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Who are you calling angry?

by Michelle Malkin
Posted: November 30, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
www.worldnetdaily.com
Editor's note: The following column contains language that may be offensive to some readers.
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.


Janeane Garofalo, left-wing actress-turned-Air America radio host, is a miserable woman. Last week before the holidays, she turned up on cable TV. No, not to count her blessings – but to rant against conservative journalist Bob Novak, author Ann Coulter, and the Fox News Channel. She didn't have anything better to do for Thanksgiving?

Accessorized by a permanent scowl (hard to believe she was once considered a comedienne), Ms. Garofalo accused conservatives of having "an anger management problem." Without a trace of irony, the frowning Garofalo griped about "right-wing partisan hacks" who "are always on the verge of punching somebody or always behave as if they've just been cut off in traffic."



This, dear readers, is a classic case of liberal projection. Like CNN executive Jonathan Klein, who derided Fox's audience as full of "angry white men, and those men tend to be rabid," and liberal comedian Bill Maher, who also railed that "Republicans need anger management" and are possessed with a "vein-popping, gut-churning rage that consumes the entire right wing," Ms. Garofalo crossly blames the Right while denying the pathological wrath and fury that characterize the unhinged Left.

Who are you calling angry, Ms. Garofalo? You want political road rage? Let's start with Al. Take your pick: Sharpton. Gore. Franken. Yearrghh!

Now, open your eyes:

It isn't out-of-control conservatives tossing Molotov cocktails at police officers in San Francisco, burning American soldiers in effigy, and smearing pig's blood and feces on the walls and windows of military recruitment centers across the country to protest on behalf of peace.

It isn't rage-blinded conservative professors who embrace fragging (the murder of American soldiers by their fellow soldiers on the battlefield) as a legitimate anti-war tactic.

It isn't vengeful conservatives torching SUVs, condo developments, and research facilities, and targeting biotech and pharmaceutical company employees and their families to protest on behalf of the environment.

It wasn't mad conservatives sporting "F--- Bush" license plates, punching cardboard cutouts of the president, and vowing to secede after losing the 2004 presidential election.

It wasn't rabid conservatives who gloated over Ronald Reagan's death or John Ashcroft's pancreatitis.

It wasn't a gut-busting conservative journalist who vowed to kill herself if Dick Cheney ran for president. (That would be the perpetually aggrieved Helen Thomas.)

It wasn't hate-filled Republican officials who reportedly screamed "faggot" and "fruitcake" and "I'll break your nose" at their political opponents. (Those were all Democrats: Pennsylvania state legislator Vincent Fumo, California Rep. Pete Stark, and Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, respectively.)



It isn't fanatical conservatives joking about the assassination of President Bush and the execution of his Republican aides. (That, Ms. Garofalo, would include your Air America colleagues. But I'll forgive you if you weren't tuned in to them. Few are.)

And it wasn't ruthless conservatives who cheered last week when a liberal Bush-hater wrote on the popular DemocraticUnderground.com website last week:

I am an American, Born and Raised, but I am NOT a citizen of BUSH'S America. I want nothing to do with the country these people have created.

And for those who support them, Let's get Something Nice And Sparkling CLEAR:

Stay The [F---] Away From Me. Stay OUT of my personal space. I want NOTHING from you. I want NOTHING to do with you. I want NOTHING to do with your "vision" of what the world should be.

What DO I want from you?

Honestly?

I will freely admit there are days, and they are becoming more than not, that the Alien at Area 51 in Independence Day and I share quite a common ground on the answer to that question.

And I am NOT apologizing for it.

In the words of the Late, Great Bill Hicks, about the most conciliatory thing I can say for those people at this point is simply this:

Kill Yourself.

My Christmas wish for Ms. Garofalo and her ilk: a mirror and a clue to make the yuletide bright. In the meantime, when vein-popping liberals start seething about the rage of the Right, the wisest action for peaceful right-wingers I can recommend is this:

Duck.
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Swedish minister acquitted of hate speech charges

Called homosexuality a 'deep cancer tumor' on society
Posted: November 29, 2005
10:04 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Ake Green

The Swedish Supreme Court has acquitted a pentecostal minister of charges he violated the nation's hate-speech laws when he labeled homosexuality a "deep cancer tumor" on society during a sermon two years ago.

The court ruled Ake Green was free to espouse his religious views even if they were deemed offensive by some, though prosecutors said the high court's decision will not lead to acceptance of "gay bashing."


They noted the court recognized Green's comments were made during a religious sermon and did not incite others to take harmful actions against homosexuals.

Green, pastor of a Swedish Pentecostal Church congregation in Kalmar, Sweden, initially was convicted by a lower court for violating the country's laws against hate speech in 2004. But an appeals court overturned his conviction, citing his right to freedom of speech and religion. The high court ruled 5-0 to uphold the appeals court decision.

Green, 64, was the first pastor to be convicted under the new laws, which were amended in 2003 to include homosexuals.

The BBC reported Green had expressed little remorse over his comments, but in expressing relief at the high court's decision said in the future he would curb his comments about homosexuals since – because of the international notoriety of his case – everyone now knows his sentiments on the issue.

The U.S.-based Alliance Defense Fund, which filed friends-of-the-court briefs in support of Green, called the high court's ruling "a huge victory for religious liberty everywhere."

"As David slew Goliath, Ake Green slew the radical homosexual agenda in this case," said Benjamin Bull, ADF's chief counsel. "We can only hope this will deter other attempts to censor Christian ministers from delivering Bible-based messages against harmful homosexual conduct. Ake Green is a hero, and we are grateful for his stand and his perseverance."

