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FastMail: Fast free or paid IMAP webmail with SMTP, POP & IMAP access

This is the best web-based email site I've ever had the privilege of signing up for. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow for a good choice of domain name . . .




So Tile263 says he lives in New Jersey, and as an aspiring actor, wants to study at a conservatory. The unfortunate thing is that he hasn't reply to my email (I've sent him one) and that he vanishes rather quickly after signing onto AIM. I don't know what's happened to him, but he would be my third casualty of meeting people online. I don't know if he still has my screenname, but I hope he can email me @netscape.net.

I have wants to express something that weighs heavily upon the soul, but unlike others, I cannot bring it out, express it in any form. What is this that holds my chest so?




I've had a pretty dull Thanksgiving dinner. We, i.e. my parents and I, have just baked a turkey and brought it to my aunt's house, along with a pumpkin pie, and a gravy powder.

She, her husband, and their child had moved to Hercules, a small town west of Richmond, a city north of Oakland, which is in the East Bay Area. Her house is pretty darn nice and new, but has no life yet because it was just recently built.

Aunt didn't want to cook a turkey herself because she doesn't like to cook and is a stickler for neatness.

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New Danger to Arctic Wildlife, ACT NOW! Petition

It is time for us to get off our back and petition the government for the redress of this grievance! Once again, the Senate is under pressure to introduce a legislation that would allow Arctic Drilling.

I understand that there is a need for energy, but there are so many alternative ways to get energy than one that would melt the glaciers of the highest peaks of the world.

I understand that terrorism is a pressing concern, but the inability to take care of the Earth means that the Earth won't be able to sustain human beings anymore. The ravages of hurricanes and stormy weather will worsen, and the death of millions of Americans due to starvation is much worse than death by introduced diseases, nuclear radiation, and some dumb terrorists out to kill themselves for a strange deity they call Allah.

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NOVA | Volcano Above the Clouds | PBS

Be sure to watch this latest news on global warming and the implication that the melting of the glaciers on the highest peaks of all seven continents in the world will have for the human beings who live in it.

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Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Moore as Alabama Chief Justice -- 11/20/2003 (May need to register)

This is simple-minded even to think about. I would accept whether anyone wishes to have the Ten Commandments placed in the judicial branch. It's not a violation of the separation of the church and the state because the state was founded fundamentally as a Christian nation.

What was ridiculous was when former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore proclaimed that refusing to remove the monument is "an 'acknowledgement of God' protected by his First Amendment rights." The First Amendment only forbids Congress from enacting any law toward abridgment of the freedom of speech, establishment of an official religion, and prevention of individuals from gathering together to redress any grievances. It does not, however, forbid the federal judiciary, or even the executive branch from issuing orders contrary to the First Amendment.

Therefore, the federal judges are free to "legislate" over how far the rights of free speech can extend. The President is free to suppress any opposition to war. President Abraham Lincoln had himself done this, and is rightly labeled as a dictator. In an effort to raise support for their respective wars, the Civil War for Lincoln and World War II for Roosevelt, they had to shut down any media opposing them. Therefore, we can call him a beloved dictator.

The founding fathers recognized that war is practically impossible in a democracy, because the public opinion is subject to change based on how many people have died or whether a battle was lost.

So to ensure that the nation could defend themselves against any foreign powers, the founding fathers did NOT delegate the right to suspend Habeas Corpus to any branch, but did concede that in time of insurrection or invasion, it would be allowed. President Lincoln used that power, because it would have been difficult for Congress to be capable of enacting any such law, since they are too close to the populace and thus are easily influenced by them.

Inter arma silent leges. (In time of war, the laws are silent). The Suspension of Habeas Corpus

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