JONESBORO, Ark. More than two dozen people became ill after inhaling a substance believed to have been sprayed inside an IHOP restaurant, police said. Authorities were trying to determine the source of the substance that forced the restaurant's evacuation Tuesday evening.
Some customers were gasping for air, and one complained of shortness of breath and a burning sensation in his nose and throat. Four were taken to hospitals, police said. "Due to the symptoms of the victims, it is believed that some substance, such as tear gas or some similar substance, may have been sprayed in the seating area of the restaurant," Patrolman Jonathan Landrum said.
The manager for the Jonesboro restaurant did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Patrick Lenow, a spokesman for Glendale, Calif.-based IHOP, said he was not aware of the incident and had no immediate comment.
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tu3031 > iff what you're saying is true, then IHOP's standards have declined considerably. The IHOPS I ate at were typically very clean and sanitary in everything - their blueberry and strawberry syrups, however, tended to be a bit too rich/sweet despite gener excellent qualities.
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Money quote is : Neil Greig, its head of policy in Scotland, said: "The unintended consequences of making cars so secure is we may be seeing an increase in carjacking and violence to drivers, and break-ins of houses to get keys. Even a basic new car has an immobiliser, and you are not going to be able to start it without a key."
ARMED militants kidnapped five Koreans and killed ten security-force members in an attack on a small natural-gas plant in Nigeria's southern delta yesterday, authorities and security sources said. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility, and said the Koreans would be freed in exchange for a jailed militia leader who is on trial for treason and was denied bail by a Nigerian court on Tuesday. The attack on the plant operated by the oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, comes three days after eight foreign oil workers were released by a different group of kidnappers, and is the latest sign of a rising militancy hitting output for Africa's top oil producer.
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Dear Sir, it is pleasing to god that I write to you this day, I have been having difficulty transfering thirty millions of your dollars ransom moneys and need asssistance.........
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South Korean defense officials said an F-15K fighter jet disappeared during a training flight in the East Sea late Wednesday. The Air Force issued a statement saying the plane carrying two pilots left daegu air base at 7:45 p.m. and disappeared 35 minutes later off Pohang, about 350 miles southeast of Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported. The fighter was one of four Boeing-built F-15Ks owned by the South Korean Air Force. A search for the missing plane and pilots was under way.
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F15's missing/crashing, and F18's colliding but landing sounds like Amer's allies have more tech than can safely handle.
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Howard UK -- Oh boy - Google Images "Norma Sykes" - her real name. Heh, mountains of hits. :)
Hey, now I know a retro bosom-Goddess from the olden days. Kewl.
Furious black lawmakers, rallying behind Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), were pulled back from the brink of open revolt against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an emergency meeting with her Wednesday evening. The meeting with a handful of CBC members was called after Pelosi wrote the embattled lawmaker, who is at the center of a massive bribery scandal, a curt note requesting his immediate resignation from the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Outraged that one of its members was being picked on even though he has not been charged with a crime, the Congressional Black Caucus had intended to issue a defiant statement against their leader but agreed after the meeting to pause, at least briefly, for reflection. Earlier this week, Pelosi approached Jefferson and told him that she thought he should resign, according to a Democratic aide. Later, at the Democratic caucus meeting yesterday morning, she took him into a side room and told him that she had prepared a letter calling on him to resign the committee seat and that she would allow him one hour to withdraw gracefully before she sent it, according to the aide. In both instances, Jefferson remained defiant.
Credit where it's due: she's trying to do the minimum right thing, and it would rebound favorably on the Doinks.
Pelosis one-sentence missive to Jefferson called on him to vacate his committee seat in the interest of upholding the high ethical standard of the House Democratic Caucus. Good thing it was written, that would be hard to deliver verbally with a straight face. Jefferson promptly refused, calling her request discriminatory and unprecedented, and suggested that she was employing a double standard by failing to ask other lawmakers facing ethics questions to relinquish their committee assignments. Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) has come under fire for earmarks he secured through his seat on the Appropriations Committee.
Good point, Congressman, let's get him gone too. Thanks for the tip.
The Jefferson scandal, which after more than a year of investigation blew open Saturday with an FBI raid at his congressional office, has brought into glaring public light long-standing resentments felt by black lawmakers toward the Democratic leadership in the House. The wo-Mans been keeping us down!
Jefferson has been the subject of a wide-ranging bribery investigation by the Department of Justice. Pelosis call for his ouster came several days after a newly filed court document offered more details on Jeffersons alleged acceptance of $100,000 from an FBI informant in a sting operation. Days after that purported exchange, the document said, the FBI found $90,000 in Jeffersons freezer.
