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We have little more than a week left to get the word out across this great land we love and call the United States of America. On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, all Americans who will be driving a motor vehicle are being asked to do so with their HEADLIGHTS ON. Contact the newspaper in your town or at your school. Call the television and radio stations in your area. Inform your elected representatives. Pass the word at your place of employment. Tell your family, friends and neighbors. Send this e-mail to people. Discuss this event in chatrooms and on message...

We have little more than a week left to get the word out across this great land we love and call the United States of America. On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, all Americans who will be driving a motor vehicle are being asked to do so with their HEADLIGHTS ON. Contact the newspaper in your town or at your school. Call the television and radio stations in your area. Inform your elected representatives. Pass the word at your place of employment. Tell your family, friends and neighbors. Send this e-mail to people. Discuss this event in chatrooms and on message...

Opinion Print This Article E-mail This Article A True Friend Of Israel Faces A Tough Challenge: Why Jews Must Support Sen. Bob Smith Posted 8/21/2002 By Ann J. Lieb, Esq. New York`s Jewish community might wonder why large golden gleaming arrows are being focused on the upcoming Republican Senate primary in New Hampshire. After all, this New England state has a relatively tiny population -- the census of 2000 counted 1,235,786 residents, only ten thousand of whom identified themselves as Jewish, a small percentage of the total population. We can shrug our shoulders with that "Why care or why get...

I would like to take this opportunity to stray from the normal topic of our Thread Intro and do something special this weekend.I would like to dedicate and name this thread "America The Right Way Thanks Jim Robinson"

HP/Compaq offshore move costs 1,200 US jobs Outsourcing to foreign countries now de rigeur By INQUIRER staff: Friday 09 August 2002, 15:48 DESPERATE ATTEMPTS by the New HP to shave costs and compete with Dell, are costing more jobs to go than expected, but not just inside the new body corporate. The firm appears to be engaged in a move to shift all of its third party support out of the USA. A report in local newspaper the Miami Herald said that a support firm, the Answer Group, may have to fire 1,200 people as HP/Q moves most of its...

<p>PORTLAND, Maine Longtime Republican financier Robert Monks said Monday that he is supporting Democratic Senate candidate Chellie Pingree in her race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.</p> <p>Monks said he supports Pingree because he thinks the best chance for passing corporate reform laws is to have Democrats control Congress. Monks has run unsuccessfully for the Senate three times, most recently in 1996 when he lost in the Republican primary to Collins and another candidate.</p>

Chelsea pet regs force families from homes by Marie Szaniszlo Saturday, July 27, 2002 The notice arrived yesterday giving Stanley and Eileen Green 30 days to leave their Chelsea home of 45 years. Their crime? Having two cats. Frank and Dianne Stephenson and their three children are expecting a similar letter any day. Their crime? Having a cat and a 66-pound German shepherd - 46 pounds over the limit. They are two of dozens of Chelsea families who have suddenly found themselves faced with a terrible choice: give up pets they consider members of their families, or give up the...

Paying the price for many past sins The pressure continues to grow on President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. He is now without a civilised friend in the world. He is banking on hopes that countries he has despised and attacked will feel he is not bad enough to topple. It is unlikely to suffice. Last week, again, US President George Bush said that a regime change in Iraq is part of US foreign policy. It should have been everyone's policy long ago. Still, replacing the regime of Saddam Hussein with a decent government will not be easy, and must not...

The Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has given Australia's strongest backing so far to a possible United States attack on Iraq, and says he believes Australians would support military intervention. Mr Downer said "only a fool" would believe that a policy of appeasement might solve "the problem" of Iraq, after a meeting in Washington with the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. Although not specifically committing Australia to providing troops for such an attack, Mr Downer was pessimistic yesterday about the prospects of a military showdown being avoided. His remarks went further than those of the Prime Minister, John Howard, and...

What is the basis for having child support laws? In my mind, the intent of child support laws is to force departed fathers to keep the children alive, because we all know women can't support kids on their own. Wait, no, that can't be. Women are fighter pilots, CEOs, and astronauts these days. Women have just as much power over their own lives as men. Why aren't the feminists railing against child support laws? Maybe the reason for child support laws is that once a man decides to get her pregnant, she has no choice but to carry the baby,...

