Iranian Madman Ahmadinejad: Israel Will Disappear

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh held talks in Doha, Qatar on Friday.

The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday Ahmadinejad saying, "As everybody knows, the Zionist regime was created to establish dominion of arrogant states over the region and to enable the enemy to penetrate the heart Muslim land."

Saying the Israeli regime was inherently a "threat," and was "on the verge of disappearing"
Haniyeh praised the support of the Iranian government and nation for the cause of the Palestinian nation. "The Iranian nation's brilliant stand in the rightful battles of the Palestinians encourages them and signifies their deep understanding of Islamic principles," Iran's official state-run news agency reported.

"The Intifada (uprising) of the Palestinian nation will continue until the cause of the Palestinians is materialized and Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) is liberated," added Haniyeh.

http://www.jpost.com

BIG BAZOO's take: It is incumbent upon us to S-T-O-P evil in it's tracks....Do we have the courage?

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Tancredo Protesters Turn Violent: Free Speech Rights Violated by Radicals?

Violence erupted at a Michigan law school Thursday when protesters tried to block a speech by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Police were called after protesters pulled a fire alarm prior to the speech on immigration policies. There were at least three violent incidents with protesters targeting student backers of the event, Tancredo, R-Littleton, said today.

"One was spit on, one was kicked, and one was punched," Tancredo said in an e-mail. "Tires were also slashed."

Michigan State University College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom sponsored the event.

Tancredo went to Michigan State University College of Law as part of a visit to the state to talk about immigration. He leads the group that opposes legal status for illegal immigrants.

Protesters interrupted the speech with loud shouting.

College newspaper The State News reported that protesters carried signs reading "Ignorant Racist" outside the room where the speech was held. They were not allowed in with the signs, the paper said. It also reported that about 40 people attended the speech.

Tancredo said in the email that protestors organized on the Internet social networking site Facebook.

"They declared ahead of time on facebook that they would not allow me to speak," Tancredo said in the e-mail.

Tancredo also is meeting with the Republican state party chair, members of the state legislature, and is speaking at a fundraiser for a Republican women's group, Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa said.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4755896

**BIG BAZOO's take: Democrats are infamous for wanting diverse opinions heard...that is...as long as they support your position.....The student protesters that committed these crimes should be charged with violating the Congressman's civil rights!.....Where is the ACLU on this??? Americans want to stop the flood of illegals....Tom Tancredo is an American patriot and hero!

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New Democrat Intel Chair: Alleged Nepotism and Defense Contracts

As reported in the April 25, 2005 edition of the El Paso Times, "All three children of U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, worked in some capacity for defense contractors that were criticized by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration for installing faulty or incomplete equipment for a border security technology system. International Microwave Corp. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. — through their political action committees and others — also gave Reyes about $17,000 in campaign contributions during the past five years." [2]"I

Reyes responded, "I had no role in whatever way of anyone getting these contracts. These contracts, whether they're bid or no-bid or whatever, that's done by the different (government) agencies," Reyes said. "My job, as I see it, since I used systems like this and since I know how important they are to Border Patrol agents in those situations, is to make sure we're out there funding them so that we can get these systems installed throughout the border."[3]"....

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/dec/01/120102840.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: I think it's safe to say that the Democrats find themselves caught in ethical quicksand!! The new Chair of the House Intel Committee seems to be afflicted by the same ethical sticky fingers as Harry Reid!!..This guy has all 3 of his kid's on the dole with companies under his sphere of influence....Big Bazoo will start digging into this guy's past...stay tuned!

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1st Muslim Congressman Faulted for Using Quran at Swearing In Photo Op

WASHINGTON (AP) - Keith Ellison, who will become the first Muslim member of Congress next month, has offended some conservatives with his plan to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in. The decision by Ellison, D-Minn., to use the Muslim holy book for the ceremony instead of the Bible triggered an angry column by Dennis Prager on the Web site Townhall.com this week.

Headlined, "America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on," Prager argued that using the Quran for the ceremony "undermines American civilization."

"Insofar as a member of Congress taking an oath to serve America and uphold its values is concerned, America is interested in only one book, the Bible," he wrote. "If you are incapable of taking an oath on that book, don't serve in Congress."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/dec/01/120103399.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: What an outrage! Talk about a slap in the face to the traditions of this country....this is exactly the kind of moral equivalency that destroys concepts of right and wrong!! What's next?...flying the Iranian flag over the Capitol?? Europe is fast becoming a Muslim continent...are we going to allow ourselves to be next! No wonder terror groups worldwide were rooting for the Democrats during the last election...this is an example why!

