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But slowly, veeery slowly.

"I AM NOT AT LIBERTY TO STATE MORE" "IF YOU CAN READ WITH COMPREHENSION THEN YOU WILL KNOW WHAT OKIE HAS JUST TOLD YOU" ___________________________________________________________________________________ Must be in jail.

Hahahahahaha! Good one DT. +1 dude

Hey SnottyG, The Proctologist's office called. They think they found your head. Now we know why everything went dark for you.

Tried several Arabic to English translators online for "latraga" Got nothing.

You know when the Proctologist says "you're going to feel some pressure and a little discomfort"? That's how this makes me feel.

This is a breakdown from a GET Team post. As is usual for GET Team, bold statements put forth as facts with absolutely nothing to back them up.

Posted on 12 September 2011. Tags: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Reidar Visser The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do no The Iraqi parliament was a sorry sight this morning [saturday]. That the second reading of the bill for the national council for strategic policies was postponed, supposedly until Monday, was never a big surprise. Nor was anyone particularly shocked to learn about a delay in the decision on the question of the parliamentary membership of three deputies whose eligibility has been questioned. But the way the planned vote on the revised bylaws of parliament was suspended today was nothing short of pathetic. Barely had the legal committee started reading out the first amendments to the bylaws which simply included some definitions of key concepts when members of the Shiite alliance began protesting the definition of a “simple majority”! The proposed definition was straightforward enough (half of the present members plus one when a quorum has been reached), but some deputies including Bahaa al-Aaraji of the Sadrists objected on “procedural” grounds, calling this an unspecified violation of article 2 of the Iraqi constitution (laws must be in accordance principles of democracy). As a result of the objections, the vote was called off, supposedly with a postponement until Monday. Maybe it was all theatre agreed to beforehand by the political leaderships. The problem is this: When a bill reaches the stage of voting in the Iraqi parliament, it means there have been two previous readings at which members of parliament at large have had the opportunity to present objections and improvements – which in turn are handled by the relevant specialised committee as well as the legal committee. All too often, however, committees prepare laws for the voting stage only to see them languish forever because the political leaderships discover irreconcilable disagreements that can only be addressed by that Iraqi magic wand of late-night meetings behind closed doors. As a result, the parliamentary impact on a legislative process already dominated by the executive (which presents the laws) is further minimised. As for the substance matter at hand, it is unsurprising that matters are moving so slowly. One interesting aspect of the current bylaws is that they create a collective speakership that involves more consensus-searching (which often means more stalemate) than the constitution actually demands. In other words, had trust existed between Iraqiyya and State of Law, they could have easily reduced the deputy parliamentary speakerships (held by Kurds and the Sadrists) to ceremonial positions and made the current speaker, Usama al-Nujayfi, to a more dominant figure. However, despite rising tensions between the Kurds and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki lately, it seems personal friction between leaders of State of Law and Iraqiyya remains more than strong enough to prevent any attempt at this kind of rapprochement. My questions are: Are they ever going to fill these three seats? And does this have to be done before the GOI is considered "seated"? We've all heard (about a million times) that the GOI must be "seated before we see the RV; truth or guru drivel?

hahahahahahha! Guys, guys, you have this all wrong. One of Okie's sycophantic defenders on another site set me straight.

Nicely summed up.

Here's a link to an article that (supposedly) confirms this, remembering always that this IS Iraq. Link

Dang, I thought there was an article a while back that said all the ministers were approved and the GOI was seated? Guess not.

Thank You RobLe!!! It's nice to have someone who knows what they're talking about refute all the nonsensical claims the guru's have been putting out. Anyone with a smidgin of common sense just reads their posts for the laughs, but there are many who are so desperate for this to happen that they buy into the red, green and yellow screens, the "it happened last Thursday, we're just waiting on the PING", banks are waiting to calibrate the rate on their computers, and all other such bunk. All it takes, as you said, is for a tech to input the rate at the CBI, and it should get picked up everywhere automatically. Anything else you hear to the contrary is just a salesman trying to get you to buy more dinar, (as one ex-pumper confessed on a forum I read somewhere- I believe he got paid $20 USD per million dinar sold). Thanks again for injecting some reason into the chaos!

