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This is "Crosstalk Hotline". Listed below is information regarding issues that are important to you, our listeners, families, churches, and members of the community at large. ------------------------------ A presidential initiative, the "New Freedom Commission on Mental Health" has recommended forced mental health screening for every child in America, including pre-schoolers, and ultimately all adults. Such screening would be done by regular doctors when people visit their offices for other medical reasons. A bill mandating this has already passed the House and is being considered in the Senate, for a possible vote as early as next week. The program is patterned...

What you say to your children can break the law, as a DeKalb County woman learned when her tirade against her granddaughter was picked up on a tape-recorded phone call to a radio station. Venus Taylor, 55, pleaded guilty Monday to child cruelty, even though investigators found no evidence that she had physically abused her three grandchildren. DeKalb Assistant District Attorney Rachelle Carnesale, who has specialized in child abuse cases for nine years, said Taylor was the first defendant she had prosecuted only for verbal abuse. Taylor, who spent 19 days in jail after her arrest in November 2002, was...

The American Movie Classic Channel is airing a show called Gay Hollywood. I would like to see Freepers give AMC a piece of their minds for showing this garbage. So many people were posting comments on the messge board devoted to discussing the show that messages could not get through. Make your voice heard. www.amctv.com

A LESSON TO MY SON by A PROUD AMERICAN Irma S. Chambers > The other day, my nine year old son wanted to know why we were at war. My husband looked at our son and then looked at me. My husband and I were in the Army during the Gulf War and we would be honored to serve and defend our country again today. I knew that my husband would give him a good explanation. My husband thought for a few minutes and then told my son to go stand in our front living room window. He told him:...

Did anyone see Star Search tonight? Arsenio said, "We used to have a fifth judge who was French but we had to let them go. And they can take their damn statue with them!" Also Ben Stein told a contestant "That is the best thing I have seen on TV since Bush's election". Just wondering if anyone else saw it.

39 year old headed for New York. Asian sounding name. No more at this time.

In response to emails about an article he wrote bashing Bush, Wilson writes: They ran on two levels: "Come to Texas . . . and we'll show ya." And, "We saved your asses and if you keep this stuff up we won't do it again." Some were so offensive I replied in kind. Some I tried to tell that the US came very late into World War II and Britain already had fought its two major battles without them.

Atlanta Channel 2 reports that "explosives" are missing. Anchor says they are the same as those used in OKC bombing. 240lbs of Ammonium Nitrate. FBI is investigating. Stolen from Robinson Paving Co. in Columbus GA.

Man Held in Bomb Scare at Chattanooga Air Show CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - (Reuters) - A man who left two suspicious packages at the Chattanooga airport was taken into custody by police on Saturday, delaying the start of an air show, but a bomb squad determined the packages contained no explosives. The man, identified as May Willy Sommer, 62, was spotted by airport security guards placing a "briefcase-type package" under a table near two U.S. Air Force Thunderbird jets, said Ed Buice, a spokesman for the Chattanooga Police Department. A second package was left in a nearby parking lot. "He was...

Monica Kaufmann just reported that 6 people are on life support in Yonkers. It is being reported as a possible cyanide poisoning.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who climbed 150 feet up a tree to protest a timber sale fell and died from her injures before rescuers could reach the remote site in the Mount Hood National Forest. The timber sale she was protesting had been canceled three days before her death Friday, and the protesters expected to leave the area within a week. It took rescue crews over two hours struggling up snow-clogged dirt roads to reach the tree-sitters' camp after fellow activists called rescuers, Clackamas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said. The caller said the woman, identified as Beth...

Did Rep. Cynthia McKinney go too far in her radio interview? Yes. Like Sen. Miller said, her remarks are "dangerous." 87% 2570 No. This is a free country. She has a right to give her opinion. 13% 382 Total Votes 2952

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse By Khaled Al-Maeena, Editor in Chief Just a few years ago, I read something very interesting in an American publication. According to the article, the CIA has a profile on every world leader. I have no doubt that this is so since after all, that is why the American taxpayers fund the agency and what its function is. What was particularly interesting to me were the profiles of various Arab leaders. The article pointed out that complete files existed for virtually all Arab leaders. Even more surprising was the source of the files: they had...

Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. -- Utah Jazz guard DeShawn Stevenson was sentenced to two years of probation Monday for having sex with a minor. Stevenson was not present for the hearing but his lawyer, Roger Litman, pleaded no contest on his behalf to charges that Stevenson, 20, had sex with a 14-year-old girl. Litman pleaded guilty on his client's behalf to another charge of disturbing the peace for a fight that broke out at a basketball game the night he was drafted in the first round out of high school by the Jazz in 2000. He was the 23rd pick ...

I was completely shocked at about 7:15 this afternoon, a commerical came on sponsored by "Americans for choice". It went on and on about the importance of choice and said that "the most important right is the right to choose". It was complete propaganda. I called WGCL and left a message saying I would never watch their station again. Please call and email and let them know we will not let our families be subjected to this abortion propaganda! comments@wgcltv.com 404-327-3144

Wednesday's attendance falls below average -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press The Atlanta Braves received hundreds of complaints for selling a block of tickets to a group leading Atlanta's bid for the 2006 Gay Games. There were no protests at the game Wednesday night ainst Houston, however, and the team stood by its decision to consider holding the closing ceremonies at Turner Field if Atlanta is picked for the Gay Games. "We think it's the right thing to do and a smart business decision," Braves spokesman Jim Schultz said. Atlanta Games Inc. purchased a block of more than 1,700 tickets for Wednesday's game, ...

Three teenagers who said they were inspired by an MTV show admitted Tuesday they paraded a mangled dead cat around a Cobb County pet store. But the teens, who videotaped their bizarre prank, denied they had tortured the cat or mutilated its body. They insisted the animal was dead when they found it Friday by a roadside in south Cherokee County. The mother of one teen told police they had been inspired by an MTV show that features unusual home videos and had been filming scenes all week. "This was the capper," said Cobb County police spokesman Dana Pierce. Police ...

TAVARES -- An inspection of more than 6,000 discarded presidential ballots in Lake County on Monday revealed that Vice President Al Gore lost a net 130 votes that were clearly his even in a conservative, GOP bastion that president-elect George W. Bush dominated as a whole. The tally of uncounted ballots by the Orlando Sentinel was the first outside review to be completed in any Florida county since the U.S. Supreme Court halted a statewide recount on Dec. 9. At that point Bush's ever-fluctuating lead over Gore was just 154 votes -- and the margin might have been shaved to ...

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