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obviously you need to read better press if you are not aware that americans and local civilians are dying every day in iraq and afghanistan. do i need to remind you that it was supposed to be all over by now? that none of this is a surprise? where are the wmd? what about making the world safer for democracy and eliminating terrosism? when are the troops coming back? how much is this going to cost?

if you want to rewrite history successfully and appropriate yourself the 60's you'll have to do better than that. right now you sound exactly like your great grand parents did when confronted with the youth movement.

spill it. smearing is visionary too?

so you had to post it twice, as if it was some juicy material. your having to pick on some dude (who actually had the gumption to get off the couch and be honest) as if it was some profound observation about folks against the war is ridiculous and says reams about the lack of reasons you have to support this adminstration.

oh no, now you resort to smearing your opponent. how original. is it visionary too?

you sure seem desperate, which stands to reason considering the news.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/10/28/abstinence/index.html "Take Advocates for Youth, a national nonprofit organization that provides teens with accurate and informative sex education. In 18 years as a federal grantee, it has never been subjected to a government financial audit. That is, until it was suddenly hit with three in less than a year (one by the Centers for Disease Control back in October 2002, a second by the General Accounting Office in early 2003, and the third just two months ago, by a different arm of the CDC). The organization is crying conspiracy -- saying that it's being unfairly targeted because of its negative views toward the administration's abstinence-only education policies -- and the claims appear to be more than just paranoia. " [...] "The CDC has conducted three reviews in the past 10 months of San Francisco's STOP AIDS program in an effort to make sure that none of its federal grant dollars have gone toward funding workshops that may promote sexual activity. And the New York-based Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) has been audited twice this year (its first audits ever, despite a decade of receiving federal grants), evidently because it created No New Money for Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs, a Web site designed to educate the public about the possible dangers of abstinence-only education and to call for grassroots campaigns against the continued funding of these programs." [...] "In Louisiana, a number of sex-education programs funded by Gov. Mike Foster's Program on Abstinence were found guilty in a federal court of openly violating the constitutional tenet of separation of church and state. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the governor's program after discovering numerous violations, including the use of grant money to teach abstinence through scripture, to perform skits with Christ as a character, to purchase Bibles, and to fund prayer vigils at abortion clinics. Though those Louisiana nonprofits are now required to turn in regular reports to the governor about their activities, none, to date, have been put before an HHS audit." [...] "There are three streams of revenue from which the federal government has chosen to award grant money to abstinence-only education programs: the Adolescent Family Life Act, started by President Reagan in 1981; the Welfare Reform Act of 1996; and the newly developed Special Programs of Regional and National Significance, which puts federal money directly into the hands of community-based organizations. All of these initiatives share a strictly delineated eight-point definition of "abstinence-only" that any program must meet to receive funding. Basically, this amounts to teens being taught that the only way to avoid pregnancy or STDs is to abstain from any and all sexual activity until marriage. For a program to comply with the eight-point definition, it must teach students that "a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of sexual activity." Teachers in these programs are not allowed to endorse the use of condoms or other forms of contraception. However, they are apparently allowed to use instructional texts containing lines such as, "Is it fair to make a baby die because of a bad decision his or her parents made?" [...] "The abstinence-only drive was labeled a priority for HHS almost immediately after George W. Bush stepped into office. Starting in 2002, Congress has granted more than $100 million each year to organizations that sponsor abstinence-only programs; the average spending on these programs during the Clinton administration was about $60 million a year. Currently the only avenue through which organizations supporting comprehensive sex education can acquire federal grants is the Department of Adolescent Sexual Health, a division of the CDC that offers money strictly for HIV/AIDS prevention and gives out approximately $10 million a year divided among more than 40 organizations." [...]

Too many Democrats are shrill, hopeless, undersexed squares bwahahaha, i hope the repubs say so to their constituency and we'll see how far it takes them.

pretty soon they'll tell us that groping women without their consent was what the 60's were about

hell no. you are abusive enough without power.

is that why the groper had to appear as a dem to win?

just imagine spray without a mod willing to clamp down on the abusers. chilling.

come on erik, we need a strong personality to moderate spray. you'd be perfect.

wow! how visionary! one would think the ostrogoths did not know the concept. and please, can you leave me out of it?

i certainly fail to see what erik has done wrong. his being a mod should not prevent him from expressing his opinions. these attacks on him seem like a bunch of sour grapes from the usual circles for having been banned or moderated when they stepped over the line. personally, i'll be sorry to see erik resign but i can understand why he would.

