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Ok, when I mention "friends", I'm referring to the President of Mexico in particular and the people who make monitary gain from the silent invasion.. Hope McCain is not as cozy with the Saudi family as Bush. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Hopefully not. I don't agree with everything Bush does and I don't like McCain. I think McCain wrote off POW's and MIA's, Like Bush he is more interested in helping his Mexican friends invade this country, BUT I think he is a better candidate. Like I said, the Manchurian candidate could be gone (natural departure and only wishful thinking). Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

More than one Republican would like to smear the "Manchurian candidate", but that's like shooting yourself in the foot. When the White House becomes a nursing home ( the morning after the victory celebration), Sarah will straighten things out. Yea, by first attacking Russia "Every Walmart in the state of Alabama has sold every firearm and all the ammunition. Seems Alabama is getting ready for the Russian invasion after they leave Georgia." I didn't snope that.... As for Russia, Sarah is just flexing her muscles in front of the American public. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

More than one Republican would like to smear the "Manchurian candidate", but that's like shooting yourself in the foot. When the White House becomes a nursing home ( the morning after the victory celebration), Sarah will straighten things out. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Unfortunately, IMO certain liberal factions of Republican hierarchy felt Sarah's answers were too conservative. Sarah's answers came from her heart. When she becomes VP she will whip the Republican Party into the conservative party many of us hope it to be. Her answers to those particular question were not extreme to a lot of voters. Big mistake to hide those answers MO. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

That necklace she's wearing of the symbol of a female is sexist - I insist that she remove it immediately! She needs to wear it to prove her gender. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge on Tuesday to be allowed to leave the country. Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors, speaking in low voices, asked the judge for a "quick ruling" that would let them return to Britain. But judge Hamad Abdul Jawad disregarded the request and scheduled another hearing for Sept. 9 to hear testimony from the policeman who arrested the couple. Palmer, 36, and Acors, 34, were arrested July 5 on a Dubai beach after they had been at a hotel party. They were later charged with having sex outside of marriage, public indecency and public drunkenness. The case has highlighted the strong contrasts in the booming United Arab Emirates, particularly Dubai. The city has a much more freewheeling attitude than other places in the Gulf, with cash flowing from oil and finance and a huge expatriate population. But the case is a reminder that it remains a conservative Arab nation underneath. Legal experts say the couple could face up to two years in prison if convicted. The case raised a media storm here, and partway through Tuesday's session the judge ordered journalists out of the courtroom. "I hope they will not get any penalty, God willing," the couple's Dubai-based lawyer, Hassan Matter, told The Associated Press after the session. 'Hugging and kissing' He said medical examinations of Palmer after the arrest "prove she did not have sex," though he did not elaborate. He also dismissed one witness who told the court he saw the couple having sex, saying the witness was far away and it was nighttime. Palmer, a former employee of a Dubai-based publishing firm, told the court during an August session that she and Acors, a tourist visiting Dubai, were "hugging and kissing" but did not have sex. Public display of affection, such as touching, kissing or hugging, is illegal in Dubai and couples — particularly if not married — can be detained by police for indecency. In July, a few days after the British couple was detained, Dubai police announced it has arrested 79 people, mostly tourists, for topless sunbathing, nudity and other acts authorities deemed indecent. More from msnbc.com Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Not only do they come here to live, the first thing my German friends in Houston did was to buy pistols. Quite an age difference between them: one fought on the Eastern Front and is now a Texan, the other, a young engineer, went home and later moved to Spain. Both had bought HHKs. The older guy took the 9mm back and exchanged it for a .45 (nice choice). Wow. Is it that easy for aliens to obtain a hand gun over there ??? Jeez. Seems, you guys sell your deadly weapons to everybody. Seriously, I doubt that, let's say, I doubt that story. Furthermore, the "Germans" surely will have big troubles to leave your wonderful country with weapons in their luggage and also, to enter ours (with hand or other guns). Re Arnold Schwarzenegger: If such a ... let's say: simple ... actor is able to become a gov in your country: that speaks volumes. But, not about him. He's not the first actor to fill a position in higher policy, IIRC. Looking forward to next story ............. Doubt the story? Ok. You doubt the story. Of course the younger guy sold his firearms before returning home. The smart one, (the old guy who fought on the Eastern Front), stayed. PS If Germany had ignored Hitler, the NRA would not be able to use your country as an example of disarming the public to enslave the public. What do you use for protection? Beer steins? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Let's hope that "lazy" mayor uses Amtrac, and the buses (city and school) this time. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

