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  Sex and Radioactive Cholera Whither the Gals of Yore? 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, ...

-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 ...

      (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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. ...

Andrew Roberts says that Western apologists for the USSR should be required to sit down and watch a BBC2 documentary on Saturday I will die, They will bury me, And no one will know, Where my grave is. No one will go there, No one will come, Only in the early spring The nightingale will sing. (A song from the Gulag) THIS Saturday, BBC2 will devote an entire evening to visiting the graves of the 50 million people exterminated by the Russian Gulag, in a powerful three-hour documentary by Alexander Macqueen that has been a decade in the making. Some ...

DIRT: the ultimate Cyber weapon Getting DIRT on the Bad Guys Here's the ultimate weapon in the war against cyber crime. by Tom Spring, PC World June 29, 1999, 12:23 p.m. PT To former detective Frank Jones, "secure network" is an oxymoron. The word "delete" isn't in his vocabulary. Password-protect your computer and you'll make his day. And if you really get on Jones' bad side, he'll take complete control of your PC--and your first clue will be when you open your door and the boys in overcoats start flashing badges at you. If you're among the anonymous thousands of ...

Hamburg's Die Woche in German 2 July 1999 Interview with Krasnoyarsk Governor Aleksandr Lebed by Stefan Scholl in Krasnoyarsk; date not given: "There Are No Winners Anymore" [Scholl] Aleksandr Ivanovich, who won the Kosovo war, in your view? [ Lebed] No one. Who could have won it? [Scholl] NATO, for instance. [Lebed] Then why did NATO Secretary General Solana resign from his office? Winners do not leave, winners stay in the boss's seat. [Scholl] After all, he will soon be "Mr. CFSP [Common Foreign and Security Policy]," the EU's quasi foreign minister. [Lebed] (grinning) In the Army we called ...

Investors Business Daily July 8, 1999 E D I T O R I A L Richardson: Secretary Of Spin? Date: 7/8/99 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 ...

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Well, good 'ol Mugger pulls no punches once again, and nails it, especially visually with a graphic of what Time magazine would look like if it were interested in reporting what's really going on. Leftist handwringers and bluenoses had best avert their eyes. Others may go here.

In recent days scattered reports have emerged in the American media of the inflated and misleading character of claims by US officials of Serb atrocities against the Kosovan Albanians. On June 28 the Detroit Free Press carried an article by foreign correspondent Lori Montgomery, datelined Prizren, which bore the headline, “Rapes not a policy in Kosovo: Assaults were individual acts by Serbs, evidence indicates.” The article stated: “Western officials have accused Serb soldiers of raping ethnic Albanian women as a tool of war. Although numerous credible accounts detail attacks by Serb soldiers, it now appears that rape was rarely systematic ...

Click here Gradually the general public is coming to realize the incredible damage to our national security caused by the pile of excrement inhabiting our White House.

THE UNITED States has begun a top-secret effort to topple Slobodan Milosevic - so top- secret that it has now been reported in both Time and Newsweek magazines. The plan for covert action reportedly includes a cyberwar effort to suck money out of President Milosevic's overseas bank accounts, money for the opposition and broadcasts of Western programmes over the border into Serbia. Covert action normally precedes or is a substitute for conventional war, said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence analyst at the private-sector Federation of American Scientists. And much of the content of the programme, if the magazine reports are correct, ...

$1 Trillion Surplus In Doubt 07/08/1999 By Robert A. Rankin Knight Ridder News Service WASHINGTON -- The extra $1 trillion that President Clinton and Congress are so eager to spend appears to be a mirage. Federal budget agencies project that $1 trillion in surplus tax revenues -- all outside the Social Security system -- will flood the Treasury over the next decade. But independent analysts say that projection is based on two highly dubious assumptions. First, it assumes that spending on most domestic programs will be cut by about 20 percent from current levels and remain there, freeing money for ...

Oneonta -- Hoping that voters want to focus on issues rather than addresses, Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday began a four-day tour of upstate New York as she weighs running for the U.S. Senate. With scores of residents and more than 200 reporters from around the world observing her every move, Clinton formally began her self-proclaimed "listening tour" by hearing out the "wisest New Yorker," retiring Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the person she would replace. After her blue-and-white Air Force jet landed at Binghamton Airport, Clinton made a pilgrimage to Moynihan's Pindars Corner farm, where the senator showed her the one-room ...

You'll certainly not hear this from the media or the Federal Reserve, but the present economic expansion, by recent historical standards, has not been particularly strong. Last Friday, the government revised the GDP growth rate for the first quarter. Instead of the previously reported 4.1%, the economy actually grew by 4.3%. This makes 32 consecutive quarters of economic growth-an impressive record indeed. In fact, it's-as President Clinton likes to point out-the longest peacetime expansion in U.S. history. (Never mind that it was nearly two years old before Clinton arrived in Washington.) Clinton noted the revised growth number in a speech ...