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Reply #855 - Feb 8^th, 2007 at 7:23pm

This is what you get for shoving some 35 - 65 "vaccines" laced with mercury into kids!!!

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Autism rate about 1 in 150, higher than previous estimates
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• About one in 150 U.S. children has autism, an "urgent health concern," CDC says
• New numbers, higher than previously reported, based on data from 14 states
• Research said to give the clearest picture yet of how common autism is
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ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- About one in 150 American children has autism, an urgent public health concern, said U.S. health officials Thursday who reported on the largest study done so far on the troubling disorder.

The new numbers, based on 2002 data from 14 states, are higher than previously reported.

Advocates said the study provides a sad new understanding of how common autism is, and should fuel efforts to get the government to spend hundreds of millions of additional dollars for autism research and services.

"This data today shows we're going to need more early intervention services and more therapists, and we're going to need federal and state legislators to stand up for these families," said Alison Singer, spokeswoman for Autism Speaks, the nation's largest organization advocating more services for autistic children.

The study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calculated an average autism rate 6.6 per 1,000. That compares with last year's estimated rate of 5.5 in 1,000.

The research involved an intense review of medical and school records for children in all or part of 14 states and gives the clearest picture yet of how common autism is in some parts of the country, CDC officials said.

However, those states are not demographically representative of the nation as a whole, so officials cautioned against using the results as a national average. The study doesn't include some of the most populous states including California, Texas and Florida.
No conclusions on a trend

Also, the study does not answer whether autism is increasing -- a controversial topic, driven in part by the contention by some parents and advocates that autism is linked to a vaccine preservative. The best scientific studies have not borne out that claim.

"We can't make conclusions about trends yet," because the study's database is too new, said Catherine Rice, a CDC behavioral scientist who was the study's lead author.

Autism is a complex disorder usually not diagnosed in children until after age 3. It is characterized by a range of behaviors, including difficulty in expressing needs and inability to socialize. The cause is not known.

Scientists have been revising how common they think the disorder is. Past estimates from smaller studies have ranged from 1 out of every 10,000 children to nearly 1 in 100.

Last year's estimate of 5.5 out of every 1,000 U.S. children was based on national surveys of tens of thousands of families with school-age kids. That fit into a prevalence range found in other recent studies.

The CDC also has been developing an alternate way of measuring autism prevalence, building a network of university and state health departments for ongoing surveillance of autism and developmental disabilities. The study released Thursday is one of the first scientific papers to come out of that effort.

"This is a more accurate rate because of the methods they used," said Dr. Eric Hollander, an autism expert at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

The study involved 2002 data from parts or all of 14 states -- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Researchers looked specifically at children who were 8 years old that year. They said most children with autism are identified for medical or educational services by that age.

The researchers checked health records in each area and school records when they were made available, looking for children who met diagnostic criteria for autism. They used those numbers to calculate a prevalence rate for each study area.

The rates varied from 3.3 per 1,000 in the study site in Alabama, which was made up of the state's 32 northernmost counties, to 10.6 in the site in New Jersey, which involved four counties, including metropolitan Newark.

Researchers say they don't know why the rate was so high in New Jersey. They think the Alabama rate was low at least partly because researchers had limited access to special education records there.

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Reply #856 - Feb 9^th, 2007 at 10:04am

Ok so I want to talk about Anna Nicole Smith. Not the person per se but as the icon the media built her up as.

I saw the headline yesterday while on the computer. I then turn on Fox News and some CNN later to hear what they have to say. Let me tell you...these correspondents wanted so badly to call this woman a wacko and a crazy you-know-what but every time they would say something close to that they would say "I don't want to bad mouth the dead" or "we are all tip toeing around some of this stuff seeing as she just died". I thought...so it's ok to basically want to destroy a person when she's alive by saying all of this outright but it's not ok that she's dead. Man what a world.

Then I started thinking. Why was she famous? Ok so she started out as a Playboy centerfold whoopee so have others and they aren't household names. Then I thought...there was no reason she WAS a household name. I remember watching the news that she married an old guy, was fighting for his money in front of the Supreme Court, her son died, Trimspa, and a bunch of other stuff. Which one of those made her famous enough to be "on the tip of everyone's tongue"?

Then I realized...none of them did. She was a creation...a product...of the media. I'm not even talking about the tabloids or E! Network I'm talking about Fox and CNN and MSNBC and CBS and the other mainstream media. They would report on her for whatever outrageous thing she did. I even heard it called on Fox the "Paris Hilton syndrome". Which is another subject all together. The media has manipulated us to hold these people in high regards. Yes we might make fun of them but we buy People magazine and other celeb magazines and know her name and the details of her life. Her every weird move was reported on CNN Headline news sometimes even in the precious crawler space.

