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What do you think about the fact that we are doing everything we can as a nation to capture thug terrorists, but you can still walk over our southern border anytime, day or night, and never have to worry about being captured? Many women are complaining, as I am, that we are being virtually molested at the airport prior to getting on an aircraft, and all in the name of national security, yet our southern border is as porous as it has ever been. Doesn't that make you mad, all you ladies out there who have had a some guy's...

557 people have been killed by Palestinian violence and terrorism since September 2000. Between Friday, September 29, 2000 and June 17, 2002 Magen David Adom treated a total of 3996 casualties as follows: - 451 killed, 346 severely injured, 472 moderately and 2727 lightly injured, among them 11 MDA crew members. (IDF casualties treated by IDF medical personnel are not included in these figures.) List of victims by date: Sept 27, 2000 - Sgt. David Biri, 19, of Jerusalem, was fatally wounded in a bombing near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Sept 29, 2000 - Border Police Supt. Yossi...

I think Paul O'neill has got to go. Bring back Rubin. Bring back anyone just get rid of O'Neill. Who cares if he went to Africa. TAke care of the Dollar. He is the worse SEc Treasury EVER.

THE North American Free Trade Agreement has not helped US workers to the degree that its promoters, including former President Clinton, promised. Now, President Bush wants to expand the 1993 treaty to include 31 more Latin America countries. Currently, NAFTA includes only Canada, Mexico and the United States. While changes are being considered, we hope Congress repairs some odious parts of NAFTA. The place to start is Chapter 11, a section of the 555-page agreement that lets corporations seek billions of taxpayer dollars - in secret. Multinational corporations are using NAFTA’s Chapter 11 "to claim compensation for unrealized profits," Bill...

Immigration gadfly at odds with Bush By JULIA MALONE Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- Former civics teacher Tom Tancredo never bought into the adage that newcomers in the U.S. House of Representatives had to go along to get along. In just his second term, the Colorado Republican has emerged as the most outspoken congressional advocate for tightening American immigration policy. Along the way, he has clashed not only with liberal groups but also with leaders of his own party, all the way to the White House. To supporters, Tancredo has the daring to point to the costs and challenges...

Volunteers needed for Hayman Fire Support There is a need for volunteers to help with the Hayman Fire. They are needing volunteers at both command posts, in Lake George and Castle Rock. They are expecting to have around 1800 firefighters to feed this weekend, and need help with meals, taking care of evacuated animals, answering phones, and probably a lot of other things. They are in need of bottled water, gatorade, lip balm, eye drops, sun block, powerbars, and heavy gloves. We have volunteers coming in from all over the country to help with a fire in our state, so...

Henderson Man Claims to Have Overheard Plot Against Las Vegas Steve Crupi reporting: FBI agents in Las Vegas and across the country are putting together a plan to protect americans on the Fourth of July. There's concern that terrorists might use the holiday to celebrate American Independence as a time to attack. And one of the tips FBI agents are investigating right now comes from a Henderson man who says he intercepted a very frightening phone call. On the fourth of July there will be fireworks at the Stratosphere at Desert Breeze Park and other locations througout the valley. But...

The trouble started in the Barbie aisle at a Toys “R” Us in Brooklyn. While shopping, Donna McGrath and two other self-described transsexuals, Tanya Jinks and Tara Lopez, claim employees greeted them with a chorus of laughter and insults. On a second excursion a week later, they say, it got worse: Two employees threatened them with baseball bats. The experience “made me feel like I was garbage,” McGrath, 28, told a jury in Brooklyn federal court. McGrath was testifying in support of a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by herself, Jinks and Lopez seeking $300,000 each in damages from Toys “R”...

What ever happened to the investigation of people who shorted airline stocks, etc.,in a way that indicated foreknowledge of September 11th? I think it is horrible to think that our stock markets can be easily manipulated by acts of terror. Why not automatically void and investigate all short interest trades immediately in the aftermath of a terrorist event? The idea that human pain and suffering on a global scale can build the fortunes of the evil doers is truly frightening. I would like to hear others comment on this. Thanks.

http://realmedia.ujcfedweb.org/ramgen/0/israel_emergency.rm Fighting against Israel is like fighting against God!

