Sunday, May 5, 2002

[Terri]

<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:#BDBE7A '><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sun1.gif **Sunday Morning! *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/gopusa.gif </span></span>
Time to rise and shine! It's another beautiful day. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sunflower.gif

Welcome to all our guests! We invite you to register and post. We also hope our new members will be joining in with us today.

Sharon will be traveling to the US for his meeting with President Bush. It is said that he is bringing extensive proof of Arafat's culpability in terrorism.

Last night was the White House correspondents dinner. C-Span broadcast it. If you missed it try to catch one of their rebroadcasts. The President was hilarious. He had a slide show of photos taken in the White House and his commentary was really funny. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mdr11.gif

Things have been moved around in the forums. If you have trouble finding something, I'll try to help. We have more categories now and I hope that will be helpful to you. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

<ul> Radio Address of the President to the Nation (http://gopusa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=17&topic=21)

5 mailbox pipe bombs found in Nebraska (http://gopusa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=6&topic=110)

Illegal Immigration (http://gopusa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=28&topic=1)

Waves of Canadian Troops Join in Fresh Operation (http://gopusa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=8&topic=37)[/list]<span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'>Words of Wisdom:</span> *&quot;The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.&quot; ~~ James Madison *~~

<span style='font-size:10pt;line-height:100%'>Link of the Day:</span>
The Constitution Society (http://www.constitution.org /)

Please remember to pray for our President and for our servicemen and women who are in harm's way.
God Bless our great country. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag19.gif *May Freedom ever ring![/color]</span>

[Aknauta]

http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sun1.gif <span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:gold'>Good Morning Everyone!</span></span> http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sun1.gif

Hi Terri,
Up bright and early I see... http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Spider Man movie breaks all records &#3641,413,000 on opening day! Let's make a movie!!! :o

The latest from Debka:
&quot;According to DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Palestinian sources, far from preparing to step aside, Arafat is brooding on new schemes for upsetting the Bush-Abdullah-Sharon program, aiming to time a terror spectacular to coincide with Sharon’s White House talks on Tuesday, May 7. It would not be the first time that a major terror strike has forced the Israeli prime minister to cut short his Washington trip and come rushing home.&quot;

http://www.debka.com/


(Edited by Aknauta at 11:11 pm on May 4, 2002)

[Saber]

HI ALL!

It's going to be any busy fun day here at Chez Saber! More flea markets to be attended to by moi. Geez....I LOVE the hunt!

WELCOME to all the new members!

THANK YOU for the &quot;Illegal Immigration&quot; category, Terri. Something tells me I'll be in that little corner of the world ranting away most days when I'm not on 24/7 in the foxhole!

School days winding down here too...in fact... my eldest college son just arrived home last night for the summer and we're going to be having a house guest living with us for the summer too, so all of the sudden I'm going to be cooking and doing laundry for FIVE adults! I'm too old for this stuff.....nah...neve r too old!!!!!

OK ya'll, be sure to guard the entrances while I'm out making sure the economy keeps recovering. I'll go on duty when I get back.

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY! The sun is shining and there's REAL hope for summer today. BYE!

[Terri]

Hi All! http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sunflower.gif

There are stories that President Bush will formally renounce the International Court tomorrow. This is great news. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Beautiful day here again, this might be the mildest spring we've ever but it's not really good news. We are so dry that we are having new fires everyday.

Aknauta, Debka could very well be right. They are usually either right on or way off the mark. No way do I think that Arafat is going to allow a peace settlement. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/teeth2.gif

Saber, we still don't know what you are buying at the flea market! :shocked: Glad to hear you will find use for the new Rant forum. That's good. I'll come add my dittos.

[Aberfoyle]

Terri, I was &quot;runner&quot; in the game! I was running back and forth from the computer to the living room!

Aknauta, I'll be watching the Bush/Sharon situation with interest. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Arafat was planning something spectacular.

Hello Saber! I love your rants! Enjoy your flea market tour.

[Aberfoyle]

I'm sure that this will come as no surprise but Jacques Chirac has won the election in France for yet another term.

I've posted a BBC News article in the Current News section.

(Edited by Aberfoyle at 12:21 pm on May 5, 2002)

[SueElise]

Afternoon all. I'm enjoying a very lazy Sunday on a cold dreary spring day. It's funny - every year I forget just how rainy this time of year is!

[Aberfoyle]

<span style='color:0099cc' ><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Welcome wayHansa to http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/gopusa.gif</span></span>

[pRIMrose]

<span style='color:purple' >http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag17.gif http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag17.gif http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/flag17.gif Good Afternoon GOP Friends!http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wavey.gif:flag17: :

And a hearty <span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>WELCOME</span> to all our new members.:twothumbsup :</span>

<span style='color:purple' >Just got up from my afternoon http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/red_eyes.gif (I'm practicing for retirement):mdr11: * Actually, I was out and thrashing by 6http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif0 am ~ working in the yard. *I wanted to do it while it was still cool enough to move about without a heat stroke. *Came in around noon, washed up, ate lunch and started to watch the Sunday news and &quot;bingo&quot; off to dreamland. *I think I'm going to really like retirement. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Sue E ~ I can't imagine &quot;cold and dreary&quot; this time of year. *But I could surely use some of that rain. *We are really dry. *I hope we aren't facing another &quot;drought&quot; this year. :turquoiserolleyes:

SR ~ I can hardly wait for you to get back and start posting in the Immigration forum. *Like Terri, my &quot;ditto&quot; keys are all warmed up and ready for duty. *Just read an article this morning about Bush and immigration but I'm not going to mess up an otherwise lovely Sunday by ranting today. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif Well, maybe just a little ~ I saw a blurb on the crawl on Fox saying that our president said that Mexico was the best friend this country has *http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mr_yuk.gif http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/teeth2.gif (or something like that) <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Just couldn't help myself.</span> Don't get me wrong ~ I have absolutely nothing against Mexico except their support of illegal immigration and the temerity to say that we &quot;NEED&quot; them. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif *And what about our *really* good friends and allies such as Canada and Britian? *Maybe it was just a &quot;reporting&quot; error. *I hope so.

OK ~ now that I've vented, I'm off http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/boots.gif *to see where else I can get into trouble. *Have a great afternoon.</span>
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RIM http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/bird16.gif


(Edited by pRIMrose at 3:52 pm on May 5, 2002)

[Terri]

Is it something in the air?? *Talk about lazy, I'm barely breathing today! I did a very few things and collapsed in the sun with a book.

The news is slower than usual too.

Aberfoyle, that's the expected outcome for the French election but maybe it shook them up a bit. I hope so.

Hi Sue Elise! I sure wish we would get some rain but we don't want cold. Guess I can't special order my weather. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

RIM, you sound ready to stay home. I haven't gotten into the nap cycle much yet. I think the immigration issue is going to heat up a lot more. I'm hearing more beltway voices speaking out against it. *

[Terri]

There are reports that there is an agreement to ending the standoff at the Church of the Nativity. This is good.

Wow! All of us must be busy or something today. I suspect it's Spring fever. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Aberfoyle]

Yes, that was the expected outcome of the election. I don't think anyone for one minute thought that it would turn out any different. Yes, a good shakeup!

Since it's quiet in here, you might like to see what Prime Minister Blair is going to be doing...

Evicting Bad Parents (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002201777,00.html)

and

It's Chirac but it stinks! (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002201756,00.html)

[Terri]

Aberfoyle, what are council homes? Is this like a welfare benefit? You can tell me in tomorrow's thread. http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mdr11.gif

I'm sure glad I didn't have to vote for either French candidate. :shocked: