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Mexican Gangs Take Over L.A. As Cops Back Down
Post Date: 2007-03-22 19:26:03 by A K A Stone
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On National Public Radio last month (February)....a spokesman for the Los Angeles PD, stated that the 90,000 cops of the LAPD have been "overwhelmed" by street gangs in the area now numbering somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 in strength. And these gangs, ages 10 to 40, are armed...some with automatic weapons. The Negro gangs (BLOODS, CRIPS, etc.) have been replaced by the Mexican mestizo outfits like M-13. In Long Beach , near the Los Angeles harbor, there is a struggle going on between the newly emerging Asian gangs and the mestizo's for control of the area. Thomas Chittum predicts that this street gang war is the beginning of what he calls "civil war 2" and ...
DOJ Threatened Retaliation Against Fired Attorneys
Post Date: 2007-03-22 14:37:19 by A K A Stone
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A Justice Department official threatened to take the "gloves off" and "retaliate" against the eight United States attorneys who were abruptly removed from their posts if they continued to speak publicly about the circumstances behind their dismissals, according to an email released late Monday sent to the fired prosecutors by one of their colleagues. The email, a portion of which had been discussed during a Senate judiciary hearing two weeks ago, was written by H.E. "Bud" Cummins on February 20 and sent to US Attorneys Dan Bogden, John McKay, Carol Lam, David Iglesias and Paul Charlton immediately after Cummins had a somewhat heated exchange with Mike Elston, ...
Looking for Volunteers to Piss on GWHB's grave
Post Date: 2007-03-21 08:03:17 by A K A Stone
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I am looking for volunteers to piss on the grave of the former president. He is getting older and will someday die of natural causes. So I want to get a group of 365 people. Each person would be assigned a day to go and piss on the old mans grave. In the future we can add W. to the list of graves that need to be pissed on daily.
Poster Comment:You can shit on it too for all I care.
Bush the criminal says he will defy congress over Subpoening his criminals
Post Date: 2007-03-21 07:30:39 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides testify about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down. Democrats' response to his proposal was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides. "Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability," said Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bush, in a late-afternoon statement at the White House, said, "We will not go along with a partisan ...
Watergate plotter may have a last tale
Post Date: 2007-03-20 07:56:35 by A K A Stone
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EUREKA, CALIF. — Howard St. John Hunt remembers the night of the Watergate break-in as a bonding experience with his father. A sweating and disheveled E. Howard Hunt roused his 19-year-old son from a dead sleep to help him wipe fingerprints from the burglars' radios and pack the surveillance equipment into a suitcase. Then, father and son raced to a remote Maryland bridge, where they heaved the evidence into the Potomac River just before dawn on June 17, 1972. ADVERTISEMENT "From that point on I felt relevant in his life, that I was the one he could count on," said Howard St. John Hunt, now 52, who is called St. John. It also was a turning point for St. John's ...
'Dukes of Hazzard' nixed in Cincinnati
Post Date: 2007-03-20 07:43:41 by A K A Stone
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CINCINNATI - The Dukes of Hazzard are getting driven out of town over the Confederate imagery in their good ol' TV show. ADVERTISEMENT The stars of the series, John Schneider and Tom Wopat, have segued into musical careers since the show ended production in 1985. Schneider says the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra canceled a planned "Dukes"-themed appearance after contracts were signed because some in the community found the show racist and offensive. "It's a huge shock to me that in this day and age people could be so narrow-minded, especially professional people," Schneider said Friday. Although he didn't want to start a feud over the decision, "I would ...
Best Buy Confirms It Has Secret Website (Bait and Switch)
Post Date: 2007-03-19 07:58:39 by A K A Stone
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Under pressure from state investigators, Best Buy is now confirming my reporting that its stores have a secret intranet site that has been used to block some consumers from getting cheaper prices advertised on http://BestBuy.com. Company spokesman Justin Barber, who in early February denied the existence of the internal website that could be accessed only by employees, says his company is "cooperating fully" with the state attorney general's investigation. Barber insists that the company never intended to mislead customers. State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and ...
House Democrats introduce bill to restore habeas corpus
Post Date: 2007-03-19 07:45:01 by A K A Stone
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Powerful House Democrats have introduced legislation intended to restore the right of habeas corpus. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), who chairs the Homeland Security Subcommitee on Intelligence, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, announced today the presentation of bills that would reverse "problematic parts of the Military Commissions Act," according to a statement released by Harman's office. "Both the 'Restoring the Constitution Act' and the 'Habeas Corpus Restoration Act' will bring credibility to the process of detaining terrorist suspects by placing it within a legal ...
