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OK all, I am going to be Away from the Computer for a Few days.....Till Tuesday Night anyway...

BUT Before I Go...and Since we are talking about Presidental Subjects....let me leave you with these Funny Pictures of Presidental Hopefuls , the Current President and Past Presidents. Enjoy...and have a Great Holiday!

US backs international standards

Many on Wall Street have welcomed the SEC move

US companies could have to use international accounting standards by 2014, under a proposal put forward by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The five SEC commissioners proposed a timetable for the switch from US standards, known as GAAP.

US companies could have the option of using international standards in 2010. The SEC would then decide in 2011 whether to make it mandatory from 2014.

Analysts welcomed the proposal as necessary to increase transparency.

An international set of accounting standards enables investors to see how much money companies are making, regardless of where they are based.

Most large publicly listed companies already conform to international standards.

Supporters of the switch to international standards had argued that the need to conform to US accounting standards deterred some foreign companies from listing on US stock markets.

To read the Whole Article Go to:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7585552.stm

Oh yes.....lets make it easier for Foreign Investors to Invest and to take over American Companies....lets just make them World Companies....lol

Some one Shoot me...I am going to put my Eye Patch over my Good eye for awhile...

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OK Folks, I do not want Obama or Mccain in Office....Right now I am posting things on the DNC and Obama....just because it is what is Currently Going on...

But when the RNC gets going..you'll get to see the Mccain Blogs...that should be Fun...

I consider myself and Equal Opportunity Offeneder..lol

Anyway..I keep Reading from Obama Supporters right now...WE NEED CHANGE!..Now I have been following this and watching the DNC on T.V....And I don't know what CHANGE is...No one has told us..other than he is NOT MCCAIN or BUSH ok that is Change..but I am not Bush Or Mccain either...why not elect me?.The First ONE EYED Pirate President.....lol  ....Considereing these News Articles I keep finding and Posting..show he is No Different than all the other Cronnies in Washington...I see he is just like Mccain and Bush...just says he isn't..they are all related up there in Washington...really... That Gene Pool isn't very deep in the Political Realm...they are a Private Club up on the Hill..  So...Please..Someone....What is CHANGE?(and saying he is African American and a Democrat..doesn't count!)....Enlighten me...

Money Trail: Lobbyists Gone Wild as Obama Remains Silent

Campaign Reform Groups Criticize Obama's Failure to Speak Up on Convention Excess

By BRIAN ROSS, RHONDA SCHWARTZ, and AVNI PATEL
Aug. 25, 2008

Despite a campaign that attacked corporate and special interest lobbyists as evil and banned their money and participation, Sen. Barack Obama has done little, if anything, about their pervasive, free-spending presence at the Democratic convention in Denver, ethics watchdog groups say.

"I think he could have sent a signal to say I want this tamped down," said Ellen Miller of the Sunlight Foundation, a political ethics watchdog group.

"But he has not," she said, "so it's party time."

(Brian Ross reports tonight from Denver, on the Money Trail, for World News with Charles Gibson.)

A spokesman for the Obama campaign, Ben LaBolt, said the Senator could not "make changes to this year's convention" because of the "very late end to the primary season."

As a result, lobbyists are once again spending millions of dollars here on gourmet food, top-shelf liquor and private lavish parties for Democratic elected officials who seem more than happy to play the role of world-class freeloaders.

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According to Denver's top chefs and caterers, no expense is being spared.

Kevin Taylor, of the Denver restaurant Palette, who says he is the only four-star chef in Denver, says he is booked to prepare delicacies for more than 100 "high end, hush-hush events."

"The demand is over the top, you've never seen anything like this," said chef Taylor, especially for his signature King Crab terrine appetizer with white champagne caviar.

At the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where rooms for Democratic VIP's are now going for $2,000 a night, the executive chef, Andre Jimenez, says even the room welcome gifts need to be elaborate for the 35 top donors and celebrities, including "the rarest peaches in America."

"It's only for the best of the best that we host here," the chef told ABC News.

