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    Alexander is a city in Franklin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 165 at the 2000 census. Alexander is located at 42°48′17″N, 93°28′39″W (42.804760, -93.477395). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.3 square miles (11.1 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 165 people, 79 households, and 48 families residing in the city. The population density was 38.6 people per square mile (14.9/km²). There were 88 housing units at an average density of 20.6/sq mi (7.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.36% White, 3.64% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.64% of the population. There were 79 households out of which 24.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.7% were married couples living together, 3.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.0% were non-families. 35.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 27.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.09 and the average family size was 2.59. In the city the population was spread out with 17.0% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25

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    • Franklin County
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    • Central Time zone

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    • 11.1369488744 km squared

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    What type of bridges, tunnels, and viaducts did Archie Alexander build?
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    Archie Alexander was an African American mathematican and engineer and the first Afirican American to graduate the University of Iowa . He was also the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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    Archie A. Alexander Born in Ottumau, Iowa in 1888, Archie A. Alexander attended the University of Iowa, receiving a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering in 1912. In addition to his scholastic achievements at the University, Alexander distinguished himself as an outstanding linesman, earning the name "Alexander the Great." Following graduation, Alexander became a design engineer for a Des Moines bridge company. In 1914 he formed his own engineering firm, which operated until 1929. In that year, he and a former classmate joined forces and formed the engineering firm of Alexander and Repass, a business which ultimately became highly respected in engineering and architectural circles. Among their many achievements, Alexander and Repass built the Tidal Basin Bridge in Washington, DC, an airfield in Alabama, a million dollar sewage disposal plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a number of roads and bridges throughout the east and west. The height of Alexander's career was reached when he was appointed to the post of Territorial Governor of the American Virgin Islands in 1954. Unfortunately, failing health forced him to resign, and he died in 1958.

    Alexander and Ellerine Leines and family in Story County IA, 1869-1879?
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    A daughter of theirs wrote: "Alexander Nilson Leines and Ellerine Dorothea Johaneson were married June 1869 in Norway, and arrived in America on June 16, 1869, and settled in Story County, Iowa. They had left Norway for America to where Alexander's half brother Brygman lived in Iowa. Brygman was ill and died shortly before they arrived. Alexander and Ellerine lived with the Oakland family near Randall, Iowa until they rented a farm of their own. They lived in Iowa ten years. Six children were born in Iowa: Nelsine (1870 - died within a year of her birth), Jens Christian (12/3/1871), Nils Brygman (8/27/1873), Emily Olive (4/13/1873), Anna (1877), and Kaia Christine (1/15/1879)." I know that Randall is in Hamilton County, and that it's not far from Story County... but after walking graveyards and speaking with the county recorders and cemetery sextons in the area, I've been unable to find any documentable proof of their 10 years in Iowa, or of his half-brother Brygman's life or death. My Census and property record searches have also come up empty, and birth records don't go back that far. I haven't found a ship manifest with Alexander and Ellerine, either! Any ideas/help would be much appreciated! Thanks! Oh my gosh, Sidney! You cracked the code! Now it seems so obvious, but I was stumped for years! I don't believe the record you found was quite the right one, the "Sweden" birthplaces and the number of kids and their names weren't right, or even close. BUT you led me to search differently, and I believe I found them!: 1870 United States Federal Census about Alex Nelson Name: Alex Nelson Estimated Birth Year: abt 1836 Age in 1870: 34 Birthplace: Norway Home in 1870: Howard, Story, Iowa Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Image Post Office: Nevada Household Members: Name Age Knudt Oleson 41 Isabelle Oleson 33 Albert Oleson 6 Caroline Oleson 7 Ole Oleson 4 Betsey Oleson 12 Alex Nelson 34 Ellomex Nelson 21 Nelson Nelson 1/12 (female) Christina Oleson 2/12 Thank you SOOOOO much for expanding my horizons!

