Jack King, noted attorney, is in today's LA Times. He's still waiting for his subpoena: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/REPORTS/SCANDAL/STORIES/lat_scandal0303.htm Get in line, Jack. If Vernon Jordan is in the batter's box, does that mean that our gal Monica Lewinsky is in the on deck circle? And from Sonoma Countian Roger Karraker: In the same vein, a report from last Friday's "Washington Pissed": White House Tries to Squash Ken Starr's Penis Washington, DC - (Feb 27) - According to CNN, the so-called "White House," apparently tried, early yesterday, to have Ken Starr's grand jury penis, or something, so-called "squashed." According to CNN's source, Ken Starr apparently has 2 penii -- a superior court uber-penis and a grand jury sub-penis, and it was the sub-penis that the so-called "White House" tried to have squashed. ---- Full text at http://c3f.com/nty0227.html

Couldn't that hurt?

Yeltsin fired his entire cabinet. Can you imagine Clinton doing that? What's up with this?

I can top that--yesterday he fired himself!

How I wish I could do that!!!

PowerBall lottery: jackpot has grown exponentially with the 20 states (and D.C.) to a grand total of $195 MILLION! and ONE person won it all last night. doh!

can I just curl up and cry now?

another kids killing kids school shooting spree this morning in Oregon, 25 victims and of those one dead and three super critical maybe Riette is right about murder being instinctual...

let's not even hypothesize yet... as liberal as I tend to lean, I still point toward televison/media/movies glorifying and (at the very least) desensitizing the general populus to such violence. How many glorified vigilante movies have there been in the past five years? How many television stations have chosen to replay videos of suicides/standoffs/shootouts? Our society (HUGE generalization) 'preaches' self-awareness. It maintains an air of distance between one person and another. Communities are becoming obsolete (in the sense they are a group of individuals working toward a similar purpose while looking out for 'their own'). Individuals view themselves more frequently as islands... the children I teach have very little respect for life and little to no knowledge concerning cause/effect. Consequences are remote. Seems everyone is living in a dream.

Today is backwards day at Knight Academy... if i were much more intelligent and more right brained than I am (or would this use the left side?) I would post all responses in backwards arabic BUT... since I am really smarter than that and I don't want to humiliate or belittle any of you all, I will simply call you by your wacky wednesday (my kids would impale me for not capitalizing that 'W' after all the points I've taken off their papers for similar mistakes -- ahhhh to be the teacher!) names. REW mij etteiR nmutuA (I had to write that out and then flip it around... sad, sad, sad) floW luaP cte. cte. cte.

.em yb yako s'tahT

taht etirw ot uoy ekat ti did gnol woH shit. I forgot the question mark! thanks for playing with me REW!

.emityna uoy htiw yalp ll'I !emoclew er'uoY

(damn you're really quick with the transciption!)

.dab oot toN .sdrow trohs htiw yllaicepsE

!!LOL

Here is a story my students wrote yesterday... The Three Hungry Wolves by 121 One morning three little girls were walking on the beach. They were walking to Grandma's house. Silently three wolves crept up and surrounded the little girls. "Back Off," they said. "Why should we listen to you?" the wolves snarled. The frightened girls sprinted away toward their grandmother's house. A fox jumped out of a bush and the girls darted to the left. The wolves and the fox began to chase after the girls. Darnell, the wolf, jumped of Chris, the fox, and bit him on the back of the neck. The fox whimpered and slipped away toward the girls. The wolves and the fox continued their pursuit of the little girls. Chris, the fox, soon left the chase in pursuit of a tuna fish sandwich. At Grandma's house, the wolves stopped and looked around for the little girls who were nowhere to be found. Grandma came out of the house with pig feet, chitlins and neck bones. The wolves asked, "Could we please have a bottle of hot sauce?" Everyone was happy and full except for Chris the fox, who was still searching for tuna fish. The End (they wrote that round robin after a series of mini-lessons on characterization, dialogue, setting, plot and action verbs! I am so proud of them!) *beam*

