Many of my liberal friends will no doubt be mortified to know that I am a real "Republican Party reptile" now. Ron Paul is by far the most inspiring presidential candidate since Jefferson and to properly further his presidential bid it became necessary for me to switch my voter registration from "unaffiliated" to the GOP. Yesterday, Saturday March 8, was the Mecklenburg County GOP convention and I was there with the single-minded focus of becoming a delegate for Ron Paul at the upcoming state convention or sending another guy who thinks like me to do the same. Becoming a Republican delegate was a very educational process for me.
After participating in my first convention I now understand how important conventions are to the democratic process and I would highly recommend that North Carolinians of the conservative or libertarian persuasion become GOP delegates as I have done. After all, the Libertarian Party will be back on the ballot in this state when pigs fly, so may as well jump ship. But the best reason to get involved is that it is at the convention where the real vote happens. That shadowy system called the electoral college is what I'm talking about.
But first lets talk about another reason why this is more of a 'real' vote at the convention than what everybody else gets in November. Two words; paper ballots. There are no Diebold voting machines that can be rigged.
But I digress; at the county convention we selected two delegates who will represent Mecklenburg at the state convention in June in Greensboro I believe. There were 167 registered Republicans that actually got out of bed on a Saturday and showed up at the convention and this is the pool from which the two were finally selected from the four nominated. It is worth mentioning that the chairman announced that this year was a record turnout by far. But back to it, any number of delegates can be potentially nominated, but only two will make it to the state convention. 30 or 40 delegates applied in absentia by mailing a letter a few weeks before the convention saying that they could not attend, but would like to be delegates. This brings it to 200-ish delegates from which any number can be nominated, seconded and voted for by the other delegates including him or herself. You must be seconded by another delegate in order to get on the ballot. This is the kind of event where there is rigid order and there is a chairman who has a gavel who says stuff like "will the delegate please do this-or-that" and the crowd says "I" a lot in unison signifying approval instead of just a plain "yes" and the gavel is used to 'call to order' the crowd often. Everybody was dressed like Michael J. Fox from the eighties.
In order to understand what's going on with this next thing I am about to explain, we must know that not just Democrats, but both political parties in this state are divided into two camps. The Dems have the Hillary-side versus the Obama-side and the Republicans are either more or less reluctantly lining up behind McCain or holding steadfast to Ron Paul despite Paul announcing he is massively scaling back his presidential campaign so far as to almost appear to quit, hanging in there just in case a miracle happens and all McCain's unbound delegates defect at the national convention or something. I guess I share the same delusion. Paul is expected to be on the ballot in all the remaining state primaries including North Carolina, so maybe there is some hope after all.
Anyway, this is how it works; Out of the 200-or-whatever eligible delegates to go to the state convention, four were nominated and seconded. Two were from the Paul camp and two were from what can only be considered the defacto McCain camp. This is where it becomes important for people like you and me to be at the convention because I voted to send the Paul-ites. My side lost in a landslide, but as I will illustrate we could have easily won if all my Ron Paul friends would have just shown up. One of the winning delegates was Lee Teague, chairman of the local GOP, and he was nominated by CMS board member Kaye McGarry. Any delegate can nominate any other delegate, including themselves. Teague got a whopping 90 votes. The other winning delegate also scored high and I can't remember specifically who it was, although I know they were not from Paul's camp. The Paul camp nominated Ken Nelson and Kristina Love. Every delegate votes by writing no more than two (three will get you disqualified) names on their ballots. Nelson and Love got about 30 votes each. As for the discrepancy in numbers, understand that there were 3 districts at the convention and I am only discussing what happened at mine, which happens to be the largest district, which is district 9. Districts 8 and 12 had their own thing-a-ma-jig going on simultaneously.
