香港民主之父 ~ 李柱銘
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在持續二十三年服務立法會以後，馬丁決定今年下臺不爭取選舉。 去年當馬丁在《華爾街日報》上寫了 <China’s Olympic Opportunity> 一文，立即引起很多指責說他叛國。後來《華爾街日報》出了一個通告宣清，馬丁的文字被惡意扭曲了。那些針對他的人把他們自己的話, 放在馬丁的嘴中。馬丁的意思肯定沒有任何對國家有害的意圖, 他只是敦促中國政府不要抑制人權和宗教自由。 我相信馬丁在過去多年, 一直以一種謙遜和平的方式, 表達他對民主的需求; 要求人權在中國有更大的透明度, 他的努力貢獻應該被識辨和讚揚。作為一名真正令人信服的政治領袖, 我肯定想念他。
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HE HAS RISEN
耶穌說：“父憑著自己的權柄所定的時間或日期，你們不必知道。 可是聖靈降臨在你們身上，你們就必領受能力，並且要在耶路撒冷、猶太全地、撒瑪利亞，直到地極，作我的見證人。” 說完了，他們還在看的時候，他被接上升，有一朵雲把他接去，就看不見他了。
He said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
ACTS 1:7-9
THE BEATITUDES
人若因我的緣故辱罵你們，迫害你們，並且捏造各樣壞話毀謗你們，你們就有福了。
你們應該歡喜快樂，因為你們在天上的賞賜是大的；在你們以前的先知，他們也曾這樣迫害。
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
MATTEW 5:11-12
全球反恐
[有線電視新聞網] 訪問魯貝伊時說：「這是一場值得全力以赴的戰爭。恐怖份子在全球各地發動攻擊，許多恐怖份子選擇伊拉克作為他們的戰場, 所以我們必須對他們迎頭痛擊。」,「假如我們不能成功，假如我們不能在這場戰爭中取得勝利，以後我們就會陷入萬劫不復的災難。」魯貝伊強調，他非常同情美國在伊拉克戰爭中付出的龐大財力物力，以及美軍官兵犧牲他們寶貴的生命。 美國軍方昨天宣布，又有四名美軍士兵在伊拉克戰場喪生。自從美國於二零零三年三月揮軍入侵伊拉克後，迄今在伊拉克喪生的美軍官兵已高達三千九百九十六人。 魯貝伊指出，可是伊拉克人為爭取自由付出了更高昂的代價。「在傷亡人數與經費開支方面，我們付出的代價是美國人的三倍以上。所以在這場戰爭中美國人並非獨自作戰，我們不但與你們並肩作戰，而且帶頭衝鋒陷陣。」
反基督證據 ~ Yahoo Blog
温家宝总理将会见中外记者
新华网北京３月１６日电 ３月１８日上午，十一届全国人大一次会议闭幕后，国务院总理温家宝将应大会新闻发言人的邀请，在人民大会堂与采访大会的中外记者见面并回答记者提出的问题。 届时，中央人民广播电台、中央电视台、中国国际广播电台将现场直播总理会见中外记者的实况；人民网、新华网、中国网、中国人大网、中国政府网、央视国际网将进行文字、图片、视频实时报道。
3月16日，十一届全国人大一次会议在北京人民大会堂举行第六次全体会议。这是国家主席胡锦涛祝贺温家宝任国务院总理。 新华社记者鞠鹏摄
新华社北京３月１６日电 十一届全国人大一次会议１６日上午在人民大会堂举行第六次全体会议。会议经过投票表决，决定温家宝为中华人民共和国国务院总理。
麥凱恩 John McCain 出線
麥凱恩民調勝希拉里奧巴馬 連贏 4 州初選正式出線
【明報專訊】8年前在共和黨總統提名戰中落敗、在今屆總統大選中捲土重來的麥凱恩，昨天他在俄亥俄、佛蒙特、羅德島及得州 4 地初選大獲全勝
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麥凱恩（John McCain）周二取得4連勝後，累計黨代表票數已逾1200張，超過共和黨提名門檻的1191票。他在出線後說﹕「最重要的比賽現在正式開始了。」自上月5日「超級星期二」後，麥凱恩便一直大幅領先主要對手赫卡比（Mike Huckabee）。赫卡比周二宣布退選﹕「我支持他（麥凱恩），我們正盡一切努力去團結黨和國家。」
8年前在提名戰中擊敗麥凱恩的現任總統布殊，周三與麥凱恩共晉午餐，之後他將向傳媒表態支持麥凱恩。雖然麥凱恩曾批評布殊處理攻伊失當，但他去年卻大力支持布殊增兵伊拉克 的決定。麥凱恩周二在發表勝利演說時，也誓言若能入主白宮，他將繼續戰鬥，直至在伊拉克取得勝利。「我曾批評我們花了太多時間使用錯誤的策略，但我會支持出兵這決定。我會設法製造條件，讓我們可在確保了國家利益及榮譽下撤軍。」麥凱恩向被視為共和黨溫和派，像奧巴馬般愛強調跨黨派合作、改革華府政界積弊，因而獲得不少獨立人士以至民主黨 選民接受。
據《洛杉磯時報》上周的民調，61％選民對麥凱恩感覺正面，若現在大選，麥凱恩能以46%對40%打敗希拉里、以44%對42%打敗奧巴馬，得以入主白宮。但麥凱恩在槍管、非法移民等社會議題上的溫和主張，卻屢被保守派質疑。布殊暗示可幫他爭取保守派支持，但亦稱麥凱恩需向保守派展示他的「誠意」。法新社指出，布殊表態，將有助麥凱恩爭取保守派票源。
Vote for the righteous
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Sun Mar 2, 9:03 PM ET
WESTERVILLE, Ohio – Democrat Barack Obama worked to fend off an intensified attack on his foreign policy credentials from rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday as their paths crossed two days ahead of a potentially race-ending showdown in Ohio and Texas. ADVERTISEMENT “What precise foreign-policy experience is she claiming that makes her qualified to answer that telephone call at 3 a.m. in the morning?” Obama asked of the former first lady at a town-hall meeting.
