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Ron Paul Supporters are Terrorist?; Obama's Administration Split on Afghanistan; Daytime Curfew

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Channel: DEMCAD · 2009 · News & Politics

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Obama to unveil new strategy for Afghan war
•President Barack Obama plans to announce on Friday the United States will deploy 4,000 extra troops to train Afghan security forces
•The additional troops will embed and partner with the Afghan military
•*Okay, what does this remember you of? Impossibly difficult terrain, warring factions, an escalation in U.S. forces, an additional force of Americans who will train foreign soldiers and no clear objection?
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52P7CO20090327

Obamas administration is split on Afghanistan
•Battle between the nation-builders and the LCDers (lowest common denominators)
•The LCDers (Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg) are pushing for a minimal strategy of stabilizing Afghanistan
•Whereas the nation-builders (led by Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy for the region, U.S. Central Command leader Gen. David H. Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton) want a major nation-building effort.
•Who do you think is winning?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/26/inside-the-ring-23718486/

More Cities Target Teens With Daytime Curfews
•Dallas is considering imposing criminal penalties on kids who skip school
•American Civil Liberties Union and parents oppose this curfew because the law could punish law-abiding kids who may have good reasons for not being in school.
•*Part of me loves the idea of punishing parents who dont give a damn,
•But I also wonder how parents are going to pay for these fines
•*People are broke. They dont have the money
•*Cities are just desperate to squeeze every penny out of taxpayers. They dont give damn about kids.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802404458842181.html

IBM to Cut 5,000 Jobs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502626.html?hpid=sec-tech


Google to cut 200 sales, marketing jobs
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Google-to-cut-200-jobs-from-rb-14758391.html

Layoffs At New York Times (NYT)
•cutting newsroom salaries 5%, the New York Times (NYT) cut 100 jobs on the business side
•*Newspapers are dead. Im probability going to stop mentioning them.
http://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-at-new-york-times-2009-3

City Jobless Rate Takes Highest One-Month Leap Ever 
•unemployment rate leapt to 8.1 percent from 6.9 percent in February
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27unemployed.html

Missouri retracts report linking militias, 3rd party candidates
The Missouri Highway Patrol retracted a controversial report on militia activity
Feb. 20 report called "The Modern Militia Movement"
It basically profiled Ron Paul supporter, third party candidate supporters, conspiracy theorist as people to beware of. The report stated that these were red flags for domestic terrorist. 
no mention of Islamic terrorists or extreme liberal groups, environmental radicals
After the report was leaked, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, called for the director of public safety to be put on administrative and an investigation of how the report was produced the and investigating.
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1109096.html

Teen 'Satanist' Pleads Not Guilty to Murder of Radio Newsman
John Katehis, 16, hooked up with 47 year old radio man, George Weber, on Craigslist.
The kid promised to choke and masturbate the man
George ended up dead
The kid is a self-described Satanist and he confessed to the murdered
He pleaded NOT GUILTY
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_354969.html
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=88835

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