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Bring our troops home, Part II

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:26:57 PM

Bring our troops home, Part II


''I propose we announce to the Iranian people, not just the madman Ahmadinejad and his mad mullahs, but to the millions of citizens of Iran: "We won't try any longer to keep you from your crazed quest to develop a nuclear weapon. But we remind you that we have thousands of nukes, and if your irresponsible leaders even aim a nuclear warhead at a neighbor – to do something we've never done – we will inflict unimaginable havoc on those despots who intend to use such a weapon.'' I received an amazing response to my last column, in which I called loudly for the president – trying desperately to decide what to do in his newfound role as commander in chief – to issue the executive order to bring every last soldier in the Middle East home. By Christmas.
Amazing to me, because most of the response was overwhelmingly affirmative and positive. I write for conservative readers, and most conservatives, like me, want to bring our troops home to waving flags and proclamations of victory. Yet most readers seem to agree with my loud call.
What has become increasingly clear is that we won our victory in the first days of the invasion of Iraq. We hunted down and eventually executed Saddam Hussein, established that he had managed to sneak his WMDs over to Syria and out of our reach, and gave the Iraqi people a chance to create their own democracy – if they wanted it enough. We should have come home to the parades, declared "mission accomplished," and sent thousands of fighting men and women back to their families.
But no. Partly in hubris, partly in a desire to "spread democracy," and mainly in determination to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden, we got sucked into a rat hole, ambushed by amateurs with roadside bombs, and pushed into Afghanistan and Pakistan with our tanks and remote-controlled drones and flame throwers – to be confronted with scarcely trained but highly motivated locals who hid in caves and bushes on the hillsides. Locals who were in too many cases eager to strap on bombs and die, killing whomever they could. America's intent was to give the locals a chance at life, a better life, but many of these locals have been brainwashed to actually prefer death, if they can take others, even some of their own countrymen, with them. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116701
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Secretary Napolitano is Pinocchio

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:26:13 PM

Secretary Napolitano is Pinocchio


''Napolitano also cites the higher manpower levels of the Border Patrol as a reason for our improved border security. To quiet his critics, Bush doubled the agency's manpower from 9,300 to 18,500. So, if more manpower is fundamental to border control, why has the Obama administration put a halt to this expansion?''

A few days ago, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the Obama administration plans to push amnesty legislation early in 2010. That Obama and Napolitano want amnesty for 15 to 20 million illegal aliens is not news. What was noteworthy about Napolitano's "announcement" was the reason she gave for moving ahead on the amnesty plan in 2010.
The head of our federal agency for homeland security has announced that, unlike 2006 and 2007, when Congress said no to amnesty, today we can do it because our borders are now secure. That's more than hype; it's a lie, and a dangerous one.
That would be big news if true. It would mean that Border Patrol agents are no longer chasing hundreds of border jumpers into the brush each night and catching perhaps 30 percent of those they observe. But, hey, what's a million new illegal aliens each year among friends?
Napolitano and Border Patrol management have been trumpeting the fact that apprehensions on the border are down for the third straight year – down from almost 1.2 million in 2005 to "only" about 800,000 last year. That decrease would be significant if that number meant what most people think it means. What it does not mean is that fewer people crossed the border successfully. It means simply that they caught fewer people, not that fewer people made it through their net. The decrease in apprehension numbers might mean that fewer people are attempting to cross the border, but it also might mean the Border Patrol is focusing more on interdicting drug smugglers instead of human trafficking.
Concerned about the unstemmed flow of illegal aliens over our border? Don't miss Tom Tancredo's book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security"
But there is a really ugly part to the numbers game the DHS officials are playing. Not only do they mislead the public on the number of border intruders, they even lie about something as elementary as the border fence. Napolitano claims that over 670 miles of "new fencing" has been constructed since 2006, but that number is false and deliberately misleading. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116666
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Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:25:31 PM

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out


''Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.''
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.
Reached a Plateau
The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact." http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092,00.html
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Islam is not compatible with a republic

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:23:33 PM

Islam is not compatible with a republic


''There is nothing positive about Islam. I look to the Prophet Muhammad as the typical example. What did he do during his lifetime? First, he married a much older woman for her wealth. Then when she dies, he has all these kinds of religous visions. He organizes raids to rob caravans and massacred many tribes including Jewish tribes in Arabia. He married 12 women, kept 10 concubines and had sex with a 9 year old girl whom he married when she was six. And he had a relevation from God that told him to take his son's wife for himself when he "accidently saw her naked"...."

