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Local 7-11 today. As my young son and I approach the counter to pay for our things, I hear one employee telling our soon to be cashier about the gaff with the defective body armor GWB was wearing. We set our items on the counter and the very young, ring through the nose, white female cashier responds, "Too bad somebody did not try to take him out." I looked at her and said, "That is no way to talk about your President!" "He is not my President!" was the immediate, and expected, response. "Then you are a very confused young...

Anyone else notice the headlines on Drudge right now?

The bubble headed blonde on CNN Headline News this morning just could not say the word "Halliburton" without saying "Dick Cheney". Man this peeves me. Give it up already! I think I'll start an e-mail campaign insisting on "fair and balanced" treatment.... "Since you insist on refering to Dick Cheney each and every time you mention the company "Halliburton", I ask you do the same for the name "Clinton". For example; each and everytime you have something to say about Bill Clinton, you need to reference the fact that he was impeached. Another example; each and everytime you talk about...

The Weather Channel folks are in full swing orgy mode with the doom and gloom, making it sound as bad as they can. 10 minutes ago, Jim Cantorre was the "idiot on the beach" at Kill Devils Hill (or something like that), NC. Yep, it was raining. Yep, the wind was a good breeze. He made a big deal that the wind speeds were "now approaching 25 mph!!!" Oh My God. Abandon all hope. We had wind in Las Vegas yesterday that had gusts to 35 mph. Oh My God!!! Don't send Jim here, he could not take it. Then...

Home schooling information.

A co-worker asked if I had seen this... www.evilgopbastards.com .....scroll down to the view the "Devolution of American Politics." Too funny. LVM

911 Tribute

Go to CNN and read the titled article.

NEW DELHI, India -- India has rejected calls for caste to be discussed at a U.N. racism conference this month. New Delhi says caste discrimination is not the same as racism, and it is an internal matter. Caste discrimination is officially against the law, but Amnesty International says untouchables in India face torture, arbitrary arrest and extra-judicial execution. Dalits, also known as outcastes, untouchables and Harijans (God's People), sit at the bottom of the 3,000-year-old Hindu system of social hierarchy. Numbering 160 million they represent 16 percent of India's population of one billion. But while India remains adamant its ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Anti-smoking groups fumed Saturday over news that only 5 percent of the money from the nation's landmark tobacco settlement has gone to programs aimed at preventing tobacco use. States have used their portions of the $21.3 billion settlement for programs from health care to research, but only a small portion has gone toward keeping children from picking up the habit, according to a survey from the National Conference of State Legislatures. "The report is basically more depressing evidence that the states are failing to live up to the promise and opportunity brought by these ...

Nuclear employee 'borrows' tube of plutonium By Imre Karacs in Berlin 17 July 2001 The German government ordered a review of security at nuclear plants yesterday after the discovery in a blackberry bush of a glass tube containing plutonium, apparently borrowed by an employee at a reprocessing plant. As ecologists threatened to sue, Jürgen Trittin, the Environment Minister, accused the authorities of the southern Land of Baden-Würtemberg of "flagrant security failures" at the Karlsruhe facility. Abnormally high radiation levels were measured in the employee, a 49-year-old man, as well as in his girlfriend and her daughter. The worker and the ...

Monday March 19, 7:36 pm Eastern Time Press Release Free Tacos for U.S. If Mir Hits Floating Taco Bell Ocean Target Taco Bell sets 40 by 40 foot target in South Pacific for Mir's Re-Entry IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2001--Taco Bell is offering a free taco to everyone in the United States if the core of the Mir space station hits a floating Taco Bell target placed in the South Pacific. Later this week, all eyes will be fixed on the sky in anticipation of the 150-ton space station's return to earth. Taco Bell has created a 40 by ...

Did search for Black Cacus and did not find the info I'm looking for: members (I know a few of them, want entire list), contact info - e-mail sux, much prefer FAX #. Any help is much appreciated. Time to do some FReeping. Thanks, LVM

Did anyone else catch the news clip (watching local CBS affiliate) of Gray (totally blacked out) Davis addressing the energy crunch - saying, "We inherited this situation" ? Plz understand, no slams aginst the fellow FReeper neighbors to the south - you folks have taken enough heat for a situation not in your control. Yet. I had to pause - and stare at the idiot box, did I really hear that? Yes, Flat Black, you did inherit this mess - from the wacko's that have prevented new power generation plants, new transmission lines, etc. And recent articles that the tax ...

Monday, Jan. 29, 2001 11:34 p.m. EST Reporter Questions Bush's 'Alcoholism Problem' President Bush's press spokesman Ari Fleischer got a taste early Monday morning of the kind of coverage his boss can expect when he tries to push policies that the press doesn't approve of. Take Bush's faith-based government initiative. Within hours the airwaves were full of media handwringing over his alleged attack on the separation of church and state. Even before Fleischer's official morning press briefing, reporters were showing their disdain for the new proposal. "Did the president have any inkling to join the ministry?" asked Helen Thomas, according ...

...at the risk of the wrath from the almighty "old heads" (wrong forum, did not use html correctly, have not been a member near long enough to have the audacity to post an opinion, yada, yada, yada..... Here I sit, basking in the glory on Nov 8th. GWB will be the next POTUS, Rick Lazio IS the new Senator from NY! The Republicans have control of the Senate AND the House of Rep's. The Republicans hit the mutha load in politics - the Grand Slam - they now control the White House, the Senate and the House. Could life be ...

Clinton invites Arafat to Washington October 24, 2000 Web posted at: 10:05 p.m. EDT (0205 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House says President Clinton spoke with Palestinian authority Chairman Yasser Arafat for 30 minutes Tuesday and invited him to Washington for talks on implementing the Sharm el-Sheik agreements on ending the ongoing violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Arafat did not commit to coming but is reviewing the offer, according to National Security Council Spokesman P.J. Crowley. Crowley says Clinton did not discuss the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, but the White House did not rule out additional ...

Clinton declares quake-hit Napa Valley a disaster area SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- President Clinton has declared earthquake-hit Napa Valley a federal disaster area, freeing money to help residents and business owners. Officials have estimated damage from the quake at $50 million. A 5.2-magnitude quake struck the valley Sept. 3, causing widespread damage. Because of the relatively moderate measurement, authorities at first did not expect major damage, but later changed their minds as reports of damage accumulated. Local officials asked California Gov. Gray Davis to declare Napa a federal disaster area. Davis declared a state of emergency on Sept. ...