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California photos appear to show start of disintegrationLos Angeles Daily News LOS ANGELES - To help with their investigation, NASA officials have asked for and received photographs of what may be the space shuttle Columbia starting to disintegrate as it flew over California early Saturday. NASA officials asked Daily News photographer Gene Blevins and aerospace photographer William Hartenstein on Sunday for copies of photographs they took of the Columbia on Saturday morning as it passed over the Owens Valley in California. It disintegrated minutes later over Texas. One of Blevins' Owens Valley photos of Columbia was published Sunday in the...

Rush has a LIVE program on other stations (or the web) like KEEL 710 KHz out of Shreveport and KLBJ 590 KHz out of Austin, yet here in Big 'D' it is a 'best of' show. Station mangle -er- management is off today too (817-695-1820) ...

I see the following reasons as being sufficient to limit free speech and in the manner that congress has now chosen, that is, the opportunity to change The Constitution is ripe *without* the usual long and arduous process that is normally necessary for the purpose of ensuring that incumbents are re-elected from now on: This country needs an aristrocacy, a royal ruling class. We are practically begging for one - McCain can finally be King - let's do it! Congressman (and all elected officials for that matter) DON'T really need accountability! They'll do much better on their own, without someone ...

"... it is the same federal government that criminalizes the act of love by a father to help his son and others live like American citizens - and that is outrageous. " "Jose Luis Alonso was prosecuted by the same federal government that used a commando-style raid to remove "raft boy" Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives to reunite him with his father." Story: U.S. BACKS ONE CUBAN DAD, PROSECUTES ANOTHER By DOUGLAS MONTERO DESPERATE, starving and stranded on a deserted island off the coast of Cuba, Ian Alonso remembers how his heart pounded when he spotted his father's ...

Rush - you just changed mics here early in the 2nd half hour - It sounds bad - Change back!!!!

Rush reviews the historical beginning of Thanksgiving (RealAudio 9:15) ... and in doing so reveals that the Pilgrim's success had much more to do with capitalism (*and* thanking God) rather than the purely altruistic goals of "communal-sharing" and "commune-ism" ... Communists (and socialists alike) take special note ... Each man (or equally, woman) produces best when he (or she) is producing for himself and his family.

Now that we've all seen what a bust the prognosis for 9-9-99 has been - we can prepare for the same sort of "non-event" come Friday at midnight 12-31-99. (P. Hepperla - are you listening?)

Now that we've all seen what a bust the prognosis for 9-9-99 has been - we can prepare for the same sort of "non-event" come Friday at midnight 12-31-99. (P. Hepperla - are you listening?)