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    Could this be your family? I am guessing that your Alexander's father's name was Nils, therefore Alexander would be Nilson or son of Nils. No explanation for his wife's name/names unless he was married more than once. Immigrants often didn't know the English spellings of their names, and the census takers made mistakes, so there are numerous mistakes on census records. If this is your family I assume the Sweden bithplace was a mistake by the census taker. Alaxander Nilson, 44 born Sweden, 1870, Huron, Des Moines, IA. farmer. Greta E. 40 Sweden Anna 15 Emma 10 John A. 5 Matilda J. 1 Solomon and August Carlson farmhands All born Sweden Also in Shirley, Polk Co., MN. 1880 Census Alexander Nilson, 55, born Norway, farmer (Gale?) G. wife, 50, Norway Thore 18 Norway (Shrine?) G. daughter, 15 Norway Christine 12 Norway Anna 6, born MN. I am so glad I could help. Over the years I have learned to check every spelling I can think of, but I hadn't thought of trying Nelson. I am so glad you did.

    how do you feel about republicans that took money from abramoff?
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    ohh, and these guys: Patty Murray (D-Wash) - $40,980 Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) - $32,000 Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI) - $31,000 Harry Reid (D-Nev) - $30,500 Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND) - $28,000 Tom Daschle (D-SD) - $26,500 Brad R. Carson (D-Okla) - $18,300 Chris John (D-La) - $15,000 Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) - $14,500 John Breaux (D-La) - $13,750 Mary L. Landrieu (D-La) - $11,500 Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md) - $11,000 Dale E. Kildee (D-Mich) - $10,500 Barney Frank (D-Mass) - $9,000 Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo) - $9,000 Max Baucus (D-Mont) - $9,000 Peter Deutsch (D-Fla) - $8,500 Dick Durbin (D-Ill) - $8,000 Frank Pallone, Jr (D-NJ) - $6,000 Nick Rahall (D-WVa) - $6,000 Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) - $5,000 Fritz Hollings (D-SC) - $5,000 Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md) - $5,000 Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) - $5,000 Deborah Ann Stabenow (D-Mich) - $5,000 Xavier Becerra (D-Calif) - $4,523 Tim Johnson (D-SD) - $4,250 Kent Conrad (D-ND) - $4,000 Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) - $3,000 Kalyn Cherie Free (D-Okla) - $3,000 Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) - $3,000 Richard M. Romero (D-NM) - $3,000 Ed Pastor (D-Ariz) - $3,000 John B. Larson (D-Conn) - $3,000 James L. Oberstar (D-Minn) - $3,000 Brad Sherman (D-Calif) - $3,000 Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) - $2,500 Max Cleland (D-Ga) - $2,500 Gene Taylor (D-Miss) - $2,250 Doug Dodd (D-Okla) - $2,000 Jay Inslee (D-Wash) - $2,000 John D. Dingell (D-Mich) - $2,000 Joe Baca (D-Calif) - $2,000 Carl Levin (D-Mich) - $2,000 C. L. "Butch" Otter (R-Idaho) - $2,000 Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) - $2,000 Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss) - $2,000 Robert Menendez (D-NJ) - $2,000 Robert T. Matsui (D-Calif) - $2,000 Rodney Alexander (D-La) - $2,000 Sander Levin (D-Mich) - $2,000 Ron Kind (D-Wis) - $2,000 Ronnie Shows (D-Miss) - $2,000 Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn) - $2,000 Willie Landry Mount (D-La) - $2,000 Tom Carper (D-Del) - $2,000 Thomas P. Keefe Jr. (D-Wash) - $2,000 Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) - $2,000 Maxine Waters (D-Calif) - $2,000 Ned Doucet (D-La) - $2,000 John Neely Kennedy (D-La) - $2,000 Lane Evans (D-Ill) - $2,000 Norm Dicks (D-Wash) - $1,500 Rick Weiland (D-SD) - $1,000 Ron Wyden (D-Ore) - $1,000 Tim Holden (D-Pa) - $1,000 William J. Jefferson (D-La) - $1,000 Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) - $1,000 Paul Wellstone (D-Minn) - $1,000 Pete Stark (D-Calif) - $1,000 Peter DeFazio (D-Ore) - $1,000 Mike Thompson (D-Calif) - $1,000 David Phelps (D-Ill) - $1,000 Derrick B. Watchman (D-Ariz) - $1,000 Charles S. Robb (D-Va) - $1,000 Bill Luther (D-Minn) - $1,000 Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) - $1,000 Brian David Schweitzer (D-Mont) - $1,000 Charles J. Melancon (D-La) - $1,000 Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) - $1,000 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) - $1,000 Gloria Tristani (D-NM) - $1,000 Grace Napolitano (D-Calif) - $1,000 Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) - $1,000 Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif) - $1,000 Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) - $1,000 Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) - $500 John Kerry (D-Mass) - $500 Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif) - $500 Shelley Berkley (D-Nev) - $500

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    Treasure the silence. :0) Harry Reid is pretty high up on the list.

