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Marilyn Wright's "Fire Bill and Hillary," posted at my.barackobama.com on January 21 2008 and online as of September 8, 2008, expresses a wish for Bill and Hillary Clinton to be "lynched" and "shot." It also wishes that Bill Clinton would die from a heart attack, and it refers to him as "white trash." This hate speech is "Paid for by Obama for America."...Here is what Marilyn Wright has to say about the Clintons (Google cache in case it "disappears" now that it is becoming an Internet-wide scandal). We believe (not legal advice) that this falls short of being reportable to...

Democrats are employing a diversionary tactic to defend themselves against the charge that they trashed thousands of American flags used at the grand finale Greek Temple event at Invesco Field. Here's how it works:To make the accusers look ridiculous, they publish pictures like the one on the left, showing flags bundled up in trash bags. This is a real picture, and I don't doubt they indeed were packaging them for later use. This is the diversion. Ordinary Americans hear the story and are outraged, but then see the picture and think "oh, that's not so bad."This first bit of...

There's a bit of a brewing tempest about 12,000 flags discovered in the trash after the Democratic convention in Denver. Fox News reports that the Democrats tossed them in the trash. The Obama campiagn says they didn't toss the flags in the trash, that they wouldn't mistreat the flag like that. Here is AP photo number 467 from the last night of convention. The AP caption reads Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., his wife, Jill, center, and Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applaud during talk on the final night at the...

The libs hate it when people point out examples of flag abuse. It probably galls them because they view it as a piece of cloth or paper, and, after all, how can anybody be offended when somebody bites, folds, tears, mutilates, or devours a piece of cloth or paper? They hate being nailed on it because they think a bunch of yahoos will question their patriotism. Hmmm. So, since fomenting liberal angst is one of greatest sporting events known to man, and we lettered in that particular event, here goes. Photos

This is what the purveyors of party unity really think of the Clintons. Contrary to the disclaimer on each page, the Obama campaign exercises editorial control over this Web site by deleting content it considers “offensive” and “disrespectful.” Statements that Hillary Clinton is a “self-serving bitch” are not considered offensive or disrespectful by the moderators who supervise the site. Neither is this entry (http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/marlamiller/gGBlT3): Hillary’s only connection to lower socioeconomic groups comes from marrying white trash. She’s learned a lot slumming. We think all Clinton Democrats ought to see this one, and we have downloaded the page and taken screen...

Rielle Hunter compared John Edwards with Gandhi and went around trashing his cancer-stricken wife, it was reported Sunday. A Newsweek writer who courted her as a source during Hunter's affair with the presidential candidate portrays Edwards' mistress as a charming but hugely indiscreet muddlehead who called reporters with New Age babble about Edwards' "old soul." Asked about Elizabeth Edwards, who is unusually well-liked by political operatives and reporters, Hunter told reporter Jonathan Darman, "She does not give off good energy. ... I've only met her once.... She didn't make eye contact with me." Darman wrote of meeting Hunter, a former...

Saturday morning, I went right out to the supermarket to buy the National Enquirer to see what else might be true. And there it was, right by the cash register, with a headline across the top of the cover promising the latest details of a story the Enquirer broke months ago. John Edwards had initially dismissed the Enquirer's allegations of an extramarital affair as "tabloid trash." A saw mill worker's son who was himself once dismissed as "poor white trash," he should have been more cautious about underestimating those who are dismissed out of hand as inferiors. Whatever you might...

Now hear this: According to the The Associated Press, the gay city's Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed inspecting its residents' garbage. Anyone not properly sorting their garbage will be fined. Do it again and you'll face delousing or perhaps beheading. That is all.

Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom. And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped. The plan to require proper sorting of refuse would be the nation's first mandatory recycling and composting law. It would direct garbage collectors to inspect the trash to make sure it is put into the right blue, black or green bin, according...

"Every city has a contract with their (waste) hauler and it depends on the revenue-sharing agreement," said Braicovich, adding that he would support the bill. Scavenging through other people's garbage and recycling bins is illegal in many Inland cities and existing state law already requires identification from anyone selling recyclables valued at $100 or more, said Don Drysdale, a spokesman for the CALIFORNIA Department of Conservation. There is also a limit of 500 pounds of aluminum cans that a person can sell per day. "That's a heck of a lot of cans," said Danny Frankel, president of Riverside Recycling.

