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<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A November 2000 e-mail about Enron-style energy trading tactics is likely to trigger a legislative probe into whether the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power engaged in such activities.</p> <p>On another front, state senators will put off a Monday vote to confirm S. David Freeman as head of the state public power authority until lawmakers learn more about his role at the DWP during the electricity crisis.</p>

Bush Middle East Speech Discussion Thread

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Despite Israeli protests that CNN's Mideast coverage favors the Palestinians, an Israeli satellite provider will not suspend the network from its service, a member of the company's board said Monday. Ido Dissentshik, who sits on the Yes satellite provider's board of directors, last week requested the Cable News Network be removed from the service for 24 hours to protest remarks made by CNN founder Ted Turner describing both Israelis and Palestinians as engaged in terrorism. Yes decided against the service suspension, and Dissentshik said he withdrew his request to do so when he learned later that Turner...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -- A South Florida trapper found and captured a six-foot alligator in a back yard today, but a neighborhood dog is still missing. "The alligator was found earlier today just wandering this neighborhood," said trapper Todd Hardwick (pictured, left). "This is the busy season for alligators. When the rains come, the alligators come. It's nothing to be alarmed about. It's just part of living in South Florida." But that's a part of the South Florida lifestyle that Elaine Kelley would rather do without. The gator was found on her property this morning. "It scare me out...

They Raided the Tobacco Settlement, Now They are Trying to Explain Their Mistake LANSING, Mich., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Citizens for a Healthy Michigan: Special interest groups and politicians who raided Michigan's tobacco settlement from health care and smoking prevention today tried to justify their mistake by attacking a coalition that will ask voters on Nov. 5 to dedicate the tobacco money to health care. At a news conference in Lansing today, the politicians and special interest groups that diverted the tobacco settlement joined to attack Citizens for a Healthy Michigan, a coalition that...

* The legacy of the 90's is the legacy of the Little Lie. That is a lie which was told to help the teller, but was defended on the grounds that it HAD to be told to serve or protect a greater good. * Before Bob Shrum or Lanny Davis hit the speed dialer to call me, I am not blaming this on Bill Clinton. He didn't invent the Little Lie, although his "It depends on what your definition of 'is' is" will certainly be used, for the next two million years, to define it. * We did it...

ast modified: 02:06 PM CDT on Monday, June 24, 2002 Five killed in church bus crash near Terrell Teens were headed to religious retreat in Louisiana 06/24/2002 From Staff Reports A chartered bus carrying 40 young people from Garland to a church camp in Louisiana crashed into a concrete bridge abutment Monday morning on Interstate 20 near Terrell. At least five people on the bus were killed, including the driver. "There's many, many that are injured," said Dave Eden, associate pastor at Metro Church of Garland, where the bus trip originated. Rev. Eden said he had been in telephone contact...

From newtimesla.com Originally published by New Times L.A. Jun 20, 2002 ©2002 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved. Border Buster Critics say L.A. lawyer Peter Schey is ruining America by helping hordes of illegal immigrants stay here. Schey says his work's far from done. By Susan Goldsmith Peter Schey was raised on the story of the Nazis marching into Paris during World War II. His gentile mother and communist Jewish father escaped from France on one of the last planes to England. They were German refugees and knew what France's Jewish community was in for. In London, Schey's father...

CALVINISM -- TEN LITTLE CAVEATS CHAPTER TEN Calvinism's View Of Christian Unity John 17:21 says, "_that they may all be one_that the world may believe_" Jesus wasn't just saying, "Why can't we just all get along, pluralistically?". Puritans and Calvinists, more than most others, recognize this and are quick to herald the alarm against impure amalgamations. I believe, nonetheless, that God can make a way for reform in various traditions that will bring them closer to the truth of God's revelation. In this chapter I will first analyze "the world believing" and move from that to our responsibility toward unity....

Thank you for clicking on this thread, and I beg your indulgence to read further. I am looking for a database-management-type software package on behalf of a children's summer-camp in Michigan. My problem is that I don't know where to begin my search, or whether an off-the-shelf product of this sort is even available. The requirements are quite simple, and I would imagine similar to the software one would use to run a baseball Little League. This software would have to have fields for such information as:name; address; phone; sex; age; birthdate; have forms been sent?; have forms been received?;...

Investigators are scrutinizing a former handyman and convicted felon who worked at Elizabeth Smart's home prior to her June 5 kidnapping. Richard Albert Ricci, 48, a parolee with convictions dating back to 1973 in Utah, has been in the Salt Lake County Jail since June 14. Ricci has not been named as a suspect or charged with Elizabeth's kidnapping, but police say they're having a hard time pinning down exactly where Ricci was the morning of June 5 when Elizabeth was taken at gunpoint from her family's million-dollar home in Federal Heights. "Right now we haven't had anybody else that...

