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I saw a mention of this on Special Report with Brit Hume on Fox News, and I had to track down more information. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee from Texas reportedly screamed at flight attendants, because there was no more room in first class- so they had to give her an entire row to herself, because she said she was a queen and had to be treated like one. She also supposedly screamed at attendants on another flight some time back because she didn't get her seafood dinner.

This is the same woman who has a driver ferry her one block to work in a limo everyday...at taxpayers expense. Her voting record in Congress (the votes she is actually present for) is somewhat shady as well. Well, shady as in- she seems to change her story a lot, and she's a clear extremist.

Here is an article about this wanna be queen from Houston Review online. Stuff like this- this is why I would love to be in Congress. I would laugh in the faces of idiots like this. Idiots who give politicians the bad names they have in general.

On another note, I made a page of pictures of Monica from her video from the song So Gone. Her music is awful, but she looks good in that video...especially in the first part of it. Check out the pictures here.

If you haven't been able to access the site off and on. I have been having problems, so maybe you guys have too.

I added a new movie review for the film, 28 Days Later, which I liked a lot.

Below (read more) are some lyrics from one of the songs from the Bollywood film, Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India...which looks like a really nice film. I need to check the DVD out at the library again and actually watch it this time.

"Mitwa"

Har Sant Kahe Sadhu Kahe
Sach Aur Saahas Hai Jiske Mann Mein
Ant Mein Jeet Usiki Rahe
Aaja Re Aaja Re Aaja Re Aaja Re
Bhale Kitne Lambhe Ho Raste Ho
Thake Na Tera Yeh Tan Ho
Aaja Re Aaja Re
Sunle Pukaare Dagariya
Rahe Na Yeh Raste Taraste Ho
Tu Aaja Re
Is Dharti Ka Hai Raja Tu Yeh Baat Jaan Le Tu
Kathnaayi Se Takraja Tu Nahin Haar Man Le Tu
Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Tu Aaja Re

Sun Lo Re Mitwa
Jo Hai Tumre Mann Mein Woh Hi Hamre Mann Mein
Jo Sapna Hai Tumra Sapna Wohi Hamra Hai Jeevan Mein
Chale Hum Liye Aasa Ke Diye Naynan Mein
Diye Hamri Aasaon Ke Kabhi Bujh Na Paaye
Kabhi Aandhiyan Jo Aake Inko Bujaye
Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Tu Aaja Re

Sun Lo Re Mitwa
Purva Bhi Gaayegi Masti Bhi Chaayegi
Milke Pukaroo To
Phoolon Wali Jo Ruth Hai Aayegi
Sukh Bhare Din Dukh Ke Bin Laayegi
Hum Tum Sajayen Aao Rango Ke Mele
Rehte Ho Bolon Kaahe Tum Yun Akele
Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Tu Aaja Re

Har Sant Kahe Sadhu Kahe
Sach Aur Saahas Hai Jiske Mann Mein
Ant Mein Jeet Usiki Rahe
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
Oh Mitwa Sun Mitwa Tujhko Kya Darr Hai Re
Yeh Dharti Apni Hai Apna Ambar Hai Re
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Here are a couple articles from this past week. Jeff Jacoby's article and the weekly Falwell article.

TOLLS, BUT NO TOLLBOOTHS
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

September 4, 2003

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/04/tolls_but_no_tollbooths/


Q. Hey, did you see the story about the guy who wants to abolish most of the tolls on the Massachusetts Turnpike?

A. You mean Christy Mihos, the Turnpike Authority board member?

Q. Right. He wants to make 90 percent of the Pike -- everything from I-95 west to the New York border -- toll-free. "People don't want to pay tolls," he told the Boston Globe. Another board member says the same thing: "Any idea that will give people relief from paying tolls is a good idea." That's Jordan Levy. Aren't you glad there are finally some people in government who get it?

A. Who get what? That people would rather not pay for things they use? By that logic, water and phone bills should be abolished, too.

Q. Oh, come on -- we don't pay tolls to drive on other highways. Why should the Turnpike be any different?

A. The Turnpike shouldn't be different -- other highways should be tolled too.

Q. What?! You're joking!

A. No, I'm not. The problem isn't that the Turnpike charges tolls. It's that other highways, the busiest ones, don't.

Q. You can't be serious. Who would ever get on a highway if they had to pay money every time they did so?

A. Well, let's see. According to the Turnpike Authority, there are nearly 200,000 toll-paying drivers who get on the Pike at least five days a week. Not only would plenty of people pay a toll to use a highway, plenty of people do so every day.

Q. Yes, but nobody's going to agree to make *every* highway a toll road. It's bad enough that so many of them turn into parking lots twice a day. A toll would just add insult to injury.

A. No -- a toll would end that congestion. Look: It's obvious that we don't have enough highway capacity to meet the demand of everyone who wants to drive. Massachusetts is like the rest of the country: While the number of vehicle-miles traveled has zoomed up in the last couple decades, the number of highway lane-miles added has been relatively tiny. Highway space has become an increasingly scarce commodity, as anyone stuck in rush hour traffic knows only too well. One way or another, drivers who want that commodity have to pay for it. The only question is whether they're going to pay with their money or with their time.

Q. But how is making drivers pay a toll going to help?

A. It'll give motorists an incentive to change their driving behavior. If it's done right -- if the toll rises during rush hour and falls at other times, what the experts call congestion pricing -- it will encourage some drivers to alter their schedules and pay a lower toll, or to take a different route and avoid the toll altogether. Others will decide to car-pool or use mass transit.

