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Dear PA, OH and WV Eagles,Right now, I have 40 seats on the bus firmly sold. That leaves me with 16 empty seats at this moment. I priced the bus fare of $45.00 to be as inexpensive as possible (breakfast included), so as many people as possible could afford to go.My challenge: With 16 unsold seats, I am going to be $720.00 short to pay Anderson Coach and Travel in full (Total $2404.00 for the 56 passenger bus). My final payment (being made by V V A 862) will be due in a few days.I need help to raise the...

Polish MEPs want Palestinian EU conference cancelled Wednesday, August 29. 2007 A cross party consensus of MEPs from Poland have come out against a conference on the rights of Palestinians to be held in the European Parliament. The conference, scheduled for 30 and 31 August, is being organised by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian Nation. Israel has been making attempts to block the conference as it believes it will have an anti-Israeli character. The conference agenda includes a workshop on ‘the strengthening of the campaign against occupation, including a campaign against the...

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A C-130 aircraft carrying an Alabama senator and congressman was fired on this evening as it was flying from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan. The airplane was carrying Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., and Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, and two other senators. Three rockets were shot at the plane and were "near misses," Shelby said in a telephone interview. He said the pilot took evasive maneuvers to avoid the rockets. The plane landed safely in Amman at about 4 p.m. central. "I was looking out the window, a little small window, and I saw a shell or something," Shelby said. "And then...

FBI Has 'Pretty Good Leads' in Threats Published: 8/31/07, 4:47 PM EDT By JOE MILICIACLEVELAND (AP) - The FBI is looking overseas for suspects who have phoned bomb threats to more than 24 grocery stores, banks and discount stores in 15 states, including at least six new cases Friday in Ohio. The callers have threatened to set off a bomb unless store employees wire money to an account abroad. At a Dillons grocery store in Hutchinson, Kan., the caller ordered customers and workers to take off their clothes and threatened to force them to cut off a manager's fingers. Store...

"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state," wrote Shakespeare. Sen. Larry Craig knows today whereof the bard spoke. Rarely has a United States senator fallen so fast from grace or been so completely abandoned. As the nation now knows, Craig was arrested in June in an airport men's room in Minneapolis, charged with propositioning an undercover cop, who was on duty there because the place had become notorious.| According to the officer, Craig, in the next stall, flashed known signals of a man seeking anonymous and immediate sex. Rather than fight the...

I'm starting to consider the possibility. Whenever I talk about the border I always get someone who claims that there is a conspiracy. Not that someone is allowing our country to be conquered, but that high ranking Border Patrol and government officials are on the take. In other words ... the reason they don't stop illegals and the drugs coming across the border is that they are being paid off. Most likely by the drug cartels who not only smuggle drugs across the border, but people too. To prove my point ... I will link four major stories dealing with...

Des Moines, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa county judge's ruling knocking down the state's same-sex marriage ban stirred up the presidential race Friday as Republicans jostled to stake out a position with the state's conservative voters in mind. Mitt Romney was the first to seize on the ruling, promptly aligning himself with Iowa political leaders in denouncing the decision. The former Massachusetts governor's swift criticism served to bolster the conservative image his campaign has been working hard to promote to Iowa's Republican voters. ... Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was the only Democrat to offer a reaction. Taping an appearance on...

(AP) NEW YORK -- Passengers on a plane leaving New York could see three words in 4-foot block letters painted on an East Village rooftop terrace as they ascended: GOOGLE RON PAUL. The entreaty to search the Internet for news of the Republican congressman from rural Texas is one of the more visible signs of enthusiasm from a do-it-yourself base of Web fans. Their support doesn't show up in public opinion polls, but it's unmatched among presidential candidates in its passion. On their own, the fans have developed a Ron Paul Revolution logo, marketing the idea through YouTube. Message boards...

Matthew 5: 43-48 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- TV viewers have seen a lot of Fred Thompson lately, as the star of "Law and Order" or as an undeclared presidential candidate. But the mystery of if he'll run unraveled late Thursday afternoon when his political director officially announce his campaign for president on September 6. Those who know Thompson well say he ups the ante in what is already a high stakes presidential poker match. "It would be great for Tennessee to get him in the White House," said Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-2nd District). Rep. Duncan helped push the Fred Thompson for President movement several...

