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New Rules Called A 'Step Backward' Three medical associations representing pain specialists have sent the Drug Enforcement Administration an unusual joint letter sharply critical of its recently revised guidelines on prescribing pain medicines. The letter, signed by the presidents of all three groups, called a DEA policy statement published in November in the Federal Register "an unfortunate step backward" that encourages a return to "an adversarial relationship between [doctors] and the DEA." Already concerned about what they saw as sometimes over-aggressive prosecutions of doctors, pharmacists and other health professionals who prescribe narcotic painkillers such as OxyContin, the specialists said the...

United Defense Defeats RPGs with Close-In Counter Measure Active Protection System On Sept. 8, United Defense Industries announced that its Close-In Counter Measure (CICM) active protection system successfully intercepted and destroyed incoming Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) during end-to-end testing at the U.S. Army’s Redstone Technical Test Center at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. In successful end-to-end tests, the United Defense CICM system detected launched RPGs, tracked incoming rockets, launched its countermeasures and defeated RPGs before they reached the protected system. "This successful counter-RPG mission was accomplished in less than nine months through targeted research and development efforts and rapid prototyping capabilities by...

An APS transformer caught fire this morning, knocking power offline for thousands of customers. Thirteen thousand customers are still without power. This is the second transformer outage in two weeks.

What's New [American Physical Society rant vs. President Bush, America, Mars exploration, science] ===================================== Friday, January 9, 2004 American Physical Society (APS) and Dr. Robert Park 1. WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION: A RATIONALE FOR WAR – OR A PRETEXT? The New York Times reported yesterday that a 400-member team of military weapons hunters has been quietly withdrawn from Iraq, to be replaced by a force trained to deal with homemade bombs. This must be "the imminent threat" we were told about before the war. On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that, "Iraq’s arsenal exists only on paper." In fact, plans...

What's New [Am.Physical Soc.rant vs. Bush,SDI,Delay] In this week's American Physical Society (APS) political tax-free rant, Robert Park again uses the APS to attack his and the APS' enemies as he again ignores another opportunity to actually use science or physics. Many of his rants seem likely fantasized, and ths week he does not disappoint with his diatribe against President Bush, missile defense, US security, Tom Delay, and Park's [stated but unproven] belief that that human activity influenced the solar output. See for yourself, FReepers and observe how low "science" at APS has fallen. ===================================== Friday, December 19, 2003 1....

AMERICA'S FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM It's back to school time!NewsWithViews.com Ashley Anderson, 16 years old This is for all the parents and their children who attend public school. I attended public school all my life, until September 2002 when I began attending a private, Christian school. The differences are incredible! Reading, writing, and arithmetic used to be what a child learned in school. Is this what you think your child is getting in school? Throughout most of my time spent in public school, the kids in my classes only read one or two books throughout the whole year. I...

I was simply going to post this story when I figured -- What the Heck! I'll just go through the list of "language Police" articles and show the links also -- that won't take too long ---- NOT!! I could not believe how many instances of TextBook P.C. there was just in the past few months! Read the book that foretold it all: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail Author : Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt MORE Language Police Tales! The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn Anyone interested in the subject of over-the-top political...

MEET MARGARET BROGLEYDate: Thursday, May 29 @ 11:47:18 Letters to Editor Dear Editor: Yes, I am the Margaret Brogley who occasionally writes to the Arkansas Democrat GazetteI have been asked to write for Arkansas Publik Skulz and promised that I would as long as my time and your interest permits. Perhaps I should introduce myself. I am a native of Fort Smith, Arkansas. I went through all twelve grades there, then to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville for a B.S.H.E. degree, then to the former Texas State College for Women in Denton for an M.A. degree, and later...

MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATEDate: Friday, May 30 @ 06:09:27 Topic Letters to Editor THREE- AND FOUR-YEAR OLD KINDERGARTEN: MAKING CHILDREN WARDS OF THE STATE Margaret Brogley 5/30/03 Dear Editor: Has your state or community begun promoting the enrollment of three- and four-year-old children? The Van Buren/Fort Smith area has -- big time. Our daily newspaper, the Southwest Times Record, 5/19/03, had a huge article about it and was so convincing that I wanted to rush right down to enroll the three- and four-year-olds that I don¹t have for fear I would miss a good thing! The title...

