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Deal with it While the Republicans should be magnanimous in victory, the Democrats should acknowledge that this time around George Bush and his party have won a legitimate mandate, says Martin Kettle Wednesday November 3, 2004 Has the remarkable 2004 presidential election merely produced a repeat of the 2000 contest, proof that United States remains as much at war with itself in the aftermath of the second Bush election as it was after the first? Judging by the closeness of the likely electoral college figures, it may look that way. But look more carefully. Here is a big difference that...

US agrees Black Watch rules By Michael Smith and George Jones (Filed: 22/10/2004) Soldiers of the Black Watch were preparing last night to take over trouble spots in the US-controlled sector of Iraq after the Americans agreed that British commanders would have total control over tactics. Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, ended days of uncertainty about a US request for British reinforcements by announcing that an 850-strong armoured battle group led by the Black Watch would be deployed outside the British sector. Soldiers of the Black Watch prepare for redeployment It will relieve US troops who are preparing to mount...

Click article link to see the article and explanation of how the images were obtained (also includes a true color image and a link to a high-resolution true-color image). At the very top of the high resolution image you can see the Visitor's Center where the VolcanoCam for Mt. St. Helens is located (literally at "the end of the road"). Direct link to the high-resolution IR image (only 1.5 MB, loads pretty easily): StHelens_TIR_MAS2004268_lrg.jpg

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, has called the Sudanese rampage against Black Africans a “genocide:” We concluded that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed [Arab militia] bear responsibility and genocide may still be occurring. The Sudanese government has been sponsoring a campaign of mass rape, mass murder, forced relocations, and forced starvation against Black Africans in Darfur. The BBC today tried to spin the usual “the U.S. is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t” argument today: Critics point out...

from the Kerry Ammo Armory...email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial. Kerry’s a crook Talon News is reporting that Sen. John Kerry is guilty of taking foreign contributions: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government corruption, has released declassified documents which they say show that Democrat presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accepted improper campaign contributions during his 1996 reelection bid. In exchange, Judicial Watch says Kerry helped arrange meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. Government officials. The heavily redacted FBI documents show that Johnny Chung, who plead...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Even as tree limbs were cleared away and power gradually returned across eastern South Carolina after Tropical Storm Gaston, officials waited and watched Monday for Hurricane Frances. While Gaston caused some problems, "it's not the kind of catastrophic damage we see in a major hurricane," Gov. Mark Sanford said. He urged coastal residents to monitor Frances, which has 125 mph winds but is still days away from the Southeast coast. An evacuation would be tremendously difficult, warned Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. "The whole state would be naked," he said. "This will be a challenge...

Minneapolis Star Tribune censors IPW cartoonist IowaPresidentialWatch.com’s political cartoonist, Linda Eddy, has been censored by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Eddy distributes her cartoons by email and regularly sends them to the Tribune. Her latest, showing John Kerry during his 1971 Senate testimony, is titled “Silencing Veterans since 1971” and shows an American soldier in Kerry’s hand, his head covered. Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor B. James Boyd responded to Eddy’s latest cartoon by banning any future editorials from the artist: “Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry are too much. He said no such...

IPW has started a new gallery featuring poster-style artwork by our artist, Linda Eddy As with our political cartoons, we'd like to see these used to promote conservative causes. Please use the artwork for noncommercial purposes only.[NOTE: a photo of this young Afghanistan girl is posted on a thread on Free Republic]

LONDON - Lobsters have long been known as solitary and territorial crustaceans — but timely and fashion conscious? Divers in northeast England were recently surprised to come across a giant lobster standing guard over a barnacle-encrusted watch at the bottom of a harbor. Maybe the lobster just knew a bargain: The watch was still ticking. The watch and its 2-foot-long guardian were found by divers doing maintenance work in Blyth harbor, officials said Thursday. "We're all highly experienced divers, and none of us has seen anything like this before," said Graham McDonnar, a member of the Lady Francis Dive Team....