Naseb Saad Hasan Altememy, holds up a can of future profits for his company’s recycling center site at a refuse collection site at Joint Base Balad, Iraq. The recycling center, which will provide jobs to local Iraqis, will assist current efforts to sort through daily garbage collection on post for recyclables. Photo by Sgt. Robert G. Cooper III. BALAD — A war can be messy, literally. From the daily trash collections conducted by roving garbage trucks to amassing scrap metals born from the aftermath of battle, waste management is a serious business for Coalition forces in Iraq.And that business is...

The family that planted corn in the front yard of their $500,000 home is gone from Carrie Oliver's street. So are the neighbors who drilled holes into the trees to string up a hammock. Oliver's list goes on: The loud music. The beer bottles. The littered diapers. All gone. When she and her husband, Ron, went for walks in their Manassas area neighborhood, she would take a trash bag and he would carry a handgun. No more. "So much has changed," she said in a gush of relief, standing with her husband on a warm summer evening recently outside a...

Cabbagetown has had an ongoing problem with graffiti. Early Sunday morning, resident Rodney Bowman took the matter into his own hands. Bowman perched himself in a tree to catch vandals who had been spray-painting a concrete wall that runs along a set of railroad tracks and borders his neighborhood. Around 2:20 a.m., they showed up. Two young men, Joshua Ward, 19 and Jesse Jaeger, 21, started spray-painting the wall when Bowman sprang from the tree and attacked Ward, according to an Atlanta police report. "It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on," Jaeger said Wednesday. "This...

SEACOAST FREEPERS!!! FREEP of Jeanne Shaheen THIS FRIDAY, 5:00 PM at the Holiday Inn, Portsmouth NH. The NH Dems are having an event that will feature Jeanne Shaheen. We are organizing a fake picket line outside to protest her support of the new “card-check” union rules which would use fear and intimidation on employees who don’t want to join a union in their workplace by making their anti-union vote public! Feel free to bring signs targeting Shaheen on other issues, however our main focus will be hitting her on this labor issue. In true union, picket-line fashion, I will be...

NAPLES (Reuters) - An Italian businessman who was helping police break organized crime gangs that operate waste disposal rackets in Naples was gunned down on Sunday in an apparent mafia hit, police said. The latest killing in the southern Italian city, which in recent months has become as famous for its piles of trash as for its reputation for crime, came on a day that thousands of people attended a rally against plans to open new rubbish dumps. Police said Michele Orsi, a businessman with mafia links who had turned informant, was shot three times near his home by assailants...

Families will be forced to name somebody to be in charge of their rubbish under a council's 'zero tolerance' approach to bin collections. The named individual faces £100 fines and a criminal record if their household then puts the wrong rubbish in its wheelie bins, puts them out too soon, or puts them in the wrong place. They will also be told to give officials a breakdown of everyone who lives in their home, together with intimate information including details of medical conditions. The strict questionnaire that residents will be forced to fill out about their rubbish They will even...

A Sacramento city councilwoman visited a Japanese energy plant last week to watch plasma torches vaporize garbage at temperatures hotter than the sun's surface. She returned more confident that the technology could help her hometown solve its garbage dilemma. "It's clearer than the Campbell's Soup plant," said Lauren Hammond, comparing the puff of white steam coming out of the Ushanti plasma gasification plant with that of the landmark factory on Franklin Boulevard. The Sacramento City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to continue negotiating with a Sacramento firm that wants to make California's capital the first American city to use...

The latest battle in the war on illegal immigration isn't over the smuggling of undocumented workers, it's over the trash they leave behind. Government officials and border activists say the garbage dumped in the desert by illegal immigrants and their smugglers is staggering. And the cleanup is costing taxpayers millions.

The stucco subdivisions of Las Vegas are caught up in the nation's foreclosure crisis. These days, bankers and mortgage companies often find that by the time they get the keys back, embittered homeowners have stripped out appliances, punched holes in walls, dumped paint on carpets and, as a parting gift, locked their pets inside to wreak further havoc. Real-estate agents estimate that about half of foreclosed properties to be sold by mortgage companies nationwide have "substantial" damage, according to a new survey by Campbell Communications, a marketing and research firm based in Washington, D.C. The most practical way to ensure...

BISBEE — A local man is organizing an effort to clean up trash left behind by illegal immigrants in the Huachuca Mountains on April 5. The cleanup will focus on Bear Saddle and areas west along the Crest Trail. This section of Crest Trail is part of the Arizona Trail that extends from the Mexico border to the Utah border. The event’s organizer, Steve Roark of Hereford, competes in 100-mile long-distance races and he trains in the Huachucas. “I have been running around here for about 1 1/2 years and right away I noticed there are some areas that are...

