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Hugoboi is telling his own version of the story, the version that makes sense to him alone. Bragging about the US military casualty not exceeding 2000 is alone to ignore him as he has no clue of how many US soldiers that have died in Iraq. Davd Adenuga, Face your studies lest you become a disaster. Half education is dangerous. |
TayoD:On the contrary I prefer not to put down names of people that are habitual liars and shameless things. Let me have your surname as I need to buy 2 dogs, I will use your username for one and your surname for the other. Deal? |
May her soul rest in perfect peace. |
From my inbox, these are jokes but won't be surprised if they are actual statements made by Bush. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States." ---George W. Bush "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." ---George W. Bush "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." ---George W. Bush |
fstranger:I wonder why the admin of this forum is allowing such an ethnic dog like this bastard use this forum. This same bastard will buy from Igbo man and if possible beg him for money. Dogs like these should just be burnt alive to make the world a better place. |
TayoD:Just saw this. Na wahoooo. So this boy is now able to know when he is being refered to, a positive development in my opinion. Mixing unintelligence, stupidity and foolishness together is not good atall. The last statement (in bold) refers, can't remember seeing any audio feature on this forum so there is no way I could have said your name. Your olodoness no get part 2. |
Mariory:4 out of the 5 statements had nothing to do with Israel yet the only one that does (with good reasons too based on where the message was coming from) catches your fancy because that is the only thing you want to see. Do you have any comments to make on the woman's letter? If yes, state your position. If no, do not turn the thread into a referendum on Afam as that is what incoherent and empty heads do what they lack the intellect to make their points on any issues they get involved in. |
nigeria1:Ofcourse, Nigerians in Nigeria voted for him. Do you believe we may have imported people from Mali and Chad to vote for him? I hope the author is not thinking way too much of himself with statements like these otherwise he will end up ridiculing himself. |
@Mrmayor, You simply have to live with the fact that some people on this forum think that supporting Israel regardless of any wrongs they do is all it takes to become a good christian (one even had the guts to ask me why I was not supporting Israel when I claim to be a christian). Such is the level of stpidity being exhibited on a public forum by those that have been wrong quite a number of times on virtually all the issues they have attemtped to contribute to. Education does not equal knowledge and on this forum I have seen enough proof. Even when some Israelis are not happy with the senseless killing of many civilians in the Israeli Hezbollah war some religous bigts here are ready to spend their last breathe defending what Israelis are opposing, what a shame. |
Exactly the position of some of us that dare stand by the truth. On this forum, for doing so you will be labelled an Anti Bush but I am glad an american is echoing what a lot of people have been saying for a long long time now. I am surprised we have not heard from the die hard supporters of Bush on this forum, the floor is open, let us see how this thread will be twisted by the spin doctors. A day will come when similar letters will come from Israelis based on the many lies being used to ensure the conflit in the middle east remains unresolved. I am still wondering why these guys have not impeached the most incompetent president in the world. |
Did Nigerians abroad elect him as their spokesman? Meanwhile what Nigerians living in Nigeria think is far far far more important and relevant than what Nigerians living abroad think or feel about Nigeria. |
Thanks ogogoro. We offer en enforceable 1 year warranty. We repair or replace at no cost and it makes sense to us as we build these units to last long. |
gbolio4:Hmm, I have a big head already so do not let it grow bigger with these words. Seriously though, I believe we all stand to benefit when we stick with the facts and with the truth in anything we do in life, afterall life is too short for us to be exaggerating things and creating issues out of nothing. Thanks for the kind words. NB: The free directory (both offline and online businesses) is now on a new website www.afamite.com/directory. Listing is also free. |
The idea of being asked to write full fledged applications all in the name of being interviewed is wrong in my opinion. I have seen big organisations do this before, I have been asked to do a complete online demo of what I think their website should look like (after having a lenghty discusssion) and my response is usually simple; No money, no demo as I do not have the time to be writing codes for someone when the money is not in the bank even if the money is for the demo itself. The reason for this is simple, in most cases these organisations get 3 or 4 web designers/programmers and ask for demos and at the end of the day the organisation picks the best after going through all the free demos that must have been developed by the designers/programmers. So, I will rather use the time to learn a new thing or watch cartoons, far better than doing a free job for oragnisations that do not offer free services. |