Yesterdays lunchtime CBC meeting with Jefferson was well-attended, drawing nearly all of the caucuss big-time grandstanders heavyweights Ways and Means ranking Democrat Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat John Conyers (Mich.) and Democratic Caucus Chairman James Clyburn (S.C.). Most lawmakers would not comment afterwards, but a CBC aide summed up some members frustration, saying, Congresswoman Pelosi, by preemption without any legal justification, has now created a new precedent for how members are going to be treated. Unfortunately, shes chosen to single out an African-American for this honor. Yes that FBI surveillance tape is also a bit unfortunate.
Then the aide added an electoral threat, saying, The African-American community, which overwhelmingly backs the Democratic Party, will not take this lightly. I hope she enjoys being minority leader. Is that what they call a double entendre?
And it implies that African-Americans aren't as upset about all the ethical problems as everyone else. There's a winning strategy.
The leader speaks for the party, Clyburn said. If thats what she feels, thats what she feels. If thats what [Jefferson] feels, thats what he feels. We all have to live with the consequences of our actions. Damn Hes smoooooth!
Absent from the CBC meeting was Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who has had an interest in securing a seat on the Ways and Means Committee. His spokesman said he had no comment. What a coincidence!
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Then the aide added an electoral threat, saying, The African-American community, which overwhelmingly backs the Democratic Party, will not take this lightly. I hope she enjoys being minority leader.
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I strongly encourage Congressman Jefferson and his friends to pull out of the Donk party and fall in on a new third party which will more closely mirror their constituency and opinions.
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Alleged criminal Rep. Jefferson is right - this is discrimination. You see, for historical reasons, blacks have been excluded from positions of power and therefore, have not been able to partake in the various scams, bribes and kickbacks that have been available to white members of Congress. This is all about black people getting their rightful share of an on-going criminal enterprise.
And what's up with Pelosi doing the Right Thing? Surely a sign of the End Times!
Rejecting an argument being made by Patriots who believe in National Sovereignty some conservatives in his own party, President Bush said Thursday that the idea that the United States could force millions of illegal immigrants to return home "ain't gonna work." Bush told a gathering of Hispanic leaders that the immigration system is broken and Congress needs to pass amnesty "commonsense" reform that strengthens the border while allowing more foreigners in to work temporarily and giving those who committed crimes sneaked in years ago a chance to become citizens. "There are those here in Washington who say, `Why don't we just find the folks and send them home,'" Bush said. "That ain't gonna work."
He said although it sounds simple, it is impractical to insist that the 12 million illegal immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S. leave and come back legally. People with common sense and an understanding of what 'Law' means Some prominent conservatives in his party say allowing those immigrants to become citizens without returning home would amount to amnesty.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two family members were charged Wednesday in a federal case against a Chinese-American engineer accused of trying to send sensitive information about Navy warships to China. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Santa Ana charged Yui ``Billy'' Mak, 26, and his mother, Fuk Heung Li, 48, with making false statements and acting as agents of a foreign government, namely China, without prior notification to the U.S. attorney general, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
Yui Mak is the nephew of Chi Mak, who is accused of taking computer disks from an Anaheim defense contractor where he was lead engineer on a sensitive research project involving propulsion systems for Navy warships. Li is married to Chi Mak's brother, Tai Wang Mak, also a defendant.
A real family affair.
Yui ``Billy'' Mak was arrested Wednesday in Alhambra, east of Los Angeles, and was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. Li, previously indicted on federal marriage fraud charges, is free on bond and is expected to be arraigned in the current case in July.
Wednesday's superseding indictment retained the original charges against Chi Mak, 65, his wife, Rebecca Laiwah Chiu, 62, and Tai Wang Mak, 56. Each faces a count of failing to register as a foreign agent. ``We continue to maintain our clients' innocence,'' said Chi Mak's attorney, Ronald Kaye. ``The government has overstated the evidence and misconstrued what was stated by my client.''
"He wuz framed!"
Failing to register as a foreign agent carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, while false statements carries a maximum of five years.
The government claims that Chi Mak, who is a U.S. citizen, allegedly passed the information to his brother, who then encrypted or helped encrypt the files and loaded them onto a computer disk. Prosecutors have said previously that authorities recovered from the disk restricted documents on the DDX Destroyer, an advanced technology warship. They also allege that they found two lists in Chinese asking Mak to get documents about submarine torpedo technology, electromagnetic artillery systems, weapon standardization, early warning technology used to detect incoming missiles, and defenses used against nuclear attack.
