Amos Stevens
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After the debate on Wednesday the news had an email poll & only an 10 year boy wrote in supporting Kerry,all the rest was for Bush!
Thanks for the articles Little Dragon
Thanks for the articles Little Dragon
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Amos Stevens said:
So I am guessing you are a Bush supporter?
Amos Stevens
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Dog saves womans life by calling 911
Dog saves woman's life by calling 911
> Friday, October 29, 2004 Posted: 7:26 AM EDT (1126
> GMT)
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> RICHLAND, Washington (AP) -- Leana Beasley has faith
> that a dog is man's best friend.
>
> Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when
> Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked
> urgently
> into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then
> the service dog unlocked the front door for the
> police
> officer.
>
> "I sensed there was a problem on the other end of
> the
> 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog
> was too persistent in barking directly into the
> phone
> receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me
> something."
>
> Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a
> speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after
> taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner,
> Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures.
>
> Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of
> Puget
> Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself.
>
> The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very
> clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long,"
> Beasley said Thursday.
>
> The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in
> Beasley's body chemistry, is trained to alert her
> owner to impending seizures.
>
> But that wasn't what was happening on September 7,
> and
> Faith apparently wasn't sure how to communicate the
> problem. During Beasley's three-week hospital stay,
> doctors determined her liver was not properly
> processing her seizure medication.
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> Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
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Dog saves woman's life by calling 911
> Friday, October 29, 2004 Posted: 7:26 AM EDT (1126
> GMT)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> RICHLAND, Washington (AP) -- Leana Beasley has faith
> that a dog is man's best friend.
>
> Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when
> Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked
> urgently
> into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then
> the service dog unlocked the front door for the
> police
> officer.
>
> "I sensed there was a problem on the other end of
> the
> 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog
> was too persistent in barking directly into the
> phone
> receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me
> something."
>
> Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a
> speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after
> taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner,
> Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures.
>
> Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of
> Puget
> Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself.
>
> The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very
> clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long,"
> Beasley said Thursday.
>
> The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in
> Beasley's body chemistry, is trained to alert her
> owner to impending seizures.
>
> But that wasn't what was happening on September 7,
> and
> Faith apparently wasn't sure how to communicate the
> problem. During Beasley's three-week hospital stay,
> doctors determined her liver was not properly
> processing her seizure medication.
>
>
>
>
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>
> Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
>
Amos Stevens
New Member
Boy calls 911 after he was stabbed,mother was killed
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Boy calls 911 after he was stabbed, mother was killed
By HECTOR CASTRO
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
LAKEWOOD -- Bleeding from a stab wound that lacerated his liver, an 8-year-old Tillicum boy still managed to call 911 and tell the dispatcher that his father had just stabbed him and killed his mother.
"It took a lot of guts," Lakewood police Lt. Brett Farrar said yesterday.
The slain woman was identified as Pranee Sukto, 39, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office said. An autopsy has yet to be performed.
Police arrested her 36-year-old husband and booked him into the Pierce County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder.
Sukto filed for divorce in Pierce County Superior Court on Dec. 23, and the next day sought a temporary restraining order, but details of the allegations were not available yesterday and it was unclear if the couple had ever separated.
Lakewood police were called to the modest home on Forest Road Southwest about 4 a.m., after the boy, Tony Sukto, called 911, Farrar said.
Officers and medics raced to the home and found the father outside near his red Toyota pickup, its engine running and lights on. The man put up a struggle, Farrar said, but was quickly arrested.
"He spoke with detectives and claimed that he killed his wife and his son and that he was hearing voices," Farrar said.
The man also allegedly admitted smoking methamphetamine earlier that night, the lieutenant said.
The boy was taken to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, where he was reported in stable condition last night.
Detectives worked into the evening processing the bloody crime scene at the home in Tillicum, a blue-collar neighborhood between Fort Lewis and American Lake.
Neighbors stood in the cold and drizzle, watching from their yards as investigators went through the painstaking process of evidence collection. Most were saddened by the news, although the couple and their son had lived there just a few months.
Jessie Stoddard, who lives about three houses from the Suktos, said her 6-year-old son often played with Tony.
"They were always riding their bikes up and down the street together," she said.
In the morning, after learning what had happened, Stoddard told her son about the attack.
"He's upset and he's sad," she said.
Despite the allegation of abuse that was part of the divorce case, there were no previous calls for disturbances at the home, Farrar said.
