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FEC says 'motor voter' increased rolls by 7 million
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission estimates 7 million Americans have registered to vote since 1994 because of the "motor voter" law. The commission said Wednesday registration among the voting-age population rose to 70.15 percent in 1998 -- the highest percentage in a non-presidential election year since 1970. The National Voter Registration Act, which took effect in 1995, was designed to make it easier to register. It required 44 states and the District of Columbia to let people register by mail, when they renew their driver's licenses and when applying for welfare or disability benefits. Although the motor voter ... -
ABC Signs Matt Drudge to Radio Spot
For Editorial and Discussion use only: ABC Signs Matt Drudge to Radio Spot By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge has been signed by the ABC Radio Networks to anchor a two-hour weekly radio show, despite objections from the top of ABC News. Drudge, who has been doing a show on WABC radio in New York, will have his national debut this Sunday on ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Denver. The show will consist of topical commentary and listener call-ins, ABC said. Drudge is the author ... -
Third of nuclear plants not Y2K ready
WASHINGTON (AP) - A third of the nation's atomic power plants still have additional work to complete on non-safety computer systems to be fully ready to deal with the Y2K computer bug, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The commission said it has received reports from all 103 nuclear plants indicating ''that there are no Y2K-related problems which directly affect the performance of safety systems.'' Sixty-eight plants indicated that all their computer systems that support safe plant operation are ''Y2K ready,'' the agency said The other 35 plants reported that they have additional work to complete on a few non-safety ... -
How Microsoft Plans to Remake Windows (Thread 2)
The thread mutated into a general discussion of Microsoft tactics and other geeky things. The original thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3780a9f512db.htm -
The World Upside Down
When General Cornwallis and the British surrendered to George Washington and his Colonials at Yorktown, the red-coat regimental band played a ditty called "The World Turned Upside Down" to show what they thought of the occasion. It's too bad that tune has gone the way of the British Empire, as recent events illustrate the need to dust off the sheet music and tune up the fifes and drums. Consider that General Augusto Pinochet, who almost 30 years ago rescued Chile from the nightmare of a brutal Marxist tyranny, is under arrest in England awaiting deportation to Spain for trial ... -
PAPER ACCUSES BUSH OF DODGING MINORITY CONVENTION; CAMPAIGN SAYS RACE BAITING
FOR INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. PAPER ACCUSES BUSH OF DODGING MINORITY CONVENTION; CAMPAIGN SAYS RACE BAITING Presidential candidate George W. Bush will make campaign appearances in Seattle Thursday but has no plans to address a conference of 6,000 minority journalists meeting that will be going down at the same time, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report, according to publishing sources. And late Wednesday, one Bush campaign official shot back, calling the story "nothing more than a game of racial innuendo." The paper's Sam Fulwood III reports: "Organizers said Bush told them his one-day trip to the ... -
Should Hillary Run for Senate
Time magazine is running an on-line poll. Right now things don't look good for Hillary. Am asking for all your help to make it look even worse. Please go Vote VOTE -
USA vs Clinton - 562 Days Left?
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IS THE REV. AL THE FIRST LADY'S NEW PAL ?
IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE A LAWYER working for the Justice Department in Washington and you are planning a conference on polilce-community relations. Whom do you invite? The mayor of Washington, D.C.? Criminologists? Community leaders? Suppose someone suggested that you invite race hustler the Rev. Al Sharpton--the mountebank who came to national prominence on the strength of a vicious and highly inflammatory libel he helped Tawana Brawley broadcast to the world and who has continued to show up wherever the members of racial distrust and enmity could be stirred into fire. You would laugh, right? You would say "That's like inviting ... -
Politicians Should Do More Than Talk About Saving Children
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on July 8, 1999. Posted for information and discussion only; not for commercial use. Politicians seem to have discovered children and profess to be worried about them. Various nostrums for saving children will likely be the main theme of next year's political campaigns. Here are a few the politicians will not want to consider: Start a new campaign to get mothers out of the work force. Believe it or not, there was a huge public campaign at the turn of the century against women working, not in order to oppress women, as the feminists ... -
Where are Bill and Chelsea???
