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The Thief in the Night By Bean-girl Have you ever had an encounter with a thief breaking into your home? If not how many times have you read about their sudden attacks in newspapers and TV? Scary, right? Don’t want it to happen to you. Well, got some bad news for yah all... it already has. Yes, I realized something long ago, most thieves in the night are your local newspapers and news shows, your high end fashion magazines, almost all of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Oh, yes, you heard me right; they come into your life as innocent...

There's a "deadlock" over pruning back overgrown bushes in an area known as Avon Gorge located in Bristol, England. The reason why the Bristol City Council has put on hold pruning the bushes and clearing away the overgrowth? Apparently gay groups claim it would be discriminatory to the men who use the area known as Circular Road for "dogging". Rather than just pruning back the bushes, a report was commissioned by the Downs Committee. In the report a recommendation by the Council's Rainbow Group--council employees who are lesbian, gay and bisexual--the employees claimed cutting the overgrowth and pruning the bushes...

"It's one thing when Obama, the Democrats' standard bearer to be, is identified as the most liberal senator. It is something else, something quite extreme, when Obama is recognized as the darling of the Communist Party USA. "

Who are the real environmentalists — liberals or conservatives? By Christopher Cook The first news item I saw this morning was from FOX News:Feds: Caribbean Monk Seal Officially Extinct HONOLULU — Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo. Humans hunting the docile creatures for research, food and blubber left the population unsustainable, say biologists who warn that Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals could be the next to go. The last confirmed sighting of a Caribbean monk seal was in 1952 between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Between now and Election Day, Democrats say they will use Congress to showcase the kinds of change promised by their presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Some legislation they'll choose have good prospects of passage — policy blueprints for higher education and the military; a ban on lead in toys — and skip over debates on spending plans and some taxes until a new president takes office. Other bills they'll debate are doomed. But on those, the point isn't passage this year. It's about making the case that the Democrats' plan for children's health care, for example, won't become...

SACRAMENTO — Karen Bass has drawn up a short agenda for her two-year reign as Assembly speaker that begins next week. There are only three items: * Balance a state budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared is "$20 billion out of whack." * Create a ballot initiative that would produce $300 million to $500 million annually for foster care programs. * Restructure California's tax system to make it conform to the modern world. Actually, she wants to create a blue-ribbon commission of "the best and the brightest" to tackle taxes. That's all. Rather ambitious for someone who has held...

The powers that be have decreed that homosexuality and all its variations are normal, and woe to anyone who dares question this alternate lifestyle. Homosexuality has been added to the list of topics, along with race and global warming, that is off limits for discussion. The debate has been declared over. Homosexuality, which not very long ago was defined as a “disorder” in medical journals, is well on its way to becoming a lifestyle option. Despite the fact that it is based on a premise which has been thoroughly discredited. The normalization of homosexuality has its genesis in 1948, when...

The CBS News/New York Times poll has both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton leading John McCain in head-to-head races by five points. According to the poll, Obama leads McCain 47% to 42%, with Clinton leading McCain 48% to 43%. As always, it is important to see how the poll's respondents break down by party -- a look which shows that those questioned self-identified 39% Dem, 28% Repub, and 33% independent in the unweighted sample. The weighted sample broke down 40% Dem, 26% Repub, and 34% independent. The unweighted sample shows an 11-point margin for the Dems, while the weighted sample...

WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders are racing to push through an array of election-year housing measures that already have stirred up much political wrangling and the White House is examining its own plan to further help homeowners caught in the mortgage meltdown. With foreclosure signs prevalent and a Wall Street rescue reverberating, majority Democrats want the government to step in and back up to $400 billion in troubled loans. The goal is to help strapped borrowers and thaw a credit market plagued by uncertainty about the value of subprime mortgages made to people with spotty credit or low incomes. As lawmakers...

Obama's women reveal his secret By Spengler "Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America. We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

7:00 pm ~ Opening flag burning 7:15 pm ~ Pledge of Allegiance to the U. N. in Spanish 7:20 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 7:25 pm ~ Nonreligious prayer and worship with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton 7:45 pm ~ Ceremonial tree hugging 7:55 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 8:00 pm ~ How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore 8:15 pm ~ Gay Wedding Planning - Barney Frank presiding 8:35 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast and explains the new amnesty program 8:40 pm ~ Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry 9.00...

