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Bob Barr asks Ron Paul to be his running mate. Paul has not responded yet. Will he accept?

SKOWHEGAN — Hold the drawn butter, please. A national animal rights group says it is cruel and unusual to boil and eat Maine lobster and they want to draw attention to the suffering of Maine’s trademark crustacean. So, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have an idea for the century-old Somerset County Jail — turn it into a “lobster empathy center”. The county jail is up for sale, as the sheriff, staff and inmates prepare for a move to a new, modern facility in East Madison this summer. “No building would be more appropriate than a jail to...

DALLAS — Two city police officers accused of holding country music singer Steve Holy and a friend at gunpoint during a home game of foosball have been fired... On the 911 recording, the operator sounded frustrated by an inability to get information from Holy, who told her several times that he's a recording artist. When she tried to ask Holy if the two officers left together, he answered: "He put a gun to our heads." "OK, you told me that at least five or six times," she said. "I have that. I understand that."

I heard on the news this morning on WMAL in Washington that Hillary has NOT ruled out putting her impeached husband on the ballot as her VP. Is this legal?? The Constitution says candidates for VP MUST be eligible to be President. Bubba is not eligible since he has served his two terms.

California AG Jerry Brown and VMware CEO Diane Greene participated in a "Public and Private Sector Accountability and Action" panel at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's "Clean and Green" Projections 2008. Jerry Brown: I wouldn't call it [GW] the core of my office, because the office has 1,100 lawyers, and maybe 15 are working in this particular area. But it is getting attention because the burning of fossil fuel, oil, gas or coal is at the heart of almost everything we do every day of our lives, and it is the engine that has driven economic growth, prosperity, and the...

The behavior of the Paulnuts on the Mackinac ferry, noted by David, is a common consequence of pacifism and extreme libertarianism. Both think the state at war is the worst thing in the world. (Extreme libertarians think the state doing most everything else is also bad.) Most—maybe all—libertarians acknowledge a right to self defense. But in the modern world this cannot be done by militias. It requires a military industrial complex, with all the attendant consequences. Some libertarians accept this fact (while proposing modifications). Extreme libertarians do not; therefore they support self defense only in theory. In any actual situation,...

Geesh! The highly trafficked "progressive" website DailyKos, which boasts contributors including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is suggesting football star Pat Tillman was murdered in Afghanistan on orders from the White House. The theory behind the conspiracy? "It was well-known he (Tillman) was against the war in Iraq," explains the DailyKos diarist Dburn. The blog references an appearance by General Wesley Clark on MSNBC's "Keith Olbermann's Countdown" discussing the latest developments in the story of the athlete killed in Afghanistan, presumably by friendly fire from within his Army Ranger unit. "Wesley Clark was on and...

A feature piece in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine on Republican candidate for president, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, portrays his followers as including a wild mix of "wackos" on both ends of the political spectrum. Paul, a libertarian, has been gaining media and public attention of late. The cover line reads: "A Genuine Radical for President." The headline inside: "The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration, Anti-medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul." The article closes with the author, Christopher Caldwell, attending a Ron Paul Meetup in Pasadena. The co-host, Connie Ruffley of United Republicans of California, admits she once was...

Who really did kill Kennedy? BROTHERS THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS BY DAVID TALBOT Reviewed by Dan Cornford THE AUTHOR WILL CONVINCE MANY NOT WEDDED TO THE WARREN COMMISSION FINDINGS THAT THE LIKELIHOOD OF A CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE JFK (AND MAYBE RFK) IS SIGNIFICANT. NOTWITHSTANDING THE DEFICIENCIES OF SOME SOURCES, TALBOT'S HIGHLY READABLE, AT TIMES GRIPPING BOOK MAKES THE CASE FOR RELEASING THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE JFK ASSASSINATION. TALBOT SUMMARIZES MORE COMPELLING AND TROUBLING EVIDENCE. IN PARTICULAR, QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT THE ROLE CIA AGENT GEORGE JOANNIDES MAY HAVE PLAYED. DECLASSIFIED JFK FILES REVEAL THAT IN 1963,...

Ever since that late morning is Dealey Plaza Dallas Texas, November 22nd 1963, the soul of America has been tortured by lingering doubts about the official version of the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed by Lyndon Baines Johnson to head the official investigation, the Warren Commission. After reviewing all the evidence, the Commission's final report named Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman responsible. In 1966, the book, Six Seconds in Dallas, raised important questions pointing to evidence which indicated that there was more than one shooter. More than one shooter would...

