Candidates views per Iran

As we all know, Iran is seeking to attain nuclear power. Some may argue that this power may be domestic only, while others suspect that it was desired for nefarious purposes. One of those purposes being nuclear weapons. Therefore the Israel Project asked each candidate for their position on this issue (Iran).

(Make sure you have enough room in your Windows Word Processor or you’ll get an error message, like I did. Grrr.)

For a partial list of statements by major Democratic candidates.

For a partial list of statements by major Republican candidates.

How do you we suppose Iran is interested in a nuclear weapon?

ElBaradei: Iran will have nuclear weapons in three to eight years.

The timeline for an Iranian nuclear weapon was three to eight years, Army Radio quoted IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei as saying in an interview with the French Le Monde Monday.

“I cannot judge their intentions, but I can assume that Iran is indeed interested in obtaining a nuclear bomb,” ElBaradei said. [Continue reading the Jerusalem Post article.]

How does he come to this conclusion?

Iran says has built new long-range missile.
Tue Nov 27, 2007

By Reza Derakhshi

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday it had built a new missile with a range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), a step analysts said could add more power to Tehran’s conventional arsenal when tensions over its atomic plans are rising.

Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar did not say how the new weapon differed from the Shahab-3, a missile officials had previously said could hit targets 2,000 km away, far enough to reach Iran’s arch-foe Israel. [Continue reading the Chantix article.]

The Israel Project will be in Iowa and New Hampshire to keep these candidates informed about this issue.

To learn more about the Iranian threat, read the key facts about Iran.

To end this post for those of us who are not blind, I will use a quote from the president of The Israel Project: “The power of the purse should be used for peace– but time is running out as Iran is racing towards nuclear capacities that threaten the world,” said Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project.

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News from Radio Free Asia

I have a few articles for you today that should be brought to the attention of the world outside of China. The fight for civil rights is alive and well in China, but we hear little of this. It truly is a fight, because people are imprisoned when they get caught. While in prison, they are beaten badly.

This first article is about a man whose only crime was he saw the humanity in each person. For this, they threw him in prison where he was beaten.

Chinese Rights Lawyer Beaten, Staging Hunger Strike in Prison.
December 28, 2007.

HONG KONG–Prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer Guo Feixiong has been beaten in prison and is now on the fifteenth day of a hunger strike, his wife and sister have told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

*snip*

“He told me he was beaten for a long time. The prisoner stopped beating him only when the onlookers began to boo and shush to express their displeasure. In the process of the beating, he fell from the stairs, about two meters,” Zhang said.

Guo Feixiong, the professional name of Yang Maodong, is serving a five-year sentence for conducting illegal business activities, after publishing a book about a political scandal and helping villagers lead a campaign to oust local officials accused of corruption. [Continue reading.]

There is also, in this article, news about his hunger strike, “Official says beating ‘impossible'” and international attention. Please read this article. Learn about China. You may think you know why you don’t like China, but find out how the people who live there are living. It may open your eyes to these claims of ‘free trade’.

I am a fair trader, not a free trader. Remember, there is NO SUCH THING as a free lunch. Just something to ponder.

Now onto some other links:

• Up To 2,000 Police Guarding Key Pylon in Dongzhou.
• Violent Land Disputes Flare in Cambodia.
• Chinese Traffickers Push Drugs on North Korean Women.
• Tensions Rise Over South China Sea Islands. War brewing?
• 2007 Year-End Slideshow. RFA wishes you peace.

There are many issues in this post that need broader attention. Slavery? Rape? Permanent most favored nation??? I think NOT!

I may not write another open trackback tomorrow, but we’ll see. I have to catch up with my military posts, so maybe I will make a post out them. I’ll give you the title and a little about the article. That’s if I do it. I’m still waiting for that phone call from across this land mass…so have a Happy New Year, I pray for many blessings to all of you, and post what you will. Just make sure you add a link back to me and include me in your post. Also, no porn. This is Rosemary signing off for now.

