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Fellow FReepers: Being a Left Wing Poor Person, I today stood in line to pick up what are called "commodities." These are government food packets that go back in time at least to the Great Depression and are received by large numbers of people of all kinds. And unlike the ideologically pure fantasy worlds in which some people on both sides of the spectrum have their heads, in the Real World these "left wing" programs are administered by people with crosses on their desk and are dispensed in national guard armories. At any rate, while standing in line I was...

It has to be one of the dumbest laws, ever. And I don't even own or like pit bulls. It's nothing personal, only that I'd never keep any animal that eats as much or more than I do. Still, I can weep for the pit bulls of Denver, particularly for the puppies that never did anything other than get born into the breed. Yet here we have the city of Denver, newly sprung from legislative and judicial restraint, rounding up pits over the past couple of days and killing them like rats during The Plague. A uniformed officer arrives at...

<p>ROME (AP) -- An Italian prosecutor said Wednesday he had provided U.S. authorities with transcripts of phone calls between terror suspects, including one that reportedly refers to a woman ready to carry out a chemical attack in the United States.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Volunteers hunting for bodies in Fallujah find a woman and her daughter in their home, killed in the siege but undiscovered for days. Chanting mourners bury two boys caught in the crossfire of a Baghdad gunfight. A morgue in Basra overflows with torn and burned bodies from a suicide bombing. Victims — young and old, women and men, insurgents and innocents — have been piling up day by day, making April the deadliest month for Iraqis — and Americans — since the fall of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) a year ago. Official and complete death...

Pit Bulls Maul 2-Year-Old Boy Officials Say Attack Was Vicious POSTED: 9:50 PM PDT September 12, 2003 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A 2-year-old boy was nearly killed Friday after being mauled by two pit bulls. Neighbors found 2-year-old Issac Zavaleta inside this home alone, being attacked by the dogs early Friday morning. They say they're shocked not only that it happened, but that the mother, identified as Vanessa Cruz, left the baby there with the dogs while she reportedly took her boyfriend to work.At about 7 a.m., a neighbor went to the house to find the two dogs -- named...

 PRO-AMERICAN FACTSFACT:America was attacked by Muslims on September 11. Muslims are supporters of the Democratic Party.FACT:Democrat Edward Kennedy is a well known communist and opponent of America's War on Terror.FACT:Democrat Robert Byrd is one of the leading anti-American fifth columnists who wants America to be defeated by Iraq and a "former" member of the Ku Klux Klan.FACT:Whether they be Muslims, communists, or white supremacists those who want to see America destroyed are Democrats.FACT:It is possible that Muslims, communists, and white supremacists have not formed an alliance to defeat America but even if they haven't, they are all working together to...