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Obama's Tears For Ted Kennedy As Four Presidents And Hollywood Celebrities Gather For Funeral Of 'Greatest Senator Of Our Time' [Lots of Pics of Funeral Mass in URL] By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE 29th August 2009 Presidents, prime ministers and celebrities gathered in the rain to say a final farewell to the last of the Kennedy brothers, who died from brain cancer this week. At the funeral of Senator Edward Kennedy, younger brother of assassinated president John F. Kennedy, President Barack Obama lined up alongside George W. Bush, Bill and Hilary Clinton and Jimmy Carter to pay tribute to a man...

you read the papers or watch the news, you'll en counter a long list of accom plishments by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. You're less likely to hear, however, that in his death Kennedy proved Rush Limbaugh right.

Saier Bibi, a farmer in the Qaytul village of Kirkuk province, works his new beehives during a visit to his farm by a representative from the United States Agency for International Development and the senior agricultural advisor from the Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team, Aug. 20. Photo by Pfc. Justin Naylor, 1st Cavalry Division. KIRKUK — U.S. development and reconstruction teams recently visited local farmers in the village of Qaytul to check up on those who had received bee farming equipment as part of a year-long project designed to increase the income of small farm owners here. "The Honey Bee Hive...

A 78-year-old man was hospitalized Friday with injuries he received when he was attacked by a black bear in a remote area of eastern Utah. The bear was shot and killed by another camper. About 12:30 a.m., a river-rafting party of 13 people, including nine family members and four guides, were sleeping after finding a spot off the Green River near Rock Creek Ranch in Carbon County's Desolation Canyon to stop for the night, said Brad Crompton, Division of Wildlife Resources' southeastern region wildlife biologist. The family was awakened upon hearing the sound of a bear attacking a family member...

Scammers pumping out emails that try to trick recipients into parting with large sums of cash are getting a helping hand from the Democratic National Committee. According to a researcher with anti-spam company Cloudmark, 419 fraudsters have been relaying a "significant" amount of messages through the democrats.org domain name. The abuse, which dates back at least to the beginning of this month, helps evade filters that internet service providers employ to block the messages."Unfortunately, because they're able to relay mail through the Democratic Party server, it does affect the Democratic Party's IP reputation, as well as their domain sending reputation,"...

RALEIGH -- The N.C. Supreme Court issued a 4-3 ruling today declaring that the way some judicial seats are divided in Wake County needs to be re-evaluated. The decision could mean a restructuring of how Superior Court judges are selected in Wake County, with the N.C. General Assembly or a judge having to weigh in. Wake County, referred to as Judicial District 10 in the state Supreme Court's ruling, has six superior court judges who are elected from four separate geographic areas but with widely differing populations. "Plaintiffs have demonstrated gross disparity in voting power between similarly situated residents of...

AMAZING!!!!....Talk about irresponsibility to the point of stupidity! Obama's Inspector General (along with all of her aids) needs to be thrown out of office post haste, for not exercising accountability!!! -- where's the outcry by working class Americans that are literally being robbed of trillions of dollars!!! This should be sent to all people on your lists...quite amazing, but not surprising...boy, are we in trouble...!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL BE BE STUNNED WHEN YOU WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO.

Immediately following Obama's coup at General Motors, and near-takeover of Chrysler as well, there was about two weeks of news coverage of the shocking number of dealerships summarily, and seemingly arbitrarily, put out of business. The demand for explanation of why and how one dealership was killed, while another was spared execution, was ever so briefly loud, then quieted, and finally silenced. This front page story moved to the back pages and, in short order, to oblivion - and the questions it raised were never answered. Case in point: Ron Marhofer, the owner of Marhofer Chevrolet in the little burg...

A report on Internet speed in the United States says the country isn’t likely to catch world leader South Korea for 15 years. Or for much longer — at current growth rates, the United States will only reach South Korea’s speed today in 15 years. The report, by the Communications Workers of America, details Internet download and upload speeds all over the United States and some of its affiliated territories. In the last year, the average upload speed in the United States “barely changed,” the report said, and download speed only grew a little, from 4.2 megabits per second in...