    Religious cause dead in more children
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    Colorado Children's Deaths Rekindle Debate on Religion By MICHAEL JANOFSKY ENVER, Feb. 20 — The deaths over the last two years of three Colorado children whose parents denied them medical treatment on religious grounds has fueled support for state legislation that would prevent parents from using their religion as a defense against prosecution. The parents of all three children belong to the General Assembly and Church of the First Born, a small denomination that believes in prayer, rather than medical treatment, to cure illnesses and disabilities. Largely as a result of intense lobbying by the Church of Christ, Scientist, which also favors prayer over medicine, Colorado and 45 other states have statutes that allow parents to use their religious beliefs as a defense against prosecution for withholding medical treatment from their children. The exceptions are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Nebraska and North Carolina. But with evidence that dozens of other children of parents with similar beliefs may have died in the last 25 years in Colorado, this state has become one of the first to consider eliminating the religious exemption, which its opponents say sanctifies a form of child abuse. The effort has rekindled a debate here, pitting religious freedom against the rights of children. "I don't think freedom of religion should allow a child to die for not getting proper medical care," said State Senator Bob Hagedorn, a Democrat who is leading support in the Senate for a bill now under review in the House. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that parents do not have an absolute right to deny their children medical treatment on religious grounds, saying in a 1944 decision that while parents "may be free to become martyrs themselves," "it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children." The court reprised the same thought in a 1990 case. But legal experts say that state and local officials have not seen the Supreme Court language as a clear directive for prosecution of child abuse and homicide cases. Congress did little to clarify the issue with a 1974 directive that required states receiving federal money for child abuse and prevention programs to have an exemption for parents who substitute spiritual healing for medical care. The requirement was rescinded nine years later, but by then, most states had enacted their religious exceptions, which effectively allow parents to treat ailing children through prayer without fear of prosecution if something goes wrong. Then in 1996, Congress seemed to reverse itself in the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, saying there was no federal requirement that a child must be provided "any medical service or treatment against the religious beliefs of the parent or legal guardian." In Colorado, for example, prosecutors have always been able to bring civil charges against parents who deny their children medical help under state civil laws. But few have, said State Representative Kay L. Alexander, the House Republican sponsoring the measure, which was approved 8 to 3 by the Criminal Justice Committee. Ms. Alexander said the exemption in the criminal code "has had a chilling effect" on local district attorneys. Leaders from many of the dozens of churches that favor prayer over treatment say they have ample proof their spiritual healing works as effectively as a visit to a doctor. Marvin Peterson, an elder of the church to which the families of the three dead children belong, said a member recently fell off a ladder and cracked open her skull. After elders prayed and anointed her with oil, he said, she recovered. "I've seen people healed of cancer, seen it with my own eyes," Mr. Peterson said, taking strong exception to critics who characterize the church as a cult. "We believe that if it's the Lord's will, you will rise up." While few critics of Mr. Peterson's church and other like-minded denominations argue with the right of parents to choose the manner of treatment for themselves, they assert that children have constitutional guarantees to medical care. For years, Rita Swan has been one of the leading voices on their behalf as founder of Children's Health Care Is a Legal Duty, an organization based in Sioux City, Iowa, that lobbies for removing the state exemptions. Once a Christian Scientist, Mrs. Swan said that in 1977 a church "practitioner" — a member who is paid to pray — told her and her husband after several weeks of prayer that their 17-month-old son, Matthew, was suffering from a broken bone. Since Christian Scientists are allowed to consult doctors for broken bones, the Swans took Matthew to a hospital, only to learn he was suffering from spinal meningitis. He died a week later. Mrs. Swan and Dr. Seth M. Asser, a pediatrician in San Diego, released a study in 1998 that found 172 cases of children dying between 1975 and 1995, more than 30 of them in Colorado, after their parents failed to get them medical treatment on religious grounds. Mr. Peterson responded, "Children also die in hospitals every day." Prosecutors have been loath to bring charges in many cases because of the ambiguities of the law and what they say are well-intentioned actions of parents whose religious beliefs are so strong that they prefer to put their children in the hands of God, rather than a doctor. Frank Daniel, the Mesa County district attorney, had jurisdiction in the cases of the three Colorado children who died. He won a conviction for criminally negligent child abuse, a felony, in 1999 against the parents of an 18-day-old infant who died of meningitis. He declined to prosecute the parents of a 3-day-old infant who died of a heart defect. He said today that he had yet decided what to do in the latest case, involving Amanda Bates, a 13-year-old girl who died of complications of diabetes two weeks ago. The county coroner, Robert Kurtzman, ruled her death a homicide. Copyright February 21, 2001 The New York Times Company Also see Religious cult won't acknowledge Child! Killing Children over religion Sullivan County Tennessee Exposed Homepage Terrorism Guestbook E-Mail Visitors since March 2002