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Throngs of Terror Supporters Want Leaders to Resign in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese heeded Hezbollah's call Friday, flooding downtown Beirut to pressure the U.S.-supported government to resign. But Prime Minister Fuad Saniora showed no signs of backing down in a confrontation that could tear apart the country.

The protesters raised a deafening noise of chants and revolutionary and nationalist songs just outside the main government offices. Barbed wire and armored vehicles separated the demonstrators from the buildings where Saniora and some of his ministers were holed up.

"Pack your bags Fuad, and leave us and the country in peace," many shouted.

The protest was the opening volley in the Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah's campaign of open-ended demonstrations. The event could be a watershed for the future of Lebanese politics, torn between anti-Syrian politicians who control the government and pro-Syrian forces led by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah and its allies demand a third of the seats in Saniora's Cabinet - enough to veto its decisions - and have vowed to continue their campaign until the government falls. They cite Lebanon's constitution, which says the Cabinet is supposed to represent all communities in the country.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2006/dec/01/120103074.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: In the spread of Muslim hate...Lebanon is now ground zero....a country with a large Christian population and US backed gov't.....Hezbollah has other plans...the same plans as they have for Israel and other Infidels.....Death, destruction, and the imposition of Islamic Sharia Law.....We cannot sit back and let Iran control that region...Israel won't .....just watch.

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Muslims Seek Prayer Room at US Airports (You Gotta Be Kidding!)

Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.

Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have "meditation rooms" used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.

A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer. Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.

"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.

Airports in Nashville, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., all advertise meditation rooms. Fort Lauderdale's is billed as "For travelers seeking a quiet time." All note they are nonsectarian.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/01/D8LOC15O0.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: Just when you think you've heard it all.....Muslims demanding private 'prayer' rooms at airports!!!??...Aaargh!...Why not just set up Al-Queda headquarters at our nation's airports?......Doesn't anyone have the cashews just to say NO!!...Sorry!! No Prayer rooms! Why not equip these rooms with flight simulators and box cutters!...Good grief!airports imams islam mecca mosque somali+clerics al+queda

GOP Chairman Urges Party to Get on Track

DORAL, Fla. (AP) -

The sting of Republican electoral defeats still fresh, the GOP chairman suggested Thursday the party has strayed and challenged it to refocus on core principles and reform.

"We work for the people," Ken Mehlman, the outgoing chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in a speech to a meeting of GOP governors. He reminded the crowd that "good policy makes good politics - and, for Republicans, this must be a time for self-examination when it comes to our policy."

In a disastrous midterm election year for the GOP, Republican candidates lost races across the country and at all levels of government, prompting party leaders to do some soul searching as they seek a winning strategy for 2008 and beyond.

"Our nation is stronger and better when Republicans are the party running the government. But, ladies and gentleman, our party should never be the party of government, of Washington, of earmarks, of bureaucracy," Mehlman said, implying that's what the GOP had become at times - or at least what voters perceived on Nov. 7.

Romney, for his part, suggested that lawmakers in Washington - not GOP governors - are the ones who need to get back on track, saying: "If the Republican Party, nationally, is looking for a place where it can gain a bit of a guiding post, it would be by seeing the successes of Republican governors."

He also took a swipe at Republicans on Capitol Hill for promising to hold down spending but then beefing up budget bills with millions of dollars for pet projects. "There's nothing that's going to yield a bigger swat - or a thumping if you will - than saying one thing and doing another," Romney said at a news conference, using the spending issue as an example.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-elect/2006/nov/30/113001309.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: Look carefully at the last 2 paragraphs of this story....Presidential contender Mitt Romney gets it exactly right.....Watch out for Romney in '08...he gets it!

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Voter Coalition Targets Pensions of Convicted Lawmakers

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 20 citizen groups are urging the new Democratic leaders in Congress to include in any ethics reform the denial of pensions to lawmakers convicted of felonies.

"We must end the practice of rewarding lawmakers who abuse the law with plush pension packages funded by the American taxpayer," the coalition wrote in a letter to be sent Thursday to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, who will become Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader when Democrats assume control of Congress in January.

The groups, led by the National Taxpayers Union, include Ralph Nader's Congressional Accountability Project, Taxpayers for Common Sense, the Republican Liberty Caucus and the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.

Currently, members of Congress don't forfeit pensions unless convicted of crimes related to treason and espionage.

As a result, former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., who was sentenced last March to eight years in prison for accepting bribes from defense contractors, is entitled to an initial annual pension of as much as $64,000, according to calculations by the National Taxpayers Union.

