http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:43:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420812/posts ACTUALLY, I NEVER THOUGHT SHE WAS DUMB, EVER.... READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!! AND VERY DISTURBING!!! By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta's article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin. The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm about... Dewey Whetsell, Canada Free Press & others http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420812/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:43:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420811/posts Flipping through the channels the other evening, I came across Frank Capra’s 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Most may remember the story of a naive guy, played by the great Jimmy Stewart, who goes to Washington only to find how terribly corrupt it is, including Mr. Smith’s co-Senator and childhood hero. That it was on, I found peculiar, because I was surfing the channels so as to briefly get away from the deluge of information about the horse trading going on in our Senate. President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid, the “Three Whoresman of... Bald Eagle Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420811/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:42:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420810/posts It seems that the Iranian Football Federation "accidentally" sent their Israeli counterparts a Happy New Year greeting. The director of foreign relations for the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic is taking it back, calling it a "mistake." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420810/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:42:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420809/posts Daylife Photos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420809/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:41:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420808/posts Petition.... Right to carry in NJ. Click on the link and brings you to a petition. Change.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420808/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:34:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420807/posts Christians talk a lot about redemption and salvation. But what does redemption actually mean and what is accomplished in redemption? These pivotal questions are answered in John Murray’s book Redemption Accomplished and Applied. “What does redemption mean? It does not mean redeemability, that we are placed in a redeemable position. It means that Christ purchased and procured redemption. This is the triumphant note of the New Testament whenever it plays on the redemptive chord. Christ redeemed us to God by his blood (Rev. 5:9). He obtained eternal redemption (Heb 9:12)… It is to beggar the concept of redemption as an... Christian Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420807/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:30:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420806/posts NPR Teaches You How to Speak "Tea Bag" Why am I linking? Because you paid for this -- you might as well enjoy the fruits of your labor. You ponied up good hard cash, that could have gone to your retirement, or a kid's braces, or a new plasma tv, so that NPR could insult you as stupid and crazy. And a "teabagger." NPR -- time for them to go. Definitely click -- you are paying for their servers, after all. Thanks to EdwardR. and others. Ace of Spades http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420806/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:29:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420805/posts With the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named Interpol. A one-paragraph executive order may seem inconsequential to many, but this action has far-reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty of America. Obama's secretive executive order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan's order recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it privileges and immunities commonly extended to foreign diplomats. Reagan opened the door to allow Interpol to operate in... Knowledge Creates Power http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420805/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:27:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420804/posts There is much excitement over President Obama's appointment of a transgender woman, Amanda Simpson, as Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security. Simpson was previously a deputy director at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson and a Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives from Arizona. She also has degrees in physics, engineering and business administration, and is a licensed flight instructor. Simpson portrays herself as "one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government," though we don't know of any others. (Alan Colmes says she's "Likely The First Presidential Transgendered Appointee.") Tranifesto's Matt... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420804/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:27:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420803/posts Scamming free parking at a meter or scoring a prime blue-zone space by displaying a fake, stolen or borrowed disabled parking tag could soon cost a lot more.A state law that took effect Friday allows cities to charge anywhere from $250 to $1,000 for violating disabled parking laws. And San Francisco, where finding a parking space can induce extreme behavior, is wasting no time. On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency will consider raising its fines for fraudulent use of disabled plates, placards and tags to $825, from $100. Fines for lesser offenses, such as parking in a disabled space without... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420803/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:27:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420802/posts And though Hanabusa and Belatti are Obama's fellow Democrats, even Republican state Rep. Gene Ward is hoping to add to the honors list. "We're all Americans first and then we're Republicans and then we're Democrats," Ward told the Advertiser. Ward is proposing Hawaii establish a President Barack Obama Birthplace State Park. Only, the president has yet to reveal exactly where his birthplace is. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420802/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:26:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420801/posts For years I could remember Islamic apologists practically swearing to me, that American Muslims were different than Muslims anywhere else. If that is so, then why do we see more and more of them joining the jihad? Please wake up guys, the problem exists across the world, America included. US suspect in Pakistan defends ‘jihad’ plans By ASIF SHAHZAD Logan's Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420801/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:25:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420800/posts Defenders of “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings like to dismiss as insignificant the fact that he failed to report his student Brewster’s sexual activity with an adult male met at a Boston bus station. They don’t defend it by saying “it’s all about love,” but they do get hung up on the boy's age. Brewster was 16 at the time, and therefore at the legal age of consent in Massachusetts. (Jennings, however, also referred to the boy as 15 … so by his own frame of reference he should have done something.) Jennings had no qualms about this sexual relationship... