Green Porno with Isabella Rossellini
Here's a totally safe for work Sundance Festival interview with Isabella Rossellini about her new project on bug sex called Green Porno. I originally discovered the video on Modern Art Notes and paper cut outs have never looked so sexy! There's a bit more info on this site.
2 Desember 2008
1 Desember 2008
27 November 2008
Iraq Approves Deal Charting End of U.S. Role
President Bush congratulated the Parliament on the vote.
“Today’s vote affirms the growth of Iraq’s democracy and increasing ability to secure itself,” Mr. Bush said in a statement. “Two years ago this day seemed unlikely — but the success of the surge and the courage of the Iraqi people set the conditions for these two agreements to be negotiated and approved by the Iraqi Parliament.”
The security agreement and an accompanying document that outlines America’s relationship with Iraq in areas like economics, health care and education, would grant Iraq considerable authority over American troop operations, requiring court orders to search buildings and detain suspects.
It also sets out a timetable requiring American troops to withdraw from cities and towns by June 30, 2009, and for all troops to leave the country by the end of 2011 unless the Iraqis and Americans negotiate a separate pact to extend the American military presence. (In contrast, President-elect Barack Obama campaigned under a promise to withdraw all American combat brigades from Iraq by May 2010, but set no date for a complete withdrawal.)15 November 2008
Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.
There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.
One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.
She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.
"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking."
Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."
Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.
"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said.
Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."
"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission."
If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.
The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's victory.
Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia.
The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not happy with this decision."
Other incidents include:
_Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.
_At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written "Let's hope someone wins."
_Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.
_Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.
_University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.
_Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.
_Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and Apolacan Township, Pa.
_A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'
_In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger.
"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."
"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"
10 November 2008
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6 November 2008
Барак Обама подарил Кении новый праздник
День 6 ноября в Кении официально объявлен государственным праздником. Почему? Догадаться несложно: потому что Барак Обама стал первым американским президентом-афроамериканцем, сообщает агентство Би-Би-Си.Президент Кении Мваи Кибаки в личном обращении к Бараку Обаме отметил, что и он сам, и его народ «в чрезвычайной степени гордится» корнями последнего.Ведь новоявленный президент США, чье полное имя Barack Hussein Obama Jr., хотя сам и не родом из африканской Кении (родился на Гаваях), его соотечественникам все-таки есть чем гордиться. Дело в том, что мама Барака Обамы американка, а отец – кениец. Правда, впоследствии их семья распалась – мать вышла замуж второй раз и уехала в Индонезию, где Барак Обама прожил четыре года, прежде чем вернуться на Гаваи.Безусловно, среди всех уроженцев Кении столь больших высот пока удалось добиться только Бараку Обаме. Именно поэтому нет ничего странного в том, что кенийцы решили навсегда вписать этот знаменательный день в Историю – пусть и потомки будут в курсе и тоже станут гордиться своим более удачливым соплеменником
4 November 2008
CHANGE HAS COME
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WASHINGTON--Democrat Barack Obama was headed for certain victory late Tuesday in his quest to become the first black president of the United States.
The victory will make the Illinois senator the nation's 44th president.
As polls closed throughout the United States, Obama, 47, was a sure winner in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin.
His Republican rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, 72, looked set to snare North Dakota and South Carolina.
Voter turnout was apparently very heavy.
Obama campaigned vigorously under the slogan of "change," while McCain stuck to the Republican policies espoused by the White House incumbent, George W. Bush.
The election centered around the unpopular U.S.-led war in Iraq and the mounting global financial crisis that started in the United States.
On Jan. 20, 2009, Obama will be sworn in as the first Democrat commander in chief of the United States in eight years, following Bill Clinton.
His running mate, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, will be vice president.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he spent four years in Indonesia after his mother remarried an Indonesian.
He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and was raised by his maternal grandparents.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, where he is the only black senator.
The victory will make the Illinois senator the nation's 44th president.
As polls closed throughout the United States, Obama, 47, was a sure winner in the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin.
His Republican rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, 72, looked set to snare North Dakota and South Carolina.
Voter turnout was apparently very heavy.
Obama campaigned vigorously under the slogan of "change," while McCain stuck to the Republican policies espoused by the White House incumbent, George W. Bush.