A Muslim must not enslave another Muslim but is free to do so with a non-Muslim."

When I first started writing for WorldNetDaily, almost three years ago, I wrote "Is Islam compatible with a republic?" My thesis then was to use the Constitution, reason, history and philosophy out of the Judeo-Christian traditions of intellectual thought, including Natural Law, to state authoritatively why Islam is not compatible with a republic. Why? Because Islam contains none of the essential components of what philosopher Booker T. Washington called the "fundamentals of civilization."
What are some of the fundamentals of civilization?
Belief in God (the moon god, Allah, is a very different entity);
veneration of the intrinsic value of all life;
the rule of law;
A written constitution based on truth, equity, liberty and morality;
laws that don't discriminate based on race, creed, wealth, gender or national origin;
Freedom of religion.
These are just a few of the fundamentals of civilization Islam under Shariah law has no conception of and utter contempt for.
Islam is not compatible with a republic.
Last Monday I drove down to Columbus, Ohio, to attend a rally for the 17-year-old Christian convert, Rifqa Bary, who was tricked to come back from Florida where she had fled in mortal fear. She returned to her native Ohio to attend a juvenile court hearing that may force her to move back with her family, who are devout Muslims from Sri Lanka. Rifqa fears that her father will perform an honor killing upon her for "blasphemy against Islam" because of her conversion to Christianity.
Brigitte Gabriel combats politically correct notions about the "religion of peace" in "They Must be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How we Can Do It"
The event was organized by my friend, Florida radio host and publisher Pamela Geller. One of the speakers, Nonie Darwish, also a Christian convert from Islam, made this profound statement:
This [Islam] is not religion. It has nothing to do with religion. Religion is a relationship with God. ... Islam is a relationship with the State. Islam is a one-party, totalitarian system. It's a one-party State that will not allow you to speak. And it will kill anybody who challenges or questions.
Islam is not compatible with a republic. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116714
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A Bullet to the Head

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:22:41 PM

A Bullet to the Head


''We seem to regard germs the same way we think about terrorism: Random attacks that can be deadly. All parties who promote vaccination hawk this view, particularly those pushing both types of flu shots. Tens of millions have been spent in the US on national advertising campaigns, and even Sesame Street merchandising, to convince us that flu shots are necessary to keep us well – and keep us alive. But perhaps we have it backwards.'' It seems people often need to experience a bullet to the head before they will believe bullets can be deadly...and then they rue the day they ignored warnings about playing with loaded guns.
Vaccination seems to hold a similar place. People ignore words of caution and roll up their sleeves to get a flu shot. It seems they think getting a vaccine is the same as taking a multivitamin, and equally as benign. But when serious adverse events occur, such as Guillain-Barre paralysis, a seizure disorder or even a death, a jolt of reality lays bare just how damaging a “simple vaccine” can be.
The stranglehold of fear, perpetrated by those in white coats and by the medical bureaucrats in Washington DC who take their marching orders from pharma, is working hard to choke rationally thinking adults into submission. I get emails almost every day that say something like, "I bought your DVDs and your books...but I have a question: Should I get a flu shot?" WHAT?@!>! My mouth drops. I have to clear my head and find a way to say, "No, you should not get the flu shot", being cautious to keep my tone void of sarcasm. That may seem harsh, but in very turbulent times. Soft language and hand holding until people “get it” is becoming increasingly more difficult.
Being in the business of waking people up to the hazards of vaccines certainly has its ups and downs. A recent “up” was the public policy debate held on November 10 at the University of Texas in Austin. Sponsored by the Libertarian Longhorns, the Texas College Republicans and a few other Texas health freedom groups, the discussion called, "Are Vaccine Mandates Good or Bad for Public Health?" was open to the general public. Interest in this timely topic was reflected by the standing-room only attendance of the meeting. http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri126.htm
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Al Gore: Goreballed Liar