The former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., who served 15 months in prison after pleading guilty in 1996 to two mail fraud charges, is potentially receiving benefits, after cost-of-living adjustments, of $125,000 a year, the NTU said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/nov/30/113000158.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: Ethical baptism-by-fire, Democrats campaigned on 'cleaning house' and now the rubber must hit the road.....taxpayer groups are demanding that convicted ex-Congressional members lose their pension!! No brainer, right? WRONG! Listen for complete S-I-L-E-N-C-E on this proposal

******HYPOCRISY ALERT******

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Iraq Spending Bill to Test Democrats Support For Troops

WASHINGTON (AP) -

The Bush administration is working on its largest-ever appeal for more Iraq war funds - a record $100 billion, at least, and that figure reflects cuts from wish lists originally circulating around the Pentagon.

The measure will give Democrats, who take control of Congress next year, an early chance to try changing the conduct of the war. But they are limited and do not want to be cast as unsympathetic to U.S. troops.

"We're not going to do anything to limit funding or cut off funds," says Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Senior Pentagon officials have trimmed initial requests from the Army and Air Force. But with $70 billion already approved for the budget year that began Oct. 1, and more money needed to replace lost or worn-out equipment, spending levels for 2007 easily will be at the highest since the Iraq war began in 2003.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-cong/2006/nov/30/113000910.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: Test it is!......The Uber-Left want to cut funds NOW......here is their chance to make a stand....Will they do it? Noooooo......they will equivocate and make political calculus.....and then cast a vote based on their support of Democratic rule...not support of the troops.....This bunch is as insidious as they come!

******HYPOCRISY ALERT******

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South Africa First African Country to Legalize Gay Marriage

By CLARE NULLIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -

South Africa on Thursday became the first country in Africa, and only the fifth in the world, to legalize same sex marriages.

The Civil Union Act goes into effect a day ahead of a Dec. 1 deadline set by the country's Constitutional Court, which required the marriage law be changed to ensure equality for gay and lesbians.

Gay rights groups have welcomed the law, although they criticized provisions allowing clergy and civil marriage officers to turn away gay couples if their consciences prevented them from marrying them.

Some couples began hurrying to make preparations for long-awaited nuptials.

"There will be a huge response from same sex couples who have waited such a long time for their relationship to be recognized," said Melanie Judge, a program manager for the South Africa-based lesbian and gay rights group, OUT.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-af/2006/nov/30/113000829.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: Get ready for the the LIBS in Congress to start gazing covetously towards Africa as a role model for homosexual rights.......Remember, this is the party of the United Nations and international consensus......Republicans have LIBS over a barrel on this issue and need to make a tour-de-force argument AGAINST gay marriage and leverage that political capital into V-O-T-E-S!!

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Iraq Study Group Applies Pressure to Iraqi Government

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according to people familiar with the panel’s deliberations.

The report, unanimously approved by the 10-member panel, led by James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, is to be delivered to President Bush next week. It is a compromise between distinct paths that the group has debated since March, avoiding a specific timetable, which has been opposed by Mr. Bush, but making it clear that the American troop commitment should not be open-ended. The recommendations of the group, formed at the request of members of Congress, are nonbinding.

A person who participated in the commission’s debate said that unless the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki believed that Mr. Bush was under pressure to pull back troops in the near future, “there will be zero sense of urgency to reach the political settlement that needs to be reached.” .

http://www.nytimes.com

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**SPECIAL** Guest Blogger from Political Friends

Word leaked out today in the Washington Post that the Speaker is not going to try and make good on a major campaign promise by Democrats.

During the last campaign, the Republicans were heavily criticized for not implementing the 9/11 commission report. Pelosi’s own website still has message after message critical of the Republicans on this issue. On September 6 of this year, Pelosi said, “…my colleagues and I sent a letter to Speaker Hastert the other day to say, that in honor to commemorate 9/11, we must immediately pass the 9/11 Commission recommendations…Democrats believe that a new direction for America is needed to protect American people.”

The 9/11 Commission felt one of the most important recommendations it had was that the Intelligence committee must be the ones who oversee the Intelligence budget. The Commission felt that without that step, the Intelligence community would not listen to the Intelligence Committee. The Commission also recommended doing away with the idea of term limits in the Intelligence Committee in order to maintain a familiarity with the community. Mrs. Pelosi has already cited term limits as a reason to get Jane Harman off the committee. Now, she doesn’t want to move oversight of the intelligence budget to the Intelligence Committee.

I feel both of these recommendations have positives and negatives. The important point is it illustrates a promise made by Speaker-elect Pelosi and the Democrats that they are now saying they won’t follow through on, and they haven’t even officially taken control yet. Pelosi is going to need a really great “100 hours” if the days and weeks leading up to them keep this current losing trend alive.

http://politicalfriends.blogspot.com

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Testing for Citizenship Assailed By Immigrant Groups

We allow foreigners (for that’s what immigrants are) to become American citizens with virtually no proof that they understand (let alone believe in) our history, founding principles, animating political philosophy, and unique constitutional framework.