The election centered around the unpopular U.S.-led war in Iraq and the mounting global financial crisis that started in the United States.
On Jan. 20, 2009, Obama will be sworn in as the first Democrat commander in chief of the United States in eight years, following Bill Clinton.
His running mate, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, will be vice president.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother from Kansas. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he spent four years in Indonesia after his mother remarried an Indonesian.
He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and was raised by his maternal grandparents.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, where he is the only black senator.
Barack Obama est élu président des Etats-Unis
Barack Obama, 47 ans, est désormais le 44e président des Etats-Unis et le 4 novembre 2008 fera date dans l'histoire du pays. Il était 5 h 5, heure de Paris, lorsque les médias américains ont annoncé la victoire du candidat démocrate face à John McCain. Barack Obama devient ainsi le premier président noir des Etats-Unis. Moins d'une heure plus tard, le nouveau président était sur la scène du Grant Park de Chicago – son fief – pour fêter sa victoire et assurer aux Américains que "le changement est arrivé".
7 September 2008
Democrats post big gains in voter registration
CLAIRTON, Pa. - Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh’s Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote.
She’s encouraged by the response here. "They’re all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They’re feeling like, you know what, I hold a little bit of power in this."
To counter this effort, the Republicans are counting on a formidable, high-tech get-out-the-vote operation that has helped them win the past two presidential elections.
Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states.
The Democrats hope their voter registration efforts can boost Obama to victory in competitive states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida and perhaps even give him a shot at winning traditional Republican states like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, are fighting for independent swing voters, and many of the new Democrats had been unaffiliated voters.
The number of unaffiliated voters dropped by nearly 900,000 since 2006. Many joined the Democratic Party to take part in the primaries and caucuses, and now they will now be targeted by an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign.
"We feel that our supporters are more enthusiastic than we’ve seen in previous cycles," said Jon Carson, Obama’s national field director.
The Obama campaign is taking the lead among the party organizations and labor unions that traditionally work on voter registration efforts.
Because party organizations and unions, like the Service Employees International Union to which Graham belongs, can raise unrestricted amounts of money, presidential campaigns typically rely on them to handle the bulk of voter registration drives, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said in an interview.
"This is the first campaign I’ve seen where the voter registration is done by the campaign," Dean said.
The Republicans are relying on a more traditional voter registration model, with the Republican National Committee leading the effort among state parties.
"We hope that the hard work we’ve done in the past will provide us with a strategic advantage," said Mike DuHaime, McCain’s political director. "We will have the most technologically advanced ground operation ever."
DuHaime said the RNC is working with the state parties to register voters in every battleground state. He said there is extra emphasis on the fast-growing ones, including Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and North Carolina.
He said the GOP’s comprehensive voter database helps it track voters moving into competitive states.
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The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh’s Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote.
She’s encouraged by the response here. "They’re all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They’re feeling like, you know what, I hold a little bit of power in this."
To counter this effort, the Republicans are counting on a formidable, high-tech get-out-the-vote operation that has helped them win the past two presidential elections.
Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states.
The Democrats hope their voter registration efforts can boost Obama to victory in competitive states like Pennsylvania, Nevada and Florida and perhaps even give him a shot at winning traditional Republican states like Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
Both Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, are fighting for independent swing voters, and many of the new Democrats had been unaffiliated voters.
The number of unaffiliated voters dropped by nearly 900,000 since 2006. Many joined the Democratic Party to take part in the primaries and caucuses, and now they will now be targeted by an aggressive get-out-the-vote campaign.
"We feel that our supporters are more enthusiastic than we’ve seen in previous cycles," said Jon Carson, Obama’s national field director.
The Obama campaign is taking the lead among the party organizations and labor unions that traditionally work on voter registration efforts.
Because party organizations and unions, like the Service Employees International Union to which Graham belongs, can raise unrestricted amounts of money, presidential campaigns typically rely on them to handle the bulk of voter registration drives, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said in an interview.
"This is the first campaign I’ve seen where the voter registration is done by the campaign," Dean said.
The Republicans are relying on a more traditional voter registration model, with the Republican National Committee leading the effort among state parties.
