Germany cheers Obama's Berlin visit from The Local Germany's News in English

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said on Friday that the German leader considered the speech a "positive signal for and to Europe" and Obama had made clear "tackling the challenges of the 21st century can only be achieved together and through international cooperation."

The left-wing daily Die Tageszeitung
“He’s become the personification of yearning in Germany for the antithesis of George W. Bush’s aggressive provincialism,”

Never let it be said that neocons don't have a plan for further empire building in their back pocket at all times.

And never doubt that a Republic administration isn't standing in line to pick that pocket and put the plan into action.

And then there's a weak kneed congress that will turn their eyes the other way while the "wallet" is being lifted lest they unintentionally divert the pickpocket from his goal.

Late last year congress coughed up funding for escalation of covert operations in Iran at Bushy's request.

George doesn't need no stinkin' generals. Especially if they might be tasked with tightening the reins on his ability to load up the pockets of his (and Cheney's) rich contractor friends.

I mean it would add to payroll costs for heaven's sake, a brigadier general costs about $217,000 a year in pay, benefits and retirement contributions; a major general costs $261,000 annually.

Bush's motto is..."Oversight? We don't need no stinkin' oversight!"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/army_generals_contracts;_ylt=ApPU1bfhSgWqi_TelKaetW8DW7oF

I've spent a lot of time the past few years pondering the way the winds of life can blow us into unexpected, and sometimes unpleasant places. Places that in our wildest dreams (or darkest nightmares) we never imagined we would be.

The only constant in life is change, they say. Like death and taxes it seems inevitable.

Each of us here have changed since we first came together in the name of Wes Clark.

The Democratic White House hopeful has scheduled the inaugural meeting Wednesday of what he's calling his Senior Working Group on National Security. It includes former members of Congress and high-ranking Clinton administration officials.

"U.S. President George W. Bush is ranked only slightly above the rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-trusted leaders in the world, a survey released on Monday showed."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080616/ts_nm/worldleaders_trust_dc_1

The time is near when the buffoon who has stunk up the White House and our once respected world leadership will be relegated to the annals of history...may the historians damn him even more strongly than we who have lived through his "reign" have done. No one in American history deserves it more than he and his cohorts.

Yesterday Barack Obama went to Quincy, IL where the people are sandbagging in advance of what could become another disaster along swollen waterways.

http://khqa.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=147070

Compare his action to "The Birthday Cake Boys" while Katrina was wiping out a major city. (I don't know how to post the picture, but we've all seen it so I doubt it's needed.)

Compare his campaigns call for volunteers to the dumb-butt current pResident's "don't sweat and whatever you do don't get your hands dirty" fly over while people were dying beneath him.

A beautiful day in Northwest Ohio. Not yet too hot to accomplish things that need done. That will come later in the day.

A perfect day for sorting through things that I've avoided sorting through. Disposing of things that I really don't need but have hung onto for the past 3 years because every one of them has a memory attached. Every one of them calls to mind a 40 year journey that ended so cruelly.

Our oldest son is trying to find a place to buy in town that I could move to. Just a small place. I couldn't possibly take all that I have stuffed into this house to a small place.

Guess the next time there's a plot to deliver pizza and bullets to Ft. Dix they'll send in a PT boat. (Do they still have PT boats?)

Or maybe sail down the Tigress to quell the violence in Baghdad?

You think?

Nah...but there is that little “terrorist” problem of Iran and that Naval Air Corp…well they know how to bomb the shit out of things—as in people, places. You know, the war that hasn't begun yet that you and Vote Vets have tried to end before the beginning?

Yep, there ya' go...those detention camps are not a waste of money after all. Well, other than the fact that the
immigrant mentioned in this article isn't in a dentention camp at all, but has been "detained" since 2001 and spends
his time at a military prison in South Carolina.

"...In court documents filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061114/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainees_lawsuits_16