News Snippets 061201

From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
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Hot news in snippet form! All snippets are real cut-n-paste, honest to god
snippets from online newspapers. And not kook ones either! These ARE the
End Times!!!

___________Bush Goes to Europe! _______________

possibly the least successful good-will trip since Dad dined in Japan.

"It is a great honour to travel to Spain and visit the King and also Prime
Minister Anzar. But I have to practise the very pretty language, and unless
I practise I am going to destroy this language," [Bush] said.

[The Prime Minister of Spain's name is AZnar, not ANzar.]

No breakthroughs are expected on any of the big issues.

____________The Energy Crisis______

The Bush Administration ignores clean technology and focuses on developing
new oil and coal projects because the president wants to repay energy
companies for helping finance his campaign, Ted Turner charged in a speech.

Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill recently said: "If you set aside Three Mile
Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good."

"I think that FERC has the authority to act and should have acted already to
give more protection to homeowners and businesses," said Lieberman

___________Democrats Pick up Senate Gavel! _______

When asked to elaborate on his statement in the memo that the Democrats' new
majority "lacks the moral authority of a mandate from the voters," [Lott]
said, "We should have a war of ideas and have a full campaign for 2002."

But within days the GOP warriors, realizing they lacked the leverage for
such a fight, decided to disarm.

Sen. Christopher Dodd, another Connecticut Democrat, hopes to jump-start
stalled efforts to reform the nation's election system by holding hearings
soon

______The Supremos!_________

the Supreme Court ruled today that the use by the police of a thermal
imaging device to detect patterns of heat coming from a private home is a
search that requires a warrant.

Justice Scalia said that to take any other approach "would leave the
homeowner at the mercy of advancing technology - including imaging
technology that could discern all human activity in the home."

In a 6-3 decision that lowered the figurative wall of separation between
church and state, the justices said a New York public school district must
let the Good News Club hold after-school meetings for grade-school children
to pray and study the Bible.

"When Milford denied the Good News Club access to the school's limited
public forum on the ground that the club was religious in nature, it
discriminated against the club because of its religious viewpoint in
violation of the free-speech clause of the First Amendment," Justice
Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority

-------------------Sources, kind of in order-----------------------

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/opinion/12COLL.html?ex=993320168&ei=1&en=4
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1383000/1383385.stm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010611/aponline134017_000.ht
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/opinion/12COLL.html?ex=993320168&ei=1&en=4
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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010611/pl/stoddard010611_1.html

http://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/20010611/tCB00a3432.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010611/aponline103217_000.ht
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From: joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

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From: bear@pole.com (polar bear)

In article <3b26906d.13662281@news.mindspring.com>,
joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com (Joe Cosby) wrote:

>
>
> >Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill recently said: "If you set aside Three Mile
> >Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good."
> >
>
> rotflmao
>
Leaving aside the dozen or so submarines lying in Davey Jones locker,
another dozen or more reactors dumped in the Arctic Ocean, several missing
nuclear warheads, that nasty mess in Japan, the Ural Mountains, Sella
Field, Hanford, and the Mexico City incident, I'd have to agree.

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From: joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

Yeah, but let's not focus on the NEGATIVE! Let's focus on the
POSITIVE!

What are ya all, a bunch of DEFEATISTS?

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

"My energies are much better spent teaching people to eat pork than teaching
pigs to be civilized."
- (Dr K. "Cortez" Legume)

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In article <3b278d9e.41704253@news.mindspring.com>, Joe Cosby kvetched...

> Yeah, but let's not focus on the NEGATIVE! Let's focus on the
> POSITIVE!
>
> What are ya all, a bunch of DEFEATISTS?

i am not a dead baby.

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From: joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

Oh. Then I guess you're just having a bad deoderant day.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Well, OK. Some of mine are going to be lame.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients.
But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces,
and this is what annoys me."

-Jack Handey

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From: bear@pole.com (polar bear)
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In article <syvV6.171001$oc7.12069288@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>, "Rev.
Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com> wrote:

> Hot news in snippet form! All snippets are real cut-n-paste, honest to god
> snippets from online newspapers. And not kook ones either! These ARE the
> End Times!!!
>

hmmmmmm.....

> In a 6-3 decision that lowered the figurative wall of separation between
> church and state, the justices said a New York public school district must
> let the Good News Club hold after-school meetings for grade-school children
> to pray and study the Bible.

Lowered the figurative wall, eh? I'm a bit surprised to hear this sort of
rhetoric coming from Associated Press. They paid their taxes - it's their
building as much as anyone else. Besides, there's plenty of churches out
there hosting secular events, which is just as well, since they aren't
generally taxed. Ya know... I don't think I love NY anymore.

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From: "Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com>
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It just cracks me up that they felt the need to put that "figurative" in
there, like if they didn't people would think that somewhere, maybe out in
Nebraska, there is a literal Wall of Separation Between Church and State,
like the Liberty Bell or something. And also, it's a mixed metaphor -- we
don't lower and raise walls!

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From: null@void (KRONOS)

On 13 Jun 2001,"Rev. Magdalen" <magdalen@home.com> wrote in
news:56MV6.181910$oc7.14329560@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com:

Boy does this get my engine cranked(and people who know me know I have a
very cranky engine). I think the implication of the phrase "figurative wall
of separation" is more sinister than you suggest. What they really wanted
to say was "wall of separation" in quotes. Which would imply that ha ha
we've got this annoying clause in the Constitution that says that Religion
and State must be rigorously separated but everybody knows that sooner or
later a doG-fearing people must have a doG-fearing Government.

Message to all you weak-minded addle-pated religious fools out there in the
hinterlands: The "Founding Fathers" may have a bad rep these days what with
pompous flatulent gasbags like Rush Limbaugh trotting them out at the drop
of hat and them being whipping boys for some extreme elements of the Left,
but they were brilliant men and their minds were unclouded by the media
swamp we live in today and they put the separation clause in the Constition
for a Fucking Reason. If you want to know the reason, visit fucking I-ran,
fucking I-raq and especially Af-fucking-ganistan. No separation there
dimwits and you're welcome to it.

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