    Answer:
    These mind control cults are just like the cigarette companies. They know that if they can get you when you are young (vulnerable and impressionable) they will most likely have you for the rest of your life. On the other hand, if you can make it to adulthood without falling into one of their traps then you most likely never will. Perhaps we need some laws on the books to make indoctrinating anyone under 18 years of age into one of these mind control cults a form of child abuse.

    Yahoo! 2006 Mail Grant Prize WinnersYahoo! Netrospective: Is this mail prize grant authentic?

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    Good gravy no. It's a total crock. Delete and move on.

    Why did Clinton pardon these people.?

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    All presidents pardon people including Bush who has pardoned rapist. Most presidents, including Clinton, never gave a pardon or anything else, to a person from his staff that was convicted of making false statements and Obstruction of justice! Clinton didn't even know the people, much less have him be a member of the white house staff! We know who leaked the name anyway. It was George Bush! The only one I can recall is when Ford pardoned Nixon, and that cost him a presidency! Lets see how many people Bush pardons his last day's in office!

    Senators who voted yea(yes) for amnesty should be dealt with at ballot box?
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    6/26/07 Cloture vote details Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shelby (R-AL), Nay Alaska: Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Colorado: Allard (R-CO), Nay Salazar (D-CO), Yea Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Yea Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea Delaware: Biden (D-DE), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Florida: Martinez (R-FL), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Nay Isakson (R-GA), Nay Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Idaho: Craig (R-ID), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Nay Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Obama (D-IL), Yea Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Nay Lugar (R-IN), Yea Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Nay Harkin (D-IA), Yea Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Nay Kentucky: Bunning (R-KY), Nay McConnell (R-KY), Yea Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Nay Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Yea Maryland: Cardin (D-MD), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Nay Minnesota: Coleman (R-MN), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Nay Lott (R-MS), Yea Missouri: Bond (R-MO), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Nay Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay Nebraska: Hagel (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea New Hampshire: Gregg (R-NH), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Nay New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Domenici (R-NM), Yea New York: Clinton (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Dole (R-NC), Nay North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Nay Ohio: Brown (D-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Nay Inhofe (R-OK), Nay Oregon: Smith (R-OR), Nay Wyden (D-OR), Yea Pennsylvania: Casey (D-PA), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea Rhode Island: Reed (D-RI), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Nay Graham (R-SC), Yea South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Not Voting Thune (R-SD), Nay Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Nay Corker (R-TN), Nay Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Nay Hutchison (R-TX), Nay Utah: Bennett (R-UT), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Nay Vermont: Leahy (D-VT), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Nay Virginia: Warner (R-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea West Virginia: Byrd (D-WV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Wyoming: Barrasso (R-WY), Nay Enzi (R-WY), Nay

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    I intend to vote against both of my "senators", but unfortunately, they don't come up for re-election for another 4 years. My bet is that this is what all of these turn coats are counting on, the perpetual short memory of the American voters. Well, not this little black duck!!! I've got a long memory and they will pay in votes the next time around!!