White House Pentagon Sources? Yeah............................ Right...........................

You're trapped in an elevator with a serial killer, an axe murderer, and Okie. You have a gun, but you only have two bullets. What do you do? ********************************************************************************** Answer: shoot Okie twice

I just love the way they sling that "bank" crap around, plus all the pinging and colored screens nonsense. Every other currency in the world updates instantly with no fanfare, EXCEPT the IQD. Then it takes ten days to release. Right.

'NOTICE THE INTEL WAS ALWAYS CORRECT--IT AT TIMES TOOK A FEW DAYS TO BE PROVEN BUT EVENTUALLY THE TRUTH LIKE CREAM, ROSE TO THE SURFACE.' By God you have to sort of admire someone who can brazenly make a statement like this after all the dozens of times he's been proven wrong. Kinda leaves me scratching my head in bewilderment and amazement.

Good find Trooper.

Dang! Sorry about that. I looked and couldn't find anything on it when I posted.

LINK LINK 2 Above is a link to a snippet from a Fox News Special Report with Chris Wallace (filling in for Bret Baier). The second link is to the full reporrt should you care to listen. In the show Chris Wallace said he had just gotten a report from Reuters that President Obama announced that "he" had a plan to solve all our problems in September. Now I wonder what "his" plan could be? This probably has nothing to do with the RV but I thought it curious that (as one of the panel points out) if he's got this great plan (and since the economy is in the toilet NOW) why will it not be announced until September? Who knows, maybe he'll try to take credit for the RV........................

LINK Above is a link to a PTR interview with Dr. Todd, who is purportedly a world class economist and who is supposed to have worked on the Marshall Plan under Eisenhower. He is also supposed to have worked on the Plan for Iraq. I have not verified any of this. WARNING..... There is some good info on here, but this comes from PTR, so there's also some BS. Use your brain and serparate the wheat from the chaff. The interview is about an hour long.

From Alsumeria News: Friday, August 12, 2011 14:02 GMT Link Iraq Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Al Sajri said that Al Iraqiya List submitted his name as candidate for the Ministry of Defense and pointed that State of Law Coalition and Kurdistan Alliance approve his name. Sajri told Alsumarianews that Al Iraqiya List decided to submit his name among others as candidate to the Ministry of Defense on the list to be presented to Nouri Al Maliki from which he will choose a name. Sajri expected Maliki to approve his candidature. ________________________________________________________________________ According to all the Gurus the GOI has been seated for some time; Quote: "It's Done". This article would appear to disprove that. Of course this IS Iraq, and in addition to that I've read somewhere that Alsumeria is owned by Maliki. So who knows? If indeed it is true that the GOI must be fully seated before the RV occurs, and considering the lightning speed at which the GOI moves, it may be a while yet. Hope not, there's an umbrella drink out there somewhere with my name on it.

From Dinar Guru: 8-10-2011 Guru Okie_Oil_Man (via ghost) OPTIMISTIC AND HOPEFUL THAT THE INTEL STATING THIS AFTERNOON IS CORRECT. INTEL HAS ALWAYS BEEN CORRECT...ALWAYS AHEAD OF THE CLOCK, BUT THE DATE HAD ALWAYS BEEN WRONG...FEELING VERY HOPEFUL ABOUT THIS AFTERNOON [ BUT THE DATE HAD ALWAYS BEEN WRONG ] At last! Okie calls one! Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

He forgot some things. Source in Iraq that he can't name cashed out at 3.22 Obama has signed off on the deal (for the 29th time - the first 28 were evidently signed using disappearing ink) UST source so high he can't name it for fear of (insert threat of your choice), says we should see the RV yesterday I tell you, you just can't find entertainment like this anywhere at twice the price. These gurus, and the DV comments that follow, are just plain funny. Keep it up guys!

I wouldn't get my hopes up. Wait till you see it on CBI.