I apologize for the vanity post, but something is very odd here. When Hillary announced her run for Senate yesterday she did it alone. No Chelsea, No Bill. Does this strike anyone as odd? Chelsea isn't in school, and Bill could have put off his Poverty Suck-Up Tour to support his loving wife. It has been puzzling me and I am wondering what the heck is going on. This woman is the queen of the fake family photo-op and yet no attempt was made to give us that smarmy and disgusting group shot of the Klintons looking into the heavens ... -
GORE WILL WIN A LANDSLIDE VICTORY!!!
According to our early computer projections, Albert Gore jr. will be re-elected President of the United States tonight in a landslide 49 state victory. President Gore and Vice President Feinstein have apparently won the electoral votes of every single state but Wyoming and have won the national popular vote by twenty-five points. “Ever since the Republican Party broke up in 2000 things have been so easy for us, it’s like a dream.” said Gore 2004 campaign chairman Lanny Davis amid popping champagne corks and cheering at Gore headquarters. “America has sent a message loud and clear…America rejects right wing ... -
NAFTA' for military proposed
A United States military report advocates a joint command for American, Mexican and Canadian forces, in the same way the three countries are united under free trade. The report, by Lt.-Col. Joseph Nunez for the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., also suggested a North American peacekeeping force, headquartered in the U.S., with deputy commander positions rotating between Canada and Mexico. Moving from bilateral arrangements to a (military) organization that reflects regional economic and security concerns is a better strategy, particularly considering our burgeoning trade through NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and the growing threat of terrorism that can penetrate through our-SNIP- -
ABC Poll Sows Hillary's Run To Be Wrongheaded
This morning's show had a segment where host Charles Gibson revealed the results of an ABC poll on Hillary's run for the Senate. Even before the results were shown on the screen, Gibson was qualifying the results by stating "how unscientific the process was." The results showed: 69% Thought her run was wrongheaded. 31% Thought the run was a good idea. (with over 30,000 respondents) After the results were flashed on the screen, Gibson went even further by stating "that he couldn't believe the results" and how "unscientific" the results were. He was afraid that those who conducted "scientific" polls ... -
Katy, Texas Police Suspend Constitution
I lost my respect for law enforcement today. On my way to work, just 20 hours before the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, I was pulled over by the Katy, Texas Police Department. The cause? The bulb illuminating my rear license tag wasn't bright enough. Okay, that's not my main gripe. I'll cover that later. What has me incensed it what took place during the traffic stop. As the 'good cop' was explaining why he stopped me and was checking my papers, his partner opened the passenger door and rifled through the junk on my passenger seat. I should ... -
States Fight National ID Card
Date: August 6, 1998 Contact: Tracey Mills 202/624-8667 States Fight National I.D. Card Federal Rule Threatens State Efforts to Protect Citizens WASHINGTON, DC With the stroke of a pen, a proposed federal rule requiring social security numbers on newly issued driver’s licenses would repeal state efforts to protect consumer privacy, guard against identity fraud and improve service at the DMV. The rule also violates existing federal law. "This would tie the hands of all state legislators in protecting citizens," said Missouri State Representative Joan Bray. "With this rule, lost or stolen driver’s licenses would result in identity fraud and privacy ... -
Richardson: Secretary Of Spin?