"We hope that the hard work we’ve done in the past will provide us with a strategic advantage," said Mike DuHaime, McCain’s political director. "We will have the most technologically advanced ground operation ever."
DuHaime said the RNC is working with the state parties to register voters in every battleground state. He said there is extra emphasis on the fast-growing ones, including Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and North Carolina.
He said the GOP’s comprehensive voter database helps it track voters moving into competitive states.
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28 Agustus 2008
Ten Gender-Bending Fall Fashion Looks
Pairing a double-breasted suit jacket with a starched shirt and oversized bow tie is one of fall's most anticipated trends.
But if you think Karl Lagerfeld created this look for a man, think again. This suit jacket-bow tie combo is part of Lagerfeld's fall line for women.
And Lagerfeld is not alone. Paul Smith, Nina Ricci and Max Azria are also blurring fashion's gender lines. Elbow patches or a stitch that gives the illusion of an elbow patch will be seen on womens' jackets and sweaters, while hats and caps and cuffed pants will also be reinterpreted from men's wardrobes. And designers of accessories such as shoes and handbags have added masculine details like studding and vintage hardware, says Benjamin Belton, president of a four-store retail chain selling women’s and men’s apparel in western North Carolina.
What's more, handbags are no longer solely a woman's accessory; men will also find oversized leather bags for personal items. And purple in all shades and tones will be a staple for both men and women heading into fall.
In Pictures: 10 Gender-Bending Fall Fashion Looks
"Business casual in the workplace has really opened up the blur in gender lines," says Cynthia O'Connor, founder and CEO of Cynthia O'Connor + Company, a fashion and accessories showroom with locations in New York City and Los Angeles. "The ability for both men and women to dress down at work is presenting more options for wardrobing."
While women's clothing began adopting masculine undertones in the 1920s, such details are at the forefront of many designers' fall lines. Lagerfeld and Carolina Herrera incorporated bow ties into their womenswear collections, while Smith, Gianfranco Ferre and Costume National created women's suits with flat-front pants, stiff, white, collared shirts and pinstripes.
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Marc Jacobs is more literal in his interpretation of menswear for women--his fall collection features womens' pantsuits almost identical to traditional men's styles.
Even dresses are looking more like suits. Azria's loose shirtdress with men's dress-shirt trimming on the sleeves, collar and hem is paired with a men's cap, skinny-heeled ankle boots and a ladylike, oversized clutch. Philip Lim pairs a fitted gray jacket over a dress and a long cardigan vest over a shorter dress.
But women aren't the only ones "cross-dressing."
Barack Obama's Power Suit
Move over, Michelle. Another Obama is becoming a style-setter.
Sen. Barack Obama will wear a custom-made Hart Schaffner Marx suit (left) when he accepts the Democratic nomination in Denver on Thursday night.
The two-button suit is made of solid navy and worsted wool, with pleated pants that have an inch and a quarter cuffs.
"It's a flattering fit and has a soft drape, and the material has a nice feel against the skin," says Lisa Wells, director of public relations for Hickey Freeman, a subsidiary of Hartmarx Corporation (nyse: HMX - news - people )--formerly Hart, Schaffner & Marx. "The silhouette is a classic fit; he's a 40 long with a 33-inch waist."
The Hart Schaffner Marx team personally tailored Obama in Chicago.
"Hart Schaffner Marx had appointments with him in the past for fittings that had been canceled when he was on the campaign trail," says Wells "I guess they finally caught up with each other now that he was home before the convention."
The suit would retail at department stores such as Nordstrom (nyse: JWN - news - people ) for $1,500.
4 Agustus 2008
The Candidates
The Candidates
Details on John McCain, Republican presidential candidate, and Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate.
Bio
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Age: 46
· Residence: Chicago
Born to a free-spirited white mother and a black Kenyan absentee father, Mr. Obama spent his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. As part of a younger generation of black leaders, he represents the success — but not the historic struggle — of the civil rights movement. And his upstart campaign for the Democratic nomination, using a mantra of hope and change combined with tech-savvy, unconventional organization, helped him surpass one of America's most prominent political establishments, the Clintons, to become the first African-American to lead a major party ticket.
