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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (34201)	7/10/2008 7:31:07 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Thx MJ..here's the latest AL QAEDA NEWSLETTER A Message from the Director Ayman al Zawahiri Director of Change Management Al Qaeda Industries Worldwide, Inc. Developed in conjunction with our strategic branding agency FDB&D-Medina, this handsome new organizational logo will help us maintain consumer mindshare and let the world know that we continue on the cutting edge of advanced Jihad technology. Show your team pride by buying official Qaedant logo merchandise from the attached electronic catalog -- including mugs, keffiyas and semtex belts! PERSONNEL PERSPECTIVES As you have possibly heard by now, Team Satan and their subsidiary Iraqi Security Forces have made several key market acquisitions in the last few months. In order to meet Q3 Return-on-Mayhem targets and maximize stakeholder value, we need to refocus our client-facing resource model. As we are currently seeking a 17th round of venture funding, budgets are extremely tight, and this will require reducing our internal work team payroll load through adaptive right-sizing on a go-forward basis. Accounting estimates indicate that much of this will be achieved via natural attrition and Apache Hellfire missiles. Still, in order to achieve costing targets, we will need to engage in involuntary outboarding. The Communications department will be most directly effected by this initiative, as we continue transitioning of our day-to-day public relations efforts to offshore low-cost providers like Huffington Post, DailyKos, and Democratic Underground. BENEFITS AND YOU Like many organizations, Qaedant is searching for ways to contain the spiraling cost of associate health care benefits. Working with our insurance provider Mutual of Yemen, we have created a new custom healthcare benefits package for associates that will help cap rising expenses on a forward basis. Starting August 1, this plan will institute a new $2000 copay for outpatient dismemberment services and psychiatric care. The new plan will also cap the number of dependent wives covered, and eliminates the dental record identification benefit. Details are covered in the attached form. While team heath benefits will be scaled back, we will be offsetting these changes with enhancements to associate retirement plans. For example, I am pleased to announce an exciting new 90-virgin paradise pension package, representing a 25% increase in virgins over our previous plan. Please see your local imam for details. DIVERSITY DAY Everyone is invited to Qaedant's first annual Diversity Celebration Fair Wednesday morning at Cave 11-B. Find out how the world's ever-increasing diversity provides a growing strategic opportunity for us to blow up infidels of every color and orientation. HR Team Leader Hassan Abdullah will discuss how Qaedant is expanding martyrdom job search to recruit from traditionally-underserved groups, such as unwilling women. See you at the Fair! LUNCH CAVE ETIQUETTE Nobody likes a messy lunch break cave. It's inconsiderate to your fellow Qaedant associates, and the cleaning slaves who have to pick up your falafel wraps and missing limbs. If you have been mortally wounded and are bleeding uncontrollably, please go to the designated dying area near the scrap metal pile in parking lot D. MILESTONES Congratulations to Khalid Muhsin and Hussein Mustafa for reaching their three month service anniversaries. Please drop by their desk and thank them for a survival well done. And please -- no ribbing the "old timers!" In other personnel news, please join me in congratulating the following associates who have been promoted to martyr: Abu Laith al-Libi Abu Suleiman al Otaibi Hassan Muhammed Abu Khalaf Abu Sulayman Jazairi Mohammed Atef Mohammed Yahya al-Rahmani Aden Hashi Ayro Abdullah Ali Afra Abu Mohamed Entire Newsletter at iowahawk.typepad.com

To: MJ who wrote (34201)	7/10/2008 7:56:00 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224750

Obama Controversy with Cuban American voters: from the Miami Herald Thursday, July 10, 2008 Two advisers with ties to the Elian Gonzalez controversy of eight years ago are causing problems for Barack Obama among some Cuban-Americans in Florida, The Miami Herald reported Thursday. Eight Cuban-American exile organizations are urging three lawmakers who backed Hillary Clinton to demand the Obama campaign remove vice presidential search committee member Eric Holder and foreign policy adviser Greg Craig. The paper’s Web site reports that a letter to Sens. Bill Nelson and Robert Menendez as well as Miami Mayor Manny Diaz says the advisers played “prominent” roles in sending Gonzalez back to Cuba after his mother drowned trying to raft to Miami. “Had it not been for the actions of these two men, lending themselves as instruments to Fidel Castro, Elian could today be enjoying the freedom his mother died to provide for him,” the letter said. A six-year-old Gonzalez found himself wrapped in a legal battle upon his arrival to the U.S. after his father requested him returned to Cuba in 2000. Recently Gonzalez, now 14, joined Cuba’s Young Communist Union and pledges support to the Castro government. full article in The Miami Herald.