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Starting off the music some women I was infatuated with in my fantasy world back in my youth and the reality slap to the face of my vanity and ego from the late great Jim Croce a short life with some great music left behind.... I fantasized that I was someone much greater than myself to deal with reality through decades of my life and wanting to be someone big can lead to something awful. A convicted killed said this when he appeared before a parole board last month.... "I assassinated him....because he was very, very, very famous and that's...

The Pakistani who owned the compound that was Osama bin Laden's final hideaway meticulously bought up adjoining plots of land over two years and once cryptically told a seller that the property he bought for "an uncle" had become very valuable. The new information that emerged Wednesday provided a new glimpse of one of two key figures who sheltered bin Laden in his last years and whose identities remain one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the al-Qaida chief. ..... [ snip ] ..... Property records obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday show that a man named Mohammed Arshad bought...

A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations."The information that eventually led us to this compound was the direct result of enhanced interrogations; one can conclude if we had not used enhanced interrogations, we would not have come to yesterday's action," US Senator Richard Burr in a telephone interview with CNBC. As a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Burr was briefed on the attack on the compound that led to Bin Laden's death and believes the failure of Pakistani security forces...

U.S. forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border, but in a million-dollar compound in an upscale suburb of Pakistan's capital, with his youngest wife, U.S. officials said early on Monday. They were led to the fortress-like three-story building after more than four years tracking one of bin Laden's most trusted couriers, whom U.S. officials said was identified by men captured after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "Detainees also identified this man as one of the few al Qaeda couriers trusted by bin Laden. They indicated he might be living with...

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Texas) spoke with Joe Miller over the weekend and assured him that the NRSC will stay neutral in the Alaska GOP Senate primary and support whoever wins, according to Republican sources. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led Sen. Lisa Murkowski by nearly 1,700 votes with all precincts reporting following last Tuesday’s primary election in Alaska. The state this week is set to begin counting around 20,000 additional ballots, including absentee ballots and others referred to as questionable.

The NRSC has sent its top lawyer to Alaska on Lisa Murkowski’s behalf and Joe Miller went on Fox today to point out the NRSC is inappropriately meddling in the race now, even though Murkowski is flirting with an independent or write-in bid. Well, I’ve just received a copy of a letter (PDF) from Miller’s attorneys demanding the disqualification of Lisa Murkowski campaign observer Bonnie Jack. The Alaska Division of Elections staff and Joe Miller’s staff observed Ms. Jack using confidential voter information and then calling a voter based on that information. The Miller team wants Ms. Jack disqualified.

Just read this from Bloomberg Business Week: "Senate Republicans sent their top campaign lawyer to advise Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski about the state’s count of absentee ballots as the Libertarian Party considered endorsing her if she loses the party primary." I am so pissed at the Senate Republicans and MY Senator, John Cornyn, I'm calling his office tomorrow and tell him what a low-life I think he is. Let the people of Alaska choose their candidate and all you friggin' Senate RINO scumbags butt out.

A former Republican presidential candidate says the political corruption scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich could result in top advisors to Barack Obama being called to testify before a grand jury very early in his administration. President-elect Obama has called on Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign for allegedly trying to trade favors for Obama's vacant Illinois senate seat. Although Obama says he had no contact with the governor or his office on the matter, in an interview last month on Fox News Chicago, top Obama advisor David Axelrod said otherwise. "I know he [Obama] has talked to the governor --...

Stanley Kurtz, Melanie Phillips, Debbie Schlussel, David Freddoso, Dick Morris, Sean Hannity, and even the National Enquirer have all made great efforts to connect the dots on the shady past of Barack Obama. Each in their own way have exposed the amazing lack of judgment and questionable associations of this man who would be President. As each revelation is met with the another disingenous denial, we on the Right have resigned ourselves to the fact that a tingling in the leg trumps journalistic ethics, and the Fourth Estate has evolved to become effete cheerleaders. It occurred to me the other...

CorridorWatch, a Fayette County-based group that has been active in opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor plan, wants to go beyond the Sunset Advisory Commission’s recommended shakeup of state transportation leadership. The group, led by David and Linda Stall, recommends that TxDOT answer to an elected six-member board led by a chairman appointed by the governor. CorridorWatch makes it recommendation, along with various other reactions to the Sunset commission staff’s recent report on TxDOT, in written comments submitted as part of the sunset process. TxDOT, like all state agencies, “sunsets” after 12 years unless the Legislature acts to keep it alive. As...

