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Attached is a note from one of my friends, Gage Mueller. Gage is the Zamboni driver for the 1999 Turner Cup Champions The HOUSTON AEROS. Please take a minute to help him out and pass it on to your friends. Thanks, James My name is Gage Mueller and I drive the Zamboni (Ice resurfacing machine) for the Houston Aeros and could you use your help. The Zamboni company is having a contest for Zamboni driver of the year. Could you please take a minutes and click on the site below and vote for Gage Mueller (that's obviously me). I would ...

BOMBING DAMAGE: HOW SERBS SOLD DUMMIES TO NATO Nato officers began to realise the discrepancy between their own claims and the reality within hours of the start of the Yugoslav military withdrawal. In just the first stage of the Serbian retreat, they logged 250 tanks moving out of Kosovo — all undamaged — and at least 40,000 men. This was supposed to be the troop strength of the entire Third Army; several thousand soldiers left in the next three days. All of which casts serious doubt on Nato´s wartime propaganda. On 17 April, for example, Nato spokesman Jamie Shea was ...

Tomorrow night, 8-10 pm EST, 7-9 pm CST, 6-8 pm MST, 5-7 pm PST, Talk Show host Chuck Morse will be joined by Serge Kruschev, the son of the bloody handed communist dictator Nikita. He is being granted US citizenship and is being wined and dined and fawned over by all of the eastern seaboard marxists who inhabit Brown Univ. on Rhode Island where he works in the "International Affairs" dept. He is used to being graciously received by deceived and ignorant American citizens but he will be in for a surprise tomorrow night with Chuck. Anyone in America ...

I expect and hope people will tell me if this is true - Senator Bob Smith (R-NH)is fed up with the way the republicans are going so liberal and gave his platform for running for the top spot - Abolish the Department of Education and restore local control - Have a litmus test for the Supreme Court: pro-life - pro-Constitution - Rid our government of unconstitutional programs - Get the federal government off the backs of innocent - law-abiding gun owners - Obtain full accounting of our MIAs and POWs - Not sign any global agreement that sacrifices United States ...

For education & discussion only. June 23 — The Symbionese Liberation Army never really caught on as a mass movement. It lacked a media-friendly spokesman, such as Ross Perot. (“If the car is broken, you open the hood, fix it, then kill the chairman of Gen’ral Motors. It’s that simple.”) The SLA referred to a symbiotic relationship between classes and races, leaving some to think they were trying to liberate Symbonia, which sounded like a country full of shrill, thin, brittle people. They had an ugly logo — a seven-headed spitting snake — that clashed with the smiley-face decor of the ...

Kosovo, Kashmir and the New York Times By the Editorial Board 23 June 1999 Imagine that Tuesday's edition of the New York Times, a newspaper which has spearheaded the media propaganda campaign in support of the US-NATO war against Yugoslavia, carried an editorial written along the lines of the following excerpts: "Serbia and the United States have long engaged in cycles of confrontation and rapprochement, with war and threats of war followed by pledges of cooperation. Now the latest promises of peace have yielded to the worst fighting in decades. The provocation is the presence of well-armed Islamic militants holding ...

A study by the Fund for Stockowners Rights has found that the government takes more from American companies than shareholders make. o Businesses pay $1.58 in taxes for every $1 in net income to the company, FSR found. o Since companies pay many taxes besides income taxes -- such as payroll taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, use taxes, workers' compensation taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, import duties, gas taxes and others -- the FSR is not even sure its study caught them all. o Oil companies pay among the highest taxes compared to net income -- with Exxon, for example, paying ...

THE GOP TASTES LIKE CHICKEN Essay/By Jack Ryan   Not a news hour goes by where someone is not speculating on how our "victory" in the Balkans will affect Bill Clinton's legacy.  Now I'm not certain what galaxy most of these news-hour losers woke up in, but Mr. Clinton's legacy was signed, sealed and delivered the minute the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted in January 1998.  Legacy?   War?  Victory in the Balkans?  If Tom, Dan and Peter took the time to pull their collective noses from the White House's collective rear ends, they'd see that the first word in the ...

Here is another poll. Actually, the No Same Sex Marriage was ahead when I took a peek, and this is a flaming liberal site, so I am encouraged. http://www.turnleft.com/liberal.html Pardons in advance for my inability to post a link.

Americans must be assured free trade works for them. Support for free trade is dropping fast. In a recent poll, 58 percent of Americans agreed with the statement that foreign trade is ``bad for the U.S. economy because cheap imports hurt wages.'' Only 32 percent agreed with the statement that trade is ``good for the U.S. economy; it creates foreign demand, economic growth and jobs.'' Presidential aspirant Pat Buchanan may be the most vocal isolationist, but few other politicians these days dare push for free trade. Until recently, President Clinton was lobbying Congress to allow China into the World ...

POLL-Britain's Labour ahead by 23 pct points -poll LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair, rocked by poor results in European elections, was offered comfort on Thursday by an opinion poll showing his Labour Party 23 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. The MORI poll for the Times newspaper will be a blow to Conservative leader William Hague, whose party trounced Labour in the June 10 European parliament elections by campaigning against any early British entry to the European single currency. The poll showed 51 percent of Britons would vote for Labour if a general election was ...

