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Gingrich: Gov. Bush could be president
Post Date: 2006-05-28 19:15:32 by _V_
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His brother's approval ratings are in the cellar, and that whole dynasty thing doesn't help. But don't underestimate Jeb Bush's prospects as a future presidential contender, says former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Probably '08 is a little bit tricky, but " '12 or '16 isn't. And he's a young enough guy (53) that he has a great future," Gingrich said on the Political Connections television show airing today on Bay News 9. "I just think his natural, personal ability is so great that people are going to realize he is not his father and he's not his brother. He's a very unique, charismatic leader with extraordinary capabilities. ... Jeb Bush may well be the most innovative ...
Bound gators
Post Date: 2006-05-28 16:16:56 by master_of_disaster
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 44 minutes ago ON LAKE OKEECHOBEE, Fla. - To the unaided eye, the swamp seems to sleep at night. But hit it with a spotlight and alligators suddenly appear everywhere, their bulbous red eyes glowing on the water's black surface. ADVERTISEMENT The biologists begin to count. In three hours, from just a pair of airboats, they find 754 gators in one small section of Lake Okeechobee, one of Florida's most concentrated gator habitats. The data becomes part of the state's annual alligator count, used to set the number of hunting permits issued in coming years. More hunters are expected this season after three separate fatal attacks earlier ...
Apple loses court bid to identify source
Post Date: 2006-05-27 09:02:24 by A K A Stone
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A state appeals court on Friday rejected Apple Computer Inc.'s bid to identify the sources of leaked product information that appeared on Web sites, ruling that online reporters and bloggers are entitled to the same protections as traditional journalists. ADVERTISEMENT "In no relevant respect do they appear to differ from a reporter or editor for a traditional business-oriented periodical who solicits or otherwise comes into possession of confidential internal information about a company," Justice Conrad Rushing of the 6th District Court of Appeal wrote in a unanimous 69-page ruling. "We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of ...
Attorney General Gonzales was prepared to quit if White House directed him to relinquish evidence seized in search of congressman's office...
Post Date: 2006-05-26 23:22:31 by A K A Stone
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Attorney General Gonzales was prepared to quit if White House directed him to relinquish evidence seized in search of congressman's office...
House Republican Firm on Immigration Bill
Post Date: 2006-05-26 17:49:56 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The House author of a border security bill that triggered massive street protests stood firm Friday against amnesty for illegal immigrants and predicted tough negotiations with the Senate on compromise legislation. The Senate passed its sweeping bill 62-36 Thursday after two weeks of debate and difficult votes that tested the strength of a coalition of bipartisan senators who supported the opportunity for U.S. citizenship that their bill would give most of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people who are in this country illegally. "This will set up a very difficult House-Senate conference committee because the approaches taken by the House and Senate on this ...
House Leaders Demand Return of Seized Files
Post Date: 2006-05-24 23:43:38 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON, May 24 — The constitutional clash pitting Congress against the executive branch escalated Wednesday as the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House demanded the immediate return of materials seized by federal agents when they searched the office of a House member who is under investigation in a corruption case. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Video: Resentment of F.B.I. Search Video: Resentment of F.B.I. Search Related F.B.I. Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House (May 24, 2006) For Democrats, a Scandal of Their Own (May 23, 2006) F.B.I. Contends Lawmaker Hid Bribe in Freezer (May 22, 2006) F.B.I. Searches Official's Office in Ethics Inquiry (May 21, 2006) ...
Zogby Poll: Over 70 Million American Adults Support New 9/11 Investigation
Post Date: 2006-05-23 23:21:04 by A K A Stone
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(PRWEB) - Utica, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2006 -- Although the Bush administration continues to exploit September 11 to justify domestic spying, unprecedented spending and a permanent state of war, a new Zogby poll reveals that less than half of the American public trusts the official 9/11 story or believes the attacks were adequately investigated. ADVERTISEMENT http://911Truth.org Urges 2006 Reform Candidates to Recognize a Powerful New Constituency ChicagoMiniBanner.jpg The poll is the first scientific survey of Americans' belief in a 9/11 cover up or the need to investigate possible US government complicity, and was commissioned to inform deliberations at the June 2~4 "9/11: Revealing ...
Moussaoui and Foreign-Policy Unrealities
Post Date: 2006-05-23 08:39:02 by continental op
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Writing about the Zacarias Moussaoui case in the Washington Times, Suzanne Fields displays one of the major maladies that typify conservatives ? their propensity to create their own realities with respect to foreign policy in order to avoid confronting the harsh consequences of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Fields writes, Moussaoui, nurtured in the Islamic culture, became virulently and violently anti-American, contemptuous of the ?soft? psychological and sociological interpretations Americans make of the Islamist enemy. He was even contemptuous of the two jurors who took into account his unhappy childhood, his father?s hot temper and his hostile relationship with his ...
