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While scrambling around this morning trying to find info on the events in Richmond this morning, I was stopped in my tracks by this pop-up ad from X-10 Cameras...

Captions anyone... Yes, this was not from Saturday night, this was last night! (Tuesday)There is definitely a psychological disorder working here...

Be on the look out for the latest E-mail hoax, coming to a computer near you. I just received it a few minutes ago. I thought I would leave the authors email address attached for your enjoyment.-----Original Message----- From: sspence@odu.edu [mailto:sspence@odu.edu] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:37 PM To:... Subject: Need to stock up! Friends, colleagues and associates I don't know how much to put into this but I thought I'd pass it on and let you all be the judge. I hope it doesn't come to this but if so....stock up and....PEACE. I received this from a friend and ...

First, YES, I know this is a vanity post and my apologies to the vanity police.My son just approached me asking for 3 "PRO" arguments for having the Federal Government take over the logging industry. Smelling a rat, I donned my UNC Chapel Hill hat and tried to come up with three reasons. I told him I was at a loss. I couldn't think of any good reason. I can make some pretty good guesses as to what reasons the teacher might be looking for, but I explained to him how these "PRO" arguments automatically spawn "CON" arguments. He did ...

AUGUST 27, 02:23 EDT Missing Yale Student Returns to NY By FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of a Yale University student who was missing in Africa for more than three weeks celebrated her return to the United States, but criticized the State Department for not doing more to help. ``I felt that if I was white, they would have reached out more,'' Glory Smalls said at a Sunday news conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where her daughter Natasha had just arrived on a flight from Johannesburg, South Africa. The Smalls are black. ...

Mourner gets ticket from photo at red lightThe Associated Press GREENSBORO -- The picture came in the mail and clearly showed 72-year-old Joe Spence's silver Volvo station wagon running a red light. It was accompanied by a $50 ticket -- courtesy of SafeLight, which mails citations to red-light runners caught by intersection cameras. Spence admits he drove through the intersection under a red light -- under a police-escorted funeral procession. Spence, who appealed the $50 fine, is waiting to get his money back. City and SafeLight officials say he'll get the money back next week. Mike Cramer, who runs the ...

Crewman arrested after trawler drifts to shore OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) -- Police charged a crewman with assaulting an officer and walking on dunes after his trawler lost power and washed ashore in Brunswick County. The 33-foot Second Chance of Southport was heavily damaged when it washed ashore Wednesday night at Oak Island, the Coast Guard said. Crewman Darrell Brown and Capt. William Jones were taken to the local hospital complaining of backaches, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jake Carawan said. Police arrested the only other crewman, William Gore, 47, of Southport, said Oak Island police Chief Danny Laughren. He said ...

You have almost as good a chance of seeing an African-American in the cast of "Friends" as one wearing a head coach's headset on a football sideline.That's why Kellen Winslow isn't some meddling parent who places his own personal agenda over his son's wishes. He supports Kellen Jr.'s decision to choose the University of Miami and wishes the best for him there. But he's also sick and tired of seeing African-Americans bypassed again and again for coaching jobs. And that's why he says players, his son included, need to consider the racial makeup of the coaching staff and athletics ...

Wednesday March 7 7:13 PM ET "Over the Rainbow" tops song-of-the-century list By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ballots are in, and the top song of the 20th century is ... ``Over the Rainbow,'' according to a poll released Wednesday by a music-industry trade group. The 1939 ballad, first sung by Judy Garland in the movie ''The Wizard of Oz,'' topped a list of 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. It was written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. Rounding out the top five: ``White ...

Sitting down last night on my porcelain library chair, I opened my Life Section of the USA Today. Knowing I would be a while, I grabbed a pen from the medicine chest and started in on the crossword puzzle. As I scanned the clues, the name "Lewinsky" caught my attention so I zeroed in. 54 Down, 5 letters, the clue was: He made Lewinsky famous.Hmm?, 5 letters?, I checked the puzzle, I already had the first letter, an "S". I re-checked the clues, are they looking for a nickname or alias? "S-L-I-C-K" maybe? No. I was dumb-founded. Only our President ...

Political Opinions Sway Right in NASCAR By Skip Wood, USA TODAY When Sen. Bob Dole was the Republican nominee for president in 1996, his campaign stops included Darlington, S.C., for a NASCAR race. The choir was attentive. At the prerace drivers' meeting, Dole's visit was acknowledged by three-time Winston Cup champion Darrell Waltrip. "Senator Dole," Waltrip said, "I just want you to know that every person in this room is behind you and behind what you stand for." Wild applause. Dole, of course, didn't win. "But I'll tell you what," Waltrip says, "if he had run off the votes he ...

1. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Commodity Trading Secrets, 2. How to Launder Money in the Futures Market Internet Web Pages n/a 1. Roger Morris, 2. J. Orlin Grabbe Hillary Rodham Clinton's Commodity Trading Secrets The following was snagged off a posting to misc.invest.futures, and was labeled as being from "Partners in Power" by Roger Morris. I made some minor edits and a few spelling corrections: October 11, 1978, Hillary Rodham Clinton's first transaction netted within days a $5,300 gain on a $1,000 investment - a return many later thought "mathematically impossible if exchange rules were followed". More amazing is the fact ...

Okay Phantom Lord and other FREEPERS in the Raleigh area. Rush just announced he will be in Raleigh (Cary actually) for the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Tournament at Prestonwood this Sunday, the 27th.