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Abate
of Florida
Next State Meeting
Feb 14, 2005
MONTANA WINTER FAIR
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January 26-30, 2005 Lewistown, MT http://russell.visitmt.com
800-406-8841 Come have some fun during the chilly winter months at the
only winter fair in Montana. The Montana Winter Fair is a state winter
fair consisting of a livestock show, horse show & sale, and bull
expo. Wait there's more; a draft horse and pull contest, youth livestock
events, fiddlers contest, art swap and shop, youth educational events,
commercial exhibits, farm forum, death by chocolate competition, chili
and cinnamon roll bake off, photography, quilts and leather working
divisions, farm equipment displays, stock dog trials and clinic, cowboy
church, a free Sunday breakfast and lots of great Central Montana
scenery.
A Good Idea If You Have Radiators:
You can buy special insulation sheets to put behind radiators to reflect
the heat back into them. Cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil does this
too.
If you want drip-free, long burning candles,
put them in the freezer overnight before burning them.
Dwight David Eisenhower was the first American
president to hold an airplane pilot's license.
Antarctica is 98% ice, 2% barren rock. The
average thickness of the ice sheet is 7,200 feet; this amounts to 90% of
all the ice and 70% of all the fresh water in the world. If the ice cap
were to melt, the sea level would rise by an average of 230 feet.
Wine tasters never drink the wine they taste.
They sip it, swish it about, gargle it, and then spit it out. Swallowing
wine is believed to dull the palate, not to mention the brain.
Can't wait for Al Swearengen and the rest
of Deadwood's rough-and-tumble crew to return? Then don't miss HBO's
rebroadcast of season one, in back-to-back episodes, beginning January
3. Catch up on one of television's most acclaimed dramas before season
two debuts this spring.
The action begins again on Sunday, January 3 at 9PM with episode 1,
"Deadwood," followed immediately at 10 PM with episode 2,
"Deep Water." Only on HBO!
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Sen.
Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling for clemency for six Ohio National Guard
troops court-martialed for taking vehicles and parts for their unit in
Iraq.
Durbin, who becomes assistant Democratic Senate leader in January, sent a
letter to the White House Tuesday calling on President Bush to pardon the
reservists, including two decorated officers.
The members of the 656th Transportation Company based in Springfield,
Ohio, were court-martialed for taking two tractors and two trailers left
in Kuwait by other U.S.
military units that had moved into Iraq and stripping an abandoned 5-ton
truck for parts to repair their vehicles.
They pleaded guilty and were fined, dishonorably discharged and stripped
of military benefits. Durbin said while scavenging unused vehicles
technically violated military law and showed poor judgment "the
punishment is completely out of step with the violation."
Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, has asked the U.S. Army to grant clemency to a
major sentenced to six months in prison and a chief warrant officer
court-martialed in May.
From the Buffalo Field Campaign
On December 19, 2004 at the age of 94, Jesse Stovall passed away. A
heartfelt sorrow goes out to Joanne, Ann, and the rest of the Stovall
family. I have had the honor of knowing this great man for the last ten
years. When the Buffalo Field Campaign came to town in 1997, the Stovall
family took us in. Joanne and Jesse have been our surrogate Grandparents
ever since.
Never worrying about what anyone thought, Jesse was always there for us
with advise and wisdom. He was strong, bull-headed, and stuck to his
opinions, unless Joanne had to set him straight. His love for the wild and
beauty of Montana was steadfast, and was the backbone of all his
decisions. This love made him angry at the treatment of his friends, the
buffalo. Even with his history as a Montana rancher he never bought the
Montana Department of Livestock's (DOL) lies and created Buffalo safe
zones of his and surrounding properties. The DOL, not wanting to cross
Jesse's path or earn his wrath, never did cross these boundaries.
"The Buffalo are the fastest moving, slow animal I've ever
seen,"
said Jesse, and they are the only animal that will face into a storm and
feed in it, and they've got the clothes to do it." Jesse made his
mark on the world and will never be forgotten. His life was an inspiration
to all who had the honor of meeting him and his advise guides me on a
daily basis. His family is my family.
I look forward to joining you, my friend, in the happy hunting grounds
above.
With the Buffalo, Michael S. Mease
TORONTO -- The Hells Angels have a message for
Toronto residents, and they're using a billboard to send it.
The biker group has put up a billboard near the busy Don Valley Parkway
that reads, "Still fighting for democracy and freedom."
Gang expert Yves Lavigne tells Global News the ad shouldn't be believed.
Lavigne, a journalist who has written a book on the Hells Angels, says 80
per cent of the group's members have criminal records.
The ad comes as a high-profile trial involving two Hells Angels is
underway in Barrie.
Two members are accused of extortion, and the Crown is trying to prove the
gang is a criminal organization.
A note on the Hells Angels website about the ad argues police are making
them "the bogeyman for all society's ills."
It also says more billboards may follow.
According to the Wrestling Observer
Newsletter, there is an internal dispute as to whether WWE should bring in
former ECW stars as a one-time-only deal for the PPV in June, or simply
rely on current WWE talent.
Reports indicate that Stephanie McMahon tends to favor restricting the PPV
to those presently with the company, while Vince is open to the idea of
contacting past ECW stars to work the show. This does not mean that Vince
will definitely bring in old wrestlers; it simply implies that he is not
downright opposed to the option.
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