Pity Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. He has inherited an agency that has trashed our nuclear weapons program. Now he has to clean up nothing less than a national security disaster area. Or so the story goes. Richardson talks up reform on the TV news shows. But his rhetoric doesn't square with his actions. So far he has demoted and suspended whistle-blowers. He has fired a reform-minded top official. And he has left in place anti-nuclear activists who put security warnings on ice. On May 30, Richardson vowed he would fire those responsible for the security meltdown at U.S. labs by ... -
Y2K computer blamed for water problems
‘We're gonna take some special precautions...’ —James Gatzke MAYOR WEDNESDAY MORNING, New Berlin residents were left with little or no water. The problem was caused by a new computer system; ironically, one designed to avoid the problems of Y2K. It allowed the city’s two main water tanks to drain without activating the pumps to fill them back up. The system’s been reset, but by Wednesday afternoon, water was gushing from the tank’s overfull pipes. Mayor James Gatzke said, “We’re gonna take some special precautions to make sure we have somebody monitoring, manually monitoring, the systems until they can tell ... -
U.S. security faulted by panel
Commission questions U.S. ability to repel variety of attacks WASHINGTON -- The United States is ill-prepared to combat a growing and "grave" threat from proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons around the world, a high-level government commission concludes. Nightmare scenarios include a disgruntled Russian scientist selling nuclear-weapons fuel to Iran, or anthrax being released in a subway at rush hour, sending 6,000 people to emergency rooms. "These events have not taken place. But they could," warns the panel, chaired by former director of Central Intelligence John M. Deutch. The commission will officially release its report next week, but ... -
TURNING THE CORNER ON LIBERAL EDUCATION POLICIES
While hypocritical liberals still remain in control over most of the nation's public education, there are key signs that cracks are occurring in the once impenetrable wall surrounding the policies endemic to government-controlled schools. This, by the way, is a good thing and it's a trend that is long overdue. In California, Proposition 227 -- the initiative passed by voters a year ago designed to end the fallacious notion of "bilingual education" -- is languishing in court, challenged by liberal education protectors who see it as a challenge to their authority. ... -
MRC ALERT: Avoiding Hillary's Sleaze; Rebuking Rudy & Equating Him to Hitler
1) A Fox reporter asked Hillary about the billing records and turning $1,000 into $100,000, but only FNC showed how she dodged in replying. NBC's Andrea Mitchell worried: "The adulation is great, but is she prepared for whatever Giuliani can dish out?" 2) Trying to shame Giuliani into silence? NBC's Andrea Mitchell characterized a mild comment about Hillary as being "in her face" and played a soundbite from an opponent comparing him to Hitler. 3) GMA's Charlie Gibson portrayed Hillary as a victim about to be set upon by a mean press corps and opponent. He rebuked a columnist ... -
JOHNNY CHUNG DEPOSED TOMORROW
(note by me, OneVike) Follow the link below to read Johnny's testimony
Transcript of Johnny Chung's Deposition
For Immediate Release, July 8, 1999 Contact: Tom Fitton, (202) 646-5172 JOHNNY CHUNG DEPOSED TOMORROW (Washington, DC -- July 8, 1999) -- On July 9, 1999, at 10:00 a.m., Judicial Watch will continue the deposition of Johnny Chung. At his first deposition on May 13, 1999, Chung revealed, among other things, that Vice President Al Gore had solicited contributions from him within the past few months. The transcript of Mr. Chung’s first deposition can be found at www.judicialwatch.org. Mr. Chung is the subject of a Washington Times front page article today entitled “FBI Records Outline China’s Attempt To Silence Chung.” -
7 Wonders of Mount St. Helens II
Thread One FOSSILS AND CATASTROPHES by Barry Setterfield At 8:31 AM on Sunday May 18th 1980, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook the 3000 metre peak of Mount St. Helens in the Cascade Range in Washington state USA. The mountain then exploded and a plume of volcanic gases, ash, and debris rose to a height of 19,000 metres through three cloud layers and swept north and east. That explosion, 500 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb, was heard 360 kilometres north in Vancouver, Canada. As a result, an area of 60 square kilometres to the north of the mountain was ... -
"You've Got Mail"
"You've Got Mail" I have written elsewhere that the one thing that will not be tolerated in our present-day society is “intolerance.” An e-mail correspondent offered a correction that I accept as needed clarification: “You say only intolerance isn’t tolerated,” writes Brian S. “Wrong, Ron. Disagreement isn’t tolerated. It is simply called intolerance.” He continues, “Don’t add to the enemy’s efforts by submitting to [this] negative characterization of those who disagree.” Brian had a couple of other points I want to share with you. One is his contention that media bias is so pervasive these days that it has reached ... -
Was Filegate Just a Snafu?
