Obama seeks to mend rift over Panetta

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Someone in the Transition Team forgot to inform Dianne Feinstein of their decision to put Panetta over the CIA. First of all, it got leaked before everyone could be informed of the decision.

He doesn't have any experience in the Intellegence field, and it has some Democrats and Republicans upset at this pick. I can understand why that is. He will be over the CIA, and over all of our National Intellegence.

Obama and staff called and appologized to Dianne Feinstein over not letting her know before the information was leaked.

What are your thoughts over this pick?

Obama seeks to mend rift over Panetta

Hamas executes 6 suspected collaborators with Israel

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They were suspected of delivering information to IDF, guiding IAF warplanes, and were put to death by Hamas in the past two days by Hamas security officers in the fighting zone in Jabalya.

Among the alleged collaborators were three brothers, one of whom attempted before his arrest to swallow a cell phone's SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card, which is believed to have documented his conversations with Israeli security officials.

An eyewitness said that among the dead were three brothers executed on the street. Palestinians organization members and security sources in the Strip confirmed the report.

A source in Hamas said that all these guys had confessed to the act in the presence of their sister. She announced in public that she condemned her brothers and would cut all ties with them due to their betrayal.

A fourth sibling from the same family was executed last week after attempting to escape a bombed Gaza jail. He was imprisoned for collaborating with Israel and for aiding the assassination of Amar Karmut, the former leader of the Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees' military wing in the northern Strip.

I am wondering if they really confessed, or were coerced into it. Or, Hamas could be saying that to justify the deaths.

Hamas executes 6 suspected collaborators with Israel

Senators were sworn in today for a new term, except for two of them

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The Senators were sworn in today by Vice President Dick Chaney. There were two of them not sworn in, though. They have declared Al Frankin to be the Senator for Minn. but, Norm Coleman has chosen to fight it in court. So, by law, Al Frankin can't take the seat. Some voting areas are having double ballots, etc. There are more ballots than there are registered voters.

The second one that didn't get sworn in today was Roland Burris. He was selected by Blagojevich to be the Senator from Ill. According to Roland Burris, he is the Jr. Senator of Ill. With the scandal going on with Blagojevich, Harry Reid gave interviews saying he wouldn't let Burris into the Senate.

It appears that Harry Reid will be proven wrong. Blagojevich is still the Governor of Ill. until he either resigns or is indicted, or is impeached. Burris gave a small press conference yesterday evening saying that he is the Jr. Senator of Ill. Well, today he showed up at the Senate and was told that his papers weren't in order by the Secretary.

You have to admire Roland Burris for not letting this get him down. He had to have had an idea that they would come up with something to not let him in today.

Senators were sworn in today for a new term, except for two of them

You Never Know Who is Living in Your Neighborhood

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This is a true story that I wrote for another site.

I read a news story this morning about a brother and sister who had been separated for 40 years. They finally found each other. They discovered they only lived 300 yards apart.

Ordsall, Greater Manchester

It seems that you never know who could be living in your neighborhood. That could be a bad thing, or a good thing, as the people in the story I read in the Sun this morning.

A brother and sister were apart for 40 years. Their parents had died when they were children, and a family friend had taken them in. When they reached adulthood, they simply lost touch with each other. They had spent their early years in Ordsall, Greater Manchester. They probably had always wondered what ever happened to their sibling.

Little did they know, they lived 300 yards from each other. They had probably seen each other, and not even recognized who they were. Ken Whitty, 64, had moved to Reddish in 2002. His sister Yvonne is 62.

He decided to write a letter in the local paper about his lost sister. He was wanting to get back in touch with her. Soon after the letter was published, he got a phone call. The voice on the other end of the phone probably sounded familiar. She said, "Hello, this is Yvonne." The article didn't say what he said. I can just imagine that there was a surge of emotion on both sides of that phone line.

Ken did say that he couldn't believe that Yvonne lived so close to him. He said, " I couldn't believe it. I shot round to see her."

About their time apart, Ken says, "I just assumed she'd turn up, but the years rolled by."

Yvonne said, "It's so nice to see Ken again. It's overwhelming."

Ken's daughter, Nicola Dawes said: "Our family has now doubled. We are all so happy."

They probably hadn't even dreamed that they had lived so close to each other. I like good stories like that, and I just had to share it. Here is a link to one of the articles about this. Fox News.

