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In the beginning there was Eru, the One, who also was called Iluvatar. "And he made first the ... Holy Ones, who were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad." This "Great Music" went out "into the Void, and it was not void." But something went wrong. The greatest archangel, Melkor, "He who arises in Might," became proud and rebelled. Great was his fall into evil and he became Morgoth, "Dark ...

Aug. 1 — George W. Bush's job approval rating has stabilized, but six months into his presidency he faces persistent doubt on key issues, a sense he's out of touch with average Americans and broad suspicion that he's overly influenced by business corporations and the wealthy. Countering these public concerns are two prime factors in Bush's favor: Broad approval for his work specifically on education — an issue central to his election strategy — and high ratings for personal qualities such as character, honesty and vision. These fuel Bush to a 59 percent job approval rating, according to a ...

George W. Bush’s visit to John Paul II this week was not a summit, but a pilgrimage. Perhaps ‘Castelgandolfo’ will enter history, as ‘Canossa’ did a thousand years ago. Just as the Emperor Henry IV submitted to Pope Gregory VII, so the President deferred to the Pope, the temporal lord to the spiritual. For half an hour, the most powerful person in the world looked like the junior partner of the man he addressed, quite sincerely, as ‘Holy Father’. Mr Bush recognised the fact that, though the Pope has no divisions, the modern world is ruled not by armies ...

If you have, or know of someone having BLOOD CLOTTING PROBLEMS please READ THIS! My Mom has blood cancer and had been having blood clotting problems, low platelet count and anemia. I desperately searched the internet for helpful ideas while doctors gave her transfusions of packed red blood cells and erythropoetin shots weekly. The numbers on her blood test didn't look good. Then, an Article I read recently in ScienceDaily Magazine dated June 14, 2001 and entitled "Increase in Antioxidants, Decrease in Free Radicals Identified as Likely New Mechanism of Action For Purple Grape Juice Benefits" mentioned beneficial effects on ...

The FBI on Thursday discounted an anonymous tip to an Internet site alleging that Chandra Levy's body was buried under a parking lot near a Virginia military base 130 miles south of Washington.The FBI investigated the tip that alleged the missing intern was buried near Fort Lee, an Army training base south of Richmond, said Mary Johlie, an FBI spokeswoman in Richmond."The FBI, in concert with Fort Lee officials, have determined that there is no site on or around the Fort Lee military base that corresponds with information provided in the anonymous tip," Johlie said in a statement.Police who ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 2 — President Bush scored a legislative victory as the House approved a package of proposals aimed at boosting energy development, conservation and drilling in an Arctic wildlife refuge. Working past midnight, the House passed the energy bill by a 240-189 vote early this morning after a spirited — at times testy — debate over whether to allow oil companies into the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska. Bush has called the refuge the country's major untapped source of petroleum and insisted drilling can be done ...

Working past midnight, the House approved an energy bill to increase energy development, conservation and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 240-189 vote early Thursday was a legislative victory for President Bush. Much of the spirited debate was over whether to allow oil companies into the refuge in northeastern Alaska. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, a former trapper and school teacher, angrily reprimanded those who oppose drilling when they have never visited the refuge. Far from a pristine treasure, he said it was a hostile ground made for oil development. The refuge "was supposed to be drilled, explored ...

EXPOSED: THE REAL REASON ALBANIANS 'FLED' KOSOVO IN 1999 "The truth about what happened..." Interview with Cedda Pralinchevich Interviewer Jared Israel Translator Petar Makara [This interview was conducted before the kidnapping of Milosevic. However it remains most timely since it applies 100% to the so-called 'rebellion' in Macedonia.] This is the second Emperor's Clothes interview with Cedda Pralinchevich, President of the Jewish Community in Prishtina. In the first interview, Mr. Pralinchevich, formerly Chief Archivist of Kosovo, described how he and tens of thousands of other Yugoslavs were driven from Prishtina by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with NATO's backing. ...

Police Seeking Family After Reported Kidnapping Girls Taken From State Worker At Gunpoint GRANTS PASS, Ore., 8:11 p.m. PDT August 2, 2001 -- Oregon State Police are searching for three girls, allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by their parents. Police: Parents Are Armed, Dangerous Brian and Ruth Christine lost custody of their daughters, ages 3, 4 and 6, for alleged neglect. The Christines were on a state-supervised visit with their children on Wednesday at the Grants Pass Services to Children and Families branch office. After the visit, a SCF worker took the children to an undisclosed location. When the worker stopped ...

August 2 — In a dramatic victory for President Bush, the House passed a bill Thursday that would expand millions of patients’ rights to sue their medical insurers, but would put a cap on damage awards. The hard-won triumph came after hours of raucous debate and set the stage for a bruising battle in a House-Senate conference later this year. It is not certain whether the House and Senate will be able to agree on a bill Bush can sign into law. DESPITE THE UNCERTAIN future of the patients rights measure, its passage allows House supporters to return home ...

