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JUNE 1--The U.S. government paid a paltry $2350 to settle a lawsuit brought by a Texas woman who sued the Transportation Security Administration after her breasts were exposed during a vigorous frisking at a Texas airport, records show. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Department of Justice released a copy of the settlement agreement reached earlier this year with Lynsie Murley, the 24-year-old Amarillo woman who sued the TSA for negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress in connection with the May 2008 incident at the Corpus Christi airport. [snip]

I was "Born in the USA" over 50 years ago, and have been employed at my current location for over 11 years, but Homeland Security says that I can't keep my job without a Social Security card.I got my SS card in 6th grade back in '66, and in big red letters on it, it said, NOT TO BE USED FOR IDENTIFICATION.  I memorized my number, and never carried it with me, so I have no idea where that card went to in the intervening 44 years.I’ve been employed almost continuously since I was 15 years old, and worked...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The ultra-green sheen to speed skating at the Olympic Oval was dealt a blow on Monday when Games officials said they were bringing in a propane-powered Zamboni to replace a bulky battery-operated ice resurfacer . . . .

I wanted to send Joe Wilson a note of support, but his web site at the official U.S. Congress location is offline "for maintenance". Are they trying to take him down? Does anyone have a phone number for Joe Wilson so that I can phone him my support?

I can't believe it! After all we have been through and all we know about what caused the housing bubble, I'm still getting invites to get a subprime loan. Before you click on the link, know in advance that it is a commercial mortage web site that is advertising that now that it has some new bailout money (from the $300 billion mortage bailout bill passed earlier in the summer) it can rev up and offer you new interest only mortages. I thought that this was going to be cut off before any of our hard earned tax dollars would...

Please forgive this vanity, but I don't know where else to go to ask this question. Is there a coordinated and deliberate attempt by the media and Democrat plants at blog sites to distort and outright lie about everything concerning this election in order to manipulate voters? I live in the heart of Santorum country in Pennsylvania, and now I'm being told that, even here, Casey is ahead. I don't buy it. I am feeling lied to and being taken for a fool. No one I know has even the slightest thought of sitting out, or not voting, or even...

U.S. asks Israel to consider talks on land JERUSALEM, July 27 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have advised Israel to consider a deal that would give the Shaba Farms area, occupied by Israel since 1967, to Lebanon. The issue was broached by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The Post said the Israeli government pushed the idea aside after bitter fighting and Israeli loses Wednesday at Bint Jbail, the Hezbollah capital in Lebanon. When asked about the possibility of Israel relinquishing the area, Foreign Ministry Spokesman...

I'm ready to explode - literally to explode!!  The press, once called the “Fourth Estate” has now become a 5th column.  Everything Kerry says is not only G-d’s Gospel truth, but pure as the wind swept snow.  Whereas, anything said by anyone who happens to disagree, is a lie, not only a lie, but a provable lie – as long as you use Kerry’s notes, Kerry’s photos, Kerry’s movies, Kerry’s “witnesses”, and Kerry’s supporters’ explanations to refute them.  There is not one example of objectivity to be seen in any mass market media outlet.  It’s like Joseph Goebbels was...

Jewish World Review Sept. 13, 2002 / 7 Tishrei, 5763 David Silverberg Dispatches from the future: Sept. 11, 2003 http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Two dispatches from next year's Sept. 11 anniversary landed on our desk this week. We can't determine which one is accurate so we present them both. SEPT. 11, 2003, NEW YORK Scientists believe they have now located the epicenter of the nuclear explosion that destroyed this city last week. It was believed to be somewhere around mid-town Manhattan. Federal officials now estimate that the nuclear device that immediately killed an estimated 200,000 people and injured an additional 2 million...

I have not seen any threads on this topic, but, if we really do fight an "all out" WAR on Islamic terrorism, Americans have to face it that in the short run we will LOSE Mid-East oil imports and that our economy WILL be affected. This is what I see as the problem with the RESOLVE of the American people. Do we have the ability to perservere as our parents and grandparents did during WWII?? Personally, I am willing to pay any price so that my children will not have to worry about terrorism. I'm too old to enlist (or ...

I actually heard Dickhead Gephardt say on national TV last night that it might be time for American citizens to have to carry ID cards with them at all times. These cards would be so called "smart cards" containing all of your personal information. I thought that living in America and being an American citizen meant that we didn't have to worry about "showing our papers" to go out and about. I'm scared - really scared - not of the terrorists, but of our representatives in Washington! The plain fact that they haven't declared WAR on terrorists and the countries ...

CADD CADD 2 3 2000-12-01T14:59:00Z 2000-12-01T15:02:00Z 1 ARM Group Inc. 1 1 9.3821 BestFit Protesters in Seattle clashed with police Thursday night while commemorating the one-year anniversary of a much wilder confrontation: last year's raucous World Trade Organization riots. Police used pepper spray and moved in to arrest those in the crowd of 100 demonstrators who refused to disperse. The commemoration that had begun quiet and lighthearted — with assorted marching, dancing and chanting — disintegrated as, according to police, a number of protesters threw rocks and bottles, as well as carried bottles of gasoline. One police captain was ...

I'm still amazed that there is any "real" discussion of "being able to govern". The Republican Party has the White House and -*>BOTH1<*- vote more than your opponent is all you need. We have the votes in both houses and the pen in the White House. The only possible problem would be fillabusters in the Senate. All of the main Republican measures that were vetoed by Der Slickmeister were passed with large majorities in both houses - all we needed was someone to sign them in the White House - we have that now - so LET'S GET TO WORK!! ...

George W. Bush has won the 25 electoral votes from the State of Florida - you can whine and complain all you want, but that makes him the President Elect of the United States. Has anyone seen any media outlet that has addressed him this way????

George W. Bush has won the 25 electoral votes from the State of Florida - you can whine and complain all you want, but that makes him the President Elect of the United States. Has anyone seen any media outlet that has addressed him this way????