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Don't you think it's time you followed through with your reservations?  It won't be the same without you at FRiva Las Vegas.See details below. Good evening folks:  I see determination in your eyes.  Or is that animosity.  I have a hard time telling the difference.I guess I better give that clue before you string me up.  Able Wrongrighter  Never one to be a bore.  Here's clue one for day four.Clue code: 389 Don't forget, you must copy this code. Write this down."Clue one: Code 389"Key Words: submarine(Set preferences to "match all words" and "order by post time".) (The thread...

<p>BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- A hiker is stranded in South America's Andes mountains when a blizzard begins. He reaches into his backpack for his cell phone -- only to find his prepaid minutes are up.</p> <p>The Colombian mountaineer slowly begins freezing to death, surviving for 24 hours with his only warmth coming from carefully measured doses of brandy. Then suddenly, at above 12,500 feet, Leonardo Diaz hears a familiar ring.</p>

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (Referring to the Sept. 11th attacks.) Anne Graham replied.... I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government, and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I think He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and protection if we demand He leave us...

Read the whole article here: http://www.theopinion.com/engine/article.asp?id=1311 Oh, and by the way, the author hangs out there, and you can comment about it on a bulletin board. Some choice excerpts: "H.L.Mencken was a conservative. But he was no bigot--and for that reason he would be vilified today as a 'liberal.' Translation: To be conservative is to be a bigot. "'Liberal' once meant 'free' but that predates Joseph McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, and the current occupant of the Oval Office who have attacked our language as surely as they have attacked and distorted the very notion of...

CHEYENNE – Nebraska public health officials confirmed hantavirus killed a man who died last week in a Scottsbluff hospital. It’s Nebraska’s first case of the rare rodent-borne disease. Since the man lived within 20 miles of the Wyoming border in Lyman, Neb., and often traveled across the state line, Wyoming and Goshen County public health officials are investigating the case along with their counterparts in Nebraska and at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Investigations of rare diseases can take quite a while. Since three other recent deaths in neighboring states have been attributed to the...

All computer experts, your help is needed on a problem my friend and I are having on her computer. When you click CTRL-ALT-DEL to get to the Close Program box there is a ton of programs neither one of us know what the hell they are. Here's the list: Tgcmd WhagentCfdLoadqmNdetectAcbtnmgr x83PtsnoopOcrawr32OcrawareRnappQttaskAcmonitor x83 The computer is a 700Mhz Intel PC, 184MB RAM, running Windows 98. Net access is through Cox Cable modem. Main email client is Outlook 2000.

For all of their xenophobic paranoia about United Nations conspiracies to take over America, the militia movement is playing on some fears which are, alas, very real. All those sightings of mysterious unmarked black helicopters, for instance, are not hallucinations. The black helicopters are real. But the enemy isn't the UN, it's Uncle Sam. That's what Montana tax-resister Calvin Greenup should have realized when an Idaho National Guard chopper swooped down over his ranch last March. He got on the horn to his militia buddies, and within a half-hour some 20 rifle-toting rednecks had arrived to protect his land in...

I started out as a very patriotic American. Now, at age thirty-seven, I find I am much more cynical about our nation and I am increasingly distrustful of the system, especially since Clinton made such a travesty of leadership and sooo many Americans defended and excused him (Let me add that I deeply admire and appreciate George W. Bush -- thank GOD he won!). But in the name of "freedom" and "rights," our country produces so much smut (I refuse to do any business, for example, with AT&T, among other large companies, because of their huge investments in porn) and...

June 15, 2002 On Your Nuclear Mark, Get Set, Go The Bush Administration's recklessness when it comes to nuclear weapons is now well out of the starting blocks. In fact, it has knocked over the biggest hurdle slowing down a nuclear arms race: the ABM Treaty of 1972. On June 13, the U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty became final, and the treaty is now kaput. As a result, Bush is free to pursue his Star Wars fantasy and to construct a costly missile defense system. This system, even if it solved the daunting technological problems, would not protect...

For over 90 years, there has been a concerted and relentless effort to disparage, denigrate and obliterate the reputations, names, and brilliance of the academic artistic masters of the late 19th Century. Fueled by a cooperative press, the ruling powers have held the global art establishment in an iron grip. Equally, there was a successful effort to remove from our institutions of higher learning all the methods, techniques and knowledge of how to train skilled artists. Five centuries of critical data was nearly thrown into the trash. It is incredible how close Modernist theory, backed by an enormous network of...

