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My hubby just left to return a large container of Planters Peanuts. It had a large (what looked like cat dooo doo on the top.) I feel like barfing! He returned it to Wal-Mart in Springfield , Oregon. Luckey for us it was right on top...like it was placed there by some one. Thank the Lord we never ate any of it!

Casey Anthony was lead away in handcuffs this evening. Supenece(SP) served on family.

Hi Everyone, My neighbors little 2 1/2 yr old cousin needs everyone's prayers. If you know any other prayer list, please pass this alone. Little Leah Saburn (I know it's the moms last name and it might be hers too) swallowed a battery about February 18th. She was throwing up and couldn't eat. At first they thought an ear infection until a days passed and things got worse including blood in the stool. They did an x-ray and found something stuck in the esophagus. They removed it and realized it was a battery. They were told that a battery is...

Some US troops question Woodruff coverage By PAMELA HESS UPI Pentagon Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The American media stood up and took notice when an improvised explosive device grievously injured an ABC News crew Sunday. In Iraq, and throughout the military, there is sympathy and concern for anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, but there is also this question: "Why do you think this is such a huge story?" wrote an officer stationed in Baqubah, Iraq, Monday via e-mail. "It's a bit stunning to us over here how absolutely dominant the story is on every network and...

The Erosion of American Lives Nancy Levant For all of us who are 50-years-old, or older, the world we lived in as children is completely gone. Nothing that exists resembles our lives, as youths, anymore. The greatest memories of my childhood revolved around my ability to wander. I walked, as a child, for miles and miles and miles, every day. I walked to woods, to creeks and streams, to fields, to rivers, to my nieces' and nephews' house in the next town over, to my sister’s house who also lived in a different town, to friends’ houses, to a stable,...

What's Wrong with These Democrats? by Cary Eldred Posted Feb 8, 2005 There has been a common refrain around our house, for the last five years in particular--"What is wrong with these Democrats?" And if that has been our refrain, our chorus has been, "Who votes for these people?" And listening to the President's State of the Union address and the Democrats' rebuttals delivered the other night; we were again singing our song. Who does vote for these people? My daughter has been studying the American Revolution in her fifth-grade Social Studies class, and I can't help but compare the...

Muslim asks FBI to explain remark on jihadists The leader of Bilal Mosque group says comments by the agent in charge in Oregon have set back fence-mending Tuesday, February 01, 2005 NOELLE CROMBIE A prominent Portland-area Muslim leader has asked the top FBI agent in Oregon to explain his recent remarks about the presence of jihad-trained fighters in the state. In an e-mail Monday to Robert Jordan, special agent in charge of the FBI in Oregon, Shahriar Ahmed, president of the Bilal Mosque Association in Beaverton, wrote he was "shocked" to hear Jordan say there are people in Oregon who...

CBS, CNN and ABC: Caught in the Tank with Kerry On November 4, Jodi Wilgoren of The New York Times reported details of election night television coverage that are yet to get the attention they deserve. Buried deep in a story, far from the front page, here’s what Wilgoren wrote: "The critical moment came at 12:41 a.m. Wednesday, when, shortly after Florida had been painted red for Mr. Bush, Fox News declared that Ohio — and, very likely, the presidency — was in Republican hands. "Howard Wolfson, a strategist who joined the [Kerry] campaign this fall, burst into the room...

Kerry said to be excommunicated Los Angeles, Oct. 18 (CWNews.com) - A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church. The consultant made his statement in a highly unusual letter to Marc Balestrieri, a Los Angeles canon lawyer who formally sued John Kerry in ecclesiastical court for heresy. Balestrieri, who launched his case earlier this year by filing a heresy complaint in Kerry's home archdiocese of Boston, told EWTN's "World Over" program on Friday that he had received an unusual, indirect communication from the Vatican's Congregation for...

The Death of Liberalism by Raymond S. Kraft "The threat is great, the battle is hard, therefore we should do nothing. We might lose! The gangs are running wild in L.A. Somebody might get hurt. Get rid of the police! Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials. Bushido Japan had overrun most of Asia, beginning in 1928, killing millions of civilians throughout China, and impressing...

