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GN’s 2008 Space Conference April 11-13, 2008 Omaha, Nebraska See: Agenda Conference Brochure (735KB PDF file) | Conference Flyer (465 PDF file) In 2008, the Global Network will hold its 16th Annual Space Organizing Conference and Protest outside this Strategic Command. Hundreds of people from around the world will come to Omaha from April 11 – 13, 2008 to learn first-hand about this military installation that operates in America’s heartland. For the first time, world citizens will gather to shine a light on what StratCom has become. Located in the heart of the nation, just south of Omaha, Nebraska, the...

List of people pardoned by George W. Bush The following is a partial list of people pardoned by George W. Bush. As of December 21, 2006, President George W. Bush had issued 113 presidential pardons to people who have served their entire sentence, and has commuted in addition the sentences of three people. [1] This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned by a United States president. The order is alphabetical, the year is the date of conviction. Charles James Allen (1979 conspiracy to defraud the United States. A former federal employee, Allen was convicted for approving...

I've made a career decision to stop being a teacher and try to work for the US government in security. I've got extensive martial arts background, and have worked with police departments and have even travelled to Fort Bragg to teach combatives to a unit which went to Iraq. Unfortunately, I don't have the "official" security training needed to get into Homeland Security or the FBI or the Secret Service. I'm trying to join the Air National Guard to get the security training, but had to have surgery years ago on my throat to repair acid reflux damage. The MEPS...

Why is everything Ron Artest's fault? Why? Do hard fouls happen in games? Yup. I don't like to give up free baskets myself in basketball, and I consider myself to be a very sportsmanlike player. Would I have fouled THAT hard? Nope. Does it happen all the time in the NBA, NCAA, high school, middle school, even Y ball? Yup. And it could have ended there. Had Big Ben Wallace not decided to put his big mitt in another player's face. Hey, I don't like being fouled hard either. And I get hard fouls all the time, as I love...

The Other White Flight Can Democrats ever regain the support of Southern whites? BY KEVIN GRIFFIS Carlton Sparks is the reason the GOP has a stranglehold on the South. With his wife Cindi and their 17-year-old son Andrew, he lives in a tan, one-story home off a country road surrounded by mountains. His kitchen walls are wood-paneled, covered with Cracker Barrel-style knickknacks and a pair of decorative, cloth bouquet hangings. Sparks, 49, makes a good living for a resident of Blairsville, GA. He pulls in more than $45,000 a year from Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation, where he works...

Dear French Embassy, I would just like to write you to tell you that your are the lowest human beings on earth. I find it appauling that you could be so unfaithful to an ally (the U.S.) who had to come save your butts in World War I, World War II, and try to finish what you started in Vietnam. I used to look at France and Germany as enlightened nations, and the future of the world. Now I look at you as scum. First of all, let me comment on your foreign policy. I can sum it up in...

Okay, here's the deal. I live in North Carolina, and I want to carry some Martial Arts weapons. But I was told that I need a Concealed Weapons license. My questions are as follows... First, I have heard that you have to take courses to show competence. Do I really need to take competency tests to prove that I can swing a Shinobigatana? Or that I can hold a knife properly? Can my papers from my martial arts classes qualify as competency? Second of all, will a carry license go over state lines? Or do I have to pack up ...

Hello, fellow freepers. I have two questions for you all, and hopefully you can help me out here. I thank you in advance. First of all, I am a conservative (duh) Christian, and, as such, I oppose abortion on the belief that we do not have the authority to end human life. A liberal co-worker whom I usually argue politics with calls me a hypocrit, because I believe in the death penalty. He says that I can't believe in both. PLEASE HELP ME! Second of all, has anybody heard anything from over at Klamath Falls? The water problem? I'm not ...

Bin Laden Calls His Balkan Brigades to Arms 26 September: DEBKAfile’s military sources report that Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, the Egyptian Jihad chief Ayman al-Zawahri, has ordered Al Qaeda and Jihad activists in Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia – an estimated 6,000 men – to report for duty and prepare to open a second Islamic front against the United States in the Balkans. According to our sources, that nucleus group is capable of mustering another 40,000 trained and well-armed fighting men. Many hold on to the up-to-date weapons handed out to them by NATO, including the US Army, during the ...

Thought Number One: Has anybody read "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy? In the end, a terrorist kills the pilot, hijacks the plane, and flies it into the capitol building. It kills everybody there, and becomes a rallying cry of the American people. That came out before I graduated, probably in 1996, or before. Spooky, huh? Does that kinda remind you of the book about the Titan, a couple of years before the Titanic sank? Thought Number Two: Does anyone know the status of the imprisoned Americans? The ones arrested by the Taliban for preaching Christianity? Could they be used ...

Today, I decided that I have had it with environmentalists. I am a college student, and they are FORCING us in my school to support and advance liberalism. I can handle being told that my religion is wrong, because I'm getting into heaven either way. I can handle my Professors calling George W. Bush an idiot while class is in session, because he still won. But I am about TIRED of this eco-nazi crap they are pushing on me. For example, I am FORCED to send letters as part of a project in my Biology II lab to a government ...

"Photos Left at Developer Lead Police To Charge Four For Torturing Cat". Fort Myers, Fla. (AP)- Film processed at a drug store led to the arrests of four people suspected of torturing and skinning a Siamese cat because it meowed too loudly. Scott Herrin, 25, and three teenagers were charged with animal cruelty Thursday after a Walgreen's photo lab printed 27 pictures of the incident and alerted authorities. Herrin allegedly strangled, then cut the throat of the cat because he was angry at it "for keeping him up with loud howling and bringing fleas into his residence," authorities said. The ...

You all know what articles I'm talking about. I'm not gonna even repeat his remarks.