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Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 Former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, whose virulent ant-Americanism even Ted Turner's network could no longer stomach, wants to go back to Iraq before war sets in there, according to PR Watch. Now freelancing for Camera Planet, Arnett covered the Gulf War from Saddam Hussein's bosom, using every opportunity to spout Iraqi propaganda while slandering U.S. forces. In one infamous incident, Arnett told CNN viewers that a building housing Iraqi secret police and a chemical warfare facility that had been bombed was really a baby milk factory. As proof he held up a sign in English that...

Friday, March 28, 2003Media Ignore Rep. Rangel's Slurs on U.S. MilitaryThe mainstream media have ignored Rep. Charlie Rangel's near-treasonous attack on the U.S. military, in which he falsely charged that our armed forces are bombing innocent Iraqi women and children: Rangel Slams U.S. Troops as Child Killers. A midday search of LexisNexis and Google News and the Web sites of the networks reveals no mention of Rangel's outrageous remarks on last night's "Hannity & Colmes" broadcast on Fox News Channel. These same media giants raged for weeks about GOP Sen. Trent Lott's remarks about Strom Thurmond but have overlooked or...

Protesters, yes, but peace is not the proper word When Stan Stafford woke up yesterday and opened the door of his North Park home, it looked as if the war in Iraq had been fought on his lawn. Oil and red paint resembling blood were splashed across his newly planted grass, his rose bushes and on the sides of his house. Empty Texaco oil containers were scattered about. Scribbled messages had been left – even taped to his door – reading: "Blood money" and "No blood for oil." A large Bush/Cheney election poster that Stafford had posted in his yard...

Since I downloaded IE 6.0, I have been getting annoying IE Script Error windows. Tonight's window got on my last nerve. Please, will some of you technically minded FReepers help me?!! I'm about this close —>||<— to shooting my computer. Arrrrrggggggghhh...........

On my old computer, I got on a spam list that was just torturous. Now that I'm on my new computer, I want to avoid that happening again. What are the ways spammers get our addresses? How have you successfully avoided getting on spam lists? Any suggestions are welcome.

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<p>Employers increasingly are offering health insurance for Fido and Fluffy to help workers cover the rising cost of pet care.</p> <p>"Many employees here view their pets like their children," said Agnus Stevens, spokeswoman for Amerix Corp., a nonprofit credit counseling agency in Columbia, Md. that began offering insurance for workers' pets in January. "They want a way to safeguard their pets against accidents or illnesses."</p>

<p>Those were some of the kinder things said of the president. Not "this" president. I'm talking president Ronald Reagan.</p> <p>He was also dismissed as an intellectual lightweight.</p> <p>He was also lampooned as a puffed up idiot.</p> <p>He was also crazy like a fox.</p>

From a 1999 email... At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry to the car industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics: 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road,...

This pesky problem freezes my screen and can sure take the joy out of FReepin'. Can anyone help?

Washington -- Sen.John Edwards is holding up President Bush's nomination of a Raleigh lawyer to a federal judgeship while lawyers who practice before the court -- and one of its sitting judges -- say it is becoming overwhelmed with a rising caseload. Bush nominated James C. Dever in late May to one of four seats on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The court, which hears federal cases from 44 eastern counties, has been operating with only two full-time judges since January 2001, a situation that Judge Malcolm J. Howard described as "almost insurmountable" in...

Look for war debate's hidden agendasBy JIM HOAGLAND Hidden agendas are to Washington what cars are to Detroit or skyscrapers to Manhattan: They come in all shapes and sizes. Silent motives color the flawed "debate" over Iraq rattling through the capital. Critics have developed the Saddam Hussein two-step to glide over underlying concerns: YES, they dutifully say, the Iraqi dictator is a thug who has done terrible things (pause) BUT the time is not right, the administration has not made its case, the allies are not with us, we can still contain and deter the beast of Baghdad. Why this...