Bush's Base Betrayal
Post Date: 2006-05-21 02:45:56 by Morgana le Fay
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As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush was a Rorschach test. Country Club Republicans saw him as another George H.W. Bush; some conservatives, thinking wishfully, saw him as another Ronald Reagan. He called himself a "compassionate conservative," which meant whatever one wanted it to mean. Experts from across the party's spectrum were flown to Austin to brief Bush and reported back: "He's one of us." Republicans were desperate to retake the White House, conservatives were desperate to get the Clinton liberals out and there was no direct heir to Reagan running for president. So most conservatives supported Bush as the strongest candidate -- some enthusiastically and ...
New Cell Phone Guns Hard To Spot In Metal Detectors
Post Date: 2006-05-19 19:16:11 by A K A Stone
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Law enforcement and authorities at government buildings are being warned to be on the lookout for guns disguised as cell phones that are difficult to spot in metal detectors, according to a Local 6 News report. IMAGES: More unique images The report said the cell phone gun is a working .22 caliber pistol capable of firing off four rounds at the touch of the button. The hidden guns are made of high-grade plastic, which makes them difficult to spot in metal detectors, the report said. "They are being manufactured by people who have the equipment and knowledge to produce guns," Former MTA Counterintelligence Expert Nick Casale said. NYPD officers are also being told to be on the ...
Mexicans will get your Social Security bill OK'd by the senate today
Post Date: 2006-05-19 00:00:33 by A K A Stone
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The U.S. Senate today rejected an effort to limit Social Security benefits for illegal aliens who become permanent residents under an immigration reform bill being debated. As it stands, the bill the Senate is considering would give millions of illegals a path to U.S. citizenship if they pay fines, back taxes and meet other requirements. The Social Security proposal, offered by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., would have prevented illegals who become legal from collecting the benefit on wages they earned while working unlawfully. "Social Security was not intended for people who entered our country illegally," Ensign is quoted as saying. Countered Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.: ...
Happy Ending Wells Fargo donation will replace girl's stolen tricycle [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-05-18 22:19:06 by A K A Stone
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The little girl with cerebral palsy whose specially adapted tricycle was stolen from her apartment complex on Monday will get a new ride, courtesy of Wells Fargo. Bank officials pledged $2,000 today to replace the red, black and chrome trike, which was designed with Velcro straps on the seat and pedals, oval handlebars and other features that helped 7-year-old Marina Webb-Gordon ride safely. The money will go to the Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program in Berkeley, which will build Marina's new tricycle, according to bank spokesman Chris Hammond. The theft left Marina heartbroken because it was the only way she could go to the park, tag along with her friends and accompany her dad ...
America's elderly face growing drug addiction problem
Post Date: 2006-05-17 23:56:03 by A K A Stone
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BOSTON (Reuters) - When Patrick Gallagher first began nodding off at dinner, his family thought it was a symptom of old age. Their fears grew as it worsened. Withdrawing from the world at age 64, Gallagher was addicted to a cocktail of alcohol and prescription painkillers. "My whole life was centered around making sure I had an adequate supply of drugs and alcohol," said the former instructor at the University of Miami. Gallagher, of Jensen Beach, Florida, is an elderly substance abuser, a fast-growing group in the United States as baby boomers age. A government survey estimates that the number of adults aged 50 or older with substance abuse problems will double to 5 million ...
Pat Robertson: God Says Storms, Possibly Tsunami, Will Hit US In 2006
Post Date: 2006-05-17 23:44:05 by Morgana le Fay
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year. Robertson has made the predictions at least four times in the past two weeks on his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. Robertson said the revelations about this year's weather came to him during his annual personal prayer retreat in January. "If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. Wednesday, he added, "there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest." ...
Confidence In GOP Is At New Low in Poll - Democrats Favored To Address Issues
Post Date: 2006-05-17 10:05:41 by Morgana le Fay
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Public confidence in GOP governance has plunged to the lowest levels of the Bush presidency, with Americans saying by wide margins that they now trust Democrats more than Republicans to deal with Iraq, the economy, immigration and other issues, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll that underscores the GOP's fragile grip on power six months before the midterm elections. Dissatisfaction with the administration's policies in Iraq has overwhelmed other issues as the source of problems for President Bush and the Republicans. The survey suggests that pessimism about the direction of the country -- 69 percent said the nation is now off track -- and disaffection with Republicans have ...
GUNFIRE AT WAFFLE HOUSE AFTER WHITES, HISPANICS ARGUE OVER CITIZENSHIP
Post Date: 2006-05-16 09:17:23 by A K A Stone
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A parting gunshot from a vehicle leaving Waffle House in West Asheville, NC shattered a window and caused a minor injury, police said. The shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. Saturday after a group of whites argued with a group of Hispanics at the 24-hour restaurant on Smokey Park Highway, Asheville police Lt. Wallace Welch said “The two groups were jawing back and forth with each other over citizenship issues and whatnot,” Welch said. As the Hispanic group drove off, someone in the vehicle fired at least once into a large window near the front door, he said. Whether from a ricocheted bullet or flying glass, Welch said, one man’s arm was bleeding when police arrived. ...
