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I am amazed at all this negative talk about how Bush performed in the debates...He did fine, and offers more than any of the others running, including Gore and the basketball player. George W. is going to be the next president, and he will be remembered in a very positive way.

Wow! This is quite a freepin coincidence. Yesterday, there was a thread about Nuclear Holocaust in the USA that would occur TODAY as prophecized (sp) in the Torah. Now, Drudge tells us that there was indeed an explosion in a nuclear power plant. Nuclear Holocaust Thread Nuclear Explosion Thread Sorry for the vanity post, but this is a very strange coincidence

  November 29, 1999 The New Global Media It's a Small World of Big Conglomerates by ROBERT W. McCHESNEY Three charts accompany this article: "Global Media Moguls" "Who Owns the Movies" "Who Owns the Music" The nineties have been a typical fin de siècle decade in at least one important respect: The realm of media is on the brink of a profound transformation. Whereas previously media systems were primarily national, in the past few years a global commercial-media market has emerged. "What you are seeing," says Christopher Dixon, media analyst for the investment firm PaineWebber, "is the creation of a ...

(AP) - Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)'s swearing-in of Carol Moseley-Braun Thursday as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand joined a presidential candidate in need of black votes and a former senator in need of clearing her name of controversy.Gore called the Chicago Democrat, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, ``an embodiment of America in our most diverse and democratic spirit.''Moseley-Braun took the oath of office with her hand on a Bible held by her son, Matt. In remarks afterward, she made it clear she sees her diplomatic appointment as a vindication of allegations against ...

Congressional Candidate Raising Money With Gun Raffle December 9, 1999 Web posted at: 10:26 a.m. EST (1526 GMT) MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. (AP) -- A Republican candidate for Congress in northwestern Illinois is raising campaign money by raffling off guns. Dr. Michael Curtiss said Wednesday that he has sold about 1,500 of the $5 raffle tickets. He expects to double that number by the time the guns are given away in the third week of January. Being raffled are an SLR-95 semiautomatic rifle and .45-caliber handgun. Curtiss said the raffle also includes lessons on how to fire the weapons and a ...

I see where the Supremes are going to be ruling on capital punishment next year. At stake is Florida's "ole Sparky" and if setting the head of a killer on fire is beyond the Pale. I have the solution. No more electric chairs, hangman's nooses (neese?) or firing squads for convicted murderers. The separate states can mandate crushing their skulls and sucking their brains out. Now, who can complain about that?

Red Alert ! Gerry Spence is 'rattling' Ann coulter's cage RIGHT NOW - 21:00 E. She'll tear him up!

BELGRADE, SERBIA ARE MODELS OF TOLERANCE, MUFTI OF BELGRADE AMMAN - Belgrade and Serbia are unique examples of a highest degree of religious and ethnic tolerance, Mufti of Belgrade Hamdija Efendija Jusufspahic said in a lengthy interview to the Jordanian daily Al Arab al Yawn. Mufti Jusufspahic underscored that there was no religious or ethnic aggressiveness or divisions in Belgrade and Serbia. He said that Belgrade was one of the most free and peaceful cities in the world, which he underscored the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Community in Serbia and other religious communities had greatly contributed to. The ...

December 9, 1999 Subject: Suppressing Truth! Jonathan Gregg said: "The reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter ...

Just a quick alert to bring out a crash of a Private Jet in Branson, Mo. The Springfield, Mo. TV station just interrupted and I've had verification locally that a private jet with six aboard crashed very near the Shoji Tabucchi, Branson USA Themepark. If there are Nationally Known persons that were on-board I'll post more to this. Right now there are no details.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Al Gore's swearing-in of Carol Moseley-Braun Thursday as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand joined a presidential candidate in need of black votes and a former senator in need of clearing her name of controversy. Gore called the Chicago Democrat, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, ``an embodiment of America in our most diverse and democratic spirit.'' Moseley-Braun took the oath of office with her hand on a Bible held by her son, Matt. In remarks afterward, she made it clear she sees her diplomatic appointment as a vindication of allegations against ...

The Curmudgeon Newsletter A Conservative Vermonter's Opinion Paper...Don't Write Us! December 9, 1999 DISCLAIMER: The Curmudgeon is a Vermont newsletter with an attitude. It is published whenever the editor feels the need to publish it. The editor makes no claim to knowing proper English, grammar or writing skills and really doesn't care if others do. Material contained in The Curmudgeon is copyrighted but those wishing to photocopy and distribute any or all parts of this newsletter are welcomed to do so without the express consent of the publisher, namely me. If a reader has any complaints or comments the editor ...

