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It's the largest cash-crop in my State. Besides what is cultivated, the stuff grows wild like weeds everywhere. In fact, a couple years ago, a nice sized, fully developed patch of the best domestic version was spotted growing in the median of the Interstate highway. No one noticed until fall, when the pretty blue flowers developed. Yeah, marijuana. If I were a "toker," I would be in heaven around here. It seems to grow wild in all sorts of strange places -- especially in those not very accessible wooded places down by the river. Alas, I'm rather allergic to ...

ATF Knew Gunman Stockpiled Ammo Shootout: Pasadena gun shop invoices revealed numerous purchases, but search wasn't attempted at James Beck's home until 14 months later, with fatal results. By JOSH MEYER, Times Staff Writer Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms learned more than a year ago that a convicted felon had illegally purchased thousands of rounds of ammunition, a disclosure that raises questions about the investigative procedures that resulted in a shootout at the man's home that left a sheriff's deputy dead and terrorized a neighborhood. ATF agents also were told by neighbors of James Allen ...

Prayers requested during week of 9/2/01 Prayers for beowolf and friends and family of Caseyjay, longtime freeper, who has died Prayers for return of LeeMcCoy's daughter MasonGal's Prayer Request for niece's son taken to hospital pubmom's daughter continued prayer request for the Levys Update from joyce1111 on daughter's accident--praise report Prayer request for the Christian missionaries being held by the Taliban winodog's request for help with teaching Update on MrConfettiMan Praise report on surgery for Alan Prayer request for 12 year old Douglas undergoing neck surgery Update on Earlene--Prayer request for comfort and strength for entire family Prayer request ...

A few days ago, the Washington based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) released an interesting report on school crime that blows away the smoke and exposes many of the myths the socialists in the public school education industry use to indoctrinate American children. Through its research division, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice documents that today's juvenile homicide rate is the lowest since 1966. Yet, the number of youth suspended on an annual basis has nearly doubled over the same period. The group questions the "zero tolerance" foolishness so popular with ...

MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey September 8, 2001 IS CHANDRA AT FORT LEE AFTERALL? The day after an anonymous tip was received by the WeTip organization, and forwarded to law enforcement authorities, the FBI foreclosed any investigation when spokeswoman Mary Johlie was quoted, The FBI…determined that there is no site on or around the Fort Lee military base that corresponds with information in the anonymous tip." Unnamed Fort Lee officials were quoted as saying, "the last construction project on the base was completed in October 2000." Presumably the FBI decided not to investigate the tip based on someone’s representation ...

SEPTEMBER 08TH, 2001 With just three days until Primary Day, team Bloomberg isn't laughing about a 32-page collection of offensive musings allegedly made 10 years ago by the Republican mayoral candidate. New York Magazine writer Michael Wolf uncovered the booklet, called "Portable Bloomberg-- the wit and wisdom of Michael Bloomberg," which was compiled by an employee for the media mogul's birthday 10 years ago. The "Portable Bloomberg" quotes Bloomberg making fun of everything from Jews to marriage to the borough of Queens. The alleged politically incorrect musings include: "Whenever my wife catches me eyeing some broad, she's very careful ...

* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * September 4, 2001 It's not about guns... It's about citizenship The Potomac Institute (Md.), PO Box 5907, Bethesda, MD 20824-5907 http://www.potomac-inc.org/index.html Contact: G. Eyclesheimer Ernst: e-mail: potomac@potomac-inc.org DEAR ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT: [Full text with links and observations, http://www.potomac-inc.org/ashcroft.html, Seven pages, 2800 words. Essential points:] Unable to accommodate to public authority, the NRA seeks to maintain a balance of power between a privately armed populace and any and all government. To maintain that balance it has to keep gun ownership outside of accountability to public authority. Accountability means registration. For ...

FAR AWAY from the public gaze, Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been pondering one fundamental problem for his country: the disappearance of Russia's population. A plan, grandly entitled 'Conception of Demographic Policy of Russia for the Period to 2015', has been completed by the Russian government in order to halt the slide in the number of Russians. The report will land on President Putin's desk in the next few days. Putin will sign the plan by the end of 2001, and then it will become a 'handbook for action' for Russia's executive authorities. FOREIGN REPORT has been given access to ...

BEIT JALA, West Bank - First, Majida Shehadeh heard the rumble. But it wasn't until the overpowering smell of gasoline wafted into her parents' home one day last month that the Palestinian mother of two knew that Israeli tanks were near. She had moved her family and relatives into what she thought was a haven - a century-old stone house far from where shooting in Beit Jala usually occurred. But Israeli soldiers apparently liked the home's breathtaking view of the terraced hillside village below, a perfect spot to look down on Palestinian gunmen trying to hide on narrow, winding streets. ...

