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A three-inch lizard that thrives in desert conditions could shut down oil and gas operations in portions of Southeast New Mexico and in West Texas, including the state's top two oil producing counties. Read more here: http://www.mywesttexas.com/business/oil/article_e7f32d45-fab8-5025-afa9-26a00d768910.html

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The full article has been removed, but, who does this remind you of. According to an article dated June 30 2005, it states the reason CEO's get fired is because: 31 percent of CEOs get fired for mismanaging change 28 percent get fired for ignoring customers 27 percent get fired for tolerating low performers 23 percent get fired for denying reality 22 percent get fired for too much talk and not enough action

POLL: Should members of Congress be required to undergo random alcohol and drug testing? VOTE HERE!

It is protest day, for the Left and the Right, on Capitol Hill. First out of the gate - 9 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!"

WASHINGTON (AP) - Dozens of lawmakers have drawn scrutiny from their ethics monitor this year for everything from financial dealings to travel and campaign donations, according to a leaked account showing an active House panel secretly at work.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has been found in good health 18 years after her abduction, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office confirmed. Dugard, who turned 29 Thursday, was abducted from the El Dorado County community of Meyers on the morning of June 10, 1991, when she was only 11 years old, KCRA-TV in...

This is a 1961 recording of what Ronald Reagan had to say about socialized medicine. He understood the consequences and tried to warn us. Link to video HERE

A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients. 1932 The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in...

The Austin Texas Tea Party Part 1 was a great success!! It was held this morning at Austin City Hall. We had some great speakers and a great turnout! When Governor Rick Perry showed up to speak the crowd was cheering and chanting SECEDE, SECEDE! Pictures can be seen here --> AUSTIN TEA PARTY

Austinites plan 'tea parties' as part of nationwide protests By Danny Yadron AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, April 15, 2009 A band of outraged Austinites will re-enact the Boston Tea Party today. The group, expected to number in the hundreds, will rally at the state Capitol to protest what some call runaway spending in Washington. They will then march to Lady Bird Lake to recreate the famous 1773 protest. But it will be a far cry from the infamous protest of the American Revolution, organizers admit. Empty boxes labeled with the name of the once heavily taxed beverage will be thrown into...

Gather your friends, family and fellow patriots. Take videos and pictures and upload them for all to see here!

FOX Business Network has filed a lawsuit against the United States Treasury Department over failure to provide information on the bailout funds or respond to FBN’s expedited requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act [FOIA]. The initial request, filed on November 25, sought actual data on the use of the bailout funds for American International Group and the Bank of New York Mellon, and an additional request, filed on December 1, sought similar data on the bailout funds for Citigroup, Inc. FBN is asking for the Treasury Department to identify, among other issues, the troubled assets purchased, any collateral...

I've been a conservative for as long as I have been able to vote. But the last few years (about 20) have really been a disappointment to me as far as the republican party is concerned. We had both houses AND the Presidency and we pissed it all away by trying to appease the other side and trying to be "friends" with them. Well folks it just doesn't work that way. Every time we have an actual CONSERVATIVE on the ticket we win!! How hard is that to understand? Putting REAL conservatives on the ticket will result in a win...

Eighteen House Republicans have urged the Justice Department to proceed with a polygraph test for Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser who agreed to take the test as part of a plea of guilty of stealing documents from the National Archives.

This is the most egregious display of hate I have ever seen. You have to watch the flash intro ---WE HATE GRINGOS! Pitiful, just pitiful.

Google PR head says "No Google PC" Posted Jan 4th 2006 12:20PM by Peter Rojas It was a beautiful few hours there, but David Krane, Google's Director of Corporate Communications, is putting the smackdown on that rumor from the LA Times that they're working on a Google PC. He says that they're happy working with their current PC partners and that they "see no need to enter this market."

As usual the MSM is trying it's best to have us think that Hillary Xlinton will be the next president. Freep the poll at the link below and let's show them they are wrong as usual. Click Here to Freep Poll

FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity Mon Feb 14 2005 10:38:41 ET The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the Internet, ROLL CALL reports Monday. The FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates' campaigns, fit into the definition of 'public communications. Specifically, the FEC is planning to examine the question of how Internet activities, when coordinated with candidates' campaigns, fit into the definition of "public communications." While coordinated communications are considered campaign contributions and therefore subject to strict contribution limits, current...

A New Osama Push The U.S. State Department has begun a media blitz to remind Afghans of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda's chief By TIM MCGIRK Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 With the trail of Osama bin Laden gone cold, the U.S. State Department is revving up a new publicity blitz to remind Afghans and Pakistanis of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda's chief. Bin Laden is still thought to be hiding somewhere along the 1,640-mile, mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but intelligence officials in Kabul and Islamabad say there has been no trace of him for the past 20 months. By...