It was a reference to dueling television ads over who would exercise superior judgment in responding to a national emergency in the middle of the night. The Illinois senator also sought to ease lingering Internet-fed concerns about his religion, in particular whether he was a closet Muslim. “I am a devout Christian. I have been a member of the same church for 20 years. I pray to Jesus every night,” he declared at an earlier appearance in the rural southern Ohio town of Nelsonville. He said he wanted to halt “confusion that has been deliberately perpetrated.” Unlike Clinton, who has been barnstorming Ohio, Obama had only two events in the state on Sunday and was spending the night in hometown Chicago. He heads to Texas on Monday for a final day of campaigning before awaiting returns on Tuesday in San Antonio. His aides said privately that they felt they had a good shot at a win in Texas, but were less certain about Ohio, where they braced for a possible loss.
The two senators came close to running into each other in this Columbus suburb, where Clinton spoke at one high school and Obama spoke several hours later at another. Obama supporters boasted of a much larger crowd. Obama said his opposition to the war in 2002 was not a single speech — as Clinton has asserted — but a series of remarks during his 2002 successful Senate campaign. Obama criticized Clinton expressly for failing to read the classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons capabilities, a report available at the time of her October 2002 vote authorizing the Iraq war. “She didn’t give diplomacy a chance. And to this day, she won’t even admit that her vote was a mistake — or even that it was a vote for war,” Obama said. “When it came time to make the most important foreign policy decision of our generation the decision to invade Iraq Senator Clinton got it wrong,” Obama said. He said that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a fellow Democrat from neighboring West Virginia, had read the intelligence estimate as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
However, Rockefeller wound up voting for the war resolution. Rockefeller, who is now chairman of that committee, endorsed Obama on Friday and campaigned with him on Saturday. Rockefeller called Obama “brilliant” and “well grounded” and prepared to take the reins as commander in chief. The Obama campaign also lined up a conference call for reporters with various Democratic foreign-policy experts who asserted his ability to inspire and lead, his good judgment on Iraq, and ticked legislative accomplishments. It was an effort to undercut Clinton’s claim that Obama foreign-policy experience was shallow. In addition to foreign policy, Obama talked about economic issues affecting economically depressed Ohio, as had Clinton. Recent polls show Clinton retains a lead in Ohio, although it has been narrowing. In Texas, her once formidable lead has all but vanished and the race is now seen as a dead heat.
Most Democratic strategists see Texas and Ohio as must-win states if Clinton is to continue her candidacy, a view also expressed by her husband, former President Bill Clinton. She has lost 11 consecutive contests to Obama and lags in the delete count. But in recent days, Clinton campaign officials have suggested that if Obama doesn’t win all four Tuesday contests — which also include races in Rhode Island and Vermont — it would signal “buyers remorse” and be reason to continue the campaign to the next major primary, Pennsylvania on April 22.
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