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jews were marked as jews well before nazi germany. that aside if i was a christian or jew in iran i would be moving right about now.

apparently the pentagon has said out of the about 800 people who have been through gitmo or are still there charge have been filed against 10.

tie up any loose ends you might have i say it's time vegas starts taking wagers on this one. chicago tribune :banghead Scientists keeping wary eye on asteroid (The headline above has been corrected.) NASA studies remote chance of 2036 impact By Michael Cabbage Tribune Newspapers: The Orlando Sentinel Published May 19, 2006 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mark your calendar for Sunday, April 13, 2036. That's when a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named Apophis could hit the Earth with enough force to obliterate a small state. The odds of a collision are 1-in-6,250. But while that's a long shot at the racetrack, the stakes are too high for astronomers to ignore. For now, Apophis represents the most imminent threat from the worst type of natural disaster known, one reason NASA is spending millions to detect the threat from this and other asteroids. A direct hit on an urban area could unleash more destruction than Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined. The blast would equal 880 million tons of TNT, 65,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Those kind of statistics have moved the once-far-fetched topic of killer asteroids from Hollywood to the halls of Congress. "Certainly we had a major credibility problem at the beginning--a giggle factor," said David Morrison, an astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. "Now, many people are aware this is something we can actually deal with, mitigate and defend against." In 1998, lawmakers directed NASA to identify by 2008 at least 90 percent of the asteroids more than a kilometer (0.6 mile) wide that orbit the sun and periodically cross Earth's path. That search is now more than three-quarters complete. Last year, Congress directed the space agency to come up with options for deflecting potential threats. Ideas discussed include lasers on the moon and Hollywood's old standby, nuclear weapons. Few outside scientific circles took the threat posed by near-Earth objects seriously until 1980. Then, Luis and Walter Alvarez published a study based on geologic evidence that concluded a cataclysmic asteroid or comet impact 65 million years ago caused the mass extinction of two-thirds of all plant and animal life on Earth--including the dinosaurs. NASA scientists studying satellite photos bolstered the Alvarezes' theory with the discovery in 1991 of an impact crater 125 miles wide buried beneath the northwestern corner of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Spectacular images three years later from the Hubble Space Telescope of Comet Shoemaker-Levy's collision with Jupiter showed 21 comet fragments, some more than a mile wide. "I think the most important development for getting this [public awareness] going was the Alvarezes' research that the dinosaurs went extinct as the result of an impact," Morrison said. "We were faced with a real example where an impact had done terrible damage." Copyright ? 2006, Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...nationworld-hed

