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FReepers want to watch the Correspondents' Dinner aired on CSPAN last night. CSPAN's website is showing it replaying on CSPAN-3. Many people don't get that channel. If anyone hears of it being shown again on one of their other channels, please post an announcement thread. Thank you. (I'd like to watch it again :~ ))

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer has denied a Reedley grower's request for permission to sue a state board member who earned money on the side as a consultant. Lockyer determined Thursday that Daniel Zingale, a member of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, should not be removed from the board for earning $50,000 last year campaigning against a November ballot initiative. State labor code Section 1150 states ALRB members are not to engage in any other business, vocation or employment outside of their work on the board. Farmer Dan Gerawan - whose family business has had cases before the ALRB...

Samuel Spital, a lawyer once best-known for ubiquitous television advertising of his law practice, has withdrawn his application for a permanent disability retirement from San Diego County. Spital, 59, quietly dropped his application earlier this month after several months in which the matter was pending before the county retirement board. Spital worked as a deputy probation officer from November 2001 to August 2002 before he was injured. Spital said he tripped over the trolley tracks in downtown San Diego on March 5, 2002, while on his way to the County Jail to interview an inmate for a probation report. He...

I need all the prayer support I can muster and am reaching out to the Christians I know. My parents aged 59 and 60 seem headed for divorce. My father was caught cheating on my mother. While my mother wants to try and work to fix things, my dad seems to have given up. He had an affair nearly thirty years ago, and if there were others, I am not aware. He had a heart attack about 12 years ago and two years ago had to undergo by-pass surgery. Since then, along with the passing of his sister in her...

Hello... My precious girl and I are miles away. I'm getting it together to make it through now and if everything goes well I'll soon will be starting on a BIG journey, maybe even the biggest in my life. I know whatever God does is good and right and that I have to wait but..where in the world does one get the power for it? If anyone can just mention us in their prayers I would be very grateful. Gob bless you all In Jesus we are.

WASHINGTON - Additional war spending this year will push the federal deficit to a record $427 billion for fiscal 2005, effectively thwarting President Bush's pledge to begin slowing the flow of government red ink, according to new budget forecasts unveiled Tuesday. Administration officials rolled out an $80 billion emergency spending request, mainly for Iraq and Afghanistan, conceding the extra funds likely would send the deficit above the record $412 billion in fiscal 2004, which ended Sept. 30. Bush has pledged to cut the budget deficit in half by 2009, a promise the administration insists it can keep. But at least...

Embattled television news network CBS is again at the center of controversy after snubbing a White House request to allow a Republican to appear with one of President George W. Bush's greatest adversaries, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), on "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Kennedy was allowed to fire away at Bush on Social Security and Iraq without any rebuttal during his appearance on the Sunday morning talk show. Maintaining that Bush and the Republicans are making up a crisis with Social Security in order "to make a crisis on any political problem," Kennedy said there is not a funding issue...

Chris Vance, state Republican party chairman, said officials will decide whether to challenge the recount results after studying the voter rolls from King County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Seattle. "We're mostly posing questions," he said. "King County is where we saw the votes changing. King County is the one county that was allowed to take ballots that were declared dead in November and bring them back to life in December." Democrats accused the Republicans of being on "a fishing expedition" and urged them to concede or risk damaging Rossi's political future by dragging out an election already eight weeks...

Hey, I know this crowd to be staunch prayer warriors...a request from your 50's Dad. I was in a car accident last Wednesday; nobody hurt, but my car was totalled. The next day, the starter went out on my wife's car. (We are driving a red work van lent by a friend.) The starter flywheel was bad, $1200 to haul out and replace, and once back in, it looks like the timing belt has blown out and toasted the engine ($2,500). We know the place from years back, so we know the work needs to be done, but my family...

I am asking for continued prayers. As some may remember I asked for prayers because my wife and I were splitting up after eight years. The thoughts behind her reasoning were that we were too different and my inability to find a meaningful job. I thought that I had finally gained some peace about the situation and was able to accept the split, however, I was packing to head to Florida today and it felt as if God was telling me to pray for reconciliation and to not close the door on this relationship. I am confused because I am...

