ambassador in Kabul has written to the White House arguing against sending thousands more American troops to Afghanistan.
In a leaked cable, Karl Eikenberry expressed doubts about the competence of President Hamid Karzai’s government.
The message arrived amid intense debate over strategy, with President Obama yet to make a decision on troop numbers.
This dramatic intervention seems to put the envoy at odds with generals wanting reinforcements, correspondents say.
On Wednesday, Mr Obama he held his eighth meeting in a series aimed at refocusing Afghan policy.
Mr Eikenberry, a former US commander in Afghanistan, also raised concerns about corruption within the Afghan government.

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I peek in and your last post hits me over the head like a brick. Thanks a bunch.

Got hopium?

WASHINGTON – Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering a plan for higher payroll taxes on the upper-income earners to help finance health care legislation he intends to introduce in the Senate in the next several days, numerous Democratic officials said Wednesday.

These officials said one of the options Reid has had under review would raise the payroll tax that goes to Medicare, but only on income above $250,000 a year. Current law sets the tax at 1.45 percent of income, an amount matched by employers.

It was not known how large an increase Reid, D-Nev., was considering, or whether it would also apply to a company’s portion of the tax. President Barack Obama has said he will not raise taxes on wage earners making less than $250,000.
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The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to disclose details of private deliberations.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33871839/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

The residential RE stands a much greater chance of being reduced to worthlessness by destruction by bands of wandering, angry marauders.

ha
you’re the best, guy
i’ve got a pistol and shotgun for those marauders. maybe c4 if necessary

d: For who, the agent? The fact he sells whole life insurance to people who would consider cashing it in means he needs to be castrated….

Where does that leave Janet Reno?

235.Schumpeter says:
November 11, 2009 at 7:02 pm
stu (196)-
That’s so wrong…

Sounds similar to when my grandmother obtained a handicapped license plate from the state of New York due to her ‘legal’ blindness.

Thanks.

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/11/post_36.html

http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/11/news/economy/states_economies/index.htm

I like it long term. I think it will just slog short/intermediate term.

Sugar is a monster. However, corn and soybeans have just had a banner growing season. In addition to this, the brazilian bean crop is huge. No clue regarding wheat.

IMO, the best hope is a lower than expected 2010 crop along with a continued decline in the dollar. I would personally prefer to trade the components rather than the package.