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Woman Charged With 'Line Rage' Beating at Disney World Friday, March 21, 2008 A woman’s trip to the Magic Kingdom was hardly a walk in the park after she says she was beaten up by a woman in a ‘line rage’ incident. Aimee Krause says Victoria Walker accused her of cutting into the line at the Mad Tea Cup ride last year at Disney World, MyFOXOrlando reports. Walker, an Alabama native, could face 15 years behind bars if convicted of battery with a deadly weapon. Krause has now filed additional charges claiming her children were also attacked. “She came from...

I need to be able to save a web page to a powerpoint slide. Screen capture isn't enough. I need to be able to scroll down and show a client the entire page, only I won't have access to the net. Is that possible? thanx.

Democrat Turmoil Reflects Liberal Dysfunction by Chris AdamoMarch 21, 2008   Rush Limbaugh has been having a great time lately, fanning the flames of discord and confusion among the Democrats. But the ability to destabilize their party is hardly a dangerous manifestation of omnipotence on the part of the talk radio giant. Such turmoil could not be foisted on the Democrat Party from without, were it not already morally and philosophically rotting from within. Consider all of the different fronts on which the Democrat Party lately finds itself in a total shambles. Along with the day to day revelations of...

Well, the February numbers are out for the Presidential sweepstakes. And the numbers for McCain are downright depressing compared to either of his potential Democrat rivals. (Source) February 2008 McCain: $11 million Clinton: $34.5 million Obama: $55.4 million And here are the totals through the end of February: Total McCain: $66.4 million Clinton: $155.6 million Obama: $197.3 million And finally: Cash-on-hand minus Campaign Debt McCain: $3.7 million Clinton: $24.5 million Obama: $38.2 million So both Democrats continue to easily outpace McCain in fundraising and cash-on-hand even though McCain is now free to focus on raising money while the Democrats are...

There is much talk today about the “culture of death” and certainly there are powerful forces emanating from competing worldviews that predictably foster such conditions. These worldviews have driven us as a culture to legitimize abortion, consider euthanasia, and proceed to cross a whole host of bio-ethical issues as technology advances. However, these worldviews, in which the value of life and human dignity are diminished, inevitably encounter a most formidable obstacle: natural revelation. The doctrine of natural revelation was probably best articulated by the 13th century theologian and philosopher, Thomas Aquinas in his monumental work, Summa Theologica. Aquinas argued that...

Iran and al Qaeda: Setting the Record StraightChristopher W. Holton In recent weeks, two news reports have circulated referencing Iran’s relationship with al Qaeda. On Tuesday, March 18th, Senator John McCain repeatedly stated that Iran was aiding al Qaeda in Iraq. Later, however, he retracted this statement and said that Iran was not aiding al Qaeda in Iraq. Senator McCain was right the first time and he should not have retracted his statement. In fact, al Qaeda and Iran have a rather long history of cooperation. A few days before Senator McCain’s unfortunate retraction, a senior military adviser to the Barack Obama campaign, retired...

HAWAII’S DEFENSE FACES SEVERE TEST 150 Warships and 500 Planes Joining in Vast Manoeuvres in Mid-Pacific SECRECY IS INCREASING No Details of Movements of Army and Navy Are Given Out for Publication By VERN HINKLEY By Air Mail to THE NEW YORK TIMES HONOLULU, March 16. – The navy’s Problem 19, second big-scale war game in the mid-Pacific sector within a year, is now under way beginning with the departure of the fleet from San Pedro last Tuesday. An armada of 150 fighting ships plus 500 modern aircraft, manned by 3,600 officers and 55,000 men, has begun manoeuvring along...

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room. The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on...

Published: March 21, 2008 When Everyone Is Wrong: Politics and the War on TerrorSteven EmersonSen. John McCain is taking heat for comments made in Jordan Tuesday that Iran was supplying and training Al Qaeda."Dems seize on McCain's Iran gaffe," reports CNN's Political Ticker. CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney reported, "Iran is predominately a Shiite country and is not aiding the Sunni dominated Al-Qaeda." Michael Cooper, of the New York Times, went into more detail, reporting that McCain said, "Well, it's common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training...

A response to Governor Schwarzenegger's state parks proposals is first, then the Associated Press story that inspired it follows. I hope Mr. Schwarzenegger will reconsider. ************** THE TERMINATOR NEEDS TO CUT ELSEWHERE! The news of Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent proposals in California to build a toll road through a state park and to close 48 state parks due to "budgetary" considerations is very disappointing despite the fact that I live in Illinois! His firing of his brother-in-law Bobby Shriver and Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood from the State Parks Commission will garner the story national attention, which it deserves. California is not...

