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Mischief afoot in North Carolina! Spread the word! GRNC Alert: 6-29-02 Grass Roots North Carolina Forum for Firearms Education P.O. Box 10684, Raleigh, NC 27605 (919) 664-8565, http://www.grnc.org GRNC Alert Hotline: (919) 562-4137 AMERICANS ‘FOR GUN SAFETY’ LAUNCHES NC OFFENSIVE This alert is also available in Adobe Format If you do not have Adobe Reader Click here to get Yours FREE [Analysis] As the NRA has often said, Americans "For Gun Safety" (AGS) is potentially the most dangerous anti-gun organization in the country. Funded by billionaire Andrew McKelvey of monster.com, AGS makes a pretense of supporting the right to arms...

Gore Vows More Spontaneous Campaign Gore Promises More Spontaneous, Less Restrained Campaign if He Runs for President in 2004 MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 29 — Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and "let it rip." The former vice president attended a weekend retreat with about 60 fund-raisers and Democratic Party activists from across the country. Reporters were barred from the meetings, but aides and others said Gore promised a different kind of campaign than the Democrats ran...

<p>Paul Volcker is an outsized man, basketball-player big, and so you listen when he speaks, and he chuckles and chortles, which makes you feel good, even when he tells you nobody has a magic wand to wave over the stock market and make brokers and accountants stop cheating investors.</p>

I've setup a test database on my development server to test the new focus software. I've made extensive changes to the underbelly and in a few other places visible to you where I've basically rewritten the software. This database is almost completely empty! You will need to create a new account. DO NOT USE YOUR FREE REPUBLIC PASSWORD. Just in case this thing isn't as secure as I'd like it to be. Give it a good run! I've spent dozens of hours testing it, but I'm sure somebody will find more critical bugs that need to be fixed. When all...

Hi all. I hope someone here can help me out with some advice. To make a long story short, we're having a property dispute with a neighbor. We have a shared property arrangement with two spaces on a parking pad. There are also three weeks to go until we close on the sale of this (our) house and are able to leave this touchy situation. My first question is: What risk is there to me if I allow some slight encroachment on the parking pad? (They are slowly drifting onto our space). My neighbors do not accept the idea of...

Police Seek Suspected Child Molester The Sioux Falls Police Department is warning parents about a possible child molester in the area. Police have taken two reports of cases where kids have been inappropriately touched in a major chain store in the city. Police say the victims got separated from their parents while shopping. Once separated, the suspected approached the children and accosted them. The suspect they are looking for is a white male, 40 years old, average height and weight, dark hair, a possible beard, and shabbily dressed. Police tell KSFY that the store is cooperating with the investigation and...

Blue Cross Polls Voters About Race For Governor Research Firm Calls Candidate's Husband By Political Reporter Bill Rappleye POSTED: 6:24 p.m. EDT June 28, 2002 UPDATED: 11:51 p.m. EDT June 28, 2002 CRANSTON, R.I. -- News Channel 10 reported Friday that Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island is paying Alpha Research to question voters about who they'd support for governor, and whether Blue Cross should run commercials. Blue Cross & Blue Shield has a multimillion dollar contract to insure state employees. The contract has come under fire from gubernatorial candidate Myrth York. She has raised the issue...

Claim:   Humorist George Carlin wrote a piece about being a "Bad American." Status:   False.Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2001] Yes, I Guess I am A BAD American. I like big cars, big boats, big houses, and naturally - big tits. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid-level governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies. I don't care about appearing compassionate. I think playing with toy guns doesn't make you a killer. I believe it's called the Boy Scouts...

Koreas Blame Each Other in Navy Clash By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Hours after North Korea sank a South Korean patrol boat Saturday, the president of the South and commander of U.S. forces in the country accused North Korea of violating the armistice that ended the Korean war. A defiant North said the South fired first. The 21-minute confrontation in the Yellow Sea is the worst border clash in recent years on the world's last Cold War frontier and killed four sailors and wounded 19. It dealt a new blow to Korean reconciliation efforts...

Italians move toward protecting self-defenseUnnoticed by the establishment media in the United States, Italy is taking big steps towards greater protection of fundamental human rights, as it looks to significantly change old laws that have infringed the right of self-defense. In Italy, the Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino, recently announced his support for private gun ownership. "Gun control disarms law-abiding citizens, not criminals," he said.Martino, who was a professor before becoming defense minister, observed that gun laws only affect the law-abiding, not criminals: When gun-control laws were passed, I neither saw any member of the Mafia giving up his shotguns,...

It is clear to me that the amoral, unethical, and crimial Clintons are a primary reason for the rash of corporate corruption that has come to light during the past year. So many of the skills required for lying and avoiding responsibility were taught by the Clintons to our corporate leadership. Clearly Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia and Tyco managments thought they could adopt the Clintons' technigues --- and they have. Bill and Hillary taught us to commit crimes to achieve power, control or money; to deny and lie about crime roles; to destroy or hide all evidence; to accuse opponents of...