She became an icon of a trashy Hollywood star for us to emulate. This woman was all just a puppet for corporate media. An icon to show our kids to grow up and be obnoxiousness and rich and not care. This was the privilege of fame....not having any shame or decency. No one should or I would think want to try and emulate this person or even look up to her as an example of a human being you'd want to become or idolize. She was what people complained about in Hollywood types...these same people would also know everything about her from supporting tabloids.

With that shuddering realization I see a few headline today that just irked me.

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Why we cared about Anna

She persevered when others would have given up.

Oh you mean like how she married some 80 y/o guy who was rich and then fought for $500 million dollars that she felt owed to her? Or when her son died from methadone and anti-depressants in September? Or when she gained a whole bunch of weight before Trimspa and we all laughed at the jokes made about her? Or when she went to the Supreme Court to waist their time with her greed? Or the porn she made? Or who her baby's daddy was? Or when she had sex with a ghost (actually reported)? Yes it is a sad fact that I know this stuff. But just think...I'm not the only one. No we didn't care for Anna because she was a perseverer. We cared for her because the media wanted us to. They but on a good 'ol fashion 21st century freak show and there wasn't even a cover charge!

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Final Footage Sells for Over $500,000...

That's right. $500,000 dollars to see paramedic perform CPR on an unconscious person and then her put into an ambulance. Is that even right? Was that even worth it? Children starving in Ethiopia, AIDS running rampant in Africa, Darfur plagued with genocide and someone not only spends half a million on footage of a dying woman's final moments but that the Hard Rock Cafe Casino actually sells it. Yes Sin City is soon becoming Sin Country. You think 50 years ago this would happen? I hope there are no time travelers from the past here today. Surely they would commit suicide knowing what we have become. Watching the death throws of a media created "star" and then saying what a good woman she was in her death.

I think what irked me the most is this last headline:

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Rosie Rants On Anna Nicole -- Hours Before Her Death...

This was posted on Drudge and we all know how Drudge hates Rosie. But this story is just posted on his site...it was also reported about by mainstream media. Why are they trying to vilify a woman for making fun of a woman who was still alive at the time and who...if Jay Leno was on that same time would probably be making fun of her as well and getting a laugh?

So how do you like being controlled America? The media reports that famous people are jumping and we ask "that's stupid...those stupid hollywoo......How high?!...I want to do that too!" We let the media completely ignore Darfur but the Lord knows we must know which Olson twin has the anorexia problem and devote an entire 3 hour block to finding out and analyzing if it's even true!

Where are your great pro-femenist stars, Cait? Was this one of them? I surely hope not because I saw people like Mother Teressa devote her life to other people and she didn't get the help or the gratitude that she deserved. Princess Diana fought for so many good causes and America media only reported on them after her death. I would love to see more positive female role models in the media touting equal rights for woman. But when you let the media give the pedistill to a monster they created that shows the antithesis of what some women want to become...it hurts the feminist cause and it hurts American and human decency cause.

Anna Nicole Smith should not be idolized by anyone. She was no Marlyn Monroe. She was not looking for sainthood. She stayed in the media because the media put her there and she knew that and would play their dancing money for the cameras. We as America helped to cause her death.

I hope we're proud.

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Reply #859 - Feb 9^th, 2007 at 10:36am

I agree bob. We are more concerned with non-existent Avian Flu and the dread Flu that we aren't finding causes to the just staggering numbers of autism. Just think...before the 1950s the reports of autism were in the hundreds of thousands. Now they're in the low hundreds? There has got to be an explanation. Also I don't buy the "well it's probably diagnosed better today" theory. When you have autism...even mild autism it's pretty clear to see. Even for 60 years ago when we knew about it and learning more about it.

Personally I think it has something to do with mercury poisoning and would like some people to do testing on it. Also I would love to see how many kids who have autism have been vaccinated and whether or not there are non-vaccinated kids who have austim.

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Reply #860 - Feb 11^th, 2007 at 2:31pm

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Teacher has baby early so hubby can watch Bears
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PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Nine months pregnant and married to a fervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday's NFC Championship Game, Colleen Pavelka didn't want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints.

Due to give birth on Monday, Pavelka's doctor told her Friday she could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery.

"I thought, how could [Mark] miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?" said Pavelka, 28, from the southwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen.

At 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at Palos Community Hospital after close to six hours of labor.

While her husband watched the Bears play the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field Sunday, Colleen planned to watch in the hospital with the baby wrapped in a Bears blanket -- a Christmas gift from his grandmother.

The couple named Mark after his father, who wore a "Monsters of the Midway" shirt during the delivery.