In comments to Swedish Public Radio, Green said the court's ruling was vindication of his and other preachers' right to espouse what they see as the biblically correct view that homosexuality is anathema to traditional human behavior.

"This means we can continue to speak the way we have, and therefore it feels very good that they have ruled in a way that that there should not be any infringement in our way of preaching," he said.



In testimony before the Supreme Court, Green said his sermon was meant as a warning to homosexuals that if they continued their lifestyle they would suffer "eternal divorce" from God.

"If two men sleep with each other, or if two women do so, it is abnormal, just like pedophilia," he said.

Supreme Court Justice Johan Munck said the court was obliged to follow European Union guidelines.

"We believe that it is probable that a conviction against Pastor Green would not hold up in the European Court of Justice," he said.
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What a sick, demented, hate-filled bunch...

From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: November 18, 2005

from the New York Times

MILAN - Playing an Internet video one evening last year, an Egyptian radical living in Milan reveled as the head of an American, Nicholas Berg, was sawed off by his Iraqi captors.



Yahia Ragheh, foreground, and Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed being led into a Milan court last month, charged with ties to a terror network
Mauro Bottaro/Fotogramma

"Go to hell, enemy of God!" shouted the man, Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, as Mr. Berg's screams were broadcast. "Kill him! Kill him! Yes, like that! Cut his throat properly. Cut his head off! If I had been there, I would have burned him to make him already feel what hell was like. Cut off his head! God is great! God is great!"

Yahia Ragheh, the Egyptian would-be suicide bomber sitting by Mr. Ahmed's side, clearly felt uncomfortable.

"Isn't it a sin?" he asked.

"Who said that?" Mr. Ahmed shot back. "It is never a sin!" He added: "We hope that even their parents will come to the same end. Dogs, all of them, all of them. You simply need to be convinced when you make the decision."

Unconvinced, Mr. Ragheh replied: "I think that it is a sin. I simply think it is a sin."

The blunt exchange is contained in an 182-page official Italian police report that has not been made public, but is widely available in court circles and frames the judicial case against the two men. "The Madrid attack was my project, and those who died as martyrs were my dearest friends," Mr. Ahmed boasted in one intercepted conversation.

He and Mr. Ragheh, his 22-year-old disciple, will be tried in Milan in January under a contentious law passed after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States that makes association with an international terrorist network a crime.

The indictment calls Mr. Ahmed an "organizer of the terrorist group responsible for the Madrid attacks," a "recruiter of numerous people ready to commit suicide attacks," and a "coordinator of terrorist cells" abroad. The police report charges that he used cassette tapes, cellphones, CD's and computers as recruitment tools, highlighting how the Internet potentially can transform any living room into a radical madrasa.

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I originally saw a link to this article at LGF, a most excellent site. Please visit them, you'll learn much.
Saturday, November 19, 2005 :: 0 comments ::

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Friday, November 18, 2005 :: 0 comments ::

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John Gibson Article- Bill's lost it

Have His Cake and Eat It Too?
Thursday, November 17, 2005
By John Gibson


Bill Clinton has been pretty good to President Bush about the War on Terror and the war in Iraq — up until now.

In July of '03 — right after the invasion — Clinton went on TV and said, "Hey, all you guys ticked at Bush, just remember we all knew we'd have to do something about Saddam someday."

That was good. It was actually brave because the Democrats were busy formulating the "Bush lied" lie which is now accepted on the blue side of things as absolute, unquestionable truth, when in fact it is the biggest cowpie I've ever stepped in.

But now Clinton has gone off the deep end.

Here's what he said to a group of students — one presumes Arab students — at the American University in Dubai:

"Saddam is gone. It's a good thing." I interrupt his statement here because this is where he should have stopped. But he didn't. He went on.

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FDA Probing Deaths of Kids Taking Tamiflu

Thursday, November 17, 2005

WASHINGTON — Federal health advisers are looking into the deaths of 12 Japanese children who took Tamiflu, part of their annual safety review of the anti-flu medication and seven other drugs.

There are no reports of deaths in the United States or Europe associated with Tamiflu.

"Based on the information we have right now, we cannot say definitively there is a causal relation between the drug and the children's death," Dr. Murray Lumpkin, the deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said Thursday.

The Japanese deaths were detailed in papers released in advance of a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee meeting Friday.

An update by FDA staff also includes reports of 32 "neuropsychiatric events" associated with Tamiflu, all but one experienced by Japanese patients. Those cases included delirium, hallucinations, convulsions and encephalitis.

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Sony steps in it- great comments and quotes from The Country Store blog

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Radicals threaten to burn Christians to death

Warn of consequences if they don't reconvert to Hinduism by Sunday
Posted: November 17, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com


More than 60 Christian coverts in northern India will be burned to death if they refuse to return to Hinduism by Sunday, a group of extremists has warned.

The radical Hindus severely beat the converts' pastor, Feroz Masih, in a Nov. 4 attack in the state of Himachal Pradesh, accusing him of "forcibly converting" Hindus, reported Compass Direct, a news service that monitors persecution of Christians.


Masih sustained internal injuries requiring medical treatment and still is recovering.

The pastor's son, Ramesh, told Compass Direct the estimated 10 attackers were members of the World Hindu Council and its youth wing Bajrang Dal, which has been blamed for waves of attacks against Christians and other religious minorities since the rise of the Hindu nationalist party BJP in the late 1990s.

The attackers forced Masih, 62, to sign a document stating his willingness to participate in a ceremony Sunday in which all of the Christians would convert back to Hinduism, Ramesh said.