Between earning degrees at Columbia and Harvard, Mr. Obama spent two years as a community organizer on Chicago‘s impoverished South Side. Left frustrated by the experience, he decided to pursue change as an insider and won a seat in the Illinois state senate. Mr. Obama has written of his “spooky good fortune” in politics, but his career includes one glaring political miscalculation — an ill-fated bid to unseat Bobby L. Rush, a former activist and a hero to black voters, in Congress.
Some accused Mr. Obama of impatience when he chose to seek the Democratic nomination just two years into his first U.S. Senate term. He faced a difficult decision after his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when his proclamation that “We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don‘t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States” propelled him to party stardom. Armed with his charisma and his public stance against the Iraq war before the 2003 invasion, Mr. Obama chose to run despite his comparatively little experience on the national stage.
Mr. Obama, known for his emphasis on the big picture and a tendency to delegate, has been called “post-racial” and “post-partisan.” “I am like a Rorschach test,” he said in an interview with The New York Times this past summer. “Even if people find me disappointing ultimately, they might gain something.” Mr. Obama has carefully eschewed identifying too closely with his party, despite a fairly liberal voting record. His campaign‘s innovative internet organization both dovetailed with his call for a new kind of politics and helped him raise record amounts of money from small and large donors alike. He is a regular on the basketball court and at the gym, and his comparative youth and lofty oratory inspired comparisons to John F. Kennedy.
Despite his focus on unity, his victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton caused lingering resentments among her supporters. Critics call him an empty vessel, a charge fueled by his decisions to decline public financing and support an expansion of government surveillance powers after the election, both shifts from earlier positions.
Mr. Obama lives with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· Age: 71
· Residence: Phoenix
Senator John McCain has worked to build a reputation of taking no one‘s orders but his own. Mr. McCain‘s image as a maverick remains a central justification for his presidential campaign, though that image has been diminished somewhat by his efforts to mend fences with some Republicans during his quest to become president.
The son and grandson of Navy admirals, Mr. McCain went from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy to war hero after refusing preferential treatment and enduring five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967. His military experiences continue to inform his views about war.
Though always supportive of the Iraq war, Mr. McCain was harshly critical of the Bush administration‘s — and especially former Secretary of State Donald H. Rumsfeld‘s — handling of the conflict. He was an early proponent of troop escalation in Iraq, which was adopted in early 2007. He has also confronted the White House for its advocacy of interrogation methods that he considers torture.
Upon returning from Vietnam, Mr. McCain got his first taste of Congress as the Navy‘s Senate liaison, where the dry, hip, macho war hero became a favorite. He won his own House seat in 1982, and he came to the Senate four years later a rising star. But he was nearly brought down in 1991 by his involvement in the “Keating Five” scandal. Though he was ultimately exonerated, an ethics inquiry determined that Mr. McCain used “poor judgment” in intervening with federal regulators on behalf of a political contributor‘s savings and loan operation.
“It was certainly the most difficult experience in my political life,” he said of the period, and friends say it influenced his crusade against the influence of money in politics, angering Republicans by putting his name to the so-called “McCain-Feingold” campaign finance reform bill. Republican frustration with Mr. McCain is not limited to campaign finance. His presidential campaign was nearly destroyed in 2007 by his support of comprehensive immigration legislation, and in the past he called some leaders of the religious right “agents of intolerance.” Nonetheless, the constituency he built up during his 2000 race and his propensity to switch sides on a number of issues have made him one of the Senate&lsqou;s most influential figures. His efforts in recent years to mend fences with some Republican factions has compromised his independent persona somewhat, including meeting with the evangelical leader Jerry Falwell, voting to extend Mr. Bush‘s tax cuts and backing an enforcement-only immigration bill.
Mr. McCain lives in Phoenix with his second wife, Cindy Hensley McCain, an heiress to a beer distribution. The couple has four children. Mr. McCain also has a daughter from a previous marriage, which ended in divorce in 1980.