The husband had no criminal record, except for an incident in February when he was arrested for driving under the influence.
But Merril Cousin, executive director of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said obvious signs of abuse don't always precede a domestic violence homicide.
"There wasn't a criminal record, but only a fraction of domestic violence assaults are ever reported," Cousin said.
The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence conducts regular reviews of cases of domestic violence homicides, she said.
One finding that the reviews have shown is that even when authorities aren't notified of abuse, friends and relatives are frequently aware of something.
"Most often, somebody knows," Cousin said. "Often they are concerned and recognize the level of danger and just don't know what to do."
Reducing domestic violence has become a growing priority for victims' advocates and law enforcement agencies. This month, which is recognized nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, police agencies in 40 states targeted those wanted for outstanding warrants in domestic violence-related cases.
In Seattle, detectives arrested 11 people in a two-day effort. The Police Department's Domestic Violence Unit typically arrests about 15 people on warrants in a month. Detectives who handle domestic violence cases often consider their work "homicide prevention" because of statistics connecting abuse and homicides.
A study by the state domestic violence coalition found that a third of all women killed in Washington die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. Between 1997 and 2001, according to the same study, 205 people died as a result of domestic violence, including 17 children.
Last year, Seattle police reported five domestic violence homicides. The King County Sheriff's Office reported six.
Cousin has helped review some of those killings "so that we can learn from the tragedy," she said, "and hopefully have something positive come out of it."
Anyone being abused, or concerned about someone who may be a victim of abuse, should call a domestic violence helpline, she said.
"Very often, when domestic violence results in a fatality, there is a long history of abuse," Cousin said.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Boy calls 911 after he was stabbed, mother was killed
By HECTOR CASTRO
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
LAKEWOOD -- Bleeding from a stab wound that lacerated his liver, an 8-year-old Tillicum boy still managed to call 911 and tell the dispatcher that his father had just stabbed him and killed his mother.
"It took a lot of guts," Lakewood police Lt. Brett Farrar said yesterday.
The slain woman was identified as Pranee Sukto, 39, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office said. An autopsy has yet to be performed.
Police arrested her 36-year-old husband and booked him into the Pierce County Jail for investigation of first-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder.
Sukto filed for divorce in Pierce County Superior Court on Dec. 23, and the next day sought a temporary restraining order, but details of the allegations were not available yesterday and it was unclear if the couple had ever separated.
Lakewood police were called to the modest home on Forest Road Southwest about 4 a.m., after the boy, Tony Sukto, called 911, Farrar said.
Officers and medics raced to the home and found the father outside near his red Toyota pickup, its engine running and lights on. The man put up a struggle, Farrar said, but was quickly arrested.
"He spoke with detectives and claimed that he killed his wife and his son and that he was hearing voices," Farrar said.
The man also allegedly admitted smoking methamphetamine earlier that night, the lieutenant said.
The boy was taken to Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, where he was reported in stable condition last night.
Detectives worked into the evening processing the bloody crime scene at the home in Tillicum, a blue-collar neighborhood between Fort Lewis and American Lake.
Neighbors stood in the cold and drizzle, watching from their yards as investigators went through the painstaking process of evidence collection. Most were saddened by the news, although the couple and their son had lived there just a few months.
Jessie Stoddard, who lives about three houses from the Suktos, said her 6-year-old son often played with Tony.
"They were always riding their bikes up and down the street together," she said.
In the morning, after learning what had happened, Stoddard told her son about the attack.
"He's upset and he's sad," she said.
Despite the allegation of abuse that was part of the divorce case, there were no previous calls for disturbances at the home, Farrar said.
The husband had no criminal record, except for an incident in February when he was arrested for driving under the influence.
But Merril Cousin, executive director of the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said obvious signs of abuse don't always precede a domestic violence homicide.
"There wasn't a criminal record, but only a fraction of domestic violence assaults are ever reported," Cousin said.
The Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence conducts regular reviews of cases of domestic violence homicides, she said.
One finding that the reviews have shown is that even when authorities aren't notified of abuse, friends and relatives are frequently aware of something.
"Most often, somebody knows," Cousin said. "Often they are concerned and recognize the level of danger and just don't know what to do."
Reducing domestic violence has become a growing priority for victims' advocates and law enforcement agencies. This month, which is recognized nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month, police agencies in 40 states targeted those wanted for outstanding warrants in domestic violence-related cases.
