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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEet5pip1X8 tearjerker, gotta watch - 2.21 minutes

Please post any info from Alaska you may have.

I have 2 great tix for the performance right now - you would have to pick them up in west Alexandria, VA, off 395 and Seminary. Show should go on til 10:30. My boss gave them to me, but I have to get up at 5:45 a.m. Please respond if you want them. Section F, orchestra, row L, seats 23 and 24

WASHINGTON –– More than a half-dozen pipe bombs were placed in rural mailboxes in Illinois and Iowa on Friday, and at least two people were injured in explosions, the post office said. None of the injuries was life threatening, postal vice president Azeezaly Jaffer said. The pipe bombs were attached to batteries, he said, and he urged people in the area to call authorities if they find a pipe and battery inside their mailboxes. Jaffer said the bombs were accompanied by a note threatening the government. The first incident occurred about 11 a.m. when a rural letter carrier delivering mail...

You really should be sitting down when you read this one. Gold Star Mothers is an organization made up of women whose sons were killed in military combat during service in the United States armed forces. Recently a delegation of New York State Gold Star Mothers made a trip to Washington, DC to discuss various concerns with their elected representatives. According to published reports, there was only one politician who refused to meet with these ladies. Can you guess which politician that might be? Was it New York Senator Charles Schumer? Nope, he met with them. Try again. Do you...

fyi ACT PLEASE AND PASS ON - 2 MINUTE ACTION ALERT - ACT NOW We are receiving word from friends in Washington DC. that Muslims and their Jihad sympathizers are bombarding the White House with phone calls, faxes, and emails protesting President Bush's strong stand against Muslim Terror directed towards Israel and her civilians. We must all get on the phone today, tomorrow, and the remainder of this week and keep calling the White House everyday to thank President Bush and encourage him to stand strong with America's ONLY ally in the Mid East, Israel and her right to use...

<p>BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan -- The late-model sport utility truck raced along the dirt road, trailing plumes of dust as it wound through desert hill-and-gully badlands in southeastern Afghanistan. Inside, 12 men. One wearing a white robe and turban.</p> <p>The hunt for Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, the Sept. 11 masterminds whose whereabouts and even existence have been a mystery since late last fall, is centered inside a secret command post bustling with staff officers and crammed with digital terrain maps, radio links to secret observation posts and orbiting strike fighters, bombers and robot spy planes, and enough energy and adrenalin to power a small city.</p>

If someone knows that a triggering event has just happened that is to signal a major economic event, to whom should that person send such information? Neither the triggering event nor the major economic event is against the law. If the SEC knows about this beforehand, they could prevent a disaster. Got any suggestions?

NEW YORK (June 22) - The White House and Vice President Dick Cheney are hosting a Muslim organization whose leaders have voiced support for Hamas and Hizbullah, as well as calling for "death to the Jews." Representatives from the American Muslim Council (AMC), which has also outraged anti-slavery activists by calling slavery in the Sudan a "sham," are meeting with Cheney this morning at the White House for a briefing on the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies of interest to the American Muslim community, according to an AMC release. "It will be the first time in the history ...

JEDDAH, 16 January — The stage is set for the 2002 Jeddah Economic Forum that will open at the Hilton Hotel here on Saturday. Former US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the three-day forum, which will examine many of the issues raised for global businesses and their employees following the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, according to an announcement at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday. "Managing in a complex global environment" is the theme of the forum that is now recognized as the premier event in the Middle East business calendar. Organized by the ...

JEDDAH, 16 January — The stage is set for the 2002 Jeddah Economic Forum that will open at the Hilton Hotel here on Saturday. Former US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to address the three-day forum, which will examine many of the issues raised for global businesses and their employees following the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, according to an announcement at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday. "Managing in a complex global environment" is the theme of the forum that is now recognized as the premier event in the Middle East business calendar. Organized by the ...

What if the former Soviet Union had attacked the United States, and killed over 5,000 Americans and spread deadly anthrax throughout our nation? Would we have responded in a measured fashion, such as is now occurring in Afghanistan. Obviously not! As a child of 11 during the Cuban missile crisis, and having lived through the cold war and Vietnam eras, I had always thought – and indeed the country was led to believe – that if our shores were ever assaulted from overseas, the foreigners responsible for this would pay at least a hundred fold. Indeed, it was the lack ...

Cipro takers at American Media are developing toxic shock syndrome. Go to Lucianne.com for a few details. People in convulsions. Pretty nasty.

Federal Smallpox Plan Ready WASHINGTON- A single case of smallpox would trigger a federal emergency plan to vaccinate people close to the victim while detectives retraced the patient's every step over the previous three weeks. Despite the likely panic, however, the government would not resort to citywide mass vaccinations unless absolutely necessary. The plan, obtained by The Associated Press, is a long-awaited set of step-by-step instructions for state health workers who would have to battle the highly contagious disease if bioterrorists ever unleashed smallpox. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is putting final touches on the plan, work that ...

Our beloved Dubbya visited the FBI HQ today. He left about 35 minutes ago. I wanted to post this earlier, but I saw the "Loose lips sink ships." But the media is out there, so it will be on the news tonight.BTW, AG Ashcroft is still in the FBI HQ building. Camera guy said he goes over there alot. I don't think Reno ever went across the street to the FBI.

TO ANYONE READING THIS WHO IS/WAS IN CIA DIRECTORATE OF OPERATIONS:I have my CIA resume prep guide. I am planning on mailing my resume very soon. Please tell me what "magic words" the ops people and their computer scanners are looking for. Please also tell me what words I must not use. Must I be politically correct, or can I give them my racial background?You can freepmail me if you want to. THANKS! and Eagles UP!

Are there any military recruiters on FR? Particularly Marine Corps and Army? Are you willing to put down peoples' ages by 10 years? This is a different world than 30 years ago. We work out. We are in much better physical shape than our parents were.I think if someone is willing to die for their country, it shouldn't matter how old they are, whether they are male, female. WE NEED TO KNOW what SKILLS military recruiters are looking for. I do remember that in the Marine Corps, if you lied on your paperwork and you got through basic, they couldn't ...

PRESS CONFERENCE STEWARDESS ANNE MARIE SMITH FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN GARY CONDIT SMITH REPRESENTED BY JUDICIAL WATCH AND ATTORNEY JAMES ROBINSON (Modesto, California) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption and Attorney James Robinson, will file a criminal complaint on behalf of Anne Marie Smith against Congressman Gary Condit (D-CA) in Modesto court today. The basis for the complaint is Mr. Condit’s obstruction of justice in the investigation into the disappearance of Washington intern Chandra Levy. In addition to Congressman Condit repeatedly lying to investigators regarding his relationship with Ms. ...

A Linda Tripp Book? Will Linda Tripp, who is reportedly now penniless and begging for a job with the Bush White House, finally pen her own tell-all about what she saw inside the Clinton White House? "If she wrote a book, I know I would buy it," Clinton impeachment player, attorney Ann Coulter told WABC radio's Sean Hannity Wednesday. So would millions of others, no doubt -- despite the media's resentment of Tripp's decision to blow the lid off Bill Clinton's White House affair with Monica Lewinsky. The press didn't much care for Gary Aldrich either. But the former FBI ...

LEELEE unregistered posted 08-22-2001 12:07 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fox News Channel just anounced AF GEN Meyer (sp?) has been nominated as new JCS.