The new United Nations Draft Card.

A bomb threat has been called into the Bank One building and an adjacent building in downtown Odessa, TX The bomb threat is said to be serious and buildings have been evacuated. Streets are blocked off and bomb sniffing dogs have been called in. The bomb is supposedly set to go off at 2:00 p.m. CDT

All that is listed. GALLUP SHOWS BUSH BLOWOUT: 14 POINT LEAD OVER KERRY

Donate Now! Dear MoveOn member, Next week, 500 talented organizers will hit the ground in battleground states, and our ambitious $5 million Leave No Voter Behind field program will begin in earnest. We're aiming to turn out over 440,000 unlikely voters for John Kerry in the battleground neighborhoods where it matters most. Polling shows that this race is still neck-and-neck, which means that these hundreds of thousands of voters could easily tip the election. (More on the poll numbers below.) So far, tens of thousands of MoveOn members have generously given over $2.6 million to make this program happen. But...

The word processor: cumbersome, but great. If you were an engineer or scientist preparing technical reports and didn't want a secretary to retype your documents every time you needed a revision or update, IBM's great new word processor, the MTST, was a blessing. Introduced in 1968, the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, a desk-size word processor, included two cartridges with half-inch magnetic tape, the left one for reading, the right for recording. Each cartridge could store several typical pages, and one could merge information from one tape to the other. Later versions of the MTST used magnetic cards instead of tape...

Kerry Would Crack Down on Advertising of Drugs, Edwards Says Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would lower the costs of pharmaceutical drugs by cracking down on misleading advertising and directing the government to provide consumers with details of drugs available on the market, said Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards. Pharmaceutical companies have more than doubled their spending on advertising between 1996 and 2001 and many of those advertisements do not disclose all relevant information to consumers while driving up the cost of drugs, the Kerry campaign said. Kerry would direct the Food and Drug Administration...

School lockdown blamed on toy gun MIAMI, April 16 (UPI) -- A lockdown at a Miami middle school Thursday has been blamed on a student with a toy rubber band gun who was spotted walking into the building. The 15-year-old boy was charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds and disruptions of school functions, the Miami Herald reported Friday. Neighbors had called police after they had seen the boy wave the toy around, and stuff it under his coat. "From a distance, it can be confused with a rifle or sawed-off shotgun," said Mayco Villafana, a school district...

Kerry's Troubling Consistencies Cleland Drops a Political Grenade Will "Kerrygate" provide an opportunity for Hillary Clinton to "save the day" at the Democratic convention? R. Emmett Tyrrell , author of the new book Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House, thinks that at the very least the chances of it happening have gone up -- way up. Quoted yesterday, Tyrrell noted that "the likeliness of Mrs. Clinton potentially grabbing the Democratic nomination in Boston in a 'save the Democratic Party' scenario has increased ten fold." As pundits consider the Democratic Party's latest scandal, Tyrrell has released his Madame...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 08, 2004 19:58:52 ET XXXXX FCC POWELL CONSIDERED 'LICENSE REVOCATION' HEARING FOR VIACOMCBS **Exclusive** Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell considered holding a dramatic license revocation hearing against CBS after last week's Super Bowl breast mess, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. A furious Powell vocalized the "license revocation" option to senior staff at the FCC in the hours and days after the event, a top source said from Washington. The chairman has since moved away from exploring the possibilities of pulling CBS's license, but word of any such consideration shows just how serious Powell...

Overview of Prescription Drug Abuse & The Oxycodone Problem in Florida August 2001 Background The abuse of pharmaceuticals has not received as much publicity as the abuse of club drugs and other illegal drugs, but it is a significant and growing problem in the United States. According to the National Drug Control Strategy 2001 Annual Report, there were approximately 2.8 billion prescriptions written in 1999, with approximately 457 million for controlled substances. This is an increase (55 percent) from 1998 in which 254 million prescriptions for controlled substances were written.The National Drug Threat Assessment 2001 reported that law enforcement agencies...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa, NBC News has learned.

<p>When students in Biloxi, Miss., show up this morning for the first day of the new school year, a virtual army of digital cameras will be recording every minute of every lesson in every classroom.</p> <p>Hundreds of Internet-wired video cameras will keep rolling all year long, in the hope that they'll deter crime and general misbehavior among the district's 6,300 students -- and teachers.</p>

According to ABC radio news, Helen Giddings was arrested at her Austin Texas apartment today. She was one of several Texas democrats that fled to Ardmore Oklahoma. Developing...

West Texas doctor flees after posting $2.5 Million dollar bail. Dr. Dipakkumar "Dipak" Patel's medical fraud trial began Monday without him, after the physician apparently skipped town, leaving behind a $2.5-million cash bond, his wife, plus an office manager to face a judge and jury as the sole defendant. Patel, 46, is accused by the government of operating a "patient mill" by seeing 50 to more than 100 patients a day for a few minutes each and allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. The physician and office manager Loretta Tarango, 53, are charged with conspiracy to...

