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1) Wednesday night the networks all highlighted how Al Gore emphasized "family values" and is distancing himself from Clinton, but only CBS challenged him about standing by Clinton until now. 2) Gore now called Clinton's behavior "inexcusable," but Gore once boasted: "I feel extremely privileged to have been able to serve with him as his partner for the past six years....America's great President, Bill Clinton." 3) In her interview with Gore Diane Sawyer showed him praising Clinton, but in allowing him to recall his sister's death from smoking she failed to note how he had boasted of tobacco growing. 4) ...

"Buy Volvos. They're boxy, but they're good. We know they're not sexy, but this is not a smart time to be sexy anyway with so many new diseases around. Be safe instead of sexy." Thus the premise of the 1990 comedy Crazy People, starring Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah: What would happen if you injected truth into advertising? Moore’s character was a stressed-out ad executive who suddenly began writing starkly truthful ads like the one above for Volvo automobiles. His boss (actor Paul Reiser), naturally, thought Moore was nuts. Here’s the exchange the two had when Moore first presents ...

Will US Marines Take Orders from KLA Drug Dealers in Kosovo? The New York Times Reported yesterday that the "Kosovo Liberation Army will not hand over its weapons to Nato forces and intends to turn itself into a national army with the eventual goal of an independent Kosovo, a senior KLA commander said yesterday. "Directly contradicting the KLA's public support for the agreement reached at Rambouillet, Rustem Mustafa, one of seven regional commanders, said he expected Nato to train its 50,000 soldiers, to provide weapons to replace their old ones and to share security for Kosovo with the KLA." In ...

IN a way, it doesn't matter if there are 50 people working for the city of Seattle who hate naked bicyclists, or if there are none at all. The end result is the same: The artists who organize the annual Solstice Parade in Fremont feel the warm breath of Government on their necks, an anonymous force wanting them to cooperate in a manner that threatens the purpose and future of the community festival. Every year, a few naked bicyclists crash the Solstice Parade. This mildly irritates the parade organizers, offends a few parents who were hoping for Barney and ...

To those who believe that business corrupts government, these articles exemplify just the opposite. It is government that acts as an extortion racket to shakedown business. Here we see Microsoft first set upon by the government until Gates gets wise and starts ponying up the money for campaign contributions. Now he is received in a much more favorable light by the lawmakers who can pass legislation to relieve his legal battle against the government - brought on by his business competitors, who just happened to have been heavy political contributors themselves. You wanna do bizness in dis town, you gotta ...

‘The end of the world as we know it?’ I don’t think so "Darth Sidious"Columnist      According to some students of esoteric lore, the next month or so is when Nostradamus prophesied the end of civilization would occur, with a great cataclysm.     Nilus, a fourth century Christian, foretold of the coming of the Antichrist before the end of 1999, after describing in detail such things of this century as telephones, aircraft and world war.     All over the world people have become so terrified of the “Y2K bug” that some are digging bunkers and stocking up on food and ammo, hoping to “ride out” ...

The news is cranking up a story where Osama Bin Laden is getting ready to commit another act of terror against the United States. This from the same group of people who just got their asses sued for blowing up an aspirin factory they thought Bin Laden owned. If this government had the assets to know what Bin Laden was up to, they would know where he was, right? Coupled with thhe sudden regurgitation of OJ Simpson (and Fox News just announced a special reliving the Charles and Diana wedding), it's clear that our government and media are trying to ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use Debt-forgiveness frauds to tune of $77 million WASHINGTON -- One man apparently altered his twin brother's death certificate -- changing the name and Social Security number to match his own -- to get out of paying his student loans. Another borrower who had almost $11,000 in loans forgiven in September 1994 for the supposedly permanent disability of "chronic low back pain" went on to earn more than $57,000 just three years later. Over a 2 1/2-year period, the Education Department forgave nearly $4 million in student loans for borrowers who ...

House OKs Posting of 10 Commandments WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted today to allow the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools and other government buildings. By 248-180, lawmakers approved Rep. Robert Aderholt's amendment to a juvenile crime bill that would allow states to decide whether to permit such displays on government property. The amendment, Aderholt said, was a ``first step'' for government in reinstilling the value of human life in children influenced by violent culture. One lawmaker, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., said recently that if the Ten Commandments had been posted at Columbine High School, the April 20 ...

