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Even if the liberal media continue to ignore it, the Justice Department's dismissal of a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party is a full-blown scandal. Fortunately, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is pursuing justice even though the Department of Justice is not. As reported in our news pages last Friday, the commission has sent a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., effectively threatening to subpoena witnesses and documents if Justice does not provide better, more complete answers about its decision to dismiss the cases. "We believe the Department's defense of its...

The panther a hunter shot last year in Troup County was a Florida panther which likely wandered north, officials said Wednesday after genetic testing showed it was a federally protected animal. A deer hunter last November shot the panther when he observed the cat from his tree stand. Genetic testing by the National Cancer Institute, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, indicated that the panther came from a resident southern Florida population, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced. The hunter reported the killing to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and has not been charged in the case. Authorities took...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday demanded for the second time that the Justice Department explain its dismissal of charges against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during the November elections, saying a previous response was "largely non-responsive" and "paints the department in a poor light." In a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., the commission said it is "answerable" to the president, Congress and the public to ensure that civil rights laws are enforced and that it had the authority to subpoena witnesses and documents to guarantee laws...

Richard Reid, the man who tried to blow up American Airlines flight 93 is housed in the Supermax prison in Colorado. Until this month, he had been subject to security restrictions which prevented his communication with other Al Qaeda members, where ever they are. Not anymore. The Holder Justice Department has decided to relax these security measures against an unrepentant terrorist... (Read the rest at muffledoar.blogspot.com)

Republican Congressmen want to know the answer although Democrats seem perfectly content to have a bunch of thugs physically blocking access to polling places, using racial slurs and carrying nightsticks. Perhaps since their president is trying to turn America's economy into a third world mess they believe aping banana republic electoral tactics just follows naturally. To try and find out why the Obama Justice Department dropped the case (or at least to get them on record saying it was for political purposes), a group of prominent GOP lawmakers have dispatched a letter to the DOJ Inspector General asking him to...

BREAKING: Official Document says Black Panther was “representing the Democratic Party"Yesterday, Curt posted on this highly racial statement by the Black Panthers at a Philly voting location: [video at site] Racially charged statements by armed black panthers who happen to work for the Dem party in Philly. No surprise the DOJ spiked the charges against the three black panthers. [video at site] (Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...

Yesterday Mike wrote about how Obama appointee's dropped default judgments against some black panthers who intimidated voters on election day asking: Readers may recall the political firestorm which descended on President Bush when he fired three U.S. Attorneys. Will there be a similar firestorm for the direct political interference in this case to protect voting rights of people who might not vote for Obama? There is video on the post of the black panthers holding clubs and standing at the entrance to a polling place. Michelle Malkin has the affadivit from one witness, Bartle Bull, a long time civil rights...

Charlie Wooten has been a hunter since 1976 and has seen more than his fair share of wild animals. His four trail cameras usually catch the occasional black bear roaming around between May and September,but when one of his cameras snapped a photo of an apparent cougar on his property in the Isle of Wight Courthouse area, he wasn't sure what he saw. "I'm no expert," he said, "but it doesn't look like a bobcat to me." Wooten, who primarily hunts white-tailed deer and turkeys, showed the photo to 20 fellow hunters, and "19 of them said it wasn't a...

When a colt was severely mauled on Sandy Kenner's property on 50th Avenue, near Kemper's Woods nature area on the edge of Chippewa Falls, the family contacted a U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife damage specialist. The expert ruled out bear, wolf and coyote attacks. "He thought it had to have gone into some bad kind of fence, but we don't have a barbed wire fence," Kenner said. When the family e-mailed photos of the injured colt to a relative in Colorado, he replied that claw marks were the obvious signs of a cougar attack. When Kenner told others of the...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) and Bossier City Police Department (BPPD) responded to a call on Sunday, Nov. 30 that a cougar had been spotted in a residential neighborhood in Bossier City. LDWF’s efforts to immobilize the 125-pound cat with a tranquilizer dart were not immediately successful and BPPD officers shot the animal to minimize the possible threat to public safety. The state’s third documented cougar sighting in three months was witnessed by neighbors in Bossier City, as well as law enforcement officers, state biologists and news media representatives. The cougar was discovered in the same neighborhood...

