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I recieved this idea in an E-Mail tonight: A group of military spouses is begining a campaign to send Clinton bags of toy soldiers with the message that he should play with these and leave the real army alone! :) This could be as good, if not better than the "mail Wolfie cotton balls" trick! Lets see if we cant bury the Whitehouse with toy soldiers!

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. High-flying clouds of ice crystals were spotted in the sky over Colorado Tuesday night, the first time they've been seen this close to the equator. The cloud clusters are common closer to both poles of the Earth during the summer. They had never been spotted in the U.S. south of North Dakota. "This could be a signal that something is happening to our upper atmosphere," Gary Thomas, a professor at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, tells Firday's DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS. The NEWS' Charlie Brennan reports ...

Is there a liberal/democrat forum like this one or do these folks lack the ability to this sort of thing?

Land Grab By Dale Hurd June 23, 1999 -- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit is moving to stop mining, grazing, logging and oil and gas exploration on 5 million acres in 6 states. He may also use something called the Antiquities Act, created by Teddy Roosevelt, to declare some of the land a national monument. That would mean that in many cases, all recreational uses would also be banned, except for walking and meditating. The White House plan would affect 2.6 million acres in Utah, 1.5 million acres in Alaska, a half million acres in Arizona, almost a half million in ...

George W. Bush's decision to bypass the Republican Midwest Leadership Conference in Omaha is potentially troublesome to organizers who have billed the 13-state GOP gathering as the most important political event in Nebraska in a decade. Republican presidential candidates are to be showcased at the Aug. 5-8 conference with an afternoon of speeches at the Civic Auditorium Music Hall on Aug. 7. With all the presidential candidates in Omaha, the conference would have been the most significant political event in Nebraska since the 1988 vice presidential debate. After endorsing Bush for the Republican nomination, Gov. Mike Johanns on Friday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt prodded Republicans Thursday to negotiate a gun control compromise, acknowledging it would not contain everything the Senate passed and the White House and most Democrats want. At a news conference, Gephardt, D-Mo., said it may be technically feasible over time to complete all background checks on purchasers at gun shows in less than three business days, including the small share of individuals for whom that is not now the case. "Now if there is a way to speed up that process with the 10 percent over time, why wouldn't we be ...

NATO and the United Nations traded blame yesterday as Albanian rebels continued a campaign of terror aimed at ousting Serbs from their homes in western Kosovo. Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas encircled the 14th century Serbian Orthodox patriarchy in Pec where several hundred terrified Serb refugees have taken refuge recently. One KLA official, calling himself a military policeman, threatened to shoot our driver after we offered a ride to an ageing Serb woman wishing to visit her son. Fresh graves and burning houses lined the roads leading into Pec, a city already devastated by Serbian police and paramilitary units who had ...

PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - Violence against Kosovo Serbs was on the rise Thursday, the same day NATO's military and political leaders paid their first visit to the Serbian province and appealed for an end to ethnic feuding. ``I am not asking anyone to forget, I am asking them to forgive...to look to the future and not to the past,'' NATO Secretary General Javier Solana told a news conference after meeting local Albanian and Serb leaders. But as more and more Albanian refugees returned to their homes to find them devastated, wells poisoned, fields mined and relatives killed, Solana's appeal appeared ...

Politics 2000 Notebook ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, eyeing next year's Senate race in New York, will use government jets for her political trips to the state ``for as long as she is first lady,'' her spokeswoman said Thursday. Marsha Berry said the decision to continue using military aircraft was made on the advice of the Secret Service. Mrs. Clinton's fund-raising committee, in the process of being set up, will reimburse the government for political travel, she said. That is already done by other campaign committees when the first lady travels to help candidates raise money. ``The strong ...

Israeli planes attack power station near Beirut This strike at the Beirut power station blacked out most of the capital June 24, 1999 Web posted at: 5:11 p.m. EDT (2111 GMT) BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Israeli warplanes twice attacked a power substation on a hill above Beirut on Thursday night, in apparent retaliation for cross-border guerrilla attacks on northern Israel. At least two rockets were fired on Jambour hill near the Lebanese Defense Ministry compound, Lebanese television reported. It was the first time Beirut had been targeted by Israeli warplanes since the 1996 bombing blitz of Lebanon that killed ...

June 22, 1999 ======================================================= THE BELTWAY BEAT ======================================================= Decision on Committee Chairs Threatens to Slow Appropriations Process Speaker Dennis Hastert's, R-Ill., troubles organizing his conference have been, to say the least, readily apparent during recent debates on gun control and the appropriations process. Hastert can now add another topic to the list of issues that has angered conservatives in his caucus: committee chairmanships that will be up for grabs after the 2000 election and how they will be assigned. Very quietly last week, House leaders announced that current committee chairs will be able to obtain chairmanships on other committees or ...

