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20th,2004 Sponsor/Organization: ABATE of Fl., Inc. Estero River Chapter Location: 19137 S. Tamiami Trail, Ft Myers, Fl Friday,
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Urge Your Rep. to Support Hinchey-Bass
Amendment to Protect Buffalo:
U.S. Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D) and
Charles Bass (R) will offer an amendment this week to the Fiscal
Year 2005 Interior Appropriations bill to stop the taxpayer-funded
slaughter of the Yellowstone buffalo. In the past two
years the Park Service has captured and slaughtered 500 buffalo
inside Yellowstone, America's premiere National Park. It
is imperative that your representative hear from you today if we are
to succeed in this effort to protect the Yellowstone buffalo and
save millions of tax dollars in the process.
Urge your representative to support this bipartisan effort to protect the buffalo. If they agree to support the amendment, urge them to convince their colleagues to do the same. WHAT YOU CAN DO:
We need a whirlwind of phone calls into the
House offices immediately! The amendment could be offered as soon as
tomorrow (Wed. 6/16/04).
You can contact your Rep by calling the
Capitol Switchboard at 800-839-5276, and asking to be transferred to
his/her office. Or you can use http://www.house.gov/writerep
to look up your Representative and send them an email.
Ask him or her to "vote YES on the
Hinchey-Bass amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill to STOP
the slaughter of Yellowstone bison." Tell your Rep's office
that you are offended that your tax dollars are being used to fund
this cruel slaughter that has no basis in science.
For months, Port Richmond members of the outlaw Pagans Motorcycle Club sold $3 chances on a classic hog, a 1966 Harley Davidson that didn't exist. The illegal lottery was so lucrative, crossing neighborhoods and state lines, that the Pagans collected about $6,000-$8,000 a month, according to Detective Charles Layton, of East Detectives. But, as usual in these kinds of enterprises, money was soon missing, or so it was claimed by the scam's alleged mastermind, Robert Parker, 51, a Pagans' sergeant-at-arms. Parker allegedly accused a lowly member of the Tribe, or junior Pagans, of stealing $10,000, Layton said. The unidentified Tribesman, 45, denied the theft. On June 4, the accused Tribesman decided he better get his belongings, and he sneaked back to lottery central - Parker's home on Rorer Street near Cambria, the detective added. So who returns home unexpectedly at 3:20 a.m? None other than Parker, who limps and uses a metal cane, and two buddies - a Pagan biker and a recruit. For almost eight hours, Parker and his two pals allegedly beat the Tribesman with hammers, the cane and wooden sticks about the face and head until he was a bloody mess, according to Layton. Finally, the accused torturers became exhausted. They locked the doors. Parker went upstairs to bed and the two watchdogs dozed off. At the first significant snore, the Tribesman escaped out a first-floor window. He ran around the corner to Bentley's Bar on Kensington Avenue at 11 a.m. and asked for someone to call 911. "He believes they're going to kill him," said Layton. Medics rushed the victim to Episcopal Hospital, where doctors closed his face and head wounds with more than 30 stitches, Layton said. "He's pretty banged up." Layton then turned to the police organized-crime unit and the FBI for background on the bikers. Last night, the detective enlisted the police SWAT team, which was casing Parker's house when Parker happened to walk out about 6:35 p.m. Layton then arrested Parker, a Pagan for 20 years, without resistance. He was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, false imprisonment and unlawful restraint. Last night, Parker was being interrogated by police biker investigators. Authorities were still looking for Parker's two cohorts. Vertex Inc., a privately held tax software company based in Berwyn, Pa., has appointed former Harley-Davidson CEO Richard F. Teerlink to its board of directors. Teerlink worked at Harley-Davidson for 18 years before retiring in 1999. He was named CEO in 1989. He is also on the board of Johnson Controls and Snap-on Inc. Vertex also named Terrence W. Kyle, the former chief financial officer of Shared Medical Systems Corp. Inc., to its board. Shared Medical was acquired by a U.S. affiliate of Siemens AG in 2000. Newborns get dead dad's Social Security A federal appeals court in San Francisco says twins conceived from the frozen sperm of a dead man can collect his Social Security benefits. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday ruled 3-0 that 7-year-old twins in Tucson who were conceived 10 months after their father died of cancer must be paid benefits, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. It is the first ruling by an appeals court on the issue. Robert Netting was diagnosed with cancer in December 1994 but made a deposit at a sperm bank before beginning chemotherapy. His wife, Rhonda Gillett-Netting, had two miscarriages before her husband's diagnosis. When Gillett-Netting gave birth to twins in August 1996 and applied for benefits based on her husband's earnings, Social Security officials ruled the newborns were not Netting's dependents at the time of his death, and a federal judge agreed. "Developing reproductive technology has outpaced federal and state laws, which currently do not address directly the legal issues created by posthumous conception," said Judge Betty Fletcher in reversing the federal judge's ruling. Some complications are turning up as officials work to carry out an order to release the names of 218 people who received sealed criminal pardons. There is a new cocktail being served in many New England bars. It is called the John Kerry. |
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