Zaroc Stone wrote: The Christian Right Picks California Lettuce pray... -- not too random uselessnet weirdness: Bill Shatzer wrote: "And over 4,000 Americans have paid with their lives for that little adventure. Plus a half a trillion dollars in national treasure You might compare that with the number of lives lost on 9-11. Or the economic injury incurred from that event. It would have been cheaper in both lives and ...

The Christian Right Picks California for Culture War Election Showdown By Sandhya Bathija, Church and State. Posted September 17, 2008. Religious Right groups see California's marriage referendum this November as Ground Zero. Robin Tyler and Diane Olson spent every Valentine's Day since 2001 at a courthouse in Beverly Hills seeking a marriage license in recognition of their years of commitment to each other. Every year, they were...

.... American expansionism has thrust the world into another arms race pitting East against West Cold War-style. The present system of international security has been upended and we are moving inexorably towards a military showdown between the two nuclear-armed powers.   As Putin stated at the press conference, "I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of ...

.... American expansionism has thrust the world into another arms race pitting East against West Cold War-style. The present system of international security has been upended and we are moving inexorably towards a military showdown between the two nuclear-armed powers.   As Putin stated at the press conference, "I am convinced that we have reached that decisive moment when we must seriously think about the architecture of ...

<herrman321@aol.com> wrote in message news:c77b6747-abcc-438a-9357-8ac8fcfcb2bb@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com... | Russian Diplomat, Military Officer Underscore Seriousness of Caucasus | Showdown | 21 Aug 2008 | August 20, 2008 -- "Are you ready to risk your prosperity and risk | your lives and the lives of your children for the sake of | Saakashvili?" Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin asked | reporters in Brussels yesterday. He ...

... Barack | Obama candidacy, become a key player in bringing the world as a whole | into a thermonuclear showdown in August? | | These are the kinds of questions reverberating through the halls of | governments around the world ... nomination of a combination of President | and Vice-President who reject the politics of the present nuclear | showdown which London's puppet, the George W. Bush Administration, is | staging, there might be, very ...

...the Barack Obama candidacy, become a key player in bringing the world as a whole into a thermonuclear showdown in August? These are the kinds of questions reverberating through the halls of governments around the world right ... the nomination of a combination of President and Vice-President who reject the politics of the present nuclear showdown which London's puppet, the George W. Bush Administration, is staging, there might be, very soon...

Russian Diplomat, Military Officer Underscore Seriousness of Caucasus Showdown 21 Aug 2008 August 20, 2008 -- "Are you ready to risk your prosperity and risk your lives and the lives of your children for the sake of Saakashvili?" Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin asked reporters in Brussels yesterday. He was speaking after NATO condemned Russian military action, in response to attack on South Ossetia ordered by Georgian President ...

...a few hours' drive, reporting on women's softball: a thrilling United States-Australia game during the day; the American pitcher Lisa Fernandez lost a perfect game in extra innings; and a politically intriguing showdown between China and Taiwan at night. Two quality Olympic stories rendered instantly meaningless by the intrusion of reality. The most brilliant choreography sometimes isn't enough to safeguard the Games and the illusion of ...

... future debate on the so-called "war powers" issue. Instead, it would create a new consultative process between the White House and Congress to help prevent a potential constitutional showdown. Congress' involvement in approving combat operations became a central issue in the Iraq debate last year, when Democrats tried to force President Bush to end the war. After taking control of ...