I’m enjoying the prime time primaries, carefully considering what each politician brings to the table as they all campaign to participate in what policy wonks might consider the political equivalent of the National League and American League playoffs in baseball. It’s exciting and compelling observing the players moves; assessing “statistics” comprised of voting records and accomplishments; and listening to analysts determine the catalyst behind voter reactions, compare and contrast the candidates’ styles, analyze the spin, and comment on occasional heartfelt passion, as each contender competes to “go to the show,” our nation’s 2008 presidential election. After the Democrats choose their...

[RAMBLINGS] You want to know the issues? I have the answers... Pass this on.. You want Race to quit being an issue? Don't bring it up in your campaign. Period. You want peace in our time? Stop handcuffing the hands of our commanders behind their backs and let them achieve peace through strength. You want to create jobs? Quit regulating how businesses conduct themselves and Quit forcing payroll policies on businesses. Don't tell them they can't have smokers as customers and don't tell them how to cook their french fries. ... more

Faced with a huge budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is having to scale back his ambitions this year and will be forced to resurrect old ideas during Tuesday's State of the State address. Aides say he plans to renew his push for health care reform, while making a plea for budget reforms he has tried twice before but failed to achieve. The governor's strategists hope the Democrats' alliance with Schwarzenegger late last year over a plan to expand health coverage to millions of uninsured Californians will prevent them from launching an all-out war over the deep budget cuts he is...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said if he isn’t elected president, the population of African-American males is likely to either wind up in prison or dead. At an MTV/MySpace.com forum Thursday, Edwards responded to a question about inner-city kids partaking in violence by saying there was no “silver bullet” to fight the problem. “We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America....

ST. LOUIS - The leading Democratic presidential contenders on Friday endorsed a National Urban League agenda that calls for mandatory early childhood education and universal health care for children. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards each promised support for the Urban League's plan, which favors extending childhood education programs to children as young as age 3 and guaranteeing access for all to attend college. Sens. Clinton and Obama have engaged in a weeklong feud precipitated by Monday's debate exchange over whether a president should meet with leaders of rogue nations without preconditions. The two did not share the...

Homosexual agenda on the march. This poll badly needs freeping. I can't excerpt the article do to the dreaded:burlingtonfreepress.com cannot be posted due to copyright complaint.http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/NEWS01/707260314/1009

WASHINGTON - Beset by poor approval ratings and internal differences, congressional Democrats hope to give themselves a triumphant send-off when Congress departs on a monthlong summer vacation. "They can't possibly do all the things they want to do," counters Rep. John Boehner, the House Republican leader. Perhaps not. But Democratic leaders, seven months in power, have set an ambitious agenda for themselves for the next 10 days, even momentarily dispatching their efforts to end the Iraq war to the background. They intend to send President Bush bills to counter terrorism and tighten congressional ethics, measures that were among the party's...

The straight talk express may have blown a gasket around the beltway, but it is running redline up and down I-95 in South Florida. Mayor Jim Naugle of Fort Lauderdale is being demeaned by the hedonist press of the region because he made a few claims that, while they are easily supported by data, run counter to the Broward state religion. Here is a list of his sins, as recorded in the Sun-Sentinel's encyclicals. First, Naugle said he does not use the term "gay" because homosexuals are "unhappy." Second, he claims his city has a problem with men using public...

MEMPHIS, July 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week, the Fox News' O'Reilly Factor exposed the increasing trend of lesbian gang violence terrorizing neighbourhoods and schools, especially in large cities across the United States. According to FOX News crime analyst Rod Wheeler there are some 150 such gangs in the DC area alone, including Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. The gangs, known as Dykes Taking Over (DTO) or Gays Taking Over, are forcing children into homosexuality. Wheeler told host Bill O'Reilly: "there is this national underground network, if you will, Bill, of women that's lesbians and also some men groups that's actually...

Many of the same people who want to prohibit any mention of God in our schools are now attempting to ram the homosexual agenda down our throats. They see no inconsistency in repressing over 90 percent of our society who are believers in God while promoting a small, though highly controversial lifestyle of 1 to 2 percent of our population. U.S. District Judge, Mark Wolf threw out a lawsuit filed in Lexington, Mass. by David Parker, father of a five-year-old kindergarten student. Parker wanted to shield his son from homosexual lessons. Judge Wolf said in his ruling against this father,...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56254 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WND BOOKS Finally! The full exposé of North American agenda Book documents plans for merger of U.S., Mexico, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 20, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Resistance to enforcing immigration laws and border security by political elites in the nation's capital is, at least in part, a result of plans to promote political, social and economic integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, charges a new book, "The Late...