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420800/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:24:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420799/posts Does it matter if nature solves the same problem multiple ways? A NSF-supported study of lizard populations in White Sands, NM, has helped researcher Erica Rosenblum of the University of Idaho begin to answer that question. Published December 28 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article describes genetic differences between lizards found in habitats that contain white or dark soils. These stark differences in color are an ideal environment to study natural selection and gene flow. Lizard species that exhibit rapid adaptation to White Sands, NM. Courtesy of Erica Bree Rosenblum, University of Idaho In three... Scientific Computing http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420799/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:23:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420798/posts It’s not monogamy. But it’s not cheating or polygamy, either. It’s called polyamory, and with hundreds practicing the lifestyle in and around Boston, is liberal Massachusetts ready to accept it? snip “With affairs, you get sex. With polyamory, you get breakfast,” says Cambridge sex therapist Gina Ogden... On the closed end, you might have a couple in a primary relationship who will then have one or more secondary relationships that are structured to accommodate the primary one. There’s also polyfidelity, in which three or more people are exclusive with one another. On the open end, there might be chains of... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420798/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:21:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420797/posts Apparently, you can have it both ways. Freak snowstorms and record low temperatures sweeping northern China are linked to global warming, say Chinese officials. … The head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, Guo Hu, linked the blizzard-like conditions this week to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming. ”In the context of global warming, extreme atmospheric flows are causing extreme climate incidents to appear more frequently, such as the summer’s rain storms and last year’s icestorm disaster in southern China,” Mr Guo told Beijing News. thispoliticalmind http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420797/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420796/posts What Makes the Bible Unique? The bible is unique in that it is the only book that is fully human and also eminently divine. As a divine book, the bible is perfect, infallible, and inspired by God (II. Pet. 1:20,21; II Tim. 3:16,17; Lk. 21:33; Is. 55:11); it reveals God's own plan, will, motives and agenda (Isaiah 45:21-23); and it cannot be truly understood by anyone who is not taught by the Holy Spirit of God (I Cor. 2:12-16). And yet, it is also a thoroughly human book, and was written by human authors, each displaying his own unique style... CPRF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2420796/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420795/posts Federal agents are now investigating reports of possibly eight threatening letters with a white substance in at least four Alabama cities this morning, an FBI official confirmed. Angela Tobon, media spokesperson for the Mobile FBI, said the letters were all mailed to federal offices and "are all the same ...white powder with threatening letters," she said. Al.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420795/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:16:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420794/posts Welcome To The Sean Hannity Show Thread! All Posters And Lurkers Are WELCOME! The Show Thread Between EL Rushbo And TGO'S Lounge. Be The First To Post And Win A Sean Hannity Show Thread High Power Blender. Listen To Sean Do Comentary, Talk To Guests And Take Calls From YOU! :)=^..^= Sean Hannity Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420794/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:13:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420793/posts The father of a girl attacked by a pit bulldog last week has been charged with owning a dangerous animal. Aiken County Animal Control charged Fredrick Wallace, 24, of the 200 block of Ashley Circle, with keeping a dangerous animal and with having an animal creating a nuisance, Chief Officer Bobby Arthurs said this afternoon. The fine for the charges can range from $100 to $1,000, Mr. Arthurs said. A court date is scheduled later this month. Aiken County Sheriff’s Office will not file charges against Mr. Wallace, who left his home around 3 p.m. last Tuesday to purchase medicine... Augusta Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420793/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420792/posts page 18. Firearms - This is where feathers get ruffled and wounds opened. Everyone has their own idea of what the "perfect" survival firearm is or should be. Survival Guns Below I’ll outline five groups of firearms covering a broad range of tasks, needs and budgets. If nothing else my suggestions should generate discourse. I work at Wal-Mart Group 1. Mosin Nagant 91 rifle 2. Single Shot .12 gauge 3. Smith&Wesson model 10 The Government Welfare group 1. Short Magazine Lee-Enfield 2. Mossberg Maverick 88 12 gauge pump 3. Smith&Wesson model 10 4. Ruger 10/22 I have a full time... secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420792/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420791/posts Fury over British Muslim cleric's anti-war march threat London, England (CNN) -- A controversial British Muslim cleric is threatening to stage a march through the town that receives the bodies of British war dead as a protest against the war in Afghanistan, drawing fury and outrage. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420791/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:07:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420790/posts This has been an astonishing presidential year. President Obama bounded into office with a quiver full of soft-pointed arrows for every policy area. A whole year has been wasted buying, senator by senator and influential congressmen one at a time, a health-care bill that is almost certain to be hideously expensive and to lower the level of health care for millions of people. The key was to unite the payer to the consumer, so there was some incentive for reducing costs without rationing access, and reducing the attached legal costs, and the administration failed both tests. Organized labor was protected... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420790/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:06:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420789/posts In case you haven’t heard, there is a special election in Massachusetts on January 19th to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s seat. While many of you may not really think much about a Senate race in Mass., this race will affect each of us on a national level. If Republican Scott Brown wins the seat he will be the 41st vote in the Senate that is against the Health Care Bill not to mention Cap & Trade. He will stop the Democrats from their 60 vote majority and therefore aid in stopping the insanity that has been continually passed in... Boston Conservative Independent Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420789/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 20:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420788/posts And he takes a jab at the high salary for AIG's Robert Benmosche. Bill George, Professor of Management at Harvard Business School and a Goldman boardmember responded to a couple of Big Think's questions about banker pay recently. Scroll to 2:40 of the video below. George compares bank talent to movie stars. "The shareholder value is made up in people and you need the people there to do the job. "If you don’t pay them for their performance, you’ll lose them. It's much like professional athletes and movie stars." Then seconds later, he shifts into a criticism of the deeper... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420788/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:59:41 GMT