Ex-inspector says politics quashed findings on ‘trailers’ [Great Example of George W. Bush Being Caught in a Deliberate Lie]
Post Date: 2006-05-16 02:11:51 by Morgana le Fay
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A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi “bioweapons trailers” were discredited by U.S. experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspection team. At one point, former U.N. arms inspector Rod Barton says, a CIA officer told him it was “politically not possible” to report that the White House claims were untrue. In the end, Barton says, he felt “complicit in deceit.” Barton, an Australian biological weapons specialist, discusses the 2004 events in “The Weapons Detective,” a memoir of his years as an arms inspector, being published Monday in Australia by Black Inc. Agenda. Much ...
Multiculturalism And Alligators: Better Than NASCAR
Post Date: 2006-05-14 21:27:32 by continental op
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It is possible to derive an ashen satisfaction from watching really stupid people dancing on a tight rope over a den of alligators. At each resounding dental snap one yells ?Yeeeeeeeee-ha! Told you so!? and reaches for another beer. It makes a better Saturday night than a six pack and a bug zapper. From the Washington Post: ?Nearly half of the nation's children under 5 are racial or ethnic minorities, and the percentage is increasing mainly because the Hispanic population is growing so rapidly, according to a census report released today.? Now in newspaper parlance, ?minorities? means ?permanently underperforming and inassimilable minorities,? which is to say blacks, Latinos and, when ...
Pentagon exploring ways to use the military for border security
Post Date: 2006-05-12 23:36:41 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON — Faced with growing pressure from southern states, the Bush administration wants the military to come up with ideas to help solve security problems along the U.S. border with Mexico. In back-to-back moves this week, the Pentagon began exploring ways to lend support at the southern border, while the House on Thursday voted to allow the Homeland Security Department in limited cases to use soldiers in that region. At the Pentagon, Paul McHale, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, asked officials to offer options for the use of military resources and troops — particularly the National Guard — along the border with Mexico, according to defense ...
SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS NATIONAL GUARD ON BORDER 'NOT RIGHT WAY TO GO'
Post Date: 2006-05-12 21:28:06 by A K A Stone
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has come out against putting National Guard troops on the border, as President Bush will suggest on Monday night in a nationally televised speech. "There is all kinds of talk about now that should we use the National Guard," Schwarzenegger explains. "I think that the key thing is that we secure our borders. Going the direction of the National Guard, I think is maybe not the right way to go because I think that the Bush administration and the federal government should put up the money to create the kind of protection that the federal government is responsible to provide."
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Post Date: 2006-05-12 09:28:22 by A K A Stone
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CNN's Jack Cafferty, today. CNN's WOLF BLITZER: ...[some wisdom] from Jack Cafferty in New York. CNN's JACK CAFFERTY: I don't know about wisdom but you'll get a bit of outrage. We better hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Judiciary Committee, because he might be all that's standing between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He's vowed to question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide the government with my telephone records and yours, and tens of millions of other Americans. Shortly after 9-11, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth began providing the super secret NSA with information on phone calls of millions of our ...
Bush Dips Into the 20s
Post Date: 2006-05-12 09:02:07 by A K A Stone
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President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%. Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say “things in the country are going in the right direction,” while 69% say “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” This has been the trend since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right ...
BUSH AT TWENTY NINE PERCENT!
Post Date: 2006-05-12 00:34:20 by Morgana le Fay
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Poll: Bush job approval at 29 percent May. 11, 2006 at 10:53PM U.S. President George W. Bush's job approval rating has fallen to 29 percent in a new Harris Interactive poll. It is the lowest job approval rating of Bush's presidency, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone, 29 percent said Bush was doing an "excellent or pretty good" -- down from 35 percent in the Harris Interactive poll conducted in April. Bush's job approval rating had been 43 percent in the Harris Interactive poll conducted in January. About one-quarter of U.S. adults said "things in the country are going in the right direction," while 69 percent said ...
35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911: The 7 Air Stations On Full Alert Covering The Continental United States And 28 More Air Stations That Were In Range Of The 4 Airliners On 911
Post Date: 2006-05-11 19:36:25 by A K A Stone
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The following list were the seven Air Stations that were armed and on full alert to protect the continental United States on Tuesday September 11, 2001. The Air National Guard exclusively performs the air sovereignty mission in the continental United States, and those units fall under the control of the 1st Air Force based at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) in Panama City, Florida. The Air National Guard maintains seven alert sites with 14 fully armed fighters and pilots on call around the clock. Besides Tyndall AFB, alert birds also sit armed and ready at; Homestead Air Reserve Base (ARB), Homestead, Florida; Langley AFB, Hampton, Virginia; Otis Air National Guard (ANG), Falmouth, ...
NSA has massive database of Americans Phonecalls ....This is a violatoin of our fourth amendment rights, what are you going to do about it America.
Post Date: 2006-05-11 19:10:37 by A K A Stone
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The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: The NSA record collection program ...
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