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DON?T TRACE ME, BRO
2008-05-05 15:10:00 WIRELESS CARRIERS GIVE CELLPHONE LOCATIONS TO COPS WITHOUT WARRANTS.. The call came in to police just after midnight April 16. Hours before, a distraught young man had phoned his mother, hinting he wanted to kill himself. When he didn’t meet her as planned, she telephoned Seattle police and reported her son missing. Because of increasing advances in technology, ...
STONEHENGE RIDDLE SOLVED?
2008-05-05 14:59:00 A British team has excavated Stonehenge in hope of showing it was once a temple used for healing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Archaeologists focused on the site’s 4,000-year-old bluestones, a twin circle of huge rocks, for proof of their origins and purpose. Shamans and witch doctors once likely filled the site, researcher Tim Darvill ... More About: Riddle
PLASMA, LCD TV OUT. O.L.E.D TV IN
2008-05-04 15:48:00 SCROLL DOWN FOR LATEST SMILEY FACE LINK UPDATES… Modern tech life teems with longstanding quandaries, questions that never seem to go away. Mac or Windows? Turn off the computer every night or let it sleep? Plasma or L.C.D.? The Sony XEL-1 uses organic light emitting diode technology to create a picture that overcomes several shortcomings of ...
LIBERALS TOSSED IN ENGLAND ?
2008-05-02 22:08:00 Humiliating defeat for Liberal Brown and his kind in Gay Olde England . Eccentric Conservative Boris Johnson overwhelmingly wins London Mayor slot, Tories take 333 seats in parliament, Libs lose more than 200.. Ah.. there’s good news tonight.. Tory victory seen for London mayor, other local elections Boris Johnson poised to become London Mayor as Tories seal local … Labour takes loses ... More About: Liberals
ARMY WOMAN MEDIC AWARDED SILVER STAR
2008-05-02 20:23:00 Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, the 18-year-old medic grabbed her bag and ran through gunfire toward fellow soldiers VIDEO HOOAH!!!! More About: Silver , Star , Army , Woman
UNSOLICITED EMAIL FROM A FRIEND RE MCCAIN
2008-05-02 19:24:00 EDITOR’S NOTE: You have to love your friends. Like the one who sent me this email, as to why he’s voting for John Sidney McCain III. Please forward to the people you know. (Thanks Greg C.) Al Czervic After long and serious thought, I have decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. I have always voted ... More About: Email , Friend
CHINESE BUILD SECRET NUKE SUB BASE
2008-05-02 14:39:00 Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, shows that a substantial harbour has been built which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers. Other images show numerous warships moored to long jettys and a network of underground tunnels at the Sanya base on the southern tip of ... More About: Chinese , Secret , Nuke , Build , Base
SCHOOLMATE MURDERED
2008-05-02 01:18:00 EDITOR’S NOTES: Life’s a kick in the teeth. This morning, just by passing chance, the wife clicked the TV off FoxNews and onto WABC 7 from New York. At that moment, the story of Bob Kwiatkowski’s murder was aired. Bob and I were in Middletown High School together back in the 60’s. He was ...
OBAMA ADVISOR: ISRAEL MUST GIVE UP NUKES
2008-05-01 15:40:00 Calls ‘nonsense’ U.S. claims Jewish state struck Syrian nuclear reactor FROM WORLDNETDAILY’S JERUSALEM BUREAU: JERUSALEM ? Israel should give up its nuclear weapons to ensure Iran halts its illicit nuclear program, argues an adviser on nuclear issues to Sen. Barack Obama . Joseph Cirincione, director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, also previously dismissed reports Israel’s ... More About: Give , Nukes , Advisor
ISRAELI MEDIA: IRAN STRIKE PENDING
2008-05-01 14:46:00 EDITOR’S NOTES: More talk of Iran strike coming today from Israel’s topranked intel site: Debka.com: During a visit to Mexico City, US defense secretary Robert Gates said April 29 that the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf should be seen as a reminder of US military power in the region. He flatly denied ... More About: Media , Strike , Israeli
FIFTH COLUMNISTS IN FIGHTER PLANE CHIPS
2008-05-01 14:06:00 EDITOR’S NOTES: What the hell is this? Outsourcing important computer chips used in the next Joint Strike Fighter to China? Where the chips may have a backdoor/disconnect circuit built in to be activated remotely?? Where the hell were the skulls on this no-brainer???? Al Czervic From IEEE Spectrum: Feeding those (fever) dreams is the Pentagon’s realization ... More About: Plane , Columnists , Chips
SECOND CARRIER ENTERS PERSIAN GULF
2008-04-30 14:12:00 USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a “reminder” to Iran, but he said it’s not an escalation of force. Speaking to reporters after meeting with Mexican leaders, Gates said heightening U.S. criticism of Iran and its support for terror groups ...