It's funny how they still manage to want to come here: to live, to get an education, to sightsee, to get medical care, etc. We're such barbarians! I guess everyone loves a barbarian. Look, Arnold Schwartzenegger is governor of one of our largest states! But what was in my "previous post" that was so barbaric?? Did you mean "posts"? Not only do they come here to live, the first thing my German friends in Houston did was to buy pistols. Quite an age difference between them: one fought on the Eastern Front and is now a Texan, the other, a young engineer, went home and later moved to Spain. Both had bought HHKs. The older guy took the 9mm back and exchanged it for a .45 (nice choice). Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Beerlight, you might mention why cemeteries in Texas are so small. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

I got some coached skeet shooting before a South Tex dove hunt. It helped a lot. All those years of not mixing gunpowder and alcohol.....found myself in a dove field with everybody but me sitting on a beer cooler. Next day I had one too. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Quote Why in the world would you want to bother these people? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Yes, and that's wrong. They should have been arrested. Were they guests of Ted Kennedy? Possibly, but that really doesn't matter. Immigration let them in, no-one from the feds bothered them, they could "travel freely". Fact is, the USA only got religion on terrorists when its own ox was gored. The IRA raised $millions in the USA. Were it not for the media, I wonder if INS or the State Department even knew they were here. Wonder if they would have been allowed in after 911 with all the new smoke and mirror agencies working "together". Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Yes, and that's wrong. They should have been arrested. Were they guests of Ted Kennedy? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

