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The Cold War is Over

The Bush Administration blames Russia of the very things it has done in the 21st Century while dismissing its conduct in Iraq as being of no consequence. A large majority of Americans would disagree.

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(PASO ROBLES, Calif.) - The U.S. accuses Russia of returning to its authoritative past, but logic suggests the United States is more the aggressor than the Russians.

Since the end of the Cold War and the break up of the Soviet Union, Russia has cooperated with the United States in many significant ways that one would think should cement relationships between them.

Under reasonable circumstances it would, but Geo. W. Bush and his administration seem less interested in rapport [a friendly relationship between people based on mutual respect, trust, and a sense that they understand and share each other's concern] than in expanding U.S. influence worldwide as it relates to Bush’s religious concept.

Russia in particular [but other nations too] considers itself an equal of the United States, whereas the Bush Administration prefers to treat Russia and other nations as he does his own people whom he considers subject to his Imperial will.

It could be argued that Bush’s War with Iraq was an excuse for him to assume the role of [dictator] Commander in Chief that allowed him [contrary to the guarantees of The Constitution, The Bill of Rights and the power of Congress] to subject America to his will, an authority he arbitrarily extends to nations of his choice.

Persons are placed in positions of authority who support Bush’s will even to justify torture as a legitimate tool of interrogation contrary to common sense and the Geneva Convention.

America’s reputation has been maligned to the point that our flag no longer is considered the ensign to which nations look as the example of how things ought to be. The vision is obscured and is the cause of a desire for change the whole world would welcome.

For Bush and his cohorts, have created a New America based on Evangelical Christian beliefs that convince them they have been chosen to do God’s work. Bush , as the “decider” determines who is good and who evil; Iraq, Iran, and North Korea topped his list as the sources of terrorism with ties to Al Qaeda‘s cult of international conspiracy, the enemy of America. How true this might be is questionable because of Bush’s past refusal even to talk with members of his so-called “Axis of Evil.”

Bush decided to place anti-ballistic missile sites in Europe without telling Russia. The Cold War is over, so why is a Bush playing Monopoly with Russia? Bush wants to control the world under an Evangelical-Christian banner. He is a taker not a giver who resents attempts to dislodge territory [Georgia?] from his political design. That Poland agreed to participate in the U.S. anti-ballistic missile proposal may suggest to Russia that instead of sincerity, the dynamics of world politics is, as John McCain says, based on Peace through Power.

After Iraq, power seems more the bully-syndrome of adolescence rather than of maturity and friendship that avoids conflict in favor of international peace.

The History of Christianity really begins in 312 AD [about 75 generations ago] when Constantine created the Holy Roman Empire followed by Centuries of human degradation that Evangelical-America would have us embrace rather than the maturity of reason essential to comfortable relations with all nations of the World’s Community.

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Kenneth G. Ramey once was a 79-year old "writer without a Website" who is generating excellent, provocative articles on the subject of religion and world affairs for Salem-News.com. Raised in Minnesota and California during the dark years of the Great American Depression, Ken is well suited to talk about the powerful forces in the world that give us tragedy, joy and hope, and everything in between. You can write to Ken at: kgramey@sbcglobal.net




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Henry Ruark August 28, 2008 8:43 pm (Pacific time)

To all: Previous note here mentions McCain chief f-policy adviser Schuenemann. It now becomes public record that he has signed off on plan for following the PNAC-neocon program, including political assassination if necessary. That presents distinct moral problem for any true Christian who is faced with choice, it seems to me...dialog on that point welcomed, may be helpful to some now facing precisely that decision.


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 6:48 pm (Pacific time)

S-Bad: Still waiting for your response to simple question: "Where do you stand on impeachment ? NOW, Later, or NEVER ?" Surely no sweat over your answer; if you feel Bush cabal members should depart without penalty, simply say so. If you feel they have done nation harm, choose when we use Constitutional means to determine that and penalize or free them of charges. OR do you prefer silence ? If so, that tells us all we need to know about what you choose to "share" here. Might make good Op Ed ! You can then explain your stance in full detail, with needed documentation.


