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Disappointment & disbelief

THEY were certain they would win.

By Maureen Koh

27 July 2008

THEY were certain they would win.

Despite the objections filed by the minority, the majority owners of Tampines Court - more than 82 per cent - thought they could push through a collective sale.

Many of them had even scouted around and bought properties elsewhere.

But the en bloc sale of the former HUDC estate failed after the Strata Title Board (STB) dismissed its application yesterday.

Now those who have committed themselves to other properties are in a fix.

One owner told The New Paper: 'I can't think properly right now. I have to work out my sums and see how best to salvage the situation.'

The Board's decision means the sale of the estate is off.

This is because the sales committee's agreement with the buyers - Far East Organization and Frasers Centrepoint Properties - also expired yesterday.

The buyers, who had offered $405 million for the privatised HUDC estate, had also said they would not extend the agreement past the deadline.

Said one owner, who did not want to be named: 'How can this be? Doesn't the majority win?'

Another upset owner, who wanted to be known only as Mr Tan, said: 'I have two words only. Just two. Disappointment and disbelief.'

And disbelief was also how the minority owners felt when STB deputy chairman Alphonso Ang delivered the decision.

Madam Asmah Atan, 59, a housewife, was 'still in a daze' six hours later.

She told The New Paper last night: 'We were stunned. We looked at one another, like asking, did we hear it right?'

Madam Asmah said the group had been prepared from the start that 'it was going to be a hard fight'.

But when the news finally sank in, the group of about 20 - who had carpooled to the STB office on Maxwell Road - celebrated their victory by hugging one another.

Madam Asmah said: 'Some of us even broke down but it was definitely tears of joy.'

Housewife Fatimah Bee Bee Ali, 49, said: 'For us, it means we still have a place to live in, one that is big enough to accommodate our whole family.'

She and her husband, Peter Chew, 52, an aircraft engineer, live with their four teenage children, her wheelchair-bound mother and a maid.

Madam Fatimah added: 'With the rising prices, it would really be tough to find a unit with the same area like ours.'

The minority owners felt they owed the successful result to their legal team, comprising Mr Siva Krishnasamy of Tan Lee & Partners and Mr NSreenivasan of Straits Law.

GRATEFUL

Madam Asmah said: 'Please help us to record our gratitude. It is because of their help that we do not have to move out of the estate which we've grown comfortable in.'

While the sale had caused much tension and division in the estate for nearly 14 months, some residents also appeared nonchalant about the result.

Said one, who wanted to be known only as Mr Kris: 'If we can sell, we'll sell. If we cannot, then we'll just stay on here.'

Others were more concerned whether the estate, which is showing signs of age, would get a facelift.

Mr Kris added: 'They've probably put off all works, thinking that we can sell the place.'

Another resident, Mr J Lim, said: 'I guess it's time for us to start everything on a new, clean slate.

'And maybe this decision is the best catalyst.'

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Tampines Court en bloc sale thrown out despite majority vote

25 Mar 2007: Frasers Centrepoint and Far East Organization team up to buy Tampines Court - a privatised HUDC estate - through a $405 million collective sale.

25 Jul 2007: Conditions of the sales agreement are fulfilled.

7 Jan 2008: Sales committee applies to Strata Titles Board (STB) for sale approval.

Minority owners file objections. They consider the sale price of $700,000 for each unit too low.

16 to 18 Jun: STB hears objection and sets further hearing for 7 Aug. Until the hearing, the sale cannot be signed and sealed.

30 Jun: Sales committee applies to bring 7 Aug hearing earlier - before the agreement lapses on 25 Jul.

11 Jul: STB dismissed the sales committee's request.

14 Jul: Two committee members file affidavit in High Court, saying STB failed to take into account that any hearing after 25Jul 'will be academic'.

Other owners appeal to National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan at Meet-The-People session.

Mr Mah, MP for the Tampines ward, agreesto appeal to STB on owners' behalf.

