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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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We believe that prohibition is a system which unleashes powerful
forces, most notably the illegal drug markets, that inevitably make the
underlying drug problem worse while adding a series of costly
unintended side effects, including damage to the very values upon which
free nations have been founded. | ||||||||||||||||||
We believe that a public well informed about the death, disease and
social blight produced by current US drug policy must inevitably seek
to reform it. | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The defection of three ranking members of the Congressional Black Caucus from the drug war wasn't the biggest drug policy story to emerge from the LA Shadow Convention; rather it was the mainstream media's failure to even note it had occurred- let alone comment. | ||||||||||||||||||
This compels a variant of the question usually asked about drug warriors: is the press that dumb- or just dishonest? For those with some patience, the first 3 articles illustrate the vacuity of the reporters who attended- and they aren't the worst examples. | ||||||||||||||||||
Even Alan Bock (fourth article) left Rangel's name out of an otherwise
good web account- and also failed to grasp the significance of the
black defection. | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) SHADOW EVENT HAS LAST LAUGH (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The only party line at this convention is the punch line, as all sides
become targets for jokes. | ||||||||||||||||||
Be afraid. Be very afraid. | ||||||||||||||||||
Someone should have told political comedian Bill Maher that before he
delivered his Politically Incorrect routine to the hot and restless
activists at Patriotic Hall. | ||||||||||||||||||
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This was not the Comedy Club; this was the Shadow Convention. And no
one was safe here, not even fawned-upon comedians like Maher. But
especially not politicians. Here, elected leaders were roasted,
lampooned, ridiculed and skewered this week. | ||||||||||||||||||
And satirist Maher was actually a hit. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(2) DEMOCRATS AREN'T ONLY CONVENTION IN TOWN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES This city is too big and too busy not to mention too
weird for a single convention. | ||||||||||||||||||
So its probably a good thing its having more than one. | ||||||||||||||||||
In case you missed it which is highly likely given the scant national
coverage Los Angeles this week is home to several ancillary events. We
have the Homeless Convention, located, oddly, at a housing development
for the homeless called Dome City. And the Shadow Convention, a
gathering of unaligned malcontents led by Republican defector and
celebrity pundit Arianna Huffington. And hordes of mostly young people
participating in D2KLA, a sort of anti-convention near the Staples
Center. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(3) SHADOWS BRING ISSUES TO LIGHT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Unconventional Gathering Appeals To Range Of People | ||||||||||||||||||
At the Shadow Convention 2000, three blocks and a world away from the
Democratic National Convention, people can walk into Patriotic Hall
from the street, engage in political arguments and listen to plain talk
about discount issues. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Some of the debate even involves people who are offering very different messages to their partisan constituencies, said Arianna Huffington, a political pundit who is one of the organizers. She heard the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York speak both to the Democrats at the Staples Center and to the Shadow Convention. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(4) SHADOWING THE SHADOW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
I've spent the week at the Democratic National Convention and have even
ventured inside the Staples Center for a few hours here and there of
the official proceedings. It hasn't been quite as bland as the
Republican confab in Philadelphia, but unless Al Gore unexpectedly
delivers a spellbinding stem-winder of a speech before this is posted,
it hasn't been especially stimulating. The real action has been on the
streets and at the Shadow Convention. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Drug testing in schools continues to spread, particularly in rural
areas. A Kansas article reviewed the rationale the Supremes originally
used when they inserted the camels nose under the tent in 1995. As
the People article reports, we are now awaiting their decision on the
hump. | ||||||||||||||||||
(5) SILVER LAKE BOARD STUDIES DRUG TESTING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
SILVER LAKE The school district is considering implementation of a random drug testing policy for athletes after four hypodermic needles were found in the boys locker room at Silver Lake High School. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The U.S. Supreme Court supported mandatory drug testing for public school athletes in a 1995 ruling, Vernonia School District 47J vs. Acton | ||||||||||||||||||
The district argued that athletes are role models and that drug use
among athletes was a safety issue. The high court agreed, ruling that
students voluntarily participate in athletics and thus subject
themselves to a higher degree of regulation. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(6) HE JUST SAID NO (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
When The Local School Tried to Make His Son Take a Drug Test, Larry
Tanahill Filed Suit | ||||||||||||||||||
A farming community of some 2,300 in the Texas Panhandle, Lockney
might seem at first glance far removed from the drug problems facing
larger cities. | ||||||||||||||||||
So Larry Tannahill was surprised last January when his son Brady, 12, came home with the news that the towns schools would be requiring every student from sixth grade up to submit to routine urine tests. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Confirming the nexus between hysteria and drug testing, a flurry of articles in the DC area raised the issue after a light rail accident. The responsible driver tested negative; so why the fuss? Because the driver in a similar accident tested positive 7 months ago. | ||||||||||||||||||
