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The video presentation had just ended and the words flashed across the screen: "Are you ready, Chicago?" Chicago was. Packed into the Hyatt Regency's Grand Ballroom the several hundred cheering, chanting fans were riled up - except for the two infant twins in their double baby carriage. They were sound asleep as their mother cheered along with the rest. A man in an "Investigate 9/11" black t-shirt was walking up and down the aisles handing out fake dollar bills with Dick Cheney's face where Washington's should have been. In the corner of the bill, instead of a dollar amount, it...

This e-wire / report ultimately makes two points: 1. The voting process at the Iowa Straw Poll was a fraud, wrapped in lies. (Whenever those running any kind of an election use police power to hide all the ballots from the people, and then announce results (?) when supposedly (?) only they have seen the ballots – those people are frauds, are acting like Stalin-esque tyrants, and their organization is a fraud. That award goes in our current drama to the Iowa GOP leadership, namely Ted Sporer, Chuck Laudner, Mary Tiffany, Craig Robinson, and Chairman Ray Hoffman. What they did...

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, said the country is in "great danger" of the U.S. government staging a terrorist attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation, as the war in Iraq continues to deteriorate. The Texas congressman offered no specifics nor mentioned President Bush by name, but he clearly insinuated that the administration would not be above staging an incident to revive flagging support. During the radio interview, Paul said the government was conducting "an orchestrated effort to blame the Iranians for everything that has gone wrong in Iraq."

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a news conference at Bellevue Hospital New York February 6, 2007. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES)

A recent strike by nuclear-armed Israeli Air Force fighter-bombers bound for targets in Iran was turned back after being intercepted by U.S. fighters over Iraq, this reporter has learned. Two sources have independently confirmed the encounter, which took place on January 7, 2007. Though the first informant offered few details beyond an initial tip, a second source long-known by this reporter to have well-placed U.S. and “non-U.S.” military and government contacts provided specific information regarding the raid, which was aimed at the radical religious ayatollahs holding ultimate power in Iran. Israeli nuclear strikes are not unprecedented. Soon after Desert Storm,...

In her historical mystery, "The Daughter of Time," Josephine Tey (a pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh) has Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant, while confined to his hospital bed, solve the 15th century murder of the two York princes in the Tower of London. The princes were murdered by Henry VII, and the crime was blamed on Richard III in order to justify the upstart Tudor's violent seizure of the English throne. Tey makes the point that if a 20th century mystery writer can detect the truth about a 15th century murder, historians have no excuse to persist in writing in...

Now we have the Memphis Mess as Bellevue Baptist, the flagship church of Southern Baptists is embroiled in a major battle that involves charges against a longtime associate pastor--charges of incest, molestation, sodomy, and rape; a major cover-up by the new pastor and his alleged trespassing on a critical deacon’s posted property; lying; intimidation; misuse of church credit cards; and on and on and on! As the crisis continues in the cornerstone church of the SBC, the world laughs and points with scorn to a church with an incredible history under three big league pastors. Dr. Steve Gaines took the...

Last July, in response to Bush the Evil's enabling of Israel's gratuitous slaughter of thousands of Lebanese civilians and destruction of the country's infrastructure, I wrote about "the shame of being an American." With the ongoing slaughter of our troops and Iraqi civilians in Bush's war in Iraq, it is time to revisit that theme. As the Iraqi civil war (euphemistically termed "sectarian violence") intensifies, both U.S. and Iraqi casualties have sharply increased. Thirty-five U.S. troops have been killed in the first week of December. Iraqis are dying at each other's hands at about 100 per day, with many more...

Congregation lines up in support of its pastor Appearing subdued and distraught, Steve Gaines told members of Bellevue Baptist Church Wednesday night that he'd like to remain their pastor. The embattled Gaines, under fire from some in the religious community for various controversies at the massive church, spoke to several hundred members before their usual midweek service. "The past few days have been very difficult times," said Gaines, who took over leadership of the church from the late Adrian Rogers in July 2005. "I'd really like to stay and be your pastor." Gaines' comments came after Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary...

One killed when construction crane collapses in Bellevue 10:31 PM PST on Thursday, November 16, 2006 KING5.com KING A construction crane collapse in downtown Bellevue Thursday evening. BELLEVUE, Wash. - One person was killed when a construction crane collapsed Thursday night at about 7:45 p.m. in downtown Bellevue on 180th Avenue NE near NE 4th Street. The west side of Pinnacle Bell Centre Apartments was torn away when the crane came down. The dead person was found in the top floor of the apartment building, Bellevue Fire Department Lt. Bruce Kroon said. The top floor of the Pinnacle Bell Centre...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The owner of a small coffee company sued Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday, claiming the coffee shop's anti-competitive business practices put her store out of business. The suit, which seeks class action status, was filed in Seattle federal court by Penny Stafford, the owner of Belvi Coffee and Tea Exchange Inc. According to court papers, Starbucks violated federal antitrust laws by leasing prime commercial real estate at above-market prices in return for the exclusive right to sell espresso drinks or specialty coffee in those locations. A Starbucks spokeswoman said the Seattle-based company was...

Republican calls president 'derelict' in duty: 'This is not Ellis Island, this is an invasion' Author Pat Buchanan says President Bush should be impeached for failing to stop the invasion of illegal aliens across the U.S. border with Mexico. "I think he's committed an impeachable offense in refusing to enforce the immigration laws and in failing to uphold the Constitution by defending the states against this invasion," Buchanan told radio talk-show host Curt Smith this weekend on National Public Radio stations in upstate New York. "When you have 6 million people apprehended on the border and several million got in...

Republican firebrand Patrick Buchanan said yesterday that President Bush should be impeached for failing to stem the "invasion" of illegal immigrants across America's Southern border...

