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Two top Republicans sided Sunday with President Barack Obama on his scheduled speech Tuesday to school children. “I have been in communication with Arne Duncan and the team at Department of Education,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday." “I believe this is going to be posted. People are going to see it in advance. It is going be a totally positive speech. If that is what it is, it is good to have the president of the United States saying to young people across America stay in school and do your homework. It’s good for America.”...

Once again we see how the free market is being used to slowly change the West to suit Islam. As a Domino's pizzeria in the UK has banned all pork products with no concern for its non-Muslim customers. I am not against the free market, what I am against is Muslim immigration.

“I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said. “What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”

Lately I've been thinking of four left wing incidents that happened in Maine over the course of two years. I feel I should get them off my chest I think some of them would be interesting and I think others should know about them. The first one involves an incident that took place in the Bangor metro area two years ago. This freind of mine and his family were having trouble. He had difficulty getting by and he worked at Edwards Shop'n'save in Hampden outside Bangor. He was on food stamps and his wife was laid off and couldn't get...

Al Qaeda's online community is threatening all out cyber war against counter jihadis. Bring. It. On. B- - - - - -. DEBKA: In a special Internet announcement in Arabic, picked up DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources, Osama bin Laden’s followers announced Monday, Oct. 29, the launching of Electronic Jihad. On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold...

OTTAWA -- A coalition of environmental groups and firefighters are calling on the federal government to ban flame retardants they say are toxic and pose a serious health risk. The group of chemicals are called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, and are commonly found in many consumer products, such as the casings of television sets, curtains and carpets. Numerous scientific studies indicate these chemicals are linked to serious health issues, including neurological and reproductive problems, said Lisa Gue, environmental health policy analyst with the David Suzuki Foundation. "We are calling for all chemicals in this class ... to be banned,"...

(IsraelNN.com) Top Israeli archaeologists held an emergency press conference on Thursday, warning that a Second Temple courtyard wall is in danger of being destroyed by the Arab excavations there. Members of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities warned that other artifacts could also be endangered by the unsupervised dig. (IsraelNN.com) Top Israeli archaeologists held an emergency press conference on Thursday, warning that a Second Temple courtyard wall is in danger of being destroyed by the Arab excavations there. Members of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities warned that other artifacts could also...

WASHINGTON -- Zalmay Khalilzad, who was announced this week as leaving as U.S. ambassador to Iraq, is the leading prospect to replace John Bolton as envoy to the United Nations. President Bush was reported by aides as looking for someone who approximates Bolton's combination of toughness and diplomatic skill and has tentatively decided on Khalilzad. A native of Afghanistan, he has served in government posts dating back to 1985 and is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration. Speculation on a new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to succeed John Bolton is focusing on the current U.S. ambassador in...

Stanley Yaffe thought he was committing a random act of kindness Wednesday when he put a quarter in a stranger's expired parking meter. Not so, a Denver "vehicle control agent" informed Yaffe. The "VCA" - as they say in the bureaucratic heaven of puffed-up titles and silly acronyms - told Yaffe that he had committed a crime: "Interfering with the collection of city revenue." I searched the phrase in the Municipal Code. No luck. I called Public Works. "We use the services of the Denver Police Department if there is any interference with the parking enforcement staff," spokeswoman Patty Weiss...

Dear dismayed conservatives: I hereby make these promises to you. We will protect your lives and livelihoods. We will listen to and respect your beliefs. We will never try to force you to change your religion, sexual orientation, or first language. We will do our best to reduce the number of abortions in our country. We will have no tolerance for corruption and cronyism, even in our own party. ESPECIALLY in our own party. We will never tell you that you are unpatriotic. We will never tell you that your opinion doesn't count. We will never waste your lives for...

Muslim world newspapers filled with articles slamming pope’s remarks; ‘it is clear that such remarks only contribute to the fueling of the fire raging between Islam and the West,’ op-ed published in al-Sharq al-Awsat says The recent remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI on Islam are threatening to ignite the entire Muslim world. Op-Eds published in the Arab newspapers slammed the pope even after the Vatican’s apology. The most extreme opinion was voiced by Hani Pahas in the London-based Arabic-language daily newspaper Al-Hayat, who wrote “the pope’s comments may lead to war; we fear that the pope’s statements may lead...

MANY investors apparently trust spam e-mail — at least those messages that say a fortune is to be made in a speculative stock. All too often, credulous people buy the shares, only to see them plummet in value. That is the conclusion of a new study, “Spam Works: Evidence From Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity,” by Laura L. Frieder, an assistant professor of finance at Purdue, and Jonathan L. Zittrain, professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford. Professor Zittrain is also a visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School, where he was a founder of its Berkman...

