Stopped engine aerobatics
Watch all the way to the end. The pilot pours iced tea in a glass while doing a roll…http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQpVI_aldB0&search=aircraft
OSCAR Hangover
This Statler Brothers song should be Oscar theme song:
Whatever Happened To Randolph Scott? click here to hear: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman777/WH.htm
Scroll down to view photos
Here's whats wrong with the Oscars and Hollywood in general...
Moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, "I think it's great that the major Oscar nominations have gone to independent films," Lucas added that it's no accident that the "small movies" outclassed the spectaculars in this year's Academy Awards. "Is that good for the business? No — it's bad for the business. But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!" (well, that explains why their revenue is down drastically.)
Spanish test out olives as energy sourceMar 05 -More than 300 buildings in Madrid now run on energy extracted from olive cores, raising hopes that olives -- of which Spain is the world's largest producer -- will become an alternative source of cheap power.
An aluminium heating system continuously sucks tonnes of olive cores from a silo to a stove where they are transformed into embers that give off sufficient energy to heat 16 apartments and offices.
"The quality of the heating is higher and more constant than natural gas or carbon, it's less dirty and less ugly than coal, the costs are lower and it is a national product which does not leave us dependent on fuel (price) fluctuations," says Jorge Tudel, chairman of the flat-owners association.
In 2005, the first year heating costs for the whole building came to 17,000 euros, compared with 23,000 euros under the old carbon-based system, a 30 percent saving.
"The energy is 100 percent non-polluting, a kilo (2.2 pounds) of burnt olive cores, in reality wood compressed in a natural fashion, emits the same quantity of carbon gas as they would if you just left them to rot," insists Cabello...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/05/060305210406.fx71t8vr.html
Scientists are always right... right.
Scientists erroneously predict the demise of New Orleans Termites
Mar 6- NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - ...Scientists had predicted the dirty salt water that flooded New Orleans in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina would spell the demise of the voracious Formosan subterranean termites that have plagued the city for more than 50 years.
...Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said numerous underground termite colonies had been submerged and were expected to drown.
But those reports were premature.
"That information came from laboratories, not from the field," Bordes said.
In fact, in hard-hit neighborhoods near Lake Pontchartrain, inspectors found live termites in traps that had been submerged in up to 10 feet of water.
...Insect experts say it will take more study to determine how some underground colonies were able to survive the floods... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060306/od_nm/hurricanes_termites1_dc;_ylt=AjsMyr67KVlTg40cz6rlPZPtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
'Da Vinci Code' revives dispute over who Mary Magdalene was
March 05, 2006- Mary Magdalene's image has gone through myriad incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season, she's drawing new attention thanks to the upcoming movie version of "The Da Vinci Code," a slew of books and Internet arguments.
But those looking for a salacious side to the biblical figure will be disappointed: Serious religious scholars agree that characterizations that stray from faithful disciple and witness to the Resurrection are bogus.
Despite stage and screen portrayals, they say, the sinful Mary is a matter of mistaken identity. The chief culprit was Pope Gregory the Great, who preached a sermon in A.D. 591 calling Mary a notorious prostitute who repented after encountering Jesus Christ.
The best source of material on Mary is a first-century account, the New Testament itself. There, she stands out as Jesus' most important female disciple, becoming central to the faith on Good Friday and Easter.
Mary is named first among the witnesses to Jesus' Crucifixion, entombment and empty tomb. The less-valiant male apostles deserted Jesus at the cross and refused, at first, to believe the women's "idle tale" about the empty tomb.
For Christians across the centuries, "she is the faithful disciple, and consistently portrayed that way," says Harvard church historian Karen King.
A cottage industry has sprung up around Mary, boosted by "The Da Vinci Code" novel and the film scheduled for release in May.
…All this buzz for a figure who, prior to Golgotha, appears in the Gospels only in Luke 8 -- as one of the women who traveled with Jesus and the apostles and "provided for them out of their means." The phrase indicates that Mary was wealthy, making prostitution an unlikely profession.
Pope Gregory mistakenly identified Mary with an unnamed female "sinner" in the preceding passage, who had a dramatic encounter with Jesus. (This passage never says the woman's sins were sexual.) If Mary had been that sinner, Bible experts surmise, she would have been named there first -- instead of in Luke 8.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06064/664844.stm
Katie Couric Miffed Over Traditional Values Town
March 5, 2006- NBC "Today Show" hostess Katie Couric didn't sound too pleased Friday morning with plans to develop a community that openly espouses traditional values, let alone the fact that it will have a Catholic University at its center.
