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PATIENTS FIRST BUS TOUR Join Americans for Prosperity as we welcome the national Patients First Bush tour to Johnson County. The AFP Patients First Bus Tour Bus has been traveling the country, stopping at healthcare rallies, and now it’s coming to the 3rd Congressional District in Kansas. We hope you’ll join us next week in rallying against government-run healthcare, and telling Congressman Dennis Moore that patients come first! Patients Fist Rally Tuesday, Spetember 8 , 2009 12 p.m. Shawnee Mission Park — Shelter House #12 7900 Renner Road Shawnee, KS Hear how a Washington takeover of health care will allow...

It happens every September, the opening of a new UN Session, leaders and despots from all around the world come to NY many of them to stand in front of the General Assembly, situated in the biggest city in the US, and spend hours telling the world the United States is lousy. This year will be no different. This year will be President Barack Obama's first trip to the UN to address the General Assembly. Judging by the POTUS' first months in office he will probably follow the tradition of other nations and spend hours telling the world the United...

NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites.The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House “maintains a presence.”In the course of investigating procurement by the White House New Media office, NLPC discovered a 51-page solicitation of bids that was filed on Friday, August 21, 2009. Filed as Solicitation # WHO-S-09-0003,...

Here is video of GOP Chairman Michael Steele in Ohio where he said so-called "Blue-Dog" Democrats like to "pretend to be a conservative Blue Dog here at home, then go to Washington and sit on Nancy Pelosi's lap." Steele was speaking at a Zanesville, Ohio auto dealership, and spoke in three districts where Democrats could be in trouble. In response, the Ohio Democratic Party Chairman said Steele is the Republican version of a "bad joke." (VIDEO)

Texas needs to lead, not secede, the state's governor told supporters during a Wednesday campaign stop in Lubbock. Gov. Rick Perry shrugged off a lone shout for secession from the back of a crammed coffee shop as he ticked through the highlights of his gubernatorial career. "My deal is, you know what? Let's just show the rest of the nation how to do it right," Perry said. Perry told the crowd of more than 100 overflowing the small space that a stable state economy proved the value of state-level leadership as Washington Republicans behaved like Democrats. "Hogwash, I mean that's...

The paradox of warm-climate vegetation in Antarctica --snip-- All this information on warm-climate high latitude paleofloras is supportive of the floating log-mat model during the Flood,[15–17] since any landmass near the South Pole would have had a cold climate. The trees would have been rafted to Antarctica from lower latitudes...

They're here, they're conservative, get used to it.It had been a rough month by the time 67-year-old Bert Stead of Redding, Calif., stepped to the microphone at an August 18 town hall meeting with Republican representative Wally Herger. It was about to get rougher. Dissent, formerly the highest form of patriotism, had suffered a precipitous decline in repute since the beginning of the Obama administration, a decline that in August deepened into a nosedive. Stead and the thousands of other Obamacare critics flooding town halls to make their dissent known had been called "extremist mobs" by the Democratic National Committee,...

Bioethicist Jacob Appel can be relied on to promote the most radical bioethics agendas, assisted suicide for the mentally ill, fetal farming, you name it.  And now he has argued that if Montana affirms a constitutional right to assisted suicide in Montana, the state has a duty to make sure that doctors are willing to do the deed.  Why?  Doctors have a monopoly on a limited commodity–the practice of medicine–and hence they should be able to be forced to participate in the taking of patients’ lives in assisted suicide. From his column: However, it [medical license and professional autonomy]...

The recession has eaten into people's nest eggs so the government is promoting ways to make it easier to save for retirement. One initiative that was outlined in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday will allow people to have their federal tax refunds sent as savings bonds. Others are meant to require workers to take action to stay out of an employer-run savings program rather than having to take action to join it. The new federal steps, which do not require congressional action, include: _Making it easier for small companies to set up 401(k) retirement savings plans in which...

Consumers and businesses may finally be seeing some relief from rising utility bills, thanks to the biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades.

Mikhail Gorbachev has attacked Vladimir Putin for rolling back democracy in Russia and failing to fight corruption. In an interview with The Times, published today, he criticised Mr Putin over Russia’s failure to convict the killers of prominent Kremlin critics such as the journalist Anna Politkovskaya and the dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko. Mr Gorbachev accused Europe and America of a failure to understand Russia since he started his glasnost and perestroika reforms of the Soviet Union almost a quarter of a century ago. He said that the West seemed more interesting in keeping Russia “on its knees”. He had warm...

"To all; are you ready? Never in the history of financial markets have there been so many landmines in place, each one wired directly to a nuclear bomb that sits atop the ENTIRE global financial system. The 'masters of the financial universe' have postponed the coming day of reckoning for so long and in so many different ways that they have backed themselves into a corner where almost any movement at all will trip one of these numerous landmines."

Forty-two percent (42%) of American voters believe that a group of individuals randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the politicians currently in Congress, says the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. This number has changed by nine percent (9%) from last fall, when thirty-three percent (33%) believed the same thing. The same number, forty-two percent (42%) disagree with that point of view, and sixteen percent (16%) are undecided. Not surprisingly, the difference of opinions is consistent with party affiliation. Republicans would favor random individuals from the phone book over the Democrat controlled Congress by two to...

SUMMERVILLE -- For the past two weeks, children in a Summerville neighborhood have been getting on and off the school bus in front of a registered sex offender's house. A couple with three children - ages 14, 12 and 9 - asked officials in Dorchester District 2 to move the bus stop, and district leaders agreed to do it. Starting Tuesday morning, the stop will be moved to a nearby corner "that's in the best interest of all children in the area," said district spokeswoman Pat Raynor. Dave Flournoy, who asked that the stop be moved, said he appreciates the...

Campaigners have called for an investigations into an NHS scheme which helps to end the lives of terminally patients after a group of leading doctors warned that some were dying prematurely. In a letter to The Daily Telegraph the medical experts warned that Britain was facing a “national crisis in care” because some patients were having fluids and drugs removed after being wrongly judged to be close to death. Many were also being sedated, making it more difficult for doctors to tell their true condition. The experts warned that the scheme was encouraging a "tick box" culture in which healthcare...

Posted in ubiwar Tagged intelligence, terrorism SNIPPET: "Friends of this blog and others, Palantir Technologies, are profiled in a new article by Siobhan Gorman in the Wall Street Journal, How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade: From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at US spy agencies."

Organizers of Sunday’s Jim Traficant Appreciation Dinner are confident the guest of honor will make an appearance at the event. [snip]

Why are forum replies reviewed and posting delayed? Makes it kinda tough to carry on a conversation when it takes hours to communicate.

Comfortably seated in a $30,000 Louis XV-style armchair, in a luxurious room reminiscent of an 18th Century French salon, Sharp stares coolly at his latest piece of art, hung on the opposite wall. The canvas depicts a porn star's bottom encircled by flashy pink, blue and purple sprays of paint recreating the letters of the alphabet. "I am rethinking the traditional alphabet," he explains. Nearly 30 years after spraying his first graffiti in the subway, Sharp now sees his work on display in major galleries. In June, an exhibition in New York called "Whole in the Wall" displayed his work,...

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