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Just tuned into watch "Dinotopia" on ABC tv. Within the first half hour I learned that on the island of "Dinotopia" * No weapons are allowed -- "Rule 3" of the island is that no weapons are allowed for any purpose not even for self-defense. * Every person on Dinotopia is a vegetarian (this after one of the stranded kids asks to eat a steak, a burger or some chicken). Well, I saw enough. PC values and ideology promoted at every step of the way. At 9 I'll watch the X-Files instead.

Sewage Pump Named for Dave Barry GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - Shivering in subzero temperatures, columnist Dave Barry looked up at the newly christened Dave Barry Lift Station No. 16 and offered this advice: ``If anything ever goes wrong with this station, call the mayor.'' Grand Forks officials dedicated the sewage pump station Wednesday to Barry, who had poked fun at the city and its Minnesota neighbor, East Grand Forks, for referring to themselves as the ``Grand Cities.'' The column prompted a letter-writing campaign, capped by an offer from Grand Forks Mayor Mike Brown to name a lift station after ...

Just heard a caller on "The Kimmer" show on WGST say that AT&T in Atlanta made him -- the caller -- take down the American flag, because of concern that it might "offend" some people in this "culturally diverse" city!

State of Alabama Constitution Of Alabama 1901 Article I Declaration of Rights SECTION 26 Right to bear arms. That every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state. ---------- State of Alaska Alaska State Constitution Article I, Declaration of Rights SECTION 19. RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. A well- regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be denied or infringed by the State or a ...

The president of the National Education Association has made good on a promise to advance the interests of homosexuals through the nation's largest teacher's union. When the National Education Association (NEA) meets in its annual convention this summer, the group will consider a resolution that would enthusiastically promote homosexuality in classrooms across America. The proposed resolution sounds like something that would be published by a gay advocacy group. It suggests bringing gay themes into classroom materials, setting up gay employees as role models for the students, even bringing representatives of gay organizations into the schools. "What we're talking about is ...

Amazing New Technology Illuminates Secrets of Ancient Past LONDON (Reuters) - Secrets from ancient history, including money-back guarantees from a Sumerian slave trader 5,000 years ago, have been revealed using state-of-the-art imaging techniques, New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. Tom Malzbender of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories maps the texture of rough surfaces using digital photographs reproduced as computer graphics. He has recreated inscriptions on badly eroded Babylonian tablets to illuminate the past. His tool is a lightproof plastic dome with a digital camera mounted at the top and 50 computer-controlled flash bulbs arranged to light up the subject from a number of ...

Cross-party defector loses runoff for House Smyrna lawmaker left GOP to try to hold seat, but his term as a Democrat proves brief. Big money and the governor's clout couldn't save party-switching state Rep. Randy Sauder in his bid to return to the Legislature. Political rookie Ginger Collins stomped the Smyrna Republican-turned-Democrat in a runoff for state House District 29, outpolling the three-term lawmaker by nearly 3 to 1 --- 5,096 to 1,872. Sauder lost despite heavy spending by the state Democratic Party --- which badly wanted to win the suburban district --- and campaigning on his behalf by Gov. ...

Thursday November 9 2:46 PM ET Teen Wins Seat in Ohio Legislature MINSTER, Ohio (Reuters) - An 18-year-old recent high school graduate has been elected to the Ohio Legislature, one of the youngest candidates in the United States ever to win such a seat. Derrick Seaver, a Democrat, pulled off a major upset in the fight for an open seat in the Ohio House of Representatives from a heavily Republican district in Tuesday's election. Seaver defeated his 34-year-old Republican opponent, David Shiffer, by 235 votes out of more than 44,000 cast. Seaver, who graduated from high school in May, campaigned ...

Art Ditmar throws . . . Here's a swing and a high fly ball hit deep to left! This may do it! --- Radio broadcaster Chuck Thompson calling the final play of the 1960 World Series, Oct. 13, 1960. Dale Hains, a teacher in Wellington, Fla., is playing hooky today. He's going to a baseball game and he paid $160 in air fare to get there. No, Hains isn't in Seattle for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. He went home to Pittsburgh, for Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. "My wife thinks I'm crazy and my ...

Veterans gathered yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. While Royal Air Force stations across the country held commemorative services, Biggin Hill airfield in Kent was preparing to put vintage Spitfires and Hurricanes back into the sky. On Sunday, a fly-past at Biggin Hill will pay tribute to the air and ground crews. But some Britons, it seems, do not know what these men and women were fighting for just 60 years ago. A survey of 1,000 people for The Mirror newspaper showed that many Britons need a history lesson. Only half of those aged 18 ...

WGST's FM twin going from all talk to all music Miriam Longino - Staff Friday, September 8, 2000 This afternoon, Atlanta gets a new radio station --- and loses half of an old one. After seven years, news/talk station WGST/640 AM --- home of Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Tom Hughes and Kim Peterson --- will no longer be simulcast on 105.7 FM. Today, that signal will get new call letters and a new all-music format: WMXV, or Mix 105.7 FM. The sound will be a blend of classic hits from the '70s, '80s and '90s, from artists such as ...

Hogan sues WCW for defamation By Jim Dyer Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer The verbal bashing that Hulk Hogan received after winning the world championship title during this summer's "Bash at the Beach" match wasn't the typical in-the-camera, veins-bulging-from-the-neck diatribe his opponents usually spewed. It was personal, unscripted, and, according to Hogan, defamatory. The blond-locked behemoth, considered by many as the "Babe Ruth of professional wrestling," filed a lawsuit in Fulton Superior Court claiming that the words of Vince Russo, creative director of World Championship Wrestling Inc., in Smyrna, "placed [Hogan] in a false light" and damaged his character and image. ...

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Just turned on ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" The fellow sitting there in the hot seat had the following tough question. (He had already used his "50-50" to eliminate two choices.) Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution establishes which branch of government? 1. executive 3. legislative Now, get this. The fellow sat there for a long time, unable to answer the question! And he said that he had even gone to law school. And could not answer the above question! Remember, he had already used his "50-50" to eliminate two choices! And said that the "50-50" didn't help, ...

Tribe Demands Return of Meteorite By JOHN JURGENSEN The Associated Press NEW YORK (Feb. 18) - A group of American Indians says a 16-ton meteorite that will be the main attraction at the Museum of Natural History's new planetarium is a holy tribal object and should be returned to Oregon. The meteorite - about the size of a small car - will be displayed in the planetarium's main hall at Saturday's opening. The meteorite hit Earth more than 10,000 years ago and was moved by glacial ice to a hillside in West Linn, Ore. The Clackamas tribe adopted it as ...

Crime in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96: Press release U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M.EDT BJS SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1998 202/307-0784 NEW REPORT COMPARES CRIME RATES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH RATES IN ENGLAND AND WALES WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Robbery, assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft rates are lower in the United States than they are in England and Wales, national crime victim surveys conducted in these countries reveal. However, police statistics show murder and rape rates higher in the United States than in England and Wales, according to a new report ...

I watched the "Pregame" show on NBC. A few minutes ago they had Hannah Storm talking. In the background I could hear the start of a familiar refrain: "Oh Say Can You SEE!" The National Anthem had begun at Yankee Stadium. Storm kept talking over it, in order to cut away to a segment where the "Commissioner" of Major League Baseball Bud Selig announced some meaningless youth program.