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ADAM: I HAVEN`T SEEN A WEEKLY EMAIL IN QUITE SOME TIME, IS IT JUST ME OR DID MY ACCT GET MESSED WITH? PLEASE ADVISE

I THINK SCOOTER WAS THE BEST THING THIS SITE HAD GOING FOR IT. I THINK HE AGREED WITH RUDY ON A LOT OF WHAT HE SAID BECOUSE WHAT HE WAS SAYING SEEMED CORRECT. THAT DOES NOT MEAN HE KNEW ABOUT HIS PREVIOUS SCAMS OR BS. I THINK WHEN YOU NOT ONLY DIDN`T BACK HIM, BUT MORE IMPORTENTLY SEEMED TO BE BACKING NUMB NUTS, HE HAD JUST HAD ENOUGH OF THIS ALREADY HARD RIDE AND SAID WHATEVER. I THINK FOR AS MUCH AS HE HAS BROUGHT TO YOUR SITE YOU OWED HIM AND SHOULD HAVE REACHED OUT TO HIM PUBLICLY THE SAME WAY YOU HURT HIM TO BEGIN WITH. I`M NOT SURE YOU WERE REALLY LOOKING TO SEE HOW WE REALLY FELT ON THIS TOPIC JUST BY THE WAY YOU PRESENTED THIS A OR B QUESTION BUT BASICALLY YOU ARE ASKING. HOPEFULLY THIS DOES NOT GET ME BANNED, BUT IF IT DOES, SO BE IT. HERE IS WISHING YOU AND ALL OF DV A BLESSED RV AND SOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARLIE911

DUDE I AM PISSED ABOUT THIS. YOU AND I CAME TO THIS SITE AT THE SAME TIME. ME THE NEWBIE LURKER WHO WOULD THROW A SMARTASS RESPONSE INTO CHAT EVERY SO OFTEN. YOU THE GUY WITH ALL THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WOULD TAKE THE TIME TO DUMB IT DOWN FOR US NEWBIES SO THAT WE COULD FOLLOW ALONG. PEOPLE WOULD SAY SOME REALLY STUPID STUFF AND YOU ALWAYS WOULD RESPOND WITH PATIENCE AND MADE EVERYONE YOU CHATTED WITH FEAL LIKE THEY BELONGED IN THIS FAMILY. YOU HAD TO MOVE ON FROM THE CHATS TO POSTS JUST TO GET A WORD IN, AS EVERYONE WANTED YOUR EAR AND YOUR ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU HAD JUST ANSWERED MOMENTS BEFORE AND IT WAS TO LATE FOR THEM TO SCROLL BACK AS IT WAS WAY GONE BY THEN WITH ALL THE QUESTIONS FLYING AT YOU. YOU THEN TURNED TO POSTS, WHICH HAD TO HAVE TAKEN YOU DAYS TO RESEARCH AND PUT TOGETHER. THEY WERE WRITTEN AND FILLED WITH FACTS, SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY NEEDED IN THIS INVESTMENT WITH ALL THE CRAP THAT IS SPREAD OUT THERE BY SO MANY BONEHEADS.YOU ALWAYS TREATED EVERYONE THAT I EVER SO YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH RESPECT AND HANDLED YOURSELF LIKE A GENTELMAN. HOPEFULLY THIS RIDE IS ALMOST OVER AND YOU ARE JUST LEAVING A FEW DAYS EARLY SO I CAN RETIRE AND CRUISE OVER TO ARIZONA AND HAVE A THANK YOU DRINK WITH MY LITTLE BUDDY IN THE HAWAIIAN SHIRT. TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS FROM YOUR PAL CHARLIE911.

OLD WISE POSSUM, HOW DO YOU DO IT,YOU ARE WISE BEYOND YOUR YEARS.

SCOOT DON`T WORRY I THINK HE IS JUST PLAYING POSSUM!!

AS ALWAYS THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO.

SCHRUMS AND SMOKE. HMMMMMMMMMMM, YOU KNOW COME TO THINK OF IT I HAVEN`T SEEN ANYTHING FROM POSSUM LATELY ???