"IF this guy is part of a movement in Iran to foster unity and peaceful dialogue with Israel....." Never realized Muslims were so forgiving. Never realized independent factions from Iran were allowed to broker there own peaceful agenda. Democracy must be coming attractive to the Iranian and Saudi governments. Yep, it has finally come. As for terrorist crimes, particularly one of this scale, there is no "get out of jail card" for this guy no matter what his nationality is. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor June 09, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - Seven months after Interpol placed a former head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on its most-wanted list, the fugitive suspected of state-sponsored terrorism last week traveled freely to Saudi Arabia, where he attended a religious conference hosted by King Abdullah. Mohsen Rezai, wanted by Argentina, is the subject of an Interpol "red notice" -- a request for a provisional arrest with a view to extradition, based on an arrest warrant or court decision. Saudi Arabia is a member state of the international policing organization. It was unclear Monday whether he was still in Saudi Arabia, but his presence was brought to the attention of Interpol as well as the Argentine and Saudi governments late last week. Rezai was part of a delegation led by former Iranian president, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who shared the platform with the Saudi monarch during the gathering in Mecca. The three-day conference, which drew considerable attention in the Islamic world, is aimed at fostering Muslim unity ahead of a dialogue Abdullah plans to launch with Christian and Jewish religious figures. The attendance of Rafsanjani, a senior Shi'ite figure invited by the Sunni king and seated at Abdullah's left in a sign of unity between Islam's two major sects, was widely reported. Virtually unreported, by contrast, was the participation of Rezai, although an Iranian state-funded media outlet mentioned in passing that he was accompanying the former president. Iran's Mehr news agency also posted pictures showing Rezai in Mecca with Rafsanjani. Rezai is a top-level politician in Iran, a former presidential candidate and secretary of Iran's Expediency Council, a consultative body appointed by "supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and headed by Rafsanjani. For 16 years during the 1980s and 1990s, however, he was leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), having been appointed to the post by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini at the age of 27. The IRGC was last October subjected to U.S. sanctions for support of terrorism and proliferation activities. In July 1994, in a rare case of a suicide bombing outside the Middle East, terrorists targeted a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring several hundred others. Argentine investigators believe that both Rezai and Rafsanjani himself were key players in the deadly attack. In 2006, special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, a presidential appointee, concluded after in-depth investigations that Iran masterminded the Argentine-Israel Mutual Association (AMIA) bombing and had tasked Hezbollah - a Lebanese-based Shi'ite group sponsored by Iran - to carry it out. Buenos Aires issued arrest warrants for top-ranking Iranian suspects, including Rafsanjani, former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and Iran's ambassador to Argentina at the time of the bombing, Hadi Soleimanpour. Warrants also were issued for Rezai, former intelligence chief Ali Fallahijan, commander of an IRGC Quds Force special operations unit Ahmad Vahidi, and two officials based at Iran's embassy in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani and Ahmad Reza Asghari. Also wanted was a Lebanese national, Hezbollah terrorist chief Imad Mughniyah, who was killed in a bomb blast in Damascus in February. In March last year, Interpol's executive committee agreed to an Argentine request to issue red notices for Rezai and four other Iranians, as well as Mughniyah. On legal advice, Interpol chose not to issue red notices for Rafsanjani, Velayati and Soleimanpour (although they remain wanted by Argentina). Last November, Interpol's annual general assembly upheld the earlier executive committee decision, despite strong objections by Iran. While a red notice is not an international arrest warrant, Interpol says many of its member countries recognize a red notice "as having the legal value to serve as a basis for provisional arrest ... [it] is intended to help police identify or locate these individuals with a view to their arrest and extradition." Saudi Arabia is a longstanding member of Interpol, having joined in 1956. In 2002 it organized and hosted Interpol's first Asian regional conference. 'Zone of immunity' Cybercast News Service late last week contacted Interpol's head office in Lyon, France, as well as the Saudi foreign ministry and Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C.., and Argentina's justice ministry and national Interpol office, seeking comment on Rezai's presence in Mecca. The queries brought no response, but the Simon Wiesenthal Center - a Jewish human rights group that has been spearheading campaigns for those responsible for the AMIA attack to be brought to justice - said it brought the Iranians' presence to the attention of Interpol Secretary-General Ronald Noble. Dr. Shimon Samuels, the SWC's international relations director, said he urged Noble to press the Saudi government "to abide by its international commitments and to immediately detain, at least, Mohsen Rezai until an extradition order can be obtained from Argentina." "Interpol is best placed to apprise the Saudi authorities that, perhaps unwittingly, they are granting shelter to international terrorists and must act accordingly," he said. The SWC also raised the issue with Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, calling on him to demand that the Saudis detain and extradite both Rafsanjani and Rezai. The center said Nisman, the Argentine special prosecutor, had confirmed that a request to Saudi Arabia was in progress. The foreign ministry in Buenos Aires instructed the embassy in Riyadh to request detention and examine the possibility of extradition. Nisman also contacted Interpol. Argentina's AJN Jewish news agency quoted members of an organization of family and friends of victims of the AMIA bombing as urging Saudi Arabia to detain the Iranians, while expressing doubt that the kingdom would do so. "What I find to be extremely ironic is that these guys have been invited to this world Muslim conference to work out the guidelines and principles for outreach to Jews and Christians," Samuels said by phone from Paris, adding that the event had been "totally betrayed by the presence of two people complicit in blowing up a Jewish center." He recalled that when the Interpol general assembly confirmed the red notices last November, the center believed the decision would restrict their freedom of movement. "I said, what we've gained is that those people will never be allowed out of Iran unless it is to come [to somewhere] where they are absolutely sure they're not going to be arrested - [to] allies or part of the family," Samuels said. "As such, whatever ill-gotten gains they may have in Swiss banks or the enjoyment of going to the West for a bit of a break - or coming to Paris for a good meal - they're not going to be able to enjoy that, because everybody's eyes are going to be watching." In this case, he observed, it seemed the Iranians had visited "a zone of immunity." Samuels voiced doubt that the Saudis would respond positively to the diplomatic requests. Tehran has long denied Argentina's allegations about being behind the AMIA attack. On last year's 13th anniversary of the bombing, the official Irna news agency released a report blaming "international Zionism and its Argentine agents" for the atrocity. When Interpol upheld the red notice decision last November, Fallahijan, the former intelligence chief among those listed, attributed the allegations to "Zionists' intrigue" and urged the foreign ministry to file a complaint against Argentina in international courts for making unjustified accusations against Iran. [url] Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Quote plan? Build the new one on the mainland. First option should be: CRAWFORD, TEXAS? Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Ever heard of Dion and the Belmonts?

No, they need to get rid of the cronies running the joint. I agree. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

No matter what my scumbag does, he/she is better than your scumbag. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Your last sentence says it all. I remember refusing to fly a Bell 212 that was due a 100hr. inspecton back in 75 or 76, and I got fired over it. I complained to the FAA in Washington DC and they simply kicked it down the line to the local GADO office who did nothing. That incident and a lot of other things led me to believe the FAA was too cozy with the operators. Years later, the operator who fired me was shut down, but it took too long. Today's FAA action is part of a cycle going the other way in the interest of safety. Now they need a little common sense. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

That's a promise or an (empty) threat ?? perfidious Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

That's not really a compromise. When cagers insist on making left turns in front of oncoming traffic, they're still at fault. There is only a narrow set of accidents where the helmet makes a dramatic difference in the outcome. If they need to wear the helmet, then add on the steel tip boots, the armored leather, the kevlar gloves, and the protective cup. --- It does seem like the best solution for this guy is a turbanned helmet. Helmets are great for open caskets Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.

Are you really suggesting the US open up a third war? Not anytime soon. When President Reagan made things uncomfortable for Gaddafi, I don't remember it being called a war. Do your part for global warming: ban beans and hold all popcorn farts.