"We're seeing lobbyists gone wild," said Craig Holman of Public Citizen, a non-profit group that lobbied for the new ethics law enacted last year, aimed at curbing lobbying abuses.

"Many of the new rules also apply to the national nominating conventions, though the public would not know this by looking at the roster of parties being planned by lobbyists and lobbying organizations," Holman wrote in a letter to both Democratic and Republican members of the House of Representatives.

To read the Whole Articel Go to:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=
5648474&page=1

Politicians, Gee they aren't out of Touch with Real Americans...Are they....lol

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ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors

Asa Eslocker Was Investigating the Role of Lobbyists and Top Donors at the Convention

By BRIAN ROSS
Aug. 27, 2008

DENVER--Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he was attempting to take pictures of Democratic Senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.(ABC News)
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Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.

A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's neck, then twisted the producers arm behind him to put on handcuffs.

To read the Whole Story go to:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=
5668622&page=1

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Wind farms put pressure on bats

By Richard Black

 
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

 The rotating blade produce a pressure drop that can harm bats

Bats are at risk from wind turbines, researchers have found, because the rotating blades produce a change in air pressure that can kill the mammals.

Canadian scientists examined bats found dead at a wind farm, and concluded that most had internal injuries consistent with sudden loss of air pressure.

Bats use echo-location to avoid hitting the blades but cannot detect the sharp pressure changes around the turbine.

The scientists say wind farms are more of an issue for bats than for birds.

"An atmospheric pressure drop at wind turbine blades is an undetectable - and potentially unforseeable - hazard for bats, thus partially explaining the large number of bat fatalities at these specific structures," said Erin Baerwald, who led the research team at the University of Calgary.

To read the Whole Article Go To:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7581990.s
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OK I was wondering when something would come out.....The Environmentalists are telling Environmentalists that their New "Green" Idea is yet again fatal and not really "Green"........lol  In Scotland they are tracking Swans to see if they go around the Turbines insead of Through them....lol..

This reminds me of the Spotted Owl..........

Sorry funny .....very funny......Coal Plant emits Mercury, Nuclear, well it may blow up, Water Turbines kill fish... Wind Turbines are now the Nemisis of Batman..lol  and making Swan Bits in Scotland.......    Can we just stop already??

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

In this image provided by the US Navy the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas heads to sea in Souda Bay, Crete with a load of humanitarian assistance supplies for the Republic of Georgia Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. The United States has canceled plans to try to dock the military ship carrying humanitarian aid in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian forces are posted on the outskirts, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Wednesday Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/US Navy - Paul Farley)

BATUMI, Georgia - A U.S. military ship docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, prompting Russia to send three naval ships to another Georgian port. The moves by both sides underscored an escalating standoff between Moscow and the West over this small Caucasus nation devastated by war with Russia.

The dockings came a day after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recognized two Georgian rebel territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, prompting harsh criticism from Western nations.

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Dallas, carrying 34 tons of humanitarian aid, docked in the Black Sea port of Batumi, south of the zone of this month's fighting between Russia and Georgia. The arrival avoided Georgia's main cargo port of Poti, still controlled by Russian soldiers.

The U.S. Embassy in Georgia had earlier said the ship was headed to Poti, but then retracted the statement. Zaza Gogava, head of Georgia's joint forces command, said Poti could have been mined by Russian forces and still contained several sunken Georgian ships hit in the fighting.

Poti's port reportedly suffered heavy damage from the Russian military. In addition, Russian troops have established checkpoints on the northern approach to the city and a U.S. ship docking there could be perceived as a direct challenge.

Meanwhile, Russia's missile cruiser, the Aurora, and two missile boats, anchored at the port of Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, some 180 miles north of Batumi. The Russian navy says the ships will be involved in peacekeeping operations.

Although Western nations have called the Russian military presence in Poti a clear violation of an European Union-brokered cease-fire, a top Russian general has called using warships to deliver aid "devilish."

Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn warned that NATO has already exhausted the number of forces it can have in the Black Sea, according to international agreements, and warned Western nations against sending more ships.

"Can NATO - which is not a state located in the Black Sea - continuously increase its group of forces and systems there? It turns out that it cannot," Nogovitsyn was quoted as saying Wednesday by the Interfax news agency.

Western leaders assailed Russia for violating Georgia's territorial sovereignty and the Georgian government said Wednesday it will withdraw some of its diplomats from Moscow.

To read the Whole Article Go to:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iUA357W77ndvCMh3
2VlQqdGj53mAD92QLT501

 This Link is a Blog on the BBC that discusses the Role the EU has played in this Crisis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell
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UK urges tough response to Russia

Mr Miliband said Russia's declaration inflamed an already tense situation

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called on the EU and Nato to initiate "hard-headed engagement" with Russia in response to its actions in Georgia.

In a speech in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, he urged them to bolster their allies, re-balance the energy relationship with Russia and defend international law.

Mr Miliband's visit came a day after Russia recognised the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions.

Earlier, Ukraine's president said it was a hostage in a war waged by Russia.

Victor Yushchenko told Mr Miliband that the brief conflict between Georgia and Russia earlier this month had exposed serious weaknesses in the powers of the UN and other international bodies.

To read the Whole Article go to :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7583486.stmp>

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Just take the "In Africa" off and it still works....

Glad their Slogan wasn't

"Where the News Hits you in the Face!"

Russia 'Not Afraid' of a New Cold War

 Russian President Says His Country Does Not Want a new Cold War, But Is Not Afraid of One Either

MOSCOW, Aug 26, 2008

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking in the midst of one of the lowest points in the Russia-West relationship since the breakup of the Soviet Union 17 years ago, said Tuesday that his country did not seek a new Cold War — but neither was it afraid of one.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) stands in front of a tank at a World War Two memorial in Kursk... Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) stands in front of a tank at a World War Two memorial in Kursk August 18, 2008. Medvedev speaking amid the conflict with Georgia, warned on Monday that any further aggression against Russian citizen would face a "crushing response". (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)

"We are not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a new Cold War," Medvedev was quoted as saying Tuesday by the ITAR-Tass news agency. "But we don't want it and in this situation everything depends on the position of our partners."

The statement comes hours after Medvedev recognized the independence of two Georgian rebel provinces, defying the West. The recognition — which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described as "extremely unfortunate" — follows a short but intense war with Western-allied Georgia earlier this month.

"If they want to preserve good relations with Russia in the West, they will understand the reason behind our decision," Medvedev said.

Medvedev said that he had signed a decree on the decision to recognize the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Few other nations are likely to follow the move. To Read the Whole Article go to:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=565982
0&page=1

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Personally I do not care for one Canidate or another...but I find it interesting how each time there is an Election and someone Claims they are Different and not like those in Washington.....How much Like Washington they really are......Obama isn't the First to say this.....and he won't be the last.....But each time it is said..it always proves wrong....No matter who we are talking about.   The Republicans swore they were not like Washington, not like the Big Spenders...then when they get into Office....it's Proved wrong.  They are all alike in Washington...and this little Article Just proves my point...on how Washington is just one Big Happy Family......Democrat -Republican...all just a different way to spell Crook.......too bad they treat the Citizens of this Country like In-Laws..

My Son, The Lobbyist: Biden's Son a Well-Paid DC Insider

 Firm Lobbies Senator Biden Although Son Does Not

By EMMA SCHWARTZ

Aug. 24, 2008  

The Son of Barack Obama's vice presidential pick, Sen. Joe Biden, is a top partner at a Washington law firm that has lobbied his father's office, a family tie that could prove embarrassing for a campaign that has positioned itself as fighting lobbyists and special interests in Washington.

 Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., is joined by his family including his... Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., is joined by his family including his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, left, his son, Hunter, his wife Jill and his brother Jimmy as he speaks to supporters during a rally at the UAW Hall in Dubuque, Iowa, on the day of the Iowa caucus Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mark Hirsch)

 In the first six months of this year R. Hunter Biden, a founding partner of Oldaker, Biden & Belair, has worked on accounts that brought it $470,000 from nine clients, according to lobbying disclosure records.

 Although firm members say Biden, 38, does not lobby his father, this kind of family tie, said Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, "raises the potential of a conflict of interest."

