Posted on 10/11/2004 5:04:17 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Dang - 34.
I guess that I'd best pack more than OP's and tee's for our trip north 29 - 31 October.
This will be the latest we've been in Iowa.
TGIF, everyone.
Joke from the Texas thread:
A LITTLE BOY SETS DAN RATHER STRAIGHT-
.....Dan Rather of CBS news was seated next to little Tommy on the plane when Rather turned to the boy and said, "Let's talk, I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passengers.
Little Tommy, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly, and said to Rather, "What would you like to discuss?"
"Oh, I don't know" said Rather, "How about? Should we keep Bush as president or elect Kerry?"
"OK" said Little Tommy, "That could be an interesting topic but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat grass. The same stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out flat patties, and a horse excretes clumps of dried grass. Why do you think that is?"
"Jeez" said Rather, "I have no idea."
"Well then," said Little Tommy, "How is it you feel qualified to discuss who should run this country when you don't know sh_t?"....
15 October 2004
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Eleven Christians who were demonstrating at a public homosexual-rights event in Philadelphia have been arrested and charged – they say unjustly.
According to a statement from Life and Liberty Ministries, on Sunday the Christian protesters were "preaching God's Word" to the crowd of people attending the outdoor Philadelphia OutFest event and displaying banners with biblical messages.
Not long after the group began their activity, members of the Pink Angels, which the statement describes as "a militant mob of homosexuals," confronted the protesters and attempted to drown out their message with whistles, while hiding the signs with large sheets of pink Styrofoam.
"Even though the Christians obeyed all laws, city ordinances and lawful requests by the Philadelphia police officers on hand," said Life and Liberty Ministries, "they were promptly and without warning arrested and hauled off to jail, where they spent 21 hours before being released on Monday morning."
Eight charges were filed against the protesters, including three felonies and five misdemeanors. The charges were: criminal conspiracy, possession of instruments of crime, reckless endangerment of another person, ethnic intimidation, riot, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct, and obstructing highways.
The “ethnic intimidation” charge, explains Robert Knight, writing for Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, was made possible by Pennsylvania’s Ethnic Intimidation and Institutional Vandalism Act – that state's “hate crimes" law – to which the newest "victim" category of "sexual orientation" was recently added.
Although some of the charges reportedly have been dropped since the 11 defendants were released, the Culture and Family Institute report quotes Philadelphia Police spokeswoman Officer Maria Ibrahim as saying the remaining charges are "criminal conspiracy," "failure to disperse," "disorderly conduct" and "obstructing a highway."
Responding to the riot charge, the group's statement said: "Despite the fact that our behavior was above reproach and we were attacked by a mob of whistle-blowing, obscenity-screaming God haters, the Christians, and only the Christians, were charged."
Said Dennis Green, director of Life and Liberty Ministries: "The Scriptures are filled with accounts of faithful followers of the Messiah who proclaimed the Gospel despite severe persecution. We are called upon and commanded to do no less. To shrink back would not be biblical Christianity."
The organization Repent America sponsored the protest.
"This is one of the most remarkable and unlawful actions by police that I have ever witnessed," said Michael Marcavage, director of Repent America. "Their blatant disregard of the law by allowing hecklers to impede our way, block our message and then arrest us, is inexcusable, especially by police officers who are specially trained to protect civil rights.
"Christians are now being labeled as 'haters' and any speech that homosexuals perceive to be intimidating, such as our Christian witness at OutFest, makes them a prime target for 'hate crimes legislation.'"
Continued Marcavage: "We are clearly 'not guilty' of these crimes, and with the help of our video footage, we shall be vindicated of these trumped-up charges."
The CFI account quotes Brian Fahling of the American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy, a public interest law firm which is representing the Christian defendants.
"We’re going to do whatever it takes to ensure that the Philadelphia Police Department and the city are held accountable for this," Fahling told CFI. "As far as we can tell, this was utterly uncalled for and has no legal justification."
The group is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 18 at the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center.
And get a load of this:
Kerry: Potential great for return of draft [Des Moines Register]
I've concluded the Bush campaign needs to start running 10-second ads----
Picture of robed Supreme Court justices.
Narrator, "Justice Hillary Rodham Clinton".
"I'm George W. Bush and I approved this message".
Speaking of the inquisition:
15 Oct 2004 | Charlotte Iserbyt
By Charlotte Iserbyt
October 14, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
Does an article in The New York Times 10/11/04 entitled "Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Drivers' Licenses", by Matthew L. Wald , have anything to do with the Bush Administration's hiring of ex-KGB Chiefs Primakov (also former President of Russia and close associate of Saddam Hussein) and Karpov to work in the Office of Information Awareness (DARPA) to help in designing an internal passport, about which I have written several times? Please either go to my three articles posted at www.newswithviews.com or click on "Articles" on my website www.deliberatedumbingdown.com for complete documentation regarding the shocking possiblity (probability)!!!!!! that the Bush Administration did indeed hire these two ex-KGB agents to design an internal passport for Americans.
I now understand why my Senator Olympia Snowe (Maine) refused over a period of 17 months to respond to numerous constituent inquiries (which included visits to her Portland office) whether the article in American Free Press entitled "Get Ready for the Sovietization of America" by Al Martin was in fact true.
