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From: Jordan at GayAmerica Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2002 2:19 PM To: Hillary Cc: Steve; Bruce Subject: FW: Gay Rights or the Republicans you decide! President Bush and a Republican House of Representatives are all that stand in the way of gay marriage becoming legal in America, the legal lowering of the age of sexual consent, and the final elimination of "sodomy" laws in all fifty states. If you don't get out and vote DEMOCRATIC, we as gay Americans will lose our influence to push through gay marriage in the Senate and the right for even gay teens to have...

Keeping Active Helps Irritable Bowel Patients Cope Mon Oct 21, 5:27 PM ET By Roxanne Nelson SEATTLE (Reuters Health) - Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) significantly impairs quality of life, burdens patients with high out-of-pocket costs and causes losses in productivity, according to findings presented Sunday at the American College of Gastroenterology's annual meeting. However, a related study, also presented on Sunday, found that exercise may help patients to cope with their disorder. IBS is estimated to affect up to 20% of the US population, primarily women, yet there is no cure or even an effective treatment, explained lead author Dr....

Ballistic Fingerprinting will be a joke soon, or why the Moose can't admit the shooter has a AK-74 Chief Moose and others involved with the investigation into the sniper shootings can't lend any credence to the witness who claims he saw a AK-74, because it would point out the ineptness of all of the ballistic testing to date. After Moose, the ATF and others trotted out all of the Mini-14's and AR-15 variants that used .223 ammo, they know they are in trouble if it turns out to be a AK-74. While the tests that show all of the rounds...

Has anyone else seen the new X-10 Pop up ad?

After nearly a year of running for the Senate and 50 minutes of debate where he painted himself as a Democrat Jesse Helms, Erskine Bowles has admitted that he worked 5 years for the Clinton Administration. Did you Freepers know that Erskine takes all of the credit for the Balanced Budget in '95?

WASHINGTON -- Republican contributors who gathered at Washington's Willard Hotel Tuesday for "an evening with the President" were stunned by the surprise appearance of boxing promoter Don King (accompanied by his usual bodyguard). Nobody had ever before seen King at a Republican event. Attendance Tuesday was limited to Eagles, who must pay $15,000 membership dues. From the Willard, King went to a $15,000-a-ticket Democratic fund-raiser at the Washington mansion of Bill and Hillary Clinton. A footnote: Federal records reflect only $10,000 in contributions by King in the 1996 and 2000 election cycles, with but $1,000 given Bush (in 1999). He...

Excerpts from speach by Barbra Streisand Thank you, thank you all so much for inviting me here to speak tonight. I want to tell everyone what we face if we allow the mean-spirited, intolerant, racist, homophobic, gun toting, extremist Republicans to retake the Senate. If we don't keep the Senate in Democratic control, more people will wake up in bathtubs full of ice, missing one or more of their kidneys. If we lose the Senate, more adults will be stuck with AIDs infected needles left in theater seats and gas nozzles. And, more children will die from heroin overdoses from...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A tiny stuntman who protested against a French ban on the bizarre practice of "dwarf throwing" has lost his case before a U.N. human rights body which said the need to protect human dignity was paramount. Manuel Wackenheim had argued the 1995 ban by France's highest administrative court was discriminatory and deprived him of a job being hurled around discotheques by burly men. In a statement on Friday the U.N. Human Rights Committee said it was satisfied "the ban on dwarf-tossing was not abusive but necessary in order to protect public order, including considerations of human dignity"....

Did anyone hear Clinton buttboy, Jonathon Alter on Imus this morning? Alter continues to be a cheerleader for the Dems at Newsweek. Imus asked Alter to give one good reason to vote for corrupt Senator Bob Torricelli. Alter's reply was that it was important to vote for Torricelli to keep Senate control in Dem hands. He went on to say that many Republicans in DC prefer the Senate in Dassholes control rather than reverting back to Lott. He said the consensus was that 'more' got done with little Tommy in charge.

McCainiac was a guest on Imus this morning at about 7:30 EDT. Imus was doing his usual sucking up, but did get around to asking one of Bernard's questions (which are usually the best ones). Paraphrasing a bit... Imus: Senator, you've heard about Majority Leader Daschle slipping that ammendment into the Defense Spending bill to exempt SD from enviromental lawsuits, so they can clean up the forests to prevent fires. What's your thoughts on that. McCainiac: Hmmm, haawwww, well Iman, you know a lot of that goes on and that there's really not that much wrong with it. He did...