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LIFE DURING WARTIME Now and Then What if today's media covered World War II? BY CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Saturday, November 10, 2001 12:01 a.m. EST Dec. 12, 1941: The City Council of Berkeley, Calif. approves, by 5-4, a resolution condemning as "warmongering" the recent U.S. declaration of war on Japan. In a statement, the council deplores "violence as a means of settling international disputes" and urges President Roosevelt to "sit down with the Japanese ambassador in Washington" and "enter into a meaningful, non-gender or race-based dialogue." Dec. 13, 1941: In an article for the New Yorker, Mavis Montag suggests that the...

Subject: Arab Outrage??? I will be the first to admit what the MP's in the prison did is not in accordance with the Geneva Convention however, when was the last time that we fought a war with an enemy that did observe the rules of war. Remember the Baatan Death March, remember the ovens in Poland, Austria and Hungry? Remember the beating our prisoners endured at the hands of the Viet Cong??? To hell with Arab outrage!!! Arabs are "outraged" over the humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of a few American servicemen. Where were these "outraged" Arabs when...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE APRIL 27, 2004 12:59:04 ET XXXXX $1000 HAIRCUT? KERRY FLIES IN HAIRDRESSER FOR TOUCH-UP BEFORE 'MEET THE PRESS' **Exclusive** On the Friday before his MEET THE PRESS appearance, Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Pittsburgh for a touch-up, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Cristophe stylist Isabelle Goetz, who handles Kerry's hair issues, made the trek to Pittsburgh, campaign sources reveal. "Her entire schedule had to be rearranged," a top source explains. A Kerry campaign spokesman refuses to clarify if Goetz flew by private jet on April 16 or on the...

Claim: Kerry Promoting Increased Foreign Tariffs to Alter Presidential Election By Jimmy Moore Talon News March 26, 2004 WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A major taxpayer group is urging likely Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry to stop collaborating with the European Union (EU) to impose damaging tariffs on U.S. products being exported from key swing states in the upcoming presidential election. Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist noted that Kerry has been touting his popularity among foreign leaders in recent weeks. However, Norquist said he was shocked to learn the extent some foreign leaders will go to remove President...

Portland Cops Forced to Cut Down on Cuss Words Thursday, January 15, 2004 PORTLAND, Ore. — The political correctness police are going after Portland's real cops, telling them to clean up their language or else. The city's police review commission spent weeks conducting a profanity audit and found that there were 63 complaints over a year-and-a-half. Under a new profanity policy, officers are only allowed to curse when they think it will help them avoid using force. And when they do, it's up to them to justify the obscene word in a written report. Portland police officers say it's one...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- California's recall -- a riot of millionaires masquerading as a "revolt of the people" -- began with a rich conservative Republican congressman, who could think of no other way he might become governor, financing the gathering of the necessary signatures. Now this exercise in "direct democracy" -- precisely what America's Founders devised institutions to prevent -- has ended with voters, full of self-pity and indignation, removing an obviously incompetent governor. They have removed him from the office to which they reelected him after he had made his incompetence obvious by making most of the decisions that brought...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.registerguard.com | © The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 8, 2003 Activist turns focus on media October 8, 2003 The Register-Guard Over a long history of political activism, Eugene's David Zupan has championed nuclear-free zones, affordable student housing, union rights, police accountability and world peace. But in recent years, he's fixated on a different issue: the media. Zupan, 58, is one of two national spokesmen for the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C., that hooks up left-leaning analysts and experts with mainstream journalists working on breaking news stories. Closer to home, he's also one of...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas SUN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today: October 06, 2003 at 13:59:37 PDT Calif. Hopefuls Barnstorm on Final Day By DON THOMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Arnold Schwarzenegger struggled to put sexual harassment allegations behind him Monday as a new poll indicated some voters were having second thoughts about recalling Gov. Gray Davis. "The campaign is not losing momentum," Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Karen Hanretty told CBS' "The Early Show." A four-day bus tour of the state that Schwarzenegger concluded in Sacramento on Sunday had drawn thousands of enthusiastic supporters. A poll of 1,000 registered voters, conducted by Elway-McGuire Research for...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- White House under attack By Helle Dale THE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished October 1, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Neo-conservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both." Those are the words of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who will certainly be a household name for weeks to come. Chances are very good that we will never know who from the White House leaked the information about Mr. Wilson and his wife to members of the press. For one thing, that's the nature of leak investigations. Journalists don't reveal their sources, and...