Obama keeps his important promise and begining pulling out troops from Afghanistan as promised. (701)

Unemployment numbers are going to get better some day soon TT... don,tkeep counting on the Stupid results of George W Bush politcs and the desperation which followed are going to get your guys victory in 2012. Time is hard but positive signs are there as well and things are going to get better because of Obama on charge. A ten years from now... your bloody guys will hav e the chance feeding some of their greedy supporters with stolen american money and money made by propoganda and fear mongering and STUPID wars and stuff like that but already in 2012? Forget it! Ain,t Gonna Happen

Got to leave! Duty calls! May the force be with you all

Promises promises Dude. People don't eat promises. They eat real food purchased with real money. Earned from real jobs.

I see,Dude has been spoutin' more of his Obamunism,but little of Substance!

Yep,it will eventually go down,but no thanks to the Obamanistas,but to lots of small Businesses,that have been screwed by your Exalted One!

Someday soon will be when obummer is unemployed.

I would suggest you come to America and get checked out. I see some tangential/loose association thoughts going on.

You start out w/unemployment and end up with 10 years from now.

As a repubican, I will have to say I am very concerned for your mental health. We do have "free" drugs that would stabilize your thought process.


Just here to help~

On behalf of dude, I'm going to contact CS and ask them to shut down CS for 3 days when Chavez dies.


I know Dude will be attending the funeral.


- Senior allies of Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez have dismissed reports he is sicker than the government has admitted, telling his enemies to "stop dreaming" of his death.The normally verbose leader has not been seen in public since a June 10 operation in Cuba to remove a pelvic swelling. His long absence has prompted widespread speculation he may be seriously ill, possibly being treated for prostate cancer.

His government insists Chavez is fine but says he won't return to Venezuela until he is ready. And it has accused his opponents of "rubbing their hands together" in glee.

"President Chavez is recovering well from his surgery. His enemies should stop dreaming and his friends should stop worrying," Vice Foreign Minister Temir Porras said on the social networking site Twitter late on Saturday.

"The only thing that has metastasized is the cancer of the Miami Herald and the rest of the right-wing press."

Porras was referring to a report in the Nuevo Herald, the Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, on Saturday that cited unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Chavez was in "critical condition" at hospital in Havana.

A senior U.S. official cast doubt on that report, telling Reuters that Washington was hearing lots of speculation about Chavez's health but had no firm intelligence.

"The fact is, we just don't know," the official said.

Going to the birds:
The California High Speed Rail Authority is considering a new route for its cross-state system that will literally split farms in two, to avoid a bird sanctuary.

Mike Monteiro, owner of the Lakeside Dairy in Hanford, which is just about three miles down the road from the sanctuary, said he learned of the plan only through a concerned neighbor who warned that draft rail routes would split his land apart.

“It’s amazing to me that they’ve moved this rail across this farmland without any input from me or any of my neighbors on the impact that it’s going to have on my dairy,” said Monteiro, who owns 7,000 cattle on his thousand-acre farm. He’s certain that his business will be dramatically affected.

“The fact that I have three dairy operations that are going to be half on one side and half on the other (of the tracks), the transfer here on a daily basis is just going to be absolutely miserable for us,” he said.

Earlier projected maps showed two different alignments going through the Tulare Lake Bed, a wetlands-like region that attracts 200 species of birds, including waterfowl, gulls and shorebirds. Parts of the 1,300-acre region, maintained by the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District (KDWCD), Corcoran Irrigation District and Central Valley Flood Protection Board provide a habitat for the birds and are recommended for protection by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.When the conservation district heard about the proposed route, it informed the rail authority that such a move would significantly affect the area used by thousands of birds.

“If you’re interrupting that site, you’re impacting that particular species at stake,” said Sopac Mulholland, executive director of Sequoia Riverlands Trust, a conservation group that works in the region.

But farmers say they weren’t offered an opportunity to suggest a new rail route if their homes were affected.

“You’re saying that the species that are protected in that preserve are more important than us? And our property line can’t be sidestepped for us, but can for certain species that are deemed worthy but we're not?” said Anne Gaspar, another Hanford resident whose property is in the path of the railway.

The rail authority says they have a thorough environmental review process in which they must follow strict state and federal requirements.

