Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Cambodian news: Dengue and HIV/AIDS

  Published: July 13, 2007, 5:30 am

  Tags: Health, Cambodia, Country News, Homeland Visits, Corruption, Birth Country Contributions

  An early, warm wet season is being blamed for one of the worst outbreaks of Dengue Fever to hit Cambodia and the rest of SE Asia in recent history. A British adoptive father, along with other volunteers, set up a UK Registered Charity, The ... => Read more!

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Hazleton illegal immigration ordinance struck down

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:47 am

  Tags: Aclu, 1st Amendment, Border Control Homeland Security, News

  By Wade Malcolm, Staff Writer 07/26/2007 The Citizens Voice A federal judge has struck down the Illegal Immigration Relief Act, ruling Hazleton’s proposed crackdown on landlords and employers doing business with illegal immigrants is unconstitutional. In a 206-page opinion, U.S. District Judge James M. Munley stated, “Federal law

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Fixing' FISA

  Published: August 1, 2007, 9:31 pm

  Tags: Intelligence Gathering, Homeland Security, Civil Liberties, White House

  On top of everything else that's going on this week, the Senate is practically rushing through an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), at the president's behest. Under pressure from President Bush, Democratic leaders in Congress are scrambling to pass legislation this week to expand the government's electronic wiretapping

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Adopted kids and cultural identity

  Published: August 2, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: Homeland Visits

  An article from the Boston Globe and Mail called "CULTURAL IDENTITY: LOST IN TRANSLATION Unearthing the roots of adoption" takes a look at internationally adopted kids of color adopted into American families and how some, now adults, feel about their lives, and how awareness may be helping future adoptees. Although there are complaints about the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Homeland Security Dept.: Symbol of Basic Governmental Competence Collapses

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:49 pm

  Tags: Cnn, Disasters, Feature, Fox, Homeland Security Dept, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Top, Wolf Blitzer, Wtf

  A big-ass bridge collapsed for no apparent fucking reason in your East Coast editor’s hometown yesterday. Nine people are confirmed dead, but with fifty cars tumbling into the river and at...

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• GAO: Pentagon Improperly Sold F-14 Parts

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Iran, Homeland Security

  File Under: Situation Normal: All F#@ked Up. Is there a bigger oxymoron than National Security in the Bush Administration? SFGate: (h/t Gregory) The Pentagon sold more than a thousand aircraft parts that could be used on F-14 fighter jets - a plane flown only by Iran - after announcing it had halted sales of such surplus, government

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Lott to DC: Run for your lives

  Published: August 4, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Homeland Security

  I realize that the White House is desperate to gain increased surveillance power under a revised FISA, and I know lawmakers have shown a serious willingness to give the president more of what he wants. But there's just no reason for Trent Lott to scare the bejeezus out of people who live and work in the nation's capital. Roll Call reported

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• 'ICED' Seeks To Show How Immigration Laws May Increase Crime

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:22 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Burgeoning, Computer Science Student, Current Society, Department Of Homeland, Department Of Homeland Security, Electoral College, Empathy, Game, Genre, Immigrants In The United States, Immigration System, Indian Girl, Israeli Conflict, Japanese Computer

  wrote on the Department of Homeland Security. These are two of the characters in ICED!” — a new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the U.S. immigration system. It is part of a burgeoning genre of video games that examine major social and policy issues such as the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Finding Osama bin Laden: 'We are not closer'

  Published: August 5, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: Homeland Security

  by Mark Silva Five years into the war in Afghanistan that followed the toppling of the Taliban regime with a U.S. invasion launched in retaliation for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the president of Afghanistan says "we are not closer'' to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "We are not closer, we are not further away

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Homeland Security's latest non-lethal weapon: the pukelight

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Department Of Homeland Security, Departmentofhomelandsecurity, Dhs, Flashlight, Homeland Security, Homelandsecurity, Intelligent Optical Systems, Intelligentopticalsystems, Led Flashlight, Ledflashlight, Pukelight

  Misc. GadgetsSomeone in Homeland Security's R&D department must have a sense of humor, because the agency is hoping to soon deploy an LED flashlight that causes uncontrollable vomiting. The light, which is being developed for DHS at Intelligent Optical Systems, first shines a high-intensity beam to stun the target and then begins

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Dept. Of Phasers On Stun: Protesting Hippies To Be Forced To Taste Awful Vegan Meals Twice

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: Border Patrol, Dept Of Phasers On Stun, Hippies, Homeland Security, The Evil Color, Weapons

  Back in the good old days, hippies used to thrive on physical conflict with the brave, short-haired men of our police and national guard. At protests against the Vietnam War, getting your pot-addled...

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Children For Sex In Cambodia

  Published: August 8, 2007, 4:44 am

  Tags: General News, Beautiful Little Girls, Child Sex Trafficking, Department Of Homeland Security, International Justice, Msnbc, Pedophile, Sex Slaves, Sex Children, To Catch Predator

  trafficking, department of homeland security, international justice, msnbc, pedophile, sex slaves, sex with children, to catch a predatorIf you enjoyed this post invite me to drink a

  Comments (1)   Blog link Rating: -1

• POLLARD GETS SCREWED.... AGAIN!!!

  Published: August 3, 2007, 5:21 pm

  Tags: Homeland Security, Prejudice Against Israel, Jonathan Pollard, Dod, Prison, American Colleges Universities Prejudice Against Israel, Spy, Espionage, U S Prejudice Against Israel, Fbi, Pollard

  (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - Office of Investigations, as well as Customs & Border Protection (CBP). The Department of State and the Department of Defense also provided valuable assistance on the case."This conviction, the first in the nation for illegal exports of military-related

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• The Citadel of Sanity

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:21 pm

  Tags: Immigration, Homeland Security, Mexico, Texas

  the article on Thursday:The homeland chief on Wednesday said he "can't rule out" that the government would use eminent domain to seize private property to make way for the fence.Ummmmm, excuse me? Homeland Chief? As in, "Jawohl, mein Commandant?" He's not my homeland chief, I'll tell you that right now.Let's keep it in perspective and call him

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Swamp TV-Fed turf war harms terror fight

  Published: August 14, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Homeland Security

  by Sabrina Fang Click here to read the Homeland Security report on the turf war between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here's a press release from the office of Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the lawmaker who ordered the report.

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0