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Did you Know White Terror Racist Terrorist Groups in the Heart of the USA?

The Bush men decorate our holidays in Homeland Security yellow, orange
and red, while demonizing Islamic green as the color of the most
implacable foes of Western "civilization." Yet official silence
conspires to hide genocidal maniacs in our midst who have sworn to erase
the Black presence from the landscape of the United States: White
Terror.

Tens of thousands of members of a racist legion operate openly in every
corner of the nation – men, women, juveniles, extended families,
cells, gangs, churches, clans, militias, border armies, all engaged in
what they consider to be a war to the death against non-white America.

George Bush and John Ashcroft don't want you to hear about White Terror,
understandably fearing that the lyrics of white supremacy strike the
same racial chords as the Pirates' own War on Terror theme, itself a
rearrangement of the many martial tunes written throughout American
history in praise Manifest Destiny. Less than a decade ago Timothy
McVeigh's band of terrorists got carried away with the logic of America
as a White Man's Country, and may have cost the Republicans the White
House in 1996. That's why the homeland security colors didn't change in
May of this year, when federal agents arrested a white racist couple
dealing in weapons of mass destruction in a small town near Tyler,
Texas. The feds seized a cyanide bomb capable of unleashing a deadly,
poison cloud, chemicals and components for additional WMDs, gas masks,
100 conventional bombs, an arsenal of automatic weapons, silencers and
half a million rounds of ammunition.

The bust went unreported last Spring, although George Bush was said to
have been regularly briefed about the "ongoing" investigation. Finally,
the Dallas-Fort Worth CBS affiliate broke the story on November 26, when
longtime militiaman and traveling gun merchant William J. Krar and his
common-law wife pled guilty to possession of a chemical bomb and lesser
charges. Local Channel 11 news producer Todd Bensman thought he had a
huge national story on his hands, but CBS network refused to pick up his
report. "I guess they didn't think it was important enough," Bensman
told David Neiwert, a Seattle-based journalist who has covered
right-wing terrorism since 1978. In fact, the national news blackout was
near-total, as reported online by The Memory Hole.

The only media that saw fit to report about this terrorist plot within
the US were a few newspapers and TV stations in Texas. The Web-based
news outlet WorldNetDaily ran a story about it, but Google News shows
that there hasn't been a word in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA
Times, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or any other big media outlet. Why have the
media decided that this is a non-story? It's hard to say, but we can say
with certainty that if Muslims had been caught with these weapons of
mass destruction, fake I.D., gas masks, and books on making explosives,
it would've been front-page news for days.

A huge array of weapons, ammunition, bomb-making equipment, and racist
literature were discovered in the Tyler arrest.

The New York Times got around to the story on December 13, not on the
news pages, but through a back door Op-Ed article titled "Enemies at
Home." Daniel Levitas' piece passed the Times' blandness test.
"Americans should question whether the Justice Department is making
America's far-right fanatics a serious priority," Levitas wrote. "And
with the F.B.I. still struggling to get up to speed on the threat posed
by Islamic extremists abroad, it is questionable whether the agency has
the manpower to keep tabs on our distinctly American terror cells. There
is no accurate way of analyzing the budgets of the F.B.I., Justice
Department and Department of Homeland Security to discern how much
attention is being devoted to right-wing extremists. But in light of the
F.B.I.'s poor record in keeping tabs on the militia movement before the
1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one wonders whether the agency has the will

Photography Graduation Pictures?

i want to take glamor shots of people for a extra hoby and have took a couple classes on it and have done a little bit of reaserach but i was just wondering what would be the best lens and camera for under 800$ for that kind of picture taking i also want the camera and lens to be able to take outside pictures to like of the landscape, i would also like to know what equipment would i need to get, like do i need 1 soft box 2 softs boxes and how many umbrealls also and would there be any other equipment i would need
Also i was wondering how do you make the umbreallas and soft bozes go of when you take the picture? is it like a connection to the camera from each one or what ?? And one more question when i got my school pictures taken they have a touch screen compuitor that they align the pictures up with and they also show you your pictures do you know of any websites that sell them. and what website would you recomend for the lighting equiment and another website for the camera?

Seriously, am I pushing my GF too hard if I ask her to get a second job?

we've got credit card bills people.......especially, paying off some hunting equipment, power tools, bar tabs I've incurred (of course to develop my business, Amway), and her desire to get season tickets to the San Diego Chargers. (At least that's what I got her for her birthday).

I'm currently almost unemployed as a landscape architect. I have one client who's home I go to once a week for 30 minutes and who pays $60 month for me to come.

Can't she make an effort to help us by getting a second job and just trying to make our relationship work. Please help - I will show her your responses.

