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Tuesday, May 16, I was wakened from a deep sleep at 5:30 am by something biting me, I leapt out of bed and turned on the closet light to see a large rat run under the covers. I was later informed by a lady two streets over that we are under a sudden rat invasion. I had never seen a trace of a rat in my home. I took my bloody thumb to the sink and washed the wound throughly and put alchol on it, then repeated about ten mins later. I called my physician who told me to go...

I believe I heard on the news this morning that FEMA had spent a billion dollars on trailer houses for Katrina that no one is using. Detention Center problem solved.

The money ripped out of our economy is Mexico's largest source of income. We stupid citizens get taxed, and have to get a permit to have a dang garage sale, and they tax us to death on that. All this money that is being drained from my blue eyed, Caucasian, male son regarding scholarships is given to illegals who have never paid into the system. We have to jump through ever higher hoops to qualify for student loans that are handed to illegals, to someone who has broken the law by coming here illegally.I don't blame anyone for my station...

SPYCHIPPED LEVI'S BRAND JEANS HIT THE U.S. Levi Strauss Confirms RFID Test, Refuses to Disclose Location It may be time to ditch your Dockers and lay off the Levi's, say privacy activists Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. New information confirms that Levi Strauss & Co. is violating a call for a moratorium on item-level RFID by spychipping its clothing. What's more, the company is refusing to disclose the location of its U.S. test. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a controversial technology that uses tiny microchips to track items from a distance. These RFID microchips have earned the nickname "spychips" because...

What more evidence do we need in regards to the cost to the American Taxpayer of illegal immigration? Colorado could close half of it's Public Schools if illegals were not present. How many billions/millions of dollars would it save the Taxpayers of Colorado not to have to educate Illegals?

Something's rotten in Dubai. And it's not just the deal to control six of America's ports. The approval of Dubai-owned DP World to run the ports has brought out a lot of security issues that should have been raised at least 4.5 years ago, after 9/11. But there are a lot of issues associated with this that HAVEN'T come to light. First, there's the President's refusal to re-examine the deal, despite the fact that he admittedly didn't know about it until the public furor. What you don't know is about the President's brother, Neil Bush, and his ties to Dubai....

Given the corruption and hatred of George Bush in the U.N. and International Community, is it a good idea to allow them to observe? Why are the Democrats, who were the ones that attempted to defraud the 2000 election so keen on outside observers? Is this some kind of set up and are we ready for a stunning upset if Kerry wins under very suspecious circumstances?

First control the border. We guard the border of Korea and Bosnia, we can certainly guard our own. Illegals cost the USofA billions of dollars in services and money shipped out of the economy annually. More than enough to cover the cost of boots on the ground at the border. It can be military, more border agents, citizen volunteers, or a combination of the three. Cut off welfare to illegals and deport them, require working illegals to register proving their employment. Demand the employer give proof that he has run an ad to fill the job, if no American applies...

There´s good news, and not so good news. First the good news. When it comes to foreign policy, unlike his predecessor, William Jefferson Clinton, President George W. Bush stands up like a man and declares America first. That is good news and amen. For speaking like a man on that issue, and for that matter an American man, Mr. Bush has deservedly received hallelujah praise from the conservative right, and hellfire and damnation from the malevolent left. Now for the bad news. Bush´s definition of America first does not translate from Third Way middle-speak into plain old American English as...

Fox News reported this morning that, at this moment, in a US consulate in Saudi Arabia, a young mother, kidnapped by her father and married off to a man she didn't know, is being denied her rights as a US citizen. This young, terrified, 21 year old mother is being harrassed and pressured into signing away her children. The consulate has allowed Saudi's to come in and harrass her, threaten her, lie to her that her father has suffered a heart attack, and pressure her into leaving the consulate, or, sign away her children. Her father had stated in the...

Mexico City - International immigration is a part of global development and should not be sacrificed to excessive security measures, Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Thursday. "We should rid ourselves of the false argument that the fish of terrorism moves comfortably in the waves of migration," Derbez told an 11-nation Regional Migraton Conference in the Mexican city of Cancun. Derbez noted that Mexico has tightened it's own immigration measures to assist the United States since 9-11. But the implicitly criticized those who have used those terrorist attacks to justify anti-immigration measures in the United States. He called for...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other top officials are spending hours coping with frequent, unsolicited attempts by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make foreign policy, according to senior administration officials who are directly involved. The officials said Bush had to quash a Rumsfeld proposal in April to send Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolforwitz to South Korea to announce that the United States was pulling American troops out of the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. The announcement, involving no previous consultation with allies, would have come on the...