WASHINGTON - Five young Muslim men are stopped by multiple TracFones in the Midwest. That’s not illegal. Yet, they are charged with terrorism. Just weeks later, the charges are dropped. Just a case of Islamophobic law enforcement overreacting to innocents because of Sept. 11. Right? Wrong. There’s a lot more to the story with Adham Abdelhamid Othman, Maruan Awad Muhareb, and Louai Abdelhamied Othman — from Texas with 1,000 cell phones in Caro, Mich. — and Ali Houssaiky and Osama Sabhi Abulhassan — from Dearborn, Mich., with multiple cell phones and $11,000 in southern Ohio. The Texas men had photos...

You would like me to tell you what 666 means, wouldn’t you? I have to confess that I don’t know. But I am certain that there are more than 666 interpretations as to what is meant! This was written for the benefit of those who will be alive in that day. And believers in the Lord Jesus Christ in the day of the manifestation of the man of sin will have a very clear identifying sign that the one that has come to world power is Satan’s great masterpiece.1 J. Dwight Pentecost, 1961 Yet how could I be sure of...

Four months after the 9/11 commission’s report on intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, a shakeup at the Central Intelligence Agency is underway. Resignations are piling up throughout the intelligence community—but not at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had its own counterterrorism mishaps before Sept. 11, according to the commission report. The C.I.A. dismantles threats overseas; the F.B.I. works inside the U.S. That rough division of labor places the responsibility for keeping the 19 hijackers from boarding planes on Sept. 11 squarely in the F.B.I.’s hands.

# NEW YORK. Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Dismayed by what he perceives to be the Bush administration's unilateralism abroad and its "authoritarian" politics at home, billionaire investor-philanthropist George Soros is on a crusade. Before Election Day, he plans to spend almost $25 million of his own money. Not to mention pleading with every single moderate Republican and undecided swing- state voter who'll listen to his argument that a second Bush term would, as Soros puts it, "unhinge the future of the world."(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041010/NYSU002 ) In the October 18 cover story of Newsweek's overseas editions, "Can a Billionaire Beat Bush?" (on...

MIDI - FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD We'd debate in the U.N....goodness, here we go again All we saw was their stonewalling This one really takes the cake...many had been on the take All those scumbags should be falling Marc Rich had been where he shouldn't have been Thanks to Bill, he would get away clean And we're ready for major league *ss kicking now That is nothing like we've ever seen Food, oil for food...the U.N. was scamming Kofi, you are toast...FOX News says it damning No wonder they voted NO...money had been flowing They hoped that their bank accounts...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Police arrested 35 people after University of Connecticut fans started fires and overturned cars in celebration of the men's basketball team winning its second NCAA championship. University police said a dozen fires were set outside and two cars were overturned at the Celeron Square apartment complex about 1.5 kilometres north of campus following Monday night's victory. There were no reports of serious injuries. Campus police reported 19 arrests. State police said they made at least 16. Charges ranged from inciting a riot to breach of peace. "This is one of those situations we won't tolerate," UConn...

OKLAHOMA CITY - A Metro woman called police after two men asked some pointed questions about downtown. The woman said she's worried that what those men wanted to know could be a threat to our Homefront Security. The woman says she noticed the flash in the corner of her eye and turned around to notice a man taking pictures. It wasn't until he asked her a question that she became concerned. Teresa Turner is a parking garage attendant in downtown Oklahoma City.  Her booth sits at the base of our skyline. She has full view of every skyscraper, and until recently never...

Cardinal Law, the time is now long past for you to resign. Now is the moment to consider fleeing. A few years ago, a mob guy named Angelo ``Sonny'' Mercurio took the witness stand and said, ``Me, I advocate da lam.'' For you, Your Eminence, I advocate da lam. It's time to do a Dixie. You got to be a midnight mover, as Wilson Pickett would say. Follow in the footsteps of Whitey Bulger, Paul Shanley and Father White - be missing. The next time you need to be seen around here is on a milk carton. Don't wait for...