There were many faces of Ron Paul supporters in this community that I know who were absent. If only more of these faces bothered to show up then perhaps Mecklenburg would not be sending hawkish delegates to the convention. We could have made a difference yesterday. Sigh …
The rest of the convention was pretty interesting though. All the GOP gubernatorial candidates had a live debate which was broadcast on WBT and News 14. Here are the four candidates as candidate Bob Orr describes them; Fred Smith, a real estate agent, Pat McCrory, a real estate developer for Duke Power, Bill Graham, a workers-comp lawyer and Bob Orr, a judge. That got a few chuckles. I don't know how accurate all that information is, but that is what Orr said. All four candidates basically said the same thing; gotta cut taxes and spending and build prisons for all the brown people, blah, blah, blah. The same thing every Republican says, but Orr was a little different. He was the only one who pointed out that we can't afford to build the "287 G" concentration … er, internment camps for illegal aliens. Fred Smith generated some uproarious laughter when he suggested Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory could have built his prison if he didn't blow his wad on a basketball arena. That was pretty funny I have to admit. Fred Smith is also a state senator. WBTV's Paul Cameron was the moderator of the debate. Every other high profile Charlotte-area Republican you can imagine was there such as congresspersons Robin Hayes and Sue Myrick, senator Robert Pittinger, councilman Dan Ramirez, etc. Ty Cobb jr. was there. And if that was not Tara Servatius and Jeff Katz there then their body-doubles were.
This whole NY Times-John McCain flap is the most phony, planned out thing I have ever seen. This story was not written to hurt McCain. No silly! This story about the lobbyist was written to help McCain.
Then a month later the NY Times writes a sloppy story attacking McCain, omitting sources and causing a backlash against themselves.
Now McCain is getting all this disgusting sympathy to the point where he is now ahead of the Democrats in the polls.
Whether or not McCain was boffing and almost certainly doing favors for the lobbyists that he has this sudden 180 degree reversal in attitude toward publicly (like his sudden change of heart on just about everything conservative now) is beside the point. What is being lost in this manufactured hub-bub is that the NY Times sat on this information since December, deliberately released it in a sloppy way that would make them look bad to arrouse sympathy for their golden-boy and meanwhile make any serious investigation into his past (Keating 5, phony war hero) look like a waste of time. Not to mention the timing could not be more opportune as this could have hurt McCain before Super Tuesday, but will be long forgotten by November.
Either way it's win-win for the love affair between The Old Gray Lady and the old, old, very old man she endorses. The NY Times don't give a damn about their reputation. Remember Jayson Blair? The only thing the NY Times care about is advancing a totalitarian agenda and a liberal war-hawk like McCain is their man.
Dollev's old website is gone so I had to repost his review of me lest it vanish forever. You'll notice some 'overlap', but it's only a sentence or two or three.
Rarely do I perform and not recieve at least one death threat. In fact, I look forward to the hate mail because it is usually so unimaginative and predictable that it makes me feel good about myself for not being like these people. Here's the latest, this time from myspace.com/blondie428:
And here is my rebuttal. Notice she changed her photo to a "scary face" after reading this. LOL! :)
And finally, on her Myspace page this hypocrite describes herself as a Christian! Death threats are soooo compassionate aren't they? Read her blog about how she oh-so tastefully intends to tattoo "God is Love" on her tits or something. Classy girl!
Nobody told me that Snocap was going to slap users with an outrageous annual $30 fee when I signed up for it. For crying out loud, I probably only make $30 annually off downloads anyway!
Terminating my account with Snocap was a real pain in the ass! Their so-called 'customer service department' is not a joke so much as it's an insult. It doesn't even have a telephone number. The only way I got termination results was a telephone call to the 'finance and accounts' manager everyday for two weeks. The finance rep is a guy named Richard whose extension is 234. I got this extension number by trial-and-error as the phone system at Snocap only gives you the option to either input the extension of someone you already know or hang up. I believe this is by design.
The only communication I received from Snocap after weeks of daily emails and phone calls was they tried to pull some last-ditch bullshit and say that they could not verify that I even had an account. So I sent them a carbon copy of the original email CD Baby gave me with my Snocap set-up instructions and log-in information, followed by several more days of more emails and more phone calls from me requesting immediate termination.
Snocap wants to charge you for something you're probably already paying for somewhere else. ITunes and Sony do for me what Snocap does and they don't charge an annual fee.
Put 'Snocap account cancellation request' in the subject and body of your email
Call them every single day at (415) 216-2200, EXT 234. This seems to get results. Leave a message requesting account termination and be sure to give them your name, band name and log-in email address as well in the voice message.
SNOCAP, Inc. 201 Third Street 2nd floor San Francisco, California94103
'Aaron' is a customer service rep who will probably tell you he 'can't verify your info' and you will probably have to carbon copy your original Snocap log-in instructions from CD Baby (or wherever you got them from) to him.
'Richard Duma' is with the alleged 'accounts and finance' department at EXT 234. He and Aaron may very well be the only two employees for all I know.
I am off for almost the next 10 days embarking on a UK tour with my other band, Pen15.
