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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 6/7/2009, 08:44 | |
| Rappel du premier message :Bonjour Biloulou  Il me semblait que cette nouvelle plairait! |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 23/10/2009, 13:53 | |
| - Sylvette a écrit:
- Difficile a comprendre: les "gays" souhaitent etre traites comme tout le monde et en meme temps, ils font pression sur le gouvernement pour avoir des lois bien a eux...
Bonjour Sylvette !  En effet, c'est paradoxal et impossible à comprendre par quelqu'un de normalement constitué. Mais bon, c'est à la mode... Parfaitement d'accord également avec vos conclusions finales. Difficile de ne pas l'être...  | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 23/10/2009, 14:05 | |
| Biloulou  Ca me fait plaisir, parfois je me sens un peu seule dans ma vision de certaines choses.  |
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| Rasmussen Date......................Pres.Approval Index - Strongly Approve - Strongly Disapprove- Total Approve - Total Disapprove | 10/26/2009 | -12 | 29% | 41% | 47% | 52% | | 10/25/2009 | -10 | 30% | 40% | 48% | 51% |
..... | 01/22/2009 | +30 | 44% | 14% | 64% | 29% | | 01/21/2009 | +28 | 44% | 16% | 65% | 30% |
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| Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls The health-care debate is part of a larger moral struggle over the free-enterprise system.By ARTHUR C. BROOKS Regardless of how President Barack Obama's health-care agenda plays out in Congress, it has not been a success in public opinion. Opposition to ObamaCare has risen all year. - Spoiler:
According to the Gallup polling organization, the percentage of Americans who believe the cost of health care for their families will "get worse" under the proposed reforms rose to 49% from 42% in just the past month. The percentage saying it would "get better" stayed at 22%. Many are searching for explanations. One popular notion is that demagogues in the media are stirring up falsehoods against what they say is a long-overdue solution to the country's health-care crisis. Americans deserve more credit. They haven't been brainwashed, and they aren't upset merely over the budget-busting details. Rather, public resistance stems from the sense that the proposed reforms do violence to three core values of America's free enterprise culture: individual choice, personal accountability, and rewards for ambition. First, Americans recoil at policies that strip choices from citizens and pass them to bureaucrats. ObamaCare systematically does so. The current proposals in Congress would effectively limit choice across the entire spectrum of health care: What kind of health insurance citizens can buy, what kind of doctors they can see, what kind of procedures their doctors will perform, what kind of drugs they can take, and what treatment options they may have. Meanwhile, ObamaCare would limit the ability of people to choose affordable insurance coverage through less-comprehensive, consumer-driven insurance plans. And it wouldn't allow Americans to shop for better health-care plans from out-of-state carriers. Associated Press Second, Americans believe we should be responsible for the consequences of our actions. Many citizens bitterly view the auto and Wall Street bailouts as gifts to people who took imprudent risks, imperiled the entire economic system, and now appear to be walking away from the mess. Similarly, Americans are cold to a health-care system that effectively rewards individuals for waiting to get insurance until they get sick—subsidizing their coverage by taxing those who responsibly carry insurance in good times and bad. On its face, the reformers' promise to provide health insurance to nearly all, regardless of pre-existing conditions, is appealing. But as most instinctively realize, if people don't have to worry about carrying insurance until they need it, many won't buy it. Already, the Census Bureau tells us that 21% of the uninsured are in households earning at least $75,000. Although there are certainly plausible reasons for this in some cases, this phenomenon will worsen under ObamaCare. Third, ObamaCare discourages personal ambition. The proposed reforms will institute a set of government mandates, price controls and other strictures that will make highly trained specialists, drug researchers and medical device makers less valued now and in the future. Americans understand that when you take away the incentive to make money while saving lots of lives, the cures, therapies and medical innovations of tomorrow may never be discovered. Yet we are told this is all for the best. In his commencement speech at Arizona State University earlier this year, Mr. Obama told the graduates not to "fall back on the formulas of success that have been peddled so frequently in recent years": "You're taught to chase after all the usual brass rings . . . let me suggest that such an approach won't get you where you want to go." Crass materialism is indeed a tyranny that can lead to personal misery. But most Americans believe it's up to individuals, not a nannying government, to decide what constitutes too much income and too much ambition. An April 2009 survey conducted by the polling firm Ayers, McHenry & Associates for the conservative nonprofit group Resurgent Republic asked respondents which of the following statements about the role of government came closer to their view: (a) "Government policies should promote fairness by narrowing the gap between rich and poor, spreading the wealth, and making sure that economic outcomes are more equal"; or (b) "Government policies should promote opportunity by fostering job growth, encouraging entrepreneurs, and allowing people to keep more of what they earn." Sixty-three percent chose the second option; just 31% chose the first. This is consistent with nonpartisan surveys showing that most Americans think our increasingly redistributionist government is overstepping its bounds. For example, a September 2009 Gallup Poll found that 57% believe the government is "doing too much"—the highest percentage in more than a decade. Just 38% said it "should do more." We will continue to hear both sides of the health-care debate argue about particulars of insurance markets, the deficit impacts of reform, and the minutiae of budgetary assumptions. These arguments, while important, do not address the deeper issues involved. The health-care debate is part of a moral struggle currently being played out over the free enterprise system. It will be replayed in every major policy debate in the coming months, from financial regulatory reform to a cap-and-trade system for limiting carbon emissions. The choices will ultimately always come down to competing visions of America's future. Will we strengthen freedom, individual opportunity and enterprise? Or will we expand the role of the state and its power? Mr. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of "The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future," to be published by Basic Books next June.
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| | Sujet: 1505 - 27/10/2009, 06:39 | |
| La Maison Blanche continue ses attaques contre FOX News... egalement sur la liste: la Chambre de Commerce Commentaire de Charles Krauthammer Fox wars The 'post-partisan' president makes an enemies listBy Charles KrauthammerFriday, October 23, 2009 Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes's bed. - Spoiler:
Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't scare easily.