radiation is over rated. it's just a way to scare people. we get plenty of radiation between the sun and even the ground on a yearly basis and most of us keep on keeping on. john stossel did a report about it on tv a couple weeks ago: MYTH: Radiation will kill you Researchers Say Low-Level Doses of Radiation May Be Good for You May 12, 2006 ? Hollywood films have long portrayed radiation as evil and powerful. Fear of radiation was widespread even before the United States dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The blasts themselves killed more than 200,000 people, and many others died later from radiation exposure. The New York Times wrote article after article about how radiation would change Japanese lives "for "centuries," that there would be genetic damage ? defects for the next 1,000 years. But surprise: So far no such damage has appeared. Some researchers, like toxicology professor Ed Calabrese, now say blast survivors, who were exposed to smaller amounts of radiation, are living longer than normal, and in small doses, radiation may even be good for you. "It's all in the dose," Calabrese said. "What's going on at low doses is often seen to enhance immune performance and enhance longevity," he said. In one experiment, researchers exposed mice to small amounts of radiation and concluded it may have slowed their aging. The irradiated mice had more energy and shinier fur. "We find that at low doses you can actually extend the life span of the mice," Calabrese said. Essentially, Calabrese says, a little radiation may work kind of like a vaccine and actually be good for people. In Europe some people now bathe in radioactive water, saying it's good for them. And in Montana, some Americans spend time in old uranium mines where they breathe in radioactive gas. They say they feel better when they leave. Many scientists say that's nonsense, or dangerous ? and it has yet to be proved that low-dose radiation is beneficial ? but they do agree that the hysteria about radiation is just that ? hysteria. In 1979, the movie "The China Syndrome" set the stage for panic. Just weeks later, a nuclear power plant in Three Mile Island, Penn., released radioactivity in the air. People fled and worried that officials weren't telling them about lingering health hazards from the accident. In truth, the people living in the area were exposed to an average of 6.5 millirems of radiation. We now know that's meaningless given that every year, all of us absorb about 30 millirems from the ground, 26 from the sun, 10 from just one dental X-ray, 10 from food, and 5 from our own drinking water. Patrick Moore, who co-founded the environmental organization Greenpeace, said the group has actually fostered people's exaggerated fears. "It's because they're being told over and over and over again through the media that they are going to be damaged and killed by radiation from nuclear power," he said. Moore is now at odds with his former friends at Greenpeace. He's now a consultant for the nuclear power industry. "Not a single person is being killed in the nuclear industry, and people are wanting to ban it. It's pure scare tactics," he said. But what about that accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine 20 years ago? It terrified the world. The media projected hundreds of thousands of deaths. In truth, a study by eight international agencies found 56 people were killed, mostly firefighters and workers at the plant. Thousands of other people may still die of cancer, but nowhere near the number that was predicted. The study said the biggest health menace the people of Chernobyl faced was psychological trauma, in part from fear. The fear was worse than the radiation. So next time someone scares you about radiation, remember that you are exposed to it all the time without harm, and some people even want more of it. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=1955252&page=1

even more shocking or not

I wonder what mom thinks. i wonder the same thing about mrs. vick

Who's the brother? delmon

can anyone say overdue? Senate endorses English as national language in a symbolic stand BY DAVE MONTGOMERY Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - In an impassioned debate laden with symbolism, the Senate voted 63-34 Thursday to declare English the national language as it continued to debate legislation that would put millions of illegal immigrants on track to U.S. citizenship. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., denounced the amendment as racist and joined other opponents in warning that it could undercut long-established civil rights law. The amendment's lead sponsor, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., bristled at the assertion, saying the proposal would unify the nation's increasingly diverse population and wouldn't dismantle existing legal protections. The first Senate vote on the issue in more than two decades illuminated the emotional divisions over Congress' efforts to craft legislation to deal with as many as 12 million immigrants who've entered the country illegally in search of better-paying jobs. The Senate is considering nearly two dozen amendments on a comprehensive plan to grant legal status to many illegal immigrants and create a temporary guest-worker program to help fill what U.S. business leaders say is a chronic labor shortage. A final vote on the measure is expected next week. Despite the intensity of the arguments on both sides, it was unclear what impact, if any, Inhofe's English-language amendment would have if it becomes law. Senators further confused the situation by accepting a softer alternative declaring English "the common and unifying language of the United States." The vote on that one, sponsored by Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., was 58-39. Salazar, one of three Hispanic senators, whose family settled in Colorado before it became a state, asserted that the Inhofe amendment threatened a return "to the dark days of American history" when Hispanic children were punished for speaking Spanish in school, sometimes by having soap thrust in their mouths. In response, Inhofe said his proposal would put the U.S. government in line with 27 states and 51 countries that declare English the prevailing language. He called Reid's "racist" tag a ridiculous charge and accused opponents of demagoguery. "This is your last chance to have English as the national language," he told colleagues. Supporters suggested that the measure will be especially needed as millions of illegal immigrants and future foreign workers get on track for U.S. citizenship. Senators said both amendments would be part of negotiations with the House of Representatives to reconcile differences in the two chambers' immigration plans. Asked whether the language amendments would have any effect, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., one of the Senate's leading architects on immigration legislation, responded: "Not that I know of." The bill already requires English proficiency as a condition for illegal immigrants to obtain permanent legal status and citizenship over an 11-year period. At least 215 million of the nearly 300 million U.S. residents speak English, but the diverse population otherwise constitutes a linguistic melting pot, speaking as many as 176 languages. Spanish is the second most common, spoken by 28 million people. Conservatives, surging with momentum after winning Senate support to erect at least 350 miles of fencing along the Southwest border, continued their attempt to limit the scope of the guest-worker program and legalization provisions that they denounced as "amnesty" for illegal behavior. By 50-49, the Senate rejected an amendment that that would have prevented immigrants from getting Social Security benefits that they earned when they were here illegally. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...cs/14613300.htm

