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PERSONAL DREAM OF A TREASURED FREEPER:

In my dream, I was at a large picnic, by the water and a missle/rocket flew over and exploded out of sight, saw the explosion but it was a ways off. Lot's of American flags and such were around during this picnic and I assumed it was a holiday or something. I woke up and heard a wonderful voice saying "remember this dream".

Initially I thought it predicted the flight that blew up in rockaway after sept 11 and the indication because it was so close and prior to that incident. The view of the rocket would be consistant with the tail falling off and the angle at which it crThe reason I thought that was because it wouldn't be considered terrorism but that it was truely a terrorist attack and that the people that died would be forgotten and not considered as terror victims.

But yesterday as I headed out to the first employee picnic we have done, down by the [RIVER] seeing all the [decorations] and such caused my reaction. I'll never forget that dream. I thought it had come to pass already, but yesterday I wasn't sure.

What do you think of this????????????????????

Bush Seeks Church Membership Data
By David Morgan, Reuters

WASHINGTON (July 1, 2004) - President Bush, seeking to mobilize religious conservatives for his reelection campaign, has asked church-going volunteers to turn over church membership directories, campaign officials said on Thursday.

In a move sharply criticized both by religious leaders and civil libertarians, the Bush-Cheney campaign has issued a guide listing about two-dozen "duties" and a series of deadlines for organizing support among conservative church congregations.

A copy of the guide directs religious volunteers to send church directories to state campaign committees, identify new churches that can be organized by the Bush campaign and talk to clergy about holding voter registration drives.

The document, distributed to campaign coordinators across the country earlier this year, also recommends that volunteers distribute voter guides in church and use Sunday service programs for get-out-the-vote drives.

"We expect this election to be potentially as close as 2000, so every vote counts and it's important to reach out to every single supporter of President Bush," campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

But the Rev. Richard Land, who deals with ethics and religious liberty issues for the Southern Baptist Convention, a key Bush constituency, said he was "appalled."

"First of all, I would not want my church directories being used that way," he said, predicting failure for the Bush plan.

The conservative Protestant denomination, whose 16 million members strongly backed Bush in 2000, held regular drives that encouraged church-goers to "vote their values," said Land.

"But it's one thing for us to do that. It's a totally different thing for a partisan campaign to come in and try to organize a church. A lot of pastors are going to say: 'Wait a minute, bub'," he added.

The guide surfaced as a spate of opinion polls showed Bush's reelection campaign facing a tough battle.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll showed Bush running neck-and-neck with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry among registered voters, 47 percent of whom said they now believed the president had misled Americans about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The Bush campaign has also been spending heavily on television ads, only to see the president's approval ratings slump to new lows.

Stanzel said the campaign ended the month of June with $64 million on hand. He had no figures on how much Bush has raised in June. At the end of May, Bush had raised $213.4 million and spent all but $63 million.

The latest effort to marshal religious support also drew fire from civil liberties activists concerned about the constitutional separation of church and state.

"Any coordination between the Bush campaign and church leaders would clearly be illegal," said a statement from the activist group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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