If the pastor or church members refuse to participate, they will be burned to death, the radicals warned.

Masih and his son lead a local congregation related to Believer's Church in India that meets in their home in the town of Baijnath.

The radical Hindus said they would come to the house Sunday to read from the Gita, the Hindu scripture, and convert the Christians back to Hinduism.

The two church leaders sent a letter of complaint to officials at the local police station in Baijnath and the National Commission for Minorities, Compass Direct said.



The letter included the names of six of the attackers: Harbans Lal, Madan Lal, Santosh Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Jitender Kumar, and Bablu Kumar.

But Compass said the police regarded the beating as a "minor incident."

"An official complaint [regarding the attack] has not been registered, and no one has been arrested," said Constable Rakesh Kumar.

According to Kumar, the VHP attacked Masih based on the complaint of a local resident, Prakash Chand, who alleged Masih forcibly converted his wife two years ago. Kumar said police believe Masih did not use force.

Masih's son, however, said the beating was inspired by local media reports that claimed his father was forcibly converting Hindus.

"We simply preach the message of peace and joy as given in the Bible. All the believers who attend the worship ... have embraced Christianity out of their own will," he said.

The Masihs, who are connected to K.P. Yohannan's Gospel for Asia missionary group, say they still are waiting for a police response to the death threats.

Yohannan said it's not clear that the police will take any action, noting the area is dominated by a large temple to the Hindu god Shiva, which draws thousands of pilgrims.

The threat, he said, is reminiscent of the brutal murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two children in 1999 by Hindu radicals in the state of Orissa, who vowed to burn alive anyone who did not renounce their new faith.

"What is most important now is that we pray for this situation," said Yohannan. "These brothers and sisters have chosen by their own free will to follow Christ. I urge you to pray for their protection, and that God will surround them with His angels and turn back any violence. Please also pray for their attackers, that their hearts will be softened and that God will work a miracle in their lives."
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There really were things called "Communists", you know...

A fantastic article. A must read.
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Are you now or have you ever been a second-rate filmmaker?
Posted: November 16, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Ann Coulter


As noted here previously, George Clooney's movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," about pious parson Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, failed to produce one person unjustly accused by McCarthy. Since I described McCarthy as a great American patriot defamed by liberals in my 2003 book, "Treason," liberals have had two more years to produce a person – just one person – falsely accused by McCarthy. They still can't do it.

Meanwhile, I can prove that Murrow's good friend Lawrence Duggan was a Soviet spy responsible for having innocent people murdered. The brilliant and perceptive journalist Murrow was not only unaware of the hundreds of Soviet spies running loose in the U.S. government, he was also unaware that his own dear friend Duggan was a Soviet spy – his friend on whose behalf corpses littered the Swiss landscape.

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Patient dies after ant attack

Kolkata: In a ghastly incident a 55-year-old woman undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital here died on Tuesday after her eyes were nibbled into by ants prompting the government to seek a report from the authorities.

Gauri Chakraborty, who was admitted to Sambhunath Pandit Hospital on November 5 with an eye infection after a cornea surgery, had complained of severe eye pain on Sunday night.

The nurse on duty had said the pain was normal in view of her ailment and left her unattended. But her son Soumen found big black ants nibbling at both her eyelids and the patient helplessly writhing in pain. The family has demanded a judicial probe into the death. The relatives filed an FIR at the Bhawanipur police station.

Hospital Superintendent Sukumar Das said a five-member inquiry committee has been set up to probe the incident.
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A MUST read from a fellow blog-spotter...

"When a journalist just cant help but lie."
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Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital

Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:26 AM ET

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday.

The patient recovering from a post-surgery infection shrieked for help as the ants attacked her on Sunday night, but nurses told her it was normal to feel pain from the infection.

On Monday, the patient's family saw a gaping hole with swarming ants in it when they lifted the bandage on her left eye.

Authorities of the Sambhunath Hospital in Kolkata said they were probing the incident.

"It's not uncommon for ants to attack diabetic patients. We have set up a committee to investigate the unfortunate incident," hospital superintendent A. Adhikary said.

Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.
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Santa Booted From Coke Cans

Monday, November 14, 2005
By John Gibson
September 06, 2005


Christmas trees are going up all over America, except in some places where shadowy and mysterious forces seem to be fighting it.

Seriously. Take for example the Coca-Cola Santa. For 74 years he has been a fixture of Coca-Cola advertising during the weeks just before Christmas.

The Coke Santa is a classic. But as of 2005 he is no more on Coca-Cola packaging.

That means Santa has been evicted from cans, glass bottles and two liter plastic bottles. And he's been replaced by polar bears.

The polar bear has always been a Coke favorite, in conjunction with Santa. But now the bear is carrying on the Christmas tradition alone.

Now some of you may remember that I brought this up a week or so ago and reported that Coke corporate told me, "No, no way. Santa is still there."

But Monday I called one of those customer service hotlines posing as a plain old customer and the person there told me Santa is not on the 2005 packages, but he might return in 2006 on what would be his 75th anniversary with Coke.

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Kwanzaa -- Racist Holiday from Hell

By Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2004

While public officials, schools, and the ACLU worked overtime this
year to ban every vestige of Christmas from the public square, the
recently invented holiday known as Kwanzaa is gaining in popularity
among black Americans. These occurrences are not unrelated.

In an earlier time, blacks held a strong faith in God. But over the
past 40 years, the black community has largely let God slip away.
Sure the community has maintained the outer trappings of religion,
but the solid morality at its core is nearly gone.

Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga. Born Ron Everett
on a poultry farm in Maryland, Everett invented Kwanzaa in 1966,
based on an African harvest festival (though it takes place during
the Winter Solstice!), and celebrating the first Kwanzaa with his
family and friends.

Calling himself "Maulana" (Swahili for "Master Teacher"), Karenga
became a black nationalist at UCLA, and formed his group, the United
Slaves (US) for the purpose of igniting a "cultural revolution"
among American blacks. US members followed Karenga's "Path of
Blackness," which is detailed in his Quotable Karenga: "The
sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black,
create black, buy black, vote black, and live black."

The United Slaves had violent confrontations with the Black Panthers
on campus, and were actually considered more radical than the
Panthers.

The biggest dispute between the United Slaves and the Panthers was
for the leadership of the new African Studies Department at UCLA,
with each group backing a different candidate. Panthers John Jerome
Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter verbally attacked Karenga at
the meeting, which infuriated Karenga's followers. After the meeting
ended, two United Slaves members, George and Larry Stiner,
reportedly confronted Huggins and Carter in a hallway, shooting and
killing them.

Incidentally, on March 31, 1974, it was discovered that both Stiner
brothers had escaped from the family visiting area in San Quentin
State Prison. Larry Stiner turned himself into the FBI in Caracas,
Venezuela, on December 13, 1994. He remains in custody at San
Quentin. But George Stiner remains at large and his whereabouts
remain unknown. He is currently on California's 10 Most Wanted List.

The shooting at UCLA apparently caused Karenga to become extremely
suspicious. On May 9, 1970, Karenga and two others tortured two
women who Karenga believed had tried to poison him by
placing "crystals" in his food and water.

The Los Angeles Times described the events: "Deborah Jones, who once
was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis
were whipped with an electric cord and beaten with a karate baton
after being ordered to remove their clothes at gunpoint. She
testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth
and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes
was tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and
running hoses in their mouths, she said."

Karenga was sentenced to one-to-ten years in prison on counts of
felonious assault and false imprisonment. At his trial, the question
arose as to Karenga's sanity. The psychiatrist's report
stated: "This man now represents a picture which can be considered
both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and illusions,
inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the
environment." The psychiatrist reportedly observed that Karenga
talked to his blanket and imaginary persons, and he believed he'd
been attacked by dive-bombers.

Eight years later, California State University Long Beach named
Karenga the head of its Black Studies Department. By this time,
Karenga had "repented" of his black nationalism and had become just
a harmless garden variety Marxist. This must be our esteemed
university system's idea of repentance!

Karenga's Kwanzaa celebration consists of seven "principles." They
are Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination – code for "buy
black"), Ujima (collective work and responsibility – groupthink),
Ujamaa (cooperative economics – socialism), Nia (purpose) Kuumba
(creativity), and Imani (faith – in man, not God).

To provide a symbol of his seven "principles," Karenga used the
menorah from Judaism with Kwanzaa's colors (red, black, and green),
and re-named it the "kinara."

Karenga also created a Kwanzaa flag that consists of black, green,
and red. The Kwanzaa Information Center states the color red
represents blood: "We lost our land through blood; and we cannot
gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the
blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of
this race." The Kwanzaa Information Center also notes that this
flag "has become a symbol of devotion for African people in America
to establish an independent African nation on the North American
Continent." (Emphasis added.)

When once asked why he designed Kwanzaa to take place around
Christmas, Karenga explained, "People think it's African, but it's
not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people wouldn't celebrate
it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas
because I knew that's when a lot of bloods would be partying."

Karenga has explained that his creation of Kwanzaa was motivated in
part by hostility toward both Christianity and Judaism. Writing in
his 1980 book Kawaida Theory, he claimed that Western
religion "denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and
achievement. In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in
sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the
wrath of an angry God on every generation's head." He clearly
opposed belief in God and other "spooks who threaten us if we don't
worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives."

Through ignorance or racism, growing numbers of black Christians are
either celebrating Kwanzaa or incorporating it into their Christmas
celebrations. Now many preachers are incorporating Kwanzaa into
their messages. This is a horrible mistake.

First of all, as we've seen, the whole holiday is made up! You won't
find its roots in Africa or anywhere else. Second,
Kwanzaa's "principles" are straight from Hell. Third, and most
importantly, Christians who celebrate or incorporate Kwanzaa are
moving their attention away from Christmas, the birth of our Savior,
and the simple message of salvation: love for God through his Son.
To add or subtract from that message is evil.

In recent years Kwanzaa has become increasingly popular and
mainstream. President Bill Clinton commemorated Kwanzaa, stating
that Kwanzaa's seven principles "ring true not only for African-
Americans, but also for all Americans…bring[ing] new purpose to our
daily lives." In 2002, President Bush, though a devout Christian,
also commemorated Kwanzaa. The U.S. Postal Service issued a Kwanzaa
stamp in 1997; the Smithsonian Institution sponsors an annual
celebration; and greeting card companies churn out Kwanzaa cards for
profit.

It is now clear that Kwanzaa is a phony, wicked holiday created by
an ex-con who hates God, Christians, Jews, and blacks – yes blacks.
Why else would he try to pull them away from Christianity and
indoctrinate them in racialism and socialism? Blacks, particularly
black Christians, need to stand up for Christmas and reject Kwanzaa.
If they refuse, they will be helping to stamp out the true meaning
of Christmas, and allowing evil to have its way in America.