The White House has declared war on Fox News. White House communications director Anita Dunn said that Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news." Patting rival networks on the head for their authenticity (read: docility), senior adviser David Axelrod declared Fox "not really a news station." And Chief of Staff Emanuel told (warned?) the other networks not to "be led [by] and following Fox."
Meaning? If Fox runs a story critical of the administration -- from exposing "green jobs" czar Van Jones as a loony 9/11 "truther" to exhaustively examining the mathematical chicanery and hidden loopholes in proposed health-care legislation -- the other news organizations should think twice before following the lead.
The signal to corporations is equally clear: You might have dealings with a federal behemoth that not only disburses more than $3 trillion every year but is extending its reach ever deeper into private industry -- finance, autos, soon health care and energy. Think twice before you run an ad on Fox.
At first, there was little reaction from other media. Then on Thursday, the administration tried to make them complicit in an actual boycott of Fox. The Treasury Department made available Ken Feinberg, the executive pay czar, for interviews with the White House "pool" news organizations -- except Fox. The other networks admirably refused, saying they would not interview Feinberg unless Fox was permitted to as well. The administration backed down.
This was an important defeat because there's a principle at stake here. While government can and should debate and criticize opposition voices, the current White House goes beyond that. It wants to delegitimize any significant dissent. The objective is no secret. White House aides openly told Politico that they're engaged in a deliberate campaign to marginalize and ostracize recalcitrants, from Fox to health insurers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
There's nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics. Nor unconstitutional. But our politics are defined not just by limits of legality or constitutionality. We have norms, Madisonian norms.
Madison argued that the safety of a great republic, its defense against tyranny, requires the contest between factions or interests. His insight was to understand "the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties." They would help guarantee liberty by checking and balancing and restraining each other -- and an otherwise imperious government.
Factions should compete, but they should also recognize the legitimacy of other factions and, indeed, their necessity for a vigorous self-regulating democracy. Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.
But didn't Teddy Roosevelt try to destroy the trusts? Of course, but what he took down was monopoly power that was extinguishing smaller independent competing interests. Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical -- and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.
Fox and its viewers (numbering more than those of CNN and MSNBC combined) need no defense.
Defend Fox compared to whom? To CNN -- which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a "Saturday Night Live" skit mildly critical of President Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark that CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh?
Defend Fox from whom? Fox's flagship 6 o'clock evening news out of Washington (hosted by Bret Baier, formerly by Brit Hume) is, to my mind, the best hour of news on television. (Definitive evidence: My mother watches it even on the odd night when I'm not on.) Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She's been attacked for extolling Mao's political philosophy in a speech at a high school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one's own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?
The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?
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| October 26, 2009Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological GroupCompared with 2008, more Americans “conservative” in general, and on issuesby Lydia SaadPRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group. - Spoiler:
Changes among political independents appear to be the main reason the percentage of conservatives has increased nationally over the past year: the 35% of independents describing their views as conservative in 2009 is up from 29% in 2008."
The 2009 data are based on 16 separate Gallup surveys conducted from January through September, encompassing more than 5,000 national adults per quarter. Conservatives have been the dominant ideological group each quarter, with between 39% and 41% of Americans identifying themselves as either "very conservative" or "conservative." Between 35% and 37% of Americans call themselves "moderate," while the percentage calling themselves "very liberal" or "liberal" has consistently registered between 20% and 21% -- making liberals the smallest of the three groups.Independents Inch to the RightChanges among political independents appear to be the main reason the percentage of conservatives has increased nationally over the past year: the 35% of independents describing their views as conservative in 2009 is up from 29% in 2008. By contrast, among Republicans and Democrats, the percentage who are "conservative" has increased by one point each.As is typical in recent years, Republicans are far more unified in their political outlook than are either independents or Democrats. While 72% of Republicans in 2009 call their views conservative, independents are closely split between the moderate and conservative labels (43% and 35%, respectively). Democrats are about evenly divided between moderates (39%) and liberals (37%).Americans Also Moving Right on Some IssuesIn addition to the increase in conservatism on this general ideology measure, Gallup finds higher percentages of Americans expressing conservative views on several specific issues in 2009 than in 2008.
- Perceptions that there is too much government regulation of business and industry jumped from 38% in September 2008 to 45% in September 2009.
- The percentage of Americans saying they would like to see labor unions have less influence in the country rose from 32% in August 2008 to a record-high 42% in August 2009.
- Public support for keeping the laws governing the sale of firearms the same or making them less strict rose from 49% in October 2008 to 55% in October 2009, also a record high. (The percentage saying the laws should become more strict -- the traditionally liberal position -- fell from 49% to 44%.)
- The percentage of Americans favoring a decrease in immigration rose from 39% in June/July 2008 to 50% in July 2009.
- The propensity to want the government to "promote traditional values" -- as opposed to "not favor any particular set of values" -- rose from 48% in 2008 to 53% in 2009. Current support for promoting traditional values is the highest seen in five years.
- The percentage of Americans who consider themselves "pro-life" on abortion rose from 44% in May 2008 to 51% in May 2009, and remained at a slightly elevated 47% in July 2009.
- Americans' belief that the global warming problem is "exaggerated" in the news rose from 35% in March 2008 to 41% in March 2009.
***** Gallup has not recorded heightened conservatism on all major social and political views held by Americans. For instance, attitudes on the death penalty, gay marriage, the Iraq war, and Afghanistan have stayed about the same since 2008. However, there are no major examples of U.S. public opinion becoming more liberal in the past year. (Gallup's annual trends on healthcare will be updated in November, so those attitudes are not included in this review.)The conservative shifts discussed here result as much from changes in political independents' views as from changes in Republicans' views. Democrats' views, by contrast, have generally changed only slightly -- either to the conservative or liberal side -- with two exceptions: Gallup finds greater movement in Democrats' views of abortion, which have become more liberal, and their views of labor unions, which have become more conservative.