Meanwhile, an article in the Baltimore Sun offered the government
policy advice its certain not to follow. | ||||||||||||||||||
(7) UNION IN BWI RAIL ACCIDENT BALKS AT DISCIPLINE PROPOSAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The union leader who represents the Maryland Mass Transit Administrations bus and train drivers said yesterday he welcomes negotiations to toughen the agency's drug-testing and disciplinary policies but vowed to fight any attempt to fire first-time offenders. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the
investigation, said toxicology tests have found no trace of illegal
drugs in Thomas's system. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(8) OPED: CHANGE DRUG WAR TARGETS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON An air of hypocrisy surrounds President Clinton's decision
to visit Colombia later this month to show his personal concern for
that nations increasingly bloody and expensive war against
narco-guerrillas. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Unless and until we address demand at home with adequate treatment and
a response strategy that treats drug use as a public health issue
instead of a criminal justice issue, we will continue to do much more
harm than good in the war on drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
Our options are simple: Decriminalize drugs as a first step toward
complete legalization or continue our national policy of blaming all
our troubles on nonviolent drug addicts in our midst and peasant coca
growers 3,000 miles away. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (9-11) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A well researched piece on California's prison guards stands In sharp
contrast to the Shadow stories; its should inform the debate on
Proposition 36. | ||||||||||||||||||
Speaking of 36, Judy Mann explained its rather complex provisions and
anticipated the how fiercely the CCPOA will oppose it. | ||||||||||||||||||
Michael Isikoff of Newsweek agreed: 36 is important- not only to
California, but to the nation. | ||||||||||||||||||
(9) WHEN HE SPEAKS, THEY LISTEN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In 20 years, Don Novey has built the once powerless California prison
guards union into one of the most influential and richest forces in
state politics. | ||||||||||||||||||
SACRAMENTO It would be easy to underestimate Don Novey. It would also
be dangerous. | ||||||||||||||||||
Once an amateur boxer, Novey now moves through life at a shuffle,
slowed by gimpy legs. In conversation, he veers and rambles, sometimes
winking, often leaving cryptic holes in the stories he tells.
Barrel-chested and never without a hat, hes like the eccentric uncle
you whisper about at family reunions. | ||||||||||||||||||
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During the 1998 campaign, Novey's union, the California Correctional
Peace Officers Assn.was the states No. 1 donor to legislative races,
setting a record by spending $1.9 million. When its contributions to
the governor and initiative campaigns are added in, the unions total
tops $5.3 million. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(10) COLUMN: DRUG WAR'S FAILURE OPENS DOOR TO NEW TACTIC (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
California has the highest rate of drug use of any state and the
highest rate of incarceration for drug offenses, with a 25-fold
increase since 1980, according to a new report by the nonprofit Justice
Policy Institute. | ||||||||||||||||||
These facts, an overwhelming indictment of the failed war on drugs,
help explain why that state has become the latest battleground in
efforts to treat nonviolent people convicted of possessing or using
drugs instead of jailing them. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Not surprisingly, the union has come out in opposition to the measure, which will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot as Proposition 36. This would provide $120 million a year, for the next 5 1/2 years, for community-based substance abuse treatment programs. According to the states Legislative Analysts Office, this initiative will divert 37,000 state and county prisoners into treatment programs instead of jails, resulting in a net saving of about $1.5 billion in that period. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(11) A NEW FRONT IN THE DRUG WAR (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Californias Voting on Relaxing Penalties for Possession | ||||||||||||||||||
California's voters may be in revolt again. The folks who have to foot
the bill in the state with the highest ratio of imprisoned drug
offenders in the country 134 per 100,000 people, compared with 49 in
Texas may have had enough. This fall they will vote on a sleeper ballot
initiative, Proposition 36, that would effectively end jail terms for
possessing any illegal drug including crack cocaine and heroin and
substitute drug treatment instead. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Prop 36 is drawing supporters from across the ideological spectrum:
from civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson to Republican Senate candidate
Tom Campbell, who says the drug war amounts to Jim Crow justice for
minorities. | ||||||||||||||||||
Prop 36 organizers sense they have tapped into more than California's
quirkiness. | ||||||||||||||||||
Thanks to mandatory-sentencing laws enacted across the country in the 1980s, the prison population passed 2 million this year, up from 500,000 in 1980. Now the California initiative will challenge the idea that most Americans still back the massive crackdown. Traditionally, you've got to be tough on drugs or you get marginalized [as a candidate], says Campbell. I'm putting that to the test. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Opponents are just as vehement. They are led by the California
Correctional Peace Officers Association, the prison guards union, which
has made building more prisons its signature issue. | ||||||||||||||||||
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That Texas, with far fewer people has an even bigger gulag, was noted with considerable distaste in Austin; another columnist took George W. to task for his championing of adult punishment for juveniles. | ||||||||||||||||||
(12) EDITORIAL: A PRISON BOOM THAT WON'T STOP (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The states prison cells are filling up faster than taxpayers can build
them. We lead the nation in state lock-ups and are planning more.
