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Howdy. Today, the DC Chapter met to celebrate 6 years of activism. The honor roll included Kristinn, Angelwood and husband, tgsltakoma, bufordp, staytrue, billf, hellinahandcart, trueblackman, rabidralph, sauropod and relatives, and gunsareok. We celebrated our successes over the past years and recounted narrow escapes, including BufordP and the Red Lobster story. Forthwith, here are some pics of today's event. BufordP, TGSLTakoma, Trueblackman BufordP the GrillMaster Kristinn and BillF GunsareOK and BillF DC Chapter Anniversary Cake Hellinahandcart, Gunsareok, and TGSLTakoma as photographer RabidRalph Trueblackman holds forth. Staytrue covers his ears.

Agency to Designate Habitat for Dragonfly By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - Prodded by a lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to designate critical habitat for an endangered dragonfly found in only a few Midwestern wetland areas. The agency reached a settlement with five environmental groups that accused the government of shirking its responsibility to protect the Hine's emerald dragonfly. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., signed an order last week to implement the agreement, said Brent Plater, an attorney for one of the groups, the Center for Biological Diversity. The settlement...

On July 2, I wed my lovely bride, hellinahandcart. Please celebrate with us.

Article published Jun 30, 2004 Sept. 11 witness says Moore's film insults victims of the attacks 'From Here to Eternity." Tora, Tora, Tora." "In Harm's Way." These are three films made about Pearl Harbor. There have been more than 20 films made about Pearl Harbor, and over 200 films made about World War II. These films inspire patriotism, courage, and nationalism. They tell us about the honor and bravery of the soldiers and the nation that supported them. Two and a half years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the world watched American forces fight on D-Day. Two and a...

Shooting victim stable, expected to recover May 8, 2004 By Times staff writer (unidentified) The St. Petersburg Times P.O. Box 1121 St. Petersburg, FL 33731-1121 Fax: 727-893-8675 http://www.sptimes.com To submit a Letter to the Editor: letters@sptimes.com The 22-year-old who was accidentally shot in the chest during a training exercise at the law enforcement firing range/training area near the central landfill in Lecanto on Thursday is expected to recover, authorities said. Eric C. Verhille was flown by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition and underwent surgery Thursday. Verhille, a Marine from Maine who is stationed...

Here is what I was able to pull out of the tape. Portions of my tape we could not hear clearly what was being said. The part of the transcript with tgsltakoma includes her comments/corrections A=Angelwood B=Barrymore K=Kristinn Bu= BufordP S=Sauropod T=Tgsltakoma D: Drew Barrymore I've added/corrected from my recollection, to your transcript below. D: Did you make all the signs? (I recall that I said another guy made the signs and that I made the "awards") T confirms. D: You did? Did you make them at home? And you brought them here today? T confirms. D: Do you have...

Thanks Bill.

I read this article in the laundromat yesterday. I found it to be a powerful indictment on "Military Families Speak Out." It is not online at the American Legion Magazine Web site, so i typed it in. 'Pod My Son and War: A once-skeptical father shares his perspective on military parenthood. By Frank Schaeffer I write novels for a living and never served in the military. My two older children did the expected: Georgetown and New York University. Our kind - higher-education-worshipping denizens of the North Shore, north of Boston - rarely enlist these days. In 1999, my youngest son,...

Okey dokie, Lots of good stuff going on in CPAC. First up is RightTalk radio with The Shrew officiating: Taxman decided he was a FRiend of W's: Freeper Seeking the Truth (Gene McDonald) was in attendance with his lovely wife hawking his wares (I bought a shirt from him): A contingent of FReeper babes showed up. Left to right are Ms.AntiFeminazi, Libertina, Diotima, NautiNurse, Victim of Circumstance (and Terri), and someone with a really nice set of hooters ;-) Hobsonphile, her brother FrustratedCitizen and a FRiend stopped by. They had purchased an Ann Coulter doll. Myself, I bought three. One...

Busloads of antiwar demonstrators from a hundred American cities rallied in the District yesterday, calling for an end to the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and demanding an immediate withdrawal of American troops. Protesters from Maine and Colorado beat drums and chanted "Bring them home and impeach Bush" as they marched past the White House and the Justice Department yesterday afternoon. Many carried homemade placards that read, "Never Prouder to be a Non-Republican" and "Bush Lied — Americans Died." Some donned fanciful costumes to underscore their views. Dr. Alan Meyers, a pediatrician from Boston, came to the rally dressed as a...

