Jimmy Carter linked to oil-for-food scam

[SteveStromberg]

Ex-president worked with key figure
in scandal combating Iraqi sanctions


The weekly Iraqi newspaper, al-Raee, reported that Carter expressed his sympathies with the Iraqi people and railed against the "stringent" sanctions imposed against Iraq as a result of the nation's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The report claimed that Carter had promised to send his wife and son to Iraq. Along with the story was a photograph of Carter with the three religious dignitaries who were part of Vincent's anti-sanctions lobbying tour.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42464

[Superman]

Steve, you are not on my "Ignore List," but that's only because no one is.

[juanbenae]

Originally posted by Superman
Steve, you are not on my "Ignore List," but that's only because no one is.

i know what you mean sup. maybe times are a changin'.

hey by the way sup, (high-jack intended) remember when i asked about the gravity feed brake flush and you recommended a caliper rebuild? well funny thing!! when i broke down the rears for a caliper exercise the dust covers on the rears were toast. it was december 30 and i was going to have to find a caliper rebuild kit on new years eve. talk about a trying experience. ended up finding one at an obscure parts supplier about 20 miles away and he was going to be open till noon. i got there at 11:55 and got my kit, the rebuild was completed later that afternoon. i even made it out for new years eve!!!

thanks for the heads up sup, i should have heeded your word.

back to your regularly scheduled SS rhetoric.

PS- i hate to move this back to the top, but sometimes you gotta do things that may not serve the best intrest of the board. i would prefer it move to page two and die a slow SS-thread type death.

[SteveStromberg]

It was in 1994 that former US President Jimmy Carter went to North Korea and negotiated the freeze-for-reactors deal which was later signed in Geneva.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2604587.stm

[pohsche]

Steve,
I have worked hand in hand with President Carter with HFH. There has not been a finer human in a power position in the last century. Now I will not argue whether there have been more affective leaders. What have you personally contributed to humanity other than your "The niggers and spics are comin' to get us, diatribe?" You are truly a scary man.

Alan Poh
'77 Carrera 3.0

[SteveStromberg]

Personnel problems also plagued the Carter administration. Budget director Bert Lance was forced to resign in 1977 amid charges of banking irregularities; a medical-policy adviser left in the wake of a minor drug scandal; and United States ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young resigned in 1979 after the disclosure of a diplomatic indiscretion.

Carter's brother, Billy, received at least $220,000 from Libya, either as a loan or for services never revealed; the Libyan government had been denounced by the State Department for supporting terrorism. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, moreover, was accused of covering up Billy Carter's relationship with Libya, but a Senate investigation in 1980 failed to clear up these matters.

Also in 1980, a federal grand jury decided that charges that White House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan had used cocaine were not supported by sufficient evidence to file charges, and the Justice Department decided against formally investigating Treasury Secretary G. William Miller, who had denied knowing that a company of which he had once been chairman had spent millions of dollars on illegal payoffs.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566991_2/Jimmy_Carter.html

[SteveStromberg]

HFH is BS they built 3 houses just around the corner from me. There was room for 6 house on the lot. If they really wanted to help why didnt they help 3 more familys by building six houses.

BTW the ChiComs now control both ends of the Panama Canal.

Carter gave that away. He is a commie stooge as proven numerous times over.

[bryanthompson]

Bumbling Carter can build houses for people, that's fine. In fact, that actually makes a positive difference in a few peoples' lives. Hurray for HFH.

What doesn't make a positive difference in many peoples' lives is his continued coddling of dictatorships around the world. Because of him N. Korea has nukes... I don't know if that makes you sleep any better at night. I mean, in leftieland it's unfair for us to have all of the nukes. The man's a damn fool for trusting these people when they should have just been destroyed.

Anyway, on this issue, he can always claim ignorance or incompetence.

[Superman]

Cool. I wonder if you disconnected the rear calipers from the brake lines. Rear calipers are incredibly easy to rebuild without disconnecting. If you remove the clip on the control arm, you can just slide the hard line through, and rest the caliper on the control arm. This not only saves time and is physically convenient, but with the line still connected you have a terrific way to remove the pistons. By the hydraulic force of the master cylinder. Seriously, this is a quick and easy project. The fronts are a little different because there is nothing convenient to rest them on. They'd have to either be hung by a wire, or they would hang by their own brake lines. Glad you had a successful experience.

[juanbenae]

i had done the fronts a year or so ago so i just pulled them (rears) off to be sure. the piston removal was no biggie as i have a compressor. another pelican came by to see how a brake bleed was done, so pulling the calipers and doing the rebuild in a well lit area was good for his intrest in how the caliper worked. he enjoyed the watching the process.

come on guys, tell us about your caliper rebuild stories!!! some starting points for our discussion..

did you use caliper lube, or just brake fluid for reassembly lubrication?

did you remove the caliper from the car completly?

what kind of pan did you use to catch brake fluid as you broke the brake lines loose?

do you have the very obscure 11mm hard line wrench?

do you wish SS would just go away?

did the brake fluid etch the concrete on your garage floor when spilt?

you rule alan poh!!

BT- will you align with any red state kook?

off to page 2 with this trash.

[Superman]

For disconnecting brake lines, the flare nut wrench is indispensable. Get one.

I used to use brake fluid as an assembly lube, but now I use silicon grease. It's better for several reasons.

Two of the reasons I like the hydraulic method of removing pucks are:

1. It's less dangerous. You're sitting in the car when it happens. Popping pucks out with compressed air sometimes requires a fair amount of pressure, and those pucks sometimes come out with a fair amount of force.

2. Hydrauling force is stronger. At times, the air pressure needed to remove a puck is at the high end of the compressor's ability to pressurize air. And again, it's scary. The hydraulic method makes no noise, and the puck has no choice but to quietly leave the caliper.

Plus, it saves the time of disconnecting/reconnecting.

I'm not smart enough to use a pan. So, I get BF on my garage floor. It is not "sealed," so this means my floor attracts water for weeks. I live in a rain forest. And apparently I'm not very smart.

It doesn't bother me that SS is here. I just don't read his remarks.

[SteveStromberg]

The Beneficiaries of Saddam's Oil Vouchers: The List of 270


The following report from MEMRI's Baghdad office is a translation of an article which appeared in the Iraqi daily Al-Mada, [1] whichobtained lists of 270 companies, organizations, and individuals awarded allocations (vouchers) of crude oil by Saddam Hussein's regime. The beneficiaries reside in 50 countries: 16 Arab, 17 European, 9 Asian, and the rest from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.Only a portion of the 270 recipients are listed and identified.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA16004

[SteveStromberg]

Jonah Goldberg
October 18, 2002

Of all the reactions to North Korea's admission that it has been secretly defying its promise not to develop nuclear weapons -- shock, fear, etc. -- the one most in order is some good old-fashioned finger-pointing.

Let's start with the Nobel Peace Prize Committee. On Oct. 11, the Nobel committee announced it would award its Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter. It was really an un-Peace Prize for George W. Bush, whom the Nobel crowd believes is a foolish warmongering meanie.

"In a situation currently marked by threats of the use of power," intoned the Nobel press release, "Carter has stood by the principles that conflicts must as far as possible be resolved through mediation and international cooperation based on international law, respect for human rights and economic development." Translation: Bush should be more like Carter.

Well, one of the conflict-resolutions that supposedly put Jimmy over the top for winning the prize (over the more-deserving Afghan president, Hamid Karzai) was the one between the United States and North Korea in the early 1990s. When Bill Clinton and Kim Il Sung were squaring off over Pyongyang's nuke program, Carter jetted off to the world's last Stalinist nation to compliment the mass-murdering North Korean dictator as a "vigorous and intelligent" man. He declared of a government that has imposed famines on millions: "I don't see that they are an outlaw nation."

And it was brother Jimmy who had the bright idea of lavishing the North Koreans with aid in exchange for their "cross-our-hearts-and-hope-to-die" promise that they would stop pursuing nuclear weapons technology. Of course, many argue it was Carter's mollycoddling of the North Koreans during his presidency that encouraged them to start their nuclear program to begin with. But hey, that's heavy water under the bridge.

In 1994, when Carter went to North Korea to strike a deal, he didn't have the support or authority of the U.S. government to agree to anything. That didn't stop him from announcing on television that he'd made a deal. And the fact that the Clinton administration was out of the loop didn't stop Al Gore from persuading Bill Clinton to leap on the proposal, even though it basically surrendered every major American demand, starting with our insistence that North Korea completely and immediately stop its nuclear weapon program.