SILVER SPRING, Maryland (Reuters) - A new movie showing young polar bears and walruses struggling toward adulthood in a melting Arctic puts a pair of charismatic faces on the global warming threat. "Arctic Tale," produced by the company behind "March of the Penguins" and narrated by singer-actress Queen Latifah, depicts the lives of female polar bear cub "Nanu" and female walrus calf "Seela" from birth to parenthood. The characters are composites of animals filmed in the Arctic over 10 years. Nanu and Seela are shown facing life-and-death challenges made greater by an Arctic climate which changed dramatically during the filming...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 — Gay and lesbian prisoners in California will be allowed overnight visits with their partners under a new prison policy, believed to be the first time a state has allowed same-sex conjugal stays.

WASHINGTON - New penalties against Sudan — check. More dollars to fight AIDS in Africa — check. A respected internationalist to lead the World Bank — check. Friendly words about tackling global warming — check. George Bush is ready to go to Europe. His bag packed with a pre-emptive agenda he spent all week detailing, the president leaves Monday on a trip that will take him to six countries in eight days. Bush journeys from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, with the centerpiece of his travels a three-day summit in Germany with leaders from Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia....

It is sometime in the not-so-distant future. I am sitting at a bar next to a beautiful, young girl; she is subtly snuggling up to me. Her hand is resting on my thigh, but no one can see as it is concealed by the bar. I am 50 years old and she is merely twenty-one. The young girl’s third drink has now been consumed so she pushes her glass forward across the bar. “Another Gin and Tonic with a touch of lime,” she orders. The barman returns with her drink. “On your tab, Sir?” he says with a look of...

The Romney Agenda.Strong. New. Leadership. May 25, 2007 Immigration Reform Priorities: Governor Romney Outlines Three Priorities On Immigration Reform. GOVERNOR ROMNEY: "We're going to have to secure our border first. Two, put in place an employment verification system to make sure we're giving jobs only to those people who come legally. And number three, for the 12 million, we can't allow them to have a special privilege of being able to stay here indefinitely." MIKE GALLAGHER: "Well, I tell you that's music to my ears and to the ears of millions of Americans..." ("Mike Gallagher Show," 5/21/07) Governor Romney:...

The gay-rights argument has never been about their so-called ‘homosexual orientation’ it has always been about their ‘sexual desire.’ For sake of this discussion, I will mainly focus on homosexual men as opposed to homosexual women. By doing this, it is not my intention to alienate gay women or to make them feel lesser than their male counterparts. On the contrary, they are definitely as guilty as homosexual men in respect to the perpetration of the big, fat, GAY lie. Having said that, I simply don’t believe these so-called-gay females warrant discussion as half of them aren’t really gay at...

We hope that by the time you read this, the solutions to global warming will be well under way. You already know from living with us, how concerned we are about this problem. Sometimes, we go over board with our reactions to everyday annoyances like over -packaged products, leaving lights on in the room, taking too long a shower or leaving your chargers in the wall. We embarrass you when we glare at hummer drivers and or get emotional when we talk about drowning polar bears. But we do this because all of the things that we love and care...

Civil Unions Not Enough for New Jersey Gays by Pete Winn, associate editor Activists call for marriage. On the day New Jersey made civil unions legal, homosexual activists made clear what they really want is nothing short of "marriage." Garden State Equality Chairman Steven Goldstein announced a campaign to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples within two years. "Civil unions are not marriage," he told the New York Daily News. "Marriage is the only currency of commitment the world understands." Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, said gay activists are not satisfied with "just getting benefits."...

ATLANTA --... Members of St. John's Lutheran Church last weekend filed by their pastor, hugging him and exchanging jokes. Many in the 350-member Atlanta congregation say they don't plan to let the Rev. Bradley E. Schmeling leave the pulpit Aug. 15, as ordered last week by an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) disciplinary committee because he is in a gay relationship. ... "We are not an activist church, even though we can stand for issues of justice," said Charles Fox, who occasionally assists Schmeling at Sunday worship. "He exemplifies the kind of love and empathy I envision Christ to...

