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11/22/99 -- 4:43 PM Unidentified remains from Oklahoma bombing to be buried OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - More than four years after the Oklahoma City bombing, unidentified, fragmentary remains of some of the victims will be buried in a memorial grove of trees at the state Capitol. The Capitol-Medical Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday agreed to allow the burial of a single casket containing the remains. Relatives of the victims and survivors are being invited to a ceremony Dec. 11. All 168 victims of the April 19, 1995, bombing that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were identified, ...

Three dogs are dead today; all by my hand. Two due to my uncertain sense of justice, one fully innocent, just a helpless little mutt. I don't know how the dogs felt about this, but I feel terrible.

Yahoo! News Oddly Enough Headlines Wednesday October 27 8:04 AM ET Mistrial In Murder-For Hire Case By Jeanne King NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mistrial was declared on Tuesday in the murder-for-hire case against eccentric New York real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, who was accused of attempting to hire a hit man to kill his business partner of 40 years. The Manhattan Supreme Court jury deadlocked 6-6 after five days of deliberations. Prosecutors said they planned to retry the case. Hirschfeld also faces a retrial next month in a tax evasion case that ended without a verdict in September. ...

10/15/99 -- 2:02 AM FARM SCENE: Missouri city wants to boot dairy farm for new [industrial park] SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - In 1905, when the Thomsons first took over a dairy farm, family members peddled milk on the city streets, pouring it into their customers' outstretched bowls. Now, the family says, the city wants them out of town. After two years of fighting, the Thomsons have learned that Springfield intends to condemn their 350-acre farm to build a new industrial park. ``I'm too old to move,'' said 76-year-old Robert ``Bud'' Thomson. ``My grandfather and dad both farmed here and ...

10/9/99 -- 8:07 PM Former army officer assassinated in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A former Haitian army colonel and political ally of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and President Rene Preval was fatally shot, the private Radio Quisqueya reported Saturday. Ex-Col. Jean Lamy was shot several times in the head Friday evening while driving down Lalue Street, a major thoroughfare in Port-au-Prince, the capital. There were no reports that any suspects were arrested. Lamy died minutes after he was hospitalized at downtown State University Hospital, Radio Quisqueya reported. Lamy was loyal to Aristide during the 1991-94 period of the ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/10/99 -- 1:42 AM Woman wins mixed-gender bout SEATTLE (AP) - It wasn't much of a battle after all. Margaret McGregor won every round on every card of her four-round, history-making bout Saturday night against Loi Chow, a jockey who showed virtually no boxing skills. McGregor, a 36-year-old hometown favorite from Bremerton, Wash., towered over Chow and threw combinations that racked up points, even if they didn't seem to do any damage. All three judges scored the bout 40-36 in McGregor's favor. McGregor landed a right to the head in the first round, then a four-punch combination. Chow ...

10/7/99 -- 8:26 PM Scrub Free products may contain bacteria WASHINGTON (AP) - A maker of shower cleaner is voluntarily recalling 230,000 bottles of Scrub Free Daily Shower Cleaner and Scrub Free Daily Shower Spray because of possible bacteria contamination. Benckiser Consumer Products Inc. of Greenwich, Conn., said Thursday that the cleaners may contain a bacteria that could cause respiratory or similar infections in people with chronic health problems or weak immune systems. The recalled products are white or clear plastic, 32-ounce spray bottles; and 64-ounce refill bottles. Benckiser said supermarkets, drug and discount stores sold the affected products ...

This is strictly a rumor, but I heard someone tell someone else that he heard what sounded like a really smart guy tell another guy that the serious money was on a George W. Bush/ Rush Limbaugh ticket in 2000. This doesn't make any sense to me, but if it were to prove to be true, it would surely stop all the fussing over Rush and his radio show here. Back between 1992 and 1996 a lot of listeners and callers were of the opinion that Rush himself ought to run for president as he was well respected at the ...

10/2/99 -- 7:39 PM Pet ferret helps solve high-tech problem PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) - The U.S. Space Command has millions of dollars worth of all the latest computers and other electronic gear, and plenty of highly trained employees. But when it ran into a problem at its new Year 2000 missile warning center, the solution didn't come from an engineer, a computer wiz or a physicist. Instead, Misty saved the day. Misty is a ferret, a four-legged, furry, inquisitive relative of minks. To connect new computers at the center, wires had to be threaded through 40-foot-long, ...

As much as we may be loathe to admit it, what keeps us coming back to this website is our profound opinions on Bill Clinton, the man, and WJC, the CIC. Ponder for a moment... How would you finish this declaration: If Bill Clinton was my Brother-in-Law... (For those grammarians out there, I chose "was" instead of "were" simply because He is still here.)

I just picked up a Kodak Color4 printer and I have no driver; any gurus /Freepers who can help?

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting tired of Limbaugh opening his show by dropping names of celebrities, giving us a "blow-by-blow" of his relationship with these "stellar" creatures and then lamely trying to spin this vanity into the "news of the day"? I am sick of his golf game, his football predictions, his unannounced "leaves-of-absence", and his condescension to those who think there is something both systematically and systemically wrong with our current society. Today he started with his "good-buddy" Clarence Thomas, segued into Maggie Thatcher and slewed into Thomas Sowell, all within the first 12 minutes ...

Over the past few years, I have read many posts here where people made some very curious statements about the range and accuracy of weapons designed to strike targets at some removed distance. I believe it is time to put on the record a very simple formula for determining the number of inches a bullet will drop at a given target distance if one knows the muzzle velocity. First, let's define terms: D= drop in inches at target Mv=muzzle velocity in feet per second R=range in feet 192 (inches=16feet)=1/2gravity (since an object in the free-air, speeding or at rest will ...

150 people dead from the heat in half of the states in this "Union". Is Al Gore right? Has Global Warming arrived and taken its bite out of our collective butts? My air-conditioner has been running non-stop here in Nashville for 5 days now and I put a window-unit in the kitchen to supplement the primary system to "keep my cool". One hour ago, I measured a dry-bulb temperature of 89F and a wet-bulb of temperature of 80F which, according to my psychrometric chart works out to a relative humidity of 69%; a "Heat Index of just under 100F at ...

150 people dead from the heat in half of the states in this "Union". Is Al Gore right? Has Global Warming arrived and taken its bite out of our collective butts? My air-conditioner has been running non-stop here in Nashville for 5 days now and I put a window-unit in the kitchen to supplement the primary system to "keep my cool". One hour ago, I measured a dry-bulb temperature of 89F and a wet-bulb of temperature of 80F which, according to my psychrometric chart works out to a relative humidity of 69%; a "Heat Index of just under 100F at ...

7/1/99 -- 7:45 PM E-mail writer arrested for triggering run on bank BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A man who fired off a series of e-mails asserting the financial instability of a bank - triggering a run on the institution - was arrested for creating financial panic, authorities said Wednesday. Jose Omar Olaya, 24, allegedly sent numerous messages from a Hotmail e-mail account on May 27 to private individuals and employees of Davivienda Bank urging all account holders to withdraw their funds in light of a pending government intervention. Olaya's e-mail campaign caused a flood of second- and third-hand e-mails, ...

President Clinton eyeing Senate bid? Report cites 'old friends' of president who say he's interested in vying for Arkansas seat By Tom Curry MSNBC June 27 — Friends of President Clinton believe he will run for the Senate in 2002, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday. Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the "Talk of the Town" section of the magazine due to hit newsstands Monday, said "some old friends" of the president — whom he did not name — believe that he will run for the Senate from his native Arkansas in 2002, when Sen. Tim Hutchinson, a Republican, will ...