Plans for Ave Maria, Florida have already drawn praise from Gov. Jeb Bush, who told NBC: "I think it'll be a model for sustainable living not just for Florida, but for the country."
But plaudits from the Florida Republican, who NBC pointedly reminded, is Catholic himself, didn't impress the folks at "Today."
Introducing the segment, reporter Michelle Kosinski lamented that Ave Maria would be a town "without condoms or birth control pills, no porn shops or strip joints, or premarital sex."
But it was Couric herself who seemed most offended, chastising her guests, Domino's Pizza mogul Thomas Monaghan and developer Paul Marinelli, for building a community that "people will see . . . as eschewing diversity and promoting intolerance."
"Does [Ave Maria] follow the tenets pretty much, Mr. Marinelli, of the Catholic church?" Couric worried. "In other words, pharmacies in this community can't sell contraception, correct?"
Not true, the developer responded - explaining that the sale contraceptive materials will be discouraged but not banned.
"You would welcome Jewish residents?" Couric queried, sounding like she expected to get a no for an answer.
"Definitely," Marinelli explained. "We anticipate that there would be synagogues as well as [a] Baptist church."
"What about gay couples?" Couric pressed, appearing confident she'd finally ferreted out the bigoted streak in the traditional values town. Foiled again.
"We will not discriminate against anyone," Marinelli explained. "You know, we respect the Constitution, we're not going to violate the US Constitution or the Florida Constitution."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/100538.shtml?s=ic
Bill Clinton Rips Bush Port Security
March 5, 2006- Ex-president Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Bush administration has not done enough to increase port security since the 9/11 attacks, calling the oversight unbelievable.
...The former president made no mention of his own role advising a Dubai company on how to overcome American opposition to its purchase of operations at several U.S. ports - a move Congressional critics, including his wife, have called a national security risk.
...He also said it was "important to continually modernize the military."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/224532.shtml?s=ic
Duncan Hunter Rips Clinton on Dubai Deal
March 5, 2006- House Armed Services Committee chairman Duncan Hunter blasted former President Clinton on Sunday for advising the Dubai government on how to overcome U.S. opposition to its purchase of some operations at U.S. ports.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Hunter told host George Stephanopoulos: "In our hearing just two days ago, your former boss, President Clinton, was referred to by the president of the ports [company] as having made a phone call to the Emir of Dubai."
Hunter noted that the Emir "is the sole stockholder and the director of this company and President Clinton gave him advice on who he should hire to get this deal through."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/143719.shtml?s=ic
Ralph Peters: Iraq 'Civil War' a Media Myth
5 March 2006- Reports that Iraq has descended into a civil war are not only not true - they're being promulgated by anti-war journalists eager to see U.S. efforts to establish a stable democracy in the country fail.
So says military analyst Ralph Peters, who just spent a week touring Baghdad with the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
"I'm looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can't find it," Peters declared in his New York Post column on Sunday.
Instead, he reports, "I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by."
"Cheering our troops," he repeated.
Everywhere the 506th traveled, he said, the reception was warm. "No violence. None. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome."
Instead, said Peters, the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra - the alleged catalyst for the so-called civil war - has "caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward."
"In place of the civil war that elements in our media declared, I saw full streets, open shops, traffic jams, donkey carts, Muslim holiday flags - and children everywhere, waving as our Humvees passed," he recalled.
"Even the clouds of dust we stirred up didn't deter them. And the presence of children in the streets is the best possible indicator of a low threat level."
So, why is the U.S. press full of reports that Iraq is spinning into chaos?
Says Peters: Many journalists who pretend to be out on the streets of Baghdad getting the story are instead hiding out in their hotel rooms and getting their news from Iraqi stringers.
"And the Iraqi stringers have cracked the code," he explained. "The Americans don't pay for good news. So they exaggerate the bad."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/121111.shtml?s=ic
Erroneous AP Story Cued Liberal Bush-Bashing
Last week's Associated Press report, saying that President Bush had advance warning of a possible levee breach in New Orleans, was incorrect. "The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking," the AP said in a "clarification" issued on Friday.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/14015353.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_news
Commentary: Liberals Are Either Lying or Ignorant
Liberal politicians, cued by the liberal media, showed their lack of due diligence last week by jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon. When the Associated Press reported on a videotape of a conference call involving President Bush and emergency management officials, the A.P. not only misrepresented the contents of the tape, it unleashed another round of predictable hate-speech from the Left. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200603\COM20060306a.html
Former Clinton Advisor Dick Morris: Clinton on Dubai Payroll
March 4, 2006- Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed.