This is a future we cannot allow.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the Founder and President of BOND (the
Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny). He is also the author of
the book "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America".
For more information, please call 1-800-411-BOND (2663), or e-mail
bond@bondinfo.org.
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French police turn on Chirac as officer jailed

By Kim Willsher in Paris and Henry Samuel in Bobigny
(Filed: 13/11/2005)

Officers at the forefront of attempts to control the wave of riots and arson attacks across France are furious at moves to prosecute policemen accused of assaulting a youth.

As officers were deployed in force in Paris yesterday following a call on weblogs for a mass demonstration, the police union described the jailing of one officer and the suspension of others as "incomprehensible and unacceptable".

Police officers, who have been targeted with stones, missiles and Molotov cocktails since the trouble broke out, said they were "stupefied" by the action taken against their colleagues. Alliance, the main police union, appealed to members for calm after the decision to take the first steps towards charging five police officers implicated in the assault on a youth.


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THANK YOU VETERANS!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL...

Thursday, November 10, 2005 :: 0 comments ::

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Quote of the Day

I’ve been hesitant to say boo about the French situation, since I actually think this is not Pure Undistilled Jihad-O-Rama, but something more complex; I mean, just because there’s an economic underclass aspect to it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have religious roots, but just because it does have religious roots doesn’t mean it’s not a blend of ethno-cultural identity politics mixed with racism and economics. Which doesn’t mean it’s not, etc. You can go on all day and settle nothing; meanwhile, cars burn. We are dealing with a Gordian Wad here. At least with a knot you can see the individual strands.

~ James Lileks
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Al-Qaida ops busted at Mexican border?

Congresswoman drops bomb in announcing bill to halt issuance of driver's licenses to illegals

Posted: November 10, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com


WASHINGTON – In announcing the introduction of legislation aimed at preventing illegal aliens from getting driver's licenses yesterday, a North Carolina Republican member of the House of Representatives casually dropped a bombshell that went over the heads of most of the media covering the event – that three members of al-Qaida were recently captured trying to enter the U.S.

"This isn't aimed at any one race," said Sue Myrick, who is being mentioned as a potential candidate for governor of the state. "Our main concern is: Who's in our state? This is a critical issue today. They just arrested, down on the border, a couple of weeks ago, three al-Qaida members who came across from Mexico into the United States."

That's how she was quoted in her local daily – the Charlotte Observer. An audio recording of the event confirms the quotation's accuracy.

There was no follow-up by the reporters present.


The capture of al-Qaida operatives trying to gain entry to the U.S. from Mexico or anywhere else would be a spectacular development in the war on terror.

Attempts to reach staffers in Myrick's office after hours were unsuccessful.

Myrick cited national security concerns in introducing the bill that would states federal highway money unless they stop issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

Myrick's bill would target six states, including her own, that still accept taxpayer ID numbers – issued by the Internal Revenue Service – as proof of identity or residence by persons seeking a driver's license. Besides North Carolina, Myrick's office said, those states are West Virginia, Illinois, Utah, New Mexico and Kentucky.

Myrick, who is reportedly exploring the possibility of a run for governor in 2008, challenged current Gov. Mike Easley and the Democrats who control the legislature in Raleigh.

"Basically, we're here to call on the governor (Mike Easley) and the legislature in North Carolina to stop issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens," said Myrick, who was joined by GOP Reps. Patrick McHenry of Cherryville and Virginia Foxx of Banner Elk – both former members of the N.C. legislature.

North Carolina is home to an estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants, reports the Charlotte Observer. For them, a driver's license is more than just legal authorization to drive. It's a government-approved ID, complete with a picture. Flashing this prized possession can make it easier to keep a job, cash a check or find a place to live.

But she denied that she was targeting Hispanics in low-paying jobs, who make up – by far – the biggest percentage of illegal immigrants in the state. She indicated her real concern was national security – pointing to the al-Qaida arrests, which have not been reported elsewhere.
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Quote of the day



The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag.

- David Letterman
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Toon- Steve Breen

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Ann Coulter- excellent article!

Danny Ocean defends the Rather Network

Posted: November 9, 2005
7:25 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 Ann Coulter

The most cosseted, self-indulgent, worthless people in the universe are worried their suffering has been downgraded. For 50 years Hollywood drama queens have churned out plays, movies, TV shows, books, poems, allegories, museum exhibits, personal testimonials, dioramas, interpretive dances, wood carvings, cave paintings, needlepoint wall hangings and scatological limericks about their victimization at the hands of a brute named Joe McCarthy. Schoolchildren who will learn nothing about George Washington, Thomas Edison or Paul Revere are forced to read chapter and verse about the black night of fascism (BNOF) under McCarthy.

But half a century of myth-making later, one little book comes out and gives the contrary view – and Hollywood thinks it's Treblinka.

George Clooney, writer and director of the rebuttal, claims he was driven to make the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck" because "a book came out about how great McCarthy was."

Q: Ann Coulter's "Treason"?

GC: Yes.

Needless to say I was shocked to learn that George Clooney can read. Liberals haven't been so shocked by a book since "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

So, apparently, we must revisit the BNOF under McCarthy one more time. (Ethical dilemma: Would you write a book to set the record straight on Joseph McCarthy knowing that it might give rise to yet another lame George Clooney movie?)


Clooney said of his small contribution to the "McCarthyism" industry: "I realized that we had to be incredibly careful with the facts, because if we got any of them wrong, they could say it's all horse****. So I had to double-source every scene."