We're calling this the 'Coalition of the Swilling' tour. Get it? No? Ok then , let me explain real quick; the band is half-English and half-American, so we're naming it after the Bush/Blair terrorist, colonial action that tv zombies think is a war ... if they even think about anything at all. Now do you get it? Real funny, I know. Haha. Making a funny name for a rock tour based on other people's suffering. Deduct 25 political activist points from me for that. I will not pass go or collect $200 either. :)
Here's a photo of us taken from our last tour, way back in 1997. This one was at CBGBs.
Lynn Margulis, AB, MS, PhD - Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 among other things.
British holidaymakers and businessmen banned from travelling to America under anti-terror laws will no longer have any right to know why they have been turned away.
Oh, I get it. The Department of Homeland Insecurity is giving the people of the UK the silent treatment as collective punishment for withdrawing from the occupation of Iraq.
Shiite militiamen from the Mahdi Army took over the police joint command center in Basra on Sunday after British soldiers withdrew from the facility and handed control to the Iraqi police, witnesses said.
The White House's plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps as a terrorist organisation are intended to give the Bush administration cover if it launches military strikes on the Islamic republic, according to a prominent former CIA officer.
The only western journalist to interview al Qaeda's leader says the US invasion of Iraq "fulfilled Osama bin Laden's wish. "In a recent interview with Australian television, Al Quds editor Abdul Bari Atwan claimed that the terror leader had sought to draw US troops into a fight in the Middle East.
The 1,000-strong battalion heading to Iraq is just a small part of the nearly 15,000 Marines based across Okinawa. Until now, the Okinawa Marines sent only small contingents to Iraq to help other units. But with American forces around the world stretched thin – and with the demands in Iraq not easing up – the Pentagon has decided more help is needed.
Rhesus monkeys use their own type of baby talk to interact with their infants, a U.S. study found. Research from the University of Chicago shows that female rhesus monkeys use special vocalizations to engage the attention of their infants, similar to the way human mothers use baby talk with their children.
The company has a bandwidth limitation that, if broken, can result in a 12-month suspension of service. The problem, according to customer complaints, is that the telecom giant refuses to reveal how much downloading is too much.
Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday.
It was established the same year as Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, but Maine's short-lived Popham Colony has gotten scant attention.
Under established Jewish legal codes, it is forbidden to do anything to hasten death.
It is forbidden to hasten death if you are an Ashkenazi Jew, but not if you are a 5 year old Palestinian girl who unlike Ariel 'the Butcher of Sabra and Shatila' Sharon, is actually fully aware of her surroundings.
Saudi Arabia ordered the recall of 2,300 toys made in China feared to contain high levels of toxic lead paint, the country's official news agency reported Saturday.
Funny how the Israelis never get shipped poisoned toys.
The family of a Kenyan Muslim who campaigned against the international transfer of prisoners with alleged terror links said Saturday that he has disappeared.
Of course the CIA would neeeeever rendition a Kenyan anti-reditioner!
Aaron Russo was the Samuel Adams of our day, a stalwart defender of liberty, his passing is greatly mourned but his fiery spirit lives on in all of his great work and in his wife, his children and his film America From Freedom to Fascism.
Listen to the very beginning of the tape, when Ms. Morales states she favors Ron Paul the newsman says "whoa" as if he was suprised that the censors hadn't weeded Ms. Morales out prior to the interview.
A 2006 audit showed federal, state and local governments are among the biggest employers of the half-million persons in the U.S. illegally using "non-work" Social Security numbers — numbers issued legally, but with specific instructions that the holders are not authorized to work in the U.S.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew outrage from her opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday after saying that a terrorist attack in the United States would give Republicans an edge in the 2008 race.
Britain's long-awaited and much-postponed pull-out from the Basra palace, its last remaining base in the Iraqi city, is imminent, sources have told the Guardian.
A U.S. warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb on British troops after they called for air support in Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and seriously wounding two others in an accident that could re-ignite debate about America's heavy use of air power.
"That's what you limeys get for this talk of a pullout!" - Anonymous Pentagon brASS
The Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation said the total number of internally displaced has jumped from 499,000 to 1.1 million since extra US forces arrived with the aim of making the country more secure.
People need to stop calling this the 'Iraq War'. This is not a war. A 'war' is a conflict between armies. This is a battle between the terrorist, colonial, assassin forces of the US versus a civilian population.