EPA Says Cleanups May Be Cut Back WASHINGTON (AP) - Cleanup work at toxic waste sites in 18 states will be severely curtailed or in some cases halted under a Bush administration plan to reduce spending for the nation's Superfund program, according to an Environmental Protection Agency ( news - web sites) analysis. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman previously announced planned cutbacks, but an EPA inspector general's report, made public Monday, for the first time indicated which sites would be affected. The IG report, released by two Democratic congressmen, said 33 Superfund sites in 18 states would no longer get money,...

L'immagine di una forma di parmigiano tratta dal sito ufficiale www.parmigiano-reggiano.it. REUTERS/HO

Dynamite belts and funky, colorful headgear are set aside as a Palestinian youth takes a day off from terror to spend the day with a earthly virgin. Of course her status might change after a day in the sun, frolicing in the surf with the serious minded mass murderer. The boy's mother doesn't mind either. "He's young, he's full of himself, and he's going to be another martyr to honor our family. He is entitled to sow a few wild oats." stated Fatimah Myfatass.

Sun Jun 9, 9:06 AM ET TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man was so enraged by an acquaintance's failure to address him with an honorific that he stabbed the man to death with an umbrella, police said on Saturday. It was the second killing with an umbrella in Japan in less than a month. Ryuji Sakamoto, 32, was arrested Saturday and confessed to killing Takayuki Niimi, also 32, during a Friday night quarrel in the city of Sakuragi, some 170 miles west of Tokyo, police said. "It appears that Sakamoto harbored resentment of Niimi for quite some time because Niimi...

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton, arrives to watch a match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris Saturday June 1, 2002. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

It was a wild night on the town on Wednesday when U2 frontman Bono took Bill Clinton on a walk of Dublin. The former US president attended a late night party in U2's Dublin hotel, The Clarence. Bill partied the night away with Bono and the rest of U2 before taking a midnight stroll with the singer. Clinton was in Ireland this week for a number of engagements. Last night he held court in the Four Seasons hotel where he hosted a press conference alongside the Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt for the Academy of Achievement. The Academy was founded...

<p>Sixteen people were killed during last week's school shooting in Germany. This follows the killing of 14 regional legislators in Zug, a Swiss canton, last September, and the massacre of eight city council members in a Paris suburb last month. The three worst public shootings in the Western world during the past year all occurred in Europe, whose gun laws are exactly what gun-control advocates want the U.S. to adopt. Indeed, all three occurred in gun-free "safe zones."</p>

SUMMARY: Officials at the New York Aquarium finally realize that the most dedicated couple in the penguin enclosure is a pair of males. Wendell and Cass would be more comfortable in a Greenwich Village one bedroom apartment than their current home at the New York Aquarium. The male penguins, each about 14 years old, can't get enough of each other. The couple has been together for the past eight years, and the two have sex with each other whenever they can, which is often. Presumably penguins can tell the guys from the gals, but aquarium officials apparently can't. For years ...

&nbsp;-&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;NATIONAL&nbsp;&nbsp; Crime up but murder rate down The national crime rate surged in 2000, but the number of murders dropped significantly, the 2002 national yearbook released today showed. "The number of victims of crimes recorded by police increased between 1999 and 2000 for almost all of the offences listed," the yearbook said. "The largest proportional increases were recorded for victims of driving causing death (12 per cent), sexual assault (11 per cent) and other theft (10 per cent). "The main falls were for murder and kidnapping/abduction, by 12 per cent and 10 per cent respectively." But the yearbook ...

NEW YORK-Conspiracy theories are funny things: the wackier they sound, the more likely they are to be true. The fires of September were still burning when I, among others, suggested that the Bush regime's Afghan war might have more to do with old-fashioned oil politics than bringing the Evil Ones to justice. Little did I know how quickly I would be proven right. The Taliban government and their Al Qaeda "guests", after all, both were at best bit players in the terror biz. If the U.S. had really wanted to dispatch a significant number of jihad boys to meet the ...