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Barack Obama on Thursday said the United States would retaliate against Russian hacking after the White House accused Vladimir Putin of direct involvement in cyberattacks designed to influence the US election. The outgoing US president's remarks dramatically upped the stakes in a dispute between the world's leading nuclear powers over interference that may have swayed last month's tight election in which Republican billionaire Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Beyond creeds. All attempts to articulate the Triune Godhead that I have seen focus on inconsequentials. The nature of the Trinity is rather simple but I can't come up with a way to express it compactly so please bear with me. You will acknowledge that God in His Omnipotence has the power to create a perfect copy of me, a color Xerox of me if you will. Such a copy might be so perfect that the copy would be convinced that he actually WAS me. My family couldn't tell the difference either because he would share every single attribute I...

This is a vanity request instead of a news citation and I don't know if I'm posting amiss but I'm giving it my best guess on how to approach this. I had a stroke about eighteen months ago that left me partially paralyzed and mentally impaired also. I seem to have an OK ability to write though. My writing shortcomings though have led to this request for aid. I've lived a fairly unusual if not bizarre life that has given me an unusual Christian testimony. For years I felt constant prodding to share. I was hesitant to write it though,...

What is the name of the soldier who was mentioned in Sarah's book who won the Congressional Medal of Honor? I think my copy got pitched autograph and all.

As soon as Obama spoke to the kindergarten kid about the pizza sharing principle we knew he was Marxist. After we saw him disregard the will of the people on health care we knew he was dangerous, after we saw him illegally seize GM we knew he was amoral. I believe he is willing to do anything to further his agenda. If he could Nuke congress and get away with it, he would do it. If we were to be properly paranoid, what could he do as president to deal with the change in the House?

<p>I don't think this has happened before.</p> <p>It's pretty earthshaking.</p> <p>1 February 2007 - Google's American news service news.google.com appeared to go down this afternoon presenting visitors to the site with nothing more than a 502 error.</p> <p>A 502 error normally means that the server has been temporarily overloaded, but as Google run a cluster of computers this would seem that a number of their datacentres have gone offline leaving the ones left running overloaded with the extra traffic.</p>

I read somewhere than John Doe #2 candidate Andreas Strassmeier traveled to Europe at one point to broker a deal for the sale of some airliners. This tidbit was being used to build a case that Strassmeir was more than he appeared to be at Elohim City. Does anyone know where this is documented?

The libs often accused the President of being a puppet figurehead for Dick chaney and others who represent the "real" power in the administration. I don't buy it but much of what our president has said gives me pause. Like his father who didn't seem to grasp the "vision thing" GWB doesn't seem to have developed a real passion for conservative ideals. My first clue was during the campaign and debate when Candidate Bush spoke of modifying social security. GWB said the following words repeatedly in various speeches: "We need to find a way to let young people keep some...

A lot of people think that there is some kind of "surprise" prepared for us in Baghdad. It may be that the main IRAQI force is deployed and hidden throughout Baghdad. One nasty scenario occurred to me where the power outage that started today was deliberate. That in turn, makes me wonder, "Why?" There were Iraqi solders seen in the vicinity who were WEARING their gas masks!! The power is a possible trigger mechanism. There are probably WMD dispersal charges hidden all over the city. They are now armed. When the US comes in and liberates Baghdad and restores the...

The Associated Press 2/26/03 7:10 PM GRETNA (AP) -- A uniformed security guard at Armstrong International Airport was arrested on one count of extortion Wednesday after allegedly trying to shake down a man who had a gun in his car. Telita Arnolie, an employee with L&R Security, found a firearm in a man's car while performing a routine vehicle inspection at the airport, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies said. Although officials said that having the gun in the car was not a violation, Arnolie allegedly told the man she'd arrest him if he didn't pay her $40. Chief Deputy Newell Normand...

The same day the UN inspectors made their "no smoking gun" comment, ABC aired a sidebar about some Aluminum tubes that Bush had listed as evidence of Iraq doeing nuclear weapons development. The inspectors found the tubes with fins attached and said that the US was wrong. The tubes were for conventional weapons developemnt only. The problem I had with the whole story was the fact that the tubes in question were described as "high purity Aluminum" Pure aluminum has a very low tensile strength. Tensile strength should generally be as high as possible for a rocket body. High purity...

On Sept 11th, 20 suicidal terrorists managed to kill over 5000 people. In the wake of that event all manner of extra security measures have been put in place at airports and in other places and yet for all that nothing that has been put in place would prevent terrorists from bringing some really nasty ceramic or nylon knives onto some jets and trying a repeat performance. We, and any terrorists know that it wouldn't work because americans aboard aircraft will never go meekly to death again. How many times have you heard people say lately"Go on living your lives ...