August 31, 2005
James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, announced his candidacy for the the 48th district in Orange County California last week. As I covered in my entry on the story the Secretary of State Bruce McPherson denied Gilchrist the right ...
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Filed Under: California | Immigration | James Gilchrist | Minuteman Project | Politics
August 28, 2005
Nineteen members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang were indicted by federal authorities Thursday. For those keeping track one MS-13 gang leader on March 11, 2005 and another on March 29, 2005 ordered attacks on the Minuteman Project. On ...
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We awoke from the hell that was the Hualapai Lodge on day 3 and managed to get out by checkout time. The trend on the trip quickly became "get out quick before they charge us for another day". We loaded ...
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Filed Under: Cross Country 2005
This weeks poll is on whether you'd vote for James Gilchrist, Founder of the Minuteman Project, who has announced he's running for Congress. Vote now in the poll box on the navbar to your left. Your choices are: Yes No ...
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Last weeks poll was on whether you had driven across the United States. The results of the poll are in: % Yes, it was a nice enjoyable trip 48% No, but I plan to one day 25% Yes, it was ...
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August 27, 2005
Well, it depends on who you believe really. We're almost at 1 million hits on Sitemeter. The other two counters I use, Blogpatrol and Extreme Tracking, have it over 1 million. It's been 355 days since I reset them all ...
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James Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, has thrown his hat into the ring as an "American Independent" for the seat in Orange County being vacated by Rep. Chris Cox (R-CA) who accepted the job as SEC Chairman. Gilchrist ...
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Filed Under: California | Immigration | James Gilchrist | Minuteman Project | Politics
August 26, 2005
A prudent observer of world affairs will likely not find the following report surprising. Simply put, hundreds of attacks on computer networks owned by the U.S. Defense Department and other agencies have been launched from websites in China. From the ...
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August 23, 2005
As I mentioned in an earlier entry I attended the RIT tech Job Fair. So, I get this call the other day on my answering machine from one of the temp agencies "call us back and ask for anyone from ...
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August 21, 2005
After our first day enjoying things at the beach we got a later start on day 2 of our 12 day cross country trip than I had wanted to. We hit some rough rush hour traffic as we headed north ...
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After running around all morning gathering all the men together, we hit a hotel where the tuxes were waiting. We threw them on and then I had to swing over and grab the girls to head out to the location ...
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August 20, 2005
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) I'm no longer astonished by the level of depravity brought about by addictive drug usage. It just sickens me. From the Post-Gazette.com: Pittsburgh police patrolling the North Side early Tuesday stumbled across a twisted tale of interstate child ...
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August 18, 2005
This weeks poll is on whether you've taken -- or plan to take -- the grand roadtrip and driven across America. Vote now in the poll box on the navbar to your left. Your choices are: Yes, it was a ...
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Last weeks (actually months because I was a moving bastard) poll was on who the greatest American was. The results of the poll are in: % Ronald Reagan 27.2% George Washington 23.6% Abraham Lincoln 17.6% Martin Luther King Jr. 16.0% ...
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August 17, 2005
(Mexico City) According to a survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center, almost half of all Mexicans want to move to the United States. To be precise, 46 percent of the 1,200 Mexicans surveyed said they would high tail ...
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One of the fun things in my life is moving across the country without having a job awaiting me. It's such a risk taking thing to do and I'm a risky kind of guy. I went to the Rochester Institute ...
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August 16, 2005
Updating a previous report about the plane crash in Greece, Cypriot police raided the offices of Helios Airways to search for evidence of a "possible criminal offence" (sic). Apparently, there has been a history of complaints about the airline. A ...
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Outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, Cindy Sheehan probably won't be able to avoid the process server bringing divorce papers from her husband, Patrick Sheehan. According to the petition, it took over 28 years for him to decide that he didn't ...
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(Kabul, Afghanistan) According to Spanish military sources, 17 Spanish soldiers serving with NATO Forces have been killed in a helicopter crash in western Afghanistan. From News International Pakistan: Security officials in Afghanistan said two Pumas had collided about 10km (six ...
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(Caracas, Venezuela) A charter jet with 152 listed passengers crashed in remote western Venezuela sometime after 0300 local time today. According to Francisco Paz, president of the National Aviation Institute, the plane was owned by West Caribbean Airways and was ...
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August 13, 2005
I'll be making some posts on our recent 12 day cross country move from Sacramento, California to Rochester, New York via car. A car I might add that blew out it's A/C a few days before the trip and we ...
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Despite remaining in Beta since it's inception the infidel website The Jawa Report has managed to trick 2 million people into visiting the unfinished website. And I remember when Rusty was just a baby :( They grow up so fast! ...
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You remember the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a 26-year-old terrorist organization based in Mindanao that the Filipino government is in peace talks with. These fluffy little "Islamic Revolutionaries" have been caught red handed again plotting against Filipino allies. We ...
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Oh the joys of getting your cable installed, or not getting your cable installed as the case may be. Apparently setting up an appointment with a cable company isn't enough. They require you to sit around all week awaiting their ...
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August 11, 2005
(McMinnville, Tennessee) Last February, Centertown Elementary School teacher Pamela Rogers Turner, 27, was arrested and charged with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape of one of her students, a 13-year-old boy. ...
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In an apparent tragic series of events someone at UPS took joy in throwing my 60 LBS monitor around and cracked the hell out of the lower corner of the casing. I have no idea whether it works because I ...
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August 10, 2005
(Colorado Springs, CO) The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) whose chief is U.S. Adm. Timothy J. Keating has decided that the military jargon is insensitive to American Indians. Although there have been no complaints, Adm. Keating has banned the ...
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(Kathmandu, Nepal) More seasoned readers will remember Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as the cult guru who accumulated a fortune and thousands of dope-smoking, free-love followers at a compound outside The Dalles, Oregon. He's probably best known for his fleet of Rolls ...
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From The Seattle Times: When Green River killer Gary L. Ridgway was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003 for the murders of 48 Seattle-area women, four of his victims were identified only as "Jane Doe." Yesterday, more than 1-1/2 years ...
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August 09, 2005
(Saarbrucken, Germany) Good food, beautiful women, and really cold beer have been promised in the announcement that the first Hooters restaurant will open in Germany in October. From the Stars and Stripes: Sort of bad news: The well-known American sports ...
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August 08, 2005
(Logan, Utah) John Ray posts a report of a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) protest that backfired. KFC realized a significant increase in business when the PETA crowd was outside complaining about unhappy chickens. From KUTV.com: A ...
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August 06, 2005
Well we made it to New York in one piece after our 12 day journey across the US. Man, this country is huge. We added 4,850 miles to the car as we took a southern route through Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, ...
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August 05, 2005
From Reuters:Insurgents blew up a U.S. assault vehicle in western Iraq Wednesday, killing 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bomb attack against American forces since the war began. From WKYC.com:According to U.S. Central Command, 14 Marines ...
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August 01, 2005
(Colonie, NY) Police caught English teacher, Sandra "Beth" Geisel, 42, in the back seat of a car steaming up the windows with one of her students. At 17, the student was able to consent to sex with an adult according ...
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