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A Fifth Star for General Petraeus According to this op-ed that appeared in the WSJ, Petraeus should get a fifth star. I am not sure what I think of this idea.Here is the conclusion of the piece:
It has been more than half a century since a U.S. general was awarded a fifth star. David Petraeus's generalship has spanned 11 years, three presidents and seven Congresses. It is time to promote him to "General of the Army" and award him a fifth star. Our military deserves it, and he has certainly earned it.
As he survived to 3 presidents and 7 Congresses, he certainly deserves a 5th star ...
Unfortunately, there is no translate button, and so we're left in the dark as to what "Balk?ni birodalom" means! 🙁
It is a link to a Hungarian bookseller site page for a book titled "Balk?ni birodalom", which translates to Balkan Empires My Firefox Google toolbar automatically detects and translates other pages if they are not in English unless I turn that option off.
You're right.You also have the Google option : translate, where you can choose from which language (Afrikaans, Yiddish, Azerbaijani, Latin, Urdu, Haitian Creole included, even French) to wich language you want to translate. According to this, the Hungarian book description is grossly translated by: Balkan empireDescription:Ernest Raffai Balkan empire's book (The transyslvanian Empire a revised and expanded edition), the process is illustrated with plenty of half a century, during which the Romanians living in different countries scattered in diplomacy and war - but both fraudulent manner - in a united country. The book is a summary of the old Kingdom of Romania (the Regata) and the Romanians living in Hungary, Eastern political, economic, cultural and educational history, especially the Romanian-Hungarian government and various social organizations in the activities.Read this book first, Count Istvan Tisza and the history of negotiations of Romanians in Transylvania, the Hungarian Prime Minister eszmecser?kkel of understanding between the two nations wanted to foster. This is because the objectives of the Romanian ter?letszerző not succeed, so the previous few decades Trianon Hungarian-Romanian relations in the final period of deterioration.
I wonder if British academics rate FDR higher because they don't have to live with the aftereffects of FDR's policies.
The full version is available here : http://americas.sas.ac.uk/research/survey/ According to the article, these experts were asked to rate the performance of every president in five categories: * vision/agenda-setting * domestic leadership * foreign policy leadership * moral authority * positive historical significance of their legacyAfter FDR, you got 6 GOP presidents. Would you agree to tell me more about "aftereffects" ?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the top 3 if not 1
I told you so 😉"Franklin D Roosevelt has topped the first ever UK academic poll rating the performance of 40 US presidents since George Washington." "Barack Obama was not included in the survey, but interim assessments indicate that he would have made the top 10 of the rankings. George W Bush was in 31st place, putting him in the bottom 10.""Of the five presidents from 1977 to 2009, only Reagan makes the top 10 and none of the others is in the top 15."Dam...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12195111
I agree about Freedom of speech. It's an inalienable right in democracy.The problem is not about freedom vs rules or whatever that restrains what people want to express.To me, the problem is about each of us. Any one knows or should know that what he says and/or about the consequences his freedom of speech can cause. It's more about thinking before using your freedom or about expressing remorses after.The Art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively is called Rhetoric. Probably forgotten or become obsolete for too many, especially those engaged in the "Res Publica". (in Latin meaning)
Time to remove your dollars from the mattress with yuans !Chinese President Hu Jintao has said the international currency system dominated by the US dollar is a "product of the past".http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12203391
Hitler as Herod Agrippa in 1941http://www.nzherald.co.nz/arts/news/article.cfm?c_id=544&objectid=10699803
Warning :Tongue-In-Cheek Reply Phid,Is it just me or I detect something like 1 of the 7 deadly sins here ? :-
Another brick in the wall of “political correctness”. Today and from Europe … appalling !http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8207411/European-Commission-criticised-for-omitting-Christmas-on-EU-school-diary.html
That kind of weather “dendrochronology” is quite interesting. As they wrote, weather-climate doesn't explain events of the past but what seems to be important to consider is how "climate has acted as one of the many factors that have altered people's lives." and "how climate and society have been intertwined for millennia."I wonder what would be the results about contemporary datas (even if climate is based on the average weather experienced over 30 years or more)
I hate it when I wake up and Sarah Palin is still aliveYup. sure glad the Left aren't a bunch of evil hypocrites or anything. ::)
Such idiots like this one are not close to be on the "endangered species" list ... (of any side)(Update : I'm talking about the author of that facebook account)
What about this one? Inciting violence? Perhaps politicians should be returning any and all contributions from such a corporation!
I didn't know that picture was used by some politicians, was it ? who and why ?
Nobody knows…Btw, what did SP mean by "blood libel" in her declaration ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12174254
If it was harmless why was it swiftly withdrawn from Palin's Facebook profile few time after the shooting ? ???
