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Dear Senator kerry: At yesterday's meeting of the Lagniappe Wednesday Club at Daryl's Bait Shop, I and Jack Boudreau and Armen Yazoo were deputized to send you one more letter concerning your campaign. We are asking you to clarify some matters that have struck us as being untidy as an old boot in a pot of crawfish gumbo. We are still waiting for you personally to take on the task of answering the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These are serious matters and they won't go away, leastaways not from the minds of average people like us...

'Global Test' Problems after the VP debate???

Very fitting for Kerry: Doublethink From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Doublethink means, according to George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four: The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Even...

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Even for Democrats, they have reached a new low. They are, to the astonighment of my eyes, DENYING that Kerry ever mentioned "Global Test". Yup, that's right. In their ad, they cut it out of the quote, and when asked on talk shows about "Global Test", they do not respond but only say "the Senator affirmed the right to preemption". Unbelievable, even for the Democrats -- I'm serious! I'm used to spin and scare tactics, but I've never seen outright denials in the face of facts that were seen by the ENTIRE COUNTRY. It is reminiscent of the Iraqi Minister...

HAMPTON, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry on Monday lambasted as "pathetic" scaremongering, Republican criticism of his comments during last Thursday's debate in which he said the president's decision to go to war should pass a "global test" of legitimacy. Asked during a town hall meeting in Hampton to explain what he meant, the Massachusetts senator said, "It's almost sad; it's certainly pathetic, because all they can do is grab a little phrase and try to play a game and scare Americans." "And if they were honest enough to give America the full quote, which America heard, they would...

AMERICA AT THE CROSS ROADS OF HISTORY When the terrorists attacked the United States on September 11th, 2001, it signaled that they were no longer satisfied to only attack US interests outside the United States. It signaled that they felt comfortable enough and were savvy enough to realize that the US is no longer a unified country, ethnically, socially, politically, or spiritually. Some may believe that it never was, and that comes from a lack of knowledge about the country. Of course, there were slaves, mostly black Africans, but there were also white slaves who bought passage to the New...

 President Bush: "I will never submit America's national security to an international test. The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to a veto by countries like France. The president's job is not to take an international poll. The president's job is to defend America."   This is an email-able, copyright-ready cartoon you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

John Kerry at the debate: "No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America. But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.  John Kerry says pre-emptive action needs to pass some kind of "global test"......

ZANJAN (IRNA) -- Iran's revolutionary guards were to test fire a 'strategic missile' Saturday following the launch of new surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles Friday, a senior IRGC commander said. The new missile will be test fired during war games being held on a vast swath of land in the western provinces of Zanjan, Hamedan and Kurdestan, the spokesman of the "Ashura 5" maneuvers, Hossein Salami said. "With the induction and launch of this missile, the scope of the Ashura 5 maneuvers will practically increase several folds," he said. The IRGC will publish soon further information about the missile, Salami added....

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Testing, please ignore.

India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast(AFP/File/Raveendran ) India tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile BHUBANESHWAR, India (AFP) - India has test-fired a variant of its home-grown nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile from a test site on its east coast, a defence official said. The surface-to-surface intermediate range Agni-II, with a maximum strike range of 2,500 kilometres (1,560 miles), was fired from a mobile launcher on Wheeler Island off eastern Orissa state, the official said on Sunday. It was India's third test of the Agni-II. The missile was first...

Yesterday's test of Israel's Arrow anti-missile system has been deemed a partial failure - though apparently only in one of its minor mechanisms. Yesterday's test of Israel's Arrow anti-missile system has been deemed a partial failure. After successfully intercepting a Scud missile in last month's test run off the California coast, the Arrow did not succeed this time in a more difficult mission: distinguishing between a rocket's engine and warhead that split off from each other. Aryeh Herzog of the Defense Ministry said that the Arrow proved yesterday that it can distinguish between various targets. He said, however, that 10...

NILES -- Sometime today, the Niles Police Department expects to announce whether the man found in the St. Joseph River on Monday in the Renault LeCar was Thomas Burns, a 28-year-old Stevensville man, who had been missing since March 1989. If it is Burns, then the department will tap into a 3-inch-thick file filled with statements from individuals about what happened the night Burns disappeared. "And if those statements don't match up, we will certainly take a second look at those individuals," Capt. James Merriman said Tuesday. Merriman indicated police are far from determining if the man found in the...

SACRAMENTO - It's decision time for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last fall, when he repealed a measure granting illegal immigrants drivers' licenses, he promised Latino legislators he would back another one. Will he honor his pledge? He advocates innovative government and health care for the poor, and vowed to make California business-friendly. So will he sign legislation opposed by drug companies and business interests that would make it easier to buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada? Then there's foie gras: Does Schwarzenegger want to ban the sale and production of the delicacy created by force-feeding ducks or geese? Those three issues...

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - With ballistic missiles a growing threat in the region, Israel on Thursday successfully tested its Arrow anti-missile system against a live Scud missile for the first time off the coast of California. Israel began developing the anti-missile system 12 years ago after U.S.-made Patriot missiles - designed to intercept aircraft rather than missiles - were largely ineffective in stopping Iraqi Scud missiles during the 1991 Gulf War. At least 39 Iraqi Scud missiles slammed into Israel in the first Gulf War. The estimated $2 billion, one-of-a-kind Arrow anti-missile system is being developed jointly by the Israel and...

Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and power cars. The development could help open the way for cleaner-burning technology at home and on the road. Current methods of producing hydrogen from ethanol require large refineries and copious amounts of fossil fuels, the University of Minnesota researchers said. The reactor is a relatively tiny 2-foot-high apparatus of tubes and wires that creates hydrogen from corn-based ethanol. A fuel cell, which acts like a battery, then generates power. "This points to a way to make renewable hydrogen...

(Nanotechnology will build molecular and atomic “assemblers” that can build products.) In the early 20th century, Henry Ford built a car manufacturing plant on a 2,000-acre tract of land along the Rouge River in Michigan. Built to mass-produce automobiles more efficiently, the Rouge housed the equipment for developing each phase of a car, including blast furnaces, a steel mill and a glass plant. More than 90 miles of railroad track and conveyor belts kept Ford's car assembly line running. The Rouge model was lauded as the most efficient method of production at a time when bigger meant better. The size...

SAN MATEO, Calif. — IBM Corp. may give a peek into Apple Computer Inc.'s 64-bit future when it details a new version of its Power4 microprocessor next week. Aimed for use in desktops and low-end servers, the 64-bit Power4 could be IBM's first PowerPC-compatible chip to support the Altivec multimedia instruction extensions defined by Apple and Motorola Inc.The IBM device is one of about 18 new processors that will be described at the Microprocessor Forum 2002, to be held Oct. 14-17. "I expect there will be a fair amount of discussion about this part," said Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief of The...