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:22:06 PM

Al Gore: Goreballed Liar


Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters.
Stationed outside the Mizner Park Amphitheater, the protesters jeered at Gore as he took the podium and at those walking into the open-air venue to listen to the speech.
"This is the most dangerous crisis we've ever faced," Gore said of climate change. He spoke over a chorus of boos from protesters, who were monitored by at least a dozen uniformed city police officers.
Many of the protesters were with the groups Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and South Florida Tea Party, the latter of which feels that Gore's views will eventually lead to increased taxes and flawed business legislation.
The protesters carried drums, bullhorns and posters. One read "Practice what you preach," accusing Gore of not living a green lifestyle. Another poster read "The masses follow the sasses," depicting the protesters' opinion that Gore's message is not backed by scientific evidence.
Gore, meanwhile, in his presentation laid out data that he said was compiled by the world's leading scientists and supports the theory of global warming. The speech carried much of the same content and rhythm as Gore's Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which turned him into a leading international voice on the issue of climate change.
Gore's latest book on the subject, titled Our Choice, was published this month.
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'Twilight': Selling your soul for puppy love

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:16:08 PM

'Twilight': Selling your soul for puppy love


'' The movie is filled with high emotion and teen angst to the point where characters are unable to function properly. Thus, the message being sent to teenagers and young adults is that this is what love really is – a message that is encouraged as the characters are portrayed as truly knowing their hearts and having an accurate understanding of what love entails.''

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is the second of four vampire stories by Stephenie Meyers, a Mormon. It continues the love story between Edward and Bella, two unique teenagers. Bella spirals down into a deep hole of depression when the vampire she loves leaves her in an effort to protect her. She finds herself picking up the pieces of her broken heart with her best friend, who happens to be a werewolf.
Picking up where the first movie left off, "New Moon" opens with Bella (played by Kristen Stewart), having recovered from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, starting her senior year of high school and celebrating her 18th birthday with Edward Cullen, a vampire who refuses to attack humans, and his family.
After an ill-fated accident resulting in Bella's blood being spilled at the Cullen residence, which is almost too much for certain members of the family, Edward (played by Robert Pattinson) decides to leave. He believes he is protecting Bella from the dangers of the vampire world by doing so. He asks her to promise him not to do anything reckless...Other elements of concern include some unresolved discussion concerning whether vampires still have souls and if they are ultimately destined for hell. Because of this uncertainty, Edward is greatly opposed to turning Bella into a vampire, but Bella's constant insistence finally wins out, though this particular event doesn't take place in this movie.
Taken together, these elements – and "New Moon's" strong Romantic worldview, its occult and pagan content, brief violence, Bella's reckless behavior and Edward's suicidal actions – are unacceptable viewing for media-wise moviegoers.
"The Twilight Saga" and "New Moon" make the world of vampires and werewolves look very attractive. Parents and children should be aware of this and use appropriate discernment.
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Chips embedded in humans will control computers

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:59:02 AM

Chips embedded in humans will control computers


"We're trying to prove you can do interesting things with brain waves," said Pomerleau. "Eventually people may be willing to be more committed ... to brain implants. Imagine being able to surf the Web with the power of your thoughts."

By the year 2020, you won't need a keyboard and mouse to control your computer, say Intel Corp. researchers. Instead, users will open documents and surf the Web using nothing more than their brain waves.
Scientists at Intel's research lab in Pittsburgh are working to find ways to read and harness human brain waves so they can be used to operate computers, television sets and cell phones. The brain waves would be harnessed with Intel-developed sensors implanted in people's brains.
The scientists say the plan is not a scene from a sci-fi movie -- Big Brother won't be planting chips in your brain against your will. Researchers expect that consumers will want the freedom they will gain by using the implant.
"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," said Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.' Now you can't get them to stop [carrying devices]. There are a lot of things that have to be done first but I think [implanting chips into human brains] is well within the scope of possibility." 
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Bring our troops home, Part II

