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Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should...

There's been a lot of vitriol hurled at both Democrats and Republicans this election, but I'd like to focus on one party that has, until this point, largely escaped some richly deserved criticism. The voters. That's right, the precious American voters: Sacred stewards of democracy. You don't have to spin around in an election cycle for long to discover that a shocking number of voters are in fact gullible, greedy, oblivious to facts, or simply fundamentally retarded. However, three types of voters deserve special mention for taking their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, and essentially wiping their with it. Let's...

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A 13-year-old boy who gave a girl a lovebite at school is facing an assault charge, an allegation his parents call excessive. Police in Richland, Texas, issued the teenager with a summons for assault by contact after the girl's parents reported the incident to Richland Middle School, officials said. The boy's mother, Patricia Singh, said her son had been punished with a three-day suspension from school. He was not named because of his age. Assault by contact, a class C misdemeanour, carries a fine of about $US280 ($400). The boy, who pleaded not guilty at his court hearing, told the...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- A Texas man is jailed after allegedly going on a rampage in a strip club after finding his daughter working there. Witnesses say 41-year-old Lee Wayne Lawrence was dressed in survival gear when he was arrested unharmed at Maximus in Wichita Falls. Lawrence remained in the Wichita County Jail Monday under $500,000 bond, charged with aggravated assault. Police say Lawrence entered the club Saturday night, destroyed furniture and was carrying what appeared to be a pipe bomb. Investigators say he damaged two 7-foot-tall water-bubble lamps and a leopard-skin chair and slashed three tables tops with a...

Tearing Down an Important Firewall of CultureFor those on FR who are sympathetic to porn as a necessary outlet (and I am one) this is scary and tacky. Feminisists are silent while pop culture adores a school slut by the name of Brittany Spears. Remember"American Beauty"? What wont girls do to be popular, eh? In the words of Roger Waters in Amused to Death and In The Flesh..."oh Western Woman, Western girl....' With digital camcorders now shot on and with high end television resolutions , pornography has become a very very graphic business- up close and personal. Its is also...

Put down the lipstick if you value his sperm December 10 2002 at 07:32AM By Laura MacInnis Washington - Everyday exposure to a chemical ingredient used to preserve many cosmetics and fragrances may contribute to sperm damage in adult men, according to a study published on Monday. In one of the first studies of the effects of substances known as phthalates on humans, Harvard University researchers found signs of correlation between exposure to a common type of the chemical and damage to the DNA of human sperm. The study, published in the government journal Environmental Health Perspectives, does not show...

"Cast your Best of Ithaca ballot on-line! Be sure to include your name and address, and if you're one of the lucky 10 people chosen at random you'll win a gift certificate for dinner-for-2 at an Ithaca restaurant. Only one entry per person, and any attempts at ballot stuffing will be disqualified. Entries must be received by Friday, August 30."Okay, Freepers, last year we were able to FREEP this poll so that Cornell's only conservative professor (and Ann Coulter's mentor), Jeremy Rabkin, was voted best professor (funny how that catagory is gone this year...heh).We were also able to flood the...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on.... temerarious \tem-uh-RAIR-ee-us\, adjective: temerariously; adverb temerariousness; noun 1. Recklessly or presumptuously daring; rash. 2. Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless I have confessed myself a temerarious theologian, and in that...

Australian blonde bombshell TV star Charlotte Dawson is denying she had sex with ex-President Bill Clinton after the two were spotted slipping away together at a speaking event for what one New Zealand newspaper described as a "date." "Dawson looked stunning in an outfit flown over from Sydney, (Australia) for her date with former American president Bill Clinton," reported New Zealand's Sunday News. "He was a really nice bloke, and very charming, but nothing went down," insisted the buxom Dawson, after New Zealand's "Women's Day" reported that the couple had a "secret, late-night rendezvous" while Clinton was down under for...