    bill to grant legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants.?
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    Immigration vote The Associated Press The 64-35 roll call by which the Senate voted to reconsider a bill to grant legal status to millions of unlawful immigrants. On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote to resume Senate debate on the bill. A "no" vote was a vote against reconsidering it. Supporters of the legislation needed 60 votes to bring it up again. Voting "yes" were 39 Democrats, 24 Republicans and 1 independent. Voting "no" were 9 Democrats, 25 Republicans and 1 independent. Democrats Yes Akaka, Hawaii; Biden, Del.; Bingaman, N.M.; Boxer, Calif.; Brown, Ohio; Cantwell, Wash.; Cardin, Md.; Carper, Del.; Casey, Pa.; Clinton, N.Y.; Conrad, N.D.; Dodd, Conn.; Durbin, Ill.; Feingold, Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.; Harkin, Iowa; Inouye, Hawaii; Kennedy, Mass.; Kerry, Mass.; Klobuchar, Minn.; Kohl, Wis.; Lautenberg, N.J.; Leahy, Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Lincoln, Ark.; Menendez, N.J.; Mikulski, Md.; Murray, Wash.; Nelson, Fla.; Nelson, Neb.; Obama, Ill.; Pryor, Ark.; Reed, R.I.; Reid, Nev.; Salazar, Colo.; Schumer, N.Y.; Webb, Va.; Whitehouse, R.I.; Wyden, Ore. Democrats No Baucus, Mont.; Bayh, Ind.; Byrd, W.Va.; Dorgan, N.D.; Landrieu, La.; McCaskill, Mo.; Rockefeller, W.Va.; Stabenow, Mich.; Tester, Mont. Democrats Not Voting Johnson, S.D. Republicans Yes Bennett, Utah; Bond, Mo.; Brownback, Kan.; Burr, N.C.; Coleman, Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; Domenici, N.M.; Ensign, Nev.; Graham, S.C.; Gregg, N.H.; Hagel, Neb.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va. Republicans No Alexander, Tenn.; Allard, Colo.; Barrasso, Wy.; Bunning, Ky.; Chambliss, Ga.; Coburn, Okla.; Cochran, Miss.; Corker, Tenn.; Cornyn, Texas; Crapo, Idaho; DeMint, S.C.; Dole, N.C.; Enzi, Wyo.; Grassley, Iowa; Hatch, Utah; Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Roberts, Kan.; Sessions, Ala.; Shelby, Ala.; Smith, Ore.; Sununu, N.H.; Thune, S.D.; Vitter, La. Others Yes Lieberman, Conn. Others No Sanders, Vt.

    Answer:
    casey from pa is a crook just like his dad former gov. specter will be out next time he runs

