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Had to share this if it hasn't already been posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7pGt_O1uM8

Being a fan of Kelly Clarkson, I watched the AOL simulcast live concert from Orlando, FL. This past week AOL edited the concert to split the individual songs into separate tracks/views on their site. ' Very strange how one of her songs (Where is your heart) during the full concert contained a phrase "for Gods sake" but was missing from the separated tracks. Coincidence? I think not.

As a viewer of the (FOX TV) show American Idol for most of this season, I was very surprised by the results last night (4/30/03) when Trenyce was eliminated from the competition. When I watch this program, I try to be objective. I really want to award the “best” performers for the evening. I do believe all 5 finalists will find their niche and do well. My own observations and my conspiracy directed mindset lead me to think that the contest has become one of popularity rather than talent. I think that we have some people who are somehow manipulating...

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The following letter was e-mailed to the Office of the President as a suggestion for improving Homeland Security: On Fox News today (4/25/02), the following report was published: “The FBI quietly warned its agents nationwide of unconfirmed information from a captured senior Al Qaeda official that terrorists may be planning attacks against supermarkets or shopping centers, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The warning, sent Tuesday to all FBI field offices and relayed to some state and local police, cautioned that the information was unsubstantiated and did not include specific information about possible targets, timing, numbers of people involved or any...

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought the siege at Ramallah began after the Passover Seder bombing approximately 5 weeks ago. Yet, Fox news had a headline a week ago that said 4 months and Bloomberg has a headline today saying 5 months. More media bias??

To: French Consulate in Los Angeles Dear French Nation: Shalom! As a Jew, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would like to thank your President Jacques Chirac for saying that Israel needs to be convinced that peace is better than war. Never mind that peace (shalom in Hebrew) is the most common word in Jewish prayers. That it is endlessly repeated in synagogues, when greeting or taking leave, when getting up or going to bed. Never mind that shalom (peace) is mentioned 77 times in the Torah, and 275 times in the Jewish...

Unofficial translation not approved by the author. Originally published in Italian in Panorama magazine. I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swasitka, incite people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem. I find it shameful...

Making a case for the ‘Weapons of righteousness' Recently, a columnist said the National Rifle Association is the "twin sibling of the National Socialist Worker's Party". As an NRA member, I wonder what he means. My wife (also an NRA member) is Jewish and teaches a religion class to children in her Synagogue. Somehow this doesn't sound like a member of the "twin sibling of the National Socialist Worker's Party" The occasion for the insult is the debate over "assault rifles" Of course, the guns in question are not "assault rifles," they are semi- automatics that look like assault rifles....

Ron Smith (RSmith@WBAL.COM) talke about this commentary on his show. I thought I would post to share with others.

click on link. Can't believe CNN even showed it.