My favorite word was "darted" I liked when that happened. I liked how half way through, names came into the picture (Darnell & Chris) And since the wolves were boys instead of just wolves, Grandma treated them real good. I also liked "crept up" "snarled" "sprinted away" "whimpered" "slipped away toward" The dialogue entered into its own element, did its thing.....coool. Talk about catchin' on, those kids are sharp. Kids' writings are some of the most inventive in the language. It makes me giddy thinkin' how fun it could've been to've been one of them when they were comin' up with their stuff, their contributions. I bet it was pretty engaging. I wonder if they did a buncha tryin' to figure out what would work, like what should go next -- or -- whether they just said stuff, jotted it down, reworked it a little here a little there and it happened fairly quick. I always like how a new activity can bring out something in a kid or kids that no one there really ever noticed about the kid before....and the kid is going, "hmmm, i like doin' this....it got pretty fun....I'm gonna try some more of this on my own....and with my brother and maybe at recess with Kirsten and Najeeb."

that's the reaction I'm looking for from them. They actually wrote it as a group (talk about using problem solving skills!) and I jotted it up on the board when they came to a consensus. I wanted them to be able to publish it within the school, so my only rule was... nobody gets eaten! Thanks for the comments Jim, I'll share them with the boys... their first critque!

I liked the food! Are you sure you're still in Colorado, or have you secretly moved to Kentucky??

Hey, what's that about Kentucky?

Now calm down, wer, remember I have this thang for you good ol' boys...

as long as we're clean shaven and ugly...

still in CO. One of my student's favorite meals is pig's EARS! They claim it's soul food and I am none the wiser. We are having a pizza party tomorrow... typical elementary fare regardless of the locale!

Happy last day of school, teach!

THANK YOU!!!!!

--------------------------------------------------------- ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98 INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12 http://www.aec.at/infowar --------------------------------------------------------- Time Daily - Jul 9, 1998: Television Banned in Afghanistan July 9, 1998 The Taliban government outlaws possession of TV sets Updated: Jul 9 1998 12:32PM The revolution will not be televised -- at least not in Afghanistan. The Taliban government today banned TV, and gave Afghans 15 days to get rid of all sets and VCRs. After that, if the organization's enforcers find one in your house, it will be destroyed and you will be punished. (And in a country where women are beaten in the street if their bodies are not covered from head to toe, tuning in for your regular satellite dose of "Baywatch" may not be worth the pain.) Of course there hasn't been anything good on Afghan TV for some time -- the Taliban closed down the country's only TV station in 1996, for fear that the medium would corrupt society. So if you're looking for the remote in an Afghan household, you're unlikely to find it in the couch cushions -- try digging up the back yard. -- Tony Karon http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,1237,101980709-taliban,00.html There are no laws effectively providing for freedom of speech and the press. Senior officials of various warring factions allegedly attempted to intimidate reporters and influence their reporting. The few newspapers, all of which were published only sporadically, were for the most part affiliated with different factions. The various factions maintain their own communications facilities. The Taliban took over the pro-Rabbani radio service in Kabul and renamed it the Voice of Shariat. The Taliban banned television on religious grounds. All factions have attempted to pressure foreign journalists reporting on the Afghan conflict. The Taliban initially cooperated with the international press who arrived in Kabul but later imposed restrictions upon them. On September 29, journalists accompanying European Union Commissioner Emma Bonino, and the Commissioner herself, were detained for 3 hours in Kabul after they entered a hospital for women and began filming in violation of the Taliban rule against photographing living things. The television crews agreed to turn over their cassettes to the Taliban authorities. A Taliban official later expressed apologies for the arrest. The Taliban reportedly require most journalists to stay at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul (allegedly for security and economic reasons). Journalists also reported that the Taliban attempted to control who could act as drivers and interpreters for journalists. Music, movies, and television continue to be prohibited by the Taliban. Television functioned sporadically in Mazar-i-Sharif. http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/1997_hrp_report/afghanis.html Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects, Amsterdam tijen@inter.nl.net ----- End of forwarded message from Tjebbe van Tijen -----

ok, how many people watched our President's speech? i don't really know what to think. if he lied (at any point) can this really be left in his personal life? can we continue to "trust" in his decisions that affect every one of us? i agree that it should have been left in his privacy, but when brought out to the public he should have come right out then and there and straightened it all out. but i also agree with his statement that we should move on. i'm not trying to put down my president (as my commander in chief) just trying to understand the fabric of the man who is. i am glad he took responsibility (even rather late in the game). the only thing that i think may have held him back in the beginning was fear and the thought (hope) that monica wouldn't have continued to pursue the matter. but we have all made mistakes in our lives. let's hope he doesn't lie to the country and send our men and women in the military into a sad situation. (probably am just displaying my ignorance) so now what's going to happen to the Miss Teen USA that was to be broadcast out of our Hirsch Coliseum tonight? Huh???