***** WOW! apres seulement 10 mois de pouvoir Democrate a Washington. Encore un peu et il nous faudra peut-etre remercier le POTUS, Nancy  , Harry et les autres.. |
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| Depuis que le POTUS est a la Maison Blanche, j'ai accompagne certaines informations postees ici par un "ahhh si Bush avait fait ca!" Une question que je ne suis plus la seule a me poser. What if George W. Bush had done that?By JOSH GERSTEIN | 10/27/09 5:02 AM EDT - A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. *- Snubbing the Dalai Lama. - Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. - Freezing out a TV network. - Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more. - Spoiler:
What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened. These episodes haven’t become metaphors for Obama’s personal and political character — or consuming controversies that sidetracked the rest of his agenda.
It’s a sign that the media’s echo chamber can be a funny thing, prone to the vagaries of news judgment, and an illustration that, in politics, context is everything.
Conservatives look on with a mix of indignation and amazement and ask: Imagine the fuss if George W. Bush had done these things?
And quickly add, with a hint of jealousy: How does Obama get away with it?
“We have a joke about it. We’re going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com,” former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie said. “The watchdogs are curled up around his feet, sleeping soundly. ... There are countless examples: some silly, some serious.”
Indeed, Bush got grief for secret meetings with the oil industry, politicizing the White House and spending too much time on his beloved bike. But it’s not just Republicans who notice. Media observers note that the president often gets kid-glove treatment from the press, fellow Democrats and, particularly, interest groups on the left — Bush’s loudest critics, Obama’s biggest backers.
But others say there’s a larger phenomenon at work — in the story line the media wrote about Obama’s presidency. For Bush, the theme was that of a Big Business Republican who rode the family name to the White House, so stories about secret energy meetings and a certain laziness, intellectual and otherwise, fit neatly into the theme, to be replayed over and over again.
Obama’s story line was more positive from the start: historic newcomer coming to shake up Washington. So the negatives that sprung up around Obama — like a sense that he was more flash than substance — track what negative coverage he’s received, captured in a recent “Saturday Night Live” skit that made fun of his lack of accomplishments in office.
“There may well be almost an unconscious effort on the part of the media to give Obama a bit more slack because he is more likable, because he is the first African-American president. That plays into it,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California.
Democrats find the complaints of Obama “getting a pass” hard to stomach in light of the way the press treated Bush — particularly on the single biggest mistake of his presidency, relying on the faulty intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. Now, Obama’s aides say, the positive coverage simply reflects the fact that their efforts are succeeding.
“As our administration makes progress on the agenda that Washington has ignored for too long, we expect we’ll get some news coverage of that progress that we like and some tough coverage that we don’t,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “It’s not unlike the New Orleans Saints, who are getting lots of good coverage of their perfect record so far — certainly better coverage than the [2-5] Redskins — but it doesn’t mean the Saints have liked every story that’s been written about them since training camp. It goes with the territory.”
There are signs the friendly tone toward Obama is ebbing. Case in point: a front-page story in The New York Times noting that Obama’s all-male basketball games drew fire from the head of the National Organization for Women, who called the games “troubling.”
But here are other stories in which Obama seems to have gotten a pass:
New Orleans
As a candidate, Obama railed against the Bush administration for abandoning and then neglecting the people of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He made five campaign trips to the city.
But as president, Obama waited almost nine months before visiting the Big Easy, spent less than four hours on the ground there and then jetted to San Francisco for a $3 million Democratic fundraiser.
“Don’t judge anybody on the amount of time that they’ve spent there. Judge only what this administration promised that they would do, what they’ve done every day and what they’re continuing to work on,” press secretary Robert Gibbs said, pointing to positive reviews of the federal government’s efforts under Obama.
For their part, Democrats can’t see how Bush officials can muster much umbrage over anything related to New Orleans, given how the Republican administration handled the initial response to Katrina.
Managing the press
When the Obama administration moved in recent weeks to isolate and disparage Fox News as a wing of the Republican Party, there were few immediate howls of outrage — even from Fox’s fellow journalists in the media.
Press defenders and First Amendment advocates who jumped on the Bush administration for using military analysts to shape war coverage reacted with a yawn to the White House’s announcement that it had deemed Fox to be not a “legitimate news organization.”
“Had I said about MSNBC what the Obama White House said about Fox, the media uproar would still be going on,” said Ari Fleischer, who served as Bush’s press secretary until 2003. “I instinctively would have known ... the media would have leapt to their feet to defend them. I’m shocked it’s not happening now.”
One press veteran agreed. “If George Bush had taken on MSNBC, what would have happened?” said Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of the San Francisco Chronicle. “That’s one place you can point to a real difference in how I’d imagine Bush would be treated.”
Politicizing the White House
Throughout the Bush administration, liberal critics warned that the hand of Bush political adviser Karl Rove was spreading politics into all corners of government. Reporters were on alert for any sign that politics was infecting the work of federal agencies. One top appointee got in hot water for allegedly asking agency officials to work to “help our candidates” across the country.
So some Bush aides went nearly apoplectic earlier this month when they spotted Gibbs and Obama’s political guru, David Axelrod, in photos of a Situation Room meeting on Afghanistan policy.
“Oh, the howling and screaming that would have happened if Karl Rove was sitting in on even a deputies-level meeting where strategy was being hammered out. People would have just gone ballistic,” said Peter Feaver, a former White House aide for both Bush and Bill Clinton.
Also, in about nine months, Obama has already attended more than two dozen fundraising events, while Bush did only six in his first year in office, according to a tally by CBS’s Mark Knoller.
