Google defuses 'link bombs'

by Glenn Chapman

President George W. Bush is no longer Google's top response to Internet searches for "miserable failure."

Queries for French military victories no longer take one to "defeats."

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"allahu akbar"

Here's how you freak out the guy sitting next to you on a plane.open your laptop and hit this link and say "allahu akbar"

ICE raids leave immigrants living in fear

By: NICOLE COLSON

“WE’RE TERRIFIED. The police could come for us at any time and deport us.”
Rosa Maria Salazar has good reason to be worried. The 55-year-old cook is an undocumented immigrant living in the heart of a Los Angeles community targeted in a wave of raids last month by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
For seven days in late January, the ICE carried out coordinated sweeps in several cities as part of its ongoing “Operation Return to Sender.” LINK

Quebec town to immigrants: you can't kill women

By David Ljunggren

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Immigrants wishing to live in the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec, must not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules released by the local council. LINK

He Calls Himself God

When a door by the stage opens, the guards leap into action. They surround the man with slicked-back hair who emerges and escort him to his seat. When the crowd spots him, it goes wild. People chant, "Lord! Lord! Lord!" It quickly becomes clear that they're referring to him. "It's Jesus Christ himself!" a preacher onstage announces. "Let's welcome Jesus Christ Man!" LINK

Kyoto: 'socialist scheme'

Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a "socialist scheme" designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.
The letter, posted on the federal Liberal party website, was apparently written by Harper in 2002, when he was leader of the now-defunct Canadian Alliance party. LINK

Terror Plot Uncovered

Anti-terror officers say they are at the "foot-hills" of a major inquiry.
Eight men were detained in raids in Birmingham in the early hours, the ninth on a motorway later in the day.
Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw, of West Midlands Police, revealed the last suspect was stopped on a motorway near the city.
He said officers were carrying out a "very, very major investigation" that would take "days if not weeks" to complete.
It has been reported the alleged plotters intended to post a video of the hostage being tortured and killed on the internet. LINK

Iran in apocalyptic mood

Mutually assured destruction is incentive, not deterrence, for Tehran,
Outdated Cold war concepts, such as mutually assured destruction (M.A.D) are irrelevant when it comes to Iran , because the Iranian president and his circle see such a scenario "as an incentive, not a deterrent," renowned scholar Bernard Lewis said during a lecture Monday evening at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. LINK

Prison Changes Direction of Toilets

Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported.Islamic code prohibits Muslims from facing or turning their backs on the direction of prayer when they use the bathroom. Muslim prisoners complained of having to sit sideways on toilets so as to not break code. LINK

I won't be happy until I lose my legs

I was six when I first became aware of my desire to lose my legs. I don't remember what started it - there was no specific trigger. Most people want to change something about themselves, and the image I have of myself has always been one without legs.
To the general public, people like me are sick and strange, and that's where it ends. I think it is a question of fearing the unknown. I have something called body identity integrity disorder (BIID), where sufferers want to remove one or more healthy limbs. LINK

Secret Banff meeting

By Joseph Farah

Official notes taken on a session on "Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity" at the North American Forum in Banff, Canada, last September, reveal the internal debate over continued secrecy.
"While a vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board ('evolution by stealth')," record the notes discovered amid documents obtained by Judicial Watch. LINK

How Sandy Berger paid back the GOP

On July 6, 2006, Stonebridge International, a global strategy firm, announced that it had added a new member to its high-profile, five-member advisory board – former Democrat Rep. Lee Hamilton. Hamilton, who had served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, had just joined a firm headed by the man who had criminally undermined that very Commission, Stonebridge chairman and founder Samuel "Sandy" Berger. LINK

The Shores Of Tripoli

Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison, who created a stir when he decided to take his oath of office on Thomas Jefferson's copy of the Quran, said in a recent interview with the Detroit Free Press that he used the Islamic holy book during his oath because it helped the founding fathers of America. LINK

"Hot" patients setting off U.S. radiation alarms

With the rising use of radioisotopes in medicine and the growing use of radiation detectors in a security-conscious nation, patients are triggering alarms in places where they may not even realize they're being scanned, doctors and security officials say. LINK By Jane Sutton

Hunger and thirst for billions !!!