Posts I’ve trackbacked to at Linkfest and others:

• Stop the ACLU: New Years Free For All.
• The World According to Carl: Pack It In, Saints Fans — The Season’s Over.
• Shadowscope: Daughter to Be Charged in Killing 6.
• Outside the Beltway: Fred Thompson Not Interested In Running for President.
• Woman Honor Thyself: Get John Deady BacK.
• Pirate’s Cove: Humor Sunday-Hello Kitty And Rules For Women.
• Is It Just Me?: Out With The Old...
• Adam’s Blog: Post of the Day for December 30, 2007.
• The World According to Carl: Hillary Clinton Has Experience? Not!
• Shadowscope: Weekend OpenTrackback.
• Big Dog’s Weblog: Discrimination in Baltimore.
• Thanks to: Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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News: Africa, Lebanon

There are three articles in particular that should be of import. They concern a war in the Horn of Africa (Somalia), Hizbullah trying to disrupt the elections in Lebanon so Syria can come back, and the prayers of a maniac in Iran telling the people that USA should stop meddling in Lebanon’s affairs.

EXCUSE ME?! We have Hizbullah slaughtering the Lebanese people on a daily basis, we don’t do anything about that because we are trying to allow them room to work things out and hopefully get up the courage they showed during the Cedar Revolution to kick out the Hizbullah creeps. To no avail, apparently, but to accuse us of meddling? You’ve got some nerve! God does NOT like being lied to or about, especially when He can see for Himself!

My article is Hizbullah troubles elections, Iran tells USA to stop meddlin, and these two articles discuss this: Geagea: Hizbullah obstructing election to bring Syria back and Tehran prayer leader tells US to leave Lebanon alone. They can be found at the Daily Star in Lebanon.

Going to Africa, Ethiopia has left the area which they were controlling in Somalia to keep the peace, and who do you think came trouncing right back in to make sure there would be none? That is correct. The islamists. They have taken control of a town in south-west Somalia. And these misguided people in the USA want us to just cut and run? NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.

Here is that article: Islamists move in after Ethiopians leave Somali town.

Tonight was Saturday, but I can see that it is Sunday now. Whichever day you would like it to be, it is an open trackback day. Just add me to your post, trackback to me, and send me a ping. Have a great weekend, and stay home if you’re going to drink. 😉

Posts I’ve trackbacked to at Linkfest and others:

• Stop the ACLU: New Years Free For All.
• Stuck on Stupid: New Year Extended Weekend Linkfest 12/29/2007-01/01/2008.
• Phastidio.net: Tradition [Year-End Open Trackback].
• Big Dog’s Weblog: Discrimination in Baltimore. Will she be our next Rosa Parks, only in reverse?
• Right Truth: Final thoughts on the Bhutto-Pakistan situation for this year – UPDATED with video.
• Adam’s Blog: Post of the Day for December 30, 2007.
• The World According to Carl: 2007 Liberty Bowl: University of Central Florida vs Mississippi State University.
• walls of the city: sensor ping XXXVIII.
• Thanks to: Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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• Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker: Happy New Year 2008.
• Right Truth: Happy New Year.
• Diary of the Mad Pigeon: Short Notes on Bhutto.
• 123beta: One Year Ago: Saddam Hussein Hanged.
• Stuck On Stupid: New Year Extended Weekend Linkfest 12/29/2007-01/01/2008.

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Hizbullah troubles elections, Iran tells USA to stop meddlin

It is amazing to me how often ‘normal’ people are fooled by these punks. Okay, let’s do a little game called, ‘Connecting the dots.’

There was a war in Lebanon when the Izl-amists were trying to slaughter the Christians which were 50% of the at that time, and the Christians fought back. This started in 1975.

Israel stepped in to try to help.

We went in also to try to help stop the civil war.

On October 23, 1983 at 6:22 a.m., a large delivery truck drove to the Beirut International Airport where the Marine Barracks was located. The terrorist attack killed 220 Marines and 21 other U.S. service members who were stationed there to help keep the peace in a nation torn by war. [Source: Arlington National Cemetery.]

We left.

Syria moved in.