On King's Anvil Ranch along Highway 286 there's a spot of desert littered with trash left behind by illegal immigrants. The mess is repeated in multiple areas of the 50,000 acre ranch. It's a problem for the owners and lately an issue for Arizona Game and Fish. Gabriel Paz has been an officer for 11 years. He grew up in Tucson, even frequented the Altar Valley. "Hunting 25 years ago I never remember finding any trash out here in the desert." Things are different now. Here you can find everything from backpacks to clothes, cans to diapers even a letter...

PALOMINAS — Some of the garbage was located in thick brush. Other pieces of litter were embedded in the frozen ground. But a tireless group of 25 people still managed to collect nearly every item of trash along a steep trail in Ash Canyon on Monday. They filled a total of about 50 jumbo-sized trash bags. The area is frequently traveled by illegal immigrants who leave behind piles of things like plastic bottles, metal cans, clothing and backpacks. This effort was the second in a series of cleanups that are being organized by Steve Willsey of Hereford. The hike up...

BISBEE — Some energetic individuals are being recruited to help collect trash along an illegal immigrant trail in Cochise County later this month. The cleanup effort will be held in Ash Canyon on Feb. 18, according to event organizer Steve Willsey. “Plan to hike and pick up water bottles, tin cans and old backpacks along a steep trail up a ravine to the saddle. It will be a short but difficult one-mile hike up and then back down with a bag of trash,” says a flier on the event. He estimates there is enough trash for about 30 people to...

As a Swede I get to hear a lot of the myths of how wonderful a country Sweden supposedly is — the "prosperous socialism" it stands for, a role model for the rest of the world. For instance, quite a few friends from around the world have commended me on Swedish recycling polices and the Swedish government's take on coercive environmentalism. The way it has been presented to me, Sweden has succeeded with what most other governments at best dream about: creating an efficient and profitable national system for saving the environment through large-scale recycling. And the people are all...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy's fiancee, former supermodel Carla Bruni, is pregnant with his child - less than two months after their high-profile relationship began. The news comes as Sarkozy's ex-wife Cecilia launched a blistering attack on the couple and the "slappers" that the president surrounds himself with. Bruni's pregnancy has been confirmed by doctors in Paris, French website 20minutes.fr reported last night. Reporter Allain Jules said he received the information from a source at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly, where Bruni had been last week for a scan. He said: "I am told that she had...

Cécilia Sarkozy is reported to have made the comments before Mr Sarkozy hinted that he will marry the ex-supermodel Carla Bruni following a whirlwind affair of less than three months. As the Élysée palace soap opera descended to new depths of vitriol, Mrs Sarkozy alleged that her 52-year-old ex-husband was "a man who likes no-one, not even his children". According to a new book, she even called the president's other female friends "a bunch of slappers" and young female government ministers "boring wallflowers". Mrs Sarkozy is also said to have launched a thinly veiled attack on the president's 40-year-old fiancee,...

Virgie Arthur, the mother of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith, has filed a libel lawsuit against a Houston TV station, CBS Studios Inc. and the late model's former companion, Howard K. Stern. The suit alleges that Stern arranged for Smith to appear in an Entertainment Tonight interview where the model stated that Arthur was complicit in Smith's childhood physical and sexual abuse. The lawsuit says the program aired on KPRC Channel 2 in Houston on Feb. 14, a week after Smith died at the age of 39. CBS Studios produces the program, which is broadcast locally on KPRC, an...

BISBEE — It’s a long-standing concern of border-security proponents: Illegal immigration and smuggling cause significant environmental damage, says a report recently released by the Bureau of Land Management. The annual report for fiscal 2006 details efforts by the bureau and partner organizations to mitigate the impacts on lands in Southern Arizona. Deborah E. Stevens, public affairs specialist for the Bureau of Land Management, said the purpose of the report is to build public awareness and get attention to the issue. “Tremendous numbers of people and organizations are doing work. We kind of want to let people know what we are...

Power, Legitimacy, and the 14th Amendment by Joseph E. Fallon The justification for the vast, intrusive, and coercive powers employed by the government of the United States against its citizens from affirmative action to hate-crimes legislation, from multilingualism to multiculturalism, from Waco to Ruby Ridge is the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution adopted in 1868, or, more specifically, the authority conferred upon Washington, explicitly or implicitly, by the privileges and immunities and equal protection clauses of that amendment. The government of the United States, as established by the U.S. Constitution in 1789, was effectively abolished by the 14th Amendment....