Was Filegate Just A Snafu? Robert Novak July 8, 1999 WASHINGTON -- A petition to a federal judge last week raised the possibility that the FBI files case, one of the capital's great all-time mysteries, might yet be broken open -- with political implications for Hillary Rodham Clinton. It requests the deposition of a former Clinton White House aide's ex- wife who claims she observed her husband transferring FBI files into his laptop computer. The June 29 filing by the conservative Judicial Watch asked U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington to authorize the sworn testimony of Leslie Gail Kennedy, ... -
Was CNN involved in a NATO effort to assassinate the Serbian information minister?
On Friday, July 2 the Independent newspaper in Britain ran an article by its Belgrade war correspondent Robert Fisk entitled “Taken in by the NATO line”. The article presents a devastating picture of the role of the press corps in the war against Yugoslavia. Fisk shows how, with rare execptions, reporters abandoned any standpoint of objectivity and adopted uncritically the official rationale for the war. For the most part infected themselves with the anti-Serb hysteria of US, British and NATO officials, they sought to justify the bombing campaign by reporting NATO propaganda as fact and accepting without question the statements ... -
State Patrol's Warrants Lost in Computer Glitch
CLICK FOR LINK WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER A Y2K-related computer glitch in the Nebraska State Patrol's crime database resulted in the loss of misdemeanor warrants that had been entered statewide during the past five months, a patrol spokeswoman said Wednesday. The scope of the problem and whether the warrants can be retrieved are not yet known, said spokeswoman Terri Teuber. The warrants were erased Wednesday as computer programmers were upgrading the state's system to be Y2K-compliant as it relates to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, Teuber said. The problem affects misdemeanor warrants entered on the Nebraska Crime Information System since ... -
Clinton "The Duke of Hazard" (Liberal Reporter Claims Clinton's Appalachian Plan To Cut Taxes Is A Real Hazard)
PRESIDENT CLINTON followed in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson when he toured the Appalachian poverty trail. The president's anti-poverty proposals resemble those of Kennedy and Johnson: *salvation by government* But, like those politicians of the past who have opted for photo-ops in Bedford Stuyvesant, the Appalachian trail makes nice pictures while improving no one's lot. Speaking in Hazard, Ky, the president said he hopes to use tax credits to "inspire" private companies to build plants and stores in Appalachia. What's this? A cut in a company's taxes will inspire that company to expand its business? ... -
How The Serbs Outfoxed NATO
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NATO claims its aircraft destroyed 120 Serb armored vehicles and tons of other military hardware during its recent Balkans bashing. But as reported in this space last week, down in the Kosovo mud our grunts say, "It ain't so." Our warriors say it sure looks like NATO, after blowing a cool $4 billion on bombs and missiles, didn't do the demo job as hyped. Pound for pound of enemy gear destroyed, this is America's costliest war. So how did the Serbs pull the wool over NATO's electronic eyes and foil the most high-tech military force in history? Simple. They ... -
US Now In Range Of N.Korea's Missiles?