On strike: Item halting baseball coverageBy Tom Waddill/Sports EditorItem readers have spoken. Asked to strike or not to strike, 82 percent of you said, "Let's strike."So, The Huntsville Item is going on a pro baseball strike.For the next week, there will be no pro baseball coverage in the Item. There will be no stories about the Astros or Rangers, no game reports, no boxscores and no Major League Baseball standings.If a settlement is reached, the Item will start providing coverage again. Last week, Item editors asked residents how they felt about the looming baseball strike, which could start Friday if...

<p>The Supreme Court struck down a law banning virtual child pornography Tuesday, ruling that the First Amendment protects pornography or other images that only appear to depict real children engaged in sex.</p> <p>The 6-3 ruling is a victory for both pornographers and artists such as moviemakers, who argued that a broad ban on simulated child sex could make it a crime to depict a sex scene like those in the recent movies "Traffic" or "Lolita."</p>

Inspired by Bush's reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, Smokey Wilson wrote the country song "Cowboy in the White House." Song pictures president as country's heroic cowboy By Andrea Ball American-Statesman Staff Wednesday, January 2, 2002 The events of Sept. 11, and President Bush's response, inspired Cuero songwriter Smokey Wilson to write 'Cowboy in the White House.' Want to hear the complete song? Click below. --> Listen to the song: mp3 | QuickTime Think George W. Bush. Famous smirk. Folksy style. Former governor. Tough cowboy. Tough cowboy? Absolutely, says Cuero songwriter Smokey Wilson. And the events of Sept. 11 ...

I have a friend in California who needs a faster/more reliable connection. Cable isn't available where she is. She was prepared to sign up with PacBell DSL until she learned that there could be a problem using AOL IM because PacBell DSL uses Prodigy network. She talked to the folks at PacBell, but they couldn't give her a definitive answer. Is there anyone out there who is on PacBell DSL who uses AOL IM? Can anyone suggest any alternatives?

...I know personal retirement accounts can work. Because I have one. I know a commission can design a better system. Because I was part of one. I know it’s possible to build public support for bold reform. Because I did it. I know it’s possible to change the heart of a skeptic. Because I was one. Twenty-one years ago, three Texas counties - Galveston, Brazoria and Matagorda, plus two cities and an appraisal district - developed an alternative to Social Security. Despite initial fear and anxiety, the details were explained and debated and workers approved the plan by a 3 ...

I stumbled upon this wonderful profile on the Texas FReepers page. I hope everyone enjoys it as I did. I'm a hispanic woman whose activism and views are a tribute to my Republican parents, who were conservative before it was cool for Texans OR hispanics. (Nixon and pre-Nixon). I am wealthy; one of "those" members of the GOP with a VERY rich INHERITANCE. But, HA HA, the democrats can't put estate taxes on this one. Let me tell you about it. I grew up in a poverty-level household, but never knew it until I was grown. My parents were migrant ...

Feds' use of computer surveillance at issue in mob case WASHINGTON (July 28, 2001 5:54 p.m. EDT) - By bugging a keyboard or installing special software, FBI agents can remotely capture a computer user's every keystroke. They have the ability to intercept e-mail from miles away. They can recreate the pictures on a computer screen by monitoring its electromagnetic emissions. The legal limits for these new investigative tools will get a test Monday when a federal court in New Jersey examines a mob case in which agents, without a wiretap order, recorded a suspect's computer keystrokes. Privacy experts are watching ...

Blue fights off gator to save his fallen owner FORT MYERS -- Bitten numerous times, a scrappy 35-pound cattle dog repeatedly fended off an alligator after his 85-year-old owner fell outside her home and lay immobilized with broken bones until her family returned. "Blue scared the gator off and kept it away from my mother-in-law. The dog got chewed up pretty bad," Albert Gibson said Thursday. Ruth Gay was in fair condition at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers on Thursday after surgery on one shoulder and manipulation of the other to reset a dislocation. Two-year-old Blue, an Australian blue ...