The current examination for American citizenship asks few if any conceptual questions, and focuses almost entirely on facts: our flag’s colors, and the number of its stars and stripes; dates; the names of public officials; state capitals; location of the White House—and many other equally inane questions.

the current examination for American citizenship asks few if any conceptual questions, and focuses almost entirely on facts: our flag’s colors, and the number of its stars and stripes; dates; the names of public officials; state capitals; location of the White House—and many other equally inane questions.

Although the new test won’t be “harder or easier,” even though it will assuredly be “meaningful,” although it won’t be used until January 2008, although the 125 current questions will be reduced to 100 in a pilot program between now and then, and although a grade of 60 will be sufficient to pass, still, the foreigner/immigration lobbies quickly jumped the government.

According to the Washington Times, “More than 220 immigrant organizations, led by the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, have signed a letter to USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez denouncing the new test, which they worry will make it harder for ‘poorer legal immigrants with less English and less education’ to win U.S. Citizenship.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25621

**BIG BAZOO's take: The balkanization of America is now in full swing.......just the suggestion that newcomers bone-up on their new home is considered apalling by the immigrant flesh peddlers!....English is the language spoken here.....learn it then come on in!....As these ethnic enclaves grow and grow...soon it may be us demanding equal rights...think about that! Immigration law with teeth....who will step up?

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UK Muslims Increasingly Using Sharia Law for Shadow Justice

Islamic sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in parts of Britain, a report claims.

Sharia, derived from several sources including the Koran, is applied to varying degrees in predominantly Muslim countries but it has no binding status in Britain.

	The Koran is one of the sources that Sharia derives from

However, the BBC Radio 4 programme Law in Action produced evidence yesterday that it was being used by some Muslims as an alternative to English criminal law. Aydarus Yusuf, 29, a youth worker from Somalia, recalled a stabbing case that was decided by an unofficial Somali "court" sitting in Woolwich, south-east London.

Mr Yusuf said a group of Somali youths were arrested on suspicion of stabbing another Somali teenager. The victim's family told the police it would be settled out of court and the suspects were released on bail.

A hearing was convened and elders ordered the assailants to compensate their victim. "All their uncles and their fathers were there," said Mr Yusuf. "So they all put something towards that and apologised for the wrongdoing."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main

**BIG BAZOO's take: This story is at the crux of the war on terror.....Muslim exremists seek to impose Sharia Law globally, and they will not rest until they have achieved their objective....some adherents eager to die a martyr's death to make it so!!....This should perturb everyone in this country into taking action. Bush still has the right idea.....kill the terrorists and rip up their network by the roots!.....Let's not loose sight of this!

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Big Bazoo on John McCain's Presidential Run

Under the "You Heard It Here 1st...!" category..

Watch how quickly the mega-media move to prop up the John McCain presidential candidacy.... Comparisons to Teddy Roosevelt are already being floated!!??....DON'T FALL FOR IT!....

They simply want 'moderates', the great unwashed, and undecided conservatives to rush over to the McCain camp simply to diminish support for the marquis conservative candidates that can actually beat Hillary in a general election

Further down the road...IF McCAIN WERE TO WIN THE PRIMARY.....the mega-media would then turn on McCain, sharpen their long knives, and then sink them deep between his scapulas!!...WHY YOU SAY?....Once McCain becomes the Republican nominee, it is their duty to launch a proxy war to destroy McCain and pave the way for the presumptive Democratic favorite: HILLARY CLINTON!!!
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Federal Judge Rules Against The President's Power to Freeze Terror Funds

A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.

The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

"This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists," said David Cole, a lawyer for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Constitutional Rights that represented the group. "It was reminiscent of the McCarthy era."

The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of Kurds in Turkey.

U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins enjoined the government from blocking the assets of the two groups.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/nov/28/112806897.html

**BIG BAZZO's take: Out of control judges, drip by drip, seek to aid and abet our enemies and increasingly exert their brand of judicial activism.......Conservatives must burn the midnight oil these next 2 years to regain power just to take back the judicial nomination process...activist judges are a POX on this country...Just think Patrick Leahy is running the judiciary committee right now!! E-E-K!

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Orange County Sheriffs Begin Intensive Training to Identify Inmates that are Illegals

Next month, deputies will begin screening county inmates to see if they are in the country illegally.

By KIMBERLY EDDS

The Orange County Register

ORANGE - A dozen Orange County sheriff's deputies and two sergeants began an intensive four-week federal immigration training course today to learn how to screen county inmates to see if they are in the country illegally.

Deputies will begin interviewing all incoming inmates at the county's jails next month, sheriff's officials said. A second class of 12 deputies will start training as soon as the first session is concluded.