So, what did he say in his speech? Was it one of those dreadfully emotional, kitchy speeches of his? I mean the man is clever, and probably a good president all in all, I just wish he wouldn't be so damned KITCHY!!!

no. he said he acted inappropriately which was his fault and he wants to patch things up with his wife, daughter, and God. it lasted 4 minutes with two hour commentary by the press. he is clever with his words.

It was a mix of humility and outrage. He copped to the affair but he blasted Ken Starr's $40 million 4 year investigation. He tried to wrap it up and bring closure but fell short by firing this shot. The country's tired of it. The worst outcome might be the best, impeachment, then Gore gets a headstart on 2000 as a sitting President. As someone who likes Gore a lot more than Clinton, this might not be so awful. And Gore wouldn't be so impaired and such a lame duck. So I say, let the Republicans muck up things by impeaching Clinton, and thereby insure themselves of another 10 years of Democratic Presidential government. Clinton headed out on vacation. Starr isn't done, he's talking to spin-master, Clinton outcast what's his name today. And he may not be through with Clinton or Lewinsky.

i heard someone say that we probably don't want Gore either. you think hilary will run in 2000?

Ogh, they're such a ghastly family!!

Maybe as Gore's VP.

I'll laugh myself to bits everytime I see a speech on TV, by America's President Pete (or Andrew, or Phillip) GORE. Let's just hope they don't assassinate him at any point, because then he will live up to his name gloriously. BLOOD covered President GORE this morning as his BRAINS were shot out this morning.....!!! ha-ha!!!! forgive my sense of humour

He's the VP, and it's Al Gore, Rush Limbaugh derisively refers to him as algor as in some monster movie. He wrote a story about our Farm in Tennessee when he was a reporter in Nashville and my friend Al Bates does environmental research for him.

HA-HA!!!!!! President ALL GORE!!! Are you always serious?

Sometimes. I like gore.

Suppose the novelty's worn off for me - what with all the nappies and other gore I deal with every day! But if Gore is important to you, I hope he becomes the next president.

He could, if he can overcome the Bush challenge (our Texas gov). Clinton resigning now would give him a big head start.

Don't you just wish Clinton WOULD resign?

Yes, not because I don't like Clinton but because I like Gore.

I don't like Clinton - not because he seems a bad president, but because he's such a SNAIL! Leaves a whitish, slimy, squidgy, slippery track every time he looks at a woman. I mean, hasn't the guy go ANY control down there? Is he addicted to Viagra?

don't think he needs it. it's not so much the fact that he "behaved inappropriately" that bothers me, it's the fact that he lied about it. and then he wears her tie the day she testified. yes, he was wrong in his behavior. but now who will believe anything he says?

I never did. He is, after all, the President...

I guess calling him pri�k to his face would be taken as a huge compliment?! ha-ha! No, Wolf, I agree. I can handle a pervert, but not a goddamned liar.

Any comments on the rebel base bombings?

Politically I guess it's a good move basically. I just get bloody fed up with the way innocent people have to die for quarrels between a bunch of craphead egotists. I mean, if that fanatic ar$ehole was pi$$ed off with Bill, why did he not bomb BILL? And then if America was pi$$ed off at him for bombing Bill, then Gore could become new president, and bomb the damned fanatic! I think it's easy to bomb people if it's not YOU or YOUR family dying.

i think it just happened at a strange time.

So you're with the 25% or so that say he's waggin' the dog, wolfie? The Russians were mad because the US didn't tell them, nor did they notify the country next door 5 miles away. Question is, what will be the counter reprisals now? Batten down your hatches.

they'll probably just continue doing what they've always done. i don't think (as in wag the dog) that this is all made up. but just makes one wonder. the only thing is that now that this precedence has been set, this country is obligated to continue meeting terroristic actions in the same way.

I isn't made up, it just came at a bloody convenient time for Bill.

That country was Pakistan. And Yeltsin's on a rant about it. It's terrifying to think about how far we've come without a major chemical, biological or terrorist attack. These weren't really major acts of terrorism in comparison to what's possible. It's a very tough issue for the world, to be up against such a hard to define and pin down enemy with the ability to change its base of operations and not be tied down to a specific country, it a sense, it's a virtual enemy with ability to organize acroos boundaries.

