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This Explains A Lot!! Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, almost exactly 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with Five aliens aboard crashed onto 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 U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations. However, what you may NOT know is that nine months after that historic day, in the month of March 1948, the following people were born: Albert A. Gore, Jr. Hillary Rodham...

Snip................... Grant then drew a handgun. Assistant manager Roberto Espinal, behind a side counter, drew his gun. When Grant turned that way, Hernandez pulled his gun. It was 5 p.m., and the store was jammed with customers, loading up for dinner on their way home, who hadn't counted on a three-way standoff.

A CBS producer was arrested Saturday after deputies say he attempted to arrange sex with 11-year-old girl by communicating with undercover investigators posing as the fictitious girl's father, authorities said. Daniel J. Barron, 56, a 15-year producer with CBS News who lives in New Jersey, allegedly told an undercover St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office detective to bring his 11-year-old daughter to the Fort Lauderdale hotel where he was staying while in town to cover Sunday's Miami Dolphins game, according to an arrest report. Barron allegedly told the undercover detective, whom he met Saturday afternoon in an America Online chat room...

ince January 10, when President Bush proposed a "troop surge" in Iraq, the administration has responded to legislative critics by stating that Congress cannot handle the responsibility of conducting an effective war. "You can't run a war by committee," Vice President Richard Cheney told FOX News on January 14. But Democrats are no longer willing to trust presidential decision-making. "You don't like to micromanage the Defense Department," responded Congressman John Murtha, "but we have to, in this case, because they're not paying attention to the public..." In the debate over whether the legislature can play a constructive role in shaping...

Senate Democrats pressed the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission this week to slap tighter controls on media ownership, public-interest broadcasting and television violence. But after a sometimes contentious two-hour hearing Thursday, some lawmakers expressed little hope of meaningful change. Several Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee warned the agency.......

Twas the night before Christmas, He lived all alone, In a one bedroom house made of Plaster and stone. I had come down the chimney With presents to give, And to see just who In this home did live. I looked all about, A strange sight i did see, No tinsel, no presents, Not even a tree. No stocking by mantle, Just boots filled with sand, On the wall hung pictures Of far distant lands. With medals and badges, Awards of all kinds, A sober thought Came through my mind. For this house was different, It was dark and dreary,...

The Florida Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday in hopes of keeping notices out of polling places that would inform voters that ballots cast for former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley will count for fellow Republican Joe Negron. The eight county elections supervisors who will record the outcome in the 16th Congressional District agreed this week to print a notice that would be posted at registration tables and handed to voters who had questions about the race. Foley resigned Sept. 29 - too late to print new ballots - and was replaced as the Republican candidate by Negron, a state lawmaker...

WEST PALM BEACH — An attorney for City Commissioner Jim Exline says the announcement of a state grand jury probe at city hall unfairly tarnishes public officials who will be scrutinized. Typically, grand juries operate in secrecy, in part to avoid such damage, said attorney Robert Gershman, a former state prosecutor. "An announcement by prosecutors that they're investigating a person or entity has the effect upon the public to almost take away his presumption of innocence," Gershman said. "It blemishes the target of the investigation. Even if down the road there are no charges, it has an everlasting negative effect...

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne, Australia Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down - - and shot off their testicles. The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -- and when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbournepolice investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.'...

Democratic congressional challenger Tim Mahoney raised more money than Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley during the first quarter of 2006, but the incumbent still enjoys an 8-to-1 overall financial advantage, new reports show. Mahoney, a Palm Beach Gardens resident who is chairman of Boca Raton-based vFinance Inc., raised $184,425 in contributions and opened his own checkbook to loan his campaign $21,000 between Jan. 1 and March 31, according to a Federal Elections Commission report filed over the weekend. Six-term incumbent Foley of Fort Pierce raised $153,806 during the quarter. Foley's campaign ended the quarter with more than $2.4 million in...

STUART — What started months ago as a misunderstanding between a Martin County judge and a state agency turned this week into a full-fledged custody battle. On one side, a judge stands firm in his belief that a man he sent to prison on a parole violation has served his time. Florida Department of Corrections officials, however, say they're the ones who decide when a prisoner has served his time. By their estimate, the prisoner owes them another 12 years. At the center of the argument, Kenneth Gartley, 34, remains at a correctional institution near Tallahassee, waiting for someone, anyone,...

