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Austin officials are just plain wrong IMHO. Who are they protecting, illegals or their citizens? You got it - AUSTIN is protecting the ILLEGALS and letting taxpaying law-abiding citizens die at their hands. They should be very very ashamed.
Officials ALWAYS seem to be denying who criminals and law-violators are. Discarding potentially dangerous to human life materials should be more than a civil violation IMHO. If our shippers did that anywhere in this country, there would be all hell to pay, everyone would know who did it and GWB would be blamed. Once again we protect illegal importation.
Okay, let me see if I've got this straight:
We can't eat beef because of mad cow.
We can't eat poultry because of the bird flu.
Not s'posed to eat fish because of high levels of mercury....
If I'm not mistaken that just leaves.....(are you ready?)
CHOCOLATE!
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5430823/detail.html
"Low-Level Strain of Bird Flu Found in Sun Valley
Officials Say Disease Cannot Be Transmitted To Humans"
POSTED: 6:31 pm PST November 29, 2005
UPDATED: 6:47 pm PST November 29, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LOS ANGELES -- Several Japanese quails suffering from a low pathogenic strain of bird flu were discovered in a Sun Valley quail farm, the Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement announced Tuesday.
The state Department of Food and Agriculture confirmed three cases of bird flu were found at the L.A. Quail Farm, but said the low pathogenic strains are not uncommon.
"Pathogenic bird flu is something that happens every year in California," said Steve Lyle, director of public affairs for the department. "The fact that these birds were found with low path AI (avian influenza) is not terribly unusual. This occurs regularly each year in our state."
According to its Web site, the Bureau of Humane Law Enforcement is a non-governmental, nonprofit California Public Benefit Corporation devoted to defending all animals to the full extent of the law."
I heard about that too ExSoldier. Lets hope that if it does make the jump to H2H that it will morph to be a less infectious or dangerous strain.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_333212149.html
ON THE NET...
http://idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/NEWS01/512030311
http://www.klewtv.com/x69116.xml
"Cases of whooping cough triple in Idaho"
The Idaho Statesman | Edition Date: 12-03-2005
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ON THE NET...
December 2, 2005
"Visiting Professor Warns of Hanta Virus Deadly Effects"
By Nate Kuester
"The White Bellied Deer Mouse can be more deadly than it looks."
It has to be out and out insanity.
Agreed and it's not too hard for them to remain hidden thanks to that American sense of you mind your own business and I'll mind my own.... that nobody gets curious....and nobody seems to mind.
ON THE NET...
http://www.minutemanhq.com
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533499/posts
"Yorkville Legion denies Minutemen"
Aurora Beacon-News ^ | 12/3/05 | Andre Salles
Posted on 12/03/2005 2:17:59 PM PST by chicagolady
"Post commander says rejecting group wasn't difficult"
By Andre Salles Staff Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "YORKVILLE A group dedicated to enforcing immigration laws will not meet in Yorkville next week.
The Illinois chapter of the Minutemen, an organization founded in 2004 to help curtail illegal immigration into the United States, planned to hold its third Fox Valley area organizational meeting Wednesday at the Yorkville American Legion.
According to members of the group, the goal of the meetings has been to determine local interest in immigration issues, and to craft an agenda for a Fox Valley Minutemen organization.
But following the controversies that have surrounded previous meetings of the group, Yorkville Legion Post Commander Gary Bullock has decided to deny them the use of his hall.
Bullock, in a written statement, noted that the decision to deny the request was "not a difficult one to make."
"Post 489's concern is goodwill and mutual helpfulness to our community," he wrote. document.write("") "I cannot see one positive benefit for the community or our post by having the Minutemen come to the Yorkville Legion Post."
This decision comes mere days after the Oswego American Legion refused a similar request from the group. Officials from the Oswego Legion would not confirm the reasons for canceling the meeting.
"I am disappointed (that the meeting was cancelled)," said Rosanna Pulido, co-founder of the Illinois Minutemen. "But I am more disappointed in the American Legion."
Pulido noted that the first resolution to come out of the 2005 American Legion National Convention in August was a call for action on the illegal immigration issue."
I did hear about the birds in Idaho.
Also heard, via the proverbial grapevine, that "they" are finding some dead migratory geese in North Dakota with Avian flu...(friend of my son's who is with the Game and Fish Dept.) Which is why I quit feeding the stupid turkeys. Just chased a bunch of them off my back deck. Poor things are hungry. And yes, they can fly. My deck is 14 feet above ground.
