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What Happened to Chris Matthews? OK...I was advised to "see above" sorry, but where the hell do I see above? I am a lurker, not a regular postiere

The Alec Baldwin Award (for Hate Speech Against the Presidential Impeachers) 1. "I can’t think of anything that would be better for the American Republic than to see some of the Republicans who brought this bogus, inflated case and have put the country through all this turmoil for the last, almost a year than for them to be sent packing and to be replaced by someone who can put this in somewhat better perspective." -- Time national correspondent Jack E. White on MSNBC’s McLaughlin Special Report, February 10. 2. "Senator, when you talk to other Senators, particularly older Senators — ...

Despite the spin of, or hopes of a few - including this writer - George W. Bush will become the next President by possibly the largest election margin in US history. That is, if things continue as they have up to this point in the race for the Oval Office - which has been virtually no race at all. Of course, divine intervention might alter the picture. George W. Bush might commit suicide, decide to move to China or become a hermit monk in India. But you wouldn't bet on such, would you? What do a few facts and some ...

See No Evil Award (for Burying the Juanita Broaddrick Rape Charge) 1. "Just when the air was clearing in Washington — when politicians were finally putting aside the presidential sex scandal and moving on to Social Security and tax cuts — another woman has come forward alleging sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton. Corroboration is scant, the White House denials are emphatic, but this tale has an unpleasant new twist: it is a charge of sexual assault....With impeachment over and the statute of limitations on the alleged crime long passed, the story seems unlikely to have much traction. Broaddrick herself says, ...

Media Hero Award 1. "Good evening. The man who presided over the best economy in a generation is going back to private life. The Secretary of the Treasury Bob Rubin, who said today that he really was resigning, has been described in such glowing terms that he’d begun to sound indispensable. All sorts of people today, including the President, have called him the best Treasury Secretary since Alexander Hamilton, who was the first Secretary in 1789 and did an enormous amount to put the United States on firm financial footing." -- Peter Jennings starting ABC’s World News Tonight, May 12. ...

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Hope Iam not wasting your time here,but I just love my first generation IMAC,what do you have?HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Tonight, in Philadelphia, CNBC aired National Geographic, featuring gorillas and crocodiles eating impalas. (the gorillas were not eating anything but leaves...sorry for the ambiguity. But Hardball should have been on! Has this show been cancelled? Physist, HELP! OK, the gorillas resemble Algore, but who are those crocs? Please answer quickly! My family is pestering me with the phone! Conservatively yours, under my new inconvenient name and password (some SOB apparently appropriated Harry...probably the bastard Harold Ickes). *waiting*

Friday, December 10, 1999 Great Western Gun Show will leave L.A. County for Las Vegas By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer Shaking the dust off their feet and holstering their six-shooters, the Great Western Gun Show decided Thursday to move the nation's largest gun show from Pomona to the Wild West capital of neon and glitter, Las Vegas. Because of the announcement, this weekend's three-day gun show -- scheduled to open its doors at noon today -- will be the last in Los Angeles County, which put out the unwelcome mat in September when the Board of Supervisors voted to ban ...

Read today how Sun Workstations is "still" sending-out new Y2K patches to it's engineering workstations. Also hear (from multiple reliable sources) that AutoCad isn't Y2K compliant. Can any Civil-Mechanical-Electrical engineer at Free Republic comment ? ############################################## BTW. Here's something I received today regarding Microsoft. Microsoft continues to lose the war for Y2K compliance. There are now 393 Microsoft applications that have had Y2K status changes since December 1. This includes some applications that recently finished testing. Of these 393 applications: 53 are rated compliant, 11 cannot be made compliant, 159 need updates that aren't available yet, 76 need new ...

MIDI - HATS OFF TO LARRY There are slugs from Arkansas…to them no law’s applying But then they heard from Judicial Watch Now they are screaming and crying Hats off to Larry…he’s really too cool The evil Clintons think he’s so very cruel He sues the liars…he holds their feet to the fire Larry Klayman, how we admire you Remember Linda Tripp…all the abuse that made us flip But Judicial Watch is on the case…yes they are Hats off to Larry…he’s really too cool The evil Clintons think he’s so very cruel He sues all the liars…he holds their ...

Al Gore and George W. Bush despaired when their famous fathers lost U.S. Senate campaigns in 1970. Family pride helped put both sons on the road to the White House. NASHVILLE---On a long November night a generation ago, Al Gore stood brokenhearted behind his father in a downtown hotel ballroom. The old man had lost his bid for reelection to the Senate, and young Gore, who had helped write the hoped-for victory speech, was overcome with despair. His mother would say it was the only time she saw her son cry. That same night in another hotel, this one in ...

Holiday gift-giving can be a real gas By THOM MARSHALL Some of us will go out of our way pretty far to avoid some subjects, even if it might benefit us to discuss them. For instance, there are certain bodily event circumstances that many of us find it difficult to talk about and if such a topic does come up we attempt to cover our discomfort with wisecracks and nervous laughter. Wayne Story, president of UltraTech Products in Houston, has become quite familiar with this facet of human nature. So when he meets people in social situations and they ...

Is Gore Nuts?. Byron York explores only one third of it. . . Beta Nut. . . Alpha Nut. . . Ca$h-ooh! Nut (or alternatively. . .Touch-me-Nut)     © 1999 Mia T

The Anniston Star Online 12-10-1999, Protestants mystifiedThousands come from all over the country to pray in a field Protestants mystifiedThousands come from all over the country to pray in a field - Thousands of people have come from all over the country this week to pray in a field where Marija Lunetti is relaying messages she says come from Jesus' mother. But relatively few Alabamians are in the crowd. "> 12-10-1999 faith Thousands of people have come from all over the country this week to pray in a field where Marija Lunetti is relaying messages she says come from ...

WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS - U.S. President Bill Clinton, with an irritated right eye, speaks to community members while visiting Arkansas in West Memphis, December 10. The president's remarks focused on the importance of investment and need for future economic development in the state's Delta Region and East Arkansas. Photo by Larry Downing (Reuters)

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 10, 1999 Spot The Planet Credit & Copyright: Rick Scott and Joe Orman Explanation: OK, it's a picture of the Sun (duh!), but can you spot the planet? Of course, most of the spots you've spotted are sunspots, as large or larger than planet Earth itself. The sunspots are regions of strong surface magnetic fields which are dark in this picture only because they are relatively cool ...

Kosovo's Killers By Michael Kelly "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 ...

Moscow, 6th December: Russia supports Armenian President Robert Kocharyan's initiative to set up a joint system of regional security in the Southern Caucasus, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov told a special correspondent of Snark news agency at the end of the meeting held today in Moscow with Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan. "Russia has always been in favour of a peace zone, security, stability and cooperation in the Caucasus, " Ivanov underlined. Russia, Igor Ivanov said, is ready to resolve the problems of the Caucasus jointly with other regional states and considers this issue very topical. The Russian foreign minister ...

I am interrupting the series on the shame of book publishers for a more vital issue, affecting everyone. In a November 27 op-ed piece in 'The New York Times,' called 'How Medicine Became Just Another Product,' Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan noted that we have, 'in New York, a medical center unsurpassed on earth.' It is now greatly endangered. That's not hyperbole. Our teaching hospitals, their faculty engaged in training doctors and in research, attract patients from around the world. And they save and transform lives of New Yorkers—downstate, upstate, and in between. New York hospitals are already suffering financially. Indeed, ...