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    The Sec. of Defense is gonna be an interesting pick...

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    Richardson seems a shoe in for Secretary of State. I've read rumblings of Powell for Defense. Robert Gibbs seems like a Press Secretary natural but we'll see.


    I really do like Richardson.

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    Powell is damaged goods.

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    Depends on what you think his influence on policy will be. As I see it, he's being hired for his organizational ability and connections.
    I think you are on to something here.

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    Powell is damaged goods.
    nope.

    ashley todd is damaged goods.

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    nope.

    ashley todd is damaged goods.
    when i realize your "point" i'll respond to it. until then.....................

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    when i realize your "point" i'll respond to it. until then.....................
    my first point is that you feel your characterization of powell is correct.

    my next point is you didn't possess the common sense to sniff out the lie of "B" girl, which means you're not qualified to label powell.

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    my first point is that you feel your characterization of powell is correct..
    he is. he presented to the people wmd's. if he wasn't sure or if he had doubts he should've stood up against it, figured it out, or told the administration to go to . he went through with it and now we're in iraq.

    my next point is you didn't possess the common sense to sniff out the lie of "B" girl, which means you're not qualified to label powell.
    i guess you didn't read all of my posts there, but keep beating the horse.

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    he is. he presented to the people wmd's. if he wasn't sure or if he had doubts he should've stood up against it, figured it out, or told the administration to go to . he went through with it and now we're in iraq.
    it's all powell. he couldn't have stood in the way regardless.

    i guess you didn't read all of my posts there, but keep beating the horse.
    your first post was a major jump to conclusion. it's indicative of your leadership skills.

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    it's all powell. he couldn't have stood in the way regardless.
    he could've stood up to the in the army and raised a red flag on the situation, but he chose not to. now he's bitter about the decision he made over it. damaged goods.

    ................... it's indicative of your leadership skills.
    lighten up mr mussell. this is a frickin' message board.
    geez

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    he could've stood up to the in the army and raised a red flag on the situation, but he chose not to. now he's bitter about the decision he made over it. damaged goods.
    he did have concerns and they got steamrolled.


    lighten up mr mussell. this is a frickin' message board.
    geez
    i'll be sure to remind you of your decision making skills in the future.

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    Rumors are RFK, Jr for EPA, Caroline K as Amb to UN.

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    Emmanuel still hasn't decided on CoS or staying in the House.

    I love when right-wingers fear Emmanual as a smash-mouth, in-your-face partisan, while they loving Delay and Gingrich.

    As usual, right-wingers are fake Macho Men when dishing it out, but fold like labia majora when it's dished back at them.

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    shocking -- so much for those - across the table comments - the lets work together --that non-divisive garbage -- but then those were, "JUST WORDS, JUST SPEECHES"

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    Emmanuel still hasn't decided on CoS or staying in the House.
    Krushchev accepted, Morosetons_

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    WTF? No Bill Ayers or Tony Rezco?

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    shocking -- so much for those - across the table comments - the lets work together --that non-divisive garbage -- but then those were, "JUST WORDS, JUST SPEECHES"
    Bush's second to last Environmental Protection Agency Chief, came from my home state of Utah. That man was Governor Mike Leavitt. Mike Leavitt owned a commercial trout hatchery in the state of Utah that was producing trout that were inflicted with Whirling Disease, a contagious neurological disorder that seriously s up trout's spines before killing them. He was told to destroy his fish, but in order to save cost, he just loaded hem into trucks and dumped them into Utah's natural and world-class fishing waters. That was 1991. To this day, the entire state is over-run with Whirling Disease infected trout.

    Mike Leavitt also refused to protect land from illegal ATV use inside and around the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, because he and republican cohorts in the state had a plan to purposefully destroy federally protected lands with off road vehicles, so as to make the land worthless and thereby strip it of it's protection under a review process.

    One of his pet projects was something known as the Legacy Highway, an unnecessary road to be built along the shores of the Great Salt Lake to serve as an alternative to the fully functioning and newly refurbished interstate that would run parallel just a few hundred yards away. This road would have destroyed major, major wetlands that serve as annual migration points for Canadian Geese and ducks that pass through the state. After Leavitt left Utah, the route was changed.

    Under Mike Leavitt, Utah was the nation's second leading industrial waste producer.

    In short the man was basically an environmental wrecking ball of a human being and this is the guy who Bush put in charge of the entire mother ing ENVIRONMENTAL. PROTECTION. AGENCY.

    So, you know what? you. Mike Leavitt was just one of the countlessly ed up, incredibly right wing appointments made by the Bush administration and I could give two s if you don't like seeing anybody left of Strom Thurmand being speculated about in regards to Obama's bureaucracy. In fact, I revel in your despair. The tables have turned .

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    Lawrence Summers: Africa Is "UNDER-Polluted"


    Lawrence Summers is on a very short list of possible nominees for Secretary of Treasury. His selection has been complicated, however, by his destructive performance as president of Harvard University, a rocky term he finally sabotaged by revealing his opinion that women lack the mental ap ude to succeed in science.

