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Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century. As another example, the Pentagon will be freed from a requirement that it file a report every time a small business vendor is paid, a task that consumed some 1,200 man-hours every year.“We’re looking for stuff everyone agrees...

Just heard something on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" that made me laugh out loud! I just had to share it with my FReeper FRiends. If you're unfamiliar with the program, he does a bit called "In The Year 2000", during which he makes absurd/funny predictitions regarding events that will take place "in the year 2000." (They've been doing the bit for years now, which only makes it funnier.)This one is a gem... "In the year 2000..."Christina Aguilera, while being prepared for surgery, alomst dies on the opererating table, when doctors discover that no amount of swabbing can make her...

Sunday Herald - 15 September 2002 Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President By Neil Mackay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding...