From our you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me file, we discover that, slipping quietly by yesterday, was Child Health Day 2006, which was officially designated by George W. Bush on September 28. (more…)

Words fail me…

Reporter: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room so we can have a frank discussion of this, because it’s an adult topic. It just doesn’t seem appropriate to me.

Reynolds: I’ll take your questions, but I’m not going to ask any of my supporters to leave.

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Can a surveillance drone be made virtually invisible? VeraTech, based in Minnesota, US, thinks so. And patent applications filed by the company explain how. (more…)

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government. (more…)

WASHINGTON - Attorneys for 25 men being held in Afghanistan launched a pre-emptive strike Monday against President Bush’s plan to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects.

Court documents filed Monday demand that the men be released or charged and allowed to meet with attorneys. Such a filing, known as a habeas corpus petition, is prohibited under the legislation approved by Congress last week. (more…)

Speaker Dennis Hastert brushed aside any suggestion of resignation on Tuesday as House Republican leaders struggled to contain the fallout from an election-year scandal involving sexually explicit messages from a disgraced lawmaker to underage male pages. (more…)

An MSNBC segment examines if Rep. Foley made a large contribution to the Republican Party in exchange for silence about sexual messages that Foley sent to House pages. Foley gave $100,000 to the GOP Campaign Committee in July. The large contribution came at same time when Republican House leadership ignored Foley’s emails. (more…)

Scandalized former Congressman Foley is still signing on to the internet under the screen name maf54. Maf54 is the instant message screen name Foley used to have sexually explicit “chats” with underage male Pages. (more…)

Do they offer internet access at the Betty Ford Clinic?

WASHINGTON - The attorney for former Rep. Mark Foley says Foley was molested by a member of the clergy as a teenager.

Say you’re an alcoholic, maybe people will feel sorry for you… Hmm, that didn’t work. Damn you Patrick Kennedy! Ok, blame it on the Catholic Church, we all know they’re sick perverts. Yeah, that’s the ticket! (more…)

Islamic Terror Expert: “Was this a video by al-Qa’ida or by a security agency?”
“New” footage was previously used in a docudrama

New revelations about the so-called ‘laughing hijackers’ tape expose its release as a stage-managed politically timed trick. The father of Mohammed Atta blasts the video as a “fake” while contradictory claims of its origin and nature baffle even mainstream terror experts - while even the media admits that the tape was released not by Al-Qaeda but by the U.S. intelligence apparatus. (more…)

A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.

Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of people in an outdoor mall area, shaking hands and posing for pictures with several people. (more…)

Fox News Previously Had Copy Of Foley Emails But Didn’t Run It…

(AP) — … Meanwhile, Florida newspapers — who were leaked copies of the e-mail with the Louisiana boy last year — defended their decision not to run stories. Both The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald were given copies of the e-mail, as were other news organizations, including Fox News.

“Our decision at the time was … that because the language was not sexually explicit and was subject to interpretation, from innocuous to ’sick,’ as the page characterized it, to be cautious,” said Tom Fiedler, executive editor of the Herald. “Given the potentially devastating impact that a false suggestion of pedophilia could have on anyone, not to mention a congressman known to be gay, and lacking any corroborating information, we chose not to do a story.”

So the mainstream media admits that they protected a pedophile in Congress for a year. Imagine all the other sex scandals that the maintream media has just decided to pass on covering and you can begin to understand how a problem like this can become so widespread. (more…)

Mojave High School, Elizondo Elementary School and three other schools in North Las Vegas were placed in lockdown after a person described as a nonstudent dropped a small-caliber semiautomatic handgun in the high school quad before school began this morning. (more…)

Hitachi on Monday announced its release of the industry’s first AirLocation II Tag-w, a WiFi active RFID tag for wireless LAN position detection and management of people entering and leaving buildings, which also features an emergency message function. (more…)

LONDON: Video footage of 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta reading a “martyrdom” will about 20 months before the attacks on the US may never have been intended to be released in that form.

And an expert on Islamic extremism predicted the footage was so out of character for al-Qa’ida it could have been taken by a security agency.

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