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Mohammad Cartoons
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Have a good laugh on the murderous thugs.
Scroll down to the middle of the page : www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698
Why not pass 'em on?
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Zalmai Azmi
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I have a friend who has been in the Information Technology industry for over 20 years.
She was shocked when she learned that a new FBI computer program designed to help agents share information to ward off terrorist attacks may have to be scrapped
The news is that the agency has concluded it nee...
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Modern American Entertainment
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Below you will find two movies – both of which have been rated PG-13. Clearly after viewing them you should be able to understand that children should not see them at all.
The current rating system as followed by the Motion Picture Association of America is inadequate, misleading and dangerous.
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Roberts and Guantanamo
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Curious events are happening surrounding the Supreme Court and Judge John Roberts but they are not what you would expect.
They have to deal with the terrorism suspects on war crimes charges at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The terrorist suspects are apparently being charged with war crimes. The pro...
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Disgraceful Bolton
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John Bolton, the American Ambassador to the United Nations is humilitating our nation.
He has taken the view that the UN charter "has never been interpreted as creating a legal obligation for Security Council members to support enforcement action." He seems to defy history.
He asked to remo...
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Profiteering from Katrina
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Haley Barbour is the Governor of Mississippi.
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina left the state of Mississippi in a shambles Haley Barbour flew along the coast in a helicopter and viewed the devastated casinos.
His plans have included tax give-aways to casinos and Toyota which runs a large aut...
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Smokey the Bear Showed up, where was Uncle Sam?
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Lt. David Shand and Lt. Matt Udkow piloted H-3 helicopters out of Pensacola, Fla., having been ordered to deliver emergency food, water and other supplies to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Tuesday, August 30, the day after Katrina.
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High Tone Bush
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Sir Cyril
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I read recently a long winded complaint by Sir Cyril Townsend.
He wrote about the situation in Sudan and came down heavily on the side of his
Arab friends in Khartoum.
At one point he accused John Garang of using child soldiers and then stated that the Lord’s Resistance Army was glad to be rid of...
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Streamlined Sales Tax Project
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I understand that in the name of simplification, a group of cash-strapped states is proposing the Streamlined Sales Tax Project (SSTP).
The goal of the SSTP is supposed to be simplification but it does not succeed in simplifying state and local tax laws sufficiently to ease the collection burd...
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Iraq is Dead
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The Iraqi problem seems to be that no one in Iraq wants to be an Iraqi.
With an independent Kurdistan and Shiastan the United States will get the oil it wants and the Kurds and Shiites that have suffered in poverty will get a piece of the action. As for the Sunnis, after their brutal collusion with the...
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Rep Cox and the SEC
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Here comes Representative Cox from California jumping into the Securities and Exchange Commission with both feet.
Who is this guy and what background does he have?
In the 108th Congress Christopher Cox sponsored the following legislation :
Ending Discrimination Against Students En...
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War on Terror
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As time goes on and Bush echoes the words that spill from Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert and even his brother John Ellis Bush (Jeb), governor of Florida. Instead of their losing their meaning we begin to lose the meaning of the men speaking them.
‘The War on Terror’.
A definition for terr...
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Lasers in the Darkness
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On May 21, 2005 a new system of laser beams will be operational in Washington, DC. Bright red and green lights will beam up into the sky warning pilots to ‘stay away’.
Recently a small plane flew within three miles of the White House and politicians went scurrying in every direction. Tens of thousa...
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Wolfowitz in Lamb's Clothing
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Dr. Geoffrey Lamb, vice-president for concessional finance and global partnerships of the World Bank appeared before an audience of Pennsylvania High School students at the ‘World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh’ hosted at a Ramada Inn.
Look at what he told the kids, “By 2015, most of Asia and L...
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Cotton Subsidies
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President Bush recently announced that he was going to cut back on farm loan programs – most notably – limiting subsidy payments to farmers to $250,000 a year.
This appalls many farmers dependent on the government handout and angered company farms many of which take most of their profit from the Fa...
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Como Se Dice?
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To hold forth that every word in the King James bible is direct speech from God and should be taken as literal and infallible truth is more of a mistake today than it was 100, 200 or 300 years ago.
It is quite widely known that in the first preface to the King James bible that the translators of that master...
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Yemen Polio
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Polio has returned to Yemen. It is said it was imported by pilgrims returning from Mecca. The disease was nearly eradicated in early 2004, but has spread to several African countries and across Saudi Arabia.
Four children with polio have been found in Yemen.
The Yemeni government and the Worl...
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Iraq War
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This war may be won from a military standpoint and lost from a revolutionary standpoint. Revolution is what is being exported. It is what this Administration wants us to stand behind and forcefully press upon the Iraqi people, the Afghans, the Columbians, the Cubans, the Chinese, the Russians – a...
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Boo! for Boobah
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Public Television is distributing a children’s television show called ‘Boobah’.
You can see information at this web site :
http://pbskids.org/boohbah/boohbah.html
Be sure to have your speakers turned up so that you can easily make out the sounds of flatulence that accompany the multi...
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US Navy Plans to Sink America
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The United States Navy is planning on taking the aircraft carrier USS America 300 miles off the eastern coast of the United States to sink it in international waters on April 11, 2005.
The navy will attack the aircraft carrier to see how many weapons it will take to sink it. They already know it will...
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Personal Accounts
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I have a 401K retirement account.
I have been offered a Self Directed Account.
I looked into it.
I called the company and was told me that I had to call another number. The guy I spoke to didn’t know much about the accounts. I had to read to him the document his company sent me with his phone number on i...
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Bush Sings Soprano in Detroit
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Bush appeared before the Detroit Economic Club. People continue to leave Detroit.
He was literally was shrieking about a train wreck and how the House of Representatives can stop the train wreck.
He skipped the part about Michigan leading the nation in job loss and his amazing growing budget...
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Riggs Bank
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Riggs Bank, which employed on of President Bush’s uncles and its parent company have agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge and pay a $16 million fine for failing to prevent potential money laundering at the District bank, according to sources close to the matter.
The investigatio...
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General Luck
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Retired General Gary E. Luck was sent to Iraq to look over the troops and provide some low key suggestions on how to improve matters.
Who is General Luck?
Ex-commander of troops in South Korea. He was tasked with waiting to get attacked by the North Koreans. Luckily they never did.
Then he ha...
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