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The Shmoo is back! What is the Shmoo? You can be forgiven your ignorance on this subject since the Shmoo made its brief appearance in the newspaper comics pages nearly fifty years ago. The Shmoo was the creation of cartoonist Al Capp in his popular Li'l Abner strip. With much fanfare Capp introduced the Shmoo in August 1948 and for the rest of the year the world went Shmoo crazy. This creature inspired hundreds of Shmoo clubs all over North America as well as the "Society for the Advancement of the Shmoo." There were dozens of Shmoo products including Shmoo ...

WASHINGTON -- As water has no constant form, there are in warfare no constant conditions. - Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War' When Chinese strategist Sun Tzu penned his timeless classic on military philosophy more than a millennium ago, there's no way he could have imagined the Internet as battlefield. Now, hundreds of generations later, a new corps of his compatriots has seen the future of war - and it's online. A recent article in the Chinese Liberation Army Daily was direct in its assessment that integrating Web warfare with combat on the ground will be essential to winning ...

US President Bill Clinton said he was ''comfortable'' that US interests could be protected under an accord permitting a Hong Kong company with ties to Beijing to operate ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. While some Republicans have charged that US security may be compromised when Hutchison Whampoa Ltd takes over container port operations on the waterway, Mr Clinton said on Thursday (Hong Kong time) the canal itself would be entirely controlled by the Panamanian government when the US withdraws on December 31. Reversing an earlier statement when he said ''the Chinese'' would control the canal, Mr ...

Defense chief among those sounding alarm as U.N. works to forge new policy WASHINGTON -- More than a year after United Nations arms inspectors left Iraq, the issue of whether Saddam Hussein has used the time to rebuild his weapons program is vexing U.S. policy-makers. "Until you have inspectors on the ground to certify that they have not tried to reconstitute it, no one can tell you one way or the other," said Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, among those sounding the alarm as the U.N. Security Council struggles with framing a new policy for Iraq. Members of Congress want ...

MEMPHIS, Dec. 8 —  The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered as the result of a conspiracy, not by a lone gunman, a jury hearing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the slain civil rights leader’s family ruled Wednesday. The verdict ordered Loyd Jowers, who once bragged that he paid to have King assassinated, to pay $100 to the plaintiffs.  THE VERDICT, returned after just three hours of deliberations, did not address the contention of convicted assassin James Earl Ray that he had been wrongly found guilty. Rather, it affirmed the argument by the King family’s attorney, William Pepper, ...

The Chinese navy will place the Juland-2 (JL-2) ICBM aboard its ballistic missile submarines, according to a senior Chinese official. Chinese Maj. Gen. Gong Xianfu, defense attache for the People’s Republic of China, made the revelation yesterday at National Defense Industrial Association luncheon in Washington, D.C., during a question-and-answer period that followed his prepared statement. The new JL-2 is a modified version of the Dong Feng-31 (DF-31) ICBM that can launched from a submarine. The DF-31 was flight tested for the first time in the Pacific this August. The DF-31 is capable of carrying a single warhead--conventional or nuclear--using ...

If Stephen King were to write a novel about the federal government, he could scarcely do any better than the tome that landed on President Clinton's desk on June 15. The Report of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board was destined to be grim reading: Its authors were asked to look into security lapses at the Energy Department following last winter's revelation that China had stolen high-level nuclear secrets. But what former Senator Warren Rudman and his fellow panelists saw was clearly beyond their worst fears. "Never have the members of the Special Investigative Panel witnessed a bureaucratic culture ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- Major world powers and several Islamic states have condemned Russia's campaign against Chechnya, but none are threatening sanctions or other measures against Moscow. Russia, which is threatening to destroy the Chechen capital if its rebel government doesn't admit defeat, still has a huge army of concern to its immediate neighbors. Few countries are willing to anger Moscow's government or add to its fragility, especially at a time many are seeking better economic ties with Russia. In addition, many nations fear reinforcing the idea that the world should intervene over minority issues inside another country -- something ...

Today, there will be a meeting held at the Arlington Hyatt, 1325 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA regarding "scoping" of the proposed rules for declaring vast tracts of National Forest land "roadless". For background information, click here, and here! The public meetings are at 6:30 pm, and 8:30 pm. I will be there to protest this land grab. Y'know, the Internet is a wonderful research tool. Today, i went to the fedgov site which has the "Statistical Abstracts of the United States" and did a little fact gathering. I have read recent news reports that the Forest Service declaration of National ...

Web posted Thursday, December 9, 1999 Jury convicts illegal aliens on all charges Three men face jail time for role in smuggling 132 Chinese into the United States. By John Zebrowski Savannah Morning News A captain is forced to his knees. A knife is held to his throat. Threats are made. It's a story that has been told in various forms since 132 illegal Chinese aliens were discovered in the hull of the freighter Prince Nicolas on Aug. 12 in Savannah. Initially, it was told by the captain to avoid being implicated in the smuggling operation. Then he told ...