“Over the last two years the authority has worked with communities in the Central Valley to gather feedback on the alternatives for the route, potential station locations and track design options,” Rachel Wall, the rail authority's press secretary, said in a written statement.

The rail authority will release the draft Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed route at the end of July. “This document will identify the potential impacts of each alternatives as well as proposed measures to mitigate those impacts,” Wall said.

Once the report is out, the Kings County residents, which include those in Hanford, will be given a 45-day public comment period. The several thousand-page report will outline the project level details and hopefully will bring answers to the concerned residents.

“We need to be informed because this is going to displace, not even our homes, but our business, how we make a living, everything. And it would be very good if they come out talk to us answer the questions, and we would explain our situation here,” Gaspar said.

It is estimated that it will cost $45 billion to connect San Francisco to San Diego by high-speed rail. State and federal taxpayers will be footing most of the bill. Advocates of the high-speed rail argue that it will create thousands of jobs and will make California businesses more successful, thereby stimulating the economy.



Obama must stop this travesty of Justice. Birds have rights too.
As do bird brains, right Dude?

I have to agree with you peckerhead!

actually your other Polls were so far away of what you thought they would be!
But they were even against you on an International Site!
So in true ACORN-Fashion,you went and cooked it!

Opps......the jury just convicted former DEM Governor Blagovich of trying to sell Obama Senate seat. That charge and the others on corruption charges....netted Blago.....300 years.

For the last 3 years, he has pleaded his innocency and escaped the first trial on with a conviction on only one charge. So on the retry....this verdict of 300 years has to quiet the ex Governor some.

Just maybe....prior to sentencing....the ex Governor might wish to share more information with the Federal prosecutor on the inner working of his IL Government to get some sentence reduction. That might just include some VERY interesting new stories on IL politicians.

To the Federal judge, IL jury and Federal Prosecutors.

Russia convicted in absentia....the spymaster of the 13 Russian spies who has never been found. Remember the guy that was headed to Malta, then Creete and then ????.

The Russians have now fingered him to be the reason Anna Chapman and her chorts were compromised. So what do you do with a spymaster gone bad?

Put him on trial and convict him of betraying state secrets. Or seek look for him on a beach on a Greece Island. He was last seen headed that way.

But this is message to other Russian spymasters and spies. That motherland Russia does not like her spies being compromised. No tell the spyee that you are part of a ring spying on them.

So this is right out of the Cold War.....it really means that mother Russia has more spies out there. Ah well what did one expect?

<---------------the next gift of President Obama to President Medevdev can be one pre tried and convicted Russian spymaster.

Iran is test firing various short, mid and long range missile. But this test has a new twist to it. Some of the long range missiles are being fired from underground silos.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm..................I know, I know......Iran has a right to defend itself. From what?

Isreal is a 1000 miles away. Has no Navy for a invasion. Now the US wisthdraws on both sides of this Islamic demogodic (:-)) I just made a new word) country. So of course Iran needs to put a few up for the benefit of the local neighbors.

But returning to harden silo missile launches.....yeah right....Iran is not working nuclear tipped missiles.....yeah right.

With the range to reach most of Europe. And now hardened to make any pre strike air assault even tougher. Just maybe we will soon see Europe governments buying American or Isreali anti missile systems. Lockheed stock anyone?

Let us finish with Obama's Libyan problem. Qdaffi.

Qdaffi, sons and his his head intelligence were all charged with
war crimes in the Hague. Dang......could we have tried this when Lockerbie happened? Saved the world 25 years of trouble and geo political games?

Ah no that was asking to much of the world body. And that was only Americans and Britians that were killed. But Qdaffi and Sons start to do a job on those poor Libyans....he is stepping on European liberal toes that control the international courts.

Suddenly in a mere 60 days, Col. Qdaffi is a war criminal. And not a wanted Terrorist. So it all depends on your victim.

Qdaffi now has NATO and the Hague after him. A sure sign that he has another 10-15 years of freedom coming. Remember Milosovic and crew from Serbia, yes?

Anyways for the White House and President Obama, this has to be a confirmation indictment, that their decision to go after Qdaffi was right. Heck if it came from a American court, it would be ignored. Remember Obama was trading with Qdaffi before the shooting began.

In the geo political mis mash of the day...I say good luck to those European investigators for the Hague. The beer is warm, the sand is hot, and the water is bad were you are going to do your Hague investigations on Qdaffi.