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Feminization of Americans and Immigration - THE LINK When I was young, I played with things and ideas. My favorite was earth moving equipment. I built entire communities in the yard with tunnels, bridges, lakes, dams. During school I dreamed about what I would build. I also pretended a stick was a gun, etc. My sisters played with (manipulated) dolls. Real boys just had bigger toys when they grew up. They manipulated things and ideas. Only giggolos and pimps manipulated people. Girls, on the other hand, grew up to be real women who manipulated other people into cooperating. As has...

Conservative Elgin state Sen. Steve Rauschenberger will drop out of the Republican governor’s race today to become the running mate of moderate Ron Gidwitz in an attempt to salvage both men’s statewide hopes next year. The move to form a balanced ideological team comes a week after state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka entered the GOP governor primary amid a state party poll that showed her with a wide lead with many voters still undecided. While Gidwitz and Rauschenberger had been talking prior to that, the meeting helped speed up their decision to join forces after perceiving the party establishment was...

Republican leaders in Congress hope to complete a bill to curb the growth of student loans, Medicaid and other benefit programs before Christmas, though they might delay extending tax cuts until next year. Staff aides and lobbyists are skeptical about the prospects of finishing work in the next few weeks on five-year spending cuts of up to $50 billion. But failure to deliver would disappoint GOP loyalists eager to see their party burnish its budget-cutting credentials, It also would push the contentious issue into January or February, muddying next year's agenda. The House will return Tuesday for a scheduled two-week...

Dozens of women who had abortions or miscarried have contacted the coroner's office to see if their fetuses were among 300 discovered in the garage of a home where a suspended funeral director once lived.The fetuses were found last week in cardboard boxes, plastic bags and Tupperware-like containers inside the padlocked garage of the home of Robert B. Winston Jr.'s ex-wife.Winston and his former funeral home, Newman-Winston Memorial Chapel, had a contract with Magee-Womens Hospital from 1999 to 2002 to dispose of fetuses by having them cremated, authorities said.The fetuses-which range in gestational age from 16 weeks to full term-were...

Digitization is THE primary catalyst for offshoring. It is one of the biggest game changing developments in the 21st Century, just as the Industrial Revolution, the Automobile, electricity and others were in other centuries. This is where it all begins!Mark my words! If you think the Internet was a game changing development in the late 90's, digitization combined with the Internet is going to shake up many many people's lives as never before seen in this century.If you have missed the previous 4 installments, here they are:1. Preface 2. The Spread of Computing 3. The Spread of Knowledge 4. The...

Timing is everything, and many in Western Springs are wondering why the suburb approved the clearing of about 45 oak trees at a golf course -- some of them 200 years old -- just three days after the village president lost his seat to a supporter of a group trying to block development on the course until its soil can be tested for contamination.Newly elected Village President Jack Lynch, who defeated John Kravcik on Tuesday, said he welcomes the construction of a 338-home development at the Timber Trails golf course. But when the property was annexed by the village three...

Excerpt from my church bulletinThis weekend we rededicate our processional cross..... The weight and design of the original cross makes it difficult for many to carry. The new cross is a smaller and lighter cross that can easily be carried by most parishioners. It has been designed to the exact pattern and dimension of the original, so that when it is "hung" on the original cross, it disappears into it.....

Like WLS host Paul Bryant, this morning I switched to oppose Bush. Neither of us is much of an environmentalist. But Bush went too far as the anti-environment president.We woke up this morning and looked out the window. Bush had turned all the trees brown.

http://illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=19047OPINION -- Have you heard that our “shaky, jobless recovery” is threatening to come to a halt? That is utterly wrong, according to a whistle-blowing Ph.D. who demonstrates how employment reports, used of late as Weapons of Mass Depiction against D.C. Republicans, are misleading us.In an August 7 Chicago Tribune article, “Hiring fizzles in July,” reporter William Neikirk began, “Employers put the brakes on hiring last month, adding a scant 32,000 jobs to their payrolls, the government said Friday in a report that roiled the presidential race.” Note how the supposedly low job increase translates into... what result? Why, the...

Sunday my wife and I went to the church of one of her friends. We got there early, during the Chinese service. They were preaching and praying against Godless Communism while planning how to ship more Bibles to their underground churches.Then the Spanish service started. After some rousing music the pastor gave his Father's Day sermon. I heard his theme as: "El Hombre de valor es productivo capitalismo en Dios." He then elaborated on how a real man is productive in having children and raising them to honor God and to use the talents God gave them, etc. (I loosely...

could be worth as much as $10 billion. The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday it has picked Accenture as the prime contractor for US-Visit, an IT-based system that will control entry of foreigners into the country. The five-year contract, which could be lengthened to 10 years, could be worth up to $10 billion. Some people questioned whether the U.S. government would award Accenture the contract because it's incorporated in Hamilton, Bermuda. But only a handful of employees are situated there; 25,000 of Accenture's 90,000 workers are based in the United States. Accenture, with operations in 48 countries, says it...

U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan spoke with black community leaders at the Chicago Defender on Friday."Our failing schools is the most important current civil rights issue," Ryan said. ...(see full article www.illinoisleader.com)... He read a portion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren's 1954 opinion in Brown: In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms...."Why not allow the...

Schwarzenegger 17% of Blacks, 30% of Hispanics 37% OTHERMcClintock- - - 6% of Blacks, 9% of Hispanics McClintock 19% OTHERRepublicans- -23% of Blacks, 39% of Hispanics Republicans 55% OTHER .

ON THE FRONT: Geoff Moore Friday, September 12, 2003 Geoff Moore ON THE FRONT -- NAME:Geoffrey Moore FAMILY: Married Kimberly Edwards in May 2001, Adopted my Black lab mix puppy, Major, in August 2003 POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Republican, Schaumburg Township Alliance of Republicans, Project 21 - The National Leadership Network of Conservative African-Americans, Illinois Center Right Coalition, Illinois Freedom Project PROFESSION: Marketing Analyst with Boise Office Solutions /MBA Student @ North Park University in Chicago BOOK CURRENTLY READING: Organizational Behavior by S. Robbins and Managing Cultural Differences by Harris and Moran POLITICAL EXPERIENCE: Limited, began volunteering with the Schaumburg Township Alliance...