According to Dick Morris Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm over its deal to take over some of the operations at six major U.S. ports.
"Bill Clinton is a senior adviser - a paid adviser - to a company called Yucaipa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to set up a new company called DIGL," Morris said on "The O'Reilly Factor."
"DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaipa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years.
"He is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai. That in addition to the roughly million dollars they gave his library, in addition to the probably $600,000 in speaking fees he got, and in addition to the scholarships for Dubai children they endowed through his library.
"I have three points about that. First, when Bill Clinton tells us this port deal is kosher, he ought to disclose that he's being paid by the government. Secondly, he should register as an agent of a foreign principal because he's giving public relations advice to a foreign company. And thirdly, his wife should disclose how much Clinton is being paid and when he's been paid, because it goes into a joint bank account and this is in effect a payment to the husband of a senator.
"And then I would raise another question: Didn't Hillary jump out of the box opposing this port deal because she knew of her husband's vulnerability and wanted to get out ahead of the story? I was talking to a source of mine who's very close to the Clintons about seven or eight months ago and the source said that he's all the time going back and forth to Dubai and getting deeper and deeper into that relationship. She (Hillary) was worried about that and its political impact," Morris said.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/4/141014.shtml?s=lh
Hillary Clinton 'unaware' of Bill's Dubai ties
March 4, 2006- Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.
But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.
Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.
Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.
...The UAE has also contributed $100m to Hurricane Katrina relief funds – which Mr Clinton had a leading role in raising.
...Privately, some Democrats see the revelations about his ties to the UAE as a classic Clinton dilemma. Mrs Clinton told the New York Post on Thursday that she did not know her husband had been contacted by Dubai officials two weeks ago and offered them advice on the deal. Although both Hillary and Bill Clinton say he stands behind her on the issue and there is no direct conflict, his relationship to the UAE has complicated her political stance on the transaction...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11657573/
Watch all the way to the end. The pilot pours iced tea in a glass while doing a roll…http://youtube.com/watch?v=vQpVI_aldB0&search=aircraft
OSCAR Hangover
This Statler Brothers song should be Oscar theme song:
Whatever Happened To Randolph Scott? click here to hear: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/singingman777/WH.htm
Scroll down to view photos
Here's whats wrong with the Oscars and Hollywood in general...
Moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, "I think it's great that the major Oscar nominations have gone to independent films," Lucas added that it's no accident that the "small movies" outclassed the spectaculars in this year's Academy Awards. "Is that good for the business? No — it's bad for the business. But moviemaking isn't about business. It's about art!" (well, that explains why their revenue is down drastically.)
Spanish test out olives as energy sourceMar 05 -More than 300 buildings in Madrid now run on energy extracted from olive cores, raising hopes that olives -- of which Spain is the world's largest producer -- will become an alternative source of cheap power.
An aluminium heating system continuously sucks tonnes of olive cores from a silo to a stove where they are transformed into embers that give off sufficient energy to heat 16 apartments and offices.
"The quality of the heating is higher and more constant than natural gas or carbon, it's less dirty and less ugly than coal, the costs are lower and it is a national product which does not leave us dependent on fuel (price) fluctuations," says Jorge Tudel, chairman of the flat-owners association.
In 2005, the first year heating costs for the whole building came to 17,000 euros, compared with 23,000 euros under the old carbon-based system, a 30 percent saving.
"The energy is 100 percent non-polluting, a kilo (2.2 pounds) of burnt olive cores, in reality wood compressed in a natural fashion, emits the same quantity of carbon gas as they would if you just left them to rot," insists Cabello...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/05/060305210406.fx71t8vr.html
Scientists are always right... right.
Scientists erroneously predict the demise of New Orleans Termites
Mar 6- NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - ...Scientists had predicted the dirty salt water that flooded New Orleans in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina would spell the demise of the voracious Formosan subterranean termites that have plagued the city for more than 50 years.
...Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said numerous underground termite colonies had been submerged and were expected to drown.
But those reports were premature.
"That information came from laboratories, not from the field," Bordes said.
In fact, in hard-hit neighborhoods near Lake Pontchartrain, inspectors found live termites in traps that had been submerged in up to 10 feet of water.
...Insect experts say it will take more study to determine how some underground colonies were able to survive the floods... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060306/od_nm/hurricanes_termites1_dc;_ylt=AjsMyr67KVlTg40cz6rlPZPtiBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
'Da Vinci Code' revives dispute over who Mary Magdalene was
March 05, 2006- Mary Magdalene's image has gone through myriad incarnations over the centuries, and this Lenten season, she's drawing new attention thanks to the upcoming movie version of "The Da Vinci Code," a slew of books and Internet arguments.
But those looking for a salacious side to the biblical figure will be disappointed: Serious religious scholars agree that characterizations that stray from faithful disciple and witness to the Resurrection are bogus.
Despite stage and screen portrayals, they say, the sinful Mary is a matter of mistaken identity. The chief culprit was Pope Gregory the Great, who preached a sermon in A.D. 591 calling Mary a notorious prostitute who repented after encountering Jesus Christ.
The best source of material on Mary is a first-century account, the New Testament itself. There, she stands out as Jesus' most important female disciple, becoming central to the faith on Good Friday and Easter.
Mary is named first among the witnesses to Jesus' Crucifixion, entombment and empty tomb. The less-valiant male apostles deserted Jesus at the cross and refused, at first, to believe the women's "idle tale" about the empty tomb.
For Christians across the centuries, "she is the faithful disciple, and consistently portrayed that way," says Harvard church historian Karen King.
A cottage industry has sprung up around Mary, boosted by "The Da Vinci Code" novel and the film scheduled for release in May.
…All this buzz for a figure who, prior to Golgotha, appears in the Gospels only in Luke 8 -- as one of the women who traveled with Jesus and the apostles and "provided for them out of their means." The phrase indicates that Mary was wealthy, making prostitution an unlikely profession.
Pope Gregory mistakenly identified Mary with an unnamed female "sinner" in the preceding passage, who had a dramatic encounter with Jesus. (This passage never says the woman's sins were sexual.) If Mary had been that sinner, Bible experts surmise, she would have been named there first -- instead of in Luke 8.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06064/664844.stm
Katie Couric Miffed Over Traditional Values Town
March 5, 2006- NBC "Today Show" hostess Katie Couric didn't sound too pleased Friday morning with plans to develop a community that openly espouses traditional values, let alone the fact that it will have a Catholic University at its center.
Plans for Ave Maria, Florida have already drawn praise from Gov. Jeb Bush, who told NBC: "I think it'll be a model for sustainable living not just for Florida, but for the country."
But plaudits from the Florida Republican, who NBC pointedly reminded, is Catholic himself, didn't impress the folks at "Today."
Introducing the segment, reporter Michelle Kosinski lamented that Ave Maria would be a town "without condoms or birth control pills, no porn shops or strip joints, or premarital sex."
But it was Couric herself who seemed most offended, chastising her guests, Domino's Pizza mogul Thomas Monaghan and developer Paul Marinelli, for building a community that "people will see . . . as eschewing diversity and promoting intolerance."
"Does [Ave Maria] follow the tenets pretty much, Mr. Marinelli, of the Catholic church?" Couric worried. "In other words, pharmacies in this community can't sell contraception, correct?"
Not true, the developer responded - explaining that the sale contraceptive materials will be discouraged but not banned.
"You would welcome Jewish residents?" Couric queried, sounding like she expected to get a no for an answer.
"Definitely," Marinelli explained. "We anticipate that there would be synagogues as well as [a] Baptist church."
"What about gay couples?" Couric pressed, appearing confident she'd finally ferreted out the bigoted streak in the traditional values town. Foiled again.
"We will not discriminate against anyone," Marinelli explained. "You know, we respect the Constitution, we're not going to violate the US Constitution or the Florida Constitution."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/100538.shtml?s=ic
Bill Clinton Rips Bush Port Security
March 5, 2006- Ex-president Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Bush administration has not done enough to increase port security since the 9/11 attacks, calling the oversight unbelievable.
...The former president made no mention of his own role advising a Dubai company on how to overcome American opposition to its purchase of operations at several U.S. ports - a move Congressional critics, including his wife, have called a national security risk.
...He also said it was "important to continually modernize the military."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/224532.shtml?s=ic
Duncan Hunter Rips Clinton on Dubai Deal
March 5, 2006- House Armed Services Committee chairman Duncan Hunter blasted former President Clinton on Sunday for advising the Dubai government on how to overcome U.S. opposition to its purchase of some operations at U.S. ports.
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Hunter told host George Stephanopoulos: "In our hearing just two days ago, your former boss, President Clinton, was referred to by the president of the ports [company] as having made a phone call to the Emir of Dubai."
