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05-25-2005, 11:33 PM
Sex Offenders Given Free Viagra
By Tom Leonard in New York
The Telegraph - UK
5-24-5
Hundreds of sex offenders, including rapists and paedophiles, have received the sex drug Viagra free, a New York report says.
The state comptroller, Alan Hevesi, said that over the past five years 198 serious sex offenders in the state received the erectile-dysfunction drug after their convictions.
The revelation was condemned by Charles Schumer, a New York senator, who has called for legislation to block the prescriptions.
"Giving convicted sex offenders government-funded Viagra is like giving convicted murderers an assault rifle when they get out of jail.
Government officials said the blunder stemmed from a directive seven years ago that eligible men should be given Viagra. It omitted to exclude convicted sex offenders.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2005.
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xm.html (http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xm.html)
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Pentagon faked heroic death for icon shot by fellow Rangers
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 24/05/2005)
The parents of a former American football star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan yesterday accused the Pentagon of propagating a false account of his death to stir up patriotic fervour back home.
Pat Tillman became a national icon last year when it was reported that the sports superstar who had turned down a multi-million-dollar contract to join the army after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 had been killed by enemy fire.
Tillman: shot by men from of his own platoon
The account of his death on a barren hillside in Afghanistan was like a heroic, boys' comic story. He was said to have been charging up a hill to attack Islamist diehards, bellowing orders to fellow Rangers, when he was mown down in an ambush.
But as with another stirring tale of valour at war - that of Private Jessica Lynch, whose capture in the invasion of Iraq was fantastically embroidered by the authorities - the truth was much more prosaic. Tillman was shot dead by Rangers in his own platoon who mistook him for the enemy. Army investigators deemed it an act of "gross negligence".
His parents, who learned the truth weeks after a nationally televised memorial service, broke their silence yesterday, accusing the Pentagon of telling "outright lies" to his family and the nation.
"All the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this," his father, Patrick Tillman, a lawyer from San Jose, told the Washington Post. They "interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realised that their recruiting efforts were going to hell in a hand-basket if the truth about his death got out.''
Tillman's decision to drop his celebrity life in the Arizona Cardinals American football team to join up with his brother was a coup for the army's image and recruitment. But his death - coming as support for the Pentagon's post-September 11 record was falling along with enlistment levels - would have been a public relations disaster.
Soldiers at the scene knew instantly that Tillman was killed by American bullets as he sheltered behind a boulder. Gen John Abizaid, the American overall commander in the region, knew within days. But Tillman's fellow Rangers were told not to talk about it "to prevent rumours".
His mother, Mary, yesterday told the newspaper that the Bush administration capitalised on the false account to counter the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal then unfolding. "I think there's a lot more yet that we don't even know, or they wouldn't still be covering their tails.
"If this is what happens when someone high-profile dies, I can only imagine what happens with everyone else."
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Victory -- marijuana will remain legal in Alaska!
Dear Todd Brendan Fahey:
We did it! The Marijuana Policy Project and our allies in Alaska have successfully beaten back efforts to re-criminalize marijuana in Alaska. After months of round-the-clock lobbying and grassroots organizing, marijuana will remain safe and legal in Alaska.
We couldn't have done this without the help of our 17,000 dues-paying members. We spent $45,000 in Alaska to pay for a full-time lobbyist, two radio ads, and the generation of phone calls from constituents to their state legislators. And this doesn't count the cost of MPP staffers' time and overhead in our D.C. headquarters.
If you are one of the 115,000 subscribers on this e-mail list who have not yet donated to MPP this year, would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate2094 (http://www.mpp.org/donate2094) to contribute $10 or more today?
As you may know, last September the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling that allows adults aged 21 and older to use and possess up to four ounces of marijuana in the privacy of their homes -- and not just for medical use. The MPP grants program funded this litigation.
A few months ago, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) declared that re-criminalizing marijuana would be one of his top legislative priorities this year. At his urging, the state legislature introduced twin bills to impose the same penalty for the possession of four ounces of marijuana as for incest -- five years in prison!...
MPP fought back. Working with Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control, we funded radio ads -- which you can hear at http://regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/ads/index.html (http://regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/ads/index.html) -- slamming the bills, called thousands of Alaska voters to get them to complain to their legislators, and, with the help of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union, lined up experts to testify before key committees. And we succeeded at ensuring that all newspapers in the state covered this public outcry.
At the start of this campaign, political observers said we wouldn't even be able to amend the legislation. But we did better than that -- we killed the bills completely.
After four months of hand-to-hand combat, the state legislature adjourned for the year without even coming close to passing the legislation. And, when the governor called the legislature back into session for the summer, he decided against putting the bad marijuana legislation on the legislature's docket.