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:58:32 AM

Bring our troops home, Part II


''I propose we announce to the Iranian people, not just the madman Ahmadinejad and his mad mullahs, but to the millions of citizens of Iran: "We won't try any longer to keep you from your crazed quest to develop a nuclear weapon. But we remind you that we have thousands of nukes, and if your irresponsible leaders even aim a nuclear warhead at a neighbor – to do something we've never done – we will inflict unimaginable havoc on those despots who intend to use such a weapon.'' I received an amazing response to my last column, in which I called loudly for the president – trying desperately to decide what to do in his newfound role as commander in chief – to issue the executive order to bring every last soldier in the Middle East home. By Christmas.
Amazing to me, because most of the response was overwhelmingly affirmative and positive. I write for conservative readers, and most conservatives, like me, want to bring our troops home to waving flags and proclamations of victory. Yet most readers seem to agree with my loud call.
What has become increasingly clear is that we won our victory in the first days of the invasion of Iraq. We hunted down and eventually executed Saddam Hussein, established that he had managed to sneak his WMDs over to Syria and out of our reach, and gave the Iraqi people a chance to create their own democracy – if they wanted it enough. We should have come home to the parades, declared "mission accomplished," and sent thousands of fighting men and women back to their families.
But no. Partly in hubris, partly in a desire to "spread democracy," and mainly in determination to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden, we got sucked into a rat hole, ambushed by amateurs with roadside bombs, and pushed into Afghanistan and Pakistan with our tanks and remote-controlled drones and flame throwers – to be confronted with scarcely trained but highly motivated locals who hid in caves and bushes on the hillsides. Locals who were in too many cases eager to strap on bombs and die, killing whomever they could. America's intent was to give the locals a chance at life, a better life, but many of these locals have been brainwashed to actually prefer death, if they can take others, even some of their own countrymen, with them.
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Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:58:00 AM
 

Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out


''Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.''
At least the weather in Copenhagen is likely to be cooperating. The Danish Meteorological Institute predicts that temperatures in December, when the city will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be one degree above the long-term average.
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.
Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations.
Reached a Plateau
The planet's temperature curve rose sharply for almost 30 years, as global temperatures increased by an average of 0.7 degrees Celsius (1.25 degrees Fahrenheit) from the 1970s to the late 1990s. "At present, however, the warming is taking a break," confirms meteorologist Mojib Latif of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in the northern German city of Kiel. Latif, one of Germany's best-known climatologists, says that the temperature curve has reached a plateau. "There can be no argument about that," he says. "We have to face that fact."
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Burger Prez Now

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:33:54 PM

Burger Prez Now

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Dear Sarah: Say It!

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:32:49 PM

Dear Sarah: Say It!


''Please, Sarah, say it ain't so. Say you're not just another pretty face. I like Jim DeMint, but hanging his picture on my office wall just doesn't cut it.''

Gov. Palin, if you want angry Americans – those who are now in the majority! – to take you seriously, here are some cheat notes for you to use in future interviews and speeches:
Barack Obama is a socialist (or, more properly, a Marxist). Say it!
Barack Obama, it obviously follows, is a radical. Say it!
Barack Obama has surrounded himself with Marxists and other radicals who want to fundamentally change America. Say it!
Barack Obama is a liar. Say it!
Barack Obama is the least transparent president in U.S. history. Say it!
Barack Obama wants to get a government-controlled health-care plan and a cap-and-trade bill passed for one reason and one reason only: to gain total control over people's lives. Say it! http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116550
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Palin vs. WaPo's atheist

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:32:15 PM

Palin vs. WaPo's atheist


''Apart from the far left, those who have followed Sarah Palin will discern that Quinn's assessment is completely opposite of what they observe. You can't watch Sarah Palin in action or in interviews without recognizing her genuineness, her graciousness, her kindness and her authentic Christian spirit.''