Events
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Barack Obama in Lansing, Mich. August 4
· Barack Obama in Boston, Mass. August 4
· Barack Obama in Youngstown, Ohio August 5
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John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· John McCain in Sturgis, SD August 4
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Money
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Total Raised $349,785,288
· Total Spent $278,114,964
· Cash on Hand $71,670,320
Through June 30, 2008
John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· Total Raised $144,071,946
· Total Spent $117,289,717
· Cash on Hand $26,782,228
Through June 30, 2008
Recent Coverage
· Obama Asks Panel to Restore Votes By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The request to give full voting rights to delegates from Florida and Michigan at the national convention is likely to be granted.
· McCain Takes a Page From Clinton’s Playbook By JOHN HARWOOD At times this spring, it appeared that Barack Obama’s fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton would never end. In some ways, it hasn’t.
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· McCain Takes a Page From Clinton’s Playbook By JOHN HARWOOD At times this spring, it appeared that Barack Obama’s fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton would never end. In some ways, it hasn’t.
· McCain Leans Toward a Compromise on Offshore Drilling By BRIAN KNOWLTON A day after Barack Obama said he would consider permitting some offshore oil drilling, an aide to John McCain said that he might support such a compromise.
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Details on John McCain, Republican presidential candidate, and Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate.
Bio
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Age: 46
· Residence: Chicago
Born to a free-spirited white mother and a black Kenyan absentee father, Mr. Obama spent his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. As part of a younger generation of black leaders, he represents the success — but not the historic struggle — of the civil rights movement. And his upstart campaign for the Democratic nomination, using a mantra of hope and change combined with tech-savvy, unconventional organization, helped him surpass one of America's most prominent political establishments, the Clintons, to become the first African-American to lead a major party ticket.
Between earning degrees at Columbia and Harvard, Mr. Obama spent two years as a community organizer on Chicago‘s impoverished South Side. Left frustrated by the experience, he decided to pursue change as an insider and won a seat in the Illinois state senate. Mr. Obama has written of his “spooky good fortune” in politics, but his career includes one glaring political miscalculation — an ill-fated bid to unseat Bobby L. Rush, a former activist and a hero to black voters, in Congress.
Some accused Mr. Obama of impatience when he chose to seek the Democratic nomination just two years into his first U.S. Senate term. He faced a difficult decision after his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when his proclamation that “We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don‘t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States” propelled him to party stardom. Armed with his charisma and his public stance against the Iraq war before the 2003 invasion, Mr. Obama chose to run despite his comparatively little experience on the national stage.
Mr. Obama, known for his emphasis on the big picture and a tendency to delegate, has been called “post-racial” and “post-partisan.” “I am like a Rorschach test,” he said in an interview with The New York Times this past summer. “Even if people find me disappointing ultimately, they might gain something.” Mr. Obama has carefully eschewed identifying too closely with his party, despite a fairly liberal voting record. His campaign‘s innovative internet organization both dovetailed with his call for a new kind of politics and helped him raise record amounts of money from small and large donors alike. He is a regular on the basketball court and at the gym, and his comparative youth and lofty oratory inspired comparisons to John F. Kennedy.
Despite his focus on unity, his victory over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton caused lingering resentments among her supporters. Critics call him an empty vessel, a charge fueled by his decisions to decline public financing and support an expansion of government surveillance powers after the election, both shifts from earlier positions.
Mr. Obama lives with his wife, Michelle, and two daughters in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· Age: 71
· Residence: Phoenix
Senator John McCain has worked to build a reputation of taking no one‘s orders but his own. Mr. McCain‘s image as a maverick remains a central justification for his presidential campaign, though that image has been diminished somewhat by his efforts to mend fences with some Republicans during his quest to become president.
The son and grandson of Navy admirals, Mr. McCain went from the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy to war hero after refusing preferential treatment and enduring five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967. His military experiences continue to inform his views about war.
Though always supportive of the Iraq war, Mr. McCain was harshly critical of the Bush administration‘s — and especially former Secretary of State Donald H. Rumsfeld‘s — handling of the conflict. He was an early proponent of troop escalation in Iraq, which was adopted in early 2007. He has also confronted the White House for its advocacy of interrogation methods that he considers torture.
