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ASSOCIATED PRESS CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A gambling industry lawyer says backers of a petition to outlaw smoking in most public places misled voters by falsely claiming the ban wouldn't extend to all Nevada hotel and motel rooms. Nevada Resort Association lawyer Todd Bice has filed briefs asking the Supreme Court to remove the anti-smoking petition from the November ballot because signers were told that the smoking ban wouldn't include hotel and motel rooms when the opposite is true. Bice quoted Michael Hackett, campaign manager for Nevadans for Tobacco-Free Kids, who said in June that it wasn't his organization's...

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman took steps Monday to secure a place on the November ballot as a member of his own party, Connecticut for Lieberman, should he lose the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to challenger Ned Lamont. And Lamont aired an offbeat new television commercial that parodies what his campaign says are Lieberman's negative ads.>Snip<Under state law, Lieberman may remain a registered Democrat as his campaign circulates petitions to place him on the ballot as a petitioning candidate with his own party designation. "I've always been a Democrat, and I'll remain a Democrat," said Lieberman, a three-term senator under fire...

(Hartford, Connecticut-AP, March 5, 2006) - For more than two years, company-paid chaplains have comforted a grieving Kris Woltz during their visits to the western New York lumber company where she works. Woltz's husband, Michael, died in 2003 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, leaving her to raise their two young children. "It was a hard time going through everything and wondering what the outcome would be," said Woltz, of Angola, N.Y. "The chaplains were wonderful. They just went out of their way." Baillie Lumber Co. of Hamburg, N.Y., is one of hundreds of U.S. companies that pay chaplains...

PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!Monday September 12, 2005 By MIKE FOSTER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news...

Anti-War Group Suspects it May be Victim of 'Infiltrators' By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer August 30, 2005 (CNSNews.com) -- The anti-war group Code Pink, slammed by conservatives and some wounded veterans for co-sponsoring recent protests in front of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., now suggests that the most inflammatory signs held up at the protests might have been the work of "infiltrators whose aim [was] to disrupt the vigil." Among the most controversial signs held up at the protests was the one reading "Maimed for a Lie." But far from qualifying as an "infiltrator,"...

Freerepublic is a place to generate ideas and have them tested. My proposal is designed to leverage current laws in a way that will yield the same result Pres. Bush is attempting to attain. I would like freeper input and freeper exposure because this idea may unlock the current impasse. Here goes. The Bush proposal is to establish private accounts for retirement and to redirect Social Security tax money for retirement dollars. We already have private accounts for retirement. We really don't need new ones. They are called IRA's, 401(k)'s and 403B"s. All that is needed is to remove current...

Report: N. Korea May Have Fired Missile 1 hour, 20 minutes ago The U.S. military informed Japan that North Korea may have fired a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan on Sunday morning, Kyodo News service and national broadcaster NHK reported. The reports quoted unidentified government sources as saying that the U.S. military informed Japan's Defense Agency of the possible missile launch. The government was attempting to confirm the information, the reports said. The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and the U.S. military both refused to comment, and an official at the Japanese Defense Agency said he could not confirm...

Starts at 7:00 EST The following is a summary from here http://www.frcaction.org/ Welcome to the fight against filibuster abuse! Justice Sunday, scheduled for April 24, 2005, is a unique event designed to remind our U.S. Senators that the opportunity of public service must be fully open to people of faith. Screening potential nominees to the federal bench on the basis of their religious views and moral convictions violates the American sense of fair play.

To whom it may concern, This letter is to explain my observations of various bible verses regarding homosexuality. Since the ordination of the actively homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church, I needed to answer certain questions to my satisfaction. While I am still pursing answers, I thought it would be helpful to you to understand what I have ascertained for myself. You will find that some of my approach is different than the typical writings from traditionalists. It is different because the traditional arguments fail to address the theological arguments that homosexuals actually use and they fail to address the...

Sorry for the vanity. I need to select a web host and I am very confused about what to look for and prices. It looks like my DSL provider would charge about 12 per month and some results of my search engine yeild providers that charge 5 per month. I'm told I need no more than 5 megs. Suggestions and education much appreciated.

The execution of serial killer Michael Ross, 45, likely will not take place as scheduled at 2:01 a.m. Wednesday, given a federal judge's decision to hold his own hearing on whether Ross is competent to forgo further appeals and "volunteer" to be executed. "It is inevitable that I will be entering a stay, "Chief U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny said at 2:12 p.m. this afternoon. Addressing Ross' lawyer, T.R. Paulding, the judge said: "I think it would be humane if you were to inform your client … he's not going to be executed this week." Chatigny had said he...

Murdered German fashion designer Rudolph Moshammer has left his home in Munich to his Yorkshire terrier Daisy.Under the terms of Moshammer's will his beloved pet will stay at the villa until she dies, cared for by his former chauffeur, the newspaper Bild reports. A 25-year-old Iraqi man has been charged with killing the designer, found dead at his home on 14 January. Millions of Germans are expected to watch TV coverage of the flamboyant 64-year-old's funeral on Saturday. Homeless charities Always seen with Daisy in his arms, he built a reputation for the extravagant clothes he designed and wore, and...

U.S. Pays Commentator to Tout School Law 17 minutes ago By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration paid a prominent commentator to promote the No Child Left Behind schools law to fellow blacks and to give the education secretary media time, records show. AP Photo A company run by Armstrong Williams, the syndicated commentator, was paid $240,000 by the Education Department. The goal was to deliver positive messages about Bush's education overhaul, using Williams' broad reach with minorities. The deal, which drew a fast rebuke from Democrats on Capitol Hill, is the latest to put the...

Urinal Etiquette: Embrace the Space By Mike Kennedy Among men, a set of unwritten rules exists. An example of one is that friends never let friends wear Speedos. Recently, however, the 1-3-5 rule-or just your simple spacer urinal rule-has been embraced by our generation. Rather than break the rule, many men choose to wait rather than violate. However, violations do occur, severely disturbing the original urinal user. Matt Esposito, a senior and victim of the broken rule said that when it happens, "I feel like the sanctity of my manhood is violated." Stephen Swigut, a senior, echoed Esposito. "I get...

My emotions regarding the republican party have been all over the lot. Back when Newt caused the party to surrender to Clinton I was disgusted with him and the party. Then I was proud as hell with the House when they voted to impeach the president. At last, the House gets it I thought. Then came Trent Lott. I hate what he did more than anything. When most of the FReepers seemed to admire how he was handling things, I screamed and yelled to everyone he was a traitor. Ever since Lott handed over control of the Senate to the ...