Yeltsin on a rant? No way! He's way too senile and chronically drunk - if he's on a rant, it'll be over the price of Vodka, not Pakistan. God, he's an old fart!

OK not rant, perfuncatory West bashing.

HA-HA!!!! How are you Terry? HAve you been to the movies again with that fabulous friend of yours?

Not this last weekend. I was a homebody.

Fondling your complicated tool(s), no doubt.

Kristen, my room mate, just told me that a Swiss Air plane went down, she's freaked because she knows a bunch of folks that work for Swiss Air. She's shaking.

let's keep them in our prayers *hugs* for your roomy.

Swissair Jet Crashes Off Nova Scotia By DAVE HOWLAND .c The Associated Press PEGGY'S COVE, Nova Scotia (Sept. 3) - Dozens of fishing boats and coast guard ships searching through choppy seas today found only bodies and debris from a Swissair jetliner that crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard. Swissair said there were no survivors from Flight 111 from New York to Geneva, which plunged into the ocean Wednesday night after its pilot reported smoke in the cockpit and attempted an emergency landing at Halifax International Airport. ''About 30 miles south of the airport, the aircraft disappeared from radar screens,'' said airline spokeswoman Beatrice Tschanz in Zurich, Switzerland. At dawn, rescuers had recovered 18 bodies from the turbulent waters a few miles off Peggys Cove, a small fishing village and tourist retreat. Philippe Bruggisser, the airline's chief executive officer, told reporters in Zurich the flight headed out over the Atlantic without incident but within minutes, the Swiss pilot and co-pilot decided to turn back after reporting problems on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 plane. The passengers were thought to be mostly Swiss, Tschanz said. It was not immediately known how many Americans were on board, but one crew member was an American from Swissair partner Delta, Tschanz said. In Atlanta, Delta spokesman Bill Berry said 53 Delta passengers were on the flight. Dr. Jonathan Mann, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and a pioneer in the fight against AIDS, was among the dead, along with his wife, according to Dr. Peter Piot of the U.N. World Health Organization. U.N. officials returning to headquarters in Geneva also were believed to be on board. The White House said terorrism likely was not a factor in the crash. President Clinton, who was visiting Northern Ireland today, was being regularly briefed on the crash. The plane left New York's Kennedy International Airport at 8:17 p.m. with 215 passengers - including two infants - and 14 crew, said Philippe Roy, a Geneva airport spokesman. Before the plane went down slightly more than an hour later, residents said they heard loud sputtering noises from an aircraft passing overhead and then a thundering crash. Dozens of ambulances were dispatched to the scene. ''The motors were still going, but it was the worst-sounding deep groan that I've ever heard,'' said witness Claudia Zinck-Gilroy. Searchlights from coast guard cutters, fishing boats, helicopters and planes illuminated the area, said witnesses, who reported seeing an oil slick, life preservers and other debris from the downed aircraft spread over a wide area of ocean. ''It's real ugly,'' said Craig Sanford, operator of a whale-watching boat that was one of the first vessels on the scene. ''You see Styrofoam floating, chunks of wood, panels, the odd body here and there. It's not a nice scene.'' The three-engine plane dumped tons of fuel over nearby St. Margaret's Bay before crashing, The Canadian Press quoted an airport worker as saying. Debris from the aircraft was found off Clam Island and other islets between Peggys Cove and Blandford, 20 miles southwest of Halifax. Lt. Cmdr. Mike Considine of the Search and Rescue Center in Halifax said rescue crews were searching for the aircraft seven miles off Peggys Cove. Local fishermen were called to the area because they are familiar with the waters. There were four rescue planes and four helicopters, as well as a Canadian navy ship, said Canadian navy spokeswoman Tracy Simoneau. She said civilian rescuers were at the scene within minutes of the crash. At the airports in New York and Geneva, grief counselors were on hand for relatives of the crash victims. A special lounge was set up in the Delta Air Lines terminal at Kennedy Airport. Rabbi Mendel Pevzner said more than 100 relatives and friends had gathered at the Geneva airport. Kennedy officials reported only a handful of relatives had shown up there. The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington sent a team of 10 people to Canada this morning. It was the first crash of a Swissair plane since Oct. 7, 1979, when one of its DC-8s overshot the runway in Athens, Greece, while attempting to land and burst into flames. Fourteen people were killed. The plane was put into service in August 1991 and was overhauled in August and September last year, said Georges Schorderet, the chief financial officer of parent company SAirGroup. It had been checked as all are before takeoff, he added. ''This airplane was in perfect working order,'' Schorderet said. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is a jet known for its reliability, even though its manufacturer, Boeing, has announced plans to discontinue the model in the year 2000. ''Both the aircraft and the airline have extremely good safety records, among the very best in the industry,'' Daly said.