Billions of people will suffer water shortages and the number of hungry will grow by hundreds of millions by 2080 as global temperatures rise, scientists warn in a new report.
The report estimates that between 1.1 billion and 3.2 billion people will be suffering from water scarcity problems by 2080 and between 200 million and 600 million more people will be going hungry. LINK

Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill

H.R. 226, introduced by U.S. Representatives Cliff Stearns’ (R-Fla.) and Rich Boucher (D-Va.), would allow any person with a valid concealed firearm carrying permit or license, issued by a state, to carry a concealed firearm in any state, as follows: In states that issue concealed firearm permits, a state’s laws governing where concealed firearms may be carried would apply within its borders. In states that do not issue carry permits, a federal "bright-line" standard would permit carrying in places other than police stations; courthouses; public polling places; meetings of state, county, or municipal governing bodies; schools; passenger areas of airports; and certain other locations. The bill applies to D.C., Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. It would not create a federal licensing system; it would require the states to recognize each others’ carry permits, just as they recognize drivers’ licenses and carry permits held by armored car guards. Rep. Stearns has introduced such legislation since 1995. LINK

In Exchange for Records, Fewer Immigration Raids

By Darryl Fears and Krissah Williams
Over the past seven months, Bush administration officials have quietly toured the country, trying to persuade businesses that rely heavily on immigrant labor to join a little-known program that would spare them from embarrassing federal raids if they voluntarily handed over their workers' documents so the government can scan them for fraudulent information. LINK

Was 9/11 really that bad?

By David A. BellJanuary 28, 2007
IMAGINE THAT on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. Imagine that six hours after that, there had been yet another wave. Now imagine that the attacks had continued, every six hours, for another four years, until nearly 20 million Americans were dead. This is roughly what the Soviet Union suffered during World War II, and contemplating these numbers may help put in perspective what the United States has so far experienced during the war against terrorism. LINK

The Border-Patrol Two Deserve Jail

So why are some Border Patrol agents vilifying Sutton today? Why are they joined by a full-throated chorus of union reps, anti-immigration activists, media heavyweights, and a small but vocal cabal of mostly Republican congressmen? Because two rogues who had no business wearing badges and carrying guns have managed to entangle their gross malfeasance in the impassioned politics of immigration, that’s why. LINK

IAEA Inspectors Arrive in Iran

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Three International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors arrived in Tehran on Saturday while Iran is getting prepared for nuclear celebrations in early February. LINK

How bad things have gotten in Venezuela

Thomas Lifson
David Paulin writes at The Big Carnival of the degeneration of the Chavez regime into a thug state. It has gotten so bad that some of Chavez's leftist supporters are now disowning him, as they see that socialism is just an excuse for power and riches being grabbed. LINK

Friday's Guest: Sarah Menet

Sarah Menet was pronounced dead but she did not die. Her near death experience (NDE) is one of the most extensive ever recorded. Sarah not only visited the beautiful spirit world, describing the people, their dress, activities, and buildings; but she also visited what could be called "hell" and describes the torment of those committed to that terrible place.

Sarah was also shown several future events. She saw tall buildings in New York collapsing amidst smoke and debris and people running years before 9/11. This was the beginning of other calamities which were to include a great plague suddenly striking several cities in the United States, a nuclear war, and other devastating events. LINK

Anti-War E-Mail To GI Gets Worker Fired

MILWAUKEE -- A testy e-mail that's now been circulated over the Internet has put a Muslim-owned business in hot water.
At issue was an e-mail exchange from earlier this month. Sgt. Jason Hess -- who's stationed in Taji, Iraq -- e-mailed the company inquiring about floor mats.
The American GI e-mailed Bargain Suppliers of West Allis, Wisc., to ask if the company could ship to an APO address since he's based in Iraq..LINK

Massive snowfall causes city to shrink

by Rebecca PalshaWednesday, Jan. 24, 2007
Anchorage, Alaska - Anchorage has been hit with more than 74 inches of snow this season, and according to the city, it's reaching a crisis level, with snow removal on the streets becoming a big problem.
The roads are looking smaller these days around town, as two-lane roads are quickly becoming one. The city can plow the roads, but where it can remove the snow to another location is a problem. LINK

Hillary vs. McCain?