Gibbs said Obama had to do more to raise a similar amount of money, since the kinds of soft-money fundraisers Bush did early on were banned. “This president ... doesn’t accept money from PACs or lobbyists and doesn’t allow lobbyists to give at fundraisers that he’s at, as well,” Gibbs added.
Dealing with business, in secret
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney endured years of criticism and lawsuits that stretched all the way to the Supreme Court over secret meetings Cheney’s Energy Task Force held with oil and gas companies. When the policy emerged, critics said Cheney was carrying water for the industry.
Obama pledged to hash out health care reform live on C-SPAN and excoriated Bush for kowtowing to the drug industry. But aides signed off on the drug industry’s agreement to find $80 billion in savings to support reform. However, Obama aides didn’t disclose that the agreement involved the White House promising that current health legislation wouldn’t include further cuts or give the government the right to negotiate over drug prices.
Toning down human rights
During the campaign, Obama talked tough on China. While candidate Obama pushed Bush to take a hard line, President Obama hasn’t. Hoping to win China’s help on Iran and North Korea, Obama skipped a meeting with the Dalai Lama and said little when China undertook a violent crackdown in its largely Muslim Xinjiang region. The White House has pledged to meet with the Dalai Lama later.
And while candidate Obama warned Bush against a “reckless and cynical initiative [that] would reward a regime in Khartoum that has a record of failing to live up to its commitments,” President Obama’s envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, seemed to lay out a similar incentive-driven approach.
“We’ve got to think about giving out cookies,” said Gration. “Kids, countries — they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement.” The White House backed away from Gration’s characterization of the strategy but did recently lay out a strategy of engaging with the Sudanese regime.
Traveling and recreating
In his campaign and as president, Bush was mocked for a lack of interest in all things foreign — seven minutes touring the Kremlin, 25 minutes at the Great Wall of China, before declaring, “Let’s go home.”
During a trip to Europe in June, Obama chastised German and French reporters for suggesting that he was snubbing those countries by making only brief stops in each. “There are only 24 hours in the day. And so there’s nothing to any of that speculation beyond us just trying to fit in what we could do on such a short trip,” he told reporters in Germany.
But after taking his wife out for an attention-grabbing date night, Obama promptly jetted back to Washington. Within about 90 minutes of arriving at the White House, the tightly scheduled president was on the move again — headed to Andrews Air Force Base to play nine holes of golf.
* Le POTUS a ete present a 26 collectes de fonds pour les coffres du Parti et des candidats democrates (4 fois plus que Pres. Bush, et pourtant....) |
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| Democrats downplay Lieberman threatBy MANU RAJU & GLENN THRUSH | 10/27/09 8:06 PM EDT Joe Lieberman has once again rolled a political hand grenade into the Democrats’ tent. The Connecticut independent obliterated any illusion that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) can quickly ram through health care reform with a public option, telling reporters on Tuesday that he would join Republicans in a filibuster to prevent a vote on Reid’s plan if it isn’t changed first. - Spoiler:
“We’re trying to do too much at once,” said Lieberman, who signaled he would vote with Reid on the first procedural vote that requires 60 votes, the motion to proceed.
“To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt,” added Lieberman, whose state is headquarters to many of the nation’s biggest insurance companies. “I don’t think we need it now.”
Lieberman’s statement was a stunner but not a surprise: Senate aides say Reid knew about his objections — and virtually every member of the Democratic Caucus is painfully aware of Lieberman’s penchant for throwing legislative roadblocks into the path of the caucus’s best-laid plans.
In fact, some Senate liberals even cast Lieberman’s announcement as a pleasant surprise, having assumed that the maverick 2000 vice presidential nominee wouldn’t back the leadership on even the preliminary procedural vote on the public option.
“It just shows we have a long way to go on this,” said Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fellow independent who caucuses with the Democrats and is one of the chamber’s biggest public option backers. “I think the support for this thing is only going to continue growing. ... And in the end, people are going to jump back on board, and we might even get a few Republicans.”
Reaction was sharper among White House aides, who had hoped the president’s turn-the-other-cheek attitude toward Lieberman’s enthusiastic cross-party support of John McCain in 2008 would make it less likely Lieberman would run to the Republican side on procedural matters.
“I think Democrats and Republicans alike will be held accountable by their constituents who want to see health care reform enacted this year,” said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking to reporters Tuesday on Air Force One.
“We know that if that doesn’t happen, people say they’ll be very disappointed by that, and we think people will make progress to ensure that this gets done.”
But Lieberman’s fellow Connecticut senator, Democrat Chris Dodd, who faces a tough reelection fight in 2010, dismissed the idea that Lieberman would incur any retribution.
“No, no, no. People are going to be all over the place,” he said when asked if Lieberman should be punished. “The idea that people are going to be reprimanded because somehow they have a different point of view than someone else is ridiculous. That isn’t going to happen.”
Still, there is much lingering ill will over Lieberman’s perceived lack of loyalty.
President Barack Obama and Reid personally intervened to keep members of the Democratic Caucus from punishing Lieberman for his 2008 transgressions by booting him out as chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, a position the hawkish Lieberman cherishes. But that hasn’t kept him from siding with the GOP on the administration’s plans to shutter Guantanamo, the Iraq drawdown and, now, the public option.
“I think there may be more than a few people who will remind him of his pledge to be with us on procedural votes and his promise that we ‘won’t regret’ giving him his gavel and letting him caucus with us,” said one miffed Democratic insider.
“Three years ago, he was a strong proponent for universal health care, and I accused him of, after 20 years, dithering on that topic,” said Ned Lamont, the liberal Connecticut businessman who beat Lieberman in the 2006 Democratic primary but lost the general election. “As far as I can tell, a filibuster is one more dither, to quote the former vice president” (Dick Cheney).
