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I don't know how I missed this one, other than the suit was filed right before Thanksgiving.

A group of African Americans has sued civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, accusing him of fraud and demanding that he stop pretending to represent them.

African Americans Against Exploitation, a newly formed group that includes a former head of the Kentucky Republican Party, filed the lawsuit in Superior Court on Nov. 12. The suit claims Jackson is calling himself a Black leader without permission from the country's millions of Black citizens. The suit also was filed on behalf of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.

I am not making this up! Again, see the story at Atlanta Daily World.

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What is the worst Christmas gift you have ever gotten?

Some of these are truly great:

k_killmore: My grandfather, cheap incarnate, gave me a 9 volt battery one year. Wrapped. I was 5 at the time and realized what a shitty gift this really was even then. "You can use it in all the toys you get!" NO shit gramps. Thanks for the tip.

He-Man: When I was 13 my Grandma just went to a San Fransico (novelty store) and bought all these novelty gifts. I ended up with "The Worlds Biggest Condom" in my stocking.

SGTGAFSNA: A Spoon-Pin. That's right, you heard me, a motherfucking Spoon-Pin. Take a spoon, bend it in half, melt down the "spooning" part of it so it looks like a metal rod, glue pin-thing to it, voila, a fucking spoon-pin. It basically looks like you're walking around with the top half of a spoon, or possibly a fork, attached to your shirt/jacket.

Be sure to read the first entry on page six. It is a little long but very nice.

The worst gift I ever got was not a Christmas gift, but a gift on some other holiday- I forget which. My ex gave me a huge candle, about 7 inches in diameter and 12 inches tall that had three wicks and a metal base. WTF? I am a guy. You don't give a guy a candle; you give a guy a power tool, some CDs, or something for his bike. "No, we won't be having sex in front of the candle. If you had given me a circular saw, maybe we could have had sex in front of it." To make matters worse, her 5-year-old daughter, who I adored beyond belief, pulled it over onto her head a few days later trying to blow it out. She was scared out of her wits, but luckily unhurt. Sure enough I was the one who had to spend 2 hours combing all the wax out of her hair.

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The Daily Howler describes how the Republican National Committee spun a lie about Al Gore, and the press ran with it knowing it was false.

Gore's original statement: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

While not stated as well as it could have been, like much extemporaneous speech, Gore did help create the internet by taking a leadership role in Congress to aid the development of the World Wide Web. He did take initiative in the creation of the internet. Many people will attest that AL Gore played a very important part of making the internet what it is today.

In 1988 Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf, often called the father of the Internet:"I think it is very fair to say that the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president."

In 1988 Writer Martin Walker wrote in the Guardian: American computing scientists are campaigning for the creation of a "superhighway" which would revolutionize data transmission. Legislation has already been laid before Congress by Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, calling for government funds to help establish the new network, which scientists say they can have working within five years, at a cost of Dollars 400 million.

In 2000 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican: "In all fairness, it's something Gore had worked on a long time. Gore is not the Father of the Internet, but in all fairness, Gore is the person who, in the Congress, most systematically worked to make sure that we got to an Internet, and the truth is-and I worked with him starting in 1978 when I got [to Congress], we were both part of a "futures group"-the fact is, in the Clinton administration, the world we had talked about in the '80s began to actually happen."

The Republicans have chosen to argue that because of how Gore said the statement, it meant one thing. Everybody understood what he was really saying, and what he meant. Nobody even questioned the statement until the RNC got running with it, the press hopped on board with them, and shoved it down the people's throat for two years. It is a shame that Bush was never held to the same standards of speech. There are entire books on Bush's misstatements. The RNC does not want the press reporting on them, so they do not. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me ....... won't get fooled again.

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I hope this guy does not think he will ever get a chance to play on one of the greatest golf courses in the world again.

I don't play golf, or watch golf. I could care less what Tiger shoots on any course. I am a liberal. Yet I still fail to see why a private, single gender club should be forced to admit women. If a bunch of men want to get together and play with other men, more power to them. This is a recreational activity. I would rather be swimming with a master's swim team where most of the members are female and are dressed in bathing suits. But to each his own.

The fact that they host one of the biggest golf events in the country does not change that fact. People are free to try and host another golf event on the same weekend at a mixed gender club if they want.

If single gender golf clubs are not kosher, than neither is a single gender golf league. I should be able to compete in a LPGA tournament on the same weekend the Augusta National is forced to admit women as members. And I want to hit from the same tees.

Now this Thomas H. Wyman is out of the club, nothing is going to change, and a bunch of old men have woodies thinking that they may be invited to be the newest member. He accomplished nothing.

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Stormwatch 2002!

A storm is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico that could mean ice in Northern Georgia. That is very bad news around these parts.

One inch of snow or a thin sheet of ice and Atlanta will be shut down. There will be thousands of car accidents. Watching Atlantans drive is better than hockey and NASCAR combined. There will be more dented cars on the streets than in the parking lot at WWF's Smackdown. Allstate won't have enough hands. State Farm will be here, there and everywhere.

In addition to the accidents, school will be cancelled, power and phones will be out, grocery stores will sell out of everything, and Home Depot will have a run on generators.

Two days later, Atlantans will be getting rides to their stranded cars, insurance adjusters will be having dreams of huge commission checks, and everybody will be returning generators to Home Depot.

More from Weather Underground.

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