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You mean there maybe a connection between Syria, Iran, Iraq and what is happening in Lebanon? With all the politcal assassinations and bombings, and rockects that were launched? GASP! Who would have thunk?

Where did Lionel Gates end up? I thought in preseason he looked the best of all of our RBs. Ran the hardest, that was for sure.

But...But....they only blow people up because we want their oil! BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- A pair of explosions hit two small buses in a Christian mountain town north of Beirut on Tuesday morning, killing at least three people and wounding seven others, authorities and Red Cross officials said. A Lebanese army official said the attacks took place in Ain Alak in the country's Metn region and came one day before the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Ain Alak is near Bikfaya, the home town of former President Amin Gemayel. His son Pierre was assassinated by gunmen in November and was Lebanon's industry minister at the time of his death.

The article wasn't saying Al Gore was giving China a pass because their POLICY was so great. It was saying Al Gore though China is right not do much TILL the US did more. So if Al Gore is making excusing for their inaction, how great can their POLICY be?

Right-wing rhetoric? So if am trying to make the point that Gore is being hypocritical about letting China, with world's largest population and the fastest growing industrial economy of the hook, when he shouts all the time about doing something about Global Warming, that now falls under the category of "Right-Wing Rhetoric?" There maybe some good research going on in China, but as far as for breakthroughs in the field of alternate energy, most of the ground-breaking advancements are coming from the USA and Europe, from Cellulosic Ethanol, Biofuels like Biobutanol, and wave and wind energy. As a matter of fact, some economists are predicting boom in the economy from people investing in the alternate energy field, much like the internet created (but would be longer lasting). Now what was that, you live in Alaska? Wow, never would guessed....

And the leaders in the Solar field come from the Silicone Valley in the USA. Plus, the environmental legislation in the US is MUCH tougher than it is in China. Why do think we haven't any any refineries built here in almost 30 years? I read a quote from someone from the Nigerian Government who said they preferred to sell their oil projects to China, as opposed to the US or Europe. Why? Because they didn't make a fuss about safety or the environment..... Some China info for you: http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-0...ina-cover_x.htm

Glen Beck is a leans hard right on most things. He is far from a liberal.

I read that China will over take the US in total polluton by 2020. If China is trying to place itself was world power, why doesn't it lead by example? I would think it would be easier to "go green" as you were builing up your economy and industry, then it would be in place like the US were every is already pretty much built (infrastructure and industry). When the US was growing fast in 1950s, there wasn't many other options than coal and oil. There is now..... Plus I would love to see Greenpeace march on China's government buildings and demand action. How long would it be before the Red Army would come out and run them over with their tanks?

Yep, Over a Billion People, they won't pollute nothing! Associated Press MADRID — Emerging economies such as China are justified in holding back on fighting greenhouse gas emissions until richer polluters like the United States do more to solve the problem, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said Wednesday. The world's top climate scientists warned in a report last week global warming is very likely caused by humanity and will last for centuries. Chinese officials said they will act after industrial countries such as the United States and others make changes, Mr. Gore said, addressing a conference in Madrid on global warming. “They're right in saying that. But we have to act quickly,” said Mr. Gore, who was nominated last week for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in drawing attention to global warming. “China's reaction to the scientific report last week was disappointing, but it was instructive,” Mr. Gore said. Gore narrated an hour-long slide presentation with graphic evidence of global warming: Antarctic ice shelves cracking and collapsing into the sea, before-and-after shots of glaciers reduced to lakes and small patches of ice and forecasts of heavily populated land masses such as Florida shrinking drastically if glacial meltdown reaches a worst-case scenario and floods the seas. “Never before has all of civilization been threatened,” Mr. Gore said. “We have everything we need to save it, with the possible exception of political will. But political will is a renewable resource.”

