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from Carl: To all my friends in battle, The Judge pulled the lawyers for the three cases into chambers before it all began and advised them that he would be issuing a default judgment in our favor, since the Defense council failed to show, and wanted to end it there. We argued that all the evidence needed to be entered in to record so the Judge allowed for a speedy hearing where all evidence was entered into the court record. What that means is this… Any appeal, if one is even possible, would be based on the evidence provided by...

After hearing evidence with neither President Barack Obama nor his lawyers in attendance, a state administrative law judge on Thursday did not issue a ruling as to whether Obama can be allowed on the state ballot in November. Lawyers for area residents mounting "birther" challenges told Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi that Obama should be found in contempt of court for not appearing when under subpoena to do so. But Malihi did not indicate he would recommend that and cut off one lawyer when he criticized Obama for not attending the hearing. "It shows not just a contempt for this...

... If that's not enough to get your antenna up, here's another bit of news that most people missed. In April 2010 it was announced that every 140-character snippet you have ever posted on Twitter has been committed to the U.S. Library of Congress. The Library of Congress and our friends at Twitter have agreed to archive every single tweet since its inception on March 21, 2006, when the first tweet was launched. It is now estimated that together we send a billion tweets a week – and all of it is be preserved forever. ... In September of this...

...Republican Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson on Wednesday co-sponsored legislation that would give residents of the District of Columbia the right to possess handguns for the first time in more than 30 years... Isakson and Chambliss’ legislation is attached to a bill that would give the district its first voting seat in the House. The Senate passed the voting bill Tuesday. The right to have a pistol in Washington is simply a basic constitutional right, Chambliss said. “Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms,” Chambliss said in a statement....

...Isakson had to be tempted because he’d succeeded in getting a $15,000 tax credit for those who buy a primary residence, something he thinks essential to jump-start the housing sector. Had he agreed to support the pent-up demands of Democrats who’d had their spending ambitions partially checked for eight years, his tax credit language would undoubtedly have stayed in the final bill. He, too, could have stood with Reid and received the showering of blessings as a Great American Patriot that Reid bestowed on Collins, Specter and Snowe. That photo op would, of course, have been political suicide back in...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg, 75, had the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, said her surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan, according to a release issued by the court. The court announcement said the cancer is apparently in the early stages.

The federal ATF and Jasper police are offering a $5,000 reward after the weekend break-in at a popular sporting goods store and the theft of 40 guns. A video surveillance camera caught three masked men smashing display cases at the Bargain Barn in Jasper early Saturday and, in less than two minutes, escaping with 34 semi-automatic pistols and six rifles. The value of the guns was not immediately disclosed. “Right now, we’re in the early stages of the investigation,” Marc Jackson, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said Thursday afternoon. Jasper Police Chief Harold Cantrell...

Revival of the 10th Amendment should be the centerpiece of a new Republican Contract with America.What should the other parts be?Perhaps, realing the 16th Amendment and starting the Fair Tax?

Indiana, my butt In 2004, the 1st red state to go for Bush was Georgia. Watch Georgia!

...Oh, and while the king was looking down, The jester stole his thorny crown. The courtroom was adjourned; No verdict was returned. And while lennon read a book of marx, The quartet practiced in the park, And we sang dirges in the dark The day the music died....Oh, and as I watched him on the stage My hands were clenched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell Could break that satan's spell. And as the flames climbed high into the night To light the sacrificial rite, I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died He...

A slave is defined as somebody who is forced to work for somebody else for no payment and is regarded as the property of that person. Joe the Plumber was recently informed by Obama that he does not belong to himself. He is expected to work to make as much money as he can so that it can be taken from him to give to people who do not work hard and “need” the money more than he does. Joe didn’t look too happy about being informed that the fruits of his labor do not belong to him, that they...

The Hustler founder has made an X-rated movie using an adult-film actress who resembles the governor of Alaska. Flynt's team had posted an anonymous advert on the website Craigslist just days after Mrs Palin took the Republican convention by storm last month. The ad read: "Looking for a Sarah Palin look-alike for an adult film to be shot in the next 10 days."

Fox news reports:Senate to Vote on Rescue Plan With Added Tax CutArticle 1 Section 7All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.Not only are they moving towards Socialism but now they have trashed the Constitution.

If you look at what happens, every time they talk about bailout, and every time it looks like it is going to happen, oil goes up, way up. OPEC sets it. Oil goes up. It takes all of the juice out of whatever they are doing. So every time they do something that's artificial, oil goes up. The beauty about this is oil is going to go down like a rock, and there is nothing anybody can do about it. And I love that. ... TRUMP: Oil is the lifeblood. Oil — it's no different than the blood that pumps...

Once upon a time, there was a country called the United States of America. This fairy tale land was founded by giants. But these giants were unlike those mean giants who grind men’s bones to make their bread. These giants respected all men’s bones, no matter how very small they were. In fact, these giants went to war against a wicked King who lived across an ocean, a King who was stealing the money of the little men to pay for things he wanted. When the good giants won the war, the little men were so grateful that they offered...

Cobb County school officials let a student return to Walton High School last month after police charged the teen with making terroristic threats by saying he would bring a gun to school and kill his classmates. The boy, whom school officials have declined to identify because he is a juvenile, threatened on Dec. 12 to "get a gun from the black market and come back rampaging through school," says a school police report obtained under Georgia's Open Records Act. Walton principal Tom Higgins could have sent the teen to an alternative school or recommended that he be expelled but instead...

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian court has acquitted a man accused of raping a sleeping woman after he said he was also asleep at the time. The 18-year old woman, who had gone to sleep dressed in trousers and a sweater on a sofa after a party with friends, awoke to find the 34-year-old man having sex with her. The man said he was woken by her screams for help. "He said that he was asleep and the majority of the judges found that they could not rule out the possibility," defense lawyer Christian Riig told NRK public radio on...

Two young lieutenants of the 48th Brigade of the Georgia National Guard watched a couple of dozen enlisted men party with four Hooters girls in an armory in Lawrenceville on Pearl Harbor Day. On Thursday, they and about 80 more members of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, will roll out to Fort Gordon to start retraining in Bradley Fighting Vehicles. They don't know where they're going, they don't know when, and they don't know when they'll return home. The only thing they've been told is to get ready for possible deployment to somewhere in the Middle East. They...

Funny, you'd think middle-school teachers would be the first to grasp the possibility that humans evolved from little apesThe Washington Post on Tuesday took on the topic of evolution in the classroom. It pointed out the dilemma faced by David Jackson, a professor of science education at the University of Georgia. Jackson has no problem with the concept of life on Earth developing from a common ancestry. Here's the crux, according to the Post: "About half the students (Jackson) teaches to become middle school science instructors — and to teach evolution themselves — believe that God created the Earth 6,000...

"Don't believe the well-scripted press conference where former president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Kweisi Mfume announced his resignation," Armstrong Williams writes in Human Events Online (www.humaneventsonline.com). "Mfume did not resign from the nation's oldest and most prestigious civil rights organization. He was kicked out, following a long-simmering feud with NAACP Chairman Julian Bond. "The two began feuding after Mfume nominated National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for his 2003 NAACP Image Award. Furious that Mfume was reaching out to the Bush administration, Bond responded by nominating 'Boondocks' cartoonist Aaron McGruder for...