Arjun Murti, a New York-based Goldman Sachs analyst who covers oil producers and refiners, roiled markets in March 2005 with a report saying prices could touch $105 a barrel during a ``super spike'' period because demand was stronger than anticipated. Price swings might also go as low as $50, Murti said at the time.

``We're only a headline of significance away from $100 oil,'' said John Kilduff, an analyst in the New York office of futures broker Man Financial Inc. ``The unrelenting pressure of increased demand has left the market a coiled spring.'' New disruptions of Nigerian or Iraqi supplies, or any military strike against Iran, might trigger the rise, Kilduff said in a July 20 interview.

Any elected public official who commits a felony while acting in the capacity of his or her office shall be guilty of treason. This law shall apply to all elected public officials who are in office on the day the legislation is signed into law.

[This] goes on in every elected board/congress all over the United States of America, and it is a major part of what is going wrong with this country. Our elected representatives are so full of themselves, so full of shit, so afraid that they will piss somebody off, so afraid that they will not be re-elected, so afraid that they will not get that big bonus or contract that they can not and will not do the right thing for the people that voted them in.

Sen. Joe Lieberman repeated his call Friday for the United States to use “limited military action” against Iranian camps suspected of being used to train and equip terrorists who are killing coalition troops in Iraq.

Speaking to reporters after an appearance at a rally supporting jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney's competition for a military contract, Lieberman said U.S. diplomatic efforts are important, but military action also must be an option.

Military action should be limited to halting Iranian training of terrorism, not to eliminate possible nuclear sites, though force could also stem Iran's nuclear ambitions, he said.

“If we don't figure out first through diplomacy and, if necessary, through limited military action how to stop the Iranians from killing Americans and our Arab allies today it's going to be impossible for us to do what everybody in both parties and all ideologies say we have to do tomorrow, which is to stop them from getting nuclear weapons,” he said.

“Iran has effectively begun to carry out military action against American soldiers and a lot of our allies in the Arab world and if we just sit back they're going to continue to move forward,” he said. “They're going to take it as a sign of weakness.”

A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not go away and caused him to be hospitalized.

Woods' court papers say he woke up the next morning "with an erection that would not subside" and sought treatment of the condition.

1. Provide fast track citizenship to those who enter legally and want to become an American. Fast track includes meeting minimum education requirements. Nothing too arduous; something like junior college or trade school. New citizens will have a myriad of ways to bring their families with them.
   
   
2. Provide managed work pools to meet US demand for labor whether skilled or unskilled. Labor will be made available according to supply and demand. Free enterprise will ensure this system works. Fedex and UPS could easily transport labor to and from the world over.
   
   
3. The law only applies to those who enter the US after the bill is passed. If an immigrant is re-entering and already has a job in the US, has a bank account, can show a utility bill, has been to school, etcetera, he or she can walk right back in, continue where they left off, and have a head start on the fast track. Many illegals will deport themselves in order to re-enter with the benefits that come along with fast track.

"With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends and adversaries alike...We'll keep the sea lanes open. We'll stand with our friends in opposing extremism and strategic threats. We'll disrupt attacks on our own forces. We'll continue bringing relief to those who suffer, and delivering justice to the enemies of freedom. And we'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region."

"I believe we need to better utilize our war fighting capabilities. Weapons are not a deterrent if we will not use them. Americans are living in fear of large scale terror attacks and being subjected to more and more security restrictions that are hostile to liberty and it is TIME FOR IT TO STOP!

We've talked till we are blue in the face. By not prosecuting this war we are being bled dry economically by the very people we are fighting. We are not engaging the enemy, we are paying them. We are financing their military operations in Iraq and funding Iran's research and developement of a nuclear weapon. Kinda hard to swallow isn't it?

If we had to fix everything in France before we moved in to Germany back in WWII we would still be fighting that motherfucker. Had that been the case many of us would not be here. There will be far reaching consequences if we do not take care of the radical Islam problem as quickly as possible. There can be no compromise with people who want to destroy us.

If I am elected president, the congress and all the special interests leeching therein can forget about doing a damn thing until we get the war figured out. There is no higher priority. We simply can not live freely and prosperously with the status quo. "

Thank you and may God have mercy on Iran.

• Rummy show cancelled
• Iran greatest threat to US Security
• Strategic implication of Iraq
• Iran: A what-if scenario
• Iran to be called on carpet
• EU's Iran appeasement fails
• WMD in Iraq? Who cares anymore
• Did Bush lie about WMD? Who cares...
• War Strategy

Today’s anti-Bush rallies in the U.S. demand the very opposite of what the pro-freedom Soviets rallied for. By advocating for the government control of economy, the ideological monopoly of the Left, and massive redistribution of wealth, American leftists espouse the same ideas as the backward Soviet hardliners - same song, different verse.