I don't intend to see his movie because – except for the McCarthy parts – it sounds like a snoozefest. (Half the reviewers so far have said "good night" to Clooney, and the other half have said "good luck.") And despite all those "double-sources," in addition to getting the big facts wrong (about America and about the Soviet Union), Clooney got all the little facts wrong, too. I guess he borrowed some of Al Franken's "fact-checkers."

Read the rest here.
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Teen girls pummel teacher; classmates join in melee

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By ZELL MILLER

Rule can head off dirty tricks at CIA
By ZELL MILLER
Published on: 11/02/05

It's like a spy thriller. Institutional rivalries and political loyalties have fostered an intelligence officer's resentment against the government. Suddenly, an opportunity appears for the agent to undercut the national leadership. A vital question of intelligence forms the core justification for controversial military actions by the current leaders. If this agent can get in the middle of that question, distort that information and make it public, the agent might foster regime change in the upcoming election.
But the rules on agents are clear. They can't purposely distort gathered intelligence, go public with secret information or use their position or information to manipulate domestic elections or matters without risking their job or jail.
But their spouse can!
The agent realizes her spouse can go out on behalf of the spy agency, can distort information, go public with classified information and use all this spy-agency-sponsored material and credentials to try to pull down the current government, and it is all perfectly legal.
Suppose the spouse adds just one more brilliant, well-aimed lie: claim your foremost political opponent put the spouse up to the trip. As your spouse uses your agency's name to mount attacks, your enemy may fall into your trap. Will your enemy suffer your spouse's lies or take the bait and try to clarify his non-role? If he tells the press he didn't hire your spouse, the press will demand to know, "Then who did?"
Instead of you violating secrecy laws, it is your victim who is guilty because he tried to set the record straight. Heads, you win; tails, he loses.
It sounds unbelievable, a fiction, perhaps to be called "To Sting a King." But it is no fiction. This is the story behind Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson and the Bush administration. And it appears that Plame and Wilson will get away with the biggest sting operation ever.
No one seems to care that our intelligence agency has crippled our president. Certainly not the media. They are determined to make Wilson a hero. Recall the dozens of times the Washington Post and The New York Times carried his lies on the front page, above the fold. The conclusive story discrediting Wilson was buried 6 feet deep, back by the obituaries.
To the media, it doesn't matter that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence says Wilson lied about what he did and with whom he met while investigating Iraqi attempts to purchase "yellowcake" uranium.
To the media, it doesn't matter that the CIA says what Wilson did actually find supported that Iraq was attempting to buy the uranium — a direct contradiction to Wilson's public claims.
To the media, it doesn't matter that he claimed the vice president assigned him to the uranium investigation when we all know now it was his wife.
Some absurdly claim that Plame had nothing to do with her husband's political activities against President Bush. But let it be clear. Plame could not have done what Wilson did and gotten away with it. Wilson could not have done what he did without Plame giving him a way to do it.
Something has to be done. We can't let the CIA become the domestic dirty tricks shop, with Republican and Democratic agents each trying to pull down their opposing presidents.
We need a Plame rule. Any family member of a CIA agent tapped to help out must live by the same rules regarding information disclosure and domestic political manipulations as those imposed on the agent. If the family member fails to live by those rules, the agent is terminated.
Clearly this will restrict the flexibility of the CIA. But who ever thought that the flexibility given to CIA agents would be misused to destabilize a U.S. president? No one — until Valerie Plame.
Zell Miller is a former Georgia governor and U.S. senator.
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Egyptian Blogger Arrested!

Egypt blogger detained over religious views: rights group
Mon Nov 7,11:06 AM ET
from http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051107/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarrestinternet:
CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian student was arrested by security services over articles that he posted on his Internet blog about recent religious violence in the city of Alexandria.

The Association for Human Rights Legal Aid (AHRLA) "today sent a letter to the attorney general demanding a probe into the arrest of Abdel Karim Nabil Suleiman," the group's chairman Taker Khater said Monday.

He said state security forces burst into the 21-year-old's home in Alexandria on October 26 and took him away "because of his recent Internet articles on the incidents" in the Mediterranean city.

Egypt's security services refused to comment on his arrest.

The young blogger lives in Alexandria's Muharram Bek neighbourhood, where three people were killed when security forces clamped down on a protest by Muslims angry at a Christian play they deemed offensive to their faith.

The clashes, which occurred on October 21, were the worst confessional violence Egypt had seen in several years and rekindled a debate on the place of the Christian Coptic minority in Egyptian society.

In his blog, the Suleiman posted vitriolic articles condemning the Muslim reaction to the play and what he described as systematic oppression of the country's Christian community.

AHRLA called on the attorney general to protect the young blogger against torture and stressed that detaining him "contravened Egypt's laws and constitution, as well as international charters."
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Sorry lying sack of you-know-what

Is Jimmy Massey telling the truth about Iraq?
By Ron Harris
POST-DISPATCH WASHINGTON BUREAU
11/05/2005


Jimmy Massey former marine staff sergeant says Marines intentionally are killing innocent Iraqi civilians.


For more than a year, former Marine Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey has been telling anybody who will listen about the atrocities that he and other Marines committed in Iraq.

In scores of newspaper, magazine and broadcast stories, at a Canadian immigration hearing and in numerous speeches across the country, Massey has told how he and other Marines recklessly, sometimes intentionally, killed dozens of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Among his claims:

Marines fired on and killed peaceful Iraqi protesters.

Americans shot a 4-year-old Iraqi girl in the head.

A tractor-trailer was filled with the bodies of civilian men, women and children killed by American artillery.