Beginning next month, in a separate program, the Costa Mesa city jail will be staffed with a federal immigration officer to screen that city's inmates, U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials said Tuesday.

The sheriff's program, a partnership with customs officials, is the fourth to get off the ground in Southern California. Sheriff Mike Carona has been pushing for his deputies to be trained to enforce federal immigration laws for more than three years.

Critics have argued that the plan will increase racial profiling and cause a chilling effect in the immigration community, making undocumented residents reluctant to report crimes for fear of being deported.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1367436.php

**BIG BAZOO's take: Hallelujah! All politics is local......Since the lily-livered Republicans in Washington did not get the message from voters on immigration....local agencies are stepping up.....OC Sheriff's Deputies will identify illegals in custody so they can be deported to their country of origin!! Governers are starting to bill Washington for the costs of if illegals in their states.....and voters are fired up! It's about @$#%&$%^#$* time! This is long overdue!

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Is Opium Production a Tenet of Islam?

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -

Afghanistan's criminal underworld has compromised key government officials who protect drug traffickers, allowing a flourishing opium trade that will not be stamped out for a generation, an ominous U.N. report released Tuesday said.

The fight against opium production has so far achieved only limited success, mostly because of corruption, the joint report from the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said.

The findings show a "probability of high-level (government) involvement" in drugs, said Doris Buddenberg, the UNODC's Afghanistan representative and co-editor of the report.

The report in particular presented a strong indictment of the Interior Ministry, which runs the country's police, and said Afghanistan's criminal underworld could not operate without the support of the political "upperworld."

"The majority of police chiefs are involved," one senior police officer told the report's authors on condition of anonymity. "If you are not, you will be threatened to be killed and replaced."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2006/nov/28/112806028.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: The Religion of Peace is up to it's peacefulness again....trafficking opium for heroin production! Quite a sight it must be to see those peaceful farmers go from morning 'call to prayer' straight to the opium harvest!.....Got that?...........
Prayers>>Opium Harvest>>Heroin Production>>Buy Weapons>>Launch Terror Attacks!!.......Very Pious!!

******RELIGION OF PEACE ALERT******

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Media Ignores Huge Conservative Win, Voters Pass Proposition 2 in Michigan Ending Racial Preferences

Election Silver Lining

By Henry Payne/Shikha Dalmia

November 22, 2006

While Election Day dealt a blow to Republican power in Washington, it breathed new life into a core conservative issue: equal opportunity. The stunning victory of Michigan's Proposal 2 -- the ballot initiative banning racial preferences in government employment, education and contracts

-- has not commanded national headlines. Yet it will potentially trigger similar initiatives in other states and revive the cause of a colorblind society, proving one of this election's most momentous developments.

Jennifer Gratz, director of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) which spearheaded the campaign, says Proposition 2's resounding victory is "a national wakeup call." Michigan's win also comes at the 10-year anniversary of a similar initiative in California, which has experienced none of the trauma predicted by opponents, but has benefited all groups in expected -- and unexpected -- ways.

Proposition 2's 16-point landslide is especially amazing given the Goliath-sized machinery it confronted in Michigan. Proposition 2 was a political orphan whose principal author, Ward Connerly -- a black businessman who had successfully spearheaded the California effort in 1996 -- was shunned by the entire political, business, academic and media establishment in Michigan.
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20061121-083638-4873r.htm

**BIG BAZOO's take: The national mega-media silence about this stunning victory is probably why most people haven't heard about this monumental CONSERVATIVE victory.....Overcoming millions of $$ of left-wing attack ads...this initiative won in a landslide.....no more race based college admissions....hiring....contracting...etc....Again the stumbling, keystone cops aka Republicans missed the boat on a core issue!! Go Michigan!!!
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Court Rejects Maine School Vouchers Case

By PETE YOST
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up the issue of school choice in Maine, where a state law bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools.

The case could have provided a platform for a court battle over school choice and the separation of church and state.

In Maine, school districts in 145 small towns with no high schools offer tuition for 17,000 students to attend high schools of their choice, public or private, in-state or out-of-state. But religious schools are no longer on the list.

Asking the court to take the case, a conservative group, the Institute for Justice, is representing eight Maine families who would receive public tuition funds but for the fact that their children attend religious schools.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and President Bush's homestate of Texas weighed in, saying in filings to the Supreme Court that the state of Maine is unconstitutionally discriminating against religion.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-scotus/2006/nov/27/112703678.html

BIG BAZOO's take: This is another example of a winning issue that butterfingered Republicans can't quite grasp! Vouchers help the poorest of the poor get out of the worst schools....Again, it requires courage and leadership to stand up to the teacher's unions. This issue is popular with blacks......Grab the issue Republicans....a 5%-10% shift of the black vote to Republicans and the Democrats are doomed!