I mean running on "Have you had enough of this yet???" would do it for me, but then again I'm not most people. Congress currently has an 18% approval rating, while Bush has a 29/33% approval rating, depending on who you believe. There is a major dislike of the Republican party right now, mostly because Bush is the leader. I would also be surprised if voters forget all of the Republican corruption scandals, like the Jack Abramoff thing. last i checked more than 18% of the congress is democratic. republican controlled, yes, but doesn't mean everyone is only unhappy with the republicans. and just because people disapprove it does not mean they think the other party can do any better. immigration is the hot botton issue right now and most hard right voters won't change their vote over this issue. nor will democrats get extra votes from the staunchly religious. like i said the democrats do not have a unified message or voice aside from "we aren't republicans". and in the world of soundbytes you need to be unified. maybe republicans are not going in the direction people want but they are unified and stick together as a party, not neccessarily with the president.

Do you read very much? Read the sentence structure, how it flows, you can tell he said he lives in San Diego County. yup i read it too fast. he's only a lousy californian who understands other californians. and i see a dot in the middle and not all the way up north unlike others. nor do i feel the need to admittedly "poke" and prod people to get my jimmies off. :kiss

He lives in San Diego NOT San Jose you tool. well i assumed when he said he lived there he meant sj. how should i know where he is from? he didn't list his place of residence in his profile. you been stalking him much or something? :blink:

Um, did you just quote Murtha word for word? I'm pretty sure he said that exactly the same way. i honestly didn't see him on tv tonight. i was busy watching playoff hockey and playoff b-ball

If they were to be truly held accountable for their actions they should get the death penalty (by American standards right?). if this is all true than it would appear so. i guess we will all see the official report in the coming days. however i doubt they will get the harshest penalty because many will say "these young boys shouldn't have been there, they couldn't put up with the rigors of war." it will be an ugly chapter no matter how it plays out.

Right now this is beginning to look similar to 1994's midterm election, except the parties are in reversed roles. dems are far from making a "contract with america". dems are not unified that is a problem. they get all the groups bunched together. you get the peta people who don't care a thing about abortion, but they are crammed right in next to pro-choice people. but then again neither of them might not care much about immigrants either way but the immigrants and their famalies get mashed in too. republicans tend to share their beliefs on most issues even if it is because of religion. i haven't heard any dem leadership come out yet and lay out a plan to win the elections this year. i realize there are still 5/6 months to go but they better start working on this and not celebrate too soon.

