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The following is a comment I posted on Afronerd's site (note--I added one more sentence in my blurb): I think one of the biggest complaints I heard against J.W. commentary ("Taylor's death a grim reminder for us all") was the fact that he laid part of the blame on hip hop. Personally, I would not have gone that far with it, but I do understand the overall message JUST LIKE MANY ...More

The Mighty Nushagak… A Land of Kings Written by Charles K. West "In March 2007, I received an email from a quiet gentleman that I had met at the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, PA. Though I came across many of vendors and exhibitors at the show, Eli Huffman stood out the most. With reading glasses perched on the tip of his nose, he quietly kept to himself with eyes ...More

Gregory Kane writes... Young (Sen. Larry Young) said that after he first learned of Philadelphia's efforts, he was driving to work one day when the inspiration hit him: If Philadelphians can pull together 10,000 men to hit the streets and curb that city's homicide rate, why can't Baltimoreans? (The Sun ran two articles about the late-October rally in Philadelphia.) "I put out a call," said Young, who used the airwaves of WOLB ...More

Jeffrey Sinclair, 17, a black youth, was shot multiple times at 825 W. 54th Street in LAPD's 77th Street Division at about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20. He was taken to California Hospital, where he died at 9:45 p.m. His mother was incarcerated; he lived with his grandparents. He had been on his bicycle just before he was attacked. The bicycle fell near him at the homicide scene. (source) More

Immigrants, illegals use welfare more often By Stephen Dinan washingtontimes.com Both immigrants and illegal aliens are more likely to be poor and to use welfare programs than native-born Americans because they come to the country with lower levels of education, according to a new study looking at U.S. Census Bureau data. "The problem here is not work, or a lack of willingness to work; it's not legal status; it's educational level at arrival," said ...More

I think what really gets me about some of the haters out there of Fox News is that they really believe that outlets like CNN or MSNBC is the gold standard when it comes to balanced reporting ("balanced" btw is very subjective depending on who you talk to). This is not the first time and certainly not the last time (as long as ratings and politics are a factor) CNN has ...More

British teacher tried for inciting religious hatred with teddy bear named ’Muhammad’ (AP) KHARTOUM, Sudan - A British teacher went on trial today on charges of inciting religious hatred by letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, a crime punishable by up to 40 lashes and six months in jail. Gillian Gibbons walked in without handcuffs, wearing a dark jacket and blue skirt, according to reporters in the courtroom before media ...More

Remember toys by a company called Mego back in the 70's? Anyway, here is a commercial for toy they produced in those days (I think this was one of the many toys I circled in the toy section of those BEST catalogs). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Gv6EWAZgQ&rel=1] Either one of my friends or cousins had this toy. Like one commenter mentioned on youtube, there is NO WAY this thing had a range of 1300 ft. More

While I may have been just a glimmer in my mother's eye when the movie "Planet of the Apes" first came out it theaters, I do remember all the reruns of the entire series that came on television throughout the 70's as well as the cartoon and the miniseries. I even had the lunchbox ;). When one watches this movie while keeping the time period the movie was produced in mind, ...More

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CAGW Uploads Database of Labor-HHS Earmarks Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today makes public a comprehensive, searchable database of the 2,243 earmarks worth $1 billion in the Fiscal 2008 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Act, H.R. 3043. “CAGW provides taxpayers with the information that Congress wants to keep under wraps: a convenient, searchable database of earmarked spending,” said CAGW President Tom Schatz. “With ...More

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