*ahem* (this one won’t cost you) *ahem*
SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
...and why I think people should have to pass a test to vote AND breed?
Even better than the fat naked guy in the teapot.
(Be sure to read the Q & A)
2nd Watcher Bob 
In 1940s, after the Vichy French collaborators turned over control of France to the Nazi invaders, did the Nazis do as much damage to Paris as the Islamic youth?
Scorpius 
I just got home from the Air Force vs Army Football game here in Colorado Springs, and thought some of you might like to hear about the halftime show..........
Grab a tissue.
Monday, December 15, 1997 - Defence Secretary William Cohen shows amount of anthrax needed to kill half of Washington
The Pentagon has announced that all American servicemen and women will be inoculated against anthrax, the biological bacteria. According to BBC Washington correspondent, Tom Carver, the Pentagon has decided to initiate the programme amidst growing concerns about the possible use of anthrax and other biological agents as weapons by nations such as Iraq
Inoculating every one of America’s one-and-a-half million servicemen and women is going to take well over a year. The Pentagon has been deliberating about whether to go ahead with the programme for some time.
H/T: Joe Samson
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Money is the mother’s milk of politics.
It is election time again folks! Take a look at who is giving and who is taking. So glad that John McCain and Russ Feingold solved the corrupting influence of money in politics!
Tell him SondraK sent you and to put my ass on his blogroll, DAMMIT! It’s bad enough that none of the Big Pajama People™ will even acknowledge me.
However, lawmakers sliced the president’s request for the Millennium Challenge program, a hallmark in Bush’s effort to spread democracy to underdeveloped countries by tying foreign aide to political, economic and human rights reforms.
Can someone ‘splain wtf’s WRONG with that? Oh yea, we just reward breathing.
Btw, we’re also giving $2.8 billion - $629 million above last year’s total-for AIDS.
Pirates fired a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns Saturday in an attack on a luxury cruise liner off the east African coast, the vessel’s owners said.
The vessel’s 151 passengers, mostly Americans with some Australians......................
...but this breakup WILL NOT be anything but WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I have chills.
BTW...you get to keep ‘em all, California!
House Republicans tackling illegal immigration were reported looking closely at ending birthright citizenship.
They also were discussing building a barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexican border, The Washington Times said.
Those two ideas have floated to the top of the list of possibilities to be included either in an immigration-enforcement bill later this year or in a later comprehensive immigration overhaul.
“There is a general agreement about the fact that citizenship in this country should not be bestowed on people who are the children of folks who come into this country illegally,” said Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Birthright citizenship, or what critics call “anchor babies,” means that any child born on U.S. soil is granted citizenship, with exceptions for foreign diplomats.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., was quoted as supporting a barrier system of fences in some places and electronic surveillance or vehicle barriers in others.
It’s. About. Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and the Hastert part? Um DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JR says let’s start building a fence in San Diego and keep going east. Leave open the shitty parts and patrol them.
our old friend; the Bitchslap of Reality
The potential release of a Lodi man accused of ties to terrorism is being delayed because a loan on one of the properties pledged for his release is reducing the home’s value as collateral.
...[Hayat’s attorney, Johnny Griffin III] had expected an East Vine Street home to have a $300,000 value. Combined with four other properties with an appraised value of $1.2 million, it would be enough to meet Burrell’s condition....Griffin said they will remove the lien from the house or find another home to include for the bail.
[U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell] ruled Friday that personal information about the property owners in the appraisals be sealed. He also removed the five property addresses from his bond order and removed the requirement that all telephones in Hayat’s home be subject to electronic monitoring.
Hayat has been held at the Sacramento County Jail since June 5, when he was arrested on a lying charge. His son, 23-year-old Hamid Hayat, faces two counts of lying and a single charge of providing material support to terrorists for allegedly attending an al-Qaida-sponsored training camp in Pakistan in 2003 and 2004.
The government alleged Umer Hayat lied to authorities when he denied his son had participating in terrorist training. Both men are U.S. citizens.
Anyone else get a niggling feeling that Burrell is being rather more than a little accommodating in this case? or izzit Just Me™?
Just for a little perspective for those who live where the real estate market is somewhat rational, here’s a listing for a comparable property—at most five blocks away. The terrorist’s Ice Cream Man’s property is somewhere in the five blocks between this one and the freeway [99]. 2 bed/1 bath, 1,473 sf. Listing Price $329,000.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 11/05 at 09:07 AM •
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Feh. The amount of leaves we get on the ground each year, if burned, would power a small city for a couple of months.