McGwire DID IT!!! 62 HOMERS!!!! i almost cried as i watched it. what an awesome acheivement, and he was so happy in front of the crowd, soaking it all up. he was so excited that he almost forgot to tag 1st base on his way around the bases, and the first base coach had to tell him to tag up. history made tonight!

I did cry, being a lifelong Cardinal fan and one who listened to Jack Buck, Harry Caray and Joe Garagiola broadcast Cardinals games as a kid. The way he tossed his kind in the air. And all the hugs and body language, what a night. What a night! So many great moments. And at the end he even turned and thanked his "great ex-wife"; you just don't get this every day! He slapped it hard. A line drive that went in to a no fan's area. The shortest home run he hit all season. And he gave all the Maris' kids big hugs and expressions of thanks. The big guys got it great.

As if we didn't already know... From: mrteegeack@aol.com (MrTeegeack) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: SFChronicle 1951,APRIL 24 - Hubbard Insane Date: 15 Nov 1998 16:39:56 GMT The San Francisco Chronicle April 24, 1951 - A-8:3 Ron Hubbard Insane, Says His Wife LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UP)--- The wife of L.Ron Hubbard, 40, founder of the Dianetics Mental Health Movement, filed suit for divorce today, charging he is suffering from a mental ailment. Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, said "competent medical advisers" had examined her 40-year-old husband and concluded he was "hopelessly insane" and should be placed in a private sanitarium for "psychiatric observation." She said doctors told her her husband was suffering from a mental ailment "known as paranoid schizophrenia." Mrs. Hubbard also charged he subjected her to "systematic torture" by beating and strangling her and denying her sleep. Her suit said Hubbard once told her he didn`t want to be married and suggested that if she really loved him, she would kill herself because a divorce would "hurt his reputation." Mrs. Hubbard described her husband`s dianetics research foundation as his "alter ego" and said the institution did more than $1,000,000 business last year. When informed of the doctors` recommendation that he be placed in a mental institution, Hubbard took their 13-month-old daughter, Alexis, from Mrs. Hubbard`s apartment and went into hiding, the suit charged. The wife also said Hubbard told her he was unmarried when they were wed Aug. 10, 1946, at Chestertown, Md., but it was not until December, 1947, that he divorced a former wife, Mrs. Margaret Grubb Hubbard, at Port Orchard, Wash. Mrs. Hubbard asked $500,000 damages to compensate for the loss of "the golden years of a woman`s life" and an annulment of their marriage if the court finds she never was legally marriedto the dianetics founder. Mr. Teegeeack More Information: www.xenu.net www.factnet.org www.lermanet.com

she got tired of scientology, eh?

Or she got tired of lies. WAIT A MINUTE!! If they were married in 1946, how canshe be 25 yrs old? 1946 would be 27yrs before she was born. I've heard of robbing the cradle, but this is ridiculous!

Well, all I can say is Chestertown's a darn charming little town. I'm sure it was a nice setting for a wedding, even a bigamist's...

Teletubbies under attack from Jerry Falwell. From luddite@PRAIRIENET.ORG Thu Feb 11 00:46:43 1999 Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:26:50 -0600 From: "Margaret M. Sheehan" To: STORYTELL@VENUS.TWU.EDU Subject: The Tinky-Winky Defense I don't know about the rest of you, but I was shocked, shocked I say, when I heard of Jerry Falwell's vicious and unwarranted attack on Tinky-Winky. Just because Tinky-Winky carries a purse, is that any reason to accuse him of un-natural acts? He has no genitalia, any act would be un-natural! And with whom would he be un-natural? There are only three other Teletubbies and a bunch of rabbits and none of them have had these scurrilous accusations thrown at them. And do we really have any notion of just what kind of act would be natural in Teletubbyland? Until we can find a telesociologist, we will never know. We, as storytellers, must take a stand. We must support the right of any fictional character to accessorize at will. We can not allow others to define the sexual orientation of fictional characters (or non-fictional characters) based solely on inaccurate perceptions. This cuts to the heart of storytelling and our ability to tell freely. Make no mistake, this is a pocketbook issue. I say we should all accessorize in support of Tinky-Winky. Margaret in Illinois

can't wait till Ree reads this...