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 11:23 am (Pacific time)

Sinbad: You wrote: "You should feel lucky that you live in a country where it is not illegal to rationalize as you do. Congrats." From personal study and very painful experience, can tell you confusing "rationalizing" with "denial". Facts, checkable on the record, supply clear proof of their reality. Denial then becomes not only irrational but also impossible and self-proving when it doth occur. IF you can read very plain English, you can even self-diagnose on this one !! UNless, of course, your real objective is NOT "rational" or even "denial", but propaganda prompted by political purpose.


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 11:17 am (Pacific time)

To all: Rapid review of Wikipedia notes on Project for the New American Century shows: SEVENTEEN signatories of the statement were appointed to the Bush administration. One, Randy Scheunemann, now serves as McCain foreign policy chieftain. That tell YOU something ? Given that fact, and adding to it Scheunemann's record as lobbyist for questionable dictators et al, what do you expect will happen in further pursuit of world dominance for U.S. at ANY COST and by ANY MEANS ? Do you believe in that now-assured action ? How does it connect with Christian beliefs, if you hold those, or any other religion ? Remember Ben Franklin ? "A republic...if you can keep it" canny old Ben asked inquiring lady at Philly confab. Ben it was, too, who shaped and demanded impeachment as the tool for remedy in precisely such situations.


Sinbad August 27, 2008 11:08 am (Pacific time)

As I posted below if those of you who strongly feel that these 9/11 building were brought down by pre-planted munitions, while the bad guys patiently waited for these two jetliners to provide a reason to blow the explosive charges, then you must realize that a lot of people would have been involved. I guess if you are correct then it's just a matter of time when some of these mass murderers come forward and admit to their crimes. Socio/psychopaths are compelled to brag about their (mis)deeds. I would like to note that one can take a timeline and state specific events that took place, but without providing a comprehensive event flow, one can easily mislead. Also just because one writes an article (or book, ec.) that makes various claims, does not make it so. Anyway I prefer to accept the obvious empirical facts as to how these building came down killing thousands of people. Possibly there were explosive charges placed on the USS Arizona and other ships within Pearl Harbor that caused them to melt and sink? Has anyone out there seen the aftermath of a car fire, house fire, or any commercial fire and noticed how metal was melted? Fire melting steel, go figure.


Vic August 27, 2008 10:58 am (Pacific time)

Here is an interesting link to Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth http://www.ae911truth.org/


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 10:06 am (Pacific time)

To all: Quick check here now displays moe than 100 pp. of information on Project for the New American Century, questioned by some. SO use easy-access to Wikipedia, same title, for the 12-pp. very solid report they make available for all to see, who know what to look for. OR you can simply review whole series of Op Eds here over past year !! See STAFF section for "Written by..." for HCR. Fact is fact --and we ignore it at our own risk. IF you want more-of-same, choice is easy. IF you want to return to our democracy, gets harder, but is still entirely do-able, too. Impeachment is demanded first step for clean-up, and clean-out, per Constitution. Do you believe we should now overlook, forget, pass over, allow to happen, what's been DONE TO US and OUR NATION ?


your friend George August 27, 2008 9:40 am (Pacific time)

Sinbad, what dream state are you in? We all watched with disbelief. Yes 2 planes flew into the towers, and NO, they did not cause them to fall. Wake up and smell your own reality. Sorry if that means your bubble is burst, but you might as well face facts. They bamboozled us and you're still defending them. You're getting screwed man, they're lying. FACE IT.


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 9:25 am (Pacific time)

To all: See also Vic's Comment which is precisely correct and fully informative.(Links on request to Editor with ID.) Facts are facts, checkable and on public record,demanding we "pay attention" if we are to remain rational, reasonable in our own interests. We've been lied-to,broadly manipulated, abused,brutalized via deaths of leading youth, and otherwise mistreated in depth, detail and dollars, for more than eight years, via the same people ever since Reagan, except for Clinton-time. SO NOW --what do we do about it ? Constitution provides the absolutely perfect remedy, if and when we have democratic wit, wisdom and will to USE IT per prescience of Founders.


Sinbad August 27, 2008 9:24 am (Pacific time)

It appears Vic has avoided an actual timeline of events that led up to the Iraq invasion. These events go back to when Kuwait was attacked. Also to state that those who saw (hundreds of millions of people) two jetliners flying at high speed hitting two skyscrapers did not bring down these two buildings (and cause others to fall) really just wants to avoid reality. Countless engineers and scientists have offered a plethora of explanations on why these buildings collapsed. If one disagrees then they belong to a distinct and very small minority. I believe that is their absolute right, and are they not lucky to be able to do that? You should feel lucky that you live in a country where it is not illegal to rationalize as you do. Congrats.


Henry Ruark August 27, 2008 9:18 am (Pacific time)

Carlson et al: You wrote:"I really have to question the statement that the attack on Iraq was some neocon plan." That is simple matter of fact. It is contained in the notorious Project for a New American Century, in 1997 (!), prepared by self-declared neo-conservatives and signed by Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith and others. Senior Kristol was major writer, lead-advocate, with organization following to push, cajole, propagandize, pay lobbyists, and otherwise promote for years on end. (well-known to many in D.C. and generally in msmedia,too.) It advocates U.S. domination of rest of world for our own "strategic interests" vs all ohers, including oil, and specifically in Iraq, Iran, et al, defying international law, the UN, et al, to "WIN by ANY MEANS", no matter cost or blood or deaths. (My paraphrase,for Op Ed use.) Then there's historic line leading directly to Clinton Presidency, when he was urged to act by same cabal (in signed letter !), on into Bush II, picking up remnants from Bush I, when plan was in part begun but not completed. Will post links to several sources later, including famed investigative reporter who broke Iran/Contra story, already cited in previous Op Eds, part of same big picture. UNinformed I understand, MISinformed is matter of own choice these days; malign misinterpretation for personal political matters, defining facts-on-record, demands some remediation...as with this. morecoming - Wire service sign/off on copy-flow, used here to accentuate facts in hand for documentation. No coffee yet,eMac problems hampering access from file.


Vic August 27, 2008 8:40 am (Pacific time)

"One should avail themselves of the factual timeline of events before the Iraq invasion and rethink just why we are there." OK, I'll bite...heres a timeline of events from my perspective:

Sept 11, 2001...for the first time in the history of the world, fire brings down not one, not two, but three steel framed buildings...at free-fall speed, and as neat as any Vegas demolition...something that takes decades of training and expertise. Another coincidence..all three buildings were owned by the same guy...Larry Silverstein.

Feb 6, 2003...Powell makes his famous case for war at the UN..complete with charts and figures and photographs of biological weapons facilities, nuclear enrichment sites, WMD production sites...we are told of drones laden with anthrax ready to fly into American cities. We are told that we have no choice and that the smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud.

Then comes the invasion..Shock and Awe (which killed only civilians) and five years later...guess what?? NO WMDs !! No drones, no anthrax, no nuclear bomb labs...nothing. THAT is why we were told we had to go there..remember? We were lied to and now that the truth is out, we are ignored or fed some bs about how well things are going.


Carlson August 26, 2008 9:42 pm (Pacific time)

I really have to question the statement that the attack on Iraq was some neocon plan. To say so is to assume that we should ignore the documented history that preceded the invasion which included the fact that Iraq invaded Kuwait then ignored 17 UN resolutions and that the majority of congress voted and greenlighted the attack. Currently we are seeing that the "surge" (though you have those who say it has not) has worked and that the Iraq government is starting to pull their act together. I realize these are political times, but facts are facts and just because someone distorts facts with what they like to think what happened does not make it so. One should avail themselves of the factual timeline of events before the Iraq invasion and rethink just why we are there. Please remember that we are still in Kosovo (since 1993) and we were just suppose to be there a matter of a few months. Now that was an illegal invasion! Not to mention that former General Wes Clark nearly got us into a war with Russia during that illegal invasion.