Prayer ping.Please post your replies to MamaBFrom MamaB, requesting prayers: "Hubby has had trouble walking for about a year. ... He saw his neurologist today to find out the results of a MRI. There is something abnormal going on in his brain. He is to have some more neurological tests done to see just what the problem is. We do not need anything like this at this time. We still have not recovered from losing Jan, a dear friend who died in August and then hubby's uncle died about 2 weeks ago. We are at our wit's end with so...

I am writing to ask everyone to send up prayers for my Mother in North Carolina. She has not been feeling well and having some numbness and pain in her legs and her blood sugar was really high as well. She is a wonderful woman, a Christian and one of those people that God especially blessed with the love and compassion to help so many. Now it is her turn for help and I would appreciate all of your prayers and love. Her tests conclude tomorrow and hopefully we will get good news soon thereafter. Thank you all and may...

I am writing to ask everyone to send up prayers for my Mother in North Carolina. She has not been feeling well and having some numbness and pain in her legs and her blood sugar was really high as well. She is a wonderful woman, a Christian and one of those people that God especially blessed with the love and compassion to help so many. Now it is her turn for help and I would appreciate all of your prayers and love. Her tests conclude tomorrow and hopefully we will get good news soon thereafter. Thank you all and may...

This was posted on another forum by a very good friend of mine. "I've never asked but I'm asking now for prayers. My twenty-eight year old niece in Pensacola that I'm so close to who I mentioned had hurricane damage went into the hospital this week. Her son is only two years old, & a Cat scan & MRI show a brain tumor in her front lobe. The neurosurgeon is seeing her tomorrow. I need a miracle...please pray for Jill..." ---- Please pray for Jill. She has already had her house and car wrecked by hurricane Ivan, and now she...

I am searching for a cartoon, it had a suicide bomber standing before allah with a shocked expression as he is told it was 72 virgin daquarris (sp??)! Did someone save that one?

Hello again my dear FRiends, I am an anxious mom. My beloved son is traveling with his dad (and dad's girlfriend, who is very nice) to New Hampshire and Maine to visit family late tonight by airline. I know of no more powerful prayer warriors than you, and I ask you humbly and gratefully to lift my son, his dad, and dad's friend up to the Father, and to pray for their safe passage there and back. Please pray for them to be surrounded by guardian angels, and to travel in love and safety. Thank you so much, and God...

Amish Request to Stay in U.S. Denied Thursday April 22, 2004 1:01 AM By JOE MANDAK Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) - An Amish Canadian fighting a federal law that requires photo identification for people entering the United States cannot stay in the country while his case is heard, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Daniel Zehr, a member of the Old Order Amish, claims the law infringes on his religious freedom because his sect takes literally the Bible's prohibition of graven images. Zehr's attorney Mark Knapp said he'll file an emergency appeal of Senior U.S. Judge Alan Bloch's order Thursday...

The NYC area TV stations carried a sad story about a car crash: 6 young Muslim men were on route to a "religious retreat" ( that's what the newscasters called it) in the Lake Ariel,PA area. Their vehicle went off the road and hit a tree ;killing 3 of them;seriously injuring 3. It was unfortunate;yet my curiosity is aroused: Could this have been one of those "Jihad Camps" I've read about: sponsored by Wahabbi "charities",and dedicated to teaching violent Islamic extremism ? How about it, Pennsylvania Freepers ? Can you tell us the name of this camp,so it can be...

I would like to ask for prayers for Freeper bulldogs and his wife Mary. Mary is terminally ill and in hospice care. Bulldogs relates that there are most certainly angels in Mary's room with her and the feeling of their presence is incredible. Mary is facing everything with great grace and courage. Bulldogs has felt a calmness come over him which he knows is direct from the Holy Spirit. Please keep bulldogs and Mary in your prayers. thanks, Prairie

Hello my dear FRiends, I am an anxious mom. My beloved son is traveling with his dad (and dad's girlfriend, who is very nice) to Parts East (Boston and Maine) to visit family early Wednesday morning (by airline). I know of no more powerful prayer warriors than you, and I ask you humbly and gratefully to lift my son, his dad, and dad's friend up to the Father, and to pray for their safe passage there and back. Please pray for them to be surrounded by guardian angels, and to travel in love and safety. Thank you so much, and...