All of major interest to the PLA Navy.
The FBI arrested Chi Mak and his wife in October for investigation of conspiracy to steal U.S. government documents. They have not been charged with that allegation. John Early, attorney for Tai Mak, pointed out his client had not been charged with espionage despite the allegations in the case.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment about the case.
I'll bet they didn't.
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I guess there were no "attractive" Chinese wimmens in this lot.
Note to ChiCom spies - always make sure you got one "hottie" on board. The Fibbies just swoon.
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This is a very serious issue. All kinds of clearances are being given to "former" foreigners, Chinese,Iranians, etc. who are being employed in very sensitive posiitions by many of these defense companies. I believe this espionage is constantly ongoing and very damaging to our national intersts.
France on Thursday said India deserved a 'better status' in its access to nuclear technology for civilian use and backed a US proposal to change the rules of the Nuclear Suppliers Group to enable New Delhi achieve it.
"India and the US have reached a (nuclear) agreement last year. There is an American proposal to change the rules of NSG to enable India to access nuclear technology. We support this effort. We are trying to promote this effort," French Ambassador to India Dominique Girard told reporters.
France, he said, had been a 'pioneering partner' with India in supporting its access to nuclear technology for civilian use and had been backing it on the issue at NSG and International Atomic Energy Agency 'before anybody else.'
Noting the 'strong political bond' between India and France, he said his country was the first member of United Nations Security Council to support India's candidature for permanent membership of UNSC.
"We keep supporting this idea (India as a permanent UNSC member)," Girard said, adding, it was in view of India's democratic regime, size and international behaviour.
Asked about the prospect of France supplying Rafale fighter aircraft to India, Girard said "if and when India launches the competition, the company (Rafel maker Dassault) would be quite interested."
He, however, added "we have to discuss (the issue) in future, how the request is shaped up and the need of Indian Air Force is formulated."
On the Scorpene submarine deal, Girard said there would be a 'huge' transfer of technology to India which was significant for its industry. The submarines would be built in India.
"We are happy with the way things developed," he said, adding, the Indian Navy was 'quite satisfied and excited' about the deal.
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The USDOD will consider it when India's Air Force can prove its planes can stop crashing, its pilots can stop dying.
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Actually DOD is quite gung-ho about selling either F-16s or F-18s to the Indian Air Force.
With a large part of its fleet being Mig-21s, being used for missions they were not designed for, and being flown quite agressively and frequently, crashes are to be expected.
Especially since rookie pilots transition from prop trainers to the Mig-21 which is a difficult aircraft to handle. It is rather darwinian - onlt the best survive. A single mistake will cost the pilot his life.
Only in 2005 did rookie pilots start being trained on the Hawk jet trainers. More reliable American planes would bring down the crash rate as well.
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And cooperation betwen the USAF and the IAF has increased recently. The Indians have been invited to the Red Flag exercises next year
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KATHMANDU - The Nepalese parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted new regulations aimed at further clipping King Gyanendras remaining powers. The house adopted the new set of regulations prepared by a committee headed by Narayan Man Bijukchhe of the Nepal Labourers and Peasants Party.
Under the new regulations certification by the House Speaker gives full legality to any law enacted by parliament. Previously under the 1990 Nepalese constitution, the king, as head of state, had to sign the bill to make it a law.
The set of new regulations also said that the successor to the Nepalese throne would be determined by parliament and not by the Privy Council, which the parliament dissolved under the new regulations. The new regulations also mean that the parliament sessions will be summoned by the Prime Minister. Under the 1990 constitution, the king in consultation with the Prime Minister called the parliament meetings.
Not that any of this will matter when the Maoists seize power.
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OUSTED President Joseph Estrada has denied receiving classified US government documents from a former Philippine National Police officer and a former US intelligence analyst found guilty of spying in the United States.
In a deposition he sent to the lawyer of Michael Ray Aquino in the US, Estrada also said he neither solicited nor did he encourage either Aquino or Leandro Aragoncillo to filch US government files to pass on to him. I never had an agreement with Leandro Aragoncillo, Michael Ray Aquino or anybody else to access classified US government documents in order to obtain information for myself or others or for any other purpose, Estrada said.
