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CLARKSDALE, Miss. — Perspiration streams from Lizzy Baker's face and her curls cling to her forehead in the searing Mississippi sun that bakes the field where she is chopping cotton. Baker is a round-shouldered black woman who dreams of a better life while doing a job that has not changed much since the days of slavery when cotton drove the South's economy. She has been in the field since daybreak and rhythmically taps the rich Delta soil with the wooden hoe she holds tightly in her callused hands. By the early afternoon, the temperature rises above 90. "It's hot ...

Celebration with a free hamburger The new American consulate general in Chiang Mai has decided to change a tradition of many years by moving the date of celebrating the most important (American) national holiday from July 4 to (Friday, July 2) as it seems to interfere with the personal life of some of the employees. This has been a long tradition where American ex-pats could meet other Americans. Because of the change, Americans employed in Thailand cannot attend. I have friends that teach in the Thai University system who are very upset. At the same time, I had bought train ...

by Andrew Amirault July 3, 1999 BOSTON, MA--Courtney Love's charms have caught the attention of Boston Mayor Tom Menino--as well as the Vice President of the United States of America, Al Gore. The Boston Globe noted ("Names & Faces," 5/21/99) that when Menino appeared on the Boston-themed "Late Night with David Letterman" on May 20, 1999, the highlight of his evening was meeting Love backstage. However, Vice President Gore appears to have even more enthusiasm for the controversial entertainer. On June 7, 1999, the Media Research Center ran the following: 5/21/1999: Singer Courtney Love recounted on the May 20, ...

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: FREEPER PROFILES SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 7/3/99   ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE CPA - OwenKellogg CMA - OwenKellogg CFM - OwenKellogg Controller - OwenKellogg MBA Finance - monocle CPA. - Lou in Mass. MBA Northwestern CPA- enough is enough Worked for a Fortune 500 international firm -enough is enough National CPA firm where I performed both audit and consulting assignments -enough is enough Now have my own accounting and consulting practice. -enough is enough Retired CPA. - tdscpa BBA Finance – dons Former Intra-Bank Spot Foreign Exchange Broker (working for a firm that ...

   While much of the world's attention has turned to Europe, the D-Day celebration, and the triumph of our values over tyranny in the long Cold War, we must not waver in the challenge of advancing those same values - freedom and prosperity - in Asia, and especially in China. It is in this region that many of the profound challenges to America's national interest can be found; it is in this region that our generation's progress will in large part be measured. A 21st Century economy is taking shape in China. China, last year, was the world's fastest growing economy, ...

HAPPY 4TH FREEPERS Without the 2nd amendment we would not have the 1st. "We will go through them like crap through a goose." "And you won't have to tell your grandchildren you were shovelling shit in Louisiana."

Since 1994, the Clinton administration has been spending taxpayer dollars to employ Russian nuclear scientists and weapons designers in civilian projects, with the laudable goal of seeking to prevent them from selling their talents to rogue states such as Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Libya. But a recent review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) found that some of the money has helped the Russians develop better nuclear weapons, missiles, and biological weapons--and that many civilian projects financed with U.S. taxpayer money have direct military applications. Even worse: Some of the U.S.-funded scientists and institutes are developing weapons for Iran ...

Just in time to disgust us a bit more this Independence Day weekend, Fox News is reporting that the dodger-in-chief is looking to visit Viet Nam within the next few months.Just when it seems that he cannot become more loathsome, he pulls a new one out of his hat!Most offensive of all is the quote attributed to him that he has always wanted to visit Viet Nam.

I know that many of you might think that I need "help", but it's probably not the type I'm seeking with this posting. This Saturday, July 10th, the freeperville chat room will begin a series of nights in which we honor individual states. This is an effort to bring freepers closer together and encourage cooperation and fraternity at the local levels where all of the action really is. Our first state will be Texas, and I am looking for volunteers to spend an hour or so as a guest host for the special chat room I'm making for the occasion. ...