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Poll: Giuliani, McCain, Obama Rank High

Americans have the warmest feelings about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, according to a poll released Monday that scores the popularity of national leaders.

The Quinnipiac University's "thermometer reading," taken the week after the Nov. 7 election, asked voters to rate their feelings for 20 leaders on a scale of 0 to 100.

Giuliani, a Republican weighing a presidential bid in 2008, scored the highest at 64.2. Obama and McCain, who are also considering a 2008 campaign, finished next at 58.8 and 57.7.

President Bush was 15th out of 20 while his secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was fourth and former President Clinton fifth.

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton scored ninth of the 20 leaders with a score of 49. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee who was roundly criticized before the election for suggesting that students who don't study could end up stuck in Iraq, came in last at 39.6.

**BIG BAZOO's take: Quite an interesting lay of the land in this poll...We believe Giuliani ranks so high because Americans want a protector 1st and foremost....his 9/11 credentials are hard to quarrel with.....Picking up New York's electoral votes would, indeed, make Rudy tough to beat...would Conservatives in the red states abandon his liberal social stances??....there's the rub!

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/27/D8LLO3H00.html

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Get Tough On Mexico Says Biden, Possible Presidential Contender

COLUMBIA, S.C.
-Sen. Joe Biden, the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee's incoming chairman, wants to get tough with Mexico, calling it an "erstwhile democracy" with a "corrupt system" responsible for illegal immigration and drug problems in the U.S.

Biden, D-Del., was in Columbia on Monday in his first postelection trip to this first-in-the-South presidential primary state as he continues to line up support for his presidential bid.

During a question-and-answer session before more than 230 Columbia Rotary Club members, Biden was asked about immigration problems.

Biden, who favors tightening the U.S.-Mexico border with fences, said immigration is driven by money in low-wage Mexico.

"Mexico is a country that is an erstwhile democracy where they have the greatest disparity of wealth," Biden said. "It is one of the wealthiest countries in the hemisphere and because of a corrupt system that exists in Mexico, there is the 1 percent of the population at the top, a very small middle class and the rest is abject poverty."

Unless the political dynamics change in Mexico and U.S. employers who hire illegal immigrants are punished, illegal immigration won't stop. "All the rest is window dressing," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_el_pr/biden2008

** BIG BAZOO's take: This is a savvy political move by a veteran, ambitious politician.....and a Democrat....According to most polls, upwards of 80% of Americans want the border closed and immigration restricted.....Talk about a winning issue!....Too bad no Republican candidate had the courage to run on this issue.....The election may haver turned out WAY DIFFERENT!!

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Israel Extends An Olive Branch To The Palestinians, Again

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert looks through binoculars today during a ceremony for a housing project for Jewish settlers evacuated from the Gaza strip, in the Negev Desert, southern Israel. (AP)

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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seeking to build on a shaky cease-fire with the Palestinians, offered today to reduce checkpoints, release frozen funds and free prisoners in exchange for a serious push for peace by the Palestinians.
In what was billed as a major policy speech, Mr. Olmert said Israel also would pull out of the West Bank and uproot settlements under a final peace deal.

"I hold out my hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors in the hope that it won't be returned empty," Mr. Olmert said.

"We cannot change the past, and we will not be able to bring back the victims on both sides of the borders," he said. "All that we can do today is stop additional tragedies."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061127-114008-6543r.htm

**BIG BAZOO's take: Israel should tear a page out of the Ronald Reagan handbook of terrorism.....Reagan simply stated that the USA does not negotiate with terrorists......the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority seeks the destruction if the Jewish state.....that's NON-NEGOTIABLE!......Remember the Oslo Acords~

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Big Bazoo on Ethics and The 110th Congress

This week Democrats take the reins on Capitol Hill and will begin to move forward with their radical agenda.......Get ready to hold onto your wallet!.......Big Bazoo will help you navigate through the mud-raking, the hypocrisy, and the ethical dead water!........New Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, has already stumbled and faces serious scrutiny as she makes committee chair appointments....Big Bazoo will keep an eagle-eye on these developments as they happen and will keep you informed with the naked truth!........Some examples of Democratic rhetoric that should make us all take pause:.....1) Rep. Charles Rangel of New York will introduce a bill to re-instate the military draft.....2) Rep. Barney Frank has said the issue of gays in the military is his pet project.......3) Sen. Carl Levin says the troops will be pulled out of Iraq in 4-6 months....4) Rep. Dennis Kucinich will move to cut funding to our troops ........STAY TUNED!

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Chicago Peacenik Sets Self Ablaze to Protest Iraq War

Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose.