No two newspaper websites are the same. Get a programmer that can write good codes to do anything online, it's your best bet. I feel sad when you hear people focusing energy on the wrong thing as regards web development. The whole of yahoo or google or youtube can be replicated with codes written from scratch by any good web programmer. If you are not ready to pay for the project then learn web programming yourself and then you can do anything you want. www.afamite.com is a pet project I work on anytime I have free time to burn, the only money spent on it is the cost of the hosting just to make sure that what I have on the machine works well on the net. Like someone stated, see the best newspaper websites out there and ask a programmer (not web designer) to build something similar and of course with additional features that may make sense in our own context here in Nigeria. |
Truth has been bastardized to the extent that anyone can claim to stand by the truth when in the real sense such a person has been caught red handed lying. |
What I do not understand is why the White House should be the one deciding who goes or who stays in the World bank. The article reproduced below tells the disturbing story. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ White House to quickly replace Wolfowitz By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer 1 hour, 1 minute ago WASHINGTON - Trying to put a controversy behind it, the Bush administration was wasting no time finding a successor to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, who will resign over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend. ADVERTISEMENT Wolfowitz on Thursday announced that he would step down at the end of June, his leadership undermined by a furor over the compensation he arranged in 2005 for Shaha Riza, a bank employee. His departure ends a two-year run at the development bank that was marked by controversy from the start, given his previous role as a major architect of the Iraq war when he served as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon. It also ends a potential political headache for President Bush, who had named Wolfowitz to the post. The Wolfowitz flap had been seen as a growing liability that threatened to tarnish the poverty-fighting institution's reputation and hobble its ability to persuade countries around the world to contribute billions of dollars to provide financial assistance to poor nations. The bank "needs to rebuild it credibility immediately, regain its focus and devote its full attention to its clients," said the bank's staff association, which, along with former bank officials, aid groups and some Democratic politicians, had wanted Wolfowitz to resign. The White House said it would move quickly to name a new candidate to run the bank. Bush "will have a candidate to announce soon, allowing for an orderly transition that will have the World Bank refocused on its mission," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. Bush's selection must be approved by the World Bank's board. Among those mentioned as a possible replacement for Wolfowitz were former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, who was Bush's former trade chief; Robert Kimmitt, the No. 2 at the Treasury Department; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; former Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa; Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), R-Ind., and Stanley Fischer, who once worked at the International Monetary Fund and is now with the Bank of Israel. A White House official wouldn't comment on possible candidates, saying "any reporting on potential names is pure speculation." The 185-nation bank, created in 1945 to rebuild Europe after World War II, provides more than $20 billion a year for projects such as building dams and roads, bolstering education and fighting disease. The bank's centerpiece program offers interest-free loans to the poorest countries. By tradition, the bank has been run by an American. The Bush administration keenly wanted to keep that decades-old practice intact as it dealt with the Wolfowitz situation. The United States is the bank's largest shareholder and its biggest financial contributor. Paulson, who will work with the president on finding a successor to Wolfowitz, said, "I will consult my colleagues around the world as we search for a leader." That suggested a more consultive approach to finding a new head of the bank. Bush's selection of Wolfowitz in 2005 for the bank post had stunned Europeans and some other countries. Europeans were upset that Bush would tap someone so closely associated with the Iraq war. After the pay controversy erupted a month ago, Europeans led the charge for Wolfowitz to resign. Wolfowitz waged a vigorous battle to save his job and maintained he had acted in good faith. He was all but forced out, however, by the finding of a special bank panel that he violated conflict-of-interest rules in his handling of Riza's pay package. Until near the end, the Bush administration had professed support for Wolfowitz. But in a shift on Tuesday, the White House indicated for the first time it was open to his departure. It was the same day Wolfowitz made a last-ditch plea to save his job before the board. After days of negotiations, Wolfowitz got what he wanted — an acknowledgment from the bank's board that he did not bear sole responsibility for the conflict-of-interest furor surrounding his handling of the pay package. "He assured us that he acted ethically and in good faith in what he believed were the best interests of the institution, and we accept that," the board said in its announcement of Wolfowitz's resignation. The bank board said it was clear that a number of people had erred in reviewing Riza's pay package. The board's statement made no mention of any financial arrangements related to Wolfowitz's departure, nor did it speak to Riza's future. For his part, Wolfowitz said he was pleased that the board "accepted my assurance that I acted ethically and in good faith in what I believed were the best interests of the institution, including protecting the rights of a valued staff member." Now, he said, it was in the best interest of the board that its mission "be carried forward under new leadership." ___ On the Net: World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org |