In Seattle, detectives arrested 11 people in a two-day effort. The Police Department's Domestic Violence Unit typically arrests about 15 people on warrants in a month. Detectives who handle domestic violence cases often consider their work "homicide prevention" because of statistics connecting abuse and homicides.
A study by the state domestic violence coalition found that a third of all women killed in Washington die at the hands of a current or former intimate partner. Between 1997 and 2001, according to the same study, 205 people died as a result of domestic violence, including 17 children.
Last year, Seattle police reported five domestic violence homicides. The King County Sheriff's Office reported six.
Cousin has helped review some of those killings "so that we can learn from the tragedy," she said, "and hopefully have something positive come out of it."
Anyone being abused, or concerned about someone who may be a victim of abuse, should call a domestic violence helpline, she said.
"Very often, when domestic violence results in a fatality, there is a long history of abuse," Cousin said.
Littledragon
Above The Law
2004 voting under way.
(CNN) -- Americans are casting votes Tuesday as Election Day 2004 gets under way in many states.
One Associated Press report from a polling station in a Virginia suburb of Washington said nearly 100 people were waiting in line as voting began at 6 a.m. ET.
Twelve states opened Election Day polling places before 7 a.m., the AP reported. (Special Report: America Votes 2004)
President Bush cast his vote in Crawford, Texas Tuesday morning saying he's "confident in the judgment of the people."
As he left the firehouse with his polling station, Bush said he had enjoyed the campaign and looked forward to hearing the "what the people have to say."
He said the choice on Election Day boiled down to one thing.
"The issue is who do you trust," he said.
Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry will be voting from his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1 p.m. ET today.
He will wait out the final results from his campaign headquarters in Boston.
Bush is seeking a second term as the 43rd president of the United States.
Kerry is seeking to become the 44th president following a 20-year career as the junior senator from Massachusetts.
First ballots of the day
After midnight, Eastern time, the election officially opened in New Hampshire as dozens of voters cast their traditional votes in two tiny towns.
In what could be a sign of things to come in this neck-and-neck race, midnight voters in Hart's Location, New Hampshire, gave Bush 16 votes and Kerry 14 votes, the AP reported. Ralph Nader got one vote.
In the other hamlet, Dixville Notch, Bush won 19 votes to Kerry's seven votes.
Bush travels to Columbus, Ohio, for some last-minute campaigning before returning to Washington for an Election Night rally. (Bush plans Election Day campaigning)
Kerry is to participate in a get-out-the-vote event Tuesday morning in showdown-state Wisconsin before returning to Boston to vote and indulge in his Election Day tradition -- lunch at the Union Oyster House. (Kerry plans get-out-the-vote rally)
Race tight going in
CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls over the weekend indicated the race was evenly split between the two candidates -- and was so close in some showdown states that an electoral victory was impossible to predict.
To win, a candidate must pick up 270 votes out of the 538 in the Electoral College. There are 14 states, representing 151 electoral votes, that remain competitive and have received the most attention from the two campaigns.
The top three battleground states are Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 68 electoral votes. A second-tier of closely watched states include Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota with 27 electoral votes. (Showdown states: Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota)
Special attention will be given to Florida, in which the 2000 election took an unprecedented turn.
The final results were so close that recounts held up the presidential election for five weeks.
Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the recounts. Bush was declared the winner in Florida by 537 votes.
The result gave him 271 electoral votes to 266 for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore. (One District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest the district's lack of statehood.)
Polling in the showdown states suggest a similarly close election is possible again.
Legal aspects
Teams of attorneys have been assembled by both Republicans and Democrats to call attention to any perceived voter fraud or to mount other legal challenges, including recounts, if needed. (CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: Election 2000 redux?)
Although the top draw of the election is the presidential race, voters across the country will have plenty of other decisions to make.
The Senate, where Republicans hold a 51-48 edge over Democrats and one independent, could change hands based on Tuesday's results.
Overall, 34 races are being contested, with tight matchups in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota. If Kerry were elected president, Massachusetts would hold a special election in the spring for his Senate seat.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election, including 36 open seats. Democrats would need to pick up 12 seats to gain control of the House.
There are close governor's races in Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire and Washington.
In Colorado, voters will be asked to approve Amendment 36, which would apportion the state's electoral votes based on the percentage of votes each candidate wins instead of the current winner-takes-all method. If passed, it would take effect immediately.
Eleven states have ballot measures that would effectively ban same-sex marriages, if approved.