The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate has effectively discredited the dominant American hypothesis of the past seven months: that safer streets, secured by additional troops, would create enough political calm for Iraq's leaders to reconcile.
U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said he couldn't confirm the attacks, but five Kurdish officials said troops had infiltrated Iraqi territory and fired on villages.
Children are easily manipulated and can be groomed from an early age to obey instructions unquestioningly. Child protection workers cite numerous tactics used by ruthless commanders to coerce their young captives into obedience. In Sierra Leone, child soldiers were given a cocktail of gunpowder and cocaine before battle. In Liberia, they were forced to do things that would isolate them permanently from the community such as murdering family members.
The chairman of a tribe seeking to build a $1 billion casino in Massachusetts stepped down from his daily duties Friday after a published report revealed he is a convicted rapist who lied to Congress about his military service during Vietnam.
A lineup of team logo baseball caps denounced as tailor-made for gang members was ordered removed from store shelves by its manufacturer Friday after complaints from baseball officials.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering the reversal of a three-year secrecy policy that could make public thousands of documents involving the troubled operations of a Tennessee nuclear fuel processing plant.
Authorities said that 17 pounds of weapons-grade uranium disappeared and that a verdict in the trial of four men accused of trying to sell the radioactive material will be delayed until it is found, state media reported Friday. The report was the first public word that uranium was missing. The defendants said they did not know where the uranium was because it had been moved around so much between potential buyers, the China Daily newspaper reported.
When the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for bankruptcy in February, abruptly halting multiple sex-abuse lawsuits on the eve of trial, Michael Bang thought his chance for a day in court was gone. On Friday, a federal bankruptcy judge revived hope for Bang, ruling that 42 cases be sent back to state courts for immediate jury trials. "Doing that in February really reaffirmed to me how significant the cover-up is," said Bang, a 46-year-old Atlanta man who says he spent years of his boyhood as a sex slave to a reverend monsignor. "They want to do anything they can within the legal system to stop it, but all it's done is made me more committed to telling the truth."
Confined to a wheelchair and paralyzed from the neck down, the Palestinian girl is at the center of a legal fight over whether Israel should continue to take care of her treatment. Back in May 2006, an Israeli missile attack on an Islamic Jihad activist's car in war-torn Gaza left the Aman family, traveling close behind, in ruins. Mariya's mother, brother, grandmother and uncle were killed, and Mariya, thrown out of the car into a ditch, sustained serious injuries. Today Mariya is kept alive by an artificial respirator at the Alyn Children's Rehabilitation Hospital in Jerusalem.
Sen. John Warner's suggestion that some troops leave Iraq by the end of the year has roiled the White House, with administration officials saying they've asked the influential Republican to clarify that he has not broken politically with President Bush. But Warner said Friday that he stands by his remarks and that he did not object to how his views have been characterized.
The city's biggest mob trial in years, involving five men in their 60s and 70s accused of crimes ranging from loan sharking to 18 long-unsolved murders, has lifted the curtain on the secrets of the mob - as it was decades ago. Most of the allegations date to the 1970s and '80s. But what about today? Experts say the mob is alive and well in the town that was Al Capone's.
An estimated 2 million babies die within their first 24 hours each year worldwide and the United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report.
Japan claims its project is the biggest since Apollo. China says it is readying its probes to study the lunar surface to plan a landing. With Asia's biggest powers set to launch their first unmanned lunar missions - possibly as early as next month - the countdown has begun in the hottest space race since the United States beat the Soviet Union to the moon nearly four decades ago.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light-years across of nothing. That's an expanse of almost 6 billion trillion miles, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
Florida's top police agency said Wednesday its investigation into former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's lurid Internet communications with teenage boys has been hindered because neither Foley nor the House will let investigators examine his congressional computers.
After seven years of legal wrangling, a federal judge rejected efforts Thursday by America's foremost circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, to derail a lawsuit alleging cruel treatment of its elephants.
The Air Force is ready to aid insurgencies. According to a lengthy new Air Force document, which outlines US strategies for "Irregular Warfare," military resources will sometimes be needed to help insurgencies in foreign countries.
Newly uncovered "rules of engagement" show the U.S. military gave elite units broad authority more than three years ago to pursue suspected terrorists into Pakistan, with no mention of telling the Pakistanis in advance.
Over HALF of the thirteen military officials implicated in the drug cartel protection ring attended the U.S. Army School of the Americas and/or its successor institute, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release of internal documents about a large number of e-mails missing from White House servers.