2205 GMT, 990625 NATO Learns – Too Late – for Whom It Won a War It is becoming harder by the day to justify NATO’s continued collaboration with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). A front page article in the June 25 New York Times cites KLA commanders, former Albanian government officials, and Western diplomats who claim KLA leader Hashim Thaci and two of his lieutenants led purges of the KLA ranks, to root out and kill potential challengers to Thaci’s leadership. No one has come forward to say they witnessed Thaci or his associates, Azem Syla and Xhavit Haliti, ...

"The times they are a changin," goes the old song. And "changin" is also a word that applies to our school population. Old-timers remember when San Leandro was a community without the enrichment of ethnic diversity newcomers take for granted. Superintendent Tom Himmelberg cites a recent "Beyond Diversity" Workshop which he attended with other administrators. "While all of us, to some extent, are a bit intimidated by change at first, most of us recognize it as part of reality and believe it holds many positive values." He is proud of the district's melding of cultures and proud that "the many ...

For First Lady, A Controversy In Plane Terms Possible N.Y. Bid Redraws Line Between Official, Political Roles By John F. Harris Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; Page A01 When first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton flies to Upstate New York Wednesday to formally begin her Senate exploratory campaign, she'll be riding on the first big controversy of the nascent campaign: a gleaming blue-and-white Air Force passenger jet. A candidacy without precedent is raising murky ethical questions. The first lady's military travel -- which White House officials say is a security requirement and Republicans are protesting as an illegitimate ...

Kosovo Celebration Turns Deadly By Donna Bryson Associated Press Writer Saturday, July 3, 1999; 8:51 a.m. EDT PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- A celebration of ethnic Albanian pride turned deadly early today after British troops fired on a car of revelers, killing two people and injuring two others. A British forces spokesman, Alan Patterson, said a group of British soldiers was providing security for about 50 Serbs who had taken shelter in a building, when a car carrying eight people drove by and gunfire was heard. He said the soldiers, ``believing their life was in danger,'' opened fire on the ...

Has anyone else noticed that all of a sudden all the media reports are reffering to Pristina as being in Yugoslavia and not Kososvo? When did this become PC?

Lyrics Copyright 1998, Doug from Upland. Not for commercial purposes without the permission of the author. Can you hear the FReepers sing We lift our voices to the sky And we are swearing to our God That we will all live free or die Many brave men gave their lives So that this nation could be free If we will stand and fight We honor their memory England ruled from afar Until the brave among them said We won't accept the tyranny We'll show them kings are dead So they grabbed their weapons and fought and America's born Can ...

Suddenly parents are "in." Probably we have Columbine to thank for it. No sooner had the smoke cleared than the finger-pointing began. "Where were the parents?" asked Time magazine in a cover package titled "The Monsters Next Door." The Governor of Colorado suggested that the parents of the two teen killers might be indicted. Even Bill Clinton was making Bill Bennett-like noises. Speaking on NBC's "Today" show, the president told Katie Couric: "I think in the end, you've got to take it back to the fact that we--we all have responsibilities, and it starts with parents." Yet though our leaders ...

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Arlen Davidian A concerned American and Patriot July 3, 1999 Dear Friend, YOU CAN HELP RETURN THE POWER TO EVERY AMERICAN WITH THIS LETTER, It will not ask for money. It will not make you money. It will not make you feel guilty. This is a personal letter, not a message pushing a political agenda! I stand to gain nothing more than you as an American Citizen, but we all stand to lose everything! This letter will help to put our country, the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA back on the track from which it is being derailed. Americans including myself, ...

Poll: Public Fed Up With Media By MARTA W. ALDRICH Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- There is further evidence that the American public is getting fed up with the news media. A majority, 53 percent, of those questioned in a survey sponsored by the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University believe the press has too much freedom. That's a 15 percent increase since 1997. ``It's a humbling reminder that fundamental rights of expression can disappear if the press and public are not vigilant,'' said Ken Paulson, the center's executive director. The survey, released Friday to coincide with the ...