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Four Portuguese women stood topless at their windows because they thought they were getting a mammogram by satellite.The women, who live in San Bartholomeu de Messines in the Algarve, were telephoned by a woman who claimed she was a doctor.The Correio da Manhã website reports she said the procedure was new and would not cost them anything.When they called her back for the results of the alleged test, the hoaxer described her sexual desires to them.The women were aged between 19 and 45. They have complained to the police.One of them told the website: "I complained because the woman who...

Daddy Bill Clinton took his daughter and her beau, the pride of Belvedere Ca., Ian Klaus, around the new Tate Modern Art Gallery in London last week.Says a conviently placed Londoner to a London paper, 'President Clinton seemed comfortable with Ian and glad that his daughter found a decent man.'The trio toured the galleries with the rest of the public, but with a security detail of 12Bubba bought drinks for the young couple.Chelsea and Ian, who met at a rally of students at Oxford post-9/11, are expected to announce their engagement by JuneIn case you are wondering, Klaus's parents, the...

PERHAPS the most important Al-Qaeda prisoner to have been captured since September 11, Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian, could be sent to a US military base on the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia in an attempt to disorientate him. The arrest of Zubaydah, 31, in Pakistan last month has presented Washington with a unique opportunity to penetrate the highest level of Al-Qaeda’s operational command. The terrorist chief was believed to have been attempting to re-group Al-Qaeda units when his safe house in Faisalabad was raided by Pakistani police and American agents. Zubaydah was badly wounded in the shootout...

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize, last December, Francis Crick, Nadine Gordimer, and José Saramago, "in consultation with an extensive group of Nobel prize winners," as the press release put it, issued a call to ... do something or other. The statement was signed by 103 Nobel laureates. It is printed in full below, with parenthetical exegesis by someone too dumb ever to get a Nobel, or even a MacArthur genius grant. "The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the...

Text:Chelsea Elopes and Bill Tries to Stop the WeddingConnie Francis Caught in Porn ScandalNew Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape Found

Howard spent a few minutes talking about the latest news about Pamela Anderson having Hepatitis C. He took a couple of phone calls from guys who claimed to have the disease and tried to find out just how dangerous it is. The stories were conflicting so Howard didn't know what to believe. In a press release from Pam's people they claim that she might have gotten Hepatitis C when she shared a tattoo needle with ex-husband Tommy Lee. Tommy Lee denies even having Hepatitis C though.After that discussion Gary came in with a list of 64 hot women that were...

Vili Fualaau, 18, who fathered two daughters with his sixth-grade teacher, Mary Kay Letourneau, watches court proceedings following opening arguments in a $1 million lawsuit filed by his mother, Soona Vili, Thursday, March 21, 2002, in Kent, Wash. The suit accuses the Highline School District and Des Moines police for failing to protect the boy from sexual exploitation. Letourneau is in prison for child rape. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) "I'z a victim..."   Mom's making some dough too...Convicted Teacher Profits From Sex With StudentJudge Rules Mary Kay Letourneau Can Get Royalties April 18, 2000 SEATTLE (AP) -- Mary Kay Letourneau, convicted...

Home Page/News/Story Court Refuses Sex-Torture Plea Withdrawal David Parker Ray Says He Was Pressured By Lawyer Posted: 5:49 p.m. MST March 20, 2002Updated: 6:27 p.m. MST March 20, 2002 SANTA FE, N.M. -- The state Court of Appeals Wednesday refused to let an Elephant Butte man withdraw his guilty plea in a sex-torture case. David Parker Ray entered the plea last July to kidnapping, rape and other charges. He was sentenced to more than 223 years in prison. He changed his mind a couple of months later, but a state district judge refused to let him withdraw the plea. The...

BOLTON -- A male Toronto Catholic high school teacher has been charged after someone, who appeared to be a woman, performed oral sex on a teenage gas jockey at a Vaughan full service station. "The incident is strange insomuch as we were originally looking for a female suspect," York Police Const. Steve Morrell said yesterday. The accused, a 36-year-old math and physics teacher who lives in Bolton at his parents' home, has been teaching at Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary school in west-end Toronto for at least the past five years, according to his students. "Mr. Mike, he's not the kind...