Passion and willingness to learn. Unfortunately, the average Nigerian believes he/she knows it all and rather than accept what he/she does not know will rather blame someone or anything for not knowing that thing. In programming, you must be sure of what your code will do even in different scenarios, not just guessing or hoping (as My2cents put it) that your code will do this or that. Again, it takes time to learn but how many of us are willing to spend time to learn, a lot of us wants to make money today today as if there is no tomorrow. |
Iyke-D:And if Yar'adua's victory is annuled then he will kidnap Buhari that came second or he would also void Buhari's 2nd position. Honestly, those who support this man are as guilty and as clueless as the man himself. |
No nation is good enough to have nukes afterall the US is the only nation on record to have knowingly used atomic bombs to target 2 civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki so what are we talking about here? If a country feels it has the right to own nukes then any country that wants to own them should go ahead and acquire them. If you don't plan to use it one day why spend money developing it ![]() ![]() |
@Tornadoz, It seems that truth is always bitter and the revelations may have embarassed those that are ready to do anything to support Israel regardless of what Israel does. I guess some assume that being a good christian is the same thing as total support for Israel, what a shame. |
smartsoft:Na wah ooo. Ok, let me have an example of the font you want me to use especially one that you have used on a website you designed. About the site being scanty I don't manufacture content, every single content on the site is from the client. You may also post the link to a website that you built that is not scanty so I can learn a thing or two. |
From the inbox. Let the religous bigots and hate filled fellows begin the usual diversionary responses. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= Editor's Note: What is AIPAC? It is the American Israeli Political Action Committee and it lobbies Congress and does some "other" things. Read and learn. AIPAC on Trial - by Justin Raimondo Is there a First Amendment right to engage in espionage? Dorothy Rabinowitz seems to think so. Describing the actions of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former top officials of AIPAC, the premier Israel lobbying group, who passed purloined intelligence to Israeli government officials, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist characterized them as "activities that go on every day in Washington, and that are clearly protected under the First Amendment." If what Rabinowitz says is true-if passing classified information to foreign officials is routine in the nation's capital-then we are all in big trouble. On Aug. 4, 2005, Rosen, Weissman, and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin were indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with violating provisions of the Espionage Act that forbid divulging national defense information to persons not authorized to receive it. The indictment traces the treasonous trio's circuitous path as they met in the shadows-in empty restaurants, at Union Station in Washington, on street corners. Rosen and Weissman sought out and cultivated Franklin, milking him for information that they dutifully transmitted to their Israeli handlers. According to Rabinowitz, however, they were merely "doing what they had every reason to view as their jobs"-which is true, assuming they understood their jobs to be spying for Israel. The trial is scheduled to begin June 7. As the day of reckoning approaches, the Israel lobby is ratcheting up the rhetoric. So, too, is the defense: in a duet of hysterical accusations and frenzied rationalizations, the accused spies' defenders have described the proceedings as a frame-up, the result of an intra-bureaucratic struggle within the government, and a plot by anti-Semites in Bush's Justice Department to carry out a Washington pogrom. None of these flights of imagination are any more convincing than the Dream Team's defense of O.J. Simpson. Yet the noise level continues to rise, as if sheer volume, instead of logical arguments, could overwhelm the copious evidence of the defendants' guilt. The indictment lists numerous acts of espionage, dating back to 1999, in which Rosen and/or Weissman acted as conduits for classified information flowing from Washington to Tel Aviv. The feds had been watching for a long time: the indictment makes clear that Rosen and Weissman didn't make a move without the FBI's counterintelligence unit knowing about it. This surveillance is how they happened on Larry Franklin, the Pentagon's top Iran analyst, who walked in on a luncheon meeting in Arlington, Virginia, attended by Rosen, Weissman, and Naor Gilon, chief of the political-affairs section at the Israeli Embassy. The feds were listening in as Franklin-referring to a document dated June 25 and marked "top secret"-announced he had secrets to tell. Tell not sell: unlike the majority of post-Cold War spies, the AIPAC-Franklin espionage ring wasn't centered around financial gain but ideology. Franklin is a dedicated neo- conservative, a minor yet key player in the neocon