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On David Letterman, President Obama puts emphasis on Clean Energy for fast track to economic recovery

A couple of days after President Obama's appearance on David Letterman, people are still talking about his comments on healthcare and the fact that he claimed he was black before he became president, as an attempt to put the racial issue to rest (probably because the issue was re-ignited recently by President Carter).

 

What very few people seem to have paid attention to is Obama's comments on the state of the economy and some of his ideas on how to get it back on track.  Of course it doesn't help that CBS only made a couple of clips from that show available on Youtube and has since diligently enforced the removal of any segment that was posted by other YouTube users, but luckily someone posted some audios, probably hoping to dodge CBS's persistent suppression of information attempts.

    

Now here's the part that interests me the most....the part where the economy and CLEAN ENERGY are the focal points:

President Obama says:

 

We are not out of the woods yet....things are still fragile...most economists think that we'll start growing this quarter for the first time, but the problem that we've got, the biggest problem that we have right now, is that employment lags, so even when businesses start to invest, they don't start hiring people back right away and obviously folks are going through incredible hardship because of that loss of employment. That means that the housing market is still weaker, it means that people are still having a hard time paying their bills....

 

...even when the economy is going well, one of the great things about the US economy is it's dynamic, and so people are starting their own businesses, moving to better jobs, they're deciding to move to another state in search of other opportunities, so there is always turnover in terms of employment.  The problem right now, we lost so many jobs over the last year and a half....I mean when I came into office we were losing 700 jobs a month!  And what ends up happening then is, that trying to make up for all those losses in the last year is going to take some time, we're going to have to grow in a much faster clip...

 

(4:50) ...the single most important task for my administration and my economic advisers is how we make sure that we put people back to work...now there is some areas like for example Clean Energy, that has huge potential!  Every building all across the United States probably could use some retrofitting to make it much more energy efficient.  Doing that, that one thing, could put hundreds of thousands of people back to work and that's why we emphasize things such as Clean Energy.

YAY for Clean Energy!

Hang in there folks...

US to build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'

Imagine a robot with a conscience, a "moral machine" that won't violate the Geneva Conventions and murder indiscriminately.  Make sense?

I thought we already had those, they're called the Marines, no?

Yea baby, this is the kind of world we live in.

Bring on the terminator with feelings!

And watch him get all the dates too.

Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'

The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms.

The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.

By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into "autonomous systems", the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not succumb to fear or the desire for vengeance that afflicts frontline soldiers.

Obama sticks it to Muslim Extremists

You all know how Muslim Extremists were rooting for Obama to win the presidential election.  Who knows, probably being silly expecting special treatment because of his Muslim heritage or something like that.

So Obama wins the election and what's the first major decision he makes?

He picks Rahm Israel Emanuel as his White House Chief of Staff, a Jewish man who in is known in Arab circles first and foremost as a Zionist lobbyist and "the son of a former Zionist terrorist".

Of course they're not too happy with this at all.

Now Al Qaeda says: Oh the gloves are off alright, bring it on......n-word!

Ayman al-Zawahri calls Barack Obama a “House Negro”: NO QUARTER

Al-Zawahri also called Obama — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit,” which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”

A Day Without Gays

As one of their mottos goes: 

"A day without gays would be tragic because it would be 

a day without love."


This just in via email:

A Day Without Gays



Start Time:  Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 12:00am

End Time:  Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 12:00am

Location: Across the 
United States

Street: 
Main Street



Description

We are calling for a nationwide strike and economic boycott by all Gays

 

Republicans need to suck it up and move on already

The Republican Party lost the presidential election and the blame game began.

So when are they finally going to realize that change was inevitable regardless of who was running for president on the Dem's side? 

   

Every single republican presidential candidate who withdrew early on in the race saw the writing on the wall.  They were obviously wise enough to make the right decision, heading for the exit before it was too late to avoid political suicide.

Fact is, McCain was the only one left standing to put up a fight on the Republican side.  In the end he was still not good enough, maybe because he was never really accepted as a Republican in the first place and maybe that's why he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.

But who cares?

The final outcome should speak for itself regardless of who played foul.

This country has been torn apart along with the rest of the world for far too long.

Time to move on now.

Why no Dutch Obama?

Radio Netherlands says not just yet, but the potential is definitely there.

The person with the most potential to be "da man" is currently Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb.

Mr. Aboutaleb was recently voted Mayor of Rotterdam by Rotterdam's City Council, making him the first ever Mayor in the Netherlands who is not a Dutch native.

Why no Dutch Obama? - Radio Netherlands Worldwide

The United States has a black president, but the Netherlands has never had a black prime minister. And plenty of other countries have had women heads of government - so why not the Netherlands?

The explanation is simple, says Radio Netherlands Worldwide's political editor Hans Andringa. It's simply a matter of time. "New Dutch" people have only been in the Netherlands for a matter of decades, and they have been active in politics for an even shorter time.

"Before you get to the top in a political party, so you're as widely recognised and acknowledged as you need to be to become a party leader, it takes a long time."

