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heathrow evacuated - suspicious package - man seen placing package and running off ... only in german - can't find on bbc / sky this is AP via a Swiss Internet News Site

Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claim an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed on a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the US Air Force and the federal government. However, you may well NOT know that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.; Hillary Rodham; John F. Kerry; William Jefferson Clinton; Howard Dean; Nancy Pelosi; Dianne Feinstein; Charles E. Schumer; and Barbara Boxer were born. That piece...

Something "funny" going on here. I am unable to connect to google, msn, microsoft, yahoo and others... always timesout - using netscape and tried with ie as well. what's really strange, I had FR loaded overnight and I can connect to all pages on FR - just not anywhere else.

COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give them each a cow. CONSTITUTION They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart Guys, it's worked for over 200...

<p>Maybe Mayor Nagin would like to explain this picture before he and the rest of his democratic fellow travelers continue to blast the fed's.</p>

With the conviction of Mounir el Motassadeq, Hamburg's judges wanted to prove that the German judiciary was capable of combating Islamist terror. Terrorism cases continue to pose a dilemna for German courts due to a lack of solid evidence against suspects.

Source is in german language. Mounir al Motassadeq was one of the planners in Germany for the 9/11 attacks. He was being (re)tried on 3000+ accounts of accesory to murder and membership in a terrorist organization. The earlier sentence was tossed out on appeal and sent back for retrial. The germans were insisting upon having Binalshib & Co testify. He has now been senetenced to SEVEN years, apparently based only on the membership in a terrorist organization. The accesory charges were deemed unproven because the interrogations of Binalshib & Co MIGHT have been forced (torture).

This is a bit radical, I admit. But, given the current circumstances I believe it is time that we realized that the Republican Party, in the Senate, is a MINNO (Majority iN Name Only). 7 traitorous RINO's have effectively given control of the Senate to the minority party. I propose that we begin a concerted effort to force the RNC to remove the offending members from the roles of the Republican Party. This would, of course, result in the loss of control of the Senate. However, as evidenced by the behavior of the 7 Traitors, the Republicans are NOT in...

US President Bush got a raucous welcome in Georgia on Tuesday. But he also got a hand grenade thrown at him. Why was security so tight when he visited Germany in February and so lax in Georgia, one of Europe's furthest outposts? Plus: if France doesn't torpedo the EU constitution, Holland might; and can Cannes survive without Michael Moore? US President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili play to the roaring crowd in Georgia's Freedom Square unaware that someone had lobbed an inactive grenade in their direction. Zoom AFP US President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikhail...

WND Exclusive ELECTION 2008 Mel Gibson pushed for president Activist inspired by actor's stand on Schiavo, says his charisma needed Posted: April 6, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Ron Strom © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Inspired by Mel Gibson's strong stand against the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, an Oregon businessman has begun a campaign to see the "Passion" director run for president as a Republican in 2008, saying he's the only potential candidate who has the star power and charisma needed to keep Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House. Mel Gibson "Mel Gibson is perhaps one of the few...

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth and populated the Earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow and red vegetables of all kinds, so Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives. Then using God's great gifts, Satan created Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Krispy Kreme Donuts. And Satan said, "You want chocolate with that?" And Man said, Yes!" and Woman said, "and as long as you're at it, add some sprinkles." And they gained 10 pounds. And Satan smiled. And God created the healthful yogurt that Woman might keep the figure that...

You might be an EXTREME Redneck if: 1. You let your 14-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids. 2. The Blue Book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas is in it. 3. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws. 4. You think a woman who is "out of your league" bowls on a different night. 5. You wonder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean. 6. Someone in your family died right after saying, "Hey, y'all, watch this." 7. You think Dom Perignon...

Inter-Condi-Nental Visits the New Germany AP Inter-Condi-nental: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting major capitals in the Europe and Middle East on her first trip since taking office. Condoleezza Rice, the new United States Secretary of State, who often played shadow Secretary during her role in the first Bush administration as Bush's National Security Advisor, is in Berlin on Friday patching up American-German relations in a 40-minute meeting with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. On Thursday, our colleague Severin Weiland caught up by phone with Kasten Voigt, the coordinator for German-US relations in the Foreign Ministry. SNIP Voigt said he's...

"It's hard for the States to do anything right these days. Berlin is expecting Condi Rice on Friday and the nation's commentators are spoiling for a fight. The trans-Atlantic relationship is in shambles and Bush once again seems to be on the war path. Oh yeah, his domestic policies are a catastrophe as well."

Last week I purchased a burger for $1.58. The counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I pulled 8 cents from my pocket and gave it to her. She stood there, holding the nickel and 3 pennies, while looking at the screen on her register. I sensed her discomfort and tried to tell her to just give me two quarters, but she hailed the manager for help. While he tried to explain the transaction to her, she stood there and cried. Why do I tell you this? Please read more about the "history of...

At the link is an article (in German) which reports on the anti-Palestinian "bias" in Isreali school books. I post this because, in the entire article, there is no mention of the fact that Palestinian school books (which are funded by the EU) have at least as much anti-Isreali bias as the books cited ion the article. Some quotes: "Werte wie Vaterlandsliebe stehen höher als eine kaum beachtete Friedenspädagogik, an israelischen Schulen wird nur selten der Versuch unternommen, die palästinensische Sicht der Dinge nachzuvollziehen." Translation "Values like love of the Fatherland are higher than a barely considered peace education. An...

The Same Subject Continued, and Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered From the New York Packet. Friday, March 21, 1788. HAMILTON To the People of the State of New York: THE administration of government, in its largest sense, comprehends all the operations of the body politic, whether legislative, executive, or judiciary; but in its most usual, and perhaps its most precise signification. it is limited to executive details, and falls peculiarly within the province of the executive department. The actual conduct of foreign negotiations, the preparatory plans of finance, the application and disbursement of the public moneys in conformity to the...

Begin Translation - - - 11 November 2004 Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called the death of president Jassir Arafat a great loss for the Palestinian people. In a letter of condolence to Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei on Thursday, Schroeder expressed his sympathy. "Yassir Arafat's lifelong endeavour was directed to leading the Palestinians into independence and the creation of a sovereign, viable Palestinian state", it was stated in the letter. It was not to be for Arafat to complete his life's work. "We will keep him in honoured memory", wrote the Chancellor. Schroeder asked Kureia to convey his sympathy to...

As I and many of my fellow expatriates are often hard pressed to get any non-biased information from the media (we are often stuck with CNN-International!!), I have decided to start this thread in the tradition of the Operation Iraqi Freedom Situation Room threads.  I hope this meets with the approval of Jim & John and the Admin guys . . . The purpose of this thread is to be a place to collect information from all sources into one area for discussion.  Specific threads for specific topics and cross linking are highly encouraged.

"John F. Kerry's campaign literature claimed that he 'served in the U.S. Navy.' The only problem? He didn't!" According to several quotes from the linked page, as well as numerous statements throughout the campaign, John Kerry has repeated made the claim to have been a member of the US Navy. John Kerry was NEVER a member of the US Navy! He was a member of the US Navy Reserve. ** When questioned about this whale of a lie, DNC Communications Director Jano Cabrera responded, "John Kerry has a clear pattern of fully disclosing all details about his military service. From...