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I read somewhere that Stalin said: If I can turn the debate to motivation, I can win every time (paraphrased).

TIPS ON TERRORISTS FROM T.E.LAWRENCE DoD and State Dept take notice   As time went by our need to fight for the ideal increased to an unquestioning possession, riding with spur and rein over our doubts; Willy-nilly it became a faith. We had sold ourselves into its slavery, …bowed ourselves to serve its holiness with all our good and ill content. …we had surrendered, not body alone, but soul to the overmastering greed of victory. By our own act we were drained of morality, of volition, of responsibility, like dead leaves in the wind. The fight eventually overmasters the cause. ...

Three articles by Steve Chapman, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Making friends and enemies in the Middle EastSeptember 20, Patriotism in time of warSeptember 23, and A war we can't avoid - and a war we canOctober 11, 2001 link

MSF refuses notion of coalition between humanitarian aid and military strikes Dropping a few cases of drugs and food in the middle of the night during air raids... is virtually useless and may even be dangerous. Paris, Oct 8, 2001 - Yesterday the American and British forces launched air strikes on Afghanistan following the massacre of 6,000 people in New York and Washington on September 11th. This attack was accompanied by what is described as a 'humanitarian' operation, designed to gain public support for these bombings. This is not a humanitarian operation. It is part of a military campaign designed ...

YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY! Melanie Morgan (KSFO) called for the troups to be out in San Rafael, CA, Friday night to demonstrate against the Peace marchers. I armed my son with a new sign (FOOTPRINT OF AMERICAN CHICKEN, 10 of 'em to pass out) but nobody was there to protest against. He reported three isolated men sitting disconsolately in their cars with peace signs at the ready with nowhere to go. He scoped out the surrounding streets and there was no one. He came home looking like the Cheshire Cat. They must have heard that Melanie was on the ...

If you're in the neighborhood over the weekend, drop by Fairfax and Freep the flock of chickens that are defiling the center of our town. For three days there's been a "Give Peace a Chance" mob of cowards perched on the steps of Fairfax, CA's bus stop. They have no permit. Their right to demonstrate was allowed by Les Tremayne, local pinko and town council member, in conspiracy with the new town manager. No signatures on paper, no meeting with other members of the council, no fees, all restrictions waived by agreement between the two of them. The police were ...

“. . .the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That’s clear to everybody. It’s the meaning or application of “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,” that confuses. Suppose the opening phrase acknowledges a state’s duty to establish an organized force for self defense to protect itself and its citizens from foreign enemies. A militia is just such a standby force and it is described as being necessary. Then think ahead to a time when that same force, being established as a necessary function of government, would ...

The Babe in the Bunker is talking with a professor from South Africa, can't catch his name, but he is a regular reporter for her. He says that the blacks in Zimbabwe, with government approval, have just released a quarantined herd of animals into the wild, all infected with hoof-and-mouth.

25% of Americans are Obese Research shows TV is to blame Dept of Health and Human Services sets guidelines excessive costs incurred by national health care government to sue networks to recover costs viewer discretion ratings for sedentarianism health warning declarations for every show Obesity determined by doctor TV listening time determined by prescription renewed at yearly physical exam Calls for timeout chip in all TV sets Regulation of webstreaming to follow TV credits earned by: walking listening to radio listening to radio while working working out while listening to radio Class action suits sought by millions who feel duped ...

This is the email I sent after watching the History Channel's upfront and lauditory use of liar Joseph Ellis' "misrepresentation" of Thomas Jefferson. Subject: LIAR, LIAR! I am undoubtedly not the first nor the last viewer who is outraged that you let stand Joseph Ellis’ wishful thinking concerning Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. In the face of conclusions of at least three honorable and distinguished groups, one of whom issued a 565-page report stating that Professor Ellis used “presumptions, thin at best and based on shoddy scholarship, improbable assumptions and even doctored documents” to make his point, and the disclosure ...

* Despite receiving state approval, Mirant Corp. indefinitely postpones plans to build a 530-megawatt power plant in the San Francisco Bay area, citing California's "hostile business environment." The Atlanta-based company cites Gov. Gray Davis' threats to seize the power plants already owned by the company and impose a windfall tax on its profits in California.

WLWT ChannelCincinnati.com   Saturday April 07 02:05 AM EDT Girl: Fifth-Graders Swapped Sex For Soda The principle of Mount Airy School sent a letter home to parents Friday regarding the allegations that a fifth-grade class was swapping sex for soda money and other favors. WLWT Eyewitness News5's Brian Hamrick reports that male students in a fifth-grade class were allegedly trading their soda money for sex with other fifth-graders. Dozens of students were allegedly using closets to conceal the sexual activity. A fifth-grade girl brought the allegations to the attention of adults earlier in the week, and the school is taking the ...

KEEP DONORS ANONYMOUS: Campaign Finance Reform   What if you gave 5 million bucks to a political campaign and kept the donation anonymous? (It happens all time with people, the true believers, who don't want anything back from their donation but the satisfaction of helping further a cause, a university, a charity they believe in.) The recipient couldn't thank you because he didn't know who you were. Nor could you show up and demand any special consideration. Conversely, disclosure makes sure the beneficiary knows who he owes, who to thank. The Kennedy Library at Harvard comes to mind. As ...

CASH FOR CLEMENCY? Roger's pardon a first-family first Scholar: 'An outrageous act that set back government ethics by decades' ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Paul Sperry © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Former President Clinton's pardon of his drug-dealer brother, Roger Cassidy Clinton, hasn't gotten as much press as his last-minute pardons of a wealthy fugitive and a drug kingpin. But ethically, it's in the same league, argues a constitutional scholar still shocked by the act. For starters, no other president has given clemency directly to a close relative, notes constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University. "There's no precedent for that," he said. It's also ...

January 12,.2000 Dear Senator McCain: Campaign finance reform could be simple and elegant: Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment. Senators will once again be named by their colleagues in the state legislature who, we trust, will have sober minds and sophisticated goals. The cost of Senatorial campaigns will drop to zero. If the Senators turn out to be crooks, the charge will be clear and uncomplicated by legal subtleties. Damage control will fall to the states who can best, most efficiently perform it. You believe all politicians are for sale. From the synopsis of your campaign finance reform bill I gather that ...

The following are comments on the Media Party concept and my replies. More discussion is encouraged. I like it. Just as the media would only refer to Katherine Harris as "Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris." So must we now refer only to "Democrat news anchor Dan Rather," "Democrat news anchor Peter Jennings," Democrat news anchor Tom Brokaw," etc Not at all. What I am suggesting is: Dan Rather of the Media Party, Jane Fonda of the Media Party, AlGore of the Media Party, Jesse Jackson of the Media Party, Patricia Ireland of the Media Party, Adam Clymer of the ...

THE MEDIA PARTY CONCEPT I suggest, and I will henceforth follow my own advice, we supplant the "Democrat Party" with the "MEDIA PARTY". I heard an interview by a survivor from the eastern block that they had what they called the Media Party. I don’t remember if it was authorized or perceived but it makes no difference. A political organization, that relies for its existence upon the propaganda apparatus, the money, the prestige of a well-defined segment of the population, that itself reports a 90% compliance with mutual political goals, may be described by the name of its dominant group. ...

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Litigation is a bloodless war. The combatants cease battle because of depleted pocketbooks, not from too many dead bodies. As does war, this protects the rest of us from a fanatic, rampaging egoist. The damages finally become so severe that one or the other quits because peace with the enemy in charge is preferable to ceasing to exist. So…who's paying for the ballot war that has gone on too long? Who's deep pockets have been plumbed? How does this break down?