SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Dean tells state Democrats abortion rhetoric needs to change
Well Howard Dean speaks and as usual makes no sense.
I think we need to talk about abortion differently,' Dean said. 'Republicans have painted us into a corner where they have forced us to defend abortion. I don't know anybody who's for abortion.
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"We can make common ground with folks," he said. "The issue we need to debate is not whether abortion is a good thing. The issue we need to debate is whether a woman gets to make up her own mind about her health care or whether Tom DeLay gets to make up her mind."
If not "for abortion" then you are "against abortion" -- if you are "against abortion", what choice is there to argue about? As I said -- Dean makes no sense.
Iraq Car Bomb Kills American Activist - Yahoo! NewsAnti-war activist and American citizen dies from insurgent's bomb.
Marla Ruzicka, founder of Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, died Saturday in the blast, which also killed an Iraqi and another foreigner, officials said. She had been in Iraq conducting door-to-door surveys trying to determine the number of civilian casualties in the country.
Ruzicka, 28, founded CIVIC in 2003 to 'mitigate the impact of the conflict and its aftermath on the people of Iraq by ensuring that timely and effective life-saving assistance is provided to those in need,' according to the group's Web site.
Want to know more about Marla Ruzicka? Read
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CNN.com - Sheriff: Sex offender confesses in missing girl case - Apr 17, 2005Well if this
story aabout a "convicted sex offender" is not enough to convince you that "sex offender" rehabilitation is a farce, a lark, a long shot -- maybe this from the same state might. "Sex offenders" are a cancer - a cancer that is steadily growing and we the public allow it under the guise of "the accused rights", "rehabilitation", or "providing a second chance". How many innocent children must pay before the "adults" act?
RUSKIN, Florida (CNN) -- A convicted sex offender has confessed to killing 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee announced Sunday.
Memphis Flyer :: Issue 842 :: Cell Mates?This hits a little close to home.
What the FBI found was much more troubling: a hidden stash of loaded weapons and ammunition clips, $34,000 in cash, two pictures of Mawlawi shouldering a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a gruesome videotape of war casualties with Arabic text and voiceover, and more than 20 passports to Morocco, Syria, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries.
The agents were members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. As outlined by prosecutors and agents in a federal courtroom last week, what they found could be evidence of a possible terrorist link in Memphis or something less sinister, as has proven to be the case in other investigations of Middle Easterners caught up in our legal system. The FBI investigation is ongoing.
'Mr. Mawlawi was a danger to the community,' assistant U.S. attorney Fred Godwin told U.S. magistrate Tu Pham during the hearing last week to decide whether Mawlawi should be jailed or released on bond.
Remeber this
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If they do they sure have a strange way of demonstrating it -- based on information provided from the below article I have written (e-mail, letter, fax) my Senators and the GOP explaining my irritation... Well I get the good ole canned response. Probably, which will irritate me even further? Were 'Thad' and team on the fringe or is this just a political shell game?
Was this a ploy to make the vote close, to give some resemblance of veteran support, well never attending on pass it? Really, Republicans have fallen well short of what I define as 'support of Veterans' since the elections season -- besides having an influence on recruitment it will surely influence my lifelong support for the GOP... Simply put integrity is important and if you are going to say something you better dang will do and on this issue, there is 'zero wiggle room', as far as I am concerned.
By two 54-46 votes, the Senate blocked efforts Tuesday to add money for veterans’ health care to the 2005 supplemental appropriations bill.
Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, both members of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, sought to add $1.9 billion to the $80.6 billion wartime emergency supplemental appropriations bill to cover costs of treating returning combat veterans for war-related injuries and to cover shortfalls in funding for VA programs.
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The amendment was blocked by a parliamentary motion from Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, who said the funding is not really an emergency need. The Senate voted in support of Cochran’s position, and then voted again when Murray tried to get the amendment approved even if the funding was not characterized as an emergency. The outcome was the same, with 54 senators voting to block funding and 46 voting to provide it.
