From the AP:

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A Nigerian passenger jet crashed on landing at the airport in the southern city of Port Harcourt on Saturday, a civil aviation official said. At least 56 people were killed, reports said.

So far, the cause is "unclear," though I doubt it is terrorism, due to the fact that this just recently happened in Nigeria and the U.S. ruled our terrorism (for more info on that, click the link.)

I may post more on this as updates come in.

Today, governor-elect Jon Corzine appointed Rep. Robert Menendez to take his soon-to-be-empty Senate seat for the remaining year. Via AP:

Gov.-elect Jon Corzine on Friday appointed Democratic Rep. Robert Menendez to serve out the remaining year in Corzine's Senate term, giving New Jersey its first minority senator.

So the Democrats decided to replace a corrupt Democrat with a realy corrupt Democrat.

Here comes a long, long story. And it starts with allegations of an affair...

In 2004, Menendez called for the embattled then-Governor of N.J. Jim McGreevey to resign from his post.. In response, McGreevey supporters threatened to tell the public that Menendez was involved in an affair with a woman named Kay Elizabeth LiCausi.

LiCausi was a staffer for Menendez. In 2002, she left and started a business called K.L. Strategies. The company only consisted of two people. But K.L. Strategies quickly launched into success. Why?

Well, it may have had something to do with the large sums of money that Menendez began funnelling to her new business. Menendez's Political Action Committee, New Millenium PAC, paid K.L. Strategies $45,000 in media consulting fees between January and September, 2003.  The New York Times reported that over $200,000 was forked over from Menendez to LiCausi.

Why the sudden socket to success? Obviously, Menendez lended her a ton of cash. Did he really believe she was that great? Or was it because of an affair? Menendez, recently divorced at 51, refuses to comment. "That's strictly personal," he says.

Is an investigation in order? Surely, this would be considered cronyism: handing over cash to a lover's business from your Political Action Committee.

Only time will tell us more on this issue.

Adding to a long tradition of lobbying for terrorists who hate America, impeached former president Bill Clinton said today during a surprise speech to the Montreal meeting on climate change and global warming, to the wild applause of thousands of delegates from around the world, that holding a "precautionary" attitude towards terrorism just isn't as important as showing precaution to the more clear and present danger to America: global warming.

Via Free Internet Press

In a comment clearly directed at the Bush administration, he noted that the United States had adopted a precautionary approach to fighting terrorism. "There is no more important place in the world to apply the principal of precaution than the area of climate change," he said, generating waves of applause.

Since he made so sure to mention the U.S.'s "precautionary approach" to terrorism, apparently, "climate change" is the most important place for precaution, instead of that terrorism thing.

At least he's consistent in his support for terrorism. In 1999 during his presidency, Clinton pardoned 16 members of the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist organization. These terrorists had been convicted for their conspiracies to harm America and seditious behavior. The group of which they were members had killed American civilians in the past.

But Clinton went ahead and pardoned them. Subsequently, the Fraternal Order of Police condemnedthe pardons. The House of Representatives voted to condemnthe pardons by  311-41. The Senate voted to condemnthe pardons with only two radicals voting NAY. Only fellow insane Democratic terrorist allies seemed to fail to condemn the pardons.

One has to wonder if terrorism doesn't even come in second place when it comes to the many areas in which the government needs to take "precautionary" action...

We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We're bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We're pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime, who will be held to account for their crimes.

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The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done. Then we will leave, and we will leave behind a free Iraq.

Arabic television station and satellite network launched in 1996, funded by Emir of Qatar

Known as the "CNN of the Arab world" and "Jihad TV," it claims to have 50 million viewers

9-11 terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's outlet for video messages

Its Spanish reporter was arrested for terrorist ties to bin Laden's Al Qaeda

At least two of its Iraqi reporters and one executive had secret connections with, and apparently worked for, Saddam Hussein's intelligence service

Praised Democratic candidate John Kerry and did positive reporting from 2004 Democratic National Convention

Gave airtime to racist David Duke to claim that Jews knew in advance of 9-11 attack on World Trade Center and stayed away

Described Islamist suicide-homocide bombers in Israel as "martyrs"

What would be wrong with attacking an anti-American propaganda-mouthpeice that feeds Arab hatred of the United States?