"If he wasn't born by Sunday and the Bears won, I would have named him Rex," after Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, joked Mark Pavelka, 28.

Mark is the couple's second son.

Now that's dedication...

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Reply #861 - Feb 11^th, 2007 at 10:12pm

This is the enemy. Although unlike the globalist elite...she is at least upfront and forward about being a facist!

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Ségolène Royal unveils far-left economic campaign platform
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VILLEPINTE, France: Ségolène Royal, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, unveiled a long- awaited platform on Sunday, veering sharply to the left on economic policy while also stressing discipline and "traditional values."

Ten weeks before the election, Royal is hoping to reverse a slide in popularity that has seen her lose ground to her main challenger, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.

Wait...what?! A socialist was popular before? Doesn't Europe remember the reign of so called socialists...Mussolini and Hitler both touted themselves as socialists before becoming true fascists. I guess people aren't learning history over there anymore.

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In a two-hour speech to about 10,000 supporters north of Paris, she laid out a 100-proposal platform, pledging to raise pensions, to increase the minimum wage to €1,500, or about $2,000, a month and to guarantee a job or further training for every youth within six months of graduating from university.

If anyone can find all 100 proposal PLEASE post them on here so I can dissect them. What I love about socialists, in the love to hate sort of way, is the way they say something...but mean something completely different...I guess a lot like normal politicians........anyways. Increase the minimum wage. Yes, sounds good. But socialists want to bring down wages and owned wealth of everyone. Also to control businesses under state leadership or overview. So basically you'll be working for the state and your wages will come with a "redistribution of wealth". What that means is legal stealing of people's personal property money. But it's only from the rich...well only from the rich that don't run the country...which is the upper middle class. Those who got to be upper middle based on their own merits and not from some trust fund. So basically you're going to be hurting your own class if you're in the middle class. This isn't too bad for the poor or the working poor (aka...the poor!) because when you're poor you don't care where the money would come from if you could bring yourself up another rung in the social system. Of course, "bring yourself up" here would mean...let the government bring you up there. And if your middle class and lower middle class you don't want "the Johnsons" to have it better than you so you want to bring those snooty people down a peg. What will really happen is that once the govt redistributes the wealth everyone but those who held onto their vast amounts of money will be considered poor under todays standards and you'll need to find a scapegoat to blame. I wonder what the Jews are doing these days?

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She also said that randomly selected citizens' juries would watch over government policy and that juvenile delinquents could be placed in educational camps run by the military.

Right...and these "randomly selected citizens" will be herded by a government official and let's see if they even take any of their "suggestions".

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As if to preempt her opponents on the right, she stressed throughout her speech that her ideas had been nourished in 6,000 debates with citizens throughout France, a method she has called "participative democracy."

"With me, politics will never again happen without you," a combative Royal, 53, told the crowd of flag-waving supporters wearing her logo on T-shirts and stickers. "Today I offer you a presidential pact: 100 proposals for France to rediscover a shared ambition, pride and fraternity."

That's right politics will never happen without you. Because the one party will control all and there won't be any more politics! It sounds like a good thing. But remember how she defines herself. It sounds good if you're for individual freedom and a grass-roots system of government. However with the definition of socialism you'll realize that Big Brother Is Watching is close behind you and don't be too surprised if you change your country's name to "Oceania".

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Sunday marked the end of the two- month "listening phase" Royal decreed after her nomination in November. On her campaign Web site, a sky blue background was replaced by the blue, white and red of the national flag, and regional campaign teams were equipped with booklets summarizing her program.

Socialism always...ALWAYS...rides on the back of patriotism. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini all decried out for patriotism while changing the structure of government. Of course being a flawed system and never ever being able to work out in an imperfect world the scapegoats would come about. It was the communist infestation with Mussolini, it was the Jews and commies for Hitler, it was the Jews, the unpatriotic commies, Christians, capitalists, and 10 million other people for Stalin. Patriotism is the chains they put on after throwing off their shackles of the Proletariat.

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In a sign that her recent decline in opinion polls has rallied some of the more skeptical members of her party, Royal's speech was attended by all senior Socialists, including her two rivals for the nomination.

Cheered by supporters and frequently interrupted by applause, she spoke with more ease than usual. When she talked about France's volatile suburbs, where riots erupted in November 2005 and high unemployment rates continue to curb the opportunities of second-generation immigrants, the emotion was evident on her face and in her voice.

"I want for the children in these suburbs what I want for my own children," she said, clenching a fist before her bright-red blazer and prompting the crowd to erupt into a two-minute standing ovation.