    How come they can’t just STOP THIS ALREADY???????
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    Feinstein reportedly trying to sneak one through Update: Yup, it’s in there.Sen. Dianne Feinstein may attempt to sneak an illegal alien amnesty measure into the Iraq supplemental war spending bill. (Yes, the same bill the White House is trying to stuff the Merida Initiative into, too.) More info: Our NumbersUSA Capitol Hill Team got several confirmations through both Democratic and Republican sources that Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.) was preparing to add an [agricultural] amnesty to the Iraq bill Thursday afternoon in the Senate Appropriations Committee. We don’t know the details of the amnesty. There is some chance she may try to slip it through by not including permanent legalization but just giving one or two million illegal ag workers a 5-year amnesty that allows them to work and live here while further sinking roots. The open-borders champions hope that the longer illegal aliens stay the more difficult it will ever be to deny them U.S. citizenship. We need phone calls into the offices of members of the Senate Appropriations Committee — massively and immediately! 202-224-3121 If you live in the state of one of these Senators, please make a phone call immediately. If you don’t have a Senator on the Committee, you may want to call a Senator in another state with which you have some attachment. We particularly need extra phone calls to Senators from small-population states. Here are the Appropriations Senators who need your call: Alexander (R-Tenn.) Allard (R-Colo.) Byrd (D-West Va.) Bennett (R-Utah) Bond (R-Mo.) Brownback (R-Kan.) Cochran (R-Miss.) Craig (R-Idaho) Domenici (R-N.M.) Dorgan (D-N.D.) Durbin (D-Ill.) Feinstein (D-Calif.) Gregg (R-N.H.) Harkin (D-Iowa) Hutchison (R-Texas) Inouye (D-Hawaii) Johnson (D-S.D.) Kohl (D-Wis.) Landrieu (D-La.) Lautenberg (D-N.J.) Leahy (D-Vt.) McConnell (R-Ky.) Mikulski (D-Md.) Murray (D-Wash) Nelson (D-Neb.) Reed (D-R.I.) Shelby (R-Ala.) Specter (R-Pa.) Stevens (R-Alaska) …North Carolina growers, for example, have set up a North Carolina Growers Association that meets all of the ag labor needs through local workers and through legal foreign workers brought through the H-2A visa which ensures that the guest workers go home. Why shouldn’t California growers play by the same rules as law-abiding farmers in other states? Based on past experience, there is a good chance that Feinstein will decide not to introduce her amnesty Thursday afternoon if she feels there is a major move against it. That’s what we want. Please let every member of the committee know just how worked up citizens get as soon as they hear of a possibility of an amnesty. When it comes to the illegal alien amnesty zombie, eternal vigilance is required. *** Update: The Feinstein amendment–co-sponsored with the cretinous GOP Sen. Larry Craig– passed the Senate Appropriations Cmte, 17-12. Sen. Byrd, who opposed the shamnesty bill last spring, spoke in opposition to the amendment. You know what they say about broken clocks. Good for him. Hill coverage here. And another amnesty effort underway… How come they can’t just STOP THIS ALREADY??????? http://www.numbersusa.com/index Could all these problems go away if we just give California back to Mexico?Can we please get that idiot Larry Craig out of our government?

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    We should be able to give those idiots the boot out of either house of congress when they pull stunts like this too! Vote them out!