WACO, Texas (BP)--If an Internet user types the word “gay” into the search engine for Wal-Mart’s online bookstore, more than 1,000 titles turn up -- including titles from “Gay Power: An American Revolution” to “The Gay Disciple: Jesus’ Friend Tells It His Own Way.” Granted, some of the 1,000-plus titles are duplicates and a few are written in opposition to the homosexual agenda, but what is clear is that Wal-Mart continues to dabble in supporting a lifestyle that is contrary to what many of its customers believe is natural and safe. By offering book selections that cater to the gay...

ASU student objects to sensitivity exercise By David Discobing, For the Tribune January 21, 2007 Arizona State University senior Ryan Visconti was told “his kind” wasn’t welcome — that he was an abomination and an unforgiveable sinner. He pleaded to join the “church,” which was set up Jan. 10 as part of diversity training for ASU dormitory employees. The role-play training took place Jan. 11, one week before the start of the spring semester. Assigned the identity of a gay Hispanic, Visconti’s persistence during the training got him nowhere. A woman with a Southern accent told him there was nothing...

Was it a slip of the today when an audience member at a luncheon speech today featuring newly elected Lt. Governor John Garamendi began his question of the official with, "Governor ..." It may have had something to do with the fact that earlier that morning, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown regaled the Contra Costa Council with a list of Democrats eying the governorship in four years. And yes, Garamendi's name came up. "Garamendi's looking at it," Brown said, during a lively, hour-long panel discussion about the state of California and national politics. Garamendi and Brown were guests at...

Former Vice President Al Gore scours the countryside looking for support for a possible presidential run and attempts to emulate bible-thumping preachers while preaching a message of the need for "big government" to save the planet. Meanwhile, Gore hobnobs with the Hollywood elite many of whom wouldn't know a Bible from a Cecil B. DeMille script for the movie "Samson and Delilah." Senator Hillary Clinton, who's husband used a Bible as a prop during his impeachment days, hires a consultant in order to find a way to "get over on evangelicals" without changing her positions on killing unborn children and...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats sprinting to finish six bills on terrorism, the minimum wage, drug prices and other issues are well ahead of the 100-hour deadline they gave themselves to do it. By new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s clock, they began Thursday morning with more than 60 hours remaining and only one measure left: an energy bill with $15 billion in new fees, royalties and taxes for the oil industry. A celebration was planned later Thursday once it's passed. On Wednesday, seven hours ticked off the Democrats' 100-hour clock for passing an agenda the party had...

Conservative lawmakers have long suspected that college campuses are hotbeds of liberalism to the exclusion of other ideologies. Now, armed with a formal complaint filed against Missouri State University, they are taking action. A bill to ensure that intellectual diversity prevails at all of Missouri’s public higher education institutions has been filed in the state House. Among other things, it would require universities to report to a state board how schools are encouraging diversity through their selection of public speakers. "It took a situation that became very public to finally say, ‘OK, enough is enough,’ " said Rep. Jane Cunningham,...

The 110th Congress was sworn in yesterday, and it is a new day in Washington and hopefully America. If we roll up our sleeves and are prepared to reach across party lines, the next two years could be a time of great progress. As we begin the new Congress, I want to share with you some of my thoughts and priorities for the coming year. As the new Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority will be to promote change in our Iraq policy. Only a political solution among the Iraqi leaders themselves can salvage that country,...

As Washington Republicans line up to sing a politically tuned rendition of Rodney King’s classic hit, “Can’t we all just get along,” soon-to-be House Speaker Pelosi angles to bury the bi-partisan hatchet right in Bush’s back. Convinced that the American people completely rejected the Bush doctrine and embraced liberal socialism in the ‘06’ mid-terms, Democrats poised to take full control of congress on Thursday are prepared to take no prisoners as they ram their agenda through the legislature, challenging Bush’s weakened veto alternative. In other words, they are preparing to do just as Republicans should have done but failed to...

Pelosi's 100-hour agenda includes popular measures but no dramatic action on the war in Iraq. WASHINGTON — When Democrats take power on Capitol Hill this week, House leaders will kick off their legislative campaign with a lightning-fast 100-hour agenda. MP>But there won't be a revolution. In marked contrast to the Republicans who swept into the majority in 1994, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her legislative allies are not planning to amend the Constitution or eradicate federal agencies. Instead, their initial legislative foray will focus on modest, politically popular issues, including initiatives to expand stem cell research, lower prescription drug...