A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.
Representative Ron Paul won the South Sound Ronald Reagan Republican Club's straw poll last night in Snohomish County, Washington. Dr. Paul received 30 percent of the vote, beating out Fred Thompson who garnered 27 percent.
Victory number 5 for Paul, yet ABCCNNNBCCBS remain silent
US Senator John Warner, an influential Republican on military affairs, urged President George W. Bush on Thursday to start a limited withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by Christmas.
Thousands of people in Britain and around the world are dying prematurely from heart disease triggered by long-term exposure to excessive noise, according to research by the World Health Organisation.
In an extensive interview with the El Paso Times, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell decried continued public discussion of the wiretapping program, claiming Americans, particularly in Iraq, would "die" because of the debate.
The US Army seems to be moving to acquire a robotic spy blimp, able to float high in the sky for lengthy periods and monitor activities on the ground below.
Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos has called U.S. plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe a "provocation" reviving Cold War debates.
One of the experts the History Channel cited to debunk claims that the collapse of WTC 7 was a controlled demolition during its 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction special Sunday night, spun a wild conspiracy yarn of his own, claiming that Building 7 burned for eight hours having caught fire before either of the twin towers collapsed.
It is no surprise that the only "experts" they interviewed were titled as such when in support (read: making excuses) for the government story. The experts who question the government story were instead referred to as "Conspiracy Theorists" and were either given very little airtime to present their research/concerns, had details edited out, or were omitted from the program altogether. Pilots For 9/11 Truth, Veterans For 9/11 Truth and Architects and Engineers For 9/11 Truth, nor eyewitness experts from the Citizen Investigation Team, were never contacted to present information for this program. Was it because the producers of this hit piece were unaware such organizations filled with Experts existed?
A new group, Freedom's Watch, is launching Wednesday with a $15 million, five-week campaign of TV, radio and Web ads featuring military veterans that is aimed at retaining support in Congress for President Bush's "surge" policy on Iraq.
When pressed on the slow pace of recovery in the Gulf Coast, President Bush insists the federal government has fulfilled its promise to rebuild the region. The proof, he says, is in the big check the federal government signed to underwrite the recovery -- allegedly more than $116 billion. But residents of the still-devastated Gulf Coast are left wondering whether the check bounced.
U.S. troops in Iraq will receive at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles than expected this year due to the amount of time needed for shipment, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
On Friday, the Fed took the dramatic step of cutting its discount rate on loans to banks, to 5.75 percent from 6.25 percent, in an attempt to alleviate Wall Street's credit squeeze. It also made technical changes to make it easier for banks to get discount loans, including extending the credit period to up to 30 days. Tapping the discount window had previously been seen as a last resort for banks in trouble, a perception the Fed sought to eliminate.
Wouldn't you like to know where Dick Cheney puts his money? Then you'd know whether his "deficits don't matter" claim is just baloney or not. Well, as it turns out, Kiplinger Magazine ran an article based on Cheney's financial disclosure statement and, sure enough, found out that the VP is lying to the American people for the umpteenth time. Deficits do matter and Cheney has invested his money accordingly.
Some researchers say that DU, which has been listed by the U.N. as a weapon of indiscriminate destruction and banned by the Geneva Convention and several international treaties has been used by the U.S. military in the both Gulf Wars. Many claim it is a cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the reason why cancers, leukemia and birth defects have skyrocketed in Iraq since 1991.There is suspicion that DU might have been used or is currently being used here on Hawai`i Island, at the Pohakuloa Training Base, and that has many residents alarmed, especially in light of the recent discovery of DU spotting rounds and tail assemblies at Schofield Barracks on O`ahu.
The state will seek to execute a police officer in the death of his pregnant girlfriend, and prosecutors want statements made by the couple's 2-year-old son to be used against him at trial.
Computers at the campaign headquarters of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani were used to make fifteen changes to Mr. Giuliani's Wikipedia page last week, earning America's Mayor the Virgil Griffith award for the period ending August 18. This soon-to-be-notorious award is named after Virgil Griffith, the CalTech graduate student who created Wikiscanner, a program that tracks the sources of edits made to Wikipedia pages.
At the press of a button, a user sees their perspective shift upwards, revealing the correct constellation of stars for their selected position on Earth. They can then pick out particular stars or planets manually, or using the search field, and zoom upwards to see more detailed images and additional information. Some 20,000 celestial objects can be searched for by name using the Sky feature.