The fragile peace between North Korea and its neighbors may again be under threat upon reports that it is constructing an underground missile base near the border with China. The base, and the newest generation of North Korean missiles may even pose a threat to US security. Although US inspectors found no direct evidence of a North Korean nuclear weapons facility when they checked a suspected site in May, there are still concern that the country is working towards a medium-range nuclear, chemical or biological capability. Observers believe the suspected missile base may be located near the Chinese border to ... -
Sex and Radioactive Cholera
If one more woman tells me what no-'count, wife-beating, insensitive, violent, date-raping slugs men are, and how we're obsessed with the magnitude of our genitals, and fear commitment, and don't have feelings, I'm gonna take a ball bat to her. Then I'll get a Border Collie and a laptop, and go live in a log cabin in West Virginia, and put up signs that say, "Beware of Incurable Radioactive Cholera." Ha. What is with women these days? I used to think they were nice people that I couldn't understand, but agreeable and mostly friendly and smiled a lot, and you could dance with them. Lots of them were bright and funny. Most were pretty which, given that men are dog-butt ugly, made the world a pleasanter place. A guy could talk to women in those days, and it was kind of fun to be nice to them. All in all, I thought they were....... -
`NAFTA' for military proposed
-HEADLINE START--> `NAFTA' for military proposed U.S. war college report urges joint command with Canada, Mexico By Linda Diebel Toronto Star Latin America Bureau MEXICO CITY - A United States military report advocates a joint command for American, Mexican and Canadian forces, in the same way the three countries are united under free trade. The report, by Lt.-Col. Joseph Nunez for the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., also suggested a North American peacekeeping force, headquartered in the U.S., with deputy commander positions rotating between Canada and Mexico. ``Moving from bilateral arrangements to a (military) organization that reflects regional ... -
Song Parody - Men of Truth (The Rose)
(Tune: The Rose) Lyrics Copyright 1999, Mark Snyder. Not for commercial use without permission of the author. Some say truth - it is a concept That changes with the spin Some say truth - it is a notion Defined by those who win Some say truth - it is but putty They bend it every day I say truth - it is a crown worn By those - who seek it's way It's the deeds men are ashamed of That hide from truth's pure light We can see what men are made of Do they do what's ... -
Russia may face new Chechen conflict
(note by me, OneVike) Follow the link below to read about
Russia Enters Chechnya in September 1999
MOSCOW (AP) _ Almost three years after being driven out of Chechnya, Russia is going on the offensive along its border with the breakaway region, using pre-emptive strikes to fight Chechen gunmen despite risks the policy could lead to a major new conflict. The government says it had to act after years of attacks on Russian military posts and other targets in the North Caucasus region that borders Chechnya. Chechnya claims it is independent and has de facto control of its own affairs, but Moscow insists it is part of Russia. In some of the heaviest fighting since the 1994-96 ... -
NATO Reviving Cold War
An article in the July 7 edition of the Washington Post postulated that the Kosovo conflict and its aftermath have increased the chances of Balkan countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia receiving admission into NATO – possibly at the expense of the three Baltic aspirants. The article argued that, with 30,000 troops in Bosnia, 10,000 in Macedonia, 7,500 in Albania and a planned 57,000 in Kosovo, the long-term commitment to keeping the peace in the Balkans may refocus NATO’s expansion plans to the south. Additionally, with NATO-Russian relations strained by the Kosovo conflict, the article suggested that NATO may ... -
Sample or Census
A Bureaucrat Explains Statistical Significance Copyright 1997 American Chemical Society Chemical and Engineering News (December 8, 1997) The "Feedback" column of New Scientist (Oct. 4, page 80) reported the following conversation with somebody at Britain's Office of National Statistics (ONS) while in search of a definition of "statistical significance." Feedback: "Could you tell me the definition of statistical significance?" ONS: "What do you mean?" Feedback: "You know, if you sample a population, when does that sample become statistically significant? When is it taken into account?" ONS: "Well, we sample the population every other year, we collect the data, print ... -
Send Hillary a postcard, feel better immediately.
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Mrs. Clinton courts voters in New York
PINDARS CORNERS, N.Y. -- From the hillside farm of Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday declared her desire to be his successor as Democratic senator from New York. A day after filing papers in Washington establishing an exploratory campaign committee, Mrs. Clinton kicked off a four-day "listening tour" of central New York state with the support and encouragement of Moynihan, the retiring four-term senator she called "the wisest New Yorker." She said she intends to return throughout the summer and the fall to listen to state residents tell her what they want in a senator. ... -
The harrowing tale of how Stalin out-murdered Hitler
(note by me, OneVike) Follow the link below to see a short video clip I found from
Macqueen's BBC Gulag DocumentaryThe Independent (UK) | 7/8/99 | Jim Burge