Democratic insiders were less disappointed, saying Lieberman has been clear about his objections for weeks.
Reid “was not surprised by these comments,” said a Democratic leadership aide. “This has been [Lieberman’s] private view for months.”
Lieberman and Reid both acknowledged that he wasn’t the only Democrat with serious reservations about the public option, but the other members are fence sitters, not firm “no” votes like Lieberman.
Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Evan Bayh of Indiana are among several Democrats who have left open the possibility of voting against Reid on procedural questions.
Reid, for his part, shrugged off Lieberman’s remarks, saying he had always factored in the senator’s concerns.
“I don’t have anyone that I have worked harder with, have more respect for in the Senate, than Joe Lieberman,” he said Tuesday afternoon. “As you know, he’s my friend. There are a lot of senators, Democrats and Republicans, who don’t like part of what’s in this bill that we sent over to [the Congressional Budget Office]. We’re going to see what the final product is. We’re not there yet. Sen. Lieberman will let us get on [to begin debating] the bill, and he’ll be involved in the amendment process.”
Senate Republicans — whose nearly unanimous opposition to all Democratic plans has put them on the sidelines — sought to portray procedural votes as up-or-down votes, invoking John Kerry’s much-ridiculed “flip-flop” on Iraq.
“I think it’s appropriate to make the point at the outset that a vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to this bill will be treated as a vote on the merits of the bill,” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.
“We all recall Sen. Kerry’s strained way in the 2004 campaign of explaining why he voted for it before he voted against, and I think it is perfectly clear that most Americans will treat the vote to get on [with] the bill as a vote on the substance of the bill,” added McConnell.
Alexander Burns and Meredith Shiner contributed to this story.
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| RasmussenTrust on IssuesVoters Trust Republicans More On 10 Top IssuesSurveys of 1,000 Likely VotersOctober 14-15 & 18-19, 2009 Issue .......................................................................................Democrats ............Republicans | Health Care | 40% | 46% | | Education | 38% | 43% | | Social Security | 37% | 45% | | Taxes | 35% | 50% | | Economy | 35% | 49% | | Abortion | 35% | 47% | | Immigration | 33% | 40% | | Nat'l Security | 31% | 54% | | Iraq | 31% | 50% | | Gov't Ethics | 29% | 33% |
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| Radical Islamic Group Leader Killed in FBI Raid
Thursday, October 29, 2009  DETROIT — Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested several members of a radical Sunni Islam group in the U.S., killing one of its leaders at a shootout in a Michigan warehouse, the U.S. attorney's office said.- Spoiler:
Agents were trying to arrest Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, at a Dearborn warehouse on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Authorities also conducted raids elsewhere to try to round up 10 followers named in a federal complaint.
Abdullah refused to surrender, fired a weapon and was killed by gunfire from agents, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold said.
In the 43-paged complaint unsealed Wednesday, the FBI said Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, was an imam, or prayer leader, of a radical group named Ummah whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States.
No one was charged with terrorism. But Abdullah was "advocating and encouraging his followers to commit violent acts against the United States," FBI agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit.
He told them it was their "duty to oppose the FBI and the government and it does not matter if they die," Leone said.
Abdullah regularly preached anti-government rhetoric and was trained, along with his followers, in the use of firearms, martial arts and swords, the agent said.
Leone said members of the national group mostly are black and some converted to Islam while in prisons across the United States.
"Abdullah preaches that every Muslim should have a weapon, and should not be scared to use their weapon when needed," Leone wrote.
Seven of the 10 people charged with Abdullah were in custody, including a state prison inmate, the U.S. attorney's office said. Three were still at large. Another man not named in the complaint also was arrested.
The group believes that a separate Islamic state in the U.S. would be controlled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado for shooting two police officers in Georgia in 2000, Leone said. Al-Amin, a veteran of the black power movement, started the group after he converted to Islam in prison.
"They're not taking their cues from overseas," said Jimmy Jones, a professor of world religions at Manhattanville College and a longtime Muslim prison chaplain. "This group is very much American born and bred."
The movement at one time was believed to include a couple of dozen mosques around the country. Ummah is now dwarfed in numbers and influence by other African-American Muslim groups, particularly the mainstream Sunnis who were led by Imam W.D. Mohammed, who recently died.
By evening, authorities still were working the scene near the Detroit-Dearborn border and the warehouse was surrounded by police tape.
The U.S. attorney's office said an FBI dog was also killed during the shootout.
Abdullah's mosque is in a brick duplex on a quiet, residential street in Detroit. A sign on the door in English and Arabic reads, in part, "There is no God but Allah."
Several men congregated on the porch Wednesday night and subsequently attacked a photographer from The Detroit News who was taking pictures from across the street. Ricardo Thomas had his camera equipment smashed and had a bloody lip from the attack.
Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, said the FBI had briefed him about Wednesday's raids and told him they were the result of a two-year investigation.
"We know that this is not something to be projected as something against Muslims," Hamad said.
The complaint shows the FBI built its case with the help of confidential sources close to Abdullah who recorded conversations.
A source said that Abdullah regularly beat children inside the mosque with sticks, including a boy who was "unable to walk for several days," Leone said.
The source, according to the agent, regularly listened to a recording of a 2004 sermon in which Abdullah said, "Do not carry a pistol if you're going to give it up to police. You give them a bullet!"
In January 2009, members were evicted from a former mosque for failing to pay property taxes. An FBI search turned up empty shell casings and large holes in the concrete wall of a "shooting range," Leone said.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the federal authorities' description of Abdullah's extremist links didn't match what he knew of Abdullah.
"I knew him to be charitable," Walid said. "He would open up the mosque to homeless people. He used to run a soup kitchen and feed indigent people. ... I knew nothing of him that was related to any nefarious or criminal behavior." *
Abdullah had a wife and children, Walid said. A phone number for the family had been disconnected.
