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To: Road Walker who wrote (532847)	11/26/2009 12:24:36 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1573924

Purportedly there are less than 100 AQ left in Pakistan. ---- That is a ridiculous claim. Not sure who dreamed it up but it is absurd. US Military intelligence. US Military? Bah! You have nothing then. Inode knows more than the US Military!

To: Road Walker who wrote (532847)	11/27/2009 12:13:52 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573924

Jack Bauer, > US Military intelligence. Isn't this a grave violation of classified intelligence, Agent Bauer? Sincerely, Tony Almeda

To: Road Walker who wrote (532847)	11/29/2009 3:08:17 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

Charlie Crist is Not a Good Sharer by Nate Silver @ 3:42 PM Here are Charlie Crist's favorability ratings among registered voters in Florida, according to the Quinnipiac poll. Crist's favorability ratings are higher among independents than among Democrats or Republicans (although not by a statistically significant margin in the former case). That's very unusual for a politician who does not actually call himself an independent. Still, although Crist's favorability ratings with Republicans have declined some, they're still pretty decent. So why is he in so much trouble against Marco Rubio? For one thing, Republican voters really like Rubio; his favorability rating among Republicans in the latest Quinnipiac poll was 44-3 (!). What's a little scary for Crist is that about half of all Republicans have yet to form an opinion about Rubio -- once they do, the race will presumably get even closer. For another thing, Florida voters preferred by a 42-26 plurality -- including a 40-32 plurality of Republicans -- that Crist would have run for another term as governor rather than run for Senate. The message that Florida Republicans seem to be sending to Crist is this one: We like you well enough, Charlie. But we also like Marco. So why did you make this hard on us by running for Senate, when we'd have been perfectly happy to re-elect you to Tallahassee instead? In certain ways, this reminds me of the mayor's race here in New York, where voters approved overwhelmingly of the job that Michael Bloomberg was doing, but nearly voted him out of office because he re-wrote the rules to run for a third term. Crist didn't re-write the rules, but his decision, in some ways, seems equally selfish. If he was doing such a good job as governor, why not stay there? Isn't being the governor of the fourth largest U.S. state a more powerful position than being one of 100 Senators? Crist is only 53 -- what's the rush? What's he hoping to accomplish in Washington? It's going to be a fairly difficult decision for Crist to rationalize to people. That's not to say that some of this Republican Purity Test stuff isn't also a part of the story (grassroots conservatives only seem to have been encouraged by the results in NY-23, even though their candidate lost). But it's not the whole story: Crist is much more vulnerable than he otherwise would be because had the option of running for another term as governor and declined to do so. There's More...

To: Road Walker who wrote (532847)	11/30/2009 1:58:44 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573924

This is amateur hour....Tiger needs to pull a Letterman. Gary Peterson: It's your move, Tiger Woods. We'll be waiting By Gary Peterson Contra Costa Times columnist Posted: 11/29/2009 06:16:24 PM PST Since his coming-out commercial more than 12 years ago ("Hello, world"), Tiger Woods has been soliciting our interest — in his golf game, in the kind of clubs he swings, in the make of car he drives, in the credit card he uses, in the video game he fronts. Mission accomplished. He has become a must-see franchise unto himself, a one-man New York Yankees, a human revenue stream. Forbes magazine recently pegged his personal fortune at north of $1 billion. "I don't know where they got that number," Woods said in October during the Presidents Cup in San Francisco. We do. He won well over $100 million of it on the golf course. The rest came from us — specifically our interest in him that made him so interesting to sponsors. So it should come as no surprise to Woods, or anyone else, that we've taken a special interest in his moonlight drive of early Friday morning. Nor that we find the details of his automotive mishap to be almost comically implausible. We don't have much to go on. Sunday, for the third consecutive day, Woods declined to meet with Florida state troopers. A statement was posted on his Web site, in which Woods took full responsibility for the one-car accident, credited his wife, Elin, with courageously assisting him after the crash, and asserted his right to privacy "no matter how intrusive some people can be." As we all know, people can be pretty intrusive. According -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- to reports from Florida, a clot of media has gathered outside the gated community where Woods lives. Mere hours after the accident, it was no great trick to go online and find copious photos of his damaged SUV, aerial shots of his mansion, candid stills of Elin driving with two big dogs in the front seat. At some point that level of scrutiny can be too much. As for our benign curiosity, that's fair game. Remember, we didn't approach him. He approached us. This is a dramatic new twist in his story. For one thing, it's his first false step as a pop culture icon. His golf has been beyond reproach. His public moments with his parents, wife and kids have seemed exceedingly genuine. His charitable foundation has lent credence to his late father's contention that Tiger could one day be the most significant figure in the human race. Until Friday, he'd kept his private life flawlessly discreet. Other than some recurring golf course profanity, there hasn't been much not to like. Beyond the unlikely drama, there are the unanswered questions. And we get it — sometimes discretion beats the heck out of the unvarnished truth, for obvious reasons. But from where we sit, as intrigued with Tiger as we've ever been, this is quite a riddle. For starters, where was he going at 2:25 the morning after Thanksgiving? Is he a big fan of Black Friday sales? Is he part of a neighborhood watch or auxiliary fire department? Has he taken a paper route to help make ends meet? He got up enough speed between his driveway and his neighbor's tree to do $8,000 damage to his vehicle, yet the air bags didn't deploy? Sounds like some kind of manufacturer's recall is in order. According to reports, Elin Woods used a golf club to break windows in the SUV so she could get to her husband. Let's walk our way though this one. She heard the crash and ran outside with a golf club? Or are they lying all over the front yard at the Woods home? More likely, that kind of emergency would require her to run back inside the house. Was a golf club the first thing she saw? Do Cadillac Escalades not come with a spare keyless remote? It's all so strange. There are other stories out there, but so far they aren't credible enough to warrant even a dismissive analysis. So we'll concentrate on what we know. Happily, Woods' injuries were mild to moderate, and a full recovery is all but certain. Otherwise, there would be a much different tone to our curiosity. Nor should his career or reputation suffer any long-term damage. If this is as bad as it gets for him, he's still doing a commendable job of empire management. But for now, as per our long-standing agreement, he's the objective of our attention as we watch and wonder how he'll deal with the first truly unplayable lie of his career. Contact Gary Peterson at gpeterson@bayareanewsgroup.com.