Pentagon Bans Google Teams From Bases
Wow...this is amazing that DoD thinks it can limit this technology by keeping open access away from U.S. adversaries. Those same adversaries can purchase commercial satellite imagery resolution, which makes such restrictions on video mapping unnecessary; the resolution of commercial satellite imagery comes as close as one meter in resolution. That should be enough to map out street level detail without Google's video mapping efforts. However, the ground perspective would be a value-added dimension to popular Google Earth platform.
The Desperate And Pathetic Clinton Attack Machine
When the attack machine comes at you, Obama shouldn't just stand up and take it by the chin. He'll get hurt when the "kitchen sink" gets thrown at him. Come on, Obama needs to take the gloves off and stop giving passive aggressive answers. The answer shouldn't be that i'm just ahead in delegates -- he needs to strike back and say Clinton voted for the war and then against it as a flip-flop politician. Obama needs to say President Clinton dead wrong on NAFTA and that Hillary too passive as her husband rammed NAFTA down everyone's throat. Obama needs to hit Senator Clinton that she failed on health care in 1994 and voters shouldn't trust one word from such a failure. Obama needs to hit Senator Clinton for being in bed with corporate lobbyists and that he is a grassroots fundraiser.
If Obama were as formitable and invisible as the press portrays, he would use all these arguments and close the deal on Clinton. John Kerry did it to John Edwards and Howard Dean. Bill Clinton did it to Paul Tsongas. Walter Mondale did it to Gary Hart. Michael Dukakis did it to Jesse Jackson and Al Gore.
Right now, we should help the African Union forces and the UN peacekeepers enforce what the UN Security Council mandates rather than send U.S. troops. It's always easy to say just send in the troops. The U.S. should pressure the Sudan government to allow UN to work with unfettered access to Darfur. The U.S. should also empower our allies in the region with financial and diplomatic support to keep the peace on the borders with Sudan.
We really don't want to get in the middle of an internal war, but we should also not turn a blind eye either. If the humanitarian situation topples or causes political instability in one of the our allies, then at that point, we should consider intervening.
Senate Aide Arrested in Sex Sting
Doesn't anyone know what to do with their Saturday nights anymore? Why can't these folks just find a normal bar or club?!!!
Is the Secret Service setting Obama up?
I think Obama should thank the Secret Service for allow more people to attend his rallies. If you're worried about his security, you should count on the phalanx of Secret Service bodyguards around Obama at all his public rallies. You couldn't just run up to Obama without a careful lookdown by a Secret Service agent. I might add that there's a whole sort of plainclothes Secret Service and sharpshooters (both the local and federal kind).
America does not need either the first female or first African-American Democratic nominee harmed.
And the difference from heterosexuals is?
Let's face it folks. The day will come when same-sex marriage (or civil unions) becomes as common place as inter-racial marriages. The Generation X'ers and Y'ers do not have a core problem with this issue -- in many ways, it's a non-issue for our generation compared to terrorism or the U.S. economy. If the federal government does not grant same-sex marriage or domestic partner benefits, the individual states and Fortune 500 companies will start to do it for themselves. You cannot arrest this tide!