We won, against all odds, because MPP, Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control, and the ACLU have been focused, aggressive, and professional -- and because we had the money to fight the fight that needed fighting.
Would you please show your support for our work by visiting http://www.mpp.org/donate2094 (http://www.mpp.org/donate2094) to make a donation to MPP? We need supporters like you to stand with us in our fight -- and, as our victory in Alaska shows, it's a fight that we can win.
Sincerely, Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2431 (http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2431)
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Class Dissection Of Live Dog Outrages Parents, Students
Student: 'It Just Makes Me Sick...'
A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.
Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.
Bjerregaard made arrangements for his students to be a part of a dissection of a dog that was still alive.
The dog was still alive, but the teacher said it was sedated before the dissection began.
With the students watching, the sedated dog's digestive system was removed.
"It just makes me sick and I don't think this should go on anywhere and nobody's learning from it," student Sierra Sears said.
The teacher said the lesson would allow students to see the organs actually working.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Bierregaard said.
The school's principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog's organs still functioning.
The teacher is standing by his decision and calls it the ultimate educational experience.
Principal Anderson said he supports the lesson and it will be allowed to continue because the students are learning.
The dog used in the experiment was going to be euthanized despite the class project.
http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html (http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html)
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Nickelodeon tells kids; Alamo fought for slavery
Children's TV show says Texans died to preserve human bondage
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Most Americans believe the 189 Texans who died at the Alamo in 1836 were fighting for independence and liberty, but Nickelodeon, the award winning television network for children, is telling kids that Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and all the rest were actually fighting to defend slavery.
In a short "Nick News Bump," currently being broadcast, the kids network features the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, site of the battle between a small group of Texans and a large Mexican army under Gen. Santa Ana, "the Napoleon of the West," as he described himself. The Texans, who had taken refuge in the mission known as the Alamo, were killed in fighting that followed a 13-day seige, and their bodies were burned. Mexican losses are estimated to have been around 1,600.
The heroic resistance and loss of life made the Alamo the "cradle of Texas liberty" to most Americans, but that's not the story Nickelodeon tells.
A teenage Hispanic girl provides the voice over as she walks in front of the Alamo:
My name is Salviola. I'm from San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo is in my backyard.
In 1718, the mission of San Antonio de la Valero was established. The church structure is still standing today and it is known as the Alamo.
The battle for the Alamo is often remembered as a rebellion of a small group of brave Texas farmers fighting against the Mexican army. What you may not know is that at the time, Texas was part of Mexico.
By the early 1800s, a lot of people living in San Antonio were farmers who brought their slaves with them. In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery and what followed was years of conflict between farmers who wanted to keep their slaves and Mexican authorities. This conflict led up to the battle for the Alamo.
In the end, Gen. Santa Ana and 5,000 Mexican soldiers surrounded the Alamo and all the defenders of the mission were killed.
So, when you remember the Alamo, think about the soldiers, the battle and the true story behind it.
Nickelodeon is not the first to revise the history of the Alamo.
Last year, Disney released "The Alamo" at a cost of $100 million a film criticized for its political correctness, as WorldNetDaily reported.
"The movie reads more like a Disney fairy tale and promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying a traditional American hero," said B. Forrest Clayton of Freedom Alliance, who reviewed the script.
Despite several historical witnesses who told of Davy Crockett being killed fighting, in the thick of combat during the battle, Clayton noted that Disney portrayed Crockett as a "frightened wanderer" who wanted to escape "over the wall" in the dark of night during the historic struggle.
Disney also portrayed Gen. Sam Houston as a "venereal-diseased drunkard" and Col. William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a "deadbeat dad and serial adulterer."
In addition, charged the Freedom Alliance, Col. James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife-fighting skills, was portrayed as a land-swindling slave trader.
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30 AMAZING facts about the IRS that will blow you away!
http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm (http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm)
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U.S. Pharmasists is most states are legally allowed to deny prescriptions if they are "morally against" the use of the drug the prescription is for. (Can you say; Birth Control!)
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Ann Coulter's ideal for a new bumper sticker; "Newsmagazines don't kill people. Muslims kill people."
By Tom Leonard in New York
The Telegraph - UK
5-24-5
Hundreds of sex offenders, including rapists and paedophiles, have received the sex drug Viagra free, a New York report says.
The state comptroller, Alan Hevesi, said that over the past five years 198 serious sex offenders in the state received the erectile-dysfunction drug after their convictions.
The revelation was condemned by Charles Schumer, a New York senator, who has called for legislation to block the prescriptions.