Socialists do a great job at getting the biggest group of people to rally against "the system"...the middle class. Every middle class in the world outranks both the poor and the rich combined (just about but don't count Africa and it is). Look at her words. She does say she wants the children in the poorest ghetto neighborhood to have what the richest kid in the "upper east side" has. She is identifying with the middle class and suburbia! Why not compare both extremes to come to the middle? Because one side wouldn't want that and the other side doesn't care enough they are too worried with making the rent payment. No, the biggest block on voters...are the middle class. The middle class is the ruling class without power. We are the "Proles" (from Orwell's 1984) were touted at the true source of untapped power. Emmanuel Goldstein wrote in his book in 1984 that if only the Proles would see that they could rise up as one Big Brother and the Party wouldn't stand a chance! This is what she is doing here. She is luring them into a self made grave plot. And she is doing it closely to how 1984 did it. With money. In 1984 it was the lottery. It never paid what it promised and when it did it was never the full amount. Here she promises a lot, just like Hitler and Stalin, and she, if she gets what she wants, will not be able to provide what she is promising now. Hitler and Stalin both promised huge salaries and great living conditions for the people. What they both got were substandard. Yes, they were out of the fields living in the muck. But they came into dwelling places...that weren't much better. So goes for the same with France...if she gets what she wants.

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A former schools minister, she vowed that she would tackle the social exclusion in the suburbs by reducing the number of students in classes. She also promised free tutoring for students that have difficulties keeping up, and workshops for parents to teach them how to discipline their children.

These are also known as propaganda centers. We, the govt, will teach your children. To spy on you, to worship Big Brother, and we will weed them out of all that crap about right and wrong and freedom and truth. We will teach them...what we want to. There will be no other options!

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A substantial part of her speech was dedicated to social and economic issues, on which Royal took a hard-left line.

"The unfettered rein of financial profit is intolerable for the general interest," she said. "You told me simple truths. You told me you wanted fewer income inequalities. You told me you wanted to tax capital more than labor. We will do that reform."

Ya how dare those business make a profit! Look...when you have no govt control...business get out of wack sure. But when a company reports a net profit of 12 million dollars...that's not a big profit in the global schemes of thing. Sure you'll never see that type of money. But you're not doing the work of an entire company. This woman is a genius. She is playing the game beautifully. She is letting the middle class believe the bumper sticker mentality (this is my definition of a difficult and complex subject that is boiled down to one simplified and somewhat funny statement that may or may not be true. For example: the Iraq war is boiled down to "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" and that's the end of argument for people. A complex subject with a naive little answer. Sounds good and witty but holds no water.) This lady understands how businesses run and operate she's part of the upper echelon. And if she isn't now she will be once she controls it all under govt authority.

Think about it this way. Let's say that 100 Africans are your neighbors. Most of Africa lives on $6 a month on average. You go to your job the same amount of time as them and you either do more or less work than they do...doesn't matter. So let's say at the end of the month you bring in ohhh let's shoot low $10,000. Well this lady comes around and says..."Look at this one person...ONE PERSON...you 100 people don't even make one tenth of the amount he does in the same period for the same amount of work! We should take most of that from him and give it to share with you! Those 100 people and you go out and vote...walla...you're now all living on $63 a month plus govt expenses and control. THAT...is socialism. Yes corporations and companies can be evil and govt should, in my opinion, have some...SOME...control over them. In our country the govt has the responsibility given by the Constitution to "regulate commerce". So it has the power to say "No Mr. Macrohard you can't charge $150 for an OS that you've been rewriting since day 1. You could if you weren't the only company around and/or people didn't need you like we need oil companies." Wait...I'm getting a bit off target. My point is the government should not have control over wealth or companies who are legally making a profit. If we did this in America the New York Stock Exchange would look like the Japanese Stock Exchange....but worse.

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Royal said she would tax companies in relation to what share of their profits is reinvested in equipment and jobs, and what portion is paid to shareholders. She also promised to abolish a flexible work contract for small companies and hold a national conference in June on how to increase salaries.

Who would be controlling this? Ahh the government. What do we call a government who can tell where a company has to reinvest their money? Say it with me kids!!! SOCILAISM!!! This is just one step closer to communism people. Which, in this world, quickly falls into fascism and dicitorialist leaders telling us that a group of people are pigs and apes and responsible for all our problems!!!

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Indeed, she seemed to have something to offer to most groups in society without saying how much the combined measures would cost: Under her presidency, she said, young women would get free contraception, all young people would get access to a €10,000 interest- free loan and the handicapped would see their benefits rise.

I know where it would come from. The People!!! Give them a few years of good living. Then lower the standard of living...taking their money back away. The government blames the Jews or the Muslims or the Clintons or whoever saying "They...THEY are the reason to blame." Then the government has control of all major wealth!! Taa daaa!!! That's France's history OF THE FUTURE-R-R-R-r-r-r...if this chick is elected...or any socialist

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Royal also spoke about foreign policy, an area where she has recently been accused of incompetence, following a series of highly publicized gaffes. She called for a European Union that "protects its citizens" and said that, as president, she would lobby for the European Central Bank to consider not just inflation but also employment and growth when it sets interest rates.