Nearly two dozen gas station owners in California sued Shell Oil Co., Chevron Corp. and Saudi Refining Inc., on Tuesday, claiming the companies conspired to fix prices for 23,000 franchise owners nationwide.
The country needs "authentic leadership," the wife of NFL athlete-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman said Wednesday in her first public comments since her husband was cut down by friendly fire.
A police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to raping a 19-year-old woman at a deserted police substation, then showing up to take a report after the woman called 911.
A police department video shows Officer Adam Chappell kicking a 17-year-old boy while other officers held him down in a downtown parking lot on July 21, authorities said.
Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
Italian media have been publishing transcripts of an inquiry into the policing of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit in which officers admit fabricating evidence against protesters.
A member of a prominent Philadelphia business family pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal child pornography charge. Steven L. Strawbridge Sr., 63, entered his plea as his wife and two adult children watched in a courtroom just blocks from the family's flagship Strawbridge & Clothier department store.
Liberals read more books than conservatives. The head of the book publishing industry's trade group says she knows why - and there's little flattering about conservative readers in her explanation.
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it will shut down an anti-terror database that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others whose actions posed no threat.
Oregon State University scientists tested 10 unnamed American cities for remnants of drugs, both legal and illegal, from wastewater streams. They were able to show that they could get a good snapshot of what people are taking. "It's a community urinalysis," said Caleb Banta-Green, a University of Washington drug abuse researcher who was part of the Oregon State team. The scientists presented their results Tuesday at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston.
Mrs. Laura Bush presents a plaque to Abbe Raven, center, president and CEO of A&E Television Networks, and Nancy Dubuc, president of The History Channel, honoring them with a 2007 Preserve America Presidential Award in the Rose Garden at the White House Wednesday, May 9, 2007, honored for the establishment of the Save Our History grant program for historic preservation, and promotion of the historic hertiage of America.
As part of a catalogue of dirty tricks employed to smear the truth movement in its 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction special, The History Channel used screenshots of an inane parody website and passed it off as representative of people asking questions about the official story.
Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won't be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent "overlay" ads at the bottom of selected video clips.
Sightings by marine scientists of dolphins in the north Atlantic's Bay of Biscay have dropped off by 80 percent compared to the same period in 2006, a wildlife conservation group said Wednesday.
President Bush today sidestepped a direct question about whether he'd be willing to categorically deny there is a plan to create the North American Union. Instead, he ridiculed those who believe that is taking place as conspiracy theorists.
The Israeli government forbade the entrance of paper for making text books to children from Gaza Strip, denounced Palestinian-Israeli Information-Investigation Center.
The CIA's top leaders failed to use their available powers, never developed a comprehensive plan to stop al-Qaida and missed crucial opportunities to thwart two hijackers in the run-up to Sept. 11, the agency's own watchdog concluded in a bruising report released Tuesday.
A groundbreaking Minnesota law is shining a rare light into the big money that drug companies spend on members of state advisory panels who help select which drugs are used in Medicaid programs for the poor and disabled.
While the CIA and military drug experiments of the 50s and 60s might be written off as just a phase they were going through, a new report from the Bradford Nonlethal Weapons Research Project shows that the interest in psychoactive substances has continued right up until the present day. It's called 'Off the Rocker' and 'On the Floor': The Continued Development of Biochemical Incapacitating Weapons.
Ravenel, 45, resigned last month, moments after attending a routine hearing in Columbia. It was the multimillionaire developer's first public appearance since his June 19 indictment on one federal count of possession with intent to distribute less than 500 grams of cocaine.
Authorities have detained a high-level narcotics officer they say was behind large-scale drug sales over the Internet, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.
Prosecutors opened a criminal investigation Tuesday into the blaze that killed two firefighters at a ground zero skyscraper that had a broken water supply system as it was being dismantled. The defunct standpipe pumped thousands of gallons into the basement, leaving firefighters without enough water to fight the fire that started Saturday on the 17th floor.
Thats funny. WTC 7 was a 47 story steel building with fires on just a handful of floors, and this was a 41 story steel building that was even structurally weakened, with fires on just a few floors, but unlike WTC 7 this building did not collapse. Amazing!
The History Channel 9/11 special that aired last night was by far the worst hit piece we have ever witnessed, a completely savage, dishonest and deceptive abomination, replete with dirty tricks, malicious lies and a level of journalistic fraud that goes way beyond simple bias.
New military tactics in Iraq are working but the best way to honor U.S. soldiers is "by beginning to bring them home," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told war veterans Monday.
The parade steps off at 6:30 p.m. on Tryon Street at 9th Street and travels down Tryon to 3rd Street, where it turns and heads for Marshall Park. More than 6,000 Shriners will march in, ride or drive 350 cars, 40 horses, 20 floats and 10 bands.
American United for Separation of Church and State has filed a complaint with the IRS requesting an investigation of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA for issuing an August 11 press release in which the pastor, Dr. Wiley S. Drake, endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and urged the congregation to do so as well
Boxes of documents containing personal information from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but instead turned up last week in a trash bin, police said.
"Whats the big deal? We're just treating the records like we treat the soldiers!" - Anonymous Pentagon brASS
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. quietly stopped selling two brands of dog treats in July, after customers voiced concerns that the Chinese products may have caused their pets to fall ill, but no recall has been announced, a company spokeswoman confirmed.
The survey reveals a nation whose book readers, on the whole, can hardly be called ravenous. The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year - half read more and half read fewer. Excluding those who hadn't read any, the usual number read was seven.
The former commander of seven disgraced military police soldiers at Abu Ghraib says the only officer charged in the prisoner-abuse scandal was well aware of shocking conditions inside the prison in Iraq.
Even as the wounded space shuttle Endeavour brought its seven astronauts safely home Tuesday, NASA is looking ahead to three more launches at risk for the same kind of damage.
Chinese authorities have cracked down on groups fighting HIV and AIDS, threatening activists, closing their offices and ordering that a conference be canceled, a human rights organization and activists said Tuesday.
Officials increased the pressure on the distraught families of 181 trapped miners Tuesday, deploying riot police, threats and money to silence their angry demands for answers to what caused the disaster.
"Note to self ... These ching-chong-china-men sure do know how to put the clampdown on dissent! I gotta write me some Executive Orders like this shit!" - King George
A decade ago, while the Sicilian Mafia was imploding under a ruthless crackdown, another crime syndicate rooted in the rugged mountains at the tip of Italy's boot was quietly eclipsing Cosa Nostra in power and reach. The bullet-riddled bodies of six young Italians who had just dined at a pizzeria in Germany's industrial heartland told the world last week what Italian authorities already knew: The clannish 'ndrangheta crime syndicate had come of age as an international force.
Wed., Aug. 22 CODEPINK Weekly Peace Vigils 5:30pm now at two locations East Blvd & Scott Ave and simultaneously at 7th St & Hawthorne Ln Charlotte, NC More info at www.myspace.com/codepinkcharlotte
Aug. 23 Kill 'Em All film screening 7:30pm
Charlotte Energy Solutions 337 Bladwin Ave Charlotte, NC 28204
Kill 'em All': The American Military in Korea By Jeremy Williams
In September 1999 an investigative team from the Associated Press broke a story that shocked America. Fifty years before, they claimed, refugees caught up in the Korean War were shot and strafed by US forces. Jeremy Williams explores the repercussions of a brutal episode in Cold War history.
Sat., Aug. 25 Salute to Dr King - Unity Walk in Charlotte Gather at 10:30 am (walk starts at 11am) S. McDowell & DR MLK Blvd Charlotte, NC 28202
Sept 29 March on the White House
Sept 22-29 Encampment in Front of Congress www.TroopsOutNow.org
Cooper: Yeah, I, I think he was dissembling, to put it charitably. Look, Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11th, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove and he said that she worked at the agency and she worked on WMD. I mean, to imply that he didn't know about it or that this was all the leak…
Documentarian Michael Moore implies that 9/11 might have been an inside job, and that the World Trade Center might have been brought down by a controlled demolition.
As officials conceded Sunday that six miners trapped underground by a mine cave-in could be permanently lost inside the still-shifting mountain, U seismologists continue to insist that an earthquake did not trigger the collapse.
Of the 266 votes casts during the poll, Paul claimed 216, landing him an easy victory. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in at a distant second with 14 votes.
Inside the event space, the manual advises, White House advance personnel should preposition "rally squads" that can swarm any protesters at the event and "use their signs and banners as shields between the demonstrators and the main press platform."
For seven-year-old Javaid Iqbal, the holiday to Florida was a dream trip to reward him for doing well at school. But he was left in tears after he was stopped repeatedly at airports on suspicion of being a terrorist.
