Dear Editor

what about our fearless leaders blowing up the middle east?

chicken little's older brother

When Sheriff Dee Anderson witnessed intoxicated 18-year-old Texas Christian University student William Ashe Bridges being hauled to the drunk tank, he thought the belligerent young man's assertion that they should let him go because he was "the President's daughter's boyfriend" was pretty funny. But then, after letting him sober up for two and three-quarter hours (from 2:58 to 5:46 AM), they allowed Bridges to make his mandatory phone call. "A few minutes later," Anderson recalls, "a black Suburban and some Secret Service agents showed up." The agents informed Anderson that Jenna Bush was in the vehicle, and that the drunken idiot the cops had picked up earlier would be leaving with them. And that's exactly what happened, as Bridges was whisked home with a full detail of Secret Service personnel in tow. When contacted Wednesday night by phone, Bridges refused to discuss the events, saying only: "I guess I really don't want to say anything." A White House spokeswoman reiterated Bridges' sentiment on the matter: "We are not going to have a comment."

Now howcome the editors missed this story?

I guess after Lent is over you're in for a promotion.

Where did you find this please, Nathen? I want to share it, and I'm SURE that the sources will be questioned!

I get these e-mailed to me ever day so I can not be sure of their source, however here is another slant on the story..

Friend of Bush's Daughter Arrested

Thursday, March 01, 2001

By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - A college student claiming to be the
boyfriend of President Bush's daughter Jenna was arrested at a
fraternity party and released several hours later to a man whom
deputies believed to be a Secret Service agent, a sheriff said
Thursday.
White House officials and Secret Service spokesman Tony Ball
refused to comment. ``We're not making any comments about this
incident,'' said Noelia Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for first lady
Laura Bush in Washington.
William Ashe Bridges, an 18-year-old Texas Christian University
freshman, was jailed early Sunday after law officers arrested him
at a house near the Fort Worth campus, Tarrant County Sheriff Dee
Anderson said.
Held at the county jail, Bridges was intoxicated and loudly
insisted that he was dating Bush's daughter, Anderson said his
deputies told him. When Bridges was allowed to make a phone call,
he talked a few minutes and then handed the phone to a jail
sergeant, who said a young woman on the line identified herself as
Jenna Bush, Anderson said.
``She just asked when he could be released,'' Anderson said.
``No one asked for any special favors whatsoever.''
Bridges, who was cited for public intoxication and underage
possession of alcohol, was released after four hours' detention. A
black Chrevolet Suburban with Virginia license plates arrived
outside, and a man came inside to pick up Bridges, Anderson said.
``The deputies didn't really believe Bridges until the black
Suburban pulled up and a man came inside,'' said Anderson.
Jail personnel believed the man was a Secret Service agent. A
deputy saw a woman in the vehicle but was not sure if it was Ms.
Bush, said Anderson.
Ms. Bush, 19, is a freshman at the University of Texas at
Austin.


so there is certainly lots of smoke even if there is not too much fire



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This just in to our news desk...we have been receiving unconfirmed reports from the Vatican that the Pope is considering extending Lent!

We have been receiving reports of unprecidented amounts of mail addressed to the Pope requesting the extension.

fitzy..roflmao!!!

Actually, I did see a news story yesterday - something about many Protestant religious leaders considering "recognizing" the Pope, essentially making him a de-facto leader for all Christ-based religions. While this wouldn't extend Lent, it certainly could conceivably make it a part of all Christ-centered religions.......

Fitzy I'm broke allready..Easter will be here sooner or later....

*never welch on a pledge. Did anyone count the days. Starchild E-mail RB.....

** you can bet it wasn't my idea, if there was money involved. Just ask Sue???

Yeah, and I heard they were gunna offer 0.9% financing and factory rebates too!

And what are all you people doing writing stuff in my newspaper?!?! Just cuz I don't?!?!?!

Is this rag still is operation?