U.S. attorney's firing may be connected to CIA corruption probe
Post Date: 2007-03-19 07:42:09 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON - Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday. Feinstein, D-Calif., said the timing of the e-mail suggested that Lam's dismissal may have been connected to the corruption probe. Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse denied in an e-mail that there was any link. "We have stated numerous times that no U.S. attorney was removed to retaliate against or inappropriately interfere with any public ...
Speech by elder President Bush invites comparison with son
Post Date: 2007-03-13 23:12:56 by A K A Stone
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Former President George H.W. Bush spent a significant part of his speech in Los Angeles on Monday night talking of his love of family and his pride in the son who currently occupies the White House. Yet as the 82-year-old former chief executive recounted his own years as president, the tale of how he governed stood in marked contrast (no doubt unintentionally) to what critics--a few of whom were in the audience--say are the official ways of his beleaguered son. Enumerating the crises and triumphs of his term--among them the successful coalition-building before the Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the passage of the Clean Air Act--Bush extolled the virtues of strength moderated by ...
Spying Too Secret For Your Court: AT&T, Gov Tell Ninth
Post Date: 2007-03-13 14:02:04 by A K A Stone
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AT&T told an appeals court in a written brief Monday that the case against it for allegedly helping the government spy on its customers should be thrown out, because it cannot defend itself -- even by showing a signed order from the government -- without endangering national security. A government brief filed simultaneously backed AT&T's claims and said a lower court judge had exceeded his authority by not dismissing the suit outright. Because plaintiffs' entire action rests upon alleged secret espionage activities, including an alleged secret espionage relationship between AT&T and the Government concerning the alleged activities, this suit must be dismissed now as a ...
New Mexico bans cockfighting on cruelty grounds
Post Date: 2007-03-13 00:08:12 by A K A Stone
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SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico outlawed cockfighting on Monday in a victory for animal welfare groups, leaving Louisiana as the last state in the country where the controversial practice is legal. "I am proud that New Mexico will now move beyond cockfighting and join the 48 states that have already banned this outdated practice," said Gov. Bill Richardson after signing the bill. Cockfighting involves roosters with razors tied to their claws battling often to the death with spectators placing bets on the outcome of each contest. Reuters Pictures Photo Editors Choice: Best pictures from the last 24 hours. View Slideshow Supporters argued cockfighting was an Hispanic ...
Toll Road Giant Buys Newspapers to Silence Critics
Post Date: 2007-03-12 23:30:40 by A K A Stone
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Australian toll road giant Macquarie agreed Wednesday to purchase forty local newspapers, primarily in Texas and Oklahoma, for $80 million. Macquarie Bank is Australia's largest capital raising firm and has invested billions in purchasing roads in the US, Canada and UK. Most recently the company joined with Cintra Concesiones of Spain in a controversial 75-year lease of the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road. Sal Costello, the leading opponent of toll road projects as head of the Texas Toll Party, says the move is directly related to a 4000-mile toll road project known as the Trans-Texas Corridor. It will cost between $145 and $183 billion to construct the road, expected to be up to 1200 feet ...
Judge warns of child-abusing homeschoolers
Post Date: 2007-03-10 12:48:48 by A K A Stone
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A Superior Court judge in New Jersey says homeschooling is just about the same as deliberate child abuse. In fact, he says, he just might name a school district in his state as a defendant in a current court dispute, citing the district's "shocking" failure to monitor and test all students – including homeschoolers. "In today's threatening world, where we seek to protect children from abuse, not just physical, but also educational abuse, how can we not monitor the educational welfare of all our children? A child in New Jersey, who recently was found unfed and locked in a putrid bedroom was allegedly 'homeschooled' and because no one, such as a teacher ...
Padilla Evidence Missing, Feds Say
Post Date: 2007-03-09 21:16:53 by A K A Stone
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MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- The videotape of intelligence agents' final interrogation of al Qaeda suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other tapes and evidence as the case finally nears trial. Padilla's defense attorneys have said they believe there is something on the classified tape related to their contention that Padilla does not trust them and thinks they may be government agents themselves. The tape of the March 2, 2004, interrogation at a Navy jail in Charleston, S.C., may contain "information that was conveyed to Mr. Padilla by agents of the government which directly impacts upon his relationship with his ...
The Pentagon’s Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans
Post Date: 2007-03-09 21:05:33 by A K A Stone
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The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.” It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. The assumption of this particular power easily constitutes one of the most monumental revolutions of liberty and power in history. It is a revolution that every American must confront now, not later. If people wait until later to confront the expanded use of this power, it will be too late, because by that time it will be too dangerous to do so. As long as this particular power is permitted ...
S.C. bill gives inmate organ donors time off
Post Date: 2007-03-09 21:01:03 by A K A Stone
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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would let prisoners donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for time off their sentences. A state Senate panel on Thursday endorsed creating an organ-and-tissue donation program for inmates. But legislators postponed debate on a measure to reduce the sentences of participating prisoners, citing concern that federal law may not allow it. "I think it's imperative that we go all out and see what we can do," said the bills' chief sponsor, Democratic Sen. Ralph Anderson. "I would like to see us get enough donors that people are no ...
