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On a 150-year-old farm in Brewster, Tom Behrends hopes his tell-it-like-it-is style will finally get the attention he believes it deserves in Minnesota’s race for governor. “The public needs to know how pathetic his leadership was as a National Guardsman,” Behrends said about Gov. Tim Walz. He’s back again to wage a public war of words against Walz. This is what his grain bin looked like in the 2018 election: “He abandoned us. What the hell kind of leader does that? As soon as the shots were fired in Iraq, he turned and ran the other way and hung his...

Opposition to President Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic reached a fever pitch this week as religious organizers stage a "Lunes Negros" or Black Monday protest against James "Wally" Brewster. If confirmed, Brewster will be the first openly gay ambassador to the country, a prospect that is not going over well with some segments of this conservative Christian country of 9 million people. Local reports indicate that church leaders are pressuring the government to reject Brewster's nomination and calling on the faithful to dress in black on Monday in solidarity against him. Praise Christian Church Pastor Sauford...

MADISON, Ind. (BP) -- It seems that the societal ills that plague inner cities everywhere are no respecter of nations. Britain is presently being rocked with social unrest that is quite out of step with what was once viewed proudly as the stodgy national character. In any culture, revered traditions can only hold back disorder so long when young people are uneducated, impoverished and without opportunity. Prime Minister David Cameron has pointed out that Britain has created an atmosphere that is characterized by "children without fathers, schools without discipline, reward without effort, crime without punishment, rights without responsibilities [and] communities...

Two Seneca Falls residents were charged with forcing a 2-year-old to smoke marijuana. New York State Police charged Kristen A. Brewster, 19, of 1875 Auburn Road, lot 3, and George R. Lavare Jr., 22, of 1875 Auburn Road, lot 11, with unlawful possession of marijuana and endangering the welfare of a child. Both were arraigned in the Town of Seneca Falls Court and sent to to jail in lieu of $5,000 bail or $10,000 bond. The two are due in Town of Seneca Falls Court on Oct. 28. Police said the state Child Abuse Hotline was contacted and the Seneca...

So now we are seeing kids falling like flies from the swine flu [H1N1], and what drastic measures are being taken by the school system? Zip, zero, nadda. The dirty little secret is that schools are paid according to attendence. Kids need doctors' notes -- yadda-yadda. Bottom line -- sick kids are "noble" for toughing it out in school and spreading illness. If the safe school tsar gave half a tinker's fig, he would start fining schools that have obvious sick kids in class. Obama doesn't really care, his administration doesn't care, the teachers' union doesn't care -- it's all...

Scooter must--can--clear good name, here's how. [Please excuse Freep newbie. I have tried several times to post to News/Activism. Sorry.] No leak, no leak crime. It's as simple as that. Scooter Libby can clear his good name, as this very, very recent news shows. NOTE: He has to, because a conviction could cripple the administration and hurt the cause of good government for years to come. He can do it. The Administration picked a real bulldog in special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. When Scooter comes out of this smelling like a rose, as this shows he probably will, no one will...

For the sake of the President's program, Scooter must--can--clear good his name, here's how. [I don't know all of the protocols in posting here. I am a newbie. Just fair warning. :) ] No leak, no leak crime. It's as simple as that. Scooter Libby can clear his good name, as this very, very recent news shows. NOTE: He has to, because a conviction could cripple the administration and hurt the cause of good government for years to come. He can do it. The Administration picked a real bulldog in special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. When Scooter comes out of this...

Many, many Amazing! details on Plame's Brewster Jennings Co. Provides Hope for Scooter Libby's Trial: No Leak/No Crime 1. LEFT-WING INDYMEDIA http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php article on "PLAME IS NO SECRET" and MANY NEW DETAILS ON BREWSTER-JENNINGS (previously undisclosed) PUBLISHED TUES. MAR 7. 2. BREWSTER-JENNINGS = BURKE DENNEHY (PLAME'S EMPLOYER) 3. ROBERT ELLMANN, JEAN C. EDWARDS named as BREWSTER EMPLOYEES (first since Plame). THEY PUT THEIR RESUMES ON THE WEB. http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/38643.php MARCH 7 4. MARCH 12: CHICAGO TRIBUNE PICKS UP ON ABOVE (1, 3) FIVE DAYS LATER. Another sign of Brewster-Jennings' link to the CIA came from the online résumé of a Washington...

WASHINGTON -- The question of whether Valerie Plame's employment by the Central Intelligence Agency was a secret is the key issue in the two-year investigation to determine if someone broke the law by leaking her CIA affiliation to the news media. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald contends that Plame's friends "had no idea she had another life." But Plame's secret life could be easily penetrated with the right computer sleuthing and an understanding of how the CIA's covert employees work.

If Valerie Elise Plame Wilson was a top-notch covert spy, as the main stream media would have us believe, we’re all in real trouble. Spending even a couple of hours on the web demonstrates she was less than adept at hiding her deep cover as the following items—pieced together from searching the Internet—indicate. So what do we know about Ms. Plame? She was born April 19, 1963 in a military hospital in Anchorage Alaska to Samuel D. Plame, an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and Diane E. Plame her mother. She graduated from Lower Moreland High in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County,...

Hypocrisy leaks from Plame case "It must be fun to be privy to the secrets of the CIA. But a man who ignores a secrecy oath and instead uses national secrets to make a big splash on the front page might be accused of putting his love for publicity above such tawdry interests as national security." ...In Torricelli's case, the spin was that the CIA source in question had killed an American. He hadn't, but even if he had that would not have justified naming him. In Rove's case, the spin is that the release of the agent's identity did...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- A New York state lawmaker says he's embarrassed, after he mistakenly sent out an e-mail message that referred to his constituents as "idiots." Assemblyman Willis Stephens says he thought he was sending the e-mail to an aide. Instead, he sent the note to nearly 300 people on an online discussion group that focuses on the community of Brewster. The message included the comment that he was "just watching the idiots pontificate." Within an hour of sending the message Monday morning, Stephens sent another e-mail apologizing for the slip-up. Stephens, a Republican, represents an area north of New...