18 Jul: High Court orders STB to move hearing ahead of 25 Jul deadline. New date set on 21 Jul.

21 Jul: Sales committee chairman Mathew Lee takes witness stand.

He is grilled on whether he acted in the owners' best interests on the issue of the estate's valuation and the method of distribution of sale proceeds.

25 Jul: STB dismisses Tampines Court's en bloc sale application.

STB deputy chairman Alphonso Ang says the board examined the evidence and found the sale was not concluded in good faith.

It will release its grounds of decision later.

Source: The New Paper

Q I am divorced and intend to write my own will. Am I required to state that I am a divorcee, and do I also need to indicate my former husband's name and the date of the divorce? Does my former husband have any rights to my estate?

A When you make a will, you are free to dispose of your property in any manner that you wish. Only Muslims are required to distribute assets in a certain way, according to the Administration of Muslim Law Act. In fact, the freedom to distribute your estate as you wish is often cited as a strong reason for making a will.

Therefore, your marital status has no effect whatsoever on how you make out your will. As such, your former husband has no right to share in your estate.

Amolat Singh

Lawyer

Amolat & Partners

Source: Straits Times

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Chapéus.

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Essa era uma das mais interessantes, com máquinas fotográficas antigas

Diversas marcas.

Bonecas antigas

Casinhas em miniatura

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Como calcular seu churrasco

Calcule 400 g por pessoa (no caso de adultos), é a conta certa para nunca faltar. Mas esse cálculo depende muito do que pensa servir. Quando é a carne com foco especial, esse cálculo funciona bem. Se porém houver um bufê de saladas, as pessoas terão menos apetite para as carnes.Sendo mais prático, se você fizer, por exemplo, lingüiça fresca, costela de porco e uma carne de boi, a conta por pessoa será a seguinte: 100 g de lingüiça, 200 g de costela de porco (seria 100 g, mas, como metade é osso, calcule o dobro) e 200 g de picanha(por exemplo). Total: 400 g entre lingüiça e outra carne.

Acompanhamentos para churrasco:

- Vinagrete: o vinagrete à brasileira é versátil nas mesas de churrasco: acompanha a carne, funciona como molho para a salada, combina com a lingüiça bem assada e até serve como recheio do pãozinho francês.

- Farofa: aposte em uma farofa simples, com manteiga e cebola, por exemplo.

- Saladas: oferecer três tipos de salada é suficiente para um churrasco de médio porte. Não deixe faltar: um mix de folhas verdes; uma receita com carboidrato, como uma salada com batata, arroz ou massa; e uma terceira versão mais transada, combinando legumes crus ou cozidos, folhas, tomate, enfim, o que sua imaginação sugerir. Pode-se também organizar uma mesa bufê de saladas simples, tipo agrião, cenoura ralada, alfaces, rabanetes, etc. C/ molheiras e molhos diversos.

- Pratos quentes: dependendo do horário e do público alvo, principalmente se houver muitas crianças, é aconselhável incluir arroz, feijão, banana frita, e variações a seu gosto: arroz de carreteiro, pastelzinho, mandioca frita, polenta, até macarrão ao sugo. Tudo vai depender da estrutura que será colocada à disposição.

Carnes ideais para churrasco

- Alcatra: apresenta pouca gordura, que ainda deve ser retirada, deixando-a perfeitamente limpa. Deve ser cozida ao ponto ou mal passada. Como as outras carnes de primeira, não deve ser fatiada e sim cortada em pedaços grossos para ser levada ao prato. É a maneira de manter o ponto por fora, na casquinha, e a suculência por dentro.

- Picanha: é macia e isto se deve por ser uma carne sem músculos e de alto volume sanguíneo, o que lhe marca o sabor característico. Ela deve ser servida em pedaços grossos e no prato é que se vai cortando em pequenos cubos para comer.
O ponto certo da picanha é o malpassado.

- Contra-filé: é macio, tem sabor acentuado, muito suco e dificilmente se erra no ponto. Deve ser servido ao ponto ou mal passado, sob pena de perder o suco e daí o sabor. Para servir, corte em postas de espessura média.

- Maminha ou ponta de alcatra: deve ser servida mal passada mas aceita ser servida ao ponto e até bem passada.

