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May 16th, 2008 Legalize LA is about recognizing, celebrating and embracing the diversity of Los Angeles, so essential to the city’s success. As one of the most economically and culturally vibrant urban centers in the world, L.A. is not only the capital of the entertainment industry, it is also home to one of the busiest ocean ports in the world, and it remains the manufacturing hub of the United States. Los Angeles also represents the largest concentration of immigrants in North America. With over 224 languages spoken in the city, over 50% of the population is foreign born. Immigrants include...

The story A London-based Web site has dropped a Dutch lawmaker's film that features disturbing images of terrorist acts juxtaposed with verses from the Quran to paint Islam as a threat to Western society, citing threats to its staff. LiveLeak.com said in a statement Friday that it decided to remove the film a day after it was posted "following threats to our staff of a very serious nature." Attempts to reach LiveLeak for further comment were unsuccessful. However, Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkanende said the government was concerned that Geert Wilders' film "Fitna" could provoke a violent backlash

TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping prisoners, blindfolding and sleep deprivation. The U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, gets singled out in a training manual for Canadian diplomats. The Foreign Affairs Department document, released Friday, singled out the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It also names Israel, Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Syria as places where inmates could face torture.

As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray. As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, Siddiqui tuned out the world around him to perform salaat, the Islamic ritual prayer that faithful Muslims recite five times daily. Siddiqui will do the same in Welsh-Ryan Arena next week when the Buckeyes basketball team goes up against the Wildcats. But rather than pray amid raucous crowds, some Muslim students are pressing Northwestern's athletic...

Sit Down for Change, Stand UP for Peace When: November 6th through November 9th Where: Layfayette Park across from the White House Time: 10am-10pm Dailly Please check back frequently as we are still in the planning stages for this action. We need 5000 folks to SURROUND the White House. Think about it, 100 from every state. Now thats representation. Can you be there? As Cindy said...be a part of history. Nov. 6th Day of Action (Details finalized Oct 31) Nov. 7th in Layfayette Park. We will be making calls to get out the vote today. We will be monitoring the...

Televangelist John Hagee told Jewish community leaders that the 40 million evangelical Christians in the United States support Israel and that he plans to utilize this power to help Israel by launching a Christian pro-Israel lobby. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hagee said his group would be a Christian - and more powerful - version of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a large pro-Israel lobby, and would target senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill. A quarter of congressmen are evangelicals, and many American legislators represent regions that include a large evangelical population, he said ... more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment: Hammond, Hagee and their...

Post columnist Nick Clooney, just back from an eight-day trip that he and his son, actor George Clooney, made to Sudan and Chad, says he hopes the stories they relate will prompt more protection and humanitarian aid for 2 million refugees from the Sudan province of war-torn Darfur. "This is an ongoing and terrible story that we were able to see up close," said Clooney. "These folks are helpless out there. There's nobody between them and very bad people. "They have only minimal protection provided by the African Union. What's holding these people together is help from humanitarian agencies, 80...

WE are now in the third war in Iraq in as many years. The first was against Saddam Hussein and his supposed weapons of mass destruction. The second was against terrorists whom, the administration said, it was better to fight over there than here. Now we find our troops in the middle of an escalating civil war. Half of the service members listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall died after America's leaders knew our strategy would not work. It was immoral then and it would be immoral now to engage in the same delusion. We want democracy in Iraq, but...

This Michael Ware scumbag is the same guy who argued with Hugh Hewitt last week about the mainstream media's coverage of the War in Iraq...Bill Maher and Michael ware deserve each other!

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diebold 2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html 4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886 5. Republican Senator Chuck...

“According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979. Altogether, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death over the last 26 years of clerical rule.”

COMEDY CENTRAL To Deflate Pamela Anderson! Network Crowns Actress As First Female Roastee Leading The Festivities Will Be Jimmy Kimmel As Roast Master COMEDY CENTRAL Partners With Joel Gallen from Tenth Planet Productions To Produce "The COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Pamela Anderson" Broadcast On Sunday, August 14 At 10:00 P.M.* NEW YORK, June 29, 2005 -- COMEDY CENTRAL is getting in to bed with Pamela Anderson and it?s certain to be one hot and sexy evening! Anderson is locked and loaded to be the all-comedy network?s newest, and first woman, Roastee. Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," will...

To threaten the life of the president of the United States is a federal offense, which is why the Imagination Liberation Front calls its political satire “I’m Gonna Kill the President!: A Federal Offense.” Without the adjunct clause after the threat, the title would be a federal offense, which would be illegal. The show was written by Hieronymous Bang, who’s the son of socialite Meriweather Bang of the famous Massachusetts Bang Dynasty. (Please don’t tell; Hieronymous is obsessed with secrecy.) When you call the reservation line, and you really should, you’ll hear Hieronymous speaking with a fake Texas drawl. He’ll...

I was wondering when a democrat was going to start politicizing the airplane scare at the Capital today...Senator (D-NJ)Frank Lautenberg was on "The Big Story" with John Gibson discussing the evacuation procedures used...He said the police did a good job but there never has been an evacuation drill before, so it was kind of chaotic...He was talking about procedure and threat levels that need to be addressed...He said he had knowledge of Cessna's and similar planes, meaning he didn't think such a plane seemed to pose a threat to the area...Maybe we should put him in charge of our national...

Earlier this week 50-100 students participated in a senior prank at Heritage High School (Colorado)...the "prank" involved throwing flour while running disruptively through the "freshmen" hallway...this has apparently been a long standing tradition at that school for many years...from first hand accounts, previous students have done the same thing and suffered little or no consequences...the new principal at this school has had enough of this "tradition"...several senior students were suspended for a few days (right before graduation)...what is worse, in my opinion, is that the Littleton (Colorado) Police Department was called in by the school to issue tickets to these...

I've always had my suspicions...but now I have proof. President Bush is a Commie. I just read that a provision in the $284 billion highway bill under consideration on Capitol Hill could open the way for more tolls on the nation's interstates, marking a departure from long- standing federal highway policy that has traditionally frowned on collecting tolls to pay for roads built with federal tax dollars. I don't have to tell you that this proposal is enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration. Currently, only highways that were begun before the establishment of the free interstate system in 1956 can...

F***YOUBUSH.COM....1292 days, 3 hours, 22 minutes, and 16 seconds left until the fu**tard is gone!

MegaLinks in Politcal Science (Homepage of Jane T. Christensen, Associate Professor of Political-Science at North Carolina Weselyan College) ...you have to see the website to believe it!!!

JOHN KERRY EFFECTIVELY ENDED HIS political career on February 28, 2005, during a little-noticed event at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. Senator Kerry was being presented with the library's "Distinguished American Award"--a bust of John Kennedy. The artist had portrayed JFK with head slightly tilted. The bust looked puzzled. The award was presented by Senator Ted Kennedy, who phoned it in. Supposedly Kennedy was rushing to catch the "last plane out of Logan" to get to Washington for a vital debate on bankruptcy reform legislation. Why the other senator from Massachusetts wasn't vital was not explained. Nor...