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Obama's Fifty Ninth Week in Office"The List" for 3/11/2010 VIDEO: White House spokesman Gibbs- Sees no reason why Supreme Court Justices should be "uncomfortable" with Obama's State of the Union attackJoe Biden leaves, Israeli airstrikes resume in GazaWhite House: Indonesia is not a vacationObama will not attend the exclusive Gridiron Club Dinner (for the second year in a row) because of a scheduled trip overseas, White House aides say.What Biden told Netanyahu behind closed doors: "This is starting to get dangerous for us"The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before...

 Obama's Fifty Eighth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 3/4/2010 Obama's friend Rev. Wright: ... “I have been affiliated with the Cuban Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a sermon on July 16, 2006.  “Non-partisan,” Reverend Wright? Not according to Cuban intelligence defector Juan Vives, who from hands-on experience reports that the Cuba Council of Churches is in fact an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. The ICAP’s...

 Obama's Fifty Seventh Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 2/24/2010 A radical Muslim group, the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA.- that was an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas has an extensive relationship with the Obama has ties to Obama.  ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama's inauguration, where she offered a prayer during the televised event. Mattson also represented ISNA at Obama's Ramadan dinner at the White House. Last June, Obama's top aide, Valerie Jarrett, invited Mattson to work on the White House Council on Women and Girls,...

 Obama's Fifty Sixth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 2/18/2010 Rashad Hussain, the president's appointee to serve as Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference was named a Fellow to the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation: The "New Dawn" memo -- a copy of which was sent to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq -- currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a new name....The new name: "Operation New Dawn." In a February 17, 2010,...

 Obama's Fifty Fifth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 2/11/2010 The Obama administration’s latest Quadrennial Defense Review relies on flawed climate science. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review report gives unprecedented attention to the issue of climate changeThe U.S. Treasury has officially lost its entire $2.33 billion TARP investment in CIT Group, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission after Monday's closing bell.Well Point Insurance becomes target for Obama after company's rate increaseU.S. Department of Energy statistics show 79 percent of the $2.1 billion in stimulus money allocated for wind energy has been paid...

 Obama's Fifty Fourth Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 2/4/2010 Obama's pick for Labor post- New York State Labor Chief, Patricia Smith is confirmed to Federal post before Scott Brown can be seated.  Fears over her Union connections kept her from being confirmed for three monthsThe Obama administration's plan to outsource U.S. manned space programs ran into turbulence during its initial congressional hearing Wednesday, with lawmakers complaining that it seeks to kill current exploration plans without offering specific commercial substitutes.  During a House Science subcommittee hearing, both Democrats and Republicans blasted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's...

END OF YEAR ONE Obama's Fifty Second Week in OfficeLatest Additions to "The List""The List" for 1/20/2010Stepping up pressure on Wall Street, President Barack Obama on Thursday plans to call for giving the government new powers to limit the size and complexity of large financial institutions and to limit their ability to engage in high-risk trades. More socialist ties for Obama.  Obama has been researched to have a history with the radical group "The Committee of Correspondence". The organization was born in 1992 out of a major split in the Communist Party USA, incorporating Trotskyites, former Maoists, socialists and anarchists to...

A boy of 11 who has already been arrested more than 50 times has become one of his town's ten most prolific burglars. The one-boy crimewave was given an electronic tag and confined to his children's home in a bid to control him - but when he broke his curfew nine days running, magistrates simply gave up and removed the tag. Staff at the children's home have repeatedly proved unable to stop him coming and going as he pleases. Now police in Croydon, South London, are simply waiting for the youngster to turn 12 in February, when it will finally...

Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50% for the first time... Collection of various articles

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Fifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch 18:00 15 May 2008 NewScientist.com news service Duncan Graham-Rowe The internet: Precisely who 'invented' the mass of linked computer networks that is today's internet is a moot point. But it wouldn't have happened without the ARPANET network built by DARPA in the 1960s. The idea was to make a "self-healing" communications network that still worked when parts of it were destroyed. It was the first network to transmit data in discrete chunks, not constant streams, and led to the development of the TCP/IP specification still in use today. GPS: We...