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Tim.2:3)! If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God (Col 3:1)! Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings (godly laud and praises) in heavenly places in Christ (Eph 1:3)! For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (1 John 5:4)! Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and...

Reviewer: "One has to feel amazed, reading this book, at how PROUD the people of Massachusetts must be of their esteemed senior US senator. First, he was eminently generous to host a party for six young women who had all toiled so hard to assist with his family's politics. You have to know that lower-level campaign workers of their age rarely receive attention from the more powerful folks in the political apparatus. The girls must have been utterly thrilled, to have been asked to a cook-out and get to mingle with all of those seasoned, powerful men. Edward Kennedy was...

Three events, occurring within days of each other, have revealed a growing impotency by the Obama administration on the world stage. Two have received wide press -Scotland's release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, and the O'admin's puzzling change of heart by refusing to futher contest the ACLU's FOIA demand that the WH release the CIA EIT detailed report on interrogation techniques. The third is a story running silent, running deep - the ongoing fate of Gitmo detainees, quietly released, using US judicial standards for evidence. It was on the 20th of August that Curt posted on the return of the...

Dear Friend, Recently the Congressional Rural Caucus, of which I am a member, sent a letter to the President urging him to personally visit rural areas during the Administration's rural tour this month in order to gain a first-hand understanding of the real need for a White House Office of Rural Policy. In the letter, the Caucus also requested a meeting with top White House officials to share bipartisan information about the many issues of specific importance to constituents in rural districts. Small towns and rural communities are the heart and soul of this country. Our rural and agricultural towns...

One of the more pernicious myths surrounding the debate over health care is the oft repeated claim that conservatives do not want reform. Nonsense! What we do not want is the warm bucket of snake oil currently being sold to the American people by this administration. Conservatives have long argued for the need to reduce mandated benefits, reduce the reliance on third-party payers and get rid of public policies that hinder entrepreneurship and innovation. This is the kind of reform conservatives want – the right kind of reform. Because the number of Americans that are actually denied medical care is...

Updated: Perry calls border wall ‘nonsense’ By Jason Embry | Friday, August 28, 2009, 05:28 PM In a speech today to at the Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Business Forum, Gov. Rick Perry said he prefers a “technological barrier” along the Texas-Mexico border instead of a physical border wall. Here’s a 43 second clip....Update: Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Perry is “for a fence in strategic areas, but he believes you need to use technology and other innovative resources to protect the border. He doesn’t believe you need to build a fence from one end of Texas to...

Anchorage, AK - Governor Palin posted this article on her Facebook. page. Governor Palin has been fighting for more and more offshore drilling since she was appointed to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. The court had no choice but to side with her . The ultra liberal or activist 9th Circuit Court also had a decision overturned by the US Supreme Court, in Governor Palin’s favor, back on July, 22. The article: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling allows Beaufort drilling: A ruling Thursday by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for Shell Oil...

Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama’s Constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of public awareness, I wrote an article about how easy it was to find my then -92-year-old mother’s birth certificate. Frankly, I didn’t think finding my mother’s birth certificate was possible, given the fact that she had been born in a farmhouse in Storrs, CT, along with nine of her 10 siblings, to parents who didn’t speak English. Despairing that she would never be “qualified” to receive the care [in a nursing home}...

Instead of Nuclear disaster areas like Chernobyl in Russia, liberals in America have created desolate areas where the harm from their bombs (social programs) manifests itself as crime, hopelessness and generational poverty.

OK, so I watched it. I was very pleased that Sean Cardinal O'Malley did not celebrate, or even concelebrate the Mass. He just attended it. I did not see too many overt abuses during the Mass. I was relieved to see that the Bamster did not even attempt to receive. Unfortunately, Fox panned away so I was denied the opportunity to be outraged at the sight of any of the other Dhim pols receiving. The homily was gushing, but most homilies at funeral Masses are, so I can't say all that much about it. The prayers of the faithful were...

This is pretty funny.