Obama's Black Identity Politics is Consistent With Jeremiah Wright’s Hate SpeechIf anyone believes that Barack Obama “just found out” about Jeremiah Wright’s vicious anti-American hate speech, we have a bridge in Brooklyn we would like to sell them. As shown by Obama’s own book Dreams From My Father, Obama’s deep involvement in Black identity politics–replace that with “White identity politics” to envision sheets, hoods, and burning crosses–is entirely consistent with his widespread involvement and association with racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters. The bottom line is that Obama is not one of us and, by “us,” we mean mainstream America. To begin...

"NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY represents Freedom, Justice, and Peace for all of Mankind." [See Web page for picture]

I have just returned from Ft. Drum, Florida, where the attack on the three year old occurred. He was attacked by an animal on December 6, 2007. The little boy was attacked when his mother went inside to use the restroom and asked Antony’s grandfather to go outside and watch the child for a few moments. This is not the first time a mountain lion has done this. In 2006, a boy was literally taken from his father's hands before the father could realize what was happening and get better hold on the child. Two weeks after the attack the...

In Florida, destroying, hiding, or otherwise making evidence unavailable is called “despoliation of evidence.” That’s legal-speak. Despoilation of evidence is illegal. The father of a student participant in an Everglades Institute project, Dr. Yalamanchi, filed he case which created that term, made it case law, and set legal precedence in this matter of destroying, or otherwise ‘disappearing’ evidence. As a successful physician, Dr. Yalamanchi could afford the private lawyers necessary to obtain justice. Three-and-a-half year old Anthony Martin and his family can’t afford lawyers. As soon as I heard about the attack on this three-and-a-half year old boy, I drove...

In the King James Bible, Jesus is quoted as saying, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Somehow, I don’t think Jesus meant for predators to be able to say “Suffer the little children to come into me.” Nor did He intend ‘wild beasts of the field’ to get away with adding “YUMMY” to His words. Yesterday, I went to an isolated home in Ft Drum, Florida, where a young boy, aged three and half years, was savagely attacked by some wild beast. To make it even more of a horror story, now the bureau-beasts are thinking of attacking...

For those that don't believe the picture comes from Louisiana, these other animals at the same location helps narrow down where the picture was taken. The opossum and bear range only overlaps in a few places. One being in Louisiana!

My regular readers know that I patrol South-Central Los Angeles. Recently I saw this flyer which, as you can imagine, piqued my curiosity: (click pictures for larger versions) This document was distributed by a group called the Black Riders Liberation Party, an offshoot of the Black Panther Party started by this man: Whom they call Taco: The Black Riders Liberation Party was formed in 1996 by Bloods and Crips in the California Youth Authority college class. As their political understanding grew, especially being inside the belly of the beast, they were able to see up close how oppressive and dehumanizing...

William Lee Brent, former bodyguard to Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver, died last week in Havana, Cuba. He would have been 76 last Friday. The cause was bronchial pneumonia, said Steve Wasserman, a close friend and editor of Mr. Brent's 1996 autobiography, "Long Time Gone." Mr. Brent was still a fugitive when he died, sought by U.S. law enforcement officials for his June 1969 hijacking of TWA flight No. 154 to Cuba. The plane, with 76 passengers aboard, was bound for New York from San Francisco. No one was hurt. He arrived in Havana expecting to be hailed as...

(Adams County-WANE) After NewsChannel 15 aired video of a big cat sighting in Adams County, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Adams County Sheriff's Department received phone calls from people who also claim to have seen the mysterious cat. The big cat sightings have been taking place for about a year. Now with the existence of video of the animal, there appears to be proof the cat really exists. An Adams County resident and her daughter videotaped what appears to be a big cat on two separate occasions. They're not sure if it's the same animal because one...

A couple of weeks ago, Kathy Robertson was driving near her home on Tiger Road in eastern Newton County when out of the field jumped a black panther. “I had heard that they ate chickens around the area,” Robertson said. “But we no longer have chickens in our chicken houses.” According to Robertson, the panther was long, beautiful, and weighed about 100 pounds. “When he ran, you could actually see the muscles in him,” said Robertson. “He even had a long tail.” This was not the first time that Robertson saw a panther. Back in March, she saw another one...

