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DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON SECTION: FREEPER PROFILES SUBSECTION: ALL Revised 12/7/99 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE CPA - OwenKellogg CMA - OwenKellogg CFM - OwenKellogg Controller - OwenKellogg MBA Finance - monocle CPA. - Lou in Mass. MBA, CPA - enough is enough Retired CPA. - tdscpa BBA Finance - dons Former Intra-Bank Spot Foreign Exchange Broker (working for a firm that moved about 2 billion USD/DMK a day) - woodman Compile, edit and publish a directory of the commercial finance (factoring) industry - Maceman. Self employed financial planner - Loren from Pikes Peak Accountant (general ledger) - ...

DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENTS Revised 12/7/99   The "Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of President Clinton" is the personal cyber-notepad of Alamo-Girl, the unofficial, unappointed secretary/archivist of what is the most active conservative political forum on the world wide web, the Free Republic. Forum participants refer to the list by its initials, DSL. The DSL is limited to the downside (darkside) of William Jefferson Clinton and includes questionable people, circumstances and events surrounding Bill Clinton i.e., two degrees of separation from the Presidency. The focus at two degrees was deemed necessary ...

At a moment when President Clinton is making special efforts to rehabilitate himself, he has been hit hard with criticism of the way he has governed from a scholar he has long admired: Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian James MacGregor Burns. It was Dr. Burns's biography of John F. Kennedy that did so much to win respect among academics for that then-rising political star. In his new book - "Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation" - co-authored by political scientist Georgia Sorenson, the verdict on Mr. Clinton is tough: Clinton's centrist strategy initiated a pattern of indecisive leadership ...

To anyone out there who served in WORLD WAR II, I would like to say THANKS on this anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Although I was born long after this war, I do appreciate the sacrifices of those of you who served, and of your families. God bless you all, and may we never forget!

Ensuring racial differences click here for entire article (JEWISH WORLD REVIEW) Linda Chavez " .... When it comes to race, intent counts. No matter how neutral -- or clever -- a policy appears, if its intent is to give some people an advantage and others a disadvantage because of their skin color, then, the policy is discriminatory, plain and simple. But what about Florida's proposed 20 percent rule, or Texas' less generous 10 percent, or California's 4 percent solution? If the intent is to ensure racial balance -- to put caps on the numbers of some groups in order ...

NEW YORK- Trying to prove that he is indeed a man of the people, New York Mayor Rudolph "Rudy" Giuliani submitted himself to hypnosis during his weekly press conference. Before being put under the spell, Giuliani challenged his presumed Democratic opponent for New York's open Senate seat to do the same. "It is said that one cannot lie under hypnosis," Giuliani said. "I am allowing myself to be hypnotized so that the people of New York will know that what I say in public is what I think in private. Although I doubt she will, I challenge Mrs. Clinton do ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - American workers' productivity grew in the third quarter of 1999 at the fastest rate in seven years, while labor costs declined - a recipe for low inflation. Productivity, defined as the amount of output for each hour of work, rose at a 4.9 percent annual rate from July through September, the Labor Department said today. That was revised upward from a previous estimate of 4.2 percent, to reflect an even bigger rebound from the second quarter, when productivity growth had slowed to 0.6 percent. Meanwhile, unit labor costs, considered a key measure of wage pressures that ...

Leonard Pitts, (c) 1999, The Miami Herald. December 7, 1999 A few words, if you will, on the feud between George W. Bush and a guy named Zack. You say you weren't aware any such spat existed? Well, for some reason it has yet to enter the broad public consciousness, though it has been going on for months and has been reported in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London and Newsweek, among others. Briefly, it seems that Zack--Exley is his surname --has a Web site (who doesn't these days?) that takes some pointed potshots at ...

The prosecutor in the Linda R. Tripp wiretapping case yesterday subpoenaed an editor at Newsweek magazine, as well as three members of Tripp's bridge club, to testify next week in a significant phase of the case, according to court records. Tripp is charged with illegally taping a phone conversation with former White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky and illegally disclosing the conversation to Newsweek. Subpoenas also went out yesterday to two Radio Shack employees who sold Tripp the recorder she used to make the tape of Lewinsky; a neighbor of Tripp's; a friend who works at the State Department; and ...

Dick Morris National Post Al Gore is like the Mars space capsule. We're pretty sure he's there, but he's not sending back any signals. If only Al Gore were still alive, he'd be speaking out about what's happening in America today. If Gore were alive, he'd be out there in Seattle demanding that the arrogant, secretive, insular World Trade Organization focus on global environmental degradation, not just profits. He would be out in front demanding fair labour standards and would liken exploitation of workers in foreign countries to dumping of exports as a practice the WTO should ban. But since ...

