February 16, 2006
Man who laughed at Cheney gets shot hours later
February 15, 2006- A Colorado man who laughed Monday when he first read Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a hunting companion was himself injured just hours later when he was accidentally blasted by his girlfriend in his own hunting mishap.
"I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself 'How can you shoot your friend with your gun?' And look what happened," said Josh Kayser of Lafayette, Colo...
According to the Longmont Daily Times-Call, the 21-year-old man was on the trail of raccoons that had been preying on chickens on his family's property.
As Kayser crouched down to look under a shed, his 17-year-old girlfriend, whose name was not released by authorities, crouched down behind him and accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle…
Kayser was discharged from Avista Adventist Hospital after spending the night, and police decided against filing any charges against his girlfriend.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48851
Britain has new weapon against loitering youths -- Sonic Teenager Deterrent
Feb 15- Shopkeepers in central England have been trying out a new device that emits an uncomfortable high-pitched noise designed to disperse young loiterers outside their stores without bothering adults.
...The device... "doesn't cause any pain to the hearer," according to Inspector Amanda Davies, quoted by Britain's domestic Press Association news agency.
"The noise can normally only be heard by those between 12 and 22 and it makes the listener feel uncomfortable," she added.
Once in their early 20s, people lose their capacity to hear sounds at such a high pitch...
"Shop owners have reported fabulous results and we've been approached by some who are considering buying their own equipment," she said. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/15/060215133756.3rq2yx5p.html
Retail sales see best gains since late '99
February 15, 2006 ...retail sales soar[ed] by 2.2 percent -- the biggest jump in six years… The sales spurt, which coincided yesterday with a drop in premium crude oil prices below the psychological threshold of $60 a barrel, sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average surging by 136 points to 11,028.
"You have lower oil prices; you have a healthy employment situation; and you have a consumer that is still willing to do a little bit of spending," said Gordon Fowler, chief investment officer at Glenmede Trust Co. "That all adds up to a positive for the economy."
...Triggering the excitement yesterday was a Commerce Department report showing that retail sales, excluding autos, last month zoomed the most since December 1999 after inching up 0.2 percent in December. Including autos, sales were up 2.3 percent -- the biggest jump since May 2004.
...Aside from inspiring the urge to shop, one major boon from the mild weather was that a widely anticipated spike in winter heating bills never occurred. Many consumers had been bracing for big bills after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in August and September and sent the price of natural gas and heating oil spiraling to record levels...
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20060215-124718-1338r.htm
***This is the best article I've read in ages about what a joke the national press is. It's actually a very funny article...***
The shooting party By Tony Blankley February 15, 2006
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060214-102148-1710r.htm
Wow! Mr. Meany nominated for a Peace Prize, imagine that…I thought the UN was going to walk out on him...
John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
February 08, 2006- John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess appointment... In June 2005, Senate Republicans fell six votes in their second effort to end a Democrat filibuster of Bolton's nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador.
Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran's secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.
They documented Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealed Iran's "repeated lying" and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a press release said.
...One of Bolton's Republican critics - Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio -- now says he thinks Bolton is doing a good job....In May 2005, the thought that Bolton might be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations almost brought Voinovich to tears...Voinovich's emotional moment came one day after he sent a letter to his fellow senators, telling them, "In these dangerous times, we cannot afford to put at risk our nation's ability to successfully wage and win the war on terror with a controversial and ineffective ambassador to the United Nations." http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200602/POL20060208b.html
They know the dangers of giving up their sovereignty to a body they cannot control...
Tiny island that's ready to stop Europe in its tracks
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/15/waland15.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/15/ixnewstop.html
This site appears to be a private site so what's wrong if they have standards prohibiting same-sex Valentine? If people want Brokenback Valentines they can start their own Internet site... Must have violated some EU or UN law...
Lithuanian website bars same-sex Valentine's Day kisses
Feb 14- A Lithuanian ombudsman is to probe an Internet site for discrimination after users complained that they could not send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to a friend of the same sex.
"We received two complaints that an Internet site, in its 'friends' section, offers to send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to the friend, but only if the they are of the opposite sex," Valentinas Dambrava of the ombudsman's office told AFP.
"We are going to launch an investigation for sexual discrimination, although some Lithuanians may find this unusual," Dambrava added.
If the site is found to have discriminated, it could be fined up to 2,000 litas (579 euros, 690 dollars)...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/060214175111.yaf4urht.html
'Able Danger' Identified 9/11 Hijacker 13 times
February 15, 2006- The top-secret, military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger" identified Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, 13 times before the 2001 attacks, according to new information released Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees.
