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Fellow Freepers, Following is a link to an online interview that is gathering points of view on environmental issues. So far, we have gathered mainly opinions of individuals that are likely of the liberal persuasion, and we want to include opinions and thoughts of people with different views on the world. It is all completely anonymous. Full disclosure: I am involved with the company running the survey and would like to get honest input from the Freeper world. So, if you have 15 to 30 minutes to spare, click on the link below to begin. It does require the Flash...

Okay, I know that there are a few somewhat important things going on this week, but it it Texas/OU weekend, isn't it? Come on, lets have a little (civil) trash talk/ predictions...Hook 'em!!!!

Des Moines, March 4, 2004 - A Grand Jury ruled Thursday, that officers involved in a deadly shooting and chase are clear of all wrongdoing. The original incident happened just before 1 a.m. on Jan. 29. Police reports say 20 year ol dRicky Garcia was pulled over for speeding by a West Des Moines police officer. Garcia stopped, but then took off and led authorities on a chase that wound down into Carlisle, and back into downtown Des Moines. Dashboard video from an officer's car shows Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Dan Wignall finally stopping the car, and Garcia coming out...

<p>Chicago, Ill. - Ernestine Williams can't remember when she first began feeling she'd become a prisoner.</p> <p>Was it, she wonders, when gangs commandeered what was left of her battered neighborhood? Or later, when diabetes, then congestive heart failure and failed kidneys, left her confined to her three-story walk-up, unable to manage the steps outside?</p>

<p>Terrorism authorities are investigating the theft of a canister of odorless, lethal pesticide.</p> <p>Urbandale police officers said Tuesday they are working with state and federal terrorism authorities to find the person who stole a 50-pound canister of methyl bromide, a deadly chemical used to kill rats or harmful crop insects.</p>

<p>Three pitches.</p> <p>Three swings.</p> <p>Three misses.</p> <p>One out.</p> <p>They could have stopped the game right there. It was only the first inning of the summer's first Little League game for the Alburnett Pirates, but something extraordinary had occurred: A 10-year-old boy had swung a baseball bat.</p>

Controversial researcher has new tools By DAVID ELBERT Register Business Editor 04/16/2003 Twenty-five years ago, Charles Cleveland, then a Drake University professor, captured attention with a computer program designed to identify people's attitudes based on what they said or wrote... A 1978 Des Moines Register story about the project stirred up a hornets' nest. Privacy advocates worried that government agencies would use the program to develop psychological profiles that would lead to the dark futures portrayed by novelists George Orwell and Aldous Huxley...