DOHA, June 29 (AFP) - The United States has drafted a general plan to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi opposition leader told Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera Saturday night. Washington is tracking Saddam's movements through satellite data and human intelligence, with the plan to order air strikes "to try to kill him" when they are sure "they have determined with accuracy the spot where he can be found," said former Iraqi intelligence chief Wafiq Sammarai. The warplanes could take off from the southern Turkey military base of Incirlik and bases in the Gulf, by the Mediterranean or the...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Ben-Eliezer vows to dismantle 10 West Bank outposts today Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said yesterday that he had given orders to dismantle 10 illegal West Bank settlements by this evening. "By the end of the day tomorrow, 10 outposts are to be taken down. And afterward, I intend to take action to take down other outposts," Ben-Eliezer said. The Labor Party chairman made the comments during an appearance before the Labor Party Young Guard, at the Holiday Inn in...

(Montrose, New York-AP) -- An anti-nuclear activist has been charged with trespassing at a Westchester County high school where officials were distributing pills to protect residents in case of a nuclear catastrophe. State police say 57-year-old Marilyn Elie of Cortlandt Manor was arrested shortly after 10 a-m at Hendrick Hudson High School. Elie -- a founder of the Westchester Citizens Awareness Network -- was given a ticket and released.Elie says she was handing out literature calling for the closing of the Indian Point nuclear reactor as people arrived for their 130-milligram doses of potassium iodide.Residents who live within ten miles...

The inhabitants of Clinton in Mississippi, have lost fortunes in the WorldCom collapse but, as Charles Laurence found, they won't blame local hero Bernie Ebbers. Southern gentlemen don't commit fraudThe locals, with the sad old wisdom of the Deep South, put it like this: WorldCom had made it from sharecropper to plantation owner, and now it was back to the dust once again. In a giddy ride through the worlds of high technology and sudden wealth, the telecommunications giant had become the only Fortune 500 company in the whole of Mississippi, the poorest state in the Union, but now all...

The family album that featured a snapshot of a Palestinian toddler dressed as a suicide bomber contained photographs of other children posing with Kalashnikov assault rifles, a senior Israeli army officer said yesterday, writes Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem.The military said that it had also recovered a 44lb assembled bomb, two explosive belts of the type used by suicide bombers and military fatigues from the house of the baby's father, an alleged leader of the Hamas terror faction. The building was blown up after the search.One photograph apparently shows the father standing with three teenage boys wielding AK-47s in front of...

Philip Sherwell in Bethlehem hears a mother's anguish on learning that the Palestinian uprising's youngest suicide bomber was bullied into his 'martyrdom' by terrorist commanders.Fathiyeh Budeir was devastated. The mother of eight sat on the verandah of her house in Bethlehem and held her head in despair after being told of the final moments of her son Issa, the youngest suicide bomber in the 21-month Palestinian uprising.She already knew that the 16-year-old schoolboy had blown himself and two Israelis apart outside a cafe near Tel Aviv five weeks ago. Last week, to add to her anguish, she discovered that he...

BERLIN, June 29 (AFP) - Britain and Germany are pushing to have the Lebanese Shiite fundamentalist movement Hezbollah added to the European Union's list of groups considered as terrorist, the Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported in its Sunday edition. However, it said Sweden, France, Greece, Spain and Belgium are opposed to the idea, and all 15 EU nations would have to back such a move for it be approved. Hezbollah spearheaded the fight against Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon, which led to a troop withdrawal in May 2000. It is included on a similar list of terrorist groups maintained by...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - James Charles Kopp, the pro-life rescuer accused of killing Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian in October 1998, entered not guilty pleas in two separate courtrooms in Buffalo on June 5 and 6. He entered these pleas immediately upon his return from France. The FBI had nabbed him there a little more than a year ago as he made plans for a secret return from exile in Europe. His upcoming trial, or trials - it has not been determined if he will be tried in both state and federal courts, or if both, which will have precedence - are...

A rift between Tony Blair and George W Bush is set to deepen this week as the United States administration rejects British calls to be spared from steel tariffs.Washington lobbyists expect the US to grant only a fifth of the exemptions to the ban on British imports for which Mr Blair has lobbied.The rebuff will come after the most public split between Washington and London over how to deal with the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.Although Downing Street officials are playing down the clash between Mr Blair and President Bush at the G8 summit meeting in Calgary, Canada, they are braced...

GAZA, Jun 29, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Israeli troops searching the rubble of the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Hebron Saturday found no trace of 15 Palestinian militants who were believed to have been hiding inside. Israeli army officials said it is possible the men escaped before Israeli forces flattened the three-story building using at least a ton of explosives. Copyright 2002 by United Press International