In researching Senator Joe Biden, who is now the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, I came across some interesting articles.
First of all, the claim that Senator Biden's forefathers worked in the coal mines is a bit of a stretch. His father was a car salesman, and his grandfather was a Mining Engineer.
When Senator Biden was in Law School, he was accused of plagiarism (which, if I am correct, means that he was caught cheating; copying someone else's work). Supposedly, he apologized and threw himself on the mercy of the board, promising never to cheat again.
Now, I can understand that he was a young man, who cheated in school and got caught. However, he supposedly repeated the mistake of his youth, in 1987, when he was 44 years old. He was running for President of the U.S. and during a debate in Iowa, he plagiarized, almost word-for-word a speech given by British Labour politician Neil Kinnock.
Biden's Plagiarism
For people who are believing the hype about the Democrats ending the Iraq War anytime soon, you really should study Biden's plan for Iraq.
He wants to partition Iraq, separating the Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish people. This should be a very interesting endeavor, as the majority of the people in Iraq live totally intermixed - especially in the cities.
We all know that the oil is in the northern part of Iraq. Which group is going to be appointed to live there? Which group will be exiled into the southern reaches of the country? Who gets Baghdad?
“You make federalism work for the Iraqis,” Mr. Biden said. “You give them control over the fabric of their daily lives. You separate the parties. You give them breathing room. Let them control their local police, their education, their religion and marriage — the very things they’re fighting over.”
Reidar Visser, a specialist on Iraq’s sectarian issues at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, said that “apart from the Kurds in the north, there is no unanimous, popular demand for federalism or soft partition or any partition at all.”
Mr. Visser, who edits a Web site for posting historical research on Iraq, www.historiae.org, said that despite arguments by those in favor of partition, “Iraq has no tradition of being compartmentalized into neat, sectarian entities,” except for a relatively brief period between 1880 and World War I.
Senior military planners caution that should partition become American policy, withdrawal almost certainly wouldn’t. Partition would require a stabilization force — code for American military presence — of 75,000 to 100,000 troops for years to come. And Bosnia’s record of no soldier lost is hardly likely to be repeated in a post-partition Iraq.
Biden's Partition Plan
To see Senator Biden in action, for yourself, go to YouTube, and search for "Biden". I think that you will be amazed, if you are not already familiar with his antics.
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What is it that makes one want to keep a secret, yet tell everyone they know about all of the details surrounding the secret? I have a secret that I will never tell, but I will share with you the details.
When in Arizona, travel about 60 miles from civilization, down a dusty road to the ranch headquarters. From there, turn due-south, on the narrow road that is full of ruts. Please be sure to close every gate which you open. If you find the gate open, please don't close it. Follow that road for about ten miles to the cowcamp.
If you decide to stop and say hello, you will be greeted by a Queensland Blue Heeler named Sapphire. She will growl at you because she isn't used to strangers. She will keep you in your car, until her master comes out of the house.
Sapphire's job is to bring the milk cow in at milking time. She no longer needs the cowboy to direct her. She knows what to do. She will disappear at about 4 p.m. and return with the cow, slowly moving her along toward the barn.
The cowboy will politely ask what brings you to this place. Tell him that you are looking for the Heiroglyphics that you have heard about. If he likes the look of you, he will get into his old Ford pickup, and lead you back out to the road that you were on, turning east after he crosses the cattle-guard.
Don't follow him too closely, or you will be choked by his dust and you may find yourself in the ditch, wondering what happened to the road. Just a little farther now...there it is, there on the right. You see an outcropping of dark gray boulders rising up out of the flat, sage brush covered landscape.
The cowboy leads you up to the outcropping, turns right, moving past a large boulder, then left, past another. As you round the last corner, you begin to see them...dozens of them. Etched into boulders all around you...horses, people, buffalo. Ancient writings of a people who lived here long ago. Hidden forever from the prying eyes of the crazy townpeople...guarded by generations of cowboys.
No Dad, I will never tell.
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I am writing this in purple because he called it "burple" and it was his favorite color. He taught me to count when I was three or four years old. We lived on a ranch, way outside Kingman, Arizona at the time, and far away from the lights of town. On hot summer nights, he would take me outside and we would lay on a lawn-chair, looking up at the millions of stars. He would say "How many can you count"? He always counted with me. Then Mama would come out, after finishing dishes, and bring us a fresh peach from the tree. I can still smell those peaches. Daddy had a space between his two top front teeth, and a big wide grin. Sparkling blue eyes and red, red hair. He usually smelled like a combination of horses, leather and sweat (sweet perfume to me). The night after he had died (I was 45 years old) I was laying in bed, exhausted from the emotions of the previous 2 days, not thinking, just being...and I felt a hand on the top of my head, caressing me. That was my Daddy's hand.
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