Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will begin next week to seek financial commitments from donors for a presidential-nomination bid, the Georgia Republican told The Washington Times yesterday.

If he can get pledges for $30 million over the next three weeks, he will join the Republican presidential-nomination race — a prospect he had been downplaying until yesterday.

Mooney Times

$30M in 3 weeks?

Well, I guess it’s pretty clear from that he won’t be depending upon the general public for support and probably wouldn’t be governing for them either.

peanutbutter @ 83:

In the possibilty of a Hillary-Giuliani race, I think Hillary will best him in the end. But it’ll be a dirty and nasty campaign on both sides. Rudy’s just too dirty to be elected. All of his dirty linen will be aired. I mean all of it. And they’re aplenty. But that’s my opinion and guts.

Is this really the height of Democracy in the world today?

John Edwards — Leading America not trashing opponents!

I support the 2nd Amendment, though I personally don’t care for guns. In fact, I’m going to invite hundreds of thousands of Blacks, all dressed in black, to parade through some upper-class White neighborhoods armed with semi-automatic rifles, handguns and maybe even hand grenades.

Since the NRA members FULLY support the right to keep and bear arms I’m certain you will all join with me in calling for these marches.

The next time some white kids put up a noose in a Black neighborhood there should be another very large, very Black, very armed parade through that neighborhood.

You’re all for that, aren’t you? You do support the right to keep and bear arms, don’t you?

*crickets*

Uh, yeah.

My thoughts are that BushCo knew the attack was going to occur and planned for it. They had the Phoenix memo, other reports and used it to set the table for what we have today. And I expect they will do it again if it will benefit their cause.

The only problem with the WTC 7 conspiracy theories is that they rely on the myth that WTC 7 didn’t suffer much damage, when in fact copious photographic and other evidence shows that it did.

The reason that WTC 7 was pulled down was not out of some evil conspiracy, but simply because a non-trivial number of New York’s finest firefighters and other first responders (343, to be exact) had already died in the attacks and there weren’t enough to deal with WTC 7, not when it was already doomed and had been evacuated. (The terrorists used the old IRA technique — one the IRA stopped using because it pissed off too many of the people it wanted on its side — of doing one attack, waiting for the first-responders to arrive, THEN doing the other attack so as to kill a maximum number of fire crews and paramedics.)

Here is the video of the WTC 7, seven second symmetric, freefall.

I think WTC was about a hundred meters away from the nearest tower. Buildings nearer to the towers did get extensive damage, but very asymmetrically, and did not collapse.

But there is a controversy because there has been a cover-up by Zelikow and the 9-11 Commission. They always say “This is hallowed ground”. But if they valued it, why was the steel in the girders not examined, and then the girders were sent to China for scrap. That is quite disrespectful to the hallowed ground. Plus, forensics could have used the girders to reconsruct the event.

In establishing the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire in 1639, the Treaty of Qasr-i-Shirin demarcated the boundary between Sunni-ruled lands and Shiite-ruled lands. For eight years of brutal warfare in the 1980s, Iran tried to breach that line but could not. (At the time, the Reagan administration supported Saddam Hussein precisely because it feared the strategic consequences of an Iraq dominated by Iran’s allies.)

I remember the Iraq-Iran war, and as I recall Saddam invaded Iran (which country Ronnie Raygun didn’t like because they didn’t like the US imposed dictator the Shah).

“following God means the respect of others”