- Filé mignon: caracteriza-se por ser uma carne macia e gosto levemente adocicado. Tem presença obrigatória nos melhores restaurantes. Para grelhar deve ser cortado em bifes grossos e servir ao ponto pois a maciez e o sumo se mantém.

- Fraldinha: é uma carne muito saborosa, boa de assar mas que não é uma carne popular. Não deve ser passada demais. É uma carne cheia de gorduras e nervos e é preciso ser muito bem limpa para ir até à grelha.

-Chuleta: é também uma carne saborosa mas às vezes fica dura ao ser assada. Seu ponto certo é o mal passado. É entremeada de gordura, que a mantém suculenta.

- Costela: é a carne mais típica do churrasco. Para os churrasqueiros, churrasco é sinônimo de costela.

Antigamente fazia-se churrasco só de costela e de alguns anos para cá é que foram introduzidos outros tipos de carne. Ela só deve ir ao fogo quando estiver bem limpa, isto é : carne à vista de um lado e osso de outro. A costela deve sempre ir às brasas com o lado do osso para baixo. Somente quando esta parte mostrar-se bem assada é que se deve virar o espeto. Serve-se ao ponto.

Além do churrasco tradicional, usa-se outros tipos de carne como a de porco, ovelha, frango e peixe, além da linguiça, coração de galinha, etc.

Mapa do Boi

1- cupim / 2- pescoço / 3- peito / 4- paleta / 5- ponta de agulha / 6- fraldinha / 7- filé mignon / 8- capa de filé / 9- contrafilé / 10- filé da costa / 11- picanha / 12- patinho / 13- coxão mole / 14- coxão duro / 15- lagarto / 16- músculo dianteiro / 17- músculo traseiro / 18- costela / 19- ponta de alcatra ou maminha / 20- alcatra / 21- entrecôte ou chuleta / 22- acém / 23- aba de filé
Via: http://www.churrascoecia.com.br/dicas.php

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The Federal Trade Commission has asked a U.S. district court judge to order a halt to the alleged illegal practices of CTA, a major distributor of prepaid calling cards across the country. In the last quarter of 2007 alone, CTA’s revenue from the sale of cards exceeded $28 million. The FTC charges that CTA misrepresents the number of calling minutes consumers get, fails to disclose that consumers’ cards will be charged whether or not the calls go through, and charges hidden fees.

According to the FTC, CTA is a key player in the prepaid phone card industry that sells approximately $4 billion worth of cards a year – primarily to immigrants looking for a cheap and easy way to call friends and family in other countries. CTA sells cards in denominations ranging from $2 to $20 under various brand names, and has cards for use in calling countries from Albania to Zimbabwe and hundreds of countries in between. They also sell cards for domestic calling.

The FTC charged that CTA provides posters to the small retail outlets like gas stations, grocery stores and newstands that sell its cards. The posters advertise the number of calling minutes and brag it offers rates with “no connection fees.” But consumers who use the calling cards don’t receive the number of minutes advertised. For example, the FTC complaint says a card that advertised 40 minutes calling time to El Salvador cut off the call after only 27 minutes. A card that advertised 30 minutes calling time to Egypt cut off the call in a little over 10 minutes. In fact, the FTC purchased 46 CTA cards in retail stores and tested by them. None of the cards delivered the calling minutes advertised by posters displayed where the cards were purchased.
CTA posters and calling cards refer to charges in vague terms and tiny type. Posters that feature country names and call minutes in 32 point type identified fees and charges at the bottom of the poster in approximately five point type, using language such as:

“Call time is deducted in three minute increments to certain destinations. Service fees may apply. Calls placed to mobile telephones may be billed at a higher rate. When using a toll free number from a pay phone a $.65 per call surcharge will apply. Application of surcharges and fees may have an effect of reducing total minutes on a card. Maintenance fees may apply. This card has no cash value and is non-refundable. Prices and fees are subject to change without notice.”

