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This is the thread for the Freepers that are going to be there for the weekly fun and lunch. The weather will be Sat. showers HIGH 53 F 11 C so bring your raincoats.

Let nature clean itself. We have no need for ALGORE and the EPA.

Hannity and Colmes and vote.com are running polls about the verdit. Come here to vote.

I have not seen a post yet.

Fox News has announced that Forbes is out.

AT LEAST 3,000 Russian troops have died in the Chechen War but the Kremlin is hiding the death toll from its own people, it was claimed yesterday. The allegation came from a group representing the mothers of mainly teenage conscripts sent to their deaths in the battle zone. The Association of Soldiers' Mothers also claim up to 10,000 troops have been wounded. Their toll is calculated on the basis of the number of coffins being returned to families. Military chiefs yesterday denied they had been lying over casualties and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin insisted the campaign was progressing smoothly. Officially, ...

The LA Times has found itself in a little mixup.The link is here.

This week's polls from New Hampshire all preach the same message -- John McCain has passed George W. Bush in the first primary in the nation. The stunning news that McCain is in the lead could pose a serious threat to W's candidacy. But the GOP process is fixed for Bush. The rest of the story is here.

This thread is dedicated to the Freepers throughout the world and to the man who started a revolution, Jim Robinson. The weekend started with a dinner Friday night to honor our wonderful guests from the great state of Texas. Our guests were the dynamic basal and the tall smiling Jolly Green. The evening was fill with Freeper news, rumors, and fellowship. The dinner was attended by the usual gang of suspects such as Angelwood, kristinn, Exit148, (someone completely invisible), basal, Jolly Green, BrucefromMtVeron, taxman, and me (bmwcyle). At the completion of dinner our Angelwood presented us with Christmas gifts which ...

Bob Locke posted that he was swinging through town and he wanted to meet the famous DC Chapter. Angelwood could not be there but we all did our best. We have decided to meet more often and not just at the White House on Saturdays.

MOSCOW -- Russia plans to deploy a second batch of its new Topol-M nuclear missiles in the first half of December. "A second Strategic Rocket Forces regiment equipped with land-based Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles will assume full combat readiness in the first half of December this year," deputy Defense Minister Col.-Gen. Alexander Kosovan told a news conference. The RIA news agency quoted Kosovan, deputy defense minister in charge of military construction and housing, as saying that the first 10 Topol-M missiles were installed in their silos last December. The Topol-M, known to the West as the SS-27, is slated ...

As I arrived in Canberra Australia, Air force One was sitting at the airport. If I find out where he is, I will Freep him.

NEW YORK — Within the first few weeks of taking the job as FBI director, Louis Freeh drafted a document known internally as the "bright line" paper and sent it to every agent. "He basically said 'If you lie, you're fired,'" said Jim Moody, a retired deputy assistant director who has known Freeh for 25 years. "'If you were not candid, you're fired.' He just laid it all out and said 'These are the standards you are going to live up to.'" Some FBI members, therefore, may be understandably scared for their jobs. Freeh, 49, is said to be quietly ...

The OKLAHOMA CITY DAILY OKLAHOMAN will report in its Saturday editions that Bob Ricks, the FBI's spokesman at Waco in 1993, is now claiming that Attorney General Janet Reno told him: "I don't think the American people care about Waco anymore." Ricks tells the paper that Reno's comments came when the Attorney General was in Oklahoma City in April, 1994 to promote a congressional crime bill -- exactly one year after the Branch Davidian tragedy! "I said, 'You probably don't realize it, but in the Midwest, Waco is still extremely a big deal out here, and it's the subject ...

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PRESIDENT CLINTON "stalked" his wife-to-be Hillary at Yale, he told a gathering of fund-raisers at the weekend, as he portrayed himself as a shy country boy and his wife as a clear-headed go-getter. The President said that after he had followed her around for several weeks: "Hillary slams down her book, walks across the library, looks at me and says, 'Look, you have been staring at me for weeks, and I've been staring back. So at least we ought to know each other's name. I'm Hillary Rodham. What's your name?' I couldn't remember my name." It is the first ...

Text of Clinton Executive Order on Internet Conduct U.S. Newswire 7 Aug 11:07 Text of Clinton Executive Order Establishing Working Group to Examine Unlawful Conduct on the Internet To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is the text of an Executive Order released today by President Clinton: EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - WORKING GROUP ON UNLAWFUL CONDUCT ON THE INTERNET By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to address unlawful ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- A potentially dangerous fuel leak in one of shuttle Columbia's main engine nozzles could explain why the spaceship wound up in an orbit seven miles lower than planned after liftoff Friday. Pictures taken of the shuttle in flight suggest Columbia's right nozzle began losing liquid hydrogen a second or two before launch and continued to do so for the entire 81/2-minute ascent. One or two cracked coolant lines may have leaked as much as 5 pounds of hydrogen per second. There have been smaller leaks on previous flights. But NASA still is not certain a leak ...

The Radio reports a gunman was cell phones into the police. The police are searching now.

The Navy is taking the first tentative steps that could eventually lead to sex integration of the sea service's last all-male citadel: nuclear-powered submarines. This summer, for the first time, the Navy is allowing female ROTC students to spend two nights aboard a ballistic-missile submarine with its 155-man crew. Previously, the female students were restricted to day trips. If that sign of coming integration isn't enough, Navy Secretary Richard Danzig this month seemed to chide the secretive and close-knit submarine community for operating "a white-male preserve." Comparing the submarine service to the mythical -- Continued from Front Page -- Greek ...