A mountain lion prowling around for easy meals has been scaring a...family ever since it killed one of the family's cats two weeks ago. About 2:30 a.m. ...Carrie Ann Warner heard noises outside that she assumed came from raccoons ... As the house had no windows on that side, she opened the door a little, a piece of firewood in one hand. One of her cats scooted out the door, right into the clutches of a mountain lion not 2 feet from her. Warner threw the firewood and hit the animal in the head as it carried off her cat....

In just two weeks, six retired U.S. Marine and Army generals have denounced the Pentagon planning for the war in Iraq and called for the resignation or firing of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who travels often to Iraq and supports the war, says that the generals mirror the views of 75 percent of the officers in the field, and probably more. This is not a Cindy Sheehan moment. This is a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the U.S. armed forces by senior officers once responsible for carrying out the orders of...

I'll leave a fuller examination of Vista's broken promises for a later date. For now, let's look at the most current builds we do have--build 5308 and 5342--and see where Vista just completely blows it. As with the broken promises, Vista's failures are legion, but I'll just focus on a few examples here and leave the full list for a later time.

A man dressed in women's clothing robbed a Hillcrest bank Monday, authorities reported. Police said just after 1 p.m., a man wearing a pink bra walked into the Union Bank on Fifth and University in Hillcrest and handed a demand note to a teller. The teller handed over an undisclosed amount of money to the man who then fled, 10News reported. Police described the robber as a Hispanic male in his 20s also wearing tight jeans and a black leather choker.

Two NFL cheerleaders arrested at Tampa bar Tampa, Florida – Two Carolina Panther cheerleaders spent the night in jail after a rough night in Channelside. The Panthers were in town to play the Bucs Sunday afternoon. Witnesses say Angela Keathley and Renee Thomas were engaged in some type of sexual activity inside a bathroom stall at Banana Joe's around 2:20 am Sunday. Another woman waiting to use the bathroom got into an argument with the pair. Police say Thomas punched the woman in the face. When Thomas was arrested, she gave police the name of another Panthers cheerleader. Thomas could...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should...

Scream Baffles Ohio Town POSTED: 6:27 pm EDT August 19, 2005 UPDATED: 10:25 am EDT August 20, 2005 LIBERTY, Ohio -- An unusual and noisy mystery has people in a small town north of Middletown on edge, worried and asking questions, News 5’s Brain Hamrick reported. Liberty, Ohio, is a quiet little community, except for one thing -- the scream. Jamie Young told Hamrick she heard it while she and her husband were walking one evening. “It scared me. I didn’t want to finish my walk,” Young said. But instead of running into her house, she said she recorded the...

Blacks and Jews Split – again – over Farrakhan by Makebra M. Anderson NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A prominent Jewish leader’s insistence that African-American leaders distance themselves from the Millions More March organizer Minister Louis Farrakhan is more likely to stir up more anti-Semitism rather than soothe frayed relations between Blacks and Jews, says Hip Hop mogul Russell Simmons. He was reacting to criticism from Abraham H. Foxman, national director of Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In a letter addressed to national Black leaders, Foxman said it is unacceptable that mainstream African-American leaders would participate in a march whose conveners...

These days Apple is generating more buzz than a swarm of African killer bees. Of course, we PC users can sit back and watch the hoopla about the Mac Mini and its brethren with detached interest, right? Well, maybe we should pay more attention. The fact is, Apple gets a lot of things right. For starters, the new Mac Mini is a sleek, pared-down little number that has a trim US$500 price tag to match. For Mac fans, it's an affordable, well-designed digital media machine that gets along nicely with other peripherals. The Mini will let you store and play...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should...

HOMEMISSION CR CHAPTERS SUPPORT CR CR MATERIALSNEWSROOMRESOURCESLINKSCR GOODSSEARCHCONTACT US What is the Prison Industrial Complex? The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a complicated system situated at the intersection of governmental and private interests that uses prisons as a solution to social, political, and economic problems. The PIC depends upon the oppressive systems of racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia. It includes human rights violations, the death penalty, industry and labor issues, policing, courts, media, community powerlessness, the imprisonment of political prisoners, and the elimination of dissent.>

I saw it on the radio we have some big cat problems. One was find dead with an arrow through it a few days ago, now in the guy's freezer waiting to be stuffed. Multiple sitings in mercer county. I'm in the sticks and heard the dogs going nuts and sounding like there scarred to death at night time and thinking about purchasing a rifle that would take care of one of these critiers if it were to show up. Any ideas anybody and I'll just read for awhile. Thanx

Between Man And Lion There Can Be No Compact" - HomerFor most of their history, extinct and living humans have represented little more than a vulnerable, slow moving, bipedal source of protein for big cats.," Julian Kerbis Peterhans Author's note: The Professor is talking about unarmed humans. The first quote is from the Homeric Period of Ancient Greece. The second is contemporary, as associate professor Peterhans is presently teaching Natural Science at Roosevelt University, and is an adjunct curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. Throughout at least three thousand years of man's history, it was well known that large...