Q. I think what you're *really* saying is that people with more money should have access to the highway whenever they want it, while those of us who aren't as well off should settle for second-best.

A. No. I`m saying that people should have a choice, just as they do with everything from gasoline to ice cream to airline tickets: Spend less and get something that's simply adequate, or pay a premium for something better. Either way, we all end up with a highway system that is fairer and more flexible.

Q. Aren't you forgetting something? Tolls also *cause* traffic tie-ups. You ever try getting through the Allston tollbooths at 6:30 pm?

A. Tollbooths? This is the 21st century, man! With modern electronic toll systems -- you know, sensors along the highway that communicate with a transponder attached to the windshield -- cars wouldn't even have to slow down, much less pause at a tollbooth. The Mass. Pike has its Fast Lane program, but even that is too sluggish. Have you been to Toronto lately? They have a highway there, the 407, where tolls are automatically deducted when drivers go past an overhead span. It works like a dream -- not a tollbooth in sight, no one goes slower than 65 mph, and it handles 330,000 vehicles a day! If the Canadians can get this right, we can too.

Q. But it's still not fair. Why should highway drivers have to pay tolls when they already paid the gasoline tax?

A. They shouldn't. And in Massachusetts, they don't: Turnpike drivers are eligible for a refund of any Massachusetts fuels tax they paid for miles driven on the Pike. With monthly Fast Lane statements, it's easier than ever to document mileage, and the state rebates a few million bucks to drivers every year. It would be easy to do the same thing for drivers on I-93 or Route 128.

Q. I still don't think it would fly.

A. You're probably right -- people would rather pretend that highway driving is "free." But it isn't. Even after their construction bonds are paid off, highways involve substantial costs -- everything from repairs and snow removal to lighting and policing. As a matter of basic fairness, those who use the highways the most should pay the most for their upkeep. But instead we force people who never see a highway to subsidize those who drive them all the time. That's just wrong.

Q. So Mihos -- ?

A. Oh, he means well, but turning the Mass. Pike into just another highway would be a step in the wrong direction. With highways as with everything else, you get what you pay for.


(Jeff Jacoby is a columnist for The Boston Globe.)

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Falwell Confidential

Date: September 3, 2003
From: Jerry Falwell

Is There Any Hope For America?

In 1952, while I was a young pastoral student at Baptist Bible College in
Springfield, Mo., Dr. G.B. Vick asked the students, "What do you hope to
accomplish with your life?"

The question has preoccupied my thoughts for more than five decades.

About 40 years ago, God spoke to my heart about saving America. At that
time, our U.S. Supreme Court - in 1962 and 1963 - had thrown prayer and
Bible reading out of our public schools. Ten years later (1973), Roe vs.
Wade declared open game on our unborn. Today, we have nearly 45 million
dead unborn babies as a result of this decision.

And now, America - a nation under God for 200 years - is about to completely
abandon the God of our founding. In recent days, our federal courts have
legalized sodomy and declared illegal the Ten Commandments.

In the past year, the Boy Scouts have been bitterly disparaged because they
uphold time-honored moral traditions, we have seen our Pledge of Allegiance
declared unconstitutional, and we have witnessed a major denomination
promote a homosexual priest to bishop. (This man, in fact, should have been
defrocked when he abandoned his wife and daughters, choosing to shack up
with his male lover.)

Patrick Buchanan noted, "In the West, the God of Christianity has been
superseded by the gods of modernity: money, sex, fame, power. These gods
give a good life, but they cannot sustain life. As Christianity is a dying
faith in every Western nation, every Western nation is dying."

Here are four things that I believe have caused our nation's moral collapse:

(1) SITUATIONAL ETHICS
American has rejected the biblical absolutes that defined our culture during
our founding and for most of our distinguished history. Instead, we live in
the ambivalent world of situational ethics, moral indistinctness and ethical
corruption.

(2) CULTURAL SEDUCTION
During the recent MTV Video Music Awards, rock icon Madonna kissed on the
mouth young singers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. We are
witnessing the willful blurring of sexual roles before our eyes. And the
target audience is our children.

Kids are being seduced by what they read in school, watch on TV, see at the
movies and discover on the Internet. The message is not a new one -
whatever feels good is fine.

Sadly, many of our nation's pastors and church leaders are not teaching
parents and children of the wrongness of those lifestyles that counter the
biblical mandate for man-woman marriage relationships. The bottom line is
that all sex outside of marriage between a man and woman is forbidden by
God.

It's not a culturally popular doctrine, but it is God's doctrine.

(3) CULTURAL ACCOMMODATION
The Scriptures are being distorted and changed in order to accommodate
issues like abortion and homosexuality.

Psalm 139:13-16 tells us, "For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast
covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and
wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right
well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my
substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written,
which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."

There is simply no way to support abortion without contradicting these
verses.

Romans 1:26-27 tells us, "For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which
is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the
woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their
error which was meet."

There is simply no way to say homosexuality is acceptable without
contradicting these verses.

(4) INCLUSIVE SALVATION
Politically-correct theologians believe all religions are equal to God.
They teach that Jesus is not the only way to Heaven. But John 14:6 tells
us, "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me."

This week, I told our 6,647 students now enrolled at Liberty University that
I am counting on them and the 69,500-plus Liberty alumni to impact this
world for Christ beyond their wildest dreams.

Has America crossed the line of no return?

Some believe so. But I continue to claim II Chronicles 7:14: "If my people,
which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and
will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Let us pray and work together to see an unparalleled revival in this great
nation. This is the only hope for America.

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