Posted on 10/25/2007 8:30:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Hi Everyone....
Thanks for the link, Chicago....
WHAT in the H-— happened to the ROCKIES last night???!!!!!
Boston
ROFL....your right
Jimmy Carter, Rice discuss Mideast peace role
Washington — Former President Jimmy Carter met Wednesday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss ways Carter and other senior statesmen might help support administration efforts to broker peace among Palestinians and Israelis.
The talks took place hours after Rice warned the House Foreign Affairs Committee that chances for an Arab-Israeli peace accord were in danger of slipping away, as she works to bring Palestinians and Israelis together in Annapolis, Md., late next month for what would be the first substantive face-to-face peace talks in seven years.
Carter met separately on Capitol Hill with the committee's chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), to discuss whether informal diplomacy might be able to help advance the peace process after the envisioned Annapolis talks conclude.
Carter has ruled out a role for himself, or for the other statesmen, before the peace conference, said former Carter aide Stuart Eizenstat, who attended Wednesday's meeting.
With efforts to bring together Palestinians and Israelis at a delicate juncture, Carter "doesn't want to throw another set of actors" into the mix, said Eizenstat, who served as Carter's chief domestic policy adviser. Instead, he said, Carter wants "to see what happens — if anything — in the conference."
Carter declined to discuss Wednesday's meeting, which included a House Foreign Affairs Committee member, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), who chairs the subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia.
"I don't have time to talk," Carter said, waving off a reporter immediately after the half-hour meeting in Lantos' office. "I have a plane to catch."
Carter is part of the so-called Elders Group, assembled last July by former South African President Nelson Mandela. The group, including former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, recently visited Darfur, Sudan, and, working closely with U.N. personnel and others on the ground, prepared a report on human rights conditions in the troubled region.
One possibility Carter is exploring is whether the group, chaired by South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, might weigh in similarly on the Palestinian-Israeli question, said former Carter aide Robert Pastor, interim co-director of the elders group.
“WHAT in the H-— happened to the ROCKIES last night???!!!!!”
I think that was what we used to refer to as losing a ball game.
Happens to everybody at one time or another.
That’s why they’ve got to play again a few more times.
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.....old coach’s words were “Don’t get too much up, don’t get too much down, just play the d*** game the best you can and have some fun.”
(So saying, I sink back into WnL mode. Snow’s still coming and I’ve got ten thousand things to do before it hits.)
“Carter met separately....”
“Carter declined to discuss Wednesday’s meeting,..”
Hope he was told to SHUT UP!
Here!
Smoky and ash covered, but here nonetheless.
That was pretty impressive. Ouch.
Rox got a rude awakening last night. I think they believed some of the 'inevitability' hype surrounding them in the media. Sox have been consistent most of the season. I say Sox in 5.
Ditto
SI, NY
I do hope that the Rocks arrive for tonight’s game and are not ‘missing in action’ like last night....lololol....I say the Rocks win the series but have to use all 7 to do it....
In 1960, in their 3 wins, the Yankees outscored the Pirates by something like 38-3. However, the Series went 7 games and the Pirates won it all with a walk-off home run by Bill Mazeroski.
Game 1 was just that ... Game 1.
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