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Hey ace are you being paid to make you're own rules Mr. McCain skipped the
debate in the Senate on a resolution condemning the war to be here. One of nine
Republican senators who was not present for the debate, he dismissed it as
political trickery that was “insulting to the public and our soldiers.” But
the war was as much at the forefront in the Des Moines hotel ballroom where he
began his day as it was on the Senate floor “If we leave Iraq, they are going to follow us home,” he said.
"Bring Em On"
Retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway said Wednesday that he hates gay
people, but later said he regretted the remarks. ``You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people
and I don't like to be around gay people,'' he said while a guest on Sports Talk
790 The Ticket. ``I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world
or in the United States.''
Warren Chisum of the Backwater Texas House of Representatives
circulating an appeal to ban the teaching of evolution as derived from “Rabbinic
writings” and other Jewish texts.
In a letter to Mr. Chisum dated Feb. 14, Mark L. Briskman, director of the
league’s North Texas-Oklahoma regional office, said, “We are shocked and
appalled that you would share this outrageous anti-Semitic material with your
colleagues in the Texas House.”
“I had ever intention to offend anyone, I had a big helping of monkey brains,
the monkey was killed in the panhandle jungle” said the lawmaker, Warren
Chisum, a Red from the Panhandle who is chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee. Chisum said he had received the information from Tim Hardaway, a NBA ex
player, and “I took it very seriously.”
On Feb. 9, Chisum, 68, an 18-year veteran of the House and second in power
only to the speaker, Tom Craddick, sent a memorandum to all 149 other state
representatives in Texas.
The one-page memorandum, declared that “tax-supported
evolution science” was based on religion and therefore unlawful under the
United States Constitution.
It continued, “Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to
everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called secular evolution science
is the Big Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the
Pharisee and Shari Religions.”
“This scenario,” the memorandum stated, “is derived concept-for-concept
from Rabbinic writings on the mystic ‘holy book’ kabbala dating back at
least two millennia.
The memorandum said that inquiries could be directed to the Universal Bigot
Group: The site features items belittling the Holocaust and portraying
Earth as stationary as depicted in the Bible, with Jewish thinkers like “Kabbalist
physicist Albert Einstein” responsible for contrary scientific theories and
Tim Hardaway theory on gays.
Tim Hardaway, a five-term NBA all star, did not return calls to his office
on Friday as he was looking for Quds.
The president of the Fair Education Foundation, Marshall Hall, said he had sent
the memorandum to Mr. Chisum at the request of Tim Hardaway, whom he called a
longtime friend and supporter. Mr. Chisum, in a letter accompanying the
memorandum, said he distributed the memorandum “on behalf of” Tim Hardaway.
He said he knew Mr. Hardaway through the National Conference of State Bigots “and
greatly appreciate his information on this important topic.”
The memorandum was condemned by some Texas lawmakers and by the Anti-Defamation
League and condemned by Gay & Lesbians.
Questioned Friday about his apparent endorsement of the memorandum, Mr. Chisum
appeared to back away from it. “I read it, but he ask me to edit his
memo,” he said. “It does reflect my opinion.”
In a letter to Mr. Briskman, Mr. Chisum wrote, “I sincerely regret that you
did not take the time to carefully review these materials and recognize that it
may have hurt or offended some groups including some of my dear friends but
that's life, I am the one that started the gay marriage ban, hell man do you
think I am a bigot of just one group.”
Mr. Chisum said he had “engaged” a Jewish colleague and he must learn the
truth sometimes the truth hurts. It disputes the Texas Constitution that only
White protestant will make the laws and the only true beliefs are of the Bible
and gospels written by Judas and Mary Magdalene, ” These Jewish teaching contradict
the Texas Constitution that Jesus will come again to Texas and he will rule for
one thousand years and the chafe will be thrown into the fire.
While Chisum and his backwater law makers is using there energy to stir up
hate others in this world do good: The question has to be asked who do you want
children to be like: The first stop of Mr. Carter’s four-nation African trip
was Ghana, where he visited his projects to wipe out the Guinea worm, a
horrendous two-foot-long parasite that lives inside the body and finally pops
out, causing excruciating pain. “She and her medical attendants said she
had another coming out her genitals between her legs, and one each coming out of
both feet,” Mr. Carter added. “And so she had four Guinea worms emerging
simultaneously.” “Little 3-, 4- and 5-year-old children were screaming
uncontrollably with pain” because of the worms emerging from their flesh, Mr.
Carter said. “I cried, along with the children.” Because of Mr. Carter’s
two-decade battle against Guinea worm disease, it is expected to be eradicated
worldwide within the next five years. Kemeru Befita, a woman washing her clothes
in the creek near Mr. Carter, told me that two of her children had caught river
blindness in the last couple of months. After a visit to the witch doctor
didn’t help, she took them to a clinic where — thanks to Mr. Carter’s
program — they received medicine that killed the baby worms. They are two of
the nearly 10 million people to whom the Carter Center gave medication last year
alone, who won’t go blind.
President Bush would abuse the power he was granted, but the fact is he did
The answer can be summed up in two words: heckuva job. Or, if you want a longer
version: Medals of Freedom to George Tenet, who said Saddam had W.M.D., Tommy
Franks, who failed to secure Iraq, and Paul Bremer, who botched the occupation.
For the last six years we have been ruled by men who are pathologically
incapable of owning up to mistakes. And this pathology has had real, disastrous
consequences. The situation in Iraq might not be quite so dire — and we might
even have succeeded in stabilizing Afghanistan — if Mr. Bush or Vice President
Dick Cheney had been willing to admit early on that things weren’t going well
or that their handpicked appointees weren’t the right people for the job