And California voters will be asked to redefine the state's "three strikes" law. A ballot proposition would challenge the way judges hand down sentences for a criminal's third conviction.
(CNN) -- Americans are casting votes Tuesday as Election Day 2004 gets under way in many states.
One Associated Press report from a polling station in a Virginia suburb of Washington said nearly 100 people were waiting in line as voting began at 6 a.m. ET.
Twelve states opened Election Day polling places before 7 a.m., the AP reported. (Special Report: America Votes 2004)
President Bush cast his vote in Crawford, Texas Tuesday morning saying he's "confident in the judgment of the people."
As he left the firehouse with his polling station, Bush said he had enjoyed the campaign and looked forward to hearing the "what the people have to say."
He said the choice on Election Day boiled down to one thing.
"The issue is who do you trust," he said.
Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry will be voting from his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, around 1 p.m. ET today.
He will wait out the final results from his campaign headquarters in Boston.
Bush is seeking a second term as the 43rd president of the United States.
Kerry is seeking to become the 44th president following a 20-year career as the junior senator from Massachusetts.
First ballots of the day
After midnight, Eastern time, the election officially opened in New Hampshire as dozens of voters cast their traditional votes in two tiny towns.
In what could be a sign of things to come in this neck-and-neck race, midnight voters in Hart's Location, New Hampshire, gave Bush 16 votes and Kerry 14 votes, the AP reported. Ralph Nader got one vote.
In the other hamlet, Dixville Notch, Bush won 19 votes to Kerry's seven votes.
Bush travels to Columbus, Ohio, for some last-minute campaigning before returning to Washington for an Election Night rally. (Bush plans Election Day campaigning)
Kerry is to participate in a get-out-the-vote event Tuesday morning in showdown-state Wisconsin before returning to Boston to vote and indulge in his Election Day tradition -- lunch at the Union Oyster House. (Kerry plans get-out-the-vote rally)
Race tight going in
CNN/USA Today/Gallup polls over the weekend indicated the race was evenly split between the two candidates -- and was so close in some showdown states that an electoral victory was impossible to predict.
To win, a candidate must pick up 270 votes out of the 538 in the Electoral College. There are 14 states, representing 151 electoral votes, that remain competitive and have received the most attention from the two campaigns.
The top three battleground states are Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, with 68 electoral votes. A second-tier of closely watched states include Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota with 27 electoral votes. (Showdown states: Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota)
Special attention will be given to Florida, in which the 2000 election took an unprecedented turn.
The final results were so close that recounts held up the presidential election for five weeks.
Ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the recounts. Bush was declared the winner in Florida by 537 votes.
The result gave him 271 electoral votes to 266 for the Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore. (One District of Columbia elector left her ballot blank to protest the district's lack of statehood.)
Polling in the showdown states suggest a similarly close election is possible again.
Legal aspects
Teams of attorneys have been assembled by both Republicans and Democrats to call attention to any perceived voter fraud or to mount other legal challenges, including recounts, if needed. (CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: Election 2000 redux?)
Although the top draw of the election is the presidential race, voters across the country will have plenty of other decisions to make.
The Senate, where Republicans hold a 51-48 edge over Democrats and one independent, could change hands based on Tuesday's results.
Overall, 34 races are being contested, with tight matchups in Alaska, Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota. If Kerry were elected president, Massachusetts would hold a special election in the spring for his Senate seat.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election, including 36 open seats. Democrats would need to pick up 12 seats to gain control of the House.
There are close governor's races in Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire and Washington.
In Colorado, voters will be asked to approve Amendment 36, which would apportion the state's electoral votes based on the percentage of votes each candidate wins instead of the current winner-takes-all method. If passed, it would take effect immediately.
Eleven states have ballot measures that would effectively ban same-sex marriages, if approved.
And California voters will be asked to redefine the state's "three strikes" law. A ballot proposition would challenge the way judges hand down sentences for a criminal's third conviction.
Littledragon
Above The Law
Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.
(CNN) -- The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy.
Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday but released the full transcript of the entire tape on its Web site Monday.
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.
He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.
He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."
"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
Al-Jazeera executives said they decided to post the entire speech because rumors were circulating that the network omitted parts that "had direct threats toward specific states, which was totally untrue."
"We chose the most newsworthy parts of the address and aired them. The rest was used in lower thirds in graphics format," said one official.
U.S. intelligence officials Monday confirmed that the transcript made public Monday by Al-Jazeera was a complete one.
