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Note: The following news brief is a quote: Last Update: 12/25 9:52 pm Memphis Man Arrested: Accused of Making Bomb Threats & Threatening to Start "Holy War" MEMPHIS, TN – Tonight, Mohamed Ibrahim is out after posting $100 bond. Earlier in the day, he was arrested after police say he walked into several Memphis businesses and threatened to blow them up. Court records show Ibrahim was also telling people he was Muslim, and wanted to start a jihad, or holy war, in Memphis. Police say when they arrested him, he had a butcher knife hidden in one of his jacket...

ACORN, a social justice organization with roots in [New Orleans], battles a string of scandals. The announcement stuck to a wall outside the entrance to ACORN's local office in the 2600 block of Canal Street quietly signals the trouble afoot. In English and Spanish, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now tells walk-up clients that ACORN's housing office has shut itself down for two weeks to immerse itself "in an intensive training program." The sign is a symptom of a tumultuous week in the history of a controversial poor people's social justice movement -- one founded by a New...

BREAKING NEWS... Kansas Gov. Kathleen Seblelius has won approval from a divided Senate panel to become secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration ... The head of the Family Research Council says he hopes the latest revelation about the "blood money" Health and Human Services secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius received from Kansas abortionist George Tiller will cause senators like Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts to reconsider their support for her appointment. Family Research Council (FRC) and other pro-life groups have obtained a copy of a 2002 letter [PDF] in which notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller claims that...

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has announced he won't challenge Louisiana Sen. David Vitter in 2010:

The Family Research Council is out with a great new ad that confronts Barack Obama with a question based on his recent Father's Day sermon in which he said fathers need to understand that being a father "does not end at conception". . . (see video) You can be sure there will be no clear answer from Obama. He is quite comfortable taking positions that contradict each other. Sadly, his inconsistent and dishonest positions are perfectly acceptable to those who blindly follow him.

While most political observers are focused on the protracted Democratic primary fight between the senator from the state of New York and the senator from the state of Hope, rumors have been swirling in conservative circles that two of the movement’s most prominent leaders are considering Senate bids in 2010. Former Louisiana state Rep. Tony Perkins, president of the socially conservative Family Research Council, and former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), president of the fiscally conservative Club for Growth, are both rumored to be considering leaving their positions to run for the U.S. Senate — an office both have unsuccessfully...

Excerpt - Newsweek is reporting that HP has called an emergency board meeting. [Link] Read the reports on this fiasco whereby Chairwoman Patricia “Patty” Dunn is at the center of a spy case whereby reporters phone records were illegally obtained resulting in all sorts of legal and SEC violations and the sudden resignation of Tom Perkins as well as other issues. There is no way — after a corporate witch hunt that results in spying that targets a New York Times reporter, Fortune Magazine reporter, CNET reporters and others — that this woman stays in office. ~ snip ~

Excerpt - ... According to an internal HP e-mail, [Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia] Dunn then took the extraordinary step of authorizing a team of independent electronic-security experts to spy on the January 2006 communications of the other 10 directors-not the records of calls (or e-mails) from HP itself, but the records of phone calls made from personal accounts. That meant calls from the directors’ home and their private cell phones. ...

BOB PERKINS IS TOM DELAY'S "JUDGE" IN HIS "BOOKING" HEARING--BOB PERKINS COULD ALLOW TOM DELAY TO NOT BE "BOOKED" WITH A MUG SHOT. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF THAT HAPPENING, NOW THAT WE SEE BOB PERKINS' POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS ACCORDING TO OPENSECRETS.ORG? 6 records found in 0.7656 seconds.  Search Criteria:Donor name: PerkinsDonor State: TXZip: 78704Cycle(s) selected: 2004, 2002Start another search Sort by NameSort by DateSort by Amount Total for this search: $1,775 Contributor Occupation Date Amount Recipient PERKINS, BOBAUSTIN,TX 78704 STATE OF TEXAS/JUDGE 7/29/2004 $475 Kerry, John PERKINS, BOBAUSTIN,TX 78704 STATE OF TEXAS/JUDGE 10/14/2004 $200 DNC Services Corp PERKINS, BOBAUSTIN,TX 78704 STATE OF TX/JUDGE...

Links to both Parts (text of both parts is in this thread): Part 1: http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=227 Part 2: http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=228 _________________________ Digesting the meaning of the 2nd District Primary Results, who gained, and who lost: Winners: Every single resident of The 2nd District. No matter who wins on August 2, we will be represented by someone who lives with us, works with us, has integrity, and will effectively represent us (yes, even a Democrat can do that). Winners (again): Every single resident of The 2nd District. A McEwen victory would have forced BizzyBlog to fully research and verify a great deal of...

