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Donate Now! Dear MoveOn member, Next week, 500 talented organizers will hit the ground in battleground states, and our ambitious $5 million Leave No Voter Behind field program will begin in earnest. We're aiming to turn out over 440,000 unlikely voters for John Kerry in the battleground neighborhoods where it matters most. Polling shows that this race is still neck-and-neck, which means that these hundreds of thousands of voters could easily tip the election. (More on the poll numbers below.) So far, tens of thousands of MoveOn members have generously given over $2.6 million to make this program happen. But...

The word processor: cumbersome, but great. If you were an engineer or scientist preparing technical reports and didn't want a secretary to retype your documents every time you needed a revision or update, IBM's great new word processor, the MTST, was a blessing. Introduced in 1968, the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, a desk-size word processor, included two cartridges with half-inch magnetic tape, the left one for reading, the right for recording. Each cartridge could store several typical pages, and one could merge information from one tape to the other. Later versions of the MTST used magnetic cards instead of tape...

Kerry Would Crack Down on Advertising of Drugs, Edwards Says Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would lower the costs of pharmaceutical drugs by cracking down on misleading advertising and directing the government to provide consumers with details of drugs available on the market, said Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards. Pharmaceutical companies have more than doubled their spending on advertising between 1996 and 2001 and many of those advertisements do not disclose all relevant information to consumers while driving up the cost of drugs, the Kerry campaign said. Kerry would direct the Food and Drug Administration...

School lockdown blamed on toy gun MIAMI, April 16 (UPI) -- A lockdown at a Miami middle school Thursday has been blamed on a student with a toy rubber band gun who was spotted walking into the building. The 15-year-old boy was charged with possession of a weapon on school grounds and disruptions of school functions, the Miami Herald reported Friday. Neighbors had called police after they had seen the boy wave the toy around, and stuff it under his coat. "From a distance, it can be confused with a rifle or sawed-off shotgun," said Mayco Villafana, a school district...

Kerry's Troubling Consistencies Cleland Drops a Political Grenade Will "Kerrygate" provide an opportunity for Hillary Clinton to "save the day" at the Democratic convention? R. Emmett Tyrrell , author of the new book Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House, thinks that at the very least the chances of it happening have gone up -- way up. Quoted yesterday, Tyrrell noted that "the likeliness of Mrs. Clinton potentially grabbing the Democratic nomination in Boston in a 'save the Democratic Party' scenario has increased ten fold." As pundits consider the Democratic Party's latest scandal, Tyrrell has released his Madame...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 08, 2004 19:58:52 ET XXXXX FCC POWELL CONSIDERED 'LICENSE REVOCATION' HEARING FOR VIACOMCBS **Exclusive** Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell considered holding a dramatic license revocation hearing against CBS after last week's Super Bowl breast mess, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. A furious Powell vocalized the "license revocation" option to senior staff at the FCC in the hours and days after the event, a top source said from Washington. The chairman has since moved away from exploring the possibilities of pulling CBS's license, but word of any such consideration shows just how serious Powell...

Overview of Prescription Drug Abuse & The Oxycodone Problem in Florida August 2001 Background The abuse of pharmaceuticals has not received as much publicity as the abuse of club drugs and other illegal drugs, but it is a significant and growing problem in the United States. According to the National Drug Control Strategy 2001 Annual Report, there were approximately 2.8 billion prescriptions written in 1999, with approximately 457 million for controlled substances. This is an increase (55 percent) from 1998 in which 254 million prescriptions for controlled substances were written.The National Drug Threat Assessment 2001 reported that law enforcement agencies...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — The CIA has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations that the White House broke federal laws by revealing the identity of one of its undercover employees in retaliation against the woman’s husband, a former ambassador who publicly criticized President Bush’s since-discredited claim that Iraq had sought weapons-grade uranium from Africa, NBC News has learned.

<p>When students in Biloxi, Miss., show up this morning for the first day of the new school year, a virtual army of digital cameras will be recording every minute of every lesson in every classroom.</p> <p>Hundreds of Internet-wired video cameras will keep rolling all year long, in the hope that they'll deter crime and general misbehavior among the district's 6,300 students -- and teachers.</p>

According to ABC radio news, Helen Giddings was arrested at her Austin Texas apartment today. She was one of several Texas democrats that fled to Ardmore Oklahoma. Developing...

West Texas doctor flees after posting $2.5 Million dollar bail. Dr. Dipakkumar "Dipak" Patel's medical fraud trial began Monday without him, after the physician apparently skipped town, leaving behind a $2.5-million cash bond, his wife, plus an office manager to face a judge and jury as the sole defendant. Patel, 46, is accused by the government of operating a "patient mill" by seeing 50 to more than 100 patients a day for a few minutes each and allegedly submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. The physician and office manager Loretta Tarango, 53, are charged with conspiracy to...

Court: IRS Owes Millions for Fraud Washington (Jan. 22, 2003) – A federal appeals court has ruled that attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service committed "fraud on the court" after giving secret deals to two pilots in return for their testimony against 1,300 other pilots who bought into the same tax shelters. The federal appeals court on Friday overturned a previous Tax Court ruling against the pilots, who were found guilty of tax evasion and ordered to pay a collective sum totaling more than $2 billion in penalties. The appeals court ruling requires the IRS to pay tens of millions...

The following link shows the details. Link to Presidential Directive involving terrorism.This is some pretty good stuff. I really like this part in the directive that states... -- The Secretary of State and the Attorney General, in addition to the latter's overall responsibilities as the chief law enforcement official, shall use all legal means available to exclude from the United States persons who pose a terrorist threat and deport or otherwise remove from the United States any such aliens; Signed, sealed and deliverd by the IMPEACHED president, william, j, clinton. (lower case intended)

It looks like Matt Drudge has sunk to an all time low. He is now accepting advertising from the I.R.S. The I.R.S. !!! Talk about fraternizing with the enemy. This is as low as it gets. The ad is talking about careers at the I.R.S. at their Austin, TX indoctrination camp. I can't seem to make the ad display for some reason here but if you go to his site you might be able to see the whole message. Isn't it cute? Stinking traitors !!!

After 9/11 it seems that everybody traveling these days aboard an airplane is a little more cautious when they decide to go out of the country. I had the pleasure of one such trip this week to Cancun, Mexico. Cancun is a favorite for tourists coming from the U.S., in fact there may be more Americans there at any given time than local residents. Flights can be gotten rather cheaply almost anytime from tour companies. But what about the safety of those Americans (or anybody else for that matter) traveling aboard these airlines to and from Mexico? I have taken...

Just heard on KLBJ 590 a.m. in Austin that an undisclosed location is being investigated for an Anthrax case. Anybody else hear this or have any more information?

A commercial passenger plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings in Manhattan, N.Y.

Nothing to follow as of yet.

A caller into C-SPAN this morning hit Connie with a question that a lot of people are wondering. Since the lamestream media will hardly utter a word about his party affiliation it's a wonder anybody knows. The caller simply asked Connie the question: "Is Gary Condit a Democrat or a Republican?" Connie shuffled for a moment and said "Well he's a Republican right?" The caller came back in an almost rage and said: "No he's a DEMOCRAT !!" For a moment she is startled but in the background you can hear the caller mumble something about "nailing her ass"