A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Bush administration's top forestry official to explain why he should not be held in contempt of court for the U.S. Forest Service's failure to analyze the environmental impact of dropping fish-killing fire retardant on wildfires. If found in contempt, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, could go to jail until the Forest Service complies with the court order to do the environmental review.
Nearly 80 people are now eligible to join a class-action sex abuse settlement with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston, an attorney for victims said Monday.
A three-year veil of secrecy in the name of national security was used to keep the public in the dark about the handling of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant - including a leak that could have caused a deadly, uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
The Navy has removed a video from YouTube shot aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan because it shows sailors using safety equipment inappropriately, a Navy spokesman said.
A Pakistani accused of using his computer skills to help al-Qaida has been released after three years in custody, a government official and the man's lawyer said Monday. Pakistani officials have said that information from Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan quickly led them to a Tanzanian wanted for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, which killed more than 200 people.
Bush's two-day summit with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon is the third of its kind during his presidency. Each one has been meant to bolster an evolving compact - dubbed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America - that serves as a way for the nations to team up on health, security and commerce.
Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 21 Republicans and a Democrat – are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next week in Montebello, Quebec.
Protesters will be "seen and heard" when North American leaders meet next week in Montebello, near Ottawa, but only virtually -- via an audio-video feed set up by organizers. And the heads of the United States, Canada and Mexico may opt to change the channel.
Israel said Sunday it will no longer allow refugees from Darfur to stay after they sneak across the border from Egypt, drawing criticism from those who say the Jewish state is morally obliged to offer sanctuary to people fleeing mass murder.
The European Union cut off vital funding to a Gaza power plant on Sunday, forcing it to shut down the last of its generators and darken tens of thousands of Palestinian homes.
66 years later there are conflicting accounts of what happened in Ispas during that terrible summer of 1941, when the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union triggered an outbreak of anti-Semitic violence.Residents and one survivor say the 2,000 villagers risked their lives for the sake of about 100 Jews, an account supported by some leaders of Ukraine's Jewish community and the scholar who uncovered the tale.But another survivor says there were no heroes in Ispas. And a leading Holocaust expert says that most of the Jews of Ispas were killed by fellow villagers.
New Zealand's government is investigating clothing imports from China after some were found to contain dangerously high levels of the chemical formaldehyde, officials said Monday.
U.S. media reporting of the war in Iraq fell sharply in the second quarter of 2007, largely due to a drop in coverage of the Washington-based policy debate, a study released Monday said.
Critics are accusing President Vladimir Putin's government of a Soviet-style rewriting of Russian history with a series of new "patriotic" textbooks to be unveiled in the new school year.
America's Army will declare war on the fictional country of Ganzia Sept. 27 when it launches "True Soldiers" for X-Box 360, the latest evolution of the popular Army-sponsored computer game.
Medicare will stop paying the costs of treating infections, falls, objects left in surgical patients and other things that happen in hospitals that could have been prevented.
A US diplomat has retired from the government amid accusations he said "the only good Arab is a dead Arab" in a voice and electronic mail left with an Arab-American group, the State Department has said.
This video was removed from the "Most Viewed" and "Most Discussed" lists, even though the videos NOW on those lists have fewer hits and fewer messages. Meanwhile, YouTube has decided you will be directed towards male-female mixed wrestling, a UFO in Haiti, and something called "Shit Pickle" on its "Favorites" list.
But I digress; at the county convention we selected two delegates who will represent Mecklenburg at the state convention in June in Greensboro I believe. There were 167 registered Republicans that actually got out of bed on a Saturday and showed up at the convention and this is the pool from which the two were finally selected from the four nominated. It is worth mentioning that the chairman announced that this year was a record turnout by far. But back to it, any number of delegates can be potentially nominated, but only two will make it to the state convention. 30 or 40 delegates applied in absentia by mailing a letter a few weeks before the convention saying that they could not attend, but would like to be delegates. This brings it to 200-ish delegates from which any number can be nominated, seconded and voted for by the other delegates including him or herself. You must be seconded by another delegate in order to get on the ballot. This is the kind of event where there is rigid order and there is a chairman who has a gavel who says stuff like "will the delegate please do this-or-that" and the crowd says "I" a lot in unison signifying approval instead of just a plain "yes" and the gavel is used to 'call to order' the crowd often. Everybody was dressed like Michael J. Fox from the eighties.