Rick Scarborough, temporary chairman of the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration (organizer of the conference Confronting The Judicial War On Faith – April 7-8 in Washington, DC) offered his heartfelt thanks to Congress and President Bush for passing emergency legislation to save the life of Terri Schiavo. "Thank God we have a Congress and president who care enough about a life imperiled to intervene in this case," Scarborough commented. "Like the 1960s, when state courts ignored clear-cut violations of civil rights, federal intervention is necessary. The legislation that passed in the early hours of this morning will facilitate that." Scarborough...

A Kitzingen, Germany-based soldier who shot himself in a leg in October with a contraband Iraqi handgun has been sentenced to six months in prison. Spc. Kenneth Perkins, 25, of the 4th Battalion, 3rd Air Defense Artillery, pleaded guilty Nov. 30 to charges of malingering, making a false official statement and violating a lawful general order, according to a court-martial summary released Friday by the Tikrit, Iraq-based Task Force Danger. Judge (Col.) Stephanie Browne also ordered him reduced to the lowest enlisted rank and handed him a bad-conduct discharge. Perkins acknowledged keeping an Iraqi handgun he found near a mosque,...

The chances that enemy forces moved 377 tons of heavy ordnance out of the Al Qaqaa arms facility after U.S. forces arrived in the area are nearly impossible, said Army Col. David Perkins, who commanded the American troops who took the area during major combat operations in Iraq in 2003. Perkins commanded 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division. A unit under his command, the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, entered the depot on April 3, 2003, and defeated the enemy forces there in a two-day battle. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency had tagged the explosives at the site and...

War critics are 'miserable creatures' THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE (Link to Story) November 14, 2003 Joseph Perkins 'War," wrote John Stuart Mill, one of the 19th century's greatest thinkers, "is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight," Mill continued, "is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." That brings...

California is a racist state.That's not my opinion. That's the implicit view of those who oppose a ballot measure that aims to end the odious practice in the Golden State of classifying people by their "race." Proposition 54 would forbid state and local government agencies in California from identifying individuals by their skin color for purposes of public education, public contracting, public employment and other government operations.Foes of the measure, from Jesse Jackson to Cruz Bustamante, fret that California's nonwhite population somehow will be irreparably harmed if it is approved by the voters.They insinuate that California's white population cannot be...

Selling out the state on illegal immigration http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20030912-9999_mz1e12perkin.htmlJoseph Perkins SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE September 12, 2003 " I think we have to be honest about our dependency on people to do jobs Americans will not."- Gov. Gray Davis " They are here paying taxes. They pay $1,400 more a year than they get back in assistance."|- Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante Davis and Bustamante are sellouts. They have sold out California by advancing policies that effectively decriminalize illegal immigration; that confer upon illegal aliens benefits that should be reserved for the state's lawful residents. They have sold out America by proffering...

Federico de Jesus owes Victor David Hanson an apology. De Jesus, a staffer for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, falsely accused Hanson, the distinguished author of the just-published book "Mexifornia," of racism and xenophobia at a recent Capitol Hill briefing. During his introduction, Hanson, a scholar of ancient Rome and Greece, was aptly described as "a classicist." De Jesus somehow interpreted that to mean that the author had a white "classist" bias against immigrants. Pelosi's aide, who somehow earned a diploma without being able to make a distinction between a classicist and a classist, got ugly with Hanson and stormed...

Some advice for Arnold http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20030815-9999_mz1e15perkin.htmlJoseph Perkins SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE August 15, 2003 Memo to Arnold Schwarzenegger: Best wishes on your California gubernatorial campaign. That was a stroke of political genius, misdirecting everyone into thinking you were not going to throw your hat in the ring, then unexpectedly announcing your candidacy on "Leno." You sure generated a lot of buzz, not only here in the Golden State, but throughout the entire country. The recall had been expected to be a low-turnout affair. But you've made it a happening. Indeed, not only are two-thirds of likely California voters ready to kick...

<p>BATON ROUGE - State Rep. Tony Perkins will take over as president of the Christian right-wing Washington lobbying group Family Research Council.</p> <p>Perkins, 40, said he will take over Sept. 1 at a salary "in the neighborhood" of $220,000 to be spokesman for the lobby, which is associated with the Rev. James Dobson of Colorado Springs, Colo.</p>