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No offense taken, Eire jan. I appreciate your input. Well said, Hetanos jan. To answer your question though, I believe it was Reagen who said something to the effect of "Politics is the world's second oldest profession, but is almost indistinguishable from the first."

Chopin - Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor, Op.11 / Variations on Mozart's 'Là ci darem la mano' in B, Op.2 / Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise in E-flat Major, Op.22 (Weissenberg, Skrowaczewski / Orchestre De La Societe Des Concerts Du Conservatoire, EMI) Vivaldi - 'La Cetra' (Standage, Hogwood / The Academy of Ancient Music, Decca)

Wow, so eloquently articulated. Absolutely brilliant, Mr. Manoogian. Keep up the noble work, we're behind you 100 percent. Mr. Bogosian, shame on you!

Saint-Saëns - Septet in E Flat Major, Op.65 / Tarentelle in A Minor, Op.6 / Bassoon Sonata in G Major, Op.168 / Piano Quartet in B Flat Major, Op.41 / Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op.14 / Oboe Sonata in D Major, Op.166 / Clarinet Sonata in E Flat Major, Op.167 / Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op.79 (Nash Ensemble, Hyperion) next ... Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No.1 in A Minor, Op.33 (Jacqueline du Pré, Barenboim / New Philharmonia Orchestra, EMI) Elgar - Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85 (Jacqueline du Pré, Sir John Barbirolli / London Symphony Orchestra, EMI) Delius - Cello Concerto (Jacqueline du Pré, Sir Malcolm Sargent / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, EMI)

Agreed. While some of our friends are having a good laugh about this What I'd like to know is how this 'thing' got there, no human settlement has ever been found above an elevation of 3,000 meters. I believe this 'structure' was discovered around the 4000 meters level. As to preservation - 'Otsi' the oldest human ever found was preserved in similar temperatures and conditions for over 5000 years; his clothes, shoes, tools, etc., were all preserved in the ice. * Berossus, a native historian of Babylonia in 275 B.C. “...grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains of the Gordyaeans in Armenia, and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off, and use it for amulets.”…Babyloniaca * Nicolas of Damascus, a Greek historian and philosopher in 30 B.C. “Above the country of the Minus in Armenia a great mountain called Baris, where, as the story goes, many refugees found safety at the time of the Flood, and one man transported upon the ark grounded upon the summit: and relics of the timber were for long preserved…” * Flavius Josephus, the official historian of the Jews for the Roman Empire in the 1st Century “The Armenians call that spot the Landing-Place for it was there that the Ark came safely to land, and they show the relics of it to this day. This Flood and the Ark are mentioned by all who have written histories of the barbarians.”… Antiquities of the Jews * Eutychius, an Egyptian Arab, Patriarch of Alexandria, a famous historian and physician in the 9th Century A.D. “The Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat; that is, Jabal Judi near Mosul.”… Nazm al-Gawahir

Whether this team has discovered the Ark or not is still in question. One question I have is, why would Kurds go to such great lengths to scale Mount Ararat and build this fake Ark to plant all this fake evidence under all the dirt and ice just to trick future exploers, how would it benefit them to carry this out? Furthermore, when was this done, has any Kurd taken credit for this, and where did they get this 'old wood' from?

As soon as the conference resumed, the Turkish expert said he wasn’t going to answer any questions related to the Armenian Genocide. “I would like more to discuss social issues,” he said. “Our mission is to invite young Armenian people to Turkey and to implement some projects with them. The youth is our target. Turkish expert was tough in his decision rejecting to answer to any question on Armenian Genocide. “Since the discussion has had one direction – the Genocide, I think we have finished with the conference,” he said. ------------ Discuss social issues without speaking on the Genocide?? We know the the Armenian youth is your target, but wouldn't it be 'wiser' to concentrate on your turkish youth, to whom you have continually lied to regarding your bloody past?? Deny them from discovering the truth, our youth is doing just fine.

click here to read the entire article and see the photos Wood specimens were dated as 4,800 years old. From an objective scientific point of view, the discovery of wood on Mount Ararat is encouraging because scientists maintain that high mountain altitudes are depleted of trees and no human settlement has ever been found above an elevation of 3,000 metres. Wood fragments discovered in the past may have come from the Ark. An archaeologist, Professor Oktay Belli said, “The search team has made the greatest discovery in history. This finding is very important and the greatest up to now. On Mount Ararat, human settlement has never reached up to 3,500 m.3" Mount Ararat is a holy place and has rich historical accounts about Noah’s Ark on the mountain.

"proCtocols" Classic!

Bravo, I support his decision. This reminds me of Iran's world judo champion Arash Miresmaeili who refused to compete against an Israeli. Although unrelated ... I also wholeheartedly supported Ara Abrahamian's decision at the Beijing Games of rejecting and dropping his bronze medal to the floor due to undeniable refereeing errors.

(earlier) J.S. Bach - Flute Sonatas: in E Minor BWV1034 / in E BWV1035 / in B Minor BWV1030 / in A BWV1032 (Pahud, Pinnock, EMI) (currently) Beethoven - Symphony Nos.7 in A Major, Op.92 / No.8 in F Major, Op.93 / No.9 in D Minor, Op.125 (Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic, DG) Next ... Brahms - Symphony No.3 in F Major, Op.90 & Symphony No.4 in E Minor, Op.98 (Muti / Philadelphia Orchestra, Philips) * Its been a wonderful day!

