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Pretend you're talking with an air-headed blonde, trying to explain what this government is trying to do, to take away your freedoms. How would you explain to him, that if the Constitution is stripped of the freedoms/rights it guarantees us, life as he knew it, would never include the following....

Panel keeps farmland in plan House lawmakers reject attempt to alter green-space initiative Wednesday, March 29, 2000 BY Paul Souhrada Dispatch Business Reporter Farmland will remain part of a Taft administration proposal to save open space. State lawmakers yesterday rejected an attempt to remove farmland preservation from the list of possible uses for Gov. Bob Taft's proposed $400 million green-space and urban redevelopment initiative. The House Finance and Appropriations Committee voted 22-8 yesterday against the proposal to strip the words "farmland and other lands devoted to agriculture'' from legislation putting the plan on the Nov. 7 ballot. Rep. David Goodman ...

4 charges filed against student in gun incident Police say the youth stood up in his classroom and pulled a loaded handgun from his clothes. Saturday, March 25, 2000 Associated Press LISBON, Ohio (AP) -- A boy who pulled a gun in class, telling teachers he wanted to be with his imprisoned mother, will be held in juvenile custody at least through the weekend. The sixth-grader was charged yesterday in Columbiana County Juvenile Court with inducing panic, aggravated menacing, carrying a concealed weapon and illegally carrying a firearm in a school zone. The youth, who just turned 13 and whose ...

I am taking this 'desparate' approach, in asking for help. I have a severe problem getting all the replies to long threads to show up. Since this has been going on for almost 4 weeks, I'm at my wit's end.Add to the fact, that I'm not very 'puter literate. When I try to load a long thread, I will get part of the replies. I downloaded netscape, thinking it was IE 5.0 having problems. It has helped some. BUT, I have to hit reload, a gazillion times trying to get the whole thread......I've done the empty the cache thingy, didn't ...

Six lawmakers want state to close unlicensed abortion clinics Thursday, February 17, 2000 BY James Bradshaw Dispatch Statehouse Reporter Six state legislators, spurred by the Cleveland Right to Life organization, asked Ohio Health Director J. Nick Baird yesterday to go to court to close 18 abortion centers, including four in Columbus. The department has been reviewing license applications and holding hearings since inspecting the centers last fall. The Cleveland organization precipitated the inspections with complaints that many of the clinics are not complying with a 1997 law that requires all outpatient surgery facilities to be licensed. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-West ...

After much searching on the 'net, I decided the most logical thing to do is to turn to our Freepers. I've found MANY people who've said that they always vote Democrat,because it's what their family has always done. And their logic, is that 'Democrats are for the poor folks' and 'Republicans are for the rich.' I have heard this a lot throught the years. If it's not cause for a flame war, I'd like to get background info on each party and their EARLY beginnings. What each party originally stood for. And how through the years they've twisted into what ...

Man had no right to take flag, city attorney argues Friday, February 11, 2000 BY Kevin Mayhood Dispatch Staff Reporter Charles Spingola Evangelist preacher Charles Spingola yelled it was his Capitol building and his right in June when he pulled a gay-pride flag off a pole on the Statehouse grounds, witnesses said. "The evidence will show that he had no right,'' Laura Baker, an assistant city attorney, said yesterday in her opening argument in Spingola's trial in Franklin County Municipal Court. The judge is expected to decide today whether Gov. Bob Taft must testify in the trial. Spingola, 44, of ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The first eyewitness to take the stand in the Amadou Diallo murder case backfired on the defense Wednesday when she testified that police officers continued to shoot the unarmed black man after he had fallen to the ground. Defense attorneys had called Schrrie Elliott to the stand, hoping her testimony would support the officers' contention they believed Diallo had pulled a gun. But on cross-examination, Elliott said that she watched from across the street as four plainclothes New York City police officers cornered Diallo and opened fire. "They continued shooting while (Diallo) was down?" asked ...

Flag trial begins today Charles Spingola is charged with ethnic intimidation for tearing down a gay-pride symbol. Monday, February 7, 2000 BY Kevin Mayhood Dispatch Staff Reporter File photo The rainbow flag was flown at the Ohio Statehouse for the first time on June 27, 1999, during Columbus' annual gay-pride march. Charles Spingola and his supporters say the fact that he faces trial for ripping down a gay- pride flag shows how far man's laws have moved away from God's word. But for gay-rights advocates, the trial in Franklin County Municipal Court shows just how far the law has come ...

Here's a couple of articles to irritate and amuse, this fine Sunday morn. Seems like this is the way to push your views...having an article on a topic and then turning right around and having an 'expert' in the NEXT article.(Teens Facing Felonies Under New Ohio Law) Here's the 2nd...(Doctor Documents Dangers of Guns)

Here's a link to The Columbine Redemption web site. (web site) An interesting site I discovered tonight, after a Christian program had a talk given by Rachel Scott's Dad.

Here's the link for this article. It sounds rather promising for Ohioans. (The Article)

Well folks, here's a new thread for this. I doubt if I did this 'second thread' thing the right way...but I tried my best. Following are some e-mail addresses for anyone interested in writing to our illustrious Navy Dept. on behalf of vmatt.

Since we can't access the moldy-oldy archives, I'm asking for help from our family. Would some of you kind folks please post ideas and suggestions on how to start a FR chapter in my area? Although this will be mainly an adult thing, I'd like to somehow get the kids involved also. Thanks so very much!!!

You might be addicted to the internet if... 1. Your bookmark takes 15 minutes, to scroll top to bottom. 2. Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them. 3. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search. 4. You spend half of a plane trip with your laptop on your lap....and your child in the overhead compartment. 5. You find yourself typing 'com' after every period when using a word processor.com 6. When you turn off your modem, you get this awful empty feeling, like you've just pulled the plug on a loved one. 7. You refer ...