    But there is a lesser known episode in Summers' past that further highlights his reckless tendencies, and foreshadows a politically nettlesome nomination process.

    On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted." Summers added that public outrage over the heightened rates of prostate cancer caused by his proposed dumping would be mitigated by the fact that poor people in developing countries rarely live long enough to develop prostate cancer.

    Read the full Summers memo here.

    When the Summers memo leaked to the public in February 1992, Brazil's Secretary of the Environment, Jose Lutzenburger, responded with an indignant missive. "Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane," Lutzenburger told Summers. "Your thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many conventional 'economists' concerning the nature of the world we live in... If the World Bank keeps you as vice president it will lose all credibility."

    If Obama nominates Summers, he will send a dispiriting message to governments of developing countries -- especially in Africa -- just as they have begun to look at the United States as a beacon of hope.

    Back in the U.S., Summers' nomination would prompt a reexamination by the media of the countless controversies he has fomented. Even an episode as tangential as Summers' romantic fling with right-wing hatemonger Laura Ingraham could become a source of political embarrassment for the White House. Summers should be left to write his memoirs, not memos.

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    Hmmm, Summers sounds like a bad pick. I had forgotten he was the guy at Harvard dissing women's brains.

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    Bush's second to last Environmental Protection Agency Chief, came from my home state of Utah. That man was Governor Mike Leavitt. Mike Leavitt owned a commercial trout hatchery in the state of Utah that was producing trout that were inflicted with Whirling Disease, a contagious neurological disorder that seriously s up trout's spines before killing them. He was told to destroy his fish, but in order to save cost, he just loaded hem into trucks and dumped them into Utah's natural and world-class fishing waters. That was 1991. To this day, the entire state is over-run with Whirling Disease infected trout.

    Mike Leavitt also refused to protect land from illegal ATV use inside and around the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, because he and republican cohorts in the state had a plan to purposefully destroy federally protected lands with off road vehicles, so as to make the land worthless and thereby strip it of it's protection under a review process.

    One of his pet projects was something known as the Legacy Highway, an unnecessary road to be built along the shores of the Great Salt Lake to serve as an alternative to the fully functioning and newly refurbished interstate that would run parallel just a few hundred yards away. This road would have destroyed major, major wetlands that serve as annual migration points for Canadian Geese and ducks that pass through the state. After Leavitt left Utah, the route was changed.

    Under Mike Leavitt, Utah was the nation's second leading industrial waste producer.

    In short the man was basically an environmental wrecking ball of a human being and this is the guy who Bush put in charge of the entire mother ing ENVIRONMENTAL. PROTECTION. AGENCY.

    So, you know what? you. Mike Leavitt was just one of the countlessly ed up, incredibly right wing appointments made by the Bush administration and I could give two s if you don't like seeing anybody left of Strom Thurmand being speculated about in regards to Obama's bureaucracy. In fact, I revel in your despair. The tables have turned .

    You live in Utah ? I played at the U and lived there for 6 years.. Where do you live ?

    now to address your point -- or whatever you were trying to say.. I am familiar with everything you stated.. and I don't care. Bush never ran on a platform like Obama did. Mr. Center - Mr. Uniter. so F you. -- Good thing you live in a state that McCain carried by a huge margin and your vote was worthless.

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    You live in Utah ? I played at the U and lived there for 6 years.. Where do you live ?
    You played at the U? Ball? Under Majerus?

    I'm a liberal, I live in the Avenues.

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    1994 -- just 1 year. The Avenues... love the Avenues. Didn't they redo a lot of those houses up there ? How long have you been there ?

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    I'm really hoping for Richardson as Secretary of State as well. It makes too much sense not to happen, though I've heard rumors about Kerry also.

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    1994 -- just 1 year. The Avenues... love the Avenues. Didn't they redo a lot of those houses up there ? How long have you been there ?
    Eh, somewhat. The higher up the hill you go the more refurbished it becomes, but they've also done a lot to clean things up down on the western side, towards and on Capitol Hill. I've been in Salt Lake for almost 23 years with a couple of brief departures for school. I'd bounce to SE Alaska (of all places) but it's too damn wet and based on travels elsewhere I know that to keep sane I need Utah's alpine/desert environment.

    Did you live in Salt Lake the whole time you were here?

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    shocking -- so much for those - across the table comments - the lets work together --that non-divisive garbage -- but then those were, "JUST WORDS, JUST SPEECHES"
    My goodness, you right-wingers sure do love to whine, don't you? "Help help, I'm being oppressed!"

    Obama said he would work across the aisle. That does not, ipso facto, mean he has to staff himself up with 50% Dem, 50% Repub. He'll probably take on one or two Republicans for his cabinet. Lugar or Hagel are my bets.

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    I'm really hoping for Richardson as Secretary of State as well. It makes too much sense not to happen, though I've heard rumors about Kerry also.
    I will be beyond pissed if that position goes to Kerry. Gibbs got Press Sec. I love that guy.

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