“The administration has not asked for these funds,” Cochran said in explaining the rejection of the amendment. [read entire article here]
Well Mr. Cochran; I asked, as did my father, uncle, and cousins -- all veterans, do we count?
Rudolph pleads guilty in series of bombings - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com
Rudolph gets life without parole -- it should have been the death penalty... People like this hurt my beliefs more then anyone can imagine and our country would be better off never hear from him again. However, Rudolph decided to stop short of martyrdom and made a plea bargain. Suffice it to say; yes, I disagree with on demand abortion and just as abortion wrong so is murder and this man is nothing more then a murder.
ATLANTA - A defiant Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to carrying out the deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and three other attacks, saying he picked the Summer Games to embarrass the U.S. government in front of the world - for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.
CNN.com - American hostage pleads for negotiations - Apr 13, 2005
I have this gentleman in my prayers, but I have to ask do we believe that the insurgents know the meaning of negotiate? Negotiate does not involve you getting 100% of everything you want nor does it involve threatening someone to get your way.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Indiana businessman whose firm works in Iraq was shown Wednesday in an insurgent video, surrounded by masked militants as he asked his family and friends to urge the United States to negotiate with the 'Iraqi national resistance.'
Yahoo! News - Defense: Kuwait Attack Not PremeditatedDo many of yall remember this traitor, murderer, and scum? I would say the
attack murder was definitely premeditated and the case should have the penalty of death attached to it.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - An Army sergeant charged with a grenade attack that killed two U.S. officers in Kuwait went on trial Monday, with his lawyer trying to stave off a possible death sentence by arguing that his client suffered from mental illness.
But a military prosecutor said Sgt. Hasan Akbar knew exactly what he was doing, pointing to his detailed diary entries before the March 2003 attack and the fact that he stole the grenades and cut power to his camp just before striking.
Premeditation is the central issue in the court-martial of the 33-year-old Akbar, who confessed several times and allegedly told investigators he carried out the attack in the opening days of the Iraq war because he was worried that U.S. forces would harm fellow Muslims.
The New York Times > Washington > Kerry Says Trickery Foiled Many Voters
I don't even think Al Gore whined this long!
BOSTON, April 10 (AP) - Many voters in last year's election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts told a voters' group on Sunday.
'Last year, too many people were denied their right to vote; too many who tried to vote were intimidated,' Mr. Kerry said at an event sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts.
He cited examples of trickery. 'Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday,' Mr. Kerry said. 'People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote."
I have concentrated on watching one the most entertaining and beautiful golf tournaments of the year, so not much blogging. Well it appears Tiger is back -- congratulations!
Thousands protest U.S. on Baghdad anniversary - International News - MSNBC.comIt will be interesting to see how this is covered later today in the MSM (mainstream media). I found two very important words in this article;
planned peaceful -- will anyone in the MSM actually reflect on these words... What do these words mean? Considering some US protesters are anything but peaceful and with some organizers teaching ways to be arrested - to me,
planned peaceful, is a sign of growing democracy...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Thousands of supporters of rebel Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr marched in Baghdad on Saturday to denounce the U.S. presence in Iraq and call for a speedy trial of Saddam Hussein on the second anniversary of the former dictator's overthrow.
Chanting “No, no to the occupiers”, thousands of young and old men gathered in the poor Shiite district of Sadr City to begin a planned peaceful march to Firdos Square, the central Baghdad spot where Saddam’s statue was torn down two years ago.
Another Chili Digit - Update
SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Woman who claimed to find finger at Wendy's has litigious historyInteresting past the finder of the "chili finger" has -- maybe she was looking
for a lottery ticket when she bought her chili.
LAS VEGAS - The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits - including a claim against another fast-food restaurant in Nevada.
Anna Ayala, who hired a San Jose, Calif., attorney to represent her in the Wendy's case, has been involved in at least half a dozen legal battles in the San Francisco
Bay area, according to more than a decade of court records.
Another court rejects 'stop-loss' challengeThe fact that some do not understand the enlistment agreement made when one enlist in the military is astonishing. The "stop loss", as they call it, is in there, we called it "needs of the Army" in my day.