Not only does she want socialism for France but for all of Europe! And why not?! More people in an industrialized area would mean more money for her one system government!

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"I don't want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO," Royal said. "Even less do I want a Europe where it's everyone against everyone and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity."

Ya cause why have competition! That's never been good for industry or society or inventions! Look how well Ma Bell was doing before those evil "independent thinking people" wanted it "better". That is what she is saying people! Competition is society prospers the society it doesn't harm it. Yes people can make it into something evil and destructive but not if done properly.

Let me give you an example. Let's say you have one company who sells all the food. I'll call it "FloorSmart". Well FloorSmart charges you $10,000 every time you visit them for food and the selection isn't all that great. What will you do? Why you have freedom of choice! You can either pay the $10,000 to eat...or don't eat! Yaaaa!!! But if you add another chain like "Migers" it will only charge you $5,000 each time you visit and purpose and they offer more variety. Well you're going to go there. FloorSmart will lower try and win back you by doing a whole slew of stuff like lower prices, coupons, etc. Now if you add more and more chains you have more completion. When you have that...you...the consumer...win, or at least make out better than before.

This lady doesn't want that! She wants one of everything...no more. That is asinine!

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She also said she would pursue a "solid partnership" with the United States, but accused Washington of sometimes being carried away by its size and power. "Size has nothing to do with principles," she said. Being less powerful "is never a reason to be silent, we saw that with Iraq, where the voice of France was not heard."

She said she would break with "corrupt regimes" and be blunt with allied countries, including Russia, whose "war crimes in Chechnya" she condemned.

Her speech, which touched on everything from the environment to education policy, comes after weeks of criticism from the center-right, which assailed Royal for lacking ideas and a clear program.

Ahead in the polls until late last year, Royal has slipped behind Sarkozy since he was officially nominated on Jan. 14. The latest BVA poll, conducted last week, gave the interior minister a four- point lead over Royal in a straight run- off and suggested that François Bayrou, a centrist candidate, was gaining ground at her expense.

Even members of her own camp had grown impatient in recent weeks, eagerly awaiting her program. But on Sunday, supporters in the Villepinte convention center expressed hope that her performance would be enough to kick start her campaign.

"She was good, much better than usual," said Marie-Pierre Grassineau, a 45- year-old social worker, who said she had feared Royal would disappoint in the face of inflated expectations. "At last the campaign can begin."

In an apparent attempt to steal the limelight, Sarkozy chose Sunday to give a speech to 3,000 supporters in central Paris, vowing that if elected he would open his government to politicians outside his center-right party.

His Union for a Popular Movement party swiftly denounced Royal's list of proposals as "archaic" and a return to old-school socialism.

Reminiscent of the 110 proposals that carried her mentor, François Mitterrand, to the Élysée Palace in 1981, Royal's presidential platform will be filled out with more details in a series of high- profile campaign meetings over coming weeks.

Ok I've written a lot about this. Yes, it's happening in France but I want you to see what a true socialist mentality will get you. If you have question about it I would love to answer them on this subject. My main point for posting this was...look at American and the people coming up in power. Do they sound like this socialist lady? Do you hear people in Hollywood talk this way? Look around you and learn from other people's mistakes. Do you see any similarities? Watch out...what sounds good coming from people in power...might end up being really really bad for us all.

Sorry for the long post. I don't know if anyone will even read this but I hope you do. Again, if you have any questions please post them.

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Reply #862 - Feb 12^th, 2007 at 11:37am

http://ocweekly.com/news/news/illegally-park-ed/26661/

CAUTION!!! THIS STORY IS DISGUSTING AND DEF. NSFW!!!

There are no pictures but the content is a bit racy but is 100% reported news. I want you to read the article, if you want to, at least to the middle of the page. It describes the scene and all that went on...then I at least want you to read the verdict. When more of you read it, if at all, I'll say more.

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Reply #863 - Feb 12^th, 2007 at 1:04pm

Wow, Ms. Royal is definitely dying for a Photoshopping in that picture.

$2,000 per month minimum wage? $24,000 per year? That's absolute bull! Since France has a 35 hour work week, that's $13.18 per hour for flipping burgers! I'd hate to see what a Happy Meal costs in Paris!

In France, Sunday is a mandatory "day of rest" except for "exempted" positions like medical, emergency, etc. That doesn't help things much.

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Reply #864 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 12:22pm

This is just....treasonous!