Aquino was a former PNP officer who fled to the US years ago to escape charges in the murder of public relations man Salvador Bubby Dacer and the latters driver, Emmanuel Corbito. Aragoncillo is a former US Marine who joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an intelligence analyst and at pne point worked in the white house.
He recently pleaded guilty to espionage for illegally obtaining classified information on Philippine leaders from White House computers and passing these on to Aquino, who in turn allegedly passed them on to Estrada and other personalities in the Philippines, including Senator Panfilo Lacson and former House Speaker Arnulfo Noli Fuentebella. Estrada sent the deposition last week to Marc Berman, Aquinos lawyer.
Berman is expected to present Estradas deposition to the New Jersey court hearing the espionage case against Aquino when the trial resumes on June 15. The American lawyer had been working to be allowed by the court to depose Aquinos alleged contacts in the Philippines. The proceedings are usually videotaped to be played back in the US court. Estrada, however, gave a written deposition.
In the paper he sent to Berman, Estrada said he was not inclined at the moment to travel to the United States in the case entitled United States v Michael Ray Aquino. In other words; Cruise-on ta Luzon!
I never received classified US Government documents or information from Leandro Aragoncillo and/or Michael Ray Aquino by e-mail, telephone or text messages, Estrada said in the deposition dated May 23. He said he didnt even know that Aquino or Aragoncillo had access to US government files and were willing to steal these. Michael Ray Aquino and/or Leandro Aragoncillo never told or even suggested that he/they were willing or able to access US government documents, Estrada said. I know nuttin!
In previous pronouncements to the local media, however, Estrada had said that there was nothing classified in the documents on the Philippine situation prepared by US authorities that he had seen. There was nothing new but US Embassy reports to Washington about our economy, peace and order, corruption, human rights violations. I read them all in our newspapers every day, Estrada was quoted as saying.
Estrada had told the Inquirer that he had shown the documents to people in the administration like Presidential Chief of Staff Michael Defensor and National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales.
If those were classified, why would I show them? Estrada had said. The "Fools Defense" Pflip style.
Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi unleashed a column of hot gas and sent clouds of ash tumbling down its slopes Thursday as 15,000 terrified villagers fled to safety. Some jumped in rivers to escape the searing heat, while others dashed down the volcano or clambered onto the backs of trucks.
Indonesia's most dangerous volcano has been venting steam and ash for weeks, but Thursday's 9 a.m. burst was the largest yet, sending billowing, dark gray clouds avalanching 3 1/2 miles down the mountain, said Sugiono, a government vulcanologist. It was one of a series of powerful explosions, some spewing columns of ash 1 mile high.
Some scientists say a May 27 earthquake that killed more than 5,700 people in an area 25 miles south of Merapi may have contributed to the volcano's volatility in recent weeks. The mountain's lava dome has swelled, raising concerns that it could suddenly collapse, sending scalding clouds of fast-moving gas, lava and rocks into still-populated areas.
Yousana Siagian, a senior official at the government's Vulcanology and Disaster Mitigation Center, said a shallow 4.2-magnitude aftershock Thursday, 17 miles south of the peak, may have speeded things along.
Merapi's last deadly eruption was in 1994, when it sent out a searing gas cloud that burned 60 people to death. About 1,300 people were killed when it erupted in 1930. Authorities said that another major, deadly eruption would severely strain ongoing earthquake relief operations in nearby Bantul and Klaten districts. More than a half-million people were displaced in last month's temblor, many living in makeshift shelters with no toilets or running water.
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The House approved legislation Wednesday that supporters said will make it easier for oil companies to build or expand refineries, although opponents said it could lead to more pollution and less local involvement in the siting of refineries. The bill's sponsors argued that refinery constraints have added to the tight gasoline market that has seen prices at the pump soar to more than $3 a gallon across most of the country. But they acknowledged the measure is not intended to address this summer's high gas prices.
Earlier in the day at a House hearing, the head of the Energy Department's statistical agencies said he expects crude oil prices - which have been hovering above $70 a barrel - to remain high into next year. "This is an industry straining to meet the demand facing it," Guy Caruso, head of the Energy Information Administration, told a House Government Reform subcommittee hearing. He said limited refining capacity has added to the tight market.
Separately, Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told a Senate hearing Wednesday that while the U.S. economy has been able to absorb the surge in energy costs up until now, some impacts are beginning to be felt on economic growth. The House passed the refinery legislation by a vote of 238-179. But its prospects in the Senate are uncertain. Last year a similar bill failed to get out of committee amid solid opposition by Democrats and moderate Republicans.