Director says China is unlikely to attack Taiwan, Hussein is secure, 'no end in sight' for Chechen war WASHINGTON -- "There are no facts about the future," says Vice-Adm. Thomas Ray Wilson. He says it so often it sounds like a mantra. But his business is getting information -- lots of it -- that offers clues to the future. Wilson is almost four months into his job as Defense Intelligence Agency director and his "customers," as he calls them, are looking for more than facts. "They ask us ... 'Can you be more predictive about the future?' " In an ...

A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy with AIDS sexually assaulted at least five young children -- including a 3-year-old girl -- in an angry attempt to spread the disease, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday. "I got [the virus] and I want everyone else to have it," the boy told stunned detectives, according to a source Detectives connected the 5-foot, 170-pound suspect to five attacks as of late yesterday -- and say the number may grow. Another of his victims, police said, is a 9-year-old boy he attacked several times during the past two years. "He'll do anything I tell him to," ...

AIDS BOY, 12, SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 5 KIDS: COPS By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA POST EXCLUSIVE : A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy with AIDS sexually assaulted at least five young children -- including a 3-year-old girl -- in an angry attempt to spread the disease, law-enforcement sources told The Post yesterday. "I got [the virus] and I want everyone else to have it," the boy told stunned detectives, according to a source. The boy knew that he was sentencing his victims to a life of pain or possible death when he sexually abused them. "He knows about the disease," the source said. "He understands ...

NEW YORK –– Hillary Rodham Clinton told gay contributors that her husband's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, intended to make it easier for homosexuals to serve in the military, is a failure, The New York Times reported today. Mrs. Clinton told a private, Manhattan fund-raiser Tuesday that if elected to the U.S. Senate she would work to overturn the policy. The Times learned of Mrs. Clinton's comments from participants at the fund-raiser sponsored by the Empire State Pride Agenda, which supports equal rights for gays. The newspaper said her comments were confirmed in a statement from Mrs. Clinton's office but ...

Ex-teacher guilty in sex assaults Incidents occurred in Woodstock home Christopher Quinn - Staff Thursday • December 9 A judge sentenced a former Fulton County teacher Wednesday to three years in prison for sexually assaulting two students and a fellow teacher. William G. Kreil, 48, used fake letterheads and documents from the National Science Foundation to convince the three victims that he was conducting experiments in metabolism, according to Cherokee County District Attorney Garry Moss. Kreil taught at Westlake High School in East Point, but the assaults took place in his home in Woodstock in early 1999. His "experiments" ...

Rockefeller bad apple sued for divorce Dec. 8, 1999 My, my. How the mighty have fallen. A decadent descendant of an American dynasty is getting his dirty silk laundry aired out in a Vanity Fair interview with his estranged wife. John D. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil and became the richest man in America. His grandson Nelson was governor of New York from 1959-73 and vice president from 1974-77. Numerous other Rockefellers have excelled as senators, governors, businessmen, academics and philanthropists. There's a rotten apple in the family tree though, an embarrassing black sheep. Great-grandson George O'Neill is obsessed with ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States Wednesday ordered the expulsion of a Russian diplomat after he was caught monitoring a listening device found in a high-level conference room at the State Department, U.S. officials said. The Story

Egyptian pilots reject suicide theory Interpretations of the words on the 990 voice recorder differ Egyptian pilots have threatened a US televison station with legal action over a news report into the theory that EgyptAir Flight 990 was brought down by a co-pilot. All 217 people aboard the EgyptAir flight to Cairo died when the Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, less than an hour after taking off from New York's Kennedy airport. On Wednesday the head of the Egyptian Pilots' Association, Captain Walid Murad, rejected a report on CNN which said the pilot suicide theory had not been ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A sophisticated new surveillance system may soon be tipping off police and security officers about crimes before they even occur, a science magazine said. British researchers have developed a means of spotting a potential shoplifter or mugger, a car thief lurking in a parking lot or someone about to commit suicide, perhaps by throwing themselves in front of a train. People contemplating these acts behave differently from others and their actions can be predicted mathematically, New Scientist magazine said. Although it is still early days, the system designed by Steve Maybank of the University of Reading in ...

Where was the mainstream news media when Hillary Clinton introduced Walter Cronkite to the World Federalist Association on Oct. 19? Television cameras focused on Hillary's baseball cap; it is far more important that voters know where she stands on the issue of national sovereignty. Not until WorldNetDaily reported the Cronkite speech Nov. 30, did Americans discover that both Hillary and Walter are avid advocates of world government. Cronkite says, "democracy, civilization itself, is at stake," unless the "basic structure of our global community" is changed in the next few years. Cronkite's appeal for world government came only five days ...