State lawmakers today kicked out a West Side Democrat accused of taking a $7,000 bribe, marking the first expulsion from the Illinois House since 1905.

Rep. Derrick Smith failed to show up to defend himself or hear his fellow House lawmakers condemn his alleged actions before the 100-6 vote was taken. Three lawmakers voted present (see roll call here).

“We do not…

http://www.webpronews.com/your-brain-can-now-be-hacked-for-under-200-2012-08?utm_source=Science_sidebar

Anyone … dumb enough … to want to be in the military … should be allowed in. Bill Hicks…

By DWIGHT GARNER

Published: August 16, 2012

My favorite biographical detail about George Orwell might be that, when he died from tuberculosis in 1950 at the age of 46, his favorite fishing poles were standing in the corner of his London hospital room. He hoped he’d be using them…

By BENEDICT CAREY

Published: August 16, 2012

Judges who learned that a convicted assailant was genetically predisposed to violence imposed lighter sentences in a hypothetical case than they otherwise would have, researchers reported on Thursday, in the most rigorous study to…

By STEVEN DUBOIS — Associated Press

American blogger Richard Silverstein claims to have acquired an “Israeli briefing document” that outlines an Israeli attack on Iran and its …

DARPA enlists makers of “BigDog” to construct machines that can think for themselves

Steve Watson

Infowars.com

Aug 16, 2012

The Department of Defense has awarded a lucrative contract to an engineering and robotics design company to develop and build humanoid robots that can act intelligently without supervision.…

Michael Snyder

The American Dream

Aug 16, 2012

What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year.  We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it. …

Leading members of the Group of 20 nations are prepared to trigger an emergency meeting to address soaring grain prices caused by the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century and poor crops from the Black Sea bread basket.

France, the United States and G20 president Mexico will hold a conference call at the end of August to consider whether an emergency international meeting is required, aiming to avoid a repetition of the food price spike that triggered…

This is insanity.

I suggest we start a story with the first sentence using all the banned words and send it out on all social networks and email lists to join in.

http://www.dailycensored.com/2012/05/29/new-list-of-words-used-online-that-will-make-you-a-target-for-dhs/

http://truththeory.com/2012/08/16/facts-about-the-bilderberg-group-you-never-knew/

According to an Army report, 26 active-duty soldiers and 12 Army National Guard or Army Reserve members were suspected of or confirmed to have died by suicide.

The soldiers included a 21-year-old air traffic controller who shot himself in his Fort Wainright, Alaska, barracks; a 26-year-old captain who died at an indoor firing range in Virginia, and a 29-year-old sergeant who had deployed four times to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Three soldiers died at their own hands on…

Boy, this dude SWIM (Someone Who Isn't Me) can be a little extreme at times, but not everything can be settled over a cup of tea.

SWIM has stopped doing taxes for almost 6 years.

SWIM claims 9 (or exempt) on paychecks so that 0% goes to the feds. 

SWIM spends about $50 at Wallymart, yet steals more than $100 each time (and…

If you can’t beat them… handcuff all of them? That may not be how the expression goes, but it was the theory put into practice by Aurora police, over the weekend during a search for suspected bank robbers.

Police in Colorado stopped 25 cars and arrested and detained 40 innocent people over two hours as they turned their hunt for a bank robbery suspect into a frenzied blind search.

Handcuffing every adult at…

I visited the Krypke (?) page because I got an email alert about the Red Dawn movie coming out. Couldn't comment without becoming a member but what I think of movies like this  is they're good recruiting tools. It can work to recruit kids into the military and recruit minds into "Acceptance Mode". Nothing new with this tactic - It works.

Mitt Romney-“I was too important to go to Vietnam”

COWARD Mitt Romney fled to France so he could DODGE the DRAFT!…

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/next-gen-drones/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru&pid=1395&viewall=true