This Saturday, March 17, March on the Pentagon for Peace and ImpeachmentMake plans now to join hundreds of thousands of veterans, military families, and peace and impeachment activists in a nonviolent march for peace and impeachment, beginning at 12:00 at the Vietnam War Memorial (23rd Street and Constitution Ave. NW) and ending at the Pentagon.http://www.marchonpentagon.orgAt the assembly site, between 8:00 a.m. and 12:30, there will be a pre-march People's Assembly. Contingents and organizations will be providing information displays and literature tables. We will be joined by the famous Bread and Puppet Theater. There will be children's activities, including sign-making for...

I hesitate to start a thread like this... My husband called me a little while ago to say that the sports guy on AM 1100 in Cleveland was breaking into Rush briefly to say that there are a ridiculous number of contrails over NE OH. My husband, who was driving at the time, said sure enough, dozens of them. Looking outside right now I can probably count at least 20 criss-crossing the sky. So anyway, the sports guy (Mike Trivisonno), who is doing his own show now, is spouting off about how "SOMETHING" must be going on, even though "officials"...

<p>They believe there weren't any planes on 9/11, just missiles wrapped in holograms - and there weren't any London terrorists on 7/7 either. The new-wave conspiracy theorists aren't green-ink types: they're educated; they have secret service connections; they live in Highgate.</p>

In a July 3 article on Townhall, columnist Michael Barone laments the possibility that Congress may not pass any immigration “reform” legislation this year. However, he pins some hope on a proposal being advocated by Representative Mike Pence (R.-IN). Ostensibly, the Pence proposal would incorporate the “best” of both worlds, including provisions from both the Senate’s recently passed guest worker/amnesty bill, along with the House version that focuses on immigration enforcement and border security. Unfortunately, the Pence bill would ultimately constitute no less a “sellout” on immigration than that attempted by the Senate, albeit this effort would be spaced out...

Author Jerome Corsi and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., will be guests tomorrow on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show to discuss the White House's effort to implement a trilateral agreement with Mexico and Canada that could lead to a North American union, despite having no authorization from Congress. Corsi and Tancredo will join Liddy for the entire 11 a.m. hour, Eastern time, and take calls from listeners. Corsi reported this week that Bush administration working groups have not disclosed the results of their work despite two years of massive effort within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The...

As the "Big Tent" collapses, make way for the true "third" party According to research that I conducted in 1998, there were more than 400 political parties in America. (That number has grown smaller in recent years, but is still over 200 — far larger than the "mainstream" media admits.) According to research by Richard Winger, the publisher of Ballot Access News, the third-largest political party in the United States is the Constitution Party. Thus, the CP is the true third party. Statistically, the CP has more members than any political party other than the Big Two. And, statistically, there...

President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy. Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA to include Canada, setting the stage for North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada. President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and...

While Minuteman civilian patrols are keeping an eye out for illegal border crossers, the U.S. Border Patrol is keeping an eye out for Minutemen -- and telling the Mexican government where they are. According to three documents on the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Web site, the U.S. Border Patrol is to notify the Mexican government as to the location of Minutemen and other civilian border patrol groups when they participate in apprehending illegal immigrants -- and if and when violence is used against border crossers. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed the notification process, describing it as...

Tehran (dpa) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Monday called on Jews in israeli to go back to their countries of origin and allow Palestinians to return to their homelands. ``Anti-Semitism in Europe has forced Jews leave their countries of origin - but what they did instead was occupy a country which is not theirs but that of Palestinians,'' Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran. He said that the dilemma in the Middle East could be settled only within a ``just peace plan'', but this first required the return of all Palestinians to their homelands and then a referendum....

OK, I am going to give most of you the day off. The rest of you need to pay close attention. You have some work to do. A lot of you I know like a book. That comes from almost a decade of responding to your letters and emails on a variety of subjects. You've told me in no uncertain terms that you don't like watching cowboys kiss each other. In fact, watching the media gush over boys marrying boys and girls marrying girls makes you want to upchuck your biscuits and gravy. You don't have much tolerance for those...

Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 – Iran’s radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared on Thursday in Malaysia that Islam will be the dominant power in the “near future”, the official state news agency reported. “The near future will be in the hands of Islam”, Ahmadinejad said after a meeting in Kuala Lumpur with the King of Malaysia. He cited the victory of the Islamist group Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections as a sign of the rise of Islamism in the world. “History has shown that when Muslims become powerful, they do not use their power to the detriment of others, but...

Joe Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment. "We have the most powerful military in the history of the world," Lieberman told CBS's "Face the Nation." "We are capable, if necessary, of continuing to pursue our aims militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere and, if necessary, conduct a military attack on Iran." Lieberman said the he hoped an attack on Iran, if it should come, would be...

Israel 'will not sit back' and let Iran build atomic weapons By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem (Filed: 23/01/2006) Israel issued thinly-veiled warnings yesterday that it was preparing to take direct action to stop Iran, its bitter enemy, acquiring nuclear weapons. Remarks by Shaul Mofaz, the defence minister, raised the temperature of the worsening international crisis over the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions and prompted Iran into a swift and strongly-worded response. The war of words increased the prospect of another pre-emptive strike by Israel similar to that in 1981 when its warplanes destroyed Saddam Hussein's nuclear programme with an attack on...

White Devils Strike New Orleans By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | September 15, 2005 Weeks after leftists began claiming President Bush’s environmental policies and budget cuts caused Hurricane Katrina’s devastation – and that Bush did not dispatch federal aid workers to Louisiana more quickly because of the victims’ skin color – the Left’s politics of perpetual demonization have reached their logical conclusion: one seasoned race-baiter has accused the president of ordering one of New Orleans’ levees dynamited to kill black people. “I heard from a very reliable source, who saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach,” said Louis Farrakhan,...

Fox News' White House Wendell Goler reported tonight that Congressional Democrats have inquired with the Library of Congress whether administration officials like Karl Rove can be impeached.This was reported with a straight face by Goler......

It's time to ban long kitchen knives because they serve no good purpose except as weapons, write doctors in the British Medical Journal. The doctors, as part of their research into ways to reduce violence, say they consulted with leading chefs who said long knives were not needed for cooking.

The Secret Service was investigating a report Tuesday that a hand grenade was thrown at the stage during President Bush's speech in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. After Bush left Georgia on Tuesday, the Secret Service was informed by Georgian authorities of a report that a device, possibly a hand grenade, had been thrown within 100 feet of the stage during Bush's speech, hit someone in the crowd and fell to the ground, Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said.

Gigantic Confederate Flag Flies Over I-65 Flag Erected By Sons Of Confederate Veterans POSTED: 7:54 pm CDT April 11, 2005 UPDATED: 4:57 pm CDT April 12, 2005 VERBENA, Ala. -- A huge Confederate flag now waves high above motorists traveling Interstate 65 in Autauga County. For some, it symbolizes a rich southern history, but others acknowledge that it could be seen as offensive. “I like it because we're from the south, and I'm a big southern girl,” said Kim Jones, a Verbena resident. The 20- by 30-foot Confederate flag can be seen for miles and is located at mile marker...

Heard the host of a radio show talking about this over the weekend and went to his website to see details.Here's the article.Norm Olson, senior adviser to the Michigan militia and pastor of a strong right-to-life church in Wolverine,said Tuesday he had put together an unarmed coalition of state militias that were prepared to storm the Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo has been left to die, and take her to a safe house. Olson said he needed only the OK from Schiavo's father, Robert Schindler, either directly or through his attorney David Gibbs, to put the plan, called "Operation Resurrection,"...

Norm Olsen, pastor of a right to life church in Wolverine, Michigan and senior adivser to the Michigan Militia, said Tuesday that he had put together an unarmed coalition of state militias that were prepared to storm the Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo has been left to die, and take her to a safe house. Olsen said he only needed the OK from Schiavo's father, either directly or indirectly through his attorney David Gibbs, to put the plan, called 'Operation Resurrection,' into action on Easter Sunday.But Olsen said Gibbs called the FBI (to report the plans) instead of passing his...

No jail for tree lovebirds BY BARBARA ROSSDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Two men arrested after a nearly-naked treetop tryst in Central Park last year got taken to the woodshed yesterday. But preoperative transsexual William Rund, 33, and boy toy Christopher Montero, 18, won't have to do any time behind bars. The ponytailed Rund got three years' probation, and Montero got five days of community service from a Criminal Court judge for the X-rated show they put on last April 22. "I did it out of love," said Rund, whose affair with Montero ran afoul of the teen's family as well...

