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Senate Version of the Santa Clause Program Emergency Spending Supplemental

http://victorycaucus.com/supplemental_senate.php

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Most Wanted and Dangerous Criminal Nabbed!!

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2985388






http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...rticle=1&cat=0

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These stories make me nits. Not about the particular cases. Im
not going there.
But this notion that Congress needs to stick its big fat innefficient nose into stuff that doesnt concern them.
Oh yeah. Lets legislate here. Were the experts. We cant find 600,000 illegal aliens but were gonna solve this quick.
Blowhards. Pandering populist blowhards.

http://www.examiner.com/a-642006~Lawmakers_Mull_Crackdown_on_Cruise_Crime.html?cid=rss-Politics

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These stories make me nits. Not about the particular cases. Im
not going there.
But this notion that Congress needs to stick its big fat innefficient nose into stuff that doesnt concern them.
Oh yeah. Lets legislate here. Were the experts. We cant find 600,000 illegal aliens but were gonna solve this quick.
Blowhards. Pandering populist blowhards.

http://www.examiner.com/a-642006~Lawmakers_Mull_Crackdown_on_Cruise_Crime.html?cid=rss-Politics

^^And to the woman/girl that says she was raped?

1. Never get caught alone anywhere with a man you dont know well....when others arent around. Didnt your parents teach you that?
2. Buy a small revolver
3. Get a carry permit.
4. Book another cruise.
5. Get even.


well maybe not # 5.

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Soon enough this Congress is going to discover that our laws don't apply in places as civilized as Europe... and they're gonna try to do something about THAT as well. Imperial Presidency? HA! We have an Imperial Congress!

Foreign vessels flying foreign flags in foreign waters... what part of "Not our Jurisdiction" do they not understand!?!

How about "Casus Belli"? Do they know THAT term??? Arrrrrrgh!

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France. Go figure.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/...bway_clashes_3

More

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/even...ud9DP4oduaK8MA

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Too nice a day here for serious stuff. So here is some fun with Dave.
Of course language warning...

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Hilarious to see a media outlet whom uses the FOI fighting so hard to keep others from using the FOI. The BBC much like our PBS needs to be stripped of all public funding. Wanna push an agenda... fine. Do it on your own coin.


BBC pays £200,000 to 'cover up report on anti-Israel bias'

The BBC has been accused of "shameful hypocrisy" over its decision to spend £200,000 blocking a freedom of information request about its reporting in the Middle East.

The corporation, which has itself made extensive use of FOI requests in its journalism, is refusing to release papers about an internal inquiry into whether its reporting has been biased towards Palestine.

BBC chiefs have been accused of wasting thousands of pounds of licence fee payers money trying to cover-up the findings of the so called Balen Report into its journalism in the region, despite the fact that the corporation is funded by the British public.

Read more...

* Campbell's £20,000 deal with the enemy

The corporation is fighting a landmark High Court action, which starts next week, in a bid to prevent the public finding out what is in the review, which is believed to be critical of the BBC's coverage in the region.

BBC bosses have faced repeated claims that is coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been skewed by a pro-Palestianian bias.

The corporation famously came under fire after middle-east correspondent Barbara Plett revealed that she had cried at the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004.

The BBC's decision to carry on pursuing the case, despite the fact than the Information Tribunal said it should make the report public, has sparked fury as it flies in the face of claims by BBC chiefs that it is trying to make the corporation more open and transparent.

Politicians have branded the BBC's decision to carry on spending money, hiring the one of the country's top public law barrister in the process, as "absolutely indefensible".

They claim its publication is clearly in the public interest.

The BBC's determination to bury the report has led to speculation that the report was damning in its assessment of the BBC's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict that the BBC wants to keep it under wraps at all costs.

Others believe that the BBC is using the case to test the law about how much protection it has got from making its editorial activities public and also because it fears that if it loses the case it will create a precedent.

The BBC's action over the case have provoked inevitable charges of hypocrisy as the BBC itself makes frequent used of freedom of information requests to get stories.

The BBC's own website boasts of 69 stories that it says it has broken with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.

If the BBC loses the High Court case next week it could appeal again and again until the case reaches the European Court in Strasbourg.

This would soak further thousands from BBC coffers, which should be spent on making TV programmes.

Conservative MP David Davies said: "An organisation which is funded partly to scrutinise governments and other institutions in Britain appears to be using tax-payers money to prevent its customers from finding out how it is operating. That is absolutely indefensible."

He added: "I think the BBC are guilty of shameful hypocrisy. What could possibly be in this report that could possibly be worth £200,000 to bury. What is it they feel is so awful in this report."

A source close to the case said they believed that the BBC had spend in the region of £200,000 on the case so far, while another legal expert claimed the cost could be as much as £300,000.

The document was put together by BBC editorial advisor Malcolm Balen in 2004 but never released.

The High Court action next week is the latest episode in what has become a lengthy legal battle which has been pursued by London solicitor Steven Sugar, who made the initial FOI request.

Initially Information Commissioner Richard Thomas agreed with the BBC's decision not to release details of the report.

But Sugar appealed the Information Tribunal and they backed his claims in September. This then saw the BBC appeal to the High Court.

The BBC claims public broadcasters do not have to disclose material that is held for the purposes of "journalism, art or literature".

But the BBC is now facing accusations it is using this rule as a smoke-screen.

It claims the measures are there to protect the integrity of its reporting and protects its journalists from interference from the public.

The BBC Believes that this includes the Balen Report.

The BBC also claims that if the court finds in Sugar's favour it could lead to a sudden increase in FOI requests which would require more staff and a further burden on the licence fee.