A Freeper Home School, Educator, Interested Parent Invitation to come and listen to: A Presentation Mr. Dean Gotcher -  the founder and director of the Institution for Authority Research and author of the booklet Dialectic and Praxis: Diaprax and the End of the Ages, explaining the dialectic process which is the foundation of and justification for Goals 2000, Outcome-Based Education, and School to Work.Courtesy of Arkansas Publik Skulz   WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR SCHOOLS, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR FAMILIES, OUR NATION?Date:   Saturday, June 21st, 2003 Time:   6 P.M. Place:St. Joseph’s HospitalMercy – McCall Room300 WernerHot Springs, ArkansasMapQuest Come discover the truth...

EDUCATION THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURYDate: Saturday, July 05 @ 20:59:29 Topic Letters to Editor EDUCATION THROUGH THE 20TH CENTURY Margaret Brogley - July 4, 2003 Today, we have gathered here to celebrate our nation's birthday and the freedoms given to us by our Founding Fathers. Are we keeping them? Let us see if we are, as I take you through the twentieth century of education reform in my own hometown of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Please note the dates and events I relate to you. They are all applicable, not only in Fort Smith but in Anytown, U.S.A. in varying...

Dumbing Down for Planned EconomyDate: Thursday, July 31 @ 20:48:22 Topic Stinks Experimentation on Minorities and Deliberate Dumbing Down for the Planned EconomyCharlotte T. Iserbyt July 29, 2003 Location of Some Important Entries Documenting the Deliberate Dumbing Down of America and especially the Use of Minorities to Restructure Education from Academics to Perfomance-Based Education...taken from "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America...A Chronological Paper Trail" - Charlotte Iserbyt The following information (partial list of entries taken from 700+ page book!) will help the reader locate those key entries which document the experimentation on minorities over the past century in order...

Arkansas State Board of Education Meeting 8-11-03Date: Thursday, August 28 @ 08:36:27 Topic Arkansas This is the actual presentation that Debbie & Iris gave to the Board today orally and handed to them in writing along with all three surveys and cover letters and summary of results of three surveys. Presentation by Debbie Pelley Arkansas State Board of Education Meeting August 11, 2003 Superintendent Survey Results My name is Debbie Pelley. I am a retired teacher. It is not easy to say the things I am going to say. It has disturbed my sleep a number of nights. I...

To Parents with Children in Public SchoolDate: Saturday, August 30 @ 07:12:31 Topic Letters to Editor "I will stand and fight until the end, because I owe it to my country." Dear Editor: This is for all the parents and their children who attend public school. I have gone to public school all my life, until last September when I began private school. The differences are incredible! I will attempt to inform your readers as to what children in the government’s schools are doing every day. Reading, writing, and arithmetic were the three basics every school used to go...

Robert Park, (Democrat, American Physical Society) uses the American Physical Society as his personal weekly whip against the present administration, against US security, and against science investigations of alternative energy. Nearly always there is a paucity of physics or science in the APS/Park political diatribes. In this week's American Physical Society rant, Robert Park again attacks America's future antimissile system, as he and the APS (American Physical Society) again ignores .... physics. The excerpt: Friday, July 18, 2003 NOTE: Nothing in this issue is based on British Intelligence. 1. MISSILE DEFENSE: APS BOOST-PHASE STUDY - IT’S ABOUT TIME. On Tuesday,...

APS (American Physical Society) attacks US Security Program (Whining alert)PRIVACY: POINDEXTER HEADS "TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS." The 1974 Privacy Act prohibits federal agencies from sharing personal information, but 9/11 may have changed all that. We are entered in a database every time we enter a federal building or use a credit card, and the government wants to integrate such databases to keep track of terrorists--or anyone else. But who has the experience to head such a program? Who but John Poindexter, the man who invented "sensitive but unclassified." A PhD physicist from Cal Tech, where he was a student of Mossbauer,...