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<p>WASHINGTON — South African politicians are accusing American charitable dollars of helping to promote oral sex between teenagers in their country.</p> <p>They say the country's leading AIDS charity, bankrolled by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation, has told thousands of teenagers to engage in oral sex in a bid to halt the spread of HIV, an epidemic that has infected one in five adults in South Africa and is expected to leave one million orphaned by the end of 2005.</p>

<p>The fires ravaging northeast Arizona are incinerating the world's largest contiguous area of ponderosa pine, Gov. Jane Hull said Sunday. But it didn't have to be this way.</p> <p>That's because for the past century, the United States has let its forests grow thick with underbrush, creating lush, rustic landscapes that, with the right conditions, can turn into potent tinderboxes.</p>

George W. Bush - Job Approval Ratings CNN/Gallup/USA Today 5/20 - 5/22:Approve:76% Disapprove: 17% spread: + 59% CBS News/NY Times 5/19 - 5/20:Approve: 71% Disapprove: 18% Spread: + 53% ABC News/Wash Post 5/18 - 5/19:Approve: 76% Disapprove: 22% spread: + 54% NBC News/WSJ 5/18:Approve: 75% Disapprove: 18% Spread: + 57%

<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Crowned the 51st Miss Universe, Russia's raven-haired Oxana Fedorova scored big points for saying the right thing during the pageant's final question — and she didn't even blush.</p> <p>The 24-year-old law student and university lecturer from St. Petersburg beat 74 contestants Wednesday after answering the final question: "What makes you blush?"</p>

“SHE’LL BE ON THE PLANE with Bush, just as she always has been,” says an insider. Bush strategists hope to have a “positive agenda” and an alliance with a like-minded Congress to run on. Former president Bill Clinton won re-election by demonizing the Congress after Republicans won control in 1994. White House strategists don’t see that as the best strategy for Bush. “He’s a heck of a lot more comfortable saying, ‘Here’s the positive agenda we’re forging and here are the things we’ll do’,” says another White House insider. In a controversial speech last winter, Rove said that Bush’s much-lauded...

PLEASE PLEASE take the time to express your outrage to Tommy D@sshole and his VILE henchmen in the Senate (including Johnny McLoser). Their despicable, transparent attempts to suggest President Bush was negligent and responsible for the 9/11 attacks should NOT go unanswered by the voters!!!Please, Freepers--it's not enough to just grouse among ourselves. Jump to this Senate web site and get to work. Thank you!

I don't know if you all caught this, but Hugh Hewitt had a very funny show last week in which listeners called in their favorite suggested talk show names for Bubba "It's all about me" Clinton (posted on his web site): "Speaking of Clinton, here are the best suggestions from my audience on the names for his new TV show should it ever get off the ground: "Here Come the Bribes" "That Girl and That Girl and That Girl...." "TwinSpeaks" "West Wink" "The Wizard of 'Is'" "The $64,000 Donation" "Who Wants to Make Me a Millionaire?""Who Wants to Be an...

This morning local radio station KFYI confirmed that The Ex Rapist in Chief will be (gag......) in Phoenix later today. He'll be here for (what else...) a Democrat fundraiser at the downtown Phoenix Hyatt Regency. Do any local Freepers have plans to "visit" our esteemed (LOL) ex-President while he's here? Do you think it's time for Arizonans to Freep the Creep?

WASHINGTON -- The ink barely dry on a hard-won law overhauling federal campaign finance rules, its champions are turning to new battles in their war on big money in politics. Next up for Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold: developing legislation to strengthen enforcement of campaign finance laws and pushing to block loopholes from weakening a newly passed ban on unlimited contributions to political parties. McCain, R-Ariz., and Feingold, D-Wis., became nationally known for their long struggle to win passage of the "soft money" ban, recently signed into law by President Bush. But for all the fanfare that accompanied the...

Clinton Gets Worst Tax Rating Ever For New Senator Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - The National Taxpayers Union has issued its annual "Taxpayers Score," which rates members of Congress based on their fiscal voting records, and the group said one freshman senator stands out. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) "earned the dubious distinction of being the lowest-scoring member of the Senate in 2001, with a 3 percent [rating]," NTU said in its announcement. "This is the worst score for a Senate freshman in their first year in office that NTU has ever recorded," the group added. Clinton's fellow New York Democrat,...