He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web site, the 52-year-old experimental musician who'd fought with depression even penned his obituary.

At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 - four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics - Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire.

Aglow for the crush of morning commuters, his flaming body was supposed to be a call to the nation, a symbol of his rage and discontent with the U.S. war in Iraq.

"Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country," he wrote in his suicide note. "... If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/nov/26/112602668.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: If anybody still doesn't think that the anarchist, left-wing, liberal anti-war wackos represent the fringe, fringe of society...What can we say?....These zealots have a seat at the table with the new 110th Congress...Worry??.......Oh Yeah!

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Thousand of Protesters Rally in Turkey Against Papal Visit

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Tens of thousands of protesters chanted "No to the pope!" and waved anti-Vatican banners Sunday in a defiant display of the pro-Islamic anger that could await the pontiff on his first papal trip to a mostly Muslim nation.

About 25,000 people filled a square in a working-class district of Istanbul at a rally organized by an Islamist political party whose leaders have denounced the pope's remarks in September that linked violence and Islam.

"The pope is not wanted here," said Kubra Yigitoglu, a 20-year-old protester in a head scarf, ankle-length coat and cowboy boots who called Turkey "an Islamic republic."

The demonstration highlighted the deep strains in Turkey ahead of the pope's four-day visit beginning Tuesday.

Turkish officials hope to use the visit to promote their ambitions of joining the European Union and to showcase its secular political system. But pro-Islamic groups - which have been gaining strength for years - perceive Pope Benedict as a symbol of Western intolerance and injustices against Muslims.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061126/D8LKRVN00.html

**BIG BAZOO's take: The Religion of Peace rears it's intolerant, ugly head again......Cheering mobs chanting: "NO! to the Crusader's visit" illustrate once again that Islamic extremism is just a 'few' renegades....yeah right!...We will continue to provide evidence that Islamic militancy is global and spreading like cancer...and is tacitly supported by the 'peaceful' Islamic masses!

*****Religion of Peace Alert!*****

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Global Warming Worthy of Supreme Court Attention?

High Court to Weigh Climate Change Case

By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming.

A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS_GREENHOUSE_GASES?

**BIG BAZOO's take: If you don't think this election was monumental in the context of Supreme Court nominees....just look at this case!....Supreme Court to weigh in on greenhouse gases?$#&%^#%$!!...Come 'on!....Bush may not get another conservative nominee through...........Think about that you 'moderate' Republicans who are leaning leftward...

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Paralyzed Maliki Coalition Government Teetering

By Mussab Al-Khairalla and Alastair Macdonald

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The motorcade of Iraq's prime minister was pelted with stones on Sunday by fellow Shi'ites in a Baghdad slum when he paid respects to some of the 200 who died there last week in the deadliest attack since the U.S. invasion.

The anger in Sadr City, stronghold of the Medhi Army Shi'ite militia, boiled over on the third day of a curfew imposed on the capital by Nuri al-Maliki's U.S.-backed national unity coalition as it scrambled desperately to stop popular passions exploding into all-out civil war between Shi'ites and the Sunni minority.

"It's all your fault!" one man shouted as, in unprecedented scenes, a crowd began to surge around Maliki. Men and youths then jeered and jostled as his armored convoy edged through the throng away from a mourning ceremony for one of the 202 victims of Thursday's multiple car bomb attack in Sadr City.

http://today.reuters.com

** BIG BAZOO's take: The Maliki government is teetering under it's own weight of indecision.....sounds like the Republican Party lately....Maliki better show some leadership quick or the streets of Baghdad will soon run with rivers of blood!...and Democrats will use that as an excuse to "cut and run"!!

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Big Bazoo on Changing of the Guard in Washington

It seems as though the lunatic fringe, special interest groups on the left.....many who bankrolled the Democrats in this recent election, are lining up outside the office doors of the newly elected liberal, Democrats......ready to cash in their IOUs........

Groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood, MoveOn.org.....and Win Without War believe the election is a mandate for their respective, radical agendas........after a virtual 12-year lockout under Republican rule, the prospect of having access to the levers of power has these extremist wagging their tongues and salivating.......They want action from the Democrats and they want it NOW!

The ACLU wants an immediate cessation of the Patriot Act and the NSA wiretapping program.......The AFL-CIO is demanding both an increase in the minimum wage AND universal health care........Win-Without-War want the troops removed from Iraq beginning immediatley.......Planned Parenthood wants more federal funds spent on contraception and abortion and less on abstinence........EVEN THE Brady Campaign thinks that gun control is no longer radioactive..........

The frightening, underlying message from all of these to the Democrats assuming power is.........Because of the vote we feel that our causes now represent the 'mainstream' and are no longer to be considered liberal or extreme!! S-C-A-R-Y!!!
Imagine the demands of the left if the millions they spend on the Presidential race results in a democratic win in '08..........


