
Updated: 3:50 p.m. ET March 5, 2006
WASHINGTON - The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism and benefits only Iran and al Qaeda, Rep. John Murtha said Sunday.
Murtha expressed skepticism of assurances given by Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Pace said the war in Iraq was going “very, very well.”
“Why would I believe him?” said Murtha, D-Pa. “This administration, including the president, has mischaracterized this war for the last two years ... So why would I believe the chairman of the Joint Chiefs when he says things are going well?”
“The only people who want us in Iraq are Iran and al-Qaida,” Murtha said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” political talk show. “And I talked to a top-level commander the other day and he said China wants us there also. Why? Because we’re depleting our resources ... our troop resources and our fiscal resources.
“The war on terrorism is worldwide. In Iraq, it’s a civil war,” said Murtha.
Murtha, who in November called for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, said it was useless for the United States to advise Iraqis.
“One of the problems I see and frustrating things is our ambassador keeps giving advice to the Iraqis,” Murtha said. “Every time we give the Iraqis advice, they vote for someone else ... The Iraqis don’t pay attention to our advice.”
The U.S. role in fighting terrorism around the world is being subverted by Iraq, said Murtha, who characterized the sectarian strife between Iraq’s Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims as a civil war that must be settled internally.
Murtha, a decorated Vietnam veteran who retired from the Marines Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1990, said Iraq would do a better job of rooting out terrorists once U.S. troops leave the country.
“I’m convinced they know where they are, they know who they are,” he said. “But they won’t tell us because they’ve turned against us. We’ve lost the hearts and minds of the people.”
The United Nations is scrutinizing Iran because of its nuclear research but Murtha said Tehran has become emboldened because of the U.S. focus in Iraq.
“We have a situation where our military is in such bad shape, it couldn’t deploy to a second front,” Murtha said. “And the Iranians know this. North Korea knows it. China knows it. We’re depleting our resources in Iraq.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10774136/from/RSS/
Yes, Woody was good... the best role I've seen him in a long time.
that's one I still need to see.
It's like Californian wage earners coming in and buying cheap real estate in neighboring states. They bid high just to get what they want and then the natives can't afford to keep up.
It messes things up.
LOL and if it wasn't so desireable to live here and people would stop moving to CA, then it wouldn't become so unaffordable for us to stay here! :)
thank you.
sadly, it's the advice many financial planners are parroting to their clients...
are you a financial planner? you sound like one I talk to recently... a very young one.
LOL pretty good summary : )
well said.
she has alot more character and class than you do.
what did you think?
[edit] see you liked it :)
it's excellent... probably not suitable for kids though
Harry Potter, Goblet of Fire
My kids finally talked me into reading the Harry Potter books (have loved the movies) and am just finishing up this fourth volume in the series. I have to admit that it's been fun reading and so much more detail than the movies...
Now I'm debating if I should read the 5th before the movie comes out...
I see... do you have a link to more info on that? tia
probably why they didn't vote for Brokeback either... but giving them a little credit, Crash is about racial intolerance.
Yes, I thought North Country was very good also. I really related to that one.... and a reminder of how women are still not always treated with respect in the work place.
I thought Crash was great too. I saw Capote and that was good as well... Philip S did a great performance... but I guess I didn't really care for the character he played. The performance in Walk the Line were also excellent. But of all of them I liked Good Night and Good Luck best for several reasons:
1) it really captured the feeling of the era, not only visually but in the tone of the movie
2) it is socially and politically significant and particularly appropriate to remember today
3) the performances were excellent
4) story line done very well
It didn't win much last night... but it did get some recognition.
Genta drug no better than Novartis's in trial
Thu Mar 2, 2006pm ET
Company News:
Genta drug no better than Novartis's in trial
FDA accepts Genta's application for Genasense injection
Genta says cancer drug trial meets main goal
BOSTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Genta Inc. (GNTA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday that a mid-stage trial comparing its drug for a cancer-related condition with a drug made by Novartis AG (NOVN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research) did not show the Genta drug to be superior.
The Berkeley Heights, New Jersey-based biotechnology company said its drug, Ganite, which is approved in the United States for symptomatic patients with cancer-related hypercalcemia that is resistant to hydration, did not show a statistically significant benefit over Novartis's Aredia.
Hypercalcemia is a life-threatening condition in which calcium levels rise in the blood.
http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?type=comktNews&storyid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:2...
it's a tough field this year... sometimes I don't care much for any of the nominees... I haven't seen brokeback yet (want to)... and I liked Munich alot... Crash was excellent... but I'd have to go with Good Night, and Good Luck as the one I think should win this year.
looks really good if you bought before 2000
:)
I get the same thing... and I do open my mail over the trash can!
what's the symbol on that?
I have to admit I'm not familiar with the details... guess it's better if you can't be put out of your home.
You're right about reading the fine print... I try to read through the paper work when I buy a house... but I admit to skimming after a while... it takes hours and I'm sure most people don't do it.
a much better deal... I have to admit at the time I didn't understand exactly what my options were and about negative amortization... all I knew was I was able to buy my first home.
okay... I didn't know citibank wasn't in NY lol... aren't they part of the reserve banks?
yes, a good realtor. I know one of those, she really looks out for her clients interests. And a mortgage broker who does the same. They both very much want to educate people so they understand what their options are and what they are signing up for.
I know about buydowns... not too bad of a deal for a first time buyer.