How to be revoltin' © 1999 Claire Wolfe "So, Claire, you open your big yap and tell people they need to be 'ungovernable' if they want to be free. That's easy to say. Question is, just what do you propose we do?" I looked up from the day's unidentifiable special at the Hog Trough Grill and Feed. There was Grouchy -- Hardyville's well-named gun store owner -- standing with fists on hips. He demanded, "You make big noise about freedom. So why don't you tell all us ignorant folks, now? What should we do about it?" "You can't describe that ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House, working on a bill to deter juvenile crime, voted today to permit the display of the Ten Commandments in schools as lawmakers headed toward a showdown on gun control. By 248-180, House members approved Rep. Robert Aderholt's amendment to allow states to decide whether to permit such displays on government property. The amendment, Aderholt said, was a first step toward reinstilling the value of human life in children influenced by violent culture. One lawmaker, Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., said recently that if the Ten Commandments had been posted at Columbine High School, the April ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. We hope it's harmless... Our blood supplies contain a mysterious viral passenger Andy Coghlan (Chicago) New Scientist; This Week, Pg. 5 June 12, 1999 A MYSTERY virus is contaminating blood supplies throughout the world. No one knows whether this "TT" virus is dangerous, but there are fears that it might cause liver disease. ...the discovery of any new virus in donated blood is worrying At the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, held in Chicago last week, researchers from California ...

Challenging many educators' belief that money improves public education, a study being released today finds no relationship between student performance and school spending. An analysis of Massachusetts test scores by two Suffolk University economists says that schools that spend more on administrative expenses consistently report poorer test scores. Part of the explanation may be that increasing funding for central offices comes at the expense of instruction, the study's authors suggest. But educators yesterday largely dismissed the study, saying many districts have high per-pupil costs because their students are so disadvantaged. Those students need more support services, they said, and ...

Interesting that many of our leaders that are favored by the media seem to be able to trace their family lineage to the England. I seem to remember Clinton going over there, and trying to claim that he was related. (Blythe) Kennedy was Irish, and went over there to boast of his heritage. Didn't Carter try something too? George Bush, as portrayed on A&E's Biography, claims heritage that goes back to Henry the Third. Is this why so many of them seem to feel that it is their "God-given" right to rule? Is there some kind of "king" complex going ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. But some view charter as threat to the district Decades after it ceased to teach the world the wonders of mass production, Ford Motor Co.'s Model T plant in Highland Park is about to be the site of a different kind of education as a new charter school. When it opens in the fall, the George Washington Carver Academy will be housed in the factory's four-story administrative building on Woodward. Backers plan $2 million in renovations and hope to have 540 students in grades kindergarten through five. Nathan Harvey, who ...

Although critics see the 'beast as an unpersuasive diva, whose tone is that of one who has toured too long in the role, she is to be feared for her talents. She has a singular appetite for tyranny through martyrdom. Astrologers have warned of the accidental alignment in her planetary aspects. Free Republic is not the best choice for a discussion of their findings, but interested readers should be warned of this lethal combination which occured in the fall of 1947. [afflicting only those born at certain hours within a few weeks in October at 42 degrees north, 93.5 west] ...

6/17/99 -- 12:06 PM First Lady: globalization can improve people's lives ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PARIS (AP) - Speaking today in the domed auditorium of the Sorbonne - the prestigious French university she'd long dreamed of visiting - Hillary Rodham Clinton urged people to harness technology and globalization to improve their lives. ``The real challenge is to try to understand globalization and harvest its benefits on behalf of society,'' she told an audience that included her daughter, Chelsea, U.S. Ambassador to France Felix Rohaytn and French First Lady Bernadette Chirac. Mrs. Clinton described how refugees from Kosovo, currently living in the French ...

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'The anomalies of the International Criminal Tribunal are legion. This is not victors' justice in the former Yugoslavia - in fact, it is no justice at all' International Criminal Court - Victor's Justice? Opinion John Laughland Emotion may be a spur to justice, but it is rarely its guarantor. The allegations of war crimes eagerly funnelled out of Kosovo by the thousands of journalists in the province have provoked a demand for retribution. That cry for justice is natural. But the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the body charged with pursuing those accused of war crimes in Kosovo, ...

17 are charged with violating Brady gun law By SARAH LUECK © St. Petersburg Times, published June 17, 1999 TAMPA -- Seventeen people were indicted Wednesday on charges they violated the Brady gun law by lying about criminal records when trying to buy firearms. It marked the single largest roundup of people charged with Brady law violations undertaken by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, spokesman Monte Richardson said. "We want to send the message that if you have prior violent felony convictions and try to buy a gun, you will be subject to prosecution," Richardson said. The charges were ...