Will we get comprehensive immigration reform, amnesty, soon? I fear that my boss my be deported.?

I work on a landscape crew and my boss is a nice Mexican fellow named Sergio who has been in the country illegally for 10 years.
I enjoy working with Sergio's crew as we get more accomplished that the other crews do. Matter of fact, our whole crew just got a raise because the owner wants to show the others that good hard worked is rewarded.
If Sergio were to be deported, I would have to move to Jimmy's crew. Jimmy goofs off a lot and does not take care of our equipment like Sergio.
The owner of the company has made calls to our congressman about getting a break for Sergio since he is so valuable to the company, but no luck.
Will we have comprehensive reform soon? I am always worry that one day the INS will show up and take him away.
And he gives my daughter Spanish lessons at no charge, every Wednesday night after work.

What would you do.... I need help (life/job related)?

I've got the skills to make things happen. Whether it's in the IT department (networking, programming, administrating skills, *nix familiarity, etc), or even out in the field (heavy equipment operations, some commercial/residential construction, landscaping, land surveying, etc).

What kills me is that piece of paper with my name on it that says "I can do THIS stuff!". I taught myself nearly everything I know. I don't WANT a piece of a paper that tells everyone I'm qualified to do ______. Just let me prove it to you and we'll go from there. Want me to test the security of your network, sure. Build you a network? Ok. Want me to be your SysAdmin, write you software to help out with your work, build you a computer, test/debug your software... whatever. Chances are, I can do it. I shouldn't need a piece of paper to say "Yep, you sure can!". Yes, education IS important. But I AM educated. I'm self-taught.

Anywho, I had my EMT-Basic a few years ago but it has since expired. I got burnt out after watching two friends die in a car accident and decided that maybe EMS wasn't for me. Nonetheless, I still have all that knowledge stored up top but little use for it right now. I don't think I can emotionally handle being an EMT any more.

So here's the deal.... you're working for $8.50 an hour for a sub-contractor. Your job is to build huge wooden swingsets (Creative Playthings/Woodplay) all day (2 to 3 a day, then 2 pick ups at the warehouse). And do some cabinetry work about once a week. You leave the house at 6am and get home around 8pm every night... yet you can only bill for the time you spend on site (which is 2-3 hours per set on average). Your boss is a dick, and all but one of your coworkers are lying, lazy, cheap, sleazy bastards. So, your work environment blows.

You somehow turned into your boss' and coworkers bitch. Even if you have your hands full with a 100lb beam, your trying to muscle in a 10" bolt through 4 holes (all the while holding the beam with one arm, moving it to line up the bolt, then moving the bolt again with the other arm, etc) and every fucking 30 seconds someone yells at you... "I need more 4 inch bolts! Go get me some bolts man!!!" or "I'm out of the #10's! Go get me some! Go get my drill gun too!".... despite them being perfectly fucking able to walk 10 feet and get them themselves, they call on you.... EVERY time. Hence, the laziness.

Your boss doesn't pay for your mileage, either. You drive 100-200 miles per day on average and get nothing in return. Even though you bust your ass for your mediocre paycheck ($135 on an OK week and $235 MAX on a great week), you grit your teeth and get the job done and done RIGHT (unlike the guys who make $15-$20 an hour). Nearly your entire paycheck goes into your gas tank every week. Usually you have to use your credit card to get gas by Thursday, only to pay the damn thing off again on Monday and start all over.

So....

Today, I quit. I know work is hard to come by right now but I started this job with $0 in my checking account and as of today I have $4.74

I'm stuck living with my parents, making $8.50 an hour (around $11,000/yr and 80% of that goes right back to my boss... who makes $5,000 a week but can't afford to give me a raise), slaving day in and day out and I don't have a damn thing to show for it. I work OVER 40 hours a week nearly every week, yet I can only get paid for 40. He "can't afford to pay me for overtime", so even if it's a 50 hour week.... it's 40 on my paycheck.

I'm sore, I'm tired, I'm cut up and bruised.... but mostly, I'm pissed the fuck off.

I wanted to whack that bitch with my hammer and then go for his jugular this morning (between trash talking and asking me for shit every 5 minutes), but I kept my cool. I just let it go.

Basically, I don't know if I made a mistake or if I did the right thing. I have no way of telling as of right now but I wanted to get an outsiders' opinion.

I have 5 possible job opportunities. Three of which could become careers, and two that could just hold me over until I find something better. Two as a land surveyor, Two in coffee shops, and one as a 911 Dispatcher. So not ALL is lost. But I'm still on the fence.

What do you think? Did I make a mistake when I said to hell with my boss and his company? Or am I the only sane one in the picture here?