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BofA aims new credit card at illegal immigrants: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation's fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.

The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said.

Bank of America tested the program last year at five branches in Los Angeles, and last week expanded it to 51 branches in Los Angeles County, home to the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the U.S., the Journal said.

The bank hopes to roll out the program nationally later this year, the paper said.

A Bank of America spokesman was not immediately available to comment.

So did we win the war on terror or not? Cause I'm pretty sure giving out credit cards to illegal aliens and of which could be terrorists (if you believe in them at all) is a bad thing.

Tango 1: Ok we need 12,000 stick of dynamite.
Hardware store owner : And how would you be paying?
Tango 2: Just put it on my Discover Card...never leave the cave without it!

Also without legal residence or SSN how could these credit card companies possibly hope to collect money from illegals?

This story is both stupid and odd and I have no clue what's going on?!

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Reply #865 - Feb 15^th, 2007 at 11:43am

This is a pretty funny article.

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Magistrate judge to decide if couple will be prosecuted for 'stalking' officer

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Published February 13, 2007 11:06 PM CST

A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.

Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which is at the bottom of a hill. They have said they did so in hopes of convincing neighbors to slow down to create a safe environment for their son.

The Sipples allegedly caught Kennesaw police officer Richard Perrone speeding up to 17 mph over the speed limit. Perrone alerted Bartow authorities, who in turn visited the Sipples' home to tell them Perrone intended to press charges against them for stalking.

Now I know each state's laws are different but how is setting up your own cameras and speed detectors considered stalking when it on your own property. If I were this couple I would sue the officer for stalking since he keep coming around their place all the time, at least time enough for these people to invest 12,000 clams to catch him.

Also, cops speed?! Of course...who's going to stop them! Although every officer knows to watch out because the 86 y/o grandmother can always call the LT. and complain about you. But yet, it's either a write up or a verbal warning.

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Reply #866 - Feb 16^th, 2007 at 9:03am

http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f290458b-dd7d-4a20-ac99-525...

So if you're a Christian you can't have a tattoo? And if you're a "Christian" doctor you can deny service because people have them and other appearance reasons?! Ya who wants all those SICK people coming into a doctors office!

Who did Jesus turn away well first of all children and then sinners and definitely people with tattoos. I think he said..."Lo...that crap ain't right. Ink on the body means you should turn them away and let their children suffer."

What people do on their own is one thing. But at least don't tell people you claim to be a Christian...you really hurt a lot of us real ones.

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Reply #867 - Feb 17^th, 2007 at 8:42pm

This guy is a moron!

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BR man finds Scientology enhances his Christianity

By WILLIAM TAYLOR
Faith and Values editor
Published: Feb 17, 2007

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG
Craig Gehring of the Church of Scientology Mission in Baton Rouge records a 15-minute daily radio program on gospel station WTQT, 94.9 FM.

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Craig Gehring is nearly everything one might expect a Scientologist to be: young, enthusiastic and almost famous.

He is also one thing unexpected: a professing Christian.

Describing him as famous is likely going too far, but the 20-year-old does have his own weekday radio show on a Baton Rouge gospel station, and in 2003 he was profiled in The Advocate after getting a rare perfect score on the ACT.

Instead of turning that score into a successful college career, he pursued immediate opportunities to help others through the Church of Scientology.

Today, he is training to become a minister while serving as a full-time employee at the church’s Baton Rouge mission, where he draws on the apparent contradictions in his own life to explain an often-misunderstood religion.

Gehring grew up Lutheran and still considers himself a Christian, although of a more nondenominational variety.

“Personally, I believe (Jesus is) the son of God — son of man, but like I said, that Scientology doctrine. There isn’t a doctrine about (Jesus) in Scientology.

“It’s something you have to come to on your own, so I don’t speak for the Church of Scientology when I speak my own conviction,” he said. “But you will find a lot of active Christians who are Scientologists — just like you will find active Buddhists or active Hindus.”

The Baton Rouge mission even has its Sunday services at night — 5 p.m. — so as not to conflict with attending other church services in the morning, Gehring said.

That room for other faiths results from the Church of Scientology not being about concepts of God such as those churchgoers usually expect to find on Sunday mornings, he said.

Media “exposés” through the years, including one last year in Rolling Stone Magazine, have described a secret space opera-like mythology complete with extraterrestrials, but church officials have always denied it.

Likewise, Gehring, and Damian Dornier, another young Scientologist on staff at the Baton Rouge mission, said they have never encountered anything like that in their pursuits of the faith.

Rather, they explain, the church is built on spiritual truths or laws discovered by founder L. Ron Hubbard.

From those truths Hubbard developed techniques, called technologies by the church, for addressing such issues as stress, communication, learning, relationships and substance abuse.

They compared it to Buddhism, describing Scientology as a path or walk with Gehring’s explanations sounding a little like those of Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist lama who sometimes lectures in Baton Rouge on mediation.

In February 2006, Rinpoche responded through an interpreter to a Christian woman’s question. “It’s good that you believe in Jesus, and if you want to meditate on him that’s fine,” the Buddhist told her. “It will work as long as the technique is right.”

Scientologists teach their techniques through thousands of courses and lectures available to those who visit the church’s Baton Rouge Mission, 9432 Common St.

“I don’t care if I make a Scientologist or not,” Gehring said. “All I care about is if someone walks in, we can help them.”

He also offers life advice weekdays with a 15-minute radio program broadcast at 9:30 a.m. on gospel station WTQT, 94.9 FM.

The church made connections with the station after working with African-American ministers and other leaders in hurricane relief, Gehring said. The airtime is paid for with a donation to the station, he added.

His own experience with Scientology began at Baton Rouge Magnet High School when his girlfriend gave him a copy of “Dianetics,” the self-help book by Hubbard on which the Church of Scientology is founded.

From there, he pursued the church’s learning technologies — something he credits with that perfect ACT score.

“All of a sudden I don’t have to fall asleep while studying,” he said. “I don’t have to read the thing over 50 billion times. I don’t have to cram for tests, and I can learn just about anything.”

The girlfriend eventually became his wife, Brittany Gehring, who also works on staff at the mission.

As for his Christian faith, he considers himself more active in it now than he ever was before becoming a Scientologist.
He seeks to partner with Christian ministers in social justice efforts such as hurricane relief, literacy and human rights.

“I believe very much in the Christian message,” he said. Jesus “says time and time again, ‘the kingdom of God is at hand.’… And that is a message you will find any Scientologist working toward.

“Let’s see how we can make a difference now. Let’s see how we can get some results now. That’s why so many volunteer ministers flew in when Katrina happened.”

L. Ron Hubbard - "There is no Christ".

Dyanetics teach that all the worlds religions are caused by alien demons inhabiting our bodies (Thetans).

Can you be a Christian and a Scientologist? Not without contradicting one or the other.

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Reply #868 - Feb 19^th, 2007 at 9:01am

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Man sues IBM over firing, says he's an Internet addict

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• Man says he needs sympathy, treatment for Internet addiction
• James Pacenza was fired by IBM for visiting adult chat room on work computer
• Attorney: Pacenza's Web surfing at work no different from other IBM employees
• Company says its policy is clear, and Pacenza had been warned in past

WHITE PLAINS, New York (AP) -- A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.

James Pacenza, 58, of Montgomery, says he visits chat rooms to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an Army patrol in Vietnam.

In papers filed in federal court in White Plains, Pacenza said the stress caused him to become "a sex addict, and with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict." He claimed protection under the American with Disabilities Act.

His lawyer, Michael Diederich, says Pacenza never visited pornographic sites at work, violated no written IBM rule and did not surf the Internet any more or any differently than other employees. He also says age discrimination contributed to IBM's actions. Pacenza, 55 at the time, had been with the company for 19 years and says he could have retired in a year.

International Business Machines Corp. has asked Judge Stephen Robinson for a summary judgment, saying its policy against surfing sexual Web sites is clear. It also claims Pacenza was told he could lose his job after an incident four months earlier, which Pacenza denies.

"Plaintiff was discharged by IBM because he visited an Internet chat room for a sexual experience during work after he had been previously warned," the company said.

IBM also said sexual behavior disorders are specifically excluded from the ADA and denied any age discrimination.
Study: Some choose Internet over food, sleep

If it goes to trial, the case could affect how employers regulate Internet use that is not work-related, or how Internet overuse is categorized medically. Stanford University issued a nationwide study last year that found that up to 14 percent of computer users reported neglecting work, school, families, food and sleep to use the Internet.

The study's director, Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, said then that he was most concerned about the numbers of people who hid their nonessential Internet use or used the Internet to escape a negative mood, the same way that alcoholics might.

Until he was fired, Pacenza was making $65,000 a year operating a machine at a plant in East Fishkill that makes computer chips.

Several times during the day, machine operators are idle for five to 10 minutes as the tool measures the thickness of silicon wafers.

It was during such down time on May 28, 2003, that Pacenza logged onto a chat room from a computer at his work station.

Diederich says Pacenza had returned that day from visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and logged onto a site called ChatAvenue and then to an adult chat room.

Looking for 'titillating conversation'

Pacenza, who has a wife and two children, said using the Internet at work was encouraged by IBM and served as "a form of self-medication" for post-traumatic stress disorder. He said he tried to stay away from chat rooms at work, but that day, "I felt I needed the interactive engagement of chat talk to divert my attention from my thoughts of Vietnam and death."

"I was tempting myself to perhaps become involved in some titillating conversation," he said in court papers.

Pacenza said he was called away before he got involved in any online conversation. But he apparently did not log off, and when another worker went to Pacenza's station, he saw some chat entries, including a vulgar reference to a sexual act.

He reported his discovery to his boss, who fired Pacenza the next day.

Pacenza says he would have understood if IBM had disciplined him for taking an unauthorized break, but firing him was too extreme.

Pacenza: Couple who had sex on desk merely transferred

He argues that other workers with worse offenses were disciplined less severely -- including a couple who had sex on a desk and were transferred.

Fred McNeese, a spokesman for Armonk-based IBM, would not comment.

Pacenza claims the company decided on dismissal only after improperly viewing his medical records, including psychiatric treatment, following the incident.

"In IBM management's eyes, plaintiff has an undesirable and self-professed record of psychological disability related to his Vietnam War combat experience," his papers claim.

Diederich says IBM workers who have drug or alcohol problems are placed in programs to help them, and Pacenza should have been offered the same. Instead, he says, Pacenza was told there were no programs for sex addiction or other psychological illnesses. He said Pacenza was also denied an appeal.

Diederich, who said he spent a year in Iraq as an Army lawyer, also argued that "A military combat veteran, if anyone, should be afforded a second chance, the benefit of doubt and afforded reasonable accommodation for combat-related disability."

The saddest part of this entire story is that he's blaming his firing on his status as a Vietnam veteran. If he ever steps foot in a VFW, he'll probably get his butt handed back to him on a plate.

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Reply #869 - Feb 20^th, 2007 at 10:19am

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Homeland Security nabs Free Stater from home Print
Tuesday, 01 August 2006
Leafleting campaign triggers forced court appearance

From NHfree.com
Keene, New Hampshire
July 31, 7:00 p.m.

For the third time in the last four days, Keene resident Russell Kanning finds himself in Federal custody. The 36-year-old libertarian activist isn't in trouble for selling drugs, threatening officials or endangering anyone. Instead, he's the target of Federal wrath because he attempted to enter the Keene IRS office with…a piece of paper.

Last Thursday, after announcing his intentions publicly, Kanning appeared in front of Keene's IRS branch wearing overalls and a straw hat, clutching a pitchfork in one hand and a leaflet in the other. His intent was to enter the IRS office - sans pitchfork - and hand the leaflet to any government employees working there.

"I want them to quit their jobs," he said, referring to the one or two IRS agents who staff this part-time office on Keene's Main Street. His flyers contain a form which he is asking IRS agents to sign, pledging they will stop working for the agency because of what he considers the evil things it funds.

But Homeland Security agents, as well as some from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, stood ready to defend this tiny office from the dangerous flyer. They told Kanning if he attempted to enter the office (situated above Keene's main postal facility) they would arrest him. Kanning chatted with them briefly, then informed them he would not be able to comply with their orders and slowly moved forward toward the IRS section of the building. Agents then gently cuffed him, transported him to Keene Police Department and released him.

Kanning then immediately went back to the IRS office, got arrested again, released again, and vowed to return for a third visit at noon on August 3. He also declined to appear in court.

So on Monday, July 31 around 10:30 a.m., Federal agent seized him again, this time inside his home, this time not so gently.

http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/show_image.phpid=2150

"They just came in and threw Russell to the ground and took him," says Kanning’s wife Kat Dillon in a hastily composed web forum message on NHfree.com.

Dillon says Kanning was transported to the Federal Building in Concord and forced to appear in court at around 2 p.m. But she says other than the initial roughhousing on the living room floor, agents have been fairly polite so far

"The guy who was in charge on Thursday came by...apparently just to chat with me," she writes from a friend's computer near the courthouse. "He wanted to convince me that they weren't the bad guys."

However Dillon says she is angry that her husband could be arrested simply for trying to hand a leaflet to a public official on public property.

"In case it isn't clear," she writes, "the issue is that the federal government has gone bad...It's imperitive that good people refuse to cooperate with it."

Kanning is a member of the Free State Project (www.FreeStateProject.org), a nationwide movement aimed at recruiting libertarians to move to New Hampshire.

Events have moved forward very fast since this news release was composed. You can read the latest details on the NHfree.com forum at

http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=4640.0

Copies of the Dangerous Leaflet are at

http://www.republicofnh.org/brochure.pdf

Photographs of today's arrest:
http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=4640.0

Photographs of the July 27 arrest:
http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galle...

Permission is granted to publish them at will.

All that needs to be said is the following:

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,

and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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