By TONY KARON

Hillary Clinton is the clear front-runner to win the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 2008, but the Republican race will be a close contest between Senator John McCain and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani — with McCain edging Giuliani by a three- to four-point margin. And a presidential face-off between Clinton and McCain, right now, would be close to a dead heat. Those are some of the key findings of a new TIME poll earlier this week that canvassed a random sample of 1,064 registered voters by phone. LINK

Warming to raise seas for 1,000 years

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) - World sea levels will keep rising for more than 1,000 years even if governments manage to slow a projected surge in temperatures this century blamed on greenhouse gases, a draft U.N. climate report says.
The study, by a panel of 2,500 scientists who advise the United Nations, also says that dust from volcanic eruptions and air pollution seems to have braked warming in recent decades by reflecting sunlight back into space, scientific sources said. LINK

GOP renews 'amnesty' defiance

By Charles Hurt

"The president worked hard to get a Congress that agrees with him on this and now he's got it," said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican, in reference to the Democratic takeover of both chambers of Congress in the November elections. "But we're still going to fight him on it." Mr. Bush on Tuesday reissued his call to welcome foreigners with a guest-worker plan, and he called for a path to citizenship for millions of those here illegally. LINK

Smuggler’s Plot Highlights Fear Over Uranium

By LAWRENCE SCOTT SHEETS and WILLIAM J. BROAD

Last January, a Russian man with sunken cheeks and a wispy mustache crossed into Georgia and traveled to Tbilisi by car along a high mountain road. In two plastic bags in his leather jacket, Georgian authorities say, he carried 100 grams of uranium so refined that it could help fuel an atom bomb. LINK

Nuremberg for global warming skeptics?

By Walter Williams

Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." The Weather Channel has taken up that task with its series "It Could Happen Tomorrow."
The Weather Channel started its "It Could Happen Tomorrow" series in January 2006. LINK

Unevening the Playing Field, by Law

Beware of liberals using such words as "fairness." In resurrecting the "Fairness Doctrine," liberals are trying to kill conservative talk radio and restore their media monopoly. Period. The doctrine would selectively stifle free political discourse, which is essential for our representative government.
The Fairness Doctrine, an FCC regulation in force from 1949 to 1987, required broadcasters to present "both sides" of controversial issues. During that time, liberals had a virtual monopoly on the media. LINK

By David Limbaugh

The Coming Amnesty Disaster

Last month, President Bush signed off on a few dog-and-pony illegal immigrant employment raids. Whoop-de-doo. Politically expedient holiday gestures over, the White House is now back to work pushing its long-planned, massive alien amnesty. The state of the borders, green card process and entrance system for visitors and tourists? Porous. Chaotic. Understaffed. And overwhelmed. LINK By Michelle Malkin

Aliens ask wrong people in van about work

By Natasha Altamirano

BALTIMORE -- Federal agents taking a break from an unrelated assignment yesterday arrested 24 illegal aliens at a Fells Point 7-Eleven after the men attempted to solicit "underground" employment from the agents. LINK

The Dr. will see you.....in 9 hours

By Maria Kubacki, The Ottawa Citizen

Heading to Emergency room? Bring lunch, maybe a pillow, too
Most end up waiting 7.4 hours, study shows.Patients in Ottawa and area emergency rooms are not being treated within recommended times, according to a new report on emergency visits in Ontario by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. LINK

Iran: Israel, US will soon die

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report. Iran's official FARS news agency also reported the comments. LINK

By Yaakov Lappin

N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing

North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.
Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran's nuclear scientists. LINK By Con Coughlin

The Global Warming Two-Step

By William Tucker

I'm in an interesting dilemma. I'm just finishing up a book on global warming and nuclear power. The premise is this:A. Global warming is a serious problem that should be solved.B. Nuclear power is the only way we're going to solve it.It's a simple premise that defies both liberal and conservatives -- fair enough. But ultimately it could get both on the same side. Then we might get something done in the country. Environmentalists hate nuclear but they worry about global warming more. Conservatives pooh-pooh global warming but they do like nuclear power. LINK

Scientists Group's Funding 'Openly Political'