You Never Know Who is Living in Your Neighborhood

Update on Jett Travolta's death

I found the following link from TMZ. It appears that there was some blood on the bathroom floor. They now think that he died from his head hitting the toilet, or the bathtub.

They are also explaining that Jett was monitored by a baby monitor, and not left alone. It was his nanny that found him. He had two nannies.

Update on Jett Travolta's death

Obama voting "present" again?

I just found this article, here, and I agreed with everything that was said. I would like to add a few things to it.

Obama is going to be the President in a few weeks. With all the problems that are going on, my prayers are for him. I want him to succeed.

He seems to have trouble making up his mind. See my other article on this topic.

My main gripe about Obama, is the way the media has a love-affair with him. It has gotten to the point of being sickening. Have they never heard of "over-kill?" I say enough already. The pictures of him without a shirt on, are sickening also. I find them grose.

I grant you if he were a Republican, the media wouldn't be doing all this. They would be all over him everytime he took a deep breath. I just hope that with this "love-fest" going on, that it doesn't effect him in doing his job as President of the United States.

What are your thoughts on this?

Obama voting "present" again?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway

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MIAMI — Thousands of shoes were dumped this morning on a Miami expressway. It caused a significant backup in traffic.


Lt. Pat Santangelo of the Florida Highway Patrol recieved the report during rush hour traffic Friday morning. A front-end loader and a dump truck were brought by a private contractor to the half-mile stretch of highway.

Workers were able to clear at least one lane after a short time by sweeping all the shoes to shoulder, but delays were expected to last until all the shoes could be removed.

Lt. Santangelo said the shoes were used and most of them were tied together in pairs, making it more difficult to pick them up in a hurry. He says he is looking for a charity to give the shoes to, instead of sending them to the dump.

Santangelo said that he isn't sure where the shoes came from. There were no signs of a crash, and no one has claimed them yet.

Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway

Anti-Israel group pickets Obama Residence

KAILUA, Hawaii – A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.


Obama has made no public comment on the strikes, which Israel launched on Saturday. Aides have repeatedly said he is monitoring the situation and continues to receive intelligence briefings but that there is only one U.S. president at a time.


But with outgoing Republican President George W. Bush already viewed as a lame-duck, many people, particularly in the Middle East, are looking past him to Obama, who is due to be sworn in on January 20, for leadership.


Obama did speak out after the attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai in November in which gunmen killed nearly 180 people, condemning them as acts of terrorism.


He has also spoken on the economic problems facing the United States.


"He is talking about how many jobs he is going to create but he is refusing to speak about this," said one of the protesters, Carolyn Hadfield, 66.


She was one of eight protesters standing with placards reading "No U.S. support for Israel" and "Gazans need food and medicine, not war" near Obama's rented vacation home in Kailua, an upmarket suburb on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he is in the second week of a vacation with his family.


Obama did not acknowledge the protesters when his motorcade drove past to take him to play basketball at his old school. He stared straight ahead sipping from a bottle of water.


"The president-elect values citizen participation in our nation's foreign policy, but there is one president at a time, and we intend to respect that," said Brooke Anderson, his chief national security spokesperson.


Obama has in the past called Israel one of the United States' greatest allies and has vowed to ensure the security of the Jewish state.


He has also said he would make a sustained push to achieve the goal of two states -- a Jewish state in Israel and a Palestinian state.


Israel on Tuesday pressed on with air strikes in Gaza that it says are in response to rocket fire by Hamas militants deep inside the Jewish state. Medical officials put Palestinian casualties at 383 dead and more than 800 wounded.


"We are very upset with what is going in Palestine. There is a very great need for change in U.S. foreign policy toward Israel and Palestine. We need to stop giving Israel a blank check," said another protester, Margaret Brown, 66.


The protesters were rebuffed when they tried to hand a letter signed by dozens of U.S. activist groups to a Secret Service agent guarding the access road to Obama's beachfront compound.


The Bush administration has backed Israel's actions in Gaza and demanded the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to a lasting ceasefire.


In Washington, several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside the State Department, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as "free Palestine" while police looked on but took no action.

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Anti-Israel group pickets Obama Residence

Learning to add Tweets on Twitter

Here is an article that I wrote for another site about Twitter. It also has instructions on how to Twitter even if you don't have a blog. Click here.

Learning to add Tweets on Twitter