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Don Adams has just been found NOT GUILTY of assaulting a female teamster. Physicist will post a longer write-up later today.

Don Adams has just been found NOT GUILTY of assaulting a female teamster. Physicist will post a longer write-up later today.

PORTLAND-Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush brought his brand of "compassionate conservatism" to Oregon Wednesday, urging children to avoid drugs and TV while promising them a prosperous 21st century.Making his first campaign stop in a state that twice rejected his father's presidential bids, Bush raised $377,000 for his own campaign that already has a reported $36 million war chest. It was one of the largest single political fund-raisers in state history."I'm going to come back to this beautiful state a lot,"Bush told a crowd of about 350 cheering supporters at a downtown hotel.The two-time Texas governor was introduced by U. ...

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) - As he moves to claim turf in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vice President Al Gore is expected to release a report on Internet stalking within the next few weeks. Attorney General Janet Reno spoke broadly about the Justice Department-produced report at her weekly news conference (Thursday), but gave few details.

TRUMPET Software, the Tasmanian developer, is preparing to compete head-to-head with giant Microsoft with the launch of its 32-bit PC operating system capable of running native Windows applications. Called PetrOS, the new operating system is designed to play squarely in the Microsoft heartland. An Alpha version of the system is to be released in a month. Trumpet founder Peter Tattam - made famous as the developer of the once-ubiquitous Trumpet Winsock program - said PetrOS addressed a growing mood of disaffection among consumers worldwide at the lack of product choice. Mr Tattam avoided comparisons with the Windows operating system, but ...

Attention All CNY Freepers I know this is late, sorry about that, I came back from Vacation on Monday then had a family problem which took me to Cleveland so I'm kinda operating in the blind right now. This is what I do know. Hillary will be in Syracuse TOMMOROW 07/09/99. I have been able to piece together some of her schedule as follows. Noon till ? at Mike Bragmans house in Clay for a BBQ, this could be a good spot to Freep her, next she goes to New Process Gear, not a good spot, many Union Thugs high ...

Richardson Agrees to GOP Nuke Plan By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the most significant fallout yet from the controversy over Chinese espionage and lax security, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has agreed to a semiautonomous nuclear weapons agency within his department. Richardson until this week has strongly opposed a Republican proposal for such an agency saying it would weaken the authority of future energy secretaries and create ``a new fiefdom in a department of fiefdoms.'' But under pressure from Congress -- and reportedly a strong signal from the White House to reach some accommodation ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Panel Questions U.S. Arms Readiness By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government commission has concluded that the top levels of the U.S. government are poorly prepared to combat the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons spreading around the world. The panel headed by John Deutch, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recommends appointment of a deputy to the National Security Council to coordinate prevention of such a crisis as well as preparations by various government agencies. The commission studied potential disasters and how government would respond. ``There has ...

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 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 other priorities -- Medicare for Clinton, tax cuts for Republicans. Second, it assumes there will ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Panel Questions U.S. Arms Readiness By DAVID BRISCOE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government commission has concluded that the top levels of the U.S. government are poorly prepared to combat the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons spreading around the world. The panel headed by John Deutch, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, recommends appointment of a deputy to the National Security Council to coordinate prevention of such a crisis as well as preparations by various government agencies. The commission studied potential disasters and how government would respond. ``There has ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission estimates 7 million Americans have registered to vote since 1994 because of the "motor voter" law. The commission said Wednesday registration among the voting-age population rose to 70.15 percent in 1998 -- the highest percentage in a non-presidential election year since 1970. The National Voter Registration Act, which took effect in 1995, was designed to make it easier to register. It required 44 states and the District of Columbia to let people register by mail, when they renew their driver's licenses and when applying for welfare or disability benefits. Although the motor voter ...

For Editorial and Discussion use only: ABC Signs Matt Drudge to Radio Spot By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge has been signed by the ABC Radio Networks to anchor a two-hour weekly radio show, despite objections from the top of ABC News. Drudge, who has been doing a show on WABC radio in New York, will have his national debut this Sunday on ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Denver. The show will consist of topical commentary and listener call-ins, ABC said. Drudge is the author ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A third of the nation's atomic power plants still have additional work to complete on non-safety computer systems to be fully ready to deal with the Y2K computer bug, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The commission said it has received reports from all 103 nuclear plants indicating ''that there are no Y2K-related problems which directly affect the performance of safety systems.'' Sixty-eight plants indicated that all their computer systems that support safe plant operation are ''Y2K ready,'' the agency said The other 35 plants reported that they have additional work to complete on a few non-safety ...

The thread mutated into a general discussion of Microsoft tactics and other geeky things. The original thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3780a9f512db.htm

When General Cornwallis and the British surrendered to George Washington and his Colonials at Yorktown, the red-coat regimental band played a ditty called "The World Turned Upside Down" to show what they thought of the occasion. It's too bad that tune has gone the way of the British Empire, as recent events illustrate the need to dust off the sheet music and tune up the fifes and drums. Consider that General Augusto Pinochet, who almost 30 years ago rescued Chile from the nightmare of a brutal Marxist tyranny, is under arrest in England awaiting deportation to Spain for trial ...

FOR INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. PAPER ACCUSES BUSH OF DODGING MINORITY CONVENTION; CAMPAIGN SAYS RACE BAITING Presidential candidate George W. Bush will make campaign appearances in Seattle Thursday but has no plans to address a conference of 6,000 minority journalists meeting that will be going down at the same time, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is planning to report, according to publishing sources. And late Wednesday, one Bush campaign official shot back, calling the story "nothing more than a game of racial innuendo." The paper's Sam Fulwood III reports: "Organizers said Bush told them his one-day trip to the ...

Time magazine is running an on-line poll. Right now things don't look good for Hillary. Am asking for all your help to make it look even worse. Please go Vote VOTE

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IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE A LAWYER working for the Justice Department in Washington and you are planning a conference on polilce-community relations. Whom do you invite? The mayor of Washington, D.C.? Criminologists? Community leaders? Suppose someone suggested that you invite race hustler the Rev. Al Sharpton--the mountebank who came to national prominence on the strength of a vicious and highly inflammatory libel he helped Tawana Brawley broadcast to the world and who has continued to show up wherever the members of racial distrust and enmity could be stirred into fire. You would laugh, right? You would say "That's like inviting ...

Published in The Orlando Sentinel on July 8, 1999. Posted for information and discussion only; not for commercial use. Politicians seem to have discovered children and profess to be worried about them. Various nostrums for saving children will likely be the main theme of next year's political campaigns. Here are a few the politicians will not want to consider: Start a new campaign to get mothers out of the work force. Believe it or not, there was a huge public campaign at the turn of the century against women working, not in order to oppress women, as the feminists ...