By James Langton in New York, for the Evening Standard The methodically assembled dossier from Jayna Davis, a former investigative TV reporter, could destroy the official version that white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were solely responsible for what, at the time, was the worst act of terrorism on American soil. Instead, there are serious concerns that a group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al Qaeda, used McVeigh and Nichols as front men to blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Davis, who was one of the first reporters on the scene after the blast, has spent seven years gathering evidence of a wider conspiracy. But it is only as America prepares to wage war on Iraq and Saddam Hussein that her conclusions are being taken seriously at the highest level. Finally, she says, the authorities are examining the idea "that the Oklahoma bombing might not simply be the work of two angry white men". After hearing her evidence, several senior members of Congress have called for a new probe. What triggered Davis's investigation was a report immediately after the Oklahoma explosion of Middle-Eastern looking men fleeing in a brown Chevrolet truck only minutes earlier. The FBI launched an international hunt for the men but later cancelled the search. Within days McVeigh and Nichols were arrested, and the case seemed to be one of home-grown terrorists, motivated by a hatred for authority. But the case has always had loose ends. In particular, several witnesses in Oklahoma City that April morning saw a third conspirator with McVeigh. The elusive dark-haired suspect became known as "John Doe 2". Terry Nichols, now serving life for conspiracy in the bombing and involuntary manslaughter, was the original "John Doe 1" but, with his arrest, the FBI claimed that the case had been wrapped up. They eventually concluded that "John Doe 2" was Nichols all along. Davis thought otherwise. Early on, she found that a brown Chevrolet truck almost identical to that once hunted by the FBI had been seen parked outside the offices of a local property management company several days before the bombing. The owner was a Palestinian with a criminal record and suspected ties to the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Later she found that the man had hired a number of former Iraqi soldiers. He had recruited them to carry out maintenance on his rental properties, but several were later discovered to be missing from work on the day of the bombing. Eyewitnesses have told Davis that they saw several of them celebrating later that day. But what increasingly drew her attention was another Iraqi living in Oklahoma City, a restaurant worker called Hussain Hashem Al Hussaini, whose photograph was almost a perfect match to the official sketch of "John Doe 2". Al Hussaini has a tattoo on his upper left arm, indicating he was once a member of Saddam's elite Republican Guard. Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses. Several claimed to have seen a man fitting Al Hussaini's description drinking with McVeigh in a motel bar four days before the bombing. Others positively identified former Iraqi soldiers in the company of McVeigh and Nichols. Two swore that they had seen Al Hussaini only a block from the Murrah building in the hours before the bombing. With the case against McVeigh and Nichols seemingly watertight, the FBI has until now consistently refused to reopen it. McVeigh went to his death in the execution chamber two years ago, insisting he alone was responsible. Davis thinks he may have done so out of loyalty to his family, not wishing to go down in history as a traitor to his country. But she has evidence that up to 12,000 Iraqis were allowed into America after the Gulf war. Some of these, she suspects, are using their status as refugees for cover. "They are here," she said. "And they are highly trained and motivated." The renewed interest in Washington is clearly linked to America's case against Saddam as broker of world terror. And there is more. Al Hussaini, who entered the US from a Saudi refugee camp, worked after the Oklahoma bomb as a cook at Boston's Logan Airport - from where the two hijacked aircraft that hit the World Trade Center took off. There is another confirmed incident that suggests something more sinister. Two of the 11 September conspirators held a crucial meeting at a motel in Oklahoma City in August 2001. The motel's owner has since identified them as ringleader Mohammed Atta and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, who has known links with shoebomber Richard Reid. The motel is unremarkable - except for one thing. It is where a number of Davis's witnesses are sure they saw McVeigh drinking and perhaps plotting with his Iraqi friends.

I almost kind of agree with you here. They are going to kill each other, fine. We can't stop that. I just don't want them coming here

Yeah, sounds like some real progress for that serious plan: AZA (Reuters) - A new Palestinian unity government to be formed after a deal in Mecca between rival Fatah and Hamas factions will not recognize Israel, a political adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday. Ahmed Youssef said the unity government, which he expected Haniyeh to unveil within 10 days, would "respect" previous Palestinian peace accords with Israel but would not be committed to them, nor to recognizing the Jewish state. Recognition of Israel is one of three conditions set by the "Quartet" of international Middle East negotiators for lifting sanctions on the Hamas-led government. The Quartet also demands Hamas renounce violence and accept existing peace deals. "The issue of recognition was not addressed at all (in Mecca)," Youssef said. "In the platform of the new government there will be no sign of recognition (of Israel), regardless of the pressures the United States and the Quartet would exert." http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....=rss&rpc=22

Huh? You are telling me there were no Jews living in and around Jerusalem long before Islam came calling? And the holiest Muslim holy place in Jerusalem today, the Al Aqsa Mosque, isn't built on top of the ruins of David's temple?