Al-Khalil, Sept 8, IRNA -- The Zionist occupation army continued its rampage of murder and terror against Palestinian population centers throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Strip, killing and maiming more civilians and bulldozing public and private buildings.In Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, 24-year-old Izzedin Abu Isa, was laid to rest, the second Palestinian to die in 24 hours.Abu Isa died in what was described as a mysterious explosion near his home Friday night. Three other people were injured in the blast which is believed to have been perpetrated by Jewish terrorists or by agents of ...

Principles of Unity (These are as adapted from CLAC and CASA's principles of unity. Two groups that organized for the FTAA protests in Quebec City.) *We are opposed to capitalism. We fundamentally reject a social and economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and exchange. We reject a system driven by an exploitative logic that sees human beings as human capital, ecosystems as natural resources, and culture as simply a commodity. We reject the idea that the world is only valuable in terms of profit, competition and efficiency. *We reject the ideology of neo-liberalism, whereby ...

LTTE using temple for fundraising The Ganesh Hindu temple in Ontario, re-opened after a $3 million renovation only last week, is being used to raise funds for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam, says a full-page report in the September 6 edition of The National Post. Temple secretary Veluolu Basavaiah told the Indo-Asian News Service that on the final day of the Kumbha vaisekam on August 30, he saw that some young Sri Lankan Tamils had put up a table in a corner of the temple parking lot where they were selling some items. "What could we do? We couldn't ...

<p>Rep. Gary Condit will not run for an eighth term in office, a source close to the embattled California congressman told Fox News on Friday.</p> <p>Condit is planning to announce his decision in the next few weeks, the source said. He intends to remain in office until January 2003, the end of his seventh term.</p>

Rings true: Report: Phone records back suspect's claim by Dave Wedge Saturday, September 8, 2001 Phone records show two phone calls were made from an Abington pay phone to the Boston FBI office the day accused carjacking serial killer Gary Sampson claims he called to turn himself in, according to a broadcast report. Sampson says he called the FBI between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on July 23 - the day before he allegedly embarked on a weeklong killing spree - and tried to turn himself in on outstanding North Carolina bank robbing charges. Verizon records show that two calls ...

THE MEANING OF BELARUS Election Fever &amp; NATO's Invisible Army by Christopher Deliso September 8, 2001 THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS FOR LUKASHENKO On September 9, Belarus will go to the polls to elect a president, either the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, or one of his U.S.-sponsored challengers. In the Western media, at least, the decision has already been made: Mr. Lukashenko must go. The elected president of Belarus since 1994, Lukashenko is branded almost every day in the English-speaking media as a "dictator" imposing a "tyrannical regime." Most ominously, the West is increasingly drawing an explicit comparison between the Belarussian president and ...

Disband NATO The Cold War is Over by J. David Galland 9/8/01 More than ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO forces, as always led by the Americans, are dancing more than the "Texas Two-Step" in their role of self definition and sought after justification, on the world stage. NATO's image is that of a crippled man with his rear aflame; in great fear that his head will follow suit. Why is my aforementioned reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall a salient opening line of this article? Some of us may actually be old enough, ...

Sept. 7, 2001, 11:33AM Number of sharks vs. humans in water focus of attack debate Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle News Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- More sharks? Or more people in the water? &nbsp; Federal shark experts say that shark populations are declining, but some commercial anglers believe they are increasing. The subject is of intense interest in the United States this year because 41 of the world's 52 reported shark attacks -- and two of the three fatalities -- have been in U.S. waters. While worldwide shark attacks have increased slightly in recent years, some researchers say more swimmers ...

MEDIUM RARE By Jim Rarey September 8, 2001 IS CHANDRA AT FORT LEE AFTERALL? The day after an anonymous tip was received by the WeTip organization, and forwarded to law enforcement authorities, the FBI foreclosed any investigation when spokeswoman Mary Johlie was quoted, The FBI…determined that there is no site on or around the Fort Lee military base that corresponds with information in the anonymous tip.” Unnamed Fort Lee officials were quoted as saying, “the last construction project on the base was completed in October 2000.” Presumably the FBI decided not to investigate the tip based on someone’s representation that ...

It was widely reported this week that the upcoming fall lineup of network television programming is going to be the raunchiest, vilest, most vulgar yet. According to the reports, all three major networks are planning to run television shows that push the standards of acceptable behavior to their lowest point ever. The reports say that expletives like the "s" word and the "f" word will be used. They also report that several shows will openly blaspheme G-d and mock Christianity. People who have previewed them say the new shows will turn our television sets into moral slime pits. If ...

The issue of the Middle East cast a shadow over the World Conference Against Racism on Saturday, even after the adoption of its final declaration. While some countries condemned the wording in the text referring to the Middle East, others complained that it did not go far enough. The final declaration excludes reference to Israel as being racist. Canada said: "It was inappropriate and wrong to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict here." Australia expressed similar sentiments, adding that language about the rights of refugees to return undermined the basis of agreements reached so far between Israel and the Palestinians. But ...