“If necessary, yes.”

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in 9/11, Religion, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, a nursing student from Colorado, was arrested in Ireland on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to kill controversial Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. Her arrest came days after news emerged that a Pennsylvania woman, Colleen LaRose, (nicknamed ‘Jihad Jane,’) was indicted in Philadelphia on a plot to recruit terrorists and commit [...]

History Revised, Teachers Sacked:

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Events, Politics, Real History, Shera Crossan

In a matter of days last week in Austin, the majority of the 15-member board, insisting they were only trying to offset liberal bias in textbooks, questioned Darwin’s theory of evolution and the constitutional principle of separation of church and state; debated hip-hop and genocide in Darfur; deleted Albert Einstein and Thomas Alva Edison from [...]

School Calanders to add one Jewish and one Muslim holiday

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Feedback, Religion

The Burlington School Board has voted to add two holidays to future school calendars to give students time off on Jewish and Muslim holy days, but board members say the changes won’t lengthen the school year. The board approved the chances Tuesday by an 8-1 vote.
Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr as a feast to end the holy month [...]

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Politics, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan

Miles below the ocean floor lies enough oil to power the U.S. for more than a decade—and perhaps our best shot at energy independence.
From the window of a helicopter 1,500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, oil platforms look like Tinkertoys in a swimming pool. Dozens dot the horizon stretching south from New Orleans and [...]

James Ford Seale Loses Appeal in 1964 Murders

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Race

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a reputed Ku Klux Klan member accused in the kidnapping of two black men who were abducted and killed in rural Mississippi in 1964.

In a two-to-one ruling, the panel of judges said the evidence in the case against James Ford Seale was sufficient for the jury [...]

Lars Vilks and other artists building ‘Panic Rooms’

Posted on 14. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Arts/Entertainment, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Shera Crossan

Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself “the artist,” booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?
Since various cartoon controversies erupted after 9/11, European governments from Finland to the Netherlands have publicly upheld constitutional ideals of free speech and expression. But [...]

Gang-rape victim ‘forced to kiss penis’ in front of her father – South African trial

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Hidden Crimes, Race, South Afrika

Gang-rape victim ‘forced to kiss penis’
Uniformed pupils holding candles gathered outside the Durban High Court in South Africa Monday ahead of the trial of four unnamed n%**@rs, accused of gang-raping 22-year-old white Jessica Foord in front of her father. Only 7.6% of all rapists are ever tried in SA…

Accused could not be found…
However, besides the [...]

‘Jihad’ Jamie among detained in Ireland

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Religion, Shera Crossan

Colo. Woman Held in Terror Probe
A Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims,

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, was among seven people arrested in Ireland this week as authorities investigate an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks over a 2007 sketch [...]

‘Okay’ For Teachers To Join Racist Groups

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

Teachers should not be banned from joining organizations which promote racism and intolerance, an independent review has suggested.
It said barring them from membership of non-proscribed groups or political parties would be a “disproportionate response” and a “profound political act”.
Report author Maurice Smith aded it would be like “taking a very large sledgehammer to crack a [...]

Who Is Forcing Abortions To Take Place Exactly?

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Health, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

Georgia Committee Passes Pro-Life Bill Targeting Racist and Sexist Abortions
Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) — A Georgia state House committee approved a bill on Wednesday that would ban abortions done specifically because the child is African-American. HB 1155 would also make it a crime to attempt to coerce a woman to have an abortion based on the [...]

Skulls And Spears: Vikings Found In Dorset

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan

Fifty skulls found in a burial pit in Dorset probably belonged to Vikings who had been slaughtered by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, archaeologists have revealed.

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Tests showed they ate a high protein diet, which is comparable with other sites uncovered in Sweden.
Injuries to the jaw and head had been [...]

Stupak: Dems say Abortions save Money: Stupak Threatened by Ethics Inquiry

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Health, Politics

Rep. Bark Stupak interviewed with National Review Online’s “the corner” and said one of the Democrat arguments in favor of abortion is the money saved if the children are not born. He also said some of his colleagues are threatening to make complaints to the Ethics Committee about him. He didn’t say what the complaints [...]

