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Looks like the Dummies have highjacked the WND poll. The question is "What do you think about profiling to find terrorists?" Right now, 41.14% of 14,389 respondents say "It would result in innocent people being targeted and arrested." Now, you and I know that seldom do 14,389 people respond to a WND poll. And if they were regular WNDers, they sure wouldn't pick that response! So, do your duty, go to the site, vote your conscience and come on back to FR and enjoy the feelin'. Your welcome...

I'm looking for an efficient way to record the names and biographical data of various persons and organizations and their links with each other. I have tried MSAccess, but it does not seem workable. There are several Freepers who do an excellent job of finding references to articles or names and posting it quite fast. I'd like to know how they store and recall that data so quickly.

From Mary Jo Kopechne I would have been 65 years of age this year. Read about me and my killer below. When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another Democrat bloating on Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore his deplorable past. But now that he's become a leading Republican attack dog, positioning himself as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such indulgence are now over. It's time for the GOP to stand up and remind America why this chief spokesman had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980...

An Islamic civil rights group says it has reached a settlement with the Dell computer company involving 31 Muslim employees who wanted to time out from work to pray at sunset. Coincidentally, a bill reintroduced in Congress on Thursday would address situations such as the one at Dell. The workers walked off their assembly-line jobs at Dell's computer manufacturing plant in Nashville, Tenn., last month when they were told they had to choose between praying on the job or losing the job. Devout Muslims pray five times a day.) In a settlement announced late Thursday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations...

BRUSSELS -- Under a government proposal, largely Third World people applying to live in the Netherlands will have to take an examination to prove they understand the language and culture. The test will require 350 hours of study and cost $468. A video designed to capture the essence of Dutch life would be sent to applicants in their home countries. The video offers images of windmills, tulips, a description of the flag and a brief biography of William of Orange. As an early warning of the liberal mores, it also shows topless women sunbathing and a homosexual wedding. It is...

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history. They actually happened! Do you remember? In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by: ...a. Superman ...b. Jay Lenno ...c. Harry Potter ...d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40 In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: ... a. Olga Corbett ...b. Sitting Bull ... c. Arnold Schwarzenegger ...d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over...

A LEADING geologist repeatedly warned Indonesian officials that an earthquake and tsunami would soon strike their shores, it emerged this weekend. Kerry Sieh, professor of geology at California Institute of Technology, has been studying the region for nearly a decade. Last July he became so concerned at the likely massive loss of life that he printed and distributed 5,000 posters and brochures around some of the islands later hit by the earthquake. He addressed church congregations and schools to tell people what to do in an earthquake. His main advice was for people to live away from shorelines. Sieh had...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 2004 — Three Marine Corps disaster relief assessment teams are on the ground or about to arrive in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and at least two P-3 aircraft are conducting initial reconnaissance of damaged areas as a wide range of other Defense Department assets works its way to tsunami-stricken regions of the Indian Ocean. U.S. Pacific Command has marshaled assets ranging from carrier strike groups to water purification ships to aircraft to provide emergency support for victims following the Dec. 26 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. James Conway, director of operations for the...

The Eastern Question that haunted the chancelleries of 19th-century Europe has returned to haunt George Bush and Tony Blair; or rather, the consequences of the failure to find a satisfactory answer to it have blighted all attempts to create a new international order in the aftermath of the cold war. This book is required reading for anyone wanting to have an informed opinion on recent events in Iraq; the fact that its author worked for Blair's "Strategic Futures Unit" makes one wonder why the prime minister did not spend more time reading history and less commissioning dodgy dossiers. There are...

TALL AFAR, Iraq - The ramp drops and the infantry scouts sprint out the back of their Stryker vehicle, their gear rustling in the early-morning calm of the streets. The only other sounds heard during the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment's Oct. 13 sweep for insurgents are roosters crowing in the distance. But the scene was dramatically different just five weeks earlier, when another routine sweep landed these soldiers in an all-out fight to recover a downed American helicopter and its crew. No media were on hand to record the battle in this northern Iraq city of more than 300,000,...

