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"The brutal 1991 gang beating and stabbing of Rodriguez's son, 27-year-old banker Paul Broussard, outside a Montrose nightclub shocked the city's gay and lesbian community and underscored the vulnerability of sexual minorities to such attacks."

What is a sexual minority? Someone who doesn't get enough sex?

I was just saying that to my husband this morning. I've been reading about all the supposed problems that are going to happen on election day because of new machines, confustion, long lines, etc. I said that the media is probably playing it up because if the repubs win, they can say it was a stolen election!

More info on the "camp" Ain al-Hilweh from June 2003 -

http://www.meib.org/articles/0306_l1.htm

Ain al-Hilweh: Lebanon's "Zone of Unlaw"
by Gary C. Gambill

Ain al-Hilweh
On the eastern outskirts of the Lebanese port of Sidon lies an overcrowded, cement-block shantytown that many consider to be the single most important al-Qaeda base of operations in the Middle East. Ain al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syrian-occupied Lebanon, has been linked to virtually every case of al-Qaeda activity in Lebanon, while renegade terrorists residing in the camp have been tied to the global terror network's operations in Jordan, Turkey and elsewhere in the region. In the eastern sector of the camp, al-Qaeda supporters have imposed an interpretation of Islamic law reminiscent of the Taliban. Over the last month, at least three men have been killed for allegedly smuggling alchohol into Ain al-Hilweh. Dozens of men have reportedly been shaved bald for lesser offenses.

FARSCAPE, definitely!!

Thanks for posting this. I live in Wheeling and the host of WWVA, Steve Navotney, was talking about this yesterday. He said he was going to try to get hold of the ACLU guy to interview him on the air. If anyone gets 1170 WWVA between 3-6pm, listen to the show.

BTW, our sheriff not only arrests these people, he also confiscates their vehicles. Steve had the Belmont Co Sheriff on the radio a couple of weeks ago (Belmont Co. is right across the Ohio River from Wheeling) and people were complaining that he was letting these illegals go. He said he was going to start doing what Burgoyne is doing.

Hard to believe that little ol' Wheeling is having some excitement! I think if the ACLU starts any of their crap here, they are going to be slapped down hard and fast!

The anchor baby clause may not require a constitutional amendment. Check out the following link-

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/anchorbaby_FAIR.html


Anchor Babies and Interpreting the 14th Amendment

It is well known that a person born in the United States is an automatic citizen regardless of the mother's citizenship status. However, the United States is unusual in its offer of citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Only a few European countries still grant automatic citizenship at birth. The United Kingdom and Australia repealed their U.S. style policy in the 1980s after witnessing abuses similar to those plaguing the U.S. today. Why does the United States continue to allow a practice subject to widespread fraud? The answer lies in how American jurisprudence has interpreted the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution as part of the post Civil War reforms aimed at addressing injustices to African Americans. It states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States" and was crafted so that state governments could never deny citizenship to anyone born in the United States. However, when the amendment was crafted, the United States had no immigration policy, and thus the authors saw no need to state explicitly, what they believed was understood. The phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was intended to exclude from automatic citizenship American-born persons whose allegiance to the United States was not complete. In the case of illegal aliens who are temporarily or unlawfully in the United States, because their native country has a claim of allegiance to the child, the completeness of the allegiance to the United States is impaired and logically precludes automatic citizenship.

"Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.
Senator Jacob Howard, Co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.

I had never read anything like this before and am not really familiar with the background on how the courts interpreted the amendment. But I thought that was interesting.

We all take it as a fact that the 14th amendment was written to give anyone born in the US automatic citizenship. I didn't realize that the "intent" of the clause may have changed. It is a shame how much US history we (myself included!) don't know. I have been interested in history since high school, but still am very ignorant even though I am always reading something!

Anyway, just wanted to post this for discussion.

My sister-in-law and her guy went and that was one of the things he liked about the speech. He said it was very laid-back and informal. He didn't just stand behind the podium. After the speech, callers that were there called into our local radio talk show and they all loved it. I saw him when he was here during the campaign and he is a good speaker when he is in front of your average American audience. I think he connects with us "regular folk". :-)

I found the other link-

http://www.news-register.net/Community/articles.asp?articleID=3840

excerpt-

Crowd Praises Bush’s Speech

By ADAM TOWNSEND

WHEELING — Many people who attended President Bush’s Wednesday appearance in Wheeling said they weren’t sure what to expect from the speech and subsequent question-and-answer period, but several area residents said afterward that they were impressed with the chief executive’s statements and responses.