(Conspiracy Nation, 6/20/04) -- It's time for a change. The so-called Greatest Generation, actually sleeping apostles who totally missed the rise of the Military-Industrial Complex and its consequent betrayal of American idealism, are eerie precursors of what the Baby Boomer Generation could become. Do we want to end up like that? Like failures fed mush by an ass-licking Tom Brokaw? We are already a joke to Generation X, who sneer at our persistent reminiscences about the 1960s. "You should have been there. The 1960s were wild! We were going to change the world!" ("Sure thing, old-timer.") Look at the brown-nosing...

A person is Pro-Life only to the degree to which they are willing to actually “do something about it”. I’ve been Pro-Life my entire life but until 7 or so years ago I did not do a thing about it. I still am not doing everything possible that I can do, but I am trying and getting better with time. President Bush, whom I spent much time, effort, and resources for on both his bids for the White House is Pro-Life with such exceptions and compromises as to make the claim an insult to the 6 million babies that have...

Special Report Touring the Al Gore Presidential Library and Museum By Leonard Albin Published 1/13/2005 12:08:26 AM Almost obscured by the climbing pink orchids and dense sub-tropical foliage in Boca Raton, Florida, a one-story, somber post-modern building of concrete and glass rises from the landscape. Though locals just refer to it affectionately as "that ugly damn place," the newly completed Al Gore Presidential Library and Museum is an important cultural site that should be part of everyone's Florida vacation -- even during the off-season. Just off I-95 in Palm Beach County, and convenient to the Pompano Beach Motel 6, this...

Dear Dog Lady, For almost six months, I've been dating Monty. I thought I was falling in love with him until he presented my dog and me with an inappropriate Christmas present. Now, I'm not sure. The gift was a pair of NeuticlesOriginal, fake testicles for dogs. My dog, Magic, was intrigued by them and tried to chew them and then tried to play with them. My dog rolled the little balls around the floor until Monty took them away and scolded Magic. I just watched stunned as all this was going on. I couldn't have imagined Neuticles until I...

In case there are still a few of you left who think that the DUmmies will ever “get over it” concerning the election, today’s edition of the DUmmie FUnnies will quickly disabuse you or that notion. As you can see in today’s featured DUmmie THREAD titled, “Promise that you won't give up,” the DUmmies are NOT going to give up hounding Bush even after the inauguration. They are going to continue to be filled with anger and bile. Okay, DUmmies I promise that I won’t give up. I won’t give up until the DUmmie FUnnies are published as a book...

Late last month, President Bush lost his greatest advantage in his bid for reelection. A poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post discovered that challenger John Kerry was running even with the president on the critical question of whom voters trust to handle the war on terrorism. Largely as a result of the deteriorating occupation of Iraq, Bush lost what was, in April, a seemingly prohibitive 21-point advantage on his signature issue. But, even as the president's poll numbers were sliding, his administration was implementing a plan to insure the public's confidence in his hunt for Al Qaeda....

Anti-War activists Sarandon and Glover call for war crimes vs GW. "The occupation of Iraq is sliding into war crimes and deepening violence against civilians."

'B.C.' cartoon seen as slur of Islam Muslims allege veteran artist Hart made cryptic attack Posted: November 22, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Council on American-Islamic Relations once again is demanding an apology for an alleged slur of Muslims, this time asserting a veteran cartoonist has cryptically defamed Islam. The Washington, D.C.-based group sent out a dispatch to its e-mail list after a "B.C." cartoon last week by Johnny Hart was publicly questioned on a Washington Post Web chat page. The cartoon shows a caveman entering an outhouse at night, and then saying, from inside, "Is it just me,...

The purpose of this website is to show injustices done to Wolves and point out the individuals and organizations that have proven themselves to be their enemies. This webpage will not be a pleasant place to peruse for those of us who love Wolves. In fact, this webpage is the color of blood... the blood that boils hot from the victims of human vanity, ignorance, and indifference. Those of us who love Wolves MUST NOT turn away! We must learn who the enemies of Wolves are and find ways to oppose and subvert them! We must defend what we love......