Henry Ruark August 26, 2008 4:36 pm (Pacific time)

To all: See my last Comment on Op Ed "Force of Facts" above, for new information coming of paramount importance in YOUR best interests.


Henry Ruark August 26, 2008 3:42 pm (Pacific time)

S-Bad: Somehow those notes sound far too familiar. Re poll, too early to expect any kind of reaction since not even time to read-and-react, as yoou must know. Wait till McCain names his, for any rational comparison. Re deaths, whom do you hold responsible ? Our Iraq attack has now been proven to be part of neocon plan in print and widely distributed since 1999, so can hardly be blamed on anything except preemptive attack-choice by Bush. What say you ? Re "dodging bullet", you need full responsibility of Op Ed-space to make that stick, no matter to whom you refer. SO ? As usual, after good faith welcome here, must now seek your ID to Editor for direct contact, OR your own Op Ed, with by-line, for anything beyond open, honest, truly democratic dialog. IF you have "opinion", set it out in "informed-detail", with sources for solid statement by others also qualified. That's pattern here, rather than canny, sometimes slimy, easy-shots from concealment which compromises both responsibility and accountability to readers who count on good faith. When it is compromised, we challenge for ID and direct, in their best interests, always also offering open-space here as Op Ed properly signed and also documented. SO "put up"; why NOT ? IF yours is worth time to read and check, readers will help to "make it stick" -- or NOT. What's more fair-and-honest --and honorable on both sides--than that ? SO, what are you waiting for, Sinbad ? Can't be postal charges or delivery costs, since channel is free and ready anytime. "IF you got-it, why not USE it ?" --old line from boxing coverage, referring to those who gestured-well, but could NOT really throw a punch...


Sinbad August 26, 2008 1:44 pm (Pacific time)

As the below poll shows, maybe Obama could have done better than Biden? Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama's Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week's standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in early June, though, that McCain has held any kind of advantage over Obama in Gallup Poll Daily tracking.


Sinbad August 26, 2008 1:10 pm (Pacific time)

As Doris Day sang so wonderfully [english translation], "...what will be, will be..." The next two months "will be" an eyeopener, and I'm confident approximately half of the country will be unhappy, and the other approx. half will be pleased that they dodged a bullet. The unhappy half will eventually realize just how lucky they are. As far as a 2nd revolution, well, the first never has ended. Regarding the 4,000 dead, they died as hero's, and I constantly pray for them. Many more will perish before this war is over, unfortunately.


Henry Ruark August 26, 2008 10:48 am (Pacific time)

S-Bad et al: You wrote: "prediction is partially based on non-scientific guessing,", for which you need not apologize, since there ain't any other way for anyone --unless he is blessed with first-sight before the actual event ! Re yr scenario and contacts, mine prefer sure rise already seen for Obama with Biden sure-thing on his side, and unified-party assured since to do anything else for Clintons is simply premature suicide. BUT sure thing is that our choice is NOW down to simple fact: Possible change or sure NO CHANGE-MORE OF SAME already proven deadly-game for more than 4,000 of us, millions more elsewhere, and THREE TRILLION sure-costs ALREADY (via Nobel-winner economist Stiglitz, reported here.) Either we CAN remedy or we CANNOT, in face of corporate and conflict-of-interests politicians and policies. IF NOT, cometh the Second American Revolution...where do you stand on that S-Bad ?? Your civil, sensible, and continuing participation much appreciated, not only by me but by others, whom we may encourage also to speak UP and OUT and LOUD and CONTINUOUSLY, to make sure entrenched and contemptuous power hears the wit, wisdom, will of "the people" --that's US !! Still need YOUR Op Ed with full-detail and checkable link to sources...when ready ??


Sinbad August 26, 2008 9:45 am (Pacific time)

I admit my below prediction is partially based on non-scientific guessing, but am reasonably confident that this will happen as the two candidates get quite intense, and if McCain leaps ahead in the polls, Pelosi will seek a diversion. My sources say that this has already gone past the planning stage and is just waiting for the go order. Honest Injun! Note: I would not expect Rep. Wexler to be part of the group involved in this, that is have you followed his outrageous behavior in Maryland and Florida?


