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Sooner Gun Shows presents the Grand National Gun and Knife Show this weekend, Dec. 4th and 5th, 1999, in Tulsa OK, at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Expo Building; Sat. 8-6pm, Sun 9-5pm. This promises to be a great event with over 2200 dealers. Along with the usual assortment of hardware available you can also meet several celebrities, including Randy Weaver of Ruby Ridge fame, and the most decorated Green Beret Commander: Lt Col. James “Bo” Gritz, who is currently conducting freedom seminars. They will certainly be in good company as the show also boasts the appearance of Jerry Furland, author of ...

This is in response to a letter in the Times-Union on Dec. 2 with remarks about elderly drivers. I am an elderly driver but I prefer to be called a senior citizen. I find the remarks made by the writer disturbing. I read the paper every day and am alarmed at the number of accidents on our highways and in our city. I fail to see substance in the remarks about the driving habits of senior citizens. A careful observation of the facts will show that we seldom are involved in drinking and driving, rage, careless driving, speeding, single ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Attention Kmart Corp. shoppers: the Professional Photographers of America says the discount retailer shouldn't sell you copies of graduation portraits, wedding pictures and other photos taken by professionals. The group filed a suit against Kmart, of Troy, Mich., in federal court here earlier this week to try to protect the copyrights of its 14,000 members. Many of them earn a substantial part of their income selling reprints of the pictures they shoot. The suit seeks $600,000 in damages for one of its member photographers. It also seeks an injunction barring the 2,159 Kmart stores across the country from ...

Teh Drudge Report Headlines this morning......

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BEIJING (AP)--Governments committed to stopping erosion of the dwindling ozone layer agreed Friday to replenish a fund to help developing countries phase out harmful chemicals and set controls for newer ozone-depleting chemicals. Ending a five-day U.N.-sponsored meeting that environmentalists criticized for being unambitious, officials from 129 governments agreed to $440 million in new contributions, bringing the total multilateral fund to $475 million, organizers said. Developing countries may draw on the money to meet commitments under a treaty known as the Montreal Protocol to phase out production and use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, by 2010. Industrialized countries have already phased out ...

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A Western European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Friday, the second in a French-led drive for a European ``spy in the sky'' independent of the United States. The Ariane-40 rocket blasted off at 11:22 a.m. EST from the Kourou launch pad in French Guiana. It placed into orbit 23 minutes later the 2.5-ton Helios 1B satellite, an enhanced twin of the Helios 1A satellite launched four years ago.France, running the project with minority partners Italy and Spain, gave high publicity to the launch from this site in the northeastern part of South ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists say they have discovered evidence of rapid change in world sea levels and of a dramatic fall in geologically recent times -- directly challenging current conventional wisdom.Dr Robert Baker of the University of New England, in the New South Wales country town of Armidale, has tapped the secrets of worm coatings on once-submerged rocks to shake established theory that sea levels are presently as high as they have ever been.Based on height measurements of worm coatings on rocks now well above sea level, and carbon dating tests which show them to be as recent as ...

WASHINGTON -- Tyson Foods Inc. executive Archie Schaffer won a new trial Friday after a federal judge concluded that testimony from Mike Espy "would probably produce an acquittal" in a case involving illegal gifts to the former agriculture secretary. U.S. District Judge James Robertson issued the ruling after a hearing last month during which Espy testified that neither Schaffer nor any other Tyson Foods official had tried to influence policy decisions during a 1993 trip to Arkansas when he was a member of President Clinton's Cabinet. Independent counsel Donald Smaltz immediately filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. ...

BEDFORD - A top George W. Bush campaign consultant says Steve Forbes crossed the line into negative personal campaign territory yesterday when he raised old, but still-unanswered questions about the Texas governor's youth. Forbes said he was just kidding, and a Forbes aide said Bush and his backers need to "lighten up." But the Bush consultant said that for Forbes, negative campaigning is "instinctual." At Thursday night's GOP Presidential debate in Manchester, magazine publisher Forbes criticized Bush for saying that he would consider raising the Social Security retirement age as one way of helping the program remain solvent. Forbes ...