The calling cards themselves carried approximately 27 lines of disclosures regarding fees and charges, which are nearly illegible because the disclosures are written in font sizes that range from two to four points, the complaint states. The disclosure states, in part,

“All rates and fees vary and are subject to change without notice. Rates are higher for international cellular . . . Calls are billed in three to six minute increments. A post call fee between 25 cents and two dollars and an additional surcharge of twenty percent may apply after each call depending on length and duration of a call. . . . Service fees may apply.”

Neither the advertising posters nor the calling cards disclose that if the calls do not go through, the cards are charged fees anyway.

The FTC has asked the court to halt the deceptive practices pending trial, and to appoint a monitor to oversee the business. The agency also will seek a court order to require the defendants to give up their ill-gotten gains.

The FTC complaint named Clifton Telecard Alliance One LLC, doing business as Clifton Telecard Alliance and CTA, Inc., and Mustafa Qattous, its principal.

The Commission vote to file the complaint was 5-0. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

This case was brought with the invaluable assistance of El Salvador’s Defensoría del Consumidor, Colombia’s Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio, the Egypt Consumer Protection Authority, Mexico’s Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (PROFECO), Panama’s Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia, and Peru’s Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (INDECOPI).

NOTE: The Commission files a complaint when it has “reason to believe” that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law. The case will be decided by the court.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, click http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.shtm or call 1-877-382-4357. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. For free information on a variety of consumer topics, click http://ftc.gov/bcp/consumer.shtm.

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Disguised with masks and caps, the two boys and one girl, all aged 14, threatened staff at the shop with knives in September last year, grabbing gold necklaces, bracelets and pendants valued at more than HK$1 million ($128,200).

Sentencing the three, now aged 15, the judge said the offence was too serious to warrant a training centre term despite the age of the three, the South China Morning Post said.

One boy, an apprentice to the mastermind goldsmith who had earlier been jailed for seven years, was sentenced to three years and seven months, while the other two, who are cousins, were jailed for three years and five months.

Earlier this week, a court heard that a nine-year-old Hong Kong girl traveled alone into mainland China to collect heroin and bring it back in her rucksack for a drug trafficker who paid her HK$1,200.

(Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by David Fox)

One day after the voters, “WE THE PEOPLE”, of California passed Proposition 83 on a 70.5% to 29.5% in Tuesday’s election, US District Judge Susan Illston blocked the law. She stated, “the measure is overly punitive and prevented it from going into effect.”

Voters passed Proposition 83 on a 70.5 percent to 29.5 percent vote in Tuesday’s election. The measure bars registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of schools and parks, a requirement challenged in a lawsuit by an anonymous plaintiff convicted of a sex offense 15 years ago. (Yahoo News)

Judge tosses Savage's suit against Islamic group

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Vigilante Justice: NYC Storeowners Fight Back! (click to see video)

Brothers Defend Brooklyn Bodega With Machetes, Large Carving Knives; Fight Off Would-Be Thieves

Video Shows Owners Confronting Suspects Until Police Arrive

Reporting
Magee Hickey

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Some storeowners in Brooklyn who were fed up with thieves took matters into their own hands. The episode of vigilante justice was caught on tape, as two brothers used machetes and large knives to fend off three criminals, who also had weapons of their own. As the camera rolled, the lines between good and evil were drawn.

"You never know. This is a business. There's always someone trying to rip us off," Mohammed Othman said Thursday night.

But the would-be robbers picked the wrong store. Mohammed Othman was working the register at S & J Meat Market in Bay Ridge when three men entered his family's deli and asked to use the store's bathroom. Both Mohammed and brother Sammy knew something was up.

"There's someone up there robbing us so I came here and grabbed two knives. I grabbed them and ran upstairs," Sammy Othman told CBS 2 HD.

"Once I heard all that noise I picked up the machete," Mohammed added.

The brothers then ran up the stairs and saw that the suspects were stealing $2,000 worth of cigarettes. Sammy and Mohammed weren't going to let that happen.

"Right when he was coming down, I just swung, boom. I ended up hitting his legs," Mohammed said.

"We started fighting in the front [of the store]," Sammy added. "There were five guys, three against two."