Published: March 21, 2008 Jihad, Islamism, and Non-Interventionism Part Three of Three  Jeffrey Imm3.5. The Non-Interventionist Abandonment of the World to IslamismBut these Islamist terms of surrender from Osama Bin Laden urged on Americans by Non-Interventionists are not enough. It is hardly just Israel that the Non-Interventionists seek America to abandon - it is quite literally the entire world. Mr. Scheuer claims that nothing short of America surrendering its position in addressing Islamism and Islamist terrorism throughout the world will suffice. Clearly his argument of appeasement seeks to proactively negotiate even greater terms of American surrender to Osama Bin Laden...

Illinois education officials Thursday agreed to tweak the state achievement test that next year's immigrant high school juniors will face, but local officials said the changes amounted to "putting lipstick on a pig.'' The state School Board's actions came just weeks before public school juniors who are still learning English are, for the first time, being required to take the two-day Prairie State Achievement Exam, a decision that's caused an uproar in many high schools. The first day of the exam is devoted to administering the ACT, a test used by colleges to decide admissions. It contains questions on everything...

“[R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.” John Adams "May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy." George Washington (letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, August 1790) "[R]eligion, or the duty which we owe to our creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and...

In a San Diego County class-action lawsuit, a judge ordered the coffee giant to pay back tips, with interest, that the company had handed over to shift supervisors. Some baristas (coffee servers) could receive more than $10,000, according to their attorney. The ruling was met with cheers by California baristas. "I'm stoked," said Leekeisha Smith, who makes coffee drinks in the Starbucks at Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. "Wow. I'm just shocked that we'll get that [money] back." Smith, 23, said she found out about the lawsuit from a letter sent to employees. Starbucks Corp. said...

HELP!!!!! My cable modem at my house is giving me fits. It went out on Monday. Called Time Warner and they could not schedule me for a house call till next Wednesday. So I decided to swap modems to see if the modem was the problem. That wasn't the case as the new one did not work either. I plugged a TV into the cable outlet where my Cable Modem is hooked up, and it got a good picture. But still no inbound cable signal on the modem. I can't wait till Wednesday for Time Warner to come out. They...

Are Gov. Jim Doyle and state Sen. Judy Robson (D-Beloit) in favor of voter fraud? Yes, that's the only conclusion you can reach. For one thing, they're chief obstructionists to the very simple solution of requiring a photo ID to vote. From tire slashing to cigarettes for votes, every proven election law violation or credible suspicious vote fraud activity has involved Democrats or Democrat-supporting groups. That's not lost on Doyle. When you consider that in 2000, Al Gore "officially" won Wisconsin by about 5,000 votes out of 2.5 million cast, Gore won Oregon by 380 votes and President Bush won...

At 18, he [Barak's dad] married a girl called Kezia. But Obama Snr was more interested in politics and economics than his family and his political leanings had been brought to the notice of leaders of the Kenyan Independence movement. He was put forward for an American-sponsored scholarship in economics, with the idea being that he would eventually use his Western-honed skills in the new Kenya. At the age of 23 he headed for university in Hawaii, leaving behind the pregnant Kezia and their baby son. Relatives say he was already a slick womaniser and, once in Honolulu, he promptly...

John McCain might be a sure thing to be crowned the GOP nominee, but experts say claims that his family is related to a Scottish king are pure fiction. McCain wrote in a 1999 memoir that his great-aunt was descended from Robert the Bruce, who reclaimed Scottish independence in 1314. Medieval experts looked through records and concluded the claim was "a load of baloney," as one genealogist told the Guardian. The Scottish experts couldn't find any links between McCain and Bruce, although one historian noted that the Scottish warrior-king had a dozen children with up to 200 million distant descendants....

Vincent Emanuele thinks of his teenage self growing up in Indiana and recalls being interested in three things: "girls, beer, and sports." About that same time, out in California, Travis Pinn was looking for adventure: scuba diving, shooting guns, and jumping out of planes. Both joined the Marine Corps in 2002 as the US prepared to invade Iraq. Assigned to the same platoon, they fought and lived side by side in Iraq's stark western plains. Now, six years later, both have left the Marines, profoundly changed by their time at war. But their shared experiences have set the two veterans...

President Bush said Thursday that Iran has declared that it wants to be a nuclear power with a weapon to "destroy people," including others in the Middle East, contradicting the judgments of a recent U.S. intelligence estimate. The president spoke in an interview intended to reach out to the Iranian public on the Persian new year and to express "moral support" for struggling freedom movements, particularly among youth and women. It was designed to stress U.S. support for Iran's quest for nuclear energy and the prospects that Washington and Tehran can "reconcile their differences" if Iran cooperates with the international...