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With the days winding down until the year 2000, each new survey or poll seems to add to the evidence that Americans are confident computer glitches will not have much impact on their lives. The National Federation of Independent Businesses, the leading trade association for small companies, reported recently that many members who had said last spring that they would take steps to prepare for computer problems this fall had now decided not to bother. And a survey for the National Association of Manufacturers found that 93 percent of members expected the year 2000 to have almost no impact ...

Untitled Normal Page Two senior klinton cabinet members warn of terrorist attacks over the holidays Apparently our leaders have received enough credible evidence to be convinced that a major terrorist attack will occur. Their advice: be warned (so you can't blame us) and be careful. This is not very comforting from this crowd. We are now learning that there is radar evidence of a missle downing TWA 800. This inept crew can't tell us definitively what happened to Egypt Air 900. In fact they literally change their stories almost daily. Albright and Clinton allow bugs in the State Department ...

As the theme from "Mission Impossible" played in the background, Kirk Bailey and a crowd of about 150 other computer security experts waited for the results of a high-technology treasure hunt. The prize? Bailey's most personal information. Bailey, whose job includes protecting the privacy of medical records, considers himself an average citizen, though somewhat more careful about what he calls the "fragile condition" of privacy today. In October, Bailey dared a group of security experts to spend two months trying to dig up as much as they could about him. Their only constraints were to stay within the confines of ...

One of my pet peeves and chronic frustrations is that "... some people just don't want to be confused with facts that contradict their preconceived opinions." This is not a disease which inflicts only socialists/liberal democrats, and it is not a contemporary anomaly. H.L. Mencken (the Bard of Baltimore) observed, "The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts." I guess if I did a ...

i received these virus warnings today. does anyone know if they are true? that is too bad if it is true, the elf bowling game was fun. message 1. I received this e-mail today regarding the elf bowling game and frogpult. If you have any of these games on your hard drive you should delete them. Delete elf bowling from all of your computers!!! Read below. Sorry! This was forwarded to me... :( I didn't know. The elf bowling game or Frogpult games contain viruses that will launch on Christmas Day. Delete them from your computers!!!!!!!!!! If you have received ...

Howard Phillips (Constitution Party) Presidential and Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch will hold a press conference on Dec 14, 1999 in Panamam City at the Hotel Marriott 9am and 11am at the Mira Flores canal locks about the furture of the Panama canal.

The article in the NY PostOne of the masterminds behind sexy computer-game heroine Lara Croft has been charged with trying to procure a nine-year-old girl for sex. It's the latest computer sex scandal to rock a major company in the past three months, coming on the heels of the arrest of an Infoseek official last September. Kenneth Lockley, 28, an executive with Core Design Ltd., was arrested late last week at the Regent's Hotel in London. Core Design created the wildly popular game "Tomb Raider," in which sexy Lara tears through highly dangerous situations, blasting bad guys. Click the article ...

WASHINGTON, DC / LITTLE ROCK: Following up on its pledge to ensure attorney accountability, Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) today filed a mandamus action with the Arkansas Supreme Court, requesting that the court compel the state's legal ethics enforcement body to begin disciplinary proceedings against attorney Bill Clinton. SLF filed its original complaint* in September 1998 with the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, which polices attorney ethics in the state, based on alleged misrepresentation under oath by attorney Clinton in the Paula Jones matter. Federal district court Judge Susan Webber Wright then issued a contempt citation in ...

Years after SLA crimes brought radical changes Former activists may testify in Olson trial SAN FRANCISCO With a family and house in the suburbs, gray-bearded Bill Harris easily blends into the breezy life of the Bay Area. But as the admitted kidnapper of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and a leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a band of '70s-era, would-be revolutionaries, Harris knows his life could have easily been so different. Luck, he realizes, was on his side. ``I'm alive,'' Harris said. ``But my good friends and comrades didn't get a life.'' In this former hotbed of radical politics, the ...

Call in on Y2K preparations. Really hearing from ordinary people.

What did President Clinton think he was doing in Seattle? He invites leaders from all over the world to a new round of talks on lowering trade barriers. They find themselves besieged by anti-trade demonstrators. The President-host then shows up — and makes the demonstrators' case! Startling his own negotiators (and pleasing Big Labor), Clinton goes way beyond the official U.S. position about tacking environmental and labor standards onto tariff talks. He declares publicly that he favors imposing sanctions on countries that violate such standards. This astonishing expansion — and subversion — of what were supposed to be negotiations about ...