Christians fled instead of being slaughtered.

We have tried for decades to get Syria out of Lebanon.

Iran, through Hizbullah, blew up the Khobar Towers on June 25, 1996. Nineteen Americans were murdered and hundreds were injured. These were located in Saudi Arabia in 1996, and nothing was done about it. [Source(s): GlobalSecurity.org and OpinionJournal.com.]

The assassination of PM Rafik Hariri.

The rise of the Cedar Revolution.

Supposedly, Syria finally left Lebanon in April 22, 2005, after the Cedar Revolution. (What else was happening at that time? The ‘staying power’ of the USA during the Iraq War, perhaps? Hmm.) [Source: Spirit of America.]

Samir Kassir, a founding member of Lebanon’s Democratic Left movement, was assassinated by car bomb in Beirut. Along with this assassination in Lebanon and the UN refuses to release its findings of who ordered the first hit, Syria, Hizbulla, and Iran are all involved. [Source: Spirit of America.]

Which brings us to today’s articles.

I have not included many of the atrocities which have occurred in between these years for lack of space. Now Hizbullah is trying to interfere with the elections in Lebanon, and Iran is preaching in its Friday prayers that the USA should stop ‘meddling’ in the Lebanon elections. HUH? And these candidates for president want to talk to these people?

If you sincerely believe that talking to these people will bring about peace in that region, may I recommend you switch therapists? Seriously.

Sources: The Daily Star: Geagea: Hizbullah obstructing election to bring Syria back and Tehran prayer leader tells US to leave Lebanon alone.

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Somalia in trouble again

I have some rather disturbing news which was foreseeable, had anyone bothered to look. After the Ethiopians left Somalia overnight on Thursday/Friday, Islamists moved in quickly to overtake Guriel, a small town in south-central Somalia. Here is article from The Daily Star:

Islamists move in after Ethiopians leave Somali town.
By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Saturday, December 29, 2007.

MOGADISHU: Islamist militia on Friday took control of a town in south-central Somalia after Ethiopian soldiers withdrew overnight, witnesses said. The Islamists, who briefly controlled much of south and central Somalia before they were ousted by Ethiopia-backed Somali government troops early this year, have since been waging near daily attacks against the joint forces. “The Ethiopian forces withdrew from the town overnight, and now I can see the former Islamic courts fighters,” said Mohammad Haji Elmi, a local elder. The Islamists took over Guriel town, some 300 kilometers north of the capital Mogadishu, which they had previously controlled. Somalia has been plagued by 16 years of violence that has defied numerous bids to restore stability. – AFP

Yes, we really know how to fight this war, eh? Why don’t we all just pick up and leave? This is the best evidence of why…NOT! We are not cut-and-runners. If we were, we would be speaking German or Japanese. Please, do not vote for anyone who suggests we can just come home and all will be well. It won’t. Don’t forget, we were helping the Somalians and Ethiopians in this war. See what happens when you run? HUH?

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Friday Night’s OTA & OTB

I hope everyone has a very nice weekend. Don’t drink and drive, please. I’m not there to kick your butt, but there are enough police officers out there to do it for me. Besides, it’s the right thing NOT to do. Let’s all start the next year with all of our pieces in the places they belong. 😉

Also, I must admit that I will not be able to manually transfer over 7000 posts in a matter of days. The thing that bothers me the most is that I actually I could! LOL. Oh well. There will be projects that I shall try to accomplish that will seem impossible to others. Probably because they are, but I love a challenge. 😉

Stay safe and God bless.

Posts I’ve trackbacked to at Samantha Burns’ OTA Weekend, Linkfest and others:

Stix Blog: December 28.
Pirate’s Cove: TB Friday Featuring The Surrender Monkey: No Fred!
The World According To Carl: Open Trackback Friday — December 28, 2007.
Woman Honor Thyself: Fashion for Men..woop!
CommonSenseAmerica: Spare time is not always my friend…OTB.
Nuke’s: Paulian poge or imposter?
third world county: Fred on immigration.
Adam’s Blog: Post of the Day for December 28, 2007.
Right Truth: Only a sharpshooter could kill herOnly a sharpshooter could kill her.
Celebrity Smack: Sausage Links 33.
Big Dog’s Weblog: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell a New Clinton Policy.
Conservative Cat: Conservative Cat.
Pursuing Holiness: MediaMax Frustration.
Right Voices: Alert: Because of Dem Shenanigans, Bush will veto the defense bill.
Thanks to: Linkfest’s Haven Deluxe.