i fell out of my chair when i heard that. who in the hell cares? we certainly can't tell what sex it is in the first place.

can we on closer inspection?

well, i'll just leave that up to you to take care of seeing as how you know more about them than i do! *grin*

Senate Acquits Bill Clinton WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States Senate has acquitted President Clinton on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury and obstruction of justice, assuring that he will not be removed from office. The first article drew a not guilty vote of 55-45. The second was split 50-50. Both charges would have required 67 votes for conviction, a threshold that senators have known for weeks would not be met.

Frankly, I'm more interested in the tanker off Coos Bay

what's happening there?

set a tanker on fire beacuse it was washed ashore and leaking oil. a storm was brewing and if they'd left it alone, they felt the oil spill couldn't be contained/stopped. so... before it could break open and spill it's load... they set it afire. They tried twice actually. Bringing the special forces of the Navy to finally oss their pyrotechnic weight around. It's burning now... they don't know how long it will continue

oh! so instead of polluting the water, they're stanking up the air? real good idea.

yep. lesser of two evils I suppose A sad situation either way. At least thousands of shore birds didn't have to die a slow and suffocating oil slick death...

And here's my fair city... Bad shit. Really bad shit. Students flee scene of Colorado shooting Three detained in school shooting April 20, 1999 Web posted at: 3:54 p.m. EDT (1954 GMT) LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- Three men have been detained at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, where gunmen earlier opened fire and wounded at least 14 people. Unconfirmed reports say the men are friends of the suspects. Witnesses said at least two gunmen in black trench coats and masks opened fire and tossed an explosive device Tuesday at the high school southwest of Denver. At least 14 people have been taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, local television reported. One female student was shot nine times in the chest, another female student was shot once in the chest and a male student was shot once in the back. Nearly two hours after the 11:30 a.m. MDT (1:30 p.m. EDT) shooting, SWAT team members entered the building and 15 to 20 students fled. There was no confirmation that the gunmen were still inside, but police said some students had been hiding in a choir room. SWAT team members are among the 100 to 200 law enforcement officers at the scene. A student named James who called a local TV station said he was locked inside a classroom and he could hear a lot of crying and screaming out in the hallway, along with shouted threats. A girl identified only as Janine told KCNC-TV she saw men in black trench coats open fire. "We saw three people get shot," she said. "They were just shooting. They didn't care who they shot. They were just shooting." Other witnesses said the gunmen were students, part of a group of outcasts. Student Jonathon Ladd said he was leaving a technology laboratory when he saw students running and heard shots ricocheting off lockers. He said he ran to a nearby park to escape the gunfire. Columbine High is in the middle-class suburb of Littleton, population 35,000. It opened in 1973 and has an enrollment of about 1,800. I work about 4 miles away from the school Many of the employees have children there. Bad shit.

this is what I came to on the news... how are you doing, Stace?

pretty yuck. Brandon flew home early last night, thanking his lucky stars all the way that I was no longer teaching. Makes me never want to have children Lotsa tears round here

LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- After word from the bomb squad that a suburban Denver high school was safe, investigators entered the building on Wednesday to collect evidence and photograph the scene of the rampage that left 15 people dead, including two teen-age suspects. Agonized parents braced for the worst as bodies remained inside Columbine High School while police scoured the building for potential bombs and booby traps in the aftermath of Tuesday's terror. "The investigation is under way," Deputy Steve Davis of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said at midday on Wednesday. "The bomb team has assured them the building is safe at this point. We don't feel there are any other devices we have to worry about in the building." Davis said 11 males and four females were killed. One of the males was an adult, "probably" a faculty member, he said. More than 20 people were wounded, some of them critically. While some of the fatalities and injuries came from gunfire, others were the result of explosions, Davis said. "It was a combination of both," he told CNN. "We had victims ... that had wounds consistent with shrapnel and consistent with gunshot(s). There were numerous bombs detonated in this school ... during this assault." About 30 explosive devices Earlier on Wednesday, authorities reported finding about 30 explosive devices, including "quite a few" inside the school. Authorities identified Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, both juniors at Columbine, as the two gunmen wearing black trench coats who laughed and hooted as they opened fire on classmates with "long rifles and handguns" and set off explosions before killing themselves. In addition to unexploded bombs found inside the school, other explosive devices were located in the suspects' cars and bomb-making material was found at Harris' home, police said. Some of the explosives were on timers, Davis said. The bombs were "easily made and most of the components can be purchased at any hardware store," he said, without identifying the materials. Davis said a computer was seized from the home of one suspect, but did not know if the suspects used the Internet to obtain bomb-making instructions. 'It looks like a war zone' Identifying the victims and removing the bodies could take time, said Sgt. George Hinkle, a police SWAT team officer from Lakewood, Colorado, who has been inside the school. "A lot of them aren't carrying ID." "We want to make sure the scene is fully preserved for court purposes, in case it turns out there are other suspects and court cases that may occur later down the road," said Hinkle. "Everything has to be photographed, diagrammed and the identities established before people are moved." He said there were at least "five or six" explosions inside the school, while fire sprinklers set off by the blasts left heavy water damage. "We've got all the debris that goes with a scene like this. We've got backpacks all over. We've got shoes (and) spent shell casings. It just looks like a war zone," Hinkle said. 'We could hear people pleading for their lives' Students streamed into Clement Park next to the school on Wednesday morning to leave flowers and share their feelings about the shootings. "This was out of the blue. Nobody expected it," student Katie Crena told CNN. She and some of her fellow students locked themselves into a classroom after the violence began. "I thought, 'This is it, I'm going to die,'" Crena said. "I mean they were so close. They shot the window of the classroom next door. They tried to get... into our classroom. They were playing with the handle and then went on. We could hear people pleading for their lives," she said. Clinton to parents: 'Shield children from violent images' At the White House, President Clinton praised the quick thinking of police and the courage of students and teachers who rushed to protect each other. Clinton also said children all over America need to be reassured of their safety. "We also have to take this moment once again to hammer home to all the children of America that violence is wrong," the president said Wednesday. "And parents should take this moment to ask what else they can do to shield our children from violent images and experiences that warp young perceptions and obscure the consequences of violence -- to show our children by the power of our own example how to resolve conflicts peacefully." Attorney General Janet Reno said she may push to have more counselors in the nation's schools to avoid problems before they start. The country must "make investments in counselors and support systems that can help us identify children who are on the verge of terror and help take steps to alleviate the problem before it produces tragedy such as this," she told CNN from Minneapolis. Death toll lowered The attack began when Harris and Klebold, wearing fatigues and ankle-length black coats, opened fire in the school parking lot around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday before entering the school cafeteria. Police said they exchanged shots with officers and were later found dead in the school library with self-inflicted gunshot wounds and bombs around their bodies. "It appears to be a suicide mission," Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone said. No suicide note has been found, authorities said. Davis said he did not know how the heavily armed pair obtained their weapons. It must have taken "quite a bit of planning to carry that much equipment and ammunition (into the school)," he said. He said Harris and Klebold were the only suspects, so far. "If, later, our investigation shows that other people were involved in either the planning or the execution of this incident, then certainly we would charge them." After the four-hour siege ended, police originally said that as many as 25 people may have been killed. By Wednesday morning they revised the estimated death toll downward to 15. Four people who knew the suspects, some of them former students, were questioned in the case and released, police said. 'We're going to kill every one of you' Many stunned students, parents and residents of Littleton, an affluent Denver suburb, attended a memorial service Tuesday night, and school officials were arranging crisis counseling for teens struggling to cope with the massacre, the most recent of several school shootings nationwide. While police have not given a motive, several students said Harris and Klebold were members of a group calling itself the "Trenchcoat Mafia," outcasts who bragged about guns and bombs and hated blacks and Hispanics, as well as student athletes. With the exception of one African-American, all of the fatalities were white, Davis said. Students said the "Trenchcoat Mafia" was fascinated with World War II and the Nazis and noted that Tuesday was Adolf Hitler's birthday. Members of the group don't talk much to other students and "give people dirty looks," student Josh Nielsen told CNN. The attackers marched into the library of Columbine High School with guns and pipe bombs, demanding that "all jocks stand up. We're going to kill every one of you," said student Aaron Cohn. A gunman looked under a desk in the library and said "Peek-a-boo," then fired, Cohn said. Anyone who cried or moaned was shot again. One girl begged for her life, but a gunshot ended her cries, the student said. Cohn said one killer put a pistol to his head but did not shoot him. Instead, he said, the shooter turned his attention to a black student, saying, "I hate niggers." Cohn heard three shots but couldn't see what happened. "You could hear them laughing and running upstairs," said one student, who broke down in tears as she recounted the killing spree. "They didn't care who it was and it was all at close range." .

