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"It's just so amazing to see the band of the Milky Way arcing from one end of the horizon straight above you to the other," he said in an interview with ABC News. "And if you're in a really dark place, the light of the Milky Way can actually cast a shadow."

Facts Are Stubborn Things Democrats Yank Middle Class Tax Relief from National Energy Tax Bill Wednesday, June 24, 2009 * In the middle of the night, Democrats yanked any energy tax relief for American families from their National Energy Tax bill (the cap-and-trade scheme under Waxman-Markey) and replaced it with a further expansion of their welfare program --- energy stamps. * This change renders the recent CBO analysis of net household cost from the Democrats’ National Energy Tax obsolete, because CBO included the benefits of the previously proposed tax relief in its analysis. * The Democrats’ National Energy Tax will...

Space Shuttle's Left Wing May Be Damaged Meteorite, Space Junk May Have Struck Panels POSTED: 5:13 pm EDT June 12, 2007 UPDATED: 7:00 pm EDT June 12, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts WASHINGTON -- A meteorite or space junk may have struck Space Shuttle Atlantis' left wing, according to NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree. NASA recorded a hit on reinforced carbon panels 7 and 8 on the left wing. The panels keep heat from re-entry from burning the spacecraft. ... This is the same area where foam damaged Columbia's left...

Dress to impress, goes the maxim. "Dress to conceive" might be more accurate. Women take greater care over their appearance when they are at peak levels of fertility. Working with a group of 30 women aged 18 to 37, Martie Haselton of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues took two full-body photographs of each woman, one close to ovulation when the woman was highly fertile, and one at a point of low fertility in the menstrual cycle. Volunteers were then invited to decide which of the two photos showed the woman trying to look more attractive. They chose...

http://www.isboston.org/v3.1/viewitem.asp?MenuID=72&DocID=209 Is a mosque a holy place? Q. Is a mosque a holy place? A. A mosque is a place that is specifically dedicated as a place of prayer. However, there is nothing sacred about the building or the place itself. There is no equivalent of an altar in a mosque. A Muslim may pray on any clean surface. Muslims often pray in public places.

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/story/?id=549 California teacher censored -------------------------------------------------------- Release Date: 2004-11-23 Primary Category: Religious Freedom ADF Media Relations 480-444-0020 California teacher censored School district forbids teacher from providing handouts that reference significant documents in U.S. history because they mention God CUPERTINO, Calif.—Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit yesterday against the Cupertino Union School District for prohibiting a teacher from providing supplemental handouts to students about American history because the historical documents contain some references to God and religion. “Throwing aside all common sense, the district has chosen to censor men such as George Washington and documents like the Declaration of Independence....

Listening to Tony Snow on Fox Radio, about the death of Arafat, and he has a great discussion and commentary on the anarcy and chaos and corruption which is currently reigning with the death of their democratically 'elected' leader, now that they have found the billions he has stolen.

http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2004/02/25.html Fresh from an interview where he questioned President Bush about his Vietnam War-era service in the National Guard, Tim Russert of Meet the Press thinks that the Democrats are going to continue hammering on the issue. They think Bush’s service in the guard on U.S. soil stands in stark contrast to Kerry going to Vietnam and serving in combat. But they ignore a critical issue. As claimed by Mike Benge, a former civilian Vietnam POW, “John Kerry has fought harder for the Vietnamese communists than he fought against them in Vietnam.” This is the aspect of Kerry’s record that...

U.S. self-sufficient in gas if drilling, pipelines expanded Washington |Reuters | 06-04-2001 The United States has enough natural gas to generate electricity and keep computers and businesses humming for six decades, but only if Congress opens more federal lands to drilling and more pipelines are built to deliver it, an industry report says. The new report issued by the American Gas Association comes at a time when environmental groups are trying to block a Senate Republican plan to give oil, gas and mining groups access to more federal lands. The United States had natural gas resources totalling 1,258 trillion cubic...

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/secwatch/index.cfm?service=cwn&parent=detail&menu=8&sNewsID=9128 ISN : Information Services : Security Watch In Depth Article Containment or concession: the eclipse of regime change 30.06.2004 Under the pervasive uncertainty about whether the general pattern of world politics will mark a restoration of multilateralism with US leadership or a drift toward multi-polarism, strategic options present themselves to Washington. Those options define the alternative goals for US foreign and security policy. By Dr Michael A. Weinstein for PINR Making the US decisional position the major determinant of the pattern of world politics does not imply a preference for American power. It is simply recognition that the present...