As part of the "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan," bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.
"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.
The total U.S. national debt is more than $7 trillion. The U.S. federal deficit was $413 billion in 2004, according to the Treasury Department.
"It is true that this shows that al Qaeda has gained, but on the other hand it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something that anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced.
"And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy."
As for President Bush's Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, "the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.
"So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future," bin Laden said.
U.S. government officials said Friday that the tape appeared to be authentic and recently made. It was the first videotaped message from the al Qaeda leader in nearly three years.
(CNN) -- The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his group's goal is to force America into bankruptcy.
Al-Jazeera aired portions of the videotape Friday but released the full transcript of the entire tape on its Web site Monday.
"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.
He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."
"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.
He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."
"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.
Al-Jazeera executives said they decided to post the entire speech because rumors were circulating that the network omitted parts that "had direct threats toward specific states, which was totally untrue."
"We chose the most newsworthy parts of the address and aired them. The rest was used in lower thirds in graphics format," said one official.
U.S. intelligence officials Monday confirmed that the transcript made public Monday by Al-Jazeera was a complete one.
As part of the "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan," bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.
"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.
The total U.S. national debt is more than $7 trillion. The U.S. federal deficit was $413 billion in 2004, according to the Treasury Department.
"It is true that this shows that al Qaeda has gained, but on the other hand it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something that anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced.
"And it all shows that the real loser is you," he said. "It is the American people and their economy."
As for President Bush's Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, "the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.
"So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future," bin Laden said.
U.S. government officials said Friday that the tape appeared to be authentic and recently made. It was the first videotaped message from the al Qaeda leader in nearly three years.
Littledragon
Above The Law
Baghdad car bomb kills six.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb near a government building in Baghdad killed at least six people on Tuesday and U.S. warplanes struck insurgent targets in Falluja overnight, authorities said.
Meanwhile, in the latest kidnapping in Iraq, insurgents abducted four Iraqis, an American and a Nepalese late Monday after a gunbattle near their office in Baghdad's Al-Mansour district.
Also, two representatives of a pro-government Shiite group -- abducted over the weekend -- have been killed, the government said.
In the car bombing in Baghdad, eight others were wounded, the interim Interior Ministry said. Police are investigating and could not provide other details about the incident, which took place near the Ministry of Education building, the ministry said.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, in the northern city of Mosul, a car bombing killed four Iraqi civilians and wounded 12 Iraqi national guard members, the U.S. military said.
The attack targeted an Iraqi security convoy, said U.S. military spokeswoman Capt. Angela M. Bowman.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces continued efforts to pacify restive regions of the country amid the violence and the hostage-taking, and fighting insurgents in Falluja -- regarded as a base for the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi network -- remains a top priority.
In the latest Falluja strike, an Air Force jet "supporting a close air support mission for the 1st Marine Division of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force" demolished insurgent positions on the southeast side of Falluja, where attackers fired on multinational forces, said the Marines, in a news release.
Earlier, on Monday morning, a U.S. Air Force plane struck a target on the city's southeast side, destroying a weapons cache site, the U.S. military said in a news release.
U.S. warplanes have launched regular strikes in Falluja, regarded as a stronghold for the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terror network, and U.S. and Iraqi forces have been preparing for an all-out assault on the city -- 30 miles west of Baghdad -- if talks between city leaders and government officials fail.
A few days ago, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned that he was getting closer to authorizing military action, saying the "the window of such peaceful settlement is closing" for the insurgents.
Abductions and the killing of captives continues in Iraq.
The Interior Ministry Tuesday identified the two representatives of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq who were abducted Sunday and killed Monday as Ahmed Juan and Kadhim Radhi Al-Oboudi.
Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman, the Interior Ministry spokesman, told CNN that the two SCIRI representatives had been working in the Al-Alam district of the capital.
SCIRI -- which is a Shiite political movement -- is a supporter of the interim government and has close ties to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, and sources from the group blame the incident on terrorists.
As for the Monday night kidnapping, Rahman said said the six worked for a Saudi automotive service company, SASCO. U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said one of the kidnappers and a bodyguard were killed in a gunbattle during the kidnapping.
Other developments
For the first time since the U.S.-led Iraq war began in March of 2003, a female British soldier has died in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Denise Michelle Rose of the Royal Military Police's Special Investigation Branch "was found dead from a gunshot wound at the Army base in the Shatt-al-Arab Hotel" in Basra, Iraq, on Sunday. The Defense Ministry said Rose's death is "not thought to have been the result of hostile action." Her death brings the number of British military fatalities the war to 70, according to the ministry.