    Is this is OK for neo-libs? Do they seem to worship criminals?
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    The answers to what you are searching for will be found here William Jefferson Clinton- Impeached by the House of Representatives over allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice, but acquitted by the Senate. Scandals include Whitewater - Travelgate Gennifer Flowersgate - Filegate - Vince Fostergate - Whitewater Billing Recordsgate - Paula Jonesgate- Lincoln Bedroomgate - Donations from Convicted Drug and Weapons Dealersgate - Lippogate - Chinagate - The Lewinsky Affair - Perjury and Jobs for Lewinskygate - Kathleen Willeygate - Web Hubbell Prison Phone Callgate - Selling Military Technology to the Chinesegate - Jaunita Broaddrick Gate - Lootergate - Pardongate Edward Moore Kennedy - Democrat - U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. Barney Frank - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1981 to present. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman's Washington apartment for prostitution. A move to expel Frank from the House of Representatives failed and a motion to censure him failed. DNC - The Federal Election Commission imposed $719,000 in fines against participants in the 1996 Democratic Party fundraising scandals involving contributions from China, Korea and other foreign sources. The Federal Election Commission said it decided to drop cases against contributors of more than $3 million in illegal DNC contributions because the respondents left the country or the corporations are defunct. Sandy Berger - Democrat - National Security Advisor during the Clinton Administration. Berger became the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from the National Archives during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings. Robert Torricelli - Democrat - Withdrew from the 2002 Senate race with less than 30 days before the election because of controversy over personal gifts he took from a major campaign donor and questions about campaign donations from 1996. James McGreevey - Democrat - New Jersey Governor . Admitted to having a gay affair. Resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, rumors of being blackmailed on top of fundraising investigations and indictments. Jesse Jackson - Democrat - Democratic candidate for President. Admitted to having an extramarital affair and fathering a illegitimate child. Gary Condit - Democrat - US Democratic Congressman from California. Condit had an affair with an intern. Condit, covered up the affair and lied to police after she went missing. No charges were ever filed against Condit. Her remains were discovered in a Washington DC park.. Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde - Democrat - the son of newly elected U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was booked on charges of criminal damage to property for allegedly slashing tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party for use in Election Day voter turnout efforts. Daniel David Rostenkowski - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1959 to 1995. Indicted on 17 felony charges- pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of public funds and sentenced to seventeen months in federal prison. Melvin Jay Reynolds - U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison. Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan from 1955 to 1980. Convicted on eleven counts of mail fraud and filing false payroll forms- sentenced to three years in prison. George Rogers - Democrat - Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. M000ember of Massachusetts State Senate from 1975 to 1978. Convicted of bribery in 1978 and sentenced to two years in prison. Don Siegelman - Democrat Governor Alabama - indicted in a bid-rigging scheme involving a maternity-care program. The charges accused Siegelman and his former chief of staff of helping Tuscaloosa physician Phillip Bobo rig bids. Siegelman was accused of moving $550,000 from the state education budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money to pay off a competitor for a state contract for maternity care. John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator Gerry Eastman Studds - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1973 to 1997. The first openly gay member of Congress. Censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relations with a teenage House page. James C. Green - Democrat - North Carolina State House of Representatives from 1961 to 1977. Charged with accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent, but was acquitted. Convicted of tax evasion in 1997. Frederick Richmond - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1975 to 1982. Arrested in Washington, D.C., in 1978 for soliciting sex from a minor and from an undercover police officer - pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Also - charged with tax evasion, marijuana possession, and improper payments to a federal employee - pleaded guilty. Raymond Lederer - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000. Harrison Arlington Williams, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1959 to 1970. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Allegedly accepted an 18% interest in a titanium mine. Convicted of nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, conflict of interest, and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000. Frank Thompson, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1955 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting, convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. Sentenced to three years in prison Michael Joseph Myers - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting - convicted of bribery and conspiracy; sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000; expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980. John Michael Murphy - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1963 to 1981. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest, and accepting an illegal gratuity. Sentenced to three years in prison and fined $20,000. John Wilson Jenrette, Jr - Democrat - U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. Implicated in the Abscam sting. Convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and sentenced to prison Neil Goldschmidt - Democrat - Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland. Alcee Lamar Hastings - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida. Impeached and removed from office as federal judge in 1989 over bribery charges. Marion Barry - Democrat - mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1979 to 1991 and again from 1995 to 1999. Convicted of cocaine possession after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Sentenced to six months in prison. Mario Biaggi - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts. Lee Alexander - Democrat - Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison. Bill Campbell - Democrat - Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts. Frank Ballance - Democrat - Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation. Hazel O'Leary - Democrat - Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration - O'leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours. Lafayette Thomas - Democrat - Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison. Mary Rose Oakar - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors. David Giles - Democrat - candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape. Gary Siplin - Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy. Edward Mezvinsky - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges. Lena Swanson - Democrat - Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war. Abraham J. Hirschfeld - Democrat - candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner. Henry Cisneros - Democrat - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI. James A. Traficant Jr. - Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks. John Doug Hays - Democrat - member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation. Henry J. Cianfrani - Democrat - Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison. David Hall - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. John A. Celona - Democrat - A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine Allan Turner Howe - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute. Jerry Cosentino - Democrat - Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud - fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement. Joseph Waggonner Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute Albert G. Bustamante - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison. Lawrence Jack Smith - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion. David Lee Walters - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation. James Guy Tucker, Jr. - Democrat - Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation. Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion. William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison. Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation. Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison. Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty. Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges - sentenced to 21 months in prison. Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office. Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison. Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the "Koreagate" influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison. Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam. Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate. Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison. Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor. Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate. Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation. Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000. George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government. Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses. Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge. Bolley ''Bo'' Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker - received a two-year term for tax evasion. Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation. Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking. Or is it the Clinton, what ever you can get away with mentality?

    Answer:
    What they will do is to point at the one conservative that messes up and say it all is equal, versus looking at the quantitative numbers and then do an analysis. so 1 = that entire list. Talk about fuzzy math.

