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My suggestion for restarting the economy. We need to grant immunity to every person, business, governmental agency, from any lawsuit, concerning Covid / flu. Keep the lawyers away.

In what book does Orwell talk about college professors with patches "on their jacket elbows", who claim to "be for the working man" yet in reality they hold themselves to be of a higher class status than the mere working man?

Is anyone else's "New posts to you" stuck on?

I just received information that my sister is an idiot. My darling young niece has had her braces stuck on her teeth for the last three years because my sister did not pay the orthodontist. He took the wires off of her but left the bands on. Great, now here teeth may be rotting underneath. Myself or any of my other brothers or sisters would have no problem whatsoever taking care of this bill. We are all quite angry that it went this far. My question is this. I think the orthodontist is a jerk for taking out his anger...

Supreme Court Decision in Eminent Domain Case a Victory for Cities 06/23/05 Washington, DC—Cities across America will be able to continue to use the power of eminent domain —one of their most effective tools for ensuring economic development—under a US Supreme Court ruling issued today. In upholding the city of New London in the Kelo v. City of New London case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that cities can continue to take private land for private development if it will fulfill a “public purpose.” “The National League of Cities (NLC) is pleased that the Supreme Court upheld 50 years of precedent...

The men begin parking along the quiet residential street in Redford around 9 on Saturday nights — and the last leave around 6 Sunday mornings. In the intervening hours, some 40 to 85 men pay $12 to engage in orgy-style sex in the basement and ground-floor rooms of the ranch-style home. There are few rules. "Don’t ask, don’t tell" is the typical approach to the question of HIV status. And condoms are rarely used. That’s the point at a "bareback" party.

Palestinians were "saddened" by Saddam Hussein´s capture, Islamic Jihad said. "The Palestinian people are sad today because the Americans achieved something," Jihad leader Nafiz Azam said in a statement on Sunday after the Iraqi dictator´s arrest was announced. "But what happened today will not spare the Americans the ambushes they are experiencing. The Iraqi resistance will continue." The Palestinian Authority, whose leader Yasser Arafat had long identified with Saddam´s regime, did not immediately comment

Those familiar pieces to the Monopoly game are the shoe, the thimble and the race car, but have you ever heard of the version with the gun or crack cocaine?

<p>GRAND RAPIDS -- A federal jury on Wednesday awarded $30.1 million to two Michigan men who sued Taco Bell Corp., accusing the restaurant chain of stealing their idea for an advertising campaign featuring a talking Chihuahua.</p> <p>Closing arguments in the lawsuit were presented Tuesday in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist. Jurors deliberated Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning before reaching their verdict.</p>

They went to a hockey game, and a fight broke out – but not on the ice. A war of words over the Iraq conflict erupted into an international skirmish Saturday night as a group of Canadian fans say they were verbally and physically attacked by overzealous Americans, reports the Ottawa Citizen. Four residents of Canada's capital city drove south of the border to attend Game 4 of the NHL playoffs between the Ottawa Senators and the New Jersey Devils in East Rutherford, N.J., only to be called names including "f---ing communists." "They told us they were disgusted by our...

<p>The following editorial appeared Wednesday in the Windsor Star.</p> <p>You to have wonder what principle Prime Minister Jean Chretien was being guided by when he decided Canada would not support the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Chretien said that Canada would not participate without UN approval, as if the United Nations' opinion somehow changed the morality of joining in the war effort.</p>

We Must Put America First…. I have an American Citizenship Book Published by Legal Aid Bureau (Detroit MI) ( fourteenth edition 1941) (please note this is an outline of the book I found interesting.) Our Flag General George Washington raised the first American flag on the 1st of January, 1776, on Prospect Hill, near Boston, while the Americans were besieging the British who occupied the city. This flag had seven red and six white stripes, and the British crosses in the blue field where the stars now are. In the next year, by order of the Continental Congress, the British ...

Tuesday, September 25, 2001 California Teacher Burns US Flag in Classroom A Sacramento elementary school teacher is under fire for allegedly burning an American flag in front of his students. About 30 6th graders at Sacramento's North Avenue Elementary apparently watched as their teacher burned part of the flag. Students say he asked them to keep quiet, but one student later told the school principal. School officials say they are concerned about the incident, but refuse to speculate on the teacher's motives. "There's a fine line between sort of getting across your own personal views in a classroom, versus providing ...

<p>PHILADELPHIA -- With President Bush on the big screen, hockey suddenly didn't matter anymore -- not to the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers or the thousands of fans in attendance.</p> <p>The start of the third period of the NHL exhibition game was delayed and then called off Thursday night as fans demanded to watch the president's speech to Congress instead of the game.</p>

Proud and true, President Bush we love YOU...

My Fellow Americans Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves. Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is ...

Erina McGuckin's statement This is the text of the hand-written statement made by Erina McGuckin to Bonner County authorities in May. Erina McGuckin read from the statement in court Wednesday. Food was not on a structured basis. Booze always came before putting food in the larder. It was prepared by campfire usually, even in the dead of winter. At one time we had nothing but "soups" for all meals, a broth of water with a handful of noodles, maybe something canned and handfuls of old spices for flavor. Or we made soup from lily pads. Laundry was not done during ...

School Principal Tells Students Why They Can't Pray at Football Games Pass it on Monday, November 20, 2000 7:31 AM Editor's Note: This message, which seems very appropriate to print on the day members of the U.S. Supreme Court fear the public may think their decision on the Florida election might make some people doubt their competence, was read over the PA system at the football game at Roan County High School, Kingston, Tennessee on September 1, 2000 by school principal Jody McLoud. The person who began circulating it via e-mail thought it was worth sharing with the world, ...

This might be a repost but worth a bump...A Nation Divided: A Response to Jesse Jackson By J.J. Johnson - Posted: 12.12.00 Thank you, Jesse for finally showing your hand and showing your true colors (no pun intended). But, before you play the last trump card of the typical socialist (i.e. violence), it's time to lay our cards on the table. You claim there will be a 'civil rights explosion.' Take to the streets, sir, and you might find a different kind of resistance against you. To Jesse and his minions, this is no surprise; only that no democratic leader ...

Christmacide: The Autopsy Of A Dying Holiday American believers can simultaneously find solace as well as feel sorrow over the fact that the campaign to banish Christianity from contemporary society is also underway in other Western nations as well. This is particular evident in regards to the abolition of the public celebration of Christmas. Students in America are not the only ones to have their yuletide enjoyment snatched out from under them. Similar educational policies are being pursued across the Atlantic in merry ole England. According to Jackie Wullschlager writing in the December 2, 2000 edition of the Spectator, a ...