The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth has removed a priest from ministry in response to the U.S. bishops' new policy on child sexual abuse adopted June 14 in Dallas. The Rev. Rudolf Renteria, who had been serving as a chaplain at several Fort Worth and Dallas hospitals since 1987, was told by Bishop Joseph Delaney this week that he could no longer serve in the ministry. Also Online Background: Coverage of Catholic bishops conference in Dallas DMN coverage of Catholic abuse scandal Database: Catholic bishops and sex abuse This Dallas Morning News study - the first of its kind -...

WASHINGTONIt is already too late for the United States to lead the world in the fight against global warming. President Bush saw to that last year, when he abandoned his promise to make power plants reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they send into the air. But if the president won't lead the world, then the business community, the American people and their elected representatives in Congress must lead the president.This month President Bush gave up all pretense of moving forward in the effort to clean up the oldest and dirtiest power plants. First he denigrated the climate action report...

"Ironically, the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by a leading Christian socialist, Francis Bellamy, who was fired from his Boston ministry for his sermons depicting Jesus as a socialist. Bellamy penned the Pledge of Allegiance for Youth's Companion, a magazine for young people published in Boston with a circulation of about 500,000. A few years earlier, the magazine had sponsored a largely successful campaign to sell American flags to public schools. In 1891 the magazine hired Bellamy--whose first cousin Edward Bellamy was the famous socialist author of the utopian novel Looking Backward--to organize a public relations campaign to...

No New Taxes - The Tax Revolt RallySacramento, California June 29, 2002The Day in a Pictorial Essay The GWB Group, FreeRepublic Bob News.com and Patriotwatch are teamed up in this photo while collecting e-mail  addresses for future networking opportunities. Left to right, Bob Conner, Mark Mata and his son, Chris Darrow. Republican Assemblymember Dave Cox was a welcome addition to the host of outstanding speakers. The media was well represented, both in local television news crews and the national feed to AM Talk Radio Stations Radio Talk show host John Stoos was one of the event's organizers and stirred the...

Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias has spoken about the Christian faith in more than 50 countries. In 1983, 1986 and 2000 he was a plenary speaker at Billy Graham’s International Conferences for Evangelists, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In this interview he tells how the cross of Christ makes Christianity unique among the world’s religions—and how the cross can change our lives. Jim Dailey: Recent events have focused a great deal of attention on world religions. How do adherents of other religions view Christianity? Ravi Zacharias: Every culture is basically an expression of its worldview and its religion. Theologian Paul Tillich said,...

HomeBookstoreAudio FilesMessage BoardArchive Search for This SiteThe Web Get a free search engine for your site   Mail YOWUSAMirror Sitemarshallmasters.com  Visit our new YOWUSA Message Board and be heard! A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the “Free Energy” MEG ©2002, YOWUSA.COM: This article may not be reprinted in part or whole without the written permssion of YOWUSA.COM YOWUSA.COM, June 25, 2002Jacco van der Worp Foreword by Marshall Masters This article by Jacco van der Worp a Dutch physicist, explains the “free energy” Magnetic Energy Generator MEG simply, in layman’s terms.  I worked closely with Jacco on this project and sent a...

WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - The Bush administration has urged U.S. Senate and House lawmakers negotiating an energy bill to include language that would triple the amount of ethanol-blended gasoline and biodiesel used each year in American cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles. Farm state lawmakers support more use of corn-based ethanol and soybean-made biodiesel because it benefits their constituents and makes gasoline produce less pollution, but California and New York lawmakers fear the fuel additive is difficult to ship and would result in higher gasoline prices. A renewable fuels requirement will be one of the more contentious issues that members...

Behind the crisis in corporate America is a combination of pernicious Southern conservatism and unadulterated greed, argues Will Hutton. The US faces a grave economic crisis. The confidence in the balance sheets and reported profitability of American companies has been shattered by an orgy of unprecedented corporate fraud, plunder and malfeasance that has demanded the connivance of its most reputable accounting firms, business leaders and banks. Only last week news broke of the biggest ever accounting fraud in history at WorldCom, to be followed days later of an epic accounting swindle at Xerox. Before them has been a string of...

Korean Naval Clash Has Wider Implications 29 June 2002 Summary A naval clash between North and South Korean ships will embarass South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, but was planned with an eye toward upcoming security talks with the United States. Analysis North and South Korean warships briefly exchanged fire near the Yellow Sea border June 29. Seoul's Defense Ministry said one South Korean vessel was sunk. The clash occurred when two groups of South Korean navy vessels were dispatched to repel two North Korean warships that crossed a de-facto sea border called the Northern Limit Line (NLL). The North Korean...