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SALEM — At Barack Obama’s second stop in his Oregon campaign journey, the senator from Illinois opened the town hall-style meeting with his “fierce urgency of now” message.

NEW CASTLE, Colo. — A Colorado man is accused of stealing an Army veteran's identity and using it for 24 years to get married, obtain free medical treatment and even serve as president of a VFW post. Mark Mulcahy, 46, faces felony charges of identity theft, forgery and criminal impersonation. He was being held in the Garfield County jail Friday in lieu of $45,000 bail. It wasn't known whether he had an attorney. Mulcahy obtained a military retirement document in 1984 in the name of David Keith Anderson of Modesto, Calif., according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Anderson, also known...

To soothe the bruised egos of educators and children in lackluster schools, Massachusetts officials are now pushing for kinder, gentler euphemisms for failure. Instead of calling these schools "underperforming," the Board of Education is considering labeling them as "Commonwealth priority," to avoid poisoning teacher and student morale. Schools in the direst straits, now known as "chronically underperforming," would get the more urgent but still vague label of "priority one." The board has spent parts of more than three meetings in recent months debating the linguistic merits and tone set by the terms after a handful of superintendents from across the...

We got there the line was blocks long but we went to the wheelchair entry and it was 3 people long.    Ended up about 5 others with different degrees of Wheel chair bound Cerebral Palsy. King Vanity being the most intense as usual along with their careproviders being wifes/husbands/non related and me the Mom careprovider.   OK Lowdown per King Vanities post rally report.  Obama is full of it. Sums it up.   King Vanity would not vote for him even if he was running as Conservative Repub. Oh Hell no.     Obama promised EVERYONE individual in attendance change even our lil...

The Washington Supreme Court has struck down part of the state's perjury law...

The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard of high temperatures in that part of the earth's surface. The article pictured below is the source of this information: From 1922!!!

Today fewer people are going to church to confess their sins, and instead taking to the Internet to atone and repent. A number of Protestant and evangelical churches are embracing the Web as a way to revive the ancient ritual of confession, but the trend is not without its critics. The Rev. John Siebling, of The Life Church in Memphis, Tenn., runs a Web site called endthesecret.com, where people pour out their stories of cheating on boyfriends, hiding debt from spouses and drug abuse. "It's really a tool that will hopefully bring a first step as people begin to interact...

SEATTLE — The King County Jail had 65...

For now, he's known to federal prosecutors as "John Doe," the man with too many names. ...

The evangelical Australian based church Hillsong has been linked to claims of abuse against women, including allegations of emotional manipulation. Fairfax Media reports that both the Hillsong Church and Gloria Jeans Coffee are linked to the organisation Mercy Ministries, which has been accused of emotional manipulation when treating women. Three women have now blown the whistle on a program operated by the Ministry, including allegations they entered as "independent" people, however came out of the program as "broken" and "suicidal". The women say as part of the program they were taught to believe that they were possessed by the devil,...

Date: 03/17/08 Category: LEADERSHIP What Kind of Pastor Condones Homosexuality, Killing Babies, and Racism (Acts 17:26,27, Rom. 10:11-13) What kind of pastor condones the sin of homosexuality, killing babies, and preaches a gospel of racial division? The pastor for 20 years and spiritual mentor of Democratic Presidential candidate B. Hussein Obama! I found it amusing the past few days that all of the news media is focusing on the racially divisive and anti-American rhetoric of Dr. Jeremiah Wright, who for over 3 decades was the Senior Pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois. For those who...

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return. Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril. Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"...

Vladimir Putin is to fulfil an unrealised dream of Joseph Stalin's by creating a grandiose state cemetery. In a corner of northern Moscow bulldozers began churning the earth his week in a section of wasteland where Mr Putin and Stalin, the dictator he is said to revere, could one day be laid side by side. The Federal Military Memorial Cemetery, its designers boast, will be Russia's answer to America's Arlington. Arguably the most ambitious architectural project undertaken since the fall of the Soviet Union, it remains to be seen whether the cemetery, due to be completed by 2010, will become...

The Sioux City Catholic Diocese and two of its former priests are being sued by a former parishioner, who says he was sexually abused. Jeffrey Steinke... who now lives in Montana... grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa and graduated from Saint Edmond High School in 1982. In a lawsuit filed Thursday... Steinke claims John Kurzak... a priest at Corpus Christi church at the time... and John Perdue... a seminary student... performed a sex act on Steinke against his will when he was a minor. And... coerced him to engage in sex acts by violating a position of trust. Steinke claims...

FBI investigates noose at business Sea Ray Boats says man who hung rope has been fired By Jim Balloch Saturday, March 22, 2008 The FBI is investigating an incident at Sea Ray Boats' Riverview plant in which a white employee placed a noose where it was seen by a black employee. "They were contacted (Wednesday) by the FBI concerning this matter," said Dan Kubera, spokesman for the boat manufacturer's parent company, Brunswick Corp. of Lake Forest, Ill. "We will be meeting with the agency and cooperating in the investigation." Also, Kubera said, the company was notified March 17 that a...

RAHALIYAH — The Soldiers moved under the cover of darkness. The rising sun marked the end of their journey and the start of their mission: searching a town for insurgent activity. Soldiers of Company A, 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor, joined with Iraqi Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, along the edge of Al Anbar province to conduct a joint-clearing operation in Rahaliyah, March 9 through 11. “We’re searching the area for weapon caches and anything outside of the norm,” said Co. A Commander, Capt. Greg Ralls. “You have to push out to the far ends of...

SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH IRAQ WMD SLEUTH DAVID KAYDavid Kay was charged by the Bush administration with finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the invasion. Instead of finding weapons, though, he found what he told SPIEGEL was 'the biggest intelligence fiasco of my lifetime.' SPIEGEL: As head of the Iraq Survey Group, you led the effort to follow up on the claims made by 'Curveball,' the asylum seeker from Iraq who told German intelligence that Saddam Hussein was building mobile biological weapons laboratories. Do you remember the first time you began to doubt his story? Kay: The real shock...

Southeast Asian central bank governors, plus South Korea and Taiwan, will discuss financial market uncertainty and dollar weakness at a meeting in Jakarta starting on Friday, Indonesian central bank officials said. The financial leaders of these exporting nations are meeting for two-days as policy makers globally try to tackle the global credit crisis that is threatening to drag on worldwide economic growth. The meeting "addresses the problem of uncertainties in the global economy which, by now, I think everybody has realised is getting bigger and we have to try to make efforts in these conditions to maintain macroeconomic stability," Burhanuddin...

Thank you for contacting me to share your views on increasing the number of H-1B visas. I appreciate hearing from you. Like most countries of the world, the United States limits the type and number of foreign workers who can enter our country. As you know, H-1B visas are used by foreign nationals who will be employed temporarily in a specialty occupation due to their skilled knowledge. H-1B visas have several safeguards for not displacing American workers, such as requiring employers to attest to the lack of an available U.S. worker with proper skills and requiring employers to pay a...

(SALEM, Ore.) - Members of SNAP, the Priest sex abuse network, say the Portland, Oregon Archdiocese is harboring pedophile priests and failing to comply with a court order to disclose private records. And they have been saying it for a while. For those who have not seen it or are not extremely familiar with the story, you may want to check this Salem-News.com article and video and see how the church was ordered to disclose the coveted records. (see: Oregon Sex Abuse Victims in Catholic Church Scandal Awarded Over $50 Million) This article from April 18th 2007 gives the impression...