A U.S. Marine was killed and four others wounded by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, the capital of western Iraq's sprawling Al-Anbar province, the military reported Monday. The city has been an insurgent stronghold in the restive Sunni Triangle region. The latest American fatality brings the total U.S. death toll since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq to 1,121.
On Monday, a representative of the Arab-language TV network Al-Arabiya said that five of its Iraqi employees were killed in a car bombing outside its offices over the weekend. The Dubai-based network said Saturday it received an official statement from a little-known Iraqi militant group, the Twentieth Brigades, denying reports that it attacked the office. But earlier, an Islamist Web site published a statement in which the group allegedly took responsibility for Saturday's attack.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A car bomb near a government building in Baghdad killed at least six people on Tuesday and U.S. warplanes struck insurgent targets in Falluja overnight, authorities said.
Meanwhile, in the latest kidnapping in Iraq, insurgents abducted four Iraqis, an American and a Nepalese late Monday after a gunbattle near their office in Baghdad's Al-Mansour district.
Also, two representatives of a pro-government Shiite group -- abducted over the weekend -- have been killed, the government said.
In the car bombing in Baghdad, eight others were wounded, the interim Interior Ministry said. Police are investigating and could not provide other details about the incident, which took place near the Ministry of Education building, the ministry said.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, in the northern city of Mosul, a car bombing killed four Iraqi civilians and wounded 12 Iraqi national guard members, the U.S. military said.
The attack targeted an Iraqi security convoy, said U.S. military spokeswoman Capt. Angela M. Bowman.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces continued efforts to pacify restive regions of the country amid the violence and the hostage-taking, and fighting insurgents in Falluja -- regarded as a base for the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi network -- remains a top priority.
In the latest Falluja strike, an Air Force jet "supporting a close air support mission for the 1st Marine Division of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force" demolished insurgent positions on the southeast side of Falluja, where attackers fired on multinational forces, said the Marines, in a news release.
Earlier, on Monday morning, a U.S. Air Force plane struck a target on the city's southeast side, destroying a weapons cache site, the U.S. military said in a news release.
U.S. warplanes have launched regular strikes in Falluja, regarded as a stronghold for the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terror network, and U.S. and Iraqi forces have been preparing for an all-out assault on the city -- 30 miles west of Baghdad -- if talks between city leaders and government officials fail.
A few days ago, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned that he was getting closer to authorizing military action, saying the "the window of such peaceful settlement is closing" for the insurgents.
Abductions and the killing of captives continues in Iraq.
The Interior Ministry Tuesday identified the two representatives of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq who were abducted Sunday and killed Monday as Ahmed Juan and Kadhim Radhi Al-Oboudi.
Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman, the Interior Ministry spokesman, told CNN that the two SCIRI representatives had been working in the Al-Alam district of the capital.
SCIRI -- which is a Shiite political movement -- is a supporter of the interim government and has close ties to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, and sources from the group blame the incident on terrorists.
As for the Monday night kidnapping, Rahman said said the six worked for a Saudi automotive service company, SASCO. U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said one of the kidnappers and a bodyguard were killed in a gunbattle during the kidnapping.
Other developments
For the first time since the U.S.-led Iraq war began in March of 2003, a female British soldier has died in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Denise Michelle Rose of the Royal Military Police's Special Investigation Branch "was found dead from a gunshot wound at the Army base in the Shatt-al-Arab Hotel" in Basra, Iraq, on Sunday. The Defense Ministry said Rose's death is "not thought to have been the result of hostile action." Her death brings the number of British military fatalities the war to 70, according to the ministry.
A U.S. Marine was killed and four others wounded by a roadside bomb Sunday in Ramadi, the capital of western Iraq's sprawling Al-Anbar province, the military reported Monday. The city has been an insurgent stronghold in the restive Sunni Triangle region. The latest American fatality brings the total U.S. death toll since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq to 1,121.
On Monday, a representative of the Arab-language TV network Al-Arabiya said that five of its Iraqi employees were killed in a car bombing outside its offices over the weekend. The Dubai-based network said Saturday it received an official statement from a little-known Iraqi militant group, the Twentieth Brigades, denying reports that it attacked the office. But earlier, an Islamist Web site published a statement in which the group allegedly took responsibility for Saturday's attack.