"Giving convicted sex offenders government-funded Viagra is like giving convicted murderers an assault rifle when they get out of jail.
Government officials said the blunder stemmed from a directive seven years ago that eligible men should be given Viagra. It omitted to exclude convicted sex offenders.
© Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2005.
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xm.html (http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xm.html)
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Pentagon faked heroic death for icon shot by fellow Rangers
By Alec Russell in Washington
(Filed: 24/05/2005)
The parents of a former American football star killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan yesterday accused the Pentagon of propagating a false account of his death to stir up patriotic fervour back home.
Pat Tillman became a national icon last year when it was reported that the sports superstar who had turned down a multi-million-dollar contract to join the army after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 had been killed by enemy fire.
Tillman: shot by men from of his own platoon
The account of his death on a barren hillside in Afghanistan was like a heroic, boys' comic story. He was said to have been charging up a hill to attack Islamist diehards, bellowing orders to fellow Rangers, when he was mown down in an ambush.
But as with another stirring tale of valour at war - that of Private Jessica Lynch, whose capture in the invasion of Iraq was fantastically embroidered by the authorities - the truth was much more prosaic. Tillman was shot dead by Rangers in his own platoon who mistook him for the enemy. Army investigators deemed it an act of "gross negligence".
His parents, who learned the truth weeks after a nationally televised memorial service, broke their silence yesterday, accusing the Pentagon of telling "outright lies" to his family and the nation.
"All the people in positions of authority went out of their way to script this," his father, Patrick Tillman, a lawyer from San Jose, told the Washington Post. They "interfered with the investigation, they covered it up. I think they thought they could control it, and they realised that their recruiting efforts were going to hell in a hand-basket if the truth about his death got out.''
Tillman's decision to drop his celebrity life in the Arizona Cardinals American football team to join up with his brother was a coup for the army's image and recruitment. But his death - coming as support for the Pentagon's post-September 11 record was falling along with enlistment levels - would have been a public relations disaster.
Soldiers at the scene knew instantly that Tillman was killed by American bullets as he sheltered behind a boulder. Gen John Abizaid, the American overall commander in the region, knew within days. But Tillman's fellow Rangers were told not to talk about it "to prevent rumours".
His mother, Mary, yesterday told the newspaper that the Bush administration capitalised on the false account to counter the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal then unfolding. "I think there's a lot more yet that we don't even know, or they wouldn't still be covering their tails.
"If this is what happens when someone high-profile dies, I can only imagine what happens with everyone else."
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/24/wtill24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/24/ixworld.html (http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/24/wtill24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/24/ixworld.html)
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Victory -- marijuana will remain legal in Alaska!
Dear Todd Brendan Fahey:
We did it! The Marijuana Policy Project and our allies in Alaska have successfully beaten back efforts to re-criminalize marijuana in Alaska. After months of round-the-clock lobbying and grassroots organizing, marijuana will remain safe and legal in Alaska.
We couldn't have done this without the help of our 17,000 dues-paying members. We spent $45,000 in Alaska to pay for a full-time lobbyist, two radio ads, and the generation of phone calls from constituents to their state legislators. And this doesn't count the cost of MPP staffers' time and overhead in our D.C. headquarters.
If you are one of the 115,000 subscribers on this e-mail list who have not yet donated to MPP this year, would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate2094 (http://www.mpp.org/donate2094) to contribute $10 or more today?
As you may know, last September the Alaska Supreme Court upheld a previous ruling that allows adults aged 21 and older to use and possess up to four ounces of marijuana in the privacy of their homes -- and not just for medical use. The MPP grants program funded this litigation.
A few months ago, Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) declared that re-criminalizing marijuana would be one of his top legislative priorities this year. At his urging, the state legislature introduced twin bills to impose the same penalty for the possession of four ounces of marijuana as for incest -- five years in prison!...
MPP fought back. Working with Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control, we funded radio ads -- which you can hear at http://regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/ads/index.html (http://regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/ads/index.html) -- slamming the bills, called thousands of Alaska voters to get them to complain to their legislators, and, with the help of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union, lined up experts to testify before key committees. And we succeeded at ensuring that all newspapers in the state covered this public outcry.
At the start of this campaign, political observers said we wouldn't even be able to amend the legislation. But we did better than that -- we killed the bills completely.
After four months of hand-to-hand combat, the state legislature adjourned for the year without even coming close to passing the legislation. And, when the governor called the legislature back into session for the summer, he decided against putting the bad marijuana legislation on the legislature's docket.
We won, against all odds, because MPP, Alaskans for Marijuana Regulation and Control, and the ACLU have been focused, aggressive, and professional -- and because we had the money to fight the fight that needed fighting.
