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Posted on 01/10/2005 7:58:39 PM PST by LaDivaLoca
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Chicken Rice - my favorite!
I still can't used to this new soup schedule.
Ok, FRiend, inquiring minds, like me for instance, want to know. Spill it, what you know, would ya? My partner and I live in the boonies of northern MN. No cable available. I checked out satellite hook-ups too. Apparently not fast, either according to my work-site's techie guy, who I remotely connect to. We do have Dish TV, satellite, but doesn't seem to help much. DSL, Cable, Satellite................Am I living back eons ago, just because we live in the woods to get a FAST internet hookup? Seems so. Zip code 557..
SPOTSY!
Very cute graphic! Thanks Hope!
LOL!!! . . . my kid has a Black Beret . . . just as difficult to fit . . . ;-)
LOL! Now have we explained to Billy the proper number of times he is to call home yet?
Betsy!
How are you?
Do you have DSL in your area?
I'm home.
Good to be home, huh?
Feet up? Comfy? Warm?
Say what!!!!
Dan Rather in his report on 60 minutes said the White House had refused to deny the documents were real.
Rove, Bush, and Barlett had to know what Rather was going to say on the show unless they disputed the documents.
Not responding to charges is what John Kerry did for a few days after the first Swift Boat ads hit. Not responding to charges is what defeated candidates do. There is no way that Rove would fail to have the white house respond.
One of the ways a presidnet controls what Press Secretaries and Communications Directors say, is controlling what those staffers know. If you don't want the press to know, then don't tell the communications director or the Press Secretary.
For example when Bush went to visit Iraq a year ago, the Press Secretary and the communications people were not ahead of time. They were not told abut the change in plans or about the trip. It is a whtie house rule going back to at least Woodrow Wilson. Don't tell communications people anything a President does not want the press to know. Bartlett would be warned not to say they were fake.. and he would be warned not to say they were real.
White house communcations people ask what to say.. not what is the situation and what are we going to do ABOUT IT. Communications people only ask.. What am I to tell them. They do not ask what is the situation. They go before the press and tell them what they are told to tell them.
When Roberts demanded that Bartlett confirm or deny the documents validity... Bartlett had to know that meant CBS was not sure the documents were real. CBS would likely not have gone with the story if Bartlett claimed they were fake and offered any sort of proof. You can also bet Bartlet had been told what to say and do when Roberts asked Bartlet to confirm that the Documents were valid. Such questions are anticipated and prepared for.
With in minutes of Roberts delivering the Documents I would bet there were 20 people working to verify them. I have to believe that these cheap forgeries were known to be fake within the hour of the White House getting them.
The first rule of politics is to respond to charges as as fast as possible. That is why the Bush campaign had "Rapid Repsonse" Staffs. There is zero way the White House was not going to respond. They had to try to produce a desired result.
I think they did produce the desired result.
Do you live 5 minutes from work?
LOL! Still trying to teach the finer points of calling home I see.
Well, it's playing and it's Barry Sadler.
Looking for another version.
Old Sarge has picked a doozy, but I'll get it by morning.
LOL!! I love the sneaking guy.
No wonder his name is Tourister. LOL! He tours a long way from home.
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Now with a larger following and the help of Togrul and the Chin (a large civilization in northern China), Temuchin was able to defeat the Tartars and avenge his father’s death (Nicolle 18). Temuchin continued to build power by removing rivals (Nicolle 18-19). Deals were struck with most Mongol chieftains giving them leadership roles and wives (Humphrey 47). These chiefs who would not serve under other chiefs were willing to serve under the dominating Temuchin (Humphrey 47). Eventually Jamuga became Temuchin’s primary rival allying with Temuchin’s enemies in a series of campaigns which came to include even Togrul and the Kereits (Nicolle 19). Using superior political and military skill, Temuchin defeated and integrated all opposing Mongol tribes (Marshall 28-32). By 1206 Temuchin led more than two million people and ruled land stretching a 1000 miles from west to east and 600 miles from Siberia in the north to the Gobi Desert in the south (Humphrey 57, 63). Temuchin’s followers, while still nomadic, were now united behind their leader and considered themselves one nation of Mongols (Humphrey 59). Temuchin took the name Genghis which appropriately meant universal leader (USA Today 1). 
Having created a nation Genghis now looked to build an empire (Humphrey 77-78). During his lifetime Genghis conquered Hsi Hsia a southwestern border country of Mongolia, the Chin empire of north China, and (after being provoked by the massacre of a trade caravan and subsequent murder of his ambassador) the medieval Muslim kingdom of Khwarezm (Marshall 42-57). Genghis was able to consistently defeat larger forces by using ruthless military strategies which are well-known and innovative military strategies which should be well known (Marshall 37-57). Genghis’ highly disciplined troops were equally capable of slaughtering civilians whose armies refused to surrender and mastering the advanced methods required to capture fortified cities (Humphrey 82-83). Well supplied and constantly drilled in war games, the Mongolian men were always prepared for war (Humphrey 68). In the field of battle Genghis maintained close communications with commanders using swift "arrow messengers, signal flags, and fire (Humphrey 79-78). The entire army moved and attacked on horseback and there were always one or two fresh horses available for each man (Humphrey 65). Combined with other tactics, the incredible mobility of Genghis’ forces (which was probably not matched until the German blitzkrieg of WWII) always gave him the advantage of surprise (Humphrey 67-68). 
Most of the Western world views Genghis Khan as a simple savage who overwhelmed others by brute force (Marshall 64). However, Genghis was a cunning warrior, a superb motivator, an organized leader, and a wise ruler who valued loyalty, education, strict laws, and the exchange of knowledge and goods with other cultures. Genghis created Mongolia and established an empire that reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Black Sea and from Siberia to Tibet (USA Today 1). Genghis died in 1227 but the structure and tradition the great leader established did not (Nicolle 46-47). Descendants were well positioned to expand Genghis Khan’s Mongol Empire from the Pacific to the Danube and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean, an area in which half the population of the world then lived (Humphrey 107). It took a genius, not a savage, to accomplish this.