I thought maybe the editor had been sent off to jail for printing anti-bush stuff.

Two tons of marijuana vanishes from Chatham County sheriff's office


PITTSBORO, March 15 - A year after sheriff's deputies seized 5,000 pounds of marijuana in an undercover sting, the largest drug bust in Chatham County history has turned into a major embarrassment.



In September, someone stole 3,000 pounds of the marijuana from an army truck behind the sheriff's department, where it was stored as evidence. Deputies buried the rest in a county landfill, and now that too has vanished.
"It's the sort of situation where it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry,'' commissioners' chairman Gary Phillips said. "It's really absurd as far as it goes.''
County officials are questioning the department's handling of the $5 million worth of marijuana. They say deputies stored it in an unsecured place, and kept it as evidence for too long.
"`That's 5,000 pounds of dope that's loose in our community that was taken off the streets,'' said commissioner Rick Givens. ``The buck stops with the sheriff's department. It was put under their responsibility, and it was taken under someone's watch.''
On Feb. 8, 2000, a narcotics team comprised of FBI agents and several county law-enforcement officials seized the marijuana at a barn near Siler City. The drugs were stored in a surplus Army National Guard truck because of a lack of space, said Sheriff Ike Gray.
Two suspects -- Victor Moises Flores Martinez, 27, of Asheboro and Jose Martin J. Diaz, 30, of Smyrna, Ga. -- were arrested after trying to flee in a pickup truck. But at least three other men escaped in the tractor-trailer and were never apprehended.
Martinez and Diaz were charged with felony trafficking of marijuana. Those charges were dismissed in March 2000 so that the men, both Mexican nationals, could be turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
But INS officials at the district office in Atlanta have no record of the men. No federal charges have been filed against them, according to the U.S. Attorney's office in Greensboro.
On Sept. 28, deputies noticed that three-fifths of the marijuana was missing. Former Sheriff Donald Whitt called the FBI immediately, said Gray, who became sheriff in December.
Gray said he doesn't know when officials found that the buried marijuana was missing.
Local law-enforcement agencies have no standard procedure for disposing of marijuana, said Irvin Allcox, supervisor of the drug chemistry laboratory at the State Bureau of Investigation. Typically, large amounts of marijuana are burned, he said.
Gray wouldn't comment on why deputies buried the marijuana rather than burning it.
Special Agent Joanne Morley in Charlotte said the FBI could neither confirm nor deny that there is an investigation.
Gray said no one in his department, which has 52 sworn officers, stole the marijuana.
"The agent in charge has said at this point he has no reason to suspect any of our people,'' he said.

And now for a completely different story about police...

"It takes a pretty tragic story to get hardened police officers to feel sympathy. Someone stealing from the Girl Scouts apparently qualifies.

When a thief stole $100 from a pack of Girl Scouts who were selling cookies in front of a grocery store, the officers dug into their own pockets to make it right.

Marie Aasted said she and her scouts have sold cookies three years in a row outside a Safeway store in the Hilltop neighborhood. On Saturday, a man walked up, grabbed their money and ran away.

"We couldn't catch him," Aasted said. "It was money that wasn't ours. It was for the Girl Scouts. And that's why we were angry."

When Tacoma police officers and dispatchers heard about the theft, they were appalled.

"They immediately got into their pockets and started handing me money, and we raised quite a bit of money just in those few moments," Aasted said. "I think I cried even more after that because I never thought I would get the money back like that."

Security cameras outside the store caught the thief on tape. Police were looking for the suspect."

it looks like barnum and bailey circus is in town.

(either that or some elephants have got loose)

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The following were business ideas voted the worst ideas of the last year by our editorial staff.

1) Pay per view commercials.
2)The pickle concession at Arlonet.
3)The play at home version of the tv gameshow "Survivor"
4)A book titled "The George W. Bush Guide to Geography and World Leaders".
5)The Dan Quayle celebrity special edition of the board game "Scrabble".