A cardboard sign hanging in a tree, directed at a boy with developmental disabilities, and the boy's mother, isn't happy. Neighbor: "I'm not taking the sign down, last night was the first night of peace we've got in a long ----- time." Carrie Heaton, Colton's Mother: "They've put up this sign now, that we feel is very discriminatory against my son." The cardboard sign is hanging in a tree in the Central Utah town of Nephi. It is also being denounced tonight by advocates for the disabled. The boy's family noticed the sign pointed at their home on Wednesday night,...

Number May Be Higher, and Cause Is Not Known May 4, 2006 — - Three hundred thousand children. That's how many the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports suffer from autism. It has remained a baffling and often devastating disorder, and the new numbers show how widespread it is. The CDC reported that 5.7 children out of every thousand -- one in 175 -- have the problem. And the total may be higher because many doctors do not recognize the early warning signs. "Many children are not diagnosed with autism until they reach school age. And we need to...

This past weekend I had the privilege of attending the “Thousands ... not Billions” conference where the results of the RATE (Radioisotopes and the age of the earth) project were presented. The RATE project (a joint research initiative between the Institute for Creation Research, and the Creation Research Society) has carefully investigated the method of radioisotope dating: a method that allegedly shows rocks to be millions or billions of years old. Of course, the biblical text indicates a much more recent creation—a fact confirmed by RATE researcher and Hebrew scholar Dr. Steven Boyd. So it is exciting (but not surprising)...

Last May, I had the pleasure of participating in the Kansas State Board of Education’s “evolution” hearings. Readers may recall that I contributed an essay, “Darwin or Lose,” to the “Darwin’s Last Stand?” issue (July/August 2004), in which I discussed how the use of courtroom-style litigation tactics by spokesmen for “mainstream science” has deformed the scientific debate over the origin of life and its diversification into the vast array of different species we see today. The hearings gave me an opportunity to see first-hand the use of such tactics. High-Profile Hearings The teaching of evolution became a high-profile issue in...

Notice where New Orleans lies in the map? Anyone remember how much time pass between the Evac notice and landfall? Give ya a hint. Evac was ordered at 10am sunday. Katrina made landfall at 6:10am monday (both local times). First post, hope it works

CAMDEN, N.J. -- The father of a missing 6-year-old boy found his son's body and those of his two young friends in the trunk of a car Friday, two days after the children disappeared from a nearby yard where they were playing. A neighbor, Carmen Cilla, said she saw David Agosto open the trunk of the car and collapse to his knees screaming. It was not immediately clear how the three boys got into the vehicle or whether foul play was involved. Yolanda DeNeely Aguilard, an aide to Mayor Gwendolyn Faison, confirmed the bodies had been found. She had no...

amBushed (1000+ posts) Tue May-17-05 11:46 PM Original message I nominate Sen. Carl Levin to the top 10 conservative idiots list! A Democrat stupid enough to do the BushCo dirty work in attacking Galloway has to make that list. His questioning of Galloway was an embarrassment to real Democrats everywhere. Just why are the Democrats participating in this charade? Why didn't Levin toss Galloway a few "Gannonesque" questions that he could use to blast Busholini and the neo-fascists? Carl Levin, top 10 conservative idiot.

​ ​​​​Forsake The Troops started off as Citizens Against the Troops, an organization founded in the Summer of 2004. We currently have fifteen members in our organization, spanning all across this country. Our founder, and leader's name is Scott Vogel, who currently resides in Southern New Jersey. Other members have their bios available as well. To view those, click here. Our position is that as it stands currently, the compensation, benefit, and retirement packages that our active duty and retired military personnel get is outrageous, and undeserved. The American taxpayer is supporting the military enlistee, when said person made the...

Lawsuits Spread in Over Penis Enlargement Claims Mon Feb 14, 6:17 PM ET Health - Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A New Jersey man has filed a false advertising lawsuit against a maker of herbal penis enlargement pills, alleging the medicine does not fulfill its promises, the plaintiff's lawyer said on Monday. Two similar cases, filed last year in Colorado and Ohio, accuse manufacturers of herbal dietary supplements, VigRx and Enzyte, of falsely claiming to be able to add substantial length and girth to a man's penis. All three suits seek class action status and claim to represent more than...

San Francisco -- The California Supreme Court announced guidelines Thursday regarding how condemned inmates can claim they are mentally retarded in a bid to avoid execution, an action the state attorney general's office said could create a flood of challenges from the nation's most clogged death row. The justices' unanimous decision came almost three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was cruel and unusual to execute murderers deemed legally retarded, a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The nation's highest court left it to the states to define what constitutes retardation, paving the way for new laws and court...

BRITS MOCK BUSH INAUGURATION Thu Jan 20 2005 23:05:29 ET Editors of major London newspapers wasted no time mocking President Bush's inauguration address. Assorted splash headlines will greet readers on Friday morning: "BUSH: HAVE I GOT NUKES FOR YOU, George Bush pledged all-out global war on terrorists and tyrants," headlines the STAR. "POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, The band played Hail to the Chief. A 21-gun salute sounded. Then, protected by a bullet-proof shield, President George Bush repeated his message to the enemies of democracy," screams the INDEPENDENT. MORE The TELEGRAPH slapped: "DEFIANT BUSH DOESN'T MENTION THE WAR, President George W Bush...

