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     Too weird to be coincidence. This afternoon while listening to the radio, the broadcast was interrupted by a trasmission of someone speaking a foreign language. My thought, 'I don't think that's quite Spanish. Is that Arabic?' Went back to work around the house and forgot about it.      This evening, an acquaintence called to tell me about something odd that happened to them. They made a phone call, and when the other party picked up and said hello, the call was interrupted by someone speaking in a foreign language. "I didn't think it quite sounded like Spanish. I don't know if...

Former special forces officer and columnist Geoff Metcalf provided a brief overview of Senator Leaky Leahy's record of divulging secrets: * Senator Pat Leahy was annoyed with the Reagan administration's war on terrorism in the 1980s. At the time he was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Therefore, "Leaky Leahy," threatened to sabotage classified strategies he didn't like. * Leahy "inadvertently" disclosed a top-secret communications intercept during a 1985 television interview. The intercept had made possible the capture of the Arab terrorists who had hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro and murdered American citizen. But Leahy's leak cost the...

A group of teachers receiving free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation today filed the opening brief in their U.S. Supreme Court appeal, which challenges a Washington State Supreme Court ruling giving union officials a constitutional “right” to use forced dues on political causes with which the teachers may disagree. In September, the nation’s highest court granted review of the ruling that had voided a campaign finance law intending to limit the misuse of mandatory union dues for certain political activities.

A TV commercial aimed at thwarting terrorism has hit Middle Eastern TV networks using high-tech effects to show the anatomy of a suicide bombing in graphic detail. [snip] The US$1 million (€800,000) ad is packed with special effects including the time-suspension technique made popular in the "Matrix" movies to show bodies, cars and broken glass flying in slow motion through the air. [snip] The 60-second ad opens with a young boy seeing a man walk by in a crowded market. The man stops and exposes yellow explosives strapped to his body. The boy sees the bombs just before they go...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking public input on a proposed new policy designed to facilitate the research community’s access to data resulting from NIH-funded, genome-wide association studies. NIH has published a Request for Information in the Federal Register today and will be accepting public comments until October 31. . . The proposed GWAS Policy calls on NIH-funded GWAS investigators to quickly submit genetic data (genotypes) along with relevant health information (phenotypes) about individuals to a centralized NIH data repository. Data will be submitted in a form that protects the privacy and confidentiality of research participants. The data...

Heritage March on the PA State Capitol Saturday, April 29, 2006 Come to Harrisburg for a short march from City Island. Assemble City Island 9-10 AM; March begins at 10:30; Rally on Capitol Steps at Noon. Public Rally at 12 Noon at the Capitol Steps to deliver petitions and tell the Gaming Control Board, the Governor and Legislature there will be NO casino near hallowed ground!

Iraq.  Hmmm....

     New German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to improve her country's relations with President Bush, buoyed by an emerging international effort aimed at halting Iran's nuclear program.      While Merkel has indicated Germany will not always agree with the United States, her White House meeting Friday came on the heels of a decision by European allies to confront Iran - an approach that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice endorsed. ------[snip]-------      The U.S. and German unity over Iran is as tight as their disagreement over Iraq was wide when Gerhard Schroeder was Germany's chancellor. ------[snip]------      [Cathleen] Fisher [deputy director of the American...

With hat tips to FreePers Chris Dickson, Jenny Hatch, and ceogop (and apologies to any FreePers that I may have overlooked), I am again raising the point that we are to sport purple right index fingers this Monday-Thursday (Dec 12-15). Please see Purple Finger for Freedom and its directions for inking. Anyone with an appropriate ping list, please help spread the word. There have been far to few viewings of the aforementioned posts. Aye, maties, if we can wear the colors of our favorite football teams, we certainly can sport a purple finger for four days. Our soldiers, and the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2005) – Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that provides free legal aid to employees suffering from compulsory unionism abuses, made the following statement in response to today’s so-called “International Human Rights Day” rally, organized by AFL-CIO officials:[excerpts] ----- “Orchestrated to invoke the sympathy of the American people, this one-sided media-blitz ignores the widespread abuse of employees who choose to refrain from union affiliation. Big Labor is trying to build public support for the enactment of a new wave of coercive union ‘organizing’ privileges." ----- “Since employees...

Insurgents sabotaged power lines to the capital Friday evening, knocking out electricity across the greater Baghdad area and plunging it into darkness on the eve of the country's key vote on a new constitution. Mahmoud al-Saaedi, an Electricity Ministry spokesman, said power lines were sabotaged between the northern towns of Kirkuk and Beiji, leading to the Baghdad region.

There was a time when patriotism prevailed over political "correctness" in the media. During World War II, Americans sang a song about releasing flatulence in Hitler's face ("Der Fuehrer's Face," the title song of an Academy Award-winning Walt Disney cartoon). Now, the media tout the showing of Saddam Hussein in his underwear as a disgrace and downplay the horror of beheadings. The latter view spews from the mouths and pens of the socialists in our country (many commonly referred to as liberal Democrats) who are trying to render the United States impotent by promoting global pacifism ... the same ones...

Hey, Mr. Robinson, I like the new home page! Pleasing to the eye. Easier to navigate. Aye, matey, ya done good!

Excerpts from Nancy Pelosi's remarks on the child tax credit at the Call to Renewal prayer gathering in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 10, 2003: "The Bible tells us that to minister to the needs of God's creation, and that certainly includes our children, is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made them. It is hard to tell where an act of worship ends in the Congress because we all think we are here to do the Lord's work." "As we hearken to what the Gospel of Matthew says about ministering to...

MOSCOW — The intense U.S.-led assault on Fallujah could undermine Iraq's upcoming elections, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday, and the United Nations' refugee agency expressed concern about the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the besieged city. "We are ... concerned that the actions in this region not worsen the conditions in Iraq as a whole in the run-up to the possible elections there," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told a news conference when asked for comment on the Fallujah offensive. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees also expressed concern about Fallujah's civilians, tens of thousands of...

With the re-election of George W. Bush, the focus has returned to the six-party talks, which Bush has insisted are the only way he will negotiate with North Korea. The talks involve both Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, and have the objective of resolving the North Korean nuclear crisis. : "North Korea dealt with the Clinton administration by using its notorious tactic of brinksmanship," said one observer. "Since Bush had great antipathy for that tactic, and sometimes responded to it with extremely strong measures, Pyongyang now appears to refrain from using it." Because of that, experts from...

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PREDICTION: Kerry, knowing he will not win Ohio, will try to use the excuse of a "questionable" count in that state to claim "We'll never really know" about the outcome of the 2004 Presidential election... He'll do this by conceding Ohio purportedly to "spare the nation" a debacle during this time of war. He'll do this NOT for that reason, but to make it look as though he is taking the high road, but even more so that his supporters can try to forever cast doubt on President Bush's second term.

Don’t pay any attention to what you hear or see on the television reports. Vote if you haven’t, regardless of what any leaked exit polls reveal, or the mood of the pundits on television indicate. Get out the vote of your friends, neighbors and relatives. Work as hard as you possibly can whether in a red or a blue state, whether Bush is up or down there, even if he is ahead by 70 points, don’t rest until the polls have closed.

Geraldo just interviewed Col. David Hunt and allowed him to allege that the al-QaQaa explosives are now killing our servicemen!*&! Perhaps this segment was pre-recorded, but then FOXNews needs to make an announcement and not broadcast the word "Live" in the corner.