 For its part, the Obama campaign said that Sen. Biden had always followed ethics rules. "Hunter Biden has never lobbied Sen. Biden's office or committees, period," David Wade, Obama-Biden spokesperson, wrote in an email response.

"He's never worked on a client issue where other members of the firm have lobbied the office. Hunter shares expenses not revenues with his partners, so there's no benefit to him when a partner lobbies. Sen. Biden has been as strong a supporter of ethics reform as the Senate has known, and his office follows all ethics laws right down to the letter."

 But the connections between the law firm and Biden are very close.

To read whole article Go to:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=5640118&page
=1

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Little Known Heros of the Revolution

The Boston Massacre

March 5th 1770.  The Boston Massacre....Crispus Attucks was not only the First  American Martyr of the Revolution, he was also the Organizer and leader of the Crowd that confronted the British Soldiers at Boston that day.    He was also the Formost in Resisting the British Soldiers and as a result the First one Killed.   

In 1851 there was a Petition presented to the Massachusetts Legislature for the appropriation of Funds to build a Monument to the First American Martyr of the Revolution, Crispus Attucks.  The Petition was denied.

On the 5th of March, 1776, Washington repaired to the intrenchments. "Remember," said he, "it is the 5th of March, and avenge the death of your brethren!"

The Battle of Bunker Hill

June 17th 1775, The Battle of Bunker Hill.   Patriots after surronding the City of Boston, took up postions on the Charlestown Peninsula on top of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill North of town across the Bay.   During this battle between 1,500 American Patriots and 2,400 British Soliders took part.  While the British did take both Hills they suffered Heavy losses.  British casualties were about 1,150 killed and wounded, while the Patriots suffered 450 Killed and wounded.  

But out of those who died 2 famous People were Killed in the Fighting.  A Patriot named General Warren and a British Major of Marines Pitcarin.  The Little known Hero is the Man who Killed Major Pitcarin was named Henry Hill.   After the Battle he was was presented to General Washington for his heroic Fighting and the killing of the Major.   In Pictures made of the Battle he was at First a Prominent Figure, but over time he has been forgotten and ingloriously left out.

Henry Hill also fought in the battles of Lexington, Brandywine, Monmouth, Princeton, and Yorktown. He died in Chilicothe, on the 12th of August, 1833, aged eighty years. He was buried with the honors of war and eventually forgotten to History.

Dorchester Heights

On March 4th, 1776 Boston.  Washington received 59 Cannon from the Captured British fort of Ticondaroga.  Overnight the Patriots Constructed Fortifications and installed the Cannon on the Heights overlooking Bristish occupied Boston.   This move eventually led to the British evacutaion of Boston on March 17th, 1776.  March 17 is celebrated as Evacuation Day in some Massachusetts communities.

But one Little known Hero is James Easton.   James Easton, of Bridgewater, was one who participated in the erection of the fortifications on Dorchester Heights, under command of Washington.  His talents were invaluable in the Construciton of the fortifications.

 Mr. Easton was a manufacturing blacksmith, and his forge and nail factory, where were he also made edge tools and anchors, was extensively known, for its superiority of workmanship. Much of the iron work for the Tremont Theatre and Boston Marine Railway was executed under his supervision. Mr. Easton was self-educated. When a young man, stipulating for work, he always provided for chances of evening study. He was welcome to the business circles of Boston as a man of strict integrity, and the many who resorted to him for advice in complicated matters styled him "the Lawyer." His sons, Caleb, Joshua, Sylvanus, and Hosea, inherited his mechanical genius and mental ability.

Crossing of the Delaware

December 25th, 1776 Trenton.  In a daring tactic, General Washington in the Dead of Winter decide to attack the town of Trenton.  In the middle of the night and during a snow storm the Patriots crossed the Delaware River and then attacked the Hessian Mercenaries and British Troops occuping the Town.  It was an absolute and complete Victory.