While the BBC did not reveal the findings of the Balen Report, which was compiled in 2004, the corporation did last year make public the findings of an independent panel report into the BBC's impartiality on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

That report found said that there was "no deliberate or systematic bias" in the BBC's reporting, but said its approach had at times been "inconsistent" and was "not always providing a complete picture" which had been "misleading".

But some claimed that the independent panel report only took a snapshot of the BBC's activities and should have looked more deeply at the reporting of the most troubled moments of the conflict.

Steven Sugar, who said he was prepared to take the case all the way to European court, said: "What I would like to see is the disclosure of an important document which will give us an insight into what the BBC itself thinks of its own performance.

"I would like to see the BBC facing up to its professed interest in transparency and openness."

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Looks as if the "youths of unknown origin" are rioting in France again.


Clashes erupt at Paris' Gare du Nord

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The Palestinians are reaping the rewards of electing terrorists to run their "country".



The Great Gaza Sewage Tsunami of 2007

Sometimes, devoting all your time and money towards killing Jews can cause some unwanted complications.

At least six people were killed Tuesday when the wall of a large cesspool collapsed, flooding the northern Gaza Beduin village of Umm Naser with mud and some 56,000 cubic meters of raw sewage, Palestinian officials said

Officials said dozens were injured and about 11 people missing, with some saying up to 10 people were killed. The rest of the village's 3,000 residents fled or were evacuated by rescue crews.

A 70-year-old woman, two toddlers and a teenage girl died in the sudden flood, and 25 people were injured, said Dr. Muawiya Hassanin of the Palestinian Health Ministry.

387 houses were deemed unhygienic and 96 of those houses were either destroyed or deemed unsafe to live in. Up to 4,000 people are being affected by the flooding, officials said.

Rescue crews and Hamas gunmen rushed to the area to search for people feared buried under the slide of sewage and mud.

An official in Gaza City said the raw sewage was presenting a particular danger to health and that the situation was not yet under control.

The Palestinian Medical Relief Society, which has a functioning health center in the area, plans to test all people in the region for diseases. Results will take seven to ten days, according to Dr. Abdul Hadi.

UNRWA is providing some 300 tents while the International Red Cross and the Palestinian Red Crescent are distributing hygiene kits, portable latrines, food parcels, mats and blankets. UNICEF is providing clothing to those affected.

Officials say all local and international institutions are coordinating their relief efforts and are working at a high emergency status.

Not surprisingly, Hamas are blaming the outside world.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum blamed international "sanctions against Palestinians, including Gaza and the West Bank" for the condition of Gaza's infrastructure. Most foreign donors froze aid to the Palestinian government after Hamas swept to power in a 2006 general election, but Shepard said the Umm Naser project had not been affected by the boycott.

But residents aren't buying it.

It was not immediately clear what caused the sewage to erupt from the reservoir, but local residents blamed the municipal government for failing to address the mounting sewage problem.

And they have their own unique way of articulating this.

Newly appointed Palestinian interior minister Hani al-Qawasmeh rushed to the scene to inspect the damage, but angry villagers chased him off by firing guns at his convoy and wounding two policemen, witnesses said.

Meanwhile, it is important to note that Israel offered assistance straight away, despite the fact the palestinians are trying to drive us into the sea. We were initially turned down, but now it seems as though the palestinians would rather suffer accepting help from the sons of monkeys and pigs, than live like pigs.

Israel's Mekorot Water Company is to give humanitarian assistance to the village at the instruction of National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer by helping pump the sewage using a 700-meter hose and other equipment, as of Wednesday morning.

The Palestinians plan to use the hose to temporarily move sewage to prevent a further disaster to an open area which was a former settlement in the north of the Gaza Strip close to the village.

The assistance came after an appeal by Palestinian Water Authority Director General Fadel Kawash.

Earlier, Defense Minister Amir Peretz offered the Gaza Liason Administration any assistance necessary.

Sources at the administration said that they had been in touch with their Palestinian counterparts and offered medical aid, as well as the raw materials needed to fix the wastewater wall that caved in.

On Wednesday, Israel representatives of the Palestinian Water Authority and World Bank will meet at Erez Crossing to consider further options.

Of course, had they had not accepted our help, I'm sure they could have relied on help from other sources.

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Meanwhile, it is important to note that Israel offered assistance straight away, despite the fact the palestinians are trying to drive us into the sea. We were initially turned down, but now it seems as though the palestinians would rather suffer accepting help from the sons of monkeys and pigs, than live like pigs.

Ahem.

BA HA HA HA HA HA!!

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Iranian Irony [Michael Rubin]

In the same week that the Iranian government has called the unanimous UN Security Council resolution "illegal" and paraded 15 British hostages on television, the Iranian representative to UNESCO has demanded the UN agency act to correct the depiction of ancient Iran in the movie "300." After all, the UN ambassador said, such a movie hampers the dialogue of civilizations and might hurt peoples' feelings.
03/29 07:21 AM

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Some good research here. Too big to copy and paste...so here is link.
The US Atty deal/fiasco

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...t-here-is.html

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^^^^

Bush said: "I have to admit we really blew the way we let those attorneys go. You know you've lost it when people sympathize with lawyers."

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Oh goddamit.. why are we still caving to pressure and funding these terrorists??

US aid will be used to 'hit the Zionists'

The declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party took credit for two of seven rockets fired into Israel on Tuesday, vowed to break a Gaza ceasefire and told WND that US financial aid pledged for Fatah security forces will be used to "attack the Zionists."

"Even if the American money and weapons reach only members of Fatah who are not involved in the resistance, it will find its way to the Palestinian resistance and be utilized for attacks against the Zionists," said Abu Ahmed, the northern Gaza commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group.

Abu Ahmed was referring to $59 million the Bush administration announced Tuesday it will send to strengthen Fatah security forces.