Massey's claims have gained him celebrity. Last month, Massey's book, "Kill, Kill, Kill," was released in France. His allegations have been reported in nationwide publications such as Vanity Fair and USA Today, as well as numerous broadcast reports. Earlier this year, he joined the anti-war bus tour of Cindy Sheehan, and he's spoken at Cornell and Syracuse universities, among others.

News organizations worldwide published or broadcast Massey's claims without any corroboration and in most cases without investigation. Outside of the Marines, almost no one has seriously questioned whether Massey, a 12-year veteran who was honorably discharged, was telling the truth.

He wasn't.

Each of his claims is either demonstrably false or exaggerated - according to his fellow Marines, Massey's own admissions, and the five journalists who were embedded with Massey's unit, including a reporter and photographer from the Post-Dispatch and reporters from The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal.

Read the whole thing here.
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Bad move by Muslims in Denmark

Muslim Riots Break Out in Denmark As Well
19:26 Nov 06, '05 / 4 Cheshvan 5766


(IsraelNN.com) As Muslim riots spread across France, Denmark is also beginning to see its own Islamic Intifada. In Arhus, Denmark, young Muslims were heard chanting, “This land belongs to us!”

A masked spokesman for the rioters told Danish reporters that Muslims were tired of being oppressed and harassed and warned the police to stay away. "This is our area. We rule this place,” he said.

The riots have increased following a cartoon in Danish paper The Jyllands Pos involving Mohammed. Rocks and firebombs have become commonplace in many neighborhoods and firefighters are afraid to enter them to put out the fires.
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photos: rioting in France



A fireman tries to put out a fire in a car in a Paris surburb...

Original photo here (yahoo/AP slideshow. worth checking out.).
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Missile 'embedded in U.S. cruise ship'

Official: Possible those who attacked Miami-based vessel were terrorists
[ya think? ed.]

Posted: November 7, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com







Passenger aboad Seabourn Spirit took video of attackers (courtesy: Sky News)


A U.S. cruise liner attacked with machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades off the coast of Somalia may have been the target of a terrorist high-sea assault, says Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

The Seabourn Spirit, carrying 312 people including passengers and crew, is nearing a port in the Sechelles, but arrival may be delayed because an unexploded missile is embedded in the vessel, said the official, who is monitoring the ship's progress because about 19 Australians are on board.

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Oldest Christian church in the Holy Land?

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Church
By ARON HELLER
The Associated Press
Saturday, November 5, 2005; 10:50 PM


JERUSALEM -- Israeli archaeologists said Saturday they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon.

The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries and include references to Jesus and images of fish, an ancient Christian symbol.




This picture taken on Oct. 31, 2005 and released by the Israeli Antiquities Authority shows a mosaic with writing in ancient Greek with references to Christ, on the floor of what is believed to be the oldest church in Israel that was recently discovered in the grounds inside the Megiddo prison, near the biblical site of Armageddon, in central Israel and reported by Israel's Channel 2 TV Saturday Nov. 5, 2005. The ruins are believed to date back 1,700 years, and include references to Jesus and images of fish, the report said. Archaeological experts quoted in the story said it was the largest church ever discovered in the holy land, and could perhaps turn out to be the oldest church in the world.

(AP Photo/Israel Antiquities Authority)
Photo Credit: AP Photo

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Analyst says Wilson 'outed' wife in 2002

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Anti-American Protest Turns Violent, Spreads

Hey! We hate Bush! So let's burn down our own towns and cities! Yeehaaah!
Morons.
******

Friday, November 04, 2005
from www.foxnews.com

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina — More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas (search) as leaders began debating creation of one of the world's largest free trade zones.

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OH. MY. GOSH.

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Dictionary entry...

I didn't make this. Got it in an email...
But it's a good one.
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From the Drudge Report: JUDGE ALITO'S MOTHER HARASSED BY PRESS

JUDGE ALITO'S MOTHER HARASSED BY PRESS

Thu Nov 03 2005 16:33:47 ET

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s 90 year-old mother Rose has become a prisoner in her own Hamilton, NJ home because of a barrage of media requests.

The quiet neighborhood Mrs. Alito has lived in for over 50 years has been turned upside down all week by a swarm of national reporters who have phoned and shown up at the doorstep of not only her but many of her neighbors.

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This tells you all you need to know about Joe Wilson:

A remarkable photo of Cindy Sheehan and Wilson sitting side by side at a mock impeachment trial is here:
http://www.goodolddogs3.com/sheehan_impeach-bush1.jpg --note also the presence of Sheila Jackson Lee, Barbara Lee, Jim McDermott and John Conyers.

thanks to Scott for the link and comment.
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If this were anyone but Christians and ex-homosexuals, this would be Big News...

Activists 'terrorize' ex-'gay' conference

Police barricade entry to Dobson event as enraged crowd shouts 'Shut it down'
Posted: November 2, 2005
1:22 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com



Police create barricade as homosexual activists protest Focus on the Family conference at Baptist church in Boston (courtesy: Christian Civic League of Maine)


Enraged homosexual activists, shouting obscenities and chanting "Shut it down," amassed outside a Baptist church in Boston to harass and intimidate attendees of a Focus on the Family conference on recovering from homosexuality through the power of God.

The protesters – present from 8 a.m. Saturday until the event ended in the evening – yelled, screamed and defiantly waved signs at the Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston, prompting police to order conference participants to remain inside, reported Article 8 Alliance, a group campaigning against same-sex marriage. As the conference began to wind down, Article 8 said, more activists converged – aided by a sound truck – and completely blocked the street, prompting a "near-riot" as Boston police continued to stand and watch.

