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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

[chottala.com] coalition of parties at the upcoming poll

media report says, ec will not allow 'non registered parties in coalition with registered parties' to participate at the upcoming poll. i feel, it should be ''registered parties in coalition with non registered parties' to exert pressure on the registered parties to avoid such coalition.
 
is it possible to make the registered parties participate individually at the poll and afterwards have coalition to attain majority of the seats? as far as i can remember, this was the process early.
 
to me, participating individually will prove how much popularity each party has to the voters and will avoid 'nomination engineering' by the coalition to maximize seats.
 
by 'nomination engineering' i meant, for example, bnp-jamat may nominate one candidate from any of the parties instead of two candidates from both, to have the votes from both the party followers and defeat the competitor, and vice versa.

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[chottala.com] Is that day far away when AL will say that they will not accept bangladeshi voter in

 
 
 A number of newspaper has reported that AL will not accept bangladeshi election observer.
 
 
 
 
 it seems to me that after few years Al leader will say that they will not accpet bangladeshi voter. they  need indian voter.
 
 My observation is that AL leadership is not able to bring the party in power in a free and fair election. From the talk and activities of Al leadership it is evident to me.
 
What do you think? What our ssuil's will say?
 
 you can find how our susils are soft from it's heading of this news.
 
 


 
অদক্ষতা, অযোগ্যতা আর তাবেদারীর মাধ্যমে দেশের হাজার হাজার কোটি টাকা ক্ষতি করার জন্য ওদের আর হেলপারদের বিরুদ্ধে মামলা ,আর ওরা গ্রেফতার হবে কবে?

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[chottala.com] Fw: Special Political Opportunity for Maryland High School Seniors

   FYI.. and I encourage high school seniors to apply for the Page Program which will provide an excellent exposure to MD Legislative process -- Good Luck! 
   Thanks,
                Sultan Chowdhury
                Potomac, MD

--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Delegate Saqib Ali <delegate@saqibali.org> wrote:
From: Delegate Saqib Ali <delegate@saqibali.org>
Subject: Special Political Opportunity for High School Seniors
To: "Delegate Saqib Ali" <delegate@saqibali.org>
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 6:10 PM

SAQIB ALI
DEMOCRAT, DELEGATE
DISTRICT 39

"Fresh Ideas, Bold Vision, Strong Leadership"

Dear Friend,

I am writing to inform you of an excellent educational and political opportunity for Maryland high school seniors.

Every year, students from across Maryland come to Annapolis in the winter/spring to participate for two weeks in the Maryland Legislative Page Program.  In their roles as Legislative Pages, these students receive an insider's look and get to actively participate in Maryland's legislative process.

Participants in the Legislative Page Program are selected from a large pool of applicants to spend two weeks throughout the legislative session (January - April) interacting with members of Maryland's General Assembly and performing various tasks to support the work of members and staff.  Legislative Pages get inside access to Senators and Delegates. Pages do everything from assisting visitors to the State Capital to delivering messages to members on the floor of the Senate and House. Best of all, Montgomery County Public School system gives them excused absences from their school to do this work!

I encourage all high school seniors to apply for this excellent program.  Many Senators and Delegates were themselves once legislative pages. If you are a high school senior or know one who is interested in the program, please learn more about and apply for this program by clicking here.

Applications are due by October 24th and final selections will be announced by October 31.

Good luck to all who apply!  Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions regarding the Legislative Page Program or any other matters of importance to you.


Warmest Regards,

Delegate Saqib Ali
www.SaqibAli.org
(301) 685-3409


P.S. 
High school seniors who attend private schools or schools outside Montgomery County should contact their guidance counselors for information about the Legislative Page Program.



Friends of Saqib Ali, Authority Christopher Wilhelm, Treasurer

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[chottala.com] Bush : The Worst President in History?

 

The destructive policies of President Bush

 
By H.D.S. Greenway
October 7, 2008
 

IT IS HARD to believe how far this republic has fallen since President George W. Bush took office. Eight years ago, the United States had a budget surplus, peace and prosperity reigned, and America was universally respected. True, Bill Clinton had besmirched the office of the presidency by his self-indulgence. In his memoir, he would put down his dalliance with a White House intern to the worst of all possible motives. He did it because he could. But that pales in comparison to what Bush has done to the country.

 

I believe that the decision to invade Afghanistan was the right one. But instead of finishing what he started, Bush botched the job and hared off into Iraq, which was not a threat, never committing the necessary resources and attention to Afghanistan. Iraq is, and always was, a diversion to the struggle against Islamic extremism. Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia didn't exist before Bush invaded. And Iran has been immensely empowered.

Remember Donald Rumsfeld talking about hitting Iraq after 9/11, not because there was any connection between Iraq and 9/11 but because there were more things to bomb in Iraq than in Afghanistan? And no discussion, no dissent, no word of caution would be allowed to influence Bush's decision.

When all the various reasons for a preemptive war against Iraq are examined - the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, spreading democracy, helping Israel, etc., etc. - it all boiled down to the worst of all possible reasons: Bush invaded Iraq because he could.

Bush promised a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict before he left office, but his efforts have been half-hearted, sporadic, and pathetic - almost designed to fail.

The hubris and arrogance of Bush's first term still poisons the wells of good will this country once enjoyed. The undermining of the Constitution, the secret torture chambers have besmirched this administration more than any tawdry intern scandal ever could. Today we are bogged down in two wars and an unprecedented deficit, with a financial crisis of a magnitude not seen since the days of Herbert Hoover. The president has so little respect it's as if he has already left the stage.

The economy founders, and it may yet bring the world down with it. The same ideologically driven, hopelessly incompetent administration that brought you Iraq and "mission accomplished" was responsible for the sweetheart deal that the Security and Exchange Commission allowed the investment brokers to increase their debt in proportion to their capital, and then failed to police them.

That deal, according to The New York Times, "fitted squarely" into the broader Bush culture of deregulation that savaged everything from the "Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, to worker safety and transportation agencies."

There was a time when deregulation made sense, but, as in so much else in the life of this administration, Bush took it to extremes.

"I will seize the opportunity to achieve big goals," Bush told Bob Woodward back in 2001. But now, in his fourth book on the Bush presidency, "The War Within," Woodward concludes that in the last eight years Bush has "displayed impatience, bravado, and unsettling personal certainty about his decisions. The result has too often been impulsiveness and carelessness, and, perhaps most troubling, a delayed reaction to realities and advice that run counter to his gut. . . . By his own ambitious goals of 2001, Bush has fallen short."

Whereas he once said he would unite the country, he has been deliberately and destructively divisive. Strangely detached, he has let his vice president run rings around him, and outsourced decisions that should have been his. As Woodward says, in the final days of his hapless presidency Bush "had not rooted out terror wherever it existed. He had not achieved world peace. He had not attained victory in his two wars."

And now this: a great financial meltdown coming down on his watch in the twilight hours of what history will judge as among the worst administrations in our history. When you think of Bush and his team, it's hard to believe so much harm could be done to so many by so few.

H.D.S. Greenway's column appears regularly in the Globe.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/10/07/the_destructive_policies_of_president_bush/

 

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