Vivaldi - L'Estro Armonico (Hogwood / The Academy Of Ancient Music, Decca) Next ... Händel - Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Sir Neville Marriner / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Hänssler)

My incoherent posting of gibberish was the result of a wonderful evening of some heavy drinking with a certain beautiful Hye woman. I plead guilty of pwi [posting while intoxicated]. lol.

“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International. Asbarez article

Hi Eire, I believe you may have misunderstood my post, as far as what I said and what he himself said. I wasn't taking a cheap shot at McCain - unless you consider presenting some facts about McCain as dealing a "low blow." I think the OP was a bit funny, considering the obvious and idiotic error McCain made. In my second post I was merely laying out some history on McCain and saying that he has come under heavy scrutiny (and attempted physical confrontations) from fellow American citizens and POWs, for his stance. What is, in my opinion, "shameful" is for a POW to oppose the releasing of documents and information about American POWs and MIAs who have still not been accounted for.

To summarize ... Find your self a Hye to love and to love you - and more to the point - GET LAID with a Hye! Please forgive me, but our Lord gave to us the gift of 'intimacy' so let us take advantage of this wonderful gift ...with a Hye, OF COURSE! ...

Posted at Huffington post - I hope that my comment will appear, as all comments are moderated. I see that "someone" by the name of 'Bogosian' [a *fan* of Ted Bogosian] has attempted to set the record straight and finally speak the TRUTH about the honorable Armenian freedom fighter and national hero, Monte Melkonian. Why have we not heard from the real Ted Bogosian? I am outraged and disgusted that Mr. Ted Bogosian, a so-called "truth hound" would be so unprofessional and so careless as to publicly make statements as "truths" without having done proper research and being able to provide ANY evidence to back-up his claims. Mr. Bogosian is not worthy of being labeled a "truth hound." Until he - the real Ted Bogosian - makes a public statement about all the 'inconsistent' statements defaming Monte Melkonian, then the label that is most fitting Mr. Te Bogosian is simply ... A FRAUD!

Mere words can carry such weight. Beautiful.

These heinous killings MUST end! Our "youth" must understand the reality that senseless violence is never a solution to anything, it will only cause more pain and suffering, for the perpetrators as well as the families of the victims who will have to live with the pain of this tragedy. Enough is enough!!!

What a coward. Publicly defame someone - a fellow countryman and national hero no less (who isn't even alive to defend himself), then run and hide behind the skirt of an attorney. If he does have the information to back up his claims, then why this need to put an attorney on retainer? It's crystal clear that he knows he cannot back-up his statements, otherwise he would have done so. Way to go, Mr. Manoogian! I applaud you for spearheading this campaign to clear Monte's name. You've got him worried and on the run. I'm certain that Monte is smiling from ear to ear. You have our support, I'll send Mr. Techentin an email asking him why his client is unwilling to respond to my email. Brothers and sisters, Monte sacrificed so much for us, I plead with everyone to do whatever we can to keep the pressure on Mr. Bogosian until justice prevails. Thank you.

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McCain, a downed Navy pilot, was a prisoner in Hanoi for 5 1/2 years, however his staunch resistance to laying open the POW/MIA records has baffled colleagues and others who have followed his career. The Arizona senator almost never brings up and has never been open about — his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action who have still not been accounted for. McCain has said again and again that he has seen no “credible” evidence that more than a tiny handful of men might have been alive in captivity after the official prison return in 1973. He dismisses all of the subsequent radio intercepts, live sightings, satellite photos, CIA reports, defector information, recovered enemy documents and reports of ransom demands — thousands and thousands of pieces of information indicating live captives — as meaningless. He has even described these intelligence reports as the rough equivalent of UFO and alien sightings. Those still searching for answers point to his best-selling autobiography, 'Faith of My Fathers,' half of which is devoted to his years as a prisoner. In the book, he says he felt badly throughout his captivity because he knew he was being treated more leniently than his fellow POWs owing to his propaganda value as the son of Adm. John S. McCain II, who was then the CINCPAC — commander in chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific region, including Vietnam. (His captors considered him a prize catch and nicknamed him the “Crown Prince.”) Also in the book, the Arizona Senator repeatedly expresses guilt and disgrace at having broken under torture and given the North Vietnamese a taped confession, broadcast over the camp loudspeakers, saying he was a war criminal who had, among other acts, bombed a school. “I felt faithless and couldn’t control my despair,” he writes. He writes, revealing that he made two half-hearted attempts at suicide. Most tellingly, he said he lived in “dread” that his father would find out. “I still wince,” he says, “when I recall wondering if my father had heard of my disgrace.”

Mendelssohn - String Quartet Nos.1 in E Flat Major, Op.12 / No.2 in A Minor, Op.13 / No.6 in F Minor, Op.80 (Quatuor Ysaÿe, Decca) Stravinsky - Ballets (Suites); Petrushka, Pulcinella, The Firebird. (Stravinsky / Columbia Symphony Orch., Sony) Next ... Stravinsky - Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments / Movements for Piano and Orchestra / Violin Concerto in D Major / Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra (Stravinsky / Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Sony)

It appears that McCain is in the early stages of senility / dementia.

կենաց, Զարթօնք ջան. Arpa jan, Was he in fact a foreigner to the Greeks, i.e he was an Armenian??? ("xeno=alien/foreign" and "phon=sound") Good observation. Considering this, he very likely could have been.