I'm not surprised at the rapid spread in Asia. When I was there, there were live and dead birds hanging in all the open air markets, which are everywhere. Our FDA would go nuts in China............come to think of it, they would go nuts in ANY other country. We really do have quite high standards here.
WARNING***GRAPHIC***DISTURBING***CRIME SCENE PHOTOS***
Remembering Tookie's victims:
http://www.johnandkenshow.com/archives/2005/12/01/tookie-williams-victim-photos/
Obscure al-Qaida Chemist Worries Experts
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - He's a mystery in a red beard, with a strange alias and a degree in chemical engineering. In the hands of this alleged al-Qaida operative, it's a specialty that summons visions of poison gas and mass terror.
Al-Qaida is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan.
Van Duyn's FBI and other U.S. agencies are interested enough in Mursi to have posted a $5 million reward this year for his capture. Egypt's government reportedly is interested enough to have seized and locked up his two sons in an effort to track down the father.
The U.S. reward poster says the alleged bombmaker, also known as Abu Khabab, literally "Father of the Trotting Horse," may be in Pakistan. But "we don't think there's really a good fix on where he is," Van Duyn said in a Washington interview.
Link for remainder of article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_s_chemist
"We have about 60 to 100 wild turkeys that wander through our property a couple times a day..."
How far do they migrate? We've got Canadian geese and sea gulls today.
Security forces believe that there are two Islamic cells in Spain
Fri, 02 Dec 2005, 08:31
The State Security Forces are on maximum alert. According to todays El Mundo newspaper, the recent detention of men who are alleged to be linked to Al Qaeda and who were trying to exchange drugs for Goma 2 explosives, could have been related to what the Spanish Secret Service, the CNI, believe are two sleeping Islamist cells based in Logroño and Vitoria.
The security services think the groups could be merely waiting for instructions. The security services have called for a planned Islamic Centre not to be built in La Rioja.
© typicallyspanish.com
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_1149.shtml
I wonder if our government will call for Islamic Centers not to be built?
Iraq describes border with Syria as 'source of evil'
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Thursday, December 01, 2005
The Iraqi defense minister described his country's border with Syria as a "source of evil," as U.S. President George W. Bush refused Wednesday to set a pullout timetable for Iraq and said his goal was "complete victory." On another front, police in Belgium and France arrested 15 people Wednesday in a roundup of suspected Islamist militants believed to be linked to a Belgian woman who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq this month.
Bush sought to explain his Iraq strategy in the face of mounting public criticism over his handling of the war and calls for a troop pullout. He rejected setting a withdrawal timetable and said the U.S. wants Iraqis to take the lead in fighting insurgents, then assume responsibility without major foreign assistance.
"As Iraqi security forces stand up, coalition forces can stand down, and when our mission of defeating the terrorists in Iraq is complete, our troops will return home to a proud nation," Bush said in a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Shortly ahead of Bush's speech, Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi warned Syria that his government's patience was running out.
"My brothers, this is historic, national and legitimate mission. You are protecting this gate at the western border that used to be a source of evil to Iraq and a source for the entrance of vampires into Iraq," he said during a visit to the western border town of Husaybah.
Dulaimi said: "We tell our neighbors, take care of your own affairs and don't interfere in Iraq's affairs ... Iraqis are heading for the future and they will not be stopped by a car bomb or a filthy body rigged with explosives," he said.
"You should not be a gate of evil to us. I hope you will be a good gate. I also tell them don't let our patience run out," said Dulaimi. He added that "this evil alliance between Muslim extremists and Baathists in Iraqi will not succeed."
On the ground in Iraq, a group of 10 masked men opened fire on a minibus near Baqouba, north of Baghdad, killing nine Iraqis and wounding two, police said. It was the latest in a series of brazen gun attacks on travelers in the area.
Go here to read the remainder of the story from the Lebanon based The Daily Star:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=20438
Thanks for posting that memory jogger Founding Father.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Al_Qaidas_Chemist.html
Saturday, December 3, 2005 · Last updated 2:25 p.m. PT
"Obscure al-Qaida chemist worries experts"
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
AP SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- He's a mystery in a red beard, with a strange alias and a degree in chemical engineering. In the hands of this alleged al-Qaida operative, it's a specialty that summons visions of poison gas and mass terror.
Al-Qaida is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan."
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ON THE NET...
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Midhat_Mursi
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Abu+Khabab%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Midhat+Mursi%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
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