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When James Kohler, a school bus driver from Anoka, complained about a lack of summer jobs for people in his line of work, Ventura replied with some of his trademark philosophy and humor. "What's the matter with you?" he said. "It is not my responsibility to find you a job. It is your responsibility to find a job. If it's a good one, let me know about it. I'm not averse to working an extra job." http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=VENT02&date=02-Dec-1999

On   Abortion   In America On   Abortion   In America Under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "No person... shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law...." The U.S. Supreme Court's pro-abortion rulings have been arrived at by the tortured application of a "right to privacy" the justices found in the Fourteenth Amendment, though no such language is to be found in the 14th Amendment itself. What Roe v Wade, 410 U.S. 113; 93 S.Ct. 705 (1973) and its progeny illustrate is what happens when federal judgeships are awarded as political spoils. No federal judge ...

I have figured this out. Pat is supporting the protesters to broaden his base. His goal is simple. He wants to reach the dissaffected youth so strongly associated with Seattle sine the rise of Nirvana. I expect a total makeover. Could look something like this.

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. BEIJING (AP) -- About 1,000 silk mill workers blocked a highway in southwestern China for two days to protest that they hadn't been paid in a year, a rights group and a government official said Thursday. Five protesters were injured in a scuffle with more than 200 police, and three others were detained, the Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement said. A local official confirmed that more than 1,000 protesters were involved, but said there were no arrests or injuries. The protests Tuesday and Wednesday were ...

By Jim Kirksey Denver Post Staff Writer Dec. 2 - The mother of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh suggested Wednesday the families and friends of her son's victims move on with their lives. "I feel sorry for them, but this happened 4 years ago,'' Mildred "Mickey'' Hill told a Tampa, Fla., television reporter. Hill, who was committed to a Florida mental hospital for treatment after suffering a psychotic episode early in 1997, said she didn't think much about the April 19, 1995, bombing. Her son is on death row in the special confinement unit at the U.S. penitentiary at Terre ...

THE WAR IN KOSOVO IS NOT OVER Kosovo ( RNN Correspondent ) December the 1st, 1999 The war in Kosovo is not over. Since June 18th the KLA and their Albanian supporters have terrorizing the Kosovar Rom in an ethnic cleansing operation that has destroyed more than 20,000 Rom homes. In many villages and towns, all Roma homes have been destroyed. Families whose Roma ancestors arrived here as early as 1320, or Hashkalija whose oral traditions recount an even older history, have not only been made homeless, but over 150,000 have had to flee to other countries. In order to ...

(LIVE FROM NEW YORK section) Bill Clinton, who has been the luckiest guy in the world, must now also be the happiest. All because of Hillary. Here was this guy who repeatedly had to run home to Mama Hillary to pull his chestnuts, or whatever else you might call them, out of the fire -- or wherever else they may have been -- and grovel publicly for her forgiveness. Now, the tables have been turned. Clinton sends Hillary on a long trip, leaving him alone to be able to turn the White House into a branch of the Holiday ...

Next year, the United States will hold an election. Voters will be asked to decide critical questions of who will represent them and what policies they would like enacted. The 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress on Civics, just out from the U.S. Education Department, finds that three-quarters of America's high school seniors are not "proficient" in civics -- that branch of learning that studies the relationship between citizens and their government. Most of those students will be eligible to vote next year.This is cause for worry, and for action.The Nation's Report Card, as the NAEP is also known, reveals ...

Rush just announced that cable news services are all dow excepting Fox. He said CNN has lost 50% of its audience since last December.

The recent turbulence in the stock and bond markets has been attributed-in part-to uncertainty about the Y2K-bug and its side effects. In this age when we pride ourselves on knowing as much about everything as we possibly can, it remains curious to me that-with only a month to go-we do not know more about what to expect after New Year's Day. I am not a predictor of doomsday, because I believe that humankind is far too resilient a species to let some computer bug wreak havoc upon our way of life. I do, however, find comfort in solid, reliable information, ...