Henry Ruark August 24, 2008 4:22 pm (Pacific time)

S-Bad: How can you state those truly intriguing foresights --and then leave us wondering where they come from ? With all due respect, how about Op Ed detailing those points in some depth, with the bcgrnd we all need ? I urge you very sincerely to do just that...just straight stuff as you see it. That's deepstrength of dialoghere, when we DO so-share...!! We all friends and willing to read and learn...others will be taught as one does any teen ager so inclined. Await your copy, with real interest, honest Injun !


Sinbad August 23, 2008 11:42 am (Pacific time)

Articles of Impeachment will be filed either in late September or October. The reason that Speaker Pelosi will have this done will have nothing to do with the Impeachment process. October will be full of many surprises and it may just shake the country up enough that we can get some real change going on, but it will be in 2010 before the voters have their first real opportunity to start excising the bad actors.


Henry Ruark August 23, 2008 7:28 am (Pacific time)

R-T-M:
Agree; what else is new ? That's precisely why U.S. undercover action we now know took place is so wildly cowboy-dangerous. How do you stand on impeachment,NOW ?
NO WAY anyone can drop The Big One, or use other a-ammo, without retaliation, and retaliation, and retaliation, while there's still "platform from which to fire ! Quote ID'f if, indeed, you do not recognize it !
Thanks for your wise and experienced participation, and hope YOUR shelter is ready, stocked and you reach it in time.


Retired Military August 22, 2008 6:05 pm (Pacific time)

To even suggest the plausibility of Americans fighting Russians in close arm combat one simply does not understand the real-world environment. If something like that did take place it would be ever so brief because the nukes would be launched by whatever party was about to lose on the ground. Of course there are those who just want to stir up a mudstorm for whatever reason? The United States did invade Kosovo without taking steps within the United Nations by starting with sanctions and designing resolutions. Thus we were no better than what Russia is doing in Georgia. What transpired before Iraq and Afghanistan was quite different and right now it appears that nearly 50 million people are going to get a good shot at self-government. Keep your fingers crossed, because regardless what you may think about this war, it may have an ending that will benefit the world.


Henry Ruark August 22, 2008 6:04 pm (Pacific time)