Sammy ran nearly two blocks after the suspect and chased them into another deli where surveillance cameras captured the whole confrontation.

The video shows Sammy face to face with one suspect in a white tank top who pulls out his own weapon.

"He had a knife on him and he said, 'I will stab you,' and I told him 'Don't even think about it," Sammy said. "My knife is more bigger than yours. Don't even think about it.'"

Sammy was able to keep the suspects at the deli until police arrived.

A third suspect was caught when he tried calling one of the other suspect's cell phone, which had fallen out inside the meat market. Who answered the phone? Mohammed Othman, who then asked the suspect where he was. The suspect told him and that's where police found him and quickly placed him under arrest.

No one was injured in the altercation.

But justice was served!

CBS 2 HD's Hazel Sanchez contributed to this report

(Magee and Hazel see no irony in their comments of justice being served by the sword)

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A demand by a federal agency that two companies agree to a race-based set aside as a condition to approval of their merger today drew a warning that the provision is unconstitutional from a western, nonprofit, public-interest law firm known for civil rights litigation. In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) warned the agency that its demand that, as a condition to its approval of a proposed merger between XM and Sirius satellite radio companies, the companies set aside 8 percent, or 24 channels, for “educational and minority broadcasters” violates the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee. MSLF advised the FCC that, although the agency’s use of racial preferences to achieve “diversity” was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990, that ruling was overturned in 1995. As a result, argues MSLF, the FCC has no legal basis to demand use of racial preferences or quotas.

(Via the Corner.)

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Presently, the McCain campaign is ridiculously painful to watch - he has become the Britney Spears of presidential nominee trainwrecks, complete with a tawdry adulterous past the press and leftie-527's have graciously left outside of their coverage - if for no other reason than that they haven't needed it. In much the same way Britney chomped on her gum and cried over her treatment by the paparazzi (despite having courted those very photographers while in search of Madonna-esque pop fame), McCain - through his surrogates - stomps his feet and shamelessly whines over a media lack of concern that is only seen by those who want to see it.

It is already clear this Grand Old Candidate and his crippled elephants will lay the blame at the feet of everyone but those with scarlet "M"s on their chests. The question, however, of the day seems to be "Is McCain even capable of presenting the political passion and potential even us lefties once worried would challenge our chosen candidate?" Well, that's my question.

To be clear, despite his Mav reputation, his presidential hopes seemed DOA last year. And, yet, miraculously enough - he pulled off a primary victory; though it is still unclear whether he would be representing the Right had Giuliani not perpetrated one of the worst political fumbles in recent history.

In truth, I was hoping McCain would bring it home on that side of the aisle. Of all the Repub candidates, McCain - incorrectly or not - seemed to have a shred of character the other front runners lacked. My husband and I gave serious consideration to moving abroad if Romney or Huckabee clenched any shadow of success.

Perhaps I was being naive, but I truly thought he would give the Democratic nominee a run for their money. Sure, with this political atmosphere, almost ANY Democrat could beat a Republican - Hell, I'd put my 7 year-old Quaker nephew up against any of those pretend "limited government" schmoes - but this ain't McCain's first rodeo. And despite the fact that he's separated from much of the team he worked with in the past, I thought the septuagenarian would be primed for this contest. But, it is unendingly surprising what a terrible candidate John McCain has turned out to be for the Republicans.

And, dammit, I'll say it: Romney would have been an exponentially better candidate (speaking in a politically scientific manner). Even with all of Romney's hollowness and cheap mix of flip-flopping and pandering, he would have been new, hopeful and, at the very least, coherent.

But here we are and, face it, Republicans, you have hit the motherload of crappy campaign candidates.

They would have lost in November anyway, but at least Republican hopes would still be alive at this point in the game. With McCan't, all the Republicans in my vicinity (which is quite a bit, being in Fort Worth) reluctantly sigh that it looks like Obama's gonna win. And they're right.