Appeals Court Overturns D.C. Gun Ban
Post Date: 2007-03-09 14:46:33 by A K A Stone
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long- standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias. In a 2-1 decision, the judges held that the activities protected by the Second Amendment "are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued intermittent enrollment in the militia." A lower-court judge in 2004 had told six residents they did not have a constitutional right to own handguns. The plaintiffs include residents of high-crime neighborhoods who wanted the guns for protection. ...
O.J. Simpson Says Anna Nicole Smith's Baby Might Be His
Post Date: 2007-03-08 08:52:40 by continental op
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"O.J. Simpson reportedly said he is "throwing his hat into the ring" regarding the paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith's baby, citing his "slow-moving sperm." Documentary filmmaker Norm Pardo 52; who filmed 70 hours of footage with Simpson from 2000 to 2005 52; told the New York Post that Simpson said "he knew Anna Nicole pretty well, and he said he had slow-moving sperm, and he might be the father." Simpson and Smith starred together in "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult." Simpson even joked that he hoped the baby wasn't his as Fred Goldman 52; the father of Ron Goldman, whom Simpson was acquitted of murdering along with his ...
Boston woman sues for child-rearing costs after failed abortion
Post Date: 2007-03-07 09:40:05 by A K A Stone
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BOSTON --A Boston woman who gave birth after a failed abortion has filed a lawsuit against two doctors and Planned Parenthood seeking the costs of raising her child. Article Tools
The complaint was filed by Jennifer Raper, 45, last week in Suffolk Superior Court and still must be screened by a special panel before it can proceed to trial.
Raper claimed in the three-page medical malpractice suit that she found out she was pregnant in March 2004 and decided to have an abortion for financial reasons.
Dr. Allison Bryant, a physician working for Planned Parenthood at the time, performed the procedure on April 9, 2004, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain ...
Libby Guilty.
Post Date: 2007-03-06 12:08:57 by A K A Stone
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Libby will be found guilty. Announcement at noon today.
Sword Fight Ensues After S.C. Break-In
Post Date: 2007-03-04 17:08:58 by A K A Stone
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A man toting a 3-foot sword apparently met his match when he broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment: The woman's roommate grabbed a sword of his own and sliced the intruder, police said. The roommate, a sword collector, fended off the ex-boyfriend, who was cut on the arm, police said. Tools * Print this page * E-mail this page * Most popular Elvis Javier Polanco, 18, was treated at a hospital and charged with burglary and aggravated assault, Beaufort County sheriff's Capt. Toby McSwain said. He said Polanco broke a window and climbed on his friend's shoulders to get into the apartment. The roommate, Louis Delgado Hernandez, disarmed the ...
Howard Dean Demands GOP Candidates Denounce Ann Coulter for Referring to John Edwards as a 'Faggot'
Post Date: 2007-03-03 13:36:44 by Jhoffa_
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Howard Dean Demands GOP Candidates Denounce Ann Coulter for Referring to John Edwards as a 'Faggot' Democratic Party boss Howard Dean demanded that Republican presidential candidates denounce conservative columnist Ann Coulter after she referred to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards as a "faggot" during a speech Friday at a national conservative gathering. Coulter, who was addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., said: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot," so I — so kind of ...
Cheney Converts to Islam
Post Date: 2007-03-02 08:48:18 by continental op
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Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, was sworn in as the nation57;s first Muslim member of Congress in early January, but he is not the highest-ranking Muslim official in the United States. That honor belongs to Vice President Dick Cheney, who during one of his many trips to Saudi Arabia in the 1990s on behalf of Halliburton secretly converted to Wahabbi Islam, a rigorous fundamentalist version of the faith. In 1997, according to sources in Riyadh, Cheney visited the dusty provincial town of Bakh-Asward, a Wahabbi stronghold, where he realized he had found exactly what he was looking for, a religion that was grim, rancorous, authoritarian, and violent, and yet, on the other hand, ...
Floor Speech of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton authorizing presidnet to attack Iraq
Post Date: 2007-02-26 11:12:24 by A K A Stone
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Today we are asked whether to give the President of the United States authority to use force in Iraq should diplomatic efforts fail to dismantle Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological weapons and his nuclear program.
I am honored to represent nearly 19 million New Yorkers, a thoughtful democracy of voices and opinions who make themselves heard on the great issues of our day especially this one. Many have contacted my office about this resolution, both in support of and in opposition to it, and I am grateful to all who have expressed an opinion.
I also greatly respect the differing opinions within this body. The debate they engender will aid our search for a wise, effective policy. ...
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