To all: Ken's piece could not be more "on the nose of the news". Here's THE NATION story on what is now called "The Georgia Conspiracy": Published on Friday, August 22, 2008 by The Nation Warning to Obama on the New Cold War by Tom Hayden Barack Obama and the Democrats are heading towards trouble in November because of a new cold war with the Russians triggered largely by a top John McCain adviser and the same neoconservative clique who fabricated evidence to lobby for the Iraq war. This is not a conspiracy theory but a conspiracy fact, stated as boldly as possible before it is too late. Because they are still mired in what Obama himself calls "old thinking," the Democratic hierarchy and the mainstream media will have to be challenged by the faithful and clear-headed rank-and-file and the blogosphere to recognize the Georgia Conspiracy. Here are the short-term essentials: +After border skirmishes similar to the 1964 Tonkin Gulf affair, on August 8, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili invaded the autonomous breakaway region of South Ossetia with his US-trained army. The Russians responded with massive force, quickly routing Saakashvili's forces. +McCain has traveled to Georgia, nominated his close friend Saakashlivi for a Nobel Prize in 2005, and was the first American leader to blast Russia last April, when Vladimir Putin issued a sharp warning against NATO membership for Georgia and the Ukraine, supported by the United States. +The Bush Administration was divided along familiar lines, with the foreign policy "realists" around Condoleezza Rice opposite the pro-Georgia hawks centered in Dick Cheney's office and allied with McCain--enthusiasts for spreading "democracy" from Iraq to the Russian border. +Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser, was a registered foreign agent for Saakashlivi's government from at least 2004, when Saakashvili came to power, until May 15, 2008, when he technically severed his ties to Orion Strategies, his lobbying firm. At that point, Orion had earned at least $800,000 in lobbying fees from Georgia. +Saakashvili, with Scheuneman advising him, campaigned on a platform of taking back South Ossetia and Abkhazia. +Schuenemann was Georgia's lobbyist when Saakashvili sent troops to retake two separatist enclaves, Ajaria in 2004 and the upper Kodori Gorge in Abhkazia in 2006, over strong Russian objections. +Saakashvili tarnished his democratic credentials by sending club-wielding riot police against unarmed demonstrators protesting his abrupt purging of the police, civil servants and universities in 2007, a replay of Paul Bremer's decision to privatize Iraq in 2003. ------- For more, see NATION itself or seek out CommonDreams site on Internet...link coming. SO now you have leading honest conservative and the leading honest political magazine both reporting precisely the same facts. That good enough ? OR do you require saint to appear out of Heaven and then "bless" the information ? SO now you know what to expect if McCain allowed to continue the Bush/Cheney open attack on our democracy, for which the Founders set out a certain sure remedy. Until now Scheunemann has been less visible but no less important than any of the top neoconservatives who drove America into Iraq and now are lobbying for a new cold war and a McCain presidency. He was the full-time executive director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. [1] He helped draft the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, which authorized $98 million for the "Iraq lobby" led by Ahmad Chalabi, which disseminated bogus intelligence in the lead-up to war. He also worked for Donald Rumsfeld as a consultant on Iraq. He joined the board of the Project for the New American Century [2]. Scheunemann traveled with McCain to Georgia in 2006. Seeking to repeat his 1998 Iraq jackpot, he lobbied for an unsuccessful measure co-sponsored by McCain that year, the NATO Freedom Consolidation Act [3], which would have sent $10 million to Georgia. He claims to have invented the phrase "rogue state rollback" for a 1999 McCain speech, an echo of the right-wing cold war strategy of rolling back the Soviet Union. He has been a paid lobbyist or consultant for such presumed beneficiaries of "rollback" as Latvia, Macedonia and Romania, as well as Georgia. Not to miss another opportunity, his firm has represented the Caspian Alliance [4], a consortium of oil and gas producers in the region.


Henry Ruark August 22, 2008 3:50 pm (Pacific time)

To all: Here's another "see with own eyes" link, highly relevant to Ken's piece-here --and writtenby a leading conservative, Pat Buchanan Himself: McCain's Neocon Warmonger: And none dare call it treason. By Patrick J. Buchanan 22/08/08 Inf. Clearing Houae Who is Randy Scheunemann? He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man. From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 – pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili. What were Mikheil's marching orders to Tbilisi's man in Washington? Get Georgia a NATO war guarantee. Get America committed to fight Russia, if necessary, on behalf of Georgia. Scheunemann came close to succeeding. Had he done so, U.S. soldiers and Marines from Idaho and West Virginia would be killing Russians in the Caucasus, and dying to protect Scheunemann's client, who launched this idiotic war the night of Aug. 7. That people like Scheunemann hire themselves out to put American lives on the line for their clients is a classic corruption of American democracy." --------- Then it gets better ! Go and see for yourselves at: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20590


Henry Ruark August 22, 2008 9:57 am (Pacific time)

To all: For an intriguing detailed analysis of continuing strong manipulation, "see with own eyes": When Corporations Rule the World; David C. Korten; ISBN 1-887208-04-06. Korten writes from 35 years of intensive international working experience, extensive teaching in major institutions and foundations in true conservative experience. The book is recognized as the classic exposition of the realities today; I cite it here from 3rd-reading within one year --and I continue to be amazed at its insights and damning documentation. It is entirely relevant to Ken's fine articles, and will extend YOUR understandings.


Henry Ruark August 22, 2008 8:19 am (Pacific time)

To all: "Truth to power,well-written, to which must be added the very obvious fact of manipulation by economic special-interests, for their own private profit, via the very close connection of a master manipulator named Cheney. Roots of both devastating vulnerabilities were deeply planted in Reagan era by the then-strengthening political noise machine whose strident distortions are only now being recognized and remediated.


Vic August 21, 2008 7:30 pm (Pacific time)

Great article ! Thanks, Ken.

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