There’s nothing heroic in disparaging democratic institutions, dishonoring the American flag, and carrying placards with anti-capitalist, anti-American slogans pre-printed for them by communist front groups with the money donated by corrupt foreign dictators. The protesters absurdly accuse this free country of being a fascist dictatorship, fully aware that an hour later they’ll be drinking expensive coffee at Starbucks - and not dragged to a political prison and getting their teeth knocked in - a likely prospect for dissidents in the countries whose leaders they idolize.

Society rightly wants to improve the chances of people who have drawn a bad ticket in life's lottery ("bad draws"), yet the government often spends substantial resources on the wrong people. We need to avoid "bad bets" and remove the "bad apples," so our dollars go further and better serve those who will benefit the most. Bad bets are people who will not benefit as much from outside help as would others in equally bad or worse situations.

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Bad apples are people in a program whose irresponsible, illegal, or immoral conduct harms the far more numerous good apples in the same program. Bad apples also harm the good ones by stigmatizing the group, making voters less willing to support programs to benefit it. The classic bad apple is the chronic disrupter in public housing or schools. Parochial schools, which remove bad apples more readily, outperform public schools in educating equally disadvantaged students at much lower cost.

The technological explosion [of wi-fi] is even bigger than the mobile phone explosion that preceded it. And, as with mobiles, it is being followed by fears about its effect on health - particularly the health of children. Recent research, which suggests that the worst fears about mobiles are proving to be justified, only heightens concern about the electronic soup in which we are increasingly spending our lives.

Professor Lawrie Challis, who heads the Government's official mobile safety research, this year said that the mobile could turn out to be "the cigarette of the 21st century".

There has been less concern about masts, as they emit very much less radiation than mobile phones. But people living - or attending schools - near them are consistently exposed and studies reveal a worrying incidence of symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, nausea, dizziness and memory problems. There is also some suggestion that there may be an increase in cancers and heart disease.

Wi-Fi systems essentially take small versions of these masts into the home and classroom - they emit much the same kind of radiation. Though virtually no research has been carried out, campaigners and some scientists expect them to have similar ill-effects.

This time last year, after reformists in Georgia staged the "Rose Revolution" that ousted President Eduard Shevardnadze, many wondered what lessons governments in the region would draw. No leader relishes political instability. But the question was, what would the region's leaders do to avoid it? Would they promote honest elections, greater accountability, better governance and peaceful transitions of power? Or would they ignore the issues that cause public discontent, such as entrenched, widespread corruption, and undermine the political opposition and democratic institutions in order to retain power at all costs?

Overwhelmingly, governments in former Soviet states have chosen the latter path, continuing policies that had started well before the Georgian revolt. Uzbekistan may be one of the more acute examples of this trend but it has plenty of company.
Azerbaijan's fraudulent presidential elections last year led to political violence, for which the government has imprisoned many opposition leaders. Public demonstrations in Azerbaijan by people seeking to express dissident views are nearly impossible.

In Armenia in spring the government tried to use a variety of arbitrary measures to prevent massive rallies protesting falsified elections the previous year. The police used excessive force on demonstrators, raided the headquarters of opposition parties, arrested a handful of opposition political leaders and rounded up hundreds of their supporters.

At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be “positive.”

In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.

Krista Leigh Dorsey: Murdered
and tossed away into the woods.

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Kim Grivakis, the mother of a 13-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy who attend the school, said she received a copy of the 2 1/2-hour DVD in the mail Wednesday. She organized a meeting Thursday with other parents to call for action from the school board.

Grivakis said she could identify Coleman and Lofton and Reed on the tape.

"It made me sick," Grivakis said. "It's very graphic. I can't tell you how graphic because I have two children standing right here."

They were there for her fiery commencement speech, delivered at the height of the Vietnam War, when she described her class’s search for a “more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living” and said that every protest was “unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age.” The speech landed Hillary Rodham in the spotlight as a celebrated archetype of a new generation of women.

“We were very proud of her: she was a feminist; she was outspoken,” said Jane Moss, a classmate who now teaches French at Colby College. “Hillary was speaking for all of us, for a generation that felt we weren’t being heard.”

"Just knowing that one of us is trying to be the first woman president is a kick in the butt," said Jayne Abrams, executive director of a Pennsylvania nonprofit group, "enough to keep you going at an age when some of us might be thinking of slowing down."