Black Toothless Wonder Attacks and Robs Nun

Posted on 13. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Hidden Crimes, Race, Religion

NEWARK (WPIX) – A nun is recovering from injuries after police say she was assaulted and robbed inside a Newark church Thursday morning.
According to police, the suspect broke into St. Lucy’s Church convent house located at 11 Amity Place at around 11:30 a.m. where he assaulted a nun and stole a lap top.
The nun, who [...]

Ireland frees three cartoonist plot suspects

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Religion

Police have released three of the seven Muslims arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist.
They were freed without charge after three-and-a-half days of questioning.
The trio were held on suspicion of plotting to kill Lars Vilks over a cartoon he drew depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of [...]

Nurse brutally beaten by Hispanic male.

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Feedback, Hidden Crimes

– A stranger followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, police said.
A police security camera near the bar’s entrance captured images of the man afterward walking down the sidewalk and looking at his [...]

Land Reform and the lingering Zimbabwe food crisis

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Feedback, Race, Shera Crossan, South Afrika

Land reform in Zimbabwe
Land reform in Zimbabwe officially began in 1979 with the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement, an effort to more equitably distribute land between the historically disenfranchised blacks and the minority-whites who ruled Zimbabwe from 1890 to 1979.  Zimbabwean whites, although making up less than 1% of the population, owned more than [...]

Finger In Chili Woman Banned From Wendys

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Events, Hidden Crimes, Shera Crossan

The woman who gained infamy in 2005 when she planted a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili is out of prison. One of the conditions of her probation is that she never set foot in the fast-food chain again.
Ayala said that, following a Wendy’s recipe, she made the chili at her home in [...]

68 Year Old Man Assaults Kids In Wal-Mart

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Hidden Crimes, Shera Crossan

A Columbus man was scheduled to be arraigned on Friday after he was accused of assaulting children inside a Walmart store.
Ralph Conone was charged with assault, 10TV’s Brittany Westbrook reported. Police said that the latest incident occurred on Wednesday at about 7 p.m. inside the store,
Conone, 68, has frequented the store since January.  They said [...]

$2,250 US will help potential immigrants come to Canada as tourists

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Hidden Crimes, Immigration

RCMP investigates immigration website
The RCMP has launched an investigation into a website guaranteeing immigrants easy access to Canada and advising them to use false pretexts in order to take advantage of the countrys free health care and social programs.
On its website, which was taken offline on Thursday, Quick Visa Canada offered clients “a cheap, quick [...]

9 Jailed in Russian Killing

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Three of the group, known as Simbirsk White Power, were convicted of the racially motivated murder of Etizok Ndobe Ernest in the city of Ulyanovsk.
Investigators said his throat was cut and he was stabbed repeatedly on his way home from work as a DJ in 2008.
It is the latest in a series of cases involving [...]

Offended By Yard Art. . .

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Free Speech, Opinion, Race, Shera Crossan

“Say no to the ghetto. White Power. Mt. Greenwood, the next Englewood.” He also hung a white noose next to the sign.
When confronted by a reporter with Fox-TV, Corrigan claimed the display was “yard art.”

Apparently, Corrigan has not broken any laws, even though plenty of people will see his sign as offensive and racist.
Although the [...]

Prom Cancelled At Miss. HS

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Events, Shera Crossan

A northern Mississippi school district will not be hosting a high school prom this spring after a lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.  The Itawamba County school district’s board decided Wednesday to drop the prom because of what it called recent distractions but without specifically mentioning the girl’s request, [...]

HSBC: info on 24,000 Swiss bank accounts stolen

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Shera Crossan

GENEVA – Information on 24,000 HSBC customers with Swiss accounts has been stolen, the British bank said Thursday, potentially exposing large numbers of international clients to prosecution by tax authorities in their home countries.
A former IT employee of Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA, identified by French authorities as Herve Falciani, obtained the information [...]

