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To: i-node who wrote (178283)	11/21/2003 1:19:44 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1578900

Oh, crap. Why do I waste my time with a troglodyte like you? Al

To: i-node who wrote (178283)	11/21/2003 5:05:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578900

Snowmobiles run on two-cycle engines (oil and gas). They emit a lot of smoke and pollution. Park rangers at the entry gates have had to wear gas masks at times and had fresh air piped in. This is a load of crap. I've been to many trail/motocross races where there were a hell of a lot more 2 stroke engines in a much smaller space. Never had a bit of trouble breathing. I am very glad I am on opposite sides of the table from you. I would never want to agree with you on any position you hold on any issue. You are totally beyond redemption. What an incredibly stupid and unempathetic statement to make. You don't have an ounce of class.

To: i-node who wrote (178283)	11/23/2003 8:42:30 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578900

Gruesome: Three U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq 1 hour, 9 minutes ago story.news.yahoo.com By MARIAM FAM, Associated Press Writer MOSUL, Iraq - Attackers slit the throats of two American soldiers who were waiting in traffic in this northern Iraqi city on Sunday, witnesses said. Another soldier was killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad. Elsewhere, three American civilian contractors were wounded in an explosion in the northern oil center Kirkuk. First reports said the blast was from a mortar, but Lt. Col. Matt Croke said officials later concluded it was a bomb.

To: i-node who wrote (178283)	11/23/2003 11:40:35 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578900

In Session : Congress GOP Dishes Out Pork In Growing Portions Democrats: Earmarked Projects Skyrocket By Dan Morgan and Helen Dewar Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, November 24, 2003; Page A19 Way back before Republicans took over the House in 1995, GOP lawmakers pilloried Democrats for stuffing legislation with local projects that get little or no oversight but boost the popularity of the lawmakers who take credit for them. In 1992, Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the future House speaker, told colleagues: "Democrats . . . see no contradiction between adding a billion and a half dollars in pork-barrel [spending] for the politicians in their big-city machines and voting for a balanced budget amendment." <font color=red>But a rising tide of GOP spending on home-district projects is making those Democrats of yesteryear look like mere pikers of pork, according to a 15-page study just released by the minority staff of the House Appropriations Committee. The study finds that the number of home-state projects earmarked in various bills has skyrocketed under the GOP, despite the party's rhetorical commitment to reining in a profligate federal government. <font color=black> Moreover, it contends, Republicans "have opened up broad new areas of government to the practice of earmarking that were previously not subject to earmarks." A case in point, the Democrat staff report said, is the bill funding the Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services departments. Under Democratic chairmen such as the late William H. Natcher (D-Ky.), the bill was kept free of earmarks. Natcher preferred to let the money go out under formulas to school districts, community organizations and states. But in 2002, the bill funneled more than $1 billion to hundreds of projects picked by members of Congress -- Democrats as well as Republicans. A similar pattern has occurred in the quadrennial highway bill, once a bastion of congressional restraint. Earmarked projects jumped from fewer than 400 in 1995 to more than 1,800 in 1998, according to the Democratic analysis. Moreover, even some fiscally conservative Republicans have not been shy about taking credit for bringing home the bacon. The Web page of Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), a frequent critic of spending programs, lists projects recently obtained for his district, including $150,000 to help the Augusta Arts Council restore the Augusta Historic Theater, and "$180,000 to assist the City of Wichita in making the Evergreen Library more accessible to the community." "Every federal dollar I can help bring back to Kansas is a dollar less that will have to be raised locally," Tiahrt said in a news release. washingtonpost.com