E-MAIL THE WHITE HOUSE AT president@whitehouse.gov -See article on Freerepublic : ' A GOP Primary Strains Party Ties and Bush Loyalties ' , article in New York Times , By Pam Belluck 7/7/02 .... Then e-mail Pres . Bush to support your fellow Conservative Bob Smith . Tell Pres . Bush you oppose Bush's support for non - incumbent family friend Sununu.This is arrogance and senselessness on Pres. Bush's part to support a non-incumbent who is unlikely to win against the Democrat opponent , especially when hopes of Republicans gaining the majority in the U.S. Senate are very ' ify...

Palladium tech up for discussion, says MS security chiefBy John Lettice Posted: 07/04/2002 at 06:33 EST Unaccountably, Microsoft seems to have forgotten to invite The Register to Tech Ed in Barcelona this week, but we're pleased to see some useful information making it into the public prints. Yesterday, IDG News correspondent Gillian Law obtained some useful information about Palladium from Microsoft UK chief security officer Stuart Okin. First of all, we do not get the impression that Okin is entirely pleased by the release of information about Palladium last week. Details, he claims somewhat bizarrely, were "leaked or squirrelled out...

  Editorial National Catholic Register May 26-June 1, 2002 What ever happened to the new springtime of the faith? It wasn't so long ago - the feast of Christ the King in the Jubilee Year - when Pope John Paul II said, "As for the future, there are many reasons for entering the new millennium with well-founded hope." He spoke of "the Christian springtime, many signs of which we can already glimpse."Those were heady times. Catholics looked at the millennium to come as a missionary field to be conquered by Christ. It was "the Catholic moment" to some, the...

With Israel under fire, at least one interest group is remaining steadfast in its support for the Jewish state — the Christian right. The Christian right's affinity for Israel isn't new, but it has taken on fresh prominence as Jews feel isolated in the face of increased global support for the Palestinian intifada. Jewish groups now are more likely to publicly acknowledge the evangelicals' support, showing their appreciation and, perhaps, hoping that other religious groups might follow their lead.

Time to start bumping this one and getting your signs painted and your flags on dowels. We have less than 48 hours to go.Because of previous engagements, no one, it seems, can be there at 8 a.m. to greet the earlybird surrender monkeys. So it is VERY IMPORTANT that we be there at 12 noon sharp, to greet them when they break for lunch and head to all the small capitalist enterprises in the neighborhood to have some food and drink.NO SOUND PERMIT. Sorry. Because there are "classes" going on inside the building, we can't have amplified sound. We can...

European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana pledged Thursday further EU political and economic support for the Palestinian people and assistance to rebuild and reorganize their institutions. Solana issued the announcement following a meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the beginning of a regional tour expected to take him to a number of countries, including Israel and Palestine. He conveyed that the main goal of the visit was to consult with leaders in the region and explore how the EU could assist in ending the continuous violence and get the sides to resume the stalled Middle...

Support for Le Pen's policies rises sharply Opinion poll reveals a country of xenophobes, says Le Monde Jon Henley in Paris Wednesday May 29, 2002 The Guardian Nearly half the French electorate support the hardline law and order policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen and more than a quarter say they are "wholly or largely in agreement" with the rest of this views, according to a survey published yesterday. Three weeks after Mr Le Pen rocked France by reaching the run-off round of the presidential election, the survey by the Sofres polling agency underlined the rising grassroots support for his racist...

Arafat's Support Falters Wednesday May 22, 2002 1:20 AM RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Yasser Arafat is at his weakest in years, with his popularity down and his people clamoring for reform. Yet, no serious challenger has emerged, according to political analysts and a new opinion poll released Tuesday. Marwan Barghouti, a key street leader of the Palestinian uprising, is the front-runner among potential contenders - but he's been sitting in an Israeli jail since the army detained him last month during a sweep through the West Bank. Criticism of Arafat and his Palestinian Authority is becoming increasingly open as...

The Washington rally was but a first step; we cannot let up in our defense of the Jewish People and our defense of Israel...(more) Click here for more

The support for Palestine being picked up and chanted like a favorite mantra by the Arab world is touching, but it is also a complete farce. Having traveled the world extensively, and having many contacts more well-traveled than myself, I can attest to the fact that Palestinians are treated like disease-ridden sub-creatures by every Arab culture in the Middle East. They are kicked to the curb by Saudi's in Saudi Arabia. They are denied many social privileges afforded even to the poorest Jordanians in Jordan. There is no Arab culture which embraces or treats with respect the Palestinians living in...