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Remarks of Norman L. Dean, Executive Director, Center for Y2K and Society, Before Y2K Conferences Series, George Washington University. November 23, 1999: Government Benefit Programs. First, it appears increasingly likely that some key government benefit programs will fail in certain states, harming those least able to protect themselves: the poor, the sick, the elderly and young children. According to the federal government’s own auditors, 27 states still have not completed Y2K fixes and tests for one or more of the following programs: Medicaid, unemployment, food stamps, child support, and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). . . . Drinking Water. ...

If you are able and have any thing left after Christmas shopping for those you love, please put a little in FR's stocking. In November 68 Freepers donated $3485 to the Free Republic. $875 of which, was for the legal fund. This is the best we have done since last May when we were working on the Hero's Rally. I thank each and every one of you for your help in keeping the Free Republic up

It appears that the Republican elite is basking in a hard won ascendency. The core GOP is debating over Bush and McCain, while few of us hardcore types are pushing padio commentator Alan Keyes as a last ditch alternative. While this is going on, a few of us brigadiars make plans to battle it out among Donald, Jesse's, and Ross's minions in Minnesota. It makes you wonder. What is it that has pushed Buchanan and his group of America first conservatives , once comfortably in power, into political exile in America? The reasoning is well established. Buchananism is too "extreme". ...

PAUL BEAVER, British military analyst, considers the possibility of a renewed bombing attack on Serbia NATO WILL CERTAINLY DEFEND DEMOCRATIC ASPIRATIONS OF MONTENEGRINS AND HUNGARIANS EVEN BY BOMBING SERBIA AND BELGRADE By Dragana Subarevic Nedeljni Telegraf, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, October 24, 1999 "I think that NATO, in principle, would not want to intervene militarily against Serbia again anytime in the foreseeable future. However, if for example there is significant repression of the ethnic Hungarians in Vojvodina, this might embolden the Alliance to consider new campaigns. This would then mean a new 'Kosovo situation in terms of human rights' from the ...

THE CHRONICLE ran a headline yesterday of former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird's death, ``Bird's Passion for Principles Recalled.'' Colleagues praised her independence. Another paper focused on how Bird's ouster by California voters in 1986 represented an over-politicization of the judiciary. That's a laugh. Bird's the one who over- politicized the state's big bench. I'm sure Bird was a nice woman. She was an avid gardener, which speaks well for her. I'm glad she had dear friends who stood by her through her illness, and rage against the cancer that cruelly caused her to give up this ...

WASHINGTON — The newly elected Republican administration hopes the threat of a new, national lawsuit will persuade _______ to negotiate with cities that accuse them of negligently allowing _______ The White House is helping prepare a class-action suit against ________, alleging that ______ and how they are marketed have contributed to ___________ in public housing projects, administration officials said Tuesday. The lawsuit by some or all of the nation's 3,100 local housing authorities would be patterned on suits filed against the industry by 29 cities and counties, the officials said. Those suits claim that ______________ have ____________ in ways ...

According the latest news update, at 12 Noon, CST, the Dallas City Council is set to approve a resolution endorsing the formation of a national commission to study the effects of slavery. Reparations have been discussed as an option, but the City Council resolution makes clear that there will be no financial obligation on the part of the City of Dallas.For yesterday's article on the subject, go HERE.

I felt very lonely this week watching the presidential debates, like I was peering down a long narrow tube looking for a light at the end and finding nothing. It was the same feeling that the poor scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory must have had this week. All of their antennae trained on the multimillion dollar probes they sent off to Mars and after three attempts — nothing. Blank. No signal. Not even bars and tone, as we say in the ancient craft of television, referring to the test color bars and audio signal that precede every broadcast. They’re ...

Farewell to Pristina Stojan's Troubles by Olivija Ilic Nezavisna Svetlost, Kragujevac, FR Yugoslavia, September 18, 1999 Although he has thought many times about living Pristina, Stojan Gligorijevic stayed in Pristina out of stubbornness. Ten days ago, he finally changed his mind and, with a lot of misgivings, left the city of his birth Stojan Gligorijevic, a civic engineer in retirement from Pristina, was born and raised in Divanjdol, one of the oldest districts of the capital of Kosovo, in the same street where once upon a time there was the first Serbian consulate and where Milan Rakic and Branislav Nusic ...