Upon returning from Vietnam, Mr. McCain got his first taste of Congress as the Navy‘s Senate liaison, where the dry, hip, macho war hero became a favorite. He won his own House seat in 1982, and he came to the Senate four years later a rising star. But he was nearly brought down in 1991 by his involvement in the “Keating Five” scandal. Though he was ultimately exonerated, an ethics inquiry determined that Mr. McCain used “poor judgment” in intervening with federal regulators on behalf of a political contributor‘s savings and loan operation.
“It was certainly the most difficult experience in my political life,” he said of the period, and friends say it influenced his crusade against the influence of money in politics, angering Republicans by putting his name to the so-called “McCain-Feingold” campaign finance reform bill. Republican frustration with Mr. McCain is not limited to campaign finance. His presidential campaign was nearly destroyed in 2007 by his support of comprehensive immigration legislation, and in the past he called some leaders of the religious right “agents of intolerance.” Nonetheless, the constituency he built up during his 2000 race and his propensity to switch sides on a number of issues have made him one of the Senate&lsqou;s most influential figures. His efforts in recent years to mend fences with some Republican factions has compromised his independent persona somewhat, including meeting with the evangelical leader Jerry Falwell, voting to extend Mr. Bush‘s tax cuts and backing an enforcement-only immigration bill.
Mr. McCain lives in Phoenix with his second wife, Cindy Hensley McCain, an heiress to a beer distribution. The couple has four children. Mr. McCain also has a daughter from a previous marriage, which ended in divorce in 1980.
Events
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Barack Obama in Lansing, Mich. August 4
· Barack Obama in Boston, Mass. August 4
· Barack Obama in Youngstown, Ohio August 5
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John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· John McCain in Sturgis, SD August 4
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Money
Barack Obama Democrat U.S. Senator
· Total Raised $349,785,288
· Total Spent $278,114,964
· Cash on Hand $71,670,320
Through June 30, 2008
John McCain Republican U.S. Senator
· Total Raised $144,071,946
· Total Spent $117,289,717
· Cash on Hand $26,782,228
Through June 30, 2008
Recent Coverage
· Obama Asks Panel to Restore Votes By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE The request to give full voting rights to delegates from Florida and Michigan at the national convention is likely to be granted.
· McCain Takes a Page From Clinton’s Playbook By JOHN HARWOOD At times this spring, it appeared that Barack Obama’s fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton would never end. In some ways, it hasn’t.
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· McCain Takes a Page From Clinton’s Playbook By JOHN HARWOOD At times this spring, it appeared that Barack Obama’s fight with Hillary Rodham Clinton would never end. In some ways, it hasn’t.
· McCain Leans Toward a Compromise on Offshore Drilling By BRIAN KNOWLTON A day after Barack Obama said he would consider permitting some offshore oil drilling, an aide to John McCain said that he might support such a compromise.
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28 Juli 2008
Obama wailing wall prayer
While in Israel, Barack Obama, visited The Wailing Wall, which
is thought by Jews to be the most sacred of places, because the temple itself was thought to be the place where God resides on earth. Praying at the Wailing Wall signifies being in the presence of the Divine. Jews from all countries, and as well as tourists of other religious backgrounds, come to pray at the wall, where it is said one immediately has the “ear of god.” [snip]
[Written p]rayers sent in are placed into the cracks of the walls and are called tzetzels.Obama did so while on his visit, but now an Israeli newspaper is coming under fire for publishing the specifics of the prayer, as well it should.
The rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitz, said publishing the note intruded in Obama’s relationship with God. 
“The notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make any use of them,” he told Army Radio. The publication “damages the Western Wall and damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves,” he said.
25 Juli 2008
Barack Obama's Speech in Berlin
"A World That Stands as One"
As Prepared For Delivery
Berlin, Germany
July 24th, 2008
Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father – my grandfather – was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.
That is why I’m here. And you are here because you too know that yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life..........
For detail see " obama website ".
24 Juli 2008
Japan scandal
Public Betrayed': The Power of'A Japan's Scandal-Breaking Weeklies
In a new book, media ethics professor Takesato Watanabe and writer Adam Gamble explore the massive influence of Japan's controversial weekly newsmagazines, or shukanshi. This edited excerpt from the book is the first of two installments
Takesato watanabe posted ( Japan Media Review )
In many ways, the Japanese weekly newsmagazines constitute their own genre. As noted in part two, they are often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as Newsweek, the New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and the National Enquirer. They are similar to Newsweek or Time in that they often present more-detailed coverage of selected topics from each week's news than is offered on television or in most newspapers. They can be a bit like the New Yorker, however, in that they carry a fair amount of literary and cultural commentary, albeit usually less sophisticated than the New Yorker's best material.