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| Si Pres. Bush 43 etait encore a la Maison Blanche, les adeptes de theories de complot insisteraient sur le fait que la passeport a ete retrouve au Pakistan bien-a-propos puisqu'il est de plus en plus question de diriger la guerre vers ce pays et de se detourner de l'Afghanistan... Passport with 9/11 suspect's name found in Pakistanif(location.hostname.indexOf( 'edition' ) > -1) {document.write('October 30, 2009 -- Updated 0832 GMT (1632 HKT)');} else {document.write('October 30, 2009 4:32 a.m. EDT');} October 30, 2009 -- Updated 0832 GMT (1632 HKT) Sherwangei, Pakistan (CNN) -- A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military.- Spoiler:
The passport was found in South Waziristan, where the Pakistani military has been battling to wrest territory from the Taliban in Pakistan. It contained a Pakistani visa issued in August 2001 showing that the bearer entered Pakistan on September 4, 2001, and appeared unusually new for a document eight years old.
CNN has not independently confirmed its authenticity.
Bahaji is suspected of having fled Germany for Pakistan on September 3, 2001, after receiving a tip that the attacks were imminent.
The photo in the passport resembles images of Bahaji posted on Interpol's Web site. It shows a clean-cut man wearing a red sweater.
Bahaji, 34, is alleged to have been a member of the Hamburg, Germany-based cell that provided money to the hijackers who carried out the September 11 attacks, which killed about 3,000 people.
He is wanted in Germany and Spain on terrorism charges, according to Interpol.
A U.S. counterterrorism official said only that Bahaji is a senior propagandist for al Qaeda who had ties to some of the September 11 hijackers and is very much of interest to the United States.
He lived with one of the leaders of the hijackers, Mohammed Atta, in Germany before the attacks, according to the September 11 report. He is a German citizen of Moroccan descent.
CNN's Reza Sayah saw the passport and another one from Spain along with other documents during a trip to South Waziristan for journalists run by the Pakistani military. It was the first time the army had taken journalists to the region since the offensive against the Taliban began on October 17th, he said.
The army showed journalists a pile of documents that they said they had seized.
Among the papers was the German passport in Bahaji's name, which included his signature and a photo of him in a red shirt.
Pakistani military spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas was not aware of the passport until reporters asked him about it.
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| British nuclear expert’s 17th floor UN death plunge ‘was not suicide’By Keri Sutherland Last updated at 12:52 AM on 01st November 2009 Death: Timothy Hampton was involved in monitoring nuclear activity - Spoiler:
A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna.An initial autopsy concluded that there were ‘no suspicious circumstances’. But it is understood that Mr Hampton’s widow Olena Gryshcuk and her family were deeply unhappy with that verdict
Now a doctor who undertook a second post-mortem examination on behalf of the family believes she has found evidence that Mr Hampton did not die by his own hands.Professor Kathrin Yen, of the Ludwig Institute in Graz, Austria, which specialises in traumatology research, said she had more tests to complete on Mr Hampton, who had a three-year-old son with Ms Gryshcuk.But she said one possible theory was that Mr Hampton was carried to the 17th floor from his workplace on the sixth floor and thrown to his death.Professor Yen used new forensic techniques to detect internal bruising caused by strangulation which would not be visible to the eye. She said: ‘In my opinion, it does not look like suicide. My example is that somebody took him up to the top floor and took him down.‘At the moment I don’t have the police reports. We did a CT scan. From the external exam, I saw injuries on the neck but these were not due to strangulation.’It is expected to take three weeks for blood test results to come back. Austrian police said they believe Mr Hampton committed suicide. He had been working for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) at the UN building.CTBTO staff monitor tremors in countries worldwide to uncover illegal nuclear tests. It has been suggested that Mr Hampton may have been involved in talks discussing nuclear testing in Iran. The UN has strongly denied the claims. Doubts: Mr Hampton's death at the UN building is under investigation His body was discovered last Tuesday at about 8pm. Friends said it was usual for him to work late into the night. His widow, a weapons inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was working in Japan when her husband died.
A source close to the family said life had not been easy for Mr Hampton, who was often away from his wife and son.
But the source added that he was ‘not the suicide type’. He said: ‘Tim was rather introverted. He changed his life many times.’
Trained in Britain as a bio-chemist, Mr Hampton worked in a bio-lab before moving into construction.
He then worked on nuclear test-ban projects before joining the UN in 1998, said the CTBTO.
The IAEA, an independent and separate organisation, inspects nuclear plants worldwide and is based in the building next to the CTBTO in Vienna. Under a year ago, an American died at the IAEA in strikingly similar circumstances, his body being found at the bottom of a stairwell.
A UN spokeswoman said an investigation into that case continues, though Austrian police have concluded it was suicide.
She said: ‘This might have been a copycat thing in the CTBTO.’
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| FOXNews.com - November 01, 2009Democrats Scramble to PRevent GOP Victories in Key RacesIn a coup of sorts for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican candidate who just dropped out of the race for an upstate New York congressional seat endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday. President Obama also stumped for Gov. Jon Corzine at two New Jersey campaign events. - Spoiler:
President Obama and his Democratic allies pulled out the stops Sunday in a bid to prevent Republicans from sweeping the major state and local elections Tuesday.
In a coup of sorts for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican candidate who just dropped out of the race for an upstate New York congressional seat endorsed her former Democratic opponent.
Dede Scozzafava's decision to back Democrat Bill Owens could help stanch the expected migration of her supporters toward Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman's campaign.
Obama also personally vouched for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine Sunday in his tough race for re-election against Republican Chris Christie. The president traveled to two Democratic strongholds in the Garden State to urge supporters to drive up voter turnout on Tuesday just as they did for him a year ago.