I WOULDN`T WANT ANYONE BUT SCOOT TO BE AT THE WHEEL !!!!!!! HERE`S TO SPEAKING TO YOU IN PERSON VERY SOON !!!!

THANKS OLD BUDDY, GOOD TO SEE YOU ARE STILL HELPING OUT THOSE OF US THAT JUST SIT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS WITH OUR HELMETS ON AND LICK THE WINDOW!!! TAKE CARE AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

.. AP – Protesters burn tyres to block a road during a demonstration in Sulaimaniyah, 260 kilometers (160 miles) … . Slideshow:Iraq . By YAHYA BARZANJI, Associated Press Yahya Barzanji, Associated Press – Sat Feb 19, 1:52 pm ET SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – Demonstrators thronged streets in northern Iraq Saturday to demand justice over a deadly shooting at a protest earlier this week. In Baghdad, hundreds of orphans and widows rallied to call on the government to take care of them. The uprisings sweeping the Middle East have galvanized many in Iraq, one of the rare democracies in the region, to demand better services from their leaders. The demonstrations in the capital and the northern city of Sulaimaniyah were peaceful, but five protesters were killed earlier this week. A few thousand demonstrators took to the streets in downtown Sulaimaniyah, demanding that those responsible for a shooting two days earlier that killed two people and injured nearly 50 be held responsible. The crowds shouted: "Down, down, with Massoud Barzani!" referring to the president of the three provinces that make up the autonomous Kurdish region. On Thursday, hundreds of protesters had demonstrated in front of the offices of Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. They pelted the building with stones, and Kurdish guards on top of the building opened fire. Officials from the KDP say their guards were forced to defend themselves from the crowd; Barzani has appealed for calm and vowed to investigate. The demonstrators were angry with the tight grip with which the two main ruling parties in the Kurdish north dominate the region and its economy, making it almost impossible for people not affiliated with either one to find a decent job or start a business. Saturday's rally was largely peaceful, but at one point security forces fired shots overhead to disperse the crowd; an official at the hospital said 12 people were treated after being hit by stones, indicating some scuffling had gone on. The official did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Earlier at the city's university, about a 1,000 students also rallied to demand Barzani apologize. The controversy extended to parliament in Baghdad where lawmakers loyal to Barzani got in a shouting match with a representative from Goran, an upstart political movement in the Kurdish region that is trying to challenge the grip of the two main Kurdish political parties on the levers of power. As the Goran member was describing how the protesters were not armed and carrying out a peaceful protest, a Kurdish lawmaker shouted: "This not true!" About 1,500 people rallied in Baghdad in a demonstration organized by non-governmental organizations looking to highlight the plight of some of Iraq's most vulnerable citizens. The hundreds of thousands of women who lost their husbands in wars over the decades or children who have lost parents are particularly vulnerable. One of those in attendance was 9-year-old Ahmed Nasir, who lost his father in 2006 in a roadside bombing in western Baghdad. "We have seven children at home," he said. "My mother takes care of us by sewing clothes, and we have no salary." In a statement, the organizations behind the demonstration said they want the government to give each orphan a monthly stipend. ___ Associated Press writer Saad Abdul-Kadir contributed to this report from Baghdad

founf this elsewhere and thought i would pass on: : No Entry into Iraq… Next 72 hrs… February 19th, 2011 04:13 pm · Posted in CHATS & POSTS (Iraqi Dinar Info), TIDBIT: This is the 2nd email from a site member I’ve receive to this effect today. It appears this is confirmation and legitimate. No entry into Iraq for at least the next 72 hours. -I have written you before, but only when I have news. I work in Iraq as a govt contractor. i am home in the states on leave and I am supposed to fly back to the Middle East tomorrow. My friend called me and said they announced at my base that the Iraqi Govt is denying any entrance visas into Iraq for at least the next 72 hours. this is a very unusal circumstance. I will now be stuck in Dubai when I arrive until the restriction is lifted. We can only hope it is because the RV is about to take place??

