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Author: My pet goatMy pet goat
Date: Jul 31, 2007 23:45
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Federal law enforcement agents have raided the
Alaska home of a senior Republican senator as part of a probe into
political corruption, US media reported on Tuesday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service
on Monday afternoon searched the home of Senator Ted Stevens amid
questions about his ties to an Alaska oil services company, VECO
Corp., newspapers reported.
US authorities are investigating whether Stevens and a Republican
member of the House of Representatives, Don Young, accepted bribes or
other gifts from the company. The chief executive of VECO has already
pleaded guilty to a bribery scheme targeting state lawmakers in
Alaska.
Stevens, 83, who entered the US Senate in 1968, said in a statement
his lawyers were informed about the search beforehand and he declined
to comment to avoid "any appearance that I have attempted to influence
its outcome."
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Author: JakDeHammerJakDeHammer
Date: Jul 31, 2007 23:22
Yup........The Disgusting Democrats are Just Waking Up to the FACT
that the "Surge" is WORKING and they're going to be Caught SHORT
because the Democrats are TOTALLY INVESTED IN FAILURE In
Iraq..........Ain't It A HOOT?.........Heehee..........
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Author: Day BrownDay Brown
Date: Jul 31, 2007 23:09
The near tyrannic powers it gave to Bush assures that. More than
likely, Hillary will get elected in such a landslide that she will be
able to take those same powers granted to Bush, but now supported by
the Dems, to go even further.
If Hillary is to be stopped, it will have to be by a new centrist
Realist party, free of the demagogic and contradictory coalitions that
made up the GOP.
But it will also be have to be led by a more charismatic figure than
any of the alternative party candidates we've seen... Harry Browne,
John Anderson, Ross Perot- types just cant cut it.
I've been quite impressed by the way Newt Gingrich has been able to
rethink his positions, but there must be some American leaders with
more charisma. Can anyone suggest who they mite be?
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Author: My pet goatMy pet goat
Date: Jul 31, 2007 22:50
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. physicians who identify themselves as
religious are no more likely to care for poor, underserved patients
than those who have no religious affiliation, researchers have found.
The study suggests doctors in the United States who see religion as a
"master motive in their lives" are not more likely to care for the
poor than others.
"Religious physicians are not disproportionately caring for the
underserved," Dr. Farr Curlin, of the University of Chicago, said in a
telephone interview on Monday.
Curlin, who considers himself religious, said he undertook the study
because many religions include a call to serve the poor.
"I was curious about whether doctors who are more formed in their
religious beliefs are more likely to take care of patients who are
poor," said Curlin, whose study appears in the Annals of Family
Medicine.
He and colleagues at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut mailed
surveys to 1,820 practicing doctors. Of those, 63 percent responded.
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Date: Jul 31, 2007 22:44
On Jul 27, 2:49 am, anonym...@ dizum.com wrote: >
> However, history will remember that Bush was the first president to
> effectively address the
> Islamic threat.
George and Dick have repeatedly said the war is not against Islam.
You callin' the Prez a liar?
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Author: and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
Date: Jul 31, 2007 22:10
Chavez: Bush should get death penalty
United Press International
November 9, 2006
Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 9 (UPI) - Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez slammed the Saddam Hussein death penalty and
said it is U.S. President George W. Bush who should be
sentenced to death.
"If sentencing is to be done," said Chavez earlier this
week, "the first one to be given the most severe sentence
this planet has to offer should be the president of the
United States, if we're talking about genocidal
presidents," the Miami Herald reported Thursday.
The leftist Venezuelan leader has often criticized the Bush
administration for its war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan
and for allegedly trying to overthrow his own
administration.
Chavez called Bush the devil in September, while addressing
the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
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Author: SeaWoeSeaWoe
Date: Jul 31, 2007 22:03
On Jul 31, 10:55 am, "Docky Wocky" lst.net> wrote:> Where does Constitutional protection end? We really need a ruling from the
> Supreme Court.
>
> Can, for example, a native of Nigeria, without leaving Nigeria, whine that
> his Constitutional Rights are being violated by Ethiopian soldiers keeping
> him in a pit under Ethiopian army headquarters in Ethiopia?
>
> Does Constitutional protection climb up the backs of foreign, ununiformed,
> illegal combatant terrorists, captured in foreign lands, but finding
> themselves being warehoused in a US facility, and spring out to slap the
> rest of us in the face - just because the ACLU says so?
>
> It would be much cheaper in the long run to simply discover that the ACLU
> has been delinquent in paying it's taxes, or guilty of collusion with
> foreign enemies, and put all the identifiable officers and staff in GITMO
> for tax fraud and treason where they can directly discuss the boundaries of
> non-citizens Constitutional rights with their adoring al-Queda clientel.
>
> Every person of any intelligence knows the ACLU is a communist-inspired, ...
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