Amos Stevens
New Member
2 babies at age 56?
OF HUMAN INTEREST
2 babies at age 56? 'It was way worth it'
Star news services
November 11, 2004
NEW YORK -- America's oldest new mom of twins showed off her long-awaited newborn babes to the world Wednesday, beaming about the double gift of life she received before her 57th birthday.
Wearing a pink silk bathrobe, Aleta St. James choked up as she introduced her newborn son, 5-pound, 12-ounce Gian, and daughter, 5-pound, 2-ounce Francesca, at a news conference.
"This is the most incredible thing I've ever done in my life. This is a miracle that God blessed me with," she said.
St. James, who turns 57 Friday, delivered the twins by Caesarean section Tuesday morning at Mount Sinai Medical Center. They were conceived through in vitro fertilization using donor eggs.
"A lot of people may think I am selfish or crazy or whatever," St. James said Wednesday. "Well, I'm a little bit crazy. I've never lived in the box. I just say if you have a dream, if you put your mind to it and don't listen to other people's negativity, you can really do incredible things."
St. James is a motivational speaker who helped her brother, radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa, found the Guardian Angels in the 1970s.
The Manhattan single mom said she has the financial means to care for the twins, and has relatives and friends willing to help. She said she plans to continue to work.
"I'm in very good physical condition. I do emotional healing work. I knew I could do this," said St. James. "I knew I could give extraordinary things to these children."
The first-time mom has wanted a child all her life -- but said she was always too busy with her career and traveling to slow down for motherhood.
That all changed three years ago, when she started a grueling, $25,000 journey through fertility treatments, various medical procedures and countless doctor visits.
After an unsuccessful attempt at getting pregnant naturally, she turned to Mount Sinai gynecologist Dr. Jonathan Scher and Dr. Jane Miller, director of the North Hudson IVF, a fertility clinic in New Jersey.
"Of course I had concerns," said Miller, who added that St. James is the oldest patient she has ever worked with. "I am not an advocate of people this age getting pregnant. Just because it could be done doesn't mean it should be done."
But Miller said St. James sailed over all the qualifying factors -- stellar health, financial stability and a huge social support network. St. James was implanted with a donor egg that was fertilized by an ex-boyfriend.
As she prepared to share her children with the world at her news conference Wednesday morning, St. James told her family the experience had surpassed all expectations.
"It's just a different experience when you're bonding with the children outside the womb. You see their personalities. They're so good," said St. James, who will be about 70 when her kids start high school. "It was way worth it."
Knight Ridder Newspapers and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Copyright 2004 IndyStar.com.
OF HUMAN INTEREST
2 babies at age 56? 'It was way worth it'
Star news services
November 11, 2004
NEW YORK -- America's oldest new mom of twins showed off her long-awaited newborn babes to the world Wednesday, beaming about the double gift of life she received before her 57th birthday.
Wearing a pink silk bathrobe, Aleta St. James choked up as she introduced her newborn son, 5-pound, 12-ounce Gian, and daughter, 5-pound, 2-ounce Francesca, at a news conference.
"This is the most incredible thing I've ever done in my life. This is a miracle that God blessed me with," she said.
St. James, who turns 57 Friday, delivered the twins by Caesarean section Tuesday morning at Mount Sinai Medical Center. They were conceived through in vitro fertilization using donor eggs.
"A lot of people may think I am selfish or crazy or whatever," St. James said Wednesday. "Well, I'm a little bit crazy. I've never lived in the box. I just say if you have a dream, if you put your mind to it and don't listen to other people's negativity, you can really do incredible things."
St. James is a motivational speaker who helped her brother, radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa, found the Guardian Angels in the 1970s.
The Manhattan single mom said she has the financial means to care for the twins, and has relatives and friends willing to help. She said she plans to continue to work.
"I'm in very good physical condition. I do emotional healing work. I knew I could do this," said St. James. "I knew I could give extraordinary things to these children."
The first-time mom has wanted a child all her life -- but said she was always too busy with her career and traveling to slow down for motherhood.
That all changed three years ago, when she started a grueling, $25,000 journey through fertility treatments, various medical procedures and countless doctor visits.
After an unsuccessful attempt at getting pregnant naturally, she turned to Mount Sinai gynecologist Dr. Jonathan Scher and Dr. Jane Miller, director of the North Hudson IVF, a fertility clinic in New Jersey.