Court: IRS Owes Millions for Fraud Washington (Jan. 22, 2003) – A federal appeals court has ruled that attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service committed "fraud on the court" after giving secret deals to two pilots in return for their testimony against 1,300 other pilots who bought into the same tax shelters. The federal appeals court on Friday overturned a previous Tax Court ruling against the pilots, who were found guilty of tax evasion and ordered to pay a collective sum totaling more than $2 billion in penalties. The appeals court ruling requires the IRS to pay tens of millions...

The following link shows the details. Link to Presidential Directive involving terrorism.This is some pretty good stuff. I really like this part in the directive that states... -- The Secretary of State and the Attorney General, in addition to the latter's overall responsibilities as the chief law enforcement official, shall use all legal means available to exclude from the United States persons who pose a terrorist threat and deport or otherwise remove from the United States any such aliens; Signed, sealed and deliverd by the IMPEACHED president, william, j, clinton. (lower case intended)

It looks like Matt Drudge has sunk to an all time low. He is now accepting advertising from the I.R.S. The I.R.S. !!! Talk about fraternizing with the enemy. This is as low as it gets. The ad is talking about careers at the I.R.S. at their Austin, TX indoctrination camp. I can't seem to make the ad display for some reason here but if you go to his site you might be able to see the whole message. Isn't it cute? Stinking traitors !!!

After 9/11 it seems that everybody traveling these days aboard an airplane is a little more cautious when they decide to go out of the country. I had the pleasure of one such trip this week to Cancun, Mexico. Cancun is a favorite for tourists coming from the U.S., in fact there may be more Americans there at any given time than local residents. Flights can be gotten rather cheaply almost anytime from tour companies. But what about the safety of those Americans (or anybody else for that matter) traveling aboard these airlines to and from Mexico? I have taken...

Just heard on KLBJ 590 a.m. in Austin that an undisclosed location is being investigated for an Anthrax case. Anybody else hear this or have any more information?

A commercial passenger plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings in Manhattan, N.Y.

Nothing to follow as of yet.

A caller into C-SPAN this morning hit Connie with a question that a lot of people are wondering. Since the lamestream media will hardly utter a word about his party affiliation it's a wonder anybody knows. The caller simply asked Connie the question: "Is Gary Condit a Democrat or a Republican?" Connie shuffled for a moment and said "Well he's a Republican right?" The caller came back in an almost rage and said: "No he's a DEMOCRAT !!" For a moment she is startled but in the background you can hear the caller mumble something about "nailing her ass"

Now that the LIAR Condit has said he DID indeed have a sexual relationship with Chandra Levy, and others have come out publicly, how long will it be before Mrs/Ms/Mx Condit files for divorce?

Now that the majority has tilted in favor of the SOCIALISTS maybe it is high time to REVOLT against these treasonous bastards !! Don't count on a tax cut cuz it just aint gonna happen. That is why we saw the stalling last night in the senate. The socialists knew something was up and they did everything they could to stop a vote. The voters that voted for Jeffords should be storming his office and demanding a resignation. But don't count on it cuz it just aint gonna happen. The sheeple have been hood winked for so long they think ...

This may not matter to some of you but it does to me. I just visited the IRS's web site and noticed that my ZoneAlarm firewall started picking up several ping and other ICMP requests from them. To be sure I wasn't picking it up from somewhere else I cleared the alerts, cleared my cache, re-booted, and went back to the site. Sure enough as soon as I hit the web site they started again. Even after I had completely left the site and shut down my browser they were STILL trying to ping me. I got over 60 pings ...

Vermont Sheep May Have Mad Cow By Wilson Ring Associated Press Writer Wednesday, March 21, 2001; 8:41 a.m. EST GREENSBORO, Vt. –– Federal agents went to a farm early Wednesday to seize sheep feared infected with a version of the mad cow disease. Houghton Freeman's flock of 233 sheep is one of two that has been at the center of a storm of protests since the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered that they be seized and destroyed. The department says the sheep, imported from Belgium, could be carrying a disease akin to mad cow disease. Ed Curlett of the USDA, ...

THE POWER TO DESTROY 'Walkaround' protest planned for IRS Tax-reform group says action aimed at educating Americans. By Jon Dougherty © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A group that says the 16th Amendment -- which ushered in the federal income tax -- was never properly ratified is planning a "walkaround" protest at the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C., to draw attention to the issue and to "educate Americans" about the origins of the 16th Amendment. The group, called We The People, is hoping for at least 1,040 participants. Organization officials say 1,400 people are needed to fully encircle the IRS building ...