Would you please show your support for our work by visiting http://www.mpp.org/donate2094 (http://www.mpp.org/donate2094) to make a donation to MPP? We need supporters like you to stand with us in our fight -- and, as our victory in Alaska shows, it's a fight that we can win.
Sincerely, Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2431 (http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2431)
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Class Dissection Of Live Dog Outrages Parents, Students
Student: 'It Just Makes Me Sick...'
A biology class lesson in Gunnison, Utah involving the dissection of a live dog has outraged some parents and students, according to a report.
Biology teacher Doug Bjerregaard, who is a substitute teacher at Gunnison Valley High School, wanted his students to see how the digestive system of a dog worked.
Bjerregaard made arrangements for his students to be a part of a dissection of a dog that was still alive.
The dog was still alive, but the teacher said it was sedated before the dissection began.
With the students watching, the sedated dog's digestive system was removed.
"It just makes me sick and I don't think this should go on anywhere and nobody's learning from it," student Sierra Sears said.
The teacher said the lesson would allow students to see the organs actually working.
"I thought that it would be just really a good experience if they could see the digestive system in the living animal," Bierregaard said.
The school's principal, Kirk Anderson, said notifications went to parents explaining the dog was going to be euthanized and that the experiment would be done with the dog's organs still functioning.
The teacher is standing by his decision and calls it the ultimate educational experience.
Principal Anderson said he supports the lesson and it will be allowed to continue because the students are learning.
The dog used in the experiment was going to be euthanized despite the class project.
http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html (http://www.local6.com/news/4480144/detail.html)
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Nickelodeon tells kids; Alamo fought for slavery
Children's TV show says Texans died to preserve human bondage
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Most Americans believe the 189 Texans who died at the Alamo in 1836 were fighting for independence and liberty, but Nickelodeon, the award winning television network for children, is telling kids that Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and all the rest were actually fighting to defend slavery.
In a short "Nick News Bump," currently being broadcast, the kids network features the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, site of the battle between a small group of Texans and a large Mexican army under Gen. Santa Ana, "the Napoleon of the West," as he described himself. The Texans, who had taken refuge in the mission known as the Alamo, were killed in fighting that followed a 13-day seige, and their bodies were burned. Mexican losses are estimated to have been around 1,600.
The heroic resistance and loss of life made the Alamo the "cradle of Texas liberty" to most Americans, but that's not the story Nickelodeon tells.
A teenage Hispanic girl provides the voice over as she walks in front of the Alamo:
My name is Salviola. I'm from San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo is in my backyard.
In 1718, the mission of San Antonio de la Valero was established. The church structure is still standing today and it is known as the Alamo.
The battle for the Alamo is often remembered as a rebellion of a small group of brave Texas farmers fighting against the Mexican army. What you may not know is that at the time, Texas was part of Mexico.
By the early 1800s, a lot of people living in San Antonio were farmers who brought their slaves with them. In 1829, Mexico abolished slavery and what followed was years of conflict between farmers who wanted to keep their slaves and Mexican authorities. This conflict led up to the battle for the Alamo.
In the end, Gen. Santa Ana and 5,000 Mexican soldiers surrounded the Alamo and all the defenders of the mission were killed.
So, when you remember the Alamo, think about the soldiers, the battle and the true story behind it.
Nickelodeon is not the first to revise the history of the Alamo.
Last year, Disney released "The Alamo" at a cost of $100 million a film criticized for its political correctness, as WorldNetDaily reported.
"The movie reads more like a Disney fairy tale and promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying a traditional American hero," said B. Forrest Clayton of Freedom Alliance, who reviewed the script.
Despite several historical witnesses who told of Davy Crockett being killed fighting, in the thick of combat during the battle, Clayton noted that Disney portrayed Crockett as a "frightened wanderer" who wanted to escape "over the wall" in the dark of night during the historic struggle.
Disney also portrayed Gen. Sam Houston as a "venereal-diseased drunkard" and Col. William Barret Travis, commander of Texan forces at the Alamo, as a "deadbeat dad and serial adulterer."
In addition, charged the Freedom Alliance, Col. James Bowie, the Alamo defender famous for his knife-fighting skills, was portrayed as a land-swindling slave trader.
=============================================
30 AMAZING facts about the IRS that will blow you away!
http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm (http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm)
==============================================
U.S. Pharmasists is most states are legally allowed to deny prescriptions if they are "morally against" the use of the drug the prescription is for. (Can you say; Birth Control!)
==============================================
Ann Coulter's ideal for a new bumper sticker; "Newsmagazines don't kill people. Muslims kill people."