Free Republic

Now she's down to eight lives. An eight-week-old black and white kitten earned the name Lucky today after she was tossed out of a pickup truck on Staten Island, got trapped in the wheel well of the car directly behind -- and lived to meow another day. The car following behind belonged to Family Court Judge Catherine DiDomenico, who driving to work on Hylan Boulevard. It was 8:45 a.m. The light had changed and DiDomenico was driving slowly in the left lane when she saw the driver of a burgundy pickup truck toss out what she thought was a furry...

Attn: Sir, I am Mr. Martin Uche Senior Manager accounts/audit department, in (UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC) Mr. Mark johnson a national of your country, who was a consultant with Shell-development Company in Nigeria and a personal friend Died and left behind his deposit in my finance house(UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC) valued at $7,753,000.00 (Seven Million Seven Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand United States Dollars Only). My relationship with Mr. Mark started in 1992 when I was a supervisor in UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC , Marina branch. We met in my social club's annual end of the year...

OLYMPIA — The state Legislature kicked off three months ago amid widespread predictions that the Democrats in charge would increase taxes, spend more money, and cater to the demands of political allies. The predictions were right. The Legislature passed a $26 billion operating budget, a nearly $3 billion increase over the current one, and an $8.5 billion transportation package — the largest in state history. To pay for it all, lawmakers made it more expensive to smoke, drink, drive and, for some people, to die.

Law falls short as some strike back on their own Some spammers launch cyber attacks against anti-spam crusaders By Jon Swartz USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- Charles Booher was so mad, he did what others have longed to do: He told a spammer to stop -- or else. But the Silicon Valley tech worker went too far, prosecutors say. Last year, he allegedly threatened to shoot and torture an employee of a Canadian company that spammed him, court documents say. He also threatened to send a package "of anthrax spores" to the company unless it removed him from an...

Bush-campaign saboteur gets an unlikely olive branch Say what you will about George W. Bush. The man knows how to forgive and forget. Three years after Tom Connolly dropped a fax of the president's old drunken-driving conviction into the hands of local news media - and in the process all but torched a presidential campaign just days before a historic national election - the Portland lawyer finally heard back this week from the man Connolly once referred to on his Web site as "Weinerboy." It came in the mail on Wednesday. It's a computer-autographed, color picture of the president and...

MIDI - RING OF FIRE You'd be a fool to trust any Democrat...every one is a sewer rat It...isn't hard to see They are worthless as can be They...are traitors, all In our war, they're not standing tall Democrats are such lowlife stinking liars To be spreading bull...not one ever tires May they burn, burn, burn in Hades fires...in Hades fires Stay away from a Democrat...every one is a sewer rat Your mom should have warned you of that...stay away from a Democrat Democrats are such lowlife stinking liars To be spreading bull...not one ever tires May they burn,...

As Mumia Abu-Jamal awaits appellate court rulings on two major appeals initiated by his new team of lawyers, he continues writing at a rapid rate, turning out columns for posting on the web site maintained by his Philadelphia-based support group, the International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal.      And he receives increasing support from people opposed to the death penalty in general and concerned about the injustices of his case in particular. Mumia got a firm indication of that support on July 29 when a delegation from France visited him at the prison and showed him a check for...