I was going through some old newspapers and this caught my eye... Static hits NPR, VOA airwaves (original title) There's some static on the rarefied airwaves at Voice of America and National Public Radio over controversial content. For VOA, the problem is terrorism, and the tricky business of lending airtime to terrorists and their causes. Twenty-year veteran reporter and Afghan native Spozhmai Maiwandi claims she was censored, yanked off the air and put out to pasture in a "useless" desk job after she produced a rare and final public interview last September with Mullah Mohammed Omar, whose Taliban regime harbored...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was handed a "pink slip" -- a frilly piece of lingerie -- yesterday from an enraged group of female war protestors who told her to quit her job because she was not doing enough to oppose military action against Iraq. "Hillary is getting the pink slip," said Medea Benjamin, an organizer from New York, "because she is not representing her constituents. She should get another job." The New York Democrat spoke calmly during a 10-minute repartee she had with about 50 women from Code Pink, a feminist anti-war group planning demonstrations this weekend in Washington. Dressed...

Today starts the rememberances of that horrible day. The news is full of interviews with people directly affected by the tragedy perpetrated by the enemies of America. Pain is writ large across the fruited plain as the scab is peeled off once again. On the date of September 11, 2001, at 8:45 AM, I was working in a room that had bars across the windows and a combination lock on the door. No TV, no radio. A co-worker wandered by and told me that "a jetliner had crashed into the World Trade Towers." I thought he was joking and told...

Woman accused of stabbing her husband in face with crab 07/30/2003 PRESTON - A Preston woman was arrested after an alleged fight with her husband on Thursday. According to police, Sherry Lynn Harrison, 28, and her husband, Alvin J. Harrison Jr., 33 allegedly argued at their home at 5980 Newton Road in Preston. Police said Mrs. Harrison allegedly took a hard-shell crab and stabbed Mr. Harrison in the face with the pointed end of the shell. Mrs. Harrison allegedly bit Mr. Harrison on his right forearm when he attempted to restrain her, said police. Police said Mr. Harrison refused medical...

A different Republican Party By Tod Lindberg Historians will mark the administration of George W. Bush as the point at which the so-called social issues, long a galvanizing feature of American partisan politics, finally lost their sting. The Supreme Court's rulings upholding diversity as a compelling government interest and striking down the remaining state anti-sodomy laws join the early Bush administration decision allowing stem-cell research to go forward. The trinity (as it were) of decisions leave those whose top priority has been the preservation of a certain traditional public morality now essentially voiceless in electoral politics. The Republican Party has...

Creeping tyranny Posted: May 31, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: The May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine is devoted entirely to the United Nations and globalism, and includes an in-depth, groundbreaking report by Henry Lamb. The issue focuses on the critical decisions America faces in the near future, which will determine whether it stays a free and sovereign nation or submits to global governance under the authority of the U.N. Readers may subscribe to Whistleblower at WND's online store. © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The term "sustainable development" has flooded both the media and public policy since it was...

State is tops in eminent domain Process abused, study contends Maryland governments led the nation in the use of the power of eminent domain to seize residents' homes and small businesses to promote private development projects over the past five years, according to a report issued by a nonprofit group. According to the District-based Institute for Justice, 1,237 Maryland properties, residential and business, were taken over or threatened by local governments to pursue development projects from 1998 to 2002. Eminent domain allows governments to take private property for public use, including projects such as highways and police stations, with...

About 1,000 miles of national forest land bordering Canada and Mexico go virtually unpatrolled by the U.S. Forest Service, creating wide swaths for terrorists and criminals to enter the country undetected, an internal government audit says. Even though the Forest Service is not the lead agency responsible for border security, it oversees areas "that are potentially vulnerable to infiltration by terrorists, smugglers, and other criminal agents," the Agriculture Department's inspector general said in a report Wednesday The Forest Service oversees 460 miles of land along the 3,000-mile border between the continental United States and Canada. It also monitors 450 miles...

G'day, It was a beautiful spring day today at our Nation's Capital. The cherry blossoms are just coming out now. I arrived about 12:45 at the Lincoln Memorial. The sound stage was already set up. Promptly at 1:00, Kristinn opened up the rally. Taxman did the Pledge of Allegiance Red Skelton Style, and Angelwood's daughter sang the Star Spangled Banner. Speeches were given by James Parmalee, Aziz Al-Taee, Rep. Steve King (R-IA), former Rep. Bob Dornan, former Rep. Bob Livingston, and several Iraqi nationals. The crowd today was about 1000. There were at least 500 people at the rally at...

I am going to crash this party... Anybody want in? Subject: Experts To Detail Full Scope of Bush Assaults on U.S. Public Lands FYI Rose Correira President Alliance for America http://www.ems.org/advisories/public_lands.html MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, February 27, 2003 CONTACT: Elisabeth Ensley, EMS, 202/463-6670 Kalee Kreider, Fenton Communications, 202/822-5200 Experts To Detail Full Scope Of Bush Assaults On U.S. Public Lands Attacks, Giveaways Include National Parks, National Forests, Other Public Lands Coast-to-Coast; Rewriting the Rules to Put Drilling, Logging, Mining Interests Ahead of the Public Interest Washington - The broadest and most aggressive assault in history on America's public lands is...