On the news here all morning, it has been reported that the Dallas City Council will vote on whether or not to back the current national proposal to pay reparation to slaves.Unfortunately, it looks like the measure will pass with the Dallas City Council.Apparently, there is a measure being circulated to get city coucils to back this idiot proposal. I am guessing, but I think that if whoever is sponsoring this travesty can show that they have support for this thing, then there will really be a big push to get it instigated.What a pile of crappe! (IMHO) Wonder which ...

Has Rush mentioned Alan Keyes? I know he has been on Hillary's case an awful lot lately. Surely, there are more important things going on in this country then the New York Senate race.

Determining a candidate's marketability is the most crucial function of the Republican Primaries. But such an important function is tragically being manipulated by the big money and Press dictating to the people that alternative candidates like Alan Keyes can NOT win since big money and Press is supporting Bush jr instead. The goal and expected effect of this manipulation is that voters in the primary will NOT vote for the candidate who most closely matches their own individual values and beliefs; but instead will vote for the candidate who the Press tells us has the best chance of winning. This ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy lived for a month with his mother's corpse, too afraid to tell anyone she was dead because he feared being placed in foster care. Travis Butler cut his hair, fixed meals — mainly frozen pizza, cereal and soup — and went to school every day from the time he said his mother died Nov. 3 until her body was discovered Monday. "I just don't know how that baby survived in there for a month with that smell,'' family friend Dorothy Jeffries said. "It was the saddest thing I have ever seen in my ...

Hello. Do you have anything to say to Rosy O'Donnell about her anti-gun position, her position on allowing the homeless to continue to live on the streets, the fact that she teaches the above to children from the soapbox her show offers, etc.? Well, here are her numbers in NYC and methods of calling and faxing her for free. Rosy's phone: 1-212-506-3200 Don't want to spend the money on the long diatance call? Fine. Use dialpad free: http://www.dialpad.com/cgi-bin/login.pl Rosy's fax: 1-212-506-3249 Don't want to spend the money on the long distance fax? Fine. Use this page and fax for ...

The gfn.com 50 is a comprehensive list of the most powerful and gay-friendly publicly traded companies. Using the Fortune 500 and the gfn.com 500 as a starting ground, gfn.com’s team of experts spent weeks combing through economic reports, analyst findings and corporate policies on gay, lesbian and HIV policies. First and foremost, only public companies were considered, as public companies are responsible to their shareholders at large and not to a few private gay-friendly individuals. Second, only public companies within the Fortune 500 were considered because of the considerable influence that these companies exercise in shaping not only American corporate ...

Could Serbia be bombed again? Military and political experts in the West are convinced that it could and advise: PLANS FOR A NEW CAMPAIGN TO PUNISH SERBIA HAVE ALREADY BEEN DRAWN UP BY NATO By Zoran Miljatovic Nedeljni Telegraf, Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia, October 24, 1999 "Belgrade owes us," general Michael Short, the commander of NATO air forces in the spring attack on Yugoslavia, explained excitedly last week to a group of American senators. One of them, according to the American media asked, seemingly in jest: "Are you going to collect?" "We're working on that," Short answered curtly. This dialogue took ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 7, 1999 HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, BILL OF RIGHTS DAY, AND HUMAN RIGHTS WEEK, 1999 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION President Carter once said, "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it's the other way around. Human rights invented America." Human rights have been an integral part of America's history since the birth of our Nation more than two centuries ago. Refusing to accept tyranny and oppression, our founders secured a better ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A retired Filipino withdrew his life savings from the bank because he feared losing it to the Y2K bug, then lost it to robbers instead, police said Wednesday. Faustino Timbol told police that two men slipped into his house early Wednesday in Navotas, part of metropolitan Manila, and robbed him of $50,000 in cash plus $7,500 in jewelry. Timbol, 61, who retired recently as a supervisor in the Department of Public Works and Highways, told police he withdrew all his savings because he feared losing it if the millennium bug affected his bank. The Y2K bug ...

Birds of a Feather Of course, in the political arena, the president continues to do for others what he did so successfully for himself — raise political cash. This weekend, he’s in Miami to rake in money for Majority 2000, an effort aimed at getting Democrats back in control of Congress. And in Fort Lauderdale, Clinton will headline a fund-raiser for Alcee Hastings, who shares an unusual distinction with the president — he was impeached by the Senate in 1988 on bribery and perjury charges, losing his federal judgeship. But Hastings got a new federal job when he was elected ...