March 29, 2002 A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH FAMED DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL STRATEGIST PAUL BEGALA PART TWO: BUZZFLASH: Let me ask you one more question I can't resist, which was coming to mind as you were speaking, non-related to the book or tactics. But I ask this of a lot of people we interview, because we still find it somewhat baffling, relating to President Clinton. How can you explain the virulent hate that so many people in the right wing have for Clinton? It just seems inexplicable. I mean, it is so bilious. And you think of people like Judge Bork who,...

Wednesday, April 3, 2002 9:08 AM EST Fox News Clobbers CNN, Again The latest Nielsen numbers are out for the first quarter of 2002 -- and Fox News has beaten CNN again. The stats show that Fox has actually increased its lead over CNN, and is also beating CNN in the key 25-54 age demographic. Despite being in more than eight million fewer cable homes than CNN, Fox's average total viewers easily outpaced CNN, 666,000 to CNN's 546,000. MSNBC continues to be a footnote with 290,000 viewers. The latest numbers also confirm that Bill O'Reilly has become the king of...

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Tom Green got fingered by the Razzies, a movie-award spoof that singled out his "Freddy Got Fingered" with a leading eight nominations, including worst picture of last year.</p> <p>Joining Green's tacky comedy in the worst-picture category were Sylvester Stallone's racing flick "Driven," Mariah Carey's pop-star bomb "Glitter," the war epic "Pearl Harbor" (ROTFLOL!!!) and Kevin Costner's Elvis-impersonator heist thriller "3000 Miles to Graceland."</p>

This must be KILLING Little Tommy D@sshole and James CarVILE!!!! Latest Summary of Bush job approval ratings: Newsweek 1/31 - 2/1: 83% approve, 12% disapprove FOX News 1/30 - 1/31: 81% approve, 12% disapprove CBS News 1/29: 86% approve, 11% disapprove (TAKE THAT, DANNY BOY--ROTFLOL!!!)CNN/Gallup/USA Today 1/25 - 1/27: 84% approve, 13% disapprove ABC News/Wash Post 1/24 - 1/27: 83% approve, 14% disapprove.

From DOD web site in response to stories printed re: Secretary Rumsfeld: "STATEMENT ON THE ABSENCE OF ENRON STOCK Mr. Rumsfeld does not own any shares in Enron. Contrary to the Associated Press, Washington Times, USA Today and New York Times stories, to the best of his knowledge he has never owned shares in Enron, and definitely has not since he divested most of his holdings on reentering government in January 2001. Prior to joining the government, Mr. Rumsfeld had funds managed by professional money managers, including index funds, so it is conceivable that one of those funds may have ...

Okay, if I'm the last one to know about this, I apologize for this vanity post. This was news to me: me: In The Bug's and James CarVILE's new book (which has sold at least 14 copies--LOL), I was absolutely astounded to read a passage in which these RATS expounded on a passage from the Bible, describing how they used it to instruct The Rapist on how to use "sound bites" instead of rambling on endlessly. Reading these two vicious attack dogs pontificate on the Gospel according to John made me want to shower and burn my clothes. But what ...

<p>WASHINGTON — Lawmakers trying to maximize the spirit of civil service in the post-9/11 era are seeking to expand the Clinton-era AmeriCorps program (GAG), a six-year-old domestic Peace Corps that critics ridicule as a taxpayer boondoggle and supporters praise as a new font of civic pride among young people.</p>

<p>BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (CNN) -- America must stay "committed and engaged" in Afghanistan to help rebuild the country and prevent terrorists from gaining another foothold there, several U.S. senators visiting the country said Monday.</p> <p>They are among a nine-member delegation that arrived Monday at Bagram Air Base north of the Afghan capital to meet with interim government chairman Hamid Karzai, during their second stop on a tour of nine Asian nations.</p>

From Library Journal Two major political strategists teach you how to win your own battles. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Book Description The political strategists who directed the Clinton campaign's War Room reveal the lessons and secrets from their hard-fought battles -- and how to use these highly effective strategies for success in everyday life. James Carville and Paul Begala have waged political war all across America and on three continents. They've won some of the most spectacular political victories of the twentieth century and lost a few campaigns too. Along the way, they've learned a few lessons. Some ...

Where's Geraldo? Nowhere Near Site Of U.S. Casualties, As He Claimed Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, who couldn't bear being away from the action in Afghanistan, was hundreds of miles from the site of a friendly fire incident he reported on, the Baltimore Sun said in a Dec. 15 report. Rivera reported in a Dec. 6 piece that he became emotional and choked up while standing on the "hallowed ground" in Afghanistan where "friendly fire took so many of our, our men and the mujahedeen yesterday." Rivera said he had recited the Lord's Prayer. But, according to a report on ...