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Since its October 24th release, Apple's latest iteration of its BSD-based OS X software, version 10.3 or "Panther," has received more plaudits than pans throughout the high-tech community Indeed, aside from a couple of initial glitches, including a hard drive-damaging flaw that has since been fixed, the launch has been seen as a highly positive development. BusinessWeek technology columnist Stephen Wildstrom called Panther "the best operating system available to consumers." And on the eve of Panther's release, The Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walter Mossberg wrote that Panther "can network easily with Windows computers and is packed with lots of...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- The nasty hard-drive-eating bug in Panther has been resolved, according to Apple Computer. But some experts say poppycock -- upgrading to the latest version of Mac OS X is like playing Russian roulette with your data.</p> <p>As previously reported, there's a glitch in the Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) installer that renders some -- but not all -- external FireWire drives inoperable.</p>

<p>Mac users are roaring in rage because of a nasty installment glitch that erases data on external hard drives.</p> <p>After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3, better known as Panther, they are finding external FireWire drives are no longer recognized by the host machine. In many cases, all the data the drives stores are also gone.</p>

Apple Computer's latest version of its Mac OS X operating system, Panther, patches security flaws that affect previous versions of the operating system, leaving security experts wondering if users will have to pay the $129 upgrade fee to be secure. On Tuesday, Apple released an advisory that indicate that the Mac OS X 10.3 upgrade--which adds an improved Finder menu, better synchronization of files and a tool to help users find a specific window on a crowded desktop--also includes more than a dozen "security enhancements." However, Apple apparently doesn't intend to fix the flaws in previous versions of the software:...

After God casually looked up from His desk, glanced at the Cubs and the Red Sox and cleared His throat in a meaningful sort of way before returning to His paperwork, the phenomenon wherein hordes of amped-up souls gleefully line up at all hours to buy something the moment it becomes available retreated to its natural arenas: the next "Lord of the Rings" movie and Panther, Apple's latest major update to Mac OS X. Yes, people were lined up for Panther. Apple kept its retail stores open until midnight on Friday to accommodate everyone who couldn't contain themselves. Mac users...

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday announced the release of Mac OS X Panther and Panther Server, the latest major updates to its Unix-based operating system. The releases come just four months after Steve Jobs demoed the new operating system during his keynote address at the companies Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Both versions will be available on Friday, October 24, beginning at 8:00 p.m. "We made a big bet a while back to go to a whole new architecture and we are reaping the benefits of that right now," Brian Croll, Apple's senior director software, told MacCentral. "We...

Three environmental groups threatened Wednesday to go to court to keep habitat for the endangered Florida panther out of the hands of developers. At issue is a massive rock-mining proposal in southern Lee County and a federal environmental permitting system that allows shortcut permits for smaller projects that the groups say are eating away at habitat for one of the world's rarest mammals. The best guesses put the panther population at 80 to 100 cats. An adult male Florida panther growels as he leaves his shipping container to enter his new home at Big Cypress National Preserve in this Jan....

<p>Now that Apple Computer Inc. has let the cat halfway out of the bag about the next major revision to Mac OS X, sources report that the "Panther" release will reach end users in mid-September.</p> <p>According to sources familiar with the forthcoming revisions to the Unix-based OS, Apple will freeze development on new features in May and finalize enhancements to the user interface in July.</p>

Armed police are continuing to stake out the farm where at least one big cat is thought to have killed a dog. Dyfed-Powys Police sharpshooters have been drafted in to hunt two puma-like animals which struck at the farm at Llangadog, near Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, on Sunday evening. The force is warning the public and farmers not to search for the puma-like cat which attacked the dog within sight of its owner and was then joined by what could have been its cub. Officers armed with high-powered rifles are watching the site of the attack from hides and if the...