The mother of a wrestler at one of University of Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson's camps complained in nearly 20 pages of e-mails sent to the university last week that a counselor told an inappropriate and potentially offensive story to the campers. "That happened," Robinson said. She also complained that Robinson forced the campers to write letters to politicians from their area and to FOX Sports in support of their sport. "I did that," Robinson said. The complaint by Kathy Odegaard, mother of 17-year-old wrestler D.J. Odegaard of Olympia, Wash., is being investigated by the University and was initially reported ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 2 — The House of Representatives tonight approved a sweeping patients' bill of rights in a victory for President Bush, whose eleventh-hour compromise with a key lawmaker cleared the way for passage of the landmark health-care reform legislation. Lawmakers approved the bill by a narrow 226-203 vote, mostly along partly lines in the Republican-led chamber. Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., the legislation's chief sponsor, said he had worked with Democrats all through the process and hoped to get their final support. But he said that negotiating a compromise with ...

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2001 AP (CBS) House Republicans, helped by more than 30 Democratic crossover votes, were ecstatic after pushing through an energy bill that includes President Bush's pet oil exploration plan – drilling in Alaska's now-protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "A lot of the pundits said we would never get an energy bill out of the Congress and we had a surprisingly strong vote here last night," Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday. The energy package, covering 510 pages, passed 240-189 early Thursday morning after 12 hours of debate. "This morning, the prospects for America's energy security are ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2001 AP Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., with President Bush at the White House. (CBS) In a victory for President George W. Bush, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday beat back a far-reaching patients' bill of rights and approved one with stricter limits on lawsuits against health plans. The 226-203 vote cleared the way for a compromise talks this fall with the Senate on a politically popular bill that has fallen victim to gridlock for five years. The Bush administration and House Republican leaders said passage of the White House-backed measure would ensure that millions of ...

Story Filed: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:27 AM EST BAGHDAD, Jul 30, 2001 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) -- Oil Minister Amer al-Rashid said yesterday that the planned 2.5 bln usd 1,380 kilometer gas pipeline transporting Iraqi natural gas to Turkey will be linked to the east European and Russian network. "We decided with Turkey to extend, in a second stage, the pipeline coming from eastern Europe and Russia," Rashid told Iraqi television. "This project is important as Turkey suffers from a real energy crisis, and it is within its rights to diversify its gas supply," added the minister, who has just ...

US seen delaying major satellite exports to China Chinese leaders "knew what they had to say and they didn't say it" during talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell last Saturday, the official said. "Indefinite delay [by the administration in approving licenses for the satellite exports] is the most probable outcome," he said. Before Powell's visit to Beijing, Chinese officials were told in advance that he would be looking for a recommitment to China's pledge last November not to assist any country developing ballistic missiles that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons and to abide by a voluntary international ...

ASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — Just when Congressional Republicans had seemed in dangerous disarray, President Bush in a gratifying 24 hours won House passage of his comprehensive energy plan and eked out a victory on a patients' bill of rights. Mr. Bush's back-to- back successes changed the mood in the capital overnight, giving ebullient Republicans a set of issues to carry to the public over the August recess. At a rally on the East Front of the Capitol, party leaders took turns proclaiming that the president had made good on his signature campaign pledge to provide a new kind of ...

ASHINGTON, Aug. 2 - The House voted tonight in favor of a compromise with President Bush on legislation to define patients' rights. The vote followed a long, tumultuous debate in which Democrats denounced the legislation as a sham, providing less protection to patients than to health insurance companies. By a vote of 218 to 213, the House endorsed an amendment negotiated by the White House and Representative Charlie Norwood, the leader of a six-year campaign for patients' rights, who unexpectedly made a deal with Mr. Bush this week. The vote, a victory for Mr. Bush, was extremely close. The ...

Issues in the House debate over patients' rightsTOPLINE:The House of Representatives is expected this week to take up a GOP-backed patients' bill of rights -- the one introduced last month as the Senate was passing a Democrat-backed measure President Bush has pledged to veto.Democrats introduced their own measure back in February -- a bill similar to the one that passed the Senate -- but the Republican leadership and Bush opted to set their own timetable for the debate, keeping the Democrats' bill in committee.The Democrats got the upper hand in the Senate last month, however, when Vermont Sen. Jim ...

Over the years, many people wrote to ask what they can join and/or do to get people elected who can be trusted to do what is right when they get in office. Quite obviously, many thousands of people around the country feel as I do -- that we need to make some very serious changes in the quality of people we allow into government service. We also need to start teaching Democrats why their form of socialism will be so bad for their children and their children’s children. But, first things first. On May 5, the Kentucky State chapter of ...