"Of course I had concerns," said Miller, who added that St. James is the oldest patient she has ever worked with. "I am not an advocate of people this age getting pregnant. Just because it could be done doesn't mean it should be done."
But Miller said St. James sailed over all the qualifying factors -- stellar health, financial stability and a huge social support network. St. James was implanted with a donor egg that was fertilized by an ex-boyfriend.
As she prepared to share her children with the world at her news conference Wednesday morning, St. James told her family the experience had surpassed all expectations.
"It's just a different experience when you're bonding with the children outside the womb. You see their personalities. They're so good," said St. James, who will be about 70 when her kids start high school. "It was way worth it."
Knight Ridder Newspapers and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Copyright 2004 IndyStar.com.
Jalu
Steve's Destiny
Man Tries To Convert Lions
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.
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“Jesus will save you!” shouted the 46-year-old man at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away.
“Come bite me!” he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.
One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns.
Newspapers said that the lions had been fed earlier in the day, otherwise the man might have been more seriously hurt ... or worse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6396422/
TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.
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“Jesus will save you!” shouted the 46-year-old man at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away.
“Come bite me!” he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.
One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns.
Newspapers said that the lions had been fed earlier in the day, otherwise the man might have been more seriously hurt ... or worse.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6396422/
Takes all kinds, eh? 
Is written down on Bible:
Don't tempt the Lord, your God !!
The man harvests what he sows !!
Well, is written down too !
However, Jesus is almighty to save what or who He wants, but...beasts are beasts...not necessary to be converted, LOL. They don't have soul !!! What a folishness !! Well done...the lion was right !!
Funny article !!
Good sleep Lion !!
Don't tempt the Lord, your God !!
The man harvests what he sows !!
Well, is written down too !
However, Jesus is almighty to save what or who He wants, but...beasts are beasts...not necessary to be converted, LOL. They don't have soul !!!
What a folishness !! Well done...the lion was right !!Funny article !!
Good sleep Lion !!
Attachments
Who can doubt about God's existence ??!!! 
Amos Stevens
New Member
Yeah I think I saw a glimpse of that idiot on the news sometime back...bon-appetite lions,ofcourse he might have something contagious & get the lions sick 
Amos Stevens
New Member
Police us stun gun on 6 year old
Police use stun gun on 6-year-old
Officials: Child was cutting himself with glass
Friday, November 12, 2004 Posted: 8:25 AM EST (1325
GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Police used a stun gun on a
6-year-old boy in his principal's office because he
was wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt
himself, officials said Thursday.
The boy, who was not identified, was shocked with
50,000 volts on October 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary
School.
Principal Maria Mason called 911 after the child broke
a picture frame in her office and waved a piece of
glass, holding a security guard back.
When two Miami-Dade County police officers and a
school officer arrived, the boy had already cut
himself under his eye and on his hand.
The officers talked to the boy without success. When
the boy cut his own leg, one officer shocked him with
a Taser and another grabbed him to prevent him from
falling, police said.
He was treated and taken to a hospital, where he was
committed for psychiatric evaluation.
"By using the Taser, we were able to stop the
situation, stop him from hurting himself," police
spokesman Juan DelCastillo told The Miami Herald.
The case was under review.
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Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
Police use stun gun on 6-year-old
Officials: Child was cutting himself with glass
Friday, November 12, 2004 Posted: 8:25 AM EST (1325
GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Police used a stun gun on a
6-year-old boy in his principal's office because he
was wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt
himself, officials said Thursday.
The boy, who was not identified, was shocked with
50,000 volts on October 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary
School.
Principal Maria Mason called 911 after the child broke
a picture frame in her office and waved a piece of
glass, holding a security guard back.
When two Miami-Dade County police officers and a
school officer arrived, the boy had already cut
himself under his eye and on his hand.
The officers talked to the boy without success. When
the boy cut his own leg, one officer shocked him with
a Taser and another grabbed him to prevent him from
falling, police said.
He was treated and taken to a hospital, where he was
committed for psychiatric evaluation.
"By using the Taser, we were able to stop the
situation, stop him from hurting himself," police
spokesman Juan DelCastillo told The Miami Herald.
The case was under review.
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Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
ORANGATUANG
Wildfire
That is just utterly ridicilous what would have happened if they killed the boy..i mean its obvious the boy has some problems but frying him with an taser is just bullsh.it..thanks for the news amos..please let us know what happens through out this case ok?..