wow a -1 for reporting news. here is your link http://reut.rs/ewn7uT reuters dated 1-23-11

Wed, Jan 19 2011Critics alarmed as Iraq's Maliki centralizes power Tweet ThisShare on LinkedIn Share on Facebook0diggsdiggRelated TopicsWorld » By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD | Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:03pm EST BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has won a court ruling placing independent bodies like the central bank and the electoral agency under the cabinet, a centralization of power that critics are calling a "coup." Maliki's government made the request to the supreme court in December before he was reappointed later that month to a second term, and the court ruling in his favor came through last Tuesday, generating little controversy at first. The independent agencies affected are supposed to be monitored by parliament according to the constitution, hastily drawn up in the chaotic aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Maliki argued that where the language describing parliament's monitoring powers over the agencies was ambiguous, the bodies should be attached to the cabinet. The court agreed. The main agencies affected are the Central Bank of Iraq, the Independent Higher Electoral Commission, anti-corruption watchdog the Integrity Commission and the High Commission for Human Rights. "The court views that the term 'monitoring by' is not clear enough to place these under parliament's authority, therefore they should be attached to the cabinet," the ruling said. The decision alarmed critics who view with suspicion glimpses of authoritarian leanings in some of Maliki's actions. The democracy bestowed on Iraq by U.S. administrators after Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted is fragile and unique in a region accustomed to strongmen and presidents for life. Its future is murky as U.S. forces prepare to withdraw this year. "We consider the request of Nuri al-Maliki to the court to be a coup against the constitution that puts Iraq's democracy on the line," said Haider al-Mulla, a member of parliament and spokesman for the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc. CRITICISM OF MOVE Iraqiya, led by ex-premier Iyad Allawi, won the most seats in an election last March but was unable to muster the majority needed to form a government. It ended up a junior partner in the new government formed by Maliki, a Shi'ite. Legal experts and analysts decried the supreme court decision, which a judicial spokesman said could not be appealed. "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is seeking more powers to control his government. He wants to have a strong government," said a prominent lawyer, Tariq Harb. Amman-based researcher Yahya al-Kubaisy of the Iraqi Center For Strategic Studies called it an "unforgiveable mistake." "It's a clear bid by Maliki to monopolize powers," he said. The cabinet groups more than 40 ministerial positions from various political parties, not all allied to Maliki, following torturous horsetrading over nine months to form the government. Some officials supported the court ruling, saying ambiguity over parliament's powers of supervision had allowed some of the independent agencies to be hijacked by political interests. Deputy Central Bank Governor Ahmed al-Buraihi said the decision should have been made a long time back and would not affect the bank's daily operations. "Aren't central bank decisions of importance to the cabinet? Shouldn't the cabinet care about an institution that manages $60 billion and which manages its overseas funds?" he said. Maliki media adviser Ali al-Moussawi said the criticism was an attempt to cast the government in a bad light and undermine its efforts to be strong. Maliki has said a strong government is needed to fight a weakened but still deadly insurgency. "There was a flaw and conflict between the work of these independent commissions and the work of the executive authority ... the government sought to solve this issue through legal channels," Moussawi said. (Additional reporting by Aseel Kami and Haider Najm; Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Matthew Jones)

I THOUGHT THE KURDS AND TURKS WERE GETTING ALONG NOWADAYS??, MAYBE IRAN TRYING TO KEEP THINGS STATUS QUO??