The rain was coming down. The traffic on Rockville Pike was the usual aggravating slog. At the California Tortilla restaurant just off the pike, on a patio boasting a view of a suburban parking lot, nearly 70 people gathered around cafe tables with strangers, writing letters to people they didn't know. A Howard Dean "meetup" is part Jane Austen, part Bill Gates. Across the country Wednesday night, thousands of people drawn together through the power of the Internet dusted off their epistolary skills, hand-writing letters to Iowa Democrats urging them to support the former Vermont governor. "I am not some...

<p>A spectacle -- part Mardi Gras, part nightmare -- rolled through downtown Sacramento on Sunday as nearly 2,000 protesters and an army of riot-gear-clad police hit the streets.</p> <p>The chaotic scene was a precursor to an even larger rally and march beginning at 10 a.m. today at the state Capitol. Organizers have taken out a march permit for 8,000 people. Their target: an international agriculture conference, hosted by the U.S. government, that starts today at the Sacramento Convention Center.</p>

Human shields warned over Iraq 14feb03 AUSTRALIANS planning to become human shields in Iraq were foolish and might not be able to be evacuated if war broke out, a senior foreign affairs official has said. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade warned its ability to help any Australian civilian wanting to leave Iraq during military conflict was very limited. "These people are, frankly, quite foolish for putting themselves in this position," Rod Smith, assistant secretary of DFAT's consular branch, said in response to a question from Labor's John Faulkner at a senate estimates committee. "If there was an...

Council passes anti-war resolution Boulder reverses earlier decision to avoid Iraq statement By Greg Avery, Camera Staff Writer January 22, 2003 Boulder's City Council on Tuesday formally expressed opposition to a United States-led war with Iraq, reversing its skepticism about such a declaration last fall. Responding to a growing push by hundreds of people around the city — peace activists, students, business owners, religious leaders, elementary school teachers and others — the council voted 7-2 in support of a resolution urging diplomacy instead of war. Boulder joined a growing list of at least 42 cities around the country that have...

Network coverage of the average, normal Americans, “grandparents,” “honor students,” “soccer moms,” “Republicans,” “Black and white, Democrat and Republican, young and old,” versus the reality of the angry, America-hating demonstrators which the networks ignored but which a writer for National Review Online was unable to avoid in the crowd.     He saw “Bush is the Real Terrorist” signs and discovered many were convinced Bush knew in advance of the 9-11 attacks. “It was like when Hitler burned down the Reichstag,” more than one remarked. The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld plan, one claimed, “is to build a worldwide planetary death machine.”     In a piece posted...

Friday, January 17, 2003 MacLaine To Head N.M. Film Board By Wren Propp Journal Northern Bureau     Award-winning actress and movie industry powerhouse Shirley MacLaine is getting star billing on Gov. Bill Richardson's newly created state Film Advisory Board.     The governor announced Thursday that MacLaine, an Abiquiu-area resident, will be chairwoman of the new film board, which will include five to eight other members, as yet unnamed.     "I think it's time now for a very practical and fundamental structure to be in place so that people in an industry as powerful as Hollywood, which is all about reporting...

Lansing group plans war protest Capitol rally aims to stop possible conflict with Iraq A Lansing group opposed to a war with Iraq laid out plans Thursday for protests in Washington and in front of the state Capitol. On the Web The Progressive Challenge Project: www.ips-dc.org/citiesforpeace/ The Greater Lansing Network Against War in Iraq expects several hundred people to attend a peace walk and rally in front of the Capitol on Jan. 18, said the Rev. Fred Thelen, a member of the anti-war group. Thelen said the anti-war movement is growing. "I've been involved in peace and justice since the...

<p>Idaho again has received a failing grade from a national gun-control organization, which says the state is among the worst at protecting children from gunfire. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence awarded Idaho an “F-plus” for the third straight year, after three years of a “D” ranking. The organization is named after James Brady, the former press secretary severely wounded in the attempted assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981.</p>

I just heard Melanie Morgan (filling in for Hannity) interviewing "Mr. Rael".....these people are seriously CRAZY. And dangerous, IMO. Check out their website HERE

CHANGING OF THE GUARD Skeletons rattling in Frist's closet? Ethics expert says ties to hospital chain potential conflict of interest for Lott heir Posted: December 21, 2002 6:30 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist will almost certainly be elected majority leader when the senate votes on a successor to Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott next month. The choice is a happy one for President George W. Bush, who views Frist as an effective ally; Frist has even been discussed as a possible replacement for Vice President Dick Cheney on the ticket in 2004. The heart surgeon’s quick rise...