MIAMI (AP) - Florida disaster response officials thought their vast experience with hurricanes meant they could design an effective plan to distribute water, ice and other supplies only hours after Hurricane Wilma's winds subsided. It didn't pan out as they intended. "I think everyone acknowledges the fact that there wasn't enough inventory on the ground to keep distribution centers supplied," Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez said Thursday. "But you know, we have to learn from every experience, and I think we've learned a lot from this one." As Wilma approached last week, Florida officials repeatedly insisted they were ready and...

JUPITER — A 75-year-old man died and a woman was injured Wednesday morning after they were struck by a motorcycle while walking inside Pennock Industrial Park, police said. The unidentified man and a 67-year-old woman were crossing at Commerce Way and Commerce Lane at about 9:03 a.m. when a blue Harley-Davidson motorcycle slammed into them, said Officer Sally Collins, a police spokeswoman. The man was taken by helicopter to St. Mary's Medical Center and pronounced dead. The unidentified woman was taken to Jupiter Medical Center and then to St. Mary's trauma center, Collins said. The two Jupiter residents were attempting...

Judge Recommends Fine for Former Broward Elections Chief The Associated Press Published: Aug 31, 2005 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - An administrative judge recommended that the state fine former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant $2,000 because of the botched 2002 primary. Judge Claude Arrington in Tallahassee ruled that Oliphant willfully neglected her duty because dozens of polls did not open on time and closed early in Broward County on the 2002 gubernatorial primary. The state Elections Commission had proposed a $55,000 fine, but Arrington said that was too harsh since she has lost her job and faces financial problems,...

ALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - An employee mistake led to the Florida Democratic Party not paying some Social Security and payroll taxes, and an audit of the records will show that "not a dime" is missing, especially $900,000, former chairman Scott Maddox said late Wednesday. Meanwhile, former statewide prosecutor Melanie Hines was hired earlier in the day to investigate how the party failed to make the federal payments in 2003 and to help resolve a $900,000 discrepancy on the balance sheet. The problems occurred while Maddox, who is now a gubernatorial candidate, was serving as the party's chairman. "The $900,000 is...

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An overall concensus of "Presidents" since the onset of mass media entertainment has always portraid a US President as male. Tall, short, black white, old young, horney, lame, religious or insane. That's the way it's been. Even the cutting edge "24" has a black Ex-President for us to admire. But never, in anything worth watching has a President been depicted as a female. Including the real time, but failed attempt at a female vice-presidency. With that in mind I wondered how long before hollyweird and the MSM would take before they assaulted that manifestation of reality and began their female...

Legislation that passed in the 2005 regular session of the Florida Legislature, which adjourned Friday, would: ABORTION - Require a physician to notify a parent before performing an abortion on an unmarried girl under 18 without previous children, but allows judges to make exceptions. - Tighten regulation of abortion clinics that provide second-trimester abortions. AGRICULTURE - Declare the orange Florida's official fruit. BUDGET - Appropriate $63.1 billion in state spending for the budget year beginning July 1, including a 6 percent per student increase for public schools, $1.5 billion for growth-related roads, schools and water projects, $225 million in tax...

WELLINGTON — There's only one way to erase the disparaging memory of an embarrassing moment: tell it. Tell it over beer, outside, on a cool spring night, with a bunch of strangers turned buddies who have all been there themselves. Take Sharon Allan of Wellington, for instance. One day, she said, she suggested to a colleague that he hang out at Rooney's, one of her favorite pubs. He replied: I'm not going there — not with all those bikers. "And what, exactly, do you consider a biker?" Allan asked him — eyes narrowing as she retold the tale. The other...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he intends to sign a bill that would allow people who feel threatened on the street, in a bar, at a ball game - or just about anywhere - to "meet force with force" to defend themselves without fear of being prosecuted. The measure (SB 436), the top priority of the National Rifle Association in Florida this year, passed 94-20. It had already passed the Senate. The bill essentially extends and codifies a right Floridians already have in their home or car, saying that there's no need to retreat before...