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To be rejected in the near future by the asshole Senate....
Although this article shows the typical 'rooters' bias, I thought it was still interesting. A non-red state tour?
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Wed Jun 7, 7:07 PM ET
Initial ticket sales for the Dixie Chicks' upcoming tour are far below expectations and several dates will likely be canceled or postoned. Ticket counts for the 20-plus arena shows that went on sale last weekend were averaging 5,000-6,000 per show in major markets and less in secondaries, according to sources contacted by Billboard. Venue capacities on the tour generally top 15,000.
In contrast, the band's new album, "Taking the Long Way," sold 526,000 units in its first week, according to Nielsen Soundscan, the third-largest sales week of 2006. The album logged a second week in the period ended June 4, according to sales data issued Wednesday.
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I bet this article was planted to help sales and not report the slump. Trust me, there are more than enough Koolaid drinkers to fill the concert venues. Would be funny for them to cancel a few dates.
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If you understand how record sales are counted you know there are ways to manipulate the reports. IIRC it wasn't too far back some label was caught buying up records through third parties to make the figures look good. I expect they could do the same thing with tickets and centralized purchasing on the internet. They just got to remember to do both concurrently so as not to indicate something fishy is going on.
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If this gig doesn't work out, the Chicks can always dance in Toronto.
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Initial sales are also boosted by library and other venues other than individual sales. Most top authors can expect sales of 100,000 copies on the date of issue as libraries acquire books for their readers. I'm sure the same kind of thing happens with music, with the added sales to CD and DVD rental outfits. Let's see how sales go during the third or fourth week, after the "industrial" sales and the fanatics have all bought copies.
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Lots of radio stations are giving away tickets if you answer the question of the day correctly. it is now every DCH (H=hater) job to win the tix and NOT show up. that way they cannot be won by real fans ( either one of them.
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Are they so good at singing? Because I cannot beliee they made a carreer due to their looks: they go from not that bad (i see a dozen girls prettier evryday) to quite ugly.
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Seems to me they were trying to transition from country to pop when this whole thing started. Then they burned the country audience before they'd made the transition so they are starting to play the victim card hoping the lefties will support them enough to entrench their pop street cred.
Pretty telling when your first statements on releasing your new album is to retract your apology. Write a song about it, don't blab on about it.
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I'd be curious to see the demographics of their album sales. I bet they had huge sales in NYC, Boston, LA, SF, Seattle, and the like from people who wouldn't have given them the time of day a few years ago.
A New York Sun columnist, Mark Steyn, won the Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism at a reception yesterday at the New-York Historical Society. Previous recipients have included Claudia Rossett, Jay Nordlinger, Daniel Paul Henninger, and the late Michael Kelly.
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Excellent choice; he joins some illustrious company too, it seems. He combines wit and insight in a manner that can be almost breath-taking. The first time I ever heard of him, he had just published a column about the then-current Elian Gonzalez spectacle that still makes me laugh every time I read it. I don't think there is any columnist working today who is more of a must-read.
Let's call NPR and PBS what they actually are - taxpayer funded propaganda machines for redistributionism and cultural marxism which throw in a few moderate or conservative programs in an attempt to inoculate themselves against accusations of being taxpayer funded propaganda machines for redistributionism and cultural marxism.
As such they are repugnant and should just be gone. If leftist media outlets cannot do well in the free market (and we know they can't - see Air America) then they don't deserve to exist at all, least of all with money extracted from people who work and produce by the IRS. I'd go even further and say that if by some miracle PBS and NPR were to develop a right-of-center bias, that would be equally wrong.
I doubt that ANY of the Founding Fathers would have approved of a government owned media outlet which shilled for any political party regardless of its orientation. Organs like public broadcasting are artifacts of the wrong-path times of the mid-20th century. There is a general air of un-Americanism about them just in their existence, without regard to the politics.
The 20th century is over. It's time for things like NPR and PBS to be tossed on the ash heap of history.
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PBS's biggest argument has been taken away from them over the past few years with the media explosion. They can't (at least with a straight face) trot out the old 'we're the alternative if you want quality programming' horse anymore, because of the proliferation of dozens of nature channels, science channels, arts and music channels, etc. If they can't compete heads up against everyone else without tapayer funding, f*ck 'em, and you go GOP.
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"You're going to choose between giving a little more money to handicapped children versus providing appropriations for public broadcasting."
