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In the final analysis, control of people is Socialism's most important reason for government land acquisition and watershed control programs. Wildlife habitat enhancement, watershed protection and endangered species restoration are simply useful vehicles to advance Socialism and are smoke screens to fool the sheeple. Meramac Regional Planning Commission's (MRPC) meeting in St. James, Missouri, on 24 June 2002, is an attempt to salvage its Partnership for Stream Management program affecting the Missouri Counties of Crawford, Dent, Gasconade, Maries, Osage, Phelps, and Washington. MRPC's program is billed as a pilot program and model for similar programs which proponents intend to grow...

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Man Tells Passer-By Cop About Dope A man who allegedly boasted to a passer-by while carrying a marijuana plant down the street ended up getting arrested by the man — a plainclothes police officer. "Would you believe I'm walking down the street in the middle of the day with this pot plant," Daniel Fornash of Canton said as he walked down the street Thursday, according to police. The passer-by responded, "Would you believe I'm a cop?" Canton Detective Joe Mongold, who was returning from court, cited Fornash with misdemeanor charges of cultivation and possession of marijuana. Authorities said Fornash told...

RaceBannon is on Sean Hannity's show with Ann Coulter right now!

ONE-time "Queen of Nice" Rosie O'Donnell turned mean at her first stand-up show in six years over the weekend, trashing Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Anne Heche and Sharon Stone. "I'm no longer a TV talk-show host," O'Donnell told thousands packed into a ballroom at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., Saturday night. "The bitch ain't so nice anymore." Rosie, a die-hard Democrat, said she refused to speak to Clinton before he wailed on his sax Friday with Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi's star-studded band in the casino's Wolf Den bar. "He disgusts me," Rosie told the crowd....

LOS ANGELES, Jun 25, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Michael Eisner, chairman and chief executive of Walt Disney Co., and his wife have filed a federal negligence lawsuit against their accounting firm, claiming they had to cover $3 million in unpaid state taxes and interest. In a lawsuit filed Monday, the Eisners claim Executive Monetary Management Inc. failed to give the correct advice on preparing and filing California state income tax returns. Executive Monetary Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of New York-based Neuberger Berman Inc. A telephone message left after business hours Monday to Neuberger Berman was not...

http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/politics_conservative/92761 Ken Feld's Line in The Sand Author: Brian Tubbs, Senior Policy Analyst, National Legal and Policy Center Published on: June 25, 2002 The most popular legend in American history stems from the gallant sacrifice made by roughly 180 besieged fighters at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas. These fighters included ex-U.S. Congressman and frontier hero Davy Crockett and the legendary Jim Bowie. According to popular history, when informed that reinforcements would not be coming, Colonel William Barrett Travis, the Alamo's commander, called for an assembly in the main courtyard. Standing before his men, Travis told them the...

BALTIMORE -- As Morgan State University President Earl S. Richardson surveyed the sea of newly minted graduates at the school's 126th commencement last month, his joy was tempered by a question that has grown too conspicuous to ignore: Where are all the men? Not only were the head of student government, the senior class president and 96 of Morgan's 141 honorstudents women, but so were two-thirds of the university's 860 graduates. Click here to read the entire article.

Poor Samuel Waksal. Back in December, the Food and Drug Administration struck a grave blow to his company, ImClone Systems, by denying it the right to market a potential cancer treatment it had developed.Then two weeks ago the FBI arrested him (and the Securities and Exchange Commission sued him) for letting relatives know about the FDA’s plan before it issued its press release. They sold ImClone stock before it started dropping upon news of the FDA’s decisions. So did Waksal's pal Martha Stewart, and the news is causing her no end of trouble and lost stock value for her own...

Blessed Are The Poor With SpiritConko and Prakash Article in Tech Central Stationby Gregory Conko and Dr. C.S. Prakash June 25, 2002 This year's UN-sponsored World Food Summit just concluded with a grim reminder that the goal of cutting world hunger in half by 2015 set six years ago at the first Food Summit still seems far out of reach. This time, however, delegates agreed to meet the challenge of achieving genuine food security with a very potent tool: agricultural biotechnology. Biotechnology holds the potential to increase food production, reduce the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, and actually make foods...

MITCHELL, S.D. (Wireless Flash) -- It might not be any of his business but a marijuana-loving Canadian shaman is taking credit for the kooky way the stock market has been acting lately. Doug Pederson claims that the current stock volatility is directly related to a curse he put on participating countries of the United Nations back in January, 2000, after they refused to legalize pot. Pothead Pederson made the curse with the help of four sacred stones that he claims are the America's equivalent to the Holy Grail. He claims the stones caused an elevator in the Empire State Building...