not what we need right now in the area if this is true. Lawmaker: Marines killed Iraqis ?in cold blood? Navy conducting war crimes probe into November violence in Haditha A video provided to Reuters by Hamourabi Human rights group shows covered bodies in Haditha Updated: 9:27 p.m. ET May 17, 2006 WASHINGTON - A Pentagon probe into the death of Iraqi civilians last November in the Iraqi city of Haditha will show that U.S. Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood," a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday. From the beginning, Iraqis in the town of Haditha said U.S. Marines deliberately killed 15 unarmed Iraqi civilians, including seven women and three children. One young Iraqi girl said the Marines killed six members of her family, including her parents. ?The Americans came into the room where my father was praying,? she said, ?and shot him.? Story continues below ↓ advertisement On Wednesday, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said the accounts are true. Military officials told NBC News that the Marine Corps' own evidence appears to show Murtha is right. A videotape taken by an Iraqi showed the aftermath of the alleged attack: a blood-smeared bedroom floor and bits of what appear to be human flesh and bullet holes on the walls. The video, obtained by Time magazine, was broadcast a day after town residents told The Associated Press that American troops entered homes on Nov. 19 and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old girl, after a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine. On Nov. 20, U.S. Marines spokesman Capt. Jeffrey Pool issued a statement saying that on the previous day a roadside bomb had killed 15 civilians and a Marine. In a later gunbattle, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed eight insurgents, he said. U.S. military officials later confirmed that the version of events was wrong. Murtha, a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, said at a news conference Wednesday that sources within the military have told him that an internal investigation will show that "there was no firefight, there was no IED (improvised explosive device) that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them, and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood." Military officials say Marine Corp photos taken immediately after the incident show many of the victims were shot at close range, in the head and chest, execution-style. One photo shows a mother and young child bent over on the floor as if in prayer, shot dead, said the officials, who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity because the investigation hasn't been completed. One military official says it appears the civilians were deliberately killed by the Marines, who were outraged at the death of their fellow Marine. ?This one is ugly," one official told NBC News. Three Marine officers ? commanders in Haditha ? have been relieved of duty, and at least 12 Marines in all are under investigation for what would be the worst single incident involving the deliberate killing of civilians by U.S. military in Iraq. The Marine Corps issued a statement in response to Murtha's remarks: "There is an ongoing investigation; therefore, any comment at this time would be inappropriate and could undermine the investigatory and possible legal process. As soon as the facts are known and decisions on future actions are made, we will make that information available to the public to the fullest extent allowable." Murtha held the news conference to mark six months since his initial call for "redeployment" of U.S. forces from Iraq. He said U.S. forces were under undue pressure in Iraq because of poor planning and allocation of resources by the Bush administration. The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12838343/

Sure, Dems always have the lead...... Thats what the Democrat media always tells you. No matter what you left wingers think....its always about 50-50 or 51-49. Repubs win again. As long as Hillary doesn't win in '08...I'll be ok. I disagree, the Dems will win in '08, and they would have won in '04 if they hadn't run Kerry. I don't know about you but I have run across far more people that voted Bush and wouldn't do it again, than would. who could they have won with in 04? hillary wouldn't win then and she won't win in 08. people will see through her posturing and change of heart on all sorts of issues. edwards, who did win an electoral vote in 2004 for you trivia buffs, was too young to win, good speaker and energy there was a reason he was kerry's veep candidate. do we even need to discuss dean? kerry won the primaries handedly and the dems were behind him. did he win any moderates over? probably not but then again none of the other people who ran in 04 would have except maybe edwards, but he was on the ticket with kerry. and to win in 08 and this year dems need to actually talk about issues. democrats talk more about how they are "not x" then what their ideas and plans are. they need to change that. the "we are not the big bad republicans who want to take everything away" platform hasn't won recently and won't win in the future. people will vote for what they know and understand versus a mystery. also bush isnt running in 08. and republicans are moving away from him. even rush limbaugh is not supporting bush all the time anymore. don't be surprised if the electoral map in 2008 looks a lot like the 2004 one. what the dems need to do is find someone who can just win them one extra state. i doubt any major states swing one way or the other unless a major shakeup occurs.

Every single person who lives in San Jose would say they live in NoCal, not SoCal. It seems like all of California is liberal aside from San Diego county. I know. I live here. Also, San Jose is not considered northern California. you don't say? sorry about the sharks though, but hey the oilers are the ultimate dog.

WHY CANT THOSE PICS BE BIGGER!! :drool http://www.hottforteacher.com/erica-chevillar-pictures/ safe for work + lots of more pics

dems have the lead now but there is another 5 whole months and then some to go. between now and then it all be decided by: -how things go in iraq -how well republicans can convince their base they will fix up what bush caused -how well dems are able to convey ideas other than "we arent bush" -what happens in relations to any more nsa/cia stories but all this all gets thrown out the window if osama is ever caught or saddam is executed (unlikely in the next 5/6 months but would sway things.)