i am so sorry stacey. i really and truly pray none of them were your students. people try to blame guns for this but that's not the case. they have a warped sense of perception (obviously) and..... what can i say? parents need to know what in the hell is going on with their kids. parents cannot be afraid of them. let them threaten what they will, parents need to be the ones in control. please don't take offense. i know that sometimes things happen and the parents really have no idea and have done everyt ing they know to do. i hate to think that my babies can't even go to school without feeling threatened! and i'm doing my best to raise them to understand the value of things...of life....of respect for others....of love.

I hear that story and think, those kids were somebody's babies just a few years ago...what went wrong? It makes me so glad I decided to homeschool the girls next year.

ok, not to panic anyone or anything, but i just saw the strangest thing in the sky. 1950, 28 Apr 99, clear sky, 4 white cylinder looking crafts moved slowly across the sky heading north (coming from the south). they looked like aircraft bodies without wings. my neighbor and i were outside when they flew by. they were moving slowly and i didn't see any wings nor hear any sound. so what in the hell were they? i'm on cnn right now and nothing (you know how they know everything). these things were going the same direction. i've never seen aircraft passively flying by like that before. soon fter, i did see a regular aircraft fly by at approximately the same height and left an airtrail and wings could be seen. got any ideas?

got tons of ideas, wolf... am seriously lacking in good answers, however!

well, i think it belongs in the paranormal conference under ufo's. copying it over now. until i find out what it was, it's a ufo, right? unidentified flying object.......

that's my understanding as well...

ooooooh!

our boys are in ramstein air base, germany!!!! woohoo!!! (the pow's from kosovo)

Wonder if any of them will pick up a copy of SUPERSTAR?

think that's the last thing on their mind *grin* but they're superstars now, for sure!!

You guys tell them. All big (civillian) airports, all trainstations. If they buy it, our circulation will triple!

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - AP World News via NewsEdge Corporation : Police broke into an abandoned bank vault in a sleepy country town Friday to find the decomposing bodies of at least two, and perhaps up to six murder victims. The human remains found at Snowtown, north of Adelaide, were in six large plastic barrels, possibly containing a corrosive liquid. Police who made the gruesome discovery in the old State Bank building on Snowtown's main street said exhaustive forensic tests would be needed to determine exactly how many bodies there were. Robert Joe Wagner, 27; John Justin Bunting, 32; and Mark Ray Haydon, 40, appeared in court in Adelaide on Friday charged with murder. Detective Superintendent Paul Schramm of the Major Crime Investigation Branch described the discovery as ``bizarre'' and said it was possible there were more than two bodies at the site. ``There were six containers ... there were remains in all six of the containers but I again reiterate that does not mean to say that there were six bodies. ``Let's wait and see what the scientists say.'' No positive identification had been made but it was believed male and female bodies had been found. More than 50 police swooped on tiny Snowtown, population 500, following a yearlong investigation into outstanding missing persons files. [Copyright 1999, Associated Press]

gahrosse!!! what tipped them off? i mean, to investigate an abandoned bank vault?

yucko!

Maybe somebody claimed a, huh, deposit?

they could have been subjected to early withdrawal penalties...

COCOA BEACH, FLA. - The Associated Press via NewsEdge Corporation : A top Russian space official found semiconscious on a beach was arrested after attacking two emergency medical workers, authorities said. Vladimir Lobachev, 61, of Moscow, was released from jail Monday after posting $1,000 bond on two charges of battery. Lobachev is in Florida as a visiting dignitary for Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Discovery, a NASA official said. He is director of the Russian space program's Mission Control Center in Korolev, a suburb of Moscow. According to an arrest report, police arrived at the Cocoa Beach pier Sunday to find Lobachev _ semiconscious, face down in the sand, and wearing boxer shorts. He was transported to Cape Canaveral Hospital. But as he was being removed from the ambulance, he roused himself and became combative, police said. Neither medical worker was seriously hurt, said Orlando Domingez, spokesman for the Fire Rescue agency. The arrest report said that alcohol may have been a factor. [Copyright 1999, Associated Press]

oh my