At a time when the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is censuring free market organizations for accepting donations from ExxonMobil, critics have turned the spotlight back onto the UCS, its left-wing positions, and its own funding practices. LINK

(Bleep) save `The Queen'

STAN DIEL

In the highly-acclaimed movie "The Queen," theater patrons see Queen Elizabeth, played by actress Helen Mirren, express her faith in God after the death of Princess Diana. But in the version of the movie shown as in-flight entertainment on some airlines, only lip readers get the message.
Every reference to God in the movie is censored - replaced by a beep. LINK

Russia limits foreign labor to fight illegals

By Michael Mainville THE WASHINGTON TIMES

MOSCOW -- Thousands of migrant workers from the Caucasus, Central Asia and China are leaving Russia as the government institutes tough new measures aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. Campaigners against illegal immigration are welcoming the measures, saying low-paid migrants were distorting the job market and taking work from Russian citizens. LINK

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There was no credible evidence that the agents were in a life-threatening situation
Aldrete, the Mexican alien, had a weapon that would justify the use of deadly force.
Border Patrol Agent Juarez, who was at the scene, testified at trial that he did not ,
and was almost to Mexico when Agent Compean began firing at him. LINK

U.S. ATTORNEY JOHNNY SUTTON

PROSECUTION OF BORDER PATROL AGENTS COMPEAN AND RAMOS

“Agents Compean and Ramos were prosecuted by my office because they committed a
number of serious crimes. They shot 15 times at an unarmed man who was running away from
them and posed no threat. They lied about what happened, covered up the shooting, conspired to
destroy evidence and then proceeded to write up and file a false report. LINK

Hillary's Agenda: 'We Start With Health Care'

"I want to have a conversation with our citizens about what we want for our country," Clinton said.
Clinton's comments came during a visit to a Manhattan community health clinic, where she was promoting a federal children's health-care program.
Clinton said she would introduce legislation to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program to all families who need it, regardless of income. Aides said Clinton was determined to attend to her Senate duties throughout the campaign. LINK

Chavez to U.S. Officials: 'Go to Hell'

By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER The Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuelan affairs.
The tirade came after Washington raised concerns about a measure to grant the fiery leftist leader broad lawmaking powers. LINK

English the nation's official language

Support grows to make English official
By Eric Pfeiffer THE WASHINGTON TIMES January 22, 2007

The push to make English the nation's official language is building momentum, with a congressional bill on the horizon and seven states pushing legislation to make English the official language or to strengthen laws already in place. "There's been such strong support," said Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican. "And it's gaining momentum." Mr. King is expected next month to reintroduce the English Language Unity Act, which seeks to make English the nation's official language. LINK

Egypt on high alert over bird flu

Health ministry says bird flu virus becomes more resistant to Tamiflu predominantly used to combat disease.
CAIRO - Egypt is on high alert after the H5N1 strain of the avian flu became more resistant to the Tamiflu antiviral drug predominantly used to combat the disease, the health minister was quoted as saying Monday. LINK

11 Iraqis with fake ID are arrested in Monterrey

Sean Mattson Express News Mexico Correspondent

MONTERREY, Mexico — Eleven Iraqis traveling with fake passports and headed to the United States were arrested by Mexican immigration authorities upon their arrival Saturday at this city's international airport.
Mexican immigration authorities said the names of the nine men, one woman and the 2-year-old girl did not match any international alerts for terrorists. LINK

Battery Breakthrough?

A secretive Texas startup developing what some are calling a "game changing" energy-storage technology broke its silence this week. It announced that it has reached two production milestones and is on track to ship systems this year for use in electric vehicles. LINK

Fantasy and Reality: 24 and the War on Terror

By Douglas Hanson

Jack Bauer is a fantasy figure of great appeal because of his singular focus on protecting America from the ravages of terrorism. We're rightly anxious, and we want someone who gets the job done. Jack throws the rule book out the window and does whatever it takes to kill our enemies. LINK

Hillary and the Fairness Doctrine

Clinton will do everything she can to control that conversation on her terms. So she and her allies are taking no chances with what Hillary once famously called the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” She prefers the type of fawning softball questions she has received from Katie Couric over the years than questions from Bill O’Reilly in the “no spin zone,” where she has been invited but chosen not to appear. LINK