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Serendipity smiled on a Duncanville couple over the weekend, but they apparently chose safety instead. Police said a woman and her husband stumbled upon a brown paper bag Saturday afternoon in the middle of a Red Bird street. Without looking inside, the woman said, she presumed it contained schoolbooks left behind by an absent-minded youth. But inside the sack was nearly $300,000 in cash, a 9 mm chrome handgun and 18 rounds of ammunition. "The gun would lead the citizen to believe that this is obviously from some kind of criminal offense," said police Deputy Chief Danny Garcia. "Having kept ...

Five Republican senators will get a holiday gift today. The Business Roundtable, an industry group backed by some of the nation's largest corporations, today begins an early television advertising effort on behalf of Sens. Spencer Abraham (Mich.), John D. Ashcroft (Mo.), James M. Jeffords (Vt.), and Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, asking voters to "thank" them for their votes on health care reform legislation this year. In July, the five joined other Republicans in blocking a series of health care proposals backed by Democrats, including a provision allowing patients to sue their health plans, a measure vigorously ...

How the Demos lost the White House in Seattle The WTO battles blew the election for Gore; McCain needs more than bad luck to qualify for the presidency; Hillary's one of the most destructive personalities in American politics; and why Madonna talks like the queen mother. By Camille Paglia Dec. 8, 1999 | The biggest political news of last week was not the shaky maiden debate of presidential candidate Gov. George W. Bush in New Hampshire but the chaos in the streets of Seattle, where over 30,000 protesters mobilized against the meeting of the World Trade Organization and were met ...

The Victory In Florida taxgate.com/  We'd like to give you some encouraging news about what appears to be a very significant victory in an income tax "Problem Resolution" case in Florida over withholding requirements.  Our summary is based on conversations in phone calls from the two principle players and documents available on the internet (see above). For most American workers, the IRS is notified that they have earned "gross income" by means of W-2 and 1099 forms that are submitted by employers, banks, mutual funds, etc., and money is withheld by employers to cover the income and social security taxes.  ...

The following exchange took place in #freedomusa chat room tonight. This is the first I have heard anything like this, and I would like to know if anyone has heard anything? Florida FReepers? The person who said this in chat lives in Pensacola, and her husband is retired Air Force. ----------------Start chat log snip---------------------- [21:44] what all is china gettig along with the panama canal-evidently i feel asleep on this one [21:45] cause i heard today they are also gettig our navy base at key west [21:45] China gets control of the two ports of entry on either end of ...

In response to all the Email Cheaper Than DIrt is getting: My name is Billy J. Brewer. I am the Operations Manager at Cheaper Than Dirt. I have been here almost six years. We currently employ almost 160 good hard working friendly family people. We have Fire Inspections from the Fort Worth Fire Department each and every year. The only items ever written up by the Fort Worth Fire Department have been blown bulbs in Exit Signs and two exit aisles blocked by pallets. There has never been anything said or documented about anything else. On Wednesday, 22 September 1999 ...

Union Leader, 12/7/99 Forbes is best on taxes: Bush and McCain can be as tax-happy as Democrats After criticism from this newspaper and its endorsed candidate Steve Forbes, Gov. George W. Bush has changed his tune somewhat and now agrees the Internet tax moratorium should be extended, though he won't say "permanently." We hope Bush — and Sen. John McCain (who opposes Internet taxes but favors tobacco taxes) — come around to all of Forbes' sound positions on taxes. Bush had planned to wait until after the Presidential primaries to decide on an Internet taxation policy, but instead moved closer ...

Alert! Keyes Appearances on Wednesday, December 8, 1999 -- Radio -- The Geoff Metcalff Show KSFO AM Radio in the Bay Area, California 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. -- Television -- *ALL TIMES EASTERN* check your local listings and satellite dish times for airtime and rebroadcast times Hardball with Chris Matthews http://www.msnbc.com/news/hardball_front.asp 5- 5:30 p.m. "Watch It!" with Laura Ingraham http://www.msnbc.com/onair/default.asp 6-6:30 p.m.

Colombia Scrambles With Y2K Problem By MARGARITA MARTINEZ Associated Press Writer BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - At age 59, Alvaro Rojas is just a few months from retirement and worried sick that his entire employment history will be erased by the dreaded Year 2000 computer bug. So he's seeking a written record.``With all this fuss about the change of year, it's better to have everything on paper,'' Rojas says as he waits in line at a Social Security office, only to be told the document he needs can't possibly be ready until after the New Year.Rojas has good reason to worry. ...

Can somebody tell why so many disingenuous people are Forbes fans? Insults and sarcasm OK if you can give some insight into why a guy that seems upright has so many supporters willing to say anything to make his competition look bad. GWBUSH is following the same script an early poster used to dis Gary Bauer. ("Well, no, I don't think he slept with her. But, he maybe kinda sorta coulda mighta had the opportunity because he kept the door closed.") Like the previous poster, GWBUSH doesn't post an e-mail address. ("Men love darkness rather than light because their deeds ...