That's the wrong way to spend the public's money. | ||||||||||||||||||
Texas just surpassed California as the state holding the most state
prisoners. An annual review by the U.S. Department of Justice found
that in late 1999, Texas had incarcerated 163,190 of its 20 million
people. California prisons held 163,067 inmates, out of 32 million
people. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The overdeveloped Texas prison system drains resources away from
schools, social services and other areas the public cares deeply about.
And the frenzy to incarcerate has not seemed to markedly increase the
sense of security among the free. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) COLUMN: WAITING FOR ANSWER ON JUVENILE JUSTICE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The most haunting, but frustrating moment of George W. Bush's acceptance speech to the Republican convention came when he related the question posed to him by a 15-year-old inmate of the juvenile jail in Marlin, Texas. "What do you think of me?" the boy asked the white, business-suited governor. Bush used the quote to make a solid, sensitive observation: "If that boy in Marlin believes he is trapped and worthless and hopeless, if he believes his life has no value, then other lives have no value to him, and we are all diminished." | ||||||||||||||||||
Yet as a focus group of voters in suburban Seattle noted, Bush never
told the listening nation whether he had any answer at all to the boy's
question. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The drug issue is closely interrelated, because the chief impact of
long sentences for minor possession or selling is to break up families
and introduce rather ordinary, generally young and confused people, to
a dark world of violence and criminality. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Oakland CBC received an important ruling from the Ninth Circuit blocking the stubborn federal effort to keep it shut down. | ||||||||||||||||||
Further south, the feds were using Blackhawk helicopters piloted by
reservists to root out marijuana plots. | ||||||||||||||||||
On the Canadian Border, it turns out that the use of Canadian Army vehicles to smuggle B.C. bud may have been an old trick. | ||||||||||||||||||
(14) COURT OKS MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Co-Op Now Free To Dispense To People With Proven Need | ||||||||||||||||||
An appeals court has denied the federal government's request for a
temporary emergency order to keep the Oakland Cannabis Buyers
Cooperative from dispensing marijuana as medicine. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) HELICOPTERS ENGAGED IN WAR AGAINST DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
What's behind all those helicopters flying in formation around our area? | ||||||||||||||||||
Military helicopters, including OH58 Deltas and a UH-60 Blackhawk, are
hovering over the back hills of Santa Barbara County, searching for
marijuana plants. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(16) MARIJUANA MANOEUVRES DONE BEFORE: U.S. (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A Canadian Armed Forces Reserve "soldier of fortune" caught smuggling 109 kilograms of marijuana has used military trucks to transport the drug to the U.S. more than once, an investigator said yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
"This is organized," said U.S. Customs special agent Rodney Tureaud as
a multi-agency probe began in Canada and the U.S. into the use of
Canadian Armed Forces vehicles for shipping massive quantities of
marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (17-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The global scope of the American mandated drug war- and its abuses-
becomes clearer every week; a Canadian article reports on how
ecstasy's growing popularity is bringing hard core criminals into
control of its market. | ||||||||||||||||||
The story from Australia suggests that its drug war is also justifying
differential treatment for minorities- while the backlash against
pressure to decriminalize cannabis in New Zealand is causing school
children to be drug tested. | ||||||||||||||||||
That the Kiwis have started cooking their own meth shouldn't surprise
anyone either. | ||||||||||||||||||
(17) CANADA: BIKER GANG BRINGS VIOLENCE TO DISORGANIZED DRUG MARKET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
For One Well-Known Ottawa DJ, It Happened On A Holiday Weekend. | ||||||||||||||||||
A couple of teens asked him whether he had any pills the latest
club-kid slang for Ecstasy. The DJ did. Because it was a holiday
weekend, he had bought a couple of dozen from a Toronto connection
for himself and his friends. | ||||||||||||||||||
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"No," the DJ said. "I just have enough for myself." | ||||||||||||||||||
Then he felt a third person stick a hand in one of his pockets. The DJ
grabbed the arm, then realized two things - there was a knife at his
throat and he was surrounded by seven or eight people, all similarly
dressed and regarding him with the hard, flat gaze of people prepared
for violence. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ottawa's small rave community once prided itself on its volunteerism
and charitable spirit. Ravers were close-knit and fights were
non-existent. Once, everyone looked out for each other an ethic
likely boosted by the empathy-inducing effects of their drug of choice,
Ecstasy. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(18) AUSTRALIA: MANDATORY JAIL: PUSH TO WIDEN NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The Northern Territory's ruling Country Liberal Party has called on the
Territory Government to extend controversial mandatory sentencing to
include drug traffickers. | ||||||||||||||||||
The party's annual conference at the weekend supported mandatory