Washington - The world's most expensive and best-equipped Army performed so poorly during Operation Allied Force that the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee struggled for the right word. "Snafu-that's it," said Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), repeating the World War II acronym for "Situation Normal, All Fouled Up" or something close to it. "Snafu," Warner said again, pointing his finger at the assembled top brass during a hearing last month on the state of the Army. In military terms, the 78-day campaign against Serb President Slobodan Milosevic was recorded as a lopsided triumph for the U.S. Air Force, ...

When assessing China's military potential, Western and Asian observers often tend either to view the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as an ominous storm cloud on the horizon or to casually dismiss it as a "paper tiger" faced with significant modernization and operational problems. On the one hand, there is no shortage of commentary reporting the PLAN's acquisition of sophisticated Russian-built military ships and aircraft, improvements in indigenous production, and development of a modern Marine Force. These articles point with increasing alarm to China's drive for naval domination on both sides of the Malacca Strait, the South China Sea, ...

NASA scientists remained optimistic last night about the fate of the Mars Polar Lander which should have touched down on Mars on Friday. It has now missed six chances to call home. Despite this failure, a Nasa spokesman said one of the best chances yet to communicate with the Lander would occur this morning because instead of waiting for a signal, Nasa will send a command to make it talk. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft will be listening and a large radio telescope at Stanford in California will also be available to catch any signal the Lander sends.

Report Attacks Government Mental Health Research WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is wasting money studying things such as ``the parentage of eastern bluebirds'' instead of looking for better drugs to treat serious diseases such as schizophrenia, a report issued on Monday says. But the NIMH, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), defended its spending record and said it was doing what Congress told it to do. The report, commissioned by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, says there is a ``direct correlation'' between what it sees as the NIMH's failures and the ...

I started a second thread because the first had grown too long. So, in light of the debates last night, and if you haven't done so already, please vote in this poll : Which GOP Candidate is the best Constitutionalist? The choices are (I was limited to five) : George Bush Jr. Steve Forbes John McCain Alan Keyes Orin Hatch

I was perusing the VOTE.COM poll, and checked results for my state and district (as well as the default of all voters) What I found was most interesting. In my state (PA) KEYES won again, as usual, hands down, but McCAIN took second and BUSH was THIRD! Then I went to check out "MY DISTRICT" and it wasn't even a contest, KEYES had over 54% of the vote, the next closest person was AL GORE believe it or not, with only 15%! I know it is "just an internet poll" but damned, that is pretty darned consistent for KEYES!! If ...

"You are venturing into harassment. Remove us from your mailing list or face legal action." Those are words from the Poughkeepsie Journal newsroom to myself. A once proud newspaper in one of upstate NY's most conservative counties, has now turned the corner into full fledge liberal activism. The sad part is they probaly don't realize what they are doing. The Poughkeepsie Journal, located in Poughkeepsie, NY, in beautiful Dutchess County has a public e-mail address newsroom@poughkee.gannett.com . I assumed since their e-mail address newsroom@poughkee.gannett.com is in every one of their papers, it would be fine to send them articles of ...

Web posted Tuesday, December 7, 1999 Chinese smuggling trial begins Three defendants, all illegal aliens, are accused of helping the operation on Prince Nicolas in exchange for a small break on their fees to America. By John Zebrowski Savannah Morning News Two thousand dollars. It seems a reasonable amount to help keep a ship clean, cook food and manage the complaints of 132 passengers. It might even lead a person to take a more aggressive role, to become an enforcer, to hold a knife to another man's throat or stand by clutching a hammer. For Zheng Huan Jian, who ...

The government agency charged with funding research into mental illness spends more on AIDS than on schizophrenia and supports too much study of arcane topics such as aggression in bluebirds and social change in Czechoslovakia, says a report to be released today. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has ''failed in its primary mission to support research into schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and other severe mental illnesses,'' says the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, a leading advocacy group, in a rare public criticism of the agency's budget. ''It's foolish on economic grounds alone, not to mention concerns for patients ...

Parental consent eyed for long guns By Mike Soraghan Denver Post Capitol Bureau Dec. 7 - When Robyn Anderson supplied three of the guns used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the Columbine High School massacre, she broke no state or federal laws, so she can't be prosecuted. That came as a revelation to some legislators, who say the law might need beefing up. Rep. Don Lee, R-Littleton, reacted with surprise Monday when law enforcement officials on a task force he chairs told him someone could give one of his teenage children a rifle without fear of prosecution. ...