"You need to work hard on Tuesday," Obama told a Camden crowd. "I need you to go back into your neighborhood. I'm going to need you to knock on doors. ... I'm going to need you to do the same thing you did last year."
But the last-minute maneuvers come ahead of a perilous election for Democrats. In the other major race, Virginia's gubernatorial election, Republican Bob McDonnell appears poised for victory over Democrat Creigh Deeds. A Richmond Times-Dispatch poll released Sunday showed McDonnell leading Deeds by double digits, which is consistent with other recent surveys.
The White House is aware Democratic losses would be spun as a referendum on Obama. The results of Tuesday's elections could also foreshadow next year's elections, when 37 governorships come up for grabs.
The Obama administration seems to view the New Jersey race as its best hope for victory, and has devoted the president's final campaign push to that race.
On Sunday, Obama attended a rally first in Camden and then in Newark, both areas where Democrats far outnumber Republicans. The strategy is to drive up turnout among the Democratic base to give Corzine the edge in what has become an airtight contest. In a Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll released Sunday, Christie led Corzine by just 1 point among likely voters.
In Camden, Corzine repeatedly said his opponent is "wrong when it matters most."
Obama called Corzine an "honorable" man who has provided property tax relief and reduced the size of government.
But Christie was continuing a grueling schedule of rallies and diner visits as well. He was capping off Sunday's events with a get-out-the-vote rally in Republican-heavy Toms River. Though he can't claim White House support, Christie has been joined lately by several prominent New Jersey Republicans and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
The New York congressional race, meanwhile, has attracted an unusual amount of attention.
Hoffman, a third-party candidate, experienced of surge of support and endorsements late in the race, leading Scozzafava to drop out Saturday.
The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Owens.
"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said in a written statement. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first."
Hoffman and Owens are competing for the 23rd Congressional District seat formerly held by Republican John McHugh, who was lured away by the Obama administration to be Army secretary.
Scozzafava was criticized by members of her party for being too moderate on social issues.
However, it's unclear how much of an impact her endorsement will have. Ken Spain, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, downplayed the endorsement Sunday.
"There are only two candidates that remain in this race," he said in a written statement. "Only Doug Hoffman is willing to stand up to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and put the brakes on her agenda of massive government takeovers and less jobs."
And poll numbers suggest Owens would have to make significant inroads among Republican moderates to pull support away from Hoffman. A Siena Research Institute survey showed 64 percent of Scozzafava voters were self-identified Republicans -- only 19 percent identified themselves as Democrats.
Democrats, though, were clearly banking on Scozzafava to try to tilt the balance in their favor.
White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said on ABC's "This Week" that Democrats would "love" to have the former Republican candidate back Owens.
And she criticized Hoffman's surging candidacy as a sign that the Republican Party is squeezing out moderates.
"It's rather telling when the Republican Party forces out a moderate Republican and it says, I think, a great deal about where the Republican Party is right now," she said. "I think it's becoming more and more extreme and more and more marginalized."
Senior Adviser David Axelrod echoed that point on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"It sends a clear message to moderates within that party that there's no room at the inn for them," he said.
DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said in a statement that the developments in New York should send a "chilling message" to other moderate Republicans.
House Minority Leader John Boehner, though, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that New York represents an "unusual circumstance" and that "we want moderates in our party."
In Virginia, McDonnell and Deeds barnstormed church services Sunday morning before rousing partisan crowds in their last blitz before Tuesday's governor's election.
But Obama, who stumped for Deeds last week, is not expected to return to Virginia.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 2/11/2009, 14:31 | |
| 515 - Sylvette - p.52 Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise Dim 01 Nov 2009 à 5:28
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- Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna.
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Now a doctor who undertook a second post-mortem examination on behalf of the family believes she has found evidence that Mr Hampton did not die by his own hands. Il est évident que c'est un alchimiste nommé Issac Newton qui est à l'origine de cet acte d'une extrême gravité ! | |
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| FOXNews.comNovember 02, 2009Candidates Enter Final Push Ahead of Election DayAfter President Obama stumped for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Vice President Biden plans to join Democratic candidate Bill Owens, who is running against a third-party conservative candidate in an upstate New York congressional election, at a rally Monday morning. - Spoiler:
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine listens to President Obama at a campaign rally in Newark Nov. 1. (Reuters Photo)
Democrats and Republicans in three states entered their final full day of campaigning ahead of Tuesday's elections, with the White House carefully targeting its resources in a bid to head off Republican victories.
Vice President Biden plans to join Democratic candidate Bill Owens, who is running against a third-party conservative candidate in an upstate New York congressional election, at a rally Monday morning.
Owens is fighting head-to-head against Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, after GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava dropped out over the weekend. Scozzafava, who was criticized as too moderate by members of her own party, endorsed Owens on Sunday. But it's unclear how much of an impact that endorsement will have, as many of her supporters are expected to drift toward Hoffman's candidacy.
Meanwhile, President Obama headlined two rallies for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine Sunday, pushing to drive up turnout as Republican challenger Chris Christie did the same.
Christie dropped by a get-out-the-vote rally Sunday evening in Republican-heavy Toms River. A crowd of some 400 chanted his name and cheered when he promised to give Corzine a pink slip on Tuesday. Christie was continuing to tour the state by bus.
The New Jersey race is a dead heat. The latest state poll out of Quinnipiac University showed Christie with a 2-point lead over Corzine, but that spread is within the margin of error.
In the last days of a bitter race with merciless ads and deep divisions over tax policy, both candidates are more focused on getting their supporters to the polls than on converting voters.
"You need to work hard on Tuesday," Obama told a Camden crowd Sunday. "I need you to go back into your neighborhood. I'm going to need you to knock on doors. ... I'm going to need you to do the same thing you did last year."