Initiative Includes Plans Covering 94 Million Americans By Jeff Levine WebMD Washington Bureau Chief Dec. 7, 1999 (Washington) -- In an effort to make the American medical system less prone to dangerous or deadly error, President Clinton announced a series of measures Tuesday that is aimed at encouraging a culture of openness and accountability among health providers. "Too many families have been the victims of medical errors that are avoidable, mistakes that are preventable, tragedies, therefore, that are unacceptable. Everyone here agrees that our health care system does wonders, but first must do no harm," said Clinton, flanked by ...

Deutsche Bank hit by day-long computer shutdown By William Lewis in New York Deutsche Bank has been forced to apologise to many of the world's leading financial institutions after its worst-ever computer problem. Last Wednesday a systems problem at the German bank's central site outside Frankfurt meant it was unable to participate in the international clearing of interbank payments. Deutsche yesterday declined to give further details, but an executive said the unprecedented one-day halt to payments to major international counterparties was the most severe technology problem it had experienced. The system normally deals with about 100,000 transactions an hour, but ...

The most revealing thing about political scientist Jeffrey Berry's recent book ("The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups") is that hardly anyone noticed it, even though its conclusion starkly contradicts conventional wisdom. After much research, Berry rejects the common view that liberalism died in the 1980s, suffocated by Ronald Reagan, wealthy business lobbies and conservative political groups. Judged by congressional legislation and press coverage, precisely the opposite is true. Liberal lobbies in Washington have flourished. They rival business lobbies in power and crush conservative groups, such as the now-defunct Moral Majority. Since the 1960s, Berry says, liberalism's focus ...

According to Jonathan Alter in Newsweek magazine, "Hillary can always depend on" The Post "to turn every miscue into a fiasco." This is dangerous for the first lady because The Post "sets the tone for the rest of the media." JOHN PODHORETZ, HOW WE BRAINWASHED NEW YORK   She made the money, she laid out the political strategy. She fought his political enemies for him. She gave him a beautiful child. She was an excellent mother. What more could you want in a political wife? So these other little escapades on the side were just, you know, white noise. ...

``Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....''@s1 -- Abraham Lincoln -- "All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer http://www.tarpley.net/bush7.htm

As President Clinton focuses on his foreign policy legacy, he seems oblivious to rank onions growing right in America's back yard "south of the border." In Latin America, historic home of the Monroe Doctrine and once regarded as the sphere of greatest United States strategic interest, several key aspects of Clinton foreign policy are "going south." That's the essence of a "decision brief" just issued by the Center for Security Policy, an independent Washington think tank that keeps a close, critical eye on national-security developments. The Center blamed Clinton for ignoring the Monroe Doctrine of keeping other nations' hands off ...

"This report makes sobering reading." Thus begins a 300-page document titled "As Seen, As Told, Part II," which was released Monday by the Kosovo mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. True words. The OSCE report covers human rights violations that occurred in Kosovo in the months following the June 12 entry into Pristina by the forces of KFOR, the 48,000-strong peacekeeping army that moved into Kosovo under the auspices of the United Nations. In other words, it covers what has happened in Kosovo since the forces for good assumed responsibility. The findings are not a surprise ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 1999 22:15:12 ET XXXXX NY TIMES: RENO TO DECIDE WEN HO LEE'S FATE 'WITHIN DAYS' The NEW YORK TIMES is preparing to report in Wednesday editions that the Justice Department is nearing its decision whether to prosecute fired Los Alamos scientist, Dr. Wen Ho Lee, for "mishandling and failing to adequately safeguard classified information." TIMES' sleuths James Risen and David Johnston report that a 'crucial' meeting occurred at the White House on Saturday that determined that the sensitive information that would be discussed at a potential Lee trial would not cause irreparable ...

NATIONWIDE "PEACEKEEPING" RESPONSE PLANNED FOR Y2K Tabletop exercise, simulation exercises, partnership exercises using white vans and suburbans to deal with AMERICANS who are begging for food and money. In a statement made to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Problem, Major General, U.S. Army Raymond F. Rees - Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau stated: "The National Guard is prepared to continue its support to the nation during the Y2K transition period and beyond." "If there is a federal declaration request from the Governor to the President, FEMA assists in the coordination. FEMA becomes the national contact upon ...

If you thought Bill Parcells and the Jets were having a bad year, they are Super Bowl Champions compared to the poor Y2K alarmists. They've been on a losing streak since the season started and haven't had a good bounce all year long. Since about April 1999, we were told that the panic was going to start "any day now." At various points during the summer, hysterical alarmists would post here telling us that shelves at their local Wal-Mart and Sam's Club were being "wiped out." Upon further examination, it turned out that the areas were being affected by hurricanes. ...