As congressional leaders and the president keep trying to wedge a huge tax cut into a budget for the coming year, and as the Texas Legislature continues vain attempts to balance the budget without updating an archaic and regressive tax structure, it is becoming clearer that there's no free lunch here. Tax cuts and funding cuts have real costs. By narrow margins last month, the U.S. Senate and House passed a federal budget blueprint for next year that sets the stage for a series of disastrous, costly policy choices. Under that plan, key congressional committees are working to develop an...

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, I request your prayers for my darling husband who has been stricken with a rare esophageal cancer. We have spent the last couple of months running tests and trying to keep his strength up. He was admitted to the hospital last Friday for a feeding tube and they have been building his strength up. He told me this morning that the Doctor said she would teach me how to administer the nutrition pack at home so he can come home for a few days and be with us. I am looking forward to...

Mexico City-The United States is considering giving legalized residency-but not citizenship- to as many as 15% of undocumented workers, and may increase the number of temporary work visas, the new U.S. ambassador-designate said in interviews published Saturday. The informal proposals fall far short of the comprehensive immigration accord Mexico had sought, but they represent movement on an issue that is desperately important for millions of Mexicans living, and working in the United States and Mexican President Vicente Fox. The comments from Tony Garza, a former Texas secretary of state, also mark the first movement on the thorny issue of immigration...

In September 2002, negotiations between the United States and Mexico over a new immigration pact were picking up momentum, raising expectations among millions of Mexicans who are living and working the the United States without legal documents. The talks stalled after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Now Mexico is prepared to embark on an intense campaign, similar to the North American Free Trade Agreement, to sell the merits of a migration pact among Americans. Recently, Arturo Sarukhan, the chief of staff for policy planning at the Foreign Ministry, discussed Mexico's new strategy with Dallas Morning News Latin America Correspondent Alfredo...

The FBI's 'Magic Lantern' Its been more than six months since the news broke about the FBI's new high tech spying device named "Magic Lantern." The government, understandably, wants to keep the Magic Lantern technology under wraps. But that didn't stop "CyberCrime" from getting the inside scoop on this high tech surveillance device from experts, which we'll show you on this week's episode. The Magic Lantern technology began as part of a broad FBI project called "Cyber Knight" -- the same project that spawned the notorious Carnivore email monitoring device. Magic Lantern goes much farther than Carnivore, though. If initial...

Several years ago, Osama bin Laden made an observation that has come home to haunt America: We have a soft belly. In effect, we do not, according to bin Laden, have the will or determination to do what is necessary to protect the safety and security of this nation. We do not live the Vince Lombardi credo, "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." Let us review American action and inaction during this period of threat to our security. First, the Coleen Rowley memo. She is the FBI agent who articulated how the FBI office in Washington, D.C., changed a...

Two Arrested In Teen Mall Brawl No Injuries Reported Despite Widespread Violence POSTED: 4:29 p.m. CDT May 23, 2002 UPDATED: 9:37 p.m. CDT May 23, 2002 ARLINGTON, Texas -- A fight broke out at a North Texas shopping mall Thursday afternoon, creating a frenzied scene. Hundreds of brawling teens flooded from the Parks Mall in a sea of flying fists and kicking legs. Several separate battles would follow as the teens waged their wars and police and mall security tried to calm the crowd. An unusually large number of high school students were hanging around the mall Thursday. According to...

Logic is simply defined as "sensible rational thought and argument rather than ideas that are influenced by "emotion or whim". The use of logic to propel Western society out of the Dark ages was the true productive beauty resulting from the Period of Enlightenment. A brief primer about the Enlightenment is as follows: Period of Enlightenment (1650-1800) A new faith in the power of human reason sweeps across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and produces the Age of Enlightenment. Applying new methods of observation guided by reason, scientist such as Isaac Newton begin to unveil the secrets of ...