A Little known Hero was Oliver Cromwell.   He enlisted in company commanded by Capt. Lowery, attached to the Second New Jersey Regiment, under the command of Col. Israel Shreve. He was at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Monmouth, and Yorktown.   Cromwell was brought up a farmer, having served his time with Thomas Hutchins, Esq., his maternal uncle. He was, for six years and nine months, under the immediate command of Washington, whom he loved affectionately. "His discharge "at the close of the war, was in Washington's own hand-writing, of which he was very proud, often speaking of it. He received, annually, ninety-six dollars pension. He lived a long and honorable life.  He lost three sons and three daughters; had fourteen children who reached the age of maturity--seven sons and seven daughters. He saw his grand-children to the third generation. He was a man of strong natural powers--never chewed tobacco nor drank a glass of ardent spirit. He died, in the town of his birth, January 24th, 1853.

There is another little known Hero at the Crossing.  Prince Whipple was a Body Guard to General Whipple of New Hampshire, who was an Aid to General Washington.  In the Engraving done of the Night of December 25th 1776, Prince Whipple can be seen Proudly riding Horseback, next to General Washington and General Whipple.   More Modern Artist's failed to add him to other renditions of that Glorious day. 

Prince was beloved by all who knew him. He was the "Caleb Quotem" of Portsmouth, where. he died at the age of thirty-two, leaving a widow and children.

The Spy of Lafayette

One Little known hero is James Armistead Lafayette.   James was a man who Volunteered his service to General Lafayette of the Continential Army.  So impressed with this Man General Lafayette asked  him to be a Spy.   Upon agreeing to this task, he was able to get himself employed by the British General Cornwallis.    Cornwallis was also so impressed  by him that he in turn, asked him to spy for the British Army.  So James Armistead started Feeding the British false information till the Surrender of General Cornwallis.  So perfect was the Acting of James that not until Cornwallis met James in the Headquarters tent of General Lafayette, did his true identity and mission become known to him.   James was so fond of General Lafayette that he took his last name as a sign of his loyalty and appreciation.   The Service provided by James and the success of his mission was immeasurable to the success over Cornwallis.

Americans All..

What some of you may have already figured out is that not only are these American Heros.   But they are American Heros that happen to be African American.   The reason for not including this earlier, is because it matters little what the Color of their skin was.  All that matters is that they are Heros, American Heros that fought for not only Our Liberty and Freedom, but their Liberty and the Freedom of Future Generations.

The Continential Army was so integrated by the end of the Revolutionary War, 1/4th of it was made up of African Americans.   The United States would not see this kind of integration again for another 200 years.  

These are not all of the Hero's of the American Revolution, there are many more of many different Races and Sexes.   But the Fact that they Fought and many died for all of us.....is what matters.

They Were...........We Are..............Americans All...\

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

 POTI, Georgia —  Thousands of Georgians demanded that Russian troops leave the outskirts of this strategic Black Sea port on Saturday and took to the streets in protest, while a top Russian general said his country's forces would keep patrolling the area.

The comments by deputy head of the general staff Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, reported by Russian news agencies, showed that despite protests from the United States, France and Britain, Russia was confident enough to occupy whatever part of Georgia it deemed necessary.

"Russian military: You are not a liberating military, you are an occupying force!" one man shouted at the Poti protest. Banners read "Say No to War" and "Russia go home."

On Sunday, a U.S. Navy warship carrying humanitarian aid for Georgia anchored in the southern Georgian port of Batumi. It was the first of five American ships scheduled to arrive this week with supplies.

The McFaul is loaded with 72 pallets of humanitarian aid, and is also outfitted with an array of weaponry, including Tomahawk cruise missiles. U.S. Air Force flights that have brought in more than 1 million pounds of humanitarian relief.

To read the Whole Article Go to:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409521,00.html

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Boy Wanders Into Mexico After School Bus Mix-Up

By Associated Press

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- School officials in San Luis, Ariz., are investigating a busing mix-up that ended with a 6-year-old boy wandering alone in Mexico.

Gadsden Elementary School District board President Luis Marquez says that if any failure is found in the school transportation system, it will be corrected immediately.

To read the whole article go to:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-art
icle.aspx?storyid=116874&catid=82

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