The American space agency Nasa has grounded its space shuttle fleet indefinitely after finding small cracks in fuel pipes in the main engines of two shuttles. The cracks, discovered on shuttles Atlantis and Discovery, will delay the scheduled 19 July launch of Columbia, due to carry the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, into space. The cracks were found in metal liners used to direct fuel flow inside the main rocket motor's fuel pipes on shuttles Atlantis and Discovery. "The concern is that ... if a piece were to crack off and go down into the engine, would that damage the...

This is an honest question, no offense towards anyone is intended... I won't try to claim I'm any kind of scholar on the subject of Isreal Settlements but I have done a bit of research on the subject. Yet, one question still remains... I can't justify the Isreal Settlements in The West Bank and Gaza...In my own mind, anyway... As far as I can tell, Isreal officially justifies these settlements based on the fact that they lay claim to Gaza and the West Bank due to defeating Arab aggressors in the 1967 war. And, Isreal is still technically at war...

A deep confusion has overtaken our land. A lack of understanding of our own history and its meaning is epidemic. A conveyance of personal identity has been transposed into a frenzy for Statism. And a dependence in allegiance to unquestioned leadership has replaced common sense. No wonder that those who view themselves as conservatives, are bewildered. It has customarily been accepted that conservative thinking is mostly associated with the Republican Party. In a previous article, this critic wrote: What Makes a Republican - a REPUBLICAN? The case was presented that the true tradition of the GOP is the heritage of...

link Heard on KSFO 560 AM this morning, and here's the info - RALLY NEWS! Melanie is encouraging everyone to head up to the Capitol building this Saturday (June 29th) at 11:30am for the NO NEW TAXES! rally! Tell Gray Davis that California deserves a balanced State Budget! Be sure to get there a little early- its sure to be crowded! The rally is supported by People's Advocate Inc., The National Tax Limitation Committee, The Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association and over 35 other organizations! For further information call 916-451-5660

Health groups critical of new smoking age By James P. Sweeney COPLEY NEWS SERVICE SACRAMENTO - When a West Hollywood legislator and a powerful doctor's lobby launched a drive earlier this month to raise the state's legal smoking age to 21, some prominent allies in the war on tobacco were conspicuously absent. The proposal, which could make California the first state to outlaw cigarette sales to 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds, immediately drew national attention, including a poll that showed broad support for the idea. Amid the applause, however, representatives of the state's heart, lung and cancer associations were sitting on...

A few folks have written to me asking when I was going to do a column about the fires raging out West. The body of my column is a response to that inquiry. Suffice it to say it replaces the long scholarly piece, with tons of quotes and documentation, that I was going to write. However, the following quotes come from reputable silviculturists and need to be taken to heart. If only the powers that be would consider them. Most of all those who vote for politicians who are venal and self-serving need to know how they vote matters. When...

SENECA FALLS (NY)- The Rev. David Gramkee stood before his parishioners at the 12:15 p.m. Mass yesterday at St. Patrick's Church, surrounded by life-long members of the church, families, and teary-eyed teens as he said what could be his final Mass there. Dwarfed by the vaulting roof and enormous cross behind the altar, Gramkee's voice echoed through the chamber as he retold one of his favorite tales. It was from Cecil B. DeMille, who watched a beetle break its shell and become a dragonfly. "A water beetle landed there, right on the edge of the canoe. I don't know the...

Ten days before President George W. Bush told the Palestinians to remove their leaders if they wanted a state (on June 24), an intelligence report landing on his desk informed him that Arafat had jumped the gun on the presidential statement. Instead of instituting democratic reforms, the Palestinian leader had overhauled and recharged his terror command structure in readiness for a savage terrorist offensive intended to reach also US targets in Israel and the Middle East. Another of the report’s disclosures refers to the serious decline in Arafat’s health in recent months. He is said to suffer from prostate cancer...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 25 (UPI) -- European Union governments distanced themselves Tuesday from President Bush's call to marginalize Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat but coupled that with approval for U.S. support for peace in the Middle East. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin reflected the general European reaction to Bush's speech, which he said "converges with the aims of France and the European Union." However, the newly appointed minister added that it "was up to the Palestinians to choose their own leaders." Senior European officials in Washington said privately the tough tone of Bush's speech reversing almost a decade of U.S....