Mike Trout
James Dobson's co-host of 15 years cites personal reasons for abrupt departure.
By Mark A. Kellner | posted 10/01/2000 12:00AM
Mike Trout, for 15 years co-host of "Focus on the Family" with Dr. James Dobson, abruptly resigned from his position as senior vice president of broadcasting for the popular ministry organization.

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Marine Corps Times on Monday

 

calling for Rumsfeld to go

 

Rumsfeld has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large. His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt.

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War supporters reconsider

Also Friday, several conservatives who pushed for the invasion of Iraq said they would not have supported a war if they knew how poorly the Bush administration would handle it, according to Vanity Fair magazine.

"I think now I probably would have said, 'No, let's consider other strategies for dealing with the thing that concerns us most, which is Saddam (Hussein) supplying weapons of mass destruction to terrorists,"' said Richard Perle, who sat on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Advisory Committee until 2004.

Kenneth Adelman, who served on the Defense Policy Board with Perle, said Bush, Defense Rumsfeld and others in the administration "turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the postwar era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional."

 

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'Dr. Dino' guilty on all counts

Pensacola evangelist and tax protester Kent Hovind winked at his wife and gave her a reassuring smile as he was led away to jail.

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No honest observer can conclude otherwise. Iraq is failing.

Iraq is failing. No honest observer can conclude otherwise. Even six months ago, there was hope. Now the chances for a democratic, unified Iraq are dwindling fast. The country's prime minister has thrown in his lot with al-Sadr, our mortal enemy. He has his eye on the future, and he's betting that we won't last. The police are less accountable than they were under Saddam. Our extensive investment in Iraqi law enforcement only produced death squads. Government ministers loot the country to strengthen their own factions. Even Iraq's elections - a worthy experiment - further divided Iraq along confessional and ethnic lines. Iraq still exists on the maps, but in reality it's gone. Only a military coup - which might come in the next few years - could hold the artificial country together.

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Crude imports down. Crude stocks massive.. 

Refinery utilization has been below 90% for more than a month. Yet Gasoline and Diesel stocks are at record levels..

Why hasn’t the Price of gasoline and Diesel dropped? Why doesn’t Refinery utilization increase? Price Fixing?

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The Rothenberg Political Report  

 

2006 House Ratings

For race-by-race analysis and explanation of the ratings, you must be a subscriber to the print edition of the Rothenberg Political Report.

Current Rothenberg Political Report projection: Democratic gain of 34-40 seats.

PURE TOSS-UP (20 R, 0 D)

CA 11 (Pombo, R)

CT 2 (Simmons, R)

CT 4 (Shays, R)

FL 16 (Open; Foley, R)

FL 22 (Shaw, R)

IL 6 (Open; Hyde, R)

KS 2 (Ryun, R)

MN 1 (Gutknecht, R)

MN 6 (Open; Kennedy, R)

NM 1 (Wilson, R)

NY 20 (Sweeney, R)

NY 26 (Reynolds, R)

OH 1 (Chabot, R)

OH 2 (Schmidt, R)

PA 4 (Hart, R)

PA 6 (Gerlach, R)

PA 8 (Fitzpatrick, R)

TX 22 (Open; DeLay, R)

VA 2 (Drake, R)

WI 8 (Open; Green, R)

TOSS-UP/TILT REPUBLICAN (10 R, 0 D)

AZ 1 (Renzi, R)

CA 4 (Doolittle, R)

CO 4 (Musgrave, R)

ID 1 (Open; Otter, R)

KY 3 (Northup, R)

KY 4 (Davis, R)

NV 3 (Porter, R)

NY 25 (Walsh, R)

NY 29 (Kuhl, R)

WA 8 (Reichert, R)

TOSS-UP/TILT DEMOCRATIC (7 R, 3 D)

AZ 5 (Hayworth, R)

CT 5 (Johnson, R)

FL 13 (Open; Harris, R)

GA 8 (Marshall, D)

GA 12 (Barrow, D)

IL 8 (Bean, D)

IN 9 (Sodrel, R)

NH 2 (Bass, R)

NY 24 (Open; Boehlert, R)

NC 11 (Taylor, R)

LEAN REPUBLICAN (3 R, 0 D)

NJ 7 (Ferguson, R)

OH 12 (Tiberi, R)

TX 23 (Bonilla, R)

LEAN DEMOCRATIC (6 R, 1 D)

IA 1 (Open; Nussle, R)

IA 3 (Boswell, D)

IN 2 (Chocola, R)

OH 15 (Pryce, R)

OH 18 (Open; Ney, R)

PA 7 (Weldon, R)

PA 10 (Sherwood, R)

REPUBLICAN FAVORED (8 R, 0 D)

CA 50 (Bilbray, R)

CO 5 (Open; Hefley, R)

KY 2 (Lewis, R)

NE 3 (Open; Osborne, R)

NV 2 (Open; Gibbons, R)

NY 3 (King, R)

NY 19 (Kelly, R)

WY AL (Cubin, R)

DEMOCRAT FAVORED (3 R, 1 D)

AZ 8 (Open; Kolbe, R)

CO 7 (Open; Beauprez, R)

IN 8 (Hostettler, R)

VT A-L (Open; Sanders, D)

 

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70% say Bush has no plan…

NY Times poll shows that 70% of Americans say that Bush has no plan to win in Iraq..