Able Danger has been identified by Weldon and team member Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer as an elite group of approximately two dozen individuals tasked with identifying and targeting the links and relationships of al Qaeda worldwide.
On June 27, 2005, Weldon said that Able Danger had offered in the year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to share its intelligence with the FBI and to work with them to take down the New York City terrorist cell involving Mohammed Atta and two other 9/11 terrorists. Weldon said Clinton administration lawyers prevented the information from being shared with the FBI.
According to Weldon, the lawyers told Able Danger members, " [Y]ou cannot pursue contact with the FBI against that cell. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident," a reference to the FBI's raid on the David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., in April 1993.
...As recently as two weeks ago additional Able Danger material was found in files at the Pentagon, Weldon said. "[A] general was present as the information was taken out of file cabinets ..."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200602\NAT20060215d.html
Saddam general: WMDs in Syria
Another former confidant of ex-dictator makes claim, also links Iraq to al-Qaida
February 15, 2006- A former general and friend of Saddam Hussein who defected but maintains close contact with Iraq claims the regime supported al-Qaida with intelligence, finances and munitions and believes weapons of mass destruction are hidden in Syria.
Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti, southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia in the late 1980s, spoke with Ryan Mauro of WorldThreats.com.
Known as the "Butcher of Basra," al-Tikriti commanded units that dealt with chemical and biological weapons. He defected shortly before the Gulf War in 1991.
Last month, Saddam Hussein's No. 2 Air Force officer, Georges Sada, told the New York Sun Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were moved to Syria six weeks before the war started. Sada claimed two Iraqi Airways Boeing jets converted to cargo planes moved the weapons in a total of 56 flights. They attracted little attention, he said, because they were thought to be civilian flights providing relief from Iraq to Syria, which had suffered a flood after a dam collapse in 2002...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48827
American clown journalism 101
Feb 15, 2006 by Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/02/15/186535.html
February 15, 2006- A Colorado man who laughed Monday when he first read Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a hunting companion was himself injured just hours later when he was accidentally blasted by his girlfriend in his own hunting mishap.
"I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself 'How can you shoot your friend with your gun?' And look what happened," said Josh Kayser of Lafayette, Colo...
According to the Longmont Daily Times-Call, the 21-year-old man was on the trail of raccoons that had been preying on chickens on his family's property.
As Kayser crouched down to look under a shed, his 17-year-old girlfriend, whose name was not released by authorities, crouched down behind him and accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle…
Kayser was discharged from Avista Adventist Hospital after spending the night, and police decided against filing any charges against his girlfriend.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48851
Britain has new weapon against loitering youths -- Sonic Teenager Deterrent
Feb 15- Shopkeepers in central England have been trying out a new device that emits an uncomfortable high-pitched noise designed to disperse young loiterers outside their stores without bothering adults.
...The device... "doesn't cause any pain to the hearer," according to Inspector Amanda Davies, quoted by Britain's domestic Press Association news agency.
"The noise can normally only be heard by those between 12 and 22 and it makes the listener feel uncomfortable," she added.
Once in their early 20s, people lose their capacity to hear sounds at such a high pitch...
"Shop owners have reported fabulous results and we've been approached by some who are considering buying their own equipment," she said. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/02/15/060215133756.3rq2yx5p.html
Retail sales see best gains since late '99
February 15, 2006 ...retail sales soar[ed] by 2.2 percent -- the biggest jump in six years… The sales spurt, which coincided yesterday with a drop in premium crude oil prices below the psychological threshold of $60 a barrel, sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average surging by 136 points to 11,028.
"You have lower oil prices; you have a healthy employment situation; and you have a consumer that is still willing to do a little bit of spending," said Gordon Fowler, chief investment officer at Glenmede Trust Co. "That all adds up to a positive for the economy."
...Triggering the excitement yesterday was a Commerce Department report showing that retail sales, excluding autos, last month zoomed the most since December 1999 after inching up 0.2 percent in December. Including autos, sales were up 2.3 percent -- the biggest jump since May 2004.
...Aside from inspiring the urge to shop, one major boon from the mild weather was that a widely anticipated spike in winter heating bills never occurred. Many consumers had been bracing for big bills after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in August and September and sent the price of natural gas and heating oil spiraling to record levels...