SAN FRANCISCO -- For the second time in as many days, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a Pasco soldier's challenge to the military's 'stop-loss' policy that extends enlistments during war.
The entire panel of the San Francisco-based court yesterday declined to hear a motion for an injunction by Sgt. Emiliano Santiago to keep him from being sent to Afghanistan. On Wednesday, a three-member court panel in Seattle denied his appeal seeking release from the Army.
Back in March I found this
story about a human digit being discovered in a cup of Wendy's chili... Well here is an update that makes the discovery sound fishy --
SAN JOSE, Calif. Apr 7, 2005 — Investigators searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a mouthful of finger along with her chili at a Wendy's restaurant last month.
City police, working with their counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as they investigated how a finger ended up in Anna Ayala's bowl of chili.
"We are looking into every aspect in this case," San Jose police spokeswoman Gina Tepoorten said. "We are talking to people she knows as well as the finder of the finger. … We want to determine who this finger belongs to how and how it ended up in a bowl of chili."
CBC News - Four children killed in Baghdad explosion; Najaf bomb injures fourWell an insurgents bomb blew up children -- why is it I believe somehow liberals will blame this on the US Military?
BAGHDAD (AP) - Four children collecting trash were killed Friday by a homemade bomb in Baghdad, and masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer in a restaurant in Basra, police said.
The children died in the New Baghdad neighbourhood in the southeast section of the city, police Capt. Sabah Hamid Al-Fartosi said. Insurgents frequently use hidden roadside bombs against U.S. and Iraqi Army convoys. Three masked gunmen killed an Iraqi Army officer, Maj. Mahmoud Hassan Al-Yassiri, late Thursday in the southern city of Basra, Capt. Firas al-Timimi of the Iraqi Army said.
USATODAY.com - Unemployment claims take largest drop in two monthsWonder if this will make its round on television news -- my bet is no.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped 19,000 last week, largest decline in two months, the government reported Thursday.
The Labor Department said the decline pushed the level of unemployment benefits down to 334,000 after claims unexpectedly jumped by 23,000 the week before.
The four-week moving average for claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, dipped slightly to 336,500 last week, a level viewed as pointing to further improvements in the labor market.
Author of Schiavo memo steps forward - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.comIn a turn of events, it appears the "memo" was in a "round about way" real -- what an idiot Brian Darling must be... Senator Martinez' (R-FL) "legal counsel" admits to authoring the memo -- my only question is - what where you attempting to accomplish?
The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.
One other comment -- if this next statement is factual I simply hope that Floridians say good-bye to Mr. Martinez.
Martinez, a freshman who was secretary of housing and urban development for most of President Bush's first term, said he had not read the one-page memo. He said he inadvertently passed it to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who had worked with him on the issue. After that, other Senate aides gave the memo to reporters for ABC News and The Washington Post.
CNN.com - Saddam sees new president's election
Curious if Senator Kennedy would consider allowing Saddam to watch Iraqi democracy in action on television as torture... Maybe it is ok as long as they don't force him to watch it.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's new transitional assembly took an expected but historic step Wednesday, electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation's president -- a symbol of the new Kurdish clout in the largely Arab nation.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein watched from his jail cell as the longtime leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan assumed the title Saddam held before he was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
SI.com - MLB - Bo Jackson sues paper over steroid claimA blast from the past - how many younger then I remember Bo Jackson. Bo has every right to sue if indeed the dietary expert is lying. However, shouldn't he also be suing the dietary expert along with the paper?
CHICAGO (AP) -- Bo Jackson filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against a California newspaper that quoted a dietary expert who said the former two-sport star used steroids.
The lawsuit was filed in Cook County against the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, MediaNews Group Inc., MediaNews Group Interactive, Inc., sports editor Jim Mohr and three other employees of the newspaper.
BBC NEWS - Iraq president set to be sworn inDemocracy continues to march forward despite the insurgency -- I like it.
Iraq's new interim president, the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, is due to be sworn in.
It comes a day after he was elected to the largely ceremonial post by parliament, ending weeks of deadlock.