network, who served in the military attache's office in the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv in the late 1990s and was a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in Iranian affairs working in Douglas Feith's policy shop. The counter-intelligence unit was hot on Franklin's trail, and they watched his every move-his wholesale transfer of top-secret information on Iran, al-Qaeda, and other intelligence of interest to Israel to Rosen and Weissman, who funneled it to their contacts in the Israeli Embassy. The FBI gave Franklin enough rope to hang himself, and then moved in, showing up at his door and confronting him with his treachery. A search of his home and office turned up a veritable lending library of classified documents dating back years, all of which had doubtless been made available to the Israelis. Faced with the probability of a long prison stretch, Franklin agreed to wear a wire to his subsequent meetings with Rosen and Weissman. In the months that followed, the FBI built its case, recording conversations and following the AIPAC duo. And they did a good job, apparently, because the government is making an unusual request: that some testimony and evidence be shielded from the public due to its highly sensitive nature. This wasn't just a case of pilfering a few innocuous memoranda. It looks like team AIPAC made off with the family jewels and maybe even the deed to the house. Why else would the Justice Department risk having a conviction thrown out on appeal on account of such a rarely invoked legal mechanism? The defense has protested proposed security procedures- magnetometers at the courtroom door, security sweeps of the courtroom itself, an officer of the court monitoring electronic surveillance while the trial is in session-on the grounds they would prejudice the jury against the defendants. They compare this to dragging Rosen and Weissman before the jury in prisoners' uniforms and shackles. Yet these security measures point to the serious- ness of the matter before the court, the depth to which the Rosen-Weissman-Franklin spy ring penetrated the government, and the ongoing breach they have opened in America's national-security firewall. While most of the more cautious elements in the Jewish community are staying well away from this case, the radicals, such as Rabbi Avi Weiss and his AMCHA-Coalition for Jewish Concerns, who have previously devoted their efforts to freeing Jonathan Pollard, have now turned their attention to Rosen and Weissman. Steven Lieberman and Anne Sterba, lawyers for the group, wrote in an amicus brief: "Trying these two men for dis- closing critical 'national defense information' to foreign officials, without letting the public know what the alleged information was, will allow enemies of the Jewish people to exaggerate the significance of that evidence and will leave the press and the public to subsist only on rumors and speculation." The Weiss group likens the prosecution of Rosen and Weissman to the Dreyfus case-in effect positing the existence of a vast anti-Semitic conspiracy at the highest levels of the Justice Department. Not exactly a credible contention, offered, as it is, without evidence, but the defenders of Rosen and Weissman are getting more frantic as the trial date approaches. As a writer for the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz put it, "Does this trial really carry any resemblance to the Dreyfus trial? It's a different era, a different country, a different system, a different accusation. Making this comparison demands some imagination, much ambition, and maybe a speck of chutzpah too." A recently unsealed defense memorandum details a Feb. 16, 2005 colloquy between Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, and Nathan Lewin, AIPAC's legal counsel, in which the latter reveals that Paul McNulty-then the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Virginia and chief prosecutor in the case-"would like to end it with minimal damage to AIPAC." Lewin told Lowell, "He is fighting with the FBI to limit the investigation to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman and to avoid expanding it." This is hardly the behavior one would expect of contemporary anti-Dreyfusards in the Justice Department plotting to scapegoat AIPAC and the Jews. Clearly the Rosen-Weissman defense team is involved in a bit of "greymail," that is, forcing the government to disclose as much classified information as possible during the discovery phase of this case and hoping to derail the prosecution entirely as it weighs the effects of disclosure against the benefits of a possible conviction. As we go to press, Judge T.S. Ellis has ruled against the prosecution's proposal to shield sensitive testimony and evidence behind a veil of pseudonyms and euphemism, which could delay the begining of the trial. Efforts to embarrass the administration go beyond accusing DOJ and extend to prominent figures such as Condoleezza Rice, who is accused by Abbe Lowell of leaking national defense information to AIPAC as Franklin did. Gen. Anthony Zinni is being targeted in a similar manner. Both have been subpoenaed, along with David Satterfield, deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq, and William Burns, U.S. ambassador to Russia, to testify. If Rosen and Weissman are going down, the Israel lobby seems to be saying, then so are a lot of prominent people-some of whom, like Zinni, just happen to be their enemies. This isn't greymail, it's blackmail. It was Zinni, after all, who said of the Israel lobby and the neoconservatives: "I think it's the worst-kept secret in Washington. Every- body-everybody I talk to in Washington-has known and fully knows what their agenda was [during the run up to the Iraq War] and what they were trying to do." The intrigue thickened last October as word leaked that a proposed deal was dangled in front of Rep. Jane Harman: AIPAC would back her to become head of the House Intelligence Committee if she would urge the government to treat Rosen, Weissman-and AIPAC itself-with kid gloves. The Forward reported, "Several congressional sources confirmed that major donors to the Democratic Party have been lobbying Pelosi on behalf of Harman's nomination to head the intelligence committee and that these attempts were not welcomed by the House Democratic leader." Time named Haim Saban, the billionaire Hollywood producer and major AIPAC moneybags, as one of the supplicants. Pelosi didn't fall for it, and Harman was rebuffed. Perhaps this was in the background when the speaker was booed as she addressed the subsequent AIPAC national conference, although Pelosi got back in the Israel lobby's good graces after she stripped a provision from the military appropriations bill that would have required the president to go to Congress for permission to attack Iran. The defense has fought to get the case against Rosen and Weissman thrown out on any number of grounds: the Espionage Act is unconstitutional, it doesn't apply to their clients but only to government officials, and, last but not least, it's a violation of the Israel lobby's First Amendment "right" to betray classified information to its masters in Tel Aviv. Twisting and turning, threatening and spitting, delaying as best it can, the defense has tried to wriggle out of it every which way, to no avail. The trial is going forward, and the public spectacle of the biggest espionage scandal involving Israel since the prosecution of Pollard could deliver a body blow to the Israel lobby at a time when it has come in for public scrutiny and criticism as never before. But that hasn't prevented the lobby from brazenly defend- ing the accused spies, in spite of the preponderance of evidence, and even hailing them as patriots. Writing in The Forward, Michael Berenbaum avers, "Instead of being grounds for prosecution, perhaps the influence Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman were trying to exert-making officials and the public aware of the danger from Iran-should be heralded." And why should we hail espionage as laudable in this instance? Well, you see, because the AIPAC defendants were ahead of their time in citing the danger from Iran: "In Washington, as Rosen and Weissman are learning the hard way, the 'crime' is often not being wrong, but rather being right too early or at the wrong time, or being out of sync with the conventional wisdom, or pushing an inconvenient truth." In light of Judge Ellis's recent ruling that in this trial the Espionage Act is going to be interpreted narrowly and that the burden is on the prosecution to show that the defendants knowingly harmed U.S. national security interests, the defense might be expected to make a pitch similar to Berenbaum's-that, instead of prosecuting Rosen and Weissman, we ought to be pinning medals on their chests. The AIPAC defendants weren't spies, they were merely ahead of the curve, anticipating the day when a distinction is no longer being made between American and Israeli interests. That is the line we are hearing, as the curtain goes up on the trial of Rosen and Weissman. Whether the jury or the public falls for it remains to be seen. ----------------------------------------------------------- Justin Raimondo is editorial director of Antiwar.com |
Something like www.afamite.com/news? |
smartsoft:Thanks for the comments but I doubt if I will effect the changes you want. 1. That I use the same font for some of the sites I design is not a bad thing to do. Do you expect me to use over 100 different fonts for over hundred websites? What is important is that the font used is clear enough for people to read. 2. On the background on the header area that is what the client wants so there is nothing anyone can do about that. Thanks once again for your comments. |
Thanks, will do, just needed the client to see the framework and the images, will surely tidy that up when moving the website to its own location. But as they say better do now what you are planning to do later if time permits, so no more excuses, let me work on them. |
@Segebee, You are so very wrong my dear. That you cannot start and finish a professional website in 24hrs or 3 days does not mean that others cannot do so. See the following website, everything (including programming, image optimization, design) took less than 36 hrs not even 2 days. Now, tell me what is wrong with the site - www.justwebservices.com/extracon |
boraddo:Thanks for that, sorted it out. I guess its easy and simple to use. |
noblezone:With all your education you are yet to know the meaning of exaggeration, pity! Why don't you post the link to the thread or better still reproduce the content if you have no shame. It seems that once you tell a lie it doesn't matter whether you tell 100 or 1000. |
As long as it takes a couple of months for you to find or search for such stories your position remains very very weak. But as they say "he that is down need fear no fall". Maybe before October you will find another article likt this one. |
When people openly endorse misinformation and lies then only God knows what can be expected of them. People like these are ready to do anything to achieve anything in life and should be avoided at all costs. This is really disgusting. |
@noblezone, What a shame, did I touch something that really hurt you? Your post is a classical example of one based on bitterness and cowardice. |
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