"Iran says running 7,000 enrichment centrifuges"

L.A.W.--- Now this should be interesting. At what point will Israel destroy Iran's facilities and cite in their defense Ahmadinejad's comments of "destroying" Israel. The world will be "shocked" and scold the bad Israel's, but go to sleep with a smile knowing they are safer for it. L.A.W. says watch the French and Russians on this one; and Obama wants us to cough up our nukes... whose the nut?

TEHRAN, April 9 (Reuters) - Iran is now running 7,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, a senior official said on Thursday, an announcement likely to increase Western concerns about the Islamic Republic's disputed nuclear plans.
Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, also said it had obtained the technology to produce more "accurate" centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium.
Referring to the inauguration of a nuclear fuel production plant by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier on Thursday, he said in a televised speech: "Today we praise ... the accomplishment of the last stage of the nuclear fuel cycle."

CBC members praise Castro

L.A.W.-- What in the hell is the CBC doing? ... visiting a dictator whose blamed the U.S. for "his country's" problems for forty years. Liberals are notorious for hating America and aligning themselves with those who opress the freedom and civil liberties we enjoy. What hypercrites!!

This ass Castro has cost many their lives and many more to flee to the U.S. on anything that would float... often to their own death. What a farse!

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By ALEX ISENSTADT 4/7/09 7:01 PM EDT

Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for an end to U.S. prohibition on travel to Cuba, just hours after a meeting with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana. “The fifty-year embargo just hasn’t worked,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Ca.) told reporters this evening at a Capitol press conference after returning from a congressional delegation visit to Cuba. “The bottom line is that we believe its time to open dialogue with Cuba.” Lee and others heaped praise on Castro, calling him warm and receptive during their discussion. But the lawmakers disputed Castro's later statement that members of the congressional delegation said American society is still racist... http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21008.html

"O Urges Action, But No Decision Made From U.N. Meeting on N. Korea Launch"

President Obama, faced with his first global security crisis, called for an international response and condemned North Korea for threatening the peace and stability of nations "near and far."

L.A.W. -- President Obama, we have a tip for you: the U.N. is useless in stopping rogue assholes, as evident by the way Huessin was dealt with for violating Iraq's cease fire agreement to the Gulf War. Sadly, there should never had been an Iraq war. The U.N. council would have told Huessain in very clear terms: you started wars with Egypt, Iran, and Kuwait and are responsible for the loss of millions of lives as a direct result of your aggression and you have destroyed billions in property. If you do not allow U.N. inspectors to do their work per the cease fire declaration agreement, we will resume war within 24 hours. Period. Instead, the French protected their investment in Iraq, as did the Germans and the U.S. was left with the dirty work of calling a mad-man's bluff. Oh how we forget the technical and well documented REASONS, plural, for going to war in Iraq. L.A.W. says if the Germans or Japanese in 1946 decided to pull this to the U.S., Russia, Brittain and other allies, we never would have allowed it to happen.

O bows to Saudi King

L.A.W. --The White House denies Obama was bowing... no surprise... was he picking up loose change, polishing the sheik's shoes, what the hell!!

Then we also had Obama in France kissing ass for our nation's actions and not following "Europe's leadership."

Greeting called 'most unbecoming for president of the United States'

Posted: April 02, 20094:12 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2009 WorldNetDaily

President Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist yesterday, a move one commentator described as a violation of protocol and not worthy of the office he holds.
"I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a president of the United States," writes Clarice Feldman in an American Thinker commentary. The situation developed as leaders of the world attending the G20 summit in London assembled for a photograph to mark the event.

In this first image, after the king extended his hand while Obama approached, Obama bends from the waist until his head is nearly at the monarch's waist: President Obama's bow to Saudi king In a second image, Obama has straightened up and is exchanging remarks with the Saudi leader: Obama speaks briefly with Saudi king after bowing. Video by a television crew was posted on YouTube. The bow comes at about 50 seconds into a video. The action appeared especially awkward since among the dozens of world leaders and their spouses, handshakes abounded, but there appeared to be no other bowing in the room.

The U.S. State Department's office of protocol did not respond to a WND request for the proper etiquette for two heads of state meeting, but the online travel etiqutte website for Saudi Arabia said handshakes are common greetings between members of the same sex.

"You should expect to undertake a considerable amount of small talk, and learning a few Arabic greetings would be well received. Saudis will stand closer to each other than many westerners are used to, and members of the same sex will often touch arms when postulating or emphasizing a point. You should not draw away from this as it would be considered rude and rejecting. Be aware that due to the conservative nature of Saudi Arabian society, it is not considered proper etiquette for men and women to greet each other in public," the site advises.
"It is proper etiquette to refer to a royal as Your Highness, and any members of the government ministries as Your Excellency," it said.

Many of the proper procedures for meeting royalty are set by the British monarchy, since its members carry probably the highest royal profile around the world today.
The website for the British queen advises men who are from the United Kingdom to provide a neck bow (from the head only) "whilst women do a small curtsy. Other people prefer simply to shake hands in the usual way."