Where are the true rock-ribbed, conservative leaders in the Republican Party??...........Who will emerge as the voice of the traditional values coalition??....Remember the 'values' voter of the 2004 election.....they have not disappeared....but they are being ignored!........Hence, the poor showing for Republicans in last week's election......Want proof?.......Conservative referendum issues passed all over the country...NO! to gay marriage.....NO! to illegal immigration.......NO! to higher taxes......NO! to easy abortions.....
Wanna win an election?
Run as a C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E

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Big Bazoo on Immigration

The Conservative base is overwhelmingly in favor of a border enforcement 1st mentality, and has spoken loudly and clearly on this issue........However, President Bush and an emerging cabal of Conservative thinkers.....ie, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard are lining up on the other side, demanding 'comprehensive immigration policy'......which is a euphemism for cheap labor and amnesty!

IMMIGRATION (cont.)--Gone! is the discussion of closing the border to prevent a catastrophic terrorist attack through our southern border.....Gone! is the debate regarding US sovereignty.....Gone! are the deliberations regarding the tsunami of crime crashing upon our shores from the aft......Leaders are defined by doing what is right not what is easiest......there is a golden oppurtunity for a true conservative to step forward and fill this leadership vacuum!...Who will sieze this moral high ground en route to the White House?

IMMIGRATION (cont.) II--Political calculus on immigration will be the foil for those who would be king in '08........Let's debunk the 'comprehensive policy' arguments...........one-by-one........................ 1) Let's not offend current or future Latino voters:According ta a 2005 Field Poll......52% of Latino voters said they were 'extremely concerned' about illegal immigration........................ ....As far as actually voting, the numbers are even more stark........59.3% of Latinos are eligible to vote......of those, only 57.86 are registered to vote.....meaning Latinos only make up 6.03% of all voters!!! Hello!!... 2) Latinos do the jobs no Americans will: This is a quotient of unfettered illegal immigration driving wages DOWN!!....According to the Pew Hispanic Center, Americans are not willing to perform certain jobs only when the wages are lower than they should be and the working conditions are dangerous.......Without the downward pressure on wages caused by illegals......wages would rebound and Americans would fill these jobs!

IMMIGRATION (Cont.) III--------Quality of Life Issues------- The Country Club Republicans who foment 'comprehensive' immigration reform are completely detached from the impact illegal aliens have on the everyday life of Americans: 1) Public schools overcrowded with non-english speakers..... 2) Urban traffic congestion on an epic scale..... 3) Gangs and crime..... 4) Blight of high occupancy housing..... 5) Public parks swamped by non-citizens..... 6) Strain on municipal infrastructure..... 7) Sapping of law enforcement resources..... 8) Abuse of entitlements..... 9) Lack of english/communication skills..... on and on and on........................... **I guess when you ride in a car from mansion to think tank to cocktail party and back to mansion again.... these petty concerns mat never appear on your radar screen......WAKE UP BLUEBLOODS!!

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New Twist or Old School? Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead

CHICAGO, Nov. 23 — On weekdays, during what are normal school hours for most students, the Billings children do what they want. One recent afternoon, time passed loudly, and without order or lessons, in their home in a North Side neighborhood here.

Unschooling the Billings Children

Sydney Billings, 6, one of four siblings in Chicago, is taught through unschooling. Her mother, Juli Walter, calls the process “child-led learning.”

Hayden Billings, 4, put a box over his head and had fun marching into things. His sister Gaby, 9, told stories about medieval warrior women, while Sydney, 6, drank hot chocolate and played with Dylan, the baby of the family.

In a traditional school setting, such free time would probably be called recess. But for Juli Walter, the children’s mother, it is “child-led learning,” something she considers the best in home schooling.

“I learned early on that when I do things I’m interested in,” Ms. Walter said, “I learn so much more.”

As the number of children who are home-schooled grows — an estimated 1.1 million nationwide — some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement’s ideas. They are “unschooling” their children, a philosophy that is broadly defined by its rejection of the basic foundations of conventional education, including not only the schoolhouse but also classes, curriculums and textbooks.

In some ways it is as ancient a pedagogy as time itself, and in its modern American incarnation, is among the oldest home-schooling methods. But it is also the most elusive, a cause of growing concern among some education officials and social scientists.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/education/26unschool.html?ref=us

** BIG BAZOO's take: The attack on home-schooling is led by the education-industrial complex and it's caretakers at the teacher's unions....they view home-schooling...and vouchers.....as a direct assault on their monopolistic honey pot! Public education is the last bastion where unfettered liberal orthodoxy thrives unchecked....Go! homeschoolers!

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