Hunter noted that the Emir "is the sole stockholder and the director of this company and President Clinton gave him advice on who he should hire to get this deal through."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/143719.shtml?s=ic
Ralph Peters: Iraq 'Civil War' a Media Myth
5 March 2006- Reports that Iraq has descended into a civil war are not only not true - they're being promulgated by anti-war journalists eager to see U.S. efforts to establish a stable democracy in the country fail.
So says military analyst Ralph Peters, who just spent a week touring Baghdad with the 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
"I'm looking for the civil war that The New York Times declared. And I just can't find it," Peters declared in his New York Post column on Sunday.
Instead, he reports, "I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by."
"Cheering our troops," he repeated.
Everywhere the 506th traveled, he said, the reception was warm. "No violence. None. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome."
Instead, said Peters, the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra - the alleged catalyst for the so-called civil war - has "caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward."
"In place of the civil war that elements in our media declared, I saw full streets, open shops, traffic jams, donkey carts, Muslim holiday flags - and children everywhere, waving as our Humvees passed," he recalled.
"Even the clouds of dust we stirred up didn't deter them. And the presence of children in the streets is the best possible indicator of a low threat level."
So, why is the U.S. press full of reports that Iraq is spinning into chaos?
Says Peters: Many journalists who pretend to be out on the streets of Baghdad getting the story are instead hiding out in their hotel rooms and getting their news from Iraqi stringers.
"And the Iraqi stringers have cracked the code," he explained. "The Americans don't pay for good news. So they exaggerate the bad."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/5/121111.shtml?s=ic
Erroneous AP Story Cued Liberal Bush-Bashing
Last week's Associated Press report, saying that President Bush had advance warning of a possible levee breach in New Orleans, was incorrect. "The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking," the AP said in a "clarification" issued on Friday.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/14015353.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_news
Commentary: Liberals Are Either Lying or Ignorant
Liberal politicians, cued by the liberal media, showed their lack of due diligence last week by jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon. When the Associated Press reported on a videotape of a conference call involving President Bush and emergency management officials, the A.P. not only misrepresented the contents of the tape, it unleashed another round of predictable hate-speech from the Left. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200603\COM20060306a.html
Former Clinton Advisor Dick Morris: Clinton on Dubai Payroll
March 4, 2006- Former President Bill Clinton is up to his eyeballs in dealings with Dubai, his former top political adviser has revealed.
According to Dick Morris Clinton is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai, now involved in a firestorm over its deal to take over some of the operations at six major U.S. ports.
"Bill Clinton is a senior adviser - a paid adviser - to a company called Yucaipa which recently set up a relationship with a group called the Yucaipa Investment group to set up a new company called DIGL," Morris said on "The O'Reilly Factor."
"DIGL Inc. is in charge of managing the investments of the crown prince of Dubai throughout the world. Bill Clinton is paid by Yucaipa a percentage of the profits it makes, and Yucaipa said its profits have exceeded 40 percent in recent years.
"He is a paid agent of the crown prince of Dubai. That in addition to the roughly million dollars they gave his library, in addition to the probably $600,000 in speaking fees he got, and in addition to the scholarships for Dubai children they endowed through his library.
"I have three points about that. First, when Bill Clinton tells us this port deal is kosher, he ought to disclose that he's being paid by the government. Secondly, he should register as an agent of a foreign principal because he's giving public relations advice to a foreign company. And thirdly, his wife should disclose how much Clinton is being paid and when he's been paid, because it goes into a joint bank account and this is in effect a payment to the husband of a senator.
"And then I would raise another question: Didn't Hillary jump out of the box opposing this port deal because she knew of her husband's vulnerability and wanted to get out ahead of the story? I was talking to a source of mine who's very close to the Clintons about seven or eight months ago and the source said that he's all the time going back and forth to Dubai and getting deeper and deeper into that relationship. She (Hillary) was worried about that and its political impact," Morris said.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/4/141014.shtml?s=lh
Hillary Clinton 'unaware' of Bill's Dubai ties
March 4, 2006- Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.
But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.
Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.
Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.
...The UAE has also contributed $100m to Hurricane Katrina relief funds – which Mr Clinton had a leading role in raising.
...Privately, some Democrats see the revelations about his ties to the UAE as a classic Clinton dilemma. Mrs Clinton told the New York Post on Thursday that she did not know her husband had been contacted by Dubai officials two weeks ago and offered them advice on the deal. Although both Hillary and Bill Clinton say he stands behind her on the issue and there is no direct conflict, his relationship to the UAE has complicated her political stance on the transaction...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11657573/
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