This FR post was inspired by -- ROSIE DISGUSTED BY BILL From NewsMax, here is an excerpt --- Former TV talker Rosie O'Donnell may be a big fan of Hillary Clinton, but she apparently despises her husband Bill - so much so that the loudmouthed "Queen of Nice" has taken to trashing the ex-prez in public. "He disgusts me," O'Donnell told a crowd assembled this weekend for the opening of Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Casino during her stand-up comedy routine. O'Donnell's blast came just 24-hours after Clinton joined the Blues Brothers onstage at the same gathering for a saxophone serenade. "I've...

Response to ‘15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense’ by John Rennie (Editor), Scientific American. 287(1):78–85, July 2002; Feature article on Scientific American Web site, 17 June 2002. 20 June 2002 Table of contents Introduction Rennie’s introductory comments 1. Evolution is only a theory. It is not a fact or a scientific law. 2. Natural selection is based on circular reasoning 3. Evolution is unscientific, because it is not testable or falsifiable. 4. Increasingly, scientists doubt the truth of evolution. 5. The disagreements among even evolutionary biologists show how little solid science supports evolution. 6. If humans descended from monkeys, why are...

The short-lived flurry of national excitement over the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team mostly ended Friday with the team's tough 1-0 loss in the tournament quarterfinals in South Korea to Germany. The question being debated now, much like the aftermath of a presidential debate, is, what does it all mean? The answer is probably: something, but not too much.Perhaps the most significant news from a sporting perspective is that Americans are capable of living and breathing in the rarified air of international soccer. Bruce Arena's charges acquitted themselves much better than anticipated, only losing to perennial powerhouse Germany with...

DODOMA, Tanzania (Reuters) - Hospital officials said they had recovered 200 bodies after a passenger train and a cargo train collided in central Tanzania Monday. "At least 200 people are dead but we fear there could be more," John Mtimbwa, the regional medical officer, told Reuters. Railway officials said the train was climbing a steep hill when it experienced mechanical problems and rolled backwards, smashing into an approaching cargo train.

I just saw a word I am sick to death of hearing... DIVA Add to that.... DIVERSITY SENSITIVITY TOLERANCE MULTICULTURAL SELF-ESTEEM Feel free to add your own, as I am sure I have left a lot out...

Report on Legislative Fly-In By George Dupray, Legislative Chairman The National Grange Legislative Fly in June 9 through 12 was very productive. Chief Lobbyist, George Dupray and Brothers Joe Victorine Tulelake Grange # 468 and Tim Connors, an Oregon Grange cattleman, both victims of the Klammath Basin water crisis last year, represented our State Grange. Since Monday is always a travel day for our congressional delegates, several informational programs were presented by the National Grange Legislative Director, Leroy Watson. Beginning Sunday, June 9, representatives from the State Granges were divided into two groups. Group A participated in a workshop titled...

"You wish to give this evil animal a reservation that is called a Palestinian state of terror," roared Effi Eitan, minister to Ariel Sharon. Eitan was viewing the carnage of a Jerusalem bus bombing that killed 19 – mostly school kids – the day another terrorist bomber blew six Israelis to pieces and wounded 30. "How do we negotiate with animals like this?" say Israelis. That anguished question, everywhere asked in Israel, is the triumph of Hamas. For Hamas does not want a negotiated peace, and the closer peace approaches, the more violent it becomes. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the...

When Kathleen Klamut started her job as a psychologist in the Ravenna City, Ohio, school system last fall, she requested that her union dues go to charity. Ohio is a closed-shop state, and Klamut's union, the National Education Association, is pro-abortion. "My faith prevents me from financially supporting the union and its affiliates," she told the House Workforce Protections subcommittee. "It does not matter which pocket the union puts the money in."The local chapter of the National Education Association, the nation's largest union, had other plans. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows members who object to a...

D.C. Police Hire 60 From Puerto Rico They came down Muñoz Rivera Avenue by the dozens, then the hundreds. On police motorcycles from San Juan, in cruisers from Hato Rey and a few in their own cars, Puerto Rican police officers clamoring to join the D.C. police department filled the parking lot and rushed to show their badges, their health records and their stacks of commendations and college transcripts. "We were completely surprised and, frankly, a little worried about all the officers coming in the cruisers, parking them outside during this three-hour process," said Bert Ennis, head of recruiting for...