In October, the British medical journal The Lancet published a study by researchers from the Johns Hop-kins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Baghdad’s Al Mustansiriya University, alleging that “654,965 more Iraqis may have died since hostilities began in Iraq in March 2003,” than would have died had Saddam Hussein remained in power. That research was quickly subjected to expert scrutiny, and questions about its methodology cast doubt on its findings. The publication’s timing was perhaps no coincidence, as it came before the November 2006 U.S. congressional elections. The study supposed that, on average, “a thousand Iraqis have been violently...

UNITED NATIONS - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon laid out an ambitious agenda as the next U.N. secretary-general, promising to become personally engaged in efforts to bring peace to the Mideast and Darfur and to clean up the world body. The 62-year-old career diplomat, who was sworn in Thursday to a five-year term that begins Jan. 1, also said he plans "concerted action" to achieve U.N. development goals that include cutting extreme poverty by half and universal education by 2015. Calling himself "a harmonizer and a bridge-builder," Ban said he also wants to repair relations between the U.N.'s rich and poor...

Few things became the 109th Congress so much as its departure. After two years of missed opportunities and scandal, the Members were finally able to leave Washington on the weekend having made a few notable last-minute accomplishments. At the top of the list, renegade GOP Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn led the charge against 12,000 earmarks that Appropriators had hoped to stuff into the remaining fiscal 2007 spending bills. Among the early Christmas booty was $4.9 billion in "emergency" relief for farmers, and millions for parking garages, jazz museums and bike paths. Also on the favor list was a...

Wal-Mart, Ford and the 'Gay' Agenda : Seeking Media ApprovalWe have drawn attention in previous articles to an intriguing policy recently adopted by the ailing Ford Motor Company. For some reason, despite its plummeting sales, expensive large-scale lay-offs, management turmoil and tanking stock price, the Company has given high priority to funding and campaigning for same-sex marriage and indulging in general largesse to the so-called 'Gay Community'.  The American Family Association (AFA), a powerful Christian watchdog group mounted a campaign to persuade Ford to remain neutral in what is a controversial and very political issue. Ford's response has been to...

In a major new development confirming our theory that radical gay activists were behind the Mark Foley scandal, the mysterious source responsible for exposing Foley's behavior has been identified as an employee of the Human Rights Campaign. This is the radical homosexual organization that functions as an adjunct of the national Democratic Party...

WASHINGTON - Ethics reform, a higher minimum wage and more money for stem cell research are the top items on the Senate agenda next year, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. Reid said he will tackle those priorities after cleaning up the "financial mess" that the outgoing Republican leadership has left. He was referring to nine long overdue appropriations bills covering 13 Cabinet departments for the budget year that began Oct. 1. "They're just leaving town, it appears," Reid said from his office in the Capitol. "We hope that's not the...

Some members of the new Democratic majority are laboring hard to live up to the stereotype of their party as unserious about national security. One of them is Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman-designate of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has revived the idea of military conscription "as a way to deter politicians from launching wars," according to the Associated Press: "There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft, and members...

(Reminding readers that it's intended for fairly young girls, the online version honored the 40th anniversary of the Barbie doll with a list of recommendations for the occasion. Those include "Shave her head and give her a nose ring," "Have Barbie marry another Barbie," "Have her take part in an orgy," and "Give her leather bondage gear, a whip and chains." It also lists "Fun alternatives to intercourse: Petting, Cyber sex, phone sex, kissing, making out, blowjob" and others. It also offers tips about having sex that "help you make the jump and land with a smile.") Here is...

This is not a link to an article. I am trying to get the word out about a DVD I purchased from CSPAN. It is called "Rally Against War and Racism" The rally was held Sept. 29, 2001, barely 3 weeks after 9/11. It was organized by A.N.S.W.E.R., a group that is more than just a little sympathetic to Communism. The DVD is 3 hours of the worst anti-American screed you can imagine but you can hear all the talking points the press has used to bash the war and Bush with. I encourage anyone who reads this to get...

"Gravely flawed" – that's the dire warning of medical experts who have seen copies of the proposed guidelines for "Ministry to Persons with Homosexual Inclinations," to be released by the Catholic Bishops of the United States at their annual conference in Baltimore next week.