Those guffaws floating over Colorado on Sunday morning didn’t come from the comic strips in the newspaper but from the Sports section. With stunning velocity, Denver Bronco Travis Henry is racking up statistics not usually charted in professional sports; he has scored nine illegitimate kids with nine different women. Henry is outdistanced, however, by former NBA Houston Rocket Calvin Murphy who had 14 out-of-wedlock children by nine women. Of course both are lapped by super-stud and premier athlete Seattle Slew, the Triple Crown winner who begat 1,066. But in contrast, Slew’s progeny were planned and a source of pride celebrated...

The ONE campaign commissioned a poll in Iowa between Aug. 20-21 of 500 likely caucus-goers. It was done by McLaughlin & Associates, a GOP firm that is supportive of Fred Thompson but very respected in the business. Romney continues to enjoy a strong lead and Huckabee appears to have gotten at least a small post-Ames bounce. Mitt Romney: 35 Rudy Giuliani: 12 Fred Thompson: 11 Mike Huckabee: 11 Tom Tancredo: 9 John McCain: 7 Undecided: 10

NEW YORK, (AP) -- While Fred Thompson's "Law & Order" character disappears from NBC starting Saturday because of concerns over federal equal time provisions, cable viewers will still have plenty of opportunities to see his District Attorney Arthur Branch. TNT will air 23 episodes of the drama next week alone, apparently unworried about limiting Branch's airplay even as the Tennessee Republican plans to announce his presidential candidacy. "TNT has no plans to alter its schedule," spokeswoman Shirley Powell said, a stance that could provoke a fight in the courts or before the Federal Communications Commission. Equal time rules require TV...

000 WTNT31 KNHC 312046 TCPAT1 BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION SIX ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL062007 500 PM AST FRI AUG 31 2007 ...YET ANOTHER TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS EAST OF THE WINDWARD ISLANDS... AT 5 PM AST...2100 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF BARBADOS HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE ISLANDS OF ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AT 5 PM AST...THE GOVERNMENT OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR TOBAGO AND THE METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Germany-based AV-Test has announced a recent independent analysis of BitDefender's antivirus engine found almost 100 percent of malware was detected. California-based BitDefender is a global antivirus software and data security solutions provider. In the test by AV-Test, a business-information workgroup at the Institute of Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, BitDefender's patent-pending B-HAVE antivirus engine detected 99.51 percent of the malware. “We are very pleased with the results of this test and will strive to continue leading the pack among top antivirus vendors,” said Bogdan Dumitru, BitDefender’s...

Thursday Marked By Donor Controversy & Laughs With Letterman (CBS) NEW YORK -- One day in the life of Hillary Clinton shows two very different sides of the New York senator and presidential candidate. First, she was talking about a campaign donor controversy that has dogged her in recent days. A few hours later, she was looking for a few laughs. On Thursday, Clinton finally broke her silence, about a campaign donor who is a fugitive from California. "We were all surprised by this news, and we have a procedure that we follow, and upon verifying it, we returned the...

SYDNEY, Australia -- America's troop buildup in Iraq has sharply reduced sectarian killings and roadside bombings and lowered al-Qaida's influence, the top U.S. general in the country said in an interview published Friday. "We say we have achieved progress, and we are obviously going to do everything we can to build on that progress and we believe al-Qaida is off balance at the very least," The Australian newspaper quoted Gen. David Petraeus as saying. Petraeus said there had been a 75 percent drop in ethnic and religious killings since last year, a doubling in the number of seizures of insurgent...

Those guffaws floating over Colorado last Sunday morning didn’t come from the comic strips in newspaper but from the Sports section. With stunning velocity, Denver Bronco Travis Henry is racking up statistics not usually charted in professional sports; he has scored nine illegitimate kids with nine different women. Henry is outdistanced, however, by former NBA Houston Rocket Calvin Murphy who had 14 out-of-wedlock children by nine women. Of course both are lapped by super-stud and premier athlete Seattle Slew, the Triple Crown winner who begat 1,066. But in contrast, Slew’s progeny were planned and a source of pride celebrated by...