If you’ve ever wondered what this country will look like down the road, say 30-40 years hence, there is a metropolitan area right now that is probably a pretty accurate model for the future of the United States as a whole. Nicholas Stix, writing in November’s Middle American News (the story is not yet available online), points out that in Los Angeles right now there are 8,000 unsolved murders, 50% of its students fail the high school graduation exam, half of the working population is illiterate, 41% are foreign-born and in L.A. County, 54% don’t speak English at home. Crime...

WASHINGTON -- In 1864, 11 of the 36 United States did not participate in the presidential election. Was Lincoln's election therefore illegitimate? In 1868, three years after the security situation had, shall we say, stabilized, three states (not insignificant ones: Texas, Virginia and Mississippi) did not participate in the election. Was Grant's election illegitimate? There has been much talk that if the Iraqi election is held and some Sunni Arab provinces (perhaps 3 of the 18) do not participate, the election will be illegitimate. Nonsense. The election should be held. It should be open to everyone. If Iraq's Sunni Arabs...

That's all there is, but thought many here would like to keep an eye/ear out for the timing, which Eric didn't mention.

Dear Friend: Thank you for your telephone call yesterday. My muted reaction did not do justice to your eloquent soliloquy on why one should not vote for Bush's reelection. I offer the following thoughts, belatedly. Although I concur in some of the points you made, ABB is not a good enough reason for me, especially when the alternative is so much worse. Consider: Kerry has scant executive experience, and despite two decades in the Senate, no record at all of meansurable accomplishment. Rather, he has concentrated on opposing policies and legislation that benefit our country. Not only did he lie...

The evidence that Columbia University classrooms are infected by a culture of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bigotry grows ever stronger. On film and in person yesterday, students described an intimidating atmosphere in which professors treat Jews with scorn and insist on adherence to the view that Israel is evil. The students' accounts at a screening of "Columbia Unbecoming" were shocking. An Israeli Army veteran said Prof. Joseph Massad demanded to know how many Palestinians he had killed. Another student quoted Massad telling a class, "The Palestinian is the new Jew and the Jew is the new Nazi," and "I will not...

From Mike Benge Former VN POW, '68-73 Many people including Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnam and other Veterans and others, especially the younger generation, know very little about the Vietnam War. Even the Vietnam Veterans by and large knew little more than a microcosm of what was going on other than their little part of "Hell." Almost everyone has seen the picture of the South Vietnamese General summarily executing a Viet Cong, but was never told that this VC was part of a special assassination unit that had just finished cutting off the legs of the dependents, wives and children, in the police...

Don't forget to vote in Bruce Elliott's tracking poll leading up to the elections. Each week, listeners are asked to vote how they were affected by the debate and how they intend to vote.

Check out the accuracy of Don Bendell's piece yourself. It was checked on www.snopes.com and nothing was found to contradict the information. To verify for yourself, click on the links in this letter. Subject: Presidential Election -- America's apology This is an open letter from Don Bendell -- it's something to really think about. Check the links at the bottom for proof and more info. Don Bendell is a former Green Beret captain, who served in Vietnam on an A-Team and in the Top Secret Phoenix program in 1968 and 1969, as well as in three other Special Forces Groups....

JOHN KERRY is famously hard to pin down; you can reach out to grasp his opinion only to find that it has flitted away like a bashful butterfly, or a goldfish you are trying to catch with your bare hands. But nowadays his pronouncements and campaign ads are easy to read. They suggest that Iraq is like Vietnam; that our top priority is accordingly not to win but to get out. John Kerry evidently believes, a propos Vietnam, that we should have run away sooner. Many Americans disagree. Many Americans believe that we should have stood by our friends until...

Bruce Elliott is the host of a talk show every Saturday morning from 0700-1200 on WBAL, 1090AM out of Baltimore. At 50KW, it covers a lot of territory. He has a running poll going that is taken every week until election time. He's trying to show how the listening audience moves as we move through the campaign.