A few pertinent quotes follow from the original article by Al Martin "Get Ready for the Sovietization of America" which appeared in the 4/21/03 edition of The American Free Press:
"You will be happy to learn that the former head of the KGB (the secret police of the former Soviet Union), Gen. Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the Department of Homeland Security. Do you think he will share his expertise in 'security' to prepare U.S. citizens for domestic internal passports under the pretense of fighting the never-ending'war on terrorism'?
"Primakov, a consultant to the Dept. of Homeland Security, was laughing about it because he's getting paid a big fee to do it.
Could Mrs. Edwards possibly be pregnant?
Obviously Ms. Edwards has been taking advantage of Mama T's arthritis remedy.
I would give a fist full of hundreds to see a "debate" between Lynn Cheney and Ms. Edwards.
Darn, you beat me! The dog just HAD to go out!
Just dang - gin-soaked raisins.
I had no idea.
Is the benefit in the gin, or the raisins?
Bill O'Reilly's got problems, in more way than one.
Is this like the 'toon doing it "because I could?"
No, Liz is dressed like the Kool-Aid man in a cynical ploy to attract small children to the Kedwards campaign, once in the Kedwards clutches Mama T bakes them in her special oven for later use as an anti-aging remedy.
Apparently, there is no line he won't cross for political gain.
Congrats on your letter to WP, unfortunately they left off those two sentences above.
But Mr. Marx is allowed to get his jab in at President Bush:
Mr. Kerry understands these issues, and the president showed Wednesday that he clearly does not.
The thought of O'Reilly talking suggestively makes my skin crawl.
lol - I see what you mean.
Kinda like with sKerry - scary stuff.
Men! keep the sex, phone or otherwise, with your wives - trust me, things will go much better for you.
Indeed. Indeed.
What's with these dufuses anyway? Ego, no doubt. They do it because they can.
While there are real RED HERRINGS in this story, if he had held his behavior above reproach, the story wouldn't have been there.
It will be sort of interesting to watch it play out. Will Greta use the trial non stop like she's done with Kobe and Scott Peterson? I sort of doubt it.
That story exemplifies some of the many reasons I'd never move back to my home state of Pennsylvania.
Look at Elizabeth's hand - I think it proves she really is the Sta-Puf Marshmallow man, and the purple tunic is just to throw us off the trail.
Charlotte Iserbyt was Reagan's Sec. of Education; here's the rest of her article:
"Primakov speaks beautiful English, as you would expect a former head of the KGB to do. When he was asked what is this CAPPS II program really about...Primakov said that this is one of the steps now being employed along with the National Identify Card Act (NICA) and new identity upgrade features which are coming to your driver's license.
"It is being used to get the people used to new types of documentation and carrying new types of identity cards pursuant to the United States instituting a formal policy of internal passports. And he actually used the words 'internal passports.'
(The New York Times 10/11/04 article quotes James C. Plumer, a policy analyst at Consumer Alert as using those very same words to describe the driver's' licenses : "You're looking at a system of internal passports, basically.")
"When the National Identity Card Act gets passed, the Posse Comitatus Act gets overturned, a few other pieces of legislation yet to be proffered get passed, the White House will have more control over the American people than the Kremlin had over the Russian people when Stalin was alive. He said that and then he laughed.
"What Primakov finds funny are what he calls these 'right wing flag wavers' who were so anti-communist and they're supporting a state policy of internal passports. The irony is deafening.
"Primakov continued by saying that he had been hired as a consultant and he was consulting on other 'security' matters, an ongoing policy in various agencies of government--some of these offices haven't even been created yet -- to consistently narrow the rights of the American people and to expand the power of government. He professed not to know what the reason for all this was, other than he admitted that 'it doesn't have much to do with fighting terrorism.'"
I can't find words to express my shock, disdain, disgust, anger, disillusionment, sadness over Senator Snowe's refusal to respond to her constituents concerns, and to deal with this issue before a national I.D. card (driver's license controlled by the federal government) becomes a fait accompli. Although Senator Snowe received the most inquiries from constituents, Maine's Senator Collins and Rep. Tom Allen, were also contacted and have not responded. It is quite obvious that all three, being fully aware of what was taking place, refused to respond since doing so would have exposed the plans of the federal government to establish one of the major foundations of a totalitarian state: control over citizens' right to travel freely.
A friend of mine always says "Americans won't do anything until they own the problem." Won't it be too late to do anything if they wait until the authorities require them to show their internal passport in order to travel freely in this country? They will then "own the problem", just as citizens did in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia, Cuba, China, or North Korea; but how will they be able to do anything about the problem considering they were too busy in October of 2004 to pay attention to the information in Al Martin's article, my articles, or The New York Times Article which specifically warned them that "The House and Senate are moving toward setting rules for the states that would standardize the documentation required to obtain a driver's license, and the data the license would have to contain."
Paying attention means contacting your Congressmen and Senators immediately and telling them you want no part of this totalitarian scheme to rob you of one of your basic freedoms, to travel when, where, how, and with whom you wish.
LIBERAL laugh-riot Al Franken is super unpopular with staffers at the Sundance Channel, which televises his Air America radio show.
"Everyone at Sundance hates him," an insider tells PAGE SIX. "For one thing, they're [bleeped] off that so much airtime is being devoted to Franken instead of independent film. He's got nothing to do with their programming." In addition, "He's such a busybody. He obsesses over every single promo and laughs uproariously at his own bad jokes. He thinks he's hilarious. And he's so bossy during the editing process."
A rep for Sundance had "no comment."
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