It has taken years for the number of MPs with ethnic minority backgrounds to build up to the present level, yet the figure is still no higher than eight percent of the total.

Tensions
There are even fewer people from ethnic minorities in leading political positions. One exception is the Moroccan-born Achmed Aboutaleb. Currently the deputy social affairs minister, he has just been appointed mayor of Rotterdam. This has a particular resonance, because in recent years the city has been associated with tensions between white Dutch people and ethnic minorities, and was the home ground of the murdered rightwing populist politician Pim Fortuyn. Political commentators have pointed out that if Rotterdam had an elected mayor, it seems unlikely that Mr Aboutaleb would have made it to the post.

AD.nl - Binnenland - Heftig onthaal voor Aboutaleb

Other interesting news on Radio Netherlands:

The untold story of the 1950s Berber uprising in northern Morocco.....

Search for my father - Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Fifty years ago, the people of Morocco's Rif mountains rebelled against the central government. The uprising was brutally put down by the Moroccan army and many of the Rif mountains' native Berbers left for Europe. The world's media didn't pay much attention to the 1958 rebellion, but it left its mark on many people's lives, including that of Mohamed Amezian, son of the rebel leader.

Obama City.....

Obama City, Japan - Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Barack Obama's victory is also being greeted with enthusiasm in Japan - especially in the city of Obama. The residents of the city, which is in the south near Kyoto, support the Democratic candidate mainly because of the shared name, but they have political reasons too.

Afterthought....

Last Sunday I got a phone call from my nephew Chakib who lives in Amsterdam along with the rest of my family.  He told me to hold on a minute because he had a surprise for me. 

So I waited for a few seconds and oh what great surprise!

My childhood best friend Saida, whom I hadn't seen or talked to for close to two decades, got on the phone and....

Hiiiiiiii Nashia!!!!!!

Saida?  OMG I can't believe it!

Saida and I share so many memories, getting in trouble together and having such a great time growing up together. Eventually we went our seperate ways when we were about 19 years old and only seeing each other in passing occasionally.

Imagine my surprise when the first thing she said to me was:

Hey, Ahmed Aboutaleb is now Mayor of Rotterdam hahaaa!

I said: Yes, I read about that in the news.  Isn't it awesome?

She said: Remember when you had a fight with him?

Hmm me a fight with Aboutaleb?  What are you talking about?

Saida: Hahaa well, maybe not a fight, more like an argument.

I said: I used to run into him here and there, we knew some of the same people and I do remember having a few exchanges with him, but an argument? 

If I did, I don't remember.

Saida goes: Well, maybe not an argument, but more like a discussion about politics and I remember clearly when you said you thought he was an arrogant prick and very stubborn...hahaaaa!

Oh WOW really?  I swear I don't remember that, but let me tell you something.  I've been following his political career in the news for many years now and I'm so proud of him for all that he has accomplished in such a short period of time, despite all the apposition he had to face not just in Dutch society but within the Moroccan community as well. 

Saida then quickly changed the subject.

Change.gov

Obama's new website has launched:

Change.gov

Nice wallpaper!

Obama Grabs Headlines all over the world.

The American people voted "YES WE CAN!"

Congratulations Mr Obama! 

I'm looking forward to the CHANGE you promised, so hold on tight......I'll be watching you.

Photo by Callie Shell

Dear Mr President-elect,

I'd like to dedicate this song to you by Kanye West, not because I love anything about the guy or anything.....or because his name misspells Kenya. That's just pure coincidence, just like a lot of things in this trying election, but I do want to congratulate Kenya from the bottom of my heart as well, for sharing kinship with you and your proud historical achievement.

I'm dedicating this song to you because I'm addicted to it the same way the American people are addicted to your lovely tune.  Of course it helps when it's played over and over again on every music station....and YES I CAN turn it off if I wanted to, but I choose not to because it's different, it's got rhythm, it sounds very emotional and although it's not really clear what it's all about, I just can't help myself.....I JUST WANNA DANCE!

Lyrics:

I'm not loving you, the way I wanted to
What I had to do, had to run from you
I'm in love with you but the vibe is wrong
And that haunted me, all the way home
So you never know, never never know,
Never know enough, 'til it's over love
'Til we lose control, system overload
Screamin' "No! No! No! N-No!"
I'm not loving you, the way I wanted to
See I wanna move, but can't escape from you
So I keep it low, keep a secret code
So everybody else don't have to know

Non-Americans Vote

Online Surveys & Market Research

Is the Obama camp hijacking URLs to ensure Obama's victory?

See what happens when you search www.ElectPalin.com

Riehl World View and Doug Ross reported this last night.

Then this morning a friend of mine sent me a copy of this article on a body of email without a link, so I did a Google search on the title of the article

"Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer

By Ali Sina" to see if anyone else is talking about it and I got only 5 hits.  Only one of them actually listed the article I was looking for and another one listed 3 links with the same title, but when I clicked on them, each one redirected me to Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need

Here is the entire article as it was sent to me:

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).