To separate himself from the rest of the field (including liberal GOPer John McCain and establishment Bush) U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch unveiled a 10 point action plan for what he would do not in his first year in the White House, but rather on his first day in the White House . Hatch describes how much of his actions would consist of undoing the damage done by eight years of Clinton-Gore: ABCNews.com Story on Hatch's Conservative First Day *Click Here*

White House Calling Weekly Standard reporter Tucker Carlson was surprised recently to get a call from Sidney Blumenthal's White House assistant. The aide, Sean Johnson, wanted Carlson's home address. Johnson acknowledged to Carlson that he was calling people at the direction of Blumenthal's private attorney in connection with the libel suit Blumenthal has filed against cybergossip Matt Drudge over a false allegation of wife-beating. The purpose of the call became clear last week, when Carlson was served at home with a subpoena from Blumenthal. "You can't use the White House press office for a private lawsuit," Carlson says. Blumenthal says ...

In New York, Writing Between the Lines The message to Hillary Rodham Clinton was loud--very loud--and clear. "DON'T RUN!" screamed the New York Post's front-page headline, with "NYers tell Hillary" in smaller type. The Keep Out sign was based on a Post poll in which respondents, by 53 to 45 percent, said the first lady should pass up New York's Senate race. By contrast, Clinton's likely GOP opponent draws such headlines as: "Shrinking Mayor: Secrets of Rudy's Diet." To no one's surprise, Rupert Murdoch's tabloid has emerged as a major force in the Senate showdown, relentlessly flailing the first lady ...

New evidence of missile attack Metal plume seen emerging from side of doomed airliner By David M. Bresnahan © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com New evidence from radar data and analysis on the crash of TWA Flight 800 is "as convincing as a fingerprint in a murder case" that a missile, according to an independent investigator brought down the plane. Radar images only recently available and analyzed by Ret. Naval Cmdr. William Donaldson show what he describes as a plume of metal debris coming from the right side of TWA flight 800 at a very high rate of speed. "Only a missile body, ...

From an unterview with Sen. Bennett on the Evans & Novak Show on Dec. 11.(SNIP) HUNT: There is no reason to panic. BENNETT: So, yes, we have interruptions in the power grid all the time. We have interruptions in the flow of oil around the world all the time. We have all kinds of accidents that take place in computer land and those that happen on January 1st, people will say were causes by Y2K. HUNT: Where will you be on January 1st, Senator? BENNETT: I will be in the central command center in Utah. Utah has done what I ...

Monday December 13 8:21 AM ET U.S. Issues Mental Health Report U.S. Issues Mental Health Report By LAURA MECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - In an exhaustive review of research on mental disorders, Surgeon General David Satcher concludes shame and difficulty paying for care are keeping millions of Americans from treatments that have been proven effective.The sweeping report, being issued today, encourages Americans who suspect they have a mental disorder to seek help.``Mental disorders are not character flaws but are legitimate illnesses that respond to specific treatments, just as other health conditions respond to medical interventions,'' said the report. ...

Some of you may remember an article posted in June, 1999, about a wife who killed her pastor-husband by stabbing him in the groin with a knife. He had admitted to marital infidelity with a church member and the Mrs. decided to nip the problem in the bud.I couldn't find the original story for re-post. Here's the update:CLEARWATER-- A pastor's wife who calmly told a police dispatcher over the telephone in June that she had stabbed her husband and was washing dishes pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and will spend 12 years in jail.Carri Rousomelos, 36, told Pinellas-Pasco ...

    ‘Talking It Over’ was to have been in the mold of the one written by Hillary’s role model, Eleanor Roosevelt.        THE FIRST LADY began penning a newspaper column four years ago called “Talking It Over.” When it was first distributed by Creators Syndicate, it was picked up by 150 newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, San Francisco Examiner, Kansas City Star, Buffalo News, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Detroit News, Boston Globe, Dayton Daily News and Charleston Gazette. “Talking It Over” was to have been in the mold of the one written by Hillary’s role model, Eleanor ...

By: Timothy Noah Posted Thursday, Dec. 9, 1999, at 9:38 a.m. In his Dec. 9 press conference, Bill Clinton, perhaps inadvertently, stimulated some thoughts about his presidential legacy. Asked who he would name as man of the century, Clinton chose Franklin Roosevelt (reportedly Time magazine has made the same choice). Clinton told the famous story of Roosevelt, on first being elected president in 1932, visiting the nonagenarian Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, prompting Holmes to observe that while Roosevelt didn't have a first-class mind, he had a first-class temperament. By now it's well understood that Clinton lacks a first-class, ...