Well those ungrateful Americans..

Poor Bush just finally came up with a plan to Attack Kerry. Don’t ya know he’s been busy?

Do you want to win in Iraq?

TK answers..

Explain to me what winning will be..

For 15 years. America listen to others, ask the same question as yours..

We listened until over 58 thousand troopers died. For the honor of the first trooper killed, in the V.N. War..

Will there be a trophy if we win?

If it is a bucket of our troopers blood..

Then I have had enough winning for this Iraqi civil war..

Let the Iraqi’s fight their civil war..

Let them fight until they are too tired to fight anymore..

Let them fight until they can not stand the sight of death anymore..

Make them fight for their own freedom.

Don’t make troopers die, for the American style democracy. That the Iraqi’s do not want..

Among other veterans running for office:

Marine reservist Paul Hackett, who served in Iraq and is running for the Senate in Ohio. The Democrat narrowly lost a special House election last year in a district where President Bush won 64 percent of the vote in 2004.

Former Army Maj. L. Tammy Duckworth, a helicopter pilot who lost her legs in a grenade attack in Iraq. She is running as a Democrat for the Illinois congressional seat of retiring Republican Rep. Henry Hyde. She said she privately disagreed with Bush’s decision to invade Iraq but still volunteered to serve. “We should have been fighting the enemies that attacked us at home on 9/11,” she said in December. “We should have been out there trying to catch Osama bin Laden.”

Democrat Eric Massa, a 24-year Navy officer challenging freshman Republican Rep. Randy Kuhl in western New York.

I understand the reality of war..
Our troops understand the reality of War..
We have military leaders that understand the reality of war. But they bow to the political leadership.
What would America have said.. If our forefathers had been stuck on Normandy for 5 years. Would America have supported a leadership that allowed our troopers to be picked off on the beach, day in day out, wondering who will be next.. Not knowing what was to come next. Only that they are to stay the course.. Without a sole who can describe the destination, the end. What will winning look like.

Our Troops are warriors. Not policemen..
Now we have bench marks. What do we do with them. A notch in the rifle stock??


Normandy was a battle.. Not a War..

Iraq 2 has turned into a 1000 battles. Each fought at the same street corner, every day..

That is my point. Would America accept a battle that kept returning to Normandy’s beach, every day.. Just like the movie, ground hog day..

Of course not... And don’t place blame on the media.


As far the media.. They were welcome with open arms. Each person investigated and approve for embedment..
The Bush regime expected a parade, flowers and candy. That was the original purpose of the media embedment..
Now they can’t dump the bogeymen. They are stuck with the truth they brought on themselves..
America needed a Real war. Done right and done fast..
The Bush regime wanted a document that registered their name in history….

Will you place a scarlet 9/11 on the forehead of those Iraqi’s that are responsible..

If we should fail to get ALL the Iraqi’s responsible for 9/11. 

How many Iraqi dead, until we can say we have won?

How many Iraqi’s.  How many American troops in Iraq. 

Must die for The Bush regimes incompetence. Their failure to kill Osama and his crew.. 

Iraqi women who were just children of 12 years old on 9/11. Are giving birth to babies today.  Who will die tomorrow, in a Civil War, Bush created.  And is unable to control..

How long until all humanity is dissolved in Iraq.  How long until we have not even one friend in Iraq..

How long until we understand. 

Rules of War..

 

War is not a game…

That has been what I have been saying since 11 Sept 2001..

And I will say it until the day I die..

You can’t play war. You have to fight war.. And you have to fight unfair. With not only the resolve to win..

But with the commitment to give up everything, to give your life and the life of your mother and your children to win..

Until you can do that. You dedicate your life to peace..

By unfair I did not mean to suggest we should abandon all rules.

I meant to suggest. We fight to win. With overwhelming force. With all weapons available.

Use every weapon necessary to prevent American deaths.

 

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

George Patton…

TK says:

He wasn’t always right. But he was a hell of a warrior..

Even in war we must not forget..

Humanity grows from a single man. And the prize of war must not come from the dissolution of humanity.

When a man is left with only the instinct to kill or be killed. Leaving him to hate the thought of rearing a child that would resemble himself.

All is lost.. There is no longer any point to war..

It would be best to lay down and die. And leave our future to GOD..

Trooper abandoned in Sadr , Maliki orders U.S. out..

Iraqi Demands a Pullback; U.S. Lifts Baghdad Cordon

 

BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki demanded the removal of American checkpoints from the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday, in what appeared to be his latest and boldest gambit in an increasingly tense struggle for more independence from his American protectors.

 

 

 

 

 

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