i would like to give out one pump to com-cast!!!!!!!!!!!! GO RV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCOOTER I SIGNED OFF WITH YOU EARLIER ON THIS LONG JOURNEY. YOU DO NOT DESERVE THIS CRAP, SO HANG IN THERE AND WE WILL TALK LATER WHEN THIS IS OVER. AGAIN THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP AND YOU ARE VERY MUCH APPRICIATED, DO NOT FOR A SECOND LISTEN TO THESE SHORT SIGHTED PEOPLE, AND REMEMBER ALL THOSE YOU HAVE MADE THIS JOURNEY BAREABLE.NO MATTER WHAT WE WILL REMEMBER THE SCOOT!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QMAN< I HAVE BEEN SITTING HERE TRYING TO FIGURE HOW TO HELP YOU OUT AND CAN NOT COME UP WITH ANY SOLID REASONING ON HOW TO PROCEED.THEN IT CAME TO ME, WHO DO WE KNOW THAT CAN FIGURE THESE THINGS OUT.THAT`S RIGHT I`M GOING TO SEND "SCOOTER" OVER TO CHANGE PLACES WITH YOU KNOWING HE FOR SURE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS PROBLEM AND WHEN HE IS DONE GIVE US ALL A PERCISE EXPLANATION AS HOW TO HANLDE THE FAT LADY.SO SCOOT YOUR DESTINY IS CLEAR, GET OVER THERE AND PUT YOUR HEAD INTO THIS PROBLEM FOR THE TEAM.

from what i understand the budget needs to be approved a third time in parliament, then it has to be posted in the local paper, " the gazette "before it is legal.

possum you are singing to the choir,time to grab your hooch, and grab your olelady, and geter dun

RICHMAN2 YOU GOTTA BE A PLANT TO START TROUBLE HERE CAUSE YOU CAN`T BE THE FRIGIN STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

. BAGHDAD – Iraq seated a freely elected government Tuesday after nine months of haggling, bringing together the main ethnic and religious groups in a fragile balance that could make it difficult to rebuild a nation devastated by war as American troops prepare for their final withdrawal. One of the government's first priorities will be to decide whether to ask the Obama administration to keep thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq after their scheduled departure in December 2011. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new government solidifies the grip that Shiites have held on political power since Saddam Hussein's ouster. It leaves open the question of whether the country's disgruntled Sunni minority will play a meaningful role. Despite tortuous negotiations that threatened to unravel the country's tenuous democratic gains, the public face of the new government will look remarkably like the outgoing one. The prime minister, president and foreign minister will remain the same. The outcome was a huge victory for al-Maliki, who has made more than his share of enemies as prime minister since May 2006. Parliament originally tapped al-Maliki as a compromise candidate to lead Iraq following tumultuous elections in December 2005 during the height of the war. The new government was sworn in Tuesday immediately after the Iraqi parliament voted to approve 34 Cabinet ministers including al-Maliki. The remainder of the 44-member Cabinet is made up of acting ministers who will be replaced at a later date because of ongoing disputes among coalition partners. President Barack Obama praised Iraq for building an inclusive coalition that he described as "a clear rejection of the efforts by extremists to spur sectarian division." Al-Maliki hailed what he called a unified but diverse government, the creation of which was "the most difficult task in the world." But even as he praised the new government, al-Maliki hinted at its weakness: the need to include all the major political factions as a way to preserve stability at the expense of efficiency. "There were people whose parties have only one or two seats and even they were demanding a ministry," al-Maliki said. "So I know that nobody is satisfied with me." Indeed, two groups blasted the new Cabinet even before it was sworn in. The Kurdish splinter Goran party, which has only eight lawmakers, said it should have gotten more than the one Cabinet post it was offered and threatened to boycott the government. And women lawmakers jeered the male-dominated political parties for largely excluding them from the Cabinet though they make up a quarter of parliament. "This government is not a strong one because it is built on sectarian divisions and self-interests," said Hassan al-Alawi, a leading member of the Sunni-backed Iraqiya coalition that won bragging rights by narrowly edging al-Maliki's bloc in the March 7 parliamentary election. "It is a fragile government." Doing the work of the government ultimately may prove as hard as putting one together. Experts said Iraq's top priority over the next few years is to control its vacillating levels of violence and protect itself from foreign threats. Sandwiched between Shiite majority Iran and Sunni Arab states, Iraq is a Mideast fault line for sectarian tensions and has weak borders. Baghdad University political analyst Hadi Jalo said that factor alone should help al-Maliki gain the necessary support from parliament to ask U.S. troops to remain in Iraq past the December 2011 deadline outlined in a security agreement between Washington and Baghdad — should he choose to do so. "Stability is the backbone for any other progress," Jalo said. "Al-Maliki knows that he cannot overcome any challenges while the security problem is not solved. This is the only way to win the trust of the people and the foreign investors." The clock is already ticking on that decision: A senior U.S. military official said plans will be approved by early April to start sending troops and 1.75 million pieces of equipment back to the U.S. next summer. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the ongoing discussions. Neither Obama nor al-Maliki has shown any enthusiasm for keeping U.S. soldiers in Iraq. More than 4,400 American troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis died in a war that has yet to bring stability and prosperity to this oil-rich Middle Eastern nation. On Tuesday, al-Maliki maintained his commitment to keeping "the pact of the foreign troops' withdrawal, according to the announced schedule." Saying otherwise, however, amounts to political suicide before he is firmly ensconced in his second term. A slew of other top concerns must be settled quickly to satisfy Iraqis who have been frustrated with the lame-duck government since the March elections. The government has been dithering for years over a package of laws that would streamline oversight of the country's oil wealth and make it more quickly available to investors. Iraq holds the world's fourth largest oil reserves, valued at $11 trillion according to current oil prices. Electricity and water shortages, too, have been a major source of anger across Iraq — especially during the sweltering summers. Iraqis have been furious with lawmakers who collected cushy salaries and perks for doing light work while the rest of the country suffered. "We hope that this government will offer something to the people," said Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq, a lawmaker with the secular Iraqiya bloc who only last week was allowed to return to political life after being accused of having links to Saddam's former regime. Although Iraqiya won two more seats than al-Maliki's bloc did in the March elections, the prime minister was able to hang onto his job by making admittedly uneasy allies during months of backroom deals. Iraqiya's leader, former prime minister Ayad Allawi, agreed to join al-Maliki's government in exchange for heading a council that will oversee the government's security and foreign policies. It was still unclear how much power the council will have. Al-Maliki also had to accommodate the hardline Shiite followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Al-Maliki and the Sadrists reached an uneasy detente several months ago after years of fighting each other. A senior Sadrist said his 40-member political coalition was pressured by Iranian officials and Iraq's top Shiite cleric to fall in line behind al-Maliki. He spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations. The competing demands within the new democracy will help foster Iraq's stability, said Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group. Still, "it's going to be a government that is beset by problems," Hiltermann said. "It's going to take a long time for Iraq to rebuild itself." ___ Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra, Hamid Ahmed and Mazin Yahya contributed to this report from Baghdad and Sameer N. Yacoub from

