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Posted on 09/19/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT by Mo1



TOPICS: Dimensional Doorway; Freeoples
KEYWORDS: relaxingatmosphere
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To: Letitring

Good thoughts, and best of luck with all of it, Ringy.


2,361 posted on 10/01/2004 11:09:57 AM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: grannie9

Thanks Gran. Yes, I miss my "life." Miss my friends too.

Good news is I AM better.

If all goes well for me, I plan a boat trip in November. I guess a real test. It'll be secluded, private and I will have medical help. We aren't going far, just far enough. :)

It's something to look forward to, anyway, and nice of my friends to think of me. I hope it works out and I will be allowed to go.


2,362 posted on 10/01/2004 11:25:30 AM PDT by Letitring
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To: lodwick

Thanks Loddy and smooches Sweetie.

I am better. So, it's a bright spot.

Good to hear from you, as always.

I'll talk to y'all later. Got to find a magazine and go rest. Think I'll look at Chicago Homes. Always something pretty in there. :)


2,363 posted on 10/01/2004 11:27:30 AM PDT by Letitring
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To: westmex

Westy, you'd better get yourself and Red Rover in...Mount St Helens is erupting.


2,364 posted on 10/01/2004 12:11:02 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: grannie9

Mount St. Helens a Volcanic 'Ring of Fire' 1 hour, 6 minutes ago


2,365 posted on 10/01/2004 12:13:52 PM PDT by restornu (NYC is the home of Conservative Talk Radio Arbitron rates WABC # ONE in the Nation))
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To: westmex

Hot mamma calling!:)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1221002/posts?page=2365#2365


2,366 posted on 10/01/2004 12:16:00 PM PDT by restornu (NYC is the home of Conservative Talk Radio Arbitron rates WABC # ONE in the Nation))
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To: Letitring

Mt St Helens has started erupting ---- fascinating!


2,367 posted on 10/01/2004 12:29:59 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: restornu

aftermath from the last big eruption

2,368 posted on 10/01/2004 12:44:47 PM PDT by ValerieUSA
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To: Lakeshark

Hi big guy. I was actually home most of the week with a sore throat and ear ache. Ouch!! At least I could watch CTV all day. LOL I did try to watch the debate last night. I tuned in at a point where Kerry was going on and on about how the military had NO proper equipment, that President Bush hadn't approved a single cent for military gear, blah blah. GWB looked really p'o'ed. I watched about 20 minutes. David said he saw most of it and though that President Bush did very well except for the last half hour. He thought Bush won but of course, ALL the media types were saying 53% Kerry, 37% Bush. At that point, I changed it to Cold Case Files.


2,369 posted on 10/01/2004 12:59:26 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: lodwick

Hi Loddy, Hi Val, Hi EVERYONE.


2,370 posted on 10/01/2004 1:02:26 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: grannie9

Geesh, that looks like parts of Nova Scotia. Newfoundland too. Pretty.


2,371 posted on 10/01/2004 1:04:52 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: ValerieUSA

Now that is desolate!

Was the sky that color?


2,372 posted on 10/01/2004 1:05:56 PM PDT by restornu (By faith Bush subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and worked miracles.)
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To: grannie9

That is neat shot what's was the point of a fence it looks!


2,373 posted on 10/01/2004 1:08:31 PM PDT by restornu (By faith Bush subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and worked miracles.)
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To: Letitring

HI RINGY!! Hardly ever see you anymore. Are you doing ok???? Blessings.


2,374 posted on 10/01/2004 1:10:35 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: Letitring

That's exactly what I told my husband Ringy. I said the Dems are rigging these polls. McAwfull was behind it all, assisted of course by Hellary.


2,375 posted on 10/01/2004 1:14:29 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: restornu; All

29 Sep 2004 | Connie Rice


Connie Rice: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates
The Tavis Smiley Show audio

The Tavis Smiley Show, September 29, 2004 · After weeks of political wrangling, Sen. John Kerry and President Bush will square off for the first of three key presidential debates. Both camps have agreed to an elaborate, 32-page contract that spells out everything from the size of the dressing rooms to permitted camera angles.

But the controversy over the debates threatens to overshadow the events themselves. Some citizen groups complain that the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) isn't as non-partisan as it should be, and that Kerry and Bush won't be pressed on urban issues. Commentator Connie Rice says that's just the tip of the iceberg, and she's got another Top 10 list -- this time: Top 10 Secrets They Don't Want You to Know About the Debates.

(10.) They aren't debates!

"A debate is a head-to-head, spontaneous, structured argument over the merits of an issue," Rice says. "Under the ridiculous 32-page contract that reads like the rules for the Miss America Pageant, there will be no candidate-to-candidate questions, no rebuttal to your opponent's points, no cross questions or cross answers, no rebuttals, no follow-up questions -- that's not a debate, that's a news conference."

