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To: Bill who wrote (14119)	3/5/2000 3:22:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

ALL - Must read: INSIGHT Website EXCLUSIVE: CHINA WAR PLAN AGAINST TAIWAN AND U.S. 3/3/00 - By J. Michael Waller The People?s Republic of China is actively planning a military invasion of Taiwan and is preparing to wage war against the United States ? including firing its small arsenal of strategic nuclear missiles on the territory of the United States ? if Washington attempts to defend the island. In an internal document from the Chinese Communist Party?s Central Military Commission to all its regional commanders, Beijing says it hopes to absorb Taiwan through nonviolent means but warns of an ?increased possibility for a military solution,? arguing: ?It is better to fight now than [in the] future ? the earlier, the better.? (cont) insightmag.com

To: Bill who wrote (14119)	3/5/2000 4:15:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<The message is unmistakeable. Any excuses offered by McCain or his media pals are obviated by his written words. >> Pure sophistry. I know and you know you don't believe this. In the age of the truth-twisting Clinton, you guys are now defend truth-twisting with a vengeance. LOL! Bush has a long climb to regain the moral high-ground so that he can face Al Gore and confront him with a shred of authority. The Democrats are going to have a party with "the uniter not a divider's" record of hypocrisy in November. They're videotaping every bit of it.

To: Bill who wrote (14119)	3/5/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You must understand that Pork Barrel anti-Cancer projects are expensive pork. Any project that is written into appropriations bills is one that has not survived the professional review process of the granting foundations and the government. If your project does not get support, you go to your Representative and Senators and demand that they insert them in the department appropriations bill. With different congressmen log rolling you can get an unsupported project funded. The total result is a government supported deck of second-rate or worse spending, instead of money that goes to the best, most competitive projects that are selected by the professional review process. Years ago I worked as a lobbyist for my university. We got our congressmen to collect their debts. We cooperated with the Universities of Florida and Puerto Rico to cook a nice tropical agriculture pork pie. We hired the son of the agriculture appropriations subcommittee's chairman as an assistant professor at our university just to please old man Whitten. It worked slick as ice. Each of the three universities got a leg of pork. We did some good work, I suppose. But the Department of Agriculture never recommended these programs, and money that might have gone to zoonoses research was spent on growing milder durian. IMO, Congress should not earmark money for the work of particular institutions or individuals. This should be left to program administrators and review panels. McCain is very brave to attack these swindles.