The old adage, "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" does not apply to Americans, who have shown that they can be endlessly fooled. Neoconservatives deceived Americans into an illegal attack and debilitating war in Iraq. American neoconservatives are closely allied with Israel's Likud Party. In the past, some neocons lost their security clearances because of "mishandling" of classified information. According to Insight Magazine (online version, June 26, 2006), "the Pentagon has banned security clearance to Americans with relatives in Israel. Government sources and attorneys said the Pentagon has sought and succeeded in removing security...

Author Jerome Corsi and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., will be guests tomorrow on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show to discuss the White House's effort to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress. Corsi and Tancredo will join Liddy for the entire 11 a.m. hour, Eastern time, and take calls from listeners. Corsi reported this week that Bush administration working groups have not disclosed the results of their work despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The...

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn. Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of...

A controversial question given to students during a practice test for a math final at Bellevue Community College has students - and others - shaking their heads because of its lack of racial sensitivity. A civil rights activist said it refers to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice although it doesn't mention her by name. The question read: "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second." The Condoleezza question went on to ask when the watermelon will hit the ground, based...

I'm currently on the Bellevue, Redmond Border in Washington State and for the past 15 minutes theres been a lot of helicopter activity overhead. Seems they're circling around and going all over the place... Anyone in the know, know whats going on? please share. thanks.

More than 10,000 mourners packed Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova Thursday night, paying last respects to Rev. Adrian Rogers, who died Tuesday at 74. The memorial service drew a multiracial, mulitigenerational crowd, which filled the 7,000-seat sanctuary and spilled over into rooms converted into viewing areas where large screens broadcast the service. It was a time to say goodbye to a man known to many simply as "Pastor." "He was a person of such goodness and mercy and faithfulness," said Irene Slack Speck, 86, who traveled from Indiana to attend. "I loved him with all my heart. I had to...

When a friend told coach Stu Gorski in 1995 that Mount Adams School District had hired "a phenomenal wrestling coach," Gorski froze. "Tell me you didn't hire Randy Deming," he pleaded. The district had. Gorski, a football and golf coach in Whatcom County, knew Deming for years as a rival coach at nearby Blaine High School. Gorski also knew of Deming's reputation as a groper of girls who had even been charged with child molestation. When Gorski learned Deming would also be teaching girls, he warned: "You're putting him back into the fire." GORDON KING / YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC Randy Deming...

MIDI - SHE'LL BE COMIN' AROUND THE MOUNTAIN I will smile the day Al Franken's head explodes I will smile the day Al Franken's head explodes From the valley or from the mountain, we can hear him when he's shoutin' I will smile the day Al Franken's head expldes Now the shoulders are the tallest thing on Al Now the shoulders are the tallest thing on Al I have just sent him a letter...his show surely will be better Now the shoulders are the tallest thing on Al

That settled, I was off to Bellevue, where Teresa Heinz Kerry was speaking at the Eastgate Public Health Center — and where I got five minutes to get personal.If I was 80 cents short at the grocery store, and John Kerry was behind me in line, would he cover me, or pity me?"Before me, he probably would have asked you out for a cup of coffee and paid the bill," Heinz Kerry said. "Today, I don't know what he would do, he doesn't even go shopping anymore, the poor guy."Would he help if my car was broken down on the...

He's given hundreds of flu shots over the past few months, but health officials say he isn't a doctor and they still don't know exactly what he's been injecting. It's a story you saw First on News 3. Shahid Shiekh is under police investigation after shutting down one of his clinics in Washington State. News 3 has learned that Shiekh has also operated an office in Henderson. News 3's Kori Chambers is digging deeper. It's still unclear whether this phony doctor fooled any Las Vegans. We spoke with Shiekh's attorney and asked him point blank whether the man was giving...

There is new information after KING 5 exposed a phony doctor who was injecting people without a license. The Bellevue Police Department is now launching an investigation as more complaints surface. When the Miller family's pediatrician ran out of the flu vaccine, 12-year-old Ashleigh was referred to Shahid Sheikh who had called the clinic telling them he was a doctor and he had plenty of the vaccine. So Ashleigh went to the clinic and got her shot: “It seemed perfectly normal to me. It was in a conference room though, it wasn't a doctor's office,” said Ashleigh. But it turned...

Washington State Freepers - President Bush is coming to see you all! What a great opportunity to bring your families to line the streets, waving the American flag, and cheering!The DUers are planning a little protest and have set up a website with visit information. Let's use their organizational skills to our benefit. LOL! WARNING-The part you are about to read may make you "BARF"--- Washington Says, “STOP BUSH!” Bush is coming into WA, on Aug 22nd, for a fundraising dinner with his eastside congregation- from what sources have told us- at the home of the McCaws’- a ceo of...

Images of the "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" Rally in Bellevue, Washington on Saturday, March 22, 2003 A well attended rally in support of our military took place on Saturday, March 22, 2003 in Bellevue, Washington on the intersection of Bellevue Way and 4th N.E. Below is the LINK to the images of that rally. At the bottom of each page, click on the link "Next" that will take you the next page. ENJOY! "Support Our Troops" Rally

BELLEVUE - Thousands rallied in downtown Bellevue Saturday in the biggest pro-troops demonstration yet in Western Washington. The demonstrations have regularly taken over the intersection of 4th and Bellevue Way NE on Saturdays. This time organizers estimate 5,000 people lined the intersection and a half block in each direction with American flags, pro troops signs, and a variety of reasons why they were there. "Because I'm a veteran and I wish I'd had this in Vietnam," said William Ball of Everett. "I support our troops 100%." "I mean we love our country and we know what our good President...