On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:20, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > Join the EFF. Listen to talk radio. Stay in touch. > > LX, > > what was the secret vote called? I think i'd like to contact my senator > and congressman about this and find out about what they're doing behind > our backs! that REALLY gets under my skin. >;\ Thanks for actually being interested, Darc. It's refreshing. I had to chase this link down to properly answer your question, but I consider it time well spent for you:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020426-496130.htm Excerpt from article: _________________________________________________________________ Senate Democrats yesterday barred the public from a committee meeting and vote on a land-use bill that opponents believe will impose federal standards on local zoning boards. "This was no accident; this was a purposeful sham," said Mike Hardiman, spokesman for the American Land Rights Association, who lined up shortly after 8 a.m. to attend the 9:30 a.m. hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. He said the senators were trying to pass an indefensible bill in secret. The bill establishes a federal grant program that would pay to communities 90 percent of the cost of updating local zoning regulations. The subsidies would go to municipalities that meet guidelines established under the Clinton administration to "improve environmental policy" and avert "loss of community character," terms opponents call code words for anti-development regulations. _____________________________________________________________________ I've identified the Washington Times as an information source that I can trust; it is dependable. There's alot of hype, bull, and propaganda debunk in the Washington Times; I recommend it and the editorials therein to you highly. :) Something else I suggest is to download Realplayer and listen to G. Gordon, Neal Boortz, and others on the following links: http://mediaframe.yahoo.com/ap?id=78153903 (Realplayer only. The above is WTAW out of College Station, Texas.) Here is a link that will be useful, but only if you have Windows Mediaplayer version 6 running under Transgaming Wine, OR if you have been able to get Avi4Xmms and Xmms to work together (which I have not, as of yet.) This is 99.7 WTN out of Tennessee. http://mmslb.eonstreams.com/wtnfm1.asf I've been working to try to get Xmms to accept WindowsMedia ASF streams, but I havent produced results as of yet. Therefore I've been reduced to listening to realplayer streams only. But I'm still working on it. Best Regards, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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