President Bush held a fitness expo on the South Lawn today to help launch his health and fitness initiative. Bush appointed football hall of famer Lynn Swann as President of the President's Council on Fitness, and Dot Richardson, an Olympic gold medalist in softball and an orthopedic surgeon, as Vice President. The President urged all Americans to make their health and fitness a priority. He and Gail Norton have waived entrance fees to national and federal parks this weekend to get people outside to walk or hike. This evening, the President attended the Leon H. Sullivan Summit Dinner in Washington....

It seems that some terrorists have housed themselves within our cities, within our schools, within our churches, within our backyards. This has created a dilemma that our system has not really had to face before; that is, how do we handle domestic terror suspects? A recent appeals court filing by the Justice Department in the Yasser Esam Hamdi case argued that enemy combatants do not have the right to a lawyer. They can be held by the government indefinitely and civilian courts have no standing to intervene. A portion of the filing says the government can call a detainee an...

Judge Hits Rudy in The Checkbook By Karen Freifeld STAFF WRITER June 20, 2002, 6:38 PM EDT Rudolph Giuliani was told Thursday it’s time to get out the checkbook after his divorce-court judge learned the former mayor expects to make $8 million in speaking fees alone this year. Saying the ex-mayor’s overall earnings are now in the “multiples of millions of dollars,” Judge Judith Gische ordered him to pony up more than $20,000 a month in child support and $110,000 for estranged wife Donna Hanover’s legal expenses within 30 days. Since last summer, Giuliani, 57, has been paying $1,800 per...

Asteroid Gives Earth Closest Shave In Years by Richard Ingham Paris - June 20 (AFP) - A football-pitch-sized asteroid capable of razing a major city came within a whisker of hitting the Earth on June 14, but was only spotted three days later, scientists said Thursday. Asteroid 2002 MN, estimated at up to 120 metres (yards) long, hurtled by the Earth at a distance of 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), well within the orbit of the Moon and just a hair's breadth in galactic terms. It is the closest recorded near-miss by any asteroid, with the exception of a 10-metre (33-feet)...

Study: Open, closed source equally secure By Robert Lemos Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 20, 2002, 6:00 PM PT Proprietary programs should mathematically be as secure as those developed under the open-source model, a Cambridge University researcher argued in a paper presented Thursday at a technical conference in Toulouse, France. In his paper, computer scientist Ross Anderson used an analysis equating finding software bugs to testing programs for the mean time before failure, a measure of quality frequently used by manufacturers. Under the analysis, Anderson found that his ideal "open-source" programs were as secure as the "closed-source" programs. "Other things...

House GOP Put Off Trade Bill Thu Jun 20, 6:01 PM ET By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders scrapped plans to debate a controversial trade measure Thursday after textile-state lawmakers charged that a powerful committee chairman had blindsided them with portions of the bill. "The difficulty we've had is really with Chairman Thomas listening here," said Rep. Jim DeMint ( news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., referring to Rep. Bill Thomas, R-Calif., the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "We're going to have to have more cooperation from Chairman Thomas," he added. Thomas'...

JERUSALEM, June 20 (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen killed six Israelis, including a mother and three of her children, in a raid on a settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, hours after Yasser Arafat demanded an end to attacks on Israeli civilians. The gunmen burst into a house in the Itamar settlement and opened fire shortly after Israel said it was calling up some reserve soldiers to reinforce its incursions into Palestinian areas following two suicide bombings in as many days. The Jerusalem bombings, which killed 26 Israelis, prompted U.S. President George W. Bush to put off a speech charting...

Today, with the death of 19 Israelis, and over 50 hospitalized; with body parts strewn over the pavement of Jerusalem -- the city all people agree is holy -- I realized why Israel’s enemies are winning. We Israelis are simply too conflicted. We wake up in the morning, and we have to deal with our health system, with unemployment, with caring for our elderly and crippled and deaf. We have to find funding for abused children, and deal with our educational system. We have to worry about our economy, and try to encourage tourism. We worry about appearing well on...

 Seeking Meaning BeyondCan People Send Signals After They Die? Psychologist Claims Science Has the Answer By Amanda Onion   June 18 — The first time Denise E. Esposito knew her late husband was watching over her was the night of Sept. 11 — hours after he died in the World Trade Center attacks. "I was hysterical crying, so I went outside and there must have been a million stars up there — I've never seen so many stars over Staten Island," remembers Esposito whose husband, Capt. Michael Esposito, was a New York City firefighter. "I said, 'Mike are you there?'...