“I want to know if he has any plans for addressing the congressmen who so negatively portray the war in Iraq,” said St. Clairsville nurse practitioner Janel Trovato-Vass. She had her question for the president carefully written on a Post-it note she held as she waited to enter Capitol Music Hall. The line — dotted with the white caps of Marines in dress uniforms and the square-patterned camouflage of the Air National Guard — stretched for a few blocks as Secret Service officials checked everyone with metal detectors.

I am posting this which was in our local paper. I am trying to find another article, which was in another section of the morning paper, but may not be on the web.

Also, there is a link on the upper right corner of the website that has pictures of his visit.

Thought you would all like to see them

I'm listening to WWVA, they are playing his speech. I got to see him when he was here during the campaign and had a great time! My sister-in-law and her boyfriend, whose son in the Army and did a tour in Iraq, got tickets, so I should get pictures.

Can you be more specific about this law? Local radio has been talking about it and obviously doesn't know.

Thanks!

That is so strange that you thought of that! I was just talking about that yesterday with a coworker. Although, I said it is strange that they say the prophet mohummad and not the Savior Jesus. We also talked about how the press says "the holy city of...", too.

I don't know their political affiliations, but I found this on the net by Elizabeth B. Bazan-

Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress
Report for Congress

Received through the CRS Web
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act:
An Overview of the Statutory Framework
and Recent Judicial Decisions
Updated March 31, 2003
Elizabeth B. Bazan
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division

I've skimmed the document and did a search for "president" and came up with this on page 84-

After summarizing Edmond, the Court of Review emphasized hat it is the nature of the threat or emergency that took the matter beyond the realm of ordinary crime control.208 It concluded that, while the gravity of the threat alone cannot be dispositive of the reasonableness of a search under the Fourth Amendment standard, it is a critical factor in the analysis. In its view, the “programmatic purpose” of FISA, “to protect the nation against terrorists and espionage threats directed by foreign powers,” was one which, from FISA’s inception, was distinguishable from “ordinary crime control.”209

The Court of Review also concluded that, "[e]ven without taking into account the President’s inherent constitutional authority to conduct warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance, we think the procedures and government showings required under FISA, if they do not meet the minimum Fourth Amendment warrant standards, certainly come close.”210

Applying the balancing test that it had drawn from Keith between foreign intelligence crimes and ordinary crimes, the Court of Review held surveillances under FISA, as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act, were
reasonable and therefore constitutional.

Maybe when I have more time, I could check out the entire document, but I am starting back to school next week and am pretty busy. Here is the link.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/crs/rl30465.pdf

They know the President's numbers are up, so they come up with some bogus poll to try to knock him down. You notice that when his numbers were low, the news were constantly reporting on his low numbers. How they always had to have at least a sentence in every news article "lowest numbers of his presidency" or something like that? When his numbers are good, they don't report it at all or come up with some stupid poll to make him look bad.

I am starting to think there is some conspiracy going on in the media-real propaganda-treasonous propaganda. Should I put on my tinfoil hat?

I know how you feel! I'm surprised to see that the more they bash the president, the more people rally around him. I think many people see the truth by factoring in their own experiences. I think more and more people are watching the media creating the story instead of just reporting it and are becoming disgusted.

:-)
Darla

Yeah, but was it in the hard-copy edition and someone changed it when it was posted on the web? Or was the title changed for the hard-copy edition but someone forgot to change it on the web? This is so strange!

Darla

I think this will work in his favor. I am already hearing from some people that absolutely hated Bush during the election and didn't vote for him now having sympathy for him because of Katrina. My friend's mother, who voted for Kerry, told her that it was the state and local government's fault and the governor's (Blanco), and that she feels sorry for Bush. We had a couple of bad floods here within the past year, and we think that she sees how our state government responded with National Guard, etc., so she can do a comparison, sort of. We all knew FEMA didn't come in until way after the crisis. I think this will be played out as more and more people get the truth/facts about how the MSM really created this whole "slow federal response" story.

Just my opinion,
Darla

One more thing. I've just checked the morning edition paper. The headline in that is-

Illegal Aliens Charged in Rape, Mexicans held in Northern Regional Jail

Don't know why it was changed on their web edition.

Darla

No, I just posted the exact title as shown on the website. That is the title they used, which I know, makes no sense.

Also, I am glad that Moundsville is getting a Wal Mart. Just strange that that was the title of the article.

Darla

That's "Claim to work Tax Free!" Sorry about that. How do I change the title?