How did the Jews and Christians get booted out of the area before that? Pretty sure both folks were there long before people knew what a "jihad" was.

1) pretty sure the people in the mass graves would left before they got gunned done if they had a chance. you think the US invasion some how created the tension and hatred between the different groups there? That has been simmering for years. The only thing that kept it from exploded was the threat of the wood chipper and the rape rooms. so now instead of 20,000 people dumped in grave, you have bombings that kill 20 kids trying to get candy. 2)by "positive step", do you mean telling the parties fighting, "Hey you should be killing Jews instead of each other"? How about closing down the Madras hate schools instead? 3) How come no one ever blames the person pulling the trigger? it is always "we made them that way".....

Jesus Christ was an American? yeah, ok, what ever. If you are going to go down that road, you should at least of the balls to put Mohammed on there as well.

They aren't leaving because the US forces are there. It's because their Muslims brothers feel blowing up a market square full of people is an acceptable form of political activism. Hey did you hear about the big "peace conference" in Saudi Arabia this week? No, it wasn't Between Israel and the Palestinians, it was between the Palestinians and the Palestinians. What a joke.

If so, the Skateboard to the head was a nice touch.

By "The White House said that any U.S. firms affected by nationalizations must be compensated fairly", I think think they mean by Hugo (Senior PrickFace) Chavez. Those companies paid for the use of those fields.

Actually it Molson who, one post in, shifted to the subject of his man-crush on the guy at the gym and how he was muttering "That guy should be in jail!" as the tv showed some sinister looking muslim man over and over again. What does that have to do with intelligence at Iran? There is that liberal bias again.

God lord, take a breath, and try to stay on topic. One more time..... Again, if the man on tv had said or done any of these, should HE NOT BE IN JAIL? And why the hell would you be mad at someone for saying he should be?

According to your moonbat left wing buddies, Al-Quida doesn't exist. It is just a made up threat by the EVIL NEOCONS to take our rights way. So they don't exist, how could he aid them? I think you just ended up with the blue screen of death there smart ass.

If there is someone (say muslim cleric) who says those who do not follow his believes should be submit or be killed, should he not be in jail? If someone plots to kill people by blowing up plane, should they not be in jail? You know, that has been happend once or twice before, in places that had nothing to do with Iraq, or (shudder) the Jews. So if you live in the world of liberal blindess you live, the only bad, dangerous people in the planet are white, western, christians? I guess you support folks like this then, huh: A Muslim cleric's claim that women who do not wear the veil are like 'uncovered meat' who attract sexual predators sparked outrage around Australia yesterday. Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali, the nation's most senior Muslim cleric, compared immodestly-dressed women who do not wear the Islamic headdress with meat that is left uncovered in the street and is then eaten by cats. In a Ramadam sermon in a Sydney mosque, Sheik al-Hilali suggested that a group of Muslim men recently jailed for many years for gang rapes were not entirely to blame. There were women, he said, who 'sway suggestively' and wore make-up and immodest dress "and then you get a judge without mercy and gives you 65 years. But the problem, but the problem all began with who?" he said, referring to the women victims. Addressing 500 worshippers on the topic of adultery, Sheik al-Hilali added: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it..whose fault is it - the cats or the uncovered meat? "The uncovered meat is the problem." He went on: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab (veil), no problem would have occurred."

Fighting Savages? Good name for this lot HAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Thousands of Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank turned out Tuesday to protest the deaths of three children in a drive-by shooting, and Hamas gunmen — blamed by many for the killings — opened fire on demonstrators from the rival Fatah movement. The killings of the three boys — ages 3, 6 and 9 — whose car was riddled with bullets as they rode to school in Gaza City, sparked widespread rage, grief and soul-searching in the Palestinian areas. Children stayed home from school and stores were closed to protest the violence. While Gaza has been plagued by months of infighting, the brutality of Monday's shooting — in an area crowded with families and schoolchildren — was especially shocking and raised fears of more factional violence. Women led many of Tuesday's protests, demanding safety for their children. Many protesters carried posters with life-size photos of the dead boys' bloodied faces, as well as other victims of Palestinian infighting.