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Today, Monday, 9-13-04, I am taking a cue from kerry and flipping around, flipping channels that is, and stopped on CNN, a few minutes. During which I was (again) amazed. CNN was doing a piece on the recent polls showing Pres. Bush some percentage ahead. CNN proceeded to state and have their guest analyst (cant remember who) --demonstrate that the polls were not really good news for President Bush, because you have to take into account the fact that they were done using registered voters. Therefore, they said at CNN, you would have to have a similar poll taken with...

Cook's crew hid first Antarctica painting Rossella Lorenzi Discovery News Thursday, 8 July 2004 Captain James Cook's artist William Hodges didn't much care for icebergs, so painted over the image (Image: National Maritime Museum, London, Ministry of Defence Art Collection) One of Captain James Cook's official artists painted the first image of Antarctica, new x-ray analysis shows. But the painting had remained hidden for more than two centuries, as the artist had painted the landscape of a New Zealand bay over it. A depiction of the Antarctic icebergs in a rough sea, and the painting that obscured it, "A View...

EVANSVILLE- Reed Skelton was kicking back on Saturday night in his hotel room, sipping beer and watching porn when the methamphetamine he was brewing exploded in the bathroom.The flash fire blew out his room window and severley injured him. In the chaos that followed, 156 guest were evacuated from the Baymont Inn and the hotel's water sprinklers went off, contributing to about $120,000 in damage, said police Sgt. Mike Lauderdale.As the number of meth labs has spread in recent years from the West Coast and Southwest and infiltrated Midwest states such as Indiana and Kentucky, they are being found more...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

O C I E T Y Busted! Drug dealers are planting pot farms all over our national parks, and the Park Service is struggling to root them out. TIME goes on a raid By MARGOT ROOSEVELT I AUBURN, CALIF. TODD BIGELOW/AURORA FOR TIME Going In: At dawn, Rangers search for a marijuana farm in Tahoe National Forest Sunday, Jul. 27, 2003 A blue-gray dawn tickles the tops of the ponderosa pines at the Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on...