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Do You Agree New Emission Test Is Needed? Choice Votes Percent of 443 votes Yes, it will help cut down pollution 91 21% No, it's not needed 325 73% I'm not sure 22 5% I don't care 5 1% Thank you for taking our survey. Check back here often to see how others have voted. Your vote will only be counted once.

The following is posted to my fellow Texas Freepers(in the designated counties) with vehicles due for inspection in May, June, July and possibly the rest of the year. In case you haven't heard about it, the new yearly inspection and emission test is going to be at least 2x as tough to pass as the old one and will cost you 39.50, if you can find a station with the new test equipment. For 1996 and newer vehicles the test is part of the On Board Diagnostic Computer and can be performed by most any inspection station. The standards for...

The scientific establishment tends to reject, suppress or ignore evidence that conflicts with accepted theories, while denigrating or persecuting the messenger. Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 9, Number 3 (April-May 2002)PO Box 30, Mapleton Qld 4560 Australia. editor@nexusmagazine.comTelephone: +61 (0)7 5442 9280; Fax: +61 (0)7 5442 9381From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.comby Will Hart © 2002Email: Wrtsearch1@aol.com"THE BRAIN POLICE" AND "THE BIG LIE"Any time you allege a conspiracy is afoot, especially in the field of science, you are treading on thin ice. We tend to be very sceptical about conspiracies--unless the Mafia or some Muslim radicals are behind the alleged...

Who would ever have thought that a British paper would extol the virtues of private citizens bearing arms? That is what readers of the London Daily Telegraph must have been asking themselves recently when they read Simon Heffer's article entitled, "If the state fails us, we must defend ourselves." It turns out, the state has been failing British citizens in a big way. Heffer documents several gruesome murders, the most recent involving a gang of young thugs who repeatedly stabbed an unarmed, 82 year-old lady to death. Crime has gotten so bad, Heffer says, that Brits like himself are beginning...

WASHINGTON -- Ah, Enron. It makes me nostalgic. I came to Russia in 1991 with enthusiasm for the blah blah blah. I left 10 years later knowing more than I had ever planned to about pyramid schemes, asset stripping, rigged auctions, paramilitary factory takeovers, share dilutions, "transfer pricing," "authorized banking," Cyprus-based tax-avoidance arrangements and the excellent sexual adventures of Yury Skuratov. Not a particularly uplifting body of knowledge. And as I said my farewells, I doubted it would be much future use. Oh, sure, we have a "campaign finance problem" in the United States, and we have swindlers -- ...

Constitution Day - September 17 - came and passed without fanfare. That is the day that commemorates the signing of one of the two most important documents in our nation's history. (The other one, of course, is the Declaration of Independence, which we celebrate on the Fourth of July.) Even and especially in the midst of tragedy and crisis, it is critically important that we remind ourselves of the meaning and purposes of our Constitution. When our American ancestors consented to calling into existence the federal government in 1787, the means by which they did so was the document ...

Here's the link You know what to do...*G*. If they block it you'll need to open a new window and paste the URL in. http://www.netscape.com/ It's the same A-F rating as last time. A's are at 29% B's are at 11% C's are at 7% D's are at 12% F's are at 43%

Time Out - In Praise of Presidential Vacations. BY RICHARD MINITER The only thing worse than having a Republican in the White House is not having him in the White House. At least in the minds of the press. None of the traveling circus known as the White House press pool seems to like the idea of President Bush's planned 30-day sojourn at his ranch near Crawford, Texas. The Washington Post called it "the longest presidential vacation in 32 years." Gasp. Post reporter Mike Allen pulled out his pocket calculator and figured that Mr. Bush will have spent all or ...

Subject: You're one of the five on my list. Dear Men, This chain letter was started in hopes of bringing relief to other tired and discouraged men. Unlike most chain letters, this one does not cost anything. Just send a copy of this letter to five of your friends who are equally tired and discontented. Then bundle up your wife and/or girlfriend and send her to the man whose name appears at the top of the following list, and add your name to the bottom of the list. When your turn comes, you will receive 15,625 women. One of ...

These are the moments that must make the founding fathers, many from Massachusetts spin in their graves. As many on here know I am a cop in Mass. and a boss at that. That being said I was over at the AG's office on Friday speaking with a couple of AG's investigators who I know from my time on the job, on another matter, when the topic turned to the murder trial of Wellesley Allergist Doctor Dirk Greineder, (these cops know I am in PA school and will be leaving police work very shortly and were kidding if there ...

President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" school reform proposal passed in the House last week. Considering what a colossal black hole the U.S. Department of Education has become, the $24 billion plan would be more appropriately dubbed: "No Dime Left Behind"... If Beltway pols were truly interested in educational accountability, they wouldn't be funneling billions of dollars through a government bureaucracy that can't keep track of its funds. The Education Department failed its last three financial audits and is on track to fail again. On the same day the House approved Bush's school spending package, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Wainstein ...