MANALAPAN, Fla. April 27 ? One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through. Police Chief Clay Walker said cameras will take infrared photos recording a car's tag number, then software will automatically run the numbers through law enforcement databases. A 911 dispatcher is alerted if the car is stolen or is the subject of a "be on the lookout" warning.

COMMENTARY--The FBI is trying to convince the government to mandate that providers of broadband, Internet telephony, and instant-messaging services build in backdoors for easy wiretapping. That would constitute a sweeping expansion of police surveillance powers. Instead of asking Congress to approve the request, the FBI (along with the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration) are pressing the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with minimal public input. The three agencies argue that the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) permits the FCC to rewire the Internet to suit the eavesdropping establishment. "The importance and the urgency...

    URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED   TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 105   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK   430 PM CDT THU APR 22 2004      THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A   TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF              NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS      EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 430 PM UNTIL   1000 PM CDT.      TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS   TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.      THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST   OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF...

Spain accused of easing up on terror watch Signs emerge of serious intelligence and security failures before bombings Giles Tremlett in Madrid, Owen Bowcott in Casablanca, Ian Black in Brussels and Sophie Arie in Milan Wednesday March 17, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Spain cut the number of police units responsible for watching radical Islamists in the months before last week's Madrid bombings, reducing numbers by up to a half in some cities and sending them back to ordinary police work, it was claimed yesterday. A report in the newspaper El Mundo emerged amid numerous signs of serious police and intelligence...

Campus Watch Attacked in AAUP Report Professors Association Castigates CW, Recognizes Its Rights Nov. 28, 2003, Philadelphia – A professors’ syndicate report this month accused Campus Watch, an academic freedom watchdog, of being a “source of efforts to discourage lawful speech” in the post-9/11 environment. To this, Campus Watch responds by noting that this report underscores a continuing reluctance by American professors to address significant failures in Middle Eastern studies departments. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) report, “Academic Freedom and National Security in a Time of Crisis”, finds that Campus Watch (CW) has “denounced professorial departures” from what...

There is a severe weather outbreak in the south and southeast today and tonight; a new tornado watch has been issued extending from the Nashville area down to south of New Orleans. This area is expected to move east as the day progresses, with Birmingham, Mobile, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Knoxville and possibly Charlotte under the gun before midnight. This same system brought severe weather and tornadoes to Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma yesterday. Several tornadoes ravaged the Houston area, where cleanup continues this morning. Everyone please stay alert for this changing situation.

The Third Infantry Regiment at Fort Myer has the responsibility for providing ceremonial units and honor guards for state occasions, White House social functions, public celebrations and interments at Arlington National Cemetery. They also stand a very formal sentry watch at the Tombs of the Unknowns. The public is familiar with the precision of what is called. "walking post" at the Tombs. There are roped off galleries where visitors can form to observe the troopers and their measured step and almost mechanical silent rifle shoulder changes. They are relieved every hour in a very formal drill that has to be...

Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

US attacked over UN resolution By Greg Barrow BBC United Nations correspondent in New York International human rights groups have accused the US Government of attempting to block a United Nations resolution that would seek to enhance the protection of humanitarian workers in conflict zones. INVESTIGATING WAR CRIMES US officials are objecting to a section of the resolution which refers to attacks on humanitarian workers as a war crime under the statutes of the newly-established International Criminal Court (ICC). Washington does not recognise the court. It also insists on either removing reference to it from UN resolutions or having paragraphs...

What in the world is going on at Foxnews? Since we the public aren't privy to the ratings we have to look at other factors to really see whats going on. They've got all new promos. One extremely silly promo with Linda Vester and her face. On a positive note they have Brooke Alexander coming on and giving a run down of whats coming up. I'll start with the morning. It gets worse as the day goes on I've noticed. Mornings are excellent and I don't see any change whatsoever with Foxnews in the morning. E.D. Steve and Brian are...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: A woman 21 years old burned her house down, after she tried to prepare a potion from the book "Harry Potter." The woman, that boiled a mixture of water, oil, alcohol and toothpaste was injured lightly. She refused to tell the firefighters which of the potions appearing in the book she tried to make.