ST. PETERSBURG - Many, many bags are delivered to the county solid waste compound, but most contain trash and they're dumped deliberately. This one ended up in the middle of the road, well short of the dump, and apparently by accident. Inside was $65,000 in cash. "I pick it up and it is loaded with money," said Debbie Cole, a scale-house supervisor who spotted the bag during a break. "I go, 'Oh my gosh.'" "I've never seen that much money before," she said. "When I realized how much money it was, I started shaking." The bag apparently fell off an...

Shahid Masih, 18, was imprisoned in September 2006 accused of having blasphemed Islam. His presumed accomplice, a Muslim released on caution nine months ago, also absolved. The Christian’s mother died from heartbreak following his arrest. Faisalabad (AsiaNews) –A Pakistani Appeals court yesterday ordered the release of the Christian Shahid Masih – 18, in prison since 2006 on blasphemy charges – and declared him “totally innocent” of the charges. The same verdict for his presumed accomplice, Muhammad Ghaffar, Muslim, freed 9 months ago. The two boys were reported by Dr. Arshad Masood, Muslim, who declared that they tore pages from the...

OKLAHOMA CITY — To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt. That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

ANAHEIM - Police arrested today the teenage mother of the newborn baby girl found in a trash can in the women's restroom at a Denny's restaurant. The 17-year-old mother, who remains hospitalized at Western Medical Center-Anaheim, was arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse and felony child neglect, Anaheim police Sgt. Rick Martinez said. The mother, whose identity is being withheld because of her age, will be taken to Orange County Juvenile Hall once she is released from the hospital. Her family in Indianapolis has been notified but it's unknown if they will travel to Orange County. ... Prior to...

<p>Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez's long-suffering wife, Cynthia, may have finally flipped her pretty lid yesterday when she went to a game in The Bronx wearing a tight-fitting, white tank top bearing a foul message on the back: "F- - - you."</p>

FUJIKAWAGUCHI, Japan - If you look up from the forests at the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, the volcano's graceful slopes rise into the distance and peak in a nearly symmetrical, snowcapped cone. If you look down in the forests, however, you see something much less elegant: trash. Lots of it. Just below the surface of leaves and topsoil are discarded microwave ovens, construction debris, broken office furniture. Even rusting refrigerators. Mount Fuji, the pride of the nation and symbol of the Japanese soul, is a huge garbage dump. "We've found everything from household trash to broken TV sets and...

A mother and her three daughters who forced two toddlers to take part in a "dog fight" and filmed it walked free from court yesterday. The women, including the children's mother, goaded the tearful brother and sister to punch each other and even use a magazine and hairbrush as weapons. When the boy, who was in a nappy, stopped fighting they called him a "wimp" and "bloody faggot". Passing sentence at Plymouth crown court, Judge Francis Gilbert said the video taken of the fight was "shocking". He said: "You laughed at them, you mocked them, you swore at them. You...

Pieces of space junk from a Russian satellite coming out of orbit narrowly missed hitting a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean overnight. The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm last night. According to a plane spotter, who was tuning into a high frequency radio broadcast at the time, the pilot "reported that the rumbling noise from the space debris...

Debris that may have contained bits of bone from victims of the World Trade Center attacks was used to fill potholes and pave city roads, according to court papers filed on Friday. The charge was made in an affidavit filed in Manhattan federal court in an ongoing case filed in 2005 by family members of those killed in the attacks against the city. They say the city did not do enough to search for remains, denying victims a proper burial. Eric Beck, a construction worker employed at the Fresh Kills landfill in the borough of Staten Island, where the rubble...

The 250,000 families with a spy in the binsBy STEVE DOUGHTY - More by this author » Last updated at 22:33pm on 16th March 2007 Comments (36) Wheelie bins: £140,000 trial Also see... • Residents revolt against wheelie-bin spies   The Government has paid for the chips to be installed in three areas of Northern Ireland, now regularly used as a testing ground for Labour's plans for the rest of the country. Tories warned that the chips will be used for the first tests of a tax on bins. The chips are used to weigh bins so that householders can...

Sunni militants burned homes in an ethnically mixed city northeast of Baghdad on Saturday and Sunday, forcing dozens of families to flee and raising the specter of a new intimidation tactic in Iraq's evolving civil war, Iraqi officials and witnesses said. A security official in Diyala province said at least 30 houses were completely burned, including occupied and abandoned buildings, though a Sunni Arab politician from the area said that only six houses were destroyed. Some witnesses said as many as 100 houses were set on fire. Victims from both sects blamed the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization...

