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clinton: "I did not bring him [Osama bin Laden] here... though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America."     by Mia T, 4.01.04 "The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden]. At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America. So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot...

LAGOS (AFP) - A traditional doctor in central Nigeria has been shot dead by a patient who was testing the potency of an anti-bullet charm the herbalist had prepared for him, police told AFP. AFP/File Photo   Ashi Terfa died when patient Umaa Akor fired a gun at his head two weeks ago in south-central Benue state, police spokesman Bode Fakeye said Wednesday. "Akor went for an insurance against bullets and contacted Terfa to prepare it for him," he said. "To confirm its efficacy, the herbalist tied the charm around his neck and insisted that Akor should fire a gun...

I'll Take The Word Of God Over The Word Of G.W. Bush By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon November 25, 2003 While in London, England last week, President Bush stood beside Prime Minister Tony Blair and said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. This is the latest example of how willing Bush seems to be to compromise fundamental principle in order to appear politically-correct. In so doing, he has both impugned the God of the Bible and revealed deep ignorance of Christian doctrine. Historic Christian belief has always held that the Creator-God was manifested...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Iraqi Governing Council has told the United States a letter it delivered to the U.N. Security Council on Monday asking for a resolution on its timetable for ending the U.S. occupation was a draft version and was sent in error, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The final version dilutes the Governing Council's request that the Security Council pass a new resolution enshrining the Iraqis' timetable for ending the U.S. occupation, said one senior U.S. official, who asked not to be identified. "Apparently somebody dropped a draft in the mail and the final version doesn't have the...

<p>How can the president tell us with a straight face that we taxpayers have a patriotic duty to cough up $87 billion more to enable him to sink us deeper into the Iraq quagmire of his making? That's a lot of money on top of the $79 billion already appropriated by Congress in April — enough to bail out California and every other state experiencing a budget crisis because of economic problems this president has only exacerbated. Shouldn't those who warned against Bush's folly at least qualify for another one of his signature tax rebates?</p>

Sorry for the vanity, but my computer stopped working today. I would get an error message: "Generic host process for Win 32 services System Shutdown NT Authority / System" "Remote Procedure Call (RCP) service has terminated unexpectedly" Then it would do a 60-second countdown until it shut down the computer. It's a weird looking error message and the backwards countdown from 60 seconds until it shuts down the system seems very ominous (although I suppose it's better than an immediate crash). It did it once about a week ago, then today it would happen as soon as I'd reboot, so...

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<p>The Bush administration acknowledged for the first time yesterday that President Bush should not have alleged in his State of the Union address in January that Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Africa to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program.</p> <p>The statement was prompted by publication of a British parliamentary commission report, which raised serious questions about the reliability of British intelligence that was cited by Bush as part of his effort to convince Congress and the American people that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program were a threat to U.S. security.</p>

"Hellary Lies Again? Ho-Hum..." Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, June 14, 2003 For the past week or so, we've all been inundated by the MAJOR NEWS EVENT that is Hellary Clinton's new book ''Living History.'' Yes, the tentacles of this monster news story have stretched to the farthest reaches of the globe. From New York City to Pango-Pango to Doha to a primitive mud-hut in Newark, New Jersey, you just can't get away from her. No matter how hard you try. And you can't get away from the many opinions about her new book. Including here. So sit back, relax,...

Computer error to blame for rapid fall of Soyuz By Marcia Dunn in Star City, Russia 07 May 2003 A computer error is suspected of plunging the three spacemen who returned to Earth on Sunday into a descent that was so steep their tongues rolled back in their mouths and they could hardly breathe. Their Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan, 270 miles from its intended destination. The two US astronauts and one cosmonaut were returning after five months on board the International Space Station. The landing was the first since the Columbia space shuttle disaster in February. One of the...

A woman who repeatedly told her bank it had wrongly credited her with £47,000 was threatened with imprisonment when she took its advice and spent the money. Linda Parish said yesterday that although she was relieved that the charges against her had been dropped, the bank was now demanding she pay £25,000 costs and interest for its own mistake. A judge ordered the criminal case to be thrown out after the prosecution said it was no longer proceeding with a charge of theft. Nigel Daly, her barrister, told Judge Stanley Spence at Reading Crown Court: "My recollection of the Monopoly...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British bank said on Tuesday it had apologized to a man after sending a letter to his dead wife that began "Dear Mrs. Deceased." A spokesman for Egg, a bank which operates on the Internet, said one of its employees had mistakenly entered "Deceased" on a form letter in place of the woman's name. "What happened was, due to a clerical error -- that's just a manual input error -- the wrong details were entered on a piece of correspondence," said spokesman Mark Maguire. "We were sending a piece of correspondence to her husband about wrapping...

AMD-specific code a right mess By Paul Hales: Wednesday 17 July 2002, 10:03 MICROSOFT HAS IDENTIFIED a problem with running DirectX 8.1 on AMD processor-based systems. Some DirectX 8.1 programs may simply stop working on AMD PCs, says the Vole, and it has come up with a patch to fix the problem. The problem applies to DirectX programs running under Windows XP on AMD platforms. Intel processors are unaffected, the posting on Microsoft's support site here says. According to the posting, "the DrawIndexedPrimitive function stops working without displaying an error or debug message". Microsoft fesses up and says the error...

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