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Menacing pit bull is reason to get a gun By Tad Bartiums, Scripps Howarad June 26, 2002 It was dark, my vision was obscured by an armload of laundry and I was distracted by the yowling cat. I kicked open the back door and started down the steps. A menacing growl stopped me. Barely visible in the reflected porch light was a pit bull blocking the sidewalk. Gray, wearing a wide leather collar studded with brass spikes, his ears clipped into points, the 60-pound dog stared unblinking at me, swaying slightly. As he panted, saliva dripped from the corners of...

THERE is a great temptation, especially by those in government, to trivialise the contribution of the commercial farmers to both the development and economy of this country. This perception is founded on the belief that the government’s brave new farmers will rise to the challenge and return this nation to its former status as a surplus food producer.To do so would be to live in a fool’s paradise.The significant achievements made by the smallholder farming sector in the production of cotton, groundnuts and maize, for example, are a result of a process spanning several years, accompanied by a series of...

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away [with] all this artificial scaffolding..." ---Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April, 1823; Adams-Jefferson Letters, ed. Lester J. Cappon II, 594 " Most people's sex lives...are coming into closer accord with their true desires. I've often thought one attack...

The Children of the Sixties By Darren Morrison I was born in the early sixties, well 1962, so I did see something go on with the hippies. I saw smoke from tear gas as they tried to destroy a courthouse. At the time I lived in Boulder Colorado. My parents told me to stay away from the hippies. They were the un-bathed longhaired people. Since I was very young I just did what my parents told me. I did not know why and at the time could not have known anyway. Ever try to explain politics to a 5 year...

LONDON (Reuters) - Once an outlandish plot for Hollywood films, the idea of a pervasive enemy bent on the destruction of a people has become the spectre casting a pall over next week's U.S. Independence Day celebrations. Government warnings to U.S. citizens abroad and reports the FBI is investigating potential threats at home, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, will dampen the Fourth of July festivities usually devoted to fireworks, feasts and unabashed flag-waving. Some U.S. diplomatic missions abroad said they would tone down celebrations and the State Department has issued at least two "Worldwide Cautions" to Americans...

L'immagine di una forma di parmigiano tratta dal sito ufficiale www.parmigiano-reggiano.it. REUTERS/HO

Russia was rewarded with the promise of full membership of the Group of Eight and the right to host a 2006 summit despite the puny size of its economy, in a move seen as payback for President Vladimir Putin's unprecedented support for the US-led war on terror.Canada, the host of this year's G8 summit that opened Wednesday in the Rocky Mountain resort of Kananaskis, immediately hailed a "historic decision" to give Russia a permanent place on the top table of world economies."In 2006, we have agreed that Russia will assume the presidency and host our annual summit," the Canadian government...

Please excuse this "vanity" post. I am wondering if it is legally possible to impeach or punish or censor the 9th Circuit Judges who ruled on this massively unpopular decision. Can Congress or the Senate do anything? What about the Judicial Branch? What about the Supreme Court? What about the White House? I'm searching for ideas here. Te end result will be an action plan presented to key Conservative Venues.

[...]Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshhold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed. The new threat bears little resemblance to familiar financial disruptions by hackers responsible for viruses and worms. It comes instead at the meeting points between computers and the physical structures they control.By disabling or taking command of floodgates in a dam, for example, or of substations handling 300,000 volts of electric power, U.S. analysts believe an intruder could use virtual tools to destroy real-world lives and property....

  "Live from the Moonlight Bunny Ranch" Brothel owner Dennis Hof and prostitutes Mila, the "Queen of Nasty," and Trixi Starr         Court TV host: We're going to be joined by brothel owner Dennis Hof and prostitute Trixi Starr. Dennis Hof runs the famous Nevada brothel, the Moonlight Bunny Ranch. And, as you may know, it's one of the few legal brothels in the United States. Court TV host: One slight change: Trixi won't be with us for a little while...she's "partying" Dennis Hof: Trixi is having sex. Court TV Host: We're also being joined by...

Heard today that Governor Holden, D- Mo. employed an illegal of Hispanic origin as an aide to the Governor. According to the radio report, the illegal alien had been employed by the State of Missouri for 10 years, making $20,000 a year. Still waiting to hear the local news to see if anything is mentioned.

Read the yellow parts slowly and carefully please. All accents and BOLD and BIG are added by me Public Law 102-14, H.J. Res 104 102nd Congress of the United States of America March 5, 1991 Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded;Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws;Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious...

BY JOHN LEOThey hate your mommy Once again the push is on for the Senate to ratify CEDAW, the United Nations women's rights treaty that has been hanging around since 1979. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. There's a good reason that the Senate has ignored it for a generation: It's an incredibly toxic document, the work of international bureaucrats determined to impose a worldwide makeover of family relations and "gender roles." CEDAW is a blueprint for foisting the West's radical feminism on every nation gullible enough to sign. (Talk about cultural...

Muslim populations may push Jews to the right By Eliyahu Salpeter, Ha'aretz Correspondent In the Western world of years past, Jews tended to be pro-liberal, if not outrightly pro-socialist, and liberals, in turn, supported the equal rights and legal and societal emancipation for the Jewish population. The right, by contrast, was viewed by some as the traditional home of nationalism, racism and anti-Semitism. In recent years, however, three historical processes have given birth to a shift in the place of the Jews along the ideological and political spectrum. The first process grew following Israel's victory over its Arab neighbors...

Secular mumbo jumbo The 9th district court of appeals has just recently banned the pledge of allegiance in schools because it contains the word “God”. Apparently, this is in direct violation of the 1st amendment, which calls for a separation between church and state. Therefore, by reciting the pledge during school, the government is endorsing religion and thus violating the first amendment. One must wonder what type of leaf these judges are smoking because they are so off the wall it is pathetic (horrifying, inhumane, stupefying—in other words, there is no one word that described the sheer idiocy of this...

Check out the URL http://www.jislamia.org/news/new04.htm for Palestinian children being indoctrinated to kill Jews of Israel. This is an Arab website. Here is one sample photo of a child as a ranting Mullah: 

I heard several months ago that DISH-TV was going to buy DIRECT-TV but that it had to be approved.Todate,I haven't heard anything more.Does anybody have an update? Thanks.

Several polls taken after last fall’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington seemed to indicate that the public was willing, in the interests of safety and security, to put more trust in government than at any time in recent memory. Political science professionals, liberals and Democrats were briefly ecstatic, as it appeared that a new day was dawning. Leading Democratic strategists argued, in fact, that the road to electoral success lay in embracing government solutions to just about everything rather than downplaying the party’s historic love affair with the state. Bill Clinton, they argued, was flat wrong when he...

June 26, 2000 4:50 p.m. As some readers — though surprisingly not nearly all of them — know, I was marginally involved in the Lewinsky chapter of the Clinton scandals. I'm very reluctant to write directly about that stuff anymore for a bunch of reasons, chief among them the irrelevance of those days on current events and, somewhere further down the list, my desire not to spend any more time than necessary talking about the former president's pants — or lack thereof. Nevertheless, I did learn a great deal from my days as scandal boy. One of the most important...

DoD News Briefing Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Tuesday, June 24, 2002 (Interview with Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg News) Capaccio: In the time we have, I have to ask you some of the least favorite question issue, and then a little bit about Iraq, then get into the whole issue of managing the bow wave of transformation and weapons programs. For the last six minutes I'd like to do a formal radio interview with the Bloomberg Forum. It goes out to several hundred radio stations including our flagship up in New York, the Bloomberg Radio Station. Rumsfeld: Okay. We started...