TRAPPED IN A BUILDING WITH A GUNMAN
2008-04-29 23:40:00 Technorati tags: NRA, GUNS, SECOND AMENDMENT, GUN OWNERS, GUN RIGHTS, CONSTITUTION, SELF DEFENSE More About: Building , Gunman
WIRE, CONTROL, DIAL AND PANEL OVERLOAD
2008-04-29 19:47:00 Man, I want to unplug some of those plugs and plug them back in. Feel the tension, the slight grind. Then I would gently flick the toggle swithes. *UP* *DOWN* *UP* *DOWN* *UPDOWNUPDOWNUPDOWN*. Then last, and I save the best for last, I would play with the knob till it came off. It’s what ... More About: Panel , Wire , Control , Dial
GUN OWNERS NOT BITTER
2008-04-29 19:43:00 The Wall Street Journal reports that gun-clingers are not, in fact, bitter. According to the 2006 General Social Survey, which has tracked gun ownership since 1973, 34% of American homes have guns in them. This statistic is sure to surprise many people in cities like San Francisco ? as it did me when I first ... More About: Bitter , Owners
4 DAY WORK WEEK WOULD SAVE 40% GAS
2008-04-28 15:43:00 EDITOR’S NOTES: All it would take would be the stroke of a pen in every statehouse to put all state employees on a four day work week. Heaven knows public employees screw off at least 2 hours a day anyway. Think of the boost to the vacation/hotel/restaurant bizness with everyone on 3 day weekends. Let’s see ... More About: Work , Week , Save
OBAMA STAFFER FLIES COMMIE FLAG
2008-04-28 13:56:00 In the same week the Obama campaign quietly removed from its official website a page managed by a fundraiser tied to the Islamic terrorist group Hamas, its official blogger has come under attack as a “hardcore Marxist” for hanging a Communist Party flag in his Harvard campus apartment and publishing in a self-professed ‘revolutionary Marxist’ ... More About: Flag , Flies
FLORIDA TRUCK NUTS GET THE SHAFT
2008-04-27 13:46:00 Truck drivers in the great phallic state of Florida can kiss their Truck Nutz good-bye after getting the shaft from their state government. The state senate decided that adorning a hitch with a set of bull clock-weights should be punishable by a $60 fine, though the vote was far from unanimous. Sen. Jim King, ... More About: Truck , Nuts
INVESTIGATORS CLOSE IN ON SMILEY FACE MURDERS
2008-04-26 23:12:00 MAY BE WORST SERIAL MURDER IN US HISTORY Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men, including some in Minnesota? It seems a little hard to believe, but two New York detectives say they can prove it. ?Chris was abducted in a cargo van,? she said. ?He was driven around Minneapolis for ... More About: Close , Face , Smiley Face , Smiley
SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORY..ALL OF NEW YORK
2008-04-26 22:26:00 Statement as of 3:19 PM EDT on April 26, 2008 … Strong storms to pass through Monroe County… A cluster of heavy showers and thunderstorms has formed in westernMonroe County and is advancing northeastward through the County.These storms contain wind gusts up to 35 mph, downpours, pea sizehail and cloud to ground lightning. Motorists should be ... More About: Weather , New York , York , New-York
McCAIN TO ADDRESS NRA
2008-04-26 15:33:00 MCCAIN, continuing to mend his right-wing fences, will do something next month that George W. Bush never has done as president: attend a National Rifle Association event. McCain plans to be in Louisville, Ky., on May 16 for the NRA’s “Celebration of American Values.” Also on hand will be McCain’s defeated GOP rivals Mitt Romney ... More About: Address
I HATE ILLINOIS NAZIS