Please forgive this vanity post, but I want to see if any other FReepers were troubled by this event: Last Sunday night, while watching Touched By An Angel on CBS with my seven year old daughter, a commercial appeared by Pfizer talking about Erectile Dysfuntion! This CBS program is one of the very few that we can allow our daughter to watch as it is, given the pathetic landscape there is on network, or even Cable TV for that matter. Until last Sunday, there were no ads or other snippet's during this hour that I had to be concerned with, ...

President Clinton, who on Tuesday said the possibility of "another foreign trip" was preventing him from attending the Panama Canal hand-over ceremony on Dec. 14, might not make the other trip after all -- but will still skip Panama, the White House said yesterday. National Security Council spokesman David Leavy said "it is possible, absolutely," that Mr. Clinton will be in Washington on Dec. 14, but there is no chance that he will make use of that free time by flying to the hand-over ceremony. The statement seems at variance with the president's Tuesday explanation about why he will not ...

Torture evidence at Mexico grave FROM DAMIAN WHITWORTH IN EL PASO FBI INFORMANTS and other enemies of a notorious drug cartel may have been tortured in a remote cave before being killed on a shooting range used as a cover for mass murder. As the number of suspected "drug cemeteries" along the Mexico-Texas border rose to four yesterday, investigators concentrated on one ranch which had yielded the first two bodies. "The first things we have uncovered are bones belonging to two people," Jorge Madrazo, the Mexican Attorney-General, said. "We're not at the end of this operation, we are just at ...

Dear Freepers, In talking with a friend, he blames Reagan for the homeless problem. I realize he has picked this up from our blessed media with their contempt for Reagan. I also know that Reagan had nothing to do with this problem. As I recall, this was due to a court action as a result of a suit filed by the ACLU. Is this right? Does someone have any details of the case? I would like to take some specifics to my friend. Can you help? Thanks, and standing by, John

GREVESMUEHLEN, Germany (AP) — A well-known German neo-Nazi was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison without parole for denying the Holocaust. Manfred Roeder, 70, was given the sentence for referring to the Holocaust as "humbug'' during an August 1998 election rally in the eastern German city of Stralsund. In Germany, it is illegal to deny the Holocaust. The rally was part of his unsuccessful parliamentary campaign as a candidate for the extreme-right National Party of Germany. During the trial, Roeder said a tape of his speech had been "manipulated and falsified,'' claiming statements that would have cleared him were ...

FBI DIRECTOR SPEAKS ON EGYPTAIR 990 INVESTIGATION... In his first public comments on the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said Tuesday that Egyptian authorities were cooperating with the inquiry into the cause of the crash. Egyptian officials have dismissed the theory that a reserve pilot might have deliberately brought down the airliner, and some analysts feel they may rescind their request, made shortly after the crash, that the U.S. handle the investigation. ...WHILE CVR TRANSCRIPT STILL MIA... The release of a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder tape has been "several days" away for about ...

Thursday December 2 12:13 PM ET Bradley Slams Gore for Distortion And Division Bradley Slams Gore for Distortion And Division By Patricia WilsonBALTIMORE (Reuters) - Democratic candidate Bill Bradley lashed out at rival Al Gore on Thursday, accusing the vice president of distorting the record and dividing the party to score political points in the 2000 White House race.Appearing before the same group of black legislators that Gore addressed earlier, Bradley said: ``I hear he gave a pretty good speech, but I'm afraid he didn't tell you the whole truth about my record or even half of it.''The former senator ...

Shooting victim's body found in Kosovo Updated 7:46 PM ET December 1, 1999 International peacekeeping forces In Kosovo have found the body of a man in the Albanian-controlled part of Mitrovica, a KFOR spokeswoman said Wednesday. Beatrice Lacoste said the body, which was riddled with five bullet wounds, was found on Tuesday near a sports stadium, and the victim was believed to be Serb. In the Kosovo capital Pristina, chief U.N. administrator Bernard Kouchner laid a wreath Wednesday at the place where a group of ethnic Albanians dragged Serb university professor Dragoslav Basic from his car, beat him up and ...

"We should end those negotiations on giving away the Panama Canal and tell General Torrijos - we bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and we're going to keep it."Ronald Reagan 1976