U.S. President Bill Clinton forced Slobodan Milosevic to consider the following, or else: 1) Accept a N.A.T.O. bombing halt; 2) Remain in Yugoslavia as President; and 3) Allow the 1.3 million "ethnically cleansed Albanian" Kosovars to immigrate freely to other countries, mostly the United States and Albania. Or to return to Kosovo which may soon be the new country of "Kosova," if the KLA terrorists get what they desire. The victory celebration is already underway in Washington, D.C. Good job, Mr. President, especially on the beautiful blue Danube river. ... [ Full Story ] We won, but is Monica War ...

Paris, Wednesday, June 23, 1999 U.S-China Spy Dispute Casts Hong Kong as a Weak Point in Security By Evelyn Iritani Los Angeles Times Service HONG KONG - The fragile independence of this Asian financial center from China is being threatened by fallout from the U.S.-China espionage scandal, officials here fear. A recent congressional report claiming that Hong Kong has become a major transshipment point for Chinese spies and smugglers has triggered calls for a review of U.S. policy that recognizes Hong Kong's unusual status as an independent territory within mainland China. Anyone selling to Hong Kong, may be selling to ...

Ten Commandments under Attack The liberal establishment was caught flat-footed when the Congress passed our Ten Commandments Defense Act last week. But now they are on the counter attack led by the ACLU, People for the American Way and the rest of the usual suspects. When I was interviewed on Hannity and Colmes this week, it was the first subject that came up. Is it really appropriate, the liberal Colmes wanted to know, to display the Commandments in a public high school - after all they express a religious idea? Think about that for a second. A religious "thought" ...

http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0623/n_rt_0623_168.sml Senate Panel OKs Bill Relaxing Encryption Exports 7.09 p.m. ET (2310 GMT) June 23, 1999 WASHINGTON — A bill to relax strict U.S. export limits on computer data scrambling technology moved ahead in the Senate Wednesday, but still faces several hurdles including White House opposition. The Senate Commerce Committee's approval marked a victory for high-tech companies, since the panel favored a far more restrictive approach two years ago but reversed course after a powerful lobbying campaign by the industry. Scrambling or encryption technology, which is included in everything from cable television control boxes to e-mail and Web browsing software, ...

Slain woman's husband asks Congress to help bring suspect to US .6/23/99 WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who lost his wife in a bloody murder witnessed by his four toddlers begged Congress for help Wednesday in pressuring the Mexican government to extradite the suspect. His voice at times quaking with emotion, James J. Bellush said he and his children have waited since November 1997 to see Jose Luis Del Toro Jr. brought to trial. ``Please do not allow Sheila to have died in vain,'' Bellush asked members of the House Government Reform Committee's criminal justice, drug policy and human resources ...

KKK Leader Convicted in Virginia By DAVID REED .c The Associated Press HILLSVILLE, Va. (AP) - An all-white jury convicted a Ku Klux Klan leader of cross-burning today, rejecting claims by his black ACLU lawyer that he was legally exercising his right to free speech. The jury took 25 minutes to convict Barry Black of Johnstown, Pa., of violating a Virginia law against burning a cross to intimidate others. Black was fined $2,500, but spared jail time. Black, 51, could have been sentenced to as much as five years in prison. Prosecutors said Black, an imperial wizard with the International ...

China compared the United States to Nazi Germany on Tuesday and said NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia reflected Washington's ambition to become "Lord of the Earth". "If you ask which country wants to become 'the Lord of the Earth' as the then Nazi Germany had tried to, there is only one answer," said a commentary in the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party. "It is the hegemonism-pursuing United States." In likening the United States to Nazi Germany, the newspaper cited its massive defense budget, the bombing of Yugoslavia without U.N. sanction and the killing of civilians ...

6/23/99 -- 4:22 PM Serb houses burn as Kosovo demography changes again NOVAKE, Yugoslavia (AP) - NATO troops have pledged to do their best to keep revenge-minded ethnic Albanians from looting and burning Serb homes, but they were too late for this village. Crackling fire ate into wooden beams Wednesday morning. A roof collapsed. Tiles were strewn about. Stucco fell from walls. ``They burn our houses, we burn theirs,'' said Shpetim Shijaku, a skinny ethnic Albanian 10-year-old who came from a nearby village to grab whatever fleeing Serbs had left behind. The looting of this Serb settlement of 50 houses ...

STARR PUTS HILLARY ON WITNESS LIST IN HUBBELL TRIAL FOX NEWS on Wednesday confirmed a DRUDGE REPORT [MARCH 18, 1999] that prosecutors working for Kenneth Starr are preparing to order Hillary Clinton to testify in the upcoming trial of her former law partner Webster Hubbell. The independent counsel's office and defense attorneys have both submitted witness lists to the court. And Mrs. Clinton is listed as a "prosecution witness," according to FOX NEWS' David Shuster. The development means that at the very time Mrs. Clinton is starting her campaign for a New York Senate Seat, Starr will be attempting to ...