i love loving arms (litterally both meanings ) i love following the first pitch so that i can stem the chimney way out close to the edge. i love the traverse toward and the moves past the bolt on the second pitch (out there, athletic and technical). and the 3rd pitch is simply the best: steep, airy face climbing, great view of the upper north sky. possibly the overall best 5.9 face pitch in the state.

http://www.iht.com/articles/115242.html Copyright © 2002 The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com Russia needs the Kyoto treaty Alexey Kokorin and Peter Rutland IHT Tuesday, October 28, 2003 Global warming TOKYO For the 1997 Kyoto treaty on global warming to come into effect, Russia's participation is crucial. So opponents of the Kyoto accord are jubilant over Russia's unexpected reluctance to ratify the treaty. Their rejoicing is premature, however. It is still probable that Moscow will eventually join the treaty. But in the meantime the fate of this key agreement is hostage to the vagaries of Russian politics. [...] http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1066649789506_131/?hub=TopStories Putin will ratify Kyoto Protocol, says Chretien Canadian Press BANGKOK — After weeks of hinting that his country might not agree to the terms of the Kyoto accord, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Jean Chretien in a one-on-one meeting Monday that he does plan to ratify the global treaty for climate change. [...] what matters are qualified opinions not that of oil industry stooges. putin's hesitation is due to economics not climate warming science.

conspiracies as artwork The Sinister Beauty of Global Conspiracies By ELEANOR HEARTNEY Published: October 26, 2003 Conspiracy theories are a grand old American tradition — the mother of them all being the speculation surrounding President John F. Kennedy's assassination. In the entertainment field, paranoia sells — from the novels of Tom Clancy to the "X-Files" to an endless series of Hollywood blockbusters. After pornography, among the most visited sites on the Internet are those devoted to conspiracies. But what if it's all true? The conspiracy industry, with its mostly unproved if not unprovable charges of vast webs of shadowy operatives, secret political alliances and illicit money channels, has been given a boost by recent events. The Sept. 11 attacks provided a glimpse into a world of loosely bound international terrorist cells while inspiring a host of wild charges about the secret involvement of the United States and other governments. The Enron scandal uncovered a network of off-the-books partnerships, and, more recently, the director Michael Moore announced that his next documentary, "Fahrenheit 911," would delve into connections between the Bush and bin Laden families. Mark Lombardi would not have been surprised, as can be seen in "Global Networks," an exhibition of his delicate filigree drawings that map his version of the flow of global capital. The show opens on Saturday at the Drawing Center in SoHo and remains on view through Dec. 17. In these works, solid and broken lines, circles and squiggles enmesh the names of organizations and individuals in webs of often surprising interconnections. One drawing charts the workings of the Vatican Bank, in the process linking its directors to the Mafia and the illegal transport of firearms. [...] registration necessary for the rest of the article and one pic of a piece of artwork but it is free

sounds awful but someone has to do it! what's the purpose of the study?

drugs can mess you up (esp. stomach) and are often quite expensive (esp. if easier on stomach) and they often don't work.

all that was said plus deep tissue massage (across the fiber). i have found the following sequence works well for me: massage, stretch, exercise, ice. see a masseur to understand how much and what kind of massage induced pain is reasonable. as for exercises. start with very low weights (1-2 lbs) exercising once the pain is gone then increase weight every ~week as long as you remain pain free. push ups are probably too much initially. as suggested using very light dumbells in rotational exercises as you lie on your side (on a bench or something), front and side dumbell raises, triceps extension, shrugs, flys, etc .... since you have to do the exrecises twice a day, you should consider picking up a used set somewhere. finally you'll probably have to make shoulder and back strengthening part of your out of season routine for the rest of your climbing career. as for the arm overhead sleeping habit, force yourself to sleep lying on your back. wearing a t-shirt without pulling the arms through the sleeves will insure that you do so. it works as long as you are methodical.

wicked fires!!! i assume people understand the link to droughts. next rainy season will be mudflow galore ....

pretty much what scrambler said. do you have any proof that s.a. funded wilson? i don't think so. this steyn guy sounds like a wacko. still trying to do control damage on nigergate by smearing the opposition. and of course don't forget: http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/excerpt.cgi/0759508070 which is probably a lot more relevant than s.a. funding for the m.e. institute!

it's actually a classic example of the deception that we see so much of these days. tell a lie and even if caught red-handed some of it will stick anyway. pathetic.