It seems the mainstream media's favorite pastime is to ridicule Sarah Palin. Of all the screeds I've read, I don't think any are snarkier than the Washington Post's Sally Quinn's "On Faith" blog post "Sarah Palin's 'rogue' Christianity."
Do we need further proof of the secular orientation of our dominant media culture than the fact that Quinn, an avowed atheist, pens the Post's "On Faith" blog? That would be like featuring a column by Fidel Castro on free enterprise and individual liberties.
On her mini -bio, Quinn writes: "I announced to my parents when I was 13 that I was an atheist. And I was a committed atheist all of my life. My view was that more evil had been done in the name of religion than anything else in the world. I saw no redeeming value in it at all. Then I met Jon Meacham and we began talking. No, Jon didn't convert me, but he did convince me that religion was not a subject to be dismissed or disdained."
If that's true, why did Quinn devote her entire blog post to dismissing and disdaining Sarah Palin's profession of faith in her book, "Going Rogue"? I must admit, though, it's difficult to tell whether Quinn is motivated more by her disdain for Sarah Palin, whom she has a history of berating, or mainstream Christianity.
She's bringing leftists to their knees with angst, but is she the best hope for the future of the GOP? Get Sarah Palin's best-seller, "Going Rogue: An American Life"
Quinn says: "Sarah Palin writes that one summer at Bible Camp she 'put my life in my creator's hands and trust Him as I sought my life's path.' For Palin, this grand divine plan was 'a natural progression,' she writes. And later, 'I don't believe in coincidences.'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116598
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Weapons for the GOP punditocracy

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:31:42 PM

Weapons for the GOP punditocracy


''Why are privately owned homes cared for and public housing trashed? Why do government-controlled forests burn each year at tremendous costs to the people and property they abut, while privately managed forests are spared? Why did crops rot in the collective farms run by the old Soviet communist system, but not in capitalist, commercial farms?''

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is advancing on the country with an $848 billion health-care bill in hand, which he hopes to bring to the Senate floor before he and cohorts go on holiday.
Yet the swiftest arrow in the Republican punditocracy's Obamacare quiver remains this:
If the government can't pull off the Cash For Clunkers scam, how will it handle health care?
Or this:
If government can't manage the gallery of the grotesque – Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – how will it run a sixth of the economy?
When all else fails to persuade, they galvanize the argument from Hitler. Taking their cues from Rush Limbaugh, it is not uncommon for Republican commentators to pair B. Hussein's health care with Hitler's hobby horses: smoking bans, abortions, euthanasia and eugenics.
Statism's illogic exposed for all to see in F.A. Hayek's "The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism"
Hitler and the mismanagement by government of Medicare and Medicaid (but not of the military) – this is the Republican commentariat's repertoire of riffs.
Anything but First Principles, with which the GOP has an oil-and-water relationship.
Republicans are clearly more exhausted than engaged. The same goes for the targets of their message. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116597
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A major disaster named Hasan

Posted by Miguel Diocuore Ph.D. on Friday, November 20, 2009 4:31:10 PM

A major disaster named Hasan

'Richard and the Major', a film
''I'm afraid that in the current climate, the best we can hope for is that Hasan doesn't wind up being appointed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But don't be too surprised if somewhere down the line he picks up a Nobel Peace Prize.''

Some friends were trying to convince me that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will surely be executed for conducting his one-man massacre at Fort Hood. I was willing to bet he wouldn't be. For one thing, why would he be the exception? Sirhan Sirhan wasn't executed, Charles Manson wasn't executed, even Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't executed by the state; it took a fellow inmate to dole out justice to a real-life Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
For another thing, Barack Obama, who had wasted no time denouncing the Cambridge Police Department as stupid and bigoted when his pal professor Louis Gates was momentarily inconvenienced, merely cautioned all of us not to jump to any conclusions in this matter. In spite of the fact that Maj. Hasan was a fellow who made no secret of the fact he was a devout Muslim who had no use for America and had just murdered a number of soldiers, Obama urged us to keep an open mind. At least the president stopped short of calling for a shout-out for the major.
At the same time, the head of Homeland Security, Janet "The Cannibal" Napolitano, was working overtime to guarantee there would be no backlash directed at American Muslims.
A jaw-dropping expose on the six-month undercover operation that revealed the true terror-supporting nature of CAIR: "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America." It's also available in electronic form at reduced price through Scribd.
Considering that CAIR spouts Islamic propaganda seven days a week and that America's Muslims, under the guise of supporting charities, funnel funds to Hamas and Hezbollah whenever the FBI isn't watching, why are we supposed to be so concerned about hurting their feelings? Lest you regard this as mere partisanship, I used to ask the same question when Bush and Condi Rice kept telling us, as if they were proselytizing for Islam, what a wonderful religion it is. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116541
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