(9.) The debates were hijacked from the truly independent League of Women Voters in 1986.

"The League of Women Voters ran these debates with an iron hand as open, transparent, non-partisan events from 1976 to 1984," Rice says. "The men running the major campaigns ended their control when the League defiantly included John Anderson and Ross Perot, and used tough moderators and formats the parties didn't like. The parties snatched the debates from the League and formed the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the CPD -- in 1986."

(8.) The "independent and non-partisan" Commission on Presidential Debates is neither independent nor non-partisan.

"CPD should stand for 'Cloaking-device for Party Deceptions' -- it is not an independent commission on anything. The CPD is under the total control of the Republican and Democratic parties and by definition bipartisan, not non-partisan. Walter Cronkite called CPD-sponsored debates an 'unconscionable fraud.'"

(7.) The secretly negotiated debate contract bars Kerry and Bush from any and all other debates for the entire campaign.

"Under what I call the Debate Suppression and Monopolization Clause of the contract, it is illegal for the candidates to debate each other anywhere else during the campaign," Rice says. "We need a new criminal law for reckless endangerment of democracy."

(6.) The debate contract effectively excludes all other serious presidential candidates from participating in the debates.

"This is what I call the Obstruction of Democratic Debate Rule, which sets an impossibly high threshold for third-party candidates... Where are we, Russia? Isn't Vladimir Putin wiping out democracy in Russia by excluding all opposing candidates from the airwaves during his re-election campaigns? Most new ideas come from third parties -- they should be in the debates."

(5.) All members of the studio audience must be certified as "soft" supporters of Bush and Kerry, under selection procedures they approve.

"It's not enough to rig the debate -- they have to rig the audience, too? The contract reads: 'The debate will take place before a live audience of between 100 and 150 persons who... describe themselves as likely voters who are soft Bush supporters or soft Kerry supporters.' We should crash this charade and jump up in the middle to declare ourselves hard opponents of this Kabuki dance."

(4.) These "soft" audience members must "observe in silence."

"Soft and silent... In what I'm calling the Silence of the Lambs Clause of this absurd contract, the audience may not move, speak, gesture, cough or otherwise show that they are alive and thinking."

(3.) The "extended discussion" portion of the debate cannot exceed 30 seconds.

"Other than the stupidity of the debate contract, what topic do you know that can be extendedly discussed in 30 seconds?"

(2.) Important issues are locked out by the CPD debate rules and party control.

"Really important but sticky or tough issues get axed, because the parties control the questions and topics," Rice says. "For example, in 2000, Gore and Bush mentioned the following issues zero times: Child poverty, the drug war, homelessness, working-class families, NAFTA, prisons, corporate crime and corporate welfare."

(1.) Fortune 100 corporations are the main funders of the CPD-sponsored debates, and the CPD's co-chairs are corporate lobbyists.

The CPD is run by Frank Fahrenkopf, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist, and Paul Kirk, a top gambling lobbyist," Rice says. "And the biggest muliti-national corporations write the checks that fund the CPD -- Phillip Morris, Anheuser-Busch and dozens more. The audience may have to be silent and motionless, but the corporate sponsors can have banners, beer tents, Budweiser girls handing out pamphlets protesting beer taxes -- a corporate-sponsored circus to go along with the Kabuki Debates. Could we get a more fitting description of our democracy?"


2,376 posted on 10/01/2004 1:17:02 PM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: grannie9; Conservababe
That rabbit was out munching on something....lol

There were two ladies watching it and told me there are a bunch of wild ones farther down the trail..I have never seen any others...BWDIK..lol..

.....Westy.....

2,377 posted on 10/01/2004 1:17:16 PM PDT by westmex (To he!! with it all)
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To: Letitring

Oh boy, you did get damaged by that storm then huh? One of the girls on the Peterson threads is from Alabama, and they had damage also. She was off line for nearly a week. Said her house was fine tho. I can hardly believe the devestation in Florida. Isn't this time of year supposed to be the "start" of Hurricane season?


2,378 posted on 10/01/2004 1:18:05 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (IAll us Western Canuks belong South!!!)
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To: Canadian Outrage

Good afternoon, Lynn.

Cheers.


2,379 posted on 10/01/2004 1:23:07 PM PDT by lodwick (He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.)
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To: lodwick; ValerieUSA; Darksheare; grannie9

Here are a few mazes to keep your brain in the right place.
http://trap.mtview.ca.us/~ecripe/mazes/mindex.html


2,380 posted on 10/01/2004 1:26:59 PM PDT by restornu (By faith Bush subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and worked miracles.)
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