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6. Big Dogs Weblog: Discrimination in Baltimore.
5. Right Truth: Final thoughts on the Bhutto-Pakistan situation for this year – UPDATED with video.
4. Blue Star Chronicles: We Went to Dachau Concentration Camp Today.
3. Phastidio.net: Tradition [Year-End Open Trackback].
2. Pirate’s Cove: No DL’s For Illegals In Michigan, NC Talking To ICE.
1. Stix Blog: December 28.

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Wasted days and wasted nights

I have been trying to move all of my posts from 8 sites over to this one since June of this year, and here it, December 2007, and I am only on September 2004! (Start date: July 5, 2004.) Oh yes, I wake up early and go to sleep when my body gives way to the REM. I don’t really know if I can call it REM, since I may be too exhausted to dream in lala land. As it may be, I have wasted much time.

I listen to the radio to keep up with the news. When I do that, I sometimes read and reread because it is getting too hard to listen and read at the same time. I must be getting old! That is when I determine to play a game while they are talking and reading during the commercials.

Then I look up at the clock and declare, “Holy crap! It’s after 9pm and I haven’t written a thing!” Well, in order to keep my promise to myself about writing at least once a day (not including comments), here is my verbage. LOL. Now I really must get back to work…have a nice evening. 😉

Posts I’ve trackbacked to at Linkfest: The World According To Carl: For Unto You Is Born This Day In The City Of David A Savior, Which Is Christ The Lord; Godly Wisdom — December 27, 2007; A Christmas Bit With Jeff Dunham And Achmed The Dead Terrorist; Wolf Pangloss: Afghanistan expels footloose UN and EU staffers for visiting with the Taliban, third world county: Who Is He in Yonder Stall?, and Right Voices: It’s Christmas Eve And I Have Much To Be Thankful For, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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Singing the Blues

Singing the blues down by the riverbend
Thoughts are racing through her head
She’ll have a good cry, not caring why
Just singing the blues until the sun is nigh.

The Christ child’s birthday has gone
She’s left wondering what went wrong
Why no one called from far away
Not even to say, “Have a nice day.”

She tries to take the blame for them
They have their lives, is what she’ll say
She wasn’t there, that’s probably why
No one cares if she cries.

Singing the blues down by the riverbend
Tears are for cleansing is what someone said
She’ll be fine until next year
When she’ll be singing the blues down by the riverbend

Down by the riverbend
There is Peace down by the riverbend
Peace that the world does not know you can find
Down by the riverbend, down by the riverbend.

PS. No sympathy, please. It’s just a song.

Posts I’ve trackbacked to at Linkfest: 123beta: Good Stuff Wednesday, Is It Just MeIs It Just Me: Seasons Greetings, Right Truth: Merry Christmas – God’s still in control even if it doesn’t look that way, The World According to Carl: The Story Of A Christmas Truce, DragonLady’s World: OTA Monday 63, Pirate’s Cove: Beer Monday: That Old Do Something Congress, Chuck Adkins: Special Announcement, and StageLeft: Open Trackbacks Comments: The Hang Him High Edition, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

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Cookies, mmm

Have you ever started out making sugar cookies only to find you have a new recipe for oatmeal raisin cookies? Well, that is what happened. It amazing what a slight of the recipe, an unorthodox measurement of indegredients, and a few other tricks can do a cookie!

So why I’m reporting this? So that I’ll have something to say. I made them, and they taste alright to me. Next time, I think I’ll even use peanut butter…

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Merry Christmas

My post tonight is short but sweet:

MERRY

CHRISTMAS

to all, and to all a good night.

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