They call themselves "hunters who care." Their goal is to rid the desert of the trash left behind by illegal immigrants. Saturday, they fanned out across the Amado area to make a difference. "It was like a big surprise. I thought it would be clean and no trash. Just of bunch of trees and stuff," said Matt Aragon. Matt spots more than just wildlife when he goes hunting. "...a bunch of trash and it's causing damage to the environment." Most of the garbage was left behind by illegal immigrants. It's a sight Mother Nature wouldn't be proud of. That's why...

Police tonight arrested two young women, a bank teller, and a fourth accomplice in connection with Tuesday's robbery of a Bank of America branch in Acworth, Georgia. The inside job was allegedly pulled off by Ashley Nicole Miller and Heather Lyn Johnston who are pictured in the below mug shots (Miller is at left). The women, both 19, were aided by Michael Chastang, 27, and Benny Herman Allen, a 22-year old bank employee. The men are pictured in these booking photos.

Maryland Del. LeRoy E. Myers Jr. to truckers: If you've got 'em, you don't need to flaunt 'em. As the General Assembly debates global warming and the death penalty, Myers (R-Washington) has something else on his mind: the outsized plastic testicles that truckers dangle from the trailer hitches of their pickups. To some truckers, they are manly expressions of rural chic. But Myers, who says his Western Maryland district is brimming with giant fakes on the roadways, calls them vulgar and immoral -- and filed legislation this week to outlaw them. "People are making a joke out of it," Myers...

Warning! A roving band of Hippie Icons may soon be coming to a city near you! It all started on a sunkist Saturday at Wild Adventure theme park, here in Valdosta, Georgia. Concerts are a regular here, and I've seen some great bands: Foreigner, Styx, REO Speedwagon. Before I begin, let me just say that I am 35 years old. Never really saw the hippie movement. Read about it, saw the footage of Woodstock, etc. But I never really experienced it. And for that, I think God. It was an outdoor event, with families lining lawn chairs up, loading the...

Mountains of trash stuffed inside a woman's car in Cape Cod, Mass., caused the car to accelerate and crash, according to police. Police in West Yarmouth said there was so much trash in 53-year-old Ann Ann Biglan's Ford Focus that some of it fell onto the gas and brake pedals, causing her to lose control. While losing control, Biglan drove through a post office parking space, over the curb and across a freeway. She then hit a Ford Explorer and backed over another sidewalk before finally crashing into a flowerpot in a gas station's parking lot. Biglan was charged with...

NEXT time you unpack a new television, DVD player or other made-in-China electronic item or toy, chances are the cardboard packaging being thrown away has helped make Zhang Yin, 49, China's richest woman. And when you do throw away the packaging, there's a chance Zhang's company, the auspiciously named Nine Dragons, will be buying the cardboard to recycle it. It's a virtuous circle that last month saw Zhang named as China's richest person by the Hurun Report, knocking off two-time winner Huang Guangyu, the 37-year-old Harvey Norman of China who owns the Gome electronics retail chain. The rival Forbes rich...

The Dirty Dozen: America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses Occidental College’s The Phallus ranked the most bizarre class of ’06 -’07 HERNDON, VA – As college costs soar through the roof—averaging above $31,000 a year for tuition, room & board—today’s college students study adultery, the male genital, and Native American feminism. The Dirty Dozen highlights the most bizarre and troubling instances of leftist activism supplanting traditional scholarship in our nation’s colleges and universities. The growth of these courses gobbles up tons of money and resources and ignores scholarship from conservatives. For instance, books and speeches from the...

WASHINGTON — Old toothbrushes, beach toys and used condoms are part of a vast vortex of plastic trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, threatening sea creatures that get tangled in it, eat it or ride on it, a new report says. Because plastic doesn't break down the way organic material does, ocean currents and tides have carried it thousands of miles to an area between Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast, according to the study by the international environmental group Greenpeace. This swirling vortex, which can grow to be about the size of Texas, is not far from...

Clooney is 'top ambassador' of menGeorge Clooney is the number one man's man, according to a list compiled by a website. The Oscar winner tops AskMen.com's list of 'the 49 best representatives of the male gender'. Rap mogul Jay-Z, entrepreneur Richard Branson, cyclist Lance Armstrong and designer Tom Ford make up the rest of the top five, in order. The list was culled from nominations submitted by readers of the online magazine, who were asked to name the top "ambassadors of male-kind". Voters were asked to look for traits such as integrity, charisma and intelligence. Bill Clinton was ranked 10th...