"On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is 'Your Majesty' and subsequently 'Ma'am'," the site advises. ABC reported Obama and his wife, Michelle, were less formal meeting Queen Elizabeth II earlier this week, when they exchanged handshakes. The queen briefly touched Michelle Obama on the back, and she returned the contact.

Pundits were surprised, since in 1992 Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was criticized when he put his arm around the queen in violation of a general "no-touch" rule regarding royalty.

But the traditional Miss Manners book of etiquette advises "One does not bow or curtsy to a foreign monarch because the gesture symbolizes recognition of her power over her subjects."
Jamie Glazov, the author of United of Hate," said Obama's act actually was to be expected.
"And people don't know what's going on here? Are we kidding?" he said. "This is simply the continuation of fellow traveling. It's to be totally expected. Leftists have prostrated themselves before despots throughout history – during the whole Cold War and now vis-Ã -vis jihadists in the terror war. 'United in Hate' crystallizes with precision how and why this dark process occurs."

He cited the Obamas' less formal interaction with the queen earlier.
"Obviously, the queen does not wield totalitarian power and does not mete out sadistic punishment – with which a believer yearns to identify. The Saudi king, meanwhile, is a tyrannical entity to which Obama can subjugate his individuality – and through which he can vicariously experience a feeling of power and purpose. This is the process of negative identification that every leftist must practice and that 'United in Hate' documents is at the heart of every leftist's main driving force," he said.

This trillion is on me...

When you control the money printing presses and have no fiscal responsibility, you're the hit of the party. Sober up Mr. President, you're acting like a drunk frat boy with your first credit card, which by the way, IT"S MAXED OUT!!!

The Value of Being a Community Organizer

Read through the attached article and you'll know how being a "community organizer" in the City of Chicago has been an invaluable experience for our current President.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123862834153780427.html

— L.A.W.

'Capitalism needs to go down'

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday ridiculed the G-20 summit's attempts to deal with the global financial meltdown, saying that capitalism is in crisis and must end.
Chavez criticized the G-20 nations' pledges of more than a trillion dollars for lending to struggling countries at Thursday's summit in London, calling it "the same medicine that's killing the patient—a trillion dollars ... more money for a bottomless pit."
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Speaking during a visit to Iran, the Venezuelan leader said the plans by the Group of 20 industrial and developing countries would strengthen "one of the great guilty ones behind the crisis: the International Monetary Fund."
The IMF and the World Bank are "tools of imperialism" and must be eliminated, Chavez said.
In earlier remarks, he also blamed the United States and Britain, calling them "the most guilty" for the financial crisis sweeping the globe because of the financial model "they've been imposing for years."
"It's impossible that capitalism can regulate the monster that is the world financial system, it's impossible," Chavez told Venezuela's state TV late Thursday. "Capitalism needs to go down. It has to end. And we must take a transitional road to a new model that we call socialism."
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shared that critique, saying "some decisions by the world leaders cannot restore dead imperialism."
The two leaders, appearing Friday at the inauguration of joint commercial bank, referred to their nations as the "G-2." In recent years, Chavez and Ahmadinejad—both well-known for their anti-U.S. rhetoric—have boosted economic and political ties.
The G-20 leaders on Thursday promised $1.1 trillion for lending to struggling countries. They also vowed major efforts to clean up banks' tattered balance sheets, get credit flowing again, shut down global tax havens and tighten regulation over hedge funds and other financial high-flyers in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Chavez said the summit's efforts were not what the world needs "in the face of the great crisis of global capitalism."
Chavez's own economic program to institute socialism in Venezuela could slow as his country's oil-dependent economy suffers from falling crude prices. Inflation there has soared above 30 percent, eroding Venezuelans' salaries.
In his decade in power, Chavez has boosted state control over the economy and spent heavily on social programs meant to increase his popularity. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Subject: Our Economic Meltdown Simplified

"Heidi" is the proprietor of a bar in Berlin. In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed alcoholics - to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans).

Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar.

Taking advantage of her customers' freedom from immediate payment constraints, Heidi increases her prices for wine and beer, the most-consumed beverages. Her sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic customer service consultant at the local bank recognizes these customer debts as valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for undue concern since he has the debts of the alcoholics as collateral.

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert bankers transform these customer assets into DRINKBONDS, ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS. These securities are then traded on markets worldwide. No one really understands what these abbreviations mean and how the securities are guaranteed. Nevertheless, as their prices continuously climb, the securities become top-selling items.

One day, although the prices are still climbing, a risk manager (subsequently of course fired due his negativity) of the bank decides that slowly the time has come to demand payment of the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar.

However they cannot pay back the debts.

Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations and claims bankruptcy.

DRINKBOND and ALKBOND drop in price by 95 %. PUKEBOND performs better, stabilizing in price after dropping by 80 %.

The suppliers of Heidi's bar, having granted her generous payment due dates and having invested in the securities are faced with a new situation. Her wine supplier claims bankruptcy, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor.

The bank is saved by the Government following dramatic round-the-clock consultations by leaders from the governing political parties.

The funds required for this purpose are obtained by a tax levied on the non-drinkers.

Finally an explanation I can understand...

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Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Ramirez, Investor's Business Daily