Whatta Joke! Dont hand us this handicap and orphan bullshit. W.s reluctance to find his veto pen on other projects has had as much, if not more, to do with the budget deficit. This is a big loser for the GOP. Reign in spending? Hell yes! Should NPR/PBS be immune? Hell no! Folks this isnt about spending. Its all about what social conservatives find as taxpayer funded programming they find distasteful.
New arrivals to this country must adopt American values and learn English, President Bush said Wednesday, pushing anew for his proposal to overhaul immigration rules.
To gain passage during this midterm election year, Bush must win over many in his own party who are opposed to provisions he demands besides stepped-up border enforcement. Those provisions include providing a path to citizenship for many illegal immigrants and allowing additional work permits for foreigners.
The president has taken several tacks in recent weeks to bring around recalcitrant lawmakers, including repeated emphasis on his seriousness about tightening the border with more manpower and equipment and imposing stiffer penalties on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.
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Iff America is at war, then the borders must be secured and controlled ergo illegal immigration must be controlled. The US mainstream will support the relations of children whom are US citizens by law to stay in America as long as the adults formally apply and receive citizenship, and ditto formally provide and register the names of all family member to the proper authorities.
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Unless the Department of Education is going to completely federalize local school districts and install former/retired military officers [who it appears to be the only form of bureaucrat who knows objective-mission-results concept], it doesn't make a rat's ass what a President thinks. The neo-marxist 'professionals' and administrators will continue their operations based upon class warfare, demonization of America, and division and rule segregation.
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The president may have undermined that message somewhat while at the Juan Diego Center, as he joined in a class preparing students for their U.S. citizenship tests. Though the instructor addressed students in English, Bush mostly chose their native Spanish to greet and quiz them.
Ummmmmmm...George? You're kinda missing the point here, okay?
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Bush is doing more weaving and bobbing than Ali in his rope-a-dope prime.
Note to Bush, forget your date with Foxy, and act like the president of the USA, people are watching.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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JONESBORO, Ark. More than two dozen people became ill after inhaling a substance believed to have been sprayed inside an IHOP restaurant, police said. Authorities were trying to determine the source of the substance that forced the restaurant's evacuation Tuesday evening. 
ARMED militants kidnapped five Koreans and killed ten security-force members in an attack on a small natural-gas plant in Nigeria's southern delta yesterday, authorities and security sources said. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility, and said the Koreans would be freed in exchange for a jailed militia leader who is on trial for treason and was denied bail by a Nigerian court on Tuesday. The attack on the plant operated by the oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, comes three days after eight foreign oil workers were released by a different group of kidnappers, and is the latest sign of a rising militancy hitting output for Africa's top oil producer.
Furious black lawmakers, rallying behind Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), were pulled back from the brink of open revolt against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in an emergency meeting with her Wednesday evening. The meeting with a handful of CBC members was called after Pelosi wrote the embattled lawmaker, who is at the center of a massive bribery scandal, a curt note requesting his immediate resignation from the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
Earlier this week, Pelosi approached Jefferson and told him that she thought he should resign, according to a Democratic aide. Later, at the Democratic caucus meeting yesterday morning, she took him into a side room and told him that she had prepared a letter calling on him to resign the committee seat and that she would allow him one hour to withdraw gracefully before she sent it, according to the aide. In both instances, Jefferson remained defiant.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two family members were charged Wednesday in a federal case against a Chinese-American engineer accused of trying to send sensitive information about Navy warships to China. An indictment returned by a grand jury in Santa Ana charged Yui ``Billy'' Mak, 26, and his mother, Fuk Heung Li, 48, with making false statements and acting as agents of a foreign government, namely China, without prior notification to the U.S. attorney general, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
KATHMANDU - The Nepalese parliament on Wednesday unanimously adopted new regulations aimed at further clipping King Gyanendras remaining powers. The house adopted the new set of regulations prepared by a committee headed by Narayan Man Bijukchhe of the Nepal Labourers and Peasants Party.
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Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi unleashed a column of hot gas and sent clouds of ash tumbling down its slopes Thursday as 15,000 terrified villagers fled to safety. Some jumped in rivers to escape the searing heat, while others dashed down the volcano or clambered onto the backs of trucks. 
The House approved legislation Wednesday that supporters said will make it easier for oil companies to build or expand refineries, although opponents said it could lead to more pollution and less local involvement in the siting of refineries. The bill's sponsors argued that refinery constraints have added to the tight gasoline market that has seen prices at the pump soar to more than $3 a gallon across most of the country. But they acknowledged the measure is not intended to address this summer's high gas prices.