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20060215-124718-1338r.htm
***This is the best article I've read in ages about what a joke the national press is. It's actually a very funny article...***
The shooting party By Tony Blankley February 15, 2006
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060214-102148-1710r.htm
Wow! Mr. Meany nominated for a Peace Prize, imagine that…I thought the UN was going to walk out on him...
John Bolton Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
February 08, 2006- John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is one of two Americans who have been nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Last year, Democrats and a few Republicans refused to confirm Bolton to the U.N. post, forcing President Bush to resort to a recess appointment... In June 2005, Senate Republicans fell six votes in their second effort to end a Democrat filibuster of Bolton's nomination to serve as U.N. ambassador.
Bolton and Kenneth R. Timmerman were formally nominated by Sweden's former deputy prime minister Per Ahlmark, for playing a major role in exposing Iran's secret plans to develop nuclear weapons.
They documented Iran's secret nuclear buildup and revealed Iran's "repeated lying" and false reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency, a press release said.
...One of Bolton's Republican critics - Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio -- now says he thinks Bolton is doing a good job....In May 2005, the thought that Bolton might be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations almost brought Voinovich to tears...Voinovich's emotional moment came one day after he sent a letter to his fellow senators, telling them, "In these dangerous times, we cannot afford to put at risk our nation's ability to successfully wage and win the war on terror with a controversial and ineffective ambassador to the United Nations." http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200602/POL20060208b.html
They know the dangers of giving up their sovereignty to a body they cannot control...
Tiny island that's ready to stop Europe in its tracks
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/15/waland15.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/15/ixnewstop.html
This site appears to be a private site so what's wrong if they have standards prohibiting same-sex Valentine? If people want Brokenback Valentines they can start their own Internet site... Must have violated some EU or UN law...
Lithuanian website bars same-sex Valentine's Day kisses
Feb 14- A Lithuanian ombudsman is to probe an Internet site for discrimination after users complained that they could not send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to a friend of the same sex.
"We received two complaints that an Internet site, in its 'friends' section, offers to send a virtual Valentine's Day kiss to the friend, but only if the they are of the opposite sex," Valentinas Dambrava of the ombudsman's office told AFP.
"We are going to launch an investigation for sexual discrimination, although some Lithuanians may find this unusual," Dambrava added.
If the site is found to have discriminated, it could be fined up to 2,000 litas (579 euros, 690 dollars)...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/060214175111.yaf4urht.html
'Able Danger' Identified 9/11 Hijacker 13 times
February 15, 2006- The top-secret, military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger" identified Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, 13 times before the 2001 attacks, according to new information released Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees.
Able Danger has been identified by Weldon and team member Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer as an elite group of approximately two dozen individuals tasked with identifying and targeting the links and relationships of al Qaeda worldwide.
On June 27, 2005, Weldon said that Able Danger had offered in the year before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to share its intelligence with the FBI and to work with them to take down the New York City terrorist cell involving Mohammed Atta and two other 9/11 terrorists. Weldon said Clinton administration lawyers prevented the information from being shared with the FBI.
According to Weldon, the lawyers told Able Danger members, " [Y]ou cannot pursue contact with the FBI against that cell. Mohamed Atta is in the U.S. on a green card and we are fearful of the fallout from the Waco incident," a reference to the FBI's raid on the David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Tex., in April 1993.
...As recently as two weeks ago additional Able Danger material was found in files at the Pentagon, Weldon said. "[A] general was present as the information was taken out of file cabinets ..."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200602\NAT20060215d.html
Saddam general: WMDs in Syria
Another former confidant of ex-dictator makes claim, also links Iraq to al-Qaida
February 15, 2006- A former general and friend of Saddam Hussein who defected but maintains close contact with Iraq claims the regime supported al-Qaida with intelligence, finances and munitions and believes weapons of mass destruction are hidden in Syria.
Ali Ibrahim al-Tikriti, southern regional commander for Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia in the late 1980s, spoke with Ryan Mauro of WorldThreats.com.
Known as the "Butcher of Basra," al-Tikriti commanded units that dealt with chemical and biological weapons. He defected shortly before the Gulf War in 1991.
Last month, Saddam Hussein's No. 2 Air Force officer, Georges Sada, told the New York Sun Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were moved to Syria six weeks before the war started. Sada claimed two Iraqi Airways Boeing jets converted to cargo planes moved the weapons in a total of 56 flights. They attracted little attention, he said, because they were thought to be civilian flights providing relief from Iraq to Syria, which had suffered a flood after a dam collapse in 2002...
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48827
American clown journalism 101
Feb 15, 2006 by Michelle Malkin
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2006/02/15/186535.html
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