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K98, I THINK NORTHERN GULF IS ONE THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT AFTER THIS IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just ran across this FYI Currency Newshound The Iraqi economy, which is driven almost entirely by oil revenues, has made no progress in 2010 compared with the year before. The reasons behind the poor performance are a fragile security situation, destroyed infrastructure, a poor political situation caused by the search for personal gain [enormous corruption], and the complete absence of a road map to extricate the country from a state of torpor. Despite rising oil prices, the Iraqi budget in 2010 has failed to address the growing needs to rebuild the infrastructure, to provide for the rationing system [introduced by the Saddam regime in the 1990s because of shortages caused by sanctions, but no government has since had the political will to abolish it] and to provide employment to millions in the labor force, including hundreds of thousands of university graduates. During the year, the budget was dominated by recurrent expenditures which amounted to 70% of expenditures while development expenditures amounted to 29%. Economic experts suggest that the economic situation will continue to remain in poor condition until two factors are materialized: first, raising the levels of oil exports (which currently stand at less than 2 million barrels/day) and establishing security in the country to attract investments, both foreign and domestic. Experts estimate the cost of reconstruction at $187 billion. On the positive side, the rate of exchange of the Iraqi dinar has remained stable at about 1,180 dinars for a U.S. dollar, and the foreign exchange reserves at the central bank have increased to $50 billion. Source: Al-Rafidayn, Iraq, December 20, 2010

ONCE AGAIN " THE MAN " HAS DONE HIS THING, GO SCOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!