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L.A. Inches Closer to Bullet Ban Boys Gathered Signatures for Proposal Dec. 3, 1999 By Randy Dotinga LOS ANGELES (APBnews.com) -- A proposal to ban the sale of bullets in the city is gaining momentum, but some major legal and political hurdles remain. On Tuesday, the city's police commission recommended the city approve an ammunition ban with limited exceptions. A three-member council committee will later discuss the proposal and decide whether to send it to the full 15-member council. If passed, Los Angeles would join Chicago on the short list of major cities that forbids the sale of bullets. ...

Harris Poll Online: Election 2000 This information is a compilation of a Poll results that I had taken in November 1999. The Poll questioned people about whom they would vote for during the next election. I believe that i was chosen because I lived in Massachusetts and considered myself an Independent. This probably qualified me to participate in order to generate the proper demographic information required by the Pollsters. How would you rate the overall job President Clinton is doing as President? (Base: All Respondents) 15% 38% 19% 27% Excellent Pretty Good Only Fair Poor Copyright (c) Harris Interactive ...

The Battle for Seattle was the embryonic stage of the struggle against global "timocracy." As defined by Plato, timocracy is a state in which love of wealth and power is the guiding principle of the rulers. It was also Aristotle's idea of a state in which political power is in direct proportion to property ownership. To the uninitiated in the globalism phenomenon, timocracy appears to be rearing its ugly head. The three executives at the top of the Microsoft ladder are now worth more than 170 million Americans. There are 60 new millionaires each and every day in Silicon ...

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French Eateries Fearing New Year By Marilyn August Associated Press Writer Monday, Dec. 6, 1999; 4:39 p.m. EST PARIS –– Hungry New Year's revelers may have to bring their own food and drink to celebrations on the Champs-Elysees, as many restaurant owners on the elegant avenue have decided to usher in the millennium the safest way they know – closed. About 1.5 million people are expected to turn out for the New Year revelry, which will feature dazzling light shows and fireworks. The prospect of so many visitors has brought memories of the last time such crowds descended on the ...

Want to know why President George Bush really went back on his "read my lips pledge" and raised taxes? The devil didn't make him do it, as some have suggested. He wasn't pressured by liberal members of his own party to do it. The real reason can be summed up in two words: Richard Gephardt. William Federer, the man who is trying to unseat Gephardt, who would become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives if Democrats regain control of the lower chamber of Congress in the year 2000, says that the blame lies, not with Bush, but with the ...

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all The earth. Germany,Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these ...

I have seen a pre-discussion of the debate tonight on CNN. I have never seen such a set-up-the-stage format. On top of it all I believe they are trying to set up the candidates to either stand united (under Bush) or go into some kind of food fight against him. Candidates are supposed to ask the questions to each other. What a lousy format, why not let people call in, chat or write e-mails as CLinton had the opportunity to do right before the WTO. They seem to set up the President as a man close to the people and ...

ST. PAUL (AP) — Reform Party national committee members decided in a controversial vote released Monday to move the 2000 national convention from Long Beach, Calif. to an undesignated Minnesota city. The question is whether the vote is valid. Chairman Russ Verney, a loyalist of party founder Ross Perot, called the mail-in vote a "farce.'' Incoming Chairman Jack Gargan of Cedar Key, Fla., believes it is valid and called it "the will of the members.'' Minnesota Chairman Rick McCluhan and California Chairman Paul Hale organized the vote. The 143-member national committee voted both to allow the vote and to move ...

A Christmas Birthday Party by John & Marlys Hardcastle  Re 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. WIFE TO HUSBAND:  Darling!  I have decided to have a big birthday party for you! HUSBAND:  Wonderful! WIFE:  On December 25th. HUSBAND:  That's not my birthday. WIFE:  I know, I know, but we'll just SAY it's your birthday. HUSBAND:  That's your ex-boy friend's birthday! WIFE:  That's okay, I have decided to call it your birthday. HUSBAND:  No, its not okay.  Why don't ...

An article from yesterday's New York Times hints at what the NTSB may be planning for a finding of faulty wiring as the probable cause of the explosion of TWA Flight 800.  According to a report at http://twa800.webjump.com the driving force for this theory within the NTSB is Robert Swaim who recently presented this theory to a convention of defense contractors, military officials and commercial aviation firms called the 1999 Joint Conference on Aging Aircraft.  Swaim's presentation did not mention the fact that the doomed aircraft did not explode when it was hit with a severe lightning strike a few ...

My title on header.Politicians, Scientists, Celebrities Criticize Medical Marijuana Research Guidelines source WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On December 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented its new medical marijuana research guidelines amidst criticism from a coalition of medical groups, scientists, members of Congress, celebrities, and other concerned citizens. The coalition argues that "many of the new guidelines would still be too cumbersome to enable research to move forward as expeditiously as possible." HHS's new guidelines, written in May, explicitly reject the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) recent recommendation to open a federal compassionate-use program to give individual ...

Here they are folks, those who've been "honored" after appearing on yesterday's news shows PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLY Be sure to check out the "THINKING MAN" cartoons at the bottom of the page. Thanks.

Cars are a menace to society. Every year they lead to thousands of deaths.  Criminals use them in committing crimes. And when mixed with drugs or  alcohol, their deadly potential increases. In short, cars should be banned.  Sounds crazy, right? But substitute "guns" for "cars" and you have the  gun-control argument in a nutshell.  Gun-control advocates will argue that the comparison is unfair, and it is: To  guns. The truth is, cars are more dangerous than firearms. In 1997 there  were 43,458 motor vehicle deaths in the United States, according to the  National Center on Health Statistics. By comparison, ...

I have just returned from Seattle, where the massive protests prove that growing numbers of Americans are now realizing what you and I have known for a long time: organizations like the WTO represent a direct challenge to the sovereignty of our nation. And they also know that the recent Clinton "trade agreement" with Beijing is a complete capitulation. The Clinton team and many Republicans in Congress are eager to give Beijing unlimited access to our consumers and economy, while America gets almost nothing in return. D.C.'s political Establishment, hooked on the narcotic of soft money," is again marching to ...

Shootout as gunmen try to rob bar filled with off-duty police LAS VEGAS (AP) - Four gunmen tried to rob a bar filled with off-duty police officers, touching off a shootout in which one of the intruders was killed and six customers were wounded. Witnesses said there were about 70 people in Mr. D's bar and the rock band Pigs in a Blanket - made up mostly of policemen - had just finished playing when the masked gunmen burst in early Sunday. After the intruders ordered everyone to lie on the floor, one of the off-duty city officers exchanged fire ...

I just heard this via Wisconsin Public Radio. McCain will not be present at the debate tonight in his home state of Arizona but will be debating via satellite. Please forgive this vanity post but I'm sure I heard this.

A Bush adviser was asked recently what’s likely to happen in the months leading up to next November’s presidential election. “Nothing,” he said. The idea is that George W. Bush is such a strong front-runner he’ll glide through the Republican primaries, then defeat a damaged Democratic nominee with relative ease. So long as Bush avoids mistakes, victory is all but inevitable. The Bush camp cast his adequate but hardly impressive performance in the New Hampshire debate on December 2 in the context of this rosy view of Bush’s prospects. Bush didn’t blunder, his opponents barely nicked him, so the march ...

Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon Monday, 6 December 1999 19:05 (GMT) (UPI Focus) Mrs. Clinton expects to move soon WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she is waiting for the Secret Service to complete its preparations before she begins moving into her new New York home, perhaps as early as the end of the month. The first lady, showing off the White House Christmas decorations to reporters, said she has been packing and sorting through the first family's belongings as she prepares to head off to the $1.7 million home in Chappaqua, N.Y., ...

Presidential Choices…. People have been complaining about their choice of candidates for president for nearly 200 years. The current crop is never any good. Perhaps we would not be so pessimistic if we reviewed the last 50 years of presidential races and the conventional wisdom of the time. Consider the 1948 race. The Democrats put up his accidentcy, the failed haberdasher, the arm of the Pendergast political machine, a real dummy named Harry Truman. Running for the Pubies was the wedding cake model, mustashioed intelectual lightweight, named Dewey. The answer to Dewey or don't he, was don't he. Spice that ...