My first loan was a GPM (graduate payment)... in the industry they call them "gyp em's". It negatively amortized for the first 5 years with the same idea as the buydown except the lower payment was accomplished through negative amortization. When I sold the house after being there 8 years, I still owed slightly more than the original loan amount. But it did get me in my first home. I also rented a room for the first year to help cover expenses.
what happened to her can happen to almost anyone... death of a spouse... divorce... hard to plan for it all.
At least she only works part time.
U.S. Isolated in Opposing Plan for a New U.N. Rights Council
<< IMO Bolton is just there to discredit and sabatoge... not even attempting to fix things >>
By WARREN HOGE
Published: March 4, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, March 3 — The United States has found itself isolated in its opposition to a proposal to replace the discredited Human Rights Commission, and its pledge to vote against adoption of the plan has thrown the United Nations into turmoil.
Many delegations say they share the American misgivings about the proposal but fear that postponing or renegotiating it — the two options put forward by John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador — would doom the effort to produce a more credible rights body.
"If we reopen it to negotiations, there will be chaos, and if we postpone it, it will be a negative signal for the priority that human rights should have at the U.N.," Heraldo Muñoz, the Chilean ambassador, said Friday.
Mr. Muñoz, a promoter of democracy who was held as a political prisoner under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, said, "This is clearly a compromise and not what some countries would like, but we perceive that aside from the U.S., there are very few countries who oppose the text."
Human rights groups are lobbying actively for adoption, galvanized by the prospect of American rejection and by suspicion of Mr. Bolton's motives in objecting to the proposal.
"It's an open question whether Bolton's throwing all the cards up in the air is meant to improve the council or to prove that the U.N. can't reform itself and therefore should be abandoned," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Yvonne Terlingen, the United Nations representative for Amnesty International, warned, "If the U.S. insists on revising the text, it will be aiding and abetting those whose purpose is to wreck the council, not to make it stronger."
In an interview on Friday, Jan Eliasson of Sweden, the General Assembly president, who wrote the final text, said: "I definitely don't want to have an isolation process vis-à-vis the U.S. This is the country of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Bill of Rights. The U.S. belongs on this council, and I want the U.S. on board."
The current rights commission has been faulted for allowing notorious rights abusers like Sudan and Zimbabwe to become members, and producing an effective substitute for it has been seen as a test of whether the United Nations can meet widespread demands for fundamental change.
Mr. Eliasson said he had set a goal of resolving the matter by next week because the existing commission is scheduled to begin its annual meeting in Geneva on March 13.
This week, Mr. Bolton dismissed the importance of that deadline, saying, "It might be worthwhile having the commission meet again to remind everybody it is so bad that we can get on the track of real reform."
Asked for comment on the impasse, Benjamin Chang, a spokesman for Mr. Bolton, said there was nothing to add to what the ambassador had already said.
Mr. Eliasson put the proposal forward on Feb. 23 for a new Human Rights Council, after months of negotiations and revisions. Mr. Bolton said the same day that it had too many "deficiencies" and should be renegotiated, and on Monday he announced that the United States would oppose it if it were put to a vote.
Though the United States has no veto power in the 191-member General Assembly, a negative vote could critically undermine the new panel.
"A Human Rights Council without the United States would lack credibility," Emyr Jones Parry, the British ambassador, said Thursday. Noting that the European Union had formally endorsed the text, Mr. Jones Parry said, "The job now is to get clarity on what the U.S. wants."
Those working for acceptance argue that provisions in the plan for direct election of members, formal review of member nations' rights records and suspension of gross violators would make it less likely that abusers could join.
They also claim that a requirement that new members be approved by a majority — a minimum of 96 votes — would eliminate violators from membership. The formula weakens the requirement in the original proposal, made by Secretary General Kofi Annan, for a two-thirds vote for new members of a Human Rights Council.
"There's no way that a Sudan or Zimbabwe is going to be able to get on this council," said Mr. Roth, of Human Rights Watch.
Mr. Roth also contended that Mr. Bolton's absence last fall and winter from some 30 meetings of the group drawing up the proposal led other countries to conclude that the United States was not fully committed to it.
In a crucial meeting with Mr. Eliasson last month, in which countries laid down their demands, Mr. Bolton did not mention the importance to the Bush administration of the two-thirds vote. He has since cited its omission as one of the reasons for the United States objection.
"The State Department was trying to communicate to the U.N. that the two-thirds vote was an important part of the U.S. position," said Tom Malinowski, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch, "and there was quite a bit of surprise in the department that Bolton didn't bother to mention this to Eliasson."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/04/international/04nations.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogi...
sad, isn't it
of course I think a person should be able to continue to work if they want to and it makes them feel vital. but it should be optional at that age.
and what about credit cards that charge over 20%! that should be outlawed.
There are enough legit programs out there offered by legit lenders.
many just look at what their payment will be without considering the longer term consequences... just like our national deficit... no long term planning
I'm not sure what the regulations are here, but I hear daily radio ads for interest only loans and loans at 1%... people forget the simple rule... nothing is free... there is always a catch.
sounds like a good thing. interesting trend.
There's more greed (and stupidity) on both sides of the contract than ever before. In the end, it'll end badly for many people.
that's I totally agree with.
many... I saw a special on TV recently about how it's happening in this area. But it's not a new phenomenon. I think it was back in the 80s that the same thing happened in Orange County CA... people kept "leveraging" up to bigger and bigger homes in the hopes to stay there for a couple years and then sell for big profits. Then the market slows... they are now stuck in a home they can't afford and they have no cash because they can't sell for the profit they expected. So then... the lose everything... back to ground zero.