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Author: It's Americans OR DemocratsIt's Americans OR Democrats
Date: Dec 31, 2007 23:13
That's $90,000 PER U.S. citizen.
Over 3 years. That's the estimate based on a Worldwide projected cost
of $27 TRILLION, all to fight a problem that may not exist. Where
exactly is this money going to come from?
TAXES!
It will basically destroy the U.S. economy, for good.
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Author: Kickin' Ass and Takin' NamesKickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Date: Dec 31, 2007 22:41
Actually happened -- in a red state, in a red state that prides itself
on being the buckle of the bible belt.
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Working as a police officer during the 1970s -- when streakers were an
occupational hazard -- Sequatchie County 911 Center director Mike
Twitty said he grew accustomed to police reports of bare buns.
But even for a veteran, Thursday's report of five full moons was
notable.
"It's not an everyday occurrence," Mr. Twitty said. "In the wee hours,
to have five people in the cold weather running around in the buff,
pushing a red pickup truck ... there's got to be a story there
somewhere."
The story remains unresolved, with the uncovered culprits still at
large.
A 911 call came in around 11 p.m. Thursday. The caller -- who asked
his name be withheld for fear of retribution from the nude offenders
-- told the dispatcher that he had been awakened by sounds of car
engines revving and people cursing outside his window.
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Author: RamabrigaRamabriga
Date: Dec 31, 2007 22:36
Published on Monday, December 31, 2007 by The Christian Science Monitor
Dennis Kucinich: A Peace-Seeking Idealist To The Core
by Amanda Paulson
To understand the importance Dennis Kucinich places on spirituality,
scan his generally spare Capitol Hill office: a white cloth from the
Dalai Lama, a bust of Gandhi, and a picture representing “conscious
light” - a gift from Brahma Kumaris nuns.
There’s a Tibetan dragon washbowl and, on his desk, two heavy crucifixes
once worn by Catholic nuns who taught him and who, he says, “saved my life.”
“Obviously, I connect with all religions,” says Representative Kucinich
(D) of Ohio, in the midst of his second presidential campaign. “All
manners of belief and even non-belief come from a common font, and that
is the transcendent power of the human heart…. All those things that
would separate us are based on misunderstandings of our nature.”
They’re somewhat unusual religious views for someone who still considers
himself essentially Roman Catholic. But then, little about Kucinich is
orthodox.
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Author: AnAmericanCitizenAnAmericanCitizen
Date: Dec 31, 2007 22:27
Good Post
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:50:32 -0800 (PST), Don Gabacho nettaxi.com> wrote:
> Romney: Illegal immigration must stop
>Heather Alexander, Staff Writer
>The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa
>12/29/2007
>
>"I believe there is one America, and we stand united," said Republican...
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Author: zzbunkerzzbunker
Date: Dec 31, 2007 22:19
On Dec 15 2007, 2:11Â pm, "Centurion" empire.com> wrote:
> That is surprising. No one would have believed that Vancouver has this
> dubious
> title surpassing (per capita) high-crime American cities like Detroit, New
> Orleans,
> East St. Louis, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia etc.
Well, that's largely because in most parts of idiot Philadelphia,
they don't have homes. They got day-glo Detroit.
And in some parts of idiot New Orleans, they don't even got cops,
they got Seattle Swat Teams.
>
> But here it is, as written in Canada's National Post newspaper: "More homes
> are broken into
> in Vancouver than in any other major Canadian or American city according to
> an annual
> report released...
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Author: AnAmericanCitizenAnAmericanCitizen
Date: Dec 31, 2007 22:00
Arizona firms brace for immigration sanctions law
Mon Dec 31, 2007
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona steel fabricator Sheridan Bailey has been laying off
employees in recent weeks even though he has plenty of orders on the books.
His firm, Ironco Enterprises, shed around 10 percent of its 100-strong workforce to
get in line with a state law going into effect on Tuesday that targets employers who
hire illegal immigrants.
"We have let some people go who we came to know were not properly documented. So in
that respect the law is already doing what the framers expected," he said.
The maker of steel frames for buildings is among an estimated 150,000 businesses
across the desert state preparing for the measure that places Arizona at the vanguard
of more than 100 U.S. states and municipalities taking on immigration enforcement.
The law, passed days after a federal immigration overhaul died in the U.S. Senate in
June, punishes first-time violators who knowingly hire undocumented workers with a
10-day suspension of their business licenses.
A second offense means they lose it.
The measure also requires employers to use an online federal database, dubbed
"E-Verify," to check the employment eligibility of new hires in the border state,
which is home to an estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants.
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Author: Kickin' Ass and Takin' NamesKickin' Ass and Takin' Names
Date: Dec 31, 2007 21:57
GOP Mess in Iowa: Romney Stalls, Giuliani's Flailing, Huckabee Scares
the DC Establishment
By David Smith, The Observer UK
Posted on December 30, 2007, Printed on December 31, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/72025/
Clad in an orange and grey hunting jacket and an orange cap, Mike
Huckabee raised his 12-gauge shotgun, took aim and fired, bagging a
pheasant for the benefit of watching reporters. As another shot flew
over their heads, it became too much for one journalist who cried:
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatizing." Huckabee
the hunter had demonstrated himself a "regular guy," hoping to
consolidate his lead in the Republican polls before Thursday's Iowa
caucus, the first step to gaining the party's nomination for
President.
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Author: AnAmericanCitizenAnAmericanCitizen
Date: Dec 31, 2007 21:34
Huckabee showed off the spot to the journalists, knowing full well his negative
message would seep out of the room. He told the media to pay close attention.
"You're not going to get a copy of it," he warned, "so this is your chance to see it,
then after that you'll never see it again."
ON DEADLINE: Did Huckabee go too far? By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Dec 31, 4:56 PM ET
DES MOINES, Iowa - Mike Huckabee may have finally gone too far.
After running an unconventional, surprisingly strong and sometimes strange race to
the top tier of the Republican presidential campaign, the former Arkansas governor
topped himself Monday with a campaign stunt that smacked of hypocrisy.
He called a news conference to unveil a negative ad that he had just withdrawn from
Iowa television stations because, he told a room full of journalists recording the
ad, he had a sudden aversion to negative politics. Quite a convenient epiphany.
"If people want to be cynical about it," Huckabee said, "they can be cynical about
it."
If he loses Iowa's caucuses, New Year's Eve will forever mark the day Huckabee blew
it — the day a crowd stopped laughing with the witty Republican and laughed at him.
If he wins — a possibility that even Huckabee now thinks he put at risk — he sealed
victory in a weird way Monday.
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