An Overflow Crowd Vents Its Anger at City, Police A week later, tear gas still brings bitter tears Thursday, December 9, 1999 By HEATH FOSTER and KERY MURAKAMI SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERS Hundreds of people packed the downtown library last night to vent anger, frustration -- and to shed tears -- a week after Seattle police launched their last round of tear-gas at demonstrators opposed to World Trade Organization policies. In an echo of the poor planning that marked the city's response to last week's events, the City Council failed to anticipate the turnout. More than 400 people showed up, but ...

TORONTO (AP) — There were no guns blazing or bandanas covering faces, and the gold was headed for an airplane rather than a stagecoach. Otherwise, the seizure of three gold bars worth $650,000 this week sounded like something that happened in frontier Canada a century ago. Instead of bandits robbing land barons, it was officials of a small Manitoba mining town called Lynn Lake who intercepted the shipment Monday in a dispute with Black Hawk Mining Inc. over local taxes. Mayor Audie Dulewich said the town grabbed the bread-tin-sized bars that weigh 50 pounds each to prevent Black Hawk from ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- Lawmakers say they will investigate whether three big Internet book sellers are violating state tax law by failing to collect taxes from California customers. ``The question is whether or not the Board of Equalization is taking steps to adequately collect the taxes that should be collected,'' said Sen. Wesley Chesbro, D-Arcata, chairman of the Revenue and Taxation Committee, after the committee's Wednesday meeting on e-commerce. The co-owner of a bookstore in Corte Madera said during the hearing that he believes the three -- Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com and Borders.com -- should be collecting the state use tax. The ...

Seven people are still missing several hours after a US Marine Corps helicopter with 18 Marines on board crashed in the Pacific Ocean. The CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter went down at about 1316 local time (2126 GMT) as it approached a navy refuelling ship, the USS Pecos, about 25 miles (40 km) off the coast of California. Marine Corps spokesman Captain Pete Mitchell said: "Eleven of those aboard have been rescued from the water and a search is still underway for seven others." Coast Guard Petty Officer Jamie Devitt-Chacon said three Navy helicopters, one Coast Guard helicopter, a Coast Guard ...

ISSUE 1658 Thursday 9 December 1999 Mother 'sacked for refusing 6am start'By David Graves   " border=0 height=10 src="/graphics/title3/arrow_w.gif" width=13> Fairness at Work White Paper - Department of Trade & Industry  " border=0 height=10 src="/graphics/title3/arrow_w.gif" width=13> Press releases - Archer Daniels Midland  " border=0 height=10 src="/graphics/title3/arrow_w.gif" width=13> Manufacturing, Science & Finance Union  A MOTHER who says she was sacked for refusing to start work at 6am shortly after having a baby is to take an American multinational to an employment tribunal claiming unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Karen Barker, 30, said she told managers at Archer Daniels Midland, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board is seriously overloaded by complex aviation accidents and is in urgent need of more resources and management reform, a report issued on Thursday concluded. "In significant ways, the NTSB is already at or near the breaking point," said the RAND Corp. study requested in 1998 by the safety board. The report said the sometimes controversial practice of allowing airlines, manufacturers and other interested parties to assist investigations should continue but be supplemented by independent experts to ensure unbiased analysis, it said. "The parties likely to be named to assist in the NTSB ...

NEW YORK — After debating the other Republican presidential candidates twice in the last week, Texas Gov. George W. Bush has retained his commanding lead for the GOP nomination, while Arizona Senator John McCain has made a positive impact on likely voters — especially Independents. Sixty-five percent of Republicans nationwide want Bush as their party's nominee in this week's FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll. McCain, while still a distant second with 14 percent, rose from 10 percent in the last Fox News poll. None of the other GOPers registered double-digit support. Polling was conducted by telephone December 6-7, 1999 in the ...

Balint Vazsonyi, Director of The Center for the American Founding, will be appearing on C-Span's Washington Journal at 7:50AMEST Friday, December 10, 1999. He will be talking with Brian Lamb about the Re-Elect America Bus Tour. Free Republic's board of directors has decided to support The Re-Elect America Bus Tour because it's purpose so closely matches one of the primary missions of Free Republic, to restore this nation's Constitutional principles - principles that have become severely eroded. The stated purpose of the bus tour as published on their website is... "... to promote a national discussion of the principles that ...