Report on Columbine likely to be issued in January The Associated Press State & Local Wire December 3, 1999 December 3, 1999, Friday, BC cycle DENVER A report from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department on the shooting rampage that left 15 people dead at Columbine High School in April should be released sometime next month. William Erickson, the former state Supreme Court justice heading the commission, said the meeting was closed because the probe into the April 20 shootings is not over. The announcement came from department spokesman Steve Davis on Thursday. "We won't have it ready to release ...

Report: Inspector General critical of Oklahoma City FBI office The Associated Press State & Local Wire December 1, 1999, Wednesday, PM cycle OKLAHOMA CITY An investigative arm of the U.S. Justice Department criticized the Oklahoma City field office of the FBI in a report for the way it handled physical evidence in an investigation of the 1995 death of a federal inmate, according to a published report. The Arkansas Chronicle, a small Arkansas publication, reports that it obtained a copy of the confidential report from the Office of the Inspector General Nov. 19. In addition to the mishandling of ...

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BEDFORD - Texas Gov. George W. Bush moved toward a firm position on Internet commerce taxation yesterday, saying that he supports continuing a legal moratorium on such taxes beyond the Oct. 21, 2001, expiration date now in federal law. Bush stopped short of an agreeing with a permanent ban on Internet sales taxes, which is the position taken by GOP his Presidential rivals. A campaign spokesman said Bush would extend the moratorium for "several years" beyond the slated expiration date. Bush gave a spirited stump speech to about 320 New Hampshire business people at a "Politics and Eggs" breakfast ...

Three GOP campaigns intensify efforts MANCHESTER, N.H. - In a fractious follow-up to the first major Republican presidential debate, Steve Forbes raised questions Friday about George W. Bush's refusal to discuss his youthful indiscretions. Bush's campaign called the rival a ''desperate candidate.'' With two more debates scheduled this month, the top three GOP campaigns intensified efforts to undermine their opponents - even as they all claimed to be running positive campaigns. Arizona Sen. John McCain announced that more than a dozen supporters of the Texas governor had switched to his campaign after Thursday night's nationally televised debate - the first ...

i have to come forward with this message to you. there are times where we might have different opinions on things, and i believe that, it is good. we are people and therefore we should stand behind our believes. however, i think the time when we have to put our differences aside has come. frankly, we got no choice. essentially we want the same thing. freedom and democracy. but by picking at each other we will just be doing exactly what they, the NWO guys, want us to do. we must be smarter than that (sounds communist? whatever). so i'm ...

Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press WASHINGTON (December 3, 1999 12:33 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A whopping $510,000 in reserved TV spots just before next month's Iowa caucuses catapults Bill Bradley dangerously close to the campaign spending limit there. For good measure, the presidential candidate who's made campaign finance reform a central tenet of his campaign, also placed a $55,000 marker for ad time on nearby Illinois TV - a way of reaching Iowa viewers without counting fully towards Iowa limits. The airtime orders that Bradley placed Thursday underscore the creativity of candidates who accept ...

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The world's worst robbers Pulling off America's second largest heist was no trouble; spending the $17 million was even easier. Leaving a trail of BMWs, jewellery and powerboats in their wake, the hillbilly hoods made no attempt to hide their new-found wealth. Edward Helmore looks at a catalogue of incompetence that ended in swift justice. It was the start of a reckless caper that would end with the arrest of an incestuous circle of hillbillies on charges of larceny, money laundering and, in the case of the mastermind and an accomplice, charges of conspiracy to commit murder. By the time ...

MOSCOW –– Only about 50 percent of Russia's air traffic control systems are safe from Y2K computer problems, a top aviation official said Friday, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. Russia has lagged far behind Western countries in checking safety equipment and infrastructure for Y2K compliance. But officials in many spheres claim to have ensured nothing will go wrong, in part because Russia is less computer-dependent than more developed countries. Some U.S. and other international flight experts have said Russia's air traffic control systems may not be ready in time. But Vladimir Andreyev, head of Russia's Federal Air Transport Service, said ...