Democrats, though, appear to be bracing for a loss in Virginia, where Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds has consistently trailed Republican Bob McDonnell. McDonnell is holding a pair of rallies in Virginia Monday, in Alexandria and Richmond, while Deeds continues to campaign. The Democrat will join Gov. Tim Kaine for a get-out-the-vote rally at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The status of these three races has raised questions about the power of Obama's coattails -- in Virginia, Deeds is trailing even though Obama remains relatively popular. And Democrats are mindful of the possibility that a string of losses for the party could be viewed as somewhat of a referendum on Obama, or a harbinger of the 2010 congressional races.
The New Jersey race is considered Democrats' best chance for holding on to a seat.
In the 23rd Congressional District in upstate New York, the two candidate are vying for a Republican seat, vacated by John McHugh when he was lured away to become Obama's Army secretary.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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| Navy Ship Built With World Trade Cener Steel Visits New YorkMonday, November 02, 2009 APNov. 2: The USS New York passes the Statue of Liberty while fireboats spray water in New York.NEW YORK — The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.- Spoiler:
First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the public gathered Monday at a waterfront viewing area, where they could see the crew standing at attention along the deck of the battleship gray vessel.
SLIDESHOW: USS New York Arrives in Namesake City
The big ship paused. Then the shots were fired, with a cracking sound, in three bursts.
The bow of the $1 billion ship, built in Louisiana, contains about 7.5 tons of steel from the fallen towers.
"It's a transformation ... from something really twisted and ugly," said Rosaleen Tallon, who lost her firefighter brother, Sean, on 9/11. "I'm proud that our military is using that steel."
Tallon said her brother, who was also was a Marine, also would have been proud.
JoAnn Atlas, of Howells, N.Y., who lost her husband, fire Lt. Gregg Atlas, draped a flag-themed banner along the fence. The names of emergency workers who died were written on the red stripes.
"We have to remember. It's a way to honor them," she said.
Members of the public included Nancy DiGiacomo, who came from Huntington, N.Y., with her husband, 9-year-old son, mother and sister.
"I just thought it was important to see" the transformation of the tragedy's wreckage, said DiGiacomo. "From that, something else can come of it."
Lt. Cmdr. Colette Murphy, a Navy spokeswoman, said she was excited for those serving on board to see the city's "awe-inspiring" welcome.
Of the 361 sailors serving aboard the ship, around 13 percent are from New York state, which is higher than would normally be the case, Murphy said. There were many requests from Navy personnel to serve on the ship, which will carry some 250 Marines.
After the ground zero stop, the ship — ecorted by about two dozen tugboats and other vessels — headed up the Hudson River toward the George Washington Bridge. After a U-turn there, it was to head south to Pier 88. An official commissioning ceremony is scheduled for Saturday.
The New York will remain in the city through Veteran's Day and then head to Norfolk, Va., for about a year of crew training and exercises, Murphy said.
The ship is 684 feet long and can carry as many as 800 Marines. Its flight deck that can handle helicopters and the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
It was scheduled to be built before the terrorist attacks. About a year later, the announcement came that the ship would bear the name New York to honor the city, state, and those who died.
It's the latest in a line of Navy ships to bear that name. The others included a Spanish-American War-era cruiser, a battleship that served in World Wars I and II and a nuclear submarine retired from the fleet in 1997.
The ship is technically known as a San Antonio-class amphibious dock vessel. Four vessels in that class are in service, the USS San Antonio, USS New Orleans, USS Mesa Verde and USS Green Bay. Four others are being built. Of those, two also have been named in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
The USS Arlington was named to honor the attack on the Pentagon. The USS Somerset was named after the county in Pennsylvania where United Airlines flight 93 crashed.
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| RasmussenDate ....... Presidential Approval Index - Strongly Approve - Strongly Disapprove - Total Approve - Total Disapprove | 11/02/2009 | -13 | 27% | 40% | 46% | 52% | | 11/01/2009 | -10 | 29% | 39% | 46% | 52% | | 10/31/2009 | -10 | 29% | 39% | 46% | 52% | | 10/30/2009 | -9 | 30% | 39% | 47% | 52% | | 10/29/2009 | -11 | 29% | 40% | 47% | 52% | | 10/28/2009 | -11 | 30% | 41% | 48% | 52% | | 10/27/2009 | -11 | 29% | 40% | 49% | 51%
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/11/2009, 07:34 | |
| Bonjour Sylvette (oui, c'est en français, mais bon... ) ! (Je vous suis, je vous suis...  ) | |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/11/2009, 15:06 | |
| Bonjour Biloulou Aujourd'hui, elections dans quelques etats (en particulier pour le poste de gouverneur dans le New Jersey et de Virginia et pour le remplacement d'un des representants de l'Etat de New York). Tres interessant ce qui s'y passe. |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 3/11/2009, 19:14 | |
| - Sylvette a écrit:
- [...] Tres interessant ce qui s'y passe.
Oui, j'entends en cet instant quelques échos à RTL (la radio allemande etc....), c'est dire !  | |
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| ... et oui, Biloulou ! Voila comme les choses ont change en 1an. Qui l'eut cru?AP ELECTION HQ: McDonnell cruises to victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race as Christie upsets incumbent Gov. Corzine in New Jersey; Democrat Owens takes closely watched N.Y. congressional seat. ----- CNN, l'information semble avoir peu d'importance, mais FOX News est partiale! Top stories
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- Israel detains ship loaded with weapons
- Republicans win key U.S. races
- Ten bodies found at U.S. rapist's home
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- Man Utd hit back to reach last 16
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 4/11/2009, 15:33 | |
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La future devise des E-U : "Sweep, Sweep Home" ( Oui, oui, oui je sais c'est grammaticalement barjo, mais bien dans le ton) Pour se refaire une Virginité, les sorcières d'Halloween ont recyclé leurs balais auprès de la race républicaine des Gubernators. | |
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