In their fluffy celebrity gossip, they also resemble People, and yet, like Penthouse (and similar men's magazines), many feature pornography and target (with but a few exceptions) men. And like the U.S. "supermarket tabloids," such as the National Enquirer, they are widely acknowledged to be less reliable than more establishment-oriented news publications.
In many ways, the Japanese weekly newsmagazines constitute their own genre. As noted in part two, they are often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as Newsweek, the New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and the National Enquirer. They are similar to Newsweek or Time in that they often present more-detailed coverage of selected topics from each week's news than is offered on television or in most newspapers. They can be a bit like the New Yorker, however, in that they carry a fair amount of literary and cultural commentary, albeit usually less sophisticated than the New Yorker's best material.
In their fluffy celebrity gossip, they also resemble People, and yet, like Penthouse (and similar men's magazines), many feature pornography and target (with but a few exceptions) men. And like the U.S. "supermarket tabloids," such as the National Enquirer, they are widely acknowledged to be less reliable than more establishment-oriented news publications.
15 Juli 2008
President scandal
Green scandal..
The Goal: Admitting Failure, Without Being a
Failure
By DAVID GREENBERG
Published: January 14, 2007
PRESIDENT BUSH’S speech Wednesday night had to strike a perf
ect pitch. He had to defend the war that will define his leg
acy while admitting to enough error to regai
n credibility with the public. Consequently, commentators
are still trying to figure out whether he conceded mistakes, showed regret or intends to change course at all.
George Tames/The New York Times
KENNEDY ON THE
Dennis Cook/Associated Press
REAGAN ON IRAN-CONTRA “A few months a
go I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”
Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
In this respect, Mr. Bush’s speech follows in that great American oratorical tradition: the presidential mea culpa.
Figuring out how to acknowledge failure without seeming like a failure is a time-honored occupational hazard of politics. But not until the 20th century did presidents govern mainly by mobilizing public opinion through rhetoric, and only with the rise of broadcasting did the celebrated “televised speech to the nation” become a staple of White House damage control.
While these confessions may work in the short term, they rarely work long-term magic. That typically requires a new course of action.
27 Juni 2008
Greenwater
GREENWATER.................................................Green water is good for dringking...... because there are many of plankton, whois
live in green water.....
Why become green colour................... in bottom of water live the grass or lumut,
so if i see thats water, its look green water
20 Juni 2008
Mariamovie
Maria Ozawa Filmography
Hard-Core Films
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New Face - Number One Style
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Beautiful Sex
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Temptation Erotic Fuck
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Barely There Mosaic
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Sex on the Beach - Southern Island Sex!
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6 Costume Sex!
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Lewd Flesh
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Let's Do It At School
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W Barely There Mosaic
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Endless Bang 5
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Hyper - Barely There Mosaic
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Barely There Mosaic - 6 Performances
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The Main Purpose of Special Delusional Bathhouse
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S1 Dream Collection - Super S-class Idols 4 Hours!
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Promiscuous Bang 16
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Share a 24 Hours Full of Sex with Maria!
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Obscene Nymphomaniac 5
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Maria Ozawa Collection 1
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Hyper X - Barely There Mosaic
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Aerial Bang on Civil Aviation
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S1 Dream Collection - 2nd Anniversary Commemoration Special Ver. - Super S Class Idols 8 Hours!
Biografi
Maria Ozawa Profile
| DOB: | January 8, 1986 |
| Birth Location: | Hokkaido, Japan |
| Measurements: | 34 - 23 - 34 (88 - 58 - 86) |
| Height: | 5 foot 4 inches (1.62 meters) |
| Eye Color: | Brown |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Natural Bust: | Yes |
| Blood Type: | A |
| Orientation: | Hetrosexual |
| Ethnicity: | Japanese / French - Canadian |
| Alias: | "Miyabi" |
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