Fifty ways to kill Zacharias Moussaui It looks like Zacharias Moussaui may have to be sent to meet the 72 virgins in hell. With that in mine, here are some the ways the Government can administer Justice to Zacharias Moussaui. 1. Place Zacharias Moussaui in a chair. Using an industrial strength crane, hoist 150 ft. above Zacharias Moussaui a 900 lbs. pot-belly pig. Drop the 900 lbs. pig onto Zacharias Moussaui. 2. Force Zacharias Moussaui to watch GIGLI, BASIC INSTINCT 2, ALEXANDER, CATWOMAN, SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2, WHITE CHICKS, JERSEY GIRL, and other Razzie Award winning movies. This will force...

Australia 'will be Muslim in 50 years' By Mark Chipperfield in Sydney (Filed: 15/02/2006) Australia is at risk of aborting itself out of existence and could become a Muslim country "within 50 years" if a controversial, abortion-inducing pill is made available, an Australian MP claimed yesterday. Danna Vale, a former minister and an MP with the governing Liberal Party, said the drug, known as RU486, could drastically reduce the country's native-born, largely European population. "I have read comments by a certain imam from the Lakemba mosque [in Sydney] who actually said that Australia is going to be a Muslim nation...

HOMESTEAD, Pa. - The new 50 Cent movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has been pulled from a theater where a man was fatally shot even though officials said Thursday they do not know whether the film was a factor in the slaying. Loews Corp. decided to stop showing the rapper's bullet-ridden bio while the investigation is going on, said John McCauley, the company's vice president of marketing. "We're unclear whether there is a direct connection," McCauley said. He said the company is doing all it can to make sure patrons are safe at the 22-screen multiplex in a popular...

Multibillionaire philanthropist George Soros is seeking $20 million from the city of Baltimore, Md., to continue his Open Society Institute (OSI) project in the city, the Balitimore Sun reported April 27. If the city delivers the full $20 million, Soros has offered to put up the remaining $10 million needed to keep the program alive for five more years. The Baltimore branch of OSI focuses primarily on addiction treatment, criminal justice, workforce development, education and youth development, and justice access. It opened in 1998 and has raised the number of addicts being treated from 16,000 in 1999 to 24,000 in...

H.R.654 Title: To ban the transfer of 50 caliber sniper weapons, and otherwise regulate the weapons in the same manner as machine guns are regulated. Sponsor: Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] (introduced 2/8/2005) Cosponsors (18) Latest Major Action: 2/8/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COSPONSORS(18), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date) Rep Blumenauer,...

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The US Army issued a contract to build a new heavy machine-gun, the M307. It can fire 25mm "smart shells" or, with a barrel change, the older .50 caliver (12.7mm) bullets. Earlier, it planned to build a new .50 caliber machine-gun, the M312. Now it’s official, the U.S. Army is building a replacement for the 1920s era M-2 .50 caliber (12.7mm) heavy machine-gun. The new weapon, the M-307, has been designed so it can fire either the computer controlled 25mm "smart shell" or (by changing the barrel and receiver), .50 caliber ammo. The troops will begin receiving the new...

NRA Members' Councils of California Please Distribute Widely To All Gun Owners/Groups ----------------------------------- NRA MEMBERS' COUNCILS OF CALIFORNIA 07/07/2003 ----------------------------------- E.D.M. ARMS JOINS BARRETT AGAINST .50 BANE.D.M. Arms, California's only producer of .50 caliber rifles, weighs in on the .50 Caliber Rifle Ban, AB50. In a poignant letter, Bill Ritchie, owner of E.D.M. Arms, appeals to the sensibilities of California's lawmakers: "...[I]f proposed bill AB-50 passes into law, I will be forced to relocate my facility outside of the state of California. The taxpaying citizens who work for me would become unemployed and the companies we patronize would lose...

Fifty ways to leave your lover: US Army's online Lothario wreaks havoc and heartbreak By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 12 June 2003 For Robin Solod, a sassy New Yorker who had spent four years trawling internet dating sites looking for the right man, Colonel Kassem Saleh seemed the perfect catch. He was a tall, good-looking, special forces officer contacting her from a war zone and he wrote her messages that she found as intoxicating as a crystal flute of champagne. What's more, he clearly had no commitment issues: within months of their "meeting" he had proposed marriage to her. Unfortunately,...