WASHINGTON -- No buttons, signs or unusual dress will distinguish the protesters from the thousands who will line the inaugural parade route next month, but at a set time, they say they will demonstrate against President Bush -- by turning their backs on the chief executive. Coupled with the widely expected pomp and pageantry of a presidential inauguration are demonstrations by protesters angered by Bush's policies, in particular the war in Iraq. Getting ready for Jan. 20, 2005, various groups are using Web sites, e-mails, fliers and word of mouth to urge thousands of demonstrators to gather in the nation's...

Ohio certifies it electoral votes for Bush today and you would think that the DUmmies would be in the depths of Depression. But no! Take a look at this DUmmie THREAD where the DUmmies are haveing orgasms of delight over....just WHAT???? Nothing specific only some FEELING that vote fraud in Ohio will suddenly be proved and that states electoral votes and the election victory will be given to John Kerry. Let us now take an acid trip down Fantasy Lane with the DUmmies as they leap for joy even as their last hope is about to die out. As usual,...

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/112204senWeds.htm (Boston, Massachusetts) Massachusetts state Sen. Jarrett Barrios has married his longtime partner, Doug Hattaway, a former spokesperson for Vice President Al Gore. The two were wed in a weekend ceremony at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts last May. (story) Barrios and Hattaway have been together for 10 years and have two children.

Check your local listings for airtimes. (Current show is updated every weekday at 5pm EST.) HEALTH Health Experts Warn of Antidepressant Dangers for Children, Teens By Darla SittonCBN News Producer In America, Prozac is the only drug the FDA has "approved" for pediatric depression. CBN.com – (CBN News) - As many as one in eight adolescents suffers from clinical depression. And these kids are often treated with anti-depressant drugs that have been tested and approved for adult use. But the drugs may not be safe for children. Corey Baadsgaard doesn't remember storming into his honors English class with a...

George W. Bush's grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Karl Rove's grandfather allegedly helped run the Nazi Party, and helped build the Birkenau Death Camp. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian father volunteered for the infamous Nazi SA and became a ranking officer. Together, they have destabilized California and are on the brink of bringing it a new Reich. With the Schwarzenegger candidacy they have laid siege to America's largest state, lining it up for the 2004 election. The Bush family ties to the Nazi party are well known. In their 1994 Secret War Against the Jews, Mark Aarons and John Loftus use...

This is not the way some "experts" said the U.S.-led war for liberating Iraq would unfold: a military campaign of astonishing speed with a minimum of casualties, given the lethality of the weapons. So many of the experts derided this as a fantasy of the warmongers. There was supposed to be, according to these experts - we shall not embarrass them by mentioning their names - a grotesque carnage of innocent civilians. It would be a war with the scenario of hell gratuitously visited upon Iraqis: cities reduced to rubble; an unprecedented humanitarian crisis following fierce battles. However, there were...

Around the world, McDonald's restaurants have been burning. One was torched in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Nov. 20. Another blew up in Moscow on Oct.19, while less than a month before, a small bomb ripped through a franchise in a suburb of Beirut. According to Reuters, militants arrested in July for the bomb attack on the U.S. consulate in Karachi had also been planning to bomb McDonald's. In December 2001, a McDonald's was bombed in Xian, in central China, and in September 2001, a pipe bomb exploded in a McDonald's in Istanbul.

The California Youth Authority's teachers union plans to picket the Northern California Youth Center in Stockton today, protesting the alleged failure of the Youth Authority to discipline wards for sexual harassment and assaults. The California State Employees Association alleges that the disciplinary lapse has led to a spike in incidents across the state, exposing teachers to more violent episodes. Teachers claim that wards have groped them and masturbated in front of them in the classroom. They say they have been hit with rulers, erasers, chalk and clipboards, and wards have spit and thrown urine on them. It is only a...

BOMBAY (Reuters) - Five people were killed in a western Indian city Friday in clashes between Hindus and Muslims sparked off by protests against remarks by U.S. pastor Jerry Falwell criticizing the Prophet Mohammad, police said. A senior police official told Reuters police opened fire on the clashing mobs after protesters set fire to shops and vehicles in the textile town of Solapur, 280 miles from the financial capital Bombay. "Of the five who were killed, three died in police firing and we are investigating the cause of death of the other two," said police sub-inspector D.B. Raut from Solapur....

A doll caused a security alert at an American airport because its two-inch plastic gun was considered a dangerous weapon. Judy Powell, 55, from Walton on the Hill, Surrey, bought the GI Joe toy in Las Vegas and packed it in her hand luggage. But security staff at Los Angeles International Airport refused to let Mrs Powell on board the plane with the replica rifle. Mrs Powell had to put the gift - minus the rifle - in her suitcase so it could go in the aircraft's hold. Mrs Powell said: "I was simply stunned when I realised they were...