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The GOP Leadership Elections

On Friday, November 17th, the Republican members in the House of Representatives will convene to elect their new leadership. Before that happens, right-leaning bloggers have invited each candidate to participate in a conference call interview to present their agenda and answer bloggers’ questions.

What are the questions that you want the candidates to answer? Submit a new question by using the form here, or cast a vote on an existing question below.

Over 1028 people have submitted 296 questions and cast 3413 votes thus far!

Flap says please go and vote on the questions. Read the materials and contact your GOP representative to vote for the leadership of your choice.

Flap knows you will be glad you did.

Flap’s choices:

House Minority Leader

Mike Pence

Indiana – 6th
First elected 2000
Currently Chairman of
the Republican Study Committee

Cox & Forkum: Flashback

TimesOnline: Blair: We must work with ‘Axis of Evil’ states. (via Regime Change Iran)

The first cracks in the united front over Iraq between Tony Blair and President Bush appeared last night as the Prime Minister offered Iran and Syria the prospect of dialogue over the future of Iraq and the Middle East.Mr Blair said there could be a new “partnership” with Iran if it stopped supporting terrorism in Iraq and gave up its nuclear ambitions. Syria and Iran could choose partnership or isolation, he said.

We’re depicting Blair above as being reminiscent of another British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. From Wikipedia:

Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British Prime Minister of the 20th century, largely because of his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938.

On returning from Munich, Chamberlain declared: “I believe it is peace in our time.”

Haaretz: Netanyahu: It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany; Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust

Drawing a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Monday that the Iranian nuclear program posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire western world. There was “still time,” however, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said.

“It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,” Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times, like a chorus, during his address. “Believe him and stop him,” the opposition leader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this.”

While the Iranian president “denies the Holocaust,” Netanyahu said, “he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state.”

Related:

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Iran Will Soon Celebrate Completion of its Nuclear Fuel Program

Oragenics Betting on Dental Cavity Vaccine

H.S. Ayoub submits: Shares of Oragenics Inc (ONI) jumped more than 30% on Monday as the company released its third quarter numbers, and research update.

BHI’s recent article on investing in the dental industry completely failed to mention Oragenics, even though its focus is exactly the kind of future technology that could give dental research a financial boost.

The little Florida biotech company is dedicated to researching and developing various antibody mediating therapies for human infections and other conditions, with primary focus on the oral cavity and periodontal tissues.

And why not develop an anti-caries vaccine? After all, dental caries (decay) is a bacterially transmitted contagious disease.

The biotechnology is in place and the mechanisms of the disease are being investigated and published.

The company’s most exciting product is MU1140, an oral antibiotic treatment that has the potential of immunizing humans against dental caries, commonly known as cavities.

The potential for such a treatment is tremendous. Imagine dental caries being eradicated much like polio, and other childhood conditions, through an immunization!

Oragenics also boasts an impressive lineup of research candidates, including mouth rinses shown to control many of the main disease causing bacterial species found in the human oral cavity.

If not Oragenics, then another company and set of investigators will develop, market and distribute a viable anti-caries vaccine within Flap’s lifetime.

Stay tuned…….

Disclosure: Flap does not own any Biotechnology or Oragenics stock.

Fox News: Neoconservatives: New Bush Advisers Will Raise White Flag in Middle East

The neo-cons say installing Gates, a career CIA analyst who served as the agency’s director for two years under President George H.W. Bush, takes the administration one step closer toward repudiation of the once hailed “Bush Doctrine.”

“What’s happening here is essentially the end of the administration as we’ve known it,” said Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy and neo-conservative commentator.

“Pretty clearly, it signals a return to the ‘Bush 41′ policy,” said Kenneth Timmerman, who heads the Foundation for the Democracy of Iran, which he founded with other prominent neo-conservatives in 1995.

Gaffney and Timmerman both say that Gates and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, members of the congressionally commissioned Iraq Study Group, represent the “old guard” and the status quo of the past. The ISG is poised to release a package of recommendations to Congress for U.S. actions in Iraq.

Read it all.

Stay tuned……

Technorati Tags: MichaelRamirez, RobertGates, IraqStudyGroup, FrankGaffney, BushDoctrine

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, parliament speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, right, and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, left, listen to a speech, during a conference in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2006. Ahmadinejad on Sunday harshly criticized the United Nations Security Council for its threats to impose sanctions on defiant Tehran over its nuclear program.

AP: Iran says nuke program is near complete

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said Iran would soon celebrate completion of its controversial nuclear fuel program.

“With the wisdom and resistance of the nation, today our position has stabilized. I’m very hopeful that we will be able to hold the big celebration of Iran’s full nuclearization in the current year,” the hard-line president told reporters during a press conference.

Iran’s current calendar year ends on March 20.

The hard-line president also claimed that international community was caving it to Tehran’s demand for a nuclear program. He did not elaborate.

The Iran nuclear “POINT OF NO RETURN” is approaching.

Israel is NOT going to wait for this announcement or any announcement that Iran has sufficient nuclear material to manufacture a nuclear weapon.

Benjamin Netanyahu , former Prime Minister, head of the opposition and Chairman of the Likud Party of Israel gives the key address at a session titled Challanges of the Jewish People at the beginning of the 21st Century on the second day of the General Assembly of United Jewish Communities taking place in Los Angeles, Monday, Nov. 13, 2006.

Haaretz: Netanyahu: It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany; Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust

Drawing a direct analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu asserted Monday that the Iranian nuclear program posed a threat not only to Israel, but to the entire western world. There was “still time,” however, to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said.

“It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,” Netanyahu told delegates to the annual United Jewish Communities General Assembly, repeating the line several times, like a chorus, during his address. “Believe him and stop him,” the opposition leader said of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “This is what we must do. Everything else pales before this.”

While the Iranian president “denies the Holocaust,” Netanyahu said, “he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state.”

Stay tuned……..

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – “Israel’s Destruction NEAR”

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Blasts U.N. Security Council

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Broadcasts Drone Footage of United States Carrier

Iran Nuclear Watch: Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh – Strike on Iran Possible

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Won’t Bargain Over Bushehr

Iran Nuclear Watch: A Military Option

Iran Nuclear Watch: Six Arab States Want to Go Nuclear

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Test Fires Three New Missiles in the Gulf

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia and China Say NO to United Nations Iran Sanction Resolution

The Iran Nuclear Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

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