minimum prison terms for drug trafficking as well as for property
offences. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Federal Government has been attacked by United Nations human rights committees and its own back bench over mandatory sentencing in the Territory, particularly of children. The regime has been branded racist and in breach of Australia's international obligations to children. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(19) NEW ZEALAND: REHAB FOR DRUGGIE SCHOOLKIDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Student drug addicts are being sent to rehab in Lower Hutt in a pilot
project tackling growing drug abuse in schools. | ||||||||||||||||||
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A survey on cannabis use in Wairarapa and Kapiti, released this week, found that 19 per cent of 16-year-olds were cannabis users. | ||||||||||||||||||
Many Wellington region schools have started urine-testing students for
the drug in a bid to clean up their playgrounds. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(20) NEW ZEALAND: POLICE HOPE FOR POWER TO BUST SPEED MARKET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Police hope changes to the Misuse of Drugs Act will help bust the lucrative gang-controlled market for methamphetamine, or speed. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Wellington organised crime unit head, Detective Senior Sergeant
Paul Berry, said police had been concerned about the rise in speeds
popularity in recent years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Gangs imported speed till about three years ago, when they began
manufacturing it. The increase in quantity coincided with a price drop,
from about $300 a gram to between $90 and $180 a gram. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (21-22) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Editorial comments on Plan Colombia continued to be overwhelmingly negative- even as the President prepared to sign the 1.3 billion dollar aid package and make a whirlwind visit at the end of the month | ||||||||||||||||||
Although Mexican President-elect Fox is exhibiting a new openness with the press, there's little reason to believe style alone can overcome the corrupting influence of drug money on law enforcement. | ||||||||||||||||||
(21) OPED: THE GHOST OF VIETNAM HAUNTS 'PLAN COLOMBIA' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON--As in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago, the United States has
embarked on the phantasmagoric enterprise of destroying the countryside
of Colombia in order, supposedly, to save it. | ||||||||||||||||||
In the 1960s, the mission was called "Search and Destroy." Today, it's
Plan Colombia, the objective of which is to eradicate cocaine drug
lords, leftist and rightist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary
vigilantes, thugs and thousands in between. In Vietnam, the enemy was
identified as communists. In Colombia, everyone seems to be a potential
enemy. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(22) MEXICO: FOX SEEKS NEW COOPERATIVE ERA FOR N. AMERICA (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
SAN CRISTOBAL, Mexico, Aug. 13 - President-elect Vicente Fox said today
that a closed and often fortified border between the United States and
Mexico has failed both countries and that the time has come for
Americans to see Mexican workers and resources as an "opportunity, not
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Fox also pledged to end the impunity that he said the country's drug
traffickers have enjoyed and to do away with the relatively luxurious
jail cells convicted drug dealers often command. He promised, too, to
fight the corruption that has permeated the highest levels of Mexican
government and law enforcement. | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Shadow Convention Compilation Web Site | ||||||||||||||||||
Martha G., the creator of cannabisnews http://www.cannabisnews.com/ - a DrugSense hosted website - has created a page with links to the Shadow Convention web pages on drug policy as well as a complete set of links to both the cannabisnews and MAP archives of Shadow news items. The page is at http://homepages.go.com/~marthag1/Shadcon.htm | ||||||||||||||||||
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World wired for NZ cannabis youth debate | ||||||||||||||||||
The world will be tuned in next week as New Zealand's Youth Parliament
debates "that the personal use of marijuana be decriminalised".
Observers are hopeful that the one hundred and twenty youth M.P.s will
do justice to the smoldering issue, so long avoided by "real"
politicians. | ||||||||||||||||||
A "mock bill" prepared by Youth Affairs officials would be the subject
of intense evidential scrutiny - probably on the afternoon of Tuesday,
29th August. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party's webmaster, Blair Anderson, said that the party would be taking a live relay of Parliament's national A.M. broadcast and feeding it into RealAudio. Anyone around the world, on-line with a computer soundcard, would be welcome to appreciate the youth insight, by following the link at http://www.alcp.org.nz/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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A Bit of Humor | ||||||||||||||||||
For those of you into political satire, you may want to check out "The Daily Feed" at http://www.dailyfeed.com/washingtonpost.html. It's a 90 second syndicated radio satire column that's moved to the web. Go to: http://www.dailyfeed.com/washingtonpost.com/feedbag.html and click on "George W. Visits His Psychiatrist" for some drug related humor. | ||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan,
more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the
creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who
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