The first sign that McCain wasn't up to snuff was his failure to take advantage of the lengthy Democratic primary. Instead of presenting a litany of hopeful ideas, solutions and alternatives to the reality presented to the American people by Bush, he cozied up to our failed leader in a predictably bungled effort to curry favor with evangelists and Bush family donors.

Though it was difficult to compete with the press and voter obsession of the duke-out between Hillary and Obama, McCain didn't even try to be a transcendent page-turner. With a plethora of problems assaulting the assumed American way of life - housing crisis, decreasing dollar, increasing gas prices, attack on civil liberties, growing concern for the environment, disapproval of the Iraq War - McCain's answer was nada, nada, nada, nada AND nada. Without exaggeration, McCain had every opportunity in the world to own the forefront of the presidential race.

Instead, his focus was in the rear view mirror - the 2000 loss to Bush (sign Rove up even after all his evil shenanigans), the lack of command of the evangelical base (even with his pro-life stance) and his stubborn refusal to cede national security to the economy as the most important issue of the campaign.

This past week, more than any other before it, has brought to the surface McCain's inefficacy and inability to present a galvanizing and motivating political force. The obvious geographical and historical gaffes need no explanation. Certain realities should be so inherent in a presidential nominee's subconscious, one should NOT say "Iraq/Pakistan border." Nor should they mistake the chronology of the single subject upon which they are basing their credentials.

And, worst of all, at a time when his opponent is out of the country and he has been served on a silver platter an unchallenged opening to present a unique, original and energizing plan to take this country beyond the reality before us and heal the deep wounds wrought by Bush and Cheney, he and his campaign resort to nitpicking at Obama's heels and pettily chant "I was right. He was wrong." about a topic Americans relegated to "who cares?" a long time ago.

At this point, surge, surge, surge is to McCain as 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 was to Giuliani. And none of us believe - including the least informed of Repubs - that he authored the surge; so his incessant claiming of credibility for the strategy is old, stale and distasteful. At least he's off the teleprompters that just ruin any ability for the audience to perceive McCain as vibrant and presidential.

McCain is over. So over a VP announcement can't save this clusterfuck. Even if it is Old Spice Romney. Ain't nothin gonna help this political Titanic. The Convention in LarryCraigSexInABathroom Headquarters of Minnesota won't even provide a blip on the electoral poll radar. And, let me let you in on a little secret. When polls routinely suggest that Obama is only 6 points ahead of McCain, they are not polling just REGISTERED VOTERS or those likely to vote. Merely polling Americans of voting age does not provide a proper sample upon which to base candidates' likelihood of success. It's easy to SAY you'd vote for McCain, but to actually do it is a different thing altogether. He's done. I'd say stick a fork in him, but I don't know that he'd survive it.

The bottom line is that, as a presidential nominee, you have to give Americans a reason to get off the couch, walk through the rain, wait in line and deal with the volunteers from the old folks' home to practice a voting power they have long taken for granted. All told, this is not an easy feat. I would suggest $50 gift certificates to Wal-Mart, but I believe that may violate some obscure ethics laws.

My main concern now is the potential development of a new vocabulary of verbs, nicknames and childish titles referring to the McCain campaign failure. Political junkies well know "Willie Horton" and "Swiftboated" without any context whatsoever. Gaffe-gate? Gaffe-o-rama? Gaffe-a-rusky? The Night the Lights Went Out in Old Timersville? Smackdown of the Septuagenarian? Obama's Octagon of Hurt on the Old Man?

I have no idea. We'll probably have to leave it to the results of a top-secret meeting between the nude, bald leaders of cable news in an intensely foggy steam room of some exclusive health club in Manhattan. Apparently, their most recent meeting yielded an abdication of any mention of Sunni payoffs by the American government. Good times.

Perhaps this obituary is presumptuous. I don't care. This is reality blogging, baby, and I'm through retching over "reputable" news agencies failing to acknowledge the current state of this election. It's time we realize which direction our future is headed and start holding Obama's feet to the fire of political righteousness. And let's start with a rethink of the FISA vote. The clean-up of W. will call into question many Constitutional breaches and Obama needs to remember that we are through with unaccountable Executives.