How can you say what the people of the city we are referring to call the location of their city is wrong, because of what you think? Who would be more correct? well 1 I missed the evidence of every single San Jose-ian considering themselves part of northern cali. There is a central cali, it is called the Central California Valley. So don't act like there is no "central cali". It does exist in the world, and in textbooks and such. -we will have to agree to disagree. You think this dot is clearly in the northern part of the state. -you seemingly believe all san jose shark fans are liberal and that causes them to boo the canadian national anthem. -and you think because a lot of people might think something it would make it so. I don't think you will back off of any of that and I won't be believing any of that soon.

I simply presented some evidence of my viewpoint, never did anything but provide the raw info. So spin work by Joe Quinn is raw info? No that is assumptions and hear-say. I think you need a lesson between raw info/data and assumptions/opinions. Pictures, measurements, amounts, hard numbers are data and raw info. You provided incorrect measurements of how tall a tail of a plane is when it is flying. And still you have provided no rebuttal to my own nor have you provided evidence of something other than a plane striking the Pentagon.

Culturally San Jose is in NoCal. Oh okay because that moves it geograpically overnight eh? "South Florida" is culturally like New York but I don't see any part of Florida being considered part of New England. Every single person who lives in San Jose would say they live in NoCal, not SoCal. every single one eh? aside from that because they all believe it, it's true? Geographically it is in the northern part of the state. no it really is towards the middle. and the central valley runs redding down to bakersfield. kinda weird huh? Also, dont quote me incorrectly in your sig. I didn't say a damn thing about Florida. okay perhaps i assumed since you were going to do things by government districts in cali you would do the same thing in florida. so tell me, where does south florida end and north florida begin? or does florida have a central part like all states? Mr. ^_^ , what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. no that would belong to you hinting toward the fact liberals would boo the canadian anthem just because they vote democrat.

That's mature kid. As mature as plagarism? Probably more so. Plagarism is a crime. Pointing out a playground has your name on it isn't the last I checked. Plus I am proud to be a kid who stopped buying into fairy tales more than a decade ago. I await your evidence of a missle, or anything else not a plane hitting the Pentagon. I also await your defense of Mr. Quinn's work.

if you had provided quotes and sources for all your stuff, I would have also. I mean while I'm taking from others the written idea because they have already done the research doesnt mean I am simply mindlessly following the ideas. Besides if asked I would have freely admitted to my sources, not really a huge issue, though you want to make it as one. Its not like the ideas you present are ideas taht you have researched and concluded based upon your research anyway, so I suppose you are fairly mindless as well. I have linked to plenty of pictures and videos and articles. If you can't understand them so be it. The evidence is there and everyone sees it. And if you are not mindlessly following mister Quinn's words and ideas counter my rebuttals against what you copy and pasted of his. Until then I see a playground with your name on it.

Yeah, Wikipedia....the same place you got that map you are using to prove your point. I'll take a big chomp out of that cookie of irony. I guess that the Wikipedia article I posted isn't enough to get your head out of your anus, but maybe these will: The U.S District Court, Northern District of California includes San Jose. http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/ As does The American Civil Liberties Union of NoCal. http://www.aclunc.org/ As does the U.S Geological Survey http://quake.usgs.gov/ Are those 'official' enough for you? Thought so. You can exit the double doors in the back of the room. good so you agree with the government everything north of west palm beach florida is norther florida and every thing north of santa ana in cali. it seems is northern cali. this is in the middle just like i think orlando is i don't take what the government tells me to take as fact i can use common sense. orlando is in the middle of the state just like san jose is in the middle of its own state. it is common sense. nor do i believe a person's political persuasion will get them to boo another countries anthem or not.