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Giuliani Notes: Rudy Attends South Carolina GOP Convention
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani speaks during the Spartanburg County GOP convention at Dorman High School in Spartanburg, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007.
AP: Romney, Giuliani a hit with S.C. GOP
Crowds clapped as they packed around Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani while they arrived for the Greenville County Republican convention Saturday.
Some in the crowd grumbled about the absence of Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Yes, where was McCain?
But, does it matter? McCain has been fading in the polls and the Bomb Iran routine – well the Macaca moment for his Presidential campaign.
There was little doubt about the popularity of former New York Mayor Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, as they held court for about a half-hour each before addressing one of the state’s largest Republican groups.
Others worked the crowd, too, such as Brentleigh Crow, who was trying to get her picture taken with all the candidates. Crow, like some Republicans here, was miffed that McCain of Arizona was nowhere in sight.
“I was appalled that McCain thumbed his nose at Greenville,” Crow said. McCain’s campaign staff said he had scheduling conflicts that kept him away from South Carolina’s county conventions, events filled with some of the GOP’s most committed activists.
McCain didn’t buy booth space at the event, either, said Wendy Nanney, the Greenville Republican chairwoman.
People listen to Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani speak during Spartanburg County Republican convention at Dorman High School in Spartanburg, S.C., Saturday, April 21, 2007.
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Iran Watch: US-Iranian Nuclear Worker Steals Nuclear Plant Software for Iran
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez greets (L) Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at Miraflores Palace in Caracas April 20, 2007.
Reuters: US nuclear worker took software to Iran: FBI
A former engineer at the largest U.S. nuclear power plant was arrested on suspicion of taking software codes and using them to download details of plant control rooms and reactors while in Iran, officials said on Saturday.
The software involved was used to train plant operators and there was no indication of a terrorist connection, said Deborah McCarley, an FBI spokeswoman in Phoenix.
There have been a goodly number of Iranian nationals who have gained United States citizenship since the Islamic Revolution of the late 1970’s.
Flap suggests we are at war with Iran and background checks must be scrutinized like those in the Cold War.
The FBI arrested Mohammad Alavi, who worked at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station outside Phoenix, earlier this month at Los Angeles International Airport when he arrived on a flight from Iran, she said.
He is charged with a single count of violating a trade embargo that bars Americans from exporting goods and services to Iran.
Electronic records show that Alavi’s name and password were used to download software registration in October 2006 from a computer in Tehran, according to an FBI affidavit.
Alavi, 49, a U.S. citizen who was born in Tehran, denies wrongdoing, his lawyer, Milagros Cisneros, told the Arizona Republic newspaper.
On Friday a federal judge in Phoenix denied Alavi bail, saying he posed a substantial flight risk, the newspaper reported.
Alavi is accused of removing the software — which mimics plant operations — before he quit his job at Palo Verde last August. Export of the software, without prior authorization, is illegal, according to the affidavit.
Alavi faces up to 21 months in prison if convicted of the charge, according to the Arizona Republic.
Lock this idiot/traitor away and scrutinize (spelled profile) other nuclear workers.
Of course, Mohammad pled not guilty.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Michael Angelo Morales Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Halts Construction of San Quentin Death Chamber
The San Quentin prison in San Quentin, California, December 12, 2005. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered work on a new death chamber halted after lawmakers complained the project was going forward without their approval and because its cost has exceeded expectations, a state prison system spokesman said on Friday.
Schwarzenegger halts construction of new death chamber
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a halt to construction on a new death chamber at San Quentin, which his administration started in January without legislative approval.
Jim Tilton, secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Friday that at least one employee faces disciplinary action for the decision to revamp the death chamber without proper authorization.
“The governor as asked me to stop the project,” Tilton told reporters Friday. “He is very concerned about maintaining good communications with the Legislature and we should have done a much better job with that.”
Officials began construction after concluding it would cost $399,000 — just under the $400,000 level which triggers legislative approval, according to an administration document obtained last week by The Chronicle.
The new death chamber is being finished as the state’s use of capital punishment is under review by a federal court, and lawmakers have yet to authorize a larger construction project to revamp the prison’s entire Death Row.
Tilton said the total cost of the improvements is more than $700,000 and that the department would seek legislative approval for the work as part of the budget process in the coming months.
The Death Chamber at San Quentin Prison
Arnold wimps out to the anti-Capital punishment dominated Democrat legislature because he needs their cooperation to balance the California State Budget.
No GUTS, NO GLORY Governor.
Everyone knows that U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel’s intervention in the Michael Angelo Morales execution case is CRAP.
Governor, don’t discipline the staff member who was attempting to expeditiously honor the will of California voters on Capital punishment – just build the damn death chamber, refurbish Death Row and execute Morales.
Remember Morales’ victim, Terri Lynn Winchell?
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Michael Ramirez on Senator Harry Reid
Iraq War Watch: Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – War in Iraq is LOST
“War in Iraq lostâ€: US Democrat leader
The war in Iraq “is lost†and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.
“I believe … that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week,†Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 21, 2007