2008-04-25 12:54:00 Tony Zirkle, candidate for 2nd District U.S. representative, addresses a weekend gathering in Chicago of the American National Socialist Workers Party at a celebration of the 119th anniversary of the birth of Nazi leader Adolph Hitler. READ MORE HERE MY TAKE: This fool Zirkle is running in a primary. He DOES NOT HAVE the nomination ... More About: Illinois , Hate , Nazis
PLASTICS DON?T POLLUTE -THEY SAVE LIVES
2008-04-24 18:41:00 I’ve had it up to here with all the scaremongering going on in the Green Weenie circuit about plastics leaching chemicals into products and poisoning people. It’s flat out lies, and the Big Lie propagadists at work. Mr. Hooah and Claire over at www.kneedeepinthehooah.com have posted two convincing fact-filled scientific tomes that debunk the weenies. My ... More About: Lives , Save , Plastics
ADOLF IS IN THE TOYBOX
2008-04-24 13:21:00 An action-man style doll of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has gone on sale in the Ukraine, with saleswomen comparing the doll to Barbie. Supermarkets in the capital Kiev are stocking the 40 centimetre high figure of the fuhrer, complete with jackboots, leather trench-coat and swastika armband. The £100 figure has a spare head “with a ...
WARNING DON?T USE THIS PRODUCT!!
2008-04-23 16:27:00 RED ALERT!!!!! WALMART CHIMNEY GRILL STARTER: I have used this type of product for years. They cost about 10 bucks, and the last one I had burned/rusted out, so this year I bought a replacement at Wal-Mart. It’s made in China, but so was the last one. I like the way charcoal (the only way to grill) ... More About: Product , Warning
PA WINNER? JOHN McCAIN
2008-04-23 15:04:00 For better or worse — and many Democrats fear it is for worse — the race goes on. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton defeated Senator Barack Obama in Pennsylvania on Tuesday by enough of a margin to continue a battle that Democrats increasingly believe is undermining their effort to unify the party and prepare for the ... More About: John , Winner , John McCain
MCCAIN TEAM HIRES BEAUTY QUEEN
2008-04-23 14:51:00 McCain has hired beauty queen Ashley Zais, to be in charge of his interns. Team McCain wants everyone to make sure that Ashley Zais should not be confused with Miss Teen South Carolina, who is now a YouTube star for completely messing up an answer during the Miss Teen USA contest last August. Click here ... More About: Beauty , Queen , Beauty Queen
THE ESSENCE OF OBAMA
2008-04-22 16:08:00 By Brig. Gen Jim Cash: First, Obama refused to display the American Flag on his lapel. Then, he refused to distance himself from his America hating, racist, and self promoting minister, the despicable Reverend Wright. Now, he is giving some lame excuse for not respecting and following proper protocol when our National Anthem is played. That lame ...
BEST ELECTION MONEY CAN BUY
2008-04-22 14:15:00 Barack Obama has been warned that his refusal to pay the traditional “street money” to local operatives to help get the vote out in Philadelphia today could cost him the crucial percentage points needed to knock Hillary Clinton out of the race for the White House. In many of the city’s poorer wards, the recipients look ... More About: Money , Election
OBAMA WILLY HORTON AD TO AIR
More articles from this author:2008-04-22 13:31:00 The National Campaign Fund and Floyd Brown, the political operative behind the controversial Willie Horton ad, is launching a new TV criticizing Sen. Barack Obama for being too easy on gang murderers Technorati tags: OBAMA, DEMOCRATS, WILLY HORTON, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FUND, FLOYD BROWN, ELECTION 2008, MCCAIN, CONSERVATIVE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |



