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Democrats Give in to Veto Threat, Senate Approves $5.5 Billion House-Passed Farm Aid By Philip Brasher The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Democratic-controlled Senate caved in to a White House veto threat and approved a House-passed package of special farm assistance Friday that provides $2 billion less than Democrats wanted. The $5.5 billion measure now goes to President Bush for his expected signature. The Senate abruptly approved the legislation on a voice vote after Republicans blocked action on a $7.5 billion measure that had been approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee. "The gun was held to our heads and ...

As I have been warning about time and time and time and time again, the West is being lured into a trap by our enemies-of-old for nuclear annihilation. The Middle East is the trigger point for the war of wars, that which is prophesized about in The Bible's Book of Revelation. The trigger man for this conflict, via launching a chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel, is most likely Saddam Hussein. This, at least, is what I believe God has shown to me. No one heeds the warnings I feel I've been called upon to give because people today, ...

There's surely "pond scum" among us and some of them hold high offices, or did hold high offices, in this land of diminishing freedom. Where are the candidates who want to serve rather than be served? I'd like to meet a few. For a nation that forbids royalty and titles of royalty, we certainly have an elected self-anointed ruling elite that feels it is above the law. That wasn't the intent of the founders. It was their intent that the government should serve the people, because the people are the nation. But if the people become scuzzy, why should they ...

Early next year, Brian Feeney will strap himself into a homemade rocket and be launched more than 100 kilometres above the Earth, making him the world's first privately funded astronaut. That's if all goes according to plan. "It's going to be a blast," the 42-year-old industrial designer says with a slow grin. "That will be the first civilian rocket to go into space ... and I will be the first civilian in space." The da Vinci Project is one of two Canadian entries in the race for the X PRIZE, a US$10-million award for the first privately built spaceship to ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - A single snake has been blamed for the deaths of at least seven women in a village near the northern Nigerian city of Kano, prompting residents to ask snake-charmers for help in a climate of superstition and fear.The villagers of Rijiyar Zaki said the victims died last week after attacks by the snake, which residents said can only be seen by women and disappears immediately after striking, the independent Vanguard newspaper reported on Friday.Aside from the seven already killed, 19 other women are being treated by traditional snake charmers, residents said, adding that all the mystery snake's ...

"There Is No Truth In Him. When He Lies, He Speaks His Native Language, For He Is A Liar And The Father Of Lies." Jesus was talking about Satan in that famous passage from John 8:44. Yet he could have been describing gun prohibitionists, a group which lies more fluently and shamelessly than any other in public life. Take Joe Lockhart. In the July 31 Washington Post, Bill Clinton's former flack pretended to offer a moderate new approach to gun control. But his "new" approach smells as fresh as a year-old carton of eggs. Lockhart started on a humble note. ...

State Dept. Condemnation of Israel Herbert Zweibon, Chairman of Americans For a Safe Israel, speaking for the entire membership of AFSI, asserts, "The U.S. State Department, and Secretary of State Colin Powell are entirely out of line in condemning Israel for its "excessive," "reprehensible," "highly provocative," and "too aggressive" action in targeting an Hamas office building and killing two of the most wanted Hamas leaders, Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim. These men have been responsible for the deaths of at least eighty Israelis and the wounding of at least four hundred, in suicide missions and other deadly attacks that they ...

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Israel had ``some justification'' when it deliberately killed Palestinians thought to be planning bombings.In remarks that contradict State Department policy on the attacks, Cheney told Fox News on Thursday.``If you've got an organization that has plotted or is plotting some kind of suicide bomber attack, for example, and they (the Israelis) have hard evidence of who it is and where they're located, I think there's some justification in their trying to protect themselves by preempting.''State Department spokesman Richard Boucher repeated on Thursday the long-standing U.S. position that it opposes the Israeli government's ...

Man receives 6-year sentence for smothering wife By Marlys Duran, News Staff Writer Citing previous incidents of domestic violence, a judge Thursday sentenced an Englewood man to six years behind bars for smothering his wife by lying on her. Darrell L. Moore, 31, weighed about 350 pounds on April 28, 2000, when he lay on top of Bonita "Bonnie" Moore, 32, during an argument over her spending the couple's rent money on alcohol, police said. She weighed between 155 and 200 pounds. "Her chest was literally crushed," Bonita Moore's mother, Anita Moyer of Thornton, said after the sentencing hearing. According ...

IDF hits elusive Nablus cell, killing 1, wounding 6 After months of effort, the Israel Defense Forces finally struck a blow yesterday at a Palestinian terrorist cell that has placed numerous bombs along the road leading up to Mount Ebal, near Nablus. One member of the cell was killed and six were wounded. There were no Israeli casualties. The roadside bombs on Mount Ebal have caused the IDF considerable damage in the past few months. There is only one road leading to the IDF base at the top of the hill, and recently almost every convoy that traveled that road ...

Ladies & Gentlemen, Yesterday members of the SCV, LoS and Southern Party of Georgia met at the capitol for the opening day of the reapportionment session. There were two events, one outside and one inside the capitol and I will try to give a general summary of both. Around 100 people responded to the workday opportunity to hold a TRUE Georgia State Flag Rally at the capitol. It was a beautiful sight, all four entrances were covered, especially the one located between the Legislative Office Building and the capitol. As TurnCoat after TurnCoat made their way to the capitol they ...

'That's My Bush' canceled by Comedy Central By Lynn Elber Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The fictional president in Comedy Central's "That's My Bush!" didn't even make it through his first term. But he'll try for election to the big screen. The satirical White House sitcom from "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, canceled after eight episodes, will be the basis for a movie script, Stone said. "We're not done with this show," he said Thursday. "George W. Bush and the Secret of the Glass Tiger" is the proposed title for the film, which Stone said ...

U.S. Mulls Murder Charges Against Rescued CubansMIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents are investigating whether murder charges should be filed against two Cubans suspected of organizing a voyage in which Cuban migrants died after their boat capsized off Florida, the Border Patrol said on Friday. Twenty-two Cubans were rescued after the accident on Wednesday in a storm in the Florida Straits. Two others died and the Coast Guard suspended its search late on Thursday for a woman and three children still missing and presumed dead. The survivors were brought ashore in Key West early on Friday and turned over to ...

Isaiah 54:16-17 "And it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you." Isaiah 48:17 "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs in the way you should go."

The US is secretly drawing up detailed plans for the deployment of an observer force to monitor flashpoints in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, resurrecting an idea that seemed to have been killed off by Israeli objections two weeks ago. According to western diplomatic sources, the US is pressing ahead with the observer force and has drawn up a series of options covering numbers, terms of reference and where it should be located in the West Bank and Gaza. Britain and other European countries have been involved in the planning. It is the first positive sign of diplomatic activity for weeks in ...

The City Council favored naming the new Cumberland Drive bridge the "Confederate Soldiers Memorial Bridge" Thursday night. The name passed in a 7-4 vote after Marshall Ross asked that it be amended, adding the word "soldiers." The council did not vote on the other two related items: naming it after former council member Lynnwood Tarpley and the compromise -- a memorandum of understanding between the NAACP and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Robert Hatch, president of NAACP's Clarksville Chapter, said the national NAACP did not support the agreement because it included public funding for a confederate monument. The city had ...

West Palm Beach, Florida, Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Ingram commanded a seven-figure salary in his years trading bonds with Goldman Sachs Group LP and Deutsche Bank. A magazine named him a top black banker on Wall Street. He owned a yacht, pledged to renovate buildings in Harlem and started an Internet firm. Today, Ingram sits in a Florida jail on federal money laundering charges. Prosecutors accuse him of taking $2.2 million in cash from undercover agents posing as arms dealers and of laundering $350,000 in 1999. Last month, he angered a federal judge by failing to disclose his Swiss ...

Dear Friends and Customers of Murray McMurray Hatchery, WE NEED YOUR HELP! The United States Post Office is the only service in the United States, which will carry day old poultry. UPS, Federal Express, Airborne Express, and every other carrier in the US will not carry poultry. As all of you who have bought live day-old poultry from us know, we ship your order for baby chicks, ducklings, goslings, etc. to you via the airlines. We are able to do this because all airlines have a very lucrative contract with the United States Post Office to carry mail. Murray McMurray ...

  ISSUE 1388Sunday 14 March 1999 Scientists pick holes in Darwin moth theoryBy Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent     The peppered moth shows evolution in action [by David Menton, 1991] - Creation Science  Natural selection and speciation - Biology at Claremont College  EVOLUTION experts are quietly admitting that one of their most cherished examples of Darwin's theory, the rise and fall of the peppered moth, is based on a series of scientific blunders. Experiments using the moth in the Fifties and long believed to prove the truth of natural selection are now thought to be worthless, having been designed ...

Friday August 3 9:08 AM ET Sharon Scales Back Peace Goals By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - After 10 months of violence, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) does not believe full peace with the Palestinians is possible and is aiming for less, while the official Palestinian news agency called for an end to armed attacks. However, violence continued Friday. A 6-year-old boy was lightly wounded when Palestinians fired a mortar shell at a Jewish settlement in Gaza. Palestinians said Israeli tanks fired shells in retaliation. A Palestinian women tried to carry a bomb ...