PALESTINE*** The successful cooperation between the Palestine Authority and the Israel security forces, augers well for the future stabalization of the West Bank and Gaza, this according to our Middle East intelligence sources. At a preelection conference attended by delegates from Israel, and surprisingl, by Sheik Ahmed Yassin, it was agreed that heading off bombing attacks on Israel was the surest way to defeat Netanyahu at the polls. The PLA has developed a surprisingly effective General Intelligence Service (GIS), and Preventive Security Service which nipped at least two HAMAS-planned terror-bombing attacks in the bud. Arafat is largely perceioved as slowly ...

6/20/99 To VCT : Why can't all the groups that cater to a moratorium on legal immigration and termination of illegal immigration Join together in some kind of massive cohesive organization to promote this urgent issue before our America turns into a polluted, third world nation. If all the promoters could agree that by amalgamating together, they would have one very powerful force to halt this mess we are in today. We are a nation of immigrants but in a reasonable, orderly quota, not out-of-control mass influx of mostly poverty stricken hispanics that are occupying the Southwest. The majority of ...

Bush Surpasses Fund-Raising Goal For Pennsylvania Reuters [OL] ---------------------------------------- By David Morgan HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush continued to eclipse fund-raising goals as his campaign moved across Pennsylvania thanks to unexpectedly heavy turnout, campaign officials said Thursday. State Republican leaders said the Bush campaign had easily surpassed a $1 million target during two days of stops in four cities, including a $1,000-a-plate breakfast in Harrisburg that was budgeted for $200,000 in donations but produced $320,000. Two $1,000-admission fetes Wednesday in Philadelphia and Bethlehem drew $720,000 or 44 percent more than the expected $500,000. Bush left ...

In a recent thread, MadIvan and I had an entertaining exchange regarding US/UK relations: Arator: Will you Brits ever tire of trying to rule us? We Americans have had it with your meddling in our affairs. Your pathetic little island can sink into the Atlantic for all I care. Take your Rhode's Scholarships, your mad-cow globalism, your "City" financial machinations, and your pretentious elitism and sell it to your "friends" across the Channel, because we Americans have had our fill of it. You've manipulated us into squandering our blood and treasure to bail your craven imperial arsses out of two ...

That idiot Bob Woodard has his face on yet another TV program, not so much promoting his book and defending Hitlery tonight as covering comments that he's broken confidences to write his "historical book".These socialist think the whole world spins entirely because they are in it!How dare this clintonboy talk about Ford, Regan and Bush in the same sentence with a criminal like clinton.I am OFFENDED!

Getting a permit before you can exercise your constitutional right's doesn’t make any sense to me. If you have to get screened and licensed in order to invoke your constitution right's, you don’t have any constitutional right’s. Folk’s that advocate that other folk’s need to get a government permit before they will be allowed to buy a gun, is like saying that people who go in a crowded theater need to be screened and licensed, because they might yell “fire.” Next that “get your license before you get your right’s group” will be asking you to pay a poll tax ...

MR. WOODWARD: Because Freeh, the FBI director, was recommending an independent counsel in the campaign finance investigation because Freeh is an independent person and believes that the FBI should not be politicized by the White House. And Bill Clinton’s middle name is politics, and there are times when they tried to get the FBI to do simple little political things and Freeh wouldn’t play. He said, “That is not our job.” Scroll down to read Woodward Interview. ‘Meet the Press’ transcript Sunday, June 20, 1999 GUESTS:                Former Senator WARREN RUDMAN, (R-N.H.)     ...

Yugoslavia's parliament has voted to lift the state of war declared when Nato launched its bombing campaign. But it has taken new measures which could preserve some restrictions of freedom. The state-of-war decree imposed on 24 March included media restrictions, a ban on military-age men leaving the country and a ban on public gatherings. The lifting takes effect Saturday. Click here for the full article.

Jim suffered from a condition which left him unable to recognise faces. Once this was diagnosed, he was referred to Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist, who was researching facial attractiveness. "Jim was an interesting patient," says Etcoff, 44. "At Harvard he had been in a car accident and suffered a head injury. To a large extent he recovered, but was left so that he couldn't recognise faces, consciously or unconsciously. Yet he graduated, got married and had two children. He still couldn't recognise his wife, his children - anybody. He said looking at faces was like trying to read illegible handwriting." ...