040620 Hizb ut Tahrir 2004-06-20 14:59:05 <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> From their website, their own words: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/english/ <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Note – my clarifications, placed in brackets are from: Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary.html <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Bismillahi Al-Rahman Al-Raheem     Hizb ut-Tahrir <![if !vml]><![endif]> The Aim of Hizb ut-Tahrir <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam, so politics is its work and Islam is its ideology. It works within the Ummah [ community ]  and together with her, so that she adopts Islam as her cause and is led to restore...

<![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> From their website, their own words: http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org/english/ <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Note – my clarifications, placed in brackets are from: Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary.html <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Bismillahi Al-Rahman Al-Raheem     Hizb ut-Tahrir <![if !vml]><![endif]> The Aim of Hizb ut-Tahrir <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Hizb ut-Tahrir Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam, so politics is its work and Islam is its ideology. It works within the Ummah [ community ]  and together with her, so that she adopts Islam as her cause and is led to restore the Khilafah and the ruling by what Allah (swt)...

Just caught a part of Rush's show today, and apparently, the Senate just passed an amendment on the funding for the military to CENSOR Rush Limbaugh program, and allow only liberal programs on Armed Forces Network. This may be wrong, does anyone know more?

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/usspy.html 16 May, 1918The U.S. Sedition Act United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff. A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. SECTION 3. Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination,...

http://www.anncoulter.org/ How 9-11 Happened March 31, 2004 We don't need a "commission" to find out how 9-11 happened. The truth is in the timeline: PRESIDENT CARTER, DEMOCRAT In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics. A few months later, Muslims stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and took American Embassy staff hostage. Carter retaliated by canceling Iranian visas. He eventually ordered a disastrous and humiliating rescue attempt, crashing helicopters in the desert. PRESIDENT REAGAN, REPUBLICAN The day of Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released. In 1982, the U.S. Embassy...

New Trade Figures Explode Standard Globalization Myths Alan Tonelson Wednesday, March 05, 2003 The year-end 2002 trade figures released in late February were bad enough from an aggregate standpoint. As discussed in last week’s column (“U.S. Trade Deficit Endangers the American Economy”), exports were down, imports were up, the trade deficit grew by more than 20 percent, America’s international debts mounted, and the nation drew that much closer to a dollar crisis. Disturbingly, the story told by the trade figures’ makeup is at least as bad. Sweating these details also punctures several seductive myths about U.S. trade policy and performance....

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20030901-0838-nicaragua-missiles.html Nicaragua says it has 2,000 anti-aircraft missiles ASSOCIATED PRESS 8:38 a.m. September 1, 2003 MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua's army chief, urged by Washington to destroy surface-to-air missiles, says his country has 2,000 of the missiles worth more than $100 million. In remarks published Monday by the newspaper La Prensa, Gen. Javier Carrion McDonough expressed understanding of U.S. concerns about such weapons in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. "It is said that there are between 200,000 and 500,000 missiles around the world in the hands of armed forces or whatever," he...

IMO Liberal Propagandists on ABC nightline bent on Destoying America , doing a cultural hitpiece on American thanksgiving, from turkey, and family to cranberries - we need more chinese, blacks, arabs in this archaic, out of date celebration. And there is no mention of history (except FDR - Roosevelt), no mention of God and religion, or of Thanks.

031005 Maquiladoras Discover the Cost-Saving Benefits ofMexico Manufacturing 2003-10-05 09:09:39 http://www.madeinmexicoinc.com Maquiladoras: Discover the Cost-Saving Benefits of Mexico Manufacturing Why risk the pitfalls of operating in a foreign company? Inexpensive labor, possible duty-free importation into Mexico, favorable U.S. tariffs, reduced freight cost and turnaround time, and more - competitive advantages abound with maquiladoras. Unfortunately, so does red tape. That's where the experts at Made In Mexico, Inc. come in. A full-service maquiladora management company based in San Diego, California, Made In Mexico, Inc. has maximized profits for dozens of companies by carefully guiding them through the steps to successful...

030930 H1B visa holders may not have to pay social security tax soon 2003-09-30 13:01:53 The Economic Times Tuesday, September 30, 2003| Updated at 21:36 hrs IST http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?xml=0&artid=25500046&sType=1 H1-B visa holders may not have to pay social security tax soon JAMES MATHEW & KRISHNA KANT TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2002 12:55:44 AM ] NEW DELHI: There is good news for all those who are there in the US on a H1-B visa. India is close to signing the administrative protocol with the US on abolishing social security tax charged by the US administration on those H-1B visa holders....