The final agreement, which Clinton dubbed "a very good deal indeed," called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light-water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise to be good and an assurance that inspectors would be allowed to poke around at some indeterminate point down the road.

At the time, Kang Sok Ju, the chief North Korean negotiator, bragged that "the complete elimination of the existing nuclear program will only come when we have the light-water reactor in our hands." In other words you pay first, we stop later.

The problem with this deal, which prompted The New York Times to declare, "Diplomacy with North Korea has scored a resounding triumph," is the problem with all such deals: It was based on the assumption that evil men willing to murder their own people would never presume to lie to someone like Jimmy Carter. Just as so many thought Hitler wouldn't deceive Chamberlain. The founding Soviet dictator, V.I. Lenin, called the pliant liberals of the West "useful idiots," and the label still has resonance today.

There is no doubt in my mind that Saddam's useful idiots will cite the threat of a potentially nuclear-armed North Korea to argue that we should put Iraq on the back burner and deal with North Korea first. That would be a better argument if it weren't made by precisely the sort of people who allowed North Korea to become such a threat to begin with.

And that's why a little finger-pointing is a good thing -- not because it's fun (it is), but because those who believe laws and treaties will stop murderers and madmen would have us strike a similar deal with Iraq. The Clinton administration, the gray beards of the Democratic Party, the editors of The New York Times and the "enlightened" thinkers of Europe represented by the Nobel committee: They all believe that George Bush is a fool or a warmonger for not approaching Saddam Hussein the way Clinton and Carter approached North Korea.

And if they win the day, we'll be debating what we should do about Iraq's nuclear weapons in no time at all.

[gaijindabe]

Originally posted by pohsche
Steve,
I have worked hand in hand with President Carter with HFH. There has not been a finer human in a power position in the last century. Now I will not argue whether there have been more affective leaders. What have you personally contributed to humanity other than your "The niggers and spics are comin' to get us, diatribe?" You are truly a scary man.

Alan Poh
'77 Carrera 3.0

I have met President Carter at the Habitat JCWP in New York in 2000. He is pretty cool, the former first Lady is extremely charming woman. I followed them finishing up a kitchen. They do good work..

Otherwise, Alan, I do not think Steve has used such language on this board.. Strong words indeed.

And Steve, as for housing density with Habitat for Humanity projects, that is a complicated issue. Make it too dense and you up-set the neighbors. And single family homes are most volunteer friendly to build. Here in New York, land is so expensive, we are beginning to plan small apartment buildings...

[SteveStromberg]

Well on the same size lot a private contractor is putting in 12 townhouses.
This is one block away.
So it would seem that they could of helped out a dozen families.

[RickM]

Originally posted by SteveStromberg
HFH is BS they built 3 houses just around the corner from me. There was room for 6 house on the lot. If they really wanted to help why didnt they help 3 more familys by building six houses.

There is corruption of sorts in this program for sure.

A few of the boys from the office here volunteered to do some work at a HFH house site a few towns over. Husband/Wife team who took care of many foster kids.

To the volunteers amazment there was a jacuzzi in the plans. Husband has a trailer pull up with Harley and other toys being rolled out.

Wife was "giving back" to the HFH by "managing" (read nagging) the volunteers. They did not have to help build other dwellings.
One of the guys said his impression was that it was a business for these two and that the Wife's comments led him to believe they were warehousing kids for their own benefit.
Needless to say the guys came back saying "never again".

I must say though, while I don't agree with Carter's philosophy on many planes, I do have a profound respect for him.

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Steve, why dont you try having an original thought rather than cut and pasting?

[Z-man]

To those discussing technical apsects of brake calipers - please refrain from discussing that in this thread. Keep the thread on topic.

Steve - what Jared said. Or at least, if you must post something someone else stated here, either summarize it & provide a link, or just quote a section of it and provide a link. That may be more effective than cutting and pasting pages and pages of verbage.

-Z-man.

[bryanthompson]

I think of all of the community service related work, habitat for humanity is the one I would contribute to. Someday, when I'm in the position where I can contribute, I'd like to help build a house. I'd sure as hell rather physically help than just throw money at some bloated organization.

Jimmy Carter, though, still a bumbling idiot.

[juanbenae]

Originally posted by Z-man
To those discussing technical apsects of brake calipers - please refrain from discussing that in this thread. Keep the thread on topic.

what you talkin' 'bout willis?