    Any Bulls, T-Wolves, Bucks Fans?
    Question:
    I am a New York Knicks Fan and I am excited about D'Antoni and our players as a young team I think the Knicks can make noise this year. I think your teams are going to be good to the Bulls may lose Hinrich to the Heat if they dont get Livingston, who they are fighting w/ T-Wolves in getting and the Bucks had a nice busy offseason getting RJ. It hurts you guys lost Mo but you can be a surprise. Anyways, I am from NJ and have never missed a Knick game on tv this year I am in college in Iowa a state close to Illinois,Minnesota, and Wisconsin so are there any of you that have tickets to these teams that are willing to sell me them. 1.) Knicks play in the United Center and Bradley Center twice this year. 2.) Knicks play in Target Center once thats 5 games I can catch... Anyways, I think we can all be surprises especially T-Wolves you got rid of bad contracts and added players w/ little salary protection in Cardinal, Collins, and Booth to players you already had w. no salary protections in madsen and doleac. You can buy them all out and have a shitload to spend on a big name in 2010 FA. Pg. Telfair/Livingston - Good Sg. Foye - Good, may have a Roy breakout year Sf. Miller - Very good, clutch, rebounds, gonna be leading scorer Pf. Gomes - Boy can he score put up 40 C. Jefferson - Never going to be KG, but is an up and coming allstar 6. K. Love - ROY Candidate 7. McCants - Finally, had good year he can score 8. Brewer - Can do a little of everything 9. Smith - rebounding machine can score some 10. Snyder - He can ball all he needed was 2 get away from T.Mac 11. Carney - Good young shooter/defender 12. Collins - Not good but can defend The Bulls D. Rose is good. Gordon has to be kept at all costs.Deng resigned is good. PG. ROSE/HINRICH (*May leave) SG. GORDON SF. DENG PF. NOAH (Good potential) C. DREW GOODEN (Double-doubles) 6. Larry Hughes (Inconsistent, can score) 7. Andres Nocioni (Big talent) 8. Thabo Sefolosha (Good, now that Duhon is out more pt) 9. Tyrus Thomas (Has not shown me much) 10. Aaron Gray (Nice touch) 11. Cedric Simmons (A body) 12. Demetris Nichols The Bucks have improved too... PG. LUKE RIDNOUR (Can score and be a starter he helped Sonics w/ Allen and Lewis win the Division) SG. MICHAEL REDD (Pure) SF. RJ (A All-star talent) PF. VILLANUEVA (Can score) C. BOGUT (Gifted) 6. Bell (Solid scorer off bench) 7. Alexander (We'll see) 8. Elson (Good defense, athletic) 9. Lue (vet pg hit clutch shots) 10. Malik Allen (Has a nice stroke) 11. Damon Jones (Hits 3's) 12. Ramon Sessions (Looks to be good)

    Answer:
    Every team has fans. Even the Grizzlies (shocker??....yes)

    Vote out the Incumbents - regardless of party - in November 2008?
    Question:
    Would a forced exodus of all the incumbents, democrat and republican, show the Federal Government that the People are tired of business as usual in Washington? That it's time for the government to start working for the people instead of playing political butt scratching. In the Senate say goodbye to: Republicans Jeff Sessions of Alabama Saxby Chambliss of Georgia Pat Roberts of Kansas Mitch McConnell of Kentucky Susan Collins of Maine Norm Coleman of Minnesota Thad Cochran of Mississippi John Sununu of NH Elizabeth Dole of NC Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma Gordon Smith of Oregon Lindsey Graham of SC Lamar Alexander of Tennessee John Cornyn of TX John Barrasso of Wyoming Michael Enzi of Wyoming Democrats Mark Pryor of Arkansas Joe Biden of Delaware Dick Durbin of Illinois Tom Harkin of Iowa Mary Landrieu of Louisiana John Kerry of Massachusetts Carl Levin of Michigan Max Baucus of Montana Frank Lautenberg of NJ Jack Reed of RI Tim Johnson of South Dakota Jay Rockerfeller of WV Here is a link to all the seats up in the House: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Rep resentatives_elections%2C_2008

    Answer:
    Competely agree with you. What would be a better way to bring about change than get rid of all the people who bogged down the system for so many years? All they do is bicker and complain and nothing ever gets done. We need people who are willing to talk honestly about issues and then come up with decisions that will work for all sides. Get rid of all the interest groups who only care about their own intrest and start caring about America as a whole.


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