Another black allowed to walk out of court pretending to be someone else.

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Feedback, Hidden Crimes, Race

Ex-con collared for robbery spree walks out of courthouse by pretending to be another prisoner: cops
An ex-con collared for a robbery spree waltzed out of a Staten Island courthouse Wednesday afternoon by pretending to be another prisoner, police said.
Freddie Thompson, 35, due to be arraigned for five robberies, walked away from Richmond County Criminal Court [...]

Abortion providers are racist

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Health, Politics, Race, Shera Crossan

A bill that would criminalize race-based abortions narrowly cleared committee at the Georgia Capitol Wednesday evening, drawing the Georgia General Assembly closer to a full-blown abortion debate.
House Bill 1155 grew out of Georgia Right to Life’s ongoing campaign to widen its reach in the black community. The group has placed billboards around the Atlanta area [...]

Teachers Must Log Playground Taunts for Government Database

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Commentary, Education, Events, Feedback, Free Speech, Opinion

Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school ‘hate registers’ over everyday playground insults.  Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.
Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic [...]

An Advocate for Equal Justice

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Editorials, Opinion

Providing poor defendants effective appointed counsel is more than a constitutional obligation. It is a concrete measure of the nation’s commitment to equal justice under law. Yet indigent defense offices across the nation have been allowed to sink into crisis. They have fallen victim to insufficient financing, overwhelming caseloads and a slew of policies that [...]

Taxpayers get ready to swallow $6.3B

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Business & Finance, Economy, Feedback, Politics

The Treasury Department sank billions into auto finance giant GMAC Inc. without an exit strategy or proof the company was viable — a decision that could cost taxpayers $6.3 billion, a new watchdog report says.
The government said the $17.2 billion bailout was a necessary step to save troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler. GMAC provides [...]

‘We are proud of eating pork, this is our land!’

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Editorials, Immigration, Religion

PARIS (Reuters) – A French fast food chain’s decision to serve only halal meat in eight restaurants with a strong Muslim clientele has sparked a wave of criticism from politicians decrying the step as unacceptable. A far-right leader said the 350-branch Quick chain was imposing “an Islamic tax” on its customers. A Socialist mayor has [...]

WWII aviators (W.A.S.P.s) honored with gold medal

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Events, Feedback, Politics, Real History

They flew planes during World War II but weren’t considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home.
These aviators — all women — got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, [...]

Different drug problem……………………

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Editorials, Feedback, Free Speech, Opinion

Editor’s note:
The following letter has appeared on the internet and was viewed by many readers. Many felt it would be appropriate for the readers of Avoyelles Parish.
The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked [...]

‘JihadJane’ Charged With Recruiting Terrorists

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Religion, Shera Crossan

The suburban Philadelphia woman, Colleen R. LaRose, is accused in the indictment filed Tuesday of actively recruiting fighters, as well as agreeing to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could move to Europe and martyr herself if necessary.
LaRose is “one of only a few such cases nationwide in which females have been [...]

Malema on a racist tirade

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Education, Race, Shera Crossan, South Afrika

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema went on a racist tirade yesterday, calling for white people to be shot and accused them of being rapists.

Malema led students at the University of Johannesburg in a song saying: “Shoot the boere, they are rapists.”
He also reminded his audience that while they should forgive [...]

Year could be tipping point when non-white newborns outnumber white

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Health, Race, Shera Crossan, Top Stories

Minority babies set to become majority in 2010
Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.  In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born [...]

NAACP urges Frankel to take action over racist videos

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Shera Crossan in Audio-Video, Opinion, Race, Shera Crossan

The president of the local chapter of the NAACP is urging Mayor Lois Frankel to take swift and strong action against those who posted a racist video on the Internet, lampooning a city firefighter who has spent years trying to prove he’s been overlooked for promotions because he’s black.
Even if the city [...]