"The anger, rage and hatred were indescribable," said one conference participant, according to a report by the Christian Civic League of Maine.


Protesters amass outside Boston church (courtesy Article 8 Alliance)


Article 8 used the term "terrorize" to describe the protest.

The activists' boisterous chants included, "What do you want? Bigots out. When do we want it? Now," "1-2-3-4 open up the closet door. 5-6-7-8 don't assume your kids are straight," "This hatred thing is getting old. This hatred thing has gotta go," "Ex-gay, anti-gay" and "Not in Boston, not in America."

The protesters reportedly were joined during the day by participants in an anti-war rally on the Boston Common.

Last week, a homosexual group called QueerToday.com said it planned to join forces with another group, the Stonewall Warriors, to form the "October 29th Coalition" and protest the conference as activist Cindy Sheehan led the anti-war rally nearby: "For us, Focus on the Family and the Bush war machine march in lockstep every day against the LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender) community and all oppressed people of the world."

On its weblog after the protest, QueerToday.com ridiculed Article 8's "over-the-top coverage" of the protest, but expressed obvious delight in the impact.

The twighlight of the Right's twenty-five year reign of terror is quickly approaching. This protest is probably the largest confrontation [Love Won Out] has experienced, and hopefully our example will inspire others to take similar stands against them.

We will continue to hold homophobes accountable for their actions, regardless of what kind of sugary, sing-songy voices they say "God loves you" in. Yes, God loves us, but they don't. Love isn't about what you say. Love means justice. Using the State to punish gay and lesbian people for not conforming to their Neo-Victorian values is not justice. Spreading lies so that people will see queer people as sick is not justice.

According to Article 8, some of the activists went up to individual conference participants, took close-up photos and taunted them. The homosexual demonstrators also set up two coffins in front of the church, one with the message "Homophobia is deadly."

According to Boston officials, the protesters did not have a permit to demonstrate outside the church, use sound equipment and props or block traffic. Police, nevertheless, stood aside and virtually allowed the demonstrators to do as they wished, Article 8 said.

"At times they even cooperated with the activists, chatting with them, directing traffic for them and finally allowing them to completely block the entrance," said the group's report. "The police department later informed us that there were no arrests, despite the near-riot behavior and the apparent breaking of laws regarding demonstrating without a permit and disrupting a religious event."

Article 8 complained police were abrupt and unfriendly toward attendees. One woman asked an officer about the sound truck that was disturbing the conference inside.

"I asked a very curt, unfriendly policewoman why they weren't getting the truck to move on the road, why they were letting it just sit there, and she snarled there was nothing they could do," the woman said.

When police were asked if the demonstrators had a permit, they refused to answer, Article 8 said.

The all-day conference, titled "Love Won Out," featured well-known lecturers, including many who have left the homosexual lifestyle and married.

Article 8 said the situation became "frightening" near the end of the conference when activists "jammed the entire width of the street outside and stepped up their agitation."

Rather than disperse the crowd, the police barricaded the church doors and told people inside they could not leave for any reason, Article 8 said. When one woman asked why she couldn't go outside, the officer snarled "Because I told you so."

Bag lunches were brought in at the last minute.

According to one conference participant, speaker Joe Dallas, a former homosexual activist, wrapped up the conference saying that while he wanted the demonstrators to have their freedom of speech, the one thing that frightened him was when they began yelling "Shut it down."

Our freedom of speech is at risk when that happens, Dallas said, recounting other stories of ministers worldwide who have been squelched by activists.

Article 8 said the Boston media virtually ignored the story.

"Could you imagine if this were an abortion clinic and pro-life people did such a thing outside?" the group said in a statement. "The riot police would be swinging their billy clubs and using pepper spray. They would do whatever it took to disperse the crowd. And it would be on the front page of both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, as well as all the Boston electronic media."


Police chat with protesters (courtesy Article 8 Alliance)

The group said that when it has organized demonstrations in Boston involving more than a few people, authorities have required a permit and, if using a sound device, an additional special permit. Police also have had the authority to place the demonstrators where they believe it's "safe."

In a demonstration earlier this year at the Supreme Judicial Court building, Article 8 said its members were placed across the street, in a specific area of the sidewalk, well away from any building entrance, and "police became quite nasty if we ventured outside of our designated area."
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From the Country Store's blog...

Scroll down til Oct. 26 for this story...

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Illegal Alien Angst Alert!

Durham (North Carolina) raid causes illegal immigrants elsewhere to stay home:
A raid at a Durham semiconductor company has stirred up fears among illegal immigrants who fear they also may be arrested.
As opposed to what? A visit from the Welcome Wagon?

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Michael Moore owns Halliburton!

New book debunks claims of celebrity activists
Posted: November 1, 2005
10:23 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com



"I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed.

He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

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I really don't like these two moonbats...















Nov. 1: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, flanked by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill.
photo from the AP/FoxNews.com

Senate Dems Force Rare Closed Session
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
By Sharon Kehnemui Liss

Pentagon Splits With Iraqi President on Troop Preparedness
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate returned to its daily work late Tuesday after Democrats enacted a rare parliamentary rule forcing a private session (search) of the chamber so senators could speak in secret about the lead-up to the war in Iraq.

As a result of the session, in which Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (search) and the panel's Ranking Democrat Jay Rockefeller (search) sparred for 40 minutes about whether Republicans had failed in their oversight of the Bush administration, lawmakers set Nov. 14 as a deadline for six members of the Senate — three from each party — to assess the progress of the committee's investigation into pre-Iraq war intelligence.

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