From Motivational Quotes of the Day:

“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.”

From NewsJunk.com:

During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the “surge” strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted “Anbar Awakening,” in which Sunni sheiks turned against Al Qaeda, helping in turn to reduce violence in the country.

In fact, the Anbar Awakening came long before the surge. When talking about a lack of foreign policy understanding, maybe he should look in the mirror rather than point fingers at his opponent?

From Scripting News:

I know this goes without saying, but it keeps coming up.

Remember when our troops marched into Baghdad, took the place over, drove Saddam into a hole and arrested or killed the government. Then we disbanded their army.

When you go to war that’s what victory looks like.

Right. We are getting confused with winning the war in Iraq, and accomplishing our stated goal of a stable democracy there.

The first part is done. The second will never be. It’s simply not possible as long as there’s a large portion of the populace that have no interest in a democracy, but want a theocracy with their particular brand of Islam.

It’s time to actually live up to the Mission Accomplished statement, and get the hell out of Dodge.

From Scripting News:

I know this goes without saying, but it keeps coming up.

Remember when our troops marched into Baghdad, took the place over, drove Saddam into a hole and arrested or killed the government. Then we disbanded their army.

When you go to war that’s what victory looks like.

Right. We are getting confused with winning the war in Iraq, and accomplishing our stated goal of a stable democracy there.

The first part is done. The second will never be. It’s simply not possible as long as there’s a large portion of the populace that have no interest in a democracy, but want a theocracy with their particular brand of Islam.

It’s time to actually live up to the Mission Accomplished statement, and get the hell out of Dodge.

From [Motivational Quotes of the Day](http://www.quotationspage.com/mqotd.html:)

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

From Motivational Quotes of the Day:

“Little by little, one travels far.”

From Motivational Quotes of the Day:

“Frankly, I?m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

From Barak Obama:

I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11…The people who were responsible for murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11… Osama bin Laden and his top leadership — the people who murdered 3000 Americans — have a safe-haven in northwest Pakistan, where they operate with such freedom of action that they can still put out hate-filled audiotapes to the outside world. That’s the result of the Bush-McCain approach to the war on terrorism.

And the response from the Republicans… (sounds of crickets chirping)… still waiting… still waiting…

G’Obama!

From Slashdot:

Many US and Canadian ISPs thought they were under a massive denial of service attack yesterday — traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America. Turns out that the traffic was due to live streaming of the U.S. Open and Tiger Woods nail-biting victory.

I also read that trading was down 15% on Wallstreet, and the theory is that it was because of [[Tiger]]. He is now the omnisportnetmarket controller! 🙂